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II II I Ml 1 1l DllllllliniMillMlllUll Breckinridge County Fair, Races and Home-Coming JULY 25, 26, 27, 28, 1916 i I vt-j M W K5 W FT Tfo 7te TZATTAtti V 1 Reorganized on a Broad and Liberal Basis. No Gambling Devices, Intoxicants or Immoral Shows Tolerated. PRv .. U I'vervthiiiK CLEAN and UNOBJECTIONABLE vour friends, with surroundings that will appeal to the S Plenty of' Good Races, Stock Shows and Free -Attrac better elements of the community. S tions to Entertain and Interest the people. The atmo- xhe Cleaner the Fair, The Bigger the Crowds," $ sphere will he distinctlv "Wholesome." is the established policy of every fair managed by Judge H First .Dav Free for All School Children of Breck- ive"8, .. ... t . . Hf. -i f; .i ii nvw AO viirs nf mre Abundance of Good Ice Water at convenient points inndge County and all over 60 -cars of age. ( grounds, FREE TO ALL and ALL the $! V.,.. ., .'11 uiilnv otfumliinr tins Knir mul moetirnr I TIME. i u u in uiix.iixiiut, - a i ' jfj For further information address J. P. 0'REILLEY, Secy., Hardinsburff, Ky. or C. C. G1VENS, Gen. Mgr. Henderson, Ky. P. S. Preference given in every instance to local peo ple desiring legitimate concessions. BEST PAID ARE NOW ASKING FORJJIGHER PAY Government Officials Fail to Find Justice in Demands of Train Service Employees. Ily .IiiiUuii ('. Welllvrr in tin- Viililnzton Administrative ami legislative au thorities in WashiiiRlon are taking a distinctly (lilTertnt views of the present No demand is being urged on behalf of the operators nml dispatchers, anil wine of the railroails have lately been intimating vigorously that if a big addi tional burden must be laid on their labor I funds they would like to give the bene fit to the poorer paid classes of employes. ' The truth of the whole business is that, as a whole, the railroad employes of the country are not very highly paid as compared to other people A few classes of railroad men are paid very high wages. The most fortunate of all these classes are the engineers, firemen, conductors and brakemeii Kate Ulslug Rapidly. Not only are these lour classes paid much more liberally than other em ployes, but the figures show that their rate of wages has been rising more rap (Tort of railwnv trainmen to compel an . idly than that of any other classes. advancement in their wages, from any In 19I4 tlie Interstate Commerce Cotn tliat has been taken on former occasions, mission's report showed the number of It is very apparent the case for the employes seeking higher wages is view ed with less amiability than ordinarily. In legislative circles there has recently been serious talk of legislation to pro- railroad employes for the entire country to be 1, 710,296 Out of this number there were o'.'.ojl engineers, 64,959 fire men, 4S,2ui conductors, and 136,809 other trainmen; a total of 511,990, or liil.it strikes by employes of interstate J"- anout one-sixiu 01 uic entire mini carriers, and to provide a procedure for her riutmiiUnrv Mrbltr.iliiiii. ! At that same date, the number of The impression has gained a good deal trackmen, exclusive of foremen, was of ground, that certain faxorevl classes 337.4"n. That is, the number of com employes have for a long time been t " laborers 011 the section was greater systematically aggregating to themselves ' than the entire roll of engineers, firemen, mo,t of the increase in wages. j conductors, and brakemen. Vit this 1 huge army of trackmen was working for Highest Paid Class of Men. J a nvera(,e ()f . , sS pcr iay On behalf of the enginemeii and train- eui,t.ers ut.re getting 5 20, firemen men who are making the demand for a were getting S2.I3. conductors were get large wage increase, it is urged that the ting $4-39. anil other trainmen were get higher cost of living justifies their de- ( tjK $3.o4 TleL. fiKUres are the.com maud Yet these men, the engineers, mission's averages for the entire country firemen, conductors and brakemen. are ; the highest paid classes of railroad labor. Condition bettered. The question being asked why an engi- Largely because they are the best or neer getting an average wage in 1913 of ganted classes of railway workers and 5.2o, should require an increase, while have been unremitting in their demands trackmen who were getting il 58 per for better wages, these four classes have day, should be left out? succeeded in bettering their condition Again, the average wage of conductors rapidly and regularly, at the expense of in 1913 is shown by the statistics of the the other classes, which are not so high Interstate Commerce Commission to ly organized have been I 39 per day. At the same The trainmen, whenever thev insist on time, telegraph operators and dispatch- a wage increase, have, on their side, the I ers were getting an average wage of tremendously potent argument that if' 2 !i2 per day. they don't get what they ask, they can' If the increased cost of living for the walk out and tie up the whole rai road ' At 39 conductor necessitates a large in system No other class of employes I crease in his compensation, where does could do this, because no other is so in-' i.ie 2 S'i dispatcher come in' st.intly indispensable RENEWED TESTIMONY No one in Cloverport who suffers backache, headache, or distressing urin ary ills can afford to iguor this grateful man's twice-told story. It is confirmed testimony that no Cloverport resident can doubt. O. T Fitzgerald, grocer, 142 1 I'ifth street, Owcnsboro, Ky , says: "My back was very lame and I had dull pains across my loins. I had a too frequent desire to pass the kidney secretions. I felt depressed, had no. energy and my head ached. Doan's Kidney Tills gave me immediate relief." Over four years later, Mr. Fitzgerald said: "I have had no occasion to use Doan's Kidney Fills since they benefited me." Frice 50c, at all dealers Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Fills the same that .Mr Fitgernld has twice publicly recom mended. Foster-Milbiirn Co , Frops , lluffalo, X V. from No. 4. L iW WHEN n "buyer" for an out of town re tail htoro lands in Now York on his spring or fall buying trip his trou bles begin. Jt requires nil his shrewdness and alertness to avoid the many freakish styles offered him and the many tempta tions to buy inferior merchandise which ho can sell at a larger profit with which ho is confronted. TAKE OUR OWN MERCHANTS HERE IN TOWN, FOR EXAMPLE. WHEN THEY LEAVE ON THEIR BUYING TRIPS THEY TAKE WITH THEM A PRETTY INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WANTS AND DISLIKES OF THE PEOPLE OF OUR COMMUNITY. They know that, while our women demand the very newest of every thing, they look unkindly on "freakish," crazy styles. They know also that wo want merchandise whoso quality wo can pin our faith to. , WHEN THE STOCKS FINALLY ARRIVE IN THE STORES AND ARE PLACED ON DISPLAY THEY HAVE EVERY REASON TO BE PROUD OF THEM, AND SO HAVE WE SHOPPERS. THE BEAUTIFUL, SENSIBLE AND PRACTICAL STYLES ARE A DELICATE COMPLIMENT TO OUR GOOD TASTE IN STYLE MATTERS. The average shopper doesn't appreciate tho enormous amount of work entailed in getting together a stock nf merchandise that will be just right. Ucsides tho many laborious weeks in tho wholesale markets men tioned above, there are tho lay and nights spent in unpacking tho mer chandise when it finally arrives, porting it and marking prices and then displaying it on counters, shelves and racks in attractive fashion. AND ALL THESE THINGS, JUST THINK, ARE FOR YOUR BENEFIT, SO THAT YOU MAY GET THE NEWEST IDEAS IN ALL LINES OF MER CHANDISE ALMOST AS SOON AS THEY COME OUT, AND ALSO THAT YOU MAY DO YOUR SHOPPING EASILY AND COMFORTABLYI MRS. 8HREWD 8H0PPER. How effectively the four favored classes have used their power is shown by the cold figures. In the ten years from 1903 to 19I2, inclusive, the salaries of general officers increased an average of 17 per cent. 9 In that same ten-year period the sal aries of engineers increased 24 per cent. During those same ten years the wages of general office clerks increased 13 percent, while the wages of firemen increased 3S per cent. During those same ten years the tele graph operators and dispatchers in creased 14 per cent, while those of train men other than conductors increased 36 per cent. Impressive Statement Here is an impressive statement of fact about railway wages that ought not to escape attention. There were a total of 37,873 employes classified as switch tenders, crossing tenders, and watch men. These were receiving in 1912 an average of $1.70 per day, which was actually 6 cents a di'y less than they had been receiving ten years earlier. At that time there were 48,301 con ductors with whom the statistics dealt. The conductors, therefore, were only a slightly more numerous class than the tenders and watchmen; yet, while the conductors had their wages raised from 3 3S to 54.29 per day, the less fortunate class of tenders and watchmen had to stand a reduction from l 76 to $1.70 per day. If the cost of living has been steadily advancing for conductors, so as to justify an increase of 27 per cent in their wages, it seems difficult to explain why that same cost of ljving should have fallen sufficiently to warrant a decrease of 3 per cent in the wages of switch tenders, crossing tenders, and watch men. 1 Take the single classification of gen eral office clerks. There were 87,106 of these according to the official report. A much larger number than of either engineers, firemen, or conductors. These general office clerks were paid an average of $2 21 per day ill 1903, and of $2.50 in 1912; an increase of only 13 per cent in the ten-year period. General office clerks, without excep tion, are compelled to live in cities, where the cost of living is high. Engineers Better Off. Engineers, 011 the other hand, are dis tributed between large towns and small towns; on the average, their living cir cutnstaiiccs ought to make their expenses average considerably less than those of office clerks, vet the statistics show that engineers have received in the ten-years period an increase of 24 per cent in their wages, making them average exactly $5 per day, while general office clerks have received an increase of only 13 per cent, making them average 52.50 per day One of the worst underpaid classifica tions of railway employes is that of the station agents. There are just about 40,000 of these in the country, or nearly as many as the number of conductors. In 1903 station agents averaged $1.80 a day, and in I9I2 they had been raised to ouly $2. 20 a day, while in that same time conductors had advanced .3 38 to 4.2o. That is, the station ngent in I912 was getting just about half the wages of the e inductor, and in ten years he had had an 'average in increase of 17 percent, while the conductor's increase had been 27 per cent Here are two of the most numerous classes of railway employes: Trainmen, other than engineers, firemen, and con ductors, numbered 137,809, while track men numbered 337,411. The statistics show that the trackmen were getting in 1903 an average of ?i 31 per day, ami in 1912 an average of 14 per cent What Others (jot. On the other hand, the classification of other trainmen was getting in 1913 :?.l7 per day, and in 19I2, $2 90 per day, an increase of 36 per cent In percent age, this is the largest advance received by any single class of railway employes during this decade. A general survey of wage conditions in the railway service and in other in dustries, it is believed, would show that in the last fifteen years the highly or ganized and favored classes of railway wage erners have had their incomes in creased more thin ulmost any other class of workers in the country, while the much more numerous, but less effective ly organized classes of railway workers have probably received rather less in crease than other industrial workers in general. In view of the strong feeling that these most fortunate classes of the railway em ployes are now making excessive and unreasonable demands, attention is now being called as never before to these general discrepancies There is a strong disposition to inaugurate a gen eral and sweeping investigation of the whole question of railway wages with a view of establishing some sort of public regulation not unlike that already ap plied to railroad rates, in the interest of employes and public alike MeaiAvhile, there is a marked indisposition to ex tend further favors to those classes al ready most highly favored, at the ex pense of other classes of employes who appear to be getting very low wages Whooping Cough. One of the most successful prepira tions In use for this disease in Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. S. V. Mc Clinton, I'landon Springs, Ala., writes, "Our babv had whooping cough as bad as most any baby could have it. i gave him Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and it soon got him well." Obtainable everywhere. Dinner for Students of Vanderbilt University. A dinner of former students of Van derbilt University will be held in Louis ville on the evening of Saturday, Slay 27, which is Founder's Day at the Uni versity. It is announced that invitations are being issued to all Vailderbilt uien in Kentucky, and that similar dinners will be held at the same hour in many other states. Dr. J. H. Stevenson, Frofessor in the School of Religion at Vailderbilt University, will be the prin cipal speaker. The officers of the Louis ville Alumni Association are Allen R. Carter, 955 Fourth Ave., president, and Robert F Vaughn, attorney, Inter Southern Building, secretary. Our Grandfathers drenched horses for colic. That was the old way which was uncertain aud unsafe. Farris' Colic Remedy does away with drenching is applied on the horse's tongue with a dropper which comes packed in each bottle. (Jet it today. We Guarantee it. Wedding's Drug Store. Buys Sheep and Lambs. Messrs Arthur Heard aud Howard Hook, 'of Qardinsburg, were in Hawes ville several days last week buying sheep aud lambs. They purchased 70 head from Gus Zuelly, administrator of the late Jesse Adams, for f 600. Punishing Villi Is much like cooking the traditional ta'bblt. liaVGII I I UU UCCII LAjJCUUIiy IU Oldl I A Bank Account-Been Trying To Save Enough to '"Make a Good Start" Any start is a good start; a small account is suffi cient, if you wait for a large sum you may never start. Don't wait, begin now by depositing what you have. Your account small or large is solicited. Farmers Bank Hardinsburg, Ky. Not the Oldest Bank nor the Big gest Bank, but a Growing Bank. FOR SALE -DUR0C8 Ten yearling Gilts, bred for Au gust and .September farrow, 25 fall open Gilts, 3 yearl.ng Boars, Spring Pigs, either sex, pairs or trios mated up; no akin. If you want the big easy feeding kind these will suit you G. F MAYSEY HARDINSBURG, KY., Route No. 2. June Woman's Home Companion The Bride's Number An Unusally Attractive Number Containing Many Short Stories That Deal with Brides. Special Articles: "The Lover and His Lass" "Mother Joins the Firm" "The Woman Motorist" "Better Babies" Fashions Discussed by Grace M. Gould. A Section for Young Readers Our "Want Ads." do the Work v