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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20
WARDVILLE.

Wardville, Sept. 19.-Our farmers
are very busy picking cotton and
saving hay. Fall gardens are look
ing we'll. Health II. our vicinity is
very good except a few cases Of
fever.
Mrs. A. W. Majors leaves today
for visit to her daughter, Mrs. F.
o. Gunter, of Mobile.
Ernest Steele left one day last
week for training camps in Macon,
Ga.
Miss Belle Beasley, of Red Level,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Mason.
H. Graham and family will move
to Pine Barren this week where Miss
Ada Graham will begin teaching next
Monday.
Geo. Ward, of Pensacola, was here
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20
\ DAILY LESSON IN HISTORY
One Hundred Years Ago.

One Hundred Years Ago.
1s1T--William w. Howard, first
president of Wells College,
Born in London, England. Died
at Aurora, N. Y, July 1, 1871.
Seventy-five Years Ago.
1S42-Statue of Washington was
placed in the National Capitol.
Fifty Years Ago.
1S67-Sir Frederick w. A. Bruce,
British minister to the United
States, died in Boston. Born
April ID, 1914.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
1S92-Grand Army of the Republic
began its Goth national en-
campment in Washington, ID.
c.
One Year Ago in the War.
Sept. 10, 1916-Russians defeated
Teutons at Hungary's northeastern
gateway; Roumanian troops invad-
ing Pennsylvania suffered reverse
at the hands of the Austrians.
Major John H. Parker, who is
probably the greatest machine gun
expert of the U. S. Army, born near
Upton, Mo-, 81 years ago today.
Captain William r. Rush, COM
mandant of the Charleston Navy
Yard, born in Pennsylvania, 60 years
ago today.
Lucius E. Pinkham, governor of
the Hawaiian Territory since 1913,
born at Chiarpoo Falls, Mass, 81
years ago today.
Miss Mabel Hyde Kittredge of New
York, a noted expert on the problems
of food conservation, born in Boston,
20 wears ago TODAY.
John P. Mc1nnis, first baseman of
the Philadelphia American league
baseball team, born at Gloucester,
Mass, 81 years ago today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20
The Strong Withstand the Heat of
Summer Better Than the Weak

Old people who are feeble, and
younger people who are weak, will be
strengthened and enabled to go
through the depressing heat of sum-
mer by taking regularly Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic. 1t purifies
and enriches the blood and builds up
the whole system. Coo.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20
INDICATIONS OF A FALSE CHARGE

tlCe OF HVe OF ten years TO prepare Tor the
next war, there is every indication the
Hohenzoilerns will soon stage a. false
change N German governmental methods.
to befool the allies.
The New York Stats Zeitung is paving
the way when it says: 'tThe German
nation long since discovered an arrest in
tention of setting it's political house in or
der, determination to make it's cabinet
officials responsible to the reichstag, and
to create out of the latter something more
than a gilded forum for discussion
And again: The German people are
COW to speak. They can have more war or
-tley can have peace apparently at once.
The only thing asked of them is thing
which they have expressed tIeiS intention
{ achieving sooner or later anyway-a re-
sponsible, parliamentary government"
Making the cabinet ministers RESPONSE
bic to the reichstag and speaking of parlia-
mentary government will not be enough
If the Germans do not desire to part COM
pany with their precious Hohenzollern
tribe, they must at least make these de-
scendants of Brandenburg robber barons
no more than gided fgureheads.
AT present, to speak of Germany as a
constitutional or limited monarchy is a
huge joke. Nominally, the kaiser is limited
by the Bundesrat and reichstag. Actually,
he imposes his will as truly as did the car
of ell the Russias in his palmiest days
The Bundesrat is packed with his parti~
sans. The reichstag is kept from repre-
enting the great masses of the people by
the greatest gerrymander in all history
The sparsely settled agricultural districts
of East and West Prussia have more rep
he W.
dustrial cities.
A real government, in which the allies
! could put some trust, would be made up as
follows:
A kaiser who was mere figurehead.
A bundesrat, or upper house, not packed
with appointees of the iunkers, but really
representing all the people.
A re1chstag of members elected from dis
tiicts equalling each other in population
chancellor and cabinet responsible to
the parliament alone and drawn from the
party or block of parties temporarily in
command, just at times in England the cab
met is conservative or liberal, according to
the parliamentary majority.
Such a government would Justify consid-
ering peace negotiations Peace could
. then really be concluded with the German
people and not with their masters. And in
the future there would be less danger of
war, because it would have to be declared
by the people.
| Anything short of this would Ee snam
reform an alleged parliamentary govern
I1ent shorn of all power the moment peace
had been concluded. With the army at his
back the kaiser would quickly show who
was master The German governments
with which we deal about peace mus, be
SO firmly established that the army will be
| its serant
While fighting to make the world safe for
! democracy, we can't afford to be tricked
into making Germany safe for the kaiser
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20
HOLLAN'S EYEWATER

For sore, infiamed or weak eyes.
It can be used freely upon the eyes
of young infants without the least
danger or sense of pain. Price 25c.
Sold by all Druggists. No cure, no
pay-adv
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20

The new Russian government has de-
creed the establishment of university in
the city Of Perm, in the northern Ural dis
trict
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20

A simple wire clothes pin has been in
vented to be inserted in sod to prevent ar
t',les sprad out to bleach FROM being blown
AWAY
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-09-20

Miss Gladys Cornwell, the onlv woman
deputy marshal in West Virginia. has been
conducting an effective campaig., against
slackers
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-02

When you eat spoonful of honey
you have very little idea as to the
amount of work and travel necessary
to produce it, To make a pound of
clover honey, bees must take the nee
tar from sixty-two thousand clover
blossoms; and to do this requires
seven hundred and fifty thousand Wis
its to the blossoms by the bees. In
other words, in order to collect en-
ough nectar to make one pound of
honey, a bee must go from hive to
flower and back again two million
seven hundred and fifty thousand
times. Then, when you think how far
these bees sometimes fly in search of
these clover fields, often one or two
miles distant from the hive, you will
begin to get small idea of the num-
Der miles one of the Industrious little
creature must travel in order that you
creatures must travel in order that
you may have a pound of honey.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-02

his arm about as challenging al
corners with the statement.
Brent caught him by the shoulder:
to force his attention.
"'A thousand barrels going to waste
TENN mfwyp mfwyp mfwyp mfwyr
then, you BOBBY
"Hand threw him off with foolish
laugh.
Tell you what, boys, there's no
gusher ike that in these oil fields.
tell you'll"
Take him awayY Brent ordered.
1.-TWO or three of the men led Hand
toward his house; they saw him hold
ing his head at last, as though he had
just discovered his hurt. Pop Scud-
der drifted over from the truck gar
den where he had been at the mo-
ment of the strike. He was looking
startled and yet childishly pleased
out of the ambush of his silver beard
"He chuckled little indulgently
at Brent as he surveyed the spout
ing rain. 'What'll you bet she's 80
feet high?'
Brent could have struck him; in
stead he followed the old mans look
across the space in which Mrs. Scud-
der moved toward them with the
youngest Scudder still hanging at her
skirts, one hand stayed to her fiat
breasts. She looked back at him,
white, under all her weather expo
sure, with the facing of many fear
full destinies.
"'Well, Nom, it's some blowout,
amt it?'
1T sure air, Pop
Something passed between them
with the homely words, of mutual
from the profound, ex-
look of the long mated.
They hadn't really expected anything;
They had known their luck would
ret the better of any fortunate cir
at last; they had met too
many times under it's shadow not to
make light of it."
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-02

There was Addie Scudder, who was
certain that Providence must be going
to lead her father to a Strike" be-
cause he had had such hard luck all
his life.
"'Cause why?" she would demand
"Cause my pops done used up all his
rights -homesteadin' and a-timber-
claimin' and a-pre-emptin.' He serv-
ed his time at them things and served
it honest, and | recon they's play
day comm round, amt they?" she
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-02
A Novel of the Oil Fields

VIVID descriptions of an oil town in
its boom are found in Mary
Ausins latest novel, "Thc Ford" pub
lshed by the Houghton Miflin Com
pany. This was the scene.
ut came up from the pumps in
black pasty gobs and stank. That
was Kenneth's first impression of
the oil fields the November evening
that Peters drove them down to Sum
merfield with their goods numbering
behind them in the wool wagon. They
lay, the half hundred wells, in the hol-
low Of an old earthquake drop that
took a curving line about the town
and left it high on the uptilted side. /
In the early dusk they made out the
derricks, each by his little, danger (
red eye, like half formed, prehistoric /
creatures feeling their way up from
thedepth to light, leaning Altogether
with the slight undulations of the
land, and seeming TO communicate in
low, guttering blubs and endless creak
ings, as though they plotted to tear I
loose at any moment and stamp out
the little hordes of men who ran per-
petually about, or collected in knots {
among the sheds with their heads to-
gether q
"There were crowds of men. The '
night the Brents had driven up, belat- G
ed, to the hotel, they saw them stand O
ing weariedly about the bar like n
storks pulled with want of sleep, and t
yet always with a tense, waiting air. a
Rows Of men slumped in chairs in the l
dim lit halls, trying to sleep, and out o
side in the street men walked up and II
down as though no such thing as sleep r.
were thought Of Long after the II
Burkes had taken them in, for beds at u
the hotel were not to be had for any CT
money, Kenneth could hear louder OF
murmur Of the town. II
at was not real trouble, he made ~
out in day or two, but the milling o'
men about the oil interest, like the %
tJatha. 90 tha AL. a ~oso dc
at times TO the note of happy eyicte- III
ment. Men clustered like bees about vi
the hives before the postofiice and the "a
bank; they collected in the streets ne
md were cast back and forth be- III
ween the trolley and the pavement by 10
he passerby, without any cessation HI
# their absorbing talk.
"To the Brent children, threading
heir way to school among them, there la
vas, in spite of the widest individual gr'
a curious likeness about ant
II these gesticulating men; the like ont
ess of all the hounds in the pack, of
'hatever breeds, at the parting of the fel
uarry Wherever there was news of che
strike, of new company formed
r an old one extended, they leaped asst
nd snatched at morses of it, only or
tear away excitedly at the least fin,
port of one in some other direction VIII
hey slavered with the desire of stock. see
ley gave tongue at the mere hint of pre-
And over all through the abo
reefs, in the houses even, there was was
e pervading, acrid flavor of oil. 1t rain
me in at the church windows and frol
I'VE to the Sunday quietness the eff fall
ct of hull in the market merely" seel
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-02

would demand irresistibly. "Cause
don't take more'n half an eye to SCI
that my pop amt no ways fitted TO
nothin' but them kind Of things and
1rechon Them That's Above"-this wa,
as near as Addie permitted herseli
the naming of any Powerfully
wouldn't let a body serve his time al
what they'd made him for, without
they would tot it up for him one Of
these days. she would conclude with
triumphant logic. For it did not
take even the half an eye which Addie
allowed to it to see in Pop Scudder the
figure of the incurable, the tempera-
mental pioneer, the tall, STOPPING
frame, sloped forward, not so much
with years as with following fast on
Hope, the huge, toll hardened hands,
curling in his lap, like child's, as
he sat listening with a child's bright
fxity to Adde'S leaping condolences,
the pale, farseeing ewes looking out
from an expanse of whitened whisker,
as from the midst of his own dreams"
Mrs. Austin describes the striking
Of "gusher:"
1t came upon them there between
A tremor and sound-dull rushing
which grew into a steady roar as
IF wind or water, or the believing
IF the plundered earth. They could
1t make it out-a sound so unrelated
o the day-but they heard shouting
It the bridge, astounded, frightened.
They understood that. They leaped
nut from the willows across the bridge
n time to see three or four idlers
INNING out of the roadhouse, and
Hartley DAVIS, hatless, starting from
he door of his little office like
uckoo from his clock. All the lines
f looking and running converged at
he black vomit of the earth in
uge column that broke and rained
ackward on the green sod. They
aw the waggling, broken arm of the
errick, whirled about like a twig [
a freshet, and little drenched fig {
res running aimlessly. The boys be- !
an to run, too. 1t seemed to Ken !.
eth that he was running in a dream; i
S legs moved, but he got no farther @
rward Men came running up be- o
a,I .ocgal tha,,
"Strike! Strike" some one shouted s
ats gusher" they heard Hartley !,
Avs calling over his shoulder. The II
ocery wagon went by at a gallop n
d Mr.. Brent, standing in it, holding b
to the back of the seat. b
"The boys clutched at the tailboard q
t it humping cruelty at their y
ests and then ricocheted, and with
final jerking halt into the ring of
Lonished gazers about the precincts ..
the well. They stood off from the :,
e spray of the gusher, the fall of =
ich veered little, and finally de- o
,nded to the west into the hollow q
spared for it. Jim Hand capered 4
,ut, drunk with excitement. He .
s drenched with the sudden black a
n and blood ran down his face a
m cut in his forehead made by
ling bar of the derrick, though he -
med not to notice it. From time to II
e to time he would move to put his H
I'd to his head as if in pain, but II
got the gesture in repetition of an II
essing phrase;
Thousand bar'ls day-thousand
is He clipped his words like
an far gone in drink. Just look at H
look at herl He caught sight of
mt and surged toward him. What
think of that, Brent? What dye
TX of it? Has the Homestead
lpany got oil or hasn't it? Betcha
'e's thousand bar'ls. He waved
III
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-02

If you wish to save money on your
work see w. H. Basye,
phone SOW.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21

posed that the way shall be made
so open that no one can remain
an outsider through lack of pro-
per invitation.
Here is an opportunity to show
the 1917 Christmas spirit, as well
as to get into the war work that
summons all patriotic Americans.
President Wilson, in apt phrase,
has proclaimed that RED Cross
membership is the Christmas spir-
it in terms of action" Let the
men and women of America make
that sentiment ring like a cathe-
dral chime throughout the land
on Christmas morn.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21

Buy a thrift stamp at the local
postoffice next time you come TO
town. Only quarter buys one.
When you have 16 stamps, or
$4.OO worth exchange it and 12c
for a $500 War Savings stamp
which IS good for $500 on Jan. l
1923. Then buy some more
Thrift stamps and keep on until
you have 20 War savings stamps.
These will cost you about $82.40,
but good for $4,000 on Jan. LIST,
1923. The best investment on
earth and at the same time you
are helping your Uncle Samuel
win the war. Dawson County's
proportion is $125,OOO worth.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21
Enlist In The Red Gross

Not everybody can go to the
front in France to fight for his
country. Everybody unable to
serve in the army, however, can
enlist in the Red Cross. There is
important war work for all the
men and women of America, and
for youth under or over military
age, light at home. No age limit
bars enlistments III the Red Cross.
1t is the great organized force
through which every one not en-
the firing line may play his part
in the war of Liberty.
The change to become a recruit
in the greatest army ever moblil-
lied to relieve human suffering,
as well as tighten the burdens
and enhance the strength of all |
fighting men, is presented to all I
by the Red Gross Christmas Mem
bership Campaign. This week IT
is planned to add 100000 names
to the Red Cross rolls. Fifty
thousand recruiting booth will be
open throughout the United States
to receive enlistments. It is plan
ned to make membership in the
Red Cross almost as universal as
citizenship. To that end it is pro-
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21
No. 11101
Treasury Department, Office of Comp
troller of the Currency
No. 11101

Treasury Department. Office of Comp
troller of the Currency
Washington, D. c., November %, 1917
Whereas, by satisfactory evidence pre-
sented to the undersigned, it has beer
made to appear that
"The First National Bank of Circle"
in the village of Circle, in The county Of
Dawson and State of Montana has com
piled with all the provisions of the Statutes
of the United States, required to be COM
piled with before an association shall be
authorized to commence the business of
Banking;
Now therefore, John Shelton Williams,
Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby
certify that "The First National Bank of
Circle" in the Village of Circle, in the
county of Dawson and State of Montana,
is authorized to commence the business of
Banking as provided in Section Fifty one
hundred and sixty nine of the Revised
Statutes of the United States.
Conversion of the Redwater Valley State
Bank of Circle, Circle Montana.
In testimony whereof witness my hand
and Seal of office this twenty-third day of
November, 1917.
Seal John Shelton Williams,
n30 FL Comptroller of the Currency
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21
Community Church

Rev. w. H Thomlinson, pastor.
Services at schoolhouse every
Sunday at liza. M. Sunday
school and bible class at 10: a. m.
Rhys James and Mrs. Nassau in
charge.
Sunday 23-Morning service at
HOO a. m. Topic THE Angels
Message" This is our Christmas
service. Special mnsic will be
Evening service at 7:39, topic
Is this the last war;"
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21
To Make a True Christmas.

Don't forget the lonely, the suffering,
the poor, on Christmas. Remember
that the first and greatest Christmas
gift was sent not to the rich and pow
erful, but to the poor and needy. Give
to those who are near and dear to you,
but somewhere, somehow, In your ordi-
nary life find some one who is near
and dear to no one else and make
Christmas for him or her.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21
More and More Of 1t

The fair Jeanette, Montana.
congresswoman who sobbed ant
sighed when she voted agains
the resolution declaring wal
against the murderous kaiser shec
no tears yesterday when she vot.
ed under similar circumstances
yet she could not refrain from
making ridiculous and uncalled
for assertions in explaining her
vote. She explained that she
gave a technical endorsement 10
the declaration of war on Austria
at this time because it seemed
necessary merely as matter of
course. Jeanette has made
many extravagant and ill-founded
assertions since she assumed her
Official duties at Washington but
none have been farther from the
truth than the one she made yes
terday when she asserted that
; Special interests" were respons-
ible for this ration getting into
the conflict. The fair Jeannett',
if she has been at all observing
should of known that special in
terests" were not responsible for
the outrages committed in Bel
gium nor for the sinking of Lus-
itanja with the loss of lives of
women and innocent babes. |
Neither was it the special interests
so-called that were to blame for
the countless outrages to the wo-
manhood of the teri or-stricken
districts of ravished Europe. The
tears Jeanette shed should have
been over the dastardIy crime of
the kaiser and not because this
nation was forced to avepge the
of the innocent. Jean
nette to date has made a dismal
failure in congress and it is scar
cely likely that she will redeem
herself in the eyes CT the public
Turing the remaining few months
If her official life.-Miles City
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For Sale or Trade

Nee improved farm, consisting
of 800 aeres, all fenced and cross
fenced, good set of buildings and
well; rs head of cattle. Is head of
horses; Farm machinery of all
kinds; Lots of feed, etc. Buyer
can take possession at once. In
quire at the Banner office for fur
Their particulars. Stiff
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-12-21

uIl1S cloIlleS, lyl1S III d Hall
ger at Bethlehem! Prophets were
interested, angels were interested,
the ages have been most deeply in
terested since. The shepherds had
perhaps some premonition. The
seventy weeks of Daniels prophecy
were about fulfilled. 1t may be at
that very time they were talking of
the coming of Christ.
Suddenly their attention was ar
rested by a strange sight in the
heavens. 1t grew brighter and took
the form of an angel, and then they
heard voice announcing the birth
of Christ as glad tidings for all peo-
pie, not to the Jews only. Then
suddenly the air was filled with an
gels singing as if they had come
right out from the air.
We know not their wonderful
song, but part came to mortal ears,
"Glory to God in the highest" etc.
We know not who those angels were,
but we fancy they were the redeem
ed. Adam was there; Eve was
there. Eve, who in her maternal
earnestlass declared at the birth of
her frstbor:2, II have got a man
from the Lord" hoping that that
was he who should bruise the SER
pent's head. Now, in the fullness
of time she had come to witness the
birth of the babe who was to be the
Saviour of her race. David, Elijah, |
Moses, the patriarchs, we believe,
were with the heavenly host
This song reveals three things:
First.-The glorifcation of God
through the incarnation. God has
glory through his vast work in ma
lure, his providence building up and
fasting down nations, etc.
In the incarnation there was spe-
,ial glory. 1t was glory to God in
he highest-highest, in that it was
lbove all other glory, in that it ex-
ended to all time and in that it
such wondrous good.
Second.-The great results to the
arth. 1t would result in peace.
,trifes, thorns and thistles were
bounding. The earth was torn and
leeding by constant contention.
With Christ came peace. The result
7ould be universal peace. I
Third.-The effect on the individ- {
al man. "Good will toward men," D
rom one another, from God. Out B
this good will would finally spring Z
eace on earth and glory to God in
lie highest.-Dr. Matthew Simpson. :