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Evening star., 1918-05-25

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia. Holding Probate Court--No. 23.31
Admints'ration.-1his Is 20 give notice that
the subscriber. who was by the Supreme Court
testsmentnry the estate Of Efie ~ Miller.
deceased, has. with the approval OF the su-
ing Probate Court. appointed Monday. the
10th dsy OF June. 1915. AZ 10 o'clock N. d,
as the time. and said courtroom the place,
fer making payment and distrfsLticn from said
estate. under the courts direction and control,
when and where all creditors and persons
titled 10 distrfbuffve shares kGscfes. or
the residue. or parts thereof. notified to
attend. in person or by agent or attorney duly
authorized. with their claims against the
tate properly vooched. Given unoer ny hand
this olst day OF May. 1918. THE WASHING
TON LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. AN
DREW PARKER. Vice President and Trust
oficer. ,Seai, Attest: wM. CLARK TAY-
IOR. Deputy Register OF Wills for the Dis
tr;ct Of Columbia. Clerk OF the Probate Court.
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Evening star., 1918-05-25
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

A SPLENDID HOME, WITH ANIL; ELEc.
iiEhts;n 81 h;w.h; and one acre garden; in IA;
boaIders; sell or exchange for house In city.
OWNER, Boz 25. Takoma Park, D. O. 26s
Evening star., 1918-05-25

FIFTY-THREE HUNDRED FEET FLOOR
space on two floors, with freight elevator. in
detached building: abundant light; suitable
for factory storage. Good location. Rea-
senable. Apply 13S941 South Capitol st. Tele-
phone Lincoln PIP. 81
Evening star., 1918-05-25
WANTED-APARTMENTS

LARGE APARTMENT FOR RENT. 823 j
ut. NV.
Evening star., 1918-05-25

s19 r ST. NV.
Newly painted and papered: hot
water heat and electric lights;
large storeroom and twelve rooms
and two baths suitable for cafe
and small hotel.
NICHOLSON & CO.,
1877 Il st. NV.
Evening star., 1918-05-25

140S n. n. AVE. NV, adjoining Dupont Cir
cls-Best home cooking: delicious hot bread
coffee, only best in market used; reserved
chairs for limited number of boarders; $25 pei
month.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
FROM ARKANSAS.

Stuttgart, Ark, Feb. %, 1918.
Dear Mr.. Beal:
am enclosing check for $3.50
which please place to my credit for
The Message.
We are having regular summer
weather down here, No fires needed,
violets in bloom, mocking birds
singing, trees and grass getting
green, winter onions big enough to
eat. Spring is sure here.
This town has been growing so
fast the houses are all full and we
have trouble to get house to suit.
The one we are in is too far from
town. 1t has a nice big yard, tho,
and we have collie dog for Leslie to
play with. The boy and the dog have
a great time-outdoor all day long.
This is a very prosperous place.
All the farmers raise rice which pro-
duces from so to 80 bushels to the
acre. Most of the farms are from
100 to 900 acres. And with that
much rice, selling at $500 and more
a bushel, it is no wonder the farm
ers come to town in big automo-
biles. Yours truly,
E. e. LAWS,
Mr.. Laws is with the Aultman q
Taylor Machine Co., with headquar-
ters in Ohio. He married Miss Fran
ces Reed of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
Second Audrain Boy
Wounded In France
Leslie IL. Bull OF Mexico Victim, Per-
haps, OF German Gas Attack.

Private Leslie H. Bull, son of Mr.
and Mrs. ]. H. Bull of this city, who
went to France last June and who
had not been heard from since, was
wounded short time since in army
action, according to press reports
from General Pershing.
The young man is thought to be
only slightly injured. He is 21 years
old and enlisted in the army last
April he is brother of Mrs. Rob-
ert E. Hook, northeast of Mexico.
Mr.. Bull is the second 'Audrain
man to be hurt in France. The other
was Arthur Snedeker of near Lad
donia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
RED CROSS SWEATER
THE STORY CORRECTED.

They have one of the liveliest Red
Cross chapters in Black School Dis
trict, near Laddonia, in the county.
Miss Gladys Furber is the teacher in
that district and she is doing her ut
most in helping the other ladies of
the community push the Red Cross
work. They held an entertainment
lately which netted the cause $84.66.
They, are also doing fine work for
the Red Cross in Edwards District.
where Miss James is teaching. They
have 12O senior members and "a jun
iors.
A writer in the Laddonia Herald
says:
1t is time someone corrected the
famoue Red Cross Sweater" story.
1t was being circulated around Black
School Friday night
The gist of the story is that a
mother sent a sweater, with a bill
tucked neatly away in the cuff, to her
son at camp. She sent it trru the
Red Cross to insure safety, and when
her son received it he wrote his
mother that it was poorly and cheap
ly made and not at all like her work.
The mother then went to the Red
Cross station and found one of the
workers wearing the sweater and
identified it by means of the bill
tucked away in the cuff pocket
This story, varying in details, has
been widely circulated. 1t is clum-
sy story and anyone acquainted with
Red Cross work would know it for
lie. The authorities took this story
up and thoroly investigated it. They
proved it a lie, without a grain of
truth in it, BY repeating it for a
fact you are laying yourself liable
to arrest and fine. Those who .circu-
late these reports to cause dissen-
sion among our people are giving aid
to the enemy. Let's drop all our
fault-finding, and get in line to help
save our country. We have work for
all
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
CANPBELL-sTEWART NUPTIALs
Mexico Man And Rush Hill. Young
Woman Surprise Their Friends.

Word reached Mexico from Bar
tlesville, Okla, last week announcing
the marriage in that city on the gath
ult., of Mr.. Lloyd Campbell, former
ly of Mexico, and Miss Mary Stewart
of Rush HILL
The wedding came as great sur
prise to the relatives and friends of
Mr.. Campbell and Miss Stewart here.
The groom is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. D. Campbell of Mexico. He
has a fine position with the Gupton
Oil Corporation in Bartlesville.
His bride is the daughter of Mrs
BERTHE Stewart of Rush Hill and is a
charming and accomplished young
woman.
Scores of friends here extend Mr..
and Mrs. Campbell congratulations
and very best wishes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
CALLED TO NEW POST.

Ray Neighbours, graduate of Mex
leo High School, son of Rev. and
Mrs. Henry Neighbours, now of Nc
credie, was here last week on his
way for short visit to his parents,
then to depart for Fort Meyers, Va
which is within FIVE miles of Wash
ington City. He has been at Fort
Sill, Okla, since early last fall and
belongs to the SOth Engineers Chem
ical Corps. Was transferred to his
new post by himself. He was wear
ing a sharpshooter's medal. Ray is
soldierly loking fellow and viii
make good when he is called to "go
across"
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
MEXICO FOLKS AND
OTHERSS, TOO.

Mayor ]. F. Harrison has returned
from an outing in Florida. Says
he had a delightful time.
Benjamin Oney has gone to the
war. He was telegraph operator for
the Wabash in Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Taft and
son, VIM. Howard, have moved back
to Mexico from Higbee.
The conference of the Mexico Dis
trict NJ. E. Church, South, is to be
held in Auxvasse April 2 to 4.
Mrs. S. E. Kendall has been spend
ing the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. Tucker, at Frankford, Mo.
Ran Kendall returned recently
from quite a stay in Oklahoma and
Texas He says they had very cold
and disagreeable winter there.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Taylor are
preparing to move to Mexico from
Fayette. Mrs, Taylor is the daughter
of MrAD. Jackson ofSouthern Bank.
VIM. Frazier, who has been bask-
ing in sunshine in Florida all winter,
has written Mexico friends that they
may expect him home in few days.
Mrs. Lee Gregory visited her son,
Ray Gregory, at Camp Funston.
Sheriff j. G, Ford took VIM. Nor
gan to jefferson Barracks last week.
Morgan was charged with desertion
from the army.
The many friends of Ed Kunkel
will be glad to learn that he is re-
covering his health. He has been
under the weather" all winter. Ed
will take up his rural mail carrying
job first of next month.
w. H. Mccormick gets the con-
tract for hauling the mail to and
from the Mexico Postoffice. His bid
was 5000, while John Callahan, the
former carrier, bid $1,000, Mr.. Cal
lahan froze his feet at the job some
time ago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
Five Other Boys
Off For The War
To Go Into Training AT Camp Fun
ston--AlI Furnished With "Com-
fort Bags"

Five Audrain county boys, the fl
nal of the first quota for the first
draft call, left Monday afternoon
from Mexico by way of the Chicago
& Alton Railroad for Camp Funston
to begin their training. They were
l. 'ollows:
Ralph Wayne, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John H. Wayne of this city.
Lee Roe, Mexico.
David w. Walker, Centralia.
Emmett B. Atkinson, Mexico.
Paul r. Smith, Mexico.
Ralph Wayne was put in charge
of the men.
Before they were off their pictures
were taken in group and Mrs. J.
H. Lane, for the w. c. T. u, pre-
sented each of the men with a Com
fort Bag.
Each man appeared in fine spir-
it's. A large crowd of friends gather
ed at the station to see them off and
to wish them good luck and a safe
return.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
sEMI-ANNUAL STOCK
SALE AT MARTINSBURG
Commercial Club To Push Offerings
For The Red CrOss-Mrs. Pas
chang's Passing.

Martinsburg, March 2.-In con-
nection with the semi-annual stock
sale to be here Saturday, March 8,
the Commercial Club will offer a
chance for everyone to do their best
to help along the war by making do
nations to be sold, receipts to be for
the Red Cross.
The stock sales, conducted here
semi-annually, have always been sue
cessfully carried out because of the
cooperation between the farmers
and the business men of the place.
AT this sale every merchant in
Martinsburg will make a special of
fering to the sale. Colonels ]. N. Ste
phens and o. B. johnson will cry
the sale, and F.. P. jacob will clerk.
Theresa Paschang died at her
home here at pm. this morning
after an illness of several years. For
forty years Mrs. Paschang had lived
in or near this city, and in her death
Martinsburg loses one of her most
highly respected citizens. Funeral
held Monday at st. Josephs Church.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07

same time putting both arms around
his girls neck and planting a loud,
healthy kiss on her waiting lips.
Maybe he stands on air, but any
how, he gets results.
Scores of these scenes are staged
on the arrival and departure of each
train.
And after Sammy has planted his
final goodbye kiss and the speeding
train has made a lace handkerchief
mere white speck in the distance
you can see him wandering off in the
direction of his barracks, occupied
strictly with his own thoughts.
Conductors and porters nowadays
know just what to do as their trains
near Funston. They begin opening
windows in the platform side of the
train. For they know what's going
to happen, at least to the women
who have been asking them a dozen
times how long the train stops at
Funston, which side of the platform
it is on, and other questions that
eventually deal with the business of
kissing.
Then If it's a sweetheart out
come a powder puff" said one por-
ter. "If it's sister she usually isn't
so particular But those sweethearts
they primp from the time they are
within 25 miles of Funston until the
train whistles for the station. Fun
ston sure is the kissingest station on
the line. And, by golly, I'm for 'em, ="
There's a difference between the
various kissing bees at the camp
Funston station. When a soldier
meets his mother. for instance, he
gives her a big hug, a pat on the
back and a deliberate smack. With
sister the kiss is quicker, in a sort
of matter-of-fact way, kindly, of
course, and all that.
But the sweetheart kiss at Funston
takes more time. There's thoro-
ness about it and frequent repeti-
tion.
Man. man, dey shore do kiss 'em
some," one train porter said.
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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
MIR. GRIFFIN DISAPPEARS.
Prominent Farmer OF Near Thomp-
son Comes To Mexico, Takes A
Shave And Is Gone.

w. l.. Griffin, about so years old,
residing near Thompson, came to
Mexico last Tuesday week, shaved off
his beard, then shortly after dropped
out of sight of the public,
His family and friends have been
searching night and day for him,
but as yet they have no clue.
Mr.. Griffin was we'll to do, was in
good health, and no reason is known
for his disappearance.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
LOYALTY RIOTS FLARE
A FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT.
a Mexico Republican Who Is A Good
Democrat-Germans Burning The
Farmers Beans.

A Mexico man is said to have step
ped into a business place a few days
ago and there overheard a man
boasting of his Democracy who at
the same time was finding all man
ner of fault with the Governemnt as
regards the war. This visitor was a
Republican. He flared up and de-
clared to the fellow with empha-
sis. "Sir, do you know you could be
arrested and interned till the end of
the war for what you have just said?
You have been boasting about being
a Democrat. would have you to
understand that l am a Republican,
but am better Democrat than you
are"
Further, the Pro-Germans are ac-
cused of burning the farmers navy
bean crops in Kansas, Nebraska and
Southern Missouri. They are also
charged with burning that great au-
tomobile pavilion in Kansas City,
which had been presented to the
Government and which was to have
been taken down and shipped to
Camp Funston and set up again as
great meeting place for the soldiers
But here is one or two on the 9TH
er side of the game. Americanism
broke out anew on two sectors of
the Illinois front one day last week,
resulting in a cmplete route of the
alleged pro-German element and
general signalizing of victory by
kissing of the flag. Activities were
reported from Maryville and Cling
ham,
In the little town of Bigham,
northwest of Vandalia, a band of
loyalists rounded up a half dozen
purported German sympathizers and
marched them in front of the postot-
fee, where, while the whole village
loked on, they were compelled to
kneel and kiss the Stars and Stripes.
A free-for all fight started when
Ed Probst, a well to do farmer of
German descent, after going thru
the loyalizing process, declared that
his religious convictions would ex-
empt him from military service.
The mob thereupon seized Probst
and two of his brothers and gave
them a severe beating. Three other
men, who are said to have made Sc
ditious remarks, attempted to inter-
fere and were manhandled by the
loyalizers.
After the melee the six pro-Ger-
mans were marched down the street
and made to kiss the flag a second
time for good measure.
At Maryville the miners and bus
mess men paraded the streets with
flag more than 20 feet long, seeking
persons who had expressed pro-Ger-
man sentiments.
Several of these were made to
kiss the flag. Theodore schuster
dropped to his knees when he per-
formed the rite.
Maryville loyalty was stirred by
the fact that delegation of that
towns sons departed during the day
for the draft camps, and feeling was
at high tension.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07

A. p, Mackley of st, Louis sold
his farm of 1000 acres near Aux
vase to H. P. Schultze of Lincoln
county for $4,000, 1t is one of the
largest sales ever made in Galloway
county. 1t is known as the Harrison
Stock Farm.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07

r. L. Miller near Molino, got ST.
20 an acre for ground rented for
oats last season, crop rent. Seven
acres of cane harvested enough to
winter cows, 4 horses. He declined
soc a shock in the fall for it.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
The War Time Kiss Is Different
But It's More In The Method

Here.is story that will make you
smile-even in war times. 1t is con-
cerning the kiss, and it comes from
Camp Funston:
The war has made kissing more
popular than ever. 1t has revolu-
tionized kissing, at least at Camp
Funston. For if there is anything
Funston Sammy likes better than
kiss it is a couple, or three, or half
a dozen kisses. Camp Funston is the
port OF kissing men and women, too.
The wartime kiss is different, or
better, it is the method of kissing
that is different. The old-time-out-
in-the-woods, moonlight, all-by-our-
selves stuff is passed at Camp Fun
ston. The kissing in this camp is the
open-ano lbove-board kind. There is
no looking, because there generally
is.
It used to be that the sight of a
soldier embracing his sweetheart
and planting pepper as she got off
the train, or stuck her head out of
the train, brought chorus of ooh
Baby" or "Hoopee" from a crowd Of
fellow-soldiers who weren't in such
luck, but now 1t is different. Kissing
is Just a matter-of-fact business
down hei e,and the SOOft. platform in
front q the Union Pacific station at
this camp is the kissingest place in
this section of the country. OF
course, the best girls come in for the
big share of the peppers, but moth
ers, aunts, sisters, and second cous-
ins who come thru on the trains or
get off or get on get their share.
II a fellows best girl is going to
pass thru Funston on the train and
isn't going to have time to stop owe +
she usually lets him" know it by
telephone, telegraph or letter, and
''he" is there, if there's any possible
way to get there. The train stops
the window already is open, and
Johnny is under it, Now, it's hard
TO tell how he does 1t, but the Fun
ston Sammy has way of clinging
to the side of a coach and at the
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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07
KAISER BILL.

Kaiser Bill
a siy tube N his throat
And he's going to lose his goat.
samm him.
written for The Message)
There's they Bill,
He has made commotion, and is making still
And he slaughtered Russians crafty
He a that's he seen
And murders with his
And he thinks will be
he claims a partner Lords a
He that he S fighting obtain a lasting peace,
But this Kaserman joking for It's plain
That the which fighting goodly piece
He piece other piece o Gaul,
And when he Belgium he's simply ake-ital
And when the S simplify the work,
He will swallow up dominions o
So to do fighting evacuate the camp
they vanqushed
Till scepter
So look out Mister Kaiser you're going a fall,
For the fates all against the writings the
So you'd better heed warning, you'll surely find
against you your
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07

Hardin College will cut out the
teaching of German. Goodbye, Hun,
the girls don't want anymore of
your speech.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling Carter, Mrs.
4. B., Keath, Misses Ellen Carter, Ma
bel Threlkeld and Ruth Perkins re-
turned first of the week from visit
to Audrain soldiers at Camp Funston.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07

Herbert Strain of Kansas City is
here on visit to his parents.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-03-07

Miss Esther Rodhouse has been
quite ILL.,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-18
Personal Mention.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Harvey OF New
Boston were in Aledo Saturday
Mrs. Forber and son went to
Keithsburg Saturday evening for a
short visit.
Miss Anna Mapes of Aledo went
to Fort Madison Monday.
Miss Annie Meek of Joy was in
AIedO Saturday.
DR.. B. V Marquis of Buffalo Prai-
RE was a visitor in the city Monday.
DR.. and Mrs. f. H. Morrison Of
Freeport arrived the first Of the
week for a visit at the home Of Mrs.
NOrrison's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P.
Ringdall
Miss Bessie Cooper Of Hamlet Wis
tied friends here the forepart of the
week
Ed Hodson of Lyons. Iowa, visit
ed relatives here last week.
Miss Helen PTOuty and Miss Inez
McKown went to Oquawka Satur-
day for a short visit with Miss
Helen HindsOn.
DR.. J. S. Allen Of Keithsburg Wis
tied Monday with his son, James
A. Allen and family.
J. ROllin Ramsey departed Sun
day for his home in Tulsa, Okla,
after a visit with William Winders
and family.
Miss Floy Carroll Of this city
" ent to GaIesburg Monday morning
10 enter college at Knox.
Miss COrinne Baldwin of Aledo
has gone TO Waukesha. Wis. to at
tend school
Misses Catherine Emrick and
Margerie Cooke of Aledo have gone
10 Simmonds college at Boston,
Mass.
Miss IsoI Ralston was in Aledo
Tuesday.
Miss Cora Fields of Joy was in
AIedO Monday.
Mrs. NJ. Z. Hinman of New Bos-
ton was in AledO Tuesday for a
short visit with Mrs. WiIlitts.
Miss Estelle Dixon of New BOs-
ton was in Aledo Monday for the
day, visiting with friends.
Miss Nettie Mckee of Phillips,
Wis. was in AledO Monday for a
short visit with friends Miss Nc
Kee left Monday for Muscatine,
where she will teach school.
Mrs Macy Parkman arrived home
Monday for a short visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Emer-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lon Rutherford Of
New Boston were visitors in Aledo
Monday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-18

The fourth Liberty loan viii be
launched Sept 2S. County Chair
man \. G. Bridgford has all plans
laid and machinery in operation for
putting Mercer county over the top
the first day Of the drive. They
have no definite information in re
gard to the amount and terms Of
the fourth Liberty loan. although it
IS the general opinion that the
fourth Liberty loan viii be about
double the amount Of the third Lib
erty loan. Possibly this opinion is
based on the fact that Secretary
McAdoo has asked the banks 10
take $4,000. 100000 worth of certif-
Gates of Indebtedness in auticipa-
ton of the fourth Liberty loan.
Mercer cOunty's quota on this
basis viii be something over one
million dollars or about double the
quota in the third Liberty loan. It
reported that the rating system has
proved satisfactory in general to
the people Of this county. The
banks will cooperate with the cOun-
~ council Of defense in canvassing
the county the same as in the last
Liberty loan drive. The finance
committee Of the council of defense
has re-rated everyone in the county
and has given them an opportunity
to adjust their ratings as fair and
equitable as possible. These rat
ings will be used in the coming loan
and everyone is expected to take his
| full share
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-18

Among those who left this city
Tuesday morning to enter the mill
tary service Of their country at
Knox college, GalesbuTg, are: Ever
EFT Bowers, Clair Bowers, Nern Mo
berg, Glen Hartman, Fred Bridg-
ford, Paul BridgfOrd and Clair Sta
ley The Heading institute at
Galesburg has also taken up mill
tary training for high school grad
yates, among those who went this
morning from AledO are: Carroll
SHUT, Hobart Harbour and Forest
Eakman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-18
Registration Figures Show 2.217
Men.

The registration figures show that
2,217 men between the ages of IS
and p and 81 and 40 inclusive. reg
istered in Mercer county Thursday,
Sept y. There were S4 registra-
tiOn cards received by the local ex-
emption board from Mercer county
men who were not at home on reg
istratiOn day. While registration
day passed here very quietly with
out any brass bands, speeches OF
patriotic gatherings. it is believed
every man in the county of con
scription age did his duty and reg
istered, and that no slackers will
be found here. The number regis
tered was larger than the estimate
made for this county.
The number registered in each
township is as follows.