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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04
Or A. II. EDWARDS

Eye. Ear, Nose. Throat and fitting Of
glasses. DR.. Edwards spent three years
in the eye. ear. nose and throat hos
pitfalls of Europe. In active practice
twenty years. Second National Bank
Building, Ashland. kentucky.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04
MONEY IN EGGS.

Eggs are not baukabie but the mon
~ from their sale 10. This money IS
yours for the effort. How do you trea.
ne hen that lays the Golden EGGS!
A Thomas Poultry Remedy VIII
Keen the poultry In good condition and
increase the yield in eggs. We guaran-
tee this and refund your money II no.
satisfied.-rFor Sale BY All Good Deal
srN
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04

FOR sALE:-Ons 1915 model Max
well touring car in good condition. APP
ply at Louisa Garage.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04
FOR GALE

A farm Of over 1890 acres. frontinA
ON Tug river fer nearly two miles, p
LAvreace county. Ky, opposite Webb
station 0n n. q W. r. r. Fine river
bottom, creek ar hill lands. includins
an mineral Large amount easily
cleared and oultivatable. Title 0ood
Address FRHD W. WALKER. Woodr
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04
Chesapeake s Ohio R
ssAsss,. .ubi.e, :. eA.ass si'ss.' $50
shor,.,, and ouioksst Route

shorses. and ouiokss. Route
Washing ton. Baltimore. Phi'ads'ph's
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Riehmsnd. Old Peint Norfolk
virainIa and North Carolina
Throuuh Pullman sloepsrs Dining car'
ce.neetions a, Cincinnati and
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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04

! have sold my store at Tnrchiient'
All who owe accounts there VIII please
can at the old stand and pay up. Do nor
delay. as I must get these matters
closed. ANDY NEW' ~
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04

REAL ESTATE:-If you think OF
buying property In or near Ashland.
write to l. NJ. CoPLEY, Ashland, KY.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-01-04

BLANK DEEDS, MORTGAGES. OIL
AND GAS LEA SEES FOR SALE AT
TINS OFFICE.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

turn the least little Dlt.
Il guess the mainsprng's broken" sighed
Uncle Lucky. Something is always happening
If 1t isn't ones watch, it's ones digestion. Now
I'll have to go down to the matchmaker"
So breakfast was over he and
Billy Bunny hitched up the Sleighmobile and
went down to the village. and pretty soon they
came to the old matchmaker, who was Big
Black Spider, the same old Spider I told you
about many stories ago who once fixed the
clock on the big tall steeple.
What's the matter with it?" asked the old
gentleman rabbit in anxious tone Of voice
for he very fond of his old gold watch, let
me tell you-almost as fond as he Of his
old wedding; stovepipe hat, but not quite.
big hand" said the Old Black Spider and he
squinted through his little nagnHying glass
and wiggled the gold chain with the locket on
the other end in which was the picture of dear
kind Uncle Lucky's mother.
"Oh dear, oh dear" creid the old gentleman
rabbit. 'That's dreadful. VIII it ever go
Leave 1t to me-" said the Cid Black Spider
Matchmaker and then he poured little kero-
sene three Of the wheels and wiggled the
gold chain and then, all Of sudden, that old
gold watch began to strike the hour, ding, dong,
ding, dong!
Goodness, gracious meebus!" almost shouted
Uncle Lucky, "it never did that before"
rs that so? said the Old Black Spider II
guess the matchmaker you took it to before
didn't know his business" and then he handed
the watch to Uncle Lucky.
That's a fine watch" he said, "five dollars,
please!" .- e..
Now, wasn't that an awful price to charge
dear. kind UNCLE Lucky, but he knew the old
besides that Old Black Spider Matchmaker had
thirteen. children and wife.
= And then Uncle Lucky handed him a five-car-
rot gold piece, and thanked him besides, and
after that he and Billy Bunny got into the
Sleighmobile and slid away over the snow as
fast as commet or bullet might go, and in the
next story, If Uncle Lucky's watch doesn't get
the measles again, I'll tell you some more about
these two little rabbits.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
The Editors Mail Bag

To the Editor of The Forum:
Railroad companies and real estate are
flooding the country with literature advertising
cut over swamps in northern Minnesota A
move is on for the government to appropriate
millions to help drain swamps, clear forests, etc.
to provide our boys a home. Our boys who en-
dured the trenches fought all No Mans
land, whipped the Hun and won the victory, de-
serve the best. They want home farms, where
they can live. plow, sow and harvest now and
get immediate results. They have served their
apprenticeship and won their spurs North Da-
improved and cultivated black loam soil, no
rocks, no stumps. Land that now sells for from
$40 to $50 on acre. What q chance for parents
to help their boys to a real farm and be
a man among men, The millions of dollars
a long way toward a real home in the greatest
country earth. A coming empire. North
Dakota is the bread box Of our nation. am
pastor Of the Methodist church in Rugby, have
lived in five states and find here the best farms
for the price in this land of ours. Same land
in some states sells for $3.50 an acre. have
to SIS acre to clear that land to farm, then
one fights stumps and rocks for years.
In state four continental railroads The
great thoroughfare from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, the coming pathway from Canada to the
Jim Hill the greatest railroad Of his
day, he built the greatest system, bought his
own right Of way, because he was good judge
of land and knew the rich soil would support
him. His main line crosses North Dakota, eleven
branches reach up to and into Canada. Here
is the empire: Northern North Dakota South
Saskatchewan and South Manitoba Give this
some study. I write this to my friends, also
will write it up in our church paper, but you
in position to do big things, to put this
country on the map, to enable people to buy and
have homes before spectators control it and run
up the price.
The great rush for land is coming. The move
ment to help feed the 100000, ,O00-the back to
the soil' agitation. Our boys are coming home
to an Of peace and prosperity and land will
be in demand. I know old men who want to
sell cheap. I anxious to put them in touch
with home seekers who will help country.
Best Of improved land UP here sells now for $40
to $50 acre. It can't last long. You in
position to launch a movement that will make
this country Help our best homeseekers.
Also help us. Every new family helps The
Forum. Every family helps the church.
So really we interested personally. I write
hurriedly. You use, what you want of this
in much better way than I have expressed it,
also add to it materially.
Yours for a better and bigger state. For the
golden empire Of the northwest.
Yours truly,
E. w. ELAGE
Pastor M. E. Church,
-'- Rugby, No. Oak.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
DON'T LET US MISS ANY.

cne by one they dropping back, shedding
their uniforms getting back into civilian clothes,
and resuming their accustomed places in the life
of the city. - .-.
There is a few hours brief furry, thousand
"gIad to YOU backs" great deal of friendly
handshakng, and they of us again.
The Forum wants to chronicle each return,
and tell something about what they doing
Maybe they went through He'll itself at Chateau
Thierry or st. Mihiel; maybe they simply drilled
and swabbed out kitchens at Camp Dodge or
American Lake; maybe they kept tab sup
plies in the quartermaster's department; maybe
they chased submarines; maybe they fretted
for weeks in France eager to get to the front
We don't care which it They all served.
They all did their share, only some were luckier
than others and got into the big show"
Fargo is proud of all OF them, and If they
too modest to call up The Forum and let their
fellow townsmen know they back, want
their friends to do it for them. We want to
chronicle the return of every whose name
is on that big bulletin board on N p. avenue.
For some there will be no return to chronicle.
Their memories must keep green. Their
names must be preserved in some public list
perhaps engraved in stone on a monument in
Island Park No man could hope for a better
ending than to quit this life as gloriousIy.
For the others-God bless you all. You can't
return fast enough.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

without it. and in the main 1t was justly en-
forced and willingly observed.
We have no means of knowing how many
youths are serving time in federal prisons for
fit of temporary anger but we have personal
knowledge OF several who were given severe pun
ishment for striking officer or for refusing
to obey orders. Probably the act was regretted
the instant it was committed, but army Justice
in wartime is swift sure stern and unrelenting
and it shall be so.
For men who deliberately tried sabotage: who
sulked. 1oafed and repeatedly or deliberately
tried TO break down discipline we have no SYM
pathy. But for hot-headed boys. who rnomen-
tarily resented a sharply given command and re-
gretted the act instantly, we have the deepest
sympathy Here is a field in which the govern
ment should temper justice with mercy The
war department, at the earliest possible moment
should undertake the task OF reviewing the sem
tcnces Of men committed to military prisons
for offenses that plainly fall within the class of
sudden exhibitions of temper.
These men have committed no crime against
the moral laws. They have merely violated the
rules of military discipline. They have had their
lesson The necessity for such strict discipline.
no longer exists in this country at least.
II they criminals, they should serve
out their terms. They are not criminals.
They are just clean useful and law abiding
men as those who walk the streets Of Fargo, yet
an unknown number of them are serving SEN
tences of from few months to perhaps years in
federal prisons for acts they had never learned
to avoid.
Here is a field for the humanitarian. Here is
an opportunity for the department to ap-
point special commission to review the case
of every man serving sentence for mere infrac-
ton Of the rules of discipline to ascertain If
he does not deserve leniency. -ssu
The Forums voice may not reach to Washing
ton, but We call on the other newspapers of
America to take up this cause. Surely the
lease Of several hundred of such victims of
moments temper Is a cause worth working for.
Consider mothers and Fathers, your feelings If
your boy were serving sentence ut Leaven-
worth or Atlanta for administering plain, old
fashioned poke in the jaw" to officer he
was accustomed to do to his schoolmates when
the occasion seemed to call for it.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
WELCOME HOME.

Former Governor L. B. Hanna contributed sevs
eral columns of very interesting reading to The
Forum last evening.
A careful perusal- Of it will reveal virtually
nothing about what Mr. Hanna was doing, and
o. great deal about what the men and women OF
North Dakota are doing in France. If his pa
pers had not been burned during his seige Of
diphtheria, he might have given us almost a
complete service record Of North Dakotans,
Judging from the sample he furnished.
That is the spirit that actuates the wonder
full organization which Mr.. Hanna served and
II makes The Forum feel he was faithful SER
want. Perhaps when some more of the boys get
home we will hear little more about what Mr.
Hanna did. Meanwhile his old friends and
neighbors here in Fargo are glad to welcome him
home and are satisfied that his share in the
work over there was not quite modest as he
would have us believe.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
WHY NOT NoRTH DAKOTA.

why not?" is the only answer that can be
made to the suggestion of Rev. f. w Elage OF
Rugby, which is published another part OF
this page this evening
This Rugby pastor forsees another great
"back-to-th land" movement following this
war. We haven't the great undeveloped west
10 turn to, as had the soldiers returning from
the Civil war They settled the western prairies
after settling the slavery question.
There ia little doubt but that a similar move
ment Will follow this The men are re-
turning with a new love Of independence ana
the out-of- doors. Many Of them. perhaps the
majority, will not be content to settle down TO
the old routine life in store office, or factory
They will turn naturally to the land, just as
The soldiers of the Civil war did
What has North Dakota to offer in the way Oh
lands?
Few states in the union have as much to Of
fer The land here is ready for the plow. with
out the necessity of waging two or three
years' warfare against stumps and stones. Ihis
Rugby pastor has big idea, and the state
should get behind it energetically. The Forum
does not fatter itself it has much influence with
the present state administration, but here is a
situation in which there be no excuse for
friction. In our opinion, the first step is sur
yey Of the lands Of the state that might be
available The state department Of agriculture
could do a great service to the returned soldiers
and to the state, if it would classify all the state,
school and federal lands available for settlement,
giving the terms which they could be pur-
chased or acquired. Next it might list any big
tracts of land railroad or privately owned which
might be broken up and sold, giving the ap-
proximate price. All other information available
should be compiled in a booklet, and this should
be distributed directly to the returning men. NO
effort should be made to paint too optimistic
picture We don't want any soldiers brought
here under false pretenses They should be
given the plain facts about North Dakota lands.
These facts will speak for themselves.
This is but the first STEP With this full
information available some steps might be taken
to supplement the government aid by special
inducements to come to North Dakota. Here
is an opportunity to add thousands of the best
Americans available to the population of the
state Here is one movement on which all polit-
ical factions in North Dakota can unite.
Let us not sit idle and wait for settlers to
come to US. Let US go out after them and bring
them here.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
The TIME EoR MERCY.

Every man who saw service even for few
weeks in this war. will recall the shock that
accompanied the sudden realization of the se-
verify of military law in wartime.
The average healthy American youth, wrongly
perhaps considers it one Of the privileges OF
American citizenship like voting, to tell any
man to go to the Devil in more or less polite
language.
Several million Of these youths were sudden
ii showed into the army where an attempt to
exercise such privilege brought a sentence OF
anything from thirty days in the guardhouse
to several years in federal prison if he hap
pened to be hot-headed enough to try to enforce
the request with straight left to the point OF
The jaw OF an officer.
with strict military discipline in wartime, The
Forum has no quarrel. 1t was a necessity. No
place was it needed more than in America, with
such vast mob Of unframed men to handle 1t
was necessary to build an army. It was neces-
aary for the safety of the men themselves when
they went into action. We couldn't have won
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

Major John j. S. Murphy, the
pioneer North Dakota resident who
died several days ago at Minneapolis,
had the distinction of being largely
responsible for the elementary school
system for Indians In the United
States. He is survived by widow
and three sons, Paul b., now in
training at Camp Zachary Taylor:
John S., Jr., second lieutenant at
Camp Grant, and Arthur, who is In
the navy.
Major Murphy was born at Wells
VILE, N. Y, on May 4, 1854, OF Irish
American parentage. He came to
North Dakota in 1866, first settling in
Ransom county. Three years later
he was appointed Indian agent on
the Fort Berthold reservation, which
post he continued to hold until Presi-
dent Cleveland named his successor
in 1895. The deceased was first
elected to the legislature in 1894 as q
member from Ward county and he
was several times fe-e1ected, be-
coming leader in that body.
He was father of North Dakota's
wolf bounty act; championed an ex-
tension Of the time required for the
residence Of divorces. removing this
state from competition with Nevada
for the favor of those suffering from
ties which CALLED, and he was author
of a constitutional amendment re-
quiring a literary test for voters in
North Dakota.
The legislative session of 1895 un-
animously endorsed the major for
United States Indian commissioner.
Following his withdrawal from ac-
tive politics, Major Murphy became
agricultural and Industrial commits
sioner for the 500 line at Minot, a
post which he held until i'll health
compelled him to retire two years
ago.
Few men had more exciting OF
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

this moment between $4,000 and $4,000 standard
guage freight cars of American manufacture in
France, together with $50 locomotives, and about
thousand cars, purchased by the United States
army In foreign countries and in Great Britain.
The American engineers have built S43 miles
of standard track; $50 miles OF road and re-
paired and made useful 40 miles OF narrow
guage track constructed by the Germans while
in occupation. All this will be Of inestimable
value for commercial development and the re-
warehouses built at Bordeaux, Monitor, near ST.
NazaireS and other ports The Bordeaux docks
have total length of 400 feet and those at
Monitor $500 feet. while the aggregate floor
area Of the warehouses; is 23,o00.0O0 square feet.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
Dinner Stories

For three successive nights Newpop walked
the floor with the baby. On the fourth night
he became desperate and brought a bottle of
soothing syrup.
why, James," exclaimed his wife. when she
saw the bottle, what did you buy that for?
Don't forget you know it is very dangerous to
give a child anything like that?"e
Don't worry" was her husbands reply. Tn
going to- take it myself"
Wed have gotten on all right If that snake
hadn't come along and taken charge of The
apple crop said Eve
Yes" replied Adam, @this is the original
case OF the ultimate consumer getting the worst
og it at the hands Of the naiddleman.g
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
Death. Of Major Murphy
Removes Prominent Pioneer

picturesque career than Major Muir
ply. He was politician Of the Ole
school, and he has his bitted enemies
as well as his warm friends.
His close relationship with the
tribes in western North Dakota ant
eastern Montana, provided him witt
material which he used in many
articles concerning the Indians Of
the west.
The last article written by hin
was published less than a month
ago, dealing with the history of Cur.
ley Head, the last survivor Of the
Custer massacre. In it Major Muir.
ply wrote:
"Curley Head was at this time
(1S76) 19 years Of age. He was in
the battle OF Little Big Horn, killed
a Sioux warrior, took the Sioux
blanket and in the excitement es-
capped through the lines, made his
way to the Missouri river and in
tercepted General Banteen, who was
on his way up the river on the
steamboat Greatwest with reinforce
ments. The first account given of
this. battle was wired to a. New York
paper by Colonel Lounsberry, editor
and founder of The Bismarck Tri-
bune. Col. Lounsberry, usually a
correct narrator, erroneously re-
ferred to Curley Head as Crow
scout from the Crow eseryation in
Montana. This nisstatement' ex-
emplifies the pactical irnpossibility of
catching up with an error Of this
kind, as practically all subsequent
writer's on the battle OF the Little
Big Horn refer to Curley Head as a
Crow Indian scout.
81 speak with some authority on
this subject regarding Curley Head
as President Harrison appointed me
United States agent for those Inn
dams 29 years ago. had charge Of
them for four years. knew Curley
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

became vice president and publisher of The Chi
cago Tribune a post he held until 1910
He became identified with the new Progressive
party in 1912 and with Theodore Roosevelt and
other influential Republican leaders guided
the third party movement. He was elected to
the state legislature a Progressive. and in the
session Of 1916 led his Progressive associates
back into the Republican ranks by entering the
Republican ahouse caucus at Springfield. He
was an enthusiastic supporter Of Charles
hughes Republican candidate for the presi-
dency in 1916.
Mccormick in 1903 married Miss Ruth Hanna,
daughter OF the late Mark Hanna. They have
two children. They reside in Chicago and on
a farm in the Rock river valley
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

national legislature McCor-
mick saw two terms Of SER
vice in the house Of repre-
sentatives of the Illinois gen.
eral assembly.
AS leader of the Progress
sive group of Illinois legisla-
tors in the assembly session
of 1913 Mccormick had
much to do with shaping
many pieces of progressive
legislation enacted in the
last six years in the state.
Mccormick carried his
progressive legislative ideas
with him from Illinois to
Washington, and has spent
much time working for the
installation of a national
budget system for the fed
eral government.
Mccormick was born in
Chicago May 16, 1877. He
was graduated from Yale in
1Qns0 and fhrae wears later
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

Head very well, and as government
agent I gave him land in severaIty
and issued him a span Of brood
mares, four cows and limited sup
ply OF farm implements. In 1893
sent Curley Head to the worlds Fair
at Chicago, where he rightfuIly
posed as the last survivor" for
which he received SIS month for
I'VE months. Curley Head died on
his homestead in 19l0.'
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
Other Men s Views
An Editorial That May or May Not Square
with The Views Of The Forum.

The Manitoba Free Press:
One of the causes that viii help France to re-
sumo her peacetime activities viii be found In
the great amount OF railway material and rolling
stock furnished by the United States, primarily,
Of course, TO aid in beating the Germans. This
viii not be brought back to this continent but
viii remain to give better transportation than
France has heretofore enjoyed There are 1T.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

A guard was repeating these
words: Corporal OF the guard, post
No. 80 when an officer approached
him and said. SAY that again. and
cut out the post" The guard went
on as ordered and repeated: "Cor-
poral OF the guard No. 5, cut out the
post"
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17

" uSN L&AShy
But, good
ness me! 1t
had stopped
for thd min
ute h a n d
was point
ing at 13
o'clock and
that's t h e
asst hour in
Rabbitvllla
so I'm told.
"I wonder
If 7 forgot
to wind my
watch" ex-
claimed the
old gentle
man rab-
bat. But he
hadn't, for
he S t G m
" OEl dn' (
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
Director NOW Ms
Control Of Kief

Amsterdam, Dec. 17.-"TIie city of
Kiev, capital OF the Ukraine, was
occupied Saturday by troops of the
Directory" according to a telegram
received here today. The Hetman of
the Ukraine, it is added, has abdicat-
ed and the cabinet has resigned Or
der is being maintained by troops of
the Directory and German units.
Basel, Dec. 16.-(Havas)-on the
occupation of Kiev Saturday the
troops were disarmed after the Het-
man had abdicated and the cabinet
had resigned. Authority now is in
the hands of directorate, includ-
ing M. M. Winitschenk, Petjura,
Seitz and Andrejewsky. The few
ministries temporarily are being con-
Quoted by commissaries.
The town is quiet. Order is being
maintained by the troops OF the Di-
rectorate with the aid of German sol
diers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-12-17
Who's. Who

Medll Mccormick, recently elected for United
States senator from Illinois, is serving his
first term in congress one of the two con-
gress men at large from that state.
Before his election to the lower branch Of the