Manchester Democrat. [volume], July 07, 1909, Image 1

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Did it ever occur to you why all good business
men keop a checking account with a bank?
We'll tell you. It enables them to keep their
funds in a more secure place than the cilice
safe. It gives them abetter standing in tho
bueiness world. It enables them to pay their
hills by check, the returned check being aa»n
disputable receipt.
Individuals finding a checking account \ery
convenient and a Bource of saving. Money in
one's pocket is often spent on the spur of the
moment, while one is disposed to thinly twice
before drawing on his balance in the bank.
Oet the Habit. Lay up for a rainy day. Start
a bank account with
''The Old Reliable"
The First National
Bank of Manchester,
YOU WILL MISS IT
n0'
the,West side.
Yard Phone
®Rnr0 with the Manchester Lumber company on
WHY
because wo are the leaders in prices, quality considered.
Boards $16.00 and up.
Xho fly willsoon be here. is the time to purchase screen
doors and windows. A full stock on hand.
Cement at Your Own Price.'
Drain tile, sewsr pipe, wire fence and all kinds of buildinir
material, lime and plaster.
MANCHESTER LUMBER COMPANY.
156.
J. W. Rabenau, Mgr. City Office Phone
EnTBIUSD AT I'OST Or* ICS AT I
I Manchestbh, Iowa, ab Skoond-Ci,a?s Mattbk,
455.
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TRIED—SURE—VALUABLE
A reliable application for Cuts, Sores, and
Bruises. Made and sold only by
A. DENTON.
Common and Fancy Wire Cloth
Both Black and Galvanized. I
ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SCREENS
AND FLY KILLERS.
I® the Ilies that are in
tore you put up the Screens.
Carhart & Nye,
111N. Franklin Street.
Time Now to Plant Those Sweet Peas.
Out own. mixture contains the new and fine named
•Admiration '*nT fi.\" "5
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•Ajjple Blossom Spencer "t-.
Bl» ck Knight 3
Coquette
Countess Cadogan ys U\„.
Countess Spencer
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The^"varieties make a well balanced mixture and will1 "be a 'joy to be
%old. Ton know wa have never disappointed you in our 1 nixtu re ol sweet
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A, E. PETERSON.
NEW LAWS JULY 4TH.
Most of the laws passed Jy the
last session of the legislature went
of low.
Jllly
4th"
Providing for a laboratory to
anufacture liog cholera serum.
State hospital Inspection.
Slaking resorts nuisances and
assessment of tax against owners.
Rigid antitrust act.
Prohibiting drinking on trains.
Partial List of New Laws.
Chapter 10 changes the time of
holding district courts provisions are
made for providing tabulated state
ments by the secretary of the state.
Chapter 11 provides the assignment
of Judges ip certain districts by the
chief justice.
Chapiter 12 changes the compensa
tion and raises the pay of shorthand
reporters from $6 to ?8.
Chapter 13 gives superior court con
current jurisdiction with the district
court and the probation officer of the
district court shall act as the proba
tion officer of the superior court.
Chapter 14 defines contributory de
pendency, provides for habitual
drunkards and the penalty for entic
ing away children
Chapter 17 definitely states duties
oZ county attorneys and repeals pre
vious code section In same subject.
Chapter 20 jiM jury lists made bi
ei.'Jitally.
Jurors Get More Money.
Chapter 23 gives jurors summoned
on t-peclal venire $2.50 and for each
mile traveled from his residence to
the place of trial, 10 cents.
Chapter 24 states that attorneys
are not acceptable as sureties.
Chapter 2G changes the name of
poor house to-county home.
Chapter 34 states specifically the
duties of the' sheriff and his deputy,
outlining and requiring close investi
gation of crimb.
Chapter 51 makes it necessary af
ter October 1, 1909, for all motor cars
to be provided with a transparent
shield to afford protection to motor
men and the passengers on platform.
Chapter 52 states that all street
cars of over 3J feet or weighing over
35,000 pounds shall have power t)ra&«
other than hand brakes capable of]
Jbringing. the car to a stop.
iChapter 55 abolishes township park
HS$.Cts.l.
Pensions Preyl3'ed.'"r
CSkapter 61 authorizes the giving of
pensions to disabled and retired fire
men and widows and children and
the dependent fathers and mothers of
deceased firemen in corporate towns
and special charter cities having or
ganized .tire departments.
Chaipter 62 authorizes the giving of
pensions ±0 disabled and retired po
licemen.
Chapter €7 grants additional powers
to cities organized under the commis
sion plan of government.
Chapter 69 gives provisions to prim
ary elections. Including the compen
sation of certification of nomination
the county audtlor, form of iballot,
publishing proceedings, filling of va
cancies, of holding county conven
tions, district conventions and state
conventions.
Chapter 95 promotes the building
of permanent roads in the state.
Chapter
96
provides for the destruc­
tion of weeds.
Chapter 136 allows a bounty of 25
cents for each ground hog killed with
In tlie county.
Caji't Drink on Trains.
Chapter 137 gives a bounty of 50
cents for each rattlesnake killed.
Chapter 139 changes the form of
request blanks for the sale of intoxi
cating liquors.
Chapter 141 prohibits the drinking
of intoxicating liquors as a beverage,
•nd the use of profane language on
an passenger railway car or street
ear, making the offence a misdemean
or.
Chai*«" 142 limits the nuiniber of
person to whom city or town coun
cils may ensnt consent to sell intoxi
cating llqi'WS,
Chapter 143 ^prohibits any person
except a qua'HfloA.' elector from engag
ing in the sale ot intoxicating liquors
at retail.. ,:_k-
New Child! L*bof Law.
Chapter 145 maJtes
It
necessary'that
employers furnisih an authenticated
birth record of any children employ
ed in their cstivblisihments.
Chapter 149 malces it th^ duty of
all persons and companies operating
any vessel propelled by machil ery or
through the medium of sales to carry,
a light during certain hours.
Chapter 151 provides for the est abo
lishment of a laboratory for the man
ufacture of hog 'cholera serum at or
near Des Moin«s under the supervi
sion of teh state veterinary surgeon.
Chapter 163 defines and regulates
the practice of optometry and for
creation ot a board of examiners in
optometry.
Chapter MS relates to 'hotels, inns
and puiilic louses and prescribes
rules so as to insure the safety and
health of employes and patrons of the'
same, providlga for inspection there
of.
Beef Must Be Inspected.
Chapter 169 is an act to prevent
disease among Tiees and provides for
inspection thereof.
Chapter 171 changes the name of
the Iowa State Normal school to
State Teachers' college.
Chapter 173 provides for feeble
A PETITION.
By Theodosia Garrison.
Hero among the poppy fields,
Idleness I pray you,
Let me wander lazy-eyed,
The
1st of some of the
more Important ones.
Law enforcement act providing
for removal of county attorneys.
Prohibition of minor smoking:
cigarettes.
Prevention of secret fralerni
ties and societies In high schools.
Giving of pensions to disabled
or retired .policemen and firemen.
Establishment of hoard of edu
cation for three state Institutions.
Slow of thought and pace
Empty handed, light pf heart,
Eager to obey you,
To loaf and make a madrigal
Tuned to fit your face-
Sick am I of strife and toil,
I would seek your daisies,
Count the ciouds and loaf and dream
Through drowsy afternoons.
Prithee take me by the hand
Show me where the way is—
Let me change the olink of gold
For your linnets' tunes.
Idleness! O, Idleness,
Smile a welcome for me
Here's a minstrel out of voice
A weary heart to rest.
Soothe me with the pipes of Pad',
Hum his music o'er me.
Rock me like a tired child
Sleepy on your breast.
—SYom "The Joy o' Life."
minded men at Glenwood.
Chapter 175 provides for the edu
cation of deaf and blind children at
the school fo-r the deaf and the col
lege for the blind.
Chapter 185 prohibits secret
triu
ternities and societies In the public
schools.
Chapter 214 is an act to enjoin and
abate houses ot prostitution to de
clare same to be a nuisance and to
assess a tax against the person main
taining such nuisance and against
the builder and ownerthereof.
Chapter 220 provides that ail doors
shall open outward in buildings
Chapter 252 makes an appropriation
for the removal of the remains of ex
Governor Ansel Griggs from Omaha,
Nebraska, to Andrew, Jackson county
Iowa, and for the location of a monu
ment in the cemetery at that place.
Chapter 260 makes an appropriation
for the Freemen' Institute of Poca
hontas county, Iowa.
Chapter 287 is an act to grant re
linquished to the city of Dubuque, la.,
the title of same of Iowa In or to
the abandoned river bed of the Mis
sissippi river.
THE NEW WEED LAW.
The last legislature enacted a new
weed law which will be of interest to
owners of realty. The law went in
to effect last Sunday and is as fol
lows:
Section 1. Land owners or tenants
to destroy weeds—when. It shall
the. duty of every person, firm or cor
poration ow-nlife, occupying or' con
troll ng lands, town and city lots,
land used as right of way, depot
grounds or for other purposes to be
cut, burn or otherwise entirely de
stroy all weeds of the kinds mention
ed in section two (2) hereof at such
times In each year and in such man
ner as shall prevent the said weeds
from blooming or coming to matur
ity.
Section 2. Noxious weeds. The
following weeds are hereby declared
to be noxlqus weeds, namely, quack
grass, (agropyron repens), Canada
thistle (cirslum arvense), cocklebur
(xanthium canadense), wild mustard
(brassica arvensls), sour or curled
dock (rumex crlspus), smooth dock
(rumex altissius), buckhorn or ribbed
piaintain (plantago lanceolata), and
wild parsnip (pastinaca satlva), horse
nettle (solanum caroiinense), and
velvet weed or button weed (aibutllon
theophraati) and burdock (arctium
lappa.)
Section 3. Destruction on high
ways—neglect or refusal to destroy.
It shall be the duty of the township
trustees or other officers responsible
for the care of public highways in
each township or county in this state
to destroy or cause to be destroyed al
noxious weeds mentioned in section
two (2) hereof or unnecessary brush
on the highways in such a manner
as to effectually, prevent the produc
tion of their seeds or their propaga
tion In any other manner, to worn
out labor or to employ labor for this
purpose in the same manner as for
repairs to the highways, and for neg
lect or failure to perform this work
they shall be subjected to the penal
ties in this act. If any occupant ot
lands adjacent to the public high
ways neglect or refuse to destroy the
noxious weeds upon his land, or Bhall
fail to prevent the said noxious weeds
from blooming or coming to maturity,
when such weeds are likely to be the
means of infesting the .public high
way, or upon complaint of any land
owner to the township trustees that
his lands have been or are likely to
be infested by weeds from the lands
of another including railway right
of way, the trustees shall make In
vestigation of such condition or com
plaint and if the same appears to
ibe well founded they shall make an
order fixing the time within which
the weeds shall be prevented from
maturing seed, and an order that
within one year such noxious weeds
shall be permanently destroyed, and
prescribing the manner of their de
struction and .shall forthwith give no
tice to the occupant of the lands
where the noxious weeds exist, and
if he shall neglect to obey such or
der within the time so ordered the
trustees may cause such noxious
weeds to be permanently destroyed
and cost ot the work shall be recov
eerd from the owner by a special tax
to be certified by the township clerk
In the same manner as other road
tax not paid.
Section 4. Road funds may be
expended. The destruction of noxious
weeds In the public highway and oth
er public places hereby made a
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MANCHESTER IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1009.
part of the road work of the town
ship trustees and the county super
visors and they shall have authorlt)
to expend road funds for the destruc
tlon of weeds.
Section 5. Property tax. The law
as it appears in section fifteen liun
dred and twenty-eight (1528) of tin
supplement to the code, 1907, is here
by amended as follows, namely: }l\
inserting after the comma In
eight line thereof^the following words
"and for the destruction ot noxiout
weeds in public highways and othei
public places", an dby striking ou'
the word "four" in the tenth line o,
said section and Inserting the wort
'3'x" in iieu thereof.
Section 6. School of instruction
•Between Noveber and the succeedinf
April of each year the county hi per
visors shall call a' meeting of tht
township trustees an dthe rOad super
/Isors of the county to consider fchf
best piethoda of road work and weed
destruction, and in the public Inter
est ay secure the services of experts
to give instruction in road buildln
and weed destruction. For such at
tendance the same compensation
shall, be allowed to the trustees an
road supervisors and the county su
peryieors as is allowed by law foi
ot,ehr services, [o be paid as other
expenses. The expenses of experts
herein provided for may be paid fron
the! county road fund.
Section 7. Cutting of weeds 01
highways. It shall be the duty of
township trustees and other officers
directly responsible for the care of
public highways to cause to be cut
near the surface all weeds on the
public highways in their respective,
district at such times and in such
manner as to prevent the seeds fron'
maturing.
of
public nature.
Death Knell of Cigarettes.
Chapter 223 authorizes the seizure
of cigarettes and cigarette papers,
the apprehension of the occupant of
the place or building in or upon
which same were sold or kept and
provides tor the levy of a tax.
Section 8. Penalty. Any person,
firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this act, or any
tgwnshlp trustees, Inspector or other
officer who neglects or falls to per
form the duties incumbent on him
under the provisions of this act, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall
bo,.punished by a fine not exceeding
one hundred dolfcrs. (1100.00).
PROVING BRYAN'S~CHARGES.
(From
the New
York
World.)
In his speech at Lincoln, Nebraska,
August 12, 1908. accepting the Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency,
Mr. Bryan charged that the Republi
can party "is impotent to accomplish
the reforms which are imperatively
needed. Further, I cannot concur in
the statment that the Republican
platform unequivocally declares for
the reforms that are necessary on
the contrary, I afflm that it openly
and notoriously disappoints the hopes
«nd expectations of reformers, wheth
er those reformers be Republicans or
Democrats."
*wir many week* now Senator Aid
rich has been zealously proving the
truth of' Mr. Bryan's charges. Noth
ing has been' required of Mr. Bryan
but to bied his time while Mr. Aid
rich and the Republican majority pro
duced the evidence.
On the whole the Tariff bill passed
by the House was a better measure
than was to have been expected in
the circumstances. It was a genuine
attempt at downward revision. It
recognized that the consumer's de
mand for relief was justified.
From the very beginning Senator
Aldrlch showed that his purpose was
to undo the work of the House. He
denied impudently that the Republi
can party was under any obligation,
expressed or implied, to reduce the
Dlngley schedules. He openly re
pudiated the pledges of downward re
vision given by Mr. Taft and other
Republican candidates during the
1908 campaign. His policy has been
to restore the Dlngley rates lowered
by the House, and he has systemati
cally undertaken to raise many of
them. The Aldrlch tariff out-Dlngleys
Dlngley. Yet Its author asserts that
it fulfills the promises made by the
Republican party at Chicago.
As for the Income tax, Senator Ald
rlch has always opposed It. He ad
mits on the floor of the Senate that
he only accepted the corporation tax
as a means of beating the income
tax. It was Mr. Taft's suggestion,
but Senator Aldrlch promises the re
peal of the publicity clause which
-Mr. Tafb In his special message said
is the most important part ot the
bill. Having tricked Mr. Taft on the
revision of the tariff, Senator Ald
rlch proposes to trick him with the
corporation tax.
Senator Aldrlch is in full control
in the Senate. His leadership is re
cognized at the White House. In
the revision of the tariff he has fal
sified -Mr. Taft's pledges, and in such
reforms as the corporation tax and
its publicity provisions he purposes
nullifying Mr. Taft's efforts. The
Republican party's impotence to ac
complish reforms, as Mr. Bryan fore
saw, comes from Senator Aldrlch's
hotlllty to such reforms and from the
party's support of him as Its foremost
representative.
A WORD OP WARNING.
(From the Chicago Tribune.)
President Taft aaid something at
New Haven recently which was un
derstood and applauded by the 1,800
Yale graduates who heard it He
said: "It the Republican party does
not Uve up to its promises and what
the people expect ot it, It will he
relegated to a position like that of
'his majesty's opposition' "—would
•become the outs and begin criticising
the Ins.
The president did not specify the
promises which had been made and
should be kept, but his hearers knew
what he was driving at. On a pre
vious occasion, he mentioned and
laid stress on one of them. He said
in a speech he made at Cincinnati
after his election:
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Unless we act In accordance with
our promises, or If we only lii-cp the
word of promise to the ear and
break it to the hope, we shall ,'je
made accountable to the American
people and suffer such -consoqu^ncea
as failure to keep faith has-always
been visited with. It would be bettor
to have 110 revision at ail unions we
ire going honestly and fairly to re
'Iko the tariff ou tlieb iirami'snl
by our party.
That basis was outlined dlstlni/Jv
by him prior to the election. He
3aid at Cincinnati in SeMeirter:
"The Dlngley tariff law h:.s s?rved
the country well, but its rats? 'list a
become generally ecxessiva." Ujrlns
the same month he said r.t Mi.w.iu
kee: "It is my judgment that a re
vision of the tariff in accordnneo wit
the pledge of the Republican piat
form will be on whole substantial
revision downward, though thure pro
bably will be a few exceptions in
this regard."
The consumers of the country have
a right to believe that the Re i»iJui
can party promised them a substantia
downward revision of duties which
had become "generally excessive."
Congress is not giving the such a re
vision, and President Taft's wanting
words were not so uch addressed''to
Yale graduates as tho conference
committee, which some,time this
month will have the final shaping cf
the tariff bill. All know what Mr.
Cleveland did when a tariff bill
which violated party -promises \vn:i
presented to him. No one can tall
what Mr. Taft would do if a similar
misfortune were to befall him
The binder chains some nfor a
good deal of hard wear during har
vest. Secure a stick of graphite and
rub them well before putting the ma
chine into the field, keep them well
oiled and supplied with graphite, and
give them moderate slack, and you
will be pleased with the results.
LEARN TO SWIM.
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The list of drowning accidents is
growing appallingly this summer.
Very tew cities have failed to con
tribute to the mortality records. It
is the exceptional-day that the pa
pers do not contain stories of several
drownings about the country.
Yet, apparently, people will never
learn caution. At least 50 per cent,
of the season's victims might be alive
today if they had not been so blindly
confident of their ability to safely
disport themselves with a foreign ele
ment. The great majority of those
who have been drowned this summer
were unable to swim yet in so many
cases they tool: reckless chances with
the water, either in boats or canoes,
or by wading in swift currents or
where there are "step-offs".
It would seem that there should
be no need of further harping upon
the adv.sahilit.v of learning to swim
before seeking amusement on rivers
and lakes. Every summer since
Adam's time people have been urged
to acquire the knack of keeping
afloat in the water. Yet, as the
annual death records attest, there are
not many who heed the admonition.
If every man and woman learned -to
swim in their youth there would not
be many summer drownings. It is a
duty of fathers and big brothers and
uncles to teach the children to swim.
In the first place, swimming is a
healthful amusment which no youth
can afford to miss and, in the
second place, no one knows but that
some day he may' need the attain
ment to save his life or, perhaps, the
lives of others.—Des Moines Evening
Tribune.
More Microbe Scare. 1
Now we hear that the sand of the
seashore has microbes, and the dar
lings of the squeamish mothers will
no longer be allowed to play there,
which may be good news for the other
children. One would think the tide
might make it pure enough, but no
doubt there is a difference of opinion
on the suhlect.
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TIMELY SUGGESTIONS.
(From the Farm, Stock and Hou:c.)
Tight binder canvases me:ui
and useless draught on the U'um.
The canvases should be run as slack1
as possible, to have them carry '.In
grain properly. So used they v.'li
wear much longer and render batter
service. Tight canvases cause the
rollers to become warped out of
alignment, and the roller bearings to
wear rapidly. They mean extra
horse power, and extra horse power
means more feed and less acres har
vested, which all sifts down to a
smaller net profit per bushel ot grain.
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A Hard Name.
A woman author of Washington has
sued a .critic for saying that she "has
played the part of a feminine paero
phorr among the non-scientific aedlds
of Washington." W.e don't know what
this means, but it is libelous per so
and the young woman ought to get
$1,000,000 damages.
Emigrant Dumping.
Britain still regards the colonies as
dumping ground for her irreclaimable
criminals. She no longer sends them
out In convict ships, but when sire sees
a colony recklessly offering home and
sanctuary to all comers she releases
her jail birds and covertly packs them
off to the new land.—Melbourne Age.
Why He Never Spoke.
There was a man in our town, and
he was wondrous .wise ho never
spoke unto his wife of his mother's
cakes and pies. The secret of his
wisdom—guess it if you can but if
you can't behold it—he was a bachelor
man.
What Does Comfort Mean?
What does comfort mean, or de
fiance, unrest or expectation? What is
this and ail the rest which we must
lose little by little, compared with the
only thing that Is Indispensable, and
that alone 1b happiness—peace?—Ed
ward Soderberg.
Meet
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Facts you should Know about a
mattress before you buy one
differ^SetVelZ
but
tho way they art laid.
They never lump never need remak'lnir Th» .r.
grades—a mattress to suit every purse. made in four
New Feed and Goal Store.
We have opened a Peed and Coal establishment in the .Board
way building 011 lower Franklin street We have purchased the
coal business of C. E. Parker, and are prepared to sapplv vour
wants with all kinds of
HARD AND SOFT
at lowest possible prices. We also carry a full line of Mill Feed,
Chicken Feed, Lime, Cement and Plaster. Try some of onr "BEN
HUE" FLOUR. Every sack guaranteed. Call and Bee us. We
solicit a share of your patronage. ''h"'*"*1-??
GEO. E. PACKER
TELEPHONE 17t
Delaware County State Bank
ESTABLISHED I86T.
Commercial Department-:-Savings Department
\r: Progressive-z-Conservaiive
We can accommodate you on accounts and loans.
We invite your business.
Wst. C. Cawlev, President.
R. W. Tikkill, Vice-President.
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1 NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD
a 2x4 and 2xG 8 to 1G ft long at $18.00 per thousand.
5 Red Cedar Shingles 5 to 2 at $2.75 per thousand. ..
5
Lath $2.00 per thousand.
JUST RECEIVED
Afresh car of that famous flour "'THE SEAL MINNESOTA
Every Sack»is Guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money will
be refunded. I also have uu hand a full line of flour mids, Corno
hen feed, germ mids, mica grit, bran, oyster shells, rye mids, lit
tle chick feed, low grade, lime, corn and oat chops, cement, rock
sa t, wood fibre plaster, barrel salt, cement plaster, lubricating oils,
roofing, roofing paints, etc. "UNIVERSAL" THE STANDARD
PORTLAND CEMENT at Wholesale Price in CAR LOTS.
C. H. PARKER.
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special "web-process"1oMaWng"them that' elve St
Mattresses their perfect comLAnd wonderi^^^
there are more sold than any other made.
cotton
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to yon let us unlace this
stock throughout! 'Uw Voods^e "Tv^
BROWN The Furniture Man.
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Cijas. J. Seeds, Cashier.
C. W. Keagy, Asst. Caah'r.
White Lumber is Cheap.
0 I will build a good barn holding 100 head of cattle and 100 tons
2 of hay for lesB than $1000.00.
Come and see us.
The Hockaay Linker Company
1 Telephone 108. Manchester, Iowa
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Court House
Us at our office
Let us call on you
Our prices if you rcan
We ask is a chance to meet
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Eclipse Lumber Go.
Phone 117
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