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Middletown transcript., 1917-03-17

where the poults can run in and out
and find grasshoppers, green vegeta-
ton and other feed. The coop should
be moved to fresh ground every day.
Improper feeding and close confine-
ment cause many failures in turkey
raising. Given free range on the av-
erage farm, the poults can easily pick
up their own living. If there is little
or no feed outside the coop for the
poults to pick up, they should be fed
about five times a day, feeding only
small quantity at a time. A good
feed for the first few days is stale
bread soaked in milk and squeezed dry.
Corn-bread crumbs and clabbered milk
or cottage cheese is also quite often
fed and with excellent results. Green
feed and grit should be on hand at all
times. AS the poults grow older, the
ration should gradually be changed
to grain.
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Delicate Young Girls, Here Il
Advice For You'll

Baltimore, Md. can recommends
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription az
a wonderful medicine for women
When just turning into womanho0d1
at fourteen years, my parents saw !
needed medicine Of this kind. They
put me on 'Favorite Prescription and
it did all that I could expect. After
its use was stronger and better every
way."-MRS. MARY E. DOBSON, 120@
w. Fayette st.
Favorite Prescription can be OBJ
tained at almost any up-to-date drug
store, in either liquid or tablet form
1t has the guarantee Of 40 years BE-
hind 1t, and does not contain alcohSG
nor narcotics, but Ingredients are
plainly printed on the wrapper. I'm
tirely vegetable and extracted from M
tive roots and herbs. II not obtainablo-
at your Dealers, send $1.O0 to DE-.
Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y
and he will mail large package ~
tablets,
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five or thirty hens be kept, two toms
should not be allowed to run with them
at the same time, but one should be
confined one day and the other the
next. When two toms are allowed to
run together during the mating season.
they fight badly, and the stronger does
practically all of the mating.
Turkey hens are wont to "steal"
their nests in hidden places. Confine
the hens early some morning soon after
they have come down from roost, and
let them out late in the afternoon.
Those that are laying will then head
for their nests in order to lay the eggs
they have been holding. You can then
gather the eggs and set them to suit
your plans.
Turkey hens, chicken hens and in
cubators are commonly used to incu-
bate turkey eggs. About week be-
fore the poults are due to hatch, tur-
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CLEANLINESS OF CALF PENS
Use Abundance Of Nice Straw and Dig
Out All Manure Frequently
Calves Are Frisky.

The calf pen must be kept clean.
Use lots of nice straw, not putting it
upon lot Of fermented filth, but dig
out all manure very frequently and
add fresh straw almost daily. Calves
are so frisky that they tramp the
straw into the manure to beat every
thing.
Separator milk, tender clover or al
falfa hay, bran, oil meal, silage, shelled
corn, such feeds are the stuff good
calves are made of.
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MISTAKE IN FEEDING FOWLS
Giving Hens Red Pepper and Hot Con.
diments to Produce Eggs Is Like
Whipping Tired Horse.

Some, yes many, make the mistake
of feeding their hens red pepper and
other hot condiments to induce win
ter. laying.
The practice is generally bad, lise
whipping a tired horse to make him
pull or run fast when he is weak or
tired or hungry and needs to feel the
stimulating effects Of good feed rather
than whip.
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would help me, but Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has proved it
otherwise. l am now perfectly well
and can do any kind of work. Mrs.
NELLIE PHELPS, care of R. A. Rider,
RID. No. 5, Fulton, N. Y.
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
ters written by women made well by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's 8 Vegetable Compound.
If you have bad symptoms and do not
understand the cause, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for helpful advice given free.
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Real Luck.

At q club meeting recently South
side woman said to q friend:
"Mrs. Whatyoumaycall is the lucki-
est woman I ever knew"
Somebody leave her a fortune?"
the friend inquired.
mo"
"Then why do you consider her so
lucky?"
1.-THE other day she accidentally
knocked her percolator off the stove
and bent the pedestal"
"Well--"
"And yesterday, when she knocked
1t off again, the pedestal went back
into its proper position"
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Swearing Off.

"Why are you so strong for pro.
hibitiOn?
"Well," replied Uncle Bill Bottletop.
"a. country is good deal like an in.
dividual. After havin' had liquor with
out limit for a period of years, it's
mighty good thing to 60 without
for awhile e."-Washington Star.
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Cream Separator.

upper end of the cylinder is a small
tube. A screen extends across the
cylinders lower end. After inserting
the separator into the bottle to the
depth of the cream, the thumb is placed
over the end of the tube. The sep
arator may now be lifted from the bot
tie filed with cream, the screen and
suction combining to keep the fluid
from flowing downward.-Popular Me-
chanics Magazine.
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FRESH AIR VERY IMPORTANT
Make Sure That It Comes in Way Not
to Cause Draft on BOOSTING
Fowls-keep House Open.

Always be sure that there is chance
for some fresh air to get into the
house at night and be sure that it
comes in a way which will not cause
a draft on the roosting fowls. Until
it gets extremely cold do, not close
the house tightly.
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REMOVE CREAM FROM BOTTLE
Simple UtensiI With Which Cream May
Be Taken From Milk Bottle With
out Mixing Milk.

A utensil for removing cream from
q milk bottle consists Of a cylinder
about half the length of quart bot
tie and of diameter slightly less than
container. The device is held in one
hand, the index finger passing through
a small looped handle at the upper end.
Projecting from the otherwise closed
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Whenever You Need q General Tonic
Take Groves

Tho Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as Gen.
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. It acts on the Liver. Drives out
Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents
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Fresh, Clean Water.

A COW should have fresh, clean wa
ter. She should not be permitted to
drink from stagnant pond OR brook.
Clean, cool water in summer freshens
her and stimulates the flow Of juices
In the mouth and digestive organs so
that they functionate properly.
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Or Supervised Hockey.
II see they are going to teach swim
ming in the public schools"
Happy days. Spitball throwing will
be legitimate before they get through" :"
kansas City Journal.
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Prime Requisite for Eggs.

To get winter eggs one OF the prime
requisites is that the stock be hatched
at the proper time. Pullets make the
best LAYERS, but must be hatched early
or they will not begin laying before
eggs decline in price.
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SOOTHES ITCHING SCALPS
And Prevents Falling Hair Do Cutleura
Soap and Ointment.

On retiring, gently rub spots Of dam
druff and itching with Cuticura Oint-
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water using
plenty Of Soap. Cultivate the use Of
Cuticura Soap and Ointment for every
day toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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Well Fitted.

els dis where dey wants a boy?"
''It is; but it must be a boy who
never lies, swears, or uses slang"
"Well, me brudder,s deaf mute; I'll
send him round"
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impractical Estimate.

Father" said the small boy" what
Is a pacifist?"
"a pacifist, my son, is man who
thinks that war is rough form Of out
door sport that the police could stop
If they wanted to-"
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OF Course,

The big apples would never stay at
the top of the measure If there were
no little ones below to hold them up.
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Not Attracted.

"Some day you'll be rich enough to
retire from business"
Give up my nice, pleasant office and
stay homer" rejoined Mr.. Growcher.
Il should say not"
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Valuable in Ration.

While corn silage, oats, and bran,
are very valuable in a dairy ration
they do not make good feeds for fat
tening hogs and cannot be made into
good ration.
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Hasty With His Gun.

Hasty With His Gun.
New Dentist Qn Frozen Dog)-Will
you take gas?
Bronco Bill-Will it hurt much If ]
don't?
New Dentist-It will.
Bronco Bill-Then, stranger, fol
your sake I reckon I'd better take it.
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receive no beneht,
when so many have
proved that Lydia
E. Pinkham's 8 Vege.
table Compound d
will make them
we'll? For over q
year I suffered 80
from female weak
ness I could hardly
stand and was
afraid to 60 on the
street alone. Doc.
tors said medicines
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NEVER HAD A CHILL
49, rnIrS.. TVYVTD n RTU

After Taking ELIXIR BABEK
"My little daughter, 10 years old, suffered
nearly q year with chills and fever, most Of the
time under the doctors care. I was discour-
aged and friend advised me to try Elixir
Babek. Igave 1t to her and she has never had
, chill since. It completely cured her." Mrs.
Cyrus Helms, 3O2 E St., N. E., Washington, D. @.
Elixir Babek 50 cents, all druggists or by
Parcel Post prepaid from Kloczewski Co.,
Washington, D, @.
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Oldest Marble Quarry.
Vermont's oldest marble quarry,
opened about 1895, still Is being op-
Grated profitably.
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Not If He's on Time.

"Don't you miss the noise and hustle
Of the city, now that you live in the
country"
"Not If catch my train to town.
Browning's Magazine.
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A single application of Roman Eye Bal.
sam upon going to bed will prove its mer
it by morning. Effective for Infamma'
tions Of the Eyes, external and internal.
Adv.
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Willino.

"You said you'd 60 through fire and
water for me-"
"Show me a combination of the two
and I will"
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Oldest Marble

Coated tongue, vertigo and constipa-
ton are relieved by Garfield Teas-Adv.
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DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 40 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.-Adv.
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wriehts Indian Vegetable Pills contain
nothing but vegetable ingredients. which act
gently A. a tonic and purgative by stimu-
lation and not by irritation. Adv.
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Aversion.

AVERSION.
'Do you object to a man who eats
onions"
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. Il
very much dislike any ostentatiOn Of
wealth."
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ALIENS F00T.EASE DOES IT.

When your shoes pinch or your corns and bum
ions ache get Aliens Foot.Ease, the antiseptic
powder to be shaken into shoes and sprinkled In
She foot-bath Gives instant relief to Tired Ach-
Ing, Swollen, Tender feet. Over 100000 packages
are being used by the troops at the front Sold
everywhere, 25c. Don't aecetf any snbstftwte.-Aov
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If a self-made man brags about 1t
there is something wrong with the
Job.
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French textile experts have devel-
oped a method Of printing silks by
color photography.
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WHAT IS
LAX F0S

LAx.F0S IS An IMPROVED cAScAM
A DIGESTIVE LAXATIVE
CATHARTIc AND LIVER rome
LAx-Fos is not a secret or Patent Msdb'
cine but is composed of the following Old
fashioned roots and herbs:
CASCARA BARK
BLUE FLAG ROOT
RHUBARB ROOT
BLACK ROOT
MAY APPLE ROOT
SIENNA LEAVES
AND 2EPSIN
In LAx-Fos the CAscARA is improved by
the addition of these digestive ingredientx
making it better than ordinary CAscAaA,
and thus the combination acts not only as .
stimulating laxative and cathartic but als0
as digestive and liver tonic. Syrup lax.-
tives are weak. but LAx-Fos combines
strength with palatable. aromatic taste and
does not grippe or disturb the stomach One
bottle will prove LAx-Fos is invaluable foe
Constipation. Indigestion or Torpid Liven
Price SOC.
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The bee is never too busy to admin
lister a stinging rebuke.
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woman COULD
HARDLY STAND
Restored to Health by Lydia
E.Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
filffflfjlIti{fiEfI

Fulton, N. Y. 'Why will women
pay out their money for treatment and
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To Teach Farm Life,

~ tCoSu tb .isSs
1t Is proposed in North Carolina to
require all rural schools to teach farm
life.
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Take care Of your health and wealth
will take care Of you. Garfield Tea
promotes health.-Adv.
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CABBAGE PLANTS !ss% Esop psa!gressa ssn "a

open at YounQ's Island Genuine Frost Proof, Early
medium and late varieties your own selection. S20(
per 1OOO close prices on large quantities Our guar
antee with every order Enterprise Co.. Sumter, g.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
CASTE AND THE MOP.
Kind Of Clea ner Americans Must Max,
For India Trade.

Kind Of Cleaner Americans Must Make
For India Trade.
Seattle, Wash.-Caste among the ma
tives of India has a serious effect on
the mop market. This is one Of the
observations made by Charles Dupuy.
salesman for the manufacturer Of a
patent mop, who has returned from a
three years tour Of the orient and A.
RIGA.
The mop which Mr.. Dupuy vends
may be used for cleaning the wall or
cleaning the floor. In India, however.
it can be used for but one Of these pur-
poses. The sweeper who cleans the
stone floors of the dwellings squats on
his launches and Yields rude broom.
raising considerable dust. When bro
ken away from this 2OO0-year-old habit
he takes kindly to the patent mop.
But the native servant who dusts the
walls Will not touch the mop used by
the sweeper. who is inferior in caste.
In order to get around this custom,
Mr.. Dupuy sold three cornered mop
to the sweeper and round mop to
the duster. The buster in this way OBJ
tanned an article Of different appear
ance to the sweeper's, and unpolluted.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
OYSTERS ON TREES.

Grew After Branch Had Found lts Way
to Bottom Of Bay.
Patchogue, N. Y.-Oysters do grow
on apple trees.
Where?
Not in the wonderland" of Lewis
CAROLS creation, or in the land the
other side of the looking glass. or in the
land of the billowy smoke clouds. but
right on Long Island.
To be more specific, oysters grow on
apple trees in Great South bay, and If
there happens to be doubling Thorn
as in the audience let him come to
Patchogue and be convinced Of the
wondrous discovery.
The branch is on display in the win
dow of an East Main street sea food
dealer.
It might be added that the oysters
that grew on this apple tree grew on
it after the branch had in some way
found its way to the bottom Of the
bay. The branch bears no leaves, but
it does bear clusters of oysters number
ing about three dozen fair sized ones
and many seedlings The branch Is
about three feet long
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
SEE PELLAGRA PERIL
IN HIGH COST OF FOOD
United States Public Health Serv-
ice Fears Effect of Un-
balanced Diets.

Washington.-Fear that high food
prices by unbalancing diets may lead
to q wider prevalence Of pellagra in
the United States during the year is
expressed in bulletin issued by the
public health service.
"As a result Of government research
es," says the bulletin, lit was found
that pellagra is produced by an insult
fcient, poorly balanced diet. The ap-
plication of this knowledge greatly re-
duced pellagra during 1916 as COM
pared with previous years. It's feared,
however, that pellagra may increase in
1917 by reason Of an increase in food
cost out of proportion to the prosperity
now enjoyed by this country. The
high cost of living has served to bring
about q reduction in the amount of
milk, meat. eggs, beans and peas con-
sumed, all of which are pellagra pro-
phylactics. In effecting economies the
general public should bear in mind the
importance of properly balanced diet"
Almost $4,000, 100000 was the aggre-
gate value of all crops of the country
last year. The exact value was set at
$S,934 ,587 900, an increase of $2,165,-
9S0, 900 over the value of the 1915 crops
and $780,, 100000 over the average of
the years 1910 to 1914.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
WOMAN NAMED AS CLERK
TO SENATE committee
Miss Simpson Will Handle Treaties
With Foreign Governments.

Washington. Miss Jessie L. Simpson
became the first woman to hold the po-
sition of clerk to senate committee
when Senator Stone appointed her to
that post for the senate committee on
foreign relations, to succeed w. r. Hol-
lister, who resigned several weeks ago
to become assistant secretary Of the
Democratic national committee. Miss
Simpson becomes at the same time Sem
ator Stones secretary. She was for
merly assistant clerk.
Miss Simpsons new position is in
many ways the most responsible Of all
senate clerkships. as she will be in in
innate touch with the work Of the COM
mittee, which has more confidential
and secret matters intrusted to its care
than any other. In her hands will be
treaties with foreign governments
pending before the senate and much
other information Of q delicate nature.
Miss Simpson was born in Illinois.
but has lived in St. Louis most OF her
life. Senator Stone brought her to
Washington after she had shown un-
usual executive capacity in the Champ
Clark headquarters in the preconven-
ton presidential contest in 1912. She
will be the second highest paid woman
in the government service. as her sal
airy Of $4,000 a year is exceeded only
by that of Miss Julia Lathrop, chief OF
the children's bureau of the depart
ment Of labor. who receives 5000.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
LODGED 595 TRAMPS.
Farmer Adheres to Custom Established
by His Grandfather.

Farmor Adheres to Custom estabIishod
by His Grandfather.
Allentown, Pa.-Not all the tramps
are spending the winter at the Berks
and Lancaster county almshouses, &C.
cording to reports made public by Hen
ry Heft, farmer near the town, who
since the first of the year has provided
lodgings to 595 tramps in his barn, an
increase of fifteen tramps over the
same period last year. Only one wo-
man was given lodging.
Near the barn is q fine grove, and
during the summer good many sleep
under the trees. Here Heft has pro-
vided fireplace, and in wash boiler
they made their coffee. Heft never
gives them a full meal, but If they
agree to do their own cooking he often
hands them potatoes, -four. salt, pep
per and other necessaries.
Mr.. Heft says it has been the custom
Of his father and grandfather to pro.
vide lodging to the tramps and that for
the hundred years that the farm has
been in the Heft family no tramp was
turned from their barn and that they
never had any trouble with them.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02

0AsS>es
all over the United States, Canada and
from many European cities. Commits
sioner Woods some time ago sent no
tees to the police headquarters Of ev.
cry city in the country suggesting that
copies Of their finger prints be for
warded here. In the notices 1t was
stated that the department possesses q
very large collection of records Of GRIM
inals who could be located only by
means of finger prints; that these came
from all over the world and that If its
records were forwarded the depart
ment would offer its finger print serv-
ice to them without expense. In many
cases these notices were sent to the
sheriffs of what is popularity known as
zone horse towns" In this manner the
departments finger print bureau has
become a sort of clearing house for
other police departments in the coun-
try. The bureau is In charge Of 1nspec
tor Joseph A. Faurot.
The impressions are classified accord
ing to "whirls," 'loops," 'arches" or
.'deltas." The prints are carefully filed
and indexed according to their charac-
teristics. In q large room in the base
ment of headquarters the actual finger
prints are taken. Printers Ink Is
spread by roller on the surface OF
glass table. The ink is smeared on the
fingers of the prisoner, and the finger
impressions are then taken down on
paper. All of the fingers of both hands
Of the prisoner are taken.
The police after exhaustive studies
have been able to learn much about
finger prints. The system is based on
the fact that every human being has a
distinct and individual impression
which differs from that of any. other
person. It has been ably demonstrated
that no two finger prints are alike.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
WRONG At BOTH ENDS.

Legss's Hair Too Red For His Girl;
Feet Too Flat For Uncle Sam.
Chicago.-His hair is red, and his feet
are fiat, and therefore neither husband
nor hero may he become.
A girl turned down Albert p. Legge
of Waukegon. ILL.,, because of his GRIM
son top piece, and this brought about
such a condition Of disconsolation that
he betook himself to the recruiting sta
ton of the United States marine corps
in this city and offered himself as
fighting man.
The surgeon had no fault to find with
his red hair, but when he got to the
other end Of Legge-his feet-he said
officially:
You have been standing on them too
much. The arches of your feet are too
low to Withstand service hiking"
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
FINGER PRINTS AID
They Help Greatly In the Solution
of Crime.
EXCHANGE SYSTEM FOUNDED.

New York City Has More Than 10000
mprsssions-8ursau In Charge Of
inspector Faurot-Evsry Human Be.
ing Has . Distinct and individual
Mark.
New York.-The work Of the bureau
Of criminal identification at police
headquarters has been greatly enlarged
and brought up to date. This is espe-
cially true Of the finger print depart
ment, which today is recognized by the
police as the best and surest method Of
making criminal identif1cations. Al
though the Bertillon system is still in
use by the department, it has to
great extent been superseded by the
finger print system.
The department has collection of
more than 10000 finger Impressions
of individuals. These prints came from
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
TO MAKE HENS LAY.

People More Interested In Eggs Than
Freight Rates, Says Mr.. Sunny.
Observation-Disclosures ownership
of hens was declared to be more time
ly than federal ownership Of railroads,
telephone and telegraph systems and
other utilities by B. q. Sunny. presi-
dent Of the Chicago Telephone compa-
ny, in an address in the University
club.
THE average person is more inter-
ested in the price Of eggs than he is
in the regulation Of freight rates or
the telephone or other utilities" de-
clared Mr.. Sunny.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
FEARS HE'LL BE CRAZY.
1ruton Wants to Find Some Way to
Stop Counting Razor Strokes.

eruton Wants to Find Some Way to
Stop Counting Razor Strokes.
Moultrie. Ga.-Edgar r. Bruton of
this city says that he is afraid he is
going crazy if he doesn't find some way
to stop counting strokes of his razor
when he shaves.
If he cannot devise some way to
break the habit, he declares. actual
madness stares him in the face.
Several months ago he decided that
he would see how many strokes it took
to shave. He counted, shaving in his
usual way. and found that he used too
many. Then he set about systematic
ally to reduce the number. Counting
each time he shaved and eliminating
the useless strokes, he managed at the
end of few months to cut the daily
operation down. But now he has found
that he can't keep from counting.