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Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

Reuben Dove, a young negro resi-
dent of Montgomery county, will be
given dose of his own medicine when
the sentence imposed upon him by
Judge J. Abby Henderson in the police
court at Rockville is carried out by
Sheriff Frank Gather. Dove was con-
victed of beating his wife, and Judge
Henderson decided that about 10
lashes upon his bare back might give
him some idea of how the blows his
wife testified he gave her felt, and
might serve to deter him from further
acts of the kind.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
INCREASED BEMANe for cow
In Single Year She Prodsleed Enough
Protein for Three 99ers and
Fat for 1W0

Dairy products, Ike everything else.
are increasing in pice and we find,
now as never before an increasing de-
mand for the dairy cow. If we stop to.
consider few of her performances
we will find that II 9 single year she,
will produce enough protein for three
steers, enough fat for two, ash enough
to build the skeletons for three, over.
$40 worth Of milk sugar, and manure
valued at $50.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
MAY REJECT ONE
MAN IN FOUR
Dependents and Those Engaged
in industrial Work.
ADD TO NUMBER EXEMPTED
Communities In Which There Will Be
Fewest observation-disclosures Of
Suburban Sections Expected
To Yield Most Men.

Neutrality-suspicious. of the first
selection boards to fill their quotas for
the selective draft army are eagerly
awaited by Washington officials be-
cause they will give the first definite
information as to the probable per-
centage Of reflections to be expected
among the 100000 registrants for
physical reasons or for dependents.
All available statistics indicate a
probable rejection of one in every four
for physical disability. In particular
localities this will vary greatly, but
the average for the whole country is
expected to be between 25 and 80 per
cent. There is no available data as
to dependents, however, or as to how
many must be excused under in
dustrial exemptions.
1t appears probable that peculiar
results will be brought out in some
districts. If the reasoning Of some
officials is correct, the lowest rejection
and exemption rates will be disclosed
in well-to-do communities, such as the
suburbs of large cities, where men of
comfortable incomes make their
homes. Sons of such men, it is sug-
gested have had better food, better
care and better surroundings than the
factory hands of nearby towns and
they should be in better physical con-
dition.
AS a class such young men could
hardly be regarded as indispensable,
officials say, in their civil, business or
industrial capacities, and dependents
probably will not free as many of them
from service as of most other classes.
In factory towns, on the other hand,
the rejection rate for physical dis
ability probably will be high. The fact
that the men are confined six days
week at their machines undoubtedly
will have affected their physical con-
dition. Virtually every married man
of those registered In these places is
the sole support Of his wife and chill
dren and such men cannot be taken.
Also if the industry in which they are
engaged is vital to the carrying on of
the war industrial exemptions will run
high.
Only reports from selection and dis
trict boards in typical communities.
however, can show exactly what is to
be expected. Roughly the War De-
partment has estimated that two men
must be called for every soldier &C.
copied, but they realize that the re-
turns may tell fa- different story.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
40 CHIPPEWA INDIANS ENLIST.

Will Form Company OF tho Sixth Wis.
consin Regiment.
Hayward, Wis.-Forty Chippewa In.
dams from the Lac Cpurte Oreilles In.
dian reservation have enlisted in a
company that will be taken into the
Sixth Wisconsin Regiment. Charles
Isham, an Indian, took his two sons
to the recruiting Office and when one
failed to pass the examination the
father offered to go and was accepted.
Another Indian had his three boys en-
list.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
FARMERS HOLDING BACK.
At the Bottom Of the List Of Liberty

At the Bottom Of the List OF Liberty
Loan Subscribers.
Washington.-Severe criticism OF
the farmers of the country for their
failure to give stronger support to the
Liberty Loan is contained in a COM
munication from F. S. H. Won Engel-
ket, president Of the Federal Land
Bank of Columbia. S, c., received at
the Treasury Department, Mr. Won
Engelket declares that the farmers
stand practically at TIE bottom of the
M Of subsoribars ~
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

]. L. Christopher, carpenter, was in
3ured and Rev. F. c. MacSorley, pas
tor Of United Methodist Episcopal
Church, fredericksburg, barely escaped
with his life, while razing the tabor
nacle where the Berge Sisters recent
~ held a revival. Christopher was
caught under the falling timbers and
severely injured about the head and
|Bhoulders, while the minister was
saved from being caught under fall
ing 3o-foot section by a workman call
xng to him In the nick Of time He
I -psd on. Of harms way just as the
m crashed to 81 eh.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

Health officers discovered a small
sized epidemic of infantile paralysis
at Barton, in the southwestern end of
Allegany county, one child having died
from the plague and six others now
being i'll. The four-year-old daughter
of John Dawson, miner, was stricken
with the disease on Sunday and has
since died.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
BABY HIT BY TRAIN LIVES.
Thrown Beneath Moving Freight Car.
BY Passenger Engine.

Lynchburg, Va-Therma Garrett, 8
years old, of Lookout, W. Va, who is
visiting in the home of J. P. Almond,
at Spout Springs, was struck several
days ago by an east-bound passenger
train which knocked the child under
trains were stopped and the child was
taken from under a car, but was not
badly injured.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
DRAFT NUMBERS AS SOUVENIRS

Turned Over To Red Cross For Sale
To Swell Fund.
Washington.-The original numbers
used in drawing the new national army
have been turned over to the Red
Cross by Provost Marshal-General
Crowder for sale as souvenirs, the pro-
ceeds to be turned into the Red Cross
fund. The first eight numbers and the
last one. however, will be put back
in the bowl and placed In Independ-
ence Hall, Philadelphia, beside the
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
JEWS HAVE OWN REGIMENT.
Copy OF King David's Shield viii Be
Badge Of Fighters.

London.-The War Office has an.
nounced the formation of special
Jewish regiment of infantry, with ex-
perienced officers in the higher com,
mands. Jewish soldiers, with knowl-
edge Of the Yiddish or Russian
languages, already serving with Brit
ish regiments, will be transferred to
this unit.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

When to Condemn Cow.
No cow should be condemned al a
poor or Improbable one until she has
been fed up to her full capacity as a
milk producer.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
WOMAN DANCER A SPY.

Japanese Matahiri Sentenced To Death
BY France.
Paris. = The dancer, Marguerite
Sole, known on the stage as 1.-THE
Japanese dancer Matahiri," has been
found guilty of espionage by a court
martial and sentenced to death The
dancer was formerly the wife of an
officer in the Dutch Army, but had
been divorced.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
CHANCES IN MARINE CORPS.

Private OF Today May Be Officer To-
morrow, Says Commandant.
Washington.-"The man who enlists
in the Marine Corps today may be the
officer tomorrow" said Major General
George Barnett, commandant of the
corps. Sixty-dve non-commissioned
officers of the corps who have qualified
have been designated recently for ap-
pointments as temporary second lieu
tenants.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

China contains more American mis-
sionaries than American business
men.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

The shalt of Herman whence our
word "shawl"l is either woven from
the down Of the goat or from wool
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

One iron mine only has been dis
covered in Egypt which was worked
by the ancients.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

George T. Givans, 81 years old, son
of George B. Givans, was run over and
killed by train at Ocean City.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
HARVARD CLUB TAKES TO SODA

Dig OTgaHtZdtTUH III NeW rUrK THStdIIS
Temperance Bar.
New York. - The Harvard Club,
with approximately 5000 members, has
established a soda fountain and tenn
perance bar. 1t is perhaps the largest
club of it's kind in the country. This
novelty in club life is due to the fact
that already 900 of it's members are in
military and naval service and are for
hidden by law to drink alcoholic bever-
ages while in uniform.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
No Cap,e for

No caw's for Bankruptcy.
No one ever heard of a farmer he.
coming bankrupt in the dairy business
conducted right.
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
State Units Answer President
Wilson's Call.
NEXT MOVE UNCERTAIN
Lack OF Equipment May Delay the
Transfer OF Some Branches Of
Service To Admission
(Ala.) Camp.
6,695 MEN OF MARYLAND
GUARD IN SERVICE.

Already In Federal Service,
Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

General Warfeld does not know
how long the troops will stay at the
armories before entraining for Annis-
ton, Ala, where they will prepare for
the foreign struggle. 1t may be 10
days or two weeks and it may be long
or. Much equipment must be dis
tributed and all of the units must be
mustered into the Federal service.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-09

The get-together monday Iuncheons of the Seward Chamber of Commerce should prove to be one of the most profitable little boosting hamonies in this com munity 1t is time when views can be aired; when eX- pressons can be made; diseases as they may be termed can be explained and the prosperity medicine admins tered.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-09
and we will do it.

Captain T. M Ward affabe and an efficient official, should be the proudest of men-for he has been praised by his associates and remembered in most remarkable manner All citizens deeply regret his departure from Seward
 The rosy report from the Hope section is only the first of many to be received from places adjacent to Sew ard and which means another round in the successful Iad der of prosperity and stability.
 About the most cheerful news which will be chron- icled in Seward this week will be "The cable is up'
 The Grown Prince has rebuked the President of the United States Well Woody needs good laugh anyway and very probably he is having good time chucking
 Perhaps King Gustav hasn't noticed what happened to the former King of Greece.
 Lord Grey in a London speech, strongly intimated that the United States would have the final word when comes to peace issue Uncle Sam has the last word in everyhing-and there is no come back when he talks.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-09

At Seattle at Portland at San Francisco at Juneau, at Ketchkan and Cordova, they all talking favoraby about Seward and the surrounding section. All Seward has to do is to make good with these bits with capital
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-09
SMOKING

Smoking is a fine hobby~or exercise for one who doesn't care to eat much says the Brooklyn Eagle There is no better way of cutting down the grocery bill than rlentv of smoking and the man who makes 1t point to smoke enough through the day will find that potato or
 handful of beans will appease his hunger in the evening" With food prices high would be an economy for every member to take up smoking. Pass out few cigars to the children when they beg for something to eat between meals The thrifty housewife will find that cigars would be better for the children than ppe as they could hard ly be taught to for pipe properly To keep ppe cleaned up and in good trim requires lots of time and at ention The man who goes in for pipe smoking cant eX- pect to make the fires or shovel the away from the front door this winter He will need all his spare time for his pipe toshake it down and carry out the ashes
 Twice during the past few days have the citizens of Seward been called upon pay therrspecs to those who have passed on Todays services over an esteemed cti zen and an officer of the law gave evidence of the appre citation of the man in life and the honor due when he died in what he believed to be his act for laws betement
 The members of the local unit of the Seward guards greet the arrival of Corporal Edgar O. Williams with great enthusiasm Corp Williams is an officer every inch of him. and the drilling and instructions he can give the local unit is the best that could be attained from any source Inow rests with the unit members to show their support of the military division of the United States in at tending all drills and earnestly endeavorng to follow the teaching of the instructor
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-09
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE-

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS cNus yey entitled m the use TOT IepuO' ton of an news otherwise credited m % paper ana also the local news published herein. All rights of republication special dispatches herein are also reserved
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-10-09
c. WY. PALM FIR
 KNIK, ALASKA

SOME OF OUR SPECIALTIES: WELLNAN CANNED GOODS TIP TOP EGGS
 MARSHFIELD CHEESE RED CLOVER BUTTER SPERRY'S FLOURS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
DANGER PAST NOW.
 SAYS FERRY PILOT
Says Wife Is We'll and Strong Since Taking Tan
 lac-Gained IS Pounds

Capt. J. G, Roberts, a well known ferry Iplot. and a familiar figure among the Nay fishermen and boatmen, living in Miami. Fla, speaks in a very interesting add grateful manner of the benefits his NHfe has obtained from the use of the celebrated medicine, Tanlac.
 rMy wife was in grave danger of a complete breakdown from months of suf- ferfng With a rundown system that noth- ing seemed to relieve. She was tired and worn out all the time and never felt like doing anything about the house. Her appetite failed and she lost about 25 pounds in weight and was getting weaker every day. Ever since she came to Mi ami from Brooklyn, N T., last August, she just seemed to go down until was alarmed about her.
 That's all past now. She started talk ing Tanlac about two months ago and from the very beginning 1t has built her up until she has gained IS pounds and Is as well and strong as she ever was Her health is fully restored and every sign of that tired, listless feeling has left her and her old-tine energy has come back in full force. She does her own housework now without bit of trouble Tanlac sure does all that is claimed for 1t, and we recommend 1t all the time.''
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham exclu- sively by Eugene Jacobs drug store and Patton-Pope Drug company, in Ensley by D. w. Morris Drug company, in Bes- semer by Pegram-Patton Drug company. and in North Birmingham by Walker Drug company.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
Had Pellagra, Is Saved from Grave
Woman Sure She Would Have Been ip Her Grave Without Bnughn's
 Treatment

Mrs. Harriett Lowe, Aberdeen, Miss, writes: T am more than grateful to you for your valuable Baughns Treatment. am doing fine and cant say enough to your credit. am quite sure I would have been in the grave without it."
 Don't you suppose this letter made us feel good to know we had saved life :? Many such lives have been saved Baughn's Pellagra Treatment has saved many from the grave. So sure are we that 1t will cure pellagra that we supply the treatment on the basis of refunding the money in case the custo- mer Is not fully satisfied
 Your west crime Is delay. Don't de- lay. Write today. right now, to Ameri- can Compromising Company, Box 20l4, bookiet on peiiasra. remembering Se the money Is refunded in any case where tha Remedy fails to cure.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26
|BANKHE ADS TAX ! AMENDMENT WILL HELP SMALL MAN Would Shift War Burden to Shoulders of Those Max
 ing Enormous Profits UNDERWOOD WILL
 URGE ITS PASSAGE 'laimed That Senate Finance Com mittee's Finance Plan Would
 Operate Disastrously on
 Alabama Business
By HUGH w. RonERTs

NJ News from Washington is to the effect &hat In all probability the so-called Bank Maead excess profit taxation amendment to
 he pending revenue bill will be adopted. If the Bankhead amendment is adopted,
 local business men agree that it will re-
 ieve small business in Alabama of the Mourden of many hundreds of thousands kof dollars in taxation, and transfer that Mburden to the shoulders of big business
 (which, by virtue of the war, has reaped Heretofore undreamed profits. M Last week Senator Bankhead in an ex- Exhaustive speech. defended his amendment wand attacked the provision of the Senate &rinance committee. Within the next few %days Senator Underwood wilfssspeaiz to &the Senate in behalf of the Bankhead d %amendment. Both Alabamians are con- &vinced that the committees plan of se- Pouring war profit taxation would opera te < Ndisastrously on Alabama business. The situation regarding excess war Hprofits, as 1t exists today In the Senate, lis as follows:
 Last March a law was enacted levying tax of per cent upon excess profits. \ What constitutes excess or war profits annd how can such profits be distinguished afrpm normal profits? How to take sub- Est7ntial part of big war profits without ltaKing from those who have made no IiaFge war profits presents the practical \ difficulty.
 The law as passed last March fixed 8 per cent upon the capital actually in- vested as standard of normal or pre- war profits. and taxed all profits in ex- cess of that return at per cent. The country was not then at war. More taxes must now be raised
 THE HOUSE ACTS
 The House passed the bill now pending in the Senate and left the standard of normal profits as 1t Is written in the law. but increased the rate on the excess to IS per cent.
 The Senate finance committee struck out the House plan and reported an en- rirely new method for ascertaining nor- mai or prewar profits. The committee plan fixed 1911, 1912 and 1913 as the pre- war period and provided that the average profits for the prewar period shall be the normal profit or exemption.
 In case of new businesses, the profits of representative companies in the same line shall govern. In the case of addi- Kional capital, the exemption shall be in- creased in the same proportion that the present capital bears to the old capital
 The committee plan does not fix a rate on the amount of excess profits. but fixes a graduated ratc on certain propor tions of the exemption. For instance. the first rate Is 1 per cent of the amount of the war profits in excess of 15 per cent of the exemption or normal profit The laat rate Is 50 per cent of the amount
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26

The training of New York's street cleaning squad is supervised by efficiency experts It seems that there Is a right way and wrong way to handle ashes waste paper. and garbage. and the man new to the job Is taught to accomplish his tasks with minmimum of effort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-26

by which the war profits exceed 250 per cent of the exemption
 Under the committees plan. if the pre- war profit was s50o0 and the profit this year be $25,000. the tax would be S7, ,S57 .5o and if the prewar profit was S1 ,000. 900 and the profit this year be $1,025.O0o, ex- actly the same excess profits in both cases, the tax would be s2400
 THE NEW AMENDMENT
 The Bankhead amendment adopts the standard of fixing the normal or pre- war profits at per cent on the capital in- vested, as now provided by law, thereby giving everybody the same basis of ex- emptions It then applies graduated rate from 10 to 50 per cent, depending on the amount of profits.
 For instance, excess profits under S25. 0O0 bear 10 per cent, while profits In excess of S10,O00,0O0 bear 50 per cent.
 Senator Bankhead has pointed out how the committee's plan would relieve big business from paying it's just share of the war tax and how it would unduly burden little business. Senator Underwool will speak this week or early next week in support of the Bankhead amendment.
 Senator Underwoods S speech is anxious ly awaited. His colleagues have great confidence in his judgment, especially in matters relating to finance and taxa tion. If the Alabama senators succeed in passing the Bankhead amendment they will shift from the small business units of Alabama the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars and put this bur den on the large companies, which have fattened and grown rich on war con- tracts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-30
MIGHTY ACHIEVEMENT
Removes Mountain Barriers - Con-
serves Earth's Treasures.

Mighty indeed-,for not alone has
the Milwaukee Road" by its electrl-
fication across the Continental Divide
(now being extended through the Cas-
cade RANGE leveled the mountains as
barrier to transportatiOn-but also
released great stores of earths treas
ured energy for other much-needed
purposes.
By utilizing the hitherto wasted
power of mountain waterfalls to move
the heavy steel trains across the
mountains of the northwest, there is
conserved annually over quarter OF
a million tons of coal, over half a
million barrels of oil, and the thous
ands of cars necessary to transport
this fuel are freed to serve other
pressing needs of transportation.
In this world crisis. when every re-
source of the nation is taxed to its
utmost, this Milwaukee" achievement
takes on extreme Importance.
When next you journey to the cities
of the Pacific Northwest travel the
smooth, smokeless, cinderless electric
way-via the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul Railway.
Electrification literature free on re-
quest to the agent of this railway. adj
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-30
BUSINESS COLLEGE NOTES

Elmer Dassow of Vesper, has re-
turned to complete his course of study
in the stenographic department.
w. ]. Stinson of New Lisbon, Wis
tied our school last Monday and Tues
day and on the latter day entertained
our students by giving several recita-
tons.
A number of our students did work
for the Liberty Loan committee last
Monday and Tuesday.
Raymond Bernard has finished his
stenographic course and returned to
his home in Necedah, where he has ac-
cepted a position as assistant cashier
in the Necedah bank.
Vera Mattson returned last Monday
to resume her studies after having
spent a week at her home in Merrill
Ian.
Julius Manhart and Arthur Belize,
former students, visited our school
last Monday.
A. A. Damon of Spencer, was a bus
mess caller last Tuesday.
Miss Sara Dessureau of Amigo, one
of our former students, called on
friends at the business college last
Tuesday
Erwin Wrolstad of Northland has
been absent during the past week,
being confined at his home with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. Jno. Bauer and son, Albert,
called at the business college last
Thursday.
Johanna Lokaszeski did some stem
ographic work for c. E. Parker last
Friday.
Gust. Hermann and son, Ernest, of
Edgar, were business callers Satur-
day. Ernest has enrolled for our full
course and began his studies Mon
day.
Chas. Barthels, Rev. John Lloyd and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-10-30
SPRINKLNG NOTICE

Hearing by the Board oflPublic
Works:
The board of public works has fi;ad
and deposited with the city clerk of
the city of Wausau, an abstract and a
copy of its full report, showing the
expense of and its assessments there
OF OF the lots, lands and property
aoutting to and benefited by the
sprinkling of the several streets in
the city of Wausau:
Any and all persons Interested in
lots, land and property affected nv
said assessment, and having obiec-
tion thereto, must file said objection
thereto, in writing and under oath
with the said board within twenty (2Ol
days after the first publication of tAis
hotlce, The. said board will meet to
consider any and all objections No.
vember 9Th, 1917, in the Office Of tba
BOARD of public works of the city of
Mausau, from 8 o'clock a. m. In 4
CLOCK, p m of said day.
Dated this 10th day of Oct. AID. 1917
H. E. MARQUARDT.
=. B. c. GOWEN,
OF c. c. ADAMS.