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How's your dandelion crop7
Kverybody
alert.
should keep on the
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Home weddings are the most pop
ular. :o:
The slacker and grafter are the
i-anie.
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It's bi-t'er to eat corn dodder than
!e one.
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Sometimes if you she the si ranger
rope enough he'll string you.
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This is a free country to all who
respect the constitution and
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Glory.
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A girl is always wondering who
In r husband w ill be and a woman is
always wondering where he is.
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Sv.ir.o of the thermometers about
town pot a little wheezv the pat
wpf'k. Suffering from heat prostra
tion. :o:
Kaiser Hill must have changed his
laind about the American army being
a joke, else why does he try so hard
to submarine transports?
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Th chautauqua has been boomed
an integral part of America's defense
in this war. That is very true, but
how are you going to get the Ger
mans to attend?
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Probably the railroad presidents
i!'i:i'i care much whet ner thev have
l;s! their jobs or not. What's the
fun of being a president if you can't
ride around in a private car?
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There are happenings in every
town every day which cannot bo
published for various reasons and
yet we get cussed because we do not
make some poor mother weep. But
we can stand it.
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Not only are American soldiers
pouring into London in great num
bers, but they are arriving in such
numbers tht the London newspap
er reporters have found it out and
written pieces about it.
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A patriot is a fat man who falls
out of a cherry tree instead of a
hammock at this season of the year.
Ami only the difficulty of making
oth-r folks believe his story keeps
him from being a popular hero.
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Lieut. John Philip Sousa has prom
ised to compose an American wedding
march a-s soon as an inspiration
strikes him. to replace those in com
mon use. both of which were made
in Germany. And so he asks, "Don't
propose till I compose."
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Frank J. Libershal, who has served
so competently for the nast four years
as county clerk has filed again for
the same position. Mr. Libershal
ha; been very attentive to his duties,
is a good, clever gentleman and if
anyone deserves re-election it should
be Prank Libershal.
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While we don't kuow- what else (lie
advertising writer can do about it,
lmt there is a sort of unpleasantness
about the way he winds tip a straw
hat ad with the blunt characters,
56, $7. Its implacable abrupt-ne-ss
reminds too many people of the
way a police judge says "$10."
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years it was sup
rosed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment, pronounced
it tncurable. Catarrh is a local disease,
preatly influenced by constitutional con
ditions and therefore requires constitu
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co.. Toiedo, Ohio, is a constitutional
remedy, la tsken internally and acts
thru th liiood on the Mucous Surfaces
cf the System. Ones Hundred Dollars re
ward is oiTered Zor fMiy case tht Hall's
Catarrh Medl.-l-.e fnitr. to ture. Send for
Chrular:; n-I tf stimoTiiiii.
V. J. CHIJXEV ic CO.. Toledo, Ohio.
Soid by DvvKgUta, 75'.
Hail's Family I'als tor cyastipatioii.
Keep the home liars squirming.
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Have you got your coal bin filled
yet?
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The only way to get the best of the
Germans is to beat hell out of them.
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The "lightning trained" Yankees
are raising thunder with the Hun
hordes.
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They say it is the sun spots that
cause the heat. Has Old Sol got the
small pox?
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It takes but one-twentieth of a
second for a. wireless signal to pass
from Washington to San Francisco.
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l nned we stand divided, we
fall." There is a .good deal of gen
uine philosophy in that saying, don't.
you think?
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While it is true that o-cent rail
road fare now is in effect, you hear it
said quite often that "we hadn't in
tended to go anywhere this summer,
anyway."
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He has given up all home, moth
er, sweetheart, ambition and perhaps
I i ft- to fight for you. Help him by
giving him the food he needs and
must have
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The marriage of Andrew Cant
ling to Miss Lida Gun in New York
last week caused a dreadful claticr
among the metropolitan society
editors, it is said.
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There is a little girl in San Fran
cisco 2 years old who can read and
tell time. Everybody out there, ex
cept her parents, says it is that
wonderful California climate.
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Attorney General Reed says that
all who desire to become candidates
for political honors at the state wide
primary on August 20 must file en
or before July 20. After that date
it will be too late.
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Have you turned in your excess
Hour? A few pounds from every
family will keep thousands of sold
iers in fighting trim and feed other
thousands of hungry French and
Belgian children. This is no time
for selfishness.
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Men exempted from the draft be
cause they are married should go
slow about getting divorces, as a
Vancouver man discovered a few days
ago, when the draft board put. him
in a less favored class because he
was no longer married.
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Remember that National War Sav
ings Day is June 2S. Pledge your
self on or before that day to save
to the utmost of your ability and to
buy War Savings Stamps that there
may be more money, labor, and ma
terials to back up those who fight and
die for you.
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After several weeks' deliberation,
a war board has decided on poker
chips as the first item in the list of
non-essentials. There are more sub
stitutes for poker chips than for al
most any other commodity. May
each subsequent decision of this
board be as easily borne.
The Washington dispatch reads
that the draft age may be raised to
49 years, "after a campaign of edu
cation." But why the campaign of
education? asks the Atchison Gloue.
If the country needs more soldiers
Congress should raise the draft age
immediately. The country kno vs.
what it wants to gft this war
through to a victorious peace as soon
as possible, and is willing to fur
nish the soldiers and workers to do
it. Further than that, action, not
education, is what the country wants
now, the Globe believes.
THE NEW PENSION BILL.
The veterans of the Civil war are
tardily coming into their own the
few of them who yet survive. The
pension bill just passed by congress,
and which is sanctioned by the
president, provides payment which
the union soldiers and their friends
years ago sought to have allowed
! them.
But we are now realizing more
fully what is the real worth of a
soldier to his country. We under
stood during the Civil war, but for
got when that conflict had been won
by the heroism and sacrifice uf the
men whom now we are seeking to
requite nan a century alter we
should have done them justice.
Joseph Gazette.
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PUSHING ON TO VICTORY.
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Thus far there has not been much
time for congress to consider incus
tires that would prevent profiteer
ing, but it seems that the senate, at
least, is determined to perfect legis
lation of that kind. A resolution
was passed the other day calling up
on the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Attorney General to furnish all
information in their possession con
cerning promcering. I here is no
doubt that nearly all of the manu
facturers have done their very best
to furnish supplies and if some inci
dentally made larger profits than in
the former times no one will cause
trouble over that. But those who
have deliberately planned to make
fortunes out of the war and charged
the people excessive prices because of
their needs and their distress, will
be brought to an accounting. The
resolution was adopted unanimously.
The resolution was introduced to
oblain information uponwhich legis
lation could be founded to stop profit
eering in the future. This is not
or.ly an economic movement to re
duce the cost of war, but one of the
reatest political importance. The
psychological effect that would be
produced by a general belief that th
rich were marking enormous profits
while the common people were otter
ing their all to save the nation and
democracy for the people of the whole
world, would be most disastrous. On
the other hand by the general be
lief that all people, the rich as well
a-s the poor, are doing all that they
can to win the war, an enthusiasm
will be created which will push the
nation on to certain victory. World
Herald.
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PRO-GERMAN ACTIVITY.
Recently it was reported that four
teen German spies had been quickly
executed in this country and the
story gained such wide currency that
an official denial was deemed advis
able. This is one of the wild rumors
that would have done no harm and
might have done much good. In
fact, it is to be regretted that the
report was not true, for there are
very many more than fourteen spies
dangerously at work in this country
and the execution of a few would
have a wholesome effect, not merely
as a deterrent, but as a satisfactory
sign that our secret service is ac
complishing a part of the needed
work.
We hear very frequently of enemy
activities in our midst. Only the
other day it was disclosed thai n
Philadelphia factory of machinery
for our navy was German-owned and
operated by secret agents of the
kaiser. Since then a German-named
expert, chemist, a member of the
United States geological survey, has
been taken into custody as a danger
ous enemy alien. Following this
came the arrest of a German-named
judge of the municipal court of New
York City charged with conspiracy
to obstruct our military operations.
But so far there seeing to have been
no punishment more severe than
residence in a comfortable detention
cp nip in the balmy south. Perhaps
no spies actually meriting the death
penalty have been caught; perhaps
also there is reluctance to impose
the extreme penalty. However that
may be, it is evident that the spy
menace is great, and that resolute
measures lor the country's protection
are. imperative. Fremont Tribune.
THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
Much has been written, to the det
riment of the senate. Writers have
said that the quality of the person
nei nas dwindled until it is now
ordinary. The fact is that there
are some singular individuals in the
senate.
Prejudiced and unreasoning as he
seems frequently to be, there is not
a more courageous man in public life
than Senator James A. Reed, of Mis
souri and few more able or eloquent
ones. He is accused of beinc merelv
a politician. The same can be said
of every man who has at in the sen
ate and most of all of those whose
statues now adorn its corridors.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
chairman of the Committee on For
eign Relations, is a credit to the
hotly. Were the Hitchcock intellig
ence, the Hitchcock fearlessness, the
Hitchcock independence the average
intelligence, fearlessness and inde
pndence of the senate, there would
not be a more admirable legislative
body in the world. The pity is that
Hitchcock and a few others like
Chamberlain, of Oregon; Johnson,
of California; Lodge, of Massachu
sets; Knox, of Pennsylvania; Cum
mins, of Iowa; La Follette, of Wis
consin; Borah, ol Idaho; Smith, of
Georgia; Thomas, of Colorado, and
I'r.derwood, of Alabama, standout in
bold relief from the remainder of the
bodv.
This little group of men represents
the varying shades of American pub
lic opinion, except the extreme radi
cal group, unrepresented in congress
save by Meyer London in he house
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ofiiaiors iofige, Knox and Penrose
may ne expected at all times to
speak for the high-tariff protection
ists and to fight to the hut ditch for
the nrincinles of the Pavne-AUlnVb
tariff act. repealed when the demo
crats, such as Hitchcock, Chamber-
lai nand Thomas gained the ascend
ancy in congress. Cummins and
Borah are progressive republicans.
piite i ml pendent and powerful, with
independent opinion in the national
legislature. Hiram Johnson is ran-
iu!y outstripping progressives on
both -sides of the chamber for ad
vocacy of progressive legislation. He
is a relentless ligiier for l'ovitm-
ment ownership of public utilities.
md although seme of his notaole
iddresses on this subject would have
gained for him the opprobrium of
socialist" a few years ago. he is
now heard with deep interest, for in
his eloquent appeals that the people
be given control of dip
munication and travel are disclosed
rapidly grow ing sentiment through
out the countrv.
Robert M. La Follette has been ab
sent from the senate now for several
months. In the city all of that time.
iie has refused to go to Capitol Hill
even to vote on legislation. The rea
son is that he would not leave the
side of his son. who has been criti
cally ill for a long time. For nearly
a month the boy was said to be at
death's door and the Wisconsin sen
ator then refused to talk with any
one over the telephone.
A quaint figure on the floor of the
senate is that of Senator Lawrence
Y. Sherman, reactionary republican,
of Illinois. Air. Sherman seems lit
erally to hate people who differ radi
cally with him. His assaults upon
Hie president, and many of his ad
visers, all of whom he called "eco
nomic fakers and socialist freajes,
firebrands and pestilent fiends of
scdiion," are utterly unlike anything
that has been heard in the senate
for years. A man Is a socialist to
him if he suggests government own
ership of the telegraph lines.
Those whose memory goes back to
the days before the war started will
no doubt recall the names of Till
man and Culberson. The first of
these is the senior senator irom
South Carolina. Ben is his first
name and "Pitchfork" was the so
briquet attached to him in the palmy
days when his propensity for strong
language created the impression in
the minds of folks who read the pa
pers that he was a raging bull in a
china shop. He was, more or less.
He had a way about him that, made
his opponents look around for open
doors. Ruggedly, healthy and and
1U.S.THRFT.CA13P. $P
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Two Great Lesson;
One Is the joy of self denial the sense of real thrift. His little Invertrnent of
25 cents may mean as much to him as the first ten dollars you ever earned or the
first thousand you ever invested.
. . He can be made to help wonderfully in developing him into a substantial
citizen. His early habit of sensibly savba will do as much as any other thing to start
ham on the straight road to success.
The other lesson is that of patriotism. He has learned "to do his bit" A
country worth living tn is a country worth fighting for. He ii too young to fight,
but he wants to help.
While you rejoice that he cannot go to the front, teach him to help end this
wax by loaning his savings to his govenuxenL
Thrift and patriotism two great lessons at one time. All so easy. Just tell
mm to get a Thrift Stamp and with it a Thrift Card. Then help him add to it
until he has enough for a War Savings Stamp. V&th that he will get a War Sav
ings Certificate and his savings begin to draw interest.
If you will show him how money breeds money, he will be all the better for it.
And every penny he saves and lends may help to save some other mother's boy
may go a long way toward bringing peace to all.
Encourage him to begin saving today. It's real patriotism. but it is more. It
u laying the foundation for his future and it is helping to make him what you want
him to be.
This
Western Machine Works.
C. G. Fricke.
riattsmouth Garage.
Jess F. Warga.
Philip Thierolf.
E. G. Dovey & Soi
Pollock Auto Co.
E. J. Eichey.
John W. Crabill.
F. G. Fricke & C
Ecstor & Swatek.
C. E. Hartford.
L. E. Eaenberscr.
vigorous and absolutely fearless, he
was always look ins for a fight. That
was years ago. Today he avoids
every scrap. KnieeMeu by age and
illness, he can fight no more.
Much as he vould revel in a com-
1tt n nun tw f 1 anr tin l:nnu'c ti 'l t
li l. n 'I'll I 111 1 lirui , ill. llllu ll .1 null
the strain upon his shattered frame
involved in a debate would entail
serious consequences. Inerelore lie
remains silent. As a matter ot iaet.
he is seldom in his seat, except when
the hells in the committee rooms
and offices announce that the pies-
encrof snntors is required upon the
floor either to answer to their names
in a quorum call or to vote unon a
bill or a motion. Then Tillman leav
es the chamber or the naval auairs
committee, of which he is chairman,
sometimes wearing bedroom slippers.
and enters the chamber from the
main door. lie drags himself down
to the seat of Senator Overman, of
North Carolina, w-hch is just in front
of his own. lie inquires of Over-
man what the issue is. He keeps in
i
touch, of course, with the proceed
ings of the body and knows how he
wants to vote. He votes, and then
starts back to his chamber. Upon
seeing him limp into the house upon
the arm of Henry Cabot Lodge to
bear President Wilson deliver a mes
sage last, winter. Arthur Brisbane
was led to reflect "And the lion and
the lamb shall lie down together."
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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irst National Bank,
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D. B. Ebersob.
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C. E. Wescott's Sons
Farmer's State Bank.
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THEY ARE YOURS. VVHILETHEY AREYOURS, THEY ARE YOUR
BEST FRIEND. WHEN ALL OTHERS FAIL YOU YOUR MONEY
WILL ALWAYS HELP YOU OUT.
IF YOU PUT IT IN OUR BANK IT WILL BE SAFE AND WILL
GROW TO A FORTUNE.
WHO GETS THE MONEY YOU EARN. YOUR FAMILY OR
OTHERS?
, WE PAY 31-2 PER CENT ON 3AVINGS DEPOSITS.
COME TO OURJBANK.
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SAVINGS
STAMPS
Thrift Stamps cost 25 cents
each ana draw no interest. Yo i
can buy them from your letter
carrier, either citv or rural
route, at the post office or vour
bank. You wiil ,o gh en a tal
to paste them on. This cots
nothinsr. There are spaces for
56 Thrift Stamps on this card
lien your card la full, taie it
to your post office or bank any
time with a few cents additional
ar.d y,v.:r card will bf. .x
han?d for an interept-bearin-YVar
Pavings Ortirtcate worth
So on Jan. 1. irv'3.
This pives you 4 per cent inter.-
t compounded ciarterly
You can buy 2') War Savings
t erun -ates at rr tim Tl-.-v
iH cost you $vl40. and thir
fac-p value at the tim of re
demption. January 1. 1923, will
be Si'"'
War diviners Certificates may
be converted into cash at th
post oflicv- where ipsuel If von
ned the money. You will Vet
mrerert, too, at about 3 per
cent.
The name and address of the
owner will he placed on eah
Certificate at the time it in is
sued War Pavinsrs CertifiVatea
rnny be registered at anv post
SXHj tI e First. Second or
Third Class.
Waterman Lumber & Coal Co
A. G. Bach & Co.
uy W. Morgan.
ank of Cass County.
Popular Variety Store.
Hatt & Son.
S. Chase.
riattsmouth Steam Laundry.
W. E. Ecsencrans.
Fred Wagner.
Service Garage.
B. A. McElwain.
Fred Mumin.
bur Dollars
when you det ihem
and Keep rfiem safe
in Our Bank.
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