The Semi-Weekly Advocate du lieu suivant : Belleville, Illinois • 5

J. FINK. C. R. McAFEE.

A Announcement We are now offering to the people of St. Clair County the best TEXAS LAND PROPOSITION on the market today. We bought several large ranches in the PANHANDLE of TEXAS several years ago and therefore bought at the lowest prices. We now offer these lands for sale in any size tract from 80 acres up at prices ranging from $15 to $20 per acre and on the very hest of terms. You will save several dollars on each acre bought from us by reason of our having bought in large tracts and subdividing now and selling direct to you thereby saving the Agent's commission.

The TEXAS PANHANDLE is improving very fast and it is only a question of a few more years until the land will double in price and the sooner you buy a home in TEXAS the better off you will be. You raise the same crops there as in St. Clair County and especially is it adapted to the growing of wheat. No. better investment can be made in lands than in the Panhandle.

The health and climate are ideal and the soil is very productive. Our lands are from 5 to 12 miles from Canyon City, Randall County, which place is the location of the new STATE NORMAL now building and this feature should appeal to those who have children to educate. Mr. C. R.

McAfee will go down to Texas this excursion with several Homeseekers and we will be glad to have others go. For this EXCURSION we offer you a free trip if you purchase as much as 160 acres of our land. WE FURTHER AGREE that it any person going with us to the Panhandle finds upon investigation that we have misrepresented the country or our land to him we will refund his expenses of the trip. This ought to be fair to all concerned. If you are interested in this matter write us or better still come into see us and talk the matter over fully.

REMEMBER THE DATE OF THE NEXT EXCURSION IS FEBRUARY 1ST. Fink McAfee, PENN BUILDING. BELLEVILLE. ILLINOIS LIST OF CANDIDATES IN ADVOCATE CONTEST. (Continued from Page 1.) districts mentioned in the two page announcement yesterday and desire to enter the great contestand win one of the 16 prizes see that your name is at once sent to the Contest Manager of the Belleville Advocate.

Cut out the nomination blank which will be found in each issue of the Advocate, fill in the blank line with your name and, address, then don't stop until you have either dropped it into the mail or have brought it in person to the Contest Department, in the office of the Advocate. This nomination blank will give you 1,000 votes an excellent start toward winning your prize. WHAT TO DO NEXT. As soon as your name is entered, go at once among your friends and tell them you are in the race, and in to win. Ask them to give you their subscriptions (prepaid) to The Advocate, and to allow you to send these subscriptions in at once.

Tell them that you will be allowed no votes on less than 8 three months' subscription, but also tell them that the longer the term of the subscription the more votes you will be allowed therefor. They have to have the Advocate anyway, and you may as well have the votes which their subscriptions will give you. "As soon as you have secured one subscription, don't stop, but go after another, then another, then another. Don't let your friends forget that you are in the race, and before a great while you will have them working for you just the same as if they, too, were in the race. Any time you are in doubt as to any of the governing the contest don't to ring up the Advocate and ask for the Contest Manager.

question will be answered cheerfully and promptly. INSTRUCTIONS FOR VOTING. It should be understood that persons living in one district are not confined to voting for dates in that particular district, but may vote for any candidate in the If: you are not a subscriber of the Advocate, and wish to become one, you need not wait for your favorite candidate to ask you for your subscription, but PAGE FIVE. Miss Louisa Rodemeyer 1000 Miss Emma Badgley, .1000 Miss Amy E. Baeumer .....1000 Miss Mae Bahrenburg 1000 Miss Edna Bischof .1000 Miss Marie Storch .1000 Miss Otilla Claus .1000 Miss Marguerite Hallam ...1000 Miss Amelia V.

Ehinger .1000 Miss Clara (Klemme .1000 Miss Hermina Moeller .1000 Miss Anita Wattowa .1000 Miss Marcella White .......1000 Miss Anita Thiess ..1000 Miss Adele Schipke 1000 Miss Bertha Sattig .1000 Miss Edna Rentchler .1000 Miss Cornelia Knoebel ...1000 Dr. Aurelia Puderer .1000 Miss Aurelia Plegge .1000 Miss Kate Phillips .1000 Miss Irma Pfuhl ..1000 Miss Marie Krebs Miss Lillian Boul ...1000 Miss Edna Klawonn ........1000 Miss Stella Hertel Miss Julia Beck Miss Mary Beck .1000 Miss Paula R. Rieser .1000 Miss Laura C. Boul 1000 Miss Augusta Rhein .1000 liss Augusta Graner Miss May Isselhardt ...1000 Miss Anita Sterthman Miss Lillian Feitsam .1035 Miss Blanche A. Sattler.

1000 Miss Olivia Steudle .1000 Miss Cornelia Keil .1000 Miss Frieda Merck .1000 Mrs. Hubert Schaumleffel. Miss Virginia Krebs 1000 Miss Cornelia Knoebel .1000 Miss Brichler .1000 Miss Nehring 1000 Miss Emma Glueck 1000 Mrs. George Forestner 1000 Mrs. Oscar Liese 1000 Miss Marguerite Merck 1000 Miss Blanche Merker Miss Lorena Merker .....1000 Miss Eugenia F.

Baker ...1000 Miss Stella Hough 1000 Miss Martha W. Fischer ..1000 Miss Amanda V. Sunkel ...1000 Miss Emma Fuchs 1000 Miss Jennie King Miss Hilda Mertz ...1000 Miss Jessie Carson .1000 Miss Madeline Davis ..1000 Miss Tillie Hartman .1000 Miss Alice Miller 1000 Clemmie Scheibel 1000 DISTRICT NO. 3. Mrs.

George Miss Minnie Frieda Miss Maud Miss Anna Mrs. Bertha Miss Pulia Miss Grace Miss Maude Miss Alice Miss Stella Miss Emma Esther Miss Lizzie Miss Augusta Margaret Miss Mabel Miss Hilda Miss Ollie F. Butts .1000 Graybill 1000 Diehl 1000 Miller 1000 Priester 1000 Oexner 1000 Thress. ..3500 Wildermann 1000 Wildermann .1000 Ripley .1000 Miller .1000 Seibert .1000 Helms ..1000 Mitchell .1000 Seibert 1000 Thomas Mitchell ...1000 Goetz ...1000 Thomas .1000 TAKEN I0 CHESTER PENITENTIARY. Sheriff Charles Cashel took James Pullman and Charles Miller to the Chester penitentiary Friday morning.

Pullman will serve a life term for the crime of infanticide and Miller will begin an indeterminate term of from one to twenty years on a charge of forgery. United Press Message. Effingham, Jan. train No. 14 from St.

Louis to New York was wrecked early' today near here. Three cars were thrown off the track by a broken rail and three persons were injured. Regular services were held at the First M. E. church.

The pastor preached in the morning on "What We Are and What We Will Be." Taking tor his text 1st John 3:2. In the evening he preached on "Being Alone With God," his text being Ezekial 3:22. FIVE ADJUDGED INSAN Lizzie Rees, Anna Deibel, Veit Bruen, Ludwig Sohler and Joseph Haas, all inmates of the county farm, were adjudged insane at session of the county court held at the county farm. The commission was composed of Dre. West and.

Hilgard. ERLINGER-STEVENSON ENGAGEMENT. engagement of Hiss Josephine B. Erlinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Erlinger, of 308 West.

A street, and Lloyd Stevenson, of Springfield, Illinois, has been announced. The wedding will take place within a short time. UNIFORM LAWS ARE NOW HELD NECESSARY Seth Low Says Standardization of State Laws Is Imperative at Convention at Capitol United Press Message. Washington, D. Jan.

Distinguished men from practically every state in the Union are here today to attend the conference State Laws called by the National Civic Federation which betoday; the Governors' Congress which begins tomorrow, and the National Association of Uniform State Laws Commissioners, who now in session. President Taft delivered an address at the opensession today. Seth Low, of New York, who is president of the Association for Uniform Laws, and Judge Alton B. Parker, were the other speakers. Washington, D.

Taft's special message on the Conservation of natural resources was sent to Congress today. He urges immediate action on the Taft-Bal-ers: linger conservation program waiting the outcome of the congressional investigation into the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy ready begun by Congress. He recommends legislation for conservation of public lands. the invalidating of the withdrawal from entry of certain public lands the Secretary of the Interior, under supervisory powers; detailed classification of public lands according to their use; disposition of agricultural, mineral and other natural resources of the same publands separately; the rapid completion of the reclamation projects under way, and a $30,000,000 bond issue to finish and extend these these projects. He also recommends the extension of the activity of the forest service and the carrying out of an extensive program of inland waterway improvements.

Bills. framed Ballinger embodying most of these ideas are now ready for introduction in congress. The president discussed the plan improve the Mississippi River from St. Paul to St. Louis to a constant depth of 6 feet and from St.

Louis to Cairo to a constant depth 8 feet; the Missouri from Kansas City to St. Louis to a constant depth of 6 feet. These improvements, he said, have been pronounced practicable by competent boards of engineers, and urges the present congress to include in the river and harbor bill, provisions for continuing contracts for the completion. He urges the rapid completion of 50 dams in the Ohio River from Pittsburg to Cairo which he believes can be done in 12 years. MURDERS SEEK PARDONS.

The Illinois State Board of Pardons has taken under advisement the petition of Albert Whitesides, who was convicted in this of murder and is now doing time in Chester. The cases of Samuel Parsons and Lulu Lay, convicted on charges of murder, have been continued. MARRIED IN ST. LOUIS. Miss Josie Martin and Steven Lisch, of Belleville, went to St.

Louis Thursday and were married, returning home Friday. Other licenses issued in St. Louis yesterday were to Miss Nora Jones and Charles Schmidt, of Lebanon, and Magdalena Winter, of Lenzburg, and Emil Sauerwein, of Marissa, Ill. WHERE ARE CHILDREN? Superintendent Hill of the ty farm is trying to locate the children of Frank Crable, who died at the county hospital Thursday. LECTURES ON SOCIALISM MiNe Anna S.

Swanson, a Chicago working girl, delivered an address on "Socialism" at Wondervolk's hall, A and Spring streets, Sunday to It small audience of evening working men. TONY STUCKER IS DEPUTY SHERIFF- Tony Stocker, formerly superintendent of the Bertillion system of the East St. Louis police department, and who recently resigned the position, has been appointed on Sheriff Cashel's force in East St. Louis. He will succeed Mike B.

Haggerty, who resigned to go into business. MRS. ADELE POWELL DIES IN FRISCO Word was received here Saturday night of the death last Saturday night at her home in San Francisco, California, of Mrs. Adele Powell, wife of Claude Powell, formerly of St. Louis.

Mrs. Powell was a daughter of the late Sheriff Al Dawson of St. Clair county, and for a number of years made her home in Belleville. Her death was due to pneumonia. Her mother, Mrs.

Emma Dawson, resides in Louisville, Kentucky, and the funeral will be held in that city with interment in Cave Hill cemetery. Mrs. Powell was about 30 years of age and is survived by her husband but no children. REV. SCHNATHORS HAS RESIGNED The trustees of Christ church congregation of West Belleville Sunday elected the following officPresident, Fred Kock; secretary, Otto R.

Hauck, treasurer, F. Wisenborn; building committee, F. Seibel, Phillip Herbert and John Biehl. Rev. J.

W. Schnathorst, who has served the congregation for several years, has resigned and the congregation is now seeking a new minister. On next Sunday Rev. C. F.

Knicker of Granite City, will deliver a trial sermon and on the following Sunday Rev. F. J. Klick will occupy the pulpit. COOPER TRIAL IN SOUTH POSTPONED BY AGREEMENT should send in your subscription at once to the Contest Department, naming candidate for whom you wish to vote.

Don't fail, however, to accompany your subscription by the amount covering it, as votes are allowed only on prepaid subscriptions. If you have no favorite among the contestants, nominate one, or, better still, nominate yourself. You understand, of course, that you may vote for yourself. Watch for our advertisements and write-ups in the Advocate every day. We shall always have something to say to you about the contest, and you should not fail to read every word of it.

It may be of the highest importance to you. Above all things, either nominate yourself or a friend. It may be the means of laying the foundation of a fortune for your candidate. CONTEST TO CLOSE MARCH Y. It must be understood that, in case of a tie between two or more contestants for any one of the prizes, each tieing contestant will receive a prize equal in value to the one tied for.

The Contest Department will main open evenings, in order that! no contestant may have an age over another. The contest positively will close at ten o'clock, March 7, 1910. DISTRICT NO. 1. Miss Rosalia Hagerling .1000 Miss Marguerite Craemer ...1000 Miss Amelia Daubach ..1000 Miss Anna Daubach 1000 Miss Ella Burekhardt ...1000 Miss Isabelle E.

Lebkuecher. Miss Bertha E. Grossmann. 1000 Miss Alice Hughes .1000 Miss Maud A. Underwood .1000 Miss Ella M.

Spies .1000 Miss Augusta Thebus .1000 Miss Clara Sahlender .1000 Miss Josephine Hefti 1000 Miss Anna L. Glaser 1000 Miss Eleanor F. Glaser .1000 1000 Miss Elsie Adler .1000 Miss Lucy Chuse 1000 Miss Mabel Pope .1000 Miss Louise Honer .1000 Mrs. George Kloess 1000 Miss Mamie Fussner 1000 Miss Lulu Geil .1000 Miss Mary Braun .1000 Miss Emma Breunfleck .1000 1000 Miss Bertha Boettcher .....1000 Miss Minnie Fuhrmann .1000 Miss Mary Fuhrmann .1000 Miss Lena Abegg 1000 Miss Lizzie Abegg .1000 Miss Emma Agne .1000 Miss Ann Albrecht .1000 Miss Mada Armbruster .1000 Miss Ida Krug .1000 Miss Frances Middlecoff .1000 Miss Elsie Schaeffler. .1000 Miss Elizabeth Schifferdecker.

1000 DISTRICT NO. 2. Miss Sadie Soukup 1000 Miss Jessie O. .1000 Miss Alma K. Ehret .1000 Miss Miss Fulda Scroeder Reichert ..1000 Georgia Miss Agnes Mace ...1000 Miss Gladys Leresche .1000 Miss Posey E.

Woelk 1000 Miss Estella M. Smith .....1000 Miss Annie Emory .1000 Miss Gertrude E. Cook 1000 Miss Anna G. Brethauer ...1000 Miss Louise W. Brethauer Miss Josephine Brockhan .1000 Miss Amelia R.

Brown .1000 Miss Elcy Browning .1000 Miss Anna M. Buser .1000 Miss Anna E. Butler .1000 Miss Ottilia Claus 1000 Miss Hattie DeGough 1000 Miss Olivia Demette 1000 Miss Bessie Ehret 1000 Miss Camila Guentz .1000 Miss Odelia Gundlach .1000 Miss Elva Guy .1000 Mrs. Hugo Helmerich .1000 Miss Lydia Huth. .1000 Miss Florence La Turno .1000 Miss Josephine Baker 1000 Miss Hermine Dabschutz 1000 Miss Emma C.

Fink .1000 Miss Gladys Starkel ..1000 Miss Flossie J. Dew .1000 Miss Estella Rebhan 1000 Miss Tillie Ammel .1000 Miss Emma Eimer .1000 Miss Eugenia Elmer .1000 Miss Edith C. Stroh 1000 Miss Matilda Haas ..1000 Miss Helen L. Jones 1000 Miss Wanda Heinrich .1000 Miss Elsa Stolberg 1000 Miss Lillie Stoll 1000 Miss Henrietta Baurichter .1000 Miss Hortense Brosius 1000 Miss Freda A. Rauch 1000 Miss Virginia Winkelmann.

.1000 Miss Daisy Gilbert 1000 Mins Lilly Dobschutz .1000 Miss Johanna Rhein .1000 Miss Virginia Harrison Mrs. I. M. Dittoe .1000 Mrs. Harry A.

Lederer Miss Viola Opp 1000 Miss Cecelia Winter .1000 Miss Meta Leopold. .1000 Miss Joan Fleischbein 1000 Miss Jane Muller 1000 Mrs. Elmer Wangelin ...1000 United Press, Message. Nashville, Jan. the request of Judge J.

M. Anderson, counsel for the defense, and with the consent of Attorney General Cates, the case of the State vs. Duncan Cooper, and his son, Robert J. Cooper, was today postponed from January 25 to February 1st. The Coopers are charged with the murder of Senator E.

W. Carmack, November 9, 1908. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. them examined and accurately fitted with the proper glasses. Satisfaction guaranteed.

WALTER I. GROB, Graduate Optician. 210 East Main Street. DO NOT neglet your eyes- have Marriage Licenses AT BELLEVILLE. Charles Eckel, 40, New Memphis, Prellellie Stevens, 18, Okawville, Charles Trainer, 30, Venice, Ill.

Mary Miller, 22.... East St. Louis Phillip Becker, 21... Belleville Myrtle Boden, 18...... Otto Kramer, 31...

Louis Emma Gieber, 20... Louis 14K and 18K Wedding Rings WALTER I. GROB, Jeweler, 210 East Main Street. State Senator Sherman Hamilton, of Marissa, was in Belleville Monday. United Press Message.

New York. Jan. Heike, secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company, and five checkers, indicted jointly with him, for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government, appeared before Judge Hough to plead guilty on indietment today. Their counsel obtained an adjournment for one week. Heike was released under $5,000 bond and his associates in $3,000 each.

Rupture QUICKLY AND PERMANENTLY pain. CURED Without cutting or No detention from basiness. 18 Years Located in St. Leuis CONSULTATION PRESS. Hours 10-4.

and Sunday, 10-18 W. A. LEWIN, D. Star Olive Sta, Boule 12ty.