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The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
THIS MOTHER GAVE HER ALL
Touching incident Of Sacrifice on The
Altar OF Her country's Need.

One Of the touching incidents Of
General Lyons march to Wilson creek
WAS that Of a Tennessee mother bring
ing her little boy to the captains tent
and Offering him for the service Of his
country. The boys father had been
killed In battle and the mother and
boy were alone In the world. The
bright eyes and alert bearing Of the
little chap. for he was scarcely thir.
teen years Of age, caught the eye Of
the captain and he asked what the
boy could do. II can drum" he said
proudly stretching himself to his full
height. And he could as the flfel
soon found out as he played 1.-THE
Flowers Of Marlborough" most diff
4cult piece to follow with the drum
Madam, I'll take the boy" said the
captain The mother kissed her boy
and turning to the captain said
Bring him back, captain" and 70 the
boy she said as she placed her hand
on his eager little head. God bless
you, my boy. You're all I have left,
but / give you to my country, and
drum right bravely for the boys IN
blue" During the heavy fattguine
marches from Rolla to Springfield Il
was amusing to see the long-legged
6fer wading through the mud with our
little drummer hero mounted on his
back. During the fight at Wilson
creek the CHEEKY flfe and brave drum
beat time for the soldier boys In bat.
tie. The tight led down into q deep
ravine and 1t was not long before our
drummer boy was in the midst Of the
fray. That night the detail on guard
duty near the ravine thought he
heard family the sound Of a drum. He
listened In the moonlight and when
the relief came he asked permission to
60 In search Of the little drummer lad.
He followed the sound Of the drum
and soon found our hero seated on the
ground with his back against q tree
and his faithful drum hanging on a
bush. He dropped his drum sticks ~
the guard came up and exclaimed:
"Oh, corporal. I am 30 glad to see you.
Give me a drink" and as he turned 10
60 to get him water. he pleaded: "Oh,
don't 60 and leave me. ] can't walk"
His little legs had been shot OF at
the knees. Looking closer he dlscov.
cred dead soldier lying in the grass.
but evidently before he died he had
put tourniquet about the stumps q
the little le1 The brave lad vas
carried intpdcamp did owen surgical
attention, bdt ~ Brave nftls alE1l
went out Into the briehtHs ina ~
Of Q duty ~ d166 ana q country
served even do Aeath. =
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
RURAL ROADS AND BRIDGE
increase In Annual Expenditures Z
More Than $50 Per Cent in
Past Twelve Years.

During the past II years the annue
expenditures on the rural roads al
bridges in the United States have
creased from about $SO,OOO,OW
about $2S2, 100000, or an increase
more than $50 per cent. During q
same period the annual expenditure
from state funds for road and bro
construction and maintenance have
creased from $2,55O.O0O to $50, 0zOu.
or almost 1900 per cent.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
FOLLOW fHE FLAG.
PERILoUS RAz0R-BACK ROADS
Miniature Mountain Ranges Should
Not Be Maintained in Center
They Are Dangerous.

II you have ever ridden along a
country road which has been worked
to peak In the center so that your
load tilted one way while you tried to
keep your balance by fitting the other,
YOU know what the wrong kind Of road
dragging is.
Roads so dragged should be reported
to the road supervisor, or the county
engineer. Such roads are positively
dangerous.
Help the good roads cause by seeing
that the roads of your vicinity are not
made miniature mountain ranges.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11

the triumph won
against great odds
by Capt. Paul
Jones, In whose
veins, although
not an American
but q Scotchman.
there flowed blood
staunch and true
to the American
cause Of liberty.
w lille OF the
coast Of Scotland
with the Bon
homme Richard
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
NEGLECT SEEN ALONG ROADS
Many Farmers Fall to Clean Up StHp
Of Land by Side Of Road-keep
lt Seeded to Grass.

It is surprising how many folk hav
not gotten around to Sticking up tn
strip Of land by the side Of the roal
that belongs to them.
That is a part of their domain
clear to the center Of the highway
and 1t is their right, as well as the
duty, to put 1t In the finest shape pa
sible.
It makes the farm look so much BET
ter to clear out the old hedger0w an1
seed It down to grass.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
GREATEST WASTE OF mourv,
Proper Maintenance Of Publ. g,
10 More Important Than suildi.s .
Lax Methods Used

(by E: 3; HOUSE. Colorado Aer,c,,...
m College. Fort Collins. Colo ultuil
Inc greatest waste Of nuhI|
moneys that Is being committed toS
Is IN surfacing our country roads -
tnen apparently abandoning the sam.
NO county that engages in rea, ro.'
building can afford to dismiss +
workmen when the road has beon c.j
structed.
1t rarely ever happens that the !,
tial work on the road is done VISA.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11

but there are multitude of little
things that later must be added or
repaired in order that the road may
be in good condition. Ruts and chuck
holes are sure to form and these must
be filed or the road soon goes to-
pieces. These things should be
planned for and done quickly ii the
improved road is to do the fulleS|
service, and this Is the one thing that
1t seems to me some Of our countJ|
commissioners are neglecting. The|
become so imbued with the idea d
building good roads that they fail ts]
prepare for the maintenance Of road
already constructed.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
A WORTHY cITIzENsHIP
II Is the Hope Of the Nation-Her
Welfare Is Our First Concern.

- A great nation is made only by
~ worthy citizens.-C. D. Warner.
< 4 4
National enthusiasm is the great
nursery Of genius.-Tuckerman
& & 4
Our country's welfare is our first
concern, and who promotes that best,
best proves his duty.-Harvard.
& & 4
Wiener our country calls, friends,
sons and sires should yield their treas
ures up, nor own sense beyond the
public safety.-BroOks.
X X 4 X 4
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
ROAD VERY SIMILAR TO LIFE
Rough Road 10 Interesting, but We
Must Travel Over II Slowly and
Quite Carefully.

How much a road is like life. The
good road is like life at its best
smooth sailing, and enjoyable. A rough
road is like life at it's worst. A rough
road is interesting, but we have to
traverse it slowly and carefully.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
Conserve Soil Fertility.

Soil fertility can be conserved by
the use Of good crop rotations which
include the legumes, by feeding all
crops on the place where they are
grown by the careful return of all ma
uures to the soil.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
3ofoey First,

he old adags "an ounce Of prsvsn.
Ton u better than . pound q cure
may b applied especially 70 Me6, for
measures to prevent their coming eon
b used more effectively than mof1ods
e sssupE'ae y4sa 49, thag ttxa
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
increase Farm Land Values.

sUCIS0oo At" 1~"O Is
An increase in farm land vais
varying from % to 1914 per cent "a
been produced by improvement
main market roads. according
statistics collected by the federai
fee Of public roads and rural :
cheering.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11

<>OOeS~>~S<rSe<">N~S s>s>NAN>A>Ae>eANN~>
In the ordinary concerns Of everyday
life. It is the one indisputable proof
Of inheritance. Good state laws must
provide the machinery for registration,
but the completeness Of the records
must depend, ultimately, on the inter-
est Of parents
Even yet the birth records in this
country are far from complete. No
state. and probably no city, has abso-
lutely perfect registration. Only in the
New England states, and in New York,
Pennsylvania, Maryland. Michigan,
Minnesota and the District of Column
bia are the records accepted by the
census bureau.
Birth registration Is one Of those
fundamental matters of infant welfare
to which many communities are turn
ing their attention during Baby Week,
and one Of the most valuable bits Of
follow-up work after a Baby Week is
the conducting of birth-registration
test. Such test, carried out by a To-
cal volunteer committee, has been de-
is valuable not only in revealing the
facts but in bringing home to the COM
.munity the importance Of registration.
In some places the registrar is send
ing a notice of registration to the par
ents az soon as a birth Is recorded.
This IL proving an excellent device to
keep parents interested In seeing that
their babies births are registered. II
the notice contains all the facts includ-
ed in the record and bears the sigma
ttire and seal Of the registrar, 1t will
serve In future years rs the official
transcript which may be required to
establish identity or the right Of in
heritance, or as proof Of age or citi-
xenship.
The Children's bureau Of the United
States Department Of Labor has
pamphlet Of directions for carrying out
a~birth-registration test. and q general
pamphlet on birth Registration"
Both are furnished upon request.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11

9he1arm machinery u only used Toe
Z hort period. but must Wuek eootipr
uihaly whan being Used Hence q
s :. 9ss{ s sspinf ~ -
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
Captain
Paul Jones
OF a0 human things nothing 10
more honorable Of more ox-
eslleut than 10 deserve well Of
ones eounty.-Cicero.

History pages do not relate any more
heroic or thrilling story than that Of
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
Seamless Milk Pals.

Milk pals and cans SHOULD Ia!
smooth. with all cracks and sea-.
flsshed with solder. Seamless -
and ems have been placed on y.
market,
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11
ALL ON, o SHIP OF STATE

Sail on, o ship of state;
Sail on. o Union. strong and great.
Humanity, with all it's fears,
With all its hopes Of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Sail on, nor far to breast the sea.
Our hearts, our hopes. are all with thee:
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our
tears
Our faith triumphant DER our fears
Are all with thee, are all with thee.
H. w. LOngfelloW
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11

He who loathes war, and will
do everything in his power to
avert it, but who will, In the
last extremity, encounter it,
perils, from love Of country
and Of homo-who 10 willing.
to sacrifice himself, and Ill
that 10 dear to him in life, to
promote The well.beinl Of his
fellowman, will ever reoeive
. worthy homage. -Abbott.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-11

when the more dangerous con-
tagious diseases are about. On the
other hand, she remembers that she
has duty to all other children Of the
neighborhood, and If her own child is
ailing she isOlates him until the nature
of his illness is determined, and strives
by every means in her power to mini
mize the danger for other children.
When more mothers thus make them
selves morally responsible for the lives
and health Of all the children we shall
have the beginning Of the end of the
spread Of the contagious diseases.
A periodic examination of all chill
dren by physicians would do much to
prevent the development of many
weaknesses and defects, or to secure
their early and more hopeful treat
ment. This is practically secured for
babies in the infant welfare stations
now in operation in many cities Of this
country. 1t is secured to q limited
extent in the medical examination of
school children, also, but too little att
tention is commonly paid to the chill
dren of the pre-schOol age who are no
longer babies and yet are hardly more
able to do without care than babies.
1t is to these children of the neglect
ed age" that mothers are now turning
their attention and interest particu-
larry.
A Baby Week campaign will have
many good results, but none more i'm
portant than bringing to light many
children who need care Of some spe-
cial sort, and showing mothers how
better to meet this demand upon their
resources Of knowledge and wisdom.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-04-28
Time To Plant More CroD.

With war conditions upon us
and prices of all kinds of foods
reaching higher and higher, day
by day, our people can now Judge
for themselves what they can ex.
pect during the war and perhaps
several years after the war, and for
this reason our people should uti-
lize every piece of land to plant
some food crop. Right here in st.
Martinville there are enough emp
ty lots to plant large crop, and
we have enough men doing moth.
ing to cultivate all these lots and
made them to produce large crops.
We must depand upon ourselves
for our production of food crops.
1t is yet time to plant almost any
food crop.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-04-28

The planters in great number
have been bothered by worms cut
ting the corn, and several had to
replant almost the entire crop. they
were worse in rice land planted in
corn. The crops, however, are
looking fine, stubble and seed cane
have seldom been better at the
start than this season.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-04-28

as well as show a patriotic spirit,
and if you so desire you can de-
mand a percentage of the toll to
compensate the parish for the ex-
pense of the canning outfits.
In my opinion you will not only
render great service temporarily
to the people of your parish, but
you will be giving them a practi-
cal education that will be of untold
benefit in years to come.
Please take this matter up at
your earliest convenience and give
it earnest consideration.
Yours truly,
HARRY d. WILSON,
State Food Preparedness Com.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-04-28
ReCOmmand The Use Of Can
ming Outfits.
To the Presidents and Members of
the Police Juries of Louisiana.

Dear Friends
want to ask your assistance in
our food campaign in the way of
conserving the surplus. As you
are we'll aware, there is a. great
waste of fruits and vegetables in
our State. This waste can be saw
ed to great extent by canning the
surplus. Our blackberry crop
alone, if conserved, would be an
important matter. We must also
save all surplus tomatoes, sweet
corn, okra, beans, peas, cabbage
(in the form of kraut) peaches,
plums. etc.
l want to ask that you purchase
and furnish each high or central
school in your parish with a can
ming outfit; this outfit to be used
10y the principle. or some one de-
signated by him, or her, not only
to demonstrate but to be used in
canning t h e surplus fruits
and vegetables of the patrons and
neighbors of the schools. This
can be done on the toll or percen-
tage basis In this way the party
in charge can make a nice salary
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-04-28

Last Saturday the basket ball
team of the school of the Sisters
of Mercy went to Broussard to
play the team of the Convent team
of that town, the game was inter.
esting and resulted in tie.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26

a loss of "a hogs and some hay and
harness as a result of the barn on the
place being destroyed by fire.
Over $4,000 has now been raised by
Yankton county for Belgian relief and
the money is still coming in. The
answer to the call has been generous
beyond hope, and many are subscrib-
ing regular sums per month during the
great need
The city council of washington
Springs has awarded to a Shenandoah,
Iowa, company the contract to install
a new sewerage system in that city.
The contract price is nearly $4,000.
There will be approximately six miles
of sewer.
The Commercial club has had contri-
buted to it by the residents of Miloank
about $4,000 in cash, which will be
used by the club in promoting public
enterprises designed to build up Mil
bank and the surrounding country.
Work has commenced on several i'm
portant projects.
AS the result of a gasoline can ex
ploding, Roy Eilers, the nine year old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Eilers, living
nea Castlewood, was seriously burned
and had a narrow escape from death.
The burning liquid was dashed over
him when the ear exploded, badly burn.
ing his face, arms legs and body.
The removal of the county records
from Fairfax to Burke has been held up
by application of Fairfax citizens for q
~rehearing of the county seat removal
contest by the supreme court. The
county commissioners had arranged
for housing the county officials in the
city CT Burke until permanent quarters
could be provided
The 5000 steer has arrived. John
Stroupe. a Kingsbury county farmer,
has the honor Of having marketed the
first steer ever sold in South Dakota at
this price. The animal weighed LAO
pounds and was sold at the market
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
CLEAN UP WEEK
Last Week in April and First Week in
May

Let the work be quickly and thor
oughly done. Following this the
Civic League committee of ladies will
inspect the city and report any bad
places to the Board of Health. Do not
wait for the City Drayman but employ
anyone to haul refuse but such hauleI
must deposit same in proper place on
dump grounds.
Anyone known to empty refuse con
trary to regulations will invite trouble
The Civic League committee consists
of Mrs. c. c. Lipp, LIST ward; Mrs
George Cole, 2nd ward; Mrs. c. O
Quail, 3rd ward; Mrs. John Bonnell.
4th ward. These same ladies will seek
to interest you in providing a garbage
can also.
For the spring especially and for the
summer kindly see that all open cans
barrels, etc, be treated with Kerosene
oil. Any pools of water also to be
kerosened, so as to prevent mosquito
pests. Also throw chloride of lme dis
infectant in vaults and on stable re
fuse and chicken yards. Also see that
wells and cisterns are clean.
Let me also urge that all table
green's and roots eaten without cook
ing should be thoroughly washed be
fore used.
Remember that flies, mosquitoes,
wood ticks, bed bugs, body lice and
typhoid and other germs.
Board of Health.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
Local and Personal
p. F. Levins. Local and News Editor. Phone Ii

Ted Krogh spent Saturday visiting
friends in WatertOwn.
Children's shoes, sizes FIVE to ten
$1.4S. Gillespie & Rogers, Footfitters
Mrs. Lillian Smith went to Aurora
Saturday to look after farm interests
Mrs. Dretsch, of Bryant, spent par
of last week visiting relatives in the
city.
Ben Schaphorst went to Lake Pres
ton Saturday morning on legal bust
ness.
All kinds of dry cleaning and tailor
ing and we collect and deliver. The
Toggery.
A. d. Simmons and wife were ovel
from Flandreau Sunday visiting his
brother Frank.
Boys shoes, sizes 9 to 1871, $1.9S;
and sizes one to 5h, s2.4S. Gillespie &
Rogers, Footitters.
Little Maxine Connolly returned Sun
day evening from Elkton where she
spent the day with her aunt.
Clarence Beatty was over from Elan
dreau and spent Sunday with his
brother, E. H. Beatty, and family.
o. o. Graves returned Friday from
Minneapolis where he spent several
days at the gathering of the Olson Sys-
tenn managers.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Solberg, of Aber
deem, spent several days last week with
Ed. Dokken and family. Mr.. Solberg
is connected with the Auto Pull Tract
or Co.
! Mrs. N. Wexler and son Manuel left
Sunday morning for Cleveland, Ohio
to spend a couple of weeks with rela
tives whom she had not seen for
twelve years.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26

price Of $11.5O per hundred. Stroupe
receiving a check Cor $200.1O.
John l.. Flahive of Fordham town
ship, neal Clark, was almost instantly
killed one day last week while blowing
in the field. The pillow struck a rock.
The details Of the accident are not
known, but it is believed the shock of
the impact threw him against some
part of the implement.
A corn contest, in which all boys Of
twelve years or yer who attend the
public schools of Haakon county will
be eligible to enter. is being arranged
by Miss Jennie O'Neal, county superin-
tendent of schools Of Haakon county.
In awarding prizes the quality of the
corn raised by the boy contestants
will be taken into consideration.
Report reached ~Bridgewater of the
tragic death of Henry c. Hanson, at
Weldon. Sask., Can, resulting from in
juries received in a saw mill. He was
formerly a well known business man of
B~ridgewater, having beer associated
with his brother, C. p. Hanson, the well
known auctioneer, in the mercantile
trade. A wife and seven children
survive him.
Late reports from c. X. Howard's
cattle ranch state that his loss Of
stock during the winter was no heavier
thar in any other year. Notwith-
standing that he has between 5000 and
5000 head on the ranch. the loss was
not to exceed 5 per cent. If this re-
port is correct, then c. X. is in for
some luck, for some of the other ranch
ers lost heavily.
Thos. Omdalen, a well known well
driller of near Hetland, had just moved
his drilling outfit to a farm some miles
from town when he became unusually
drowsy. Fearing he vas becoming i'll
he mounted his motorcycle and hasten.
ed to his home. He had just entered
the house when he dropped t. the
floor unconcious. When a physician
arrived he discovered that Omdaler
had suffered a stroke of paralysis or
his left side and was in a serious con
dition.
The local authorities at Oacoma have
been unable to find any trace of tn,
relatives Of Robert Graft, who com
mitted suicide there in a sensational
manner by throwing himself under tho
wheels of a passenger train as ii wa,
some years he lived on a HOMESTEAD
near town. At the time of his sui
eide he was in charge of the sheriff
charged with a statutory offense.
The wet snowfall which occurre,
over the central part of the stat
gives "A sufficient amount of moistur
to give all vegetation "A good star
with the coming of warmer weather
Up to the present the conditions hav
not Deen Such as to stimulate an.
great amount of seeding in that Sc,
ton, but farmers are all ready to ge
busy as soon as the prairie is DIR
enough to work.
In a letter received by Pierre India.
agency officials, Cato Sells, India.
commissioner, urges every effort b
made to utilize the Indians of the Sou
and other tribes in increasing Gro
production. Mr.. Sells is promoting
plan to convert every Indian reserve
ton in the country into a great Earn
Agency ofii~cials~a impressing upo
tho Indians the opportunity they no,
have to show their patriotism by ado
ing to the country's reserve stock c
food.