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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Church Home Coming.

The Church of Christ is
making arrangements for a
"Hume-Coming' which is to
take place on Wed, Sept, 4th,
beginning at II, o'clock, and
continuing until evening. A
good program is being prepared.
lunch will be served at the
church free of charge, and a
general good time is expected.
Letters of invitation are
being sent to all out-of-town
members. If you have not re-
celved one it is because your
PoStoffice address cannot be
ascertained, and you are expect
ed to accept this notice as an
invitation to you to be present.
A new Church Membership
Roll is being made, and if you
will write to the Minister,
Albert Hales, a membership card
will be sent you by return mail.
This is very important as the
new roll will be made up from
these cards and only the names
of those who fill them out and
return them can be placed there
on.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Notice to Road 0verSeerS.

To the overseers of roads of
Morgan County: You will be re-
qulred to work your roads not
less than 6 days on or before
the 2Srd, day of Sept, that
being the first day of Circuit
Court, You will be required to
report on oath the condition of
your road and also report
whether or not all the hands
have worked their 6 days or
more. and also report all hands
that have not worked, including
the dates and No. of days be-
hind. This must be done on the
aforesaid date, you will receive
blanks for this purpose, and if
you don't receive them | want a
written report.
Yours Respect.
]. H. SEBASTIAN,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
JAPS ADVANCE IN
EASTERN SIBERIA
Tokyo Announces They Have
Passed NikOIaievsk; 0tani
Heads Allied Armies.
chinese FORCE JOINS ALLIES
Reach Mukden on Way to Siberia
Cholera Rages in North Russia
$4,000 Russ officers Are Re-
leased by Bosheviki.

London, Aug. GA dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company from
Tokyo, says tue japanese war office
announces that the japanese in Siberia
are advancing beyond NikOlalevsk.
Chinese Have Reached Mukden.
Peking, Aug. ga Chinese contin-
gent on the way TO join the allies
forces at Vladivostok has reached
Mukden, Manchuria, according to an
nouncement made here.
General otani in Charge.
VladlvostOk, Siberia, Aug. 26.-The
japanese general KlkuzO Otani, COM
mander Of the entente allies forces In
Siberia, took charge Of his command.
This fact was announced at gen.
eral council Of the allies commanders.
The spirit of fullest cooperation was
manifested by the council, the officers
assuring General Otani that they were
proud to serve under him. The varl-
Gus elements will continue as separate
units concerning matters Of admins
traSOn and supply, but are subject to
orders from the generalissimo regard
ing strategy and military operations.
A joint purchasing board has been es-
tablished for buying necessities In the
local market. General Otani's staff
will consist of General Yuhi, chief of
the first bureau of operations; Cen
eral Inagaki, who was commander of
the first guard division, will be chief of
the second division Of supplies and
administration, and General NakaAma.
Russian officers With czeehs.
Amsterdam, Aug. 26.-Gen. ID. c.
Stcherbatcheff, former Russian com
mander on the Roumanian front, and
Gen. V, A. Tcheremisoff, former COM
mander on the Russian northern front,
q Moscow dispatch q the Rhenlsh
Westphalian Zeitthg Of Essen says,
have accepted commands in the
CZechO-Slovak army.
Release $4,000 Russ officers.
Twenty-three thousand former Rus
sian officers imprisoned in the Alentleff
barracks have been released, according
To a Moscow dispatch printed in the
Rhenish Westphalian Zeitung. The dis.
patch says the soviet government was
compelled to abandon its plan for in
ternment Of the officers under pressure
from the population Of Moscow.
Hunger, typhus and cholera are rag
Ing in the northern Russian provinces,
says II Petrogrnd dispatch to the Weser
Zeitung Of Bremen. The population of
entire villages are dying In great num-
bcrs. III some places each person re-
celyes only two pounds of oats weekly
and no bread. Railway connections
between Moscow and the rest of Rus.
sia. except the provinces Of Tver and
Tula, have ceased entirely, according
to Moscow dispatch to the Dussel-
dorf Nachrlchten. This condition is
due In part to the passive resistance
Of the railway men and partly to the
acts of counter-revolutionist In blow.
Ing up railway bridges and destroy.
lng tracks.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

The house ways and means commit
tee nearly completed the draft OF the
SS,000OOO,000 revenue bill, but had
still to decide between two prOpOSi.
tiOns for the excess profits tux. Ac.
cording To Chairman Kitchln these
were, first: An per cent deduction
In addition to the $1,000 specific ex-
emptiOn, with II 30 per cent tax on
profits between s ana 10 per cent; 80
per cent tax ON profits between Is
and 20 per cent and 40 per cent tax
On profits above 20 per cent, and, see.
ond, the same exemption and deduc.
ton, with 40 per cent tax on profits
between 8 and 20 per cent, and 20 per
cent tax on profits exceeding 20 per
cent.
The committee decided ON Hat 10
per cent deduction as n minimum on
war profits. The proportion of excess
profits and war profits taxes viii re-.
mUln the same; that Is, 30 per cent OF
business will fall under the war prof
Its tax. 1t decided on n fiat 10 per
cent minimum deduction for prewar
earnings IN computing the war profits
tax.
A provision affecting corporations
with swollen profits directs thnt any
corporation whose capital excee,j ST.
0O0,OOO shall pny a tax Of at LEI It 10
per cent of Its net income as excess
profits.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
C0RSlCAN WRATH IS STIRRED
New Lusltanla Outrage Arouses Popu.
latlon Of the lsland-Women
and Children Victims.

Marseilles, Aug. 2G,-The entire pop.
ulatlon on the Island of Corsica is
greatly reused up by the sinking OF
the French steamer Balkan, which was
torpedoed by Il submarine several days
ago. Scores of women and children
were victims. The torpedolng of the
Balkan is likcned to the sinking Of
the luSltunla. The Balkan was regu.
larry plying between Corsica and the
mainland, carrying passengers, who
frequently numbered several hundred.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
35,oOO,OoO BONDS PREPARED
Treasury Officials at Washington Con.
tident Fourth Liberty Loan
Will Break Record.

Washington. Aug. 26.-The treasury
feels 50 sure the Fourth Liberty loan
will break all records for size and
number of subscribers II has ordered
the bureau Of engraving to prepare
about S5,0Oo,000 separate bonds, or
S,500,000 more than for the third loan,
when about 26,5000O0 bonds were
sold. one-thlrd Of the fourth lonn
bonds already have been engraved and
they are being turned out at the rate
Of 100000 day. yN
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Letter from "Lilting Lynn. "

Letter from 'Iilting lynn
Camp Sherman, O., Aug. 10, '18.
Hon. H. G. Cottle:
West Liberty, KY.
Dear Bogie:
Will write you a few lines to
let you know l am still enjoying
army life. We are all getting
along fine; have completed all our
drill work and are ready for our
try at the Huns. We are going
real soon. Could tell you the
exact place and time and way we
are going, but that is against the
9lst article Of war and cannot
and must not be written by any
one, as it would not be safe for
our troops for such data to get
out, and we are forbidden to
write it.
| am in the light artillery
branch of the service, attached to
the infantry, and we use the
French gun Puteax, or 81 nm.
1t is called the ''baby cannoh."
and we call it the FOUNDER" for
short. | am sending you one of
the balls we use. This one was
shot and pierced 40 inches of
wood, and you can see that it is
not very badly damaged. We al
so use two other shells but they
are high explosive and are very
effective against the enemy. The
one | send you is used against
the German tanks and they say
it sure puts them out of commits
sion. My position on the gun is
range-finder. l carry pair of
binoculars and figure the range
and give the data to the cannon
eer who fires the piece. We
fight from the third-line trenches
and it is not as dangerous as some
of the other branches of the SER
vice, but more effective, as we
can shoot at two-mile range.
Well, as | told you before, we
are going over soon and l still
lwept my home paper to come as
1raSS fegufaf visitor, as it is the
most welcome visitor have in
the army. lam enclosing $1.5O
as | guess my subscription is
about up. You will please send
it to Pvt. Lynn B. Wells, "a
IDlVlslon, 3S5 Regiment, Hq. Co.,
American Expeditionary Forces.
So | will close for this time.
Yours respectfully,
LYNN B. WELLS.
Received the ball all right.
Thanks. Editor.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
NO BIG AMERICAN LOSSES
General March Denies Stories Of Huge
casualtles--Publle Gets
Reports Promptly

Washington, Aug, Members Of
the senate military committee were
assured by General March ut their
weekly conference that stories OF
great unpublished American casualties
overseas are wholly false and that all
casualties among the expeditiouary
forces are given to the public as
promptly as the cables can transmit
them.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
CAPT. PERSlUS WARNS HUNS
Sharply Denounoes All Germans Who
Bellttle Americas Efforts
in the War.

! Burne, Aug, 26.-Captain Persius,
foremost German navar critic, In an
article In the Berliner Tagebhtt,
sharply denounces all Germans who
.bellttle Americas efforts In the war.
He brands them as fools"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
Seize 20 Autos Loaded With Liquor.

Seize 20 Autos Loaded With Liquor.
HopkInsville, Ky. Aug, 26,-Federal
Officials working here to break up
l''blockadc running" between Hopkins.
willie and Pembroke and points In Ten.
nessee have seized twenty automobiles
valued Mt upward Of 100000 loaded
with liquor valued at 100000, Sew
ernl arrests have been made.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
uroe Early Suffrage Vote.

| Washington, Aug, 2G.-RepubllcOns
Of the senate in conference adopted n
resolution urging action at the earliest
possible dnte on the pending federal
womuu suffrage amendment.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

The submarines operating on the At
lantic coast have turned their atten-
tlon mainly to the fishing fleets ON
the Grand banks and have destroyed
II number of truwlers, one of the lat
ter was captured, fitted out with two
guns and German crew and sent out
as raider. 1t sank several fishing
vessels, hut the navy put large num-
her of swift craft ON It's trail and II
was predicted that its career would
be brief. 1t is believed there are
three submarines In American waters,
and Il number Of steamships have re-
ported battles with them,
The navy department announced
that the American steamer MontOnun
used MS an army supply ship, was tor
pedoed and sunk In foreign waters
with the probable loss of three mcm'
hers 0f the civlinn crew and two
members of the naval armed guard.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Ashland. Miss Carlyl Myers, aged
10, daughter Of Prof. aud Mrs, h. r.
Myers, and Miss Marie Kimball, aged
10, daughter OF MIR. and Mrs William
Kimball, OF Chesapeake, w. Va. were
drowned in the Ohio river white swim
ming out from the bathing beach at
Myers Landing.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Scarcity OF rice caused serious riots
in Japan, the trouble spreading 10
many parts Of the empire. The gov
crnment took forceful action TO stop
the disorders and also bought up all
the rice In storage to be sold TO the
people at reasonable prices The out
breaks We're due TO the taking over
by the war department of large stores
Of provisions for the Siberian expedl-
tion and to the boarding of stocks and
initiation of prices by the rice growers
and spectators,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Frankfort.-George the 3-year.old
son of George Lewis Roberts, mar.
rowly escaped being drowned in Elk.
horn creek. He was rescued by his
father as he was sinking the second
time.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Louisville.-Two persons were killed
and another probably fatally injured
when a fast L. Il n, passenger train
en- route from Cincinnati to Louisville,
crashed into the automobile In which
they were riding at o'Bannon, four
teen miles from Louisville on the Lou.
isvllle.Lagrange pike, The dead are
w. c. Mossbarger, SO years old; Miss
Vonnie Mossbarger II years old,
daughter of Mr.. Mossbarger. Miss
Rebecca Mossbarger 10 years old, an.
other daughter of Mr.. Mossbarger, was
seriously injured.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

A general feeling of satisfaction
pcrvaded the country when 1t waa
announced that the 100 |. w. W. lead
erS on trial in Chicago for disloyalty
had been convicted. Next on the list
Of alleged disloyalists to be given a
dose of justice are five Socialists,
Victor l.. Berger, Adolph Germer lr-
win st. John Tucker, j. Louis Engdahl
and William h. Kruse. The charges
against them are even mose serious
than were those against the "Woh.
blies."
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Cynthiana.-Herman Moore, aged
about eight years, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIII Moore, OF this city, was painfully
hurt when he ran in front of an au.
tomobile on the Oddvlle pike. The
little fellow was riding on wagon
and jumping off became confused and
ran directly in front of the machine
which dragged him a short distance
and ran over him.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

LeXington.-The State Board Of Con-
troll has arranged with the Bromwell
Brush and Wire Co., of Cincinnati, to
install plant at the Greendale Reform
School, where the boys will work in
shifts to learn trade and also pro-
duce something while in the institu-
ton.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

MISUNDERSTANDING that injuries
suffered by her November q, 1917, by
the falling Of an elevator in the Hotel
Henry Watterson, where she was then
employed, produced a permanent pa
ralysis and rendered her speechless,
Edith A. Burres filed suit against the
hotel company for $4,000 damages.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

All Of the Japanese troops for the
Siberian expedition have been landed
at VladlvOstOk, and more of the Amer
lean contingent have arrived there.
Despite rumors to the contrary, these
two nations and China are operating
there in complete harmony and their
forces are getting into action at once
to assist the CZechO-SlOvaks and to
maintain control over the trans-Si'
berian railway, The enemy, opposing
the Czechs In eastern Siberia. made
up of soviet troops and Teuton war
prisoners has strength of 10000
men with 10 big guns and 20 machine
guns, In trans-Baikalia,l also, the
C2echS are fighting against heavy odds
and haste Is needed to secure Irkutsk
and western Siberia. In Russia the
C2echo-Slovaks captured Shadrinslii
m important railway junction east Of
the Ural mountains and between
Ekaterlnburg and Kurgan.
No definite news came from Arch.
angel and the Murman coast, though
b German dispatches asserted the allies
had withdrawn beyond range OF the
/ bolshcviki artillery.
Petrograd has been the scene of
bloody battles between Lettish guards
and rioters who demanded food. Hun.
dredS We're killed and wounded, and
finally martial law was proclaimed. In
Moscow there is veritable reign of
terror and several hundred of the 15,-
900 officers arrested have been shot.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Richmond. 49, Wolfard Rose, younq
white man from Estill county, wai
brought to Richmond by Deputy U. S
Marshal Elliott and lodged in Jail or
the charge of having failed to register
he was taken before the local exemp
ton board and rejected on account o.
physical disability. He was then Ia
ken back to Jail and will be tried be
fore U. S. Commissioner Warheld Ben
re;;;, on the charge OF being a slackei
in failing to register.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29
K e n t u c k Y
News Cuttings
An epitome of most i'm
portant events trAnspir-
ing in state ::

LexingtOn.-News was received here
that John G. Lockabay was run over
and killed by a train near Corbn.
Lockabay was on his way to work at
Corbin and was accompanied by his
son. The son sustained the loss OF
both legs.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Paris.-When the new Presbyterian
church is dedicated about September
l there will be no Indebtedness charg
ed against it, according to a statement
of officers and laymen. At the meet
ing an Offering in cash and pledges OF
more than $4,000 was made to clear
the debt on the church, which cos
practically $4,000. A $4,000 organ is
now being installed.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Paris.-Another big Bourbon land
sale was closed when D. NJ Hurst,
farmer living on the Millersburg and
Cane Ridge pike, sold his farm OF
$50 acres to John Leer for the sum
of $3.50 an acre. The farm is one OF
the best in the country, well i'm.
proved, and in the high state of cult.
vation.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29


Losses Of allied and neutral mer-
chant shipping during JHfsiaggregated
Sl3,O11 gross tons, an iSerease over
the month Of June but big decrease
from the losses Of July 1917. There
is nothing in the shipping situation to
change the opinion that the submarine
campaign is a fat failure. Its out
breaks now are sporadic and more an
noylng than serious. An1dpg the neu-
tral nations that have suffered from
II Spain is showing the MOST resent
ment, and last week 1t tn0tifed the
imperial German government that,
Spanish tonnage having been reduced
to the extreme limit, Spain will be
obliged, in case of new Sinkings, TO
substitute therefor Gernun vessels in
termed in Spanish ports, n the same
time, the Spanish cabinet4announced,
Spain will continue to obsesve neutral
ity. There is a strong pro German
element in Spain. and every hint of
"A rupture of relations bpings violent
protest from the pro-German press
there.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Pikeville.-K. l.. Varney, federal and
state agricultural worker in this sec.
ton, is helping the farmers to secure
seed wheat for fall sowing. 1t is
planned to have from $4,000 to 10000
acres of wheat sown in the Sandy
Valley. Mr.. Varney's father, A. H
Varney, is now agricultural agent for
Pike county.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

FranlSfort.-James Estes, guard at
the Reformatory, dropped dead while
on duty on the wall. Coroner Lecompte
pronounced his death due to apoplexy.
Estes was sitting in a chair of his
guard house at the northeast corner
of the wall when he was seen to.fall
FORWARD hat ,be.n- -eAeTe-a-yy yyear-
and came from Bell county.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29


Germany's latest peace offensive,
consisting Of speeches by leading men.
was opened by Doctor SoIf. minister
of colonies, who devoted himself main
~ q o. p aaS s,!san ~ s.l. asHg e
tentlon to retain the $onquered Ger
man colonies. He also defended Ger
mans course in the near East as
serting that she was merely protect
ing the frontier peoples of Russia un-
til they are capable of determining
their own nationali future. The
Czecho-SIovaks he den Punced as land
less robber bands" Tbe expressed de
termination of the ag glied nations tC
defeat the Germans d the battlefield
gives Doctor Solf Areat pain and
arouses his bitter ang4r.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

With troops going ttcross the Allan
tic at the rate Of about 250,0OO "a
month, with the new draft law about
to be put on its passage, and with
war Industries well organized and
ready TO operate full blast, the Amer
lean government Is confronted with a
serious shortage of labor A million
workers are needed at once and the
administration intends that they shall
be provided for the concerns that are
making war materials, no matter what
happens to private business. Nones-
Scntlal industries will be called on to
give up many Of their men; all idlers
will be put to work, and women will
rbe used to release men for war work
that women cannot do. The emergen-
cy is one that must be met, and those
in authority propose to meet it in the
same spirit In which they have met
the need for huge army of fighters.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Danyille-Hendren Brothers, Of
Kirksville, lost seventeen head of fine
cattle when lightning struck an oak
tree under which herd of fifty head
had sought shelter from the heavy
downpour OF rain. The same storm
caused the loss of two valuable horses
TO j. L. Rowlett, on the Lancaster pike
They were struck by lightning and
killed.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

ing out the numerous machine gun
nests. The prisoners were in good
condition. but seemed very glad to be
captured.
Next day Marshal Haig delivered an
other blow, this time Immediately
south of the scene of Byng's success,
between the Ancre and the SOmme
Satisfactory progress was made there
also.
. On Thursday Haig let loose third
attack, in the Albert sector extending
south to Bray. The town of Albert
was taken and the British rushed for
ward for gain Of several miles
despite desperate resistance by the
enemy.
Meanwhile the Germans were slow
ly getting out of the salient between
Ypres and La Bassee under steady
pressure by the British. The fighting
here was continuous and sharp for the
Huns did not wish to be hurried, but
when they moved too slowly they were
prodded with vicious attacks, as north
of Bailleul and near Merville.
III
News from the Americans chiefly
concerned those holding the center Of
the Vesle river line. These men made
no especial efforts to advance, but
successfully held on TO all aheir posi-
.dt'tfrrs. 7StsprtA- chs .great Reffsfy-Uf tn:
enemy artillery. Their aviators did
much excellent work during the week,
especially in the line of bombing. This
seems destined to be their particular
duty, and it will prove to be of ut
most Importance. The arrival at the
front of American-made planes caused
great rejoicing in the army.
In the WOevre the Americans, by
quick work with rifle and grenade,
frustrated attempts to raid their
trenches.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-08-29

Danville-The Kentucky Florida
Oil Co. had a new drilling outfit un-
loaded at Crab Orchard. 1t will be
taken to the oil field near Ottenheim
and drilling with it will begin in a
short while. The gas and oil company
of the Milton Warren lease has given
new impetus to drilling and many
wells will be put down right away.