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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-01-03
German Emperor Escapes Death By Mar.
row Margin.

Geneva Dispatch, Dec. 26.-The
German Emperor, returning with
his staff from the Verdun front,
had a narrow escape during the
reprisal raid of a British air
squadron on Mannheim, Christmas
Eve, according to dispatch from
Basel. Only about an hour ear
lier the Emperor's special train
left the station, which was part.
ly destroyed by several bombs.
A section OF the tracks was torn
up, cutting communication mort.
In fact the Emperor's train was
the last to leave Mannheim, and
no trains arrived at Basel yester'
day from that city. Two bombs
fell on the Palace, and one on the
Palace, and one on the suspen.
sion bridge across the Neckar riv-
er, both structures beiag badly
damaged. An ammunition fac =
tory in the northern suburb was
blown mp. Few persons were
killed here, however, as the EN-
Iloyes were having a holiday. A
considerable number of persons
were killed Or injured within the
town, and several were blown in-
to the Rhine.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-01-03
B R IEF S.

The number OF men now being
served by American Red Cross
canteens in France is more than
$4,000 u day.
Gasoline pro1u' tion in the U.
S. has increased from 81, 900, 900
to 7O,OOO,OOO barrels q year
since 1914.
Total acceptances of recruits
for the Army December l3 mum.
bered more than II, 4,3OO-the
largest number accepted in one
day in the history of the coun
try.
Discarded civilian clothing Of
national Army soldiers will he
shipped to Belgium for relief Of
sufferers there.
There has been a heavy slump
in the demand for grapefruit
since powdered sugar for sweet
ening is often unobtaiuaDle.
More than so night classt 8
have been established to trail
radio and buzzer operators # r
the United States Army, with IN
enrolment of about 1900 men.
Proposals to save coal by clos
ing schools in Northern and CEN
tral States during January and
February have not been met with
favor by the Fuel Administer.
ton.
According to new regulations
in England, women's shoes must
not have uppers OF leather eX.
ceeding Z inches, nor of any 9th.
er material exceeding 8 inches in
height.
Cantonments throughout the
country are being searched to Sc l..
cure all colored men with techni-
cal training now in service for
the formation of all artillery REG.
lment at Camp Meade, Md.
Within II hours after receiv.
ing news of the Halifax disaster
the wOman's committee OF the
Council OF National Defense had
equipped a relief steamer and
started it to the scene OF disas-
ter.
The war has called back into
service nearly 500 retired Off
GERS OF the Navy and 13S former
officers who resigned to enter
civil life, including % rear atmi
rails, Is commodolcs, and 81
captains.
All official motion pictures on
war activities in the United Sta.
tes hear the name OF the Com
m't'ee on Public Information
and are distributed only through
the commuters divisional head
qnrters or by State councils o
defense.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-01-03
NOTICE..

The undersigned. having been
appointed and duly qualified as
administrator OF the estate of W
&. lentz, deceased. all persons
having claims against said es.
tate are notified to exhibit the
same before him on or before De.
cember II, 1918, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please. make i'm
mediate payment. Dec. II, 1918
j. A. LENTZ, Admir-.
+. A. Linney, Atty.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-01-03
Certain Cure for Group.

Mrs. Rose Middleton oi Gr en-
vile, III has had experience in
the treatment of this disease.
She says, "When my children
We're small my son had croul'
frequently. Cnamherlain's Cough
Remedy always broke up these
attacks immcdia tely, aud | was
na, er without it in the house.
hav e taxi n it myself iW coughs
and colds with good results"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-01-03

"Lightless nights are planned
by the Fuel Administration as
ON additional measure for saw
/; Ing coal.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-03
FRIDAYS Big STORM
Did MUCH DAMAGE
Did Some Damage Along the
Coast
WIND ALMOST A HURRICANE
Small Boats Lost.-Houses Un-
rooted and Lady Injured at
Halgrim.-Three Children n
Drowned at Hog Island.

The great rain-Storm of last
Friday night was accompanied at
some places along this Gulf coast
| by a wind of hurricane violence.
In Pinellas county, great injury
was done to the orange crops and
many buildings were more or less
damaged. A tidal wave eight
feet high swept over Hog Island
opposite Ozona and drowned
three children of Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Garretson. No other fatali-
ties have been reported.
South of Punta Gorda, many
fishing boats, chiefly skiffs, and a
number of net-stretchers with the
nets on them were lost. Some
barges were driven ashore, but
all the lighters (house-boats) in
which the fishermen live, .held to
their moorings and escaped inju-
ry.
The yacht Chase, belonging to
the West Coast Fish Co. Of this
place, which should have arrived
here Saturday evening, was de-
tanned by great seas at Marco
until Sunday morning, when she
ventured out and reached here
safely on Sunday evening.
In this immediate neighbor-
hood, considerable injury was in
flicted upon the crops Of peppers
and beans. On the prairie, or
low-lands, the crops were partly
drowned out, while on the higher
and drier lands plants were whip
Iped to death by the wind. No re-
liable estimate of the percentage
of damage done to these crops has
been made, but, at a guess, we
would say that it amounted to
nearly fifty per cent. Pepper
planters, however, have plenty of
plants for resetting and the crop
will not be set back very long.
In this bay, the wind got behind
the tide and drove it nearly up to
the stringers of the railroad dock.
AT the same time, the tide backed
the rain water up into the town
drainage bitches, thereby flooding
both the east and west end Of
Marian avenue. Consequently,
on Saturday morning, pedestrians
using this thoroughfare had to do
some wading. In town, no dam
age was done.
There were no wash-outs on the
railroad.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-03
Woodrow -Halgrim Meadow

Mrs. John Cole had leg brok.
en- and an arm badly lacerated
her son, Percy, had one Of his
arms cut in numerous places, as a
result Of the hurricane which Wis
tied Lee county Friday night
These people live at Halgrim, a
little settlement on the Caloosa-
hatchee, just over the line in Lee
county, and bad means Of com.
munication makes news travel
slowly. John Coles home was
demolished. DR.. A. e. Dewey s
house was unroofed, as was the
residence of Rev. John Haas. The
latter's barn was also unroofed.
DR.. Dewey is the post master of
the little settlement, and he and
some others were out fishing and
were caught in the storm.
The hurricane at times assumed
tornado proportions and swept
down from the northeast to the
southwest. At Meadow still it
missed the buildings by a scant 20
yards and tore trees into cord
wood almost. 1t crossed the Dix
lie Highway near the county line,
Concluded on page 81
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-03
ALL FLORIDA GRIEVES
FOR HER BRAVE SONS
Killed and Wounded in the World
War
SORROWS COMING HOME
Augustine Willis of Charlotte
Harbor, Amongst the Dead
Raleigh Whidden of Punta Cor
da, Severely Wounded.

Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Hills of
Charlotte Harbor, received Mon
day the heart-breaking news that
their son, Augustine Willis, had
been killed in one of the fearful
battles being fought in France.
He was one of the noblest young
men of DeSoto county and was
warmly esteemed by all who knew
him. His parents and other kim
dred have the heartfelt sympathy
of this entire community as well
as that of their many friends
north of the bay.
They have received very ten
der, sympathetic letter from their
son s comrade Harry L. Loar, who
was with Augustine when he fell.
The letter which was dated Sept.
8th, gives no particulars, but a
bounds only in fervent ex-
pressions of sympathy for the be-
reaved parents and of praise for
the dead youth. The following
are extracts from it:
''I am writing you for the re-
membrance of your son, Angus
tine, who was at my side when he
met his death. His manly form
is always before me as | sit and
ponder through the long evenings.
He was, and is yet in way, my
dearest friend and chum. He at
all times commanded the respect
of all with whom he came in con-
tact.
"He met his death a few min
utes after we had promised each
other that, should one of us be
killed, the other would write to
the bereaved parents and relate
to them the sad news, and it is in
fulfillment of this promise that /
am writing to you. can almost
see him as ] write, and it fills me
with grief to think of the death of
so brave and noble a comrade. OF
course you will mourn for him,
but you must be brave and be
comforted by the fact that he met
his death with head up and fight
ing, while encouraging his weak
er comrades. His name will a.
ways be spoken with reverence by
those who knew him and it will 60
down as that of one whose mill
tary and personal record was
without a stain.
"His last words to me were :
Write mother and father, if I get
killed.
Other casualties amongst Desc
to county soldiers are :-Rawlin-
son, Bowling Green; Lester E.
Collier, Sebring, killed in action ;
Saml. Sessions, Nocatee; Eu-
gene V. Sherman, Wauchula,. re-
ported missing.
Private Raleigh Whidden of
Punta Gorda, is in Base Hospital
No. 2O2, at Orleans, France, where
he is recovering from wounds re-
ceived in one of those terrible bat
ties in which the Americans and
the Allies are driving the internal
Huns out of France. On Sept.
9Th, he wrote a short letter to T.
s. Griggs of this place, from
which we take the following ex-
tracts: "There is no news to
write, except what you see in the
Tampa Tribune every day. That
paper gives a whole lot of it.
much more than I could write in
a week.
cit will interest you to know
that I have already been to the
front and 'over the top and came
back with one eye out and two
pieces of shrapnel in my left knee
Concluded on page q
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-03

We don't believe we are hard to
get along with, but when we have
had hundred idle callers in one
morning whose only business was
to talk over the war news, seems
to us it's excusable when the hun
dred and oneth one comes poking
in if we are about as sociable as
a wildcat, and under those condi-
tions we're afraid that's about
how sociable we are.--Herb Eel
kel in st. Augustine Record.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-03
GLORY HALLELUIAH!
HUNS CATCHING HE'LL
Bulgaria Busted, Turkey Totter-
ing, Awful Augury for Austria
ALLIES WIN EVERYWHERE
British Rout Turks in PALESTINE
Bulgaria Conquered by Serbs,
French and Italians. linden
berg Line Smashed.

berg Line Smashed.
Since the beginning Of last
week, British forces under Gen.
Allenby have virtually destroyed
the Turkish army opposing them,
capturing $4,000 prisoners and
taking thousands of guns, ma
chine guns and military stores.
Allenby's army is advancing a.
round the eastern end of the Med
iterranean approaching Turkey
on the south, while another Brit
ish army, the one that captured
Bagdad, is advancing northeast
from the region of the upper III
girls, the two armies approaching
a junction and converging in the
south of Turkey. This, and the
severing of communication be-
tween Turkey and Germany by
the collapse of Bulgaria, threat
ems to put Turkey out Of the war.
The allies operating on the
western front from the North Sea
to Verdun have taken since July
over 100000 prisoners, besides
capturing vast stores of supplies,
thousands of guns of all kinds and
many square miles of territory
occupied for the past four years
by the German and Austrian ag-
gresSors.
Summing up the situation, the
Associated Press states:
Bulgaria is definitely out of the
war and Turkey, virtually cut off
from communication with her al
lies and her armies in Palestine al
most annihilated, likely soon will
be forced to sue for a cessation of
hostilities against her.
Meanwhile the Entente Allied
forces from Belgium to Verdun on
six batlefronts are registering vic
tory after victory over the Teu-
tonic arms and the enemy front al
most every where is crumbling,
Notwithstanding the desperate re-
sistance that is being offered on
various sectors.
Seeing eventual defeat staring
her in the face through the swift
progress of the Serbian, Italian,
British, Greek and French troops
in the reclaiming of Serbia and
the invasion of Bulgarian territo-
ry, the Bulgars begged for an ar
mistice, reserving to themselves
no conditions. All the territory
now held by King Ferdinand's
men is to be evacuated; the Bull
garian army is to be Immediately
demobilized and all means of
transport inside the kingdom, are
given into allied hands.
Thus in addition to the isola-
ton of Turkey, the back door to
a direct invasion of Austria-Eun-
gary is flung wide open to the al
lies and doubtless the time is not
far distant when advantage to the
full will be taken to the new aven-
ue through which the enemy can
be reached. With the debacle in
Serbia and Bulgaria complete the
Austro-H -Hungarians in Albania
soon will be put to the test and
when the evacuation to their own
borders is accomplished the allies
will have welded an iron semi
circle about the Central Powers
from the Black sea to the North
sea.
Viewing the situation in all its
the success of the great
offensive in Belgium and France;
the blotting out of the war zone
in the Balkans; the cutting off of
the Turks from intercourse with
Germany, and Austria Hungary,
except by the long route through
(Concluded on naOa 5l
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-03
THE STOCK FEED PROBLEM
Food Administration Advises
Farmers

In order to meet the demands
for dairy feeds during the ap,
preaching winter, the United
States Food administration has
pointed out that southern farmers
should greatly increase their acre
age of cover crops and winter pas
turage. BY so doing the farmer
will assist in conserving the mills
feeds and coarse grains.
Braxton Beacham, Federal
Food Administrator of Florida,
gives Endorsement to this move
ment, not only through his efforts
to assist in those things indorsed
by the food administration, but
because of his practical knowl-
edge of live stock.
Bearing out the idea of greater
pasturage of live stock in Florida
during the winter, Mr.. Beacham
issues the following statement:
"All well informed persons,
who have discussed the problems
of raising live stock in Florida,
hammer necessarily on the needs
of greater and better pasturage.
The present time sould develop
this movement more than has been
done in past years, because of the
short supply of mill feeds, and the
greater demands on the United
States for furnishing those feeds.
The northern states during the
winter months must depend on the
mill feeds, but here in Florida,
where we are blessed with such a
temperate climate, we can carry
much of our stock on pasturage,
or on open range, during the win
ter season.
81 greatly indorse what has
been said by Federal Food Ad-
ministrator, John M. Parker, of
Louisiana, who sums up the sit
uation as follows:
with the lessening of man
power both for planting and har-
vesting crops, the small grains
can be used to great advantage
where heretofore the planting has
been extremely limited. Wheat,
oats, rye, vetch, and the clovers
planted in most of the Southern
States at any time before the mid
die of November, will start Wig
orous growth and will not winter
kill except in very extreme wealth
er.
'On properly cultivated and
prepared fields, these grains and
legumes will afford not only rich
and nutritious pasture nearly all
winter, but in the spring will
make reasonable grain returns,
as the grazing does not seriously
affect productivity. A vigorous
campaign along these lines will be
an estimable benefit in conserving
those feed products so vitally
needed. This Southern effort,
when carried out in cooperation
with the department of agricul-
ture and demonstration agents,
will bring about great relief and
great saving.
"Of course the Florida farmer
must modify his plans to meet his
local conditions and the opportu-
mites in his particular section of
the state. Every additional acre
of forage crops and winter pastur-
age that we can create will not on
ly increase our particular supply,
but will add directly to available
meat for export, and will
strengthen our position as ma
tion in the war-struggle across the
water"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-10-03
THE WALKING WOUNDED
Story of the Painted Posts and the
Y. M. G. A.

rendlng story of the walking
wounded.
The wounded who have lost an
arm or an eye, or a part OF the
face, but are still able to struggle
back from the front-line trenches
alone.
Go with me moment to
France; | want you to see what he
saw. | want you to know the
truth.
1t is the day before the big
push. For weeks the army has
known the exact hour and mo-
|ment when the barrage would lift
and the men leap out cover the
top"
The enemy has known it too ;
his preparations are as great and
as careful as ours.
Simple painted posts; what are
they fort
They are to guide the walking
wounded. Eyes blurred with
blood and suffering that might
lose the road can follow the trail
of those painted posts; bodies too
weak from shell shock or gas to
stand alone can find there mo-
mentary support.
The trail of the painted posts is
the trail of the walking wounded ;
the trail of blood and misery and
pain.
just before dawn the men file
into the forward trenches. Sing
ing7 Not a bit. Talking? Hard
ly word. Only the silent, heavy
tramp of men who have written
their last letters home. Men with
faces carved out of stone.
They pass out Of camp; they
pass the base hospitals; they pass
the canteen, and just before they
reach the front trench-at the
very front, under the fire of the
big guns themselves-each man
pauses for just a second at a dug
out.
1t is the front line trench of the
Y. M. G. A.
From it hand reaches out in
the hand a piece of chocolate for
each man to be eaten in case he
falls wounded in No Man s Land.
A hearty good luck and God bless
you. 1t is with this, the voice of
the Y. M. G. A. secretary, ringing
in their ears that the men go 60
yer the top"
An hour passes; two hours. And
slowly, painfully, draggingly,
they come back. The men who
have lost an arm, and the men
who have lost an eve, and the men
who carry in their shoulders or
their abdomens or their legs the
enemy's bullets and shell.
Bleeding, staggering men, fol-
lowing the trail of the painted
posts.
And they stop at the Y. M. G..
A. dugout first. 1t lies nearest
the guns. Nearer than the doctor
or hospital. There every man gets
a cup of hot tea if he wants it;
there two orderlies stand with hy-
podermics in their hands.
|Do you want it?" they de-
mand of each man who passes
through.
And either he thrusts out his
arm to receive the soothing po-
ton, or he mods his head and pass
es on.
On along the way of painted
posts to the hospitals and to rest.
Sometimes the dugout is she'll
ed. and a Y. M. G. A. secretary
loses his life; TIVE went out to-
gether one day recently.
1t is part of the game; they ask
for no sympathy; they ask not e.
ven for pay; many Of them are
working for nothing at all.
All they ask is for money to
"carry on. J" To be able to stand
lust behind the front with choco-
late for the men who are stagger-
ing back along the way of paint
ed posts.-EVERY WEEK.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-10
Legal Notices

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OFTHE
STATE or WASHINGTON, FOR
KING COUNTY.
In Probate No 225is Notice to Cred
itors.
In the Matter of the Estate OF Martha
Gorsuch. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that tine I'M
dersigned has been appointed and has
qualified as Administrator of the t.>-
tute of Martha Gorsucb. deceased: that
all persons having claims against said
deceased or against said estate are
hereby required to serve the same. duly
verified, On said administrator or his
attorney OF record at the address be-
low stated, and file the same with the
clerk of said court. together with proof
OF such service. within six months after
the date oI first publication OF thi, no
tice, or the same will be barred
Date of first publication Dec %. 1917.
Frank w Gorsuch,
Administrator of said Estate
Address 122 Second Avenue.
Seattle Wash
Almon Ray Smith.
Attorney for Estate.
l22 Second Avenue, Seattle Wash
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-10

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Climate, soil, and other natural adj
yantages combine TO make fruit grow
ing the principal industry, and in this
the Island takes second place Tor no
other locality on the face of the globe.
Everything in the way of garden sass"
and small grain does well here.
The Island is settled by an intelli-
gent class of people who are here to
make homes. and who are therefore
fully alive TO the needs in the educa-
tional line. None can help but appre-
ciate the thorough manner with which
these have been provided for in the
way OF public schools, and with a good
college to take up the work where the
public school stops We have exception
al advantages. Moreover we are, al
ways have been, and expect to always
be, without saloon.
We have four churches, eight good
school houses, a first class college, one
newspaper, four general stores, three
firms in the greenhouse business, W.
J. Gordon, Convey Bros, and II. Har-
rington, that of Mr.. Harrington being
the largest establishment Of the kind
west OF the Rockies.
Mrs. II. f. Fuller visited Seattle
Saturday.
p. l.. Nye painted Seattle brilliant
crimson last Saturday.
f. w. Bibbins win have very pref
~ residence when completed.
P. o. Randall, r. A. BalSerand Geo.
H. Taylor are shipping Strawberries.
S. 5. Heath went to shelton Mon
day. He expects to be away three
weeks.
There are six postofiices ON the Is
land, one OF which (vashonl is money
order Office.
Miss Ella Miner left on Friday last
for Green Lake, where She expects to
spend the summer.
1t is expected that arrangements
will soon be completed for the building
OF the Burton school house.
Freem King and George Kingsbury
were over from Tacoma last week Wis
ting relatives and friends.
vermontvillc float is now aaoot 1t
IS expected to be great shipping
point. No Wharfage charges.
DIR. c. r, Pomeroy has returned to
the Island and will have charge Of the
chautanqua Assembly this year.
Rev. n. G. Ward now residing in
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-10

Commissioner Smith would endear
himself to many travellers toand IRON
Vashon Island, by establishing electric
lights on our dock. To lind the ferry
slip these dark and dismal nights is
like bliud Niger trying to catch d
black eat in dark cellar al midnight
Des Moines item in Kent journal