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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-13
CHAPTER TX.

0dASt0G NfffC6s
I was in my first dugout and looked
around %curiOusly. Over the door of
same was a little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called suicide Ditch" Later on
| learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept in mud. washed in mud, ate mud,
and dreamed mud. l had never before
realized that so much discomfort and
misery could be contained in those
three little letters, NJ U ID. The floor
of the dugout was an inch deep in
water. outside ii was raining eats and
dogs, and thin Tivulets were trickling
down the steps. From the air shaft
Immediately above me came a drip,
drip. drip. Suicide Annex was a hole
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six
feet high. II was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
were twenty steps leading down TO IL.
These steps were cut into the earth,
but at that time were muddy and slip
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RAISE MISCHIEF WITH WIRES
Remarkable Effect of Aurora Borealis
on the Telegraph Wires OF
the Country.

When the aurora borealis, or "north-
ern lights" pay us a visit there is
trouble on all the telegraph and tele-
phone lines. The reason for this
seems to be that the aurora borealis,
which is really an unusual electric
emanation from the sun, sets up abb
normal earth currents. The strength
Of these currents has been measured
many times and found to have a poten-
tial varying between 425 volts positive
and 225 volts negative and a resist
ance of about 1000 ohms.
Donald McNicol, assistant electrical
engineer of the Postal Telegraph com
pany, who has given much study to
this subject. made an official report in
1892. quoted in the Electrical Expert
menter, in which he described the eff
fects of earth currents on the ten At
tantic cables then in existence. Most
affected was that from Brest to MiQue-
Ion island, and the disturbances were
greater at the western than at the
could send messages to Brest but could
not receive any.
Long cables were more affected than
short ones, southerly ones more than
northerly ones, and the abnormal cur
rents seemed to travel mostly from
east to west. Sometimes the earth cur
rents are so strong that they injure the
~condensers. But they are most erratic
in their nature and behavior.
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McDermitt.N National Line

Leaves Winnemucca land opposite
points, daily. except Sunday. at z a
~, for McDermitt. National and way
stations.
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perry. A man had to be very careful
or else he would "shoot the chutes."
The air was foul, and could cut
the smoke from Tommy's flags with a
knife. 1t was cold. The walls and
roof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven into these timbers. On
each nail hung q miscellaneous assort-
ment of equipment. The lighting ar
rangements were superb-one candle
in a reflector made from an ammuni-
ton tin. My teeth were chattering
from the cold, and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much.
While / was sitting bemoaning my
fate and wishing for the fireside at
home, the fellow next to me, who was
writing a letter, looked up and inno-
Gently asked, "Say, Yank, how do you
spell 'confiagration'2"
/ looked at him in contempt and an
swered that l did not know.
From the darkness In one of the cor-
ners came a thin, piping voice singing
n Of the popular trench ditties en-
titled:
Pack up your Troubles in your Old Kit
Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile"
Every now and then the singer
would stop to cough, cough, cough, but
1t was a good illustration of Tommy's
cheerfulness under such conditions.
A machine-gun officer entered the
dugout and gave me a hard look. l
sneaked past him, sliding and slipping,
and reached my section of the front
line trench, where l was greeted by
the sergeant, who asked me, where
In - ave you been?'
/ made no answer, but sat on the
muddy fire step, shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating in my
face. About half an hour later 1
teamed up with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten o'clock l was
relieved and resumed my sitting posi-
ton on the fire step. The rain sud
denly stopped and we all breathed a
sigh of relief. We prayed for the morn
ing and the rum issue.
ITO Be Continued)
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HELP IN $3.50
WHEAT PROGRAM
Thousands Of Retail Grocers Sup
port Food Administration
Rules. e
SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY.
New Wheat Saving Program Demand
cd - Allied Food Shortage In
oreases-Amerlca Must
Feed Fighters
SIGN PLEDGE VOLUNTARILY.

Explaining the United States Food
Administrations new $3.50 wheat reg
ulations is a war time task the Amert-
can grocer has gladly shouldered.
Many stores are already displaying
their Food Administration wheat saw
ing pledge cards, that they have sign
ed, agreeing to carry u the new
wheat program.
Each -four customer is now requir-
ed to buy one pound of cereal substi-
tute for every pound of wheat flour.
The substitute may be Of one kind or
assorted. This $3.50 sale Is made by
weight and not by value of the com
modIties. There is. of course, no reg
ulation demanding the consumer to
buy wheat -four at all
A wide variety of substitutes has
been provided: Cornmeal, corn -four,
edible cornstarch, hominy, corn grits,
barley -four, potato -four, sweet potato
-four. soya bean flour. Feterita -four
and meals, rice, rice flour, oatmeal
rolled oats and buckwheat -four.
Graham and whole wheat -four %
stitute an exception to the national
regulation. Either of these commodi
ties may be sold at the ratio of three
pounds to five pounds of wheat AJur-
hat is, five pounds Of graham or
wheat -four counts the same as three
pounds of the usual wheat -four.
Mixed fiours form another excep
- tYA..A -. -A-N4.. "a
per cent. or less of wheat Ii may he
sold without any substitutes. Where
the -four Is mixed at the rate of ca
per cent. wheat and 40 per cent Of
other ingredients an additional 20 per
cent. OF substitutes must be purchased
by the consumer.
Where necessity Is shown specially
prepared Infants and invalid's food
containing flour may be sold.
That the approved substitutes may
be assorted is a fact many grocers
and housewives overlooked for a time.
For instance. If a customer wishes TO
buy a "a pound sack of flour the nee
essary substitutes might be assorted
as follows: Cornmeal, s pounds corn
grits, 4 pounds; rice, 4 pounds; buck.
wheat, 2 pounds c~ornstarch, l pound
hominy, 2 pounds; rolled oats, 8
pounds.
None of the substitutes should be
considered as a waste purchase.
There are many household uses for
each. The eight pounds of cornmeal
can be made into cornbread, corn muf
fms or used In the baking Of wheat
bread.
COrnstarch is useful In making Gus.
tard. ~thickening gravy or may be used
In cake baking. Corn grits fried like
mush forms a delicious dish, or II may
be used in baking corn bread. Rolled
a I are used largely as breakfast por-
ridge or in oatmeal cookies or In
making mullins.
Buckwheat flour may be used In
bread making. forming an excellent
substitute for one-quarter of the
wheat -four. but is especially choice In
the form OF buckwheat cakes for
breakfast.
With IL wheatless meals needed
each week in America 10 provide
enough wheat for the allies, the Food
Administration believes the substitutes
will all be used to advantage.
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WOMEN Drawer THAN MEN

Women often do their daily tasks in
home, Office or factory while suffering
pain and misery that would put a man
in bed. However. much of women's
suffering can be alleviated. Backache.
sore muscles, stiff joints, rheumatic
pains, dizziness and like symptoms
are caused by disordered kidneys and
bladder. Mrs. Thos. Davis. Montgom-
cry. Ind, writes: II doctored several
months without relief, when | COM
menced using Foley Kidney Pills. and
got relief. Eight bottles cured me-"
Safe, harmless; quick results. For
sale in Winnemucca by Eagle Drug
Company.-lAdvertisement.
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WESTERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
AUTOMOBILE STAGE LINES

Office and Garage. Sixth and Melar
key Sts., Winnemucca. Phone 46.
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Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

(. Jim Townsend hurls the following warning to delinquent subscrib- 9
: RS: "You may hive all the stars in a nail key; hang the ocean O a 9
Z: rail to dry; put the sky in a gourd to soak; unbuckle the bellyband 9
: of eternity and let out the u and moon; but eve delude yourself q
with the idea that you a escape that place, deeper than purgatory, {
unless you pay the printer" Z
. The gas works scheme is reported % have fallen through. Winnie
. mucca needs a lighting plant and will have n sooner II later-prob-
. ably later. according to present indications. Some day a n outside party
(: will step in and furnish our necessary public utilities and then what
. a howl will go up.
, Z
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USE LESS WHEAT.

The allied nations have made
further increased demands on
US for breadstuffs - demands
that Americans are obligated to
meet.
In the meantime Americas
meat supply has been greatly
increased for seine months to
come by the Unprecedented
shipping to market of hogs that
averaged 232 pounds each In
stead OF 203 pounds-the nor
NAL.
The United States Food Ad-
m%inistTation. endeavoring to ad.
Just the international food bal
ance, promptly removed certain
restrictions In this country on
the use of meat and at the same
time asked for a smaller con
sumption of hreadstuffs.
We are asked to observe only
n meatless day each week
Tuesday. We will have larger
meat stocks for awhile. But
our bread ration must be held
TO a minimum.
In altering It's food conserva- :
non program the Food Admin
lstration emphasizes that the
food situation is of necessity,
subject to radical changes.
caused by crop conditions at
home and abroad and by the
precarious transportation prob
lem, both In overseas shipping
and In Americas overburdened
transportation system.
The Food Administration viii
keep the American people fully
and frankly advised of each
change in the developing situa-
ton that they may know def
nitely the part their food sac
riices play In the world war.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-13

Invest in Liberty Bonds and save
American lives "Over there"
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ITO Be Continued)

Make a garden! pleads the govern
ment, and straightway starts a cam
paign urging people to keep chickens.
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-04-13

Paradise and Willow Point Line
Leaves Winnemucca (and opposite
points, daily. except Sunday. at z a
M. for Paradise, Willow Point and
way stations. 25 lbs. baggage allow.
ed; &c Id. for excess.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
For Sheriff.
R. L. Mcdonald

To the voters of Richmond Co.
Twill be a candidate for the
Office of sheriff of Richmond
county, subject to the Democratic
primary to be held June 1st, 1918.
The voters of Richmond coun-
ty by a majority expressed at the
polls voted to place the sheriff
on a salary, and not to give him
a salary and FEES as the law is
now construed. I voted for the
salary system, and will not re.
sign if elected, should the legis-
lature change or modify the
law as now construed so as to
give the people what they voted
for, a salary without fees.
lam willing to serve on a sal
airy, and think the people should
have what they voted for.
This April l, 1918.
w. F. LONG.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
SHERIFF BALDWIN NOT
A CANDIDATE.
Sheriff Baldwin Not to Be a
Candidate for Renomina-
ton. His reasons.

| desire to make the following
anr ouncement to my friends in
Richmond county, and this is,
that l will not be a candidate for
the office of Sheriff of Richmond
County, and hereby withdraw
my name from the race.
| have several reasons for doing
this, the foremost of whichis that
the state of my health is such
that / do not think it wise for me
to continue in the campaign. !
want to thank each and every
one that gave me their support
in the past and all those who SO
kindly expressed themselves. as
being for me again, and to assure
them that l appreciate their ef-
fort in my behalf, and hope it
will be my good fortune to show
this in a more substantial way.
This April 10Th. 1918.
Respectfully,
HID. Baldwin
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
Victorian Community Club.

,.s q
The Victorian Community Club
held its regular meeting, with
Mrs. ]. w. Bennett, as hostess,
on Tuesday afternoon, April 16.
Several of the membersbrought
some meat and wheat substitutes
made from war time food recipes,
and after we had discussed and
sampled" these we listened to a
very interesting address from
Supt. L. J. Bell.
A few days previous to this we
had a call meeting at Mrs. ]. J.
Benefits at which we had Mrs.
Eubanks, of Durham, a, our
guest. She gave some very
helpful suggestions on the prep
arations of meat and wheat sub.
stitutes. -
The next regular meeting will
be at the home of Mrs. w. O.
Ellerbe.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
Caesar Resigns.
(From Rockingham School News.)

CAESAR Crunp, for 6 years
Janltor of the city schools, has
resigned. He has answered the
call of nature, for the ''back-to-the
farm" movement and the High
Cost of Living" have struck him
a solar-plexus blow. He is going
to "hie him away to green things
a-growing." He intends to fol.
low the simple life of the soil
and pull the bell cord over the
back of an American mule.
Caesar is a gentleman He
has been uniformly patient and
kind to the children. In these
six years no child has ever made
a complaint against him. He is
dependable, reliable and faithful.
You can count with confidence
on what he tells you. He leaves
with a sort of regret and we are
glad of that for we regret to see
him go. Flowing is more profit
able than running a school, 50
here's luck, Caesar! May your
barns and cribs burst with plenty
and your smokehouses drip rivers
of fat!
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
Kitchen Cabinet for Sale.
For Sale, McDougall kitchen
Mrs. R. B. Napier.
AT THE STAR.THEATRE
PROGRAM
from April % to May a

MONDAY
Metro The Square Deceiv-
err" in five reels. Adm. 10 and
15c, featuring Harold Lockwood.
TUESDAY
A big special picture for this
day, as we are making new ar
fragments for our Tuesdays
show and we are sure that they
will give you better satisfaction
from now on.
WEDNESDAY
Mutual Midnight Trail" in
five reels, Adm. 10 and 15c, fea-
turing old Big BILL" Russel
and you can bet that this will be
a great picture.
THURSDAY
Pathe-"The House of Hate -
with Pearl White, in two reels.
Fox Two-reel comedy that will
make you ldugn at nTSt Slght.
Pathe. Hearst News No. 33. This
makes five reels in all. Adm. 10
and 15c.
FRIDAY
Pathe Play" "Naulahka," in six
reels, adm. Is and 25c., featuring
Antonio Moreno and Doraldina,
one of the finest pictures Pathe
has ever made and it is of real
color. Two Americans, a young
man and a girl, finds that the
ways of the East are unchanging
and that,he who would change
them is playing with FIRE.
SATURDAY
Vitagraph "The Fighting
Trail" or "The Water Trail,' in
two reels. Keystone Afraid
to be False, in two reels. Hearst
Pathe News No. 81. This makes
five reels in all, adm. 10 and l5c
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
For Sheriff.

At the request of many friends
| hereby announce myself a
candidate for the Office of Sheriff
of Richmond County, subject to
the action Democratic primary
June 1st, 1918.
/ will appreciate all support
given me and if nominated and
elected | will faithfully serve the
public and fulfill every duty of
the office to the best of my ability.
]. r. Bennett.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
For Coroner.

| hereby announce myself a
candidate for the nomination for
the office of coroner of Richmond
County, subject to the Democrat.
ic primary to be held on June 1st,
1918. If nominated and elected
| shall perform the duties of the
Office as ! have in the past. | am
grateful for support given me in
past and will appreciate all votes
given me.
This April 18th, 1918.
A. M. Smith
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25

steadily increases. because men
going into the camps on this side
very often serve to release men
with camp experience to 60 a
broad.
Absolutely no man Of draft age
can be used, unless he is so con.
spicuously disqualified for physi.
cal reasons, such as lameness,
ETC., that his disqualification is
evident to the most casual obser-
yer.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
For Sheriff.

l hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the office of Sheriff
of Richmond County, subject to
the action of the democratic .pri-
mary to be held June 1st, 1918.
The laws of North Carolina
says that the Sheriff of Richmond
County SHALL receive a Salary
and no matter who is nominated
and elected, he can not get any
thing except this salary.
I earnestly ask my friends to
assist me to secure this nomina-
ton. .
Respectfully,
R. L. Mcdonald
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
Clank! Clank!

Once there was little boy,
And he had little bank,
And every time he'd shake it,
The pennies would clank.
He's saving all his pennies
Till he gets twenty-five.
Then he's going to buy Thrift Stan
As sure as you're alive.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
HATCH WITHDRAWs.
H. D. Hatch Withdraws as .
Candidate for Register
of Deeds.

Since making my announce
ment as a candidate for the nom:.
nation to the Office of Register
Deeds | have decided not to be.
come a candidate and hereby
withdraw from the race.
| wish to thank my friends
who so kindly offered me their
support and trust that at some
time | can be of service to each
of them.
H. d. Hatch.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25

half Of these were in Thrift
Stamps and to my great delight
/ found that both parents and
children appreciated far more
highly the latter than the former
prizes. Every speaker stressed
the support Of the war and the
people seemed to have gotten a
new vision. q As a whole, it was
one of the best county COM
mencementsssssI ever Mwitnessed.
And while we do mott meana to
discount: Etheir kvery Eworthy
supervisor, we do know that
without the hearty cooperation
and unfailingl support, the
county superintendent, and negro
citizens, such an occasion would
have been anlimpossibility."
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
Justice of the Peace.

I hereby announce my can
didacy for Justice of the Peace
for Rockingham Township, sub.
ject to the Democratic primary to
be held June 1st, 1918.
A. B. Chandler.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
! For Register of Deeds.

| hereby announce myself a
candidate for Register of Deeds
for Richmond county, subject to
the Democratic primary to be
held on June 1st, 1918.
Joseph Gibson.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
For Clerk of Court.

l hereby announce my candi
dacy for Clerk of Court, subject
to action of Democratic primary
June 1st, 1918.
This, April oath, 1918. H..
H. 6. Abbott. >,
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
For Clerk of Court.

| hereby announce myself a
candidate for denomination for
Office of Clerk of the Superior
Court for Richmond County, sub
ject to the Democratic primary.
]. A. McAulay.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
For Clerk of Court.

| hereby announce myself a
candidate for the Office of Clerk
of the Superior Court for Rich
mond County subject to the
action of the democratic primary
to be held June 1st 1918.
May 9Th 1918.
T. Covington.
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25

] hereby announce my candi-
dacy for the Office Of Register of
Deeds for Richmond county, sub
ject to the action of the Demo
cratic primary to be held June
LIST, 1918.
This April 18th, 1918.
!. Robt. Il Johnson
Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
Richmond County School
Commencement.

/ 4
John D. Wray, Of Greensboro.
was among the colored visitors
who attended the colored county
commencement at Rockingham
April 18th, 1918. Upon his re-
turn to Greensboro, he wrote the
following account of the COM
mencement, and had it published
in the Greensboro Daily News.
The editor of the Rockingham
Post Dispatch gladly gives space
to it, in the hope that by so doing
it may be the means of encour-
agement; the account follows:
There was a most typical de-
Imonstration of negro patriotism
at the Richmond county com.
mencement in Richmond county,
April Is. This, as understand,
is the second county commence
ment that has been held under
the auspices of the present super
visor, Sadie P. Harris, who is a
very efficient young woman with
excellent training, but very un-
assuming. Very much to her
credit, she had the hearty coop
GRAFTON of every teacher in the
county. Even the principals Of
the city and private schools with
all their teachers and students
who had no official connection
with the affair, took a most ac-
tive part in all the exercises that
this most worthy occasion might
be a success.
THE great parade started from
the colored graded school at Ills
a. m. There were about 1900
children in the procession. They
marched through the main street
of the city to the fair ground, a
distance of about a mile. All
agreed that it was the most beau
tiful parade they had ever seen.
Without a single hitch they
reached the fair ground about
IL noon. Here about 1000 par
ents and children were assem-
bled. The vast audience was
called to order by the chief man.
ager, Rev. J. S. Brown. He led
the crowd in singing our national
hymn, America" It was worth
anyone's trip to Rockingham to
have heard hiswonderful chorus
as it rang out against the clear
sky, with the voices of hundreds
of little tots blending with those
of their parents and grand par
ents in a melodious tone that
fairly seemed to make the very
arches of heaven ring. Every
heart seemed to have been filled
with emotion and every soul
stirred with thefre of patriotism.
AT this point very appropri-
ate prayer was offered by the
Rev. T. T. Taylor which was
followed by an excellent address
on what the Negro Can Do to
Help Win the War;" by Professor
[. ]. Bell, county superintendent
of Richmond county. Space will
not permit comment on Professor
Bells address, but it is sufficient
to say that he is the superintend.
Ient of the people Of Richmond
county. a safe and sound advisor
and a friend to the negro people
n
At this point we had a very ex
cellent address by Mrs. F. C.
Williams, state health officer for
negroes, which Hon. w. N
Everett pronounced to be the
best he had heard on this subject
This was followed by a sholt
talk from the state corn clut
agent. The closing speech was
made by Hon. w. N. Everett
chairman of the county board oi
education. He said that he was