The Cedarville Herald, Volume 32, Numbers 1-26

mum mm wmmm ^mmnrptmrr^T-**U?*9um tumt*p m m m m * Announcement GRAND OPENING SALE In our newly furnished store with a new stock of Men’s Clothing and Furnishings, Also Ladies' and Gent’s Shoes at 77 W est Main street, Springfield, Ohio, HErRE ARE A FEW PRICES: Men’s Shoes. ■Stylish hand-turned, welt sewed in patent, colt and calf* High and low cut tans. $5.50 f o r . . . . . . . . . . . . ,$2>23 3.00 for. . .......... .1.98 2.50 f o r . ................ 1.73 2.00 f o r . , , . ................ 1.47 Women's Shoes. We have a fine line of Ox­ fords in paten t leather and gun metal finish. We also offer a limited number of pairs of those popular street pumps $3.50 values now . . . . . .$1,97 3.00 values now. . , , . , 1,78 2.50 values now.......... 1.28 2.00 values now . . . . . . 1,47 1.50 yalu.es now........ .. .86 White slippers formerly $1.25 now ................. .47 500 Pair Ladies’ and Miss­ e s ’ Lace and Liste iHose. Fancy and plain, in all colors 25fe g r a d e , 1 2 c f50 Blue Serge Summer Coats $6,00 value now . ........ $2.97 5.00 value now . ........ 2.47 Hosiery. I t ’s prudent to buy while these bargain offerings pre­ vail: Men’s hose, 10c grade now 3c Men’s 15c and 20<k graded now*................ .. * . . . . 9c Ladies’ 25c. hose, our price 7c Ladies’ 25c hose our price 11c Children’s 15c hose, price, .Sc Children’s 20c hose price, ,9c FANCY VESTS. Whites, stripes and plain, former •prices: Men’s Suits. Serges, worsted home spuns and flannels, stylish in cut and elegant in fit and work­ manship. Two piece and with vests. $18.00 suits for............$10.48 15,00 suits f o r . 8. 73 12.50 suits for............ 7.59 7.50 suits f o r , , 4.49 Straw Hats. 400 Straw Bats, different styles and shapes, $2,00h a t . . . . , , , , , — ,„97c 300 Straw Sailors, $1.50 former price now. .49c 200 Straws. Different styles, and shapes on straws. 50c grade now; . ...,*. . 10c 25c grade now. ,7c Men’s Trousers, 1 We have a supply of men’s extra wearing and stylish trousers. Former prices: $5.00 now ,..................,$2.98 4.00 now-----. . . . . . . . 2.47 3.00 n o w . . . , ........ 1,49 2.00 now............ .. 1.23 100 Alpaca Summer Coats. $3,00 grade . . . . . . . . . . .$1.78 5.00 grade . . . . . . . . . . . ,97 A coupon, given with each purchase on a lemonade set. 77 W. Main Street, Spripgfield, Ohio. Work, Worry, Money —by using a— STOVER Gasoline Engine Made Right. SoldRight. Send for an illustrated cata- :' logue free. Stover Engine Works, 25 River Street, FREEPORT, ILL. THE RAPID Folding Go-Gart | . combines comfort, durabilityand appear- ante at the lowest possible price consist- ent with quality. Mother’s motto:- “Nothing too good for the baby.” We also manufacture Thompson a. J H M Folding Crib. Sanitary, comfortable,1 convenient, durable and economical. H H Ask your dealer to ahowyon a «>Rapid ™W Folding Go-Cart” and Thompson'* Fold, !ngCrib, both or which are necessary articles for . . . the baby. The best one motion Collapsible Cartmade. If your dealer docs not handle these two articles, write us direct for price and circulars. MISHAWAKAFOLBttft 0 ABB 1 AIECO., - Hlthiwfik*, IniL „ FOR DtJRABILITY AND SERVICE. 3 * . ® 1 4 ft We have found “ J . - M ” A S B E S T O S R O O F I N G Uqml to all demands. Whether it he used on the motrt modest farm building or the largest manufacturing plant we have always found it true to its trust. I t i» made to give service. Every square is thoroughly fcj,*j>oct©d before leaving the factory, The workmanship h right, and the materials used in Its construction are as mood m money can buy. As evidence-we can point to Asbestos Roofing applied In the early ninetie* in good ooadiijkm to-day. . , ^ Fttarthermore, It requires no coating or painting, “The jBmt cost i* the otdycoet.” Duff Booklet “R.” Sent free on request, will give you " H. W. Johns-Manvilie Co. / Put Your Money In a Ti:o Pacific Coast extension of the Chicago, Milwxukee»&St.Pau] Railway Howunder construe-’ tion, open's to the settler thousands of acresof excellent agricutturaUand. The newcountry in Adam:, Hettinger, and Bowman Counties, North Dakota, and Butte County, South Dakota, is now reached by the new track. The soil is a dark loam, with Olay aabsoil; and produces In abundance wheat, bats, barley, speiz, flax, corn and potatoes. The land la w*Uadapted to farming, good water is found at a depth ot from twenty to fifty feet, and the whole country is Underlaid with lignite coal that out- * crops along the stream.8, and in most cates can be had for th« digging. The climate is healthful, tile air Is dry and Invigorating? and the percentage of sunshiny days Is high. Outdoor work can be done almoat every day in the year. Rainfall is amply suffi­ cient to raise the crops. Regular mail service has been established, the roads are good, rural telephone lines traverse the country, and automobilo* are in common use. The deeded land In this district sells for from $10 to $18 per acre, Thera Are many instances this year where the crop equalled in value the cost of the land, In Butte County, South Dakota, there is Considerable government laud open for homestead entry. Government land offices are maintained at Lemmon, Hattlngar and Bowman, where filings and final proofs may be made. All of these towns are on the sew line of the Chicago Milwaukee & S t Paul Railway In Montana, the new' railroad traverses good farming land. It has been, demonstrated that big* crops of grain may bo raised. Along theY#How*ta»s and Musnellsheli rivers, the water is used for irrigation^ and phenomenal yields ofalfalfa, sugar beet*, and grain, are always certain. In the Judith Basin near Bcwintown, Montana, is one of the most remarkable settlors to bo found on the new line. UiKlcr natural rainfall, the famous bench lands produced this year an average of 35 bushels of hard wheat to the acre, and the price was 94cents per bushel. The basin contain* about 1500 square miles and is spar?etysettled. Some government land still remains open for settlement. A government land office ismaintained at Lowistowii. In Fergus County, outside the Judith Basin, is one of the greatest atoefc countries in the world, and good ranches can be purchased at a reasonable figure. The Chicago, Milwaukee St St. Paul Railway Co. has established aa immigration department for the purpose of^assisting in the settlement and development of the new laud* now being opened. Pamphlet* descriptive of its resources will b* forwarded free on request. F. A. MILLER Ganaral Pa*sen£«rAg«nt, ' CHICAGO GEO. B. HAYNES Immigration Agent# S S AD AM S S T R E E T , CH IC AG O SUBSCRIBE FOR THE HERALD. m OM O C JTE ALLFOUNDIN ' FINECONDITION Farmer Shows They May Be Had at Small Cost, HUNDRED DOLLARS PER MILE Earth Highways, Seientiffealiy Built and Regularly Maintained, Ara De­ sirable, Say# P. J. Jewett, Where Cost of Reek Reads is Tea Heavy. P. J. Jewett, a farmer sear Butler, Mo., baa written to the Kansas -City Star aa follows on the subject of good - roads: I have been reading with Interest the yarhAB letters and editorials In the Star on the subject of good road*, as Xread with Interest anything on this subject anywhere. Although a farm­ er, I am also a "good roads" man. I am pleased to see the Interest shown, and, while I don't want to "knock," I am afraid the cause Is be­ ing injured by its friends who write In that they seem to think no road a good one unless it is made of rock a t a cost ; of $3,000.to $6,000 .a mile, ^ XWiU state as briefly as I can how the subject looks to me, and I believe I will volce,the opinion of 75 per cent of tho farmers In the corn belt I t Js evident that If roads are made In the counfSfy the people who live there (farmers) must either do the work or pay for I t Individually I have little Interest in roads other than ; those in my* immediate neighborhood and those leading to my market In twenty-five years I have not driven sd far that I could not get- back the same day. If I have to make a trip of any considerable distance I take a train. I am not yet able to keep a motor car for pleasure and am not willing to make roadB for those who are. I live in an average township In western Missouri that has sixty miles of road. Our assessed .valuation i» $350,000, To make rock roads a t the lowest estimated price per mile, $3,000, would cost $180,000, or more than half the value of all the property in the township. To make one mile at $3,000 would require a tax of 83 cents on $100. A rock road is never the best road. If i t was we would not avoid it, as we always do, when the ground la dry and rpeed rings would be made that way. I t is not permanent, and the cost of maintaining six miles would be more than we now put on sixty. I know that the idea Is to improve the. most important roads first and the others later, but the one who lives a mile from the Improved road can take no more than ho can pull oyer the un­ improved one, Xnote the argument that I can take larger loads, make better time, get better prices, all of which I admit, but my present income would have to be increased very much to enable me to stand this, cost, I also note that good roads.-will enable me to sell my farm for a greater price. Suppose I don't want .to sell. We are net all, specula­ tor*. Wobld an acre produce more if It* prise wm* #00 than It would if It was |S07' without doubt I would pay twice as much tax. If I want in sell, it's different, though much like life ln- surance—a game you have to die to beat, Do yon see why farmers promptly vote down anything along this, line7 In Missouri the farmers killed the ten cent state road tax, that was really id their favor, because they thought ’It was to build a state road, fly which they had no interest. Don't think, we . are "raossbacks.” We want good roads and appreciate their value, buf if we must make them we insist Uiat they be of a kind that we can afford and that will suit our needs. - Why hot try good ditt roads? With the exception of a few miles, say 10 per cent; near the towns, where travel converges, a good dirt road properly maintained would be the very best possible eight months in the year, a good one ten and passably the other two. t believe $100 a mile would make good dirt roada in our township, and with $200 more w* could grade down the hills, grade up the low places, tile ont the wet ones, properly grade and ditch them and put in con­ crete culverts where bridges were not required—in fact, make a modem rock road without the rock. As to maintenance, a mile of thirty foot road can be dragged once for 50 cents. An average of ten times will be ample. Bat Jet's say fifteen, and we bate a cost of $7.50. A grader should be run over the road once a year to Open ditches and maintain proper shape. Two horse graders lire now made that will do this work at $2A0 a mile; plowing furrow in ditches, 50 cents. To sum up, then, we have thlanMtoltt COST FSB MILS, Construction...... . #00.00 MA1HTKNAWCS OKS VSAtt. Drawing ...... . *7.W Grading ISO Plowing««*•««e«*se«a«««es**«»*•«*■ *0- 19M I A permanently good nad, getting better every year, as all dragged roads do. Looks good, doesn't It? Best of all Is it's trim, I bavs kept a mile of average*road for the last six years In such condition that an ordinary good team could draw a ton over It any day in that time, and the Whole cost of construction and maintenance for the Whole tim* is less than $100, Give ns road laws based on common sense con­ struction that will provide for con­ stant maintenance and we can have good roads, Missouri has a very good one in the "special road district'' act that will apply if we can get rid of the Idea that the only good road is a feck toad, ' «. Nelson’s **. T Business Z, College r Attend#* i p riagHitfl* Ohio A h t* |i»|i*iii W i <>i>Gwllh yasdsat few* frtumxm , <**A*Y#*r. m m w m m m a WwMe A m UHUUmUtk- ■ W ire -W fflp*no lB jU$c- clatlons of Ohio, ri • V 1908WASAPROSPEROUSYEAR Inert**# *f Some Seven Thousand In Membership and Gain in Asset* of Mot* Than filx and a Half Million Dollars—Building Associations Un­ disturbed by the Recant Financial Flurry—[ntsrastlna Features of tha Annual Report of Deputy Inspector Judo* O. P, Sperr*. The annual report for IfOS iff Judge O, p. Sperra, Deputy inspector of Building and Loan Association* f o r . Ohio, was recently filed with Cover* nor Harmon. It shows the six Jiun- dred or more associations of the state In a very prosperous condition^ Tho report shows total assets of all tha associations of the amount of $133,* 340,424.57, that thd gain for the year was $0,626,337,15, That the gains for the several cRie* Were as follows; Cincinnati 770,216 64 Cleveland 670,323 30 Columbus 1,100,632 S3 Dayton............ . 199,537 30. Country.......... . 4,020,092 71 ' There was an Increase of some sev­ en thousand in the membership of , these associations. We take the fol­ lowing verbatim from tho report of, Judge gperra: “The year 1908 has been an all im­ portant one in the history of the building and loan - associations of Ohio. While to those unfamiliar with their work and history the year would seem uneventful, it has nevertheless ‘ been a trying period to .these financial institutions, and perhaps the- most se­ vere of any since the establishment of the bureau. In- the pages that fol­ low will he found a ..complete detailed statement of their condition, as tho same is shown by the reports made by' them to this bureau. ‘ And the showing thus made must give cause for congratulation to those who are interested in or are friendly to these institutions, and who believe in the principles through which they operate. The recent depressed, financial period was so far reaching in its effect an. the wage earner and those in moder­ ate circumstances that direful results to associations organized and main­ tained, in large measure, to conserve the financial savings of these people were freely - predicted, freely com­ mented on -and-the; subject of much speculation and misgiving.. But the results to these'associations, aa is shown from the.various reports filed with the bureau,’ and as will appear from an analysis of this volume, la convincing that throughout this an-' tire trying period the building and loan associations of Qbip have pros­ pered and grown and in their quiet, careful and economical way have In no wise been disturbed by tbf*' finan­ cial, ordeal. On the contrary, -they have apparently remained undisturb­ ed by the flurry and have hot suffered to any apprcclablo extent by lor* through excessive or abnormal with­ drawals, continuing to accumulate the savings of their members and to loan their funds to buy, build or im­ prove homes. Notwithstanding the fact that during the past year many organized financial institutions were forced to adopt various methods of liquidation and the closing up of their affairs, not a building and'loan asso­ ciation in Ohio was compelled to close its doors or defaulted in Its pay* ments, • This extraordinary test of their strength and stability must give to the public added confidence in their condition and management. "The net gain In asset* Of these as­ sociations in Ohio for toe year was $6,626,297.15, and this large gain dur­ ing a disastrous financial period, harmful and ruinous to so many, must be accepted as evidence that the. con­ fidence In membership and manage­ ment in associations who advocate and encourage home building and home owning and whose principles are based* on a mutuality of Interest, are permanent in their character and appeal to the confidence of all classes In fair or foul financial weather, "An added feature of success to the building and loan associations of Ohio is found in the further fact that no destructive competition prevails among these Institutions, The ulti­ mate welfare of the building and loan association system depends upon the welfare of the Individual association* constituting the system. The systes can continue successful only so long as the individual association* t uj*" tint!* successful. Disaster visited cn the few will bring want of confidence and consequent disaster to tho many. Therefore there is ao call for harmful competition among them. There la Ho place for It. It should not b* t*1- erated.” Building and loan negotiation* am widening their circle of usefulness and becoming each year more bene­ ficial to the various communities in which they are found. By their fruits they ara known and will continue to be known, They teach economy and urge people to be thrifty and to save their money. They receive encour­ agement from the state, and right­ fully so, for tho State can well afford to encourage societies whose sol# o'v *#ct I* to be helful to their member n It lEltilY wimminut Villa Crew wMttt*If #f»dl**t*S fteokt#*. mm **, b lack fctnA*,Mrtbmta«»* tew, r a s te r in g UtwwMd, _ SMat* UtTS^MwtSMd Mkmeif etfywKh. ‘ A t ^ iw ^ i^ ilsey *-*• It u>**y. . -',o / *+ H / - tn*u ,