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6 THE WEEKLY PANTAGRAPH AUGUST 22 1013 i ithout the alfalfa It must be worth ALFALFA ASSOCIATION LEXINGTON. John Johnson of Chicago Is visiting relatives. The plasterers are at work on the AROUND HOME. Chntsworth has seven old soldiers. Two persona were overcome by the beat in PeoriH Sunday T.

Thompson was found dead at Ills home In Rautoul Monday. RANDOLPH. Several from here attended th township Sunday school picnic near Heyworth on Tuesday. Word has been received that Mrs. Mary Miller and daughter Leah of Seattle, will arrive next month.

Miss Etta Houser of Liberty, has returned to her home where she will teach music, domestic science and art the coming year. A number of young people from this vicinity enjoyed a picnic at Miller Park Saturday evening in honor of Miss Ruth Miles of Urbnna. The Randolph ladies aid met at the home of Miss Eva Houser FYiday. There was an excellent attendance, despite the sultry weather. The program was a musical one and consisted of a piano solo by Miss Lucille Powell, a vocal duet by Mrs.

Crulk-shank and Miss Alta Orend-orff, a piano duet by the Misses JuUa anj Ada Stewart, an inatrumental solo by Miss Zenji O-endorlT, an excellent paper on Their Value and Their Care," by Mr. Clark E. Stewart of Bloomington, and vocal solos by Miss Etta Houser of Liberty, and by Mrs. Fred Luther of Highland Park. After the program refreshments wre served and a social hour enjoyed on the lawn.

Mrs. Dr. Wakefield and Mrs. Anna Hayes of Heyworth were LUDLOW. Mrs.

Doeden, of New York city, Is visiting Mr E. G. Boyd. Mrs. T.

Murphy and daughter, Frances, were Champaign visitors on Tuesday. Miss Budella Stone, of Arrow-smith, visited last week with her grandmother, Mrs. F. M. Stone.

Ernest Van Dam and mother moved to Longview Tuesday, where he will teach school this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Lew Forth, of Normal, spent Sunday with the farmer's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

George Forth. Mrs. Packard, mother of Max Packard, returned Monday to her home In Shirland after an extended visit here. James Fawver has purchased an auto and with his wife will leave soon for a trip thru Iowa and Missouri. Mra.

McDonald, of Bloomington. and niece left for their home Friday, after a visit with her cousin, Charles Boyd, and family. Mrs. Q. Idelle and children returned to their home in Chicago, Saturday after a visit with her cousin, Mrs.

N. L. Funk and family. Misses Feme Condlt, Ida Hamilton. Mabel and Daisy Walker, Agnes Funk and Hazel Steward are teachers from here attending institute In Ur-bana last week.

$200 with it. The account with this farm will stand as follows: Will Double the Value of the Farm, Original value 160 acres at $150 per acre, $24,000. Increased value of 40 acres in alfalfa at $600 per acre Increased value of 120 acres on account of alfalfa $200 per acre, Total increased value $48,000, or double the original value. The farm as a whole is now worth $300 per acre instead of $150. It is safe to say that an Illinois farm of 160 acres with a good stand of alfalfa on 40 acres and the alfalfa fed on the farm and used to balance and increase the feeding value of tlin other crops grown on the remaining 120 acres, will make that farm twice as valuable as it is without alfalfa.

8atest and Best Investment. There has never been so favorably an opportunity presented to the farmers of Illinois for making money legitimately and by a method euri; safe and conservative and devoil of every speculative feature, as the growing of alfalfa. The undertaking, with assured successful results, only requires the application of tht knowledge which is to be had for the asking. Get Information Before Starting. The attempt to grow alfalfa without this Information or knowing how, if the requirements are not followed.

Is responsible for much of the belief that alfalfa cannot be grown In so many places in Illinois. The man who makes a failure from whatever cause, and gives up and says that a thing cannot be done, can do an unlimited amount of harm in a community. It is unfortunate that so many of our farmers are more prone to accept failures as conclusive than they are to follow the lead of successful men. CANNING FACTORY OPENS THREE FACTORIES START BUSY SEASON. i Ovor Two Hundred Men Employed in Each Plant Season "Will Be Indefinite.

On Friday morning of this week Ihe Blcomlngton Canning Company will start operationa in all three of their plants located at Chnca, Leroy and Normal. In every plant a large loice of employes will start work and the factories will run full force for ut least five or six weeks. Following this period and during the early winter months a force uf employes wlU be kept at work on vegetables coming later In the season. Th- company will tho first few weeks maks a heavy run of corn. Following the corn will come tiie pumpkins, beans, hominy and aiuierkraut.

Will Fill Many Cans. Since early spring the company has had teams anil men ut woik hauling tans to their various factories from Hie taihvay sidetracks. In all three factories ovoi- five nullim cans have litcn ha-jled in during the spiim; and hummer months and during the canning season probably two or thrv more million cans will be brtmght to tin- factories. is an enormous number of cans when one siops to on" sider what a pile would make. Corn Prospects Fair.

The company this year has about 1,200 acres of sweet corn for each factory. That for the local factory is lo'ated north, east and west of There have been a number of turns in tho weather this past vhich affected corn and various oth-r crops in different ways. The drouth juht past probably did the most Carnage. However, pro.si)e:;s c- the com-1 any's laud are Trm a vei ftiir croy and a normal output per aire. Many People Employed.

The corn canning season will probably last a period of five to six weeks. During his time a full forte of not less lhan two nundrcd employes in each factory will be kept busy. In addition to these men the company owns one nundred and fifl-five head of mules am' dilvers will be neild to haul the orn and other products to the factories. Additional teams and men will lc hired as fast as tlu-y apply. Mr.

J. S. Kinz'n is foreman of the Normal factory, R. E. Balllnger at the Chenoa plant and A.

A. Oldenberg at the Leroy plant. Formerly Canned Surplus. A numbir of years at'o fruit nd vegetables were canned solely because there was a surplus rop. But as the idea grew it attracted notice to Mich an extent that it was taken up as a business and toqay is one of the most profitable business enterprises in the countries where fruit and vegetables arc plentiful.

And Instead of canning to save the surplus, fruit and vegetables aic now canned to use Ihe year around. It is an interesting development for study. Humble Not Guilty. The case of Ollie Benidict against W. H.

Humble, both of McLean, was up for triul in Magistrate Hcndryx's court yesterday forenoon. Several witnesses testiliul and at the conclusion of the evidence Judge Hendry found the defendant not fruilty and dismissed him. The details of the trouble were recounted In yi sterday mornings Issue of the Pantagraph. Jail miM pajurBnbOB 2uma3 SABii uajpuqo jsii jbijj Ainnoos juu -luiojd 08 aq ukuwav Renters you owe it to your children, to your wife, and to yourself to Investigate any better location offered you where you can make more money. Here is an opening leading to Independence and a Good Home Several Northern investors In this black, prairie, alfalfa helt of northeastern Mississippi have asked me to locate northern tenants for them on land which they have bought here YOU GET ONE -HALF the Land being furnished you.

lieii fli Climate ani Seil th.t this not the delta, ihrre no standing wator here, no no mulana. few diet, Bnrt B11if t'r-ei keep, it ten degrees cooler than water from deep artealan ill make, typhoid unknown. conn mng up with nonhrm People, to good neighbor, are awured. ore the rotton tw.vintt lot) per aer in manv raae. All the clover, thrive on thi.

lime soil. Natural PMturea here crv two fteen, to the aire. IT" nr Indord hj-Prof. Smllman, E. Win, end other iom good pUc.

o'll for rtnt. Writ Marshall McDonald Brooktvills, Mississippi LEXINGTON Alfred Moon snd Miss Cors Thimlar Married in Indiana Wednesday. Coal men are busy filling the coal bins for winter. Clark Payne, of Garrettsvllle, Is visiting Mr. and Mrs.

Wilbur Payne and other relatives. Miss Florence was a Bloomington' visitor Tuesday. Her niece, little Miss Barbara Wright, returned home with her. J. J.

Kemp and family went to Chicago, Wednesday, for a short visit with friends. They made the trip in their large touring car. Mrs. Anna Waybright and daughter, Miss Irene, and Miss Katherine Hefner went to Leroy, Wednesday, to visit 'friends and attend the Leroy fair. The friends of Alfred Moon will be surprised to hear of his marriage to Miss- Cora Thimlar, of New Haven, Ind.

The wedding took place Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Thimlar, in New Haven. The young couple were attended by a brother and a cousin of the bride. Miss Thimlar is one of the most popular young women of New Haven.

The groom Is the son of Mr and Mrs. John A. Moon, and was born near Lexington, where he is well known and respected. All of his life has been spent In Lexington and vicinity until four years ago, when he went to Woodburn, where he operated his father's farm. Mr.

and Mrs. Moon arrived here Wednesday evening for a visit with the groom's parents and other relatives. The young people will be at home to their friends early In September at their home at Woodburn, where Mr. Moon will engage in farming. SAYBROOK.

Joseph Raniieburger was called to Mt. Vernon Tuesday evening by the serious illness of a slater. Mr. and Mrs. A.

J. Grove are viBlting their daughter, Mrs. Bert Streeper and family at Oblong. Mr. and Mrs.

G. D. Cline left Wednesday for a visit with their son, Corles Cline and wife of Danville. Mr. and Mrs.

J. D. Arnett and daughter Faye -returned Tuesday from Jackson, where they spent two weeks with their son, E. Darnett. ARROWSMITH.

Tlllle, Leota and Pauline Snoddy are visiting at Lew Arbogast's in Clifton. W. J. Knuffold and family visited the former's sister in El Paso Sunday, making the trip in the auto. Miss Belle Luther, who has been visiting her sister and other relatives for two months, returned to her home In Pittsburg Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dorland, of Bennet, and Mr. and Mrs. George Benjamin, of Bentown, visited Tuesday at the home of R.

S. Krum. FARMER CITY. Miss Lena Susman, of Louisville, Ky is visiting relatives. Fred Sparks has gone to Attica, to Rpend few weeks.

Rav Balfe, of Oilman, visited with his sisfr, Airs. E. Pettit, and family Wednesday. Dr. Grant Rlttenhouso, Frank Meliza and Victor Bishop left Tuesday night for Louisiana, where Mr.

Rit-tenhouse has land. COVEL. Mrs. W. C.

Roge-s Aid daughter Gladys and Mildred of of Covel, left Tuesday for a visit with relatives at Springfield. ALONG ILLINOIS RIVER. Soms Observations on the Crops on a Trip From Morton to Havana. A correspondent writes to the Pantagraph from Morton telling of an interesting trip made a few uays ago from that place to Has'ana, 111. Some notes of the trip are as follows: "Going to Peoria we saw the corn needed rain and jome seemed to be too far gone to bo helped.

At o'clock we took the P. L. motor car for Havana. All along the track corn waa from one to three feet high without any ears shooting. One thing that looked lovely was the great beds 'f beautiful water lilies growing in the Illinois.

The track runs along three or four mllt-s und you can see people fishing or camping for a while these hot days. From Pekln the corn looked better and in the Parkland bottom corn exceedingly fine, being tall, green and carrying large ear shoots. The soil is black and holds tho moisture fine, thoy having better crops In a dry year than a wet. Near Manlto the Springfield Filler Company have built a largo factory for pulverizing the soil for fertilizer, which ship all thin the country. The farmers mix this wilh tankage and spread It over their grovnd.

As we rodie along the sanity part of the country the corn was dry and yellow without any shoots at all. Cowpeas have few leaves, but show lots of pods, as the sand is too poor to make very good hay. Near Havana corn looked fairly well and in the Illinois bottom west of Havana corn looks fine, but It was wet so long but few fields were plowed for ccrn. Where once fields were corn weeds are growing. Six miles west of Havana the drouth has been of so long standing the farmers are short of pasture.

Where the blue grass grew knee high now only dry short grass covers the land. Corn looked better than near Peoria and hay was good. Wneat Is making from 15 to 26 bushels an acre, oatfl 20 to 30 bushels. No potatoes only on the Illinois bottom. Some city people have one to five acres which look as green as if there had oeen plenty of rain.

We met some people who had attended a flah fry at Beardstown Friday and it ramed so hard the streets were like rivers or an hour after the rain had Ths Parcel Post. Editor Pantagraph: Please tell me thru your columns what political party was in the majority in the house of representatives when the parcel post law was passed? Also who thp hill and to which party did he belong? Also the number of votes of each party on this bill. A READER. The Democratic party was In the majority in the house of representatives when the parcel post meusure was passed by the sixty-second con gress. The parcel post measure was a part of a reneral appropriation bill ai.d bore the name of no particular member.

The zone plan of Senators Bristow and Bourne, however. was Incorporated into the bill. Both these senators were elected as Republicans. We do not have atThand the vote on this bill. S.

H. Wt a Relativs. In a ltter published by the Pantagraph a few days ago from Mrs. George Hedrick, giving the names of local relatives of the famous commodore Perry, the name of Hon. Slnvon H.

West, of Leroy, should have been included. Owing to a typographical error his name as printed was not recognizable. A man may value his reputation so highly that it is impossible to find a buyer. MET 50 STRONG IN SPRINGFIELD Best Speaksr, of the Stats Gsvs Their Experiences Had Big Banquet President Grout's Address. u-At the St.

Nicholas hotel at Sp-inKfield, over fifty alfalfa experts from all parts of the Btate met yesterday, and discussed the great new forage plant. Starting with a banquet on Tuesday evening, this was the third meeting of the Illinois Alfalfa Growers' Association. About fifty attended the banquet and many over that number attended the following day's program, Most every man attending the meet- ing had grown alfalfa and had exper- lence to tell. Think of the big stories that could came out of such a crowd. The speakers wtre men who had grown alOilfa for many years and they were from all parts of the state, When man once learns the art of rais- I Ing alfalfa he Is always a booster of the plant.

Men from the very north- em and southern pa-ts of the state the stories of big yields to tell and of the rapidly increasing acreage. Grout, Mann, Hatch and Funk. After the mayor of Springfield, J. S. Rchnepp.

welcomed the legume growers to the city, President A. P. Grout of Winchester gave the first address. Many pa-ts of his address are to he seen' below. Frank I.

Mnn of Oilman was the second speaker and the man who claims that alfalfa is the plant of the hour Mr. Mann has many new ideas on the growing of alfnlfu that many other farmers have not thought of, and his talk was very interesting. Much of his address will be printed later. Fred L. Hatch from the northern pa-t of the state, who has been growing alfalfa for many years, was the third speaker.

Eugene D. Funk of Bloomington had the topic of "Lime and Inoculation." He told of how inoculation was first discovered on his farm at Shirley thru the experiment station. He also told of an experiment that he has tried with lime this yea r. Tullock Speaks on Feeding Alfalfa In the afternoon the time was devoted to the question of feeding alfalfa to the live stock. All speakers ag-eed that It was too valuable a feed for the live stock to be selling It off the place.

One of the main speakers of the af-teTro-on was George F. Tull'iek of Rockford on the subject of "Alfalfa for Making Beef." Mr. Tullock fattens cattle on corn and alfalfa and claims groat 'things for the alfalfa. Alfalfa enhances the value of most every other fed that It Is fed with and especially corn. A good reason why the corn belt farmer should raise alfalfa.

Answering Questions; Teliina Experience. All the time these great speakers from all parts of the state were telling their experiences they were answering questions, and other men were telling their experience at the same time. Think of the information that F0 men who a-e growing alfalfa could give. All the little questions were gone into clear to the bottom and many things learned. One of the noticeable features of all the addresses was that the speakers said that all the successful fields cf alfalfa they knew of had been seeded according to the instructions of the Alfalfa Growers' Association.

Many times the point came out that sweet soli, well drained land and inoculation was absolutely necessary for the best results. There was not a man In the crowd but what nelleved alfalfa was a wonderful plant, and all were eager to learn every little new thing that they could get hold of. MR. GROUT'S ADDRESS. Some parts of President Grout's iuiiress are as follows: Illinois is this year passing thru one of the severest drouths in its history.

Is It possible that the value of the greatest of our drouth resisting plants and the one least effected by the adverse conditions of the year shall be overlooked and disregarded even by the hard-headed farmers of Illinois? A Great Contrast. It Is not an uncommon picture in Illinois' this year to see parched and brown fields and denuded pastures, fired and wilting corn, and ruined crops alongside of fields of alfalfa green, beautiful and luxuriant and maturing crops, with regularity, little affected by the same conditions which have caused such losses with other crops, and often with too frequent regularity, for the comfort of those charged with the harvesting. Wonderful Drouth Resisting Alfalfa. The lesson is indeed a severe oie, but If the loss, great as It Is, shall bring more forcibly to the notice of the farmers of the state of drouth resisting properties and the great value of alfalfa as an Illinois farm crop, it will unquestionably prove a blessing and a benefit. The opportunity is awaiting the Illinois land owner to double the value of his estate, represented by farm lands, within the next two or three years.

This may be regarded as a broad statement and demand explanation. We are now in possession of sufficient lacts, knowledge and experience, not only to enable us to make this possible, but sure and certain and without the hazard of loss or Impairment of present value. Csn Be Grown on Every Farm. The growing of alfalfa has been so thoroly and widely tested under almost every possible condition that it ia now safe to say that it can be grown successfully and profitably on practical, ly every farm in Illinois. It has been found to be the best, the most val-unble and most profitable farm crop grown.

It only remains for the farm owners to apply the knowledge now available and make it the source of additional land. Alfalfa Will Make the Farm Twice as Valuable. If the farmer with 160 acres of land, now valued, we will say, at $150 per acre or $24,000, will properly prepare and seed 40 acres with alfalfa, he will within two years make that 40 acres worth $600 per acre. A yield of five tons per acre at $15 per ton amounts to $75 or .07 4 per cent on A yield of four tons per acre amounts to $0 per acre and 10 per cent on $600, but to be conservative we will makt- the return per acre $50 unnuallv (the value of only three tons of alfalfa) and we have eight and one third per cent on $600 An Investment, especially in land, which earns annually .08 1-3 per cent will a premium anywhere. It follows that an acre of which will produce annually a crop valued at $60 Is worth $600." Alfalfa Adds a Third to Other' Feeds.

In feeding alfalfa it has been found' to add at least one-third to th nutritive value of the other crops fed with It, therefore the crops grown on tne remaining 120 acres of the farm would be increastd one-third In value If the crops, by any process, are made one-third more valuable, the value of the land on which they grow, should be increased in the proportion If the land was worth $150 per acre Smith library. E. E. Mahon was In Bloomington on business Monday. The ice man appears to be the most popular In town.

Joseph Oriy Is having a roof put on his residence on Chestnut street. i Mr. and Mrs. L. L.

Sillimnn of Chenoa were calling on friends here Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Oddy and daughter went to R'Vk Island Monday fo- a visit with friends. While the blackberries and raspberries were a comparative failure hero, there Is quite a good many apple? and there will be a good crop of plums and grapes, while the peach trees a-e simply breaking down under their weight of fruit.

Cfraln men are paying 70 cents for corn and 40 cents for oats. They have, bought some corn at the price named, el ho quite a lot of oats, but farmers are not selling com or nuts as freely as in former years, as they are of the opinion that grain will sell much high er before another c-op Is raised. Mr. and Mrs. J.

V. McCullough de parted MondHy for an extended t-lp north and east. They will visit friend in Kankakee. South Bend, Battle Creek, Cleveland, and Pittsburg, and other points In Western Pennsylvania. They will make th trip in their Ford touring car.

HUDSON. -David Day of Walker, Is here for a visit. Mrs. E. J.

WIckorT of Pontiac Is visiting Mrs. C. E. Shiner. MiPh Rfllth Shiner is attending tetfehe-s' institute In Eureka.

Henry Elsenberg, who has been quite sick is improving slowly. Miss Katheryne Funk of Dunvers, a guest of her sister, Mrs. R. F. Watt.

Miss Jennie Planck of Lacy. formerly of Hudson, called here on Tuesday. Mark Hawkins and mother of Chi cago are guests at the home of Mrs. Leah Burtls. Little Etta Maple, who has been under the care of a nurse for two weeks, lg better.

Mrs. S. J. Woland left Tuesday for an extended visit with her daugn- te- Mrs. Ella Jones et Lincoln.

Mrs. A. H. Maalneupp, who has Just recovered from a severe operation at St. Joseph's hospital, came home on Wednesday.

The Mission Circle of the Baptist church will give an ice cream sup-per on the church lawn Saturday evening. M-s. Sarah Crane and grandchild of Peoria, who have been visitors at the home of Mr. T. II.

Junk, returned home Tuesday. Mrs. Asa Daugherty came home Wednesday from Chicago where hss been taking treatment in a hospital. She Is much Improved. Mrs.

Durward Teeters and sister. Miss Cora McGuire were victims of a rather painful accident Tuesday, when they colltdtid with an automobile. MAHOMET. Home grown melons are on the market. A good many farmers are preparing to sow fall wheat.

The hog cholera is cleaning up the hog crop south of town. Mr. and Mrs. George Wills a-e the parents of a ten pound boy. The farmers are planning to let loose of their old corn at 7'c.

Several farmers are feeding their stock straw and hay, sb there Is no fePd in the pastures. Buyers are reported offering fifty-nine cents for new corn. For old corn they are bidding at 71c. James Hyatt has two otiildren sick with typhoid fever. Both are doing as well as could be expected.

The village of Mahomet is building quite a lot of concrete sidewlk this fall and otherwise improving the town. Under way at present Is the complete overhauling of the Wyke elevator and the building of the Douglas Par-nell and Mrs. Lottie Bnsey new residences on Franklin street. ELLIOTT. Jesse Hickerson has been ill for the past week.

Quite a number from Elliott went to Peoria Sunday on the excursion. Arthur Gaardsmoe returned home Saturday evening from a three weeks visit in Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. E.

P. Bartelson and family from near Ludlow, spent Sunday with the home folks. Martin Stueland left for Jollet Sunday, where he will take a position as lineman for the Public Service Co. Mr. and Mrs.

E. B. Martin and little son Gale went to Terre Haute, Sunday to visit relatives and friends. Mr. Martin returned Mon day morning.

His wife and little son expect to remain for several days. CARLOCK. Mrs. M. Normile and daughter Helen are visiting with Mrs.

V. E. Souders. A. N.

Lemons and daughter Edith and Miss Mattie Ellis went to Indianapolis on Tuesday for a few days visit. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Peltz have returned from Iowa, where they have been visiting their sons for the past month. Mr.

and Mrs. J. J. Toder returned on Tuesday from Seward, where they attended the funeral of their grandchild. Miss Fern Stahly.

The conference committee of Washington, 111., met with W. G. Stutzman In Bloomington on Tuesday, arrangements have been made for the provisions. GRIDLEY. Mr.

Garret, of Chicago, was a business caller here Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore expect to leave for California next week. Mack Wade, of Tennessee, was a guest of Mrs.

C. M. Coyle, Tuesday. F'rof. Gibbs, of Bloomington, moved Into J.

H. Andrews' house, on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ayllng attended the band concert at Bloomington Tuesday evening Marcus Rowley returned from Mossvllle, Sunday, where he spent his vacation of two weeks.

J. L. Dlggle has gone to Minnesota for a f-w days. W. S.

Kent is substituting on the mail route for him. Miss Gladys McNaught had nn operation performed In Peoria Monday for adenoids. She Is getting along very well. Harry and Marcta Coyle, J. Q.

Adams, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Freed and Miss Bertha Coyle went to Starved Rook.

Sunday. Mlsst-s Lena and Nelia Nlergarth and Mrs Alic Egolf will give a variety shower In honor of Mrs. Appa Taylor Moyemont this evening at Mrs. Egolfs. August Klonkner died at I'rbana Thursday, after a long Illness.

The DeLand trustees are securing plans for a water works system. The Gerber State Bank building at Argenta Is almost completed. Patrick Brennan, a prominent Ogden business man, died Tuesday. The Baptist church at Tonics, organised In 1835, has disbanded. The public school building at Pen-field Is rapidly nearlng completion.

Chris axing, for many years a butcher In Champaign, died Monday. E. P. Elliott has purchased the Wyatt 'Halcom restaurant In Weldon. Ground has boon broken at Ureen-vlew for the irst Stato hank building.

C. D. Rourke has been elected president of the I'rbana Commercial Club. Miss lena Koettgen and William E. Hardy were married at Slreator Tuesday.

James Freeman, a farmer near Homer, lias oiled the highway along bis farm. Mrs. Harriett Morris, of Champaign, died Monday of paralysis. She was 67. I).

A. Bradley for 28 years a business man of Decatur died suddenly Sunday. Macon county Odd Fellows will plcnlo at Falrtew park, Decatur, Aug. 21. Secor will let the contract Aug.

24 for Installation of 1,400 feet of twelve inch tile, Actual butter making at the Gib-eon City crennrry 1 scheduled to begin August 2S. Dr. Ira N. Humes, who died recently In lrauir, left an estate valued at 1100,000. The infant child of Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Peterson, near Rankin, has scarlet fever. A while robin was found a few days ago on the Burton Hurd farm, near El Paso. Henry Wagner of Decatur was drowned Sunday while swimming in ihe Sangamon. The Mahomet Township Farmers' picnic will be held September 20 at the J.

C. W. PlUman grove. St. Lawrence Catholic church people of Penfleld are arranging for a big picnic on Labor day.

Pontlac's corn carnlvaJ, horse fair, auto and motorcycle races will be held tbe week of September 15. Dick Ehman, a farmer near Glf-ford, had his nose and collarbone fractured In a runaway recently. Fred Bruder, of Urban died Saturday of typhoid fever. He wn married about two months ago. I.

J. Knapp, residing north of Fisher, recently shot a hawk which measured f2 Inches from tip to tip. Waller C. Schwedier and Hazel A. Johnson, both of Forrest, were granted a marriage license In Chicago Monday.

Rev. U. G. Evans has resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Sweetwater and will move to Iowa. Francis p.

Nunes, of Rochester, one of the best known farmers of Sangamon county, died Sunday, aged 72 Frank L. Rand, of Korth Adams, has been appointed director of rrysical education for the Decatur public schools. Divatur la arroueed over the unnecessary blinking of street crossings by the Wabash and action will be taken to stop it. William Morgan, formerly of Ur-bana, now at the Danville Soldiers' home was recently cured of the drug habit by sunstroke. Hick Hurie's barn now Petersburg was destroyed by fire caused by lightning las week.

About 7,000 bushels of old ccrn were burned. Rev. Mr. Want, of the M. E.

church at Homer, declared In a sermon Sunday, that there are six plaoee In Homer where whiskey is sold illegally. George Harmon, formerly of Chatsworth. died at the Livingston county hospital near Pontlac, Saturday, of the Infirmities of age. Mrs. Angle Short, of Auburn, has asked Springfield to pay her $312.25.

She slipped on a banana peel on the sidewalk and broke her thigh, Amatto Gassa, a miner at Sherman was electroclsed Sunday when he became entangled in an I. T. S. high tension wire which had blown down. Alderman L.

B. Harlan, of Tuscola, has been employed by the Illinois Central twenty-five twenty-two of which have been spent at Tuscola. Quartermaster Sergeant John Kearney, son of Patrick Kearney of Decatur, died at Kansas City Sunday, He had been In the U. S. army 22 years.

EUREKA. A daughter was born to Prof, and Mr. H. C. Relchel Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Brubaker are the parents of a son, born Saturday.

Clifford Weiler lof Bloomington bas been visiting Mrs. J. L. Hoyt this week. Miss Blanche Boyer hss returned from a visit with friends In Winches ter, Ind.

Mrs. Eliaa Smith, of Bloomlngton bas been visiting her brother, Robert La cock. Miss Ednah Brown of Madella, has been spending a few Jays with Eureka friends. Mr. and Mrs.

David Bradle have gone to ElJena. to visit their daugh ter, Mrs. Will Gibson. Miss Elsie Cla-k has returned to ber home In Cambridge, after a two weeks visit with her cousin, Mrs. Hannah Whetzel.

Dr. Search, who "is lecturing before the teachers at the institute this week gavs his lecture on Savonarola, at the Christian church Sunday evening. Miss Laura Plfer left Sunday for Lake Geneva, and on Tuesday her mother Joined her In Chicago, and they left for a visit of several weeks with relatives In va-ioue points of Ohio. Mrs. Elmer Hlnshaw, who has been visiting in Hudson, was recalled to her home In Chllllcothe, by the news that her ion, Virgil, had been accidentally shot In the face and hand.

County Clerk Hertschuh has issued marriage licenses to Archie C. Kingdon, El Paso, and Clara P. Punke, Panola township; Robert Mayo and Clara Dlngledlne, C-uger township. George Nance of Remington was a Eureka visitor Monday. President and Mrs.

C. E. Underwood were given a farewell reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Colburn FrlJay evening A number of short addresses were given voicing the general renret felt at their departure, as they have g-eatly endeared themselves to the people of Eureka during their short residence here.

Prof. Underwood will take up his new wrk at Butler college in the opening of school. There are some unusual men In this world ho get hurt before thv allow their accident policy to lapse. CHENOA. Mrs.

J. W. Linkins of Springfield is visiting at the home of her grandfather, Frank Myers in this city. Mrs. William P.

Schopp of Atkinson is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Tacey in Chenoa.

Dr. B. F. Elfrink had five acres of oats threshed which made sitv hnh- els per acre, and a small field of oats Miss Jennie Tlnirlev. Who ha a hooti conlined to her bed since July 4 on account of being hit by a motorcycle, a luM-n to a nospitai in Blooming- ion luesaay for treatment.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rocke and family who have been living at Utlca, for the nasi severnl vcoro re turned to Chenoa and a-e visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs Joeph Streld. Miss Edna Streld, who naa neon visiting with the family, accompanied them to Chenoa, HEYWORTH.

Margarpt SarKsnt quite Miss Marlon Nichols is visiting in Peoria. i There was a nice shower here on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Geo-ge McClure and children of Colfax spent Saturday and Sunday here.

Miss Nell Albin accompanied her cousin, Miss Mary Gnrregy to her home In Terre Haute, where she will visit a few days. Over three hundred sat down to the dinner served in Allen's pasture west of town Tuesday by the Sabbath school of Randolph township, and quite an additional number attended in the afternoon. The Heyworth band provided music. Bnse and othetr games were indulged In together with cxher amusements. A sudden shower broke up the festivities.

Many made the trip on hayracks. WAPELLA. J. M. Metz will depart for Kiowa, his home, today, going from here to Chicago.

P. Graham was taken to the John Warner hospital at Clinton on Monday The Boy Scouts will give an Ice cream social this evening at the E. parsonage lawn. Mrs. James Stuart and daughter of Bloomington, visited William Waer, who is indisposed, Tuesday.

The funeral of Mrs. O. C. Ives was held from the Christian church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Mr Rosborough, of Clinton, In charge, assisted by Rev.

Mr. Ctsna. The church was filled to overflowing with sympathizing friends and neighbors. The mother's eight sons acted as pallbearers. The floral offerings were profuse and very beautiful.

Many friends were present from out of town to pay their last tribute of respect to an old citizen. EL PASO. John Brunlga was in Peoria Tuesday. Mrs. G.

R. Curtlss entertained a number of ladles at cards Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Render and little daughter, of Streator, are the guests of relatives here.

Mrs I. J. Jenkins Is home from an extended visit with friends in Amboy, Sterling and Prkln. Mrs. E.

H. Gray was called to Prlncton Tuesday evening by the swro-ous illness of her father. Mrs. E. A.

Laughlin is here from Port Arthur, Texas, for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Phoebe Schafer. MANSFIELD. Dr. E.

R. Huckln purchased a Ford touring car. I. H. Morris and son R.

J. Morris are spending a few days with their son and brother at Ashley, Mich. Garland James, who was Injured Aug. 11 when his motorcycle threw him, past-d away early Tuesday morning with out regaining conciousness long enough to say how the accident happened. Miss Alice Rock, Is the proud possessor of a sliver medal which she won In the oratorical contest of the McLean county W.

C. T. U. which was neia in the Y. M.

C. A. building in Bloomington last Thursday. YUTON. Miss Mildred Basting is visiting with relatives at Decatur.

The Thimble rlnh arlli mot I Mrs. J. T. Basting next Friday after- noon. Mrs.

Martin Kaufman unA chil dren left Wednesday Rankin to spend a few days with relatives. towandav Esther Buslek of Normal is visiting relatives here. Mrs. E. M.

Hirst and children re-tu-ned Monday from a few days visit with her mother at Cooksvllle. The Ladies' Aid of the M. E. church will give a chicken frv supper and cake and Ice cream Saturday I evening. DAN VERS.

I M-s. Frances HHdefer and daugh-j ter Mattie of Omaha. are visiting at the home of Mrs. William I Strehle and other relatives. I Misses EUn and Dorothy Webber returned Sunday from a two weeks' visit with relatives at Atkinson.

111. i On their return they stopped for a few days' visit in Peoria. They were accompanied by Misses Clara and Mary Seel and Mary Goethal of Peoria. ANCHOR. Fred Loftz of Michigan City, is visiting his brothe--in-law.

Mr. Henry Ortman and family. Mrs. LydiT Martinson has returned to her home in Hloomindton after a five weeks' visit with friends in Anchor and Cropsey. STANFORD.

The month-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ohm died Sunday. Mrs. J.

W. Phillips, of Marion. visiting Mrs. T. A.

Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Tabor, of Indiana, are visiting at the home of Mr. Reed.

Miss Mabel Messeur, of Normal, is a guest of Mr. and Claude Mur- Elmer Cooley and wife, of Ohio, ore visiting her brother, O. S. Fol-ser. II.

J. Neff and family left Tuesday for Dakota, where, he owns a farm. Miss Rodgers, of Champaign, Is a guest at the home of Miss Delia Kauff-man. Charles Burton ha-j prosented his daughters, Laura and Mildred, with a new piano. Donald Hulvey is spending a few days at the home of Harry Hanes in McLean.

Miss Velma Hlggins, of Peoria, is "isltlng her grandmother, Mrs. Sa-mantha Hlggins. Mr. and Mrs. Par, of Ruskln, are guests of T.

A. Stlllwell and other friends. Mrs. Henrietta Honnold, of Mar-tlnsburg, Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Burton.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hodeley returned Mondcy to her home in Boone, after several months' visit here. John Glenn and fam'ijy were guests Sunday at the home of Miss Edna Kuchner In Bloomington. Miss Oelze, of West Salem, and Mrs. Thellen, of Pekin, have been the guests of Mrs.

Oelze the past few days. WAYNESVILLE. Louis Tudor of Christopher is visiting relatives here. E. W.

Marvel left Tuesday for Indian Head, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham are the parents of a son. Peter Powers is here from Decatur for a few days visit.

Mrs. Nora Gambrel and son Leslie are visiting relatives In Chenoa. Fred Collins and sister, Leota, have returned to their home in Chicago, Mr. and M-s. Storey of Bloomington visited Wednesday at the home of C.

W. Beers. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Marvel visited over Sundny at the home of Henry Fisher at Nevada, 111.

Mrs. V. R. Wasson and daughter Selma of Decotur visited over Sunday with John Marvel and family. Chester Henke and Charles Durl-bar of St.

Louis spent the latter part of the week at the home of Harry Lowery. MACKINAW. Prof. Cannon of Eureka visited relatives here the past few days. Paul Smith i of Bloomington has been a recent visitor among relatives at Mackinaw.

Mrs. Charles Klckler Is seriously ill. She has been confined to her room for several weeks. Leon B. Klnsey was a caller here the past week.

He is interested In the Spring Lake lands. The recent rain has improved the cr-op prospects ufly in- thia section of the country. Roseoe Hill and family are home from Spain where Mr. Hill has been engaged In historical research. They are visiting with old time friends.

ANCHOR. Carl Braun returned last week from American Falls, Idaho. Christ Gimpel, of Normal, was an Anchor visitor Monday. Edward Reicksi Is building a wash nouse. George Gimpel was a Bloomington visitor Tuesday.

George Gimpel has had a concrete floor put In his garage Fred Relcks has had his house, barn and cribs lightning rodded. Mrs. Anna Garber, of Normal, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edward Kinsingcr. Theodore Labertew, of Chrlsman, Is visiting his brother, D.

Labertew, of Anchor. John Martens received a bad flesh wound on his limb Monday when a mule Kicked him. Mrs. Amanda Shoppell, of Reels-vllle, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Grandstaff.

Mrs. Emma Peterson and daughter, Mamie, spent Sunday with Ira Peterson and family. There will be no services at St. John's Lutheran church Sunday, as Rev. Andrew liahn, th pastor, is going to Khuraway, to preach at a mission festival.

The Anchor-Crppsey Sunday school convention held in the U. B. church Sunday was well attended In of the intense heat. A good program was rendered and the music whs excellent. Mrs.

Nancy Hlnshaw received ift wiik of tlie death of her brother, D. B. Johnson, of Sylvia. K-is. Mrs.

Hlnshaw visited her broth er recenMy and found hlrn well, so the news of his death comes as a shock to her. CARLOCK. Joseph Rupp and Elmer Mohr each oought a Ford auto on Wednesday. J. McKnisht and daughter, Mr.

Halite Hamilton, left Wednesday for Stock well for a few days' visit. i Master Ross Carlock. while running to head off a '-ow, ran into a wire fence, cutting his arm and his head above the eye. A. A.

Hughs and family have returned from their Ohio trip. He had a blow out on a front wheel and upst the car and broke Mrs. Hugh's arm. W. H.

Frev is in the mule foot hog business. He had fine success with them this year. He sold a fine boar to a gentleman from on Wed-.