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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-11-07
The Thos. D. Murphy Co.
Red Oak, Iowa
Largest Exclusive Calendar
, Manufacturers in the
World
Has Vacancies on Its Sales
Force for a Few Really
High Grade Statesmen

We have found that our most src-
cessful men have not been recruited
from those already on the road, but
from the ranks of proprietors of retail
stores who could sell lots of goods, but
whose profits were small or they were
high-class clerks who had reached the
limit of their earning capacity in towns
of this size.
One owned bicycle store. He
sold nearly every bicycle in the vii
lage. But what did that amount to7
Another was considered the best clerk
in his home town, but that only meant
very moderate salary in little place.
A third was manufacturer who could
sell his goods well enough, but whose
factory expenses ate up his selling
profit.
There are undoubtedly four or FIVE
men of similar type in this locality who
can immensely better their own condi-
ton and make money for us by joining
Our sales force.
We cannot offer big money for
little work. To be successful you
would have to WORK HARD AND
CONTINUOUSLY. We are not
looking for inexperienced boys, or old
men, or statesmen who drift from one
house TO another. But if you are such
man as we have described our sue
cessful statesmen to be; if you have the
ability to close deals; if you are a plug
ger who never gives up. you can do
well on our sales force And if it's IN
YOU, you can make very large sum
yearly. THE OPPORTUNITY is
THERE.
To such men we will advance
money for expenses while trying the
work, and pay the cost of trip to Our
factory for instruction in Murphy cal
endar salesmanship. Your cores
pondence will be held confidential
while you are considering the matter
if you so desire.
Address:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-11-07

These women are SO hard to
please. An old one will get mad IL
you call her hen and young one
will get just as mad If you call her
chicken.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

drop Of about i0,0oA,000 bushels from the
July report North Dakota's crop sui
fered most. with a loss in prospective
production of about l5,000,000 bushels
while South Dakota lost about 3,000,000
bushels and Washington 100000 bush
els.
Winter wheat, however is turning ont
better than previously forecast, with a
forecast total OF AZ 600 bushels, or
l5,Go0,000 bushels more than indicated
from july conditions,
The combined yield of winter and spring
wheat. therefore. shows a reduction OF
.. 00000o bushels from the production
forecast in July The crop forecast from
August ! conditions will he only 653,000,-
600 bushels, or l300O,000 bushels more
than harvested last year
White potatoes are expected to yield
4G1 ,000,0 600 bushels or l5000.000 bushels
more than forecast from July conditions
and Il ,000,000 bushels more than the rec
ord crop of 1912 Sweet potatoes also
Twill be a record, with S6,400,000 bushels
| There will he an enormous crop OF to
batco, almost 100000 900 pounds larger
than the record production of last year
The buckwheat crop will be the largest
| in many years and oats will come close t
cqualling the record made in 1915.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
Expert Advice on Food Gardens
Daily Hints on How to Make Back Yards Profitable

syrup of two sups sugar and quart OF
vinegar. Seal jars at once and invert
to cool.
Place sweet green peppers in oven
until the skin blisters, peal and pack
into hot jars. Add boiling water to fill
jars with a level teaspoonful of salt to
the quart, adjust and partially tighten
tops and sterilize in boiling water for
an hour and a half. Remove Jars, tight
en- tops and invert to cool in place free
from draughts.
The Spanish pimentos should be pre-
pared as above and packed in jars with
out the addition of any water. Steril-
ize for thirty minutes and seal Jars inn
mediately. This process brings out a
thick liquor which covers the peppers in
the jars and renders the addition of
water unnecessary.
For drying, peppers may be split down
the side, the seeds removed and the fruit
dried at once, or the peppers may be
placed in the oven till the skin blisters
then peel and treat as above.
If desired, dry peppers whole by
stringing on stout thread, or the Who'll,
plant may be hung up to dry.
The small sweet red peppers may be
spread in thin layers and dried as in tn,
case Of berries. DO not use too great heal
! III any case Canning lesson No. 80.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
BUMPER CORN CROP,
POTATOES GALORE
Government Crop Forecast Issued Yes
terday Contains Many En-
couraging Figures

WASHINGTON, Aug. "a corn crop
any ever grown before, re-
duction in wheat prospects owing to dam
age to the spring wheat crop and record
crops Of barley, rye. white and sweet po-
tatoes. tobacco and hay were forecast
yesterday in the August ! crop report Of
the department OF agriculture
Corn production was placed at 3,i9l,
600 coo bushels. an increase of O., COCOON
bushels over the July forecast and 5000
600 bushels above the record crop OF
1912 The showing is due to vast improve
ment in the growing corn in Illinois. In
diana. Iowa and Missouri.
In Kansas the condition is declared to
be SO per cent of a normal, compared with
sc pc cent on July |, and as result the
Kansas crop is forecast as Sl,74O,OOO bush
els, compared with 100, $4,000 bushels fore
cast in July. Oklahoma crop showed q
decline from 81 per cent of normal L
80 per cent, with production forecasts re
duced from g.. 500, 600 bushels to 33,S44 ,00C
bushels
Spring wheat production. forecast IL
July at $4,000, 900 bushels, showed the re
suits Of adverse weather conditions Thu
prospects are put at 236 ,ol9,0o0 bushels, I
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
SHE'LL KILLS PRINCETON MAN.
Victim Was Field Mate in France of
Allen

PARIS, Aug. 9. John Verplanck
Newlin Of Whitford, Pa, an American
field service member, who was serious v
wounded by a shell at his post on
August 3, died in hospital at the
front on August 5. Newlin was mem
Der of Section % and left Paris less
than a month ago. He was Princeton
student and was the second man from
that university to be killed in field
service within the last week.
The same shell which struck Newlin
wounded Julian Broome l.. Allen of New
York. The latter is the son of Fred
erick Allen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

The Reformer is conducting this coll
umn with the cooperation Of the Ma
ti0nal Emergency Food Garden Com
mission to inspire the planting of more
food gardens throughout the country.
Members of the commission are:
Charles Iathrop Pack, president of
American Forestry association. Lu-
ther Burbank Dir Charles ". Eliot
Prof. Irving Fisher. John HAYS HAM
mond, Fairfax Harrison. Myron r
Herrick DR. John Grier Hibben, En-
erson McMiilin A. w Shaw, Carl
Nrooman. assistant secretary Of agri-
culture. capt J b. White, 7. s. ship
ping Board James Wilson, former sec
Rotary OF agriculture You should
watch this column every day Any
questions should be written on one
,ide Of the paper and sent 70 Garden
Editor OF The Reformer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
How to Can Peppers.

Are you helping to feed soldier by
feeding yourself next winter with prod
nee from vonr war garden? Today 9
lesson is on peppers.
There are several ways for canning
peppers. Wash red peppers and slice
OF stem end. remove seeds and cut cross
wise into rings with scissors. Drop
slices into boiling water for two minutes
and then let stand in very cold water
for ten minutes. Drain, pack into jars
and fiji to Overlooking with a boiling
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
OTHER DEPENDENTS.

One Where in one of the forego-
ing WAYS Il reasonably adequate support
is provided for widowed mother, in
firm parents, or orphan child under six
teen wears, of son, brother, or father
allied into service.
:. Under Presidential regulations pro-
viding that "anv certificate of dis
.harge may be withdrawn. modified or
renewed by the local board the board
is authorized to reopen any claim of
exemption already passed upon and still
awaiting disposition on appeal TO the
district board, for the purpose of re-
Giving any atiidavits or making other
inquiries relative to dependency as de-
fined in the present rulings, and the
local board shall transmit to the dis
-rict board such aflidavits and its own
minute thereon, for consideration on
appeal.
"The foregoing rulings are calculated
to carry out the spirit and terms of the
act, and to enable patriotic men to re
main in the military service of THEN
country wherever the burden of support
hitherto carried by them alone is in a
position to be distributed for time
among others who are patriotically
eady to make in this manner their
contribution to military service by set
ing another man free to enter the
army.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

Contracts Tor 24.050 motor truck bodies
have been let by the war department.
The international Harvester Company of
Chicago will build more than one third
its contract being for 10000. The next
largest contract is with the Grand Ran
ids School Equipment Company OF Mich
igan for 6,4Gu.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
ovERsUBscRIBED s61, 525, 900.
McAdoo Announces Result Of Short
Term Note Offer,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. = Oversub
scription of the $30,o00,000 issue of
short term treasury certificates of in
debtedness, Secretary McAdoo an
nounced yesterday, was SOL ,525,0 600,
more than 20 per cent. Allotments will
be approximately So per cent of sub
scriptions.
Every federal reserve bank, it was
announced. exceeded the allotment
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

Antiseptic surgery has been praetieed
since 1860.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

which tentatively was given it at the
time the issue was announced.
Distribution of the Issue among re-
serve bank districts was not announced.
but it is understood that the New York
district oyersubscribed its allotment by
a higher percentage than any other.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

WANTED Girl At Gilman s Cigar
store. tS Elliot -. l36tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

FOR SALE b HORSES We arrive
Aug > with - head. Ten pairs. 2.ioa TO
3.Gj0. balance l,lio TO Loo. All first
class and prices better than for past six
months our warrant is good and no one
can touch MS as to quality and soundncss
We will have load every two weeks.
Largest dealers in New England. Have
sold 10 60 into Vermont in past six
months ~ horses. GUILFORD & WOOD
Observation-Disclosures, she's
tWfnp Falls Mass 12} 100
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO RENT - ScVen-rOOm cottage
house on Church place. Apply to Hen
nv II. Brown. 131-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

WANTED Beef and horse hides w.
+ Richardson Co 20J-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO RENTING Groom tenement on
Birae st. Holden & Martin. 296-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
"a WIFE AND CHILDREN.

q. Where the parents or other rel
atiyes of the wife or husband are able,
ready, and willing to provide adequate
support for her (md children If any
during the absence Of the husband.
- Where the wife owns land which
has produced income 10y the husband s
labor. but which could with reasonable
certainty be rented, during his absence,
to other persons so as 10 produce an
adequate support.
g. Where there exists some ar
rangcment hy which the salary or wage
of the husband is continued, in whole
or in part, by third persons, being en-
ploycrs or insurers or others, and such
portion Of the salary or wage, either
alone or with an allotment Of his sol
der 5 pay, or with other definite in
come, will furnish reasonably ade-
quate support.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO LET - Large front office, steam
heat. Second floor Ullery building. Stiff
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO RENT-Cottage house, rooms,
all modern Chas. Miner. 121-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
Wanted

WANTED-At once, girl. Brattleboro
Steam Laundry. 96-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO RENT = Storage room. Mrs
Kittredge Haskins. 26-tt
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
CURBS EXEMPTION
OF MARRIED MEN
CrOWder Holds Them Liable
to Draft If Relatives Will
Support Wives
CONTINUED SALARY
BAR TO EXEMPTION
Where Employers Agree to Pay Them
Dependency Claims Will Not Be Con
sidered - If Wife Has Adequate
Support Husband is Not Exempt.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Brig. Cen
Enoch Crowder, Provost Marshal Gen
cral. last night issued rules of far
reaching consequence to restrict the ac
tion Of local exemption boards on claims
for discharge from the draft because Of
alleged dependency.
The rules, which were telegraphed to
the governors Of the states, follow:
"Under Presidential regulations the
term dependent for support has
given rise to several further questions
Of principle affecting large numbers Of
persons.
'.Thc general basis for ruling upon
such questions should be the spirit and
purpose Of the act in providing for such
discharge, wherever the terms of the
act and Of the regulations are not in
themselves conclusive The act author
ICES the President to discharge wherever
the parties drafted are ''in a status
with respect to persons dependent upon
them for support which renders their
exclusion or discharge advisable. =
Such dependency ordinarily renders
discharge advisable, because since the
drafted person loses his civil income and
thus loses his means of support. the
wife is left without support. and this
lack OF support is the effect which the
act aims to avoid. But wherever such
effect does not in fact follow, and the
wife is not left reasonably adequate
support, but viii receive such support
from other sources, there is no real de
pcndency rendering discharge advisable.
The following classes Of eases arc
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO RlNT-Fwni>hed rooms, all mod
ern conveninnces, quiet, comfortable and
convenient to restaurants, station and
business center Mrs. J. c. Newton,
Ecls Court, opposite Home Bakery. ll2-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
Special Notices

CASH PAID for wool. W. F. Rich
ardson Co. 72-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO RENT Modern fiat. +. M.
Holden. Tel 37S-M. 10S-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09

TO RENT-Five-room tenement for
small family, bath, hot and cold water
large garden, lots of fruit, no need of
eat or dog. George d. Odell, Sc Central
Street 40 If
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-09
To Rent.

To Rent.
TO RENT-Modern fat. E. NJ. An
gier. l3-tf
TO RENT = Storage room. Mrs.
Kittredge Haskins. 26-tf
TO RENT = Modern fiat. f. NJ.
Holden. Tel 3IS-M. lOS-tt
TO RENT-Cottage house, rooms, !
all modern Chas. Miner. 121-tf |
TO RENT-Nice Groom tenement on
Birge St. Holden Martin. 296-tf
TO LET - Large front office, steam
heat. Second floor Ullery building. Stiff |
TO priced tenements to
small American families. w. G. Doc
little. "a If
TO RENT-Nice, large, airy front
room at 3 Whipple Street. Mrs. L. II.
Barber. 1l1-tf
TO RENT - Scven-room cottage
house on Church place. Apply to Hen
ny r. Brown. l3l-tf
TO RENT-Fourr room tenement with
some improvements; $40 month; 81
Prospect street. l3l-tf
TO RENT-Rooms for light house
keeping, all furnished. Hot and cold
water and bath Charles Miner. 27-tf
TO RENT-For rest of season, fur
.nishcd bungalow on Ames Hill. J. J..
Towards Real Estate Agency. l32tf
TO RENT Furnished, large cool
rooms, bath and electric lights included.
% High street, Mrs. +. c. Crosby.
1911
To RENT-Pleasan tenement at %
7. ook Street. Inquire of Charles G.
Staples at Vermont National Bank.
59-tf
/ TO RENT Suite Of rooms with kitch-
Icncttc. gas and electric light, running
water, suitable for light housekeeping.
/ 81 Main St l36-tf
TO RENT-Plcasant tenement Of
I five rooms, bath, hot and cold water,
electric lights and gas, spring water
+ 80 Washington st. "a If
TO RENT-Five-room tenement for
small family, bath, hot and cold water
large garden, lots of fruit, no need of
eat or dog. George d. Odell, Sc Central
Street. 40 If
TO RENV-Fu Furnished rooms, all mod
'ern conveninnces, quiet, comfortable and
convenient to restaurants, station and
business center. Mrs. j. c. Newton,
Ecls Court, opposite Home Bakery. ll2-tt
Special Notices
CASH PAID for wool. W. F. Rich
ardson Co. 72-tt
i SIAMPOOING ana Manicuring Mis-
Mary A. Griffin, 1879 Main st. 229-t
no 1 L,-r Ii. &c .nlttin,n. y mi Ii ~,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-06
Baseball Taotloa.

Stealing third is, as general prop
osition, bad play, though it comes in
handy now and then. l would suggest
that all young players avoid it. If the
man Is thrown out trying to steal third
you have tossed away possible chance
for a run, and If he succeeds he hasn't
improved his scoring chances very
much, because he would go home from
second on clean single anyway.
Ny personal opinion is that there is
entirely too much changing of pitchers
In professional baseball The custom
Is so prevalent In certain clubs that
every man that starts a game does so
In fear, trembling lest he be removed
as soon as he allows couple Of hits
or is a little wild He is prone to be-
come nervous under these conditions
and begins to fume and fret as soon
as he gets In hole. On the other
hand, If he were assured before the
game started that he would be allowed
to finish 1t he would in many cases
work out his own salvation. A pitcher
learns through being beaten, and If he
Is taken out as soon as he has any
trouble he will never get the right kind
Of experience to develop his mind and
his courage.-Ty Cobb In American
Boy.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-06
rooMBs UTTERs ONE ERROR
Noted for Accuracy, Famoup PuhIiclst
Makes Mistake In Georgia Con-
gtitutlonal Convention.


IN the Georgia constitutional con-
vention Of 1877 so usually accurate a
publicist as General Robert Toombs ut
tered a singular error. He was con-
&ending in speech for enough courts
In Georgia to assure speedy justice
and at one point In the debate he said !:
II only desire to say one word. Six
hundred and fifty years ago our rude
ancestors met upon plain at Runni-
mede and established q great system
Of judiciary In one line Of bad Latin.
They made King John say, we will
sell to none. we will deny to none, we
will delay to none, right ard Justice,
and we must make as many courts as
are necessary to carry out those grand
utterances."
Actually there Is no ''plain" at Run
nimede. as those who have visited the
historic locality know. Anciently there
was a running-mede. or meadow, on
the Middlesex shore of the Thames,
where races were pulled of. Possibly
the doughty barons held some mass
meeting in the meadow, but history
holds fast that the Magma Charta was
signed on an island of shore, nearer
the Surrey bank, and which has ever
since been known as Charter island.
In london In 1909 there was sale Of
the island and the wonder was voiced
In the public press why the govern
ment did not purchase 1t and erect
upon It some suitable memorial.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-06
By Isabel Frost
LHl1, Dy the MECH
per Syndicate.)

1t has never seemed quite so hard as
that Saturday morning. For over q
year Tess had worked In the big pa
per box factory on MacDougal street,
carrying tall piles of boxes back and
forth as they were finished by the
older hands" and ready for the pack
ers.
She was fifteen when she started In,
and the 81 week had seemed so
much to the little family tucked away
In three rooms on Sullivan street.
With her mother and Danny helping,
too, 1t wasn't hard to get along at all,
and when the weather was good they
all went over into Washington square
at night to rest and dream awhile.
But Up in the factory the other girls
had never admitted her into that In
ner circle Of friendly intimacy that al
ways exists where there are fellow
workers. Perhaps Il was because she
wasn't pretty. The first week she
had gone there Carl, the shipping
clerk. had sized her up jocularly and
remarked that shed be some frost at
the Winter Garden with that face
hung on her."
Tess had heard and hated him with
all her heart, even while the hot tears
filled her eyes, and she bit her lip to
keep back the swift retort She had
taken good look at herself In the lit
tie crooked mirror over the wash basin
where the girls put on their hats, and
1t was perfectly true. She wasn't a
bit pretty. She didn't know how to
do her hair attractively and in style,
and she had freckles, and her mouth
was too large. There was no one to tell
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-06
London In a Fog.

London is more or less noted for the
dense fogs that obscure it at times, and
a recent specimen that was in its prime
couple of hours before midnight, was
a particularly fine one.
In a space that good aerodrome
could have inclosed / found a chauf-
feur looking with lantern for land
marks, so that he could discover in
which direction his car was heading.
I saw a telegraph messenger fall off
hts bicycle in the middle Of a quiet
road, apparently from sheer perplex-
ity, and l found three motor buses that
came to rest with their bonnets close
together in such way as to suggest
that each had been charging the other
two and had only stopped just in time.
In the small hours of the morning !
found another bus standing helpless by
the roadside. with the driver slumber-
ing within, but the driver of motor
bus is a remarkable man in many ways.
London Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-11-06

Father Tber must be trembling tn
his bed over the quest for the gold sup
posed to lie In the foundations Of the
old temple of Jove. for the river has
more than once been threatened
Lecky holds that its periodical flooding
and bequest of marshes and malaria
have been the salvation of Italy in pre-
venting the Italian parliament, for rea-
sons Of health, from sitting long In ses-
sion. Garibaldi had other views. He
meant to fling the old river from Rome
to Tivoli. 80 sent for that prince of en-
gineers, Sir John Fowler. Fowler
made the necessary surveys for diver
sion Of the Tiber into the Anio, to ca
nalize the malarial area and drain 1t
into the sea. 1t would have been a
great and romantic feat of engineering,
but honest John loved Garibaldi as
faithfully as did the red shirted Thou
sand. at will cost you nine millions
for the work and as much again for
compensation Don't think of it, he
bluntly said. "Oh, you stubborn Eng
lishr laughed the hero. Americans
here would do the work for nothing
merely to get the antiquities In the
Tiber bed" But he took Fowler's ad-
yice.-London Chronicle.