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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-02-22

ers had to coax somebody into con-
senting to the use Of his name on
the ticket, these same leaders are now
at.their wits end as to how keep some
fellows names off the ticket, at the
same time avoiding soreness and
keepin' 'em lined up. In this respect
the republican leaders are beginning
to experience some of the troubles
of local democratic leaders. Already
three candidates are outspoken for the
republican nomination for sheriff and
somebody is sure to get his fingers
pinched trying to untangle this knot.
1t is rumored there are still several
to be heard from, several who are
still Sin the hands of their friends. !"
1t is said for the office of commits
sioner there will be more than a half
dozen entrants. Worra, worra! heavy
lies the head of the dictator-the man
who picks 'em. Anyway, the big
August circus is going to prove en-
tertaining to the onlookers.
~ "a "a "a "a
MAY BACKFIRE
Into the muck they dig. Into the
oozing oil they delve. Into the whole
muggy mess they burrow, throwing
smear over the landscape.
Up to this time the indications have
been that the inquiry would stop at
the oil land leases. Now it is possi-
BILE it may turn around and go back
ward
In other words, the Teapot Dome
Investigation may >backfre and kick
open things that happened back in the
days when the empire of oil was SO
crazy for Intervention in Mexico.
Oil history may. turn out to be a
connected story and simply series
of spasms.
| Well, let 'er go! Who did pay the
bills for the Intervention propaganda
| Who did finance Villa and Felix Diaz
and old King Pelaez Of Tampico?
i 1t was Albert B. Fall, now SO shy
and retiring, who strutted across the
stage-then in the senate-as the
boss of senate inquiry to which the
Intervention focked in holy glee
while Woodrow Wilson tried to pre-
serve national sanity and hold off the
vultures.
4 Open the whole book! Let the
whole dark story be told.
And then, how about Standard?
Standard oil says it didn't get
| lease of oil lands in California.
True enough. 1t wasn't lease
/ 1t was a patent.
| But how come? How did it get the
patent?
What's the story?
Is there some reason why Standard
| oil and it's patent to California Oh
Hands should be permitted to enjoy
| itself in seclusion
Let that story be told, too.
Maybe it's nice story, good story
but maybe it isn't.
"a "a "a "a Be
JIMMIE" is IN
| Now comes along Jimmie" Cox, sc
it is said, and says he is candidate
for the democratic presidential norni-
nation. Well, if he is nominated
| though he was beaten by 100000
four years ago, here's bettin' nickel
they don't beat him that many again
by, as the man said, helluva lot.
| "a "a "a "a "a
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS SAID:
Forget not, / pray you, the right
of personal freedom. Self lf-government
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
By F. v. 1. Turner
Secretary Laying Competitions


Responding to the influence of low
temperatures, the 500 layers in the
tenth week of the Thirteenth Philadel-
phia North American International Egg
Laying Competition, at Milford, Del, on
the state board of agriculture's grounds
made a loss in weekly production of
eggs. In the ten higher pens twenty
five eggs was best pen score this out
put coming from pen 6S. Leading pen
registered nineteen eggs. second pen
produced twenty, and third pen yielded
seventeen. Respective totals for the
three leading pens, p, So and 80, are
.242, 225 and 215.
While these three pens did not make
scores of note better scores were regis
tered by pens further down, two pens,
20 and 80, scored twenty-eight eggs each,
and pen 5 scored twenty-seven. Pen
30 produced twenty-siX eggs. Two in
dividuals scored an egg a day for the
week
A close observer OF weekly scores
will have found that there is a steady
forward movement iH several pens be-
low the two high brackets of three pens
each, or those pens which now register
from first to sixth place are evidently
sufficiently endowed with fecundity to
make a score of such proportions that
will carry them well up before the
competition reaches mid-year; then will
begin the steady grind that will de-
termine the finals.
So far, for the present year, the
stamina Of the birds seems all that is
necessary to carry along the majority
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
MRS. YOUNG
ENTHUSIASTIC
Cannot Praise Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Enough. Sick
Women Read This Letter

Charleston, S. CT was completely
rundown and not able to do my house
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
Notes

! Miller PurVis former editor of the
old-time trade magazine, Poultry tells
about his birds out in far-away Idaho
here's what he says about the com
petition and his birds:
Il want to congratulate you on the
good work you are getting out of the
hens this time. | notice that they are
laying better than ever before This
proves that laying contests are having
sumo effect on the general public.
My chickens, White and Buff Rocks
and Rose Comb Reds. are doing fine
this winter. We have had below zero
weather, but they are in houses where
they never find out that cold weather
has come. I suppose there is never
any such weather at Milford as we
have here occasionally. We never have
much severe weather, nor very long
winters, and we never have any long
rainy spells, nor mud enough to worry
about"
Idaho Is the ideal chicken country,
and lately it has Deen producing tur-
keys by the trainload, so many last
season that the price went down to
16 cents for No. and S cents for every
thing that was not in No. 1 class.
An early season for baby chick
operations is widely indicated-al-
ready producers are active and in
quiries are arriving.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
COLD WEATHER PULLS DOWN EGG SCORES
IN TENTH WEEK OF N A. LAYING CONTEST
All Place Holders Maintain Their Status But Suffer
ton Because of Temperature

of the highly recund to successful
fnals-there has been little sickness
and only two deaths, neither of the lat
ter describabl bic to contagious maladies
Undoubtedly there will be some sick
ness, because Of low stamina-there
will be deaths among the birds also,
but death will occur more among the
poor layers then among the higher per-
formers. This has always been so In
all competitions and it will continue so.
because lower stamina is apparently
natural to the poor layer.
Layers that reach 200 eggs enjoy a
lower mortality than layers that do
not reach that figure; the percentage
of deaths among big producers is
insignificant, when compared to the
death rate among birds that lay be-
law 200 eggs in year. In fiocks of
commercial size the observation of the
owner or operator is conclusive always
to the effect that the slow and COM
paratively inactive birds are more prone
to disease than the active and indus
trious ones. In many cases inactivity
is a basis for culling-it should be one
Of the chief factors in all culling OPP
erations. Since this is the beginning of
the breeding season rigid culling should
begin and continue until after the
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
HOMEMADE RECORDS HELP
KEEP FLOCK AVERAGE UP

In American Poultry Journal for Jan
uary, Frank Plat says:
Il must say that it is a remarkable
record He has one of the best focks
of leghorns that / have ever seen. In
fact / know OF none like them any
where in the country. His flock is
very uniform and has been consistently
producing well for many years. He
has not introduced any new blood for
thirteen years"
We made inquiry in regard to the
high flock average in Ohio, and E. L.
Dakan, professor Of poultry husbandry,
Ohio College of Agriculture. replied:
In reply to your letter will say that
Earl Johnston has been keeping
records with us for a number of years.
do not know whether you understand
exactly how these averages are figured,
so 1 will take a little time to explain it,
THE egg production is figured each
month by the average number of hens
for the month. These total averages
are then figured as the average pro-
duction for the year. You car vsry
readily see that while Mr.. Johnston's
flock averaged over POO on this bass,
that, as a matter of fact, if he had
figured the total number of hens at
the beginning of the year, the pFeduc-
ton would have been very much less.
1.-THE object of our poultry demon
stration farms is to show that a high
average monthly production can be
maintained bu culling, proper feeding
and management. We put very little
emphasis on the average production
on a twelve-m basis. We have
other fiocks in Ohio that have done
nearly as well as Mr.. JohnstOns"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18

I Matching season is over. at which time
the progeny secured from given matings
will indicate the hatchability of any
mating and also indicate if hatchability
is of desirable or undesirable de-
gree.
In trapnesting conditions are more
nearly determlnaDie, of course. in all
cases breed characteristics of activity
must be considered brahmas are not
so active as leghorns.
characteristics of Birds
Each week the sub1olneG table will set
forth such superficial characteristics as
indicate productiveness of each individ-
ual in certain pens. The characteristics
are:
1. Color of face, comb and wattles.
2 Length of body.
3. COnHIt;cn of feathers.
4. Condition of pelvic bones.
5. Distance between pelvic bones.
6. Distance between pelvic bones
and end of keel.
These characteristics will be num-
bered, respectively. from l to in the
table. When the expression Of" ap-
pears, it means that two fingers can be
placed between the edges of the pelvic
or laying bones. as they appear, thru
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18

A brief commencement story is told
about the governor of Maine who,
while addressing the students at Bow
doin college, said, "YOur spacious
campus with its beautiful garbage OF
green" etc. Evidently he started to
say garment" then switched off onto
"herbage," but the combination that
resulted was hardly a happy one.
Boston Transcript.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
INIIIIIUUIIIIIII

time, and now 1 am doing all my own
work, even washing and ironing, and
never felt better in my life. 1 tell all
my friends that the change in my health
is due to but one thing and that is Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. /
cannot praise itenough. Mrs. ANNIE
Young, 16 Amherst St., Charleston, sc.
The reason for such letter from Mrs.
Young is apparent. She got well and
is grateful. Recently a nationwide
canvass of women purchasers Of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was
made, and SO out of 100 reported that
they received benefit from taking it.
Just because the egetable Compound
has been helping other women is a good
reason why it should help you. For
sale by druggists everywhere.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
Progress and Profit in Poultry T: Pas RoR Rs9

slight pressure made by the fingers.
Thin or thick pelvic bones are recog-
nizable as indicative of high or low ca
pacity, coupled with the distance be-
tween the pelvic bones and the end of
the keel, or breast pone, which is also
expressed ''3F" or "41bF." etc.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
Samuel j. Wilson & Son
MILTON, DELAWARE.
funeral Directors and EmbaImers..

We have added to our funeral eouipment a nsv,
Motor Funeral Car. for which we make no extrf
charge. We have still retained both our Black
and White horse drawn hearses, which therefore
places us in position to furnish either horse
drawn or motor hearses.
We are the best equipped and carry the largest
stock Of funeral supplies south of Wilmington.
Call phone. Office No. %, residence No. 2s
Phone service day and night. If calling after i'd
p m call No. 29. All calls promptly answered
No extra charge for distance, use of hearse a.
wife's services.
we also carry large and complete assores
ment Of Furniture, Carriages. Runabouts. Fac
"agons' Rack Wagons and Farming Implamanta
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
Was Taking No Chances.

Phil was entertaining his cousin
Jack while Jacks parents were away.
One day while passing candy he gave
Jack a small piece, ana when asked
why he did not give him more, he
said: 81 don't want sick child on
my hands"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18

Some one asks this question: Why
1t one wakes up at a. IN. quite
rested and fresh, turns over, sleeps
Joundly for four hours and once more
Iwakens - tired out and awfully
deepy1
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18

work. l just dragged
myself around and
did not have energy
enough to get up
when / sat down. /
read advertisements
of Lydia E. Pink
hams We ge table
Compound in your
books and learned
about it. 1 got benefit
from the very first
bottle. l continued
to take II for some
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1924-01-18
Comparative Yield by Years

grand
Comp are
Years list 10th nth 18th stb
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22
u. S. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE
"How Payable"

One carrying U. S. Government
Converted Insurance may control the
application and final disposition of the
proceeds as effectively as that OF any
of his or her property.
Payment of these proceeds may be
directed to be made to ones estate.
If so directed, the insured may then
will, place in trust or make any other
disposition of the money due at his
or her death as the laws or his or her
domicile permit.
If the insured wishes his benefic-
iary to receive the full sum due to ma
turity of his policy by death his wish
will be deferred to, if he properly di-
rects, such payment. He may deslg-
nate one or more of the permitted
class to receive benefits under his
policy, and may direct whatever di-
vision of the proceeds among them he
pleases. On the other hand, it he
desires to provide monthly income
for his beneficiary either for limit
ed number or for life he may do so.
Should the insured select monthly
income basis of payment and be sur
vived by the beneficiary any monthly
installments remaining payable at
death of the beneficiary will be paid
to his or her estate.
The War Time (term) insurance is
payable on the monthly installment
basis only, and if the beneficiary dies
before all payments have been made
the unpaid installments will be paid
when due to the person or persons
within the permitted class of bene-
ficiaries as would under the laws of
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22
If You Pay a Gasoline Tax
You'll Use Less Gasoline
Owners Pay More But Use Less in
Gasoline Tax States, Says the
Automobile Journal

The gasoline tax is becoming an es-
tablished fact, says Aautomobile
Topics. The principle has its oppon-
ents in manyl quarters, but in spite
of this, additional states are aligning
themselves on the side of the gasoline
tax. The movement is general and
it may reasonably be expected that
the gas tax will be generally adopted
before long.
The statement from a journal pub
lished for car owners may be of in
terest to Herald readers because they
will vote in November on the ques-
ton of whether a gas tax in Mime
sofa, if levied, will be used for more
good roads or for general state ex-
penSeS.
Gasoline taxes have teveral points
in their favor, continues Automobile
Topics. Revenue thus derived help
the cause of good roads. With good
roads comes additional gasoline mile
age. Good roads provide space for
more automobiles, and thus the tax
burden is not only lightened for the
individual motorist but it is spread
over "wider area" The dual saving
on better roads makes it possible to
collect a tax without stressing the
motorist.
To state the same thought in other
words, the people pay more for gas
oline but use less. Fair enough But
more people use the roads. Hence
the state benefits proportionately, Au-
tomobile Topics points out.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22

Fchairman of the Agricultural commit
tee. 1t was used to prove the unani-
NOUS approval of the principle of the
measure that prevails in agricultural
sections.
Hundreds of ballots still are being
received daily, according to reports
from the St. Paul headquarters of
the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. On May 9, the vote stood:
For-19,327; against-116.
"Whether the McNary-Haugen bill
becomes a law" said j. F. Reed,
president of the Minnesota fedora
ton and chairman of the national leg
islative committee, on his return from
Washington, depends upon how firm
ly friends of the farmer in Congress
unite for the farm relief program. The
Northwest needs the McNary-Haugen
bill. The South asks acceptance of
the Ford tender for Muscle Shoals
and the West demands the Truth-in-
fabrics bill. If all sections act as a
unit on these laws, all will pass. But
if sections split, it is doubtful if
any will pass.
"The real fight now is in the upper
House and every farmer in Minnesota
should let their Senators know, in un-
mistakable terms, that the McNary-
Haugen bill must be passed. Enc
mics of the measure, are renewing
the campaign to make it appear that
farmers do not want the bill enacted.
The Voice From Home is the best
possible answer to this propaganda. !"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22

Chicago, ILL.,, May l4.-The most
unique travelling exposition in the his
tory of American railroading, contrast
ing de luxe train of 60 years ago with
the modern newly built all-steel pas
senger train of today is being made by
the Great Northern Railway. The ex-
hibition of these two trains began to-
day in the Union Station, Chicago. At
ter showing two days here, they viii
proceed under their own steam over the
Burlington Road to the Twin Cities,
and thence on to the Pacific Northwest
in q triumphant procession, stopping
one day each in Fargo, Grand Forks,
Spokane, Seattle and Portland. Fol-
lowing is the schedule from the Twin
Cities on to the Pacific Coast:
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22
Utility and Economy Gov
ern Trunk Highway Routes
Esthetic Claims Are Next Considered
in Locating Heavy-Traffic High
was-The Reasons.

Greater development and use of
Minnesota trunk routes will divert
pleasure travel from them to the local
roads, Charles M. Babcock, state
highway commissioner, predicts in a
recent answer to contentious in some
quarters that state highways should
| be located from the standpoint of
scenic and like attractions as well as
to serve the demands of utility and
economy.
"The farmer hauling to market and
commercial transports running be-
tween towns want short, straight
the most direct routes, with easy
grades and hard surfacing," said Mr..
Babcock.
Pleasure travellers seek cool, grav-
el-surfaced roads, rolling and wind
! ing through forests and around lakes,
with little concern for distances.
$50 different are the wants of the
two classes that to attempt to meet
both with the same highways will
mean to fail to satisfactorily serve
either. New routes now mean new
and additional roads. Established
roads are not being abandoned to any
material extent, and relieved OF part
of their burden can be we'll and
cheaply maintained as ideal tourist
routes"
Some attacks against the policy
outlined give signs of being inspired
by selfish motives, it is said. That
matter is rated of great Importance
because permanent designations of
trunk route locations are all that the
term implies and can be changed
only by a vote of the people at gen.
eral election.
Minnesota trunk or primary high
ways" says another paragraph of Mr..
Babcock's statement, "always will be
the heavy-duty roads of the state.
These routes now carry about 80 per
cent of the higway traffic, according
to government survey, and probably
a larger percentage of the heavier
types of vehicles. They are COM
mercial arteries of great and fast
growing Importance. Therefore,
they must be located and improved
with utility andeconomy as first and
present average conditions in Mime
sofa, every extra or unnecessary mile
of highway distance costs the users
$4,000 year in ayoidable vehicle
running expense, exclusive of the exS
ira road cost and upkeep itself"
Some towns in which trunk routes
are temporarily designated on Main
business streets are fighting now for
different permanent locations to re-
duce through traffic on those thor
oughfares, the commissioner said. Re-
sort keepers and others now urging
trunk routings past their doors, he
ventured, soon will be wishing they
were in quieter, cleaner, more invit-
ing locations.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22
PAGE FouR
Native Farmer Boy Active
Candidate for Governor
sTed" Christianson of Dawson Ii
Splendidly Qualified for States
Chief Executive

Theodore Christianson, Of Dawson,
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for Governor, was born on a
farm in Lac qui Parle county, on Sep
tember IL, 1883. He has lived in his
native county ever since, except dur
ing the years he attended the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, where he graduated
in 1906 from the academic depart
ment and in 1909 from the law de-
partment. He has represented his
county in the legislature since 1915.
and has been chairman of the House
appropriations committee since 1917.
As member of the Legislature he
has actively supported progressive
farmer program. He was one of the
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22

pany this car and train four men and
two women in Authentic old costumes.
Pullman Sleeper No. 9 first went into
service in 1859. For many years this
unique relic of the days of Abraham
Lincoln has been kept on exhibition at
the Pullman works as curiosity.
The spic and span an-steei train that
furnishes the striking deadly parallel
exhibited on track alongside the an
cient carrier, is one of the 10 new Ori-
entail Limited trains, the last word OF
the Master Car Builders art, fresh from
the Pullman shops where this equip
ment now is in course OF construction
for service between Chicago and the Pa
cific Northwest cities, beginning june
lst
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22

st. Paul, May 10th and 18th; Mime
apolis, May 18th and 10th; Fargo, May
goth; Grand Forks, May 2lst; Minot,
May 22nd; Spokane, May oath; Port
land, May 25th and 26th; Seattle, May
9th and 28th.
The Pioneer Train of this exhibition,
manned by crew of veteran trainmen,
consists of the diminutive William
Crooks, the first locomotive used on the
Great Northern Railway. This toy
like engine has been 'hitched up" to an
antiquated combination coach and the
original Pullman Sleeper No. 9, which
in it's day furnished luxurious" sleep
ing accommodations for the most prom
inent people of the nation, including
Abraham Lincoln. There will accom-
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22

Joint authors of the cooperative
marketing movement in Minnesota.
He introduced the Minnesota Rural
Credits constitutional amendment,
the adoption Of which was followed
by a sharp drop in interest rates on
farm mortgages.
He drafted and introduced the bill
giving women presidential suf-
frage and introduced the resolution
ratifying the federal woman suffrage
amendment in the House.
He drafted the. Minnesota soldier
bonus law, which has been used as
a model by other states where bonus
Legislation has been enacted.
He is best known on account of
his eight-year fight against appropria-
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22

The two trains travelling together on
exhibition will arrive in Seattle in time
80 that the modern Oriental Limited
train can run out of there June lst as
the first of the new Oriental Limited
service going east, the same day the
westbound Oriental Limited service is
inaugurated out of Chicago. 1t requires
eight of these Oriental Limited trains
on the road all the time to keep this
transcontinental service going. On the
return journey to st. Paul the old train
hauled by the William Crooks locomo-
tive will stop in many of the smaller
towns along the Great Northern Rail-
way. This old train has all its ante
dated equipment, even the old link
couplers.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-05-22
Smith Wasnr Jealous.

Smith came home the other night
feeling somewhat mellow, only to find
his pretty wife making love to anoth.
er fellow. This fellow was a trffie
bald. Smith caught them unawares.
Did he get up on his dignity and kick
him down the stairs? No. Smith
wasn't even fussy-the sight filed him
with JOY; for the baldheaded party
was Smiths first baby boy.-Indian
apolis Star.