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The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-12-27

Our Americans can now certainly
be called seasoned troops. Their
fighting showed no lack of pepper.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-12-27

christmas comes but once a year,
and very fortunately Christmas bills
follow the same custom.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-12-27

President Wilson did well to test
the freedom of the seas before he
spoke for them.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-12-27

Now that the war is over, what
will the American destroyers find
to destroy.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-12-27

The wise men of old followed the
star, but the wise men of today
would look at it through telescope.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-12-27

Paris seems TO be large enough to
accommodate two presidents
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-12-27

Do your New Years resolving
early.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
PRUNE APPLES FOR OPEN HEAD

In pruning apple trees one should
aim to obtain low, broad spreading
Cor branching system) with open CEN
ter to admit filtering sunlight from
above. Three to five main lower
limbs should be secured as an out
spreading framework for the tree. If
the trees are old and have a large
number of main limbs crowding each
other badly they should be thinned
out.
Most of the pruning, however, says
]. G. Written Of the University of
Missouri College of Agriculture,
should be done toward the top, and
the essential lower limbs beneath
should not be cut off as rule. High
growing branches toward the center
may be cut back to outward-growing
side limbs. This tends to secure a
broad, low spread of limbs rather than
allowing the trees to get too high in
the center. 1t also admits sunlight
from above. This will enable fruiting
spurs and fruit to develop throughout
the body of the tree. If the tree is
allowed to make too much tall CEN
trail twig growth, it will shade out
fruiting branches in the body of the
tree so they cannot bear.
Pruning may be done throughout
winter when the wood is not frozen.
If necessary, judicious additional
pruning may be done in spring and
early summer up to he middle of July.
Pruning should be done with a sharp
pruning saw, which will make clean,
smooth cut. The best type of pruning
saw is one with strong steel back
in which is mounted a slender blade.
| This is very much like ham saw,
except that the pruning saw blade
moves on swivel at either end so it
can be turned at any angle desired.
This enables one to work the saw in
| angles between limbs.
In pruning, cut all branches close
| so as to leave no knot. A knot can
not heal over. A close-cut wound al
lows the surrounding growing layer
to close quickly over the wound. Paint
all larger pruning wounds with COM
mon house paint or with good prun-
ing compound, such as is sent out by
the leading paint makers. Dead,
cankered areas on the sides of the
trunk or main limbs should be cleaned
out. Scrape the dead surface clean
with tree scraper out to the sur
rounding rim of healthy growth. Cow
er these cleaned canker wounds with
paint and disinfectant- For a quart
Of paint or pruning compound, dis
solve a teaspOonful of corrosive SUBJ
Innate in turpentine, (about l ounce).
Stir the corrosive sublimate until it
is dissolved in the turpentine and then
mix this disinfectant into the paint
and stir we'll. 1t will keep canker
from spreading or getting into the
wounds.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
HOW TO PAY YOUR
INCOME TAX

Pay your income tax, if possible, by
check, money order or draft. This IS
the urgent request of the Bureau of
International Revenue.
More than $6,0O0,000 persons this
year will pay an income tax. The to-
tai to be collected under the war rev.
enue act of October 8, 1917, in indi-
vidual income taxes alone is 1866, OOO,-
900. The vast majority of these pay
ments will be small amounts. If paid
as requested it will avoid the neces-
sity for the issuance of receipt, and
save much time and labor.
Taxes paid to deputies who are
visiting every county in the United
States to assist taxpayers in making
out their returns are sent to the col
lector of internal revenue of the dis
trict in which the taxes are collected.
Checks, money orders or drafts can be
handled without difficulty. Cash has
to be sent by registered mail or by in
sured express.
In the conduct of the war Uncle
Sam is bcset with many difficulties.
You can render one of his innumerable
tasks less difficult by paying your in
come tax promptly, and by check,
money order, or draft.-From the. Blu
reaU of Internal Revenue.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
THE LABELED SEED
MAKE TERMINATION TEST

The seed trade has voluntarily
agreed to label all field seeds with the
percentage of pure seed that will
grow, giving the purchaser exact in
formation as to quality. The United
States Department of Agriculture
urges all farmers to buy their seeds
only from dealers who comply with
this agreement and not to run the risk
of buying high-priced, unlabeled seed
that will not give a stand in the field.
Get your seed early and make a
termination test of it before sowing.
Count out 100 seeds; put them be-
tween folds of moist paper or cloth
between two dinner plates and keep
at room temperature for four days;
then count the sprouted seeds. If 95
seeds sprout the seed is good; if only
small part of them sprout the seed
is either poor or the test was not
properly made. If in doubt as to the
value Of the seed send a sample to
your State agricultural experiment
station or to the Seed Laboratory,
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, d. c., with the re-
quest that it be tested for quality, in
Guiding percentage of purity and
termination.
Don't take any chances with the
quality of the red clover seed you sow
this spring.
Never before has the price of red
clover seed been so high as it is at
the present time, and never has the
quantity of seed on hand been so
small in proportion to the acreage to
be seeded.
In years when the demand for any
kind Of seed exceeds the supply, all
available seed is put on the market
and much of the seed is of poorer quail
ity than in normal years. Therefore,
every farmer before sowing should
know what proportion of the seed he
buys cannot be expected to grow. If
one lot contains SO per cent of seed
that will grow and another lot con-
tains GA per cent of seed that will
grow it will take three bushels Of the
Ga per cent seed to sow the same num-
Der of acres that two bushels of the So
per cent seed will sow.
This is important from the stand
point of cost alone when red clover
seed is selling at $40 or more per
bushel. 1t is much more necessary,
however, to know the quality of seed
in order that the rate of seeding may
be proportional to the quality, so that
enough live seed will be sowed to in
sure a stand in the field. First know
how much of the seed may grow and
| then sow accordingly.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
LABOR AND FREEDOM

The hope of labor lies in the oppor-
tunities for freedom; military domin-
ion, supervision, checks, bondage, lie
in Prussian rule. So declares the ex-
ecutive committee of the American
Federation of Labor.
This is right and clear conception
of the issue involved in this war for
the working man. 1t is not through a
German regime but through democ-
racy that labor is to receive adequate
recognition and it's realization of its
rightful place in the world.
All Americans are supremacy and
vitality interested in the war against
German autocarcy and none more
than the working man of America. To
him freedom means everything.
The test is on whether the auto
cratic regime Of Germany has bred
better men than the free institutions
of this country has-whether the inde-
pendent men of America can fight SO
well, can manufacture such guns and
aeroplanes and other instruments and
munitions of war and put them into
effective use as can the human pro-
duct of German rule.
There is no doubt of the result, but
it depends upon the whole American
people and not alone upon our fight
ing men. We who remain in safety at
home must do our part, work, econo-
mize, save and support the finances
of the Government. Industry, saving
and lending to the Government are
now national needs and ational duties
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
TO SAFEGUARD CITIZENS
AGAINST FAKE CHARITIES


The December bulletin of the State
Beard of Charities and Corrections
outlines plan of the State Charities
Endorsement Committee for supervis-
ing War charities.
The committee was appointed by the
Missouri Council of Defense. Mem
bers are J. l.. Wagner, Jefferson City;
J. Silas Gravelle, Joplin; L. A. Hal
bert, Kansas City; Alfred Fairbank
and Scott r. DeKins, ST. Louis; Rabbi
Bernstein, st. Joseph; Mrs. nellie Bur-
ger, Clark; Mrs. George Still, Kinks
Vile; Mrs. C. w. Greene, Columbia.
The general scheme of the COM
mittee will be to notify all unofficial
societies soliciting money for War
charities within the State by letter and
through the newspapers that the Mis-
souri, Council of Defense is preparing
list of approved societies and that
all societies before being approved
must submit an account of their pur-
poses and work and an audited state
ment of their accounts on blanks of
the Missouri Council. Blanks will be
furnished on request.
Each application for approval will
be considered separately and reference
will be made to all available records
in the files of charity organization So
cieties, chambers of commerce and
from other sources.
In giving approval to societies, the
worthiness of the object, the propor-
ton of the money expended in col
lection of funds and legitimacy of the
means employed to collect money will
be considered. Reference cards will
be on file giving the main facts con-
corning societies applying for en-
dorsement. Cards will contain in
formation as follows: Name of war
relief society, date Of establishment,
precise object, address of administra-
tive center, name and address of Sec
rotary, treasurer, chairman, at least
two other members of committee and
of the auditor, list Of accredited So
licitation agents, date of endorsement
or rejection.
Original application on forms of
the Missouri Council will be filed in
the Office of the Council and accessi-
BILE to interested persons.
Each approved society will receive
a certificate of approval and the So
ciety will issue to each of its accred-
tied agents an Identification card. The
approval will be limited to one year
only.
List of new societies accredited and
all societies whose credentials have
lexpired or have been withdrawn will
be published at regular intervals and
will be posted weekly in the office of
the Council and in prominent CONNER
cial and business club rooms.
Societies. desiring approval should
address the Chairman of the Chart
ties Endorsement Committee, Missou-
ri Council of Defense, jefferson City.
Persons knowing of soliciting agents
without the endorsement of the State
Committee should notify the Council
of Defense.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
FORMALIN TREATMENT
PREVENTS DAT SMUT

Smut in oats can be prevented by a
simple treatment of the seed with
solution of formalin in water. The
Department of Farm Crops of the
University of Missouri College of
Agriculture offers the following sug-
gestions for treating the seed: The
solution is made by adding one pound
of formalin to 40 gallons of water.
This will be enough to treat 80 or DO
bushels of seed. Formalin is cheap
and easy to obtain. If flaming mill
is at hand, the seed should be run
through it to blow out as much of the
smut as possible. The solution is then
supplied in one of two ways. The
first way is to sprinkle the solution
on the seed, spread the seed on floor
or tarpaulin and use about one gallon
of the solution for each bushel of seed.
The oats should be stirred and sprinkl-
ed until every kernel is wet. Then
cover the grain and allow it to lie
from one to five hours. At the end
of this time remove the cover and stir
the grain occasionally until it is dry,
when it will be ready for seeding.
The other way of treating the seed
is to dip it into the solution. Put the
solution in barrels and the seed into
sacks, filling the sacks about half full
immense the sacks of seed into the So
luton about ten minutes; then hang
them up to drain and dry. Shake the
sacks occasionally to hasten the dry
ing. Either method is effective. The
main point is to get the seed thor
oughly wet.
The solution should be of the
strength mentioned heretofore-one
pound of formalin to 40 gallons of wa
ter. If it is too weak it will not kill
the smut. If it is too strong it will in
jure the grain. Everything that is to
come into contact with the seed after
they have been treated should be
washed with the solution. The inside
of the grain drill should be treated be-
cause the smut spores are found ev-
everywhere, and it will do no good to
treat the seed if it is allowed to come
in contact with the spores again.
If the seed are not cleaned with a
tanning mill, more careful, and
thorough wetting with the solution is
necessary.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
SPRING SONG

Have you seen it? Have you felt it?
. Have you noticed anything?
Have you heard it? Have you smelt
it?
Don't you see a sign of spring?
Are your senses all so lazy
That they cannot feel the thrill?
Do you think I'm going crazy?
Well, / haven't, but / will.
With a shocked and plying kindness
/ perceive that you are dense;
am grieved to note your blindness,
And your dulled and sodden sense;
had hoped you might have hardened
To the signs that speak so loud
But your intellect is darkened,
And your soul looks through cloud.
Spring is coming--Don't you know it !?
Are you blind and deaf and dumb?
Are you not sufficient poet
To perceive when she is come?
Can't you see above the city
That the sky's softer blue?
Can't you feel it? What pity!
Darn tho luck--I'm just like you!
Albany Times Union.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
WHAT THE WARSAW
INGS STAMPS WILL BUY
FOR OUR SOLDIERS

A single Thrift Stamp will buy a
tent pole or five tent pins, waist
belt or hat cord, shoe laces or indenti-
fication tags; two will buy one trench
tool or a pair of wooden gloves. Four
Thrift Stamps will buy two pairs of
canvas leggins; six will buy five pairs
of wooden socks or three suits of sum-
mer underwear; twelve will buy a
steel helmet.
One War-Savings Stamp will buy
one hundred cartridges or cartridge
belt or a scabbard for bayonet; two
will purchase two pairs of wooden
breeches or two flannel shirts; two
and half will buy a gas mask,
Three War-Savings Stamps will buy
an overcoat or two wooden service
coats; three and a half will buy three
pairs of wooden blankets; four will
buy a rife.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
STATIONS MUST
BE REGISTERED


An act was passed by the last Leg
islature requiring the registration of
all stations offered for public service
in the State. The law went into eff
feet January 1, 1918. Copies of this
act may be had by applying to the
Missouri Stallion Registry Board,
Columbia, Mo. Directions for meet
ing the requirements of the law will
be found in copies of the act. The
law provides that "every person, per-
sons, firm, corporation, company or
association that shall stand, travel,
advertise or offer for public service
in any manner any stallion in the
State of Missouri, shall first secure a
license certificate for such stallion
from the Missouri Stallion Registry
Board"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
Boys and Girls Club Week.

The week beginning March 18th,
has been set aside for boys and girls
Club Week in st. Francois county.
Two Boys and Girls Club specialists
from the Agricultural college will
spend five days with us in organic
ing clubs. We want every school
that wants to organize a club to have
the opportunity at that time.
Five day meetings. will be held in
five communities that have shown the
greatest interest in the club work.
The schools in the surrounding dis
tircts will be invited to attend these
meetings where the club work will be
thoroughly explained and the clubs
organized. A definite schedule of
these meetings will be sent out very
soon to the teachers by Supt. J. Clyde
Akers, who is chairman of the Boys
and Girls club work on the Farm.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
GOVERNMENT CONTROL
OF RAILROADS

Director General McAdoo has an
nounced that while the railroads are
under the control of the Government
it is futile to impose fines upon them
for violations of the law and of the or
ders of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and it therefore becomes the
duty of the Director General in the
enforcement of the law and said or
ders to impose punishment for willful
and inaccessible violations thereof
upon the parson Or persons response
bic therefor. ~
It is also announced that when the
prompt public transportation service
requires it, employees will be required
to work reasonable amount of ov-
ertime, but excessive hours of en-
ployment will not be required.
Pending a disposition Of the ques-
ton of wages and hours, all requests
of employees involving revisions OF
schedules or general changes AFFECT
ing wages and hours will be held in
allegiance. The question of wages
when determined will be made retro
active to January /, 1918.
The Director General states that if
he is notified of the location of spe-
cific supplies for transport to Europe
and the port or ports in the United
States to which such supplies should
be sent he will guarantee the neces-
sary transportation subject alone to
Interruptions from billiards and
floods. :,
All officers and employees of the rail-
roads, says the Director General, now
serve the Government and the public
interest only. He asks them to get
tie spirit of this new era-a supreme
devotion to country and an invincible
determination to perform the impera-
tive duties of the hour, cooperation,
not antagonism; confidence, not sus-
picion; mutual helpfulness, not grudg-
ing performance; just consideration,
not arbitrary disregard of each others
rights and feelings; and an earnest
desire to serve the great public faith
fully and efficiently. To save Ameri-
ca, to save the world from despotism,
we must work together.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
Etate Of Ohio. City of Toledo,
y r1..-k..

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner of the firm Of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo. County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9Th day of December.
A. d. 1885. A. W. GLEASON,
(SeaD Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Medicine is taken, in
ternally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
I Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halrs Family Pills for constipation.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
NOTHING ELSE LIKE 1T
IN PENNINGTON

There has never been anything in
Pennington with the INSTANT ac-
ton of simple buckthorn bark, gly-
cerine, ETC., as mixed in Adler-i-ka.
ONE SPOONFUL fiushes the EN-
TIRE bowel tract so completely it re-
lieves ANY CASE sour stomach, gas
or constipation and prevents appendi-
citis. The INSTANT, pleasant ac-
ton of Adler-i-ka surprises both doc
tors and patients.-E. M. Laakman,
Druggist.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
A BILIOUS ATTACK

When you have bilious attack
your liver fails to perform its func-
tons. You become constipated. The
food you eat ferments in your stom-
ach instead Of digesting. This in
flames the stomach and causes nausea,
vomiting and terrible headache. Take
Chamberlain's Tablets. They will
tone up your liver, clean out your
stomach and you will soon be as well
as ever. They only cost quarter.
Obtainable everywhere. (adv.)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08
ESTRAY NOTICE

Taken up, at my place at Leading
ton, Mo-, on Feb. 90, 2-year-old
black mare mule, with red nose. Own
err can have same by paying for keep
and expenses. CHAS. CHAZELLE,
Route 4, Box SO, Pennington, Mo. 9-3t
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08

Mr.. Taft says that peace talk Is now
treachery or ignorance. Anyway,
it boosts the junker slave lords, which
is highly inappropriate.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08

All Of us endorse the STAMP act"
now in force. But endorsement is not
enough. Buy 'em!
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08

There was something vile and
wrong with the Germany system Of
education that left the race in a con-
dition Of intellectual slavery TO band
kind Of government and criminal
philosophy without initiative enough
to strike for their own liberty, as true
men have done in all ages.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-08

When his finish came Abdul Ha-
mid said he was satisfied and willing
to go. We don't doubt it. He had
300 wives.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-19
VICTORY BOYS AND
GIRLS GET PRAISE
$685. Contributed to United War
Work Campaign Through Their
LaborS--State Exceeds Quota.

The state committee, in charge of
the United War Work Campaign.
which came TO ( close yesterday, is
giving much praise to the school
! children of Maryland,who, by work
! ing after school and on Saturdays,
have pledged S5S,S55. The students
Of each grade We're allotted Il certain
amount. and asked to earn this mo-
ney to help the mon overseas get the
proper kind OF entertainment and Ia-
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-19
MOVING PICTURES AT
ARMORY FRIDAY NIGHT
Explain Battle Scenes, Showing
Work of Society at The Front.

Nobody doubts that the money Civ
en- Red Cross Society is spent to
the best advantage, but few people
realize just how far their dollars go,
service for the Red Cross. One
reads much about the way the ambu-
lance drivers and stretcher bearers
go out on the field after a battle.
and while the stray shells burst
above them, they gather up the
wrecks of human life and endeavor
to get them to the nurses, who wait
at the hospitals for the arrival of
wounded men, that they may minis
ter tenderly and mercifully to them.
One hears, but one would rather
see these deeds of valor, to be an eye
witness to the real scenes which took
place in France, when American men
grappled with the enemy. Thou
sands Of them fell, and everybody at
home wishes to know Just how much
medical attention and mercy they
received, and how their Gaping
wounds were closed.
All these things and many more
will be shown and explained by Dr..
Perry Friday night at the Armory,
and as this is q public meeting, it is
hoped that everyone will attend. No
money wiz he asked for and no Sub-
scriptionS taken.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-19
War Work Notice.

The Executive Committee of the
United War Fund Campaign, togeth-
er with quite a number of the solicit
tors, for Cambridge, met last night
at the Armory to canvass the returns
and they found that the district is
from $500 to $4,000 short, and the
solicitors are requested to see all
those that they have not already
canvassed and to make an appeal to
those who have not met their allot-
ment to do so, and increase their sub
scription as much as possible, so that
Dorchester county viii meet her full
obligations, as all the other counties
on the Eastern Shore have done.
The tie for raising quota has been
extended two days, but all pledges
will have to be turned in tomorrow,
Wednesday, Nov. Goth.