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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
LEAVES FOR GREAT LAKES

Morris Pollitt, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Pollitt, of New Richmond, Ohio,
former local residents, has received
his orders to report to the Naval au-
thorities at Great Lakes Naval Train
ing Station near Chicago and he
leaves today for the station. Morris
was not within draft age but was
anxious to get into the service and
volunteered. His many local friends
wish him well.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
BRYAN ENTERTAINED BY
MAYSVILLIANS

Although William Jennings Bryan,
who passed through Maysville over
the c. G o. Tuesday morning en- route
from Huntington to Cincinnati, was
not met at the local station a party of
Maysville men-Mayor Thomas M.
Russell, Councilman William Smith
and Squire Fred Dresel, entertained
him on the train between this city and
Cincinnati.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
PRAYER MEETING

Regular mid-week prayer meeting
will be held at the First Baptist
Church this evening. Although the
pastor is on a vacation, it is expected
that the membership will attend in
goodly numbers. The public is cor
daily invited to attend these services
which are very interesting.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
AVIATOR KILLED AT CINCINNATI

A number of Maysville people were
in Cincinnati yesterday to witness the
airplane circus given over the city
by airmen of the British and Ameri-
can army. One of the airmen met his
death during his dare devil stunts.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
LEE PRICE ESCAPES PRISONER
GUARD

Lee Price, -oolored, who was serving
out a sentence of thirty days on a
charge OF Breach OF the Peace and
who was suspected Of being deserter
from the army. escaped from Prisoner
Guard ureenlee yesterday while work.
Ing on tho streets
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
REVIVAL IN BROWN COUNTY

Rev. ]. E. Reed and Rev. l.. Stick
ley, of this city, will begin a revival
meeting under tent in Brown county
just back of Aberdeen on next Sun
day. The gentlemen are expecting a
great revival.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
AUDITOR IS NOT SECURED

Mayor Thomas NJ. Russell returned
last night from Cincinnati where he
had been for two days in search of a
firm to audit the city's books to
straighten out the alleged discrep-
encies in former City Clerk Owens
accounts. The mayor will have a
meeting with his official family with
in short time and arrangements
completed to employ experts. Up to
the present time no one has been Sc
cured.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15

A few days ago the ladies of the
Mite Society of the First NJ. e. Church,
South, sent through the Red Cross a
box containing 179 garments for the
Belgium children.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15

To introduce our new self filling
Conklin Pen, bottle of ink will be
given free with each pen for ten days
only.
13-3t ]. T. KACKLEY G. co.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15
GERMANS ARE
Withdrawing TO
NORTH OF ALBERT
Allies Are Pressing Enemy on Three
Sections Of he French Battle
Front and They Continue
to withdraw.

London, August 1.-THE Germans
have evacuated their forward posi-
tions at Beaumont Hamel, Serre,
Pruisieux-Au-Mont and Bucquoy, ly-
ing in the region north of Albert, ac-
cording to Field Marshal Haig's COM
munication issued tonight.
With the British Army in France,
August 14-All hostile positions be-
tween the western outskirts of Bray
and Etinehem have fallen into the
hands of the Australians, thus placing
the river banks southwest of Bray un-
der the control of the British. The
Australians, also, have cleared the
enemy from Chateau wood.
With the French Army in France,
August 14-French forces fighting for
the key positions of Thiescourt massif
and the st. Claude and Ecouvillon
farms, are progressing slowly. North
of Curry, where the Germans are in
stalled in the old French trenches of
1914 they have gained no ground. The
enemy here in lucky moment tum-
bled into reday-made positions.
AS the enemy retreats he is picking
up his slow moving material and is
accommodating an increasing number
of guns and quantities of munitions
The French, in advancing, have tend
ed TO outstrip their artillery and there
are-r(o tanks to assist the infantry
The French are advancing against
the line which is thinly held, but
which is bristling with machine guns
and are fighting in the atmosphere OF
mustard gas. They have wrested do
minant positions OH the battlefield
from the enemy.
Washington, August 14-"In Lor-
raine one of our patrols made a sue
cessful raid on the enemy's line and
| brought back prisoners" General Per-
shing's night communique said. "In
the Vosges a hostile raiding party
was repulsed. With the exception of
considerable artillery activity along
the Vesle there is nothing further to
| report.
| Paris, August 14-The town of Ribe-
court, on the road leading to Nevon
and 6A miles southeast OF that town,
has been captured by the French ac-
cording to the official statement is
sued tonight.
The statement follows:
During the day our troops, con-
tinuing their progress between the
Matz and the Disc, took Ribecourt.
East of Belval our infantry ele-
ments, having discovered prepara-
tions for a German counter attack,
succeeded in taking as prisoners sew
en- officers of whom two were batta-
lion commanders and a certain num-
ber of soldiers.
"In the region of Roye and Lassigny
the artillery fire has been very spiria-
ed"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15

London, August 1.-THE Germans
have evacuated their forward posi-
tions at Beaumont Hamel, Serre,
Pruisieux-Au-Mont and Bucquoy, ly-
ing in the region north of Albert, ac-
cording to Field Marshal Haig's COM
munication issued tonight.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15

Mr.. Wadsworth Clarke has returned
home after spending three days with
friends in Louisville.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-15

Try a pound OF T. G. Butter.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
KA|SERS LEG|ONS
HELD BY ALLIES
ADVANTAGE RESTS WITH ALLIES
AFTER WEEK OF FURIOUS At
TAcKs BY HUN FORCES.
Americans Come TO Close Quarters
With Germans, Using New Guns
With Deadly Effect, Accounting
for Many of the Enemy.

Washington.--The allied forces have
been holding their own the past week,
much Of the former snap of the kaiser's
forces being gone. General Sixt Won
Arnim's plans went woefully awry at
Ypres just when he expected to reap.
the reward of his turning movement
against that stronghold.
On the Amiens front severe fighting
has been recorded from day to day. 1t
will be recalled that the British recap.
tured Villers-Bretonneux and that the
French retook Hangard and part of
Hangard wood. Most of the fighting
was in this region. The Germans and
their enemies attacked and counter-at-
tackled throughout the week, the final
advantage resting with the allies. AT
one point the Huns came In contact
with an American force, which APP
parently had been inserted between
the British and French near Villers-
enemy, after a two hours lombard
ment, attacked this part of the line.
They came to close quarters with the
Americans, and there was hand-to-
hand fighting, in which the enemy was
worsted. He retired, leaving many
bodies in front of the American posi-
ton. For the first time it is recorded
that the Americans are using a new
weapon, sort of shotgun rifle. 1t is
evidently used for fighting at close
quarters, although the shot, which
sprays with shotgun effect, kills at
several hundred yards. Westerners
who know something about the deadli-
ness of the sawed-off shotgun will APP
preciate the effectiveness of this wea-
pom in scrimmage.
In fighting south of Hangard the
French improved their positions. They
attacked the Germans between Hailles
and Castel, on front of about one and
one-quarter miles, taking possession of
Hill 81 and the wood bordering on the
Avre river.
British operations are proceeding in
both Mesopotamia and Palestine. Nov
ing north of Bagdad, toward the great
Turkish base at Mosul, they have
reached the Tauk river, after captur-
ing fourteen guns and nearly 1000 pris-
oners.
In Palestine, with the exception of
one severe reverse, the British have
prospered
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
RUSS ASK RECALL OF
AMERICAN CONSUL
SREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE
ALSO REQUESTED 70 WITH.
DRAW REPRESENTATIVES,.
Charged With Attempting 10 interiors
Win internal life Of Russia and
ASKED to Oegne Attitude TO.
ward aoslet Government.

AinAcow Foreign Minister Tehltch-
ssia mas addressed the representa-.
lives Id Maacow d the United states,
England and France. requesting the
speedy recall 81 their e0nsais al
Nladisoslek, and 40 Investigation of
taelr allcaed participation III negotin.
tions between The pekln embassies ~
the powers named ard the Siberian
autonomous government They ara
aiso asked 10 define their attitude 20.
ward she soviet government aud *,
piaIn what the minister nlludes % az
the attempts of their representatives
u Interfere with the internal life OF
Russia.
A Tehiteherin submitted copies OF
tbs documents selaed on the person 81
~. koiosiogf, q member IN vladiyostok
~ the siberian autonomous govern
meat. who recently WAS arrested.
which the minister declares "esiab.
llahea lneontroyertibiy that the con.
sninr representatives of Great Britain.
France and America participated In
this plot. and that the diplomatic rep.
re@entasiyea 81 those powers IN PEE
Kin negotiated with the counterreyo-
dictionary organization calling itself
fae siberian government"
These reported negotiations have
previously been declared IN BolsheyIk
quarters q have been projected with
vlsw 70 the recognition 81 Siberia
BY this allied powers
n Tehiteherin also addressed 10 the
Japanese representative In Moscow q
communication stating that the letters
taken from NJ kolodoff establish the
extensive participation Of Japanese ".
flrsalx III the CONGRATULATIONS
movement, notwiihstanding repeated
official assurances ~ non.iuterferenee
with tbs internal life 1T Russia
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
EMPEROR FEARS FOR CROWN.
Charles of Austria Would Adjourn Par
lament Because of Food Situation.

Lament Because of Food Situation.
msterdam-Emperor Charles of
Austria has empowered the Austrian
premier to adjourn parliament and
forthwith inaugurate measures to rem
der impossible the resumption of its
activities, Vienna dispatch says.
A statement published in Vienna in
dicates that the closure of parliament
is due to the seriousness of the FOOD
situation. The statement says:
THE government viii devote it's en-
tire strength to the economic problem,
and will try to create conditions re-
quired to enable the population to hold
out"
Austria has been deep in difficulties.
both political and economic, for more
than year and il has been an open
secret that Emperor Charles was de-
sirous Of bringing about peace, his eff
forts in this direction having occasion
ally aroused criticism in Berlin.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
OVER THE TOP IN
LIBERTY Campaign
FIFTEEN MILLION AMERICANS
SUBSCRIBE FOR BONDS
BREAKING ALL RECORDS.
Third Liberty Loan oversubscrlbed,
II Being Believed That When Sub.
scriptions Are All in the Four
Billion Mark viii Be Passed.

Washington. -The American people,
for the third time in a year, have
heavily oyersubseribed war credit.
AS the third Liberty loan campaign
was closing Saturday night, the treas
ury department announced the cam
paign had been can overwhelming sue
cess" Although $3,O00000 was the
formal goal of the campaign, official
reports, including only small proper
ton Of saturdays avalanche of
pledges, showed the total as $3,203,-
655, 400, and there were indications
that the aggregate would be increased
to nearly S4,000,00O,O00, when banks
have time to tabulate the multitude of
last minute applications
The exact result of the campaign
probably will not be known for several
days.
Official estimates placed the num-
Der of subscribers at between 1900
90 and 100000, far above the TO-
100000 of the second loan, or 100000
of the first-and some officials ex-
pressed the belief that the roll of
bond buyers would be even greater.
To them this was one of the most en-
couraging features of the loan.
All twelve federal reserve districts,
whi,.l were the largest campaign
units, oversubscribed, anu majority
of the states made the same record.
Delaware doubled its quota.
Bond selling continued actively in
many cities up to late hour Satur-
day night, and banks stayed open in
a final effort to roll up more subscrip-
tons than the $4,616,0O0,000 of the
second Liberty loan last October.
Figures on leading loans of the
principal belligerents were given out
by the treasury as follows:
British Victory loan, early in 1917,
8 per cents Subscriptions, S5,096,254,-
800.
United States second Liberty loan, 4
per Subscriptions, $4,616,000,000
Eighth German war loan, Az per
cent and 5 per neutrality-suspicious.,
$3,60O,000.
French war loan of 1915, per cent
subscriptions, $2,261, S64 400.
Austrian seventh war loan, per
cent Subscriptions, $1,150,O00,00O.
Italian fourth loan, per cent
Subscriptions, $1,000 100000.
Hungary, seventh war loan, 6 per
cent-Subscriptions, $6,0CJ,000
Canadian Victory loan, November
1917, 5ls per cent-Subscriptions,
$4lS, 100000.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
czAn Is MOVIE eY soMEr.
Transfer Ordered 10 Prevent Escape
Of Members Of Family.

Moscow Nicholas itomaa0if, the
former emperor, together with the for
IRer empress and one II their dangh
tiers have been transferred from To
boisk % Ekaterinhurg tlT0 miles south.
east ~ Perm on the Aslatlc side ~
the Trial mpnntainsl according 20 a
soviet announcement The transfer
was ordered because ~ the alleged
efforts ~ peasants nud monarehlsts In
fhe neighhnrho0d % ToboIsk ~ pro.
mote me escape 81 the prisoners,
The announcement does unt mention
the former heir apparent, the young
Alexis isananOf,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
h0Ns THROWING nav CAS-.
American Troops Are Given Example
81 German Warfare.

rgr,s What probably h il NEW Ger
man aeultied g4s was projected Sat
urtlay morning against the ricurdy
trent, where American troops are
fghung
The gas 10 its fluid form, Is con,
tainsd hi glass bottles ON bursting
they give oft snuc substance from
which heaNy white fumes, transparent
IN texture, continue 10 arise for five
minutes
Nc defamation was heard as the bot,
lies we're hurled through the air md
apparently thpy were thrown hy Il
spring The ghs caused nausea,
suecxtag and coughing but did not
harm any - lhe Americans.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Socialists oppose War.

f'lieaNo liiln0la Socialists assent
bleti n sfate convention II Chicago
Saturday. declared gar constant uppasl
tiea 10 slte Wat. f9r immediate rreati
" arr snlflles, FROM France and asked
that President Wilson dpmaHd IL onev
Il r9Utrfrues II delegates FROM an wUr.
Fieg aatlens selected by the various
pe9ies. not the governments 20 exc
cute q peace for the wufid and demp
rtaFY.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
American officer klIled

PariS-I.ieutenan Colonel Richard
Il. Griffiths, commanding battalion
Of infantry, has been killed by shell
fire in Picardy. He emerged from a
dugout Just us German shell .s,iveG
and exploded directly Ia front os him.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Passport Measure Approved.

Washington.-The house on MAY 4
passed the administration passport bill
requiring all persons entering the Unit
ed States to have a government per-
init and giving the president broad
power in restricting entrance to and
exit from American Ports.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Transfer Ordered to Prevent Escape

observation-disclosures from Vienna
are to the effect that Silva Farronza,
the Austrian minister of agriculture !:
NJ. Horbaszekeki, Ruthenian minister,
and Nj, Zolges, Slovenian minister,
have resigned as protest against the
governments plan to repress Slavonian
agitation in Bohemia.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
New BUILDING Record.

Westinghouse new shipbuilding
record was established Monday in the
launching of the 5500-ton steel collier
Tuckahoe at the plant of the New
York Shpibuilding company, Camden,
N. j., in less than one month from the
time the keel was laid.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
-, raLtes.-.Au,hnr 80.

New feFk James Ripley wcNmBa
lliffhraek ~ this city authoF, editor
agd critic dlei sadarnly II heart dis
sass taerp Sunday white ne wos at.
teEdinE dlnnsr given Ia honur ot
ssysrsl -blee DEVILS" of France.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
AlrnIanes sink Rnats

Amsterdam.-Th effective work Of
allied airmen in haraSsing the German
supply service is described by the
newspaper, Les Nouvelles. of The
Hague, which sank in one day twenty
three Belgian boats laden with gravel
and road metal for the German front
In Pieardy. The vessels ut the time
were y kilometers from the enemy
rear line
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Persia NulIs Treaties

The HaGue,-Persia has informed
Holland that it regards as null and
void all treaties imposed on Persia in
recent Years, and especially the Russo
British treaty of 1907 regarding the
spheres of influence in that country.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Yankee Airmen in RattIe

Paris-Four more aerial battles
were reported Sunday by American
airmen flying in the sector northwest
of Toul, All of the combats were
indecIs-ve, although one of the Ameri.
can machines returned with bullet
holes in its wings and two others with
holes torn by fragments of shells from
anti-aircraft guns.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
!. w. w. Leaders on Trial.

Chicago.-The government began
prosecution of testimony in the trial
OF 112 leaders of the l. W w. on May
?, after Frank X. Nebeker, special
prosecutor, had said it would be shown
the organization entered widespread
conspiracy TO upset Americas war
plans
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Elnhtlnu IN streeta Of klev.

acknowledgements received in Eur
ich report the continuance of violent
fighting in Kiev between partisans of
the old government and those of the
new peasant government, the Exchange
Telegraph correspondent at Zurich re
ports.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Woman klIIed 81 speedlnr Autn.

Champagne, llls.-AIrs Stella John
son, aged 20, was killed presumably
by being thrown from speeding auto
mobile, her neck being broken, The
driver of the machine put ON more
speed and escaped.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
T,alsn 80 go 800.

Atlantis Ca. An apparent attempt
ri Wholesale delivery o. the German
pusoisFs at Fort Mcpherson Ras FOIL.
- late Saturday when the guards dis.
covered 2hfeol tunnel leading from
one ~ the prisoners barracks.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Ask Control 81 Lake carriers

Washington,--G Government operation
Of all Great Lakes vessels has been
asked by seamen's unions In an ef-
fort 10 avert strike which union
leaders told the shipping labor canfc-.
ence was inevitable otherwise.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10

The Hague Speaking hefurc the
Bavarian ehambrF an the fnod sltna
Jion, tite fpad ntuister satd ghat Gov
silsspas permitted the hope that the
pe1plr would BE- abel q hotd aut. lie
xald Il might bs necessary to Fvtluee
ths bre01 fwiiun
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
Wealthy Asked to Send Substitute

Capetown. General Louis Botha.
premier Of the union of South Africa,
appealing for recruits To fill gaps in
the South African brigade in Europe,
asks that the men of wealth who can.
not 20 themselves send substitutes.
with whom they may make arrange.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
French win Send Sand to America.

Paris.-The French government is
about to send to the United States a
military band Of carefully picked men
under the leadership Z Gabriel Pares,
former bandmaster of the Republican
guard of Paris.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
rurn - en /. ". IA Mrnhsr.

Seattle Pellee brought y tiFe hose
into play Saturday whea los ilnpri-
sened alleged Industrial Workers II
ths World and enemy eilens gathered
80 tsil -tanks, and refused 10 dis.
perss
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10

Both houses OF congress have passed
the joint resolution TO register for mil
ltary service all males becoming TWEEN
ty-one years old since June 5, 1917.
The lower house adopted an amend
ment putting the newly registered men
at the foot OF their respective classes
and sustained the military committee
in refusing to exempt those who have
entered medical or divinity schools
since June 5.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10

The senate devoted much time last
week 60 debating the overman bill for
the coordination Of government acttv-
tiles and It gained supporters daily,
Senator Chamberlain being amc@g
those who declared he would vote for
Il, In opposing the bill Senator Sher,
man of Illinois found opportunity TO
make a bitter attack on various ulsm-
hers OF the cabinet and IN George
Crecl.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-20
DDYSEV[NlN(:
KRY TALL k12
THE CAMEL COUSINS.
. MARY GRAHAM BONNER

"How-do-you-do," said the two Camel
cousins as they arrived in the zoo.
There We're three other camels there
alreaS which slightly disappointed the
TWO Camel cousins, for they wanted to
receive all the attention.
We've just arrived" said the two
Camel cousins.
The three other camels said nothing.
They all looked as if they weren't in
the least bit interested in anything else
except their food, and they were chew
ing and chewing, their mouths going
from side to side.
After a little bit one of the three
camels smiled, then the second, and
last the third.
''NNhat are you smiling at?" asked
the Camel cousins.
Nothing" said the three camels.
1t was the first answer they had
made, and the two Camel cousins were
pleased that at least they had beer
noticed.
Il suppose" said Campbell Camel
that we can't expect them to be pleas
ed with us. They're doubtless yer.