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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
WORKMEN
URGE GOVERNMENT
CONTROL OF FOOD
Delegates Speaking For 3.0O0,-
600 Workers, Ask That Max
imum Prices Be Fixed
BY Decree.
LIVING COST is SOARING
Commodities Gain 50 Per Cent
In Two Years of War
Higher Wages Only Al
tentative, Claim.
LIVING COST is SOARING

London. July IA special trades
onion congress of 600 delegates repre-
senting 5000, 900 workers met in London
today and adopted a resolution asking
the government to take steps TIC regu-
late the prices of ood and iuel. The
resolution expresses the view h q
price regulation would be enforced only
by a department of the government
with power to commander and dis
tribute food N fuel, fix freight rates.
requisition home grown crops and
establish standard prices for fuel. The
mover of the resolution declared prices
had increased 80 per cent owing largely
10 the rise in freight and the greater
cost of coal.
The also adopted an alter
native resolution in favor of govern
nent ownership OF all merchant ship
ping. Still another resolution declares
hat if the government offers objection
a the proposals of the congress, I'M
Mediate steps will be taken TO press
for such advances in wages as are
secessary to maintain a proper stand
,rd of living. The congress also
adopted a resolution asking for an in
crease of SO per cent in old age PEN
ions during the period OF high prices.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
SOME CONSOLATION IN THAT
Growing Maiden Quick to Recognize
and Announce That Conditions
Might Be Much Worse.

At the beginning of not weather las(
summers clothes always regain REL
spect. They are then buttoned hurs
riedly into service. Dressmakers fore,
see this time, providing deep hens and
convenient tucks; Iaothers dislike Il
for the proof it enforces of their grow,
ing daughters added inches.
Her mother was trying one of last
summers resurrected glories on Mary
Jane. Goodness gracious, Mary Jane,
how you have grown! !" she said, look.
ing despairing!y at the short dress
This hem will have to be let down al
least three inches"
Mary Jane was plainly troubled.
II don't see why l grow so much, II
just makes you have to let out and let
out. If l keep on growing tall l soou
won't be able to 60 through th. door.
ways"
Suddenly her face frightened.
I'm not Sc tall as l might be,
though" she added. "for just think
how talk l would have been IL there
wasn't so much turned W. sor my
feet"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
ONLY THING HE COULD Do
Foolish to Think That Man in Trenc,
Would Allow Shell to Spoil
Arduous Work.

We extract the following from a let.
ter written to his parents in Ireland
by n of the Irish brigade in France,
says London Tit-Bits. About half a
dozen of them were told off to dig q
hole somewhat in advance of the
trenches. They had got on nicely with
their job, when the Germans spotted
them and began to try their artillery
craftsmanship on the diggers.
For a time the shells went wide, but
at last one dropped right into the
midst of the men.
All but one scrambled out like rab-
bits. The imam who stayed behind"
put his spade under the shell and flung
the p%rojectile out of the hole after
his comrades, who, in dire alarm.
quickly threw themselves fiat on the
ground and escaped injury.
Going back to the hole, they saw
their mate, a Londonderry giant, coolly
lighting his pipe.
One and all %upbraided him for
throwing the shell out after them.
"What would you have me do?" he
asked, "lave the shell in the hole, an
let it spoil u half-day's beautiful
work."
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
AMERICAN AVIATOR
SOLD LIFE DEARLY
Victor Chapman Brought Down
Two German AeropIanes Be-
fore Third, Captain
BoeIke, Got Him.

Paris, June 3O.-It was while on I'm
errand of mercy for a wounded COM
rade that Corp. Victor Chapman. Of
New York, a membe of the Franco
last week. Captain Boelke. the most
famous of all German aviators, who
up to that time had accounted for is
aeroplanes, sent Chapman to his death.
But before he fell the American
brought dow two German machines.
These details are disclosed in a semi
official statement given out here today.
which also announced rewards and pro-
motions for other American aViatorS.
All the members OF the American
squadron, save two, nave been decor
ated and promoted.
Serg. Clyde Balsley, of San Antonio.
Tex, wounded in a fight near Verdun.
and probably cripple for life, is in "a
hospital a few miles from the aviation
camp to which Corporal Chapman was
attached. The sergeant asked for an
orange, but there was none to be had
AT the hospital. Corporal Chapman:
heard of the incident. obtained a basket
of oranges and set forth in his aero
plane for the hospital.
While on his way he discovered that
three French aeroplanes were engaged
With four German machines and dashed
| INTO the fight. Swooping down on the
Germans. he put his machine u into
action. Two German machines fell lo
Earth.
Chapman sent them down almost as
soon as he entered the combat. Then,
Captain Boalke turned on the Ameri-
IAN and caught him at such an angle
hal he was able to rake The aero
plane with machine gun fire. One bull
ct struck a vital spot and Chapman
plunged lifeless to the ground within
he German lines. The semiofficial
statement says that a religious service
will be held lin memor Of his citizen
If the United States who. inspired by
sentiments Of lofty idealism, gave his
life for The cause of the allies"
Further recent accomplishments and
promotions have been given to Ameri-
IAN aviators as follows:
Lieut.. William *. Thaw. of Pitts
.urgh, the cross of the legion of honor.
Serg. Kiffin Rockwell, of Atlanta. Ca.
he military medal.
Serg. Bert Hall, of Bowling Green,
Ky, the military medal.
All the other members of the squad
on, save two, are made Sergeants.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
MANY SEEKING TO FIGHT
UNDER COLONEL ROOSEVELT

Oyster Bay. n. V. June 30.-Appli-
voluntary army division which Col.
Theodore Roosevelt is preparing to or
ganize IL there is a call for volunteers
are so numerous that the %colonel's sec
rotary. Walter j. Hayes. issued today
a statement in which he said:
I'VE have been literally deluged with
teleerams and letters with applications
from men who wish to join a volunteer
division. 1t is physically impossible to
reply individually to the organizations
and to the men that have communt-
Gated with US. but I will see that their
applications are carefully filed for flu
ture reference so that in the event Of
hostilities they can be apprised OF
what action is contemplated"
Offers Of equipment include almost
everything necessary from shoes and
automobiles to aeroplanes.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05

British Headquarters. in France, (via
London). July 1.-Activity continues
and increases along the whole British
front, the initiative, as heretofore rest
ing almost entirely with the British.
Besides a heavy bombardment Of the
enemy's positions which in some places
did material damage. a dozen local
raids have been executed since yester-
day, nearly all of which in addition to
inficting more or less serious casual
ties succeeded in the capture of pris-
oners.
The German reply to the British
bombardment is still generally ineffec-
tive though in places the Germans have
been very active. using large numbers
of lachrymatory shells.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
Maine IS CENTER OF
HOT POLITICAL FRAY
Election to Be Held There In
September and Both Sides
Seek First Blood.

Washington. July IA fierce po-
litical struggle in Maine is presaged by
the political experts in Washington.
The Maine election is held in Sep
tember and the leaders Of both par
ties, for the moral effect Of victory
there. are anxious to make the best
possible showing in the state. This is
n a why the Pine Tree state
will be a real battle-ground. Another
strong eason is that because of the
death Of Senator Burleigh, two sena-
tors are to be elected from Maine this
fall. It will be highly important to the
republican plans for the capture Of tho
Senate II they can elect these two sen
ators. and. Of, course. equally import
mt to the democrats to have these
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
WHY WOMEN
Write LETTERS
10 Lydia E. Pinkham Medi
cine Co.

Women who are we'll often ask "Are
the letters which the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co. are continually publishing,
genuine?" care they truthful7 20
"Why do women write such letters1"
In answer we say that never have We
published a fictitious letter or name.
Never, knowingly, have we published
an untruthful letter, or one without the
full and written consent Of the woman
who wrote it. AssaG~,
The reason that thousands Of women
from all parts of the country write such
grateful letters to the Lydia E. Pink
ham Medicine Co. is that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has brought
health and happiness into their lives,
once burdened with pain and suffering. :
It has relieved women from some Of
the worst forms Of female ills, from dis
placements. Inflammation, liberation,
Irregularities, nervousness, weakness,
stomach troubles and from the blues.
1t is impossible for any woman who
Is we'll and who &SGGA
has never suffered NG
to realize how these M<%M
poor, suffering wo- ~ A- VI
men feel when re- S%H
stored to health; ~ q
their keen desire to ~ \-A ~
help other women MN GWSkM
heydid. fSS1z STiNxazMS
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
224.ooo In NEEp.

New York. July distribution OF
1000 oxen to 1000 Armenian familier
in &c villages of the Russian Caucasus
was reported today by the American
committee for Armenian and Syrian
relief. These families We're refugees
lowing the advance Of the Russian
armies into Turkey. The consul added
that there was still need for expendi-
ture on a large scale. The committee
estimates there are about 224, 900 refu-
gees in the Caucasus and in Persia.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
BRITISH OFFICER LOSSES
NOW TOTALS 27.9O5 MEN.

London. July 1.-Casualties among
officers in the British army continue to
pile up. Published lists for the month
OF May show that 4G6 were killed, 1,08O
wounded and 55 missing-a total OF L.
COL. This brings the aggregate losses
since the commencement of the war to
2T.9o5. of whom S.574 were killed or
died of wounds. 1924 were wounded
and 1,907 are missing.
Among officers of high rank. Briga-
dier Generals Hogston, Heyworth. Rice
and Morrison were killed or died OF
wounds; three other brigadier generals
We're wounded and II lieutenant colo
nels We're killed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
WILL NOT
APPOINT COLONEL
No Chance For Teddy and
Wood to Win Military Glory
Under Present Ad-
ministration.

Washington. d. c., July 1.--Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt will not be per-
mitted by President Wilson or the
present administration to lead as a
major general Il division OF volunteers
to the defense of the border. even
though Colonel Roosevelt should or
ganize such a division.
Neither will Major General Wood.
who ranks h other active major
generals OF the army, be sent to COM
mand on the border or to head a divt-
sion into Mexico, should war come.
Political considerations have cut
both of these leaders from the spot
light in any military emergencies that
h country might have to face.
Congress canno help because the
president alone has the power to APP
point the officers to The vol
unteer troops that may be called or
taken into the regular service, or to
make details for the regular officers to
important commands of regular troops
engaged i'm active service.
Roosevelt Plan Out.
Friends of Colonel Roosevelt. hoping
to move congress to accept his offer OF
a volunteer division, have discussed
and rejected the possibility OF naming
Colonel Roosevelt by special act as
major general in command of his vol
uIlJcSI INV NOIISIeSS lIlcO lIllo
once, but it's action was held invalid.
Both Colonel Roosevelt and General
Wood have become too active in con-
nection with the Hughes campaign
for President Wilson to allow any
favors to be extended to them by the
democratic administration. Colonel
Roosevelt has been a constant critic
of President Wilson, and his recent
letter to the proeressives, indorsing
Hughes, did not please Tie Wilson
people.
Counts Against Wood.
While General Wood has taken no
active part in politics, the adminis-
tration leaders have several counts
against him. These started with the
Colonel Roosevelt to attend the Platts-
burg rookie" camp, where General
Wood was in charge.
The colonel made a speech critics.
ing the democratic administration on
that occasion. and General Wood was
tary of war, Lindley NJ. Garrison, for
having permitted the speech.
Since then Genera Wood has been a
dinner guest with Colonel Roosevelt
at important gatherings. which We're
given more or less political significance
caller on Mr.. Hughes, following the
latter's nomination for the presidency.
1t is known here that Colonel Roose-
| Welt has been organizing his volunteer
| division for more than two years, ex-
! pecting need for 1t in war With Mexico.
He has selected all his officers from the
rank of retired regular army men or
those who have been permitted to re-
sign by the war department. His men
for the division lave been picked with
an eye both to infantry and cavalry
service that they might be more effec-
tive than We're the rough riders of the
Spanish-American war.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
GERMANS TAKE FRENCH
WORKS, THEN LOSE THEM

Paris. July lin a terrific attack
upon the French positions east OF Hill
captured a fortified work in the first
line of the French trenches after the
garrison had been literally buried UNI
der a storm of shells. The position
was %recaptured by a brilliant French
counter attack, according to an official
statement issued by he french war
office today.
The Germans also delivered a pow
erful attack on the French positions in
Avoconrt VOC and west of Hin 3O4,
but all their efforts are declared to
have been checked with heavy losses
to the attackers. Considerable activ-
ity Is reported or the front FROM Nieu-
port to the Aisne.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
CLEMENCY IS URGED
FOR BRITISH TRAITOR
Manchester Guardian Suggests
Easement Be Saved From
Death.

London. July 1.-The Manchester
Guardian. one OF the most influential
papers in the country makes a direct
plea for clemency for Sir Roger Case
ment
While admitting that no other sem
enc but that of death could have been
pronounced by the court, the Guardian
says:
Easement was a fanatic and his
crime like those of many other fanatics
are free from the faint of sordidness
n meanness. The death penalty will
do nothing to kill such dreams rs his.
Rather, it will give them life.
For the sake of the new Ireland.
which we hope to see, it is a moment
for clemency."
An indirect plea for mercy is made by
other papers or the grounds that the
execution of Easement would not as
sist in settling the Irish problem.
Washington, June 30.-A resolution
requesting the presiden t to ask the
British government for a stay of eNecu-
ton OF Sir Roger Easement. the Irish
leader convicted of treason yesterday
i'm London. pending presentation of new
facts was introduced in the Senate to-
day by Senator MARITIME, of New Jersey.
1t vas referred to the foreign rela-
tionS committee.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
RUSSIANS GAIN ACCESS
TO CARPATHiAN PASSES

London, July Recent Russian
successes in Galicia and Bukowina hav
resulted, it is believed. in further de-
mo~ralization of the Austrian defenders.
The capture of the -Lemberg
railroad and the fall of kolomea has
given Russia easy access to the passes
of the Carpathian mountains. leading
to the planes OF Hungary.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
RUSSIANS IN RETREAT
SAYS TURKISH REPORT

Constantinople, (via London) June
29.-Russian troops in Persia have
withdrawn from their fortified posi-
tions near Kerind after two desperate
attacks which were repulsed by thu
Turks, a y today's official Turkish an
n%ouncement. The Turkish troops are
pursuing the enemy.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
END CAR; DRIVER GONE;
MURDER is SUSPECTED

Cambridge. Md, June 30.-William III.
Medford. clerk of the Dorchester coun-
" circuit court and prominent in local
epublican politics, business and social
~.ircles, is thought to have been muir
Tered on a lonely roa in Dorchester
county last night.
The body has not been found. The
:ar in which he was riding was found
IN the roadside by Fred Hudley, a far
ner who had been guided to the spot
~ a stranger. who told Hudley that a
nan with whom he vas riding. lost
control of his automobile and jumped
INTO the river. The stranger then dis
appeared.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
HEAVY ARTILLERY
BATTLEC CONTINUES
ON FRENCH FRONT
Germans Are Replying to Fu-
rious Observation-Disclosures
Raids Are Executed BY
English Troops.
VERDUN DEBACLE GOES ON
Germans Take Works Only to
Lose Them Again - Rus
slams Overwhelm Aus
trian Lines.
VERDUN DEBACLE GOES ON

Petrograd, June 80. (via L%ondon).
Thu war office announced today the
capture OF the town of Obertine,
south of the Dneister river, and
villages north and south OF that
point.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05

Now Is tho limo to Get Rid of These
Ugly spots.

There's no longer the slightest need OF
prescription ~othine-double strength-ii
guaranteed to remove these homcly spots.
Simply get an ounce of othine-doubla
strength-from your druggist, and apply q
little OF 1t night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst freckles
have begun to disappear. while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. 1t is seldom
that more than one ounce is needed 20 COM
pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
othine, as this Is sold under guarantee OF
money back IL 1t fails to remove sreckles.-
1t is easier to elect a sood Glnc to
Office than it is to get hiui to sray
good after he is elected. 1
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
Her Bible.

"Two fellows declare that they can
not live without her"
".And which, has she decided to mar-
ry?"
.TEe rich one. She says the other
could get into heaven easier if he
should really die"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05

The plantain. a large. coarse banana.
Duitable For cooking, is a food staple
IF the tropics. The people Il the Uni
ted States thus far have no been edu.
Gated to Its use.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
Explained

Explained.
"songs of the sea are always pop
nlar."
POSSIBLY because they are in ac-
cord with the whistling buoys."
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-13
FAR FROM AGREEMENT
 ON HALLWAY WAGE QUESTION
Detailed Explanation to be Given by
 Railroad Managers Today.

New York, June Representa- tives of the chief railroads of the United States and unions of railway employees were far from an agreement on questions of wages and hours of work when an adjournment of their conference was taken late today. Up- on the detailed explanation tomorrow by the railroads of their counter or contingent proposition, it was pre- dicted by A. B. Garretson, president of the Order of Railroad Conductors, would depend the future attitude of the railroad men, even to the point of ordering a strike vote among the $50, ,000 members of the unions.
 Garretson's prediction was prompt ed by the fact that during the day the conference suddenly was halted when the railroads ''contingent'' proposi- ton, tentatively granting the de- manded eight hour day, but refusing double compensation for double ser vice, was rejected.
 MT. Garretson and the other broth erhood leaders stated that if the con- ference breaks up tomorrow they will report back to the men and vote on the general strike will be taken. Then they will return to the railroads and renew their demands. If they are re- fused the general strike will be called Elisha Lee, chairman of the railroad managers and. of the conference, ad- mitted tonight that the situation was serious but was hopeful for the es. | tablishment of a middle ground tha would permit the continuation of thC conference.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-13
SUFFRAGE LEADERS AT
 WORK IN ST. LOUIS
For Incorporation of an Equal Rights
 Plank in Democratic Platform.

St. Louis, Mo-, June 12.-Hope was high in suffrage circles tonight that the democratic national convention will incorporate an equal rights plank of some form in its platform.
 No official declaration of the con- vention's intention was Forthcoming, but suffrage leaders regard the atti- tude of many democratic leaders to- ward their cause as friendly Suf- frage leaders were busy today working among the more widely known demo- crats and tonight, with tentative ar engagements made for hearing by the resolutions committee on their de- mands, probably on Wednesday they were optimistic,
 Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New York, leader of anti-suffragist forces, is here to make @ determined stand against any favorable mention of equal rights in the platform, National Chairman McCombs said tonight that she prob ably would be given the same amount of time as the suffragists. The Ma ttonal American Woman Suffrage As- sociatton and thet Congressional Union and it's auxiliary, the Woman's Party, will divide the time equally foI the plank,
 The National Association wants on. ly favorable declaration for suf- frage in the platform, while the Unior and the Woman's Party desire i'm. mediate action by congress upon the Susan B, Anthony amendment,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-13
754 Delegates
 Are UnpIedged
OF THE 1,oe2 DELEGATES TO DEM
 ocRATIc NATIONAL CONVENTION
16s KNOWN FOR WILSON
There is No Doubt, However, of the Votes for President WiIson-cre- dentials of 12 Had Not Been Re- eeived Yesterday.

St. Louis, June 12-Seven hundred and 1fty-four of the 1902 delegates to the democratic national convention, or more than two thirds necessary for nomination, come either uninstructed or unpledged, according to an official compilation issued today. There is no doubt, however, of the votes for Pres- ident Wilson.
 Those Pledged For Wilson.
 Of the delegates who come instruct ed or pledged 16s, representing nine states, are for the renomiaation of President Wilson; 2S representing Arizona, Connecticut and Montana are pledged to Wilson and Marshall; 26 representing Iowa are pledged to President Wilson and Governor Wiliot A Major of Missouri. for vice presi- dent. Sixteen representing Nebraska are pledged to President Wilson and Governor John H. Moorehead of Ne braska, for vice president. The credentials of 12 delegates, represent ing Delaware, Pennsylvania and South Dakota. had not been received early today.
 The delegation from Indiana is un-
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