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I Woo*«t Flashlight. Th« htt«e rwolvnp# Tight %h)«h hM be«n plaoel at !:th« v*- -V 1® f- 11*btihouiet a %ii :p k' *6 .IS £h» talMid of li^lcolanO In 'ftt Nottt» M«a, to pMhava the moat-powitful fla»hli*ht In th« world. It l« equal to 40,000,000 RP®Wft? 'Ti 'J Wj t".' .itlrJife He'll tell you this because he knows "V and you know that gasoline, oil and tires are crating more and more all the time. He knows and you should know, that the "(k operating cost of any automobile dujing five years' time is worth your careful con sideration. candjppower, and in calm weather can tor OThe Proof IP TVNT •cccPt ^ai®® Touring Car, $655 Roadster, $635 Prkti F.O.B. Dalrtil GIMRE & CO. 34 SOUTH FIRST AVENUE. DfSnUBUTORS FOR A Large, Strong And Old Bank Founded i860 (WITH FIRST TRUST AMD SAVINGS BANK) Marakalltown, Iowa.?,j W[»t«nct of thirty ttiilep. /fchef'Wwn «bfm the llilit I® »ta ttoned is 8fS ttet aea level. doata IMKHLayeat- ta light. or r* maintain the opinions. I 3 Every man selling an automobile will tell you his car can be run at low cost. We don't give you any guesswork. We tell you what we know. We state the facts and figures—proved and verified figures. Here Ihey are: MtxwtD WerU*! Non-Stop Racord Facts Miles without a motor stop- ........... 22,033 Averagenules per day (44 days).....500.0 Miles per fallon of gasoline 21.88 Miles per gallon of oil.. 400 Average miles per tire 9,871 Most Maxwell owners get evecT better {results than these but we are just giving the actual figures set when the Maxwell stock touring car broke the World's Motor Non-Stop Record. When you get your Maxwell you can be sure it will give you economical service probably far more economical tEfcn these figures indicate. But to be sure that you can get your Maxwell, ORDER NOW, We have a few here but don't know when we can get more. Freight cars are scarce and the Maxwell factories, in spite of doubled production, are away behind in shipments. .......... :.V:'. Deposits $1,936,064.73 Capital $250,000.00 :A *. J1 y~v OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS (3. C. ST. CLAIR.............President FRIEND..........Vice President i. C. ABBOTT WARREN NICHOLS F. C. LETTS [ember of 3 :1 MEASUAE' TO }'V% yA'" .r DENMEAI^. Cashier ...... Asst. Cashier CHARLES ECKLE9 JAMES L. DEN AD T. J. SHOEMAKER "SI bz REPORTED OUT OF COMMITTEE CALLS FOR EXTENSIVE BETTERMENTS.. FIVE YEARS OF ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION PLANNED Six Great Fighting Ships Favored, With Probability of Fast Battle Cruisers, Large Fleet of Smaller Craft and Increase of Personnel of From 15,000 to 20,000 Men. [(Special Correspondence. Washington, April 19.—By address ing the captain of the United States coast guard at the treasury depart ment, Washington, Iowa young men who are anxious to get cadetshlpa In the coast guard will be enabled to get interesting details concerning this ser vice. One hears much of cadetships I in the military academy at West Point and in the naval academy at Annapo lis. IBut cadetships In the coast guard are something about which most peo pie have little knowledge. The coast j. guard service is that service of the government which has been formed by the consolidation of the life-saving ser vice and the revenue cutter service. It is doubtful if more faithful and loyal types of men can be found in the gov ernment service than among the men who save lives along the coast and those who travel the seas from the Arctic to the gulf in the revenue .cut ters, performing many deeds of quiet heroism of which little is ever heard. Life Positions Open. The coast guard headquarters has just given out an announcement con cerning cadetships which young men the country over will find of interest. This announcement says that a line op portunity for young men to obtain life positions under the government is pre sented by the forthcoming examination to fill ten vacancies in the line and engineer corps at the -Coast Guard Academy, New l«ondon, Conn. The course at the academy covers a period of three years for line cadets and one year for cadet engineers. Four months of each year are spent at sea on the practice ship, during which time the principal ports along the Atlantic coast are visited. This year the prac tice cruise will include in its itinerary the West Indies and the Panama canal zone. Cadets receive $500 per annum, and in addition one ration, equivalent to $109 per year. (Cadet engineers re ceive 75 a month and one ration. After successfully completing the three-year course, cadets are commis sioned as third lieutenants and have the same rank and pay as second lieu tenants in thq army ($1,700 per an nwm). Cadet 'engineers are commis sioned as third lieutenants of engineers after successfully completing the one year course and have the same rank and pay as third lieutenants. The coast guard being a part of tho military forces of the government, its officers are entitled, by law, to lon gevity pay, and to retirement at the age of 64 years, or for physical dis ability. Retired officers receive three fourths of the pay to which they were entitled before retirement. The requirements are that the candi dites must be American citizens, un married, physically sound, of good moral character, between the ages of 18 and 24 for line cadets and 20 and 26 for cadet engineers. The examinations, which are strictly competitive, require the equivalent of a first-class high school education for line cadets, and in addition thereto, for cadet-engineers, a knowledge of theoretical steam engineering. They will be held on June 26, 1916, at Wash ington. t. C., and in several other large cities in different sections of the coun try. depending upon the location of the candidates. SKINS BAT8 FOR LIVING. California Trapper Sends 1,000 Tiny Pelts to New York Furrier. •A-Ocoriliin^ to (TTenrl -Le 'Bugi, a local trapper, he has delivered an order of 1,000 bat skins from a large New Tork fur house for which toe has been trap ping for years. The skins were secured from a pe culiar species of baits found in a large cave in ithe iMarysvJHe Buttes. The bats were secured during the winter months, ithe trapper consuming several months In their preparation for ship ment. He says he received a check for $400 from the New York firm and a letter thanking ihim for securing the bat slcliis The itlny pelts were used to make a collar for an expensive coait, which cost the owner $3600.—iLive Oak, C&L, correspondent. When Did He Work? At the annual luncheon of the Casualty Agricultural Association on February 25, one of the consulting actuaries told a story in which an employer, who had been asked by & Blerk for an increase in salary, mad© *thfe following calculation as to the working days of a year: Taa have been with me for several yaars," said the employer, "but have jienrn worked for me. There axe 365 days in the year one-third of your ttms you spend in sleep, that is 122 days, leaving 243 days one-third of your time you spend in recreation, which takes oft toother 122 -days, leav ing sixty nine days. As Saturday is a hall* holiday, that takeB oft twenty six days, leaving forty-three then I give you two weeks' vacation, or four teen days, which' cuts it down to twenty-nine, and, this nuinb«t* Is further reduced by thirteen holidays, leaving sixteen. Since'I give you an hour for lunch, this would total up fifteen days in a year. So thert is only one remaining day, and that Is aood Friday, and our place of. busi ness Is closed.**' «K The Wrong Do#. w&An old sea captain, resident ta Rug by, England, .noticing that the engine of a train on the London A Norttiwwjfc? em railway bore the name of 9sfe)» hund, wrote to the raUway^pomWurty WuggesUng that as an act of i»h4at« l«m he name should bescfeanged* The engine has nbw been, wmEs-rbpublican, kABB^AW/rowN, iowa: April w.!siii If we could build up a solid column of ice from the earth to the sun two miles and a half in diameter, spanning the intervening distance of 93,000.000 miles, and if the sun should concentrate its entire pow^r upon it, it would dis solve in a single second, according to a calculation made by'Professor Young. 1 NE.W SHtLL With an escort of thirty automobiles the little yellow automobile in which Miss Nell Richardson and Mrs. Alice Snltjer Burke (left to right in the auto in the accompanying picture) are to tour the United States was dedicated to its work with the name Golden Flier In New York. Gasoline was the appropriate liquid with which the little car was dedicated to its work. "In the name of the enfranchisement of women and of the 'National American Suffrage Association I name thee the Golden Flier," said Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt as she broke the bottle on the radiator. In her earnestness she made a dent in the radiator. With banners flying the automobiles finally reached the "West Forty-second street ferry, where they left the yellow car and Its occupants en route for Weehawken, N. J., the first stop in the" transcontinental trip. We Won't Deny It. PR!?B8S If &-» TOURING FOR SUFFRAGE, AUTOISTS^fi "M??: BEGIN THEIR TRANSCONTINENTAL TRIP YORK -6 itie Orleans COUNTlSV FOR LARSON & SON^ecy The Correct Arrangement of the 16 small pianos will form a sentence of four words stating- the value of pianos in homes. Can you solve it? |pfl |pjp ifffi |M|B Q0OIQ mmmm 0 O O O INSTRUCTIONS. In the above square are 16 pianos, each containing a letter. Arrange the letters into a sentence containing fotir words, us ing the capital letters as the first letter in each of the four words. Do not use any other letters. The sentence can be submitted with or without using the pianos if desired. It is not necessary to use this paper. Only one answer from a fam ily will be considered, and only families without pianos can enter. All contestants will be notified by mail and all premiums must be called for within ten days from close of contest Each contestant agrees to accept the judges' decision as final. The1contest is ppen and free to any one in the city and sur rounding country excepting to families who already own pianos and persons interested in the piano business, directly or indi rectly. There is no fee to pay or obligation of any kind in curred in entering this contest. VUllCVI AAA UI1 (***AUft VIUO VVUWOM CONTEST CLOSES at midnight April 29,1916, and all solutions plainly on this or a-separate sheet of paper and mail your solution THE MASON-WHEELER CO. 121 EAST MAIN STREET, MARSHALLTOWN. IOWA THESE FREE PainttngCosts Less Now FREE To postpone needed painting «n«sns big repair bflla as exposed wood soon rota Once decay does set fa, there la the car penter aa well aa the painter to. pay* Why not paint now and save the car-fi penter*s bill? We can supply the necessary materials. Dntch Boy Red Seal White Lead and pure Hnaeed oil, tinted to salt or white, is the paint to q*«. It anchors into wood pores, dries hard, is elastic enough to shrink and stretch without breaking. Selling good paint end helping our mi tomeri talv* pelnt problems i* our butt on*. Come in if you went en Mtimete or edvfce on palatine. WARS.HALLTOWN, IOWA. 8»• w»^i. I S?S3?gaiji5g FREE Name Address -MILL WORK MADE IN MARSH ALLTOW N—— MILL WORK MADE MAR SHALLTOWN- TRY T.-R. WANT ADS FOR GREATER FREE CONDITIONS For the correct or nearest correct solution we will give abso lutely free a $300.00 piano the next best a genuine diamond ring the next best an Eastman kodak the next best a lady's gold bracelet watch the next best a gentleman's gold watch the next five best will receive credit vouchers for $120.00 the next five credit vouchers for $115.00 the next ten credit vouch-3 ers for $105.00 and in the event of a tie for any of the pnze% the awards will be made to the one presenting their solution displayed in the most attractive manner and of the greatest advertising value to us. Every one sending a reply will receive a credit voucher of not less than $25.00 and an additional pre mium, consisting of choice of a folio of music or a self-filling fountain pen. The credit vouchers are good for paymm| to ward the purchase of anew piano or player piano. and address si- Lumber -FROM— Our Own Forest# From the time our Lum ber Jacks start cutting the trees until their appear ance in Marshall towa ia' the form of lumber and mill work, we watch every opportunity to lower the cost of production. As a result we offer you the best materials at the best prices. 'k'- We solicit your patronage No orders tooginali 4 JFI'I® JOYCE LUMBER CO. -m l: 0 •. tt.