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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01
Wilson

In the bloodiest crucible of
all history he has kept the stain
less banner of the Republic fly
ing above lO0,0O0,OOO of people
in peace and in honor. During
these years of great trial, of
difficulties. and complications
crowding upon each other like
waves of angry sea, with enc
mics powerful from without and
critics and traducers from with
in, with abuse cruel as it was
cowardly, he energies as majes-
tic and powerful as a mountain
after a storm, loved by all who
believe in justice, and feared by
those who temporize with
wrong"
Senator Ollie James,
In his speech before the st. Louis
Convention.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01
RichardsOn-LOcke

John E. Richardson of Arm
strsng and Miss Mary Dean
Locke of Forrest Green were
united in marriage by Rev. B.
D. Rudd at his study Wednes-
day.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01
Committee Meeting

The County Committee will
meet here next Wednesday, Sep
tember 6. There should be a
full attendance. Arrangements
for a big Campaign in the Coun-
ty should be made and nominees
set to work after respectable
majorities.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01
Christian Church

Bible School at 9.45 A. M.
Board meeting at 1890. Divine
worship and sermon by pastor at
IL o'clock. Union service in the
evening ats.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01
Salisbury Scribblings

The annual reunion of the
Reed Spring school, ten miles
southeast of Mexico Mo. was
held last Friday and was a COM
plete success. The day was ideal
the attendance was large, the
dinner all that palate could wish,
and the fraterual greetings of
old school mates cordial and
hearty. A. W. Johnson attend
ed from here and reports a splen-
did meeting. the best yet had.
This is an association of pupils
who attended this school forty
and fifty years ago and will be
continued as long as any of the
members remain alive and able
to get there.
M. L. Jordan of Chicago, one
of the managers of the Chicago
Stock Yards has been here this
week visiting relatives. We
find him to be a very intelli-
gent and accommodating gentle
man and were more than glad to
meet him.
Miss Martha Shockley of Col
umbia Mo. is here visiting her
friend Miss Helen Jacobs and
attending the chautauqua.
Geo. Ainsworth the liveryman
is carrying his right eye in a
sling the result of coming in con-
tact with a mule. The mule is
a dangerous proposition any way
you take him.
Henry Firing, south of town,
went to Kansas City Monday
afternoon on business
Webster Nance and daughter,
Mrs. j. A. Bozarth, left this
week for a visit to relatives and
friends in Brazil. Indiana.
W. S. Gallemore, rural mai
carrier, has returned from Wood.
land Hospital at Moberly, where
he has been for five weeks, re.
covering from an operation for
appendicitis.
John Gladback, Jr. has return.
ed from an extended trip .tC
Iowa.
C. D. Reed and Mrs. R. A.
Horton are visiting friends al
Hugo, Colo.
| W. C. Moredock, who has beer
sick a long time, has been worse
than usual this week, and bis
friends fear the end is not fal
off.
Stephen Crawford attended
the G. A. R. meeting at Kansas
City this week.
Jack Zumalt has returned from
a six months stay in Okla, anC
is glad to be back in old Chari'
ton.
Jim Mott and wife are sport,
ing a new Allen car.
Mrs. John N. Cooper attended
the funeral of a child cousin al
Prairie Hill this week.
The Catholic picnic Tuesday
was well attended.
The circus here Saturday drew
a large crowd.
A new girl baby at the homs
of Nose Parks and wife has brot
a ray of sunshine that will bring
an added JOY. May the young
lady have the beauty of hel
mother and the strength of char
acrer Of her father.
Rev. James Dameron anG
family Of Senith. Mo-. are herr
an q v;aif
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01
Few Disagree With Us

There was exception taken to
our comments on the Jones chau-
tauqua numbers which appeard
to US, and we might add to a
majority Of those who heard
them, as being unworthy, and to
hand it back to us, a few Of the
members of the commercial club,
to be exact, a dozen out of 62,
met and resolved that we were
wrong as will appear from the
resolution printed below. The
numbers commented on ad-
versely were found fault with in
some particular or another, if
not to the whole subject. The
numbers we praised were,- so far
as we can learn by interviewing a
great many, highly appreciated.
Blankes lecture, if such it might
be called, is held by many we
have heard express their views
of it, unfit for public utterance
and we took their views on this
as we'll as on the Farham and
Cairns lectures, not having heard
them ourself.
The one great idea which
prompts the editor of the Courier
to write up matters as he sees
them or as he hears them dis
cussed by those who know some
thing about them, is to get the
facts before the public, as he
knows or believe the facts to be.
Every lecturer, actor or musi-
clan and chautauqua promoter
and others before the public,
clip and use from newspapers
favorable comment, and if such
endorsements have been given
without regard to the merit of the
individual, some other commun-
ity will be imposed upon by the
use of such articles. No indiffer-
eut show, performer or promoter
will get away with anything to
his advantage appearing about
him in the Courier; likewise un-
worthy aspirants for public office
With this explanation on our
part, you may proceed to read
the resolution in the records OF
the commercial club, as follows
The following resolution was
offered and accepted at the meet
ing of the Commercial Club.
Be it resolved by the Keytes-
vile Commercial Club that the
recent criticisms of our chautau-
qua that appeared in the two
last issues of the Charlton Cour.
ier did not express the sentiment
of the Commercial Club nor Of
the citizens of Keytesville and
community but were merely the
sentiments of a few people who
have always been opposed to oul
Chautauqua. The citizens ol
Keytesville and Commercial Club
were well pleased with our Chau'
tauqua and think the money
it est us was well spent. 1t is
true that we lost some money,
but if we had had the hearty
support of the entire community
that we were entitled to We
would have made money for thu
good road fund"
THE sentiment of a few peo
Ie" and the hearty support Of
the entire community" in thu
above appear to be contradiction,
but let i. go as it is.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01
TRANSPORTATION CRISIS
Business To Be Paralyzed by
Strike. Trainmen Walk Out
Monday. Congress Acting

Monday. Congress Acting
If the strike ordered by the
unions for Monday takes effect,
all business in this country will
be at a practical stand still and
exporting halted. The various
trainmen's orders have demand
ed an s hour day and time and
half for overtime, and the presi-
dents of all the roads affected
have positively refused to accede
TO the demand, the result being
that an imminent prospect for a
general paralysis of business
will be felt in every direction
next week unless congress, thru
the heroic efforts of President
Wilson does something to avert
it before Monday. 1t was thot
that President Wilson had check
ed the threatened calamity until
an agreement could be reached
satisfactory to the owners of the
railroads and the workmen, but
like a bolt out of a clear sky, the
order for the general strike flash
ed over the country.
Railroads are refusing freight
and stock yards are being over
crowded with stuff which cannot
possibly get out if the strike is
on, and consequent sacrifice Of
the stock is inevitable.
Congress is working overtime
to pass a law which will take
effect before Monday, but the
presidents proposals are meet
ing with much opposition. 1t
may be that the government will
be forced to take over the man.
agement of the railroads if con-
gress ties up on the questions be-
fore it. President Wilson has
determined to head off the cal
amity in some way, and that
means that it will be done or be
of very short duration.
As important feature of a
strike as any other is the inabil-
ity to get food and other supplies
to the army in and about Mexico.
That army must be fed and with
the transportation lines out of
business it is impossible.
Railroad managers believe that
the moving of a limited number
of trains can be effected if the
strike goes on, but the allied and
sympathetic organizations of
railroad employees such as freight
handlers, yard and switch men
etc. may cut out hope of moving
any trains whatever.
The situation in a nut shell
is, that the railroads have been
dickering with their employees
until the latter have got tired
waiting for action and have made
demands which the railroads
claim cannot be met and allow
them to exist. The proposition
that they might increase their
rates to meet the demands ap-
pears to have been to no effect.
The orders of railway train-men
precipitated action by declaring
a strike which would take out Of
service at least a half million
men and tie up all the main road
of the country. The voting on
this strike question was months
lin being taken and the managers
of the railroads knewof its exis-
tence and the result long before
the final declaration of the lead
ers Of the various orders. When
the strike was declared. Presi-
dent Wilson asked for a confer
erence with the leaders of both
the stikers and the managers Of
the railroads. He had the strik-
ers calmed until the presidents Of
the roads refused such action
as would have settled the matter.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01

]. W, Taylor went to Kansas
City Wednesday.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-09-01

Lloyd Herring and Lester
Montgomery Of Brunswick were
here Sunday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
INCHOFPOYERTY
HITS CRIMINALS
Assignment of Counsel to
Prisoners Makes Legal
Field Less Attractive.

Il agurcs teL tie truth. Kew York
criminals as class are growing poorer.
and, incidentally. so are the lawyers
who make their living defending them.
IN the last ten years there has been an
increase Of p per cent in the number
% persons accused a. crime who have
asked judges Of the Court Of Genera
Sessions 20 assign lawyers 70 defend
them.
Excep; In cases u first degree muir
der this costs tho county nothing
likewise the defendants. The lawyer
ass. gned has % do tn work for moth
ing. This, coupled VIII the increased
cost Of living, is working q hardship on
the criminal lawyer It Is generally
agreed that while the field was at
tractive ten or more years ago, II no
longer holds out much inducement for
the ambitious practitioner.
Genera. Sessions judges try 10 dis
tribute ,1is growing burden on the bar
a ccu.-ao.y a. possible. An instance
o. this gas shown last week, when
Judge Grain assigned former District
Attorney Perkins 20 defend fifteen
yesr-old boy charged with killing q
companion IN the back room OF an East
SIDE saloon. The boy Is charged with
murder in the first degree.
Crime according 70 nationality In the
last ten years shows the following
comparison. according 20 the report OF
District Attorney Perkins for 1915:
Italy led with 1885 cases, Russia was
second with 2.s99. Austria third with
l.l6l and Germany fourth with ,3s3.
There we're 1929 native born criminals
n that time This was the same order
and about the same proportion for 1914.
As usual, the single men outnun-
bered the married men IN crime by
about two 20 one for 1915. There were
.4s3 single and !. "a; married men.
The ratio FOR the las, ten years was
22.33i single 20 9.s92 married men.
so woman has been convicted o.
either first or second degree murder In
ten Years. IN that time there have
been 5sl homicide cases District At
torney Perkins broke all records in
1915 for convictions Of first degree
murder By nine. There were seven
convictions for second degree murder.
Witnesses in 1915 travelled 70,376
miles, and cost the county Sl4,5s8 for
fees and mileage. Witnesses receive
50 cents q day and cents a mile for
expenses. The total amount Of bail
bonds passed by George A. Lsvelle. in
charge Of the bond department, for
1915 was s3.46- 200. There were 800
witnesses held in the House OF Deten-
ton. az a cost Of S24,s75. There were
3.72s convictions. Of which All we're By
yerdicts OF trials. Three thousand
three hundred and seventeen PLEADED
guilty. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
Jersey COAL FIRE
LIGHTS UP HARBOR
Erie Passengers Get Extra At
traction as Pocket Burns.

Passengers on tn. Erie Railroad were
treated 20 an unscheduled attraction
'sst night when frc started in we'll
loaded coal pocket at kelsoe Street and
the Erie tracks. IN Jersey City. The
flames shot high and could be seen in
New York, as air was drawn through
the sides Of the structure containing
the coal. converting it into we'll
drawing fue
For time the spreading fs~ $
threatened the plant Of Swift %. at
Ninth and Provost Streets, and q row
Of tenement houses close TO the tracks
in Ninth Street. The occupants Of the
buildings fed 10 the streets. and would
have removed their furniture but for
assurances Of the hremen that the
structures would be saved
Nearly 900 tons Of coal were in the
pocket when the fire started. Prac-
tically all Of 1t was destroyed. Il took
the fremen several hours to get the
blaze under control
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17

now that the chase has been on for
three weeks and Villa is just az far
from being captured ss ever. ! hope
that the people here Will realize what
the difficulties are
Germany IS behind the whole thing.
and future events will prove II beyond
any doubt. German plotters and Ger
man interests have precipitated the
trouble"
Before tho boat touched Havana q
case OF smallpox appeared in the
steeragc. The man was removed from
the ship and the steerage quarters
were fumiga.ed and the passengers
vsccinated. Five Of them were removed
20 Hoffman, Island for observation
when the boat reached Quarantine yes
fprday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
COAT OF MANY HOLES
AGAIN JAILS THIEF. 90
Gum on Stick Helps in Picking
Pockets.

Morritz Rosenberg. sixty. who probe.
rather than picks pockets. has been sr-
rested again. with MS holey coat MS
stick and his lump Of gum. He was
sentenced yesterday 20 three months
on the island. where he just completed
wear two weeks ago.
Norritz's method OF procedure is 10
stand in a subVar or surface car. clad
in tattered coat. rddled with holes.
Presently through one o. these holes
he thrusts stick with a lump OF gum
on It's end. The point of the stick dis
appears into the victims pocket, and
" whatever is drawn forth Norritz keeps
for his trouble.
Detective Cavone arrested him Sat
urdey on First Avenue, near Tenth
Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
Mongolia Again Delayed
When Union Seamen Balk

The American Line steamship Mon
golia. which was delayed several hours
IN sailing from her pier here Saturday
because OF strike among union sea
men. was further delayed yesterday,
after taking on additional cargo for the
Entente Allie. q. Gravesend Ray. by the
refusal o. the union men 20 proceed 20
sea with the vessel.
The trouble arose. L vas said. when
tugbos, having on board seversl non
union sesmen appeared alongside the
Mongolia. Captain Emery Rice sent
wireless message here for police aid
and police patrol boat was hurried 10
the Mongolia. No arrests were made.
but about 100 union members OF the
Mongolis's crew were brought ashore
tonight.
The striking sesmen declared tina.
when they refused 70 work with non
union men Captain Rice ordered them
aboard the tug and then refused 10 per
nit the tug 70 come ashore with them
until several hours later. The men
said Captain Rice threatened TO have
them arrested on 4 charge Of mutiny.
As the Mongolia had not left the har-
Dor. however. they denied that their act
constituted mutiny.
The New York and Porto Rico liner
Brszos. which uas held in the bay Satur-
dav night By strike among the sesmen
and coal psssers. departed yesterday
morning. AZ lO:4O O'Clock. after n tenn
porary adjustment Of wages had beer
effected The Brszos is bound FOR
Porto Rico.
Franklin p. Mooney. president Of the
line. said yesterday that the question
o. wages uas settled for the one voyage
only and that when the men returned
the matter would be reopened. i Is
expected that some action VIII be
taken against the strikers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
SUMNER SILKS CARRY
THE BOILING CREST
Mrs. Wilson's Coat Of Arms Fig
ures in New Designs.
rFr-rr II. Tribune Bureau

AfiAN Ati7 Aat"--+N b+t7e+
Washington, April l6-Another re-
lection Of the White House romance
Of last summer and fall has appeared
in the use OF the coat o. arms of Mrs.
Wilson as decoration for nev sum
mor silks
The white and black OF the ms .gn a
as It hangs in Boiling Hall, Bradford,
England. and decorates the stationery
OF the family in this country. affords
6 wide field for the designer The
large ehield % black hs. arranged
upon IL sir birds. while the centre
shield o. white q. decorated with three
little Pocshontases with war feathers
in their bonnets. The designer has
evolved from these figures several pat
terms Of which the Boiling family sp-
parently approves
One piece Of elk shows checker
board effec. in white and black. the
white squares showing the small
Indian-like figures while the black
S4LdEfb SLOW INC b4lLrs NiDNttEt ~
OF white silk has stripes Of black and
on them are disks OF black bearing the
bird, while Indians run rampant be-
tween the line, Another combination
has small BLACK and white stripes for
background. while alternate polka
dots of black and white hold the figures
o. the coat OF arms.
TIE designers also have produced
fabrics representing IN design or other
wise al tne nations nov a. war. Wal
dorf stripes, the awning effects u black
and white. stand for Germany, and
chariots drawn By prsrcing steeds rep
resent Italy. The national headdress
Of that county, also plays part IN de-
signs. Chinese silks are unusually
pretty. while the Russian cross stitch
stands FOR designs representing that
country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17

Thus the total majority holdings o. ne
Pennsylvania system comprise 1873
roads. TIE number IN which II has A
direct and indirect majority and nj
nority interest through STOCK owner
snip is 254
Those Who Own Stocks.
II you viii repeat these details II
Imagination for each % the thirty prin-
cpal railroad systems controlling the
greater part % the mileage o. ne
country some slight conception viii be
had o. the large number Of Implications
among the recorded lists Of stockhold-
ers
The necessary Iteration % the
rportant details OF our problem
should not cause US 70 lose sight ~
the principal conclusion 20 rhich this
discussion inevitably points. namely.
;hat 20 very consi derable extent the
stock Of the American railroads 3
owned by the railroads themselves. and
that their protest that the granting OF
an eight-hour day 10 freight train en-
ployes will bring harm 10 widows and
orphan. they say constitute large
percentage Of their 100000 stockhold-
rrs 81"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
Baby Drops from Window
to Cement Courtyard,
but Is Not Hurt.
MOTHER MOURNED
CHILD AS DEAD
Little Adventurer Lured BY Joys
of World Below Into His
Miraculous Flight.

Some one had lef. the window open.
Sammy WsndruF was duly grateful. At
last his chance had come 20 solve the
mystery Of what lay on the outside.
He cravled across the bed and onto
the window sill
Seventy feet below contrary 70 the
popular impression lay heaven. Il.
was little sub-courtysrd, paved With
cement. walled With brick and finished
OF with a fascinating iron pipe that
joined a nobby red tin drain. II ever
4 place was made for a private play
ground. that. thought Sammy. WAS it.
He leaned farther out the window and
then farther still A little farther than
that and his overbalsnced weight
whisked hi. small patent leather Sun
day shoes scross the sill.
Thus, q, the tender sg. Of twenty
tuo months. Sammy the sdventurer
veut out alone into the world.
Mother Arrives Too Late
Just a. that moment Sammy's moth
G.. busy IN the kitchen. got tele-
psthic distress signal She jumped to
the window IN time 20 see futtering
bundle OF white strike the bottom OF
the well. twist and lie still.
Mrs. Wandruf raced down four
flights OF dark stairs with reckless dis
regard OF life and limb. A. the first
landing she buried sammy. At the
second she vas in the black carriage
on the nay home from the cemetery.
At the third she was back home, weep
ing for the little boy who hsd never
grown Up. A. the fourth she vas far
along in her empty, Sammyless moth
erhood
While Mrs WsndruF was breaking
the record between the fourth floor
and the basement Al Finkelman was
climbing down into the well. Al. who
s janitor Of the tenement house a.
204 Madison Street, go abruptly left
by Sammy. also had witnessed the
landing Of the white bundle.
Sammy was lying very still. Fin
kelmGn took of his cap. He was bend
ing over 10 pick up the tiny body when
Mrs. Wandruf piopped into the well
by MS side.
Marina 10. Mama"
My baby; my poor dead baby she
tobbed
Righ. then Sammy turned over. The
dazcd look in his eyes was replaced by
4 fash o. recognition.
Mama" ne said. 10, mama
They took sammy into q drug store
across the street There the volplaning
baby howied until ar ambulance came
from Governor Hospital. The sur
seon couldn't find anything wrong with
SAMMY. but be .ook him 20 The hos
pi.al on general principles Later IN
The evening Sammy's father. Harry
WandruF. a driver. called for him and
took him home. smelling OF lniments
but smiling again.
There is a room in the Wandruf
fat which has no window.
IL was IN this room that Sammy slept
last night
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
Aliens Quitting Mexico.
Chase Of Villa Difficult.

81 realize that the feeling in the
United States il that the Carrsnza
coverrmer, has donc nothing 70 AID IN
he capture O. Villa" he said; but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-17
One Contractor Meets
Tube Strikers Demands

Striking workers IN the new subways
claimed an entering wedge OF victory
yesterday in the announcement a. a
meeting Of 200 members % the Tun-
mel and Subway Constructors lnterna-
tional Union that Rodgers & Hagerty,
Inc. contractors or Bronx and Brook
lvn sections Of the tunnels. had granted
the demands OF the strikers and or
dered 100 men who went out 20 repor,
for work az o'clock this morning.
Union officials confidently predicted
last night that other contractors would
fall in line a. the luncheon meeting 70
be held to-day at the Engineers Club,
30 West Fortie.h Street