8 Historical state Advertising is not medicine to be taken in time of distress; it is nourishment and should be taken regularly. The Weekly VOLUME XXIII. MARSHALL, SALINE COUNTY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1917. NUMBER 3 F. L.
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Abstracts, Insurance, Farm Loans and Real Estate We make long form abstracts, write farm, automobile and all other forms of insurance, execute administrator's bonds the day letters are granted. We write bonds of all kinds. We have farms and orher property listed for sale or trade in Missouri and adjoining states. Bank of Saline Building Marshall, Missouri Saline WAR TALKS By UNCLE DAN Number Two Jimmie Collins Telis What He SawWhat Military Training Does for Boys. "Well, here we are!" exclaimed Billie, presenting his chum, Jimmie Collins.
"Very glad to see you, Mr. Collins," said Uncle Dan with a smile. "Aw," said Billie, "Just call him Jimmie. That's the only name he knows. He's the pitcher of our baseball nine, and he's some pitcher, too.
Just feel of his arm." "Well," said Uncle Dan, feeling, "That's mighty good arm!" "Now, boys," said Uncle Dan, "what en do you want to talk "Well," said Jimmie, "I was down to Galesburg a few months ago when the boys came home from the Mexican border. They looked fine. Everybody surprised to see how straight they stood and how manly they were. The boys seemed proud to wear the uniform. I tell you their muscles were as hard as nails.
I heard Banker Haskett say that the training and discipline the boys had had was exactly what every boy in the country ought to have, and that now these boys could get a better job at higher pay than they could have had before. Do you think that's so, Uncle Dan?" Uncle Dun replied: "I have a friend who employs hundreds of young men. He always gives boys having had military training the, preference; he says it pays to do so. He they are more alert, more prompt, more courteous; they know how to carry out orders; they are quicker to think and to act than those without training. He said from his experience he belleved that six or eight months of intensive military training would add at least 20 per cent to a man's AFTER FIVE MONTHS.
The two pictures are of the same young man. The first was taken the day he enlisted and the second after he had had five months' military training. His home is In North Carolina. earning capacity, and that it was the best investment any young man could make. "Billie, if you will go up to my room and bring my small handbag, I will let you see, two photographs of the same young man, showing what only five months of intensive training on the Mexican border did for him." The bag was brought.
Uncle Dan, showing the pictures, said: "Well, here they are. They tell their own story and it is a mighty interesting one. The young man, before training, has a discouraged look; he has seen but little of the world. There was very little in his surroundings to bring him out. When he joined the colors and Uncle Sam took him in charge, life for him took on a new meaning.
He saw a chance to do something and be something. He woke up. His captain says he is twice the man he was when he joined the army. This may be one of the extreme cases," said Uncle Dan. "I can tell you, though, that war or no war, no one thing will do the young men of this nation so much good in so short a time as a few months of intensive military training.
It fits a man to fight his own life battles. in the business world as well as to defend his country and its flag. "Nearly every civilized country gives Its boys military It is compulsory. It is based upon the fact that It is the duty of everyone to help defend his country; and as war is now carried on, no one can do much unless he is trained. Also, the records show that the killed and wounded among untrained troops is nearly three times as great as it is with well-trained men who know how to fight and how to protect themselves.
By this plan a nation has trained men to defend her and the individual is a stronger and better man for the training. "If the Chamberlain Bill for Milltary Training is passed by congress, as it ought to be, the same thing would be done for millions of other young men throughout the land. Everybody ought to demand of his congressman and senators the passage of this b111." "All right, sir, exclaimed Jimmie, we will see Judge Brownell, Mr. Haskett, and Professor Slocum, and get them busy." SAVE THE FOOD, WILSON URGES President Appeals to Homes and Eat. ing Places Throughout Country to Conserve Supplies.
Washington, Oct. Wilson, in a statement issued today, urged every home and public eating place in the United States to pledge its support to administration and to comply with its His appeal marked the inauguration of "Family Enrollment Week," during which everybody in the country will be asked to become a member of the food administration in order to insure nationwide co-operation in food. conservation. The President said that in no other way than through this co-operation of the people can the Nation accomplish its object in the war. The statement follows: "The chief part of the burden of finding food supplies for the peoples associated with us in war falls for the present upon the American people, and the drain upon supplies on such a scale necessarily affects the prices of our necessaries of life.
"Our country, however, is blessed with an abundance of foodstuffs, and if our people will economize in their use of food, providently confining themselves to the quantities required for the maintenance of health and strength; if they will eliminate waste; and if they will make use of commodities of which we have a surplus and thus free for export a larger proportion of those required by the world now dependent upon us, we shall not only be able to accomplish our obligations to them, but we shall obtain and establish reasonable prices at home. To provide an adequate supply of food both for our own soldiers on the other side of the seas and for the civil populations and the armies of the Allies is one of our first and foremost obligations; for if we are to maintain their constancy in this struggle for the independence of all nations, we must first maintain their health and strength. The solution of our food problems, therefore, is dependent upon the individual service of every man, woman and child in the United States. The great voluntary effort in this direction which has been initiated and organized by the food administration under my direction offers an opportunity of service in the war which is open to every individual and by which every individual may serve both his own people and peoples of the world. "We cannot accomplish our objects in this great war without sacrifice and devotion, and in no direction can that sacrifice and devotion be shown more than by each home and public eating in the country pledging its support to the food administration and complying with its requests.
"WOODROW WILSON." Archbold Left 38 Million. New York, Oct. late John D. Archbold, Standard Oil magnate, left an estate of $38,498,247, according to the state's appraisal, completed today. The state inheritance tax amounts to $1,526,129.
Brazil Will List Germans. Rio Janeiro, Oct. general census of the German population of Bra zil now is in progress of preparation. Hereafter it will be necessary for German residents to carry identifics Citizen FIGHT MEASLES IN THE FALL By Combating the Disease Now the Spring Epidemics May Be Avoided, Says Physician. Now is the time to be on the alert against measles, according to Dr.
0. F. Bradford, preventive medicine expert of the University Missouri. Spring is the season of greatest prevalency of measles, says Doctor Bradford, but by combating the disease in the fall and winter, spring epidemics may be prevented. It is a common error to consider measles a trifling disease.
As a matter of fact, the percentage of mortality in measles is not high. It is often a disease without special. danger, nevertheless, there is a certain percentage of death to be expected, and it is so widespread that the total mortality is high. In 1916 more than 000 children died in the United States from this disease--a greater number of deaths than was caused by either diphtheria or scarlet fever, both of which are dreaded by all. Case for case, diphtheria and scarlet fever are more fatal than measles, but in the aggregate, neither of them kill as many children as measles Measles is catching during the early stages when the nose is running and the eyes watering.
It continues to be catching until the eruption has been out for about 36 hours. After this, it is not dangerous to others. It is important to exclude from school all children in early stages of measles. A "light case" in one child may produce a fatal case in the next child, therefore, mild cases should be watched just as carefully as the more severe ones. Measles is the difficult of all diseases to control by quarantine, and requires more care to prevent its spread.
The germ has not been discovered, but is known to be the secretion of the upper respiratory tract, and can be demonstrated in the blood for a time, but disappears within 36 hours after eruption comes out. FOR A BIG COLLEGE REUNION Missouri University May Entertain Old "Grads" From Many Schools at Thanksgiving Game. A great reunion, not only of old Missourians and Kansans, but of the alumni of Harvard and Yale as well, will be held at Columbia Thanksgiving Day if the plans" of Athletic Director W. E. Meanwell are carried out.
Director Meanwell believes that the Harvard-Yale game has been cancelled this year it will be an opportunity for Missouri to interest the alumni of those schools living in this territory in the big annual Tiger-Jayhawker struggle. Despite war conditions Director Meanwell is planning on the same big seating capacity that was arranged two years ago. Seats for 8,500 persons, some of them temporarily erected for the one game, are now on sale. The seating arrangement will be much the same as it was last year in many respects, Missouri rooters and alumni being placed on the south side of the field in the concrete bleachers, and the Kansans being seated in the north bleachers, which will be built within the next few weeks. Applications may be made, starting at once, and the actual allotment of seats will be made starting November 10.
Applications and notices of hotel accommodations are being mailed this week to two thousand of alumni and friends of the university, not only in Missouri and Kansas, but in all parts of the United States. Enlisted, Then Ended Life. Herbert H. Eubanks of Madison took his life in the Merchants' hotel at Moberly by shooting. Mr.
Eubanks enlisted in the army the same day in the coast artillery. He is a brother of Clyde Eubanks, editor of the Madison Times. Close Missouri Clay Mines. On account of Illinois coal miners' strike affecting the fire brick factory at Mexico the mines near Montgomery were ordered closed until further notice. Manager John Long said recently that he would put his men to work developing coal mines in Callaway county if the coal famine was not ended within a short time.
To Sell Coal to Poor. The city commissioners of Springfield have authorized the establishment at once of a municipal coal yard. It will be operated for the benefit of poor families, who are unable to buy coal in quantities costing more than $1. Coal will be sold them at actual cost. Man Burned in Bed.
Antone Friendorffer, 67 years old, was burned to death as he lay ill in his bed at his home in St. Joseph. His body was found on the floor beside the bed by firemen. Apparently he had been smoking his daily cigar and had fallen asleep with it lighted in his hand. From Jail to Coal Mines.
Ten miners, who have been in the county jail at Fulton, serving sentences for bootlegging, have been paroled by Judge David H. Harris of the circuit court following an appeal of Fulton citizens who report a shortage of coal and 8 scarcity of labor. Church at Marshall Dedicated. The new Evangelical Lutheran church at Marshall was dedicated recently by the Rev. K.
H. Ehlers, the pastor. Many were there from La fayette county, "America expects every man to do his duty without thought of profit or advantage to Wilson. TEUTON DRIVE IN ITALY UNCHECKED Austro-German Troops Now are Before Udine, Says Official Berlin Report. WASHINGTON IS OPTIMISTIC American Officials Believe General Cadorna Can Stop Huns--Allies Sending Aid to Italy.
Berlin, Oct. Austro-German troops invading Northern Italy are standing before Udine, where the Italian headquarters have been located, according to today's army headquarters announcement. The third Italian army made a brief resistance to the advancing Teutonic forces, from Wippach to the Adriatic. This army is now in retreat along the Adriatic Coast. The Italian front is yielding north of the broad sector which was pierced in the Teutonic attack, the weakening extending as far as Hioecken Pass.
Cormons has been captured and the Austro frontier the troops Italian are coast approaching region. The prisoners are increasing. Isonzo Front Collapsed. The entire Italian Isonzo front has collapsed, the statement adds. The second Italian army is retreating towards the Tagliamento.
All the roads are covered with columns in disorderly retreat, the crowds composing both soldiers and civil population. Trust in General Cadorna. Washington, Oct. from Rome today that the Italian line was holding against the terrific assault of the Austro-German forces was received by official Washington with eager interest and frank relief. Military authorities have not disguised their keen anxiety as press reports showed the Italians wavering backward under the crushing blows of the enemy.
Satisfaction was found also in the announcement from London that steps already had been taken by the French and British to support the Italian front. There was no indication of what operations that announcement might foreshadow. Even accepting the German claims at face value, many officers believe General Cadorna will be able to check the drive if the morale of his army was not shattered. The announcement from Rome that all elements of the Italian forces were obeying orders of the general staff was viewed as setting at rest, for the time at least, the gravest fears for the final outcome. Huns Sweep Into Italy.
Berlin, Oct. capture of one hundred thousand Italians and more than seven hundred guns is reported in the official communication from general headquarters tonight which declares that the Italian second and third armies are in retreat. The text of the statement reads: "The Italian second and third armies are in retreat toward the west. Our pursuit is advancing rapidly from the mountains as far as the sea. Up to the present one hundred thousand prisoners and seven hundred guns have been enumerated." Gorizia and Cividale Fall.
The Austrians and Germans have forced their way through the mountains to the plains of Northern Italy, capturing the town of Cividale, the war office announces. The city of Gorizia, on the Isonzo, also has been captured. The announcement follows: "Rapid development of the united attack on the Isonzo again brought entire success yesterday. The Italian forces which sought to prevent our divisions from emerging from the mountains were thrown back by powerful thrusts. In the evening German troops forced their way the burning town of Cividale, the first town in point of position in the plain.
Italian Front Wavering. "The Italian front as far as the Adriatic Sea is wavering. Our troops are pressing forward on the whole line. Gorizia, the much disputed town in the Isonzo battles, was taken early this morning by Austro-Hungarian divisions." Rome Admits Cowardice. Rome, Oct.
of the Italian army surrendered or retreated withbut resisting, permitting the AustroGerman forces to break the Italian left wing on the Julian front and invade Italy, says today's official report. The Italians now are retreating in accordance with the plan prepared. New York, Oct. board of education had declared to suspend or expel children opposed the Gary system of Instruction who. participated in the recent disturbances.
New Liberty Bonds at 100.02. New York, Oct. bonds of the second Liberty Loan were listed today on the stock exchange here. The first transaction, $2,500 worth, took place with the price at par. The second lot, $8,000 worth, sold at 100.02.
Dynamite Wrecks Tulsa Home. Tulsa, Oct. 30. Dynamite wrecked the home of J. Edgar Pew, vice president of the Carter Oil at 4 o'clock this morning.
The famIly was asleep at the time and had a 9acape from death, TO INVESTIGATE COAL PRICES Government Plans a General Probe of the Many Complaints Throughout the Entire Country. Washington, Oct. general investigation into the retail and wholesale prices of coal throughout the country appeared to be in prospect tonight. In a minor way, investigation of prices consumers assert they have been compelled to pay already has been started by the Department of Justice in various sections of the East and Middle West, both as to anthracite and bituminous coal. Instructions have been sent to United States attorneys conducting these local investigations to summon witnesses, determine the truth of the charges, and, where justified, to bring promptly proceedings under the criminal law against those believed to be guilty.
These instructions were based upon complaints received by the department here to the effect that the margin of profit allowed dealers by the government had been exceeded. Hundreds of letters and telegrams from every section of the country, it is understood, have been sent to the fuel administration. Disposition of these complaints is one of the subjects which is now pressing the fuel administration, it is understood, and action concerning them probably will be taken within a few lays. Indications are that the bulk of the complaints, upon which criminal proceedings might be brought if the truth of the charges can be established, will be turned over to the Department of Justice. Heavy penalties are provided for violation of the law under which the President fixed the price to be charged for coal and the margins allowed jobbers and dealers.
"Whoever," reads the law, "shall, with knowledge that the prices of any such commodity have been fixed as herein provided, ask, demand or receive a higher price, or whoever shall, with knowledge that the regulations have been prescribed as herein provided, violate or refuse to conform to any of the same, shall, upon convic- tion, be punished by fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. BOND TOTAL NOT COMPLETE Treasury Department Says, However, That Indications Are That Maximum Had Been Passed. Washington, Oct. total amount subscribed to the Second Liberty Loan, the Treasury Department announced tonight, is still "a matter of speculation." Several days probably will elapse before the full extent of the Nation's subscriptions is ascertained. "Returns received at the treasury today gave little indication as to the final result," the department announced tonight.
"On the face of returns it cannot be said whether the sale exceeded 5 billion. Conviction is general, however, that it probably approximated the maximum total. Banks, of course, have made no effort to tabulate all their returns, and may not do 80 until the final day for reporting, November 1. Obviously great changes may be made in the total between now and Thursday. "It seems certain that every district has gone well past its minimum and that several will exceed their maximum sufficiently to carry the weaker districts to the high mark in the general total.
"The Chicago and Kansas City districts sent the nearest complete totals yet received." AMERICANS INTHE TRENCHES London, Oct. that the American troops have fired their first shot of the war on the Western front took the place of honor in the Sunday papers with the first American official statement from Paris. The announcement was received with great enthusiasm by the American congressmen who are here. They said it would carry profound satisfaction to the people of America. Paris, Oct.
first American communication announcing the presence of American troops in the trenches on the battle front to which Foreign Minister Berthou made reference Thursday night, is printed prominently in all the morning papers today. The newspapers in editorial articles express joy over the announcement. TO SEIZE ENEMY PROPERTY Washington, Oct. holdings of subjects of Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria in the United States will be seized, together with Germans' property, A. Mitchell Palmer, property custodian, announced today, Labor Rebuke to Russia.
Washington, Oct. executive council of the American Federation of Labor has declined to participate in an international conference of workmen and Socialists of all countries, suggested by the executive com. mittee of the Russian Workmen. France Sends Eighty Officers Here. New York, Oct.
French army officers are in New York today, They will be distributed among America's military training to instruct Uncle Sam's fighters. TO CONTROL THE RETAILERS NEXT Food Administration Believes Profiteering Impossible Under License. WILL WATCH FOR VIOLATORS Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers Not Allowed to Sell to Those Seeking Under Profits. Washington, Oct. by retail dealers in foodstuffs will be made impossible after November 1, the food administration announced today, under a plan to cut off supplies to those not satisfied with reasonable margins.
Manufacturers, wholesalers and other handlers of foods, whose business will go under license, will not be permitted to sell to distributors who seek undue profits. one of the most sweeping safeguards," the announcement said, "against high prices which will be in-! corporated in the licensing system, for which complete rules and regulations will be made known within a few days." Control of Retail Prices. This plan, food administration officials believe, will give the government entire control of retail prices. Authority for extending control of the retailer is cited in the announcement, as follows: "The small retailers of food, of whom there are several hundred thousand in the country, while exempt from the licensing provisions, are nevertheless subject to other provisions of the food control act. Every retailer, as well as every other handler of food, is forbidden, under the law, to make any unreasonable charge, hoard, to monopolize, to waste or destroy food, or to conspire with any one to restrict the production, distribution or supply, or exact excessive prices on any necessities.
There are no penalties provided, but the food administration hopes that arrangement of prohibiting supplies to the violators of the law will be of some effect, for the retailer will find himself unable to buy from any wholesaler or manufacturer." A Majority Are Patriotic. "The food administration," announcement says, "does not to disturb any legitimate operations and will initiate measures against hardened and persistent violators of the law. It takes the position that the great majority of food sellers, retail as well as wholesale, are patriotic and honest and are making every effort to comply with good business principles and to sell to the consumer at the lowest possible Such dealers will be, in fact, protected from illegitimate competition. Those few who persist in abusing their opportunities and continue to take advantage of the emergency caused by the war will receive attention." ANTI- LEADER WHIPPED Herbert Bigelow, a Pacifist Leader, Victim of Ku Klux Methods Near Cincinnati. Cincinnati, 0., Oct.
Bigelow, pacifist leader and pastor of the "People's Ohurch" here, who was kidnapped last night at Newport, just as he was entering a hall to make an anti-war speech, was found morning at Florence, after this, had been stripped of "his clothing, whipped with a blacksnake and then dipped in crude oil. Recently federal authorities conducted a raid on Bigelow's office in Cincinnati, where documents concerning activities of the local "People's Council" were seized. Bigelow was removed to a hospital in this city shortly after his arrival here from Florence this morning. His friends said he is not badly injured. Bond Compromise Defeated.
Voters of St. Clair county recently defeated by a majority of 500 the proposition of the bondholders to compromise the debt of the county for bonds issued forty years ago to build the Tebo Neosho railroad, which was never built. TO SAVE HILL LAND Missouri University Expert Urges Care by Farmers to Prevent Erosion. SHOULD MAP OUT THEIR FARMS All That is Needed is a Little Knowledge of Simple Surveying, Says the Expert. The erosion of Missouri hill lands under the action of heavy rainfall presents an interesting engineering probDean" whose solution is pointed out by E.
J. McCaustland of the University of Missouri. An elementary knowledge of simple surveying, says Dean McCaustland, would enable farmers to make contour maps of their farms on which they could lay out systems of terracing to make possible the cultivation of the land without assisting in the washing away process. Simple stop dams of brush and earth can be constructed in the gullies and arranged with special overflows to protect the structures while the sediment washed down from the hills gradually fills up the low places. Furthermore, the preparation of such maps enables the farmer to lay out his fields and adopt methods of cultivation that take advantage of the natural slope of the ground and avoid a furrowing which starts ditches.
If ditches are never begun they can never grow. The extension of acreage that might be brought about by these methods is probably very large. Some of the older countries in Europe have been using methods of for centuries on soils which are much more subjected to erosion than the Missouri clays, according to the Missouri expert. Careful planning based on a little technical knowledge of surveying and mapping will save many Missouri farms from gradual ruin. Campaign for More Pork.
A conference of all of the hog feeders in Missouri and representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Missouri College Agriculture has been called for November 3 in Columbia. The farmers sold their hogs because of the high prices that have prevailed and at the present time there is a serious shortage. An effort will be made at this conference to show the feeders that hogs must be fed and they will be able to make money even with the high price that must be paid for corn. Dean F. B.
Mumford, state food administrator, will launch a campaign to increase the pork production in the state. Sedalia Will Keep Saloons. Sedalia voted to retain its saloons by a majority of 743 votes. The First ward, known as the negro ward, gave the saloons a majority of 510. The Second ward gave the wets a majority of 344; the Third ward gave the drys a majority of 42, and the Fourth ward gave the drys a majority of 49 votes.
A total of 4,075 votes were cast. Garage Owner Found Murdered. The body of William C. Goold, proprietor of a garage at St. Joseph, was found dead in a road south of town.
There were two bullet holes through his heart, and his head had been battered with a hammer. A Pettis County Farmer Dead. Thomas H. Lillis, a farmer and stockman, is dead at his home in Hughesville, on his sixty-seventh birthday. He had lived in Pettis county sixty years.
His wife and six children survive. Oldest West Pointer Dies. Captain Francis T. Bryan, U. S.
retired, oldest alumnus of West Point military academy and of the University of North Carolina, is dead at his home in St. Louis. He was 94 years old. Mrs. Parry President of U.
D. C. Mrs. Thomas Wood Parry of Kansas City was elected president of the state division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, at Columbia, over Mrs. Hugh Miller of Kansas City by a vote of 105 to 56.
Auto Upsets; 1 Dead, 3 Hurt. Mrs. W. I. Marshall, wife of a merchant at Birch Tree, was instantly killed near Mountain Grove recently when the automobile driven by her husband turned over.
City to Open Coal Yard. The board of estimate and appor tionment of St. Louis has approved the plan of the director of public welfare that the city establish twelve coal yards at which fuel will be sold to the poor at a low price. To Ask New Court In Keet Case. Attorneys for Taylor Adams and Cletus Adams, waiting trial on charge of kidnapping Baby Lloyd Keet, said recently that before tho cases are called in the circuit court at Marshfield in January, a change of venue probably would be asked.
Veteran Died at Polo. E. L. McMullin, 72 years old, died at his home in Polo the other night. He was a soldier in the Union Army.
He had been a resident of Polo for thirty years,.
