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Evening star., 1917-04-08
RUSSIA INFORMED j. S.
WARS AGAINST GERMANY
Announcement Carries Appeal to
New Government to Realize It's
Obligation to Mankind.

Official announcement of the entry of
transmitted to the new Russian govern
ment, with an appeal to the awakened
Russia for peace and concord within its
borders SO the newest democracy may
realize the obligation due from it to
mankind in the great world struggle to
yanquish autocracy."
The announcement, sent by Secretary
Lansing and conveyed by Ambassador
Francis, follows:
Inform the foreign minister that the
United States Congress on April made
formal declaration of the existence of
a state of war between the United
States and the German government.
The Presidents proclamation to that
effect was issued on the same date.
Germany Menace to Democracy.
Say to the minister that this coun-
try arrays itself in opposition to the
greatest enemy of and menace to de-
mocracy in the world, confident of the
final victory of those principles of lib
erty and justice upheld by it for nearly
$50 years and in conservation TO which
by all of the civilized countries rests
the expectation of universal peace
Please also inform the minister that
the government and people of this
country are filled with rejoicing that
the people of the great Russian nation
have merged with the mighty democra-
cies engaged in the struggle of spposi-
tion to autocracy, and desire to declare
to Russia their honest qualification that
thus a new tie of anity is united with
those which have so long held together
the peoples of the two nations 1t is
the ardent hope and anticipation of
the government Of the United States
that the Russian nation, animated by
those great ideals, will realize more
than ever before the obligation due
from it to mankind and the need for
the preservation of internal concord so
that, as a patriotic and united country.
1t may vanquish the despotic power
which, by violence and machination,
menaces the democracy which the peo-
pie of Russia have proclaimed
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Germans to Intern Americans.

LONDON. April IA dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph from The Hague
says:
"A frontier correspondent asserts
that he understands Gen. Won Bissing,
the German governor general in Bel
sium, intends to order the internment of
all Americans between the ages of sew
enteen and forty-five living in Belgium.
The correspondent adds that they will
be sent to western Germany, probably
to oAix-la-Chapelle."
Evening star., 1917-04-08

Friendly Society. and Mario cowdray Of
Troop 1. Miss Cowdray drilled the girls
IN marching and talked on first aid.
The troop has planned for a hike We'd
nesday. Helen and Elisabeth Burch and
Eva Mendelsohn, former members Of
Troop IL. now belong to this troop
Zenaida Bailey, Scribe.
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Britain Releases Dutch Grain Ships

LONDON. April Z. 4:20 p.m.-A1-
though the Dutch government has
reiterated its intention not to permit
armed allied merchantmen to enter
Dutch ports, Great Britain has agreed
to release the Dutch grain vessels held
at Halifax and permit them to return
home without calling at an English
port. according to Reuters correspond
ent at The Hague
Evening star., 1917-04-08

THE troop meeting was held recent
ly at the home of Rita Roach. Six girls.
Mary Locke, Marie Casassa, Evelyn
Lynham, Pearl O'Brien, Adelaide Parry
and Evelyn Deardoff were proposed as
new members and unanimously elect
ed."-Dorothy Kemball. Scribe.
Evening star., 1917-04-08
THE GIRL SCOUTS.

The first meeting of the bicycle couriers
was held Monday on the White House
Enipse under the management OF Mrs.
| F. F. Wilcox. Seven scouts and their
| leader. Miss Brooks, were present. They
We're given their first lesson in mending
| a punctured tire and were instructed In
traffic regulations. The next meeting is
to be held Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
on the White Lot All members are re-
quested to be present in uniform.
Troop S-Cornfower-Mrs. w. Il. Pain.
Captain.
| ''The meeting was opened last Saturday
with talk on Inspection by the cap
| tain. The girls voted to go on a nike
Easter Monday, and have planned to IN
i vite Troops IS and So of the Boy Scouts to
go with them. sewing club has been
organized, and the girls meet every
Thursday to sew or embroider-'
Troop s-Oak-NIrs. ID. Eggleston,
| Captain.
| "a meeting was held at the home OF
our captain, March 90, 1917. The CONT
mental code and the semaphore were prac-
ticed. We then took a hike. Ruth Def
| fenbaugh, Scribe.
Troop 6-Pansies of Petworth-Mrs. S.
| A. MOOers, Captain.
"Plans for the Home Achievement Club
were discussed at a meeting Friday
| March 80. The captain in outlining the
plans, asked the girls to cooperate IN
| making 1t success. Margaret Wenegal.
| Eunice Haden and Ruth HaineS have
| passed the surgical dressing examination.
Mary Mikesell, secretary and treasurer.
was forced to resign her positions on &C
count Of moving to Riverdale. Eunice
Haden was appointed to take her place.
Rita EaStburn, Scribe.
| Troop s-Forget-me-nOt- J. Ches-
ter Pyles. Captain.
1.-The troop held its regular meeting
Friday afternoon. Two members were ad-
| mitted in the troop during the past week
| The girls planned hike for Tuesday
| Several girls are preparing for their sec
| ond-class test."-Emily Hornig, Scribe.
| Daisy Troop, No. 11-Mrs. Norman
Jones. Captain.
| 'The troop held a meeting Friday
| night at the home of the captain. Miss
! Rosalie Galleher and Miss Frances
! Riley having passed their tenderfoot
| examination, making averages of 100
per cent and SO per cent, respectively,
were presented with their hats and ties.
Plans for the Achievement Club were
made."-Florence Derrick. Scribe.
Troop 1s-Sunhower-Mrs. G. S. Rafter.
| Acting Captain.
| The troop met Tuesday and was
visited by Mrs. Miley. from the Girls
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Troop sa-John w. Hart. scoutma.ter

"The meeting last Friday was one of
the best attended meetings that has
been held for some time.
The office OF senior patrol leader has
been abolished and two more patrols
are being formed. with the former SEN
Tor patrol leader at the head of one
and former patrol leader in charge
of the other
'"Fhe troop took a hike Saturday and
succeeded in doing a good turn The
hiker's assisted No. "a fire engine to ex-
tngulsh fire near. Terra Gotta A
long line of the boys formed bucket
brigade. Earle Dodge, Scribe
Evening star., 1917-04-08

son, Abraham S1utsky. Charles 6roWn,
Robert Heinricks, Selden Cole. NoFman
O'Donohue, Calvert Weems, ONn Per-
kins. Claud Howison, Harry ellis. sam
uel Wade. George Webb. Hervey Depue'
Richard Schultz, Joel Brown ana Eu-
gene Graves.
Troop 52-P. L. Kicker, scOutmaster.
"An exhibition of scout work was
given by members Of the troop FRIDAY,
March 80. in the Chevy Chase Library.
Deputy Commissioner J. W. Patton ae-
livered a lecture on Scouts aud Scout
ing A hike was taken Saturday,
March 81.
"At a meeting OF the troop Tuesday
evening James I. Lee. seoutmaster, an ,
nounced that he had been appointed
assistant deputy scout commissioner. and
would have to leave the office OF
scoutmaster. James Pugh and William
Carter Joined the troop as tenderfoot
scouts. Lawrence A. Gage, Scribe
Troop 55-RaIph II. Campbell. Scout
master.
The troop met Friday and issued
cards of Identification to the various
members. Merits and demerits We're
announced and a drill followed. w II.
and the patrol drilling for the Daniels
cup received special Instruction.
Troop 5s-Charles A. Steele. Scout
master.
After game of basket ball in Noel
gymnasium last Thursday the weekly
business meeting took place. Deputy
Commissioner Patton and Ralph H.
Campbell were present and delivered
short talks. Charles A. Steele has ac-
cepted the scoutmaSterShip of the
troop. with Robert Hess as assistant
scoutmaster. The troop plans an ac-
tive spring and summer under their
leadership. A number of boys have
been admitted to the troop during the
Psst H,s few Daniel weeks Rsav Thsy n5e ea
Herbert Gregory, Robert Hess. Jr.:
James Conday. John Draper and Ber-
nard Humphrey"
Troop 59-James G. Black. Scoutmaster.
"The last meeting of the troop was
held Friday. March 80, at Wallach
School. Many items of interest were
discussed. Miss Rawlings, principal
of the school. gave some hints on
gardening. and troop club was
long hike Saturday Albert A. Riley,
Scribe.
Troop 3.
The troop met Friday at Its head
quarters. After the regular business
was transacted the scoutmaster ex-
planned the details of a mobilization
plan which he had worked out. A fire
was sighted in nearby woods Sunday
evening, and number of the boys went
to the scene and helped to get the fire
under control. which was done after
an hours hard work."-Carl Brudine,
Scribe.
Troop 30-Edwfn Kirk, ScOutmastcr.
1T has been decided to change the
time of meeting from 1880 to o'clock.
The scoutmaster at the last meeting
gave detailed account of what the
scouts would do in case of war. A
mobilization of members of the troop
was called Wednesday evening, and al
though some of the boys live a. long
distance, every one responded in less
than an hour."-William Plunkert,
Scribe.
Troop 47-W. f. Marsh, ScOutmaxter.
Mobilization plans were discussed at
the weekly meeting of the troop, held
Friday. March 80, at st. Andrews
Church. After the meeting drill was
held under the direction of Assistant
scoutmaster Prentice."-Louis Swingle.
Scribe.
Evening star., 1917-04-08

Owing to the sickness of the scout
master, the meeting scheduled to have
been held at Fort Stanton was called
off. The boys of the Junior gle Pa
troll have organized base ball team.
The team averages about 100 pounds
The boys would like to get games with
any troop averaging that weight .
Stacey Middleton, Scribe
Evening star., 1917-04-08

r. c. Day has been appointed assist
ant Scoutmastef ana was sworn in by
the Deputy Commissioner, who attend
ed the meeting, with twenty-five bovs
present. This troop is new and is 10.
Gated in the New Pork View School.
The personnel of the troop is as fol-
lows: Jack O'Donohue, Walter GIea-
Evening star., 1917-04-08
BOY SCOUTS ARE URGED
TO HELP GUARD THE US.
District Lads Ask to Enlist in
Emergency Coast Service.
Work Is Needed.

The 1000 members OF the Washington
Boy Scout organization have been ap-
pealed to by the recently organized Finer
gency Coast Service of the Boy Scouts
of America to enlist in this service for
the protection Of the country's coasts.
The purpose Of this activity is to make
available to the government the services
Of the Boy Scouts along the sea coast. to
act as auxinaries to the regular United
States Coast Guard In maintaining Wig
orous lookout, to relieve able-hodied men
for more active service in other capacities,
and. in general. to make themselves useful
and helpful to the country in this time OF
national emergency.
This plea will be sent broadcast so as
to reach Boy Scout organizations through
out the country. A proper oversight OF
the boys will be furnished by local and
national scout authorities. which will re-
lieve parents and guardians Of all legiti-
mate anxiety.
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Bows to Be Used in Shifts.

The home department will make ar
rangements by which boys will be used
IN shifts for limited periods of one or
two weeks duration at a time, so as
not to interfere much with their school
work. This department will also work
in conjunction with the school author
tiles to obtain permission for the alb
sence of scouts from schools without
detriment to their progress in classes.
1t is distinctly understood that no
boy in the Boy Scouts emergency serv-
ice binds himself in any particular to
enlist in either the army or navy, or in
branch of military service. Boys on
duty, so far as possible, will be kept
within reasonable distances of their
homes.
Owing to the nature of the service to
be rendered it has been deemed advis-
able to limit the coast work to scouts
fifteen years of age and over. Boys
under fifteen may sign to assist to the
service, and will be used at certain
headquarters and other stations as mes
sengers and orderlies. and such work
that will not neceSsitate their being
away from home overnight. Further
information can be obtained from
headquarters of the local council, room
22S, Munsey building.
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Troop sc-John F. Robb. scoutmast.r

1.-The officers of the troop have worked
out plan for mobilization. Mr. Robb
will notify Assistant Scoutmasters
Wilmington and Ergood and Senior
Patrol Leader Johnston will notify two
patrol leaders. The patrol leaders will
then notify their patrol. The scouts will
meet at the troop headquarters unless
told otherwise. Friday. w A. Taylor
gave an illustrated talk on Plant Life
Saturday, March 81, the base ball team
had its first try-out About twenty
boys turned out for ractice"-Robert
II MCNeM. Scribe
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Troop ao-Edwfn Kirk. scoutmastcr.

Troop 47-W. f. Marsh. Scoutmaster.
Mobilization plans were discussed at
the weekly meeting of the troop, held
Friday. March 3O at st. Andrews
Church. After the meeting a drill was
held under the direction of Assistant
Scoutmaster Prentice. Louis Swingle,
Scribe.
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Service Is Undermined.

The United States coast guard service
is seriously undermanned and can, there
fore, cover only \ part of the coast, ac-
corCiing to circular prepared by The
Emergency Coast Service. and the need Of
the service to be rendered by the boys is,
therefore. especially urgent. This is a
form of preparedness that VIII especially
appeal 10 Boy Scouts. carrying out. as
!i does, not only the scout motto, BE
prepared" but furnishing an opportunity
for the scouts to fulfill the obligation of
duty to country" which IS set forth in
their laws.
The work of the service is divided
into two departments. First, that Of
actual coast service, which will be un-
der the direction of the naval author
tiles. This will be called the service
department" Second. the home de-
partment" which will be under the di-
rection of the Boy Scout organization.
The duties of those who participate
in the work of the coast service. under
the direction of the naval authorities,
will be those of maintaining a vigilant
lookout at visual stations and light
houses along the coast of the United
States. acting as messengers, dispatch
bearers, orderlies at the navy yards
and naval headquarters, and in general
performing duties useful and helpful to
the country in time of national emer-
gency.
Evening star., 1917-04-08

Troop 1s-F. Herbert Bonnet, Scout
master.
Tuesday, March q. patrol from
Troop IS gave an exhibition of first-aid
work before the lexington branch of
the W. c. T. U. The various bandages
were demonstrated by being applied
upon a theoretically badly injured
scout.
after having dressed the wounds of
the patient stretcher was inprovised
and he was removed to the nearest
place where medical aid could be OBJ
tanned. The scouts participating in this
event were Patrol Leaders Wyand and
Ohlander, Assistant Patrol Leader
Fuhrman and Scouts Arnold, Rursley
A. and K. Harmon. Simms Soweres
Watkins and Watts. At the last meet
ing of the troop Harry Akin was ad-
mitted to membership"
Evening star., 1917-04-08

American, r.. /. Ave. & 1st st. NV,
frODAY-'THE THOROUGHBRED" Tri-
angle Drama. keystone, DOLLARS AND
SENSE"
,rOMORROw-CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
in 1.-THE COMMON LAW"
Evening star., 1917-04-08

Troop S-Oak--Mrs. j.. ID. EGGleston
Captain.
| "a meeting was held at the home Of
| our captain, March %, 1917. The CONT
mental code and the semaphore were prac-
ticed. We then took q hike."-Ruth Def
| fenbaugh, Scribe.
The Hartford republican., 1917-08-17
PLAN PROPOSED TO HOLD
DOWN PRICE OF POTATOES

Albany, n. V, Aug. IA plan in
tended to provide for an equalized
and reasonable price for potatoes
this season and to forestall efforts
of food spectators to purchase and
later force up prices, was outlined
in a report submitted to Gov. Whit
man to-day by the State Food Sup
ply Commission. 1t calls for coop
Grafton between growers and con-
sumers and arranges in detail for this
cooperation.
The indications are, says the re-
port, that as result of State ac-
tivities. "the crop of potatoes in New
York will be a good percentage great
er than the crop of last year"
The plan of the commission, of
which Commissioner Charles S. Will
son, of the State Department of Ag-
riculture, is chairman, is to provide
for the distribution of potatoes di-
rectly from grower to consumer.
The commission proposes the or
ganization of potato growers
throughout the State by counties, so
that careful estimates may be made
of the amount of potatoes produced.
1t proposes to obtain figures on the
demand, the cost of production and
other data, so that a fair and reason
The Hartford republican., 1917-08-17
NOTICE.

We again call the attention of our
readers to the fact that The Repub-
lican will publish no communications
unless signed by the author. Few
weeks pass that anonymous articles
are not received and it is not our de-
sire to hurl newsy items into the
waste basket. This anonymous COM
rule Is stated each week
at the head of the editorial column
and must be adhered to. Requests
that names be omitted from print
re complied with, but the manuscript
must bear the writer's signature.
THE EDITOR.
The Hartford republican., 1917-08-17

court house door In Hartford, KY,
on Monday, September 3, 1917, at
about the hour of one o'clock p. M,
on credit of six and twelve months,
the following described real estate,
lying end being in Ohio County, KY,
as follows, to-wit:
Two tracts of land bounded as
follows:
No. beginning at stone,
Wright's S. w. corner on the old
Barbour line. now j. w. Stevens line;
thence with the same S. 10, 73 poles
and Is links to stone; thence with
Troutman n. so f. 112 poles to
hickories on the old May line; thence
with said line n. w. 73 poles and Is
links to a stone on Cummins' line;
thence S. 80 w. lis poles and 10
links to the beginning, containing
about so acres, more or less, and
same land conveyed to decedent by
VIM. X. Wright and wife on the 18th
day of February, 1874, and which
deed is of record in deed book AS,
page 167
No. 2-Bmbraces two boundaries.
as follows:
Boundary No. beginning at two
populars on the bank of Rough
Creek; thence down same to the cut
off; thence n. with the old bed to
Jacob Weller's line; thence with his
line to a line claimed by Wash Cos
sett; thence eastward to w. ii. Cum
Minis line; thence with his line
southawrd to the beginning.
Boundary No. 2-Beginning at the
old Troutman line; thence with said
line to the first tract conveyed here
in; thence with same to the begin
ming, containing 115 acres, more or
less, and which land was conveyed
to him by the Master Commissioner
of the Ohio Circuit Court, John p.
Barrett, on June IA, 1890.
The purchaser will be required to
execute bond Immediately after sale,
and a lien retained on the land as
additional security.
Given under my hand this the 18th,
day of August, 1917.
OTTO c. MARTIN,
Master Commissioner.
Heavrin 4 Kirk, Ernest Wood
ward, Attorneys. IT'S
The Hartford republican., 1917-08-17
MASTER COMMISSIONERS SALE.
Ohio Circuit Court.
7. @. Shields, Plaintiff.

Ohio Circuit Court.
T. @. Shields, Plaintiff. -
VS.. Notice.
Oda Haycraft, ct al, Defendants.
Pursuant to a judgment and order
of sale of the Ohio Circuit Court
rendered at its July term, 1917, for
the purpose of paying the Judgment
in favor of the plaintiff against the
defendants in the sum OF $152.22,
with interest theron at the rate OF
6 per cent per annum from September
25, 1914, until paid and for the pur-
pose of paying the cost of the above
styled action, together with the cost
of this sale, | will offer for sale at
public auction to the highest and best
bidder at the court house door in
Hartford, KY, on Monday, September
3rd, 1917, at about the hour OF one
o'clock p. m, upon a credit OF IL
months, the following described
property, to-wit:
One tract of land lying on Indian
Camp Creek, in Ohio County, KY,
near Cromwell and described as fol-
lows:
Bounded on the north by the lands
of Mrs. S. p. Ranney; on the west by
the lands of Mrs. l.. h. Shields and
Indian Camp Creek; on the South
and East by the lands of 7. Q,
Shields.
Being the same land conveyed to
the defendant, Oda Haycraft by the
plaintiff. T. @. Shields, and conveyed
by Haycraft and wife to Ida Stratton.
The purchaser will be required to
execute bond with approved security
Immediately after sale, and a lien
will be refined as further security.
This August 18th, 1917.
OTTO c. MARTIN,
Master Commissioners
j. Nj. Porter, Attorney. U5
The Hartford republican., 1917-08-17
FIGURES COST IN
MEN and GOLD
GERMAN NEWSPAPER PRINTS
FIGURES ON WORLD WAR FOR
THREE YEARS.

Berlin, Aug. 1.-THE Berliner
Tageblatt sums up the results of the
war to date as follows:
War loans, $4,000, ,OO0, 900; loss
in dead and wounded, 24,000,00O
men; killed, 100000 men; crippled
for life, 100000 men; loss thru
decrease of birth rate in all belliger-
ent countries, 100000 men.
"The gold production of the world
during the last 500 years amounted
to $4,000. 900, 900, or less than one
fifth of the cost of the awful war;"
the paper continues. 'In five-dollar
gold pieces the sS7,00O,OOO,OOO
raised in war loans would form belt
that could be wound around the earth
nine times. The funeral cortege of
the 100000 men killed would reach
from Paris to Vladivostok, if one
hearse followed the other.
Combined Debt.
"When the war began the combin-
ed public debt of all European States
was a little over $4,000, 900,
and now it is over s112,OOO,O0O,O00
The British merchant fleet in 1914
represented value of about $780,
100000. That is less than the an
nual interest England now has to
pay for her war debt. Before the
war Germany exported goods to the
amount of s113,OOO,O00 per year to
the British colonies. By cutting off
this export England can eventually
reimburse herself for her losses, but
this will take more than 200 years.
Germany, with the amount spent
by her for the war, could have bought
all the cotton fields, the copper mines
and the whole petroleum industry of
the United States and still would
have had several billion dollars left
over.
Loss To Russia.
Russia, with her war expenses,
might have covered her imense ter
ritories with a net of railways as
close as that of Belgium, and France,
whose losses in men are larger than
the entire male population of Alasce-
Lorraine. could have bought all of
the Portuguese and Dutch colonies
with the money she sacrificed for the
war.
with the enormous wealth de-
stroyed by the war Europe might
have been made a paradise on earth
instead of bowling wilderness.
There is no doubt that the awful
struggle would have been avoided If
the nations had any idea of its enor-
nifty when it started"