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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
GUSHING JOHN DARLEYC0RN.
Joplin, Mo-, Forbids Use OF ln.oxicat-
inn [ liquors 10 Certain Employec5.

ing Liquors to Certain Employees.
joplin bears the distinction Of being
the first city In Missouri to adopt the
commission form Of government, says
the American City. With efficiency
and progress" as a slogan, the com
lnissioners have entered upon num-
Der of new policies, one Of which is the
recent edict forbidding the use Of in
toxicating liquors by employees of GER
tain departments.
Under Joplin's municipal organiza-
ton the mayor is the head Of the police
and fire departments. In line with his
authority over these departments, he
has issued an order forbiddlng police
men and tiremen to drink alcoholic
beverages, either in or out of working
hours. In short, policemen and fire
men must part company with John
Barleycorn or give up their positions,
TO make the order more emphatic it
has been announced that the mayor
will revoke the license of any saloon
which sells these employees liquor.
The order has not been received with
entire complaisance, five firemen, who
think that their rights have been in.
vaded, having resigned, but the ma
jorlty have approved the measure.
The other commissioners have been
asked to cooperate with the mayor in
their respective departments, and most
Of them assure him Of their support.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

State Of Ol,o, City or Toledo, Lucas
County, SIS.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner OF the firm OF +. j,
Cheney & Co., doing business In the
City of Toledo, Couty and State afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Cattarh
that cannot be cured by the use Of
Halls Catarh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9Th day of De
cember, A. D. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
(Seal.) Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system
Send for testimonials free.
r. ]. CHENEY & co, Toledo, 0.
Sold by all Druggists, TIC.
Take Halls Family Pills for constl
patton.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
AMERICANS PLANNING
BEAUTY IN WAR AREA
Offer to Aid In Restoring Devastated
Regions on New Lines.

Ambassador JuSscrand has forward
cd to the French and Belgian govern
ments unique offer on the part Of
American students to aid in rebuilding
the devastated regions Of those coun-
tries as rapidly as the Germans are
driven back.
The plan is to send "eity beautiful
units of architects and engineers to
Europe to reconstruct the ruined NUM-
cipaDtics along model lines in order
that the war zone In France and Bel
GUM may emerge as one Of the most
beautiful regions in the world.
Dr.. Edmund James James, president
of the University Of Illinois, brought
the offer to Ambassador Jusserand.
The university at Urbana-C Champaign
Oh July / will open special city plan
ming school to train professional men
for service in these units.
Each unit, DR.. James explained, will
consist Of an architect, a landscape
architect, an electrical engineer, a high
way civil engineer. municipal and
sanitary engineer chemical engineer
and an economist. The training school,
which will combine special courses of
the universitys school of architecture
and its various engineering schools,
will teach the cooperation necessary
to make the building units effective,
The course will last six months, at the
end of which time it is hoped to send
the first units abroad. Many profes
sional men are already enrolling fol
the training. Dr. James said.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
An industrial Building.

4 special committee of nine citizens
representing The banking, manufactur-
ing, retail. insurance ard real estate
interests the past month began work
ia Danhury Conn, iowa iornla.
tioD and incorporation of IN / rial
company and the erection Of a sU.,-
able industrial building or buildings.
The new and definite undertaking In
the industrial interests of Danbury has
the backing Of the Danbury chamber
Of commerce ana Of many business in
tcrests of the city. The plan is to
make the new industrial company in
very truth Il community affair and
give all who 50 desire IN opportunity
to help In this new industrial move
mcnt The incidental expenses Of the
committee of nine are to be paid out
Of the general fund Of the chamber Of
commerce, with the idea that after the
Industrial company is reality the
chamber will be reimbursed.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
CHATTER XVI.

Adorec nemorcst. still in her glitter
ing, hybrid costume but heavy-llmbed
and dull with Fatigue, paused outside
her own door early tlAt morning. The
time lacked perhaps an hour Of dawn,
the street outside and the building
itself was silent. yet from Adoree's
pnrlor issued the sound of light fingers
upon piano keys. Adoree entered. to
find Campbell Pope, with collar loos-
cned aud hair on end, seated at the in
strunent. The mir within the room
was blue and rocking with the odor
of stale tobacco smoke, and the ash
receiver at his elbow was piled high
with burnt offerings
Pope rose at Adoree's entrance. eying
her anxiously as everything all right?"
he cried.
as what all rlght?'
The---er-Lorelle."
"Oh yes! What are you doing herey'
II suppose must apologize. You
see. came here to wait and--and
help"
'You decided to--hclp?' Adoree
eyed the disheveled musician quecrly.
"You've helped to break MY lease
III be thrown out Of this house sure
Pope stammercd. guilty, II was
playing for Bob and Lorelei"
With one glove half off, Adoree slow
~ seated herself. showing In her face
an snmazement that increased the
mans embarrassment Pope took a
deeper breath, then burst out:
"Oh, have sixty-horse power
Imagination, and II seems to me TINT
music Is a sort of-prayer; anyhow. It's
the only way know Of praying. Good
music'is divine language. In my own
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
St. Auqustine Niuhts.

BY night Qn st Augustine you may
hear the negroes sweeping the streets,
doubly darkling over their surface and
softly gosslping together Theirs are
not the only black voices you hear
for their casual race seems to have no
more stated hours for sleeping than
eating. Their mellow murmurs, espe-
cially when the nights are warm, rise
IL what seems perpetual joking, as If
from their humorous pleasure ut being
alive together In the same amusing
world, and if you have no worse con-
science than the takers their voices
will lull you again to the slumbers they
have broken. 1t Is as if swarm of
blackbirds carrying news Of the
spring northward had swept chuckling
through The trees and fluttercd the fans
of the palms and the leaves of the
mngnoias with such comment in their
course as would naturally occur tn
blackbrds. w. ID. Howells III Harper s
Magazine.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

CHAPTER XXIIl-Campbell Pope
determines to bring l.orelei and Bob
together again and calls on Adoree
Demorest with his plan. With her
help he succeeds.
He looked down at her queerly for
moment. The breed is rotten. If he
had married a decent girl"
John Merkle says she is splendid"
''Iow do you Know
II have talked with him. | have
learned whatever | could about her,
wherever could and it's all good.
After all. Bob loves her, and isn't that
enough"
'But she doesn't love him." stormed
the father "She said she didn't. She
wants his money. and she thinks sheNl
get it this way"
'D0 you think money can pay her COR
what she Is enduring at this minute?
She's frightened. just as was fright
ened when Bob was born. She's sick
and suffering. But do you think all
our dollars could buy that child from
her? Money has made us hard, Hanni-
bal: let's-be different
"l'm afraid we have put it off too
long" he answered, slowly ''She
won't forgive us, and Pm not sure |
want her to-"
"Rob's in trouble. Won't you go to
him."
T. nnibe Whs IN cord his l"T,
closed the.A: theo takl@ us hat Ana
coat, he left the room.
But as the old man went uptown
his nerve failed him. He was fixed in
his ways, he had blind faith In his
own infallibillty. Twice he rode up
In the elevator to his sons door, twice
he rode down again Hannibal settled
himself to wait.
During the chill, still hours after the
city had gone to rest an automobile
drew up to the apartment house; when
its expected passenger emerged from
the building a erim-faced stranger in
a greatcoat accosted him. One glance
challenged the physicians attention,
and he answered:
Eyes, it's all over 4 boy"
Sand Mrs. Wharton, the mothcrT'
youth is a wonderfEl thing, and
she has everything to live for. Sic is
doing as well as could be expected.
You're a relative. ] presumeF'
The old man hesitated, then his
voice came boldly. Eyes, I'm her ia
Their"
When the doctor had driven away
Hannibal strobe into the building and
telephoned TO the Waldorf, but now his
words were short and oddly broken
Nevertheless they brought a light OF
gadness to the eyes Of the woman who
had waited all these hours.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
EVERY MARRIED COUPLE

and oil who contemplate marriage should own
this complete book Of 1ife-The Common Sense
Medical Adviser" by II. Y. PIERCE NJ. d, 1t
uniolds the secrets Of married happiness, so often
revealed too late No book like II to be had at
any price. zoos rlgcs-bound in cloth. Sold
formerly for $3.50. We can only mention few
of the chapters here The Mechanism Of Life
History OF Marriage Advice for Mother and Babe
Nervous Troubles Sex, Hygiene, Anatomy, Physi-
ology, Medicine, etc.
Special Ofior.-For limited time we will send
one copy for three dimes to pay cost of wrapping
and mailing, 20 any reader OF this paper. Address
663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
The Polar Bear.

The polar bear is pretty formidable
brute. A specimen of this species has
been killed weighing 1000 pounds and
measuring nearly thirteen feet from
nose to tail. The strength Of the polar
bear Is beyond belief. One was seen
feeding on the body of white whale
fifteen feet long and weighing at least
three tons. The whale Had been drag
ged by the bear out Of the water on to
the Ice.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
Civ PIa,lrine

Flint. Mich. the city of Niagara FAILS,
n. Y, and Charlotte, \. G., are three
cities that have arranged recently Tor
comprehensive civic surveys ana city
1lous. These plans will cover the es-
sential physical features of the CITY
location Of principal public buildings
mark system. etc. John Nolan OF Cam
bridge. Mass Is preparing the plans
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
Her Tactful Way.

MY husband simply VIII not discuss
money matters with me. Every time I
Try TO talk orr financial affairs with
aim he loses patience with me-
THAT so? Possibly y0u 50 at him
the wrong way
Not al all J Simply begin by telling
MIN that shall have 10 have more
r.olcy to run the house."
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

Advertisements Will be inserted in this
column not exceeding five lines, one
time, IL cents; threo tlmes. - GEMS, o',o
week 80 cents. Each llne over hVe' ~
cents per week additional
An advertisements in this column must
be paid in advance.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

In some parts Of northern Arabia tht
hills are SO we'll stocked with bees That
no sooner are hives placed than they
are occupied
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
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ward.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
Classified Advertising

WANTED Girls for Mattresses; good
wages. Apply at the Colonial Choco-
late Shop.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
Professional Cards
N. N. ARMSTRONG.

Attorney at law, 210-2l1 Moloney
Bldg, Ottawa, Illinois. Telephones:
Office, 375-W. Residence, 312-Y.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

FOR QUICK RESULTS TRY THE
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TRADERJOURNAL.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
Wanted

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at the Starved Rock Hotel
WOMEN WANTED--Full time, salary
SIS, selling guaranteed hosiery to
wearer; 25c an hour spare time. Fer
manent; experience unnecessary.
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town Pa.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR.
THOUSANDS IN ILLINOIS,

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womans tonic the druggist recon-
mended DR.. Picrce's Favorite Prcscrip-
ton. | took it steadily. | gained in
weight and strength and my health was
so much improved that have not needed
any medicine of the kind since. | am
glad to speak words Of praise for Favor
tie Prescription "--MRs. VIM. STRlCK-
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OUR FAMILY DOCTOR.
Lockport, H." Some ten years ago /
sent for copy Of the Common Sense
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on. They are part of our family doc
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State St., Lockport, Ill.
For all diseases peculiar to woman,
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If you are a sufferer, if your daughter,
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11
FARES TO CHICAGO Ill.

$3.50 Weekend Excursions
every Saturday and Sunday, also on
Decoration Day Fourth Of July aud
Labor Day sl.50.
Every Day Fares.
Round Trip 10. One Way-$l.oO.
Round trip .iokets limited to ten
days via Joliet. H., Chicago Il joliet
Electric Ry.
QUICK DELIVERY ON FREIGHT
Low Rates
WELLS FARGO L, vESA
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

CHAPTER XXIII-Campbell Pope
determines to bring Iorelei and Bob
together again and calls on Adoree
Dcmorest with his plan. With her
help he succeeds.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

FOR SALE OR RENT-A strictly
modern eightroom house on Illinois
avenue. Also three furnished rooms,
web located. For further particulars
call on or address VIM Jamison, 100
LA Sale street, Ottawa, Ill.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-11

(TO re CONTlNUED)
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21
Home Preparedness

path that will be of value in later years.
 The average back yard is 30 by 30 First clean 1t up. Get those ashes III out of the cellar, and if there are nc paths about the yard use some of the ashes to make them.
 Be sure the paths are straight Trenches should be dug along the paths eighteen inches deep to secure drainage away from the house if pos sible. The soil thus found can be scat. tered about the yard and used to fill Impressions.
 Put in these trenches the stones. broken bottles, bits of brick and crock cry that may be found. Leave the trenches in this condition until the soil is dry for spading, where the good beds are to be made
 The spade should be driven deep and the soil broken fine in turning it over. All the stones found should be tossed into the drainage ways.
 Before the garden is spaded give it a good covering of manure and see that it is turned under the soil Then rake well, making the soil as fine as you can. This should be done in sec tions six feet wide across the garden, So that tho anil will mt ba pocEad down again by tramping on it.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE.

Electric power plants in Great Bri- tain now number 276. Dried orange and lemon peel are good substitutes for kindling wood Traces of copper are found over almost one-third of the area of Chile.
 Glycerine applied to glass stopper of bottles will prevent them sticking
 Steam driven motor omnibuses that use coke for fuel are being tried in London.
 A California inventor has patented curved shears for cutting corrugated metals.
 An Italian has invented holder for boiled egg that clamps to the side of a plate.
 A new rack for several tooth brushes is covered by box that protects them from dust.
 Brazil has prohibited the use of pre- servatives in almost all kinds of foods and beverages.
 A new spirit level for use in dark places is equipped with dry battery incandescent lamp.
 Paper machinery belting. as we'll as cordage and yarn, is being success fully made in Ausria.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

WASHINGTON, April 21. Now that we understand what can be done with the back yard garden, the next question to take up is how to do it to get the most out of our labor. If everyone with a back yard should plant garden in it the result would ing.
 The city man has an hour or two in the morning or an hour or two in the afternoon after dinner. The exercise will be just what he needs, for he will be getting back to nature. The outlay is small for the returns it will bring.
 With little care, here are some of the vegetables that can be raised in back yard garden if the instructions are followed:
 Beans cabbage, parsnius. cauliflow- CT, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, peas, beets, carrots, radishes, asparagus. It will be seen that in this list are vege- tables that are commanding record prices right now.
 With prices the way they are, every available foot of ground should be made productive. In the work the interest of the children should be en- listed for they can helD and in helD- ing their minds will be directed in a
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION.
 No. C 120.
 SUMMONS.

Lakona Copper Company, Corpora
 tion, plaintiff, vs. J. L. Harper and
 Ora Harper, defendants. The President of the United States of America, to the Defendants, J.
 L. Harper and Ora Harper: l You are hereby required to appear in the district court of Alaska, Third division, within thirty days after the date of the completion of the publica- tion of summons, and answer the com plaint of plaintiff herein, which alleges that you have violated the terms of a certain contract, lease and bond en- tered into between you and the plain tiff herein, and asking that said con veyance, lease and bond be set aside and annulled, as will fully appear by the plaintiffs complaint which is ordered served upon you.
 And unless you do appear and an- swer the complaint of the plaintiff herein, the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief asked in said com plaint.
 Date or order of publication the 7th day of April, 1917.
 Witness: The Honorable Fred NJ. Brown, Judge of said Court, this Eth day of April, 1917.
 (SeaD ARTHUR LANG,
 Clerk of Said Court c. M. Frazier, Attorney for Plaintiff.
 First publication, April ', 1917.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

Followers of swimming are watch ing the progress of George Shroth, o Sacramento, with considerable inter est, many believing that he will soon CT or later develop into one of the aquatic stars of the country. Shroth who is only seventeen years old weighs 209 pounds and stands six feet three and one-half inches. The young Sacramentan only lately has begun to learn the fine points of the crawl and even as a comparative novice at the stroke, has managed to finish sec. ond to Norman Ross, the Olympic club star, in number of recent sprint events.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

Far western shooters made an ex. cellent showing in the recent inter. city indoor range tournament All four of the teams entered finished in the first division. Twenty teams par tieipated. The shoot was won by Portland, with twenty victories and no defeats. The Olympic club of San Francisco was second, with eighteen victories and two defeats. Spokane fifth, seventeen victories and three defeats, and Seattle sixth with fif- teen victories and five defeats. The scores given out are final but unof- ficial.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21
No. 124. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION


 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION. Mary Diffley, Plaintiff ys. Mark Diff ley, Defendant. The President of the United States to the Defendant, Mark Difflev Greeting:
 You are hereby required to appear in the District Court of Alaska, Third Division, within thirty days after the completion of the publication of this summons, to-wit: within thirty days after the 18th day of May, 1917, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff herein which said complaint is one praying for a decree of absolute di- vorce upon the grounds of desertion, cruelty and non-support, and which said complaint prays for aIimony in the sum of fifty dollars per month. and unless you so appear the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. Date of order of publication, April 9, 1917.
 Witness the Hon. F. NJ. Brown. Judge of said Court, the 9th day of April, 1917 (SeaD ARTHUR LANG
 Clerk of Said Court. Frank H. Foster, Attorney for plain tiff, P. o. Address, Mccarthy. Alaska.
 Date of first publication, April 10, 1917.
 Date of last publication, May 1G, 1917.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21
SPORTS Gossip About Events of National Importance and the Persons Who Are In the Head.
 Liner Classes.
(By Associated Press)

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21. - Will liam Johnston, former national singles tennis champion, says he will go east this year and endeavor to regain the title of which he was deprived by R. Norris Williams.
 "The date of my departure from San Francisco will be decided by the Pa cific States Association" says John ston, and in difference to the policy of the national body, it will be post poned until as late as possible"
 The former champion may play In the Southampton, l.. l., tournament, an event held prior to the national. It is his plan to concentrate all his en- ergies to the titular matches.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

It is reported that the Carstens Packing Company will erect one of the most complete cold storage plants in Alaska at Anchorage sa the near future.
 David Sabin, an old.timer in the country, was found dead in his cabin on Ladue creek, near the boundary. He had been dead for some time when found Death is believed to have been due to natural causes
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

At a recent meeting of the house committee on mines and mining held at Juneau, it was agreed that no changes would be made in the mining laws of the territory at the present session.
 Printing of all kinds at the Times office.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

The Butte Anglers Club, considered one of the livest clubs of fishermen in the northwest, has completed plant ing 750,OOO fry of the quinnet salmon variety in streams adjacent to Butte. This is the first year that salmon fry have been distributed in larger quan- titles in Montana streams.
 Last year the club membership was 1000. This year the officers hope to increase the membership to 5000. The dues are $1 year, the money ob- tained being used to stock the fish ing streams.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

The Fairbanks Commercial Club re- gently adopted resolution urging the chairman of the territorial house com. mittee on education to push house bill No. 9, providing that the territory shall appropriate 75 per cent of the cost of supporting the schools in mu- nicipalities.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-21

"The Bobcats" the basketball team of the Montana State College, which competed recently in the national championships at Chicago, is given credit of being the undisputed cham. pions of the far west The team has played twenty games this season and has met with only one defeat This single reversal came at the hands of the Illinois Athletic club, which won the national title. Among the victims of the Montanans were the champion teams of the state of Iowa and Michi. gan.