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ILLINOIS from Hughes --•'I wm Hmffp the eldest daughter bad tome internal trouble as ever sine* tb« first time her sickness apshe had to go and even had to quit school once for a week. I alwa Ly< ham's Vegetable take Lydia E. Compound myself so I gave it to her and she has received treat benefit from it. con can use this let- S;ltr for • testimonial if yoa wish, as I »"t cannot sav too much about what your medicine has done for me and for my , f • i daughter." -- Mrs. Wac. S. Hvohzs, | JL-, , Greenville, Delaware. ( Mother* and oftentimes* grandmothers fcave taken and have learned the value Lydia EL Pinkhain's Vegetable Compound. 80 they gacofnmtnd the mcdito others. « ' The best test of any ciedicine is what ift h-- dons for others. For nearly fifty '-'fjMra we have published le'teis from faothers, daughters, and women, young old, recommending the Vegetable ' Compound. Thev know what it did for tiwm and are glad to tell others. In wnr own aeighhorhcod are women who know of its greafc'value. Mothers--daughters, why not try it? BETTER DEAD !1Life is a burden when the body as racked with pain. Everything worries and the victim becomes ^despondent and downhearted. To bring back the sunshine take GOLDMEDAL ( \ p s1 1 rs The National Remedy of Holland for 1 200 years; it is an enemy of all paina resulting from kidney, liver and uric add , troubles. All druggists, three sizes. Leek for tfce bum Geld Medal on every III ud accept no IniiUli-- Detective*--Needed everywhere, Information Covering system of advancement. O'SulllTan. Mchts. Loan & Trust Bid*., Chicago Good System. "You give your husband a necktie every Christmas?" . "Tea; it's a splendidly economical scheme, because the poor dear nevei wears it, and doesn't dream that 1 give him the same tie year after year." •--New York Sun. For Your Social. At a recent church social, attended . by" both sexes, each man was given a bat to trim--any old-fashioned hat . ;Wlll do; the more antique the funnier. vEach one has needle and thread and ^ decorations. But he should select the latter from the collection himself, as the wort: must be strictly original. The woman's work was not so pleasant. Her task was to blacken each a pair of boots worn by a man present. Some of the ladies tactfully managed to escape doing two shoes. Perhaps the polishing of one was a demonstration of her inefficiency.--January De- * - signer. At the TraolC "Where do 1 cash this winning ticket?" « "Follow those miHh" • > "Which men?" "The ones who are smiling --Louisville Courier-Journal. ,/ 1 . r. • 1 1 *1 Beauty and Health Go Hand In Hand What This Woman Says in This Letter is of Vital Importance to You Danville, 111.-->'1 have taken Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription at various times when I have been In a nervous, run-down condition' and it has never failed to tone up my system. I have taken other medicines but have never found any of them as satisfactory as Dr. Pierce'B Favorite Prescription."--Mrs. Chas. McCoskey, 801 Kimball St. What Favorite Prescription has \ done for Mrs. McCoskey and thousands of other nervous, rundown, . wornout women It should do for you. Get It today from your neigh- 1 borhood druggist In tablets or liquid, or write Dr. Pierce, president Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y., for tree medical advice. Better Than Pills For Liver Ills. NR Tablets tooe and strengthen Otigans of digestion and elimination, improve appetite, stop side headaches, relieve biliousness, correct cooatipatkm. They act promptly, plraeanUy, mildly, -yet thoroughly. Oet • zzc. Bex. PI SO S SAFE AND SANE for Counts & Odds Tki. .»'«• •• *(l,tna *na Wl atkm refolar follows: April lr*4> Par omnlctpaf offices in cities in eonntles under township organization (not commission plan), and for township offices and offices In cities containing one or more townships and in villages whose boundaries coincide with the boundaries of a township. April 15-- School elections. April-18--For offices of cities and villages organized under the general law (except where the territorial limits coincide with the terriritorial limits of a township) or which contain one or more -townships. June 6--For six judges of the Superior court of Cook county. November 6-- For state treasurer, congress, general assembly (senators In odd-numbered districts), three trustees' of the University of Illinois, superintendent of public Instruction, clerk of the Criminal court of Cook county, county and probate judges and clerks, county treasurers, sheriffs and county superintendents of schools. Primaries in 1922 fall on these dates: February 28--To nominate candidates to be voted for April 4. March 14--Municipal primaries for April 18 election. April 11--Regular primaries for nomination of candidates to be voted for in November 6 election. Springfield.--Governor Small, In conference with his director of finance, directed that the item of $5,000,000 In the omnibus bill for the purchase of stone quarries be not spent, but be carried over until the end of the biennial as excess. The reasons the governor advanced were that when he started to build new state roads the contractor's average bid was $67,000 a mile. To cut this down, he proposed that the state own its own stone quarries and the appropriation was for that purpose. However, he said, the determination of the state to compete with the quarrymen had produced the same effect, and had brought the average cost down to $36,000 a mile. Springfield.--Fourteen Illinois veterans at the state home for soldiers and sailors at Quincy the last year ranged from ninety to one hundred years In age, according to the state department of public welfare. There were 372 more that averaged eightyfive years and 812 had gone half a decade beyond three score years and ten. Total enrollment at Quincy is 1.576. The Soldiers' Orphans' home at Normal had 368 children on December 1, but only 106 were actually soldier's orphans. Under an act passed by the last legislature only soldiers' and sailors' orphans are to be permitted hereafter. Chicago.--A statewide referendum on light wines and beer is planned by a group of Chlcagoans who are organising a force of workers to go into every county in the state for the necessary signatures to put the question before the voters next November. To get the matter before voters in the form of a public policy question It wil be necessary to file with the secretary of state a petition signed by 10 per cent of the voters who voted at the last general election. Such a petition will require about 210,000 signatures. Shelbytown. -- Shelbytown miners. Local No. 3495, voted 34 to 4 not to enter Into the referendum vote sent out by state officers of Illinois Mine workers. The action of Local No. 3495 follows that of several other locals of Springfield In refusing to enter into the referendum vote which asks Illinois miners If they support President John L. Lewis in his stand in Kansas, and if they wish Illinois to continue to support the strike in that state. Peoria.--Deputy sheriffs and posses are scouring Peoria county for six desperate prisoners who broke jail here. Richard Voris and Joe Zipper, Indicted for robbing the home of Congressman Ireland, ar£ among those who escaped. Others were Martin Trent and George Comstock, charged with robbery, and John Peterson and Charles Arnold. Trent and Comstock were ringleaders in an attempted jail break several weeks ago. Springfield.--An Increase of five per cent in the acreage sown in rye in> the fall of 1921 is shown over the previous year, according to figures released by S. D. Fessemlen, agricultural statistician for Illinois in the federal bureau Of markets and crop estimates. The total number of acres sown last fall In the state was 207.- 000, compared with 197,060, the revised figures on the acreage sown In the fall of 1920. Kewanee.--Its ranks thinned by death, the historical Grand Army of the Republic post at Kewanee, known ,as Julius A. Pratt post. No. 143, was formally mustered out. Only ten members survive and they agreed to disband. A public reception was arranged in honor of the little group and there were "cheers for the living and tears for the dead." During the civil war Kewanee sent four companies to the armies of the North. Springfield.--Under the new corporation act of Illinois, whlcba was recently held constitutional by the state supreme court, the secretary of state last year issued licenses to 4,- 784 domestic corporations and 439 foreign corporations. Elgin.--Erection of a soldier memorial monument to cost $10,000 is contemplated, the movement to obtain ! funds for construction of the shaft l»eing sponsored by the Elgin G. A. It. post. The memorial will be dedi-, rated to the veterans of all American wars. Freepott.--Representatives of five railroad brotherhoods have formally petitioned the Freport eomuerce body to urge retail merchants to reduce their prices, declaring t!i«tv were being overcharged on practically all necessities. Danville.--In an effort to curb the Wave of crime that has been- sweeping over Danville during the lust few J weeks, resulting in numerous holdups : and robberies, the city council con- ! firmed the appointment of 150 extra ! policemen, who are to serve without Ifcw^itiwKibey Trouble uA Never Benton.--"Egypt" la preparing for this year's visit of business men of the state, second to be held under the auspices of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. Date of the trip to southern Illinois will be set during the "business-building" conference of the state chamber In Chicago January 20. It is planned to take the visitors on a special train to the oil fields of Lawrence and Crawford counties, the spar mines of Hardin county, the fruit and orchard section of Marion and Union counties, the coal mines of Franklin, Williamson and Saline counties, and the agricultural counties of Jackson, Alexander, Randolph and Wabash. Plans are being made to take the entire party through the underground workings of the world's largest coal mine at Orient. 1 Springfield.--A report that rural mail carriers can secure licenses for their automobiles at the special price of $2 is causing Secretary of State Louis L. Emmerson considerable trouble. The report came about through a bill making this provision which was passed by the last general assembly but was vetoed and did not become a law. The report has been widespread and numerous applications enclosing $2 are coming in from rural mall carriers In all parts of the state. There are 30,000 rural mail carriers In Illinois and most of them believe the bill was enacted into a law. The law was vetoed on the grounds that It was class legislation and for that reason unconstitutional. Charleston.--Calmly walking into the sheriff's office here, B. F. Monroney, aged fifty-four years, sat down and waited for Sheriff Aye to put in his appearance. When Aye came in Monroney completely upset him and Deputy Tom Sanders with the statement that he had killed his wife, son and daughter before any of them had awakened. He crushed their skulls with an ax. Monroney explained that financial troubles caused him to decide to exterminate his family and kill himself, but says he could not get the rope tied securely and gave up the attempt. Springfield.--Illinois farmers planted .three per cent more acreage in wheat In the fall of 1921 compared with the revised wheat acreage of 1920, according to S. D. Fessenden, federal agricultural statistician for Illinois. The total acreage of wheat planted in the state last fall was 2,775,000, while in the year previous, 2,694,000 acres were planted in wheat, an Increase approximately three per cent. The condition of the crop generally in the state was estimated at 94 per cent on December 1, last. Washington, D. C.--Rates charged by electric railroads and shortllne steam railroads in Illinois for transportation of freight and of milk and cream whooly within the state must be Increased, the interstate commerce commission decided, to conform with the levels of Interstate rates on the same products. The commission decided that the existence, of state rates on a lower basis than the interstate constituted discrimination against Interstate traffic. Springfield.--Although Illinois averaged a fire every forty-three minutes in lOSft.^the $18,350,550 loss shows a decrease of $1,824,872 under the 1920 loss, according to the state fire marshal. The 12,265 fires it} the state last year were 1,911 fewer than in 1920. The decreases for 1921 are the first since the war. The Armour elevator explosion in Chicago Is Included in the totals for last year, although the bulk of the damage was due to explosion and not to fire. Springfield.--Work on the state's new $150,000 building at Jacksonville to care for World war veterans now at state hospitals for the insane Is expected to start soon, following the selection of a site. Appropriations aggregating $300,000 were made by the last general assembly for buildings and equipment to provide for 800 World war veterans receiving treatment at state institutions. Springfield.--Arraignment of Gov. Len Small at Waukegnn has been postponed one week, according to an announcement by State's Attorney C. F. Mortimer of Sangamon county. The delay was suggested by the chief of counsel for the defense, owing to the fact that Vernon S. Curtis, Governor Small's co-defendant, had been quarantined because of diphtheria in his family. Urbana.--One hundred and twentyfive mayors, commissioners, aldermen and other city and village officials will attend the eighth annual convention of the Illinois Municipal league, to be held at the University of Illinois January 26-27. Danville.--The Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail system's coal road, known as the Brazil branch, was sold at Danville, the bondholders buying the line, on which they hold $5,550,060 in obligations, for $15,000. Springfield.--Bids for approximately 4,000,000 barrels of Portland cement for road construction were rejected by the state department of public works on the ground that the bids received December 2S were too high. New bids may be advertised for or the state may decide to make its own cement. Aurora.--"Central States exposition*' is the name given to the newly organised fair association, which plans to hold annual expositions at Aurora. Grounds have been secured and contracts for buildings have been let, including one to house 1.000 cattle. Rock ford.--Half of Hock ford's girts marry before they reach the age of twenty-five; 10 per cent of them become brides before they are twenty, but more thato 50 per cent of the men wait until they are thirty or older before marrying, statistics recently compiled indicate. j pay- Springfield. -- Increased electricity | Rock Island.--Ice skating on the rates in Glen EHyn, Wh'eaton. Aurora, Mississippi river is new the best in Montgomery, Oswego and North Au- years. All the way from Rock Island rora were permanently denied the' to Hampton, a distance of fourteen Western United Gas and Elecrlc com miles, the ice has been smooth as pany by tl»e Illinois commerce eommls glass, and thousands hove fenj«v<»>! the sloti sitting here. | pastime. Suspect It 4«V. AfpiBMts for Insnawe Offci Rejected. T Judging from reports from druggists who are constantly in direct touch with the public, there is one preparation that has been very successful in overcoming these conditions. The mild and healing influence of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its remarkable record of success. An examining physician for one of the prominent Life Insurance Companies, in an interview on the subject, made the asi tonishing statement that one reason why | |P many applicants for insurance are rejected is because kidney trouble is SO common to the American people, and the large majority of those whose applications are declined do not even suspect that they have the disease. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root is on sale at all drug stores in bottles of two rises, medium and large. However, if you wish first to test this gree.t preparation Bead ten cents to Dr. Kilmer ft Co., Binghamton, N. Y.. for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention piper. Advertisement. LOOKING AT IT PRACTICALLY Really There It Something Worth While in the Assertion Made by Little Johnny. 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The opposing lady arose and said,' la her most parliamentary manner: "I move that we turn him Inside oat immediately."--Harper's Hagazine. Completed. Teacher--We borrowed our numerals from the Arabs, our calendar from the Romans, and our banking from the Italians. Can anyone think of any other examples? Willie Willis--Our lawnmower from the Smiths, our snow shovel from the Jones' and our baby carriage from the Bumps.--Judge. Nemesis. -J ; "Great goshovich!" exclaimed a Rn* sian citizen. "What is the matterskof with those mensik wallowing in the ditchski?" "Oh, an American offered to pay $ penny In U. S. money ski for every hnii* dred pounds of rubles that were dell^» ered to hiraskolf," replied an acquaint" ance, "and those Idiotsovlch tried tie swindle him out of a dime aplecesklj* --Kansas City Star. ^ No Friend of Humanity • Be who employs excellent favtittTSe ' and good wit to humor and please melg In their vices, is the greatest enemy of mankind. A Move for Peaoa. 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