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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07
TOP DRESSING" MAY
Be CARRIED TOO FAR
Soil Type Should Be Considered
In Applying Fertilizer

The practice of "top dressing" or
"side application" of fertilizers has
been common for many years and in
many instances is carried to extremes.
The object of dividing the entire
amount of fertilizer into two or more
applications is to prevent loss Of plant
food by teaching down in the soil be-
yond the reach Of plant roots. Plant
food teaching is most extensive in
soils of a sandy texture with rather
porous subsoils. These soils are rep
resented by sands or sandy loans and
soils with predominance of sand in
the subsoil. Soils with loan, clay
loan or clay surface or underlain by
fine textured subsoils Of clay or COM
pact sandy clay are not subject to
teaching to any great extent and,
therefore, will lose little plant food
from fertilizers by teaching.
Soluble phosphoric acid and potash
when added to the soil are not readily
lost through teaching. They are quick
ly fixed in the soil within reach of the
plant roots. Nitrogen is lost to a
much greater extent than any other
plant food and the more soluble the
form when added as a fertilizer the
more it is lost by teaching with the
drainage water.
Organic forms Of nitrogen carriers.
such as cotton seed meal, dried blood,
tankage or fish scrap, are not as SOL
able as nitrate OF soda or sulphate Of
ammonia, and are, therefore, not as
liable to loss from teaching. When
complete commercial fertilizers are
applied in amounts of 400 to 900
pounds per acre or less, it is doubtful
If more than one application need be
made. This is certainly true on the
soils Of the Piedmont Plateau which
have heavy subsoils as shown by re-
suits from the field demonstration
plats of the Agronomy Division of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
Complete fertilizer of 1884 compo-
sition was applied at the rate of six
hundred pounds per acre on corn and
cotton. Corn showed the largest yield
where the fertilizer was all applied be-
fore planting, while cotton showed no
advantage from side applications.
In the sandy soils of the Coastal
Plain section Of the state where nj.
trate of soda is used as the source
OF nitrogen, side applications may be
made as means of preventing loss Of
nitrogen. However, where Other
sources of nitrogen are used, this
method of applying fertilizer will have
little value. Care must be exercised
where side applications of fifty pounds
or more per acre of nitrate of soda are
made. These applications should moi
be made late in the growing season
The application of nitrogen tends tc
extend the growing season and to de
lay maturity. Side applications late in
the season may decrease the yield OF
corn by prolonging the growth of stall
and leaves. Where boil weevil is pres
ent the susccess Of cotton production
depends upon making the crop as ear
ly as possible, therefore, side appli
cations of nitrogen will tend to della,
maturity and will possibly cause los.
in yield through injury by boil wee
vii to the late maturing cotton.-Prof
George A. Crabb, State College of Agri
culture.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07
Troops are Being
Equipped with Browning
Machine Guns,

Enough heavy Browning machine
guns for instruction purposes have
been shipped to every National Guard
training camp and National Army
cantonment in the country where
troops are in training. Heavy Brown
ings for overseas training have been
shipped.
Light Browning rifles sufficient in
number to equip the machine gun
units of more than four army divis-
ions have been manufactured, and
overseas shipment of one-half has be-
gun. The other half of the output
goes to Army divisions in this coun-
Try. ~ tc..s. ~ - Il
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07
Men Who Leave Country
to Evade Military Service
VIII be Watched.

Men of selective service age who
leave the United States to evade mill
tary duty will have to stand trial on
charges of violation of the selective
service act when they return to the
country, according to the Department
of Justice, even though they do not
return until after the war.
The department has at hand in
formation from which complete lists
may be prepared of all men who have
left the country to avoid service, says
recent statement authorized by the
Attorney General.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS

Georgia, Ben Hill County.
All creditors of the estate of Joshua
Troup, late of said county, deceased,
are hereby notified to render IN their
demands to the undersigned accord
ing to law, and all persons indebteds*s
the estate are required to make Vim
mediate payment to us.
This May the 9th, 1918.
w. ]. and R. L. Troup,
Executors estate of Joshua Troup.
dedJ H.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07
Men in Training Camps
Have Equipment for
Many Sports.

AT every training camp in the
country plans of the Commission on
Training Camp Activities have been
carried out to provide athletic facili-
ties for the men. Baseball heads the
list in popularity, and full equipment
has been placed in the camps. More
than 10000 baseballs and 5000 bats
have been sent. At Camp Lewis,
Washington, there are 10 baseball
helds in use. Practically every COM
pany in each camp division through
out the country has it's team, and
there are company, battalion, regi-
mental, and inter-regimental leagues.
Every form of track athletics occu-
pies the attention of men training at
the camps. AS many as 800 men
have taken part in divisional contests,
and track meets have been witnessed
by more than 10000 spectators.
Where facilities permit, instruction
in swimming is given. Men are first
given hand instruction and then sent
into the water. Tennis courts have
been built in every camp, one having
40 courts, and the sport is rapidly
gaining in popularity. Through the
generosity of golf clubs located near
the camps, the demand for golf cour-
ses is partly being met. Polo match
es are frequently held, and competi-
ton for places on the teams is keen.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07
Finger Prints to be
Taken in Registration
OF German Alien Females.

The registration of German alien
females, to begin Monday, June II
and end Wednesday, June 20, will be
conducted in cities or municipalities
having 5000 population or over by
the police officials. In communities
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

The board appointed by the Secre-
tary of the Navy to examine the sys-
tenn of buoyancy boxes installed on
the Lucia has reported the installation
not advisable for general adoption be-
cause of its questionable efficiency as
a preventive against sinking, the re-
duction in cargo-carrying capacity,
and the length of time required for
installation.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

Keeping Our Fighters Fit-For
War and After" is the title of an Off
cial book issued by the Commission
on Training Camp Activities, describ-
ing the athletics, mass singing, social
life, and other recreations of men in
Army and Navy camps. The book
tells of the theaters, the work of the
Y. M. c. A., Knights of Columbus,
and other organizations associated
with the commission in welfare work,
and gives details of life in the camps
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

Deliveries of the 5000 motor trucks
recently ordered by the Motor Trans
port Service of the War Department
are to be made between August
and December |. These trucks, known
as Glass B. Standard" will have a
capacity of from 3 to 5 tons, and will
be distributed as needed through the
various branches of the Army. Ten
thousand of these class B. standard
trucks have previously been ordered
and are now in process of manufac-
ture and delivery.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

The Food Administration has sent
out through all State administrators
warning to corn, barley, and oats
miilers and to wholesale and retail
dealers in the products that at the
present prices of these grains corn
meal and oat meal should be selling
at least 20 per cent below the price
or wheat flour and that corn -four and
barley -four should be selling at least
10 per cent below wheat flour.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07
LEGAL WEIGHTS

Weights of commodities to be sold
by weight under the regulation of the
Federal Food Administration:
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

Production of honey will be great
ly increased during 1918 in many 10.
calities according to the Department
Of Agriculture. The increase in Colo
RADIO, it is said, will probably be 100
per cent.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

The two picric acid plants to be
built at Little Rock, Ark, and Bruins
wick, Ga, contracts for which have
been completed by the War Depart
ment, will cost approximately $7,000,-
600.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

Under a new arrangement the
Army will handle all mail for the ex-
peditionary forces after it leaves
United States ports. The. Post Office
Department will deliver the mail to
military authorities at the port of en-
barkation in this country and receive
It from them at a port in France for
dispatch to the United States. The
domestic money-order service to the
troops will for the present at least,
continue under the direction of the
Post office Department in France.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

Boy Scout organizations are active
in locating black walnut trees. Black
walnut lumber is needed by the War
Department for use in making air
plane propellers and gunstocks.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-06-07

Women between the ages of II
and IS who have had a high school
education or its equivalent, will be
eligible for admission to the Army
School of Nursing, arrangements for
which were recently made by the
War Department. 1t is intended to
start several schools in selected milf
tary hospitals. Unless otherwise
specified, applications should be sent
directly to the Army School of Nurs-
ing, Office of the Surgeon General
of the Army, Washington, D. C.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04
Victor Hugo DreSCiar.

Gloom was cast over the entire
community Sunday afternoon when
the sad news was spread that Vic
tor Drescher. 18 years old had
passed away at his home in this
city. Death was caused by typhoid
fever from which he had suffered
for about ten days.
Victor Hugo Drescher, the young
est son Of Mr.. and Mrs. N A.
Drescher, was born June II, 1900
in Marion County. The family lat
er removed to this city where Vic
tor has spent practically his entire
life He was a member of the
Junior class of the Monroe City high
school and was well liked and loved
by all his fellow students.
Seldom has there been a death
which has brought as general s0r.
row TO the community. being SO
young his death seems most un-
timely. Few boys had larger
circle of friends as was attested by
the numerous Inquiries regarding
mis- condition during his short ILL
ness. Besides his heart broken
parents, he leaves two brothers.
Edward Drescher in training camp
at Seattle. Washington and Jewell
Drescher and one sister. Miss Helen
Drescher at home.
Funeral services were held Tues.
day afternoon at 3 o'clock from
Holy Rosary Church, conducted by
Rev. FIR john R. an.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04
James M. Moore.

The remains of James NJ Moore
who died at Albuquerque, N. NJ,
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1918, we're
brought TO this city Sunday after
noon from Hale, Mo. his former
home. Death was due to tuber
culOSis Funeral services were held
at the Methodist Church Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 conducted by Rev.
H C. Boen. Iuterment in St. Judr's
cemetery. He was born Feb. 10,
1884, near Hale. in Livingston C,
Mo-, and was therefore 81 years. 7
months and 7 days of age. He was
united IN marriage to Miss Margaret
Jones. of near this city May rs,
1908, who has been his faithful and
devoted wife until the day Of his
death. When 20 years of age he
united with Nj E. Church, South to
which he remained consistent and
influential member until his death.
He leaves to mourn his untimely
death his faithful and devoted wife,
his father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. F. Moore and two sisters. Mrs,
H. C. Bedwell and Miss Maude
Moore, all of Hale, Mo, and many
other distant relatives and a world
of true friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04

Announcement of the approach
ing marriage of Miss Mildred 3Buell,
of this city, and Mr.. Cecil Alan
Evans, of Chicago, was made by the
bride.to be at her home ia this city
last Thursday afternoon September
26. to fifteen of her girl friends.
The wedding will take place in this
city Saturday, Oatober IL. at the
Christian Church at IL o'clock noon.
A general invitation to the friends
of the contracting parties will be ex-
tended as no invitations will be is
sued. The bride to be is the only
daughter, of Mrs. Vesper Buell., OF
this city and is one of Monroe City's
best known young ladies, having a
wide circle of friends and having
taken an active part in the social
life here the past several years.
Mr. Evans is assistant manager Oh
of the Fort Dearborn National Bank
Chicago, at which place they will
make their home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04
MOnrOe'S Library

The formal opening of Monroe
City free Carnegie Library was held
Thursday afternoon and evening.
The library looked beautiful in its
decorations of Autumn foliage
Punch was served by Misses
Lucille Hord and Mana Hume.
Mrs. D. R, Davenport, Chairman
of the committee had charge OF
the opening with Mrs. w. T. Rut-
ledge and Miss Ella Gentry the
other members. Miss Fay Delaney
is librarian and books may now be
taken out by complying with the
rules and regulations.
The people of Monroe City and
community should be very proud of
its free library. 1t is made of Grey
Roman brick, One side of the room
being the adults reading room and
on the other side the childrens
reading room Book cases are
ranged along the walls of these
rooms and largc number of books
are already on the shelves and more
are to be added from time to time.
Among these books is complete
set of Woodrow Wilson's History of
the American People in ten vol
umes These we're presented to the
library by M. B Proctor.
The floors of the rooms are COW.
cred with cork carpet to eliminate
sound. The wood work is all of oak
with grey finish. The basement
contains a lecture room on the
north with an outside entrance
from the north as we'll as one
from the floor above. On this
same floor is located the library
storage room, coal room, boiler
room, etc. The building was de,
signed by H. W. Underhill & Co.,
Architects of Kansas City.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04
Good For BUDDY. "

A communication from Fulton to
the Democrat Tuesday contained
the following:
Fulton people who place their
faith in the famous Westminster
College Blue Jay football team. year
after year, are pinning their hope
on Robert Hawkins, of Monroe City,
son of Mark Hawkins, who has
joined the blue hosed squad and
who already has borne out the
early predictions that he is a foot.
ball player of class
Football devotees at WestminS-
ter are taken special interest in
the Monroe County boy. because
his father is a member of the board
of managers of the Missouri School
for Deaf in this city and during his
numerous visits here has formed
many warm friends
Hawkins is among the young re
cruits who will be domiciled at one
of the fraternity house, which have
been turned over to the government
as barracks and will be given his
meals at the college dormitory,
which is to be used as the mess hall.
The above is no surprise to people
here who know that Buddy" as he
is familiary known here. always
make good al anything he under
takes football, basketball, marbles.
and is especially qualified to look
after trained nurses should the &C.
caSion demand but we must not tell
everything
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04

The P. E. 0s. held their first fall
meeting at the home of Mrs J. N.
Southern, Saturday. September %,
After the regular meeting a splen
did program which Mrs. D r
Davenport, Mrs Jasper Henderson
and Mrs. N. B. Barr had arranged
was much enjoyed by the large
number present
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04

Mrs. T. E. Hardesty and daughter,
Davylee returned to their home in
Hannibal after visit with her
mother, Mrs. Maddox. She has also
been visiting friends in Shelbi ma.
Mr. and Mrs Hardesty and daughter,
who have been living at Salisbury
where Mr., Hardesty held a position
with an Insurance Co, has resign ed
his place there to accept a position
as salesman in Richards Clothing
Store in Hannibal
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-10-04

Mrs. Ray E Yowell, came to this
city Saturday night from Kansas
City to visit her mother, Mrs, W.
w. Lonemire Mrs. Vowel is just
recovering from a recent operation
which she underwent in a hospital
in Kansas City about two weeks
ago. She is getting along nicely.
DR.. w. 7. Rutledge, attended. a
meeting of the Program Committee
of the N E Missouri Dental Asso-
citation in Q Iincy, Friday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-18
ALOIS VEITH
DIES AT ALTON
Old and Well known Resident o.
keokuk and Vicinity Passes
Away In a Hospital
There.

Alois veith died in a hospital at
Alton last night at the g Of sixty
two wears. most Of which were spent
in Keokuk and vicinity.
He was an old employe OF the
United States and was injured at the
old dry dock at the middle lock Of
the old canal eight years ago. He
never fully recovered and had sew
eral attacks on account of it, one Of
which caused his death. Since his
injury, he has been Waterman on
the government boats most Of the
time. While here he lived for years
at the White Elk vineyard.
The body will be brought to Keo-
kuk for burial in Oakland cemetery,
and the funeral will be held Friday
from the home Of his daughter, Mrs.
H. p. Schmidt, 1920 Concert street.
He leaves four sons, Frank Veith, of
Mt. Sterling, ILL.,; Ben Veith, also Of
Mt. Sterling; John Veith, Of Decatur,
and Edward Veith who is in the
navy. Stephen Veith, of 1920 Ex-
change street, is his brother.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-18
DEEMS URGES
HENS TO WORK
Iowa Poultry Asked to Speed Up
EGG Output at Once to Sup
ply the Increased
Demand.

Federal Food Administrator j. r.
Deems urges the Iowa hens to pro-
duce a large output Of eggs this win
ter. Storage stocks are twenty-onc
per cent less than a yea g and
are rapidly being consumed.
The United States must share i.s
egg output and it's storage eggs with
Europe. Importation of Chinese
dried eggs stopped in February. 1918,
and bakers are now using shell eggs,
thus adding to the demand.
Every farm poultry house in the
United States should be made a busy
egg factory this winter" said Mr..
Deems. Consult your county agent
state experiment station or the
United States department of agri-
culture for best methods.
1.-The needed increased output OF
fresh eggs this winter Is a challenge
to the skill and resourcefulness Of
every farmer and poultryInan.
Even with maximum production,
conditions point to profitable returns
for every fresh egg marketed"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-18
MAN ON
THE COMMITTEE
Food Administration to Secure Teach
ing Of Conservation In
Iowa Public
Schools.

BURLINGTON, Iowa, Dec. 49,
Courses Of instruction in the Iowa
public schools for food conservation
were mapped out here today at a
conference between M. R. Fayham,
inspector of superintendent Deyoe's
Office and P. r. M~cClanahan, director
of school and college activities of the
Iowa food administration.
Food Administrator Deems has ap-
pointed an educational committee IN
his staff including superintendent
elect McClanahan, State Superinten-
dent DeYoe, college professors and
leading city superintendents, and the
following not a part of the school
system of the state:
Mrs. j.. W. Watzey, presider. OF the
Federation of Women's Club Of Iowa;
Miss Alice French of Davenport;
Mrs. F. E. Whitley, president of the
Women's Council of Defense for
Iowa, and of the women's committee
Of the Federal Food administration
for Iowa; Mrs. Thomas D. Healy Of
Fort Dodge; DR.. G.. Walter Barr of
Keokuk; Mrs. H. B. Boies of Water
loo; Miss Julia A. Robinson of the
State Library commission; Mrs. Kate
Terry LOOMS Of Cedar Rapids; Mrs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-18
NAGEL
EXTEMPORIZED
interrupted by a Noise Off Stage, He
Added a Line and Whipped
Two Stage
Hands.

The New York Sun tells the follow
ing story of a KeoklIk product:
During the second act of Forever
After at the Central last Tuesday
night there was forced upon Conrad
Nagel, who plays opposite Alice Brady
and is the youthful hero Of that play,
an unexpected opportunity to demon
strate his heroic qualities Off the stage
as well as on.
The second act of Forever After"
as you may know, is laid al the back
or TIE training quarters or the mar
vard-Yale crew on the eve of the Har.
race. On Tuesday night
when Nagel, as stroke of the Harvard
crew, was making love to Miss Brady.
there came Just off stage a volume Of
sound, which could have only one
meaning. A very healthy and lively
fight was going on, and it didn't be-
long in the play at all. SO loud did the
alteration become that Miss Brady
and Nagel could not make themselves
heard. Just after Napel had finished
telling Miss Brady, I've been looking
forward-to just seeing you, more
tina l have to the race" the din off
Brady, Nasel spoke a line not in the
script. ut sounds" he said, "as though
the coach and the trainer are having
it out I'll have to have a look"
He quickly walked off stage to find
two stage hands scrapping for all they
were worth. Nagel didn't wait. He
landed on first Of the fighters and
as quickly on the ether. The noise
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-18
CITY NEWS.

Special for tomorTow-Nayy beans
12c lib. Cooking apples, 40c peck. Fred
De Yong.
Thomas Pond is at home for the
holidays from the state university OF
Wisconsin.
There Will be no prayer meeting
this evening at the Westminster
Presbyterian church.
Miss Iowa Mum is in Chicago IN
vestigatinc special treatments OF the
skin and scalp, multiple needle cleo
trolysis, chiropody, Marcel Waving
and other branches of her profession.
Fred w. Garretsou Of Hamilton
has arrived safely in France, was told
in a telegram received yesterday by
Mrs. Garretson- He is n. the Y. M. q.
A. service and sailed two weeks ago
from New York.
Louis X. Ewing and Charles
Ewing, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Ewing of II North Eighth street, who
had not been heard from for a long
are both we'll and hearty, a let
ter received this morning says. Louis
K. Ewing is on the Rhine with the
famous 16Sth infantry, and Charles
is in the 315th engineers somewhere
in France.
Private William M. O'Br1en, of
the 139th infantry has landed at Ho-
boken, says a telegram received by
his sister, Miss Florence O'Brien, last
evening. Private O'Brien was wound
on September 81 and since that
time has been at Bordeaux base hos
pital, under treatment.