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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
DANVILLE REPORT ON
SAM BEDFORD UNFOUNDED.

Lexington, KY, Sept. 13.-It was
announced in Lexington tonight that
the report from Danville concerning
Sam Bedford was unfounded.
Danville, KY, Sept. 13.-Phillip NJ.
Foley, a merchant here, said today
that he saw Samuel w. Bedford, of
Greensboro, Louisville and Lexington,
who has been missing since February
is, 1916. in his store here one day
last week. Foley recollected the fact
today when talking to representa-
tive of the Quaker Oats company
from Louisville, for which firm Bed
ford used to travel. Foley said that
he had forgotten all about the fact
that Bedford had been missing for so
long and that thousands of dollars
had been offered for his recovery I'M
I'll the travelling man mentioned it.
why | saw Sam Bedford in this
store last week." said Foley. 81
shook hands with him and we talked
for some minutes. He sold goods to
me for years. | don't remember just
now what he came in for. but | re-
call asking him what he was doing.
and he either said he was selling au-
tomobiles or automobile accessories,
forget which.
81 am positive it was Bedford. for
he had distinctive features which one
could not easily forget. One of my
clerks said he recalled Bedford's face,
but could not remember his name.
When | mentioned it he was positive
that this was the man who sold us
goods for years.
Mr.. Foley said he did not make
further inquiry or indeavor to ascer-
tain whether Bedford had stopped at
any hotel or left town.
Samuel Bedford. who was an in
surance agent at the time of his dis
appearance and an officer in the Cen
trail Christian church, left money in
the bank and did not owe penny
when he dropped out of sight. Search
ing parties have traced him to the
vicinity of High Bridge and searched
there, but never found his body, al
though his Masonic watch charm was
discovered in the leaves in front of
some caves along the Kentucky river
shore. His family removed to Union
City. Tenn. Rewards we're offered by
his church lodge and friends.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
HERE'S HOW YOU
CAN SAVE FUEL.

Philadelphia, Sept. 14-Various
ways to save coal and still keep warm
are pointed out by the general com
mittee of the anthracite coal opera
tors in series of suggestions given
out here on conservation of the fuel
during the coming winter months.
Briefly, they are:
Start furnace and kitchen range
fires as late as possible. Forget the
first few cool fall days.
Raise window curtains during the
day to admit sunlight, for that is free
heat. Dispense with awnings, as they
shut out the sun.
Weatherstrip all doors and win
dows and put asbestos around all
furnaces, boilers and cellar pipes
used for heating purposes.
Reduce the home tempeture to 81
degrees. Do not wait until the mer-
curry shows rs degrees before closing
drafts. BY this time that extra
amount of coal will have been con-
sumed and wasted, according to all
economic rules.
Bedrooms, where windows are
opened for the night or otherwise,
should be shut off from heat. Use
blankets and feel better in the morn
ing.
Wear heavier clothing. This ma
terially saves body heat.
Thoroly clean SCOT from pipes and
boilers and do not mind doing little
work in the cellar seeing that window
panes are tight and weatherstripped
like the other parts of the house.
Burn oil, wood, coke and bitumi-
nous when possible. Use gass for
cooking and heating. Gas lighting at
night aids in heating the home, stores
and buildings where used.
Use heavy drapery on doors and
windows for interior home decora-
tion. This aids in outstanding interior
heat supply.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

tion to make sure that deferred clas-
sifcation Is properly claimed for en-
ployes that are necessary, and also
that no such claim is made where II
can be reasonably avoided, since the
making Of unnecessary claims is both
unfair to the Government In its
work Of creating the necessary mill
tary and naval forces and injuries to
the Railroad Administration in its eff
fort to secure deferred classification
for employees who are really neces-
sary."
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

ed Missionaries would doubtless have
been arrested as Migrants and thrown
into Jail or drafted into the army.
During the first five years after the
original flight, airplane progress was
slow and unsatisfactory but, since the
great war started, development has
gone forward by leaps and bounds,
and accomplishment have been so
great that now nothing surprises us.
Recently, in New York city and
in certain other parts of the country
airplanes, singly and in groups of
from two to twenty. have become
such a familiar sight that they are
hardly noticed at all, and the world
reads with only passing interest of
such epoch-ma king mplishments
as the successful establishment of
new aeropostal lines here and in Eu-
rope. the recent 621 mile nonstop
flight of large group of Italian
planes across the Alps to Vienna and
back, and the many other wonderful
achievements of aviators throughout
the world 1t is not difficult then for
to believe even the recent astounding
that soon huge air
planes, each carrying 100 or more
will be darling back and
forth across the Atlantic with such
speed that II will be possible to eat
breakfast in New York today and
dinner in London tomorrow.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
PRISONERS IN CAGES.

Amsterdam, Sept. 16-About 25
British prisoners are confined much
like birds in a cage with scarcely
room to move about near the flying
sheds at Evers, suburb of Brussels,
for the purpose of protecting the
hangers against the aerial attacks,
according to the Libre Belgique. The
item which is reprinted in the Tele-
graf, says that some of the British
prisoners have linen bandages around
their heads, showing that they had
not recovered from wounds. The
story adds that similar number OF
Belgian prisoners are filling the same
role at the Diest flying camps.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

New York. Sept. 10.-American
girls have decided they are entirely
willing to devote themselves whole
heartedly to help win the war. They
will wear overalls, perform work in
the fields, in munition shops, as
chauffeurs, taxi drivers, conductor
cites, Liberty bond sellers, canteen
workers, or anything else useful.
They will sacrifice comfort, time,
pretty dresses. candy. accustomed
foods, social pleasures. They are good
sports.
But there is one thing they are not
willing to sacrifice. Many a little
pretty foot has stamped it's owners
chagrin when she read or heard that
swarms of American soldiers have
surrendered to the charm of bright
eyed French girls and visited the
chaplains, accompanied by the eyes
and their owners. The American girl
is not willing to have manageable
young American men succumb to
French girls-or any other girls ex-
cept those right here in America.
Environment Too Strong.
Something should be done to put
a stop to our boys marrying hastily
abroad" said a dainty New York girl
today. "Our girls here are doing their
bit with all the patriotic spirit the
boys are showing,yet environment is
proving to strong for lots of the SOL
diers, who marry pretty French girls
after the briefest acquaintance.
IL havn't a thing to say against the
French girls. They are full of charm
and they certainly know how to
make eyes at a fine big American
soldier who looks as If he could not
only make the Kaiser wish he never
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
DEBS SENTENCED TO 10
YEARS; HAS NO REGRETS

Cleveland, o., Sept. 14.-"T have
no regrets" declared Eugene V.
Debs, four times candidate for the
Presidency on the Socialist ticket,
after he had been sentenced today by
Judge Westhaven to ten years impris-
onment for making disloyal utter
ances.
Bail was fixed at $4,000 upon the
express condition exacted by Judge
Westhaven, that Debs will observe
the law while at liberty and will not
leave the courts jurisdiction with
out permission. Fifty days was allow
ed for his lawyer to file a bill of ex-
ceptions.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
French Eyes" Playing Havoc
With u. S. Soldiers at Front

had been born but also as If he could
take good care of a little wife. No,
one can hardly blame the French
girls for picking the very best hus-
bands the world has to offer.
But just where do American girls
come in? They are waiting at home,
doing their bit, as l said, and expect
ing that after the world has been
made safe they will have homes of
their own to enjoy their safety in.
But if our boys marry foreign girls ii
will leave us desolate.
Getting Serious.
"This subject furnishes ground for
many quips for humorous writers,
know. But its serious side is lot
bigger than its humorous side. II
really is a tragedy i'm itself. Prob
ably thousands of American girls,
who in normal circumstances would
have made happy wives and mothers,
will be forced to become old maids
lust because a lonely American sol
der and a pair of bright eyes were
thrown together in France.
Il don't know just what remedy
could be applied. Perhaps remedy
is impossible and the American girls
are doomed to suffer old-maidhood
Just as thousands and thousands OF
French girls and women were DOOM
ed to suffer old-maidhood or widow
hood by the war,
1--WE hear a lot of preachment
against hasty marriages contracted
before our boys go overseas. Maybe
they are ill-advised as a whole. But
there is serious question as to
whether the risk in such marriages is
not less than the risk of leaving our
boys to marry foreign girls thru sheer
Loneliness.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
Q:atarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease. greatly in
fiuenced by constitutional conditions. and
Internal remedy. Halls Catarrh Medi-
ohle is taken Internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Halls Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one Of the best physicians
posed OF some of the best tonics known.
combined with some Of the best blood
purifiers. The perfect combination OF
the ingredients In Halls Catarrh Medi:
cine is what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions. Send for
testimonials, free.
+. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Props, Toledo, o.
All Druggists, 76c.
Halls Family pills for constipation.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
RAILWAY men To BE
IN DEFERRED CLASS
Regional Directors Given
Orders BY Director
General.

Washington, Sept. 13-Regional
directors of the Railroad Adminstra-
tion were instructed today to claim
deferred draft classification for rail
road general officers, shopmen, train
men, skilled yardmen, road and main
tenance of way foreman and skilled
workers, telephone and telegraph OPP
eraters and other essential employees.
Aside from employees named on the
list sent to the regional directors, the
Administration said deferred classif-
cation should be obtained for others
clearly necessary, the Federal man.
ayers using the greatest care and dis
erection in doing so.
Those on the List.
Following are those on the list:
General officers, master mechanics,
roundhouse and shop foreman, ma
chinists. blacksmiths, boilermakers,
tin and coppersmiths, pipeftters,
electricians, freight car and passenger
car repair men and inspectors, help
ers and apprentices of the foregoing,
chemists, locomotive inspectors, gang
leaders, superintendent and assist
ant superintendent, trainmasters
and assistant trainmasters, train dis
and assistants, road foremen of en-
gines and assistants, travelling engin-
GERS, firemen inspectors, locomotive
engineers and motormen, locomotive
firemen and helpers, conductors and
brakemen and hagmen, train bag
gagemen and express messengers, yard
foremen and helpers, hostlers, engine
house men, telegraphers and tele-
phone block operators, telegraph
clerks. maintenance of way engin-
GERS, supervisors, construction fore
men, bridge building and water SER
vice foremen, bridge building and
ship and wharf carpenters, signal
maintenance men and telegraph and
telephone maintainers.
Will Exercise Discretion.
"As to employees not in the forego-
ing list" said the Administration in
structions, 1.-The Federal managers
should exercise the greatest care and
discretion to aid in obtaining deferred
classification for those clearly neces-
sary. while refraining from taking
this step in other cases. Where a Civ
en- position can be reasonably filed
by promotion or by the employment
of an outsider, male or female, no
effort to secure deferred classifica-
ton should be made. The mere ques-
tion of Inconvenience of increased ex-
pense is not sufficient for regarding
an employee as necessary. But where,
on account of the character of the
work or the complete lack of availa-
bility of another to do the work, the
existing incumbent is really necess-
airy. 1.-The Federal managers should take
all practical steps to secure deferred
classification.
1.-The railroad under Government
control is an essential industrial
agency. It's necessary Employees should
be given deferred classification. 1t is
desired that the Federal managers
give this matter their personal atten-
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
PASTOR INDUCES CAPTAIN
TO DO ALL HIS CUSSING

Seattle, Sept. 14.-'What do you
say when a piece of steel falls on your
thumb" Rev. Frank S. Beistel, pas
tor of the Holy Trinity Church, of
this city, who is a shipyard worker
six days a week, was asked
81 call Capt. N. G. Taylor" said
the minister HE says the things
supposed to be said for me-"
Taylor admitted he had entered in
to such an arrangement with the min
ister.
"I'll do the cursing for him if he
wants me to-" said Taylor.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

In administering a sound beating
to Henry Ford in the primaries. the
Republicans of Michigan gave their
hearty and unqualified Endorsement
to the adjournment of one kind Of
politics, fact that, it is to be hoped,
will not be overlooked in Washing
ton.-New York Sun.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

Herbine is the medicine that cures
biliousness. malaria and cOnstipa-
ton. The first dose makes you feel
better, a few additional doses cures
completely. Price 60c. Sold by Ohio
County Drug Co. IN
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

Possibly Mr.. Ford's greatest weak
ness as candidate for the Senate is
the support of Mr.. Hearst.-Detroit
News.
No, it is Mr.. Ford's own weakness
as a statesman and Billy Bryan's sup
port.-Cedar Spring (Mich.) Clipper.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
TELLS HOW RED CROSS
SAVED LIVES IN PINCH.

Floyd Gibsons, war correspondent
of the Chicago tribune, who was
wounded three times in the battle of
Chateau Thierry, one of the injuries
resulting in the loss of his left eye,
pays this tribute to the American Red
Cross in the lecture he is now deliv-
ing to the American people:
eff it were not for the efficiency of
the Red Cross l doubt if | would be
alive today. On being carried to hos
pital that had been established in an
old church some distance behind the
lines | heard the surgeons grouped
about me carrying on an animated
conversation. One of the doctors who
had been examining my hurts re-
quested that some preparation be
handed to him Immediately. The
others told him the supply of the ar
ticle he desired had been exhausted.
In little while l realized they want
ed the anti-tetanus serum which is
used to head off infection caused by
particles of earth entering the
wounds. This danger of infection is
one of the greatest the surgeons over
there have to combat. AS they dis
cussed my case an attendant entered
the room and said the Red Cross man
had arrived with another supply of
serum. 1t probably saved my life and
the lives of about fifteen other pa
tients who had just been brought in"
The American Red Cross in Ne
vers, France, has given assistance to
2,223 families within a period of
four months.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
COST OF LIVING UP 80
PER CENT IN a YEARS
Report Shows Food Prices
lncrese SO Per Cent And
Clothing II.

Boston, Aug. 27.-An increase of
30 to 55 per cent in the cost of living
for the family of the average wage
Garner in the United States during
the period from the outbreak Of the
war in July. 1914. up to the middle
of June, 1918. is indicated in a re-
port on Wartime Changes in the
Cost of Living" issued today by the
National Industrial Conference
Board. The increases for the different
items we're:
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

Red. Cross Home Service is handl-
Ing cases between this country and
England at the rate Of two hundred
per week.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
The Notwithstanding Spirit.

The Red Cross spirit which mark
ed the 4th of July in many countries
this year, took firm hold on an
American contingent in far away
Nagasaki, Japan. The Russian Rail-
way Service Corps, who were sent to
Russia to assist in Strengthening out
transportation conditions there, and
were later transferred to Nagasaki,
decided to take up collection for the
Red Gross instead of having cele-
bration on their nations birthday.
Checks and drafts amounting to
$376.1O, representing the contribu-
ton of members of the corps, have
Just reached Washington headquar-
ters of the Red Cross, through S. nj.
FELTON, Director General of Military
Railways, to whom they were orig
inally transmitted.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20


FOOD ............ ......... ..62
hent ............. .......... 10
tlOthlng .......... .....,.. ~
Fuel and light .............. 45
otnurles .......... ....... DV
Average increase. depending on ap-
portionment of these respective items
In the family budget ......5O to 30
In combining the percentages of in
Grease for the respective items, In
order to determine the average in
crease for the budget as a whole, food
was taken as constituting ~ per cent
of the total family expenditure, rent
Is per cent. clothing 3 per cent fuel
and light 6 per cent, and sundries 20
per cent. Applying the boards per-
centages of increase for the respect
i've items to this distribution of the
budget. the average increase is 81 per
cent. The distribution of budget items
Just given Is an average based on
cost of living studies made by several
United States Government bureaus
and other agencies, covering in all
1900 families.
The report cites records of the
United States Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics, which show an average in
crease in retail prices of fifteen lead
ing articles of food between mid
Summer of 1914 and June, 1918, of
about g. per cent.
All articles of food show con-
siderable increase in price since
1914. Exceptional advances were re-
corded in prices of -four, lard and
corn meal.
In Philadelphia, the increase In the
cost of food between 1914 and the
end of 1917 was SAL per cent ;55.2S
per cent in New York; in Jackson
vile. Fla. 57.32 per cent; and in
New Orleans. 5O.S3 per cent.
frequent feature of the replies
received during the inquiry was that
further increases in rent during the
coming fall were to be expected.
information secured from retail
stores in cities well distributed
throughout the country indicates in
creases in prices of the most common
articles of wearing apparel ranging
from sos per cent for womens
dollar blouses up to lO1 per cent Tor
mems overalls.
The report places the average rise
I'm the total clothing budget, since
1914. at II per cent. This increase
with an increase of 51.33 per cent
between 1914 and 1917 for families
In the shipbuilding district of Phila-
delphia and an increase of 54.21 per
cent among similar families in the
shipbuilding district in New YORK.
Prices secured from coal-dealers in
different localities frequently showed
advances of 20 per cent to 40 per cent
ND TO June 1918, for ton lots of an
thracite, and more marked increases
I'm the cost of bituminous coal, which
is extensively used for domestic pur-
noses in some sections of the
csuntry.-New York Times.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

forces, inspiring the allied peoples
with unconquerable courage. "Twen-
ty-two million Americans are men,
bers of this organization" was the
last Christmas message that went to
the people of France, Italy and other
countries which are experiencing the
horrors of autocracy's mad ambition.
Imagine the added inspiration carri-
ed by the news that approximately
fifty million Americans had contribut-
ed to the second Red Cross war fund!
Think of the still more glorious mes
sage that we can send at the ap-
preaching Christmas time!
Let's make it unanimous!-(R
Cross Bulletin.)
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
Relief Submits to No Obstacle.

Red Cross headquarters az the
villege of Heppner, Oregon, we've de-
stroyed recently by fire which lett
twenty-three families without homes.
The fact that their offices ard re-
cords and all the finished material
of their war relief work were destroy
ed did not prevent the rambers of
the Heppner Red Cross Chapter from
taking charge of the relief work for
the town. The Civilian Relief COM
mittce helped to raise a fund of ST.
400 10: relief purposes and dis;ribut-
ed it.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20

The Christmas Roll Call.
The first Christmas following the
entry of the United States into the
world war was made memorable by
the American Red Cross member
ship drive. The season which, through
the centuries, has been most closely
linked with the ideals of humanity,
saw the enrolment of those many
millions who today constitute not on
ly home army behind the American
Army, but the army behind all the
armies of the civilized earth that are
lighting for the preservation of hui
man freedom.
A second war-Christmas anniversa-
ry is a probality-for frightfulness
which is the awful modern reincarna-
ton of the vandalism that ushered in
the medieval age still is rampant
and must be stayed for all time. In
the months since the last member
ship drive the Red Cross spirit has
spread until it is as all-prevading as
patriosm. The second war-Christmas
i'm America will afford opportunity for
every person in the country, who for
any reason has failed to enroll, to be-
come an active member of the organ
ization.
Last time a mark of ten million
was set. More than double that num-
Der responded, This time there is no
limit. The idea is to give the national
spirit national embodiment. 1t is
known well enough that every loyal
American feels the thing for which
the Red Cross is symbolic. The re-
naming important thing to do is to
put that feeling into action. The
books will be open for that purpose
the week before Christmas.
The American Red Cross has gone
with the American army into count
ries that are suffering the physical
tortures of war, relieving distress
ard, with the American fighting
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-09-20
Tons of Steel For Splints.

Acting on the advices from the
commissioner for France, the Red
Cross war council has authorized the
purchase and shipment of 81 tons of
rolled round steel for making splints.
This supply is additional to a guam
tity previously requested, the increase
being caused by an elaboration of the
splint program of the commission for
France. The appropriation for the
additional quantity amounted to
S9,627