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The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
Additional Local

Charley and Urias Woodrow sold
wagon load of spotted Polar d
Chinas last Friday to Walter Dodd.
They rashed in for $aa5. Hogs
are bringing a nice price now.
P. V. Roberts and wife enter.
tanned at 6 o'clock dinner Tuesday
of last week the following guests
c o Wine and family, James Cher
ry and wife of Carthage, Mrs. l. Y.
Byers and George Byers and bride
of Pueblo, Colo.
The News is getting out 1000
mating lists and doing other print
ing for Miss Althea Armstrong,
whose imperial ringlet barred Ply
mouth Rocks are attracting much
attention from the poultry fanciers
Of this and other states.
F. F. Follmer sold his big regis.
tered Holsteiu bull last week to
Mr.. Jones of Chillicothe, president
of the State Hoisteln association.
This was one of the biggest cattle
ever seen here. Mr.. Follmer has
a younger animal for his herd.
George Byers and wife of Pueblo,
Colo, who were married at that
place two weeks ago, spent few
days here visiting Mr.. Byers grand,
mother. Mrs. l. Y. Byers and other
relatives. They went from here to
St. Louis and other points on hon
eymoon trip.
]. L. Thomson Of SArcoxie and
D. P. Thomson of Kansas City
were here the first of the week to
see their father. VIM. Thomson.
The latter fell and broke his hip
last Friday and is in a serious con-
dition. Mr.. Thomson is upward
of 80 years of age.
T. II. Bell returned Saturday
morning from Jamesport, where he
attended H. L. Faulkner's sale of
spotted Poland Chan bred sows
and gifts. The hogs averaged
sIoo.2 40, the top price being S24o
MIR. Bell is fancier of the spotted
kind and bred and raised several
of the hogs in this sale.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
Lingering Coughs Are Dangerous.

Get rid of that tickling cough that
keeps you awake at night and drains
your vitality and energy. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is pleasant balsam
remedy, antiseptic. laxative and prompt
y effective. 1t soothes the irritated
membrane and kills the cold germs; your
cough is soon relieved. Delay is dan
gerous-get DR.. Kings New Discovery
at once. For nearly fifty years it has
been the favorite remedy for grippe,
Group, coughs and colds. Get bottle
today at ii. F. Pitts soc.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
DIAMOND.
Mrs. CHARLES ELTINa.

There is much sickness in our COM
munity. Lee Ingle has very sick boy.
Mrs. o. Williams is yet quite poorly.
Will Berryhill is reported no better.
Allie York is improving. Mrs. Pope is
some better. b. Ingle's children are
all sick with grippe. Clyde Buzzard is
quite poorly and is thought to have an
abscess on his lung, and your cores
pondent is having her share of enter
tanning the grippe this week.
Next Friday night will be the last
night of our literary for this winter. 1t
has been q help and an entertainment
for our community. Wewant to thank
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
BLUE STAR.
Mrs. MYRTLE COINER.

Mrs. MYRTLE COINER.
Miss Floy Brown attended the we'd
ding Of her friend, Miss Maude lobe,
in Lamar Thursday night.
Grandma Kaufman was quite poorly
last week, but is much better at this
writing.
S. II. Mitchell and wife spent Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Myrtle Dayringer.
Mrs. ). l.. Hull and Mrs. II. a. Nor
ton, spent Wednesday afternoon with
Mrs. w. S. Pennington.
Mrs. Minnie Malone and children
spent Wednesday afternoon with Miss
Elsie Kaufman.
Mrs. May Brown visited Blue Star
school Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Myrtle Coiner called on Mrs.
Myrtle Dayringer Wednesday.
Mrs. J. Z. Hull and Mrs Cecil Kad-
erly and children visited with Mrs.
Frank Killy and mother Thursday.
DR.. Norton and Mr.. Hart made trip
to Lamar Monday.
Miss Verona Hickman spent Sunday
with home folks.
Chas. Andrews and wife and baby,
Adam Malone and family and MIR
NIikesell were Sunday dinner guests OF
II. Il. Coiner and family.
Miss Floy Brown spent Wednesday
night!with Jessie and Vera Pennington.
VIM. Thompson called on Adam
Malone one morning last week.
Dewey Mil,esell is working for Mr..
Farr west of Jasper.
Jake Kaderly made II trip to Pitts
burg Wednesday.
A large crowd OF neighbors and friends
gathered at the Pennington home
Thursday evening and enjoyed an oys-
ter supper. Mr.. Pennington moved his
family to their new home near, Nash
vile Friday. Although sorry to lose
them as neighbors our best wishes go
with them to their new home
Mr.. Iialterman and family moved
down from Lamar Friday to the Resh
place. We welcome them to our neigh.
borho0d.
Marion King moved Friday to the
place Mr.. Bowman vacated.
The Blue Star Telephone Company
held their annual meeting at the school
house Saturday night. Mr.. Taggert
was reelected president and J. l.. Hull
treasurer.
Mrs. Myrtle Coiner spent Monday
wi ii her mother, Mrs. Ed Owen. Mrs
Calvert and Mrs. Houck spent the day
there also.
Chas. Lilly and wife called in this
neiShborhood Sunday evening.
Miss Floy Brown spent the weekend
with home folks in Lamar.
| Several from here attended the pie
supper at Farmers Union Friday night
The program was good, and the piei
sold we'll.
MILO '1iihit mug hii' OhhiuiCh open
Saturday evening with Mrs. Dayringer
Mrs. r. A. Norton called on Mrs
Coiner Tuesday evening.
Harry Bunnell and Fred Campbell
called on Fl. Il. Coiner Wednesday
evening.
Mrs. Hull called on Mrs. Norton last
Tuesday.
Mrs. King called on Mrs. Penning
ton Thursday morning.
Mr.. Bryant spent Sunday night a
II. +. Coiner's. A crowd of neighbour
gathered in the afternoon and evening
and enjoyed some fine music by Mes
] sers. Bryant, Hull, Andrews ant
!, Coiner.
, Landon Dayringer's baby has beer
quite sick the past week, also little Jim
mic and William Kaderly.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
Their Lonesome Look.

Having large family, the dining
room table was long one, A short
time ago the parents were alone for a
few weeks, so all the leaves were taken
from the table. A little boy from next
door came in one day at dinner time
and, seeing the small table, said: my,
but you look lonesome up so close to-
gether!"
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
Real Defender.

big" brother is reasonably good
about defending little sister, but the
real serious trouble comes when "big"
sister sees someone imposing on little
brother.-Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22

The News will be $3.50 a year after
March 1. All renewals and new sub
scriptions received before that time
will be credited at tho old rate of $1,Oe
q year.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
Convenience.

1t Is convenience to make several
medium-sized bags Of cheesecloth for
putting vegetables in when they have
been prepared and are to be put in the
refrigerator.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22

The best thing we can wish for
the average merchant this year is
that he may become as good bust
ness man as his farmer friend.
The merchant buys for cash, sells
for credit and borrows money to
keep things going. The farmer
sells for cash, and buys on "a
months time without interest.
The richtst man on earth could not
buy a sheep or shoat from him on
credit. And be is exactly right
IT merchants would adopt the same
plan we would soon adjust our
selves to it. We would buy less of
those things We really do not need
The store keeper would become in
dependent o! the money lender
and divorce from old man Worry.
But he won't do it. He hash t the
nerve to 10 it.-Panis Appeal.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-22
Member Ozurk Press Association

"A man near Jasper borrowed
about sos recently to pay doctor
bill, and is paying interest on the
money. The preacher must be
right about the near approach of
the millennium. Perhaps very soon
conscienccs will become so delicate
that man will even pay up to
date for his paper before he stops it.
-
There is too much truth in the
following item that IS going
the rounds of the press There is
a difference in people. A Kansas
man will stand iq poverty and rags
amid the ruin aud ashes of his
third crop. burned by the hot winds
of July and tell the passing strang
er that Kansas is the best state in
the Union, while the Missouri man
who gets but IS bushels Ct wheat
to the acre one season when he
wanted IS will 60 off on a visit
dressed in forty. dollar suit of
clothes and tell every man on the
train that Missouri is too dead to
skin. BORDER Telephone.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
FIND HEART ON RIGHT
SIDE, LIVER ON LEFT
Body of William King Described as
Left Handed Both Inside and Out.

st. Louis.-The body of William King,
which has been preserved for twenty
months, is described by an anatomist
as left handed. both inside and out"
according to a statement made public
at the City hospital.
In May, 1915, King, who was thirty
five years old, applied at the hospital
for treatment. He said he was a Ia
borer and had lived most Of his life in
Wisconsin. He was suffering from ty
phoid fever.
When asked who should be notified
in case Of his death King said: Don't
worry about that. Just cut me up and
examine my body. There's something
wrong with me besides the fever"
He died few days later. When sur
geons made an examination Of the
body they found one of, the most alb
normal cases in the history Of surgery.
The heart was on the right side. the
liver on the left; the appendix was on
the left side and the spleen on the
right. The stomach was turned around
completely. On the left lung were three
lobes; the right lung had but two. The
left kidney was larger and lower than
the right one.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
LONOON'S MALADY
Writer Suffered From Strange
Illness In Australia.
BATTLING TO PHYSICIANS.

Novelist Bravely Fought Mysterious
Sickness Which Could Not Be dag.
nosed by Australian Specialists.
Finally Decided He Had Been Torn to
Pieces by Ultra Violet Rays.
Sydney, Australia.-The recent death
/. of Jack London, the California novel
list, recalls the extraordinary physical
reasons for his stay Of about five
months In Australia in 190S-9. London
was a blond, and his sojourn, from
what he himself subsequently wrote In
1.-The Cruise of the Shark" and the al
coholic memoir "John Barleycorn" and
those in the commonwealth who be-
came intimate with him now remem-
Der, was one of torture. He left the
cockleboat Shark, in which he and his
wife had been cruising about the Pa
cific, at one Of the islands and came,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18

10 o'clock. Few Of them are for longer
than half an hour. These agements
run up until about IL o'clock, the pres
ident always leaving the office building
for the White House for luncheon not
later than / o'clock
Usually the presidents afternoons
have been. given over to recreation.
OF course the president played golf
but few times during the railroad
crisis. He then only did so because DR..
Grayson thought it advisable for him
to get little outdoor exercise. On the
motor rides and at the golf matches
Mrs. Wilson was always his compan-
ion.
The motor trips are usually over by
6 o'clock, so there is ample time to pre-
pare for o'clock dinner. Most Of the
presidents evenings have been devot-
ed to work.
For the last few months there has
been great mystery about the White
House. 1t has to do with one Of the
means which the president employs to
relax from his presidential duties. This
form of amusement is nothing more
than the popular game of pool, or,
speaking in more polite terms, pocket
billiards.
When the conditions are normal at
the White House the president has two
means of relaxation other than playing
billiards. He takes great delight in
reading poetry aloud. The other form
Of amusement is the reading Of detec
tive stories. He gets the latest BOOKS
Of this sort.
President Wilson does not believe it
wise to keep the midnight oil burning.
Therefore the hour of II o'clock usual
ly finds him in bed. More often it is
before II o'clock that he retires. This
is necessary because Of his early ris-
ings.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
FAMILY REUNITED.
Children Long Separated by the
Civil War Meet.
SEARCH BEGUN BY BROTHER.
Bushwhaekers Raided Home, Killed
Parents and Drove Children Into
Woods-Adopted In Different Homes,
Survivors Drifted Apart - Meeting
Between Sisters and Brother Pathetic.

Survivors Drifted Apart Meeting
Between Sisters and Brother Pathetic.
Clarinda, IA tragedy of the civil
war which resulted in the separation
was recalled recently by the reunion Of
the three children who had been sepa-
rated during the long period, too young
at the time to maintain a correspond
ence, and it was only after much effort
and correspondence that the members
Of theefamily were enabled to meet and
hold reunion after so long a separa-
ton.
Living near Laclede, Mo, was fam
lily named Deer. Bushwhackers raided
their home, killed the parents and
drove the children into the woods.
where they passed a night in terror.
The children were Mary Deer, eight
years old; Addie Deer, six years old,
and brother two years old. Upon the
girl Of eight years devolved the task of
keeping the others with her and to
vainly try to console them. Speaking
Of the terrifying incidents of the night.
Mary, now Mrs. Mary Rain Of this
city, told how the baby boy cried to be
taken to his mother.
In the morning the children made
their way to Laclede, where they were
found nearly dead from exposure and
fright and crying bitterly. A man who
CHANGED to run across the children was
so filled with pity that he took them in
charge, fed them and cared for them
for several days until he had succeed
ed in locating all three in homes, into
which they were finally adopted.
Thus torn apart, the children did not
again hear from each other. Mary
spent her entire girlhood as a nurse
girl in a family where there were sew
eral children, and from them she man
aged to learn to read and write. She
was taken to Illinois, where she mar
ried. Addie Deer was taken with the
brother to Crete, Neb., where the girl
married and where the boy grew to
manhood and where he still resides.
Addie married and lost her husband.
She was married a second time to a
Mr.. Downing, owner of large ranch
near Glenwood Springs, Colo.
Some time ago the brother began a
search for his sisters. 1t was an ap-
parently hopeless task, but by persever-
ance, much correspondence and long
range inquiry he managed to find them,
and all held a reunion at the home of
Mrs. Downing in Colorado,
Mrs. Rain soon after her marriage
moved from Illinois to this county.
She is now a widow, sixty years Of
age. The meeting between the sisters
and brother was pathetic despite the
fact that a separation Of over fifty
years had obviously tended to break
down the feeling Of family relationship.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
WAR ON CATS SAVES GAME.
Good Hunting In New Jersey Since Fe-
line SLAUGHTER Started.

Trenton, N. IA report Of the New
Jersey fish and game commission re-
Gently issued states that the wholesale
determination of cats in Burlington
county during the 1915 epidemic Of foot
and mouth disease has resulted in
sportsmen finding Burlington among
the best hunting grounds in the state.
Game animals and birds are more
plentiful in the county than for years.
and scores of hunters have repeatedly
bagged their legal limit Of ten rabbits;
also quails, pheasants and squirrels. 1t
is held that the chief factor in the in
crease in game animals and birds as
we'll as song birds in that county was
the warfare On cats by both hunters
and farmers. Sportsmen found hun
dreds of proving homeless cats in the
woods and fitWs preying upon native
birds and animals and killed them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
WAR AFFECTS WATER TOO.
No Soda Ash to Soften City's Drinking
Supply.

Columbus, O.-Hard water will be
the best the filtration plant can furnish
consumers the rest Of the winter unless
something is done to increase the avail
able supply Of soda ash. one Of the chief
chemicals used in the softening process.
Superintendent 'Shaughnessy of the
Columbus water plant said that soda
ash could not be had at any price ow
ing to inability of railroads to furnish
adequate transportation facilities; also
the Barberton plants, where the city's
supply of soda ash is obtained, have
been handicapped during the last few
weeks because of shortage Of fuel.
No soda ash has been used at the fl
tration plant for several days. Since
the war began soda ash has advanced
$44 ton Water can be softened to a
certain degree by lime, but soda ash
must be added to get the desired soft
ness
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
PRESIDENTS DAY.
Mr.. Wilson's Crowded Schedule
Calls For Early Rising.
LIKES GOLF AND BILLIARDS.
Out of Bed at a. M, Battles and Is In
Study Not Later Than 5:3o-AIways
Retires Before H. Reads Poetry
Aloud and Takes Pleasure In Latest
Detective Stories.

Aloud and Takes Pleasure In Latest
Detective Stories.
hington.-President Wilson has a
we'll defined schedule mapped out for
his daily work when in Washington.
He sticks to this schedule closely. 1t
calls for his arising at the early hour
of 5 o'clock. Then he has his bath and
is in his study not later than $50
o'clock, says the Louisville Courier
Journal in a recent account Of the pres
ident's schedule.
Usually the president is met in his
study by his stenographer, Charles
Sven. Charlie, as he is known about
the White House, takes dictation until
s o'clock, which is the presidents
breakfast hour. Breakfast over, Mr..
Wilson is accustomed to return to his
study to continue his morning dictat-
ing.
About $50 o'clock in the morning
the president receives list Of appoint
ments which Secretary Tumulty has
made for him at the executive offices.
These engag ements never begin until
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
DANCE TO WIRELESS
MUSIC MILES AWAY
Photograph at High Bridge, N. Y,
Heard All Over House at
MorristoWn, N. J.

New York.-What was declared to be
the worlds first wireless dance was
held at 20 Morris avenue, Morristown.
N. j., the home Of Theodore e. Gatyr
vice president Of the Fidelity and Cas-
ualty Insurance company Of this city.
His two sons-John P. and Theodore
e. Gaty, Jr., the latter home from Cor
nell for the Christmas holidays-got
up a dance and throughout the even
ing the seven or eight couples who had
been invited danced to music that was
played on photograph in High Bridge
at the northern end Of Manhattan.
about forty miles away from Morris
town by air line.
Mr.. Gaty and his sons are enthusiast
tic amateurs in the science of radio te-
lephony and telegraphy. A friend, P. F.
Cooley of Montclair, who is q radio en-
gineer, made use Of the Lee de Forest
audion detector and the sound ampli-
fer invented by DR.. Edwin III. Arm
strong Of Columbia, the inventions
which made transcontinental telephony
possible, as we'll as wireless tele-
phone message to Honolulu. M, God
ley, who is only twenty seven years old,
adapted the two devices TO amateur
use and attached them to a photograph
horn in the Gaty home.
The photograph that furnished the
dance music was played in the High
Bridge plant Of the De Forest Radio
Telephone and Telegraph company, and
the musical sound waves were receiv
cd by the amateur receiver over Mr.
Gaty's house.
When the faint sounds, which, com
ing from the receiver, could scarcely be
detected by the ear, passed through the
combined sound amplifiers and then
through the megaphone they could be
heard all over the house.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
FOUND IMAGE IN CAVE.
Crude Stone Idol Probably Antedates
Indian Mound Builders.


jacksonville, Ky.-E. L. Littlepage
Of the Morton Gap country brought to
this place recently a stone image that
is a curiosity and probably Of historic
value.
Mr.. Littlepage found it at the edge
Of a cave on a high elevation in North
Christian county, KY, while Investigate
ing some prospective Oil land belonging
to him. The cave is located in a wild
and broken section Of land uncultivat-
ed and but thinly inhabited.
The image is rudely carved out Of a
tough, ferrous sandstone. It is about
six inches in height and is well pre-
served, except for a slight injury on
one side Of it's head and slight wealth
ering of one arm. The figure is in a
sitting position, with it's legs doubled
under it's body and arms extended in
front, with hands resting on it's knees.
The image is evidently relic Of an
idol worshiping people and antedates
any old Indian relic found in various
Indian mounds in western Kentucky.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
WIDOW SAVES TREES.
Turns Commissioners From Those
Planted by Her Husband.


Planted by Her Husband.
st. Cloud, Mich.-"Woodman, spare
that tree; touch not single bough.''
Thus quoted Mrs. Mary Spicer, wild
ow, as she pleaded for the preservation
Of trees planted by her husband, long
dead.
It was three years ago that Mrs. Spi-
Ger started her battle with city officials
over the maintenance of this arborian
Inheritance. She was called upon to
enter another skirmish the other day
when sidewalk bids were opened, in
which provision. was to have been
made for the removal Of the trees.
Mrs. Spicer's pets" fringe a lot on
which her modest little home is built
wait until l am gone and you may
remove them," she told the city COM
missioners, who took her words to
heart. When sidewalk bids were open
ed there were proposed contracts on
other jobs, but on the Widow Spicer's
prOperty-not a word.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18

JACK LONDON IN THE WOODS
with Mrs. London, to Sydney in Mo-
vember, 1908, by steamer. He said Of
his Australian sOjourn:
II went to Australia to go into u hos
pital, where spent five weeks. l spent
five months miserably sick in hotels.
The mysterious malady that afflicted
my hands was too much for the Aus
tralian specialists. 1t was unknown In
the literature Of medicine. No case
like it had ever been reported. It ex-
tended from my hands to my feet so
that at shines | was as helpless as %
child. On occasion my hands were
twice their natural size, with seven
dead and dying skins peeling off at the
same time. There were times when
my toenails in tWenty-four hours grew
as thick as they were long. After filing
them off inside another tWenty-fOur
hours they were as thick as before.
The Australian specialists agreed that
the malady was nonparasitic and there
fore it must be nervous"
Inc allment ana not menu, ana the
novelist and his wife had to abandon
the cruise in the Shark. Yet when
London had returned to California,
where his health had invariably been
excellent, his recovery was complete,
and strangely enough the California
climate is very like that of Australia,
Later On London ran across the book
written by Colonel Charles Z. Wood
ruff, United States army medical corps,
entitled Effects of Tropical Light on
White Men," and what had bafiled the
Australian specialists was no longer
inexplicablc. London wrote to Colonel
Woodruff describing his illness in Aus
tralia, and the latter whose researches
in tropical medicine, especially in the
Philippines, have given him high re-
'pCte In his profession, replied that he
had been similarly afflicted in the Phil
ippines. Besides himself, Colonel Wood
ruff wrote to the novelist, no fewer
than sixteen other United States army
surgeons were utterly at a loss to &C
count for the coloneTs malady. But In
time the colonel solved the riddle Lon
don says:
II had strong predisposition toward
tissue destructiveness by tropical light.
had been torn in pieces by ultra vio-
let rays"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-01-18
Newspaper on Fla Leaves.

Santa Cruz, Cal.-Because of the
high cost of paper and the failure of
subscribers to pay up, Luther McQues-
ton, publisher of the Mountain Echo
at Boulder creek, printed an edition Of
his weekly on fig leaves. The edition
consists of five dried leaves pinned to-
gether with a twig and printed on both
sides and contains news items, CLASH
fed and legal advertising and an edito-
rial in which McQueston sets forth his
reasons for returning to first princi-
pies for print paper"