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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
MRS. LARAMORE
TELLS TROUBLES
Lady In Goodwater Describes Her
Distressing Experience and
Tells How She Was
Finally Relieved.

Goodwater, Mo.-"Ever since I was
q little girl, says Mrs. Riley Laramore,
IL was great sufferer from dyspepsia.
suffered misery after eating, and had
terrible heartburn.
| thought ! had TO suffer this way a.
long as lived, but when began TO take
Thedtord's Black-Draught, in small
doses, every night, the heartburn was all
gone in few days, and could eat
without distress.
took two small packages in all, and
although that was some time ago, the
dyspepsia has not returned.
! speak good word for Thedford's
lack-Draught whenever have the OPP
portunity."
II eating causes distress, we urge you
to try Thediord's Black-Draught. II
cleanses the system, helps the stomach TO
digest its food, regulates the bowels. and
stimulates the liver.
II acts gently and is without bad after
effects. Tryit. Price 25c.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
Good Words For Girls.

Your mother is your best friend
Have nothing to do with girls
who snub their parents.
Tell the pleasantest things you
know when at meals.
Do not expect your brother to be
as dainty as a girl.
Exercise, and never try to look as
if you were in delicate health.
Introduce every new acquaint-
ance to your mother as soon as
possible.
Don't think it necessary to get
married, There is plenty OF room
for old maids and they ere often
happier than wives.
Enjoy the pleasures provided for
you by your parents to the fullest
extend. They will like that as a
reward better than any other.
Most fathers are inclined to over
indulge their daughters. Make it
impossible for your father to spoil
you by fairly returning his devo-
ton and affection.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
A Butterfly for a Pet.

Mrs. Ruth Clark Bellah. of Mont.
clair. N J., has a butterfly as d
household pet. The butterfly Is
probably the only one in New Jer.
sey that has lived through the win
ter. On October rs it was found
in the Bellah home under a lace
curtain. Mrs Bellah placed the
little thing in a small box with a
netting over it rather than put il
outdoors to freeze. To her surprise
the butterfly lived. so she then put
it in a large hat box with netting
over the top and sprinkle the net
ting with sugar and water The
butterfly is a dark reddish brown,
with pale yellow and blue splaShes
near the end Of its wing. When
asleep or when its wings are closed
it resembles a dried leaf. Mrs.
BelIah finds that the butterfly
sleeps most Of the time but she
never fails to put It N the sunshine
every bright day and to sive it
sweetened water AS soon as the
sun WARNS 1t up the butterfly
opens its wing, and flies back and
forth in its cage, thus taking its
daily exercise 1t is considered re-
markable that the butterfly has
survived. even with the tender care
that has been bestowed upon it.
Mrs Chas. DempSy and little son
Of Shelbyville, came Thursday for
several days visit with her parents
Mr. and Mrs John r Carrico
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
Notice of City Election

Notice is hereby given that the
regular general election OF the City
Of Monroe. Mo, will be held on
Tuesday April 18th, 1916, for the
purpose of electine the following
officers for term Of two years
each Mayor. Marshal, Collector,
Police Judge and Aldermen from
the first. second and third wards
aud you are further notified that at
said election every voter may vote
for one and one. fourth mill tax
for free public library" or against
one and one-fourth mill tax for a
free public library" The voting
places will be: First Ward, Hender-
son & Sons Produce Cos. office;
Second Ward. Mcfarland Bros Ice
Plant Office; and Third Ward, Coun-
Gil rooms The following Judges
are appointed; First Ward, J. j.
Brown, Thos Dawson, NJ. L Aye
and H. J. Kent; Second Ward. Oscar
Hawkins, James Smith. John Cleary
and Richard Johnston; Third Ward.
|. c. Yates. B. O. Wood. F. NJ. Alb
bolt and A Jaeger. Sr.
James S Scott.
Mayor Of the City of Monroe, Mo.
Attest:
Geo. W. Tompkins. City Clerk.
Monroe City. Mo-. March 23rd, 1916.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
RESOLUTION
A Resolution Providing for the Paw
ing Of a Part OF Winter Street
With Concrete With
Tarvia Top

Be il Resolved by the Board Of
Aldermen Of the City Of Monroe, Mo.
Section |. That the Board Of
Aldermen deem it necessary that
Winter Street from the West line of
Main Street to the Center line of
Vine Street be improved by paving
with Concrete with Tarvia Top.
Said paving to extend from curb
line TO curb line as heretofore es-
tablished by Ordinance No. 173. All
OF said work to be done in accord
ance with the plans and specifica-
tons therefor prepared by the en-
gineer and now on file in the office
of the City Clerk.
Section 2 That the Board of
Aldermen further deem it necessary
that said part Of Winter Street be
brought to established grade in ac-
cordance with said plans and speci
tications therefor prepared by the
engineer and now on file in the
office Of the City Clerk and in the
judgment and opinion of the Board
OF Aldermen the general revenue
fund Of the City is not in condi-
ton to warrant an expenditure
therefrOm for bringing said street
to the established grade and that
the cost of bringing SAID part of
said street to the established grade
shall be included in the special as
easements and tax bills issued
against the property liable for such
paving as hereinafter provided.
Section g. That the Board of
Aldermen do hereby declare all of
said work and improvements nee
essary to be done and that the cost
of same shall all be paid for with
special tax 0llls issued against the
property liable therefor according
to law.
Section 4. That this Resolution
be published for two consecutive
weeks in the Monroe City Democrat
a weekly newspaper printed and
published in the City Of Monroe.
Adopted on motion of Alderman
Robey.
Approved March 10th. 1915.
(SEAL) VIM. r YATES.
Acting Mayor.
Attest: Geo. W. Tompkins, City
Clerk $50
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
The Citizen and the School.

No matter how exalted or humble
a person may be, there is one
sacred duty which he owes to hu-
mahity and which it is imperative
ly incumbent upon him to pay.
That duty is the protection and
the fostering Of our public school
system.
We are living in an age of edu-
cation and advancing intellectual
development, and the human mind
that is deprived of the best advan-
tag$s obtainable will be hampered
and hindered at every step in life.
l matters not how bright nor
how acute the infantie mind may
be, If that mind is denied the ad-
varHages of education then the
child grown to maturity will be
retarded and Inundated because of
its Intellectual deficiencies. 1t will
be d living monument to the neglect
and The lnditferences to its parents.
1t will be mark of shame and
BLIGHT upon the community that
reared il in its ignorance. 1t will
be an object of pity where it
should be one Of pride.
Education and advantages of
intellectual advancement have
made America great country
And America is even yet in its
infancy.
Our school system should be en-
couraged and raised to the highest
point of efficiency. The instructors
should be upheld and given to
understand that they have the
backing of a united community,
and that the community expects
satisfactory results.
II our present buildings are in
adequate and new ones are needed,
then for the sake of enlightened
humanity let US spend the money
and get them Let US make any
other Improvements or new depar-
lures that the welfare Of our chill
dren require,
We have brought these children
into the world and in their infancy
and youth they are helpless. 1t is
our duty to give them an education
that will enable them to success
fully cope with the intricate
problems of existence that will
confront them later in life. To do
less would be to neglect sacred
duty, to shame the innocent ones
for whose very existence we are re-
sponsible.
Let US keep our schools and our
children in mind. Let US study
their welfare individually and COL
lectively. Let us leave no stone
unturned that will advance their
moral and material interests.
For the man who honors his Off
spring is honored of men.-Ex.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
Early Garden Crops

AS soon as the ground can be
prepared in spring the So-called
cool crops or garden crops which
VIII stand cool weather should be
put in Among the hardest aud
fist to be planted are. onions. gar
den peas. spinach. satisfy and pars-
rips. Satisfy AMI parsnips Sprout
land grow slowly, SO it is a good
plan to plant them in rows lS
inches apart and plant spinach or
onion sets between these rows. Peas
may be planted in pairs of rows 6
inches apart, so the peas in the two
rows of the same pair will support
one another and occupy very little
space. Each pair should be 2 feet
from the next pair.
The next group of cool crops to
plant includes lettuce. radishes,
parsley and chard. Chard is valua.
BILE for hot weather greens as it
furnishes substitute for spinach in
hot weather and provides succulent
stems much like those Of aspara Gus
AS it starts slowly it is a good COM
panion crop for lettuce and radishes.
Beets and carrots may be planted
about two weeks after chard or
about April / in central Missouri
and correspondinely earlier or later
in places north and south of this
region. About the same time cab
base and caulitlower may safely be
transplanted, at the proper distance
apart in rows of growing radishes
or lettuce. which will be used be-
ore the tranSplanted crops need
space. Some raiiSh seed should be
planted for markers in the rows Of
carrots as this crop comes uD slow
ly. Both beets and carrots should
be sown thick enough so that they
may be thinned to 3 inches apart
and the plants removed at thinning
time will furnish plenty of greens.
Early potatoes may also be planted
about April 1 and as the ground is
still cool and as its plant food be-
comes available slowly, the seed
pieces should be cut large so that
they will furnish plenty of plant
food and moisture. Early potatoes
should be planted ShallOwer than
the later as hill cultivation will
cover the tuhers well enough 10
keep them from sunburnins The
seed should be dropped 10 inches
apart in rows 80 inches apart and
the potato patch and all the rest of
the garden should be cultivated
from the time enough Of the seed
has come up to show whore the
rows are until the crop is beyond
injury by weeds or drought.
Mrs. Robert GoOdier was Han
n;bol ,,;e;tn- Thnrcbay
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30

Having moved to town, | solicit
your patronage for blowing gardens
rebuilding chimney flues, concrete
work. shineline and cementine els
terms a speciality. Work guaranteed
Bell phone. Mike Corcoran. $50
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30

JAS E. Boulware and E. P. Hanna
went to Hannibal Tuesday morning
AMI returned with Mr.. Bouln ares
fine new Studebaker car This is
one of the best cars On the market.
He has accepted the agency for this
ar. Perry Enterprise Jas. +.
BouIwarc is the sou Of Mrs. Laura
BOul"are Of this city
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
PAY PosroFFIcE BOX RENTS

Box rents shall be collected at the beginning of each
quarter for the entire quarter, but no longer So.
If box holder fails to his right to his box on or
before the last day of quarter the box shall then be
closed and offered for rent and the mail placed in the
general delivery.
Sec. $50 Postal aw d Iicgcat atoms
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
Help!

in Obstructive windstorms is afford
ed those who insure their property
by securing a Tornado Policy with
Node Green. who represents the
largest company in the United
States, at the lowest rates. 4-13
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30
Annual School Election

Notice Is hereby given to the
qualified voters Of School District
OF Monroe. township 56, Rirsc 7
and 8. Counties Of Monroe. Marion
and Rails, State # Missouri, that
the annual School Election of said
district shall be held at the same
time and place as the election Of
municipal officers. The following
will be proposed. The election of
two directors for term of three
ears each to fill vacancies caused
by the expiration of term of Office
of Thos Proctor and W. f. Shear.
man
This 10th day of March 1915.
$50 H. J. Kent. Clerk.
Mrs. Earl Mudd and Miss Agnes
Bell were Hannibal visitors Friday.
Mrs. C. c. Cassidy came 10 We'd
nesday night Of last week from
Monticello, Ark She will make
short visit here and in Illinois be-
fore she returns to Monticello. Mr..
Cassidy is well
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1916-03-30

We have home money to loan on
farm lands in amounts from $4,000
70 Sl5OO00.-A. S. Jayne & Son.
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SYNOPSIS.

Brouillard, chief engineer of the Niquoia
Irrigation dam, meets J. Wesley CortL
wright and his daughter, 'Genevieve, and
explains the reclamation work to them.
Cartwright sees in the project a big
chance to make money, organizes a COM
pany and obtains government contracts to
furnish power and material for the dam
construction. A busy city springs up
about the site. Steve Massingale threat
ems to start q gold rush if Broullard does
does not influence President Ford to build
q railroad branch to the place, thus OPEN
Little Susan" mine. On a visit to Amy
.Massingale at her fathers mine Brouil-
lard tells her of his need for money to pay
off his dead fathers debts and that to be
free he would sacrifice, anything save his
love for one woman. Though his influences
is vital to the building of the railroad ex-
tension she tells him to be true to him
self. He decides for it, Mirapolis. the
city of numbered days, booms. Cartwright
persuades Brouillard to become consult
ing engineer of the consolidated electric
power company in return for 500 900 stock
Permanent building in Mirapols and a
real estate boom are in full swing when
the stoppage of work on the railroad
threatens panic. Brouillard spreads the
Massingale story of, placer gold in the
river bed and starts a gold rush. The gold
rush promises ito stop the reclamation
project Amy tells Brouillard that her IA
Their has incorporated the little Susan"
and is in Cortwright's clutches financial
ly- He tells her he has made 100000 and
declares his love.
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. CHAPTER XIV M
The Feast of Hurrahs

| MirapOlis the marvellous was a hus-
ting, roaring, wide-open mining camp
| of twenty thousand souls by the time
the railroad, straining every nerve and
crowding three shifts into the 24-hour
day, pushed its rails along the foothill
bench of Chigringo, tossed up its tenn
porary station buildings, and signaled
it's opening for business by running a
mammoth excursion from the cities of
the immediate East.
Busy as it was, the city took time
to celebrate fittingly the event which
linked it to the outer world. By proc
lamation Mayor Cartwright declared a
holiday, There were lavish displays
of bunting, an imprompta trades pa
rade,, speeches from the plaza band
stand, free lunches and free liquor
day of boisterous, hilarious triumph
ings, with, incidentally, much buying
and selling and many transfers of the
precious front foot" or choice "cor-
ner."
Yielding to pressure, which was no
less imperative from below than from
above, Brouillard had consented to
suspend work on the great dam during
the day Of triumphs, and the recla-
nation service force, smaller now than
at any time since the beginning of the
went to swell the crowds
on Chigringo avenue. Mr.. Cartwright !
had been memorable, and Brouillard |
found himself discomfortingly empha-
sized as chairman of the civic recep-
ton committee.
1t was after his part of the speech
and while the plaza crowds
we're still believing their approval of
he modest forensic effort, that he
vent to sit beside Miss Cartwright In
he temporary grand stand, hopping
lis face and otherwise exhibiting the
lfter effects of the unfamiliar strain.
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| speakable idiots have gone off and
left the concrete to freeze wherever II
happens to be-" ryTS
"One.moment," she replied, while he
was reaching for his hat. This new
madness will have spent itself by
nightfall-it must. And yet / have
the queerest shivery feeling, as If
something dreadful were going to hap
pen. Can't you contrive to t-word
to me, some way--after Il Is all
over? wish you could.
TIL do IL" he promised ..Ill come
up after supper" ssssss '----s--s'-a-saa-
No, don't do that You will be
needed at the dam. There will. -be
trouble, with I town full Of disappoint-
"a G0ld.hunters, and liquor to be had.
Wait minute" She ran into the.
house and came out with two little,
paper-covered cylinders with fuses
projecting. Take these; they are
Bengal lights-some of the fireworks
that Tig bought In Red Butte for the
Fourth. Light the blue one when you
are ready to send me my message
OF. cheer. shall be watching for it."
"And the other?" he asked.
1T is a red light, the signal of war
and .tumults and danger. II you light
it, / shall know" - II
He nodded. dropped the paper cyl.
lnders into his pocket, and a moment |
later was racing down the trail to
take his place at the helm Of the aban-
ioned ship of the industries.
/, Brouillard descended upon his dis
1eartened subordinates like q whirl-
Wind of invincible energy, electrifying
into instant action. Glass;
nanewas told OF to bring the Indians, +
Who alone were Loyalty indifferent to
he gold craze, down from the crush
RI. Arson was dispatched to impress
he walters and bellboys from the
LsshlAgton wes sentlta tAs-
hops and the hank 3 turn ct IL
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By Francis Lynde

Cspyrisht b.
Charles ScibneF's Sens

something i have not the same
promptings; things that ! used, to
1oathe no longer shock me. And there
is no cause. Nothing different has
broken into my life save the best of
all things----a great love, And you tell
me that the love is unworthy"
|, "Noj !. didn't say that; only meant
that you had misconceived it. Love
is the truest, finest thing we know.
It can never be the tool of evil; it may
even breathe new life into the be-
numbed conscience"
Again a silence came and sat be-
tween them; and, as before, it was the
man who broke 1t. Ia H.. a.
=, "You lead me to a conclusion, that
1 refuse to accept, Amy; that I am
dominated by some influence which is
stronger than love-"
"You are" she said simply. .
" what is it?" o.. 4f-', - --~-f %.
Environment" 4....-i-.J.4-
"That is the most humiliating thing
you have said today"
mo. However much others may be
'uCiueiCa, L GILL Jul q yOu Snh DEC Vhh a p
oils in its true light. The very air you
breathe down there is poisoned. The
faint is in the blood. Mr.. Cartwright
and his fellow bandits call 1t the Mir.
ac1e City, but the poor wretches on
lower Chigringo avenue laugh and call
it Gomorrah." -
"Just at the present moment 1t Is a
city of fools-and I, the king Of the
fools, have made it So" said Brouillard
gloomily. From his seat on the porch
step he was frowning down upon the
outspread scene in the valley, where
the triangular shadow of Jacks noun
tain was creeping slowly across to the
foot of Chigringo. Something in the
measured. eye-sweep brought him to
his feet with hasty exclamation:
Good Lord! the machinery has
stopped They've knocked off work
on the dami"
why not?" she said. did you inag-
Inc that your workmen were any
less human than other people q.
4 gNo, Of course not; that is, hut |
I haven't any time to go into that |
now. Is your telephone line up. here
n operation?"
"No, not yet"
"Then I must burn the wind getting
Town there. By Jove! If those I'M
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NJ CHAPTER XIu IN
esa Ra.ss"N

Brouillard turned on his heel and
rhoked back the sudden maledictior
that rose to his lips. She had called
Mirapolis q city of knavee, and .dupes;
surely, he himself was. tAS simpaest Of
the dupes. ,d 4
Il see-after SO long = TIM be
went on. "Your brother m1r14 ssait.
ed few shovelfuls OF sand 1Df my
especial benefit. Great heaxbmss but
was an easy marki'gs ..ss
"Dontl" she cried. and the tears
In her voice cut him to, the heart
don't make it harder for me than It
has to be. / have told you only what
I'VE heard my father say, time and
again: that there is no gold in the Nj
quota river. And you mustn't ask
me to despise my brother. He fights
dts way to his ends without caring
much for, the consequences to others;
but tell ms-havent you been doing
the same thing?" -
"Yet you condone in your brother
what you condemn In me-" he COM
planned
my brother is my brother; and you
are-fet me tell you Something, Vic
tor: God helping me, shall be no
mans evil genius. and yours least Of
eli. You broke down the barriers a
few minutes ago and you know what
II In my heart. But can take it out
Of my heart II the man who put 1t
there IL not trFe % himself
Brou1hfd .1at SILENT fcrs I little
space. and when he spoke again 1t was
- one awsking from troubled dream.
II know. There II change. am
tthAAaUnannanzaswaa-a-fAw- EaaEa, 4
svsr few months ago. have lost |
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Not the Teapot's Fault.

Pat was very fond Of strong tea. He
always praised housekeeper accord
ing to the strength Of the tea she
made. Last Saturday the woman Of
the house where Pat worked was pour.
ing out the tea for his breakfast. II
was coming out very slowly, and the
good woman asked Pat to excuse ths
teapot as 1t had bad spout. Pat (nQ<
liking the look of the teal said sadly:~
"Oh, begor. ma am, don't blame thu,
taypot. because anything weak mus
70 aiay."