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Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10

Let's make this pay as we go" war. In other
words tax Incomes corporation profits profits manu-
factres ETC. We conscrpt the young of the nation
to fight battles why conscrpt the dollars of the
nation and make them pay for the war?
Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10
Patriotic Speaking.

Prof +, o. Clark and w. j. Baird, Of
Berea College, will speak at the Court
H. use on Thursday May 10, at $50 and
1880 p, M, on "How 10 Meet the Vi ar Cri.
SIS with Agriculture
Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10
ingredients:

IIIV UUVVV 10 q UVoV IVI q IVV-
pound pig, and the dosage may
pc increased or decreased accord
ing to the size of the animal.
The pigs are starved for IL hours
previous to giving the remedy.
The medicine is thoroughly stir.
ed in a small amount of grounC
feed, and the dose repeated il
| ten days.
Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10

WANrED-From half pint to a pint Il
sunhower seed. l.. I. HovERMALE.
Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10

Keep your hogs free from
worms by giving the following
Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10

Blank deeds for sale at the
Courier Office, 5 cents each.
Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10

We have oil leases in stock.
Licking Valley courier., 1917-05-10

Subscribe for the Courier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

"No, should advise them not to lose
minute but 90 about buying their furnishings
as soon as possible. Why, even with prices as
they are now, one could make an apartment
very attractive without putting oneself into
bankruptcy by so doing"
Making ones own furniture Of soap boxes
and barrels?' suggested
"Not bit of it." said Letitia. Lets think
about it for a minute. Wallpapers are still
normal, if you want to repaper. One could
carpet the apartment throughout with that
natural wool velvet carpet or one could use
mating in the bedrooms if one preferred.
Mating hasn't gone up much as yet, and if
one doesn't care for it in the natural color it
can be stained any shade that one desires with
thin stain such as is used for wood. A few
good Oriental or Chinese rugs can sometimes
be bought at fairly reasonable prices if one
watches the sales.
"For over-draperies there is that soft, silky
poplin, or the cotton rep, or armure, all Of
which can be lined with Saline to give them
more body. The sash curtains can be Of cheap
net or sundour in soft Tone
GAS for the furniture, one could spread ones
self to the extent of davenport and two or
three comfortable stuffed chairs, covered in
chintz; or, if one could afford it, in the velvet
which we found at one shop for SO per yard
For the rest, one could use plain painted furni-
inture on which one might stencil quaint de-
signs in color-a good occupation for the long
winter evenings.
$50, you see, things aren't so awfully bad
after all, and by the looks of the crowds in the
shops business doesn't seem to have been hurt
an atom by the war. | heard man in the
train say that thirty thousand millonaires had
been made in this country in the last two
years and that means at least thirty thousand
houses to be furnished, doesn't it?
NOW is THE CHANCE FOR THE REAL
AMERICAN STYLE
"The only thing that really troubles me
about the whole situation" Letitia went on,
sis the fact that there seem to be no new ideas
in the decorating line. There is no new fad or
fashion, no revival Of any one of the old style.
doubtless they've all been exhausted done
over and over, and often overdone! There
seem to be no new materials or colors in the
market and nothing new in furniture.
"In other words, we are 'runnin' emptin's',
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

wholesale prices, but the retail price remained
the same. There were few exceptions in the
case of some of the imported papers, for in
stance. Letitia's favorite English Eltonbury,
a paper with lovely texture, which comes in
beautiful soft tones and makes an ideal back
ground. This formerly cost 81 per roll and
it is now $3.50. And when the present stock
is exhausted it will be impossible to get any
more.
"Not bad 50 far" said Letitia as We came
away from the last wallpaper shop. Our
walls can still be covered, and that's good
start. Now for the floors"
But floor coverings were quite different
proposition. 1t was the same story where
ever we went. Carpets had advanced ire
r,erJouslv in price. There were different
estimates of the average rise in prices but the
consensus of opinion was that 40 per cent
was q conservative estimate. velvet carpets
have gone up a great deal more than this IN
some cases to 100 per cent or even more
The common, plain ingram carpet, which
was used for filler" or background for rugs,
is almost extinct; we found it in only one shop,
and its price had gone from 81 to $l.5o per
ward. There seems to be nothing to take Ns
place except a carpet of natural WOO! velvet
which we found in one of the department
stores. This comes only in the one color,
dark brownish-grsy, and costs Sl.4O per yard.
Common Administer carpet, which sold for
81 per yard, now costs $2.95.
In one of the carpet shops we we're again
oiven over to the tender mercies of an Irish
salesman, whose outlook on life was anything
but cheerful.
"Sure, things1l be much worse before they're
better" was the burden of his song.
"But there must be some sort Of carpet
that is cheaper" said Letitia. What do poor
people put on their floors nowadays"
"Nothin' but their feet num-" the man
replied.
II is the same with rugs, both foreign and
domestic. No Oriental rugs are coming in,
and the prices of those which the dealers
have on hand have been raised accordingly
The call for Chinese rugs has been so great,
owing both to their present popularity and to
the scarcity of the other Oriental rugs, that
thew also have advanced great deal IN price
Notwithstanding the fact that the carpet
men shook their heads and deplored the Sit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

and all that we can do is 10 use what really
good things we have in the most interesting
way that we can use them and hope and pray
for original ideas,
"And who knows but that by the time
the war is over we may not have evolved a
purely American style Of house decoration
which will be as artistic as anything that the
French or the English or the Italians have
given us. This is our great opportunity; it's
the best thing that ever happened to US; We
are thrown absolutely 'on our own so to speak.
and it's up to us TO make good.
81 knew that there was a silver lining TO
that black cloud with which you greeted me al
the Grand Central Station, and this is it.
only it's gold instead of silver; golden oppor.
tunity, and we must get busy and seize it
Who says that this is going to be bad sea-
SON."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

poplin in beautiful soft tone, shihii, ribbed
material Of cotton and silk, and armure,
fabric woven in diaper pattern.
There are cheap American cotton prints
which can be used instead Of the expensive
imported linens. The prices of these range
from 25c to $1.50 per yard. Some are good
copies of the designs of the imported fabrics,
but, of course, being cotton, the wearing quail
ity is not the same.
The simple little nets and muslins which
are used for sash curtains have also advanced
in price, though not so much as the other cot
ton materials. Silks have increased enormous
". Even those made in China and Japan, ow-
ing to the increased demand for them, have
gone up in some cases 100 per cent
The question of furniture is the same. The
increase was given by well-known dealer as
averaging so per cent. Strange as 1t may
seem, there is not much difference IN the ad-
vance in the case of upholstered furniture
over the plain wooden pieces, except Tor the
higher cost of the materials used for cover
ings. The labor conditions are the same among
upholsterers and the men who finish the WOOD
en- furniture.
Cane is a material that is practically out
Of the market 1t is impossible to get any
more. so the French beds with cane head and
foot boards are out of the question, as well
as chairs and sofas with cane seats.
"If hear of young couple of moderate
means who are contemplating setting up
housekeeping" said, 81 shall advise them to
board"
KEEP ON BUYING, BUT BUY WISELY
(Which is mighty poor advice" said Letitia,
"for boarding is not cheap by any means these
days, and, as our Irish friend said' things are
going to be much worse before they're better
SO far as furnishings 60.
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uation, the carpet department of every shop
was crowded with customers.
Letitia commented on this fact "The ad-
vanced prices seem to make no difference In
your trade" she said
"Not a Bit" the salesman replied, I'VE are
doing more business this season than we have
done for several years"
'How do you account for that" | asked.
"Merely that people are beginning to re-
alize that the prices are going to keep on ad-
vancing and what seems exorbitant to-day We
will look back upon few months hence as
a bargain price. Cotton is getting higher all
the time; the government is taking more and
more wool for army blankets and coats and
so on; labor is getting higher, dyes aren't
being made fast enough as yet, and the cost
of transportation is advancing adj the time
So my advice u.s. Buy it now And | guess
by the looks that the majority Of people feel
that that is the thing to do"
From carpets we went on to the question
Of drapery materials, and we found that there
had been the same advance in these Velvet
headed the list with an advance of 100 per
cent, and cotton prints, reps, chlntzes and all
the rest had all gone up from 20 per cent to
so per cent. A good many of the English
and French printed linens are still being i'm
ported, notwithstanding the U-boats, but the
cost of transportation, with the high rates of
insurance and other incidentas, is so great
that the prices charged by the retailers for
these goods are almost prohibitive.
SOME DOMESTIC DRAPERIES ARE
REASONABLE
Velvet being out of the question for over
draperies, we looked about for a substitute.
We found various materials in silk and cot
ton in prices ranging from SIPS to sl.65 per
yard. For instance, there was cotton rep, a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

never had any training in card cata-
Logging.
The same ladies rush away to take
a lesson in canteening when canteening
is largely thing of the future; then for
an hours lesson in telegraphy or book
keeping or some other thing which to
be usefully done requires careful and
special training.
All of this scattered energy and effort
can be put down as wasted
When we go to war we do one par
ticular thing and do it we'll
Poor work, unframed work, is dis
couraging to the person who does it and
hinders the trained workers.
The ounces of energy which have been
thrown to waste may be saved by fixing
on one task which you are convinced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
YMBOLS OF SUGGESTIVE OUNCE OF ENERGY

YOU know or could learn, and doing that
with all your might.
This is the only way for women to DO
really useful in this war.
The organized societies, the Red
Cross, Woman's Committee, etc., should
put above their desks placard reading:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

needed in the raising of money, in the
stimulating of interest and industry in
their own ranks.
If it was to help the poor woman to
make more out of her food that they
were interested, their energy should
have been used not in going among
them themselves, but in employing peo-
pie who were fitted for the delicate task.
The ounce of energy has often been
wasted by women in their attempts to
do things for which they had not had
training.
If you want to get the full horsepower
out of your energy you must know how
to do that thing you undertake.
Unframed women rush in an hour
day, breathless and Debated, to work
on a card catalogue when they have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

f----ccr-es------~l WAO WIFI 4CSiiiiSS -
!: !. J. !" !. !: ]: !.
y ioy and sorrow that / went to
\ ] Il the station to meet Letitia. Joy
\ 81 at the thought of seeing that
I interesting little person again
Vs. and sorrow over the fact that |
IlE6SSk-J ii should be obliged to throw cold
water on her hopes for the
.'ming season.
For who" said to myself, twill think OF
doing anv furnishing with the war going on
and the prices of everything soaring to the
skies? Letitia would better have stayed IN
Des Moines rolling bandages and hiiing Pill
lows for the Red Cross"
She was the first person to alight from tne
train. She looked the picture OF health WIN
cheeks as brown as her khaki-colored gown
and eyes as bright as its brass buttons. ~
did one good 10 look at her, she was SO BUD
bling over with vitality and enthusiasm. But
alas, the greetings were scarcely over before
she looked at me with quizzical little uplnE
ing Of the eyebrow and put the dreaded queS-
ton.
well, how's busness?"
"You NAV as well know the worst" an
swered "ThereIl be absolutely no business
in your line until the war is over. All kiiiuS
Of furnishings have gone up in price, SO 'h"'
only the mult-millionaires can AFFORD thehi'
and the outlook is simply d0tutF
To my utter surprise, she threw back hei
head and laughed. Jobs little comforter,
she said. But are we downhearted? we
are not As soon as can get my luggage
deposited on my doorstep we will sally 1orth
and look into this a0tDd state of things
We may discover a silver lining somewhere:
One thin? is certain, am not going out OF
business and Furthermore l am going to have
the best season that l have ever had just
you watch"
WALLPAPERS ARE NORMAL, BUT
CARPETS AND RUGS SOAR
An hour later we started on tour OF IN
vestigation. We went to all sorts and con-
ditiOns of shops where furnishings were solo,
from the exclusive speciality stores uptown 70
the big department shops.
We began with the wallpaper dealers, ana
TO my amazement we found that the prices
Tor the most part had not advanced at all
The, dealers in many cases had raised the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
SHOPPING LIST
Wallpaper

Wallpaper
Domestic Papers.
Henry Bosch Co., 4s5 Fifth Avenue.
A. L. Dimant G. Co., 1Ol Park Avenue.
English Eltonbury Paper.
W. II. S. Lloyd Co.. los West Fortieth Street.
Carpets
Natural Wool Velvet Carpet.
Stern Bros, West Forty-second Street.
Ingram Carpet.
B. Altman Co., Fifth Avenue and Thirty.
fourth Street
Draperies
Cotton Prints.
John Wanamaker.
English Printed Linen.
Proctor & Co., West Thirty-sixth Street.
Velvet. Especial, at So per Yard.
Lord & Taylor, Fifth Avenue and Thirty.
eighth Str~v,.
Nets and Sundours.
B. Altman & Co.
Stern Bros.
Furniture
Upholstered Furniture, Davenports and Easy
Chairs.
Lord & Taylor, Fifth Avenue and Thirty.
eighth Street
W. A. Hathaway Co., 81 West Forty-hfth
Street.
Painted Wooden Furniture.
Erskine- Danforth Corporation, West For
ty-seventh Street.
W. A. Hathaway Co.. 81 West Forty-fftA
Street
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

In this matter of the ounce of energy
women should study themselves.
Excited and interested, we often put
as much strength into asking a bit of
commonplace information over the tele-
phone as we do in holding conference
requiring the utmost concentration and
strength of purpose.
We tear bandages as if we were
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rushing a wounded man to the nearest
hospital.
Perhaps we do the simpler thing with
greater dissipation of force.
When the great need comes only thd
steady controlled nerves can hold.
Energy, which is one OF the greateSs
elements of our personal stock in trade,
should be used certainly with as much
care as we use our horses or our cars.
Every ounce should be saved as wa
are disciplining ourselves to save every
ounce of bread
1t is as truly weapon of war as
bread or powder.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

L1SesSs= ounce of bread Is the
,rncp of energy. The wastage of
roman energy since the war broke out
has been almost as great as the before
var wastage of bread.
True, il has been based almost en-
-irelv on the desire to serve, a passion
40 determination to contribute some
hing to the solution Of the terrific prob
ON. but merely the desire to do the use
pl thing never yet brought about use
full results.
Taken as a whole. the women of the
country flung themselves into action as
soon as war became certainty, with
ant clear idea of whether or not what
-sev did was the thing needed. Fever
ish. energetic, and frequently ambitious
70 be leaders, they fell to doing every
thing that was suggested-everything
that they could hear that women in
France and England were doing.
The problem IN this country 1or
women can never be quite what it is in
Europe. That is, it can never be until
we are actually invaded. To be doing
the things that French and English
women now are doing is to run ahead of
the game-to give up energy which
ought to be focused on the actual need
Food is our great emergency, and
gardening has been the order of the
day; but the energy that has been vast
ed in putting in bits Of land that never
have before been cultivated, where
crop will never grow to be harvested, is
obvious all over the country.
What pitiful demonstration of
wasted energy has been the ploughing
up of Fairgrounds and lawns, while on
the outskirts of every town, and fire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

quently within its limits, were vacant
lots and fields! In one town know of
the interference Of the highest authori-
ties was necessary to stop the frenzy
before the children lost their hardly won
places to play and the sick their gardens
in which to lie and sit.
The problem of the garden had not
been thought out. There was no study
of the relative value of the use of the
particular piece of land. There was as
little attention given often to the ques-
ton of the fitness of the volunteer gar
dener.
What a sorry waste Of force for
tired-out librarian who has but two or
three weeks vacation a year to dedi-
cate it to wedding on farm, when in
the interests of the community she
serves she should be lying in hammock
on a mountaintop or sitting in the sand
on the seashore.
A pathetic and aggravating wastage
of women'S force has come from under
taking tasks for which they were not
fitted and in which they could not hold
out.
We have had focks of fine ladies TAX
ing a dozen lessons in cooking and then
going out into the industrial quarters to
teach women who have been cooking all
their lives how to prepare food and how
to- save.
And this they have done without hav-
ing undertaken a campaign in their own
homes, where waste, ninety-nine times
out of a hundred, is great. They went
to'people with the fimsy little tale for
which they had been coached, and the
chances are understanding almost moth
ing of the actual conditions in working
quarters, not realizing that the larder
contained precious little that was not
used, though it might not be used in the
best possible way.
If the working people of America are
to be helped in the use Of food which
they can buy it must be by teachers who
come to them with thorough under
standing of their situation and needs,
and not by those who fit down from
points of leisure and ineXperience.
The energy that went into this mis-
directed effort was needed in the house
holds of the women themselves. 1t was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
By ELENE FOSTER

T WAS with mingled feelings of
10Y and sorrow that | went to
the station to meet Letitia. Joy
at the thought Of seeing that
interesting little person again
and sorrow over the fact that |
should. be obliged to throw cold
water on her hopes for the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
SAVE YOUR ENERGY

Do not ask for work for which
YOU have had no training, in which
you have had no experience.
Ask for training.
Do not disturb us by changing
your task.
Stick to the thing that you have
undertaken or leave us for those
who will stick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
By IDA NJ. TARBELL

HE ounce of bread Is the
emblem Of material waste.
It means the food Of our
armies and our allies. Not
less important than the
ounce of bread is the
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-12-21
BIGELOw AND VICINITY.
The Most Important Local Eveats
Which Have Transpired The
Past Week.
(By George A. Conawsy.)

Robert Brown visited the week
end with friends In st. Joseph.
j. Il. Slater was a passenger TO
st. Joseph, last Sunday noon.
Grandma Hunt Is visiting with
relatives In Forest City, this week.
Frank Walker was ,transacti>y
business In Oregon, one day last week.
Bro. Martin, Of Forest City, held
services at the Christian church last
Sunday evening.
Mrs. 7. J. Bridgmon and dsugh-
ter, Miss Dorothy, were shopping In
St Joseph, last Saturday.
&C. s. Mckee was In st. Joseph,
one day, last week, buying new Christ
mas goods for his many customers.
Jake Hill has moved his restaur-
ant into the Larrabee building and has
rented his residence property TO Mr..
and Mrs. Charley Mallon.
Harry Haigler and Fred Gresham
are feasting on California fruit this
week, q treat from Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Hinkle, Of Lamoore, Calf.
Among the passengers to- Mound
City, last Saturday morning, were
Mr.. and Mrs. s. w. Skelton, Mrs.
Ethel Osborne, Mrs. Joe Dodson, Mrs.
Iva Pcddycoart and daughter, Cleva,
Mrs. Chas. Mallon and Miss Cleo Le-
san.
j. H. Bennett was passenger to
Cameron, No., last Saturday evening,
where he Joined his wife, who has
been visiting with her sister. Mrs.
Stevens, for several days. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bennett returned home the first
Of the week.
Coke jackson 10 in Fort Sill this
week, visiting with his son, Sergeant
Robert jackson, and the rest Of the
Bigelow boys. Mr.. jackson wanted TO
see how the boys were getting along
down there, besides visiting with. his
son, Robert, fof few days, and when
he returns we hope to be shle to get
him "a. give " complete report Of
the camp. A.
-Thsrs was large crowd from
Arkansaw neighboshood and quite .
number from here, attended tne fun'
eral Of Sovereign Fnnk Cooper ut
Craig, last Sunday afternoon. eoy-
srelSn Cooper was about - yeetS old
and had been . msmbsr u BleeloY
Camp No. SSrfor the pest II ysarS,
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-12-21

soft corn farmers have not been in
esy hurry about getting their- corn in.
OAe. or two farmers In this neighbor.
hood have finished. II y reported
Lqt Brown and son have two thousand
b9sAAla 70 gather. The !slsvstor y
plying ti.lS for ths hest grade u
\ -RSed 0ysrSssf Nathan Adams has
the approaches 70 all tbs bridges Ia
Ais district IN extra goed shape. and
says just>as seoa'as hs can ct time
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-12-21
and in his death the lodee ha, lost one

and Ia his death the lodge has lost one
Of IL most influential members and
he will be missed by the fraternity,
who mourn with his many friends and
relatives In his taking away.
-Fhymsss - busy gathering corn,
whom tho weGahss 10 moi TOO cold. On
account ef thopoxkreme -seld. Weakhee
last week not much corn was gathsr.
I'd, but with nSodefatluG weathsr con.
ditious 'ths> work viii begin aSAin IN
real earnest On account of % much
The Holt County sentinel., 1917-12-21

We noticed the following Ore
gonians in st. Joseph, last Saturday,
Visiting with Santa Clans: Mrs.. Lee
Greene and daughter, Ethel, Mrs. w.
s. Hodgin and daughter, Blanche;
Misses Ethel" Kennedy LUCILLE Psachsr,
Ruth johnson. .Haxsl 1uchsr, Rsv.
Hand, wife and son, Robert; Albert
Kunkel and sons; Mrs. Minta Lynch
and daughter, Rsvst Mrs. Tom kyeer,
Nrs. Nollis Baker, 1ys. James Kelly,
and Charley Thompson and fsmily.