bo na ve is 0 T GLANS Siri York, Jan. 36.—-The meeting oi . Thompson Creditors’ om in he offices of Samuel Ler eoutisel for Lhe comrytiee ier. peret that it wus even uupos ibe out afterward what happined 4H questions were answered followipy sisiement, diciated Mr. Untermyer with instraciions # be not used as an interview. “Ar a menting held at the officts of Untermyer, counsel for the omnmitiss, the form of the agredbun of deposit wan decided upon and i # determined forthwith to endl lipos unsecured creditors for the depos heir claims with the committe number of other matters alfec sdrinistration of the silate taken ‘5, Nis further informition 4 whe ation of the vomimit Toe only point on which Mr. Tater would speak was the report that undertaken to nance the liga. nm of ihe estate of Mr. Thomson Jo denied it absolutely. y only connection with the «fair a counsel for the committee” he dl. .'] sever made any soch aided thet Mr, Thompson was 3 the meeting. When sshd 37 ) setion of the United Bates ddpar: investigate the First Nationa: Uanlontoown, of which Mr | wae president, would bave Huh! =f Ao mnt 1i%e this book” salt LL oF Srdl (apres nothing © i In facr 1 found his book so dey That | Jit waded {hrough IL” Paw Knows Everything, Withee Paw. what is philanthropy? Paw Thil 8 whes & man whe tosk | tao mich (Hes to = ee back » lietle of R, my son Fact! ares Be on sage 1 don't pretend” Suid wise oid Mr. Hubber “JEgt ya cman ahways ee a friend By telling hive kis troubles’ Tuking After Father, “Tornnyy takes after his father.” said Mrs, Naybor as she yrangty patted her son of the head. “Sou. 1 see he dos” replied Mrs | Catty. was Just tooking st the pants be i Wanting Gasset This carding ome rves fond that's prime; 1's run by Mex Fash, She'll Jot you have your meals on thine, And vot abe warts et cally The Wise Fool. “Women feel where men think quoted the ssge “Muyo that's the remson why thers, are so few bsidhesded women” re plied the foal # You Know Them. Beene poate 1 End fo my sorrow, Wienld 1utier be grouchy hie Bal Ther navel pat off £8 onsorrow The mesh things they oan do tudey, oii] Brevity. “Rrevily i= the sonal of wit” nemurk od the oll. focy 1 “Then 1lere are mighty few witty preaciers ia the world” sald the grouck it's un Thin Excuse Anyway, | We hated been thinking of writing bake se Lake and asking him If the correct Sefinition of a corn fod Is “a fat ehanee.” -Hisborg 0) News-Her ald But She Weulde't De It A Indy mae given to agit Each day. her friends thought, Dew daaniiter. For wisn she'd begin Bhe coil raise such a din { ft was eiliond from raughiter to ranghiter (Her plrveicisn Gnally said he could do podhing for Ber anlems she'd quit reading Lake Melaka) ¥ ~Mewsrs {03 Advocate a Names " Names. A. Beto rons a confectionery shop in Long Walnad City. N.Y. is That 80! Dear Loke—-A real corn busking when a tors fel who bas & Na. 6 fool t on their plans of financing. = tries to lake off 8 No. 3 shoe {ireen red that he knew nofhing > pot even kpow that such a Jury has been called,” he sald. Y TO CORNER. MARKET Storage Poultry Said to Have Been Bought Up. ¥ New York, Jan. 2.—Ths state 4» put of foods nnd markets ro ed from Chicago what it believes be authoritative information tha Dee! packers, included in the so “beef trust,” have bought us 0.000 pounds of cold storage pou: an alleged scheme to corner : . This amount, equivalent carloads, is in addition 10 the stock of fronen poultry that the have paid ne high as for roasting hick. r broilers and 18 cents . which are. casid- be 20 per cent higher than i ¢ paid last year, and it is yonder d that when the time for profit comes the packers expect © from 33% to 40 per cent. of Pledge Said te Have Jan, 26.—1t is by no “that the betrothal ring Lather now on exhibit at ork Historical society is question as to the Crd was raised by a yours ago, was sold in toa | C insigninean: ng th the Lore’ these ville.) "By Gosh, You'rs Right! Dear Loke—~ When you have read the discovered that L. EE Sisterhen rons a shoe stere in Lizonber, Ind. Things to Worry About. You ern't tien live eel (610 a knot. Our Daily Special. Have more vonfidence in yoarself sod Jews ln others Luke Mel oke Says: Lots of wien remind you of an oid bore that never tries to get wp sey ¥en] tte It Rpows that 1 Bs on ite way hole to ent, W hat pan becne of the old fashion ed knbier who owed to die of 8 fatal . disease kiwown® oe five ston? Any oid time a boy leaves the house without! slamming the door you bad better pend him to a doctor and see what alls him. Don't waste your time in hating » Just feel thank- ful that be Isu't twins Most of the men who brag that they are sell meade $110,000 Public Building Used Four Days i Year UTAR TOWN, 835, CARED FO Suiding Costing $150,000 Erected in | Town Where Rent Had Bean $1 Yeéar-~Utah Town That May Re quire Four Clerks Ten Years Mence Has Appropriation For Grounds and Building. New York, Jan, 8 Onngresy | gilded pork barrel,” which threatens Ld interferes seriously with the otan try’ proparedness plan, is the sabjst ‘of a vivid article by Burton J. Hen drick in the February World Works | magazine, Calling the conlenia of the | barre! the “pork that smells to high Heaven,” Mr. Hendrick display them for anybods s olfactory ner The article is pariicularly tinmmly In view of (his year's public buildings building bill, pow in congress, and the recent statetaents of puch men as Represent. ative Clark of Florida, who sald iss week in the house hat “f am In favor of reasonable preparedsocss, but if 8 means thil we mast xop wink on pub Hie bullding., | am against prepared ness tooth ond nail” Texarkaca, Tex, five yours ago ae ‘cured x couriliouse costing FL10.00w. A separxts bd bein WE METYSR RE pos! offfes. According to Mr. Hendrik, thi bailding i» often only three gr four days a year. The rest of the year the stole silent, vacant, anadial. He comtinges: “Mennwhile, ia New York elite whiera thar, federal STIR BIR S{EBIANS iy sitting. and are avarburdensd wils business, the federal povernment jeasen comriroom space iu thet Woo worth baiting. “fy the one hand Texarxaga, with #8 elabomits courthouse Send hres or four dave in the your, o8 Un: other, the busy ednrt i Sew York ity, fore] to hold Us sessions fH a por mercial skyadsaper: hore we Hare the beginning aod snd of the great Amerh ean pork barrel system of legals thon.” New York Court in Skyscriper. Congres, it the last public Hailding Bill, cut om un sporopriation io par chase a courthouse site in New York city but insisted upon appropriations tor postofion sites at Palnlaville, Kj with a popslition of B41 souls; and New Castle, in Wyoming, whizh bas 8 population of $75. Chicago. wildeh Bas postal receipts of §15.000 800 & year, ould not got money enough 16 buy A atte for a ssdly needed posicffice : Vernal, Dak which consists of ss inckeed business card you will bave . give you the impression that they got tired before they Salnhed the job. Love may make the world go round. but it (not make both ends meet. Some men spend half thelr lives try. ing to kill time and the other haif try- ‘ing to suve It people and bas anoagal postal receipts of $8000, obiained an appropriation for both & &iL¢ and buildin ~ Austen of Tennessee "Delieves I putting money into circulation Clark of Florida thigka public baildings maite the sfuctions of the poeple all ‘over this glorioas Jand.” Nenat Satberiand of tah thinks it stir patriotism "to have 4 fag fying over a building in every small town” The porteflice in Chickasaw, Okla. is being built at i cost of 560008 Previously ithe depsriment rented quarriers af a cost of $1 a year ft ix ealegiated that Daath Clty, Teah, wif Lave grows so large in the Bext ten veurs that four postales em plovess will be reguired. Meant the governtreint I patting ap uw $23 06d building to lixve plenty of noom Dot thers, when and if Sheps gre eguired, Jackson, Ky. le Hg pres pects. Ten years lis anilees th probabilities fall to Ee bio acta alities Jackson will have to have sil poastoffice employes. To males ready tor thes: wisn and if they come, i $50 800 building is being srectinl Wisconsin Bheri®® Kilinel sluth, Mina, Jan. 6 <-Sherift Malotson of Baron sounty, Wis, soul of here, was shot and killed by Wen: gel Baroneck, a farmer, whily serving papers on him according to word re ceived from Baron, Mr, Bryan Going to Sweifen? Stockholm, Jap. M—Worl is rm» ceceived here that William JL Bryan . Even the woman who wants to shine ‘in sockty Bs always powdering ber | DOSe. | {A women may bave some secrets | from ber husband. But what she rea) ‘ly thizks of hime fsn't one of them. {EA young man spends most of his time trying to show his knowledge an old man spends most of his time : trying to concen! his Ignormnoe, The man who can't quit without the | | sefemntiy of swearing off bsn't going | to quit long. ; A tol single man imagines that ¥ takes two to make an argument. bot I has secepied membership on tae American delegation af Uw Ford permanent pesce tribunal anid is pre paring to come here shortly, Night Riders Plead Guilty. New Madrid, Mo. Jan. 26.--Thirty. three defendants in the night rider ‘trials here pleaded guilty, thas bring The trouble with a wife Is that she : either believes too much or not enough. Man will always be regarded as wo man’s superior as long as be has sense | enough to wear clothes that button ap the front, Wireless telegraphy will flash a mes wind the world in a few min | This Is 8 great age. Rot a dog mn attracts as big a crowd as it the days when it took twe send a letter to Rugland. ing the trials to a sudden end ® ® % 8 FF ® BBW = ww 08 WEATHER EVERYWNERE. . Chmervations ; x United States * ‘weather burean taken at $ pm. * yoxterday follow: - Temp. Weather. * Pittshargh. .... 50 Chaar » ‘New York. .... B82 Cliaar . Boston. ....... §2 Cloady * Buffalo. ....... BA? Chyady » Chicago. ...... 52 Radn 3 Be. lows... ... B68 Choady ” Now Odians. . 62 Cloudy » Washisztion... 52 Chugr . Philadelohin. Chaar x ———— - The Weather. - Rain tonight: Thursday, rain = or snow and colder. . a ss rs atv tt nse nres I a Jets, E THE DAVISES 60 TO “CHURCH | 8 eh rk Stor Congressman “Amiens” Ore Remark of | Pastor; Mis Wife Anathar. | Washington, Jap 28. Members ” the congregation of the Vermont Ave Cave Christian ehireh were stirred at the morning services Sand ay lmet ww | an indident (nn which Representative | *Cystone” Dnvis of Texas figured. : Rev. Earl Willey, pastor, wai praise ing the president for going to the pr { ple to learn their wishes of prepara pas. “Kee clos to the people, * wR the adrsasition of the paitor to sll prablie HOTVANLS, j “Amen” a volte rang owt glearly | from the congregation awd, turning thelr peeks thn sudiende recognized he familiar whisiers of the new oon | greasrnan from Texas Toarnrd the claps of Rin reanarks Hie prs or Siseiined woman @affrage. and remgried that oo geed winEmn wen anite an well ai ad tar the ballot ME SL man : “gonen. Amen’ piped a shrill fom tnine wales with zreat fervor, and, locking In the direction whence ¥ ems. the Apdience dicovered Mra *Cyplone” Davis as the one who had voiced Epproval of the waffrage cone ment, hI 2 a Seo SAR LNB SS GERMAN NOTE DISAPPOINTS Berlin Wants te Pay Damages, But Stilt Baths 2% Apology. Washington, Jan. 38 «fmrmany nas neain fadled in express ferme Lo mest the demands of the Unitad States for ii settlement of the [Lusitania contrs Fors, : Comat wn Bersstor? was so In farmed at a canference with Seer tary Lansing. © While the ambmssgdne pYpaets tn confer again wiih the sed peigry iF da pet now sibeclied hal anvibing sousronching a definite un fers anading can be reneBodl grit alter fhe pribasey hes reveled Tuvider in structions Tee Beriin : Thu lini Block panslals ig the snaiilingnees of he Geran governs cent 1a aiodt that the totree of hes enbnaarine warfare at Me litte he Lanivnnin wan desrravind wae legal Tiwigph willing to pay. the nied Reade jndernnity fue the fleas of (he Armarion as he were lost The fRarmish Eovarnmeen? wosles Ta ey his TH Seirity a8 ap set of praca razed thet, apon any adm iaias of erong doing. Ta this vow he | 43 rates hy pelea aBeoduiely od WOCD IS INDICTED New York Public Service Commission or Charged With Soliciting Bribe New York Jus D8 orFuarmer Pubic Sophie £ was indicted on Bo ochierpe of Raving soiitived un Behe for Ris inflgenve in su lnetng tn Uae Talted Juates Bawiten snd Rignal connipany af Swlssviale Pa Phas poamtmaey fae etalline a Riga sYHTem In the ew auliwny ment gad wan peleadend Up $7.008 Bail OR © Re Ss ASA BP BL LIVE stack AND GRAIN iv whi Sikh. Jan, US Phat tor « Prints, 5 HEAR hd {alee 3800 She, Expe--Freph Nied harsh okie, SL EBIRAARE. priv $5 adi gine, ¥1.505%18 ik ‘hgretera, $7 EER fur. $05 @ 1.6 enthans BLGN E08 yludce Ballers, $8 LOT Moon iting 10 frie heifers, BG G8: coxarron 1 good a ala HOY 7 wood txt cowe, F147 dl sprisgers. UE Shewy x. .d [ands $ALE soed maxed §easie fair mised, 26 08 T BE endls and com EO, $45 faze $0568 gi 11.05 Boney an Hox Erpiey ail aed ERASE, : Yorker: X86 Yarkers $004 40 pie wi 15 rotie $0057. srngge. $550405 15 Revolnnd. Jan 09 ratio hobie © far steers, Y500 B16 moos to choles huicher stirs, §7 TH fair 10 good Suid lier steers, $84 G1; good to choles Deller, $eepT good to choles butcher balls, $887 goid to chotve cows, 130588. thir to goud cows, MAES. common cows, $59 3.95 Calves-~Gooll to choice calves, $1 G11.50; fair to good, $%0P10.76; heavy “and compron, $8E5 Bhesp and Lambs Good to ¢hows Jarabe, $10.806110.85; fair to goed, 7 we 10.35; good to choice weathers, ¥ 0 | TH0; good to choice wwies, Meu; mixed ewes and wethears, $8.7547. bucks, $HG550: culls and By $Hi0ga Hogs— Yorkers, $0.60. mediums, $71.79: mixed, $785; pigs. 883547 roughs, $635; stags, $5.05@5.50. Chicago, Jan. 26 Hogs—Buik, $T4047.76; light, $7.10 G85 mixed. $TIGITT6. DBeavy. $7308 7.80; roughs, $7006 7 40. pigs. $8. 80@ 8.30 Cattle—-Native bee’ steers 35.306 $75; cows and heifers, SLIGEE20. calves, $0041. Bhenp--Wethers, $7 8008.20; lambs, sssag. : Wheat-—May, 31.3. Corn—-May, Te. Onts-—May. 53%. ’ East Buffalo, Jan, 3. Cattle—-Prime steers, $8508.75 > shippiog, $85.40. tmtchers. $5.75 Bi $835 heifers, $BIS@TH8. cows $3.2506 50. balls, MGT. stockers | and feeders, $5.758G75; stock Bed! | TEES NOY eT Hey swan JER ers, $4505.58: fresh cows anal springers. $504 190. ; Hogs Heavy and mixed. $7.25: | Yorkers, $T2@7.30; pigs. STOUT. poughs, $6.75406.90; stags, $4.50G8.59. | Sheep and Lambs Lambe, $7006 i | { 11.25 vesrtings, $8.50010.25 wetters. | $H2SEES RE: ewes, S49; mixed 35QLIS sheep, NZ es ® B® EES OE SY seigatoney | Rober Wiad 2 the Living <iub He plendet ant guilty le the diet’ Your every hour jou thould etnploy, Made use of moamenty si thay By Don't waste your time tofay. my soy, You'll need (k «il before Fes (le Huh “Yori say you wre. 8 moving pletiare here’ sxclaimed the wise guy. What company do you work far?” *1 don't work for any eompany,” pied the grooch “Then how fire you a thorifie pletare | hero? demanded the wike guy. “My wife makes be [ake her th a movie show every gighl.” weplied the grooch, Ain't This Cray! Thers was an old fellow tamed Voss, Wine Jha beer stiles sil <dver Nin diathes Every pisses chat void 118 Fe would wobhie aed spill, For the foam aways Dokling Bie moms Cugih} what's guerre.” obaeryisd Mr. Geld What's queer?’ sisked Mm Gab. “Tt mays bere that in Jodis a woman gover Knows who baie hisband bk an after sls bas married bl.” “Atk! why in fodis njentioned espe claliy ¥' demanded Mire Gabh Good Depp {50 sot ive aaa advises Keep (sod dershnd youre gurioe) Arad if 1 wll being fas ae pelt, When cur ssa Bf fa yorifaelf : The Wine Ploal “Tr ynst hee a gient Wiiedshin tH have & wile who can cook atid waa’ do BB. observed thir sige “T9 bet ts wn greater bhardsbiin to have a Wife wha ent donk, dor nests on dolpg 11. replied the fond Wu! I fed to borrow Foss Prehasd See Bist Be Bad not oboe; He was oy weak franpal Hs could not stdin | loss Names [yn Nijrwes, Anne the manacttals in the Hoosler Rta 2 Jobe Bansiuper of Purdie, Ind Bhott dump of Midway, lod d ©. You of Chandler, Tmt. aml 8 A Desilinan of Boonville, Ind is Thott Se! Wir anderstiomd that Editor W. DD. Eaton: of the Chicago Press Club Scoop, Colomel Judd Mortitser Lewis of the Houston Post sad Major §oike | MeLuke of the Clucinmits BEwguiror mee violently opposed to our “Flowers For it i alleged that the fesson in hat thee bles of thee genthamen is that sll lowers reewived most be worn in thelr Hale. Thelr hat crop is short thelr pites lemme aod gliwten beyond any hope of ever bivlng replsnished by the Sowers - George tows (Tex Commereinl Modest, We sve an mode. were tial At Phe wa dais mE glade. hie sacle of auir surteney Now wees a Sle af pass Cimnlnnstt Bogie Pin fa for shaw te peak of things That shook swe modesty U8 bet Lake has Bis table Hintibe Preapedt eight dens Braen Che Rew, A eveiiing, O Things te Worry About. Alsout PE per cent of the oan Boor iw entirely devoid of wpgetation Our Daily Special. it fe a wives man whi knows when to cant) in Lishee Mol.uby Sayw: A whule lot of men sre 0 BUKY argy- ing about the war in Europe crusing Ban] thoes in thin coantry that they event thee to bant fw wn job, What has becorne of the od fase wand man who used to shine his boots with stove polinh every Sunday georping Women Hike to botld castles in the alr becenuse when thy straetanes ste cumipletid the pipes never freee the furiace sever goes out aml there ane Helios to wash. pce In awhile yon will and a gir wiih Is so fomsd of lpbsters that she Maes one One reason why there spt any fus in gambling with yur wife is be cane it Neeps the money in the fam fiv i yon have a real ea and make mney ont of i you are 4 genius Bui if rou do nit cake say mober | ont of it you are 8 (TRRR or Nn plain | wat, Cine hal? of the world bas ton much edication amd too ltt experivoce, sod swf too much axperience The plaver piano i the front room seillom peeds iL but the family Bilie on the table near the ano often needs dusting. Aud there is such a thing ns x man belng so public spirited that be can't let other people's bujiness alone long } empagh to attend to hils own hasiness. There are some GOOD business men. i but thers are more good BIISINESS | Bava Why is it that a philanthropist al wis draws the line at his pour mela | tune? it would save 2 lot of people & whole lot ef trouble If we meveriwd the order of things sil fixed them so that wuld cost $200 to gut married and £2 to get a divorce Cearier, Phote by Anwrionm Press Association SENATOR BENJAMIN R. TILMAN ® Washington, Jan. 26. After several pepresentatives of the armor phate in diuetevy had heeds Beard defore the sen ate saved affxirve ponimities an ad journmient af x wesll was talcen at the ‘shggestion of Senator Penrose th per pill the private manufscigrers 0 con flor witly 15¢ secretary of the navy and PY lo Per BH AR AETeSSest on the Pics of avieor piste that will “dis sped” the government officers from thw plan te alld a government plana BY Ls time At g Tormier vise) ing ind the comm tee EO Grace of the Bethlehem Blend somipan testified That if the govern rent conbi assure private mane factarers of 4 definite program of con strgetion covering a period of years thin would keen the alanis reasonably pattive a subetantial reduction could Be Beeaeht abant in the prices. Repreaseniatives of the Midvale Hest cnmpiny wer heard hefors the plies on the BI to appropriate HE 800 000 Tor a goveriimmeny plant tn an eraetass armor plate, Alva CG. Indie gr dent of the Midvale com. irre, snd Tax Barba. manager, wore pment and towird 1he close of fhe beuring Rear Admiral Joseph Beatin, chief af the ardaancs bares af thw aavy department. was an The wenn; ro Hkely that at the next mest. ng of the cominittee, Jaless there is an Agrvement botwesn the secretasy weed (le areor plate misnniariurers a wits will be skeen on the BMD aw thoriging the plant, and It may be haa ween a that case, The sentiment oe the corimittes nppears ivorable to the 1 and ander a resolution put theanek br Chwdrman THiman, ax ype Ben af thas peaninittise af seven teers RY conddilule B auoram for Busimeer gud 8 favorable votes of nw marsha ean rogert a Bil a STEEL RESUMES DIVIDENDS Last Three Months Earnings Are largest on Record, $51.230.788 Ww Vork Jan. JBo-The dimmtors {Inited Mates Steel corporation bai laineth @ quarterly dividend of wid eid oon the pominon stoek, patting thi lees on a8 § per cent gional bes, This wction marked the resi oe of paymenis on tie chm en slorR Aner J PRR suspenisicn. Nat earnings af the steel cOrpors tenn fue the three months ended Dec. $1 Gast agmregsted 366.231.788, the largest on record, They compared with $I8.710.844 in the preceding $1368 In the corre ponding goarter of 19304 and $23,084, 340 ig the same guarter of 1913. The previous record net was $45,503,708, sirped in the June guarter of 1907. This Is the first dividend deciared an Stes] corumen since October, 1914, 3, (The gzpunl dividend wis passed Jan. M1905, during the depression follow img the sutbresk of the European war The 1g dividend calls for abomt MLI50.000 an the $508 302.000 common sme suis andiing. The regular quarterly disbwsemeat of 14 per pent was declared on the preferred the other half has top Hitle aducstion Bock. TOLEDO FIRM BUILDS SHIPS Norwegian Company Contracts Fer Four Steamers at Ohio Lake Port Toleds, (0, Jan. 36.--Four steamers are to be built by the Toledo Ship building company for Norwegian inter extn ul 8 cost of §1.200.000. The vessels will cost $300,000 each. They are lo be delivered in April. June and July. 1917 General Maopager Charles B. Calder of the shipbuilding company says the Norweginng wanted the company te take options on Iwo more ships for 1817 deiibery, but he did not care te book more orders so far ahead. The company now has contracis for eleven ships, nearly all of which are ted | neean-going ‘trade.
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