The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-04-09
DoINcs THE COUNTRY OVER

Graves county sold on Saturday
her quota If Liberty Loan Bonds
$197, 900.
Former chief Justice of the Court
of Appeals T. j. Num-, ~ years old,
died at his home at Marion Monday.
Paducah citizens bowed in prayer
for three minutes at the opening of
the Liber'y Bond sale Saturday
morning.
German agents are reported on
good authority TO be at work among
Lexington negroes. The matter will
be investigated.
According to the report of the
New York Probation Commission the
war has Increased delinquency, es-
pecially among young girls.
News tomes from Irvine that
Chas. Mason and Cole Neal were
killed by an explosion in the grist
mill of I'm Crouch, on Galloway
Creek, near Irvine.
President Wilson has signed the
bill creating government corpora
ton with apital of $500, 200, 900 and
authority to issue 100000 in
bonds for the assistance of essential
war industries.
Ground glass has been found in
nine different articles of food shipped
to the ooh Division Commissary at
Camp Travis, Tex. Proof of the find
ings has been announced and fifty
persons are ill.
Every commodity essential to the
prosecution of the war will be under
the virtual control of the War In
dustries Board, according to a state
ment issued yesterday by Bernard
Baruch, chairman of the board.
A patriotic parade in which more
than 1000 women took part marked
Louisville's celebration of the first
| anniversary of Americas entrance
into the war and the inauguration
of the third Liberty Loan campaign.
At the trial of the |. w. w. before
Judge Lands in Chicago, sensational
charges that the jurors had been ap-
preached by I. w. w. agents result
ed in the dismissal of the entire We
nire. The prosecuting attorney de-
clared even wives of the veniremen
were approached, and becoming
frightened, had appealed for protec-
ton.
John Perry, employed at the coke
plant at Ashland, was so badly
scalded that his life is despaired of.
Thirteen of his friends volunteered
to give a portion of their flesh to be
grafteb on the injured man. From
six persons flesh was grated, two
pieces each, 1 1-2 by inches. From
the last seven persons were grated
twelve pieces each.
The death of Colonel VIM. L.
Guthrie, a widely known army Off
Ger and five privates, all from pneu-
monia, are reported from Camp Tay-
lor. The privates, all Kentuckians,
were H. P. Hence Caldwell, of Cor
bettsville, Cephas Feltno, of Corbin,
VIM. Chester Thomas, of Walters
Valley, Chaplin Moss Weel and Louis
Maynard, residence not given.
Three persons were severely in
jured by the accidental explosion of
a machine gun demonstrated in con-
nection with the opening of the Lib
erty Loan exercises at Elizabethtown
Saturday, Price Handley, suffered
a wound that may require the ampu-
latino Of leg; Mrs. Willard Osborne
was shot through the calf of the leg,
and C. B. Smith, farmer, was shot
in the foot.
Liberal subscriptions to Liberty
bonds, parades and patriotic demon
STATIONS marked the first day of the
loan campaign throughout the ma
ton. Numbers of towns and cities
passed their allotted quota and Sioux
City, Iowa, and Lynn, Mass, were
the largest cities exceeding their al
New York subscribed
$1O2, 100000, the largest of any
first-day outpouring.
The 10000 men in the second
draft will start moving to training
camps during the five-day period, be-
ginning April 26, under orders sent |
20 State Governors by Provost Mar
shall Gen. Crowder' OF this number
approximately 1896 will be contrib
,ted by Kentucky. The call is ex-
'ected to fill, to some extent, the va
,ancies in the National Army divis-
ons resulting from the withdrawal
# men to complete National Guard
md Regular Army units and for the
ormation of special technical units
sked by Gen. Pershing.
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