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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

asphalt when the horse began to slide and tried to hold him up. But he fell
with a CONTINGENCIES that could have given points to Mother Eve and Old
Rome.
Pink Nuby kept to her sack, but helped along with advice which the
other was too wise to follow.
The old horse lay as rigid as a dead thing that needed bury1ng, his eye
balls showing white and his exposed teeth hard and yellow, like winter corn,
Just as it seemed the exciting moment for a policeman to come along and
do things with his pistol, a good Samaritan crossed from the south side or the
Observation-Disclosures some harness-untanged the reins from thu hind
hoof-boosted old bony to his feet aud set him between. his arnes -buckled
him in and tossed the lines TO Earfaps, who had numbered back to her seat
waved a hand in Jolly protest to ward off jubiating graitude-and bolted
out of the incident.
You couldn't expect an earth earthly chap with an unregenerate air OF
been at lunch-and maybe before and after-that prohibition lac lot YET
succeeded in apotheosizing out Of his system to size up to he outward virtue
of that other Samaritan of the Scripture, but the deed vas equally helpful
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

vember three young officers put their heads together to find a way to meet
this need. They we're Capt L. Fl. Ellison, engineers, U. S.. R.; Capt 7. H.
Messer, engineers, U. S. r, and Lieut. e. G. Iron, infantry, N. A. Secretary
of War Baker gave them his hearty Endorsement of a project they worked
out for O service club, to be launched in Washington with auxliaries wher
ever officers of the army and navy are gathered.
A historic Washington home was leased and opened IS the headquarters
of the parent club. This home is the socaned Westinghouse mansion, 1900
Twentieth street, facing Dupont circle. 1t was built by James G. Blaine
later belonged to his son., was occupied for a brief time by Joseph Letter, and
passed into the hands of the Westinghouse family and now is the property
of George Westinghouse, Jr, from whom it was leased.
So popular has the club become that options already have been obtained
upon several other buildings in the heghborhood, which ar under consider
ation for use a 8 additional sleeping quarters. In the original club building
there lot only are rooms t. be had for officers who remain here for a time
but the fourth floor is given over to a barracks to accommodate the overflow
of transients who desire accommodations for a night II two a s their assign
ments bring them to Washington.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

may also be allowed, if this does not
prevent eating the other foods men.
toned.
No coffee or tea-not even a taste.
Leave them for the grown-ups. Milk,
cocoa, not too strong, and fruit juices
are the drinks for children, and plenty
Of water always.
Sweets at Meal Time.
Sweets are good for them-the right
ones at the right time. Dates, raisins,
stewed fruits, simple buildings, sugar
cookies, are better than candy. Give
them at meal time. Between meals let
them have bread and butter, a cracker,
or fruit. They won't spoil the appe-
tite, and candy will.
Here are some good dishes for chill
dren. They are good for grown-ups
too. The recipes provide enough for o
family of five.
MiIk-VegetabIe Soups.
l quart milk (skim 2 cupfuls thor
milk may be oughly cooked
used. vegetable finely
2h tablespoonfuls chopped, mashed
flour. or put through a
z taDleSpOOn1uls sieve. Spinach
butter or mar peas, beans, po-
garine or other tatoes, celery, or
fat. asparagus make
1 teaspoonful salt. good soups.
Stir flour into melted fat and mix
with the cold milk. Add the cooked
vegetable and stir over the fire until
thickened. If soup is too thick add o
little water or milk.
Rice Pudding.
l quart milk. Y teaspoonful salt,
1-3 cupful rice Is teaspoonful
1-3 cupful sugar ground nutmeg
II cupful raisins or or cinnamon.
chopped dates.
Wash the rice, mix all together, and
bake three hours in a very slow oven,
stirring now and then at first. This
may be made on top of the stove in a
double boiler, or in a ~fireless cooker.
Any coarse cereal may be used in
place of rice.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

in a model OF a boxtrap nest for nonproductve egg hens. The hen sits in the
nest the bottom of which contains a hole about three inches in diameter.
When she lays an egg down it drops through the hole into a box prepared
with straw to insure nonbreakage, and when the old hen rises n o egg is to
be seen. Presto changed She rests, and thenceforth lays another sheled
beauty.
There hangs a luminous harness which has been patented, so that q horse
being driven through the country at night will look like a sheet of chained
up men will not come along ur way if they know we ire loaded for them.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
NEW FOOD LEAFLETS ARE
READY FOR DISTRIBUTION.

Three more United States food
leaflets, the war time food mes
sages issued Jointly by the food
administration and the depart
ment of agriculture, recently
have been added TO the seven al
ready published. They are,
Vegetables for Winter" "Plen-
ty of Potatoes" and Instead of
Meat" AS with the first leaflets
Issued, the department of agri-
culture with the funds at its dis
posal, will be able to supply
these leaflets directly only to
leaders and active workers In
the food conservation move
ments.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
No Liuht on the Subject.

"Who is the author of the saying:
Meeting the devil before day?" asks
a correspondent of the Adams Enter
prise, and the editor replies:
Dunno. Sometimes we are under
the impression that we said it O~urself,
after we had successfully lodged q
well-aimed kerosene lamp, on a 8 a. M
stairway"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

ITOIn hog unu COrnpOne. OHe sat Ue-
hind on a sack of something, shrouded
under a quilt and with her head bound
all around with a pink nuby that had
faded in the wash. The woman who
drove was topped with a fur cap with
ear flaps that was lawfully intended
for a man. Everything else was lathes
and scantling picked up from some
house wrecking, except for n chicken
that craned it's head above a wired box
top.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Still With us.

Wifey (reminiscently)-Oh for the
good old days, George.
Hubby-What old days, Susan7
Wifey-Why, the days of our grand
parents, when there were so many
brass knockers e
Hubby-H'm! Marie, there are
plenty of knockers around now, and
all of them seem to have abundance of
brass.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Their Good Point.

"There is one good thing, at least
TO be said for burglars"
"What is that?"
"They are seldom lacking in enter
prises."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Both Wavs at Once.

"He talks miserably and yet Re talks
WELL"
How can he do both?"
Because he is a solicitor for an ar
tesian well company"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

Swarmed to Washington too fast to be
absorbed by the existing club. Hence
the United Service Club of America
had it's inception. But the Washing
ton problem is not the only N the
new club hopes to meet. Henceforth
officers will gather in many cities, near
the great camps and environments in
this country, and later behind the
fighting lines abroad. Even greater
will be the need in these places for
some common meeting ground for men
who wear shoulder straps. Last No
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

lions who had entered the war against autocracy at the date of its compile
ton. August, 1917. Since that time Brazil has brought the number % H.
President Wilson was the first official to see the flag, and it bears the
stamp of authority through the official sanction of Secretary of State Lansing
while the order OF flags was compiled by Second Assistant Secretary of State
Alvey Adee. t -
represent the allies in the order of their entrance into the war. In the line
the United States is twelfth in the list which is IS follows: Serbia, Russia,
France, England, Montenegro, Japan Belgium Italy Portugal Roumania'
United States, Cuba, Panama, Siam.
Within the circle Of hags-the circle that is q symbol Of eternity, with
ifs background of white denOtng purity of purposes a shield, thu shield
NJ the allies crowned by the American eagle, in which protecting tahns is
held the motto-Ilberty. Humanity. Democracy-a sentiment particularly
fitting to the spirit of the hour.
There's are IL stars and II stripes in the shield. The stars are set against
a chief Of dark azure. The paRs OF stripes, caught from the c0ors OF the
allied flags, have been almost mathemahcaly arranged so that any three OF
them read successfully, will form the colors Of som OF the flags
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

mind may here be found in the various
freak inventions which go forth each
working day of the office. Almost daily
some inventive genius offers a model
of something which will benefit the
great world at large, and perhaps with
in the same hour some mechanical lun-
attic seeks a patent on some rattle
brain" idea which he avows will cause
people to live 600 years If they but
follow instructions on the perfect
system of physical culture"
A certain noultrv peniuS has Sent
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Friends.

"a dog is mans best friend"
"Wen," replied the prudent citizen
considering the price of ham and eggs,
a pig and a hen must be very comfort.
ing, ever If they're not so sociable."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
A Precautionary Measure.

"Win you be true to me while I'm,
gomez"
"Of course-but don't be gone too
long, will you, dear?"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Mot In His Diet.

"Your Office girl takes two hours for
lunch and you take only 30 minutes"
Eyes"
"Why is thatf"
81 guess 1t Is because I a get along
without q movie for dessert"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Query.

$50 you're a tisherman?"
"Yes, sir"
"What are your net earnings in .
r?"-Florida Times-Union.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Another Look.

Ell look for work" a man once said.
A job came round his way.
He gave one look and turned his head
And looked the other way.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
The Remedy.

81 don't know what was the matter
with Elsie last night. When 1 spoke
to her her eyes dropped and her face
fell"
'Then / should think what the gir5
needed was a pick-me-up."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
shakespeare on propstitch.

"Will you join a Shakespeare clubT
"For what purposef'
"Oh, l s'pose the usual purpose. To
knit"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16

The IOrm OF u nag IHHI IS uHIqu0 III
both the breadth and sentiment OF It's
symbolism.
Designed and painted by Miss
Wilmuth Gary, who as composer was
awarded the medal and diploma for
musical composition at the worlds
fair, this flag of America and her
shield of the allies the motto: Liberty,
Humanity, Democracy"
Set upon a pure white ground, the
flag is striking in appearance with its
large circle of the flags of the II ma
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Old Bony, Slippery Street and a Good Samaritan

TIE WAS one bony rbbed old horse that couldn't skate. So he slipped o N the
gingham-apron class, both with the comfortable shapeessness that comes
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
AnneaI to > prv constItuencv.

VPPSU' ~
did you ever make any temperance
speechesT'
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum.
"Dld they help anybodyf"
81 should say so. They helped me
to get elected"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Washington Composer Designs Flag Of Allies

TO A WASHINGTON composer and artist belongs the distinction of having
/ pt into tangible form the idea of the unity of purpose of the United
States today with that of her allies in the great war. This has been done in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Some Of the Freaks Found in the Patent Office

THE man who said that the one place in all the United States where freaks
! existed and weret TO be found in great abundance was the patent office a
Washington, certainly told the truth. The crazest ofsprings of the human
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
6 WASHINGTON 81
8 : SIDELlG1IS = :
United Service Club Of America Proves Popular

M ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has a historic Army and Navy club. Like
w everything else connected with the war and navy departments, the sud-
den exhaustion Of the nations aghing forces overtaxed this club: Officers
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
MEALS THAT MAKE STURDY YOUNG AMERICA

Not long ago some of the nations expert thought on food problems
specialists of the department of agriculture and the food administration
concentrated O a leafet, food for Your Children" due consideration
being given to war food problems. Among other things the specialists
suggested these sample meals S models of sufhciency and economy. There
are two suggestions for each meal. Many others, as well as popular dis
cussions of child feeding, re contai ned in Food for Young Children"
Farmers Bulletin III, a larger publication prepared by the United States
department of agriculture
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Breakfast

Breakfast.
No. /.
Apple sauce, oatmeal
with milk, milk to
drink.
No. 2.
Stewed prunes, cocoa
(weak), toast and but
ter.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Dinner.

Mol.
Stew, with carrots, po-
tatoes and a little meat,
whole wheat bread,
creamy rice pudding,
milk to drink.
No. 2.
Fish. with white sauce,
spinach or any greens,
corn bread, milk to drink.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-16
Supper.

NO. i.
Cream of bean soup,
crackers and jam, milk.
No. 2.
Baked potato, apple
betty, milk.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
Quarantine To Be Lifted 18th
Quarantine Of Rockingham and Othe1
Points in Richmond County to be
Raised Next Monday at 6 a. m.
Unless Conditions Should
Require a Continuance.

The Richmond County Board Health in session Wednesday
afternoon decided that the influenza situation much improved
to warrant the lifting of the quarantine Monday
ing at o'clock This accordingly will be done unless conditions
in the meantime should become worse in which event Health
Supervisor Maness is empowered to again enforce it.
The Board ordered individual homes in which influenza
appears to be quaranned after the lifting the general quarantine
The Board recommends that election day Tuesday
the people be asked not to gather in crowds about the polling
places and that the pohodes allow only four people at one time
not including themselves and officer in the where the
election is being held.
The Board also recommended that the Commissioners of
Rockingham ordinance forddng children omthe streets
IN the business part of town until the schools
was ordered by the Board that after the quarantine is lift
ed the merchants of Rockingham allow than four persons
IN their stores the Time addition to the regular clerks
and store force This applies and other places OF business
was also urged that the people of the county do their trading
during the week. much possible that the crowded cond
tons on Saturdays may be avoided
The lifting of the quarantine does apply to the restrict
ions on all kinds of shows churches and schools Due notice will
be given when these restrictions to be removed
The conditions throughout the county much better.
glance the daily report of given below clearly shows
this The disease to have been especially malignant Wolf
Pit the coored folks Several trained Sunday
secured from Wilmington and elsewhere and that township
and they rapidly aiding lettering conditions Nourshing
soups and food being prepared daily the Everett cottage
the pond by Miss Mary Cliff Bennett and Mrs. John Sandy
Covngon 1.-THE Emergency Hospital at Great Falls Mill in Rock
gham caring for dozen and half patients and the excellent
nursing there given them has undoubtedly saved lives This i'm
provsed hospital is doing splendid work
In Rockingham stated above, the number of cases has
never been 60 and there serious Three
deaths have occurred in town. Will Mason cood Oct TO- Charlie
Porter white Oct g. Miss Bertha Coble, white Oct 25th
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
Cartons Have Arrived.

The Cartons for the Christmas
packages for the soldiers in
France have arrived, and can be
secured from the Office of the
Richmond County Insurance &
Realty Co., from Mrs. A. L. Nc.
Donald, the Home Relief Score.
tary, upon presentation of the
coupon from the soldier. No
carton can be secured unless the
coupon from the soldier is pre-
scented. The party to whom the
COUPON belongs will then keep
the coupon, after securing the
carton, and after carton is packed
must present said coupon with
carton to the Red Cross for in
spection and re-packing. The
boxes must be sent off prior to
Nov. 18th. On page seven of
this issue can again be seen the
rules governing the issuance of
these cartons.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
Carrier Resigns.

Don. L. Coppedge, who ha:
been Carrier of the Route 5 mai
for the past nine years, Wednes
day rendered his resignation
August 1st he secured a three
months leave of absence, in order
to engage in construction work
at a Virginia camp, and he likes
his larger pay there so we'll that
he will continue in that work in.
stead of returning to his mail
route. His substitute, Mrs. d.
L. Coppedge, has carried the mail
for the last three months and will
continue to carry it until a Car.
rier can be appointed.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31

Z = h
The Emergency Hospital at
Great Falls was opened Oct. %.
The following patients have been
treated therein and have now
been discharged: Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hogan, Mrs. Brigham, Mrs.
Thomas, Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. ].
w. Goodman, Nellie Bradley,
Hattie Mauldin, Claude Yates
The following are in the hospital
now: Mrs. Chas. Coble, Eula Lap
tl1am, Viola Andrews, Ed Ezzelle,
Cradle Hart, Mr.. Jenkins.
Miss Lillian George. of Will
mington, assisted by Mrs. H. w.
Willis, Of Wilmington, and Miss
Hattie Marks and Miss Ola Har-
ris and Mrs. J. 7. Bennett, are on
day duty; while Mrs. Morgan, of
Hendersonville, and Mrs. Robbins
are on at night.
The daily record OF new cases
as reported to DR.. Maness for the
entire county is:
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31

Rockingham, N. c., Oct. %, 1918
Fellow Mill Workers:
wantyou to stop minute
and listen to me and then think some
for yourselves. The Election is near at
hand, and there is bunch of people try.
ing to mislead us about how to vote
Some of the same old crowdor party that
has been trying to do it to my own know
ledge for the past 40 years. The claims
they make and the reasons they give for
making changes this year are the most
unreasonable of any they have ever made
yet. Let's see minute if you would have
| things back like they were when the
Republicans were running the Country
| Bad roads, no schools worth mentioning,
Jobs scarce, wages low. Everybody want
Ing your job, if you worked on public
work; and if you were farmer and work.
ed at home you could barely live.
Couldn't get enough fol- anything you
could raise those days to pay the expense
of raising it, and when fellow did finally
give up the old farm, and went to work
for some one by the day, the price was
small, and the hours were long, and the
man or concern that employed you was
so exacting that you were liable to lose
your job any time and when you did there
were two or three fellow ready to take it.
am filling place now that man,
and mighty fine man, one that was
competent to fill the place. worked at
for Is years for 80 cents per day, ana
was worth less when he quit the job than
he was when he went on it. get for
this Same work $3.50 per day. Some
might say Yves, but you have to pay so
much more for what you eat and wear
now" Well, that much is so but we've
got something to PAY WITH. There is no
need having things so cheap, and nothing
to buy them with.
Boys, listen, l wouldn't have things
changed for anything in the world
Things just suit me exactly. Why. it's
the first time in the history of the Coun-
try that the poor man has ever had a
showing. If he wants to work he can
get more for his labor than he ever could
before
can see no reasons for not keeping
our present Congressman and Senators
right where they are. Don't change things
particle. Every red-blooded Southern
man ought to be proud of the record they
have made and are making. Let's not
hamper our great leader by sending in
new and untried men, especially, men
that belong to party that has always
made laws that made the rich man richer
and the poor man poorer.
Come on out to the polls, boys, and
let's show our leaders that we are proud
of them, that we appreciate what they
have done and are still doing for us, and
show that old crowd that we are not that
easy fooled, and that we know when we
are getting what is coming to us!
Yours very truly,
M. L. Linker.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
Sale.

Masonic suit, complete outfit, and a
very heavy Chinchilla overcoat, both in
perfect condition
Blue broadcioth ladies cloak.
Suit case and grip.
Complete sets of the following authors,
in good binding: Alexander Dumas,
Charles Paul de Kock, Guy de Maupas,
SAINT.
Gray wicker baby carriage; original cost
$47.50; will sell for $40.
Three-piec parlor set in mahogany and
brown leather.
Two large black leather chairs Zone
rocker.)
Open-grate heater, small.
Dumb-bells.
-Four steps for plants.
White enamel kitchen cabinel.
Eiego. unused, and El-grido electric APP
pliances.
Phone 2ls.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
Stones and Tin Foil.

The Red Cross is anxious tc
make a shipment of seeds, stones,
pits and tin foil next week. Any.
one having collections of stones
etc, or tin foil will please send
them to the Red Cross Sewing
Room before the last Of next
week in order to make out this
shipment.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
81 PER CENT OVER
Richmond County Subscribes
for Fourth Liberty Loan to
Amount Of $685. $50, or 80
Per Cent Over Apportion-
ment.

Richmond county certainly
responded nobly for this Fourth
Liberty Loan bond issue. The
apportionment assigned the coun
ty was 100000, whereas coun
ty subscribed the magnificent
totalof S659,450! This represent
ed 1850 subscriptions.
In the Third Liberty Loan the
county was asked to subscribe
$751; 400, but over doubled it with
$336,950. But there were only
1894 subscriptions.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
New Quarters.

The handsome new municipal
building has been completed, and
the fire apparatus was moved
therein Monday. The chief Of
police now has his office on the
second floor. The Post-Dispatch
will later give an extended des-
cription Of this building; it is
located to the rear of the Bank Of
Pee Dee building.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
Cotton Report.

The number of bales of cotton
ginned in Richmond county to
Oct. 18th was 9,177, as compared
with $3.50 to same date last year,
according to Enumeration G. G..
Terry.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-10-31
Why They Were There.

Mr.. Bacon-Look at the item in this
paper: The total wealth of the United
States is estimated at $130,000,00O,-
900.
Mrs. Bacon-Why are there so many
ciphersin there?
"The ciphers, my dear, represent the
wealth of a large proportion of the
people"