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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-20
Cash Meat Market.

ALI kinds of Fresh Meats at Great
ly Reduced Prices. No credit, no
books, consequently can sell much
cheaper. Best quality beef, pork,
veal and lamb. Experienced meat
cutters.-Wallace H. Merrick.-Adv.
loft.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-20
Board of Trade Meeting,

The Cambridge Board of Trade
will hold an important meeting to-
night, at o'clock. 1t is hoped that
all members will put aside other
matters to be PRESENT.. Watson
Webb. Sec.-AdV
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-20
Dfed0e Boat For Sale.

Schooner Mary E. Wrightson, 8 IL
tons; dredges in Choptank. In good
shape, with winders and. dredges
will sell cheap to quick buyer. Ad-
dress L. Rude e Son, Tilghman, Md
ADV lS-6t ~
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-20
Fell Dead at Supper

fredericksburg, Md, Oct. 19.-El-
bert Davis, 80 years old, son of
William Davis, young farmer, at
Choptank, died tonight while sitting
at the supper table chatting with his
WIFE
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-20

Unless otherwise designated, the
dard grade and f. o. b. factory.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
Hundreds of Girls Lose Positions
Simply Because They Don't Observe

SEATTLE. Wash, Oct. S.-Jusi
plain lack OF observation.
Failure 20 note familiar things
mental sloyenliness.
These may be the bars between
you and that position you expect 10
get or didn't land.
Hundreds OF young applicants
school boys and girls who thought
they had an educAtion-are wonder
ing why they were turned away
from stores recruiting sales forces
for the fall rush.
About 95 out OF every 100 such
applicants don't pass the easies'
kind OF entrance exams into the
business world.
THE qualities we look Tor most
and find least often" said George
C. Pratt. ARE initiative and the
sense OF responsibility
And the most common fault IL
The amazing lack OF observation, as
phown in solicitations FOR positions
Manager OF Seattles largest DO
partment store Pratt has made EN-
ployment a scientific study here aut
IN Boston. To him an application
card is blueprint OF the candi
dates mind.
Look at this card" be indicated
"nlled in by girl OF % who wants
a position in our millinery depart
meut. An eighth grade graduate.
she has misspelled her own name,
that OF her native town and state
and the prefix to her telephone mum
Der.
such mental slovenliness show
that she would be hopeless as
saleswoman.
"she wouldn't properly size up
a prospective customer. Shed prob
ably try 10 sell gaudy hats 20 won
en- who plainly wanted modest ones.
OF vice versa NLt AhA AfN' ..
condition Of her stock. and she'd
lose trade.
Her case is typical OF hundred
who seek positions here and In other
establishments.
Again. applicants claim they are
tactful when they are constantly
auarreling al home, say they arr
cheerful when the family know
them as grouches; profess a sweet
disposition when il actually hurts
them 10 smile.
"As a girl is in her own home 50
she will be In the business world
And most employers ind out What
her home record is
"You can't snap at your mother
growi al your brother or sister
shock your father and expect 70 a..
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
HUGHES PARTY OF
WOMEN WORKERS
DUE WEDNESDAY

Arrangements are completed for
the reception Of the delegation OF
women who are touring the country
In the interest OF Charles f. Hughes
who will arrive in Detroit, Wedues-
DAY evening in special car frou
Toledo A mass meeting w.ll b.
held in the Beard OF Commerce
auditorium Immediately upon their
arrival. al Sis O'Clock and The party
viii leave for Chicago the sam
night. The committee Of Detroit wo-
men who have charge OF arrange
ments are Mrs. Charles p. Warren.
chairman; Mrs r. H. Ashbaugh
Mrs. G.. d. Pope, Mrs. Truman r
Newberry, Mrs. Philip n Mcmillan.
Mira. Charles II Hodges. M e. r
Wilson, Mrs julius Haas, Mrs r
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
Luxurious New Fabrics
for Autumn Goats

Roug h q S { sturdicst
boucle weaves vie with soft.
graceful veIours i'm fashion
ablcness.
Particularly interesting are
the velour checks. The ma
terial is soft, thick but Night
and full Of residence and life.
The checks show the season.
best colors in combination:
Limoges and black, Roman
gold and black. burgundy and
IGudsoHs--srrund
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03

gray, emerald and chestnut,
cardinal and black. 50 the
yard
A wide basket weave is rs
coarse as burlap, but 10 is
soft and fine. Fashionable
colors. - inches wide. $ljU
the yard.
TWeeds, mannish materials
80 and 5i-iuchcs wide, are
50 and $3.50
NeIous, plain and tripod.
81 10 60 inches wide, are
$3.50, 81 and $50.
'loor-Msin building.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03

one ~ tho newest
blougcs is tho round.
neck style but there
are many others with
high collars and wide
fat collars
The colOrs match
the new suits ;
navy, brown, Bur
gundy Ga deep
plum shade with a
red tinge Of color
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
''Prettiest Suit Blouses
| Have Seen Anywhere
Said woman yesterday; They in such gooC
taste and they different"

through ~ and
green.
Some are embroid-
cred in the new
beaded embroidery,
others in wool en-
broidcIy.
L h @ Y are Of
Georgette c @ y e
and chiffon. S5.75
TO SIS.
- n-uHta
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03
Plush and W DOL
\ elOur oats,

lined throughout with
suf' satin are trimmed
With bands NJ beaver
plush The cOl0rs are
blue brown and green
Hua.pn' -
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-10-03

r1oor-woodv"rd nundins.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
Books

The latest copyrights at $1.15 to
All popular copyrights at SOC. Boys
and Girls books, SOC to $3.50.
Beautiful leather bound books, SOC
to $3.50. Fancy gift books, Csc, SOC,
75e and $500. Bibles, testaments and
Psalm books in English, Swedish, and
Norwegian, in cloth and leather bind.
ings, SOC to $500.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13

For the windows at home needed a
good wash,
So at it I started with laughter and
josh.
Fifteen windows at jitney apiece,
Certainly made that dollar increase.
When Miss Hull next to my aid did
come
And so under her will I did succumb;
A nickel week is sure pretty price
But then you know we kept the halls
all nice.
II you're good at figures. not a bit
slow,
Fifteen times five makes seventy-five
you know.
Five weeks of hard labor at five cents
straight,
And then you need no longer wait.
My rhyme find Is all too long,
And must hasten to close my song,
For a dollar have, but sad to know,
To the Seniors it will have to go.
Next Friday afternoon the high
school debating team will 90 to Ben
son. The question is Resolved, that
the immigration into the U. 8. should
be further restricted. by means Of
literary test" Our team which L &
composed aof Dyslyn Anderson. Ger.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13

ing, perhaps, than the faculty in the
matter. In the case of one clogged
closet where the janitor had been I'M
Justly accused of throwing in refuse.
the plumber found the remains of a
broken glass t'lmbler, evidently
thrown In by some pupil. A member
of the committee on buildings in
;spected the Lafayette school prem
Uses last v eek, and We have his assur-
:ance that any trouble which may have
existed tn re in the sanitary plumb
ing has been removed. Let anyone
in doubt make personal inspection.
instead of listening to exaggerated
-hearsay. From one like Supt. Freder-
ickson, who himself Is charged with
school responsibilities, one might have
reason to expect more fairness than
is reflected in the above published at
.tack.-The Editor.] Il. 49,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
head of our schools just so long must
we put up with these conditions.
Respectfully submitted, b
w. D. FREDERICKSON.

MOTE: We are sure that the peo-
pie of Willmar have never thought of
Mr.. Fredericton in connection with
the supervision Of the city schools
conditions are not 80 bad as to arouse
any such suspicious.
We venture the assertion that the
sanitary conditions Of the Willmar
schools right now will compare fav-
orably with what they have been at
any previous time in their history. As
president of the Board of Education,
the writer usually hears complaints
as soon as anyone. We have heard
several complaints regarding. pupils
running cross-lots and over private
property, about school credits cot pu-
pills. ETC., but none this fall about un-
sanitary conditions In the buildings.
At the Lafayette building there has
been some annoyance incident to the
breaking in Of new janit6 an ex-
perienced one 10 not. to be had among
the residents Of the Ward. The Board
has bsen inelinsd % b smnrs s1osbsax<
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
DovRE.

Dovre, Dec. 12-Mr. and Mrs. Christ
Bitterness Of Willmar and Mrs. Void
Of Iowa, visited at the John Bitterness
home Wednesday.
Mildred, Arthur and Earling Skat-
tos visited at the Peter Olson home
Tuesday evening.
ulius Holland called at E. Kallevig's
Thursday.
Mrs. Louise Birkeland visited at the
Christ Birk Gland home at Willmar
Wednesday and Thursday.
Mrs. I. C. Holland and daughter,
Clara visi' ed at the E.. Hannah home
near Pennock on Wednesday.
X, Minnie Rykken is assisting Mrs. K.
Keses Rykken with house work this week.
q" airs. Ingeborg Netland visited with
X .ler daughter, Mrs. L. Rykken a cou-
: pie Of days last week.
Eddie Abrahamson visited at Peter
Olson's Sunday.
Mrs. Albin Bjork, Mrs. John Otter.
ness and Mrs. Peter Olson visited at
the Bitterness and Bjork homes near
Florida Saturday.
Mrs. c.. Sandbo visited with her
daughter at Willmar Wednesday af
teruoon.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Edmond Nelson is absent on account
Of Illness
Friday night, the Junior Class gave
a Hard Time experience social. All
came dressed out and an old fashion
ed track meet was held. Ethel Nc
Kee and Minton Lundquist were the
chosen captains, they representing
the Giants and the Tigers. The con-
tests were in discus throwing, tight
rope walking, javelin throwing, hoop.
ala, measuring grins and other excit-
ing feats were performed. Yells were
given by both sides to encourage
themselves. The Giants won IS to
%. Miss Hough received first honors
even If no prize was given her for her
very attractive outfit. Each Junior
had composed poem, which they
read as they gave their hard-worked-
for dollar to the fund We have the
following as an example: -
1T was decided by the Junior class,
That a dollar be earned by each lad
and lass.
As soon as some work set out to
find, s5ss .ssss
"a brilliant idea struck my mind.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13

Mr.. and Mrs Christ Kallevig and
daughter of Willmar and Mr.. and
Mrs. M. Kallevig visited at E. Kalle-
wigs Sunday.
Mrs. Flaten who is at present stay
ing with Mrs. Birkeland visited with
Mrs. Hagen of Willmar Wednesday
and Thursday.
Mabel Johnson visited at the Albin
Bjork home Wednesday afternoon.
George and Oswald Gustafson of
Willmar called at the Peter Olson
home Wednesday,
Elmer Bitterness visited at his par
entail home Sunday.
Mrs. Louise Birkeland, Mrs. Andrew
Olson, Mrs. N. B. Leines, and Mrs. O.
Skaftedahl assisted Mrs. Sven Ofte.
dahl during quilting party Friday.
George Olson visited with his par.
ents at Pennock Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bitterness visit.
ed at the Carl Carlson home east OF
Willmar Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Bjork and
family visited at the Peter Zines
home at New London on Sunday.
John Bitterness called at Willie Hell
mer's near Pennock on Sunday. u
| Mrs. Martha Rykken visited with
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
AN EXPLANATION.
Dec. II, 1916.

Dec. II, 1916.
Editor Willmar Tribune:
It has just recently come to my not
ice that many people in Willmar are
blaming me for the unsanitary and
disgraceful condition found in our
school buildings, they thinking that
have charge of the Willmar schools.
I have charge Of the rural schools on
~ and have no Official authority over
any feature of the city schools. Will
mar schools have their own superin-
.tendent. Vt ~, ...5sf, ia 81
u AZ long % the school board accept
blum and btag for emcisndy ats tho
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13

friends at Willmar from Wednesday
until Monday.
The Ladies' Aid north of the city
meets with Mrs. Elgeross on Thurs.
day, December 18th.
Anna Peterson who has been as
sisting her sister, Mrs. August Bjork
left for her home at New London on
Sunday.
Willie Helmer of Pennock assisted
John Bitterness with some work on
Tuesday.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13

aldine Haley and Joe Chase will take
tho affirmative.
On Friday evening the Discussion
contest will also be held at the high
school. The question is, Resolved;
that the U. s. government should own
and operate the railroads" Music
will be furnished by the Glee Clubs.
The Seniors are giving Oral Reports
on some book. They all must be in
by Wednesday, Dec. 20.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
Card Of Thanks.

We wish to express our sincere and
heartfelt thanks to our friends for the
sympathy shown us, by word and by
deed, in these, our dark days in
the Valley of the Shadow of Death,
when our Elsie, wife and mother was
taken from us and passed over the
dark river. We are grateful to the
Donors of the beautiful flowers and
those who assisted at the services.
May the Father of all good reward
T Oscar Knuts0n and Children,
q Mr. and MIRA. Erfck Knnfa0n
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
Chinaware-Cut Glass

Fancy decorated and hand painted
china in plates, salad bowls, cups and
saucers, tea sets, chocolate sets, sugar
and creamer sets, dresser sets, nut
sets, hair receivers, powder boxes,
salt and pepper shakers. A complete
assortment Of the finest cut glass in
water sets, bowls, salt and peppers,
sugar and ereamers, vases, pickle
dishes, nut bowls, trays of all kinds.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13

The latest copyrights at 500 to
$3.50; popular copyrights at 500; the
latest boys and girls books at Csc to
75c; books for the children at all
prices. Beautiful leather bound books
SOC to $3.50; fancy gilt books, Csc, SOC,
75c and $1.0o; Bibles, Testaments and
Psalm books in English, Swedish and
Norwegian in best leather bindings,
from SOC to $3.50.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
Toilet Articles

Toilet Sets In Partisan Ivory, Gold
with Ivory InIaid and in different
woods, $1.00 to $1,000; Manicure sets
In Ivory, Pearl, Ebony and plain steel,
SOC to $3.50; Hair Brushes In Ivory
and wood backs, Csc to $3.50; Clothes
and Hat Brushes, SOC to $2.50j Mir
rors in Ivory and fancy woods, SOC to
$500; Shaving Sets, $500 to $500;
Travelling Sets, 500 to $500.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
Leather Goods

The latest styles in hand bags, 75c
to $500; pocket books, card cases,
pass books and bill books; music rolls
cuff bags, s1.oo to $500; travelling cas-
es, $1.00 to $500; cigar cases, sofa
pillows, remnants, calendars, book
marks, table runners and center piec-
es, etc.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-13
Smoking Sets
Hul11idors, Cigars

Make welcome gifts to tho man who
smokes.
Boxes (onIy standard brands),
SOC to $500.
so 10-cent cigars 5000. $3.50 to $500
rs 10-cent cigars ............... 200
IL 1o-cent cigars ............... 100
so Scent cigars ............... 200
rs Scent cigars ............... 100
IL Scent cigars ............... 50
Pipes, plain and gold banded in nice
cases from $500 to $500 Cigar and
Tobacco Jars-Ash Trays and SmoI<-
er Sets.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-13

deep plaits at each side. They help to
provide the necessary fare. which is
also cared for in shaping the sides of
the model. The skirt is finished with
a four-inch hem.
Bands of velvet ribbon, graduated in
width. adorn the sides of the skirt and
are Of the same shade of blue. They
reappear on the smart coat. with its
plated peplum. This is short at the
sides and lengthens sharply to the
back with a border of the velvet rib.
bon.
The narrowest Of the three widths
of ribbon used outlines a belt at the
sides and across the back. 1t is fin.
ished with buttons. Long, rather full
sleeves. appropriate another success
full feature in spring styles, in their
deep faring cuffs, bordered with vel.
vet ribbon and decorated with three
small buttons. The coat maintains its
intention to keep indisputably in the
mode, by a double cape collar at the
back Of the neck and a V opening at
the front.
A crepe u%nderbodice in flesh color,
made to be worn with this suit, has a
high collar of crepe, which proclaims
its allegiance to the style of trimming
used by two bands of narrow velvet
ribbon terminating in buttons at the
side after the manner of the belt.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-13
MAINTAINING THE
SUCCESSFUL MODES

Gowns and suits of many types are
included in the wide scope of spring
designs. The suit of taffeta or other
silk is a feature in every collection Of
spring apparel, and may succeed in
RELOCATING the tailored suit of cloth to
morning wear. Then there are the
sports suits coming in for much con-
sideration. This specializing in clothes
for occasions bid fair to keep the
feminine world busy changing from
M thing to another. But if variety
is the spice of life there will be no
lack of flavor to the coming summer.
time.
Everyone wants q silk suit, and silk
suits innumerable are being produced
to answer the demand for them.
which grows each day more insistent
and more discriminating. One may
choose a model similar to that shown
above and feel secure as to its beauty
and good style.
Although some of the models are
even shorter, this one Of dull blue tai.
feta, is shoetop length. for a shoe of
average height. A panel at the back
and one at the front take advantage
of the popularity which this style has
already attained, and they are made by
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-13
STOP EATING MEAT IF
KIDNEYS OR BACK HURT
Take a Glass Of Salts to Clean Kid.
neys II Bladder Bothers YOU
Meat Forms Uric Acid.

Eating meat regularly eventually
produces kidney trouble in some form
or other, says a well-known authority,
because the uric acid in meat excites
the kidneys, they become overworked;
get sluggish; clog up and cause all
sorts Of distress, particularly backache
and misery in the kidney region; rheu.
matte twinges, severe headaches, acid
stomach, constipation, torpid liver,
sleeplessness, bladder and urinary ir.
ritation.
The moment your back hurts or kid.
neys aren't acting right, or If bladder
hothefs you. get about four ounces Of
Jad Salts from any good pharmacy;
take a tablespoonful in a glass Of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon Juice, com.
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush clogged kid.
neys and stimulate them to normal
activity; also to neutralize the acids in
the urine so 1t no longer irritates. thus
ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
makes O delightful e%ffervescent lithia.
water drink which millions of men and
women take now and then to keep the
kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus
avoiding serious kidney disease.-Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-13
PRETTY HATS
FOR SUMMERTIME

Without %bothering to look further,
anyone will be safe in choosing one,
or all three. Of the hats pictured here
for summertime wear Each one has
beauty Joined to the charm of quaint
ness to recommend it. and thus they
inspire more than admiration in us.
One is inclined to believe that some
student of Godey's Ladies' Book came
across an 1880 copy Of it, was fasci-
mated by the millinery styles therein
set forth, and proceeded to modernize
them. These hats are of the sort that
women love.
At the left of the picture there is a
poke bonnet of leghorn straw trimmed
with pink roses. Its designers seem to
have kept close to the bonnet styles
Of grandmother's day, throwing a kiss
to them by making a fairly faithful
copy. But it would not do to be too
faithful, and therefore the rose foliage
on the 1916 bonnet is l%acquered. 1t has
a rich black shiny surface and thereby
improves upon the foliage OF long ago,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-13
Henry James on France.

She has gardened where the soil Of
humanity has been most grateful, and
the aspect, SO to call it, most toward
The sun, and there, at the high and yet
mild and fortunate center, she has
grown the precious, intimate, nourish.
ing, finishing things that she has mex
haustibly scattered abroad. And if We
have all taken them from her, so ex.
pected them from her as our right. to
the point that she would have seemed
positively to fail of a passed pledge to
help us to happiness if she had disap.
pointed us. this has been because of
her treating us to the impression of
genius as no other nation since the
Greeks has treated the watching
world, and because of our feeling that
genius at that intensity is infallible.-
Henry James. in The Book OF
France" Macmillan.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-13
FOR THE LOVE OF FRANCE
Adventures Who Fight In the Legion
Are Of All Countries and Of
All Races.

In my own section of the French
Legion there were men Of all races
and all nationalities. There were Rus.
SLAMS, there were Turks, an Anamite,
a Hindu. There were Frenchmen from
God knows where. There vas a Ger.
man, God only knows why. There were
Bulgars, Serbs. Greeks, Negroes, an
Italian. and a Fiji Islander fresh from
an Oxford education-a silent man of
whom it was whispered That he had
once been an archbishop-three Ara.
bans. and a handful of Americans who
cared little for the quiet life. As Bur.
bek-kar, the Arabian bugler, used to
say in his bad French. "Ceux sont lie
rata International" c'They're the in
ternational stew
Many Of the men I came to know
we'll. The. Italian, Cont. had been a
professional bicycle thief who had
slipped quietly into the Legion when
things got too hot for him. When he
was killed in Champagne he a serv.
ing his second enlistment. Doumergue,
a Frenchman who was a particular
good type Of soldier, had absconded
from Paris with his employers none
and had found life in the Legion neces-
sary to his comfort. A striking figure
with a black compexion was Voronoff,
q Russian prince, whose precise an.
tecedents were unknown to his mates.
Pala was a Partisan Apache" and
looked the part. Every man had left
a past behind him. But the Americans
in the Legion were Of a different type.
Some Of us who volunteered for the
war loved fighting, and some of us
loved France. l was fond of BOTH
Ell Morlae, in the Atlantic.