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lana “Do know of any woman who ever received any benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- + Pound?” If any woman who is suffering with any ailment peculiar to her sex will ask her neighbors this question, she will be surprised at the result. There is hardly a community in this country where women cannot be found who have been restored to health by this famous old remedy, made exclusively from a simple formula of roots and we a During the past 30 years we have published thousands of letters from these grateful women who have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and never 24, in all that time have we published a testimonie! without we the writer's special permission. Never have ‘we knowingly bed published a testimonial that was not truthful and genuine, sod Here is one just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts that this is a true and honest statement of a woman's experi- an ence with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound write vet and ask her. : er Houston, Texas.—“ When I first began taking Lydia E. Pink- $4 ham's Vegetable Compound Twas a total wreck. LT had been ‘, . sic or three years with ale troubles, chronic dyspepsia, om and a liver trouble, [had tried several doctor’s medicines, but 88 nothing did me any good. en “Por three years L lived on medicines and thought T would 2a never get well, when FE read an advertisment of Lydia E, Pink- rg. ham’s Vegetable Compound, and was advised to try it, sh- “My husband got me one bottle of the Compound, and it did 0, me so much good I continued its use. Tam now a well woman hd and enjoy the best of health, | de “T advise all women suffering from such troubles to give | Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a trial. They won't | yur \ regret it, for it will surely cure you.” — Mrs. Bessie L. Hicks, he $19 Cleveland St., Houston, ae | Any woman who is sick and suffering is foolish surel lor not to give such a medicine as this a trial, Why should it | he not do her as much good as it did Mrs, Hicks. | we Lene eee eee ee ee ee ee ee » The Saline Citizen thus laments, Editor Bover, of the Enterprise, | ys that times have changed: “Thirty | has bought the Worden bullding on | nd ‘ Years ago this morning we went out| Walnut street, next to the Dr. Lan-| th and palled a ton or two of straw out| caster office, and we are informed or. of the cave and got out enough ap-| will move his printery thereto. It tsa, Fl les and potatoes to last the famtly | sood location for such a purpose, A te Fee weak, This morning we hand- ground-floor position, a block re f ed over a dollar for a half bushe) of | moved from the main street 1s better | - measly little apples and slxty cents! than she center of the “whirl” for a| SANE id nd ret sh no ast otatoes that culls when we for a half bushel of would have been calle were a boy. The ladies of Columbia Including the wives of the University professors are making « fight for clean grocery stores and have a committee investi- gating the grocery stores of the town. They declare they pay high prices for thelr groceries, that they are entitled to the purest foods and clean service, and they will have no others. They will demand that all grocers comply strictly with all the requirements of the pure food laws. We copy with approval the follow ing from the Lexington News: ‘“The| united support given Senator W. J. Stone at Jefferson City this week {a the most healthy manifestation of returning party sanity that has been seen In the ranks of the Demo- cratic party forthe past six years. The old grizzled fighter is all that saved Missouri Democrats from the} wreck, but with such men to the fore the party can rehabilitate itself in Missouri and return the glorious old State to her proper place in the Democratic column.” Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypo- phosphites should always be kept in the house for the following reasons: rst—Because, if any member of the family has a hard cold, it will cure it. No household should be with- out it. ‘of paper in which it appears, your address and four cents to cover ‘and we will send you a “Complete Handy of the World.” print-shop, as we have discovered by paet experience. We accord Bro, | Dever a hearty welcome.—Rich Hill) Review. | ally sent an agent from St. Joseph | to Osborne to investigate @ com.) plains made by a local paper agatost the Standard’s method of doing bus- | ineas in that little old Kansas town. And when the agent had corrected | the method complained of he called, upon the editor of the paper and ex | plained how it happened. He also promised that {6 wouldn't occur, again.—K C. Star. | Col. Al. Morrow Iights on bis feet in apite of the political landslide !n Missour!. Col. Morrow has been| stenographer In the executive office | during several administrations and | knows more about the inside affairs of state than anybody. Of course, | Governor Hadley didn’t want adem ocrat so Morrow lands in an equally | good _— in the Statp Treasur | ice. —Journal-Democrat. Home Seekers Excursion. To pointsin Alabama, Arizona | Arkansas, Colorado, tieorgta, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mext- co, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. On all first and third Tuesdays of each month at rate of one and one half fare pjus $2.00 tor round trip. Twenty-one days from date of sale. E. C. VanDERVOORT. (ers O Last Thureday while a party of young people up at Bronaugh were skating on the railroad pond, Neulin Armstrong skated into an ailrhole, and the spectators were horrified to see him eink out of sight in the Icy waters, says the Journal. When he came up again, he had drifted away from the hole and a clear hard sheet of ice imprisoned him in the waters. Had it not been for his remarkable ce of mind ne would have n drowned. As it was he did not become in the least bewildered, but using his head as a battering ram he succeeded in breaking the ice and escaping from his icy bath. Washington Once Gave Up +o three doctore; was kept in-bed-for five weeks. Blopd polson from a spider’s bite caused large, deep sores to cover hi¢ leg. The doctors failed, then “Bucklen’s Arnica Salve com- letely cured me,” writes John Wash- baton, ot Bosqueville, Tex For eczema, bolle, burns and piles ite eu- Ipreme. 25c at F. T. Clay’s. | Edna Cummins, RETR S E ea CART The assessor has nearly completed the assessment books for 1908, and though the total has not been cast up, we will inform the Appleton Journal that prosperity has been so weneral throughout the country that both valuation and population will | show adecrease Further than this, we hazard the prediction that the} census of 1910 will show a falling off | in the population of the coupty of; {nos far from 2,000. The Journal |can make its owa explanations; the Democrat is content to state facts. | | —Osceola Democrat. | The editor of an exchange tells a | story of a young bachlor sheriff who was called to serve an attachment jon@ handsome widow. He called and sald: “Madam,I have an at- tachment for you.” She blushed ,and sald the attachment was recip |rocated. “Wou misunderstand,” he | sald, “you must proceed to court.” fShe sald she knew 1s was leap year, but she would rather be do thecourt- ing. “Madam,” he continued, “this is no time for trifling, the justice ts | walting.” “Oh I prefer a mintster,” she sald. “A squire married me the tires time and I bad bad luck.” | ee Wal Mason: I shot an arrow {nto | she air, it fell in distance, I knew not where, till a neighbor sald that tt killed his calf, and I had to pay him |six and a halt. I bought some pols | on to slay some rats, and aneighbor jswore that it killed his cats, and rather than argue across the fence, I _ pald bim four dollars and fifty cents. One night I set satlinga toy balloon, and hoped {6 would sear til 1t reach- jed the moon, but the candle fell out, | on some farmers straw, and he sald | must settle or go to law. And that lis the way with a random shot, it never hits the proper spot, and the joke you spring, that you think so smart, may leave a wound Jn some isllow’s hears. East Lone Oak. Reo'd too late for last week, Rev, Whitsett will preach the sec ond and fourth Sundays for two; months. W.C. McGinnis has purchased the S U. Ison phone. He may begotten most any time without ringing for him. A meeting was held at the school house in last Friday night to talk over the consolidation of schools in Lone Oak township, Lone Oak {8 about as enterprising a township, as | there fe in Bates county, and {tf we can get & consolidated school, she will be away ahead of the others out- side of the towns. There are afew kickers, but {t takes kickers to make auything go, we guess. Mra. Maggie Thomas, who has Since the Missouri ouster decleion| spent a month’s vistt with relatives Standard Oil is so tame that It actu- in Kansas and New Mexico, returned home Saturday. The pie supper at Star Saturday night was largely attended, and a good time was had by all present. E E. Eckles ts building a smoke house. It’s sure a dangy. Lawrence Lyle {a working for J. W. McCaughey’s at present. Two candidates ‘joined the Wood- men” or “rode the goat’ as is com- monly sald last Saturday night. They were Jess Little and Andrew Elledge. The Booth boys are going toj in next Saturday. CM. Thomas has been on the sick list for a week or so. Pussy WILLow. Marriage Licenses. C F. Baie, Adrian, Mo. Adrian, Mo. Advertising His Success. J. E. Cahill, postmaster and one of the leading merchants of Chilhowee, {on conversation with Holden Pro- gress acribe, gave this little scrap of history: “I came to Chilhowee seven years ago, young man, unknown and with only a few hundred dollars io my pocket. This sum didn’t buy much of a stock of merchandise, but invested it all and then began to hustle for business I had been a student of advertising and had ob. served particularly the growth and methods of the mailorder houses. I determined to ‘fight fire with fire’ and began to use printers ink all the time. I used good sized space in the paper, prepared it carefully, and changed {t every week; at least once a month I supplemented this with circulars, thus getting my appeal for trade constantly before the eyes of every available trader {n my terrl- tory. Didit pay? Well, last year, the stoek invoiced more than twice as many thousand dollars asl had hundreds in the original investment. The trade territory of the store is constantly growing larger. And I say: unreservedly that advertising did it. The mail-order houses don’t bother me, largely because Ido y give them a chance.” de po Rear ee 2 Out of the Ginger Jar. Till the ground tl it fills the till It’s poor land that can’t hold its sown. Curelessness is really Isziness under @ more polite name. Ever see the man who works like a bee every place but at home? The potato bug {fe destructive, the ehinch bug is as bad, but the hum- bug beats shem both Iu spite of the fact that she seems | so demure and avilable, the cat is a constant tail bearer, Sometimes a man is so busy get ting & lodge grip that he loses hie} grip on his business | Man is un admirer of the beautiful. | He invariably selects the umbrella} thus has the prettiest handle. | Behold the patient ox. He vaunte| no speed records, but he gets the load | to the barn all the same. A little vantty is a good thing In a| man, Is will usually keep him from going to sown collarless and coat.) ess. Ifa woman pald as much atten-. tion to the picking out of man as} she does to & hat, how much happter | she would be, The Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lambs, buy the lambs that are shorn in Wall atreet are compelled to look ous for themselves, Those who dance must pay the fid- idler, which fs but another way of saying that every man must reap his own wild oate harvest. | Tight shoes are @ sure panacea for all other troubles. The man whose footwear pluches him will soon cease to worry about anything else, When 8 man gets @ pain the whole township knows it; but a window may have several panes all av once without muking any fuss about is. “The woman fs. the weaker vessel” men are fond of saying, but when it comes to endurance and patience she has her lord beaten to a frazzle. Some folks (though not Vur Folks) are so busy spreading scandal in she village store, that they haven’s time to spread manure on thelr fields — From February Farm Journal. Itch cured {n 30 minutes by Woolford’s| Santtary Lotion. Never fails, Sold. by Frank T. Clay, Druggist. 506m, Real Estate Transfers, WARRANTY DEEDS, Wm M Wherry to WJ Mullis 80 a sec 19 Walnut $1,760. Wm M Wherry to J A Harris 80 a sec 19 Walnut $1,760 | M L Beadles to S T Cox pt lots 7- | 89 10 blk 14 Hume $200, Geo G Heath to Joseph H Henth | 17 int in 160 @ sec 35 East Boone $300 \ Ora Breeze to F A Seott pt los + blk 4 Wilms 1s¢ add to Butler $23 ,- COU. JB Davall to Ei F Hill 80a see 18 Howard $3,000. Nelson W Ballfinch to Frank ( De- ver lots 7-8 blk 78 Rich Hill $875. A N Morrell to Adolph and Mary | F Dahl lots 3 4 5-6 7.8 9.10 blk 1 al- so lots 3-4-5 6 78-9-10 bik 5 Rich- ardsons add to Merwin $320 Nathaniel Whipple to Hiram Nich- ols 40 a sec 6 Hudson $800. CA Warner to Edgar B Warner 40 a sec 16 New Home $1500. Edgar B Warner to Mariah Warner | 40 a sec 16 New Home $1500. J W Vandyke to U O Deputy lote 8 9-10 blk Willlams add to Rich Hill, $950. W D Rogers to James A steele 52 a, sec 2 Pleasant Gap twp $1,040 Rose B Nestlerode to RC Brayton | lots 1-2 blk 32 and lots 1 2 3-4 5-6 7 8-9-10.11-13-141n blk 81 Amoret) $1500. : R L Moore to Frederick Vogler 320 a sec 28 Grand River twp $26,500. R L Moore to Frederick Vogler 40 « eec 16 Deer Creek twp $2,500. Phillip Kuhns to Mattie Moudy lot 241 and pt lot 242 Adrian $1500. J. E Joss to Phillip Kuhnslot 241 and pt lot 242 Adrian $1,550 Mattle E Mondy to Phillip Kubne lots 49 and 50 Town Cos 1st add to Adrian $1200. Chas H Argenbright toJ P Ed- wards & wile 10 a sec 22 City of But- ler $5000. John Wright to Chas W Dickerson & wife 81. eec 5 Mt Pleasant twp $3,000. Geo N Phillips to Joseph C Melton 58 a sec 16 Deer Cresk twp $3,000. M T Mabrey to W J Hughes 40 a sec 28. Mound twp $2100. 8 L Standish to J S and MF Franklin lots 8-912 blk 9 ‘Stand- {sh’s add to Hume $150. L M Lyons to James McCann ¥ In- terest in lot block 5 and S¥ of lot 2 block 8 Thompsons Add to Butler, Mo. $400.00. James McCann to Clara J Lyons tle and hogs is less than was to be} J The Blues you feel that the wor r | An Inactive Liver by putting the liver in ahe: condition cures and pr bles arising f i bowels and liv ‘Take an NR t feel detter i than pills for Nver i Get a 25c. Box C. W. HESS, The Druggist, te Butler, Mo. WEALTH IN FARM ANIMALS | Office Telephone 20. | Total Value is a 194 Million Dol-; lars Greater Than a | Year Ago. Washington, Feb.—The value of | “8 side square, the live atock on the farms in the United States 1s 194 millfon dollare xreater at the present time than a year ago, according to the report of} she agricultural department. In the |: | TIME CARD EFFECTIVE Noy, 8, K. C, Stock Local Freight Missouri Pacific Time Table BUTLER STATION 1908 rains North (No. ‘rains South ( No ocal Freight | Interstate } eat,’ arrives 5:15 p.m, DR. E. N. CHASTAIN. Burier, - Mo, Office over Bennett-Wheeler Mer. Co. Residence High Street. Residence Phone 19, Office Phone 215. © icicle iscdsabilinaliaies ~DR+]. Me CHRISTY, Diseases of women and Children a Specialty *) Otfice over A. H. Culver Furniture Company, Butler, Mo. Honse Telephoneld, B.F. JETER, Attorney at Law and Justice, Office over H. H, Nichola, DR, J. T. HOLL DENTIST. éntranoe, tame that load to R. 1. Liddil’s indio, north side squars, Butler, Mo, past year the number of horses has {nereased 3 2 per cent; of mules, 4,08 per cent; of wileh cows, 2.5 per cent; of sheep, 27 per cent, which number ol “other cattle” decreased 14 per cent, and of swine 35 per cent. The decrease in the number of cat: | expected ta view of the high prices of | corn, Which have discouraged feed- ing of live stock The total value of horaes, mules, atte, swine and sheep on the farms | 184,524 milllon dollars | The cumbers of various kinds of} animals reported on farme ou Janu: | ary 1, 1909, and 1908, as estimated by the agricultural department are here shown: 1003, Horses 19, 998,000 Mules 3,589,000 Mileh cows 21, 194.000 Other cattle ...... 50,078,000 Sheep 54,631,000 swine. 54) (184,000 Totals 206,023 , 000 205,518,000 Indigestion Ends. You can eat anything your stom- ach craves without fear of a case of Indigestion or Dyspepsia, or that your food will fermentor sour on your stomach, ff you will occaston. ally take a Iistle Diapepsin after eat- ing Your meals will taste good, and |— -_— ae anything you eat will be digested; nothing can ferwent or turn into acid or pofson or stomach gas, which causes Belehing, Dizziness, a fealing of fullness after eating, Nausea. In digestion (like a lump of lead in stomach), Billioueness, Heartburn, Water brash, Pain iu stomach and intestines or other symptoms. Headaches from she stomach are absolutely unknown where this effec- tive remedy is used. Diapepsin really does ll the work of a healthy stom- uch. It digests your meals when your stomach can’t. Each triangule will digest all the food you can eat snd leave nothing to ferment or sour. Get a large 5U cent case of Pape’s Diapepsin from your druggist and start taking to day and by to-mor row you will actually brag about | your healthy, strong Stomach, for you then can eat svything and everything you want without the slightest discomfort or misery, and every particle of impurity and Gas that {isin your stomach and intes- tines ts going to be carried away without the ure of laxatives or any other assistance. Shot His Wife Three Times. Arnett, Ok., Feb.—Mres. Lillie Harle, » former resident of Bronaugh, Mo, was shot and killed by her husband, Walter Marie, following @ quarrel in x room at a hotel in Gage, their home, for some time. The hotel guests were aroused by theclamor and saw Mrs. Hale try- ing fo enter the dining room door. Her husband, following her, shot, | and she fell to the floor, he shot twice ! after she fell, causing her death. Harle was arraigned before the | county judge of Arnett, but refused | to make any plea and his friends. have filed an Insanity plea before the county cuurt. The insanity board meets Friday, when Hale will again! be arraigned. Mrs. Hale was buried at Gage. Harle was formerly a resident of Bronaugh, in Vernon county, where \ sams loteasaboveconveyed $400 00. \ he was in the morcantile business, COCO re GSH T. C. BOULWARE, Phyalelan and Surgeon, Ottice North Side Square, Butler, Mo Diseases of women and children a spectaley. ee . Drs. Cannon & Sparr ? Dentists, | BUTLER, MISSOURL. 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