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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
PRESIDENT AT CIRCUS
Wilson Enjoys Antic of the
Clowns.

Washington. MAY President
Wilson went TO the circus tonight.
seated on the front row, tanning
himself and Mrs Wilson with palm
leaf fan and sharing a bag of pea
nuts with Secretary McAdoo. he an
parently lost nothing OF the holiday
spirit OF the occasion. a group OF
clowns carried out their funniest
antics just in front of him and the
president many times lay back in his
chair and laughed heartily.
When the party entered the big
tent the crowd of several thousand
rose and cheered. AS he passed one
OF the rings the president took OIL
his hat and laughingly made a mo-
tion az if TO throw it in. The crowd
quickly caught the point and ap-
plauded again.
The president and his party stayed
until the end OF the show and were
almost the last TO leave. The presi-
dent smiled broadly when peace
ship" manned by fighting sailors and
commanded by clown made up to
represent Former Secretary Bryan
passed around the ring.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
FORK HILL NEWS

The farmers Of this community
nave about finished their planting.
Mrs. Arthur Baker visited her
cousin. Mrs. j. II. Blackmon. sun
day afternoon.
Misses Sadie. Stella and Grace
Hinson visited their sister. Mrs.
Hobson Brasington, Sunday.
Mrs. Hartford Faulkenberry and
baby visited her mother. Mrs. II. G
Connell. Sunday.
Mrs. Edgar Blackmon and baby
visited her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
>. Il. Bowers on Friday.
Mrs. s. NJ. Carnes visited her sis
ter. Mrs. Otto Dees on Saturday.
Mrs. j. C. Catoe visited Mrs. r
r. T. Sims on Wednesday.
Miss Patsy Sims has been spendjnp
few days with her sister. Mrs. g
NJ. Carnes.
Mrs. Ella knight visited Mrs. II.
+. T. Sims on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmore Dabney have
peeh spending few days with Rev.
I. A. Dabney, who has been quite
III.
Mrs. Roy Sims visited her sister
in-law, Mrs. Cleo Dees. on SATURDAY..
Mrs. Lester Small and children
visited her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
}. y. Bowcrs on Friday.
Mrs. j. y. Sims and little daugh-
ter GLADYS. visited her sister. Mrs.
X. +. Robinson. on Friday.
Miss Lula Couch visited her Sis
ter, Mrs. J. Hunter Blackmon last
week.
Misses Willie and Connie Hinson
visited Mrs. T. J. Couch, Sunday.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
GAINS FOR GERMANS
in VERDUN ASSAULT
Entire System of Trenches Hill 3O4 Reported Cap
tured-Big White Star Liner Said to Be in Sink
ing Condition as Result of Torpedo Attack

The White Star line steamer
Cymric bound from New York for
Liverpool, is reported to be in a sink
ing condition somewhere at sea. Her
owners in Liverpool say that from the
reports received they believed the
vessel was torpedoed. The Cymric
carried no passengers.
An entire system OF trenches on
the northern slope of Hill SO4 north
west of Verdun has been captured by
the Germans, according to Berlin,
and the French in the lighting suf-
fered extraordinarily heavy casual
ties. In addition 40 officers and
1880 soldiers were taken prisoners.
Paris reports that to the east of
the hill the Germans were driven
from a communication trench which
they previously had penetrated and
that to the west of the hill German
assault against French positions at
Hill 2S7 was put down.
A heavy bombardment is in prog
ress against the Avoncourt woods and
the entire region OF Hill 3O4, while to
the east OF Verdun and in the Woevre
artillery activity continues vigorous.
Around the Thiaumont farm. north
OF Verdun. French attack broke
down and 800 men were taken pris-
oners.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09

The Germans on the Russian front
launched an offensive to the south OF
Iliukst, but met with no success.
Mine lighting and bomtardments
continue at various points along this
line. In Galicia, to the northwest OF
Tarnopol, the Russians captured a
mine crater.
In the fighting in Asia Minor the
Russians have compelled the Turks
to withdraw from their entire first
line trenches in the region of ERIN
gan.
Attacks by the Austrians against
the Italians in the Marmolada. Fal-
zarego and other sectors were re-
pulsed. The bombardment in the
Ademello region continues. Here the
I Italians have destroyed an Austrian
defense work on Col Topete.
The Turkish cruiser Breslau is re-
ported by Petergrad to have bonn
barded Eupatoria, in the Crimea. The
town is described as an unfortifiej
station.
The entente allied line in France
mas been strenthened by the arrival
or Australian and New Zealand
troops. who have taken over a Dor
tion OF the front.
Four more leaders in the Irish 70
volt have been executed.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
Hoping For Concert
In Chasing Bandits
CONVICTS THREE
FOR BOMB PLOTS
Verdict Returned Against
Germans by Jury

New York, May S.-The jury which
for ten uays heard testimony at the
trial of Robert Fay, a former lieu
tenant in the German army; Walter
Scholz and Paul Daeche. charged
with conspiracy to destroy munitions
ships through bomb contrivances. re-
turned a verdict of guilty to-night
against all OF the defendants.
The jury diliberated on the case
for five hours and in reaching ver-
dict asked for clemency in behalf of
Daeche, who, according to his own
statement and those of Fay and
Scholz, was an emvloye OF Fav and
knew little OF the details of the "fre
bomb" plots.
The defendants each are liable 10
a maximum sentence Of IL years i'm.
prisonment and $4,000 fine. Judge
Howe announced he would impose
sentence tomorrow The defendants
were found guilty on two indict-
ments.
Fay and Scholz were returned to
the Tombs but Daeche was released
under $4,000 bail. Fay declared
his lawyers would appeal.
The government charged that Fay
was the leader in the conspiracy and
that Scholz and Daeche aided him.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
DEATH OF SPENCER MORLEY

Spe'ldI 10 Ine News:
Heath Springs, May 9.-rhe Heath
springs community was sadden Mon
day morning by the announcement
OF the death of Mr.. Spencer Mobley
which occurred Sunday night. Nav 7
ABOUT eleven o'clock He was tho
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. G.. l.. MobIev
ana was eighteen and half years
old He was a devoted member ~
the Baptist church which he ioinc1
al very early age. He had been =
sufferer since early childhood from
an incurable disease. but bore his
suHerlngs with remarkable patience
and fortitude. He was never nan
pier than when in attendance upon
his church service or his Sunday
school class He was an obedient
son and faithful in every relation Of
Ire. lnterment took place in Salem
cemetery Monday afternoon after the
funeral service had been conducted
IN the Baptist church which he loved
so well. The service was conducted
by his pastor. DR.. j. w. III. Dycbes.
assisted by the Rev. J. b. Weldon
and the Rev. T. w. Devane.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
TO TALK WITH KAISER

London, May S.-PrinGe Won Bue-
low, former German imperial chan
cellor, has been summoned to head
quarters by Emperor William, ac-
cording to dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company from The Hague.
His visit, adds the dispatch, is said
TO be of great political significance.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09
DIES OF NHIRIEs

Dublin. May S.---Father Waters.
president of the Catholic university
school here, led to-day. He was shot
while standing in the doorway of the
school during the disturbances
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-09

Once In great while you come
across a man who has just bought
his first car, who will admit he
doesn't know everything there is 20
know about II and automobiling In
general.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Pratt is soon to have the entire
storing capacity for the Ell Paso Di-
vision of the Rock Island if all plans
that are now made are to be carried
out Officials were here last week
and with blue prints of the new store
building in their possession. They
decided upon the ground that will be
used for the new two-story structure
that will shelter all of the supplies
that the road will use between Her.
ington and Dalhart, Texas. 1t
may seem peculiar to some who do
not understand the life of railroad
man who faces the storms and expos
-ure that the railroads should give
them little higher wages than some
draw who are not so exposed. The
life that man must lead is one that
is always facing danger not from
train wrecks so much, as they have
been eliminated to great extent, but
every conceivable disease that is lurk-
ing around them. We have three
men who have given their lives for
the Rock Island for years and who
are now unable to attend to their du-
ties on account of bodily Affections
and yet some condemn the eight-hour
law but want the boys to stay out in
the storms for many more hours in
order that some one may make an
extra farthing to gamble with, Good
common reasoning will lead one to
give the boys justice.-Rock Island
Sparks in the Pratt Union.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29
GOT AN EXTRA SCAFFOLD ABOUT
YOU?

An. advertisement for bids to erect
a scaffold upon which to hang Willie
White, negro trooper, in the federal
prison at Leayenworth, Kansas, was
prepared today by o. T. Wood, Unit
ed States marshal for the District of
Kansas.
White was to have been hanged De-
cember IA. He was granted a re-
prieve to January IA. The hanging
will take place then, unless the Presi-
dent intercedes. 1t will be the first
legal hanging in Kansas since capt.
tai punishment was abolished three
years ago. Many Kansas organiza-
tions have sought to bring pressure
upon the President to commute
Whites sentence to life imprison-
ment. Their attitude is, a hanging
on Kansas soil, even though within a
government reservation, will be a
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. s
Land Office at Dodge City, Kan

Department of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office at Dodge City, Kan
sas, December 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that Jesse
R.. Steeley of Liberal, Kansas, who,
on May 14th, 1913, made Homestead
Application, Serial No. 011725, for
SEA, Section IL, Township 33 s,
Range 34W, 9Th Principal Meridian,
has fled notice of intention to make
Final Three-Year Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described,
before the Probate Judge of Seward
County, Kansas, at Liberal, Kansas,
on the 9th day of January, 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses:
John G. DeFreese, John w. Lappin,
Robert e. Hall, Van M. Renner, all OF
Liberal, Kansas.
Not coal land.
R. R. WILSON,
Register.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

If Kansas really wants to do some
thing worth while in the way of start
ing innovations, why doesn't she
start a campaign for the improve
ment of men. Honesty and integri-
ty will produce good government,
whether in the state capital or in the
township hall, blamed sight faster
than science. When me get so they
have neighbors who can be implicitly
trusted to be square when placed in
public offices, the other problems will
be easy.-Newton Kansan.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29
stain on the states honor.

White was convicted in the federal
district court in September of shoot
ing and killing Ernestine Brown, a
maid, and Sergt. James Jackson, both
negroes, on the reservation at Fort
Leavenworth last May.-From Mon
days Kansas City Star.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT

c. P. Mann marketed his turkeys
Friday. Among the number were IL
young gobblers that netted him
$40.14 and the deacon is pretty we'll
satisfied with the 1916 turkey crop.
Observer.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Newspapers are becoming harder
to secure on passenger trains, due to
the fact that most papers have cut
off the returns. This means that all
papers purchased by news agents
must be sold, that they are not re-
turnable. Local news agents report
they have cut down their orders al
most 60 per cent.-Dodge City Globe.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

arrested at about the same time in a
private residence, the man being as
sessed SO and costs and the woman
Ill the case, $25 and costs. Both
plead guilty before Justice Gardner
and paid their fines.-Beaver Demo-
crat.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

derwood. 1t is only fair to the town
girls to say that Mrs. Andrews was a
town girl before her marriage. She
was Miss Mary Ennis, daughter of
Peter Ennis, for many years en-
ployed at the Missouri Pacific shops,
and his wife.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

six years he has been presented with
pair of suspenders, and another
pair is due this holiday. And for six
years Festus, as reported by Rolla
Clymer, has been lariating his trous-
ers by the Burlington route-a belt
line.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Doubtless 1t answers the purpose
just as we'll so far as comfort is con-
cerned, comments the Lawrence Jour-
nal-World. but broad expanse of
white hosiery between shoe top and
skirt on a cold morning gives SYM
pathetic passersby an IMPULSE to call
up the Provident association and re-
port the case.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Roll Richardson at Pretty Prairie
is the owner of 900 hens. He does
not get an egg. He says when eggs
were worth only ten cents dozen he
gathered eggs in bushel basket but
now not "a hen will so much as look
at nest. He secured the services of
a sign painter a, few days ago and
had big sign painted in white let
tiers, eggs 10 cents Dozen" Then
he nailed that sign up over the feed
trough and he says the hens walk
around it, turn their heads to one
side, nudge each other in the ribs and
smile as much as to say, THE old
duffer can't fool u.s." Next week he
says he will secure dozen eggs IL
they can be found on the market and
tie them in some tin "seemore" goods
and hang thta over the sign hoping
that the hens may go to work out of
envy.-Pratt Union,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

But people are getting thoroly mad
over the high price question. They
are willing to forego their customary
habits quite bit, not merely to save
money, but to beat the spectators.
And there are a great many substi-
tutes that can be used for any given
food. The householder who did not
want turkey at the prevailing prices
could have mighty good dinner on
chicken. 1t is just the same on the
egg question. A good grade of cold
storage eggs is an excellent substi-
tute for the strictly fresh brand. II
there is speculation in cold storage
brands, the public can use the many
patent preparations by which eggs
can be bought cheap in spring and
summer and put down in ones own
cellar. Fish and oysters can be sub
stituted for meats. An enormous
range of excellent canned goods can
be secured very comfortably.-Ed. P
Greer in the Winfield Courier.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

One Of the moves in which most
people agree these days is the en-
ployment of the city, county and state
prisoners on the public roads of the
state. 1t is planned to make this
legal by proposed bill to be intro
duced in the legislature this winter.
Hutchinson News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Thos. j. POUCH is in the county
Jail here awaiting trial, charged with
bigamy. His first wife, whom he
married in 1905, is living in Las An
imas. He married his second at this
city in February, 1916, and they have
been living at Minneola where he has
been employed at Ammon's restauy
rant. He was arrested by Sheriff
Krisle on complaint of his second
wife's mother. His second wife is
only sixteen years of age.-Meade
Globe.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29


Saturday night, or rather Sunday
morning at one o'clock, Sheriff John
ME M. Jones and his undersheriff,
Frank Shockley, and deputy, Walter
Murray, blew into Forgan unexpect-
edly and arrested four fellows play
ing poker in Bolin-Hall's grain office.
They were taken before Justice of
the Peace Oscar Gardner and each
placed under $40 cash bond, pend
ing trial in the Justice court Satur-
day afternoon. The same night Sher-
iii Jones and his force arrested a girl
in the Elk Hotel for vagrancy. who
plead guilty and paid her fine Of $40
and costs. Another couple was also
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

1t is within. possibility that the
woman elected from Montana to rep
resent that State in Congress may
hold the balance of power for the
whole nation. Congress is very even
ly divided between the Democrats and
Republicans. If Miss Rankin should
decide to champion measure out
side of party lines, her action might
decide the whole legislation. Never
before has any woman in the United
States been placed in such position
of power.-Beaver Herald. #
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Last Saturday Toronto man, &C
cording to the Republican, found a
treasure under his front porch that
was almost beyond the dream of ava
rice. He found a hens nest with
nine eggs in it.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

1Billy" Palmer tells the people Of
Jewell City that If he had the power
to regulate their church matters he
would combine all the congregations
into one strong organization. He ar
CUES that all these folks expect to get
along together for quite while in
heaven, and that they might as we'll
begin to practice on 1t here.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Frank Roberts of the Oskaloosa
Independent, is the one editor in
Kansas who has the nerve to collect
a subscription by the lawsuit route.
But he wasn't so brave, after all, for
he waited until the subscriber died
and then sued the estate. Nearly any
body could do that.-Iola Register
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

In a signed statement, the Wood
son County Republican candidates Of
1916 extend the vote of thanks to
Dick Trueblood of the News for his
support of the ticket during the cam
paign just closed. This is probably
the first case on record where any
group of candidates thought a vote of
thanks deserved by newspaper for
its support.--Le Roy Reporter !,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29
OVER THE STATE


Most men are out of the asylum
: simply because it has not yet been
proved on them, is Charlie Traps
theory.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

A great many people fondly mag
inc that If they are honest, pay their
debts, and do not speak disparagingly
of other people, they are among the
main-stays of the town. But such is
not always the case. Honesty and a
careful mouth are much to be COM
mended, but town needs more than
that. 1t needs citizens who will go
out of their way to do something for
the town-who will labor to better
local conditions, who will go their
length to bring new industries and
new people into the community. Such
people as these are in reality the
main-stays of town. And we al
ways have room for main-stays.--
Guymon Democrat.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress to prohibit the sending Of liquor
advertisements through the mails ex-
cept to liquor dealers. Something
should be done to stop the lying out
fit of liquor men in Cincinnati from
sending their stun through the mails,
and this will be pretty good way to
do it. 80 The drivers OF automo-
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

bile delivery wagons have had their
Christian patience severely strained
during the cold weather. Many of
the pesky machines refused to work
and housewives kept the telephone
wires hot asking why they could not
get their groceries and meat in time
for dinner.-Garden City Herald
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

A day on Kansas farm as told by
the Atchison Globe: Last Monday
nine hogs were butchered at the A.
M. Andrews farm northwest of town,
and by o'clock that afternoon the
hogs were cut up, after which Mr..
Andrews, his wife and daughter,
Grace, went into action, and this is
what they accomplished by noon
Wednesday, Rendered forty-two gal
Ions of lard, had 110 pounds of saus-
age put away, thirty-five pounds of
headcheese, twenty-five pounds of
liverwurst and a three-gallon jar of
picked pigs feet. The hams, shoul-
ders and side meat were all sailed
down ready to be smoked. backbones
and ribs were placed in cold storage,
and at 3 O'Clock that afternoon Mrs.
Andrews and her daughter went to
party at the home OF Mrs. Will I'M
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-29

Festus Femer, a citizen of Olathe,
can't see the point to some of this
Christmas-present foolishness. For
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-02-17
CORPORAL FIRES
SHOT IN HEAD
DESPONDENCY SUPPOSED TO BE
CAUSE OF SUICIDE OF MAN
At FORT BROWN.

..Pleaec notify Mr.. Charles Ward Of
Montreal. Canada. but please say that it
was accidental
That was the only note left by Corporal
Frederick j. Harrington of Company l..
Fourth United States Infantry. who fired
q bullet into his head in his tent nj Fort
Brown III : o'clock Wednesday night. Har-
rington was 81 wears old and had been in
the army continuously for eighteen wears.
Dependency brought on by i'll health l.
said To have been the cause of the act.
Harrington used m army rifle. After
attaching a coat hanger ID the trigger,
forming a sort Of a double trigger, he
placed the muzzle of the gun directly under
his chin. and pushed the coat hanger down
ward with his foot. thus pulling the trigger.
The bullet tore through his head. tearing
off more than half hi face and head.
While Private Townsend of Harrin.ton'~
company was in the tent AT the time he did
not witness the suicide. Townsend said
that clothing hanging on wire in the tent
prevented his seeing Harrington at the
time. He said the shot seemed to have been
muffled. a. the report was not % loud a.
might nave been expected.
Army records contain the name of
Charles Harrington. a brother. residing at
Capetown, South Africa. n the nearest
relative Charles Ward of Montreal Will
be notified Of T~Iarrington's death.
The body j. being held at the Huxley
parlors awaiting orders for burial, which
will be made at Fort Sam Houston.