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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
Melrose

c.. B. Pierson near Melrose
was assisting his brother and
father baling hay for Chas. Wall
Friday and Saturday OF last
week. -
DR.. Walker went to Joplin
Saturday with one Of his patients
who underwent an operation.
Melrose Telephone central will
have a new key board installed
soon that will make 1t more con-
venient for all parties.
Mr.. Dehart, living near VIII
burs, had a small child afflicted
with Group, and took it to DR..
Walker at Melrose Sunday night
Roy James, son-in-hw Of John
Cool, will 60 to the training
camp, leaving Pitcher, his former
home, on Monday. Mr.. James
leaves a young wife and was
married last spring.
Geo. Klamm, living on the
Allison farm three miles north
and two west of Melrose, will
have a public sale Oct. oath.
]. B. Filby will help his father
in-law, J. W. Davis, haul cane to
a sorghum mill a few days this
week.
s. B. Nelson, formerly of Okla
homa, is the first resident in the
new town Of Stebbins and is liv-
ing in a tent at present and is
preparing to build a dwelling and
a restaurant combined.
G. H. Filby is going to build
two new houses in the town OF
Stebbins, and has the foundations
for both already completed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18

MIR. and Mrs. L. E. Muehl-
schuester and children left last
Saturday for Phoexix, AriE.,
where they win make their future
home, Mr.. Muehlschuestg has
accepted a government position
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
First Published In The Baxter Ns~u. Oct IL. 1917.

BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR
BAXTER SPRINGS. KANSAS.
That the Mayor and Council Of the City Of Bar
ter Springs, deem it necessary 70 bring 70 grade
pave curb and gutter South Strest from the conte'
line OF East Street West. to the West aide OF tia
alley running North and South In Block ThiIty-nv'
(35), Original Plat to the City Of Baxter SPRING.
all in the City OF Baxter SPRING., Cherokee County
Kansas, and hereby declare such work and improve
ment necessary to DO done.
Passed this 4th day Of October. 1917.
ATTEST: Ell. WRIGHT.
o. M, SPRATT, Mayor.
City Clerk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18

Mr.. and Mrs. J. |. Abbott, and
Dorothy and Kenneth Abbott, OF
Newmarket, Iowa, have come to
Baxter to make their home. Mr..
Abbott is general agent for the
National Life Association of Des
Moines. He is having a home
built on River st., three blocks
north of Military.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
First Published in The Barter Ncw.. Oct. II. 1917

First Published In The BAXTER NcwS, Oct II. 1917.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR
AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
That the Mayor and Council Of the City Of Ba1-
ter Spring., deem Il necessary 70 bring 70 grado.
pave, curb and gutter Nsosho Street. from the
Center line Of East Street West, 70 the Ceut@ line
Of Main Street. all In said City Of BAxtG Spring.
Chsrokss County. KanSas, aud hereby declare such
work and improvement neeessaFy 70 Be done.
Passed this lth day Of October, 1917.
ATTEST: Ell WRIGkT.
o. NJ. SPRATT, Mayor.
City Clerk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
Frat Published in tn. Bazta New. Oct. II. 1917.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR
AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
That the Mayor and couneIl q the City q
Baxter Spring. deem Il noeaulary 70 bring 70 gads,
pave. curb and gutter Sheridan strost from ths
Center line Of East stFSst West, 70 The CsntG In
Of Main Strsst, al In the City d BaxtR SprlnU.
Cherokss County, Kan.as. and hsgshy dseiaFs such
work and Improvement neea.aEy 10 b dons.
Paased this 9Th day Of October. 1917.
ATTEST; z. l. WRIGHT.
o. NJ. sPRATT. Mayor
City Clsrk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
Fiut Publl.hsd IN Ths Bszi.r Nsu.. o.. II. 1917.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR
AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY or
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
That ths Mayer and Counen a ~ Cry q
BGxtar Spring. den h nsos1aEy % htiag % gaaa
pave, curb and gutter 6hagidan stlSa fm u
Churotss County, Kanula, and huuhy t1rllES anah
vVork nd IruuroVsnnut nns.IIrT q y anA
Pnnsd ~ eth day q octshss, Iol7. nj
ATTEST .-s.p- = y NAIfb1,
q. n. STRAIT, M1To.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
First publ.hsd in The Baxter Nsw.. Oct. II. 1917

BE IT RESOLVED By THE MAYOR
AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
That the Mayor and Council Of the City Of Bar
ter Springs deem Il necessary to bring 70 Uadopave
curb and gutter South Street from the West line d
West Street West TO West City limits and horeby
declare such work and improvement nscs1AEy to b
done.
Passed this 9Th day Of October. 1917.
ATTEST: Ell. WRIGHT.
o. NJ. SPRATT. Mayor.
City Clerk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
First Published in The Baus.r Nswu. Oct. IL. iSi7

BE 1T RESOLVED By THE MAYOR
AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS.
That the Mayor and Council Of the City Of
Baxter Springs. deem It necessary to bring TO grace.
pave. curb and gutter River street from the We.
aide Of Missouri Street West, 70 the csnter line Of
East Street, all In saId City Of Baxter Spring..
Cherokee County, Kansas, and hereby declare such
work and Improvement necessary 70 be done.
Passed this 4th day Of October, 1917.
ATTEST: Z. l. WRIGHT
o. NJ. SPRATT. Mayor
City Clerk.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-10-18
ODERT HELD FOR TRIAL
Driver of Car that Struck and
and Killed Man l. Bound
Over by Judge Jones

John Obert, the Coffeyville
man whose car ran down William
Hodson, who finally died because
of injuries received, was held for
trial by Justice Jones in the dis
trict court sitting at Columbus
Evidence was strong against the
man. He was released under
bond.
The charge against Obert is
manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree. Obert has admitted the
charge but claims that it was an
unavoidable accident. When he
left Baxter September 80 ne left
practically no clew except that
one man had gotten the fore part
of his license number and anotOer
man the remainder. The inscrip-
ton "Cotfeyville, Kansas" on a
pennant, aided in identifying the
car. When the two halves OF the
license number were secured,
Bob Frazier and Henry Horton
went to Coffeyville and arrested
Obert.
J. c. Godfrey is building a
couple of houses.
David Treat is remodeling his
bouse in south part of the city.
Miss Florence Richards of
Riverton spent Monday with
Mrs. Roy Harmon.
&c. Bemont, field man for the
Long-Bell Lumber Company, is
spending week in Junction City,
Miss Verna Canaday left BaX-
ter Springs for Topeka Friday,
expecting to be away for some
time.
Mrs. James and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Harmon spent Saturday
and Sunday in Miami visiting
friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Mann and
daughter, Eva Jane, spent Satur-
day and Sunday at Pieher, Okla
visiting Mr.. English's father.
Three lots in the Simmons adj
dition were sold to Dillon and
Clayton last week. These lots
are located near the new sblool
house.
T. W. Gregory Of Commerce
bought three lots on the M. u.
& C. track last week from A. V.
Smith and he will proceed build
ing houses upon these lots.
J. T. McAndrews was brought
home Sunday. He is improving
slowly, but steadily. Upon ex-
aiming Mr.. McAndrews' arm
the doctor found that it was not
set right. He broke and reset It.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24
MENTAL PAP FOR FRITZ.

Uncle Sans committee on public
information is drawing "the deadly
parallel on the Kaiser.
The committee is sending out
pamphlets containing the message OF
President Wilson to Congress when
state Of war was declared, and in
parallel column, the version of the
message that was published in Ger
many.
1t is not merely a condensation; IL
is a deliberate expurgation.
The wielder of the blue pencil was
an artist. The message, as 1t reach
ed Germany, was as harmless from
the Kaiser's viewpoint, as a platform
of the Peoples Peace council. The
good, honest. plodding Fritz was not
permitted to read: The world must
be made safe for democracy. It's
peace must be planted upon the
foundations Of political liberty.
He wasn't permitted to know that;
THE right is more precious than
peace, and we shall fight for the
things we have carried nearest our
hearts-for democracy, for the right
of those who submit to authority ia
have a voice in their own govern
ments, for the rights and liberties OF
small nations. for a universal domin-
ion Of right by such a concert of free
people as shall bring peace and safety
to all nations and make the world
itself at last free.
He was kept in ignorance Of the
fact that: I'VE act without animus
not with enmity toward a people Oh
with the desire to bring about any
injury or disadvantage upon them
but only in armed opposition to ar
irresponsible government which has
thrown aside all considerations OF
humanity and Of right. and is running
amuck".
If you have a copy Of that wonder.
full message, read it again and keeT
in mind that Fritz was permitted Il
have about 40 per cent of it, the miss.
ing so per cent being all the most
significant passages.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24

behind the bonds of the first issue
They started out above par, but
quickly dropped three to four points
and the AVS are setting the pace now
in the recovery toward the par mark
There are two chief reasons. One
is that the first bonds are exempt
from taxation and appeal to men of
large incomes; to estates; to men
whb wish to leave funds in trust.
There is a constant market for them
from these sources.
The other reason is that the bonds
are convertible into any other issue
put out by the government, and if
the war continues and a higher rate
of interest has to be paid, the holder
of the 31s per cent bond can exchange
1t for any subsequent issue.
These reasons have made the tours
suffer a little during the market de-
preston, but government guarantee
of per cent interest looks pretty
good until the Indebtedness of the
nation is many times what it is to-
day.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24
BONE REASONS FOR GIVING
q THANKS.

We can find cause for thanks In
4 the fact that the war has not been
D brought to America.
I'VE can find cause for thanks in
tue fact that America is helping drive
4 back the invader from the countries
hs has devastated.
We can be thankful for the fact
that we have learned there is some
thing more to be desired by a nation
than prosperity; that there are
things worth fighting for; that we
have saved our self-respect.
I'VE can be thankful that horrible
al the war is, 1t has its Pentecost;
that it is dwelling class distinctions
% America; that it is creating a new
spirit of brotherhood; that it is call
Ing upon all the best impulses of
! american manhood and womanhood:
that it is teaching that the road to
happiness may lie through sacrifice
uand service.
I'VE can be thankful that the war Is
acfeating a new national spirit; that
,itTis adding fuel to the fires beneath
the melting pot and throwing the
dross to the top.
I'VE can be thankful that the coun-
Try is learning the lesson Of thrift,
and is being weaned from the old
habits of luxury and extravaganza
that were undermining the mental
and moral fibre of part of the peo-
sTle, while the others were embittered
Ibv the unfair distribution of wealth.
] We can be thankful that we are
alive in the most wonderful days IN
the history of the world; when won
derful events are transporting so
rapidly that 1t Is impossible to keep
pace with them; when science is
FnlalSing vast strides and leaping over
bn obstacles; when the world is
shams with energy; when thrones are
Erlmbling and nations are changing
kheir systems Of government over
blight; when old prejudices are swept
hgay; when events that seemed
yhally important year ago, are too
kfivial to consider.
We can be thankful that men arc
DO longer judged in America by what
they own, nor in Europe by their
fnndfatheTs' social position. but in
"a nations by what they can do, and
- what they are.
We can be doubly thankful IL we
can see in these things greater cause
Tor Thanksgiving than in the fact
That we are prosperous, we'll fed,
richly clothed, and comfortably
housed.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24
s'WHEN A TELLER NEEDS A
FRIEND.

Has the baby a penny bank?
Rob It and replace the pennies with
agings stamp certificates.
That Is the advice of Mr.. Wander
ID. the most famous banker in
ptivity
It's good advice too. The pennies
n't grow or increase of them
Ives. The savings stamp certifi-
ies will. II the baby has S412 in
s bank. you can get a IS certificate
9Th it. and put that in the bank in
lead The baby won't know the
ifrerence or miss the money, and II
b time ever comes when you have
d approach the bank some dark
leht, with q hammer and screw
river to levy a forced loan, you can
ash in the certificate for what you
cid plus 3 per cent interest.
AIobilizing pennies may appear to
small business for the worlds
iggest banker, but in New York the
iggest and tallest office building in
Is world was built from the profits
( ten cent purchases.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24
To the Editor Of The Forum.
The Time
by HiIdsgarde Hawthorne of The
ViuiIantes.l

by HiIdssards Hawthorne Of The
VigiIantes.l
This is a great time to be
You hear that said often. You
have said it yourself, beyond doubt.
IT is a great time. The two power
fullest ideas of the race are in
collision as they have never been
before; we feel ourselves to be fight
ing for freedom against oppression
The torch of human liberty that has
somehow been kept alight through
the dark ages, and has blazed SO
brilliantly in the great moments OF
history, the torch that has always
been our light, and whose flame has
been fed with precious blood, must
not be extinguished. Again, what
ever the cost, we must see to il that
1t keeps blazing. Let it go out now
and the work and the suffering OF
the ages goes for nothing.
You and i, people who up till now
and uneventful way, with no thought
of making history, with no especial
care for world facts and the great
need of nations, you and / musts dc
our best to keep that torch burn
ing.
That is why this is a great time
to be alive. Even our small and
least considered acts take on the
shade Of greatness. All we do tends
to help or to hinder the immense
work of fate. Your very meals are
consecrated to freedom. or are mimi.
cal to 1t. Your careless words may
be filled with importance, may work
for bitter harm or tip the balance
toward ultimate success. You are
lin IL" quite as much as the soldier
in the trench, and IL you are 8
Stacker or a coward. IL you prefer
personal ease to work for the greai
end, If you grumble or despair Il
you whine and murmur. you are 8
traitor to your duty and your OPP
portunity, you have no place in this
great time.
4 49, ~ azsss
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24
HAzARDlNo 4 PROPHECY.

Prophesying is not profitable un-
dertaking, but an attempt to look in
to the future as Saturday night
diversion, may be forgiven.
We would like to go on record with
the prophecy that within nine
months, or before Sept. next, the
first trip across the Atlantic ocean
in a heavier than air flying machine
win be made.
Right here we viii admit we have
a little Inside information" in the
form Of a letter from an acuuaint-
ance who is a foreman in one Of the
largest airplane factories in America.
Some amazing records are being
made in aviation. The world is too
busy with the war to consider them,
but the new Caproni machines are
accomplishing wonders. Gabrielle
d'Annunzio, the Italian poet and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24
NO ROYAL ROAD TO
CONSERVATION.

4 yesterday a delightfully."- simple
plAn Of doubling the butter supply
vas suggested to us.
It came from a native Of Denmark
NO had read it in a paper he receiv-
Aa recently from his home city. Den
mark, Of course, is the butter center
81 Europe. and the Danes should
tnow something about butter.
The plan was to take a pound OF
patter and a pound of either water
pr milk. and work the water into
,re butter" with your hands or a
bfead mixer.
The result. mere man figured, would
~ two pounds of butter.
3ut a visit to the kitchen brought
disheartening awakening.
t'old stuff" said She who-was- in
barge. "You haven't two pounds oil
utter. I've tried it. You have q
beund of butter and a. pound oi
inoufage".
AZ seems there is no royal road t.
anservation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24

War camoufiage, many interesting
things about it and how recently at
Washington barracks President Will
son was fooled by ingenious exam
Piles Of it, were told recently at
the Architectural League Of America
in the Fine Arts building in West
Fifty seventh street, New York, says
The New York World.
The speakers were Captain Aymar
of the camoufage contingent of the
Engineers corps; Macmillan Toch,
long an authority on the subject who
has recently travelled from the Great
Lakes to the Gulf doing such work,
and Ernest Pixeotto, the noted artist,
who also has become a camoufieurs
It was Captain Embury who, after
outlining the work of the camoufiage
contingent, told of the President VIII
son episode. Lieutenant Sheriff. Fry,
a former Cornell man, had organized
a little camoufiage entertainment, to
which at first q few of the generals
of the barracks were invited. But
when. the word got around there
came a score OF requests for invita-
tions from other generals and civic
dignitaries, and atop Of the heap was
one which read:
why leave me out?
WOODROW WILSON,"
"The President, Secretary OF State
Lansing, Secretary of War Baker
and fourteen generals-maJor and
brigadier-and score Of colonies
attended, said Captain Embury.
THE exhibition was in the open and
the first thing Fry said was
Gentlemen, there's man in uni
form standing within five feet OF
you. Can you see him~
Could See No One.
They looked everywhere within
their circle and couldn't see any man
until Fry blew q whistle and out Of
a fake rock, nicely trimmed with
fake moss-welI. the rock, opened
and a man in uniform arose at the
Presidents elbow. The President
laughed like a boy and then said he
had heard OF a dummy three-inch
gun we had made from which would
come an explosion and smoke as IL
IL were a. real gun"
Yes, Mr.. President said Fry. we
have the gun. It's right here with u.s.
They stared around and couldn't
see any gun until Fry again blew his
whistle and a very natural screen Of
foliage arranged on a swinging plat
form parted and there was the gun.
There was q rubber tube on the
end OF it with a bulb on the end of
that. The bulb was handed the Presf-
dent and when he squeezed there was
an explosion from the end Of the
dummy. painted to look like fine
steel, that caused the President to
iump--it looked like about fourteen
feet-and secretaries and major and
brigadier generals and all the
colonels jumped with him. The Presi-
dent went away with a smile as wide
as the ocean"
Maximilian Toch said Of camou-
naae:
aTt has come % be talked OF a
great deal as something new, but Il
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24

as an aviator and Lufbery tried to
join but was told he must enlist in
the Foreign Legion, as he was not
French citizen.
Pourpe was shot TO death early in
the war, and Lufbery, wishing TO
avenge his friends death, asked to
be trained as a flier His request
was granted and i'm the summer or
1916 he went to the front with the
Lafayette Escadrille.
Within q month he had brought
down his third enemy airplane. For
these feats he received the French
Military Medak
Fought at Heavy Odds.
His fifth victory was in October,
1916. when he shot down a 3-manned
aviatilx after a thrilling battle high
in the air. His other victories fol-
lowed rapidly. Regularly. after his
exploits, he was cited in dispatches
and later decorated for his deeds.
Since going to the front Lufbery
has repeatedly fought against SUI
perior numbers. Time and again he
has fought single handed with as
many as four enemy airplanes ana
returned safely. but with his ma
chine riddled with bullets, His
eleventh official victory came after a
thrilling fight with I'VE German
planes. 1t took just twenty-five
shots to send the nearest machine
down from a 15,000-foot level. He
exchanged shots with the remaining
four, and when more Lafayette fiiers
arrived the enemy quartet sped
away.
Lieutenant Lufbery has his own
method OF attacking enemy air.
planes. He is cool. cautious and
brave and an exceptionally fine shot.
When in the American army he won
and held the craftsmanship cham
pionship of his regiment.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24

Starting as an obscure mechanic
to French fiier at the outbreak of
the war, Lieut.. Gervais Raoul Luf-
berry, American fiier, has fought his
way to the position OF premier "ace''
OF the Lafayette EscadrfIie and to
the foremost rank OF airmen in all
the allied armies. Lieutenant Luf-
berry to date has been officially
credited with the bringing down OF
thirteen German fiiers, besides sew
eral others that have fallen within
enemy lines, for which he has not
been credited.
He is now entitled to wear the
Cross OF the Legion OF Honor. the
French Military Medal, the Cross OF
War, the British Military Medal and
several other decorations as a re-
ward for his bravery and skin in
fighting single handed against heavy
odds Of superior numbers.
Lieutenant Lufbery has had a
career which reads like a story from
Arabian Nights" Leaving his
birthplace in Wallingford, Conn, flf-
teen years ago at II he went TO
France to visit the land OF his faith
ers. Later he went to Africa and
then to Turkey, where he spent sew
eral mouths. Then he went to South
America. but returned to the United
States in 1905 to enlist in the army.
Served in American Army.
He was sent to the Philippines for
service. On being mustered out he
visited China and Japan.
In China he met Marc Pourpe, a
young French aviator who was giv-
ing exhibition flights. Lufbery join
ed Pourpe as an assistant and the
two gave exhibitions through the
French provinces in Indo-China.
Early in 1914 they went to Paris to
get a new machine. While there the
war broke out. Pourpe volunteered
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24

he knew carranza had whiskers.
he had seen his pictures in a news
paper. He understood all about the
Mexican situation because he had
read about it.
He knew ali about the European
war, and talked learnedlv about the
policies OF the various nations at
war. He even believed he knew
how 1t would end. and he certainly
knew the conditions OF the troops in
the various fields, and spoke OF
KerensIEy and Korniloy as If they
were old acquaintances. Yet he has
not been out Of the state since the
war started, and has had no means
whatever of finding out that there
Is a war save by reading 1t in the
papers. In fact, the fellow didn't
mention a subject all the way to the
once that he knew anything about
except By reading about Il. Just
before he aIighted from the car my