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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-20
Newman to Address
Georgetown Citizens

Commissioner Newman will deliver an
address before the Georgetown Citizens
Association tonight at q meeting in Po-
tomac Savings Bank Hall, Wisconsin
avenue and NJ street northwest.
This will be the Commissioner first
appearance before the Georgetown AS
ISOLATION, and the meeting will be open
. to the friends of members and their
guests. The Commissioner will be pre-
scented by John Hadley Doyle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-20
Code and Cipher Messages
To Mexico Prohibited

All messages to Mexico being subject
TO censorship, code and cipher are pro-
hibited. according to announcement
made by the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
The company also announces that
communication by normal route to Ice
land, French Guiana and all points in
San Domingo has been restored II Is
further announced that the "Riverside
code" eth edition. may now be used
m messages exchanged with France or
French possessions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-20
FLORISTS SPECIAL TO
TAKE THEM TO SHOW

More than 100 members Of the Florists
Club here. with their families ana
frisnds. will attend the national flower
show in Philadelphia. They have ar
ranged for a special train 10 take them
to the show March q. and will remain
there throughout the week.
A number Of washinRton's producing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-20
New Falls Church School
Plan Up Tomorrow Night

The proposed bond issue for n new
school In Falls Church. Va. will be dis
cussed tonight at a mass meeting In
the Odd Fellows Hall at Falls Church.
The election to determine the question
will be held April II.
A committee OF three win be appointed
ut the meeting to act with similar COM
mittees from the school board and town
council to select a site and arrange for
the erection and equipment OF the
school,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-20
Decline in Sugar Cane
Shown by Census Report

A decline In the cane sugar industry
OF the United States in the census period
from 1903 to 1914 is shown in compare
tive figures for the two years made pub
lie today by the Census Bureau.
In 1908, 214 establishments turned out
products valued at 0.620. 738, while for
1914 there were but ISL commercial es-
Establishments operating. and their prod
uct was valued at but 81 ,636,37l.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
Rural Typhoid.

Typhoid in rural communities has
been a death-producing trouble OF
greater seriousness than typhoid In
cities, where sources Of water are
more closely guarded and pollution Is
prevented by public health officers. In
scattered country communities this has
been difficult. However, the federal
health authorities tackled the big prob
lem and succeeded In reducing typhoid
deaths by removing the causes Of wa
ter pollution. In Berkely county,
West Virginia, typhoid cases were re-
duced from 249 in 1914 to 40 in 1915.
In Orange county, North Carolina,
cases were reduced from SO to IT.
1t was found that typhoid was
caused in most cases by using water
from polluted wells and that the pollu-
ton came from sources that were cas-
lily stopped. Ignorance Of the causes
of disease was the great reason for
it's previous prevalence. The officers
found that when the causes Of typhoid
were pointed out, there was general In
clination to remedy them.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
COSTS MONEY TO FEED MARS
European Conflicts Have Been Extra
ordinarily Costly to the People
Who Paid for Them.

War cost Europe from the beginning
of the nineteenth century up to Au-
gust, 1914, about 65,000,000,O00 francs,
or not half of what the belligerent
powers have already expended during
the present conflict, according to statis-
tics compiled by Edmond Thery, the
French economist, and published In an
article written to indicate the progress
sion of the cost Of war.
The Is years of war waged by Napo-
leon increased the public debt of
France by 5ss,OOO,OO0 francs, while the
Crimean war alone cost the republic
166O,OOO,O0O, according to Thery.
Great Britain spent 1,550O0O,O00 in the
Crimean, while that war cost Austria
343,O0O,OO0, and Turkey and Sardinia
together 642,0O0000 francs. France
spent 650,OO0,0O0 francs on the Mexi-
can war, he says, and S53,OOO,OOO In
the conflict against Austria for the
liberation Of Italy.
Prussia, in her wars against Den
mark and Austria, spent about 2,OOO,-
100000 francs, while the German states
and France together spent about 15,-
O0O, 100000 on the war Of 1870, includ-
ing 5,OOO,OO0,0OO francs indemnity paid
by France to Germany. The war OF
1S77-TS against Turkey cost Russia
about 2,7OO,OO0,OOO francs, while she
spent 6,3O0,OOOOO0 in the war with
Japan as against 4,5OO,O00,000 spent
by Japan.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15

Here's Proof That a Club Is Some.
times a Far More servleeabie
Weapon.

Much is being said nowadays ABOUT
the precision and deadliness or MODERN
weapons of warfare but a west VIZ
pinian. according to story sent out
from Moorfield, shows that sucn
uoonons cannot always be depended
mon. It appears that bear had peen
feasting upon choice specimens OF
f,ock of sheep until their owner, MT:
Reniamin Whetzel, decided to have It
ont with Br'er Bruin. So arming MN
self with q gun, he sailed forth IN
quest of the sheep killer: fortunate
" his search was not in vain, for ne
soon came upon the marauder and let
90 with his gun.
If is the unexpected that generally
hanpens in West Virginia, ana IL was
SO in this case, for instead OF being
scared off by the bullet that hau
plugged him, the bear got MAD anu
rushed in to engage the man at close
quarters. Probably Mr.. Whetzel dld
not have time to reload his gun, as
nothing is said about a second shot,
but he kept cool, and, being averse to
damaging his gun by whacking the
bear with it, he picked up club that
haDpened to be in the immediate VI
cinity and used it with such effect that
Br'er Bruin was soon pummeled to
death, Nimrod himself could not have
done better.-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
War and the Missionary.

hear that when the missionary so
cieties held their May meetings one OF
the most ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS surprising
points was the satisfactory state OF
the finances. Last year, the first COM
plete year of war, was one of the best
years the societies have had. l ain
told that some Of the most important
societies have been able not only 10
pay their way but to pay OF large
amounts of deficit. People have GER
tainly not been economizing on their
contributions to missionary work as
vet, and the way in which supporters
have rallied to it's support in wartime
is an interesting footnote to the his
tory of the time.
Experience shows that in the first
wear of past wars the missionary ana
other funds Of the same kind have
done well-it was so, l believe, in the
Franco German and the Russian wars
but that in the second year of war
they begin to suffer. 1t is interesting
to remember that it was in the time OF
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
SteppedinuomateS.

Some jaw-twister, Ell? Never mine
trying to pronounce the thing, just call
it "boo," or tx" and save time as well
as patience. 1t relates to a disease
recognized by osteopaths and caused
by high street car steps. Awful NAM
for thing so simple, Ell? One might
be pardoned, in view of such a name
for lie ailment, in thinking that ii
meant the whole dingbusted works had
been scrambled like so many eggs. DIR.
F. G. Cluett of Sioux City, Ia, TOLD
the state osteopaths about it during
their convention the other day, ex.
planning that the disease, steppedinuo'
mates, is q general nervous disorder
and is spreading rapidly. The jar on
alighting from a high step causes a
displacement of the innominate bone.
and the trouble begins.
Doctor Cluett said he had treated
several patients recently, all living
near car lines, and all afflicted in the
same way. A car step should not be
more than eight inches high, the
height of the average STEP" said the
doctor. Anything higher causes q
jar that may have serious conse'
QuenceS."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
CAMERA AID TO PATRIOTISM
Australian Troops Get Pictures of
Homes to Urge Them On to Work
Asked of Them.

1t was Green, the historian, who SAID
that the cheap Photographic portrait
did much, very much, to link the EN-
pire together. The homesteader IN
Canada works to make a home for a
girl of his heart he hopes will follow
him and whose portrait he often looks
at. The old mother in England, Ire
land or Scotland gazes on the picture
of her boy in British Columbia--and
he is not so far away after all.
Wise people in Melbourne, Australia
know the power of sentiment, and they
are letting the photograph aid patriot
ism.
Placed couspicuously in all the post
offices of the commonwealth, posters
advertising the new snapshots from
the Home league explain an enterprls
ing plan for linking home and trenches
Amateur photographers may enroll IN
the league and take photographs OF
the relatives and homes Of soldiers
on actual service, with the object OF
sending the pictures to the men in the
trenches. Here are incentives, If any
are needed to win out and get back
home.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
STREETS TO BE FAIRGROUNDS
New York Authorities Will Close One
Hundred to Traffic This
Summer.

= With the intention of establishing
more play streets for children this
summer, the police Of New York will
begin at once survey Of the longest
ed districts in the city to determine
where these recreation centers are
required, to decrease the number of
accidents. Commissioner Woods said
that he was convinced that these
streets were absolutely necessary for
the protection Of life in the summer
months.
Studies already made by the depart
ment show that although 10 per cent
of the population live south OF four-
teenth street between 10 and ~ per
cent of all the persons injured ana
killed last year lived in that section.
"With sufficient funds at hand TO
hire competent supervisors" MI.
Woods said, "there does not seem 10
he anv reason why at least one num-
dred streets should not be closed this
summer, stanchions placed to keep
traffic out and the supervision OF these
Fairgrounds put into the hands OF all
organization similar to the parks ana
Fairgrounds.
an this city there are l,ol6'92o
children between five and fifteen years
old. It is estimated that Of this num-
Der $50, GAL must play away from home
which includes 345,O69 children who
live in Manhattan. 1t has been rounu
that the park department, the board
of education and private organizations
have facilities for caring for only
ebout two hundred thousand children
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
SUCCESS In THEIR OPINION
Barney Bernard Tells Good Story OF
Man Who Had Neglected an I'M
portant Point.

In the Lambs All-Star Gambol
musical yarn was told by Barney Ber-
nard, the Shylock of the Snake
spearean Ministries. "How is your
daughter Jessica?" asked the inter-
locutor, and Bernards reply, stripped
of it's Abe Potash dialect, was:
"She's been studying music in Berlin
for three years. Lately she wrote that
she was ready to sing in grand opera,
and that she was coming home, SO l
arranged a concert for her at Carnegie
hall. went to several OF the mem
hers of my lodge and asked them to
take tickets for the concert, telling
them that if my daughter was sue
cess l would give banquet to my
friends at the Hotel knickerbocker.
When the time of the concert came
of course my daughter was nervous.
She broke down and went Off the Key
it was terrible. The people started
going out of the hall. At once l
thought of the banquet, and l rushed
down to the Knickerbocker to cancel
the banquet. In the banquet room l
found five Of my friends eating ana
drinking champagne. Wait q minute
I said. I told you that if my daugh-
ter was q success would give pam
uuet-she was not success, she was
a failure Then one of my friends
stood up and said, We'll, we liked
her."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
.
Has Learned Value of Thrift.

Madame Genee, the world-famed
ballet dancer, is the latest notoriety
to magnify the virtues of thrift. AS
an example, she determined to adapt
her old dresses as long as she could
do so with decency during the war;
and in an interview she stated that
she had only procured one new dress
since it's commencement. Had there
been no war she probably would have
been richer or poorer, she said, by at
least ten. "Now I find that instead
of being a source of distress to me
the loss of so many dresses has been
a gain, though the money that have
been in pocket has all gone, of course,
to the prince of Wales and other
funds. I am afraid when the war is
over the dressmaker will not find me
waltzing into her boudoir so frequent
ly as l have done"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
HAS RECEIVED HER LEGACY
Descendant of Patrick Henry Would
Seem Fully Possessed OF "Most
Valued Possession"

Patrick Henry wrote in his will, i
have now disposed Of all my properly
to my family; there is one thing more
I wish I could give them, and that Is
the Christian religion. If they nave
that, and l had not given them one
shilling, they would be rich; and II
they have not this, and l had given
them all this world, they would be
poor"
1t would seem that the only portion
of this legacy in which the nearest
known lineal descendant Of Patrick
Henry now living has shared is in the
fulfllment of his wish that his family
might have the Christian religion. Fer
haps the strongest characteristic OF
Lucy Anne Henry Peters, who is, so
far as can be learned, the only living
great-grandchild of Patrick Henry, IS
her piety and devotion to the church
Although Mrs. Peters is now in her
seventy-fourth year, she attends Sun
day school as regularly as Sunday
rolls around and cannot remember
when she missed either, regardless OF
the weather, and the only book she
has read for many years is the BlDle'
which she consults every day.
Mrs. Peters, who now lives at Han
nibal. Mo-, is the only one living of the
u children of Edmund Henry, who,
according to Raleigh Travers Green in
his Historic Families of Virginia,
was the only child of John Henry, the
oldest son and the fourth of the flVe
children of Patrick Henry, by his tlrst
wife, Sarah Shelton Henry. - LIZ
chonpe
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
Send Drinkers to Front.

On account of diminution in the
output of munitions, due to excessive
drinking, the French minister of mu-
nitions has issued instructions that
any munition workers found under the
influence of alcohol shall be immedi-
ately sent to the fighting line.
The explanation is given that the
penalty is not in the nature of pun
ishment, but because the man in ques-
ton is unlikely to experience the same
foundations at the front.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
Notwithstanding" Popular.

The hands on all clocks on British
railroads, post offices, newspaper of
fees, police stations and other places
where business is conducted through
out the night were pushed forward al
two o'clock one morning recently to
three o'clock, in accordance with the
daylight saving act.
The new schedule will run until Sep
TENDER &c, when clocks will be stopped
for an hour. Factories, banks, stores
trains, theaters and restaurants Will
all conform to the new time schedule
The Scandinavian countries, France
and Holland also have adopted the
scheme of distinguishing initiated
by Germany, and several Canadian
cities, including Halifax, have falleE
into line.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
Vaults Visible All Round.

The vaults of the new branch of
the Corn Exchange bank at Eighty
Sixth street and Broadway, New York,
are protected by most elaborate sys-
TEN OF electric lights and mirrors. The
space underneath them is brilliantly
lighted and mirrors at the floor angles
reflect everything that takes place be-
meath. A vertical mirror reveals to
the night Waterman the narrow passage
between the vaults and the walls of
the building.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
The Commonwealth of Va.

To the Sheriff of Highland County,
Greeting:
We command you that You sum-
mon Highland Lumber Company,
Inc, corporation, Lire In Trust
Company "a corporatlor) Trustee;
Edwin B Jones, special comn!isl'n-
er in the chancery cause OF Emma
Z. Hevener VS. George and Mary
Beverage: L. H. Shumate iii LIS
own right and agent for Vim. ).
Shumate AMI Others; r N EIvln",
A. S. Graham, G II. GI. ha Ii, II.
V. Pullin, Charles NJ. Pullin, W. II .
Vance and II. T. Bradshaw to ap
pear at clerks office of our circuit
court for Highland Co., at the
courthouse, on the Ord Monday in
Sept. 1916, to answer a bill in
chancery exhibited against them in
tFe said conrt by Union Lumber
Company, a corporation and unless
they shall answer the said bill with.
in the time prescribed by law, the
court will take same for confessed,
and decree accordingly; and this
they shall in no wise omit, under
the penalty of 1901.
And have then and there this
writ.
Witness, W. H. Matheny, clerk
of our said court, at the courthouse,
the 22nd day of August 1916 in
the 141st year of the common
wealth.
". H. Matheny, Clerk
F.. B. Jones, q. q.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
Cars Daily Income S5OO,000.

Three-quarters of the 150,0O0O00 or
so acres owned by Gar Nicholas OF
Russia is rich timber land, yielding
large rentals, and the rest mining
properties, all of which net him some
half a million cold dollars a day, the
worlds greatest individual income.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA:

To the Sheriff of Highland Go greeting:
We command you that you summon
Highland Lumber Company, Inc a cor
poration, Lincoln Trust Company IA cor.
poration) Trustee, E A. McNull and
VIM NJ McNulty Agents, tc appear at
the clerks office of our circuit court for
Highland county. at the courthouse, on
the 3rd Monday in Sept 1915, to answer
a bill in chancery exhibited against them
in the said court by Union Lum Der Co.,
corpo ration and unless they shall answer
the said bill within the time prescribed
by law, the court will take same for con-
fessed. and decree accordingly; and TINS
they shall in no wise omit, under the
penalty of 1oo.l
And have then and there this writ.
Witness, W H Matheny, clerk o I our
said court, at the court house, the 22nd,
day of Au gust, 1916. in the 141st year of
the commonwealth.
VII Matheny, clerk
E B Jones, pq
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
more High Cost of Living.

Capt. John Stevenson met a recent
arrival from the "auld countree" and
speedily got into chat with him over
conditions there. The new arrival
told feelingly Of the terrible toll of
war upon the fair land of Scotia, the
sad tales Of young men killed and
manned. the sufferings of the families
left behind. His was right sad tale
in every way. "Why, mon, we're jist
plum distractit wi it, he concluded.
"And I suppose the war has caused
the price of provisions to go up in
Scotland as we'll as everywhere else"
commented Captain Stevenson with
sympathy. "Aye, mon, ye're RIGHT"
agreed the visitor. "Proveesions has
gone up in price saxpence the bottle"
San Francisco Argonaut.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15
Power l.ifeboatS.

Several of the larger vessels have
power lifeboats which are equipped
with wireless. These boats can be
used either to search for help or to
tow cared boats at sea.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-09-15

our last great var, 4 century ago. that
most of the missionary societies we're
either founded or greatly Developed
Manchester Guardian.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-01
AMERICAN TROOPS
NEED NO HELP
custors Inspector Called for Aid
From carranzistas During
Skirmish.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas. August L.
American troops are well able to hand
le the bandit situation themselves and
any call for assistance by Carranza
soldiers Is unwarranted.
This was General Funston's atti-
tude today toward the action OF Gus
toms Inspector Bean in summoning
a Carranzista force to aid detach-
ment of Troop F, Eighth U. 8. cavalry
which had surrounded number Of
Mexican bandits in an adobe house
south OF Fort Hancock, Texas. early
yesterday.
The official report from General
Bell at Ell Paso, received last night.
said two Americans and four Next
cans were. killed in the action. Bean,
who accompanied the soldiers, is re-
ported to have summoned aid from
the Mexican side Of the Rio Grande
because he feared the bandits would
escape.
Funston believes the Americans
were able to handle the situation with
out assistance and stated today that
Beans action was unwarranted and
without authority.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-01
HUNDREDS
Of PEOPLE:
BURNED UP
Real Number VIII Never be
Known, But Five Hundred
Are Thought
Lost.
CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED
Worst Forest Fire Ever. Known In
Canada, Wiped out
Many Entire Set
r. 3 =
CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED

HAILEYBURY, Ontario, Aug. Il
As scores of dead in the fire-swept
district between Ramore and Coch.
rane were buried in deep trenches to-
day, there was every indication that
the toll Of life taken by the devastat.
Ing forest fire will never be known.
Relief workers believe more than
five hundred were lost In the forest
fire which swept hundreds Of square
miles iii northern Ontario.
Identification was impossible as
the flames ate up every Identifying
mark Refugees who escaped, have
been unable to tell how their neigh
boris Jared.
The survivors found were pitifully
few. The first train bringing sur
yivors carried but forty three, oil
whom three women and seventeen
men were horribly burned.
Whole settlements were wiped out
Relief workers sent back reports OF
eight survivors in village OF 20S, of
fiftyseven bodies found in single
railway cut, sixteen found in pit.
twenty-four found In one house and
of 100 bodies buried In the course of
single morning. For every body
found. along the railway q doz-
en- may be seen lying dead under the
ashes OF northern Ontario, was the
word sent back by the rescuers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-01
PRIMARY ELECTION
WILL BE QUIET
Women Can Vote, But There Does
Not Seem to be Very Much
Interest.

TOPEKA, Kansas, August Ito
days primary election promised to
be the quietest Kansas has known in
years. In spite Of cool wave pre-
diction, the vote was expected to be
light. OF the state officials who left
Topeka yesterday to vote with the
home folk" not one arranged for a
Geographic report OF results.
Assistant Attorney General Hawks
quieted a report that women were not
permitted to vote on presidential cleo
tors.
kansas women have the same
right to vote for any candidate that
Kansas men have" declared Hawks.
Governor Capper, republican candi-
date to succeed himself, has no oppo-
sition. On the democratic side Of the
ticket Ben S. Gaitskill. OF Girard,
and w. c. Landson of Salina. are
after the nomination.
with nine republicans wanting to be
sheriff in Shawnee county in which
Topeka is located. this fight promised
to be the hottest in the state.