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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-08-22
BURNOLA TURNER
WRITES FROM FRANCE
France, July IL, 1918.

NJ. Turner,
Elmwood, Oklahoma.
Dear Folks:
Well, this leaves me o. X. and
feeling fine. l am near the front now
but it isn't near so bad as one would
think. l am in the same company
now-as Jim Finn was. came the 18th
and he was killed the 18th of June
by gas; all of the boys think there
was no one like him. He died he
ro. He rated ID. S. Cross. l see
33 of the boys got crosses yesterday.
would have given anything to
have seen him. He was made Ser
geant the 25th of May.
think we will move back for a
rest in a few days, and then I will
write you again. We don't get much
chance to write; haven't had any
mail for two months.
There isn't any use to worry, as
there isn't very much danger.
Well, l will close for this time, hop
ing to hear soon.
Your affectionate son,
BURNOLA L. TURNER,
So Co. Ind. Bait. 6 Reg, U. 8. M. c..
A. E. F.
Jim Finn was the oldest son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. F. Finn, of Elm.
wood
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-08-22

900, Harper 10000, Major 5000,
Roger Mills 10000, Texas none,
Woods 10000, Woodward 10000,
Blaine 5000, Beckham none, Caddo
5000, Cotton $4,000, Comanche 5O,-
900, Grady 100000, Harmon 10000,
Jackson $4,000, Jefferson 1000, XII
owa $4,000, Greer $4,000, Stephens
5000, Tillman $4,000, Washita 1O,-
900, Kingisher 10000.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-08-22

A. McKie, of the Lorena neighbor-
hood, transacted business in the coun-
ty seat the first Of the week. While
here he dropped in at this Office and
squared his account in advance.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-08-22

Albert Hopper, of Six Mile, re-
ceived word the past week that his
son Allen had arrived safe over seas.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-08-22

Mrs. Chas Marshall Of LaKemp,
was a county seat caller Thursday Of
last week.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-08-22

Marion Smith and family left the
past week for Newkirk where Marion
has secured employment in an abb
stract office.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-08-22

F. c. Tracy made business trip
to Woodward last week going to at
tend meeting of the Bankers AS
sociation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24
and Feel
Clean, Sweet and
Fresh Every Day
-seSfw~q1RfSz
cafnk a glass Of real hot water
before breakfast to wash
out polson&
Ae~ UnH~

III
LIE Is not merely to live, but to
i've well, eat well, digest well, work
vel, sleep well. look well. What a
glorious condition to attain, and yet
how very easy 1t Is If n will only
adopt the morning inside bath.
n Folks who are accustomed to feel
dnIl and heavy when they arise, split
hing headache, stuffy from a cold, foul
Spngue, nasty breath, acid stomach,
tan, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy
by opening the sluices Of the system
eoch morning and flushing out the
1hole OF the internal poisonous stag
mnt matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
vel, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink a glass Of real hot
water with q teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in 1t to wash. from the
Dtomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the
Hevfous days i%ndigestible waste.
son bile and poisonous toxins; thus
deansing, sweetening and purifying
ghe entire anmentary canal before
tutting more food into the stomach.
The action of hot water and limestone
phosphate on an empty stomach Is
wonderfully in%vigorating. 1t cleans
cut all the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives n a
5p3endid appetite for breakfast. While
you are enjoying your breakfast the
1ater and phosphate Is quietly ex-
tacting q large volume of water from
he blood and getting ready for q
Borough flushing Of all the inside
organs.
The millions Of people who are
bCthered with constipation, bilious
SPELLS, stomach trouble, rheumatism;
others who have sallow skins, blood
disorders and sickly compilations are
Urged to get a quarter pound Of lime
Stune phosphate from the drug store
which will cost very little, but Is
suflcient to make anyone a pro-
nuunced crank on the subject OF
Internal sanitation.
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ESTATE OF ARA c. CLINk.
SCALES, Deceased.
Notice of Settlement and Applica
ton for Final Discharge.

Take Notice that on the 25th day
of June, 1918, I will render a final
account of my acting and doings as
Administrator of the Estate of ARA
C.. Clinkscales, deceased, in the Of
fee of Judge of Probate for Able
vile County at. 10 o'clock a. M,
md on the same day will apply for
q final discharge from my trust as
such Administrator.
All persons having demands
axainst said estate will present them
Tor payment on or before that day,
uroyen and authenticated or be
forever barred.
J. H. CLINKSCALES,
Administrator.
Salt ca. week-4 wks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24

owned but two suits of clothes, one for work
and one for the Sabbath. The Kaiser owned
three hundred and sixty six.
August LIST, 1914, and William of Hohen-
zollern spoke the word that set the world
afre; came the crash, titanic, colossal
staggering.
Joy died, hope fled, desolation became. SUI
preme.
Upon that day the world passed into twi-
light.
The baneful autocracy of Prussia had
spoken. An autocracy of hate which for de-
cades had been deceiving a great people,
poisoning their minds, preaching the virtue
and necessity of war; had applied the torch
of Devastation.
By a trick of circumstances the veal of
mankind was placed for a moment in the
hand of an arrant egotist, tyrant, mailman
William of Hohenzollern. The greatest crime
in all history was perpetrated that ONE
maj might find for HIMSELF a place in the
sun.
Blinded by the Gods, there flashed forth
in the mind of this one man, a madness, a
faulty, a mania fatal, = malignant, satanic.
From beyond the dim horizon began the
tireless thudding of guns. The rich fields,
the peaceful farm, the busy city became the
barracks, the arsenal and the hospital. s..
In two years twenty-five million men were
killed, manned, or made prisoners. Twenty
two million families mourned, but hunger
and suffering do not lend themselves to the
process of arithmetic-blasted homes and
stunted lives are not to be Interrupted by
mathematics.
Then came the master crime. An unoffend-
ing crime. An unoffending people was ground
into extinction beneath an iron heel, a ma
ton was destroyed, the crime against Bel
GUM completed to it's fullest; the Prussian
stalked onward with his twin comrades,
Frightfulness and Horror! A new blotch of
infamy-the Lusitania-was added to the
Black Name of the Beast. +
There was another man who lived in a
White House. The Chief and Spokesman of
a Great Nation that believes all people were
born Free and Equal with a right to Peace
and Happiness.
Then came the end. The dark curtain
which, like a shroud, had enveloped the
earth, cleared away, and, when the echo of
the last cannon had died upon the air, the
silver-throated bells of all the world rang
forth the glad tidings-
civilian of Hohenzollern Has Fallen"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24

Nineteen thousand baseball bats
have been sent overseas by the Y.
M. C. A. for the American Expe-
dictionary Forces.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24
H STORY.
E,y Elliott J. Clawson.

Summer Iceland the world was at peace
love and friendship ruled the glad business
of every day. God looked down from Heaven
and was pleased. 90,
Gentle breezes famed the swaying fields
of grain; the world hummed with the pleas
ing sound of bees and birds and laughing
girls. : 80
Marcas, the blacksmith Of Eouvain, was a
mighty man. This man, Marcas, lived, in
faith and love and friendship, and, by the
sweat of his brow, had won peace and pros
perity.
There was another man who lived in a
palace in Berlin. He was twice a king,
eighteen times a duke, twice a prince, nine
times a count-besides, being a bishop-Wl-
liam of Hohenzollern, King of Prussia, En-
peror of Germany.
The blacksmith of Louvain was a better
man than the Hohenzollern. The blacksmith
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24

China is sending contributions
toward the six Y. M. G. A. huts
that are maintained in France for
the Chinese labor army.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24
FOR SALE

French cinema agents are gather
ing up the old John Bunny films to
use in. Northern France to make the
poilus laugh. The films are shown
in Y. M. C.. A. huts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24
The Beast of Berlin"
OPERA o u Abbeville, S. c.
MONDAY MAY 9th

Matinee and Night. Matinee $3.50 o'clock
Night 800. Admission Matinee, Children 28c, Adults 55c.
No seats reserved. Admission, Night, Balcony 45c, Orches-
ira 55c. All seats reserved.
Please reserve seats early. Seats on sale Opera House now.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-05-24
No. 3421.
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
The National Bank of Abbeville, S. c.,

At Abbevile, in the State of South Carolina, At the Close of Business, on
May 10th, 1918.
RESOURCES
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
USEFUL CORN HUSKING RACK
Device Shown in Illustration Affords
Convenient Seat for Husker-Place
Stalks Crosswise.

Many who husk their corn by hand
find it very tiresome to sit on the floor
or ground in cramped position. A
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
KEEP TOOLS UNDER SHELTER
Practice Of Leaving Harvesting Me-
ehInery In Open Results In consid-
cradle Damage.

Usually there are many who leave
their harvesting machinery out In the
weather for some time after gil har-
vesting is over. Such practice results
in considerable damage to the binders
and other harvesting machinery. All
farm implements have advanced In
price, and carelessness In taking care
of them will cause considerable loss.
At no time has the use Of labor-saving
machinery been In greater demand on
the farms, and every farmer who has
such machinery should by all means
take the very best care of 1t. Just as
soon as one has finished using an Inn
plement II should be put under shelter
and where 1t will be kept in good con-
dtion for the next crop. Binders are
easily broken If left in exposed places,
where wagons and other farm equip
ment are jammed into the same cor
ners. Quite often mowers, binders,
wagons, ETC., are alt found in one tan
gled mass In one corner of the shed,
along with the drills and threshing
machines. Such carelessness can only
result in some of the machinery being
damaged. By caring for such machin-
cry properly the lifetime of the imple-
ments can be doubled.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
deaf MUTES Make
IDEAL AIR FIGHTERS
Successful Experiments at Min
cola May Result in Their Be-
ing Allowed to Enlist.

Army officers of the Mineola avia-
ton field believe that the ideal air
fighter has been fOund-the deaf mute.
AS result Of tests made with recent
graduates from the New York Insti-
tuition for the Deaf and Dumb it Is be-
lieved that the war department will
soon authorize their enrolment in the
flying service and that a new field of
war endeavor will be opened to thou
sands of young men all over the coun-
try.
CuriOusly enough 1t has been dis
covered that deafness eliminates one
of the most dangerous factors In the
training of military aviators. The man
who was born normal but who has
lost his hearing has no sense of mo-
ton, so it is explained by Maj. William
II. Van Tassell, assistant principal of
the institution. AS a result he loses
the fear and the feeling of dizziness
which a great altitude often causes in
the normal man.
"a number of our graduates have
been tried out in airplanes at Mineola
for several Sundays past" said Major
Van Tassell, land the tests have been
so successful that it is quite likely they
will be allowed to enlist. 1t will de-
pend upon how further experimental
ton, which is now in progress, turns
out.
"The deaf have no sense of motion.
If they lose the sense of hearing, after
once having possessed 1t, they cannot
tell, for instance. whether they are
swinging in hammock or whether 1t
is stationary. They never become sea-
sick or dizzy in high attitudes and lose
all sense Of dread, such as is expe-
rienced by normal persons. The ex-
plosions of airplane engines are entire
ly unheard by the mutes, although in
all other respects they are exactly as
keen as anyone"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
CORRECT WAY TO MILK COWS
Scrape Droppings Into Gutter and
Work Teats and Udders Clean
Keep Hands Smooth.

Before commencing to milk the
droppings Of the cows should be
scraped into the gutter and the teats
and udders worked clean and wiped
dry. Always milk with clean hands,
and II your hands are hard and rough
keep a cup of goose grease or hard
and sweet oil at the stable, and once
a day, or before milking, rub little
on the inside Of your hands; just
enough to make them feel smooth.
Some Of the grease should be rubbed
on the teats II they are rough or cut
with briars. An expert will milk a
COW giving two gallons of milk In
five minutes. A steady, even motion,
filling the teat with milk at every
pressure Of the hands, is the most
rapid way Of milking and the most
agreeable to the cow.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
BEST GROWTH OF ASPARAGUS
Matter-Get Field Ready Dur.
ing Fall Season.

Asparagus makes the best growth In
soils Astounding in vegetable matter
The field should be got ready in the
fall.
This means that manure should be
used with the greatest freedom, and
II clover sods are available, they
should help materially in the starting
Of the plantation.
Land of any kind to be planted with
this crop should be heavily MANFRED
and plowed in the fall. repeating the
operation and adding more manure the
following spring.
The blowing should be as deep as
possible, although care should be ex-
ercised to avoid turning up too much
of the sub-soil.
Disk and cutaway harrows may be
used to good advantage in preparing
the soil. Effort should be made to get
a fine bed to the full depth of the
pillow furrow, with all vegetable mat
ter thoroughly Incorporated with the
soil.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
Corn Husking Rack.

rack made as shown will hold two
or three shocks and gives better
place for the husker to sit. Place the
stalks crosswlse Of the bench in front
of you.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
Boy Finds Box of Money.

Finding an iron box full of money
while playing with companions in the
ruins of the Chinatown fire at Pasa-
dena, CAL, Manual Garcia. a twelve
year-old Mexican boy, mounted guard
over the money until 1t was claimed by
its owner, All Sing. Young Garcia en-
deavored to lift the box, but 1t was too
heavy. When the excited Chinese un-
locked 1t, 1t was found to contain near
ly 500 In small coins. most Of which
were pennies and nickels.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
ATTENTION TO COLTS FEET
Examine Them Carefully Whether on
Pasture or In 6arn-keep Toes
Properly Trimmed.

Look frequently at the feet Of the
colts, whether on the pasture or In
the barn, and remedy things before
they get bad. Keep the toes trimmed
down to the proper length and do not
allow the heels to run over and get
round. If the feet are kept rounded
on the toe and Of the proper length.
the tendency to split and crack will be
reduced to q minimum. In the stable
the feet should be frequently cleaned
and trimmed and the frog kept in its
proper shape.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
RED CROSS HANDLES
LETTERS TO GERMANY
Follow Plan Which Is as Spy.
Proof as Is Possible to
Devise.

To prevent the possibility Of valu-
able information getting into Germany,
the American Red Cross, in sending
letters behind the enemy lines at the
request of persons In this country, is
following carefully plan worked out
by the state department to do away
with code.
Americans, Germans or others in the
United States wishing to communicate
with relatives in Germany must now
write out their messages in Red Gross
chapters throughout the country.
These are sent through the division Of
ficers of the organization to national
headquarters. Here they are rewrit-
ten and the wording absolutely chang
ed to prevent the sending Of any dia-
gram or secret code. The messages
are given to the censorship board and
are passed or refused by them as the
case may be. When they reach a neu-
trail country, they are translated on
other paper and in most cases delivered
by the Red Cross Of the place, to which
they go. The plan Is considered as
spy proof as 1t Is possible to devise.
During the last rs years the practice
has grown up that welfare inquiries
and messages shall be permitted be-
tween civilians In countries which are
at war with each other. The prOmis-
cuous sending Of letters through or
CARNATIONS In neutral countries could
not be permitted because of the large
number of enemies In the country. To
prohibit entirely the sending Of mes
sages would, for example, prevent a
loyal American from finding out wheth-
er his sister, unfortunately married to
German, was alive or dead. Pro-
hibition was In force for a time and
pitlful appeals were received by the
Red Cross from French, Belgians and
Italians begging the society to get
word for them as to whether their peo-
pie In the occupied districts were still
alive.
The state department presented to
the Red Cross the present plan In de-
tail and asked that the Red Cross put
1t into effect. AS 1t was purely hu-
manltarian work, the government
could do no more than supervise the
work.
Today the American Red Cross is
sending an average Of 1900 letters
day to persons living behind the enemy
lines. This work Is done through
Washington headquarters Of the Amer
lean Red Cross by the bureau Of COM
munication Of which Edward N. Day ID
acting director.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
Sets Example to Five Sons.

As an example to his five sons. who
are still few years short of fighting
age. George Bradshaw, prosperous
farmer Of Imperial county, California,
has enlisted In the engineers corps.
II want my boys to realize when
they are old enough to be taken into
the service that their place is on the
firing line" Bradshaw said. He ID
thirty-eight years old.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
LACK OF SUFFICIENT TEAMS
Many Failures TraeeabIe to Poor Ami.
mails and Improper implements
Make Plans Ahead.

The lack of sufficient teams to pre-.
pare land, plant. cultivate and gather
crops has cost many a farmer heavily.
In fact, many failures and partial fail
ures could be traced to poor teams
and lack of suitable implements. Do
not make such mistake. Now Is the
time to begin to plan for the next crop.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
SHEEP MUST BE PROTECTED
Animals Are More Susceptible to Cold
and pampness Than Any Other
Kind Of Farm Stock.

Some farmers seem to imagine that
just because sheep has a fleece to
protect 1t, that shelter from cold and
storms Is not necessary, but they
should know that sheep are more sus-
ceptible to cold and dampnsss than
any other animal ON the farm.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31

Do you get up at nighti sanoi Is surely
the best for all kidney or bladder troubles.
sanol gives relief in "a hours from ell back
ache and bladder troubiss ssnoi e guar
snteed remedy. SOC and 500 bottle Ct
the drug store.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31
FONCk, FRENCH =
AcENERyErfss
Lacks EVen Usual Superstition
About AirpIanes.


Unlike ouynemer, He Seldom Works,
and Then Only When He Feels Fit
Score Now so Enemy. Planes and All
Without Scratch to Himself or Ma
chine-knows More About German
Aviation Than Any Man Of Allies.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-07-31

The child was crying and so was
her mother. Most Of the refugees were
solemn-faced, stunned. stole. They
were rattllng over the roads anywhere
for safety, away from the Hun shells
and poisonous vapors. when clouds OF
dust appeared and there careened past
them hundreds of huge army trucks
and In them were American soldiers
faces tanned the color Of leather and
every lad Of them smiling or singing
They were coming to fight for the
rights and safety of these old men ant
women aud little children who crowd
The Washington times., 1918-07-13

trayed his wife When his friend came
back Bernstorff was too cowardly even to
fight duel
The treatment of the women Of con-
ouered provinces by the Germans is, Of
course. one of the crowning shames Of his
tory.
Curiously enough a recent play. Her
Country" written by Rudolph Bezier and
Sybil Spottiswoode, provides extraordinary
parallels to Ruby Baird's experiences. The
writer's Of the play were thoroughly IA
miliar with German conditions and habits
The heroine, Margaret Timworth. an
American girl, is wen by young OFFICER
Kurt Hartling The play deals with her
life in Germany. Here are two illuminat-
ing excerpts from 1t.
Margaret's German friend Elsa comes
to her for sympathy, because her husband
is running after another woman:
Elsa-Helena Sembach told me he had
been often seen going into a house where
one of the mattresses from Bloss's lives
and last night l followed him-and-
The Washington times., 1918-07-13

nails, "Simplicissimus" and "Jugend," from
which a couple of very Illuminating car
toons are printed on this page.
But 1t was after the war started that this
low ideal Of womenhood actually began to
bear its bitterest fruit The number Of
fllegitimate children in Germany since the
war began has not only reached astonish-
ing totals, but is encouraged and subsiZed
by the Government. Mourning women
whose husbands have been killed at the
front have been ordered to receive without
the rites of marriage healthy soldiers sent
to their homes. Unmarried women have
not only been encouraged to bear children,
but have been ordered to do so.
So far has the rottenness spread that.
as the recent Bernstorff divorce case
showed, favored young men Of the aris-
tocracy wearing the uniform and protected
by the Government are living in luxury in
Berlin and amusing themselves with the
wives of officers and men at the front.
Young Bernstorff. the son Of the tricky ex-
ambassador, was one Of these, and while
a companion at arms was fighting he be-
y. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times., 1918-07-13

(Sobs afresh.)
Margaret-A liaison with waitress!
never heard anything so beastly in my
life, Have you spoken to him yet?
Elsa-Spoken to him? couldn't.
He'd be so angry.
Margaret-Angry. What has he to be
angry about? Tell him he can choose be-
tween this woman and you. II he doesn't
give her up Immediately you will leave
him.
Elsa don't want to leave him. even
IL did. couldn't. Papa would just laugh
and tell me to go back.
When Margaret tells her husband about
Elsa's sorrow he observes cheerfully:
Men are men with hot blood in their
veins-at least in Germany-and the
sooner the women realize it the better
II is known that humiliations even worse
than those described in the play were en-
dured by Mrs. Ruby Baird Baumann from
her Prussian husband.
Matured by sorrow, Ruby Baird is happy
to be in her American home once more.