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"The FREE" the Now Famous Sewing Machine

SOLD AS LOW AS $1A WEEK

A Newly Invented Sewing Machine Is Now On Sale

30 DAYS TRIAL

The Inventor Mr. Free, Doesn't Want The Low Price Told

Many people have wondered why we have used such enthusiastic language inendorsing that new and "different" sewing machine,The FREE.

Simply because we feel enthusiasts to our finger tips about "The FREE".

Why, we are so convinced about the absolute superiority of "The FREE" over any machine we have ever seen or heard about that we don't even dare tell you the price. It is too

Bus to and from all trains. Phone 52 at P. M. Christensen's Jewelry Store.

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Greeley IVIatual Fire Insurance Company

Why not insure in this Company? They are the most reliable and cheapest Company in existance. Also Wind and Tornado Insurance written.

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VETERINARIAN George Weighton V.S.

Audubon, Iowa

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low. We and Mr. Free both realize that if you were told the price without seeing the machine you would not be able to appreciate the fact that The FREE is the only perfect 20th Century Sewing Machine.

Instead of advertising the price we prefer to make it easy for you to own a "FREE" by offering it at your own terms as low as $1 a week, and above all we would like to have "The FREE" a 30 day trial in your own home. Try this machine—test it—• sew with it on all kinds of material— if you then are not entirely satisfied— if you are not convinced that it is the best machine you have ever sewed on —the most improved—the most up-todate—if the low price does not convince you that this is the '.liggest bargain you have ever bought, return the machine to us and we will refund your deposit so that the trial will not cost you one cent.

Wo know liiat a (rial is the best way to sell The 1"K Iili because we are sure —thai no woman will be witling to eel along without the 8 sets of Ball Bearings, the "Rotuscillu" Movement, the French Leg

A Treat For Your Palate

SWIFTS

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Design, the Shuttle Ejector, the Rotary Spool Pin, Automatic Locking Drawers, Automatic Tension Release, Automatic Thread Controler and Improved Head Latch after enjoying Wieni for 30 days on "The FREE".

SeelheFREE tomorrow

and let us send it right out to your home. Come tomorrow.

P. M. Christensen

For Sale

1280 acres of land near Dickson, Alberta, Cenada. This land iiee in a Danish settlement of 60 families, 2 miles of a Lutheran Church, postoffice and store, best of black

clay sub-soil. I will sell

Foley Kidney Pills take hold of your system and help you to rid yourself of yonr doagging backache, dull headache, nervousness, impaired eyesight and of all the ills resulting from the impaired action of your Kidneys and bladder. Remember it is Foley Kidney Pflls that do this. For sale by all druggists

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DESIGNS

COPYRIGHTS &E.

Anyone Bending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invent ion Is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing putents.

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Scientific American.

A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest clrTerins, $3 a

dilution of any ecientltlo journal. year: four montbs»fL Sold by all newsdealers.

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Nice, Mild, Juicy Delicious Meats and Fresh Fish

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Fine Ice Sold and Delivered Every Day

HELPING FUTURE MANAGERS OF FARM

Educators Everywhere Beginning to Realize That Boys and Girls

of Our Farms Have Been Neglected—Country Children to

Be Given Chance to Study Things Nearest Them.

BY P. C. TAFF.

Extension Department, Iowa State College.

For many years short courses, farmers' Institutes and various other meetuings have been held for the benefit of the farmers and farmers' wives of ev"ery state. This and all other agricultural education has been chiefly directed to the grown-up people. Today educators everywhere are beginning to realize that the boys and girls, who are to be the future managers of our farms, have been neglected. Even their schools have not been of the proper kind and the subjects taught there are anything but inviting to the free and Inquiring minds of farm children. Not a single subject has been taught them which should fit them for their duties of life or which bring them closer to their work. There may be some good reasons why many bright country boys and girls have left the old farm and gone to the more luring life of the cities.

But conditions are rapidly being changed and we can rightly hope that in the near future the country children will at least be given a chance to study the things nearest them and that their education will be as thorough and complete as that of their city cousins. This will ultimately come through the introduction into the schools of the fundamental principles of agriculture and home-making

A Farm Boy Selecting His Show Corn.

and the correlation of this work with the subjects already taught there. This is only justice to our country population, and is by no means a difficult task.

However, it will be several years before many schools take up this redirected education, as it cannot come suddenly. It must come gradually with the conditions and ability of the forces to carry on such work. In the meantime much good can be done through other sources in helping the boys and girls in their farm life. It is to meet this need that the Junior work of the Extension Department is conducted. The work began in the spring of 1909 when about 500 boys and girls agrfeed to carry on an individual ear test with ten ears of corn. Nearly one-half of them purchased the seed they began with from some well known corn breeder in the state. Instructions were sent them throughout the season in testing the seed, planting, cultivating, making records and harvesting the crop. During the short course the following winter nearly all of these young farmers competed for several thousand dollars in premiums offered for the best samples of corn exhibited.

This contest was considered very successful and it was decided to make it an annual feature of the work.

During the season of 1910, the work was broadened to include much more than corn raising. A choice of seven courses was offered to the boys and girls two were In corn growing, one in oat growning, one in garden and potato growing and one each in cooking, sewing and home management. From four to eight lessons were given in each course. The work began with the simplest phases of the subject and became more advanced as the season progressed. Through the efforts of county superintendents and teachers a total of over 7,000 boys and girls enrolled and received instructions in these courses. At the short course last month the second annual contest was held and premiums were offered for the best corn, oats, potatoes, cooking, sewing and home management work. A report of this exhibit will be found elsewhere In this issue.

At the short course a year ago last January the Iowa Junior Agricultural Union was organized among the eighty boys and girls attending. There seemed to be a need for a state organization of this kind to direct and bring together once a year a representative of county and local clubs. The officers are elected from the boys and they are given the complete control of the organization. Last year the membership reached almost 7,000 active members. The purposes of the union are well stated in the constitution and are substantially as follows: 1. To assist in extending the benefits of the agricultural college to the farms boys and girls. 2. To Interest the boys and girls in farm life by outlining courses of study fn farm and home work, encouraging competitive contests, holding junior short courses, and assisting in organizing county and local clubs. 3. To co-operate with other educational associations. 4. To print an annual report.

The annual meeting is held -each year during the short course at Ames. The second annual meeting was held last month. New officers were elected and a business meeting held at which a committee was appointed to revise the constitution. In the revised constitution the committee was instructed to Include as much as possible of the plans and work of the boy scouts, a move which -will give a social and moral as well as an Intellectual interest to the work. This committee was also instructed to select a suitable pin or badge to be worn by the members.

It is expected that thjs organization will be a great help to the local clubs by furnishing instructions and material for their work. The membership will probably double in the next year and a great good will certainly be accomplished when these thousands of boys and girls begin studying the things of interest to them.

The real purpose of this junior education is not so much to teach the boys how to raise bigger crops or the girls how to keep house more economically, but it is to make their life work more pleasant and interesting because of their knowledge of it. Education is said to be the fitting of one's self for his or her life duties. If the farm boys and girls are not given an opportunity to study their business, they will not be educated farmers.— Iowa Agriculturist.

Land as an Insurance.

Good land—and there are millions of acres of it still available in this country at a moderate figure—is the best form of insurance not only for the family in event of your death, but for yourself during life, while you can enjoy it to the full. No better legacy can be left to your children.

TEACHING FARM WORK BY SPECIAL TRAIN

A Crowd of Farmers and School Children at a "Better Farming Special."

The extension department has started another campaign of teaching by special train. An oat train was sent out on the Milwaukee lines during the week beginning March 20. This was in response to the demand for this kind of Instruction which followed the running of an oat train on the same road two years ago. Beginning March 27 a special live stock train was started on the Northwestern lines for three

weeks' work in the state. This train will be devoted largely to hogs, taking up both the raising of the hogs and the cooking of pork products. A special car for the school children is also provided. The following speakers are with the train: Professors R, K. Bliss, A. A. Burger, P. G. Holden A. V. Storm, E. C. Bishop, Miss Neal Knowle8, Miss Gertrude N. Rowan aa.d Miss Helen Watts.

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Lands Of Quality

Don't Repair that Old Roof

For a short time we have decided to offer some of our proven fruit and Winter Vegetable Lands at $50.00 per acre, $1.00 per acre cash with application and $1.00 an aore each month until paid. Ten acre tracts or more and free town lot with each purchase, in town of Monte Christo. Tillable land guaranteed or money returned. Lands ad. joining this now selling for $100 per acre, *3 down. This is your chance to make an investment that will double within a year, and create a competance for old age and a habit of saving and thrift that will be worth much to you in the future. Send for particulars. Agents wanted.

Itischeaperto lay a bran-new, up-for-good Vulcanite roof than to repair or repaint the old one you now have. The same labor that you put forth in painting the old roof will lay a new one of Vulcanite. (Vulcanite is so easy to lay.) The cost of paint or repairs on the old roof will go a long way toward paying for anew »ne of Vulcanite. (Vulcanite is so reasonable in price.) But the one point that is going to enable you to realize a big saving is the absolute perfection of that Vulcanite Woven Roof—the freedom from leak troubles. The ending of necessity to paint to preserve, for

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is surfaced with a deeply imbedded Silex facing that makes painting unnecessary. The surfacing lasts as long as the roof itself, and users who know say, "Vulcanite.?,.. Good for a lifetime." Draw your ,own conclusions.

The dealer whose name you'll find below has roofing infor-, mation that will save you time, money and trouble. It is ^yours for the asking. Or, if you prefer—-write us direct.

PATENT VULCANITE ROOFING CO.

CHICAGO, ILL.

JOHN NELSEN, Exira Distributor

Milado Land Company GEO. E. KELLOGG, Northern Sales Agent, tf Audubon, Iowa.

Clover and timothy seed for sale at the elevator. Clover seed ten and eleven dollarB per buBbel.

Herman Barnholdt,

tf Exira, la.

Mrs. L. W. Hansen's Dress Cut. ting school. We teach theBiug man System also do all kinds of dressmaking'. For further informatian call or address Mrs. L. W. Han. sen 900 Pine St., Atlantic, la. Phone No. Black 411. tf

Store Phone No. 187 Residence Phone 114

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A. O. HARMON

Licensed Embalmer No. 891. Coroner of Audubon County.

WM. F. HOPLEY

Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer

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Instead of Liquid Antiseptics or Peroxide

many people are now using

Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic

The new toilet germicide powder to be dissolved in water as needed. For all toilet and hygienic uses it Is better and more economical. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, remove tartar and prevent decay. To disinfect the mouth, destroy disease germs, and purify the breath. To keep artificial teeth and bridgework clean, odorless To remove nicotine from the teeth and purify the breath after smoking. To eradicate perspiration and body odors by sponge bathing. The best antiseptic wash known. Relieves and strengthens tired, weak, inflamedeyes. Heals sore throat, wounds and cuts. 25 and 50 cts. a box, druggists or by mail postpaid. Sample Free* THE PAXTON TOILET CO.,BOSTON.MAS*.

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Money "to Lo&n with the German Savings Bank. Lowest rates, optional payments. Abstracts promptly furnished. Insurance written by reliable companes.

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Dr. L. J. Oldaker, Dentist. Office, the front rooms over the Christensen Jewelry store. All work lu my line promptly attended to.

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Ed Delahoj-de, Cmmhitr

EXCHANGE BANK

Eanira, Iowa.

Collection* promptly nttondod to. Mono? to loan on good Mcnrttloa. Bxchaogo bought nnd (old.

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