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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
OIL PRESERVES COUNTY ROAD
Surface Rendyed Impervious to Wa
ter and Crown Is Almost Like
AsphaIt-No Signs of Wear.

The only road in Berks county
Maryland, which is strictly county
road" is the stretch of five miles be
tween Douglasville and Yellow House,
By this is meant that it is neither a
state nor township road, but is entire
ly under the jurisdiction of the county
authorities.
Recently the road was treated with
coating of crude oil. and no one
doubts the wisdom of this action. The
road Is now not only dust-proof, but
the surface has been rendered impervi
Gus to water The crown is almost
like asphalt, and there are no signs OF
wear or tear.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
Information Wanted.

The Say. mister, be youse de
teller NV dis bank?
Teller-Yes. What can l do for you ?
The Hobo-Kin youse tell we where
kin git work at me trade?
Teller-What is your trade!
The Hobo BLOWN foam off de tops
Nv de big schooners.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
Quite Likely.

"Old Mr. Grabcoin always speaks
with great exactitude"
i've noticed that. How do you ac-
count for it?"
Il don't know, unless it's because
the way he figures interest on loans
has affected his daily conversation"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
Real Celebrity.

MY boy said the man of many mil
lions, how do you expect to amount
to anything in this world II you spend
all your time dancing?'
But, father answered the youth,
in an aggrieved tone, is II possible
that you have never heard of my repu-
tation?"
ITO me-, sir, you are a nonentits.
Such is famel Why, I'm known as
the dance king OF seven cities"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
hereditary Experience.

"As social climber, Mrs, DeRich Is
certainly success"
"She ought to be. Her father was a
ineman. Judge.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
Free the Stomach

from Gas by the wonderful remedy
which instantly relieves Indigestion.
Write for trial package. Sal-Spear-Min-
70 Co., New York.-Adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
Not Even That.

Harold--You don't mean to say that
you absolutely do nothing?
Clarence--Aw, don't even do that.
Ny man attends to everything. you
know.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23

DR.. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
laxative-three for a cathartic.-Adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23

The only way to contest mans will
is to wait until the undertaken gets
through with him. then hire lawyer.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23

John Galsworthy, the author, was
twenty-eight years of age before he
began to write.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23

Brazil produced sugar commercially
MS early as the sixteenth century.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23
NEW TREATMENT
FOR ASTHMA
Relief In Every Rub

To quickly case tha struggle for
breath, stop tho wheeling and bring
blessed relief, ask your druggist for
an original yellow bog of true Mustar-
inc which costs about rs cents.
Apply plentifully night and morning,
and remember to rub up and down only,
over the entire chest from the throat
to the stomach. True Mustarine ia
made by the Begy Medicine Co, Roch-
ester, NJ. Y. 1t is also fine for Rheu-
matism. Lumbago and Neuralgia. Get
he genuine.
Bliss comes with the honeymoon;
after that comes the blister
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-03-23

important 20 Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children. and see that it
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-02-18
Stock Market Report.

Following is a report of the
stock market at Portland for the
week of Feb. Is:
A light run of 500 head of cattle
came forward for Mondays
market. Three loads of pulp fed
steers went at SITS and about
six loads of hay feds sold at $7.3F.
Cows remained on a steady basis
with last week. Market steady.
A very light run of $500 head
of swine came to stronger mark
ct this week, the top being 1925.
0 her loads of quality hogs went
at $500. This price makes North
Portland the highest market in
the United States today for prim e
light hogs. Market closed steady.
Lambs sold at SO, ewes at 81,
yearlings at So. Indicating the
highest market in the West on
sheep of all kinds.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-02-18
BRIEF FARM NOTES.

The fertilizer value of milk comes
back in the skinned milk. and If this
is fed to hogs 1t stays right on the
farm.
With the portable colony house TWEEN
ty-five hens are about as many as can
be kept in one flock, and In the perma-
nent house fifty hens are the limit.
The experiment stations of the sew
eral states are doing better work each
succeeding year. The scientists are
maturing. and the people are appreci-
ating.
Is the ram kept from the ewes in the
daytime or does he run with them all
Of the time? Better keep them apart,
allowing him with them a few hours
daily. Result-better lambs and more
of them.
The improvements OF good roads and
bitches is a matter which concerns ev-
cry farmer who desires to increase the
value OF his land or the farm property
Il the community in which ne resides.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-02-18

Ferdinand Nuxoll and wife
came up from Charleston the first
of the week and will make their
future home here.
Three cars of fat hogs were
shipped from this place Tuesday
to Seattle, the hogs having been
purchased by E. D. Priest for
Frye & Co.
F. G.. Nuxoll, Joseph Schmidt,
Herman Vessels, j. w. Arnzer
and V. G. Lustig were transact
ing business in the city Wednes-
day from Greencreek.
Hans Petersen, ofKeuterville,
Lonnie Bales, of Ferdinand, anC
Frank Eastman, of Westlake,
have been drawn from the west
side to serve as jurors at the
present term of district court,
The jury cases will open a
Grangeville Monday.
Carl Killmer, of Winona, re
turned Monday evening from
Pullman, WASH, where he wen
recently to take a course in engi
neering. AS he could not ge
just what he desired without tai
ing up other studies he did no
stay but a couple of weeks.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-02-18

Owing to the increased scarcity of
hides the last five years the prices of
harness leather has increased from 20
to rs per cent. per pound.
The prices of harness has increased
in about the same proportion, and it is
safe to say the prices will continue tC
increase in proportion to the increasing
cost of leather.
Rain, sunshine and dirt absorb the
animal fat that is in the leather. The
The only way to keep the vitality and
life of harness leather is to oil the har.
ness.
If you do not oil the harness do moi
blame the harness maker if it does moi
wear.
What l claim for my oiler:
1t is the only perfect harness oilinG
system now in use. 1t oils every par
of the harness at the same time.
Get my prices and bring in your har
ness.
Martin V. Huff
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-02-18
Rotation In Sever. Cases.

Recent experiments have shown that
in certain sections of the country the
soil of field producing a crop of
smutted wheat this year may harbOr
enough smut spores to cause the APP
pearance Of smut in next years crop
If the field be reseeded to wheat. This
sometimes occurs where smut is very
bad, in spite of the planting of treated
seed. and shows that in such locali-
ties crop rotation should be practiced.
in addition to seed treatment. Blunt
or covered smut of wheat attacks no
other cereal crop. but other cereals
have their own smut diseases.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-02-18

and bend 1t in the middle to an angle
of 90 degrees. Sharpen one end and
put two holes for small bolts in the
other. Bolt on II wooden handle about
three feet long. and it is ready for
service.-Farm Progress.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1916-02-18

instrument For Loosening Shock Corn.
Here is device for loosening shock
corn or fodder from the frozen ground
in winter. Take a piece of strap iron
about eight inches in length and one
eighth of an inch in thickness and six
inches wide. Have the blacksmith heat
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
Natural Tendency Is
Toward Sweat Labor
By CHARLES L. BAINE, Boston, Mass.

ed efficiency the spdngup advocates sometimes called produc-
engineers who willing themselves employer for fancy
price their representations that they show him how get
work out of labor for less money.
Whether efficiency efficiency ocaed is benefit or an
labor depends the behind the efficiency movement
difficult for ayman understand that the turning out of
larger quantity of work the floor economic advantage
capital facilities they may furnish that end is to their ben
eft If labor paid proportion to the amount each accompshes it
also be benefit labor especially if added facilities make
e accomplish with equal essened amount of effort
industry industry than they do about other indus
Therefore speaking of the shoe industry with which
what familiar and which pecewo largely prevails the condition
ought that when of the workman increased through
added facilities furnished by the employer the earnings the operative
ought larger Unfortunately however, the general rule has been
when shoe manufacturer has machine that will do
he asks for lower price, to get the added production with
net gain himself the worker better off than he
before, and perhaps off.
If the employer strong enough to force dustment favorable
himself strong enough gain for the
of justice he gets it, and not otherwise
Personally that the socaed efficiency OF benefit to
labor the natural tendency of its disciples to
labor reward it. 1t therefore becomes
of the better relations that might exist both employers and
employees disposed deal fairly with each other
appears the writer that far all efficiency systems leave out
the ampnt human element without which the
whole scheme climax Man variable quantity
depending upon his physical condition This fact the variations
differences of opinion this muchdussed subject
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP ROOT

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer a great deal with pain
in the back, headache, loss of ambition,
nervousness and may be respondent and
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, re-
stores health to the kidneys and is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con-
ditions.
Get fifty cent or one dollar bottle ini-
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11

and kisses. But it will be an old story
to him afterward. She can make all
the complaints or threats to him she
likes and he will not even hear them
He will be thinking of something else,
perhaps another woman with whom he
has been brought in contact that day
whose every word was honeyed and
whose lips wore a continual smile
The complaining, fretful wife by de-
grees loses her hold upon the man
who likes love, gayety and frivolity
at times showered upon him. There
a never-ending talk of woe on her lips
from baby being cross, crying all day
from cutting his teeth, to fussing over
all the work she has to do. She should
be prepared for his impatient retort,
Would you have the youngster go
without teeth to escape the pain OF
cutting them?" And, as for the work,
people who cannot afford to keep a
maid must expect such duties will fall
to their lot. Grumbling doesn't mend
matters or do the washing and the
ironing.
BY merest chance the other woman
who by the way is a. widow-chats
brightly, about home work. and makes
light OF, the work she has to do, She
does not even mention her troubles,
but leaves it to be imagined that her
life is one grand. sweet song. Her
conversation soothes an irritated man
instead of stirring him up.
1t is fatal for a wife's happiness for
her husband to wish she had the low
ing temperament of some other wom-
an. A husband is supposed to be the
sharer of his wife's joys and sorrows.
The more of her sorrows she can es-
cape telling him of, asking him to
shoulder them, the better she is OF.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
Insure Supply of Pure
Drinking Water
By SAMUEL C. DIXON. Commissioner Of Health
of Pennsylvania
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

regardless of the conditions under which it secured
delivered It advisable investigate these points when
they open to any question
Suppose that the company supplying the water has safe
guarded every possible and delivered water of
toned purity The fact remains that care ceases then the other pre-
cautions of little
quantities Of supplied in gallon and Navigation
bottles for domestic closed with ordinary coks In using
the from the bottles these cos usually extracted with the hands
until the poured and then they
stuck This be done dozen times before the
water completely exhausted Coming contact with the hands as the
it often contaminated by the hands, which are uncean Nau
rally whatever rubbed off the cork pressed
the neck washed with the next glass OF water
poured through it.
This may simple matter but to those who willing to go
extra themselves supply water
their pains naught and conamnates otherwise pure
water before it is consumed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
Doing Things from Habit
Is Easiest Way
By ALFRED WEsTFAII. Colorado A Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colorado

ergy Habits strength The first time we perform an acon we
movements AS an action becomes hao
nal we tend to reduce possible movements Compare
child learning to write penman and notice the unnecessary
movements of the former.
Habits save have become accustomed 10 TASK
m CON norform # in mub less time than How much rapidly
ran write on the tvpewrer the machine has become
ha5itua.
Habits save our energy After action has been reduced 70
HABIT we can urn orr attention things When woman learn
~ 70 Init sba mu ove all of her her knitting After she
has learned how her knitting of itself while her thought
and attention are engaged in her conversation
ca lone 60 VIC have m there nothing alarming in the fact
that it takes all kinds of people to make a world
Memory tickle jade and the past often becomes oanA " na
N soon ne goes the witness stand
IT'S easier find horseshoe highway than pearl OYSTER
Usually the job the salary is hard to 1--we on
The chronic knocker is always knocked out in the end
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
ANOTHER WoMAN'S WAY.

How does a woman love? Once. no more,
Though life forever its loss deplore.
Deep in sorrow, or want, or sin, ri
One king reigneth her heart within;
One alone. by night and day.
Moves her spirit to hate or pray
Because a man has placed a mar
riage ring upon a woman's finger she
should not take it for granted that his
love for her is so blind he will never
be able to regain his normal eyesight
THAT is. to see. her as other folks see
her, with all a lovers delusions swept
aside.
Though he Is safely in the matrimo-
NAL net, wife should not take it for
granted that her efforts to- please
should be cast aside carelessly as a
pair of old gloves that have had their
use and are no longer needed No
matter how domesticated a woman
may be, the masculine heart is usually
of different fiber. He could never be.
come accustomed to the dull monotony
OF the home, day in and day out. He
has his business life and interests out.
side, where he is brought in contact
with clever men and still cleverer
women. He may meet them at his of
fee, or wherever he is employed, OF
touch elbows with them coming and
going through the crowded thorough
fares. If there is sufficient attraction
at home for him all attempts 10 draw
him into a Irritation are useless.
In glancing at other attractive femi
nine faces, the thought comes to him
that the wife at home eagerly await
ing his coming is more attractive still
Wives. have it in their power to at
tract their husbands or repei them te
q far greater degree than they thinl
possible II she meets him with
frowE, he may attempt to moiiify bel
the first few times with explanation:
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
In Wornlan'S Realm
For the Afternoon Costume of Taeta Silk Is Among the Best
May Be Had in Practically All Styles and at All Prices
Pretty Bonnets Have Been Provided for Delight
of the Little Miss.

the fairest things in mortal eyes, and
ready to share their pleasure with ev-
eryone who has eyes for them. It
takes so little to crafty their instinct
for clothes that will make them pleas
ing, and not one of them should be de-
MED.
Two bonnets for the little lady Of
four to seven years are shown in the
picture. They are both inexpensive
and both very pretty. They are thor
oughly practical, too, and are chosen
from many displayed by manufac-
turer who specializes in headwear for
children, so we may be sure that their
style is correct.
At the right shape of milan hemp
in black has small fiat roses applied to
the crown at the front, back and sides
Each one is set in sprays Of small rose
foliage, f1attened against the shape and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11

tom of the coat. They are pointed and
untrimmed. The easy-going coat is
smartened by high flaring collar at
the back, and it's open throat gives
glimpse of lace in the blouse worn I'M
der it.
The suit as pictured is made of black
taffeta, but the design would be sue
cessful in any color of silk. with vel
vet ribbon to match, used for trim
ming. For general service nothing
could be better. The coat is available
for wear with lingerie gowns and sepa-
rate skirts, and the skirt may be worn
with any sort Of blouse, so that each
does double duty. In selecting taffeta
suits the palmer models will make
themselves very useful in this way.
Taffeta appears to have taken the
world of fashion by storm. and there
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
Measuring Sight by Moonlight.

Helmholtz has determined that the
power of the full moon is precisely
that of one candle at distance of II
feet. Long series of experiments by
other Investigators demonstrated that
an individual might be recognized, ii
the moon is in the first quarter, at a
distance of from about six to twenty
feet. Under an ordinary full moon he
could be recognized at distance of
from twenty-three to thirty-five feet.
and under the brightest moon not far
Their than from forty-nine to fifty-two
feet.-Melville Davisson Post in the
Saturday Evening Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11

A quiet and simple afternoon cos
tune, of taffeta silk, follows the mode
in a conservative way and justifies its
reserve by its charm. 1t Is design
essentially youthful. with the lines of
its full skirt unbroken and the fullness
a mere matter of width shirred in at
the waist. Such artlessness belongs
to the young and lends its own air to
the wearer.
The little coat disposes of it's full
ness above and below by shirrings at
the waist line. 1t dips at the front and
back of it's skirt and has cascaded
revers. The sleeves are full but of
simplicity to match the skirt. Two
bands of velvet ribbon finish them and
appear also on the coat revers. A mar
row sash of the silk ties in the most
casual manner at the front, with its
ends hanging little below the bot
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
Se!f-Control Is the
Greatest Character Builder
By S. BENSON, Evanston, illinois

only obey Int explain the reason why they should NOT 90 s OF M
They scd taught everything for 1t the
builder Many crimes committed through lack OIL
and the and disgust for person
great all ambition The night 50 marc
people frequently give up the struggle
and degraded instead of useful and happy members Oh
society.
healthy environment Insl into their plastic
minds the necessity consideration for Others Don't
unon confnng their reading books Just make it your
duty nothing but good literature within their reac
and YOU will have done child than all the expensive toys
pretty focks shaving for them could ever DO
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11

ere suits and suits Of it. Also there
are numberless frocks that run after
strange gods in pannier and hustle
draperies or Hoops placed in the skirts.
These are the unusual things which
may become popularized. In the
meantime the unpretentious suit is al
ready popular and is prettily developed
in many colors. 1t is charming in
champagne and gray and appears
along with blue, rose and the darker
colors as we'll as black. There is moth
ing that will give better value as a
part of the outfit for summer than the
suit made of taffeta, and manufac-
turers have made them in wide range
of prices.
No one is happier at the Eastertime
than little maids who bubble over with
frank JOY in new finery. They are
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11

held firmly by millinery glue which
keeps them in place. Mounted in this
way they form, with the roses, prim
wreath having the appearance of en-
broidery or painting, both of which, by
the way, are used in spring millinery.
Ties of narrow faille ribbon in
fairly dark blue shade hang from each
side, and the same ribbon is used for a
facing about the underbrim, Black is
noticeable among the bonnets for little
girls, but it is always enlivened with
flowers and ribbons.
A bonnet of chiffon and taffeta, at
the left, has sort pulled crown OF
silk and two ruffles over the silk-cov-
cred brim. They are finished with cut
hemstitching, as is so much Of the mil
linery for grownups. A frill of narrow
lingerie lace is set near the edge of the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-05-11
Radiates JOY.

A happy man or woman is better
thing than a five-pound note. He or
she is radiating focus of good will;
and the entrance of such a one into a
room is as though ar other candle had
been lighted. We need not care wheth-
err these persons could prove the forty
seventh proposition: they do better
thing than that; they practically dem
onstrate the great theorem of the live
ableness CT nfe.-RobertL Louis Steven
son.