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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19

Last Sunday afternoons rain was
very heavy around Mountain Grove
and accompanied by much lightning
n strong wind and some hal. j. II.
Livingston went to his basement
d, rig the storm to locate a sound
OF running water. and at the foot OF
the steps encountered a binding
flash and crash which rendered him
unconscious. His FANNY found him
a few MINUTES later and 1t was ten
CT fifteen minutes later before he
vas restored by application OF cold
water. He had a blue and swollen
place on his right arm and has not
yet recovered from a general sore
neas. He says the basement floor
was dry and that he was reaching for
a light but had not touched it.-Mt
Grove Journal.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19

An agreement has been made but
details o entirely arranged, where-
b. the Commercial Bank and tn"
Fast National Bank of this city will
consolidate. The building Of the
former viii BE- used as an office by
shannon Il shannon for their loan
and ~insw"anc" business.-Mt. Grove
Journal.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
METHODIST CHURCH.

Preaching services every Sd
Sunday morning and evening.
Rev. r. +. PralI, Pastor.
Sunday school every Sunday AT
N'45 am. J.p. Reynolds, Supt
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
CUMBERLAND PRESBY.
TERRAIN CHURCH.

Preaching every LIST Sunday.
Rev. John 7. Younger, Pastor.
Sunday school every Sunday al
D:45 a. IN. &. w. Freeman, Supt.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
Money to Loan

N. j. CRAIG HAS o Nj
MONEY THAT He DESIRES
TO LOAN ON GOOD, I'M
PROVED FARMS IN ETH
Err WRIGHT OR DOUGLAS
COUNTIES. N. j. CRAIG
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,

'''d'N - Ch''j wy "a o|N"J
Lucas COunty.-ss.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
firm of F. j. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum
Of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Ca.
tarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of HALLS CATARRll
MEDICINE FRANkJ.CHENEY
Sworn to before me and sub
Scribed in my presence, this 9th
day Of December, A. d., 1886.
(Seal) A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Medicine is tax
en- internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
OF the System. Send for testi.
mOnials, free.
FJ.CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, O..
Sold by all druggists, E5c.
Halls Family Pills for consti
patton, advertisement.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19

X. X. Reed and wife. Marshall
Carter, Frank Wammack, Snyder
Craig, and VI ssrs I.eOna Hoover,
Pauline Craig and Myrtl" Davis at
tended church at MacOmb Sunday
night.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
VOTES NOT IN THE TABLE.

Coroner:
X. ". Inm"n' H. Tool
F-t..c Administrator;
Jesse NJ. Carter, X, 1872.
For United States Senator:
uW4gAt DAVIS H. go
James MINIS, K, los.
SeldeA +, >pe",eg' H. ~.
Charles VI. Hay. y. IS
John {. H1soon, u, :
Arthur y. L-1lse!' u, ;
breckenridge Long y. ooe'
henry ;. Priest T. II
Geo. II. Scru;on, D. :.
Governor;
Arthur NJ. Hyde. H. l2V'.
/. +. r NcJim.ey. K. 500.
john NJ. AtkISson. u, ia.
Frank II. PARIS y, IL.
Charles Holt Mayer, H. Of.
Robt II. MerTyman' D. L.
Lieutenant Governor:
Polite kivIns, K, 'Ol.
Hiram Lloyd. K. sos,
Robert :. McCllntoc, u, l2s,
{. VI. BIiord. u, atl.
Secretary Of state:
tdWIn Austin, l.. ~.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
X

finest, chewing and smoking, Han.
cock County grown, has a flavor
AL It's own" Direct from farm.
ers 2 pounds, sample. 800 post.
paid. W. II. Williams, Hawesville.
Kentucky.-Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19

Purity and healing power are the
chief characteristics OF Liquid Boro-
zcne. II mends torn. cut, burned or
aralded flesh with wonderful prompt
ness. Price soc. soc, and I.2o,
Sold by Fuson Drug Co.-Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19

Mesdames j.. Calender and Fannie
lieckart of Springfield returned to
their home last week after a visit
al the ]. B. fireman home.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19

The census returns give Wright
county a population OF i7,73, de
creos, Of $50, q. b. per cent, ovel
The 1910 figures.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
BUY DYES"
DON'T RISK MATERIAL

Each package Of Diamond Dyes ron
taIhs directions so simple that any
woman can dye any material without
streaking, fading or running, Druggist
has color card-Take no other dye!
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
CHURCH OF CHRIST

Bible school At 9:i5 a. N. every Sun.
day. D.. II. Kay, Superintendent.
Preaching every second Sunday.
Rev. Oscar Wright, Pastor.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
OZARK SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CHURCH.

Sunday school every Sunday at
Gas a ID. &. A. Stephens. Supt.
Preaching ID and 4th Sundays.
Rev. I. b. kitzinger, Pastor.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
COMMITTEES ORGANIZE.

The county central committeeman
at last weeks primary met
at HartyiIle on Tuesday and organ
ized. 5. Gambill wa reelected chair
man Of the Democratic committee and
DR.. j. A. fusOn Wa elected chairman
Of the Republican committee. The
membership Of each is a. follows:
Republican.
Mountain GrOye-J. W. Stephens.
Clark-P. NJ. Ussery.
Pleasant Valley. A. Fuson.
WOod-Edgar Allen.
Hart-Ben Moore.
Gasconade-E. G.. Newton.
Van Buren,. NJ. HutseIl.
Brush Creek-J. NJ. Murrell.
Boone-L. b. Newton.
Montgomery-N. j. Evans.
Elk Creek-W. =. Honeycutt.
lnion-Arthur JOnes.
Democratic.
Mountain Groves. Gambill.
CIark-Andrew WOrsham.
Pleasant ValIey-Wm NJ. Hamilton.
Wood-D, V. L0wery.
HART. ". Summers.
Gasconade-W i. kippce.
Van Buren,. \. Robertson.
Brush Greeks. f.. McDaris.
Boone-Samp Young.
MontgOmery-W. =. Broyles.
Elk Creek-H. A. Bolian.
Union-Wm. Cation.
From Mountain Grove Journal.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
4
East Bound.

No.l0l-Pdssenger 9:jjp III.
No.e41-LDca! freight HOO An.
Nc. l03-Pa-senger 93- an
West Bound.
No. l02-Passenger J2J am.
No.240 Local freight HOO am
No. lO4 -Passenger 6;3J y. II.
L. +. LIVINGSTON, Agent
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1920-08-19

From Mountain Grove Journal.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-18
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
THE "A.B.c" OF POLITICS.
Boy. page Herodotus.

FAIRMONT, May 15.-[Editor The
West Virginian.l MAY /, as certain
distinguished individual would put It,
impose upon you to the extent OF ask
ing you to print another OF my open
letters to women on politics:
Dear Girls:-Let US presume, In or.
der that / may emphasize the point
Of this lesson, that the liquor interests
of the country would resort to the
same mode Of warfare in their assault
upon the United States Constitution
that has served them in the past.
When court attacks and election con.
tests have failed the liquor interests
in the past they have Invariably
launched a campaign such as now
seems to be Of nationwide scope. 1t
Is reasonable to presume that the
liquor interests are acting at present
in accordance with their actions in the
past. In my long experience as a stu
dent Of politics l have never seen a
time, dear girls, when the liquor peo'
Pile failed to stand together. They
may individually cuss one another and
even come to blows in internal strife
but when they are opposed by decency,
morality, or any of the nobler senti.
ments Of mankind, the liquor interests
cement like husband and wife that
resent the intrusion of visitor at q
family quarrel.
Let us presume then, dear girls, that
the liquor interests Of the country
were set upon campaign Of law def.
ance. Let us presume that 1t has
been argued.
THAT the liquors on hand must be
disposed Of at profit in spite OF the
law Of the land.
2-Wholesale violations and open
boot-legging will disgust the people to
the extent that they will conclude that
It is better to license the traffic, CIV.
ing city, state and national govern.
men revenue and offering escape
from the shame Of having the Law
trampled under foot and the officials
elected to enforce the law actually en-.
gagged in the boot-legging business.
But hear you say, dear girls, that
such presumption is foolish; that
there are no men running for office
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among your circle Of acquaintance
that would be guilty of such dastardly
conspiracy. cannot prove my case
in court, But l am just as sincere in
thinking that this is the method OF pro
cedure as am in thinking that there
really is IAN invisible government
that actually runs things; that this
talk Of government "by the people, Of
the people and for the people" is there
fore a hoax, which gives rise to the
present unrest.
Let us presume that the big inter.
ests actually believe, in line with Judge
Ira Robinson's talk at Warrington,
Sunday week ago, that the people arc
not capable" of self.government. Let
us presume that the key men Of the
community labor under the delusion
that the masses cannot be trusted
an opinion which is declared to have
been put forth by Rev. ]. G. Broom
field, of Fairmont, recently In conf
batting arguments offered by repre-
sentatives OF The American Legion.
Or 1t might be wiser TO presume that
politicians had painted things to the
key men Of the community in this
manner so effectively that the key
men turned to the political ring in a
sincere effort to secure what the key
men honestly believe to- be the best
for the community.
know that 1t is difficult for you
girls to follow me. am afraid that !
have outlined a lesson that is beyond
you at present. realize that 1t Is
difficult for good women to conceive
how men who are respected and hon.
ored could be willing to have the as.
sistance of the corrupt political boss,
with his Negro bad element and his
bootlegging colony (white and black.
But with the same quieting or con.
science that permits the churchman
to accept the unclean dollar for good
purpose the key men of the commu.
nifty accept the aid Of the political
boss and believe that they serve the
interest OF both themselves and the
community in so doing.
And In accepting the aid of corrupt
political ring the liquor interests are
afforded opportunity to entrench
themselves against public opinion,
against public desire. against public
welfare, against public interest,
against the law OF the land.
Let US sing Hymn No. A in the old
black book.
Affectionately,
UNCLE SAM.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-18
MOVIES.

skl The 100000 persons in the United States, it
is safe to say 8S,000000 or four-6fths go to the
MOVIES his includes men and women, and children
Young as four years.
he effect Of movies, them from propagandist's stand
on the lives of the people must be tremendous 1t is
an exsgeraton to venture that this power, which has
sprung into being within the past 10 years. ranks with
newspapers in influence with human beings.
from moral viewpoint, if from no other. Of
ptcnes have seeped through boards Of censorship
should have gotten farther than the eyes of the
members Of these boards
well to bray that there must be freedom of this
and freedom Of that but some moving picture producers
Ee advantage Of the weaknesses of men and women and
youths
Movies are splendid things; they furnish amusement to
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-18
yocENcE VERSUS IGNORANCE.

HIS is an era Of education. You can find schools
for teaching almost anything you may want to know;
for The most important business Of human life there
schools We enter the sacred relationship of marriage
without knowledge; in fact the girl who is the ignorant
bout it's supposed to make the most desirable wife.
innocent girl is held up as model Of perfection.
She landed and exhibited every occasion, and it
recently that it has become understood that innocence
aud often is a synonym Of Ignorance.
does not sound so well as innocence, but
truth regarding the girl who knows nothing
duties and the responsibilities of marriage. An
sil usually makes an ignorant mother. Purity
We should demand, but let us be careful in laud
ing Il usually ignorance, which is quite
other tans
Here are schools to teach us to be scientific doctors,
engineers and even farmers, but no colleges which
be scientific fathers and mothers, and to teach
children sex problems and dangers We try to have
innocent and are disappointed when find they
only ignorant.
result is too often disappointed life, broken home,
diseased and defective children when had expected
innocent children to perform the miracle Of growing
hss If knowledge from the soul Of ignorance
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Evening Chat
Thu New Corn SUGAR.

Have you bought any OF the new
corn sugar in the city? walked into
grocery store today and there stood
whole barrel OF it. The grocer told
me everybody would have to Use it
sooner or later II conditions remained
as they we're at present. He said he
couldn't get any sugar at all.
| called several grocers. They were
81. in the same fix but hadn't yet
come down to corn sugar. Speaking
frankly believe prefer going suE..
arless. The stuff looks like small
sized grains OF rice and Is very slight
ly sweet with suggestion OF soda
about the aeter-taste. II is light yell
low In color. A pound coats II cents
disappearing from the city. Therell
be big run upon the candy stores
if this continues for most OF us are
sugar fiends and VIC scarcely realize
1t until compelled to go without
sweetness Of any kind. Several OF
the restaurants yesterday server
meals without sugar Of any kind.
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''l6I(Y I E:!z!;!!!sE|'

Sanitation was not theme Of re-
formers when what is now West VIZ
ginia was first settled. Masses OF de-
caying vegetation fed the exhalattonS
with "the seeds of pestilence" and
made the balmy air Of the. summer
evening as deadly as It seemed CRATE
full. Life and death were hideously
intermingled. The horrors OF corrup-
ton frowned on the frutuess fertility
Of uncultirated nature. Any thought Of
correcting such evils gave way to
desire to find the healthy spots ana
let 1t 60 at that. The men of those
days have been described by Judge
Ira Robinson who jestingly observes
that they had long whiskers and
never took bath"
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Attorney General England rendered an opinion yes
terday which ought to be particularly interesting to
those adherents OF the booze who have been con-
templating cutting across party lines in effort to
secure the nomination of favorable to the liquor
interests The voters signature in the affirmative book
of the political party whose ballot he is casting is an
oath that he is affiliated with that party the attorney
general declared and those who make such an affidavit
in bad faith are liable conviction for perjury and i'm
prisonment for from to three years. How rigidly
the primary election laws are carried out depends, OF
course upon the primary election officers, but they too
are liable to severe punishment they do not discharge
faithfully the trust that is imposed in them. Thus far
the primary campaign of this year has been very salts
factory Ii has proven that the West Virginia voters
are beginning to learn how to this system of making
nominations. The only thing that can now spoil the
impression that has been made is the possibility that the
election officers have not improved too. They had
better be more than little careful on that score for
this year public is going to have plenty of time and
inclination to pay attention to the way the officers func-
ton and IL they do not up the mark they arc
almost certain 10 hear about it in an unpleasant way
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RUFF STUFF

AIS quite along Main street this
morning.
Not q Demmie candidate lost dur
Ing the night.
But it was fesrsome storm never
iheless.
Not an aspirant but felt that the
next moment would be his last.
Most interesting thing about it is
HAT though they are all satisfied now
some OF 'em Will be sorry about May
1ethat they did not 90 down in the
IItmors hurricane
Lamp in the Astonisher this morn
inf that Brooks Fleming has been put
6r the Board of Education,
Article neglected to say when the
board would move up to the big build
But mayeb they figure that with the
present bunch in charge everything
VIII be lovely no matter where the
board holds forth.
Evidently the chief of police Of
RiVesyiile does not contemplate max
Inf any more visits to this town in a
!Rng time.
Next time he drops in he will be
tfile for an interview on the great
changes that have taken place in the
IOWA since he saw, II last.
Doubtless he will be charmed by
ne siegance Of our new B. & . sta
Il ihs ssieetion Of the site for the
,Iati0n county Great War memorial
The new High school building will
.IHp impress hin,a . lot;
And he will take great delight in
me Eairmont park system, with Coal
Rnl fayine as the central factor.
ven; 50 long, Jack. take keer your
COMMITTEES investigating the ,di-
fQtee evil for q church blames the
That committee is live one.
takes some intellectual initiative
: n 6ht the Responsibility for divorces
llfoh ONE other cause than booze.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-18
ANOTHER STEEL TRUST.

HE III S. Steel Corporation S to share the steel trust
l spotlight with another large steel combine. The
largest independent companies are getting together. and it
j. expected in Wall Street that soon the announcement Of
the new trust will be made
Bethlehem and Lackswanna Steel interests are engn-
eenns the big deal These are the largest Of the independ
emit concerns. and will Of course dominate the new
poration, which. in effect will be nothing more than a
acknowledgements partnership. But it will be a
mammoth one, second only the child Of Morsans hna-
ciering.
And them probably. here'll come the day when the
Two trusts are brought together into gigantic steel
corporation which will make the present steel octopus APP
pear quite Insignificant
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poor Soul

FOOT SOul.
Time-late evening. Place-down-
town. Two men were holding wy
man while she struggled wildly. A
crowd assembled quickly ana al once
someone was dispatched for qoc.or;
The woman shrieked, gong lnto onS
fit OF hysteria after another ana
nothing anyone could 90 stopped ne,;
who held her.
II never Thought when married
her she'd come to thisw exclaimed
the other man. Several children
ching TO the woman's skirts sobhng
pitifully. .,,. .,d
got down on her knees and crawled a
Short distance along the walk INIT
terinp to herself. There's six cracks
in The woodwork" she said. "and 1t
rms all around the room. They're so
hard 10 clean and my hands are so
sore, There's the wall paper. I've
eot the windows to wash. There's all
he pictures to clean. I've got rugs
TO scrub. cushion tops to replace ana
ali the furniture to polish so mucn
was spoken sanely. Again she
screamed. Then one heard a. humble
Of words such as glass, curtains
screens. paint, reaches, blinds. var
nish. blankets, laundry. bread. pies.
dinner. babies-all jumbled together
and with every word she pressed her
hands to her head and shrieked again.
The doctor arrived and at oncd
sent for the ambulance. The roor Uo.
man was taken to the hos jital and
after receiving an injection OF NOR
mime she drifted into sweet obhv.
ion What was the matter with her?
! Oh nothing much. Shed been house,
cleaning without any help, that ALL
and she'd gone temporarily insane.
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Carnations Eyer since.

If was her wedding anniversary
and for the tenth time in ten years
she reminded her husband very diplo-
maticaliy in the morning that he
,Io,,V he expected to do something
nnt Sf the ordinary by dinner time.
The husband nodded and smiled mys-
teriously as though he had some
thing already up his sleeve. An hour
hefoTe the dinner hour messenger
how aupeared with large box and
inside were a dozen red and white
Lat me see. ruminated the wife
the first year it was roses, the second
wear roses. the third, sweet peas ana
lilies of the valley. the fourth-oh
me. oh my-carnattons ever since.
The flowers were mighty sweet
though ard they graced a festive
hoard that evening while the ten.
year-veds sat and slipped easily and
delightfully L"ck into the past, be-
ginning with the honeymoon.
1--WE went to Niagara Falls. didn't
we dearie-apd we sat for hours anu
hours looking at the wonders about
.us-and wasn't it romantic and glor-
ious and"
toes" .,
was such handsome mani remem-
her when mother forbade your com:
ing to the house, how, ] decided It
she didn't relent, I'd elope IT,"
eve didn't have to do that, did we
Wife" with pat on q work-worn
NAME And that's the way II went. Dinner
over the two sat before an .opHf win
dow. The spring had arrived along
with the anniversary and the fra
GRANGE OF green and growing things
was most enhancing. The husband
picked up his newspaper and laid y
down again steahhily. Dearie sat
idly rocking back and forth, now and
then touching on the woin,tnin SUD.
ject. She got up sd carried some OF
the d1shes from the table INTO the
kitchen apologiziEg To- the bridegroom
riubt" said hubby. 81 think II you
dnn't mind iii Just look over the pa
per for a minute.
the dishes"
81. sooke q word and both were most
hanpy. At last the husband remark
Saiwhat do We do next, dear?"
ut seems 10 me-" remarked deariel
sort-a casual like, "you would feel
better to run down town q minute or
two as you always do. / don't mind"
"Sure you won't mind in the least?"
"Sure NOT, come back early. dear"
"l'll be back>iu half an hour at the
It eleven that uight-some three
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whx rhex w.re Scared.

A boys composition: "robacco was
invented by Walter Raleigh, and when
the people first saw him smoking they
thought It was steamboat or locomo.
tive, and as they had never heard Of
those things they were greatly fright.
eped. "-Bcston Transcript.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-18

1t may take weeks to clear up the freight bockades
according to announcements coming out OF Washington
where the Interstate Commerce commission has under
taken to supervise the job Of breaking the jam. But
that does not much matter so long as real effort is
being made
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-18

Acknowledgement b., the Railway executives at a
hearing before the Railway Labor board yesterday that
wage advances should be granted to the railroad work
ers ought to ease the strained relations on the railroads
of the country but the men have been getting along
on hope until their patience is pretty nearly exhausted
and nothing can really make matters all right except
speedy action on the part of the board.
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hours alter tie annifefSai5 dinner.
The lohy -tF6 bride s5o6i1 came zotts
IL MO be 66lke diii ~.
Beafla did not awaken ana lle found
her si6e1tng peacefully quite e91 70
the world! cute calm and thotOug "
satisfied. What I pleasure ~ vas
not 20 find 3 CRYING woman when one
STAYED out nights. Hubby turned out
the Hgt,t. BY gnm he'd been married
ten years ago that very night! How
time did flyi
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-05-18

Organization of the forces for the coming budget cam
paign of the Salvation Army completed yesterday
and now everything set for the effort The amount
that will be asked for is $4,000, much smaller sum
than the original plan contemplated but at that every
friend of the army will have TO do his and her level
best if the effort is to be the kind Of success 1t ought
to be.