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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-09-30

A new postal regulation pro.
Vldes for the following indemni.
ties for insured parcel post
packages: &c fee value up to S.;
DC fee, value up to S25; 1Oc fee
value up to $50; 25c fee value up
to 500.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-09-30
School Notes
Pie supper Friday night,

; One room had Is tardies this
month.
The 9th grade is doing excel.
lent work in geography.
Paul Hylton is the first pupil
promoted this year, He goes
into the second grade.
y photographer took some pic
lures of the pupils in the grades
Monday morning,
Quite a number of high school
students spent FRIDAY afternoon
visiting the fair at Seymour,
The pupils in the second pri.
mary room are collecting bird
pictures and studying their
feathered friends.
Do you like pie? You can get
all YOU want at the pie supper
Friday night. Tell the high
school girls what you like best.
They will have it.
Supt. Hylton conducted devo
tional exercises Monday morn.
ing and spent the assembly pc
Rod discussing the premiums
offered for educational exhibits
at the Mansfield fair.
Nearly so well bound books
for supplementary work in the
second primary, intermediate
and grammor grades were re
ceived this week and are being
put to good use by the students
in these rooms.
The teachers went to Seymour
Saturday to visit the fair and go
through the school building,
The 9th grade physiology class
is making a careful study of the
teeth and how to care for them.
Excellent drawings of the parts
of IA tooth are made by each pu-
pill.
Teachers and pupils who go to
visit other schools all come back
much pleased with our clean
rooms and the favorable condi.
tions under which we work here.
Did you ever eat a guess
pie: 1t is a pie made of several
ingredients, and the first person
to guess correctly what these
are gets the pie and a box of
or some other valuable
Monday afternoon the mem.
bers of the agriculture class
went to the Ashworth farm to
see a siio filed. Notes were
taken and a report of this field
trip will be written up in the
note books.
The contest for the quarterly
holiday this month was almost a
lie between the first primary
md high school, and on account )
the high school students hav. {
ng been dismissed Friday after .
loon the little folks will take the
irst regular quarter holiday.
Two new number 9 Oliver
ypeWriterS have been ordered
or the use of those who are tax. G
ng the commercial course, and
Ii a few days the pupils will be.
in practice on them. Excellent
work. in bookkeeping is being g
one. and with the addition of
hese machines the young peo. {
lie who expect to attend bust
ness college can do much pre-.
aratory work in ourown school. ="
Last year the school purchased
wo new model Singer sewing !
lachines and a first class piano.
should be made each d
lonth-Sl on the machines and
D on the piano. but during the d
ummer vacation nothing was
aid. A pie supper Will be given d
night, October /, to raise
lnds to continue the payments. ri
7erybody in town is invited to n,
clip raise these very necessary
The following is a condensed N
eport for the month of Sep
,mber:
nrollment-MaIe -. $500. 1O8 =,
Female ..,.,....132
Total $40
otal No. days attendance .4,468 ii
v. daily attendance 223%
o. attending every day e.. 121
to
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-09-30

Permanently marks every feature of
the construction of the buildings that
dot the expanse Of fair grounds at Sc
dalia. This is true, with the excep-
ton of a single wooden building owned
by the state and one wooden building
erected by a private exhibitor. Con-
crete and steel and brick and stone
predominant in all other buildings on
the fair grounds and now an all-steel
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-09-30
EXPULSION FROM EDEN

The Word Of God must stand. whether It be the word prom.
ising Eternal Life or the sentence of Death. There is no yar.
apeness with Him, neither shadow of turning. The curse. the
Death Sentence, foretold by the Lord, was executed, but not in.
stanty. Adam was not stricken llfeless with a thunderbolt
FROM the very beginning God foreknew all, and had planned
Jesus came and died, the Just for the unjust" As a result ud.
mately the curse of death will be removed. There shall be no
more curse"-no more dying, signing, or crying, nor any more
pain-Revelatton 22:3; 2l4, g.
All of us were told, and many of US believed fully. that the
penalty Of Father Adams disobedience was eternal torture. in
which all OF his posterity must share, except a few-the sanity,
the Elect Told that this was the teaching of the Bible, we
accepted without proof ThessalOnians SOL.
Now Christian people examine their Bibles more carefully.
They find that the curse, or penalty for sin, is a totally differ.
ent one. THE wages of sin is death" Romans 623) THE
soul that sinneth it shall die" This penalty of death has rest
ed against Adam and his family for six thousand years. It has
brought sorrow, signing, pain and trouble; it has bIghted our
lives mentally, morally and observation-disclosures SIP.
1t is this curse of death that was pronounced against Father
Adam, according to the Genesis account, and also according to
the New Testament. Accused is the earth for thy sake; thorns
and thistes shall it bring forth unto thee. In the sweat Of thy
race shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground
from whence thou vast taken, for dust thou art and unto dust
shalt thou return" 1t is from this curse that Jesus redeemed
us by dying, the Just for the unjust. 1t is from this death curse
that Messiah rescues all by a resurrection from the dead. by
man came death, by man also the resurrection Of the dead."-
l Corinthians 1921.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-09-30

fence, unclimable to the i~nterloper
who would visit the fair from Septem.
Der 25 to October 2 without paying ad.
mission, has been erected around the
entire grounds. The Art building,
shown above, while not the most pre.
tentious In the grounds by any means.
Is an example of the splendid type of
permanent construction which the
state of Missouri has adopted.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-09-30

Get the Fair Premium List.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Directors of the District
While Under Criticism
Work Big Economies

Office salaries have been reduced
500 a month.
The salaries of five directors at
$15O a month have been cut off, on
the suggestion of Director Ferguson,
the directors now drawing $4 day
for service actually rendered, saving
$500 a month.
The personal expenses of Attorney
Conkling, Engineer lockwood and
others cut off amount to about 5000
a month.
These items Of saving amount to
$27 ,480 year.
II THERE WAS NOT EXTRAV-
AGANCE BEFORE THESE CUTS
THE MAKING OF THE CUTS WAS
UNJUST, AND THE MERE FACT
THAT THE CUTS IN EXPENSES
WERE MADE is PROOF OF EX-
TRAVAGANCE UP TO THE TIME
THE PRESS BEGAN IT'S CRlTl-
CISM
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Russians Hopeful.

Petrograd, Sept. 15.-The German
and Austrian armies invading Russia
have lost 100000 men in two months,
according to official announcement
here today. Prisoners state that en-
tire regiments were annihilated in
storming Russian positions and that
the difficulties under whic hthe Teu-
tons are advancing are without par
allel in military history.
Within the last weeks, the official
statement claims, more than 10000
prisoners have fallen into Russian
hands. With each succeeding day, the
statement issued claims, the Teuton
advance is becoming increasingly more
difficult, while the situation Of the
Russians is hourly becoming more ia
vorable
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

A few days since a demand was
made for proof of extravaganza in
the operation of the irrigation dis
trict. Here is the proof:
The directors while under citicism
have reduced the expenses Of the dis
trict by nearly 100000 year.
They have made Il tex levy but
about half as great as was expected
by them before the Press began to
Critcise their procedure.
Here are some of the economies
worked by the district while the pol
icy of Messrs. Hamilton, Brockman
and Bennett have been under criti-
cism:
The Calexieo branch office of the
engineering department has been
closed, saving $500 month.
The chief engineers salary Of $3.50
month has been cut off.
The salary of Attorney Conkling of
$400 a month has been cut off.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Harold Bell
Wright Day

San Diego, Sept. 15.-Dr. Humph-
rey J. Stewart, official organist, will
play at the Spreckels music pavilion
at the Panama California exposition
this afternoon at o'clock.
Harold Bell Wright, author of "The
Winning of Barbara WORTH" was hon
ored by the Panama California EX-
position today, the day having been
named in his honor.
At noon Wright was entertained at
luncheon at the Cristobal cafe by
President and Mrs. G.. A. Davidson.
This afternoon at 1880 Wright made
brief address in the patio of the
Southern California Counties build
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

New York, Sept. l5.-There is the
gravest danger that Petrograd will
yet be taken by Won Hindenbmg's
forces, who are now mquestonably
aiming at the Russian capital and
driving ON toward their goal each
day.
Since the Car has taken personal
command of the army, succeeding
Grand Duke Nicholas, there has been
no improvement in the situation,
though the lack of ammunition is
probably as great a factor now as it
has been. 1t is hoped here that the
Gar, personally feeling the lack of
material, will be able to bring about
a better state Of affairs.
Riga is in more immediate danger
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

But this economy does not repre-
sent all the Press has accomplished.
What is of even greater Importance
is the fact that Conkling's scheme of
litigation and Conkling and Rock
woods project for Mexican heading,
with transfer of water control to
Mexico have been definitely set aside,
and the district has arranged to avoid
payment of interest this year on the
purchase price of the canal system.
There is still one great work to be
done That is to shake off the South
ern Pacific attorney who is still act
ing as chief attorney for the district
and who in that capacity must pass
en- the title to property the district
is to acquire from the Southern Pa
cific Company. To accomplish this, it
is necessary to recall Directors Ham
ilton and Brockman, who insist on
retaining Conkling.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
WILL MEXICALI
BE SCENE OF A
BATTLE TONIGHT?

Double precautions will be observed
tonight by the United States Customs
and immigration Service at Calexico
and it is probable that the troops sta
toned at the border town will OBJ
serve The same wariness, for Septem-
Der 16 is the date that has been wide
ly rumored as that which the Car
ranzistas have chosen to besege Mex
ical.
Inspector Fred Buck of the Gus
toms service was in FL Centre today
and secuted the theory that there was
a battle impending.
81 do not think there is anything
to it," he said this morning.
81 have not noticed unusual num-
bers of Mexicans on the American
side and | believe that if the Car
ranzistas Were going to attack MeXi-
cali that they would not be foolish
enough to let the day for the battle
to become known.
"While neither the customs service
nor the immigration service will add
any to the regular force, we will ex-
ercise every possible precaution and
it is probable that the troops under
Captain Mosley will do the same"
Captain Mosley is maintaining daily
precautions as he allows only half the
force stationed there to leave the
camp at the same time, and these men
are required to obtain permission be-
fore absenting themselves.
An elaborate program has been
planned for tomorrow by Colonel Es-
teban Cantu, governor of Lower Cal
ifornia, which would indicate that the
executive is not greatly worried over
the "disquieting" rumors.
Recent additions of equipment for
defense have been received at the lit
tie Mexican town and the forces sta -
toned there are probably better able
to withstand an attack now than they
have ever been.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Woman Killed in Auto
Accident at CaleXicO

Accidentally falling from an auto
mobile into the road upon her head
with such force as to cause instant
DEATH was the verdict of coroner s
jury after an inquest held this morn
ing by Justice of the Peace Philo
Jones of Brawley into the death of
Mrs. Nellie Matthias, who was thrown
from an automobile and killed early
last night.
A. l.. Burke of Holtvile, j. c. Ken
drick of Holtville and Mrs. Matthias,
who lived at Imperial, left Imperial
early yesterday afternoon for CaleX-
leo, where they spent the day.
Just as darkness fell the trio start
ed for home in "A 2-seated runabout,
Burke driving and the woman seated
between the driver and Kendrick.
They were travelling between 25 and
80 miles an hour, they told Sheriff
Applestill last night. About a mile
north of Calexico southbound au-
tomobiles bore down on them, one
with the lamps lighted and the other
shrouded in darkness.
Burke, they said, swerved toward
the roadside to avoid a collision and
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Fighting in Balkans.

Athens, Sept. 15.-Actual fighting
has begun between Bulgarians and
Roumanians On the border, according
to unconfirmed reports which reached
here today. 1t was reoprted that pa
trolls of the two nations had clashed
and that ten men were killed and a
score injured in the fighting.
The dispatches received here We're
via Roumanian sources. They de
clared the Bulgarians were the ag-
gressors in the conflict.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
BANDIT SUSPECT
CAPTURED AFTER
DARING HOLDUP

A daring holdup attempt, last night,
within a stones throw of the depot
at Imperial, where fully a score of
persons were standing, ended in the
capture of the alleged highwayman
after sharp chase. The suspect gave
the name "Stack' Lee and is said to
be a well known Imperial character.
He is negro.
The victim of the holdup, II. N.
Mccormack, was taken to st. Thomas
hospital last night, where physicians
sutured a slight scalp wound. He was
discharged this morning.
Mccormack was passing along a
street close to the depot, according
to the account of the holdup received
here, when Lee stepped out of the
shadows, leveled a gun at his victim
and essayed to relieve him of his val
uables.
Mccormack, the report stated, at
tempted to grapple with the highway
man, and in the tussle was struck vio-
lently over the head with the butt of
the gun.
His outcries were heard by persons
in the vicinity of the depot and sew
eral started to his rescue.
The alleged bandit fled, closely pur-
sued and was overtaken. after he had
clambered over a fence into the ball
park in an attempt to eYade his pur-
suers.
Although armed, he surrendered
without resistance, not a shot being
fired by his pursuers.
He is held at the Imperial Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Collar Day Draws Nigh
And Men Are Preparing.

ridicule and contumely of his fellow
mortals.
On previous October lists there al
ways have been a few who neglected
to provide themselves with collars,
and have sought to lay the blame on
others or have claimed they could
not remember where they put their
collars last spring. This year no such
apologies will be accepted
1t is understood the supervisors will
appoint Il collar commission and early
next month will issue blue book as
a social index giving the names of
all who duly appeared with chokers
ON the appointed day.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

BY decree duly issued, by tradition
and by common practice, Friday, Oc-
tober /, will be Collar Day through
out Imperial Valley.
1t will not be compulsory on that
day to wear a starched collar, though
most men will do so and all will be
judged as factors in society by their
collars.
On the other hand, any native or
any resident of weeks duration who
before October l wears stiff collar
will be subject to fine and imprison-
ment, besides being held up to the
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

Washington, Sept. 15.-Prospect fol
f-.vorabl~ ad' rcat the oo1lfo
versies between the United States and
Germany depend entirely on the at
titude which the Berlin office will
take toward the recommendations
made today by Count Won Bernstroff,
the German ambassador, following
his conference yesterday with Secre-
tary Lansing.
Details of the conference became
known today, throwing light on the
critical point that had beee reached
in the relations between the two coun-
tries. The Washington government
was almost ready to sever diplomatic
relations, but decided to delay taking
any step until Germany could be fur
nished the evidence in its possession
ON the Arabic case.
Friendliness and candor are under
stood to have characterized the con
versation between Lansing and the
ambassador. The latter has been civ
en- an opportunity to communicate
freely with his government so that IT
may be clearly understood in Berlin
why officials here are convinced that
the torpedoing of the Arabic could
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

tral We have become the object of
envy and hate by all the warning
countries, and this will increase as
we wax fatter from world trade at
the expense of our old-time rivals
Lapp called attention to the fear
this nation always has had for large
bodies of men with training for war
and said he believed the scheme out
lined would give no ground for such
fear.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Critical Stage Continues
In German Negotiations

not have been a mistake, justified or
omjdstified.
In view of the evidence the United
States wants a disavowal of the act
and this was made clear to Count Von
Bernstorff. Arbitration cannot be an
issue for consideration until the atti-
tude of the German government to-
ward the act itself is placed on rec
ord. Later the American government
may take under consideration pro-
posal to arbitrate, not the principle,
but what indemnity should be paid for
American lives lost.
Tension was lessened today and
there was much more hope in both
state department and German quar-
ters of a friendly adjustment than
there had been in several days. Much
emphasis was placed on the fact that
for the first time since relations be-
came strained informal discussions are
proceeding at Washington and Ber-
lin, while the freest opportunity for
an exchange of views confidentially
and informally has been made pos
sible. In fact it was predicted in
German quarters that understandings
might now be reached in advance of
the writing of formal notes.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

bis car crashed into an embankment
with such force that Mrs. Matthias
was hurled from her seat clear of the
car, striking on her head and sustain
ing injuries that caused instant death.
Although no physician examined the
body, it is believed that she suffered
fractured skull The force of the
impact inflicted wound on the righ
side of the head that ranged from
the right ear almost to the medan
line.
Sheriff Applestill was summoned q,
once and the body was removed to the
mortuary of ID. d. Mulligan & Son,
where the inquest was held this morn
ing.
Little was known of Mrs. Matthias.
She had been living at Imperial for
some time, it was said, having gone
to work yesterday for the first day at
an Imperial cafe. She was about 30
years old.
Mrs. G. w. Logan, mother of the
deceased, lives at Parnell, Mo-, and
has been notified of the tragedy.
Kendrck, up until the past weeks,
served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff
Applestill.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Still Awaiting News.

New York, Sept. 15.-There is still
no satisfactory report of the lombard
ment of London, and the extent of
the damage done cannot be learned
because of the censorship. The sup
preston of the facts does not neces-
sarily imply vast damage, for if the
Zeppelin raid was a failure the facts
might serve just as we'll to guide the
Germans in making future raids. But
fear still prevails that London SUI
fered heavily.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
How the Nation Will
Prepare for Defense

indianapolis, Sept. 14..This nation
is in a perilous position because of the
European war; We must prepare for
effective defense; but a standing ar
my of adequate proportions is un-
American. After summing up the sit
uation thus, John A. Lapp, in a state
ment issued today, suggested the APP
plicdtion of vocational education to
the army and navy as the solution.
Lapp, as a member of President
Wilson's commission on vocational
education, drew up the bill that will
be presented to Congress. He is the
author of Indiana's vocational law,
which has been IA model for other
states.
Vocational education and national
defense should go hand in hand, said
Lapp. In that way only, he said, can
the nation maintain an adequate
standing army without tremendous
waste of human energy and without
providing menace to our democratic
ideals.
eve want men trained for war, but
whose thoughts are of peace" said
Lapp. "Why not couple up the two
and while making men efficient for
defensive war make them also eff
cient productive workers? Let us
have a million men in training all the
time for effective defense, but let
that million be trained all the time
for useful employment. Let every
camp and battleship become a school
where a few hours a day can be spent
in preparing for the arts of peace"
, Lapp said the army and navy of
fered opportunities for vocational
training in hundreds of different lines
to meet the needs of the army and
navy. There is no reason, he said,
why the army and navy should not
do large part of the work needed
for their support.
"Around every army post the gov
ernment should own large tracts Of
land for cultivation, where the scien-
ces of agriculture, forestry and ami
NAL husbandry in all their phases
would be taught and from which the
troops could be supported" said Lapp.
Lapp suggested that arrangements
could be made to give the carpenter,
plumber or machinist who joins the
army supplementary education along
these lines so that he would become
a better carpenter, plumber or ma
chinist
TO get the broadest benefits from
such a scheme, different periods of
enlistment would be necessary, he
said. Enlistments for from four years
down to six months could be allowed,
and vocational training in lines re-
quiring greater or less training could
be provided as the case might be.
Lapp declared that the six month
enlistment term would be an effective
cure for unemployment because it
would offer both job and school
ing.
"Urdoubtedly this nation is in a
perilous position" said the educator.
eve are the only world power not
engaged in conflict. As great neu-
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

enmity Of certain classes of Mexicans
against Americans, and official Wash
ington shares in the widespread fear
that the situation will grow worse
before it Improves.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

Miss Janette Guyett of Camrose,
Candada, is visiting her mother and
sister. Mrs. Warren Cope and Mrs.
E. L. Wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
36 PRISONERS
IN JAIL NOW

A census of the county Jail today
showed a population of just 36 pris-
oners, which is the largest number
that has been housed there for some
months. Three are TRUSTEES, one is a
woman, and the remainder are con-
fined in the Jail proper
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
GraVest Danger Faces
Capital of the Russians

than Petrograd, as an enveloping
movement is threatened which, de
spite the desperate fighting of the
Russians at that point, may force ca
pitulation.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

Temporary Front-Having been un-
able to secure property on Main street
that they wanted for new building,
the Meyer Furniture Company is put
ting in temporary front in their
present building.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15

Washington, Sept. 15.-Tbe order
repeated yesterday by President vii
son for all Americans in Sonora and
Chihuahua to leave Mexico at once is
Imperial Valley press., 1915-09-15
Border Siittuati0nCalls
For Strenuous Order

not interpreted here as indicating any
intent of intervention. But the raids
into the United States by hundreds
Of MeNicans and the repeated fights
alone the border indicate The deep