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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
NURSES STRICKEN WITH IN
FLUENZA

At the emergency hospital on
Bridge street there are twenty-five
patients being treated for influenza,
and all are doing nicely save one, who
is quite i'll.
Two of the young lady volunteer
nurses, Misses Lenora Sutton and Ma
rion Power, are i'll with the disease,
leaving only one volunteer nurse, Miss
Mary Kehoe, to attend to the afflicted.
Miss Lee from the county was ex-
pected today.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
DOING HER BIT AT HOME

Mrs. Lutte Jane Harney is doing
her bit by helping her father, Mr.. AL
fred Sutton Of Moransburg SOW his
thirty-two acres of wheat on Mr.. John
Perrine's place. She took two horses
and the Ranel harrow and in the
field was corn stalks about two feet
high. She is not only doing her bit
by helping with the wheat for the boys
but has husband in Uncle Sans
Service.
Miss Lenora Sutton one the girls
that enrolled in the Nurse Reserve is
now at the fue hospital on Bridge
street.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

advanced nearly half mile near Ban
theville, occupying the high ridge
north of that village.
The positions were taken after sew
eral assaults against the enemy ma
chine gun nests. One hundred and
seventy prisoners we're taken.
Bourgogne Forest extends from a
point west of Grand Pre- to point
about two miles and half north of
that village. Bantheville is about 10
miles east of Grand Pre-.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
TURKEY MAKES
AN Offer To SUR
RENDER To ALLIES
Turkeys Minister to Switzerland
Makes Peace Offer to British
and French Ministers.

tThe subjoined dispatches regard
ing Turkey and Austria are most sig
nificant. The one reveals that Turkey
has finally determined to cut loose
from Germany and surrender. The
other indicates that some momentous
movement is under way in Austria.
either the breaking uD of the empire
or its separation from Germany and
surrender to the Allies)
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR
TIMEPIECE

Today is the last day on which the
more Daylight" time will prevail
this year. At a. m. Sunday, the time
in Maysville and throughout the coun-
try will officially revert back to l a.
hands of the clocks of the ma
tlon be turned back one hour
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

Leslie Throckmorton, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Throckmorton, died
this morning at his home in Cincin-
natl. He was nephew of Mr.. VIII
liam Throckmorton, who died this
week. Burial at Mt. Pisgah cemetery.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

The funeral of Mrs. Anna D. How
ard, who died at her home in Akron,
Ohio, was held at Dover today. She
was the widow of Cyrus Howard of
Dover and was an aunt of MIR. w. A.
Munzing of this city.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

London, October ga rumor cir
culated in Vatican circles has it that
Emperor Charles of Austria and his
family are about to leave Vienna for
Journey through Hungary, prelim-
mary to the emperor's abdication, the
correspondent of the Daily Mail said
in dispatch today.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

Mrs. Rachel DeFosee of West Sec
ond street, has returned home after
being at the bedside of her daughter,
in Cincinnati, who has been critically
i'll with pneumonia, but is now con-
valescent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
BEWARE OF SPANISH INFLUENZA

1t is caught by breathing a germ in
to the nose or mouth. Sterizol kills
germs and prevents disease. Sold by
MRS. GEO. SHIPLEY,
500 East Second Street
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

The funeral of Mrs. Bernard Rog-
er, who died last evening at her home
on the Lexington pike from an attack
of pneumonia will be held tomorrow
afternoon,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

London, October 26-The Turkish
minister to Switzerland has handed
the British and French ministers to
that country an offer of peace vir-
tually amounting to surrender, ac-
cording to a Berne dispatch to the
Daily Mail.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

Owing to the influenza epidemic the
national meeting of the Daughters of
the Confederacy, which was to have
been held at Louisville November IL,
has been indefinitely postponed
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

Zurich October 26-Prince Freder-
ick Lobkowitz and Baron NadherHy,
who represent the strongest anti-Ger-
man tendencies at Vienna, have left
the city for Switzerland, charged with
a mission about which no details are
given, according to the Neues Jour-
nal of Vienna.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

Col j. Barbour Russell was greatly
improved today, he having been con-
fined to his home the past three days
by illness.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
To Lift German Yoke From Rumania

London, October 26-French patrols
have crossed the northwestern part of
Bulgaria at LON Palanka and forced
their way into Rumania to liberate
that country after years occupancy
by the Germans, according to a
French war statement received here.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
REPUBLICANS REFUTE
PLEA OF PRESIDENT
Party's War Record In Congress
Shown to BE without Defect
American Peoples War, Not
Presldent's-"R -"Republlcan
Party Stands For I'm.
conditional Sur
render"

Washington, October 26-Republi-
can leaders in Congress have accept
ed the challenge of the President and
have issued a statement bristling with
defiance and attacking every point
that the President attempted to make
in his statement. Excerpts from the
declaration of the Republicans, signed
'hV Senators Lodge and Smoot and
Representatives Gillett and Fess, fol-
lows:
"The Republican party stands for
unconditional surrender. There is no
Republican creed so short that there
is not room in it for those two words"
This is not the Presidents person
al war. This is not the war of Con-
gress. 1t is not the war or the Demo-
cratic or the Republican party. 1t is
the war of the American people. 1t
is more. 1t is the war of the United
States, of the Allied Powers, of the
civilized world against the barbarism
of Germany. In this great burden and
responsibility the Republican party,
representing more than half the citi-
zenship Of the country, demands it's
rightful share"
although the Republicans of the
House are in the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great war
measures than the Democratic major
ity was able to do
"The President is quite ready to ad
nit that Republicans are loyal enough
to fight and die. as they are doing by
the thousands; loyal enough to take
up great loans and pay enormous
taxes; loyal enough to furnish impor-
tant men at no salary on some of the
great war boards in Washington, in
the Presidents opinion, TO be trusted
with any share in the government of
the country or legislation for it."
"The Republican party in Congress
has supported the Administration pol
icies since the war with an unanimity
and an absence of criticism unprece-
dented in party history
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

The Lexington Herald of this week
contained picture of Miss May Wood
Brown. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George F. Brown, formerly of this city
who has volunteered as one of the
nurses at the Kentucky University
where there are 236 cases of influenza.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

County Clerk James j. Owens is i'll
at his home on East Second street.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
FOCH BATTERS
GERMANS ON
THREE FRONTS
Allies In Heavy Fighting Steadily
Driving Back the Germans-15,-
900 Prisoners Taken In Four
Days-TOtal Losses of
Foes Electives Not
Less Than 10000.

Paris, October 26-The battle has
famed up again and heavy fighting is
under way from Valenciennes to the
Meuse. The Germans are resisting
everywhere, but the, Allies continue T.
make substantial headway in the task
of driving back the enemy on the
Meuse line.
Although the recent fighting has
been marked in no sensational de-
velopments, it is having a cumulative
effect which, apart from the ground
gained, adds considerably to the vast
age of men and material with which
the Germans must reckon, In the
last four days the enemy has lost well
up toward $4,000 prisoners and 200
guns. His total losses of effectives
can not have been less than $4,000.
Strictly speaking, there are three
large battles in progress, all of which
are being conducted with equal sue
cess for the Allies. The first is being
carried on by the British Third and
Fourth armies which, pushing on
toward Mons, have reached the Val
eRciennes-Hirso double-track rail
road The second is the attack OF
General Mangin, north and east of
Laon, which has resulted in a gain
on a front of eight miles for a dis
tance of two miles. He has carried
his line out of the swamps around
Sissone. The third battle is being
fought by General Guillaumat on
front, of II miles, from Sissone to
Chateau Porcien, where the Huning
line joins the Kriemhild system of
defenses. The average gain has
been a mile, although at several
points the advance has been greater.
With the American Armies in
France, October 26-The Americans
have cleared the Germans out of the
important Bourgogne Forest, north of
Grand Pre-, driving a sharp wedge in
to the enemy lines.
The forest was taken in short
rushes, the doughboys then swinging
eastward behind the German lines and
threatening to cut off the boche north
west of Grand Pre-.
The attack in the Grand Pre- region
followed that of yesterday, farther to
the eastward, in which the Americans
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

Male and Female Help Wanted At
the Modern Laundry Apply At Onea.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26
COMPLETE

Line of Columbia Machines, and full
line of Records. Truthful statements
and liberal terms guaranteed,
CLOONEY, Jeweler, Columbia Dealer.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

"The Republican party in Congress
has supported the Administration pol
icies since the war with an unanimity
and an absence of criticism unprece-
dented in party history"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

New Crop Sorghum.
25-3t ]. C. CABLISH & BRO.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-26

although the Bepublicans of the
House are in the minority, they cast
more actual votes on seven great war
measures than the Democratic major
ity was able to do"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24
FALL and SPRING
DUROC BOARS
Al Private Sale

lf -
Owing to the state wide quarantine
which went into effect last week, I
did not sell all of my Spring and Fall
Bears at the sale.
Breeders who want to get some Of
the very best stock in the Duroc breed,
will have splendid opportunity to
get some at private sale.
] have Is head Of choice ones that
I will sell privately and at special
prices if taken within the next ten
days. These are extra good individuals.
0. 5. Larson. Owner
Phone 41s Logan, Iowa.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24

Recent reports show that ipffsdl.
mately 1000 community labor boards
Of the United States employment, ssrv-
lce have been Organized or are Id fnal
process Of organization. Be. veen TOO
and 800 Of tham are ready to function
and sons slfnady have begun work.
Full and partial returns from =
states and the District Of Columbia
give q total Of 015 boards completed
or In formation while four other states.
two OF them large Industrial common
wealths, report the organization Of
boards but not the number. The ave
remaining states failed to report.
Each community labor board ID COM
posed OF three members. one represent
ing the community's employers. the sec
ond it employees and the third. who Is
chairman. the United States employ
ment service. The employers and em-
ployees' members are chosen by their
! respective local organizations their APP
pointment being approved by the d.
rector general Of the employment serv-
Ice. It Is the work Of the community
boards to generally supervise the re-
cruitment and distribution Of workers
Tor war production, the actual recruit
ing and distributing being done by the
local offices and agents Of the employ
nent service, including the agents Of
the public service reserve.
The federal directors Of employment
for the states have been notified by
the director general to rush the organ
izatiOn Of the boards for their states
and their functioning as quickly as
possible In order to provide relief TO.
short-handed war industries.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24
Fewer Japanese Silks.

Just as we had learned to value Jap.
anese silks and crepes and so on, es
pecially as substitutes in these times
of shortage of so many materials, we
hear that certain ships engaged in the
Eastern trade, and that brought us
these serviceable and charming ma.
terials, have been loaned to the i'm.
perial government, and that has ere.
ated scarcity in transportation fa,
cilities. So georgettes, crepe dc
chimes, and SO on, are added to the list
OF growing scarcities and advancing
prices. Added to this, little silk is
coming from the French and Italian
markets.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24
Mustard Gas Invented Here.

The report that an American in
ventor laid before an agent of the bu-
reau of mines 15 months ago a form
ula for mustard gas, which the Ger
mans are now supposed to be using, is
to be taken up by the American In
ventors' association. The allegation
brought to the attention Of the asso-
citation at it's meeting the other day
was to the effect that Benjamin p.
Brooks, chief chemist of the Commer-
cial Research company of Flushing, L.
l., gave a formula to the government
bureau and heard nothing more from
it. A few months ago it was found
Germany had hit upon the gas, accord.
ing to F. ]. Hemen, president Of the
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24
TYplflEs SPIRIT or FRANCE
Brave Thirteen-Year-old Girl, with
Two Small Brothers, Doing All
the Work on Farm.

When the work in your war gar
den seems tedious and you straighten
your aching back and look longingly
toward the inviting shade Of the trees
or toward the arm chair on the awning
/ covered porch; when you mutter to
yourself that it will not matter much
whether the weeds do choke the beet
patch-it may help you to finish your
task If you call to mind story told
in My War Diary" by Mrs. Mary King
Washington.
In village near ours, says the au-
thor, girl of thirteen is running the
farm. AT the beginning of the war 1t
was thriving farm with man and
his wife, six sons and one daughter.
Then the blow fell, and all the men
in France were modified; the father
and his two eldest boys went off at
once-four hours after the decree Of
mobilization was received in the vii
lage. The farmer had no time to put
his house in order, but left the farm
in the hands of his wife and the two
big boys, aged fifteen and sixteen. The
man and his two eldest sims are now
dead, the two next are in the army,
and the poor mother, wreck phys
ically and mentally, cries all day. The
girl and the two little boys do the
whole work Of the farm. The young
est, who is only ten years old,
cannot accomplish much, but he does
manage to watch the cows and to
carry cans of milk or baskets of but
ter.
see the girl simetimes; she is per-
fectly well, never complains and never
asks, for anything except occasional
ly for warm petticoat, or hood to
keep her head and neck warm and dry
when she is working in the fields.
There are hundreds of girls doing that
work all over France.-Youth's Com
panion.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24
AS HAVE OTHER HUN THINGS
Man Complains That His German.
Made Clock Has Completely Gone
to the Bad.

My old alarm clock has gone to
smash. That may not be news item
nor it may not interest you, but up at
our home the fact that the alarm clock
wouldn't go any more was an event of
interest. 1t was ticking away on the
Shelf at quarter to IL the night of
July il. / took it up to wind it. One
twist, nd-rattletebank, siss boom all
Something, went all to pieces in the
works.
More twists, shaking, putting the
clock to ear and final determination
that it was done for. l thought to
look it over before deposting it in the
ash can. On the back was scratched
the month ami day of the purchase in
1912. 1 was looking on the face for
the last time and studying it closely.
Then down at the bottom / saw in
small letters: made in Germany"
There it had been ticking away ON the
shelf year after year, sounding its
alarm regularly, and yet never before
had noticed that detested inscription.
Probably if I had il would have gone
into tie ash can long before.
Just like lot of other ''Made in
Germany" things that we didn't know
We're around until we found them out.
But the old German clock is busted,
the works have gone to smash, it has
sounded its last alarm, and as I medi-
tated on it thought how true of
everything else shade in Germany
including the juggernaut war machine,
40 years in the building, with which
the kaiser was to ride untrammelel
over all the rest of the world. The
works sis busted.'-E. q. X, in SYRIA
cuse Post-Standard.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24

Some facts about guns and munitions
told by the secretary of war:
We are constructing q big gun plant
at Neville Island. We signed q con-
tract with United States Steel corpor-
alton to build and operate without
profit this plant for guns Of the larger
calibers. This is the biggest plant Of
this kind ever conceived and will build
guns Of not less than IA inch. The
site Is just below Pittsburgh and COW
ers about 1000 acres. The housing
will be on the hills south Of the island.
The amount Of money involved is
$4,000. 600 which is being supplied by
the United States government. This
plant will handle q tremendous amount
Of material, and will be retained By
the government after the war.
We have shipped two hundred and
fifty 155-mm. howitzers to France.
We are producing between $4,000
and 10000 machine guns per month.
OF Browning heavy 5000 to 1000;
Browning light automatic rife from
5000 to 1900 per month.
We are making about 1900 motor
tractors per month.
We are turning out all the smokeless
power we need now.
The production of rifles has been
about 200. 900 Per month.
We produce more than $1,000 pistols
and revolvers per month.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24
Her Record Still Still.

A certain family has colored serv.
ant who, while very attentive to her
duties, has never been known to give
anybody civil answer. Purely as an
experiment, the lady Of the house
brought her a new calico dress, and
gave it to her, saying:
Il am glad to have the pleasure,
Matildy, of giving you this Dress"
Yer mout hab had dat pleasure
long ago eff yer had any regard fo' my
feelings" was the gracious reply
Chicago News.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24

- aA
Orders have been given for the sup
ply Of one million emergency rations
BY the subsistence division Of the
Quartermaster corps. The emergency
ration corresponds to the iron ration OF
the British troops. It is carried In an
alright. gas-proof container and is suf-
icient to maintain q man for one day.
sustaining his full strength and .vigor.
It = strapped in the pack Of the SOL
der going over the top and may be
used only according to the instructions
given when the emergency ration is
Issued.
The emergency ration is composed
Of ground meat and wheat compressed
into cake. There is also a block
Of sweet chocolate. The bread and
wheat component may be eaten dry
or. II possible, stirred into cold water.
The cake, when boiled for five minutes
in three pints Of water, results in a
very palatable soup. or when boiled in
one pint Of water for five minutes 1t
makes porridge which may be eaten
hot or cold. When cold, it may be
sliced and fried, IL bacon or other fat
is available. The chocolate component
Of the emergency ration may be eaten
dry or made into hot chocolate.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24


The quartermaster corps has just
completed purchases Of large quantities
of foodstuffs for distribution by the
American Red Cross. The food, will
be shipped to France, Switzerland and
Denmark and used for civilian relief
and at prison camps.
The order includes more than $780,.
600 pounds of hard bread; $4,000
pounds Of oatmeal; 1873, 1888 pounds Of
fresh beef and more than 100000 cans
Of baked beans. Purchases also have
been made for the Red Cross of 2O5, 600
cans Of fish flakes. These flakes are
combination Of paddock and shad.
About $50 pounds Of fresh fish are re-
quired to make 100 pounds Of fish
fakes.
Purchases also are being made by the
subsistence division of the quartermas.
ter corps Of fOodstufts for use at
American rest camps Id England and
France. Purchase for rest camps in.
clude more luxuries than are issued
in the regular ration. Owing to the
shortage of tonnage, canned corn and
peas and other fancy staples are not
now being sent overseas for general
use. but sufficient quantities are avail.
able for men in rest camps, and for the
wounded In the hospitals.
More than 400 colleges have respond.
ed to the war departments call for
cooperation In training the new branch
Of the army, the students army train.
, ing corps. Plans are being made to
convert fraternity houses and dormi.
tories into barracks for the period Of
the war.
The S. "A. T. G. has two branches, the
collegiate, to which men qualified BY
high school graduation, are eligible;
and the vocational section, to which
grammar school graduates are eligi-
BILE. Recruits will be procured By vol.
untary induction.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24
Auto Milk Delivery

enabled
with plenty
of for
On and after empty
bottle granted you
and will any.
IL This
of labor
have been compelled
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-03
LEGAL RULES GIVEN
TO TROOPS IN CAMP
w. Times SPECIAL service

News tmcs special Service
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. sept S.
Copies OF a booklet entitled Legal
rules for Guidance of Soldiers and
Sailors" are 20 be distributed &,
men at Camp Sherman. at Chnlico
the. O.. where many Indiana sol
diers are training. through the ct
forts Of the Lake division Of the
American Red Cross. and the Ohio
branch. council of national defense.
according 10 information receive .
here
Purposes and provisions of the
soldiers and sailors civil relief act.
war risk insurance law. wills
power Of attorneys and guardian
ship are among subjects explained
In the booklet. Introduction of the
book says in part.
Put your business in order be
fore YOU leave home
"See that the interests Of your
wife. children, relatives or other de
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-03
BEGIN REGISTRATION
OF VOTERS IN CAMP

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Sept. s.
The frst actual work Of registering
soldiers for purposes Of voting in the
state election in Novem Der in Indi-
ana is 20 begin az Camp Sherman,
ChiIlicothe q. \ com mission has
been getting the addresses of soldiers
for some time. and ma king arrange
ments 20 conduct the registration.
The commission will ask the state
election commissioners 20 have "a
sufficient number of state ballots
printed before the usual time for
delivery 20 county clerks by oct. -.
The clerks then can enclose the bal
lots with county and township ba
lots and forward them 10 the voting
commission which i'm turn will see
that they are forwarded 20 the
camps W here soldiers from this state
are in training or az work.