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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-04-19

Judge and Mrs, E. R. Mckee and
Judge John Jayne. of Memphis at
tended the funeral of Mrs. A. S.
Jayne in this city Monday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-04-19
The National
Parks
will be open this sum-
mer.
SCENIC
COLORADO

and all the other delight
full health, rest an d
pleasure resorts in our
fascinating and glorious
West-America, will well
come you as usual--sum-
mer tourist fares will be
made.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21

News print paper prices were fixed
by the Federal Trade Commission at
1910 per 100 lbs. in car lots for roll
news fob. mill
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21
PLAZA

Vera Michelena, a Broadway favor
lite of repute, appeared in film play
called THE Devils Playground" at
the Plaza yesterday and last night
and created a most favorable impress
sion through her splendid interpreta-
ton of a rather difficult role
The story concerns the moral con-
ditions of the big cabarets and tea
dansants along the Great White Way
and handles its theme delicately but
forcKbly. 1t is admirably staged and
splendidly acted.
The vaudeville program was most
pleasing from start to finish but it
was left to William Sisto, THE Ital-
ian Senator" to put over the big
laughs. Sisto is a dyed wool
comedian and he has a dandy line of
material. He keeps up a steady fire
of mirth for 20 minutes or more.
Techow's Cats is an act well worth
seeing for aside from the cleverness
and novelness of trained feline &C
tors, it is a most beautiful sight to
see these we'll kept and well trained
creatures work.
O'Brien and the Southern Girls have
a new idea in handling songs, dances
and pianologue and they were given
an enthusiastic reception by yester-
days audiences.
Mile. DePinna- the opening act, in
cluded many sensational aerial stunts
and fascinating dances put on by a
pretty and shapely young woman.
Other features on the bill included
comedy and travelogue films
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21

The cost of living in Norway has
increased 1877 per cent. compared with
90 per cent. in Sweden and Sc per
cent. in Denmark.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21
POLI'S

Polls offering for the weekend is
glorious in it's display of the human
emotions. 1t is a genuine combina-
ton of pleasure, education and ideal
ism.
Probably the greatest of all mod
ern roblematipc photoplays, with con-
vincing acting, wonderful locations,
and an all-star cast of players is
Moral Suicide" featuring the great
american actor, John Mason, who is
assisted by Anne Luther, Leah Baird
and a larger cast of equally stellar
players.
Greeting the public of Bridgeport
from a vocal and instrumental side,
Treffery and Miller, two charming
girls in faultless costumes, open the
vaudeville program.
Elsie White, chic little Coincidence,
in series of character impersona-
tons runs the gamut of emotions in
Italian, Jewish and underworld Of
ferings in song.
Donegan and Curtis, presenting
Carter DeHaven's latest class comedy,
1.-The Masher," not only are versatile
dramatic artists but in the comic and
song and dance phases of perform
ance render good account of them
selves.
Clark and Pagan, two men in
tramp character, shot the bolt of
comedy across with rapid flights, end
ing with most dramatic touch in
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp a novelty
Offering.
The continuance Of the movie max
ing at Polls under an able corps of
directors and camera men is pro-
crossing rapidly. The cast is rapidly
rising to the better heights of acting
and yet the comedy infusion is such
as to bring forth roars of laughter.
Hearst-Pathe News bringing from
France pictures taken directly be-
hind the front lines adds novelty and
instruction to those who wish to
know what is happening on the other
side, as we'll as showing wholesale
vies of American events.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21
WEST END

Earle Williams is specially well cast
in The Seal of Silence, 'the Vitagraph
Blue Ribbon feature, which will be the
attraction in the West End theatre to-
night. He is the eminent surgeon and
student of heredity who evolves the
theory that in some manner the child
reveals the parent.
To reveal the secret of the doctor
is to clear the path to happiness, but
then there was the pledge of honor
that she had given the other woman
to shield her secret. 1t was honor
against love.
ut would spoil an hour of superb
entertainment to reveal to you the
secret of love of how the Seal of ST.
lence was finally broken. The sec
ret is unfoIded in The Seal of Silence
with Earle Williams and Grace Oar
mond in the leading roles"
Tomorrow: Bessie Barriscale in
within the Cup" seven act Paralta
play.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21

Times Want Ads. / Cent a Word
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21
EMPIRE

"Anthony & Cleopatra" an eight
part wonder cinematographic master
play, will top the programs offered at
the Empire theatre today and tomor-
row.
The story follows: Marc Antony
learns that Egyptian troops are COM
uniting depredations on Roman soil
and lands his army on the banks of
the Cidnus where he receives mes
sengers from the queen. Antony dis
misses them peremptorily, demanding
that Cleopatra herself appear in per-
son to deliver her apologies.
When Antony's order reaches Gle
opatra- the beautiful queen at first
Indignantly refuses and then on the
advice of the court astrologer who
predicts her domination over Antony.
goes in grand and impressive state to
his camp on the banks of the Cidnus
There follows three days of revelry
during which Antony falls completely
under the sway of Cleopatra's witch
cry and beauty. He accompanies hel
back to Alexandria and, in the orien-
tai splendor of her court, soon loses
all memory of native land and people
One year later in Rome, Octavia
disconsolate wife of Antony, grievet
for his absence and confides her sor.
row to her brother Octavius He ad
Vises her to set-eff for Egypt to re
conquer Antony for herself and fol
Rome. This the faithful Octavia fail
to do, meeting only contempt ant
scorn in the palace of the Ptolemies
She returns to Rome and incites tn,
senate against Antony and few
NJ he ~ q
under command of Octavius storm
Alexandra. In the ensuing battle tn
combined armies of Antony and Gle
opatra are completely crushed an
Antony, realizing that all is lost, com
mands one of the few soldiers tina
remained loyal to him, to put an en-
TO his life.
And once again the beautiful Gle
opatra tried her womans wiles o
mankind. pleading with Octavius wit
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Ry LEE PAPE

Puds Simkins bleeves almost every
thing you tell him no matter wat you
tell him, and this AFTERNOON me and
Sid Hunt was setting on my frunt
steps and Pubs started to come up
the street and we made up a good
one to play on him, witch as soon as
he came up 1 sed, G, I don't feel
mulch like going GROUND to the gro
Gerry store, my mother gave me sent
to go, but wat do 1 care? If eny
body elts wunts to go Ill give them
the sent
Ill go, sed Sid Hunt.
Ill go, sed Pubs Simkins.
Pubs sed it ferst, 1 sed, and Pubs
sed, Wat do you wunt me to get,
wares the sent?
Ill give it to you wen you come
back with the alligator soopFI sed.
The wat? sed Pubs.
The alligator soop, I sed, tell him
to charge it to Mrs. Potts.
Go on, there amt any such thing,
sed Pubs.
wish 1 had million dollers for
every time I've drank it.
Leeve me go, Benny, leeve me go
| IL lie uOuI WuuI 10, Seu Olu 1DuIL.
Ill go, Ill go, sed Pubs, how mulch
of it does she wunt?
A pint, I sed. And Pubs started to
go to get it, me and Sid Hunt starting
to laff as soon as he termed Ground
the corner, Sid saying, G, 1 bet he'll
get kicked out faster than wat he
went in.
And we kepp on setting there laf-
ing and saying wat we bet they wood
do to him, and after a vile Pubs came
back, not looking as if they had did
enthing to him, and 1 sed, Well, ware
is it? Dident they have eny?
Yes, they had some, but he sed they
ony sold it by the duzzin, do I get the
sent enyhow? sed Pubs.
! 1 shood say not, 1 sed.
WITCH he dident, me and Sid Hunt
not hardly knowing weather it was q
joak on us or a joak on Pubs.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21
THE KNOW TT ALL" AGE

In an article in the July Woman's
Home Companion on THE Girl of
Seventeen" this mother says:
she is just past seventeen years
of age, is sweetly pretty, innocent, re-
fined, intelligent, talented, and is
blessed with an open mind, particu-
larly receptive, just now, to all up-to-
date ideas in the way of dress fads,
social stunts, ragtime melodies, jazz
bands, new dances, and late coiffures.
She is, in two words, my daughter,
lovely child of the period just arrived
at the know it all age, and repre-
sents the average daughter of this
day, a replica of the daughters of
other mothers.
"As for me, 1 am her mother, nee
essary to her as a housekeeper and
purse-keeper, also an admiring audi
ence of one for this very independent
young person. A few years ago
added to these titles those of mentor,
guide, teacher anad comforter, but, to
be a bit slangy, within the past year
1 have lost-my job and have fallen
from my high estate as leader and
manager to the second in command.
In fact, the tables have swung COM
pletely around and where, only a
short time ago, 1 mothered my baby
girl, it is l who am now being daugh-
tered, who am being trained to look
upon life, not as a sedate mother
person twice and a little more the
years of my daughter but with the
eyes of youthful seventeen, who are
being skillfully and tactfully imbued
by my very own child, with the latest
ideas in regard to living 1 am being
lovingly required, nay, sweetly COM
PEELED, to change my ideas and opin-
ions so that they may conform tc
hers"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-21
WHAT'S GOING ON In THE WORLD
OF THEATRES AND AMUSEMENT

all her voluptious beauty and clever
ness of mind to spare her kingdom.
But Octavius, determined to end
her reign, promises only a life of
slavery; so Cleopatra, with the vision
of Antony's grave. before her, finds
solace in the fangs of. a poisonous
wasp.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-05-01

Buy all your possibly pay for, even though the
payment involves stern self-deniaL Remember, you
are not asked to giUe your money; you asked to
lend it, at good interest, the weathiest, strongest
most honorable nation on the globe.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-05-01

Before our Boys i'm the
Trenches over there can
go over the top we must
first go over the top here
that they may be given a
chance TO fight or braveIy
die, for the liberty of man
kind. | am contributing
this $500 space. that
the cause of patriotism,
manhood and the love of
home and freedom may
not die out in the good
county Of Adair.
Barksdale Hamlet.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-05-01

IL you can't pay cash for your bonds you can borrow
part OF the money at your bank, using the bonds as
security; or you can buy them at your bank on easy
partial payment plan. 1t is trouble to buy Liberty
Bonds; it is trouble to pay for them. See your
banker today.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
THE PEOPLE ARE SAVING

Evidences accommodating that the habit of saving
the American people, especially among patrons savings
banks and postal savings the financial
made them by the
While exact figures available
that postal savings deposits steadily
1917 notably the of year.
after the first issue of the Liberty Loan
The report from savings banks also show steady gan
the of cooperative building loan
Nor have the people of small been the only
1t estimated that the of the whole people
States ordinarily 000OO00OO 100000 annually
increased to $4,000 200 $4,000
The response of the people of economy
and saving has been general and generous.
Here suggestion for for the
which tangible and follow parents
their home
their pennies and have them
keeping their order doing the Dishes running errand
dusting
By earning their pennies definite regular
and then purchasing Thrift Stamps with them children
gain the spirit of sefdena they will
rendering real their and the habits
Thrift formed prove helpful long they
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
ANCHORAGE BOYS
LEAVE FOR FRONT

Seventeen young men, most of
them employees of the Commission,
left Anchorage recently for Seattle
to join the Thirty-first Engineering
regiment now in course of organi-
cation by Col. Frederick Mears.
They will report to officers of
the regiment at Seattle and will
later be transferred to the training
camp at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
The names of those leaving are
George L. Jenkins, H. R. Rydholm,
John o. Thielen, Harold Howard
Edwin c. Oldfin, C. W. Wressel,
Don S. Griffiths, j. L. Strong, Ches-
ter L. Duncan, Leslie Axe, Charles
D. Merritt, o. A. Kenyon, Harold
McCutcheon, A. A. Ferguson, ]. P,
Momb, r. E. Bothby and Robert Y.
Jacobs.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

Gated near the present terminus of
the Matanuska branch line. The
first work on the units was done
during September and October last,
when one bed of coal was uncovered
Recently two tunnels have been
started to ascertain the extent and
nature of the deposits with view
of installing suitable machinery to
insure a large production at an
early date.
In addition to the mines men
toned, four other local veins in the
vicinity of Anchorage have been
opened by private parties operating
under the free-use permits. The
aggregate production so far has been
small, but in two cases, at least, the
outlook for a satisfactory future
tonnage appears to be encouraging.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

c. R. Brock, formerly connected
with the Alaskan Engineering COM
mission as district engineer with
headquarters at Matanuska, has been
appointed a captain in the Thirty
First Engineers regiment which is
being organized by Col. Frederick
Mears. Captain Breck has been as
signed temporarily to duty in the
office of the director general of
MILITARY railroads at Washington, D.
C. The Thirty-First Engineers regi-
ment is now in training at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, and it is ex-
pected that it will be transported
to the war zone late this spring or in
! the early summer.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

The Pacific Steamship company
recently played the part of fairy
godmother to the hotels and restau-
rants of Juneau. The sum of 81 800
was paid to the hotels and restau-
rants for room and meals furnished
to passengers and officers of the
wrecked steamer Admiral Evans.
The crew were cared for by the
federal government and their ex-
pense bills will be paid through the
Juneau customs house .:..:
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
WAR TIME PRICES

People complain about time prices, the United
Administration. They complain because they
asked reduce their consumption of wheat and
They complain because of the substitutes cost
food they asked for their associates the
other side of the
All right suppose grant complaint prices
thing from another angle Prices
high There get around that War time prices have
always been high They always only
things fully we'll the things and
only that cheaper, how much of
sacrifice would we be making in order to help win this war?
Suppose who supplying ammunition said
dsgracful high for steel when wood
much cheaper And then that they used the wood
hels-its much cheaper and could be
painted and smoothed down to look about like steel
How long do you think armies could stay in the trenches
guns wooden shells? They could stay just
about long they could made prices the for tax
ing food of their mouths
Prices prices to win this Those
people need beef pork and mutton wheat and fats If
fail order that they have them could just
well close down steel plants and send them shells made
of wood.
Where there be produced steel pillow
helps production but steel cultvator when breaks
the land the form of she'll That has been shown France
Italy, Belgium and all of the other shattered by battle
But nation be and still maintain production the
battle lines That has
Germany and is being shown the United
charged with the task of feeding
maintaining production on that meet
fill gap
Europes production The only solution
reduce our own use of the foods most needed abroad We must
empty substitutes pork
This much Europs there
why should ask Europe bear all of the sacrifices
and deprivations
Did you stop why prices high in
time? Or have complained about the fact that they
high and then wondered why the world the
hasn't brought them back ante-belum level?
The next time complain about think of the
farmer who the things buying that
he 81 $3.50 day for labor he could before the
S125-and that he having mighty
getting anybody all Do know that railroad
is congesed and that much difficult
products than ago? Do know
the who buys food then dis.
tributes the wholesale dealers much his
labor than he did before the And do that all of
his have
that the wholesale dealer is paying salaries that he
could scarcely have dreamed ago? that the
thing is Of the retailers?
And then the other hand, when wonder why the
hasn't taken hand have consider that
prices have risen much lower scale than
wars?
Have thought when paved sugar.
with the through actual famine
would have much higher
the United States Food Administration stabilize
the market? Have stopped why the Wholesale
of flour Sill
SIS last and threatened mounting.
remembered that the money
81 flour today than he of s14 SIS flour
months
that prices high why Somebody
would change from complaint HIGH
think of
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
CIRCULAR SHOWS
SUGAR SHORTAGE
IN THE STATES

/ Information bearing on the dis
tribution of the sugar supply in the
United States, obtained through the
war emergency food survey for
August 81, 1917, has just been made
public in Department of Agriculture
circular No. 90.
On the basis of the returns from
the survey, the circular states, it is
estimated that the stocks of sugar
/ in commercial channels on August
81. 1917, were about 1.50O,000,000
pounds, as compared with 100000
600 pounds on August 81, 1916.
| The amount of sugar in various
channels of trade shown by the in
ventories for 1917 and 1916, taken
in connection with the net available
supply for 1917, makes it possible
to determine the amount of sugar
actually consumed in 1917. The
amount thus consumed was approx
mately 9,100,OOO,0OO pounds, or
I SS.3 pounds per capita. In the alb
sence of inventory figures for Aug
ust 1915, it is not possible similarly
to determine the amount of sugar
in 1916. However, approximate
figures can be given for the average
] annual consumption of the five-year
period ending in 1916. This aver
age amounts to $500, 100000 pounds
or SAT- pounds per capita. 1t is
thus apparent that there has been
a considerable increase in the con-
sumption of sugar.
This increase is due in part to in
creased manufacture, for export, OF
commodities like condensed milk, in
which sugar is an important ingred-
lent, and to the increased use of
sugar in canning. 1t is probably
due in larger part to the normal
increase in the population of the
country, coupled with an increased
per capita consumption of sugar, and
to an increase in consumers stocks.
The facts ascertained from the
food survey in relation to the sugar
supply are based on reports for
August 81, 1917, and the compare
tive figures refer to the holdings on
August 81, 1917, and August 81,
1916. The sugar in the hands of
dealers whose total stock of goods
was valued at less than $1,000, and
who were not called on for reports,
together with the supply held by
other dealers from whom, for one
reason or another, Ineligible data
were not secured, can hardly equal
10 per cent of the supply, 1t is
believed, therefore, that the figures
given above represent at least 90
pr cent of the total supply held by
all classes of concerns on the date
of the survey.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18
COAL FROM THE
MATANUSKA FIELDS
BEING EXPORTED

SubSldillldl pIOSiSSS III llS
opment of the Matanuska coal field
was made during the year 1917.
Of the twenty leasing units en-
braced within the limits of the field,
six units are at present in operation
two on Moose creek, one oil Eska
creek, and three on Chickaloon
river. Oliver La Duke and asso-
ciates, under the corporate name of
the Matanuska Coal company, are
developing the Moose creek units,
Nos. 2 and s; the Alaskan Engin-
eering commission the Eska creek
unit, No. Z, and also No. u unit
on the Chickaloon river; and Lars
Netland & Co., operating under the
name of the Chickaloon Coal COM
pany, are opening the deposits of
Units 10 and II.
More than $4,000 tons of coal
have been mined and shipped from
the Matanuska field since the de-
posits were made accessible by the
construction of the branch line rail
road. The heaviest production to
date has come from the Eska creek
mine, in unit Z which to December
81, last year, shipped 25,9S11S
short tons, nearly all of it being used
by the Alaskan Engineering COM
mission and the residents of An
chorage. Previous to April 1917,
when the spur track to the mine
was completed, the coal from the
Eska creek mine was hauled by
team three miles to the railroad 1t
is only since the completion of this
spur that heavy shipments have been
practicable. This colliery is oper-
ated by the Commission, and about
125 men are employed in various
capacities.
Previous to the time when the
Eska creek coal became available,
the Alaskan Engineering commission
and the residents of Anchorage
were dependant for local fuel upon
the Doherty Coal company, private
concern operating under a free-use
permit, who had opened a small
vein about mile from the railroad.
near Moose creek. The total pro-
duction of this mine to December
81, last year, was 25,760 short tons.
nearly the entire output being con-
tracted for and used by the Com
mission at Anchorage for its loco
motives and terminal facilities.
Unit No. -, on the Chickaloon
river, at the present terminus of
the Matanuska branch railroad, is
being developed by the Alaskan En-
cheering commission, under the
direction of Mr. Sumner S. Smith,
federal mine inspector, who is also
experimenting the opening of the
Commissions mine at Eska creek.
Unit No. II produced Gil short tons
of coal to December 81, last year
About so men are engaged in driv-
ing tunnels on the veins and other
wise opening the deposits.
The units leased to Mr.. Oliver
La Duke and associates CUNTS 2 and
81 are located on Moose creek about
and one-half miles from the rail-
road right-of-way on the Matanuska
branch. Development work was
started by the lessees in May, 1917.
In September a bed of coal from
nine to twelve feet wide, of ap-
parently excellent quality was en-
countered. A small force OF miners
has been developing this vein during
the winter and to December 81, last
year, 1925 short tons of coal had
been shipped to Anchorage and mar
keted.
Units 10 and IL, which are in
process of development by the
Chickaloon Coal company, are 10
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

Fred Hupprich, timekeeper at 20
Mile, has returned to his pos. after
a brief visit in town on official
business.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

The general merchandise store of
E. Benson. at Metlakahtla was des-
troyed recently by fire, the loss be-
ing estimated at $4,000
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

W. A. Coghill and Jack Dwyer
are passengers on the Thelin stage,
enroute to Nenana. They left yes
terday.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1918-04-18

The Malamute Kid was on trial
in Fairbanks this afternoon on the
charge of cruelty to animals.