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The Adair County news., 1918-03-06
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The Adair County news., 1918-03-06
Enld, Okla.

Dear BrO:-
What do you think of the price
fixing of wheat by now? We
have got to pay the freight on it
to Chicago which is 25cts per
bushel. Corn is supposed to be
worth So. 20 per bushel in Chicago,
we pay the freight on it and
when we get it, it costs as $2.25
per bushel. l tell you it is rot
ten from start to finish. Since
the prices of coal was fixed, all
coal is selling here at the same
money, slack coal selling at So.
per ton, and you can't get decent
coal hardly at all, and before the
price was fixed on coal you could
buy this same slack coal at $3.50
per ton. The prices are fixed so
that the profit thieves can get
rich. Ask us to eat corn bread
and then allow them to charge US
6 cents per pound for meal, is
not just. l am true blooded
American and if it takes all we
have to protect Old Glory let
them have it, but for Gods sake
don't let the profit thieves get it.
They are the ones who talk
patriotism and not one bit about
them. Unless | can be shown
where | am wrong, | never will
vote the Democrat ticket again,
when a man knows he is voting
against his own interest and the
interest of the common people is
one kind of a fool that is hopeless.
| don't believe you can realize
what we of the South West are
up against, we have got a rotten
deal clear through as Sc of the
wheat raised west of the West
Indian Meridian and not one man
on the board fixing wheat prices
from this territory. it is taxation
without representation, but was
all right if they had not stopped,
but they are always going to and
perhaps will regulate prices of
| other commodities when we have
spent every thing we have lining
the pockets of the millionaire.
The day wheat prices was fixed
steel went up 40 per cent. but
after awhile steel prices was cut
into in the middle and then steel
was 10 per cent lower than be-
fore, yet a wheat drill that cost
$65,00 four years ago now costs
$175.OO and everything in pro.
portion. Green cow hides a year
ago sold at tic per pound, finish
ed leather sold for so cent per
pound. now green hides are sci
ling for 10 cents per pound.
finished leather at S1.50 per
pound, sounds good don't it?
Your Brother,
Loe Bryant,
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06
Dry Goods High in Germany.

Dry goods prices as reported by Ger
man newspapers in their market re-
ports have reached unprecedentedly
high figures. Half wool stuffs for
merly 80 cents a yard now command
S5.76, velvets, once S1.44 are now So
a yard; sateen, once 20 cents a yard,
now cannot be had under $2.88. Other
textiles have advanced in like proper
ton, even shoe laces increasing to 20
times their antewar prices.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06
Beans and Aviation.

No one would ever associate the
humble bean with the success or fall
ure of a great aircraft program, writes
II. e. Coffin, in the Saturday Evening
Post, and yet just now we are arrang-
ing for the planting in America of a
hundred thousand acres of castor
beans, the oil from which is vital ne
cessity to the smooth running OF air
craft engines.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

l keep on hands a full stock Of
cof1ns, caskets, and robes. / also keep
Metallic Caskets, and Steel Boxes nd
two hearses. We keep extra large
caskets. Prompt service night or day.
Residence Phone 20, office phone les
45-lyr ], T. Triplett,
Columbia, KY.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

turning from the
town to her home
in the suburbs with
a well-flled market
basket.
In the electric
train were two eX-
travagantly dressed
gentlemen sitting
together, across the
aisle from TIL e
woman and child.
One was evidently
suffering with a
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

Rear Admiral Jellicoe. former
First Lord of the Admiralty of
Great Britain, predicted that the
submarines would be killed by
August.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

A writer from Russia says
that in the first ten months of
the war the Russian causlties
were 3, 100000.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

Col. Roosevelt is pronounced
by his physicians to be out of
danger.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

The bill requiring all youths to
register for the selective draft
upon attaining the age of II is ex-
pected to pass this week.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

The state will receive $4,000
this year from the tax on chick
ems.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06
Frequently the Case.

Sometimes it is love at first sight of
a bank acknowledgements Commercial
Appeal.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

ers to one wheat seller. am
willing to admit that as the price
of farm products has been regul-
ated, so should the price of all
other commodities be regulated to
correspond to the price of farm
products You say that green
hides are only worth 10cts par
pound there, | cannot understand
how that can be, as the price
paid here in Columbia is % cents
per pound, you are certainly get
ting it in the neck there.
l am not going to argue with
you as to how you ought to cast
your vote in the future, you are
a free man, and the right to wor-
ship God according to the die
tates of your own conscience and
the right to vote as you please,
are sovereign rights, which were
made possible by the founders of
our Government, whose names
have been rendered immortal,
such men as George Washington,
John Adams and Thomas Jeffer-
son, the founder of Democracy;
but as for me | do not think at
heart, l could ever be any thing
but a Democrat. as l believe in
its teachings and principles as |
believe in God or Heaven. | am
1ully convinced that there are
men in power who would sell
their souls for a mess of Pottage,
but not all of them, their being
so and possibly cloaked under the
name of Democracy does not sig
Nifty that Democratic principles
are not right Because Judas
betrayed Christ and delivered
him up to be crucified does not
in the least effect the Divinity of
Christ, neither does it prove that
Christ was not righteous man
and the savior of the world. We
may have our modern Judas, but
that does not prove that Demo-
cracy is wrong or that Demo-
cracy was not the founder of all
free governments of to day.
l am fully convinced that the
world war of to day is a right
GUS war, and that to win it we
are bound tie feed not only our
boys who have left their homes
to fight for you and me and our
children and many of them to
die for US, but we must also fee d
our Allies, who are facing the
German cannon and machine
guns and are daily srcraficing
their lives to protect innocence
and virtue and our very exist
ance as free nation, and we
could not have done this if the
price of wheat, corn and other
commodities had not been fixed
and fixed at a price that our
great common people could have
sufficient bread to feed their
families. l know that the coun-
try is full of hypocrites and
grafters, who are making this
war a means to crafty their
lust for gold. Poor swiveled
dwafed souls, they are like the
Pharisees who liked to stand on
the street corners and in other
public places and display their
self righteousness, praying "Oh
God I thank thee that | am not
as this Publican" Their time OF
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06

Berlin asserts that there are
but 10000 American troops in
France.
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06
February 5, 1915,

Mr.. Loe Bryant,
Enid, Okla,
Dear Brother
l was surprised to receive this
letter from you, couched in such
terms, yet under the circum-
stances | can realize and appre-
ciare your feelings to some ex-
tent. 1t does look like you peo-
pie have been handed a cold deal
in as much as you are the pro-
ducers of the bulk of the wheat
of the nation, and not being
represented when the price of
wheat was fixed, but Loe, | feel
sure if you could look at the mat
ter in the right light, you could
see more justice in the act than
you can just now, in view of the
fact, that had no price been fixed
on wheat by the government, it
would have been so high that
many poor people could not have
bought enough to feed their
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06
The Family
Market Basket
By Dr.. Samuel G. Dixon
Commissioner Of Health Of Pennsylvania

On a Saturday morning a poor wom-
an, with her baby in arms, was re-
The Adair County news., 1918-03-06


war a means to crafty their
lust for gold. Poor swiveled
dwafed souls, they are like the
Pharisees who liked to stand on
the street corners and in other
public places and display their
self righteousness, praying "Oh
God I thank thee that I am not
as this Publican" Their time of
self glorifcation was short lived
and so will our Pharisee of to
day be. Let us all do our mite,
make our personal sacrifices and
help to win this the greatest war
the world has ever known. We
can we must and will win. Let
us not loose sight of the fact
that in our fight for freedom that
our forefathers underwent great
hardships and privations that
the uniformed generations might
enjoy that freedom for which
they taught and again in the
sixties when our country was in
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1918-12-12
With the Largest Payment First Decrease Your Deposits
Who Gets the Money You Earn?

1t isn't the money you make that counts, but
what you SAVE. If one man makes $4,000 year
and spends it all, he hasn't got much the
81, 600.
Nor is it the big things you buy that takes your
money; it is the small amounts that you let slip
through your fingers that eat up your earnings.
Why not plug up those leaks and join Christ
BankngClub? You'll be lots happier in
watching your balance grow and your money will
be safe from fire, burglars your own temptation
to spend it.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
OWNERS OF LIBERTIES
FAVORED In RULING
Privilege of Loaning on Liberties
by Banks Is Extended

The Comptroller OF the Currency
yesterday announced the extension
from July /, 1919. to November l. 1919.
OF the period during which any ma
tional bank may make loans on liber-
ty bonds, where there Is a margin of
per cent or more. without regard
to previously existing conditions.
According to the sworn reports OF
the national banks on August 81, 1918.
liberty bonds of all three issues act
ually owned by the banks amounted
to less than 20 per cent of their re-
serves. The total amount loaned
on liberty bonds by all national banks,
including bonds sold by them on the
partial payment plan, amounted to
less than 81 per cent of their re-
sources.
The Comptroller in announcing the
extensions said in part, Under these
amended regulations all holders of
liberty bonds are given practically un-
limited power to borrow from nation
al banks on liberty bonds as the
national banks and other member
banks have to borrow from the twelve
Federal Reserve Banks on security
eligible at the Reserve Banks"
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
ALEXANDRIA
THE HERALD BUREAU,
A. s. Doniphan,
~ Kip. Gfraaf

hiDG Ntrpet
Alexandria, Va, Oct 16.-Eight
deaths here during the past twenty
four hours among white persons azI
several colored is the toll of the in
fiuenza which has this city in its
grip.
Influenza here seems to huctuate.
One day it apparently Is on the de-
crease and the next on the Increase.
1t Is, therefore, hard to gauge the
situation. According to reports there
were a number of new cases of the
disease today and many patients suf-
fering from the plague are reported
to be in a critical condition, especial
ly those who have developed pneumo-
MIA Today's reports indicate the dis
ease Is on the Increase here.
Efforts are being made to prevent
spread of the disease by citizens of
Alexandria and the Red Cross.
Two temporary hospitals and diet
kitchen are already in operation for
the accommodation of those unable to
get medical attention at their homes,
and for others as well. Large num-
bers OF patients are now being treated
at these hospitals and the Alexandria
Hospital is crowded. with patients.
The Red Cross has established a
central headquarters at the rooms OF
the Chamber of Commerce.
Rev. Bergman Green, D. D., dean
Of the Episcopal Theological Sem
mary OF Virginia, today offered to
close that institution and send the
members of the faculty. students and
other attaches of that Institution to
Alexandria to help in fghing the
''fiu' here. This generous offer was
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
SALTS IF BACKACHY
and KIDNEYS HURT
Stop Eating Meat for Awhile if
Your Bladder Is Troubling
You.

When you wake UP with backache
and dull misery In the kidney region
1t generally means you have been
eating too much meat, says a we'll
known authority. Meat forms uric
acid, which overworks the kidneys in
their effort to filter IL from the blood
and they become sort of paralyzed
and loggy. When your kidneys get
sluggish and clog, you must relieve
them like you relieve your bowels
removing all the body's urinous
waste. else you have backache, sick
headache, dizzy spells; your stomach
sours. tongue is coated, and when
the weather Is bad you have rheu-
matte twinges. The urine is cloudy,
full of sediment channels often get
sore, water scalds and you are oblig-
ed to seek relief two or three times
during the night.
Either consult good reliable ply
sician at once or get from your phar-
macist about four ounces of Jad
Salts: take tablespoonful in a glass
of water before breakfast for a few
days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with Iithia, and has been
used for generations to clean AMI
stimulate sluggish kidneys. also to
neutralize acids In the urine so II
no longer irritates. thus ending blad-
der weakness.
Jad Salts Ia a life saver for regu-
lar meat eaters. 1t Is inexpensive,
cannot inJure and make delightful
snssvssesnef dfhiowAker drink
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
SENATE ROUNDS
UP ABSENTEB'
Expects President to Ad-
dress 1t Soon on Peace
Question.

A message from the President out
lining in detail all the diplomatic
steps between this government and
the governments OF Germany. Aus
tria-Hunga-y and Turkey is expected
by the Senate at an early date. In
ton has been sent to a number Of
Senator's abser.I from Washington.
asking them to be present 'yhen the
statement Is delivered.
II Is not improbable. administra-
tion Senators say. that the President
Will appear in person before he SEN
ate to acquai1S the members with
all that has been done in the nero
tiations with the central powers. II
such a message Is delivered. il will
be to the Senate alone, these Sem
ators explain, because the Senate has
sole charge OF the ratification Of
treaties. or other conventions that
may be made with a foreign power.
President to be Indorsed-
Suggestions have been made that
when all Of the Presidents messages
to the central powers. including the
answer to Austria, which is looked
AOE "llllln a L." udgSs nave Dccn
placed before the Senate, a resoiu-
tion indorsiny me Presidents course
will be brought forward. in the eI-
pectation that -he Senate will adopt
It unanimously. This action would
not be unlikely. in view of the fact
that certain Senators who were in
clined TO regard with disapproval the
Presidents note of inquiry to Prince
Maximilian are now entirely in ac-
cord with the latest message to rhe
German chancellor.
II is realized by thoughtful Senators
that while the immediate settlement
with the warning powers is Of su-
preIne importance. 1t is only the be-
ginning OF the work with which the
Senate will be charged in the read
Justment that will follow the coming
OF peace. On this point a Senator Of
commanding influence said:
The face OF the world is to be
changed. There will be a new geog-
raphy. new states and necessarily
new treaties involving hundreds Of
complex questions. Some of the exist
ing treaties may have to be altered
to meet the changed conditions. The
future commerce OF the world will
depend upon new treaties and amend
ed conventions. 1t is not too soon to
begin the informal discussion OF the
commercial world, as IL will be con-
stituted by the peace conference. and
the Senate will be called upon to ad-
dress itself to these questions very
soon"
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
Constantine Palaeologus, the Last
Byzantine Emperor, on Liberty Loan

The Flontne republic needed money finance
and its Machavel appealed citizens for funds
with the following words
Many OF must remember the time when Constantnope
taken by the Turks The Emperor
the city he called the citizens him. since the ordinary
of the sufficient for the emergency he explained
them the danger showed them the remedies he
adopt They laughed him Then the siege The
citizens who short before had
the reminders OF their lord they heard the artillery
thunder against the walls and the the
weeping the Emperor with loads god but the Emperor
chased them saying Now and die with all your
money you willing live without
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
HUGE SPENDING
BILLIN HOUSE
Deficiency Measure Carries
6.345,755,666.O4 for
War Costs.

me introduction in the House yes
terday Of the urgent deficiency bill.
totaiing more than 5000. 600. .0oa
brought the cost OF running the gov
ernment this year UP to the enormous
total Of Sd6,lS6. .ss7, ,4as. II. This includes
cash and authorizations for expendi-
lures to be paid by future appropria-
tions
The amount of cash appropriations
heretofore made was sa4. ses. .5el AZ. c.,
and In the new bill the amount which
Is to be disbursed as cash to the va
rious departments. is S2.4S7. ~, 800. OF.
making a total cash outlay for the
year OF &26.sl6, ,sS7, ,3lT.n The authors
zations previously made were IS, ,fG2, =
eso.Sis and the bill authorizes expend-
lures totaling S.S5S. .3ie,776, making a
total OF 1922, ,0so ,l22.
The total OF the bin introduced
yesterday, including cash and au-
ttforizations. is ss,3i5, 755. .e6s.04. and
this is by far the largest bill Of the
KIND ever introduced In Congress or
In any other legislative body.
Over Half for Military.
Although the wars cost figures In
the Increased expenditures and allow
ances for every department, tho
amount directly charged to the mill
tary adjustment is more than one
half The army appropriation bill
this year amounted to $40, "a. 81. 81. II
and the amount set aside for the mill.
tary forces In the deficiency bill E.
s.. 233, ~, Ss. .52. or a total for the army
of sl2.52C. .5s1, ,21lS3
A large portion OF the money al.
lowed to the War Department is &c
be expended in the purchase anc
manufacture of ordnance, s2so. 900. OK
being set aside for this purpose. Other
items In the War Departments pro
gram Of expenditures are as follows
Provost Marshal General, TO admin.
lister the draft act. seo.oo0oco; Divis.
ion OF Military Aeronautics. So. ooo. .ooo
Signal Service, $4,000. .oeo;' pay of the
army. mileage, etc, y77s. ooo, 900: sub
sistence, il5S. coo. 600; transportation o.
the army abroad and at home. siE.'
00o0o0 clothing and camp and gsrrt'
son equipage, s5s, 10000; construction
and repair OF hospitals. sT. co.. .OeO
Chemical Warfare Service. Sloo. .ooo. Coz
The Nav Department is to receive
S1g7. .s17, ,77s.3G, OF which the greater
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
Few Jugo-Slavs Of West
: Buy Many Liberty Bonds

The highest bond sales for a single
day reported by the Croatian COM
mittee on liberty bonds among the
Jugo-SIavic people of Los Angeles,
Cal, amounted to $1,000 On the same
day-the JugO-Slavs in San Diego took
out 81. 600 worth of bonds.
The JUgO-Slav immigrants who
have settled in southern California
aUe comparatively few in number. In
Los Angeles, San Diego and the other
southern cities there are probably not
more than 5000 of them. Yet they
have bought liberty bonds extensive
ly. as the above figures testify Their
purchases have been particularly
~~-~hIe in the third and fourth
toans
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17

to the residence of his uncle. Charles
B. Roland, 4l3 South Washington
street.
The funeral of Mrs. Emma Rebecca
Ridgway wife of Harry Ridgway. y
years old, who died yesterday. will
take place at 10 o'clock Thursday
morning from her late residence. 31i
South Royal street
Albert Speiss. ID years old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Speiss,
died yesterday afternoon at his par
ents' residence. 730 South Fairfax
street.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17

has subscribed sSo.eo,6ce worth OF
bonds up TO Monday. October "a To
this smounf the subscription Of the
members Of the overseas foroes VIII
be ADDED as soon A. received II u
believed that the total subscription viii
equAi ~. ooooo. double the amount
subscribed In the Third Liberty Loan.
A telegram from Fort Ogiethorpe.
Ca. states that . number OF interned
German prisopers at the camp have
expressed a desire TO invest in bonds.
Permission has been granted by Alien
Property Custodian A. Mitchell Pal
mer.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
War Department Workers
Oversubscribe Quota

The officers and employees of the
War Department stationed in
Washington have gone over the top
IN the Fourth Liberty Loan. They
have already subscribed s7.15s.s0o.
This Is sfs.oeo more than the
total FubscHption OF the Depart
nent TO the third loan and the sub
scrtpuohs for the remaining. fonr
days OF the compsigp will carry
10 total for the present loan much
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
Get Rid of That
Persistent Cough

II you arc subject % weak Iunsn
heed the cough as warning Eek
MANS ALTEHATTVE may Aio you
in stopping the cough In addition
IL is a valuable tonic and health
builder In sueh cases No alcohol
narcotic or hsbit-forninr drurx
Twenty YEAR, rlccessful use.
SOC and sI-so Beetles N ali druus1sts
or froH sufaetur~r, postpaid
pCDAS LABoRATOKI. Pi1Asdeipsh-
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
"BUY BONDS NOW"
Is SLOGAN URGED
ON THE DISTRICT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oA.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE okL
Fourth Liberty Loan bonds. with
Las Individual tales The boys
are working hard on the campaign
and expect TO greatly Increase the
amount before Saturday night whsu
the campaign closes.
Announcement was made at the
War Department yesterday of the
subscription TO the loan made by
members Of the army.
Overseas Boys G<aerosA
T>Sclretve c. the American Expedi
tionary Force in France. the army
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17
As spanish Influenza

LAXATIVE BROMO QU1NINE Tab
let's should be taken in larger doses
than is prescribed for ordinary Grip.
A good plan il not to wait until you
are sick. but PREVENT 1T by taxi
ing LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets in time.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17

German Gsneral-why the devil
don't you stop these Americans com
ing sSross? THAT'S your Job.
German Admiral--And why the
devil don't you stop EN- when they
are soross7 That's yours--London
Punch
The Washington herald., 1918-10-17

farther beyond that OF the Thfvd
Loan
Out OF Q total Of 3t.t<a persons
connected with the Department In
Washington i1.6s& or 81 per cent
have siread entered their sub
scriptions.