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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
DlSQUIETING RUMORS.

Every now and thcn-far too fire.
quently disquieting and disturbing
rumors somehow get circulated about
casualties to the boys in the army i'm
France. In nearly every instance so
FAR, these rumors have turned out
to be utterly untrue.
The reports are not started or cir
culated maliciously of course. On the
other hand they may originate from
the best of intentions, but are no
less harmful and disturbing on this,
account. No rumor should he re-
peated, unless we'll authenticated, and
as regards rumors of casualties to
the boys in the army should not be
believed unless announced or at least
confirmed by the War Department
The supposition is, and reasonable
one, too, that the sickness or death
of a boy in the army can and will
reach the parents of the boy as soon
from an official as from any other
source, and until officially received
or received from comradc of the
boy known to be truthful and nearby
no dependence should be placed in
such rumors. These are DAYS and
times of anxiety on the part of pa.
rents at best, and this anxiety should
not be augmented by careless, uncon-
firmed rumors.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
CATTLE QUEEN.

We hear of profitable live stock
transaction carried GU this spring by
a Waukon young lady, Miss Lizzie
Mitchell. Last week she sold to Len
Miller of Ludlow township fortv.
seven head of 2-year-old cattle fo,.
which she received the sum of Sc
44o: She purchased these cattle her
Seii about three months ago and has
mad them on pasture since on the
farm north of Waukon, owned by
herseif and sister Julia. Our infor-
nation claims that Miss MitchnlI
cleaned up over $4,000 on this deal
and we claim lie entities her to the
title of cattle queen of Allamakee
County.-Alamakee County Journai,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
jul. 19-6t.

Huns as, they swept through Bel
GUM; when the helpless prisoners
OF war were crucified, hospitals
bombed and thousands of soldiers
ttreacherously murdered by the hell
ish gas invented and used by a race
OF beasts who have no sense of honor
or regard for the rules of civilized
warfare
Let us not fail to look up this
gentlemen(?) and mis- American
ized(?) compatriots.
We would like to hear from these
gallant newspaper warriors, what
they would write would be interes-
ting indeed
~ DICK NORMAN.
Tazewell County, Jail, Aug. 10th
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
RED CROSS HAIRCUT.

Reber Dillon of Marlin was in Mid
dletown last Saturday and decided
that one way to keep cool was to
have his Titan locks clipped as close
l,y as the barber could 90 it without
danger to the skin. AS he settled
himself in the chair he heard the Ia
dies of the Red Cross busily engaged
in the room above. "Say, Mr.. Orr"
he said, ~ want this to be a Red
Cross ahir cut. Cut FER close all oy-
er except Geneva Cross right on top
of this coco" Rcber now wears the
beautiful badge on his crom.AEx
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
NOVELTIES FOR PHILADEJ.
PHIA.

We hear great deal down here
Oh the good times people have in
Philadelphia, where The Ladies'
Home Journal comes from. A Phil
adelphia woman is visiting in this
vicinity. Her children have never
seen a moving picture show, and
never saw circus until they saw
the Barnum and Bailey in Atchison.
Potato Hill notes in Atchison
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
HOPPERDOZER.

A device for catching grasshop-
pers and killing them has been tried
out on the farm of Gingery and Mel
lott, south of town, the last week.
1t disposed of about ten bushels of
the pests, one bushel having been
brought to town and displayed in
the window at the Hansen and Han
son Hardware store. The thing is
called a Observation-Disclosures la.
Republican.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
BOGUS HERO,

Out in Spokane they have nabbed
Il veteran of Verdun" who finally
confessed that he had never been
nearer. Verdun than Chicago. While
there is glory enough to 70 around
there is disposition to deny any of it
to romancers of his stripe.-Des
Moines Register.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23

Napoleon said, can army marches
and fights on it's stomach" Our boys
who are marching and fighting must
have IL plentiful supply of the best
food, which means that the home
people, "the army behind the lines"
must produce more and consume less.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
HER PIGHEADED HUSBAND.

"This report claims that in some
parts of Mexico it only rains once or
twice a year."
please keep that report away
from my husband. He's so pigheaded
that he'd go there Immediately and
start an umbrella ctory."-Louis-
will Courier-Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
HASHLESS DAYS.

Stenographer-How do you like
your new boarding house?
~, Bill Clerk-It's all to the good.
why we. have three hashless DAYS
each week.-Buffalo Express.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
Annie johnson +
OSTENTATION.

A st. Paul woman complains to
the court that her husband threw
bacon at her. Another ostentat:ous
display of wealth.-Des Moines Reg
lister.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23

nave a grade cow killed on a grade
crossing once. A man by name of
MN seventy-five dollar and Av gat
nothing. He bane move away now
Ay, don't know where he bane gone
and Ay don't care" s0''e
). we know what lea is, but we
dldn't get it from Yensen.--Newarl
News. J.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23

seems this has not been done, and
not having Il reminder its doubtful
whether the "angclus" is observed
amongst us.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
Regular Fall Germ

%lA begin onday and Tuesday September 2 Regular
shorthand, and Typewring Courses with &c
eiated duties also Civil Service you have ever aso
'akhs up ths line of work certainly the time "
we are BIGGER AND BETIE Ask for y FREQ co,,, ~ ~
new catalog just ~ iiee copy OF our
SUMMIT CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE.
A. H. DANGERFIELD, President
JUL ue"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
NOT THAT SORT.

Would aH you strike a defcnseless
Boss" said Mr.. Erastus Pinklev.
you stand around at de hind heels
of dat mule for half minute am
YOU you gineter discover that de-
fenseless is de least of his qualifi-
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23

Mr.. Wilson hasn't time to waste
on them greascrs" the Mexicans,
now. After the war is over he will
regulate Mexico some morning be-
fore breakfast.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
USEFUL INVENTION.

A contrivance has been invented
to tell a bald-headed man where to
stop when he washes his face.-Sea-
tile Post Intelligencer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
IT'S UP TO THE FARMERETTEs

If that old game played with the
red ears of corn at huskin' time has
died out perhaps the farmerettes
Will see that it is revived.-Newark
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
NOT SO "ALMIGHTY" THESE
DAYS.

The so-called almighty dollar"
feels pretty small nowadays in a.
meat market.-Des Moines Register.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-23
BUYERS OF
W. s. S.
$1,000 List.

The following persons nave either
purchased or pledged themselves to
purchase the amount of War Savings
Stamps opposite their names:
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08
A New ATiStOcTacY?

Charles M. Schwab has attracted
the attention of the public in
general and the |. W. W. in par
ticular by predicting that there is
to be an aristocracy of workers in
the United States, while the aristo.
crazy of people who do not work is
to disappear Of course, MIR Schwab
includes industrial leaders like him
self and intellectual leaders among
the workers. 1t is proper that he
should.
But with that qualification it is
difficult to see that he really pre-
diets anything The aristocracy he
speaks of arrived many years ago
and has been ascendant in the
United States since revolutionary
times. The fact that American
leaders in politics and government
have not as a whole been men who
trailed long histories of family
wealth and culture behind them is
too well known to need discussion.
The big business men of the
country have generally been men
like Mr.. Schwab himself, and he be-
gan life as mill hand. Even in
some American families of great
wealth and commercial power the
genealogical trail leads back to the
pillow handles and the dinner pail
within a few generations.
If the war produces a change in
the relative weight of influence ex-
erted by wealth and labor in this
country. it will be difficult to say
that it also produced a new aris-
tocracy. How can it, when the
aristocracy of intellect and culture
holds its place by indefeasible right
and the so-called aristocracy of
wealth is made up almost entirely
of super, successful workers? Re-
public.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08
More Ministers Wanted.

General Pershine has sent word
to this government at Washington
that he wants more chaplains The
military laws of the United States
provide for a chaplain with the
rank of captain for every regiment.
Since the provision was made reg
iments have been enlarged from
1000 or 1900 men to $500 men
The spiritual needs of $500 men
cannot properly be served by one
chaplain even were there no other
reason for General Pershing's re-
quest for two more chaplains to a
regiment The work of a chaplain
in the army, like that of a preacher
in a church, is not only to admins
ter spiritual comfort and hope TO
soldiers and to cheer and comfort
their minds, but also to conserve
their health. by teaching them to
observe good habits and thus to
strengthen their bodies
General Pershing in making his
request for more chaplains gives the
best of reasons for so doing. He
holds that chaplains are as essential
to maintain discipline and courage
and efficiency as good food. clothing
and good weapons.
The intimate relations they hold
with the soldiers must be elevating
and strengthening. They lead the
minds of the "boys" in the trenches
and in the hospitals from trials
and discomfortS to the mountain
tops of hope. from whence real help
cometh
There must be plenty of clergy
men in this country who are fit for
the duties required. of them. While
those duties are not slight, and the
labor connected with them is not
light, the work ought to be insplr-
ing and worth while
We understand that the exam IA.
ton for a chaplain is very strict
The applicant must have had ex-
perience and measure up in educa-
ten to high standard, and must
also have physical endurance and
health, and must possess other ele.
ments of fitness for the place.
General Pershing'S request for
more cbaplains should be granted
and patriotic ministers who can
fill the bill" should offer their
services.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

Coffeeless day is to be the next
thing on the program, but Mr., Post
of postum and post tostie fame
saw it coming and long ago prepar-
ed a substitute.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

On to Siberia with the Japs! The
allies will be compelled to fight the
Germans on Russian soil before the
war is closed and Japan knows that
it must strike now in self defense
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08
The Farmer And Submarine.

tuo uluIOI uuu SNHuNtuSs
Governor Frederick D Gardner, in
a non. partisan address to farmers,
calls attention to the German sub
marine as menace to the markets
and values of all grains, presenting
in a new light the issues of the farm
in relation to war as follows:
Il wish TO make the observation
to Missouri farmers that this is
particularly your war 1t will de.
pend upon you. your food, and your
SONS, to win the war.
But it is your war from another
standpoint: Suppose we had per-
mitted the enemy to deny this
nation the right to travel the high
seas in peace; suppose we had per
mitted the doctrine of unrestricted
submarine warfare to have become
a part of international law. Then.
what would have been the effect
upon the farmer who is, in fact,
competing with every other farmer
in the world, and to whom, there.
fore. the peaceful travel of the seas
is of vital importance?
Stop one moment and think
what would have happened had we
been unable to export the five
million surplus bales of cotton!
Cotton would have dropped from
80 cents pound, the present price,
to five cents a pound. Millions of
bushels of grain would have rotted
in your bins. Cattle and hogs
would not have been worth their
care.
in word, your industry would
have been in total collapse. and
would have pulled down the entire
pyramid which you support Panic
would have thus been produced
the consequences of which would
have been so far.reaching and dis
astrous that no one could have
safely guaged the results. and in the
future you would have been subject
to similar panics from the belliee-
rent nations of the world at every
outbreak of war.
1t was fortunate therefore, that
we had a President who stood like
the Rock of Gibraltar against such
an outrage. 1t is fortunate that
this great leader enjoys our full con-
fidence, and our love and affection
as well He has the love of God in
his heart. His patience seems al
most Infinite. His courage CLOVIS
as does steady light, and is de-
void of hate and ferocity He has
the gentleness and yet the frmness
of the immortal Lincoln. The Gift
which enables him to define llcidly
the issues between democracy and
autocracy is almost Gf not quite)
as great as that of Jefferson, che
spokesman of world democracy in
its infancy His intellect is such as
to command the dominating
position in the councils of the allies
All praise and honor to President
Wilson, the commandment chief of
onr ARMY and Onr nauUw
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

The Germans complain that the
United States peace terms are those
of a victor. Well, nations war
aims and peace terms should fit
each other, shouldn't they?
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08
Passing Of an Old Citizen.

Orson D Johnson, father of Chas.
L. Johnson of this city, died at his
home in Philadelphia, Marion
County Saturday night from diseases
incident to old age. Funeral SER
vices we're conducted from the
residence by Rev. 7. S Scott. De-
ceased was born in Philadelphia 80
years ago and his entire life was
spent in Marion County. He is sur
vved by his wife and four sons, all
of whom were present when the end
came He was engaged in the
undertakers business for many years
and was Justice of the Peace of hi s
Township for IS years.
He had been a member of the
Baptist church for 63 years and was
known and respected throughout
the community as Christian gentle
man and an upright citizen.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

Even the German Socialists idea
of a peace by understanding" is
that all nations willing to settle the
war on that basis must first under
stand that Germany is their master
and will act accordingly.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

The sport of making slackers
kiss the flag may amuse the boys,
but it seems rather tough on Old
Glory. -
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

Had Japan been turned loose on
east front a year and a half ago.
the war would be over.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

With Hindenbure 10 Russia, it
looks as If the west front drive had
been indefinitely postponed.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

An exchange remarks that per-
haps there is something in the
grounding theory after all. Possibly
so and as the grounding cannot
speak for himself, and as his repu-
tation as d prophet does not depend
upon any claim maize by him let
us give the old scoundrel the bene-
fit of the doubt. He may make a
wrong guess occasionally wherein
he does not differ greatly from other
weather prophets including the
United States weather bureau.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08
Greatest Care
Lowest Prices

Your life may be endangered
by the slightest mistake, so 90
where you know your prescrip.
ton will be handled 10 an abso-
lutely scientific way We give
prompt service and you avoid all
needless delay.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08
BRING YOUR
PRESCRIPTIONS
TO US

We take exceptional pride 10
our prescription department. The
purest drugs the greatest skill
and care in compoundine them
the honest adherance to every
instruction-are all absolute nee
essary to give you exactly what
the doctor has directed.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

The American people had got
more or less out of the habit of eat
ing potatoes before the bumper
crop of 1917 came on the market.
There was a marked shortage of
potatoes in 1915. when the crop
was only 285 million bushels :
more than 70 million bushels below
normal. Potatoes went soaring. In
consequence, thousands of people
who had eaten potatoes at least
once every day. some of them three
times a day. began to have them
once a week, and as decided lux
ury at that
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-03-08

Wars aims: The best kind is tina
of our guns at the Germans.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-09-18
UNIVERSAL HEALTH
REGISTRATION TO
COMBAT DISEASE
CLAIMED 1T WOULD BE GREAT
EST AGENT IN SHOWING UP
DISEASE EVER THOUGHT OF.

That America needs health registra-
tion is a suggestion contributed to
anti-tuberculosis and general health
propaganda by Dr. VIM. De Kleine,
president Of the Michigan Anti-Tuber-
culosis association. Such a system
would provide mass of valuable data
about the health of the members of
each community that would be won
derful help in combating disease and
in preventing its spread.
The suggestion is taken frankly
from the governments experience in
making registrations for the draft.
In these registrations together with
the information furnished later in the
questionaires, the government has a
mass of information that enables 1t
to place each person where he can do
the most good
But this information has been made
tion for instance has used it to get in
touch with persons of tuberculosis
tendencies. In this way it has been
whose disease would otherwise not
have been discovered until it would
have been too late to arrest it.
And the same thing holds good to a
large extent with respect to other
diseases. And if the registration
should include all persons, old as well
as young, women as well as men the
information would be many times
more valuable.
1t is recognized that any system Of
universal health registration is still
a good ways off, but the draft regis
tration has given an object lesson in
what can be done along this line that
should not be lost sight of.
There is already a precedent for
such system in the birth and death
registration Of today. General health
registration would be merely an ex-
tension of that idea, but it would pro-
vide health officials with statistics
and information which they could
make great use of in preventing dis
ease.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-09-18
H0uSEKEEPER
NEEDS The VOTE
Ballot Is Necessary to Protect
the Home Under Changed
Conditions.
woMAN's VOICE IS NEEDED
Michigan Voters VIII Have an oppor.
tunIty to Change one-sided
State Of Affairs on
November &

Housekeeping today is not what 1t
used to be.
One hundred years ago our great
grandmothers spun the cloth and
made the clothes for the family. They
employed the family cobbler for a
week at time. who made shoes for
the year from leather cured and
tanned on the premises. They baked
the bread. churned the butter, cured
the meat, and made the candles; In
short, housed under their roofs all
the activities that ministered to the
necessities and comforts Of the fam
lily.
Today all these processes are car
ried on outside of the home. The
shoes are made In factories, the
clothes go through the sweatshops,
the meat Is cured by big companies.
the bread Is made at the bakeries
and the butter comes from the cream
cries.
Instead Of living In houses open on
all sides to the sun, we have the tene-
ment house; instead Of water directly
from well or spring, we have piped
water; instead of the simple problem
of letting the small amount of gar
bage decay in the sun, we have the
vast problem of city's disposal
All OF these matters of food, clothes,
housing, water and garbage are sub
ject to legislation. The state has
taken the place Of the parents. The
question of regulation of all of these
matters so vital to housekeeper is
one of collective opinion, expressed by
the ballot.
Michigan has settled her municipal
housekeeping problems by the collec-
tive opinion of men only. Women,
the natural housekeepers and home
makers, so far, have not had an OPP
portunity to make their opinions felt
through the medium of the ballot.
Michigan voters, it Is predicted, will
change this one-sided state of affairs
on November 5 by voting for woman
suffrage.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-09-18
Marine Corps Notes.

Kansas City, Sept. ITO nearly
every u. S. fighter in France 'Tobe"
is jst an ornery o. Missouri mule. But
this doesn't apply to Private Victor
Irminger of the Marines, formerly a
farmer near Avcndale, Mo.
Irnlinger was basking in the sun
near an old stone wall in the war zone
during a rest hour. His near slum-
Der was disturbed by the terrible bray
emanating fom noisy specimen of
his home states livestock.
There could be no mistake. Irmin-
ger hurried to the other side Of the
wall and there discovered old lobe to
whom he had said goodbye back on
the farm.
After Irminger's enlistment an ar
my mule buyer spied lobe and in
Quoted him into military service, The
story of how the Marine and the mule
discovered themselves both engaged
in the business of beating the Hun
was set forth in letter from Irmin-
ger to his relatives in Avondale.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-09-18
A Splendid Window.

1t makes old Artie Mccoy and Spud
Crawford chuckle every time someone
stops to look at and admire their
tastefully and beautifully trimmed
window in the Bedding Hardware Coz
store. for they well know that it is
about as good a window as it is pos
sible to get up for the, public to look
at. OF course, both Art and Spud
know all about hunting, the woods,
guns, ammunition, ETC., and they have
crowded all their acquired knowledge
in this one window. Life-like pic
lures of various game birds are shown
and here and there squirrel is perch
ed among some of the real trees
which take up part Of the room. A
huge real bearskin rug serves as a
floor scene and in the background can
be seen two hunters coming into ac-
ton and while one has his rifle just
coming up to his shoulder ready to
draw bead on some unlucky creature
of the wilds, the. other man is pointing
out large deer which is fast making
a getaway over on the right side of
the picture. When we stood there
and watched the show, we caught our
breath every little while as we expect
ed that guy with the gun to blaze
away at that deer. After standing
there awhile we came away and we
guess that the deer must have goo
away before the fellow shot because
we haven't heard no one shoot over
that way yet and we bet that If the
fellow ever does fire that rifle there
will be some one have to pay for q
new plate glass window ins the store
front. Throwing all joking aside
it's mighty realistic window just the
samee and If you want to see good
nature setting take look at it for
yourself.