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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-02
Car Foreman Has
Gained 20 Pounds
Had Pains Around Heart That
Caused Him to Lay Awake at
Night and Would Be Afraid to
Go to Sleep.

| Wv w hANNPs
When J. A. Golliher, general
car foreman of the Illinois Cen
trail railroad, who lives at 8O8
North 18th street, Birmingham,
came into Jacobs Drug Store
and told about his remarkable
recovery, through the use OF
Tanlac, he added his name to a
long list of railroad men who
have come out and endorsed this
great medicine.
1--WE been a sufferer from in
digestion and gastritis, F" said Mr..
Golliher, 'for good many
years. My stomach was as sour
as vinegar nearly all the time
and my food would hardly digest
at all. Whenever | would eat
any supper | would nearly al
ways have to vomit it up and it
would be so sour that it would
actually burn my throat. / had
to be mighty careful what l did
eat and this kept me bothered
all the time, for / knew that |
would have to eat to keep my
strength and get along.
''Gas would form and my
stomach would swell up and give
me the worst kind of feelings.
| had a pain around my heart
that caused me to lay awake at
night. To tell you the truth /
was afraid to go to sleep because
l did not know what that pain
was caused from and / was a.
fraid that it might get serious
while was sleeping.
II began to lose in weight un-
til | fell off about twenty-five
pounds and simply felt bad all
the time. | kept right on work
ing, but | don't believe could
have stood any hard work. l
had several doctors to see me,
but nothing did me any good.
My condition kept me worried
all the time and especially the
pain sra nss ea1ts
Il saw in the paper one day
about a fellow who seemed to
have the same trouble that / had
and he said that Tanlac had
made a new man out of him, so
| bought a bottle and began on
it. Right from the first | felt a
change for the good, because /.
could eat and it would not sour
on my stomach and | knew that
| had the right medicine.
Il kept on taking this Tanlac
just as the directions said and
now have finished my seventh
bottle and am nearly back to my
normal weight. In fact | have
gained twenty pounds, which is
only about two pounds below
what | weighed before | had this
and | believe that | will
get those two before / get
through.
The pain around my heart
has disappeared altogether and |
feel better than ! have in a good
many years. / certainly do eat
4 plenty now and don't have a
bit of trouble digesting it. l
sleep just as sound as d baby at
night and get up in the mornings
feeling strong and ready for a
good days work.
/ am glad to recommend Tan
ac to anybody with the troubles
| had, for | believe it will cure
them if they will take it. | am
mighty glad | took it and am
glad to have this opportunity to
tell others of the benefit l got
from it. | honestly believe that
ranlac is the greatest medicine
that was ever brought to this
country.
Tanlac is sold in OkoIona ex.
.lusively by w. E. BEARDEN
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-02

Whenever You Need General Tonic
Take Groves
The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propertiesofQUININh
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. so eents.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1917-08-02
What is LAX-FOS
IAX.FOS IS an IMPROVED CASCARA

A Digestive Liquid Laxative, Cathartic
and Liver Tonic. Contains Cascara Bark,
Blue Flag Root, Rhubarb Root, Black
Root, May Apple Root, SIENNA Leaves and
Pepsin. Combines strength with pala-
table aromatic taste. Does not gripe. SOC
Notice of the First \ ang of
creditog ss.
In the District Court the Uni
ted States for the Northern
District Of Mississippi
In the Eastern Division in Bank
ruptcy.
In the matter of
R. F, Thorn, No. 2SO
Voluntary In
Bankrupt Bankruptcy.
To the Creditors of R. F. Thorn,
of Okolona in the county of
Chickasaw and Division and
District aforesaid:
Notice is hereby given that on
the 9th day of July A. D. 1917,
the said R. F. Thorn was duly
adjudged a Bankrupt; and the
first meeting of his creditors will
be held at the court house in
Okolona on the 14th day of Au-
gust A. D. 1917, at 9 o'clock in
the forenoon, at which time the
said creditors may attend, prove
their claims, appoint a trustee,
examine the Bankrupt and trans
act such other business as may
come before the meet
ing.
This the 1st day of August
1917,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-15

says. Look at what the people say.
DOUbtlessly you have heard Of the
mass meetings of the Socialist party
which strongly opposed such meas
ures as a war with Germany. War
is hell, " and their will be no glory in
such a war. Have the Americans
forgotten that at Yorktown, Oct. 10,
1881, Washington forced the sur
render of the British, under Corn
wallis, thus freeing this country for
ever from England's clutch. viii
there ever be a freedom of the seas
as long as England rules?
At the outset of the war England's
mercantile shipping tOtaled 12,OOO,-
900 tons. The toll Of GeTmany's sub
marine amounts already to 100000
tons Of the available English mercan-
tile fleet. Shall the American suffer
because Wall street is afraid it might
be stung on its ready supply Of am
munitiOn?-W r. P. Brand, 1920 N.
La Sale St.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-15

A CITY WITHOUT BOSSES OR
LANDLORDS. - After spending a
week in the Llano Colony of Cali
fornia I desire to place before the
public the inside workings Of city
governed by the people themselves.
The city of LlanO is located just
outside Los Angeles in Los Angeles
county. It was there that only a
few years ago Mr.. Job Hartman, a
prominent Socialist and lawyer, to-
gether with five other men, incOr-
porated a colony, bought 5000 acres
of land and started the present LlanO
Colony.
Gradually more men and families
Joined until at the present there are
nearly 1000 inhabitants who are
members of this colony. Every fam
lily has a home of their own and for
which there is no rent or money to
be paid.
The first of the pioneers work
built homes and cultivated the land
and at the same time were able to
plant in the first years 500 acres Of
fruit, which has more than $4,000
trees from which they expect to re-
ceiye the coming summer enough for
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-15

the needs Of the whole colony. be-
sides all these things, they have in
this short time of their existence
built up about IS different industries.
Naturally, at the present these in
dustTies are on a small scale. They
have also built a small number Of
public utilities, also places for public
amUsements, a publication Of a
monthly magazine and a weekly pa
per. They have cultivated thousands
Of acres of land and possess modern
farming machinery and large num-
Der different kinds of live stock. All
this put together has a value of about
S2,OOO,OOO and Of all this every mem
Der is an equal partner.
The working hours of Llano are 8
hours per day, as no shorter hours
can be made yet because there is
still a lot Of pioneer work to do, but
sooner or later this work will cease
and then they believe they will be
able to shorten the hours.
LlanO is located As miles northeast
Of Los Angeles, but, according to the
present methods Of transportation, it
means a journey of 80 miles to travel
from Los Angeles to LlanO. A new
gravel road is being built which will
shorten the distance.
Two miles before we reach LIanO
we can see already the good fruit of
cooperative enterprises and COM
binatiOn work. AS we get nearer to
the colony we see spreading fields Of
alfalfa fully grown, and further on
we pass hundreds of little houses ar
ranged in order which gives an i'm
preston Of a town with it's many
streets where little people live; these
are the hOneycOmbs; the colony pro-
duces 500 pounds of honey every
| week.
The climate of this colony is dry
D and the sun shines as it does in other
parts of Southern California every
DAY; a bright sunshine. There is no
| doubt as to the heaIthfUI climate, es-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29

Iably effected. The provisional government at
first represented the patriotic revolutionarles;
it's balance appeared to be in favor OF con-
servatism in procedure in erecting stable re-
publican form of government But the radical
forces of the revolution soon overturned the
first government, altered it's personnel and
changed its motives. Further efforts by the
socialists, or by such of that party as are en-
bodied in the workmen and soldiers council,
have resulted in the control of the provisional
government except as Kerensky's personal IN
fluence may be estimated as against yielding to
radicaism which would involve the country in
internal dissenson and remove its war eff
cheney.
Throughout the whole period of revolution
airy turmoil it has been asserted by Russia's
representative men, and the, statement is con-
irmed by Mr.. Root, that Russia is sound at
heart and that the people of the nation desire
a stable representative government. The
present crisis hinges on how far the provisional
government is representative of the wide pub
lie feeling. If, in addition to it's own internal
weakness it must face attack by strong men
who honestly despair of its ability to hold Rus
STA from present shipwreck outlook for it's
continuance is dark. Then comes the all-im-
portant question: Can the forces which seek to
overthrow what they call the domination of
Petrograd radicalism gather to them the real
popular support and strength of Russia? Can
they naugurate new and more representative
government? If not, their action is likely to
presage the breakdown Of Russia's stable gov
eminent for time and to remove her as a
fighting force in the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
A LIBEL ON HOUSEWIVES.

All this scolding of housewives about waste
and the innrmerable suggestions about house
hold thrift, emanating from the office Of the
national controller Of food at Washington, are
becoming very tiresome Given the cost of the
tons of printed paper used in all this wise or
otherwise foolery and this country could sup
port the Belgian sufferers for months. And
who reads the stuff? The sheets and ''pledge
cards. are flying about as so much waste pa
per, and they have yet to find anyone who pays
serious attention to them. There are in Keo-
kuk (and for that matter, in every city in the
United States) ninety-nine housewives out of
one hundred who in these times are forced to
view with an eye to economy whatever expendi-
lures tend to the satisfaction Of mealable ap-
petites. The other woman in the one hundred
would not economic under any circumstances,
despite the activities Of Mr.. Hoover and his
agents. It always has been popular to scold
the women for alleged kitchen waste. The best
Judge of economy in the home is the average
woman and not Mr.. Hoover, who probably is
as lacking in knowledge as to what goes on
during meal preparation hour though he
were non-eXlstent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
Dependent Families.

Burling ton Hawk-Eye: What con-
gress proposes to do for the families
Of the soldiers who go to the front,
seems fair and just. The provisions
are not extravagant, but in case
the high cost OF living can again be
subdued and brought into reasonable
bounds, there should be few needy
families. There would be no lux
uries, but the soldiers family would
be protected against want.
The plan is interesting and simple.
The private gets $33 per month. II
he has a wife and two children, ne
must give them at least SIS out of
his pay. That still leaves him more
than the soldier drew heretofore. The
government will add $3.50 to this
allowance, which makes $47.5O for the
family, which may be all that some
of them have been getting while the
bread winner was at home. Besides
the government takes care of the
husband, feeds and clothes him, so
that the sum that the wife receives
may be devoted solely to herself and
the children. The father can allot a
larger sum, if he so desires. There
are many other provisions which all
prove that the government will deal
fairly and justly with the families OF
the men who go to the front.
Furthermore it is proposed to in
sure each soldier. The cost will be
SIS per thousand, and at that rate even
private can carry $4,000 life insur-
ance, if he so desires.
The whole plan has much 30 COM
mend it. Pity it is that it was not
worked out, adopted and published
long ago. There would have been
many volunteers, if they had known
just how their families would be
looked after. There would have been
fewer men pleading exemption from
the draft, if they had known just
what the government proposed to do
for their families.
They did not want charity doied
out to their wives and children.
And it is to their credit that they
felt that way aboht it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
Talk happiness. The world has sadness
enough without your woe-Ella Wheeler
Wilcox.
RUSSIA'S DILEMMA.

It seems sfrom news dispatches from Mos
COW that the Russian provisional government
has to face serious menace in the protesting
forces there gathered The menace is the
more serious because this time it comes in part
at least from elements of national leadership.
Paul Miliukoff, Generals Brusiloff and A1exl-
eff and Prince Troubetskoi and others who
are mentioned as leaders in the Moscow
movement are neither professional revolution
aries nor pro-Germans, They were all OF
them at the beginning Supporters of the provi-
sional government and DR.. Miliukoff was in
the inaugural stages of the revolution one OF
its strongest men. President Rodrianko OF
the duma is the presiding officer of the ina
tional council and this gives to it at least a
semblance of official standing before the Rus
slams The protest seems directed at the So
cialistic control which has been established
over the provisional government rather than
at Premier Kerensky, and the contention that
at present the Russian people are governed by
Petrograd socialists is one that deserves at
tention in estimating the motives Of the men
who are now in opposition to that government.
Russia's dilemma is that is easily I'M
derstood. She has not the means at hand to
bring all her really representative national
parties into concert or to constitute an assem-
l,lv by which such agreement might be reason
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
a Warning to Business

in war are greedy for power. 1t comes
rather in response to popular sentl-
ment which can find no reason why
flesh and blood should be conscripted
and property exempted.
It ought not to be necessary contin-
ually to warn American finance ana
business that they are playing with
dynamite when they smother patriot
ism In swollen profits. The country
will not stand 1t. and whether the gov
eminent wishes to adopt drastic meas
ures or not 1t would be compelled TO
adopt drastic measures.
This war can easily leave the United
States with a gigantic experiment IN
state socialism on it's hands. 1t can
leave the government in full posses
sion of innumerable industries, with
no means of turning them back to prl-
vate operation. If that is what our
captains of business want, that Is
what they can easily get.
The sentiment that Is responsible
for the fixing of prices for soft coal IS
not peculiar to the United States IL
exists in every other country That Is
at war and is squirting every govern
ent on to new measures OF state So
cialism. Whatever differences may
exist among the great peoples OF the
world in respect to this conflict, they
have one opinion in common, which is
that private property shall not grow
fat while mankind in general is COM
PEELED to make the most staggering
sacrifices
If our own exploiters and profiteers
do not know that, they do not know
anything, and if they cannot restrain
themselves they will inevitably hnd
that ownership carries few rights that
government can respect.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29

New York World: Dazed by the
presidents action in fixing basic
price of 50 a ton for bituminous coal
at the mines, representatives of the
coal interests are complaining that
there should have been more mature
consideration of the facts.
While the process Of mature con-
sideration" was going on, the public,
as usual, would have been paying all
that the traffic would bear, on the
principle of the Illinois operator who
boosted that there is no limit. We
get all we can"
How far prices are to be fixed by
government in this war nobody can
say, but we are only at the beginning
of it, and the extent will be determir-
ed mainly by the attitude of produc-
|ers and manufacturers. toward the
public. What can easily happen is
that the government will not only fix
prices but that it will take over mines
and mills on an enormous scale and
operate them
No thoughtful man can regard this
as a welcome extension, of government
tai power and activity, but it is newt
able unless private greed begins to ex-
ercise discipline and self-restraint
War does not breed popular respect
for property rights. A conflict that is
destroying thousands OF millions in
property as well as millions Of lives is
not calculated to inspire tender feel
ings for profiteers and exploiters Of
public necessity.
The war powers that government is
|obliged to exercise over individuals
are so extensive that they inevitably
lead to the exercise of similar powers
over all material things. Nor does this
happen merely because. governments
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
THE CASTLE BUILDER.


built castles in Dreamand,
Ages and ages ago;
When the earth green and pleasant
And the skies all aglow,
When the birds were blithe in the branches,
And my heart light and young,
And the fervid picture of fancy
Quickened my brain and tongue.
/ built castles in Dreamland,
Ages and ages ago;
Hearing the storm wind speaking,
Hearing the waters flow.
I wove cables of cobwebs-
Out of the thinnest air
Temple and tower ] fashioned
And palaces passing fair!
Then was young and hopeful!
Nothing knew of fear,
And the clouds were wreaths of roses
That garlanded all my year;
Too! in the blooming orchards
Nature and l. were kin.
So built castles in Dreamland
Thinking to dwell therein.
Now am old and weary;
My pulse is slender and slow,
And the sky and the heart beneath 1t
Have lost their former glow.
And the castles built in Dreamland,
Ages yes ages ago,
Are all that l have to shield me
From the winters fury and snow!
Arthur Goodenough, in Sprinheld Republican.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29

throwing much dust, caused hi,
lose control of the car. He spss
a great deal from the accidar,
right ear being almost comm,
severed from his head, besides
on one limb and other bruises =,
the body. Two young men who
just passed heard the crash. and
turned to his aid, taking him IA
vaston where DR.. Runyon dre,
the wounds. Later he was brou
to his home in the Neville az
ments at Carthage, and he is
able to be about, but with a
stiff neck and sore head.
Jake Miller was riding nu.J
along in his buggy Sunday EVEN
delivering his weeks wash 70
laundress and when between
Catholic church and the Braken,1
residence. met Fred Chevillon In
Ford auto, and as they were pass
the Ford car turned Unexpectedly
suddenly into the buggy, throw
Mr.. Miller to the ground, bruis1
his whole left side, cutting a cash
his left temple and bruising his
badly below the eye. Mr.. Chevi1
was accompanied by his wife ]
baby son, who were in the rear 8
and upon his wife calling him to A
around at something, he turned
head and let the car go across
road. The baby, which was sit,A
beside it's mother, on cushion !
thrown from the car into the ~
and found to be sitting quietly
the same cushion, not having suSl
ed a single scratch. The Mil
buggy was broken up somwehat }
shafts torn loose from the rig. i
the horse went down the road AIN!
half block, stopped and lool
around to see what had happep|
The fender of the car was consid|
ably bent, but no serious results
any of the parties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl of Quincy ]
visiting the lady's sister Mrs. CHI
Hart.
Miss Dorothy Thomas of Angus
is spending the week with Prot. a
Mrs. S. d. Faris, and attending h
fair.
Thursday is Hancock County 81
Improvement association day at d
county fair. An informal gather]
will be held in the grove Just va
of the amphitheater on the d
grounds, where the members can Z
together and have an enjoyable hoV
A basket dinner is planned. Mr..
e. Metheringham of Camp Poi
president of the Adams County ass
citation. will talk for thirty minut
on The Work of the County Orga-
cation" The program will be CO.
pleted before the races start.
Thursday-Quincy and Burlingt
day-the big day at the fair. p
miums will be awarded on full bio
Clyde and English draft; Aberde
Angus; dairy breeds; standard ros
sters; grand champion all dai
breeds; sweepstakes draft horse
sweepstakes draft breeds; swec
stakes standard roadsters; M
standard roadsters; mares and ge
ings..
Thursdays races:
2:14 trot. purse $400.
2:20 trot purse $500.
Free-for-all pace, purse s400.
Three-year-old trot, purse $3.50.
Running one-half mile dash, pur
500.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29

keep learning there is nothing which reaches
mems hearts like talking straight out the convictions and
of your innermost soul. Those who hear you
may agree with you they not understand you
fully but something ncalculabe something VITAL passes
And as boy girl it is of the sorriest mis-
takes talk down to them; almost always your lad of
fifteen thinks simply more fundamentally, than you
do; accepts good coin is not facts
cepts but feelings and eonvictons-fe. And why
shouldn't we speak out--Davd Grayson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
Efficiency or stupidity?

Coon Rapids Enterprise: German
efficiency (?) Bosh. The allies have
not prated about efficiency, but are
making German efficiency look like
thirty cents, and by the close of the
war will make it look like a scrap
heap. If Germany's fleet was SO
very efficient why did it permit it.
self to be bottled up in the North
sea, and if the German army is so
very efficient why has it lost every
important engagement in the last
year and half And against an
army, as in the case of England,
which had to be trained and equip
ped! Why, General Lees shattered
southern army made a better record
than that against the greatest gen
eral Of modern times-he won some
battles the last year and half of
the civil war, and didn't blow ABOUT
efficiency, either. Instead of saying
German efficiency, say German stu
pidity. This is the way history will
record 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
CANNOT KILL 1T. .

After some weeks Of futility the Creel bu-
reau is abandoning its attempt to exercise an
affirmative censorship and the editors of the
country are to be left to their patriotic judg
ment regarding the manner in which they shall
handle such war news as comes to them. The
Creel bureau, however, is to remain in exist
ence. It's ''Offcial Bulletin" will continue to
use up good white paper, of which there is a
scarcity; and it's staff will continue to draw
their salaries, ranging from one dollar up to
large sums per year, together with sufficient on
the side for expense accounts. Once a bureau
is established under this administration, it will
continue to exist as long as funds are available
Ito maintain it, no matter whether it is Of value
to the country or not
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-29
An Exploded Theory.

Washington Star: There was ono
a coal baron who announced his col
troll of fuel by divine right" Blu
the price of coal will be government
ally adjusted, nevertheless.