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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
MASTER
commissioners SALE
MASON CIRCUIT COURT

MASON CIRCUIT COURT
Carl Wards Admir-, Etc.. Plaintiffs,
VS.. Judgment and Order of Sale
Limestone Building Association.
Etc, .................. Defendants.
In obedience to a Judgment and Or
der of Sale in the above-styled action,
| will, as Master Commissioner, on
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1917,
At II o'clock a. m, proceed at the
Court House Door in Maysville. Ken
lucky, to sell, at public cutlery, and to
the highest and best bidder, SO much
of the ereinafter-described real es-
tate as will be necessary to satisfy the
judgment debt of the Limestone Build
ing Association, amounting to $253.50,
with interest thereon at the rate of So
per annum from March 18th, 1916, and
the judgment debt of the defendant,
Charles Ward, amounting to $50, with
interest thereon at the rate of So per
annum from April 18th, 1914, together
with all State, county and city taxes
and assessments due, and all the costs
Of this action, amounting, as a whole,
to approximately $475.
Said real estate is that certain tract
of land, having a frame cottage and
other improvements thereon, situate,
lying and being in the Sixth Ward of
the City of Maysville, Kentucky, which
fronts on the South side of Williams
Street rs feet, and extends back, South,
10S feet, more or less, to the center of
a private alley in the rear Of same;
said property is bounded on the East
by Chambers, on the West by the prop
erty formerly owned by Oldham, and is
part of Lot No. 1856 on the plat OF
Chester, recorded in Deed Book "A,
Page So, Mason County Court Clerks
office; and being, in all respects, the
same property conveyed to Clarissa
Moore by S. B. Oldham, by deed re-
corded in Deed Book 90, Page 1888, Ma
son County Court Clerks Office.
TERMS OF SALE-Said real estate
will be sold upon a credit of six (6)
and twelve Q2) months, In payments
OF equal amounts. The purchaser will
be required to execute Bonds for the
purchase price. with approved person.
al security, payable to me as Master
Commissioner, and bearing Q per cent.
interest thereon from the day of sale.
Said Bonds will have the force and ef-
feet OF Replevln Bonds, with a lien 70.
tained therein upon tho property sold
In order TO secure the payment Of the
purchase price.
A. q. StJLsER.
Master Commissioner,
IA. d. COLE. Attorney.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
GERMANS STEAL U. s. IDEA
TO SINK BRITISH VESSEL

New York, May 30-Ideas embodied
In Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fishes
invention of torpedo launching sea
plane have been appropriated" by the
Germans and were used by them in
torpedoing the 3,OOO-ton British steam
ship Gena, off Aldsburgh, May 1, &C.
cording to statement given out here
tonight by the Aero Club of America.
The torpedoing of the Gena was
reported by the British admiralty 2.
Two seaplanes participated in the at
tack and one was brought down by
the British.
The charge of theft against the Ger
mans is based on evidence received
by the Aero Club today, the state
ment said.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01

AS this revenue would not be real
lied during the present year Q917)
since none of the advances became
effective until April LIST and then only
upon a limited coal tonnage, the ap-
proximate revenue increase for 1917
as closely estimated as possible,
would be $3,125,OOO or $2,694,S33 less
than the increased expenses for the
same period.
1t is, therefore, emphasized that the
railway company must have increased
rates if its property is to be properly
maintained.
1t is stated that the company, for
period of ten years, has paid to its
stockholders an average of $3.50 in
dividends. The largest earnings in the
history of the company was for the
year ended December S1st, 1916. The
1917 figures will show quite differ
emily, due to increases as outlined
above.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
Aberdeen

Miss Charlotte Wilson and brother
Donald, of Vanceburg, KY, are visiting
their grandmother, Mrs. B. P. Will
son.
Messrs. Reuben Davis and John
Mutschelknaus have purchased auto
mobiles.
Mr.. Nelson Ellis has returned home
from Oxford, Ohio, where he has been
attending school.
Mrs. Roscoe Richmond and daugh-
ter, Jane Kimble, of Bellevue, KY, are
visiting Mrs. Frank Sutton.
Miss Mildred Martin of Sharondale
is i'll with typhoid fever.
Miss Elizabeth Childs of Maysville
visited Mrs. J. d. Bennett last week.
The Alderfer Circus was the main
attraction here last week.
Mr.. l.. R. Campbell has returned
from Dayton, Ohio, where he has been
taking treatment for rheumatism.
Misses Grace and Nora Covert of
Dayton, Ohio, spent Sunday here the
guests Of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Covert.
Mr.. Giles Rice of Maysvile spent
Sunday with Miss Amy Gray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Hill were the
recent guests of Mr.. Hills mother
Mrs. T. F. Hill.
Miss Hattie l.. Cameron spent the
week end with Miss Allyne Hurd.
Mrs. George Brookover has gone to
Cincinnati for medical treatment.
Mrs. Ida X. Spears has returned
from Lebanon, Ohio.
Mr.. Walter Covert has returned to
Dayton, Ohio, after spending several
days here with his mother.
Miss Sadie M. Brown spent Sunday
with Miss Sophia Body.
Miss Frances Cooper has gone to
the country for a short visit.
Rev. Ethridge of Louisville, KY.
preached at the Baptist Church Sun.
day.
Mrs. John Body and son, George
spent Sunday in Ripley, Ohio
The Eighth Grade Commencement
will be held at Red Oak Thursday
evening, May 81.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
CHINESE GOVERNORS DEBEL AT
DISMISSAL OF PRIME
MINISTER

Peking, May 30-Numerous militar,
governors have demanded the cancel.
lation of the presidential mandate dis.
missing Tuan Chi-Jui from the pre-.
miership. considering the presidents
action unconstitutional. Ii Ching-Hsi
whose nomination as successor "a
Tuan was approved by the Senate
has refused to accept the premier
ship.
The military governors Of Honan
Orwell and Huan Tung provinces and
At Mukden have threatened 10 do
clare their independence unless their
demands for tho cancellation Of the
mandate are conceded
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
Downing Pike

Downing PKG
Mr.. Marcus Campbell is visiting his
son, Henry, of Flemingsburg.
Mr.. John Thomas Case of Augusta
is visiting Edgar Dice.
Mr.. Ira Devaughn and wife of Gin
cinnati, were visiting Mr.. and Mrs
J. M. Gill recently.
Mr.. Paris Prather was visiting his
father, Jim Prather, of Fernleaf, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Follmer of Mt
Gilead, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Dice recently.
Several from here attended the play
at Washington Friday night.
Miss Nellie Stanton has returned
home after spending a few days with
her brother, Mr.. Mike Stanton.
Miss Margaret Golf of Washington
City, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Patsy
Downing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adkins of Moransburg
were visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Stan
ton Sunday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01

Life Is not merely bunch of i'm
pulses.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01

Another thing-why should the
bride love, honor and obey her hus-
band when nobody else does?
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
9 TRAIN COACHES WRECKED
BY TORNADO IN MISSOURI

Little Rock, Ark, May 3O-An Of
fetal report to the local officers of
the Iron Mountain railroad tonight
said that several persons were killed
in tornado that struck Mineral
Point, Mo-, this afternoon and that
eighteen injured have been received
at DeSoto, Mo-, for treatment
The report said that heavy wind
at Elijah, NO., blew down several
buildings, but made no mention of
loss of life.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01

East ST. Louis, ILL.,, May 30-One ne
grow as shot, one wounded slightly
and two were beaten tonight by mob
of fifty men who, officials say, gather
ed in the outskirts of the city after the
saloons closed at o'clock. The mob
was dispersed by militiamen and To-
cal police.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
THREE KILLED, SCORE
INJURED BY TORNADO

st. Louis, Mo-, May 30-Three per-
sons are dead and more than a score
injured as a result of tornado that
struck Mineral Point, in Washington
county, Mo-, this afternoon. The news
was received over long distance tele-
phone from DeSoto.
A tornado is also reported to have
struck Jesberg, Mo-, small town be-
tween st. Louis and Jefferson City,
according to reports received at Mis-
souri, Pacific Offices.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01

The old-fashioned wife who travel
ed In double harness now has daugh-
ter that rambles around in an auto
mobile.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-01
Want increase
c. Il 0. Railroad Asks for Advance In
Freight Rates-Some Figures
Showing Expenses of
System.

George W. Stevens, President OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio and Hooking
Valley Railway Companies, in re-
cent statement before the Interstate
Commerce Commission in the matter
OF the proposed advance in freight
rates now pending before the Commits
sion, stated that, like other carriers
and Companies he represents are con-
fronted with an enormous increase in
operating expenses by reason of the
recent Adamson wage law affecting
train and enginemen, and which is al
so reflected in the wages of other EN-
r!oyees, together with the increased
cost of fuel and other purchases ne
ccssary for the maintenance OF the
property. 1t is essential that the road
and equipment should be maintained
to the highest degree in order to NEE,
present conditions.
AS evidence of increasing expenses
on the c. & o., the following figures
1917 over 1916, are shown:
! Increase in wages under recent
wage law ................ 800 ,j9t
Increase to unorganized labor,
made necessary by increase
to organized labor ......... 142,26t
Maintenance of Way crack
men etc. .................. 1OSOO2
Maintenance of Equipment
(shop men, etc. ............ 7S5,OOC
Material and supplies other
than fuel and equipment. .2,476,9Oi
Railway fuel ................1,4 6l.2 5I
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
HYGIENE OF THE PRINTING TRADES

$50 per cent were below 45. The per
cent of deaths due to tuberculosis de-
creased from 31.2 to l9.1 in 1915.
The following measures for the pre-
vention of occupational diseases among
printers are recommended in the re-
port: Ample ventilation in all sorts
of weather; electric heating of lead
pots or exhaust ventilation to carry
off gas fumes; scrupulous cleanliness
of the premises: no dry sweeping or
dry dusting or blowing out of type
cases, or dry cleaning of casting ma
chimes and plungers; proper lighting:
separation of processes which produce
lead dust or fumes from other pro-
cesses; prevention of excessive heat.
especially moist heat; ample washing
facilities; no excessive speeding up or
excessively long hours; and prohibi-
tion of boys work in processes involv-
ing exposure to lead dust or fumes.
The bulletin includes a description
of the printing plants visited and the
various processes of the industry, with
a statement of the dangers incident
to each; considerable statistical data
on the health of printers in certain
foreign countries and in the United
States, and a statement of the effects
of the health campaign conducted by
the International Typographical Union
to improve conditions in the industry
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08

The results of an inspection of 130
largest cities of the country have
Just been published as Bulletin No
209 of the Bureau Of Labor Statistics,
U. S. Department Of Labor, under the
title Hygiene of the Printing Trades y
This investigation WAS undertaken to
discover what influence the presence
of lead and other toxic substances
has upon men in the printing trade
and to observe all the features of the
industry which might have an indi-
rect bearing on health.
All of the processes used in print
ing, including type founding, were
studied. 1t was found that the prin-
cipal dangers confronting printers. es-
pecially in hand composition, monotype
and linotype casting, stereotyplnC,
and electrotyping. are the exposure to
lead and anthony dust and to posi-
BILE fumes from molten lead, to carbon
monoNid from gas burners; to volatile
petroleum products gr coal tar prod
ucts used to clean type and press roll
ers; to turpentine used for the same
purpose: to anilin oil and possibly
wood alcohol and tetrachloride of car
bon, used rs roller cleaners; to lye
water for washing type and forms;
and to acrolein fumes, which develop
when old Uncovered type is heated
for remelting. Furthermore, the
printers trade is uuhealthful because
it is an indoor occupation often car
ried on in vitiated air. because the
small amount of physical exertion re
uuired results in sluCEishness of cir
culation and sensitiveness to cold, and
because the nervous strain is great.
The report shows that american print
crs suffer far more from tuberculosis
than occupied males in general.
The most important danger is lead
poisoning which may be acquired by
handling food or tobacco with hands
which become smeared with lead, or by
breathing lead dust and fumes. An
examination of 200 working printers
in Boston and Chicago showed that
only 9S men, or 400 per cent, were
free from noteworthy symptoms of
i'll health. that the remaining lo7 had
health impaired. and that Is of the
latter were suffering from chronic
lead poisoning. Disease producing con-
ditions were found in many of the 1870
plants visited although in general
there has been marked improvement
in sanitation during recent years and
several model establishments We're
found in these cities.
To show that the health standards
of the industry are improving. the eN-
perience of the International Typo
graphical Union is noted. From 1900
to 1915 the average age of members
at death increased from 41.25 to 5o.Si.
The number of deaths due to all causes
in the five-year period, 1898 to 1897,
was 2,O6l and in the three-year per-
iod. 1918 to 1915, the number was
identically the same; but in the earlier
period 66.S per cent We're below 45
years of age, while in the later period
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
URGES REVERSE OF THE CASE.
Attorney General Says Trial of
Mooney Was an Injustice.

Attorney General U. S. Webb of
California joined with counsel for the
defense in the state supreme court in
urging reversal of the judgment for
Thomas J. Mooney, under sentence of
death in connection with the prepared
ness day bomb explosion murders last
year. After hearing arguments the
court announced that the matter would
be taken under consideration with the
promise of a decision within a few
days.
Webb emphasized his contention
that in the Mooney case "a miscar-
riage of justice had occurred"
He explained that letters had been
discovered rejecting on the charac-
ter of testimony given in the trial by
Frank C. Oxman of Oregon, the prin-
cipal state witness against Mooney.
Oxman has since been charged with
subornation of perjury. 1t is alleged
that he sought to induce F. E. Rigall
Of GRANVILLE. III, to give false testi-
mony against Mooney.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
FREE AGENCIES
FOR EMPLOYMENT
U. S. INSPECTOR TELLS OF
HIS WORK
Securing Job Should Not Be Made
Matter of Fee, With City, State
and Nation Affording Workers
the Best Opportunity.

Paid employment agencies should
not be allowed to continue in existence,
says Henry H. Moler, inspector in
charge of the United States immigra-
ton service at Denver and head of the
free federal employment agency in the
new postoffice building.
Employment is the one thing in
Gods world that a man ought to get
free" declared Mr.. Moler, whose years
of experience in labor-placing have
brought him in contact with many
cases of suffering and privation thru
lack of work. When lad he himself
was skinned" by employment agen-
cies, he says.
MANY of the people that are out
of work haven't the money to pay for
it. No man should have to pay to get
work, and no man should have to pay
TO get workers. / am not biased
against any particular agency, but
think the system is all wrong
Employers should get the habit of
coming to the government for their
labor needs. This department placed
more than $50 men in July, but we are
getting calls from men who want work
on the farms every day. The placing
of labor is essentially a federal, state
or municipal function"
Full of knots and needles is the en-
ployment problem, in Mr. Moler's
| opinion.
For one thing, many of the appli-
cants for work are not really in earn
est" he says. They ask dozens of
| frivolous questions that show they
I don't mean business. One man that
came here recently did his best to dis
turb our work and keep others from
! accepting jobs. Finally l had to order
] him out of the office.
Then there Is the transportation
question. Many Of the applicants
think that the farmers ought to fur
nish transportation, and some are in
clined to believe that their prospective
employers are 'pikers' if they do not
/ do so. But what guarantee has a
/ farmer that the man will stick to the
/ job when he gets it.
MANY of the applicants are abso-
I lutely unfit for the work they want,
although they claim no end of ex-
I man who turned out to be an eX-con-
vict went after milking job, He ap-
preached Bossy on the wrong side. and
she kicked him all over the lot.
"On the other hand there are times
when the farmers expect too much.
Sometimes the environment is not
good, and the worker has a right to
complain"
/ The federal government is being
greatly aided, Mr.. Moler says, by the
work of county agricultural agents
/ throughout the state, especially those
4 in Weld county, where the organiZa-
tion is particularly good.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
TOURIST TRAVEL IN COLORADO

Last year the number of visitors to
the Rocky Mountain National-Estes
Park exceeded that to any other Ma
tional park, the total approximating
10000. This year the total will be
near 100000. By means of an abso-
lutte check from July 4th to Aug. 29th,
people entered the park. This does
not include cars entering by the AL
lens park or Grand Lake entrances.
While Colorado leads with 1904 cars
carrying S4,40S people. much of this
traffic came into the state by train
and made the trip in hired cars. Ne
braska leads in the number of pri-
vate cars, with 1,10S automobiles car
rying 4.611 people. Kansas is next
with CSC, transporting 1884 people
States having seventy or more cars,
include Texas, Illinois, Iowa. Missouri.
Wyoming and Oklahoma. Thirty-nine
states are represented, and four for
eign countries.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
CITY EMPLOYEES
TO GET A BONUS
MAYOR AND COUNCIL IN
GENEROUS MOOD
Policemen and Firemen Will Receive
$50 Extra for Purchase of Uni
forms This Fall; VIII Help
Relieve Present II. c. l..

Another step in the readjustment of
the earning capacity of city employees
to meet war prices was taken by the
city council Tuesday night at the sug-
gestion of Mayor Robert W Speer,
when a bill to give every policeman
and fireman bonus of $50 passed on
first reading. There are about $50
patrolmen and as many fremen and
officers, and the total expenditure for
this purpose will amount TO $4,000.
The money is to be taken out of the
police and fire department funds, re-
spectively, and will go toward the pur-
chase of uniforms and other equip
| ment which the men ordinarily must
pay out of their salaries.
Raise Comes January /.
Two months ago the council, at the
suggestion of the mayor, passed an or
dinance increasing the pay of $50 city
employees S14 900 year. The attitude
taken by the administration at that
time was that stress of war had made
it practically impossible for certain
clerks to meet the advanced cost of
/ living on their present salaries, and
increases of from $40 to SIS month
were authorized by the council.
Such proposition was presented at
| the May eleCllOn anu passed. DuI Ine
sl5-a-month increase authorized to pa
trolmen and firemen will not become
| Effective until Jan. / next. The bonus
/ of $50 granted is to help relieve pres
ent distress, and will amount to prac-
| tically as much as the men would re-
ceive should the amendment be effec-
/ tive as of Sept. l.
All Men Are Affected.
The bonus plan includes every Off
Ger and man of the police and the fire
departments, from the chief on down
/ the line Final action VIII be taken
upon the bill next Monday night. and
Z the ordinance becomes Immediately eff
/ fectiye thereafter. The measure was
/ introduced by Councilmer E. V. Hol-
\ land and J. A. Burnett.
The ordinance at one point reads:
! "On account Of the high cost of liv-
/ ing and the increased cost Of uniforms,
/ the obligation of members and officers
of the departments have become bur
! densome and unduly exacting, and it is
deemed advisable and only fair and
[ just that the city shouli share a part
/ of the increased experse incident to
| the performance of Their public duties
at this time"
The ordinance was favorably acted
upon in committee by C1uncilmen An
drew Horan. John Conlou and Eugene
/ Madden and later orderei published.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
]. F. ENRIGHT DIES IN DENVER
Many Years Superintendent of Motive
Power of d. & R. G.. System.

J. F. Enright, superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, died at his home, 164S Madi-
son street, Tuesday night after an i'll
ness of approximately eight months.
He is survived by his widow and
daughter.
Mr.. Enright was born at Savannah,
Ga, in 1867, where he entered railroad
service in 1885 as machinists' ap-
prentice to the Atlantic Coast rail-
road. In 1895 he became general fore
man of the shops at Montgomery, Ala,
and master mechanic of the Mobile &
Ohio. Later he served in a similar
capacity with the International &
Great Northern until December, 1909.
when he came to Denver to take the
position of superintendent of motive
power of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad.
He was well and favorably known
to practically every shop employe on
the system.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
MORAN'S ATTEMPT TO
BLIGHT GOOD NAME
OF A LABOR EDITOR
(From Illinois Tradesman.)

Clint c. Houston, editor of the Den
yer Labor Bulletin, has filed suit in the
District Court at Boulder, Colo,
against James F. Moran. Acting Presi-
dent of District No. Is. United Mine
Workers of America. demanding dam
ages in the sum of $4,000 for falsify-
ing evidence, slander and libel.
This case grows out of an act COM
mitted by Moran during a speech
against seating Houston as a delegate
from Denver typographical Union No.
40, in the State Federation of Labor
convention, held in Boulder August 7th
to 10th. when Moran read anonymous
letters attacking Houston and eN-
hibited photographs of alleged checks
purporting to show that the editor
was being paid by the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company for defending John
K. Lawson against scheme to oust
him from the organized labor move
ment of Colorado, and exposing the
underhand methods adopted for this
purpose by Moran, John McLennan
and Warren f. Pippin.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
WE'RE THERE WITH THE PUNCH.

The recent 120-page edition of the
Denver Labor Bulletin was the best
and biggest labor paper ever pub
lished in the U. S. A. Editor Houston
and Business Manager Ed Hines, are
deserving of great praise for this
publication, which will show the
world at large what labor paper can
do that has the punch.-SiouN City
Union Advocate.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
WANTS COMPANY

What is your reason for saying you
won't enlist unless you are sent to the
Seventy-third Infantry" questioned
the recruiting officer.
Because I want to be near me
brother that's in the Seventy-fourth, "
returned Dennis O'Rourke.-Memphis
Commercial-Appeal.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08
PROOF POSITIVE.

4 don't object TO your marrying
that young representative, Emily, but
I'm afraid he doesn't stand very high
in the political world"
"Oh, yes, he does. mother. He's
already been investigated by five COM
mittees "-Froth.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08

Beats them all. La Belle SC cigar;
union made in Denver.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-09-08

You will never miss a train if you
carry one of O'Keefe's watches, s27
Fifteenth street.