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Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

All Belgian factories employing more than 12 men and burning more than five tons of coal monthly have been ordered closed by the German officials.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Charles B. Webster, for many years head of R. H. Macy & Co.,, left an es- tate valued at $4,239,O41.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Two of the five mills of the Pills bury Flour Mills Co.,, at Minneapolis closed because of car shortage.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

The Canadian Locomotive Go. re- ceived an order for 20 locomotives fer the Canadian Government Railways and another for 20 engines for the Grand Trunk.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

One hundred thousand dollars ir gold coin was withdrawn from the Sub Treasury for shipment to Cuba.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

The Durex chemical plant at Sweet water Tenn, was destroyed by fire a a loss estimated between $100,000 ant $200,O00.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Guards have been posted at ap- breaches to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad bridges that cross the Ohio River, between Evansville, Ind, anc Henderson, Ky.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

The Roxana Petroleum Corp. o1 Richmond, Va, was incorporated with a capital of $60,000,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

ciaI act permitting the widow of Dan ieI Mccarthy, death house guard shot on duty, to collect money regularly from the State under the Workman s Compensation law.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Gerard in Washington Wednesday,.
 Washington, March 11.-Former Am bassador Gerard is expected here We'd nesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Fourteen cases of smallpox, in three families, have been discovered a Newton. according to Health Officer W. H. Kiernan.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Three men are dead and four others are in a serious condition as result of inhaling chlorine gas fumes in the factory of the Deerfield Puly Co.,, at Mountain Mills, Vt.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Further developments of Saratoga Springs as a health resort is provided in a. bill approriating $260,000 to con- stitute the capital fund of the State reservation there.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12
More tban 17o Ioekmen and [

More than 17o loeknen and engineers employed on the government locks and dams in Pittsburgh district have noti- fled the government that they will quit work on March Is unless they are granted an increase of $10 month in wages.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Gold to the amount of $3o0,oo0 wa withdrawn from the Sub Treasury fo shipment to Spain.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

The State Department received 1 message from Consul Griffith at Santl ago, in which he reported that the reb els and the government forces were il battle mar Palma, Soriana.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Fire destroyed the grain elevator ( the Detroit Railroad Elevator Co.,, a a loss of $1,000.000
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Isaac H. Edgett, for 37 years deputy secretary of state of Massachusetts, is dead.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Captain Alfred Fritzen, alleged to be an officer of the German navy, was ar rested at Los Angeles, and held for "complicity in the German spy plot in the United States"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12
one Man KiIIed at srookviIIe, Ohio.

Dayton, O., March 11.-One man was reported killed at Brookville, Is miles from Dayton, a score of houses were unroofed in Dayton and 50 homes re- ported demolished without loss of life at Trotwood, near here.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

The wind cut into Hyde Park through the suburb of Linwood and wrought damage to Madison road and Delta avenue, distance of a mile and half. In it's journey across Hyde Park it 1evelled house after house, only a few residences being undamaged.
 In ali six squares felt the full force of the storm. Telephone and telegraph poles trees and wreckage of houses made the streets almost impossible. To add to the confusion, fire broke out in a number of the wrecked houses, making rescue work difficult.
 It is believed there may be other persons buried in the ruins.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Cornell University dropped 240 stu. Quirements-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Mrs. Catherine cudahy, of Chicag, has been made a papal countess b Pope Benedict XIV.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12
SUBURB OF CINCINNATI
 STRUCK BY TORNADO.
Three Persons Were Killed and Four
 Others Probably Fatally Injured.

Cincinnati, O., March 11.-Three per sons are known to have lost their lives, four others are probably ftafiy in njured and a score or more less Sere- ousIv hurt as tI-~ ~oo,11-, of a tornado which wrecked about 30 houses in the residential dI.-.-~- oI Hyde Park in the eastern section of this city early tonight.
 The known dead are:
 Matthew Mccarthy. Jr., years old.
 Omer Glenn. S1.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Imports to the port of Nsw York on March were valued at $4,681, 763.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-12

Asher Sheldon of New Haven is 1os years old today.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
SELDOM ENDED By MEUTRALS
Great Majority OF Big Wars Of the
Past Have Been Fought to d
Complete Finish.

inst how much ice docs n neiltral cht
with the ~heiligcronts ut war: open
your history ana S"e.
Only one great war in recent times
was ended by II neutral. No Neutral
ever ended one of Frederick the
Greats conflicts.
The .Nuruleunic wars ran over II
period Of % years. No campaign had
a period inserted after 1t by IA neutral
power,
We fought the American Revolution
TO Il conclusion. ~ The seven years
war and the accompanying struggle be-
, awecn France and England had been
fought to a finish, never needing the
word Of IA neutral.
bismarck engineered tn ih'lnr'
rnat wars against Denmark, Austria
and France. He won all. and stopped
when he was ready. but not When I
neutral suggested II.
Neutrals talked and suggested M
end of the Civil war lon. before Lea
and Johnston surrendered their armies
ant Iinrntu's jstra WAS that II peace
shat left the real issue unsettled mean
that g Of thousands of soldier!
would have died in vain.
The Crimean war ended when III
1%clligerents got good and ready. >
cid the Bnar' war end when one con-
bu,nnt was unable to centEnue.--t'iraft
in the Philadelphia Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25

dress Is further away from simplicity
than any other and We are looking tor
further surprises.
Here is Il frock of serge, trimmed
with silk braid, that Scorns alt II
~tricacies in construction or decoration.
1t presents it's straight lines, almost
unbroken from shoulder 70 hem, ana
its even rows Of braid, sure OF com
relling admiration. The deyotee OF
the tailored suit will be easily recon
ciled to this aspiranE for favorS, Ill
place of the skirt and coat that have
held first place so long.
The usual order Of things Is re-
ycrsed in this skirt, for it is fulled
into the waist at the front and back,
while the panels at the sides are
plain. The short bodice follows the
lines of the natural figure, and Il belt
Is simulated by parallel rows OF
braid stitched ut the WaiStline. II
fastens at the left side witt, SNAP
fasteners and has an open throat that
accommodates Il plain white collar
which may be Of %orGandie or crepe
The sleeves are plain and are not mar
rowcd or widencd at the wrist. This
is in keeping with their finish Of clean
cut rows Of braid. Large, fiat pocket
at each side of the skirt are covere'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
FRUIT LAXkTNE
FOR SICK CHILD
~california Syrup Of Figs can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.

Every mother realizes. after giving
her children California Syrup ~
Figs" that this is their Ideal laxative.
because they love its pleasant taste
and il thoroughly olcanse9 the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels witt-
out gripping,
When cross, irritable. feverish, or
breath is bad. stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother, II dated. give a
eAksSssriN~ear.. ~.irIniess Fruit
laxative" ard in a iew hours all the
foul. consti atcd waste, solr bile and
undigested food passes out OF the bow
els, and you have 4 well, playful child
again. When its little system is full
of cold, throa: sore, has s~tomach-ache.
,diarrhoea. indigestion. c~olic-remem-
Der. a good inside cleaning should
always he the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup of Figs handy; they know a
t%easpoonfui today q sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 90
cent bottle OF California Syrup OF
Figs which has directions for babies
children of all ages and erown-upi
printed Oh the bottle. ADV.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
SOME HINTS FOR TEACHERS
Condensed Into Few Words, but the
Ideas They Convey Might Be
Called Sermons.

Here Hre Snme paragraphs clipped
from the Ohio Educational Monthly
thar are valuable to The teachers and
everybody else:
Some teachers become aiSorderly in
frying to preserve order.
The goldfish Keeps going and going
bur 1t never arrives.
Sad the hoy Of him who becomes
choked by the dust nf his own futill1y.
Twenty years hence the teacher VIII
he able to grade the pupil and her own
work. rs@
Grade hook IN thr hands OF a
teacher Is not q specially allirin- bit
" natural scenery.
There il a teacher in Ohio who lacks
IMAGINATION and all his thinking ana
. acting Is done in geoWetric squares
and rnctangles.
Each Of these paragraphs is enough
70 Justify the space OF tt biz EDITORIAL
but In their quintesSencH me sel'se
render, ran cnfch the full meaning.
That goldfish item is snod--low many
goldfish are iarring around on the OUT
side Of lifef That forecast OF me
teacher as the test Of a pupils work
Is n vision that ought To make Schooi
work sublime. And that grade booK
md natural scenery companion IL
reaching toward The heights OF me
shirt very fast. And the last the
rectil;ueal teacher. who thinks Wha
he knows. and which he gets from uie
textbooks, is NIL there is Of lte.--t'-
lumhus {O.) Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
TWO COUNTIES IN STATE RE
FUSE TO PAY lONG-OEA0
CLAIMS.
TWO COUNTIES COMPROMISE
judgment Against Del'nquents In
Federal Court, But Taxes Yield
So Little Nothing Can Be
Collected.
Jefferson City.

Representatives Cox of Dallas and
Chambers OF st. Clair counties re-
ceived a shock when Representative
Bradley of Macon, Tolson of Howard
and Collins OF Ozark introduced a
bill, prepared for them by Ewing Y.
Mitchell Of Springfield, providing "A
plan by which the old railroad bonds
in those counties. now amounting 10
several million dollars, may be col
lccted,
Commissioners appointed by the
circuit court are provided for the as
sessment of property and levying Of
taxes in those counties and the col
lection Of the revenues for paying Off
the bonds. Mitchell says the plan CON
templates Il settlement Of the bond
judgments at Is cents on the 800
valuation.
St, Clair and Dallas counties were
among the counties of Missouri
which issued their bonds many years
ago for railroad construction and AT
forwards repudiated them. They re
fused to pay the bonds because the
railroads were not built.
Macon ana Henry counties, through
a compromise. paid off their bonds
but St. Clair and Dallas have resisted
payment. Judgments have been oh
tanned against those counties in tht
federal courts, but no money coult
be collected. Each county holds it!
tax rate down to its bare necessities
leaving nothing for the bond claims
Two years ago a similar bill wa
defeated in committee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25


The official report oe the sdJutAae
general to the legislature ON Confed-
crate pensions reveals that there are
l.6l2 on the pension list and that II
will be necessary for the legislature
TO appropriate $3.50. $50 tn pay The pea-
sions during 1916 and ls1! and ap-
proximately $4,000 to pay back pen
sions for the last two years, or a 10
tai of 1926. $50.
Several Confederate veterans have
been here { O urge an adequate appro-
pria,ion for them.
Representative kunkel. a Rerubii-
can, has introduced a bill to throw
some restrictions about the paying o!
the pensions.
A bill is pending 10 appropriate the
sum of $4,000 To pension members
OF the home guard militia which wal
called out in Missouri during the civil
war.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Recollection on Paper Prices.

Senator Cook has introduced 4 res
olution requesting that no contracts
for panc be made in behalf OF the
state until proof is furnished that the
prices are fair. Ii was passed.
The resolution says III its preamble
that lit is Iu:Gored and commonly he
lieved among tie newspaper publish
prs of the state that an unlawful com
bination exists between certain JOB
bera doing business in Missouri tt
extort an unreasonable and unWaf'
raated price for all paper and paper
supplies, including materials OF that
class bought and used by the state"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
'CASCARETS' ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, bi|iousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10.cent box.

Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cuscarcts, or merely forcing q
passageway every few days with
Salts, Cathartic Pills. Castor OIL or
Purgat!ye Waters?
Stop having q bowel wash.day. Let
.Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases
take the excess bile from tho liver
and carry out Of the system all the
constipated waste matter and polsons
In the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They WORK
while you s%leep-never grippe, s'cken
or cause any Inconvenience. ana cos'
only 10 cents . box from your store
Miilions Of men and women take .
Cascsret now and then and fevel
have Headache. Biliousness. Coated
Tongue, Indigestion. Sour Stomach o.
Constipation. Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Convict Hides in Prison.

Frank Lester, burglar sent from
ST. Louis three months ago under SEN
tence OF four years, hid out under
a pile Of refuse in shop No, s at the
p~enitentiary and was not found for
five days.
He was nearly dead from starya-
ton and Is In the hospital, His inten-
ton was to make a getaway over
the wall, but his nerve failed him or
the opportunity was lacking 10 make
the attempt.
He could get water in the shop, but
no food. The prison was ransacked
from end to end several times by the
officers, who finally concluded that
he had gone over the wall.
Finally he crawled out Of his hid,
ing place and gave himself up. He
was SO weak that he could hardly
walk.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Fire Losses Gain.

" ~
The annual report of ". X. Chnrn,
superintendent of the insurance de-
partment of Missouri, just made pub
lie, declares that fire losses in the
state in 1915 showed a material in
crease and cites figures showing that
the fire insurance companies maGe
no profit from business In this state
during 1915.
According to these figures, the av-
| erage ratio Of losses paid to pre-
| miums earned was Is per cent. 1t is
conceded. Supt. Chorn says. that the
cost of doing business averages
slightly over 40 per e II of tota'
premiums. which would make it I'M
possible for a profit to be earned
when the loss ratio is greater than
Go per cent.
The total premiums collected in
1915 were $3.50, 56T, and the losses
paid and operating expenses amount
ed to $~9.470,506.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
In Woman's Realm
Success Of 0ne-Piece Dress Well Established, and Now Begins Exer.
else Of Ingenuity in Designing Variations So That This Fiock
Won't Become sonotonous-chat on Sports Clothes, When
to Wear ard What Materials Should Go into Garments.

The success uf The one-piece dress
goes withou, s.iy,ug-it is already n
thing Of history. And now begins IL"
exercise of ingenuity IL ringing
changes on this predominant
theme. So that the onc-piece dress iaay
run no risk of becoming mo~a"t0tiGns.
This has already been done With s."
muci. cleyegnpss that the oue-piece
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25

wovcn for them, special designs In
ihesa goods and ia other goods are
made for them, and these designs are
made Up in siecia, ways. Sports
clothes are spirited. ultra modern. ex-
pr"ssiv" of the woman u today, and
% ~ less elegant. They :re be
cOnains-like everything eis.-more
and I:lTra Injurious. Bur their elegance
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Reuuisition Denied.

After a hearing Gov. Gardner de-
clined to honor the requisi'ion of
Angie Cohen of St, Louis. Cohen was
charged in q general complaint by
Mrs. Esther l.. Sachs of Centralia,
Ill.,, with larceny in the settlement OF
q partnership business at that place,
Gardner decided the proceedings was
more in the nature nf an effort to
collect a debt than to punish a crimi
nal offense.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25

with braid and bound with 1t, in the
best manner of the tailor. "Well-tail-
orcd" Is written on this straightfor'
ward, b~usinesslike dress. In Its fine
adjustment to the figure. and In the
precision md faultlessness Of work
mnnship which commend 1t.
Sports clothes are n new dIspensa'
ton and they have brought about a
new order Of things. Special goods are
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Tn Make Dirty Water Clean.

When we started for our trip !"
Mt, Ki!imanjaro l had told Jeremiah
one of our African boys. TO Tx SIN
barrels with water and nave II cu"a
Eut when | opened the first parfei, -
was covered with soap>llds. asSe'
the boy what was wrong Win 'he w"
,ar He said: Every clean wafer
master. / PITT soap In every parre' :"
make II clean" So we drank soai-
srls nil the way.--peter MacVueen ~
! World Outlook.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Names Painter for Warden.

Governor Gardner has named VIM.
II. Painter, former lieutenant COVER
nor, as warden Of the Missouri pcni'
tcntiary to succeed y. c. McClung.
He said he appointed Painter war
den because Of. Painters thorough
sympathy with the Gardner prison
! reform bill. He declared that Painter
| would serve only temporarily and
that he would resign when the legis'
lfture had acted on the prison reform
bill, no matter what the action should
he.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Joker in Dry Bill.

The famous Authoritative Joker
clause which. at the last session OF
the state legislature, caused the de-
feat OF the entire dry" program,
made it's appearance in the lower
house of the assembly. AS at the
last session, it Ii tackled ON the tail
end OF an otherwise innocent dry
measure.
II proposes TO deprive the voters Of
the state OF a vote on q local option
| regulation, on the theory that the
law is Of Immediate necessity as ef
tecting the peace, health and safety
OF the citizens Of the state.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Cost of Majors Trip.

One of the first acts OF the new
auditor is TO look yer the various
vouchers on fill IN his office and as
certain how the states money a
been spent.
The trip Of former Gov. Major and
his ~colonels to the Panama Pacific
Exposition, April &c to May IS, 1915,
the expense of which has been on
ctaled, is shown by vouchers in the
ctf.ce Of State Auditor Hickman TO
have cost the state $2.o43.71.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25

IMITATION is SlNCEREST FlaTTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita.
ton has not the worth Of the original.
Insist on la Creole Hair Dressing
it's the original. Darkens your hair IN
the natural way. but contains no dye.
Price 81 .00.-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Stripped BY Rebbsrs.

q. Louis.--Strippcd BY h~ighwaylaenl
az his watch. $3.50 and every stitch Of
clothing except his trousers, Herbert
Ewing, aged sixteen, was forced 70
wslk home In that condition with the
Thermometer below freesing. swell
leave you Just enough to look respecta'
bic o. the streets" The holdup men
sald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
FOR PIMPLY FACES
Cutieura Is Best--Samples Free by
Mai! to Anyone Anywhere.

An easy, speedy way to remove PIN
v,les and b~lnckheads. Smear the affect.
ed surfaces with Cuticura Ointment,
Wash off in five minutes with Cuticura
Soap and hot water. bathing some min
s,tes. Repeat night and morning. NO
better toilet preparations exist.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticurh, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold evcryWhere.-~Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Chiropractic Bill Is Killed.

The bill licensing chiropractors to
treat persons for diseases as doctors
was killed when sent to the house
for engrossment, after a spirited
fight, IS TO Sc. The bill was opposed
by the Missouri Medical Society.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
January Call Completed.

The supreme court in banc COM
pleted the January call of the Ccto-
Der term docket and adjourned from
day to day. 1t may be several weeks
before a delivery of opinions in any
Of the divisions or in banc may be
looked for as the judges have been
busy calling the various docketS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
Finely Tucked oreandle Collars.

On the simpler frocks seen at fvette
Ouiibcrt's recital there was an indica.
ton OF a vogue for crisp collars OF
finely tucked orgnndlc Of dainty hnnd.
worked design. either plain or COM
bined with the finer laccs, some high
and doubled suggesting the coat COL
lar. others quite wide. reaching the
edges Of the shoulders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
pu,ls spikes to See Fun.

E~dwardsyille. Hive just wanted
70 see some fun said Curtis NORGE, n
farehand, aged fifty. confesslng to the
police that he and Charles Craig a
cronie, pulled spikes from the rails Of
the Illinois Traction System and
caused the wreck which resulted In the
death Of one and tho injury Of . score
Of passengers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-01-25
TO Tax Soft Drinks.

Soft drinks in Missouri will pay
their share of the state revcnuc II 4
hill before the legislature Is passed.
Tie soft drink tax measure, n Of
the Gardner revenue producers. men
tons soda water and ginger ale
and makes provisions for an s cents
per gallon tax on these and all other
soft drinks.