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The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1918-11-07
Cannon 10 Returned.

N INC eloCLfOu IOr the mousse former
Speaker Cannon was returned to his
seat from Illinois for what will be his
22d term; Meyer London, the only so.
cialist in the house, was defeated by
former Representative Henry H. Gold.
togle, q democrat, running with repub.
iican Endorsement.
The loss of the socialist seat, how
ever, was Offset BY the election Of
another socialist, Victor Berger. Of
Milwaukee. who defeated Representa-.
tive Stafford, q republican. Berger
previously served in the house and at
present is under indictment charged
with having violated the espionage
law. All the socialist candidates In
New York were beaten, among them
Morris Hillquit, candidate for mayor
year ago.
There were several women candi-
dates for congress in New York, but
al were defeated.
jeanette Rankin Loses.
Representative Jeanette Rankin Of
Montana, the first woman to hold q
seat in congress. was not running for
se-election to the house but contested
independently for senate seat after
being defeated in the republican pri-
marfes.
Senator Walsh of Montana was run
ming ahead Of republican ana inds.
psndent opponents.
n California, Governor Stephens,
fepublican candidate. apparently had
defeated Theodore Ben, who ran O.
IN independent.
The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1918-11-07


nent among them are Speaker Champ
Clark Of the house. who was reported
beaten by 400 votes. but later was run
ning very close to his opponent. Sen.
ator Weeks, the junior republican sen.
ator from Massachusetts, defeated by
former Governor Walsh (dsm.) SEN
ator Lewis Of Illinois, the democratic
whip. defeated by Representative Me-
dill Mccormick of chieafo; Senator
Salisbury Of Delaware, III Hit pro
tenn Of the senate, defeated by former
Senator Ball (rep.), and Represents.
tive sherley (dem.) Of Kentucky, chair
!. man OF the e.appropriatiens>o COMMITTEES.
Ford Appears Defeated. y
With the results incomplete, Henry
Ford was running behind Truman H.
Newberry, former assistant secretary
Of the navy. his republican opponent
tor the senate in Michigan.
Joseph w. Folk, former governor
Of Missouri, running for senator to
succeed the late Senator Stone, was
defeated by Judge Spencer, republican
aominee.
OuI VI ~ oOAdIOIb U0lu$ Ol6CL0U 20
hove heen accounted for. They were:
ALBANIA, Bankhead (dem.); Arkansas.
kou4nson iuem); Delaware, Ball (rep.);
Georgia, Harris (dem.); Idaho. Borah
frep.); Illinois, Mccormick (rep.);
Iowa, Kenyon (rep.); Kansas, Capper
(rep.); Louisiana, Ransdell and Gay
tdems.); Maine, Fernald (rep.) elect
I'D last September; Massachusetts,
Walsh (dem.); Minnesota, Nelson
(rep.); Mississippi. Harrison (dem.);
Missouri, Spencer (rep.); Nebraska,
Norris (rep.); New Hampshire, Keyes
and Moses (reps.); New Jersey, Edge.
long term, and Bayd. short term
(reps.); North Carolina, Simmons
(dem.); Oregon, Mulkey, short term
(rep.); Rhode Island, Colt (rep.);
South Carolina. Dial, long term; Pol
lack, short term (dems.); South Da.
kota, Sterling (rep.); Tennessee,
Shields (dem.); Virginia, Martin
G0em.).
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

The British Prime Minister
David Lloyd George, in the
strongest speech he has deliver
ed since the war commenced,
said that the only way to bring
about peace Alsace-Lorraine
must be returned or it will be
war to the finish. Serbia, Monte
negro, Italy and Rumonia must
have lands back. In other words
Germany will have to give up all
her ill gotten gains. United
States aviators recently flew
over the German battle lines and
dropped bombs in conjunction
with the British and French pill
OTIS. This was in repisal for the
killing of two American wood
cutters a week ago by a German
bombing expedition. BIS .
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09
The Legislature convened We

The Legislature convened yes
terday for its biennial grind of
sixty days. We are too far out
in the woods to give in this issue
a statement of the personnel of
its organization, or say who has
been elected speaker. But we
had to go down to Louisville on
last Monday to buy for our fami-
ly a pound of sugar, a half dozen
eggs, and a few Hoovereats for
our next Sabbath day dinner, and
incidentally found out from
those who ought to know that
Robt. T. Grove of LAGRANGE
would be elected speaker, and
that Eli Brown would organize
the House for the administra-
ton. .-
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

The recent midwinrer conven-
ton of the Kentucky Press AS
ISOLATION held at Lexington
strongly advocated control and
operation by the government, of
all paper mills. 1t is thought
that this will greatly aid the
country newspaper publishers to
meet expenses. If the cost of
print paper can be reduced by
government control of manufac-
ture, it will materially, and es-
pecially, help such newspapers
as the News. With a very limit
ed amount of advertisement we
are endeavoring to furnish an
eight page paper to a patronage
that expects a good paper re-
gardless of cost, and regardless
of the fact that the maintenance
of a newspare like ours is a very
difficult problem without a more
liberal local advertising patron
age. During the past few weeks
we have made considerable ex-
penditure of money for machine
~ and equipment, and shall
make considerable more in the
immediate future, to improve the
plant, so that we can give the
people a good newspaper, and
the best of service in job print
ing and advertisement. We are
for a Greater Columbia" and
for every business in it. Re-
member that we are for you and
that we are going to boost you
and your business, because you
are in Columbia, whether you
want to prosper or not, and
whether you advertise or not.
But we hope that you will ap-
preciate the fact that the more
you advertise in the News, the
better paper you enable us to
give your customers snd our
patrons.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

nominee, we do not believe that
Adair could present a man who
would be more acceptable to the
people than Mr.. Harris. He is
capable, clean and a hard work.
er and would do credit to the
district and a good service to his
Observation-Disclosures News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

Mr.. Charles Harris, formerly
editor of The Adair County News
is being urged by his numerous
friends in this district to make
the race for the Senatorial nomi-
nation. There are few better
farmers, newspaper men, or
democrats, than Mr.. Harris.
For years he he has labored 10y
ally and unselfshly for his party
and no man ever did more for
the people of Adair county than
he. In view of the fact that this
district is reliably democratic and
it is Adair's time to name the
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

The election of Basil Richard
son of Glasgow, to fill out the
unexpired term of Major, R. B.
Trigg for this senatorial district
passed off unanimously and quiet
ly last Thursday. 1t is not often
the case in Kentucky, where
party lines are closely drawn,
and pluralities small and doubt.
full, that a man can seek, and be
elected to an office of such hon.
or and Importance, without op.
position in either his own, or the
opposing party. But it must be
noted that it has been infrequent
in Kentucky during the past
eighteen years of machine do.
infancy of party control in
democratic politics, that a man
of Mr.. Richardson's type and
ability could afford to seek an
empty honor for sake of real
democratic service, 1t is this
kind of service that he will give
his district; and what is best fol-
Adair. Metcalfe and Barren, by
way of representative service, is
good enough for the rest of Ken.
lucky.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09
time.

time. ..-
Quite a number of our young
men are expecting a call, in a
few days, to enlist in Uncle
Sans service. They are all
ready.
W. B. Hill, Pratt's food man,
spent day or so with his par
ents the first of the week, and
then left for Adairville to take
up his work again.
Quite a number of changes are
being made with our farming
class of people, in this section,
moving from one farm to anoth-
err. All are preparing for a big
crop of Burley tobacco. 9d-
Mr.. Geo. w. Dudley, who has
been visiting her children in Ma
son City, ILL.,, for the past three
months returned home the. first
of the holidays. Her son. Sam,
accompanied her home.
- .r5 , . a Ia y - 4 3t'1 ii
Geo. T.. Flowers sold last week
a very valuable piece Of land, in
our town, to G. E. Nell and c.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09
o. Moss. Consideration, two

". MOSS. OODSlu6rdLlOu, GWC
hundred dollars per acre.
Owing to the cold weather
and snow, the work on Strong
Hills business house has not pro-
crossed fast, but will be taken
up as soon as the weather will
admint and will be pushed to a
finish.
Sam Richard, one of the best
mill men we ever had here, has
been on the sick list for the past
two or three weeks.
The high prices of everything
that is for sale, has put new life
into our people. There Will be
the greatest effort that was ever
known in the history of this Sec
ton of country for q large crop
of everything that is grown out
of the mother earth. Our peo-
pie are now speaking for all the
empty tobacco barns that are in
reach, that belong to people who
do not farm, to rent them fol
housing tobacco this fall. It is a
thing of the past to see men idle
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09
GradyviIle.

W. L. Grady was on the sick
list several days of last week.
D. C. Wheeler, who has been
confined to his room for six
weeks, is improving at this time.
Uncles Charlie Yates and Rob-
ert o. Keltner, two of our oldest
citizens, are enjoying fine health
for men of their age.
Austin Wilmore, of Kansas
City, Mo-, is spending a few days
with his relatives at this place.
We have had plenty of snow
and ice for the past month and
the prospect good for more.
Mrs. Clara w. Sollenberger,
returned to Clinton. La, the
first of the week.
r. L. Caldwell and wife, Of
the Midtown section, visited W.
L. Grady and family the first of
the holidays. >-.
Garfield Flowers, of St. Louis,
Mo-, spent a few days here dur
ing the holidays with his rela-
tives, He is looking fine.
W. L. Fletcher, who recently
purchased Jane L. Moore's farm
near this place, is making some
improvements on his farm by
putting in a lot of new fence.
Dan Tarter and wife, of the
State of Illinois, is here visiting
their relatives. While here Mr..
Tarter expects to sell his farm.
James A, Wilmore, of Lexing-
ton, came in the first of Christ
mas and spent a few days with
his father and mother.
During the extreme cold wealth
er of last week quite number
of our people ran short of fire
wood. Our neighbors helped us
out.
Thos. Baker and family, Mas
City, I'll. are visiting their rela-
tiyes and friends here at this
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

about our town. Everybody is
wide awake to business. No
idlers in our city. We are glad
to say that our farmers all made
good with their last years crop,
and are now preparing for a
much larger one.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

to the state than the framing and
passing of such a law. The pres
emit Administration is fortunate
in having the able and conserva-
tive guidance of M. M. Logan,
who as head of the tax Com
mission is beginning to show
with hopeful looking figures that
the present tax law is not so bad
as our Glasgow contemporary
has pronounced it. Any man in
Kentucky, who without apparent
ly Interior motive of self aggran-
dizement, resigns bigger poll
tical job for a smaller one and
yet be content for the good of
the state, to bear contumely on
account of political associations
that are ill foreboding, is a big
and patriotic man. The Admin
istration could retrieve some OF
its losses in the eyes of a not
completely dead public opinion,
by leaving Messrs. Brown, Mac
Pythian, ct al, to look after the
less important affairs of pardons,
prison reforms and contracts, and
fabrication of Senatorial mach.
inery from the red room of the
ladies entrance of the Frankfort
Hotel, while M. M. Logan is
commissioned from the inner
chamber to draft for the legisla.
ture budget system bill.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

Petrograd was given over Sum-
day to the celebration of peace
negotiations.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

With the mercury Is below
zero at New York City Sunday
the record for cold weather in
that city was broken.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

Walker D. Hines. a Kentuck-
ian, has been appointed assist
ant to Secretary McAdoo in the
operation of the railroads.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

An Austrian air raid over the
city of Padue, Italy, resulted in
Is killed and 60 wounded.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

King Ferdinand, of Roumania,
has abdicated in favor of his son.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-01-09

We heartily favor a budget sys-
tenn as more economic and bust
nesslike way of carrying on the
affairs of State government. The
present general assembly, after
passing tee temperance measures
that seem to be unanimously
agreed upon, could address itself
to no. m0ra, i1lpQrtant service
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18

We hereby give notice to our Nad-
miring friends that if any of them
dare to give us Christmas present
with brass clasps and fooled leather
cover. that the anne has already been
promised in advance to our favcrite
junk man, Ort Webster.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18

To Re the war had brought put bitter
Brought discipline that cut me to
And scts unjust that promised no re-
Beneath the chanseless military
All through the days ! heard the hom-
ing-cali;
l saw your pleading eyes and heard
your voice.
! prayed to come. prayed to cheer
you all
joice.
All useless seemed the changeless
game we played
OF endless labor. unremitting drill
1t seemed 'twould be far better had
stayed
AT home With you, who love and
need me still.
And then ! caught vision from the
skies
OF why we fight and suffer and are
saw the reason for our sacrifice,
And, seeing, To-! my heart grew
strong and glad;
That ! was in the ranks to fight and
die,
If need be, for the millions yet I'M
! saw the Belgian women as they lie,
The spoils of Hunnish lust, undone
and tornl
Their children lifting mutilated arms
And babies caught upon the bayo-
net;
Their aged mothers, shaving ON the
farms
To feed the German hordes uncon-
quered yeti
| saw the helpless sinking in the
waves.
While German sailors laughed to
see them die;
] saw row Of new-made baby graves
And distant aircraft Sinking in the
sky;
saw the towns of desolated France,
The fruiting trees destroyed in
senseless hatel
Oh, mother, thesesI saw as in a trance
And others that my lips dare NOT
relatel
oh, think if we had lived in Belgium
theni
If France had been our homel On
God on High,
To picture You the toy of british men,
Our home destroyed, my loved ones
left to diel
] see-- I see at last-the reason WHY
We must forget the little things Of
life
And dry our tears and stifle every cry
Whatever pain may issue from the
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18

1870 f3r
why we must battle on, with Meier q
thought
But Victory, nor stop to count the
9cost, ya.
From out the old, which was 30
nearly lost!
My mother, cheer your heart and dry
your tears,
For afterwhile, God willing, I'll re-
turn. E-
We sacrifice today, that, though the
We may enjoy the peace for which
we yearn.
Forget all cares, forget all minor
things; IA
Today we labor and tomorrow rest;
We fight fer every mother as she
sings
Her babe to sleep upon her throb-
bing breastI
We battle for the Womanhood of
Earth,
For Liberty, for Honor and for
Right!
Be proud, CHI. mother dear, that you
gave birth
To one who lived to enter such
fightl
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18

s 5: . Gs s':iss .'p !: y .: s' s's
brother Ed. Il chasing as ragged here.
sitting up nights getting up funny
stuff to make the natives mad, etc.,
and we are getting kinda peeved and
Eve got to 60 away for . week or 90
or ole Ben Friedly may have work to
do. Your brother 10 the most dis
combating Teller have ever worked
for. I guess he'd give you anything
he had except his wire and kids, new
ertheless II you can take some Of this
work of his shoulders we might get
on better. And say he has the Office
girl and Office cat and Office devil all
skart So they turn red when he speaks
so for the good Of the future Of the
ole Bedding Banner-Noos see If you
can't get ole man Truman HI. or Ad-
miral Sims to sub FOR you down there
and come home.
4. w.
About the only thing that has hap
pened around these diggens in late
years and which we have not been
blamed for is the present. flu epidemic.
Come On up here little column and
sit up. on fathers knee while he
brushes the dust off from your shout
ders and tells the folks where he has
been for a long time past. In the
first place we want to say that we've
just returned from a wonderful trip,
which our friend, Fried Keister CT
"The Single Top Trail" sent us on
last summer, just after we returned
from Lansing, where we had been
showing our feet under the tables of
an hospitable host with the promptest
regularity ever shown by any hungry
person. The article responsible for
the wonderful trip which we are going
to. tell about was as follows: ED
editor of the Belding Ban
ner-News, went down TO Lansing the
other day to spend little outing with
his fellow publishers at the M. "a. c..
Among other stunts they pulled off
an egg race--an uptown millionaire
the eggs. The game is to
pick up a certain number of eggs,
one at time and place them in dis
tant basket, unbrcken, the first to fin
ish the task being declared the win
ner. Ed. took part and while he did
not win the race we can't say that he
done so very bad after all-he showed
us a dozen and half he'd stored in
the back part of his black alpaca af-
ter the thing was over There, that
article first appeared In the Pewanio
News, then it shot over to Lansing,
where the State Journal held it up to
it's readers as a news item. We next
travelled to Chicago, where we went
through the offices of the Daily News. 4
The Boston Herald, New York Tri-
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18

The following is the poem sent by
Orville Klock to his mother:
Mother.
(By ]. W.)
Dear mother, when I read each tender
phrase,
Each throbbing line Of love you
write-t0 me,
Ny heart grows sad, and oft vount
the days
Until<at last shall sail Ger the sea
Back, back to you and home and al /
love,
And cnce ! cursed the fate that
placed me here.
But, 10 | caught a vision from above,
That steeled my heart with patience
mother dear,
Before my thoughts were dark with
fancied wrongs,
OF plans miscarried and of work
undone.
! heard faint echoes of the old hcme
songs,
And glimpsed your loving faces,
one by one.
knew your troubles-that ] could
not ease
I suffered at the worry in you
heart.
/ longed to rest my head upon your
knees
And feel.my bitter loneliness depart.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18

When they erect Statue to Faith
err 1t viii Look like this. Father
sometimes lacks Style but when il
comes TO providing for Mn and the
Kids, he is There and Over. A song
writer once Wrote Of a Family where
Everybody Works But Father which
was SO Unusual that the Song became
Famous.
It's a mighty good thing that we
decided on a strict, censorship of all
letters written by the force on this
sheet iuse~ as did for other wise the
following splendid recommendation
written by the Linotype man would
have gotten through the lines and let
the outside world on to what kind Of
a slave driver we are. We got it
Just as the writer was putting on a
3 cent stamp and getting ready to
send the unholy message away.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18

II =
}pnt, The Stats zietung, Philedsl-
thia Public Ledger Cincinnati n 8!n-
quirer, The Toledo Blade. Louisville
CoufierJ ournal, the Conshohocken
llPa-) Recorder. the Bedford (la.)
Free Press and hundreds Of other pa
Pers all over the states took US
me, we've seen some country since we
get back. The beauty Of II Is that
although we've lost a lot Of time on
the trip which Keister sent us, we
are not going to charge him for any
of it, because we had good time.
We don't like to tell any family af-
fairs, but AL Fristoe, of the firm of
Fristoe & Divine is SO addicted to
force of habit that we've just simply
got to spill the following. Recently
he and his good wife were invited
out for the evening On leaving the
house, Mrs. Fristoe saw that the tie
which Al had on was Of pattern
which she disliked and as they were
still near home she asked him to turn
back and put on another tie. AL
agreed to do so and returned into the
house. The Mrs. standing outside the
house, saw the light turned on in the
room and waited for her life partner
to make his appearance in the street.
Finally after waiting for about 10
minutes, she went back into the house
and upon entering the room. she saw
Mr.. Fristoe, clad in his nightie, crawl
ing into bed. You see when AL took
off that Objectionable tie. force of
habit was so strong with him that he
just kept on undressing and got ready
for bed.
A certain young man in the south
end Of the city refuses to do any men,
ial work around the homestead unless
the keeper of the family treasury first
agrees to pay and usually pays over
in advance, some financial ccnsidera-
ton for the work performed. Well,
well, about the only comment which
we can make on a situation similar
to the above is that were wshis father
we'd charge shat fellow so much for
board that his great-great-g randchil-
dren's third cousins would still be
owing US for his board when they
died.
We very much regret the disaster
which overlook three of our delin-
quent subscribers. One of them
said that he would pay us Saturday
night if he lived--he died the next
day. Another said he would pay
this week or go to h. and he's gone
The last one pulled this
on us, "Ill see you tomorrow" and
we later on learned that he was blind.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-18
LEGAL NOTICES
ORDER FOR PUBLICATION


STATE OF MICHIGAN, The Probate
Court for the County of Ionia.
At session of ,said court held at
the Probate office in the city of Ionia,
in said county on the twenty seventh
dav CT November, A. ID. 1918.
Present: Hon. Montgomery Web
ster, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Mel
win A. Chapman, Deceased.
Elma L. Chapman, widow and bene-
ficiary Of said deceased, having filed
in said court her petition praying that
a certain instrument in writing, pur-
porting to be the last will and testa-
ment df said deceased. now on file in
said court be admitted to probate and
that the administration Of said es-
tate be granted to Elma l.. Chapman,
the executrix named in said will or to
some other suitable person.
It is ordered, That the thirtieth day
Of December, A. d. 1918, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon at said probate
Office, be and IL hereby appointed for
hearing said petition.
1t Is further ordered, That public
notice thereof be given by publication
Of copy Of this order for three sue
cessive weeks previous to said day of
hearing in the Bedding Banner-N
. Newspaper printed and circulated
Montgomery Webster,
A true copy. Judge of Probate.
Register Of Probate. Dec. 4-18