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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26

CONGREGATIONS UNITE IN
OPENING SERVICE in ASBURY

4 large number OF people attended
the opening service OF Asbury Metho-
dist church yesterday. The East FL
Paso and Highland Park congregations
united with Asbury in this feicitation
service.
The sermon was delivered by the
pastor. Rev. c. X. Campbell Rev. H
p Bond. Rev Frank Collins. Rev 4
II. Sutherland and Rev J. n Sollie
had 3 part on the program. The chorus
choir furnished music and Mrs. ]. r
Burton rendered a solo. There were
several accessions 20 the church
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26
Muster Out 80 Men.

Though only % men and three Of
ficers returned with the company 10 FL
Paso. there were actually . men ana
three officers belonging 20 the orgaui-
zatiOu when II was mustered out SaIur-
day. Fourteen men returned 10 thei-
homes in other cities Ninety-seven
men LETT Fl Paso with the company, and
we're attached 10 IL later
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26
SPY FOR GERMANY Is
GIVEN YEAR AT ATLANTA

New York, March 26.-Sentence OF a
year and q day in the United States
at Atlanta and a fine of
81 was passed in the federal court here
TODAY on George Vaux aeon. American
newspaperman. who pleaded guilty 10
going TO England.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD
MUST GIVE UP STEAMSHIPS

Washington. D. C. March 26-In the
first case brought under the Panama
canal act, requiring railroads to dispose
OF their steamship interests. the So
preme court today decided that the I,e-
high Valley railroad must relinQuish its
great lakes steamship transportatio
line. operating vessels between Buffalo
and Chicago and Milwaukee.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26

Store Room, For Rent, with
Basement 30xso. eos Texas St-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26
ALTURA CHURCH
PASTOR RESIGNS
Rev. w. G.. Baber Tenders
Resignation After Four
Years; Goes TO Hamlin.

A. q congregatio1aI meeting sunday
E;ev- " - Baber resigned as pastor
OF the Aitura Presbyterian church. M
Babe- has been ~ charge of the church
for four years almost from IT'S be-
ginning. Mr.. Beher leaves the Alturs
church TO become pastor ~ tine Presoy-
terrain church al IIanim, Texas.
At the congregational meeting J. :.
Finney vas elected sunerln1endent Of
the sunday school L. West voluntarily
retiring Mrs. Nicllers was made as
sistant superintendent ana Airs. STAN
baugh secretarv and treasurer. The
board of trustees OF the church were
reelected. being Z. r. Greenberg. L. L
Robinson. Q. e. James. L. W est and
and made an elder
Pasfcrnte Hrs Been Fruitful
The Altura church. while not large
has % nucleus OF substantial people
aud is located iu promising field
There were oul- three or four mem
Ders four years age A manse- or pas
tors nome. has been built 1T a cost OF
$500 and all has been paid out loan
of $500 from the board Of church cree
zion which is OF easy terms without in
terest- = good cLOir has been organ
lied. the services are well attended
and the sunday school IS doing ex-
celent work with an enrolment OF
80. about all there Is room for
The church has done q good deal Of
work as q community center. The civic
league met ia the church before the
-hool building was open. there have
been frequent social activities for the
community. and the Pennsylvania and
ohio militia were given free soclais
and attended the regular services
largely. Mr.. Ba Der and mis- family viii
leave Tor Hamlin in q few days.
Resolutions Adopted.
Resolutions heartily commencing the
retiring pastor we're unanimously
adopted by the church Sunday.
The resolutions commend Mr. BaDsr
TO --the care and fellowship Of Gods
people wherever his lot may Zee cast
1ud bespeak for him. at the hands Of
tne church at Hamliu. the FULLEST meas
ure OF success and their richest bless
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26

The ordinary cost OF q Wari Ad in
The Il PasO Herald IS % cents. 4
reaches al ave-sg= a. about rs 600
readers each issue
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
SEEK. SAFE HAVEN ON FARMS
Some Rich Men Are Said to Be Paying
Landowners to "Employ" Their
Sons to Escape Draft.

Government agents have been at
work in Queens Investigating the cases
Of several farmers in the Newtown,
Flushing and Great Neck sections who
are reported to have accepted money
to keep sons Of wealthy men on their
payrolls so as to escape the draft, says
the New York Herald. The agents
have obtained the names of young men
who registered as farmers, but who, it
is said, have not been filling the soil.
Government officials have been told
that farmers have been we'll paid by
wealthy parents to "employ'' the
youths. According to reports that have
been openly discussed in these Sec
tons at least dozen farmers have.
men on their payrolls who do NOT
know a grubhook from a culhvator;.
These men, according to the story, are
supposed to report daily to the farm
ers and to receive wages Of Sc a week.
Instead Of working on the farm the
young men are devoting their time to
playing golf or driving about the island
In their motor cars.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
APPROVES AMENDMENT TO VEST
AUTHORITY IN BOARD OF
THREE-BY VOTE OF
i -. ...... 80 TO is. = :, ~, -.,s.
FOOD CONTROL MEASURE =
APPROACHES final FORM
Partisan Lines Erased-Amendment
Affects Food, Feed and FueIo-
Proposal to Prevent Hoover's
Serving at All Is
Rejected.

Washington, July 21.-The admins
tration food control bill has approach
ed it's final form in the Senate. I'm
der a limited agreement, the Senate
approved, 60 to 16, an amendment
drafted at joint conferences of Demo.
cratic and Republican leaders to linn
1t government control to food, feeds
and fuel, including kerosene and gas
oline and to vest the administrative
authority in three salaried members
instead of single individual.
Subject to Reconsideration.
Although the action will be subject
to reconsideration before Saturdays
final vote on the bill, it is expected
to stand and to be accepted by the
House in conference. The vote was
regarded as forecasting general sup
port Of other bipartisan proposals
awaiting action.
The Senate expects to dispose of
the modified federal licensing section
and that fixing minimum IRice for
wheat. A price Of So per bushel at
primary markets is expected to have
the support of large group of SEN
atOrs.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
HEAVIEST AIR FIGHTING
OF WAR on BRITISH LINE
Germans Try to Exhaust and Harass
French by Using Picked Troops
at Certain Points.

London, July 21.-Summarizing the
military events Of the last week, Major
General Frederick B. Maurice, chief
director Of military operations at the
war office, said to the Associated
Press:
1.-THE British front has been note
worthy only for the fact that it has
seen the heaviest air fighting in the
history of the war, with the losses Sc
verest on the German side, and the
results generally favorably to the
British. On land there was only minor
fighting without material change"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
WISCONSIN GUARDSMEN
GET ORDER TO EN{RAIN
Camp Douglas Is Expected to House
Over 10000 Within the Next
Three Weeks.

Madison, July 21.-Wisconsin's 49,
900 national guardsmen will start for
Camp Douglas on Saturday.
Orders to prepare to entrain have
been sent to every company comman-
der in the state by Adjutant General
Holway. The orders follow Holway's
conference with Major General Barry,
commander Of the Central department,
in Chicago.
Michigan will send three regiments
to Camp Douglas to train with the
Badgers. Within three weeks It is ex-
pected the Wisconsin camp will house
over 10000 men.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
PEOPLES Council for Peace.

Los Angeles, July 21:-<This confer
ence is part of a nationwide move
ment for the assimilation of the de.
mocracy of America with the democ-
racy of Russia, to bring about and
maintain forever worldwide peace
So declared Attorney J. H: Ryckman
at the opening conference of the peo-
pies council for democracy and peace,
in session here. Attorney Ryckman
sounded the keynote of the confer
ence, by introducing the former. Sen
ator John W. Works, who is the pre-.
siding officer. - >. - .s,.,.. $3.50
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
SH|PBUlLDING ROW NOW
APPEARS TO BE SETTLED
GoethaIs and Denman Both Said to
Have Made Concessions-Work
to Go Forward at Once.

Washington, July 21.-The Cocktails
Denman ship controversy appears to
be finally settled. It is believed that
contracts for building ships and the
two proposed government shipyards
will be offered at once. 1t also is like
ly that the orders for communicating
ships on the stocks in the course of
construction will be sent out. It is
generally understood that concessions
have been made by both sides, and
that in the future General Goethals
will be given free rein.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
European War. News

The Galician town Of Kalusz which
the Russians captured last week, has
been evacuated by them under the
powerful counter-blows Of the Germans
and Acknowledgements, the German
war office at Berlin announces.
A London dispatch says fleet of II
small German vessels ventured forth
from Rotterdam in an attempt to run
the British blockade. A powerful Brit
ish mosquito" fotilla lay in wait fol
them out in the North sea. This Is
what happened to the Teuton ships
-Four sunk, four captured, five strand
ed, one wrecked, two fled back, badly
damaged by gunfre, total, sixteen. One
fled back and reached shore unframed
Berlin reports that the German
crown prince, who has been in that
city in connection with the political
crisis, departed for the western front.
1t is reported in an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Lausanne that
no more Zeppelins are being construct
ed at Friedrichshafen.
The great German Industrial town of
Essen, where the Krupp gun works are
located, was raided again by allied
airmen. This information was con-
tanned in dispatch from Amsterdam.
The telegram added that the lombard
ment was followed by tremendous ex-
plosions.
Information has been received at
Paris that Oscar Lapix champion
cyclist Of France, was killed in an air
fight with a German aviator on the
western front.
A Rome dispatch received in official
Italian circles at Washington declares
the kaiser is gradually turning his
power over to the German crown prince
and intimates the change in govern
ment in Germany is preliminary to a
peace move.
Ihe German reichstag at Berlin has
gone on strike and the members have
decided to suspend the labors both of
the full house and the main committee
until the political situation is cleared
up. This u leaves the war credit bill in
abeyance. :. = - .@-ss.i>-SS
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
BULGARIA WEAKENS, BELIEF

Paris, July 21.-An extreme change
In the Allies Balkan policies is immi-
nent. The stage will be set for such
a change at the inter-Allied conference
here later this month in which the
United States has been invited to par
ticipate. Bulgaria's position is weak
ening, Russian embassy officials say.
They report discomfort. spreading
among Bulgaria's troops.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
Not to Attend Allies Conference.

Washington, July 20.-The United
States has been officially invited by
the allied governments to participate
in the interallied conference in Paris
this month, but has decided that for
the present it will not be necessary to
take part in such meetings not direct
ly affecting this country's part in the
war. It was explained officially at the
state department that while This
course was followed at present, it was
not to be taken as an indication OF 4
permanent policy. ~ 81: I.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
Personal

Rear Admiral William n. Emery, q.
3 ~, retired, died at Newport, r. I.
Rear Admiral Emery was seventy-one
years old. He was graduated at the
United States Naval academy in 1860,
and was put on the retired list in 1908
Foreign
A Zurich dispatch to the Petit Pari-
sien says Count Won Bernstorff has
been appointed German minister at
Copenhagen in the place of Count
Brockdorff- Rantzau.
The British royal house is now
known as the house of Windsor. Fol
lowing special meeting of the privy
council in London it was officially an
nounced that the title Of the royal
house had been changed from Saxe-Co-
burg to Windsor.
Two demonstrations against the gov
eminent resulted in the firing of shots
in the Nevsky Prospekt in Petrograd,
as result Of which a number of per-
sons were killed or wounded. -Four
members of the cabinet have resigned
and special session of the council of
ministers has been c0nvoked in an eff
fort to avert crisis.
NJ. Dubers, owner Of chateau at
Compiegue, has started formal pro-
ceedings in Paris court charging the
German prince, Eitel Friedrich, fourth
son of the kaiser, and his German
army staff, with "housebreaking and
pillage."
Several thousand persons took part
In an anticonscription meeting in JAG
ques Cartier market square, Quebec
Addresses were made by Senator Ian.
dry, Armand Lavergne, Laetare Roy
Louis Letourneaux and others.
Copenhagen dispatches say that the
reichstag resolution on plans for peace
negotiations advocate peace without
annexation and indemnities and the
freedom of the seas, and oppose eco
nomic blockades after the war.
Count Ulrich K. Won Brockdorf-
Rentzau, one Of the great aristocrats
Of the empire, and a cousin of Count
Won Bernstorff, has been selected to
succeed Dr. Alfred Zimmerman as the
German foreign secretary, says a
Copenhagen dispatch.
Count Michael Karolyi, leader of the
Hungarian independent party, speak
ing in the house of deputies, declared :
"The central point Of the present
crisis is the question Of peace. Every
one in Germany wants peace, but it is
not enough to desire it, the nation
must negotiate for it."
Emperor William of Germany has is
sued an imperial manifesto declaring
for equal franchise in Prussia.
J. Austen Chamberlain, secretary for
India, has resigned, says dispatch
from London. Lord Hardinge, the for
mer viceroy Of India, also presented
his resignation as undersecretary for
foreign affairs. His resignation, how,
ever, was not accepted.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
Vacation Just as Cheap,

Vacation Just as Cheap.
PA, are women ever optimists?''
"Oh, yes, my son. The woman who
tries to convince her husband that you
can take vacation tour as cheaply as
you can stay at home is an optimist."
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
Cardiac Professionalism.

Biff-rd go a great way for a girl
like that.
Buff-Well, she'll give you your
walking papers all right if you try to-
win her.-Town Topics.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01

try Lydia 2. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I took six bottles and today f
am a healthy woman able to do my own.
homework. I wish every suffering:
woman would try Lydia E. Pinkham'0
Vegetable Compound, and find out for
themselves how good it Mira. CARL
A. KIEso, 696 North Ave., Aurora, III.
The great number Of unsolicited tes.
timonials on file at the Pinkham Lab
oratory, many Of which are from time
to time .. published by permission, are
hams Vegetable Compound, In the
treatment Of female ills.
Every ailing woman in tho United
the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine ca:
(confidentiaD, Lynn, Mass. for special
advice. It is free, will bring you health
and may save your life.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
Observation-Disclosures
Important
News Events
of the World
Summarized |
U.S.-Te4t0,1ic War News

American warships conveying the
first American expeditionary army de-.
stroyed four of the latest type German
submarines, according to report in
circulation at Berne, and which pur.
ported to have originated in Germany.
The government at Washington has
taken steps to mobilize an army Of a
million men. approximately 125,000
National Guardsmen were mobilized
under an executive order in II states.
They comprise the first increment Of
the militia to be drawn into the federal
service. 1t will be not later than Oc-
tober before the majority of the men
ordered out will be in France.
The American troops in France spent
their first night at their permanent
camp Saturday night. The equipment
is arriving on schedule time and the
transportation is being effected with
out hitch. The men will be under
hre at an earlier date than had been
predicted and expected.
War appropriations Of about $780,
100000 in addition to the enormous
sums already appropriated or sought,
will be asked Of congress at Washing
ton in estimates which administration
officials have given notice will be sub
mitted next week.
Formal announcement was made by
the war department at Washington
that 1000 men will be selected from
those registered on June for the first
national war army and to fill vacan-
cles in the National Guard and the
regular army.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01

Branding Mayor Thompson Of Chi
cago as '.disloyal," including Congress-
man Mason in the same category and
hurting verbal shrapnel at alt pscifsts,
Federal Judge Lands brought mem
bers and guests of the Hamilton club
to their feet in shouting, cheering
Outburst. =
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
No Wonder

''She says her husband can't even
keep her in pin money"
II know, but she buys diamond pins"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
Domestic

Thirty men were injured, several
probably fatally, in rioting between
Americans and foreigners employed in
the lead mines at Flat River, Mo. Sew
eral hundred men formed an unofficial
posse and have undertaken to drive
from the town every foreign laborer
known to sympathiZe with I. w. w.
agitators or with German agents be-
lieved to have been active in the dis
trict.
Harvey D. Gibson, president Of the
Liberty National bank at New York,
was appointed manager Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross by Henry P. Davidson,
chairman of the Red Cross war coun-
Gil. Mr.. Gibson has announced his &C.
ceptance and says he will serve with
out pay.
A cyclone that travelled between
Champaign, Ogden and Homer. Ill.,.
blew an Illinois Traction passenger car
from the track between Ogden and
Homer, injuring seven persons.
report that all lumber and tim
Der workers affiliated with the 7. w.
w. west of the Mississippi would
strike was disclaimed at I. W. W.
headquarters at Chicago.
+
With 62 out of 76 municipalities COM
pletely reported, the returns of the
election show Porto Rico to have voted
for prohibition by more than two to
one, says San Juan dispatch.
Two investigations under President
Wilson'S flair profits order to big
business have just been launched at
Chicago by Joseph e. Davies of the
federal trade commission.
Armin r. Orthwein, member Of q
prominent st. Louis family, committed
suicide at Louisiana, Mo. Ill-heolth is
thought to have been the cause.
There are 10000 slacke7s in Toxos
according to the estimate of govern.
ment agents AZ San Antonio. Thev are
subject to arrest II found. :
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01

Only children play ball. Men make
a business Of it.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01

The senate at Washington has sent
word to President Wilson that congress
Is unwilling to give him the food leg
islation he has requested.
Uncertainty at Washington as to
Greece's status in the world war was
cleared away with the receipt of Off
cial information that the Greek govern
mept not only has severed relations
with all four of the central powers but
Is actually in state of war with them.
Unless the unforeseen develops, con-
gress at Washington probably will be
asked before adjournment of the pres
ent session to authorize another gigan-
tic loan to the allies. The present au-
thorlzation Of $4,000, 100000 will be ex-
hausted within from three to four
months, at the rate at which the gov
eminent is lending money to entente
governments.
Postal employees throughout the
country have contributed $55, 1894. 81 for
Red Cross work. The reports to Post
master General Butleson at Washing
ton are only partial. Complete returns
it Is said, will show much larger
sum.
Steel manufacturers have agreed to
operate their plants for the benefit of
the government until a satisfactory
price for their products can be ar
ranged, it was learned at Washington.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
Draft Exemptions" Are Sold.

Draft Exemptions" Are Sold.
Chicago, July 20.-The Y. M. C. A.
and other organizations are formulat-
ing plans to combat efforts of conf
dence men who are obtaining consid-
cradle sums of money selling promises
to get exemptions from the draft. The
impostors are said to work principally
in the sections of the city which are
populated by foreigners who have
little knowledge of the English lam
guage. They pick as their victims for
eigners who have dependent families
and who hope to be exempted
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
MI ||IE|SO SICK
SEVEN MONTHS
Restored 10 Health y Lydia E
Pnkham' : Vegetable Compound.
Aurora, I'LL For seven long months
Isuffered from q female trouble, with

severe pans N my
7 back and sides until
I became 80 weak !
could hardly walk
from chair to chat, !
and got 30 nervous
lwould jump ut the
slightest noise. !
!, was entirely unfit
20 do my house,
work, / was giving
up hope of ever be-
ing well, when my
s-S-1Ao As1,>S A.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01

Rear Admiral William H. Emery, q.
3 n, retired, died at Newport, r. I.
Rear Admiral Emery was seventy-one
years old. He was graduated at the
United States Naval academy in 1860,
and was put on the retired list in 1908
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-06
Pictures Create Interest
In Chautauqua Program
Boy Scouts Are Disposing OF Many
Tickets and Indications Are for
a Successful Week.

Much interest was being shown yes
tcrdNy in the pictorial news service
OF the Redpath chautauQuas. about the
city. This service consists Of photo.
graphs OF talent and scenes about the
chautauqua tents on the circuit for
the past two weeks. They are made
up in good tone and on stiff. glazed
card board and are on display at
bursts. Hefily'S and the Fort Henry
dairy lunch on Main street. and al
Sprays and Basle's confectionery on
Market. The pictures will be changed
daily until the chautauQua opens next
Tuesday.
The hoy Scouts have been busy all
day and report good ticket sale.
They have canvassed good portion
Of town and have put out some very
interesting literature. in the form Of
the Community Builder and the souve-
mir programs Programs have been
placed at the Hotels Windsor. Rogers
and Mcclure, and at bursts. Davis,
Burkham 4 Tyler's. the y. NJ. {. a.
and the Y. W. {. A. and may be had
for The asking. Tickets are also on
sale nj these places in order that
everyone may have chance 10 secure
them before the price advances.