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New Britain herald., 1917-06-01
SKINNER TAPPED"

Sherrod E. Skinner. son of MT. and Mrs. E. J. Skinner of Chestnut street, a student in Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute. Troy N. r.. was among the students tapped" for membership in the Senior Society of Phalanx. held recently ct the institute. Membership
New Britain herald., 1917-06-01

in this class is ono of the highest honors that can be conferred on
 members of the junior class. The To- cal boy has risen to, fame since en- tering the institute, being prominent in the athletic world of the college.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
SCRUB, SCRUB, SCRUB
Germists And Microbists Never Know
The Place To Stop.

If we are to sterilize the mouth
pieces Of telephones every day, to
kill the bacteria and prevent infec-
ton, and are to scrub the door-knobs
every day for the same reason, why
not be consistent, and 90 on scrub
bing and scrubbing everything with
which you come in contact
It these bacteria must be cleaned
out once every day, why not once
an hour or onre minuteY The
pestiferous things are apt to oct In
any second.
OF course, everybody knows that
drinking.water must not only be
boiled but distilled,
We have been warned often
enough that Misunderstanding is dan
gerous and kissing is deadly. All
Of which warning we have all duly
observed, of course,
Now, after having long and virtu'
ously refrained from raw water and
from the other enticements, II Is
hard to be informed by baeterioloe'
lists that we are still In momentary
danger from microbes unless We
scrub, scrub scrub,
And when we oct used to the
scrubbing and learn to look upor
1t as d matter Of course instead oI
q hardship, may not the microbes
steal another march on us through
the scrub brushY
Maybe we shall have to steriliz,
soap and then sterlllze the sterilizer
Baeteriolieists are Unsuitable. The,
never know where to stop,
We may soon become as ride
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
ulous as the old Salemltes in the
days of witchcraft.- Christian Her.
aid.
Remarks Of Prominent PeopIe

Nine.tenths of wisdom is in being
wise in time.-Col. Theodore Roos e.
welt.
A new hell will have to be inven-
ted to fit the kaiser.-Dr. J. M. T.
F'inney, Baltimore.
It doesn't take as much sense to
be president as 1t does to be a con-
gresham. Champ Clark.
We have Bolsheviks in America,
and the same marvellous event that
came In Russia is sure to come In
this country.--Emma Goldman, Soc-
ialist
1t Is our duty now to help the
United States lick the kaiser, then
lick hell out Of the coal operators
afterward,-" Mother" Jones, labor
leader.
II the clereymen preached the
truth as they see It, nine out Of ten
Of them would lose their jobs, They
have to lie in order to live,-The
Rev. Capt, Irving G, McCann, Chica.
| 90,
We should "hos-tle" every disloy.
al German-American, feed every
pacifist raw meat and hang every
traitor to a lamp post to insure sue
cess in this war,-James w. Gererd,
former ambassador to Germany,
What ! am opposed to Is not the
feeling Of the paciasts, but their
stupidity My heart Is with them,
but my mind has a contempt for
them want peace, know how
to Oct It, they do not,-President
Wilson,
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

exempted cur congressman from
the war tax that other loyal
Americans pay"
So it would seem that Congress-
man Tlllman Of the northwest Ar
kansas district either does not know
what is going on in congress or has
wilfully perverted the truth. The
latter is, by long odds, the most
probable.
Congressman Tillman had better
have agreed with Congressman
Kitchin in the remarkable state
ment that the government is not
business, or in the astounding
statement that a salary from the
government is not a business in
come, or in the ridiculous state
ment that officials do not work for
profit, or in the absurd and disgust
ing intimation that members of
congress are in that body at a
financial loss to themselves.
Or, instead OF wobbling on the
gudgeon with the truth about the
matter outright, Congressman Till
man might have better laid the
whole thing off onto the dad. blamed
blue-bellied republicans.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

Mrs. Matilda Daniels of Mann
moth Spring, who is SO years old,
spends her time knitting socks for
the soldier boys in France.
Alfred Bowie got his arm caught
in a wheel at the cotton gin at
Gassville, throwing the arm out of
joint and injuring his neck and back.
The grip is having a merry run in
this section, and people salute each
other with a sneeze, -KahOka cor
respondent of the Mountain View
Democrat.
|. L, Franks, mayor of Imboden,
has served notice that the use of
any and all kinds of fireworks will
be prohibited in that town during
the approaching holidays,
George Blankenship, living near
Newburg, while fighting forest
fires few days ago was so badly
burned about the face that it is
feared he will lose his eyesieht.
Lucian Crutchtield of Batesville
had the misfortune to lose fine
horse a few days ago. The animal
became entangled in a barbed wire
fence and was so badly injured it
had to be killed.
The amount of cotton ginned in
Lawrence county of the 1917 crop,
prior to November 1st, was 5340
bales, The amount ginned in that
county at the same date last year
was 1910 bales.
The Mt. Pleasant correspondent
of the Melbourne Times says:
There is more money in the coun.
try than was ever known before
and some people are paying of
debts as old as the hills"
The residence of j, w. Anderson
at Newark was consumed by fire
one day lately, together with prac.
tically all the contents. There was
no one at home when the fire start.
ed, and the origin of the blaze is
unknown.
The Lucien Sloan farm, three
miles east of Imboden, was bought
last week by H. P. Pierce of Helena
for a consideration of $4,000, some
livestock on the place beng includ-
ed in the deal. The farm consists
of 1893 acres.
| Theodore Doyle, who resides near
Walnut Ridge lost his barn and its
contents by fire one night last
week. A large quantity of hay and
corn was destroyed. The owner
believes the barn was set on fire in
some accidental way,
| V, H. Whitney, who!. lived:.in o
house boat near the mouth of Big
Creek, in Baxter county, refused to
work the public roads and was fined
| $40. lie gave note for the amount,
which he failed to pay when it came
due, and the sheriff last week sold
bis home for SIS.
| . Fifteen carloads of corn have
been shipped from Black Rock this
season, and 1t Is said as many
more carloads will be shipped from
there. A correspondent from that
place to the Walnut Ridge Blade
fears farmers will sell their corn
too closely and will have to buy
In the spring or summer
l.. Martina travelling man from
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
NORTH ARKANSAS NEWS PARAGRAPHS

Kansas City, got his first taste of
Arkansas sorghum molasses at a
hotel at Mountain Home one night
last week. He liked them so that
Immediately after supper he started
out to locate molasses in wholesale
quantities, He bought an entire
barrel of sorghum, which he shipped
to his home in Kansas City for
home consumption.
Rev. E, A, Horn of Newark, who
is serving the Kenyon circuit in the
M. E. Church South as pastor, will
this year retire from active service
In the ministry, after having spent
4O years in the work. 1t is said that
more than two thousand people
have been converted and united
with the church under his ministry
that he has married 200 couples and
preached 400 funerals.
Robert l.. Farris, a we'll known
farmer living near limbo, Stone
county, committed suicide one day
last week by hanging himself. He
had at two different times been con-
fined in the state hospital for ner.
vous diseases, and it is supposed his
mind again became unbalanced and
ne committed the act while in that
condition. The deceased was we'll
to do, and had large property inter-
ests in Stone county.
Robert MerkIe, charged with big
amy, was captured at Des Moines,
Iowa, last week and returned to
Walnut Ridge for trial. While at
work for construction company at
that place last summer Merkle
married Miss Vernice Mathis, a
splendid young woman and the
daughter of a minister. After he
had gone woman appeared from
Argenta with proof that she had
been married to Merkle, and war
rant for his arrest followed. He
has been bound over to the erend
Jury.
| W. l.. Johnson, farmer living a
few miles west of Oil Trough, was
killed in free-for-all fight one day
last week at the home of Ed Laxtop,
his brother.in.law, Johnson was
struck on the head with a large
rock, fracturine the skull and po-
ducing death. Ed Laxton and his
three sons, c. P, W. B. and Bedford
LaXtoD have been arrested for the
killing of johnson, A son of John
son and one of the Laxton boys had
engaged in a difficulty a few vs.
before and the trouble was ren, wed,
with the result that Johnson lost
his life.
Some unknown party tried to
burn the large barn of N. D. Freeze,
a short distance west of Newark,
one day last week, There had been
no one at home ahd no fire abcvt
the place for several hours before
the fire Returning home at an op-
perfume time Mr., Freeze saw smoke
issuing from the barn and succt eded
in extinsuishjng the flames before
much damage was done The suue-
ture contained several hundred bush.
els Of corn and lot of hay, and the
owner thinks q German sympalhi.
zer set fire to the building, as apalt
Of the program Of destruction that
Is sweeping the country to reduce
the resources and food supply Of the
nation.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

We very strongly suspect that
"meatless days" have been inaueu-
rated in a large number Of homes
for some time and that a good
number Of these dayc come in sue
cession.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

The present dominant power in
Russia wants peace. The United
States and all the allies want peace
also, but they know what is requir-
ed to secure peace Russia must
be as dense as q fos not TO see the
point,
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
THE TRUTH STRETCHED

Somebody h stretched the
truth regarding the exemption o.
the salaries of members Of congress
from the war revenue bill.
The Baxter County Citizen says
Congressman John N. Tillman
Of that district states that the law
does not exempt the salaries ol
congressman.
But here is what Congressman
Claude Kitchin says about it. 1t
should be remembered that Mr.
Kitchin is chairman of the ways
Ind means committee, the most
powerful committee of congress
Ind the committee which framed
The revenue BILL MIR. Kitchin ought
10 know what he is talking about
He says, in an alleged defense Of
The law, published recently in the
New York Times:
That excess profits tax of s
Der cent on incomes of individ-
pals, mind you, is tax on ex-
cess profits. 1t is a tax on mon
ey derived from a business. The
government is not a business in
stitution, and no salary therefrom
Is a business income. Officials
70 not work for profit. Personal
n, am in congress at a loss"
is any more evidence required
4 u prove that congress did exempt
he salaries of its members from
Y 'lhe revenue law?
Tie editor Of the Imboden Jour-
nal wrote to Golfers Washington
vows bureau 10 secure Tor that pa
pcr the vote of the Arkansas dele
ation on the proposition to exempt
cpngressmen's salary from the war
measure, and received the following
SQply:
v Replying to your letter Of Oc.
tober 9th, we regret to say that
tnere was no separate roll call on
u thet section of the war revenue
H1 to which you refer"
The above indicates that men,
ber1 Of congress, having an eye to
y the future, voted in a lump" on
4 proposition, so that there might
~ kft no trace of how any indi-
vidual member voted, and equally
y - that every member of congress
u TIE United States might be able
. ~ to his constituents that he
dropposed The proposition
any more evidence required
10 the caSeY
lhe following is taken from the
hp walnut Ridge Blade:
N'Billy 0ldfeld, the congressman
AM Hom this district, and one of the
|SV0 noot representatives the people of
thls district ever had in congress,
Cha wao here Monday enronte to Po-
cdnontas to visit his sister. He
II ays the law protecting senator's
iaDe end congressmens' salaries from
ne war tax will be reperIed at
ne December session of congress.
A' Gettine that clause in the bill was
rspublcan trick which will not
: stand"
,,,,, inl' OF course, easily disposes Of
-. ne matter. Nevertheless the I'm.
''' " :, oden Journal is impertinent
70 Jnoufh to say;
". Is now in order to explain
NV what hypnotic power the re.
y" 'a, punllcaus, in a democratic coas.
'''' pan put such a job over our
Ch'P oon6Fessmep, especially when
urdN none pad the courage to demand
IQIl call on the sectio, ,ho, -.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

The United States started a cam
paign to raise thirty-fve million
dollars as a Y. M. C. A. war fund,
and more than fifty million dollars
was secured for the fund, showing
that people who are not doing the
fighting are not slackers with their
funds and that they are willing to
contribute to the welfare of the
boys at the front and in training
camps.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

The government is finding it a
hard job TO bring down the cost Of
living and to take tie necessaries
Of life from the eraspine hands of
spectators, Any time that you
get any skin from the hides of the
spectators you are apt to do it
while they sleep, and they never
sleep.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

Few if any counties in the United
States can equal the achievement
of Larue county, Kentucky. Its
draft quota was 1872 men. Each of
the first called 1872 men responded,
was examined, passed, claimed no
exemption, and entered the service.
Larue, then Hardin county, is the
birthplace Of Abraham Lincoln.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

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Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

The constitutional convention
met last week and adjourned until
July Of next year. In the mean
time Arkansas will not suffer be.
cause the old constitution is in
existence. The old constitution is
good enough for everybody except
the politicians, and really it is too
good for them.
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TODAY.

TODAY.
Gen. and Mrs. Black, dinner for
Secretary of War and Mrs. Baker.
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman, a lunch
con for the mayor of New York
and Mrs. Mitchell
MONDAY.
The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Burleson, a dinner for the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Wilson.
Senator and Mrs. salisbury. din
ner for the Vice President and
Mrs. Marshall.
Miss Temple. a dinner for the Sec
rotary of State and Mrs. Lansing
Medical Director and Mrs. Nash, a
dinner for the Secretary OF the
Navy and Mrs. Daniels.
The Russian ambassador and Nine.
Bakhmeteff. a dinner.
The Italian ambassador and Count
ess Iii Cellere, dinner.
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, dinner
for ambassador and Nine. Naon.
Gen. and Mrs. McCawley. a dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lombard, q
dinI.G-.
Mr.. ami Mrs Charles V. Wheeler,
q dinner.
Administration dance at Willard.
Mrs Crawford and Miss era wford,
luncheon.
Monday evening dancing class at
the Playhouse
Wedding of Miss Sarah Farr and
Mr.. John Edward Lennon
Judge and Mrs. George E. Downey,
dinner for Attorney General and
Mrs. Gregory and the members Of
the Court OF Claims.
TUESDAY.
Dinner at White House for the Su-
- -prerae.s Court
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Secretary of State and Mrs. Lans-
ing, dinner for the Vice President
and Mrs. Marshall.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Phillips, a
dinner.
Miss Dixon, a dinner before the
dance at the Highlands.
Congressional Club, card party.
Mrs. Samuel Spencer, cards.
Mrs. John Newbold, a luncheon.
Mrs Stimson Brown, luncheon.
Mrs. 1. T. Mann, bridge party.
Formal hop at Fort Myer.
Lieut.. Carter, dinner at Willard.
WEDNESDAY.
Admiral and Mrs. Clover and Miss
Clover, dinner.
Miss Boardman, dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock.
dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore W. Noyes.
a dinner.
Mrs. Thomas C. Dawson, a dinner.
Admiral and Mrs. Palmer, din
ner.
Lieut. and Mrs. Henry Holcombe.
dinner.
AIRS. Henry c. Merrill, dinner.
Col. and Mrs. Douglas Sims, 4
dinner.
Women's National Democratic
- League, reception at the Raleigh.
THURSDAY.
Senator and Mrs. Shields, a dinner.
Congressional Club, reception for
the Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall.
Mr. Robert NJ. Thompson, musical.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley. dim
ner.
Mrs. James p. Morton, iupcheon
for Miss Veeder and Miss Harris.
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inaugural Ball.

inaugural Ball.
Washington is to have an inaugural
ball The Washington Club has decided
the momentouS question, and already
preparations are under way for bril-
liant function at the club on Monday
night, March 5. The city at that time
will be filled with strangers. many OF
whom will be friends Of members OF
the club. and the ball Is arranged pri-
marily for their entertainment and to
fill the place taken for a century by
the great bail which concluded the in
augural ceremonies.
The Washington Club, of which Mrs
large organization. having member
ship of over 500 representative women
of Washington society. 1t celebrated
its twenty fifth anniversary about a
year ago. Mrs. Stephen o. Richey. wife
of DR.. Richey and a member Of dis
| tinguished old Washington family. is
it's president 1t has given number
of brilliant entertainments in its club
house, at the corner of K and 18th
! streets, Of which 1t took possession a
few years ago, making a number of al
terations in the building after it had
been purchased.
The house has an interesting history
as a center of hospitality. 1t was oc-
cupied years ago by the late Senator
Stanford of California and Mrs. Stan
ford, princely entertainers of their time.
More recently it was the home of Mr.
Charles Warren Fairbanks and the late
Mrs. Fairbanks during the formers
term as Vice President. It's last ten
nants before the club acquired the
property were the Russian ambassador
and Nine. Bakhmeteff. An additional
entrance and many facilities for enter
tanning were among the improvements
Installed by the club. Among the most
notable of it's recent hospitalities was
the reception given for Mrs. Wilson
shortly after her marriage to the Pres
ident.
The Secretary of state and Mrs
Lansing were the honor guests at
dinner given by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
c. Glover at their residence, in K street,
last evening.
and Mrs. Carl Vrooman entertained at
dinner last evening at their residence
in 18th street in honor of the Secretary
Of War and Mrs. Baker.
The guests included Mr.. Justice John
H. Clarke, Senator and Mrs. Ollie James,
Senator and Mrs. Thomas ]. Walsh, Mr..
and Mrs. George W. Norris, Miss Bones,
Col Francis G. Caffey, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward n. Hurley, Mr.. and Mrs. Leather
bee Of Woods Hole, Mass, and Mrs.
Matthew T. Scott.
The assistant secretary of agriculture
and Mrs. Carl Vrooman have out invita-
tions for a dinner on Saturday evening"
February 3, in compliment to the Post
master General and Mrs. Burleson.
Dinner for Secretary and Mrs. Lane.
The Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Lane were the honor. guests at
a large dinner given by Mr.. and Mrs.
William Riley Wheeler last evening at
the New Willard.
The dinner was served in the red
room and baskets filled with American
beauty roses formed the table deco
ration.
The guests included Senator and
Mrs. Francis E. Warren, Senator and
Mrs. Clarence D. Clark. Senator and
Mrs. Key Pitman, Senator and Mrs.
John r. Shafroth. Senator and Mrs.
James Hamilton Lewis. Senator Dill
linghen, the Secretary OF Agriculture
and Mrs. Houston, Representative and
Mrs. James r. Mann, Representative
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ON THE WEEKS CALENDAR.

:, DR.. and Mrs. Cary Grayson. dinner.
Mrs. Percy Bishop, tea for Mrs.
Ingraham.
FRIDAY.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles D. Walcott,
dinner for the Vice President
and Mrs. Marshall.
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock. a dinner for
the Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Lansing.
Mrs. Hubert Dent, luncheon at the
Rochambeau for Mrs. Thomas r.
Marshall.
Mrs. Tasker H. Bliss. a luncheon
for Mrs. Newton Baker.
Judge and Mrs. Ballou, dinner.
Mrs. Frederick Chaplin, a dinner for
the Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Daniels.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Polk. dinner.
Miss Mary Brown, a dinner.
Senator du Pont, a dinner
Friday evening dancing class at
the Willard.
+ Col. John Donelson Chapter, D. A.
R., entertainment
SATURDAY.
Judge Martin Knapp, a dinner for
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Van De-
vanter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Vrooman, a din
ner for the Postmaster General
and Mrs. Burleson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley, 4
dinner for Mrs. Herbert Shipman.
Mrs. Marshall Field. a dinner and
musical for Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
shall Field.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cleveland Per-
kins, a dinner.
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Hunt Ball for Mardi Gras.

Among those who have taken boxes
for the Mardi Cras ball to be given un-
der the auspices of the Washington
Riding and Hunt Club at the Willard
Tuesday night, February 20, for the
benefit of the Purple Cross. the cross
that helps wounded horses in the war.
are Mr.. William Phelps Emo, Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood, Col. Robert NJ.
Thompson, Mrs. Ira c. Copley. Mrs.
Gibson Fahnestock, Mr.. and Mrs. Larz
Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Epson,
Mrs Edward-E- Walker, Mrs. George T.
Marye, DR.. L. B. T. johnson, Mr. w. q.
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White House Takes Part Weeks Program Of Entertaining
Changes There Recall Innovations of Other Adminstra-
tons-Notabe Gathering Here for Congress-
Constructive Patriotism-Many Entertain ~
ments Being Given for Its Members. ~
VIRGINIA TATNALL PEACOCK

w nth of the win
w luncheon Wednesday and dinner dance Thursday
ing the White House contributed share the total of
last weeks inequalities taking of entertaining than has
regularly Inequalities the winter The
had more personal note and the dinner dance was
guests representing the friends of Miss Margaret Wilson and Miss
Helen Woodrow Bones There fifty for the dinner and more for the
dance which followed in the
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generally commended
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Willard brought
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