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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-10-10
j. s. TREASURY IS
An UNT|B|NC WATCHDOG
To SAFEGUARD BONDS
Means Are Taken to Protect Owner Of
Liberty Securities Of Every
Issue.

Every item of financial legislation at
Washington these days is coming un'
der the closest scrutiny of the Treas
ury Department, and being put to the
acid test to see that 1t is going to
work out to the benefit of the Liberty
Bond owner.
Every influential meaSure which can
be brought t1-bsai' ne6tilized to cut
down the number OF sales OF bonds in
the exchanges and to keep up the
Price of what few bonds are sold.
There ia a remarkably small num-
Der of such sales, and the tendency If
the market has been toward higher
prices Tie public, the small investor
in particular. Is coming to know and
realize more fully what treasure hia
bond is to store up for the future. The
Wall Street journal. In a recent issue,
said:
Money is Cheap Now.
"All the economies Of war finance
point to government bonds as the
soundest and most fnr-sighted invest
ment a person can make during these
times. Persons should realize that by
investing in government bonds they
are buying with cheap money call on
dear money in the future.
"A dollar invested today will be
worth perhaps 81 in purchasing power
after the war. II We exercise economy
in personal expenditure and lend the
savings thereby created to the vern.
ment twill be repaid at a tlMc Wien
those savings will be able to pure lase
perhaps twice as much as they can
now. And after the war Az per cent
interest on gilt-edsed security Will
look relatively big
Alma record., 1918-12-12
SOUTHEAST COE

Willie Hopkins has moved from the
Elm Grove farm TO the ten acres near
Morgan Leonard's farm. where he
will remain for the winter II. Bry-
ant will remain on the Elm Grove
farm
\ number Of those in this vicinity
who have been sufferin from infuen-
"a are reported as much better. but
there are now several new cases. in
cludng Eldon StahPs entire family.
Small hopes are entertained for the
recovery Of Morgan Leonard. taken
I'll over week ago. and his relatives
have been summoned here. His broth
er. William. Of Chicago Is here: his
sisters, Maud Bead, of St. Louis.
Elite Johnson, Of Shepherd and his
mother and sister OF Grand Rapids.
Hugh Byors and Mr.. and Mrs !.
Belcher Of Alma were Sunday visit
ors AZ Coe
Sunday school will be held at $50
Sunday with the morning service
Immediately following. Song service
and preaching in the evening. also.
The all day meeting of the L. A.
). at the home Of Mrs. Bush for this
week was called off and instead an
afternoon meeting will be held at the
home Of Mrs. May Byers.
Alma record., 1918-12-12
RIVERDALE NEWS
BY Special Correspondent

Mrs. Nettie Rose spent the week
,nd at Ithaca, a guest Of Mrs. Cora
Hudson
Mrs Lewis Forquer was in sag
taw last Friday
Mrs. Arthur Welsh and Mrs Ber-
nice Gould were Alma visitors FRI
lay
Mr.. Lee Schaffer is nursing neal
-.lwell
Miss Thelma Schaffer entertaineo
about twenty Of her school friends,
also the teachers Of the Riverdalo
school. AT a very pleasant progressive
Finch party at her home southwest
Of town last Wednesday evening. All
report a very jolly time
Mrs r. Rosa Of Breckenridge spent
several days last week with her
daughter, Mrs. W +. Swope
The Red Cross bazaar will be held
December IA. All members should
make an effort to donate some fancy
article or an apron Mrs. John Young
very kindly a donated a large hand
made centerpiece, beautifully Gro
cheted, on which tickets are being
sold for ten cents. II IS on exhibi
Ton at Num- & Loceys general store,
and tickets may be secured from Mrs.
Jesse Birdsall or Num- & Locey.
Frank Hyde, Sr., was the fortunate
winner of the quilt.
Cleon Scott, who has been working
II Aberdeen, S D., for the past four
months, returned home last Monday
morning.
Merle Forquer has accepted po-
sition in a barber shop at Detroit,
and expects to remain there for the
Vinter.
Nr. and Mrs. Claude Manley and
hildren spent Sunday in Vestaburg,
guests Of Mrs. Vim. Carts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lucas visited
friends in Alma Friday.
Mrs. Norman Brownridge and
laughter, Margaret, spent the week
md in Isabella county, guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Brownridge.
Mr. and Mrs VIM. Meade are the
proud parents Of baby girl, born
saturday. December q. 1918.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Brownridge
and children. north Of town. were
guests II Mrs l.. A. Garner Satur-
day
The Misses Mildred Frisbie and
Nina Green were home from Alma
over Sunday
nv and Mrs Hubert MOblo re-
turned 20 Detroit Thursday after
pending week at the home Of Jack
MoblO
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wiley Of near
Alma were Sunday guests Of Chas.
Going and family.
Mrs Mary Billings spent the week
md with her son, Lewis, near Sum
aer
Mrs. Jack Evans and grandson.
Jesse Guthrie are visiting relatives
it Battle Creek.
Mrs. Fred Duffy was in Alma Mon
iav on business.
Miss Axle Bangon Of Alma was an
over Sunday guest Of her grandmoth-
sr, Mrs r. LaMay.
Mrs. Julia Rice spent several days
asst week with her son. Chas. Rice,
and family near Ithaca.
Mrs. Carrie Williams spent the
week end with her son, Fred. and
wife west Of town.
Nj and Mrs Clair Going were
sunday guests of Mr. and Mr.. l..
Nelson near Elwell
Alma record., 1918-12-12
ELM HALL

Mrs Flossie Hamilton Of Alpena is
visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. /.
~ Martin.
Mr. and Mrs Lafayette Stevens Of
Grand Rapids spent over Sunday with
the latter's sister. Mrs. Jennie Blair.
Mrs. Blair has received "A letter
that her son, Carl, has arrived in
New York and thinks he will be home
for Christmas.
FranN Guthrie has moved into Mrs
Follick's house. Mr.. Bollinger hav-
ing moved 70 Nestabug.
Ed Smith is home from Detroit for
a short visit.
Percy Tissue is moving on the NJ
y. Smith place Mr.. Smith has pur-
chased the Luther Mead farm and
will move there.
Mrs c. A. Pratt is home from
Coral
The remains of Mrs. Seneca Sly
were brought here Saturday and laid
in Elm Hall cemetery. She passed
away at the home OF her daughter.
Mrs Moss. Of Greenville.
Alma record., 1918-12-12

Mr.. and Mrs. James Fisher spent
Saturday afternoon at the home of
their son, Harry, and wife near Sum
ner.
G.. Schlappie Of St Louis was "A
Riverdale caller Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hall and
children spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs Henry White. northeast Of
town
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Battles and
son, Vincent, spent Sunday with rel
atives near Mt. Pleasant.
There are still several cases of scar
let fever, diphtheria and influenza iu
this vicinity.
The Red Cross society meet at the
home Of Mrs l.. 4. GARNER Wudncs-
day afternoon The chairman an
nounces there is good supply Of
sewing on hand which must be turned
out by the first Of the year. Although
the war Is over, 10 Is not too late to
join this wonderful organization,
which is proving 10 the people of all
countries the sincerity. honor and
good faith in the world war The Red
Cross wants every American i'm the
world inscribed In It's membership
when the Christmas roll call comes
Join today
The Y. NJ. c. A. boys spent very
enjoyable time at the school house
Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Vern Wiley and son,
Donald, were Sunday guests Of Jerry
Wolfgang and family, southwest Of
town.
Mrs Henry Baird and daughter,
Georgia, of Alma were in town Sat
urday on business.
Mrs VIM. Bradley spent Saturday
evening and Sunday in St. Louis, a
guest of her sister. Mrs. Carrie Tai
lon, and her mother, Mrs Mary
Whitney.
Miss Hazel Lewis has been ser
iously H. with pneumonia at the
home Of her sister, Mrs John
Peterman.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rundio and
children, southeast of Elm Hall were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Rundio.
Mrs. Henry Valance and Mrs.
Greenman returned home from Mar
shall last Tuesday. where they have
been for the past two weeks caring
for their sister, Mrs. Albert Miner.
who has been seriously i'll and is still
in a very critical condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Miner spent
Sunday with their daughter. Mrs
Delbert Raby, southeast of town.
Mrs. Mary Church Of Ithaca spent
the first Of the week with Mrs. Rob
crt Moblo
Mrs. Elizabeth Queen and Miss
Dorothea Swope were Alma visitors
Saturday.
Mrs. Robert Mobio and daughter.
Hazel, Jack Moblo and son. Donald
spent Sunday in Alma. guests Of
VIM Strong and family.
Help the merchants in town by do
ing your Christmas shopping at
home this year.
Mrs. Francis Brown Of Ithaca. who
has been the assistant cashier at the
Riverdale State bank for the past
three months has resigned and will
return 20 her home the first Of the
week.
Mrs. Carl Harry Of Alma spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. VIM
Harry, north Of town
Rev George Brown and wife visit
ed friends at Sumner Monday
Miss Georgia CoOnrod OF Alma
was an over Sunday guest Of her
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Smith north Of town
Alma record., 1918-12-12

wanigas at Brunner's -e4-tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

They had lost hundreds upon hun dreds of guns, to say nothing of the scores of thousands killed and wound cd who had fallen around Lemberg, and along the bloody reaches of the Stokhod
 Fortune now waved her wand again With each overturn on the eastern front she seemed to grow more whim- sicaL At the high tide of their suc- cess she turned away her face from the Russians. Six months after Lin- singen and Bothmer by sacrificing pre- cious reserves had brought the storm ing Brusiloff to halt. the tickle goddess swept her wand anCi--presto! imperial Russia was mo more,
 Petrograd fell into the hands of a mob; the Czar was made a prisoner ; Brusiloff, flouted by his renegade troops, took refuge in his Moscow home.
 Germans and Austrians, who a few short months before were battling to keep the Russians from their native soil, went forward unopposed, took back without a shot towns from which the irresistible onslaughts of Brusi- loff had dislodged them with great slaughter. And their political chiefs at Berlin, seizing with diabolical zest upon all this ruin. largely brought about through hired treachery, laid the plots which delivered Russia for a time Into German hands and brought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
THREE

upon her that night of chaos from which she has not yet emerged
 The next instance of dramatic ups and downs, In the world conflict, "a the short and inglorious war history of Bulgaria and her "Csar" Ferdinand, the man who guessed wrong.
 FERDINAND'S FICKLENESS
 Ferdinand. for months before he went in with the central powers, had been flirting with both sides
 He was out unblushingly for himself. Having decided at last that the central powers were destined to win, he waited until Won Mackensen had begun his ad- vance against Serbia in October 1915. to pour his troops through the back door of that gallant little nation and strike her down. The heroic defense of the serbians went for nothing. Ferdins-d 8 men overrun all Macedonia captured Monastir, and settled down to enjoy their victory" cherishing the deiusion that Greater Bulgaria" was at last reality and that the hated Serbs had been eject ed forever from their kingdom.
 The next year bolstered up this de- fusion. Rumania having declared for the allies, Won Macbensen led an army of Germans, Turks and Bulgarians into the Dobrudja, and, as consequence ot his own victories and those of Falken- (Continued on Page six)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
Greatest Game of See-Saw the World Has Ever Known Finally Sees -'
 Justice Triumph
BELGIUM FIRST TO SUFFER, LAST FREED
 FROM THE INVADER
Dramatic Story of Russia Showed the Tremendous Part She Played in
 Early Days of the War
A REMARKABLE REVIEW
By JOHN s. STEELE.

All American newspaper renders know that this war has been Full of startling changes. but minds dazxied by the great kaleidescope's mad whirIings find difficult the task of remembering things in order classi- flying events neatly.
 In this article John ;. Steele, managdng editor of the Edward Marshall syndicate. who. himself, has visited every front, and when ab- sent from the scene of actual com bat has been continually in want age point in London, fin close touch with a score of able writers, shifting them. now here, now there, as wars fortunes demanded, always having for himself, birds-eye view sum- marfzes the vast drama as no man previously has done and as few men ever will do. HerOics are omitted, esxtrayagances barred. but his ar tfcle, with its accompanying map, is a historical document Of real value. Read it, refresh your memory, get bfrd's-eye view, realize the magni- tude of the world events of svhich the peace conference will be the climax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

selves battling for their lives. beset by squadrons of bowling Cossacks on foaming steeds, borne down by couEt- less thousands of grim infantrymen, with lowered and glittering bayonets, caught In an avalanche of death and disaster.
 It was Brusiloff again. The Grand Duke Nicholas. removed from the chief command of the Russian armies after tho reverses of 1915. had been vlc- toriously fighting the Turks at Erze- rum and Trebizond. but Brusiloff mad been kept in Galacia and had spent the winter preparing a staggering blow for his overconfident foemen.
 Early in June, 1916-while the French in the west were heroically defend ing Verdun against the German crown prince--he struck with tremendous force against the Austrian lines in Galicia. Everywhere they bent and broke and fled The Russians cut gaps miles wide in the lines of Pflanzer- Baltin and Boehm- Ernolli. raking in multitudes of prisoners, capturing Ha-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

1icz and Czernovitz and Kolomea, men, acing the Austrian armies with total annihilation.-
 Shouts of exultation went up throughout the allied countries at this amazing recrudescence of Russian power. For weeks Brusiloff's prog ress continued unabated. He and his fiery lieutenants--Kaledin Tcherbat- chef. Leschitzky-pounded the unlucky Austrians until 1t looked as if their armies would be utterly destroyed.
 Hard-pressed though they were in the west. the Germans rushed troops to aid Austria After fighting as des- perate as any in this most desperate of wars. the Bavarian Count Bothmer succeeded in keeping the Russians out of Lemberg. and Von Linsingten, after sustaining terrible blows along tho Stokhad. managed to hold his lines outside Kovel.
 Austrians and Germans had saved themselves by the skin of their teeth. In the hands of the Russians they had left, some declare, 4S0,000 prisoners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

Humble, Tex, November 5, 1918. ~Dear Sir:
 "Just 8 few lines.i in reference Ito Tan lac. have found your preparation to be a wonderful reconstructives tonic and in my opinion it has no equal in it's line. have found it to be the best tonic to be had to build up my patients who have had Spanish influenza. have treated within the past month about fourteen hundred cases and have never been able to get sufficient Tam lac to supply our people.
 Yours very truly.
 fSirnedy sD1s. J. w. SANDLIN"
 pr. Sandlin not only enjoys very large practice as physician. but ho' is also a man of wide influence and rnrhs aH . leading citizen or the snter- prising little city of Humble, Tex.
 As d practicing physician of sixteen years experience, Dr. Sandlin was quick to recognize the superior tonic properties of Taplac over other rene-. dies and unhesitatingly and voluntarily gave Faplac his unqualified indorse- ment
 Although. the influenza epidemic has greatly subsided. IL Is still prevalent: and Ia breaking out anew in many sec- tions of the country and continues to claim it's victims by the thousands
 Persons who have hadsipfluenza are oft4ntipsht 1e1aa i!1as - :. ] ensa greatsst care is taken. both as to haptta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

London, November 23.-Ger- many is crushed. The world breathes again. Victory is ours; the Teuton is ground into the dust, begging for that mercy to which he assigned no place in his scheme of war.
 Now that the fighting is over and ours is the winning side, we can pause to look back over four hideous years of slaughter and devastation. We can take stock of what has happened and wefcan allow ourselves to realize that never before in his tory was there a war of such and so many ups and downs, such dramatic reversals of for tunes, such alterations of the madness of triumph with the chill of despair.
 Up and down the fortunes of the all lies most certainly went before victory finally perched on the banners of Foch last summer retrospect of the con- flct shows nine sharply defined phases of. attenuation. These exclude some of the greatest struggles of the war, among them verdun and the Somme, because those, critical though they were, had no companion pieces of sharp contrast. Many battles, even whole campaigns, are excluded, simply because they do not present the requisite ebb and flow of fortune.
 The nine pases in question are as fol- lows:
 1. The Marne Q914)
 2. Tannenberg Q914)
 8. Russian advance in Galicia
 1. The Dunajec Q9l5.)
 5. Brusiloffs offensive Qs16)
 6. Bulgarias war record.
 [. Turkeys war record.
 8. Italy's war record.
 g. The campaign of 1918 on the western front.
 In these, it seems to me, are concen- trated all the elements of dramatic change which have characterized this war
 To begin with the events that led up to the great shift of fortune Belgium had been violated. Trampling Y on her promises to respect Belgian neu- trality. Germany had flung her cruel ie- gions over the little kingdoms border, through Wise and Liege and Louvain, burning and .outraging and killing. Brussels had fallen. The forts of Ma mur had crumbled before the fire of the invaders monster guns. Heroic King
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

and diet. serious complications are apt to follow. Persons who have had 1t are more apt than ever to have it the sec7 ond time If you are in this condition. nothing on earth will build you up and strengthen you like Tanlac. which contains the most powerful tonic pfop1 critics known to science.
 As reconstructive tonic and body builder. 1t IS. without an equal and cons tains ehe very clements needed by the system to restore you to your normal strength and weight.
 First of all, Tanlac begins its action by creating good. healthy appetite for wholesome. nourishing food and as ,sists the vital organs which have been weakened by the disease to perform their natural functions. thus helping t7 build up health and strength in the natural way
 This statement is easily proven by the fact that Tanlac is now having the greatest sale of any system tonic in the history of medicine. In less than four years time over ten million bottles have been sold and the demand is con1 stantly increasing.
 In connection with the TanlAc treat ment 1t Is necessary to keep the bowels open by taking Tanlac Laxative Tab let's, samples of which are included with every bottlesof TAnlacs
 E, zHeulacis sold in Birmipxham exclu- sfvely By Eugene Jadpbs dfnG store and Patton-Pope Drug Co.<-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01

Albert and the remnant of his armies I had shut themselves up in Antwerp, | where Zeppelins rained bombs on the palace where the royal wife and chill
 dren were sheltered.
 1 The French left wing had been defeat I ed at Mons and the English had been brushed aside at Charleroi Through Le Cateau and Landrecies and St. Quentin | the heroic men of French and Haig and 1 Smith -Dorrien had retreated, contesttng every inch, dying like the brave English
 men they were in futile attempts to 1 check the rush of Wilhelm's ruthless
 armies.
 l To their right the French were also steady falling back, blindly obeyinR Jefres order to give ground and more ground and still more ground Around Paris trees and houses had been felled to clear the way for the guns of her l forts The French government had
 moved to Bordeaux.
 ] It looked like 1870 all over again. Burn | ing, piliaging and slaying the Germans, with the nimble Won Kluck on the ex-
 treme right, were closing in.
 l Then came the miracle.
 l Joffre brusquely ordered his men 10 retreat no further. He called upon them l to turn their faces to the foe, to die in i their tracks if they must, but not to yield another inch.
 1 French and British stood like rocks against the impact of the Germans.
 Then Maunoury rolled up the over l eager Won Kluck On the right l French regiments hurled themselves 1 upon the invaders and broke their dense ranks. In the center, Foch, who was to pass sentence of death upon l German mi1itarism four years later, ], drove forward when any but super l man would have confessed defeat, anc, I cutting in between Won Kluck and von Bulow, he smashed Germany's hopes of speedy victory with one splendid l blow.
 I GERMAN HOPES REVERSED Shaken and decimated, the German !, armies fell back from the Marne to 1 the Aisne There they dug themselves 1 in to stay months and years on the defensive-they who had overrun Bel 1! gium and northern France Tn Tour 1 weeks.
 1 The world gasped at such rever- 1 sal of fortune But others were Tn store to be matched by the millions or onlookers who, from the remotest cor ners of the globe, breathiessiy re- Igarded the titanic spectacle. | For the next turn of fortunes wheel l we must turn back to events on the far- l flung eastern front, where, for so long. | Russian, German and Austrian armies fought back and forth across Poland and other unfortunate regions leav- ] ing ruin, hunger. death in their wake. I The fickle nature of the goddess of i battles was shown on this front in the very first month of the war.
 It was in East Prussia. The bulk or 1 the German armies had been hurled against France. because the great gen I eral staff at Berlin felt sure that Rus I sia would be so slow to mobilize her armies that France could be disposed 1 of before Russia was ready, thus nak- l ing 1t possible for the Germans to fin- 1 ish up the Czar's hordes after Paris l had been captured and the French re-
 public tumbled into the dust
 But that general staff had rockoned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
TEXAS DOCTOR SAYS
 TANLAC IS WONDERFUL
Prominent Texas Physician Says He Has Treated About Fourteen Hundred Cases of Influenza During the Past Month and Has Found Tanlac to Be Best Tonic to Be Had to Build Up His Patients

THE following from pr J. w Sandln. of the most
 prominent physicians of Texas has just been ceived at the Tanac oce gives ndputabe evidence to the reconsucve tonic for who are the after effects of Spanish Influenza is letter follows: ]
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
GERMANY'S 'REVERSES

Whereupon9 fortune made anothtr rightalDut face The Germans who had begun to think that nothing bu. victory lay In store for them on the eastern front. suddenly found them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-14
ON STARVATION BRINK
Vienna Council May Resign-People
Can't Live on Rations.

Zurich, Jan. 1.-THE municipal
council of Vienna threatens to resign
and disclaims all further responsibility
for feeding the city, declaring that the
permanent reduction of the flour ra-
lions cannot be borne by the popula-
ton.
Bitter complaint is made by the
Neue Freie Presse of the action in
cutting in half the flour ration of
Vienna, which, it says, is likely to be
permanent because in six months from
the harvest flour for Vienna is lack
ing.
Die Postadmits that the last harvest
was very unsatisfactory. The Arbieter
Zeitung declares that of all the bel
ligerent countries, Austria is suffer-
ing most in the matter of bread and
flour supplies.