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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19
O0NA
Candled Exgs Shipped

Mrs. ]. M. Heck. general manager
of the Mesilla Valley Poultry Asso,
has completed her egg shipments to
Ell Paso for March. Since Feb. 20,
when the association was formed. "
cases. each containing 30 dozen eggs.
have been candled. packed and sent
to FL Paso. This industry, just in its
infancy, bids fair to grow enormous
ly.-Rio Grande Republic.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19
Shipped 1000 Cattle

About 1000 head Of cattle were
shipped from the, pens at Avalon
recently to Colorado Points. The
cattle belonged to w. F. Faggard.
but are in litigation. the court having
them in charge. Walter Pendleton
accompanied the shipment.-Carlsbad
Current.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19

Hun Work at Roy

Hun Work at Roy
Some miscreant destroyed the big
Flag On the Floersheim Store that
was put out Saturday to remain dur
ing the Liberty-Loan drive. 1t was
torn in shr eds an braided and tied
down to the staff. The S-A flag was
torn down also and we suspect there
will be a reckoning when the Hun
who did it is caught. Roy Spanish
American.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19

Lumber and Buildings Destroyed
Fire last week destroyed the lumb-
er and several buildings adjoining at
Tyrone, the big Phelps Dodge min
ing camp fourteen miles from here.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The loss estimated at $1,000 10 SIS
0O.-Socorro Chieftian.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19
Making Rapid Progress

J. H. Cauthen, who is opening up
the Spar Mine at Bedrock, is max
ing rapid progress. Ore bins are be-
ing built, houses for employees are
under construction. About 20 men
are at work on the property and a
road gang is putting the roads in
shape for three 5-ton White trucks,
already on the grounds. 1t is his in
tention to install a complete machine
equipment which will consist of an
oil engine, air compressor and drills
screens, crushers and sigers. About
SO men will be permanently employed
on this work.-Lordsburg Liberal.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19

Millsrs Landing $500 Ewes Here . ".
Fred H. and Prayer Miller are
lambing $500 ewes on the river just
below the Oasis ranch, and will soon
have an outfit of S. men at work
with the woody boys at his camp
Roswell News.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19
C0LFAX
Ration Streets Defy Description

Ration Streets Defy Description
The Range regrets that after max
ing a careful search of the diction-
airy and Roget's Thesaurus it is I'M
able to find a word that fittingly
describes the condition of our city
streets, and is compelled to be CON
tent with the one term, "abomin-
able" The American tongue is in
deed weak.-Raton Range.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19

Excellent Fruit Prospects
The present prospects for a good
apple crop in the Mountain Park sec
ton are said to be excellent. OF
course, there is quite a danger period
ahead yet, but it is hoped strongly
that the Otero county apple crop
will be a good one this year. There
are also excellent fruit prospects at
La Luz and Tularosa, and fair pros
poets for the vicinity of Alamogordo.
-A1amogordo News.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19
EDDY
Church Building Fund

The Baptist ladies served lunch
in the Shelton. building and made
SAX 0 which will be added to the
church building fund of $4,000,
which had previously been subscrib-
ed.-Carlsbad Current.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19

l67, equal to $3.50 a share On 10000
shares of stock, S. par, compared
with 1894 earned in the same quarter
of 1916.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-04-19
GRANT

Chino Copper Co. report for last
quarter shows net profits of H.12,'
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
JIM CONLEY CAUGHT IN
ATLANTA POLICE DRAG NET

ATLANTA. June 19-Jim Conley.
the negro whose testimony convicted
Leo NJ Frank of the murder of Mary
Phagan. is again in the tolls OF the
law. This time the police charge him
with vagrancy. and he is employed at
the city stockade. raising vegetables
and breaking rock. Jim was one of
first idlers caught in the police haul
to put an end to vagranc yduring the
war He was not employed and was
not able to show any means of a live
lihood In the FIVE years that have
elapsed since the Frank trial. Jim has
been before the police half a dozen
times or more, charged with wife-beat-
ing drunkenness and various other
offenses. About half his time since
he became star witness for the prose
cution in the Frank trial has been
spent behind the bars.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
EDITOR WAVES EXEMPTION

FORT GAINES, June 13.-W. c.
Kelley. editor of the Southwest Geor-
gian, has offered his services to Uncle
sam and has been accepted He is
now holding a place in the quarter
master department. Editor Kelley is
net within the age limit and besides
that he had legal exemption. but
waived it.
He had been editor of the South
west Georgian here for six years, hav-
Ing come here from Twiggs County,
where he was editor Of the Twiggs
County Citizen for seven years. He
was active of late in the Red Cross
drive and the Liberty Loan Campaign
conducted in this county
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
Hoorayg BABY To /,
Rule The House
No 1o3~or Do Women Fear The Greats
est of All Human Blesa:nge,

Thousands OF women no longer resign them
selves TO the thought that sickness and dis
ireSs arc faiyral They know better, for in
Mothers Friend they have found a won
deriul Penetrating remedy TO relieve many
dreaded e,9crieI1e5.
Nervousness, bcaring-down and stretching
pains are among tho dishca;tcnias a-A dis
pressing ernelieYde5 wcttt1 everywhere say
they entirely escape during - pc-.5l CT
expectancy b The use OF Mothers Friend.
Here IS o remedy thct softcns The myriad
Of broad, fit abdominal muscles Just be-
meath the skin, enables them TO expand with
cj;t tho usual strain uocn the ligaments and
nerves. and assists natgre TO make 1t pos
sible for women TO So through maternity
without many of the dreaded symptoms 50
familiar TO q fost Of women.
BY regular use throughout the period the
muscles expand easily when baby is born,
and pain and danger at the crisis IS CON
scGlc1tlY less
Mcther'9 Friend is fer external use only.
is absolutely and entirely safe and has been
used by thousands of women awaiting the
greatest time in q womans life for over
half 9 century.
Write The Erad1cld Regulator Co,
Lamar Bldg. Atlanta, Ga, Tor their "Moth-
erbocd Beck 50 valuable;to eypectart moth
cr9. and in the meantime obtain bottle of
Mothers Friend from the nearest drug store
Begin its Use strictly according to directions
with every bottle, and thus fcrtify yourself
aSaiaSt r~in md discomfort.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
WILL SELL BORGEiN'S
ELONGINGS FOR OBLIGATIONS

ATLANTA, June 19-The personal
belongings left behind at Stone Noun
lain by Gutzon Borglum, the famous
gCulptor who has been much in the
public eye in correction with the air
craft production investigation in
Washington, are scheduled to be sold
At public cutlery by a justice of the
peace June 2S to satisfy claim
against the sculptor by Clarence G..
Baxter, formerly his secretary, who
claims that Borglum owes him 500
for services rendered.
It will be recalled that Borglum was
engaged as the sculptor in charge of
the great project of converting the
precipitous side of Stone Mountain
INTO mammouth monument to the
Southern Confederacy. He came here
and spent several months After out
lining tit3 project in all its details and
ifthDIIlb iiltCICctj llN phii'
atudo on the level plain facing the
mountain, from which eli planned tC
direct the work of the stone cutters
suapcnG1d from the mountain top BY
tcel cables. When the war came OF
the project was dropped because i
vas deemed an inauspicious time t
also tie fund necessary for the work
and Borglum left here and returne,
New York. The Stone Mountain
| Memorial Association, however, Ii
holding the project in allegiance pend
| ng tie return of peace.
Meanwhile, Borg1um has got himsel
ato the very vortex of the aircraft in
resignation in Washington by cbarg
ing that there was graft, mismanage
ment and waste in the handling of tn
vast appropriation passed UP by cor
| 9re8s for tho construction Of battl
planes.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
PUTNAM RAISING WHEAT

EATONTON, June 12.-That Put
nam Is doing her bit nobly in raising
grain and conserving her food crop
is evidenced by the cheering and pa
triotic sound of the threshing machine
in and around Eatonton, and reports
of splendid grain yields from all over
the county. Even Eatonton's chief of
police has done his patriotic duty
during off hours and recently threshed
out lightweight bushels of fine wheat
grown on the small plot of ground sur
rounding his home on the outskirts of
the city.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
TRYING TO CHECK LOSSES


DAWSON, June 12.-The boil weeyi
is certainly on the job in Terrell coun
ty now as result blowing up cot
ton is the order of the day. In every
section of the county farmers are vast
ing no time and insome instances the
cotton is more than knee high.
Planting of peanuts is following the
blowing up of cotton. H. A. Petty, who
is one of the largest farmers in this
section, brought a handful of the pests
and put them on exhibition. 1t is
said there are twenty-five times more
weevils in Terrell than at this time
last year
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOR
SEDETEOUS LANGUAGE

Savannah, Ca, June 13.-Fred Wes-
sells, Jr., former city marshal of Sa.
vannah, whose father and mother are
both natives OF Germany, was taken
into custody today under the recently
passed espionage act He is charged
with making the following remarks on
May 30, the day of the national prayer
and penitence:
This is rich mans war, started by
the money powers. Germany had a
right to sink any ship carrying mu-
nitions to her foe, no matter who was
on it. Austria started the war in 1914
and not Germany. The Lusitania wa
British ship. The Americans had no
right on it. Germany violated no in
ternatiOnal law by sinking her. Mexi-
| co murdered citizens of the United
States and the United States did not
declare war The. United States had
no legal right to declare war on Ger
many. Socialists, democrats and the
republicans are going to be outvoted
by new party, started in the west
There are a few of them in Savannah
now"
Bond was given in the sum of $4,000
pending hearing on Monday. Mr.
Vessels says there is nothing in the
charge as his remarks have been
garbled.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
EPWORTEf LEAGUE TO
HOLD CONFERENCE

Macon June 13.-The Macon Ep.
worth League Union is to be hest to
the seventeenth annual conference
of the Epworth League chapters OF
South Georgia to be held in this city
June 1921 Some 800 visitors are ex-
pected to be in Macon for the three
days, who will be entertained in the
homes of Macon Leaguers.
DR.. c. r. jenkins has donated the
use of the auditorium at WESLEYAN
College. where all sessions of the con
vention will be held An interesting
program has been prepared by Dr..
Arthur j. Moore, president Of the con
ference, who is now in charge of all
religious work of the Army Y. M. c..
A. at Camp Wheeler, and his assists
ants. Special features of the program
will be announced later.
The City Epworth League Union
will meet Friday night, June Il. at
Centenary Methodist Church at $3.50
O'Clock. This will be the last meeting
CT the South Georgia League Confer
ence A full attendance is therefore
urged. j. Harry Burns, of the East
Macon League, is in charge of the
meeting and an interesting program
has been arranged. A social meeting
will follow the conclusion of the pro-
gram.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
TWO NURSES WILL. GRADUATE
AT LOCAL. SANiT0RIUM

Miss Susie May Dodson and Miss
Grace Tompkins will graduate to-
morrow evening at the Cordele SAM
forum as nurses. An appropriate pro-
gram will be arranged 70 the occasion
and the young ladies will be awaded
their certificates at the exercises.
Tehy have done conscientious and
faithful work and have won highest
praise from the hospital management
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
PARIS HAS PRE;-WAR
RELAX OF NERVES
LATE ADVANTAGES GIVE FRENCH
A WAR REST

PARIS, June 19-News of the Aus
TRAN repulse on the Italian front and
comparative quiet on the British and
French lines, with the silence of the
long range guns for six days, and the
inability of the Gothas to cross the
terrific defense barrage in their last
thee attempts to reach Paris. have
caused the taut nerves of Paris to re
lax.
The city has assumed an appear
auce nearer that before the war than
at any time since the opening of hos
tilities.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
MEMBER OF COMMONS WAS
in ZERRUGGE RAID

LONDON, May 5,-There was one
n mber of the House of Commons
on The British expedition TO Zeebrugge
Commander Hamilton Been, member
for Greenwich, commanded one of the
motor-launches in charge of the
smoke barrage work He escaped
without a scratch although the bow of
his vessel was stovein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
24O POUND PIGS

With corn above SO cts. hogs eat
their heads off very quickly. The
hog that takes two or three months
to get on full feed never brings YOU
profit
1t is better for the loaf pans to be
narrow This will insure thorough
baking.
When you are ready to put your
shoats on feed begin with the B. A.
Thomas Hog Medicine. Use regularly
and watch your shoats round out into
fat hogs in nine months-hogs going
well over zoo pounds and as high as
240 pounds. Figure the average feed.
Ing and you will see why the B. A.
Thomas medicine is good investment.
Try feeding out your hogs on this
plan and if you are not more than
pleased, we will refund the cost of
the medicine.
WATT &, HOLMES HARDWARE co,
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
MRS. S. p. CRAWFORD Is
NEW HOSPITAL. SUPERENlEND'T

Mrs. S. p. Crawford of Savannah
has been made new superintendent at
the Cordele Sanitorium She succeeds
Miss Sammie Macarthur and is already
in her new place becoming acquainted
with her duties Mrs. Crawford comes
highly recommended
Miss Macarthur has gone to her
former home in Eastman and will do
private nursing at that place.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
live STOCK MARKET

National Stock YARDS, ILL.,, June 13.
-Today's Receipts: Cattle-35OO Hogs
5000 Sheep-2000.
CATTLE: General trade closing very
active and vigorous with an advance
of Csc. per cwt on all varieties com
pared with week ago.
QUOTATIONS.; Strictly fancy beef
steers SIG to $1725; common to choice
$40 to $15.75; stockers and feeders SO
to $11; beef cows SO to $1,000; Gamers
and cutters $3.50 to So; yearlings So
25 to $3.50; heretics 50 to $1,000;
veals $40 to $14; and bulls $3.50 to $40
HOGS :Today's market shows an aver
age decline of 20 to 30 per cwt COM
pared with the best time this day last
week. when the top was $3.50 Good
100 to 24O lb hogs $500 to $3.50;
heavy hogs SIG to $500; lights, 100
to $50 lbs. SIG to $16.4O; light pigs
SIS to SIG, and rough hogs SIS to
$1625.
SHEEP: This trade very active and,
fully soc. higher on all varietis than
week ago. Spring lambs $40 to 500;
clipped lambs SIT to 1885; fat sheep
$3.50 to $14; bucks Sill and Gamer
and chopper sheep 81 to $40
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE

| The Mayor and City Council OF Cor
dele, will offer for sale, on the pre-
misses, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M.
on the 18th, day of July next, the pro
perry known as the City Hail. prop
erty, and being lots Nos. 5 and on
Block number 10 as appears from map
of survey of the City of Cordele, to-
Sether with the building located there
on. Said plot of ground has 100 feet
frontage on Wall Street and runs
back north 100 feet to railroad right
of way.
The Mayor and City Council re
serves the right to reject any and all
bids, and the sale is made subject to
ratification and confirmation by said
layor and City Council. Should any
party, or parties desire to submit pri-
vate sealed bids, they may do SO by
depositing the same with the clerk
said bid, or bids to be opened after
the public auction herein referred to
and any and all such private bids shall
be considered by the Mayor and City
Council, and accepted, or rejected, as
they may see fit, in the same manner
as the public bid.
Terms, one third cash, balance to
be arranged to suit the purchaser, the
deferred payments bearing eight per
cent interest.
]. II. LAMB,
Chairman, Building and Grounds
Committee.
6-10-to 7-15-18
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
BILOXI LAUNCHES SCHOONER
THAT GETS HIGHEST RATING

BILOXI. June 15.-The first of a
new type of auxiliary schooners, the
Elizabeth Ruth rated by Lloyds as a
hundred A-w, said to the only vessel
of that classification constructed on
the Gulf Coast. was launched here
today The schooner is Of fifteen humid
red tons.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
LEGAL
"A advertisements
Observation-Disclosures

VI ! - tNtlN---ftC iAFN ttOfN
GEORGIA, Crisp County.
To Al Whom 1t May Cci Germ:
H. A. Hall having in proper form ap-
piled to me for Permanent Letters of
Administration on the estate of Mrs,
S. j. Hall and John Hall, late of said
county, this is to cite all and singular
the creditors and next of kin of Mrs.
S. J. Hall and John Hall to be and ap'
pear at my Office within the time al
lowed by law, and show cause. if any
they can, why permanent administra
ton should not be granted to M. A
Hall On said estate.
Witness my hand and official sigma
ture, this the 3rd day CT JuLe, 1918
w. p. FLEMING, Ordinary.
G-5-4t-p(
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
CITATION
GEORGIA, Crisp county.

TO All Whom 1t May Concern:
John N. Sirmons, having in proper
from applied to me for Permanent
Letters of Administration on the
estate of Benjamin G. Sirmons, late OF
said County, this is to cite all and
singular the creditors and next of kin
of Benjamin c. Sirmons to be and ap
pear at my Office within the time al
lowed by law, and show cause, if they
can why permanent administration
should not be granted to John N. Sir.
mons, on said estate.
Witness my hand and official sigma
ture, this II day of june 1918.
w. p. Fleming Ordinary
6-12-4t. pd
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19

Hereafter all policemen in the traf-
fic squad in st. Louis will be at least
six feet tall Men of five feet and some
odd inches will be put on the regular
quad
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19

Fer the first time in the history Of
Tammany Hall, New York's political
center. women now have full eqy
with men.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19

Motion pictures are employed by the
University of Chicago in a study of
the movements made by persons writ
Ing with view to learning how poor
writer's can be taught to improve.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19

We shall save civilization from Kai-
serism if you will invest in Uncle
Sans Thrift and War Savings Stamps
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
LET YOUR LIVER LIVE

- Il ? FllA 1t ' I'm II : =
n sluggish, slow acting Liver is the cause
Ct many Ills; for you TO be active and il.
5000 i1caiti the liver nus carry OF! poisons
hebody. Fi4NRS LiaER Pills contain Cal
cfncisSiiliuliy combined with other necessa-
r cleansing drugs which quickly and gently
iive-l up your liver but do not sicken orgripc.
z5c II Drug hG0 GENERAL STORES
i.~--211y h mixers oii'ian!.'s Chill Tonic.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19

Secretary of War Baker has author
lied the establishment of an army
school of nursing for training women
between Il and 80 years old.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19
The Strong Withstand the Heat Of
Summer Better Than the Weak

e'''''''V' EVtNOI ITetIT lIIU FFEdE
Old people who are feeble and
younger peop,e who are weak, will be
strengthened and enabled to go
through the depressing heat of sum
mer by taking GROVES TASTELESS
chill TONIC, II purifes and enriches
the blood and builds up the whole
system. You can soon feel its
lnvigorating Effect 60c
Wed, tt,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19

Apparatus invented by Paris doc
tor for pumping anesthetics into a
persons lungs insures the admins.
tration of a definite dose.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-06-19

6-10-to 7-15-18
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-16
Humorous department

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-16
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
FOR SALE

% Acrs-Of good. level lar with
s-room house. joining FL. Jackson
Stnr, place. II is Il No. F'rm.
ID VI. ParOtt Place. j.: h,Sn
from clover: on Glover roaa. "u"
acres; or dwelling: ar tenant
huuseS. viii sell aS whole or III
two tracts. Priced right.
Si>-I,oom Ilouse-On 6: acres OF
good land. on H"weHS terrS roa"' "
miles from Courthouse
i,s lcrs Land 6-r dwelling. S-r
tenant house. IL mile OF Zion rhurch
and school
200 Acres or saw timber and wood
lan,i within mile uf Zion church. -"
timber worth price Of whole tract
Two Vacant Lots :nN5UO ahd iopN
2.a feet. on Kings Mountain street
T.uildne lot Ot-6nN2@5 feet on "eS'
side Wright avenue.
AZ. Ncr,~-I-ronm dwelling. zen
ant houses. known as the VIII wal
l,.,. rlac- y miiCs Soush III NorkNslir.
Level land.
y. r. He'll Property -7-r"om dwell
ing: ! i-2 acre lot on East i.ih'r'N
street. Y"rkvillc.
lot-Ncnr Graded school 90 fret
front: 200 feet deep ON shady SID" "f
IN" street See ~" about II.
c :" S:iERER. Real Estate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-16

Storm Saved Hndenburg.-l har"
often wondered if old Hinderbnrg ever
knew of the fate which almost over
took him on the night of April 2, oil
last year. just before the British struck
IT Nimy Eid=c. The Germans hnuw Il
British offensive was coming and HIM
dcnburg was moving back Of the lines
to inspire his men with courage to
meet the attack.
In one of those mysterious ways
which no one al the front ever in
frlirrS too closely into the British
ha!u,d the Iici.i marshal w:is Stuprin;;
at an cd chateau in the town of Tour
mai. about ID miles east of ILL" and
.,l,unt 20 miles from the British lines.
Two young British n!ers volunteered
;u 10 over to Tournai that night and
bomb the chateau. And with the usu-
I'll intrepidity Of their kind they were
going to fly so low that there could be
no mistake in their target. They had
photographs of Tournai. taken from
the air. and had the chateau all mark
ed out for distraction. Both o. them
had bCrn over Tournai in broad day
light and knew the place thoroughly
we'll
AS night came on. however. weather
conditions kept getting steadily worse.
until ut last 4. regular early April bliz-
Zard set in with snow squalls raging.
The airmen wer, bitterly disappointed
as they were ordered to abandon the
project. One of them, however, at
last won the consent Of his command
or to make an effort at flyiI.G through
the snow.
With eight nice little twenty-pound
eggs" slowed under his lower wings.
he set sail in the s-orm for the Ger
man lines. crossed them and disap-
pearcd into the gloom. An hour lat
cr he tumblcd back in some miraru-
lous manner on the aerodrome. He had
-uI h,.yuud Lille huforc h" finally gave
up the hopeless expedition. II the night
had been starlit old HindcnburS
would have had n very lively evening,
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es of snow on the ground the next
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