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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
WORLDS NEWS in
CONDENSED FORM

DETRoIT.-Henry Ford will build
no more pleasure automobiles until
the war is over. He will devote his
entire plant to the production of war
necessities, such as tractors, amou'
lances, aircraft engines and shells.
f., CAMP DEVENS, AVER, MASS
Private Nicholas Costello Of the
Three Hundred and Fourth infantry
was sentenced to twenty years in the
federal penitentiary at Atlanta, and
Frank Kenan of the same regiment
was given ten years at Fort Jay for
assault on Corporal Carl E. Krog.
PARIS.-A little body of American
soldiers captured two Germans.
NEW BEDFORD, MASS. - The
wages of $4,000 operatives will be at.
fected by 10 per cent. increase an
nounced by the New Bedford Cotton
Manufacturers association. The new
wage scale goes into effect December 3.
NEWARK, N. 1.-THE ball of Bene.
dict and Edwin L. Prieth, brothers,
formerly owners Of the New Jersey
Freie Zeitung, was increased from S..
600 each to $4,000 by Federal Judge
Haight. They pleaded not guilty to
charges of treason and sedition. The
additional bail was furnished.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mexico has
adopted prohibition by large vote:
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
Patr()lliZe
gae merchants who ad-
veyt:se iga this paper
1'hsywill treat you s5g;!l.i
Stop, Read and ThiAk.
M q Rheumatic?

Are you Rheumatic?
Do you know that you are eating
things every day that is wrecking your
nervous system and poisoning every
vital organ in your body? Are your
muscles sore and stiff? Are you lame
and stiff in your back and joints? Arc
you having all kinds of neuralgia
pains? Do you get up as tired IN the
morning as when you went to bed?.
If so, you should not neglect to gel
MACRo-sAL rheumatism Remedy al
one and get rid of these serious symp'
toms. With each bottle there is a
special diet list for all rheumatic PEG.
pie, which is worth many hundreds Of
dollars to your. MACRo-SAL is guar,
anteed to give results. If no benefit
received from the medicine after dlrec'
tons are strictly followed your money
will be cheerfully refunded.
Ask your dealer for Macro-Sal,
81. 90 postpaid. Dealers supplied by
S. B. Wallace & Co., Marlinton, W.
Va.
For sale by Highland Mercantile
Co., Monterey, Va. adv
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
'U.S.PATRllL BOAT
ALCED0 is SUNK
First American War Vessel to
Be Sent to the Bottom In
Present Conflict.
TORPEDOED OFF EUROPE
No Details of Engagement Given In
Brief Dispatch to Washington.
Vessel Sank Within Four
-. Minutes.

Washington.-The American patrol
boat Alcedo was torpedoed and sunk
by a German submarine in the war
zone early Monday morning, and one
officer and 20 enlisted men are miss
ing.
The navy department announced
that the following members of the
Alcedos crew were still unaccounted
for:
Melvin, John T., lieutenant (junior
grade); father, Bishop Stewart Nell
vim of Selma, Ala.
Gozzett, E. R., seaman; mother,
Mrs. A. G. Gozzett, Astoria, L. l.
Cleary, James j., seaman; mother,
Mrs. Albert Cleary, White Plains,
N. Y.
Wesche, R., seaman; mother, Mrs.
E. Wesche, Brooklyn.
Riker, R. W., seaman; mother, Mrs.
Harry F. Riker, Brooklyn.
Holler, w. R., seaman; mother, Mrs.
X. Holler, Richmond Hill, New York
city.
Brunkhardt, j. W., seaman; mother,
Mrs. e. Brunkhardt, Brooklyn.
Weaver, Luther O., seaman; father,
E. w. Weaver, Brooklyn.
Wynne, John, Jr- seaman; wife,
Mrs. John J. Wynne, Jr., New York
city.
Harrison, E., mess attendant; uncle,
Henry Pool, Tyler, Ala.
lingering, F. W., fireman; mother,
Mrs. C. Tenburin, Jersey City. N. ].
Edwards, Allen T., seaman; mother,
Mrs. Lydia M. Edwards, Jackson, N. c.
Gaus, C. F., seaman; mother, Mrs.
Mary Gaus, Jamaica, L. I.
Harrington, V. E., seaman; mother,
Mrs. Maud Harrington, Ashland, Okla.
Surratt, w. u, seaman; mother,
Mrs. W. D. Witt, Northfork, w. Va.
Smock, W. W., seaman; father, D.
R. Smock, Des Moines, Ia.
Towle, S. j., seaman; mother, Mrs.
Mary Vonderwall, Jamaica, L. I.
Daniel, j. R., seaman; father, j. A.
Daniel, Darlington, S. G..
Pacciano, H. A, boilermaker; moth
er Mrs. Teresa Pacciano, Endicott,
N. Y.
Higgins, Frank W., yeoman (naval
reserve); mother, Mrs. Bertha E. Hig'
gins, Staten Island, N. Y.
McCray, Robert (colored), seaman;
father, Capus McCray, Charleston,
S. G.
The navy department announced the
disaster in this statement:
1.-THE navy department has been adj
vised by Vice Admiral Sims that at
1870 a. m, November 5, the American
patrol boat Alcedo, a converted yacht,
was torpedoed and sunk by German
submarine in the war zone. One Off
Ger and 20 men are missing. The ship
sank In four minutes after being
struck. Several vessels were search
ing for possible survivors at the time
the report was made. The Alcedo
carried a crew of seven officers and
IS men,"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
America s Security

In the year 1911 one of the lead
ing military experts of Germany
figured out the impracticability 0
his country making successful in
vasion of the United States. He
pointed out the impossibility of
secret expeditions with TRANSPORTS
and the taking of the United States
by surprise. He likewise Indicated
that the American fleet would take
refuge in one of the fortified har-.
bors and play havoc with the Ger
man ships. He then Indicated
that in case a landing could be
made some slight advantage would
be gained over the Army Of th s
country of less than seventy thous-
and regulars, but that within a
few weeks the militia would be
mustered and the Germans driven
into the sea. These operations
would likewise be fraught with
vast difficulty because OF the coal
ing and supply necessities of the
German ships.
Thus briefly stated is the picture
of impracticability of Germany
making successful assault upon the
United States when this country
| had a skeleton Army. Now it has
10000, 900 men on call, Astounding
war materials and is aiding to sup
ply the world. 1t has fleet three
times as large as in 1911 and 1t Is
marvelously strong in coast de-
Tense batteries and types OF craft
What Germany could not do II
1911 it would find impossible to dc
in 1917, even should it capture the
entire British feet. Submarine
raids will mark the limit of practlc
able assault upon the American
Coast, save by raiders that may
gain freedom of action for a brle1
Nhiie. Baltimore Ag erlcan.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
The German Myth

The myth OF German invincibllity
in trade and 'var has been sedulous-
| " inculcated in all the peoples OF
the world. Never was there ma
ton, we are told, like this German
natiou, whose industrial giants
have brushed their pigmy adVersar.
i. S to one side and laughed at COM
petition. And who could measure
swords with them or hope to meet
in equal combat the super-legicus
of the super-scientiic war lords,
who aad nodded from raw human
material the machinery of newt
able triumph? Ale the Almighty
had been conjured by Prussian in
C lntations to breathe omnipotence
into the serfs Hohenzollern and
deliver to them dominion of the
earth.
Where were these Prussian giants
when the Standard Oil Company
reached its long arm into Berlin it
self and drove German oil interests
to pitiable supplication for govern
fment relief rom unconquerable yam
kee competition? How miserably
weak were Prussian agrarians when
American manufactured meat was
driving their products out of the
markes of Berlin, Hamburg and
| the Frankfort! Were these super
scientists asleep that American
agricultural machinery titled the
fields of all Europe, that American
typewriters and American sewing
macbinrs brooked no RIVALS, and
that even the economic doctrines
on which modern Germany rose to
wealth and power were imported
from the United States? The Ger
mans have driven no great Ameri-
can firms from any field where
they have met US ia free competi-
ton, and seldom have we failed to
get the better of them: they have
wrecked no carrying trade of which
we boasted, and we have sold our
locomotives under their very noses
even in countries which they politi-
cally dominated.
But what of this German fighting
machine? The world has nothing
to match that! Maybe not; but is
this worth considering? Since the
great horde of trained soldiers
butchered its way through Belgian
and Northern France it has to it's
credit not one single military victory
of major Importance when opposed
by trained and disciplined troops
of anything like corresponding
numbers. Joffre broke it at the
Marne with an army inferior il
numbers and in artillery.-From
the Philadelphia Ledger.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
Much In Little

For fly fishing for bass early
morning hours and an hour before
dark best time; if full moon even
later gets the big ones.
The use of plant growing local
ly for a roof covering by a farmer
in Germany led to the discovery
that it produces a fiber that is a
fair substitute for jute and hemp.
To save carpenters time a nail
holder has been invented which,
suspended from a mans shoulders,
feeds nails down into the right
position to be most easily grasped.
A new method of clearing water
ways of vegetable matter consists
of a sort of moving machine at
ached to the stern of a launch. 1t
is the invention of a Frenchman.
A rod attached to desk and
Terminating in a cup which fits
under a child's chin has been in
vented in Europe for the purposeti
of compelling school children to sit
erect.
Since the European War began
one-third of the Armenian race has
been massacred or died from star
walton and one-half of those re-
naming are homeless and dying in
exile.
Daniel Driscoll of Tompkinsville
Park, Staten Island, has a white
bird with pink eyes, a yellow bill
and yellow legs, and pathological
experts whom he has consulted are
sure the bird is a sparraw.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
Commissioners Sale of Land

By virtue of authority vested in US
by a decree entered at the last term of
the Circuit Court of Highland County
in the cause therein pending of W. L.
Hamilton ct ais VS. The Highland Lum-
Der Company ct ais, we will on Satur-
day, the 18th. day of December, 1917,
offer for sale at public auction at the
front door of the court house in Mon
terey, Virginia, for cash; a tract OF
land on Bull Pasture river in said
county containing GALA acres, more
or less, adjoining the lands of L. M.
McClung and others. About one third
of this land is cleared and is we'll
adapted to grazing and farming
purposes and has on it a dwelling
house and outbuildings and the
balance of the land has on it splendid
timber.
I certify that the bond required by
the above mentioned decree has been
executed.
W. H. Matheny, Clerk.
Edwin B. Jones 0-A'A-- 49,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
One hight While Away Idle
Hours Reading One of These

Which is the longest poem in the
world? One generally regards para
disc Lost" as pretty lengthy, and
Thomson's Seasons" and Cowper's
Task" But these are short compared
with Sponsors 'Faerie Queene," which
is easily the longest poem In existence,
even as it stands, and had he attained
his object and reached the twenty
fourth book, no other poem would have
been "in it."
1t is only a quarter Of the original
plan, yet it is as long as the Had, the
Odyssey, and the Aeneid put together,
twice as long as Dante's "Divina Com
media" and three times as long as
paradise Lost" and paradise Re
gained" in one.
The longest novel in the world be-
longs to Japan. Its author Is Kiong TIE
Bakin. 1t was commenced in 1852, and
published volume by volume as it came
out over a period of fifty years. There
are 100 volumes, 100000 pages, $780,
900 lines, and about 3S,00O,OOO words.
A complete copy weighs $50 pounds.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
Notice

All persons are hereby notified not
to Hunt, Trespass Upon, Walk, or
Ride through during hunting season
or any other time our lands,
known as the "Dinwiddie-Boyer"
lands, located on headwaters of Jack
sons River, and also the two tracts
of mountain land lying in the Wander
pool gap, known as Jarvis lot No. 45,
and the James B. Campbell lands.
Persons failing to comply with this
request will be prosecuted according
to law. Mrs M L Stephenson
Mrs. J. w. Boyer
4 Boyd Stephenson
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
The Volunteers Mother

Published by reaIest)
He was so beautiful baby son!
His sun kissed curls chung close
around his head,
His deep blue eyes looked trustingly
in mine.
I did my best to keep his beauty fair
And fresh and clean and dainty, for
knew
I never could be satisfied with less.
He was so strong and well, mylittle
I gave my days and nights to keep
him So
Called in fresh air and sunlight to my
aid,
Good food and play, all heathful
things of life.
I wanted physical perfection, for
| never could be satisfied with less.
He was so bright and clever, my big
son!
7 sent him to the very best of schools.
Denying self that he might know no
lack
Of opportunity to do his best.
Or feel no door of progress closed to
him.
I never could be satisfied with less.
And yet-but now-my well.beloved
son,
For your perfection can I pay the
price?
Or would I have you play thecoward's
part
With selfish, shriveled soul too small
to dwell
Within so fair a frame? Is that my
choice?
| sought the best! Shall I be satisfied
with less.
Nay, I would have you honorable, my
Just, loyal, brave and truthful, scorn-
ing fear
And lies and meanness-ready to de-
Your home, your mother and your
country's flag,
He's gone! Dear God! With bleed
ing heart I know
[ still could not be satisfied with less.
Sarah Benton Dunn.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
MONTEREY. VA, NOVEMBER Is, 1917
Will Highland Do Her Part?

You know what the American
Y. M, C. A. stands for. The cam
paign is on to raise $35 900, 900 for
use along the war fronts. High
lands assess ment is 81 ,l4O $40 t'r
each soldier registered. If you have
given up your boy. 3on know
what the sacrifice means, if he re-
mains at home with you, honorably
exempted, give out of a thankful
heart; if you have no sons to 60,
give that others sons who are light
ing for your home and protection
may have moral support and a
measure of cheer.
As stated last week over the
county chairman's signature, these
contribution will be publised by
districts, and the comfortable,
prosperous, we'll, housed citizen who
sees his district lag in this great
work will have cause to blush with
shame.
"What is III" JASON of this. Y.
NJ. C. A. ap.~n:? What is the
necessity fof :andiug thousand or
81 weIl-eq .jyped contirgcats of the
American Y NJ. G A. to the war
regions? What ill they do cover
there? They will serve. They
will max. comfort and cheer under
conditions that tend continually to
kill cheer. They are the men be-
hind the men behind the guns.
Especially they will work for moral
and mental wholesomeness. Clean
sports-these they promote even
within the sound Of the roaring
guns We often hear about the
"norale" of an army; it is said to
be good or otherwise, it is said to
be bad. The morale of an army is
something different from the morals
of and army. The essential thing
in an army's morale is hopefulness,
the cooperate spirit, belief in itself,
belief in the cause for which it is
fighting. The Y. NJ C. A. is an
agency that works both for good
morals and for good morale.
The United States is in this war
not to drive peace out of the world,
but, reorganize the world on an
everlasting peace foundation. There
can be no everlasting peace founda-
ton so long as there is huge mill
tant machine, such as German
Kaiserism has built up, standing as
a continual menace to the peace,
progress and good will of mankind.
The good will and fixtures of the
whole American people have been
put into this world cause. The
United States will be contributing
more than a million perhaps more
more. than two miIlion-of her young
men and billions of dollars in mony
to the winning of the war. And
the American people are sending
across two succor agencies the
Red Cross and the Y. M. c. A.
Give! Give! Give! Yes, that's
what money is for that's what
life is for. No man lives to HIM
self alone. The tries to do it he
is isolated, stranded, the sorriest
and most unfortunate of human be-
iugs. Money is not kept by hoard
ing it is wasted. The American
people Must give until this war is
won give their money give them
selves We are sending the boys
in khaki &C oss, and We must bt
looking after them, comforting
them, cheering them. The Y. M.
C. A, as we have just remarked,
is a cheer agency and the S35 ,OOO,-
900 Which the American people will
raise this week may rightly be
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16

These of US who have been too
susceptible, not to say gullible, and
have been made to believe that
Germany was "a Triton among the
minnows"-the ne plus ultra of the
creative mind--should read "The
Collapse of the Superman Myth"
an article in last weeks Saturday
Evening Post. 1t is educating and
enlightening in these days of war
and turmoil, and will relieve the
mind of phantom scruples and dis
couragements.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
Farm for Sale

l will offer forsale my farm private
ly, located FIVE miles north of Mon
terey on the Franklin road, con-
tanning 90 acres, of which 80 acres
are good grazing and farming land.
A bargain for quick buyer.
A. P. BEVERAGE,
4t Monterey, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16

The Ohio State Pharmaceutical
Association instructed it's council of
administration to take over, and
run without profit to the associa-
ton, the business of all members
who may be called to the service OF
the country.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
CHINESE sEAMEN TEST LOST.

Hiqhest Court Holds Ship Line Ex'
empt From Contract Law.
Washington.-The Supreme Court
held that the contract labor law wac
not intended to apply to seamen. The
decision was on a test case instituted
by Paul Scharenberg, San Francisco
labor leader, against the Dollar
Steamship company.
Scharenberg's action was taken to
restrict free importation of Chinese
labor to man American ships.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16

Highland needs a booze war
den" more than a game warden
That liquor or something that
produces intoxication, is being
brought ito or handled in the
county. contrary to law, is evident.
Under Fedeal and State regulations
and restrictions the fact of a man
being drunk is almost conclusive
evidence of violated law some
where. Just how long such con-
ditions exist depends upon the
vigilence of the authorities and CO.
operation of law abiding people.
Prohibition does not entirely pro-
hibit in any section, but a little
bit of "sleuthing" now and then
by the custodians of the law helps
some.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16

A combined chemical and mech
anical process for recovering all the
unconsumed fuel in furnace asher
has been perfected by Dutch IN
Yentors.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16
Soldier Boys Letter

1--WE are under obligations to Mrs.
Sullenberger for permission to use the
following extracts from recent letters
written by her son, now in france.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-16

Entered at the Monterey poStoffice as
second-claSs matter
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-12-07

Lancaster Mercantile Co.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-12-07
MIDWAY.

Kershaw, S. c., r. F. ID. 5, Dec.
the farmers are continuing to SOW
grain. One of our farmers bought
a tract of land Monday at Clerk s
sale and went to Kershaw Tuesday
seed 1t. That's patriotic, isn't it?
Cotton picking has about concluded.
Selling too.
AS soon as the temperature drops
low enough hog-killing will be in
general order.
It's true, cotton is bringing a good
price, but 1 think the "all cotton
farmer would have a tougher
time now than he did years ago
In my opinion, now is the "ac-
cepted time" for the young man to
buy home. l mean those who have
rot. Every community needs lots
of small farms, occupied with in
dustrous. hard-working, honest
clever, white men, who are willing to
earn living. build and patronize a
school house, and attend church
every Sunday.
Messrs. j. b. Byrd and w. A.
Johnson, OF Camp Jackson, spent
Sunday at home with their families.
Catoe Bros. Of Kershaw, are put
ting up about one thousand dollars
worth Of wire fence on their planta-
tion in this section, preparatory to
live stock farming. Their success
will no doubt, inspire others to en-
ter the industry.
Our Day and Sunday school is
making fine progress.
Mr.. Editor. as you know, Midway
means in the center, or half way
from one to the other. A school
house was erected about thirty years
ago between Flat Creek and Pleas
ant Plain schools. and they named
it Midway.
We respectfully invite inspection
and new comers.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-12-07
UNION.

Lancaster, S. c., r. f. d. 2, Dec.
6.-The Woman's Missionary society
gave a box supper last Friday night.
1t was quite a success. The amount
raised was $S1, which will be used
for the benefit Of the church.
Mr.. A. w. Mosier, of the navy.
who is stationed at Charleston. is
spending a few days with his mother.
Misses Lula. Christine and Beulah
Taylor, of Tabernacle, spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs Oscar
Shute.
Mrs. Jasper Faulkinberry and
children went to Taxahaw last week
to visit her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. j. Shute visited
in the Tabernacle section Sunday.
Mr. Will Hinson, of Rich Hill,
spent sunday with his brother, Mr.
=. NJ Hinson.
County Demonstration Agent
Graeber and Mr. w. w. Long, of
Clemson college, met the farmers at
the school house Friday afternoon
IN the interest of the produ ton of
wheat and rye.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-12-07

this time, and there is little prospect
OF another such debate as that which
preceded action last April.
There has been no indication,
however, of what is to be expected
from the small group which has OPP
posed the governments war policies.
Senator LaFollette today did not
join in the dom0rs ratiOrs Of APP
proval given the Presidents utter
ances. With folded arms and con-
tracted brows, he sat intently watch
ing the executive, but without ap-
plause, and did not rise with the
throng at various junctures.
Senator Stone. chairman Of the
Senator LaFoilette Tuesday did not
who voted against the first war res
olution, probably will be in charge
of the Austrian resolution in the
senate. He has announced his In
tention TO give full support to the
prosecution of the war and favors
recognizing the. status OF Austria.
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