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Williams news., 1916-07-20

NOTICE is hereby given that liar. ry D. Boulin, of Williams, Arizona, who on March 15, 1913, made home. stead entry, No 021713 for N4SW4, NasE4sW4, saNW4sE4, N4sW4- SE4, SW4NE4SE4, & NW4SE4- SE4, Section 29, Township 23N., Range 8 E., G. & s. R. Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final three year proof, to es- tablish claim to the land above de- scribed. before Chas. H. Adams, Clerk Superior Court, at Flagstaff, Arizona, on the 3Oth day of August, 1916.
 Claimant names as witnesses: w. F. Thomasson, Edward Roupe Carl Kinds, and M. c. Smith, all of Williams, Arizona.
 Thomas F. Weedin,
 Register. 7-2O to SLY, '16.
Williams news., 1916-07-20

throws the expense of government
 more heavily upon the wealth of
 the country and lightens the burd-
 ems of labor. The Democratic fl
 nancial legislation has relegated
 financial panics to that past dur ing which republicans were preach ing their unavoidabil1ty. Demo- cratic legislation gave to the voters of the country the power to nomi- nate their candidates for the U. s. Senate. There was an age long de- rnand for this power but republi- cans would not listen. Democratic legislation tore loose the strangle hold that the protected interests had on the industries of the coun- try. Democratic legislation has started federal aid in good roads construction. Other nations have been building good roads to the ad- vantage of every interest. Repub- licans have not been able to get their eyes off from the spells of office long enough to give the mat ter consideration. Democratic leg islation will encourage agriculture, the basic interest of our country. by making it possible for farmers to finance their business proposi. ton on equitable terms. Republi- cans have fouted the farmers of the country and denied their de- mands on the grounds of class leg islation.
 It is no wonder that republican leaders are hunting for an issue on which to make a successful cam pa1gn this fall. They are afraid of their past record but hope to dis credit MT. Wilson in some way and fool the people into a demand for change. What was it lincoln said? This will be the time when the people will not be fooled.
Williams news., 1916-07-20

of the operation of this gambling device. and hustled down to Will Hams and put stop to it by a threat of prosecution.
 The News is glad that Mir. Will son stopped the gambling in Will Hams, but why the discrimination |? Shall Flagstaff run gambling de- vices and Williams not2 The col umns of the News are open to MT. Wilson for an explanation.
Williams news., 1916-07-20
O5933 O27331 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

HE LIN LhlOh U. s. Land Office at Phoenix, Ari-
 zona, June 10, 1916. NOTICE is hereby given that James w., Davenport, of Williams, Arizona, who, on May IT. 1909, made homestead entry, No 05933, for and add< 1 H. E. No. O27331, April 29, 1913, for SE1NW4SW4, sW.4NE4sW4, NasW4sW4, NJ s4 sW4sW4, NV 4NW4sE4, SIN Fl NE4 sW4, S NW4 NE4 sW I, S NE4 NW4 sW4, Sec tion 15, Township 20 N, Bange 2 E., G. & s. R. B. & Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make five year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before Charles H. Adams, Clerk, Superior Court, at Flagotaff, Arizona, on the 17th day of July, 1916.
 Claimant names as witnesses:
 M. W. Robinson,
 H. l.. Benham,
 H. c. Sanders,
 William Servier, all of Williams, Arizona
 Thomas F. Weedin,
 Register. First Pub. June 15, 1916 Last Pub. July Is, 1916
Williams news., 1916-07-20
Saved Room.

Merchant Ibid you post my letter as told you, John?
 John-Yes, sir; but had it weighed first, and, as it was double weight, put another stamp on 1t.
 Merchant-That's right. Only hope you didn't put the extra stamp on so that it would obliterate the address.
 John-Indeed, I didn't. sir. I just stuck it on top of the other stamp so as to save room.
Williams news., 1916-07-20
Democrats Strong on Con-
 struction

The claim of democrats that they have put more constructive legisla- tion on the statute books in three years than the Republicans did in forty cannot be gainsaid and re- publicans do not attempt it. The Democratic Income Tax law won
Williams news., 1916-07-20

MT. w. T. Woodman, formerly of Yuma, has just settled in Williams with his family. MT. Woodman will become permanent resident of Williams, if he does not find the winters too severe.
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For Recorder

hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination for the office of County Recorder subject to the Democratic Primary September 12. 1s16 My record in office is the best reference can give as to my qualification and fitness for the office to which I am aspiring.
 DAN J. CROWN
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For State Senator

hereby announce myself candidate for the democratic nomination for state senator. subject to the action of the primaries to be held Sept. 12 1916.
 HUGH E. CAMPBELL
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For Representative

hereby announce myself a candidate for the republican nomination for representative in the state legislature subject to the action of the pri- mary September 12, 1916.
 C. E. LARSON
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For Representative

hereby announce myself candidate for the republican nomination for representative in the state legislature subject to the action of the pri mary Sept. 12, 1916.
 T. H. CURETON
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For County Supervisor

hereby anounce myself candidate for the democratic nomination for the office of Supervisor of Coconino County subject to the action of the primary, September 12, 1916.
 ED HUNTER
Williams news., 1916-07-20
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
For County Supervisor

I hereby announce myself as candidate for the democratic nomination for the office of Su- pervisor of Coconino County subject to the ac ton of the primaries September. 12, 1916.
 IF. HOLDEN
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For Supervisor

hereby announce myself a candidate for the democratic nomination for the office of Supervis- or of Coconino county subject to the action of the paimary, Sept. 12, 1916.
 CT. wooLFOLK
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For County Attorney

hereby announce myself candidate for thu republican nomination for County Attorney O. Coconino County subject to the action of thu primary, Sept. 12, 1916.
 F. D. CRABLE
Williams news., 1916-07-20
For Justice of the Supreme Court

Thereby announce myself candidate for the democratic nomination for Justice of the Su-. preme Court subject to the action of the pri- maries. Sept. 12 1916.
 HENRY D. ROSS
Williams news., 1916-07-20

Serial No. O21713 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Department of the Interior, U. s. Land Office at Phoenix, Ari.
 zona, July 12, 1916.
Williams news., 1916-07-20

WILLIAMS LODGE,
 w NO. 15, I. O. O. F. Meetk every Wednesday night at 500 o'clock in l. O. O. F. hall. Visiting brothers welcomed.
 F. s. Diffenbaugh, N. c. L. o. Vandeventer, V. G. c. Y. Owen. Treas.
 Joseph Cottolendy, 8 ecy
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throws the expense of government more heavily upon the wealth of the country and lightens the burd-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09
Cutting Corners

THE struggle at this period of his ex-
perience developed Titus specially
along two lines: he learned how to cut
expenses to the bone, and how to buy and
sell. Instead of "choring round, he spent
every moment of his spare time figuring
out how he could cut corners. Right here
is almost the whole secret of business
success.
Just as an example of the turns that
he made, take the matter of taxes. His
father had been content to have the place
considered within the corporate limits of
the town-feeling that this enhanced the
land value and secured better fire pro-
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NE SECTION for July 9, 1916
Titus the Trader
By FORREST CRISSEY

INC OWN in Defiance, Ohio, is a
young man named Titus johnson,
who, not long ago-as a country
- boy of seventeen faced
about as black situation as ever con-
fronted the hero of Wall Street crisis,
out of which came an experience in getting
ahead that has all the clearness, sim
plicity, and illuminating power of Bible
parable.
The father of Titus was lawyer of the
old school, a first citizen" in the town of
Defiance, a place then of less than ten
thousand inhabitants. He owned a big
farm in another county, into which he had
sunk a small fortune for clearing. But
his borrowing power was good at the
bank, and his profession brought him a
steady income. So he and his neighbors
looked upon his home place, barely within
the corporation limits, as a luxury that he
could afford.
From its sixty acres he was never known
to get, on his own initiative, single
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dollars worth of salable produce of any
kind; but, just to give the hired man
something to do, Mr.. johnson bought a
few COWS and allowed the "hand" to start
a small milk route. Besides, Mr. johnson
wished his boy Titus, then in short trou-
sers, to become interested in farming,
against the day when he would inherit the
big farm clean of debt
Then, out of the clear sky, the panic of
1897 smote the little town, and lawyer
johnson discovered that the bottom had
dropped out of land values, that all the
money he had invested in his larger farm,
like the farm itself, was gone, and that a
mortgage of $1,000 remained unpaid on
the home place. His health failed rapidly
under the strain, and with his health went
his credit at the bank.
When the family council over the ulti-
matum from the insurance company that
held the mortgage was ended, Titus stole
up to his father and handed him six ten
dollar bills, saved from the proceeds of
the milk route. The father choked and
said nothing. 1t had suddenly dawned
upon the lad that his father had become
an old man! And what would his mother
do if the old home was taken away?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09
A crest Room" for Cows

THE farmers coming and going along
the river road, past the new barn, be-
gan to notice the young milkman who
was doing queer things Some of them
ridiculed him when he announced his be-
lief in sheltering his cattle-they declared
it was foolish to "baby' them. Titus
smiled agreeably, and went ahead in his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09
By FORREST CRISSEY

you to run that farm on your own judg-
ment-just as if you owned it yourself
That's the agreement. Now, go to it,"
The father nodded assent.
Titus went home, he has confessed, feel
ing that he had suddenly become a man.
When the thought of making the old farm
pay had first come to him, he had accepted
it as a foregone conclusion that he would
have to quit college. He would hew close
to the line, and work with lantern in
hand at both ends of the day. He took
quick inventory: debt of FIVE thousand
dollars on one hand, and on the other a
reasonable amount of equipment, three
horses, eight cows, and sixty acres of land
that had never paid profit.
There were no creameries in or about
Defiance, and few farmers were producing
more milk than they could convert into
dairy products. Mainly they packed
down" butter. In short, Titus was the
first to see chance in trading in milk.
He started out one night after supper and
began canvassing for his supply. The
second night, when he returned at ten
o'clock, he had contracted for twenty
seven gallons day at eight cents. He
sold that milk in bulk to the hotel, and
exactly doubled his money.
AS soon as he saw that his supply could
be expanded to meet his sales, he began
to hustle systematically for more business.
Until then his customers were the rejects
from the routes of his competitors those
that were considered "poor pay" or "kick-
ers.' But Titus was persuasive sales
man, and, once he got customer, he
furnished good milk and good service, and
held his trade. Often, in rain and storm,
he drove into the country, gathering milk,
and returning to the farm at nine or ten
o'clock, only to rise in the morning before
dawn to get his wagon ready for the trip
through the sleeping town.
Then his father suddenly died; and if
the young shoulders of Titus had before
carried heavy burden, the load was now
doubled. Next, two of his best cows died,
and the hired man said: "Sorry, Titus,
but it's no use holding out any longer.
I'm on my way, and you'd better quit.
"Not on your life!' answered Titus.
"I've just started" He coaxed the hired
girl to take a hand at the milking, end in
cidentally to teach him that neglected art.
"When l get on my feet resolved
Titus, an make things so comfortable
for my help that they'll stick to me
through thick and thin"
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When the Old Cow Died

LIE picked and packed away in the
cellar a big crop of Baldwin apples.
Converting Baldwins into money had
never been thought of in that household;
but when the two cows died, Titus, in his
dilemma, had turned to these apples. His
instinct for making good trade checked
him from selling them at the moment be-
cause the price was not right. To avoid
selling them on poor market he borrowed
the money with which to buy two cows.
Two months later he drove into town with
a load of apples, and went to the one
"fancy grocery" The word Baldwin was
magic word, and he sold his entire crop
at two dollars bushe, and took home
with him a check large enough to pay the
cow note as well as half the years interest
on the mortgage.
This instinct for good trade had put
money in his purse from the very day he
went into business, and was the trait in
Titus that did most to smooth his way.
One year, some time later, when bran was
bringing $2S ton, Titus sold dozen tons
that he had bought for $40. Another year,
when cotton-seed scared to $37, he pro-
duced a half carload for which he had
paid only 500 a ton. He borrowed money
to buy crop of corn fodder still in the
field, and two days later sold it for one
half more without having touched it.
Titus was trader-a farmer, but a
fnancier first. And, all this time, he was
trafficking in milk and cream. Nearly
every summer since he began he had man
aged to pay his help from his profits in
dealing in cream to be used for ice cream.
He even supplied his competitors with
milk and made his toll on the transaction.
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When there is big event in town,
Titus is always first on the ground to
take advantage of it. Barnum and Bail
ey's circus was due to arrive in his town
one Monday morning, and, by wire the
night before, Titus got an order for $50
worth of milk. He drove to the farm of
one Andy, owner of a good herd five
miles from town. He wanted to buy, he
said, SIS worth of milk. The old farmer
looked him over incredulously, and then
announced that, though he had Satur-
day nights milk and Sunday mornings
milk and Sunday evenings milk, he would
not sell quart of it on the Lords day.
"Well, I'll just wait till midnight, then,
countered Titus. Which he did.
By sheer energy, shrewdness, and keep
ing eternally after details, Titus kept get
ting ahead. He bought milk in ever
increasing quantities, and developed his
route until it embarrassed his competitors.
He knew how much each COW ate, what
she should produce, and what she did pro-
duce. Those that failed to justify by this
standard were eliminated. He bought
carefully, and raised all his best heifer
calves.
The one thing that worried Titus when
he was building up his "bloodeds herd was
the shelter his COWS had to accept.
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Il Can Make 1t Pay"

THE next afternoon Mr.. Moore,
large, kindly man from the head offices
of the insurance company, visited the
farm. Mr.. johnson told him how Titus
had saved sixty dollars and had given it
to help out Mr.. Moore looked the boy
over carefully, and invited both boy and
father to visit him that evening at the
Crosby House. There he drew out from
young Titus the conviction that he could
swing that mortgage and sometime burn
it in the old homestead fireplace. Eagerly
the boy outlined his plans to his aston
ished elders.
II know that / can make the farm
pay" slowly insisted the lad.
"Son, I'm going to give you the chance
Ill let the mortgage rest in your fathers
name-but the fight is up to you. l want
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Why He Bought a Church

PUT when the enterprising pastor of the
Presbyterian congregation raised the
funds for a new church, and advertised
that the old one would be sold at public
auction, Titus saw hope The old
church had been put up sixty-five years
before, and its beams, he knew, were as
solid as the day they were joined together
with dowel-pins. Titus found that he
had the bidding all to himself.
He. secured the old church for $3.50
every cent of which he had to borrow.
Inside of fortnight he had dismantled
it, hauled it in sections down the river
road, and reassembled it in the shape of a
barn-a barn that became the local model
of what dairy barn should be. To-day
it crowns the ridge, and holds more than
a hundred tons of clover or alfalfa. Be
low the loft is a big, clean milking room,
equipped with plenty of windows, VEN
tilator system, and concrete floor.
The steel stanchions that Titus in
stalled were the first of their kind ever
seen in that corner of the Buckeye State,
and his litter carrier was a revelation to
his farmer neighbors. Later he installed
the first feed carrier ever seen in that
locality. And yet complete, Titus found
the barn cost him only $1,000.
He borrowed the money to build it, but
that barn has paid for itself several times
over. "If l can make money earn more
than the interest have to pay, III bor-
row every time!" he declares.
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brewery. IroHiptly ue SecuTeu ho J.
wagon-load of this sprouted 10 .
barley, hauled it to his farm,
and discovered that it remained sweet for
several days. He learned, too, that the
larger breweries dried this substance and
sold it at twenty cents bushel. Promptly
he closed contract with the home
brewery for all he could use at four cents.
This reduced his feed cost more than
half, and greatly increased his milk supply.
Meanwhile he was playing the David
Harum in his trades. He found diversion
and money too-in continual trading.
1t was his only pastime, and he developed
keen passion for it. Here was an out
door sport that paid handsomely.
He decided to put up his own ice-so
he made dicker with competitor for
the use of an ice-plow and other tools. By
this turn he secured his ice supply for the
year for about $25-a fraction of what it
had cost him before.
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lection. But Titus could not
find anything that looked like
a water hydrant within hose
reach of his buildings; so he
had the county equalizer set
him "out of the corporation,
and thereby he cut his taxes
in half.
Next he went after his feed
bills with a sharp knife, and
found that the malt refuse was
being dumped" from the local
brewery. Promptly he secured
a wagon-load of this sprouted
barley. hauled il to his farm.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-30
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE
 ARRIVING IN-sWASHINGToN
High Cost of Living and Food Embar- go Are Dominant Subjects.

Washington, Nov. 2s.-with the ar rival in Washington of members of congress the subject of. general dis cussion dominant among them is the high cost of living and the food em- bargo to be urged by Representative Fitzgerald of New York as a remedy
 The discussion has presented a wide variety of views, some members be- lieving that an embargo is not the remedy for existing conditions and the subject threatens to lead to much de- bate in congress. Members in charge of other Legislation fear that it may impede progress of appropriation measures. .s G+5
 Representative Fitzgerald said to- day that he would have two bills ready for introduction Monday bear ing on the proposed embargo. Among other house members who talked of the situation today were Minority Leader Mann and Representative Bor- land of Missouri. MT. Mann said he did not believe an embargo would be placed on food products and that it was not a remedy for the evil. An embargo offered as a retaliatory measure, in his opinion, differed great ly from an embargo to regulate prices and sufficient warrant did not exist for retaliatory embargo.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-30
CONFERENCE OVER STATUS. OF
 ILLINOIS GUARDSMEN
Whe. Have Refused to Take the New
 Oath of National Defense Act.

Chicago. Nov. 29.-Confusion re- garding the status of Illinois National Guardsmen who have returned from border service and refused to take the new oath prescribed by the Hay Chamberlain national defence act was emphasized. today when Major Ale Da- wis of the First Infantry declared all the proceedings connected with muster ing of the militia in and out of fed eral service this year was under an obsolete law and hence technically il- legal.
 The situation has become acute in Chicago as the result of wholesale re- fusals of members of the First and the Second Infantry to subscribe to the new obligation and indications are that other regiments will likewise stand pat on their original oaths of enlist ment.
 TThe Hay Chamberlain law became effective on June S." Major Davis said today, 'It was not until the nineteenth of that month that the call for mobi- lization of the militia came. The troops should have been mustered in under the new law, but instead the entire pro- ceedings were carried on under the old Dick act, which had been repealed by the new act and had become ob- solete."
 A majority Of the second infantry has refused unequivocally to take the new oath. Officers and men say their ob- lection is to the addition of the three year reserve clause.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-30
WILL OF EMPEROR
 FRANCIS JOSEPH OPENED
Contains q Legacy of E5o,ooo For His Actress Friend, katharina Schratt

London, Nov 29. 23O D. m.-A Beren despatch to the Wireless Press says that the will of Emperor Francis Jo- geah. which was opened the morning -nfter, his; death, tos ascertain whether r contained directions for his funeral, v-as found to have in it a provision for . legacy of z 50, 900 to the actress I @tarina Schratt. This part of the w;il- the despatch says, was dated rcr1e years back, while other clauses taG Eeen added during the war.
 Princess Elizabeth, the emperors e1-an@ daughter, inherits the same amount.
 Tatharjna Schratt. formerly of the Ir1perial Theatre, for years was an in- ti!nate friend of Emperor Francis Jo- Seph. At Schoenbrunn Castle Frau Sehratt was accustomed to appear heATly every afternoon to keep the em- peror company for an hour or two. He ! ntilrn called at her town house, where he was able to meet friends of his own choosing. and not guests imposed on him by etiquette or reasons Of state The relations between the two contin- ued in the emperors old age and be- came accepted in Vienna, where the severe criticism they caused in earlier years, before the death of the em- press, gradually died away.