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VOL XXVIII COLLTJZBI 1 LA FRIDAY MARCH 13 1914 VOL XVII WEALTKY MEXICAN PLEADS FOR SON GEN LUIS TERRAZAS WOULD GIVE HIS OWN LIFE TO THE REBEL DICTATOR QUARTER MILLION RANSOM Villa Threatens to Execute the Pris oner Unless This Sum is Forthcoming Western Nevwaper tUnlon News Service El PasoHis eyes filled with tears Lis voice quavering with emotion leneral Lulis Terrazas once known as The Rockefeller of Mexico ap tealed to Marion Letcher American consul at Chihuahua now in this city to save his son Luis General Fran cisco Villa is holding the younger Luis a prisoner at Chihuahua and threaten ed to kill the son unless the father tkys a ransom of 500000 pesos about 1250000 in American money Once owner of an estate that em traced the greater part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua and possessor of a fortune estimated at 40000000 in bold General Terrazas indicated that he cannot pay the ransom demanded Iy Villa His wide estates have been confiscated by the Mezichn rebels and ºhost of his money has been spent dur Lhg the troublesome times of the last three years I am 80 years old and neither life nor money mean much
Maines herbalist Abandoned Farm Made to Pay Good Money You Can Smell His Catnip Crop Half a Mile Away Boston Sunday Globe The story of how William K Burgess of East Bucksport has managed one of Maines famous abandoned farms aud won prosperity and considerable fame from land that was cluttered with loose stones and iufested with pernic ious weeds deserves to be elevated into a treatise on agricultural economics and a place in the libraries of agricultural colleges Less than 20 years ago when Mr Burgess went to East Bucksport from a farm in Monroe Me he was rich in health and hope though poor in finan cial resources so when he had bought two adjoining tarms on the shores of Long pondboth of which had been cropped clear down to hard pan and undergone the process which Maine farmers term skinning until there was nothing left to skinhe found himself at 35 years of age without an available dollar in the world and hitch ed to a barren hillside farm which according to local report was not able to sustain a pair of rabbits The first thing which Mr Burgess needed was ready money Local ways of securing
THE REPUBLICAN JOURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 29 1909 __it_ PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A PILSBURY Editor and Business Manager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 1 00 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion THAT SURPLUS REVENUE The question was recently asked in a Maine paper as to the amount per capita received by this State in 1838 from the surplus money under the Jackson ad ministration It was referred to in a sketch of the life of the late Mrs Salome Sellers of Deer Isle and at that time the enquiry was made as to amount dis tributed It was given by one person as 100 per capita while others united in the opinion that it wjs less than 10 The latter conclusion we believe to be cor rect although we have not been able to ascertain the exact amount The history in brief of this distribution of money by the national government is as follows The distribution of the treasury sur plus among the States in preference to
T0 Build American Prosperity on the Impregnable Rock of Economy Fy THE WIFE OF THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK How many of the women who worked so ardently for the war are now working with equal ardor for peace A certain service is badly needed just now by our country It is a vital service and can be performed at no loss of time and at a monetary gain While money is needed by the United States to carry out the extensive program of readjustment which peace brings in its train a part of the readjustment program and one which is far more important than just the gathering of money is the great task we have before us of learning what intelligent thrift is and put vwieuge mto such effective practice that we shall not only Ltc during 1919 but shall accustom countless generations ns to build prosperity on the impregnable rock of sensible ivmgs division of the United States treasury is calling upon to model life on the following lines To save intelligently ely to avoid waste and to invest safely It may sound easy d like things jou have heard often before but apply it con fer
THE FREEMAN A NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED COLORED NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY At 57 Indiana Avenue INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA SUBSCRIPTION RATES WAny part of the United States and Can ada one yeah postage paid f 150 Six Months 85 Three Months 60 Foreign countries SIOO extra Send money by express money order post office order or registered letter to THE FREEMAN Indianapolis Indiana All communications enclosing news matter for publication must be sent with the name of the writer not for publication but as a guar antee of good faitn TO CONTRIBUTORS We prefer not to return manuscript where the articles are short and copies easily taken such as poems anecdotes and brief sketches and in no case will we undertake to return manuscript unless stamps tor that purpose ac company the article We will not pay for mat ter unless it is ordered All matter for publi cation must reach this office by Monday of each week to insure insertion in the current issue AGENTS Agents are wanted in every town and city not now occupied and liberal inducements will be given to the same Send for our extraordi nary inducements to agents ADVERTISING RATES Regular displaylo cents per line per inser
10 o thcr y EM owing are the reprints of the nt articles conce ing the printing appearing In the t papers published througa eridan county reading thebe articles you can for yourself whether the Pro News indulged in any false as alleged by the subsidised of the comiiasioners of this also repiroduce the article ap in the Pioneer Press in it tries to defend this high Idup of the county treasury the same time tries to di ntion from its own duplicity disgraceful frameup by a ri and personal attack on the f the Producers News here the editor of this pa ts to announce that this pa own by the farmers of this who dictate its policy The is a hired man hired and the farmers subsidized organ says that ducers News was the only r to protest against the f the peoples money May the only newspaper to pro wever there are a number tions issued in this county e kickedand kicked hard riminal appropriation of the money ng to the limited circu the Pioneer Press and wish t the voters of the county opportunity to read the ri rot that the gang organ y in trying
THE WESTERN NEWS Published Every Thursday by the Western Montana Publishing Company Incorporated CHAS D ROWE Editor and Manager single Copy 5t Entered at the postoffice at Libby Lincoln County Mon tana as secondclass matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES 6 months 125 1 year 200 Member NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and MONTANA STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION F COURSE there is onlv one thing for LIBBY CITIZENS WILL FAVOR THE PROPOSAL O the taxpayer of Libby to do in re sponse to the city councils announcement of its intention to create ah improvement district for street lighting purposes That is to okeli the proposal The law states the city can levy only 15 mills for general purposes That will not raise enough money to pay for street light ing and meet other absolutely necessary expenses The only solutionunder the lawis the creation of an improvement district for the raising of the needed money for street lighting City officials have given the matter long and serious study and state there is no other way It means practically no increase in tax expense on the whole Under this plan some will probably pay less others will pay more We are confident our city officials know what they
Page Six Here Is Your Vacation Money s i our vacauon money a K Weekly Payroll in PLAN IN BRIEF The object of thia bit Weekly Payroll Drive la twofold Primarily to Increase the already large ealbeerlptioD list of this newspaper to collect arrearages and advance subscription payments from present or old subscribers and at the same time to afford the livewire energetic men and women boys and girls of thia territory an oppor tunity to profit In a 810 way through their spare time during the next few weeks le ft Is a plan that works both waya and to the ultimate good of all concerned In order to gain this end quickly and advantageously the most attractive awards ever offered by T newspa per In this section have been made ready for distribution among those who participate most aetlvtoy Ambition and energy are the only requisites tor success Let It be understood at the very outset that this Is not a beauty nee popularity contest but a strictly legitimate competitive proposition tor enterprising men and women and one into which no element of ehanee enters Each active participant win receive a pay eheck every Saturday night One toatun
Weekly Publisher Outlines Problems lie printed from The Publishers Auxiliary By Mel Hodell One of the most enjoyable aspects of my life is making money This is part and parcel of being in the newspaper busi ness as far as Im concerned Its fine and dandy of course to contribute every thing to your community and the public up to your eye brows free of charge in a continuing burst of mighty causes But after the day is over and you go home there is a matter of finding your off spring wellshod with a hair cut and a full satisfied sto mach And seeing as how the news paper business is a private enterurise there really is en joyment in making abuck on ce in a while I believe my greatest frus tration comes from the situa tion involving the split per sonalities who deal with a smaller newspaper when it comes to money On the one hand we often are wrooed with the most en thusiastic passion possible when it comes to printing news promotion advertising assorted whatnots about e ery thing and everybody in the newrs columns free of charge On the other hand we too often
Stone County Enterprise PUBLISHED EVERY THl RSDAY MORNING T P BOND Editor cm Publisher Entered as secondclass matter July 3 1906 at the postoffice at Wiggins M ss under the Act ot Congress of March 3 1879 One Year 150In AdvanceSix Months 75c_ Wiggins Miss Nov 0 1922 v c stcf hhmkbmmi The Proper Course The editorpublisher is au thority for the statement that Frederick I Thompson paid a million dollars for the Birming ham AgeHerald This is proba bly the record price for a south ern newspaper The AgeHerald was founded twenty years ago by the late E W Barrett who made it one of the leading news papers of the countryLaurel Leader Maybe it is worth it but we cant see what any man with a million dollars wants with a newspaperClarionLedger Of course the ClarionLedger was jesting but the average per ron including some newspaper men whose sole ambition is merely to make money feels Ln 4 Ttii i 14 EH AAii vrt a i T o man runs a newspaper with no other idea than to make money there would be no use in spend ing a million dollars to buy a paper It is seldom
The Phe ix Wheel nadue of structural steel is 125 feet in diain ere standlirg on Midway Heights seventy five feet above the lake The upper rim rising two hundred feet above the lower part of the grounds cuts a respectable firure against the horiron The wheel carries twelve cars with a capacity of twelve people each On Saturday the concessionaries invited the Ex position Lirectors to take a trial trip on the structure Dont Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away is the truthful startling title of a book about NoTo Bic the harmlecs gauranteed tobJbacco habit cure that braces up nicotinized nerves clim mnates the nicotine poison makes weuik men gain strength vigor and manhood You run no physical or financial risk as NoToBac is sold by druggists everywhere under guarantee to cure or money refunded Hook free Address Sterling Rem edy Co New York or Chicago As to tho TimnesDemocrat it is a great newspaper It has spent time large money and earnest efforts to make itself that But Burkeism does somehow attach to its skirts and instead of forming and moulding public sentiment and public opinion it seems oftener to have a weather eye to the
A ivî THE iMornan ûlitn lailu ärumu MORGAN CITY LA NOVEMBER 15 1916 No 86 Louisiana Oranges From Shell Island 175 Per Hundred Hone No 2 Terms Cash Bass Morgan City 99 Our New Brand PURE COFFEE DYLECO give Absolute Satisfaction and I offering to school children up 14 years of age 3 Prizes for best letter written jy DyerLehmann Co Ltd is lir and Square Store 5 Pounds 3 Pounds 2 Pourtds DYLECO Coffee DYLECO Coffee DYLECO Coffee ters must be in by December 15th HH Address to CONTEST MANAGER tin DyerLehmann Co Ltd liiJF aaaaaaaaaaaa ill My Funds Be Safe 8 the very first questoin that enters mind when you consider depositing money in a bank or making an in ent very reasonable and logical question Money ffi lwi to earn and still harder to save You have a to DEMAJND safety affairs of this bank are under the supervision lüompt roller of the Currency of the United 4nd conducted by leading business men of this Herbert M Gotten President VicePresident J K R Hood Cashier B VicePresident u O it National OF MORGAN CITY LA I 10000000 Ion Over 50000000 City Livery Co Chevrolet Cars M sane
UP IN MAINE SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN THE PINE TREE STATE WIALM IN AN ALDER SWAM A Waldo county man sends the Ban go r News a story about a neighbor of his who is making money from an al der swamp which has an area of no more than ten acres The land was low and mucky and very wet Except for large crops of mosquitoes the prod ucts of this piece had been hardly worth recording The purchaser paid two dollars an acre for the lot or 20 in all and at once took possession by fitting up and moving into an aban doned farm house which stood on a knoll at one corner of the swamp the only dry piece of land in the pur chase He proceeded to map oft his tract in true forestry style planning to cut one acre every year and to proceed in that ratio until at the end of ten years he should come back to his origi nal lot In this manner he has kept at work cutting his alders in June and trimming out and peeling the larger and crooked sticks to be made into rus tic furniture during
THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch
Tgiectrie Plants That Make Money for Farmers hroUrh an old pasture on the Prf ared Van Wagenen Jr at iro p Xew York flows a very ifyerfU l hich one can easily step 1 1 water is high A little rosstu from the house is an old prhal rjng about three acres Siar rn tiny sawmills dotted lilt long P jht years ago I began to 1 to get this power to the it vuld do a little work t Wagenen My first i 5 i carry it there by belt vf proved that the fric D i t up the five horse power f t trio power easily trans tie loss was the only solu 151 i ked with many who un m niv and its engineering most of them laughed at jr hu1 a small installation construct a million would have been whole flS ce hut a small plant to f an be controlled by a i i wire was evidently a i good ileal of studying the plans were made nig so small the most water had to be ob r a imiciuvii ujjiigiu ht wooden case build if where it would get f d the fifteenfoot
THE RIGHT HOUSE Jack Merton arrived in Chicago at 5 oclock on a rainy afternoon His train for the west left at 9 and he was prompted to spend the intervening hours with his cousin Taking a cab he was driven to the house No 232 There she is the next one to this I might have recognized the bronze flowerpots on the balcony any way Now for a surprise He ran lightly up the steps of No 232 pulled out a latchkey he had long carried and inserted it in the lock The key fitted easily and the door swung open revealing a long expanse of cool dark hall in summer attire of linen coverings There was not a 30ul in sight The doors that he remembered led to drawing rooms library and sitting room tirrViflxr Mrusorl At this hour Uncle Fred and Peter would probably have returned from the office and as was their daily custom would be grilling overthe evening papers in the little library in the glare of strong electric lights instead of spinning along the lake front watching the sunset after the strenuous day down town The Mer tons were money grubbers anyway with but