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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05
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753 TOWNSHIPS
DESTROYED BY WAR

Paris. July 5-Seyen hundred and
iiftythree communes, or townships
have been partly or totally DESTROY ed
through military operations in France
since the beginning of the war ac-
cording to statistics gathered by the
ministrg Of the interior, WIN v
to ascertaining the total damage
caused by the hostilities. These com
munes are distributed over eleven OF
the departments Of France, including
those in Ardcnncs still occupied
wholly by the Germans, who arr in
possession of J54 towns of the to
tai of 3G,2i7 in all France or Z per
cent.
Houses to the number Of l6 669
have been totally destroyed and 81.
59i partly destroyed in these com
munities.
In 1iS communes the proportion or
Aouscs destroyed IN these commun-
tiles exceeds so per cent while ii IS
so per cent in "A towns and less than
30 per cent in the remainder. Public
buildings destroyed j. AS communes
were 33l churches, 379 schools, 22l
town halls, 800 other public buildings
of various sorts, and 60 bridges. OF
these buildings Sc have been classef
as historic monuments, including the
town hall Of Arras and the cathedral
and town hall at Rheims
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

The satisfaction with which gas a.
tacks are being used In that Dig
rukh" might contrast oddly with the
dtnunciations of gas as bafbarous
VIXEN used by the enemy If consist
ency had not already been shot all 70
,,;ocee in thie war
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

Baltimore has relasatcd Philadel-
/, hia Boston, New orleans Galveston
and other ports to the backgrown In
the amount of grain that is being eX-
rorted and is pushing New , ork hard
sor first place
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05
PET SNAKES.

Have you little reptile IN the
home? II YOU prefer spenel AS
pet for your children. or a kitten.
perhaps. because IT Is soft and grace.
fu and harmless, you are not up to
date. If your idea Of the only ap.
propriate treatment Of n garter snake
IS TO beat it with shovel until it
10 black and blue and then cut II MP
with a razor You are. so far as rep-
tiles are concerned, at very low lev
81 of education
This is given on the authority of
Mr.. Alien Samuel Williams, Director
Of the Reptile Study Society, in a let
ter to the New York Times. II seems
that lady had been summoned into
court because her irate neighbors in
the same apartment house objected to
her habit OF keeping snakes in her
apartment. Some Of the dear little
beauties got loose one day and visit
ed adjacent homes with disastrous
effect upon the nerves Of the occu
pants. One of them met a sad fate
by shovel and razor in the manner
aforesaid
MIR Williams thereupon took his
pen in hand to defend his crawling
little froends from SANDER. He sees
nc reason why snakes should not be
kept as pets by people who happen
TO fancy them more than birds or
geld fish. To those who know rep
tiles writes Mr. Williams, the
knowledge is common that Of all wild
creatures serpents of most species
are more quickly tanned and accus-
toned TO proximity of human beings
ard contact with them than any crea-
turc. whether It wears scales, lur
flis. or feathers. The average ser
pent is the most gentle and timid an.
inlal alive"
And again, so far as auy species
that these people are likely to have
are concerned. they probably have as
much legal right to keep. care for and
study or amuse themselves with these
animals as they have to harbor a
canary bird =
Mr. Williams e.s, or course right.
There is an unreasonable. mostly sup.
erstitious terror of snakes in the av
erage person, which might well be
dispelled by little knowledge OF
reptiles. Our education in these
Ines is indeed at a low level Tn.
reasoning panic is always the child
OF ignorance. and is In itself more
dangerous than the most yenomous
OF the enemies of Eve.
At the same time, right after being
urged by the entomoogists to add
various sorts of worms and bugs to
our limited dietaries, this suggestion
that we transfer our affections from
the pets of old to the timid and gen
tie snakes doesn't seem to add to the
Joy of life.
Let's give Dicky.brd some fresh
seed and order a steak for dinnerl
FOR Fire and Tornado insurance in
old, time tried lompanies see w. N
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CIT LEASES AND PlATS.

Oil leases and township pots 10!
OIL men on sale at Leader office. Al
SC assignments. affidavits OF posses
sion and affidavit of cash bonus paid
Ali of the latest forms. and conform
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As the new Chinese Cabinet does
not include our old friend WI Ting
fang he ixprobably still doing every
thing In his power to make good his
promise to visit us 30 years hence.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

Congress is proving it can hustle
by passing appropriation bills at a
$40 zoe 600 a minute clip. Ever near
o. Congress that could not hustle
for appropriations
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u have been using Chamherlains
Tablets for Indigestion for the past
Tx months, and It affords me pleas
ire to say | have never used a rem.
sdy that did me so much good. Mrs.
c. f. Riley, lllion. n. Y. Chamber
aims Tablets are obtainable every
where.
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SOUNDED FAMILIAR TO JOEY
Little Boy Delighted at Noise Made
by Gatllns Gun-Reminded Him
of Uncle's Motorcycle.

AT the Grand Saturday night, while
the great battle scene in THE Round.
Up was in progress, one little boy
clapped his hands in great glee at
the noise made by the gatling gun.
DO you like to hear that, Joeyq"
asked his mother, somewhat annoyed
by the din.
Yes, mamma the boy answered
IL sounds just like Uncle Walters
motorcycle. youngstown Telegram.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

The Dry Chicago Federation, com
posed of about fifty temperance and
church organizations has launched a
campaign to close all Chicago sa-
looms in 1917
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

Carranza repudiates the Mexican
volunteer peacemakers. Most of the
Americans invited did their own re-
pudiating.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

The Fourth of July celebration at
tracted thousands to the city An
other vindication OF sanity and sane
ness
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

Within the last year 200 saloons
in St Louis have closed heir doors
on account of lack Of business and
500 more are reported to be In bad
financial circumstances.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

The plan of selling muicipal bonds
at retail over the counter in the
office of the city treasurer has been
made a permanent institution in ST.
Louis through an amendment to the
CITY charter.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

Cerranza is poor correspondent
to ,st his replies get SO far in arrears.
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WANTED-To see you sell II or rent
It. Use Leader CLASSY Eide" i'd:
: lines, 3 times, Is cents.
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FOR Fire and Tornado insurance in
old, time tried ompanies see w. VI
Mccoy, Phone 249,
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Guthrie has given another demon
ttration Of patriotism-a sane and sen
slble Fourth
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HE DAILY LEADE II
eY LESLIE q. NIHLAck

published from The Daily Leader build
ane. Nast Harrison avenue, and entered
at the Guthrie postoffice as second clss
matter.
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-05

When Private Frank S. Howe, of
the Twelfth New York infantry, re-
celved word that he must get ready
to go to Mexico at once, the first
person he notified was Miss May
MeF'iroy. She decided they would
wed before he left. They went to the
marriage license bureau in the New
Yorl City Municipal building. There
they found Mrs. James Gear AN ar
dent suffragist, who would not let a
war bride go unremembered. She
had neat package OF delicious we'd.
ding cake on hand, and this photo.
graph shows her handing it to the
blushing bride and groom just before
they walked Oft with their license.
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
Two Cars Jump Track

Two cars of No. 70 freight train on
the L. e. N. railroad ran off the track
at McMaha switch, about one mile
south of town, this morning at about
4 o'clock. A wrecker was telegraph
ed for at Darlington but the trainmen
succeeded in getting the cars back on
the switch before the wrecker got on
its journey bearing aid. One of the
cars was full of mules but none were
hurt. The train was the fast freight
that passes on the local track, but had
Just switched and was going slow at
the time OF the wreck, which kept off
any serious damage.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
COUNTY BOOKS
ALL BALANCE
Assistant Inspector Corley
Accepts Work; Records
Checked Up.

F. G. Corley, assistant state inSpec-
tor, has carefully checked up all the
books in the offices of the county
clerk, county Judge and circuit clerk
since 1909 and finds that all balance.
He has given his certificate of approx
al to all the present officers and writ
ten the acceptance of the state de-
partment across the books.
In the case of Walter Radford,
former circuit clerk, it was found that
Mr.. Radford had overpaid about 81.
Mr.. Corley finished up his work Mon
day.
The officers who were checked up
were former County Clerk r. T.
Stowe and the present County Clerk
L. j. Harris, former Circuit Clerk
Walter Radford and the present Clerk
C. R. Clark, and County Judge Wal
ter Knight.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
To Explore Brazil.

Newport, July 10. Alexander Rice,
who is planning to start in the fall for
a trip along the Amazon river in Bra
I'll, will be accompanied by his wife.
The trip, which is expected to occupy
several months, will be made upon a
yacht that will be especially prepared
for the voyage.
After receiving medal from the
Royal Geographical Society in Lon
don, DIR. Rice undertook explorations
in the wilds of Brazil in 1907 and
1908, when for a long time it was
feared that he was lost. On his re-
turn he declared that he had reached
the headquarters Of the Orinoco and
had found the source Of the Rio Me-
gro. Mrs. Rice was formerly Mrs.
George d. Widener, widow Of tt
tantic victim.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
THE WOMEN
ORGANIZE
Christian County Health and
Welfare Association.

Yesterday afternoon representative
women of the county met at the Car
negie Library and organized the
Christian County Health and Welface
Association. Mrs. Marion Sager, VS.
iting nurse of the city, was the princi-
pal promoter of the organization OF
the association.
The association elected Mrs. George
Kolb temporary chairman and Mrs
c. H. Tandy secretary.
On August 10, a public meeting
will be held at the Tabernacle, ~
which the permanent organization
will take place. Albert Maus, score
tary of the state tuberculosis commits
sion, and other experts will deliver
addresses. On this day the WuueD
will give dinner, the receipts 0t
which will be used as a fund for car
rying on a movement for better he I'm
in the county. Special attention win
begiven to tuberculosis and trachoHa
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
TRIMBLE LOTS
BRING $4,000
Sale Of New Addition Brings
Good Results.

The sale of the lots of the S. Y.
Trimble addition TO Hopkinsville, just
outside the city limits, on South Vir-
ginia street, was held Tuesday morn
ing. The addition will be formed in
to court and constitute a suburb to
the city,
There were thirty-eight lots offered
and they brought close to $4,000 for
the total. The lots ranged from one
to three acres in size. They will
have light and water connections.
The first lot was bought by Durrett
Moore for 500. Mr.. Moore an
nounced that he would build immedi-
ately. Music was furnished by Prof.
Farmers band, of Princeton. A
Shetland pony was given away and
this was won by F. M. Carroll.
The sale was conducted by the
Newbury Realty and Auction Com
pany. This same company will con-
duct sale of about two hundred lots
on Durrett avenue on August 5.
This property is in the negro section.
1t will be the first time a sale has ev-
er been held for the colored people
of Hopkinsville.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
The Married Guardsmen.

1t is right and proper to allow mar
ried members of the National guard
to return home. 1t is now generally
recognized that il was a mistake to
send them off for Mexican service in
the first place. The regular army, in
recruiting soldiers, makes a practice
of rejecting married men, out of def
erence to the universal view that
posts of danger in the nations SER
vice are for men without families de-
pendent on them. The same rule
ought to be followed as far as posi-
BILE, in Transforming the militia organ
izations into federal army units. In
case of serious need, of course, there
could be no question of the propriety
of sending the married men to the
front, as was done in our civil war,
and is now being done by every bel
ligerent in Europe. But there is at
present no such emergency. There
are plenty of available single men in
the United States to perform any duty
that seems likely to devolve upon this
nation with regard to Mexico.
Almost without exception the mar
ried men went along with their regi-
ments without a word of complaint.
They feared for their families, many
of them left with inadequate means
of support, but they feared still more
the imputation of cowardice or dis
loyalty to their country. 1t isn't fair
to force the guardsmen into such a
position. And although the difficulty
might have been met by congress
providing help for guardsmen's fam
lilies in all cases where it was not al
ready provided for, it is a simpler
and more sensible way to let the
married men return home-subiect,
of course, to call if they should be
imperatively needed. And it's far
fairer to the guardsmen's wives and
children than any make-shift pension
or charity system. -OwensborO Mes
senger.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
Road Commissioners Busy
With the Problem Of
Turnpike Building.
ONE FIRM GETS ALL
Contract To Montgomery
and Perkins at $685.
620.

The Road Commission met Tuesday
and opened bids for the buldingand
rebuilding of 85 miles of state-aid
turnpikes on six roads in Christian
county, designated by their county
seat titles.
There were eight bidders. OF
these Montgomery & Perkins, or
San Antonio, Tex, and Martin G Ellis,
of Evansville, bid on all of the roads
The first named firms combinations
bid was $l9S, $40, whereas the single
bidders with low bids summed up
were $199,197
The Byars Operative & Construction =
Co., Adairville, bid on the Dover
GAINESVILLE, Elkton and Princeton
roads.
Gorrell & Son, of RussellviIle, on
the Princeton, Russellville and Nash
vile roads.
Boyd G. Williams, McMmnviIlev
Tenn, on the jacksonville road
Durrett Construction Co., Louis
vile, on all except the jacksonville
road.
Haggard G. Son, Winchester, Ky.a.,
on GAINESVILLE, Elkton and Princeton
c. D. McQueary, Adams, Tenn, ON
Dover, Elkton and Princeton.
w. H. Hester and NJ g. Moore
local men, bid on concrete only
The low bid on each road taken
separately was; jacksonville, S56s-
SIC; Nashville, S27,557, Clarksvile,
S30,365 Princeton, S3O,894; Elktua
S17 $50; and Dover, $685.
The Commission at 400 p. III.
awarded the contract for all of the
roads to Montgomery G. Perkins
These bidders offered to conn
plete the work in $50 days and begin
work in Is days.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
ADVISORY
Committee
Is Named by the Campaign
Chairman J. Campbell
CantriIl.

Washington, July 19.-The person.
mel of the Kentucky Democratic Cam
paign Advisory Committee was made
public here by Representative j.
Campbell Cantrill, chairman of the
Kentucky Campaign Committee. His
statement follows:
"At a meeting of the State Execu-
tive Campaign Committee held at
Frankfort on July s, | was authorized
to name a State Campaign Advisory
Committee, consisting of three men,
bers from the State-at-large and one
member from each congressional dis
trict. In conformity with the above
authorization / hereby name the fol-
lowing gentlemen as an Advisory
Committee:
From the State-at-Large-Gen. w.
B. Haldeman, ex-Gov. James B. Nc
Creary, ex-United States Senator
johnson N. Camden.
First Congressional District Hon.
Henry Lawrence, Cadiz.
Second Congressional District
Hon. James West, Hopkinsville.
Third Congressional DISTRIBUTION.
James Richardson, Glasgow.
Fourth Congressional District
Hon. Harry Sommers, Elizabethtown.
Fifth Congressional Distribution.
John H. Buschemeyer, Louisville.
Sixth Congressional Distribution.
A. E. Stricklett, Covington.
Seventh Congressional District
Hon. John T. Hinton, Paris.
Eighth Congressional District =
Robert G. Evans, Danville.
Ninth Congressional Distribution.
M. F. Conley, Louisa.
Tenth Congressional Distribution.
E. E. Hogg, Boonville.
Eleventh Congressional District
Lieut.. Gov. James D. Black, Barbour
vile.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
BERLIN zoo HIT
BY A FAMINE
Food Too Scarce to Be Fed
Animals Too
Freely.

Berlin, July 19.-The sight of 10
absolutely meatless weeks which, ac-
cording to the food dictator, Herr
Batocki, are hanging over our heads
like sword of Damocles have not
yet come, nor yet have we been re-
duced to the same straits as were the
people OF Paris during the siege of
1871, when they were compelled to
eat all the inmates of the Paris ZOO.
But if the authorities do not very soon
make up their minds to have the ami
mails in the Berlin Geological Garden
slaughtered we shall find very little
meat on any of them at the time when
it might become necessary to send
them to abbatoirs.
In the Berlin zoo the sufferings Of
the poor beasts are obvious. Their
constant roars and bowls leave no
doubt as to their feelings towards the
wardens. More disreputable looking
creatures than the birds which are the
national symbols of Germany as well
as of the United States | have seldom
seen. Few have any feathers left to
speak of, and they were so weak they
could barely move.
Here is what the "Berliner Tage-
blatt," says of the poor creatures who
are being slowly starved to death be-
hind the bars of their cages.
ITO feed 5000 animals IN war time
when food for human beings is grow
ing scarcer every day is no easy mat
ter. 1t is quite out of the question to
say to these beasts, "My dear Herr
Lion or Herr Tiger, we ourselves have
for some time beenforced to get along
with several meatless days a week,
and il is therefore, no more than right
that you should do the same. On these
days, therefore, you will in the future
get only a sour herring or few pota-
to Feelings.
Nor can you expect the serpents
to feel happy when you give meas
ure Of lettuce or spinach once a week
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20

instead of their usual weekly meal,
which has always consisted of fat
rabbit. Animals stand a radical change
of diet far less readily than human be-
ings, and during our recent walks
through the ZOO we have noticed that
the lions and tigers are looking any,
thing but happy. Their tanks are
hollow and their ribs protrude.
The elephants are melancholy and
are trying in vain to understand why
none of the visitors who used to spoil
them with buns and cakes now never
go near them and why those who do
stop to look at them never give them
any food.
Five ostriches have died and of
the II giant snakes there are now on
ly three left and these look anything
but alive. Nearly all the inmates of
the aquarium have died"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
NEGRO
BOY AWAY
Young Houseboy Arrested
For Brutal Crime Against
Taylorsville Woman.

Louisville, July 19.-Theophilus
Allen, negro houseboy not Is years
old, charged with criminally assault
ing Mrs. Charles Hough, aged GO,
wife of a we'll known Taylorsville
merchant and mother-in-law OF State
Senator w. w. Bodies, Sunday morn
ing at her home in Taylorsville, was
placed in Jail here for safe keeping
following reports received by officers
at Shelbyville, where he was first
taken, that a mob was forming to
lynch the negro.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
RICHARDSON
IS READY
Comes From California to
Join His Regi-
ment.

Jim Richardson, a former member
of the Princess orchestra and employee
of the Mogul Wagon Works, who has
been working in California, near Los
Angeles, with the Southern Pacific
railroad, is in the city to await the OPP
ening of a recruiting station here for
the The Third Regiment. Mr.. Rich
ardson is enrolled as trombonist in
Third Regiment Band and comes here
at the call of his adiutant to await
further orders.
Lieut.. Alvin Clark will bring a re-
detachment here this week
and open up enlistment headquarters.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
WITHDRAW
PERSH|NC
Rodgers Informs Mexican
Government Expedition Is
to Be Gradually Moved.
APPOINT COMMISSIONERS
Carranza Government Desig-
mates Representatives to
Confer With Americans.
APPOINT COMMISSIONERS

Mexico City, July 19.-James Lynn
Rodgers, representative of the Amer
lean government, informed the Mexi-
can secretary of war that the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces in Mexico
would be gradually withdrawn from
Mexican territory. Mexican commits
sioners have been designated to
reach settlement of the outstanding
questions in the United States.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-07-20
MAN INJURED.

Ed Bronaugh, middle aged WORK
man on the farm of Ward Cagpest,
caught his foot ina wagon in which
he was hauling hay Tuesday after
noon and was dragged for a (, stance,
on the ground iniuring him painfulgr
but not seriously The bed E1s
blown over by the wind. BronaHl,
was turned out of the wagon with sNeas
hay. He was starting into a stable tos
escape the rain.