The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 2

MODESTO EVENING NEWS WEDNESDAY EVl! i tun PA OK TWO A STUPENDUOUS TASK NED FRENCH ATHLETIC I County of Stanislaus Spile nl nil TRAINING METHOD PIMH'OSED furnln have been "PPnlnte an the lino and place for proving the will ul said Edward McCabe deceased ami for hearing the implication of 8 llowker for the issuance to him of letters of administration with the will annexed thereon when and wlieio any person Interested may appear and contest the same Dated March 31 1913 BENSON Clerk Jones attorney for petitioner IS (My UuIttMl Pm) PARIS April 9 The French Sport Commission lias asked the government to adopt tlie new Herbert method of athletic training in all public schools and in the army declniring II to lie the most perfect method so far discovered It consists of natural body movements without weights or other apparatus than a rope for climbing The commission hopes to the Heat any room in the house A Gas Heater screwed to the Chandelier for $100 develop Olympic games material by new system Summons in the Superior Court in the County of Stanislaus State of California: MOORE Plaintiff VS HOUSLEY JOHN DOE RICHARD ROE AND JANE DOE Defendants WANT'S INFLUENCE FOR lHAZ' UAND1DAO PARIS April 9 it is reported bore that General Porfiro Diaz former president of Mexico is seeking to induce the Pope to exercise his good of-iices in Mexico in favor of the nephew Felix Diaz The rumor is not confirmed but it is known that Diaz has asked for nn audience with Pope Pius making observations and comparisons Just now are finishing their "siting of President Wilson's new cabinet Classification according to whiskers Is impossible because only one member wears them Classification according to age is difficult because all are young So the classification is being made by noses and chins The average age of the cabinet is fifty years and five months Secretary of Commerce Redfield he with the roseate whiskers is the having attained the ripe age of fifty-five Secretary Bryan once styled the Orator of the is next in seniority at fifty-three Secretaries Houston Tame McAdoo and Garrison and Postmaster-General Burleson are still romping youths under fifty Any one unkind enough to remember the ages of the Taft cabinet members knows that only two members of that body were less than fifty Secretary of War Stimson and Postmaster-General Hitchcock Modesto Gas Co NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC By order of the First National Bank officials I have been ordered to move my stand and in the future 1 can he found rt the Mission Billiard Parlors on Tenth St between I and Sts Davis Transfer Co a3flw Phono Main 1 7 1 BunaHHMMapi (It) United Press) DENVER April Go on and smoke ye tender maids nip the cork lip between your cherry lips and send blue-white wreaths toward the Dutch shepherdesses on your boudoir walls For the court lias decreed that smoking is not degrading Denver's matrons are still (shuddering over the court decree particularly when the court added that even a swig from the bottle is not a token of depravity Judge John A Perry of the district court handed down this decision and on Judge Perry's head the uncertain tones" are still dropping The court explained however that personally ho thought smoking unwomanly though as far as the law is concerned it cannot ho held against the smoker whether masculine or feminine Judge Perry's decision was made during the hearing of an insurance suit growing out of the death of Miss Candace Wheeler daughter of a New York literary man who was drowned in lake near Denver last June 'Woman is better today than she ever was just as society is lie says "I am not one of those who regret woman's advancement crying out that it has robbed her of her womanliness It has robbed her of nothing and has given her a great deal When vou ask my opinion of (lie modern woman as compared with (lie old-fashioned woman I must confess 1 admire the woman of loday more idle waster of life the selfish woman scoffing at enthusiasts does more harm to society than those who make mistakes In their zeal to be in dependent Those parasitical women are not of yesterday They exist today and are the ones who do the veal harm in the solution of the woman By Burton Standish (Written for the United Press) WASHINGTON April Nothing to Ido but count money Weigh great sacks of gold paw over great bundles of bonds check up on notes This I may appeal to the chap who can fig-J are out his whole fortune on the flu-I gers of his left hand hut it is proving a bore to the employes of the United States treasury department who are slating to give Carrol Thompson a dean bill and lot John Burke assume i he treasurership of the United States with every penny of Uncle funds accounted for The quadrennial count which bo-I gan several days ago is a task which I would take a single man counting it I dollar by dollar some 300 years to finish For there is a billion and a half in the vaults the biggest surplus known in the history of the nation During the count not a cent of the money will leave the vaults Secre- a ry of the Treasury McAdoo appoint ed a committee of employes to seal up the strong rooms saving out sufficient money to meet current expenses and until the counters officially began the seals were unbroken Armed guards stand over the men to see that they are not molested and to guard against Pome twenty years ago a woman jii-nlr a putting slugs ni lead in several snedts of silver It took months to figure out the shortage the 'mint hevliig practically to be done over As it would be impossible for the count to he made dollar for dollar inside of many years the counters are working on the weight basis Sacks of gold ami silver containing $1000 are carefully weighed and used as a standard By these the rest of the money similarly sacked is weighed on scales that register almost to a hair Thus it is expected that the task will be completed in about two months After all is verified Mr Action brought in the Superior Court of the County of Stanislaus State of California and the Complaint filed in said County of Stanislaus in the office of the Clerk of said Superior Court (C Sec 407 as Amended in 1897 In effect May 1st 1897) The People of the Stale of California Send Greeting to: IS HOUSLEY JOHN DOE RICHARD ROE AND JANE DOE Defendants You are hereby required to appear in an action brought against you by the above named Plaintiff in the Superior Court of tiie County of Stanislaus Slate of California and to answer the Complaint filed therein within ion days (exclusive of the day of service) after ihc service on you of this Summons if served within said County if served elsewhere within thirty days Ami you arc hereby notified that if vou fail to so appear and answer the Plaintiff will take judgment for any money or damages demanded in the Complaint as arising upon Contract or will apply to the Court for any other relief demanded in the Complain! Witness my hand and Seal of said Superior Court of the County of Stanislaus State of California this 17th lav of March A 1913 (SEAL) BENSON Clerk John Miles and Brown for plaintiff Modesto California a2tl0wed NOTICE Modesto Calif April 7 1913 The Co composed of A AV Wheeler and Mike O'Leary is by mutual consent and agreement dissolved on the above day ami date A Wheeler will continue in the business at the same old stand and assume and pay all bills from April 1st 1913 A WHEELER o7t5 MIKE O'LEARY frnmmmmmmmmmmmammmmimt uamsamm 'WWW was Farmers and Merchants Bank MODESTO CALIFORNIA Capital Fully Paid 49500 It- HIGH President trPDI KE Vice-Pres A HARTER Cashier- CRESSBV Cashier Hanking Business Transuded Term Deposits SAFE DEPOSIT RONES DEPOSITS In connection with the Bank there is a Safety Deposit Vault the latest steel boxes which will be rented at reasonable rates 'Under the same management SECURITY SAVINGS DANK Of Stanislaus ouuty 'Capital 25500 Fully Paid Four per cent Interest paid nn term Deposits An awful secret of state lias just leaked out in Secretary Bryan's department And when one realizes what a catch-all of secrets that department is the more awful this secret becomes It was just a day or two before President Wilson spurned 1 into oblivion with reference to the Chinese loan and there had been many a whispered conference many a light burning late in the department of state And so when an insistent inquirer wanted ta know where Assistant Secretary Huntington Wilson was for Wilson was still on the job an under secretary kept out all intruders he in the I cannot tell you It would never do for ntc to But a few minutes later a messenger slid out of the double doors of the asm Notice to Contractors THE GRANGZ COMPANY NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Notice is hereby given that in ac eordance with the terms and under the authority of a certain deed of trust dated September 5 1911 duly executed and delivered by Laura A Kennedy (a widow) and Walter Kennedy (an unmarried man) of Oakland California grantors to The Oakland Bank of Savings a corporation grantee and trustee and thereafter recorded on October 13 1911 in the office of the County Recorder ot the County of Stanislaus State ot California in Liber 124 of Deeds at page 41 and following which said deed of trust was executed and deliv ered bv said Laura A Kennedy and Walter Kennedy to The Oakland Bank of Savings a corporation Trustee to secure the payment of the of eighteen hundred dollars with interest according to the terms of a WHEAT BARMY EGYPTIAN CORN BEANS HAY BRAN AL FALFA MEAL AND OTHER SEEDS AND FEEDS BOUGHT AND SOLD Danes Are Providing Sanitation for Laborers assistant secretary's privatest office Thompson will turn over the cash of- He was bearing a tray and some cups i'icially to Mr Burke take a receipt I aml a napkin for it and heave one grand sigh for i Secretary Wilson had been taking he no longer will be responsible i tea right in the midst of cabinet cri- ses The under-secretary was forced Washingtonians who are fond of10 grin as the hoy slipped away then admitted tire inquirer sheepishly MODESTO PROOF Should Convince Every Modesto Read- THE BATTLE FOR or SAKE WATER SUPPLIES For Sale Wholesale jind Retai! COAL Agents at our warehouses at Salida Modesto Ceres Keyes Turlock Claus Hughson Denair Waterford Hickman and Montpellier OFFICE: 912 NINTH STREET MODESTO CAL COPENHAGEN April 8 A new law looking to tiie thorough amelioration of hired he!) in Denmark Is being pressed by the government It is provided that the bedroom of domestic servants must contain at least lfi cubic metres of air and a stringent set of sanitary regulations is imposed in connection with their working I the sums due under and by the terms apartments In the event of illness certain promissory note of even date with said deed of trust executed and delivered to Bullock by said Laura A Kennedy and Walter Kennedy and in pursuance of a certain notice and demand and resolution dated March IS 1913 made hr Bullock the owner of said pro-mtsory note declaring that default had been made in the payment oi of said promissory note to the said The frank statement of a neighbor I telling the merits of a remedy Bids you pause and believe The same endorsement By some stranger far away Commands no belief at all Here's a Modesto case A Modesto citizen testifies Read and be convinced fi Bullock the owner thereof and to secure the payment of which the employers are obliged to see that attention and are also liable for all expenses in connection with the WE WILL GIVE a Special Discount of 10 per cent on all Garden Hose and Sprinklers Lawn Mowers etc for Clean-up Week 846 Tenth St Donkin Bacon 846 Tenth St Modesto Phone Main til Ceres Phone Farmers 4 Tillson Mgr Bloom Agt Two and one-half times as much typhoid fever in the United States in proportion to population as there is plague in India! More deaths by eight times from typhoid fever in the United States in two years than there were from cholera in Italy in the same years of the great cholera epidemic! Nearly four times as many Ira Harris blacksmith 111 Spruce deaths from typhoid among a given St Modesto Cal says: "While living number of American citizens as am-i in Rhode Island about twelev years eng the peoples of overcrowded I was troubled by lame and ach- rope! These startling facts ought to I ing back as the result of cold on my convince America that the prevalence kidneys A friend told me to use of typhoid is our greatest national Kidney Pills and I did with I disgrace for the stamping out of ty-j good results Since I have used them phoid is easy A pure water supply off and on and they have always act-i'vi11 W1 its ravages down instantly ed satisfactorily The best advice I New York is spending $125000000 can give anyone who has kidney trouh- a reservoir that will impound the le is to take Doan's Kidney streams of half the Catskills and a For sale by all dealers Price 50 1 tunnel one hundred miles through cents Foster-Miiburn Co Buffalo solid rock to bring the pure mountain 1 1 New York sole agents for the United water to its people Los Angeles is States 1 going 250 miles up into the snow-cap- Romember the name Doan's and ped Sierras and tapping the Owen take no other River for water for a hundred years to come San Francisco wants to YYHERF1 TO FISH i dam the Hetch Hetchy valley in the Riverside Park is the place to catch osemite National Park as a reservoir Shad and spend the day or evening i irom which to obtain an unafiling Admission is free Boats are in supply of pure water Even little vil-good shape and the very time to go Gages are putting in water works and A number of new attrac- purification plants to get wafer free THE MODESTO LUMBER CO DEALERS IN LUMBER Complete Line of Brick Doors MILL WORK AND WOODEN TANKS 'vidow8 Cement Plaster Combinations Affect Grist Mills (lly United Press) WASHINGTON April 9 the big merchant mills owned by corporations are crowding the old-fashioned grist mills and even the mills owned by individuals off the commercial map is shown in statistics for 1909 jssued today by the Census Bureau Only $65115553 worth of products were handled in the grist mills of the country in that year in a total of $938699958 Tiie products of mills run by corporations was 666 per coni of the whole Minnesota led the field with 104-042999 bushels of wheat and over 12-000000 bushels of other grains grown New York was second and Kansas was third Untie Lath and Posts Shingles and Shake Yards at Modesto Waterford Turlock Hickman and Ceres Sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Directors of the Mo-Jesto Irrigation District at the office of said Board in the City ot Modesto Stanislaus county California up to two on the 1 4 til day of April 1913 for the construction of a hydraulic fill with reinforced concrete conduit at the site of the Morton Flume and the Upper Dominic! Flume ns is more particularly described and specified in the plans and specifications map and profiles of said work which can be seen at the office of said board and to which reference for more specific information is hereby especially made The contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder but the board may reject any and all bids The proposals must be in writing nd signed by the bidder and must be upon forms furnished by the board with blanks properly filled out and he enclosed in a sealed envelope endorsed for Construction of Hydraulic Fills with Reinforced Concrete Conduit for the Modesto Irrigation and the same shall be delivered to the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Modesto Irrigation District in person by mail or express before the time for opening said proposals Said proposals will be opened in public at two on the iltli day of April 1913 at the office of said hoard in Modesto in the county of Stanislaus State of California and thereafter will ho considered by the said board and the work will lie let hereafter as hereinafter specified Said pioposals must be accompanied with a certified check upon some bank in good standing in the State of California payable to tiie order of tho president of said board for an imoiint equal to ten per cent of the proposed price which check shall he returned (o the bidder if his bid is not accepted or if ho makes executes and delivers (lie contract and bond hereinafter mentioned and if such bid is accepted and he contract is awarded tn such bidder and he falls to enter into such contract and to furnish such bond then his check and tiie money payable thereon shall be and remain the iroperty of said district No conditions whatever can be endorsed on said check Any person to whom a contract nay he awarded shall after notice of tiie award of such contract and within 10 days after notice make ex-ecute and deliver to said hoard a vrtten contract in form salisfnctorv to said board for the performance of said work at the times specified in the manner and upon tiie forms ireacribed by this notice such proposal and said plans and specifications and shall at said time enter into a bond with good and sufficient sureties approved by said board payable to said district for its use for twenty-five per cent of the amount estimated as tiie contract price conditioned for the faithful perinormance of said contract The work shall lie done under tho direction and to the satlsfactqn of the engineer of said district and bo approved by said board A description of said work specified under the said plans and specifications (o he performed by said bidder is fully set forth in tho plans nd specifications hereinbefore referred to Said bid should specify the prlco per cubic yard for fill and rates per cubic yard for concrete in place Full details of tho requirements can lie obtained from said plans specifications map and profiles on file in the office of tho said Board of Directors By order of the Board of Directors of tiie Modesto Irrigation District GEO COVHLL President CHARLES ABBOTT Secretary Haled Modesto Cal March 22 1912 513213 to AlS13lnc illy illness (heir servants receive proper care and aforesaid deed of trust was executed as above and requesting and authorizing The Oakland Bank of Savings Trustee to soil the lands and premises described in said deed of trust for the purpose of satisfying tiie said indebtedness of said Laura A Ken nedv and Walter Kennedy to the said Bulloelt owner of said pro missory note and the said indebted ness as in said deed of trust prov ded Now therefore The Oakland Bank of Savings Trustee under said deed of trust gives notice that default has been made in the payment of the principal and interest due from said Laura A Kennedy and Walter Kennedy to said Bullock on mid promissory note and that defaul has been made by said Laura A Kennedy and Walter Kennedy in the payment of the said indebtedness to said 0 Bullock secured by said deed of trust and that on Monday the 14tn day of April 1913 at the hour of 2:00 o'clock of that day and at the Office in said town of Patterson County of Stanislaus Slate of California The Oakland Bank of Savings will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in Gold Coin of the United Stales of America the piece or parcel of land situate in the town of Patterson County of Stanis laus State of California described as follows to-wit: Lots Nos Five (5) and Six (6) in Block No Twenty-nine (29) as said lots and block are laid down ami delineated on that certain map entitled "Map of tiie Town of which mail was filed in the office of said Stanislaus County December 13 1909 Terms of Saif Cash in Gold Coin of i lie United States: ten (10) per rent payable to the undersigned on the fall of (lie hammer balance or delivery of deed and if not so settled unless for waul of title (ten (10) days being allowed for search) then said ten (10) per cent to be forfeited and the sale to be void Said Bullock being the owner of said promissory note and of the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust or any other person may purchase at said sale Acts of sale at expense Dated at Oakland Alameda county California March 19 1913 THE OAKLAND BANK OF SAVINGS Trustee (SEAL) By A BULMORE Trust Officer 3-20 22 26 29-4-25912 A Chance for Admiration (fly United Pres) BERLIN April 9 Realizing that military uniform is a big attraction for women the Union German municipalities lias petitioned the Imperial chancellor to disperse the army into small garrisons instead of keeping army corps in the big garrison towns Tiie reasons for (he requested move is the stagnation of German provincial towns and the surplus of beautiful women without admirers there It is figured that troops in these towns would keep the agriculturists at home ALFALFA RANCH TO EXCHANGE (ions are already under way and Grom typhoid germs Just what dangers lie in impure water is told in the first article of a series written especially for Popular Mechanics Magazine by Dr Allan McLaughlin of the United Stales Public Health Service Dr McLaughlin is recognized as perhaps the foremost others will be installed as the season progresses Remember the roads are graded and oiled on the south side of the river turn at the south end of the bridge and follow the river right to the park Now is the time to go for those shad and the dippers can lie American authority on this subject No bother just a7t6 secured at the Park ask the manager Be sure and see yonr water hill is paid before the tilth of the month as thereafter ten nor cent will lie added Superior Service-Fast Time Choice of Routes OGDEN SHASTA SUNSET a His work in the Public Health Service has been notable and resulted in his recent appointment as sanitary adviser to the International Joint Commission which is investigating the pollution of the boundary waters between tiie United States and Canada article of the series appears the April magazine and is by many interesting il-Later articles will discuss best methods of water purification their cost In cattle surely prevented CUTTER'S BLACK LEG VACCINE favorite the most successful easiest used and lowest priced reliable vaccine made Powder strincr or pill form Write 'lustrations tor tree Black Leg Booklet THE CUTTER LABORATORY Bkrkkley Cal If ynurdrugsrist does not stork oar racemes order direct from us The first in accompanied the and for grain ranch see real estate department m28tf PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any ease of Itching Blind Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 14 days 50c NOTICE OF TIME APPOINTED FOR PROBATE OF WILL For hay gram or poultry food gc io Modesto Fuel Co 3-13tf IF YOU PAY YOUR GAS BILL ON OR BEFORL THE TENTH OF THE MONTH A DISCOUNT OF lO PER CENT IS ALLOWED A representative of the Chinn-Be-retta Optical company will be in Mo-) desto at Morris Bookstore on I Wednesday Apr 9 1913 If you have eye troubles of any kind do not fail to oall upon him l-10tf Tourist Cars to Chicago via Union Pacific Northwestern Union Pacific Milwaukee St Paul Through Cars to Denver Kansas City St Louis European Steamship Tickets to and from Europe Inquire of Local Agent or Address HIXSON 8 A 1013 STREET FRESNO CAE i In the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Stanislaus Probate: in the matter of the estate of EDWARD McCABE Deceased: Notice Is hereby given Dial Friday the 18th day of April A 1913 at 16:00 a of said day and llie t'rmrt Room of said Court at (lie Chart House tn the Cltv of Modesto CASTOR I A For Infants and Children Kind You Have Always Bought See our list or bargains In Classified Ad in Real Estate Columns The Home Realty Company.