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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-10-01
MONROE RETURNS TO CENTRAL
TIME -.
Confusion in all Branches of City Life
Disgusts Citizens.

Monroe, Mich.-The city commits
sion solved the time question by re-
solving that after midnight of Sep
TENDER 20. central standard time
would become official again I'm the city
of Monroe. The resolution was unan-
imously adopted.
The city has been on eastern stand
ard time for several months and the
confusion of factories. Offices and
schools has Disguised the people with
IL.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-10-01
DR.. Peter Cooper Hewitt.

DR.. Peter Cooper Hewitt of New
York, who has just been named as
member of the u. S. navy advisory
board, is best known as the inventor
of the Cooper Hewitt electric lamp
used for illuminating factories and
for Photographic work. He is also
the inventor Of the telephone relay
and electric wave amplifiers, wireless
telephone and telegraph apparatus,
hydroplane and aeroplane and dirigi-
bic balloon apparatus and light
transformers, changing the color Of
light rays. He is a grandson Of
Peter Cooper, the founder Of Cooper
Institute of New York. @
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-10-01
COLD IN THE CHEST

Cold in the chest, head or lungs
easily relieved by the use of Walk.
Ton Ointment. Apply to affected
parts before retiring. Wonderful re
suits. Try IL tonight. 25c. Foi
sale by druggists or sent direct on re.
ceipt of price. wa-Ki-Ton Chemical
Co.. GOA SO. st. Clair St.. Toledo, o.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-10-01
RATES INCREASED,
VILLAGE TO FIGHT
Advance Effective on Electric Line
September 1.

Adrian, Mich.-Orders effective
since Sept. 1 have increased passenger
fares on the Toledo x Western cleo
trio road to practically all points out
Adrian.
BlisSfield council has authorized an
attorney to tight the raise on the
grounds that he new rates are illegal
and not according to the company
franchise.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-10-01

so big a fool as
! was last sum-
mer,' he gloat-
ed.
"Oh, Pm so
glad you didn't
los e t h a t
money! S a i d
'sInoo 10, ION
/ felt worried
when l thought
it was all gone.
Now we can
have the new
leather chairs
for the dining
ROOM"
I" Remember
this was my per-
sonal M on e y
that | invested,
and of course
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-10-01
STATE SUFFRAGISTS WILL
GATHER OCTOBER
Lansing Delegation Includes Names
Capitals Most Prom
inent Women.

The state campaign to interest wo-
men i'm the work of the Congressional
union being directed by Miss Margaret
Whittemore and Mrs. w. Nelson
Whittemore. of Detroit is meeting
with unusual success and representa-
tive women from every city in the
state are expected NJ the first state
convention to he held mt the Hotel
Statler Oct. | and ,.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-10-01

"Seew Dick waved draft for
$50 before Nell's face. Dividend on
my oil shares"
"Goodw Nell's eyes glowed.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

in the navy. He is in charge of our
arine sanitarium for neurotic aero
planes at Pensacola, Florida. He is
Director of avail Aeronautics. He
is conducting the experiments at
Pensacola. Officially, we have fiji
teen aeroplanes there. Unofficially,
between courses at the Aero Club,
we sometime have only one aero
plane at Pensacola that is feeling
strong enough to fly. The others
are being massaged in their wings;
and their motors are being given ar
tificial respiration.
Only a Dozen
In other words, we have only a
dozen aeroplanes in our navy and
haven't even many of them except
on paper. This scandal may now
come to an end. COaptain Bristol
has been put especially on the job
and congress has appropriated a
million dollars-to build up a real
navy aeroplane service. Our navy
needs aeroplanes peculiarly; be-
cause our fastest battleships are so
much slower than the fastest bat
tleships of the best European pow
ers.
1--WE need aeroplanes to go up
and oro,,t for tho opo,o,,'c chtpc orl
find them and report on them, and
SO give our slower vessels, if out
numbered, chance to get away.
Captain Brittol has a supreme task
ahead of him and supreme oppor-
tunity, on the day of war, for uni
que service and distinction. He will
be on the front page them" -Pensa-
cola News.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30
FIVE BIG LEAGUE TEAMS
MAY TRAIN IN MIAMI

Miami, July 3O-Telegrams were
received here yesterday from FIVE
major league teams with which me-
gotiations for spring training ar
rangements are under way, but so
far nothing definite has been agreed
on and the negotiations for the time
being have come to stand still, I'M
til possibly the latter part of the
week, when letter is expected
from President Gaffney, of the Bos-
ton Braves, of the National League.
With President Comiskey of the
Chicago White Sox, the question is
one of hotel accommodations, and
this question has not yet been solv-
ed despite efforts to obtain conces-
sions regarding rates to the large
number of men and women likely
to accompany the Chicago Ameri-
cans to Miami in the event that
they come here to train.
After considerable correspon dence
anu thC SShuiuS VI SEVERAL tele-
grams, Mrs. Minnie E. March. man
ager of the Hotel Halcyon was fin
ally located in the north, but was
unable on short notice to make a
satisfactory offer, and telegram
was sent to w. W. illon, one of the
owners of the hotel, at Nashville
asking that the subject be given his
consideration.
President Navin of the Detroit
Tigers said he would not sign up
with Miami until he was assured of
suitable baseball park. He under
stood he said, that the park in Mia
mi was not yet completed, and it
was within the range of possibility
that it might not be finished, so he
would await it's completion before
binding himself to train his players
in Miami.
A communication was received al
so from the New York Yankees,
information regarding the |
hotel rates, and enqairing further |
INTO the advantages of Miami as a
camp. A telegram from
President Gaffney, of the Boston
said merely that a letter
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

terest. Two of our ablest contro-
versialists on the Florida press have
recently taken up the subject and
from opposing points of view they
have debated it entertainingly and
instructively Editor Leach, of the
Leesburg Commercial, for the re-
dictionaries, and Editor Benjamin,
of the Ocala Star, for the progress
sives, are knights worthy of their
causes, and as the arguments are
all in and the discussion seems to
have closed, we as one of the great
public supposed to referee the COM
bat, feel compelled to pronounce in
favor of the Ocala editor. He closes
for the progressives with these
words:
"Of late years, women have been
dressing in more and more COM
Portable and sanitary manner. AS
soon as men become used to seeing
bare necks and arms at one end, and
ankles, and then some, at the other,
they will stop thinking and talking
about them, and the world will! wag
on as usual. In the meantime, the
fashion of bare Threats and necks
will decrease tuberculosis, and as
for the other extremity, women will
be more comfortable and just as
modest when their skirts end at
their knees. The worst form of
dress women ever wore was the long
skirts which swept the sidewalks,
and brought back to their homes a
toll of the impurity gathered on the
streets.
I'VE will join Friend Leach in OBJ
lection to the form-fitting gown and
slit skirt, not because they are i'm
moral but because they are I'M
healthy and inconvenient and vio-
late the universal rule of good taste
that ladies-and gentlemen-should
not make themselves conspicuous
anywhere. Denouncing them does no
good, but they are only a freak of
fashion, and like all other freaks,
will pass, while styles in women's
dress will draw nearer the elegance,
comfort and convenience that may
some day combine into perfection "
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30
MENDENHALL ISSUES
STATEMENT AFFIRMING
HIS INNOCENCE

J. J.. Mendenhall, accused of the
murder of Mrs. Elliot and her
daughter in Pinellas county, yester-
day, from the Jail in Clearwater,
where he is confined, issued the fol-
lowing statement:
"To the People of Pinellas County:
Having resided in your commun-
ity for great many years, and hav-
ing under all circumstances, and at
! all times conducted myself as a law
abiding, public spirited, and. as far
as my ability permitted, a useful
citizen, I feel that am not request
ing too much, in consideration of
my past, to ask the good people of
Pinellas county, to withhold all
judgment and opinion of me, and the
trouble in which ! have recently be-
come involved, until such time as
those in whose hands have placed
my interests shall deem fit, for a
full statement of my case and in the
meantime ! believe it to be only fair
to myself as we'll as to you, for me
to state, most emphatically, and pos
itively to you, that l am not guilty
of the crime of which stand
charged. nor ams ! guilty of any
crime, and all that l ask at the
hands of the good people of Pinellas
county is to await the proper dis
closure of my defence in this most
unfortunate matter, with the full
confidence that in the end l will be
fully eXhonorated.
Respectfully yours,
-. J. MENDENHALL."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30
ONLY ONE DOZEN AEROPLANES
IN u. s. NAVY

Captain Mark l.. Bristol, director
of navel aeronautics, and head Of
the station here, is expected to reach
Pensacola this afternoon. Captain
Bristol has been away for some
time, and since he left several ma.
chimes have been added to those al.
ready at the station.
AS chief of the navy's flyers, Cap.
tain Britsol will have great deal
to do with the spending of the re.
cent million dollar appropriation OF
congress for the development of the
aeronautical branch of the nation s
defense.
An article in recent issue of Ev-
erybody's Magazine has the follow
ing to say of Captain Mark /. Bris-
toll.
He has perhaps the stiffest jol
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

The old-fashioned farmer who be-
lieved in pulling his fodder, is still
in the land of the living -Pensa-
cola News. He sure is, and shows
his good sense by SO doing.-Jasper
News.
Brother Caldwell is no farmer
and neither are we, but we know
that the best farmers in America
don't pull their fodder from the
corn stalk, thereby stripping it of
much of the force and nutritive
value that would otherwise go into
the corn ear and make it a larger
and better ear. Fodder is poor
forage, anyway, far inferior to the
many forms of hay that could be
easily grown in Florida and that
would go to the making of better
grade of stock 1t seems like irrev-
erent "monkeying" with one of the
venerable and sacred traditions of
the farming South to talk this way
about fodder, and we suspect that
Bro. Caldwell's devotion to this an
cient custom has no better basis
than simple reverence for that GUS
tom endeared in the retrospect by
innumerable associations of boy
hood on the farm But mere senti-
ment can't stand in the way of pro-
gressive farming. Our forefathers
were but in the infancy of knowl-
edge of the great science of agricul-
ture, and what they did know as
compared with what they didn't
know makes mighty poor showing.
In the great corn States fodder pull
ing would be laughed at, and here in
the South all progressive farmers
have abandoned it. Ii the horses
and mules who have had a taste of
real hay could take a vote on the
subject, it would be against fodder
unanimously.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

Rohne has had published in Berlin
some figures on the allied expendi-
ture of shells along the western
front. He says that NEARLY 3OO,-
I; 600 shells were fired north of Arras
on June IT," and that this was al
most as much as the whole fire of
the German artillery in 1870" He
+, also says "the very smallest gun
, shoots projectile costing at least
| So"
At SO per shell for an average
, the allies shot off 100000 in
: shells in one day at one spot along
a 450-mile line. This is at the rate
! of $9O,OOO,OOO a month for a small
part of the line, and Americas ex-
ports of all kinds of ammunition
./per month at the time must have
been less than 100000 for the
whole line!
These are American facts and
German calculations, not German
gueses. In this light, what becomes
of the German invention of so per
cent. of losses and sc per cent. of
losses caused by American bullets
,, and shells? Whatever else these
American explosives have done, they
: are shown in fact to have exploded
with deadly effect under the SO and
Sc per cent. liars.
American ammunition undoubt-
eddy has not figured at more than
5 per cent. of the allied expenditure,
and as the allied production is enor-
mously increasing, it will probably
never exceed that small fraction.
1t is not and has not been prolong-
ing the war or preventing German
victory. Its effect in the casualty
results are and must continue to be
comparatively negligible. The whole
story to the contrary has been
made in German" for a purpose
that reflects no credit on the Gov
eminent that has been its inspira-
tion.-New York World
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30
EXPLODING A GERMAN FAKE

Exports of explosives of all kinds
from this country in the month of
May amounted to only $500, 900
more than in the same month of
last year, when Europe was at
peace. For the eleven months end
ing with May these exports were
$24,O00,0O0 larger than a year ago.
These figures become important
when weighed against the German
charge that American ammunition
to the allies is prolonging the war
by preventing quick German vic
tory. They will interest those who
remember the statement of an Off
Ger of the German General Staff to
the Worlds correspondent that
100000 German soldiers had already
been killed by American ammuni-
tion and 100000 wounded; or the
statement of another high German
officer that so per cent of the Ger
man losses are SO caused, or the lat
er inspired outgiving of an Ameri-
can now in Germany that Sc per
cent of the German losses have been
| inflicted by American bullets and
shells.
Ut is of American shells that the
chief complaint is made, and these
exports of explosives include bull
let's as well as shells. We will be
liberal and assume that $780, 900
worth of shells alone were exported
in May to France and England.
The German Eeneral Hahn rich
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

Becker died game, protesting his
innocence to the last. But such q
protest counts for little, for he
might easily have been induced to
do that for the sake of his wife and
friends, and for some mysterious
reason deep down in psychology
nearly all convicted murderers who
are executed stick to their plea of
not guilty to the last no matter how
plain the proof of guilt. Becker's
execution is mighty boost for the
cause of law and order in this coun-
try and its moral effect will be felt
wherever the telegraph has flashed
the news.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30


four per cent. Now if it c;
it out at six per cent and Sc
in such a way as to insure
terest and principle being
when it becomes due there
doubt but that the farmer d
state would benefit mat
When the farmer is assist
state is developed. If Hayes
or for that matter, any 9th,
can double the resources of
when that man will be emit
a monument.-Pensacola JolI
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

Lewis proposes that the state Dor
row money at four per cent and
loan it to the farmers at six per
cent, the profit made by the state
to defray the expense of the loan de-
partment, and, in the event there
still remains profit it shall be
spent in developing rural schools
and county roads.
AS We stated the proposed rural
credit system appears feasible on it's
face. There is no doubling but that
the state can secure the money at
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

would be forwarded by him this
week.
I'm his correspondence with the
Palm Beach board of trade Secretary
Paddock of the Miami Chamber of
Commerce, advised the Palm Beach
organization to negotiate with a
National or American League team
according to the decision Miami
made so that if Miami signed with
a National, Palm Beach should sign
with an American league team, or
vice versa.
In this manner Mr.. Paddock be-
lieves interest would be greater
than if two clubs of the same league
gave exhibitions. There seems to
be a rule preventing the clubs of
he same league from playing ane-
eason games, it was thought.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30
THE AMERICAN MINISTER
TO BERLIN
(London Tattler)


Mr.. Gerard is now rounding out
two years of continuous service in
Berlin. He has never had a holt
day in all that time, and has friends
understand he does not think of
taking one for long time to come.
During the past ten months he has
been the busiest diplomat on earth
for Japan's interests in Germany
have been in his care besides those
of Great Britain and America. To
the work of ministering, as far as
their oaptors permit, to the comfort
of $4,000 British prisoners of war
and 5000 interned civilians, Mr..
Gerard and his charming young
wife have devoted their unremitting
and sympathetic attention. The
Ambassador has personally inspected
every prison camp of Importance, to
investigate the lot of British officers
and men, and recently went to Mag
deburg and Cologne TO visit the
thirty-nine selected British officers
kept in prison cells in retaliation
for the segregation of German sub
marine crews.
| Mr.. Gerard is living proof of his
country's system of manufacturing
diplomats as emergencies require.
Uncle Sans government is the only
first-class power in the world with
out trained professional diplomat
| ic service, yet International history
| is adorned with many examples of
eminent American diplomatists. The
present United States Ambassador
to Germany will without any DOUBT
be added to the list
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

The Jasper News is disguised,
along with the rest of us, with the
present libel law of Florida and dis
poses of the issue briefly by saying:
Lets abolish it, All right, Broth
er Caldwell. Go to it and tell us
when to help lift.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30
THE PRoGREssIvEs WIN

we lay no claim to expert knowl-
edge in the matter of the modern
woman's dress, now a disputed issue
ABOUT which the forces of reform
anu reaction rage and charge and
counter charge in ferocious though
Oioodless battle. but we feel a deep
and abiding interest in it and we
follow the discussion with lively in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

White the average, thinking Am
erican has no special knowledge of
military matters that would give
him any reliable information as to
the meaning of the various moves on
the checkerboard of war, yet he is
able to form his judgment on gener-
al results and he is able to weigh
those results with reference to their
influence on his own country.
We do not know just what in
fiuence the seeming defeat of the
Russian armies will have on the
general results. We do not know
but the so-called retreat was one of
the great moves in strategy that will
eventually discomfit the seemingly
victorious Austro-Germans.
But in that vast retreat, one OF
the most remarkable in the history
of war, there is much food for
thought for the average American
citizen at just this juncture of af.
! fairs.
Taking the American genarally,
he has believed from the beginning
that in the end, whenever that may
be, the allies would be successful
and that Germany would be crush
ed. Figuring on the weight of re-
sources, of men and of territory, he
he been unable to see anything else
than that eventually the Teutonic
allies would have to suspend the
struggle on account of the exhaust
ion of their resources. He has not
been able to see anything else than
an entire exhaustion of food, war
material, money and men for the
Austro-Germans from the stipend
GUS waste of all these things that
has been going on for a year.
But assuming that the retreat of
the Russians along their front for
nearly thousand miles back to
positions hundred miles to the
east, was forced by superior mill
tary training and by their own lack
of ammunition and equipment, sup.
posing that it is the fortune of war
that this pressure upon the Russian
armies be continued until the retreat
becomes route and results in the
destruction of the Russian armies,
what then?
With Russia disposed of and out
OF the war, can Germany then turn
on France and overrun that coun-
try? This question has it's vital in
terest to the American, for if Ger
many can defeat the allies on the
west, after having disposed of Rus
STA on the east, Italy and England
will naturally and inevitably fall a
prey to the all conquering German.
We have just spoken to Germany
in unmistakeable terms, and it
makes little difference whether we
have or not, if the occasion was
lacking, Germany in it's all con-
quering march would readily find
occasion for dispute with us, and
the American republic would then
be the next object of it's military
movements.
These are the things about which
the American is thinking, just now.
He readily recognizes that he does
not know how the European strug-
gle is to end, but he has it pretty
we'll imbedded in his consciousness
that if the German emperor is sue
cessful over the European continent
he will not hesitate to attempt to
extend his rule over all other con-
Naturally, we do not believe that
Germany will be successful, in the
end, but the wonderful and almost
success of it's arms in
spires the other thought as to what
this country is going to do to ad-
vert disaster, surprising that Ger
many is successful.-Miami Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30
RURAL CREDIT PLAN OF
LEWIS APPEARS FEASIBLE

Hayes Lewis, Jackson county
man, has come to the front with
plan for rural credits which, on it's
face, appears to be feasible. Mr.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

This from the Punta Gorda Her.
aid is an expression of opinion that
will be carefully preserved and sub
mitted to the inspection of the edi-
tor of the Telegram as soon as he
returns from his vacation. It is
rare praise from a high and dis
eliminating source:
There are some men in whom
we have such faith that it would
take the most indisputable evidence
to convince us of any wrong doing
on their part. Amongst the men in
whom we have such implicit conf
dence are State Treasurer Luning,
Comptroller Knott, Candidate Gill
christ and Editor HetheringtOn OF
the Lakeland Telegram. Florida has
many such men, praise the Lord"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

THE LAKELAND NEWS,
4 weekly newspaper giving q resume
Vt local matters, crop conditions,
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
for $3.50 per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-30

j. j. Mendenhall breaks the 81
lence in which he has taken refuge
since his arrest for the murder OF
Mrs. Elliot and her daughter and
publishes card in the press ad-
dressed to the people of Pinellas
county in which he declares himself
innocent of the murder or of any
crime whatever in that connection
and asks that judgment be suspend
ed until his trial. This, of course,
leaves the case right where it was
and. throws not one CLEAN of light
into the darkness shrouding the
dreadful crime, and it is not easy
to understand why Mr.. Mendenhall
made the statement, which is mere
ly plea of not guilty, such as ev-
cry defendant makes in murder
case. But we shall do as he asks
and suspend judgment until we hear
the evidence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-15

Ra4se4 for the first time on board tha Sgu4seI Ep1oTado in the harbor of san ExancdSco. the four starred blue flag of. AAdnuaraf Thomas B. Howard was sa91fte4 with seventeen guns by vessels in the Hharbor.