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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
RAILROADS AID DEVELOPING
Construction Of Short Line by L. & NJ.
viii Help to Further Activities
Letcher Expects Big Rush.

Whitesburg, Ky.-The construction
of a three-mile branch of the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad from Kona
Station, up the North Fork of the
Kentucky river, in this county, will
open an extensive coal field and, it is
believed, will bring about an unprece-
denied wave of activity in that Sec
ton.
1t is stated that the L. & N. will
build yards at Mouth of Colly, three
miles above this city, in order to ia
cilitate coal shipments, the yards at
Neon being inadequate. Rumor has it
that the L. & N. is considering the
question of double-tracking the road
from this city into the coal fields, a
distance of about sixteen miles, dur
ing the summer The road will take
100000 tons annually from the opera
tors around Hazard. This will, it is
expected, be about one-fourth of the
output for the year. Twelve or thir-
teen operators were included in the
deal, which was closed by T. A.
Horde, manager of the Hazard Coal
Operators Exchange.
In order to facilitate the heavy coal
traffic in Eastern Kentucky, especially
in the Elkhorn field of this county, the
L. & N. will make many improvements,
costing in the aggregate hundreds Of
thousands of dollars.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

were useless and only an operation
would help me, but Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has proved it
otherwise. / am now perfectly well
and can do any kind of work. Mrs
NELLIE PHELPS, care of R. A. Rider,
RID. No. 5, Fulton, N. Y.
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
tiers written by women made well by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If you have bad symptoms and do not
understand the cause, write to the
lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for helpful advice given free.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
THEY WERE AS BUSY AS BEES
New York Police Raided a Plant
Where Adulterated Honey
Was Made.

One of the oldest assertions of the
beekeeper has been that honey could
not be adulterated with success, but
health department inspectors have
found a full-grown honey plant in the
basement of a private home In Man
haitian.
There were no bees at work in the
plant when it was raided, but there
were half q dozen women and man
as busy as bees with pots and pans
about a stove. They were boiling up.
cOncoction the chief ingredients Of
which were sugar and about ten per
cent of genuine honey. The plant was
discovered after honey purchasers had
complaine dthey were receiving adul-
terated hOney.-New York Mail.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
NEGOTIATIONS ARE PENDING
For Sale Of Maple Oil Company to
Ohio Observation-Disclosures of Oldest
Developments in EstiIi.

Lexington, Ky-Upon his return
from Cincinnati c. R. Dulin, prominent
oil man OF this city, said negotiations
are under way for the transfer of the
Maple Oil Company, which owns some
Of the earliest developed oil proper
ties in the Estill field, to Ohio parties
for approximately s1,OO0,0OO. For the
present he would not disclose the
names of the prospective purchasers.
He announced that he and his part
ner, J. T. Christie, of Greencastle, Ind,
have sold their half interest in the
Hamilton and CLANCY leases to L. G.
Medley, of Bowling Green. KY, the 9TH
er half being owned by Root. Hupp &
Duff, of Cleveland. Dulin is the presi-
dent of the Dulin Oil Company, capital
$4,000, which soon is to begin activi-
ties in the Clay county field
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Western Newspaper Union Jews Service.
Shelbyville, Ky.-Rodman Wiley,
commissioner of public roads, in a
communication to the Shelby fiscal
court has designated the Mallory route
for the inter-county seat highway be-
tween Shelbyville and Lagrange, thus
ending a controversy between Oldham
and Shelby counties. The route finally
indicated by the commissioner was the
one unanimously approved by the Old
ham county magistrates, but the ma
jority Of the Shelby fiscal court voted
for the Dover route.
The costs attached to the four routes
under consideration are estimated by
the road department as follows: NAL
lory route, $25.O31.60 old Dover route,
29,271.SS; new Dover route, $780,
296.71; Chestnut Grove route, $25,
714S1. Other considerations which,
Commissioner Wiley says, led to the
selection of the Mallory route are that
it will not be under water at any sea-
son of the year; that it serves larger
territory than any of the others; that
II does not require the construction Of
any new roadbed, and that stone and
water are more available.
Oldham county has completed a
large part of the inter-county seat road
in her boundaries, but Shelby county
viii not undertake her share of the
work before 1918. The whole of this
years appropriation from the state
fund will be applied to the Shelbyville
and. Frankfort pike.
The Shelby fiscal court has appro-
priated $500 per mile for new roads as
follows: Three-quarters of a mile on
the Backbone pike; one-quarter of a
mile on the Pigeon Fork pike, and one
quarter OF a mile to close the gap on
the Hempridge and Billiard pike. Two
bridges were ordered, one on the Ear
ing's Mill pike, at Luce & Moxley's
gate, the applicants to dredge the
stream, make the fills for the ap-
proaches and construct the wing
walls; the other across Lively
branch, on the Benson pike, the appli-
cants to contribute $500.
Bids for stone ranged from 80 cents
to $150 per perch, according to loca-
ton. These prices are about IL per
cent higher than last year.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
CINCINNATI MARKETS
Flour, Hay and Grain.

Winter patent S925@9.75, winter
fancy $8.75@9.25, winter family s8.25
@875, winter extras $725@7.75, low
grade $6.75@7.25.
Corn-No. white $1.07@1.o9. No.
yellow S1.11@1.12, No. 8 mixed Sill
@1.12, white ear S1.15, mixed ear s1.15,
yellow ear S1.15@1.16.
Oats-No. 2 white &c, standard
white 651ac, No. white Csc, No. 4
white 64c, No. 2 mixed 6312 @641zc, No
8 mixed 63@631sc, No. 4 mixed 61@63c.
Wheat-No. red S2.06@2.08, No.
red SS197@203, No. 4 red S1.80@1.95.
Hay-No. 1 timothy $3.50, No.
s15.75@16.25, No. 8 $15@15.5O, No. 1
clover mixed $16@16.5O, No. 2 S15.50@
16, No. 1 clover S1S@1S.5O, No. .
$1750@1S.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Butter-Whole milk creamery extras
43c, centralized creamery extras 40c,
firsts CSC, seconds 34c.
Eggs-Prime frsts 25c, firsts 24c,
ordinary firsts 23c, seconds &c
Live Poultry-Broilers, ~ lb and
under, 35c; flyers, over III ID, Csc,
fowls, lbs and over, 22c; under lbs.
22c; ROSTERS, 151kc; young stays,
17kc.
Live Stock.
Cattle-Shippers $S.50@10.50, butch
er steers, extra S9.75@10.35, good to
choice $9@9.75, common to fair $4,000
S75; heifers, extra $9@9.35, good to
choice $8@S.75, common to fair SEQ
IT'S; cows, extra $S25@S75, good to
choice sos, common to fair $500
$50; Gamers $4.5O@5.50. stockers and
feeders $6@S.75.
Bulls-Bologna s7@s.50, fat bulls
$4,000.
Hogs-Selected heavy shippers
$3.50, good to choice packers and
butchers S15.05 @15.10, mixed packers
$14.S5@15.05, stays s9@12.25, common
to choice heavy fat sows S10@14.10,
light shippers $13.25@13.75, pigs CLIO
lbs and less) $10012.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
Sure Test of Diamond.

The fact that real diamonds are
phosphorescent after being treated In
the following manner is said to make
the following test sure one: First
of all, expose the stone for few min
utes to the light Of an electric lamp
Then rub briskly on wood or metal.
Now take it into a dark place. when
the diamond will glow brightly. This
does not occur in the case of a false
gem.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK ''CASCARETS'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.

Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi-
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; Selayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in.
testines, instead of being cast out
Of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
enfng headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the exvess
bile from the liver and carry out all
he constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
Z Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
CANADA'S BONUS
TO FARM LAB0RERS
Offering 100 Acres to Farm
Hands.

Canada today, with the great de-
mand that is made upon it for food
stuffs, finds itself almost in the throes
Of labor famine. A novel means of
solving the problem has been evolved
by the Canadian Government at Ottawa
on Wednesday last, when ii was de-
cided to practically bonus every farm
hand going to Canada, by giving him
160 acres free as homestead, and to
allow the time he would be working out
s5r, the good wages offered, to count as
residence duties on the homestead.
Western Canada has been a big pro-
queer of grain and it is estimated that
there is shortage of over thirty thou
sand men, necessary to produce an av-
erage crop in 1917. This shortage has
been caused by so many young men
having left the farms to go to war, and
1t is essential to make an unprecedent-
ed offer of this kind, to fill their places
On the land at once.
1t has been required in the past to
do three years duties on homesteads
to get title, but an additional induce
ment has been offered by practically
reducing this term to two years. AS
explained by an official of the Canadi-
an Government, Canada's need for
farm laborers is intense, and excep-
tional inducements are being offered
to get the needed farm workers at
once. A farmland will make his en-
try for one of the 160-acre farms, sat
isfy the Government that he is work
ing for farmer and that time will ap
ply as residence on the land filed for,
Just the same as If he was actually
living on it.-Advertisement.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
Older Boys to Meet.

Paducah, Ky.-Local leaders in boys
clubs work are planning for the fifth
annual conference of older boys, a
state convention Of boys of high school
age, to be held March 80 and 81 and
April 1. under the auspices AZ the boys
division e the Kentucky Young Mems
Christian Association. The session
Will be held In the First Baptist
church. The prime motive of the con-
ference is the raising of boy standards
In Kentucky and developing stronger
Christian character.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Major General Scott, native Ken
tuckian, has just been redetailed as
chief of staff of the army by PresIe1t
citation with the secretary of war the
chief of staff has to be reappointed
when a new administration begins
during his term.
General Scott will serve until next
September under the ordinary proceed
ure, when he will reach the retirement
age. In the event of war, however, he
would continue in active service with
out regard to the age limit
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
Tornado plays Havoc In Wayne

Richmond, Ind.-Two children were
killed and one man injured, perhaps
fatally, in tornado which swept
through Wayne county. entailing DAM
age to property that will mount into
the thousands. The two children are
those of Ernest Gray, farmer, resid-
ing one-half mile south of Hagerstown
They were killed when the brick resi-
dence was destroyed. Ora Smith, a
farmer residing in a sharly near Ha-
gerstown, was carried 100 feet by the
wind and dropped into a pond. Ia
was injured seriously and may die.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
Or Supervised Hockey.

81 see they are going to teach SWIM
ming in the public schools"
Happy days! Spitball throwing will
be legitimate before they get through"
kansas City Journal.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

receive no Dement,
50 many have
proved that Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound
will make them
well? For over Q
year / suffered 80
from female weak
ness / could hardly
stand and W as
afraid to go on the
street alone. Doc
tors said medicines
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
KENTUCKY BREVITIES

Whitesburg, Ky.-The twc-yea--old
child of Enoch Crawford, a farmer Of
First Creek, was burned to death,
when its clothing caught fire from an
open CRATE
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Towns In the Canary islands are to
be provided with long-distance tele-
phone service.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Winchester, Ky.-Warrants of ar.
rest were issued for Judge F. H. Hag.
gard and his brother, Rodney Hag.
gard, prominent attorneys, on a charge
of assaulting ]. A. Cozart.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Marion, Ky.-The City Board Of
Trustees and the County Board of Ed
ucation, acting jointly, selected the
Rochester lot Of eighteen acres for the
new high school building.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
Controlled by Government.

The Russian government controls
the prices charged for medical pre-
scriptions.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
Invented by Howe.

The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in
1916.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

II you find yourself In the right
place at the right time don't quarrel
with your luck.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

If milk is used to soften shoe polish =
it will improve the gloss.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
DISPUTE ON ROAD.
SETTLED BY WILEY
STATE COMMISSIONER DEsIG-
MATES MALLORY ROUTE FOR
INTER-coUNTY SEAT ROAD.
OLDHAM AND SHELBY COUNTIES

Have Long Disagreed on Route-one
Selected Is That Favored by Old
ham County Court-Has Reasons for
Choice.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16
WOMAN COULD
HARDLY STAND
Restored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Fulton, N. Y. why will women
pay out their money for treatment and
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Carlisle, KY. c. Taylor. merchant
Of Barterville, this county, was ap
pointed by Circuit Judge L. P. Fryer as
Circuit Clerk of Nicholas county to fill
the vacancy caused by the death O,
Circuit Clerk Solomon Robertson.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Cocoa may now be imported into
Norway.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Camptcn, Ky.-Will Taylor, of Still
water, this county, known as Bacon
Bill" has been arrested by Clay Ar
nett, deputy United States marshal,
and taken to Jackson for trial on the
charge of selling liquor without q L.
cense
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Louisville, Ky.-An involuntary Pc
tition in bankruptcy was filed against
the Vogue, woman's apparel store, by
three creditors, who allege the sums
due them on open accounts and other
debts owed by the Louisville concern
in the aggregate exceed the defendant
company's securities. Max and Ran
dolph Wittengstein are proprietors Of
the Vogue.
Irvine, Ky.-Peafl Upton, IS years
old, Kentucky's oldest newsboy, was
killed on the L. & A. tracks at the foot
OF Main street. 1t is supposed he be-
came confused by the arrival of both
the L. & A. and w. & l. trains.
Lexington, Ky.-Colonel William d.
Pickett, SO years old, Civil War vet
eran. died here. Colonel Pickett was
civil engineer and assisted in build.
ing the first railroads having T rails
in this state, the Lexington and Frank
fort and Lexington and Covington
roads.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-16

Mayor Lebb Watkins sent the fol-
lowing telegram to Governor Good
rich: Cyclone here wrecked 500
houses. We need troops to guard
property" Mayor Watkins received
word from General Smith that the
Governor had instructed him to send
all the troops that are necessary.
Field Hospital Corps No. 2, of the Ma
tional Guard, in command of Major l..
d. Cart0r, arrived and Immediately
went to work among the injured. The
hospital corps only recently returned
from the Mexican border
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
JAP WOMEN TAKE MEMS JOBS
Wages Range From Ten to Twenty.
Five Cents Day-Actresses
Best Paid.

Tokyo.-That Japanese women con.
stantly are taking larger part In the
activities of the empire Is shown by
recent Investigations. AS in Europe,
so in Japan, women are filling posi-
tons formerly exclusively held BY
men.
There are 1000 women working I'M
der the railway bureau, most of them
ticket sellers, cashiers and account
ants, and 6,000 women find employ
ment in the cigar and cigarette fac
tories of the government tobacco mo-
nopoly. Their wages range from 10 to
% cents a day. Male clerks in banks
and mercantile houses constantly are
being replaced by women, who receive
50 to So a month.
Actresses receive the highest wages
paid to women in Japan, but their
clothes are expensive, and SO they are
in no better position than
the more humble workers.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
No Doubt About Poison Gas
When Tabby Comes Hur-
rying Back.
REAL WAR DOG WEARS MASK
Norman Lee, American Ambulance
Hero, Writes Interesting Letters
of Life at the Front-Luck
of Section Seven.

New York.-Eliot Norton of Few
York city has received a letter from
an American volunteer in France, Nor
man Lee, eighteen years old son of a
newspaper man, who has been driving
an American Red Cross ambulance for
the last nine months, and who has re-
ceived the Croix de Guerre. The let
ter follows:
Its 2 a. m. / have just returned
from a trip and it's a good time to
write. While l attempt this two men
are busily engaged in plling up trench
torpedoes just outside of the 'dugout'
l call it n dugout--in reality it's only
a cellar-but it serves its purpose
keeps the 'eclats from hitting you-oH
course, a direct hit would be a differ
ent thing. The Boches dropped a few
gas shells over about midnight. Have
you ever heard a rattlesnake? Well,
a gas shell has the same effect. No
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
Expert Opinion From ossining.

A prison, they say, is paved. with
good resolutions. the Star-Bul.
getir
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Prepared
especially for
the readers of
Mountain
Home

the eye region, can be patched up 30
as to make the poor wounded pre-
sentable and not objects of horror
to their fellow men,"
The records of the Grand Palais
hospital show that Doctor Borsch, who
was one of the first American sur
geons to graft the cOrnea, has sue
cessfully transplanted skin, bone, car
tilage and mucous membrane to the
orbit. In several cases he has pro-
vided soldiers with new eyelids by
taking cartilage from the ribs, graft
ing it over the socket and afterwards
making an incision in the new skin.
To the upper and lower edges of the
slit thus made he has grated flesh
bearing hairs, which is taken from
the eyebrows, in this manner furnish
ing new lashes and has afterwards
patched up the eye socket by trans
from the mucuous men,
brane taken from the mouth.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
DIVER HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Dragged 500 Feet on Bottom of Ocean
When His Lines Become
Tangled.

San Francisco Facing death at the
SottOm of San Francisco bay, Joe
Haade, diver, saved himself by quick
Es'inking and strong arm muscles.
&Eaae went down to clear a barge an
cs0S from pipe line. As the anchor
waS cleared the life and signal lines
~ tse surface became tangled Slade
sigDased the launch towing the barge
10 go ahead. The launch proceeded too
East and both life and signal lines
parted. In another moment the air
bose would have parted. Slade seized
slse anchor, and was towed 500 feet
Sveg the bottom. the weight of his div
GEg shoes threatening to break his
noid. The launch was finally stopped
and Siade hauled up.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
CHIC L0AFERS MUST WORK
ramps, Panhandlers and Such L ike
to Be Herded in Labor
Colonies.

Columbus, O,-The vagrant who
stops at the back door and asks for 81
"handout' soon will be only a memory
IN Ohio. Tramps, 'panhandlers" on1
other loafers are to be coralled, nut in
labor colonies and made to become
self-supportng at least. The plan is
war-etiiciency measure.
Details are being worked ont nv
Governor Cox and the Ohio branch Of
the council of national defense. The
camps will supplement warehouses; the
latter not possessing sufficient facir.
ties to take care of the "wont.works"
Police, marshals and sheriffs will he
hot ON the trail of these parasites OF
society, who, on conviction, will be put
under guard and forced to labor for
the duration of the war.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
MARvELS WORKED BY EYE SURGEONS

never deviates a hairs breadth, are
tended amid the most hellish uproar
imaginable; the quick and efficient use
OF the eye magnet, for instance, for
drawing out shell splinters from the
region Of the eye socket has saved
sight in thousands of cases.
Unfortunately beneath the cease
less cataract of exploding shells the
face wounds in many cases are so
bad that no ophthalmic skill could
possibly save the sight. But here
plastic surgery one of the wonders
or the war, comes in to make the
victims face again presentable. Plas-
tic work goes further than the re-
making Of shattered jaws and noses;
the upper part of the face, including
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
Burst at the Door.

Pretty soon it came so near that
you could hear pieces hitting the top
of the dugout The last one burst
the nearest-right in front of the door.
Zowie! ing patter, hit, bang! They
ripped through that blanket like a
clown going through paper ring at
circus | held my breath and lay still.
Fortunately, none of us got hit, but In
the morning we picked pieces out of
all the walls. The blanket resembIed
n huge piece of Swiss cheese. The
gunnerS came down in the morning to
look us over, and told us the Boches
hadn't succeeded in driving them from
their guns for moment. We nll
agreed with the brancardier, who re.
Sale Boche.
THE same weather continues. Rain.
hail, snow and mud-inchcs deep.
Think of the poor wounded in IT all.
But we do help them. With love to all,
Near scissors. NORMAN"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
Observation-Disclosures
Wife Takes Pastors Place.

Lexington, Mass.--Whle Rev. Chris.
topher Walter Collier, pastor of the
Hancock Congregational church. is alb
sent in France with the American am
bulance field service, his wife will
carry onsthe work of the church. Leave
of absence to the clergyman and the
appointment of Mrs. Collier as tenn
porary pastor have been voted unani-
mously by the congregation.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-08-04
AGED Woman reaches KNITTING

Canton, O.-Nlrs, Amelia Brush
seventy, who knitted socks for soldiers
in the Civil war, is doing her bit for
the boys who are going to France. She
is teaching Sunday school class at
the First Methodist church how to
mike socks.