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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
THE IRISH POTATO CROP.

What to do with the large potato
erop-whether to sell it at once or
hold until later, is question engaging
the minds of many people now. The
crop can be sold at once for S1.0O a
bushel. What the price will be later
no one knows of course If the crops is
to be held, how to take care of it is an
important matter.
The usual way, in the absence of a
potato cellar, is to hole them I'D, and
when the crop is small this plan is
reasonably satisfactory, but not en-
tirely SO. Numbers of people have
been planning to build potato and ap-
pie cellars for years perhaps, and this
would seem to be the time to carry
out the plan. Such house is useful
and almost necessity at all times.
and the COSTS not prihibitive. Build a
potato cellar and hold the crop for a
while, is perhaps good advice. ~
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
THE WORKING MAN AND $500
WHEAT.

The farmers have no kick coming
on account of price of wheat ut 1920.
AS the World observes the former
who cannot make money 1t this price
had better quit and go ut some thing
elise. This rate is more than he re-
ceived when wheat sold OF a much
higher price in Chicago. The object
of this guarantee was to stimulate
and encourage the farmers to grow
maximum crops.
But, here's the trouble. Wheat at
$500 means twelve dollar flour and
over. How can the wage carners pay
rent, doctor bills, school bills, etc,
and get along? The price of meat
is "out of sight" No steps seem to
be taken which gives him an equal
showing. True. work is plentiful, but
as rule, wages, although advanc-
ed, are still too low to permit the
wage Garner to share in the prosper
ity of the country. War taxes and
all other taxes are increasing his
expenses. He ought to have higher
wages
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
HE FOOLED THEM ALL.

A young American answering to
the name of j. r. Clark, and giving
his home address as Mendoza. Ill.
walked into the office of the staff of
flcer at the American army head
quarters in Paris, few days ago, and
briefly explained that he desired to
enlist. He referred to previous SER
vice in the British expeditionary ar
my, told how he had driven q car for
staff officers at general headquarters
but remained silent when the officer
gruffly demanded to know why he had
been discharged.
The young mans face took on a
look OF hopelessness. Then it bright
ened.
Watch me-" he said to the officer
who directed puzzled gaze across
the table to point on the. floor
where the applicant, with sprightly
move, had assumed another erect no,
sition of military rigidity.
Introducing what was to follow
with another preemptory click of his
heels, he executed the military drill
IN a clean and snappy manner. The
officer smiled his approval. A Cchica-
go paper man, Floyd Gibbons, who
witnessed the incident, declared no
drillmaster could have executed the
movements in finer style.
See anything the matter with
me?" he asked the officer and the
latter gave negative shake of the
head.
mo, and neither did they. l was
good enough to be with the British
three months after Mons l worked
night and day for them three years
ago at times when there wasn't over
much food and when a man silent
where he could.
"Well, | had been working TWEEN
ty hours without sleep and was tir-
ed, and miserable and cold when I
was relieved and crawled into the back
OF car. An officer found me asleep
with my foot off,"
"Your foot off what?" the ques-
toner demanded.
Just off, sir, between the ankle
and the knee. / had taken it off to
rest the stump. He saw me before /
could get it on again. He wasn't an
CRY but he thought it a good Joke
and told it at the officers mess next
mornln, was discharged imme-
diately."
You served three months as a
chauffeur in the British army with
only one foot and they didn't know
it?" asked the officer.
Yes. sir" Clarke replied, "but
you could not have known it any
more than they could. Maybe 1 cant
nike ~ miles day with a pack on
my back, but otherwise Pm Just as
good as any other man."
what do you want to be in the
question.
replied.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described AS Torture
Relieved by Elack-Draught.

Rossville, Ga.-Mrs. Kate Lee Able, OF
this place, writes: "My husband is an
engineer, and once while lifting, he in
iured himself with piece of heavy ma.
chinery, across the abdomen He was
SO sore he could not bear to press on
himself at all, on chest or abdomen. He
weighed 1865 lbs, and fell off until he
weighed ITO lbs, in two weeks.
He became constipated and it looked
like he would die. We had three differen,
doctors, yet with all their medicine, his
bowels failed to act. He would turn UP
ten-cent bottle of castor oil, and drink
it two or three days in succession. lie
did this yet without result. We became
desperate, he suffered so. He was swol-
len terribly. He told me his suffering
could only be described as torture.
| scnt and bought Tkcdford's Black
Draught. ] made him take big dose,
and whenit began 10 act he tainted, he
was in such misery, but he got relief and
began to mend at once He got we'll,
and we both feel lie owes his life TO
Thedford's Black Draught."
Thedford's Black-Draught will help you
to keep fit, ready for the days work.
Try It'll NC-13i
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
NO MORE PENSIONS.

1t seems to be pretty definitely set
tied that there is to be no
pensions after this war is over to the
soldier or their dependents Instead
a system or plan of life and accident
insurance is being worked out by
which the government pays certain
graduated amounts in case of death
in battle or in hospital from disease,
or disability of any kind incurred.
The arrangement provides literally
for the soldiers who go to war, and
for those dependent upon them. All
the details are being worked out, and
the measure will be enacted into law
at an early date. The old pension
system will not longer exist as here
tofore, n political asset on which the
Republican party grew fat for half n
century, and by means OF which it
largely and chiefly perpetuated its oc-
cupancy in control Of the government
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Children CRY
FOR FLETCHER'S
G a s O RIA
CHINA PRINTING PIONEER.

(From the London Chronicle.)
Those who believe printing to have
been invented in Europe during the
fifteenth century may have been sur
prised to read of Cambridge Univer-
sity having acquired "the works of
the Chinese philosopher, Liu Tsung
Yuan, printed in 1167"
China has been credited with an
ticipating not a few modern inven-
tions, but her claim to have discov-
cred the art of printing centuries be-
fore its adoption in Europe is beyond
dispute.
An edition of the most of the Chi
nese classics was printed by means of
wood blocks in 922 A. D., and NOV
able type is said tohavebeen a SIS
able type is said to have bsen de-
vised by blacksmith, Pi Shing, in
the eleventh century.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Experience the Best Teacher.

1t is generally admitted that expe-
rience is the best teacher, but should
we not make use of the experience
of others as well as our own? The
experience of n thousand persons is
more to be depended upon than that
of one individual. Many thousands
of persons have used. Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for coughs and colds
with the best results, which shows it
to be thoroughly reliable prepara-
ton for those diseases Try it. 1t is
prompt and cffectual and pleasant to
take.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
FARMERS ARE URGED TO GROW
MORE WHEAT,

Richmond, Va, Sept. Sin a re-
cent letter to the Virginia Council
of Defense, Secretary of Agriculture
ID: F. Houston, while expressing graf
ification at the large agricultural pro-
ducts of the country, deplores the fact
that more wheat was not raised, and
urges that the farmers make the COM
ing year banner one for wheat.
"rhe repsonse," he said, "of all
the agricultural agencies has been
tremendously gratifying. The farm
ers have done their part with enthu-
siasm and patriotism. and for the
most part. they were favored by ma
ture. The result is, as you know, that
in d large number of important crops
the nation this year will have ire
mendous yields.
"But, singularly enough, from u
military standpoint, we were fortu-
nate in respect to the very crop of
which we have the most immediate
and pressing needs. Wheat bread is
peculiarly the war bread, due to its
own special characteristics as well
as to the habits of European nations
with whom we are associated in this
war. 1t was not the farmers fault
that we did not have large wheat
crop. A large acreage was planted,
but there was tremendous winter
killing; and SO we have the very shoot
crop of last year followed by a short
! crop this year"
In speaking of price fixing regula-
tions, Mr.. Houston says:
81 speak of this because there may
be doubts in the minds of farmers as
to whether they will take too great
risk in planting large wheat
acreage next year. think that we
may agree that tn economic condi-
tions will be such as to assure wheat
producers normal and profitable re-
turn. Of course, this is left in the
hands of Congress, but it is clearly
the intention of that body that there
shall be for the 1918 crop guaran-
tecd price of not less than SO a bush.
ell
at is important, as / have said
that we have an abundant supply OF
wheat to satisfy our own needs anc
a large part of the need of Europe
from thi time at least to the end OF
the next wheat season. But it is also
very important that the suggestion
made shall be wise, and that we shall
not interrupt our large agriculture
enterprises in other directions, undul,
unbalance our agriculture, or under
take to do other things which are no
desirable from any physical point O.
view. Our problem is not merely on,
of wheat production. 1t is of neces
sity in no small sense a problem O
the entire agriculture of the Nation.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
THE BIGGEST MAN.


An intelligent and level headed
Democrat, when asked, "Who is the
biggest man in President Wilson's
cabinet?" replied without hesitation.
Hon. Josephus Daniels" He says,
take him all the way round and all
the way through, he has made good
and more, in one of the most i'm
portant and trying positions, and in
every contest with his enemies and
critics, he has "come out on top" He
has, according to this good citizen,
Presidential timber in his make up,
and it may be stated incidentally,
that Mr.. Bryan selected him for the
position, and put him where he is.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
CHECKING PRIVATE TAXATION
New York Worldly

The first question that the average
man Will ask in connection with Pres
ident Wilson's action in fixing II basic
price Of $500 Il bushcl for wheat is:
How will it effect the price of brendY
1t is reported from Washington
that the food authorities believe that
wheat ut $500 the price of fourteen
ounce lonf can be reduced to s cents,
but already the bakers have begun to
protest that it will be impossible.
Perhaps they will be less sure it is i'm
possible when the full power of the
Government is asserted. A basic price
of 81 for coal is also impossible, ="
but after the operators have done
with their grumbling they will come
to it or find that the Government is in
possession of their mines.
with the complaints of the farmers
we need not seriously trouble our
selves. The farm price of wheat at
the beginning of the war was 81 and
under. Even when the speculative
price was manipulated to $3.50 Il few
months ago, investigation showed the
farmers had not been getting more
than $l.6O, and most of the wheat
was sold far under that price. The
farmer who cannot profitably raise
wheat on the basis OF 1920 bushel
IN Chicago is Il poor farmer and had
better turn his activities in some 9TH
er direction.
The man to be considered at this
time is not the farmer or the miller O :.
the jobber or the baker, but the man
who works for days wages or week
~ salary. 1t is his back that the high
cost of living is breaking. In addition
to all the governmental taxation that
IS passed along to him, he is conrpell-
ell to submit to system of private
taxation that has never been sur
passed in the annals of eXtortion. Ev-
erybody who has to do with the ne
necessarles of life is trying to get
rich at his expense, and the burdens
cannot be borne indefinitely.
The head of one of the largest bak-
ing concerns in the country is quot
ed in the newspapers as saying that
bread is today the cheapest food in
the market" That may be true with
out proving that the price of bread is
not excessive. The bakers may be as
tonished at their own moderation in
view of what some of the other prac-
titioners in price-kiting are doing,
but the fact remains that the price
OF bread must come down, along with
the price of other necessaries. No
means exists for pyramiding wages as
rapidly as the cost of living pyramids.
The government is only at the be-
ginning of the use of its war powers
to regulate prices. There is no more
proper and legitimate exercise of
such power in time of national peril
than the stern restriction of private
greed.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
WHY SEED TREATMENT PAYS.

Over 1-2 per cent. of the wheat
crop and l per cent of the rye crop is
lost through smut.
Seed treatment through formalde-
hyde solution is practically 100 per
cent efficient except in few sections
where the soil is badly polluted with
smut pores.
The formaldehye treatment costs
less than 8 cents per acre for mater
iais and labor. To this must be add
ed in extreme cases the cost of 20
per cent of the seed grain, the GER
minating power of which may be de-
stroyed because of seed injury.
In every case the entire cost of the
treatment together with possible seed
injury is much less than the value of
the increased yield which il assures.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
WONDERFUL STUFF!
LIFT OUT YOUR CORNS
Apply few drops then lift corns OF
calluses off with fingers
No pain.

No humbug! Any corn, whether
hard, soft or between the toes, will
loosen right up and lift out, without
a particle of pa;:: or soreness.
This drug is called freezone and Is
a compound of ether discovered by a
Cincinnati man.
Ask at any drug store for small
bottle Of freezone, which will cost but
trifle, but is sufficient to rid ones
feet of every corn or callus.
Put few drops directly upon any
tender, aching corn or callus. In
stantly the soreness disappears and
shortly the corn or callus will Loosen
and can be lifted off with the fingers
This drug freezone doesn't eat out
the corns or calluses but shrivels them
without even irritating the surround
ing skin.
Just think! No pain at all, no
soreness or smarting when applying
it or afterwards. If your druggist
don't have freezone have him order
it for you.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
HUMAN ADDING MACHINE.

A child wonder. with unusual men
tai powers, has been discovered iii the
first grade of the Findley (Ohio)
school. He is Roy Folk, age six, son
of well driller. While bright in all
school work, he is a prodigy in math-
emat.cs. He knows the calender
by heart, and although asked some of
the most severe questions with re-
gard to days and dates never makes
a mistake.
If you tell him your age he can tell
In second the year you were born,
and if you give him the date of
your birth and ask him what day of
the week it comes on he replies at
once, correctly and without fail.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
LEMONS WRITTEN AND
BEAUTIFY THE SKIN

Make Your Beauty Lotion Cheaply
for your face, neck, arms and hands.
AT the cost of small jar Of ordi-
nary cold cream one can prepare q
full quarter pint of the most won
derful lemon skin softener and COM
plexion beautifier, by squeezing the
juice of two fresh lemons into a bot
tie containing three ounces of orchard
white. Care should be taken to strain
the juice through fine cloth SO no
lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion
will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is us
ed to bleach and remove such blem-
ishes as freckles, sallowness and tan
and is the ideal skin softener, whiten-
Grand beautifier.
Just try it! Get three ounces of
orchard white at any drug store and
TWO lemons from the grocer and make
up quarter pint OF this sweetly fra
grant lemon lotion and massage it
daily into the face, neck arms and
hands. 1t is marvellous to smoother
rough, red hands.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07

The Improvement of the health of
the nation will be an important by
product of the war The health of
the women will be improved and
thereby they will become more robust
by labor and occupations, which give
outdoor exercise and development of
the body. The health of the men,
who learn for he first time the value
of Il strong body, and also learning
for the first time, perhaps, that they
are not in good, physical condition,
and need the advice and treatment
of Observation-Disclosures worth all
they cost.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
High Prices and Sickness.

Nobody can afford to be sick with
the cost of living at the present
nigh mark. 1t is cheaper and more
sensible to prevent sickness than to
pay doctor bills. Take Foley's Honey
and Tar in time to check colds, stop
coughs and relieve crop before SER
lous illness attacks weakened con-
st!tution. Sold everywhere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Ugh! CALOMEL MAKE
YOU DEATHLY SICK
Stop Using Dangerous Drug Before
1t Salivates You. It's Horrible.


You're bilious, sluggish, constipated
and believe you need vile, dangerous
calomel to, start your liver and clean
your bowels.
Here's my guarantee! Ask your
druggist for SOC bottle of Dodson's
Liver one and take a spoonful tonight.
If it doesn't start your liver and
straighten you right up better than
ealomel and without gripping or max
ink you sick / -yant you to 60 back to
the store and get your money.
Take calomel today and tomorrow
you will feel weak and nauseated.
Don't lose days work. Takea spoon
full of harmless, vegetable, Dodson's
Liver Tone tonight and wake up feel
ing great. It's perfectly harmless, 80
give it to your children any time. It
can't salivate, so let them eat any
thing afterwards.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
IMPOSSIBLE"

Impossible" say the bakers, "to
furnish Scent loaf with wheat at
1920.
Impossible" say the coal dealers,
"to mine coal at prices fixed by the
Cove. .,ment.".
When these gentlemen como to
their senses and find that their bust
ness is to be taken over by the gov
eminent, they may find certain things
possible.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Safe Remedy for Children.

Chas. Baker, Brownsville, Texas.
writes: "For years have used Fol-
ey's Honey and Tar and found it
especially efficient for bad coughs of
my children. recommend it to my
friends as n safe remedy for children
as it contains no opiates. 1t is Ger
tain to bring quick, lasting relief"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
E ducation Made Possible
For All

Forum Training School is a
Four Year Agricultural High
School, and offers education TO
young people of small means.
Boys can work their way thru
and girls may have a chance,
also.
An unparalleled opportunity.
Write for catalogue.
REV. B. M. BECKMAN,
A. NJ, D. D., Principal,
Forum, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Never Bothered Since.

After suffering with terrible pains
IN his back for eigh years, and after
having tried doctors and medicines,
Alvah Souers, AIDE, Ind. writes: go
ley Kidney pills were recommended
to me and the first bottle removed the
pain. After taking three bottles the
bloating was all gone and has never
bothered me since" Sold everywhere
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
WORRY, DESpoRDEWcy.

men when patients complain of bac<aci,
or suffer with irregular urInation. dis.
turbed, too frequent, scanty or painful
passage. The general symptoms are rhell.
matte pains or neuralgia, headaches,
a tna1y spells, irritabilIty, dependency,
Is frequent cause and sometimes y
symptom Of kidney disease. Thousands
nave testified to immediate relief from
these symptoms after using DR.. PIerce's
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Will Be Repaid For Their Work.

Women everywhere suffer from
kidney trouble, backache, rheumatic
pains, swollen and tender muscles,
stiff joints. Mrs. C. J.. Ellis, sos 8th
ave-, Sioux Falls, S. D., writes: 81
feel sure if any oen bothered as I
was will give Foley Kidney Pills a
fair trial they will be repaid for their
work"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Head of the Public School System of
of Virginia.
Departments represented:
College, Law, Graduate, Medicine,
Engineering.
LOAN FUNDS AVAILABLE.
to deserving students. $1,000 covers
all costs to Virginia students in the
academic departments. Send for cat
alogue:
MILITARY TRAINING.
HOWARD WINSTON, Registrar,
June1-2m University,Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
A Valuable Health Hint

Foley Cathartic tablets keeps the
bowels open and regular, the liver ac-
tive and the stomach sweet. They
cause no pain, nausea or gripping. They
relieve indigestion, sick headache,
biliousness, sour stomach and like in
dispositions. Stout persons enioy
them, as they are son comforting and
helpful. Sold everywhere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
People Speak Well Of Chamberlain

II have been selling Chamberlain's
tablest for about two years and heard
such good reports from my custom
ers that | concluded to give them a
trial myself, and can say. that I do
mot believe there is another prepare
}tion of the kind equal to them," says
e. A. Mcbride, Headford, Ont. If you
Rre troubled with indigestion or con-
stipation give them a trial. They will
do you good.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Has High Opinion of Chamberlain's
Tablets.

e! have high opinion of Chamber
lain's Tablets for biliousness and MS
laxative" writes Mrs. C. A. Barnes,
Charleston, Ill. ~ have never found
anything so mild and pleasant to use.
My brother has also used these tab
lets with satisfactory results"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Great Faith in Chamberlain's Collie
and DiarrheOa Remedy.

"Chamberlain's Collie and Diarr-
hoea Remedy was used by my father
about year when he had diarrhoea..
1t relieved him Immediately and by
taking three doses he was absolutely
cured. He has great faithin this rem
ed" writes Mrs. w. H. Williams,
of Stanley, N Y
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
THE OLDER GENERATION.

Doesn't it strike you as disgrace
full the way young women are dis
playing their ankles 2"
"Ankles, granny They are going
,ut-now it's knees"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
Hardest Worked Need Helm First

e, Ue"t W .. hSu INcSu 1ItIP FIISt.
Through all the years the kidneys
are at work filetring out impurities
that poison the blood if permitted to
remain. Is it any wonder that they are
overworked and in need of help? Fo-
ley; Kidney pills are tonic and streng-
thening in action. Get rid of backache
rheumatic pains, stiff joints, sore
muscles. Sold everywhere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07

The Secretary of War is & Master
baker.'-Ex. The boys of the army
should not be without bread, there
fore, unless they attempt to loaf on
the job.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-09-07
DECIDEDLY.

Prue-l wish you would give me an
appropriate motto to put over my
booth Mt the Christmas bazaar.
Ted-The Lord loveth a cheerful
loser.