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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
DISTRICT MEET OF
THE K. OF P. TONIGHT

The final arrangements for the
district meeting of the Knights of
Pythias have been consummated, and
everything is in readiness for the
session which takes place tonight at
castle hall on East Intendencia street
at 7:30 o'clock.
The delegations from Milton and
Bagdad will make the trip in auto
mobiles, but those from DeFuniak are
expected to arrive this morning and
the crowds from Moline and Cen
fury are expected on No. 5 this after
noon.
The feature of the session will be
the comforting or the rank of knight
on four esquires in amplified form
by the best senatorial team ever got
ten together in West Florida, and If
will no doubt prove a very strong
drawing card, as this work is keenly
appreciated by those who have been
fortunate enough to witness it, and il
therefore it can be expected that the
local Pythians will attend almost to
q man.
The committee on the "feed" re-
ports that they have arranged for ar
excellent spread.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
SERVICE IN U.s..
MILITIA NOW
COMPULSORY
Every Able-Bodied Male
Citizen Between Is and
IS May Be Drafted.
REGULATIONS MADE
! PUBLIC YESTERDAY
Order Applies During War
Time, to Supplement
Slow Volunteering.
BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Dec. 28.-Every able
bodied male citizen of the United
States between the ages of Is and As
is held liable for service in the Ma
tional Guard IN war time without fur
Their act of congress.
This is set forth in the war depart
ment regulations for government of
the National Guard under the nation
al defense act.
In circular prepared two months
ago, but made public today, the mil
tia bureau directs that where a Ma
tional Guard regiment is called for
war service, :, reserve training battal-
ion to fill vacancies at the front must
be organized out of the National
Guard reserve and voluntary enlist
ments. The order continues: eff fol
any reason there shall not be enough
reservists or enough voluntary en-
istments to organize or keep the re
serve battalions at prescribed
strength a sufficient number of I'M
organized militia shall be drafted by
the president to maintain such 6
battalion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
GROUND SHOT
ALL TO PIECES
Shell Holes and Water Make
It Irnpassable-Attack
on Sornne Abandoned.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

London, Dec. 2S.-Major General
Frederick B. Maurice, chief director
of military operations of the war
office, told the Associated Press to-
day that continuation of the Som
me offensive was impossible as long
as the present weather lasts. He
said he recently announced Somme
offensive would be continued during
the winter, but officers now find they
under-e estimated the effects of she'll
ing on the Terrain. He said the shell
holes were filled with water and the
land was impossible. The French, he
said, also discovered this and trans
ferred their activities to the Verdur
section. He declared the first Rou-
manian army was entirely withdrawn
from action, was being reformed in
Moldavia.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
NEW COUNTY BOARD
MEETS JANUARY !

The newly elected board of county
commissioners will take office next
Tuesday night. Only one member of
the present board goes back. This is
J. George White, who was elected
without opposition. The other mem
bers are H. E. Candy, James Nc
Curdy, Gus Soderlind and L. w.
Hardy.
The first matter to come up before
the new board will be that of electing
chairman, and nothing has been
given out relative to the probable
choice of the board.
Following the election of chairman,
the board is expected to take up the
matter of filling quite a number of
county offices. These are: Engineer
at the county building, which carries
with it salary of 500 per month; the
county attorney, which carries a
monthly pay Of SIS; the county ply
stefan, which pays $75; the court
house janitor, which pays SOS; road
supervisor, superintendent of the poor
farm, and others. Each of the places
is eagerly sought by number of ap-
plicants.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
ABRUPT ENDING OF
RAILWAY CONFERENCE
nv ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York, Dec 28.-Resumption
of conferences here today between
representatives of the railroads and
the employees brotherhoods was quick
ly terminated. The reason was un-
derstood to be that the conference
committee of railroad managers
sought to apply the recent switch
mems arbitration award to the pres
ent controversy over the Adamson
act.
The conferees had been in session
less than two hours when an adj
journment was taken. The brother
hood conferees were obviously dis
turbed when the session ended.
1t was learned that the roads sug-
gested that the dispute between them
over the application of the Adamson
act, if upheld by the supreme court,
be settled on the basis of the switch
mems award which the railroad man
ayers held gave the switchmen on
the roads involved nine hours pay
for eight hours of work.
Representatives of the brother
hoods, it was asserted declined point
blank to accept a settlement on such
a basis.
They are declared to have pointed
insistently to the Adamson act and to
have demanded that an agreement
be reached under the act Such a
settlement, they held, would grant
ten hours pay for eight hours work.
The brotherhoods suggested the
creation of a federal commission
representing both sides which would
consider and settle arbitrarily all fu-
ture disputes, regardless of whether
the Adamson act was declared con-
stitutional. The proposal was not
given consideration.
The railroad managers will con-
tinue their individual conferences
here. The plans of the brotherhoods
were not announced.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29

Dayton, o., Dec. 23.-Dayton, with
the first probation system of the kind
in the country, is giving workhouse
prisoners a new deal and saving the
wives and children of prisoners from
poverty and public charity while they
are serving sentences.
Sending a family man to the work
house, under the old system, usually
meant his dependents suffered from
lack of food and shelter. They were
punished, though innocent, along with
the man.
DR.. Frank d. Garland, former min
lister, ow,head of The welfare depart
ment, originated this new plan and is
establishing a correctional farm
where prisoners may work and live in
the open and and sunshine instead of
being cooped up in unwholesome
quarters.
Under the new plan, a man under
sentence to the workhouse may
spend only the nights there. During
the day he works in some shop or
factory making living for his fam
lily.
His pay is turned over to the de-
partment of welfare. A superintend-
end applies part to payment of fine
or debts, to the support of depend,
ents, the purchase of clothing and q
saving fund.
Here is the case of prisoner No.
1898. He was sent to the workhouse
for long term FOR non-support He
was capable workman, but drank up
about ali he earned.
DIR. Garland got him a job in a fac
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
GOING TO TALLAHASSEE?
r. R. ANNOUNCES RATES

For the benefit of those planning to
attend the Inauguration ceremonies at
Tallahassee on the End of January
the L. & N. offers special round trip
rates on the basis of one far plus
fifty cents. The rate from Pensa-
cola, for instance, will be only 5000
there and return.
From DeFuniak, Bombay and Mil
ton extra large delegations are ex-
pected, and while there have not yet
been many reservations from Pensa-
cola, it is not doubted that this city
will be amply represented.
The tickets will be on sale Deem
Der 81, and January 1 and 2. Extra
sleepers will also be operated.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
GULF BEACH HIGHWAY
FUND is GROWING

Gratifying returns are being re-
ceived from the recent circular of the
Gulf Beach Highway Association ap-
pealing to the original subscribers for
an extra donation, that the road may
be completed before the winter is
over.
The committee is thoroughly in
earnest and express the conviction
that the requisite funds will be
raised.
The army and navy camps pro-
posed to be established here, as well
as the tourist trade in general, are
acting as a powerful stimulant to
completing direct connection between
the Deep Water City and surf bath
ing beach before summer comes.
tits an investment from which we
will all draw dividends" expresses
the feeling for the Gulf Beach High
way.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
FEARS GENERAL SPREAD
OF 1NFANTILE PARALYSIS

New York, Dec. 28.-In an address
on "Infantile Paralysis" before the
American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science, DIR. Simon Flex-
ner of Rockefeller institute, declared
he was "more or less fearful the dis
ease viii be mere widespread in the
United States next summer" He as
serted it is now possible to say the
disease is infectious and contagious
but paralysis is misnomer as more
who had it were not paralyzed than
we're.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
TO IMPROVE
SCHOOLS HERE
Thirty-Four Petitions for to
Make Special Tax Dis
trict of Pensacola.

Thirty-four petitions are being
circulated to call an election looking
to the creation of special school tax
district of Pensacola that better
school facilities may be secured here.
This is the result of an agitation
for a new high school building
launched several weeks ago, further
intensified by fire which demon
strated the danger of the structure in
question and emphasized by a frank
discussion of our educational condi-
tons which are said to rank below
the rest Of the state in general and
Escambia county in particular.
At mass meeting on the subject,
a committee of twenty-five were APP
pointed to circulate the petitions, but
since that time. there have been
twelve more applicants to assist in
the gathering of signatures, and uni-
form success is reported generally.
Very little opposisicn has been en-
countered. Some report unanimous
acceptance, others one or two object
ors only.
With this large number of petitions
out, endorsements from the necessary
rs per cent of property owners could
be very soon collected, as an average
of fifteen each would more than give
the requisite number; but a healthy
rivalry seems to exist among the cir
culators, and the object is to make
the petitions as nearly unanimous as
possible.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
GERMAN ATTACKS ON
DEADMAN'S HILL REFUSED

Teutonic forces invading Roumania
are we'll within Rimnik- Surat and are
advancing along the railroad toward
Fokshani.
Three thousand more prisoners
have been captured by the Germans,
bringing the number of men taken
in the Rimnik- Surat maneuver UP to
more than 10000 according to Ber-
lin.
Although Berlin reports Teutonic
advance in Dobrudja, Petrograd says
the invaders south of the Danube
have been repulsed with heavy losses
at every point except the village of
Rakel British armed motor cars,
Petrograd asserts, did great execu-
ton in this fighting.
German attacks around Verdun
near Deadman's Hill and Hill No.
304, were repulsed and the French
have begun bombardment of German
positions.
Air fighting and bombardments
continue along various sections of the
French front. Berlin reports British
attacks on Bulgarian positions in
Macedonia were repulsed. South of
Brady, in Galicia, the German artil-
lery damaged Russian trenches, and
unofficial advices from Saloniki, say
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29

people $4S6 year in the county in
stitution, so aside from the human
itarian aspect, the prisoners reform
saves the peoples money.
Precedents show that in cases of
this kind under the old system the
man usually keeps on going to the
workhouse time after time and the
children remain public charges.
Dayton women raised $1,000 and
had survey made that showed SO of
tenders had been arrests 637 times
and imprisoned 24S times in five
years.
Dayton has bought 112 acres of
farm land where prisoners win work
and live in "dormitories" instead of
cells. There will be only two cells
for unruly prisoners. There will not
be bars on the windows and guar DIS
win not carry guns.
While preliminary building opera
tons have been under way, prisoners
worked on the farm. they plowed,
titled soil, gathered crops and pitched
hay. They became tanned and vigor-
Gus, instead of pale and weak.
The revenue from the farm opera
tons as against that derived from
the contract labor system, which has
been abolished, will make it more
economical for Dayton to take care OF
its prisoners under the new plan.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
Happy New Year?
Sure /! Forty Get
Over $4,000 More

Over four thousand dollars a
year extra will be brought to
Pensacola by the passage of the
bill giving q ten per cent raise to
the salaries of government en-
ployes whose emolument is at
present below $500.
The payroll of the local postof-
flee affected is about $500 a
month and $3.50 a month extra
will thus be put into cireulation'
here.
There are 40 employees of the
local postNffice whose salary is at
present below $500.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
PRESIDENT WILL VETO
PUBLIC BUILDING BILL

Washington, Dec. 2s.-President
Wilson told callers today that he
would veto the twenty eight million
dollar public buildings bill if it come
to him in the form now pending in
the house. The president has reached
no decision on the rivers and harbors
bill recently laid before him by Con-
gresham Sparkman.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
CAPTAIN SENTENCED TO
A TERM OF TEN YEARS

Los Angeles, Dec. 2S.-David Cap
Ian, the last of the alleged d.na-
miters tried for destruction of the
Times building here in 1910, was SEN
fenced to ten years for manslaughter,
Execution of the sentence was sus-
pended rS-ling Captains appeal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
Double Standard
is Condemned
nY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Chicago, Dec. 28.-Speakers
condemning double standard for
men and women at Illinois Wo-
mems Legislative Congress to-
day advocated parentage should
constitute legal marriage. Some
were opposed to automatic mar
riage.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29

Continued on Page TwO.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-12-29
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair Friday and Saturday, colder; gem
tie to shifting winds, becoming north
Yesterdays temperature: Highest 81
degrees; lowest. s. degrees.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

NJ w HUTCHINSON, Register
Date first publication Nov, 80, 19l6,
Date second publication Nov 30'16
Date third publication Dec Z, 1916
Date fourth publication Dec. il ,191 6
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
IN THE MILLENNIUM.
How This Old World Will Wag In the
Good Days to Come.


my gracious, how cheap everything
Is getting!''
II understand there hasn't been a
case of divorce i'll the last ten years.
II think our national stability is
greatly due to the patriotic spirit Of
our congress, don't you?'
Aren't these modest fashions just
100 cute for anything? I'm so glad
they win stay that way"
ut certainly is a pleasure to pick NJ
newspaper these days-always good
news and plenty of it,
Brown tells me his wife disobeyeu
aim yesterday. Did you ever hear
anything like it,
Yes, dear. ! have to use my car all
day long. | don't know what I'd ever
10 if gasoline wasn't free
Il am a poor man: but. thank heal
en-, / still have the courts.'
mo, child, there won't be any more
wars-the rulers of the world are all
good men,
'How foolish we women were to
clamor for the vote when all we want
ed was the millennium!'
Dear me, what horrible night
mare l had last night. l dreamed l
was living in the twentieth century,
Edmund ]. Kiefer in Life.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
Hoaxed the Naturalist.

One of the most relnarka bic books
ever published is the "Lithogra phia
Wirrebur1eusis written by !; Wurz
burg naturalist named Behringer in
1896. Probably very few copies are i'll
existence. as the author destroyed all
that he could get possession of soon
after the book appeared. He had been
yictimized by some practical jokers.
who had made great variety of arti-
fetal fossils" and hidden them in Il
quarry. to which they then enticed the
professor Hehringer was overjoyed
by so rich a find and had no suspicion
Of the trick, although many Of the fos-
sis We're Of a very groteslue charac-
ter He took his treasures home, made
elaborate dra wings of them and wrote
u minute description Of each, rs well
as an exhaustive commentary filled
with ingenious and plausible theories.
When he had published the book the
jokers confessed. and then, Of course,
the professor did his utmost to sup
press the work.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
NOTICE

Notice of Contest Department Of
the Interior, United States Lana
Office
Nov. 81, 1915
| TO Frank Leshovsky of Tyler, N.
D.. Contestee.
You are hereby notified that
Henry Koke who gives Malta, Mon
tana, as his post Office address, did
on October 3Oth., 1916, file in this
Office his duly corroborated appll-
cation to contest and secure the can
collation. of your homestead, entry
No. O9167 made March Goth, 1910,
for Ell SWA Sec. is and Ek n
VIZ Section 10 Township 80 N.
Range 32E. Montana Meridian, and
as grounds for his contest he alleges
that entry1nan has established or
that entryman has never establish
ed or maintained residence upon
said land; that said entryman has
never improved said land; and that
said entryman has wholly abandon
ed said land
You are therefore, further mott
fed that the said allegations will be
taken by this office as having been
confessed by you, and your said en-
try will be Cancelled hereunder
without your further right to be
heard therein either before this
office or on appeal, ii you fail to file
in this Office within twenty days
after the fourth publication OF this
notice, as shown below, your answer
under oath, specifically meeting and
responding to these allegations OF
contest. or if you fail within that
time to file in this Office due proof
that you have served copy of your
answer on the said contestant either
in person or by registered mail. II
this service is made by the delivery
of copy of your answer to contest
ant in person, proof of such service
must be either the said contestants
written acknowledgment Of his re-
ceipt of the copy, showing the date
of it's receipt, or the affidavit OF the
person by whom the delivery was
made, stating when and where the
copy was delivered; it made by reg
istered mail. proof OF such service
must consist Of the affidavit OF the
person by whom the copy was mail
ed, stating when and the post office
to which it was mailed, and this al
fdayit must be accompanied by the
postmaster's receipt for the letter.
You should state in your answer
The name Of the post office to which
YOU desire future notices to be sent
to you.
Il. c. fARGADlNE,
Receiver.
Date first publication Nov. 80, 1916.
Date sec. publication Dec. Z. 1916.
Date third publication Dec. IA, 1916
Date fourth publication Dec. 81, 10
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
STORY or THE POTATO.
A. . Food Il Waa at First Used Only
For Pics and Cattle.

The question OF where the potato is
indigenous and where introduced by
man has never been strictly answered
1t seems sure. however, that the potato
is a native of tho mountainous districts
of tropical and subtropical America.
from Chile to Mexico and even as far
north as the southern part Of Colorado
Data concerning the known use of the
potato for food are not very definite
1t probably was first taken to Europe
from Peru by Spaniards early In the
sixteenth century and spread from
Spain to Holland, Burgundy and Italy.
though cultivated only as curiosity ia
a few gardens and little known or
thought Of In 1.-THE Complete Gar
dener." published in 111o, 1t is not men
toned.
AS a food it was first used for pigs
and cattle. Then. on account of it's
great yield, it was suggested that it
might be useful for the poor and pre-
vent famine due to the failure Of the
grain crops.
AS early as 1868 the Royal Society OF
London adopted measures to encourage
Its cultivation in England. 1t spread
quickly in Ireland. but not until the
middle of the eighteenth century did
1t acquire any real Importance on the
continent of Europe. or it's first cult
gation as d crop in North America even
less is known.-New York Times
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
Notice of Contest.

Department of the Interior Unit
cd States Land Office, Havre, Mon
tana.
November is, 1916.
To Oscar Hendenstrom Of Ray,
North Dakota, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that
Arthur Higgins. who gives Malta,
Montana, as his post-ofice address,
did on October 24th, 1916, file III
,,,s.5 Office his duly corroborated ap-
plilution to contest and secure thn
cancellation OF your homestead Ser
ial No O29oS3, made July 18th, 1919
for Z z, section II, township % ~,
range IS E., Montana meridian, and
as grounds for his contest he alleges
that claimant has abandoned said
claim for more than one year last
past, and has made no improvements
of any kind whatsoever.
You are, therefore, further mott
fed that the said allegations will be
taken by this office as having been
confessed by you, and your said en-
try will be cancelled hereunder with
out your further right to be heard
threin, either before this office or on
appeal, if you fail to file in this Of
flee within 30 days after the fourth
publication Of this notice. as shown
below, your answer under oath,
specifically meeting and responding
to these allegations Of contest, or il
you shall fail within that time to file
in this office due proof that you have
served a copy OF your answer on the
said contestant either in person or
by registered mail If this service
is made by the delivery of copy Of
your answer to the contestant in per-
son, proof Of such service must be
either the said contestants written
acllnOWled gment of his receipt Of
the copy, showing the date OF its re-
eeipt or the affidavit of the person
by whom the delivery was made,
stating when and where the copy
was delivered; if made by registered
mail proof of such service must con
sist OF the affidavit OF the person by
whom the copy was mailed, stating
when and the post-oftice to which it
was mailed and his affidavit must
be accompanied by the pOStmaster's
receipt for the letter
You should state in your answer the
name of the post-oilice to which you
desire future notices to be sent TO
you.
NJ. W. HUTCfllNsON, Register
Date first publication Nov, 23,19l6.
Date second publication Nov. 80. '16
Date third publication Dec Z, 1916
Date fourth publication Dec. il 1916
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
'EF,RAl~ OF COURT.

In the District Court Of the Seven
teenth Judicial District of the State
Of Montana, III and for the Counties
OF Sheridan, Phillips and Valley.
IN the matter Of fixing dates for
holding terms Of court and natural
ization days for the year 1917, In
the respective counties Of said dis
tricl court above named.
Order.
1t is hereby ordered, That terms
OF court for the district court Of the
Seventeenth judicial District of the
State OF Montana for the year 1917
be, and they are hereby set to com
mence on the following named days
to wit:
Sheridan County
January }, 1917
May 2, 1917
August s, 1917
October "a, 1917
Phillips County
February 2S, 1917
June Is, 1917
September 5, 1917
November %, 1917
Valley County
March %, 1917
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14
Between Girls,

"she sits out on the front porch a
good deal, but she always has her nose
IN !. book.
'She knows her bit. In addition to
getting u reputation for being literary
she shows of to better advantage that
w:lF. Her hair is her good feature. not
her nose" Louisville Courier -I"urnal
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-14

make loans GA day farms,
igated farms, city property
shat j. improved. Loan,
closed quickly. Partial pay
mems can be made.---i4. $.
f'!t,te2apine, Malta, Montana.