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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
COUNTY OFFERED A.
CHANCE TO SETTLE.
OLD PRINTING 5 UT.
LITIGATION IN TENDENCY FOR
FIVE YEARS RECOMMENDED
SETTLED BY COUNTY ATTOR-
NEY-SOlONS IN BRIEF SES.
SION TO-DAY.

This mornings session of the cOun-
ty board was short and sweet, the
solons being in session only a few
minutes-12R by the clock, to be pre-
cise--when an adjournment was taken
until tomorrow morning at 10.
The principal matter OF Importance
brought up at lodays session was the
reading of communication from
County Attorney Roberts in reference
to a suit now pending in the Circuit
Court brought by Richards 4 Shee
han, publishers Of the Journal. against
the county for s9l1. claimed to be due
the printers as an unpaid balance OF
q bin for 81 .90Gi0 for printing ballots
some five years ago.
Attorney Roberts stated that data
In the suit had been handed down
from one county attorney to anothe,
until now they had become lost. At.
torney Roberts stated he had had o
conference with Attorney A. ]. O'Con
or, counsel for the plaintiffs, and the
outgrowth OF this meeting was an of
fer to settle the claim for $3.50 haT
been made. Mr.. Roberts stated thai
the settlement was in his estimation
a good one, and recommended that i,
be made
The matter was referred to the aud
i,ing and judiciary committees whc
will report back to the board thell
findings before the present session
concludes
A petition from the highway com
missioners Of Rutland and Manlius
townships for an improved highway
tnru their territories was referred TO
the committee on state aid roads.
Coroner Donoghue reported having
held forty-two inquests during the
quarter, leaving a balance due him Of
1920 Three OF the estates, he an
nomced, reimbursed the county for
the cost OF the inquistons, leaving
80 the county had to pay for. The
bill was referred TO the coroner's
committee and he will be given a war
rant for the amount due him.
Spent s32e.5421e.
Some interesting data is gathered
from County Auditor Heiberg's report
showing the operating expenses of the
county during the fiscal year, In a
compilation OF expenditures in differ
ent departments the auditor points
out that in the year l9lG19l7 the
county spent total of S329,542 10.
ltemized. the money was expended as
follows
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
NO BATHS IN WINTER
RULE BROKEN TODAY

Claiming he never took a bath III
the winter time--and looking the part
"a man giving the name OF StaneF
Wadzinski was brought to Ottawa
this morning to undergo a thoro ster'
ilizing at the county Jail and then to
suffer sixty days OF enforced cleanl''
ness.
Wadzinski was arrested at La Sale
where his begrimmed features, to'l'
seled hair and the general nnkemp'
appearance OF his clothes, attracted
the attention Of watchiul hawk
shaw. He was arrested as a vag, AM
vags are always treated to a soaking
and mopping with lye water aitei
which plenty of bon ami is used ~
whiten them up bit
Wadzinski, looking more like Z
dusky son OF Africa than white man
will need every ounce of surplus lye
In Ottawa before he is clean enough
to minglc with other inmates at tns
county bastile.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
DR.. PETIT NAM Ed
ON STATE ADVISORY
BOARD OF MED|CS
OTTAWA Is SELECTED AS SEAT
OF DISTRICT NO. BOT TAWA
F PHYSICIAN WILL HAVE CHARGE
OF RE.ExAM NATION WORK IN
THIS DISTRICT.

] Ottawa has been designated as one
| OF the thirty re-examination districts
/ in TIE state, according TO announce
ment made today at Springfield Re
| iec;oa men from the draft boards,
/ who have been refused admission in.
TO the army because of physical de-
fects. will be brought to this city to
| undergo second examinations from all
| points in District No. s. of which OF.
taWa is the seat
Dr. J. W. Petit has been chosen 4
member Of the state re-eyamina,ion
| board. and will have charge Of nc
| physicians Of the district.
The new examiners will be composed
OF specialists, who will have jurisdic.
ion over the first appointees. accord
ing to Or. Drake. There will be spe.
cialists in internists, including tuber-
culosis experts, surgeons, oculiSts,
| nose, throat and ear, urolOgists, rcu-
roloeists and dentists The latter is
new section thar has been added 70
the medical boards for the purpose Ci
passing Un the teeth Qualfca of
| he conscripts ..
The headquarters OF the medical
advisory boards in the districts thru.
cut the state will be at hospitals at
! central points in the districts with
laboratory and x-ray facilities. In dc.
'ermining the districts, the boari Sc
'ected the points most easily accas
sible so that nearly every larc city
IN the state is represented
If conscript is dissatisfied With
The ruling made by his local boayd
he can appeal his ease to the central
advisory committee which is he body
IN conference here yesterday. State
headquarters for the central board
IS expected 10 be selected within few
days. Draft men who are found phys
ically deficient by the local boards
and those previously disqualified On
physical grounds excepting where
physical deficiency is at once obvious
may also appeal to the central com
mittee, In the case where the federal
government agent orders a re.eXam
nation the medical advisory board
will have final jurisdiction,
The medical advisory committee is
composed of the following members;
Drs Carl T.. Black Jacksonville; ;
Frank j. Norbury Jacksonville; J, l..
Percy, Galesburg; DR.. Leslie Ruther-
ford, Peoria; James w. Petit, OF
tawa; L. B. Cooley. Danville; George
l.. Eyster Rock Island; J, H. Staley,
Freeport; Edward W, Feigenbaunm,
Fdwardsville; William +. Grinstcad,
Cairo; Everett J. Brown, Decatur;
George N. Kreider, Springfield and
l.. c. Taylor, Springfield
| II Is expected that the committee
will conclude its selections by Thurs.
| day when the names of the success
| full physicians will be given to Gov.
ernor Lowden, who in turn will for
ward them to President Wilson for
approval. When the Presidents ap-
proval Is received the names will bc
announced
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
STROHMEYER GOES
TO CAMP GRANT

Lieut.. L, w. Strohmeyer, who rc.
Gently finished his training course at
the officers training school at Fort
Sheridan has been assigned to Camp
Grant at Rockford, where he will re-.
port for duty within the next few
Day
Frank Corrigan, former Western
Union manager in this city who en-.
listed IN the signal corps. will leave
today for Jefferson Barracks, Mo, for
active service
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
GRADED SCHOOLS TO
CLOSE DECEMBER 21

The public schools will close for
Der Dist and will reopen after the
holiday vacation on Wednesday. Jan
uary End
In all the grade schools in the city
the spring vacation will be held as
usual but in the high school the
gpring vacations will be entirely
omitted and school will close earlier
for the summer vacation
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
U. S. PATROL BOAT
SUNK IN COLLISION

An Atlantic Port, Dec IA unitec
States patrol boat has been sunk OIL
here In collision with two other YES
sells, the identity Of which has not yet
been established.
Wireless dispatches received here
stated that the crew Of the patrol Ves'
sci was saved and a great deal of her
equipment removed before she sank.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
Meat or Shucks,

Sometimes ! think the best part q
cracking butternuts is cracking them,
What are we going to get? Meat OF
shucks? Never mind If there be moth.
ing more than an empty hole once In
while The next time will be- MI
right. Anyhow, we have gained Il bit
OF muscle In the arm that swung the
hammer. Makes us stronger for crack.
Ing the harder nut tomorrow. vincen.
=! Farm Life.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
FALL RIVER FARMER
SUFFERS BROKEN LEG

Emil Walter, well known Fall RIv.
or township farmer broke his leg at
4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon while
lifting a barrel OF salt. Mr.. Walter
was wearing mittens, and while at
tempting TO move the barrcll. the
mitten slipped. causing the barrel to
fall on his leg.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12

do You believe love makes the
world 60 round, professor?" "Ahem
OF course not The earth first acquired
its rotary motion when thrown of from
the sun In q nebulous form, It's cen.
trifugal force being counteracted to a
certain extent by the superior nttrac-
tlon Of the solar body from which 1t
originally emanatedw
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12

THE WEATHER.
Unsettled tonight and
Thursday; probably light
snow. Colder Thursday.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-12
FIX HALIFAX DEAD
AT 1900: 500 LIND

Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dee, II Re.
vlsed estimates today placed the list
OF deaths OF the explosion disaster
here Thursday at 500 Between 300
and 800 persons are totally or partly
blind and 300 children are orphaned.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

The gorilla and chimpanzee, which
belong to the higher order Of apes,
have many points Of resemblance to
the man; but there is one thing they
cannot do-that Is, twiddle their
thumbs. In the gorilla the thumb Is
short and does not reach much beyond
the bottom of the first joint Of the
forefinger. 1t is very much restricted
in its movements. and the animal can
neither twiddle his thumbs nor turn
them around so that the tips describe
circle. There are the same number
of bones in the hand Of gorilla as
in the hand of man, but the thumbs
of the monkey have no separate f1exor,
or bending muscles. This is why the
monkey always keeps the thumb on
the same side as the fingers and never
bends 1t round any object that may
be grasped.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

ONE Of the posters being sent out to
advertise the National Western Stock
Show at Denver is not only work of
art, but teaches the lesson of the real
value of the annual stock show better
than volumes of written matter. 1t
contains two color pictures reproduced
from paintings secured by John Clay of
Chicago, one, entitled Yesterday,
being reproduction of a photograph
made 80 years ago in Texas of bunch
of the old Texas long horn cattle. To
the cow-man of today it does not seem
possible that such cattle ever existed in
this country, but old timers remember
them we'll. The second picture is labeled
Today" and pictures herd of modern
pure bred Hereford cattle, taken also
in Texas from life. Underneath are
the words: 'What the Stock Show has
done for the cattle industry" The
point is that the stock show has a real
mission and but for these annual
exhibitions we might still be producing
the old long horns Of the early day, in
stead of the profitable, we'll bred beef
cattle of today. The annual stock show
is not an amusement enterprise, but an
educational institution that every stock
farmer should attend.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

The United States believes that
every man should own a good library.
To this end the department Of agri-
culture has on hand a number of book
lets on interesting subjects that will
be sent free to all who apply. For
those who like reading Of technical
nature the post Office department an
nounces q new issue of the Official
Postal Guide. This is very valuable
publication and should be In every
library. To insure q wide reading the
department announces a special sale.
the regular 50 binding being now re-
duced to IS cents.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

meant tremendous output Of shoes
and leather. Even allowing for in
creased exports. we yet seem to be
carrying fairly liberal supply Of
shoes and leather, although some
shortage may appear here and there
for special reasons.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05
FEAR OF LIGHTNING.

During q severe thunderstorm st
Newton, N. j., a woman who through
all her life of fifty years had felt q
nervous dread of lightning" became
unconscious from fright and died.
Cannot the multitudes OF otherwise
rational people who are obsessed by
the same dread take counsel of the
fate of this unfortunate and allay their
fears? They suffer excess of terror
IN every thunder storm and in effect
under the agony Of death many times.
says New York World. Yet there are
few other forms of death SO painless
or SO remote. In 1912 in the whole
country only 243 persons were killed
by lightning, of whom but 80 were fe-
males. Women who mainly feel this
fear should he encouraged by their
greater immunity. But in fact twice
as many people are burned to death
in con1agrations in year as are
killed by thunderbolts, and the num-
Der of those who die from organic
heart disease compared with those
who die from lightning Is as 354 to l,
No doubt the superstition that has
attached from the earliest time to
deaths by lightning has had something
TO do with the survival of the fear.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

The impression has got into the
daily newspapers that there is a big
shortage Of shoes and leather in Amer
lea. In consequence, for. about the
first time In history, nearly every daily
paper, large and small, in the United
States, has been warning about this
alleged shortage, without giving study
or serious attention to the matter, says
Hide and Leather. It is not surpris-
ing, therefore, that much leather.
many shoes and considerable leather
merchandise Of all kinds has been hur-
diedly purchased and accumulated, as
much as possible by nervous and ex-
cited buyers. 1t can hardly be log
ically asserted that there is any short
age Of shoes and leather in America.
For fully nine months our shoe and
leather factories, as rule, have been
running at, or near. full capacity. This
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

Medical authorities assert that the
femily icebox is insanitary and inef1l-
cient, but 1t must be conceded that
1t Is an everpresent help in true Of
heat waves.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

The wrong time for little wife to
threaten to leave hubby is just after
he has finished eating a meal he
cooked himself and has commenced to
patch his pants and sew on his sus-
pender buttons.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

Women have largely taken up the
work of farm laborers in England, and
the verdict by the farmers is a curious
one. Women and men won't work
together on the farm, they say. "You
lose either the women or the men,"
Fancy advertising for farm help.
"Women only"
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

Hay fever comes from inhaling pol
zen OF certain weeds; but people Irving
in the center Of New York city have
nay fever. How's that?
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

On the subject Of tag days many
people are disposed to contend US
some Of them do regarding children
that all are nuisances except their
own.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

The pen may not be might,er than
the sword, but the agricultural pig
pen helps wonderfully as an ally.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

The possession of wrist witch
expert aviator.
The Keota news. (Keota, Weld County, Colo.) 1911-1922, 1917-01-05

For Sale: Good team Of young geld
ings, upon reasonable terms. John E.
Scott, Keota.
A book is always an appropriate pres
ent. See our line. Stanley's.
Ten percent discount on heating
stoves. A. II. Currie.
A News I'D will sell it for you.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08

dropped from the machine and the
matrices returned again to their nor
NAL positions. All this was the work
Of but fifteen seconds
This machine was never used COM
mercially, but it cast a number OF
slugs, and articles we're set up by this
machine from which prints were TAX
en-. When it was completed the
National Topographic company had
high hopes that it would be a prac-
tical machine, but number of de-
fects developed and it proved too
slow. The scheme was finally aban-
doned in favor of a single matrix-
that is. a short bar with one charac-
ter stamped upon it, such as is used
today-instead of long bar filled
with the whole alphabet. The appli-
cation for the patent on this machine
was filed August 80, 1884, but was
not granted until March 3, 1885.
In the exhibits of graphic arts in
the Smithsonian building, there are
many interesting series showing the
development of instruments and ma
chimes relating to the art of printing,
illustrating and book making.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
show the whole demand. If the

show the whole demand. If the a.
S6S publication houses listed in the
current newspaper annual for the
United States and Canada, each uses
no more than five machines, the to-
tai would be over 10000, twenty
times as many as existed only elgh-
teen years ago.
There are three machines exhibit
ed in the Smithsonian halls, which
are closely related to the develop
ment of this contribution to the art
of printing. Two of them are early
models, which indented strips of pa
per mache (matrices) from which
stereotype casts were made. Some
of these earlier machines consisted
of a cylinder which held the type
faces and the mechanism to bring it
into position to indent the paper.
All of which was controlled by the
pressing of a key. This style, called
a rotary impression machine, was
built mainly by the late Ottmar Mer-
genthaler in 1S77-7S, under the
auspices of Mr.. J. O. Clephane, who
later organized the National Typo
graphic company. The second. call
ed a stereotyper, worked we'll, but
the casting Of the slugs was found
to be unsatisfactory, and Mr.. Mer-
genthaler undertook the invention OF
one machine tc do all the work.
He started work with Mr.. L. G..
Hine. early in 1883, making small
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
The First Linotype.

The first machine for which limo
type bars or slugs were cast has late
" been deposited in the division OF
graphic arts of the United States
national museum, and is located in
the Smithsonian building. This par
ticular idea, the invention of Mer-
genthaler, revolutionized printing;
it was the first machine to cast a
complete line of type ready to print
from. Previous to the adoption OF
the improved machine, now used so
extensively, many men were needed
in the composing rooms, for mod
ern example of this remarkable ma
chine a competent operator can set
four times as much copy as by hand.
Composition and distribution by
hand are both tedious and expensive,
TINS the new machine saved the
nrinters both time and money.
Every big town daily newspaper in
the country employs from fifteen TO
thirty-fve of these machines, ana
every daily uses one or two, so that
there must be about $4,000 used IN
the daily newspaper offices in the
United States and Canada alone. 1t
was estimated in 1898, that there
uore no more than 5000 machines in
existence. This hows the present in
creased number used in the daily
newspaper Offices, but it does not
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
On the Wrong Man.

Bert Harte is so frequently COM
plimented as the author of Little
Breeches'' that he is almost as sorry
it was ever written as is Colonel John
Hay, who would prefer his fame to
rest on more ambitious work. A
gushing young lady who prided her
self upon her literary tastes, said to
him once:
''My dear Mr.. Harte, am so de-
lighted to meet you. l have read
everything you ever write; but of all
your dialect verse there is none that
compares to your Little Breeches.'
81 quite agree with you madam"
said Mr.. Harte, "but you have put
the little breeches on the wrong
man. San Francisco Argonaut.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08

experimental machine, which printed
but twelve letters at time but
demonstrated the fact that a full
sized machine built on this principle
would be all enormous step in ad-
vance. This was accomplished when
the large machine was built-the
third of the series exhibited in the
Smithsonian building-which was
the first machine from which limo
type bars, or slugs, were cast. On
the printing face the characters FORM
ed a complete and solid line of type,
similar to a line of individual type
soldered together, and they were
ready for use; a number of lines
making up a column or page-just
like the individual lines of this ar
ticle
The matrices or dies for the differ
ent letters, used in this first machine,
were on long tapering bars, arranged
side by side vertically, each contain
ing complete alphabet, other char
acters and spaces. The operation Of
the keys in the keyboard set num-
Der of stops, one for each letter de-
pressed, and when the whole line had
been set, the entire line of matriX
bars was lowered until the different
bars came into contact with their re-
spective stops, which were at vari-
Gus heights, so that at a certain
point the characters on the matrix
bars formed line of reading mat
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08

ter. There was no automatic iustifi-
cation, or spacing to make the line
the exact length required, bit it was
left to the operator, who struck the
space key and filled in with thick or
thin spaces on the tapering matrix
bars. The line of matriX bars was
then clamped together, the mold was
interposed between the matrices and
a pot of molten metal, which moved
up to the slot in the mold, and the
linotype bar was cast. The line was
then unclamped, the matrices auto
matically raised to their normal po-
sitions and similar operations for
casting the next line were performed.
Describing the initial test of this
linotype machine, July 1884, in the
Typography of Ottmar Mergenthaler
and the History of the Linotype the
author explains that the spectators
gathered at the shop on Bank Lane
in Baltimore, Maryland, before the
inventor was ready, and had to wait
until he made some adjustments.
FINALLY everything seemed to be
ready = = y Mr.. Mergenthaler called
for the steam power to be attached;
he composed a line, removed the
stopper from the metal pump, and
touched the line key. Suddenly and
silently the matrices slid into their
places, were clamped and aligned,
the pump discharged it's contents, a
finished linotype, shining like silver,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
Making Sure of Him.

Il Think said the thoughtful
mother, that you ought to object to
young Brown paying so much atten-
ton to our daughter
"Why?" demanded the thought
less father. "He impressed me very
favorably."
That's just it," returned the
mother. 1--WE must do something to
regard ourselves little above them
socially if we are to make sure
of him" Washington Post.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08

From mines in Japan and South
Manchuria the Japanese are mining
2O,OOO,O00 tons of coal annually.
After the United States, Germany
and France are the largest producers
of iron ore among the nations.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
IF IT'S A BLUEBIRD
wT'S GOT TO BE GOOD"
TFIIELEN THEATRE
YOU NEED NOT

suffer the i'll effects of bad cold or grippe any
longer The speedy action of MAXTONE will do
YOU more good in shorter length of time than any
thing yet devised Yes every bottle is fully guaran-
teed. If you are displeased call for your money.
MACK'S DRUG STORE
Bamberg, S. G.. /