Boost for every new improvement, Boost the man for whom you labor, Boost the stranger and the neighbor. Cease to be a chronic knocker. Cease to be a progress blocker; If you've made your city better. Boost it to the final letter. —National Hardware Bulletin readers. ASK MURDOCK HE KNOWS RAILWAYS EARN LESS, OPERATING COSTS LESS Washington, Feb. 26.—Net operating incomes of railroads in the United States, sums available for interest, dividends, rentals and surplus of the corporations owning the property, amounted for 1921 to $615,625,619, according to compilations made for and issued today by the association of railway executives. This was computed by the association to represent returns of 3.3 percent on the tentatire valuation fixed upon all railroad property by the interstate commerce commission and covered reports from all of the 201 class 1 railroads which operate the greatest proportion of American railway mileage. For December, 1921, the net operating income of the roads, not considering returns of the Detroit, Toledo & Iron Mountain, was $51,510,478, estimated to represent an average rate of 3.44 percent on the aggregate capital, 1921 was given as $5,569,888,000 or 19.6 percent less than the total for 1920, and total operating expenses were $4,602,426,000, a decrease of 21.1 percent. Chamberlain's Tablets For Indigestion and Constipation.  "The nicest and pleasantest medicine I have used for indigestion and constipation is Chamberlain's Tablets." writes Melard F. Craig, Middle Grove, N.Y. They work like a charm and do not gripe or leave any unpleasant effect.

Notice Knights of Templar
The meeting of Commandery No. 3, called for this (Monday) evening, has been postponed until further notice. 