Show the government built more than two thousand milis miles of trail and three thousand milea of telephone on the national forests in 1914 every one of the warring nations accuses this country of favori favoring nj the other side and poor old uncle sam is literally bursting his in a frantic effort to straddle the fence the world is sending many millions of dollars to america for foodstuffs during the next year or two are we preparing to reap our own full share of this rich harvest plant grow harvest sell just a little admonishment to those human drags that inflict our community progress will never slacken up because any given man or woman is nicely settle dand does not wish to be disturbed be disturbed all right the true definition of crime is expressed in man made laws or otherwise is detection with the facilities for detection perfected there be a sufficient number of us left outside the penitentiaries aries and jails to provide the meals for those be hind the bars the quicker our present day so called educators absorb the concrete fact that the club has been the symbol of every advanced ed step in civilization since the t days of adam to the present the quicker those publishers of de generate literature the school flook book trust will be put out of business A problem if you staked out a hundred feet of ditch to be dug cashed a bottle bole of bootleg boot leg whiskey at one terminal and a bottle of peruna at the other and start the horrible example at work in the middle which way would you dig apropos we note from time to time that many people recommend peruna as a great nerve stimulant we coincide it is complications of the war make very difficult the course of the united states and there is constant threat and menace at this time and at all times the american people should give thanks they have well balanced men at the head of the nation roosevelt has already made it known that had he been president he would have got into the thick of the fighting long ere this the rights of women hilll be shot to pieces if a bill introduced in the kansas legislature becomes a law it would prohibit women under 45 years old from wearing ornaments or using cosmetics for the purpose of creating a false impression face fa powder perfume false hair ad and bleaching or coloring materials for the hair are among the articles the bill would forbid women to use sears roebuck co have just declared a dividend of a huge sum gathered from the small buyer throughout the country by the mail order plan taken out of the local trade channels and concentrated in the hands of those who never paid a dollar in taxes in the state and ne never vl er will much as we dislike th their ei r method of draining a community of its small change we must call attention to the fact that without persistent and andea ex advertising this ii immense fe se business could never have been built up mrs lucella was appointed special borough marshal of point pleasant N Y on new years day A few days ago she found two t 0 o men begging in the residential ai district who in answer to her inquiry as to the nature of their business there informed her that they were looking for work ill find you work she told them march along ahead of me she soon had them in jail the people of point pleasant are congratulate ing themselves on the efficiency of the new officer whom they call the best new years resolution ore they ever made I 1 some people seem to prefer r to live in stlouis chicago or new york to living in this glorious uintah basin it is estimated that the allies have spent to date ten billion dollars to prosecute the war think of the stupendous sum and the war only jua jus t begun there is a certain fellow around here who never reads his home paper and people often wonder at his lack of knowledge concerning local affairs we dont the receipts of the kansas city street car company have fallen off seven hnud red dollars per day since tle the advent of the jitney cars a few weeks ago and the jitney business is is still in its infancy the amount of coal mined in the united states in 1913 according to figures compiled by the united states geological survey was greater by tons than the total which hed bed been mined up to the close of the year 1871 the united states is by far the largest copper producer in the world in fact we produce more than all the rest of the world together the growth of the copper industry in the united states has been notable according to figures compiled by the united states geological survey in 1845 the production was pounds in 1913 it was pounds the total production of the united states from 1850 to 1913 was pounds fl true to a promise he made forty years ago that he would return a thousand colars for every one of 50 advanced him for a prospecting trip to the west john patton notified mrs joseph kampe a widow living in newburg N that he was preparing to send to her says the mining investor of denver patton was the son of john patton who conducted the pacific hotel in greenwich street where he became acquainted with mrs kampe and made the unusual proposal she had forgotten the matter until she received the message from patton that told of the fortune that awaited her mrs kampes husband was a tailor in newberg I low ilow many of our readers can tell us what the stripes on the barber pole signify you see the pole with its stripes and you know there is a barber shop back of the pole but here the knowledge of the average person ceases in the early days the barbers did the bleeding for the community and surgeons were not as plentiful as now the first thing thought necessary way down to the time of george death was that any patient should be bled tap him and take a few ounces of blood from him no matter how weak he might be when washington was at the last gasp the fools bled him well tile the red stripes on the barber pole mean the red ribbon bandages that barbers bound over the wounds caused by bleeding people it is interesting to listen to the local merchants who send out their printing bellyache belly ache a about the amount of hard earned dollars going to outside firms and catalogue houses yet they expect the news paper to be cheerful in giving to every solicitor who applies for of suffering humanity they expect the editor in addition to paying a big annual tax for the upkeep of all public entertainments s choals ch roads and other things to bradt at home the newspaper is called upon to aid about everything that comas comes along to boost his town with columns of free space every week they expect the editor to land hard upon those sending money to the outside firms yet they practice the very same thing they seek to discourage they seem to forget the family when the merchant wishes a bill of printing moral practice what you preach |