The Clinton Register from Clinton, Illinois • 3

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Up with the beautiful stripes and stars. Give a royal welcome to the G. A. Rs. As their years Increase their ranks grow thin; Open your doors and bid them come in Their battle of Life is almost o'er; 1 Soon theyll muster on the other shore.

Then up with the beautiful stripes and stars, And gladden the hearts of the G. A. Rs. Though their ranks are broken, their fighting oer. They still love the flag as in days of yore.

Then up with the beautiful stripes and stars, And cordially welcome the G. A. Rs. In the days that were most trying They kept the grand old flag flying. With the beautiful bars they preserved all the stars, Therefore welcome and honor the G- A Rs.

From near and far they will journey again. Caring little whether in sunshine or rain. They are coming from hilltop, valley and plain. Thrilled by the thought, Touching elbows Then fling Old Glory out to the breeze; Let her wave from housetop and trees. Joyfully fiout and make a great din As the G.

A R. Vets come marching in. square has thirty six sections, and, therefore, 72 miles of legal and generally needed highway. If all the roads in one of these townships were made hard, the cost would be $720,000, or if one of them in three, the modest cost, according to the Massachusetts rate of $10,000 per mile, would be $240,000. The Tice law, however does not contemplate townships, only as bonding propositions, but counties.

A number of townships in each county will be left far from he state boulevard. A supervisor informs me that Iroquois county has 2.000 miles of country roads. Mr. Gash argues for the fifteen per cent of improved Hi. stone roads the Tice law allows the which would be 300 miles, and whose cost, if figures do not lie, will be and that too, without the allowance of a cent for upkeep or bond interest which the bill provides must be six per cent Even 100 miles will cost $1,000,000 and as there are 2.000 miles, this would bring the road to about one in twenty people.

These are the hard mathematics that confront the people of Iroquois. No human being will dispute them. My friend Mr. Gash, deals in the poetry of state roads. I prefer figures Will the people be happier when they The following answer to the president of the State Highway Commission who spoke in Watseka was published in the Watseka Times: There can be no Issue with the great bulk of his talk which deals in a general and poetic eulogy of good roads, but I fear his definition of good roads and ours will severely clash.

He frankly avows nimself for the 'state boulevard, as his road, and for which the Tice Law explicitly provides out of the taxes of the people. We, on the other hand, who are farmers, will insist that the 100,000 miles of roads that go from our farms to the trading stations- are paramount to his isolated stone boulevard, so KNUDSON MANUFG. CO. Box 595 St. Joseph, Mo.

COURT CONVENED ON MONDAY glowingly and poetically painted. There is nothing more diabolically false or stupidly absurd than the sup- position that the people throughout thus curse nineteen with heavy taxes northern and central Illinois who order to bless the twentieth man fighting this law are opposed to ra-with a state road? Will they look tlonal road improvement. Silvery. at common sense and inexorable fig-platitudes about good roads haveUrea or be led by a fanciful picture nothing to do with the question. We painted by the deeply interested cor-like good roads just as we like good porations of Cook county? farms, for the roads and farms are cannot believe that he with all Siamese Twins, and cannot live with- his ggod intentions can interpret out each other.

But we object to the spirit and wants tf our roads as giving the blood and life of our coun- wen as wo do ourselves. Our 'athere try roads so painfully needed, to gave us the roads ani we have made build a state stone road far away them and desire to make them in-trom most of us, and used nearly al- finitely better. With his lifetime of together by but 2 per cent of the pen- c(ty education as a trained lawyer, he pie, who, according to the Worlds must supercede, by the terms of this Work Magazine, own automobiles. jaw and decision of your supervisors, We do not need State roads very wh0 have known the roads from child-badly when our steam and electric hood, whenever those supervisors are Flour Daniel Webster Ceresota Gold Coin Climax unwilling to aid him in the long line of state roads he wishes to put through. Rebate Robberies.

Can there be any sane reason offered for the plunder by this law of lines carry all of our products from the trading stations and pay their own right of way without making a demand upon us, as the state boule vard does, for immense sums to build the roads. People are fast learning his leg between the knee and ankle. His condition is encouraging and the surgeon who performed the operation states that he is now on the road to recovery. It was about five weeks ago that Mr. Cline, while walking along the street in Leroy was seized with a severe pain in his leg.

The member then commenced to swell and become discolored. The poison from the part was absorbed into his system and a couple of days before he was brought to the hospital he became delirious He has remembered nothing from that hour until a couple of days ago. The trouble was caused by a clot in a blood vessel in the leg. Gangrene finally set in and for a week his death was momentarily expected. His recovery is considered remarkable.

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W. Corner Sqaare For That Cold Room TRY A Bungalow Gas Heater ALMOST A MODERN MIRACLE Mr. William H. Cline, formerly mayor of LeRoy, who has been a patient at Brokaw hospital during the past four of five weeks, oft Monday submitted to a skin grafting opera- tlon which is commanding much atten- Circuit court convened at 10:30 Monday morning, following the ad. I tion among the physicians of the city joumment of last week.

Judge Coch- and f06e inted medical at ters In general. Mr. Cline had sixty- ran was on the bench. The morning four square Inches of skin grafted on hours, and the first of the afternoon were taken up with resolutions and placing motions regarding the late Judges Philbrick and Ingham. Attorney R.

Herrick read the resolutions for the former and Vespasian Warner for the latter. Addresses were made by Attorneys Wm. Monson, Wm. Booth, Vespasian Warner, F. K.

Lemon, Fred Ball, Grover Hoff, E. J. Sweeney, W. F. Gray, L.

E. Stone and Arthur F. Miller. At 2:30 the court took up the criminal docket. The first case was that of the People vs.

Carl E. Person. Attorneys Comerford and Miller argued a motion to quash, on the ground that a number of the witnesses for the state did not have their names endorsed on the back of the indictment. Defendant's counsel offered the names of about thirty witnesses who would testify that they had testified before the grandjury on behalf of the state. The court refused to entertain the motion to qaush, and exceptions were taken to the court4 ruling.

Notice was also given the state that the defense would ask for a change of venue, and the hearing on that motion was set for Tuesday. Carl Musgrove entered a plea to guilty of petty larceny and was fined ten dollars and costs, but by virtue of the fact that he had already served five months in jail, sentence was suspended and he was paroled to Deputy L. E. Forbes. Ona Lane was granted a divorce from George C.

Lane on the grounds of cruelty and was awarded the custody of the two minor John Rolofson was granted a divorce from Eva Pearl Rolofson on the grounds of desertion, the custody of the boy being given to the father and the girl to the mother. Ip the case of the city of Clinton vs. Frank M. Palmer, appeal from justice court, the defendant was discharged, it being held that the ordinance compelling a citizen to cut weeds on his own premises was unconstitutional Attorney Frank K. Lemon represented the defendant, and W.

F. Gray, who represented the city, will appeal the case. On Tuesday Judge Cochran ruled that all affidavits must be submitted by the attorneys for the defense In the Person case, and be in by June 15 in the effort to secure a change of venue. The states attorney will then be given until June 29 to secure counter evidence in his efforts to ha'. 9 the case tried ip this county.

The attorneys at once began their tour to secure the affidavits from re-' sponsible men. No agreement was reached in the efforts to secure bail for the prisoner, as the states attorney would not entertain the Idea of bail at any figure. Efforts will now be made for habeas corpus proceedings, which will be argued before Judge Cochran at Champaign. The effort lo have the attachment of the property of Person by the administrator of the MuBser estate dissolved wa" futile, and new bonds will be given Although a jury was called to comply with the law, an agreement had already been reached by which Harry Bordner, son of Milo Bordner, was allowed $250 for injuries sustained by being struck by a lump of coal while standing beside a coal car. Ralph Henson entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of forgery and the case was continued to the November term.

Court adjourned to convene June 29. TWO RAILROAD FREAKS There were two freak occurrences on the Illinois Central the first of the week, and in both instances two veteran engineers in the service were the victims, at least the stories are given as facts by their friends. One of them was pulling his train through a storm Tuesday night when the wind blew both windows from his cab. The other freak a as a case of brainstorm. A time-tired and fire-tested engineer pulled out of Clinton for the Bouth and landed in the little suburban city of Ospur without orders without a caboose, without conductor, brakeman or flagman.

The man at the throttle was brought to a Budden standstill by a message from headquarters, much to the relief of Ospur-ians, who thought a madman was running away with a train. WAPELLA CHRISTIAN CHURCH Bible school at 9:45 a- preaching at 11:00 a. Bible study Wed nesday at 7:30 p. m. Our Sunday school last Lords Day was short three from what it was from the Sunday before.

That will not da It should have been three Our Bible study met on Thursday evening on account of the Eighth Grade Commencement of Wapelia township. Subjects for next Lords Day morn ing, The Life Creed, evening, Finished Redemption. Come, your presence will be appreciated. Remember, it is a day to be spent in Gods service and not in idleness. M.

SHOW, Minister. FLOWER STORE We have moved our flower store to 204 East Main street, where we will have for sale cut flowers, funeral designs, and all kinds of flowers and plants. We deliver to any part of the city. Telephone 220. Mr.

add Mrs. Geo. A. Barnett DIED IN HOTEL Monday at Farmer City occurred the death of Mrs. Abbie Davis of Mansfield, death being due to heart trouble.

Mrs. Davis was visiting her daughter whq; is employed at the Commercial hotel in the above city when she was stricken with the fatal disease. Remains were taken to Mansfield for interment What Every One Knows. Journalism will not become a tea, feeeaase everybody known bow to na a newspaper. Bkmx City journal GAS CATE Ft, is CLEAN ECONOMICAL SAFE COMFORT COME AND SEE US i WE WILL SHOW YOU WON GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY that a good country road is good for treasury of Illinois and the peo-autos as well as for the carriage pie9 money.

and wagons, and that an extensive -pbe state aid plunder scheme drives state road such as is clearly outlined by the Cook county interests in the Tice Bill, accommodates but a small fraction of the people. The Tlmes-Democrat has stood for the fair open truth of this controversy, as I stand for It I shall consider but briefly, two parts of Mr. Gash's discourse. First the one in which he tries to obscure and minimize the cost of the state roads, he and the part in which he tries to excuse the amazing seizure of the peoples money as a compensation, or sort of legalized bribe, to pay Cook county for passing a sum equivalent to one-fourth of the colossal amount paid by the automobiles of Cook county, and for the second and more amazing plunder of the treasury for the Immense sum that would otherwise be assessed to Cook county for State aid tax. This Is a gigantic job of the Cook county banking and manufacturing interests, which by robbing, the state to get these fearful exemptions to Cook county, can hold It always in line for big state road appropriations.

Chcago will thus be recouped for a large part of her taxes, and the weight of the great scheme of taxation piracy will fall on the 101 other counties who are amazingly and un-blushlngly denied any rebate on their state aid or other automobile license taxes by the Tice measure. Our friend dares not deny these features of the law. Common justice would give to other great counties proportionate rebates. It was a cunning and subtle coup to fetch the Cook county representatives to the support of the badly constructed and condemned bill. Chicagos machine guns will be turned on any man who in the next assembly wants justice and a repeal of this measure.

To call the Tice law, therefore, a good roads law, perpetrates a most brutal misnomer. It Is a paralyzer and a destroyer of the country road, which, if poor now, will be worse when starved by the Increased taxation for this scheme. State Aid Plunder of the Corn Belt Every dollar a rich county sends for state aid must give to Chicago a part and to the numerous poor counties of Illinois another large part, and be content only with fragments at home. The central and some northern counties will have an- awful burden. Chicagos wall of rebates will protect her from the state aid rapine so dear to her manufacturing and banking Interests.

Bonds will come thickly to them as a harvest Poorer Illinois will be hungry for the Bums that the i state aid hysteria will wring from the rong and rich counties, who, fey no Mathematics on earth, can expect home more than remnants of the money they send to these political channels at Springfield. Cost of State Roads. An ordinary township six miles the forty strong counties into a helpless struggle with the poor counties to get back the bare remnants of their bounty. The law expressly and cunningly designs this fight by serving first comers to the states purse. It is much like a race of hungry buzzards to a fat feast If state aid for a moment was an honest fund it would be divided by equity and not by a barbarous struggle as over a pile of loot Boston, gives nearly a year to the peoples public roads; not a cent is rebated or returned.

Contrast this with the fear ful fee Chicago exacts for forcing this injustice upon us Behind her wall of rebates she will shriek for big road "appropriations; swift-footed, pon-taxpaying counties will echo the cry, and the corn belt will walk like a lamb to the slaughter. County boards of supervisors should not sleep, but draw resolutions that will teach their assemblymen what to do when this law comes up for revision. 1 MISS KENT IS LIBRARIAN Miss Lillian Kent has succeeded the late Mrs. L. K.

Rose as chief librarian of the Warner public library. The health of Mrs. Rose had been failing for some time, and last January she tendered her resignation to take ef feet September 1, but on Thursday of last week she gave up the position. Miss Charlotte Hatcher is assistant librarian. EGGS AND THE LAW A member of the state pure food commission gives some valuable hints, or rather advice on the keeping and marketing of eggs, also defines the law.

As there is a heavy penalty for selling eggs not fresh, either by the poultry man or the dealer, he tells how to avoid that penalty, and also how to demand more money for the eggs, stating that a buyer is always willing to pay more, for absolutely pure food than take chances, which true. Here are some of his pointers: As soon as you are through saving eggs for hatching get of every rooster youll get more eggs, and they will keep twice as long. Never wash except just before using then always. Keep nests clean, and renew lining often. Keep in a dry cool place, never wash, and always keep from the sun, even for a few minutes.

The above points are easy to follow, and may save you many dollars, as well as raise the price of eggs. WANTS A DIVORCE Mrs. Madge Campbell nee Dunbar, asks for a divorce from her husband, Lewis Campbell The charge Is This Is a case where all friends of the couple thought they saw a real love match, but harmony between them existed but a giort time, when they separated. LEON KIRK Residence Phone 294 FLOYD W. EASTERBR00K Residence Phone 517 EASTERBR00K KIRK FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING Rugs, Linoleums and Sewing Machines Picture Framing a Specialty We are equipped with an up-to-date Ambulance, Chapel and Morgue, and Specialize in Undertaking Business Phone 9 Cor.

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