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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-15

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Peachblow potatoes, per bu.. 81
Seed potatoes, per bu.. :. 81 .25
/ want to buy a few Peachblow
potatoes.
Lard will be some higher; our
price is 15c per h.; in SO h.
cans, 1877.
Angel food cakes for sale.
Hemmer's or Gaylord's ice
cream, either wholesale or
retail, beginning next Mon
day.
Our ice cream is not the best, but
is just as good as the best.
Candy, 35c quality, this Saturday
per lb. 25c; 5 Id. boxes, 24c per
lb.
Prunes, per lb. !. ;. !. =. SC
Van Camps baked beans
10c can; by the dozen cans,
S1.10.
Dark red cactus dahlia roots for
sale at 10c each.
Saliva plants, per doz.. :. .25c
Khaki trousers, each. -. 81 40
We have bulk oats, scratch feed,
chick feed, oyster shells, bulk
salt, corn meal, and chick
mash.
Kinks hardwater CASTLE soap, 2
bars for. ). ;. !. :. -. .15c
Bring in your poultry and eggs
CEn ID KENINJEV
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-15

FARM of 40 acres, all in grass ex-
cept wood-lot of 5 acres. Good six
room mouse, good barn, crib, hog
mouse, poultry house and other out
buildings. Water in house. A
quantity or locust posts can be cut.
rive minutes walk to stores, school.
churches, post office, grange and
Modern Woodmen. orders. On rural
route and telephone lne.-J. A.
WARREN, "a Underwood ST., Zanes-
Elle' O., or II. w. WHITAKER, Tri-
adelphia, o. 2me
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-15

TWENTY hives of bees at SO per
hive.-H. D. TENNENT; Rt. 3, Nc
Connelsville, o. Ina
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-05-15
FOR. . sALAs

SOW and nine two-weeks old
pigs.-W A. FORSYTHE, Malta,
Rt. 8. Phone Morganville. 8m2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

When Buster Bear and King Eagle grew tired of quarreling over nothing King Eagle spread his great wings and sailed away and Buster Bear turned back into the Green Forest. Quite nat urally he wasn't in the best of temper. He had wanted fish and it was very clear that he couldn't have fish that day. So as he shuffled along he mum bled and grumbled and grumbled and mumbled, and was quite out of sorts as any one could see. One reason was that his stomach was empty. He had had no breakfast, and Buster Bear is not one of those people who believe in going without breakfast. He might have had a breakfast had he been willing to eat what he could get, but you remember he had set his heart, or rather his stomach, on fish and had turned up his nose at the thought of anything else. So his stomach was empty and he was cross. Did you ever notice how crossness almost always goes with an empty stomach?
 Presently as he shuffled along num- bling and grumbling, he came to some plants the roots of which are very good eating. That is, they are very good to Buster. He dug up a lot, for the ground was soft, and his great paws with their big claws make a very good digging forks. As he dug he ate, and when at last he stopped digging it was because his stomach was all full of those roots as it wanted to be. He had had enough. There was still room for some dessert, but of the roots he had had all he wanted.
 Dear me, dearame what an important thing a stomach is! It was Buster
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04


 and that end, tHse cRansarous tongues of score of others esspnted with ens anotlser.
 @And all the while. like the swan song in Tohemgrin.s four cuckoo clocks provide a rsaddenfng ckorus sT.~f trails along in uninferrupsed persist cree, due fo fhesr umarTer-hour idio- syncrasfes. until the welcome rear of tho troEleyx, auto trucks and ice earfk drOwns the voices of the night
 Its 4 a. m, or thereahouts. by then. and I turn on my fevered pillow and drift into MDrrheus, gentle arms, only to start with q jerk at the sEsiTl re- hinder of JenkinsS Big Benjamfn that it's 4 30 and he'M 10se his run at the Thirty-ninth street barns if he isn'f on time
 -T start to doze agAfu, but 6 o'clock brings a br0adside from seven Ioua alarms and four golf fends, a fennisuuk. two clerks and timekeeper out at the yards responds in succession
 Every five minutes thereafter some monitor of the worlds workers horns in upon the symphony, while the jani- tor varies the m0nOtOny by switching off the court lights. moving the lawn. sprinkIing, or displaying great activity with the vacuum cleaner down the hall"
 Verdict for the plaintiff. Remove exhibit "A" said the literary husband. lighting a cigarette There's the door bell, dear Mind anSwering5 | think it's Meyers repair man. I asked him to send one over t6 regulate the han cl0ck-it doesn't strike right--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Listening In On Foe

"Well, something like that" agreed the wife. ssIf I could sleep as you do I don't suppose I'd care if they ran g thrashing machine upstairs. Do you realize my dear, that there are 31 apartments here and that they all pos sess from one to three cIocAs3 That they each strike their own sweet way, some once an hour, some at half-hours and some at each quarter2 It isn't 50 bad during the day, when other sounds can drown them out: they're not so evident. But if you're nervous, or i'll {; if the maid has left or the laundress didn't come, or your mother-inlaw is due in the morning and you need a good nights rest to fortify you, it's very pleasant from Il o'clock on, all through the small hours to have from thirty three to fifty clocks reminding you of the flight of time. The only thing tO be thankful for Is the disagreement be- tween them, otherwise they might pre- cipitate a riot call.
 Last night, for example. At II, or thereabouts, Luby's two clocks started half a stroke apart, one cathedral gong in the dining room challenging the accuracy of the dainty Dresden maiden who strikes silxer bell with q shep- herds crook in the living room. At once across the court, from this side
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Making Of Pure Fruit Drinks
 In Summer

 :" AXE your own fruit syrup for I'VE summer drinks. Use cherries,
 strawberries, raspberries, cur rants or blackberrses. A combina tion of entrants and raspberries is very good.
 Put one quart of whatever fruit you select into a bowl ana crush with a wooden potato masher, add one pint cold water and let stand few minutes, then strain through jelly bag, squeezing through as much of the juice as you can. Add one cup sugar to each cup of fruit juice, stir until sugar is dissolved then boil fifteen minutes strain and when cool bottle and seal. Keep in cool, dry place. Fill glass one-fourth full with the juice and add cold water whenever you want a delicious drink during the warm weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

wm< forced into the ring. I asked Il krGmeAman m my party what it was nM about and discovered that he was BszeOs. a veRy popular French movie actor
 He had no sooner entered the ring than the voice of the crowd took up another name- Biscot walked to the edge uf the ring and after much per ssAzSDm Suceeded in entieing Sessue, ahN very handsome Japanese movie ac- ssE. tS take \ bow with him. The lat kHE A00ks1 as embarrassed as Japanese eAm AsGk. and after lowing he and BSzeak left Immediately the whole erwwd began hunting for someone else and @Tsc0wered BrOco (famiIiaPly called Coon" by the peoplel the six-day bi- eygaEs4~ and nothing would do but that he mwst get up in the ring. To me 1t wzx most amusing, for it would be diff6rult to imagine an American fight crowd gettImg SO excited over movie eekehritieS-
 The crowd being now satisfied that there were no more celebrities present, the big fight WAS allowed to begin. It wsS between two hghtweights, an Eng hshmzn. Frnsh. who had defeated Cri- qwi, and q Fremehman named Breton mel BretOmnel had q great advantage m Eouth over Frush, but Frush was unaoubtedTy the better boxer.
 There has always been a great tra- &ftlGm 7h0Ut the splendid sportsman ship of the English, but in the last few yeaFS I have seen this tradition con- rradhcEed number of times. Last night wa< 0ne of them The fight was wm&gwhtedly a great fight; Frush was umqwesti0nabIF the better boxer, but he didn't have the punch to get the best of tine Frenehman in the first few rounds and after that his age began to tell on hIm- In the seventh round of what was to be a 20-round bout, BFe1NmneH (im 0ne of the sportiest Fsunas I have ever seenl punished RFwsh <eEerely- though he was anything hmt -Gut-" When the gong sounded fur the eighth round or Areprise," what wzS my astUuiShment to see Frush, The EngFTShmam. continuing to sit in his e@rmers He simply wouldn't con- rEmwe to fight because he knew he was guing tO be knocked out To an An Es0-SzxOm, it was humiIiating to q de gree and could hardly believe my eE&
 When the decision was given the whaEe h0wse wgnt mad and BretonneI literally did 4 dance in the ring. En- thU<iRS4ie Fremehmen jumped in and kissed hfm on both checks. He was hfts1 Om their shoulders, his hands InesssamtHE waving to the crowd, and w2s finally carried from the ring. But @nmTt imagine they were satisfied. In a mdnute they again began calling his mame and became so v0ciferous that he was forced to return Again the hgwSe wemt mad
 should say that the French prize fight crowd was the most enthusiastic i'm the world and yet surprisingly con trOgHed by the officials
 1t Is fascinating to watch people c& different nations at sports. Soon I am s0img to Spain and am more than curious to see Spaniards at q Rlm fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

But the Raggedys were not afraid neither were Mrs. Mingle and Mir. Mum gle, the Thingum and the Zumzee. They walked right up the hill and knocked with sticks upon the door of the mastle.
 "What do you want!" the voice of the Genii cried. Don't you know that I capture everyone who comes this way?'
 You just come out here a minute, MT. Genii !" Raggedy Ann said.
 When the Genii came out he tried to grab Raggedy Ann, but Raggedy An dy gave him a thump upon his wrist with a stick. Wow" the Genii howled as he tried to grab Raggedy Andy. But Mrs. Mingle gave the Genii
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
By Branner

another hard crack with her stick. Then Mir. Mungle whacked the Genii upon the head and the others thumped him upon the legs and back. "Ohi Ouch !" the Genii cried, please do not thump me again and I will not capture you"
 So Raggedy Ann made the Genii promise to turn everyone in the castle free. And when the Genii did this the Thingum and the Zumzee soon found their nice mama. And as all the pris- oners had not had anything to eat ex- cept fried chicken and mashed potatoes and cream gravy for six years, Mrs. NIingle with her magic cupboard was soon able to give everyone fine din- ner. And everyone was so glad to be free they could hardly eat for singing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Plenty Of Clocks

s WHITTIER away" asked the w husband as his wife laid 8
 neat bundle on the table while she adjusted her hat and examined her purse.
 I'm returning that clock you got for Betty's wedding gift" responded the wife.
 'sThat is curious" said the literary husband. q like it immensely"
 "That clocks going back" insisted his wife. eff you'd put your genius to work on a silencer for all forms of thermometers, and make good, we might buy little house by the side of the road and forget the wild, sweet joy of U-shaped apartments all splitting, shrieking, humping, chiming and cuck- ooing the passing hours.
 "A clocks necessary article, ad- init. like them around. I admire their radium dials, their thermometers and barometers, and whatnot. marvel at the fact that it's in Bombay and 9 in Hongkong and in Greenwich, even if am little uncertain about our home town. But clocks should be like husbands; useful and quiet"
 "And well regulated-not fast, nor. slow, presume" said the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
TEE SIZE OF ALASKA

Umited. AIaska spreads over seven teen degrees north and south, or as far as fKu- New Orleans to Duluth. so that szne variation of climate might req zanabsy be expected within its bord- ex2- And east and west the stretch @ S8 degrees, or considerably more tham fr0m New York tOSan Francisco. REzmty of elbow room this way, too, far diFeEs5tiesl The total areas is nearly six hundred thousand square miles. or 0ne-fTfth the size of the entire Umited Stztes4-Lee Davis in Scrip neETs Magazine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Cretonne Frock. Delightful For
 Summer
CREToNNE, is a leading material for the summer. It can be used
 in all sorts of novel ways.

TOT IHe summer. It Cuu Ue uScu
 in all sorts of novel ways.
 One dress is a fine model to begin with. It has the new, natural waist line and the added fitness in the skirt that is sign of the new mode. We are gradually getting away from the tubular silhouette and here and there little bits of fulness will change the silhouette to comply with the mode.
 A straight cretonne bodice trimmed with hands of wide black velvet ribr bons is tied at the natural waistline by a sash and bow of the same ribbon. Then a skirt of gathered cretonne has little tabs of velvet at the hips and around the bottom of the hem, while the black note is again repeated in the collar.
 This is a deep bertha effect of sheer est organdie in white, bound and striped with narrow ribbon and fin ished off neatly with happy little bow tie. No sleeves are visible for the simple reason that there are none, as this summer is as sleeves as last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

There are many simple polishes for patent leather shoes. The old-fash- toned plan of using cream and milk is not very effectual. Furniture cream gives a splendid polish even to quite old leather. Add equal quan- titles o fsweet oil and turpentine. This gives brilliant polish, even to quite old leather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

AAsEeAA=N-N--a only to lift his hand and there was silence-quite different from an American crowd.
 After this prelimi- nary I heard a name rhythmieany yelled by a part of the crowd and fl naHy taken up by almost everyone in the house. In the box next to me a man stood up and b0wed and finally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

~Ha'' the man laughed, ''the Genii knows better than to try to capture me I am going to be policeman next week and I would arrest him sure pop!"
 Dear mel the Zumzee and the Thingum cried, If we can't go any farther, how can we ever expect to find our mama ?''
 m bet a nickel the Genii has your mama locked up in the castle! :" the man said.
 Then we shall go right up there and rescue her!' Raggedy Ann said. That's what we will dol"
 My goodness the Genii will lock all of you up, then no one will be rescued" the man said. You'd better run back home real quick !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
BTRDS OF THE NIGHT
NiE&EAzwkx And WhipPa0EwiEIs Great
 DessFuyeEs Of Insects

Al&&EaNWE8 And WhipP00TWIAlS Great
 Dcs4EuyeEs Of Insects
 NIghthawkz and whippoOrwiTls work ehiefEE at night. when most other birds are off duty, and at dnybreak their wUrk Is taken up by the svifts and swallows These birds are provided with hig scuapnet mouths, and as they swing through the air over wide areas Gf egumaTy they scoop mp almost un- helSeTahEe number of insects.
 Homimg pigeons probably are closer to the human family than any other m of winged life. The birds have re-
 xzhEe intelligence They mate in azrz. and the female of each union has exaxeised her right of suffrage to the Rxaemk that the male helps her in kNtrhimg out the eggs and in caring fer and feeding the young Baltimore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Bustar Rear,s Sweet Tooth

NEVILLE Buster Bear and King Ea- w gle were quarrelling over the
 big, fat fish which King Eagle had made Plunger the Fish Hawk drop, Plunger and Mrs. Plunger had flown back to the Big River to try for an other. Plunger is not one to waste any time crying over spilled milk, which menas, you know, fretting about things which have happened and cannot be helped. He had lost the finest, fattest fish he had caught for many a day, but crying about it wouldn't bring it back The only thing to do was to try to catch another. So Plunger and Mrs. Plunger knew nothing about the quarrel between King Eagle and Buster Bear, nor how neither got the fish after all, but Granny Fox, who ran away with it while the others were quarreling over whose it was. They both believe in making the best of a bad matter, and in this ease the best was just trying to forget and going fishing once more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Julia Goes l Pnze Fight
 In France
By JULIA H0HT

Y AST night I went to my first
 sFrvneh prize fight It was very
 fmtRresting. not only because the rnatrAes were extremely good, but from sse roSut of comparison with ours.
 The first thing that struck me was the enormous respect paid to the an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Next Story: Buster Bear Waits 1T Vain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Little Stories For Bedtime
By THORNTON V. BURaEss

Bears stomach that got him into the quarrel with King Eagle. It was his stomach that put him in such rumb- ling temper. And now it was this same stomach that restored his usual good nature. He no longer grumbled and rumbled. He even laughed as he sat there all alone in the Green Forest and thought of how first Plunger the Fish Hawk, then King Eagle, and last ly he himself had been sure of that big, fat fish which Plunger had caught in the Big River, and how after all it had been Granny Fox who had eaten it..
 Three of us quarrelled for that fish and some one else who wouldn't have known anything about it but for that quarrel got it. It certainly is funny old world" muttered Buster. "I guess that quarrelling doesn't pay. Not the ones who do it anyway. Ha! What is that?"
 Buster cooked his head on one side and listened. His little eyes began to twinkle. That sounds to me very much like the hum of Busy Bee," said he. He looked eagerly in all directions. Just back of him he discovered some flowers and there sure enough was Busy Bee. Hal" said Buster Bear again.
 "Hum-m!" said Busy Bee and was gone.
 "Honey!' exclaimed Buster Bear. That's what I need. Fish would have been good, but honey will be better" The hum of little Busy Bee Is sweetest of all sounds to me; It thrills my heart and stomach, too, As nothing else can ever do.
 ''I wonder where Busy Bee is stor ing that honey. It is just what want to top off with"
 Buster smacked his lips and then smacked them again, and little by little his mouth began to water, for Buster Bear has a very sweet tooth, such a sweet tooth that he will risk a great deal for the sake of filling his stomach with sweets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
WINNIE TWINKLE
.A0UenlMtes 'z* Hf 4 
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 ~&GANA A> .Ka99o@ qAnAN


 said as he came to a s top and looked through the trees to where a large castle stood upon a hill, ''I wonder if that is a giants castle ?"
 Tt isn't large enough for a giants castle, is it?" Raggedy Ann asked in reply.
 Here comes a man walking down the path p Mrs. Mingle said. Let us ask him about the castle.
 When the man came
  up to them Raggedy Ann asked, Who lives in that castle on the hill ?"
 Hmm !'' the man unused as he looked at the Raggedys and the Thingum and the Zumzee and Mrs. Min gle and Mir. Mingle, ''if you do not wish to be captured by the Genii who lives in the castle you had better turn around and run home as fast as you can go! The Genii captures everyone who comes this way al- most r
 ''Then if he captures everyone, how is it that he hasn't captur- ed you?" Raggedy Ann -.H-4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

The hum of little Busy Bee Is sweetest of all sounds to me; It thrills my heart and stomach, too, As nothing else can ever do.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-31
SYSTEM is BAD
Educator Condemns Stand
ardlzation in Schools

PORTLAND. ore, Dee ai-Tno
much standardization m the public
school system uf America h result
IuE bon "a state ~ affairs bon which
tHg dull pupils ana hEgauis ss, 'be
pace
This Is The opinion Of Thomas W
Butcher president ~ the Kansas
Teachers college. who believes that
not enough attention b. paid 20 the
individual differences of pupils
Professor Butcher told the ore
Euu SUITE Teachers association here
that I'VE neglect the bright pupils
and rctard their progress by paying
Too much attention % those who
are less Intelligent and industrious
~ " similarly unjust 20 school
the slow atudrnir. who drop out
Of school in the seventh or eight
Erude lu the rlme course designed
for those who will continue on with
high school and college. be said
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-31
She Was Happy in
the Klondyke DAYS

Having a prosperous curio store
on Second ave, two good clerks. and
good health. was happiness enough
for Mrs NJ C. Penrsall, in the long
ago.
81 was never more happy than
when ! ran tho little store on
Second ave, Just above Madison,
back IN the Klondyke dnys," she dc.
clurcs 81 had two lovely helpers,
business was good, and ! had no
troubles. There was plenty Of
money IN those dnys. Tho customer
meyer hugglcd over tho price. and
he always loft the pennies given him
in change"
That has bccn 81 years ago. but
Mrs. Pcnrsall atm carries the hap
plnoss Of youth around In hcr
heart. tho tho little store building
had TO go to make way for the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-31
TO SETTLE OLD
LAMP CLAIMS
Alleged 0eirauding OF City
viii Come Up Monday

For thr first time fn che nNc years
4 has IN pending. a settlement 81
tfe efE usEf department Pacific
Lamp a supply C0. counter claims
arrearr Imminent with tho matter
before frr s'ty council Tor rrrbarfr
action Monday OF at a special meet.
ins rgmorci Tor Friday.
Tho b08ui ~ public works at an
adjourned meeting Monday gonsid-
orci the compromise and submitted
on records and transactions Go the
council Tor action,
According 90 an exposition ~ the
controversy, prepared recently hy
Walter n. Beals, assistant corporation
counsel, Burton n, stare. otthe com-
pany. had a iobbrrs contract 90 sup
ply lamps 60 the light department az
wholesale cost
"Forv some obscure reason" Brals
said 'thr department while sull uc.
cfNing lamps under the contract and
paving therefor ucnn delivering
lamps hack 90 the company. inyols-
Ing at wholesale list prices. but with
ogt receiving a cent OF money in
return.
such deliveries. between january.
1883. and November. 1899. u-err-
gated SltsST7s. These deliveries. 4"
the l5gaI adviser found, 'werg ok
planned sometime on the theory that
they wtrc sales. and az other times
lhat they were loans OF over supply
stock
suddenly upon h. becoming
known that the state examiners
wcre investigating. q large number
0f lamps were returned % the eity,
the returns between December a.,
i9-s. and January ig, 1895. claimed
hy the company Go De- equal GO those
received from the city
but the wholesale list price Of the
lamps had dropped iu the meantime,
and the value OF the property re.
turned aggregated only sil.sS5.56"
This. q IS claimed, indebts the COM
piny by S3.00O.es. In addition 90
Sa.s:e.4S shown on light department
''credit memos" as the loss ON De.
fcctive lamps.
Comptroller Carroll was advised 20
withhold an warrants payable 20 the
company on rs claims Of several
thousand dollars. until collection
could BE- made on the two city claims.