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Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1918-04-11
shot in the back of the head as she
ran from the bedroom into the hall.
Worked in This City

shot in the back Of the head as she
ran from the bedroom into the hall.
Worked in This City
Adkins had recently been working
in the A. P. Green Brick Co. here.
His home was in the James Roy
property on South Olive street near
Central Avenue. He is said to have
come formerly from near Stephens
Store, Boone County.
Mr.. and Mrs. MCGOWAN were well
known residents of their neighbor-
hood and held in the highest esteem.
They were both about 40 years old.
The entire community was aroused
over the shooting and greatly dis
tressed over the loss of their good
neighbors. Ike MCGOWAN, of this
city, was an uncle Of the dead man.
Nolan MCGOWAN leaves five brothers
Robert, of Iowa; Charles, V. C. and
Harlin, of this county; and Mike, Of
the State of Louisiana. His father
lives in Vernon county, Missouri
The following half-brothers and sis
ters reside in Nevada, Mo-: Alta
Clyde, Benson, Carl and Letha Bell
The farm where the shooting occurred
was known as the John Piney Harri-
son place.
Slept in Barn
Adkins evidently slept in the barn
Saturday night as he had Tuesday
when he appeared Unexpectedly al
the farm after what Joe Woolery re-
ferred to as a rather warm argument
with MCGOWAN, left for town.
Adkins until the middle of March
had been employed on a farm belong.
ing to A. C. Barnes, of this city.
Mr.. Barnes released him because he
was not satisfied with his work.
The funeral of Mr.. and Mrs. Nolar
| MCGOWAN and Mrs. Gladys Adkins
was held Monday afternoon from Bea
yer Dam Church, and the burial wal
in Beaver Dam Cemetery. Mr.. Nc
Cowan carried $4,000 life insurance
The funeral was one Of the larges
held in the county for many years.
The name signed by Derby Adkin
when he registered for the draft wa
"Durby Atkinson" The name i
written several times that way, an
rs. Adkins name is also signed "Ad
kinson." In several places, the sigma
lures are in Adkins own writing.
! Adkins burial was held at fiv
o'clock Monday afternoon at Elmwoo
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1918-04-11

AUDRAN COUNTY. MISSOURI THURSDAY. APRIL II. 1918
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

Although one or two cruising books
have slipped out from Henry Holt & Co.
ahead, the first real splash" of the season
of 191S-1919 is due August %, when they
will launch five books by four authors.
Miss Margaret Widdemer, author of The
Wishing Ring Mar and Factories, is the
two barrelled author of a novel, You're
Only Young Once, which includes eight
pairs of lovers, and of The Old Road to
Paradise, machine gun nest of poems.
Roman Hollands plays of the French
Revolution, The Fourteenth of July and
Damton, translated by Barrett H. Clark,
will make his eighth volume in the Hol.
edition, while Allan Updegraff, author of
Second Youth, furnishes an ultra modern
love story, Strdyed Rerellers. The Dogs
of Boytoun, by Walter A. Dyer, fresh
from his Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium, follows
Strayed RCrellerS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
Irwin S. COBB
Of PrGSSia1S

THIS seems to be the day of the little
Il book. In the present democracy of
literature the right of the small volume
to existence is recognized and the presses
of various publishing houses are busy
turning out thin volumes numbering from
fifty to one hundred pages or so. These
little books of to-day are different from
the gift booklets of previous years, which
usually contained poems or uplifting es-
says profusely illustrated or Illuminated
and used only for ornamenting the centre
table in the parior.
Now the small volume contains short
story or an essay that has been previously
published in magazine form and has called
forth favorable comment from a number
of readers.
Two recent pieces by Irwin Cobb, The
Thunders of Silence and Speaking of
Prassians, are published by the George H.
Doran Company after having appeared
in the Saturday Euening Post. Both vol
umes, one long short-story and the other
an essay, deal with the war and reflect
Cobb's ideas concerning our part in the
conflict.
The Thm"ders Of Silence is a political
story in which we find earnestness and a
serious satire of certain none too thinly
yelled political personages. But we miss
the joyous humor that we most like in
Cobb. Other persons less gifted there are
in plenty who can instruct us and preach
to us, but we count it the duty of Irving
Cobb to make us laugh. And we need
laughter now.
The story has for its central character
a Congressman, one Jason Mallard. This
man, the victim of strangled ambition,
becomes paranoiac In his craving for pub
LEFTY. Because he misses the nomination
for the Presidency, he seeks and wins
notoiiety by opposing Americas part in
the war. He loses the following of right
thinking citizens and becomes the leader
anu tLt Cl CDlcuy
foreign, element. He speaks and votes
and campaigns against every movement
on the part of America to defend her
rights. In Congress itself he is rabidIy
pro- German.
The press of the country has devoted
countless columns and lurid adjectives to
reviling Mallard, only to make him the
prominent figure he yearns to be. Finally
an inspiration comes to a newspaper man
to inaugurate a campaign of silence
against him. He reasons thus:
''Mallard is a national peril, we'll con-
cede. Very well, then, he should be de-
stroyed. And the surest, quickest, best
way for the newspapers to destroy him
is to wall him up in silence, to put a
vacuum bell of silence over him, to bury
him alive in silence And that's simpler
thing than it sounds. They have, all of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
in Our
Diplomatic History

IF secret diplomacy is indeed to disap
L pear after this war-a reform tina;
seems to minds slightly tinged with scer-
ticism to presage near millennium
Of the most exciting games ever invented
will be lost. But we are fallen UPON days
when no reform seems impossible, or even
very unlikely. Women vote, John Barley
corn is deposed from his throne, Aulcri-
cans are eating rye bread and corn, time
is regulated by administrative fiat, Uncle
Sam runs the railroads and the telegraph,
baseball players begin to suspect tie ex-
istence OF higher power, and all that re
mains to be achieved before there shall be
a new heaven and new earth is for poets
and prize fighters 10 become modest, prin-
tiers infailibic and book reporters rich.
When these things happen the fates Of
nations may he taken ont of the hands of
men who love to play big games for high
stakes (which some ora else puts up), and
state departments and chanccllcrie5 will
cease to possess archives rich in romantic
material This millennial contamination i;
as yet hardly in sight, and SO Mr.. Ralpl.
Pages selection Of Dramatic NOmcnt4 il.
American Diplomacy is not as exciting
as perhaps it would be n century or ten
centuries hence, when the end of under
cover international negotiation shall have
been witnessed. But America is resolved,
for part of her part in the benefits Of this
war, that nations shall hereafter deal with
each other more openly and honestly than
in the past, and that does indeed promise
not cessation but dimunition of the sup
ply of thrills. And so, by a rather lum
bering process of ratiocination, the con
clilsion is reached that this book has jus,
u little more tang now than it would have
had, say, ten years ago.
Readers not familiar with the events
it recites will find it thrilling as a pretty
lively novel, and those who know them as
calmly reported in the histories will find
them in this telling endowed with new
significance. Benjamin Franklin, Silas
Deane, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris,
Elihu B. Washburn, Rufus King, Robert
Livingston, Stephen Decatur (gunpowder
diplomat), Salmon p. Chase, Arson Bur
lingame, John Hay-there have been some
good men in our lineup! Mr.. Page tells
how they played the game-and generally
wOn-and tells it with sure feeling for
that most dramatic" moment of what
our nation of fans calls "the break"
DRAMATIC MOMENTS IN AMERICAN
DIPLOMACY. BY RALPH PAGE. Double
day, Page & Co. SIPS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
and Speaking

them, only to do one little thing just quit
printing his name"
How that plan was perfected and car
ried out in concerted action by all the
newspapers and magazines of America,
and with what results, is told dramatically
by Cobb. The story is interesting and
timely, though the pro- German element
among US will not enjoy it.
Speaking of Prassians is a passionate
and yet restrained analysis Of the Ger
man war machine, its spirit and its oper-
atoms as Irwin Cobb has seen it. Cobb
says of his purpose in writing this article:
aside from a natural desire to do my
own little bit, my chief reason is this:
Largely by chance and by accident, hap
pened to be one of four or five American
newspaper men who witnessed at first
hand the German invasion of Belgium
and one of three who a little later wit
messed some Of the results of the Ger
manic subjugation Of the northern part
of France. I was inside Germany at the
time the rush upon Paris was checked and
the retreat from the Marine took place,
thereby having opportunity to take cog
nizance of the feelings and sentiments and
the impulses which controlled the German
populace in a period of victory and in a
period of reversals."
Mr. Cobb describes scenes that he wit
messed in Belgium and in France, scenes
that filled him with loathing and hatred
for the system that could be responsible
for them. He anatomizes the spirit Of
militarism that has made of the Germany
of Goethe and Heine race of machines
with a lust for hate. By his sincere and
straightforward accounts of what he saw,
and by his philosophizing concerning the
meaning of Germany's actions, Cobb stirs
the reader to a deeper feeling that Amer
lea must do everything possible and as
quickly as may be, to stop the ravages of
this mad dog of the world.
THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE. BY
IRWIN COBB. George II. Doran Company.
so cents.
SPEAKING OF PRUssIANs. BY IRWIN
COBB. George H. Doran Company. so
cents.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
From Bapaume
to PassChendaele

NDER the title of From Bapaume to
~ Passchendaele Philip Gibbs, war
correspondent for the London Chronicle,
las gathered together a series of swiftly
moving panoramic views and character
sketches and the story of his experiences
and his observations during the retreat
from the Somme, the battle Of Arras, the
battle of Messines and the battle of
Flanders.
Much of the significance which writers
It that time saw in the apparently irresist-
ible drive of the Allies toward the border
has since been lost in the return of the
Germans back over the land from which
they had been driven. None the less Mr..
Gibbs is TO be congratulated for having
confined his efforts to the role of a cor
respondent and reporter of what he saw
at the front. He has not yielded to the
temptation to act as an interpreter of
events and he has refused to risk his rep
utatIon as journalist on the off chance
OF establishing reputation as a prophet
His book is as true to-day as when it was
written, which, unfortunately, cannot be
said Of the writings of many of his con-
tcmporaries
With the prospect of a continued AL
lied advance Mr.. Gibbs's book will have
comparative as well as historic value, for
while the view of the correspondent at
the front is less intimate than the view of
the soldiers it is broader:
"They know with a particular intimacy
the smallest landmarks there. They know
the stencil of those places. We 90 from
one battle to another feeling the pulse of
1t, watching its symptoms, diagnosing the
prospects of life or death, recording its
history as observers and not as the pa
tients of war"
Glbbs's enterprise, love of adventure
and nose for news carried him too far.
He has, In the words of the publishers,
made his home at times in shell craters
and dugouts On the firing line, in peas
ants cottages, in famous old wine cellars,
in historic cathedrals and chateaux. He
was at times with the Australians and the
Canadians, footing it wi the Jocks, or
sloggin' along with the Cockney contin-
gent. He talked Of the war with the
French peasants, old men, old women and
young girls, some of whom told him
things about the Hun which do not make
pleasant reading. But from his narrative
we learn something of the indomitable
spirit, the fighting heart, of the Allied
forces.
DAZZLE. By PHILIP GIBRS.N Geofoe II
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

"The helmet worn by American soldiers
follows the general lines of the British
type of inverted soup plate rather than
the French 'casque' or the German coal
seuttle'," says Francis A. Collins in The
Fighting Engineers. Penetration tests
show that no helmet is more efficient than
that of the American type. Every he'll
met issued to the American soldier has
passed severe test and is absolutely free
from cracks or flaws.
ITO turn out this complicated headgear
by the million, using only the highest grade
of materials, is big order; but the great
manufacturing resources of the United
States have proved equal to the work of
quantitative production. Steel helmets
had never before been made in the United
States; but new machinery was designed
and the supply has never fallen behind
the demand. The helmets are made by
stamping and punching sheets of steel, so
thousands may be turned out in day,
with great saving of labor. Each steel
sheet is one foot square and one-sixth Of
an inch thick. The pieces sheared off and
other wastage are returned to the Gov
.rnment, so that nothing is lost"
Frederick Trevor Hill, author of On the
L l. Il
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

Major R. M. Johnston's General Foch :
An appreciation, just published by
Houghton Mifflin Company, gives some of
Foeh's axioms:
"The victory will always 60 to those
who best deserve it by the greatest
strength of will and intelligence"
"Every soldier must see his General
must feel himself in communication with
him, and never be allowed to consider him
self merely a poor pawn maneuvred by
an unknown power"
"a battle lost is only that which you
think YOU have lost. No battle was ever
actually and irretrievably lost
"a battle won is that in which one does
not admit himself conquered"
"Victory is the will to win"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

Frederick Trevor Hill, author of On the
Trail Of Washington and other historical
stories, is an army captain in FraneeA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

FROM BAPAUME TO PASSCHEN.
DAZZLE. By PHILIP GIBBs., George h
Doran Company. $3.50.
The St. Charles herald., 1918-07-27
No. G7o

Twenrv- Eie' th Jud ciai District
Court, Parish Of St, Ch4r.es,
STATE nf Louisiana
Succession Of MA'vna oongy wife
Of l""qu'n |re&po
Nn'Ice i hereby given to the
creditors o. this estate IN TO all
other person herein interested {"
show cause y. Mn ten DAYS IRON
the pres. n notification (f any
have or CAM why the annual &C
count presented by Sidney Greemc
Tutor of the minors Vile Cresro
Flora Cresno ard Allen Crespo,
should rot he hompiogaled ana
approved, and The funds distribu:
ed il accurdauce lhereWlth
BY order u the court
/. 7 Baudouin. Clerk
Clerk Cfice, Parish Of 81 Char
les July I}-. 1918
The St. Charles herald., 1918-07-27
JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENT


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The St. Charles herald., 1918-07-27
DOES YOUR FARM
PAY A PROFIT?

All cor cede that It Is absolutely noc'
essary for lawyers. teachers, and ply
sicians to keep up a course OF readlh"
and study in order to do their 0eS'
work. # you were told that your lam
iIy nhzsician or dentist never lea!
ary marazines or = @1ers published for
the betterment Of his profession and
that ne new nothing about new rem
edies ard improved methods Of treat
;,r diseases. would you continue TO
natroniz. him when II would cost ~
more to have the service OF Skilled
r.ysici.r fully posted in regard TO &tl
recent discoveries in medical science!
IF vo, find that there is something
wrong y.,tl your farming ard that you
sre not waking any money. cont YOU
think il 4 ould pay You to investigate
caref lily and learn wher" the leaks
are on va,lr farm? Or course. you can
learn may things by experimenting.
rut experience is often a dear school.
Il many other farmers have already
learned a. considerable cost many o.
the things that you want 10 learn why
not pro9t by their experience and saT@'
vour energy, time and money for some
thing e., 9?
The specialists at the Experim1nf
Station Of the Louisiana State univer-
sity are employed to save you this
trouble and waste of time.
If you are not getting sat;sfac acto-y
/ results from your farming opera in.
write 70 the Supervisor Farm ID
, H.re Study Clubs. Louisiana state
University ard describe your Dr1b
! lens. If you desire it, a course G
| reading will be outire3 for you tAa'
! NAV enable you to L4"l,o yoLr ia.--
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The St. Charles herald., 1918-07-27

Partial Contents
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The St. Charles herald., 1918-07-27

Duroc Jelsays Registered < Brec
MOI lie

Notice is hereby gwen thu. the
Finance Comritiet Of Police Jury
of the Pa,ish OF st. Charles viii
meet on every Saturday previous
he regular meeting TO approve
5. ard any oi'ls received latter
an ,hat day viii be lu'd oyer to
he mex, regular mecu1g
+ echeXnay1re,
Secretary.
The St. Charles herald., 1918-07-27
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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-11-26
LOVED BY TWO MEN
WHAT WOULD you 90?

II you were wavering between two
men, both OF whom protested to love
you. and neither of whom you were
able to pick for your future husband,
what course would you pursue to make
up your mind as to your choice?
This was the problem that confront
cd Polly Marsden. the beautiful
daughter of New York cotton broker,
who has loved simultaneously by a
dreamy poet and digniiled broker.
Polly attempted the expedient OF hay.
| ing her suitors race after her, she be-
! ing given an hours start in an auto.
mobile, the understanding being that
the first man who caught her might
claim her as his bride
This interesting situation was pro-
! life ~ extremely sensational develop.
ments as events proved When Polly
starts ON her course she meets with
numerous adventures, some of them
of an extremely eonical character,
while others. notably one in which she
| is mistaken for a German spy, is dra-
matte to degree. 1t develops further
that when the poet and broker finally
reach her she IL under arrest on a
charge OF espionage and that her cap
! tor, Calby Mason, millionaire Secret
Service operative. is the man who ulti-
mately wins Polly for his bride. AT the
| Central tomorrow
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-11-26
GLADYS sRockwELL.

Gladys Brockwell, who will appear
in the new William Fox photoplay
"Kultur." at the Central Thursday has
been given one of the greatest roles
of her career in this strange story Of
intrigue crime, love and underground
diplomacy
The picture deals with events lead
ing up To the war and with the mach
nations of the German Foreign ONCE.
Miss Brockwell plays the part of
Countess Griselda Won Arenburg, who
is first seen as the favorite of the old
Emperor of Austria and is frowned
upon by the royal family But she
meets a gallant young French secret
service man with whom she falls in
love Later she instigates the assassi.
nation of Arehduke Franz Ferdinand
When war is declared by Germany
a price is set upon the head of the
French secret agent but through the
aid of the Countess he makes his es
cape after urging the woman he loves
to flee with him She refuses &c
ieopardize his safety and pays with
her life
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-11-26
"THE MIDNIGHT PATROL"
AT THE APOLLO THURSDAY

Select Pictures announces q great
special attraction. "The Midnight Pa.
troll" at the Apollo Theatre on Thurs
day. This is a sensational and thrill
ing story Of Chinese underworld life
in one of the big western cities. 1t was
produced by Thomas H. Ince.
The principal figures in the story
are Terrence Shannon, sergeant of the
Chinatown police squad. WI Fang, Jim
Murdoch and Patsy O'Connell, young
lady who has charge of the Chinese
rescue mission.
Patsy is held captive by Wu Fang
and his gang. Murdoch, who is aiding
WI Fang to smuggle in a shipment Of
opium. notifies Shannon thai PATSY
will be harmed unless he keeps the
police away on The night the shipment
is expected to arrive.
The call of duty comes first, now
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-11-26
NAZIMOVA'S PLAY
GREATEST OF CAREER
Work ain "Toys OF Fate SURPRISES
Brilliant Achievements in
Revelation

Nazimova, The great Russian ae-
tress, has capped the climax OF her
brilliant career by her wonderful work
in her latest screen play. Toys OF
Fate a Screen Classics, Inc, pro-
duction, which will be released by
Metro This talented and International.
ly famous artist has combined an ln4
usually successful theatrical season on
Broadway with her latest supreme
photo-piay achievements THE Wild
Duck" The Dolls House. "Hedda
Gabler.' and other plays by the noted
Scandinavian dramatist. Hendriek lib.
sen, comprised her repetoire OF stage
plays and Revelation and Toys OF
Fate" her picture features. produced
this year.
Toys Of Fate her latest screen
masterpiece, is gripping drama in
which the gifted actress Ia given wide
scope to display her tremendous dras
matte powers At the Central Tues.
day.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-11-26
HEADACHE FROM
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stops nasty discharge or nose running.
relieves sick headache, dullness, few
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Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowing
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such prompt relief as "Papes Cold
Compound" which costs only a few
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no Inconvenience Accept no substi-
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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-11-26

ever. and Shannon prepares to raid
the den and ats the same time rescue
Patsy from the clutches % the Cn'nese.
In order to gain entrance 30 Wu Fang $
den, Shannon gets "Chink Ross TO
help him find the secret passage. in
the meantime Shannon has Left word
for the reserves. to follow him unless
he is back at a certain hour.
When Shannon breaks into WI
Fang's den he is oyerpowered i'll the
fight that ensues. When he ragains
consciousness WI Fang tells him chat
he is to be thrown into a pit filed with
live rats. Patsy, in the meantime, is
held captive ia4.another part Of the
den. Just as they are about to throw
Shannon into the pit, Policeman
Michael O'Shea arrives with the re-
serves WI Fang is killed in the fight,
while Murdoch, the corrupt politician,
is captured and placed under arrest.