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The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24

E Charle's wagon must have been broke down. as he didn't bring his girls to the singing Sunday afternoon.
 Horace Pve says he is afraid he will not make any watermel- ons as the vines grow so fast they drag all the little ones off the vines.
 Charlie Grimes is candidate for matrimony, and has appoint ed Roy Phillipps for his cam- palgn manager.
 Mis. mauue barringer, of Whe n Springs, IS visiting hone folks this week.
 Leila says she has won her. Pie a; last.
 Charlie says h. believes Roth had rather .go with him than Bascom. Ruth says sae'd about as soon be by herself as with either.
 Gladys says she is good in physiology since she went to school in town. as she cleaned the windows Q few times.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24
LOCALS

Highest Cash Price Paid fof Hides. J. M. Duke.
 Meat Market. Hog Cholera Cure and Proven tatlves at GuIhrie's.
 Just finished a large brick kiln. See me if you need brick. j. ". Marshal.
 We make loans on libera! terms On improved real estate.
 k. l.. Blakely. E0fice al Court House Phone 329 A much needed rain fell in this county last Monday. A little cool yet for cotton.
 The barn belonging to Will Hendrix was destroyed by fire last Saturday night.
 If its brick you need see J. w. Marshal. His yard is on the Greeson place east of Ed Gordon. For Sale e-One Deering Grain olnder, practically new. Will selI or trade. J. F. Hendrix. |C-4-ot Route 5. Remember the Chautauoua begins here May 3l and contin- aes for five days. Good programs twice day.
 Come, Bee and hear the pianos payers, phonographs and organs q. A Monson Music Store. Prescott. Ark.
 Wanted Bolt Makers and Bolt haulers. Steady work tor l2 months Maximum wages. Write 'ohh Ruskln, Prescott, Arkansas 2,a II y you have ChiIls or Malaria get q 6ot So, bottle of Sanol Chill Tonic nothing s. oetler for chills and malaria Get # '' nesterIy Drug Store.
 Mss Helen Andrews, who has !, been in school in GfrenyiiJe. ie%as for the past nlne nontns. ling. @''''l"' iaora Ethel Hinton, the reader and 'mpersona;er who comes to the ,ocal chartapQra, has many anas'ng anu: experiences on the ps pssSt'of!n. Re .eutIv at the rloae oi;as vi IeF i[1perSoaation nE an En. snsn fo' .. sultragatte wao IS looking -, ro .ne perfect'man, an old man soss sser!y' very old-on the front nea, Y'n a;a, m the Chaulauqua tent. got si,Nh1 Sp "lth the aid of his cane. and '''''td odt, We'll, here ! be-"
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24
NEW HOME

Health in this community is on the puny list.
 The farmers are rejoicing over the rain last Monday.
 The singing at New Home Sun day evening was largely attend ed and enjoyed by all.
 Josh says if all the boys go to war. he will have a chance to get Lillie.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24
cises of that place.
 Miss Gladys Townsend went

>Ao~o oA ShoN ptoNSs
 Miss Gladys Townsend went over to Prescott Tuesday. where she will be the guest of friends the entire week.
 Geo. Schooley and family mo- tored over to Texarkana Sunday.
 J. B. Mcclure was visitor in the city Sunday.
 Misses Ethel Townsend, Ruth Eaves, Flossie Norman, and a couple of young men from Hope motored over to Prescott Sunday afternoon.
 Bob Hines and Nm. Barton visited in Prescott Sunday.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24

This striking and impressive Ameri- can drama comes as the great and triumphant feature of the Chautauq0a program. One of the Texas news papers said of this play as produced on the Redpath. .Horner Chautauquas:
 The Chantauqua program has been
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24
For Head Lice on Chick ems use Sai-Vet Head Lice Ointment 25c at Hesterly Drug Store.

Miss Boone of Greenville, Tex as k connl'ctlng the singing at the Presbl yrrlan meeting. Rev. Fnchor q! HouS,on. Texas is do- ing the preaching. Good audi ences and much lntere st is mani tested.
 We learn as we go to press this Wednesday afternoon that Grandma Almand, wife of B. $. Almand. and mother of our tax assessor, H. B. Almand is not expected to live. She lives near Sutton.
 For Bed Bugs use Red Did, mond Insecticide. non-pois- onous. Large size sprinkle top bottles 25c at Hesterly Drug Store.
 Sometimes it Is impossible to get all the correspondents in time to publish. Don't get dis couraged when your letter is left out one week occasionly. but come right on every week We deslre to publish every letter when we possibly can.
 Judge Franks went to Little Rock Monday to confer with the powers that be i'll regard to the dipping business of this county. He made arrangements whereby the dip will be furnished this year without any extra cost 10 those who dip and without any appropriations by the comfy court.
 We acknowledge a visit by John and Pink Boyd of Emmet one day last week and We were presented with four lasge tur- rips which the Boyd brothers raised on their farm. These tur- aips averaged two pounds each. You talk about preparedness. these boys will never be caught any other way. We appreciate the turnips. not for the worth of them in dollars and cents, but coming from hearts that we know are big and generous. They are our friends.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24

so uniformly good that patrons had grown to expect excellencies from the producers. but even in face of this fact, the immense house was not pre- pared for the masterpiece as present ed in The Melting Pot last evening.
 Such blending of aspiration. wis.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24
HEAR THE MANS1NRON POT
 Mke Hear aOw ERAN the and Edna Woone who in Senator Rim obn0n

The delinquent land sale will appear in the Picayune next week. Keep Your eyes open to see whether your land Is adver- tised or not.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02
WOMEN FOND or SACRIFICE
eeerslnciy No Extremes to Which Thsy
VIII Nlk Go fer the Husband
They Love.

Women often rush lii where angels
with amy klnd OF Judgment would fenr
TO 90. Strong men are faint-hearfed
by comparison 10 good lintentioned
women iif,theIr reckless dashes. usual
ly to give assistance to or throw some
protection around man.
A case In point ls that OF a CaIifor-
MIA woman who has Just offered to give
up her children and sacrifice herself
In devoted effort to make man bf
her husband, a ranchcr Trying to
make man Of husband Is job none
but woman In whose veins flows the
blood Of martyrs would think Of. Muny
women have tried Il but who knows
their names7 How many have any
thing better than the frayed and tat
tered remnant of a lifetime wasted In
cndeavor to make a miracle one OF the
routine duties Of domesticityf Only
the woman with the self-sacrificing In
stinct cultivated to the precipice Of
genius tries 1t. ,s
If he is not up to the lowest limit Of
tolerance--a common weight-by the
time he is--oh. whatever age he hap
pens to be when she has him thrown
on her hands--she may as well make
up her mind to take him as he is. n
nature, through the centuries during,
which men have been evolving. could
not do better with him than whaf she
sees has been done, why should one1
lone woman hope TO take 1t up there
and make him into man? Yet here
is woman who has lived with him
long enough to be convinced, offeringt
to give up her children for one more
chance to turn a husband into man
before she acknowledges defeat.
1t is not alone great military men
who don't know when they're beaten.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02
ARE A PEOPLE OF CONTRASTS
But the Majority Of Italians. Like
Their Country, Have Great Phys
lcal Beauty and Charm.

proyince nv province. italy manf-
fests a yorv,nv charm and the, neople
aifyer ne widel, ~ choir .prroun.l,ngs
The hot.h,oodod southarner observes :
,l,srerant standard ~ mora,s and hv.
,dana a,as y on,or ~ ,rterest mora.
on,cL,v ana 4 aenara,,v lass .,snena.
AHA ana sn,,ustr,c,,s than h,s no,.,hern
hro,her nath srs Gifted % NTH m ,hs hlact
eres ard ha,r sag sss s,.a,.h.. @ .s esr,.
Newton s @ a. "a raes, noe M that 3 4 general
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02

A handsome woman, accompanied by
an irreproachably groomed collie, who
registered at O New York hotel as
Erma Wright, attracted only passing
attention. A few days later came Sa-
leein, all the way from Egypt, and,
prostrating himself before the stranger.
addressed her as Madame la Coun-
tessa."
Miss Wright admitted then that In
Italy she had been the Countess Mira
Fiorl, cousin by marriage of the pres
ent king. She had been travelling In
cognIto In California until n romance
began in moonllt garden in ancient
Egypt, followed her half way around
the globe, and disclosed her identity.
The countess Is an American by birth.
She has spent much Of her time In
ftnly, where under the stage name Of
Mile. Blanche Duquesnc, she became
popular as an opera singer. After her
marriage to the Count Flori she spent
several years among the nobility Of
Itnly.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02
WIDOW SAVES THE TREES
Mrs. SpIcer Turns Commissioners
From Those Planted by Her
Husband.

st. Cloud, Mlch.---"Woodman spare
that trees touch not a single bough."
Thus quoted Mrs. Mary Spicer, Wild
ow. as she pleaded for the preserva-
tion Of trees planted by her husband
long dead.
II was three years ago that Mrs.
Splcer started her battle with city off,
clals over the maintenance Of this ar-
borlan inheritance. She was called up
on to enter another sklrmish this week
when sidewalk bids were opened, In
which provision was to have been
made for the removal Of the trees.
Mrs. Spicer's pets fringe lot on
which her modest little home Is built.
"Yait until l am gone and you may
remove them," she told the city COM
mlssloners, who took her words to
heart. When sidewalk bids were
opened there were proposed contracts
on other jobs, but on the Widow Spi-
GERS property--not word.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02
BIRD or GREAT VERSATILITY
Parrot Is the Best lmitator Of sounds|
and Only Feathered Creature
Taking Food In Claws

II appears that It Is not only In
Initiating human speech that the par.
rot excels most OF the birds. II is
alone among birds In taking food in Its
claws. With these two chnracteris-
ties, remarksA writer In the Washing.
ton Evening Star. 1t makes more or
less use Of that which distinguishes
humanity from the rest of the animal
kingdom--the hand and the larynx.
The monkey uses Its hands and the
elephant Its trunk In feeding. Various
animals have habit Of paving StheIr
food. Rodents have serviceabIe toes.
Still, the parrot is pre-eminent among
birds in this regard. The secretary
bird is said to attack reptiles with Its
claws. and some observers have said
that owls mike partial use Of their re-
markahly flexible perching toe some
what more than does hen In scratch
Ing FOR food. However. there is no
other bird which. when presented with
q piece Of food. win accept It in Its
claws.
Parrots do not. Of course, talk, MS
the word Is used. In their Wild stute
and are not known to be initiative of
neighboring sounds, nor to possess the
repertory Of the mocklng bird. II is,,
therefore. question whether or not|
their use Of the claws is largely imita-
tive also. The shape OF the parrot'sI
beak would Indicate that some assist
nnce in eating has always been part|
of the birds characteristics.
Like man, the parrot makes Its ap-
pearance In the world naked and help
less.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02
FIreIlqht Photographs.

It is worth noting that the most sue
cessful freight photographs do not
show the Gre at all. The subject is ar
ranged SO that the fire Is screened In
some way from the lens The mental
piece, tlre-irons. rug, etc. are included,
however, and the iire itself Is suggest
ed by the lighting. On the whole this
Is the best way Of doing what We
want. If we arrange things on these
lines, With the Illumination proceeding
from the spot where the fire Is sup
posed 10 be. we can get true iire-
light effect, although the light aetu-
ally used may be electric. magnesium,
flash Or ribbon. or even daylight II
self. In the last casc. the bottom
foot Or glass IN q French window may
be used. with sheet Of white paper
on the iioor to- serve as a reflector. and
the whole OF the rest blocked up. A
figure posed agaInst this will siye q
very successful fIrelight effect.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02

ROUNDABOUT THE STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges--Made by the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal, Some Credited. and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.

There are forty-eight church
organizations with buildings in
Howard couety, according to q
Glasgow PAPER.
-Four bridges now span the Mis-
sissippi river at st. Louis, the
most recent completed being the
free Municipal bridge.
4 AT least one man wishes Bates
county were not so law abiding,
then he would moi be SO lonesome:
The one man 10 in Jail and all by
himself.
There are 842 automobiles in
Holt county, and at q conserva-
tive estimate it is safe to place
the average cost at $1,000, or q
total OF S842, 900.
Fairfax Eorum: J. s. Turner
sold seventy roosters for S71.6S, q
fine average for young ROSTERS.
He sold twenty.four hens for
S24.25, which is also some price.
Missouri is now the seventh
largest state in the Union, having
a population Of 3,420. .143, accord:
ing to the estimate Of the census
bureau. The gain since 1910 has
been 1875, 1903.
The cement plant at Cape Gil
rardeau will double the size OF its
factory this Spring. The indus
Try ie already one Of the largest
manufacturing plants in South
east Missouri.
Says the Liberty Advences
The biggest advertisement CT the
productivity OF a country is to
see The reaping machine rotting
in the field and the motor car
housed in The shed.
AT Greenfield drug clerk be.
ing summoned to fill prescrip-'
tion late at night, not only routed
out burglars but found they had
made every preparation to burn
the store after robbing It.
Howell County g Gszette: Lambs
brought the unprecedented price
of s13 65 per hundred pounds on
the Kansas City market last week, {,
A Democrat can still look a lamb
in the face without blushing.
Governor Gardner has refused
the two horses and carriage used
by E. w. Major, during the lat
ter's administration. Gov. Gard
ner will have the stable on the
mansion grounds converted into
q garage.
Admitting 285 children to his
movie theater for an admission
fee OF two potatoes each, Albert
Kuchs. Of Maryville, was able to
contribute six bushels and cne
peck Of potatoes to the local well
fare board.
A new 300-box switch board
has recently been installed at
Morley by The Watermelon Tele-
phone Co. This company has
grown from one single short line
until it now covers large part Of
Scott county.
They will steal most anything
that's left out over night il
Springfield. Thieves knocked q
ioelad faucet off bio tank of
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02

A dream which was worth tell
Ing is recounted by the Union-
vile Republican. The local l..
o. O. F. hall was the scene, one
night recently, Of ceremonies
which required q setting sun. To
represent the sun a candle was
placed in a hat box, which had
been covered with red tissue pa
per. This contrivanoe was prop
ped above a large picture on the
west wall Of the room, and the
sun sank in the west very beau
tifully. But after the fun was
all over and the guests had all
gone home, one OF them, Jas.
Schooler, tossed restlessly on his
bed and dreamed that the red
sunset had turned into fire. He
awoke and phoned the night
watchman to see IL the candle
had been left burning in the Odd
Fellows hall. Sure enough It
had. 1t had burned up the hat
box ani the big picture and had
started q good sized blaze among
the furniture. The dream was
told just in the nick OF time.
A young man, hatless and out
Of breath, dashed into the office
of the Fletcher Cowhead Insur-
ance company in the Grand Av-
enue Temple, Kansas City, Sat-
urday night. He laid 500 bill
on the counter. Lets have
change for IT," he gaspsd, The
cashier produced swo $50 bills,
but that was not satisfactory.
When pile of small bills Uttered
the counter he scooped them up
and left, and it was not till sever
al minutes later, the cashier dis
covered that the young man. had
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The time to make hay is while
The sun shines and the time to
get gravel from tho creek beds
is during a dry season. A fund
was raised in Barton county and
-'oo' y''.o.'0 - '.,is ~, - !,
pv"'o =, 8 so'.'.s ''eeA 'a :.
'il''s :. - "'en s'vu"I VIZ. :
= 50 sas''s oo'a,"ap'e' ~ 'p''"s !,
wnou ,ae !. ',' sa's = ,s a,'1 :. u L.. a, :,
"o'n " VIZ 'o.I =
naa."s a"a a.s ,as sy ~. 'pa~ sps,.. y
shooo WIZ hho"oou WIZ PtoJooe'
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02

Nodaway county Is this week
having its fret experience with q
grand jury Ia ten years. II has
been just that long since the cir
cult court up there has had .
grand jury looking after the
faults and negligence OF the
county's citizens.
A farmer Of the Malta Bend vi.
cinity recently sold The cohs from
thirty acres Of land 10 the Ph@.
nix American Pipe Works al
Bocnville for $3.50, almost fifteen
dollars per acre. The same far
mer disposed Of the corn at near-
iy one dollar per bushel.
One Of the most unusual ship.
men.s ever made from Bunceton,
says the Eagle, was when q hide
buyer sent by express TO st..
Louis about $4,000 worth Of furs.
The shipment included 1900
skunk pelts, 3 1000 possum, 1900
muskrat, 12O coon, forty civit
cats and fifteen fox skins.
Theodore Stuckenschneider Of
Jefferson City has announced his
candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for chief Of police.
One argument in favor OF Mr..
Stuckenschneider's candidacy is
that it would take longer to
scratch his name off the ticket
than any other candidate.
The tack Of raising funds for o
monument to Carrie Nation has
been undertaken by the women
Of the Civic Improvement Club
at Beiton. The most widely
known saloon smasher died In
June, 1911, and was buried at
Bolton, her former home. The
grave as yet is unmarked.
In Ridgeway. q Harrison coun-
ty town Of less than 100 inhabi.
tants, there are three dealers In
poultry, eggs, butter and crear
A Bethany paper giveJ hint Of
the amount Of money put into
circulation by these firms when
il states that since occupying his
new quarters on August 1, one ol
these dealers has paid out for
produce Si4,S28.75.
Three bachelor brothers oI
Pleasant Hill, ''the Thornton
boys," as they are familiarly
known, follow custom OF. sever.
al years. standing and meet daily
for dinner at Tho old Thornton
homestead several miles north.
east of town, says the Times. The
three men live in three different
places, but as regularly as The
noon hour comes arosnd they
gather at the old home to break
bread together. The Thornton
family was one OF the pioneer
famiIles of-the community.
Frank McKim OF Tarkio, re.
Gently received q newspaper from
his son, Charles. whois in Bue.
mos Aires with the Swift Packing
Co., which gives report OF
fancy cattle show in that city
lThepapef. the Buenos Aires Her
L
aid, states that The champion
steer brought s25, 900, while three
other steers, group winners
brought S28, ZOO each. Swift 4
Co., paid s249, 700 for 118 steers
and s24, ,78O for 333 wethers. Ar
mour q Co., paid $4,000 for III
steers. s7,478for 10 wstllsrs an,
| s11,170 for 1876 pigs.
A young farm hand who ha
been held in Jail for more thar
two months came 10 trial at Mary
|ville on q charge Of assault witt
intenttokill. When II was showl
that there were mitigating cir
cumslances attending the Incl
dent on which the charge wa
based, the charge was change
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1917-02-02

N II -
Speaking OF names for the Hall
Of Fame, q Lancaster paper has
located three Missouri BARRIERS
who might qualify, one at Pecu-
liar named Payne, one at East
Lynne named Hurt, and the third
at Springfield named Butcher.
Only 500 acres Of government
laid In Missouri are now available
Tor cash entry or homesteading.
Al short time ago an Iowa nan
eat the public domain in half by
entering 400 acres. located in a
number OF Ozark counties, and
The got the land at S1,25 an acre.
Stole q horse Saturday Q evening
captured in Holden Monday and
tried, found gully and sentenced
to the penitentiary on Tuesday.
Such wss the quick justice meted
out to Harry Rose, who stole
Dick Augle's horse from a public
hitch rack in Clinton on recent
Saturday afternoon.
While his arm was broken, last
fall, frankie Craig, Lathrop
boy, trapped polecats rather than
be entirely idle. AS he caught
them he penned them up alive
and cared for them. The other
day, with their fur in prime con-
dilion, The polecat colony brought
500 for their young owner.
Hunting rats in a neighbours
corn .crib proved the undoing Of
q Wright county farmer the other
day. The neighbor had gone
visiting at the time Of The hunt
ing expedition and a hasty con.
struetion put upon the incident
resulted in the hunter being arr
rested on a charge Of having stol-
en- corn.
A Lexington garage man was
fined ~ and s3 costs BY an Inde-
pendance judge on The pretext
his rear car light was out. He
paid anil grumbled; but the other
day the judges car broke down
near the garage and required q
SO repair. The garage man said
SO and S15 cost, and though The
judge made big roar, he had to
pay.
| Keytesville Recorder saysin its
last issue,. that rs Miss Anna
Rncker was~going 10 MoberIy the
other day she-wituessed a fight
ON the train between a conductor,
. preacher and "a brakeman, The
preacher wanted to ride on credit
but the conductor objected and
there was a mix-up. Finally
they unloadsd the preacher in d
cornfiald and The train went or
i.s way.
| An exchange makes the slate.
meat that false teeth are quite al
asset in ST. Louis. The Other
day man pawned his sat for 81
! You fellows that cannot afford to
buy a sci from the dentist NIGH
get a few molars from the pawn
shops the next time you are in 81
Louis. Wouldn't it be nice to buy
a set OF false teeth that had beer
used and belonged to & Chinamai
| q dopester or a consumptive?
J An inventory Of the estate o
Richard G. Kerens, railroad mag
! nate and former ambassador L
Austria Hungary, was filed ii
probate court in ST. Louis recent
lily. II showed q total value To-
personal property alone Of s6,'
565. 900, besides large holdings o
real estate. Mr.. Kersns, VIII,
died III Philadelphia last Ssptem,
Der, left his property wholly Il
4 members OF his immediate family
Judge Bob Morehead, Of Bruins
wick, had some corn 10 sell an'
was lucky Ia that particular a
well as escaping contact with
!, rattIesnake in the corn a fey
days ago. He delivered The corr
to the elevator and when Che corr
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