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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
SPORTING

Sailor socker football players at
tached to H. M. S. Roxburgh were
beaten by the Overseas Wanderers at
the C. c. N. Y. stadium, 2 to 1.
The St. Louis Cardinals lived up to
expectations when they took the meas
ure of the Browns in the fall series;
Few figured that the seventh place
Browns would be able to defeat the
third place Cardinals.
Irish Patsy Cline defeated Johnny
Dundee in ten round bout on points
at the Manhattan Sporting Club.
The $4,000 Dinner Stakes for three
year-old trotters at the Lexington
(Ky.) Grand Circuit meeting went to
Miss Bertha Dillon in two straight
heats.
Rowland used eleven players in the
first two games.
Army defeated Carnegie Tech, % to
0, in a one sided football game at
West Point.
Yale University's Athletic Board de-
cides to dispense with varsity football
this year and to put all athletics on
a military basis.
After trotting seven hard heats, Ina
Jay won the twenty-eighth renewal OF
the Pennsylvania at the Grand Circuit
meet at Lexington.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
WORLDS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay.-One hun.
dred thousand persons participated in
a great demonstration here in favor of
the Entente Allies and in approval Of
the Governments rupture with Ger
many.
WASHINGTON.-A Rome despatch
to the Italian Embassy announced
that an Austrian torpedo boat de.
stroyer had been captured by the
Italians in the Adriatic. The Austrian
crew surrendered without firing a
shot.
PETROGRAD. - The reorganized
government of Russia pledges its full
support to the Allies cause.
ROME.-The Italian government re.
fused to surrender Alfredo Cocchi to
the United States for trial for the
killing of Ruth Cruger in New York.
PEkING.-china, replying to the Al.
lies concerning China's entry into the
war, thanks the Allies for their post
ponement of payment of the Boxer in.
dernity and promises to give facili-
ties for unlimited supplies to the Al
lies and for recruiting skilled labor.
M5TERDAM.-The German For
eign Secretary Dr. Won Kuehlmann, is
proceeding at an early date to Vienna,
Budapest, Sofa and Constantinople.
His mission is important politically.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
Bio Stories and Minor Events
Blue PenciIed Into Quickly
Read Paragraphs.
DOINGs AT NATIONS CAPITAL
Happenings That Caused Stir
Briefly Observation-Disclosures About
the Progress of the Gigantic
War at Home and Abroad.
WAR BULLETINS

How Germany has been receiving
from this country a supply OF tung'
stem was revealed by federal officers
in the arrest of three men charged
with violating the espionage act IN
smuggling the white metal.
Italy is said to be preparing for
great drive on Laibach, key to the
Austrian communications, if the Allies
supply coal, steel and guns. Gabrielle
d'Annunzio took part in big air raid
On the Austrian naval base at Cattaro.
Germany's military chiefs, for the
first time in the war, are beginning TO
talk about economizing the nations
human material" German army or
ders signed by Quartermaster General
Ludendorff have recently been taken
from prisoners, emphasizing the need
for this economy.
Uruguay handed the German Min
ister- his passports after the Chamber
OF Deputies approved the breaking off
OF diplomatic relations and the Sen.
ate had ratified the action, urged by
President Viera as necessary in the
cause Of justice.
Following the great battle east OF
Ypres, which complete reports prove
was one of the most brilliant and i'm
portant victories for British arms
since the war began, an almost unpre'
cedented calm has settled over the
battlefield in Flanders. The British
took 4,446 prisoners.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
U.S.BU!LD|AG 15O DESTROyERS
WILL GIVE GOVERNMENT FAST.
EST FLEET IN THE WORLD.
New Awards Bring to Total 7a7 War.
ships Which v. S. Has Building
and to Be Built.

ington.-America leaped to the
forefront with the biggest warship
building program in the world. With
the letting of contracts for the con.
struction of at least $50 additional de-
stroyers, the navy has 7S7 warships
of all types and classes building or
contracted for.
Ranging from super-dreadnoughts to
submarine chasers, every one of the
ships will be in active service within
Is months, according to promises writ
ten into the contracts.
The destroyers contracted for will
give the United States the greatest
fleet of that type of vessels in the
world. The Navy Department with
held the exact number contracted for.
but it was stated that $50 was the
lowest figure estimated and that when
the new destroyer program was COM
plete this country would have at least
twice as many destroyers as it now
has.
The total cost of the 7S7 ships build.
ing will be $1,15O, 400, 900, according to
estimates. In some instances, espe'
cially to complete the new destroyer
program, it will be necessary for the
navy to build yards. These yards will
be in connection with the plants OF
the companies which received con.
tracts. At the end of the work the
yards either will be retained by the
government for further work or will
be sold to the companies.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
RESTORED ALSACE
AGAIN DEMANDED
Mr.. Asquith Says If 1t Is To Be a
Contest of Endurance Allies
Are Bound to Win.
AMERICA ASSURES TRIUMPH
Declares "EngIand viii Stand by
France Until Oppressed Children Are
Redeemed from Yoke"-Asquith Says
Allies Have to Deal With Berlin.

London-Premier Lloyd George, ad-
dressing a delegation of insurance
committees, which called to urge a
readjustment of health insurance and
the establishment Of Ministry OF
Health, said that all the nations
thoughts and energies were taken up
by the terrible demands made in de-
tense of liberty. He wished he could
see the end, but the task which the
nation had taken in hand must be
accomplished.
The Premier said he could not think
of any statement more calculated tc
prolong the war than the assertion
of the German Foreign Secretary, Won
Kuhlmann, that Germany would never
contemplate the making Of concessions
to France respecting Alsace-Lorraine
However long the war lasted, SAID
Mr.. Lloyd George, England intended
to stand by her gallant ally, France
until she redeemed her oppressed chill
dren from the degradation Of foreign
yoke. This meant that the country
must husband its resources, and, Wnep
demands were put forward for i'm
provements here and there, his answer
was: Concentrate upon victory"
For the moment every claim upon
the exchequer must be considered IN
the light of the terrible possibilities
of the war, and when the war was
over, in a freer, happier atmosphere
the country could begin to reconstruct
and regenerate.
H. H. Asquith, former premier, adj
dressed a war aims meeting at Liver
pool.
Concluding with an allusion to the
general situation. Mr.. Asquith said:
'If it is to be a contest Of endurance
we have no reason to lose heart or
hope. During the last fortnight our
uncomfortable troops have been doing
great things both in Flanders and
Mesopotamia. There Is still need OF
economy and good organization IN the
consumption Of necessary common,
ties, but not the slightest danger OF
our being starved into submission.
"Take the Allies as a whole, inciud'
ing America, whose contribution TO
the common stock becomes every
month a factor in the growing certl.
tude-survey the relative powers OF
endurance of the two sides, measure
them by any standard, naval, mill
tary or economic, and after you haye
made allowance for every dubious OF
hazardous contingency, even for the
temporary paralysis Of Russia as an
aggressive force, can there be douo'
that the material, no less than the
moral, preponderance rests manltestly
and increasingly with our cause?
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
PRocLAIMs FOOD LICENSING.

President Announces Regulations
Controlling Large Dealers.
Washington.-Exercising a power
more extensive than that ever before
intrusted to an executive Of the
United States, President Wilson Is.
sued a proclamation enforcing one
of the most drastic provisions Of the
food control law.
Under this proclamation virtually
every wholesaler middleman and job.
ber in the United States engaged In
the sale of foodstuffs is required to
apply to Herbert Hoover, Food Ad-
ministrator, for license on or before
November l.
The action is taken to stem the tide
of rising prices, to stabilize the mar
ket and to give the public some ap-
pearance of food at a reasonable cost.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
MAINE HAS HEAVY SNOWFALL. l.

Depth of Six Inches Breaks Forty
eiqht Years Record.
Bangor, Me-The earliest measure
BILE snowfall recorded in this. part Of
Maine in forty-eight years continued
for some hours. The fall reached a
depth of three inches here, and va
rious places in northern Maine report
ed six inches. Owing to the foliage
still remaining great quantities OF
damp snow adhered to trees and
shruhbery, and everywhere much dam.
age was reported.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19

John Shelton Williams, Comp
troller of the Currency, said in state.
ment:
"The combined resources of our ma
tional, savings and State banks and
trust companies exceed $37 100000.
Our yearly income for 1917, it is be
Information analyzed by this office
justifes the estimate that of 100000
men, women and children Of this coun
ty receiving wages and other incomes
there are not less than 100000 who
can afford to buy Liberty bonds"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
TRANSFERS 10000 TO THE GUARD

War Department Plans to Shift $4,000
of Drafted Men.
ngton.-Transfer of approx
mately 10000 men of the National
army to fill vacancies in the National
Guard was made public by the War
Department. Before the movement is
completed more than $4,000 of the
drafted men will have been moved
from cantonments to National Guard
camps.
The transfers affected nine camps.
All, however, will be called upon to
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
BRITAIN TAKES SWEDISH SHIPS.

Reouisitions Four Vessels Now Lying
In Her Ports.
London.-The British Government
has requisitioned the Swedish steam
ships Sphynx 1,572 tons), Bellgrove
(1,2S4 tons), Cremona 1,225 tons)
and Phyllis Q,4S1 tons). These YES
sells, which are now in British ports,
although flying the Swedish flag, are
mainly British owned.
This action has been taken in order
to protect the British capital invested
in the ships.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
NEED WOMEN IN FACTORIES.
United States Makes Ready to Draft
Labor For War Work.


Labor For War Work.
Washington.-Th Government IS
preparing to call upon thousands OF
American women to play their part in
the war. Before spring, according to
present indications, women will be
needed in munitions factories, navy
yards, shipbuilding plants and many
other lines of war industry. The navy
derartment, it was declared, stands
ready to employ them in great num-
bers.
The navy already is employing more
women than any other Government
bureau. The great Government cloth
ing factories at Philadelphia and
Charleston are run completely by wo-
men.
The most menacing shortage at pres
ent is in the emergency merchant feet
yards.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
GET SHIP BOMB PLoTTERs.
Captain Tunney Thinks He Has Reach.
ed Heart of Conspiracy.

ed Heart of Conspiracy.
New York.-Detectives of the Police
Headquarters Bomb Squad arrested
three men who, Captain Tunney said,
were the last Of the most dangerous
gang of plotters that operated for the
German government The men arrest
ed were Eugene Reister, 80 years old,
owner and manager Of Germania Ma
sonic Temple, a native of Germany;
Joseph Zepart, a printer, and Walter
Uhde, a German.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-10-19
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To the People of Highland County
The well known automobile and vehicle firm OF
D S. THOMAS Inc, Of darrisonbuig and BrldgeWater.
has opened display at p N. Central avenue,
Staunton, where they are exhibiting compete line
of the famous
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-16
Flat City Bakery AND COFFEE HOUSE Front St., Opp. Flat City Hotel Our Coffee Is Unsurpassed Our Bakery Products Always Fresh and
 Wholesome
 Pies, Cakes, Bread, etc. KEENAN, & MlCHELS, Props.
TRUTH ABOUT MARSHALL

The following special correspondence from Willow Creek, under date of April IS, ap- peared in the Nome Industrial Worker of May 4
 This camp is fSt all gold Nothing new has been found this winter. The six @ claims on Disappointment creek are fizzle Shorty Edgar sank a hole on No. and got a good prospect about December 2S It was supposed to run S6 per square foot Instead of drifting on it he got hand drill and drilled few more holes without pick ing up anything more. So he went back to the first hole and took out about six ounces and half, which IS the total output of that paystreak, The said creek was crosscut ln several places without even getting pros pect There must have been forty or fifty holes put down to bedrock on that creek.
 "On McNeil creek, which was quite a 'hope,' Joe Wise crosscut in at discovery without symptoms of gold, Captain New comb and son crosscut on Mo- 1 above with out results, and quite few more holes were put down to bedrock without results.
 East Fork, another hope did not show up Waskey crosscut 1t at discovery with out picking up paystreak. Of course that does not condemn the creek.
 Slope creek another hope fell by the wayside this winter, but still is chance.
 Prospecting is pretty hard over here; everything is wet and hard to get down.
 Now about the good creek over here, which is Willow creek. This year will be
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-16
SUICIDE WAS RICH MANS SON

Investigation by the Seattle police reveals the fact that A. J. Wilkie, the former Valdez, Alaska, man, who with his wife committed suicide in that city by the gas route recently was the son of the million aire San Francisco contractor and capitalist, Andro Wllkie, according to 9 Seattle dis patch of May 8.
 Young Wilkie had been estranged from his father for several years and had tray eled in nearly every country on the globe A few years ago his marriage to woman whom the elder Wilkie dislked, caused a further severance of relations, and the son drifted away to Alaska and was lost to the knowledge of his relatives for several years Lately his father, who IS advancing n years, had been endeavoring to trace hlS sons movements, with view to reconciha- ion The first news of his son that the father received was when his body was re moved to the morgue.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-16
MONDAY IS ANNIVERSARY
 OF BATTLE OF WATERLOO

Great among the landmarks of the world stands the Lion of Waterloo, on it's mound 200 feet high Ten miles from the city oI Brussels, it marks the plain where history. greatest battle was fought, where over 50000 men were killed, wounded and ml,- ing. It is harlly necessary to say th4t |. was fought on June IS, 1915 and that lt eliminated the campaign following N-pD- Icons escape from Elba and stopped h> mighty effort to conquer all Europe
 The Duchess of Richmond gave g ball m Brussels On June l5; at midnight NrL- Gngton. having already heard that the out posts had been engaged, went to the ball Here he found the Prince of Orange, the man who seemed fated to cause useless loss of life through his blunders. Even now he ought to have been at Binche, where the duke promptly sent him, after lnqulring for news.
 Far from being surprised at the evenings attack, as some writers assert, the duke had dispatched his orders before he went tO the ball, for at a. m. strange sounds broke the nights silence and great masses of troops were OF the move, bugles were blow ing everywhere, and people opened their
  past A Higlland band was playing bag pipes to the swing of the Black Watch as they went ont to battle through the Ma mur gate. Clriously enough, many Of the officers were still wearing their silk stock ncs and dan ing pumps, for the heat was so intense that men went mad and died on the march; but for the rest, they pushed on and were soon under fire. The battle is eclipsed by the thought of the awful aftermath; the plain so filled with the dying and the dead that for three days parties brought in the wounded.
 In the hurry 300 bodies were flung down well. For thirty years the corn crops were of deeper color where they grew over the blood of the slain on the scene where the Lion of Waterloo now forms one of the greatest landmarks of the world, Fy
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-16
TOKOTNA TO HAVE SlHOOL
 UNDER f@EW ENACTMENT I

Good news to the parents and residents of Tokotna, the thriving burg in ;he rHH@r Ku.kokw;m watershed, IS c2nieined m a wireless message received on Tuesday last by The Pioneer. For several years the peo- D}e of that place have been endeavorlng to secure the establishment of a school but be- cause the cid law required an enrolment of twenty pupils it was impossible to 9ecure the necessary authorization. The recent territorial legislature enacted new school l22iel2tion but as yet the text of the law has not been received here. A message was therefore sent to the governors othce at Juneau inquiring whether the new law had changed the number of pupils necessary for the establishment of school The follow ing answer was received:
 Juneau, Alaska, June 12, 1917. 'Iditarod Pioneer, Iditarod, Alaska:
 "Ten children sufficient for school district under re-enactment Nelson school law by recent session legislature. and eighteen hun dred dollars allowed for construction and equipment school house.
 'DAVIDSON Acting Governor"
 It is the plan of the Tokotna people to proceed immediately with the organization of school district, and an application for the necessary authority will be immediately forwarded to Juneau. A school house has already been built, and it is believed that everything will be in readiness to open the school during the coming autumn.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-16
WILL FITTINCLY CELEBRATE GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JULY
 AT CREEK METROPOLIS

At a meeting of the business men of were taken looking to fitting celebration of Independence day at the creek town. Committees were appointed and general outline of the program was discussed and within a short time the committees will be able to make some definite announce ments. The sentiment is generally ex- pressed that this year in particular extra efforts should be put forth to make the na- tiCnal holiday one of patriotic demonstra- ton, and the efforts of the various commit tees will no doubt follow along those lines. While the time for preparation is limited, it has been shown heretofore that the lively creek town can organize celebration of the nature proposed in an incredibly short period, and when the eventful day arrives 1t will be found that the plans have been carefully made and will be faithfully exc cuted.
 The finance committed which is com posed of Al Currie and H. C. Grouse, will report in a few days the amount of money that will be at the disposal of the general committee, and the program will be made up accordingly. The other officers and com mittees are: Chairman, Dr. Moore; treas urer, Thomas McMahon; secretary, Max Boas.
 Advertising Committee McMa- hon. Al Currie and A. J. Weiss.
 Sporting Committee-C. Anthon!son, C. R Cameron. George Mutcher, Jack McDon- nell, Fred Dicksen, Frank Stanley, Max Boas and Dr. Auringer
 Entertainment Committee-Max Boas, Ivan Wales and James Finnegan
 Dance Committee-Ivan Wales.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-16
FAIRBANKS FIRMS QUITTING

Before the summer is we'll along towards fall several old-time concerns will be out of businss in Fairbanks, says the News Miner of May 23, Pioneer Bill McPhee heads the list. He quits tonight, and will never again try the saloon business in Alaska. Wile's store soon will know Fairbanks no more. Stock is being taken and the N. c, Go. is taking over the Vile hardware stock and such goods as they can handle at their va rious points, in Alaska, while the toy de Dartment will be distributed around where it is wanted. One First avenue grocery store expects to quit business the first of July and one Second avenue restaurant will close its doors before that date Others are rumored as having tired of the game of 'beggar your neighbor," because they have found cut that in beggaring their neighbors they also suffer the same fate.
Iditarod pioneer., 1917-06-16
LAST BATCH OF WINTER MAIL HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY
 FROM TERMINAL POINTS

Tom Boyd, the mail sub ubcontraetor who arrived here on June with the last two consignments of outgoing winter mail, which he had been unable to deliver to the con meeting carrier and also with two belated consignments of incoming mall from Sew ard, has received telegraphic message from H. E. Revell, the contractor, stating that the last consignment of mail from Seward was left at Anderson's on May 26.
 It was customary early in the winter for Mir Boyd whose contract extends only as 'ar as Andersons, the halfway point on Seward trail, to continue his run beyond that point in the event that the incoming mail was not there on his arrival. con troversy arose because pay for extra serv- ice was demanded by Mr Boyd, and he was instructed not to go beyond Anderson's. The result was that the mail from Seward some times was not at the meeting place when the outgoing mail arrived there. This seems 10 have happened with the last mail which apparently arrived at Andersons two days after Mir. Boyd or his carrier left there. and here it yet reposes.
 The questions HOW arise, How IS that con signment of mail to be brought in before the freeze-up next fall? and whose duty is it to convey it? Travel over the route in the summer season is next to impossible because of the lack of bridges over the meny streams. and the swampy condition of the ground.
 Mir. Boyd is awaiting further instructions, and estimates that it will cost several hun dreds of dollars to bring the consignment to Iditarod, and equally as much to return if tO Anrh0rapa