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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. H. Layton. Pastor.

Sunday, November 10th:
Sunday school at 9:45; preaching
at 11:OO II. m. and 500 p. M, by
the pastor. Morning theme:
Militant Religion, or the Fight
ing Saint" Evening theme:
1.-THE Supreme Authority in
Evangelical Christianity. -
To any and all services we
extend a cordial invitation to the
public. Plan to attend district
conference next week. See full
program printed elsewhere.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08
Coal

We have a part car of Old Ben
cook stove coal which we will
reduce the price on if taken this
week and next. j. Paul Jones,
Feed, Coal and Insurance.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08

There will be regular services at
the Baptist church next Sunday
morning and evening. Richard
L. Stratton, pastor.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come
and Go During the Week

| IeSSlOnal VlSlC TO hanSaS City
Monday.
Mrs. Frank Kicker of Blookfield
spent Monday with Laclede re-
latives and friends.
Foxy Grandpa knows who's who
in Laclede. Read who they are in
next weeks Blade.
Geo. Wade and Ed. Mcdonnell
were in Chillicothe Tuesday ex-
changing wheat for flour.
Henry Rathert of Atchison,
Kans., visited his cousin, VIM.
Enrich and family here the first of
the week.
Miss. Kathryn Harter returned
home Wednesday from visiting
her sister, Mrs. Julia Hendricks
at Fort Scott, Kans.
Geo. Wilson and little daughter
went to Braymer Wednesday for a
stay with another daughter, Mrs.
Trowbridge and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Day who
are here from Kansas spent Tues
day with Laclede friends. Their
son, Dewey, is now in France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Jones and little
son, Jean Clay, motored here
from Hannibal last Saturday
evening for a short visit with
relatives.
Lieutenant J. G. Caldwell, who
went from Laclede to Camp Fun
ston a month ago, moved east this
week and is now stationed at Camp
Crane, Allentown, Pa.
Mrs. P. F. Rachford of Carroll
ton on her way to visit relatives
at Unionville, stopped off aud
spent a day with Mrs, l.. e.
Hamilton and family Monday.
Mrs. Fannie Maybee and her
sister, Mrs. Lucinda Brown, re-
turning to their home at Kansas
Citv from a visit with relatives at
Purdin, spent Sunday with La
clede friends,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. l.. Mossbarger
received word last week that their
son, Walter, who left here for a
training camp in August, had
arrived safely overseas. They
now have two sons in France.
Guy Stark and Grover F.
Peacher spent the latter part OF
last week with Harry Peacher who
is in the signal corps at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. Harry left
Sunday for Camp Meade, Mary
land.
Lee Landree, student at the
Missouri Wesleyan army training
camp at Cameron, spent Sunday
here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry l4andree. Lee looks
the real soldier in his neat fitting
khaki uniform,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Ormsby
and baby, Mary Frances, and Mrs.
Jones, motored down from Chilli
cothe last Friday and spent the
afternoon with Mrs. A. j. Cay
wood. Mrs. Viva Rowland ac-
companied them home for a short
visit.
Mrs. G. c. Bigger spent Friday
and Saturday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry BOyles northwest of La
clede. Mrs. Boyles, who under
went an operation two weeks ago
at KirksvilIe, was brought home
Saturday and is getting along
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08
Local and Personal

by ZR. King.
DR.. T. E. Sisson left yesterday
noon for st. Louis.
For sale-One Shropshire ram,
G. K. Dali, Laclede.
Barred Rock cockereIs $500
each. Mrs. Harry Landree, phone
81.
Wanted-MiddIe aged lady for
hoLsekeeper. Inquire at this
Office.
Luke Piggott took a car of hogs
from Forker to market Wednesday
evening.
The influenza ban having been
raised there will be regular church
services next Sunday.
If you want to see how a happy
bride gets by in Laclede read Foxy
Grandpa story next week.
R. T. Wallace took car of
cattle and hogs to the st. Joseph
market Tuesday evening.
M, f. Clay shipped out a car of
fat lambs last Saturday, buying
them from Mcdonnell Bros.
Plymouth Rock, cockerels for
sale at 81. so if taken this month.
Good ones. Ed. Mcdonnell.
Miss Gretna SpokesfeId has re-
turned after spending a few days
with Miss Gladys Henry at Brook
field.
Seventy-one head Delain breed
ing ewes for sale. Good ages and
a good herd. CIough & Edwards,
Forker.
9. E. Goosey took a car of
cattle and hogs of his own feeding
t" the st. Joseph market Monday
night.
Strayed from my barn. last
Sunday night, sorrel, sucking
mule, had halter on. Reward for
return. A. G. Groes.
On account of moving away
next week. j. Paul Jones has
resigned as a member of the school
board and E. Thurman has been
appointed to fill out the term.
On account of the district con-
ference to be held here the regular
meeting of the Reading Circle has
been postponed one week and will
be held Tuesday evening, Noyem-
Der 10.
E. l.. Brenner has bought the
Chas. Lloyd farm of 113 acres
southwest of Laclede on route one
and will get possession next March.
Mr.. Lloyd is now in Montana
looking for q location.
w. E. She'll returned home
Tuesday night after spending
week in Kansas City with Mrs.
Shell who is in a hospital. Mrs.
Shell underwent an operation
but her condition has not
any yet.
The Red Cross requests all who |
nave been gathering and saying
fruits pits and hickory and walnut
1ulls to be used in making gas
masks to deliver what they have |
20 the 81. G. Carothers store before |
lext Tuesday as shipment will be
made at that time.
w. S. Savage sent a car of
:attIe and hogs to the st. Joseph
market Tuesday evening for the
hipping association. The cattle
we're furnished by o. F. Alexander,
}. r. Rowland, II. w. Robbins.
+. F. Farrar, Dave Dick and Joe
Nnnnnn nnd the hnna hu ID z
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08

CIough & Edwards and j. NJ.
Kerr shipped a car of hogs from
Forker market Tuesday evening.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08
ON LOCAL SUBJECTS
Local Items and Interesting Bits Of
News of All Sorts

4. L. Humphfres of Forker was
here Wednesday on his return
from Kansas City where the day
before he marketed two loads of
cattle of his own feeding. He had
Al head that averaged 1,195
pounds and sold for $l5.25 per
hundred.
The republican majority in this
township was rs, with probably
that number of voters not going to
the polls. The election was un-
usually quiet, very little work be-
ing done. The prohibition amend
ment received 29O votes for it's
adoption, and 55 wet votes were
cast. Only 26 favored the single
tax amendment.
E. B. Gudgell went to st.
Joseph Tuesday and was accompan.
led home Wednesday evening by
his wife who has been in hospital
for the past two and a half years.
Mrs. Gudgell's many friends are
glad to know her health has
greatly improved of late and hopes
to be able to remain at home,
although she is not yet in con-
dition to receive many visitors.
The farmers about Laclede have
the livest and most prosperous CO.
operative shipping association In
this part of the state. There isn't
a week but what they send from
one to three cars sof stock to
market and the membership is
growing all the time. Manager
Savage gives the business strict
attention, is accurate and careful,
and the returns in every case have
been satisfactory.
Section Foreman Joe Albin is
taking a thirty day vacation, the
longest vacation he has had during
the 27 years he has been foreman
on the K. G. line. He left Tues
day night to visit his brother,
Henry, in Chicago and while there
will accompany his brother on a
visit to the latter's farm in
Michigan. Henry Albin, who
spent his boyhood days in Laclede
and is we'll known here, is yard
master for the terminal association
at Chicago, a position he has held
for a number Of years. Louis
Shaw has charge of the section
during Mr.. Albin's absence.
The Blade is in receipt of kind
letter from Mr.. and Mrs. II. F.
of Cameron, in which
they say: Another year has
rolled around and though there
has been many changes in Laclede
we cannot do with The Blade, so
please find enclosed one dollar for
another year." Their son, Francis,
was promoted to a major some
time ago but is retained at West
Point as instructor in mathematics.
He would like to go abroad but
MS orders are to remain here.
They had just received a letter
rom another son, Alva, from
Somewhere in France" He said
le was we'll, feeling fine and that
lis company was also all right.
9e is a captain now. Miss
Marguerite is a Red Cross nurse
ind is now stationed at jefferson
Barracks. All the rest of the
amiIy are at home and all well.
dr. and Mrs. Engleharr send best
,enards 70 nII I.nnleda friends.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-11-08
Hunting Notice

Hunters and trappers are warn
ed to keep off of all lands owned
or controlled by the undersigned.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-23
MILLIONS WELL GUARDED
 GOING FROM BANK TO BANK

In the course of daily business it is necessary for banks to transfer large sums of money from their vaults to the vaults of other banks. More or less risk usually attends the transfer of specie in a city, the temptation to highwaymen being very strong.
 Two Chicago banks and a transfer company have taken means to protect money in transit through city streets as thoroughly as it can be protected. On a motor car is mounted an omni- bus body built on 8 special design. The driver is completely enclosed by glass doors and windows. Just back of the drivers seat is the entrance door for the main compartment, which is also completely enclosed, with glass win dows and strong iron bars.
 The chief piece of equipment in the main compartment is large iron safe, in which the money is securely locked during each trip from bank to bank. But this is not all. Seats are so ar ranged for armed guards that the men sit facing the windows. They comp letely surround the safe with it's treas ure and at the same time have a clear view in all directions.
 The car has just been put into use Owing to the space required, the Dodge Brothers chassis on which the special body is mounted, was length ened out by means of a well-known truck attachment. At a glance, the car much resembles an ordinary omnibus, close inspection being required to ob- serve the iron window bars, as it glides swiftly through the streets.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-23
AUTO TRUCKS IN NAIL ROUTES
 NEW DEPARTURE BY GOVERNMENT

By JAMES l. BLAKESLEE Fourth Assistant Postmaster General In line with the policy of doing things fast and talking about them afterwards" the postoffice department has attempted in small way, to use the improved highway, the modern motor vehicle and the parcel post to enlarge the means of communication, increase the avenues of conveyance and ultimately bring the original food producer into as close a contact with the food consumer as possible.
 Of the 100000 miles of highways in the United States there are 1.122,753 miles over which no mail service is in operation.
 There is a total rural population of f3,9sl,l22, of which approximately 36,S2S,0O0 are provided with mail facilities.
 Therefore more than 1000. 900 rural patrons or aboue 1,5OOOOO heads of families are not provided with mail facilities.
 The expenditure for the collection and delivery of mail on rural routes is approximately S53,000.OO0 annually.
 The annual cost per piece of mail matter handled is S.0144. There is a very substantial loss involved in rural mail handling, in fact, over S3,OOO,OO annually
 On 44,O00 routes now transporting mail to and from rural patrons. an average of eight pieces of parcel post matter per route per day was delivered Co the farmer ~roducer. while only one piece per route per day was trans ported from rural patrons.
 lt is a fact that but 250 of the 44.OO0 ,1 ouSumcr emanate from the 90 largest postoffices in the country, or. in other words, from the 30 best markets in the United States. Because Of the limited distances traversed by such means of communication, none extend 10 the real
Arizona republican., 1918-06-23
IMPROVED ROADS
 MAKE POSSIBLE
 VACATION BY GAR

With the improvement in road building and the curtailment of pas senger service on railroads, many va cations this year will be taken in mo- tor cars And the careful motorist will see that not only his engine and tires are in good condition before he starts on trip, but he also will be certain that his battery is in proper condition to do it's work.
 Unlike tires, the condition of a bat tery cannot be discovered simply by examining the outside of it." said E. l.. Gislow, chief electrician for the West ern Machinery company, local electri- cal experts. Tt should be carefully inspected by a competent battery man, for in these days of battery ignition, the battery must be in good condition at all times The starter and lights can fail without serious trouble, but the spark must not fail"
 One of the great helps to the tour ing motorist nowadays is the Service Station organization of the Willard Storage Battery company. Over eleven hundred of these service stations over the country are provided for motorists and all are equipped to give expert battery service at all times. The mo- torist can get list of these service stations by calling at our office. Also we will test his battery and electrical evstefn for him before he starts on his Ion" trip, to be sure that it is right"
Arizona republican., 1918-06-23
-O--------- ODDITIES OF EQUINE WORLD
Scientific American.)

Scientific Amerlcan.)
 There are few manufactured, we may doubt if there be any-the knowl- edge of which is more encompassed than the horse and it's numerous con- geners. They are the only mammals now in existence which present the curious anomaly of having each of the four limbs terminated in a single. enor mously developed toe, with thick, inn mense nail, upon which it's owner treads.
 Far back in geological time the car Hest ancestors of horses were no bigger than foxes, and possessed several functional toes on each foot, three or each hind foot and four on each fore foot. These occur in the lowest Eo- cene, and doubtless were preceded by still smaller forms. So it must have have been at least two million years ago-and perhaps more-since the Eo- cene horses f1ourished in this country. and of these we have fossil remains. Darwin says that the history of the modern horse is lost il; antiquity.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-23

! farmer producer and are of no mater
 ial benefit to the millions of consum- CTS in the cities from which they start. The l56000 miles of highly improved
 hard-surfaced roads in this country
 are in the vicinity of these self same 50 largest postoffices.
 Consequently. the improved highway and the parcel post have not been in troduced to each other as yet; in fact, they are perfect strangers. We propose a program whereby not only the highly | improved, but many miles of ordinary
 roads, may in a short time be used in | the transportation of foodstuffs from | the producer direct to the consumer On the grounds of the evidence it was not only essential, but also obligatory ! upon the postoffice department to use the improved highway and to place thereon the modern motor vehicle, an ! efficient mode of transportation for 1 freight and passengers alike.
 We have reached a crisis in our na- | tional welfare where it is vital that we eliminate every useless or inefficient | operation incident to tba collection and distribution of our daily bread. There are localities within 150 miles of New ! York City from which not one single egg. not one pound of pork products,
 not one bushel of potatoes and not one pound of butter is transported into l New York unless it is handled at least
 seven times and in some instances as
 many as 20 or 25 times.
 There is not one of these handlers. ! be he truck driver. freight agent or | laberer at a transfer point or anyone
 else identified with the handling of this produce who handles a unit, without some proportion of his wage or salary | becoming part of the cost of market | ing the produce he handles and neces- sarily, the more the handling, the greater the cost to the consumer.
 So that when you provide a means of communication or of conveyance
Arizona republican., 1918-06-23

hat eliminates the profits Of the han dler, or that eliminates the cost of operations. whether seven or 20, you have paved the way for reduced food cost. It is perfectly feasible. simple and practicable to employ motor ve- hicle to assemble the produce at the door of the consumer, thereby elim- mating a tremendous number of use less and unnecessary handlings or op- erations. This in a few words is the sum total of the suggestions for the efficient manipulation of food within a distance of 150 miles from any good market center anywhere.
Arizona republican., 1918-06-23

Do not wart till tomorrow-phone and dispose of. or get what you want that WANT AID. to The Republican
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16
FOUR FACTORS IN GREATNESS
Why Certain Men Are Raised High
Above the Crowd.

The merits by which men of action
rise to greatness are four-intellect,
energy, courage and independence
says James Bryce In the Youths Com
panion. When those four are united
In the same person, and in quite ex-
ccptti0nai measure, they raise him nigh
above the crowd. Other men defer to
his opinion, trust his predictions, re-
peat his phrases, rely on his hrmness,
take him as their chief. If he sue.
ceeds in what he undertakes, each
success confirms his authority and sur.
rounds him with halo Of prestige. He
becomes power.
OF the four qualities enumerated,
that which impresses others Is indie
pendence, because it Is so rare. The
man who, perceiving difficulties and
dangers, will face them alone, In re-
lance on his own judgment and force,
is the natural and inevitable leader.
If he is large Of soul, true to his prin-
ciples and to his friends, he will win
affection and an even fuller measure
of confidence. But the impression OF
that indefinable thing we call great
ness depends after all chiefly on the
impression that he makes Of the pow
er Of initiative, Of an unshakahle res
olution. The mass Of mankind want
someone to follow, someone In whose
hands they can feel themselves safe,
as crew and passengers do when they
see their captain cool and dauntleSS in
the widest storm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16
BERRY PATCH FROM BARREL
How One Man Had Garden Despite
His Small Back Yard.

A Los Angeles man whose back yard
was too small for growing strawber-
ries conceived clever idea, which is
described in Popular Mechanics. He
made a strawberry patch out of a
barrel. Holes about II inches apart
were bored In rows in it's sides. Sew.
eral tin cans with perforated bottoms
were piled one on the other In the
center of the barrel and enough dirt
was thrown about them to fill the re-
ceptacle up to the first row Of holes.
After the dirt had settled sufficient
ly strawberry vines were planted In
the holes and allowed to hang outside.
This process was repeated until the
barrel was full and vines had been set
in all the holes and on the top. AS
the soil was added, cans were piled UP
through the center to provide an irri-
cation passageway. A hole was bored
In the side near the bottom to allow
water to drain OF.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16
How Automatic NJ achines Benefit Man.
kind,

Automatic macI.iues cut out the la
Dor Of three men, say. These men arc
permitted to go into f1eld where auto
matte machines haven't appeared yet.
1t is all good, declares Charles NJ.
Horton in Industrial Management The
machine has let loose these men In
order to let them work elsewhere to-
ward keeping the big storehouss UP
to demands. AMI SO on, forever, with.
out end. WheL all work Is done by
machinery, all mankind will have
leisure to pursue arts and the like to
their own hearts desirg. But get this:
Automatic machinery e mans friend
and not his enemy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16
Observation-Disclosures
uNW GRUBSTAKE Be
liz " CAME FORTUNE.

5 Probably the largest fortune {
: that ever came from a very !;
! small grubstake was that at :;
: Tombstone mines. when Richard !:
Grid got about $4,000, 900 from !
( grubstake of few hundred dol
!. lars and some scientific work. :
: In 1873. Grid, who had Been vain !:
ly seeking riches in mines for
I dozen years in South America, {
: and all over the Pacific coast,
!. went down to southwestern Ari- !:
IONA. The Apaches were raid !:
ing and numbering at that time,
!. and the territory was deserted !!
: by white settlers. Grid was told :
Z that he would get tombstone ;
z rather than fortune there. !:
: Hence the name Tombstone for !:
: the mines. !
: He found no trace % pay ore {
: where he expected 1t, and was
: about to come back to southern :
: California. !:
{ One morning he fell in with {
3 other prospectors, the Scheffelin !
!: brothers. They said they be- =:
!. Iieved they bad found rich ore, :
: but they waited to have it as
: sayed before they would risk !
: their lives in that Apache coun-
!. try digging for something that
! would not pay them. Grid was !
s an assayer. He agreed to do /
: the assaying at 1Iscon for the d;
!. brothers free and to give sew !!
: eral hundred dollars worth Of
: food and clothing for third in
Z tereSt in the mines, providing
the assay proved what he be- :
!. lieved it would be. That was in ::
! May, 1879. Mr. Grid sold his :
: third interest in the Tombstone I
!: mines in the following October,
J. after the memorable stampede :
! there Of 10000 miners from all
parts of the Union, for 50, 140,- {
600. !;
=
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16

Sunfower cultivation has become an
important industry In southern Russia.
where the people have found the seeds
of sunflowers a substitute for olives In
making oil. The Russian eats the
kernel Of the sunhower seed. An acre
of sunflowers yields about sixty
bushels of seeds, and these in turn
yield more than fifty gallons Of oil The
crushed seeds make excellent poultry
food and cattle fodder when pressed
into cakes, while the oil is a food pro-
duct as we'll as valuable in soap and
candle making.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16

The echidna, a Tasmanian mammal,
is a remarkable geological specimen
the females Of which lays eggs. from
which the young are Matched. like the
young of birds. This mammal. the
echidna,. is perhaps Of the lowest order
of mammals, and is a kind of con-
Meeting link between mammals and
reptiles They are about the size of a
baby porcupine, are covered WIN
strong spines set thickly all over their
skins, and by the way of "A nose they
have a slender and narrow beak or
white horn The cchidna has very long,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16

The deep blue OF the italian sky Is
not because rhe dust there is finer
than in northern lands but because in
the countries of the north, due to the
greater GOODNESS OF the air. the vapor
more readily condenses upon the dus'
particles The particles thus become
large. and consequently not so eHec-
tive in turning back the blue rays
alone, but others are also reflected. ana
a grayish light is produced.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16

sharp claws with which he digs deep
burrow. In this burrow 1t builds a nest
for it's young and deposits one or TWO
eggs, which are inclosed in a strong
flexible shell three -fourths OF an inch
in length by two-thirds OF an inch In
diameter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-16
How to Eradicate Consumption.

tIO" 90 q d5fSoSS Nk''oU1''Pe'V1ts
At the annual conference of the Ma.
tional Union Of Railway Men IN Man
chester, England, it was declared that
"the most effective way of eradicating
the fearful scourge of consumption is
to insure that the citizens are not lack
ing in nourishing food. healthy homes,
and reasonable facilities for leisure
and open-air life"