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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11

Washington.-The drawing of order
number for the 100000 draft reg
istrants enrolled September IL was
started by President Wilson.
Blindfolded, the President CROPPED
into the great glass lottery bowl and
drew out one of $4,000 capsules. 1t
contained slip numbered 1922, thus
giving to men holding that serial
number first place in their respective
classes after registrants already
classified under previous registrations.
The number was low enough to touch
the list of every local draft board in
the country except one or two of the
very smallest.
Vice-President Marshall drew the
second number, and was followed by
16 other notables who had been in
vited to participate in the formal cere-
mony of opening the drawing. When
it was over, officers and enlisted men
of the army, assisted by a corps of
tellers, settled down to the task of
emptying the bowl.
Master Lists To Boards.
Only the first 100 numbers were
flashed to the country by telegraph
Because of the impracticability of
telegraphing all of the 1900, the press
had been asked to refrain from send
ing more than 100 numbers. The
complete master lists will be mailed
as soon as the drawing is over to
district draft boards throughout the
country, to be made public by them
President Draws 1922.
The President, with Mrs. Wilson,
reached the caucus room just before
noon and Joined group, including
the Vice7President, Speaker Clark,
the chairman of the Senate and House
Military Committee, Secretary Daniels,
Acting Secretary Crowell of the War
Department: General March, chief of
staff of tho Army; Admiral Benson,
chief of naval operations, and others,
who took part in the drawing.
All was in readiness for the drawing,
including battery of cameras that
reached across the room directly be-
fore the bowl. This bowl, the one
used in the original draft lottery, had
been brought from it's place at indie
pendence Hall, Philadelphia, for the
occasion.
Before making his explanatory state
ment. Provost Marshal General Crow
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11

der whispered to the President that
in his case the blindfold, always worn
by those drawing numbers, would be
dispensed with. Mr.. Wilson said he
thought 1t would be better to make no
exception in his case, so the blindfold,
made from a slip of cloth that Gov
cred chair used in the signing of
the Declaration of independence, was
adjusted as the President approached
the bowl.
The crowd applauded as number 322
was announced and the President re-
turned to his seat to watch the re-
mainder of the opening ceremony.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
MINERAL CONTROL BILL PASSES
Provides s5oooo,ooo Fund To Aid Min
ing And Distribution.

Washington.-With the adoption by
the Senate of the conference report,
enactment of the Mineral Control bill
providing for Government stimulation
of production and distribution of GER
tain minerals needed in connection
with the war was completed. The
measure now goes to the President
Under its provisions, revolving fund
of $5o,000,000 is provided and the
President given authority to create
one or more corporations to develop
or aid in mining and distribution.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
SENATE KILLS SUFFRAGE BILL
Amendment Lacks Votes Of The
Necessary Two-Thlrds.

Washington.-The Senate refused to
grant the request of the President
that the woman suffrage resolution be
passed as a war measure. After five
days of bitter debate, corridor confer
ences and cloak room negotiations, the
Susan B. Anthony Federal Amendment
resolution, enacted by the House last
January, received on the final roll call
six votes less than the necessary two
thirds majority. Fifty-four Senators
were recorded for it and 80 against it,
with II absent and paired.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
$4,000 HUN PRISONERS TAKEN.
Found Armed BY Allied Forces In
Siberia.

Toxic. = Fifteen thousand armed
Austro-German prisoners from Blago-
vestchensk reached Heiho on Septem-
Der IS and were disarmed, according
to a statement issued at the War
Office. The statement says that jap
anese and Chinese, who have been on
duty along the Amur River, entered
Blagovestchensk with the main force
of Japanese cavalry when that city
was taken by the Allied forces.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
Hun GRIP BROKEN
ON WEST FRONT.
Hindenburg Line Disintegrating
Under Allies Blows
FOCH MAY MAKE 1T A K0UT
Smash Through BY Haig's Men Just
North Of st. Quentin, Followed
BY Investment Of City BY
French.

Washington.-The German grip on
Northern France and Belgium has
been definitely broken. Even the most
cautious military observers in Wash
ington agreed that the Hindenburg
line was disintegrating and army Off
GERS centered their whole attention on
the efforts of the German leaders to
extKicate their armies without crush.
ing disaster.
Outf1anked in Belgium and in the
Champagne, the great German zone
of defensive works known as the Hin
denburg line already was becoming un-
tenable when Field Marshal Haig's
men smashed through it just north of
st. Quentin. The immediate invest
ment of the city by French troops and
the swift widening of the breach
northward, coupled with the continued
rapid progress of French, Belgian and
British forces In Belgium, it is thought
here, may possibly upset the whole
German scheme of retirement which
already had begun on the Rheims
front
British penetration of the line, it
was said, may furnish Marshal Foch
man retreat, always with the POSSIBLE
fly of precipitating veritable rout.
Hinged by wall of victorious enc
mics over the whole front from the
North Sea to Verdun, the situation of
the Germans is undoubtedly grave, the
combination has had the result of slow.
Ing down the Allied progress.
The Germans are making a deter
mined effort in Flanders as every
where else to stop the onrush. They
realize that if the Allies push even
ave miles farther eastward on the
Belgian front Ostend will become I'M
aenable, while an advance of ten
miles would jeopardize the entire
coast line.
Between Cambria and ST. Quentin
the German line of defense has been
broken. 1t is uncertain what lines
the enemy has in the rear. The Brit
ish advance threatens the German
line Of retreat in the Disc Valley and
also from the Massif of St. Goblin.
Between the Aisne and the Vesle
Rivers French troops in the last three
days have advanced on front of 10
miles to depth of three to four miles.
The Germans now are retreating to-
ward the line they held in 1917.
Wide gaps have been torn in the
German lines between ST. Quentin and
LIE Catelet by Field Marshal Haig's
forces. The British commander re-
ported the breaking of the German
line on the Fonsommes-Beaurev
front. (Beaurevoir is two and one
half miles east of LIE Catelet and Fon-
sommes is nearly five miles northeast
of st. Quentin.)
Sequehart, four and one-half miles
southeast of Bellicourt, has been cap
kured, as has the hamlet of Preselles,
just to the north. South of Cambria
British and Scottish troops, together
with New Zealanders, have occupied
Crevecoeur and Rumilly.
Field Marshal Haig reported that
the Australians had finished the work
Of clearing out the German defenses
south of LIE Catelet and Gouy and had
freed Joncourt, just to the south, of
enemy troops.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
10 MORE HEROES HoNoRED.
Pershng Reports Award Of D. S.
Cross.


Washington.-General Pershing re-
ported the award of the distinguished
service crosses to 10 officers and en-
listed men of the American expedi-
tionary forces for extraordinary hero
ism in action. They are: Captain C.
M. Williams, Medical Corps, no rec
ord; deutenants Godfred H. Wyke,
Governors Island, N. Y. Frank Batta,
Chillicothe, Mo-; Harry S. E. Wheat,
North Cambridge, Mass; Sergeants
John H. E. Withrope, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Walter L. Chellis, Ellsworth Mich
igan; Thomas Cavanaugh, Pittsburgh,
Pa; Corporals Socrates Carageorg,
Greece, and Robert R. Riley, Chester,
Pa. and Wagner Robert L.. Worden,
ambulance company, Wichita, Kansas.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
NEW PHASE OF HUMANITY.
Wilson's Speech Highly Commended
At Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires.-Commenting editori.
ally on President Wilson's Liberty
Loan speech, La Razon says:
president Wilson said much. but
meant much more. This is the be-
ginning of the greatest lesson taught
in the twentieth century-the lesson
of force changed into law. A league
Of nations-with its tribunal of hui
man JUSTICES most significant step
toward universal perfection. let US
pay homage to it as the beginning of a
new phase of humanity"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
20 SAILORS DROWNED.
Eleven Rescued When Naval Tender
Capsizes In Heavy Sea.

An Atlantic Port.-Twenty sailors
from naval vessel in the harbor here
We're drowned by the capsizing of a
naval tender in which they were re-
turning to their ship. Eleven other
men were rescued. None of the bodies
of the dead has been found. Naval
authorities refused to disclose the
names of the men, who had been on
shore leave and were returning to
their ship.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
$3.50 WHEAT URGED.
Special Committee Named To See
President Wilson.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Repre-
sentatives from wheat-growing States
and officials of the National Wheat
Growers Association in conference
here decided to appoint special COM
mittee to urge upon President Wilson
immediate action fixing the price of
wheat for 1919 at $3.50 a bushel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
BRITISH CASUALTIES e4,es7.
1888 OF These Were Killed Or Died
OF Wounds Last Month.

London. - Casualties among the
British forces re~orted during the
month of Septembe. totaled 94,937 off
GERS and men, divided as follows:
Killed or died of wounds: Officers,
1899; men, 1874. Wounded or miss
ing: Officers, 5,573; men. 1851.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
10000 NEW CASES OF FLU"

Additional Pneumonia Patients Num-
Der 733 And Deaths 277.
Washington.-More than 10000 new
cases of Spanish influenza were report.
ed from army camps during the IS
hours ending at noon Monday. Pneu-
monia leases reported numbered 1888
and deaths, 277. The total of pneu-
monia cases now is 5,766 and deaths,
1877.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
THE Hague FOR PEACE TALK.

Holland Gives Ready Acquiescence To
Austrian Inquiry.
The Hague-The Austro-Hungarian
Government, according to an official
statement issued here, has suggested
to Holland that it would appreciate if
any conferences of, the belligerents
arising out of the recent Austrian
peace note could be conducted at The
Hague. The Dutch Government re-
piled that it would be happy to ex-
tend the hospitality of the royal resi-
dence for that purpose.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
AMERICAN AlRMAN DIES.
Lieutenant Mccormick, Gunner, In
lured In Fight.

ington.-Lieutenant Alexander
A. Mccormick, Chicago, died Septem-
Der "a from injuries received in bat
tie while acting as gunner on an air.
plane in France.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
HUN BASES BoMBARDED.
Entente Warships Shell ostend And
Zeebruque.

London.--Ostend and Zeebrugge,
German naval bases on the Belgian
Coast, were heavily bombarded by En-
tente warships, according to a dis
patch from Amsterdam to the Central
News Agency. The German batteries
on the Belgian coast replied vigor-
ously.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
RUSSIAN GOLD TO HUNS.
Arrival OF Second chipment Is Re.
ported.

Amsterdam-The second shipment
of gold from Russia to Germany has
arrived at the German frontier, and
has been taken over by an official of
the Reichsbank, according to a Berlin
dispatch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
BULGARIA G|vESUP
SIGNS ARN|sTICE
Agreement Calls for Evacuation
of Occupied Territory
HER RAILWAYS GIVEN UP
Agreement Signed BY French Com
manderln-chicf And Delegates
Of Bulgarian Govern
ment.

London.-Strong belief exists here
that peace offer from Turkey is i'm.
minent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-10-11
Inaugurates Draft in the SEN
ate Marble Room
322 is THE FIRST NUMBER
Vice-Presdent Marshall Draws The
Second Number-Others Partici-
pating In The Ceremony In
cluded Speaker Clark.
FIRST HUNDRED NUMBERS.

The order of the numbers follows,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22
FLORIDA NEWS ITEMS
New York Packer)


Palatka, Fla,-Everything points to
an unusually large acreage of Irish
potatoes in Putnam county this year.
The soil has been carefully prepared
and fair yield is expected.
Green Cove Springs.-Preparations
for potato planting is the big farm
operation here now,
Panama City.-Truck in Bay coun-
ty is doing very well. Worms trou-
bled the cabbage crop for awhile but
their depredations have been stopped.
Palatka.-In spite of the cold wea-
Their recently, potato planting has
gone steadily forward.
Bartow.-The late cold spell did
considerable damage to. vegetables ex-
cept cabbage Citrus fruit was not
severely injured.
Live Oak.-The probable acreage Of
watermelons in the county this year
is 500.
Live Oak.-The idea of beating the
boil weevil by planting something
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22
FILM SUBJECTS FALL OFF
MORE THAN 1000 AS A
RESULT OF WORLD WAR

The making Of moving pictures
has decreased because of the war,
according to statement issued re-
Gently by Cranston Brenton, chair
man of of the National Board of Re-
vie wof Motion Pictures of New
York city.
He said the national board, which
reviews more thin SO per cent OF
all the pictures exhibited in the
country, passed S,436 reels in 1917,
being 744 fewer than in 1916, and
said the number of diyeret pictures
or subjects was 3,114, against 3,114
in 1915.
These figures" he said reflect
the effect of the war upon the max
ing of pictures and the demand OF
the yublic regarding the type of pic
lures. The chief falling-off in pro,
duction was in the month just be.
fore the declaration of war and the
following two months
Evidently at that time the pro-
ducers were uncertain as to what
the effect of the war would be upon
the demand for motion picture en-
tertainments. Since July the produc-
ton has followed the geeraI trend
Of that of the previous year, the
numbers released, however, being
somewhat smaller, with an upward
tendency in December.
"The December has taken a
marked interest in motion pictures"
he added, mot only as propaganda
for enlistments, etc, but as a means
Of entertainment for soldiers and
sailors in the training camps, on
board ship and at the front in
France. The American Cinema COM
was appointed to carry the
Of democracy to Europe
by means of motion pictures The
war department believes in the use
fulness of the motion pictures as a
means of conserving the civil and
morale"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22

other than cotton is developing. Thir-
ty-six men went with the agent into
South Georgia to learn more about
the peanut industry.
Starke.-The farmers Of Bradford
county have ordered carload Of
Irish potatoes for seed.
Worthington Springs.-The grow.
ers of this farming section will plant
about 100 acres of Irish potatoes this
spring.
Pierson.-Growers are devising
means and are preparing to plant a
larger acreage of Irish potatoes than
ever before.
Seville.-Growers here are prepar-
ing to plant large acreage of Irish
potatoes on the muck lands of Lake
Louise.
Vero.-The Vero Growers Associa-
ton has recently completed an adj
dition to its packing house at a cost
of S1,4OO. The addition is 40 x6O feet,
making the building 60x11O feet. This
gives it floor space of $500 square
feet, or 600 square feet more than
any other house on the East Coast.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22
citrus Cankef In
Is 40 Il, Wlpvu Uul
New York Packer)

Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. 22-In no
direction has the efficiency and cap.
aoiiity OF the bureau of plant indus.
Tuy' United States Department of
agriculture, had a better chance to
manifest its value than in its fight
against citrus canker. A terrible dis.
ease, which at one time threatened
the complete destruction of one Of
the most important industries of the
state has not only been brought under
control, but is likely to be stamped out
altogether. The report of the bureau
OF plant industry for December gives
some interesting facts regarding the
fight.
Inc total number of employees in
the state is 257. Number of counties
IN which canker has been found since
May, 1914, is %. The total number
OF grove trees found infected up to
december 81, 1917, was 1908. Dur
ing the same period infection was
discovered in 342,254 nursery trees.
Inc total number of properties in
lected was AIT. This number in
Guides nine properties which have
shown re-infection. When parts of
infected properties have been sold,
the portion sold when infected is car
rled as another property under the
name of the new owner. Properties
which have been declared no longer
danger centers number Ais, while 81
properties are still classed as infect
ed.
The total number of grove trees
destroyed by permission of the own
ers during the fight is given as $751;
I'll, while 2,611,514 exposed" nurs-
cry trees were destroyed by consent
OF the owners. This gives one faint
idea of the magnitude of the fight.
In fact, it was fight for the very life
of the industry and a fight which
could not have been won had it been
commenced year or two later. It was
reached its present favorable stage, !
only through the most unremitting
care and toll Citrus canker is pecu-
liar in this, that it is liable to reap
pear even two years after it is sup
posed to be cured, hence a grove can
rot be left to itself with safety until
1t has gone that long without showing
re-nfecion.
The report for December shows on.
ly one county showing infection, and
hut one property and one tree in that
county. There were 1,165,773 grove
trees inspected during that month,
and 3,673,964 nursery trees. This
shows how completely the work has
been performed, and what progress
has been made. The following table
shows the number of grove trees
found infected with canker, per
month, since the work began in May,
1914:
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22
WOULD ELEcTRIFY
THE LAKES TO PREVENT
FoRMATIo NoF FROST
(Dade City Banner)

AT a meeting of the Dade City
board of trade Col H. s. Lydick in.
troduced motion that committee
OF three be appointed to investigate
the matter of frost protection by cleo.
trically warming the surfaces of the
lakes during cold spells and thus dis.
solve the frost as 1t is formed, giving
complete frost protection to the en-.
tire land basin in which lakes are 10.
Gated.
In support of his motion Mr.. Lydick
said:
"As | pocketed my losses from frost
during the past two years, my mind
ran back to my college days, and to
the theory of frost formation.
"As l now remember it, frost be-
gins to form at the lowest point in
any land basin, and as the cold con-
tlnues the frost accumulates and fills
the basin, it occurred to me that If
a Notwithstanding agent were placed
in the bottom of that basin that would
destroy the frost as rapidly as it
formed there would be no injurious
frost in that basin that night.
Florida is nicely dotted with lakes.
Each lake is in the bottom or lowest
point of the basin in which it is To-
Gated. Heat is frost destroying
agent. If the surface of these lakes
on a frosty night were warmed to a
few degrees above frost formation,
and kept at that temperature during
the cold spell it seems to me that the
frost protection would be complete.
Il am of the opinion that an cleo
trically heated device dropped into
lake and the electricity kept running
during the cold spell,
will warm the surface Of the lake suf-
fciently to dissolve the frost and
protect the basin from any freeze
that may come"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22
THESE BOYS
(By Robert Adger Bowen of The
Vigilantes)

They are not heroes in their own es-
TEEN,
These boys whose souls with hero
ism glow,
Whose steadfast eyes so clearly see
below
The semblahce and the glamor of the
dream.
The joys and splendors Of young
life's bright show,
The ardent fame, the keen desire
to know,
And loves right royal guerdon to re-
deem.
Will they come back? we ask with
ouivering breath,
Nor dare to show the very dread we
feel,
So calm and bravely unafraid are
they:
As though the challenges they make
to Death
The purposes divine of Life reveal
IT'S we who falter at the price they
pay!
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22

July and August were the months
in which the infection always showed
the greatest and it is interesting to
mark the decrease of infection as
shown by the table in those months.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22

A. H. T. Cigars make a man happy
and easier to live with. Buy Hubby
a box today. 1898
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-01-22

The probable acreage of watermeI-
ons in suwannee County this year IS
evo hundred. There is some doubt
Cuttings cars in which to ship the
product.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-23

-oesse COVE pouLrRv--BAs,
y sell Al good ortces u you ter
snrs tigip spS
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-23
# BACK HURTS USE
SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Eat less meat IL Kidneys feel like lead
or bladder bothers you-Meat
forms uric acid.

Most folks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and clogged
and need flushing occasionally, else we
have backache and dull misery in the
kidney region, severe headaches, rheu-
matte twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach,
sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder dis
orders. -
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain In the kidney
region, get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any good drug store here,
take tablespoonful in a glass Of water
before breakfast for few days and
your kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid Of
grapes and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and is harmless to flush clogged
kidneys and stimulate them to normal
activity. 1t also neutralizes the acids
in the urine so il no longer irritates,
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive;
malkes delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which everybody should take
now and then to keep their kidneys clean,
thus avoiding serious complications.
A well-known local druggist says he
aells lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe
in overcoming kidney trouble while it. ia
only trouble.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-01-23
KEPT Her AWAKE
Tie Terrible Pains in Back and
Sides. Cardui Gave Relief.

Marksville, La.--Mrs. Alice Johnson
OF this place. writes: "For one year
suffered with an awful misery In my back
and sides. My left side was hurting me
all the time. The misery was something
awful.
could not do anything. not even sleeI
at night. II kept me awake most OF tll
night :. ! took different medicines, BIZ
nothing did me any good or relieved M,
unit! took Cardui -.
was not able TO do any of my work
for one year and got worse all the time,
was confined to my bed off and on. got
SO bad with my back that when stopped
down was not able to straighten UP
again decided | would try Cardui
-. BY time had taken the entire bottle
! was feeling pretty good and could
straighten up and my pains were nearly
all gone.
] shall always praise Cardui. con-
tinucd taking II until was strong and
we'll" Ifyou suffer from pains due TO
female complaints, Cardui may be Just
what you need, Thousands Of women
who once sufferee in this way now praise
cardui for theifs present good health.
live II trial. Nc-l37