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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-12-07

Mrs. Horace Field and little son
Bassford will return on Tuesday
from Charleston, S. c., Where they
have been visiting Mr. Field. Z
Mrs. Matte Northen and he1
daughter, Miss Ruth Northen, of At
lanta, spent Thanksgiving with Mrs
A. S. Clay and Mrs. Roberts Everett,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Barnes are ex-
pecting their son, Mr.. Bella Barnes,
and his little son, Bella, to come from
Charlotte, N. c., to spend Christmas,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sessions en-
tertained Misses india Harrison, Mary
Bradford and Lula McMichael at
Thanksgiving dinner.
Misses Ethel and Lillian Thomp-
son, of Calhoun, have gone to Allan
ia after visiting their aunt Mrs. Geo.
Hammett.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. White had two
soldiers and Mr.. and Mrs. George
White to dine with them on Thanks
giving day.
Mr.. Frank Minis and Mr.. John
Maner, of Gordon Institute, spent
Thanksgiving with Mrs. Frank Minis
and Mrs. Groves.
Miss Daisy White made the NAL
tese cross insignia of the league that
was used at the recent program of
the Epworth League.
Misses Marie and Helen Dumas
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. c..
Dumas in Atlanta last week and went
to hear John Mccormack sing.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. D. Hodges, Mr..
and Mrs. Len Baldwin and Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. j. Daniel went to hear Billy
Sunday when he preached to the
Shriners.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. M. Cox and chill
dren, of Blakely, will come up to
spend Christmas with their mother,
Mrs. L. McVicker and Mr.. and Mrs.
]. B. Cox.
Miss Virginia Gibbes will be trans
ferred from Camp Sewer to Fort Nc
Pherson, which is pleasant news to
her many friends here. Her mother
is spending the winter in Atlanta.
Prayer meeting for the soldiers will
be held on Friday afternoon at Mrs.
Davenport's, Mrs. T. w. Reads and
Mrs. Mills McNeels by ladies from
all the churches.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Dobbs guests
on Thanksgiving day were Mrs. A. E.
Davenport, DR.. and Mrs. Stewart
Roberts and their brothers Messrs.
Cliff and Max Dobbs.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-12-07

Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth Campbell
were presented on Thanksgiving da!
with two families of Duroc-Jerse!
pigs, Is in all, which is quite val
liable addition to their live stock.
Miss Margaret Kirby is now s
saleslady for Mr. Stringer in the bool
store and will be successful in that
capacity, as she is both dignified anc
of very attractive personality.
Mrs. Corley and Miss Pauline Cor
ley have returned from College Park
where they attended the wedding OF
Mr., Clifton Corley and Miss Bessie
Smith on Tuesday of last week.
Friends of Mrs. John Fields are
glad to know she is in better health
than she has been for many years
and is knitting heavy wooden socks
for soldiers to wear in the trenches.
The Marietta High School will APP
preciate books of reference especially
and if you have any volumes you do
not need, just send them over to Prof
Dumas for the use of the school chill
dren.
A window fell on one of little Hell
en- Wards hands Tuesday afternoon
and ring on her finger was driven
into the flesh but the doctor who
dressed the injury says no bones
were broken.
Mr.. o. N. Worley has accepted a
good position in the Fourth National
Bank in Atlanta, and will be succeed
ed at Benson Brothers by Mr.. L. A.
Adams, who has been a mail carrier
for some time.
Mrs. Walter H. Smith has come to
spend some time with her uncle, Mr..
H. C. Dobbs while her husband, Col.
Smith, is in Texas. If he is sent to
France Mrs. Smith will be at home
here until he returns.
Mr.. R. E. Butler has bought the
house on Lawrence street opposite
Mrs. York's and will prepare it for
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Butler, who in
tend to move back from Cedartown
to Marietta to live.
Mrs. E. l. Welsh had three soldiers
to dine with her last Sunday, one
from Alabama, one from Massachu-
and one from Pennsylvania, and
and with her son Mr.. Stanley Welsh
they formed a most congenial party
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hague shar-
ed their Thanksgiving turkey with
six soldiers. Mrs. Hague has six
brothers in the British army one of
whom recently went to France from
this country although he was born in
England
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-12-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Meinert have
returned home after months visit
to Florida.
Miss Mollie Seize is at home after
spending two months delightfully."- in
Savannah.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Coursen have
moved to their winter home in Win
ter Park, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mountcastle have
taken Mrs. Murray Hawkins house
on Cherokee street.
Miss Harriet Maddox is at home
from Greer, S. c., to spend the rest
of the winter.
Mr.. Judson Stanley is recuperating
from his recent illness at his home in
Lawrencevulle.
Miss Jennie May McElroy, of
Lawrenceville, spent the weekend
with Miss Pauline Corley.
Mrs. N. A. Mayes, Mrs. Alice
Brown and Mrs. Tom Handy spent
Wednesday in Atlanta.
Make Your Selection OF Dolls
At Sans Drug Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Roberts spent
Sunday with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Roberts.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Terrell have
gone to San Antonio, Texas, where
Mr.. Terrell is with the signal cops.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Thornton
spent Thanksgiving here with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Thorn
ton.
Mrs. ]. B. Cox has returned from
Nashville, Tenn, where she attended
the funeral of her father Mr.. G. R.
Nash.
Mr.. David Comfort, the Marietta
Journals new editor, and his son,
David Jr., are at the Kennesaw
House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett Kincaid,
who recently returned from Montan-
a, have gone to house keeping on
Cherokee street.
Miss Jennie Butler spent Thanks
giving holidays at home and she and
Miss Hazel Butler went to hear John
Mccormack sing.
Among the young men who went
to Atlanta to see the football game
last Saturday were Winthrop, Daven-
port and Elliott Brown.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-12-07
LPEIRRS 0NALS

Miss Clara Thornton is visiting in
Nashville, Tenn.
MIR. Gus Grogan is i'll at the home
of Judge and Mrs. Gam.
Mrs. F. K. Pratt, of Atlanta, spent
last Friday in town with friends.
Mrs. Cliff King, of Dublin, is visit
ING her father, Mr.. J. A. Massey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Abbott have
moved back to Marietta to live.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bunting spent
thanksgiving with Mrs. Paul Leake.
Mrs Holland fell one day recently
and severely sprained her right arm.
Miss Georgia Hunt spent Thanks
giving with her father in the coun-
try.
Mr.. Wellborn Reynolds visited
Miss Mary Reynolds in Atlanta last
week.
Mr.. Ed Williams, of Atlanta, spent
Sunday with his friend, Mr.. Herbert
Nell.
Mrs. M. R. Lyon spent Thanks
giving day with DR.. and Mrs. Rem
bert Smith.
Miss Georgia Warner is i'll with a
severe cold at her home on Whit
lock Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Hardin are in
Knoxville, Tenn, visiting their sister,
Ms. Goodman.
Mr.. DeLonghey expects his wife to
Join him here soon coming from Oak
land, CAL
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Smith have
moved into their new home on the
car line.
Mrs. Hattie Nash spent her holiday
last week with Mr.. and Mrs. Rex
Ruff.
The new thrift stamps are now for
sale at the postoffice. Ask about
them.
Miss Augusta Groves spent Thanks
giving in Atlanta with Mrs. w. J.
Miner
Corporal George Hardeman, of
Camp Wheeler, spent the weekend
at home
Mr.. Orrie Daniel ha come to
spend Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs.
George Daniel.
Mr.. Frank Thornton, with his
friend, Mr.. Noel, spent the week end
at home.
Make Your Selection Of Dolls
at Sans Drug Store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
RAISE FARM LOAN RATE
Federal Board Announces 1t Will Be
5H Per Cent Hereafter.

Washington, Dec. 10--The federal
farm loan board today announced an
increase in interest rates to farmers
from five to five and one-hah per
cent.
new arrangement probably will be
concluded within a few days under
which former loan bonds bearing "
per cent interest will be sold by the
federal land banks at a premium less
than the l Is per cent now charged.
Most sales also will be made by the
banks themselves instead of by bond
agents. who have disposed of nearly
threefourths of the SIS, 900, 900 bonds
issued under the farm loan act. The
agreement with-the bond dealers ex-
pired on December l but has never
been renewed
The reasons given by the farm loan
board for this change is that the large
sale of liberty bonds and certificates
of Indebtedness by the government has
made increasingly difficult to sell u
per cent farm loan bonds at 1O1 Is
making the return only about "A per
cent. The increase in interest rate to
farmers will not affect loans already
approved by the farm loan banks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
BERNSTORFF SON WEEDS
German Count Marries American Wo-
man, Says Berlin Newspapers.

Berlin. Dec. S-Via London.-The
marriage here today of Count Chris
tan Gunther Won Bernstorff, son of
the former ambassador to the United
States, and Mrs. Marguerite Vivian
Burton Thomson of Burlington, N. j.,
is reported by the Berlin newspapers.
Former Husband a German Too.
philadelphia, Dec. 10.-Mrs Won
Bernstorff is about thirty-five years
old and is described as handsome She
is the adopted daughter of E. ].
Thomason of Burlington, N. j. Mr.
Thomson is secretary of a fire in
surance company in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Won Bernstorff. whose maiden
name was Burton was born in Amer
lea Mr.. Thomson adopted her
when she was seven She was mar
ried in England to Count Won Rodeck
of Germany, a number of years ago.
and was divorced, according to her
friends. She went to Berlin about six
years ago to make her home and came
back to Burlington on a visit four
years ago, then returned to Germany
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
WOMAN in PLOT?
Is Arrested in Connection With
Keet Baby Kidnapping.
Two Anonymous Letters Be-
lieved Implicated Her.

Springfield, Mo-, Dec. 10.-The re-
ceipt of two anonymous letters which
led Prosecuting Attorney Paul O'Day
to go to Independence Mo, early last
week to make, an investigation, has
resulted in the arrest of Mrs. Ida
Farmer, 3S years old, in connection
with the probe of the kidnapping of
Baby Lloyd Keet. b
The arrest of the woman was eff
fected last Wednesday, but has been
kept secret by the authorities. She is
being held without bail.
Prosecutor O'Day refuses to discuss
the latest turn in the kidnapping case,
beyond saying that the detention OF
Mrs. Farmer is regarded as of great
Importance.
Mrs Farmer, who lives in Spring
field was taken into custody soon att
er her return from Independence and
pendence investigating the tip given
him in the letters received from there.
Mystery surrounds the activities of
Prosecutor O'Day and Sheriff Ward
Mackey of Webster county since the
conviction of Claude Piersol as one of
the kidnapers. Recently Sheriff
Mackey took Piersol on an automo-
bile trip and it is understood they
spent an entire day going over the
route that ]. Holland Keet drove the
night he was to deliver the $4,000
ransom to the kidnapers.
Sheriff Webb of Green county left
last night for Philadelphia to return
Edgar B. Sandt, alias Reilley,. wanted
here on a warrant charging him with
completely in the plot to abduct c. A.
Clement, a Springfield jeweler.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
WESTERN KAN. HAPPY
Snow Is Worth Millions to Wheat
L. j. Pettijohn Asserts.

Recent SHOWS have made western
Kansas shiver, but they are the sal
walton of the wheat crop, according
to L. ]. Pettijohn, prominent Dodge
state legislature from Ford county.
Moisture from the recent SHOWS will
be of untold value to wheat growers,
Pettijohn told state officials.
THE blanket of snow over western
Kansas wheat fields can hardly be
estimated in dollars and cents" said
Pettijohn. 1T may mean the saliva
ton of the nine and a half million
acre crop. With adequate moisture
in the future, the present snow will
ers and the new crop will do much in
helping the United States win the war
Just now western Kansas is talk
ing war. Business men have laid
aside their personal affairs and are
giving their time, money and ener-
gies to the various war activities 1t
means a heavy drain on the energies
and resources of the people, but the
support is being given in a whole
hearted manner"
Pettijohn was for a number of years
receiver of the land office at Dodge
City He is one of the pioneers of
the short grass country and was one
of the strong members of the house
of representatives during the 1915 leg
islative session. During the last few
months Pettijohn has been active
leader in war activities in Ford<coun-
ty. His only son is now with the
Kansas ammunition train in France
Sometime ago Pettijohn told his
friends he would be a candidate for
the Republican nomination for secre-
tary of state in 1918.
with this war on our hands, said
Pettijohh today there is mighty lit
tie thought of politics and candidates.
We must win the war and talk politics
later"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
CURTAIL PASSENGER
SERVICE 10 MILLION
TRAIN MILES A YEAR

Chicago. Dec 10.-The railroads of
the fifteen states comprising the CEN
trail military departmental have made a
reduction in passenger service st the
rate of 1861 1896 train miles
year, since the United States entered
the war, according to figures made
public today by the railroads war
board.
This reduction has effected a yearly
saving of 1,176.OS5 tons of coal, $50
locomotives. 2o9.SSs barrels of oil and
1,941 men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
Round Up Both Men and Women
in Disaster Probe.
Surviving Officers and Men of
Steamers Also Are Held.
CANADA GIVES S1,OOO,OOO
Dominion Premier Especially
Thanks United States.
Stricken City Is Now Practical
Iy Under Martial Law.

Halifax, n. s, Dec. 10.-An German
citizens of Halifax are being arrested
today. They were ordered taken into
custody regardless of sex.
Sixteen Germans were taken in Gus
tody within a short time. Military Of
ficers after an inquiry released Few
of them. The others are in the county
jail.
The authorities refused to disclose
whether they had obtained evidence
associating Germans with the explo-
sion. A number of citizens of Ger
man birth heretofore have been al
lowed full liberty with the exception
that they were required to report once
a month.
The surviving officers and crews of
the steamers Mont Blanc and limo
which collided, resulting in the ter
rifle explosion, have also-b been ordered
arrested.
4 Rescuer- were working in a down
pour of rain today and every indica-
ton is that the death toll may be in
creased over the estimate of two thou
sand, rather than decreased.
Premie~ Sir Robert Borden today
announced cancellation of his political
epga gements. He will devote his en-
tire time to the relief of Halifax
The premier announced that the
ated 100000 for immediate relief
work. Borden thanked the people of
the United states for aid that had
been rendered in a statement issued
today.
Thanks to United States.
THE people of Canada are pro-
foundry grateful for the generous
sympathy of the people of the United
States in the terrible disaster which
has oveTtaken the city of Halifax and
they most deeply appreciate the splen-
did aid which has been offered and
sent from so many communities of our
great kindred nation" his statement
said
Bodies have been brought to the
general morgue in blocks of fifty and
a hundred at a time. Some are being
gradually identified.
With a warm rain slowly turning
the snow white streets into rivers of
slush and debris, sailors, soldiers and
civilians today were still laboring in
the city of dead as dawn broke.
The city is practically under martial
law. The night was spent in a howl
ing gale that followed the blizzard of
Saturday. With it came a rain that
increased suffering as tents fell and
the wet cold was driven thru i'm
provised shelters.
Tents Proved Inadequate.
Hundreds who had found shelter in
tents were turned into the open again
as a fifty-mile gale crushed the i'm
provised quarters.
Relief units from Massa chusetts and
Maine, which have arrived, have been
assigned quarters and working heroic
ally. Bellevue, formerly the residence
of the British general commanding the
Halifax garrison before Canada took
over the defense of the dominion. has
been handed over to the Massachusetts
Red Cross. One hundred and fifty
patients can be cared for there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
JERUSALEM is

Continued from Page one.l
dictory character of the official state
ments, but in December 1916, the
British stormed Ell Arish and a few
days later severely defeated the Turks
at Maghdabah, about 60 miles to the
south of the same front Two weeks
later the invaders had been driven out
of Egypt and the British forces crossed
the border into Palestine.
Holy Land Invasion.
There had been no hint from either
official or unofficial sources as to a
British intention to undertake a def
mite invasion of the Holy Land and
it was with intense surprise that the
world learned on March T. last, that
the British forces had captured Ell
Khulil, Is miles south of Jerusalem
The campaign lapsed into stagnancy
thru the heated period, but was ac-
lively renewed with the setting in
of cooler weather last fall
Early in November the British ac-
tivity resulted in the capture of
Beersheba, forty miles south of
Jerusalem. simultaneously a coastal
column became active. By November
the city of GAIA was in their hands,
and the British were pursuing the
Turks northward after having in
flicted casualties estimated as in ex-
cess of 10000.
By this time the British inland
forces were again up in the neighbor-
hood of Hebron, where the Turks
were reported organizing for the de-
Tense of Jerusalem. General AIlenby,
the British commander. meanwhile
kept his forces. near the coast il rapid
motion and pushed on to Jaffa, the
port of Jerusalem. in mid November.
By November % the British had
pushed within five miles of Jerusalem
on the northwest and on December Z
General Allenby announced that he
had definitely possession of Hebron
Jerusalem thus was virtually cut off
on all sides but the east. Few details
have come thru since that date but
the encircling movement must have
rapidity, eliminating in the surrender
of the city.
Has Sentimental Aspect.
I In sentimental and romantic aspect
the capture of Jerusalem far exceeds
even the fall of fable crowned Bag
dad. The modern city of Jerusalem
contains about $4,000 inhabitants and
is the home of pestilence, filth and
fevers, but in historic interest it nat
nrally surpaSses, to the Christian
world, all other places in the world.
Since the days when Joshua wrested
it from the hands of Jebusites, to
make it the capital of the Jewish race
Jerusalem has been the priced key of
half the races of the world It has
passed successfully into the hands of
the Assyrians. Babylonians. Greeks.
Romans, Persians. Arbas, Turks, the
motley crowds of the Crusaders, final
" to fall before the descendants of
that Richard the Lion-Hearted, who
strove in vain for its possession more
than seven hundred years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
BOOSTS UNIONS!.
Consumption of Labor Not Yet
Necessary, Says Sec'y Wilson.
SAYS Antagonism to Organiza-
lions Cause of Labor Unrest.

washington, Dec. 10.-Labor con-
scription to prevent interference with
war work is regarded as unnecessary
by Secretary of Labor Wilson in his
annual report sent to congress today.
Noting a sudden and enormous in
crease" in the number of LABOR dis
putes with the beginning of the war,
the secretary blames most labor law
Iessness on employers who permit or
ganization by their workmen only on
the pain of dismissal. Secretary Will
son endorsed labor unions. But should
labor CONSUMPTION finally become
necessary, he declared in favor of
making such workers government en-
ployes rather than compelling them
to work for private profit"
by simple and fair systems of col
lective bargaining between the gov
eminent, labor organizations and bust
ness organiZa tons" said Secretary
Wilson, "all disputes prejudicial to an
effective prosecution of the war can
be promptly eliminated"
Urges Maternity Awards.
Mothers in industry received special
mention, the secretary favoring pen
sions and allowances rather than
permit the increased infant mortality
which follows employment of nursing
mothers away from their infants
Recommendation were renewed for
old age pensions for government en-
ployees and colonization land grants
for soldiers and wage earners in gem
eral."
Secretary Wilson praised the new
immigration law, containing the lit
eracy tests, as IAN eminently satisfac-
tory law, destined to be of great bene-
fit to the country"
The tests showed IA per cent ilIit-
eracy. Total immigration was 60 s77
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
COSSACkS STRIKE

Continued from Page One)
front and collecting his forces. thus
menacing Ekaterinoslav, Kharkov and
Moscow General Korniloff, who fled
from prison, has arrived at his slde,
Korniloff who in July introduced the
death penalty and conducted a cam
paign against the revolutionary power
in Petrograd. ----
I'm Orenburg General Dutoff has
arrested the executive and the mill
armed the soldiers and is endeavor-
ing to capture Tcheliabinsk in order
to cut off the supply of bread from
Siberia to the front and the towns.
General Karauloff is attacking
Tchechenrev and Ingusher in the eau
casus.
The constitutional democrats are
the political leaders of this rising and
the bourgeois is supplying scores of
millions to the counter revolutionary
generals The bourgeois central COM
nittee of the Ukrainian republic,
which is waging struggle against the
Ukrainian workmen's and soldiers
councils, is assisting General Kaledines
in drawing troops to the Don region
and hinderinG the workmen's and SOL
diers' councils from disturbing the
necessary military forces th-uout the
Ukraine for the suppression of the
Kaledines rebellion.
''The constitutional democrats, the
worst enemies of the people, who to-
gether with the capitalists of all coun-
tries prepared the present world war,
are hoping that as members of the
constituent assembly they may be able
to come to the assistance of their gen.
erals, the Klledines, the Korniloffs
and the Dutoffs, in order to strangle
tie people with their aid.
THE proclamation then makes an
appeal to the people to sweep away
these enemies of their cause and an
nOunces that the necessary military
dispositions have been made to sup
press the uprising. 1t concludes with
the following decree:
Declare Military Law
"One-Declaring a state of siege
in all the regions of the Ural and Don
provinces and wherever counter revo-
lutionary attachments are discovered
''Two-Orders to local revolution
airy garrisons to act with all firm
ness against the enemies of the people
without waiting for orders from the
supreme authorities.
Three - Forbidding negotiations
with or attempts at mediation with
the leaders of the revolt.
'Four-Threatening the most severe
punishment for any assistance given
the revolt BY local populations or
railway employees.
'Five-Outlawing leaders of the
conspiracy.
''Six-Promising fraternal support
to every Cossack laborer to cast off
the yoke of The Kaledines, the Korni
lofts and the Dutoffs.'''