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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL

GNOhSE UT IhoDAIE UT WILL
District Court in and for Audi
bon county.
State of Iowa, Audubon county, S.
To all whom it may concern:
Whereas, On the 18th day of June
A. D., 1918 paper purporting to be
the last Will and Testament of Will
liam McLearn, late of said County,
deceased, was filed in my office, and
was by me opened and read
and the 18th day of October 1918
appointed and fixed as the time
when the same will come before the
Court at the October, 1918 term
thereof then TO bt held, for final
proof AMI probate, as to the duly ex-
ecuted last viii and Testament OF
the said William McLeran, deceased,
at which time all persons interested
may appear and show cause why the
same should not be admitted to pro-
bate.
Dated this 18th day of June, 1918.
John Horning, Clerk.
(SEAL) 3 wks.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
FARM FOR SALE

Have 80 acres 2 "a miles west
of Hamlin that I will sell, fair i'm
provements, all under cultivation.
Can give possession March first next
Jens Hounsgc ard Hamlin, Iowa. at
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
NOTICE

Haul your own cream to town and
save the expense of us hauling it..
You will always find some one at
my cream station to receive it and
pay you cash for it. Who're we haul
it you do not get so much for it.
G. H. WILDE
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04

l am now buying all kinds Of
chickens. The government has
raised the order forbidding the sale
of hens. Bring them to me and get
the highest market price.
G. H. WILDE
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
MONEY TO LOAN

With optional payments. Complete
set of Abstract Books to all land in
Audubon County kept up-to.date.
Insurance written. CHAS. BAGLEY.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-04
Farmers Everywhere are Stopping
The Profit-Eating Leaks This Year

Comparatively few farmers fail or lose heavily
because of big misfortune such fire, wind drouh
The majority of failures and losses are from COM
bined little leaks and it's the many little leaks that
are being studied and stopped
Here are some of them
RATS.
FEEDING WASTES.
DISEASE FROM UNSANITARY BUILDINGS.
WET FIELDS
UNPROTECTED MACHINERY.
There are Others but here are enough to kill the
profits any farm.
The remedy?
Concrete granary and crib foundations and floors
Concrete barn and hog house floors.
Concrete feeding floor.
Tiled fields and
A machine shed.
None of them are expensive and each will quick
ly pay for itself and then be big profit Garner.
If you haven't yet put all these leak-plugs at
work your farm, you going to lose money this
year that you could save.
Better see us for ideas, plans. figures and mater
as on the ones you need and do before harvest
Dixon Lumber and Coal Company
w. j. LAUBENDER Mgr.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
PROTECTION AND PEACE.

HE New York Journal of Commerce, an ardent
advocate Of free trade. in an editorial entitled PRO
ltem as an International issue declares that there
Be no lasting peace Of the world until the old narrow
etpon Of commercial intercourse finally abandoned,
DE editor taking the view that so long countries give
preference 10 foreign commodities over their commod
lies IN their own markets aggravations productive of
win continue to exist but if all the markets of the world
are made absolutely free Of peace will become
6my established that the Gag lie will join the dodo an
extinct bird Simply expressed the view Of this editor
would be something like this: England, France Japan
and Others will say to the United States. continue the
policy Of free trade fOisted on you by minority controlled
By your southern section. and we will remain friends
lum 10 your protective policy and we will take hand IN
your internal affairs if necessary with the guns Of our
Resh." Or any nation, group Of nations, will find in
de adoption BY one Of protective tariff policy fit
ior warning upon the offender.
The world will not march toward Utopia until man has
oven up The lust for wealth. and when he has the earth will
Be rapidly cooling and man himself turned senle What
was he main reason why the CaiOmans disliked the
ASaties. and demanded their exclusion Competition
They would work harder for less pay. Why did Amer
eans look down upon the first Irish immigrants call them
names, and Teile them2 Competition. They worked for
les, % they displaced American labor They worked up
o he American standard Of living, and were themselves
displaced By Italians whom they called Dagoes, and
Sought and cursed INCREASINGLY In the coal mining dis
es. Welsh displaced American STOCK Italians displaced
Welsh. then. wave by wave, came Poles and Ethuanians
SoVaks. MaUars, Creations and now in the soft coal
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

bct Bulgarian, and Maesdoniahs Each e6oslnS d.
placement Of De preceding race, eaeh subjected % insult
and abus besaule Of de competition crested oash work
ing up b he American plane. And ell thn was q con-
petition Of manual labor on our soil. accompanied BY
notns and boodshed which grew less and less as the
more recent mmigahCns became assmlated and welded
to American standards. No bill to exclude foreigners has
coporas guard to support today because this country
offered sanctuary to the prosecuted and they helped to
develop our industries.
But what would be the effect the peace Of the world
If, under a free trade policy, streams of forsgn-made
goods doused the fires Of domestic mills and sent the oper.
atives to the park benchesp How would our 900
cotton and wool operatives feel toward England if English
textiles reduced their wages or closed down our mills2
And the $4,000 silk operatves-how would they feel
toward Japan If japanese silks dominated our marketp
In the leather industries, 100000; chemicals 10000;
mea,-packmg Us 000 the steel and iron trades millions
How would all these men, and the families dependent
upon Them feel toward the nation; whose competition was
starving themp How small would be the spark required
to touch off a war against country whose commodities
dsplacmg our own IN our markets; What diplomacy
could stand against the explosion
anfs or lack Of them. are matters Of strictly domestic
concern to each nation and they should be framed for the
best interest Of all the people Of the nation concerned which
entails great deal Of compromise When these best in
teress are best subseHed the nation is most content and
peacefully inclined Our own tariff policy, which since
the Civil war has been nodded by the Republican party,
does not aim to keep out all foreign goods but to permit
them to come in after paying the difference in their cost
Of production in the country Of their origin and the pro-
duchon Of like goods here That tariff policy performed
a wonderful work in the past and there are still greater
opportunities for in the future.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

Representative s Hubert Dent Jr.. Of Alabama.
chairman Of the important committee on Military
Affairs continues to be unreconstructed opponent
of the draft and he is leading fight in the House to
impose upon the War department a policy with regard
to the power provisions which Secretary Baker
opposes, and which General Crowder declares would
seriously embarrass the government in increasing the
army. Representative Kahn Of California, the rank
ing Republican member Of that committee on the other
hand is making fine outstanding fight to have the
measure put through just the War department de-
sres IT, Democratic newspapers that continually
prating about the necessity Of eecng a Democratic
congress to back up the President" probably will
ignore this situation just they have ignored every
other of the Of examples Of this kind Of
Democratic backcapping but the public will not The
public this year is not much interested in political
parties usually is. The only thing that it is in
terested in is winning the with the least possible
delay and it knows that cannot trust the bunch Of
nabby senmentalist who control the Democratic party
in congress in stern business of that kind.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
RUFF STUFF

l.alay n TIE papers that the Firms
re llkely 10 offer q crown to some
German prince.
Wen, . whole lot Of German princes
gil Be out OF Jobs pretty soon and
some % then might be willing 10 take
% TIE Fms Just to keep their hand
But the hing business has been
ttmoHhat unsettled OF late.
Especially for the imported article.
49,
There's the case Of Tho. who man
l.od % hold on in Greece for quite a
Vile, but g now as much OF a royal
hobo - Manuel Of Portugal.
Ard then every one remembers the
I1l ease o. Willie OF Wied
J'nnttd Who did not, and probably
liIll lOs net, approve OF this war is
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
ACUT IN TINE.

CANCER Of greater frequency at ages over 40 thar
- tuberculosis pneumonia typhoid fever or digestiv,
diseases. AT the ages 40 one person in dies Of
cancer.
Yet cancer is not hopeless ncurabe disease If taken
at the beginning the majority Of of cancer are cur
able Practically all cases will end in death if left alone
Cancer is at first local disease 1t is easily cured il
promptly recognized and at once removed by competent
treatment 1t is practically always incurabe in its later
stages
Records Of the best hospitals prove that the chances Of
cure are very high with early operation and that these
chances decrease with every day Of delay Early dag
nosis is therefore all important
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

The Senate subcommittee which investigated the
aircraft muddle would have strengthened its report in
the public mind II it had omitted that fling at lin
experienced automobile manufacturers" This is too
broad in its application Some automobile manufac-
turers may have got into the aircraft business who
should have been kept out but the public mind is not
so short that It has forgotten there automobile
manufactures spending their money by the hat
full studying aircraft problems at time when neither
branch Of congress could be persuaded to take the
slightest interest In such matters And the results OF
these studies and experiments turned over to the
government without cost to II when the United States
entered the war
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

now trying to make It a. horrible as
possible.
He told the Senate yesterday that
We will have to put an army OF seven
or eight million men in the field and
endure the hardShipS Of long War.
At that he Is not as depressing a
young Jimmy WadswoTth. the fierce
young New York patriot who Sc agin
woman suffrage and pretty nearly
everything else that Is worth while.
Jimmy wants TO DRAFT 'em ~ % u
and said so right out loud yesterday.
II the situation iS as bad IS these
prophets Of evil say Il IS its about
time the plain folks back home began
10 talk about non-essential senator's
and representatives with . view %
getting some action that r. worth
while out Of servants who cost 90
much.
JimFeed and Jimmy would make fino
shock troops.
At any rate as senators they are Of
ten simply shocking.
Country needs one million unskilied
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
Personals.

Prank Tichnell. who has typhoid
fever. IS getting along well and will
probably be able to sit up in day or
tWo.
Mss Mabel Firm, Of stare street,
is visiting her aunt. Mrs. Mo.sl1. al
Cross Roads.
Master John Carder, OF ShiuGstDn,
Is spending a few DAYS with James
Morris and sisters in Morgan'Jrn
avenue
Mr.. William Smith. o. Ecnshaw.
spent Thursday with relatives in the
city.
Mrs. Charles SatJerficld. OF Hoult,
was the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuei
Hall H. Wilson street Thursday Miss
Fannie Hall accompanied net re c.
francis Miller, Of state S':rCt, is
visiting relatives at Fairchance and
other points in Pennsylvania.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
Judge VINCENT IS
HEAVIEST GUNNER
Leads Heavyweight List of
Marion County Accord.
ing to License Data.

Marion county's heaviest gunner
thus far registered is Judge George
A. Vincent, Of the intermediate court,
who this week took out his county
residents license az the office OF the
county clerk. Judge Vincent tips the
beams al 2AO pounds, having replaced
b. F. McNemdr, OF Hutchinson, as the
heavy man on the list McNemar
weighs 2lO pounds.
J. r. Prickett, Of Barrackyi,le. at -
years. is the Oldest gunner registered
with L. W. Kelley, OF Fairmont, aged
20 years, second on the list. The
kid gunner OF the county IL Lee Cart.
wright, Of Warrington, aged thirteen
years. He was obliged 10 secure his
fathers consent before license was
issued.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
ARE WE WAR CRAZY? WE AREl

StIN6 w z W Mn NlNfI-IE " I I'M!
n ERAiAN Admiral Won Hmtzs. mouthpiece Of the
~ German war party which wants to save itself from
he rising tide Of German revolt by bringing loaf Of half
baked peace to the Teutonc table, the United
States Of being war crazy.
The admiral hit the nail squarely the head. We are
var crazy. And we will remain war crazy until the blot
o. U-boat piracy has been wiped out Until Belgium is
restored Until Serbia Rumania. Flanders Russia are
freed Until the lid has been fastened tight on the coffin
% German aggessions and Hohenzolem dreams Of world
vide conquest, military and commercial. Until the i'm
penal German government longer considers treaties as
scraps Of paper Until that government is overthrow or
50 thoroughly renovated that further progress Of civza-
lion and democracy may continue unmpeded
We are % war crazy, Won Hintze that we're going to
Tax ourselves eight billion dollars this year and loan to
cur government double that amount
We are 90 war crazy that we will draft boys and
cir middle-aged men.
We are 90 war crazy that we will fight to the last dol
jar DE last day and the last for liberty and honor,
more precious in our eyes than gold and life.
We are war crazy because we are right and we know
q and because you wrong and we know it.
But we are, wfhal not so war crazy the Germans
hen they started this horrible war in cold blood.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
COurtneys'
Mrs, HOdginS to
Be Buried Saturday

Mrs Grace Hudsin7. wife OF II. {.
Uudgns, died Yesterday at Cook hos
ptal where yesterday she gave birth
to a child. the child dying at birth
Mrs. Hudgils was aged 80 years and
IS survived by her husband and four
children. Funeral services will be held
on Saturday afternoon al 2:30 O'Clock
from the residence at 80 Vine street.
conducted by the Rev. W ]. Eddy, Of
the First Baptist church. lnterment
will be made under the direction OF
Funeral Director Fred Jenkins.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

Reports that Albert has been entered by the British
armies probably true Albert is at the apex of the
triangle created by the French attack in the Disc valley
and the British attack in the Arras sector. The Ger
mans holding strong at the hinges, just as they
held strong at Scissors and Rheims during their earlier
big retreat that they protect their big guns and
supplies from an encircling movement of the pncer
type. Bapaume and Peronne will he next to co. in all
probability
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

Al the conclusion Of conference of the field agents
Of the federal employment service announced in
Washington yesterday that there is shorta,a of mil
lion unskled laborers in the countrO This tina
the work and fight regulations will have be enforce
to the letter all the country and that the nonpro
ductive occupations will have to be combed vigorously
Those who employed in non-essental Jobs can
themselves lot of trouble by hunting employment
in essential industries right now.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
Mothsrs' Mestino.

The monthly mothers meeting OF
the W. e. T. Z. will be held at the
home OF Mrs. Randolph in Vermont
avenue on Tuesday, August 81, at two
o'clock. Delegates will ne elected at
this meeting for the county convention
az Warrington which will be held Sep.
lcmbcr 3. 4 full attendance Is desired
az the meeting.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
BITS OF
STATE NEWS

Yesterday was fcrct,nts' Day at
tho West Virginia fair AZ Clarksburg
and most Of the stores closed at noon
that employees might enjoy the occa.
sion. Under 4 new ruling OF the Wa
Department the fair association was
required 10 charge five cents extra at
the gates for adults and three cents
for children and three cents at the
grand stand.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
EAST SIDE
- NEWS -
chaIran Of Genital AuxIIIary Re.Inn,.

Chalran OF Central Auxiliary Resigns.
Though there were not so many Ia.
dies in attendance at the Central aux
!liary meeting as usual considerable
work was accomplished and several
sweaters and pairs Of socks turned in
b. the knitters. The chairman. Miss
Mabel Richards, rendered her resig-
nation at the meeting and another
chairman will he elected al the next
meeting to nh the vacancy. Mrs. J. n.
Gaskins will act as temporary chair
man in the meantime. The auxiliary
members will meet next Wednesday
at the Vangilder store room 10 prepare
the room for a work room for the win
ter. The next meeting will be held
Thursday afternoon IN the new quar-
tcrS.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

IN Frauce factories, workshops, foun.
dries, warehouses, work yards and all
industrial or commercial Establishments
considered dangerous or Objectionable
whether 10 the safety or salubrity OF
the nelghborhoOd, TO the public health
or 10 Agricultural operations, are sub.
feet TO the supervision Of public au.
thoTity.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
Bury Miss Layman
Saturday Afternoon

Funeral services over the body OF
Miss Capitola Layman, whose death
occurred yesterday morning. will be
held on Saturday afternoon It =
O'Clock from the family residence Oh
Ogden avenue. The Rev. J. e. Broom.
held, Of the al. p. Temple, will conduct
the services and the body will be Ia.
TERED in WOOdlawn cemetery.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

An Increase Of more than nine mil
lion dollars is the assessment OF pub,
lie service corporations doing bust
ness in this state compared with last
year Is shown IN the assessment list
OF the state board OF public works pre-
pared by Homer Gray Of the secre,
tary OF states department for the tax.
paying year 1918. The total assess.
ment amounts to S345,7;5,330 20. Last
years total was 1886. 43O. 5000.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

labOrerS the labor agents seq.
II Chief Fred IL a patriot he win 90
out into the highways and byways-
meaning Main and Jackson streets
and reduce this to 500 800 between the
item the paper comes out and the time
for supper.
The Bolsheviki have declared war
upon the United States, 90 the new
from Petrograd SAYS.
Wen say This for these balFbTained
slave
They ere q darned sight more hon.
est than old whiskeFB Carranza who
hates the United States and would
like 10 make trouble but Is afraid.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
Returned from Brown. :.

Miss Kathleen Gaskins. o. Market
street, has returned from Brownsville
where she visited her brother. Howard
Gaskins and family. Her Mere, little
Miss Louise Gaskins, accompanied
der home.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
Hero from Wheeling.

Mrs. Mary Fahey. Of Wheeling ar.
rived here yesterday and Is the guest
Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Carpenter II
Diamond street.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

MIR and Mrs. Burrell Price and chill.
rem. Of Clarksburg, are guests Of rel.
Itives in the city.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
lOS-11O Main St.
What People Say
and Some Side Remarks

Houston G. Young. secretary o.
state, an enthusiastic Highland
booster, told a Charleston reporter:
1T will require no eifoFt on the
part OF the Republican monago.
ment to keep us in line. we sup
ported Highland The Republi.
cans Of West Virginia chose Elil.
ms We are, therefore, loyalty
behind Elkins for the senator.
ship"
Hon. Sam B. Montgomery, VITO Il
spending a few days IN Preston eoun
ty and speaks At the Aurora cOnten
NAL exercises today Saturday says:
Preston county now has 1887
men in the service which is one
more than II had In the Civil War"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23
True Values

tor. Mrs. Charles McNara, acconpa
nicl her home.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

Miss Elizabeth Hartley nae return.
Cd lr,m visit with friends N Fair
mont.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

Returned from Brueeton Mills
Mrs. j. NJ. Smith, Of State street.
has returned from Bruceton Mills
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-23

Erwin Wade. Of Bula, was q recent
guest Of his sister. Miss Bertha Wade.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-06
BROTHERS ARE RECoNClLED
Enlistment in Marine Corps Ends Feud
of More Than Two
Years Standing.

st. Louis.-Two brothers who have
not spoken to each other for two years,
although they slept in the same bed
and ate at the same table, became
reconciled through their enlistment
in the Marine corps.
The boys are Dan and Angelo Tar
antola Of this city. Dan is twenty
and Angelo eighteen. They fell out
when Angelo broke up a game Of mar
bles in which his brother was play
ing.
Angelo Joined the Marine corps. His
brother learned of it and came to tins
train to bid him farewell. After be
coming reconciled there Dan decide,
to join the marines and be with hi
| brother.
So he enlisted two days later anC
the brothers are now at Paris Island
S. g., where they are Rgain fast friends
after two years pact of silence.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-06
HEART RIGHT SIDE, REJECTED
Patriot Who Tried Twice to Enlist
Has Cardiac Organ in Right
Breast.

delphia.-Another freak Of ma
ture was uncovered recently, when
Dr. John II. Bailey, medical director Of
local board No. 90, refused to accept
George w, Nicholson for the army be-
cause his heart was on the wrong side,
even though it was on his right. Mich
olson is thirty years old and pleaded
desperately to go. Some months ago
he tried to enlist but was turned
down because he was under weight,
his examiners at that time be-
ing unaware of his cardiac peculiar
titles. When he was called for exam
nation before the draft board Doctor
Bailey made the discovery of the true
location of his heart.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-06
DAKOTA "PRAIRlE DOG"
BECOMES "DEVIL DOG"

st. Paul. Minn.-"S Say. pard.
I'm a prairie dog from North
Dakota and l want to 90 over
there and become d devil
dog. and. relieving himself of
this sentiment, William D.
KnicEerbocker of Dogden, N. D.,
took his place in line in the
United States marine recruiting
station here.
knickerbocker passed an al
most perfect physical test ana is
now on his way TO Paris Island
). G., to the marine training sta
ton there.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-06
HAS FIVE BOYS IN WAR
Mrs. A. p. White is the Champion War
Mother Of Tennessee.

Knoxville. Tenn.-The champion war
mother of Tennessee, and. perhaps, of
Dixie, is Mrs. A. p. White of Powell
Station, Knox county. She has five
sons in the service; Captain Roy D,
White. Lieutenant John H. White,
Private William Homer White, Cook
Marvin B. White and Private Edgar
White.
"All my boys volunteered" she de-
clares proudly.