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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
NEW SUGAR RULING FOR HOTELS

Louisville. November Am official
Interpretation of the rules govern
ing the amount of sugar for patrons
of hotels and restaurants has been
made by the Food Administration
Federal Food Administrator Fred NJ
Sackett announced today that Gener-
al Order No s for Public Eating
Places had been changed to read as
follows:
mo public eating place shall use or
permit the use of the sugar bowl on
the table or lunch counter. Nor shall
any public eating place serve sugar
or permit it to be served unless the
guest so requests and in no event
shall the amount served to any one
person at any one meal exceed one
half ounce. They should serve with
tea or coffee one teaspoonful and al
low an additional teaspoonful for both
fruit and cereal"
Under the above Interpretation it
will only be permissible for public
eating places to serve total of forty
five ounces of sugar for ninety meals
or three ounces less than the allot-
ted three opunds. This difference of
three ounces will belong to the hotel
and restaurant and may be used in
any way, such as for cakes, pies and
ice cream.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
ONE COPY-ONE GENT.

will be no requisitioning by the Unit
ed States, no swooping down on COM
munlties and driving all the cattle to
the pen, no looting of market places
of the peoples subsistence, no strip
ping the civil population till their ribs
show through, no slaughter of dairy
cattle till children's legs and arms
are pipestems.
The United States food army beats
Germany as the Allies beat Germany.
The meats and fats will be supplied
by volunteers. The food will be found
by saving.
This vast stock will not be made up
of cattle and hogs alone. The meats
include all kinds which can be sent
across the ocean. Fats include pork
and butter and other dairy products
and some vegetable oils. The amount
Of each will be the amount that can
best be spared.
Nobody knows yet how much of
each will be sent, for the meat and
dairy harvest is made the year
around. Some of the pork which will
go is still in the corncrib waiting to be
turned into meat, and some of the but
ter is in the pasture and the haystack.
AS fast as these meats and fats are
produced, the American people will
determine how much can be spared by
their indulgence and carelessness at
the table three times day Accord
ing to the way of freedom, the meats
and fats are obtained and paid for by
voluntary saving and they will be por-
toned out when and how they will
give life and strength to the greatest
number and the most needy.
This is one of the elements of the
new food program which will be is
sued in the new Home Card which
will be distributed in Kentucky dur
ing the week of December 1. 1t is an
enormous program, but it is to be car
ried out by a great people with a
mighty will.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
IS THIS WINTER TO Be A
DUPLICATE OF THE LAST?
Martins, Which Usually Depart For
the South Second Week IN August
Remain Until September,
Same as Last Year.

One of our Oldest and well known
weather prognosticators offers an in
teresting suggestion with regard to
whether or not birds know by intui-
tion what sort of weather is coming.
He says martins usually depart for
the south the second week in August
but that last year they remained here
until the last week in September, and
this year they did not leave until Sep
tember %. Last winter was extreme
ly severe. Are we to have its dupli-
cate this year?
Mr.. Weather Man says: "Since boy
hood days l have had a martin box
in my yard and have always had it
occupied by these interesting birds
| have made something of study of
their habits, and from years of obser-
vation find they arrive from winter
habitation in Central and South Amer
lea about March II. The nestlings
come off on July 4, and they take their
southern departure the first week in
August.
Last year they did not leave here
until the last week in September, and
everybody knows what kind of win
ter we had last year..
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
MORE MEAT FOR ALLIES
FROM THIS COUNTRY
Must Send 100000 Tons During the
Current Year TO Go Abroad.

Louisville, November 4-The United
States has booked an order to supply
100000 tons of meat and fats dur
ing the current year to be charged to
the account of freedom.
1t is a large order--a larger order
than the undertaking to send ten mil
lion tons of breadstuffs.
In one way it comes to about the
same thing as doubling the order for
bread and sending half of it in the
form of meat-for meats and fats are
concentrated from feed. But that is
not the biggest feature of it. 1t is
this: When we send grain we use the
entire crop, except enough for seed
and respectable reserve-there will
be another harvest next year. But
meat is different. All this meat must
be sent-four times as much as we
ever used to export and a million tons
more than last year-and yet we
ought to have at the end of the year
fiocks and herds as large as now
larger If we work right.
That is where the United States
beats Germany again. Germany has
been going into conquered territory
and requisitioning its meat not taking
the increase but taking the whole
herd. Never mind what becomes of
the natives - they can starve," the
Germans say. Never mind next
year" There would always be more
people to be robbed as long as the
army prospered.
The policy of freedom is exactly
opposite. The United States must so
manage that it's own people will be
kept in health and strength; the vic
tories of freedom mean there are more
people to be nurtured, be able to sup
ply twice as many people another year
and still keep its herds intact.
If this large order was filled the
German way, an edict would be is
sued and soldiers would go about in
squads driving away perhaps one fifth
of all the cattle and hogs, to be paid
for in scraps Of paper" if at all.
But that is not our way. There
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
MISS LOUISE NIVIN
SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA
Former Well-KnOwn Health Nurse
Stricken While On Duty
In Maryland.

Many of our citizens will remember
with a great deal of pleasure Miss
Louise Nivin, the splendid Health
Nurse that did such noble work here
some time ago and who resigned to
take charge of a larger field in St.
Louis. Yesterday a message was re-
ceived by the Ledger stating that mss
Nivin had gone to Cumberland, Md,
to nurse influenza patients, had con-
tracted the disease and had died there
on October oath. Her remains were
buried at Bunker Hill, ILL.,, her old
home, on October 2Sth. This will in.
deed be sad news to those who knew
this intelligent and pains-taken lady.
No call was too late at night for her
to respond to, nor was the weather too
bad for her to brave to render first
aid to those in need. Her death is
sad blow to the profession she so mob
ly honored and her sudden taking is
distinct shock to her numerous
friends in this city.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
TO THE WAR GARDENERS

Mr.. c. p. Dieterich, the War Garden
Advisor issues the following timely
statement:
Watch your celery and put dirt over
the tips of the leaves. We are liable
to get heavy freeze now and if the
tops get frozen your celery will rot.
Cover the ridge with boards to keep
out the water and little later you
can take some of it up and place it in
cellar, covering the roots with sand
or soil.
Peach blow potatoes must be dug
now and you will find that athe skin
slips readily, but by spreading them
out thinly they will ripen up. These
are better for late spring use.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
Americans Capture More Than 1000

Americans Capture More Than 1000
With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun, November 4-More than A.
900 prisoners were captured by the
Americans in this sector yesterday.
The number of guns and other booty
steadily is growing. The right flank
the American line now is at Halles, on
the heights overlooking the Meuse riv-
err
The Germans are not retreating in
great disorder and their withdrawal
can not be called rout, but it is
certain that the general staff and the
field officers have lost control to
certain extent.
East of the Meuse, from north of
Remoiville, where the roads are chok-
ed with retreating Germans, to north
of Stenay, on the east bank of the riv-
er, where the railway yards are filled
with troop trains leaving for the rear,
the Germans are falling back. (From
Remoiville to Stenay is about S1R
miles.) The artillery fire from the
hills behind the German lines seems
to indicate the reluctance of those in
command to yield to the evident in
desire of the men in the line to with
draw.
Equal activity is displayed behind
the American lines, but it is of OPP
posite character Far to the rear the
roads are filed, not only with truck
trains filled with troops oeing rush
ed forward to support those who. in
| some cases, in trucks, are keeping up
with the fast pace set by the retir-
ing Germans.
The American losses so far have
been astonishingly light, compared
with the size of the operation.
At Barricourt, which was occupied
just after o'clock yesterday morn
ing, the distance between the Ameri-
cans and the Germans was less than
300 yards Ordered to advance, the
Americans plunged down the streets
with fixed bayonets, shooting as they
went. The Germans stood their
ground only for a few moments. 1t
was bloody interval. Only a few
of the Germans escaped.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
ARMISTICE NOW
IN EFFECT ON THE
AUSTRIAN FRONT
Austria Has Joined Bulgaria and Tur-
key In SurTendering - Official
Terms Reach Washington
Drastic Conditions VIII
Make Her Armies
Harmless.

Washington, November - The
terms of the armistice under which
the Austro-Hungarian armies laid
down their arms, today, have been re-
ceived in full at the State depart
ment They will be made public dur
ing the day.
The terms became effective at 9
o'clock this morning, Washington
time, or 3 o'clock p. m. in Rome and
Vienna. They definitely and complete
ly eliminate Austria from the war.
Germany thus is left to battle alone
until such time as she, too, accepts
the armistice terms now in prepara-
tion at Versailles or surrenders.
In advance of publication of the
conditions under which Austria join
ed the ranks of Germanys other once
vassal states-Bulgaria and Turkey
military men here believed they not
only would render the Austrian armed
forces utterly harmless, but would
furnish an index to the terms on
which Germany may end her hopeless
struggle.
The Allied premiers were officially
advised of the signing of the armistice
when in session at the Paris apart
ment of Col. f. NJ. House, President
Wilson's personal representative. Pre-
Y,NiN 4 l1,..
phoned the news to the British War
Office, in London. The Austro-Hun-
garianWar Office has issued an offic-
ial announcement of the signing of
the armistice, accompanied by the
statement "In the Italian theater
of the war our troops have ceased hos
tilities on the basis of an armistice
which has been concluded"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
NARROW ESCAPE FOR MIR. THAD
BULLOCK

Mr.. Thad Bullock had narrow es-
cape from serious injury while driv-
ing along the pike in his buggy near
Mr.. Con Flanagan's place near this
city. Mr.. Flanagan was getting ready
to leave his place for home in his
automobile and just as Mr.. Bullock
came along there was a collision, the
buggy was upset and Mr.. Bullock
thrown out, escaping with bad cash
in the side of his head and two badly
wrenched fingers.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

The remains of Henry D. Boyd, who
died in a Cincinnati hospital of influ-
enza, were brought here today for
burial. He was a former resident of
this city and married a Miss Harris
of Augusta, who survives him. He was
relative of Judge H arvey Parker of
Vanceburg, who attended the funeral
here this afternoon, services being
conducted by Rev. John Barbour at
the grave.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
TO THE VOTERS OF
MASON COUNTY

In Casting your ballot tomorrow re-
member that only true Americans
should be considered. None other
should be placed on guard at this
time. DIR Bruner, the Republican con-
didate for United States Senator, is a
red blOOded American. A soldier of
the Spanlsh-American war. His son
Is now private In the trenches In
France. Remember this when casting
your ballot.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
STOCK SALES

A fairly good-sized crowd of buyers
and sellers were here today, and some
nice stock was on the market, all
bringing good prices. A large number
of cattle was disposed of to eager
buyers. Horses and mules were rath-
er scarce, but what were offered sold
readily for top prices.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
GERMANS GOING
IT ALONE As
RETREAT GROWS
American Forces Now Within Few
Miles Of Sedan-Allies Still Sweep
ing Ahead Against the
Routed Austrians.

London, November AT dawn this
morning, British troops, south Of the
Scheldt river, attacked on a wide
front, according to a report received
from Field Marshal Haig, today. The
report says that the attack has been
launched satisfactorily.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
Americans Push On Toward Sedan

With the American Army on the
Sedan Front, November American
troops pushing northward toward Sc
dan, early last night, had reached
Sommauthe, five miles north of zub-
ancy and 13 miles south of Sedan. The
center of the advancing line is held by
troops from New York, Maryland and
West Virginia. To the right and left
of them are regulars and troops from
New York, New Jersey, the District
of Columbia, Texas, Oklahoma, Kan
sas, Missouri, Colorado and New Mex
leo.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

C. & o. train No. yesterday had
a large number of Nuns aboard bound
east. One who gave her name as Sis
ter Reasadia handed note off for
friend here, telling her she was for
merly of Mayslick, this county, and
asked her friend to pray for her. There
were also number of BARNES aboard
the train.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
Austrian Army Is "Fear.Stricken
Mob"

London, November 4-The once
mighty army of Austria has become
fear-stricken mob in retreat with
out the slightest semblance of order
in its pell-mell fight. Now and
again the rear guards pause to put up
machine gun fight or blow up
bridges. They are leaving their wound
ed on the roadsides or in houses. In
Feltre alone 1000 Austrian wounded
were left without medical attention.
A vast deposit of petroleum was
found at Vittoria, the Austrians evil
IDENTIFY not having had time to destroy
it. The Italians also found at Belluno
great food stores and material and
frequently entire trains of hastily
abandoned artillery have fallen into
their hands.
The drive in Northern Italy by the
Italians and the Allied troops has
netted approximately 100000 Austro-
Hungarian soldier-captives and more
than 1900 guns.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

District Attorney Thomas D. Slat-
terry is here for a few days, mingling
the pleasure of shaking hands with
his friends and transacting some i'm
portant business,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
BABY SCHWARTZ

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Schwartz are
entertaining a new baby boy at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
o. Gray, on West Fourth street, the
new visitor arriving Sunday after
noon.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Thomas L. Evan & Co. today sold
the Jesse Calvert farm, which was ad-
vertised in the Ledger to Mr.. Walter
L. Thomas at nice figure. This was
very desirable piece of land.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Mr.. Ned Piper left Sunday after
noon for Rocky Mountain, N. c., where
he has lucrative position with
large tobacco concern.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Attorney Allan d. Cole is spending
few days in Ironton, Ohio, on legal
business.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

A four room dwelling with gas, wat
er and Outbuilding, all In good cOndi-
tiOn ON lot of 30x100 feet situated on
Third street In Sixth Ward. Call at
Ledger Office. If
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Congressman w. j. Fields was here
all day Saturday trying to take some
of the kinks out of his badly battered
fence. He was en- route to Ashland
from Mt, Sterling, and seemed to be
real uneasy because he had opposi-
tion.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
Allied Armies Take sOs,s55 Prisoner,

Allied Armies Take 382,355 Prisoners
Paris. November 4-The Allied arm
les have captured S62,S55 prisoners,
6,217 cannon, SS,622 machine guns and
1907 mine throwers since the great
offensive started on the Western front.
July 10, last. During the month OF
October the Allies captured los. s.S43
prisoners, 1904 cannon, lS,139 ma
chine guns and 1,l93 mine throwers
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Mr.. William Davis of near Ripley,
Ohio, is business visitor in thiscity
today.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
BABY PEIsTRR

A new baby girl was born today TO
Mr., and Mrs. George Feiater At their
home on east Second street,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

The towboat ]. T. Hatfield passed
down yesterday with big tow of
Kanawha coal for Cincinnati.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Fancy Greannp County sorghum
ti.bS per gallon. IlrIng your lugs.
" LkR LOyRf.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Copenhagen, November ALI Hun
garian traffic toward Germany has
been stopped This means that 10000
cars loaded with food for Germany
will not be allowed to proceed
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04
Allies Gain 25O,OO0 BY Austrian Col
lapse

Paris, November At is estimated
unofiicially today that the Allies will
gain from 25O,OOO to 100000 troops
from the collapse of Austria Hungary.
Bohemians and Slavs (anti-German
forces) already are marching up thru
Austria.
Austrian troops on the Western
battlefront withdrew homeward. ab
soon as the armistice negotiations be-
gan. They formed the reserves to the
German armies facing the First and
Second American armies, east and
west of the Meuse river.
HunUarian Troffio To Con,oo,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Fancy Greenup County Sorghum
$l.S5 per gallon. Bring your jugs.
X. LEE LOVEL.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Male and Female Help Wanted at
the Modern Laundry. Apply at onca.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-04

Why not try Ledger Want ADJ
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-19
KEROSENE LAMPS IN INDIA
Illuminating Agencies Used In Smaller
Cities Were Originally Imported
From the United States.

India is making slow but steady prog
fess in introducing more modern light
Ing methods, Popular Science Monthly
states. All public lighting in the large
cities of India is by electricity; but
in the smaller cities the methods of
lighting, public as well as private, are
still very primitive.
For native festivals-and there are
a great many of these-large kerosene
lamps of an elaborate pattern are much
used. They are known in many To-
calities as Washington lights and
were originally brought to India from
the United States. At various religious
professions and especially at we'd
ding professions as many as 20 or
80 of these lamps are carried on the
heads of bearers, who are engaged for
the occasion and paid fixed fee.
These lamps are high-pressure kero-
sene lamps constructed upon the prin-
ciple of the kerosene torches used in
the United States. The light is pro-
tected by mica chimney and is very
brilliant. Colored globes are some
times used. These lamps are no long
er imported from the United States,
but are manufactured In Bombay. The
Bombay lights" cost about SIS or Sc,
while the imported kind cannot be
bought for less than $65 apiece.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-19
GET USED TO SUDDEN DEATH
Grim Humor In the Trenches by No
Means Denotes CalIousness of
Disposition.

Capt. Leonard G. Wells Of Baltimore,
who recently permitted himself to be
bitten by trench lice, thus contract
ing trench fever, that the doctors
might study it, said on his return
home:
ITO submit yourself to the hungry
jaws Of the trench louise is a grimly
humorous procedure, isn't it7 Well,
war is grimly humorous in many Of its
aspects.
"They tell over the water a story
about company Of tough dough boys
from New York's East side who sat
playing poker one night in a dugout
during a bombardment.
1.-THE game went on, the shells
whizzed and banged outside, and then
grenade came through the doorway
and finished one of the poker players
playing forever.
"While the rest sat waiting for
the stretcher-bearers, the nearest
dough boy took up the cards from the
dead mans hand, studied them, and
then put them down again and said !:
"'It don't matter, fellers. Poor Bill
couldn't q made it, anyway. I had
four kings"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-19
old PRESCRIPTION
FOR WEAK KIDNEYS

Have you ever stopped to reason WIN
1t is that so many products that are ex,
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
OF sight and are soon forgotten? TIA,
reason is plain-the article did not ful6S
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine
medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells ITSELF as like
an endless chain system the remedy IL
recommended by those who have been,
benefited, to those who are in need of il.
prominent druggist says, "Take for
example Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp Root. a.
preparation have sold for many years.
and never hesitate to recommend, for in.
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy that I know OF
has SO large a sale"
According to sworn statements anCA
verified testimony of thousands who have.
used the preparation, the success of Dr.
Kilmers' Swamp-Root is due to the fact.
that, SO many people claim, it fulfls al
most every wish in overcoming kidney.
liver and bladder ailments, corrects ur--
mary troubles and neutralizes the uric,
acid which causes rheumatism.
YOU may receive Q sample bottle Of
Swamp-Root by Parcel Post. Address
DR.. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N Y, and
enclose ten cents; also mention this paper.
Large and medium size bottles for SALE
at all drug stores.-Adv.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-06-19
WORKING a "Good ThInu."

Herbert Hoover hasn't been able to
regulate the apretites Of Washington
children.
A family recently received big bar
rel of apples. Several days after that
little Johnnie, q friend, came around
to call.
He happened to be In the kitchen
and spied the apples. Some way or
other nobody thought to connect ap-
pies with Johnnie. But did that
bother him?
II like apples" he finally said.
Still nobody said anything.
"Guess I'll take one," said Johnnie.
And he did so.
Still nothing was said.
'Ill take one for little brother
Billie" continued Johnnie, pocketing
a second apple.
The Lord certainly helps those who
help themselves.