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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-15

al the Panama.Paciflc Exposition, and
It was the only one commissioned to
play a return engagement. AS trav.
cling organization 1t has visited all the
principal cities of the United States
and has invariably received contract
for a return engagement.
Thaviu himself is a musician of the
widest culture and training and his
leadership is demonstrated by the
merit of his musicians performances,
His programs are made up Of selec'
tions appealing to cosmopolitan ideas
and are Of kind to delight crowds
with tastes as diverse as that Of =
State Fair.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-15

The great $4,000 FIVE gated saddle
horse stake which was introduced at
the Kentucky State Fair last year and
will be feature of the sixteenth an
nual Kentucky State Fair this year,
focuses the attention Of the horse
world on the state. The event con-
sists of a sensational struggle for
championship honors among the stall
lions on Monday night, the mares on
Tuesday night and the geldings on
Wednesday night, while the grand
championship of the world is fought
out between mares, stations and geld
.ngs on Saturday night Of Fair week.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-15

Rossville, Kas., 8-2-19lS.
Licking Valley Courier,
West Libesty, Ky.
Gentlemen:
Am mailing you check for one
dollar to renew my subscription
to the Courier for another year.
With best regards to all,
Yours respectfully,
LEWIS MERCANTILE Co.,
Per Phelps Lewis.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-15
Government Sends
An Urgent Call.

The President of the Civil Ser
vice Commission recently wired:
Need for stenographers and
typists at Washington grows
more acute daily. Increase eff
fort all possible"
The Government and business
concerns are short five hundred
thousand bookkeepers and stem
ographers, and are offering be-
ginners salaries never before
heard of.
The Government drafted our
Civil-Service Bookkeeping Set,
and about EIGHTY-FIVE per
cent of the Governments stenog-
raphers write the Shorthand sys.
tenn that we teach-THE BEST
evidence that our courses are
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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-15

A belief that is as universal as
it is erroneous exists that some
great grief or sorrow must come
before genius can wing its flight
to the planes of lofty ideals. The
history of those who stand out
conspicuously among men con-
tradict this theory. Milton had
thought out, planned and begun
Paradise Lost" before he be-
came blind, and none of his work
after that time reaches the lofti-
ness of that. Because Burns
and Poe were drunkards Coler-
idge a drug fiend and Byron an
all round profligate, and excused
their excuses on the grounds OF
sorrow does not mean that sor-
row is a necessary appurtenance
to genius. Genius is merely the
power to think, Very, very few
people can really think. That
the earth was flat was the gen.
eral belief until Calico thought
it out differently. People accept.
ed what was told them rather
than think out the truth. Up to
a few centuries ago the doctors
accepted without question the be.
lief that the blood stood in the
body like water in a sponge wher
Harvey let himself think and dis
covered the fact of circulation
Genius is nothing more no
less than common sense at worl
necessarily. Mediocrity is tn,
letting common sense sleep. Ii
the making of a genius common
sense first sees that the persol
find himself. Luthur Burbanl
would not have been the genius h
is in any thing but plant life. H
found himself-and worked. H
answered the call of commo
sense. No person can develo
into a genius in a missfit vocs
ton. One reason why we don
have more Spurgons in the pu
pit is that too many preacher
have mistaken chronic lazines
for acall to preach. Many fai
ures as prima donnas would hay
been geniuses as cooks. The o.
world is full of misery bucau'
so few people find themselves
time. The greatest good that v
older people can do in this wor
is to sympathetically and intel
gently aid the girls and boys
find the life work that they W
best suit-not what will 81
them best.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-15
Startling News Is
Crowding the Telegraph
Wires Every Day
Undoubtedly We,Have Entered
Upon the Most Momentous
Months in the History Of
The Universe
The World Revolves Around Newspapers YOU Want thu
News and All the News While 1t Is Really News Yot
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The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-08-09

troops may be needed for home serv-
ice. A number Of army departments
are hereafter to be made up exciu-
sively OF class B men.
$3.50
A colored boxing match was just
over and the audience was trying TO
find a new opponent for the winner.
They found colored boy who ex-
pressed desire to go on If given
shinvitation by the winner, But the
latter looked the newcomer over and
shook his head IF dat s.'.ltnr boy
'sists on fightin' Ann tackle him
But niggers, All don't aim to wife
no black boy bigger''n An is to come
I'D here am knock nah block Off"
ssss Lt
Ii is expected that the advent OF
the Iowa men viii prove Q boost to
the athletic activities of the camp In
baseball, wrestling, and boxing, All
the nine athletic. directors OF the 'sy''
are combing the areas to see what
Ethe draft blew in and how many
Echamps and near champs are hoping
FOR new worlds to conquer. Iowa has
held the wrestling honors SO, long
that a rot OF young fellows have i'm
bibed aspirations, hat can very cas-
lily be tested oue Ia the army which
I is strong for all kinds of athletics,
bfi ---.
h ATS funny to. hear the boys who
pAave been in camp about twelve
tboars call the latest arrivals rockies
L.. ERWIN FUNK.
n Camp Publicity Director
r August 5. 1918.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-08-09
KINGS WERE PUPPETS

Mohammed v was monarch of
. too little personal force for his death
no make any material difference.
s'Tbe war, indeed has made kings
sseem curionsly like pawns. We hear
.,of the subsection of the young Aus
l4rian emperor to Germany after a fut-
lie effort to assert his independence.
But when we turn to Germany we
are told that the real ruler 10 not
William II, but junta of generals.
That the Gar of Russia was a
puppet before he became an exile
was widely reviewed opinion Cur
rent depreciation Of the power of aut-
ocrats may. be exaggerated, but 1t
contains real truth; the forces let
loose By this war are beyond the
control OF the most despotie of rulers.
AS for Turkey, whose sultan used TO
provide synonym for despotio pow.
or, the prolonged wretchednessf and
subserviepce of the empire have long
since made the monarchy but q
shadow The real government lies
with little group of energetic and
not too scrupplous men, of whom
Talaat Boy Ia the hest known who
represent the greetays transformed
ssntf perverted young Turk party
That began In q sincere effort tc
modernize and enfranchise Turkey
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-08-09
CAMP PIKE NOTES


Selectiye draft men who entered
Camp Pine the last week or two
cannot say they have not been given
a warm welcome. We have expert
eneed the hottest and dustiest spell
of the season, andr light on top of
the discomforts occasioned by the
weather came a water shortage, oc-
casioned by a break down in the
city pumping plant in Little Rock.
The first. day 1t was necessary to
haul the water to camp by trucks,
and then with the aid OF fire en-
CINE drom the city, pump it into the
re6srsoifs-f Then water trains were
inauqnrated and the camp kept fully
supplied, as to actual needs, but
there has been none to waste. In
sppctofs andg yards were placed on
the lob and the camp. has been CON
sewing its water supply in the latest
MILITARY style. There is no danger
now.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-08-09

One unfortunate experience with
the new men that seems to have hap
pened here for the first time was
the discovery that enlisted men in
the camp we're slipping into the
quarantine area ana selling Y. NJ. G.
A. stationery, bofh envelopes and
noteheads They also sold stamps
and other articles at greatly advanc-
ed prices. and in several instances
received money with which to buy
stamps and then decamped. Some Of
the men were told the stamps would
be left for them at the nearest "Y"
building. 1t has been difficult TO
trace the impostors because Of the
fact that to the new rockies, all men
in uniform look pretty much alike.
II only lasted a day or two and then
strict company orders made such
thieving an impossibility.
ess
Lay of the X. p.
/ know how TO peel the festive spud
And how to string the bean,
To wash the dishes, clean the pans,
And on the mop stick lean.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-08-09
PREPARE SIS

German General Havedsour brave
troops been, informed that we win
be in Paris in four days?
subordinate Yes, General.
'"They understand that the great
war was forced upon us?''
j Perfectly, general"
They. have been told that the
Americans, always killr our machine
gunners II they surrendex?' sstss
{ That is wea understoods General 2
They have been, instructed that
the few Americans opposed. to- US
are cowardly and ipexperienced?n >
Hand bills announcing that tact
are passed around each evening",
"Then let the offensive begin. -
Chicago Tribune.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-08-09

but. as. result Of the war with Italy
and the Balkan States. fell more and
more under the pan-German leader
ship. Mohammed v, who like many
sultans had been long III prison, was
selected precisely because he was
too weak to- interfere. with state
policy. He was but q cipher through
his reign, and it is tolerably certain
that he will not be replaced BY .
significant figure.-Springfield Re-
publican. ,oo.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-21
VALUES DECLINE
IN CORN MARKET

CHICAGO, June 21.--Fresh declines
in the value Of corn took place today.
largely as a result OF the ideal weather
prevailing. 1t was apparently a gen.
eral belief that too much attention
had not been impaired. Besides there
peratures and that the crop outlook
had not been impairde. Besides there
was no indication of any urgent cash
demand Opening prices, which rang
ed from half to 1-2 lower with July
l41 IL to l42 IA and August LA IL
to las 3.S were followed by material
further setback.
Oats went down grade with corn.
A feature was selling by houses with
eastern connections. After opening
Is at IA to 5-8 lower with July II 5-S
to 70, the market underwent mod
crate further sag.
Provisions developed firmness on
account Of falling off in hog arrivals
here as compared with the number ex-
pected. The best demand was for ribs,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-21
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,

Butter-Creamery whole milk extra
Acc: centralized extra, 441ac do first
411ac; do seconds. 401ac; fancy dairy,
Csc; packing stock, No. I, soc; No. 2
&c. -.t -xla
Eggs-Prime first Gloss Off, CSC
first, 33hc; ordinary firsts, csc; sec
onds, &c; duck eggs, 33hc.
Poultry-Broilers IL lbs. and over
45c; do under " lbs, 35@40c; fowls,
4 lbs. and over, 26hc; do under lbs.
26kc; roosters, 1sc; hen turkeys
8 lbs and over. csc; toms 10 lbs and
over, Csc; culls. 10c; white ducks, 3 lbs
and over. 23c; colored do, zoe: geese
choice full feather lac, do medium 12c
guineas Sc per dozen.
Apples-Ben Davis. $4.50@7.00: Ga
nos, S5.00@7.00 per brl.
Onions-Texas No. l yellow, $110@
1,25; Bermuda white, $140@15O per
crate; Louisville, $2.75@235
Potatoes = Mississippi, s2.75@285
per 100-lb sack: Louisville, s275@2.85
(; Texas Triumph, $2.75@2.S5 per no.
Id sack; Georgia, s5.0O@5.75 per brl.
oes-Mississippi. $40 q $50
per 4-basket cra;ae. Texas. $175@
1.S5 per crate.
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plenty of ammunition, but no one to
use 1t properly"
"A Hunger offensive"

plenty of ammunition, but no one to
use It properly"
"A Hunger Offensive"
That Austria's drive Is positively "a
hunger offensive" has been proved by
new orders and addresses found upon
prisoners. These we're signed by Off
GERS ranging from Field Marshal Con-
rad Won Hoetzendorf down to regi-
mental commanders. One which was
issued by the commander of the IA
nous regiment bearing the name of
Archduke Charles says:
Soldiers, remember the spoils we
got last fall from the Italians; the
sheep, cows, steers, warehouses full OF
good clothes, and grocery stores full
Of wines. canned goods, flour, and sug-
ar Think of your family. Think of
the white bread you may win for all"
Hundreds of prisoners. all OF whom
are thin and weak, said they had had
little food for the last month and
spoke with horror of the winter
months they had passed. A sample of
their black bread showed that 1t was
mads of rye straw and potatoes
Make Own Shoes.
Many of the prisoners have strong,
we'll spiked shoes. but these they
claim they made themselves or
bought. Their clothes. however, are
falling apart, having been patched fire.
uuently. Most of them have mere
rags for shirts The majority of the
prisoners have money, but 1t is either
in paper bills or iron coin.
The most of them wear medals for
valor, some of them having two or
three Of them, but these decorations
are of base metal and none are OF gold
or silver. One is stamped with like
ness of Empress Zita and encircled
with laurel wreaths. and is made OF
zinc composition. The prisoners part
readily with these medals, saying they
have no pride in them, for few pen
MES of italian money.
Most of the captured men are young
and light haired and generally have
bad teeth.
Lured by Food.
The Italian soldiers tell humorous
stories of captures effected by per-
suading the Austrians that they will
be well fed One Italian officer who
had been wounded and picked up by
a group of Austrians who intended to
make him prisoner explained how fool
ish they were. He said:
Come with me and you will get
meat, wine, and real bread" There
upon the whole party went over to the
Italian lines.
It is said also that at the beginning
of the offensive the Austrians in the
front line each received three rations
of meat, one for each day Of the at
tack until they reached the Italian
stores. They were so hungry, how
ever, that they ate all the first day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-21
sUNrELEGRAM

man liberty might be lost to posterity
by anything short OF heroism IN all
our deeds.
The apathetic and disinterested cit.
izen would little have suspected
that in small gathering Of two hun
dred representative and patriotic
Wayne county citizens 1t would be
possible to subscribe and pledge
$129,000.00 in half an hours time.
''The powerful appeal of the Hon.
Frank e. Herring, vice-director of In.
diana, stirred the red blood OF his
auditors as perhaps 1t had never be-
fore been stirred
"A true realization of the import.
ance of immediate, powerful and com.
plete action was in full bloom.
"The fire from the bosoms of these
two hundred auditors will spread over
Wayne county. All things else to
them will be secondary until the gov
eminent demand for the 100000 to
complete the goal of $1,000, OOOO 90 al
lotted to Wayne county has been sub
scribed and pledged
From June 20, noon to June %,
noon, will be memorable in the lives
of the patriots impelled to purchase
for Wayne county the prize of volun-
tarily meeting a stupenduous obliga-
ton trust unfinchingly
"The fifty men honored with the
trust of collecting the subscriptions
and pledges of all taxpayers, all wage
earners and all men and women, ap-
pealed to by President Wilson, for
mer Governor Ralston and as will be
appealed to by Mayor Zimmerman,
will, we hope, find a citizenship ready
and waiting the opportunity to re-
spond to these appeals. For these
servants of the government and hui
mainly we solicit courteous, effective,
substantial support. Their labors may
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-21
WARNS AGAINST
WHEAT CUTTING

Farmers of Wayne county are urged
not to cut and shock their wheat too
soon by r. S. Kelley of the United
States Department of Agriculture. and
P. S. Thomas of Purdue University,
who were in Richmond Friday.
In a tour of the northwestern part
of the county with j. c. Kline, county
agriculture agent, Friday morning, it
was learned that two or three farm
ers have already started cutting
wheat. An inspection of this wheat
showed that it was entirely too green.
"If there should be a heavy rain
and it would remain damp for few
days. Mr. Kelley said, this wheat
would begin to sprout or mould in the
shock. / certainly advise the farmers
not to cut their wheat when it is too
green, or they are liable to lose quite
a bit of their CROP"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-21
STATE RECORD
Icontinued From Page one.1

Fred Lemon, jenkins Jewelry com
ownships-Jackson, $4,000; Alb
ington, $1,000; Jefferson, $4,000; Bos
ton, $4,000; Center. $4,000; Harrison
$4,000; Green, $4,000; New Garden
$4,000; Webster, $4,000; Perry. $1,000
Statement by Mills.
cat the noon luncheon in the Y. M
C. A. yesterday the special drive fol
the sale of $4O0,Ooo.oo in War Savings
Certificates began.
cit was hoped that by Saturda!
noon the whole amount could be re
ported to the state director, Joseph
D. Oliver, as subscribed and pledged
This would seem to be stupen
duous undertaking under ordinary cir
cumstances, but these are times when
future destinies of worlds peoples
are in the greatest jeopardy, and hu
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100000 ARE
[continued From Page one.1

declare the Austrian army has little
food. Some of the prisoners have not
eaten for forty-eight hours"
Suffering in Army.
During a tour of the front an AS
sociated Press correspondent talked
with an Austrian prisoner, member
of manufacturing firm with offices
in all the great world centers, includ-
ing New York.
81 have been fighting for forty
months" this man said, First on the
Russian front, where l had an easy
time and now here, where the Italians
are making things too hot for us.
There is no food for the people of
Austria and next to none for the
iarmy had but few pieces of bread
and potatoes before the fight, and
|since the fight began have had none.
1.-THE army cannot last more than a
couple of months at the best. There
are no good officers left. We have
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-21
FRUIT & VEGETABLES
Corrected Daily by Eggemeyers)
VEGETABLES
SELLING PRICES

VEGETABLES
Wax beans, ~ cents per pound
asparagus, sc bunch: new cabbage.
Sc h.; green beans, 15c h.; carrots. :
to sc b.; spring carrots. SC bunch +;
spring beets, sc bunch; cauliflower
15@25c head; cucumbers 5@10c; egg
plants 15c; kohlra5i 10c bunch; leaf
lettuce. 15c per pound; head lettuce,
trimmed, soc a pound; untrimmed
zoe h.; leak, 10c bunch; onions, new
Burmudas, SC ID; young onions, sc
bunch; 3 for 10c; oyster plant, cents
bunch; parsley, DC bunch; mangoes, 2
for sc; radishes, sc bunch; spinach,
15c h.; home grown tomatoes, zoe
lb.; turnips. new, SC h.; water cress,
SC per bunch; artichokes. zoe each;
celery.>S, 10 and 15c bunch; potatoes,
old, $500 per bushel; rhubarb, 3
punches, 10c: green peas, 15c pound ;
Telephone. 121ac pound; kahl. loo lb.:
new potatoes, 75c peck; green corn.
IS cents dozen.
FRUITS
Calf cherries, 60c h.; watermelons
81 each; peaches, 15c h.; sour cher
ries, CSC qt; apples, 8 to 10c pound
grape fruit, 10@15c; lemons, SO cents
per doz.; bananas, 10c h.; lines. BOO
per doz; oranges, 40c to COO doz.:
pineapples, zoe each; new apples, 15c
pound; red rasEberries, 30c quart ;
black raspberries, 30c quart; buckle
berries, 4Oc a quart; dewberries, 30c
a quart, gooseberries, 15@1Sc quart;
currants, 1Sc quart; apricots, 25c a
pound; Cal. Canteloupes, 10000
each; cocoanuts. 15c each.
MISCELLANEOUS
Eggs, Csc per dozen; butter, cream
cry, SIC; country. 42c per pound.
misunderstanding
Butter, CSC; eggs, SOC; chickens
zoe.
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good. not justifiable. not honorable
not patriotic and not American.
THE amount Of $400.000.00 MUST
come. It must be pledged quickly.
Everybody must fall in line and earn
for Wayne county other laurels to add
to those already passed to her credit
on all national demands to date.
Wayne county voluntarily SUBJ
scribed and pledged will accomplish
the greatest possible good. Make
Wayne county the first In the state
with a $1,000.00.00 quota to go over
the top.
Wayne county broke the state rec
ord Thursday, June 20. on a single
days subscription and pledges.
Wayne county is the second larg-
est subscriber in the state today.
Everybody push and let Wayne county
go over the top by noon Saturday.
June o."
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be made joyous at the hands of re-

be made joyous at the hands of a re-
| sponsive people.
I'VE are all expected to report to
the secretary Of the treasury by June
% and should seek to meet these
committeeman to add our subscription
and pledges Friday and before noon
Saturday. June %.
The list of the fifty men in charge
OF gathering the subscriptions and
pledges is carried by the press and
since we all know we are to report on
or before June %, why not seek i'm
mediately these committeeman and
augment the $400,0000U by noon Sat.
urday, June %?
While the government has demand
ed the full quota to be covered by
June %, they have made it easy to
one and all who are not prepared TO
buy the stamps now to subscribe for
purchases as may be desired during
July, August. September, October,
November and December. This privi-
lege leaves no possible excuse for any
taxpayer, wage-earner, man or woman,
to refuse their support. Keep the
telephones of the fifty committeeman
busy sending them your notices to
call for your pledges.
Come voluntarily now, everybody,
Seek the opportunity to get your
pledges in before noon Saturday, June
%. Your county chairman is praying
to be relieved OF the personal respon-
sibility Of returning to the federal
and in his possession and giving his
reasons why those refusing to aid
their government do SO. In some in
stances there might be good and just
reasons why certain individuals could
not subscribe or pledge for any Of
these securities. These would be few
and in most cases it would be up to
the chairman to state reasons not