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The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
COULDN'T LIFT SIX
MONTHS old BABY
Mrs. Hawkins Was So Weak
Couldn't Move in Her Bed
Without Help.
HAD SUFFERED TORTURE
Well and Strong Again After Taking
Tanlac and Weighs More Than
She Has in Over Eighteen
Years.

"I was down in bed and couldn't
raise my head or move without help
and now I'm able to do all my house
work, even to my cooking and garden
work and weigh more than have in
eighteen years and have been taking
Tanlac only about four weeks" said
Mrs. Dollie Hawkins, 1900 Second ave-
nue., South, Birmingham, Ala, recent
ly.
"For years." continued Mrs. Haw-
kins, 81 suffered with rheumatism and
acute indigestion. The rheumatism
got me down in bed and had me bound
so hard and fast somebody had to
move me about and the pain was ter
rible. couldn't lift my six-months-old
baby and had to hire someone to wait
on me and do my work. I was so
nervous the least little thing dropping
on the floor would startle me and my
heart would almost stop beating. I
couldn't eat any solid food at all and
was in such rundown condition my
baby fell off until it was just little
skeleton and fretted and cried all the
llluGs NO hlIlu VI luCUIClu0 UIU 1uC dAy
good and I was getting worse all the
time.
eff ever a medicine did wonders,
Tanlac did it for me and my little ba-
by. I felt better in just few days
after began taking it. have taken
three bottles and I am not nervous in
the least now. and my sleep is fine and
rests me. The awful rheumatic pains
and misery is all gone. can eat any
thing / want and my food not only
gives me nourishment but my baby is
as fat as little pig and sits for hours
at a time on a pallet and plays with
out whimper. Tanlac has made a
well woman Of me and fat, healthy
baby out of my little sickly one, and
I'm just so thankful for what Tanlac
has done for us / want everybody to
know about this great medicine"
There is a Tanlac dealer In your
town. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
Get Down to War Business-Taft.

Ames, Iowa.-The people of the
United States must get down to bust
ness and give up their happ.-g -go-lucky
style during the war with the Kaiser,
William Howard Taft told graduates
of the Iowa State College here. The
war against kaiserism will be a hard
one, struggle that may last years
and years, he told his auditors. 1--WE
may have to give up million men to
free the world of Prussianism," the
former President said. Germany is
not conquered and will not be without
heroic struggle"
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16

Two Towns Report Hundred Injured
in Worst Disaster Since 1893.
La Libertad, Salvador, June lin
the towns of Armenia and Quozalte-
peque, near San Salvador, forty per
sons were killed and 100 were injured
as the result of Thursdays earth
quake, which was the most severe and
most disastrous felt in San Salvador
since 1893. Eighty out of every 100
houses in San Salvador were razed
and the entire business section was
destroyed by fire.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16

Washington, June .11.-Twenty-six
states and the District of Columbia,
having all told slightly more than so
per cent of the country's population,
had sent in complete reports of their
military registrations of 4,716,786
young men for war service.
For the territory reporting the cen
sus estimate was 5,372,596 eligibles,
and on the basis of the returns it was
calculated the grand total of registra-
ton probably would be a little more
than 100000 in place of the 10,264,
900 as forecast by the census experts.
The reports show white registra
tions totalling 3,5O1,456, colored 1884,,
ITO, alien 277,057, and enemy aliens
45,018. Possible exemptions indicated
totailed 2,508,624.
Officials pointed out that the census
figures were intended only as approx
innate and that the discrepancy should
not be taken as indicating evasion of
the draft. 1t was also pointed out that
between 100000 and 100000 men in
members of the armed forces of the
nation and therefore did not register
Many of the states which previously
reported complete returns are sending
supplemental reports adding to their
totals Delay in registering, especial
ly among these who registered py
mail is responsible This shifting of
totals may delay a final tabulation for
a week or more.
In some states, too, there was confu-
sion over classification over those reg
istering, making it difficult to tabulate
in concise form even the returns so
far received.
Pennsylvania registered almost a
hundred thousand more men than CEN
s0s estimates, according to figures re-
ceived by the War Department. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh reported the regis
t"ation of 95O,30O The census figures
anticipated were 879,388.
Working on Regulations.
The War Department is working on
regulations for the second step in the
army draft, selection by lot of pro-
portion of young men registered,
while the provost marshal generals
office was compiling data on the reg
istration.
1t may take a week or ten days to
complete the nationwide tabulations
Then the War Department will pre-
scribe rules for drawing names of men
who are to be examined before local
or precinct exemption boards and for
the composition of these boards and
of boards of review to which those
drafted may appeal.
A call for a definite number of
troops will be issued, each state will
be notified to contribute certain
proportion and state authorities in
turn will determine allotments for
subdivisions.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot=Ease, the antiseptic powder to be
shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot
BATH It relieves painful, swollen, smarting feet
and takes the sting out of corns and bunions.
Used by the British and French troops at the
front. Aliens Foot Ease is certain relief for
tired, aching feet Sold everywhere-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
TWENTy-Slx
STATES REPORT
REGISTRATION RETURNS INDl-
CATE UNITED STATES HAS 1,
96O,580 TO MAKE UP ARMY. ~
CALLS0ON TO Be ISSUED
FIGURES SHOW ESTIMATES OF
q, CENSUS FOR VARIOUS STATES
CLOSE TO REGISTRATION.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, June 11-Official re-
turns from the various states on
Tuesdays registration and estimates
from states where the official count
has not been completed, follow:
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
Two Kinds.

"Do all of your employees talk base
ball, horse racing and prize fightingT
"No, some of them, talk trimming
hair dressing and dancing"
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
Marital Consideration.

A considerate man who really wants
to make his wife happy will look de-
jected and miserable at the station
when she is leaving for the summer
She carries a heavy heart with her if
he happens to be brutal enough to
look as if he were anticipating a hot
old time.-Houston Post.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16

Esterhazy to Form Cabinet.
Amsterdam. "A Budapest dispatch
says that King Charles has entrusted
the formation of a new cabinet to
Count Moritz Esterhazy.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16

When the good man begins to swea
the bad man should be ON hand to ge
a few pointers.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
The Effects of Opiates.

~HAT INFANTS peculiarly suscebe to opium and it's variops
continued these opates changes the fun
which
mbec peryersion craving for alcohol narcotics % in later life
result Of dosing with op narcotics to keep children quiet
receive opates smallest doses for than day at t and
only then unavoidable O. .
Anodyn Drops cordial Soothing syrups and
deced druggist should not be party to it. Children @ VINO % are IL IL
physician, notnlng less 6na1 cAn
dose them with narcotics.
Castora narcotics II 1t bears the NJ
ChasH ~ [AZxNzAG.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16

Red Cross Bag Blue, much better, goes
farther than liquid blue. Get from any
grocer. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16
Didn't Need to Be Told

Katherine, age six, had been going
to school about two weeks when she
said to her mother one day: Mother,
I am the incest and the prettiest and
the smartest girl in our class" Her
mother, very much elated, exclaimed: !:
"'Why! Did the teacher tell you that,
dear?"
"Oh, MOI" said Katherine. 81 just
found it out myself
"MOneY makes the mare 60" and al
The Benson signal., 1917-06-16

Money makes the mare co." and al
so the dogs of war.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Mr.. EllysOn for Governor

Attention is directed to the dis
play advertisement of Hon. j..
Taylor Ellyson for Governor, sub
ject to the Democratic primary to
be held August 7, 1917 to be found
in this issue of The Recorder. Mr..
Ellyson served two years as a Con-
federate soldier, was for % years
chairman of the State Democratic
Committee, is serving his third
term as Lieutenant Governor and
is in every way qualified for the
higher office to which he asplres.
His Position on all of the leading
questions of the day is sound and
his friends predict that he will
make the State a progressive chief
executive. Mr.. Ellyson's long and
faithful service to the Democratic
party and the State entities him to
the support of all good Democrats.
His record relative to education,
agriculture, labor, prohibition,
road building, pensions and every
other public interest bears testimony
to the fact that the affairs of the
Commonwealth will be safe in his
hands. His friends present his
claims with the full satisfaction
that he will be true to every trust
that attaches to the highest office
in the gift of the Virginia people.
See the advertisement in another
column.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Stop, Read and Think.
\ re Won a Rheumatic?

IlIC you q
Do you know that you are eating
things every day that is wrecking your
nervous system and poisoning every
vital organ in your body? Are your
muscles sore and stiff? Are you lame
and stiff in your back and joints? Are
you having all kinds of neuralgia
pains? Do you get up as tired in the
morning as when you went to bed?.
If so, you should not neglect to get
MACRO-SAL Rheumatism Remedy. at
one and get rid of these serious symp-
toms. With each bottle there is a
special diet list for all rheumatic peo-
pie, which is worth many hundreds of
dollars to your. MACRo-SAL is guar
anteed to give results. If no benefit
received from the medicine after direc-
tons are strictly followed your money
will be cheerfully refunded.
Ask your dealer for Macro-Sal,
Sl.00 postpaid. Dealers supplied by
S. B. Wallace & Co., Marlinton, W.
Va.
For sale by Highland Mercantile
Co., Monterey, Va. adv
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Rainbow Wedding

A most beautiful wedding of one
of H-rrisonburg's most popular
eirls, Miss Bertha Early and Rev.
Lindsay Gcoiall. of Waynesboro,
was recently solemized. Miss Early
is the only daughter of Mrs. Mary
Soloman. and is very popular and
attractive. The ceremony was ptr-
formed at the first Baptist church
by Rev. Jordan, assisted by the
former pastor of the Methodist
church. The bride wore white
satin gown, draped in Rue with
pearls. Her veil was long court
train, with lilies of the Valley, and
she carried a shower boqnet Of car
nation and roses. The maid Of
honor, Miss Virginia Wright, OF
New York, was most handsomely
gowned in white satin, drapcd IN
net and silver, and carried pink
carnations. The brides maids
were Miss HOPPE Wright, of Flood,
Va. beautifully gowned in pink
taffeta. with black picture hat, and
Miss Ruth Leftwitch, of Bedford
City, Va, gowned in old rose with
black picture hat Mr. Harry
Wells, of Harrisonburg. was best
man, and Mr.. Edward Black and
Mr.. Percy Wells were walters,
both of Harrisonburg. and Mr..
Lloyd Balls acted as usher. The
church was beautifully decorated
in daises and ferns.
After the wedding the brides
many friends were invited to her
home on north Mason street, where
lovely refreshments were served.
The next day the bride & groom left
for their future home at Waynes-
boro where a big reception was
awaiting them. Quite a few friends
went over in automobile parties
from Harrisonburg. She will be
greatly missed and all her friends
wish her luck. A Friend
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Mrs. J. w. Wallace. Dead

A friend of the deceased has for
warded US a newspaper clipping,
from which we publish the follow
ing extracts:
Well on the road to recovery, it
was believed, with a host of friends
awaiting her happy return to Gov
ington, Mrs. Anna Seward Wallace,
who suffered a rapid sinking spell
Sunday morning at st. Luke's
Hospital in Richmond and died
shortely a ter DR.. Wallace reached
her bedside.
Mrs. Wallace went to Richmond
June Is, accompanied by DR.. Wal
lace, and was operated on Tuesday
by DR.. Stuart Mcclure, the famous
Richmond surgeon. She rallied
splendidly after the operation and
for several days showed marked
improvement.
Mrs Wallace before her marriage
to DR.. Wallace, was Miss Anna Sc
ward. member of the prominent
Texas family of this name. She and
DR.. Wallace were married in 1893,
and first made their home at Warm
Springs. In 1898 they moved to
Covington were DR.. Wallace es-
tablished his practice. Their large
mansion on Maple avenue became
the most hospitable home in Cow
ington and to this gracious hos
pitality Mrs. Wallace added her
tireless efforts in behalf Of the pJor
people of the community. Not on
ly in charity and church work, but
ia civic improvements, Mrs. Wal
lace invariably took leading role
and could always be counted on to
do far more than her share in every
commemorate enterprise. She was
a member of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, the Eastern Star and
other organization, the organizer
and ONLY President of the Woman's
Civic League.
Mrs. Wallace is survived by her
husband, DR.. John W. Wallace;
two children, Miss Laura Wallace
and Master John Wallace ;her moth
er, Mrs. Laura Seward, of Houston,
Texas. and two brothers, Messrs
Ingram and Oscar Holt, of Texas.
Her daughter, Miss Laura Wal
lace, was overtaken by telegram
at Atlanta, while on her way to
Texas, and Immediately began her
sad journey back to her home.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Much in Little

In Iceland whistling is forbidden
as breach of divine law.
4. New Hampshire girl has be-
come a blacksmith. Her only
previous experience had been in
shooting hens.
Fuzz, the oldest cat in Kansas,
is dead at the age of 81 years. He
also was the feline heavyweight OF
the state.
If a little cold water is added to
waffle batter and thoroughly beaten
the waffles will be lighter and will
brown more easily.
A clay pipe may be used as a
crucible for melting small quani-
titles of metal. The stem is broken
off and a plug fitted into it
Separated eight years ago in a
shipwreck, a man, his wife and
child were reunited by an acciden-
tai meeting in the st. Louis Union
Station.
Among the modern Egyptians
girls generally marry when II or IA
years of age; at Is they are regard
ed "unmarriageable" and "un-
manageable"
In the United States only one
farm in seven, of more than 20
acres, now supports sheep, and
consequently we import a third of
a billion pounds of wool yearly.
Nitrate-bearing lands owned by
the Chilean government will be
sold in April of this year. Part of
the proceeds from thesd sales will be
used to finance the construction of
new railroad.
The maids of honor room at
Windsor Castle has just been re-
decorated by Queen Mary's wish,
and :now presents an old-world
picture of charm and romance.
Its furniture is of oyster white,
skillfully painted with medallions.
festoons of flowers, ribbons and
trophies.
Egypt in the most ancient times
was celebraten for its wheat. The
best quality was all bearded. The
wheat was put into the ground in
winter and some time after the
barley. In the Egyptian plauges
of hail the barley suffered, but the
wheat had not appeared, and so
escaped injury.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Special NJ tice

For the benefit of the people
who wish my services professionally
| / announce the following changes
in prices which will prevail frnm
this date on. For visits in town
and in one mile radius $3.50. Fol-
straight visits S1.00 for first mile
and SOC each mile there after. Calls
off road St.O0 to 2 so according tc
distance.
Office calls where examination is
necessary 100 to 2 so.
Confinement cases SIS 90 mini
mum charge, and if over ten miles
SOC a mile additional, also if spend
more than eight hours time, SOC an
hour. Any operative procedure
associated with case $500 to SIS
extra.
To set broken arm SIS and mile
age; leg $40 and mileage.
For removing tonsils $40, two
cases in one family at same time
SIS, three cases $40.
For removing adenoids SIS each
case. If anaesthetic in these cases
is used So so additional.
For cases entirely out of my ter
ritory 81 mile, and will 60 any
distance a Ford will carry me.
All calls after 900 O'Clock at
night 81 additional, and after 1900
O. clock (mid-night) $3.50.
No extra charge is made for con-
sultation with any other physician.
| will make these charges to every
one alike regardless of financial con-
dition. Any work done for the
county, one-half usual charge.
For cash at time work is done,
will ktake off soc on charges from
SIS to $40; 81 on charges from $40
to SIS; 81 so on charges over SID.
Cut this out and save for further
reference DR.. A. S. Walden
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06

Murmuring HIS been pretty much
the same in all ages OF tie world:
1t is nearly always prf mature ard
savors of faithlessness. In the VII
derness wanderine~ tie lsraelltes
clamored for flesh Ia It until it was
supplied to the p Of surtelting-
a gorging, ST. ing abundance.
Whether the f., IS and complain
ing Montele} q, "ere answ cred IN
anger and g., II a rebuke last Fri
day, no one is in a position to say,
but certain it is that Jupiter Plu-
vius seemed to be lashed to fury tor
some reason, and the securing he
administered to the little old town
will not soon be forgotten. The
cloud that divided west Of the
mountain as if to carry out the
familiar tactics of the past ten days,
seemed to reconsider, came togeth-
er over the town, was reinforced
by new and bigger ones from the
east and west, and--it sure did
rain! All the fury of the storm
was spent in rain, however, there
being no electrical disturbance. no
hail or wind. The creek above
town became too large for the chan
nels under bridges aud buildings,
left it's banks, spoiled few gar
dens and came down main street
like a miniature river. In a few
places the new macadem street was
damaged, but not serlousl y, and
the general verdict seemed to be
that it stood its first severe test
unusually we'll, the gutter work be
ing incomplete and the side bitches
more or less INSTRUCTED.
The one important lesson taught
bp the deluge is that where bridges
and out buildings have been built
over the creek, the channel under
them will have to be widened and
so guarded as to prevent the forma-
ton of "rack-heaps'' in time of
food, This the council will doubt
less look after before the storm
king gets on another rampage.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Thursday.

The Canadians-men from all part
of the dominion-have taken a0>the
hack at the German lines protectin
| ems. the coal center in the depar;
ment of Pas de, Calais, and have bee
rewarded with q further encroachmen
upon their objective.
Striking two-mile front south o
7 ems. the Canadians from Nova Sec
TIA. central Ontario, Manitoba an
British Columbia, protected by efle>
tive curtain fires, stormed and captuI
ed German first line positions befor
Avion and also the village of Leau
vette. They defeated in their OF
slaughts men Of the crack Prussia
Guard and the Fifth Grenadier Guards
whose machine gun and rifle fire an
the fact that the attacking force ha
to cut through wire entanglements
could not stay them.
On he r3l>ainder of the front Il
France there have been only lombard
ments between the French and tn
Germans.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
New Hospital Unit

Charlottesville, Va, June 8.
A base hospital unit, to be known
as No. Al, is being organized at The
University of Virginia for service
ln,France. A letter has just been re
ceived here from Col. Jefferson r
Kean, U. S. A. Director General
Department of Military Relief
American Red Cross. appointing
Dr.. William H. Goodwin associate
professor of surgery, a. direction OF
the unit, and naming Miss Mar
garet B. Cowling, superintendent
of the School of Nursing at the
University, as chief nurse.
The unit will have personnel
Of 26S. Director Goodwin will bt
assisted by the following staff: An
adjutant, quarter master, a regis
trar and a subos dinate administra-
i've personnel of 1853. who must be
members of the Medical Enlisted
Reserve Corps or who agree to
enlist in such corps when called
into active service. These men
must be between the ages of Is and
40 and must pass the usual army
physical examination. Salary runs
$50 for privates to $Sl for master
hospital sergeant.
The surgical, medical and labora
tory sections have been practically
filled. The ready response to fill
these departments was very graft
flying to the organization commit
tee, consisting of: William FL.
Goodwin, B. A. M. D., Associate
Professor of Surgery, Chairman;
Edwin A. Alderman, Phi. B., d. G
L., Ii. D., President of the Uni
versity of Virginia; Theodore
Hough, A. B., Phi. D., Professor
of physiology and dean of the
Medical School; James Carroll
Flippin, M. D., Professor Of
Clinical Medicine; Margaret B.
Cowling, R. NJ, Superintendent Of
the School of Nursing; Lewis D..
Crenshaw, NJ. A., B. L., Alumni
Secretary. .
Sixty-fve nurses will go with the
Virginia Unit. Half of this num-
Der have already been enrolled. Al
nurses must be members or eligible
to become members of the Red
Hross Nursing Service; salary, $50
per month, $50 for foreign service
Applications should be sent to Miss
ICowling.
The Virginia Unit is anxious to
have applications for the Admins
trative Personnel. Among the
positions to be filled are mechanics,
machinists, clerks, orderlies, cooks,
pharmacists, telephone operators,
carpenters; chauffeurs, plumbers
BARRIERS, tailors. walters, electric
ians, book keepers and cobblers
Applications should be sent to DR..
Goodwin. Fifteen civilian employees
are also wanted--six stenographers,
one chief cook, three cooks, one
baker, four maids. Salary from
S75 to $40 per month. Nurses,
enlisted men and civilian employees
receive lodging and rations from
he government in addition to their
lay.
As soon as the Unit is fully or
gannized, it will be accepted by
| the United States Government and
will be assigned to active service:
The enlistment for any branch of
his service will be for the duration
of the war.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
Mrs. Philpott is
Granted Divorce

A decree of absolute divorce has
been entered III the corporation
court in favor of Mrs. Mabel Yer
non Dickson Phi lpott against HON
er H. Phil oft. The mother is
given custody of their child.
Philpott is the young h1ctypHr
of Harrisonburg, formerly of Staun-
ton. who was arrested and held for
the grand jury some weeks ago on
a seIious charge concerning a negro
girl nurse in the Dickson home
The fall grand jury is to consider
the case.-S;aunton Leader.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-07-06
TUESDAY,.

General Petain has resimed opera
tions on the Aisne front. He reports
success IN a surprise attack north
west of Hurtebise. The entire mrs
Inc of the strong German position
there was carried and held against
counter ATTACKS.
It is il this sector, between Craoa
re and Cerny. that the most feasible
route lies to the German fortress o.
I.aon. the vital support of the whole
German line on the French front. Al
effort by the French seems to indica,
that the chief command has no lies
cf letting control OF the situation here
Sip from its grip under the naggin'
tactics recently adopted by Field Mar
sal Won Hindenburg, who has beer
Tying by thrusts here and there t
wrest control of dominating point!
from Petain's forces.
The entente is proceeding rapldl.
with the execution of its program il
Greece.