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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
IL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS IN

WI SERVICE EXAMINATIONS N
|Martinsbrug soon Men and We
men desiring COVE nmeat clerk
|shlps, departmental, pos1office,
railway mail, customs, stenoeraph-
lers, wife for Tree particulars to J.
&c. Leonard former government
Examiner, 236 keuo.s Bldg Wash
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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
LOPS HEADACHE.
|PAIN, NEURALGIA
bn't suffer- Get a dime pack.
of DR.. James Headache
Powders.

You can clear your head and relieve
| dull splitting OF violent throbbine
adache in a moment with q d.
Lpes' Headache Powder. This cd
.aaadache relief acts almost magi-
~ some one to the drug store
Nc package and few mo-
\Au take a powder you
uihnss Of the head
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
FOR SALE
MISCELLANEOUS

|R sRLE-StayInea= wiges1p apples.
B125 a bushel r. C. Henshaw
J94s
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
tMiSCELLnNE0 US

APiTALlsT, Al. worth $3.50 05o
would marry owrking girl or wild
ow, Honorable. 253 Minna, san
Francisco. KRIS
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
. HEAD CATTLE
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.

Brand new Sterling wagon, MI
waukee binder practically new; NOV
ing machine and new Osburn horse
rake pair Shelbournes. I good Sa-
perior grain drill and Superior corn
planter stick wagon, / log wagon
new Oliver chilled steel pillow No, 40.
and ! Snapp pillow, 4 double shovel
plows. single shovel plows, 1 drag,
emitting box, . spring wagons, bug
= poles
HARNESS.
Two sets Yankee harness for heavy
work. ] set buggy harness and SIX
horse collars. 3 Bride. i wagon sad
lie. I par good check lines. : sets
II buggy lines
100 6u. Wheat. 100 Bu. Corn.
200 Bundles Fodder.
TERMS OF SALE
a credit of 9 months win be given
n ali sums Of $40 and upwards. the
purchaser TO give nose with approx
ed security negotiable and payable
- Citizens National Bank, at Mar
tasOug. " Va with interest to
a#ta, bat # paid at maturity. interest
emitted. Under $40 cash No prop
~ Ia be moved until settled for
C. $ MASTERS
/. III Plrs0a. Auct
De II Is 4
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

IN RENT Bright elagIe corner OF
bee. streel a0oi u IouIna Uul.d
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Journal Office
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

bST-Go.d South Bend watch, wlta
initials A. l. G on back Reward
Il returned TO A L. Glover, Mar
kinsburg. kl2'
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
4 DAY OF DECEMBER. 1917,
at 100 O'clock p. M.

at l.oU y CLOCK +. M.
the real estate Of which f. V. Little
died seized itu8te in Mart.nsburg
W Va ANA descr bed as follows:
IL The Home Property OF L. Y
Little s.tua.e on South College street
fronting 30 fee, on said - ~ and
extending haca OF eGua width 51l5
leee between The property Of NJ L
Dorm On the south. ana the Now
property on the north, to the lot Of
JOINS Iraa in rear Tins property
sos SIS d M SRQ0M FRAME
DWELLING in good state of preser
ys-i5n. wi-h modern conyeniences
and situated within a block Of the
pubt square Of MarHns5urs
md Tie New" property situated
On satd College street fronting IS
teet and extending back SIG feet
between the home property and that
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

kUND-White carrier pigeon with
blue feathers in tail Owner can
pave same by calling at 644 North
bueen 81. j69
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

pr Modern * room house.
Nigh s.. che Apply The Hub,
I141 y. Queen 81 Jsg
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About 30 Rhode lsland Hens
HOUSEHOLD GOODS

Geo " Eas ecker. Auef
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II a Riddle Gen Pass Agent
J. II Tongs. Supg
" A 2<YQ. AGENT. &arrinshnrx. ". Va.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
WANTED
HELP WANTED

AMBITIOUS statesmen OF neat ap-
pearance. call On merchants in
your territory; elegant line. eonYen-
lent TO carry. Good commissions,
prompt remittance The Geo. II.
Jung Co, Cincinnati o. K19s
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
GERMAN COOK DISAPPEARS
LEAVING $4,000 IN SECURITIES

PARIS. June 1.-THE equivalent OF
$40 900 in securities recently was dis
covered hidden behind buffet by a
French official who was re-arranging
the furniture of his apartment. The
little fortune was traced to a German
cock who was employed by the official
and whose excellent attitude since the
war began gained for her the privilege
IF remaining in France.
The police made inquiries about her
recently and she disap-
reared. The official and his habitnal
guests were well placed to acquire
information regarding the
national defense. That fact and the
discovery of her unsupported wealth
led to the suspicion that the COOK
might have been in communication
with the enemy. The fortune has beer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
CAR SHORTAGE MAY 1ST
BROKE ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS

ATLANTA, Ca, June 16.-The car
shortage reported on May / again
broke all previous records, according
tt interesting, not to say alarming,
figures just given out here by railroad
officials. On that day there was de-
fciency of 1,145,449 freight cars,
showing that the shortage is going up
and up. and still higher up, instead of
going down.
Its seriousness is sufficiently great,
but not so much for what it means in
the immediate present as because OF
the indication of what is coming. A
shortage so large this year when the
war is on, and at this particular time
of the year, indicates tendency which
if not relieved will lead to a condi-
tinn not comparable with any that ever
existed in the nations history.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
MAYR'S
Wonderful Remedy for
STOMACH TROUBLE
One dose convinces
HOWELL'S PHARMACY
and other reliable druggists.
CLEVER DODGES FOR HAULING
LIQUOR FOUND BIZ AUTHORITIES

ATLANTA, Ga, June 16.-Atlanta
police and detectives have uncovered
Sc many clever lodges for evading the
prohibition law that they are supersti-
tious of any sort of vessel capable OF
containing a liquid.
For example, milk wagon speeds
elong a prominent thoroughfare in
the early morning hours. John Jones,
Dairyman. Pure Milk and Butter" or
some such legend, is emblazoned on
the side of the auto. The body is fill
I'd with milk cans. None but an ex
pert in the art of catching tiger
would give that vehicle a second look.
If he did, and if he examined it. TAX
ing off the lids of the milk cans, he
would find nothing but milk.
But ar experienced big game hunter,
yersed in the ways of the tiger would
go deeper than the milk. He would
pour out the milk and reach down into
the can and lift out the false top, and
underneath the false top he would find
five gallon jug of blockade liquor
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
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AMERICANS AT THE FRONT.

= LONDON, June 16.-It gener- :
= ally takes two bullets to stop an :
= American Thomas ST. Ledger, OF
= Springfield, Mass, so scarlet
= headed they called him Red !
= from the start, was .bowled over
' at Lens, but it took bullet !
y through his leg to send him to
= England on stretcher. He got
= that at vimy Ridge, where the
= American flag waved in the :
= smoke of the battle. st. Ledger :
= served nine years in the Twenty :
= third United States Infantry. He's :
= hungry for more bayonet work
= and swears his sorrel-top will be =
= seen in the thick of it AGAIN be-
y fore peace arrives.
y = \ \ \ 4 4 4 7 Z =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
ROTARIANS HAVE NEW DEVICE
TO PUT HALTER ON SPEAKERS

ATLANTA, Ga, June 16.-The At
lanta rotary club, which invented the
dc vice, when entertaining preachers. OF
putting a large piece of ice in tehr!
hands and letting them speak as long
as they can hold it. has adopted \
newer and better means of cutting
short speakers at their convention OPP
ening Monday. In front of the speak
Ell is a green and red light. The
former means he has three minutes
left, the latter means the same as the
red side of the traffic sign, Stop"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
canadians penniless in EngIand.

LONDON, June 16.-There are 40,
600 dependents of Canadian soldiers
in this country unable to return to
Canada owing to the lack of passenger
accommodations on the few steamers
running to Canada. They came soon
after their men folk when the latter
enlisted and in some cases the men al
rady have returned to Canada wounded
or discharged from the army. Others
were relatives of soldiers who havs
been killed there, are anxious TO return
to relatives.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
\ = \ = 4 4 \ \ + 4 4
TRENCH TALES.

y LONDON, June 16-An instance =
= of German kaiser hatred" was =
\ described by wounded engi- =
! neer.
\ I'm a house in one of the vii =
= lagos we captured few days :
= ago. that had evidently been some =
= kind of headquarters. there was a :
\ large picture of the kaiser on the =
\ wall. Several German prisoners =
I were brought in the house. One :
= of them on seeing the kaiser's :
= picture spat on it. We asked :
= him why he spat on the picture,
= and if he was a Saxon.
y "No Englishman,' he re-
= piled, Pm a Prussian, but I'm !
\ fed up, and he's the devil who 4
I started this"
y + 4 4 = = \ = = = =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
SOME HISTORY OF LEADERS
AMONG THE ENTENTE NATIONS

LONDON. June 16.-The lowly boy
hood of Premier Lloyd-George, sud
denly brought into contrast with his
achievements of middle life, has Gauss
ed the English people to scrutinize the
early careers of other Entente lead
ers.
Ex-Premier BRAND, of France, it was
ascertained. was the son of cafe
owner at St. Nazaire. His first JOB
was that of a reporter for a labor
paper, so poorly paid that he had to
decline a lecture invitation because he
had no shoes. The promoters wire /
money enabling BRAND to buy pair
in time to deliver the lecture.
General SHUTS, ex-rebel and now a
participant in the empire council be-
cause if his victories over the Germans
in Africa, spent his boyhood herding
his fathers sheep in Cape Colony. La
ter he attended an English university,
becoming a lawyer.
Sir Sam Hughes, the Australian pre-
mier. also rose from lowly rank OF
life and narrowly missed participation
in the empire council.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-17
THE BEST TEST
Is the Test of Time.

Years ago this Americas resident
told of good results from using Doan's
Kidney Pills. Now A. G. Alexander,
grocer, of 712 Spring ST., confirms the
former statement-says there has
been no return of the trouble. Can
Americas people ask for more con-
vincing testimony?
Mr.. Alexander says: my back
caused me much suffering and l was
hardly able to perform my duties on
account of the pains. The action OF
NV kidneys was very irregular and
too frequent. causing me to get up a
number OF times at night. Doan's
Kidney Pills soon relieved me OF the
pain in my back and the action of my
kidneys became regular. The pains
left and have never felt them since"
fstatement given March IS, 1870.
A Permanent Cure.
On June 16, 1914, Mr.. Alexander
said: "Doan's Kidney Pills made a
cure for me which has proven perma-
nent and now my back and kidneys
don't bother me bit"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Alexander has twice publicly rec
amuended. Foster Milharn Co ,
Props. Buffalo, n. Y.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19
The Fight Against Whisky.

New York, N. Y.-The fight against
whisky is on with a vengeance. Tenn
perance advocates throughout the eoun-
try are urging that it be uprooted, and
that this curse of the ages be definitely
relegated to the rear. The Hearst
newspapers throughout the country, led
by the New York American, have come
out with bugle blast against whisky
in burning words of fire. The Ameri-
can says:
"Whisky and strong liquors can be
sold in Germany only during specified
hours, but on the other hand, beers and
light wines are part of the soldiers
ration at the front. The war is driving
Europe to temperance and it is doubt
full if Europe, facing the tremendous
problems that will follow the war, will
ever again permit alcohol to resume its
damnable and destructive rule. The
United States, preparing for war, in the
very beginning might well profit by
Europe's experience. Whisky is the
great blight of efficiency. Its ravages
are not less harmful in peace than in
war, only more apparent in WARP
The broad ax., 1917-05-19
JURY OUT JUST FORTY MINUTES
Race Man Gets $4,000 Damages in
Judge Anderson's Court Branch of
the U. S. Circuit Court, Hammond,
Indiana.

George W.. Ray, 1921 Vernon avenue,
Chicago, was awarded $4,000 by jury
recently for injuries he received while
working in a four foot ditch in East
Chicago, Indiana, for Harberson
Walker Refractorary Company. Mr..
Ray was permanently injured about
four years ago while laying brick in
four foot ditch. A large truck car
weighing about 1900 pounds which was
being used to haul brick on a small,
narrow track about five feet to the
edge of the ditch in which Mr.. Ray was
working, ran off the track and tum-
bled into the ditch, brick and all on
top. of him, breaking his hip and
causing him to become paralyZed on
one side Mr.. Ray is 20 years old, but
with the loving care that his wife has
given him and is still giving him he
looks only 80. Mr.. Ray has two daugh-
tiers and one son, Mrs. Cora Knight, of
Fort Scott, Kansas; Mrs. Bessie Harris,
1921 Vernon avenue, and Frank Ray,
member of the Illinois National Guard,
Chicago. Mrs. Knight was visiting
Chicago during her fathers trial. Mrs.
knight has a daughter Is years old
teaching school in Fort Scott, Kansas.
Mrs. Bessie Harris has gone to accom-
pany her mother, father and sister
back to their Fort Scott home. From
there she will visit her Aunt Bell in
Kansas City before returning back to
Chicago. Attorneys for Mr.. Ray were
F. j. Woolley, lis South LaSalle street,
Chicago, and Compaeker & Compaeker,
Hammond, Indiana. Mr.. Abraham L.
Harris, Mr.. Rays son-in-law, assisted.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19
MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMP-
SON TO UNvEIL MONUMENT TO
MEMORY OF FIRST SURVEYOR
OF CHICAGO AT EVANSVILLE,
ILL, ON DECORATION DAY.

On the night of May Goth, Mayor
Thompson, with party of friends, will
leave for Evansville, Randolph county,
Illinois where on the following day,
which is Decoration Day the mayor will
unveil a monument to the memory of
James Thompson, which he has erected
at his own expense in Old Preston GEM
etery. From Evansville the party will
motor to Prairie du Rocher to visit
Fort Charities, the magazine of which is
the oldest building standing in what
was known as the Northwest Territory.
James Thompson is the man who
surveyed the site of the City of Chi
cago, and, also, the route of the Illinois
and Michigan Canal. For nearly half a
century his body has lain in an I'M
marked grave. Friends of Mayor
Thompson recently notified him of this
fact and he Immediately took steps to
mark the spot in an appropriate man.
ner.
The survey of the City of Chicago
was made in 1880, at which time the
town contained about two hundred
people, who mostly lived near the forks
of the river. The borders of the orig
inal survey were marked by State
street, Desplaines street, Madison street
and Kinzie street.
In addition to being a surveyor,
James Thompson was a soldier, iurist,
engineer and farmer, and played big
part in the romantic human drama of
Transforming Illinois from a wilderness.
He was a contemporary of Shadrach
Bond, Edward Coles, Elias Kent Kane,
Sidney Breese, Pierre Menard, Thomas
Reynolds, Nathanisl Pope and other
distinguished sons of illinois whose
achievements in the first quarter of the
nineteenth century constitute a chapter
of our history that is as vivid as it is
enduring.
No county in Illinois is so rich in the
early history of the State as Randolph.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19

This, of course, has been great aid in
school discipline. The pernicious habit
of eating big, sour pickles has also been
stopped. The children with, of course
some exceptions, are well supplied with
pennies, and before operating the pen
ny lunch room, spent them for gum,
candy and ice cream. The penny lunch
has also brought the percentage of at
tendance up, especially in the after
noon, and it has also helped to make
the children more kindly and unselish
to each other"
Those who would be interested in
reading the report in its entirety, and
it is well worth reading, can no doubt
obtain copies by applying to Superin-
tendent Shoop of the Board of Educa-
ton.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19
TAG DAY BROUGHT IN MORE
THAN TEN THOUSAND DOL.
LARS,
The Old Folks Home Received EigE
Hundred Dollars and the PhyM
Wheatley Home Pulled in Six Hun
bred Dollars.

Monday was tag day for the aged
and adult charities and about twenty
worthy charitable institutions received
their share of the proceeds, including
the Phyllis Wheatley Home and the Old
Folks Home Well on to ten thousand
dollars was raked in by the army Of
taggers on that day. More than thirty
ladies who had given their word and
honor that they would work real hard
all day long for the Phyllis Wheatley
Home and tag every good looking man
in sight, failed to show up in any man
ner, shape or form on that day, and the
result was that the Phyllis Wheatley
Home will only receive net about I'VE
hundred and fifty dollars, whereas II
all the dear, sweet and truthful LADIES
would have kept their word and showed
up some way or other at the proper
time, the Phyllis Wheatley Home would
have received almost one thousand DOR
lars. All the ladies who had PROMISED
to tag for the Old Folks Home were III
evidence everywhere on that day anu
they pulled in eight hundred dollars luz
the home.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
Brief Bits of News and Comments on
Men and Measures.
NEGRO LABOR EXODUS CAUSES
CRISIS IN SOUTH.

West Point, Miss.-At a mass meet
ing of West Point and Clay county cit
liens, the labor situation, resulting
from the departure of thousands of Ne
groes for the north, was discussed. A
resolution was passed providing for the
appointment of a committee of twenty
to inform each labor agent in the
county that his business is ruinous to
the county and also to request him to
desist from recruiting Negro labor for
other parts of the country.
The labor situation in many parts of
Mississippi is approaching a crisis. In
fact, the whole of the south is being
aroused by the daily exodus of labor
ers, and action, similar to that taken
at the West Point meeting, is being
urged in other places. Some of the
more conservative employers advise less
drastic action.
1t is pointed out that the labor agents
have the protection of the law and that
complications will inevitably result if
the citizens proceed with the single
idea that the only way in which they
can hold their labor is by literally
eiecting the agents from their districts.
Making conditions in the south more
attractive to the Negro laborer will, it
is said, be more peaceful means of
forcing the labor agent to close his
doors.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19
THE FIRST GRAND SHRINERS'
PATROL BALL AT THE COLL
scum ANNEX WAS A GRAND
SUCCESS.
The Grand March was Led by CAPTAIN
and Mrs. Frank B. Cranshaw, WHO
Were Followed by Col. and Mrs. H.
II. Biggs, Gen. George ]. Terrell and
Mrs. Newman, and by Many Other
High Chief Shriners.

Last Monday evening Arabic Temple
Patrol, No. A, A. E. A. o. N. M. S.
gave their first grand shriners' ball at
the Coliseum Annex, and it was ND TO
snuff in every way and a grand success.
1t was largely attended by a jolly good
crowd of men and women, and the Ia
dies looked powerfully fine logged ND
In their fnery, and some of the men
present were cruel enough to remark
that they were so sweet that thew
looked good enough to eat.
The drilling by the patrol, the mem
oers being in full uniform, wearing
sharp pointed red hats, was yerv fine
to behold. The catchy music for the
evening was furnished by Prof Stew.
art's K. of P. orchestra. Mr.. George
G. Parker was the floor MANAGER For
the evening.
Inc grand march was led by CAPTAIN
and Mrs. Frank B. Cranshaw Col and
mrs d. ii. Biggs, General George ].
.eiren and Mrs. Newman, who were
followed by well onto four hundred
The broad ax., 1917-05-19

1t is possibly a little late, but we
must extend our gratefulness to Mrs.
Jennette Coates, of Harrisburg, Pa,
who was so kind and considerate to the
mother of the editor of this paper dur
ing her late illness. At the same time
we wish to thank Mrs. Priscilla Walker,
who was for more than thirty years the
bosom friend of our mother, for her
steadfast adherence to her to the end
of time and for the assistance which
she rendered in the way of adding to
her comfort, and we wish to thank the
many other friends who cheerfully as
sisted in every way to make her last
days pleasant, including Mrs. Anna Da-
Wis, of that city.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19

The\ Hearst newspapers have fought
for temperance for twenty years. De
Tending his sweeping order excluding
advertisements of ardent liquors from
all his publications, Mr.. Hearst said:
"Our papers for years have crusaded
against the use of whisky and all such
ardent liquors, believing such strong
drink to be destructive of the mental
ity and morality of humanity as well
as of the physical efficiency of man
kind.''
This is the truth about strong liquor
that Europe has learned in the death
grips of battle" destructive of the
mentality and morality of humanity as
well as of the physical efficiency of
mankird.'
Let one of the very first measures
of American war preparation be blow
at whisky. A law forbidding the man.
ufacture, purchase or sale of liquors
containing more than Il per cent of
alcohol, such as has been recently
passed by the California senate, will
save more lives, prevent more misery,
bring more happiness than all the vic
tories of arms put together. And in
the meantime, let us enhance our
chances of victory at arms by de-
stroying the enemy whisky that is at
lacking the nation with such frightful
results from within.
The broad ax., 1917-05-19
JUDGE EDWARD osGooD BROWN
AND ATTORNEY ISRAEL CowEN
EXTEND THEIR SYMPATHY TO
THE EDITOR OF THIS PAPER.

The following letters from our
highly esteemed friends, Judge Edward
Osgood Brown and Attorney Israel
Cowen, speak for themselves:
Mr.. Julius Taylor,
GALS Champlain Avenue,
Chicago.
Dear SIR
1t was not until yesterday that 1 had
the opportunity to read the last two or
three copies of The Broad AK. L was
very sorry to learn from them of the
death of your mother and L offer my
sincere sympathy in your bereavement.
She had lived strenuous and useful
life, and 1 have no doubt has entered
into her suitable reward.
Sincerely yours,
E. o. Brown.