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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Improves Varieties of Soy Beans

The increasing utilization of the 10y
bean as food and in numerous manufsc.
tured products has resulted in an in.
creased public interest in this crop and
a consequent larger acreage, The United
States department of agriculture has ex-
tended its field work with soy beans
during the past year, especially in con
nection with the testing of improved
varieties selected from numerous intro
auctions from Asia. Much hybridization
involving the crossing of the nonshotter-
ing, smooth sort with standard CONNER
eial sorts has been done. Many of the
most important varieties now grown are
the result of the departments work.
Several recently distributed are in Ha-
berlandt, Va, Wilson. Five, Hahto, Bill
oxi, Black Eyebrow, Manchu, and Pc.
king. The testing of varieties for food
purposes has given a oft-boiling bean,
Easy Cook, superior to any other test
ed, and the Hahto, variety especially
valuable for use as a green vegetable.
Breeding work is being continued with
varieties of high oil and protein content
and high forage and seed yield,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
WILLTAMSTOWN

The stonecutting plant of the W. B.
Jones Granite Co. shut down last night
and viii not reopen till sometime next
week.
Miss Anna Wilfore of Mortified is
spending two weeks vacation with her
parents in town.
Arthur f. Whitney, employed in a
plant engaged in making shells in Bel
lows Falls, has lately spent a few days
at his home here. He states that the
firm is running both day and night shifts
and that there is three months work now
ahead unless orders are received making
a change
Mrs. Lena r. Briggs seems to have
passed the most critical point IN her i'll
ness and is now improving.
A letter lately received by A. S, Win
chester from his son Lindsay, now in the
service overseas, brings the news that he
has had an attack Of bronchitis and has
been in the hospital and is now better
and hopes to return to this country be-
fore long.
George Il. WILDER, who was appointed
school director to ill out the unexpired
balance of the year Of the term of the
late w. M. Williams, has placed his resig-
nation in the hands of The selectmen.
A son of j. A. Boudreau, who has been
at the sanatorium in Pittsford for treat.
ment, has returned home.
Schools throughout the town reopened
Monday after the Christmas vacation.
On account Of several Of the teachers in
the village school living at a distance,
the school did not reopen till Tuesday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Helps Reduce Insecticides Prices.

Chemical advice has been given by the
United States department of agriculture
to the food administration, and much
valuable data have been supplied to it
relative to manufacturers engaged in
making certain types of insecticides and
the Importance or nonimportance of va
rious insecticidal materials. A repre-
sentative of the insecticide and fungi
eide board has attended several confer
ences between the food administration
and manufacturers and has been able to
supply data Of value As result of the
activities of the food administration,
assisted by the department, the price of
arsenic asked by the producer has been
reduced from II TO l6 cents to cents
for carload lots and 9h e'nts for ship.
ments less than carload. This presum-
ably will lead to reduction in the price
of Paris greer. lead atsenate, and 9TH
err arsenical insecticides to the consumer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Coed 5000 for soldier. and sailor.

At the request of the secretary Of
war and the secretary of the navy the
department of agriculture has partici
pated in protecting American military
and naval forces against unwholesomc
food, says the secretary of agriculture in
his annual report. The federal meat in
spcction, which for years has safeguard
ed the civil population Of the United
States from bad meat in interstate com
merce, was extended to include the spe-
cial supervision of the meat supply of
the American army and navy. The ex-
animation, selection, and handling Of
meats aud fats are in expert hands from
the time the live animals are driven to
slaughter until the finished product is
delivered in good condition to the mess
cooks. Inspectors were assigned to the
various cantonments, training camps,
forts, posts, and other places in the Unit
States. where large numbers of troops
are assembled, and at the close of the
fiscal year there were 60 such experts
with the army and 30 with the navy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Regular meeting
The regular meet

The regular meet
ing of Clan Gordon,
No. IL, has been
postponed to Jan,
8, when the install
lation o + o fiji Ger s
will take place
Chief r oh ert j,
Stewart, Secretary
James w. Club.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Court Buys Lime Crusher for Farmers
Use.

When the fiscal court of Allen county,
KY, went with the county agent to see
a field demonstration where limestone
had made red clover grow abundantly
where before clover had been failure,
the favor of the court was gained to
the extent that when the court met in
regular session an appropriation was
voted for the purchase of limestone
crusher. The crusher cost $500. 1t is a
portable outfit, and for eight months of
the year the county agent, by order of
the fiscal court, has control of the ma
chine. 1t is talaen around from com
munity to community to crush the nat
ural limestone rock for agricultural Pur-
poses. This work is done at cost for the
farmers. In the other four months of
the year the crusher is used by the
county on road work.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
The Ships Report present.

When we entered the war in 1917 the
first fact we had to face was that we
were on one side of the Atlantic and
the scene of war was on the other. We
should succeed or fail according as we
were able to bridge that ocean and keep
it bridged, We must have ships for our
men, ships for our food, ships for our
munitions-ships and always more ships,
The constant limit upon our participa-
ton in war was the tonnage at our dis
posal, whether it was tonnage created
or begged, borrowed or stolen.
So the record of the United States
shipping board, as presented in its sec
ond annual report, is one of the war
epics, which should have a place on the
shelf beside the epic of the army and
that of the navy. The latter might pro-
tect the ships, the former might use
them for its purpose, but the ships them
selves had first to be provided.
The story of the shipping board is one
OF which Americans may be proud, be
cause it expresses two phases Of the
American genius: the ability to meet an
emergency and the capacity for produc-
tive enterprise on the broadcast scale.
The steady rise of the production curves,
for keels laid, hulls launched, ships com
Pleted, might fairly represent the curve
of America war effort, The raking and
scraping of ships from the far ends of
the earth, from Scandinavia an Siam,
from Japan and Uruguay, is expression
Of the spirit that faced and defed both
the oceans space and the U-boat.
Other war annals are ended. The an
nails of the shipping board and the Amer
lean merchant marine will continue. "The
board recommends that the program for
the construction of vessels az modified
to meet peace conditions should be car
tied through and should be extended. !"
That is the best part Boston Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01

Adoo asks that Congress decree, BY new
legislation that the government shall
continue the operation of the railroads
till Jan, |, 1924, in order to give the idea
a thorough trial. In this. suggestion the
date among other things, is not with
out its interest.
This would mean that two million
railroad employees, in the next presiden
tial election, would be asked to decide
whether they preferred TO work for the
government, as the Democratic party iii
Congress and the cabinet had arranged
or for private owners, as the Republican
opposition would be likely to provide
for How would similar question be
decided by Boston firemen? Not only
would the Democratic party be respon
sible for the proposed extension, but its
platform would be likely to call for a
continuance Of the existing system.
Then there is Jan. |, 1924, highly
significant date, on he edge Of a pres
idential election. Suppose the question
came up just before that--even so late
as the December session, which Congress
is now having-what members of Con
gress that you know would dare to vote
to take the business out of the hands
of benevolent employer and give it to
men who had something individually to
gain by successful and effective opera
tiong
The letter carriers put up monument
in New York to Sunset Cox because
of his activities in getting their salaries
raised and this they doubtless deserved.
But have you ever seen a monument to
ANYBODY who increased the efficiency Of
any government operation, and 50 less
ened NE burden resting on "the every
body through his cost of living? We
never did. Nor do we expect to see one
right awayl-Boston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
GRANITEvILLE.

The regular meeting Of Loyal Victor
lodge l. o. O. L., M. IT,, No. Al, will be
held Thursday eeying at Z o'clock sharp.
All members please bring cake. Per or
der noble grand. Margaret Murray.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01

Dance in Rowland hall tonight. Gil.
bertson's orchestra s pieces. Dancing
from till l. Admission 7jc per couple,
extra ladies l0c-adv
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

LOST Tuesday afternoon, probably on the
tracks from Blackwell street to Depot square
via NJ. & W. station, ladies black handbag ,
purse enclosed with amount Of money; finder
win be rewarded by returning property 10
Times office. sA5t2
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
BARRE DAILY TIMES
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY /, 1919.
The Weather.

Rain this afternoon and tonight
Thursday overcast and much colder
south winds shifting to west gales.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01
Dance Tonight.

Dance in Rowland hall tonight, Gil
bertson's orchestra pieces. Dancing
from 8 till l. Admission 75c per couple,
extra ladies l0c--adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-01

Clansmcn win please leave their due
cards at clan office on or before Thurs.
day, Jan. ?, for six-monthly audit. Per
aitditars
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
THE FOX HUNTERS ADJOURN.
Galloway and Audrian County Men
Included in Party Which Gave
Chase to Reynard Last Week.
lFulton Gazette.l

The members of the Galloway
County Fox Hunters Association, who
spent three nights on Auxvasse creek,
in northeast Galloway, last week, for
the purpose of giving Reynard some
exciting chases, adjourned Friday
morning. 1t is said by members Of
the association to have been the best
gathering in the history of the organi-
cation.
The fox hunters camped in the Men
tor Berry pasture and stories related
by some of the returning followers Of
the chase indicate that a great time
was had by everyone. They had thirty
of the best fox hounds in the county,
and if cold noses and rangy dogs mean
anything, they had all it requires TO
give sly old Reynard a hard chase.
After everything was loaded for de-
partude, Friday morning, three
goodbye" songs were sung by Walter
Harrison and Jake Buckner, Of Aux
vase, and Mr.. Bradley, of Mexico.
The following are members of the
association who listened to the chases
this week: H. H. Brown, Doyle Brown,
G. E. Craig, George Breckenridge,
Milt Armstrong, Ed Barley, Nope
BARLEY, A. A. Stahlman, Walter Har-
rison, Jake Buckner, Bus. Buckner
Harry Hatcher, Mr.. Bradley, Walter
Owens, John Craighead, Mr.. Potts
Chris. Herman, Ona LaRue, British
Herndon, Allen Dawson and many
others.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
URGES VAR ON CANCER.
One Woman Out of Every Nine Dies
From This Disease, Says DIR.

NEW YORK, October 28.-Reveal-
ing that one woman out of every nine
and one out of every thirteen dies
with cancer, DR.. William j. Mayo,
famous surgeon, of Rochester, MINI,
in an address before delegates to the
American College of Surgeons, in ses-
sion here, suggested that the medical
fraternity begin a campaign to reduce
the mortality rate from this plague.
He said:
"The arch enemy of middle age and
beyond is cancer, and our measures for
both prevention and cure have not ad-
vanced in proportion to the increasing
need. One woman in nine and II
mar in thirteen die with cancer, and
this proportion will be maintained in
the enormously greater number of per-
sons who reach the cancer age.
1--WE must spread more widely the
knowledge that chronic irritation is the
underlying cause of the disease. Good
dentistry has eliminated a p~ercentag.
of cancer of the jaw, due to the irrita-
ton of defective teeth. Cancer of the
lip and tongue is on the increase, a3
the habit of smoking is on the increase
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
GIVE A FARM TO COLLEGES.
Galloway Couple Make Annuity Plan

Gift to Westminster and Synodical
A Galloway county farm, valued ct
$32,500, has been decided by the owners
to the board of trustees of Westmin-
ster and Synodical colleges, and on
the death of the donors will pass in
fee simple to the institutions. While
the two donors live, they will receive
annuities amounting approximately
to six per cent interest on the prop
erty .
At the request of the donors, their
names are beng withheld by the col
lege authorities. Both the husband
and wife are we'll advanced in years,
and having looked around for methods
of doing good with their property,
they chose the two Fulton schools as
beneficiary of their industry and
thrift.
The gift, even when cut in two for
a division between the schools, is the
largest either college has ever received
in Galloway county. The only other
gift comparable with it was the farm
given by Mr. and Mrs. George S. Hall,
north of Fulton, to Westminster Col
lege while last years endowment CAM
paign was in progress.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
EDUCATIONAL
FUND TO PROSPER
President ]. w. Million, Just Home
From State Meeting, Reports Con-
ditiOns Most Favorable

DR.. Million, president of Hardin Col
lege, and a delegate from the Mexico
church to the general Baptist Asso-
citation conference in St. Louis Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday of this
week, returned to Mexico Thursday
evening. He says that in spite of the
fight of the first day of the conference
over Single Southern Alignment, all
the churches finally got together and
before the meeting closed it was deter
mined by each and everyone to work
harder than eve on the big program
for a total of $175, 100000 in the whole
United States, or So, 000, 900 as Mis-
souri's share. This is the largest pro-
gram evern undertaken by any church
to date. Missouri Baptists confidently
believe they will go over the top IN
their part of the program, which
e that the 81 800 900 Educational
budget will be secured. Hardin Cam
paign managers are equally confident
that Hardin will receive her full quota
of this big amount. On every hand DR..
Million was congratulated on the
fine results obtained in the Hardin
$4,000 0 campaign locally, and on the
widespread publicity the campaign has
had. The propaganda has reached
every corner of the State, and Baptists
everywhere are more familiar with
Hardin, its good work and it's enviable
reputation as we'll as its needs, than
they have ever been before.
DR.. Million has been assigned a GER
tain district to cover in the interest of
the whole campaign during the revival
meetings to be held all over the State
in November. Mr.. Nickerson, campaign
director, will also be assigned speaking
appointments so as to help impress
the Message of the whole campaign,
and that of Hardin in particular, on
the Baptists everywhere.
On Friday morning Mr. .Nickcrson
addressed the student body at Hardin
during the chapel period, telling them
of the progress in the campaign 20
date, and suggesting plans by whlcn
they may assist in furthering its sue
cess. 1t is possible that the students of
this year will want to organize for a
drive at the College so that their
student body may be remembered by
some gift which they as an organiza-
ton presented in this movement for a
Greater Hardin.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30

Lot 2 NWA 1868 E, Spencer Davis,
January /, 1859.
SWH 34-27-8 E. Spencer Davis,
January l, 1859.
NEH SWA VIZ SWA 4-51-13,
Doctor P. Brown, April Is, 1857.
NWA SEA 34-52-14, Joel T. Perk-
ms, April Is, 1857.
NJ SWA SWA SWA See. 81 and
NEA SEA 2S-5O-8 W, Henry Will
liams, April 10, 1875.
SEA Lots l and 2 SWA 19-52-10 W.
Benjamin F. Landers, March 2, 1897.
NEA SEA 3O-52-11, William D.
Marney, May I, 1854.
NEA NWA 30-52-11, Villain D,
Marney, May /, 1854
NEA SEA 14-52-11, Eli E. Bass,
December l, 1858.
So NEA 21-52-11, James S. Rollins,
December Is, 1854.
81 SEA IA, NJ NEA 23-52-11
Eli E. Bass, Nov. 1, 1853.
NEA NEA 15-52-11, Eli E. Bass,
Dec. /, 1853.
SWA NWA NWA SWA 1921,
John c. Mckinney, Dec. /, 1858.
Eh 5-51-11, William W. Stone, Jan
uary Is, 1856.
SEA M VIZ NEA 12-52-12,
David W. Turner, Dec. 1, 1857.
Eh NEA Eh SEA Sec. 10 and
VIZ NWA VIZ SWA 2O-52-11, John
P. Madden, April Is, 1857.
NWA NWA 1921, Sebastian 7.
Forshey, Nov. l., 1852.
VIZ Lot l NWA, VIZ, SEA NEA
SWA 6-52-11, John C. Mckinney, Oct.
10, 1854.
SWA NEA 12-52-11, James W.
Wills, Oct. 10, 1854.
VIZ NWA, VIZ SWA 1921,
Jefferson Garth, June 10, 1851.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
HATTON AM CONCORD.

Mrs. Bill Holt fell from a barn loft
while gathering eggs and was seriously
hurt. Mrs. Mollie Bright and Miss Bet
tie Hole are home from a pleasant
visit with Chas. Holt, of Michigan. -
Hugh Cottrell is in Kansas City for
treatment under DR.. McCleary. - Miss
Hattie Bailey had a pie supper last
Friday night at her school and Miss
Nellie Hoffman got the box of candy,
being the most popular lady in the
house. - Ben Middleton of Mexico was
in our vicinity buying mules. He knows
where to come for good ones. - j. j.
Pheeters will have a sale Nov. 7 and
will spend the winter in Oklahoma. -
S. ". Muir shipped three car loads Of
fat cattle to the St. Louis market. He
got $3.50 per hundred. j. w. Bailey
will ship a a load of cattle Monday
to the st. Louis market. - Miss Ella
Boyd visited her sister, Mrs. J. E.
Muir this week. - Mrs. John Tincner
of Hatton sold her farm and will move
to Fulton. She held a public sale
Thursday. Things sold we'll and
brought good prices. Dinner was SER
we'd by the ladies of Concord church.
They cleared 500. The cake baked by
Mrs. James Leeper, a music teacher,
sold for $50. - J. E. Muir sold his
walking mare to Howard Bailey Mule
Co., of st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30

SWA 32-52-12, Francis NJ. Wells,
April g., 1S49.
Eh NwK, Eh SwK 26-52-I2,
William W. Stone, Dec. Is, 1854.
Eh NEK, Eh SEA, 27-52-12, AD-
SALON. Hicks, Dec. Is, 1854.
VIZ NWA, VIZ SWK 26-52-12,
Absalom Hicks, Dec. Is, 1854.
Wa NWA, VIZ SWA 35-52-12,
James E. Hicks, Dec. Is, 1854.
Ek NEA, Eh SEA, S4-52-12, Jas.
E. Hicks, Dec. Is, 1854.
M SWH, SEX NWA S1-52-12,
James H. Hall, May 8, 1851.
VIZ SWA Sec. 1922, Alexander
l. Turner, June 16, 1856.
SWA SWH 27-52-12, William H.
Smith, Dec. l, 1853.
SEA NEA, NEA SEA 1922,
Joseph Wyles, March 10, 1854.
NJ NEA, 5-52-12 Parkerson Hook
er, March 10, 1854.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
The Fire Question


in both sexes
Thirty per cent Of all cancers in
men and q per cent in women are in
the stomach. The influence Of drinks
too hot to be held comfortably in the
mouth, in the production of the chrome
irritation which precedes the develop
ment of gastric cancer, seems proo-
able"
DR.. Mayo then launched into n tech
meal discussion of the treatment Of
cancer as it has come under his obser-
walton. The great majority Of pat
tents, he said, come to the operating
room too late to be cured. He said
he had greatly extended the use Of
radium and Of the X-rays and had OBJ
tanned good results within the last
three years through the application Of
radium directly into the cancerous
growth.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
MANY GOVT PATENTS
ARE IN LAND OFFICES
Those in Audrain County Having I'm
perfect Titles May Write to
Springfield

The Ledger has received from the
U. S. Land Office in Springfield, a list
giving the subdivisions, sections, town.
ship and range numbers Of land in
Audrain county in which there are gov
eminent patents. Many land owner
in this county, as in every other in the
state, nay not have such a patent re-
corded and it is for the benefit of these
persons who have imperfect titles 10
their property, that the General Land
Office has had these lists sent out and
the Ledger publishes them.
There are more than fourteen thous-
and patents in the Land Office in
Springfield and officials there are anx-
ious to have every one of them re-
corded in the counties in which the
lands ar. located. Some of the patents
date back as far as 1920, according to
c. c. Davidson, the registrar, and
many of them are written upon sheep
skin. Among them are to be found the
signatures of all the presidents for the
past hundred years. Any one espec-
tally interested or concerned in these
patents may get valuable information
by writing Mr.. Davidson.
A list of Patents in this office for
Audran County, Missouri, to who
patented and the date.
SEA SWA 29-26-7 E, Spencer
Davis, Sep. l, 1859.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
SAM MORRIS MAKES MISTAKE.
Turns Watch Up an Hour Instead
of Back.

Sam Morris, who had made every ar
rangement to attend Sunday School
Sunday morning, awakened on Sunday
to discover that he had apparently
oversight and according to the faithful
time piece that snuggles in his vest
pocket the hour was 10 a. m.
He went up town and got his mail
and returned home still wondering
why he had oversight. 1t was not until
afternoon that he discovered he had
turned his watch An hour forward,
upon retiring, instead Ct bach an nour
and that in reality he had risen at 8
a. M, instead of 10.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
Public Sale

Having rented my farm and going to
quit farming, | will sell at public sale
without reserve to the highest bidder
at my place 3h miles southwest of
Mexico on
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30

AS a matter of fact mot many per-
sons think twice about the old town
clock, anyway. Many of them look at
it perhaps dozens of times a day, but
few of them give thought to what is
back of the four large dials which
have served Mexico with the time of
day for about half a century.
T. S. Rely, now connected with
Worrell's Jewelry Store, is the keeper
of the clock. He mounts the SO steps
which lead to the tower of the court
house regularly, twice a week, to wind
the clock, and all the repair work that
is needed he does. He has held this
position t~hirty-fvc years and has done
all needed repairing during that time.
The clock has been in the court house
a little more than fifty years.
The works of this big time-piece are
of the Hotchkiss make. The two
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30

weights are $50 and $50 pounds, the
heavier being the striking weight.
The pendulum is about IL feet long.
The dials are about nine feet in diam
eter, the hour hands are three and a
half feet in length and the minute
hands four feet. The clock is in a case
about ten feet square. This has been
covered we with a tin roof to prevent
damage from rain, which leaks
through the roof proper of the court
house.
No doubt there are some people in
Mexico who grumble a little when the
clock in the court house tower is out Of
repair, and allowances are not made
for the age of the clock and the expos
ure to all kinds of weather of its four
faces and eight hands. However. Mr..
Rely, who is somewhat of an authority
OF time-pieces, thinks that our old
clock does its work we'll.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-10-30
Lincoln County Oil Leases.

The leasing of 5000 acres in Lincoln
county, near Foley, has created much
publicity for the county. The Ozark
Oil and Gas Company, Of Kansas City
which has secured the lease, expects TO
begin drilling shortly.