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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
BANKS THEIR VICTIMS
NEAT SWlNDLE PRHCTlCED BY
PAIR OF RoGUES.
Man With Certified Check, and Fat
Detective" Make a Handsome
Sum Easily and Run Small
Risk of detection.

A tall, well-dressed young man
strobe vigorously into laree bank.
He walked to one of the glass-covered
desks, took from his pocket piece of
paper, scrubbed something upon it
and went to the paying teller's win
dow.
II would be obliged If you will give
me that in new lfties," said the young
man with a certain air Of positive
ness.
1t was a certified check for $3.50.
The paying teller examined it, rec
ognized the signature of the bank and
counted out II new $50 bills and
slipped a little rubber band around
them.
Just as the tall man started from
the window with his money in his
overcoat pocket shorter, older and
fatter man edged up alongside of him.
IF you move a step or say a word
I'll shoot you for the crook you are"
said the stout one.
At the same time he showed a pis-
toll against the side Of the younger
man and handed a card through the
window to the paying teller. "Pinker-
ton" was there in big type and below
a mans name as special detective.
"This fellow" said the man with the
man with the gun, is counterfeiter
wanted in Cincinnati. Now hand back
that money" he said to the captured
criminal. The little sheaf of new
ffties was returned.
IF you will let me take that check
I'll do the rest" added the detective,
and the obliging teller returned it.
There had been no noise, no excite.
ment and no observers to this odd
transaction. When the pair left the
bank they didn't go to a police sta.
ton, but to another bank not 200 feet
away.
There they went through exactly the
same performance-got II nice new
$50 bills, handed the little bundle back
and also got their alleged bogus
check.
And from this second bank they
went to six others in the space Of less
than an hour. Later in the day when
counting up their cash eight bank
tellers made a remarkable discovery,
Each one was shy, as the poker
players say, exactly $3.50.
What happened was this: While
the stout confederate posing as a de-
tective went through his role, the 9TH
er slipped three of the $50 bills from
the rubber-bound sheaf and returned
not IT, but only IA.
Unless you stop to count them, IA
new bills feel and look as much like
II as one guinea pig looks like an
other. 1t was done so quickly the
tellers didn't seem to think it neces-
sary to count the returned cash.
AS for the check for $3.50, it was
really genuine and the swindlers got
back that money before leaving town
with their $1,000 in those nice new
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05

We believe that plump oats, wheat,
barley, cracked corn and beef scraps
would give about the same results,
writes NJ. F. Greeley in Dokota
Farmer.
Six thousand eggs to the farm, is
the way our statisticians have it, or
Ibout 70 eggs to the hen. And this
with a goodly number of trap-nested
birds producing over 200 eggs, not a
few over $50 to 2S6. Too many roost-
ers, old hens, late, good-for-nothing
chickens and culls generally are
largely the cause of this low average.
Let's all try to raise it.
Since utility, and not quite so much
foolery, governs the selection of prize
fowls now much more than it did, the
so-called moss-back farmers are TAX
ing more interest in poultry shows;
and not only that but they are tax
ing more birds home with them when
they go than when birds were judged
wholly by stripe, comb and feathers.
Sensible farmers, refusing to be fooled,
have brought much OF this change
about
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
Somerset Sandwiches.

These sandwiches are little odd:
One-half cupful scalded milk, one-half
cupful boiling water, one-half table
spoonful butter, two tablespoonfuls
molasses, a teaspoonful salt, one-half
yeast cake, dissolved in two table
spoonfuls lukeWarm water, one-half
cupful white -four and enough entire
wheat flour to knead, one cupful Eng
lish walnut meats broken into pieces.
Of course make your bread same as
any bread, the night before. Let rise
and in morning knead in nut meats
after first raising; put in pans, raise
and bake as any bread; after "a hours
old slice thin as possible, spread
sparingly and evenly with creamed
butter and put orange marmalade be-
tween slices.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
MAKING MEAT TENDER
HOW THE INEXPENSIVE CUTS
MAY BE EMPLOYED.
Pounding Flour Into Them Is Recon-
mended as One misunderstanding
Fine Is Another Excellent Way
of Improving Them.

When the housekeeper attempts to
reduce her meat bill by using the less
expensive cuts she has two ditdcultles
to contend with-toughness and lack
of flavor. Pounding meat before cook
ing is an old-fashioned method OF max
ing it tender, but while this process
breaks down the tough tissues it also
releases the juices, driving them out,
and with them the flavor. A good way
is to pound -four into the meat. This
catches and holds the juices.
A very palatable and economical
dish can be made from a round steak
as follows: Pound flour into both sides
of the steak, as much as the meat will
take up. Fry in drippings or other fat
in an ordinary pan of kettle, then add
water to cover it. Cover the vessel
tightly, so that no steam can escape
and allow the meat to simmer very
gently for two hours 1t Is then ready
to serve, the gravy being already
thickened by the flour beaten into the
steak. This gravy is delicious and far
superior to the kind made in the or.
binary way after the meat is cooked.
Another very tasty dish is Spanish
beefsteak. Take a piece of round
steak weighing two pounds and about
an inch thick. Pound until thin, sea.
son with salt and cayenne pepper,
cover with layer of bacon or salt
pork sliced, roll and tie with cord.
place in a covered baking dish. Pour
around it half a cupful each of milk
and water. Cook two hours, basting
occasionally.
Chopping meat is one of the princi-
pal methods of making tough and in
expensive meat tender. Chopped
meats have another advantage, in that
they may be cooked quickly and eco.
nomically. Chopped raw meat of al
most any kind can be very quickly
made into savory dish by cooking
it with water or with water and milk
for short time, then thickening with
butter and flour, and adding different
seasoning as preferred either pepper
and salt alone or onion juice, celery,
or tomato. Such dish may be made
to 60 further by serving it on slices
of toast or surrounded by wall OF
rice or macaroni.
In broiling chopped meat success
fully the point is to scar the surface
very quickly so that the juices may
be kept in, and then to allow the
heat to penetrate to the inside until
the whole mass is cooked to the taste
of the family. To begin with, the
broiler should be well creased 9th
erwise the cakes or balls may be
broken when removing them from the
broiler. They should be heated on
both sides more quickly than a steak,
because the chopping has allowed the
Juice to escape and the openings
should be sealed as quickly as posi-
BILE.
Hamburg steak is made from mex
pensive bits of beef chopped, seasoned
q little, and shaped into fiat cakes or
steaks. If possible the chopping
should be done at home, so that the
meat may be cooked at once. Some
housekeepers think Hamburg steak is
improved by mixing the meat with
little milk before cooking.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05

There IL more Catarrh in this section OIL
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For
great many years doctors pronounced II a
local disease and prescribed local reme-
dies. and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment. pronounced 1t incur
able. Science has proven Catarrh to be
constitutional disease. and therefore re-
uuircs constitutional treatment, Halls
Catarrh Cure. manufactured by r. ).
Cheney e. Co., Toledo, Ohio. is the only
Constitutional cure on the market. 1t Is
taken internally. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces OF the system.
they offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY 6 CO.. Toledo. u
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
MAKING STOCKS AND SOUPS
Important Part of Dinner Preparations
to Which Extreme Care Should
Be Given.

Brown soup stock is made from beet
and vegetables or veal, beef, fowl and
vegetables. Veal with onion and cell
cry seasonings make white stock, or
chicken and veal together with celery,
ZION and seasonings make white
stock. Cream soups are generally
made without stock, milk or cream be-
ing liquids used and foundation from
fish or vegetables. Chicken stock is
made from fowl, resembles white
stock, but is not so rich. Don't expect
a soup to be good unless it is properly
seasoned, and good, tasty soup is not
made with pound of meat and gal
lon of water. Patience and good ma
terial are necessary factors in good
soup making. Cut the meat in small
pieces, cover with cold water, let stand
one hour, then heat gradually. This
method draws out all the nutritive and
favoring qualities Of the meat. Allow
one pint of water to each pound of
bones and meat, or about three-quar-
tiers meat and small portion Of bone.
II soup Is to be made from scraps
Of cold meat, you should add fresh
meat to give added flavor. Sweet
herbs for seasoning are necessary and
are composed of parsley, bay leaf,
cloves, peppercorns, thyme and mar
joram. If you desire a clear soup, do
not let stock boil rapidly. Long, slow
cooking is necessary. Stock with coat
ing of fat will keep a week in hot
weather and several weeks in cold
weather.
To Clear Soup stoek.-Take white
and shell Of one egg for every two
quarts of strained stock. Beat white,
add crushed shell to cold stock, pour
into kettle and stir constantly until
boiling point is reached. Boil three
minutes without stirring, then simmer
gently for ten minutes. Strain through
fine sieve and cheesecloth. Repeat as
needed and serve. II these directions
are followed an absolutely clear soup
will be the result.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05

profit, and from the rest one class OF
products after another must be elm
mated because of the prohibitive cost
of hauling, and beyond lie vast terri
tories that cannot be cultivated with
out the building and constant main
tenance of roads suited to whatever
traffic there may be developed.
"It has been demonstrated that as
the roads from the market towns have
been improved there has been great
increase of their business and CORE
spending improvement in the condi-
ton and opportunities of the rural
population, larger prosperity of the
individual farmer, greater traffic for
the railroads, better supplies and low
er prices for the consumer. 1t does
not pay to raise crops that cannot be
marketed readily and cheaply. Mil
lions of dollars worth Of field and or
chard crops have been utterly wasted
because Of expensive and inadequate
facilities for marketing. This is one
Of the hard problems with which the
United States department of agricul'
ture is trying to deal through the
greatest experts in the land, and they
have found that the building of good
roads is essential to the success OF
their plans"
Ami 70 nnnUrn In nrBM0nr
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
LOWER EXPENSE TO FARMERS
Good Roads Reduce Greatly Trouble
of Transporting Crops to Market
Cause of Distress.

Before the war in Europe affected
the rates at sea it cost the American
farmer more to haul bushel Of wheat
nine and a half miles to the railroad
station for shipment than it cost the
buyer to ship the same bushel of
wheat from New York to Liverpool, a
distance of 5000 miles," according to
a bulletin issued by the American
Highway association. "The average
cost of hauling a ton of farm produce,
or ton Of anything else, over the ay-
erage country road is about twenty
three cents a mile; 70 years ago the
cost of the same service was II cents.
The cost of hauling over the railroads
is less than one-ninth as much as it
was 60 years ago. The cost of hauling
by railroad has almost reached the
vanishing point; the cost of hauling
on the country roads has gone up as
the roads have gone down.
"By careful calculation, Logan Wal
lei Page, director of the United States
Office of public roads, has reached the
conclusion that with wise and equita-
bl, road laws and good business man
agemen' it would be entirely practica-
BILE for the people to save themselves
on the two items of hauling and ad-
ministration the enormous sum of
S290,000,000 yearly. The railroads in
the United States carry about 900, OO0,-
900 tons of freight annually, and of
this vast tonnage at least 200,000,O0O
tons are hauled over the country roads
to the railroad station or to the canals
for shipment. The immense volume
of mining products aggregating mil
lions of tons is not included in this
estimate, but only the agricultural,
forest and miscellaneous products
hauled by wagon over the public roads,
nor is the cost of hauling back and
forth between the farms and the mills.
1.-THE main cause of agricultural dis
tress," says the bulletin, "a subject of
perennial alarm to popular favorites,
, il not so much the wages of the work
ers or the infertility of the soil or the
prices of the products, but the enor-
nous drain of getting the stuff to
market, the waste of the roads in the
wear and tear of machinery, the sacri-
flee of teams, the inefficiency of serv-
ice compelled by impossible highways.
Tributary to every market town or
railroad station there are what Mr..
Page calls zones of production
From the first of these zones all prod
ucts can be delivered to market at q
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05

Perhaps you have been raising poul-
try for many years but with indiIter-
ent success-just fOoling along with
few hens, of many different breeds,
feeding any old thing, in old, tumble
down houses, alive with mites and
lice, and unclean.
Maybe you have wondered why you
have not had the success that some or
your neighbors had and perhaps are
discouraged and ready to say there Is
nothing in the poultry business.
This is true if you continue in the
same old way, but if you will follow
few simple rules, which every sue
cessful poultry raiser must follow, you
cannot help being successful in just
the degree Of painstaking care with
which you carry on the work.
In the first place you must nave
clean, we'll ventilated poultry houses.
These do not cost much and on the
average farm they can be constructed
of old boards and by the labor or
handy man, III one or two days.
The houses must be provided with
clean nests. Build the houses when
ever possible, facing the south, leaV-
ing the front open except the cover
ing of small mesh wire to keep out
predatory animals.
If you intend to use incubators and
breeders provide comfortable brood
er house which can be closed up to
shut out the cold, damp drafts of ear
ly spring. Set your incubator in
warm place-in the attic, the cellar,
or in some room we'll protected.
Next. we want to impress you with
the fact that you cannot raise goou
chickens from poor eggs. If you are
satisfied with the mixed breeds, good,
bad and Indifferent, there is little ad-
vice to give you as to their manage
ment.
If you propose to raise good chick
ems. fowls that will lay the greatest
number of eggs, or produce the great
est number of pounds of meat, select
YOUR breed, and then buy purebred
eggs. You can only get these by buy
ing from breeders whose integrity IS
unuuestioned, and who are ready TO
guarantee that their eggs will pro-
duce birds true to type.
Insist upon having eggs from hens
and not from young pullets. Eggs
from a hen that is fully grown ana
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
WHY CHICKENS CATCH COLDS
Too Close House Has Same Effect as
Drafts and Exposure - Fowl
Does Not Sweat.

Drafts and exposure are causes
for chickens taking cold, but a too
tight house will bring about same re-
suits.
The fowls come out-not sweating,
for a fowl does not sweat-but fairly
steaming from the heat of their own
close bodies.
The cold air strikes them and they
take a quick chill.
Sometimes it is their heads and
eyes that first show the effects of that
chill, sometimes it is the throat or
lungs.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
For Sale

A fine TOM lot on South Spruce
Street, good location, excellent
view, rich soil, all kinds of fruit,
apples, pears. plums, grapes, i'm
proved raspberries, ETC., will be
offered for sale at public auction
the 1st day of April court. Terms
made known on day of sale. A
good investment-toWn property
Increasing in value each year.
Jones & Wood
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
S1.OOo,Ooo,Oo0 Worth of Roads.

While talking about preparedness
It may be noted that the $1,000, 100000
proposed to be expended would build
100000 miles of hard-surfaced high
WAYS at the rate of $4,000 per miles.
If the government contributed 50
per cent, its billion would cover 5OOi
600 miles.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
Test Matching Eggs.

In selling eggs for Matching, it is
wise and a safe rule, no matter how
healthy your birds seem, not to as
sumo the eggs produced are fertile,
or that they will hatch. The safe plan
is to test them at home. If setting
from any given mating matches rea-
sonably we'll with you-then go ahead.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
Keep Front Ogen.

Don't because Of freezing weather,
close up the chicken house front! Cold
weather is just the time to keep the
front open But stop the cracks at the
lack. sides and in the roof. Drafts
and leaks are the trouble breeders.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
Eqas Absorb Odors.

A fresh egg will absorb odors as
readily as fresh milk. Mustiness or
moldy growth in egg cases or filters
will faint the egg and lower its
quality.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
Use the Road Draq.

Use the read drag to get roads into
the best possible shape for winter.
They may be lad enough at best, but
proper work will help greatly.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
O. j. CAMPBEJ l.
LOCAL DENTIST
MONTEREY, VA.
Office in Masonic Temple

OlllSC III GSobiS SAipAS
By the administration of Som
noforn, teeth are extracted ALSO
lutelv without pain-saf than
chloroform, ether or nitrous oxide
and its administration is not fol-
lowed by any of the accompany
ing disagreeable effects OF cocaine,
eucaine or any of the numerous
ocal anaesthetics.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Head of Public School system of Va
DEPARTMENTS REPRESENTED:
College, Graduate, Law,
Medicine Engineering
Loan Funds Available TO deserving STU
dents. $lo covers all costs 10 virginia
students in the Academic Departments.
send for catalogue.
Howard Winston, Registrar
University, Va
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
OF VIRGINIA
Notice

ANY one desiring 10 sell any kird of
property at public auction may receive
my services on application. | will cry
any sales which may he trusted tc me at
reasonable charges and guarantee that |
will sell the property nj as high price as
anyone else can obtain for il, respect
fully solicit the patronage of tie people
of Highland.
CLYDE HEROLD
Mill Gap, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05

1t pays to advertise--try the
Highland Recorder.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05
PRINCIPAL RATION FOR EGGS
Cracked Corn, Wheat and Heavy
White Oats Are Three Chief lngre-
dients of Mixture.

One of the principal rations used
in one of the most successful laying
contests of the year consists of:
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-05

Buy Prince Albert all oucr
the cipilized World! Toppyred
bags, Sc; tidy red tins, IOc;
pound and hdif-pound tin
humfdors-ond-that classy
crystaEslnss pound humidor
With sponge-noistencr top
that keeps the tobacco IN
such fine shape-dlwGys!
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-09-06
La TOILETTE MAKES TROUBLE
Rushcs to Washington From His Wcs-
tern Home to Attack Strike I.cgis-
latiOn.

Washington, Sept. 1.-Senator La
Toilette arrived from home today
and Went at once to the senate inter-
state commerce commission meeting,
prepared to fight the proposed legis-
lation for averting the strike. The
leaders are alarmed. fearing he will
complicate an already delicate situa-
tion. The Republican conference ap-
pointed Senator's Cummins. Brandege
Weeks, Sterling, Nelson and Borah
to draft q substitute bill for the Dem
ocratic measure. They expect it will
be introduced in the senate this af-
ternoon. The house interstate and
foreign commerce committee favor
ably reported the Adamson eight
hour bill to the house. The house
then agrees to debate of one hour
on the special rule for taking the
measure up. Representative Bennel
bitterly attacks the measure. The
senate commerce committee favor.
ably reports the eight hour law to the
senate.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-09-06
TAX ON COTTON STRUCK OFT
Munitions Section OF Revenue Bill
Amended.

Washington, Aug. 31.-The muni-
tlons section of the emergency reve-
nue. bill was reached in the senate to-
day and amendments were unani-
mously adopted striking out the pro-
posed taxes on cotton, lumber, rubber
and certain other raw materials used
In making war munitions.
During the debate Senator Penrose.
Republican, read an editorial charg-
Ing Southern congressman with
forcing through sectional legislation
and drew a sharp reply from Senator
stone, Democrat, who said he had
never seen such motley group of
discredited forces and political nom
descripts' as the Republican side of
the senate presented. Pointing to
the Pennsylvania senator, Senator
Stone said: "Penrose-the boss su-
preme." He added he would mot
open the books" on the senator, al
though he had them.
THE senator does not believe ev-
erything he reads" Senator Penrose
replied. II remember reading sonie-
thing in magazine about the Mis-
souri senator and the baking powder
trust"
The colloquy ended with that.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-09-06
LOOKS FOR THE MONEY.
PrtOuleau Still Oh Trail Of That 81.
600.

r
Washington, Aug. 31.-Aaron
Prioleau. the South Carolina darkey
who for many years past has MAIN
tanned a candidacy for the house
from the First South Carolina district
to the extent of getting $4,000 a year
Tor making his alleged contests, is in
Washington. and said today that he
expects to receive hts usual allowance
immediately. y
Just why Democratic congress
should year after year entertain
this farce Is beyond comprehension
Year after year the committees Of the
house declare that there is not the
least foundation for Prioleau's com.
plants but 60 on paying him just as
though his complaints were bona fide.
Prioleau says he Is watching the
situation closely and believes that
should the house go Republican this
fall he may be able to manipulate
things even to a further extent than
to get his $4,000 allowance, but he
does not say how he expects to do It.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-09-06
Miss Marion Weatherly.

1t is with sincere sorrow that we
record the death of our beloved sis
ter, Marion Weatherly. who departed
this life on the first day Of July, 1915.
Resolved. Therefore by the Phila-
thea Class of Grace Baptist church of
which she was a faithful member:
1. That in the death of our sister
we have sustained a distinct bereave-
ment. 81
2. That we extend to her family
our deepest sympathy in their af-
Fiction and irreparable loss.
3. That a page in our minutes be
inscribed as sacred to her MEM
Ory.
4. That copy OF these resolu-
tions be sent to her family and also
published in our local paper and the
Baptist Courier.