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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01
SEIZURE OF HOUSEWIVES
FOOD STOCKS IMPOSSIBLE

The government has never eonsl1-
cred any plan OF seiEing foodstuffs
owned by householders. Nor II there
any policy OF this kind suggested for
the future.
In spite of this fact. the United
States food administration has been
obliged repeatedly to Issue oficisi de
minis of rumors that the government
intends communicating preserves and
canned goods put up In American
homes.
These rumors were originated partly
by pro-Gerrnan propagandlsis and part
ly by constituencies grafters. who
sought to profit through buying from
mislnformed housewives.
The year 1918 will see home canning
and preserving praciiccd on greater
scale than ever before In the nations
history. officials In Washington believe.
And they are assuring all patriotic
housewives that foods so saved are
theirs. and theirs alone.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01

promptly by the issusing railroad
as soos as refund checks can be
drawn.
In the interim, the railroads,
while pIeps ring and distributing
necessary tariffs. will continue 10
collect interstate fares at tie rate
of "a cents per mile. and will
continue 10 issue coupons. which
will likewise be redeemed after
midnight OF Thursday. Jslusry.
81. 1913
On and after midnight Thurs
day. January. 81. 1918, interstate
passenger fares in Illinois will be
collected on statutory basis 1.-TWO
cents per mile.
Dated "a, Springfield lll.tois
Jannar, al. 1918.
EDWARD J. HRUNDAGE
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01
Notice.

To the Womens < & Mission
Societies OF the Nj. Olive Bap-
fist Association.
Dear Sisters II he tire is fast
approaching tor the Executive
Board, each auxiliary is asked to
send a delegate or some money
to help deiray the expense OF the
meeting and Tor tie building OF
the Livingston Normal.
The meeting is called TO meet
at Harrisburg before the 4th San
~ in seby.
The Vice President is requested
t, be present as | may not be able
to be pre,en, The we d
other expenses may not ai'o" me
to leave home. but il t is possible
for me TO attend. | will am
praying for a good meeting.
Sisters. let Us get up and get
busy and prepare for the State
Meeting May. Some OF US may
be gone to our Reward. but ii S,
let those that remain close up ths
ranks and keep pressing forward
Move forward is the slogan
| Yours in His Name,
M. J. Blake.
/ Dist. Pres.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01
NOTICE TO PUBLIC.

By the final decision OF the SUI
preme Court ofthe United States
the coupons attached to tickets
issued 20 intrastste passengers Ia
Hin ois are now TO be redeemed
by the issusing railroads. The
public is therefore notifis d that on
and after midnigh, OF Saturday.
January. 7o. 1918. all such cou-
pons issued by railroads in ILL
nois may be presnted by the orig
inal purchaser to the local tickei
agent or to the General Passenger
age o, OF The issusing railroad for
redemption and will be paid
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01
YHE UNITED STATES FOOD
ADMINISTRATION SAYS:

Food saving 10 In lie essence the
daily individual service Of oil the
people. Every group can substi-
tute. srd even the great Majority
Of thrifty people eso save Q little
and the more luxurious elements
81 The popu'stior can, BY reduo-
tIon 70 simple living. save nsveh.
This means no more thar that we
should eat plenty, but ~lssiy and
without waste.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01
NUTRITIOUS CORN BREAD.

One New York hotel has arranged
q thoroughly patriotic corn bread
recipe. II combines cornmeal with
rye -four, both OF which are being con-
sumed In greater quantities this year
In order to release wheat -four for the
allied nations. This recipe fills a
large panic by 20 inches--and con-
tains the following ingredients: One
quart milk, four ounces butter substl-
tutc. ten ounces hight syrup or honey.
three eggs. pinch salt. two pounds
c0rnmeal. one pound rye -four and two
ounces baking powder.
The butter and syrup are thorough
~ MIXED Then af'l the eggs gradgal-
9y nenr III The nilE. shen add the rye
aoue Gnircel wits Ire eornmeal and
baking powder. Bake III hot oven.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01
zvApg Rioip FOOD CONTROL
Feed 10 Bought In sosrmany surrsptl'
tleusiy IN Violation Of Auto
cratic Rulings.

cratic Rulings.
Even the autocrntic food control OF
Germany has been powerless TO pre-
vent SUBSCRIPTIONS ISLES. according 10
sssni-ofiicial reports reaching the Unit
ed States food administration. Illegal
sales Of buttar are being made 10 Ger
many at prices ringing from s1.75 10
s2.25 a pound. Eggs sold contrary to
the German food regulations nre
bringing 10 TO 15 cents apiece, accord
ing 70 these reports. And hacoa or
ham Is bringing from n.c5 to 1920 q
pound,
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-02-01
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the
Ministers aud Descon's Union
will meet with the Executive
Board OF the Mt Olive Baptist
Association with the Mt fleas-
amt Missionary Bap,is, church
Harrisburg, Thursday before the
zth sunday in February 1918
member OF board will be present.
Elder s. II Pruitt.
President.
]. II. Williams,
Cor. Sec.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
LIGHTNING'S QUEER FREAKS
Knocks Out Ono Mans Teeth and
Tears Clothing From Body
Of Another.

Flagstaff, Ariz.-An account of a
thrilling experience in an electrical
storm on the summit Of San Francisco
peak was given by Alonzo Wells and
George Dible when they were brought
to a hospital here for treatment.
They had started to climb the peak
during a rain which turned into a hail.
storm. accompanied BY much lightning.
The ground seemed to be wreathed In
colored lights and the rocks appeared
to spout flames. AS they reached a
point so feet from the Sierra clubs
register and monument, there was a
fash Of lightning which seemed to en-.
velop the whole peak.
Both fell to the ground stunned. It
was an hour before they revived SUI.
fciently to take stock of their injuries.
Two of Dible's teeth had been knock
ed out, his clothing was burned in
places, his shoes had been torn of and
his left leg was marked with q blue
zig-zag streak. Wells clothing was
partly torn from his body.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
MACH|N|STS WARNED
HALT STRIKE OR GET A GUN, Will.
SON TELLS STRIKERS.
Bridgeport Men Must Waive Claims
Of Exemption Unless They
Return to Posts.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. - Striking machinists
at Bridgeport, Conn, were notified
Friday by President Wilson that un-
less they return to work and abide by
the wage award Of the Wal Labor
Board they will be barred from en-
ployment for a year and draft boards
will be instructed to reject any claim
of exemption from military service
based upon their alleged usefulness on
war production.
The Presidents warning went in a
letter addressed to the machinists. re-
plying to resolutions forwarded 10 him
announcing the strike because of dis
satisfaction over the MAJ Labor
Boards award and a later i%nterPreta-
ton by an umpire.
The War Department has taken over
the Smith & Wesson Company OF
Springfield, Mass, and will operate
the plant and business to secure con-
tinuous production and prevent indus.
trial disturbances.
The company recently gave notice
that it would prefer to have the gov
eminent operate its plant rather than
abide by a decision of the War Labor
Board enforcing collective bargaining.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
CLEAN UP CLASS 1, FIRST DRAFT.
Gen. Crowder Calls 10000 to Entrain
Sept 1927 and Oct. 7.11-16.

Neutrality-suspicious. Marshal Gen.
eral Crowder Monday wiped clean the
pot of class l men from registrations
before Sept. ~. He issued calls for
three drafts of men to a total of 1872
600. Every state is called on for its
quota. Twenty-Five thousand negroes
will entrain for camps between Sept.
25 and 81; 10000 will entrain Oct. l6.
One hundred and forty-two thousand
white men will entrain between Oct.
Z and II.
With these men in camps, the pro-
vost marshal generals office must ad-
dress its next drafts for the army on
class ! of the last registration.
Among the states from which the
white registrants We're called, with
their number and The camps to which
they will go are the following:
Arizona, 216-Camp Kearny, Cal.
Colorado, S0S-Camp Kearny.
Montana. 1~,461-Camp Lewis.
New Mexico, 335-Camp Cody.
Texas. 7,941-Camp Travis.
Utah, 454-Camp Lewis.
Wyoming, 6O5-Camp Lewis.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
D.. S. EXPOSES HUN PLOT
BOLSHEVik LEADERS SOLD RUS.
STA FOR GERMAN GOLD.
Agents Have Documents Proving Pay
ments, and That Kaiser Financed
Overthrow Of kerensky.

Washington.-Proofs removing any
doubts thai Lenine and TrOtzky, the
Bolshevik leaders, are paid German
agents if any doubts remain-were
laid before the world Sunday by the
United States government in the first
installment OF ar amazing series OF
seven official documents, disclosed
through the committee on public in
formation.
Secured in Russia by American
agents, these documents not only
show how the German government
through its imperial bank paid its gold
to Lenine. Trotzky and their immedi-
ate associates to betray Russia into
deserving her allies, but give added
proofs, if any be necessary. that Ger
many had perfected her plans for a
war of world conquest long before the
assassinations at Sarajevo, which, as
the world is now convinced, conven
iently furnished her pretext.
These documents further show that
before the world war was four months
OIu, anu HbIf lIldu l"O stuIo 'loic
the United States was drawn into it.
Germany already was setting afoot her
plans to mobilize destructive agents
and observers" to cause explosions,
strikes and %outrages in this country,
and planned the employment Of AN
archists and escaped criminals" for
the purpose.
They disclose a new story OF human
treachery for gold which might al
most well be described without sacri-
lege as placing its perpetrators on a
pedestal with Judas and his thirty
pieces of silver.
Not only do the disclosures prove
that Lenine, Trotzky and their band
are paid German agents: they show
that the Bolshevik revolution which
threw Russia into such orgy of murder
and excuses as the world seldom has
seen, actually was arranged by the
German general staff.
They show how the paid agents OF
Germany betrayed Russia at the
Brest. Litoysk peace" conference;
how German staff officers secretly
have been received by the Bolsheviki
as military advisers; how they have
acted as spies upon the embassies OF
the nations with which Russia was al
lied or at peace: how they effectually
have directed the Bolshevik foreign,
domestic and economic policy wholly
in the interest of Germany and to the
shame and degradation of Russia.
They show how a picked German
commander was detailed to defend
Petrograd against the German army,
and an extent of German intrigue n
domination almost beyond the realms
of imagination.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
CONVICT SLIDES TO LIBERTY
Prisoner In PenItentiary at Columbus,
O., Scales Walls, Then Drops
100 Feet,

Columbus, O.-Creeping into the
shadows Of one Of the large shop build
lngs and climbing a telephone pole.
Harry Meyers. trusty at Ohio peniten.
tiary. scaled the prison walls by slid.
ing more than 40 yards on a cable wire
and dropping to the ground on Chest.
nut street.
Meyers was serving an indetermi-
nate sentence for burglary, committed
In Pickaway county In 1915. A year
after his entrance he was released on
parole. In 1917 he violated his parole
and was returned. At the time Of his
escape he was employtr in the power
house.
This is the first escape from the
penitentary since June, 1913.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
Soldiers Killed In Railroad Wreck.

Springfield, Mo.-Twenty-five sol
diers were killed and between fifty
and sixty more were injured Tuesday
night when a freight and a troop
train crashed together one mile east
of M~arshfield, Mo. The first coach
contained troops from Colorado ard
Minnesota, and in the second coach
were troops from West Virginia. Iowa,
Illinois and Nebraska. 1t was stated
that the engineer of the troop train
was killed and the fireman badly in.
jured.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
FRIDAY. the 18th, Unlucky for Huns.

Friday, Sept 10, 1918, will be re
membered' in Germany as a most UNI
lucky day. 1t was the ~fifty-eighth an
niversary of Gen. John j. Pershing's
birth in Missouri, and is celebrated
with the second day of the great
American offensive toward the Fran
co-German border. 1t was the one
hundred and fourth anniversary of the
"dawn's early light" when Francis
Scott Key wrote the "Star-spangled
Banner"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20

Chicago.-Hogs-Half a load Of light
hogs brought $21.00. a new high record
Butchers, 800 80 q 2O.85; light, $2O.S5 a.
20.s5; packing. $4,000 20. 20; rough,
$!s.75@!S.t0; pigs, good and choice,
Cattle-Beef cattle, good, choice and
prime, $16.5OQ19.50: common and me-
dunn. $1,000 q 1850; butcher stock.
cows and h~eifers $500 1875: Gamers
and cutters. $6:50Q7.50; stockers and
feeders. good. choice and fancy, SII.OO
414.00; inferior, common and medium,
$1,000 HOO; veal calves, good and
choice. $685. 19.OO.
Sheep-Lambs, choice and primo.
$17.35 q 1910; medium and good. SIb.75
@17.25: culls. $40. 0OQ135O; ewes.
choice and prime, S11.50Q 1926; medium
and good, $10.25 a 11.50; culls, $4,000
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
SWITCH WIVES AND
ALL ARE PLEASED
Single BIessedness Is Transitory
in Case of Two New
York Couples.

New York.-Never was single bless
edness a more transitory state than
when 1t rested upon Mr.. and Mrs. e.
bert Wendell Verify, Jr.. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry E. Frost, all of Rockville
Center, Long Island. The dates mark
Ing the beginning and conclusion Of
Its sOjOurn are ms follows:
June 1O-Mrs. Natalie Crane Verify
wins a divorce from her husband.
Mrs. Ruth Edna Frost Is named as
correspondent.
June 1O-Henry f. Frost wins a d.
vorce from Mrs. Ruth Edna Frost.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
Register 100000 to Fight Hun.

Washington.-With assurances from
every section of the country that the
registration Of Americas millions of
men between the ages of IS and 20
and 81 to As, inclusive, had been &C
complished with precision, Provost
Marshal General Crowder turned his
attention to the larger and more i'm
portant task Of classification of this
great army. Thirteen million names.
approximately, have now been added
to the 11,0O0,0 900 already Registered,
making q total Of a. 0 ,0OO,
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
Try to Rob illinois Bank.

Dixon. Il.-Five automobile bandits,
four of them believed by the police to
be Earl Dear. Big Joe Moran, Lloyd
Bopp and Frank McErlane, who es-
capped from the county Jail in Chicago,
made an unsuccessful attempt to rob
the Citizens State Bank at Mount
Morris, eighteen miles northeast Of
here.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
bubbles Switch Wives.

Ebert Wendell Verify, Jr., named as
correspondent.
June 11-Henry e. Frost marries
Mrs. Natalie Crane Verify.
June 31-Elbert Wendell Verify. Jr..
marries Mrs. Ruth Edna Frost.
For years when Mr.. Verify was liv.
ing with the present Mrs. Frost and
Mr.. Frost claimed the present Mrs.
yeyity as his wife the couples were
intimate friends. They had homes
not more than a block apart in Rock
vile Center.
Suddenly all associations between
the two households ceased and the di.
vorces and their aftermath followed.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
Wire Prayer to Runaway.

Pittsburgh. PA prayer was tele-
graphed from Dallas, Tex, to the bed
side Of William Bryan Spears, a four.
teen-year-old runaway. who was lying
here dangerously Ill Of pneumonia.
The prayer was from the boys aunt
and was intended to cheer the lad un-
til his father could arrive. The prayer
was for the early recovery of the boy
and expressed the hope that his indis+
Greet act would be a lesson to him and
that In the future he would be a good
beg.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
Victory Certain, Says Lloyd George.

Manchester, Misunderstanding but
heart failure on the part of the Brit
ish nation al prevent our achieving
a real victory said Premier Lloyd
George, speaking at Manchester. The
German people must know the Prus-
sian strength cannot protect them
from punishment. This must be the
last war. To end all wars we must
impose a durable peace upon our en-
emies. The allies are now a league of
free nations"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
l~ansina's Note BaIks Foes Move.

Washington, Sept. IS. Austria's
peace offensive is a closed incident
80 far as the American government
is concerned. Secretary Lansing sent
to the Swedish minister the note au
thorized by President Wilson fatty
rejecting in two short sentences the
proposal of the Austro-Hungarian
government for secret and nonbindins
peace discussions. 1t was started or
the cables at once for transmission
to Vienna by the foreign office al
Stockholm.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
Unions End Bridgeport Strike.

Bridgeport, Conn.-The strike OF
machinists and tool makers in Bridge
port munition factories was ended
Monday, many men returning to work
independently, while the large body
of strikers in mass meeting, after
hearing read the letter of President
Wilson to them, voted to return as a
body.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
kaiser's oratory Acts as Boomerang.

London.--The kaiser's flambOyant
speech at the Krupps gun works
failed to Undue the small army OF mu-
nitions workers at the big Essen plant
with that patriotic ardor aimed at by
the imperial orator. Thirty-eight hun
dred strikers, the Geneva correspond
ent of the Daily Express %telegraphs,
had to be sent to the front almost i'm
mediately after the emperor's speech
and the strike agitation continues un-
abated. A score of strike leaders
have been arrested. In Berlin, where
a state of siege prevails, the military
has threatened to shoot all strikers
who do not return to work.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
U. S. BLOCKS HUN
PEACE SCHEME
AUSTRIAN PROPOSAL REJECTED
BY LANSING THIRTY MINUTES
AFTER NOTE ARRIVES.
WILSON TERMS STATED
mo NEGOTIATIONS UNTIL THE
WORLDS AuTOcRATIc POW
ERS ARE CRUSHED"
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Amsterdam, Sept. 1G.-Austro.Hun'
garian government invites all bellig.
erent governments TO meet in a neu-
tral place at a time to be determined
TO secure ar expression of views
which would show whether those pre-
requisites exist which would make
the speedy inauguration of peace he
gotiations appear promising" The pro
posal calls for all belligerents to send
delegates TO a confidential and un-
binding discussion on the basis prin-
ciples for the conclusion of peace"
1t suggests there be no interruption
OF the war. The Holy See and all
neutral nations also will be notified.
An official statement from Vienna
making the above announcement has
been received here.
Washington, Sept. 16.-Germany'S
latest peace %feeler, advanced through
Austria, il was officially stated, best
finds its answer in President Wilson's
Baltimore speech delivered last April.
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit; the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world, and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
That was the Presidents answer
than nn1 - -,, ,ttorI l. ktc
answer now.
Washington. Sept. 1.-THE United
States, as las fully expected, uncon'
ditionally rejected Germany's peace
feeler. In doing so, the government
has spoken for all the co-belligerents.
Almost Immediately after receiving
the Austrian governments note from
the minister from Sweden, Mr.. Ekren-
gren, Secretary Lansing Monday
night issued this formal statement:
Il am authorized by the President to
state that the following will be the
reply of this government to the Aus
tr~o-Hungarian note proposing an I'M
official conference of belligerents:
1.-The government of the United
States feels that there is only n
reply which 1t can make to the sug-
gestion of the imperial Austro-Hun-
garian government. 1t has repeatedly
and with entire candor stated the
terms upon which the United States
would consider peace and a and
will entertain no proposal for a con
ference upon a matter concerning
which it has made its position and pur-
pose so plain"
Mr.. Lansing's statement was given
out within half an hour after he had
received the Austrian proposal.
There is some reason to believe that
the secretary acted with this unprece-
promptness in a matter of such
great import with the design not only
10 indicate clearly the position OF the
States government but perhaps
to anticipate and prevent as far as
newspaper discussions Of the
Austrian proposition which might con-
vey to the enemy a misleading i'm
that there was any consider
able element in the United States will
.ng to consider a negotiated peace,
such as the ''nonbinding" discussions
night develop.
The terms referred to in the reply
dictated to the Austrian note were
set out in President Wilson's
of July speech at Mount Yer
ION.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
crowder Calls 2s,o1s Negroes.

Washington.-A draft call for q, 016
negro registrants from thrirty-three
states, qualified for general military
service and to entrain for national
army camps Sept. 1921, was issued by
Provost Marshal General Crowder, and
includes 81 men from Wyoming to
Camp Lewis.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
RULING IN MOONEY CASE.
Denies Prisoner Opportunity to Seek
Writ OF Error.

San Francisco, Cal.-Thomas J.
Mooney, sentenced to be hanged in
connection with a bomb explosion here
on preparedness day two years ago,
was denied by the California Supreme
court permission to seek a writ Of err
ror in the United States Supreme
Court. This was said to be the de-
lenses last move in the state courts.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
House Working on Revenue Bill.

Washington. - All other business
displaced, the House Monday got
down to real work on the $4,000, 00O.-
900 revenue bill. Consideration OF
amendments began under rule limit
ing members to five-minute speeches
on each amendment.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20

U. 8. SIN Urges Wool Conservation.
Washington.-While no real short.
age is to be feared in the supply of
wooden cloth or clothing this winter,
the country was warned by the war
industries board against a mistaken
belief that there would be a surplu, of
free wool over government require
ments. No free wool is available for
civilian consumption, the boards an.
nouncement said, and added that con-
servation of wool and all the things
made Of wool cannot be too strongly
urged.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-09-20
After Murderers Of Two Policemen.

Denver, Sept. 16.-Pursuit of the
band Of train robbers and bandits
whose two days reign Of terror in
Denver and Colorado Springs culmin.
ated in the murder of Chief Of Detec-
tives John W. Rowan Of Colorado
Springs Friday afternoon and the muir
der of Patrolman Luther McMahill of
the Capitol Hill substation shortly aft.
er $3.50 a'clock Saturday morning. can
trlres. Already four members of the
actual gang Of robbers, three men and
enc woman, are under arrest.