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county is eligible to enter BANK A FRIEND OF THE MAN WHO DRIVES THE PLOWS; AND OF THE WOMAN WHO FEEDS THE CHICKENS, SLOPS THE PIGS AND MILKS THE COWS— AGAIN OFFERS Cash Premiums on CORN $10.00 for the best ten ears of white corn. 5.00 for the second best ten ears of white corn. 2.50 for the third best ten ears of white corn. $10.00 for the best ten ears of yellow corn. 5.00 for the second best ten ears of yellow corn. 2.50 for the third best ten ears of yellow corn. All corn must be grown in Bates county during the season of 1912 and be delivered to the Bank not later than November Ist, next, exhibition and become the property of the Bank. The premiums will be award- ed by a qualified judge at a time to be selected later. Anyone living in Bates the contest. Peoples Bank “The Bank Which Gives the Daily Live Stock Market Report”’ It wilf be placed on POINTS THE WAY. The Statement of this Adrian Resident will Interest our Readers. Our neighboring town, Adrian, points the way in the words of one of its most respected resident: E. P. Howe, Adrian, Mo., says: ‘I can recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills just as highly today as I did some yedrs ago when I gave a public state- ment in their favor. I was troubled Bring in your Good Horses. 4 to 30 years old, from 800 to 1800 Ibs. I buy the best that grow and. pay the highest cash price. I will give more for good horses than anybody. Show me your good draft ‘horses and chunks. Wiil buy branded or unbranded. Mules 4 to 8 years old--Must be fat. I ALSO BUY GOOD FAT OLD PLUGS Don’t forget the Date as I Come to Buy with kidney complaint and backache for about six years. My back was so lame and sore at :times that I could hardly stoop or lift. The kidney se- cretions were too frequent in passage and when being voided, were atten- ded with pain. I was on the lookout for a remedy that would relieve my trouble and I was finally induced to try Doan’s Kidney Pills. I procured a supply and as they helped me from the first, I continued using them un- til I had finished the contents of three boxes. By that time my trouble had entirely disappeared and 1 have had no return of the symptoms up to the present time.’’ For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other.—Advertisement. 52-2 See Cagely & Turk for general blacksmithing.—Advertisement. 52tf HORSES | WANTED I buy more market horses direct from the farmers than any man in the world. Show me your good Draft Horses. Hume, Thursday, October 24 Sam Queen’s Barn Rich Hill, Friday, October 25 Butler, S Miller’s Barn A. R. Guyton’s Barn aturday, October 26 I buy them from a fine attendance and fewer tardies than every before. BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS By Supt, P. M. Alligon Liberty has an enrollment 21 and 19 were present. They have put in a new slate board, a new library case a new teacher’s desk and have a new list of library books on the way. Miss Nelle McChesney is teacher and re- ceives $38 per month. Center has an enrollment of 14 and 10 were present. They have paint- ed the school house in and out and it is much better. Miss Yula Bigler is teacher and receives $35 per month, Lone Star has an enrollment of 23 and 19 were present. They have greatly improved this house but were rather late getting ready for school. Miss Blanche Davidson is teacher and receives $32 per month. Pleasant Valley has an enrollment of 18 and 18 were present. They make very few tardies and absent marks here and they have improved soon this one thing that they are worthy of commendation. Miss Ruby Timmonds is teacher and does fine work. She receives $40 per month. Amsterdam has an enrollment of 62 and 55 were present. They have put in slate blackboard in both rooms and they find that they are getting better results. Miss Blanche Smith is principal and proving a most effi- cient one. Miss Nola Ellis is assis- tant teacher and has a fine lot of pupils. : Forbes has an enrollment of 21 and 20 were present. They need some} equipment for their work. Miss | Lelia Gallatin is teacher. She is hav-| ing some trouble in classifying her work due to the condition of the | school when she took up the work. | She receives $35 per month. | Concord has an enrollment of 28] and 18 were present. Their attend- ance is not quite what it should be. Miss Lela Clark is teacher and re- ceives $35 per month. Olive Branch has an enrollment of 30 and 27 were present. They have | done right and employed Miss Grace |* Darr again. Miss Darr is one of our best teachers and any school is fortu- nate to get her. She receives $45 per month. Plain View has an enrollment of 15 and 15 were present. They have a new slate blackboard. This is one* of our very best school grounds and Iam pleased to say they take good care of it. Miss Una Judy is teacher and receives $40 per month. Mt. Vernon has an enrollment of | 23 and 19 were present. They have | The “change of life” is a most critical period in a woman’s ex- istence, and the anxiety felt by women as it draws near is not without reason. When her system is in a de- ranged condition, she may~ be predisposed to apoplexy, or con- gestion of some organ. At this time, also, cancers and tumors are more liable to form and begin their destructive work. Such warning symptoms as sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, backaches, dread of impending evil, timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, vari- able appetite, weakness and inquietude, and dizziness, are promptly heeded by intelligent women who are approaching the period in life when woman’s great change may be expected. These symptoms are calls from nature for help. The nerves are erying out for assistance and the ery should be heeded in time, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is prepared to meet the needs of women’s system at this trying period of her life. It invigorates and strengthens the female organism and builds up the weakened nervous system. It has carried many women safely through this crisis, From Forty-Five to Fifty Are Much Benefited by oe ‘Lydia _E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. f TMirs.Estella Gillispie_ J ONE CASE OUT OF MANY TO PROVE OUR CLAIMS. St. Anne, Ill.—*I was passin; through the change of life and was a perfect wreck from female troubles. I had a displacement and bearing down pains, weak fainting spells, dizziness, then numb and cold feelings. Some- times my_ feet and limbs were swollen, I was irregular and had so much backache and headacho, was nervous, irritable and was despondent, Sometimes my a petite was good but more often it was not. My kidneys troubled me at times and I could walk only a short distance. “Tsaw your advertisement ina paper and took Lydia E. Pink- haim’s Vegetable Compound, and I was helped from the first. At the end of two months the swel- ling had gone down, Iwas re- lieved of pain, and could walk with ease. I continued with the medicine and now I do almost all my housework. I know your medicine has saved me from the grave and I am willing for you to publish anything I write to you, for the good of others.”—Mrs. Estetia Giiiisprm, R.F.D, No. 4 Box 34, St. Anne, Illinois, not make the report so early. More of the teachers are enrolled, in the reading circles this year. Those who are not, should be, for the book being studied now is one of excep- tional value. Many of our beginners can get something of value from the association with experienced teach- ers. I should be pleased to have teach- ers check their work and see how well they are following the course the best school they have had in sev- | eral years. Miss Vesti Rice is teach- er and receives $40 per month. Prairie Rose has an enrollment of 23 and 20 were present. They are} having a fine school and the pupils are taking a good interest. Mr. W. G. Dillon is teacher and it is needless to say he is doing good work. He receives a salary of $60 per month. * Miami Center has an enrollment of 14and 13 were present. They need some repairs and especially on their maps. Miss Iva Ayers is teacher and receives $40 per month. Wilcox has an enrollment of 20 and 19 were present. They had just cleaned house and believe in keeping things ina sanitary condition. Miss Hattie Files is teacher and receives $45 per month. Shady Dell has an enrollment of 5 and 5 were present. They have a nice building inside having just re- finished the walls. This school is too small to be very successful. They had better send these few to another school. Mrs. Anna Osborne is teach- er and receives $37.50 per month. Patty has an enrollment of 20 and 17 were present. They have a very well equipped little school. They are having a fine school and if they had a’ good library their work would be more pleasant. Miss Ruth Way- land is teacher and receives $35 per month. Adrian schools are doing well this year with a larger enrollment than common. They have added another teacher to the faculty in the high school and the work is much more satisfactory. The grade rooms have of study. I find that some are doing | fine on this and others are missing it agreat deal. After the first visit I |} expect to report on this through the notes. | i} Anybody desiring to purchase al first-class stallion or draft mare, | either Belgian or Percheron, at reas- onable prices, should visit the Blue Valley Stock Farm at Mound City, | Kansas, before going further from| home. W. H. Bayless, the proprie-| tor, personally selects and imports his horses from Belgium and France. —Advertisement. | with “‘the blues.”’ Brings Blond Eskimo Curios Seattle, Wash., Oct. 15.—Forty- one cases of curios and relics gather- ed by Dr. Vilhjalmar Stefansson, the arctic explorer, who discovered a race of blond Eskimos in Victoria Land, have been unloaded from the schooner Transit, which brought them down from Point Barrow, Alaska, and are being prepared for shipment to New York, where they will be placed in the Ameriaan Muse- um of Natural History. Included in the shipment are two cases of human bones and _ skulls, there being sixty-one of the latter, soapstone lamps, cooking utensils and other valuable exhibits pertain- ing to the mode of living of the natives. Puts End to Bad Habit. Things never look bright to one Ten to one the trouble is a sluggish liver, filling the system with billious poison, that Dr. King’s New Life Pills would expel. Try them. Let the joy of better feelings end ‘‘the blues.’’ Best for stomach, liver and kidneys. 25 cents. 52-2t |F. T. Clay’s. i This Directory will be for the benefit of the buye: tion of the county. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. 30.—Ira Walker, Burdett, The teachers all speak well of the co-operation of pa- trons and the general school spirit of the town. The agriculture depart- ment is especially interesting and every room is doing something along theline. Grade cards will be ready for dis- tribution during the Association. Those whose examination comes earlier will probably get their papers graded by this time but they need Butler, Mo. reasonable prices. The Leading Auctioneer of the Southwest. C. E. ROBBINS PUBLIC SALE DIRECTORY 24.—N. Williams, Amsterdam, Mo., closing out. 25.—J. L. Richardson, Butler, Mo. Oct. 26.—G. C. Maxwell, Lysle, Mo. 28.—A. Willerton, Adrian, Mo. 29.—B. F. Potter, Drexel, Mo. 31.—W. Z. Baker, Rich Hill, Mo., Poland-China Hogs. 1.—W. H. Dumm, LaCygne, Kans. 4.—E. C. Knapp, Butler, Mo. 7.—Blaine Crawford, Drexel, Mo., Poland-China Hogs. Nov. 12.—J. B. Martin, Amsterdam, Mo. Nov. 18.—White Bros., Amsterdam, Mo. Anyone wishing my services call phone No. 11, Why not do business with a business man? Iamintouch with the men who want to buy what you have to sell. Send for free booklet on “How to Arrange and Advertise Sales.” C. E. maintained in this paper rs and sellers of this sec- » Mo. Expert services at ROBBINS. ‘ enema mtn ee *