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The Jasper news., 1917-02-15
BLUE AND BETHEL.
Miss EDNA YATES.

MISS EDNA YATES.
Mrs. Lee Mitchell spent Wednesday
with Mrs. Frank earns.
Daisy Livingston spent Thursday
and Thursday night with Mrs. f. 7.
Cotton.
VIM. Atkinson sawed wood for Frank
Baston and Jake Lampert Wednesday
and Thursday.
John Hagen and family spent Sun
day with John Shoots and family of
Minden.
Mrs. Henry White and children are
visiting at the Budd home.
Lee Mitchelland family spent Sun
day afternoon with Harris Coleman
and family.
A number of friends gathered at Cot.
tons Thursday night and enjoyed
themselves playing Rock and other
games.
Mrs. Lee Mitchell and son Vern, Mrs.
John Hagen and children, Mrs. Clyde
Wagner and children, Mrs. Will Wood
and daughter Gladys and Daisy Living
ston spent Tuesday with Mrs. John
Yates and daughters Emma and Edna.
Fred Mitchell and family visited
Sunday with Vivian Costly and family.
Mrs. g. +. Brous is visiting friends
and relatives in Pittsburg.
Landon Dayringer and family spent
Friday night and Saturday with Mar
shall Smith and family.
Mrs. John Lucas and Jessie Lucas
visited Thursday and Friday with Mrs.
Silas Watkins, near I<enoma.
MIS-. f. p. Cotton spent Friday with
Mrs. John Yates.
Mrs. Houston Cline spent last week
with her daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Kelt.
ner.
There was a Rock party at the Budd
home Wednesday night. A large
crowd was present and all enjoyed the
evening.
Mrs. Claude Budd spent Saturday
with Mrs. John Pfander.
Mrs. Henry Pugh, Mrs. VIM. Mevi.
us and Mrs. Alice Keltner attended the
funeral of Mary Butler of Jasper Sun
day.
MIR. Wood and wife spent Friday
with &. Crusa and wife.
Grandma Garrett is spending few
days with Lesby Garrett aud family.
Walt. McPeak and family visited
Sunday Mt the Budd home.
Mrs. +. p. Cotton called on Mrs
VIM. Atkinson Wednesday afternoon
Marshall Smith and family spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Ian
don Dayringer and family.
| Gay Mann and wife are spending ;
few days with c. Crusa and family.
Daisy Livingston spent Sunday
night and Monday with George Lilly
and family.
Friends sympathize with C. L. Liv
ingston and wife of Carthage in the los
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15
DEWEY.
Mrs. MAY MATTHEWS.

Mrs. MAY MATTHEW'S.
The young folks tell their secrets now
On dainty valentine,
Just like the young folks used to do
In the days of "Auld Lang Syne."
tanned Sunday Will Flowers and wife,
Andrew Gresham and family, Miss
Helen Frost and Miss I4ora Keener.
G. ID. Wood and family of Lakeside
are spending few day at AleXander's
Rev. l.. l.. Pinnell and wife were
entertained at Mrs. Kincaid's Sunday.
Miss Mary Butler, who was buried
Sunday at Salem, formerly lived on
the Matthews place in Dewey.
Mrs. Vernon Matthews and little son
Paul left Thursday for visit to Phila-
delphia with her aunt and uncle.
Arch Rice and family spent Sunday
with Joe Rice in Jasper.
Tom Brock attended church Sunday
for the first time in months, and we
were all glad to see him out once more.
Clarence Simmons was helping Mr..
Martin and Arch Rice saw wood when
a log fell on his foot and made a pain
full bruise. He was unable to walk for
four days.
The literary was well attended Sat
urday night. Fertilization will be dis
cussed next Saturday night.
Miss Courtney of Carterville is visit
ing her aunt, and they all visited east
of Carthage Sunday.
Mrs. Ferguson has been very sick
with tonsilitis.
Lester Carter and wife have added q
new name TO the Dewey directory
Miss Ellen Marie Carter, weight
pounds.
Mrs. Busbys new daughter is en-
rolled-Dorothy Allene Busby.
Ralph Berry moved to his new farm
on the road south of Carytown.
Our new mail carrier was getting &C
quainted with his patrons last week.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15
DIAMOND.
Mrs. CHARLES ELTING.

Mrs. CHARLES ELTING.
Mr.. Lunt came home for few days
This week.
J. +. Guliclz and family and John
Pfander and wife were Joplin visitors
Thursday.
Mrs. Chas. Fitting spent Tuesday
with Mrs. Thomas Edwards.
klrs. John Pfander spent Friday after
noon with Mrs. Link Milton.
Mrs. Guy Chapman and babies and
Mrs. Elting took dinner with Mrs
Mitchell Thursday. George Morgan
and wife and daughters called there in
the evening.
Several young folks of our neighbor-
hood attended party at Clyde Wag-
ner's Saturday night.
Warren Pfander and wife came back
to Missouri Thursday to make their
future home. They like Arkansas al
right but like Missouri better.
Allie York, who has been quite poor
y, is much improved.
Beatrice Mitchell who has been stay
ing with her grandparents in Lamar.
returned home Thursday.
Thomas Edwards and Chas. Citing
have been getting up their summer
wood the past week.
Guy Chapman was Lamar visitor
Thursday.
Weare sorry to know Will Bcrryhill's
condition is not much improved.
Relatives of Mrs. Wilson received
word that she is in very poor condition.
Fred AIoser and wife entertained
.iohn Pfander and wife, George Moser
and wife and Charley Hane and wife
sunday.
Mrs. Thomas Edwards spent several
days with home folks. Her brother,
Harry Patterson, who is here visiting
from Iowa, came home with her and
stayed several day.
saturday a number of ladies gathered
md gave John Pfander genuine
house-warming. A quilt was put in
he frame and was almost completed.
1t noon IL fine dinner was served that
certainly did not look like living was
aigh. The following were present:
Alesdames Jay Bradford, Roy Ross,
Geo. Moser, Link. Milton, Fred NIoser,
Chas. Fitting, Claud Budd, Z. Pfander,
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15
ROUTE s NEWS.
Miss NEDA SUNDERLAND.


Clarence Simmons met with an ac-
cident Tuesday while saving wood
when log dropped on his foot. He
couldn't use his food for several days.
Mrs. Mccall spent Tuesday afternoon
with Mrs. Baker.
Mrs. Norris Crumm's horse ran away
with her Wednesday and threw her
and katherine out and gave them sew
eral bruises.
Norris Crumm, Jake Sunderland and
Will Baker made business trip to
Carthage Monday.
A large skating party was out on
Dry Fork Monday night.
Sales are the main thing on the line
for the men now.
Lonnie Strecker and wife were visit
ing in Liberal from Thursday till Sun
day.
Jake Sunderland and family spent
Sunday at Emery Tiller's.
Messrs Don Johnston and Phillip
Campbell and Misses Lucy and Bes-
sic Strecker and Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders
motored to Carthage Friday night to
the ball game.
Lewis Hartley and family spent Sun
day at Mr. Conroy's.
Emery and Roy Tiller took some
mules to Carthage Friday.
Miss Lora keener spent Sunday with
Miss Alice Templin.
Elbert Baker killed mad dog Sat-
urday.
Loren Bishop and wife spent Sunday
evening at Norris Crumm's.
Frank Keener sawed wood for Robert
Wright Friday;
Miss Fay Brulfett spent Saturday
night with Neda Sunderland.
There will be an oyster supper at Lo-
rem Bishops store Thursday night
Everybody invited.
Grandpa Sunderland has been on
| the sick list the past week.
| Will and Ed lsenmann and Neda
Sunderland and Anna lsermann went
to Carthage Saturday TO see Will La
mey.
Chas. Keener sawed wood for Jake
Bruifett Thursday.
Marion and Everett Bruifett and
families spent Thursday at Jake Bruf
fett's.
Misses Marie Owings and Alice Temp
lin spent Tuesday afternoon with Lori
keener.
Mrs. Emery Tiller spent Thursday Il
Jake Sunderland's
John Campbell Hand Jake Sunderland
went to Carthage Thursday.
Alfred Baker was out OF school Thurs
day and Friday on account of sickness
Dye Sunderland and wife spen
Thursday afternoon at Jake Sunder
lands.
Miss Burnett spent Wednesday after
noon with Mines. Campbell and San
ders.
Mrs. Walker Hub bard and Mrs. Os
car Follmer spent Saturday ut Ben
Johnson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roydan Seidner spen
Sunday at Mr.. Cochran's.
Chas. Keener and wife went to Car
thaage Sunday afternoon to see Eide
Grissom.
Miss Edith Iieener spent severa
days last week at her brothers, Der
keener.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15

Huffman, Lula and Homer Dixon and
Will Mc' une spent Thursday with
Chas. Wescott and family
Mrs. Elmer Pugh, northeast of JAS
per, visited Mrs Henderson and daugh-
ter Violet Tuesday.
Mrs. l.. A. Wagner and children
spent the latter part of the week with
relatives near Diamond.
f. w. Wescott and wife we're after
noon visitors at the home of VIM.
Huffman Sunday.
Chas. Wood and family called on
Mrs. Weltha Coss Saturday. Mrs.
Coss is very ill.,
Roy Wagner took dinner with Char
ley Cline Sunday.
Henry Myers spent the day at j. j.
McConnell's Sunday.
Misses Edna Shriver and Floy Rudy
were Jasper visitors Tuesday.
n. NJ. Dixon and family visited G..
w. Wescott and family Sunday.
John Green visited relatives in Neck
City Sunday.
Frank Zaerr spent several days last
week with his parents near Maple
Grove.
John Coval, Carl Wood, Earl and
Jennings Henderson, Robert Mckee
and Homer Dixon were skating on
North Fork Sunday.
John Turpin and family spent Sun
day at the home of Jim Turpin of
Preston.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15

of their infant daughter who died Sat
urday. 1t was buried at Waters Gem
etery Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Elmer Pugh and Mrs. Walt.
McPeak visited Tuesday with Mrs.
Fred Pugh.
A. Beeson and wife called at Henry
Pugh's Sunday afternoon.
G. Crusa and wife and Gay Mann
and wife visited Monday with Mr..
Wood and wife.
a few of the neighbors gathered at
Atkinson's Saturday night and played
Rock.
Carrie and Helen Keltner and
Wealthy Wood visited Sunday at Hen
ry Pugh's.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15
Winter brings Colds to Children

A child rarely goes through the
whole winter without cold, and every
mother should have reliable remedy
handy. Fever, sore throat tight chest
and croupy coughs are sure symptoms.
a dose of DR.. Bells Pine Tar Honey
will loosen the phlegm, relieve the con-
gested lungs and stop the cough. Its
antiseptic pine balsams heal and soothe.
For Group, whooping cough and chronic
bronchial troubles try Or. Bells Pine
Tar Honey. At III. F. Pitts, 25c.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15
JASPER, ROUTE Z.
Miss LULA DIXON.

Mrs. II. O. Crutcher and Richard
Wrightsel spent Wednesday at w. b.
Millions.
Miss Marie Stockton from near Neck
City spent last week with Mrs. Elva
Green.
Otto Coss of Montana is visiting rel
atives and friends on this route.
Kermit and Raymond Wescott visit
ed t,lvis Wescott Saturday.
Mrs. Frances Pace visited Mrs. Will
McCune Friday.
+. w, WescOtt and wife, Mrs. VIM.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15

ed from Saturday until Monday with
their cousin, Miss Elsie kaufman.
Mrs. Dora Pennington returned home
Monday with their cousin, Miss Elsie
Kaufman.
Miss Dora Pennington returned
home Monday after Il weeks visit with
her niece, Mrs. Allen Buerge.
Miss Hattie lilly of Boston called at
w. S. Pennington's Monday.
Fred Campbell called on II. T..
Conner Wednesday evening.
Ben Bell and wife, Tom Bell and
wife, Mrs. Hickman, Mrs. Mari and
and Adam Malone and wife were call
ers at VIM. Thompson's Friday.
Harry Bunnell was a Golden City
visitor Sunday.
Frank kilIy and wife and Mrs. Muir
ray and little daugher ate Sunday din
ner with j. T.. Hull and wife.
II. T.. Conner and family visited L.
III. Brown and wife Sunday.
w. $. Pennington returned home
Tuesday after visit OF two weeks in
Douglas County.
Walter Pennington left Monday
morning for Duenweg.
lake Kaderly and wife called at
Frank killy's Monday.
Mrs. w. =. Pennington spent last
week with her daughter, Mrs. Allen
! Buerge and took care of her new grand
son. Mr.. Pennington and daughters,
Jessie and Vera, and Mrs. Dora Pen
nington visited there Sunday.
Mrs. Minnie Malone and children
spent Monday afternoon with Mrs.
Kaufman and daughter Elsie.
Miss Helen Hickman called on Mrs.
Thompson Sunday morning.
Harry Bunnel made business trip
to Eldorado the first of the week
Theo. Mitchell called on l.. II. Brown
Monday.
Fred Campbell balcd hay for EIarve
Coiner last week.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15

Warren Pfander, +. Gulici, L. Wat
son and Sam parkerson, Misses Gladys
Bradford, Frances GuliclS, Beulah
Wood, Master Walter NIosley Ray
mond Bradford and Gilbert Moser.
The Jasper news., 1917-02-15

The News will he Sl.jp year after
March |. All renewals and new sub
scriptions received before that time will
be credited at the old rate of Sl.0O Il
NGnr.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-02-02

they're coming into this house with
all sorts Of makeup on?"
That's exactly what I've been try
ing to make you see for the last four
days!" was Manley's reply. "And it's
exactly what that man Da Espares has
been maneuvering for, or 1 lose my
one last bet! And if this man Legar
is still alive, all we've been doing is
putting a strip of red carpet down for
him to walk in on"
"Wel1, I'll be at the other end Of
that carpet waiting for him!" was the
old fighters thunderous retort.
That's exactly what I want you to
do, what l ask you to do. That's our
one chance, If what I suspect proves
to be the case! You can disguise
faces, in an affair like this tonight,
but you can't disguise lost hand"
Golden stood slowly shaking his
head up and down in comprehension.
"And If our Iron Claw is there,
Davy, Wen give him welcome that
he's going to remember"
Two hours later, as Enoch Golden
stood with his daughter at his side
receiving their guests, 1t would have
taken a particular penetrating eye to
detect any darker undercurrent of in
trigue to that ripping tide Of colcr
and mirth which eddied about them.
So punctilious was Golden in his hearty
hand-grasp to each of those incoming
visitors, that Margery herself made
note Of this newer phase in her IA
theirs character.
Side by side with Flemish nun
walked a Paris Apache, then came a
Montenegro peasant and a flowing
robed Oriental Swami, then a red
sashed pirate and velvet clad Vene-
tian Doge. Then, following q man on
Filters" who laughingly proclaimed
himself to be Hully Gee, the Chinese
Giant, came an equally tall figure in a
gold-braided Arabian burnoose. This
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-02-02

and shouldered his way through to
the side of the girl even as Legar
reached for her shrinking body. He
struck blindly at that outstretched
arm, struck still again at Legar's face,
at the same moment that Manley's car
shuddered to a stop and the armed
men from its tonneau leaped into the
fight.
It was brief fight, but a bitter One,
and much of it escaped Manley's at
tention. The one thing that held him
transfxed was the sudden vision of
Da Espares lodging through the iron
Orders in sudden pursuit of Legar, as
the latter, breaking free from his enc
mics, ran to the opposite side of the
bridge. There, seeing retreat on Ell
Their quarter already cut off, that mas
ter criminal nimbly mounted the iron
railing and gave one glance towards
the water below him. Yet, az he poised
there, ready to leap, Da Espares lev
eled his weapon and fired.
Hanley could hear the shrill scream
tied men, the great splash Of the tum.
bling body as it catapulted down in
the black-running water. The next
moment the captain and his uni.
formed squad from the Greenock
clubhouse were charging across the
bridge, joining in with their plain
clothes colleagues already forcing the
last of Legar's adherents to flight. And
as Manley made his way toward the
glimmering limousine and Margery
Golden he could hear the latter's nerv
Gus sobs as she leaned weakly against
the bridge railing and wept.
did you kill him?" she asked with
a voice tremulous with horror as De
Espares stepped to her side.
"Your enemy is dead!" was the lat
ter's quiet-toned reply. HE sank al
once. And this time he will never
return"
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-02-02
Inc Uubidden Guest,

The gallant Count Luigi Da Espares,
in view of his much-talked-of victory
on the Turnpike bridge, found himself
forced into the not uncongenial role
of a hero. If that discreet nobleman
took advantage of the high esteem in
which he momentarily stood to push
through to completion certain arrange
ments for the costume ball on which
he seemed to have set his heart.
Knowing what he knew, the secre-
tary still regarded that impending
function as a danger in disguise, just
as he still nursed very substantial
doubts as to the actual death of Legar.
So fixed was Manley in his suspi-
cions, however, that he insisted on
conference with Enoch Golden him
self. From that conference he wrung
small consolation for his suspicious.
Manley, in fact, had given up any
hope of further argument on the ques-
ton, when a trivial yet disquieting in
cident occurred, and in occurring
brought about a slight change in
Enoch Goldens attitude. This Incl
dent involved the receipt of a strange
missive bearing the signature of that
elusive interloper in the affairs of the
house of Golden known as the Laugh
ing Mask. 1t read as follows:
Count Luigi Da Espares is not only
an impostor, but also your enemy. And
as friend herewith warn you that
he is not to be trusted.
Even this epistle, which bore only
the emblem of a Laughing Mask for
signature, might have been accepted
as of no great Importance, had not
Enoch Golden been the recipient of
still another communication. This
time it was telephone message from
a stranger, acknowledging himself to
be an active colleague Of the Iron
Claws.
"Legar may be gone" said this un.
known voice over the wire, but his
work is going to go on, and don't you
forget it! You still hold that chart
If the chief didn't get his chart, before
he cashed in, I'm the guy who's going
to get it,"
"All right" was Golden's shouted re
sponse You come up here and get
it! And at the same time you'll get
what you deserved
Then, having slammed down the re
ceiver, the deliverer of that ultimatvES
promptly sent for his secretary.
Il want extra guards put around
this housed" was Golden's command
"And I want nobody to come into i
who can't be accounted for
Tonight will be a hard time, In
afraid, to put that order into execu
tion," explained Manley.
What d'you mean by that?"
You can't give a masked ball ant
} put every guest on a microscope-slid'
; as he comes I'M"
: "Manley, how are we to know jus
who or what those guests are, i
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-02-02
SYNOPSIS.

On windward island Palidori intrigues
Mrs. Golden into an appearance OF eVll
which causes Golden to capture and tor
ture the Italian by branding his face and
crushing his hand. Palidori opens the
dyke gates and foods the island and in
the general rush to escape the flood kid
maps Golden's siX-year-old daughter Mar
gerry. Twelve years later in New York a
Masked One calling himself the Hammer
of God" rescues an eighteen-year-old girl
from the cadet Casavanti, to whom Jules
Legar has delivered her. and takes her to
the home of Enoch Golden, millionaire,
whence she is recaptured by Legar. Legar
and Stein are discovered by Manley; Col
denis secretary, setting fire to Golden S
buildings, but escape. Margery's mother
fruitlessly implores Enoch Golden to
find their daughter. The Masked One
again takes Margery away from Degar.
Legar loots the Third National bank, but
again the Laughing Mask illustrates his
plans. Legar sends Golden The Spotted
Warning" demanding a portion of a chart
of the Windward island. Margery meets
her mother. The chart is lost during a
fight between Manley and one of Legar'
henchmen, but is recovered by the Laugh
ing Mask.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-02-02

coveries. The first was that the ap-
pointed time for the coup had been
suddenly changed to an hour earlier.
The second was that the trap for Lee
gar was not 10 be set along the wood
ed road leading up to the clubhouse of
the Greenoch golf links, as first decid-
ed upon. Bnt Margery Golden was to
motor alone to the west end of the
turnpike bridge ard there encounter
her old-time enemy or the Iron Claw.
And the police, Da Espares assured
her, had been duly warned as to the
change of location.
Manley, on overhearing that declara-
ton, promptly called up headquarters
and made the startling discovery that
no such message had gone in to the
authorities there.
In five minutes he was in his own
car, fastening to a conference with
central Office itself. In another five
minutes, on learning from Wilson
over the wire that Da Espares and
Margery had already left the house in
the limousine, Manley had his car
filled with armed plain-clothes men
from the central Office and was speed
ing out through the city as fast as a
motor could carry him. AS they swept
up the dusty approach to the bridge
they even saw that they were none
too soon.
For already, in the bright afternoon
sunlight, they could make out glim
mering limousine as it came to stoI
at the end Of the bridge. They could
see somewhat hesitating and white
faced girl step from this limousine al
the same moment that they caught
sight of group of men emerge quick
ly from the shrubbery at the end Of
the bridge itself
These men, spreading out fanlike
swept past the limousine in which d.
Espares and the chauffeur were still
seated. Four of them, rounding tn,
car, cut off the girls avenue of retreat
Another four advanced on her from
the bridge-end, at the same time tina
a fifth man leaped to the runnin,
board and started to struggle with tn,
| chauffeur.
Even as he stared at that quickl,
shifting scene Manley could make GU
the figure of Legar himself. He coul'
see the Iron Claw reach out for tn
startled figure Of the girl, crouche'
back against the bridge railing, eve
as his own car-wheels leaped from tn
approach to the bridge timbers then
selves. He could also make out D
Espares' sudden leap from the waitin
limousine. Manley, on beholding thi:
gave a cry of warning to the plair
clothes men about him, for he coul
plainly see the CLINT of revolver i
Da Espares' hand. But Da Espare!
as that car of deliverance thundere
on across the bridge, did not turn t
face it. Instead, he fought his wa
through the circle of burly figures SUI
rounding Margery Golden. He tough
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-05-09

Heat electric curling iron four
teen times.
Lift 100 gallons of water 100
feet.
Give light Of seventy-fve can
dies for one hour.
Toast bread for six persons.
Operate luminous radiator for
eight minutes.
Warm baby's bottle twice.
Cook Welsh rarebit in chat
ing dish.
Keep heating pad hot two
hours.
Heat eight-inch electric stove
eight minutes.
Operate tWelve-inch fan two
hours.
-Vulcanize four automobile tire
patches.
Keep foot-warmer hot one
quarter hour.
Raise passenger elevator five
stories in a minute.
Operate electric griddle eight
minutes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-05-09
TELEPHONE TO HELP.

Telephone employees here
have received instructions to
give any local or long distance
telephone message relating to
military matters precedence over
all other calls. The installation
of any equipment to be used
for military work is also to be
given preference over installa-
ton for private parties.
Any telephone calls to or from
government or state officials re-
lating to federal or state troops,
army supplies or Red Cross work
come under the special instruc-
lions regarding the handling of
military messages or installa-
ton Of equipment.
Nearly six hundred telephone
men in this territory volunteer
ed for the two signal corps COM
panies the telephone people are
raising. From this number 200
will be chosen. Those will be
taken who are best fitted for the
work, which will be largely the
building and maintenance of
camp and field telephone lines.
Government officials, in ask
ing for volunteers for the Sig
nal Service, emphasized the fact
that at this time it is very i'm
portant that the telephone SER
vice throughout the country be
kept at a high state of efficiency.
For this reason, they say it
should not be unduly crippled
by too many men leaving for
army work who are needed to
keep up the service at home. A
number of men volunteered for
the Signal Corps, telephone Of
ficials assert, who cannot be ac-
copied because they are needed
to keep this service in operation.
All men who enter the signal
service will be given their pres~
ent full pay for year by the
telephone company, less what
they receive from the govern
ment. These men will also re-
tain their disability and death
insurance benefits from the tele-
phone company while away, and
will be reemployed when they
return.