davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Ripley County democrat., 1917-04-27
CORN CULTIVATION
In Periods OF Drought Any Cultivated
Crop Can BE GREATLY Benefited by
Continued Cultivation.

kNaticaot Jfep IMPROVEMENT SffTiar.i
1t is a debated question whether
or not the mulch conseryes moisture,
but a shallow cultivation surely does
XIII the weeds and any farmer wlo Isl
energetic enough to Kill The weeds
win get the best crops. There Ii stfli|
time to plant barley ahead Of yo,r|
corn. Don't allow an acre to lay va
cant this year.
AMOUNT or SEED CORN.
fNatisnri Crop Improvement ssnies.l
From twelve to fifteen cars Of seed
corn are required to plant an acre. All
corn snould be terminated right now
IN oruer to test it's vitality and you
should throw out every weak ear Yen
san ind. It will NOT ray you 70 plant
aoor corn this year.
u
Ripley County democrat., 1917-04-27

ROUNDABOUT THE STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges Made BY the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
ma, Some Credited. and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.
soon have another car ready fol
shipment. Democrat.

soon have another car ready foj
shipment. ALTON Democrat.
Since the decision Of the Su.
preme Court was made, uphold
ing the raise in passenger ant
freight yates. the Public Utilities
Commission at Jefferson City has
announced that the increase
would not become effective unit
such investigation is completed.
The Rev. +. M. Finley, Metho-
dist minister Of West Plains, has
been given a years. leave OF alb
sence from his duties to supervise
the construction of an air craft oil
which he is the inventor. He
will go to New York where a
large manufacturing firm has a.
greed to build two OF the airsbips,
one to be ready for trial within a
year.
G. A. Crane, the Mayor Of Dex-
ter, got on a drunk last week and
when he got sober published a
card in the papers admitting he
had made a fool of himself and
had decided to resign bat on sec-
ond thought concluded he would
not but would stick it out and
show the peopleo of Dexter that he
could be a good officer and stay
sober, anyhow until his term was
out.
The children Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Steinhoff, holive at Jack.
son, Cape Girardeau county,
were recently playing with mat.
ches. The clothes Of Ben, a3
year old son caught fire, and be-
fore II could be extinguished was
burned SO badly that IL died three
hours later. The mother in her
frantic efforts to extinguish the
burning clothes Of her baby wasI
also painfully burned on the arms
and hands.
Saturday, 18th instant, just
about midnight, fire was discov-
cred in the East st. Louis Cotton
Oil Company plant at Caruthers.
vile, and practically the entire
plant was destroyed, entailing al
loss Of fully s30O,000, largely
covered by insurance. Whether
he mill will be rebuilt is purely
problematical. The weekly pay
-oll Of the company amounted to
about $500 or 81 900 which will be |
'elt sorely by the employees.
An upstate exchange tells Of
/. farmer who just recently sold
iis wheat for St.75 per bushel
Ind gave the entire check to his
wife, who had gone almost the
,ntire winter in very shabby
,lothing. As he passed the piece
II pRper over to her he remark
ID, .'Now get yourself some de-
tent clothes.' "Not on your
ife," said the wife, who was q
roung, handsome and well put
Up young women, "I'm going t.
0 gat me some like the other wo-
men are wearing"
Mrs. Alex Horton, whose hus-
,and runs store at Redd, at
empted to take her own life and
hat Of her two years old child, /
Saturday. Mrs. Horton has
,eeu In poor health for some time
md become mentally unbalanced
She took the child to the garden,
md stripped itof its clothing and
attempted to pour carbolic acid
lown its throat; but the child did I
lot swallow the acid and suffered
'nly o badly burned mouth. She
hen went into the house and se-
ursd q razor with which she at
empted 10 cut her throat. She
ucceeded in inflicting a number
i ugly gsshes about her throat,
~. ..z..< ...,...> lan.. o.s,S.x<st. -
Ripley County democrat., 1917-04-27

Over in Cape Girardeau count,
they are talking about issuing
u 81, 900, ,0O0in bonds forthe purpos
Of building good roads.
The jackson Cash Book las
week remarked that 81. JF Rus
sell would make q mighty goot
man in the nextY s. Senate"
The U. 3. government has CIV
en- orders TO a Kansas City lum.
ber dealer for $1,000, 900 feet ol
lumber, the lumber to cost ap-
proxi.uately s4O0,000a
Over az Kennett tie city author
tiles have issued an order for the
enforcementof an ordinance pro-
hibitiag fowls from running at
large on the streets Of the sity.
c. H. Hickey, Of near Centra-
Iia, recently sold 125 chickens
from his flock for more than
$1,000. Several Of them were to
be uasd for exhibition purposes.
It's stated that applicants for
loans through the Federal Land
Bank Of st. Louis total 81, 49,
900, OF which amount S654,37o
are asked by-citizens Of this state.
Iron mines are to be developed
in Wayne county, a corporation
with capital Of 100000 having
been organized for that purpose.
Ii has title to $4,000 acres of land
near Greenyille and Williams
vile.
A Cape Girardeau county far
mer has 235 hens which laid 1920
eggs in ten days. This was only
d small fraction over four and a
fourth eggs for each hen during
then ten days-equalling SO doz-
en-. He sold tile eggs for SLID,
or 20 cents a dozen.
Guards stationed at Thebes
bridge recently Slot and wounded
o man who acted suspicionsly. He
was discovered prowling around
the piers on the Illinois side and
when ordered to halt, started to
run away. He had q package Of
dynamite wrapped up in an old
newspaper.
The cashier Of the Farmers and
Merchants bank, at Herman, Mo-,
took S33, 900 Of the banks funds
and lost II in specializing in
stocks. He must have had the
wrong dope, as he should have
made q barrel Of money with the
continual rise IN prices OF all
marketable commodities.
Poplar Bluff Citizen: The first
mob violence in Butler county |
growing out OF the war was at
Qulin on Tuesday when Judge
William Gsntzen was severely |
beaten as q result Of remarks
credited to him. A crowd around |
the Butler county depot attacked
him, knocked him down and beat
him. He was not seriously in |
jured.
Miss Lucy Iva Ball, aged 16
years. who lived at Flat River,
committed suicide by shooting |
herself In the head with revol-
YER. a shart time ago. She left
no word sof explanation TO her
pxrents for the rash act. She
was very handsome girl and had
been clandestinely receiving at
tentions from a married man Of /
The community.
I. r. Norman made trip to
Joplin last week 10 sell the first |
car Of zinc ore shipped from here
since The re-opening Of the
mines. The ore brought s37.00
and s47 100 per ton, which was a
satisfactory price 70 The operators
who are moving on with their
work of getting out ore and will
Ripley County democrat., 1917-04-27

VI TIC WaBOus winch WSb tufneo
completely over by the swift cur.
rent OF the stream and all went
down under the wagon, and two
Of the children, Celia and Aud
rey, aged 13 and 5 years were
drowned, as was the team. The
body Of Celia was not recovered
until about $3.50 O'Clock Monday
morning. Marble Hill Press.
Il De Sotc Republican: All
bridges on the Iron Mountain are
being guarded both night and
day as a precautionary measure
since war was declared against
Germany. Train loads Of troops
are being sent over the road to
1.-The various training camps and
everything has an aspect Of war.
No one is allowed to pass over the
bridges, and as result many ho.
boes have been compelled to wade
the creeks, and in some instances,
Ito swim. The country Is taking
no chances whatever, which is in
keeping with the true American
spirit.
Cape Girardeau Republican;
Ben Rambo, who is probably the
only living man in the United
States who has died for several
minutes and then come to life
again, is suffering from blood
poison in one foot. He is now
said to be getting better at his
farm home near Marble HILL.
About two years ago 'Ram5o had
ulcers in his stomach andhe went
to Hot Springs where he entered
the government hospital. He had
free service there because he had
been q soldier In the war with
Spain and had seen service in
Philippines. The doctors decided
to operate on him. They pune
tured his abdomen, took out his
stomach, cut out the ulcers and
then put the stomach back and
connected it up properly. While
they were doing the work Rambo |
quit breathing, living or giving
any signs that he was not a dead
one. Then they induced breath |
ing >artificially and the heart
started up again. He pulled
through in course Of time in or
der to get back home and tell the
natives Of his close call.
Sanol Eczema Prescription is IA
nous old remedy for all forms OF Ecze-
ma and skin diseases. Sanol is q guar
anteed remedy. Get a 35c large trial
bottle stthe drug store. % 81.
The Tenth Biennial Report OF
the State Board OF Charities and
Corrections Of Missouri gives the
following report on the manage
ment OF the Dunklin county poor
farm: "Thisis the worst situation
found In Missouri. Disease, filth
and dirt and little supervision or
proper care OF inmates. Five
deaths at the institution in seven
months, four Of tuberculosis. A
woman nearly dead with tubereu-
losis lay on . porch expectorat-
ing at intervals into an old pan
which was swarming with flies.
Only 4 few yards away the door
into akitchen in which a
man, barefooted and nearly
blind, was chief cook. The cook
claimed that he had erysipelas
which had settled in his eyes and
at times he could not see. When
he could zee. however, he did the
cooking. With such impaired
vision on the part Of The cook,
ohe might easily guess the sani-
Iary condition Of the kitchen. It
was rather significant that with
such gross neglect Of The county
eharges,that on the county farm
there wss one Of the best fields Of
'olton in that section" +
DO you get up ut night? Sanol is !
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
TRIBUNE NSTALLS NTERTYPE-
MODERN TYPESETTING MACHINE

ConfdentialIy we will say that the
machine costs lot of money -
$3,402.54, besides the freight from
Brooklyn, $120 worth of metal, in
stallation expense, etc. We are very
much obliged to those who are owing
us for their response to our call for
funds.
AS before stated, the machine
which The Tribune has purchased,
= manufactured by the Intertype
Corporation, of Brooklyn, N. Y, is
the last word in modern composing
room equipment. Money cannot buy
better machine of it's class; it rep
resents the pinnacle of inventive
genius in it's field. One man on the
machine can set as much type as four
or five men of equal ability can set
by hand.
Only a few years ago many print
ers firmly believed that machine for
setting type was dream which, like
perpetual motion would never be
realized. Inventors had been spend
ing time and money on attempts to
Dullu SUCH uldCulu0S lOE 50 lung, duu
so uniformly unsuccessful, that it
was often stated that, until ma
chine could be made to think, type
would continue to be set in exactly
the same way that Benjamin Frank
lin set it in his day. Many and large
we're the fortunes WHICH were lost in
unsuccessful inventions of this kind.
One typical failure was an extremely
complicated machine which was
backed for several years by Mark
Twain. The great humorist spent a
huge fortune in attempting to estab-
lish this machine, but it was never a
commercial success and he lost every
thing that he put into it.
At last a man appeared, Ottmar
Mergenthaler, a matchmaker, who
conceived the idea of setting line
of type at time instead of single
letters. After much study and ex-
perimentation he developed a ma
chine, the linotype, which almost i'm
mediately proved successful in OPP
Grafton in some of the larger news
paper composing rooms. The limo
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
Wengelin- Carlson.

A romance that began last spring
when Miss Mary Wengelin of Edo
RADIO township visited her aunt in
Stromsburg, Neb., was eliminated
yesterday when Miss Wengelin was
married to Arthur Carlson of Stroms-
burg, Neb., by the Rev. F. A. Stever
at the parsonage of the Congrega-
tional church. Miss Wengelin met
Mr.. Carlson at that time and yester-
day Mr.. Carlson came to take her
back to Nebraska again.
Miss Ruth Bjorlin was the brides
maid and Gustav Wengelin, a brother
of the bride, attended the groom. The
newly weds will make their future
home at Stromsburg, but will first
take short honeymoon trip to Eagle
Bend, MINI.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Wengelin of Eldorado
township and is we'll liked and re-
spected by all who know her.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
Wollin-Kitzke.

Ellen Violin, daughter of Mrs.
Albert Violin, who lived on farm
ten miles northeast of Norris ten
years ago, was married to William
Kitzke of Alexandria, at the home of
Rev. G. A. Pilgrim last Thursday eve-
ming. Emma Kruger was the brides
maid and Gustav Violin, a cousin of
the bride, attended the groom. After
the wedding ceremony the young
couple took their wedding dinner at
the William Violin home in this city.
They left Immediately afterward to
make their future home on a farm
near Alexandria.
The bride left Morris with her
parents and moved to farm near
Alexandria, and it was at this time
that the courtship that eliminated
in the marriage here, began. Later
the Wollins moved to the state of
Washington. After her husbands
death there Mrs. Violin moved to
her present home in Jefferson county,
Wisconsin.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
MANY LEGISLATORS
VISIT FARM SCHOOL
Spend Busy Day Inspecting the
School and Looking Into It's
Needs.

n A number of the most prominent
members of the state legislature took
advantage of the legal holiday yes
terday and accepted the invitation of
Representative Archie Stone to visit
the West Central School and Station,
and acquaint themselves with the
work it is doing in order to be bet
ter able to intelligently provide for
it's needs.
The committee came out on We'd
nesday night and took breakfast to-
gether at the Merchants hotel yes
terday morning. They were then
taken to the farm school, where they
inspected the school and station and
listened to some of the lectures of
the Farmers Short Course now in
session, the principal one being by
DR.. Away on Soil Surveys. After
lunch at the school more time was
spent in inspecting the institution.
At $3.50 Hon. w. I. Nolan, who has
been obtained as a number on the
Short Course, gave one of his pOpu-
lar lectures. The guests were then
taken to the Commercial club rooms,
where an informal reception was
held.
In the evening the farm school
rendered a banquet to the Wis
itors at the farm school, after which
a speaking and entertainment pro-
gram was given: Prof. P. e. Miller
was POSTMASTER and many of
the guests gave extemporancou5 re-
sponses. Music and a playIet by the
students concluded the delightful
Program.
Resides the local representative,
Ache Stone, TIE legislators who at
tended were Senator l.. E. Potter,
Sr) ingfield; Senat'" Edward Rustad,
Wheaton; Rep. T1eG Christianson of
Dawson; G.. E. SolthN ick of Wells !;
Edward IndrehuS Of Foley; o. Cd
hpd of Fergus Falls; AlDin Bjork-
luDG of st. PAU; H. Shipstead of
Glenwood; w. :. Nolan If Mime
apolis, and !Tildins Swanson of
Brainerd.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
MORRIS TOURISTS
TAKE CUBAN TRIP
Messrs. Colyer and Tewksbury Visit
Col. A. H. Taisey's Fruit
Ranch Near Havana

w. L. Colyer has written us an
other interesting letter about his
trip thru the sunny southland ana
we are sure that the Tribune readers
will be interested in reading Mr.
CoIyer's description of his travels.
Mr.. Colyer tells of meeting HI. III.
Wells in Havana and having as a
travelling companion o. F. Tewks-
bury of Morris. The following let
ter is written from Col. A. III.
Taisey's big fruit ranch 100 miles
from Havana. Col Taisey is we'll
known to many Morris residents
and was for many years the agent
for the Great Northern railway at
DOnneIly.
Il promised to write you a few
lines about my trip to Cuba. I am
now at Col. Taisey's ranch and 0. f.
Tewksbury is with me. We arrived
here yesterday (Feb. y in the
afternoon. This place is over $50
miles from Havana. The ride here
was very interesting. There are
several large towns near, Matanzas.
Colon and San Domingo, the latter
town about 5000 people, and which
is in the province of Santa Clara, the
the largest province in Cuba.
I'VE are in the vicinity of the
large sugar plantations and mills.
There are also many orange and
grape fruit groves near here and
then there are thousands of acres of
undeveloped lands. Mr.. Taisey has
a fine grove of orange and grape
fruit trees. We have been riding
around today looking over several
large plantations of all kinds of gar
den truck. I could not tell what all
of the garden truck was.
"The Cuban people are very inter-
esting and polite and very loyal to
the United States. We are going
to visit a large sugar mill in the
morning and several places of inter
est. Saturday we will look over
the old town of San Domingo and in
the afternoon of the same day we
will return to Havana We. will
stay there over Sunday and take the
steamer Monday for Florida Keys
and from there to Jacksonville, Fla.
Tewksbury and myself will go to
Green Cove Springs, Fla. will
probably be there for some time, but
Tewksbury will leave there about
the Goth to go on a trip to Texas and
California
eve met all the Wells people in
Havana. They left yesterday for
the Isle of Pines. There are many
interesting things that could write
about but I will wait until 1 get
home. Hoping that all of the Nor
ris people are well, remain,
Fraternally yours,
W. L.. Colyer"
In the same mail we received the
following short note from J. B. And
erson of Eugene, Oregon: 1--WE are
getting along fine and have been
very busy the last year doing a
great deal of University work. Give
our best regards to all of our many
Morris friends.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
MORRIS WILL HAVE
BIG CONCERT BAND
Band Boys Meet and ReOrganize-
New Uniforms Coming-Will
Give Weekly Concerts

The band boys met at the Armory
Wednesday evening for the purpose
of reorganizing and electing officers
for the coming season. w. A. Ross
was elected president; S. H. Gros-
land, vice president and leader;
Clifford Sampson, secretary; Harold
Vinje was reelected treasurer.
The band now numbers twenty
two players, several veterans as we'll
as new players having recently
Joined.
The boys are planning on getting
uniforms, also to give weekly con-
certs on the street.
With a little enthusiasm shown
by the citizens there is no reason
why Morris should not have one of
the finest bands in the Northwest.
Boost fer the band.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23

type was further developed and grad
ually spread all over the world, and
for many years no other manufac-
turer attempted to build a similar
machine. A few years ago, however,
a new concern appeared in the field
with machine designed along the
lines of the linotype, but equipped
with large number of detail i'm
provements and simplifcations. The
new machine was called the I'm
TERTYPE." 1t is manufactured by
the Intertype Corporation, and the
machine just installed by the Trib-
une is Model &C." which is sold by
that company.
The Intertype sets one line of type
at time The matrices from which
the lines are cast are carried in a fat
receptacle, called the magazine, near
the top of the machine. AS the ope-
rator at the keyboard touches the
key buttons, the matrices are re-
leased and fall down to an assembler
When the line of matrices is COM
pletely assembled, the operator pres
ses a lever and the line is carried to
the casting mechanism. Here molten
metal under heavy pressure is forced
into mold, the slot of the mold be-
ing backed by the assembled line of
matrices. In this way solid bar or
slug" is cast, with the type letters
projecting in relief along one edge.
These bars or slugs are automatic
ally gathered into columns, ready for
printing.
The whole process as outlined
above appears to be very simple, and,
in theory, it is simple. But in actual
practice a number of difficulties arise
which have been very c1everly pro-
vided for in the design of the ma
chine. For instance, there is the
matter of automatically spacing the
lines so that they will be of even
length. This is accomplished by
means of wedge shaped "spacebands'
which spread the words in each line
far enough apart to make the end
of the last word line up with the
ends of all the other lines. Then
there is the necessity of distributing
the matrices from which the line is
cast. This is accomplished by means
of an ingenious set Of combination
teeth in the matrices, whereby the
latter are carried to the top of the
machine and allowed to fall into
their proper channels in the maya,
Concluded on page four)
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
COLLEGE SINGERS
HERE NEXT SUNDAY
Lutheran Seminary Glee Club to
Give Concert at Orpheum-
Auspices Snyod Church.

The Lutheran Seminary Glee club
of st. Paul will give a sacred con-
cert at the Orpheum Theater Sum
day. Rev. John DAZZLE is the director
of the club of fourteen voices. The
glee club has never appeared before
a Morris audience but they come
with an enviable reputation and
those who care for superior choral
work, will not be disappointed with
the college boys from ST. Paul.
In addition to the fine musical pro-
gram, Prof. o. E. Brandt of the fac
ulty of the Lutheran college will de-
liver a lecture.
The concert and lecture is to be
given under the auspices of the Nor
ris Evangelical Lutheran Synod
church. The proceeds of the eve
ning's entertainment will be devoted
to the foreign missionary fund Of the
church. The program will begin
promptly at 8 p. M The admission
to the lecture and concert is % cents
for children and 35 cents for adults.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23

The Tribune reaches it's readers
this week printed from type set upon
the most modern type-setting ma
chine which the market affords-a
Model c Intertype, illustrated in the
cut shown above.
This great addition to our equip
ment was ordered in the early part
of November and was expected in the
first of December, but so rushed is
the factory with orders that the ma
chine did not arrive until last week.
Mr.. Joseph Corey, of the st. Paul
News, came out Saturday and set up
the machine and gave Mr.. Terrell,
our efficient superintendent, some
pointers on it's operation. Since then
one of the most proficient operators
of our old machine in the state, have
been operating the new machine, and
aside from couple Of punctures and
trying to run with the emergency
brake set, have gotten along very
we'll. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr..
A. Mccormick, the regular erectOr of
LuG COulpd1yS d444NSu dAu AAuh1CuA-
ately threw the machine into high
and took the corners on two wheels
in order to get up this weeks news.
Incidentally he has been showing us
all kinds of stunts which the versi-
tility of the machine makes possible,
and he will remain with us a few
days until all the difficult points are
fully mastered.
Besides large number Of special
characters, the machine is equipped
with the following type faces:
The Morris Tribune has the best
equipped machine for the setting of
! legal notices,
Sub-Heads for the Newspaper,
Regular Reading Matter for News,
A Beautiful Face for Briefs,
BOOKLETS, PROGRAMS AND CIR
CULARS,
Where Italics Give Tone,
/ Excellent Faces for Ads
Auction Bills and Display.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
Successful Hog Sale.

The sale Of pure bred DUrOc-Jersey
sows, held by Ben Busch last Friday
in the Baer Bros, feed barn, was a
very successful one. There were 80
head Of stock sold and the average
was $46 The highest price, $65,
was paid by H. T. Bahr.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-02-23
Workmen DELEGATES Go to cities.

WUIkIH6H DEIEgdJ5S 20 TO OILI6S.
Rev. Henry hobbs and Chris EuI
left early this week as the local dele
gates to the grand lodge of the Nor
ris lodge of the Ancient Order OF
United Workmen, that is meeting
this week at the West hotel, Min
neapo1is.
Rev. hobbs, is a chairman Of one
of the important committees of the
grand lodge.