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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
VALUABLE ADVICE
Maysyjlle Citizens Should Profit b
The Following Statement.

Doans Kidney Pills were used by
this Maysville resident.
Their merit was shown-the story
told.
Now comes further evidence.
The testimony is confirmed.
The remedy was tested-the results
lasted.
Could Maysville residents demand
stronger proof?
It's Maysville testimony. 1t can be
investigated.
A Sorries, lock and gun-smith, W..
Second and Wall Sts., gave the fol-
lowing statement in January 1912:
THE action of my kidneys was ire
gular and the kidney secretions con-
tanned sediment. l had backaches and
when l stopped over, had trouble In
Strengthening up. Colds settled in my
back and kidneys, too. Doan's Kid
ney Pills stopped the trouble and my
back and kidneys became as strong
and we'll as ever"
A LASTING EFFECT
On November IA, 1916, Mr.. Sorries
said: II am the same strong believer
in Doan's Kidney Pills today, as when
I gave my former endorsement.
haven't had any trouble with my kid
neys in that time and / believe the
cure they gave me will be perma-
nent"
Mr.. Sorries is only one of many
Maysville people who have gratefully
endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. II
your back aches If your kidneys
bother you, don't simply ask for q
kidney remedy-ask distinctly for
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. the same
that MIR. Sorries had-the remedy
backed by home testimony. 60 cents
at all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.
Props, Buffalo, N. Y when Your
Back is Lame-Remember the Name.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
WOOL CONSUMPTION

Neutrality-suspicious. wool was used
by manufacturers in May than in any
other month Of this year, according to
the monthly wool consumption report
just issued by the Bureau of Markets,
May consumptions was 74,600,000
pounds, grease equivalent, compared
to 70,700O000 pounds in April, 71,900,-
600 in March, 63,7O0,OOO in February.
and 65,100,000 pounds in January.
Stocks of wool consumed in May
by classes, in pounds, were: Grease
wool, 43,597,175; secured, 1887
and pulled, 2,969,63S. Consumption by
States for all classes of wool, in
pounds, was: Massachusetts, $685.
sos. Pennsylvania. 7.34O,343; Rhode
Island, 7,2S6,722; New Jersey, $780,
1888; New York, 3,996,435; Connecticut,
2,O75,SO6; New Hampshire, 1858. 1853;
Ohio. 1,44S,1S9; Maine. 9S9,95S; and
all other States 2,929,157.
The report is issued earlier in the
month than has been possible hereto
fore because of the cooperation of
manufacturers in returning tchedules
promptly. Out of SIG schedules sent
out 522 manufacturers reported wool
used; AZ no wool used in May; 6 used
tops and yarns; while one who failed
to report represented a capacity of
only worsted combs.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
RED CROSS WORKER
WRITES INTERESTINGLY
Relative Of Local People Tell of the
Out Pouring Of Refugees In Ger
nan Invaded Land.

The following very interesting let
ter from Field Griffith, Red Cross
worker now in France, to local rela-
tives will be read with great inter-
est by his local friends:
Somewhere in France, June 5, 1918,
Dear Relatives:
For the last three days / have not
had any of my clothes off, and l have
eater and slept when l could snatch
a chance
AS you know by the newspapers,
the Germans have made another drive,
aud refugees have been pouring out
of the invaded lands, taking with them
al of their earthly possessions they
could hastily gather together and car
ry.
Some of these poor people have
been travelling on the slow and fire.
quently-stopping French trains for
days with little or nothing to eat,
and then they are dumped out, with
all their cumbersome baggage, on the
station platform, and have no place to
go. They are all very old men, old
women, mothers and young children,
The Red Cross has been, and is
doing a splendid work for these poor
people. Canteens are now establish
ed at all of the principal stations, and
here the refugees are given hot, full
meal Clothes are given out to those
who need them, and beds are pro-
vided for them to sleep in, until the
French police, stationed at the can
teens, can assign them to some camp.
Great Pierce-Arrow trucks of the Red
Cross then carry the refugees and
their baggage off to these camps.
| have been working in one of the
canteen dispensaries, where hot milk,
sterilized and pasturized, is provided
for the babies, and any refugee who
is i'll is cared for or sent to a hospital.
Outside my ambulance awaited any
emergency calls or was ready to move
any cripple or infrm person. During
one afternoon, / had six stretcher
cases, almost all of them very. very
old women. 1t was pathetic. / also
helped dress shrapnel and shell
wounds on the passengers of train
which had been shelled by the Ger
man gunners.
While it is pathetic to watch the
refugees, there is also very humor-
Gus side to it. They bring with them
everything you can possibly think of.
Bales of bedding furniture, bicycles,
baby carriages, and dogs, cats, pig
cons, chickens and goats. You can
see that with such collection of i'm
pedimenta, truck presents rather
ludicrous view.
About myself have little to write
l am we'll and happy, and in the best
Il spirits. So far | have done little
except to drive a Ford ambulance
hundreds of miles. and help with the
refugees. With these all accommo-
dations were swamped. They slept on
the floors, in the waiting rooms, on
the platforms-everywh 1t is in.
teresting work, and l love it,
My thoughts are often with you
both, and pray for you.
Affectionately,
FIELD.
My address now is:
Care of American Red Cross
Place de la Concorde
Paris, France
MY mail will he forwarded to me.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
WHAT HAVE you GIVEN UPl

Have you given up your job and let
your business future take care OF
itself?
Have you said goodby to your fam
lily and friends and all you hold dear?
Have you begun an entirely new ca
reer that may end, if you live, with
health Impaired, an arm off, leg
gone, an eye out?
Have you given up your business
future and said goodbye and taken
a chance on coming back alive and
we'll, and done it all with cheerful
heart and with grim determination
to do all you possibly can for your
country?
And do you only at times-in the
evenings, perhaps, when the light In
the sky slowly fades away-feel so
homesick and so lonesome that you
are fearful you will not have the cour-
age to do your part after all?
You have not done these things?
All, l see, you are not one of our
Army or Navy boys; you are stay
at-home person.
Well, there have to be 20 or more
stay-at-home persons for everyone
who goes, and so certainly no dis
grace attaches to being one if you
fully appreciate what those boys who
do go have to give up and if you sup
port then to the limit of your abil-
ity.
Nation War Savings Day is any
day. That day gives you the oppor-
tunity of showing in practical way
that you do appreciate what it means
to the boys who go. Pledge yourself
on or before that day to save to the
utmost of your ability and to buy
War Savings Stamps that there may
be more money, labor, and materials
to back up those who fight and die for
you.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
Y. M. G. A. IS
NEEDING MORE men
Workers For Overseas Service Are
Being Called For BY Institution
Which the American Soldiers
Have Learned to Love.

The Y. M. c. A. wants the following
men for service in France: Truck
drivers, recreational secretaries, bust
ness men and few volunteer women
workers.
The National War Work Council of
the Y. M. G. A. desires Immediately
100 expert men who own their cars
and know enough about them to make
minor repairs If necessary for a truck
transportation service with the Amer
lean EXpeditionary Forces and the
French Army. This services offers
great opportunity to the man who is
beyond draft age, in sound physical
condition and wants to go across.
There is an immediate need of 500
physical recreation leaders, especial
ly for overseas service in France,
England and Italy. A knowledge of
French or Italian should lean toward
service, with the troops of these
countries.
To make for maximum of health,
endurance, and skill, as well as pro-
vided entertainment and recreation at
base camps and in villages where men
are billeted and rest camps after the
emotional exhaustion of the front
line, men qualified to organize, pro-
mote and lead recreational activities
can be of untold service at this time
You can make "leave" periods an as
set instead Of liability to the Army;
you can increase skill and endurance
very prominent factors in the present
fighting; you can ward off shell
shocks" You can help make an army
of good cheer"
A great number of business men
with large experiences are needed for
immediate service in France as can
teen workers, transportation man.
ayers, and hut secretaries. Already
some of the largest business men in
the State have placed their applca-
tions for overseas work and we are
trusting that many more men of this
type will see fit to offer their service.
While the National War Work
Council does not pay all of woman's
expenses, yet we are looking for vol
unteer workers who are able to de-
fray part of their own expenses.
These women will work in the capa-
city of stenographers and canteen
workers.
Mr.. C. A. lTevebaugh, State Recruit
ing Secretary is just back from New
York where he promised that Ken
lucky will supply so men and 10 wo-
men for overseas work by August list.
am sure that the grand old State of
Kentucky is going to stand behind Mr..
Tevebaugh and that our quota will be
complete by the above date.
For further information write the
Kentucky State Recruiting Commit
tee, 345 Association Building, Louis
vile, Ky.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
FIELD.
DEATH ANGEL BEATS
LETTER TO MOTHER
OF LOCAL SOLDIER

The following letter written by Pri-
vate Thomas Bates, of this city. who
is now in France with the American
forces, was written his mother, who
only few days ago died at her home
here and was received by other rela-
tives:
American Expeditionary Force,
June Z, 1918.
Dear Mother:
l am in the hospital at present with
pneumonia so don't feel much like
writing and my nurse has kindly con-
scented to write to you for me.
/ sincerely hope this finds you we'll
and don't worry about me as l am
getting along very well, have good
care, in every way. You can expect
a letter written by myself soon.
The weather here is wonderful,
plenty of sunshine, and fresh air Give
my love to my two sisters and tell
them | think of them often.
Hope to receive letter soon with
lots OF home news,
Your loving son,
THOMAS BATES,
Per A. ]. II. (Nurael
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
DRAFT EVADER
IS ARRESTED
AT PORTSMOUTH
Lee Price Skipped Bond Here ana
Failed to Register For Military
Service - immediately In
Quoted Into Service.

Lee Price, local negro, who several
weeks ago jumped a recognizance
bond IN Police Court and hiked off
tn Portsmouth, Ohio, was picked up
in that city last week by the Ports
mouth. Ohio, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
mouth police at the request of the
Mason County Exemption Board and
has been Immediately indicted into
military service and sent off to camp
Price was a witness in bootleg
ging case in the local police court
and was arrested and held for his APP
pearance at the trial. The trial OF
the case was continued for a couple
of DAYS and Price was allowed to go
on his own recognizance. He skip
ped the city and although 1t had been
known by the local officials that he
was in Portsmouth the case was not
important enough to bring him back
He had failed to register under the
selective service law and he was re-
ported by the Mason County Board
The negro had just returned to Mays
vile from the state penitentiary when
he was taken in charge as witness
in the bootlegging case. He had been
sent to Frankfort by the Mason Cir"
cult Court on indictment for cutting
and wounding with intent to kill, hav-
ing very seriously wounded his own
wife with a razor.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
FOUR POLL TAX CASES UP TO-DAY

Today Judge John l.. Whitaker will
hold his regular monthly term of civ
IL court There are four cases against
men charged with being delinquent in
paying their poll tax. The police in
their recent drive fairly well cleaned
up all of the delinquent poll taxes and
those who failed to pay will have to
face cases against them brought in
civil court. 1t is understood that all
Of the defendants whose cases are set
for today will confess judgment and
the cases will be settled Immediately
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
NASHVILLE MEN PICTURED

The Public Ledger has received a
copy of "The Little Tiger" the an
nual of sewanee Military Academy
1t is a beautifully illustrated book
and among those pictured In the Sen
Tor class are John C. Everett, Jr, and
Robert Farnsworth, of this city.
Captain C. e. Wheat, son-in-law of
Hon. and Mrs. W. II. Cox, of this city,
is chaplain and instructor in bible in
the school and is pictured with the
faculty.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
RAILROAD TIME TABLES
NlT l'||EII|||

Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves MaySvills 6:ss a. m.
daily except Sunday.
No. leaves Maysville $40 p. "a.
except Sunday.
No. 2os leaves Maysville $40 p. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysville s:45 q
m.' daily except Sunday.
No. 80 arrives in Maysville ass D.
M, Sunday only.
No. 16 arrives In Maysville s:lS u.
m, daily except Sunday.
H. g. ELLIS; Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
MUST REPORT ON
WHEAT

Washington = Under the authority
of the Food Control Act, the Bureau
of Markets of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture is to require
from all threshermen in the country
periodical reports on the number of
bushels of wheat threshed by them
and the acreage from which the grain
was produced. A list of thresermen
is being compiled from all available
sources by the uBreau of Crop Eesti-
mates, which is cooperating in the
undertaking, and the Bureau of Mar
kets is having printed a supply OF
blank forms for threshing reports, to-
gether with a pocket memorandum
book for daily records. Reports will
begin with the opening in June of the
winter-wheat harvesting season. The
county agents will aid in distributing
the schedules and memorandum books
and will also assist in assembling the
results.
The results are to be made avail
able for the use OF the United States
Food Administration, the Federal
Trade Commission and other branches
OF the Government. They are expect
ed to provide complete and accurate
check on the advance wheat figures Of
the Bureau of Crop Estimates in the
same way that the cotton-ginning re-
ports, compiled by the Bureau of the
Census. check the cotton estimates.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02

The Management of the Washing
ton Opera House is certainly to be
congratulated upon the high class pa
triotic pictures they have been offer
ing their patrons for the past few
weeks. Cities much larger than
Maysville have not been so fortunate
as to have the opportunity to see such
great photoplays.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
LOCAL SOLDIER is PROMOTED

Mrs. Ben Fleming is In receipt of
a letter from her brother, Hedley
Yazell. who is now stationed at Camp
Mills. L. l., in which he states that he
has been promoted to Military Motor
cycle Police.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02

Miss May Wallace, of Aberdeen, has
returned to her work at the New Way
Dfy Cleaning Office after having been
confined to her home for sometime on
account OF Illness.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02

The Missionary Society of the
Christian Church will meet Wednes-
day evening from to at Beech
wood Park. Bring lunch.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
REV. DERN BECOMES MISSIONARY

Rev. William Dern who was or
dained to the Episcopal ministry on
last Sunday, will leave today for Lex
ington and in few days he will be-
gin his work as Missionary in this
diocease. This work is very impor-
tant and 1t is certain that Mr.. Dern
will be very successful In II.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
OPENING PARK DANCE

AZ BeeellwOOd tonight. Music by
Smiths Quartet Of Lexington 10 TO 8.
Committee, robert Owens, Jr, and
John Mathews.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02

Miss Carmen Collins OF Marlin
Tenn, is the guest Of Miss Martha
Green Sharp at the Kirk Flats.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-02
Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.

Schedule subject to cnanqe ~IthOut notice
Effective Sunday May 26th.
East Bound
No. will arrive 9:4S a. m
No will arrive 1880 D. m.
No. Is will arrive 1875 D. m.
No. will arrive SAC p. m.
No. 16 departs 900 D. m.
West Bound
No. 10 will depart 5:26 a. m.
No. will depart 700 a. m.
No II will arrive 1000 a. m.
No. will depart $40 p. m.
No. Z will depart 1850 p. m.
Trains No. 16, II, IS and 10 are
daily, except Sunday.
W. W wIKoFF, Agent.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-02-23

the entire American people is now en- gagged condition unsought but inevit- able, . conflict wilfully and deliberatly thrust upon a peace-loving Nation, that dreamt not of spells or conquest, and the direct consequence of machinations long concealed which threatened our repose, our independence, our honor, and even our cherished freedom.
 In common with our fellow citizens of every race and creed, we renew our allegiance to our government and to it's flag which symbolze the most pre- cious hopes of mankind; We pledge to them our unstinting and whole hearted support; and we dedicate to the perpet- nation of American ideals and institu- tions, to the maintenance of the honor of our country and the preservation of the principles for which it stands our lives, our pCss .ssjons, and those we hold most dear. to the end that liberty shall not perish from the earth.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-02-23
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE PATRIOTIC

The following resolutions were adopted at the eleventh annual meet ing of the American Jewish committee held in New York, November II: Ut seems fitting that at the eleventh an- nual meeting Of the American Jewish committee, the first since the war, at which are gathered representatives from all parts of the country, express sion be given to the love, the de votion the gratitude, and the loyalty which fill our hearts and souls toward the Cnited States of America, the land where we were born or which with open arms adopted us, the sacred shrine of liberty aud equality, where tyranny can not exist, where human rights have ever been triumphantly maintained, and where justice and righteousness have reached their high est development.
 We recognize in the war in which
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-02-23
HE WANTS TO KNOW
Parks Mine. kuskokwim River,
 Alaska, Jan. 30, 1918.

Parks Mine. huSAOkWlm RlVer,
 Alaska, Jan. 90, 1918. Iditarod Pioneer
 I would like to inquire through your columns if all Territorial officials and other employees of this Territory are w6rking l2-hour shifts for $5 6 shift, and paying their expenses out of their wages under the new 8-hour law?
 The season ask is, have the honor of appointment as one of the judges of the coming primary election at George town, Alaska
 As live l5 miles from Georgetowu, it takes me one day to go and one day 10 return home, und we must keep the polls open II hours on election day, then make up the returus--making a l2-hour shift for election day.
 The cheapest roadhouse expense is st day for board and lodging. When l turn in my account 10 the Territory for service -32 hours actual service, SIP actual expense get So for it all, one year after. 1 had the same eXperi- once and the same job at the Novem- Der election, 1916.
 In place like Flat and lditarod the clerks and judges live in town--it only costs them ST or SS each. They don't mind that. Common labor over here is S5 per day, hours, board and lodging, and we think it is cheap enough. We are ardent advocates of self-govern- ment and taxation to support, and if a man is asked to serve the Territory, we want to know the reason why he is not paid for it. There must be a reason. F.. w. PARKS.
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-02-23

Washington, Dec. 24-Practically trade and calling of it's people are in- voked by the government in tue pro. secuton of the war. This fact was en- phas2ed in the annual report of Score tary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, and in illustration he made reference to q government geologist, no doubt Alfred II. Brooks, well known in Alaska, who is with the American troops in France. The making of war today" said Secretary Lane, lis far more than a test of primal re-
 sources; it tests the full powers of the nation in every resource and capacity and especially along lines of scientific knowledge. And here again we find that the ways of peace have given something in the way of preparation for war The scientific bureaus of the government found themselves con- vorted over night iutO adj uncts and auXiliaries in the great international contest. Men who had regarded them selves as modestly useful only in the discovering and revealing of new sources of material strength found that their years of experience in the monn- tains and on the desert, in laboratories and in mines, called them at once into lhe thick of the EurODean Strlrgle,
 Ut was not long after our entrance into the war that one of our geologists came into my office, proudly dressed in an army uniform. The last time l had seen him he had come to make a report on the tungsten field in Alaska, almost within the Arctic circle. He had spent more than twenty summers in that dis tant territory, taking here and there q
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-02-23
FAMOUS ALASKA BIOLOGIST NOW IN FRANCE

sample of rock. studying the peculiar outstanding and twisted beds of coal in the Matanuska and Boring fields, rush. ing from one placer gold field to an- other, reporting on each new find of metal, until he had become identified with the rise of Alaska and was the embodiment of it's hopeful spirit.
 "'l have come to say good-bye,' he said. My next address will be aome- where in France as member of Gen. Perishlng's staff
 q naturally asked the kind of work that an Alaskan geologist would be called apon to do with an army. His answer illustrates how much of science has gone into war.
 My york; he replied, is to be concerned with the location of trenches and dug outs. We must have trenches into which the country will not drain, These slashes in the earth can be made so that thay will do their own draining Mud, mud, mud. That Is the trench curse which brings on trench feet and puts the soldier out of business"
 And then on 8 sheet of paper he draw the slope of hill and explained
 how if located in one place, because o 1 the peculiar stratification of the earth 1 inc trench wOul1 act as q cpSSD0Ol O,
 reservoir, gathering in all the waters of the neighboring terrain, while placed elsewhere it would be immune | from this disadvantage and through cer l tain strata furnish q natural waste pipe for the superficial waters. So was the American soldier to be given { healthier place in which to live ant , work and be more efficient"
Iditarod pioneer., 1918-02-23
LINCOLN RED # CLUB

In celebration of Abraham Lincoln s I09th birthday, we, the undersigned, do hereby each agree to pay to the Amer
 ican Red Cross Society, through its locsl organization, five dollars (s5) on the 18th day of each and every month
 os the duration of the present war.
 Geo. w. Albrecht A. s. Bourne C. P. Wood Chas. E. Taylor +. C. Button Wm. B. Thomas Mrs. c. Baker IditarOd Pioneer W. R. Solibakke w. w. Nelson Sam'l Applebaum R. M. Hall Alex Dcksen Harry Leland