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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11
SEEK DRY NATION IN 6
MONTHS
Prohibition Advocates in Senate
Want Change in Norris Amend
ment.

Washington, July s.-Prohibition
advocates in the Senate planned today
to seek changes in the pending Nor
ris amendment to the Emergency Ag-
ricultural Appropriation Bill so as to
prohibit the sale of whisky, beer OF
wine after six months.
AS reported to the Senate, the Nor
ris amendment prohibits the sale or
withdrawal from bond of distilled
spirits and the manufacture of wine
except for export after June 80, 1919.
1t would forbid the manufacture of
beer three months. after approval of
the bill by the President
Senator Norris of Nebraska, Sena-
tor Hendricks of Wyoming and other
prohibition leaders now want to make
the period six months for all intoxi-
cants. If a recess is taken tomorrow,
as planned, they will make their fight
for the change as soon as Congress
reconvenes.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11

He simply went into the world and
preached the Gospel. l won't be SC
bold as to say there is less christian
ity in the world today, but l do say
it is of very different quality. How
many OF you remember the old days
and to your way of thinkin' how do
they compare with the new?
From New York comes the news OF
the latest thing in dress. It's called
''over the top"-By golly, that may be
the very latest in New York, but I've
seen a food many this season that
looked as though they were making
good headway toward goin' lover the
top and they didn't have much
farther to climb, either.
Old Mother Hubbard
Went TO the cupboard
To get piece OF liver
But when she arrived
The cupboard was empty
Ii she cusscd-may the Lord for
give 'er.
The telephone Cat our house) rang
one day last week and when | said
hello" some one asked "Is this the
poor housc?" said, mo, not yet,
but soon. on the same street, one door
farther down."
1t has just occurred to me that the
name Dan" has tuckered out in the
Tucker tribe. | have known many
people by the name of Tucker, but not
one who ever bore the name of his
illustrious ancestor Daniel Perhaps
the old fellow was peeved because he
had to sing for supper and then got
there to late to get any and out OF
revenge refused to perpetuate the
name OF Dan in the Tucker family
anyway it missin'.
Beyond the seas have no part
Nor sharc--in glorious victories !
won; Z
But here at hone-with fearless
heart,
I'll do my best-and carry OH"
thank you. Please be seated.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11
S U N B E A M S.

Some weeks ago a
~V~ person asked me if
| knew Sunny Jim
-bein' uncertain of
his intentions and
%1,% In
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11
EXCURSION STEAMER SUNK i
Steamer Columbia Sinks ia Illinois
River. $50 Lose Lives.

Peoria. IlE, July Conc hundree
and fifty was the estimate made b,
the police of Pckin early today of thu
dead, as result of the sinking late
last night of the excursion steamet
Columbia in the Illinois River. Capt
H. F. Mehl of the steamer placed the
number drowned at one hundred.
Four hundred and ninety-seven per
sons and crew of thirty were be-
lieved to have been aboard the vessel.
Many asserted fewer than three hun
dred survivors had been accounted
for.
Search for the bodies was continued
today. Sixty-four have been recov-
cred, only part of whom had been
identified Today only the hurricane
deck OF the boat is visible above the
water
An investigation by the United
States government into the sinking
was promised by John Dougherty, as
sistant district attorney.
The time of the disaster has been
fixed definitely at 11:58 o'clock last
night by Yardmaster Roalty of the
Peoria 4 Pekin Union Railway at
Pekin. He was the first to hear the
distress signal and Immediately noti-
fled the dispatcher, who sent relief
tram to the scene.
The scene of the disaster is isolated
from telephone and telegraph COM
! munication and details came in slow
ly. !,
The entire family of Clyde Wishart,
father, mother and two children, was
wiped out in the accident Their
bodies have been recovered and iden-
titled.
The Columbia was a. .3-dcck excur-
sion steamer. 1907 feet long. 1t was
owned by the H. F. Mehl Excursion
Company of Peoria and was under
charter to the South Side Social Club
of Pekin
The vessel was returning to Pekin
from Al Frcsco, summer resort. A
dense fog lay over the river.
With the cxcursionists dancing on
the upper deck to the strains of a
band. the Columbia ran on sand
bank. She was backed off promptly,
but Immediately began to list. Later
reports indicate she had struck sub
merged log and torn hole amidships.
Panic stricken. the excursionists
rushed to the port side of the boat in
spite of the efforts of the crew to
keep the deck load evenly balanced.
Less than five minutes after she had ;
struck the bar the Columbia over :
turned in midchannel and sank. L
Dozens of men and women leaped
nto the water and others were
thrown into the water when the boat '
urned over. Many were between I
lccks and it was believed certain they
went down with the boat. s
Mrs. Elizabeth Frew, stewardess, t
vas asleep when the boat struck. She C
to the deck and tried to calm v
he terrified women passengers.
Everybody was fighting to get to a
he rail-" said Mrs. Frew. "They Fl
we're struggling and clutching each b
'ther. Many jumped overheard. l
aw some of them go down. Others II
wan around, crying until boats a
licked them up. Soon found myself c
n boat God knows how l got o
here" a
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11
T. R. Asks Prize Fund Return.

Washington, July 6.-Theodore
Roosevelt asked Congress today to
return to him the Nobel Peace Prize
Fund which he gave to assist in pro-
noting industrial peace and which has
never been used. He said he pro-
posed to expend it in war relief work
through the Red Cross, Y. M. c. A.,
knights of Columbus, Jewish War
Fund and other relief organizations.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11
Oil Well Abandoned.

The oil prospect well on the Thos.
Sheehy farm, which was shot about
two weeks ago, had to be abandoned
on account of caving in, says the
Hume Telephone. After the shooting
the sand filled up the hole so fast
that it could not be baled out.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-11

1t was intimated that Koontz's dis
charge came about as result of his
efforts to keep freight cars moving
when some of the higher up officials
of the road could not see the need of,
any hurry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

Seven Brick Business Blocks Erected tn
1914.
New ~s125.ooo Girls Dormitory at State
College
One Exclusive Dry Goods and Ladies' Fur
nishing Store.
Good Volunteer Fire Department with
Electric Apparatus
South Dakota State College OF Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts.
Brookings Produce Co., Cash Market for
All Farm Products.
Two Billiard Halls and Bowling Alley a.
Places Of Amusement.
Brictson Manufacturing Company. makers
o fthe Brictson Tire Tread.
New 5000, 900 administrator Building at
Of the Brictson Tire Tread
Surrounded by the Best Farming Land In
the State. Where Crops are Sure and Boun-
tiful
Municipality Owned Telephone, Electric
Light. Heating and Water Works Plants.
Strong Commercial Club with 200 Mem
bers In Good Standing. Fine Club Rooms.
Brookings is Located on the Main Line of
the c. & N. w. Ry. from Chicago to Pierre.
the Capital of the State. Also Headquarters
for Train Crews Running North to Water
town and on to Redneld and Gettysburg.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

barrage and calling with signals for
a concentrated fire, there is absolute
ly nothing that can stop the boys from
feeding Fritzy those destructive pills
at lightning speed. When we artil.
lerymen see the Red Cross bringing
back our wounded 1t makes a fellows
blood run cold, and who wouldn't
stand pat and fight the harder for 1t.
The endurance of the American
doughboy Is wonderful, and their cour.
age marvellous, and when working un.
der the protection of artillery FIRE,
nothing can check them. not even the
Prussian Guard.
The division of Infantry that we are
backing nov, Is q whirlwind, (all vol.
uiteers) and already they are known
throughout France. They don't know
the meaning Of the word stop. Only
two days $50. at 4:10 .. m. while our
guns roaring continuously, pro
tecting vi advancing Infantry( two
'kilometers ahsad). w saw the nercest
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

The following account Of the awful
scenes at Proctor, suburb of Duluth,
during the terrible fire in northern
Minnesota. is from a lady of that city
to a relative in Bookings:
The past two weeks have been the
most dreadful l have eve put in and
about the most busy. I can't begin
to tell you all the heart-breaking
stories I have heard and some of the
dreadful things / have seen.
have been a member of the Citi'
zens' Relief Committee of the Red
Cross for a year and until the pres
emf disaster. my job has been a snap.
Our chairman was given charge OF
the relief work and so of course, there
was work for all. I worked night and
day in the room where we outftted
the men and women who yer brought
to us by auto. and sometimes 4 went
out with an auto party looking up
families who could not come to us
and who hadn't been found by other
relief parties. So many were nearly
naked as they had torn OF one gar.
ment after another as they caught on
are. The pitiful stories we heard!
/ dream 1t all over every night.
The Saturday Of the IRE l had gone
to Duluth shopping. and. until about
two in the afternoon we didn't notice
the smoke much there. though the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

fighting imaginable, in fact most I'm.
b%elievable and then something hap.
pened that III eve forget-up ahead
of our guns we could distinguish the
form Of one of our infantrymen head
ed straight for us, still carrying his
pack, rifle in M hand and doing
double time. When he got to our guns
he stopped. all out of breath, but still
game and a smile on his face, and
here's what he said: "Give 'em hell
boys, we sure got EN- on the run.
Say, can any Of you fellows tell me
where there's a first aid pack handy,
they 'sorta' boOgered me up a bit, and
I'm a thinking I'd better plug up the
leak abit." At the right shoulder his
coat was a deep crimson color and we
all knew that he was wounded. The
bullet had passed through his Shout
der, broke his collar bone and came
out his neck. Well, we wrapped him
up good and in ten minutes an ambu-
lance came to carry him off to the
base. AS he was carried away he
thanked us. asked us to roll him a
cigarette, then he smiled again and
said, You're sure the boys, give EN-
hell" He was Irish, red headed, and
believe me a real American soldier.
In the past few days I've seen sew
eral Boche planes brought down, one
day we accounted for eight, all Of
them falling right around our gun po-
sition, that is within a radius Of a
quarter of a mile.
Well so much for the war. l sup
pose you want to know how l am and
all that. l sure feel great, get plenty
of Chow and last but not least, l
sleep occasionally. l rather think we
will be relieved in a few more days
and believe me we sure deserve it. l
am sorely in need Of a bath, and If
l eve get a peek at my real COM
plexion again, I'm afraid III have a
runaway.
The nights are beginning to get cool
er and in a few more weeks l suppose
the snowlakes will be flying again.
Well mother l think I'd better quit
for this time. Don't worry about me,
for I'm Jake" and as we'll and happy
as a lark, never forget mother, and
am always looking for her letters.
Love to all. Your loving son,
Sergeant Dexter Dewing.
Bait. d. lat F. A.
A.. E. F., France.
p. S.-We have to inclose our ad-
dress now, instead of putting it on
the envelope.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

Thos. Bang has the following snort,
but interesting letter from Lieut.. Car
rold ~Iverson, now with the fighting
Second Army. He has probably had
a lot of "going" since this was writ
ten, as his regiment has been chasing
the Hun:
October 18th, 1918.-Dear Mr.. Bang:
l have been on the nov a great deal
since l wrote you last. After we fin
ished the machine gun school we re.
Joined the company and with them
we have moved four times already
and don't know how soon we are to
jump again. But it's a pretty easy
matter to pick up and go after the ex'
p%erience we have had.
Our company now have the machine
gun carts. We went v e to division
headquarters about eight miles away
and pulled them back by hand. We
have no mules yet and the men are
getting 20 used to pulling carts by
hand that we won't know what to do
with them when they do arrive.
You ought to see us on the march
we look like a coming along
the road with our "a carts loaded rs
high as they can load them with am.
munition, food and the mess packs, but
we get along in good shape.
We have had . lot Of target work
on the range with the guns and the
men certainly can hit what they shoot
at. They r all waiting to get a shot
at the Huns with the Browning, that
won't be long now l don't suppose.
I am forgetting a great deal about
the dairy business but this is going to
do me a lot of good if I don't have
hard luck and get knocked of" as
they say. Am feeling fine, not a great
deal heavier but rearing to CO." ]
am looking for a letter from you one
of these days. Your friend, liver.
CARROLL A. Iverson
End M. G.. Co. 1852 Inf. A p. o. 795
American e. F.. Via N. Y.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14
FROM THE AWFUL FIRE

%W. s. So
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

Over one hundred New Dwellings Built
During past three years. Besides MANY
business blocks and other substantial I'm
provements.
Beautiful trees line the streets and the
City presents a fine appearance, matted an
II Is in the midst Of a fine growth Of shade
and trees. Her citizens are will.
Ing and ready to encourage and assist every
helpful Industry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14
BIRDS EYE VIEW OF BRooKINGs

birds EYE VIEW OF BROOKINGS
M Saloons
Two Bands
Three Hotels
-Four Dentist
Ten Churches
Six Physicians
Candy Kitchen
Good
Steam Laundry
One Ice Dealer
Two Osteopaths
One State Bank
$25, 1000 City Hall
Chinese Laundry
Five Restaurants
Three Drug Stores
Three Tailor Shops
Two Chiropractors
Four General Stores
Two Livery st Ables
Growing Every Day
Two Meat Markets
Seven Auto Garages
Four Lumber Yards
Two Cigar Factories
Four Weekly Papers
Fine Lake Near City
Two National Banks
Exclusive Shoe Store
Five Grain Elevators
$125. 900 Court House
Four Jewelry Stores
Three Barber Shops
Two Furniture Stores
Two Hardware Stores
Tire Vulcanizing Plant
Electric Supply House
Three Machine Shops
Two Department Stores
Four Blacksmith Shops
Carnegie Public Library
City OF Beautiful Homes
Two Exclusive G -oceries
Two Shoe Eepair Shops
Best Schools IN the State
Good Water Near Surface
Marble and Granite Works
Dakota Deaconess Hospital
Five Auto Livery Stations
One Gents Furnishing Store
Three Photograph Galleries
$4,000 Government Building
Two Cement Block Factories
state Circuit Court held here
$4,000 Brick School Building
Two Moving Picture Theatres
$50. 900 High School Building
Two Exclusive Clothing Stores
Culhane Adjustment Company
1,106 Students in State College
Who'll sale Photo Supply House
Forty FIVE Hundred Inhabitants
Educational Center OF the State
Three Exclusive Millinery Stores
County Seat Of Brookings County
United States Experiment Station
Five Rural Free Delivery Routes
High School on the Accredited List
over $500. 900 Invested in Education
Free Delivery Service OF City Mail
Three Plumbing and Heating Firms
finest Church Buildings in the State
Nineteen miles of cement sidewalks
Best Bakery in Eastern South Dakota
Frank Sherwin's Alfalfa Drill Factory
New Stock Pavilion at State College
$3.50. 900 Invested in Beautiful Churches
New 500. 900 Armory at State College
Willard Storage Battery Service Station
Finest County Fair Grounds In the State
First-Class Opera House and Auditorium
One Thousand Students In Grade Schools
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

en- NevSs ItoubIe No. Us OetS1f u
Why hump yourself up on the door
and with your Jaws set and ayes pop
S e1HT cut sFS sour csln:, WE by , sna ! ss soSs
toes with some salve or wrap your toe
into Q big painful bundle with some
sticky tape or plasterf Life Il too short.
Use "Gets-It"-.it takes . few seconds
pains GO. Wear new shoes u you want.
Peelo6 the corn with your 1ngers-tho
whole thing. root. and All. clear. and
clean, and It's gonel Only 'Cots-It"
.GSts.H.s the Euarantsed. money.
back ,orn-remover. the only sur0
~. Gusts eut = tribe % any drug store.
uSSo ~ B.LAwronco = Co.. ChtoAeoI N.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14
GREETING

The other day I went to a bakery
shop in the West End. While was
waiting for my %war-bread in came a
man in khaki who had just returned
from the front.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

why, Lieutenant -" said the
bakeress, "are you back? I've been
looking a%nxiously for you every day
in the casualty list."-St. Louis Star.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14
hooray for Banana
Peel "eeis.li"
Only Real Way to Get Rid of Corns.

Which do you prefer "a corn that
pulls or q corn that peels? Butchery
rid OF your corn the peel-off way. the
blessed way. You don't need q Dull.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14
WHAT WE NEED

WHAT WE NEED
A Gas Plant
Canning Factory
More Business Enterprises
More Manufacturing Enterprises
more Young People Who Want an Educa-
ton.
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HOME BOY WRITES EXPERIENCES
(To BE CONTINUED
S. s

Continued from Page u
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-15
SLOAN TAKES CHORUS
TO WAR STAMP meeting
SEVEN COLUMBIA GIRLS GO WITH
PARTY IN MOTOR TRUCK TO
CARRIERS CREEK.

A chorus of seven pretty Columbia
girls singing patriotic songs accom-
panied the speakers and party to the
war savings meeting at Carriers
Creek last night, and they added
much to the enthusiasm and success
Of the event. j. A. Sloan was chair
man of the party and the principal
speaker. He made stirring address
on the duties of civilians in support
ing the government and the soldiers
during the war, ana planted the seed
for heavy sales of thrift and war saw
ings stamps in the Carter's Creek
community.
The young ladies and the men in
the party were carried to Carriers
Creek in the big motor truck of the
j. A. Sloan Wholesale Grocery Co.,
and they made the air ring with songs
all the way to their destination. The
chorus consisted of Misses Mary
Cooper Boyd, Annis Joyce, Mary
Phillips Orr, Rebecca Page, Eugenia
Jackson, Ailene Church and Lucille
Joyce.
Besides Mr.. Sloan the men in the
party were j. f. Brownlow, George
McKennon, A. B. Sowell and Fred
Latta.
A war saving organization was
formed at the meeting, which was
held at the Presbyterian church, with
A. B. Church president; Mrs. r. S.
Church, secretary and treasurer, and
Mr.. Beale, vice president.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-15

business in Columbia for number OF
years, and for a period of years con-
Quoted the business as Adams &
Martin. Mr., Adams in making this
move has taken in Fred Latta as a
partner. and the new firm will be
known as the Adams-Latta Drug Co.
The contract for the remodeling OF
the building has been awarded to Eu-
gene Afford. Mr.. Afford drew up the
plans for the fixtures and the front
and submitted them to Adams and
Latta and to Mrs. w. w. Moore, the
owner of the property and they We're
accepted and the work Of making the
fixtures, which will all be in mahog-
any finish, is now in operation. The
front will be changed, making the en-
trance on the side with a large plate
glass front on the other side.
1t is the purpose of the contractor
to finish the building by the first OF
April and the new firm hopes to get
moved in by the middle of April.
When this store is completed it will
be one Of the handsomest in the city
and add greatly to the appearance of
things over in that corner of the
square.
Already the occupants of the other
buildings in that corner are beginning
to make preparations to improve the
appearance of their buildings and
putting everything in first-class condi-
ton, making the corner one of the
most attractive spots in the city.
Mr.. Latta has for number of years
been manager of the Cumberland Tel
ephone Cos. business in Maury coun,
! ty, and for the present will continue
to be with this company, devoting
only portion of his time in the
evenings to his new business. Mr.
Latta is one of the most popular
young men in the county and has a
large following of friends, who nc
doubt, will share their trade with him
1t is the purpose of the new firm, to
add many new features to their store
after they get moved and straighten
ed out
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-15
PULASKI PIKE CITIZENS
JOIN ROAD MOVEMENT
FORM ASSOCIATION TO COOPER
w ATE WITH COMMISSION IN
IMPROVING PIKE.

q Citizens residing on the Columbia
and Pulaski pike this morning formed
an association at McCain's for the
purpose of cooperating with the
county highway commission in the re-
pair and reconstruction of that i'm
portant pike. This is the last of five
inter.county highways that will be i'm
proved under a plan for the consoli-
dalton of patrol system funds with
private subscriptions for immediate
use. J. e. Petty was elected president
of the association, Nimrod Porter,
vice president, and t. F. Hill, secre-
tary-treasurer. These officers were
also authorized to act as the execu-
tive committee which will have
charge Of the work and expenditure of
money, with the approval of the road
commission. A finance committee
composed Of Marvin HI. Fly. M. E.
Digger and Elem nneegog will raise
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-15

There is more Catarrh in this sec.
ton OF the country than all other dis
eases put together, and for years it
was supposed to be incurable. Doc.
tors prescribed local remedies, and by
constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly In
fluenced by constitutional conditions
and therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Medicine,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney G Co,
Toledo, Ohio, is constitutional rem
edy, is taken internally and acts thru
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of
the System. One Hundred Dollars re.
ward is offered for any case that
Halls Catarrh Medicine fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
F. ]. CHENEY G CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, Use.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-15
ONLY FOUR DEL|NQUENTS
out OF 100 MEN CALLED

Only four out of the 100 registrants
called for physical examination by
the Local Board last Friday and Sat
urday failed to appear at, the appoint
ed time and have been classed as de-
linquents. All of them We're negroes
They are: William Lawrence, Cleye-
land, Ohio; Irwin rArmster, Mt. Plea
SAINT; Jim Willie F'innel, Columbia;
and Tony Edgerton, Mt. Pleasant.
The Local Board has received in
structions u from Major, JRutledge
Smith that the order number of a
registrant in each class will govern
the order of selection and not the
subdivision Of each class. For in
stance, a registrant in class la,
whose order number is so would not
be called before a registrant in
Glass lib whose order number is 25.