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The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
SHERIDAN.
Miss FERN PATRICK.

b. Bender and family, Mrs. Lille
Whitlock and Harry Bender called on
Mrs. Abbie Crow Sunday afternoon.
Ralph Boyd returned to his home in
Prosperity after two weeks visit with
his grandmother, Mrs. S. H. Sterling.
Leola Patrick will teach the Per.
severance School, near Carterville, mex,
winter.
Ed Davis aud family and Fern Pat.
rick autoed to Carthage Monday after
noon.
w. f. King and wife took dinner al
S. H. Sterling's Sunday.
Orville White and Cliff Flenniken
visited at Ed Buffers Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. Robinson is sick.
Pearl Hay is visiting at Red Oak.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
ZION.
BY THE Coon CREEK GIRLS.

BY THE Coon CREEK GIRLS.
Floyd Thomas spent Tuesday even
ing with Harold Schooler.
Ethel and Harold Sheets, Walter
Collins and Lemuel Thomas called at
w. c. Mackey's Tuesday evening.
Miss Lavon Rogers of Webb City is,
visiting Hazel Carter and her aunt, Mrs.
Alex. Keith, this week.
Mrs. w. L. Carter and daughter
Hazel visited in Joplin and Webb City
Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Henry Covert spent Sunday after
noon with Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford.
Charley Kincaid visited Sunday with
Mr.. Seela. a..
Mrs. Martin called on Mrs. Charley
Ballard Wednesday afternoon.
Leonard Seela and his father were in
Golden City Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Pearl Burnett spent Saturday
night and Sunday at Joe Burnett's.
Walker Hubbard and family spent
Sunday with Mr.. Johnson and family.
Mrs. Lansing of Carthage spent last
week with her mother, Mrs. Follmer.
Clarence Keith and family visited
Monday with Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Keith.
Mrs. Wilbert Hawk and son Robert
of Caryville, Kans., and H. NJ. Harker
and wife of Carthage visited last week
with Charley Billiards. and John
Schooler's.
Mrs. Frank Isenmann was at E. E.
Hubbards Monday afternoon.
Miss Mabel Little spent a few days
with her sister. Mrs. Winfred Glaze in
Lamar. p'f1s
Wilfred Wolfe visited his grand.
father. Jasper Owings, in Carthage
last week.
John Schroeder entertained Sunday
Charley Ballard and family, Charley
Thomas and family and Carl Ballard
and wife.
Miss Veta Sunderland spent Wednes.
day afternoon with Miss Pearl Burnett
Lonnie Streciler and wife were al
Fred Streckers Sunday.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
DRY FORK,
Mrs. w. +. KING.

Some of this neighborhood are get
ting their binders in repair to begin
cutting wheat this week.
Laura Miller is still improving.
Walter Frost visited Tom Hackett
Sunday.
Harold Stith visited at Mastin Stith
Sunday.
Lille Blase spent one afternoon last
week with Mary Wood.
Euguene Wood is visiting his son,
Press Wood, this week.
Robert Wine spent Sunday in Jasper.
Clint Teeter's little son spent last
week at Bert Wards. .-
Clarence King and family spent Sat
urday night and Sunday visiting in
Carthage. Sunday they and Homer
King and family motored to Neosho.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
"I,m Isorry; twas wrong.n

There may be virtue in the man
Who's always sure he's right,
Who'll never hear another's plan
And seeks no further light
But like more the chap who sings
A somewhat different song,
Who says, when he has messed up
things:
'T'm sorry; l wasiwrong."
It's hard for anyone to say
That failures due to him
That he has lost the fight or way
Because his lights burned dim.
1t takes man asideto throw
The vanity that'slstrong,
Confessing, Twas my fault, l know,
I'm sorry; was wrong"
And so, figure, those who use
This honest, manly phrase
Hate it too much their way to lose
On many future days.
They'll keep the path and make the
fight
Because they do not long
To have to say, when they're not right:
I'm sorry; l was wrong"
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
MALTA.
Miss EMMA MAGERs

Miss EMMA MAGERS
Mrs. Guy Mcconnell visited Mrs.
John Welsh Thursday afternoon.
}. p. Bell is improving his place with
a new windmill. Ed Steiner is doing
the work.
Mrs. Jarvis and daughter Ruby and
and Mrs. Mayors visited Mrs. John
Welsh Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Gidden living west Of Mount
Carmel Church, lost his hay Saturday
night. The stack was struck by light
ming and burned.
Owing to the bad weather the me.
mortal sermon and basket dinner was
postponed at Mount Carmel Sunday.
Ben Welsh from South Dakota visit
ed his brother, John Welsh and family,
this week.
John Welsh and daughter lola visit
ed relatives in Lamar Wednesday.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
DEWEY.
Mrs. MAY MATTHEWS.

The social event of the week was
young folks party at Mrs. Alexander's
Saturday night. Miss Jessie Gresham
of Carthage was II guest. Refresh
ments of cake and fruit were served
and all report good time.
The rain interfered with Sunday
School, but a few were out to the
church service.
Mrs. Bull entertained Mr.. Alexander
and family for dinner Sunday.
Vernon Matthews and family visited
John Gaddis Sunday.
Lorena Estey and Bessie Flowers
spent Friday and Saturday with viii
Flowers.
Mrs. Rolla is reported little better.
Mr.. Ferguson has built a new room
to his house.
Mr.. Bull has filed up his front yard
with sod and painted his house.
Mr.. McReynolds has built a new
porch on the north side of his house
ana sleeping pOrcL on the soutn size.
Dewey Avenue anII has some port.
able rocks ON il and two unfinished
cplverts.
Grin Busters family were out tC
Grandpa $ on u visit sunday.
Mrs. Estey entertained Thursday
Mines. Vernon and Howard Matthews
Miss Bessie Tenip!in has taken thu
class in Sunday school which Mis-
Leola Patrick left when she went t.
Duenweg.
Dry Fork was past fording Sunday
Mr.. Wood and wife left Sam Nc
Reynolds Monday TO make their HON,
in Kansas City.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
RISING SUN.
Miss NETTIE LOWE.

Oneta Patterson Visited in Carthage
last week.
Katie Conway OF Carthage visited
Mae Wood last week.
Mae Wood and Katie Conway spent
Friday evening with Nettie Lowe.
Nina Patterson spent Friday evening
with Nettie Lowe.
Mrs. r. H. Lowe and children OF
Pittsburg, Kans., are visiting loves
and Patterson's.
Charlie Patterson called at the home
of Luther Wescott Sunday.
Mrs. Will Wood spent Friday after
noon with Mrs. A. d. Lowe.
Emery Teeter and family spent
Sunday at Abe Teeter's.
Nettie Lowe spent one evening last
week with Mae Wood.
Luther Wescott and family spent
Sunday afternoon at C. r. Patterson's.
Grace Patterson visited her cousin,
Dorothy Patterson, Sunday.
Will Wood and wife called on James
Kincaid Sunday evening.
Dave Lowe and son made business
trip to Carthage Thursday.
Farmers are beginning to think of
harvesting the last OF the week or the
first Of next.
Mrs. Fred Gresham attended re-
ception at ]. p. Leiss Friday afternoon
in honor Of Mrs. Leola Grimes of Wag-
oner, Okla.
Wood Wood attended the school pic
mic at Maple Grove last Thursday.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
FOR u. S. SENATOR

Those who know Walter s. Dickey know that he is first
Of ALL patriot and after that Republican whose devotion
to party his conviction that stands for what
is best in Nation who therefore incapable
being from party loyalty by any consideration Of
merely personal ambition aggrandizement either for him
self anybody else. That's the of Republican Walter
s. Dkey has always been. He gave the party than
thirty years unseh and forceul service before he be-
candidate for favors at its hands. Mr. Dckey isl
candidate for the nomination for United States Senator be-
have him from all parts of the
that his nomination will strengthen the ticket help
guarantee its victory He considers that ought
be any office unless he is the strongest
be chosen for that place. because he regards Repub
iean victory this Of Importance than mans
personal ambition.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
LEBANON.
Miss ZoAH ANDREWS.

Chas. Woodrow and wife spent Sun.
day afternoon at Frank Scissors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd called at George
Redmonds Sunday.
Frank Thacker and wife spent Sun
day at Jack Hiley's.
Owen Halle and wife of Duenweg Wis.
tied last week with home folks, George
Haile's.
Urias Woodrow left Monday for Jop-
lin to visit his niece, Mrs. Wentworth.
Mrs. Nellie Goodrich called on Mrs.
Chas. Andrews Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. jeff Stansberry and Lizzie
Stansberry spent Thursday at Jack
Stansberry's.
George earns and wife came back
Saturday evening from Arkansas.
Katherine Crumm spent Friday
night and Saturday at her grandpa's,
Chas. Woodrow.
Chas. Woodrow and wife spent Fri
day at Norris Crumm's.
Mrs. Will Lyman called at Nernie
Rays Thursday evening.
Lena Griffitt spent Tuesday night
with Zoah Andrews.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton of Carthage
are visiting few weeks with their son,
John Hamilton and family.
Mrs. Maggie Winter and children Wis.,
tied last week with her mother, Mrs.
Ed Russell of Webb City.
Will GrifIitt and wife spent Monday
at her mothers, Mrs. Chas. Woodrow.
Floyd Boyd spent Sunday with
Ralph Murphy.
Vena Hamilton spent Wednesday
afternoon with Ethel Thacker.
Freddie Lee spent Sunday with
James Scissor.
The superintendent of the Lebanon
Sunday School entertained Saturday
night the two classes of young ladies
and young men. About 80 were pres
emit. They all reported having nice
time and returned home at u late hour.
Miss Rein Halle called on Miss Ocie
Andrews Saturday afternoon.
Henry Goodrich and wife called at
George Haile's Sunday night.
Harry Graham spent Wednesday aft.
ernoon with Guy Andrews.
j. r.. earns, George earns and wife,
Zoe High and children spent Sunday
afternoon at Chas. Andrews.
Mae Bowman spent Monday and
Tuesday with Rena Halle.
Henry Graham and wife and son
Harry, Henry Goodrich and wife and
Rena and Cleo Halle spent Sunday
evening at Clarence Kieths.
Ray Bowman came home from Lock
wood Monday to spend few days.
Church services Sunday morning at
IL o'clock and Sunday night.
Ice cream supper at Lebanon church
next Saturday night. Everybody come
and bring your swcethearts and full
pocket books.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
Chickens Ride Bicycles.

The following interesting nAice
appeared in the columns of an en-
terprising newspaper. II have
been instructed by the village
council to enforce the ordinance
against chickens running at large
and riding bicycles on the side.
walk. Village Marshal.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
II. z. CHURCH, SOUTH.

Services at Jasper every first and
third Sundays, mofning and evening;
at Salem every second Sunday, at Bos-
ton the fourth Sunday. Sunday School
at 10 m. at each place. Epworth
League at $50 p. IN. at Jasper and
Salem. Prayer meeting at Jasper every
Wednesday evening. Everyone is cor
daily invited to attend these services.
c. A. Lewis, pastor.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN.

Sunday School each Sunday at 1000.
Preaching at Hoo a. IN. Christian
Workers Society 7:sO p. m.
All are invited to come and worship
with us.
ID. w. Teeter, Earl NJ. Bowman,
Ministers.
The Jasper news., 1916-06-15
Church News.
FIRST NJ. i. CHURCH.

FIRST M. u, CHURCH.
J.J. Martin, Pastor.
9:45a. m, Sunday School; Gus Camp
bell, superintendent.
11:O0 II. IN. worship and sermon by
the pastor. Subject, walking with
God"
700 p. M, Epwortk League. Mendel
Drake, president. Leader, Clint Teet-
err Subject, christian Activity Ac-
cording TO the Holy Spirit Standards. :"
There will be NO evening service.
We will all worship, in the tabernacle.
Good music and u cordial welcome to
all. "a ts.
The midweek prayer meeting, Thurs
day, 7:3O p. m. -e nA1
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
Judging a pumpkin.

An Advocate reporter had a very
interesting interview this morning
with a very prominent farmer who
resides near town and got a valua-
bic tip on Judging pumpkins. The
party in question is partial to pump
kins and has forty acres in cultiva-
tion this year. AS an article of gen.
eral utility, he says a pumpkin can't
be beat. Aside from pumpkin bread,
pumpkin pie. pumpkin cream and but
ter for the housewife, the pumpkin is
a very successful diet for hogs. Hogs
enjoy these melons and are quickly
fattened on them. He says the way
to Judge a good one from bad one
is to lift it and compare heft. The
heavy pumpkin is always the best;
it has a thicker meat and often q
small one is found to be better than
a larger one. The season is on; try
it OUT Danville Advocate.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
SENSIBLE REASON WHY
EDISON Is FOR WILSON

The great wizard, all his life a
Republican, says he is for Wilson
because he has won victories by di-
plomacy far more important to man
kind than any victories we could
have won by war. Perhaps he has
Numbered. as they say, but | notice
that he usually plumbers forward.
He has had four years of experience
and l think he has earned both faith
and trust. 1t is neither the sensi-
BILE nor logical thing to change to an
inexperienced and untried man just
for the sake of change"
The great inventor could not have
given better reasons IL he had taken
a column to enumerate them. They
are summed up In nut shell. Pres
ident Wilson is entitled to the graft
tude and support of every patriotic
American and ought to be reelected
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01

by such majority as will show how
greatly the people appreciate what
he has done for them in crises that
have hardly had counterpart in the
history of this country. And from
information which comes from all
over the United States, they are pre-
pairing to do so. There seems notn-
ing SO sure in the future as that he
will be given four more years to
carry out his program of greater
service for the people.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
GERMAN PLANES BUSY
OUT IN GREAT NUMBERS

Belin, Oct. 2S.-German aero
planes on the Somme front made
more than 500 raids on the Anglo
French positions October %, says
the Overseas News Agency.
There we're 200 aerial flights be-
tween airmen and Entente Allied
fiers on that day and. according to
the news agency, 1t is stated with
certainty that in the Somme sector
alone more than Is Entente aero
planes were shot down. In addition
a number of hostile aeroplanes We're
forced to land behind the Anglo
French lines. The weather on the
day mentioned was bright.
OF the aeroplanes shot down IL
are in German possession. The Ger
man fiiers attacked with bombs and
machine guns troop camps and
columns, while others fly
i-g low directed their machine-gun
fire on hostile trenches.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
REPUBLICANS KEEP ON
TURNING TO PRESIDENT
They Find In Him the One SAFE
Man On Whom They
Can Rely.

New York, Oct. 27.-The Hughes
alliance is proving OF great assist
ance to the Democratic National
Committee, both morally and mate
rally. For example, S. w. Traylor,
president of the Traylor Engineering
and Manufacturing Company, of AL
lentown, Pa, and New York City,
after receiving a request from the
alliance for campaign cOntribu-
ton, mailed a check for 500 to
Vance c. Mccormick, chairman OF
the Democratic National Committee.
Mr.. Traylor sent with the check a
copy of his reply to the Hughes al
lance solicitation, which reads in
part, as follows:
81 have never before had reason
to feel as I do with reference to the
Presidential election. l am a Re
publican and expect to remain one;
at the same time | feel that | would
re doing a great injustice if should
allow myself, under the present
strained conditions of the whole
world, to support any candidate
against Mr.. Wilson.
'In my judgment it would be
calamity to change our administra-
ton which has proven itself, be-
yound a question of doubt, to be
equal to the great emergencies that
now demand most careful and UNI
biased deliberatiOn. l think Mt.
Wilson has proven himself to be
thoroughly progressive; he has been
the President of all Americans; he
has acted fairly with all govern
ments; the laws that he has passed
during his administration will prove
of great value to very great ma
jority of the people of the United
States.
at is said bv the opponents OF
Mr.. wilson that we are held in con =
tempt in foreign countries. | have
been in a number OF foreign coun-
tries in the past two years and |
have not found such condition TO
exist. I found instead that every
country that visited looks upon the
present administration as being
highly honorable and fair. | believe
that they all know that Mr.. Wilson
will uphold the dignity and the
rights of this government i the oc-
casion arises"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
>,Onc Hundred Years Old.

With the remarkable record of
having established over a hundred
and twenty thousand Sunday Schools
throughout the country, with a half
million teachers and five million
scholars, the American Sunday
School Union is now preparing to
celebrate it's one hundredth anniver-
sary. The Society has issued an in
teresting pamphlet concerning its
history and work and also a leaflet
entitled Sunday School Pioneering
in Rural America" The latter re-
lates some of the amazing expert
ences of the Society's missionaries in
the wild and undeveloped sections of
the country. Both of these pamph-
lets will be gladly mailed upon re-
quest to all who are interested in
knowing more about this unique or
ganization which stands alone and
unequaled in community develop
ment work in rural America. The
headquarters of the Society are at
1916 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
Loss Of HUMAN LIVES
BY FLOODS IN CHINA
Greater Than In All the Wars
OF the Past Twenty-Five
Centuries.

All the wars of the past % cen
turtles, including the present world
var now being staged in Europe.
have not exacted the toll of human
degree comparable with thai
wrought in China by the periodical
floods of the Hual river, called by
the Chinese the River of Sorrows"
At the present time, according to
the dispatches received by the State
Department at Washington from
the American Consul at Marking
China, nearly 100000 people have
been made homeless by one of the
greatest floods of this River of Sor-
rows since the great food of 1909,
when approximately 100000 lives
We're lost and untold property dam
age done.
The floods now raging are on the
Huai river and cover approximately
1000 square miles in Anhui Prov
ince, where two years ago extensive
surveys were made by Brigadier
General William L. Sibert, U. S. A.,
former United States Division En-
gineer at Cincinnati and one of the
engineers in charge of the construc-
tion of the Panama Canal, and the
American Red Cross Commission of
American Engineers. of which he
was Chairman, with view of devils
ing a comprehensive plan for flood
prevention and for reclamation
work.
Within the present flooded area
are ten cities of considerable size
having a total population of between
10000 and 100000, while the
population of the eight districts in
Anhui Province, comprising the
flood area, is estimated at 100000
people.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
A Belated Statement Of
Just What He
WOULD HAVE DONE At ONCE
Sheds No New Light On His
Strange Mental Process
Now Exhibited.
A CASE OF PURE GUESS WORK

Candidate Hughes statement of
what he would have done il Presi-
dent when the Lusitania was sunk
really means nothing when IL is an
alyzed. First, he would have had
the State Department. at the very
beginning of the administration, so
equipped as to command the respect
of the world"-an obvious slap at
ex-Secretary Bryan. OF course. Mr..
Hughes knows perfectly well that it
IS the character OF the President,
not that of the Secretary of State,
that decides questions of foreign
policy. There is net the slightest
reason to suppose that Mr.. Bryan's
personality had III, faintest infu-
ence in determining Germany's sub
marine plans. They were carried
out with Teutonic thoroughness and
Indifference to the shes of all neu-
trals-Spain, NorwG,", Sweden and
othc- countries, as VOL as the Unit
ed States. Possibly some of these
nations have perfectly equipped
State departments. but that doesn't
seem to have matterad a particle to
Germany.
Having selected the Republican
paragons of diplomacy, Mr.. Hughes
would have given Mexico a punch in
the ribs and then have been ready
for the Lusitania. He would have
laid down the law of strict accounta-
bility, and when the warning notice
about sailing was given he would
have made it known in terms une-
quivocal and unmistakable that we
would not tolerate a continuance of
friendly relations through the ordi-
nary diplomatic channels if that ac-
ton We're taken. And the Lusitania.
Sir, would never have been sunk. I"
This is the cheapest way of win
ming great diplomatic victories that
has ever come to our notice. Just
wait a year or two after an event
has taken place, so as to have the
advantage of studying it from every
angle, and then decide what course
you would have taken so as to secure
the greatest credit for yourself. To
some people this may seem rather
petty, but Mr.. Hughes and the Colo
mel do not think so. In his book.
Mr.. Roosevelt loves to dilate upon
the mistakes made by Washington,
Jefferson and other great Presidents.
Mr.. Hughes applies this destructive
criticism to current politics for his
own. personal benefit. His Lusita-
mia explanation sheds no new light on
his mental processes Philadelphia
Record.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-01
And the American Kind
y That Succeeded.
GLANCE At WHAT War MEANS
And Just What Woodrow WiIst n
"Failed" To Plunge This
Country Into.
REFUSED TO BUY REELECTION

1.-THE chief function of diplomacy
is prevention" says hr. Hughes In
assailing the Presidents foreign pol
icy, land in this our diplomacy fail
ed" Let us see IL it did.
Karl H. Won Wiegand, the Worlds
correspondent in Berlin, is at the
western front where the most terri
fic battle of modern history is in
progress. In his dispatch from the
German headquarters printed yester-
day there was this vivid description
of hospital scene.
at was q sizzling hot day. The
Red Cross flags fioated lazily, many
of them presenting a depressing and
gruesome picture. The white-apron.
ed surgeons were working over the
operating-tables, calmly and coolly,
steady with knife or needle, even
where such places were under fire.
Black and white lie sometimes to-
gether, the bluish-gray of the
French, the yellow khaki of the Eng
FISH. the greenish field gray of the
Germans, side by side. The anguish
and misery of suffering and pain
transforms enemies of a few hours
ago into a. common brotherhood.
"Nrom the operating tables come
means, sometimes cries. Amputated
legs. arms and fingers lie about. The
atmosphere and heavy, sickening
odor of blood and wounds is insep-
cradle from such places, but espec-
tally so on hot day"
This and thousands of similar
tragedies have been spared to the
United States by the patient and
persistent diplomacy of President
Wilson; yet Charles e. Hughes says
the Presidents diplomacy has failed.
Failed in what? 1t most certainly
has not failed in keeping the United
States out of an unnecessary war,
and that service is the chief service
of all diplomacy.
European diplomacy failed in that
vital thing. American diplomacy
succeeded. Yet Mr.. Hughes praises
European diplomacy and sneers at
the diplomacy of his own country be-
cause the men who have carried out
the foreign policy of the United
States happen to be Democrats and
not Republicans.
1t would have been very easy for
President Wilson to push the United
States into war. He could have had
war with Germany or war with Mex
leo or with both. Instead, he per-
sisted in employing ell the resources
of diplomacy to maintain American
rights by peaceful methods. War
was his last resort, not his first re-
sort, and diplomacy succeeded.
If Mr.. Wilson had been thinking
abcut politics, If he had been 100
per cent. candidate" instead Of loo
Per cent a patriot, he would have
welcomed the opportunity for war.
That would have meant his certain
reelection, for the American people
will never change Presidents in the
midst of war. Nobody would have
wanted the Republican nomination,
Mr.. Hughes least of all.
President Wilson refused to buy a
reelection with war. He refused to
sacrifice the lives of tens of thous-
ards OF American boys to still the