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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-06
DeSmet People to Give
Red Cross Benefit Dance

\ Red Cross benefit dance is 10 be
given at DeSmet Friday evening. Pro
cecds from the dance viii go toward
the precinct quota of the Red Cross
fund The people of DeSmet are
anxious to make a good showing and
have issued II general invitation to the
public.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-06
TRIO OF WOMEN
FREED BY COURT
OnerOus Marital Ties Dis
solved by Decisions of
Local Judges.
FIND LIFE A BURDEN
Hot Water, Gun, Idleness
and PrOfligacy Con-
tributOry Causes.

Three divorces were granted by de-
fault in the district court yesterday
the wife appearing in each as the com
planning witness. The liberated wives
are:
Rose Kelly, divorced from Robert
Kelly.
Margaret =. Wilson. divorced from
Alex j.
Myra p. Ward, divorced from Fay e
Hot Water and Gun
Mrs Kelly told Judge A. l.. Duncan
that Robert had so far forgotten him
self as to throw hot water at her and
threaten her with gun. To make
matters worse, she said he began the
domestic Armageddon at a perfectly
nice party, causing the police to inter-
fera.
Judge Duncan also heard the plea of
Mrs. Wilson, who testified that Friend
Husband had left her and through
"idleness and profligacy" contributed
nothing whatever To the family cx-
cheuuer
Mrs. Ward secured her divorce and
the custody Of her two children, as Il
tered the day before. Judge Theodore
Lent2 signed the decree.
Wife Files Demurrer.
Mrs. Ethel Whiting, who is being
sued in Judge Ientz' court by Joseph
T. Whiting. her unwilling husband,
entered Il demurrer to the complaint
yesterday. The demurrer was sustained
Il l. h.l n /
torney. has 10 days in which to amend
the complaint asking for divorce.
Whiting was also ordered to provide
his wife with s25, to be used in financ-
ing her defense, before February 20.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
Sunday,
PERSONALS.
Continued from page ID

Mr.. Lawrence Twickler returned
Thursday from ThibodauX, La.
Mrs. Maurice Heath and children
have returned from Ocean Springs,
where they occupied cottage for the
summer.
Mrs. Ditch has returned to her
home in Morgan City, after spending
while with Mrs. j. p. Walter
Mrs. F. Weiner of Springfield,
Mo, is spending five weeks here
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. E. Mill;
OF Bermuda st.
Mrs. w. T. Bonner and family
have returned from Long Beach.
where they spent a month.
Mrs. A. X. V9llette and little
granddaughter, Eleanor Lilly, were
visitors to DR.. Z. ]. Kelvin of Pom
chatOula, La.
Mrs. A. X. Vallette and daughter,
Vivian, left for Chatawa. Miss.
where the latter is attending school
at St. Mary of the Pines.
Mrs. Hartnett and children OF
Vallette St, spent the weekend at
Lafayette, with friends.
Edward Babin has returned to
camp after spending a rurlough here
with his mother.
st. Margarets Daughters will hold
their regular meeting on Thursday
Sept. 18th at the X. of c. Home in
Olivier ST.
The Catholic knights and Ladies
OF America will hold their monthly
meeting at the new Catholic school
house, Gretna on Thursday.
Mrs. Frank c. Hymel and daugh-
ter, Margaret returned Monday from
Monteagle, Tenn.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. V. P. Higgins and
little son have taken up their home
| again in Meridian, Miss.
John Hook is expected here soon
after visit TO his parents in Texas.
Misses Olga and Martha Ne
Nicely of Covington, La, were guests
of honor at a dinner at the home of
Me-. and Mrs. H. Lecourt of Pelican
Ave.
Miss Martha McNeely arrived from
Covington and left for Natchitoches
TO continue her studies at the State
Normal school
Richard Maher left Wednesday for
Spring Hill College. Mobile, Ala.
The Saturday Five Hundred met at
the home of Mrs. L. De Laup. The
successful players were Mrs. G. w.
Pollock, Mrs. L. De Laup and Mrs. ].
Gerrets.
The Once-a-Month Euchre Club met
at the home of Miss Clairia Richards.
The successful players were Mrs. l..
De Laup, Miss V. Ferguson, Miss l.
Foster and Miss T. Drummer. Mrs. c.
V. Frisch received the consolation.
The next meeting will be at the home
of Mrs. B. Nelson.
The Friday Night Euchre Club met
at the home of Miss Clairia Richards.
The successful players were Mrs. H.
Acker. Miss n. Neff, Mrs. F. Yuratich
and Miss T. Drummer. Mrs Lagarde
received the consolation. The next
meeting will be at the home of Mrs. d.
Gaiennie
Senator Robert O'Connor and wife
and baby have taken up their resi-
dence at The Delaronde.
Mrs. Lila Collins received a mes
sage to meet her son,,Lieut. Hugh A.
Collins. who was passing through en-
route to France.
The Woman's Benefit Association of
the Maccabees will have their regular
monthly meeting Saturday. September
IA. All are earnestly requested to at
tend.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
AMENDED CHARTER OF THE
MICHEL LUMBER & BRICK COMPANY
INCORPORATED

United States of America, State of Louis.
lana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be It known, that on this fifth day of Au-
gust, in the year of our Lord One thousand
nine hundred and eighteen and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of America
the One hundred and forty second.
Before me, Arthur A. Moreno a Notary
Public, duly commissioned and qualified, in
and for this city and the Parish Of Orleans,
therein residing and in the presence of the
witnesses hereinafter named and undersign-
ca; personally came and appeared: f. II.
Michel, who, at general meeting of the
stockholders of the Michel Lumber & Brick
Co., Inc. corporation organized by act
passed before the undersigned Notary Public
on the seventh day of February, 1918. which
meeting was held at the Office of said Michel
LUMBER Brick Co., Inc, on August /, 1918,
tnat tne SAID appearer was elected President
and Miss NJ. E. A. Michel was elected Sec.
rotary OF said stockholders meeting as will
appear by certified copy of the said stock
holders meeting annexed hereto for greater
reference, and the said appearer declared
that as President of the stockholders meeting
ne was authorized and empowered to appear
before me for the purpise Of amending the
sand charter of the Michel Lumber q Brick
Company, incorporated.
And the said appearer. as President of III.
SAID stockholders meeting and acting in said
capacity and on behalf of said corporatian
by virtue of the authority conferred unon
MN MN at the general meeting of said stock
holders, declares that Article Nv, of the cbar.
ter of the said Michel Lumber & Brick Com.
pany, incorporated, passed before me. the
Undersigned, Notary, on the seventh dav M
February, 1918, has been changed. aitered al ~
amended to read in its entirety as follows.
The capital stock of this corporation shall
be Fifty Thousand (5O,0OOOO Dollars a.
vlded into five hundred $500 shares Of N.
par value Of One hundred $4,000 dollars ner
snare; payable in cash or other property. and
may be increased to the sum of One hundred
thousand (Sl0o,00ooo) dollars. divided into
a thousand Q,O0 shares of the par value Of
one one hundred $4,000 dollars per share. and
TINS corporation is to be going concern when
one;half Of the capital stock has been snb-
seribed and paid for. Each share Of stocL
shall De entitled to one vote at all general
ana the said appearer moreover declared
mar, IN consequence of the foregoing and
pursuant to the authority in him vested bv
the Stockholders of said Company. he docs
hereby formally declare publicity and make
known that in the manner prescribed by law
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
CHARTER

267 Of the Legislature of the State of Louis
lana for the year 1914
Thus done and signed in my office at
New Orleans, Louisiana, in the presence of
Florence Pflueger and NJ C. Carter, compe-
tent witnesses, on the 3rd day of September,
1918, after due reading of the whole, the sub
scribers to this corporation affixing their
names and the amount of the stock respcc-
''vely subscribed for by them, and hereby
declare this to constitute their stock sub
scripton list.
Allen Mehle, (4S) shares; o. L. Chambers.
Q( share; J. E. Lansing, % share.
Witnesses: NJ c. Carter, Florence Pflue-
ger.
EDWARD ELLIS,
Notary Public
1, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgages.
in and for the Parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, hereby certify that the above and
foregoing Act of Incorporation of Motor and
Fire Insurance Agency, Inc, was this day
duly recorded in my office in Book 4222,
Folio -
A true copy.
EDWARD ELLIS,
Notary Public
Sept. 12-1926, Oct 3-1O-l7.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
Keep Curb on Speech.

Most of us say great deal more
tnan we mean. We have a way Of e1-
aggerating things just for the sake of
the picturesque. There is no reason
why we should talk about our own az.
fairs and less reason for talking about
our neighbors. 1t is mighty safe rule
In business. as in life itself, to say
only the pleasant things and keep the
unpleasant. things in the background
or better still, not to recognize them
at all.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
E. II. Michel.
A. A. MORENO.
The RuiIdinn of Life

Life is building. 1t rises slowly
Jay by day, through the years. Every
new lesson we learn lays a block on
the edifice which is rising silently with
in us. Every experience. every touch
Of another life on ours, every influence
that impresses us, every book we read,
every conversation we have, every act
Of our commonest days, adds some
thing to the invisible building.-J. r
Miller.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
H. N. G.. G.

With comedy feature and vaude-
vile, Fridays show at the H. n. q.
c. promises to be unusually good.
'The Volunteer" a World picture,
starring little Madge Evans and
Henry Hull, will be the feature. All
the World stars appear in this pic
ture and many interesting views OF
a motion picture studio have been
cleverly made a part of the drama.
The proceeds of this show go to the
Belgium Relief Fund.
Sunday.
Sundays feature will be Treas
ure of the Sea-" starring Edith
Story. 4 hate that blended into
love is pictured in this screen drama
of romance and adventure. Urea
sure of the Sea-" has that atmosphere
of the great outdoors which is the
natural setting for this brilliant &C
tress and superb sportswoman, while
the sea forms a picturesque back
ground. 1.-TWO Crooks" a Keystone
comedy and Weekly News finish the
program.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
SUGAR SHORTAGE h.
SPAIN AND Pom n

are Soaring. Both ' csuss1. rs
seriously affected bv s&y
ocean tonnage to NOV. -. =. u
sugar isolated In far ,r. soch al
era Gran nlia sugar, HON. psa /
being sold In Barcelon s~s . r~ \
the early summer AZ 10 Sas n
The price of brown sus ssae,
Portugal, fixed by govs ga b n
was $1.O4 to SIP a sI Donns n
By comparison the w.,
sugar in Sweden is1a o. .,la 4 \
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

The old-fashioned carpetbag is CON-
ing back into style because Of the high
cost of leather, says New York paper.
We doubt 1t. 1t may come into use
but we never heard of anything coming
into style because 1t is cheap.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
The Doino Of IL.

No honest work can degrade us;
only the way in which we perform 1t
can do that. The humblest task, well
and painstakingly accomplished, is hon.
orable. The highest undertaking, care
lessly and poorly pushed through, is
q disgrace to its doer.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

"A meatless, wheatless and sweet
less meal" which includes oysters,
olives. celery, mushroom soup, fish,
chicken, sweet potatoes, peas, lettuce
and ice cream can hardly be described
as an example Of privatiOn.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
Who'd a Ihouoht LII

Reform is the work of reason slowly
awakening from the lethargy of igno-
rance, gradually acquiring confidence
In her own strength, and ultimately tri-
umphing over the dominion of preju-
dice and custom.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

A fellow doesn't deserve any credit
br being good If he has a little girl
With bobbed hair to kiss him every
time he leaves home. He can't help be-
Ing good.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

But, of course, II is to be remember
ed that those people who hoard -four
are generally the kind that would do
anything in the world to help win the
war just as long as it wasn't some
thing TINT incOnvenIenced them.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

1t has long ceased to be remarkable
that so small country as Japan could
be victorious over so big a country an
Russia,
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

and agreeable to the provisions of the char
ter OF the said Michel Lumber & Brick Com
pany, Incorporated, passed before me- the
undersigned Notary Public has been changed
altered and amended as hereinabove sci
forth and written, and he does hereby direct
and require that the above stated changes
and amendments of the charter of the Michel
Lumber Brick Company. Incorporated. be
recorded and published in the manner pre-
scribed by law, to the end that the said
changes and amendments hereafter and at
all times be hereinabove set forth. as
regards all persons that are now or NAV
hereafter become stockholders of the afore-
said company.
linus done and passed at my Office. in
the City OF New Orleans, on the day, month
ana year herein first above written in the
presence of Jacob F. Baer and Ruth M
seller, competent witnesses, who hereunto
sign their names with the said appearer and
me, Notary. after a reading of the whole
Witnesses: Jacob F Raer P,,,h NJ
Seller NUT" W.
E. II. Michel
A A. MORENO.
al Notary Public
l, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgages
~ and for the Parish of Orleans Stste .;
Louisiana do certify that the above and fore.
going Amended Charter of the Michel LINN.
per q Brick Company, Inc, was this dav
guy recorded IN my Office in Book I223
rolio 5SS, New Orleans August 18th lois
EMILE ]. LEONARD. DIV r
Il hereby certify the above and forego;no
TO be true and correct COPY of the or;e;,,a11
now on file in M Office
A. A. MORENO.
A,o oo-S,. r,,,o Notary Public
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

Ruyters Kramp-I saw Miss Mill
yuns buying my new book yesterday.
Clerk-Yes; she said the color OF
the binding just matched her new
lounging robe.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

cry ya SaJ PG sa1 me, calls at ,o,,
S bring 9Th. the letter yo ne n. may ~
p p9 aI%ays will vi! o6llse If Il l., l.,I
purchase q War Savir.u !N u
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

This automobile game is failure,
70 far as courtship is concerned"
~why~
with the goggles he wears a girl
can't look the man in the eye to see
whether he is In dead earnest or no,
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12

llG 1t d 5sP,5 PPs, sss M1,Y,
tSs0 Il for =. you to :, eat s's fs.,iS 81
Ike to go into a front 10 t,.,%
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12

- ERHAPS it is because of the existence
CT one lone mammal that can fly that
You and exist The bat, mind you,
probably evolved prior to all other nam
mails, and it was his province to reduce in
he air the dominant, swarming insect tribes
which in those early times easily owned the
earth after nine million years of continuous
breeding on a vast scale.
His associate in the good work of insect
destruction evolving not long after him,
was the ant-eater. The function of the latter
was TO clear the ground of class Of insects
as deadly as those which had wings First
birds were not insect eaters. They were car
nivra, and probably fed on the fat, insect
eating bats, preventing them, In turn, from
becoming too dominant Thus all nature
checks growth of too dominant animals and
PLAINS, and makes for an average of species.
Nor will man himself permit any particular
race or nation of men to become too domi-
nant Hence there have been wars between
men, somewhere on earth, if not over TcOst
Of it, ever since primitive man was evolved.
The bats have strange habits of living.
and attics. or fill up a hollow tree to it's
capacity 1t is doubtful if bats could per
form their whole province in nature, that of
vast insect determination if life were not
conducted in manner, productive of i'm
mense progeny.
Three new scientific works on bats have
Just been issued from the laboratories of as
many institutions. These comprise 1.-The
American Museum Congo Expedition Col
lection of Bats" by J. A. Allen, Herbert
Lang and James P. Chaplin; "A Synopsis
of the Bats of California, by Hilda Wood
Grinnell, University of California Museum;
and The Families and Genera of Bats,
by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., United States Ma
tional Museum. From them and other con-
tributions the present observations are
taken.
Dr. W K Gregory refers the origin Of
bats back beyond the beginning of the Age
Of Mammals: The group was very highly
specialized as far back as the Eocene .
and probably acquired many of their or
dinsl characters before the known Tertiary
record began There can be little doubt
thai they descended from late Mesozoic or
Sarly Tertiary insectivora
LdnnAsus, who placed the bats with the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12
Blainville's Bat, Showing the Hairs
That Give the Animal It's Sixth
Sense, Enabling 1t to Avoid OBJ
jects 1t Cannot See.

separately. The African insect Bats, common
in both zones, show preference for neither
rain forest nor bushveldt, but for localities
where are the types Of insects they like best.
Fruit bats are moro common In African
regions covered by rain for ssts, where fruit
ripsns throughout the year. Since fruits are
not always equally plentiful, they have to
shift continually, having nowhere established
rOosts. It is within their powers of fight to
travel across the country between 5 degrees
north and 5 degrees south Of the Equator
Since travellers note the occurrence of sew
eral species throughout this range, migration
is the only possible solution, otherwise they
would starve if they remained in one region
continuously.
"The digestion Of fruit bats is so rapid that
they must travel afar and often to keep sup
piled. They cause no devastation to planta-
TONS as the natives do not cultivate
Indigenous fruits, and plantains and bananas
are picked before they ripen. The natives
eat bats because of their large, juicy Jumps
of fat in and about the abdomen, raiding
caves which may contain colonies of
thousands, made up habitually of single
species"
It is evident from the final statement that
bats, however miscellaneous in their breed
ing, do not cross species, but stick to their
Individuality Anderson discloses that a
single species, Rhinopoma microphyllum,
Inhabited the pyramids for 5000 years,
without showing any perceptible changes"
Although Spallanzani has shown that in
sect eating bats will not strike objects in
flight if blinded, Lang and Chaplin find no
such delicate sense of touch in fruit bats.
Fruit eating is evidently a specialization, a
breaking away from the ancestral insect eat
ing types.
Some insect eaters must have found their
food in the larvae of insects inside of fruit.
In digging out the insects, they must have
acquired taste for fruit.
Some individuals were perhaps forced TO
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12

Primates in 1858, from which they were
separated by Gray in 1921, lot so far out
of the way. Gregory shows that the ancestors
were tree and elephant shrews, with large
hands and feet, which lived in trees. These
were followed by the CobegO, an iencst eater.
Because he was Of the original flapper with
near wings some named him the flying
lemur," although he was not lemur. The
third stage of evolution was the bats proper,
with small hands and feet, followed by the
Primates proper, comprising lemurs, monkeys,
apes and man. Gray divided the bats into two
classes, those which from the beginning have
lived upon insects and those which descended
from them, the fruit eaters OF the latter the
largest species extant Is the so-called flying
fox, of Malay, which has a spread Of wings
of five feet or more OF the former class. or
rather, out of it, is the South American YAM
pire bat, which lives on blood only, ana which,
when confronted with choice, as between a
mule and the man on its back, lights on the
mule and sucks Its blood until dSpossessed.
Lang and Chaplin say "South America
also has fishing bats In Africa, where there
are large herds of game, there are no
vampire bats In the Neotropical region,
where there are numbers Of fruits in the large
Equatorial forests, there are no fruit eating
bats The fruit eaters command attention
by their great flights, continuing for weeks
across the African country. Their noisy
voices cannot be compared with the faint
squeaks of even a dozen hawk bats, though
they may appear regularly on the village
square. By infesting doube-roofed houses
or uninhabited rooms they make themselves
a nuisance, since the smell becomes unbear-
able in the moist atmosphere.
When they emerge at night, each bat hunts
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12

Bats TO Stay ard Fight Mosquitoes.
eat the fruit, when no larvae were found, or
perhaps came to prefer fruit to insects. Re
suit: the modification of feeding habits
caused a gradual modification of structure,
and many species Of fruit eating bats arose.
l find no evidence recorded, however, that
any of these bats reject fruits having in
sects inside or insect larvae.
That bats were food for primitive men is
indicated by Miss Grinnel IN her work on
bats of California: 1.-The bat had become
master of the air long before man walked
upright. The rocky refuge revealed TO the
cave man the little upside down bat cling
ing to the roof of his cavern. One bat takes
It's food off the ground, since it brings to It's
roost wingless Jerusalem crickets either at
tracted by the noise the insect makes in
crawling Or the air currents made by such
movements.
Bats seeking to escape from room do
not dash against a window pane as birds do.
Approach to such obstacles is detected by the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12

The Congo
Bat In His
Umbrella
During a
Rainstorm.
He Folds
Himself Up
in His
Waterproof
Wings, Hangs
Himself Up
by His Hind
Legs and Goes
Comfortably
TO Sleep
Letting
1t Rain
The Washington times., 1918-11-08
WOUNDED ITALIANS
DIE Of STARVATION

ROME, Nov. delayed Hun
dreds Of persons died or starvation
m the evacuated districts Of Italy
after the AuStrians cut of their food
-urp'y just before the withdrawal.
:aI"r Lowell. Of tho American Red
Cross, arriving from the war zone"
sid today The situation is slilI critt-
cat
nc food situation in the evacuated
districts IS appalling. Lowell said.
The population. who received daily
cations from the .Nustrians we're cut
of from this source three days before
IA" evacuation. Hundreds died as a
result
we found sick and wounded ItaI
l"uz and Austriaus who have heaa
M go days With out food In ono tow,
NOR" than 3nn had died Of starvation.
IT, another 80"
The Washington times., 1918-11-08
COTTON GINNING
SHOWS INCREASE

The Department of commerce to-
day reported 7,T93,615 bales of cot
ton were ginnedSto November 1, from
the growth OF 1918. This represents
an increase of $50, 1000 bales over the
corresponding period in 1917.
Ginning in the principal States
was as follows:
ALBANIA, 565.O61
Arkansas. 537, sos.
Georgia, 1.475,090.
Louisiana, 359.T44
Mississippi. 6sS,471.
North Carolina, 414.T4s
Oklahoma. 39S, ,9O1.
South Carolina, 966,040.
Tennessee, 1914.
Texas, 2,16s, ,s95.
During the month Of September.
cotton consumption amounted to 49O.-
40 bales. the department reports
showed. There was on hand in con-
suming establishments, on October
1, 1.1s6.649 bales in public storage
2,970.T17 bales.
The total imports for the month
OF September were 2,113 bales. And
the exports for the same month
ware 3G6.375 bales.