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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

Mrs. L. Nicholson and daughter
Frances Virginia spent from Satur-
day until Monday with her sister,
Mrs Chas. Dempsey in Shelbina
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

The Monroe Auto Co. has two
five.passenger Overland cars that
they offer at a low figure. They are
both in good repair.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Marsh Baker and
daughter, Mrs. j. L, Beckley of
Sheridan, Wyo. visited at the home
of Edward Baker and family here
Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

When you are looking for a good
place to eat 60 to the restaurant on
Winter St.. and be served with the
best by-Jim and Guy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09
Read and Consider

the peace conference have been
aalkine about the amount of the
German indemnify, the size of the
fine that should be assessed on.
Hunland for its recent attempt to
chain the world down in links forg-
ed in Essen.
And from time to time someone
has recalled that the Hun had
fixed the Amount to be collected
from America at S40000,000,000
That is right. 40 billion dollars.
Unlike the allied peace delegates,
Germany was never in any doubt
about how big figure should be
named. They had the indemnity
figures all worked out for the allied
nations And you can gamble that
they would have collected every
dollar, every franc and every pound
uof the amount. too Your Hun was
never gentle little mild hammered
irresponsible when it came to tax.
ing what he wanted. He would
have collected.
Thanks to the free nations of the
earth, the Hun is in no position to
make any demands. In fact, so
badly was he battered in the pro.
cess of whipping him that he is
hardly worth making any demands
upon at the present time.
But consider. We have raised,
,up to the Fifth Loans beginning,
;about $l8,OOO,OO0,OOO in Liberty
loan funds. Not quite half as
much as the Hun would have as
sessed upon US had he come to New
York and Washington to have re-
.ceived our submission.
ENGermany had won this war
at this very minute the wheat that
is stored in American elevators
would be going into the holds of
vessels bound for Hunland. Every
warehouse in this country would be
~emptying of its raw material.
In every bank German non-com.
oGDissioned officers would be making
IAN Inventory of the vaults. the
strong boxes aud the safety deposit
"G bosxs. Germanin formers, the cat.
tile who have been among us fol
years. would be marching up to the
Hun conquerors and turning in
their Deiehbors, describing just
where valuables might be found
that would 60 to swell Hun loot
from America.
Gray clad soldiers would be eoine
from house to house and from farm
20 farm satisfying themselves as tt
what loot could be gathered up and
carried away. In every corner o
the country the sraybacks of the
kaiser would be sucking the life
blood out of the nation. And-ii
you are one of those pacifist souls
who refuse to believe anything lik'
that could happen anywhere-wh!
then you had best talk to some Of
the returned overseas men VIII,
have seen what the Hun did Il
northern France and Belgium.
No home would be safe, no WON
an could call her soul her OWL
Everywhere the fabric of civiliza
ton would be smashed and tor
just as it was in Belgium AM
France. We know what the HUI
would do for we know what he di
do, and what he has done. -
This country would have bee
made place of despair and dealt
Like Poland, like Serbia, like RI
mania and Belgium and mort
France. We know what the HUI
did when he had the power.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

Two good Overland used cars at
q bargain if taken at once. Monroe
Auto Co.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

See 'Kultur"-a daring exposure
of scandals and crime that rocked
the world-at Gem Theatre Monday.
May 18th, 15c and 25c.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

You will find all kinds of good
things to eat at Christians Cafe
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

Mr. and Mrs, w. W. Longmire
were Hannibal visitors Tuesday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

A bargain-two used five-pas-
senger Overland cars in good repair.
Monroe Auto Co.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Hays left
Sunday for Arapahoe, Neb., to at.
tend the funeral of the latter's
grandmother.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

Miss Carolyn Jackson visited over
Sunday at Clarence the guest OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Perry.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-05-09

If you want to buy, sell or trade
a farm see the real estate firm OF
WOOdson & Drescher, Monroe City
Mo.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
THE BOND ELECTION.

A real step forward was taken by the
city council when it ordered an election
to determine the issuance of bonds in the
sum of seventy thousand dollars for paw
ing and water works extension and improve
ment. A disastrous step backward would be
the rejection of the proposed issue by the
voters of the city.
But it is almost inconceivable that the
citizens of Dawson will not give an over
whelming expression of approval to the
proposition. Such a course is demanded by
present imperative needs and by hopes of
future growth if they are to be justified
Part of the city, large part, is absolutely
without fire protection. 1t is a condition
which is unfair to the taxpayers who live
in those sections A more adequate protec-
ton, too, is needed in the factory and bus
mess sections unless the safety Of the town
is ultimately to be endangered. Again, the
entire water supply of the city is dependent
upon one well. Another one is imperatively
needed, and is contemplated in the water
works extension plan. 1t is estimated that
the cost of such improvements will be about
forty thousand dollars
AS 10 the paving proposal Dawson is one
of the few towns of its size in the state
where the business streets are not paved.
The condition Of our main thoroughfares
in rainy weather is a reproach to the town,
and provokes the adverse comment Of every
visitor here. Further than this, it has been
the universal experience of all cities that
the paving of the business section of such
towns has marked the beginning of an era
of civic development along all lines. We can
not hope for a real and substantial advance
ment until we get the paving. The citys
portion of this proposed improvement is es-
timated at about thirty thousand dollars.
Dawson has reached crisis in its affairs.
1t is either going forward or backward.
There is one way now to stay retrogression
and insure the towns future prosperity
vote for bonds
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
Rotation of Crops.


The employment of a simple, uniform and
thorough system of cultivation will invaria-
bly, improve and maintain the fertility of
soil. No matter how fertile soil may be at
first its continuous production of the same
or similar crops will rapidly decrease its store
of plant food, whereas a proper system of
crop rotation will result in the maintenance
Of its fertility.
Humus (decayed vegetable matter) is one
of the most important fertilizing elements
of virgin soils which, combined with nitro
gen, renders active in the promotion of plant
growth the soil bacteria, without which the
soil would be utterly barren The continuous
growing of wheat or other grains or cult
waited crops rapidly reduces the soils supply
OF humus and nitrogen, and hence from the
growing of leguminOus plants in a crop ro-
tation, such as clover, peas, and alfalfa
comes large increase of humus and nitro
gen in the soil.
But blowing under of green crops which
have but comparatively few roots, is not
as beneficial as is grass which grows in
solid mass. It's roots being uniformly dis
trlbuted through the soil, furnish in all it's
parts by their decay an abundant supply of
humus which dissolves the natural fertilizers
IN the soil and converts them into plant food
therefore, the system of crop rotation which
is best for both production and maintenance
OF soil fertility is two years grass followed
by cultivated crop, then two years of grain
crops.
The application Of commercial fertilizers
only, to produce and maintain the productiv-
ity of the soil when the same crops are
grown continuously, is unprofitable; but
where grains are grown in rotation with
degumes the cost of the commercial fertili-
ger will be much more than recovered At
the present prices Of commercial fertilizers
their use is not profitable on wheat, oats and
corn, except where they are grown in a sys-
tematic rotation with clover or some other
heterogeneous crop.
The less humus that is in the soil the small
er the probability of profitable crops by the
use of commercial fertilizers. As humus in
soils decreases they become less retentive of
moisture and in every way inferior for crop
production, while on the other hand an in
crease in the amount of humus results in an
increase of phosporic acid therein that is
still inactive and enables it to dissolve and
become food for plants If more attention
were given to the maintenance of an abund-
ance of humus in soils they would become
far more productive and require less com
mercial fertilzng
To KEEP the soil in the best possible condi-
ton system of crop rotation which alter
mates humus-producing and consuming crops
must be practiced. Two Of the former and
three of the latter with proper cultivation
will continuously maintain the soil in high
state Of productivity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
SPEED is IMPERATIVE.

The peace conference has reached the
point in its work where speed is imperative
1t has allowed the time since its first meet
ing to pass without getting the terms of
peace into definite form. Meanwhile the peo-
pie of Europe, inspired at first with the
idea that the United States had come into
the affairs Of Europe to remove the POSSIBLE
ity of future war and to bring relief from
the conditions in which the masses lived,
have suffered a relapse in their ideals.
Discomfort has taken the place of exalta-
ton, and a condition of personal irrespon-
sibility has become a menace in different
degrees to the peace and security of every
nation.
Europe demands the terms of peace. 1t
wants them at once. The pseudo nations
which would have accepted the decisions of
the conference at an earlier date concern
ing their boundaries and rights have become
aggressive for rights which conflict with 9th
er nations. Differences which could have
been adjusted with ease in the days when
the victory over the common foe inspired
and exalted all the elements of the allied
nations have since that time been convert
ed into mountains of apportionment, while
determination to have all that is desired has
taken the place of willingness to accept that
which could be given.
Every day of delay increased the opposi-
ton which the treaty of peace must meet.
The attempt now Of the commission to speed
up its work will convince the discordant ele-
ments that the delay in the past has been
deliberate, and that the conditions which
have resulted IS they believe, from that
delay could have been avoided had the con-
ference shown more energy. The course of
the conference during the next few weeks,
possibly days, will determine whether the
terms of the treaty can be carried out by
moral force, or whether military force will
be necessary to compel the defeated ma
tons to accept them. The longer the de-
lay in completing the actual treaty the great
er will the obstacle be to overcome.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
Dust Explosion.

Until the summer of 1878 such thing
as dust explosion" was unknown. No
doubt many such explosions had occurred.
but they were of small account and no in
vestigation followed to disclose the true ma
ture of the case. In that summer the Wash
burn Touring mills at Minneapolis. then the
largest in the world, exploded with terrific
violence. Several massive buildings with
granite walls two feet thick and particularly
strong mill construction were demolished as
If by an immense charge Of dynamite. The
flame of the first explosion was communicat-
ed to two other mills which also blew IN.
and three other mills were DESTROYED in the
contiagration that followed Eighteen men
were killed and many more were injured and
several millions Of dollars worth of propertv
were destroyed. The wheat bins continued
smoldering for months afterward in spite of
deluges of water poured upon them
investigation and experiment showed that
the explosion was nothing more than a rapid
combustion of the fine particles Of flour
which filled the air of the mills. Since then
1t has been discovered that many of the
coal mine explosions are primarily dust en-
plosions following a "wndy shot" made bv
some careless blaster.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
THE VICTORY LOAN.

The United States must have $5,000,0OO,-
600 to pay war bills already contracted, and
$4,000, 100000 to bring its soldiers back
home. 1t has spent the first amount, and it
stands as a debt against the American peo-
pie. 1t must spend the latter sum to get
back on a peace basis. This is the long and
the short of the whole matter
The treasury might borrow this money
from the banks Of the country. If it did so
there would be no money for business, for
the sum is greater than the total cash of the
whole world. Business is conducted largely
on loans and if there are no loans possible
business and industry will suffer. The treas
ury has but one safe, business-like way to
raise the money, and that is on the credit of
American citizens, whose total wealth APP
proximates $3.50, 1000. The treasury
can maintain national credit only on the
voluntary pledge of individual credit.
The government at Washington is merely
the agent Of American citizens. 1t has con-
tracted all bills in their names and on their
responsibility. The principal is responsible
for the acts of his agent. So, in the last
analysis, the American citizen is the debtor.
and his property is subject to his debts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
Hey! Listen to This.
By o. B. Joyful.

by ~. D. Joyful.
Don't kiss blends; it's very menacing to
the health; brunets are safer"
Thus does DR.. John w. Kenney, of Bos-
ton, try to take TIE joy out of life. He says
it's very, very dangerous to kiss a pretty
glrl-if she's blond. Also it's just as dan
gerous The asserts) to kiss a homely blond.
And, girls, you mustn't kiss blond men, eth
err, for there's danger, too. That is, their
kisses are.
Maybe DR.. Kenney knows what he's talk
ing about. | doubt it. Chances are he's
talking through his hat.
| took the matter up with a lawyer
"Is it less dangerous to kiss a blond than
a brunet?"
"Well see," said the legal sharp, dragging
down an armful Of books
He found out of the last 19 breach Of
promises cases Is were filed by brunets
(safe kissing EN- EN-, doc?) and that in -
divorce suits nine brunei correspondents
were mentioned as against three bonds
The same question was put to the mar
rage license clerk
More brunei couples are married than
blOnds," he said.
Which proves that there's greater danger
Of falling into the matrimonial seas by kiss
ing brunei than a blond doesn't it?
Doctor, where 90 you get that stuff about
Its being safe to kiss brunets? Statistics are
ag'in you, doe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
ALOCAI, PROBT .F.M

Two families from another state desiring
to locate in Dawson walked the streets few
days ago in vain effort to find residences
for rent. Somewhat discouraged by the situa-
ton, they were finally fortunate enough to
secure apartments which they will occupy
until other ARRANGEMENTS can be made
If Dawson is ever to make any growth
some solution of the problem of housing new
citizens is imperative. If those who own lots
Dare not willing to sell them at a fair price
of course no more houses can be built
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
THERE'S NO SLEEP THERE

From the cambridge Post-Searchlight
No one would ever have thought that
the wlde-aWakc editor of the Post
Searchlight ever sleeps, but from the
vociferous manner in which he is de-
handing a sleeping car from Balm
bridge to Atlanta it seems that Brother
Pat Griffin takes an occasional nap, es-
pecially when en- route to the capital to
edit the legislature. AS it is now Editor
Griffin and other Bainbridgeites who
travel at night have to sit up until their
train connects with the Central sleeper
which serves DaWson.-Dawson News.
Now, "What makes you do like 70
do do?'' If fellow don't take a nap b,
fore he hits that bunch of he-devils he Wi
wind up in a bone yard.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
WE HELP EACH OTHER.

From the Marietta Journal
Dawson draws trade from a wide terri
tory" remarks The Dawson News. and the
patronage accorded that splendid paper bv
Dawson business people is largely response
bic for it. BY the same rule there is no rea-
son why Marietta should not enlarge her
trade bounds in all lines. True, she already
has much trade from a distance, but few
lines of business here would find it a prof
table venture to use little more printers
ink.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
NO SAFE WAY
From the Marietta Journal.

From the Marietta Journal
About the only way liquor may be
safely imported into Georgia is to use
the human system as the carrying tank.
Dawson News.
About the unsafest way of importing liq-
uor into Georgia is to make the human svs-
tenn carrying tank, for when YOU put such
tank into an automobile, or on train, or
anything else it usually winds up in the
ditch or worse.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
LADY EDITOR INQUIRIES,

From the Vienna News.
Is this a problem than can be solved
automatically or is it a problem at all?
When woman's skirt is only eighteen inch
es around the bottom what is the size of her
brain?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

The people of large part of Europe were
not so tired of war as the rest of the world
believed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08
WE THANK YOU.

From the Greensboro Herad-Journal.
Editor Rainey, of The Dawson News. re.
ferS to US as an old man when in fact, III
our balny youth, we cast our first vote for
Editor Rainey for prison commissioner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

Those senators and newspapers who have
been so vigorously defending the league of
nations covenant which the president
brought back from Paris are experiencing
little trouble in changing their positions
to the new one made by amendments that
have been adopted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

Spring is like the reformed smoker, but
finally becomes settled in its new habits.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

With no mention of the fighting going on
in middle Europe at this time it seems the
best way to eliminate war is to forget it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

Germany is adopting American ways. A
mob beat General Won Arnim to death.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

The puchase by the government of fifteen
army camps and thirteen aviation fields at
a cost of $1O,00O,OOO in addition to the
money already expended on them does not
have much disarmament ring about it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

Of course Dawson's voters are going to
authorize bonds for paving the business
streets. They couldn't do otherwise and
maintain their reputation for enterprise and
progress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

writer in New York paper says there
are 100000 ways to beat prohibition. He
could sell some Of them to Georgia boot
leggers at his own price
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

Terrell county is looking forward with a
great deal of interest to the coming of the
Confederate veterans, who will be our hon
ored guests June 1919.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

Eating is a lost art in much of central Eu-
rope according to some of the people who
have investigated the conditions
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

when is beer?' asks a contemporary
Where is beer would be of interest to more
people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

The man who was robbed by his newly
welded wife does not believe marriages are
made in heaven.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-04-08

We will probably get some kind of a
league of nations out of the present confer
ence.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-02-05
THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISEASE

No organs of the human body are
so important to health and long life
as the kidneys. When they slow up
and commence to lag in their duties,
look out.
Find out what the trouble is-with-
out delay. Whenever you feel nerv-
Gus, weak, dizzy, suffer from sleeplcss-
ness, or have pains in the back-wake
up at once. Your kidneys need help.
These are signs to warn you that your
Kidneys are not performing their func-
tions properly. They are only half
impurisies to ~een Accumulate " an and es be- cons
verted into uric acid and other pois-
ons, which are causing you distress
and will destroy you unless they are
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-02-05
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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-02-05

and Indian Camp Bays and bounded
on the North and Northwest by said
Berry Tract; Northeast by lands now
or formerly Of Estate of Levi f.
Rhame; South b. lands formerly of
Henry Skinner and lands of |. c..
Broadway, S. w. Broadway and Will
liam Rodgers, and West by lands of
William Rodgers. The said tract of
land being fully represented on plat
thereof certified by James d. Nc
Elveen ID. S. July 6, 1880, and record
ed in the Office of the Register of
Mesne Conveyance for Sumter County
in Book Xxx at page 120.
Less twcnty-four and two-tenths
(24.2) acres sold unto Eugene Har-
vim, and less fifty (50) acres sold unto
Julius DuRant and now owned by
Eugene Harvin and Rcbecca Harvin.
The following is description Of the
land ordered sold for partition.
All that piece, parcel or lot Of land
lying, being and situated in the Town
Of Paxvillc, County Of Clarendon and
State aforesaid, measuring forty feet
on each end and 114.8 feet and 97
feet respectively on the sides and
bounded on the North by the street
or public road leading from Paxvillc
to Manning; East, South and West
by lands now or formerly of Shadrack
Robinson.
Purchaser to pay for the papers.
f. b. GAMBLE,
80, Sheriff Clarendon County.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-02-05

captured distillcry Friday about
fourteen miles from Gaffney, on the
waters Of Big Thickety creek, on lands
which were said to belong to John
Blackwood. Two white men were at
work on the plant when the officers
arrived, but both men made their
escape carrying with them Jug
which the officers supposed contained
whiskey. The still was located at a
place which it was very difficult to
approach quietly, which accounts for
the fact that the men succeeded in
making their escape. The still, which
was of copper, and of about thirty
five gallons capacity, was DESTROYED.