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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
ABOVE ROUND OF ROUTINE
Who Have Their Nose Constantly
on Grlndstene.

A certain vice president of great
much rather have In his employ train
dispatcher who had cigar in his
mouth and his feet cooked up on
the desk than one who kept his nose
too closely To- the erindstone. As he
had come up through the ranks the
vice presidents opinion was seasoned
with accurate knowledge aud expert
ence. His theory was that the dis
patcher with his feet cooked up had
his road In better shape than the grind
stone exponent. and could figure out
the moves on the transportation chess
board better.
An Official " probably the largest
corporation In the world was reported
10 the head OF the corporation by q
large stakeholder ~ continually loaf
ing and looking ont " his office win.
low. The president assured the stock
holder that the man was not loafing
hut thinking, and that his plans had
saved in one year more than his salary
for twenty
You can 10 through the office OF the
National City bank az New York, the
largest bank In America. and find men
sitting at glass.topped desks on which
there is not n scrap OF paper Yet the
daily business of this bank would keep
dozen country banks busy TO ca
pacity.
You can pick at random one hundred
try and find more than 90 per cent sit
ting at desks absolutely bare.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
PLENTY.

David 10 four years old and q patient
Of Sunpyslde. One morning the nurse
entered the room during "rest hour"
and David exclaimed:
Miss, ! cleaned up oil the
crumbs from my crackers and jelly and
washed the stand all nice and clean"
"But where did you get the rag to
do your cleaning withf
"Oh just took my wash rag and
towel"
And where did you get the wsterr
"Oh l had plenty Of water. You see.
I got II out Of the goldfish bowl."--ln-
dianapOlis Star.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Suggestion for a Camping Trip.

Buy a bottle of Chamberlain's Collie
and Diarrhoea Remedy before leaving
home. As rule it cannot be OBJ
tanned when on a hunting, fishing OF
prospecting trip, Neither can it be
obtained while on board the cars or
steamships and at such times and
places it is most likely to be needed
The safe way is to have it with you
ADV.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
One Of the Best.

"You say you were misQuoted In the
public prints?"
~ do" replied Congressman Twob-
BILE.
That's an old excuse"
"Quite true. but it's still service
able. sir; stili scrviceable."
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
No Habits.

Mistress (to prospective colored
maid)-And you're sure II took you
I'd have In you Il reliable servant?
Ebony Applicant-Yes, honey, you
kin trus' me; amt got no habits at
all, - habits whatsomever.-Judg
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Documentary Evidence.

$50 you are sure your grandfather
was an optinist who trusted human
nature implicitly"
absolutely sure. While going
through some Of his old papers found
lot Of stock In perpetual motion
machine"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Rsverss cackis.

Mrs. Plymouth Rock Tat 10 q. m. e.
eitediy)---Ob Chantey. must have
hardening Of the arteries
Mr.. Plymouth Rock---what put such
a silly idea into your little head, Hep.
py1
Mrs. Plymouth Rock--l laid an egE
early this morning and now just die
covered It's china
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Removing the Annoyanee.

"Can't Won assume little more
pleasing expression OF countenancef
asked the photographer.
"Y-yes. sir" hesitatlngiy answered
the sitter. "Wait n minute and I'll
take or these new shoes.
Tit-Birs.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Army No Place for Him.

ITS disgraceful. an able-bodied man
like you selling umbrella rings In
the street Why don't you go in the
army"
whats the use. mum? The harmy
don't want umbrella rings."--London
Tit-Bits.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
What They Are,

"There are some strong features In
this advertisement of Mrs. Faker's
boarding house"
81 guess II left out the coffee and
put In the butter"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Aerate the Brute.

"'Man's love Is OF mans life thing
apart. IT'S woman's whole existence.
~ know the quotation. What about
IT,?
THAT'S II good line for wife to
spring when her mutt OF husband
tries to hold out n dollar ON his pay"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
A Literal One.

"Has your daughter, who wants q
career, selected any special calllngT
"Oh. yes. She's got Job as tele
phone operator"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
The Way Of u.

"Your dog reminds me OF some
men,"
"HOw SOP
''In the way he is always practical
ly asserting he can lick any man In
the community and In giving tongue
to his challenge"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Miuhtier Than Sword.

THE pen Is mightier than the sword;
But II you'n stop and think,
The pen liz mighty little use
Without a dip OF ink.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26

SETTING A HIGH MARK.
First Artist--Did you ever make
any pot-boilers?
Second Artist--No. success has
asver crowned my efrorta-
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
The Exclamation.

"There is something creepy sbou
the house we live In"
Dear me no ghOstsr
~No; the baby"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26
Ciinu TO II

Cling TO t.
Money isn't everything
Some declare.
But I notice that they cling
To their share.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26

For a pesslm!st, you are quite
cheerful"
I'm what is known as an opti-
mistic pessimist."
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26

Everyone should do all he can to
provide for his family and in order
to do this he must keep his physical
system in the best condition possible.
No one can reasonably hope to do
much when he is half sick a good
share of the time. II you are con-
stipated with indigestion get a pack
age of Chamberlain's Tablets and fol:
low the plain printed directions, and
YOU will soon be feeling alright and
able to do a days work.-Adv.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-07-26

And between times, buy a few War
Savings Stamps.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31
: = .
FENNIMORE.


The Times says:
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Decker well
coined dandy 8 h. baby girl to their
home Monday.
Alex Vance writes from Usage, Ia,
that they buried their old friend and
neighbor, George McGhan, Thursday
He moved from Fennimore more than
90 years ago and was over 80 years
old. He was an uncle of the Fry boys
on Green River.
Miss Elizabeth Reuter- of Cambria,
Wyoming, is the guest of Miss Esther
Weber during the holiday vacation.
The young ladies are students and
roommates at the National Kinder
garten school in Chicago.
E. ]. Jackson returned last week
from short visit with relatives at
Cuba City. He left Tuesday for Jack
sonville, Florida, where he will spend
the winter returning in the spring by
waterway up the Mississippi river.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Orr of Blake's
Prairie mourn the loss of their little
daughter Betty, who died in a hos
pital in Chicago
Joseph Him purchased a fine new
Buick sedan of the Automotive
Sales Co. and presented it to his fam
lily as Christmas gift It was driven
out from the factory the past week
and is surely dandy.
Paul Novinska died this morning
at his son Georges near Preston.
The scarlet fever quarantine has
been lifted from the Fred Rector Jr.
farm home, the hired man being re-
covered from the disease. Mrs. Wal
dorf has been helping in the home.
Monday we helped lay to rest our
dear old friend, Mrs. S. w. Rogers.
She was always a friend to us, as far
back as we can remember. Never did
we meet her but what she had such
kindly smile for us and such
CHEEKY greeting, it just makes our
heart ache to think they now have
become only a memory of the past
So good, so kind, so sympathetic, no
| body could help but love Mrs Rogers
Never did we hear one disparaging
word of others from her lips. In sor-
row we chronicle the news of her
death, which occurred Saturday night
from the effects of a bad attack
of pneumonia last February She was
in her Sind year The funeral was
held Monday from the home of her
daughter, Mrs A. B. Bailey, where
she had been tenderly cared for dur
ing her last sickness. Rev Kershaw
paid beautiful tribute to the ex-
emplary Christian life that has come
to close, mourned by the whole
community. A quartet consisting of
Mesdames j. R. Villemonte and Frank
lockwood, Grant Lewis and Rodney
Vickerman, sang, with Miss Harriet
Niehaus at the piano. The body was
laid to rest in the White cemetery.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31
Foreign

The government raided the main Of
fees Of the independent socialist party
at Berlin and arrested the party lead
ers. The Independents executive coun-
Gil was dissolved.
The bloodiest battle of the great
war was the battle of the Marine Of
fetal figures just compiled at Paris
show the losses were: Dead. $4,000;
wounded, 100000; total, 10000.
Citizens meetings in various parts
of Finland, according to advices from
Helsingfors, have voted in favor of in
PREVENTION in the anti-bolshevik cam
paign against Petrograd
A member of the northwest Rus
sian government has received mes
sage SAYING that Gdov has surrendered
to the bolsheviki. according to mes
sage from Helsingfors.
Hugo Haase, president Of the indie
pendent socialist party, died from
wounds received October s when he
was shot three times when entering
the reichstag building at Berlin.
The bill providing for the purchase
of the Grand Trunk railway system
was passed by the senate at Ottawa,
Ont, on record reading by a narrow
majority.
The Austrian delegation has handed
to the peace conference at Paris the
ratification document of the treaty of
st. German.
A wireless message from Vienna to
Berlin reports that Archduke Otto is
about to be proclaimed king of Hun
gary.
The railroad men at Granada. Spain,
decided TO strike unless discharged
men are reinstated within two days.
Troops of the Fifth infantry, which
arrived at Brest recently from the
United States, reached the Rhine at
Coblenz Friday.
Lady Aston has received the person
al Endorsement of Premier Lloyd
George in her candidacy for a seat in
the house of commons from the Ply
mouth district in England
A Russian holshevik communication
received at London reports the cap
ture of Ishim (75 miles north of Petro-
pavlovsk), with 1000 prisoners. The
communique also claims the capture
of 1000 prisoners at Ust Buzuluk. =
Twenty-Five persons. including some
high officials and bankers, are under
arrest at Carlsbad in connection with
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31

a coaI-hoardIng conspiracy. Ten thou
sand wagonloads of coal are involved
in the case.
The possibility of hostilities be-
tween the Turkish government at Con-
stantinople and the nationalist forces
headed by Hustapha Renal Pasha is
voiced in a dispatch received at Paris
from Athens.
The treaty of Versailles and the
peace settlement with Germany will
become effective, it is asserted in we'll
informed circles at Paris, November
%.
The first meeting of the council of
the League of Nations will be held in
Paris the supreme council decided. 1t
did not fix date for the gathering.
The Danish government at Copen-
hagen officially recognized the new re-
public of Austria as an independent
state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31

The second bomb outrage in two
days occurred 1T Donora Pa, when a
street car filled with steel workers was
hurled from the tracks by an explo-
sion of dynamite. Several of the men
We're bruised.
The 1920 national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic will
be held in Atlantic City, y. J., from
September 20 to October ?, it is an
nounced by Commander in Chief Dam
lei NJ. Hall, at Columbus, 0.
Brooding over the death of his son,
Loren, who was killed in action in
France, is believed to have caused
Theodore w. Peter. aged fifty, of Pay
son, Ill, to commit suicide by shoot
ing himself.
Home construction exceeded all 9TH
er building operations for the week
ending October "a last in the territory
north of the Ohio and east of the Mis-
sissippi, according to statistics made
public at New York.
Peter Berg. a merchant at Sioux
City, Ia, was injured fatally when he
was attacked by two men, believed to
have been intent on robbing his store.
His skull was fractured with Ratchet.
He died after he reached his home.
In order TO conserve Peoria's coal
supply, Mayor E. N. Woodruff has is
sued orders against the use of electric
advertising signs.
Albert G. Richie (Dem) was elect
ed governor of Maryland over Harry
w. Nice (Rep.) by plurality of ap-
proximately 900 votes at Tuesdays
election, according to unofficial returns
at Baltimore
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31
Personal

William McAdoo former secretary
of the treasury, has dipped into oil.
He has bought a 30-acre lease near
Wichita Falls, Texas, paying $1,000 an
acre. Il am willing to take chance"
he said
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31
WORLDS EVENTS
IN SHORT FORM
BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED
DOWN TO LIMIT.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Notes Covering Most Important Hap.
penlnes Of the World Compiled
IN 5riefest and Most Succinct
FERN for Quick Consumption.
Washington

- SSSftSSbSGOU
The ''red rally" the commingling of
the radicals and malcontents. anar-
chists and /. w. WIS, foreigners and
others to celebrate Soviet day. came to
sudden grief. Agents of the govern
ment at Washington made systematic
raids in nine cities of the United
States and captured about 600.
The first clause Of the treaty reser-
vations drawn by the foreign relations
committee, preamble requiring three
OF the other great powers to accept
the reservations, was adopted by the
senate at Washington, after many eff
forts to amend it had failed. The vote
was As to 40.
Realizing that the country is burn
Ing three times as much coal as the
mines are turning out, the railroad adj
ministration, the great coal distribut-
ing agencies, through it's recently Gre
ated central coal committee at Wash
ington. took drastic action in ordering
that the supplying of coal to foreign
owned ships in American ports be
stopped Immediately.
The house at Washington adopted
the resolution designed by the Repub-
lican leaders to force on the market
the army surplus automobiles. The
vote was 256 to 0, with three members
not voting present.
The government appealed to the SUI
preme court at Washington from the
decision Of Federal Judge Evans of
Kentucky, declaring unconstitutional
the wartime prohibition act and or
dering release of distilled spirits.
Government operation of the coal
mines for one year, or as much longer
as may be necessary for the public
good, was proposed in congress at
Washington as a solution of the coal
strike
Six employees were murdered and
more than $71 1896 in American gold
stolen from oil companies operating
in the Tampico oil region during July.
August and September. according to
reports received at Washington.
Authority to regulate the price, dis
tribution, production, sale, shipment,
apportionment and storage of all coal,
including anthracite, and coke was
given Federal Fuel Administrator Gar
field at Washington.
The government at Washington can
not accept the proposal of organized
labor to end the coal strike by vacat-
Ing the injunction against the officials
of the United Mine Workers of
America.
There will be no change at present
Ia maximum coal prices fixed by the
government, Doctor Garfield fuel adj
ministrator at Washington, told a dele
cation of operators.
President Wilson at Washington
set aside Thursday November q as
Thanksgiving day in a proclamation
which said the country looked forward
with confidence to the dawn of an
era where the sacrifices of the nations
will find recompense in world at
peace"
President Wilson Will return the
railroads to their owners ON January
/, 1920, whether congress has passed
comprehensive railroad bill or not,
Walker d. Hines. director general of
the railroads, told Senator Cummins
at Washington.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31
Domestic

Unofficial returns from 90 Kentucky
counties in Tuesdays election showed
a majority of 4,509 for the statewide
prohibition amendment and indicated
that the amendment had won.
Sixty-five passenger trains were cut
from schedules by Chicago railroads
in an effort to make the 2,2S2. 2S6 tons
of stored railroad fuel outlast the
strike.
Union drug store employees from
registered pharmacists to soda clerks
and porters, struck in Greater New
York to enforce demands for higher
wages and shorter hours.
H. o. Eviston, passenger in an air.
plane, was burned to death at Kansas
City, Mo-, when the plane fell 90 feet
and was destroyed by fire.
The amendment to the federal Con-
stitution giving women the right to
vote was ratified in the house at Au-
gnsta, Me-, in concurrence with the
senate. The vote was 70 to 6S.
Ten union mines In the New River,
West Virginia coal fields resumed OPP
erntiOns, according to reports to Wash
iBgtOn headquarters of the operators.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31

The first clause of the treaty reser-
vaions drawn by the foreign relations
committee, a preamble requiring three
Of the Other great powers to accept
the reservations, was adopted by the
senate at Washington, after many eff
forts to amend it had failed. The vote
was As to 40.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-31

The "red rally" the commingling of
the radicals and malcontents, anar-
chists and I. w. WIS, foreigners and
others to celebrate Soviet day. came to
sudden grief. Agents of the govern
ment at Washington made systematic
raids in nine cities of the United
States and captured about 600.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-28
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER.

Stop n minute and think what it
means to say that "Green's August
Flower has been household remedy
all over the civilized world for more
than half century" No higher praise
is possible and no better remedy can
be found for constipation, intestinal
troubles. torpid liver and the deprcss-
ed feeling that accompanies such dis
orders. 1t is most valuable for in
digestion or nervous dyspepsia and
liver trouble, coming up OF food, pal
pitatlon of heart, and many other
symptoms. A few doses of August
Flower viii relieve you. It is gentle
laxative. Ask your druggist. Sold in
all civilized countrics.-Adv.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-28
Close with Adoption of Greed.

Detroit, Mich.-The Y. NJ. c. \. of
North America closed the business ses-
sions of its forIieth annual convention
with the adoption of the principles
of the social creed set forth by the
Federated Council of Churches of
Christ and the interchurch world
movement. The present state of un-
rest throughout the world, Harry
Stone, general secretary of Portland,
Ore, declared, demanded that the
convention adopt a progressive and
forwnrd-looking program.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-28
KNEW HE WOULD BE THERE
Innkeeper Evidently Had Implicit
Faith in the Punctuality of His
Coming Guest.

An old Englishman, James Scott by
name, travelled about on business un-
til he was nearly eighty years of age
He became celebrated for his punctu-
ality and methodical habits. Upon one
occasion gentleman stopped at an
inn much frequented by Mr.. Scott and
saw fine fowl cooking.
'"That looks very good" said the hun
CRY guest. you may serve that for
my dinner
'.You cannot have that, sir" replied
the landlord. THAT is being cooked
for Mr.. Scott, the traveller"
81 know Mr.. Scott very WELL" said
the gentleman. -Is he stopping here?'
"Oh, no. sir" answered the landlord.
"But six months ago he ordered fowl
to be ready for him at precisely two
o'clock today, and we are expecting
him every minute"
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-28
Prevent Radical Meeting.

Reading, Pa,-Fully 1000 citizens,
many of them American Legion mem
bers, with small number Of women,
paradcd past The Socialist and radi-
Gals headquarters here before big
mass meeting. in the square in front
of the court house, which made the
radicals change their minds about
holding Dcbs amnesty parade and
mass meeting. Tile parade was called
off entirely.
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-28
GRADUALLY ACCUST0M
LAMBS TO RICH FEED
Animals for Fattening Are Put
on Dry Pasture.
After Two or Three Days They Are
Turned Into cornfieId-Shelter Of
Some Kind 10 Advisable
Provide Plenty Water.

Lambs bought on the market for fat
tening must be accustomed gradually
to rich green feed like rape. soybeans
or cowpeas, says the University of
Missouri College of Agriculture. The
method commonly used by successful
feeders is to put the lambs on IA COM
paratively dry timothy or bluegrass
pasture upon arrival at the farm.
Here they are allowed 10 rest and fill
up on grass for a couple of days. An
abundance of good clean drinking wa
ter should be provided at all times.
After n day or two the lambs are
turned into the cornfield for about an
hour, following their morning fill OF
grass. They are then returned to the
bluegrass or timothy pasture. This
operation is repeated for three or four
days, and the time the lambs are al
lowed in the cornfield is increased
about an hour each day.
1t is not easy to drive load or two
of lambs out of large cornfield, and
The Ordway new era., 1919-11-28
LANSING WILL ASK INVASION OF
MEXICO TO SAVE
JENKINS.
U. S. MAY INTERVENE
MUST END MENACE TO AMERi-
CANS OR TAKE THE
CONSEQUENCE.
western Nsw.paper Union New. service.

western Newspaper Union News service.
Washington, Nov. 24.-Unless Car
rama releases the American consular
agent, William O. jenkins, and prom
ises to permit no further m0lestation
of the official. the administration will
be face to face with the question of
fulfillment of the threat 1t made in its
ultimatum to the Mexican government.
What the administration will do in
the event that CarranZa flouts the
United States has not been determined.
1t is known, however, that Secretary
Lansing will urge the President 10
sever diplomatic relations nt once and
to intervene primarily for the rescue
of Jenkins
In taking this stand for aggressive
action in dealing with CarrnnZa, Mr..
Lansing has the support of several
other members of the cabinet. all of
whom are prepared to press Mr.. VIII
son to adopt the course proposed.
If it becomes necessary TO intervene
for the rescue of jenkins II is probG
BILE that there Will he n combined mil
itary and naval operation. The navy
would take Vera Cruz again and troop,
would he Tended there and transported
over the railroad to Pucbla, where
Jenkins is incnrccrnted. Al the same
time the military would seize the Mex
lean railways ut the American border
and proceed southward to Puebla.
In considering these plans the ad-
ministration is mindful of the fact
that If the United States intervenes
again. whatever the Immediate pur-
pose, IT will he necessary TO stay in
Mexico until Mexico is pacifl6d and the
menace to America ended forever.
Gen. Alvaro Obregon, candidate for
the presidency of Mexico, is on his
way by sea to Manzanilo, on the west
coast of Mexico, on II campaign tour.
He took the sea route, it is reported
in advices from Mexican sources, be-
cause of the danger of travel by land
| through regions held by various rebel
| bands. After II short time on The west
coast, Obregon plans to 90 directly to
| Mexico City, where he will carry the
| campaign against Carranza and Luis
Cabrera into the heart of the "enemy's
country" He expects TO arrive in
| Mexico City late next month and VIII
attend the convention of the Liberal
| Constitutional party, which, II Is under
stood, will indorsc him as its candi-
date.