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Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
The Prodigal Village
By Irving Bachelor
A.rea trnsp"Ad
By Irving Bachelor

low. make the most of IL. The chances
are against that, but let us hope for
the best. Above all. want YOU to he
gentle with Pauline. You are more
to blame than she Is"
III don't see how | can spnre the
time. but I'll have 90" said Baker
"Timel Fiddlesticks" the judge ex-
claimed. "What darn fool money
makes of man YoS nave lost your
sense of proportion. your appreciation
of values. Bill Pritchard used to talk
that way TO me. He has been lying
twenty years In his grave. He hadn't
minute To spare until one day he fell
dead-then leisure and lots of leisure.
II would seem-and the business has
doubled since he quit worrying about
It, My FREUD, you can not take cent
into Paradise, but the soul of Pauline
Is different kind Of property II
might be a help TO you there. Give
plenty of time to this job, and good
luck TO YOU"
The spirit of the old, dead days
spoke in the voice OF the judge-spoke
with kindly dignity. II had ever
been the voice OF Justice, tempered
with Mercy--the most feared and re-
spected voice I'm the upper counties.
| His grave. smooth-shaven face. his
kindly gray eyes, his noble brow with
| its crown of white hair were fitting
accessories Of the throne OF Justice
and Mercy.
an go this afternoon. Thank you,
| judgew said Baker. as he left the
| office.
Pauline had announced In her letter
that her husbands name was Herbert
Middleton. Mr.. Baker sent telegram
to Pauline to apprise her of his arrival
in the morning. II was fatherly
message OF love Ond goodwill. At the
hotel in New York. Mr.. Baker learned
that Mr.. and Mrs. Middleton had
checked out the day before. No
body could tell him where they
had gone. One of the men at
the porter's desk told of putting
them In taxicab with their grips
and steamer trunk soon after lunch
con. He didn't know where they went.
Mr.. Bakers telegram was there un-
opened. He called at every hotel desk
in the city, but he could get no trace
of them. He telephoned to Mrs. Baker
She had heard nothing from Pauline
In despair, he went to the police de.
partment and told his story to the
chief.
st looks as II there was something
crooked about IT," said the chief
There are many cases like this. JUS
read that"
The officer picked up a newspaper
clipping, which lay on his desk. ant
passed Il to Mr.. Baker. II was from
the New York Evening Post. Tn,
banker read s1oud this startling in
formation:
"'The New York police report tina
approximately 5000 girls have rur
away or disappeared from their home,
in the past eleven months. and the
bureau of missing persons estimate,
that the number who have disappeared
throughout the country approximate.
6SOOO.'"
IT'S rather astonishing" the chiet
went on. 1.-THE women seem TO hay,
gone crazy these days. Maybe IT.,
the new dancing and the movies tina
are breaking down the morals of tn,
little suburban towns or maybe IT,
the excitement of the war. Anyhow
they keep the city supplied with run
aways ana vamps. You are not tn,
first a..Xious father | have seen TO
day You can go home. I'll put
man on the case and let you know
what happens
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
FRECKLES
Now 10 the Time to Get Rid Of
These Usly Spots.

There's no longer the slightest need of
feeling ashamed of your freckles. As Othine
double Strengths guaranteed t. remove
these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce OF Othine--double
strength-from your druggist, and apply a
little OF II night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst freckles
have begun to disappear. while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. II IL seldom
that more than one ounce Is needed to com
pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful
clear complexion.
BE sure to ask Cor the double strength
Othine. a. this is sold under guarantee OF
money back II II fails to remove freckles.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
Sounds Plausible.

"How did the impression get about
that George Washington never told a
lie?" asked the inquisitive person.
Some people credit the cherry tree
story for that" said Mr.. Dubwaite,
hut suspect Georges reputation for
veracity Is due to the fact that he
never said, "Pve had my car six
months and 1t has never been in a
repair shop"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine

Bewarel Unless you see the name
~Bayer'' on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre-
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer
package for Colds Headache, Neural
gia. Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache,
Lumbago. and for Pain. Handy tin
boxes Of twelve Bayer Tablets of AS
pirin cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger packages. Aspirin is the
trade mark OF Bayer Manufacture OF
Monoaceticaci dester of Salicylicacid.
ADV.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
Wonderful.

We Just heard u young lady say that
a wonderful young man took her to a
wonderful play In wonderful automo-
bile and she had wonderful time.
Wonderful use they make of that
word wonderful. - Louisville Courier
Journal.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
snowsheds as tilahwaYs.

The wooden snowsheds OF the
Southern Pacific railway across the
Sierra Nevada mountains may become
highways for motorists. II has been
proposed TO reconstruct these of con
crete and frame the tops as roadways
for automobiles.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
Conventional Indoor Dress.

conventional Indoor Dress.
did you ever have an ambition to
do something In life?"
Yes, num-" said the supplicant for
broken victuals.
"What was it?"
81 wanted to be drum major and
strut around In one of them pretty red
uniforms with gold braid on 1t, but the
only uniform ever wore was a striped
.One."-Birmingham Age-Herald.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01

Watch cuticura improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash of Ointment in five minutes
with Cutlcura Soap and hot water 1t
ia wonderful sometimes what Cutlcura
will do for poor compilations, dandruff,
atching and red rough hands.-Adv.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01

The finest iron in the world is oh
tanned from the mines of Dannamore,
Sweden.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
All Run Down
NowFeeIsFiine
Eaf0nie Ended
His Troubles

"Eatonic is the only thing have
round to stop my heartburn and
think 1t has been great help II.
nervous spells" writes G. @. Johnson.
An upset stomach may cause lots
of suffering all over the body. Eatonic
helps in such cases by removing the
cause of the misery, because it takes
up and carries out the excess acid
and gases and keeps the digestive or
gans in natural working order. A
tablet after meals is all you need Big
box costs only trifle with druggists
guarantee.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01

It's usually the man who hu come
thing 20 say who doesn't say II.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
important to Mothers

Says sage: "Give me the man
who whistles at his work All right,
old chap; you can have him
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01

sANTO DOMnNGo-LAND OF oPPORrU-
NIFTY. January. February ana March issues
OF the santo Domingo Review with lilustra-
lions and a halftune engraving of the Ruins
OF the Era OF Christopher Columbus post
age free, 26c SANTO pOMlNGG REVIEW.
246 Fulton street, brooklyn New york
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01
A cold winter and II. c. L.

GRO BE CONTINUFDJ
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-04-01

W. N. u, Salt Lake city, No, "a 1921.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14
AMERICAN SOCIALISTS AND
MULTI-MILLlONAIRES IN
THE SAME BED

Seventy-fve labor organizations
representing a half million workers in
New York City voted resolutions in
favor of the United States entering in
to trade relations with Soviet Russia.
Showing that labor is entirely
swayed by sentimental and that truths
and facts have nothing to do with the
thing when they dip into matters that
are not personal to themselves.
ltaly's workingmen were just like
these New York labor resoluters and
50 the Italian government ordered
trade to begin with Russia forthwith.
A shiplOad of goods was dispatched to
Russia. In payment Russia returned
a steamerload of wheat. The grain
was in very poor condition, dirty, part
of it rotten and much of it half ruined
by moisture. When sorted and grad
ed, the price obtained did not begin to
pay for the Italian cargo to Russia.
No matter. Italy sent another ship
of perfectly good merchandise. The
return vessel carried what was stated
to be wheat. But the cargo was liber-
ally mixed with broken glass; it con-
tanned many tons of brick dust and
chips, and the grain was filled with the
worst kind of unmentionable filth.
The thing was done deliberately.
Russian Bolshevism didn't propose to
pay for what it got and made no bones
about it.
The action towards the Italian goods
was perfectly in accord with the policy
Of the present Russian government.
1t is in contempt Of the world and is
only asking for trade with the nations
in order to express its contempt of
those nations in box-car letters later
on.
The other day, the Russian Soviet
foreign office gave orders to his rep
resentative in the United States to
cancel all contracts here. At once
few American multi-millionaires who
had secretly negotiated big deals with
the Soviet government got busy and in
a few days they had made trade with
Russia" an issue for Mr.. Harding's
new administration.
And the labor Socialists second the
motion. Ye Gods; Socialists and null
ti-millionaires in alliancel Isn't ma
ture wonderful?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14
HOW HOGyILLE STARTED

Hogville started on pretty much the
same plan as all other towns. Away
back yander some fellow decided TO
start a store, and pretty soon then
some other fellow decided he would
like to live close to the store and built
house to live in. Soon other people
decided ti:oy wanted to be neighbor
Of this man and they built houses
and moved in and it has continued on
down the line-one thing calling for
another util today in this progressive
age we have blacksmith shop, post
cffice, postmaster, grocery store,
a Fiddling Band, Civic Improve
ment Society tall wornen), the Wild
Rose school house. two splendid moon
shine stills near town, which were
successfully operated until recently;
a Mail Carrier; the Old Miser. who is
to Hogville about what Wall Street is
to New York City; Cape Allsop, Miss
Fetunia Beleher and many other as
sets too numerous to mention. Taken
all in all, tho history Of this town is
about the same as all other towns. The
town could have amounted to great
deal more thaa ii is had our people
wanted 1t to.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14
without its commentators.

without its compensations.
1t is the desire for money and the
things money can buy that takes men
from the farm-this, and nothing
more. When rushed to California and
to Alaska in search Of gold, they took
no thoughts of discomforts. They did
not ask for short hours or light tasks.
If the Government should offer fiat
salary of ten thousand dollars a year
to men willing to quit the city and
take charge of farms, would there be
an idle acre in America? There
would not! Money-that's all.
One of two things will happen:
Either the consumer who does not pro-
duce food will pay greater proper
ton of his earnings for victuals, and
thus suffer for the benefit of the farm
er; of the farmer will quit his thank
less task and join the ranks of the
consumers, and there remain until an
increased price of food tempts him
back to the farm. If we expect to
continue indulgence in the habit of eat
ing we must arrange for a supply of
yictuals. For the most part, the ar
rangement must consist in propagan-
da. For the most part, the propagan-
da must consist in greenbacks.--Sat-
urday Evening Post.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14
FARMERS WEEK WILL HAVE
VITALITY INTERESTING WORK
IN FRUIT CULTURE

The Horticulture Department Of the
University of Missouri College of Ag-
riculture, will devote the first two
days of Farmers Week, January II
and 81, to orchard pests and their
control. Members Of the faculty of
this department together with manu-
facturers of spraying materials will
give every service to the farmers in
the way of information as to the use
Of the machinery for spraying and
the kind of material to be used in the
determination of each pest.
IL is doubtful If any orchards in the
State are producing their best. Care
lessness in the control of destructive
agents results in millions Of dollars
Of loss annually in fruit production.
Everyone is urged on these two days
Of Farmers Week to come to the
Horticulture building and see the
demonstrations and hear the lectures
on how to rid themselves of fruit
pests.
A most complete display of fruit and
vegetables from other states as well
as Missouri is being arranged. Horti-
cuitufists have repeatedly told Of the
possibilities of fruit production in
Missouri with its superior adaptations
for fruit culture. The Horticulture
Department is in possession of vast
amount Of information which will in
creaEe the production and quality Of
fruit in Missouri many fold and is
anxious to lend its services free to ev-
etyone interested in the cultivation Of
this product.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14

Of the exhaustion of their human en-
ergy in needless wars. Modern his
tory is but repetition of the past.
Turkey, once great empire, has
dwindled to a feeble remnant of her
former greatness. Russia, because Of
war, is today land of poverty and
misery, and all nations that took part
in the great world war are grooming
beneath burdens of debt and misery
that might have been avoidede by a
reasonabel adjustment of their diff
ferences, and still war and prepare
tions for war are going on all over
the world.
The great struggle of the past five
years should have served as an object
lesson of human folly; but the preda-
tory nature of human kind serves to
perpetuate system that all recog-
nize to be an evil; yet the nations
cannot arrive at basis of an agree
ment that will relieve the world of its
burden.
Today America is in trouble be-
cause Of war. She is faced with a
debt that is staggering and tax that
is hardship. She collected in the
fiscal year 1920 an income tax of $5,-
409, 075.068, which is necessarily pass
ed along to the people, and means a
tax Of $51.55 on every one of the
105,000,000 men, women and children
in the United States. This vast sum,
according to computations made by
the Washington Star, would build
more than 100000 cottages that
would house more than 100000 peo-
pie. If cashed into silver dollars and
placed edge to edge the row would ex-
tend 128,032 miles or around the
earth more than three times, and to
haul the load would require 33,804
trucks, making a line SO miles in
length, or 1894 fiat cars and 141 10
comotives, and the train would reach
43 miles. If the vast sum was in dol
lar bills it would weigh 15,244,225
pounds and would load 1876 freight
cars. Placed end to end these bills
would reach 628,S37 miles, or 81 times
around the globe. If Father Adam had
started working upon the first day of
his life, 100 years ago, at SLIT per
minute or $88.16 per hour, without
Sundays or holidays off or stopping to
eat or sleep, he would still have 80
years more to work before he would
have earned enough to pay our 1919
tax bill. which If deposited in bank
at per cent, interest would amount
to 40 times the principle before the
cashier could count it."
This is what comes to us as result
of war, and the end is not yet, for we
must go on paying and working and
sacrificing to pay an enormous tax
every year until the principle has dis
appeared. War preparations are still
going on and we must supply the mon
ey to build and equip ships of war,
arm our soldiers and sailors, build
Notifications and support the whole
military institution, besides other
necessary functions of the govern
ment.
Let US have peace and total dis
armament at the very earliest possi-
BILE moment, not only in America but
the world. One nation cannot discard
its military system and exist. All ma
tons must agree to simultaneous
disarmament. Without guns they
cannot fight; but without "a military
and naval system they can prosper
and develop along the lines of the
highest ideals.-Ex.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14
TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT?

Consider the case of man who
must get his living from the soil
When he should be blowing he sits in
the shade of the barn and thinkers with
a device to polish finger nails. When
he should be planting he tolls pa
tiently to perfect rocking-chair that
will play a tune. When he should be
harvesting he sits on the fence and
whine5 because his stomach is empty.
An odd character, surely. He is
America.
America is going to town, where it
can see the show windows and revel in
the sight of other peolpe's wealth.
And as the downward march continues
the sound of the dinner bell CREWS
faint and the land is filled with an
agonized wall from restaurant pa
irons. Tie situation is not yet des-
perate, but it is serious enough to at
tract attention.
The farmer works hard. His task
requires both intelligence and Drawn.
He earns prosperity. At present he
takes the price he can get; when he
will, he can get the price he is willing
to take.
If the country were on the verge Of
starvation and all the fields were fall
low while men huddled in cities to tend
machines, the growing of food might
become a matter of patriotism, and
the Government might call volunteers
to guide plows. But at present each
man feels free to look out for himself,
and if he wishes to quit the farm to
get more Of profit and pleasure in
town, he feels that it is nobody's bus
mess but his own. If other people OBJ
ject to his action, let them hold their
peace and take the place he vacates.
We assume that men quit the farm
because they long for the sight of
brightly lighted streets, for show
places, for crowds of well-dressed
people and for shorter hours of labor.
The assumption is not wholly correct.
If the farmer could make one hunrded
dollars on the farm in the time re-
quired to make one dollar in the city,
neither the crowds nor the bright
lights would tempt him to quit his
fields. Z
Nor does the matter Of hours serve
as SUFFICIENT explanation OF MS de-
sire to migrate. Shorter hours inter-
est those whose reward is fixed. If
one is assured ten dollars the day and
knows that he can get no more, any
dream of lettering his condition will
have to do with lessening the effort
required to get the ten dollars. He
may ask that his hours of labor be re-
duced to six or four or two. But if
the shop in which he laDors belongs
is him and his reward depends en-.
5irely upon the quantity Of his out
put, he will be ready to figat if an ef-
fort is made to reduce the number of
his working hours. The farmer works
long Eours during a portion of the
year. His common sense does not
permit him to waste good day light
when the ground is right for blowing.
The soil may bake and become too
lard, or rain may keep him fretting
within doors. The seasons do not
#ait for him. But if he labors long
Turing one season, he finds many hours
Il leisure in another. His Life il not
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14
VALUABLE PREMIUMS OFFERED
AT HAM AND BACON SHOW

The Missouri State Board of Ag-
riculture has again set aside $3.50
to be awarded in premiums on the
best country-cured hams and bacon,
country-cured shoulders, fresh.
smoked and fancy country sausage
exhibited at the seventh annual Mis-
souri, Ham and Bacon Show to be
held during Farmers Week at the
University of Missouri College of Ag-
riculture, January 1921, 1921. No
entry fee is charged and every Mis-
souri, farmer is urged to compete. En-
tries are limited to meat made on
Missouri farms.
The following premiums will be
given to the winners in this exhibit:
Class best home-cured ham old
or made in the fall of 1920: first, $25;
second, $l5; third, $40.
Class BEST home-cured country
bacon, old or made in the fall of 1920:
first, $25; second, SIS; third, $40.
Glass 3-Best home-cured country
shoulders, old or made in the fall of
1920, but must show reasonable cure:
first, $3.50; second, $3.50.
Glass 4-Best fresh country sausage
1.-TWO pounds): first, Sc; second, 81.
Class 5-Best smoked or other cur
ed country sausage. shown in jars,
sacks or castings: first, Sc; secondfi 81.
Glass 6-Best fancy sausage 1.-TWO
pounds): first, Sc; second, 81.
Class Best exhibit of meat in the
above classes from one county: trophy,
value $50.
For information regarding entries
and premium list write Secretary
Board Of Agriculture, jefferson City,
No.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-01-14
AFTER THOUGHTS OLA
CHRISTMAS SERMON

Even though like my work, it was
with relief that / closed the little white
school house door for the holidays and
started on my homeward trip from
Lincoln county which included stop
over Sunday in st. Louis.
OF course it was a treat to visit one
of the famous churches and listen to
the Christmas sermon which had
many Ito some people) new and rath-
err startling ideas, such as: Had God
a greater purpose in sending Christ
than to save from great abyss Of
sin? A greater meaning than de-
liverer discovered. Why did Christ
die? To appease an angry God? Not
so, to reconcile humanity to God.
"0ther religions have been better in
their beginnings than in their endings
but the Christian religion grows in
greatness all the time, but neverthe-
less God has spoken through all re-
ligions and to people who have never
heard of Jesus"
During the services letter from
missionary in China was read stating
the famine stricken condition of that
land. The people eating leaves, sticks
and dirt. An incident was told in con-
nection with this, of man who in
some unaccountable manner had OBJ
tanned a savory piece of meat and
cooked it appetizingly and put poison
in it and after he and all the family
had eaten heartily of it he told them
what he had done.
After this reading came an appeal
from the pastor for help.
Instantly the enjoyment of the
wonderful music and warm soft lights,
the evidently paid choir and director of
orchestra, the beautiful pianist, whose
hair dresser had evidently received
a large fee, ceased and / wondered
why in this far-off land Gods children
were enjoying life like this and in that
far-off land there is such suffering
among Gods people there.
! also wondered if God wouldn't
have received our songs of worship
more graciously if we had just opened
our mouths and sung the best we could
and combed our own hair and have
given our services freely and willing
ly and have sent the money saved to
our less fortunate brethren at home
and across the seas.
I'm afraid this world needs remod-
cling somewhere. have been in hopes
the recent war would help but it seems
there is nothing that will be really eff
fective until every responsible person
practices Christ's teachings as we'll or
better than they preach them.
F. E. B.