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About The Redmond spokesman. (Redmond, Crook County, Or.) 1910-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1914)
tlU llH D A Y . AI i) g OIDN’T CLOSE THE WINDOW im pulsive Men Had Nut •um «l#ntly Reasoned Before Me U nde r took the Task. It »as a balmy dev but too many windows »ere open In some of lb* street cars One man. »!>» had e cold, was »spec-ally annoyed by open window next to the seat In front of him on s westbound Euclid car. 11» leaned over end spoke to <he man »h o » s s sitting by the open «Indow. Excuse uie. sir he said but Ibal open »Indow Is too much for th# rest of us." 'Tui sorry." answered the other, but I sues» you'll have to stand It "I wish you would clone it at ouce. elr!" 'V an t accommodate you" "Do you menu to »ay 'hat you rw fuse to close the window* "I aura do " "If you don't done it. I will " "I got a bet that you won » do any thing of the kind "l ask you once more. sir. will you close that wind»» * "No. air, I will not Wbai ere you going to do about It T" "I'm golug to come over to do It myself " "I'd like to see you try It" "Oh. you would, would you? Mall, l'U show you." That was the flret move of the game The objector went over eud began tugging at the window, while the whole car watched bla proweea. But the other man said "Well, why don't you shut It*" "It—uh appears uh to be aluck " "It Is stuck I tried to close It be fore y. u came In Now go back and alt down " Hut the other fellow didn't He gut off the car Cleveland Plain Dealer. WORSE THAN ‘TALKY’ BARBER J im ’s Sad (»p a rla n c e W ith Deaf and Dum b W lelder of the Keen ■lade. OF EUROPE Aï WAR (Continued from 1st Page) It « u said the Gremans attacked the French at daylight. The engagement was expected to extend ail along the Franco-Belgium frontier, from Longwy to Cirey, a village between Nancy and Strasa- burg The Germans already were said to he the advance guard of the com bined armies which undertook a French invasion from Me'x and by way o f Belgium. The German scouts, it was stated, were using at - tomobiles and motorcycles instead of horses. Early in the engagement a French aviator, soaring nigh above a German aerial scout, waa reported to have Bred down on the latter, killing him and sending his machine crashing to earth. London. Aug 2.— The British Home Secretary has Issued an order prohibiting Rights by air craft over the whole area of the United King dom and coastal and territorial wa ter, except by those In the naval and military service. Harbin, Russia. Aug. 2.— A tele gram received here from St. Peters burg announces the mobilization of the Russian forces in the Far East. WAR ON GERMANY London. Aug 4.— Great Britain declared war on Germany tonight. The momentous decision of the British government, for which the whole world has been waiting, came . before the expiration of the time limit set by Great Britain In her ul timatum to Germany demanding a satisfactory reply on the subject o f Belgian neutrality. Germany's reply was the summary rejection of the request that Belgian neutrality should be respected. All Europe Now in Arms All Europe Is now in arms On the one hand Austria-Hungary and Ger many are opposed by Russia. France and Great Britain. Servia and Mon tenegro. Italy has declared her neutrality, but is mobilising. Belgium. Hol land and Switxerland have mobilized Japan to Keep Alliance Sweden has made no answer to inquiries from Russia and Germany regarding her attitude, but is pre paring to defend her neutrality. Japan is making ready to live up to her alliance with Great Britain in case o f certain eventualities. Spain is reported to be preparing a procla mation of neutrality. Austria-Hungary for the moment has retired from her campaign against Servia for the purpose of holding back Russia who now is now threating her armies. Paris, Aug 2.— A moratorium, suspending the payment o f all debts in France until August 31. was to FARMERS WILL PROFIT day proclaimed by the Minister of Finance. The measure also applies BY EUROPEAN WAR to deposits and current accounts in (Continued from 1st page) banks Depositors may withdraw only {50 and 3 per cent of their re maining balances. 000 bushels annually. Canada rais es 200,000.000 bushels a year. "According to the government re Arlon. Belgium, Aug. 2.— Accord ing to advices received here. 100.- port, the United States will produce 000 German troops are concentrat 930,000,000 bushels this year, an ing on the French frontier in the vi extraordinary amount, and out of it is figured that about 400,000,000 cinity of Liege. Frontier engagements are report bushels will be shipped to Europe to ed In which the Germans are said to supply the deficit caused by Russia's farmers going to war and neglecting have lost. More than 25,000 men are engag their crops. Russia, at the most, ed in digging trenches in front of cannot produce more than 300,000,- 000 bushels during war times. the German and French positions. "Now here is another point. Sub pose Russia does have 300,000,000 London. Aug. 2 — 8lr Edward bushels of wheat to supply herself Grey told the House o f Commons and the balance of Europe, her ports that If the German fleet entered the may be closed and shipments made English channel or the North Sea Impossible, and the rest o f Europe with hostile eye on the French coast will have to suffer unless the United or shipping, the British fleet would States and Canada supply the food give all protection in Its power. It stuffs, especially wheat. Naturally, was officially stated that the army the American traders and farmers would mobilize tomorrow. are going to hold their grain until the proper price is paid, which Will Brussels, Aug. 5.— A sweeping not be less than )1 for the entire Belgian victory over the Germans output,” the grainman declared. near Spa was. reported here tonight. "Great Britain, It Is asserted, nev It wan said two German regiments er has more than 30 davs' supply were decimated. The Germans at of breadstuffs on hand Therefore, If the point where the fight occurred Russian ports are bottled up, Eng were bringing up an armored train. land will be in a sory plight unless It was said. The Bolgians, covering the United States comes to her aid," with their artillery a stretch of the trader concluded. Coast Farmers Get Benefit track along which it must pass, min ed the track, tired the mine as the As to the benefit that the Europ train crossed It and blew the loco ean war and the bottling of the Rus motive and two forward cars into sian ports would have for the Amer the air. ican farmer, grainmen and traders Here Is one that was told by Prof W. W Daniels of the Interstate com merce commission. In substantiation of the old saying that one may go far ther and fare worse Some time ego a fellow rltlxen ram bled down the street looking ae If bla face had been run through a cornshelk er There were patches on bis cheek, patches on his chin, end other Jsbs end scratches Intervening Down on the corner he met a friend "Holy Smoke!" exclaimed the friend, siting up the lacerated party "What have you been doing with yourself, J im - "It happened this way." explained Jim. "I got good and tired of talk ing tonsortal artlata. and bearing of a shop where there waa a deaf and dumb barber. 1 started out to Investi gate "t/td you find him*" wonderlngty In terposed the friend "Ye#," wss the sad rejoinder of Jtm, "and this Is what he did to me while trying to shave me and talk with L’a lingers at the same time —Philadel phia Telegraph were unable to estimate the flret of i the week. "It costs about 10 cents a bushel to market wheat, that is. from the time It leaves the farmer until It reaches the market." said another operator. " I f we have dollar wheat permanently, and that Is practically certain,. It will leave 90 eenta a bushel for the farmer. For wheat exported to Europe It probably would cost 5 cents a bushel extra for mid western grain and about 2 cents extra for grain raise«1 In Coast cities. "Oregon ran ship her grain thru the Panama Canal to Europe nearly as cheap as the eastern states can. and cheaper than the middle west states." he declared It la pointed out also that the United States will be greatly bene fited In the manufacturing line Germany la conceded to be the greatest manufacturing nation and M i c r o p h o n e Detector. fartorlea necessarily muat be desert in France an Ingenious application ed during the war. making a demand has been made of the microphone In for American goods. order to detect firedamp In mines. This la the principle of the applica tion: If sound waves from two pipes of equal pitch Impinge on microphone» connected In series with a telephone, a clear note Is heard, but If one of the pipes emits a slightly different note, beats will be beard In the telephone Here ta the application One pipe la placed in the mine, the other above ground, and they are blown elmullaneoualy If the air in the mine is charged with firedamp. It By HOLLAND will produce e different note from that produced by clear air. owing to the The valuable news o f the difference of density, and In conse day is not confined to the quence a series of beats In the tele news columns. It is also phone gives warning of the presence of firedamp The same apparatus le seen in the advertisements. very sensitive to the presence of coal Of course, It is important gas.—The Sunday Magazine to know what President Wilson is doing, what the Road to Promotion. latest developments are in All employes look forward to the Mexico, or what baseball day when they will gain promotion— club leads the league. But when their wages will be raised, and It is also Important to they will be given greater responsibili know where a bargain In ties and more authority. boys' waists, garden hose, Too many employes set the day of breakfast food, or straw their promotion upon the basis of the bats may be found. lime they have been with the Insti These bits of commercial tution That la wrong bails Time la eternal and It is cheap Thera le an news are among the ad- over-production of It. vertlsements. Wise per- To be worthy of promotion you sons look for them and must make good—do your work, fin take advantage o f them lsh the task, no matter how humble. when they are doing their Some day you expect to be weighted buying. The leading mer With responsibility and clothed with chants are continually tell authority to give orders Regardless ing you news of their of the line of your employment, you stores, news that is import must demonstrate that you have th# ant because It often means strength to carry responsibility a real saving and always Before you are entitled to give or ders, you must demonstrate your abil means something new and ity to take orders—and to executa worth while. them. Read the advertisements If you seek Important Looking at Egg Through Knot Mole. news. Read them regularly In Farm and Fireside a contributor and always w i t h the tell», as follows, how he candles his thought that back of each eggs advertisement are the repu A knot hole a little over one Inch tation and business stand In diameter In the sunny side of our ing o f the merchant. He bam serves aa a very satisfactory egg could not afford to deceive tester for duck, geese and hen eggs you even If he were so in With the doom closed and the win dows blinded the room Is quite dark, clined. »nd by holding the egg close to the ONLY TRUTHFUL opening when th« sun la shining ADVERTISING PAYS. brightly 1 am able to determine, after live days of Incubation, the fertile from the infertile," Only Truthful Advertising Pays SECURITY That in what wr «fYor you In conruK-tion with «..lino .tal«'*. Voli M B I"' ib m iu M )! 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REDMOND MARKET, J, B. Roe, Prop“?; of y Iber Patronize the Merchants Who Advertise and you II help your town to 1 191 •Í H row ■lr