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The midland journal., 1917-05-04
A Pertinent Warning.

In view Of the danger of being
shot by sentries guarding railroad
property, the Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington Railroad
Company desire to issue particular
warning against the practice Of
trespassing on railroad tracks, and
the use of the railroad right of way
as a public thoroughfare.
Trespassing on the railroad is at
all times most pernicious and
dangerous habit, and with the
country in a state Of war, obviously,
he risk is even greater and more
deadly. "A
The midland journal., 1917-05-04
Perryville Library Association.

A Free Library Association has
been organized in Perryville with
the following officers:-Presldent,
Rev. r. H. Hoover; Vice President
Mrs. Charles Crawford; Secretary
Mrs. Howard Watson; Treasurer
Wilson L. Coudon. The library Will
be open every Tuesday afternoon and
evening at the home of Mrs. Craw-
ford for the distribution of books.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04
broadway Jones" At The Riverside
ThootNn


On next Monday, May 7th, the
management of Riverside Theatre,
Port Deposit, have for their attrac-
ton the great American star George
M. Cohan, in Broadway Jones'"
This photo production is playing the
present week at the Hippodrome
Theatre, Baltimore, as the star
feature. 4
The story tells Of a small town
youth who secures goodly Inherit
ance and journeys to the Great
White Way to burn it up" After
various exciting experiences he finds
that his money has dwindled to
nothing and learns that there arc
many unpaid bills to be met. After
complications involving rich widow
whom he asks to marry, he turns
back to his home town and starts
life anew. taking over his fathers
chewing gum plant where new ex-
periences await him. Sparkling with
continuous series OF humorous
situations. Offset by various dramatic
scenes, this subject under the direc-
tfon Of Joseph Kaufman, presents a
breezy story of rapid action and
human interest. a typical George NJ.
Cohan production.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04
PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST AT
TOME.
High School Boys Entering-Prizcs
Offered Winners.

Acceptances are coming in fast
from the high school boys of the
State who want to enter the second
annual Public Speaking contest, to
be held at The Tome School, Port
Deposit, the evening of May 10th.
The contestants will be met at the
train and if they arrive in time will
be taken to the big Tome Inter
scholastic Meet, which takes place in
the afternoon, and will be otherwise
entertained as guests of the school.
Each school is entitled to one
representative, of high school grade,
whose regular standing is certified
by the principal. Two prizes will be
conferred by the Tome School, the
first SIS and the second SIS, for
accuracy and relevancy of subject
matter and for effectiveness in ar
rangement and presentation. The
following are some of the general
subjects which have been sent out
from which special topic may be
chosen: Should there be Military
Training in our High Schools?;
Summer Training Camps for Boys;
The American Boy; Athletics in our
Public Schools; Military Resources
of the United States; Agricultural
High Schools; Municipal Improve
ment from the Boys Point of View:
Some Strong National Figure.
The judges will be DR.. Murray
Peabody Brush, Dean of Johns Hop
kins University, Charles ]. Koch.
Superintendent of the Baltimore
Schools, and DR.. M. Bates Stephens,
State Superintendent of Education.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04

Eighth District Community Club.
Friday, April 27, The Eighth Dis
trict Community Club began with a
Song Service, Scripture selection by
he President; Prayer by Mr.. Linda
mood; Recitation, The Travelling
Man, by Mr.. Jackson; Recitation,
An Inventors Wife, by Mr.. Gamma.
day; Recitation, Betty and The Bear.
by Arthur Lindamood; Recitation,
How to Receive Visitors, Miss
Lindamood; Recitation, Elocution
Ind Electocution, Miss Riley; Recti-
attn, The Day is Done, Mrs. H. F.
Bullock.
General discussion of advantages
and opportunities offered by The
Club; adjourned.
The Club hopes to have special
program for the next meeting, Fri
lay, May 11th, and it may be neces-
5ary to change the date to suit the
speaker. Notice will be given in
next paper. James 1925.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04
Jesse r.. Williams.

Jesse R. Williams, who had been
making his home for some years
with his sister, Mrs. Stephen Lynch,
North East, died April %, aged 69
years. He is survived by two sisters
and brother. The funeral was
held April 26, with interment. at
HONEYWELL
The midland journal., 1917-05-04
Pentecostal Camp At Copson's Park,

The tenth annual assembly OF the
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
held in Leighton, Pa, has decided
that their District Camp, which has
been held at Twin Oaks, Pa, for a
number of years, be removed to
North East, on account of their lease
on grounds expiring and consolidate
with the Copson's Park Holiness
Association, making this the District
Camp of the Philadelphia, Washing
ton District. They will start at once
to improve grounds and build an
auditorium. Dates for camp, August
23 to September 8.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04

Drawing gasoline from tank in
the barn, with a lighted lantern
near, caused fire at Georgetown
Lancaster county, last week, that de-
stroyed the building and contents,
belonging to H. e. Harsh.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04
Mrs. Edward H. Biddle.

Mrs. Edward II. Biddle, for years
a resident of Earleville, but recently
of near St. Augustine, died April 81,
following an illness of pleurisy
Surviving Mrs. Biddle are her hus-
band, three children, Miss Lille
Biddle, Mrs. Charles Woolleyhan and
Guy r. Biddle; also six grandchil.
dren, one brother and two sisters.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04
DEATHS.
William Moss.

William Moss, aged IS years, died
April 10, at Union Hospital, Elkton,
Of chronic nephritis. He had lived
for long time with DR.. John G
Dennis, Perryville.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04

One way to make the porch com
Portable during the summer months
at a reasonable cost Is to use the
bamboo porch screens as sold at
Bufington's.
The midland journal., 1917-05-04

AS warm weather approaches it is
we'll TO take a look at the Automatic
refrigerators that are on exhibition
at Buflngton's.
Connecticut western news., 1917-12-13
WE ARE HANDLING TODAY THE WONDERFUL LAMPS OF CHRIS MAS
Christmas is Too Good a Time for
 Anyone to Spoil It.

H@ooo gh in pe
  e y y zoe O
Connecticut western news., 1917-12-13

l 1l
Connecticut western news., 1917-12-13

of Christmas SILKS is Ready. Choose Now
 for Gifts
 These are all new goods-they are fine goods, no questionable silks. no job silks, but reliable goods in which we have full confidence and there are plenty.
 Washable Silks Satins Crepe de Chine Failles Crepes Georgette Charmeuse
 Shantung
 Prices Are Moderate Low, consider ing Conditions. r- >... .-.....
Connecticut western news., 1917-12-13
Better Be on the Safe Side and Order Your
 VICTROLA or
 EDISON Outfit Now

Judging by past experience there is likely to be a scarcity of these outfits before the Christmas Holidays. One of these wonderful instruments in your home will bring full joy for the family. We can make satisfactory prices for every purse. Come in this week and let us talk it over with you. Buy Now for Christmas.
 S15.OO to S25O.OO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
SMOKES SCARCE THERE
Drinks Also Will Be Luxury in Dem
mark Under New Tax.

Copenhagen, Sept. Shrinking and
smoking will really be luxuries in
Denmark under the new taxation pro-
gram just introduced in parliament.
This provides for a special tax on
wines equal to the retail price bottle,
exactly doubling the cost to the con-
sumner and almost doubles the tax on
beer making it, according to the presi-
dent of the Brewers league, the high
est in the world.
The measure increases the tax on
cigars, cigarettes and tobacco to from
20 to 33 per cent of the retail price.
1t fixes a special tax of 10 per cent
on all sales of jewelry and precious
stones. The income tax is increased
by 33 to rs per cent. The property
tax on property of the value of fifteen
thousand crowns and upward is vir-
tually doubled.
A rs per cent increase in railroad
passenger and freight rates is pro-
vided.
The minister of finance in introduce
ing the measure said that the govern
ment would not have resorted thereto
if any end of the war were in sight,
but that as conditions are at present
the measure was an imperative neces-
Sity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
ONE IN 4 MINUTES
This Is Time 1t Takes To Build
Army Buildings.
Col. LitteH Pays Tribute to the
Railway Service.

Washington. D. c., Sept. Elm the
construction of cantonments for the
new national army it has been neces-
sary to complete on an average of one
building every four minutes, accord
ing to a statement made today by
Col. I. w. Littell, in charge IF the
work of for the government. Alto
getller sixteen military cities have
been built to house the $4,000 SOL
diers selected for service by the draft
Fifty thousand carloads of ma
terial have been transported to and
delivered at the sites, an enormous
tax upon the already overburdened
railroad facilities of the country"
Colonel Littell said. THE railroads,
however, have given splendid service.
All government orders have had pre-
cedence, and the lumber and other
supplies have been rushed to the can
tonments in record time
A typical layout such as is required
for accommodating the officers and
men at a cantonment comprises in
round numbers fifteen hundred sep
arate buildings, requiring approxi-
mately thirty million feet of lumber,
Colonel Littell said. Each cantonment
requires a complete system of water
supply and sewage disposal, the piping
alone for which amounts to more than
fifty miles. Ten general warehouses
with necessary trackage have also
been provided
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
ROAD TO FRONT
American Engineers Blazing
Way for q. s. Soldiers.
Mammoth System of Roads
From Coast to Battle Zone.
ALL MATERIAL ER0M IL &.
ALL MATERIAL FROM U. S,
Huge SawmilIs Now at Work in
French Forests.
Miles of Highway "Dug In"
Disguised by CamOuflage.

Washington, Sept. 6.-Romance,
mystery and peril blend in the ire
mendous task of 1.-The army ahead of
the army which today is blazing a
trail to the French front for Americas
million men.
It is the job of the engineers; and
it means that every step of the barren
way from French port to French front
must be moderated into an elongated
American city.
First off, they must macadamize the
highway, every foot of it. And over
an area of several miles in the vicinity
of the port and behind the front an
intricate system of perfectly paved
streets and avenues must be built.
Winding in and around both these
terminals the engineers are fashioning
a complicated system of railroads,
both narrow and STANDARD gauge, for
switching, transferring and caring for
troops and supplies.
All Come From United States.
Connecting these two webs is a rib
bon of track para1leling the miles of
paved roads, with branches and spurs
shooting off here and there on both
sides. Every tie, every rail, every
spike, every engine and every car for
this system of railroads is being taken
from this country. Not one bit of
material, not a single man, is being
supplied by France.
Great wooden camp cities are rising
at both ends of this line. Power
houses, permanent repair gang camps,
houses for maintenance of way Off
Gals, water reservoirs will be strung
out along the line and at the terminals.
The lumber for these structures is
being hewn from the forests of France
by regiments of American foresters.
Other regiments are rebuilding and
charging docks and wharves at the
port of arrival and dredging and
opening new approaches in the bay for
the big gray transports.
Miles of Water Mains.
Sawmills carried from America are
springing up in the French forests.
American made well digging machines
dot the line of communication. Elec-
trio light plants are blossoming forth
to supply the trenches, dugouts, store
houses and environments with illumi-
nation.
Miles and miles and miles of water
pipe are being laid. Special regiments
of American miners picked from the
star diggers of every state in the
Union are in charge of the American
system of trenches, saps. transverses
and approaches. Expert companies
of electricians are putting in an intri-
cate system of battlefield illumination,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
LEFT SUPPLIES BEHIND
Italians Recover Huge Stores-Turn
Austrian Guns on Fleeing Foe.

Udine Sept. 6.-It is impossible
thus far to give even an approximate
idea of tie immense quantities of
booty which has fallen into the hands
of the Italians since the beginning of
their advance. The materials cap
which the Austrains fled all along
the line of attack. On the Bainsizza
plateau near Santo Spirito and Laska
whole conveys of arms and munitions
were abandoned in such haste that
there was no time to destroy them.
At one point thousands of boxes of
projectiles, hand grenades rockets,
shoes, rifles and helmets were strewn
everywhere. Some of the caverns
are still packed with Austrian dead
lying one on another. The bodies are
being buried gradually
Mule paths and the adjacent side
hills are Uttered with unexploded pro-
jectiles which the fugitives threw
away, together with daggers, swords
and reconstructed maces used for dis
patching the wounded. On Hill $50
the Italians captured three los mill
imeter cannon. Two of them were
perfectly serviceable and the Italians
turned them on the fleeing enemy,
firing 1000 shots. In an armored
dugout near Ravena the Italians dis
covered the entire equipment of an
Austrian staff of brigade.
The extraordinary variety of objects
found testified to the haste of the
retreat. 1t included electric lights,
official documents, toilet articles,
kitchen utensils, ventilators and even
love letters. Ravena was the Aus
trian center of supplies for engineer
troops and nearby were found stores
of picks, shovels, hoes and wire cut
tiers, entire outfits of electric equip
ments, miles of steel rails and innum-
cradle rolls of barbed wire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
DISTILLERIES QUIT
500 Close Down Friday on Or
der by Uncle Sam.
5000 WOrkmen Out-SOme To
Make Alcohol for q. s.

Washington, Sept. 6.-When totter-
ing Demon Rum tossed up the sponge
at IL O'Clock Friday night about 500
distilleries and at least 5000 men will
quit their business
The law will permit production of
spirits for non-beverage purposes and
for the fertilization of sweet wine, but
experts believe that only a few distil-
leries can adjust their machinery to
turn out the high proof" alcohol
needed for industrial and medicinal
uses.
During the fiscal year ended June
80, 1915, SAT distilleries were regis
tered and 635 operated thruout the
country. These are the latest figures
available. The most recent census of
manufacturers shows that $3.50 wage
earners worked in distilleries. 1t is
estimated that this total has since in
creased one-third.
Kentucky with 202 registered distiI-
leries and California with 165 will be
the states hardest hit by the new law.
Pennsylvania has IS; Ohio, IA;
Missouri and Maryland, % each, and
New York 20.
Distilled spirits yielded the United
States treasury in the last fiscal year
$192,111, 31S.
Rumors have it that orders have
been placed by distilleries for 10000
bushels of corn a day to meet the de-
mand for alcohol. The United States
government is now on the market for
about 100000 gallons of alcohol.
Contracts will be awarded shortly. All
distiIlers have placed in bids for the
business.
Fifty cent corn, year from today,
is predicted by distillers and grain
men familiar with the situation. They
claim that the 1ateness of the crop will
cause millions of bushels of soft corn
to be thrown on the market, which
will be unfit for feed and which has
always been acquired by distillers in
whisky making.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
'DEFUNCT BUT FAMOUS
Reunion of Students of Salinas One
Time University.

Salina, Kan, Sept 6.-Former stu
dents of the Salina Normal university
will hold their annual reunion at Sa
lima on October and 5. Altho this
famous Salina school was destroyed
by fire a dozen years ago, that disaster
never blighted the friendships and
lifelong comradeships of the student
body which foregathered in its halls
and claSsroomS when that institution
was the leading school of the western
half of the state. The students have
an excellent organization altho the
membership is now scattered around
the globe, and those who can do so
meet once a year much like ordinary
college alumni-with this exception:
the S. n. U. alumni register is COM
plete.
1t can never be enlarged Like the
Grand Army of the Republic, when
it's present membership dies off it can
have no successor. When the college
building at the west end of Iron ave-
nue. in Salina went up in smoke in
1904, the school disbanded forever.
But it did a noble work for the sons
and daughters f western Kansas for
twenty years. Many of the leading
men and women of the western half
of the state in business, in politics
and in the learned professions, were
educated in Salinas "defuLct but IA
nous old school.
An efficient local committee in Sa
lima is maintained, a good program is
being prepared, and all former stu
dents and their families are urged to
attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06

including searchlights, trench lights.
apparatus and great piles
of star bombs and rifle grenades.
Concealed From Enemy.
But none of this complicated system
of communication and approach must
be visible to the enemy. 1t must all
be dug in, buried or concealed by
camouflage. The highways must be
neutralized in color to blend with the
landscape. The railroad tracks must
not glisten.
All buildings must be half buried
in the ground and the above ground
portion disguised with bushes and
shrubs and neutral colorings until they
are invisible.
This is where the American artist
does his bit. A number of well known
American masters of color-combina-
tons are employed to precede the en-
gineers and study out the problems
of obscuring our operations, our troops
and artillery and our lines of COM
munication from the enemy. The
actual work will be done by American
sign painters and soldiers trained in
the craft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
First Quota of Soldiers Regis
tering In for Training.
Camp at Fort Riley Second
Largest in United States.
men FROM SEVEN STATES
OF First Quota There-2,326-
Kansas Furnishes 322.
To Drill 40 Hours a Week, With
Two Afternoons OFF.

Camp Funston, Kan, Sept G.
From the city and the farm. from the
desk and the profession, young men
between the ages of 81 and 81 inclu-
stve began to arrive at Camp Funston,
the national army cantonmenJ, on
september 5, to begin a course OF
training which will fit them to be SOL
diers in the new national army which
Is to fight for world democracy
The youth from the farm mingled
with the young man from the city
The poor and the rich were repre-
sented- Here was democracy gather
ing to be trained to fight democracy's
battles
The first per cent of Camp Funs-
tons quota of 46,51S men, or 2326
men, was expected to report during
the five-day period allowed by the
were to come from Kansas homes.
The others will come from Missouri,
Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado,
Arizona and New Mexico.
City for $4,000 Soldiers
When the men arrived at Camp
Funston, their eyes fell upon a city
OF wooden buildings, city for so, 900
persons. To the south of the camp
runs the Kansas river while to the
north are the grass-covered hills,
with here and there out-croppings of
sharp, white stone. From these hills
OF the Kansas river, stretching far
to the east and south.
Altho the last men of the first 5
per cent are not expected TO reach
here before the last of the week, as
some come from considerable dis
tances, it was the plan of the officials
in charge to start training at once.
The plan is to drill the men forty
hours a week, with Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons off for recrea-
ton, as is the program at the other
environments in the country. The men
who are backward in taking up the
military instruction will have to give
up their two afternoons of recreation
in order to catch up.
Between 500 and 900 Buildings.
There are between 500 and 900
buildings in Camp Funston proper,
which is the second largest in the
country. When the first five per cent
of the camps quota began arriving,
their quarters were completed and
waiting for them. Enough barracks
to house a complete army division
were completed last week. Quarters
for the officers also have been COM
pleted and the new officers, commits
stoned at the close of the Fort Riley
training camp, have moved into them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
LITTLE RAIN In WEEK
Plenty of Sunshine for All Needs in
Kansas Is Report

The report of weather and crop con-
ditions in Kansas for the week ending
September 4, as issued by the Section
Center of the weather bureau in To-
peka today, follows:
Corn continues to improve in prac-
tieally all parts, but the week was
somewhat too cool for satisfactory de-
velopment, and indications now are
that the bulk of it will not be safe
from frost before October l. A con-
siderable part of il has passed the
roasting ear stage and is hardening
and denting, but great deal is just
silking. Complaint of poor pollina-
ton is received from macy parts of
the state.
Grain sorghums made an excellent
growth during the week, but as in the
case of corn, their devel oIment has
not been as rapid as desired and in
the north-central and northwestern
counties, where they are now heading,
1t is doubtful whether they will ma
ture before frost.
Pastures are generally in prime
condition. except in few counties in
the northwest, where they are turning
brown from lack of rain. The fourth
cutting of alfalfa has begun in the
south-centra1 counties and will soon
be ready in the northeastern. In the
north-centraI counties alfalfa is in
poor condition. Reports indicate that
in the eastern and south-central coun-
ties the last cutting will be heavier
than the first.
Fall blowing has made excellent
progress in all parts, with the ground
in fine condition. In the eastern and
central parts it is almost finished, but
SO far seeding has not begun.
Apples and fall gardens are grow
ing satisfactorily. Picking Jonathans
and Grimes Golden apples will begin
in the Arkansas Valley inside of two
weeks.
Sugar beets have DEVELOPED rapidly.
Over the Country.
Washington, D. c., Sept 5-The
rainfall in the past week was general
and well distributed in the corn states.
Temperatures, however, have been too
low and corn has been maturing slow
ly, being in need of warm sunshiny
weather. The most of the crop will
be safe from frost in South Dakota in
two weeks, in Iowa from September
80 to October Is, in Missouri in three
weeks, in Kansas about October L,
and in Southern Pennsylvania within
about 10 days. There has been some
frost damage in Northern Minnesota
The harvesting and the threshing of
grain has progressed well except that
showers in the central portion.
The rainfall has improved the soil
conditions for blowing in the central
districts but it is too dry in the North
west. Showers have improved the
meadows, pastures, late truck crops
and late fruits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-06
FARM AGENT is BUSY
A. d. F'olker Answers Average of Is
Personal Calls Daily.

A. D. Folker. newly appointed agri-
cultural agent in Shawnee county, re-
ports IL to Is personal and telephone
calls as the daily average. Many of
these are requests for farm visits so
that personal help may be given by
the county agent.
The range of subjects covered by
the inquiries is large, including the
federal farm loan act, alfalfa seed,
seeded preparation, harvesting of
beans, Kanred wheat building plans,
boys and girls club work, shipment
of alfalfa hay and potatoes. salt as a
fertilizer, sale of hogs, feeding ration
for beef steers, classification of cattle,
breeding and management of ewes,
wheat soil maps and extension school
petitions