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r Th e PEOPLE’S VOICE - J Th „ column for tbe u.e of our X J re.der* wbo wirt to make aug- X ( “ T.fiona for tbe general good K J o ' r(1 l.eu 6 e questions of lutere.L X , 5 Please sign your name to .how X i. * authenticity. It *lll not be X “ \ed if you Prefer that It not be. X. t L u ;Jxkksxx«xkxkxx , " Tells About Tour Thfl following letter received hy * h ‘? n(l and eons enjoyed recently x. I""-'* x ”" h : DaliOta: September 21. 1928. Tn our loved ones and friends: 1 We left Father Laughrey's place at < Monroeville. Indiana, at 6:45 a. m.. ' went on to Fort Wayne, left there at nin e o’clobk. We had a little bad luck but soon traveled on. We traveled' on the Lincoln Highway from Fnrl Wayne, to Carrol. lowa. The roads were good all the way excepting two places in lowa, where we had l to detour We sure had some large ,1 I,llls to climb, but the old Dodge went I right up. We saw some pretty nice > corn in Illinois. But lowa was the 1 great corn state. It sure did look < pretty when we were going up a hill « and corn on both sides of the road. ’ 1 should judge corn would yield at J least 100 busels to the acre. After we got in lowa we had to pay 15c a loaf for bread and 10c for a small can of J mlik and things were that price the rest of our trip. I believe the nicest place we saw was the Mississippi riv- ( er. It divides the two states. Illinois ( and lowa, and it cost us thirty-five f cents to get across the river. We ( viewed the place a while then travel- , ed on. We drove through one city which was eight miles across. We f surely saw a lot of beautiful sights. . People all along the way were selling ( mellons. We didn't have much trouble , to speak of and didn’t drive over , thirty miles an hour and sometimes ( not that. We drove almost 1,500 , miles and we were somewhat tired i when we landed in Cando, N. D. We | arrived in Cando one week and one ’ day from the time we left Indiana. . We find the people are dressed the . same in most every state. The water ( here is alkali water, and leaves a t taste in your mouth like castor oil. | The people around here are very nice, t We are camping and the nights are < rather chilly but we light our oil I stove a while and the camp is soon ( warm. The wind has been blowing considerably but the days have been ( nice and warm. Sunday, September i 16 found us at the M. E. church at I Starkweather. They have services i much different than they do hack in ; Indiana. They have preaching at I 10:30 and Sunday school at 11:30 I with ninety-four present. I believe they have a good pastor and some good people in their church. Well, we didn’t travel on Sunday. We camped at Lake Benton’s free tourist ' camp in Minnesota, and had a lovely 1 time viewing the lake. People around " here are still threshing and there seems to be a lot of it to do yet. To- 1 night we counted thirty-one straw 1 stacks burning. The people here are 1 now cutting their flaw. 1 The people around here have from ' 20 to 200 head of horses, lots of cattle 1 and sheep and raise the same poultry ! as you do in Indiana. School just 1 started Monday and it is three and one half miles away. Some of the ' groceries are higher in price here but I believe clothing is cheaper. Fruit . is very expensive; just a small box of Peaches cost $1.30, flour $1.25 for a twenty-five pound sack. I bake my own bread now and it is quite a lot cheaper. The closest town is seven miles away, and neighbors are about one and one-half miles away. It is , now 8:30, the wind has settled and it is trying to rain. They don't have , so much rain here as they do back in Indiana but a lot more wind. The , wind blew pretty hard at times but , °ur tent is still standing. Well, 1 . could sit here and write a lot more , ut you r probably get tired reading, so I’ll close. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Laughrey , and Sons, Cando. N. D. — Legion Officials Leave For Convention City Indianapolis Sept. 29 —(U.R) — The v anguard of Legionnaires will ad»ance on San Antonio, Tex., the Am- ' yuan Legion 1928 convention citv, to- 1 day. lumbers of the headquarters staff ' the legion's national office in In- I anapolis will leave for the Texas 1 n y to prepare for the coming of the war veterans Oct 8. 1 Two special cars will carry the 8 onnaires, who will be command- , jutam J ames F- Barton, national ad* i o Town Os Stendal Has Fire tain!* 1 ?' 11 ’ In<l ’ Sept 29 ~’U.R)—A res-wei-o '* ’ store ’ factory and residence I >r, nJ, 11 ' uills ,o!la y> ’h e result of a ; Par’tm° f . re Wednesday night. Fire de- j 1 slow 1 from Petersburg and Winauled in fighting the flames. ' , Th r* mporar y Capitol ' burning n7fi On T? f con B ress after tol wa« h o ni°f the Un,ted States caplloc ®ted nv tlle ® lod sett building, ’’"rthwost ~S eve, n th an<l B str eeta ’he Land’nm s ! te now occupied by - Office building. ,

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end Success Mixed in Blackstone Bluckttone wn* born in 1723. There are snld to be three ways by which u young man can get on nt the bar—by marrying an attorney'* jiitughter, by writing u hook or by a miracle. Blackstone wrote a book. He was a more or less disappointed J barrister; and (like oilier com- 1 partitive failures) set out to tench i others how to slnceeed In tbe pro- I session ut which, to put It mildly, he , had not won so many laurels, himself. The outcome of hl* Oxford lecture* was Ids “Commentaries,” ]*crluip* the most famous law book ever written. He wrote It with a bottle of port always on his desk. His work Is rather sniffed nt today ns a textbook for professional students; but Its rare and lucid style made it the authority to which, for nearly two centuries, every layman has turned. When the newly formed i United States first set up court of their own, they took ••Blackstone" as their legal bible. Its author became an M. I*, nnd a judge. It was Ids dictum, during the trial of a woman murderer, that gave rise to one of Doctor Johnson’s most entertaining discussions; about •the man who shot himself because he could not digest hot buttered muffins, and he loved them so.—From the Continental Edition of the London Dally Mail. Portents Meant Much to Early Englishmen Portents in earth nnd sky, that tilled our forefathers with dread, figure largely in our ancient history books; especially in that treasure house which so few Englishmen have explored, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It was in the year 1100, In Berkshire that blood welled from the earth, “as many said that should see it. Anti thereafter on the morning after Lammas day was the King William Rufus shot in hunting by an arrow from Ids own men. . . . All that was loathsome to God and righteous men, all that was customary in this land in his time.” , The Chronicle does not tell us, but Another historian does, that from the spot where be fell—now marked by the Itufus stone, which every visitor to the New forest goes to see —his body was carted by a few peasants, in a country wagon, to Winchester cathedral, where It was buried beneath the tower; and tbe very next year—another portent—the tower fell. Who, indeed, living in such times, could fail to discern the wrath of God, when two of the Conqueror’s sons—for Richard, his second son, was gored by a stag close by—met their doom in tbe glades which their father had devastated that he might hunt the tall deer therein?—London Daily Mali. Cattiness All men are divided into two classes: Those who are convinced most women are catty nnd those who insist that they all are. If, by cattiness, you mean petty vindictiveness sweetly expressed, I do admit that quite a lot of women are glt’teu in that respect, Men have the vindictiveness often enough but it Is seldom as petty and it is likely to be distinctly not sweetly expressed. As I: see it, cattiness is mainly a hangover from the days when men were permitted to swear great, big. tempereasing oaths, whilt women weren't permitted to swear nt all—so they relieved their nastier feelings by learning to say sweet things 7 with a sting. — Plain Talk Magazine. Whitewashed, as ’Twere A Glasgow man whose business and private reputation would not have stiXMl too much scrutiny ultimately found himself in the dock on a serious chatge. But his lawyers play’d their parts so skillfully that the judge dismissed thp case, telling the accused that he, “left the dock without a stain on his character." On leaving the building one of his cronies approached him end remarked: “Man, Jamie, did you hear what his lordship said about your character? Wasn’t it a darned good job you were arrested, you lucky dog?”—London Answers. Unkind The man and the girl were sitting on the pier, and for some time there had been silence between them. "Do you know,” he said at last, “that every evening, before 1 go to bed, 1 write down my thoughts in my diary? Interesting, don’t you think?” “Oh, most.” she answered. "How long have you been doing it?” “About a couple of years,” was the reply. “Indeed!" said the girl; “then you must have the first page nearly full.” In the “Good Old Days” It ig not as easy today as it was 20 years ago to walk right in and ask the president of a bank what time it is or what he thinks of the weather. Heads of corporations are today intrenched behind a squad of bright-eyed secretaries whose greatest ambition in life seems to be to ask useless questions In tne old days, the president of a railroad or the head of a steel com pany could sit in the fron* office in his shirt sleeves and smoke a clay pipe and nothing would he thought of It.—Harry Dauiel. lu Jlirifl Magazine.

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Strange Beast Still At Large Near Bedford Bedford. Ind., Sept 28—<U.R) The strange beast which has terrorized this part of Lawtence county for the past several weeks was still at large today, despite the efforts of a posse which searched for it last night. The posse, over one hundred strong, scoured the countryside where the beast had been seen, but reported no trace of it. The animal has been described by various persons who have seen it as a mountain lion, while others believe it is a large dog. No Escape Among the Eskimos of northern Canada marriage is compulsory. — o— — Bluffton Woman Gets Divorce Bluffton, Sept. 29—Mrs Ruth Dunn was granted a decree of divorce in circuit court Thursday from Everett O. Dunn, on grounds alleged in the com- • September 29, 1928. DEAR FRIENDS: Nearly every day the boss bumps into a real problem. You would be surprised how many ink stains we get. Yesterday a beautiful georgette crepe garment came in. Some French dressing had been spilled on it. It’s quite a responsibility to take charge of a garment like that. But sometimes the worst thing that can happen —Mr. Farr says this —is to have the * customer attempt to clean a garment with some kind of soap or cheap patent cleaner before it is brought to us. Often the patent cleaner is worse than the orginal stain. When a garment becomes stained, better not attempt to clean it yourself. Phone 134. BEN ZEEN. DECATUR LAUNDRY “The Farr Way” I

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uted to Republican national commit* teewomnn Mrs. Willie W. Ualdwel) of Virginia. Senator Charles t'urtis, Republican vice presidential candidate, spoke at Oklahoma City, Fort Sill and larwton, criticising Smith's stand on farm relief. Senator Robinson, Democratic candidate for the vice presidency, told a Kansan City audience that men of mediocre ability' were m ’“V ranks of Republican government.