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Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

The penalty for violation will be in
ternment for the war.
Officials explained that the Govern.
ment's action is not intended to be
vindictive and that Germans who
mean no harm to the United States
will not be molested. Under regula-
tions now being framed by the De-
partment of Justice all Germans may
not be required to report periodically
to officials. The regulations. will be
promulgated within few days, but
the terms of the Presidents proclama-
tion become Immediately effective.
The administration of the restric-
tiOns will be under John Lord
O'Brien, special assistant to the At
torney General for war work, and
the enforcement will be carried out
largely with the assistance of the De-
partment of Justices Bureau of In
vestigation.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
World War in Brief

General Pershing reported that two
men were killed, three severely
wounded and three slightly wounded
in action on November 13.
Berlin announces that Quero and
Monte Cornelle, on the northern
Italian front, have been taken by
storm and the Italians have been
driven from Monte Tomba, the War
Office announced.
Italian forces have begun an Of
fensive on the Asiago Plateau and
have occupied advanced elements. of
trenches, the Italian War Office an.
nounced, adding that further attempts
of the Austro-German troops to cross
the Piave have been stopped.
Artillery fighting of great intensity
is in progress along the northern and
western front from the coas- to the
Ypres sector. according to the German
Army Headquarters.
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sTAIE NEWS
I BRIEFLY TOLD:
The Attest Gleanings From Al
Over tine State.
TIL Ees SEEN AND HEARD
NGS SEEN AND HEARD

The Farmers Club of Laurel Dis
trict, at it's monthly meeting at the
home of Matthew A. Smith, near Willis
School, elected the following officers:
President, John F. Flester; vice-presi-
dent, Matthew A. Smih; treasurer,
Whitney ]. Aitcheson; secretary and
correspondent, Frank H. Bowen. Mr..
Evan G. CLANCY is the hold-over trus-
tee. President Herman p Millard pre-.
sented fountain pen to Secretary
Bowen, in recognition of his service as
secretary for the past three years and
as correspondent for four and half
years. Rules were adopted to govern
the annual corn show of the club, to be
held at the home of 2. T. CLANCY in
December.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

Playing "war" with chums younger
than he and using real guns and am
munition to "pick off the enemy"
Webster Shorb, 1S, near Boyds, was
shot and instantly killed. The mother
is prostrated from the shock. The
boy is the son of the late Daniel w.
Shorb, who died about a month ago.
1t was said that during the afternoon
the boys played war. firing of the
usual wooden guns with make-believe
explosions and deaths, they picked up
a loaded shotgun and blazed away
at the enemy" who happened to be
young Shorb.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
10 LOST ON ROCHESTER.
Twelve Men In. Second Officers Boat
Now Given Up.

Twelve Men IN SeCon0 OHiCeFS BOAT
Now Given Up.
Washington.--Twe men, includ-
ing five members of the navy armed
guard, who left in the second officers
boat when the American steamer
Rochester was torpedoed in the war
zone November 2, have been given up
for lost by the Navy Department.
Vice-Admiral Sims cabled that no
trace of the boat has been found. He
also advised the department that
Ernest H. Gragg, seaman and member
of the guard, and three members of
the Rochester's crew died from ex-
posure in another boat
One member of the crew was lost
overheard, making the total casualties
10, including Second Engineer Sondau
and an oiler named Anderson, pre-
viously reported by the explosion of
viously reported killed by the explo-
sion of the torpedo.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

More evidences of Prussianism have
been unearthed in Frederick city and
county and will result in the turning
in of information to federal authorities
for action. One woman appeared on
the street with breastpin carrying a
man victories in Italy have brought
pro-German sympathizers to the front.
One few days ago voluntarily ad
mitted that he "is for the Germans"
And what the Germans are doing to
the Italians they will do to the Allies,
including the United States," he is
reported to have said
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
TO CUT TAILoRs' SAMPLES.

$1,000 Soldiers Can Be Clothed BY
Latest Economy.
Washington.-Mor than $1,000 SOL
diers can be clothed with the material
which will be saved by cutting the
sizes of tailor's sample 21 per cent,
and this has been arranged at confer
ences between the Council of National
Defense, the National Wholesale Tail
ors' Association and many large cloth
dealers. Nearly quarter of million
yards of cloth heretofore, used as sam
pies will be devoted to clothing.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
TO BUILD UNSUITABLE SHIPS.

Construction Of Score For French
Government Authorized.
Washington.--The Shipping Board
has approved 4he building of twenty
4,O00-ton nonsinkable ships by the
French Government in the United
States. By SO doing it has waived
the rule that no foreign construction
should be permitted at this time.
The nonsinkable ship. developed by
French experts, is said to have with
stood torpedo attack in test in which
four shots were fired into the hull and
the only effect was to destrav the car
go Immediately surrounding the point
of attack.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

Fighting the enemy and winning
the war with food has never been
taken more literally than by the good
housewives of Wicomico county. All
during the summer these excellent
housekeepers preserved and jellied
and canned until now they have
turned their armory into a food-sup-
ply base and have filled the rooms
that used to be stocked with rifles,
guns and other grim instruments of
warfare with canned and dried fruits
and vegetables
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

Total ;. ..s201 ,151,7 S35,750
Colonel Wilcox Stated that Mary
lands total of s54,343,3OO is made up
of SAL, ST. ,O5O from Baltimore and $12,-
766,250 from the counties. The returns
from the counties are especially en-
couraging, he said, being more than
double the county subscriptions to the
first loan
The number of subscribers in Balti-
more to the second loan was 81 1874, as
compai ed with 1896 for the first loan,
and 1858 for the counties, as COM
pared with 16,471 for the first loan.
One subscription was received for
every seventh person in Baltimore.
The average amount for each subscrib-
er il Maryland was $435.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
8 U. S. SOLDIERS DIE IN FRANCE.
Wound Kills One; Accident And Dis
ease Cause Others Deaths.

Washington.-The War Department
announced the death on November 13
of Valentine H. Newton, of the Head
quarters Company of the Marine Corps
in France, from self-inflicted gun.
shot wound. His next of kin is his
mother, Mrs. Margaret Newton, of
Arkville, N. Y.
Other deaths reported are Corporal
Samuel Parrott, Marine Corps, died
November 16 of "mylitis transverse" :"
of Newbern, N. c.; Sergeant George
E. Merkle, Signal Corps, accidentally
killed November II, of Philadelphia.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
Ex-GERMAN SAILOR HELD.

Arrested For Threatening To Blow Up
York Post Office.
York, Pa.-Charged with making
threats to blow up the York Post
Office, Rudolph Kreschwitz, 20 years
old, was arrested by the police. The
prisoner, it is believed, is an escaped
interned German sailor. He says he
came. to this country in 1914 on the
steamer Rhein. He came to York
from Baltimore and was employed in
a local cigar factory. It was at this
factory that he made the threats. It is
said, to blow up the post Office.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

County Commissioner De Wilton C.
Parlett was accidentally shot in the
right shoulder and arm while hunting
with his brother-in-law. The two were
on opposite sides of a ravine near Mr..
Parlett's home when a flock of birds
started up and Mr.. Parlett's COM
panion fired.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

Mrs. Joseph w. Brooks, whose hus-
band is a member of the Dorchester
County Board of Education, commit
teed suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Prolonged illness is supposed to have
been the cause Mrs. Brooks had but
recently returned from a Baltimore
hospital.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
265 PASSENGERS RESCUED.

Taken Off Steamer Mariposa, Wrecked
Off Alaska.
Seattle, Wash.-The 265 passengers
of the steamship Mariposa, wrecked
on Straight Island, off the Alaskan
coast, were rescued by the steamships
Curacao and Ravelli. Removal Of the
passengers from the wrecked steam
ship was accomplished without the
loss of a single life.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
WARNS OF FOOD cANvAssERs.
Hoover Calls German Agents Crooks
And Confidence Men.

Washington.-Agents Of the German
propaganda, who have been going
from house to house and posing as
representatives of the Government to
commander food supplies, were de-
nounced by Herbert Hoover, United
States Food Administration, as
Crooks" thieves" and confidence
operators.
Mr.. Hoover advised persons upon
whom these pro-German agents call in
the future to notify the nearest po
liceman and have the man arrested.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
Fa or innrm
Fpless broth.
Man with dep|

| Man with dep VI inhrm
parents. ~. :.
Man with dep p'eSs oFotn'
County or mn icer.
Highly traine or ponce
man, at least t. III Service
| of municipality.
FL Necessary Gus clerk.
Necessary emI nited States
in transmission ails.
Necessary art workman in
United States al arsenal.
Necessary en| service of
United States
Necessary as. associate OF
hired manager ary agricul
tural enterprise.
Necessary hig lized techni.
cal or mechanic bf necessary
industrial enterI
Necessary as r associate
manager Of nece strial enter
prise.
Man whose hildren are
mainly depender bor for sup
port.
Mariner actua yed in sea
service of citizei Bhant in the
United States.
Necessary sol anaging, control
ling or directin lad of necessary
agricultural ente be.
Necessary sol 3 q 1anaging, control
ling or directing head of necessary
industrial enterprise
G lass 5.
Oficers-legislative, executive or
judicial-of the United States or OF
State, Territory or District Of Colum-
bia
Regular or duly ordained minister
Of religion.
Student who On May Is, 1917, was
preparing for ministry in recognized
school,
Persons in military or naval service
of United States.
Alien enemy.
Resident alien (not an enemy who
claims exemption.)
Person totally and permanently ply
sically or mentally unfit for military
service.
Person morally unfit to be soldier
of the United ST. ties.
Licensed pilot actually employed in
the pursuit of his vocation.
Member of well-recognized religious
sect or organization, organized and
existing on May 18, 1917, whose then
existing creed or principles forbid its
members to participate in war in any
form and whose religious convictions
are against war or participation there
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

H. Dorsey Etchisen formally an
npunced his candidacy for Congress
fl ON this district on the Democratic
ticket, to succeed Congressman Fred
N Ziehlmau,> of Allegany county. Mr..
Etchison points out that but two rep
resentatives of the Sixth district have
come from Frederick county in the
past so Years.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

R. Harris Archer, of Belair, has re-
ceived letter from his son, Capt.
Harris Archer, Jr., now stationed at
Camp Mcclellan, Admission; Ala, in
which he stated that he had been ap-
pointed jud ge advocate, and that he
had been ordered to take the physical
examination for immediate service
abroad.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

the action of the national
1T in giving priority to steel
work for the new plant, bids
have gone out, the Kelly:
\ tire plant in Cumberland
mpleted and ready for opera
q one month Of the time orig
for its starting.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

A barn on the farm of Adams Bros.
at Adamsville, near fredericksburg, was
destroyed by fire, together with a lot
of feed and farm machinery. Two
oxen valued at $3.50 were burned to
death. The loss is $1,50O
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

Fedor F. Foss, mining expert on the
Russian mission to the U~ited States,
has requested that firms making labor.
saying machinery for use in mineral
industries send catalogues and descrip-
tive literature to him.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

An anti-smoke campaign in Pitts.
burgh is reported to have reduced its
famous smoke by at least rs per cent.
thereby saving on property alone 81,
100000 annually.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
U.BoATS BEING cURBED.

Britain Loses But ! Large, small
And Fishing Vessel.
Londonderry one British merchant
vessel of more than 1000 tons was
sunk by mine or submarine last week,
according to the weekly statement Of
shipping losses. This is the low rec
ord since Germany began her sub
marine campaign. Five vessels of less
than 1900 tons and one fishing boat
were sunk during the week.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
DEATH PENALTY FOR TROOPER.

v. s. Soldier Ia France Executed For
Murder Of French Woman.
Washington. An American soldier
Of General Pershing's forces. found
guilty by court-martial of the murder
OF French woman, has been exc
cuted BY Al Pc squad.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
WOMEN TO GET PAY OF MEN.
War Department Ruling Favors Those
Working In ArsenaIs.

WorKTn0 III NrSendTS.
Washington.-Wom who do a
mans work in government ordnance
and quartermaster work should have
mans pay, the War Department has
ruled. Suggestions forwarded to
arsenals by the chief Of ordnance rec
ommend the eight-hour day for wom-
en-, suggest at least 80 minutes lunch
time with two ten-minute rest periods
per day; the Saturday half-holiday,
and further declared that women
should not be required to lift over
25 pounds in any single load, while
their tasks should be adjusted to their
strength.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

In head-on collision on the West
ern MARYLAND Railway, one mile west
OF Garrett, on the Connellsville divis-
lon. B. W. Pittman, conductor, Ridge
ley, w. Va. was instantly killed.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

pit. aged IS years, a native
otia, but for many, years =
Yale Summit, Md, is dead.
and Garrett counties WIN
Fir full quota for the Y. N. C.N
|nong the soldiers.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
WALL cRUsHEs FIRE CHIEF.
Two Others Injured Fighting Blaze In
Morgantown, w. Va.

Morgantown, W. Va.-One man was
killed and two Injured in a fire which
virtually destro7ed the Hirschman
Building on High street. Fire Chief
James Kennedy was caught under a
falling wall and killed. Policeman
Clyde Witt was struck by falling tim
bers and is in a serious condition at
City Hospital. John Hare, City Street
Commissioner was cut and bruised.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
SAMMlES GET REVENGE.

American Troops Ambush Large Ger
man Patrol.
With The American Army in France.
American inf,ntrymen ,exacted a
part revenge for trench Asd during
a recent night y ambushing a Large,
German patrol IN mo Mans Land"
killing or wounting a number of the
eneTny. The American patrol, In
which there were some ,Frenchmen,
arranged the ambuscade near the Ger.
man lines on a shell-ruined farm.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

Friends of Reno S. Harp, of Fred
erick, will make fight for him for
State Treasurer to succeed John M.
Dennis at the coming Legislature.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

George B. Westcott, 81 years old,
died at his home, in Chestertown, of
paralysis. He was the son of the late
Nicholas B. Westcott, for years a
prominent. merchant of Chestertown.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
MOLLY MAGUIREs AFTER MAYOR.

Threatened Because He Asked Cashier
To Leave Town.
fyoatesville, Pa.-Mayor Albert H.
Swings life has been threatened be
W Ise he asked Arthur HoopeA
aker bank cashier, who refused +
the sale of Liberty bonds, to lAav1
city: Letters written to the nil)yor
Molly Maguires" are com.
We been turned over to
khnritiAa
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
JUNK DICTATOR NExTf

$500, 100000 Can Be Saved 4
Scrap Pile.
washingto2 The advisability
national junk dictator hsa Aeel
to the attention Of the C}
uonal Defense. Conse
mates ara that more ID
900 "a saved By
ser.p scrap metals
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

One-fourth of the crops of Spain
are produced on, irrigated lands, al
though only per cent. of the ma
tion's cultivated land is irrigated.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
What's coiny On in
Maryland
State Total $50 a4s ann.

Col. Henry B. Wilccx. chairman of
the Liberty Loan Committee for Mary
land, gave out the Official figures for
Maryland and the Fifth Fedefal Re-
serve District, as follows:
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

The Venezuelan government by law
has prescribed standard of purity
for butter, and has forbidden the sale
of any that is adulterated.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

ViOlets are natives to nearly all
lands and thrive very generally every.
where, the greater number in the
shade, but some in the sun.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
The COUNTRY AT LARGE

A suggestion that the degree of
Bachelor of Mill larry Science be con-
ferred On men v ho have left college
to enter war service rather than the
regular college degree, is made in a
letter from President E. NJ Hopkins,
Of Dartmouth College, to the Yale
News.
Texas coal operators have been
granted an increase in the price Of
coal at the mine as result of con-
ference held between Wiley Blair,
state fuel administrator and mine
owner
Armed guards were thrown around
the coal mines in the southern part of
Jefferson county, Ohio, as the result
of an T. w. w. outbreak
The annual convention Of the Ma
tional Grange, Pa atrons Of Husbandry,
sent a telegram to Presidpt Wilson
paedging suppoi in the rosecution
Of the war.
z Enemy aliens from the
streets along N waterfront
under orders po ted States
Marshal Mozart
Five Iaan er| death and
ItWal io when fire
q hotel
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL

The magazine holds five cartridges,
packed in charges.
The killdeer is long-legged and long
winged; runs on ground, flies high
and swiftly and calls, dee, dee, dee;
is larger than a robin.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

For Az Al hg tor sbasss early NOR
1hnRrk r An hour before dalk
full heea svsn lslss
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

The library Of the School of the
Sons Of the Empire, an ancient Chi.
nese university, which, 1t is said, was
in existence thousand years before
the Christian era, comprises 1Sz
tables Of stone, whereon are carved
all the "13 classics" the essence Of
Chinese culture.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

An alienation suit dating back to
1880, in which the plaintiff and de-
fendant have become grandparents,
was recently dismissed in New Jersey,
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

A world war course" consisting Of
a series of informative lectures de-
signed to throw light on various
phases and problems of the war, is
being given at the University Of Wis
consin.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24
LOCKED CASHIER IN VAULT.

ned Men Then Take $500 From
Bank Near Kansas City.
fansas City, Mo.-Armed men en-
Rd the Liberty State Bank, at Lib
eight miles southwest. Of here
|ed ths cashier in the vault anl
IN motor CIR with $3.50
Here Immediately formed
gxa. The banks vaY1
u and robbed sevs
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

The Swiss government plans to
reputation all turf fields in that dpun-
try with view to the exploitatic -
this fuel BY modern methods as I
(titute for coal. s.y7
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-24

Seventy-eight per cent. of the more
than $4,000. 100000 worth of American
goods exported in the fiscal year 1917
consisted of wholly or partly manu-
factured goods. In 1914, the last nor
NAL year before the war, the percen-
tage Of such goods exported was only
50.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
SUGGESTS "QUININE DAY"
How i;r. Brabham Would Rid
OraneeburS of Malaria.

Orangeburg, March 2.-Quite a
novel method of eXterminating ma
laria in Orangeburg county has been
devised by Dr.. V. W. Brabham, dl-
rector of rural sanitation, and it will
be put into effect as soon as prac-
ticable. The plan is to induce every
person who has suffered with malaria
to take a dose of quinine every Sat-
urday from March l to August l.
DR.. Brabham declares that this plan,
properly carried out, will rid the
county entirely of malaria. He pre-
scribes graduated doses as follows:
Children up to five years, five grains;
from five to ten years, ten grains;
over ten years, fifteen grains. Satur-
day will be known as "Quinine Day
all over the county.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
Half Your Living
Without Money Cost

A right or wrong start In 1917 will
make or break most farmers in the
South. We are all facing crisis.
This war in Europe puts things In
such uncertainty that no man can
foresee the future with any degree Of
clearness.
The sure and certain increase in
cotton acreage means lower cotton
prices next fall. Cost Of all food and
grain products is high, so high that
no one can afford to buy and expect
to pay out with cotton
It's time above all others to play
safe; to produce all possible food,
grain and forage supplies on your
own acres; to cut down the store bill.
A good piece Of garden ground,
rightly planted, rightly tended and
kept planted the year round, can be
made to pay half your living. It Will
save you more money than you made
on the best five acres Of cotton you
ever grew!
Hastings 1917 Seed Book tells all
about the right kind of money say
ing garden and the vegetables to put
in it. It tells about the field crops as
well and shows you the clear road to
real farm prosperity. It's Free. Send
for it today to II. G. HASTINGS CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.-Advt.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-08
BIG GERMAN SPY PLOT.
Plan Was to Send Men to England as
Newspaper Correspondents.

New York, March 2.-Particlpation
in an elaborate spy plot organization
to send men to Great Britain under
guise of being American newspaper
correspondents, but whose real pur-
pose was to serve as spies and supply
Germany with forbidden information
as to civil and military conditions IN
England, was charged against Albert
A. Sander, Carl W. Wunnenberg and
George Vaux Bacon in indictments
found her today by the federal grand
jury.
Arrangeme ments were made in this
city, the indictments allege, by which
this information could be sent out of
Great Britain through the use of a
writing fluid which remained invisi-
bic until certain chemicals were ap-
piled to the paper containing the
writing. Bacon, it is charged, was
hired to go to England as a supposed
newspaper correspondent.
Supplied With Names.
He was supplied by Sander and
Wunnenberg, it is charged, with
names and addresses of persons in
Holland and Denmark, to whom let
ters on apparently trivial subjects
could be written in visible ink, while
information of military value could
also be written in the invisible ink,
to be forwarded to Germany.
It is alleged that Bacon obtained
an American passport and succeeded
in going to England and carrying out
the plans formulated in this. city.
The information thus transmitted, it
is charged, had to do with sailing of
merchant ships, conditions under
which the civil and military popula-
ton of Great Britain were living, the
apparent amount of food available
there and the amount of distress that
might be caused by prevention OF
passage of ships to British ports.
Bacon, it is set forth, was given at
least $1,000 to defray his expenses.
1t was said additional indictments
have been found against other Ger
man agents in this city to be filed
when expedient. The grand jury is
to continue it's investigation of spy
evidence.
Sander and Wunnenberg late to-
day were released under bonds OF
$4,000 each.