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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
TAKE SALTS TO FLUSH
KIDNEYS IF BACK HURTS
Says Too Much Meat Forms Uric Acid
Which Clogs the Kidneys and
lrritates the Bladder.

Most folks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and clog
ged and need a flushing occasionally,
else we have backache and dull misery
in the kidney region, severe head
aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver,
acid stomach, sleeplessness and all
sorts Of bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four ounce Of Jad
Salts from any good drug store here,
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 is harmless to
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity. 1t also neu-
tralizes the acids in the urine so it
no longer irritates, thus ending blad-
der disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which everybody should
take now and then to keep their kid
neys clean, thus avoiding serious COM
plications.
A w%ell-known local druggist says he
sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who be-
lieve in overcoming kidney trouble
while it is only trouble.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
INTERESTING BITS

New discoveries of petroleum have
been made in Argentina.
In Sumatra the horn of the rhinoc-
eros is esteemed as a cure for poison,
and for that reason is made into drink.
ing cups.
London's exports to the United
States for November were more than
$14, 574, 900, as against less than $12,-
100000 for October.
Gold-mining companies in South
Africa are experimenting with blast
ing by electricity with a view to mini
MIXING the fine dust, which is regard
ed as the chief cause of miners
phthisls.
In Serbia every grown man can
claim five acres of land from the gov
eminent, which is exempt from all
chains of debt.
A Philadelphia surgeon is combat
ing diseases peculiar to certain races
by transfusing to patients blood from
members of other races that seem i'm
mune to the maladies.
A miner lowered into a subterra-
mean ave opened by a miners blast
at Volcano, New, some time ago, was
unable to discover the ends of the
assure. Stones dropped through the
opening could be heard bounding from
wall to wall, but there was no sound
indicating that they reached the bot
tom. Sparkling stalactites on the sides
of the cavern were revealed by lights
lowered through the opening.
The Mississippi river carries more
than 100000 tons Of material to the
Gulf Of Mexico every day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Note Saved Aviator from
Death in Mexico

Columbus, N. M.-Lieut. Edgar S.
Gorrell of the United States aero
corps, who was missing several days,
was found three miles south Of
Ascension by a motor truck train
under Lieut.. J. L. Parkinson of
the Twentieth infantry, according to
reports made to military headquarters
here. Lieut.. Gorrell was uninjured,
but was out of gasoline and had lost
his way.
Lieut.. Gorrell had been alone for 4S
hours in the middle Of a sandswept,
~uninhabited plateau on the borders Of
Lake Frederick, but suffered only
slightly from exposure to the sun. His
plane was intact. With the receipt of
this report all of the eight army avn
ators who left here to fly to Casas
Grandes have been accounted for.
Lost Sight of other Planes.
The flyer said that shortly after the
start he lost sight of the other planes
and missed his way. After flying fer
miles over the surrounding country in
an effort to determine his where
abouts he was forced to alight on the
plateau because Of a leaking fuel tank.
The gasoline oozed away and he was
unable to find the leak in the dark
ness.
There were no signs of human habi-
tation and no vegetation on the height
except burned clumps of bunch grass.
He finally made his way to a recently
abandoned American camping place
on the wagon trail about six miles
southeast. There he placed a note,
telling of his whereabouts and condi-
ton, on a stick which he drove firmly
in the ground near the trail. Being
unwilling to leave his plane unpro-
tected, he made his way back to the
lake with the realization that If he at
tempted to find a village he probably
would wander in the hills at the risk
Of enco~untering bandits or wild ami
mails. He said he was confident that
his note would be found before his
supply of three days rations gave out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Missouri as Pearl Producer.

missouri as Pearl Producer.
That Missouri is a pearl producing
state is probably only known to pearl
button manufacturers, jewellers who
make a specially of purchasing such
gems. mussel diggers, pearl fishermen
and a few others well versed in the
mussel our of Missouri. This
information comes in a bulletin from
the office Of John T. Fitzpatrick, the
state commissioner of labor statistics.
1t was a difficult matter to secure
reliable information on the output Of
mussel shells and the pearls they
yielded, but such information which
is at hand is to the effect that 841
Missouri mussel diggers and pearl
hunters earned S6S,062 as a result Of
the work last year. OF this portion
$1S,35S is allowed for the pearls that
were found in the mussel shells, and
$49,704 for the shells after they had
been cleaned and were ready to send
to the factories to be made into pearl
buttons. The quantity of shells mar
keted was 1851 tons, some of which
came from the Mississippi river north
of its confluence with the Missouri,
and some from the Usage, Meramec,
B~ourheuse, Marais des Cygnes, st.
Francis, Black, White, Current, Gas
conade, Platte, Grand, Charlton, Cas-
ton and other streams of north and
south Missouri. It was found a diff
ficult matter to separate Missouri's
portion of pearls and shells from that
which belonged to the states of Ar
kansas and Kansas, and the figures
herewith submitted must be accepted
only as estimates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Us Troops Hike ITO Miles
Over Desert in Y Hours Time
First Complete Story Of Record Ride Made Through AIkaIi
Dust and Over Mountains from Columbus Is Told
Thirteenth Cavalry. Which Routed Villas
Raiders, First to Garry Colors
Across Border.

long stand as a record of speed and
endurance.
The Thirteenth cavalry, because of
its accomplishment in driving Villas
greatly superior numbers out of Co.
lumbus after a brief engagement, was
given first place in the first column.
Muster rolls of the Villa command,
found after he passed through going
southwark, showed that he made the
raid on Columbus with $50 men. Raw
ing in anger after his defeat, desert
ers reported that the bandit chieftain
killed five of his officers and men as
towards. There were 293 in his COM
mand when he retreated through Co.
lonia Dublan. The Thirteenth United
States cavalry accounted for the rest.
Maj. Frank Tompkins, who took So
men of his squadron and drove the
bandits Is miles into Mexico after
they had crossed the border, com.
manded the advance guard. The rest
of the cavalry, under Maj. Elmer
Lindsey, followed. Then came the
mountain and field guns, next the
dough boys of the infantry regi-
ments and last the wagon trains, field
hospital and sanitary equipment and
fiel0 wireless. The orders were for
every man to travel light"
Trains Long and Heavy.
Officers and men were not permit
ted to carry much more than the
clothing and equipment upon their
persons. The trains, nevertheless,
were long and heavy. Vast quantities
of ammunition for all types of arms,
including the machine guns of the cav
airy and infantry, accounted for the
most of the weight. Rations were car
ried for only five days. The rations
were bacon, hard tack and coffee.
The column stretched out a length
Of a mile and a half. From Columbus,
three miles north of the boundary
line, only a vast cloud of dust,
whipped to Il great height by a high
wind, could be seen, and two hours
later, when the troops began making
camp, the men were thickly powdered
from head to foot by grayish-white
coatings of p~ulverized lava.
The sense Of smell detected Palo-
mas long before its collection of
brown, sunburned huts of mud and
cobblestones came into view. The
odors were of stock yards, abattoirs
and tanneries. Closer, there was add
ed that of unwashed humanity and
soiled raiment, ragged remnants of
which lay strewn about with the re-
mains of slaughtered cattle that had
furnished feasts for Villa and his men
during their brief stop at Palomas and
rations for the Carranza troops, who
were there both before and after. the
bandits brief s~ojourn in the village.
The American troops camped ear a
series of lakes formed by the Mimbres
river, a stream which, like a number
of others in the southwest, disappears
in its course through Mexico.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30

IdPhutG VIVA anu hS Sota0s
Gust outside of Boca Grandes we
found the body of a cowboy who had
been killed by Villa on his way to Co
lumbus.
Later some of the Sixteenth tried
to bury him. The ground was too
hard, so they just piled rocks on the
body.
During the marches the boys
stopped 10 minutes every hour for
rest. When the word was given they
just dropped in their tracks into the
road. No stop was made for dinner.
1t was just one steady hike. The in
fantry was strung out so that the de-
tachments were a days march apart.
That is the way they are going now.
"We got no water from Columbus to
Boca Grandes, 81 miles. The water in
my canteen got so hot that l could
hardly drink it. Most of it I poured
on my head to stop the headache.
"Do you know how much stuff a
dough boy (infantryman) has to car
ry? Well, it's about so pounds. Just
as soon as they sat down, off would
come their shoes. The gritty road cut
their shoes to bits, and the alkall
made their feet swell and blister. l
saw some of them having a fine time
getting their shoes back on their feet.
"We passed through Colonia Diaz,
one of the Mormon settlements. There
was no one around. Cherry trees were
blooming and the alfalfa was knee
deep. The roofs of the houses were
burned and the windows broken. We
got some water out of an irrigation
ditch. That is what fixed me.
I'VE were fed pretty well. Hard
tack and canned "willie'-that's corn
beef. Sometimes a little bacon. Once
l copied a war baby-thatis what we
call soft bread.
"There are a lot of fellows who are
sick, but they are afraid they will be
sent out, so they hold on"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30

Headquarters United States Punt
tive Expedition, Near Colona Dublan,
Chihuahua, Mexico (by wagon train
to Columbus, N. M.).-Reaching here
by a forced march that demonstrated
the endurance of the American soldier
and obviously amazed the Mexicans,
several thousand United States troops,
cavalry and infantry and artillery,
were scattered between this point and
the northern boundary of the Guer-
zero district, intent on the capturing
Or killing of Francisco Villa in the
shortest possible time and exterminat-
ing the bandit band with which he
raided Columbus, N. NJ, and slaugh-
tered nine civilians. Troop movements
and dispositions, however, it vas said,
were shrouded in the strictest secrecy
by order of the wal department.
The entry into Mexico occurred on
March Is. At that moment the Amer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
For ouina shaftlnqs.

There is danger in the oiling of
shaftlngs. Even though the machinery
is stopped, someone is likely to start
it before the worker is through with
his task. This element Of danger is
removed through the invention of an
oiler, which may be used while the
worker stands on the floor. thus obvi-
ating the necessity Of going among
running belts. pulleys and shafts, pos
sibly on a rickety ladder.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30

Germans bombarded Libau.
Russians fought way down slope
of Carpathians into Hungary.
German army corps cut to pieces
in North Poland.
British steamers FIaminian and
Crown Of CASTLE sunk by subma-
rines.
German soldiers near Thourout,
Belgium, killed by bombs from aero
planes.
German airmen raided ostroIen-
ka, Russia.
King George gave up liquor in
royal household.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
GOVERNORS BOOM
HAS FINE CHANCE
MAJOR SURE THAT HE WILL GET
STRONG SUPPORT IN
CONVENTION.
CAMPAIGN is TO BE PUSHED
Thinks Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas and
Oklahoma Almost Sure, and Re-
CARDS the Far West as
Favorable.

JefferS0n City.
In spite of the tart and acrimoni-
u features incident to his obtaining
the Endorsement of the Missouri state
convention for the vice presidential
nomination, Governor Elliott w. Ma
jor is smiling and full of optimism
in discussing his chances for the NOM
ination in the Democratic National
convention at st. Louis in June.
The governor says that the states
adjoining Missouri are the most fav-
orable to him.
He says that the Iowa delegation
of 26 will be his without a contest,
as his is the only name on the Of
fetal ballot.
There is no doubt that he will obtain
the Arkansas delegation, he says, and
the same is true of Kansas, where a
number of counties which have elect
ed delegates have instructed for him.
In Oklahoma, Governor Major says
the sentiment is distinctly in his ia
vor.
The governor says that he intends
to push his campaign vigorously.
The campaign committee of his
friends, of which Judge W. W. Graves
of the supreme court is chairman
and A. 2. Patterson is secretary, is
in touch with the situation in all OF
the southern and eastern states.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Drug Seller Convicted.

J. H. Klein, a teamster, was sen
fenced to six months in Jail by Judge
Van Valkenburgh in the federal court
when he pleaded guilty to a charge of
carrying drugs into the state prison.
Kline's arrest was the result of a
confession in Detroit of a former con.
vict arrested by the government on
a charge of illegally dealing in mar
cotics in which Klein was named.
More than 1900 tablets of a mar.
cotic drug have been seized by the of
flcials since the revelations of one
week ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
March 27, 1915.

WdTNT II TgTNF
French captured summit of Hart
mannsweilerkopf.
Violent fighting in the carpa-
thians.
Austrians made gains in 5uko.
wilma.
U. S. hattleship Alabama sent to
Norfolk to keep Prinz Eitel Fried
rich from leaving.
German aviators dropped bombs
on Calais and Dunkirk.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Ten.Year Fugitive Captured.

John Franklin, a n~inety-nine year
convict, who with Teddy DAILY, serv-
ing fifty years, made a sensational
escape from the officers in Jasper
county at Carthage January 16, 1906,
has been arrested at Minot, N. D., ac-
cording to Warden McClung. Ed
Hardin, a p%enitentiary officer, has
gone after Franklin.
Franklin and DAILY escaped when
they were being taken from the pen
Tertiary to Joplin to testify in a case
where a Joplin policeman had been
killed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
''YOUTOLD ME- THE TRUTH
ANDIWANT EPEOPLE
TO KNOW IT.

The following unsolicited letter has
been received from Mr.. ]. F. Ward Of
Donalda, Alberta. 1t is a plain state
ment of conditions as MI. Ward has
found them:
ra--7;- at is with pleas
= oet.ers ure l drop a line to
--a.n -e..e- you. We had a
good year. on of 65 acres, oats and
wheat, / got over $500 bushels Of
wheat and oats. Oats went here from
so to 100 bushels per acre, and wheat
from 25 to 50 per acre. Just see me
being here one year and have over 700
bushels of wheat. 1t is now over $1.00
per bushel. Oats is AZ cents, and 60
ing up. You told me the truth, and /
want the people of Toledo to know it.
Hogs are So cents; cattle are high.
Canada is good enough for me have
5 good horses. l sold 2 good colts, 2
cows and IS head of hogs and killed 2.
l have 6 hogs left. l got 400 bushels
of potatoes off an acre and a good
garden last summer, fine celery and
good onions. One neighbor had owe
1900 bushels of wheat, and sold over
$500 of hogs and 1000 bushels of oats.
This is a great country. If you should
tell the people of Toledo of this it
would get some of them thinking. The
soil is a rich black loan, and a pleas
ure to work it.
1--WE have a good farm. We have a
flowing we'll with soft water. 1t is
the best water in the country. Some
people think they got to go to war
when they come out here. GThey need
not be afraid of war. TheFE is no war
tax on land; only school tax, $1,000
on 100 acres, and road tax of two
days with your team. l tell you the
truth, there is nc land in or around
Toledo as good as our land here in AL
berta. If anybody wants to write us,
give them our address.
1--WE have had nice weather. We
have had it quite cold for one week,
but no rain and sleet, and the sun
shines nearly every day, and it is hot
in the sun. Coal is 1926 per ton. The
people are very nice and good here.
We are we'll enjoying the West.
The horses and COWS are feeding on
the prairies all the winter. We just
have two horses in the stable to go to
town with. Yours truly, (Sgd.) ]. F.
WARD, Donalda, Alberta, Feb. 9, 1916"
rs-------o--7 Il was born in
aI " ~ Wisconsin, but
schweitzberger moved with my
parents when a boy to Stephen Co.,
Iowa. I was there farming for so
years. I sold my land there for over
5000 an acre. l moved to Saskatche-
wan, and located heal Briercrest in
the spring of 1912. I bought a half
section Of land. I have good neigh
bors. I feel quite at home here the
same as in Iowa. We have perfect
safety and ne trouble in living up to
the laws in force. My taxes are about
$65 a year on the half section for ev-
erything. 1 have had splendid crops.
Wheat in 1915 yielded me over so
bushels to the acre. That is more than
l have ever had in Iowa, and yet the
land there costs four times as much
as it does here. The mar who comes
here now and buys land at $50 an acre
or less gets a bargain. (Sgd.) S.
Schweitzberger, February 9th, 1916"
Advertisement.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Bank Petitions Filled.

DQtIN ECItttOIlo TIlSus
The recent convention in st. Joseph
gave all the land bank advocates from
various sections of the state an op-
portunity to become acquainted.
Col. Fred D. Gardner of st. Louis,
the author of the Missouri Land Bank
Act, and who is spending all his spare
time explaining and advocating this
proposition, addressed a meeting of
those interested.
A survey of the situation revealed
that $4,000 voters of the state have
signed initiative petitions which is to
give the proposed amendment life and
activity. There are now in circula-
ton more than 1000 petitions, and
each mail brings in more to the sec
rotary of the state committee. The law
requires the signatures of five per
cent of the voters for judge of the
supreme court at the last election,
which means the votes cast for all
nominees, and not more than eight
per cent. 1t is figured s., 5000 names
are all that is needed. The indica-
tons are that there will be $4,000
signatures on hand by April l, with
more to come in daily.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
March %, 1915.

Russians broke into Hungary and
attacked Lupkow and Uszok passes.
British liner FaIaba sunk by Ger
man submarine; ITO lost.
British steamer AguiIa torpedoed
by Germans; 26 lost.
Russians bombarded Bosporus
forts and allies shelIed Dardsnelles
forts.
More air bombs dropped on
Calais.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
March 29, 1915.

French pressed Germans hard in
Champagne.
Germans again sheIled Reims.
Austrians made gains at several
points.
Dutch steamer AmsteI blown up
by mine.
Attack on Bosporus and Darda-
nelles continued.
German Baltic fleet out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Name GOES on oreoon Ballot.

Governor Major has filed with the
secretary Of state Of Oregon the re.
quest that his name be placed IN the
Democratic ballot as a candidate for
vice president. Other states are ask.
ing information ABOUT our governor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
Post-C Card Primary.

80
A postcard elimination primary
recently held in Lincoln county set
ties the state s~enatorship in the eley-
enth district made of Audrain, Lin
coin and Pike counties. This is the
district represented in the last two
sessions of the legislature by Robert
D. Rogers of Mexico, Audrain county.
Under the unwritten law of rotation
prevailing in the district it was Lin
coin county's time to put forward a
candidate, who as the district is DEM
o~cratic, will be elected in November.
Jesse J. Duncan, who represented
Lincoln in the lower house of the
last assembly and J. q. Creech were
the candidates.
By mutual agreement it was de-
cided to leave the result to a post
card primary under rules prescribed
by trends of both contestants. The
result was a majority of 81 for Dun
can out of a total vote Of nearly 1900
cast.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
To See Board.

To see Board.
A big delegation of st. Louis men
is here to discuss the equalization of
taxable values with the state board.
That there can be no immediate re-
suit is conceded, for, under the laws,
there is no chance to go behind the
returns as filed by the county asses
sors, but it is hoped that there may be
results in the future in the reforming
of the revenue and taxation code of
the state.
The glazing deficiencies of the pres
emit system are apparent in the fact
that the entire burden of the support
of the state government falls upon the
city of St. Louis, Jackson county and
II other counties. All of the other
counties draw each year out of the
state treasury much more money than
they pay in.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
April 2, 1915.

HpTT z, ISTo'
Heavy artillery fighting between
the Mouse and MoseIle.
Russians took offensive along en-
tire front.
Moorish rebels occupied Fee and
Mekines.
German submarines destroyed
several vessels.
Allied aviators made numerous
raids on Germans on west front.
American sanitary experts sailed
to fight typhus in Serbia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30
vandlver Withdraws.

Willard D. Vandiver, assistant Unit
ed States treasurer at st. Louis, re-
garded as the Folk candidate for the
Missouri gubernatorial nomination,
announced his withdrawal from the
race, He explained his action by a
denunciation of the stand taken by
the Democratic state convention at st.
Joseph, which Endorsed Gov. Major
for the Democratic vice presidential
nomination. In some quarters the
idea is advanced that Mr.. vandiver
has withdrawn in the hope that Hon.
Joseph w, Folk will be a candidate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-03-30

French occupied Fey-en Haye.
Russians began lively offensive
in Central Poland, but c re-
pulsed by Austrians near Inowlodz
on the PiIica.
Germans checked Russians at
Rawka river.
British took Aus, German West
Africa.
British vessels and airmen sheIled
Zeebrugae and Hoboken.
German submarines sank a Brit
ish and a French steamer; 80 lost.