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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1917-07-19

Nus eirem 9riminaL
rom IN. :. .Darauf uerSebrte Der
Bari gelottene Siinosr orei neih &c.
Iottens gier.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

G. when he could stand it no long
er. I'm hungry"
Som l." came from several of
the boys.
Lets co. said Harold Jones,
and so, off they started for the
commons where the great barbe-
que was to be held.
Bill Hadley's uncle Fred was al
ready there getting the oven built
and the fire started, but there was
plenty left for the boys themselves
to do.
Better get some more heavy
wood" advised Uncle Fred. Well
need q good hot bed of Goals to fry
the eggs" -Four or five of the
boys at once disappeared on this
wood gathering expedition. while
the others were bringing in their
provisions of weenies, eggs. sand
wiches, and so forth, when sudden
ly a gruff voice broke in with,
What do you kids mean. building
a fire on this commons. Get OUT"
Looking around, the boys saw the
big burly form of policeman COM
ing across the lot towards them.
and they all were SO surprised that
dead silence fell upon the group.
Uncle Fred was so busy putting
the sheet iron over the top Of the
newly made oven, that he did not
hear the unwelcome newcomer at
all, and since the oven was made
in a sheltered little hollow which
completely hid Uncle Fred when
he was bending over the fire. the
policeman only saw the group Of
boys carrying all. sorts Of boxes
and fire wood towards the place
where the tell-tale smoke was curl
ing up.
And so it was that irate police.
man advanced almost up to the
center Of the group before the tall
form Of the young soldier sudden.
~ rose up before the policeman.
and Uncle Fred, in his most cool
tone said. Hello there. what's the
row?" -.
It was the policeman's turn to
be surprised. "Oh, beg pardon"
he stammered. 81 thought Il was
just some kids trying to start
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

automobile trips or went on pic
MICS, but the boys who were left
continued the celebration by tying
tin cans and nails to street cars
and automobiles, while they invent
ed many new ways of increasing
the noise capacity of tick tacks and
tin pan instruments. SO that every
boy in that crowd had one long-t0-
aforementioned day.
And that evening Jimmie G. was
so tired he almost went to sleep at
the supper table. His mother had
to help him upstairs, and almost
put him to bed. but as he snuggled
down in the pillow he still was
enough awake to murmur. II guess
it's more fun without firecrackers
than with 'um." And when he fin
ished saying his prayers he added,
AN please God. bless Grandmoth-
er Gray for tellin' us about having
the barbecue"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30
WHY NOT HAVE A
4TH OF JULY PARADE

My Dear Aunt Molly or Dear New
Junior Editor:
l would like to have the children
of Richmond have a parade to pass
away the Fourth of July as we can't
have any fireworks. l think 1t
would be nice to have the boy
scouts Of Richmond and campfire
girls and children who have Joined
the Red Cross or. any children In
the city who would like to be in the
parade. l think we all should carry
American flags. Any women of
the Red Cross would be welcomed
In the parade and also the soldiers
who are In town. Yours truly. Col
die Brown. ga Grade, 20 North
Sixth Street.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

DO YOUR BIT!

Dear Children wonder how
many Of you are going to help the
day nursery these next few days BY
saving all the old paper and maya
zines you can find about the house.
You see some of the good women IN
the town are planning to sell the
paper and give the money to the
nursery SO that the little boys and
girls who haven't nice cool homes
will have some one to take care OF
them while their mothers and faith
ers are hard at work for them. 1t
will be such an easy thing to do and
only take a few minutes time each
day. Monday. July 18th the Boy
Scouts will come around to see you
and collect all the paper you have
saved. Mother will give you a large
basket or bag in which you may put
all your old waste paper. Please
don't forget.-The Junior editor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30
And he began back.

something" And he began back
ing away.
Hey, better wait minute and
have some breakfast" called Uncle
Fred. The policeman grinned from
ear to ear. Thanks" he said,
Maybe I'll drop in later on" But
he didn't and the boys were SO
busy from then on, frying the eggs
and dangling their sizzling weenies
from the end of long sticks, that
they forgot all about their blue
coated visitors.
But the climax of the whole bar
beque came when a queer looking
procession was seen approaching
from the street, which. turned out
to be Harold Jones' father pushing
a wheel barrow with Mr.. Harlow
at its side steadying a big ice cream
freezer. followed by Mr.. Hadley,
carefully holding q whole devils
food cake. and Mr.. Gray carrying a
huge watermelon.
Amid cheers and shouts the faith
ers were escorted up to the flag
pole, which Lawrence Luker had
put BY the oven, and then came
the greatest feasting that ever had
taken place in a barbecue.
In the afternoon several of the
families in that neighborhood took
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30
Soc1B'rY


Miss Lucille Williams. who ltveq
over in Fairview Is spending 3
week at the home of Miss Alice
Lycan. North Twenty-first street.
Monday afternoon Mr.. and Mrs.
Vain Lycan took the children pio'
nicking in Glen Miller park.
Little Master Morris Cooper, who
is not quite two years old has gone
to Anderson with his mother for .
visit.
The play. given Monday evening
by Misses Emily Bailey and Mary
Louise Youngflesh on the lawn at
South Fifteenth and B streets.
was q successful affair. The chill
dren made eighteen dollars and it
will all 60 toward the Red Cross
fund. There were q number Of
dances by the children.
Little Miss Betty Jane Hartley.
who lives in Hagerstown. is with
her mother in Wisconsin visiting
some of her cousins and aunts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30
: YUM! YUM!

This morning a boy brought me
six bright red cherries and q large
red juicy strawberry which grew In
his Grandmother's back yard. They
were SO pretty and SO juicy and
sweet that wished there had been
Z dozen.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30
Grandmother Cray's
Story Corner
How Jimmie G. Had q Fourth Of
July Barbecue.

How Jimmie G. Had q Fourth Of
July Barbecue.
Jangle! Smash! Clang!
"Wha-what's q matter?" num-
bled Jimmie G. sitting up in bed.
rubbing his eyes.
Hey, you lazy lubber." came Bill
Hadley's voice from below, get up
and celebrate. Don't you know it's
the Fourth Of July?"
With a thud Jimmie's feet landed
in the middle of the floor. as he
shouted. chi, Bill. Be down in q
minute"
And he was. Such a record Of
dressing never was made before.
Intact, II anyone should have de-
manded the truth, Jimmie would
have been forced to admit that his
neck and ears had escaped the wash
cloth, and that he even had post
poned cleaning his teeth. But then,
even George Washington probably
didn't take time to be perfectly
sanitary when the fellows were
waiting for him, and Jimmie want
ed to have chance to try their
new alarm clock on some Of the
other boys.
The first pink tinges of dawn
were showing in the east and the
air was so chilly that Jimmie did
stop long enough to get his sweat
er, before he and Bill Hadley start
ed on their rounds of calling the
other boys. First they went to
Harold Jones's, but just as they
started to pull the string he popped
his head out the window and said
he'd be down in half a second"
So they waited.
1t was towards six o'clock when
all the boys finally assembled. but
they made up for lost time by at
once forming into line headed by
Lawrence Luker who carried
huge flag, and the Spirit of '76
seemed mild in comparison to the
Spirit of II which was fully demon
strated by those boys in their tin
pan brigade.
Noise!
Il say" shouted Jimmie G. to
Bill Hadley who was next to him.
pounding on an old wash tub for
a base drum. better than a can
non cracker, isn't it,"
Sure thing" shouted Bill in ans.
wer, as they turned a corner and
advanced down a new street. Heads
appeared at many windows, and
people with suit cases or lunch
baskets who we're hurrying towards
the car line, stopped to smile at
the procession as it went by. But
the boys never wavered in their
line of march until they had been
on at least ten streets, and finally
the call of breakfast became very
urgent from within.
-"Say, how soon are we going to
have the barberque," asked Jimmie
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

place to work in the
country by a boy who is used to
working in gardens. Age IL. Call
at 121 School street
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30
THE RIDE OF PAUL REVERE


And 10! as he looks. on the beltry's height
A glmmer, and then CLEAN Of the light.
He springs to the saddle. the bride he turns.
But fingers and gaxes. till full on his sight
A second lamp In the belfry burns,
hurry OF hoofs In the village street.
shape In the moonlight. bulk in the dark
And beneath from the pebbles in passing. .
spark
Struck out by steed flying fearless and fleet:
That was all! And yet. through the gloom and
the light
The fate of a nation was riding that night:
And the spark struck out by that steed In his
flight,
Kndled the land into flame by its heat
He has left the village and mounted the steep.
And beneath him. tranquil and broad and deep.
Is the Mystic. meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt Its edge,
Now soft on the sand now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of the steed as he rides.
It was twelve by the village clock when he
crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the Growing of the cock. and the
barking of the farmers dog
And felt the damp of the river fog that rises
after the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock, when he gal
loped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock swim In the
And the meeting house windows. blank and
bare.
Gaze at him with a spectral glare. as if they
already stood aghast at the bloody work
they would look upon
It was two by the village clock, when he came
to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the beating OF the flock, and the
twitter of birds among the trees.
He felt the breath Of the morning breeze. blow
ing over the meadows brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed. who
at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day. would be lying dead pierced by
q British musket ball
You know the rest In the books you have
read. how the British fired and led
How the farmers gave them ball for ball from
behind each fence and barnyard wall,
Chasing the red coats down the lane. then
crossing the field to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn Of the road, and
only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere, and
SO through the night went his cry Of alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm
cry of defiance and not of fear, voice in
the darkness, knock at the door. and q
word that shall echo for evermore;
For, borne on the night wind of the past
through all our history, to the last. In the
hour of darkness, peril and need,
The people will awaken and listen to hear, the
hurrying hoofbeats of that steed.
And the midnight message of Paul Revere
Henry w. Longfellow.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

Here's . picture Of a little boy
net more than 3 years old who is
celebrating the fourth of July in
just the right kind Of q manner. He
has on q Bingham suit and II 1t
does get all dirty I am sure his
mother won't mind in the least for
he is having such q good time.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

The Junior editor thinks this is
just about the happiest boy she
has seen for many q day. I think
he is going to celebrate the fourth
In just the right way for he seems
to be just as happy as happy can
be. l believe he IL watching the
parade of boys and girls with flags
and toy guns that q little friend Of
ours is writing about this week. Be
sure and read what she has to say
about the kind of . parade she
would like . see.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

Listen. my children. and you shall hear
Of tho midnight ride Of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth Of April In seventy-fivej
Hardy 4 man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend. II the British march
By land or sea from the town tonight.
Hang lantern aloft in the belfry arch
OF the north church tower as a signal light
One II by land, and two IL by sea:
And on the opposite shore will be.
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm.
For the country folk to be up and to arm"
Then he said Goodnight and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore.
Just az the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British manofwar:
A phantom ship with each mast and spar
Across the moon like prison bar
And huge black hulk that was magnified
BY its own reflection in the tide.
Meanwhile. his friend. through alley and street.
Wanders and watches with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door.
The sound Of arms and the tramp Of feet.
And the measured tread of the grenaders.
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Then he climbed the tower of the Old North
Church,
BY the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread.
To the belfry chamber overhead.
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters. that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade
BY the trembling ladder, steep and TALL
To the highest window in the wall.
Where he paused to listen and look down
moment on the roofs of the town,
And the moonlight falling over all
Beneath in the churchyard lay the dead.
In their night encampment on the hill.
Wrapped In silence SO deep and still
That he could hear like q sentinel's tread,
The watchful nightwind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper "All is WELL"
A moment only he feels the spell
OF the place and the hour, and the secret dread
OF the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On shadowy something far away
Where the river widens to meet the bay
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide. like bridge of boats.
Meanwhile. impatient to mount and ride.
Booted and spurred, with heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horses side.
Now gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and frightened his saddlegirth:
But mostly he watched with eager search
The befry tower of the Old North Church,
AS it rose above the graves on the hill.
Lonely and spectral and solemn and still.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

FOR SALE banties that are
laying. Is cents each. Phone
Number 1924.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

WANTED-A job in q store. Can
do almost anything. John Lady.
1899 North A street.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

FOR SALE-Two white Pigeons,
will eat out of your hand. Csc
each, Phone No. 5136-B.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-30

FOR SALE-An air rifle. single
shot. Call Peul Clevenger. 118
Randolph street.
The Harrison times., 1917-12-22
CARRY HOPE AND
CHEER TO SAMMlES

Buy your Red Cross Christmas
Seals early so that every package that
goes "oyer there" to our men in camp
and in the trenches will bear at least
one little Christmas sticker, urge sea-
statesmen this year
Red Cross Christmas Seals will have
double significance this year. They
will not only carry to American men
in France familiar Christmas greet
'ings-they will bear a personal prom.
Use to each man
American soldiers will see for them.
selves the ravages that have been
wrought by the Great White Plague
in France, They will find that the
French lines have been thinned by
tuberculosis. and that large numbers
of the civilian population have fallen
victim to the disease.
Stamps may be procured at ali the
banks of Harrison, or at Red Cross
Headquarters at Mrs. Bardwell's Mil.
linery store,
The Harrison times., 1917-12-22
OUR SOLDIERS STILL TRAINING.
The Work of Preparation Along
All Lines Goes On With
Renewed Vigor.
Camp Beauregard, Louisiana,
Depemhar 1S 1917

Camp Beauregard, Louisiana,
December Is, 1917
With the exception of a few cases
of mumps, Boone county's soldier
boys at this camp are we'll and cheer
full. An evidence of this condition may
be found in the fact that Battery "B'
ate the entire shipment of canned
fruit sent them from Harrison at a
single meal, and are ready for more.
Due to the fact that the Christmas
furloughs will be limited to four days
it is not likely that our boys will un-
dertake holiday visits home; but they
all hope to get longer time leaves
later. Camptain Armitage and Lieu
tenant Crandell are enjoying the pres
ence of their wives at Alexandria.
Our regiment is to be motorized,
that is furnished with motors for the
transportation of both guns and men,
and detail of three officers and fifty
men will leave soon for Michigan to
learn the business of repairing trucks
The French officers are not only
teaching bombing and trench work,
but there are artillery instructors as
well as machine gun operators. We
are being given the same instructions
in artillery work as the first forces
landed in France, and a range is now
being constructed at which they will
practice. Machine gun targets are
also being placed, and thousands Of
bullets will soon be sent daily to the
dummies which will represent a NOV
ing army scouts and observers which
must be picked off by the gunners.
Noncommissioned officers from
France spend hours each day in show.
ing different squads how the grenades
should be thrown. OF course the
overhead swing is easy for the Ameri.
cans even though they are not as ac.
curate in placing the heavy dummy in
this manner as they would be with
the free arm throw of the baseball
player. And the French officers are
ready to, admit that the American is
going to discard all they are teaching
him when he first gets into a bombing
duel, The reason they say this is be-
cause other Americans have done It.
and others may be expected to throw
the old natural way at the first Ger.
man they see The officers say the
Americans soon learn the folly of such
action, and after the excitement of the
first action has worn away, they re.
turn to the French system and become
highly proficient In il. They declare
that the best bombers at the front are
from the United States-solders OF
fortune who have been for some time
with the allied forces.
All the officers are, or will be,
trained in the specialized fighting de-
veloped since the Germans entrenched
on the Aisne liver line after the re.
treat from the Marne. They will then
The Harrison times., 1917-12-22
QUEST|0NA|RES ARE MAILED
Preparations for the 1918 Activities
In the Drafted Service
Has Begun.

Secretary James w. Slower of the
Registration Board, has been busy
this week mailing out the Question
naires to men registered under the
draft law
These go to the entire list not al
ready in service, and the only men
who do not have to fill in and return
the questionaires, it was stated, are
men who have been actually drafted
by the boards into the army, and those
men reported to the department as
deserters.
The local board recommends that
the registrants upon receipt of the
QUESTIONABLE, see lawyer, a member
of the Legal Advisory Board, and re-
ceive advice and information. The
lawyers advice will be free.
There should be nc delay in filling
out and returning the QUESTIONABLE as
the registrant failing to return his
QUESTIONABLE within the allotted seven
days is subject to one years imprisOn-
ment for misdemeanor besides for.
feiture of all claims for deferred clas
sificatiOn The names of all such reg
istrants will be placed in Glass 1,
which is the first class to be called
Should a registrant change his ad-
dress he should at once notify his
board as no excuse will be accepted
for failure to receive the question,
naire.
1t will be necessary to classify the
entire list before the next call is
made, about January Is, and there is
no time to waste.
There will be five classes each
with subdivisions beginning with the
single man without dependents, and
ending with persons physically, men
tally or morally unfit to be a soldier
The Harrison times., 1917-12-22
THE RED CROSS DRIVE.

The Red Cross Drive which has
been under way the past week in
Boone county and Harrison has been
meeting with only moderate success.
In Harrison the enrolment is now in
the neighborhood of five hundred. tu,
the reports from other towns and the
rural communities are meagre and IN
satisfactory 1t seems that there is
need for much missionary work If we
are to do even half of our share IN
this splendid work. The present car
paign will continue until Christmas
The Harrison times., 1917-12-22
SHOT AS HE LEAVES CHURCH
Well Known Newspaper Man Badly
Wounded While Attending an
Apostolic Meeting

c. A. Monroe Meadows. OF Meadow S
Park, while attending Apostolic ser.
vices at the residence of George Bolin
two miles north OF Fallsville Sunday
night was shot with stray bullet
5S calibre-the ball entering the cen
ter OF the body just above the waist
DETECTED and came out in the right
side The wound is very serious but
not necessarily fatal
He walked out of the house and as
he stepped from the porch to the
ground he received shot that was
evidently fired at one of the preach,
ers. Mr.. Meadows does not know who
fired the shot After being shot he
walked a quarter of a mile without
assistance.
DR.. Williamson. Of Limestone, said
he had given surgical services where
men working in log camps were shot.
and men shot while attending dances,
and shot while a drunken row oc-
Cured in a saloon but this was the
first person he ever gave surgical
treatment to who was shot while at
tending religious services.
Fallsyille is in a remote part of
Newton county and Mr.. Meadows, who
was doing field work for the Newton
County Times, stopped over night with
James Sutherland. The family all
went to meeting and he accompanied
them not thinking about any peril.
At last accounts he was recovering
slowly.