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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
HE PROVED 1T

During the recitation Of college
class in natural philosophy the pro.
frssor observed tall. lanky youth in
a rear seat, his head dropping, his
body relaxed, his eyes half closed and
his legs cncumbcring an adjacent
aisle
MIR Frazer" said the professor.
The freshman opened his eyes
slowly. but did not change his pose,
"Mr. Frazer what Is work."
Everything is work" was the
drawing reply.
sir" exclaimed the professor, "dC
you mean TO tell me that is a rca
sonable answer TO my question:"
yves. sir"
Then take 1t that you woult
like this claso to believe that thii
desk Is work."
Eyes, sir" replied the youth. wear
| ily. "it Is woodwork"
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
PLENTY OF WORK
FOR PATRIOTIC WOMEN

a Washington dispatch says: Too
many American women are racing Off
to Europe OF tearing up and down the
land looking for something patriotic"
to do while children at home are be-
coming delinquent and young girls are
inadequately safe.guarded. There's
plenty of war work AT home they might
be doing too.
That in brief was the opinion ex-
pressed to the United Press today by
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, chairman of
the Woman's Committee of the Coun.
Gil of National Defense.
And borrowing a phrase from her
ancient suffrage rivals, the antis, this
former president of the National Am.
erican Woman Suffrage association
added:
"Woman's place, unless she can give
/ expert assistance abroad as nurse OF
doctor, is at home.
Children are not so well cared for
as they should be. The increase ot
| Juvenile delinquency proves that. Girls
aeed more protection. Factories and
stores want workers. Some women
can save food. Others, who cannot &C
10 work outside the home may be Golo
to offer a place to live, rooms CT food
to those who can work.
The Woman's Committee has put
out card Tor the women of the ma
| ton, listing one hundred and fifty
four occupations. most of which car
be followed right in woman's home
/ town, that will help American win the
war" DR.. Shaw said.
Her own country needs the patrio
! tic American woman right now" saiC
DR.. Shaw, land she has only TO lool
around from her front door to SET
necessary work which is going un
done.
To-day we know that we have 1
great force that has scarcely been il
use at all Registration is helping
many women in the thirty-iiye states
where 1t has been taken or is beini
prepared for. to see their own posi-
bilitics for service.
"a study of the registration card
will show many ways in which eacI
one may give service, whether sh
is trained or unframed. = Many trade
and professions enumerated are @:
scntial in the industries conuccte
with the war. Others are nccessar
to maintain life in town or country I
release men for active war service.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
. Q . . . o 9 o . . 8 .
THE RED CROSS URGES EVERY REMEMBER THAT

The behind a to
boys who
aside their plans that they might do their
to
work back held back
o be and
able visit the worooms regularly do either the knitting
sewing at home.
Thousands of need these thrgs
Many things needed the family
From this like thousand handkerchefs
mems shirts anything, barred white, which
absorbent machine
finished eighteen inches square.
Wash cloths finished inches and made
bath knitted underwear bed knitted
CrOchcJcd
Ambulance pillows. Y weighing pound
made anything light coored and filled with bits of mate
thcfourhs pound mixed with excelsior
eIouTth pound
Comfort pillows Any size, shape color filled with anything
larger inches
cloths of / unable make
will
an keep your or daily
o 8 9 . . q o Z . 8 Q Q = Q 9 . . . o
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
NEGOT T|AT|ONS
FOR PEACE ARE
BROKEN BY RUSS
bcisheviki Said to Have Broken
off Peace Negotiations with
Germans on Account of Po-
land and Luthania

LONDON. jar. 2.-Peace negotia.
tions at Brest-Litvosk have been brok.
en- off by the Bolsheyik government
owing to the German attitude in re.
gard TO Poland and Luthania and the
enemy's proposals that garrisons be
retained at Libau, Riga and elsewhere,
according to a telegram received from
the Petrograd correspondent of the
London Daily News.
The dispatch quotes an article from
the Bolsheviki newspaper which dis
cussed new phase in the peace ne
gotiations. The article says that ow-
ing to the pressure from below the
Germans have been obliged to soil
their lips with the formula put for
ward by the socialists at the begin.
ming of the war. but the German i'm.
perialists woulo not be imp%rialists
If they did not try to take back in
fact what with gritted teeth they
yielded to the world. The Russian
revolutionary government, the paper
says, Connot accept their conditions
to retain Poland and Luthania.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
ITALIANS WIN
FIRST VICTORY
Of NEW YEAR
Entire Right Bank of PiaVe is
Cleared of Invaders Except
to the Far Northern Part of
the Line

by ASSOCIATED PRESS. Jan. q
Another reverse for the Teutonic al
lied arms, following that eff, Ctcd ny
the French troops IN their initial drive
on the northern front in Italy, has
been brought about by the Italians in
q sharp attack in the famous Zenson
loop on the lower reaches OF the
Piaye river.
Here the enemy has been driven to
the eastern bank OF the stream from
positions he had held since the Ital.
ians in their retroErade movement
from the Isonzo made their stand
Thus the entire right bank of the
Piave has been cleared OF the in
vGders. except far to the north, where
the battle line runs westward from
the stream through the hill region.
The fighting for the Zenson bridge
head had been in progress since last
Thursday, the Italians keeping ener
getically after the foe in order to re,
gain the position, which always has
been considered menace TO Venice
Heavy casualties were inflicted on the
enemy by the artillery and rifle fire
OF the Italians Before he was forced
to recross the stream.
On the north front the infantry
again Is idle for the moment but the
big guns of both sides are keeping VI
intensive duels on various sectors, par
ticularly around Monte Tomba anC
on the Asiago plateau. The enemy Il
continuing his air raids over import
ant towns on the plain. his latest at
tack having been directed agains
Vicenza. Bassano. Castle Franco ant
Treyiso. Thirteen persons were kill
ed and a others wounded, the ma
jorlty fthem civilians. Only small
material damage resulted from TIT
new raids.
Likewise the operations on tn
fronts in France and Belgium are be
ing confined almost exclusively Il
bOIllbii alNAAohbll ll4' WI hAsA'
war Office claims n further gain oI
ground by the army of Crown Prime
RupperCht OF Bavaria over the Brltlsl
south OF Marco!Hg in the Cambria
sector
There are persistent reports tina
heavy fighting Is in progress betwce,
Kaledines' Cossacks and Bolshevik
troops in southwestern Russia an
that the casualties have been heavy
No details OF an authentic natur
have yet come through but the report
say the Bolsheviki has been defeat
ed on the southwestern front wit
numerous losses of men and guns
but that they have occupied the in
portant town OF Peltava.
Still further progress has been mad
by the British troops operating agains
the Turks In Palestine north OF u
rusalem. The Turks in the fightln
Of the last several days have lost NOR
than 1000 men killed and $50 mad
prisoner.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
INVESTIGATING
NORFOLK FIRES
Twenty-Five Suspects are on
Grill for Mysterious Fires
Which Caused Millions OF
Dollars Worth of Damage

NORFOLK, Pa, Jan. 2.--Twenty-five
suspects were on the grill today in
the investigation % the series OF fires
which yesterday caused millions OF
dollars of damage in Norfolk and New.
port News.
Nearly two blocks in the heart Of
Norfolk's business district. including
the Monticello hotel, were destroyed
three men were killed and a score
more injured in a series of explosions
and fires which both the police and
naval authorities believe were inCen
diary. The fire has been checked but
still was burning fiercely in the ruins
The loss is roughly estimated at more
than 83.OOOOOO.
Three distinct explosions in as many
buildings led TO the general belief that
enemy agents were At work. Mayor
Mayo practically placed the city under
martial Jaw by turning the situation
over to the naval officers and some
500 marines and blneisckcts from
nearby naval stations who assisted tho
police and home guards in maintain
ing order and preventing vandalism.
Naval patrols rounded up suspici
Gus persons throughout the afternoon
while FIVE men were arrested as sus
| poets. Two OF these. Hugo Schmid
and II. X. Lcssing. said to be Ger
mans, were turned over TO the depart
mcnt OF justice agents. There wcr,
reports that two Germans had beer
shot by sailors during the day, hu
neither the police nor naval authori
. ties would confirm them.
The Arc started before dawn In tb,
old CRANKY thcatcr on CRANKY stree
and gained rapid hcadway as the fire
men were handicapped by frozen FIR
hydrants, low water pressure and nea
zero temperature. 1t quickly sprea
to the Monticello hotel and other neal
by buildings in the block. 1t Wa
brought under control late in the day
but broke out anew. leapcd nCrOs
across CRANKY street and levclled hal
of the black there before being check
ed.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
SOME BRANCHES
OF ARMY FILLED

No more re. rants are 10 be vol
unfairly inducted into either the quar-.
termaster corps or the aviation sec
tion of the signal corps, by the local
exemption boards. according TO ad
Vices communicated TO the state mill.
tary headquarters by the provost.mar
shat general last evening. All men
who have been inducted into either of
the two branches named or into the
ordance department, are to be held
until the receipt OF further orders
from Washington.-Carson News.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
No APPOINTMENT
ON SENATORSHIP

a bulletin was posted in the COVER.
nor's Office in Carson this afternoon
stating that no appointment for the
scnatOrship to succeed the late Sena.
tor Francis c. Ncwlands would be
made today. II was expected that Mr.
Henderson would be appointed today
but no statement from the governor
as TO the postponmcnt could be re
Ccivcd by wire.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02

not know what had happened to
Him.
II Is said that both were knocked
down and that the l. ". W. was
5Eockod 30 feet and rendered uncon-
scious by the miner when he arose
from the first blow and did not an
#wcr when he was asked If he had
changed his opinion regarding the
Hrmy 1t is also said that it was
necessary for both men to be treated
n q hospital.
After one of the agitators had
Seen nuorcd and were unable to arise
t is said that third man who had
been a witness to the fighting put his
foot on the mans head and drove his
lace into the floor and that in gen.
2raI the two men. received the worst
beatings ever. administered here for
untiwar talk and that their escape
from death was a narrow one Gold
field Tribune.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
SLIPS OF THE PEN

There Is no glue that will mend a
broken reputation
There Is no soap that will cleanse
q soilod character.
There Is no not that will gather in
wasted time and opportunity.
Language, signs. music, ART. have
all vainly tried to depict love. OnIy
life Of dsvotlcn and service car
properly express IT,
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
STAY EXECUTION
OF BEN KUHL

An order staying the execution of
Ben Kuhl, sentenced to be shot at
the state prison January 10, was is
sued by p. A. McCarron. chief justice
of the supreme court Monday after
noon. No date or fixed length Of time
is given in the order which directs
that the execution be suspended un-
til the nnal determination OF The ap-
peal from said judgment and order"
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02

man drive in Italy and offensive on
the western front, are some of the
principal things which have i'm
pressed those of the west with the
serious situation which confronts the
United States and have caused the
quick demise of the morbid elements
which infested that part of the coun.
try n short while ago.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
DRASTIC CUT
IN PASSENGER
SERVICE MADE
Eastern Road Cancels Hun
cred and Four Trains in Or
der to Clear Lines for
Freight Transportation

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-The
Pennsylvania railroad has made a
drastic cut in its passenger service
in an effort TO clear its lines for
freight transportation. The company
cancelled 1O4 passenger trains. in
Guiding the Congressional Limited, and
other trains that were being operated
east of Pittsburg
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
ANOTHER PLANT
BURNED BY SPIES
Damage Amo.4.ats to Several
Thousand Dollars and De-
stroyed Many Shells in Last
Stage of Completion

HARRISBURG. Pa, Jan. "A fire
of mysterious origin, starting in a
paint shop, damaged the plant OF the
Harrisburg Pipe and Pipebending com.
pany to the extent of several thous-
and dollars. The plant was engaged
in the manufacture OF four-inch shells
for the United States government and
hundreds OF those in the last stage
of completion were destroyed.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
BRITISH AMBASSADOR
WILL RETIRE FROM POST

WASHINGTON, Jan. "A report
from London states that Sir Cecil
Spring Rice, the British ambassador
to the United States will retire from
his post here. The ambassador has
arranged to see Secretary Lansing and
il is understood that he will inform
Lansing of the change. The retire,
mont of Rice will not be followed by
any change of policy at Washington by
the British government. it is said.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
BRITISH REPULSE ALL
ATTACKS AT ARRAS

LONDON, Jan. o. Several raids
made by the German forces last night
on the British positions on the Bel
gium front and the Arras front were
repulscd, the British official state.
ment states this morning.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02
COULDN'T FIND IT

The Kid-This may is not correct.
Tho TcaCher-Why not?
The Kid You told me the general
was going to Rcconnoitcr. but can't
find the place on the map.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02

Judge Taber went to Palisade New
Years eve where he delivered Ice.
ture for the Red Cross He reports n
big attendance at the meeting and n
great deal of enthusiasm.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-02

"You farmers buy n good many
gold bricks2"
"Ycs. end you city follows buy n
good deal of swamp land. giess
things are about even"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-27
Underground Railroad and
Useless Caucus Room, Two :
ExtravaganCeS at Capitol.

One of the curiosities of the capitol
is the miniature railroad that connects
the senate, via underground passage,
with the senate office building, relates
a Washington correspondent. The ears
Of this railroad operate on a monorail
by electricity.
The road is about $50 yards in length
and has a double track. When IN
car is ut one end of the track the other
ear is at the other end, and vice versa.
The railroad was intended originally to
aid senators in making speed from
their Offices to the senate chamber. Roll
calls do not require much time in the
senate and there is danger that if a
roll call is asked when a senator is in
his Office he will miss the roll call I'M
less he uses the electric car. That
saves him about ten or fifteen seconds
time.
The road is open to the public and
it costs nothing to ride. As a conse-
Quenee messenger boys, clerks and
janitors use the railroad freely, while
senator's, except on days when the
weather is %inelement, prefer to walk in
the open sir between their offices and
the senate chamber.
Besides the initial equipment, the
road entails an expense of about $50
weekly for the employ of two opera
tors and probably half that amount for
electricity. This would make a yearly
expense of $1,000 as a very e%onserva-
tive estimate. AS a matter of fact the
railroad probably costs more like $4,000
or $1,000 a year.
The senate has another extravaganza
that is almost an eyesore. This is the
palatiaI caucus room that cost no one
knows how many thousands of dollars
when the senate Office building was
constructed. The room is finished
throughout in marble and has immense
crystal chandeliers. It has the largest
seating capacity of any roo in the
capitol except the hall of the house
and the senate chamber.
Yet the acoustic properties of the
room are so bad that it is never used,
and it stands there as an expensive
monument to some ones mistake in
planning the senate office building. OF
course a person would ordinarily pay
no attention to such a thing rs bad
acoustic properties, but in this room it
cannot help but be noticed.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-27
Magazine Writer'S Closeup
of Our General Pershing, as
a Man and American Soldier.

What of General Pershing, who may
one day have as great an army as anyl
The question is asked as often in Eu
rope as in America. 1t is not, l think,
known in America how deep n first inn
preston his character as man and sol,
der have made on the British and, in
deed, the French, writes w. Beach
Thomas in Harper's Magazine.
When he landed in England in June
1916, one of the British newspapers.
whose correspondent had been for d
long while in his presence, compared
him with Moltke, who was "silent in
seventeen languages" What General
Persbing, the master of several Philip.
pine dialects, said was little and good.
When General JofIre shook his hand in
Paris a few weeks later-a scene wor.
thy of a great historical memorial-he
said to one of his staff, General Per.
shing will think first and act after
wards" At all junetures the general
has been cool and prompt and deter
mined. His colonel in Cuba wrote of
him, He is the bravest and coolest
man under fire I ever SAW in my life"
His own recorded maxims are few; but
nj the most worrying crisis in France
when news of the arrival of American
troops was published while some of
those troops were still in the danger
zone at sea-he said, 81 do not worry,
and when the days work is over I go
to Sleep
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-27
sHERIFF,s SALE.

BY virtue of a writ of tieri facias, to me di-
reetad. issued out of the New Jersey Court of
Chancery. Will be sold at public vendue, on
WEDNESDAY, iii FOURTEENTH A
OF AUGUST NINETEEN HUNDRED
\ EIGHTEEN.
at two O'Clock ia the afternoon of said day,
IN the Court Room, No. POI, Second Floor,
Guarantee Trust Building, in the City OF At
lautie City. County of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey.
All that certain tract or parcel Of land and
premises. hereinafter particularly described,
situate in the Borough Of Pleasantyille.
County of Atlantic and State Of New Jersey.
Beginning at a point in the Northerly side
of Washington Avenue distant in a North
westerly direction from the Northerly corner
of Washington Avenue and Second Avenue
one hundred feet Goo ft.1 and running
thence ID Northeastwardly and parallel with
Second Avenue one hundred and fifty feet
C150 ft.) thence ~ Enthusiastically and
parallel with Washington Avenue thirty-nine
feet Go ft.) thence 80 enthusiastically
parallel TO Second Avenue one hundred and
fifty feet l150 fl to Washington Avenue j;
and thence Cd enthusiastically along Wash
ingtou Avenue thtrty-nine fest l39 it, TO
point or place of beginning.
Seized as The property of Neryyn Wilson
ct al. and taken in execution at the suit Of
George W. Noreross aud to be sold by
ALFRED J. PERKINS,
Sheriff.
Dated July 20. 1918.
Harry Cassman, Solicitor.
Prs fee. S13.q4
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-27
Law Forbids boarding.

Persons who have sought to excuse
their violations of rules and Fegula-
tons of the United States food adj
ministration on the assertion that
''there is no law requiring it," are
warned hat there is a law governing
such cases. According to the law,
persons who willfully hoard any nee
e~ssaries shall, upon conviction, be
fined not exceeding $1,000 or be inn
prisoned for not more than two years,
or both. The statute sets out just
what 'hoarding' is and includes, not
only the act of boarding, but the with.
holding of necessaries to gain a high
er price for them. Hoarders will be
prosecuted in the federal courts.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-27
NOTICE TO

Estate of Theresa T. Robinson, deceased.
Pursuant to the order of Albert C. Abbott
made on the application of the undersigned
Administrator of the said decedent, notice +
hereby given to the creditors of the said
deeedent to exhibit to the subscriber. under
oath or affirmation, their claims and de-
malds against the estate Of the said dece-
dent, within nine months from this date, or
they viii be forever barred from prosecuting
or recovering the same against the subscrib-
er.
HOWARD L. CAMPBELL.
Mays Landing, n. J., June G, 1918.
Oliver T. Rogers, Proctor.
Atlantic City, Y. J.
Prs fee. 1892
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-07-27

By virtue Of a writ of feri facias, to me d.
rected, issued out of the New Jersey Court Of
Chaneery. will be sold at public vendue, on
WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY
OF JULY. NINETEEN HUNDRED
n EIGHTEEN,
at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day,
in the Court Room, No. pol, Second Floor,
Guarantee Trust Building, in the City of At
lantie City. County Of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey.
AH that certain tract or parcel Of land and
premises situate in the Township of Buena
Vista, in the County Of Atlantic and State Of
New Jersey, bounded and described as fol-
lows
beginning at the South corner of Buena
Vista and Main Avenues. thence running
Southeasterly along the Southwest side Of
said Buena Vista Avenue TWO hundred feet
thence % SouthWesterly along q line par
allel with said Main Avenue one hundred
and fifty feet to a point thence CD North
westerly parallel with Buena Vista Avenue
fifty feet thence f4) Southwesterly and par
feet to a point thence 90 Southeasterly par
aliel with said Buena Vista Avenue one hun
dred and fifty feet to the Northwest side Of
Fir Avenue thence l6l SouthWesterly along
Che said side oil said Fir Avenue four hum
dred feet TO the North corner of Fir and
smith Avenue thence % Northwesterly
along the Northeast side Of said smith Ave-
ate three hundred feet to the East corner OF
Smith and Main Avenues thence fSl North
eastarly along the southeast side Of Main
Avenue seven hundred and fifty feet TO the
point or place Of beginning. Containing four
acres more or less, known and designated ON
a plan or man Of lets laid eff by Jonathan
said Atlantic County. as lots Nos. 70 +, 4,
9, II. 13, Is to 20 incl. i'm block No. ..
Seized as the property Of Hannah r.. Jaeher
ar al. and taken In execution at the suit of
Giuseppe RomanIni and TO be sold by
ALFRED j. PERKINS,
sheriff.
Dated July g., 1918.
VIM. Elmer Brown, Jr, Solicitor.
IT'S lee. GIHtHD