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Putnam patriot., 1917-12-07

Private Leon Guerin writes as fol- lows from Fort Sheridan, Il.;
 "Dear Patriot: A few lines to thank you for your good paper that l receive every Sunday. l always read all that is going on around dear old Putnam. Tell all the boys 1 am getting along fine and as today Is Thanksgiving day we don't have to drill. We had ride in the forenoon with the cannon of tho field artillery and in the afternoon rode horseback for about ten miles. We had nice dinner today and quite number of visitors, who were welcome. We had enough to eat for all. There are 2SO soldiers in this battery and there were about 100 visitors. For dinner we had roast turkey and cram berry sauce, ham and apple sauce, green peas, celery, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, pies and cakes of nll kinds, fruit, nuts, candy, cigars and good as you could get in the best | hotels.
 We expect to leave for somewhere | in the South before long. 1 see by the | paper that the Putnam people helped | the Y. NJ. C. A. It is fine thing and the soldiers best hang out. We like to write ana read so l thank those that helped the ' NJ. C, A" The following is sent in from Chick amaugun Park, Ga.:
 | "l nm sending you the sentiment of | the volunteer army, otherwise known as the "DouRh Boys" am Put nam boy and a volunteer and wish lhe people to know that 1 am glad 10 De q regular. You cu publish this Il you wish and l can assure you that other Putnam regulars, especially at Chick. amaugua Park, will appreciate it,"
 Only Volunteer | Why didn't 1 wait to be drafted; l And be led to the train by band; | Or put in a claim for exemption? l Why did l hold up my hand? 1 Why didn't l wait for the banquet, Why didn't l wait to be cheered, | For the drafted men get all the credit 1 While l only volunteered.
 And nobody gave me banquet; l Nobody said kind word; The puff of the engine, the grind of | the wheels,
 Was all the good by that heard.
 Then oil to the training camp hustled
 To be trained the next half year, | And in the shuttle forgotten
 For l was only volunteer | And perhaps some day in the future, | When my little boy sits on my knee
 And asks what l did in the great war As his wondering eyes look at me,
 l will have to look back into those eye'
 That at me so trustingly peer. | And tell him that l wasn't drafted - 1 That l was only volunteer.
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-07
RECIPES THAT
 TAKE NO SUGAR
Farm Bureau Shows Housewives How to
 Get Along Without Sweets
Sugar Cards Are Now Being Issued by
 GrOcers

The food administration in October stated that "the threatened sugar fnmine makes 1t imperative that indi viduals and families begin to conserve sugar at once. Since then the situ ation has become very serious. In many towns only one pound week is sold to family; in iothers merchants are giving sugar cards to insure an equal distribution of this valuable commodity.
 Many housewives are now prepar- ing for the Christmas holidays, and it Is quite problem this year. But we can have good things to eat and still be patriotic. The following recipes for fruit cake require no sugar and the amount of flour has been reduced.
 Dried Fruit Cake ? cups dried apples, peaches or any
 kind dried fruit cups Orleans molasses 1 , cup shortening
 eggs
 
 flour for stiff batter
 l teaspoon soda
 I cup seeded rni>ins
 1 teaspoon nutmeg
 l teaspoon ground cinnamon teaspoon ground cloves juice of lemon
 Soak the fruit over night. Then chop very fine and simmer in the saucepan with the molasses for two hours and IA half. Let il cool. Add beaten yolks of eggs to shortening and beat until light. Add the milk, then the fruit and molasses. Beat hard for five minutes. Now add enough flour for stiff batter and soda dissolved in a tablespoon Of hot water. Mix we'll. Then add the flour, raisins and spices and beat vigorously. Add the juice of lemon and finally the whites beaten to stiff froth. The batter must be stiff but elastic enough to drop from spoon. Bake in moderate oven two hours.
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-07

lH Men s Leather Slippers. Sl.25 to s2. so i Mems Genuine Indian Moceasins, SIPS to E.. so M Men s Felt Slippers, zoe to S2 so ii Men s Travelling Slippers, S2.oo gI Mems Slumber Socks. soc in Mems Stetson, Wake and Ground
 Gripper Shoes, S5.oo to si2oo lH Ladies Felt Slippers, all colors,
 I1 SI.3s to sl.5 5o g Ladies Felt Fur Trimmed Juliets, MI Sr.3s to ST so 5 Children s Felt Slippers, S5c to SI. so gI Men s and Boys Storm Shoes, 5 to 7.oo m Mems Black Felt Slippers 9oe
Putnam patriot., 1917-12-07

Here is a letter from Maurice Me Intyre, son Of Major and Mrs. A. D. Melntvre:
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
The larch In Labrador,

The soil and atmosphere are so cold and dry in Labrador that scarcely any vegetation thrives at all. The larch is species of pine tree which Is found in all northern countries. but it.; growth is so stunted in Labrador that a specimen found on the most southern part of that dreary land was but nine inches in height and the trunk was but three-eighths of inch in diameter. A careful examination of the miniature tree revealed it's age to be at least thir- ty-two years, for there were that num- Der of ring growths shown in its small trunk. The very cold currents pouring down from the north and the fact that Labrador has less sunshine than Alas ka. together with several inland cli- matic conditions, make the summer seasons shorter and colder than are those of Alaska.-Exchange.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
BUILDING A BOOK.
Cases Where the Ending Was Written
 Before the Beginning.

There has been more than one in- stance fin the history of literature of 8 book being written upside down-that Is. Its end becoming its beginning or it's beginning becoming it's end.
 Probably the most outstanding in stance Of the tOpsy turvydom Is "The Idylls of the King" Tennyson's great masterpiece. As every poetry lover knows. this great series of poems ends with 'The Passing of Arthur" and there can be no doubt that this is the proper and inevitable close of the woIl- derful pageant of the kings life. But TennysOn wrote that closing passage when he was youth of twenty, and it was not until, forty years later. the whole series was finished and pub lished in one book that the old poem of his boyhood was found to fit into it's place as naturally as the broken arm or foot of classical statue fits the place from which 1t has been removed. Thus the first became last.
 A case of double change is presented by the novel David Harum." The first part Of that book to be written Iy the author constitutes now chapters 1I to 21 that is. aluiost the last chapters in the book. Then. when the author had practically finished his book. he found that two of his main characters were not introduced to the reader at all until he was halfway through the work. He therefore wrote last of all the two Orening chapters for the eX- press purpose of Introducing these tive essential personages to the reader. This is probably record case of topsy turvy uthOrShip.-PearsOn's Weekly.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
FOOD ENOUGH IF
 .1LL IMPORTS PREVENTED

WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 10. - The United States is amply able tC feed herself, even if all imports oI foodstuffs should be cut off, the De partment of Agriculture announced Saturday.
 The statement, prepared by Assis tant Secretary Vrooman, follows: We produce, in round figures 23.- 900, 100000 pounds of meat, and wt import less than 100,000,000 pounds or less than one-half of l per cent. the bulk of which comes from Argentina Australia and Canada.
 We produce here slightly owe: 2,O0O, 100000 pounds of sugar, and we import over 5,50O,O0O,00O pounds from Cuba.
 We purchase about 7,500,0OO,0OO gallons of milk, importing about S1,- 500, ,OOO worth mostly condensed nilk from the Netherlands and Canada.
 We produce close to 2,00O,O00.0OO pounds of butter; we import less than 100000 pounds, chiefly from Den- mark and Canada.
 Other figures on production and i'm ports also were given to substantiate the statement.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
REPUBLICAN LIQUOR
 QUESTION MEETING

LOUISVILLE, Ky. March 10.--A movement has been started by mem- bers of the Republican State Central Committee to secure a meeting of the committee some time in February for bthe purpose of calling State conven- tion in June, in order to permit the party in the State to define it's posi- tion on the liquor question. There arc 13 members of the committee and it is said to be practically certain that eight of them will vote for the State convention and that all of the eight with many other party men of in fiuence. will favor straight out de- claration for Statewide prohibition when the convention meets.
 A. T. Hert, manager of the Repcb- lican western campaign headquarters. has already declared for State con- vention to instruct Republican mem- bers of the legislature to be elected this fall, and Mir. Hert states that he favors not only the submission of a Statewide amendment but also it's ratification. D. A. J. A. Alexander head of the Democratic Forward League, has called a meeting of the executive committee of that body for Louisville this week to perfect plans for county organizations, which are expected to obtain the nomination of Democratic candidates for the Legis- lature who are known to favor the submission of the Statewide aL.end- ment to the people.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
NATURALIZATION OF
 AUSTRIANS AND GERMANS

WASHINGTON D. C., Mar. 1O.-- Nine hundred men and women of Teu- tonic birth have made application for naturalization papers in St. Louis since Feb 8, when the diplomatic break with Germany was announced. Of this number $50 were natives of Germany, and the remainder natives of Austria Hungary. In Philadelphia first papers for naturalization have been granted since Feb. 3, to AZ! applicants, of whom 316 were Ger mans or Austro- Hungarians.
 In Pittsburg naturalization papers were given 395 foreigners at the Fed eral Building last week of which about 50 per cent of the applicants were Hungarians and Austrians and 35 per cent Germans. More than 90 natives of Germany and Austria have made application for naturalization papers in San Francisco since Feb 5.
 Approximately 120 Teutons declar- ed intentions to become citizens dur ing last week. in Cincinnati, about 75 per cent of whom were Germans. Many would-be declarants were de- nied papers because the supply had been exhausted. More than 100 prac- ticaIly all of Teuton birth, applied for the first papers during last week in Milwaukee.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
DAILY OO|NGS 0F
 DISTRICT COURT

During the morning session of the District Court judgment was entered in the case of Treat, Smith & Arch;- bald vs. H. E. Ellis, pursuant to man. date of the Appellate Court.
 In the new action of Treat. Smith and Archibald vs. H. F. Ellis, a mo- tion to quash the service of summons was denied.
 The court then adjourned until o'clock this afternoon, but shortly after II o'clock the court was again convened to receive a report of the grand jury. following wlich adjourn ment was taken until this afternoon
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
ALLEGED PLAN FOR
 \ RUSSIAN REPuBLIC

PETROGRAD, March 1O.-Eleven members of the WOrkmen's group ot the Central Military Industrial Com mittee of Petrograd have beer arrest ed on charge of belonging to revo- lutionary parties and fomenting a tabor movement which had the. niti- mate aim of transforming Russia into 9 social democratic republic. Four other persons have also been arrested charged with efforts to carry out in structions issued by the group for organizing mass meeting of workmen to commit eXcesses.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
ELECTlNG A PRESIDENT.
Power of Congress to Deal With Flee.
 torai College Returns.

The electoral commission established the precedent that congress should not seek to go behind certificates regularly submitted by recognized state govern- ments. That principle Is also emDOd- fed in the Edmunds law of 1887, which defined and enlarged the power of COIL gross to deal with electoral college re. turns.
 This act directs that if any state shall have provided by law before the selection of electors for the final deter imitation of contests regarding their appointment the states decision shall be final unless the regularity of the states action is questioned by both houses of congress.
 If two or more returns are received these rules govern:
 First.-If the state shall have deter mined that the votes forwarded in one of the returns were given regularly those votes shall be counted.
 Second.-.If two authorities, each claiming regularity, shall both have de- termined that the different sets of voters were regularly cast then con gress must decide which set shall be accepted.
 Third.-If the state shall have made no determination, then congress shall be free to determine. But if the houses cannot agree the votes Of those electors whose appointment is certified by the governor shall be counted.
 The general purport of the act is to recognize the right of congress to dc. eide all disputed questions in regard to the counting of electoral votes whicl, the state has not decided or has de. cided irregularly.-New York Tribune.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
SLIGHT BLAZE CALLS
 OUT FIRE DEPARTMENT

Shortly after g o'clock last evening the fire department was called out by an alarm sent in from the residence of Fred Kraemer of Hobart street The department responded promptly hut found their services unnecessary, the flames having been extinguished. The blaze was caused by an electric iron becoming overloaded and setting fire to the cloth on an ironing board. No damage was done.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
A. M. DIERINGER Valdez Transfer
 Company Office on Alaska Avenue, in George C. Treat Building
 Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE,
 STORAGE, Tearning of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un.
 less Paid for in Advance
Ordinance No. 90.

OO1nanCe No. S9. An Ordinance to Repeal Certain Sec tions of Ordinance No. 33 of the Town of Valdez, Entitled. An or dinance Repeating Ordinance Num- Der Thirty and Providing for Pub lie Pound for Stray and Vicious Dogs" Etc.
 Be It Ordained by the Common Coun- cil of the Town of Valdez as Col lows:
 Section 1. That all of sections numbered 8, 4 and of Ordinance No. 33, of the Town of Valdez. Alaska. entitled An Ordinance Repeating Ordinance numbered Thirty and pre- viding for a public pound and for stray and vicious dogs" etc. be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved March 6, 1917.
 JAMES H. PATTERSON, (SeaD Mayor.
 W. M. MEALS,
 k15 Clerk.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
Durable.

"I want a slogan" said the manu- facturer of photograph records. ''some- thing that will convey the idea that our records never wear out"
 The advertising man lit fresh ciga- rette and thought for eight seconds by the clock.
 Flow will this dO?" he asked. "One of our dance records will Outlast the best hardwood dancing floors ever built"-New York World
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
Raw Food Must Bs Washed.

'Gritting of sand between the teeth while eating vegetables raw is a cer, tain sign that they have been cleaned improperly. if at all,' says the New York Medical Journal and adds that because of improper washing it is of ten not safe to eat raw vegetables. sal ads or fruits.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
Never Aoain.

Docs your wife ever make you ex. change goods she buys and doesn't like?"
 "She tried that once, and only once I exchanged silk dress for a meer- schaum pipe" Louisville Courier. Journal
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

FOUND-Tea, the subscription price of the Modern Priscilla will 3e advanced to $125 on March 25. Save money by subscribing now. Mrs. l.. A. Deputy, representative. k-l2
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
Scared Him Into 1t.

Youn" Wilow-Did you have any trouble getting Jack to propose? Girl Friend-No. dear: l told him you wer. after Boston Transcript.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
THE TnRICE-A-WEEk EDITION
 OF THE NEW YORK WORLD
IN 1917
IN 1917 Practically a Daily at the Price of Weekly. No Other Newspa- per in the World gives so much at so low a price.

The value and need of a newspaper in the household was never greater than at the present time. The great war in Europe is now halfway into it's third year, and whether peace be at hand or afar off the events to fol low will be world shaking. The Prospector Publishing Company offers the Thrice a Week World, The Daily Prospector and The Weekly Miner, one year for only $13.00 cash | in advance. You get 1856 copies of the World, 313 copies of the Prospec- tor and 52 copies of the Miner for this price. Can you afford to be without them.
 The Thrice-a-Week World,
 The Daily Prospector.
 The Weekly Miner,
 ALL FOR $13.OO PER YEAR The Prospector and the Weekly Miner are the only papers published at Valdez, and are replete with local and world news. The Miner makes 8 speciality of Territorial News in cen densed form. The World is too well known to our readers to dilate upon its field of usefulness.
 SEND IN YOUR ORDER NOW.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
French Buy American Horses.

ST. LOUIS. Mo.-European coun- tries have resumed the purchase of American horses, the latest French or der. announced Monday, being for 20, 900 animals.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

We have fresh line of Augustine kyer box candies at the Candy Kitch- en. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
4 Lone Sieee.

After siege of twenty-four years Turkey took Candid from Venice in lGG9
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

Furnished rooms at Mrs Osland's Prices reasonable.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

The best of everything in box Chocolates at the Candy Kitchen If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

Anything Tn nugget and ivory jew elry at Valdez Drug Go.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

Complete line of Bulk Chocolates. Candy Kitchen. u
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

Location notices, both quartz and placer, at the Miner office.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10
LOCAL BREVITIES

A new stock of Al Fruit Tablets. Candy Kitchen. u
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

CITY EXPRESS, Phone S2: ready to transfe. t..aL baggage for you. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-03-10

Fresh candy at the Emporium.
Evening star., 1917-04-11

ing, was present at yesterdays confer
ence and urged that much larger ap-
preparation for the purpose be request
ed Immediately by the administration.
Evening star., 1917-04-11
WELL EQUIPPED OFFICERS =,
GREAT NEED OF WAR ARMY
Instructions to Civilians Who Are
Desirous of Fitting Themselves
for Commissions.

The great need of the war army to
be raised will be properly equipped Off
GERS. and to aid in meeting the demand
the War Department has decided to
adopt the Plattsburg idea on a nation
wide scale. Arrangements for the
camps for training officers already are
being made and civilians desirous OF
fitting themselves for commissions in
the Officers Reserve Corps may apply to
departmental commanders for assign
ment to them. The number of camps
to be set up will depend on the number
of applications received.
A course of three months of vigorous
training will be given the prospective
officers. who will be organized into
companies or larger units and go
through all the drills and exercises Of
enlisted men. supplemented by lecture
courses as to the duties of officers. The
qualities displayed by men undergoing
this training will determine whether
they are suited to army life and also
the rank in the reserve corps which
they are qualified to hold Commissions
will be issued at the conclusion of the
training period to those accepted, who
will be assigned to units of the resu-
'. r army, National Guard or the first
contingent of troops to be raised under
the draft plan.
The scheme is designed particularly
to meet the situation of civilians who
have had no military experience and
who are too old to enter the second
lieutenant grade of the reserve corps,
but are otherwise qualified by educa-
ton and capacity to become officers.
Evening star., 1917-04-11
SUFFICIENT FUND RAISED
FOR WASHINGTON WARD
Money Enough to Support Section in
Neuilly-Paris Hospital
Also at Hand.

Not only has money sufficient to es-
tabllsh and to maintain for six months
a Washington ward in the American
Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly Paris
been secured. but of the sum necessary
to maintain the ward for an additional
SIX months s1.1S6.37 is already in hand.
The Star is serving as the repository
of this additional fund, as it did of the
original which was needed to place
Washington among the cities repre-
sented.
The Star has now on hand $366.37,
and Mrs. Laurence V. Benet of Paris.
who is actively interested in the work
of the institution which is proving so
extremely useful in caring for the
wounded soldiers of France, has writ
ten that she has received $500. The
latest subscribers to increase Mrs. Be
nets portion of the fund are Mr.. and
Mrs. Persifer Gibbon
The first $4,000 is in bank in this city
pending the process of turning it over
by cable to the hospital at Paris. in
which process there has been slight
unavoidable delay. Two more Ameri-
can cities have been added to the list
Evening star., 1917-04-11
TO ESTABLISH
HALF-M|LE ZONES HERE
Federal and District Officials Co.
0perating-No Hardships on
Alien Enemies.

Federal and District officials are CO.
operating In the matter of establishing
half-mile zones about the navy yard,
Washington and marine barracks, the
munitions plant of the Washington
Steel and Ordnance Company and the
Naval Observatory. in order to- make
the provision of the Presidents proc
lamation concerning alien enemies ef-
feCtive. United States Attorney Las
key and United States Marshal Splain
have been directed by the Department
of Justice to take the steps necessary
to establish the half-mile limit. and
other details of the plan will be work ed
out later.
The two federal officials have com
municated with the District Commits
sloners and Maj. Pullman, who Will CO.
operate with them in an effort to have
a physical survey of the several areas
made. The survey probably will be
made under the personal direction of
surveyor Hazen.
Evening star., 1917-04-11
ARMY NOW ENLISTING
MEN FORTY YEARS OLD
Age Limit Raised for Recruits to
Regular Service Under
Existing Law.

The War Department has suspended
| the regulation limiting new enlistment
in the regular army to men not more
than thirty-five years of age. This was
made possible by the war declaration
against Germany. Under existing law
men not more than forty-fve years OF
age could be accepted. but to conform
to the administrations army bill the
maximum age has now been set at
forty years.
The present authorized strength OF
the regulars will soon be reached at the
present rate of enlistment Including
all combatant and non-combatan l
troops and unassigned recruits, TINS
would mean a total of 13S,0oo enllSted
men. Until the President SO directs, the
regiments cannot be brought up to
war strength or additional regiments
be organized. 1t is apparent that the
administration is not inclined to take
this step until Congress has acted on
the new army bill
An exception viii be made in the case
of regiments of negro troops. however
some of which already are over the
he filled from waiting lists to full war
time strength. Recruiting for other
regiments will also be prosecuted Wig
orously. it is indicated. as the process
OF assembling, equlpplng ana ASST SnlhS
recruits takes some time and 1t IS eX-
pected Congress will have acted be-
fore any considerable number in eN-
cess of authorized strength may be
ready to join their regiments.
The question of supplies for the in
creasing numbers of recruits. both for
the regulars and National Guard, is a
difficult one, and has been compll-
Gated by failure of deficiency and regu-
lar appropriation bills in the last Con-
gress. Plenty of money will be pro-
vided in the near future. but because
of the unusual demands upon skilled
labor it has been difficult to get quick
deliveries and it may be sixty days be-
fore the great volume of deliveries
begins.