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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
THE WORLD ON FIRE.

President Wilson has apty stated the The world fire
and the confagraOn increases rather than diminisheS
With this fact staring plainly in the face forced
the subject national defense To do other
would be like leaving ones wife and babies the mercy
boOdthrsty mod
The American people do but there time
when it will be impossible for prevent
If such time should be prepared to H. and to
meet it in that win effectively expe the invader from
shores and insure against all future invasions
The President has limited that there danger being
into the present
We hope but if is that danger really exists it
the duty Congress take immediate the
of defense, do it without poll
teal wire pulling and ilbusterng.
If this country in danger of invasion this time
Senators and Congressman play politics build political fences
Action what quick purpose
Congress has been fairly warned of the dangers ahead the
who tries with welfare of his country
bill pay when the day of reckoning comes
Give action and fewer words.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
Correspondence
HAPPY RIDGE.

Miss Bertha Cole is on the sick list.
Mrs. Della Berry spent Sunday with
her mother near Mt. Olivet.
Mrs. Sarah donaldson is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Barbara Browning
Mrs. Nina Parker and children
spent last Thursday with Mrs. Nal
Cole
Mrs. Emma Cracraft and Miss Clara
Campbell we're Msysville visitors last
Saturday
Mrs. Mamie CatrOn and son Harvey
visited her sister, Mrs. Retta Johnson
last week.
Mrs Beatrice Mcdaniel spent Mon
day with her mother. Mrs. Blanche
Jefferson.
MIR and Mrs. Garrett Parker and
little son Alya Lee. are visiting her
sister Mrs. T. A. Woodward, at Ger
mantOwn.
Mrs. Ida Watson and little son Ray
spent last Friday With her sister, Mrs
John Gale.
Miss Mary Jefferson spent few days
last week with her sister, Mrs. John
Hit OF shannon.
Mr. and Mrs. Mamie Cracraft were
visiting his sister Mrs Ella Dillon.
Saturday night.
Rev. Il. Il. overley went 70 Pleas
ant Ridge ia Dreach Sunday altar
moor and night
Rev. f.. r. overley and Rev. w. II.
Morris were entertained at q. d. Park
er's Saturday night.
Misses cleo and Nellie Collins
spent from Saturday until Monday
with Mrs. Nettie Johnson.
There was a large crowd at church
Saturday night, but not so many on
sunGay morning on account OF the
rain
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
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/. OUR DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY !.
!. February n. II
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I. ]. + = !. = i. !. 4 i. !. J. i. I.

Samuel Thruston Ballard, Kentucky
sooiologist. who applies profit sharing
in his -four mills and champions the
cause Of workingmen, is 81 years old
today He was member Of the Unit
ed States Commission on Industrial
Relations, and wrote a supplementary
report that attracted wide attention
Mr.. Ballard urges national mini
mum wage law, the establishment of
labor committees in all big corpora
lions, a uniform ei9ht-hour day and
better vocational training Of chill
.dren. lie makes his findings from
long experience, and careful study
from the point of view of the practic-
al sociologist. When he told the EN-
ployers of the country that men will
do more work and better work on an
eight-hour basis than on twelve, he
started a lot of thinking. Mr.. Ballard
was born in Louisville February II,
1855. He was educated at Cornell, and
WIN hlh uiONltI tbNdbilsutu llt Ddl-
lard flour mills at Louisville. He has
been a leader in the movement for
better roads, child welfare and labor
legislation in Kentucky.
Alexander NJ. Dockery, Assistant
Postmaster General T. S. A., n years
old today.
Thomas A. Edison, noted American
inventor, 60 years old today.
Agnes G. Laut, prominent Canadian
authoress. IS years old today.
Or. Washington GLADDEN., famous
Ohio theologian. so years old today.
Rt. Rev. G. Mott Williams. Episco.
pal bishop of Marquette, 80 years old
today.
Pu-Ii, deposed emperor of China,
10 years old today.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
February II.


1225-Kine Henry III signed. the great
charter of English liberties. There
were many violations of the char.
ter, but it persisted and is the foun.
datiOn of modern liberty.
i65O-Death of Rene Descartes,
French philosopher and mathema-
tician, who extended the limits OF
geometry.
1S15-Peace treaty between United
States and Great Britain reached
New York.
lS69-Steamer Nelly Stevens burned
on Red river, Arkansas, and sixty
three lives lost.
1S91-Emperor William ordered arbi-
tration commissions to settle Ger
man labor troubles.
1S92-JInited States millers contrib
uted four and half million pounds
of flour to Russian peasants.
l912-Death of Lord Lister of Eng
land, discoverer of antiseptic treat
ment in surgery.
l915-Conference of Chinese and jap
anese ENJOYS terminates at Pekin,
with China's charge that Japan has
exceeded her rights.
l9l5-Interstate Commerce Commits
sion interpreted the Panama Canal
act to permit lower freight rates to
Pacific coast than to inter-mountain
points.
l9l5-The War-Germans drive Rus
slams out of East Prussia. Allies
make gains at La Bassee and Notre
Dame de Lorette. Servlans have
new army of 100000 to resist the
Austrians. War budget introduced
in Canadian Parliament.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
(Clay CITY Roads and FarmsJ

(Clay City Roads and Farms.)
j. NJ. Kennon has begun this week
operation in his crystallized limestone
quarry on Hardwick's creek. AS was
stated in a previous issue of this pa
per. this stone has a rich value and SC
far as could be detected from out
side appearance was very extensive. At
least thorough test will be given the
quarry this week, and if found to be
what every outside indication war.
rants, the mining and hauling of this
valuable stone to the railroad will be
begun at once. This means employ
ment for a number of men and teams,
We are told.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
SWIMMING NEWSPAPERS.

Some interesting being reported given
students about facts connected with the Europe These
generally every
be pretty familiar with Yet the students able
scarcely half these questions Many business
tried their hand at them, and less
This is the result of the habit of merely reading head
lines Most will read thoroughly only what Immediately
fecs them The housewife reads advertising
reads the markets Also every reads
their locality.
But when it to following the of the Congress
national politics. Mexico is surprising how intelligent
people do skip it, hasty glance the headlines opening
paragraphs and they pass other things.
No doubt that is the result of the ure of reading offered in
modern life But is wonderfully dramatic story is be.
ing told today the newspapers and lived
thrilling period Every word the newspapers print
ton.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
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Mules Dying In the South.
Larue County Herald.)

(Larue County Herald.)
Will Sprowls of near Buffalo, who
took carload of mules to Atlanta,
Ca, a few days ago, says that mule
buyers down there are losing heavily
on account of so many of the animals
dying from disease supposed to be
CHAMBERS. Mr.. Sprowls sold a few
over twenty head at an average of $3.50
and says that he just about broke even
on them. He figured that it was bet
ter to sell without profit than to risk
losing half his bunch. He is respon-
sible for the statement that other mule
buyers from Kentucky are losing
heavily.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

Fish Liberated.
(Jessamine JournalD

George NJ. Hill, special game war
den, representing the Kentucky Game
and Fish Commission, was here Mon
day and liberated 1000 rainbow trout
in Hickman creek, near Camp Nelson
These fish grow very fast and when
grown weigh from five to six pounds
They are excellent fish and furnish
almost as much sport as the brook
bass. If dynamiters do not disturb
them it is expected that the river and
creek near that point will soon be a
fine place to fish for this game fish.
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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
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Two Hunter Stories.
(Lewisburg LEADER

(LeWlSDurg LEADER
Al Lyons and son Carl and a young
Mr.. Kenney had the misfortune to lose
a fine coon dog one night this week
The dog found a coon up large tree
which was cut down at the expense of
much labor The coon ran out with
the dog after it, and into the creek
they went The dog attacked the coon
in the water but lost the fight and was
drowned. The coon was captured,
however, by the bold hunters.
Taughn Coursey went to his traps
Wednesday, morning and wasn't ex-
pecting to catch anything, he said, and
sure enough he didn't, but as there
was some kind of tracks in the snow
he followed them and caught a fine
coon in a hollow log and got an ak
and chopped it out.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
Beats the MOuntaineer.
(CadiI Herald)

a few days ago we saw in the papers
that some man in Eastern Kentucky
had killed and caught about eighty
possums since last fall, but we have
the man in Trigg county who has this
mountaineer beat a frazzel." Jim
Bryant, who lives near Canton, since
last fall has caught 1873 possums, )
coons and skunks. His brother has
also caught a lot, but Jim himself
caught all of these. He found ready
sale for the hides and as a result
he has taken in quite a little sum
during the past four months
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
artery Severed.
providence Enternrise.l

providence Enterprise)
To Richie Baynham happened a
painful accident at his fathers store
Wednesday evening James Grow, the
negro porter, was whiting on a stick
Richie, not seeing the knife. grabbed
him from behind, the left hand coming
in contact with the sharp knife and
severing an artery. The wound bled
profusely until it was securely bound
up by a physician.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

Says He Caught Bugs.
Pembroke JOnrnal.O

pembroke Journal)
Eugene Holmes has sued the city of
Crofton and Marshall Wallace Meyers
of that place for $1,000 damages.
Holmes claims that he was arrested
and placed in the Crofton Jail, which
was a filthy and infested with all
kinds of vermin, to-wit, body lice, ETC.,
and that he was put to great inconve-
nience by getting these upon him. He
also says that the charge upon which
he was arrested was dismissed.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
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Young Tobacco Grower.
Falmouth Outlook.)

Roy Wilson, the sprightly and in.
dustrious 12-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles l.. Wilson, of South Lick.
ing Valley, recently sold $50 pounds OF
tobacco on the local market at an av-
erage of SLIPS per hundred. Roy
raised this tobacco with his own hands
on one-fourth acre of land He bids
fair to become one of our future sci
entihc farmers.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

Tic first question when a baby
comes to home is, who does II look
like? When II is impossible TO tell
the happy father that II looks like
HIN, he Is usually eonaoled by ANY
WY, II viii grow 20 look ike him"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
Fine Tobacco Yield.
(Cadiz Record.)

(Cadiz Record)
10. ID. Stations, son OF W. b. Stall
Ions Of near Kyle, has a most excel
lent yield of tobacco. He stripped
some OF his crop some time ago and
six sticks of six plants each weighed
twenty-eight pounds-twenty-hve of
leaf and three pounds of seconds.
y. j. i.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11
Chickens by the Thousand.
(stanford Interior Journal)

NSJanlOru interior JOufnaLJ
John o. Reid of north of town, on
the Danville pike, has started breeding
operations this season on large scale
His incubators are loaded to 1e0O ca
pacity and each week, beginning this
week, Mr., Reid is taking off that many
young chicks. Mr.. Reid is breeding
seventeen different varieties of poultry
this season.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

OF course you are thoroughly posted angle of the European
But who the federal Secretary State? Who Chief
Justice of the Supreme COut Who the majority minority
leaders in Congress? Who Secretary Agriculture How many
states are there in the Union What the last be admitted
to statehood? Know your country first
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

You can't get ahead of the small boy One told
that old like angle chickens get them
both. And we cOuldn't do a thing but gulp
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

Quite bunch of newspapers making publishing
the of the "a today But the public
busy reading of the today that
that of Yesterday
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

Here's another kick President Wilson swing around the
circle and every newspaper the land whOoped up We swing
circle every day and aybrd ehrps
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

If just shoe the other fellow off twenty years
perhaps by that time the Boy Scouts solve problem
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

Mr. Brandes welcome that the Supreme
We have our hands full editing this rag
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-11

Swallowing his pride painless performance some people
Don't scratch the sides going down.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
MANY WOULD WE'D
SWARTHMORE VENUS
Vaudeville and Movie Magnates
Would Also Enmesh Miss
Margaret Willetts

Vaudeville managers, motion.picture
promoters, autograph seekers and would
be husbands have deluged Miss Margaret
willetts the Swarthmore Junior whose
physical measurements are nearly identi.
cal with those Of the Venus de Milo, with
a multitude of kilograms, letters and mes.
sages They contain offers to appear be.
fore the footlights TO pose for the camera
in the movies and even to appear before
a minister They are n result of the wide
publication of her distinction in Phlladel-
phia New York and scores of other news
papers.
The beautiful girl is the daughter of
Mr.. E. II. Willetts, of Trenton, N. j.,
who is prominent in the pottery Industry
there. The Wllletts family is of old
Quaker origin and has long been promi-
nently connected with the Swarthmore
College administration.
Miss Willetts, according TO her gymna-
sium measurements, was found TO equal
in nearly every proportion the measure
ments OF the Venus de Milo who has
through all the ages been considered the
perfect woman" The Swarthmore stu
dent weighs 1872 pounds, Is 3 feet as inches
In height, has a neck measurement of 12.4
inches. chest measurement of 946 inches.
and 362 inches when expanded. Her
friends in Swarthmore, however. are will
ing to bet that their Venus" could con-
siderably outeNpand the Venus de Milo,
for the latter marble-chested lady ex-
panded hers evidently when no one was
around.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
UNDERTAKEN MURDERS,
ENlBALMS AND BJRIES
WIFE; FORCES PAPER
New York Man, Taken at Ban
quet, Confesses to Killing.
Neighbors' Letters Lead
to Arrest
CALMLY TELLS STORY
Misuse of Doctors Name in Certif-
cate by Slayer Discovered by
Police

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-After telling one
of the most remarkable stories ever heard
by the police of how he killed his wife be-
cause she was scodlng him. eribalmed
her body, forged n death certificate and
buried her, Harry Schroeffe1 an under
taker, was formally accused of murder
today
Although Schroeffel, according to his own
concession, killed his wife December %.
the crime was not discovered until weeks
later. He was arrested last night while
attending n banquet Called from the ta-
BILE by detective, Schroeffel was aston
ished that he should have been found
out.
According to the police Schroeffel
declared he had asked his wife not TO talk
so loud during an argument they we're
having. She refused and he put his hand
over her mouth and his arm about her
neck holding her. She fell to the floor
Schroeffel went to bed and slept soundly.
THE next morning." said Schroeffel
calmly, IT found her body where she
had fallen. Rigor mortis, as we en-
balmers say had set in. / embalmed her,
so an autopsy would not show the cause
of death. l then filled in the death GER
tlfcate, giving the cause as lobar
newspapers, conducted the funeral and
saw her put in the grave. was certain
no one knew anything about it,"
Schroeifel was arrested as a result of
anonymous letters received by the police
telling of neighbors having heard screams
In his home the night Mrs. Schroeffel was
killed. The fact that he had forged a
doctors name to the death certificate
was also discovered.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
PENN SENIORS TOBACK
INSURANCE ENDOWMENT
Students Will Be Asked to Buy
Policies in Favor of Univer-
sity Before Their
Graduation

Members of the senior class of tho
University of Pennsylvania will be asked
to take out 20-year endowment insurance
policies In favor OF the University before
they are graduated in June, It was de-
cided by the Senior Class Fund Com
fnittee at a meeting in Logan Hall.
The scheme to aid college endowment
funds by making them the benetlcaries
of insurance policies taken out by stu
dents was tried at the University of
Pennsylvania for the first time last
year 1t has found favor for several
years at Yale, Dartmouth and Williams
College Money to the amount of $4,000
will be paid over to the University of
Pennsylvania from policies taken out by
the class of 1915, il the policies run to
maturity.
The class of 1916 plans to assure the
amount to $4,000, or If possible $4,000, by
selling $500 and $1,000 policies to all its
members. The average cost of a $500
policy to the students would be about
six and half cents day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
POPE SENDS HIS BLESSING
TO COUPLE WED AT SHORE
John j. Sullivan and Miss Hilda j.
Miller Married

ATLANTIC CITY. Feb. 15.-The Pope
cabled his blessing yesterday to John
]. Sullivan. of this city, and Miss Hilda
j. Miller. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
]. Miller, prominent in Philadelphia, who
were married here this morning. The
young couple were united in marriage
by the Rev. Joseph a Mccarthy. Of
oxford. Pa, friend of the brides
parents.
The bride was given away by her father
She was attended by Mrs. William e.
Huber, of JohnstOwn, Pa. as matron of
honor. Mr.. Sullivan's best man Was
James Reiver, of West Philadelphia.
At the close of the ceremony the we'd
ding party, comprising only close rela-
tives, assembled for the breakfast at the
Ventnor cottage of, the brides parents,
Atlantic and Dover avenues. Later in
the day the newly married couple de-
parted for Havana, Cuba, where they
will spend their honeymoon.
Mr.. Sullivan is n Pennsylvania Univer-
sity man and the bride Is we'll known in
the Philadelphia younger set. She was
born in Germantown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
POOR, SHE GIVES UP KIDDIES
Widow Forced by Poverty to Send
Three to Institution

A woman who had been making n
desperate struggle to support herself and
her four children since the death of her
husband year ago was forced to sur
render all her children except her baby.
to the Catholic Children's Bureau today
when she petitioned Judge MacNeille in
the Juvenile Court for aid. She is Mrs
Savina McKenna, of ga Callowhill street
Judge MacNeille expressed regret that
the laws would not permit an order to
support the children unless they were in
the care of a charitable institution and
then made arrangements for the payment
of 50 week to the Catholic Children's
Bureau for each of the children, except
the youngest, n 9-month-old baby, which
Mrs. McKenna refused to surrender.
Those who are turned over to the charity
are Josephine, years old; John, z years
old, and Frances, aged 3 years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
Rescues Woman From Burning House

Joseph Ludwig, who lives at 2226 Cal.
lowhil street. proved himself a man of
resource in fire that occurred In the
home of his neighbOrs the Rossman fam
lily. at 222S Callowhill street. last night.
In the hasty exit of the Rossman family
from the burning house, boarder, Mrs.
John Botskoufski, was forgotten. Ludwig
heard the woman's cries and, going to the
garret of his home crept through trap
door to the roof. A space of four feet
separates the two houses Ludwig
bridged this with door he wrenched
from it's hinges, and assisted Mrs. Bot
slxoufski across the impromptu bridge.
The fire started In some rubbish in the
rear of the house and caused damage
of several thousand dollars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-16
POISONING BARES ANARCHISTS
PLOT TO KILL MANY PERSONS
Dear Friend" of Chicago Soup Sus-
pect Is Arrested

NEW YORK, Feb. 16-Out of the in
fesugatlon into the lives of the men ac-
eased OF having tried to poison all the
eners at the banquet given to Archbishop
A1ndelein at the University Club in Chi
sago last Thursday night the police OF
.nat city and the Federal Department of
susuee have discovered just in its active
'sshmng vast anarchistic plot to de-
'uoy lives and property.
accordingly, a nationwide dragnet has
zen nnng out, and into this last night
ns New ork police tumbled Alberto
ssua eamillo, waiter, of 407 West 18th
sveeI this city. lie admits that he Is a
dear friend and comrade" of lean
Iones, the fugitive chef of the Univer-
~ slub or Chicago, who is accused of
a-lns poisoned the soup served at the
'srsquet 10 Archbishop Mundelein.
sanilo further admitted himself to be
~ anarchist, and the police who made
~ arrest brought down to headquarters
-. night trunkful of anarchistic lit
A.ure and packet OF letters, the con-
.as Oh which latter may furnish Inn
Peilant revelations.
me police allege that they found In a
sseu drawer fully loaded revolver
~ extra cartridges, which gave them
sglnd Tor arresting and holding him
'aasr the Sullivan act.
peahililo said that his bFother-in-laW
~ csssslolomeo Boniesio, chauffeur, now in
esaso, was even a dearer friend and
s.9ssr eomrade of the fugitive Crones
= iaet the last time he had seen Crones
IN this city in April, 1915, with
ts,a tsisslo Shortly afterward. he said,
~ returned to Chicago.
mere were some OF Boniesio's effects
eamillo's possession. and among them
picture postal card sent from Chi
IS - some months ago. 1t represented
- burning OF old Fort Dearborn in 1912,
~ss,,s - across the picture in Italian was
!. mat are you doing, sleeping? Don't
~ see L burn? Ask also Berte La Bino
IN M ,shey help you, otherwise Wilma Coda
ls.drn: Dsrn:" It was signed. Amigo (friend
"a me front Of the card was written
i, mat are you doing. damn II? Look
- -. e.nerwise patrol wagon. Time will not
ana will take three OF you"
~ anlllio said he had been in the country
sf Z years was 25 years old. and a native
psela, province OF Navara. Italy He
psFef applied for citizenship papers.