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Priuced ou Thursday of each week. mont, D. N. Kditer aud Mur. - GENERAL NOTES. A club of young ladies of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, have resolved not to “keep company” with any young man who wears neither the khaki nor a entered at the Post Office of But- second-class mail matter. PMCE, $1.00 PER YEAR Yar Moy as ‘Thursday, November 1, 1017. IN THE TRENCHES. American troops first line’ trenches and at last the war is about tu be brought home to us and we are good Amer blood our aihance with the nations of the world who for the past three years have been carrying on the light for humanity against brutality, oppression and the) on those who pleaded guilty. vileness of Prussianism. Since the declaration of a state oi| war we have learned much of Ger- many and the Germans that has been] Act, hard for us to realize and before the! pantryman. on one of Harry Payne war is over we can expect to learn] a great deal more, and’ rot the least | ig guing to be the viewpoint of the! German people themselves. \ ‘True, the monster we are fighting | is Prussianism rather than the Ger-; are now in the} about to seal with} [err ies Two of the non-commissioned of- ficers who were drowned when the Antilles was sunk by a submarine last week, gave the address of their nearest of kin as Berlin and Olden- \barg, Germany : Mlanked whale steak was served in fone of the leading hotels of New ; York Friday. It was said to resem- ble young pig in texture and taste, and many of the hotel guests who ate it said it was palatable. | { pense i “Wilson's picture is too homely to Jappear ona Liberty Bond,” Carl A. hompson, a Couneil Bluffs railway ‘mail clerk, is alleged to have said. ile was arrested and is being held [or the federal authorities | The Dank of Cane Hill, at Cane Hill, Washington county, Ark., was robbed at 2 o'clock Friday by two unmasked men who rode into the ;town on horseback, locked the cash- fier in the vault, and escaped with $2,- {ooo in cash, A posse is in pursuit. In the federal court at Ardmore, Okla. Friday afternoon pleas” of guilty were entered by sixty-three de- idants accused of draft resistance. {The es against twenty others were jdismissed. Sentence will be passed The federal grand jury in Brook- lyn indicted under the Espionage Charles W. Walnum, a former Whitney’s yachts, on a charge of at- tempting to place an explosive bomb ana former German merchant liner in drydock here. Dudley Field Malone, who resigned -tinguish even the vestige of a differ- ‘belittle the accomplishments of the -financial gain; the other is playing|taken over by A. Mitchell Palmer, man people, but whether the German! 5 collector of the port of New York people are the result of Prussianism peeause of the arrest: of sugfrafists or whether Prussianism is simply thei who were picketing the White house state of mind of the German people} at Washington, has decided to sup- we have yet to Jearn, and until we| port Morris Hillquit, socialist candi- have that knowledge it is impossible; gare for mayor, and the entire so- to even speculate on peace terms and) ciglist municipal ticket. objectives. ‘The menace of Prussian- | ism must be annihilated and the! roots destroyed and we have yet to} learn the magnitude of our task. There can be but one outcome now As striking seemed to be a popular pastime nowadays, the pupils of the New York schools went on a strike sean Rane Fates ~_, last week against the Gary system Ld Be eee which is being introduced into the Ae ; "i schools. They remained out a couple and the mutilated babies, the ravished | |; nae avdeaienacontibackeand taal womanhood and the pillaged homes x eomised to. Ue of France and Belgium warn us. of i 5 the mercy of a victorious lun, We must win the war and even though} the cost be the high in,the blood of | our manhood and our treasure we | must make up our minds to pay the, ‘ price. yides lina {their lickings and | good, 3an Johnson, president of the ican League, has been ordered immediately for war service cc, he stated in a telegram ! Thairsd afternoon, cancelling a speaking engagement. It is believed A little manhandling judiciously ap-|the baseball baron will be connected plied is a pretty good antidote for the. with the intelligence department insane desire to shoot their mouths. abroad, off with which a crowd of anti-war, | EOS Bc oer ey pro-Prussian propagandists seem to! be afflicted. Free speech must be). jinist, ranking with Fritz Kreisler, protected and the government ¢@M) 44 instructor at the Peorja Con- not well restrict that right, but Patti- | oratory of Music, joined the head- otic citizens can sce to it that Prus- os irters troop, hirty-third Division, sianism does not profit Houston, Tex., Friday as a private, a brother of Capt. Sidney Private Cohen was put to currying horses. solomon Cohen, world’s famous ite is The folks down at Florence, Ken- ohen. tucky, seem to have devised a very effectual way of dealing with disloy-' |. A Lee ae alty and pacifism. Forty lashes int oS eH the ten German prisoners in. 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Big Stock of Splendid MUNSING UNDERWEAR the bare back with a blacksnake whip | “bo escaped from the alien enemy Fort McPherson, ought to be preity convineing argn-|Oetention camp at Las ment to the whipee against the doc-| !"eslay night were captured Satur- trine of unpreparedness and non-re: Ronis Ot the Department of ‘sistance, as indeed the victim himself ¢. Five were taken at Surrency, felt constrained to. admit. . While and the. sixth, Johann Adelhart, mob law is ordinarily an unsavory |* "on-commissioned officer, was ar- thing there are some things it seems '"sted at Atlanta, Ga. demands its application and in such cases it is usually very efficient. It is eminently fitting that the old Ku Klux which was organized to protect Lieutenant Gianfelice, Italian avia- tor, Thursday tested a new Svea ma- ‘chine at Newport News, Va. The the honor of the womanhood and machine is said to be the fastest in manhood of the South should now be {the world and it is reported the craft invoked to protect the honor of the /¢8" c¢asily make 130 miles an hour. nation against a propaganda which if/ The Heutenant took the machine up successful could result only in the| 0.00 feet and tested the engine and vilest of servility to a Prussian mas-|Controls. He will try for a speed ter. Let the good work go on. ireeord soon, : An increase in the loss of British merchantmen through mines or sub- marines is noted in the admiralty re- ence between the janatic peace-at-} port for the current week. Seventeen any-price advocate, the rabid pro-| vessels of over 1,600 tons and eight Prussian anti-war agitator, and the}under 1,600 tons were sunk. In the demagogue who rants and raves of| previous weck twelve British mer- cour lack of preparation and tries to| chant vessels over 1,600 tons, six un- der that tonnage and one fishing ves- sel were sunk. It is exceedingly difficult to dis- government since entering the war. ‘All are working to the same end, the —__ 1 creation of a dissatisfaction and the} A. L. Sugarman, of Mankato, turning of public sentiment against | Minn., state secretary of the Socialist the administration during the great-|Party, was sentenced to three years est crisis in our history; and the suc-jin the federal penitentiary at Fort cess of either can reach but one end,|Lcavenworth Friday on conviction of -—disaster to the government. If any|#(tempting to influence men _ regis- difference there be in these three} tered for the draft against answering classes of malcontents it is in favor|a call for service. His remarks made of the peace at any price fanatic.|at a mecting at Kelso, Minn., in July He may be honestly following the| tended to cause treason, according to dictates of his warped, misguided | Judge W. F. Booth. conscience, but the paid agitator and _—_—_—————_ the political demogogue’ can hardly} The Germany embassy in Wash- be given this doubtful distinction.| ington, in spite of the fact that it The one carries on his propaganda for| fests on “Germany territory,” will be a very unsavory brand of peanut pol-|tecciver of enemy property and will ities at the expense of a nation at|Probably be rented and the rental war.- turned into the treasury department. Palmer refused to say whether he would take over the Austrian,. Bul- Ten Weeks at Sea Spent in Perfect-|tedly most promising. last ten weeks on the high seas, striv- ad Hace ee eg pvigyt Bor khese on the electrical wizard’s own. orders eg be used by almost every one Negro. : , i! v7 i 2 to | . Py . acuiiced todayn He is shoei back every necessity for working out}on the farm. We were free in the] Little Rock, Oct. 17.—Through orte by William Maxwell, vice-president of Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, and general manager of the musical phonograph department, was in connection with an appeal to ed an anti-submarine device. weeks Edison was at never seasick, although frequently his assistants were as ended and from strictest reticence at the Fdison plant today as to his | whereabouts, that the probably fotnd weapon for which he has been search- ing. It was undesstood that Edison’s experiments included duplication as far as. possible of Germany’s ‘sub- marine warfare methods. Edison is today engaged in working u r out with natal experts several di England | garian and Turkish property. Under|ferent anti-submarine experiments he Kewpie Twins for Children “The Quality Store” : Packards for Men EDISON ON U-BOAT HUNT While his ship protection devices |to buy food. We always had plenty. | Butler are official secrets, they are admit- Mr. Wilson helped Mr. Walker to They were}manage ,the school. Mr. Wilson is tried out before his own eyes on this} County Superintendent of Pike Coun- trip. ' . y. Mr. C. F. Patterson, Sam Jordan, Edison spent several weeks on a: \V. D. McKey Gov. Gardner and yacht which had been converted into| Prof. Geo. Reavis léctured on corn a stibmarine chaser. It was equipped jand egg production, These lectures High Club, and press for the part each had in making the trip more pleasant. Respectfully, School, Commercial ing Submarine Destroyer. Orange, N. J., Oct. 25—Thomas A. Guy Hartrick. Edison, the inventor, has spent the Rations for 150 too Much for One U-boat problems. | enous. eee pegs a Or! some mistake a drafted negro for the Re? 7 ‘ [1 occe of Me rain there | national army fr ississippi ar- A’ Week at the State Fair. ;was not many races. What races| rived at cane Pike. The othe un {there were were very good. received him got the impression that T started from Butler at 11:45, | September 22. I did not see any yel-', The horse show was very good.|he was: the advance guar guard of a large low badges until I reached Pleasant | The saddle horse department was the j delegation ard tele; hone =up- Hill, and had boarded the train to Se-! best, having the most horses. The orders to the Bis os me dalia. He was the only one I saw on| drait horse department was almost a| sult, when the negro, Lambert Hayes my way. ailure. There were a "good many) of Magee, Miss., arrived at the can- We got to Sedalia about 2 v’cloc attle. The largest cow weighed 2610! tonment, a barrack building intended pounds. The mule barn was the near-| for 150 men had heen prepared for mewhere in America” with the re- Its of his studies and experiments. irst news that the electrical wizard had carried his search to. the seas was made in a brief statement today. It the American people, written by Edi-|and were at the camp «bout 3 . 4 | son himself, that they buy Liberty| Mr. Walker, the audetintcndent of | est filled of all. The largest mule j him. bonds. the Boys State Fair School, was at! WS '19 1-4 hands high. “I'm hungry, I ain't had nothing to Maxwell would not further discuss! the tent. He took our names and as-} The “Various Industry House”|eat for two days, but I can’t eat all signed us a tent. The tents qere} wastiilled mainly with rocks of many | that stuff,” ‘said Hayes when he saw numbered. They were in two col-jcolors. There was also some very | the rations. umns facing cach other. All on onej fine wood and clay work. Hays came on his own responsibili- side were even, the others were odd.j The Horticultural Building was|t¥: It had been intended to bring I slept in tent No, 3. It was a good/filled with every kind of farm,|"° "¢groes to the cantonment.for the tent. We were free the rest of the| orchard and garden products. Present. ° afternoon. I saw a, boy on the! The poultry department was not grounds with a yellow badge. Wel very full, There were fifty-three soon exchanged names and counties. | breeds, including bantams and not He was going to the camps. I did| very many of each breed. not have any team mate yet, but{/ There was a large number of very| offi week when I got to the tent he was there} fine hogs. The largest hog weighed colnet ae oe yi ae fixing his cot. He was from Pike| 1100 pounds. This one was a Tam-| Mr. ‘Harry Caffel, M Buf Car. county. The supper was ‘the best! worth. ver, Mr. Schuyler Edg iy Ww. ever tasted, because I was tired: and| The air ships were the- greatest olliway, M A H> H aioe Ri b : hungry, All our meals came regular.| part of the fair. Mr. Louis Gertson undy, Bill” Martin, rie Ld ule The cot was very comfortable, ,al-} made two flights each day regardless| (register), Mr. Everett a See peneh I had not slept on a cot be-jof rains, He berg the loop the loop | George Blackwell Miss Sad ngs lore. many times each flight. Mrs. D. H, : Sunday afternoon the Sedalia band| Miss Katherine Stineon raced al Jobinncss Mice tes eo wee and choir pleased a large crowd,| lady in a car:with-herairplane. The| Juanita Richards, M; Ea 8; d which filled the Live Stock pavillion. : race” did not | ing, .Mi et os arent Th x = Edison’s absence “on the high seas” or whether the inventor has perfect- He did say, however, that during the ten sea he was so overcome that they wanted to get ashore. It was believed from the fact that Edison's sea voyage was announced List of Letters . Remaining uncalled for in the post inventor -had the anti-submarine Washington, Oct. 25—Thomas A.