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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
DO NOT TAKE DEQUEsT OF GER.
MANY AND AUSTRIA
SERIOUSLY.
THEY ARE ALL OF ONE MIND
Answer to German Proposal Is "No"
Will Go Forward to the Central
Powers-LIoyd George Says
Fight Must Go On.

Paris, Dec. 19.-Premier BRAND
announced in the senate today that
the entente allies would send con-
certed reply making known to the
central powers that it is impossible
to take their request for peace seri-
ously."
"WouId Be Putting Heads in Moose"
London, Dec. 19.-Premier David
Lloyd George said in the house of
commons today that for the allies to
enter into prosopals of which they
had no knowledge was to put their
heads into moose with the rope end
in the hands of Germany. Much as
they longed for it, the premier added,
the central powers note and the
speech preceding it afforded small
encouragement and hope for an hon
orable and lasting peace.
Mr.. Lloyd George said: "Our an.
swer will be given in full accord with
the allies. Each of the allies has
separately and independently arrived
at the same conclusion. l am glad of
the first answer given by France and
Russia"
Must Have Reparation.
The premier said snat it was felt
that they should know before enter
ing on negotiations that Germany was
prepared to accede to the only terms
whereon it was possible for peace
to be obtained and maintained in
Europe.
The premier said that without rep
aration peace would be impossible.
He said that the allies would in
sist that the only end of the war
must be complete guarantee against
Prussian militarism disturbing the
peace of Europe.
During the war, the premier said,
shipping would be nationalized in a
true sense.
The premier announced it has been
decided to give recognition to the
agents of former Premier Venizelos
of Greece.
|. Criticizes ChanceIIor's Speech.
The speech of Chancellor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg before the German
reichstag was characterized by Mr..
Lloyd George as constituting in sub
stance a denial of the only terms
upon which peace was possible.
1t is reported that Italy will con-
slider no separate peace terms.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
BANKERS ARE WARNED TO
MEET NEW PROBLEMS
Vanderip Says After War Issues Will
Tax Strict Attention of Business
Men of the United States

Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the
National City bank of New York, ad-
dressing the Chicago Bankers club
recently, warned the auditors that the
United States would have to meet
social and economic problems as
result of the European war that would
tax the ingenuity and resourcefulness
of the nation, and called upon the
bankers to prepare to aid in the
solution of these problems.
The belief that the United States
could proceed along it's own way unaf-
fected by the war and seeking only to
keep out of it, he declared a lack of
imagination, blindness of vision and a
complete failure to understand the
unity of the industrial, commercial and
financial world
Unless l utterly misjudge affairs"
he said, there are going to develop
for this country problems of the gra-
vest import, problems that will need
for their correct solution the atten-
ton of the most enlightened minds
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
Congress Takes Holiday.

Washington-With a holiday re-
cess planned to begin next Saturday
and extend until January 2, congress
sional leaders do not hope to accom-
plish anything before adjournment ex-
cept the passage Of a few appropria-
ton bills in the house and possibly
the disposition of the Sheppard pro-
hibition bill for the District of Co.
lumbia in the senate. Consideration
of railroad legislation and corrupt
practices legislation measures already
have been deferred until next month.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
FORCE GERMANS BACK ALMOST
TO POSITION THEY HAD
BEFORE BIG DRIVE.
VICINITY OF VERDUN FORTS
Over $500 Teuton Prisoners Captured
and More Are Coming-SeveraI
Villages Now in French Hands
Advance On Whole Front.

Verdun Front, Dec, 16.-A short,
sharp battle brought to the French
Saturday their third smashing victory
within two months in the vicinity of
Verdun. Every objective of the
French commanders was obtained.
They are now nearly back to their
original positions
Although the Germans offered a
desperate defense, the attack was SO
powerful there was no withstanding
were pushed back along the line by
the French, who only ceased on orders
when the detectives had been gained.
Thousands of German prisoners
poured into the French lines during
the day, including 200 officers and are
still thriving. The total count already
is 1900. One division alone captured
more than 1900 Germans within an
hour. More than 80 canon were cap
tured or destroyed.
The villages of Vacherauville, Louve-
mont and Besonvaux and Hardaumont
wood are now in French hands.
The front was 10 kilometers long.
When the fighting ceased, owing to
darkness, the French advance had ex-
ceded an average Of three kiiometers
along the whole front.
French Winning at Verdun.
London, Dec. 18-The French are
continuing their great offensive in
the Meuse sector of the Verdun front
and have made further gains. The
British also have made progress and
succeeded in Saturday night engage
ments in raiding enemy trenches near
Ransart and southwest of Wytsch-
acte, gaining foothold in both cases.
The German war office admits the
loss to the French of the village Of
Bezonvaux and a wood to the west
Of that place, but aserts that the
French thrust further to the north
ward broke down before the German
fire on a height north of Bezonvaux.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
FOREIGN TRACE GROWING
Most Prosperous Nation in the World
Secretary Redfield Says

Washington, D. C.-Unprecedented
growth of the country's foreign trade,
the commercial advantages which
will accrue from peace and the oppor-
tunity presented for a heavier export
business and greater investments
abroad are set forth by secretary Red
field, of the department of commerce,
in his annual report. The report
gives figures showing the nations
trade expansion of two years and sums
up the country's commercial domi-
nance as follow:
"Our foreign Indebtedness has been
reduced possibly three billions. De
have loaned abroad total sum since
the war began on August /. 1914, esti-
mated at $1,500,000, and increasing.
We are the wealthiest nation in the
world and the most prosperous one.
We have not wasted our men or means
in war Relatively to our fiscal power
today our debts are trifling. Nations
less wealthy than some of our individ-
ual states bear heavier burden of debt
and interest than we.
''We are the only one of the great in
dustrial peoples at peace. Nations
turn to us for goods and means with
which to pay us for the goods. None
Of us, in our widest financial fancies
five years ago, would have dreamed
that things could be as now they are.
ITO protect our reserve of gold,
which is the ultimate base on which
our domestic credits rest, we must
maintain our export trade and must
continue to increase loans and invest
ments abroad The work of the bu-
eau of foreign and domestic commerce
is devoted to these important duties.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSYREADERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings IN
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

London.-A fog which settled over
London Saturday was described as
being the most dense in So years.
President Wilson plans to spend
Christmas nj Washington this year
with the members of his family.
Half a million dollars to insure
grand opera to Chicago for the next
five years has been pledged by Chi
cagoans.
The Aero club of New England
has presented to Massachusetts its
first tractor biplane for military
training purposes.
A room in the new home at Wash
ington, D. c., of the Sational Amer
lean Suffrage association was dedi-
Gated Sunday to the memory OF Su-
san B. Anthony.
Three prisoners in the Illinois
penitentiary are dead, as result OF
drinking wood alcohol which they ex'
tracted from shellac in an effort
to satisfy their cravings for liquor.
The Zeitung am Mittag of Berlin,
Saturday published a message dis
patched on post card from Chicago
on November Q and now received in
Berlin. The card was carried from
Chicago to New York by airplane, and
to Bremen on the submarine Deutsch-
land.
The United States Steel corporation
announced it's intention to distribute
it's usual Christmas bonus to employees
in cash and preferred stock, and to
offer them the annual opportunity to
subscribe for $4,000 shares of stock
at a price somewhat below the market.
In addition some of the employees will
get salary increases on January 1.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Tacoma-A. P. Powelson, 65, Con-
gregational minister.
London-George H. Pownall, presi-
dent of the institute of bankers.
Cambridge, Mass.-Hugo Munster
burg, professor of psychology of Har.
ward university.
East Liverpool, Ohio.-George Per-
ry, member of the old Baltimore Ori-
ole baseball club.
San Francisco.-John H. Keefe, for
"a years port captain of the Corin-
THAN Yacht Club.
Arcadia, CALL. A. Unruh, bust
ness associate Of the late E. j.
("Lucky') Baldwin.
Denver-William T. Duncan, SO,
for many years proprietor OF the
"Silver Dollar" saloon in Denver.
San Francisco.SCol Henry S. T.
Harris, chief surgeon of the western
division of the United States army.
Asheville, N. C.-Rear Admiral John
H. Hunker, retired, who served with
distinction under Admiral Sampson
during the Spanish war.
Fredericksburg, Va.-Captain Dan
iel M. Lee, brother Of the late Cen
eral Fitzhugh Lee, nephew OF Gen
eral Robert E. Lee, age II years.
Salem, Ore.-David Watson Craig,
age 81, known as the founder of the
republican party in Oregon" per-
sonal friend of Abraham Lincoln and
pioneer newspaper man of the state.
He was born in Mason county, KY,
July 25, 1929.
Missoula, Mont.-Judge Frank H.
Woody, first mayor of Missoula, died
Saturday. He was SO years old last
Sunday Judge Woody came to Mis-
soula county in Oct, 1856, behind
an OK team, which he drove from Salt
Lake. No other man now living has
been resident of Montana as long as
he had.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

The Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
has lifted it's embargo in gulf route
east-bound freight.
California contributed $117,570 to
the relief Of the stricken Belgians and
natives of northern France during
1916.
The first attempt to drag the
stranded submarine H-3, which went
ashore near Eureka, California, Dec.
IA, into deep water failed.
Plans for the first wheat show to
he held in the northwest and for the
first grain conference have just been
nnounced by the Oregon Agricultural
college at Eugene, in connection with
the farmers week programs for the
week of January 2-6
Aged 5R years and born in the
Philippine islands, little Miss Louise
Edgar, who arrived at Hood River,
Oregon, last week with her mother
from Manila, awoke one morning to
see the first snow fall. Running to
her mother, she cried: ooh, look,
Mamma, see the pretty white dirt. "
Victoria, B. c., was selected as next
years meeting place of the North
Pacific Surgical association, the dates
are December II and Is. DR.. O. M
Jones of Victoria was elected presi-
dent; DR.. NJ. G. Sturgis, Seattle,
second vice president; DR.. H. W.
Riggs, Vancouver, B. C., secretary
and treasurer; Dr. E. F. Tucker, Port
land, recorder.
Six brothers and sisters, whose
average age is 81 years, met at Wood
land, Cal, Saturday at reunion at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick R
Fairchild, son and daughter-inlaw OF
one of the sextet Among the sisters
and brothers was A. F. Benson, Walla
Walla, Wash, 80 years old. The last
time the brothers and sisters met was
at the wedding of Mrs. Susie Fair.
child, 55 years ago.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
Agree On Larger Homesteads

Washington.-All of the disputed
points in the Ferris bill to provide
640-acre homesteads, principally for
grazing purposes, were smoothed out
Saturday in conferences between the
house and senate and the measure
goes to the president now for sigma
ure the bill has been supported by
the interior department and western
congressman as measure of further
opening the public domain.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
Meat Packers Pension Employees

Chicago Morris, chairman
Co., meat packers announced recent
ly gift of $175,0O0 to the pension
fund, to which employees have con
tributed for years, has reached $685.
20S. The gift, he said, enables an in
crease of 25 per cent in all pensions
Under the rules any employe is now
entitled, upon retirement, to a pension
of 21s per cent of his salary for each
year of service
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
Carry Electricity Into Trenches

Small, portable electric generating
plants are used to supply electric
lights to the German troops in the
trenches.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
INDIANA MINE BLOWUP.
Explosion at Indiana Coal Property
Claims Victims-Gas Cause

Claims Victims-Gas Cause.
Terre Houte, Ind, Dec. 20.-Two
men were reported dead and fully $50
injured as the result of a gas ex-
plosion in the Oliphant-J ohnson mine
at Bruceville, Ind, late Tuesday
Thomas Patterson and William Bail
ey, both of Bruceville, were reported
dead.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
New Emperor For Peace

Paris.-Emperor Charles of Austria
Hungary is credited with having taken
the initiative in the peace move by the
coalation of the central powers.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21

lister Meadows gives an opportunity
to water the Pomona lands by gravity
flow and a new high line ditch can be
made to cover the larger area con-
templated.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
Rebs Win in Mexico.

Ell Paso, Texas, Dec. 20-Pueblo
and Orizaba have fallen into the
hands of followers of Felix Diaz, and
Jalapa is in the hands of other revo-
lutionary forces.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-21
Regulate EIatiron Heat

The temperature of new electric
flatiron can be regulated to four diff
ferent degrees.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
PROP. MATANZAS HOTEL
DIED THIS MORNING

Mr. Kingston, proprietor of the
Matanzas hotel, died this morning at
the hotel on South Massachusetts
avenue. He had only recently ac-
quired the hotel and with his wife
and four children had resided here
for the past two months. He suffered
a blow upon his head about year
ago, which came near to causing con-
cussion of the brain and this blow
was never completely healed, but
caused him trouble continually.
About two weeks ago he began to
suffer with this old scar and was
confined to his bed at times. The
pain finally became so intense that
he underwent an operation this
morning, but died Immediately af-
terward. His body was taken in
charge by the Gentry Undertaking
Company and will be shipped tomor-
row to his former home in Fort og-
den, Florida. Mr.. Hingston's sister
died at that place yesterday and
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
PENINSULAR HEAD URGES
VOTES FOR ROADS
Plan Outlined by Commissioners
Most Complete and Comprehen-
sive That Has Been Put
Forward

President w. G. Brorein, of the
Peninsular Telephone Company,
whose lines traverse Polk county
from one end to the other, and is one
Of the heaviest taxpayers in the
county, has written a letter to Sec
rotary Holworthy of the Lakeland
Chamber of Commerce expressing his
views on the forthcoming bond issue
for good roads in Polk county. His
letter is as follows:
"Inasmuch as the Peninsular Tele-
phone Company, which l represent,
has extensive business interests in
your county, | feel that l can con-
sistently express the views that l
hold with reference to the matter of
good roads and the bond issue.
| have carefully gone over the
system of good roads for your county
as outlined in the maps that are be-
ing published, and upon the basis of
which the voters are being asked to
support the bond issue, and / frank
ly say that it is one of the most
comprehensive and complete systems
of roads that has ever come to my
attention If this system of roads, as
outlined, is completed, in my opinion,
! it will prove the greatest work Of de-
velopment that your county has ever
undertaken.
AS a taxpayer, as well as one in
terested in the material welfare and
development of your splendid coun-
ty, | most heartily endorse the good
roads project and l believe that ev'
cry citizen of your county who takes
pride in the wonderful record made
by your county in the past would
support the proposed bond issue by
his vote at the election to be held or
June first.
W. G.. BROREIN,
President Peninsular Telephone Co.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
A MORNINGS JITNEY RIDE,
HILLSBOROUGH C0UNTY'S
HARD ROADS AND NOTES
BY THE WAYSLDE
(By Albertus Vogt.)


Editor Telegram: Yes, sir, went
to Tampa Monday and spent the day.
It's a good town, full of eye and
stomach gladness.
To begin with, ! boarded a six
wheeler at the Kibler at $50 a. m.
II was full of tourists. l sat on the
front seat by the driver. At first he
was cool, but / know 'em. lit up
and began to puff Cortez. He was
soon shifting at the smoke. ] said
Have one " He melted sudden. He
is capa BILE. The morning? They
make 'em only in the Lakeland hills
and they dip 'em in the lakes and
rinse the dust out of 'em and then
they are like my sweetheart 5
breath, and the sky-it smiled on us
every one, and | felt like the glad
eyes of my own sweetheart were on
me
For in the hour of her birth
Her guardian angel brought down
from out the skies
Two wide blue townships to the
earth,
And made concentrates for her eyes.
And the dew was in the air, and
the scent of the orange blossoms ev-
erywhere, and, We Gods, | was glad
to be alive and on that jitney, for l
felt your breath in my face.
From Lakeland to Youmans the
riding was up and down, and then l
remembered the first riding ever did
when my own good father swung
me on his foot; and the chatter OF
the red birds, thrush, and the meet
ing with two smiling Jonesque Blue
grass bellies just past Winston-they
helped us to reconcile the jolts. Dl-
rectly we crossed the county line and
were on the bricks and floating on
| "fowery beds of ease" and then
well, you know, | don't lay down any
too sudden, but, just between you
and me, | did sort of regret to tel
all that carload of tourists that We
were not in Polk county SPEAKING
comparatively, some of the WIS.,
travelled and read-up guys on tina
jitney said things about 1.-The hole
in hell'' and about 1.-The Appian way
of Hillsborough county," and l owl
up did kind of have a case Of dust,
dry grins, for | could not, in the fac
of the roads, talk back, but d1
swear to those tourists, II will n
that link from Lakeland to Youman
by next winter II ! have to tote tn
brick all by myself. = When we &c
to Seffner the "Yank" that had bee
"damning" the Polk county her
wallow motion. dust-bath road
picked up his grip and cheerily salt
"See you next time" This Villa
4 who had been apeing a tourist" Wa
> Just an ordinary Tampa drumme
: and good-roads booster.
When we got to Tampa, I said
his boss. You raise that rooster
/ rating, for he is Hillsboroue
i county asset and Tampa's one be
q bet.
: On the car there was only Oh
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
CHILDREN'S DAY OBSERVED AT
MYRTLE ST. CHURCH YESTERDAY

Last night at the Myrtle Street
church, Children's Day was observed
with appropriate exercises, by the
school. The church had been made
attractive by the use Of ferns and
other potted plants, vines and vases
of cut flowers.
The children had been well trained
and each did his part well, making
the occasion a very pleasant one for
the large and appreciative audience.
The following program was rem
dered:
Processdonal-The Children's Ho-
sannah.
Prayer by the pastor.
-Children's Day, by school.
Greeting-The Kings Garden, by
Myrtle McCaskill.
Observation-Disclosures Flowers, by
Dorothy Funk.
Song Mothers Near, by Helen
Dale.
Recitation-Th Forget-me-not, by
Grace Pope.
song-Flower Children, by the
school.
Recitation-How Birds and Flow
era Pray, by Askin Smith.
Solo-The Daisies, by Sarah Funk.
Recitation-The Fathers Car, by
Leonard Rush.
song-Birds and Butterflies, by
school.
Cradle Roll Service-By the Cradle
Roll Babies.
Presentation Of flowers to them by
Virginia Funk.
Recitation during presentation by
Gladys knight.
Recitation-A Blessing for. the
Blessed, by Sarah Funk.
song-Cradle Roll Lullaby, by
Fannie Pope.
Story-The Coming of thes King,
by Fannie Pope.
Recitation-My Heart Is Gods
Little Garden, by Gladys Graham.
Everybody business,
by Goldie McCaskill.
Recitation-Weeds and Deeds, by
| Sallie Bryant.
Duet-How They Grow, by Inez
Sidman and Sallie Bryant.
Offering speech by Mamie Funk.
Duet-By Julia Graham and Abbie
Marshall.
Helpers in the Garden-By six lit
tie girls.
Song-Outside the Garden, by
school.
Recitation-No Children's Day, by
Nellie Smith.
Song-The World Children. by thu
school.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
WILLIAM FARNUM A "CAv
-NOMiNALLY

William Farnum, star of
liam Fox masterpiece, "A
Oath" is the most modest
stage or screen celebrity. Ac'
actresses are not proverbiall
and it is generally admitted
informed circles that Thoma
had neither in mind when he
the lines:
Full many a gem of puresl
rene
1.-The lark, unfathomed
ocean bear:
Full many a flower is
blush unseen,
"And waste it's sweetness
desert air."
Actors who blush, there
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