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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
Youth dies From Hazing
Received at v M. I

Roanoke, Va, December il
Thurber Sweet, a seventeen-year-
old boy, the son of a wealthy Chi
cago business man, died here today.
Sweets death is stated to be di-
rectly due to injuries which he re
ceived from being nazed while be
was a student at the Virginia Mill
tary Institute. Sweet left the V.
NJ. | at Lexington early last Octo-
Der, and asserted at the time that
he had been beaten with bayonets
in the hands of older class men
who were hazing him.
Great interest has been taken in
this case on account of the charges
brought by young Sweet and also
because of the wealth Of the boys
father. 1t is understood that the
elder Sweet intends carrying the
matter to The Virginia courts.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
WAGE FIGHT AGAINST FLOOD
Concerted Action Necessary When
the Levees Break, or Damage Is
Liable to Be Enormous.

The levee officials order millions OF
sacks which are distributed at con-
venient river points, working parties
are organized, boats chartered, and
guards stationed to patrol the levees
day and night. AS the river begins
to cover the land and press against
the levees, every weakness is at once
strengthened with sand bags, or the
building of cribs to receive the in
coming water, and by raising it to
the same height as the flood outside,
prevent the further action of cut
ting current Of water. Sometimes
hundreds of men are engaged in add
ing to the width and height of a
levee, using road machines and
graders as we'll as sand bags. When
a break occurs, all the people living
in the district likely to be inundated
must be warned, live stock driven to
sites safe from flood, and RATS pro-
vided by those who have no boats, and
cannot get away in time to avoid In
undation which steadily fills tho low
err swamps and grounds and finally
finds the level of the river current.
During the food of 1912 some thou
sands of poor people were rescued
by the steamboats, and other crafts,
after having been for hours without
food and often only just in time to
save their own lives.-"In the Wake
of the Mississippi Floods" Flynn
Wayne, in National Magazine.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
4 GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR
SATURDAY..

From Germany comes the repor
that Greece has virtually turned over
Grecian Macedonia as a base of op
erations to the entente allies, beside
giving them free use of the rail Ga
and the harbors on the Aegean, in
Guiding Kavala.
According TO an Athens despatch
Serbian soldiers who fell back int
Greek territory after Mcnastir wa
evacuated were not disarmed.
London is still in the dark as to the
reported Russian invasion of Bulgaria.
On the other hand there are rumor
that $4,000 Bugarlian soldiers have
been sent to the Italian and French
front. 1t is again reported that Italy
is about to land forces in Albania for
use in the Balkans.
London has report, which lacks
confirmation, that twelve miles OF
German trenches have been taken by
the Russians along the road to tt
KUN, west Of the Riga.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
Dyes for Carpets.

Aniline dyes have not added to the
reputation of the carpets of Persia,
lately invaded by the Turks. At one
time the only dyes used In the Persian
carpet industry came from indigo, mad
der and vine leaves. From these were
evolved many delicate shades impervi-
ous to the action Of sunlight. With
aniline dyes the colors fade much
more rapidly. In Persia you may see
new rugs spread on the floors Of ba-
zaars, so that many feet may tread on
them. By such hard wear-proyided
the colors are fast-the genuine arti'
Gle improves in appearance, acquiring
an attractive gloss. A Persian carpet
Of the best kind has marvellous num-
Der OF stitches, and hearth rug of
pure silk may cost hundreds of dollars.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
THURSDAY.

Speaking in the reichsta", v"T
Bethmann-Hcclweg, imperial chancel
lor, said Germany was willing to dis
cuss peace, if proposals should com
port with the dignity and safe'y OF
The nation, but would not herself take
the first step. No proposal would re
considered, he said, that did not pre-
vide guarantees that peace would be
permanent.
Great Britain has notified the Unit
ed States It will not requisition Amer
lean ships which it has seized, pend
ing the decision of prize courts. The
state department has asked sac con
duct of the allies for Captains Boy
Ed and Won Papen, Of the German EN-
bassy, whose recall has been request
ed. !,
Bulgarian troops have driven back
the French forces fighting in south
crn Serbia.
The British cabinet plans to author
lie the arrninc OF another million Sol
a,ers, and expects to have 4,oSSssVs
ready for service In the spring, A
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
SUNDAY,

Dilatory policy of King Constantin"
and his ministers has aroused the al
lied nations and drastic action is
planned to make Greece reply to a
lies demands.
Several hundred persons were kill
ed by an explosion in an ammunition
factory at Hale, Prussian Saxony, a
Holding despatch says.
Sir Edward Grey announces that
Britain, France, Russia, Italy and ia
pan have now signed a pact against
concluding a separate peace CT max
Ing peace demands without the con-
sent of all of the allies.
Franco-Pritish state and war chiefs
hold long conference at Calais.
Russia claims to have captured sew
eral important German trenches in
the Riga district.
Artillery duels marked the day
along the front in Belgium an''
France.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
NOT ALWAYS PAID IN MONEY
oIdtime Publishers OF Newspapers
Known to Have Been Recon-
pensed In Various Ways.

M. C. Tracy of Macon, Ca, tells the
following story of the time when to-
bacco and pigs were used as money:
81 we'll remember, along In the 5Os,
of seeing great stacks or bundles of to-
bacco piled up on one side of the
Huntsville American Office. That was
along in 1856. The tobacco repre-
scented receipts on subscriptions. Each
bundle contained ten pounds of to-
bacco, and was good to make the SUBJ
scribers solid with the paper for one
year. The tobacco was weighed in
the Office and the subscriber was
credited with ten cents pound, the
market price. The tobacco offered
the editor was of the finest quality
and used only for cigars. There was
large factory in Huntsville, where
great many slaves were employed in
getting the tobacco ready for the mar
ket. The editor sent his tobacco off
along with that Of the shippers and
received his money when they did.
Back of the newspaper Office was a
pen, where the editor would keep pigs
and small stock taken on subscrip-
lions. There was but very little money
in the country, and such things as the
farmers raised passed as legal tender
A newspaper Office was practically a
warehouse for country products.
THE most remarkable payment on
newspaper subscriptions, perhaps, was
that rendered by subscriber to the
old Bloomington Gazette, somewhere
in the 4Q's. The subscriber had
large, fiat tombstone which had been
erected at the head Of some of his
ancestors graves. He had long for
gotten who the ancestors were, and
as the editor needed smooth stone
to mix his ink on, he found the re-
verse of the monument to be just the
thing and promptly credited the sub
scriber with his subscription for the
stone, and both felt the richer by the
trade"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
do You Need a Job? A SIX
Uncle SAM" Says Wilson

In the January Woman's Home
Companion Secretary of Labor
William B. Wilson says:
If you want a job. ask Uncle
Sam If you want an employee.
ask Uncle Sam. The service is free
Distance is no object, Your post,
master will act as employing agent
and the Government will do the
rest.
The national employment
bureau, operated under the auspices
If the Department of Labor, will
receive applications for employ
nent from any individual in the
United States; it is ready to find
nelp for employers. The object i,
not only to bring. the 'personless
job and the 'jpbless' person to.
sether, but to put the right person
n the right place. 1t is one of the
biggest things the Government OF
he United States has ever under
taken.
II earnestly commend the facil
ties of this bureau, not only to
my and all employers but to all in
Iividuals seeking work. Womel
IAN make use of it as freely and
as readily as men. The success OF
the entire plan now depends upon
willingness with which the average
wage Garner seeking a position will
make use of the Governments aid
IN getting the job.
1.-The Department of Agriculture
and the Post-Ofice Department
are both cooperating with the
Department of Labor to make the
project a success. Employment
blanks have been sent to all post
masters of the country and to
every field agent of the Depart
Of Agriculture. These blanks may
ne had upon request. EMPLOYERS
will state upon them the number
and kind of employees they are in
need of, and employ will specify
IN turn, the kind of work they
want. 1t makes no difference what
kind of work it is; it may be house
work, stenography, farming, b"lck-
laying, cooking, domestic help.
The blanks will, upon their re-
turn, be assorted and classified
and then the Department of Lobor,
through it's Division of Information
will make its effort to bring the
wage Garner and the job together. +"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

NOTE: Up to this time, "Anuric"
has not been on sale to the pnblic, but
by the persuasion of many patients and
the increased demand for this wonder
full healing tablet, Doctor Pierce has
finally decided to put it into the drug
stores of this country within immedl-
ate reach of all sufferers.
Simply ask for Doctor Pierce's Anurlc
Tablets. There can be no imitation.
Every package of Anuric" is sure to
be Dr.. Pierce's. You will find the
signature on the package just as you
do on pr, Pierce's Fayorite Preserlp:
hSn, the ever famous friend te ailing
women, and DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery, proven by years to be
the greatest general tonic and recon-
struotoF for any one,
At any rate don't give up hope Of
being cured OF your malady until just
a few doses OF NAnuric" have proven
that it will make you feel like q
different person.
ED1ToR-Please insert this letter IN
some conspicuous place in your paper.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
MONDAY.

M. Venizelos, former premier o
Greece, has issued manifesto aiVis
ing the National Liberty party, which:
hea heads, to abstain from voting IN
the coming elections, and charging
virtual suppression of the constitu'
tional regime in the dissolution of the
chamber and the ordering of new
elections. Greece still delays heI
answer to the demands of the entea
te powers.
There is no news from Rumania
and still no advices as to the Russian,
move against Bulgaria. Serbians re
firing from Monastir have arrived al
Cievgeli to join the French troops
unu>~ General Sarrail.
E1rO.lolent Of the Ruspian army
class OF 1917 next year, year in ad
vance Of the binary time, is order
ed in an Imperial ukasa issued ii
Petrograd.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
WECNE SDAY.

Reports to London say the AHe:
can steamship Communipaw, VIII"
was reported sunk by snbD ar!ie
the Mediterranean, arrived safely q
Alexandria.
Constantinople says the TrrHs l
Mesopotamia have driven the Frit! =!
forces from Kut-el-Amc a, ard m
the retreat of the eype lition to t.
Persian gulf is in danger Of being CT
off.
A battle IS being fought in south
ern Macedonia, in Which BULGARIA
troops are trying to drive the Angie
French forces back across the Gre
border. Italy is reported pushing a
expedition through Albania to aid Ser
bia. Berlin reports the capture o
1000 more Serb troops.
German troops have capture1
trench 500 yards long in the Cham
payne district, according to Berll'
report. French troops have begun
series of counter attacks to regain TT
lost positions.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
So Carelessl

A peddler arrived one evening at a
very small town, and went to the only
hotel there. Every room had already
been engaged, but the hotelkeeper Of
fered him room which he could share
with a negro. The peddler agreed,
and asked to be awakened early the
next morning.
Several jokers overheard the pro-
ceedings, and while the peddler slept
blackened his face.
The next morning, being in q hurry
to catch a train he made straight foE
the station when he was awakened.
While passing mirror in the waiting
room he stopped suddenly and ex-
claimed: Hang it all! They've
called the wrong guy!"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
NEW STRENGTH
FOR LAME BACK.

Letter Tells Of Long looked-for Prescription.
Dear Mr.. Editor Il suffered from
lame back and constant tired,
worn-out feeling. At times was
unable to stand erect and scarcely
able to get around. It would usually
come on at first with crick in small
of my back. took one box of DR..
Pierce's Anuric Tablets and my back
commenced to get better soon after
starting to take them. l did not
have to walk doubled over as I did
before using the vAnuric." 1t is the
best remedy | have ever taken for
what it is intended to relieve.
: + hope those who are in need OF
such remedy will give the 3 Anuric
Tablets" a trial.
Yours truly,
A, G, DRAKE.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
The Gar and His Armies.

The car, by joining his aFaies, Is
renewing a tradition Of close associa-
ton which has always been strong in
Russia. OF Nicholas I it used to be
said that when he rode on to the pa
rads ground at Betrograd the "air was
positively rent With the cheers Of the
mighty mass Of human beings WIG
anxieusiy awaited the approving look
which told them that he was salts
fed" When he testified Approval the
soldiers answered: 1--WE rejoice, ia.
Their; but we will try and do better
next time. Pail Mall Gazette.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
American Marine

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 16:
When is an Irishman not an Irish
man and does he ever become
thoroughly Americanized?
That is what First Sergeant John
Fox, United States Marine Corps,
retired after thirty years honorable
service with the colors, would like
20 know.
Applying recently for position
IS Waterman at one of the large
factories supplying ammunition g
the Allies, Fox was told that the
fact of his having been horn in the
Emerald Isle over half a century
ago. barred him absolutely from
such employ ment.
Fox's discharges show that he
fought bravely at Guantanamo,
Cuba, in 1898, when a handful o!
United States Marines held in check
thousands of Spaniards there. and
established naval base at that
point, but his thirty years of excel,
lent service with Uucle Sans sea
soldiers counted for naught with
the munition makers.
"Once and Irishman always an
Irishman and we can't be too care,
sui in the selection of our guards, D
Fox was told.
Fox, who says he is intensely
American and absolutely neutral
cannot get their viewpoint, but
isn't worrying much, for Uucle San
pays himn $40 90 month retired
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
Holi lay Fire Prevention

~ N'"oioiidi L II lOGCCUlOu AS
ISOLATION, whose headquarters are in
Boston, distributing a timely bull
letln converting warnings and re-
commencing precaution which, if
generally applied, would go for to-
wards minimizing the fires that are
so common in this county during
the holiday season.
.Storekeepers officials of churches
and promoters of holiday bazaars
are invited to bear in mind that
holiday fires occurring in such plac.
es when file | with men, women
and children are usually holocausts
and that light, inAammable decora-
tons make fires easy to spread.
"Watch gas jets " urges the bulle.
tin "D"corations may be carried
against them by air currents.
Watch smokers! Do not permit
them to light cigarettes inside
buildings Do not make the slight
est change in electrical wiring with
out consulting electrical inspector.
Read your insurance policies! Be-
fore attempting any hasty or ill
advise decoration which may cause
fire, examine your insurance con-
tracts and see ii the policies con-
tain anything like this: This entire
policy, unless otherwise provided
by agreement Endorsed hereon or
added hereto. shall be void, etc.,
if the hazard be increased by any
means within the control or
knowledge of the insured. If you
burn, you want your indemnity;
do nothing therefore to impair
your contract.
Emphasizing in its warnings for
The home the fact that every year
IN America many children are
burned to death by fires strarting
from Oh: istmas candles the bulle-
lin says:
do not decorate your Christmas
tree with paper, cotton or any
other infammable material. Use
metallic tinsel and other non-in
hammahle decorations only and
set the tree securely so that the
children in reaching for things can
not tip it over.
'Do not use cotton to represent
snow. II you must have snow use
asbestos fibre.
Do not permit children to light
or relight the candles while parents
are not present. They frequently
set fire to their clothing instead
"Do not leave matches within
reach of children at holiday time
Candles are meant to be lighted
and if the children can get matches
they will pertinent with them,
They initiate their elders.
"Do not allow trees to remain in =
side buildings after the holidays.
The tree itself ignites readily when
needles have become dry, A large
number of fires usually occur in
January from this cause.
"a House of Merriment is better
than House OF Mourning"
These warnings contain much
food for thought, and in dissent
mating them the National Fire Pro-
lection Association is performing
what may and should prove to be
a valuable service in the interest
alike of humany and public econo-
my. In the matter of fires. the
prevention is worth whole tons of
cure. - Norfolk Virginia Pilot.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
TUESDAY,

German participation on a l7rgt
scale in the Mesop0taIaia campaign
is probable, according to report
reaching Switzerland. Field Marsha
vn der Goltz has been named com
mander CT the Turkish forces in tina
field. Report that a Bulgarian re Il
ment mutinied when ordered to Ga
lipoli peninsula, to fight with tn
Turks, has reached London. Thr
hundred of the mutineers are said t
have been shot.
Holland hears the German lies Il
France and Belgium have been heavi
" reinforced, possibly with view t
a German offensive movement.
The reassembling of the Rus Il;
duma, set for December Is, has e.
Indefinitely postponed by an imp":i
rescript.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
Let us hone that the relation

Let us hope that the relations
between this country and Ger
mauy,so constantly and desperately
strained" will finally become as
Elastic and "stretchy" as the Wash
anton correspondents imagination
linen r"o danger will be past and
there will be - break,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

Hopewell burnt we'll Why?
Because it. was town of "shacks'
E-inhammable, hastily constructed
Fand with no eye to safety.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

The Republican national COM
mittee named June 7 as the date
for holding the Republican national
convention, after defeating, by a
vote of 81 to ID, . proposition to
hold it June "a.
The committee finally decided in
flavor of holding the convention in
Chicago, St. Louis made strong
fight but the committee thought it
hest not to hold the Republican
mLL = 1850 tho
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

There is a lesson in the Hopewell
fire for all towns and homes where
the motto safety first" has not
been observed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
TsentereF.Va Friday, Dec II, 1915

The turkeys that got respite at
Thanksgiving are sure to get it in
the neck before the year ends.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

If it is true that serious dlsa'
greement took place in mid o"ean
on the peace ship, the dove should
be sent in pursuit 1T once.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

.ath is said to favor pr rejection
deer for five years. Will High
join her neighbor in this inn
Sportant move?
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
500 Reward, 500

The readers OF this paper will DO
pleased to learn that there is at least ope
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages. and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure Is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease. REQUIRES a constitutional treat
ment Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and MUCOUS surfaces of the system; there
BY By destroying the foundation Of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strengtih "a
nature In doing its work. The prop|
have SO much faith In its curative
ers that they sffep One HundSad
for any case that it fall
for list of testimonisaalSHs
SoId nv all Druggists. 7sc.
ATake Halle Family PINS
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

New York, December Is - Hem
"a oES.apstanleiimsSlled upon all the
european nations
Fediate truce and
for the ending Of
he of peace went
Pfrom the wireless
Re gun Of theship Oscar II, now
roaching Christina with its car
American peace advocates.
e same message was sent to
uler in Europe, including
neutral nations, and copy
lessed back to New York
% earnestly entreat you,
IT, Qlers of all other warning
iol b declare an immediate
be-" Ford urged. > "ket the
lies stand where they IRE. Then
negotiations proceed so that the
ers may be delivered from an
bitter winter in the trenches,
6ent back to'their labors and
jresides
Is the is no other way to end
ar except by mediation and
sslan, why waste human life
e OF hu1banitv?'
ghesage contained an out
Fhe peace Toyagers and in
Nc L ropean rulers that
O de- Re to intrude upon
onH Affairs, but planned
help them:
Peace Ship Oscar IL Via
b Lands End, England }
II, 10 p. M War has
1t aboard the Ford peace
Neral 'smbers of the
|tssion ere preparing to
party at Christina and re-
America, alleging that the
pacifsts have adoped an
attitude toward every
gliding President Wilson's
hess programme.
himself is doing his best to
an open breai; He issued
mt today denying that he
nsible for the steam roll
Is alleged to have been
bv the extreme pacihsts.
liter of fact{ this accusa-
ghot nae @gaiGst Ford,
phefy against Rev. Charles F.
pa, of San Francisco, former
PckefelIer pastor, and Rev. Jen-
Lloyd Jones, If ChlCu.oo. A
Aplete split is immiaent.Ai Another
on among the peace vpcates,
pus reports stated, was de-
ing permissl,n to s9e the
smenrs the peace leaders
kped to have in their possession
pMng that the European belpiger
5 we're ready fer peace.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

Doctors are puzzled and pasrents
worried over the phenonaenal
growth of Harry Cooneljy, thSe IL
Near ole son of a Colqu;,C c&unty
A.rmer, three miles from Aia5nitrie,
Harry's longitudaa@fhis morn
was 6 feet . 6st5ches and he
chs 200 pound For three
pnths his. grcsthS has been 80
bid that he rs ogh grown a suit
a. . wes eey Tesb,
- sss ender boy of normal
ksuddenly started to
Nor him, so he
S.ght.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

Gntere't a. the Monterey postott1ce a.
second class matter
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17

we are not responsible for expressions
or views of correspondents.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-12-17
Ford Appeals To
Rulers To ED War

New York, December IS - Hem,