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TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that will attend, with the tax books of Mon roe county, at the following times and places in Monroe county, Ark, for the purpose of collecting the State, County, Road, School and oth- CT taxes to be by me collected for the year 1917, viz:
 Lawrenceville, Jackson Town ship, Monday, January 14th.
 Jackson's Store, Montgomery Township, Tuesday, January 10th.
 Womack's Store, / Smally Town ship, Wednesday, /January 16th.
 Holly GroSe, Duncan Township, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 17th, 18th and 18th.
 Palmer, Cleburne Township, Monday, January Dist.
 Raymond, Raymond Township, Tuesday, January 22nd.
 Blackton, Hindmon Township, Wednesday,, January 23rd.
 Monroe, Cypress Ridge Township Thursday, January 24th.
 Waldrop's Store, Richland Town ship, Friday, January 25th.
 Zent, Greenfield Township, Sat urday, January 26th.
 Sain's School House, Dickson Township, Monday, January 2Sth.
 Brinkley, Brinkley Township, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Jaunary 29th, Both, and 31st, and Friday, February 1st.
 Keevil, Keevil Township, Satur- day, February 2nd.
 Harris Store, Pine Ridge Town ship, Monday, February 4th.
 Roe, Roc-Roe Township, Tuesday, February 5th,
 After which time l will be at the Collectors office at the court house in the City of Clarendon with the tax books up to and including the 10th day of April, 1918. Taxes may be paid up to and including that date without requiring penalty, but after the 10th day of April, 191S,the penalty, as required by law, will be charged all delinquents. l Given under my hand this the Eth
The Brinkley argus., 1917-12-21
DOING THEIR DUTY
Scores of Brinkley Readers are Learning the Duty
 of the Kidneys.

To filter the blood is the kid- neys' duty.
 When they fail to do thls the kidneys are weak.
 Bachache and other kidney HIS may follow.
 Help the kidneys do thelr work.
 Use Doan's Kidney Pills-the tested kidney>remedy.
 Proof of their worth m the following3 N IT,
 A. B. Phipps, carpenter w. Arch St., Searcy Ark, says; "I had good results from Doan 5 Kidney Pills and so dld an other of my family. My back was giving me quite a bit of pam and on using one box of Doan Kidney Pills I got fine relief. have had no sign of kidney trouble since.
 6oc, at all dealers. Foster-Mll burn Co Mfgs., Buffalo, N. I.
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To Make a True Christmas.

Don't forget the lonely, the suffering, the poor, on Christmas. Reme sn0er that the first and greatest Christpas gift was sent not to the rich and pow. erful, but to the poor and needy. Give to those who are near and dear to you, but somewhere, somehow, in your ordi- nary life find some one who is near md dear to no one else and make Christmas for him or her.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-12-21
Shiloh Notes

Dear ARGUS Workers & Readers:
 I am always glad to get the ARGUS and see what the loyal workers are doing. First thing I want to do thro' this letter IS to correct an error of mine about Mir. Lowel Franks being buried at Shiloh at the time the notes were written but later 1t was changed and he was buried at Holly Grove Cemetery and the kind type setter had so much trouble reading my poorly writ ten letter that he misread just a little of it and put it buried in- stead of is to be buried on Tues day. Now MT. Editor do not think hard of me for explaining this for I think you did extremly we'll to read my writing as well as you do and 1 know that either of us did not intend to mislead anyone.
 I Tread a nice letter in the last issue from John B. Moore on the Red Cross work and l can say that MT. Moore has the same view of the matter that J have and I am ready to co operate with him or anyone that IS Tn the work and 1 heartily endorse his method of getting it before the people.
 Some time ago 1 wrote short article in the ARGUS about our cemetery work and it's financial standing and there were two kind ladies in the north end of the county read it and respond ed. They were Mrs. A. A. Kinnil and Mrs. M. A. Hanes of Zent. We want to thank those splendid ladies for helping us in that work.
 We are having some cold weather at present and work of all kinds is almost on a stand still. Quite a few of the farm CTS have cotton in the field yet and it looks like old Santa will find it that way Xmas.
 Our Sunday School met Sun day afternoon with about 35 pre-. ent, There was great in terest taken in the work and fine lessons after which J. F. Oberg was elected Superinten dent. We feel that Mir. Oberg well fitted flor the work.
 Clyde Moore and family have moved back to Monroe county which is their old home. They have been out near Hot Springs for about 10 years. We are glad to have them back with us again.
 Dave and Julius Parke, two of our home boys came home on a furlough from Chickmauga Camp to see their relatives and friends. They report a very good time and comfortable quarters. We are always glad to see any of the boys. We hope to see them safe at home in peace.
 Respt.
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A Enng Dratun Gut
 Gllrtstl:taa

g In many parts Of St0itzerldnd S3 Ss jestiUities still hdUe thetr be- k sss ginning on Dec 6. tohich IS E G the dnniUersary ot St. Ntch- S1 " 0las. Markets and fairs are E, kg then held in Uilla0e8 and cit S ks ies, and, seeing that the old b ss traditions prescribe for thtS sl day the purchasing of pres S1 sp ents for the children, II is dn ', k8 eUeHt of utmost importance N A9 10 all youngsters. In some A s1n districts st. Nicholas pdrqdeS SI
 around in person in an attire Si Ag Uery 8imilar Co thct ot our v a9 American Santa Claus, gener- k ss ally carrying big bag fHed St S iCfth apples, prunes, nuts and z, aY homemade cookies, lChich he 2 kS distributes among the children Q sls lCho hdUe been obedtent during E %, the year. @ s The nert and in modern days % " Inc most important 1eStiUe day z ke of the lGhoEe YuIe season IS s
 Ta Christmas dag. History relates F
 that it l0as only tn the gear . af 953 4. D. thdt the Roman ' hf Bishop Lt5ertus regarded thiS 2 Es parttcular dag ds the birthday E s Of Christ, and ds they tCere fur q NH thermore desiroUs of giving q 2 N more religious importance to E E,s taco important Roman festiUdEs T s 1ohich also fell due in the Si A1 same period With the obSer- z E9 ration of Christmas day the x Es ChristktndH, described a8 "a h E lovely angel 1oih tCings," Si Ag gradually stQrted to take old S k8 Sdnto's place in many sections A Ee Of S10itSerldnd, Chrtstbtndh, E
 . the Christ Child, IS said 10 S ST come from the fdr north and z k4 dI1Cdys brings q toondeTfM q Ess Christmas tree, decorated 1otth k S. all the glitterin0 things dSso- % gY ctdted 0ith fdtryIdnd and hedU- Y M fly laden aotth manifold gifts. N a<s vnr Nex xsx Nn Ms Nsf xsx nu nsx tss 4sx ne
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Suntp GhrtatntaH
 Ergenha

ssY There Is Bosnidn legend $ s1 that the sun leaps in the hedU- fs 1xf ems and the stars ddnce around El Y, it 4 great peace comes SteGI- S
 s1 ing d0i0n OUer mountain and z ss forest. The rotten Stumps stand Y .a straight and green on the Mll- G
 Gt side. The grass IS befoUered S llY lCith blossoms, and the birds x s3 sing on the mountain tops i1e '
 ,{s thunbs 10 God. In PolGnd the s, ', hcdUens open and Jacobs lad .S,
 ae der is set up bettoeen edrth and x ls Sby. Tn Austria the cGndleS are ' le set tn the Windoao that the A
 Y.s Christ Child mag not stumble < ..5T aohen he comet to bless the 2; 49 home. In north Germany the 2 Ts fables are spredd and the lights A s1,s left burning for the incoming ( s' of the Vtygtn Mdry and her at- z sE tending angel, q .s The English superstition IS A .sJ,e Gdmirably Uofoed by the myriad S sF minded Shakespeare in Ham z ss let: ' ssF Some say that ever 'gainst that IH season comes E &F Wherein our Lords birth Is eel yR ebrated, E sSs The bird of dawning slngeth all S gS night long. N 5f And then they say no spirit can S IY walk abroad E The nights are wholesome. Then z lf no planets strike, N sy' No fairy takes, nor witch hath iS Jg power to charm, k z So hallowed and so gracious is S y4 the time. &
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day of December, 1917.
 R, F. MILWEE.

Collector of Monroe County, Ark
 N. B. All parties wishing to pay taxes on real estate will please bring their old tax deceipts or prop CT description of their lands or lots.
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A Wish,

I'd fain have a centipede's stockings To hang by the fireplace tonight And then have an octupus Santy With eight arms to All them up tight.
 New York Sun.
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Onp Ghrtatntaa Hunhtug

.g Perhaps the most heroic Qt- g9 tempt to Keep ChriStmGS n sys conventional fashion under { T, unc0n tioadl condi- Z ..r tions tCGs that made by the !
 s9 late Lord WolSeley, Uhen q \ h young officer, in the trenctes 9s before Sebdstopol during the i. .sF Crimean 1tdr sirty gears ago. | s9 He and his comrades decided . IA that the ChriStmas shOuld ', Dc hoHored and that there 2 sF should be plum puddinO. ] sf The pudding" tOas. com- \ n pounded 0f biscuit, grease a
 9.s end such fruit qs could Dc 0b. z ssF taiaed, the ingredients being s s1 mtred in fragment of d < 1R RuS8ldn she'll Wrapped in c { 1a cloth, tt 1cGs boiled for some s ssF hours, and tasty reminder S ,9 of the great teStiUal loas ed- gt9 0erIy looked Jor1odrd to by I,s The hungry officers. Butbefore < 5 the pudding 11ds considered 2 " "coOked' orders came tTdnS- { .@ ferrtng WolSeley and his tent S
 2,s companions to diStant part s sg. Of the tCorks. |. " Should they IeaUe the pld- S I% ding until their return or eat '7,a it ds tt tCdsP They 10ere hun- < sF 0ry, and the latter course lCds s s@ decided upon. The 'puddiRg' X gf toas duly StoalIoWed and f .T,s dl0qy they a0ent in obedience X ssT 10 orders. Late that ntqht B sR Wolseley UdS troubled lottb ' s8 internal disturbances that ne E H,S cesSitdted the doctors kindly z S ministrdtions. It seemed, said
 sH the future field morshdl, a8 if slT pieces ot RuSsaGn shell 1Cere E x rolling o0dinst edch other < a inside. It aoas the onIy pud- ssY ding, the first and last, he { aE e1er made.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-12-21
oiles Cured in 6 to IA Days.

Your druggist will refund money Ii PAlo OINTMENT fails to cure any case of itcnins' nls Blind Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 10 lq oays The first application gives Ease and Rest' "e
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Don't Listen.
Respt.
 w. A. Cook.

Other peoples opinion of us often is based on the kind of things we let them tell us.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-15
Congoleum
Rugs
19c 50. yd.

These famous waterproof rugs
"a an assortment of beautiful
patterns: all perfect qualities.
with the exception OF the border
missing on one side Can be
matched up to cover the largest
room Tomorrow, 1ec square yard.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-15
SIPS to $1.75 Extra
Size Wash Skirts, SSc

White repp and white
pique skirts, also Others in
gray mixtures, and black
and white checks. Sizes 81
to SO waist measure. Choice
SSc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-15
Auto Busters, SSc Each

Full length busters in
belted style; two pockets.
Made of tan colored linenc.
All sizes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-15
Small Lot of Sport
Goats, $2.9S

High color coats for
sport wear; q length; in
all wool cheviots. Nearly
all sizes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-15
81 Wash Skirts, SOC

Made OF good quality
white pique, and also black
and white check materials.
Sizes IS to 80 waist band.
Special at Soc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-08-15
August Attractions Always Interesting Bargain
Wash LaceS and Embroidery SC Yd.

Wash LaceS, including match sets, edges to ia and
insertions to in. wide. Not in sets Pinch cluny aceS
imitation and VAL laces in dainty designs also embrodereS
worth twice this prce-edges u to inches in width
era designs good workmanship Special, SC yard.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29
LULL EXPERIENCED IN
RAIL BOARD AFFAIRS
Farmers Too Busy I'm Fields to Attend
Hearings-Await Outcome OF
ESrice-hxing Committee.

Bismarck, N. D.. Aug. 2S.-Because
farmer members of the North Dakota
railway commission are too busy get
ting in their 1915 crop or helping
neighbors get in theirs to consider
other matters just now, 1t Is probable
that unimportant railway and tele-
phone hearings scheduled for the
coming week will be postponed until
the harvest rush is over.
Chairman S. j. Aandahl writes
from Litchville that he is the engi-
neer of big threshing rig that is
there. Wheat, he advises. is running
ten and twelve bushels to the acre
and Is of splendid quality. He wants
to be let OF IL ii is possible, for
there's no one else to run the engine.
Charles w. Bleick is busy with the
harvest around Elgin, and NJ. p. John
son, Of Tolley, state president OF the
Equity and, the third member of the
board, is down in Wisconsin and Min
nesota looking up the prospects of
getting hay and of getting it hauled
to North Dakota TO save the hundreds
of herds which must be sacrificed If
forage at a price the farmer can af-
ford to pay cannot be provided
There is. anyway, a lull in rail
board affairs pending a decision of
the price-fixing committee as to the
sum which the farmer is to get for
his wheat Until this is determined,
no great amount of wheat will move,
for the grain grower is averse to
buying a pig in poke If he doesn't
have to.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29
VALLEYS new
OFFICE OPENED
Postofice Building Occupi-
ed This Weeks Very
Handsome Structure

Valley City, n. D.. Aug. 29.-The
Valley City postoffice force moved on
Sunday from their former location in
the First National Bank building, to
the handsome new federal building on
the corner OF Fourth street and
Fourth avenue. The new furniture
arrived Saturday morning, and it was
installed that day.
The building is so by 100 feet. 1t
is constructed of tapestry brick,
costing about SIS 200. and was built
by VIM. O'Neal & Son., Inc, of Fari-
bault, MINI. The postoffice occupies
a quarter of block and there is a
concrete driveway at the rear of the
building.
The approach to the building on
leading from the steps into the hand
some lobby, which is 13 by 20 feet.
In the lobby is a beautiful terazza
floor, with baseboards of Tennessee
marble. The lobby is splendidly
lighted with large ceiling lights, and
the woodwork is oak.
On the first floor is the main work
room, carriers cases. rural and city
delivery section, stamp, general de-
livery and parcel post sections, with
the money order and registry divi-
sions to the east. There is also
drinking fountain for the employees.
On the first floor to the west, is the
postmaster's room. and in this room
there is vault and safe, the vault
being fully equipped with steel fix-
lures. On the second floor, is the
carriers rest room, which is fitted
up with chairs, tables, etc.
The building has a bull basement.
Postmaster Smith, as custodian, has
secured permission from the treas
ury department to assign a nicely
furnished room in the basement for
the use of the American Red Cross
society. The balance OF the basement
is taken up with a furnace room, coal
room, and custodian's supply rooms.
The building is lighted with cleo
tricity and gas, with handsome fix
lures throughout. The postoff1ce is
heated with steam, and 1t has the
very latest system of ventilation. The
furniture is of fumed oak and the
fixtures are most up-to- date.
The citizens Of Valley City greatly
the new building, which is
one Of the finest In the
northwest.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29
TOO MANY old CUSTER
SCOUTS" SAY BRAVES
Clerk of Standing Rock Reservation
Furnishes List of Names of the
Real Living Scouts.

Fort Yates, N. D., Aug. 2s.-The
avidity with which twin city and
feature newspaper writer's tack "Old
Custer Scout" to the names of In
dams, has aroused the ire of the real
scouts, according to F. B. Zahn,
clerk at the Standing Rock agency.
In connection with a census of the
Indians for the year ending June 80,
1917, Mr.. zahn furnishes a list of all
of the Indisns who are living, who
served as Indian scouts under Gen.
eral George A. Custer at Fort Abra-
ham Lincoln, seven miles south Of
Mandan, until Custer was killed at
the battle of the Little Big Horn,
June rs, 1875.
The only living scouts are Blue
Thunder, Good Wood, One Dog, Iron
Road, Fool Bear, all OF Cannon Ball,
and Keep Eagle, Shooter, No Eye
Brows, Paints Brown Of Fort Yates.
Paints Brown after serving one year
as scout was discharged and aft
erwards joined the hostiles and took
part against the white men in the
Custer battle.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29
Unique Claims Exemption
Laid Before The State Board

all-around low and lofty trembler in
the county. He trembIes Just as
easily as other men breath, and Il
isn't lack of nerve at all but an
oyerplusage of nerves, she assures
the board. She doesn't want Ter lit
tie trembler to go into the battle line
where his trembling might be mis-
interpreted by some cousin or un lie
or other relation on the German side
of the trenches, and in very good
Teutonic script she so advises the
district board.
PitifuI Case.
A pitifuI case which sheds new
light on the great American home
comes from another claimant, who
declares himself the sole support Of
one father and one mother. Other
members of the family, he naively
advises. are his little brothers, three
of them, aged 20, 10 and II. Maybe
he'll get his. and maybe not.
He's a Farmer.
Then there's a proud mamma who
declares her boys a real, for-sure-
enough farmer. He worked two
months on farm last year and he
expected to work two months this
year, but he didn't like the 1917
stream-line effect of hay-rakes or
something Of the sort, and he hasn't
got round. to 1t yet, but she's con-
fident II the board will just Ieave
him alone he'll come home dragging
his hoe behind him. And anyway, he
has promised certain sure to do
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29
YIELDS JUST DOUBLE
What WAS EXPECTED
Farmers in Hazelton District Getting
Good Crop Despite Poor Outlook
While Grain Was Standing.

Hazelton, N. D., Aug. 29.-Thresh-
ing yields in the Hazelton district
are turning out to be surprises to
the farmers. Rye on the r. A. Yeater
farm, which at one time looked as
though it was going to be a failure,
threshed out is bushels to the acre.
J. B. Landsberger threshed out a
field of Macaroni wheat which before
cutting did not look very promising.
The yield was IA bushels to the acre,
and a very thin field of rye on the
farm went 10 bushels.
Others are reporting II TO IS
bushels to the acre of wheat which
did not look like or s bushels while
standing. ..-.
Poor Yield Near Minot.
Minot, N. D., Aug. 29.-In support
of the cry for a higher price for
wheat, A. Walton and C. o, Carlson,
both of Minot, submitted facts of an
experience at a farm near Logan.
Eight and one-half bushels of wheat
were obtained from one load of the
product. The Minot men witnessed
the threshing but that one load was
the entire yield of zoo acres.
$500 From Cabbage.
Velva, N. D.. Aug. 29.-John Myer
expects to realize $500 from his tract
of cabbages which he will market at
s cents a pound. The patch Govern
an acre and q half.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 29.-Ulysses
5. Grant isn't going to assist history
in repeating itself IL his better half
can help it-and judging from the
tone Of her letter to the district
board she has some confidence in her
ability.
Said U. S. Grant lives up state, is
of military age, and was accepted
by his local board. Apparently he
didn't urge his claims for exemption
very strongly, or the board did not
consider them favorably, for Ulysses
is up to the district board as a cam
didate for select service. And here
Mrs. Grant steps in. She doesn't
want Ulysses to go to war. She
feels the family has done enough for
its country, and that the proper place
for u. s. Grant Is beneath his own
vine and fig tree. Therefore there's
a chance that new lustre may not be
shed on this glorious name. The
district board still has something to
say on the subject, however, and it.
hasn't yet come to Mrs. Grants
claim for exemption, filed on behalf
of her Ulysses.
How He Trembles.
The board he think my boy
tremble because he fraid. That not
so-he trembles all the while, writes
a doting German mother whose boy
was passed as physically perfect by
a local exemption board in spite of
the fact that he trembled. This fond
mamma declares her boy the best
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29
ALIEN CANADIAN" HIS
PLEA FOR EXEMPTION
Ole Ruud Of New Salem, Has Claim
For Exemption Denied BY Morton
County Draft Board.

Mandan, NJ. D., Aug. 29-Born In
MoEton county. North Dakota, rails
ed and educated here. Ole Ruud of
New Salem a few years ago took up
a homestead in Canada and took out
Canadian citizenship papers. He sold
his farm and is again living at New
Salem, N. ID.
Now he claims exemption from
military draft because Of alien, Can
adam citizenship. The local board
has denied his claim. He will appeal
from the decision.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-29

lures. art exhibits and Iyceum
courses.
High School Enrolment Low.
Among the major benefits, the
one increasing high school privileges
probably is the most important in
our state; for in North Dakota as
in other agricultural states, the high
school enrolment Of children is very
low. Six years ago 1t was less than
8 per cent of the number of farm
children of high school age; now 1t
is more than IL per cent-a dis
gracefully low per cent, and all the
more so that a score OF other agri-
cultural states make worse show
ing.
"A better organization saves for
the districts having consolidated
schools over 100000 annually
through the time saved by the excess
number of classes in the LOO one
room rural schools eliminated or
prevented from organization. There
is wasted annually in the state in
this matter for all one-room rural
schools that consolidated schools
could eliminate more than $270, 900.
There are secured and held in the
service for longer periods than usual
some 1.500 well-trained teachers.
Future Prospects Bright.
The future prospects of consolida-
ton in North Dakota are bright. Six
years ago it was with difficulty that
the legislature was persuaded to np-
propriate $4,000 for this purpose;
last winter a farmer legislature with
much enthusiasm appropriated $780,
900. There are 500 districts in the
state where the people would vote to
consolidate had they the money to
support consolidated schools.
in North Dakota, the. leaders in
education and in official life, includ-
ing Governor Frazier, contend that
the farm children are entitled to an
opportunity to attend just as good
schools as do the city children, and
that anything short of this equality
is un-American. They believe and
insist that the child of the poorest
farmer within the state is entitled to
just as good public school facilities
as is the child of the wealthiest
banker anywhere. These leaders
stand for equality Of opportunity for
all the children Of the state to at
tend good schools"