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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17

Tanlac Vegetable Pills are ma
ture's own remedy. for constipation.
For sale everywhere.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17
REINERSXIIIE

T. w. Garrett and wife spent a
part of last week at the s. E. Hill
home here and took in the minstrel
and the high school commencement.
Mrs. Paul McNabb closed her
school at Sharon last week and
came to her home at this place on
Monday morning She will conduct
a school with one pupil now.
w. p. Smith has been authorized
to pay SO cents per pound for good
wool, but is not trying to buy as he
thinks wool will command a better
price later on.
S. w. Combs has been in quite
poor health, but is reported better
at the present writing.
Mrs. Jessie Vosper of Crooksville
was here on Thursday evening of
last week to inspect the o. z. S.
Ice cream was served at the close of
the inspection.
Pat Murphy with his trained dogs
returned to this place last week. He
was accompanied by a wire walker
who was here several years ago with
Bartine's show. We understand that
they Will give several exhibitions in
this territory before joining another
show company about the first Of
June.
Les McGrath wrenched one knee
quite severely on last Friday, since
which time he has been unable to do
any horse shoeing.
Miss Frances Ford of McConnels-
Vile visited a part of last week with
her sister Mrs Thelma Smith Of
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17
America Is More Religious

The pugnacity developed by the
war did not leave the church alone.
1t has been the subject of bitter at
tack from many sources. Yet 1t
made last year the greatest gain in
its history, adding 1,220,428 mem
bers, SO per cent increase over its
average annual growth.
The total religious constituency
of the United States is estimated at
98,878,367 persons. They include
78,113,481 Protestants, 18,104,804
Roman Catholics, 100000 Jews,
6O4,O82 Mormons, 456,054 Green
and Russian Eastern Orthodox.
During the year the Roman Cath
olic church added 219,158 members,
the Methodist Episcopal 122,975,
Baptist 97,116. The Methodists
lead in numbers with 23,253,854
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17
THURSDAY, MAY II, 1928
TO '23 NJ. & NJ. GRADUATES

Your formal high school educa-
ton is finished. Tonight you Will
be handed your diplomas. Next you
will be pushed out into the world of
action. Advice is usually in order
about this time. All we have to say
to each of you splendid young peo-
pie, is to not be disappointed if you
are not Immediately offered lucra-
tive position. You have made a
good beginning-the right kind of a
start, but your real education is only
begun. Just row be satisfied with a.
chance to show what you can do,
and if you are made of the right
kind of stuff, you are almost certain
to eventually achieve certain
amount of fame and fortune.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17
McGUFFEY'S READERS

We are not criticising the readers
we wonder if any improvement was
made when McGuffey's readers were
discarded, for others supposedly
more up-to-date. The McGuffey
readers as used formerly, especially
in the country schools, seldom failed
to leave lasting impression for
good, in the minds of the children,
which to a more or less degree was
a wholesome guide through life. In
the last issue of Macadam Service,
A. P. Sandles, editor, talking about
McGuffey's readers, gives expression
to the following words which have
our heartiest approval:
"McGuffey's readers had
soul. Why were they discard
ed? If we had our way these
books would go back to school
and stay there In McGuffey's
readers were little trails, lanes,
highways and by-ways that lead
the cnllO Tow dTO IIdl great
goal, Honor Thy Father and
Thy Mother" These books had
sermons that taught pupils to
respect age, to be polite, to-
revere God, and be good for
something. McGuffey plucked
the fairest, purest thoughts
ever written in the English Ian
guage and grouped them inside
his book covers. Our parents,
grandparents and ourselves
were better for having read
them. Today, revival of Nc
Guffey's readers would help to
bring restless world back to
sea level and normalcy. These
readers could take hold of the
four corners of the world and
lift US to a higher plane Of life
and living.
McGuffey was born in Penn
sylvania in 1900. From 1899
to 1S43 he was President of
Ohio University at Athens.
From 1916 to 1873 he was with
the University of Virginia. He
died at the age of 73. Many
communities have McGuffey
club. Why not more OF them? -
Whenever such a McGuffey club
is organized here, please enroll US
as a life member.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17
GAINS Il POUNDS
IN JUST So DAYS
Prominent Contractor Declares Tan
lac Quickly Restored Health
After He Had Lost Hope

The wonderful powers Of Tanlac
are again very forcefully demon
strated. This time in the case of
Dan Keegan, prominent contractor,
residing at 373 Ayers ST., Youngs-
town, Ohio. He says
II was down so far my friends
scarcely recognized me and l hardly
expected to live, but in just two
months time after ] started on Tan
lac, picked up twenty-one pounds
and felt as well as / had in ten
years. For long time had to live
on milk and eggs, was little more
than a walking skeleton and had a
persistent cough that was pulling
me to pieces.
We'll, Tanlac would be cheap at
five dollars bottle. can eat any
old thing now without trouble after
wards, and if I'm short a hand, 1
con, pitch in and do a days work
with any of my men and never feel
the worse for it, i can recommend
Tanlac to the limit"
Tanlac is for sale by all good
druggists. Accept no substitute.
Over 37-milliOn bottles sold.
Tanlac Vegetable Pills are ma
ture's own remedy for constipation.
For sale everywhere.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17
INSIDE INFORMATION

Last week the Herald editor had
his longest effusion yet. A few more
Of equal length, along the same line.
and he will have published the con-
gressional record in toto. 1t was all
printed to tell the farmers what a
prosperous condition they are in at
present. No matter how hard he
tries to convince them, the facts re-
main the same-just like when
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17
ADVERTISING RATES

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quest.
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mum charge 25 cents. Count six
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count. Obituaries, where previous
notice or sketch has been printed.
up to 25 lines free, over that amount
minimum charge of 81, cash with
order. Keep the poetry, we don't
want it.
Card of thanks, so cents cash to
accompany order. Resolutions Of
respect, 81, cash to accompany
order.
Locals among news items (first
insertion) per line cents. Subsc-
quent insertions, per line cents.
Minimum charge 25 cents.
N. B. We will not stand respon-
sible for errors in advertisements or
Job work taken over the telephone.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-05-17

members, the Baptists crowding
them closely with 22,S69,098. Third
are the Lutherans with 7,043,S5f
and fourth the Presbyterians with
G, 1926, 6,69S.-C Citizen.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

course the argument will be used that
this will make a cumbersome body
which is true. However with the re-
peal of the Indeterminate Sentence
law the work Of the Parole Board
would be materially lessened. The big
advantage with a board made up of
the District Judges would be that
when the board met some member
present would be familiar with the
case in hand as he had heard all
the evidence relative to the guilt or
innocence of the convicted person,
with an open mind. He would also
be familiar with any extenuating cir
cumstances or any new evidence
which would tend to show whether
the cause of Justice had been served
and the applicant was entitled to his
liberty.
The best minds of Minnesota are
honestly divided upon the capital pun
isnment plan now before the Legisla-
ture.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
State Bankers Indorse
Farm Bureau Program
Federation Officials Lose No Time in
Getting Plan for 1928 Well
Under Way

Initial steps to carry out the 1923
Agricultural Program for Minnesota,
adopted by the recent annual coven-
ton of the Minnesota farm Bureau
Federation, were taken last week by
| officers of the association. Essentials
of the plan, including demands that
cooperative marketing be extended,
that prices for farm products be stabil-
lied and that farmers be given govern
ment aid in re-establishing foreign
outlets for crop SURPRISES, were pre-
sented to and adopted by q banker
farmer conference, held at Mime
apolis.
The meeting, called by the Mime
sofa Farm Bureau and the Minnesota
Bankers association, laid plans for
the organization of a joint council of
farmers and bankers to study agri-
cultural problems of the state. The
council will be made up of man from
each group from each congressional
district, to be named by the presidents
of the bankers organization and the
Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation.
An important phase of the confer
ence was discussions and recomendat-
ions of better financing service needed
by cooperative selling agencies in the
state. j. F. Reed, president of the
Federation, told the bankers that they
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

In telling you the history OF the
Blue Valley Creamery Co. we must
of necessity tell of dairy conditions
far different from those of this part
of Minnesota, because Blue Valley
Creameries so far have been estab-
lished and are operated in parts of the
country where farming as a rule IS
very different from what it is here.
The fact that Minnesota has a much
larger dairy cow population per square
mile than have almost all of the ter
ritories where our present Blue Val
ley creameries are situated naturally
makes great difference.
On account of this difference in
conditions, especially the much heavier
cream production here per square
mile, we could not hope to meet the
needs of the farmers of Central Min
nesota with a Blue Valley creamery
of the kind operated in those other
sections. Only by operating Sweet
Cream Creamery, such as we are now
building in Sank Centre, can we meet
the needs of the farmers here. But ev-
en- though in telling you the history OF
the Blue Valley Creamery Co. we must
constantly refer to farming conditions
far different from those of Central
Minnesota, this history will give you
the past record of the Blue Valley,
the ideals and principles on which it
has been built and does business, and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
F. A. French Resigns as
Farm Bureau Secretary
Quits to Become District Manager in
Land Bank-His Successor Has
Not Been Selected

F. L. French, secretary of the Min
nesota Farm Bureau Federation, has
resigned. He has accepted position
as district manager with the South
ern Minnesota Joint Stock Land Bank
of Redwood Falls.
A successor will be selected by the
Federation's Administrative Commit
tee.
Mr.. French has been secretary of
the Farm Bureau Federation since it
was organized in 1919.
In announcing the resignation, the
president said: "Mr. French came
to the Minnesota Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton at the time of it's organization
and has give unstintingly Of his time
and ability to its up-building and
shaping its policies. Probably no
man has been more instrumental in
it's work. 1t was with the greatest
regret that We have accepted his res
igation. We are pleased, however, To
know that his ability is appreciated
by other interests and no member of
the board wants to stand in the way
of his further Advancement.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
Farm Bureaus Market
Directors Named This Week
Walton Peteet of Texas Appointed to
Head National Move to Obtain
Market Reforms

Six weeks ago, the annual conven,
ton of the American Farm Bureau
Federation re-dedicated the movement
to obtain better markets for Ameri
can farmers and instructed the new
administration to organize market
ing division and place the best mar
obtainable in charge.
This week, Walton Peteet, secre.
tary of he Texas Farm Bureau Fed.
Grafton, it is summoned, was elected
for the job and will begin work Feb
1. He will receive $4,000 a year.
The selection ends more than a month
of continuous search and the examin-
alton Of the records Of scores of "pos-
sibilities." Mr.. Peteet's selection is
generally approved by Minnesota farm
leaders.
Mr.. Peteet has been in Farm Bur
eau work for years and has been a
leader in the Texas Farm Bureau
business activities. President o. E..
Bradfute, in making public the news
of the selection, said the Federation
had sought the best man in the coun-
try for the job and that Mr.. Peteet
seemed best qualified for the work
ellis training" said Mr.. Bradfute
"gives him admirable qualifications
for leading the Farm Bureaus SUI
preme effort to secure for American
farmers the free exercise of their un-
disputed right to have something to
say about the price of his products u
The Texas Farm Bureau has more
than 10000 paid members, of which
nearly 10000 are members of COM
modify marketing organizations with
which the state federation is closely
linked. Producers of cotton, hay, syr-
up, wool, alfalfa, onions, melons
sweet potatoes, tomatoes, wheat and
milk have been organized and the
value of business handled last year
was approximately $3O,OOO,OOO.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

year, in very hot weather or for other
reasons, the quality of cream received
was such that not every churning came
up to the standard of Blue Valley pack
age butter. In order to keep up that
standard, butter from such off churn-
ings was never packed in Blue Valley
packages, but was packed in tubs and
sold wholesale for what it would bring.
This Blue Valley rule is followed in all
our plants and, of course, the number
of such Cummings also influences the
butterfat price. Such Cummings natur-
ally are more frequent in Blue Valley
creameries situated where farmers
pay comparatively little attention to
dairying, where well water on the
farms is too warm to cool the cream
properly and where cows are few per
square mile and the volume of cream
necessary to operate the factory of
necessity must be drawn from COM
paratively large territory.
All these factors, different as they
are in each territory. determine the
butterfat prices paid by each Blue
Valley Creamery.
The same will be the case here at
Sank Centre. The very favorable con-
ditions for making very fancy but
ter in our new Sweet Cream Creamery
here, combined with the Blue Valley
direct-to-retailer selling system, will
make it possible to pay the farmers
here price that will not only pay
them for the care they are taking of
their cream but make it profitable for
them to go into dairying on larger
scale.
Why and how Blue Valley expanded
from its original creamery in st.
Joseph, will be told next week.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
Blue Valley Has No Cream Agents

individual patron. The worst part of
the cream agent system is the loss of
quality in the cream handled through
all these unframed agents over which
the creameries using them have no
control. And, as all farmers familiar
with the creamery business know, the
competition of the cream agents,
working on commission, always has a
tendency to lower the quality of all
cream sold in a community and there
fore, of all butter made. That means
a sure loss to all the farmers.
Blue Valley will have nothing to do
with a system that lowers the quality
of the cream and makes dairying un-
profitable to the farmers.
Cream Testing on the Commission.
Basis ..r
Our experience with cream testing
by the cream agent system was that
these tests were oftentimes incorrect,
and we could find no effective way of
checking them up. The many state
laws now governing cream testing and
the convictions OF manipulations of
the tests secured now and then by
dairy officials, indicate that our ex-
perience of long ago is shared by
others even today.
The Blue Valley found in its first
creamery that there is only one way
for creamery to insure its patrons
and itself correct cream tests, and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25
About Blue Valley

that is by employing a person trained
in that work, give him the best equip
ment money can buy and make him do
the work right in the creamery where
it can be checked up at once, if need
be.
Most important of all, every temp
tation for the tester to manipulate
tests one way or another should be
removed. The man who does the cream
testing should never work on q COM
mission basis; the minute he does he
becomes interested in the different
patrons, and the temptation becomes
very great to adjust the test accord
ing to whether farmer is a new or
an old patron, whether he lives close
to the creamery or over in COMPETE
tive territory, or whether or not he is
a man of influence among his neigh
bors. The tester should never know
whose cream ne is testing, and he
should never be the man responsible
for the volume of business at the
creamery-in short, he should be in
dependent of all considerations outside
of testing the cream correctly.
Blue Valley has insisted on these
precautions ever since it started its
first creamery over twenty years ago,
but we failed utterly when we tried to
apply them to the cream agent system
during the brief time we used that
system
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

which will also govern the Blue Valley
Sweet Cream Creamery here. You
can then judge for yourself, if we are
able and competent to carry out this
new undertaking to the lasting bene-
fit of this community.
n
An Enormous Expense to Farmers
You have a right, for instance, to
know our attitude toward the cream
agent system used here in Minnesota
as we'll as elsewhere by centralizers.
We told you last week of our own
brief experience with cream agents.
We found that it cost the farmers and
the dairy industry too much money.
Our observations of the system since
that time have only strengthened that
conviction. The actual cash paid out in
commissions to that system is very
much more than any services rendered
by it are worth. All that cash comes
out of the farmers pockets just like
all other creamery expenses.
However, great as that amount of
cash paid in commissions is, and great
as that loss is to the farmers patron
lzing the cream agent system, it is
small compared with other losses
which this system costs the dairy in
dustry and which, at least to some
extent, comes out of the pockets of
all the farmers.
Blue Valley deals direct with each
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

league as such would disappear from
the political map of Minnesota. It's
membership would be merged into the
farmer-labor party and would func-
ton hereafter in one organization in
stead of three.
A. C. Townley would be eliminated
from the control and from any share
in the management of the movement
in Minnesota. His balance of pow
err" plan would receive decisive set
back. He and his organizers would
cease to collect funds from Minnesota
farmers.
Collectors still would be abrood
however, if the ideas of Thomas Van
Lear and his following prevail. They
would assess farmers and city work
ingmen alike for "dues" in the far
mer-labor party, thus adopting the
Townley financial scheme after dis
carding him politically.
The subject was discussed at a re-
cent meeting of the farmer-labor par
ty state committee. 1t was voted by
the committee to invite the state COM
mitee of the two Nonpartisan league
organizations into a conference soon
to go over the whole situation and de-
eide what shall be done. If such a
conference takes place, it is thought
the whole subject will be put up to
delegate conventions for decision.
The whole matter was left in the
hands of F. A. Pike of St. Paul,
state chairman of the farmer-labor
nartv who was Ciyen fuIl mower tn
act.
Townley is in disfavor with a large
element of the radicals in Minnesota,
but he still has a large following, and
has some trump cards in his control
of the NoNnpartisan league official
publications, the National Leader and
the Minnesota Leader.
Through his personal work and the
columns of these papers, Mr.. Townley
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

still hopes to put over his balance of
power" idea and steer the league fore
es away from the third party move
ment.
Behind the coming fight over scrap
ping the league in Minnesota looms
a battle over political policies in 1924.
Townley, it is reported, has plans
laid already for putting up radical
candidates in both old party primaries.
For United States senator, it is said
he wants to back Congressman Thorn
as D. Schall in the republican prim-
aries. At the same time he would en-
ter some prominent radical for the
democratic nomination, hoping to
land winners in both primaries and
at least in one Then the league
strength would be swung in behind
a republican or democrat.
Third party adherents are expect
ing this kind of a move, whether it
will be made or not, and are laying
plans to checkmate it. One plan is to
stage a contest in the farmer-labor
party primaries If two or more can
didates file on the farmer-labor ticket
for senator or some other leading Of
flee, that brings on primary contest,
a farmer-labor state ballot would be
printed, and would be offered to the
voters in every precinct of the state.
That would tend to keep the radical
voters in their own primary and out
Of the old party primaries.
Friends of Henrik Shpstead, sena-
tor-elect and of Thomas Van Lear are
bitter toward Townley and are de-
termined to GUST him from any share
in political control in Minnesota.
Townley and his organizers, they
charge, were guilty virtually of "sa-
botage" in the recent campaign, go
ing through the state and collecting
membership dues not cent of which
was used for the campaign. Farmers
paid dues supposing they were help
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-01-25

must take different attitude toward
these organizations and give the farm
er companies such favorable consider
alton as they merited, not only for the
good of the banking business but for
the good of the public, as well. He
reiterated statements made at the
recent Farm Bureau convention to the
effect that too many bankers were in
clined to hinder, rather than help CO.
operatives, because they were timid
and afraid of a change in existing
conditions.
The conference recommended reduc-
ton in tariff rates, enlarged bank dis
count facilities for the Northwest, re-
duction of taxes, better transportation
and distribution arrangements and
condemnation of further issuance of
tax-free securities.