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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12
FREE ENTERTAINMENT
Young Women of Friends University
VIII be Here Friday Evening

Four young women from Friends
University of Wichita, will give a
free entertainment consisting of
trio numbers, selected readings, vo7
cal and instrumental duets and col
lege scenes on Friday evening, July
10 at the Friends church.
Mary MabIe Mccormick, the read
err, is regarded as a young woman of
rare ability, especially as an imper-
senator of children. Ruth Pickering,
LIST soprano and pianist; Evalena
Macy, End soprano and Lizzie May
Hays, alto, make up the trio.
A silver offering will be asked for
at the close of the meeting to pay
the expenses of the young women.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12
SIMON
STORE
Liberal, Kansas
Cheapest
For
1OCents
Cheapest
For
Scents

We carry nice line of goods and it will pay you
to make visit before making your purchase.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12
A SMALL FIRE LOSS
J. F. Blacks Restaurant Was Badly
Damaged Tuesday Morning.

]. F. Black suffered loss of sew
eral hundred dollars when his res
taurant caught fire about z o'clock
Tuesday morning. The fire was
caused by an overheated coal stove
being too near a partition. The
building was badly damaged by fire
and smoke, and all of the fixtures
and edibles were destroyed. The fire
company responded in hurry and
soon had the fire put out. There
was no insurance.
The building was owned by Mr..
Black. The lot was owned by c. M.
Light.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Whitesides and
little daughter, and Mrs. Joe Beaver,
of Paris, Mo-, are here visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. Irwin and Mr.. and Mrs.
M. W. Lear. The party made the
700-mile trip by auto in less than a
week, coming the entire distance
without puncture. They plan to
extend their visit to points in Colo
RADIO.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

Lon Turner, an employee at the
w. E. Wilson grocery, left Sunday
morning for two weeks vacation.
He had no definite destination in
mind when he left here but will go
jlst where his fancy calls him after
he has travelled awhile.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12
LIBERAL
Undertaking Company

Office Stamper Block, Liberal, Kan.
J. o. Sparkling, Prop.
UNDERTAKING AND
EMBALMING
(Day or Night
Agents for Line of First Glass
MONUMENTS
One block West of Postoffice
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

An Ecaudorian naval officer has
invented an automatic alarm to no.
tify the master of a vessel of any
deviation from its set course.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

Sheet metal spIints, adjustable to
various sizes has been patented by
Virginia surgeon for temporarily
dressing broken limbs.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

An observatory in Berlin claims to
have the worlds most accurate clock,
which is kept in an air tight glass
cylinder in basement.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

w. E. Huber, of Tyrone, was a
business visitor here Saturday.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

FOR RENT-Two furnished sleep
ing rooms; modern, close in. En-
quire LIST house south of Enterprise
Grocery. At
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-07-12

In the first three months this year
the United States consumed $685.
GOT pounds of cotton fibre in the
manufacture of explosives.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18
LIFT YOUR CORNS
OFF WITH FINGERS
Tells how to loosen a tender corn or
ealIus so II lifts out without
pain.

You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
at least once q week invited an awful
death from locwjaw or blood poison
are now told by Cincinnati author
Nyto use drug called freezonc.
winch The moment few drops are ap-
piied to any corn or callus the sore
ness is relieved and soon the entire
c"rn or callus, root and all, lifts Off
With the fingers.
FrcczOnc dries the moment is is an
piicd, ard simply shriyels the corn or
callus without infIaming or even irri-
Eating the surrounding tissue or skin.
A small bottle Of freezone will cost
very little at any OF the drug stores.
BAT VIII positively rid ones feet O,
every hard or soft corn or hardened
caIius. If your druggist hasn't an.
freezone he can get il at any whoA
sale drug house for you 2-Adv
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18
The Crowning Hardship

Of the many witticisms attribut-
ed to the late Joseph H. Choate our
favorite is his famous toast to the
fair sex, given some years ago at
dinner of the Pilgrims:
"Women, the better half of the
Yankee world, without whose aid the
stern Pilgrims never could have
achieved the historic title of the Pill
grim Fathers! The Pilgrim mothers
were more devoted martyrs than
were the Pilgrim Fathers, because
they not only had to bear the same
hardships that the Pilgrim Fathers
suffered, but they had to endure the
Pilgrim Fathers besides. Ladies'
Home Journal.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18

checked girl. No one can imagine the
confidence have In Dr. Miles Heart
Remedy" A. r. CANON Worth. Mo.
The unbounied confidence Mr..
Canon has in DR.. Mf,es' Heart Rem
edy is shared by thousands OF
others who know is value from
experience. Many heart disorders
yield 10 treatment, if the treatment
is right If you are bothered with
short breath, fainting spells, sw,'!-
ing OF feet or ankles, pains about
the heart and shoulder blades, pal
pitltion, weak and hungry sr~l'g,
you should begin u.'pg Or. M.ic,'
Heart Remedy at onca. Profit by
the experience Of others while yOi
may.
Or. Miles Heart Remedy ls sold End
guaranteed by all druggists.
MILES MEDICAL CO.. sIkhart, Ind.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18

bed near a window
SO she could get
her brca tn. one
doctor said. Poor
child. she is likely
to fall dead any
time A friend
told me DIR. Miles
Heart Remedy uLj
cured her father,
80 | tried it. and
she began to iIa-
prove. She took
q great many bot
ties. but she Ia
spared TO me to-
day. a fat. rosy
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18
Emsley Armfield Writes
From Fort 0glethorpe
Sunday Evening at Y. M. C. A
Just after Sabbath School


This camp is located in a most pic
turesque place situate between two
historical ridges of Civil war fame;
Missionary Ridge on the one side and
Mt. Lookout on the other, though at
distance of or miles apart.
The barracks are constructed for
each company in row and accom-
|modate from 80 to 60 men. The sani-
tary conditions are very good, and
modern conveniences for each COM
pany exist.
The social life of the camp is in
deed a credit to the good people Of
Chattanooga, who treat us more like
members of their families than stran-
gers. We are invited into their
homes and the fattcd calf is always
on the table.
The religious side Of life is rccog-
nized and looked after by the differ
ent churches of the city and the COM
modous Y. M. c. AS. that exist with
in the camp itself.
The camp is made up of men also
boys from all over the country, Penn
sylvania, suppose, furnishing more
than any other state, great bunch
of fellows, all interested in each other
and willing to help each other in any
way possible.
To date we have had most every
phase of military lifc-drlling of all
kinds, digging of trenches, both wide
and deep; bayonet fighting, target
shooting, and, worst of all, living in
the trenches night and day in all
kinds of weather.
My company returned yesterday
from the target range which is locat-
ed 15 miles from our camp; and we
had to hike it there spending almost
a week and then hike it back home.
This week we land in the trenches
for three days and nights, and hope
to the Lord the weather will be fine.
Our daily duties consist of a neat
little schedule to wit: arise at 5:15
wash your face, make up your bunk,
sweep out, eat breakfast, and then
assume the position of the soldier
drilling like the d with an occa
sional conference or study period)
until IL o'clock, then mess and agar
the position of soldier in drills anc
exercises till 5 o'clock; then supper
and a study period of from 7 to 6
and by that time you can go to BED
without saying your prayers or tax.
ing bath.
Our officers are on the job all the
time, but occasionally, we have the
chance to treat them like gentle.
men.
My regards to all of my acuuaint.
ances in Chesterfield and with best
wishes for successful year, am.
Very truly,
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18
Heart Disease Almost
Fatal to Young Girl
Heart

MY daughter. when thirteen years
old. was stricken with heart trouble
She was so bad We had to place her
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18
Be WISE;
Don't Waste Grain

Feeding stock whole grain at
this time is sheer waste and ex-
travagance.
Bring or sell your grain to
US to be ground for human con-
sumption and let us supply you
with prepared stock feed suit
able for your needs.
If you have grain to sell or
stock to feed come to see us.
Chesterfield Milling Co.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18
THE
LAST WORD
lection. 1t is a provision to insure the
vision in a nutshell:

H. before reaching
thereby from work of kind Immediately
and beginning months Company pay
life, at of of
policy each payable monthly
Not only that but death, Company pay
beneficiary the full
ever for the payments made during your lifetime
Furthermore, during disability policy
and dividends be If
the we're being paid in leash
For example, suppose hold policy for $1,000 in this
Company ;and legs
eyesght
came totally and permanently disabled from
accidentyou would have further pay you
would SS4SO month,
death beneficiary would the
policy, $4,000.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18
DR.. L. II. TROTTI,
Dental Surgeon
Chesterfield S. G.,

ChcstcrfleId, S. {.
Office on second floor in Ross
Building.
All who desire my services via
please see me at Chesterfield, as !
have discontinued my visits to other
towns.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-10-18

THE provision in Southern
Life and Trust Company poll
cies for total and permanent
disability is the last word to
be said in life insurance pro-
the insurance. Here's the pro-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14
LID ON AT MEMPHIS
New Mayor Issues Order That Means
State Law and City Ordinances
Will Be Vigorously
Enforced

1t is the lid, and the tight one, for
Memphis, Tenn. The city that for
nlcrly was the most wide-open town
of the entire South is now one of the
most vigorously governed municipal
ties.
The newly-appointed Mayor, Harry
H. Litty, has announced that he will
enforce all the laws. The former
Mayor was accused of extreme laxity
and was tried in the courts. He was
said to have ignored the Prohibition
and anti-gambling laws. Bootleggers
f1ourished unchallenged.
It's all changed now, however, for
the new executive means business.
Bootleggers are no longer to be seen,
and various gentry and the corrupt
female of the species who piled their
nefarious schemes have acquired a
wholesome respect for the state law
and city ordinances.
Memphis Is better.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14
WET PARADE UNPOPULAR
Labor Men Refuse to March In Dem
onstration Dominated by Brewery
Workers; Some Locals Not
Represented

Carrying signs advocating the wet
cause by brewery workers in the
Labor Day parade at Columbus, Ohio,
caused OBJECTIONS from the ranks OF
labor men who did not care to have
their labor parade turned into booze
demonstration. A number of i'm
portant locals of labor unions were
not represented in the parade and
other locals had only sparse repre-
sentation because of the evident de-
termination of the brewery workers
to dominate the whole line OF march
and to make it appear that the labor
movement Is a wet movement.
A number of labor leaders said that
while the brewery workers as an or
gained labor union had the right to
march in the parade, no body of
workmen had any right to try to turn
the parade into a propaganda argu-
ment. The brewery workers are not
in high favor with the majority of or
ganized labor men in Columbus.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14
STRONG FIGHT IN CONNECTICUT
Drys Are In Great Effort to Increase
Saloonless Territory; Notable
Speakers Are Being
Heard

There are 81 dry towns and II we,
ones in Connecticut. The drys are
making the greatest effort ever put
forth in that state to increase the sa-
loonless area. The vote will be taken
October l, and even the larger cities,
with the exception of few in which
elections are held biennially, are be-
ing we'll organized.
Some of the most influential men
of the state are serving as dry chair
men. Field Secretaries Lamphear
and Bochman of the Anti-Saloon
League are making an automobile tour
of the state, holding open-air meet
ings. Bochman is a union baker and
is very influential with labor union
men.
A press bulletin is being issued
weekly to country papers and twice a
week to dailies, edited by G. E. RIGHT
err, of Darien, and the papers arc max
ing good use of the material sent.
Rev. Father George Zurcher, oil
Buffalo, T. Alex Cairns, of Newark
N. J., and Rev. Charles F. Taylor
known as the fighting parson," are
speaking. DR.. E. J. Moore and Wayne
B. Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League
of America, will give their aid in the
campaign.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14
!, WOULD GUST SALOONS
Los Angeles Drys Have Plan for
Ordinance Which VIII Help TO
Clean Up City; Confident
They Will Win

Saloons as institutions will be rel
les of the past in Los Angeles, CAL,
II plans unanimously adopted by drys
of that city are successful.
A committee, numbering 200, and
representative OF all sorts of drys and
dry organizations, will manage the
fight. d. NJ. Gambler is chairman Of
the committee. Petitions will be cir
culated at once and the ordinance
providing the things deemed desirable
by the committee will be started on
Its way toward adoption.
Mr.. Gambler declares that the drys
are confident that the ordinance. sub
mitted to a referendum vote, will be
adopted by a large majority. The
ordinance provisions are as follows:
Prohibit absolutely the sale of dis
titled liquors for drinking purposes
within the city.
Close saloons and not permit them
anywhere within the city.
AZ dhc tAlC HdfDOi ulStllCl uIy.
Permit, within the present down
town liquor zone, service of vinous
and matt liquors only with meals
from II O'Clock a m. to p. m. in
public dining rooms of hotels, res
taurants and clubs; but there can be
no increase in the number of such
places beyond the number now Il
censed.
Permit within the present down
town liquor zone, sale of vinous and
malt liquors In sealed packages from
o'clock a m. to p. m. OF any day
except public holidays; but there can
be no increase in the number of
places selling by the bottle beyond
the number now licensed.
Prohibit soliciting orders for liq-
uors anywhere In the city.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14

vided for library and reading room
but the reading room soon stand
empty while the beer hall is full. Con
tinuing. he says:
1t Is plainly evident that all eff
forts for Advancement among the
Germans In America are drowned
In beer, for the same conditions
are repeated In all cities. The
German takes little interest in
public affairs except when it is a
question relating to beer, then he
rises In wrath and fights for per
sonal liberty" that is, liberty to
drink beer, especially on Sunday
and at band concerts.
Prof. Walter Rauchenbusch in an
address to the German people deliv-
cred in Germany, warned the Ger
mans that thir brilliant mental ca
pacities were being dulled and per-
vcrted by the insidious influence OF
beer drinking. He declares that THE
most brutal scenes that have ever
witnessed in all my life were not in
America, but in Germany" Prof.
Rauchenbusch then went on to say
to his German audience:
If we look through our German
history, we see that many of our
intellectual heroes have suffered
from chronic alcoholism; and we
learn that all our German history
has been more deeply influenced
by the chronic alcoholism OF
some of the chief leaders than
most of us would think.
And we see still more the dam
ger of our social drinking habits.
So many abnormally Redeemed
faces, so many eyes with baggy
eye-lidsl Two things struck me
immediately on my landing in
Hamburg or Bremen-the i'm
mense number of uniforms and
the immense number of corpulent
men.
Without doubt these Germans are
right Beer has injured Germany.
Beer has brutalized Germany. Beer
has had greater influence in Ger
many's inhuman conduct in this war
than tn cordinary man suspects. Beer
has made Germany into what she is
today. Beer in this country is pro-
C.rpao Tho Cerr,ao A ~, er;c,r Al
lance has for its chief object the per-
pctuation of beer. Let Ohio and the
country get rid of this brutalizing I'M
American beverage.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14
ARGUMENTS ARE FILED
Ohio Drys and Vets Give Secretary
of State Official Reasons for and
Against Prohibition

Through J. w. Deffenbaugh. Ed
ward L. Gillian, Percy Tetlow, L. J.
Tabcr and James A. White. the Ohio
Dry Federation has filed with Secre-
tary of State Fulton the official argu-
ment in favor of the Prohibition
amendment to be voted on at the cleo
ton of November 6.
The argument recites, among other
things, that the amendment is desired
to become effective February 1o, 1919,
thus giving time for liquor producers,
sellers and employees to engage in
legitimate business.
1t alleges that license and all forms
of regulation Of the liquor traffic have
failed in Ohio.
The VETS, through L. II. Gibson,
Eugene Helm and Graham P. Hunt
have filed the official argument
against Prohibition. 1t declares that
during the war this question should
not be brought up.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14

that for every tumblerful of wine, and
for every tumbler and a quarter of
spirits. no fewer than so glasses of
beer are drunk
Impressive as such figures are, John
may at least claim that, if normally he
is not pattern of temperance, he has
been improving steadily. Thus he can
point triumphantly to the fact that for
every three glasses OF spirits he drank
II years ago, he was content with two
in 1914; one glass of wine took the
place of two them while, as beer
drinker, he had knocked five gallons
year off.
Now let us see how John Bull COM
pares with his neighbors. As beer
drinker he is hopelessly beaten by the
Belgian, whose thirst before the war;
called for three glasses to his two.
And, although he has slight lead
over Germany as whole, the Bavar-
ian drinks over so gallons to Johns
annual 27.6.
As consumer of spirits John also
compares favorably even with some of
his children. Thus for every glass he
drains, the South Australian North
ern Territory demands from three to
FIVE, according to his prosperity; and
the West Australian from two to
three. The Canadian drinks 20 per
cent more spirits; the Dane (the heav-
lest spirit-drinleer in the world), near
ly five times as much; and tho Ger
man and Frenchman roughly twice as
much
But 1t is as wine-bibber that the
Briton can assume the most virtuous
airs; for, while in peace-timc he Is
content with less than modest quar-
ter of gallon yearly, there is scarcely
country on the continent which can
do with less than four times as much;
while most of them range from Aus
tria's three gallons to Frances 24-or
90 glasses for each one John Bull
drinks.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-09-14
JOHN BULLS THIRST
(London Answers)

In these days of restricted drinks,
when John Bull can pat himself on the
back as a model of sobriety. however
enforced, he will probably be aston
ished to learn what thirsty soul he
really was in the piping times of
peace"
If you tell him that in normal times
he spends over E450,000 day on in
toxicants - more than five-pound
note every time the CLOCK ticks"--he
will probably open his eyes wide with
incredulity. Tell him, further, that he
pours down his capacious throat in a
year as much spirituous liquid as
would supply five tumblcrfuls to every
man, woman, and child living on the
earth today, and he will probably ex-
claim, "Prcposterous (Absurdl"
And yet these are statements of So
Der fact. Even as recently as the year
1914 John spent nearly 164K millions
on beverages that inebriate, if you take
too much of them.
To pay his drink bill for 1914 would
call for more than 1922 tons of SOW
ereigns, a heavy burden for 10000
strong men to carry any distance. OF
this enormous sum approximately
ELS ,000,0 00-14 shillings out of every
pound-came out of the pockets of the
working classes. The average expendi-
ture for each inhabitant of the United
Kingdom, including babies in arms,
was IS los. 10d.; or f7 14s. I'd for
each family of five members.
To this annual bill of over 1o4 mil
lion pounds, beer alone contributed
roundly l03 millions; spirits, SO mil
lions; and wines, II millions; the
Briton's favorite beverage, the nut
brown ale," thus accounting for more
than II shillings in every pound.
But it is when we consider the guam
titles consumed that we get the most
impressive conception of joint thirst.
Thus, of beer alone he drained more
than 20,540,000,000 glasses in IL
months, an allowance of eight and
half tumblers every week for every in
habitant of Great Britain and Ireland.
If it were possible to collect the 49,
COL 900 barrels of beer consumed in
the first year of war and to pour their
contents into reservoir mile long
and thousand feet wide, we should
fill our reservoir to depth of 40 feet;
and Our miniature ocean of beer would
be large and deep enough to float our
entire navy.
Spirits take the second place on the
Briton's bill of quantities, with the re-
spectacle total of 31,6o4,000 gallons;
and wines make crcditable third with
Is ,o82, 900 gallons. Thus, a little cal
culation reveals the astonishing fact