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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14

given to 4,203 persons at total ex-
penditure of 1881, 1877 Mothers pen
sions were allowed to 1853 mothers,
at total expenditure of $416,510.
Twenty nine thousand, eight hundred
and thirty-tw persons passed through
the county jails at an expenditure for
maintenance of $267,197. Seven hum
dred and fifty-five soldiers claims
were allowed at an expenditure of
| $182,520. Taken altogether, the ex-
penditures by the State and the local
communities amounted to $7,817,473.
The investment in property by the
state, counties, cities and townships
amounts to fully fifty million dollars.
The total number Of persons cared for
amounted to 138,292. Eliminating
those in jails and prisons, we find that
upwards of one hundred thousand
i people were aided directly by the pub
lie through public agencies.
There is at this time no exact fig
ures regarding the amount of aid
which was extended by charity organ
ization societies and similar associa-
tions In the city of Cleveland, dur
ing the year 1917, which was year
of unusual prosperity, more than
twenty thousand people were aided
by the associated charities alone. The
number of people in the industrial
centers, who, in normal times, are
compelled to ask for relief, apparently
amounts to from to 10 per cent of
the total population, and this does not
include those who received free medi-
cal treatment at dispensaries and
hospitals.
AS another view of the darker side
of life in Ohio, take the figures OF
the petty loans made by the petty
loan brokers during the fiscal year
ending June goth, 1915 The petty
loan companies, which report to the
State Chattel Loan Bureau, reported
approximately 92,700 loans made dur.
ing the year, at rates which approx
mate 1-2 per cent a month. The
State Bureau does not have jurisdic-
tion over pawnbrokers, which are
more numerous than the chattel loan
brokers. 1t is fair estimate to say
that 10000 loans were made by all
small loan brokers, including pawn
brokers, during the year. These fig.
ures do not represent that number OF
different borrowers, but the number
of separate loans made.
There were 94,189 cases of contagi-
Gus diseases reported to the State De,
partment of Health, in 1917, of which
| 3,127 were of typhoid; 6,454 tubercu
losis; 5,242 smallpox; 4,028 pneu
monia; 2,268 venereal diseases; 49,
trachoma; $50 spinal meningitis; 354
infantile paralysis, and 1,641 ophthal
mia moratorium. In nearly every
instance the proportion of contagious
diseases exceeded that of other states
under corresponding conditions.
For the five years, 1911-1915, ther
were 50,805 deaths of children unde
one year of age, or an average O
19,161 such deaths per year The rat
was 146 per cent of the total deaths
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14
Bisbee Mob
Scored by Arizona Governor
Likens Them To lJncOn-
sciOnable Hun.

Phoenix, Ariz.-In his message to
the state Legislature, Governor Hunt
used plain language in expressing his
opinion of the man who deported 1900
workers at Bisbee last year. The
chief executive declared that the
shame of this outrage has been re-
hearsed in public and private gather
ings throughout the world, even in
darkest Russia:
picture the spectacle afforded by
those Bisbee deportations on the 18th
of last July" he said.
"A mob use the word advisedly
IA mob of nearly two thousand men
directed by comfy authorities
whose sworn duty it was to suppress
such lawlessness- organized, not as
mobs are want to do, under the spur
of justifable indignation or self-right-
eous anger, but with Indian-like
stealth, under the cover of darkness,
calmly, premeditatedly, deliberately,
and swooped down at dawn upon the
homes Of unsuspecting, unoffending
miners who had committed no vio-
lence, nay more, who had threatened
no violence, but who had every law
full reason to feel secure as citizens
under the guarantees vouchsafed by
the constitution of the United States
and the state of Arizona. By sheer
force Of arms this conscienceless mob
of copper company thugs violated at
one and the same time, the sacred
tenets of our republic and the sane
tity of the American home"
With all of the brutal abandon of
the unconscionable Hun, they dragged
husbands out of their wives en-
brace, ruthlessly disengaged the arms
of little, terrified children from about
their fathers necks, thrust mothers
and sons apart, and offered coarse in
suits to the wives and daughters of
j honest workingmen. In this execra-
BILE manner, without vestige Of justi-
fcation or legality, nearly twelve hum
dred unarmed workingmen were
driven at the point of a gun from
their homes to the public square, later
to be herded, like so many beasts of
the field, into freight cars and trans
ported into the deserts of an adjoin-
ing state.
During that enforced journey, the
hapless victims of copper company
vengeance were virtually without food
or drink, Notwithstanding the heat of
an Arizona summer, and stood so
long in one position on the floor of
jouting cars that their feet were sore
and bleeding from the ordeal. And
as can be readily imagined, the real
ization that their mothers, wives and
daughters were left in Bisbee at the
mercy of their ruffian captors did not
serve to assuage their anguish"
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14
Carmen S Head Declares
Revision of Contrats
Necessary.
That Men May Live

Chicago.-W. D. Mahon, president
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees,
in the Union Leader, gives his rea-
sons for advocating a revision of eX-
listing contracts where adequate wages
are not paid, as follows:
"The street and electric railway
workers of the United States are con-
fronted with very serious situation.
They have always received a very low
wage for their labor scarcely enough
to maintain the standard of Ameri-
can living, and since the enormous in
crease in the cost of living has taken
place, this low wage has made it i'm
possible for the street and electric
railway men to maintain their fam
lilies and live in a respectable manner.
Therefore they have had to make re-
quests upon the companies for a
change in the scale of wages.
"In many of the local divisions of
the association contracts have been
made covering periods of from two to
three years. These contracts were
made before the enormous increase in
cost of living had taken place, and
at time when no one could foresee
what was coming. Now since the
enormous increase has come on, and
the street and electric railway men
have had to request that their wages
be increased, some have shouted;
Breaking your contracts, are you?'
"Now, it is not question of break
ing contracts. We have reputation
as good as any organization or busi-
ness concern in living up to contracts,
but conditions make it necessary to
revise contracts. Business concerns,
as well as trade unions, find this nee
essary at times. In the changes OF
wages that we are asking, it is not
matter of striking or threatening
too strike but it is matter of arbitra-
ton, or appealing to the government
war board to consider the situation
and to give us fair deal. But it is
so amusing when you hear criticism
of the organizations of labor that are
seeking wage increases at this time
with the charge that they are break
ing their agreements, when the fact
| is that almost every street and elec.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14
$4,000 W. S. S.
Purchased By KlOndyke
Mutual Aid.

The members of the Klondike Mu-
tual Aid Society who are composed
of the machinists, molders, pattern
makers and other employees of the
Hamilton Machine Tool Company, al
their meeting last Saturday night pur-
chased $4,000 of war savings stamps
The K M. A. S. is not wealthy or
ganization, but they are chuck full OF
patriotism and want to do the best
they can to make the Kaiser hunt his
hole. Nearly every member of this
organization carries a card in some
labor union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14
ISAAC BAKER.
Is A Candidate For Prosecut-
ing Attorney.

Isaac Baker has filed his deelara-
tion Of candidacy for prosecuting at
torney Ike" is a hustler and says
he will keep all the voters in the
county busy listening to his reasons
why he should be elected to fill this
important office.
~ "a ~
George w Wickersham, former At
torney General of the United States,
says: Business as usual means waste
at usual"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14
Make Many Gains.

New Haven, Conn.-Journeymen
BARRIERS union No. 215, has adopted
a new working schedule which calls
for shorter hours, half day off each
week, and SIS per week and SO per
cent over $23 For a single days
work, except Saturday, SO. The price
of honing razors has been advanced
to so cents, and shaves to 20 cents
and hair cuts to 35 cents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14
Do You Spoon in the Parks?
Or Go to Sunday Games?

Declaration independence among the
rights of Man is the pursuit of happiness" With the
proach The Celebrate the thoughtful constrained
bemes ponder the ndu attacks being made and
upon this vital element of Freedom.
These by those who securing
to them the right to find happiness interfering with the hap
Others what amazing their numbers
the Zealots they the make
likeness hardened wretche would
enjoy their cakes and ale.
No spooning parks! Recently police raid made
poonng couples who frequent the of York City
all rounded together Shame
brought fair cheeks with budding crushed
beneath the weight of Official Morality.
told the first reigiona historic fact
Crusade clerical ae longer
may it be said that all the world loves lover
Sunday The self-appointed Guardians
of the Public Morals have decreed it. Likewise other gamethat
is those enjoyed by the whose weekly holiday Sunday
Washington, D. c. these especially active
The local authorities consideration the vastly increased
ber of Government employees worked throughout the days
recently lifted the Sunday base ball. the enjoyment
of thousands of willing workers of both But the
scandal Of the Long Faced The local Pastors federation
the Billy Sunday Workers have urged the District
soners to rescind their order and replace the lid.
Golf? All, that Sacred! Much OF played the Sab
country and will continue
that is taken up by Rabbe
likes of who should be listen
that day the Rum Demon and that other
demon the WALKING Deegate
Still preachers why workers
hear them! They incapable realizing
they interfere with the liberty of the
their intolerance themselves This
the inherently religious and take real pride the
that Carpenter of Nazarene of their kind
If the preachers sincerely desire win the let them
guiding them with friendly goadng
through prohbtory laws of one kind and another
advertisement by Labori Emergency Liberty League)
(Y-1)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14

Peoria, Ill-The Journeymen BARRIERS
union has put into effect a new scale
which calls for SIS per week and so
per cent over SGT The new prices
have resulted in bringing in nearly all
nonunion shops.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14
MOIders Advance $l.25
Per Day.

Denver, Colo.-Beginning June /,
the wages of the iron and brass mold
ers in Colorado will be Sc per day of
eight hours, with price and half for
overtime. This is an increase of $1.25
over the rate which has prevailed dur
ing the past year. 1t affects $50
molders and coremakers in the iron
foundries and brass shops of Denver,
Pueblo and Colorado Springs.
pa "a "a
MOLDERS GET INCREASE AND
BACK PAY.
Cleveland, O.The shipping board
in making it's award in the lake dis
trict fixed the rate for molders in
these yards at 73 1-2 cents per hour,
eight hours to constitute days work
1t went into effect May %, and the
men employed in the three Cleveland
foundries will get back pay from
April 1.
"a "a -
Ruy Thrift Stamps and helm.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14

Rochester, N. Y.-The following
agreement has been signed with Bar
bers Local union No. 246: SIG week
and 60 per cent over $23. Shops to
open at a. m. and close at 1880 p.
M; Saturday at $50 p. m. Close on
all legal holidays, except when holi-
day falls on Saturday or Monday,
when the shops will be open from
a. m. till IL a. m., and remain open
the night before until 8 p. m.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14

Kansas City-The boss BARRIERS
have signed new scale with Journey
men BARRIERS union that fixes rates
at the following figures: Instead of
paying 60 per cent over $28 it was
agreed that the rates would be the
same per centage for all over $50.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14

Toledo, O.-After July l the mem
bers of the Journeymen BARRIERS union
No. 5, will receive fiat salary of $25
per week of Sc hours, with time and
one-half for overtime where they are
required to work during the meal
hours, or at night when customers are
in the shop. Shaves have been ad-
vanced to 20 cents and hair cuts to
so cents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-06-14

Independence, Mo. = Journeymen
BARRIERS union No 258, has just been
completed.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21
LJECT. PAUL D. KEYBVKN.

Lieut. Paul D. Reyburn had plenty of opportunity to utilize his railroad experience when he tackled some of the transportation problems of the railroads in France. He enlisted as a private on May 12, 1917, at St. Louis, in the 18th Engineers, and in June entered training camp at Camp Gaillard, st. Louis, and won con- mission He arrived in France August, 1917, after short stop in England. After his promotion to first lieutenant he was made division superintendent of one of the French railroads. Traffic was so congested that hardly a switch engine could move. Forty-eight hours after he went to work he cleared up thes whole division and was rushing men. munitions and supplies to the front. He was formerly employed in the office at the Cotton Belt shops here, but for several years before going to war he was station auditor for the Missouri Pacific and won sev- eral promotions there.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21
2.5OO Jefferson Soldiers
 Helped Whip the Boches
Pine Bluff Furnished 8S5 Men and the County Contributed
 1327-Volunteers Numbered Several Hundred
rofferson conuty's contribution (

1offerson conuty's contribution of x.onnower to the army and navy of .,o limited States in it's victorious war .ro;nst Germany, Austria-Hungary a1a Turkey was approximately 25OO r,on between the ages of IS and B.
 c;nce one county is one state of .bese United States could give that many men-nearly a regiment-is it m wonder that Germany saw that conner or later she would be over rholmed with the finest manhood in { ,ho world and her best play was to lay her hands on the table and quit? Tn he exact 2,214 men were drafted ,r would have been drafted from the ,ounty. Some of them were not be- eause they were in the service when ,ho draft law became effective, bu! ,hp;r names appear accounted for ilI be lists of the local boards.
 Resides that number several hundred men residing in Pine Bluff and Jefferson county enlisted either in he navy or the army. Many of them were under the minimum age limit of the first draft law, and many of them fere over it.
 Jefferson county men saw service in every battle sector. Some of them are now said to be in Russia. Some were reyiled' in Panama, the Hawaiian Is | lands or fretted themselves least some 1 camp or post in the states.
 Some of them were in the first con- tngent that represented the United
 States in the great war, and not a few
 were in the last offensive. the big
 drive which started just before the
 srmistice was signed, and which was
 halted only by the armistice.
 Pine Bluff gave approximately 50
 officers to the army, which, it is be-
 leyed sets a record for other cities all
 over the United States to shoot at and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Howard J. Gibbs Carl Downing. Prentice James Hunt. Davis Bascom Helton. Glenn James Burris. Jessie Ross Jones. Alton T. Harper. Ralph Darlington Young. Eugene Franklin Simpson. Jeff Charles Allen. William Ii. Bolin. Walter H. Riley. Claude Melvin Willis. 0. P. Ferguson. Will Eugene Crasson. William Paul Hollenbeck. Thomas Wilt Leach.
 Arthur Leroy Faust William Casswell Arnold. John Washington Graves. Richard Lamar Moseley. M. l.. Grover.
 Lev. Hancock Goodrich. Henry Orr Keeler.
 Barton Freelin Loving. Clarence Wilson Calvard. William E. Chandler. Charles Clayton Elmore. Frank Lee Parsons. Guymond Moffett. Charles G. Brenke.
 Leslie Ray Jeggland. Edwin Henry Looseley. James Carl Bass. James Wardlaw Murphy. Charles C. Baker. Charles Earl Smith. Dennis Otis Cancer. Sam Hilzheim Cook. Jessie Sam Eastwood. Edgar McCammon. Jake Doe Thomas.
 Archer N. Starr. Samuel Moore Coles. Jasper Henry Culpepper. Albert J. Holland. Lee A. Dettick. James Henry Pritchard. Lymann Purroe Cnttrell. Arthur Lewis Baw. Armstrong Barrow. William Mckinley. Fraser. William w. Hildreth. Edwin Claire Toyey. William Fuggett. Hugh Kendle Calvert. Garland R. Swain. Ebert Bertrand Reynolds. James Eric Walsh. Marvin Wilson. John R. O'Neal. Leslie Turner Mcintyre. Samuel Mard Goldstein. Sol N. Bloom. { John H. Sorrells.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21
BOARD NO. ONE.

White. John Emiel WeiEoacher. NirSinius Wilkins Alexander. John F. Rutherford Charles c. Pilant. Harry C. Burbank. Earl Edage Richardson. Robert H. Harris. Robert Lee Jones. Robert Vernon Mosley. Junius Jordan, Jr. William F. Maul. Wallace Stewart Hubert. Henry Leland Murphy. Henslee Deputy Goza. Augustus J. Reeves. Alfred G. Foster Fred J. Ingram. Fred John Lipps. Felix N. Casks. Horace Horton Bays. William Hall Shivers. Wayne Newton. Harry Lester Adams. Sam Paris. John kimbraugh Wiley. Hugh H. McGaughey. Arthur Peterson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21
then. fall far short.

then fall far short
 Local Board No, 2, covering the territory in the county outside of Pine Bluff sent the largest number of men to the War-l,327. Local Board No. 1 sent SSo men from Pine Bluff
 NO. 2s continent was composed of 1,lo3 negroes and 176 whites. No. 1's contribution was 443 whites and 443 negroes.
 Following is a list of the men who are accounted for by the draft boards. The names of many who volunteered appear in the list. but they had to be accounted for, and when they were called they were credited with being enlisted. The list follows:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Carl Jefferson Hardy. sam Healey. Clare Lewis Bucks. Lois C. Boehmer. Alfred Charles Neidcrmcir. George Arthur Carr. Joe Ingram Coles. Buford S. Cole. Jesse H. Moore. Adolph kastor. Albert M. Collier. Harry Leon Marcus. Eugene H Smith. Audrey Quinn. Desmond Douglas Daniels. John Frank Julian. George Walton. Mozart Goldberg. M. M. Shoenbrun. Gayle Vought. William P. Hampton. Edward H. Cathy. Lillenton Meeks. David Henry Duncan. Roland Vern Green. Henry Wilson Scull. Ray Wythe Tolson. John Berry Wynne. George Bolton. David Wesley Cornersley. Jake Lewis Wilson. James Frank Emerson. Edwin Matthew Elkins. Charles Barnard Colgan. Robert White Harris. John Henry Guest. Dudley Waters. Frank Stonaker.
 Robert Hunt Camp. Arthur Melvin Dutton. Roy l.. Rogers. Ernest A. Sinclaire. Normond B. Tolson. Sam Brickley. Oscar H. Miller. Clarence Hanf.
 Fred William Bringman. Howard Turnbow. John P. McAlexander. Waiter Lee Jones. Louis Bernhardt Silbernagle. Edward Simon Dilley. Cartrell Brown, Robert Henry Haley. Charles M. Roundtree. Dewitt Talmage Jaggars. Clarence lWynne. Crawford Strickland. Garland Samuel Sanders. Walter Flournoy Cawthon. Ike Goldstein. James J. Wilmington. Harry Grady Morton. William c. Rowland.
 (ContiOuad m nnon TwO\
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Virgil Hardy, well known Pine Bluff railroad man, son of Mir. and Mrs. B. R. Hardy, 620 Walnut street. was one of the first Pine Bluffans to go across. He enlisted March 12, 1917. was assigned to Company ''B," 67th Engineers. and went across in April. 1917. He has been stationed at Saint Nazaire, France, ever since. and he, with thousands of other Amer ican railroad men, have united the transportation knots for the allies, kept the traffic moving on the rail- roads, which means that he helped to keep men and munitions moving to the front so fast that the Huns de- cided they'd better quit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Lee Donaldson Pointer Cleveland Moore. Leslie Herman Weaver. Clifford B. Foster. Andrew Van Darlington. Paul C. Clark.
 Harry Winfield Douglass. James Phillip Stanley. Bennie Lamonica. James Arvell Lusby. Milford H. Ellerson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

John Cowan Suffield. Tull Goodman. Alfred Holbrook Johnson. Henry Joseph Brenke. Edwin Boyce. Frank H. Allen. Jesse c. Smith. Ernest Maynard Simpson,. Roy Mckinney. Shep A. Gallagher.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

First Sergeant Sam H. Cook. who had the rank of captain, when he was running boat on the Arkansas river, is in France with the famous old S1th Division, which is filled up with Ar
 October 16. 1917. and went to Camp Pike. He was made supply sergeant in November and promoted to top sergeant on December of the same year. He was assigned to Company "M,' 346th Infantry. One June 16, 1918, Sergt Cooks outfit bade farewell to Camp Pike and vent to Camp Dix, N. J., and in August he sailed for France. He resides at 9O3 West Second avenue
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-21

Continued on page Two)
Gilpin observer., 1918-09-05

Mrs. Celia Reacher, wife of A. H.
Belcher, who died i'm Boulder last
Thursday, was buried Sunday after
noon from the home in Boulder. She
was to have undergone an operation
but died before it could be perform
cd. Mrs. Belcher was Miss Celia
French and was born. in Gilpin
county. She was 80 years of age
and leaves three children. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos. H. Pelcher and H. F.
Belcher, of this city, drove to Rould-
or Friday and remained fer the fun
eral.