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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-08-30
WINTERBOTHAM sells the flour.

Sedgwick County Fair, Sept. 6, 7,
and 8.
Don't read the neighbor's paper.
Let US send you one regularly.
Mrs. F. B. Dupue and daughter
Lucritia of Denver and Geo. Lewis of
Greedy spent Sunday with L. E. Peter
sen and family.
Don't fail to see DIR. Carver's Div
ing Horses and girls at the Sedswick
County Fair.
Ed Harrison left last Monday for
Red Lion, Colo. for visit with his
son, l.. E. Harrison and wife.
LISTEN
Insurance written which applies
from the time grain is in the shock
until sold, at a very reasonable rate.
Inquire of Smelser & Son as
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Perry of
Chappell spent last Sunday with Mrs.
Perry's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Law of this city.
Miss Evelyn Petersen left last Sun
day for Grant, Nebr., where she will
spend the week with Mrs. R. L. Cooper
of that city.
Walter Law returned last Thursday
from Grand Camp, Wyo., where he
! spent week fishing.
Mrs. ]. D. Watson of Johnstown,
New York, who has been visiting with
her sister-in-law, Mrs. D. C. Durkee,
left for her home last Saturday.
Henry Bohn and son Alfred of the
south table were Julesburg visitors
last Saturday.
R. w. Ridgeway and wife, Geo. Vike
! and wife and Mrs. H. F. York of Hax-
tun were Julesburg visitors last Sat
urday. Mr.. Ridgeway had his name
! oprn11a1 n ~o,,, s,,b.orihar 70 h,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Behaved Like Vandals."

August II. In the afternoon l had
a look at the little chateau belonging
to one of the kings secretaries (not at
home). Our men had behaved like
regular vandals. They had looted the
cellar first, and then they had turned
their attention to the bedrooms and
thrown things about all over the place.
They had even made fruitlcSS efforts
to smash the safe open. Everything
was topsy-turvy-magnificent furni.
ture, silk, and even china. That's what
happens when the men are allowed to
rcQuiSitiOn for themselves. l am sure
they must have taken away heap of
useless stuff simply for the pleasure of
lOOting."
August 9th crossed frontier. Inhab-
itants on border very good to us and
give us many things. There is no diff
ference noticeable.
August 23rd, Sunday (between Bir-
nal and Dinant, village of DisOnge).
At IL o'clock the order comes to ad-
vance after the artillery has thorough
up prepared the ground ahead. The
Pioneers and Infantry regiment 17S
We're marching in front of us. Near
q small village the latter were fired on
by the inhabitants. About 22O inhab-
itants were shot and the village was
burnt--artillery is continuously shoot
ing-the village lies in Il large ravine
Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon,
the crossing of the Mas begins near
Dlnant All villages, Chateaux,
and houses are burnt down during this
night. 1t was beautiful sight to see
the fires all round us in the distance.
august 24.-In every village one
finds only heaps of ruins and many
dead" From the diary of Matbern,
Fourth company, Eleventh Jager bat
TALON, Marburg)
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
How Income Tax Was Paid.

War taxes Swelled internal revenue
receipts to $500, 1893, $40, an increase of
more than $296,0OO,00O over totals of
1916, according to the annual report Of
Daniel G. Roper, commissioner Of in
ternal revenue.
Staggering as is this total, however,
1t is less than one-fourth the total of
estimated internal revenue for the cur
rent fiscal year. 1t Is estimated that
$3 400, 100000 will be raised in the year
ending June 80, 1918, $2,5OO,OOO,OOO of
which will come from excess profits
and income taxes.
Illinois led in the production of dis
titled spirits with 79320,617 gallons.
Indiana was second with 43,361 ,276
gallons, and Kentucky third, with &c.
441,77S gallons.
The First and Second New York dis
tricts led in total collections, which in
cuded income-tax returns. The Fifth
Illinois or Peoria district maintained
its lead in production of distilled spir-
it's with 62,230,254 gallons, as COM
pared with 51,6O7,972 for the fiscal
year 1916. This was nearly three times
the production of its nearest cOmpeti-
tor, the Seventh Indiana district.
Some Sources of Taxation.
The sources of internal taxation pro-
ducing the largest amounts of revenue
during the last fiscal year were: Dis
titled spirits and fermented liquors, ex-
elusive Of special taxes, $27S,372, ,7G0; ;
manufactured tobacco, including snuff,
cigars and cigarettes, $102, ,23O, ,205.35; !;
munitions manufacturers tax, $27, $685.
939.63; various special taxes, including
tax on capital stock of corporations,
S23,371, ,310.39; corporation income tax,
SITS. .539, ,G31.03; individual income tax,
$780, 1OS, ,34O.10.
Commissioner Roper recommended
revision of the tax on oleomargarine,
production of which during the twelve
months was the largest in the history
Of this industry.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
ENTER RADIO SERVICE
Thousands Of Amateur Operators
Now in Uncle Sans Navy.
Expansion Of Personnel In Training
Since Opening Of War Has Been
More Than 1000 Per Cent.

Thousands Of young Americans who
before the war had practiced amateur
wireless telegraphy with rudely con-
structed instruments are today enlist
ed In the United States naval cOmmu-
nication service, which is charged with
the duty OF providing means Of COM
munication between all forces under
the jurisdiction Of the navy depart
ment. and controls all radio stations as
well as the navy telegraph and tele-
phone lines.
Since April 80 all radio service in
this country has been controlled by the
director of naval communications, at
tached to the chief of naval opera
tiOnS.
The war revealed what a large num-
ber Of young men were interested In
radio experimentation and service. A
school for the development of men en-
listed in the radio service was opened
at Harvard university, some 400 gradu-
ating each month for duty with the
fleets, on merchant ships, or at other
stations.
The radio service from its inception
was constructed to meet military ends,
and 1t was prepared when war was de-
clared. Every United States ship is In
constant communication with the navy
department at Washington by means
of efficient radio apparatus. The serv-
Ice in the fleet closely co-Ordinates
with the service ashore.
In addition to the war business of
the naval communication service, GER
tain. routine peace services are con-
tinued. These include the signals
which give to ship commanders twice
daily, at noon and at 10 p. M, exact
seventy-fifth meridian time, storm sig
nails, and weather reports, and hydro
graphic bulletins.
On the Atlantic there are three high
powered stations capable of transat-
lantic communication. The service is
mainly directed from the high-powered
station at Radio, Va, near Arlington,
and from the station at Key West.
The station at Sayville, Long island,
is an important high-power station.
There are four high-powered stations
on the Pacific. The station at the
Great Lakes Naval Training station
covers the great lakes service, while
the station at Darien gives service to
the Panama canal zone, ships in the
Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and
alSo'Pacitic waters.
There Is no wireless communication
within the jurisdiction of the United
States government which is not now
directly serving the purposes Of war,
with the exception of a minor radio
service maintained by the forest serv-
ice of the department of agriculture.
The expansion of the personnel in
training in the radio service since the
opening of the war has been more than
1000 per cent.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
KIDNEY SUFFERERS HAVE
FEELING OF SECURITY

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about to
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such medicine is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle of Swamp-Root.
Swamp-Root is sci entifcally compound
ed from vegetable herbs.
1t is not a stimulant and is taken in
teaspoonful doses.
1t is not recommended for everything.
According to verified testimony it 10
natures great helper in relieving and over.
coming kidney, liver and bladder trou-
bles.
A sworn statement of purity is with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root.
If you need medicine, you should have
the best.
If you are already convinced that
Swamp-Root is what you need, you will
find it on sale at all drug stores in bottles
of two sizes, medium and large.
However, if you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Z, for .
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
UNCLE SAM NEEDS FOXGLOvE
Wants Leaves for Manufacture of
DigitaIis, Which Was Imported
From Germany Before War.

Does the foxglove grow wild in your
neighborhood? If so, you can perform
a great service to Uncle Sam by col
lecting its leaves and sending them to
the nearest college Of pharmacy. For
digitalis, the most valuable heart
stimHlant known to medical science, Is
made from them.
Before the war most Of the dlgl-
tails was imported from Germany, and
little from England' the supply from
the former has ceased and the latter
can spare scarcely any, so the council
of national defense Is calling urgently
for the domestic article, which is as
good as the foreign.
Foxglove grows abundantly in many
parts of the country. The first years
growth is a simple rosette of leaves.
The second year the plant sends up a
tall Towering stalk, the upper part of
which is covered with blossoms shaped
like the ends of glove fingers and
ranging in color from pale pinkish vio-
let to purple, the inside of the bell
being pale with dark red spots. One
variety has white blossoms.
The fresh green leaves both from
the basal cluster and the stalk are
gathered and dried indoors, either on
the floor Of warm unused room or on
trays Of burlap or canvas.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
WATCH GERMAN TRADE PLANS
Uncle Sans Experts Are Scrutinizina
Preparations Being Made to Re-
gain Business After War,

German preparations for trade after
the war are being scrutinized care
fully by experts in Uncle Sans bureau
OF foreign and domestic commerce.
Since the war eliminated Germany
from world trade, the United States
has improved its position in foreign
markets In spite Of the shipping short
age and other abnormal restrictive
factors. Department officials point out
that the future prosperity of the coun-
try will depend in part on Germany's
loss of goodwill in practically all for
eign markets and in part upon AmerI-
can ability to maintain our new pres
tige. American business is warned not
to make the mistake of seeing only
one side of this situation and thus
Understanding the German capacity
for foreign trade nor the energy, ap-
plicatlOn, and craft with which Ger
man business will address itself to
the task of regaining favor in markets
in which it once prospered.
In order to understand the signifi-
canoe of the information on German
trade moves that will from time to
time be made public, Secretary Red
field counsels not imitation of, but
familiarity with the German theories
of foreign trade and the artful and
formidable organization that with gov
ernment aid at every turn, has been
built up in Germany during the last
twenty years to dominate the worlds
markets.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
All Male Inhabitants Shot.

"a shell burst near the Eleventh
company, and wounded seven men.
three very severely. AT five o'clock we
were ordered by the officer in COM
mand of the regiment to shoot all the
male inhabitants of Nomeny, because
the population was fOolishly attempt
ing to stay the advance of the German
troops by force of arms. We broke into
the houses, and seized all who resisted,
in order to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which had
not been already destroyed by the
French artillery and our own were set
on fire by us. so that nearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. 1t is ter
rible sight when helpless women and
children, utterly destitute, are herded
together and driven into France"
(From the diary of Private Fischer,
Eighth Bavarian regiment of infantry,
Thirty-third reserve division.)
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Too Many Servants in Britain.

Duncan Miller asked the minister of
national service, says the London
Times, whether his attention has been
called to the number of advertisements
for servants in households of one, two
or three persons, where seven to ten
indoor servants are already kept, and
whether he proposes to limit the num-
Der of indoor servants employed In
each household. The minister of ma
tional service replied that he had al
ready pointed out how essential it is,
in the national interest, that no per-
son should employ more servants than
are absolutely necessary. The min
lister trusts that the awakened con-
sciences of those who have In this
respect failed to appreciate their duty
will provide an immediate and suffi-
cient remedy. If not, he will tell his
plan in the general statement on man
power.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
376 PAY TAX ON
MILLION INCOME
Only Forty-four in This Class
Were Assessed by Uncle
Sam in 1914.
INCREASE OF 332 IN NUMBER
conoressmen Are lnqulring Whether
More Americans Are Amassinu
Great Fortunes Through the
Aid Of the War.

Income-tax figures recently made
public show that Uncle Sam collected
taxes on three times as many $1,000
600 incomes in 1917 as in 1916.
Whether this means more Americans
nre rolling up massive fortunes from
the war or merely that the government
had uncovered" many more big in
comes to tax, is being asked by con-
gressmen.
Income figures in 1914 showed Just
A collections on million-dollar or
greater incomes: in 1915, co; in 1916,
120, and 1917, 376.
While 437,036 persons paid income
taxes last year, previous estimates
set the number as high as 100000. The
number of married men subject to tax
under the old law was 355,107; unmar-
ried men, 47,461; unmarried women,
26,S33, and married women'making re-
turns separate from their husbands,
1885.
How Income Tax Was Paid.
The number reporting incomes fol-
lows:
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Fighting Creed of Uncle
Sans Soldiers of Navy

with the help of God and n
few marines l shall carry out
the departments instructions"
This terse message, variously
accredited to every great naval
commander from John Paul
Jones to George Dewey, finds a
not unimpOrtant place in the
scheme of fndoctrination of U. S.
marines at their training camps.
That n U. S. marine must
never fail in anything he under
takes, that discipline, health
and courage are Indispensable
to his success as marine, and
that the advance always, and
never surrender" idea be upper
most in his mind, night and day,
are a few of the sthings in the
creed Of Uncle Sans soldiers
of the navy.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

For disinfecting or perfuming the
air in rooms an attachment for cleo
trio fans has been inverted in which
liquids descend from tank into u
flag that is waved by the fans
breeZeS.
French cotton mill men have estab-
lished laboratory to determine the
percentage of moisture or any abnor.
NAL drynesS in cotton, that which is
too dry being regarded as defective.
Dayton o., is said to have made
more than $1OO.OO0OOO in war mum.
tions manufacture.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Some Confectionery Fioures.

The confectionery business Of the
country, measured by the value of its
product, is about twO-thirds as large
as the butter business, little less
than one-third as large as the wheat
flour business, Slightly larger than the
canning and preserving of fruits, and
about two-fifths as large as the bakery
business, according to Uncle Sans
figures.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
AS THE WORLD MOVES

Almost automatic in It's operation
Is a child's swing featured by an addi-
tional set Of ropes that an Iowa man
has invented.
Electric control that can be operat-
ed from any desired point features
new gas heater designed to warm sew
eral rooms.
Twin bascule bridges, each section
Of which is operated separately by cleo
trio motors, have been erected over the
ar0 Of a European harbOr.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Hiuh Trees Grew In Greenland.

Lofty trees once grew in Greenland
and nearly all Of the inhospitable
northern lands. Trees Of the same
sorts as are growing today are found
as fossil remains in countries where
the climate is now so harsh that scarce
ly any tree will grow even a few inches
high,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
How Is This?

There are some things l can't un-
derStand."
"What now?"
at is understood that man can't
lift himself by his boOtstraps"
"Well?"
But he can stand in his own light"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
10000 Soldiers to Get Leave.

Camp Sherman, Chillicothe.-Near-
1y 10000 officers and men of the
Eighty-third national army division
here will spend Christmas at home
with relatives and friends. They will
leave Camp Sherman at noon Dec. %
and will not report to camp until the
following Wednesday, the day after
Christmas.
This became known following the
issuance of orders from division head
quarters to every unit in camp that 30
per cent of all officers and men on the
reservation will be allowed to go to
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Lay Trap, Hold Woman.

Springfeld.-Using imitation money
the police laid trap which resulted
in the arrest Of Mrs. Mary Mccartney.
Harmony township, on the charge of
blackmail in the sending Of threat.
ening letter to Mrs. Ivy Cultice, one
of the heirs of Mrs. Clara Mills,
whose will was contested in the su.
preme court.
According to the police Mrs. Cultice
received a letter telling her to leave
$4,000 sc the Ohio Electric station and
if she failed she and her children
would be murdered
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
PRINCIPAL Enemies Of Birds.

The Western New York Conserva-
tlOn association regards the seven prin-
cipal enemies of birds as follows: /,
crow; 2, fox; 8, coyote; 4, swapping
turtle; 8, hawk; Q, blacksnake; Z,
skunk.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
In the night the Inhabitants

In the night the inhabitants
OF Liege became mutlnous. Forty per-
sons were shot and Is houses demOI-
iShed, 10 soldiers shot. The sights here
make you cry.
"On the 23rd of August everything
quiet. The inhabitants have so far
given in. Seventy students were shot,
200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re-
turning to Liege.
august "a. At noon with SO men on
sentry duty. Sentry duty is A l, no post
allocated to me. Our occupation, apart
from bathing, is eating and drinking.
We live like God in Belgium" (FrOm
the diary Of job. van der School, re-
servist of the Tenth company, Thirty
ninth reserve infantry regiment, Sew
enth reserve army CORPSE
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

All clay loans need more lime to
make them more friable and mellow, q
process known to soil specialists as
flocculation. This converts stiff, in
tractable soil into one which is easily
worked at all times.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

wide areas Of Belgium and FraEre IN
which not a penny's worth Of wantOn
destruction had been permitted to oc
cur, in which the ripe pears hung un.
touched upon the garden walls: and
saw other wide areas where scarcely
one stone had been left to stand upon
another; where the fields were raw
aged; where the male villagers had
been shot In squads; where the mlser-
able survivors had been left to den in
holes, like wild beasts"
Even Soldiers Horrlfied.
Some German soldiers, we are glad
to see. showed their horror at the foul
deeds committed In Belgium.
The Inhabitants have fed In the vii
lage. 1t was horrible. There was clOt-
ted blood on all the boards, and what
faces one saw. terrible to behold |. The
dead. 60 in all, were at once buried
Among them were many old women,
some old men, and a half-delivered
woman, awful to see; three children
had clasped each other, and died thus.
The altar and the vaults of the church
are shattered. They had telephone
there to communicate with the enemy.
This morning, September .. all the sur
vivors were expelled, and saw four
little boys carrying a cradle, with
baby five or six months old in 1t, on
two sticks. All this was terrible to
see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt
after thunderbOlt! Everything is given
over to pillage; fowls and the rest all
killed. saw mother, too, with her
two children; one had great wound
on the head and had lost an eye"
(From the diary of Lance Corporal
Paul Spielman Of the Ersatz, first bri-
gade of Infantry of the Guard.)
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

Cleveland.-Ohio dentists, in con-
vention at The Hollenden, formed the
National Preparedness League, for
the purpose of caring for the teeth of
drafted men free of charge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Relief.

Another thing to be thankful fort"
"What's thatT
"All the stores are closed. For one
day there's no chance of being remind
ed that anything has gone up in price"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Prize Blade Of Oats.

Three hundred grains from a single
blade of oats is the record yield re-
Gently exhibited by q Carracastle,
Mayo, farmer.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
Soldier to Be Tried.

hillicothe.--Private W. e. Fielder
johan, Austrian, drafted from New
Bremen, O.. soon will be tried in a mil
itary court on a charge of violating
the ninety-sixth article of war
He is charged with predicting the
central powers will defeat the allies
and that, while home on leave Of
absence. he openly boasted that he
would not fight against his country
men. It is also charged that he free
ly taIled to his neighbors against the
president and refused to shake hands
with q minister
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20
homes over Christmas.

their homes over Christmas.
Requests are already pouring in to
company and regimental officers for
passes for over the holidays and these
will be considered in the order in
which they are made, considering, of
course, the record of the applicant.
Special trains will probably be ar.
ranged.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

Acid Stomach, Heartburn and Nausea
quickly disappear with the use of Wrighta
Indian Vegetable Pills. Send for trial box
to 372 Pearl ST., New York. Adv.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

1t takes brains to get through the
world-also to go round on the out
side.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

About 10000 church bells in Ger
many have been melted for munitions.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

Writing from Belgium In 1916 Irwin
S. Cobb said:
Briefly what saw was this: I saw
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-20

"a horrible bath of blood. The whole
village burnt, the French thrown into
the blazing houses, civilians with the
rest" (From the diary of Private
Hassemer Of the Eighth army corps.)