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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Big Sum For Improvem ents.

kaloosa.-During the past year
Oskaloosa has raised $266,OO0 for var
ious improvement purposes, record
for any city of 10000 people in the
land.
1t has given $1,000 to the Y. M. C.
A. swimming pool. $4,000 for the new
Presbyterian church, $4,000 for the
new Central NJ. e. church, $4,000 for
the Iowa Wesleyan. $4,000 for Jew
ish synagogue, $50. 900 for bonds In the
new brick plant. and of the 100000
raised for Penn colleges endowment
fund Oskaloosa raised sf55.0O0.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Mexican War Nezcs

Three bandits have been put to
death at Chihuahua City, on orders of
Gen. Jacinto Trevino. They are be-
lieved TO be members of the band
which FLASHED with United States
troops near Fort Hancock. Tex.
Formal announcement was made at
Washington by Acting Secretary Polk
of the acceptance Of Geenral Carran-
za's proposal for a joint international
commission to seek a solution Of bor-
der disputes. Secretary Lane will head
the American commission, supported
by Justice Louis ID. Brandeis of the
Supreme court.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

II was learned at Washington that
President Wilson practically has de-
cided to make speaking trip across
the continent.
cambridge Colby of New York, who
nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the
presidency at the Progressive ma
tional convention In Chicago, has de-
clared himself in favor of the re-elec-
ton of President Wilson.
Colonel Roosevelt will make his
first campaign speech in behalf of the
candidacy of Justice Hughes in Lewis
ton, Me-, on August 81. This was an
nounced at New York.
Prompt action on the part of George
w. Schneider of st. Joseph, Mich, a
member of the Michigan state pardon
board, saved the lives of three st. Jo-
seph girls from drowning.
Establishment of a school for teach
ing girls motherhood is provided for
In the will of Mrs. Lizzie Merrill Pal
mer, filed at Detroit, Mich, for pro-
bate. Mrs. Palmer was the widow
of former United States Senator Pal
mer. Probate court officials say the
estate amounts to upward of 81 00O,0 900.
Ida Torkelson. twenty-one years old,
Of Newark, H., was shot twice and
probably fatally wounded by Guy
O'Brien, young farmer who lives near
Helmar.
building in st. Louis, George X. Smith,
secretary of the Yellow Pine Manufac-
turers' association, was instantly
killed.
Acceptance by the railroad brother
hoods of New York of the proposal for
mediation by the federal board of
mediation and Cancellation averted a
strike of 100000 railway employees.
Announcement of the acceptance Of
hhN oihSA was ny n. IL 'tiASt
son, head Of the conductors brother
hood.
Matthew Hale of New York, acting
chairman of the Progressive national
committee, came out for President Will
son In statement in which he de-
clared he would support the Progress
sive electors in all states where they
are put in the field, but would work
for the reelection Of the president In
all other states.
Statements made by Charles X.
Hughes, Republican nominee for the
presidency, in speeches at Detroit
were characterized as false as to
facts and of misleading substance" in
kilograms sent by administration Off
Gals at Washington after discussion
of the subject by President Wilson and
his cabinet. The charges related to
changes in the coast and geodetic sur
vey and the census bureau.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

and Bitlis, Turkish Armenia, Russian
troops, under Turkish pressure, have
withdrawn from Hamadan, Persia,
says a dispatch from Petrograd.
The 24-days' battle which resulted
in the capture of Goritz by the Ital-
ians cost the Austro- Hungarians TO-
600 men In killed and wounded, not
counting the prisoners, it is estimated
in dispatches received from the front.
London reports heavy battle rag
ing near the Graeco-Serbian frontier,
with the allied troops from Saloniki
attacking the Bulgarians. Already the
allies have captured the station of
Dolran and the high ground near by.
Stanislau, the Austro- Hungarian
base in Galicia, was captured by the
Russians, it was officially announced
by Petrograd. The capture of Stanis-
lau gives the Russians another gate
way through which they can march
toward Lemberg.
Two hundred and sixty-eight Aus
tro-German officers and $4,000 I'M
wounded men were captured by the
Russians In battle on the Sereth river
(Galicia) between August and Au-
gust 10, the war Office announced at
Petrograd.
Gen. Alexis Kuropatkin has been re-
ieved of the command of the Russian
armies on the Riga front. The man
who was defeated by the japanese In
Manchuria has been appointed gov
ernor general of Turkestan, a Central
News dispatch to London from Petro-
grad states.
The capture by the Russians of the
railway station Of Kryplin, on the
Stanslau- Nadvorna railroad, was an
bounced officially at Petrograd.
With King Victor Emanuel and the
duke of Rosta, commander Of the Ital-
ian third army, established in head
quarters In the capturerd Austrian city
of Goritz, the sweep Of the Italians in
to Austria continued for d distance of
more than FIVE miles beyond the for
tress.
The Italians captured the villages of
San MARITIME and Boschini, according
to Rome.
"a French torsedo-boat destroyer
torpedoed an Austrian submarine north
of the Island of Corfu" says a dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph COM
pany at London from Athens.
Turkish troops captured from the
Russians the Armenian towns of Bitlis
and Mush, it was officially announced
by the Turkish war Office at Constanti-
nople.
The Echo Beige of Amsterdam re-
ports that allied airmen have success
fully bombarded the German aero
drome at Etterbeck, near Brussels.
The Italians have captured Goritz.
Official announcement of this victory,
the greatest won by the Italians since
the war against Austria Hungary was
begun, was announced by the war Of
fee at Rome. The Italians captured
10000 prisoners.
The Russians broke the Teutonic de-
lenses and drove the Teutons back on
the entire line from Tiumacz to
Ottynia. An advance averaging more
than two miles ON front of approx
mately five miles was made by the vic
torious Slavs. Berlin admits a re-
treat before this Russian onslaught.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Washington

President Wilson has sent to the
senate at Washington for ratification
the treaty with Denmark for the sale
of the Danish West Indies to the
United States.
w. r. G. Harding was designated by
President Wilson as governor of the
federal reserve board at Washington to
succeed Charles S. Hamlin, and Paul
Warburg was named vice-governor to
succeed Frederic A. DelanO.
The crisis In the news print paper
situation, which already has cut down
newspaper profits enormously, will not
be reached before late October, when
contracts come up for renewal, accord
ing to reports received at Washington
from many sources by the federal
trade commission.
John e. Kinnana was confirmed by
the senate at Washington as a United
States district attorney for the eastern
district of Michigan.
President Wilson sent to the senate
at Washington the nomination of Com
mander Leigh Palmer, U. s. N, 70 be
chief of the bureau of navigation of
the United States, succeeding Rear
Admiral Blue. resigned.
Without debate the senate at Wash
ington agreed to the conference re-
port on the army appropriation bill
carrying 1867 ,597 600 for maintenance
of the reorganized regular army and
National Guard.
The child labor bill was passed in
the senate at Washington, 52 to II.
The bill prohibits the shipment In in
terstate and foreign commerce of the
product of the prescribed child labor.
Children under sixteen are prohibited
from working in quarrles and mines.
The total yield of the leading cereal
crops of the United States this year
will be nearly l,000000,00O bushels less
than last year. The government esti-
mates of the crop issued at Washing
ton showed sensational losses in the
spring wheat crop In the northwest.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Domestic

William II. Blanchard, special agent
for the state for the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press company, was drowned when an
automobile which he was driving
plunged into the river at Milwaukee,
Wis.
Miss Helen Stewart, teacher and
prominently connected, shot and fatal
ly wounded DR.. ]. G. Barnsdale, a
well-known physician and surgeon at
Superior Wis. She claims that the
doctor mistreated her.
Returns from Ohio primary elections
show that both the Republican and
Democratic state states headed by
Gov. Frank B. Willis and ex-Goy.
James M. Cox. respectively. carried
practically without a break.
That a federal investigation of an
alleged conspiracy formed month
ago between number of big milling
interests with number Of grain OPP
orators to manipulate the wheat mar
ket has been under way for four
weeks became known ut Chicago.
At Grand Forks and in Fargo, N. D.,
Charles e. Hughes set forth his atti-
tude toward the paramount public
questions, and In score of smaller
towns he acknowledged the greetings
Of the country folks and made short
speeches.
The National Association of Master
Bakers at Its session held at Salt Lake
City adopted resolution asking that
an embargo be placed on the present
wheat crop to prevent any further ad-
vance. The resolution was sent to
President Wilson and to congress-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Foreign

The Greek steamer Eletheria, with
1000 passengers and cargo of oil
owned by an American company,
caught fire off the Island of Skiatho,
in the Aegean sea, says dispatch
from Athens. Forty were killed and
many injured.
The first reading of the bin pro-
viding for the sale of the Danish West
Indies to the United States was taken
up In the folkething, the lower house,
of the rigsdag, at Copenhagen.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
New Recruits Sent To Border.

Fifty-eight cavalry recruits and thir-
ty infantryment left Fort Des Moines
for the border to join Iowa companies.
These men were taken in before the
recruiting officers were all discharged.
General Logan received letter
from Major Ralph p. Howell in COM
mand of the cavalry with headquart-
ers at Donna, Texas, in which he stat
ed that he did not think there would
be any war with Mexico, but the
troops would be put through some
hard drilling. He has had much trou-
BILE in getting horses and finally Sc
cured ninety head. He said he only
had four mules which he had secured
from Virginia regiment.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Iowa Soldiers Cannot Vote.

Registration which is required Of
all voters in October before presi-
Dental election, makes the absent vot-
ers' law useless for the Iowa soldiers
who live in the larger cities and are
now on the Texas border.
This situation which exists in con-
nection with a presidential election.
will deprive a great majority of the
five thousand Iowa troops on the bor-
der from voting for president.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Soldiers Have Plenty To Eat.
Prison Congress Delegates.

PrIson congress Delegates.
Governor Clarke has appointed the
following delegates to the annual con-
gress OF the American Prison associa-
ton to be held at Buffalo, N. Y, Oct.
Z to ~; w. S. Withrow of Mount
Pleasant, w. ]. Dixon of Des Moines,
c. C. McClaughry of Anamosa. l.. E.
Francis of Spirit Lake. Joseph r.
Failey OF Fort Madison, T. j. B. Rob
inson OF Hampton, James M. Wilson
of Centerville.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
WORLDS EVENTS
IN SH0R! FORM
BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED
DOWN TO LIMIT.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Notes Covering Most Important Hap
peninss Of the World Compiled
In Briefest and Most Succinct
Form for Quick Consumption.
European War News

Following the evacuation of Mush
and Bitlis, Turkish Armenia, Russian
troops, under Turkish pressure, have
withdrawn from Hamadan, Persia,
says a dispatch from Petrograd.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

Center Of Population.
The center OF population OF Iowa,
according to the 1915 census, is in
Story county, about three miles north
OF the south line of the county and
within a mile of the eastern county
line. 1t is few miles east of the city
of Nevada.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

II was learned at Washington that
President Wilson practically has de-
cided to make speaking trip across
the continent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

Leaping Is stories from an office
building in st. Louis, George X. Smith,
secretary of the Yellow Pine Manufac-
turers' association, was instantly
killed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Big Demand for Laborers.

such labor shortage in Iowa as now
exists, the state free employment bu-
reau reports. Higher wages are being
offered for common labor, farm work
and factory work than for some time.
The state free employment bureau
has been unable to meet the demands
made upon it for workers within the
past several weeks.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

Colonel Roosevelt will make his
first campaign speech in behalf of the
candidacy of Justice Hughes in Lewis
ton, Me-, on August 81. This was an
nounced at New York.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Many Iowa Homes Mortgaoed.

Iowa homes are valued at 1884,
131 ,69S, according to the report Of the
state census department. The incum-
brance on these homes amounts to
$425,791,173.
The returns show that 80 per cent
of the Iowa homes are mortgaged and
that the per cent of incumbrance is
14.2 per cent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

state Printing Reduced.
The report Of Ora Williams, state
document editor, shows that the total
cost of printing and binding for the
state for the period from June 80, 1915
to July /, 1916, was $6S.345.0Z This
is just one-half of the biennial period
between legislative sessions. During
the legislative year the printing is
much larger than during the off year.
Practically all of this printing and
binding, however, was that ordered or
Authorized before the law creating the
Office OF state document editor became
operative, which was July 1, 1916.
To illuminate Capitol Dome.
: Iowa's state capitol dome is to be
brilliantly illuminated at night. Four
teen new electric reflectors have just
been ordered by the state executive
council to cost s29S, including tho
wiring and installation. They will
throw a food OF light on the gold
dome SO that 1t can be seen many
miles. A small string of incandes-
cent lights have been used on the
dome, but the new refiectors will
throw 2,40O times as much light as the
old incandescents and will use less
electricity.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Big Demand For Help.

Big Demand For Help.
The state free employment bureau
has been asked to aid in supplying
300 men to plant at Charles City
which has been busy for some time
making munitions of war. The force
Is to he doubled.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

President Wilson has sent to the
senate at Washington for ratification
the treaty with Denmark for the sale
of the Danish West Indies to the
United States.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

Would Pay GUARDS Fare.
Having in mind the Iowa national
guardsmen now on the border who
have left behind them dependent fam
lilies, and who, by a recent order Of
the secretary of war are exempt from
further service patroling the American
boundary in the south, Congressman
Green of the Ninth Iowa district has
introduced a bill in the house provid-
ing for the payment home of the rail
road fare of all honorably discharged
guardsmen on the border.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
Educational Report DELAYED.

The state board Of education has not
yet received the final report Of the
commission appointed by the United
States bureau of education to make
survey of the Iowa educational insti-
tutions. The report is being printed
in the government printing office and
is being delayed by rush of govern.
mental work, it is said
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17

Ida Torkelson. twenty-one years old,
of Newark, H., was shot twice and
probably fatally wounded by Guy
O'Brien, young farmer who lives near
Helmar.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

you know how the boys and the MeXi-
cans are getting along. Say | guess
you will be somewhat surprised to
hear from me, but things are getting
awful shaky down here. We are JUS
seven miles from the Rio Grande and
19 miles from Brownsville. We have
been on border patrol for a little
while along the Rio Grande. Com
pany NJ is on patrol now. We go on
for 80 days at a time. We have been
on since Thursday morning at 6
O'Clock. | am a sergeant Cmess SER
geant). | have the kitchen and din
ing room in charge.
1--WE had an awful storm, no thun
der or lightning, but just rain and
high wind for IS hours.
1--WE only had a few tents that stood
and had to wade around in mud and
water knee deep. Oh it's nice. But
we haven't had any other bad wealth
er 1t does not rain mere much. II
was the first rain these people have
had for IS months.
This little town Of San Benito is
a pretty place and has a population
of 900. The sidewa;Hs here have
orange and lemon trees on each side
and also big palm trees. The town
is divided by a river or canal, as
these people call it. On one side is
San Benito and on ,ne other side
what they call Mexican Town.
They keep the bridges heavily guard
ed and won't let any one Of the sol
diers over there. No white people
live on that side.
"This town has tive airdomes and
one picture show with lots OF Ford
oars and little mules (burros). The
MeXicans do our laundry for us
They work for little or nothing, awful
ly cheap"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06
Everyone Should
Drink. Hot Water
in the Morning
Wasf, away all the stomach, liver,
and bowel poisons. before
breakfast.

TO feel your best day in and day
out, to feel clean inside; no sour bile
10 coat your tongue and siCken your
breath or duh your head; no con
stipatiOn, bilious attacks. sick head
ache, colds, rheumatism or gassy,
acid stomach, you must bathe on the
inside like you bathe outside This
IS vastly more important, because the
skin pores do not absorb impurities
into the blood, while the bowel pores
do says well known physician.
TO keep these poisons and toxins
well flushed from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels, drink before
breakfast each day, a glass of hot
water with a teaspOonful of lime
stone phosphate In it. This will
cleanse, purify and freshen the entire
alimentary tract, before putting more
food into the stomach.
Get quarter pound Of limestone
phosphate from your pharmacist. 1t
is inexpensive and almost tasteleSS'
except a sourish twinge which is not
unpleasant. Drink phosphated hot
wate~ every morning to rid your sys-
tenn Of these vile posons and toxins;
also to prevent their formation.
To feel like young folks feel; like
you felt before your blood, nerves
and muscles became saturated with
an accumulation of body poisons, be
gin this treatment and above all,
keep it up! AS soap and hot water
act on the skin, cleansing, sweeten
ing and purifying, so limestone phos
phate and hot water before break
fast, act on the stomach, liver. kid
neys and bowels,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

Acids accumulating in the system in
excess, poison the blood and cause
Great variety Of diseases, affecting the
ek;n and olhcr mucous surfaces, the
heart and arteries, brain and general
nervous system, joints and muscles.
Some Of these diseases are Rheuma-
tism in its many forms, Catarrh,
Eczema, Hives, itching and burning
of the skin, dizziness, mental depres-
sion and a variety Of other ailments.
Won must eliminate the acid from
YOUR system and purify your blood
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06
ACIDS IN THE SYSTEM

before you can be rid OF your trouble.
S. S. S. has been purifying and nour-
ishing the blood for over half CEN
tury. 1t is also a very efficient tonic
and being purely vegetable, it is the
most efficient agent known in the
cleansing OF the blood and toning up
Of the system.
Call for it at your druggists and
don't accept a substitute. If special
medical advice is desired write Med
ical Department 90, Swift Specific Co..
Atlanta, ca.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

endeavored through their leaders to
fuse with the republican party, they
made the mistake of their lives. The
republicans of Carter county are all
progressive citizens, and refused to
become involved in "entangling al
liances" with a horde of odoriferous
macontents, to whom honest labor is
crime.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

The democratic nominees for coun-
ty office will begin this week to make
their campaign of the county and will
be ready to refute all charges made
against democratic rule. Some strong
speakers will be sent before the peo-
pie and the indications are that the
opposition will have hard shedding in
the November election.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06
The Ordinary Kind.

"What sort of woman is Perkins
wife?"
"The ordinary kind. | guess Per
kirs has as much trouble with her as
lhe rest of US do with our wives. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

Yellow complexion, pimples and
disfiguring blemishes on the face or
body can be gotten rid OF by doctor
ing the liver, which is torpid. HER
BINE is a powerful liver correctant
Il purifies the system, stimulates the
vital organs and puts the body in fine
vigorous condition. Price soc. Sold
by Ringer Drug Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

Since the republicans of this county
have repudiated the socialists, and as
the socialists are in such a hopeless
minority, we wonder just what the
"kumrids" base their hopes of electing
an officer in the county.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06
What Every Woman Knows.

Every woman takes great pride in hav-
ing her home well kept. in having the
family wash done early in the week. Good
bluing is needed even more than good
soap. Be sure to use Red Cross BAH Blue.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

Sam Butler says that now that he
has been chosen as president of the
Fairbanks club, it is incum-
bent upon him to grow crop of whis-
kers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06
NeIIieJs Dilemma.

Caller.-Nellie, is your mother IN?
Nellie.-No, mother is out shopping.
Caller.-When will she return?
Nellie Ooudly)-Mother, what shall
say now?-Kansas City Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06
How to Give Good Advice.

The best way to give good advice
is to set a good example. When
others see how quickly you get over
vour cold by taking Chamberlain's
Couph Remedy they are likely to
follow your example. This remedy
has been in use for many years and
enjoys an excellent reputation. Ob-
tainable everywhere.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-06

Those contemplating the purchase
of a home, see us before investing.
We can save you money. Guillot &
Hall. No. 8 North Washington. 33t