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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
ADMINISTRATOR OF
THOMAS B. HIGDON
Files Suit For $4,000 Damages
Against |. c. Railway
Company.

John 7. Higdon, administrator of
the estate of Thomas B. Higdon, de-
ceased, a soldier who was killed at
Rockport last April, has filed suit in
the Ohio Circuit Court against the
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Chicago, st. Louis & New Orleans
r. r. for $4,000 damages for the
death of young Higdon, who was a
member of Company X, Greensboro.
w. B. Curley, who was engineer of
the locomotive that struck the SOL
der, was also made a defendant in
the petition.
In the petition the plaintiff alleges
that while engaged in patrolling and
protecting the property of said de-
PENDANTS in Ohio county, near Green
river and Rockport, KY, through the
negligence of said defendants, the
deceased Thomas B. Higdon was run
against and upon and was struck
with such force and violence that he
did then and there die as q result
thereof, to the damage to the estate
Of the decedent in the sum of $4,000.
Young Higdon, with other members
of his company, was doing patrol
duty along the line of the |. C. and
was engaged, it is understood, in Civ
ing semaphore signals at the time he
met his death. He lived at Kirk,
Breckenridge county, and the suit
was filed by Haswell G. Walls, of
Hardinsburg.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
over TWO SCORES
KILLED IN NINE
81 Dead Bodies Recovered
And Is Still In the
Shaft.
At THE TOWN OF CLAY, Ky.
Ten of the Dead Are White Men,
And One Foreman Among
The Victims.

Clay, KY, Aug. 6.-Thirty-one are
known to be dead, fifteen are missing
and are almost certainly dead; nine
teen are injured and seventy-one
have been rescued unhurt as a re-
suit of the explosion in mine No. I
of, the West Kentucky Coal Company
here Saturday.
OF the dead ten are white. They
have been identified as follows:
WILL BROWN.
DEWEY BROWN.
EDWARD BROWN.
CLEVELAND BAILEY. .
ERWIN CONLEY.
ARCH JACKSON.
BEN PANGSTON.
HENRY SACREE.
C. p. WALLACE.
L. D. WALLACE, brother of c. P.
Wallace.
All the missing whose bodies are
still in the mine are negroes. There
is no hope that any of them will be
rescued alive, though strenuous eff
forts are being made to bring them
out, the gas having been cleared out
of the mine.
Most of the injured have been ia
ken to the hospitals in Evansville,
and the dead are being buried as
fast as arrangements can be made.
The explosions which resulted in
the disaster occurred as the men
were going to work, and they are be-
lieved to have been caused by a
spark igniting the gas, causing the
first explosion. Following this the
gas and dust came in a roll down
the entry, coming in contact with
powder, causing the second eXplos-
ion.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
CONDEMNED TO DIE;
is IN FIRST DRAFT

Paducah. KY, Aug. 3.-Lube Mar
tin, negro, condemned to die for the
murder of Guthrie Diuguid in Gallo
way county, was one of the first men
drafted in Galloway.
MAJ ~c~H AZ his exemption plea
trio fact that he was condemned to
die. The Negroes appeal from the
sentence now is in the Appellate
Court.
Martin is the negro over whose
case Judge C. II. Bush's life was
threatened by Murray mob.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
WOMEN FLOORWALKERS ARE
EMPLOYED IN CHICAGO

Chicago.-Marshall. Field & Com
pany, the biggest dry goods firm in
the west. has installed women as
floorwalkers. Other big department
stores announced their intention of
doing likewise. Reports from en-
ployers throughout the State show
that women will be paid the same
wages as men.
Medill Mccormick and other big
dairy farmers announce their inten-
tion of employing milkmaids on their
farms.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
HARTFORD REPUBLICAN SOLD.

Pursuant to judgment OF the
Circuit Court. Master Commissioner
Martin sold the Hartford Republican,
machinery, presses. furniture, fix
lures. notes and accounts at the
court house door Monday. The limo
type was sold separately and bought
by c. M. Grove as attorney for the
Mergenthaler Linotype Co.. who had
a mortgage on it. The residue Of the
printery was sold to w. H. Barnes
for s1.375.
We understand it will be operated
by the present management until
the sale is passed upon by the court.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
GERMAN. EAGER TO
FIGHT THE GERMANS.
SPURNS EXEMPTION

Evansville. Ind.-Frank Schwartz,
bartender. "a years old. was the
second man to pass a physical exam
ination here before the local Draft
Board and the first man who did not
claim exemption. He said that, while
he had widowed mother to support.
he wanted to go to the front. "If
everybody tried to get off there
would be no one TO fight the Ger
mans" he said.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
CUT ON ARM.

Edwin Mason. of Mr.. and Mrs. I.
S. Mason. was cut in two places on
the left arm Saturday night. 1t
seems John Morton, colored, and wife
were having difficulty. and Mason
thinking they were white went
to the rescue of the woman and
knocked the man down. When Nor
ton came back at Mason he had a
knife, and cut him on the arm in
two places, inflicting painful but not
serious wounds.
Young Mason is 2 member OF the
Headquarters Company at Lexing-
ton. and plays trombone in the band.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
PLAN is ADOPTED
TO SAFEGUARD SHIPS
FROM SUBMARINES

Neutrality-suspicious. to safeguard
the American ships from submarine
attack have been worked out by ma
val consulting board and a special
committee appointed by Major Gen
eral Goethals, it became known, when
w. L. Sanders, chairman of the con-
sulting board, advised the War Relief
societies to adopt the system to safe
guard their shipments. Details of
the plan were not made public. Fed
eral authorities, through the war risk
insurance board, now are putting in
effect premium on ships equipped
according to the plan.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
CHARGE |OWANS
WITH TREASON
Four Men Seizedand 9th.
err Arrests Expected
Shortly.
MUST CONVERSE IN ENGLISH
Is Orders Issued to Germans By
Federal Officers When
In Public.
MUST CONVERSE IN ENGLISH

Lowden, Ia.-Four persons, three
of them past sixty years, were arrest.
ed by Federal officers and charged
with treason and resisting the Gov.
eminent. Half dozen others weH
questioned and it was announced
more arrests were expected. This
action followed an outbreak that ap-
preached a riot between citizens and
pro-Germans.
The prisoners are Albert Schaefer
65 years old. retired farmer; Will
lam Richman, 66. furniture dealer;
Ernest Meier, 65, retired farmer, and
Carl Gerhl, SO, farmer. All are re-
puted to be wealthy.
United States Marshall Moore and
Deputy Healy arrived here from Ce-
dar Rapids after they had been in
formed that this town of 700 popu-
lation was a hotbed of sedition. Rich
man has a son who enlisted in the
army and he is reported to have said
that he would rather see the boy
dead than bearing arms against Ger
many. The charges against the 9TH
.er men have not been made public.
Bitter Feeling.
The trouble began early in July
and it was said to have been accen-
tuated by the dragging of German
flag behind an automobile in the
Fourth of July parade. Feeling be-
tween the loyal and pro-German ele-
-ments has increased since then,
famed by public and private utter
ances.
Tuesday night the Rev. John Reich
ert. pastor of the German Evangel-
ical church. here, was arrested on a
1harge of treason. He was question
ed in the office of Daniel D. McGilli-
vary, an attorney, and then taken to
Cedar Rapids. News of the minis
ter's arrest spread and crowd gath
cred before McGillivary's office,
threatening to lynch him. A few
blows were struck but cool heads
finally prevailed.
Must Converse In English.
The Mayor and marshal of the
town and the Sheriff of Cedar county
were summoned to conference with
the Federal men today.
Mayor Louis Hoeltje protested his
loyalty to the United States, but ad-
mitted that he had taken no steps
toward the arrest of troublemakers.
The Germans questioned by Marshal
Moore We're warned to conduct all
public conversations in English.
William Goldsmith was arrested at
Clarence, Ia, today, on a charge of
treason, after he had been severely
beaten by treveling salesman for
his alleged reasonable utterances.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
FINE SOY BEAN CROP.

Virgil Elgin has about the finest
prospect for soy bean crop, on his
farm, near town, that can be found
anywhere in the country. He drilled
the beans in rows, and cultivated
them with spring tooth harrow. He
says he expects to make between
$50 and 1000 bushels on SIS acres.
District Farm Agent Merriman,
who was here last week. said it was
the finest prospect he had seen any
where.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
BIG WHEAT YIELD.

Perhaps the biggest~@heat yield in
the county this year was that of G.
b, Angel. II was grown on the
Grundy farmfi south of town. which
Mr.. Angel purchased some months
ago from j. l. Kimberlin. The crop
consisted of 1900 bushels and was
the product of so acres. Mr.. Angel
sold the crop on the local market at
SO per bushel, or $3,000.-Lebanon
Enterprise.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
ABOUT OHIO FOUNTAINS.

Miss May Poole, of Fordsville, has
been visiting her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cass Poole. and other relatives
for several days.
T. l. Carrier sold one of his fine
bulls to Mr.. Fcble. Of Beaver Dam.
delivered there for Si50.-Caneyville
News.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o O o
o MARRIAGE LICENSES. @
Q o Q o o Q o o Q o o o o o o o

w. p. r. Wilson. Logansport. KY,
to Mamie Hazel Miller. Cromwell.
Arthur Mcdaniel. Rosine. to Marie
Craig. Rosine.
Ollie Humble. Narrows. r. /. to
Amply Stidman. Narrows.
Eli M. Bennett. Hartford. r. s, to
Lsatha A. Ward. Hartford, r. 8.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
terested in the thoroughbred stock

terested in the thoroughbred stock
proposition, and it is possible that
County Agent Browder will organize
a calf club for the boys Of that sec
ton.
We are glad to see our people of
Ohio county taking an interest in the
raising of fine stock, as we believe in
the long run blood will tell.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
MOB IN ARMS OPPOSE
!. S. DRAFT PLANS
Bands of Negroes, Tenants and
Indians Spreading Terror
In Oklahoma

Murkogee, Okla, Aug. Slight
ing between draft rioters and officers
is going on twenty-five miles north
of Ada, according to Under-Sheriff
Purvine, of Okmulgee county, who
received a report from there late to-
night.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-08-08
MAY START THOROUGHBRED
CALF CLUB AT EARLY DATE

John Boone. Of Echols. and Lon
Barnard. of Rockport, have just re-
ceived from near Chicago thorough
bred Holstein calf each. and are aw-
fully well pleased with their purchas-
es. Several in that section are in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
An Interesting Argument.

Everybody's Magazine. OF all the
funny stories I recall at the present
moment. l think I can work up the
best laugh over the tale of the two
lrishmen who were arguing about
the relative merits of New York and
Chicago. You know, there is type
of person, who, when he knows moth
ing about thing md finds you
don't know either, will start in and
explain it to you. These two were
both of that kind. Said one:
why, in New York we have grass
craving right on the roof, just the
same as down on the ground. You
can have your front yard on the top
Of your house"
That's nothing" declared the
other. "In Chicago we play golf on
the roofs"
Golf? You mean that game where
you knock the ball back and forth
across metz"
Yes, that's It,"
You dommed id.iut, that's not
golf You're talking about croquet."
We'll, meant to say croquet."
YES" said the other one. II
know you couldn't mean golf How
would they get the horses upon the
roof for a golf gamer"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25

from dents in April. 1914, to 10 u
per pound in 1917. Potatoes ~
ing sold at $1.75 per hundrsd~.,
or about 81 per bushel in Gars
although 1t is stated that dnrinn
past year in Germany potatoes
exceedingly scarce. We ara
So and 81 and S. per bushel fo 70
potatoes. Curious. l say. These
strange facts.
And in that connection. moul
Of the committee, for fear von
undertake to explain it on the ~
that Germany has a Contracts u
rency, desire to call your ate,
to the fact that the initiation Ss
rency in Germany since the wa,
gan amounts to $50 per cent
can not explain 1t on that theo,u
have made some little study ~
German prices, and l have com.
this conclusion, which | thinl -
solutely inevitable from the nra,
alton of the facts, that whas
there is food control the prices 81
articles so controlled are MID
iedcH oi the wage Garner, and wbl
there is no control prices are wil
the reach Of the wealthy ONLY
there any proof of that? Let me- ]
you the proof. There is no conf
over the price of poultry in Germ
ana poultry is sold there at sl5d
81 per pound live weight. Onlv
wealthy can buy poultry at sl.5o
pound. / repeat that NV stnSr|
German prices leads me. nevis
forces me, to the only conclu1
which can be reached, which 10 l
where, there is price control the
1cles of human necessity are viii
the reach of the average man
where there is no control the nd
are absolutely beyond the reach III
save the rich. I shall extend NV "
marks along this line with furtI
facts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
ROMANCE IN ADVERTISING.
Spending Money on Publicity One of
the Results Of Thoughtful
Looking Ahead.

From 1.-THE Silent Voice." by Ed.
ward Mott Woolley, in Scribner:
George Eastman. in 1878, was bank
clerk, with hobby for photography.
Out of his dissatisfaction with the
wet plate came the kodak and one of
the greatest romances of business.
Now the company invests at least
81 100000 year in advertising.
Or take William Wrigley. Jr., who
was travelling salesman. Now he is
said to spend 100000 year Or
more on publicity. In the many
Wrigley campaigns we find items
that run into stupendous proportions.
The ordinary best seller in fiction
has circulation of perhaps 100000
while the Wrigley Mother Goose
Book went to 100000 people and
the Spear Men" to 100000.
The American Chicle company this
year has an advertising appropria-
ton of s1,500,O0O.
Not SO many years ago, Eldridge R.
johnson was a machinist at Camden,
N. J. Afterward he bought the little
shop where he had worked on a
crude talking machine, and this de-
pany-whose advertising runs well
y
A century ago there was a little
soap factory in New York owned by
a Morgan family. For more than q
life time this business attained no
particular prominence, but one day
the family physician suggested the
combination of two Latin words as
a trade name. Sapolio became al
most a national institution, with
100000 or $400.39o a year to talk
for it; and the picturesque adven
lures of this company add some Of
the brightest color to the romance of
advertising. Thus we have "Spotless
Town"
In 1879. Jacob Ritty, a merchant in
Dayton, o., invented the cash regis
ter. John H. Patterson then had d
small country store and was having
trouble keeping his accounts. When
he heard Of the cash register he tele
graphed for two and afterward bought
the business. Once Frederick F.
Peabody was school teacher in
Minnesota, but rural life did not
please him and he went to Chicago.
At the very beginning, advertising
entered his career, for he looked in
the classified pages of the Chicago
papers and found a job at 81 week.
Among other things he sold collars,
and today he is president of the great
est collar concern in the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
PATRIOTISM.

Breathes there the man with soul SO dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own. my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned
AS home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering foreign strand?
If such there breathe. go, mark him well;
For him minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth wish claim,
Despite those titles, power, and pelf
The wretch concentered all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renowA,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and sunsung
Sir Walter Scott.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
They Want Hoover

Duluth News-Tribune: The N
thing the people ask of congress
food regulations is to give N
Hoover. There is the utmost ~
dence in his supreme courage
unfailing judgment, as well as
ability to organize and effect resu|
II congress will but give Hoo|
authority to Investigate, the power
get at the facts, the folks believe
will do the rest. After all, Theod|
Roosevelt was right when he ma
tanned that the most effective n
for evils was publicity.
This would be the best club
put in the hands of a man \
Hoover. When he would make n
lie price conditions the coon wd
have to come down. What he wo|
state would be known as fact
command national attention.
1t is but space killing to point
the fact that some tea importers
already adding the 2-cent tax bell
it is a tax; that the tobacco ma
facturers are cutting down on
package before that tax has b,
authorized. If Hoover would m,
this known, then it would count.
Cotton goods have recently b,
again advanced to a price that
be warranted would call for 30 to-
cents a pound for raw cotton, wi
raw cotton has not materially
.vanced for two years and is not
the war tax list.
These are but samples. Price s.
rocketing has taken it's place with
boat murder, becoming so comm
as to excite no especial CONNIE
Both are accepted as matters
course. though both are inexcusal
outrageous.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25

general weakness that was SO haiu
bear. I am able to do my work oq LII
such times and am recommending Lyy'S
E. Pinkham's Vegetable CompoufW% MI
my friends who suffer as ! did. XII
META TIEDEMANN, 1922 Jefferson A'
Brooklyn, N. Y. d
To know whether Lydia
Pinkham's Vegetable COmpoITIo
will help you, just try IL,
advice write to Lydia e. Pink ,."r
Medicine Co. (confidentiaD L!%
Mass. Your letter will be OPEN
read and answered by Won
and held in strict confidence
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
pisloxal Relation

Ida Grove Record-Era: No excl
tons should be made from draft
account of the fact that a mans
,ligious creed is such that it forb
him to serve his country In time
war. Any religious creed or bel
that forbids such service should h;
no place in this country, for n
who does not think enough of as g
country as this to do what he
to defend 1t in time Of peril, is
mighty poor stick. no matters wi
his religion may be.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
True to Form.

Paullina Times: General Goeth'
is running true to form. No obstacl
can successfully impede his progre
The summary manner in which
rid himself of two interfering gent
men last week is accepted by
American public without a bubble
doubt. He has gained the COZ
dence OF the country by achiel
ments at the Panama canal and
will not suffer from the criticism
practically unknown men.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
ARE WE HUMAN OR ANIMAL?

Eugene theory propaganda as coming from
the half-baked minds of long haired men and
short haired women and fostered by one W. e.
D. Stokes, of New York City, finds negative
response in the assertion of Keokuk medical
man to the effect that there is difference in
the raising of fine animal stock and the raising
of fine people, Mr.. Stokes is a breeder of a
lofty strain Of animal stock; probably his COW
barns and horsestalls are decorated with blue
ribbons won as recognition of his working en-
thusiasm in the cause of encouraging the best in
the production of milk, and of equines that may
rate as in the two-minute class. According to
the KeolSuk medico, it seems to be the idea OF
Mr.. Stokes to breed a class of humanity which
will do all the work that the non-workers may
sit in the sunparlors of luxury and view the
scenery of all-nature regardless of what may
come to the Glover ten thousand
The contention of the Keokuk physician is
that success in the development Of the higher
forms depends on moral and intellectual fiber
not on physical manifestation. Without mans
superior brain, ruled by divine Influence and
right purpose, to live right and do right, he
would be worse than the beasts of the forest.
It is such low ideas as those advanced by Mr..
Stokes and his ilk which have caused degenera-
ton, what there is of it in the human race.
Right living, getting right with oneself and
all others, is all there is to solve the question
of eugenics. Jesus, speaking in parable, said:
"'Render therefore unto Caesar the things
which are Caesars and unto God the things
which are God's.'' In these times mans share
in the distribution Of efficient humanity seems
to be limited because of observance of the con-
ventional and in obedience to the dictum of
Nautilus.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-25
When man has come to the Turnstiles of
Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him
wonderfully alike and coloress--Rudyard
Kipling.
LOOKS LIKE CLASS LEGISLATION.

Glass legislation has been one of the domi-
nant factors in the halls of national and state
legislative bodies. What one must or must
not do frequently has application as exclu-
sion act and this is usually founded on desire
of lawmakers to please constituency to which
they believe they owe paramount allegiance
rather than having possession of an outlook
destined to bring the greatest good to the great
est number equable arrangement that
would not set class against class. This charac-
ter of legislation finds its most glazing instance
in the Adamson eight-hour railroad law and
clouds most of the acts of our congressman and
senators. The food control bill now before the
United States senate is not immune from char
acterization as class legislation, and this is one
of the reasons why it is meeting with some OPP
position in quarters where opposition was
least expected Section six Of the measure pro-
videS that
any person who willfuly boards any
necessaries shall upon conviction thereof be
exceeding $4,000 be imprisoned for
not years or Necessares
shall be deemed be boarded within the
ing of this act when either (a) held, contracted
for, arranged for by any person in guam
tity in excess of his reasonable requirements for
use or consumption by himself and dependents
reasonable time; tb) held: contracted for,
or arranged by any manufacturers, whole
cess of the reasonable requirements of his bust
ness use sale by him for reasonable time,
or reasonably required furnish pro-
duced in surplus quantities reasonably through
the period of scant or productions; (c) or
withheld whether by possession under
arrangement, from the market by any
ng OF dimnishng the price: Provided however
any accommodating or withholding by any
farmer, gardener, any other person of the
products of any farm garden, other land owned,
leased cultivated by him shall not be deemed
to be boarding within the meaning of this act.
The dark gentleman in the woodpile is dis
closed IN the last sentence OF the section