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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-11

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-11
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-11

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
BOmbardments Cannot
 Drive This Woman Back
She Thinks Co"ee for Soldiers More Important Than Safety.

The following extracts are taken from a letter written by a Red Cross Canteen worker, Helen McElhone, an American woman and college graduate now located in district almost con stantly under bombardment:
 Foyer des Allies,
 "Bar-le-Duc.
 'Thlngs look very black to me. I am discouraged at the big outlook of affairs and also at my small doings, but it may be the bIackness that comes before dawn. Let us hope so. Our men certainly need help now as much as the poilus. am beginning to see those who have been at the front. In fact, I am beginning to see some of the results of this life. They are sick and homesick, and worse things hrve happened to them. Sev- eral have said: All we ask is to get to the front and do what we have to do. Anything Is better than this life. . : This morning we had more Americans than I have seen before at one time One came up to me here as I was drawing coffee from big marmite as
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
The Long Arm of Mercy
By DR. FRANK CRANE
The Red Cross is the Long Arm of Mercy.

The Red Cross is the Long Arm of Mercy.
 It is the Kindness of Mankind organized
 In Man is Angel and a Devil, Dr. Jekyl and MT. Hyde The Red Cross is the Good, aroused energzed to thwart the Bad.
 It is the best antidote know to the bane of war.
 There other charities, or less helpful. The Red Cross the mghtest of all Charities the Love and Pity ot all men made supremely efficient
 If Emerson said, "senSible and conscientious all the world of religion" this the pression of that religion.
 The Red Cross is Humanity united in Service
 It asks mans opinion only his need.
 Black White Friend or Foe, to the Red Cross there is no difference; it only asks Who is Sufferng2 And to him it goeS
 The Red Cross is Efficient that Governments recog- nize it. so Pure in it's purpose that whoever wishes we'll his fellow men, desires help Clean in its administration that the most suspicious find no fault Tn 1t.
 The Red Cross not only seeks to alleviate the crueeS of War; it is the expression of those human sentiments that day will put end to Wary
 It is the impulse of Love- striving to overcome the inn pulse of Hate.
 It is Mercys cooperation struggling against Wars ri- vares.
 It is the one Society in which every Man. Woman and dices protesting opnon the human being does not live that does not feel that the starving should be fed the sick tended and the wounded healed.
 Majestic and divine is this Long Arm of Mercy finds the fallen the battlefield it brings the and the physician the victim the hospta leads the weeping orphan to home; feeds the sarvng for the pest smten whom all others abandon and pours the oil of Help and Pity into the bitter wounds of the World.
 Where volcano has wrought desolation in Japan Flood in China, a Hurricane in Cuba, Famine in India, Plague in Italy, ravagng Armies in Poland Serva Belgium there flies the Red CroSs the Angel of God whom the fury of banh from the Earth: and to the of the Earth all the ways the Seven Sea wherever Human Misery there is extended bless and to heal its Long Arm of Mercy
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

tricts, including care of five thousand families and sufficient reconstruction to make houses habitable, required over two millions.
 Misery on an Unparalleled Scale.
 These are all large items; but the Red Cross is grappling with human misery on an unparalleled scale-a world of it. The item for relief of the blind amounts to four hundred thou sand dollars. The dispensary service sends supplies to more than thirty-four hundred hospitals. The Red Cross re- ceives and distributes more than two hundrt q tons of supplies daily at Paris. For this distribution and it's other work it requires a big transportation service of motors and trucks. This transportation service has cost mil lion and a half, and it's operating ex- penses run to a million dollars.
 Every dollar it spends means misery alleviated Its work is building abroad for the United States the best good will in this world. It is building the best good will among ourselves. Whatever else the war may produce, we shall be proud of our Red Cross.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
Compare Your Baby s First Four Years
 With This

In 1913 little Marie was born in will Iage not far from Mezieres, IF the Ardennes.
 In 1914 Marie's father, called to the colors, fell at the Marne. And Marie and her mother stayed in the village, which was now in the Germans hands.
 In 1915 a poster was pasted up on the door of the village church, and that night Marie's mother vanished, along with a score or more of other women.
 In 1916 Marie was still living in that village-existing through the charity of the few elderly folk the Germans permitted to stay.
 In 1917 Marie, with all the children under fourteen years and all the old people left alive in the village, was bundled into a crowded car and shipped into Germany, round through Switzerland and thence into France, arriving at Evian. She was underfed, of course, emaciated, sickly, dirty, too lightly dressed for the time of year. And she came into Evian with not a relative, not friend left in all France to take care of her.
 Who took her? Your Red Cross
 Over there in Evian your Red Cross took charge of her, cared for her in the Red Cross Children's Hospital, clothed her, fed her, built up her strength, taught her to play-and then helped the French authorities find her a HOME.
 Multiply Marie by 500 and you will have some idea of just one days work your Red Cross does at Evian. It is only one of the Red Cross activities in France, to be sure-but for just that one alone can you help being proud of it? Can you help being glad you are a member of it, supporting it's great work of humanity? Can you help want ing it to go on helping the Maries and the "grand-daddies" that come ID at Evian?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
THE TRAIN THAT SAVED
 A NATION How the Red Cross Helped
 Roumania.

Have you heard of what happened in Roumania when that stricken nation stood in rags and starving before the shocked eyes of the world? We had thought ourselves grown used to trag- edies until this greater horror struck a blow that 'roused still untouched sympathies.
 And yet we felt so helpless, you and I, so terribly weak in our ability to of fer aid. But were we? After all, were we not the very ones who car ried new life and hope to the heart of Roumania? You shall be your own judge.
 Fighting with the desperation of de spair, the shattered Roumanian army still struggled to beat off the Kaiser's bloody Huns, who were mercilessly trampling the life out of the little kingdom. And the Kaiser smiled bru- tally' as he saw his wolves at work and knew that from behind the lines, attacking the fighting men of Rouma- nia from the rear, entering the homes where mothers clung to the frail, dis torted forms of their babies-was star vation.
 No country around Roumania could help her-and America was too far away. Thousands would die before supplies held in our own country could be sent her.
 Hope was gone. Death by hunger and by the dripping sword of the Kali ser was closing in. A brave little na- tion was being torn to pieces.
 Then came the miracle. One morn- ing the streets of Jassy, the war capi- tai of Roumania, swelled with sounds of rejoicing. A city where the day be- fore there was heard nothing but the walls of the starving and the lamenta- tions of those mourning their dead now was awakened by shouts of joy.
 You, my friend; you who have help ed in the heroic work of the American Red Cross, had gone to the rescue of Roumania. A train of 31 big freight cars packed to their utmost capacity with food, clothing and medicine, tons upon tons of 1t, had arrived in Jassy after making record breaking trip from the great store houses of the American Red Cross in Russia. Other trains followed it; thousands were fed and clothed and nursed back to health. For weeks and even to this day the brave people of Roumania are being cared for in countless numbers by our own Red Cross.
 So was Roumania helped, and when history records how this last fragment of sturdy nation was kept out of the hands of the terrible Huns it will give the victory to your American Red Cross.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
By WILL PAYNE

thing!" The government replied: eve children here." The commission got the milk. At one spot in France farm work was stopped by lack of horses. That meant more hunger. The Red Cross got in a big tractor and set it to blowing for the community.
 There are a million needs. Cold, wet and the deadly physical strain of the trenches undermine mems cOnsti- tutions. A frightful scourge of tuber- culosfs has developed in France. The Red Cross has built sanatoria, pro- vided over a thousand beds and nurses.
 Thirty Millions for France.
 have here a big sheaf of sheets filled with figures. One item is thirteen million and odd dollars-the amount which, up to that time, Lad gone to the local chapters of the Red Cross in the United States for local relief. Twenty five per cent of the money subscribed through the chapters eventually goes that way.
 over thirty millions nave been ap- propriated for work in France. Here is million and a quarter-in round numbers-for military hospitals and dispensaries over a million and half for canteen service, where French and American soldiers, relieved from the trenches, can get good food, cot, a bath, and have their clothes disinfected and so go on for their brief holiday clean, rested, nourished. There are over three millions for hospital supply service; half a million for rest sta tiOns for American troops.
 Aid of refugees-eleven thousand families-accounts for nearly three million dollars; care and prevention of tuberculosis takes over two millions care of helpless children over mil lion; relief work in six devastated dis
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
The Spending of Your
 Hundred Million Dollars
Busiest Budget in All the World Is Red Cross War Fund-Every Dollar Spent
 Alleviates Misery.

Last summer the public subscribed a hundred million dollars to the Red Cross. At the latest statement over eighty-five millions of it had beer ap- propriated.
 Where has it gone? you ask. For many months the world has been spending over hundred million dol lars day for the destruction of life, limb and means of subsistence. Call up what you have read about the wars devastation. The American Red Cross enormous job is to do whatever it can to alleviate that-not after the war, not after governments have deliber- ated and resolved; but right now, at the minute, on the spot. It's amazing that it has done so much with so little money.
 Last autumn the Italian army fell back precipitately. On your war map that meant rubbing out one line and drawing another half an inch further south. Over there in Italy it meant thousands of poor families fleeing from their homes. Major Murphy, Red Cross Commissioner in Europe, rushed to the scene and wired: "Indeseribably pathetic conditions exist, involving separation of mothers and children, cold, hunger, disease, death." In No vember and December the American Red Cross appropriated three million dollars for relief there-a large sum, yet small in comparison with the need Condensed Milk for Children.
 Soldiers are only part of the Red Cross work-probably the smaller part. Every instant, somewhere in the vast flood of destruction, a hand reaches up in appeal. It is pretty api to be a child's hand or a woman's When the Red Cross commission reached Petrograd it asked the gov ernment, What is the most urgent
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

fast as l could fill cups and, pointing to his pipe, said, Tobac, tobac.' I said, Do you want some tobacco? He seemed stunned for a moment and then said: Do you know it nearly gave me fit to hear you speak Eng fish. I haven't heard a woman speak English in five months He said he had been walking about in the cold since four o'clock last night. He couldn't find hotel or a bright light because, of course, everything is closed and darkened on account of the bom- bardments. The Americans are very fond of ham sandwiches. They eat much more than the French sol diers, and when they first came in and ordered six eggs apiece it caused con- sternation throughout the land. The funniest thing of all is to hear. the Sammies grandly urging these wealthy English girls to keep the change-oh, keep the change! |. We start the day at five and work continuously un- til nine, when three fresh cantinieres relieve us. At five we go on for the evening shift from five to eight, and it is the most exciting and exhausting of the shifts. There is a certain time when they come down on us like a flood, eight or ten deep around the counter and three or four hundred al. together in this little room, as eager and tired as schoolboys."
 The foregoing letter indicates that
 our soldiers look 10 the Red Crcss
 Canteen as an oasis in a desert. They
 would not have it if it were not fol
 your Red CroSs~
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15
THE SCARLET CROSS
By Margaret Widdemer Of the ViqiIantes.

that you do today, who lift the Scarlet Cross? withered world is and oSs csing plain you lift the but fight again? guard left heartbroken their children wandering where all fed the broken towns down by shot and she again broken souls hopeless from learning Hei
 Oh, they plain that War had nearly slain!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-15

I 1cGnt to say to yoW that no other orgGnisdtion since the 1Corld began hGS eUer done such great c0nstructiUe qoork 1oith the efficiency, dis patch aud understanding, often under GdUerSe circumt- stances, that has been d0ne by the American Red Cross in France.
 -GenerdI Pershing.
The Taney County republican., 1918-12-19
CEDAR GROVE
ing

Mr.. and Mrs. Wish Ksithley return.
ed from their visit to Kansas City Wed
neSday. They report pleasant trip
Miss Minnie McVey is suffering
from a ielon on her finger this is the
third one in the past two months.
The pie supper was a success in
spite ol the mud and high water,
There were fourteen pies and the pro-
ceeds were Sl2.
Misses Clara and Iva Pdrill Of Rill
came down Sunday to visit their sister
Mrs. Ragsdale, and to attend the pie
supper.
There was no school Friday as the
creek was past Iording.
Davis and Williams we're buying
hogs in this vicinity last week.
Ernest Keithley went 10 Springfield
recently and sold his team Of mules.
The Taney County republican., 1918-12-19
Obituary
concealed weapons

On November !, 1918, Evert
league, the beloved son CT Mr.. and
Mrs. N. P. league, laid down the
burdens ol this life 10 erj,y the bliss
Of the great beyond,
He was born April 9, 1895. On
July IS, 1918, he vas married to Miss
Oma Dennis, ard to this union was
born two sweet little girls, Marie, age
4 and Artie, age 3.
In August 1914, in obedience to
the commands Of his Saviour, Evert was
baptized, and joined the General Bap,
tisi Church a, Protein.
He leaves his father, mother, vile
and babies, and four brothers, John
league Of Lutte, Troy, Of Protein,
Hershel and Herman, who reside with
their parents near Protein; and FIVE
sisters, Mrs. Alice Austin and Mrs.
Lou Long of Blackwell, Okla, Mrs.
Lillian ClaIy oi Lead Hill, Ark, his
twin sister, Mrs. EAcl Miller Of Pro-
TEN, and baby sister, Chloe.
There i; vacant place In our home
that no one can FL lot Evert was an
aHec,ioDate son, a loving husband and
father snd a lfue iriend.
Dearest Everi, how we miss you,
Not human tongue can tell,
Wen meet you, yes we'll greet you
Where we'll never say farewell.
We loved you, yes we loved you,
But the angels loved you more,
Soon we'll meet TO part DO never,
oa that Happy Golden Shore"
A Relative.
The Taney County republican., 1918-12-19
VALLEY VIEW

Nl1hhb WCtk lttiHSj
A. J. Thornton has moved 10 the
Aubrey farm. R. H. Thornton bought
the Thornton farm and is moving 10 it.
Only two more weeks and school
will be out.
Frank Cole has moved to the KEGS
farm.
John Thornton is moving to the
Will Thornton place.
Bud BlakeY is moving TO the c. w.
Dean farm.
c. W. Dean and family, left for
Brstow, Okla, where they will make
their rome. This is not a new ex
perience Tor them as they formerly
livel at that place.
N. c. Grant was here last week cry
ing the Dean sale.
Roy Cole went to Chadwick last
week 10 get load oil his brother Guys
monument.
Roy Aubrey has purchased new
Springfield wagon, span Of mules and
new set Of harness and will soon
leave for Oklahoma.
Roy Bonner has gone TO Chadwick
TO help Roy Hodges drive a bunch Of
hogs,
Benz. Clemons is drilling a we'll for
himself.
Most every body has been picking
cotton in hurry 10 get i, out before
the price went down, but strange 10 say
just as they finished the price went to
very near hall what it was.
Some kind oI vaTmint killed twenty
shoats belonging 10 Otto Sheckles, a
few nights ago.
Fred BlsBkenship ard Joe Wolf tell
hair raising stories Of how the wolves
chased them getting close enough to
see their eyes, etc. Said occurrence
happening one night last W elk.
G. T. Gam has moved 10 his farm.
Mrs. Gam i, very sick at the present
time, but is said 10 be slowly recover
ing.
The Taney County republican., 1918-12-19

presented in the course, made his
fame in teachers institutes and on the
Chsutauqua platform. His lecture
Sovereign Power, is SO powerful and
in such demand that he has given ii
FIVE hundred and Iorty times to date.
The committee are 10 be congratulated
on securing this great lecture.
The announcement Of the Home
Talent play will be given later after
the play has been selected. Those
who saw the play last year, and the
fact that it will be under the same
guiding hand, Mrs. L. L. Parrish, will
not doubt that the one this year will
be Of the same high standard Of last
year.
We know it is not necessary to urge
the people OF Forsyth and near neigh
bors 10 support this course You did
it last year, and will this year. It was
10 give you just Bit Of the attractions
that are in store for you that this article
is written. They are attractions that
communities many times as populous
as Forsyth would be fortunate in secur
inp
The Taney County republican., 1918-12-19
TRUSTEES SALE

Default having been made In the payment
OF the note described In certain deed OF
trust executed by Edward G. Baumann and
Alice Baumann, his vile, dated August 10th,
1918. und recorded in book 10 at page 30l, in
the office of the recorder of deeds OF Taney
county, Missouri, |, the undersigned trustee,
ut the request of the legal holder OF said
note, and by virtue OF the powers vested in
me by said deed of trust, will on Monday,
January 18th, 1919, between the hours of .
O'Clock u. M. and O'Clock p. M, Mt the south
front door OF the court house In the town of
Forsyth, Tnncy county, Missouri, sell at
cash, the real estate described In said deed
OF trust rs follows, to-wit: The north half
OF the southwest quarter OF section three l3l
township twenty-thrcc t23l, range twenty
two t22) west 5th principal meridian In
Taney county, Missouri, to satisfy the terms
aud conditions OF said trust.
A. II. GRANDJEAN, Trustee.
First published December ~, 1918, 2-i
The Taney County republican., 1918-12-19
Notice TO Subscribers
To Our Subscribers:

To Our Subscribers: -
We have no apology to make TO our
readers Tor the announcement we are
here making. The price Of all com
modities, and especially the Skyward
shoot Of all supplies required by news
papers, and the fact that most Of our
neighbor weekly papers have already
advanced their prices, speaks more
eloquently than We could possibly dc.
On February /, the Republican will
advance its price to $3.50 per annum,
so cents for six months, and 40 cents
three months. New subscriptions and
renewals will be received at the old
rate oil $l.00 per annum up to the
close Of business, January 81. The
right is reserved, however, not to ac
cep. subscriptions for more than one
year at that rate. Ylu may renew at
the old rate for one year, no matter
what time your subscription may expire.
We feel that in giving our sub
scribers six weeks notice, We are but
giving them rqnare deal so that they
may take advantage Of the old rate be-
fore the raise. Also, We trust that we
may receive the old subscribers back
who have not get renewed.
At the new rate we feel that We will
be able 10 make the Republican bet
ter and newsier paper, and make it a
real County paper, one that no resident
OF the county, or landholder In the
county can afford 10 be without. We
will not be satisfied until every home
ha, the county paper, and We intend to
work for the interest Of, and boost Old
TaneY in every way We can, and stand
for the best things Of the community
and county.
FRED R. MORAN,
Publisher
The Taney County republican., 1918-12-19
SHERIFF'S SALE UNDER SINKING
ND INTEREST FUND MORTGAGE

Whereas, the county court OF Tancy
county, Missouri by an order made nnd en-
tered Of record ON the Nth day of NOvem-
Der, 1918, found and HdjudRed that dc fault
had been mudc in the pay yment OF the prin-
cipnl and Interest due upon certain inter
est and sinking fund bond, executed TO said
THncy county, 10y Wade k'llcy, rs principal,
and j q. Lewis. W. q. WhitakcrHnd j. l.. Day
as securities, dated August = 1912 in the
sum OF Si25.00, for the use and ncnent of the
Sinking and Interest Fund OF said county,
and having HdtudRed that said principal
and his securities pny the sum OF S}o.iO now
due IN principal and interest 10 said county
on the said bond, directed that IN order Of
sale Of the premises conveyed to sand
county by certain Sinking and Interest
Fund mortgage deed executed Ivy Snid
Wade Kelley and Della Kelley, his
wife, TO said Tnney county for the purpose
of htttrrSecuring the pay lucnt Of the HfOrv-
SHid Sinking II d Interest Fund Bond,
which said mortgage is dated August Mh,
1912, and il recorded in the Office of the Re-
cOrdrr Of Deeds fer said Taney county, in
School Fund Mortgage Record No. Il, pnRe
Z, deed records Of said county, he made
matter OF record In 81 d court, commanding
the sheriff OF Tan"y county, Missouri. with
out suit ON said mortgage. to levy the same
with costs, upon the property conveyed by
the mortgage aforesaid, and to proceed to
sell aforesaid mOrtgHgCd premises, or any
part thereof according to law, to satisfy the
principal and Interest remaining due and
unpaid on Sad bond, together with costs OF
snle, and thnt certified copy of said order
bc delivered to said sheriff by the clerk Of
said court.
Now, therefore, In pursuance Of aforesaid
certified co1y OF order, which wns delivcrld
to me by the clerk OF said court on the 2Gth
day OF NOvher, 1918 bearing date OF Nov. ~
lNlS, have levied upon and seized all right
title and interest of the said Wndc
Kelley and bella Kelley his WIFE
Of in and 10 the following described
real estate situnte In Taney county, Mis-
souri,, tO-wit: All " l-2 NV IL, or " ~ lots
| and ,, NV l-4 section B. township ~
range ~, containing 50 acres, and de-
Scrlbed in sHid mortgage deed. and VIII on
saturday, the 3ls: day OF December, 1918,
between the hours OF nine o'clock in the
forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon
OF that day at the court house door in the
town OF Forsyth, Taney county, Missouri,
agreeably with said order and this notice
sell the same or so much thereof aS may he
necessary. at public auction, for cash I'm
hnnd, pursuant to section 57;9, X. $. Mo. 1869,
for the purposes aforesaid.
]. X. COMBS
Sheriff OF Tancy County, Missouri,
First publication December 5, 1918. 2i-2