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The Laclede blade., 1922-06-30
TOWN AND COUNTRY
About Local People and Events and
Other Matters Of Interest

Harris. Phone 1873.
J.L. Mouser was in St.Joseph
on business Wednesday.
There will be no delivery of
mail on rural routes next Tues
day.
Suits cleaned and pressed, ST.
90 each. Mrs. e. ]. Virgins, La
clede.
The Home Store is head
quarters for machine oils and
harvester repairs.
The regular monthly meeting
of the city council will be held
next Monday evening.
New potatoes, cantaloupes.
cabbage and ripe tomatoes at
The Home Store this week.
City auto license tax and oe-
cupation tax is due tomorrow
and must be paid before the end
of July.
Perfection oil stoves make
happy homes. Try one today!l
We guarantee results. The
Home Store,
One of the greatest conven.
fences and family necessities is
an electrict iron these hot days.
Get a Hotpoint from Caywood
& Baum.
George Melford's production
Of Behold My Wife, from "The
Translation of a Savage, will be
the attraction at the local theatre
Saturday night.
The cement walk along the
south side of the school house
grounds was completed this
week and a crossing put in con-
it with the walk across
the street west. !
The Royal Neighbors meet o
with Mrs. Spokesfeld this Fri
day afternoon at 200 o'clock. 3
All members are urged to be
present as some important busi- Y
ness is to come up. f
J. H. Brown and ]. B. Chap c
man are home from their annual
fishing trip to Grand river. They
,amped several days and The
Blade is in a position to know V
hey had plenty of fine fish. t,
John Ralph is the name given b
% the fine son born to Mr.. and g
Mrs. Ralph Neal at Linneus on Il
of last week, being the Y
bird grandson for our veteran g
lmber dealer, j. T. Hamilton.
Extra Special! You'll need te
n ice cream freezer for the eN
We are going to give a nj
pecial 1919 off our regular price su
n the freezers we have on hand,
rice good until close of business ch
night. The Home Gil
tore. Sn
There will be nothing doing in
aclede next Tuesday. The 10
ourth will be a very quiet day na
ere. The stores and banks will IN
E closed all day, the postofice eo
i'll observe Sunday hours and Q,
le telephone exchange will be alC
osed from 100 until 500. int
Our store will be closed the
ourth. Let US have your picnic -,
der Monday. In our lunch II II
'ods department we will have ~
ced boiled ham, minced ham, n;
.ked luncheon loaf, long A.. 49,
ilogna, frankfurts, cream
eese, Tuna fish, salmon, sar-
1es, pork and beans, peanut A
tier, pickles, oranges, lemons, on
d bananas. The Home Store. Ho.
The Laclede blade., 1922-06-30
ID d Out

About thirty acres of meadow
on shares. Inquire Of H. H.
Hoyer, Laclede, No.
The Laclede blade., 1922-06-30

Richnut Margarine and Fern
dale creamery butter fresh each
week at The Home Store.
The Laclede blade., 1922-06-30
Commercial School For Laclede

The United Business Insti-
tutes, affiliated with Des Moines
University, will conduct a class
in Laclede, giving instructions in
Typewriting Typewriter furn-
ished by the schooD, bookkeep-
ing, shorthand, and all CONNER
cial subjects.
In order to get the class start
ed, a few free scholarships will
be given, by which the first to
enroll will receive the course at
cost. Instructors from the Uni
versity will be sent out to take
charge of the classes.
Upon completion of the course,
students are guaranteed posi-
tions and satisfaction. Students
will be. given the same credit as
if they took the work at the Uni
versity.
Here is an opportunity which
you may never have again to
get a business education at a
very small expense. You will
have to act quickly in order to
get into the first class.
Mr.. Mcbride and MI. Fenton, |
assistant registrars will be in La |
,lede this week. You may leave
your name at this newspaper of. |
ice for explanation of any
course,
The Laclede blade., 1922-06-30
ON LOCAL SUBJECTS
Local Items and Interesting Bits Of
News Of ALI Sorts

News OF All Sorts
The L. C. N. club met with
Mrs. C. C. Anderson on last
Monday with the usual good at.
tendance and an interesting
meeting. The meeting next
Monday will be with Mrs. W.
W. Ausmus.
Phone the Farmers Exchange
for best price on poultry, eggs,
cream, flour and all kinds of
feed. We have a supply of
binder twine, harvester oils,
binder and moving machine re-
pairs for certain makes of ma
chimes, salt in barrels, sacks and
block.
Geo. w. .Yount left Monday for
Colorado where he viii spend the
summer at Denver, Pueblo and
other points where he has mining
and oil interests. Mr.. Yount en-
tered the mining business in
Colorado in 1874 and has. devot-
ed the greater part of his time to
it ever since.
By agreement the Laclede !
stores and business houses will
observe the Fourth next Tues
day, closing Monday night to
open again Wednesday morning.
They ask that their customers
Jake note of this and make pur-
,hases Monday sufficient to last
until Wednesday.
-
DIR. Jack Rummell visited rela-
ives here the latter part of last
week, guest of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
(. Barton and Mrs. Emma David.
Or. Rummell has just graduated
rom a medical college at Phila-
lelphia and after a visit with his
nother and family at Columbia
7ill spend a year as intern in a
It. Louis hospital. 6
C. E. Yates, who was called
ere by the serious illness of his :
lster, Mrs. E. L. Brenner, left :
esterday to spend a few days in =
-ansas City before returning to ,
is home in Los Angeles, Cali.
lrs. Bremen suffered a paralytic
;roke two or three weeks ago
q
nd is still in a precarious condi- {
on, much to the regret of her Il
ANY friends. =
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Personally the coal strike does %,
t concern The Blade in the h
asst. The winters coal supply a,
the office and the home is now T.
and paid for and when the 4
ipment Of paper now on the II
ay gets in the railroad strike, if q,
comes tomorrow as threatened, V
II have very little cofcern for z
for the next six or eight
Dnths. We believe in prepared
IS and practice it whenever
tr
fe
Leonard Baker, who removed ar
th his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.S. m
ker, from here to Santa Ana, in
H., several years ago, visited yo
ends here this week. Leonard Gle
1ow connected with an under
ling firm at Santa Ana and is
,nding his vacation with rel
yes at Kansas City and will m,
it the Pershings at Lincoln, v-;I
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The New York herald., 1922-05-28

street stables. Spring trade is keeping
up uncommonly well. these dealers say.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
HORSE BREEDING
In SHARP DECLINE
More Than 60 Per Cent. of
Public Stations Disappeared
Between 1915 and 1921.

The decline of horse breeding since
the outbreak of the great war is strik-
ingly brought out in a bulletin just
issued by the Bureau of Animal Industry
at Washington. The booklet shows the
number of stations licensed for public
service in 1915 and 1921 in eighteen
States having stallion enrolment laws
These eighteen States have about two
thirds of all the horses In the United
States and they embrace the great horse
breeding sections Of the Union. Fourteen
of those In which the enrolment laws
were in force in 1915 showed an aggr,
gate OF 46.121 stations in that year. In
1921 there remained only 1902 stations
in these States, 2s,O29. or more than 60
per cent. having disappeared. This is a
tremendous falling off in six years, but
it is not so large when registered STALL
ions Of recognized breeds are considered.
There were 1858 such stations in the
fourteen States in 1915, while In 1921 the
total was 13,947. the decrease being ap-
proximately so per cent.
While only 60 per cent. of all the
stations licensed In 1915 were registered
horses of recognized breeds, the percent
age last year was H. Michigan has the
highest ercentage-91--while Missouri
has the lowest, less than So per cent. of
the licensed stations in that State being
registered horses.
In the decrease of stations kept for
service draft breeds have held their
ground better than the lighter breeds. In
1915 there were As registered draft
horses to one light horse. and in 1921
the ratio was 1875 to / in favor Of the
big ones.
A good many horsemen will be in
clined to take the Government statistics
with grain of salt when they see that
Montana is credited with only two res-
istered stations other than drafters, AMI
that Wyoming, Colorado and South Da-
kota have but seven each.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Wide Reaction Reported
In Favor Of the Horse
Straws That Show How Wind
Is Blowing.

Reaction In favor of the horse is re-
ported from many quarters this spring
and the swing back to old Dobbin
seems to be gaining ground as the
season advances. 1t extends to farm
horses. heavy drafters, delivery chunks
and nearly all types of light horses,
excepting harness horses, according to
Investigations being made by the Horse
Association of America.
Innumerable observers have remarked
the large number of equestrians to be
seen this spring at the riding clubs
and schools, in Central Park and Pros
pect Park and on all the bride paths
about New York and other cities.
Kentucky saddle horses made a
higher average in the auctions at Dur
lands Riding Academy this year than
in any previous season, yet they were
not the best ones ever sold there.
A. Lincoln Stadler. a recognized au-
thority on correct attire for riding
hunting and polo. says there has never
been such season as the present one
for clothes of the highest class, show
ing, he believes. that equestrian sports
are in for great revival all over the
country
Roger W. Babson, noted economic en-
gineer, of Wellesley, Mass, says: Tn
1922 you will see the farmer buying
fewer tractors and going back to his
horses and mules. The tractor craze
is over"
More than a thousand draft horses
were In a recent parade in Philadelphia.
the Newton Coal Company alone having
sixty-six high class teams in line.
Harness makers and dealers confirm
the general report. some of them stat
ing that 1t is the second best season
in thirty-five years. excluding war
trade
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

cestors was gathered together in her.
she was regular quicksilver of a
horse. She was the most nervous crea-
ture ever knew or knew OF. She was
timid beyond anything with which IL
Is possible to compare her ANYBODY
who would even attempt to ride or
drive her was locally considered 10 be
Of doubtful sense. She had all the
extreme sensitiveness and irritabIlity
that accompany such nervousness. To
put II In up-to-date language, she was n
nut"
One morning / went 10 the pasture
TO get her, and perhaps IL will be pos
sible to imagine my state OF mind when
| discovered small visitor. a little
boy. cheerfuly having a new kind OF
ride by swinging on that long white
tail while the mare went about the
pasture. Yet this nervous animal, who
WINGED and stamped at the slightest
touch, who threw her ears flat at every
movement In her vicinity. who could
kick so swiftly that she could hit a
spry young Leghorn every sho., was
as gentle as st. Bernard dog with
that youngster. lie seemed TO be as
safe playing around her legs as ~ she
we're the steadiest old horse TO be
found. lie admitted that this was the
third morning he had amused himself
that way.
| Normal healthy children are nat
urally venturesome, and II may be this
quality of fearlessness that ep-bles
them to get along so easily with possy
ponies and most horses and dogs.
| OF course, horses that are spirited
but not gentle, are another matter
Whether under or over twenty y-one only
able riders should ettempt to handle
such animals.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Seen and Heard in Horse Market

street stables. Spring trade Is keeping
up uncommonly well, these dealers say.
H. Kaufman g. Sons are showing a
saddle that weighs less than two pounds
at their Division street store 1t IL
built Cor racing.
Tho wiesenfeld Company Of Balti-
more, importers OF English saddlery,
are making a speciality of complete out
fits for show horses. including saddle,
bride. halter and sheet.
w. Averell Hartman has purchased OF
Godfrey Preece the thoroughbred polo
marc Mariett. by Horton out of Mary
l.. Horton. by Hawkstone, son OF Her
NIT. This young marc was a prize
winner at the recent Brooklyn Horse
Show.
John Spratley, one of the oldest
dealers in saddle horses in Virginia, has
retired from the trade. He was a
shipper to the New York market for
forty years. His right bower. James
Robinson, a thorough horseman, is
looking for an engagement.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF HORSE SHOWS
j. c. Cook, Noted Rider and
Trainer Of Saddle Horses,
Dies in Kentucky.

Kicked by a horse he was handling,
J. c. Cook died at his home in Shelby
vile. KY, on May 1s, just after his
return from New York He was one of
the great riders and conditioners Of
saddle horses for the show ring and at
belonging to S. X. Jacobs In prepara-
ton for the Devon Horse Show. now
going on at Philadelphia. He selected,
developed and rode the chestnut mare
My Delight for Mr.. Jacobs last season.
winning eight first prizes. Including
two championships AMI $3.50 In money.
The daughter of Ms Dare died only
few weeks ago. Mr.. Cook was about
forty-five years old at the time of his
DEATH
Winning hunters ia the big stakes at
Brockton this year will receive $1,250
as first prizes. This is more money than
some winning trotters and runners re-
ceive at the leading meetings and is
sure to give the Brockton events a big
list of entries. One of the hunter classes
is for lightweights and the other for
heavyweights. There will be six prizes
in each class, the lowest 500. The two
each, the two for harness ponies $1,000
each and the three for harness horses
$1,000 each. One of these is for light
harness horses or road horses.
Amber Crest, winner Of the champion
ship for saddle horses exceeding 1872
hands at the recent Brooklyn Horse
Show, finished sixth among the park
saddle horses on the opening day at
Devon with Dark Flower, Plaza. Ame-
thist Lady, Cherokee Princess and Pow
elton all placed ahead of him.
George Chipchase, the veteran man.
ager of Judge William II. Moores stable,
is exploiting the hackney as a saddle
horse. His Fairfield Rosetta, a three
year-old filly bred by Miss Amy e. du
Pont, of Wilmington, Del, won the
novice class for horses not exceeding 15
hands. She is by Haverford. cut of Cop
per Rosette, by Copper King.
Entries will close on Thursday for the
Westchester County Horse Show, to be
held at White Plains on June 14-16.
With more than 100 classes in this
years prize list and with few, If any, of
the big stables likely to be present,
amateur exhibitors In the vicinity Of
New York should have a better chance
than ever before to win at Gedney
Farm.
The Tuxedo Horse Show. on Friday
and Saturday, will have the largest list
Of entries since the war andea fine ex-
hibition of saddle horses and hunters is
promised. Several New York stable
will go 20 Tuxedo by motor van direct
from the Devon Show, which ends on
Tuesday.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Mad Hatter's Great Feat.

Mad Hatter;s feat of running a mile
In 1886 3-5 with 129 pounds UP. on the
opening day at Belmont Park. has
never been equaled by any horse in the
spring of the year. Naturalist covered
the distance In 1888 with the same
weight on his back and on the same
track In 1920. and Lucullite took UP
100 pounds and ran a mile In 1:Se S-6
there In 1913, but both performances
were In the month of September. when
horses are better UP to supreme efforts
than in the month Of May. Turfmen
who believe weight and time are to-
gether a pretty safe index of capacity
in race horse will now rate Mad
Halter among the greatest of milers.
In him and Man O. War. Fair Play
now has to his credit two runners that
have beaten 1877 with weight for
aRe up.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Women's Horses Winners
Of Hunt Club Trophies

Women have won two of the most I'm
portant steeplechases Of the season at
the hunt meetings this spring: not as
riders, OF course, but as owners OF the
successful horses Ridden by Raymond
Belmont Mrs. James X. Maddux's s
Oracle won a second leg on the
Maryland Hunt Cup at Bernard Fen
wick's country place, near Cockeysville,
Nd. short time ago over a course of
four miles over timber. The shortest of
necks separated the first and second
horses. A big field started, and three
or four were Tapped at the finish.
At Oakwood. the estate OF Mrs. Stone
near Warrenton. Va, on May 6, Mrs.
Katherine Elkins Hits chestnut geld :
ing Irish Laddie. ridden by Arthur
White. won the Virginia Gold Cup over
a tagged course OF four miles across
country. beating Crawford Burton's
good horse Stilts. winner of the An
tumn Cup at Morristown last year, and
several other starters. The winner OF
the Virginia Gold Cup is three-duarte~
bred horse that was among the beaten
az the recent spring meeting at Belmont
Park Terminal.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

The next sale at Durland's. and per-
haps the last one OF the spring season,
will take place on Wednesday evening,
when Lawrence Fitzpatrick's polo ponies
and hacks are to go under the hammer.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick who is horseman of
the first order, spent all last winter
selecting and schooling these ponies in
Wyoming. and he has had them at
Westbury. L. l., long enough for them
to become accllmated and finished, so
that they are now ft and ready to play
the game. They will be on exhibition at
Durland's every day until they are sold.
Flss. Doerr & Carroll found buyers
last week for something like 700 horses
in the Monday and Thursday auctions
at their popular old Twenty-fourth
street mart. Mr.. Fiss says the sales
this spring have kept increasing In
volume and improving IN prices In a
way that seems to confirm the widely
reported reaction In favor OF the horse.
Usually the last week in May brings
siackening OF business. but this year II
brought some of the busiest days of the
season, with better buying than at the
beginning of the month.
The Bergen Horse Company Is round
Ing out a satisfactory spring season In
the sale OF commercial horses at auction
in Jersey City The weekly sales are to
be continued ell summer.
william Post & Son Of East Williston,
l.. l.. report a remarkable trade thus far
this spring in high class polo ponies such
as they handle.
NJ. b. Newcomb recently purchased
some high class Kentucky saddle horses
Among them was the registered brown
mare Alaire, a show prospect by
Richelleu King out Of American Prln-
cess. by Black Dare.
Waller e. Potters will sell good run
Of seasoned work horses on Tuesday at
their T,utlodge street auction mart In
Brooklyn.
| A. e. NJ. Goldberg now have large
selection Of fresh and seasoned work
horses for private sale at their Division
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The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Sterling Balm Crandam
Of Both Classic Winners

The two classic races run In England
this season were made noteworthy by
the fact that Sterling Balm, a daughter
OF Friar's Balsam and Yesterling. by
Sterling, is the grandam OF both WIN
ners. Her daughter, Princess Sterling,
by Florizel H.. sire of William G. Whit
ney's Derby winner Volodyovski. pro-
duced st. Louis, winner of the Two
Thousand Guineas. while another daugh-
ter. Queen Silver. by the Doncaster Cup
winner, Queens Birthday. is the dam
of Silver Urn, winner OF the One Thou
sand Guineas.
st. Louis Is by Louvois, the son of
Isinglass, that won the Two Thousand
Guineas in 1913 and that was beaten q
short half length for the Derby when
the stakes went to Aboyeur. after Craga
nour had been disqualified for a foul.
Silver Urn's sire was Juggernaut, a son
of st. Simon, whose first foals came in
1915.
Both winners were outsiders in the
betting. st. Louis was unplaced in his
one race as a two-year-old, while Silver
Urn ran three times unplaced last sea-
son. Neither was deemed worthy of
being included among the two-year-olds
of 1921, whose relative merits were esti-
mated at the close of the season in the
annual free handicap. which is one of
the institutions Of the British turf.
Golden Corn, the filly that was assigned
top weight as being the best two-year-
old Of the season. started favorite for the
One Thousand Guineas. but weakened at
the finish.
st. Louis Is now a red hot favorite
for the Derby to be run at
EPSON on Wednesday. Photographs
OF the colt show a rather straight
necked, straight shouldered, hollow
backed. light waisted, long hipped, long
legged, blaze faced horse that might
easily be mistaken for a gelding. yet
very speedy looking racing machine, as
plain in appearance as Stromboli or Ex-
terminotor.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Western Horseman's
Futurity for Syracuse
Fast Colts to Trot at State
Fair.

Colt racing promises to be the feature
of the Grand Circuit meeting at Syra-
cuse in connection with the New York
State Fair next September. Forty two
year-olds have BEEN entered In the
sweepstakes for trotters of this age,
while there are twenty-five In the
sweepstakes for three-year-olds. Besides
these races the Western Horseman' s
Futurity for three-year-old trotters will
be decided at the meeting. with nearly
all the best colts of the season compet-
ing for $1,000 stakes.
The marked success of the May Day
Sweepstakes for two-year-old trotters
at Lexington may lead to an Increase
in the value of the Kentucky Futurity
for year-olds to $4,000 or more
next year. Through its large purses and
stakes for colts. the Kentucky Trotting
Horse Breeders Association Is doing
yeoman service under the administra-
ton of Ed A. Upton to encourage tho
breeding of light harness horses.
Three three -year-old trotters by Lee AK
worthy. 1 :5sA entered the $50 list at
Lexington on May II. Starting against
time and driven by William Cation, who
recently escaped from Russia. the Pas
time Stables bay filly Muslin. out of
Kalavia, by Kreinlin. 2:07A, gained a
record of 2:19; Mnuet. out of Gretchen
b.. a daughter of Lou Dillon, 2:0l,
trotted her mile in 2:22%, and H. M.
Hanna's Merriment out of Little Tide,
2:25 by NIoko, made a mark of 2:2o1a.
Ned Hale two-year-old colt by Bel
win. 2:06N, out of Honeymoon, by John
A. McKerron, 2:05%. earned record OF
2:2S1s.
Horace w Murphy reports 100 entries
In the nine early closing races for the
Mineola meeting in September. The
number Is the largest in years at the
Long Island track.
Trotting meetings will be held on
Memorial Day at Monroe, N. ";
Orangeburg, N. Y: Freehold. N. J.. and
Mineola L. I. The Nassau Driving
Club will hold its first matinee at the
Long Island track. The other meetings
will be for purse races.
The Junior League Of Amateur Driv-
ing Clubs will hold its annual intercity
trotting meeting on the Charles River
Speedway in Boston on July IL to 1S.
New York, Newark and Goshen will be
represented in the cup races.
Magnus Flaws. secretary of the Har-
ness Horse Association, died on May 10
at his home in Chicago. He was In
strumental in increasing the earning
capacity of trotters campaigned In the
West by inducing the fair associations
there to give sweepstakes with added
money instead of giving purses for har-
ness races. He was 55 years old.
The eleventh annual race for the Horse
Dealers Sweepstakes on Wednesday or
next week in Philadelphia has drawn
eleven fast trotters eligible to the 2 80
class. most of them owned In New
Jersey. Eugene Carpenter of New York
enters Auldworthy, and e. M. Horton
names Goldie King. Other eligibles are
Cegantle Boy. Trampsweet. Raymaker,
Elsie Laird, Dapper Don. Guy Worthy.
May King. Prima Donna and Little Miss
Moo. The Belmont stakes for :15
trotters has ten entries, and the Key
stone stakes for 2:15 PAGERS twelve en-
tries. All races are to be decided on
the same day at Belmont Driving Park.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28
Teams of Four Nations
May Play Polo Here

r INTERNATIONAL polo with teams
representing four nations is
4 among the possibilities for the
coming season at Meadow Brook,
Rumson and Philadelphia. Lord
Rocksavage's English team has al
ready accepted the invitation of the
American Polo Association TO take
part in the tournaments at these
fields, and it is confidently expected
the Argentine team now in England
will come over at the close of the
British polo season, now close at
hand. To make the tournaments
here still more interesting and inn
portant Louis E. Stoddard and his
associates of the Polo Association
are now considering the suggestion
OF a special invitation to the Irish
team from Dublin that went over to
England last year and beat the pick
of the British players on their own
ground.
The New York herald., 1922-05-28

selection Of fresh and seasoned work
horses for private sale at their Division