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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1920-08-20
Brunswick Brevities

Mr.. and Mrs. Brent Staubus
left Monday for Nebr,, Colo. and
other points West. They will be
gone several days.
George Lahman, a former res.
ident of Brunswick died at the
home of his sOn-in-law Tony
Miller at the age Of 70 wears Fri
day morning.
W. S. Owen has opened a feed
and grain store in the Scott
building. He is afrst class bus.
iness man and understands the
grain and feed business thor
oughIy.
A large crowd Of people gath
cred at Rivera Park Thursday
night and enjoyed the splendid
music and dance until quite :
late hour.
Miss Gladys Penick, who has
just completed a course in short
hand and typewriting in Chilli.
cothe will doubtless accept a po.
sitlon as teacher in Quinton,
Okla, as teacher of shorthand
and typewriting.
Mrs. Audrey Merchant who
has been doing special work al
the University at Columbia, re.
turned Sunday. She will now
rest a few weeks preparatory tc
taking up her work in Bruins
wick High School.
Leonard Miller who holds e
good position with the Barton
Shoe Co. OF Kansas City spent
his vacation with homefolks.
Mrs. Oscar Heiman and chill
dren of near town went to Shan
nondale last Saturday to be pres
ent at a family reunion Sunday
W. H. VenabIe died at hi
home Monday morning, HI
was only sick a short time.
Mrs. Grover Malone spen
Monday in St. Louis.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1920-08-20
Stock Market.
K. City Wednesday

Top corn steers $l6.85, top hogs
$3.50 and top lambs $l2.25.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1920-08-20

Andy BinfOrd came in this
week for his annual visit to rela-
tives.
Fayette has prohibited the
Chautauqua from showing on
Sunday.
Someone dropped a lighted
match near the aerOplane of Mr..
Linder at the field in LaPlata
causing the plane to catch fire
and totally destroyed it.
We took in the state fair the
first of the week. That day off
together with only one compost
tor, forces a four page paper on
our readers this week,
Geo. Ernst is assisting The
Spot Cash Garage with the Es,
sex car sales department. He
has sold the car before and un'
derstands it thoroughly and like:
it better than any car made.
We cannot give the names Of
all from this section who went
to the state fair this week. There
never were so many and more
will go for the last two days o.
1.-The fair
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1920-08-20

Theo. and Mrs. Wood and fam.
lily are state fair visitors this
week.
Orln Mackie transacted busi-
ness in Kansas City the first of
the week.
Mrs. VIM. Fulbright is consid.
erably improved and can get
about the house a little at this
time.
Miss Rebecca Moore left yes
terday for New Mexico to spend
a few months with her sister,
Mrs. Virgie Nohl.
Charlie Schell jr., is having
his annual tussle with hay fever.
He has been confined to his
home here for several days.
Mrs. Grace Lingle of Oran,
Mo. returned to her home Mon
day after a few days visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. j.
Moore.
John Shorty Venable was
found dead in his bed by his
wife at Brunswick Tuesday
night. Neuralgia of the heart is
assigned as the cause.
Miss Mossa Moore, one of Mis-
souri's handsome girls, is visit
ing relatives here this week. She
is a native of this city altho not
a resident of this city.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

Some interesting Information regard
ing the cost of handling freight by au-
tomoble truck is given by the New
York Times which says that for a one
and-one-half-ton truck the cost per tom
mile is 1G cents. for the twO-ton truck
it is Is cents and the reduction contin-
ues to seven and one-half cents for n
six-tOn truck. The cost of moving a
ton Of freight five miles by truck varies
from 50 cents down to 371a cents. Rail
roads dislike short hauls and on the
lines ccntering into Boston fine rate for
five miles is $500 ton. The rate for
longer distances diminshcs until at 200
miles it is II cents and for 300 miles
nine cents. 1t is apparent that freight
for short distances can be hauled much
cheapers by automobile truck than by
rail but the one and one-half ton truck
cannot compete with a railroad for a
greater distance than $50 miles and a
six-ton truck cannot go beyond 300
miles.
These figures tend to show the field
for profitable operation of auto trucks
to be within a radius of a few miles
around a large traffic center. Hauls
from Vermont points to Boston will be
cheaper by freight than by truck but
hauls to the industrial centcrs of the
Connecticut valley from southern Yer
mont may be cheaper by truck. In the
calculation of costs of operating trucks
all charges for labor and depreciation
ar included but we assume the cost is
figured on good roads only and does not
represent the cost of operation on dirt
or muddy roads.
The construction of good roads then
is necessary for the satisfactory opera
ton of trucks and the cost of such con-
struction must be considered in develop
ing fields of operation for the trucks.
The construction of long stretches of
hard surface roads for the use of
trucks would be improbable because of
the prohibitive expense. 1t might be
possible to construct such roads for a
radius of five to ten miles around a
large center but even that much would
not be possible for small communities.
This fact must be remembered in deter
mining the policy of highway construc-
ton and small communities should
avoid an excess burden of highway ex-
pense for the accommodation of auto
mobile trucks The profitable field for
trucks probably will remain in close
proximity to the larger business cen
ters of the country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
WILLIAM THE MEEK.

The Chicago Tribune prints a touch
ing interview with the former kaiser.
1t seems that that universal lover of
mankind, "along with millions of ordi-
nary Germans and the entire German in
.dustrial, financial and political lead
ership, looks toward America for aid
which will help Germany regain her
place as one of the worlds great ma
tons"
Wilhelm believes that the hatred
caused by the war will be most easily
forgotten in America. and he resents the
utilization and lies" which continue in
many places 1T is a sore spot with
him that British ministers of the gospel
attacked him from their pulpits, but
the former German ruler is above small
hatreds. In a real Christian spirit he
looks forward to reconciliation between
all nations" Also the former war lord
is said always to have stood for peace, "
and today ''he believes that every good
citizen should work for international
peace and unity"
This report would be funny if it were
not so discouraging. 1t shows all too
plainly the same conceited attitude
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Today's Events

Greetings to the State of Texas, rs
years old today
Centenary of the birth of John S. Bar
bour, United States senator from Vir-
ginia.
England today win commemorate the
75Oth anniversary of the assassination of
Thomas A. Beckett. s-s.
At Berkeley. Calf. this evening repre-
sentatives of Princeton and the Univer-
sity of California will debate the subject
of the advisability of federal laws to pro-
hibit strikes i'll essential industries. ,.
A conference of the British Labor party
is to be held in London today for the
purpose of inaugurating national cam
paign in favor of an Irish settlement on
the lines Endorsed by the labor organiza
tions.
The governors and governors-elect of
the six New England states are to be the
guests at dinner and reception to be
rendered to Vice President Elect Coolidge
in Boston tonight by the New England
commission on Foreign and Domestic com
meTce.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Encouragement.
Hartford COurant. J

A New York paper reports that the
wholesale and retail merchants say, af
/ ter looking back upon the holiday trade
| that the coming year which has but &
| little further to come. viii be n pros
| porous one, in which opinion the manu-
| facturers concur. They come to this
| conclusion through a process of reas
oning easy to follow and even more easy
| to outline.
They say that reductions in prices
| have set people to buying once more and
because they bought through the Christ
mas period. they depleted the surplus
| stock held by the wholesalers and retail
| ers. Assuming this to be true, the mer.
| chants will or must-buy new stocks
| which process will deplcte the stores
| held by the manufacturers. This in its
| turn will enable the manufacturers to &c
| into the market for raw material and
| to reopen their plants bV which action
and upon finding work available, once
| more viii be able TO buy the things
which it needs. 5m
There may be added other facts which
should tend to normal conditions and
which have been obvious for some time
and these include the result of the eIcc-
| ton in November and the harvest of
great crops, while, in lesser degree. may
be mentioned the supply of gold i'm this
country and the possession of merchant
marine. These we have known for some
time but the business world overlooked
them when the price of most things ex-
ccpt coal fell as abruptly as Humpty
Dumpty. Manufacturers stopped pro
ductiOn and wholesalers ceased to buy
until they could gain an idea of the ex-
tent of the drop and so normal work
slackened until the holiday trade APP
peared.
This has changed the aspect so the
New York authorities say, and one of
them, Nicc-President Sisson of the Guar
anty Trust company, summarizes his
thoughts in this way -
There is every reason for being ra-
tionally optimistic for 1921 The impor-
tant thing is that all underlying condi-
tons in this country are good and
sooner or later these fundamental condi-
tiOnS determine the trend of the eco
nOmic situation. Summarized. those
conditions are: The largest crops in
our histOrv have been harvested one
third of the worlds gold supply is in
our possession; we have vast undevel-
oped national resources; our banks and
our government are on a sound financial
basis; we have placed our transnOrta-
ton on n sounder and more efficient
basis: we have built large merchant
marine: we have had five years of great
prosperity during which we have ac-
cumulated n considerable surplus: the
markets of the world are demanding our
goods as never before. No one need be
pesSimistic of the outlook for 1921.
1t is very good news for the day
after Christmas.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
COULDN'T CHANGE HIS SPOTS.

The news that Monk Eastman, for
merly noted New York criminal gang
leader was shot in a quarrel with some
of his old pals in crime illustrates anew
the Scripture saying that the leopard
cannot change his spots, etc. For years
Eastman. said to be the son of wealthy
parents. was identified with some of the
most violent crimes of the metropolis
and was successful in Outlawry and
brigandism Then came the World war
and his enlistment as q member of the
1OGth regiment followed by distinguished
service and recognition ~aS a man of
merit. After the war his citizenship
was restored and for months he con-
Quoted store for pets in Brooklyn
where apparently he led an honorable
existence and observed the law.
But the call of the old life came and
he returned to his old resorts where the
gun rather than the law ruled, prob
ably for the purpose of resuming his
former Iawless practices, and he was
shot. His record should bear an eff
fcctive lesson to any who desire a pc
Rod of outlawry and violence. Indulg-
ence in such life FORCES habits from
which one can never safely break and
inevitably leads to an end similar to
that inflicted upon others. 1t does not
pay to give way to the lower nature
that sometimes tempts us.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
No Man Has Failed.

The adage | have somewhere read,
mo man has failed till he is dead ;;
If he intellectually has tried
His merit may not be denied.
No man has failed till he is dead;
There may be better things ahead
The wind may change-the sky may
clear III.
And with the sun Success appear
TIL he is dead no man has failed =
Tho oft by rudest storms assailed-
TIE threatened ship may come to port
The outcast shine in Fortunes court
No man has failed till Deaths demand
Has auenched his candle out of hand;
Such chances in the future lie
So great is possibility.
No man has failed capricious Fate
May smile upon his labors. late,
And mete him double measure when
He looks the sorriest of men.
Then gn your way and dream your
dream
And in your heart inscribe my theme
No man has failed till he is dead,
And then if i have rightly read
There NAV be something still ahead
ARTHUR GOODENOUGH.
West Brattleboro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

Ma was Introducing Embroidery up
in her room, and l sed, Hay ma
Hay is for horses, sed ma
And she kepp ON imbroiderlng the I'M
broidery and pritty soon l sed, hay ma
l meen, ma?
Watt sed ma.
er? | sed.
Sutch an ideer, sed ma.
AIeening it wasent, and Sed' wen
won't it even take out egg stanes' ma
Certeny not, sed ma, and L sed, NOT
even out of carpits?
Look heer, have you bin dropping
eggs on eny of my carpits: sed ma.
No nam, holey smoaks, ma, l amt
bin dropping eggs enywares, 1 sea, ana
ma sed, Well then watts all this silly
conversation about?
Wat silly conversation, ma l. sed,
and ma sed . hush up.
WITCH / did for vile, and then sea,
Well of corse if vinegar wont take OUT
egg stanes then wy of corse 1t wont take
out grape jooce Stanes.
Benny, ware did you spill grape looce
Tell me immeeditly, sed ma, and l sea-
Nowares ma, holey smOaks.
Well did you spill enything! sed ma:
Yes mann, l sed, and ma sed, wat!
Ware? ... S.
Ony some ink on the parler carpit,
sed. -
Being wy had to stay in all aftir-
n
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
1t Is Not News.


\ New York newspaper yesterday fea-
tured the fact that neighbors of a man
near Pittstield, Mass, whose house was
burned recently, spent Christmas day in
cutting timber for a new home for their
unlucky neighbor and that the wives of
the workers gave them turkey dinner at
night.
ately so, but 1t lacks novelty here in New
England. 1t happens at intervals in every
small town in Connecticut and in this re-
spect Connecticut claims no virtue not
possessed by her neighbors as thing of
this sort is a characteristic of small town
life whether it has a Main street or not.
Ii happens, when necessary, not only 10
the old residents but to newcomers as
we'll and it comes promptly when the need
Is urgent
There may be times when the residents
Of a small town make life dreary for the
average man by trying to order his ac-
tions. by insisting that he join this lodge
and attend that church; by informing
themselves as to his wages and whether
his wife makes her own hats or buys
them. He finds that he has no more pri-
vacy than a goldfish and has no more in
fluence in town affairs than cricket even
should he venture to speak his. own mind
and he .deplores the fact that fate landed
him in a small town. -~a-.=~
Then in due time diptheria visits his
household or fire destroys his property
and before he realizes what has happened
the dictatorial and inqulsitlve townspeo-
pie appear to him in a different light as
whatever they have is his and not Tor the
asking as they do not give him time to
ask The New York newspaper IS not
printing news when it tells of an instance
like the above for the like is happening
somewhere in New England every week.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Paw of the Justices.
Sc. Albans Messenger. J

L.
Justices of the supreme court of Yer
mont receive compensation at the rate
of $1,000 a year plus expenses. They
have received this amount for quite q
number of years, and while costs have
been going up their salary has remained
stationary and, so far as purchasing
power is concerned, was practically cut
in two during the war.
Yet, so far as this goes, they suffered
no more than did many persons on a
woman who was caught in the pinch,
while the day of piece-worker reaped
the harvest. relativelyi The supreme
court justices do not sdeserve an i'm
crease Just on the ground that they sui
fered the way other salaried people suf-
fered. &1 et
Thy do, however in the estimation Of
tn basis Of common stAse. The Mes
senger is not in favor of high judicial
salaries, but it does believe that the sal
airy arrangement should be such a to
guarantee to the state good service from
men who are unworried by financial
cares.
The salary itself is not enough.
There shonld be a pension plan in con-
nection with it. With a fair salary plus
a moderate pension at a stated retire
ment age. it seems to this paper that
an ideal arrangement would be reached.
The retirement with partial pay would
automatically meet the necessity of pre-
pairing for old age, and it would remove
the necessity of a judge hanging on after
even he himself realized that his period
of fu'l usefulness TO the state had
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
In the DAYS News.

I. S. A, who has accepted an invitation
to deliver the opening address at the fif
teenth annual convention of the National
Collegiate Athletic association in Chicago
today, is the present superintendent of
the United States Military academy at
West Point. He was graduated from the
Of this class, which numbered 100. join
ing the engineer corps, he went to the
Philippines and served there with credit.
During the Russo-Japanese war he was a
representative of the United States army.
In 1918 he was assigned to duty with
served as military censor of the war de-
partment. Gen. Macarthur is student
of military history and is considered one
Of the ablest writers on the technique of
war that the United States army has re-
Gently nrodnced
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

Il don't know what / would have done
without Tanlac, for when / began taking
thia grand medicine / felt so weak, tired
and worn out | was hardly able to do my
homework and look after the children.
/ suffered for five years with the worst
kind of stomach trouble and nervous in
digestion and only weighed ITO pounds
Il had no appetite and nothing | would
eat seemed to agree with me. My food
always seemed to sour on my stomach,
and | suffered nearly all of the time with
terrible headaches and severe pains across
my back. In fact, just had to drag my
self around.
Il doctored and doctored and took all
kinds of medicine, but Just kept getting
worse all of the time. Finally / got so
bad off had to get relief. as I could get
no rest or sleep at night.
L had seen so many ads in the papers
about Tanlac that | got a bottle to try:
had only taken a bottle or two until L
could notice that / was gaining back my
strength. | kent on taking 1T and got so
| could eat and digest anything | wanted
to eat. 1t not only gave me an appetite,
, but ! got so / could sleep good at night
and felt rested and refreshed when l got
up in the morning.
ciallv for my case. ! have gained twelve
pounds in flesh and am able to do all my
house-work washing and ironing, and
stand it Just fine. and am IN better gem
eral health than I have been for five
years.
Il never intend to be without Tanlac
in the house as long as it is possible to
get it. as | consider it the best medicine
| have ever taken
The above statement was made by Mrs.
Clara Markley. No. $40 s. Sixth street,
Kansas City, Mo. we'll known. and high
" respected resident Of that. city,
Tanlac is sold in Brattleboro by the
derry by George G. Smith. in Jamaica
by r. j. Daggett, in Townshend by Car
roll O. Robinson, in West Townshend by
Circuit & Dean. in Newfane by w. J..
Eames, and in Putncy by NJ. u. Will
liamS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

which precipftated the World war, and
the same lack of appreciation of his own
blood-guiltiness. Wilhelm is said to be
in fine physical condition, but there is
little here to indicate that the old in
sane arrogance has been remedied at
all.
America may forgive some things.
She may agree, for the common good, to
erase the records of other offenders. She
will never forget William Hohenzollerr
or recognize him for anything but what
he was and is.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29

Crowded with campers from the north,
Florida is said to be confronted with a
serious educational and medical problem.
People of slender means have gone there
in their automobiles with their camping
outfits to spend the winter, expecting
thus to avoid the coal shortage of the
north. They are totally unprepared for
changes of temperature which do occur
even in Florida, and have not calculated
on the sickness resulting from the over
crowding of the many central camping
places and the loss of educational OPP
portunities for their children. The
heads of many families. too, have not
found the work that they expected, the
mechanical trades being flooded with APP
plicants for employment. Better to have
stayed at home with the old job and
wrestled with the coal problem under
conditions with which they were ac-
quainted.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Nnon-Advertisers in Business Failures.
Worcester Telegram.)

o. 7
Eighty-four per cent of the business
failures of the past year occurred among
firms which did not advertise.
This is the assertion made by Brad
streets commercial agency. which is as
unbiased an authority as can be found in
the business world TODAY.
Bradstreet's compiled it's information
from statistics, not guesswOrk.
The Importance of advertising as o
business element must have been regarded
as vital by this great commercial agency.
else it would not have wasted the time of
hundreds of trained men throughout the
nation collecting and tabulating this in
formation. Bradstreets thus points the
way to one of the elements of business sue
cess.
The lesson to be learned from the sta
tistics regarding the advertising mer-
chants is obvious.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
T0day's Anniversaries.

lS08-Andrew johnson, Seventeenth pres
ident of the L. S., Born at Raleigh,
\. c. Died in Carter county, Tenn,
July 80, 1875.
l8G9-William F. Gladstone, famous Eng,
lish statesman, born in Liverpool
Died at Hawarden. May 10, 1898.
l820-John 5. Barbour, Z. S. senator
from Virginia, born in Culpeper
county, Va. Died May IA. 1892.
ls21-Marquis Wellesley was appointed
lord lieutenant of Ireland
l845-Duplieate division of Biela's comet
seen at Yale college.
lS76-NeaTly 100 lives lost by the giving
away of railroad bridge near Ash
tabula. Ohio, while a train was pass
ing over it,
ls95-Thomas OGorman was appointed
Roman Catholic bishop of Sioux
Falls.
l0C5-The prince and princess of Wales
arrived at Calcutta.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
The Cigarette Campaign .
(Newport Standard. }

What about this campaign to forbid
selling cigarettes to minors? Unless we
are greatly mistaken the legislature, sew
eral years in the past enacted a law for,
bidding the sale of cigarettes to minors.
which, if enforced. would have made anv
such campaign unnecessary. Now, Mr..
Citizen, you who are agitating this much
needed campaign. why did you not use
your influence to have that law enforced
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-29
Solving the Housing Problem in Holman

Jess Daniels contemplates moving to
Newton county this week.
d Ed Patterson will move to the place
Jess Daniels vacates.
Jess Horton will move to the place Ed
Patterson vacates.
Albert Hollan will move to the place
Jess Horton vacates.-Holman items.