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The Nevada County picayune., 1916-10-12
JUDGE W. r. KIRBY
 OUR NEXT SENATOR

William F. kirby, associate justice of the Supreme Court. was nominated for tn" United States Senate late Friday afte- noon. The Democratic State Central Committee at 4:20 O. clock Friday afternoon selected Judge Kirby on the first ballot. He beat Stephen Brndi9e of Searcy and C. C. Rejd of Little Rock. His election was made unanimous when the vote was announced. Gov. George W. Hays announced immediately after the election of Judge Kirby that he would issue a proclama- ton for the special election, to De held November z, the date of the general election. Judge Kirby's name will Qoon the bal lots in the special election as that of the Democratic nominee.
 Kirby Had 15 of 27 Votes.
 Judge Kirby boiled Is of the 27 votes cast. Former Congress- man Reid got seven and Mir. Brundidge five The name of Smead Powell of Camden was not placed in nomination, and his support went to Judge Kirby.
 There was wild cheering when the fourteenth ballot was cast for Judge Kirby, and it was diff ficult to restore order. The fourteenth ballot for Kirby was cast by J. R. Wilson of Warren, while the fifteenth was cast by June r, Wooten of Little Rock.
 Members of the committee vot- ing for the candidates follow:
 Kirby-C. w. Morton, Nal. vern; J. D. Head. Texarkana; Patric Henry, Monticello; J. K. Mahoney, Fl Dorado; z. M. Me- Carroll. Walnut Ridge; John Me Millian, Philadelphia; J. w. Nance, Bentonville; Ira D. Ogles- by, Fort Smith; R. w. Robins, Conway; voting for c, o. Payne; Frank Pace. voting for R. R. Rice of Warner; J. G. Sain. Nash vile; T. E. Tolel. Sheridan; J. R. Wilson. Warren; June P. Wooten. Little Rock; c. c. Cal vert, Fort Smith.
 Reid-R. T. Compton, Wing; Ward Dunlap, Clarksville; Henry Rector, voting for A. H. Tribble, Hot Springs; J. s. Turner, Ozark; J. V. Walker, Fayetville.
 Brundige W. B. Smith of Little Rock, voting for Dave Block, Wynne; E. Dalton, Poca- hontas; J. w. Hawthorne, Jones. boro; Roy Milan. Harrison; s. P. Turner, Hardy; J. s. Yarnell. Searcy; J. w. House, Little Rock.
 Patric Henry of Monticello pla- ced Judge Kirby's name in nom- ination; Mir. Dunlap of Clarks- vile nominated MT. Reid, and MT. Smith of Little Rock nomi- mated Mir. Brundige. T. E. To- Ter of Sheridan moved that nom- nations close after the nomina. ton of MT. Brundige. After the vote was announced Judge Kir- by's selection was made unani- nous on motion by J. s. Tur-
The Nevada County picayune., 1916-10-12

If you live in the country and happen to think of anything you need in the Drug Store Line tele- phone us and we'll send it out by next mail with Postage Paid. Guthrie Drug Stors. Tele- phone 76.
The Nevada County picayune., 1916-10-12

ReXall Corn Solvent is Guaran. teed to take your corns off. Guthrie Drug Store. Tele- phone 76. Postage prepaid on all mail orders.
The Nevada County picayune., 1916-10-12
!SOAp SOAP!

II Bars good Laundry. l Bars high grade toilet for 25 cts.
 Farmers Supply Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

Let the officers sleep in billets, he said; he
himself might be willing to take the colonel
but let them mess at the Green Man. the vii
lage inn The Green Man ought to he glad
TO get the money. As for the Tommles the
tradespeople should be able to make bit al
sixpence Tommy.
All this with due sense Of patriotism, mind
you, but just being patriotic to suit yourself,
instead Of letting lot Of muddlers thrust it
on you.
The bank clerks wife was heard in the dark
airing a grievance. The billeting officer had
asked her TO take Tommies, when everybody
knows that soldiers are never billeted in gen
tlemen's houses. Others were heard under
cover Of the dark demanding to know when
bank clerks had become gentlemen Anyway,
the vicar, who was good sort out of the
pupit-as all English Wears are-saw fit to
dismiss us just then with n benedicton, to the
effect that it was all beastly nuisance, how
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

noon an anxious matron came to see us Win
the latest bulletins The Green Man was not
willing to feed the officers for the price, SO
they must be fed where they were billeted and
the Earl of A being a member OF this
regiment, all the officers would, of course, eX-
pect fish course for dinner-and where were
your profits then? Somebody had a cousin
who had had officers all winter, and in the
spring, rather than endure them longer, had
built bungalows in his park for them.
The vicar came often-we liked the vicar to
come and see that we had always fire in the
library, for it was well known that the vicar
and his wife we're the sort that sat around in
two topcoats each rather than have fire in
April, although he had fat living too. The
vicar came often, because he and my aunt.
alone of all the neighborhood, had grasped
the fact that housing the army was doing Il
very mild "bit," when you were paid for it to
boot. SO he came to report to my aunt, prom
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

what the countersign ought to be- with Tom
mics billeted in vacant house taking down
the bannisters and mantels to make the fire
burn brighter and the government more and
more loath to pay damages; with the neces'
sity of taking an escort or dog along when
you wanted to walk out into the country; with
the younger officers liable to be snatched away
from an evenings bridge to go out and lie In
the fields and watch for reported Zeppelins.
All officers were not always masters Of their
chs" either, which no doubt has given rise to
the title of Temporary gentleman bestowed
by the regulars on the newly made officers Of
the new army. Then the Mrs. Colonel was de-
termjned that none of her subalterns should
marry, which was disappointment and
waste but these little things were cheerfully
accepted as the horrors Of war, and nobody
really mind.l anything much unless the Home
Defence minded in its heart.
The Home Defence was our over-aged-and-
physically-unit guard, uniformed and muni-
toned at its own expense and guarding on
its own initiative, all through the long, cold
winter, all the bridges that nobody would have
bothered to blow up anyway, patrolling the
lines that were Of no consequence TO any but
those that brought their pigs to town on mar
ket days, and occupying the position OF Our
Heroes" TO the villagers. But it was very fine
to see these men, who would have loved nothing
better than snping Germans, sitting down in
their colorless uniforms with the smart khaki,
bearing it bravely, too; and when old Blount,
seventy-fve years old, got his ammunition
stuck in his gun, he was not ashamed to APP
peal to youthful Tommy TO help him get it
out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23
UNCLE FINDS THE WAR OFFICE
SINGULARLY UNRESPONSIVE.

The Green Man decided, under compulsion,
that it could easily mess the officers; and uncle,
having been unable to get any answer from
the War Office regarding the illogical dis
crepancy of three shllings for lodgings" was
in danger of not getting any officers at all,
which would have left him a marked man IN
the gathering Of patriots.
The tradesmen's wives and the Wesleyan
Chapelites got ahead of the lades-who should
really always be spoken of in England with
capital L1-by starting free lunch and club
room for the Tommies. And before the men
we're finally installed the village had quite for
gotten that they had ever thought of receiving
them with anything but flying flags and God
save our glorious kings
The first detachment marched into the vii
lage with brooms and busters, to clean up
their billets and place their paillasse beds,
known in purest English as palyasses. Then
every day after there were more tramping
from the next station, where they had been
dropped from the train to make up the days
route march, until soon the face Of life in the
village was so changed for us that we thought
of the old one as we look on Hogarth draw
ing-picturesque old England, but not ours.
lowering subalterns were in every garden
tennis parties were subject to exciting inter-
ruptions when the colonel was called to the
phone by a message from the War Office,
morning walks with the dogs meant mad
chase to dodge the route march that sang and
tramped at terrific pace up and down the
lanes; it was discovered that colonies were al
ways fat, and it was discovered that ears like
buildings and pork pies better than the fish
and Camembert of gods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23
Billetiue the British Soldier Before He
Leaves for the Battle Front Is Duty
That Strongly Appeals to Thrifty
PQtyiots-A Vital Phase of Pre-
bQredueSS Far From the
Maddimg War;

4 deserter might be rounded up any morn
inc in the stable loft it became an old story
to see squad Of soldiers swinging around the
corner of the drive to cut down tree or mend
fence for you just for fatigue duty; purple
pumes and scarlet coats, such as never mad
been seen there before, appeared In the gray
old village street. only to be rounded up I'M
mediately by the officer Of the day and packed
off back to London on the next train; officers
orderes running in and out Of the houses
held the maids firmly attached to their places
as long, at least as the regiment stays IN the
village; and altogether it was life worth
seeing in its mild relation to war.
1t had its drawbacks, with bayonets stop
ping you every time you set foot in the road
after dark; with "Who goes there?' and
STAND, friend, and give the counterslgn'
when neither he nor you had the faintest idea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23
Three ShllimgS for Lodgings Alone,
Fipe for Lodgings and Board, Sir-
hence Fad for 'OrSeS Makes
a Stir in a Quiet English Com
munity When His Majesty
Comes to TOW,n.

-VEN ] say billets. don't murmur
IA .sSe means B-u-l-bullets." for bill
w les il is.
once wrote 70 a newspaper, Twenty
mics were bi'leted at the Butchers and
~. i came out. what should l read but
.-rentv Tommies bulleted at butchers" A
- eS;,or would have shuddered at the in
-. -, use Of bullets by butcher, and would
.,re nut It so: Butcher. crazed by calling
I. ~ married men, slaughters soldiers whole
sc"
,,5 the butcher. with the broad apron and
=. b-oad smile and the broad knife? took
i. naper to the shop TO read him about him
~ but couldn't convince him that it wasn't
. ,,sl tragedy. COW, e was 'asty man
hat wouldn't do is trade no good. to be sure,
-;s.- he said, in tone of business before
,sssure.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

ever YOU looked at it. but as the unwelcome
quests had not actually arrived, we might at
least 90 home and sleep in peace that night.
Which most of US did, although ] know my
aunt. having spoken firmly for six horses, lay
awake meeting fifty pounds worth of neces-
sary expenses with the profits.
1t was six weeks before we actually saw the
Khaki in the village, and in that time patriot
ism somewhat adjusted itself to the conditions.
Those that staked all on the horses lost heav-
iy. the colonel having made pronouncement
when the camor for horses became too loud
that the nights were now warm enough for the
horses to be picketed outside. Every after
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23
ALL is PEACE TILL THE BILLET
ING OFFICER COMES.

Who can think Of war down in the country,
where those placidly smiling meadows ann
hedgerows are designing this minute to break
into heavenly May bloom? Why, you cant
and you won't; and what of it, anyway!
Cousin Charles is special constable, and
Cousin Herriot has three teeth on pivots and
couldn't even bite the Germans if it came to
one Of those hand-to-mouth attacks so let's
have bit Of tea and keep up the glorious ira
dtions Of Britain And then the biileting
officer comes down on you.
We were having tea in the garden, ana
Uncle Owen was just remarking; "As the
country having the best table manners in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23
The butcher, crazed by the calling
out of married men.

Blets are like Zeppelins for the purpose
q bringing home 10 thousands Of worthy Brit
hers that otherwise might not know the TACT
Il wsr. There are more of these, innocent
Bri;ishers, we mean, not billets nor Zeppelins,
han you would believe. Such an ensable
s.ate, suffering neither the hardships Of war
nor the notifications Of neutrality. But
What with suitors, dancing partners, 56 per
cent Of your income and butter, too, oeing
natched from the arms of England, we have
a right 10 expect even the babies to stiffen
their backs. adjust their monocles and say
Olennly; We pledge ourselves to-ah-pros-
scu,e the war 10 a Observation-Disclosures
Il it takes every man and every gun in the
snpire-ah-and all that sort Of thing, don't
yOu know"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

Used she should have her choice of officers, and
thawed himself by our fire.
However, when they really arrived, intense
patriotism was aroused by an incident in which
thank heavenl-no county family, indeed,
no British gentleman, was involved. Horses
were to be pastured in one Barness meadow,
and Barnes farmer, wanted four shillings
day for it,
ats like this We know" said Barnes, when
the time came to turn the horses into the
meadow, "seven shillings is wot that medder
is worth to me-"
"Four shillings you agreed to, Mr.. Barnes"
"Wel, I'm agreein' to seven now"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

is that final?'
That's wot it is"
Mr.. Barnes, shall take this meadow and
use it as long as | need it, and you Will not
get cent in payment. You are well-to-do
man, with no sons in the army and l have
full authority to use your property as see II.
for military purposes"
And now Barnes has to be as nice to the
military, with nothing day coming in, as ne
might have been with four shilings.
The butcher did not hear the story in time.
and it was like this with the poor butcher:
THE BUTCHER IS SENSITIVE ON
THE SUBJECT OF "ROWDY
SOLDIERS"
Mr.. Butcher, understand that Azalea
Lodge is your property and that it is standing
vacant"
But propose to rent it," spluttered the
butcher. the ruin of Azalea Lodge staring him
in the face.
81 propose to rent it from you"
But I won't have my 'ouse filled with
pack of rowdy soldiers"
These rowdy soldiers are Engshmen.
Don't you tnlnk you, dS oil iIHe io'i"'', ""'N
duty toward them?"
81 don't know about being han Englishman.
I'm from 'Ampshire,' the butcher is on record
as having said.
"Then, as a loyal Hampshreman, shall
put you down for seventy men at Azalea Lodge
-sixpence a head, and twenty men In the
three rooms over this shop"
So much for butchers
A timely report that public examples had
been made of Barnes and the butcher served
to rouse the village to more hospitable frame
OF mind, and soon the scramble for the pick
Of the officers became more strenuous than the
first determination to shift them off and on to
some one else had been. The Hall was deter
mined that the moated farm should not get
the earl-was not equipped, in fact, to enter
tain an Garland the moated farm was going
to have the earl if it had to go to his train and
meet him with an armed escort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23
COUNTING CHICKENS BEFORE
THEY ARE BILLETED.

"Sixpence" murmured my aunt caught
her in the drive, as she was going of TO church
to pray the second time that day for the utter
humiliation Of the German Acknowledgements
a day. three and six a week-over pound
week for six horses. ] can easily take six;
four pounds month, fifty year. ] shall 60
Immediately and order six from Bunday.
Bunday is the constable.
Late that evening | slipped down into the
village, black as Erebus, not light along It's
one winding street--more from fear of the
special constable than of Zeppelins. ] found
my aunt, my uncle, the doctors wife, the vicar
the curates, the rich man from New Zealand
who had just bought the Hall, the head master
of the school, the bank clerk-pronounced clark
and his wife, all assembled to discuss the
cataclysm, in front of the constables office
all that could afford them prudently wearing
white mackintoshes, so that no one should
bump them needessly in the dark.
Uncle was loudest and most positive in his
denunciation of five shillings day for board
and lodgings, when three shillings was the
allowance for lodgings alone An illogical
discrepancy. he called it. and meant to write
the War Office about it Immediately. Called
the War Office pack of muddleheads, which
at that time was new idea and sienced every
one for moment by its daring and originality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23
HUNDRED MEN IN A VII
LACE OF FOUR HUNDRED.


Seven hundred men in a village Of four
hundred and fifty peoplel Why on earth don't
YOU keep them where they are young man."
1.-THE sanitary conditions at High Wyckham,
where we have been all winter, are unsatis-
factory"
Unsatisfactory snorted uncle, twiddnv
his fingers and putting out his Rule Britannia
mustache. 'I'll have you know, sir that the
sanitary conditions here--that there are no
sanitary conditions here, in fact"
Every good, sir: and how many officers did
you say you could take?"
81 shall take horses" grunted my uncle.
"Quite so, sir Information as to the num-
Der Of bedrooms you can spare is what | want
most
And he got Il before he left, also tea, which
is always dispensed with great affability. No
Briton has the heart to spoil mans tea.
was stopping with an aunt in this little
village, which was really remote enough to
escape the war spirit, although the war spirit
got into its pocketbook, and certainly 1t was
too small and cramped TO receive bileting
order of seven hundred men. My aunt was
of the genus unprotected female" one of the
two varieties exempt from billetings. The
other genus exempt is the family with mem
Der at the front, and the village boosted many
of the former but few of the latter Neverthe-
less knowing my aunt TO be woman OF ham,
ing patriotism and pinched as genteel
widow should be to be properly in the picture
I hurried home to tell her the news, so THAI
she might get few horses at sixpence head
before uncle grabbed them all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

world, ! think England really should protest
to Germany for the when over the hedge
we spied him coming up the drive with the
village constable, the only khaki in twelve
miles.
"Leftenant Barker. sir" said the constable
while the men in multi tried to look as if their
khaki were only at the tailor's beipg pressed.
wants 10 know, sir, if you've got rooms ere,
sir. for a few horfcers, sir"
And what remuneration does his majesty
offer?" demanded uncle. with the manner Of
man who drives bargains only with kings.
Three shillings for lodgings, five for board
and lodgings, sixpence a head for horses. Seven
hundred men and three hundred horses will be
blleted here, sir"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-28
HEAVY STORM DAMAGE
Was Done in the Vicinity of vergennes
Yesterday.

Yergennes. June 2S-One Of the worst
electric storms in many years occurred
here Yesterday. -Four different storms
closely following each other made in
reality one continuous storm for four
hours There was incessant and sharp
lightning and terrific thunder One OF
the storms was accompanied by hail and
torrents OF water fell, flooding gardens.
and on Green street the water rushed
over the sidewalk ankle deep notwith-
standing the deep cutters. The thermom-
eter. which stood above 50 in the fore
noon. fell soon after O'Clock, when the
first storm began, to so.
During the storm the shaving house
belonging 10 the Vermont shade roller
plant was struck by lightning. setting
the shavings afre. The FIRE was soon
under control No damage * apprehend
I'd from the smonldering Of shavinrs. as
the shaving house is under strict surveil-
lance
This storm will DO much damage 10
the farmers ss many pieces Of land
that hitherto have been too wet for
sewing Or planting were about ready for
seed, and in al probability cannot he
worked for week. even if good weather
ansues.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-28
FUNERAL OF LAFAYETTE BOY.
Was Held at ST. Monica's Church Yester-
day Afternoon.

The funeral of William Lafayette. the
little son of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Lafay-
cite of west hill. whose accidental death
occurred Sunday evening. was held at
st. Monica's church Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, the parish priest, Rev p.
NJ Mckenna, officiating There was a
larg gathering Of neighbors and Other
friends. The bearers wers: Perley La
fayette, Ernest Lafayette and Roland
Lafayette. brothers of the deceased, and
Henry Pacquette. lnterment was made
in the Catholic cemetery on Becklsy
street
The floral tribute included the follow
ing Pillow parents, brothers and sis
ters; carnations, Mr. and Mrs. George
Lafayette, South Barre grange, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Duprey, Sunshine club, Mr.,
and Mrs. William Duprey, Mr. and Mrs.
G. Chapman, Mrs Allen and son, Mrs.
Laphier, Mrs G. Reed, Mrs. f. Bellvile,
Mrs. f. Carey, Mrs A. Pacquet Mr.. and
Mrs. H. A. Holt, Mrs. Robertson, Ina and
Ruth Wood; pansies, Mr.. and Mrs. VI. L.
Towne; pansies and snowballs, O. l..
Wood lilies and snowb balls, Mrs. Beau
lieu; pansies. Mrs. Kelly; mixed flow
srs, Mrs. Belknap; roses and carnations,
Mrs. ?, Macy; psnsies, Mrs Bancroft.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-28
FUNERAL AT GRANrTEvTLLE.
Service for Michael Murphy Was Largely
Attended.

Funeral services for Michael Murphy,
IA well known Graniteyille young man,
who passed away at the home Of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Fl. Murphy,
Saturday, were held in st. Sylvester's
church Tuesday morning at o'clock, the
parish priest, Rev Joseph Turcot, oiii-
ciating The bearers were Philip MUIR
ply, Thomas Murphy aud Moses Muir
ply, brothers Of the deceased, and Mi.
chael Donahue, Patrick i Sheehan and
John j. Sheehan, brothers in law. In
terment was made in the. Catholic ceme-
terry, whittier large number Of the
young mans friends accompanied the
body.
Among the floral tributes were. An.
chor, family; pillcw "Our Uncle; roses,
w. c. @. E.; roses. H. A..-A. O. H.; roses
and sweet peas. Mrs. Susie Carroll and
family; roses. Mrs. George Mcfarland;
roses and carnations. Mrs. Ella Pitkin
and Miss Gwendolyn Pitkin; carnations,
Misses Anne and Gertrude Ryan and
Mrs. Michael Ryan; carnations, Misses
Daisie and Myrtle Pirie; carnations, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Finnegan; carnations,
Thomas Cronie; carnations, John Hea-
ley; carnations, Guy George; spiritual
bouquet, Mrs. John Ryan.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-28
ITALIANS KEEP UP
THEIR ADVANCE
Have Wrested Two More Positions from
the Austrians, Who Are on the De-
fensive Over a Wide Front.

Rome, via London, June 2s.-The Ital-
ians have flung back the Austrians a
further distance on the Trentino front.
The war office to-day announced the cap.
ture of Monte Giamondo, north of Fn-
sine, and Monte Caviojo, a position lying
between Posina and Astoco.
The Italians also have advanced on the
Asiago plateau, occupying the southern
side of the Asia valley and reaching the
slopes of Monte Rasta, Monte Interrotto
and Monte Mosciagh. The Italians have
carried Monte Colombara and reached
the Galamarra valley.