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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-12

TIE War Board has removed the
restrictions OF The country press and
l am again permitted to trust to the
honesty os subscribers to the REGIS.
TER. For the city newspaper the pay
in-advancc system is one they are
compelled to adopt ia self-detense.
With the country paperth conditions
are essentially different. The REGIS
TER has subscribers who have long
been on its list, some of them far
thirty, even forty, years. Ought /
strike off the name of one of these
because the date to which he Is paid
has iapsed? Not on your life, Maria!
Not unless he notifies me that he is
tired and wants 10 quit. | know he
wants the paper and will pay for it,
0 II later, and if death over
take him and his estate is iusolvent, |
am content to endure the loss. OF
course prompt payment is best both
FOR him and ME, but where a publisher
knows his man may he not trust him?
Some of those sitting high in the
councils of the profession say "No!''
Well, the REGISTER has endured fifty
two years without rigid adherence to
the pay-in-advance rule, and may be
said to be fairly prosperous despite
its long-continued perversity. Il few
skunRs have been de veloped, but in
n%inety-niue cases out OF every hum
dred faith in the honesty OF Ran in
the bulk has not gone unre warded.
Putting aside the question Of profit
and losa, | don't lise tbs notion of
having an official guardian to direct
the conduct of my business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-12
Are You Wondering What to Get Him?

Listen! He has been denying himself these War Times in or
der to keep food and clothing for the family. Buy him a Suit or
Overcoat. He will appreciate good clothes. When he sees this
David Adler Conegiau label in his Christmas Gift, he will know
You wanted 10 give him the best. These fine Suits and Overcoats
range from $4,000 to $500. We have hundreds of articles that
make Useful Gifts for Men-consting Of Gloves, Linen, Silk and
Initial Handkerchief, Biu-Books, Leather Card Gases, Purses,
Meckwear. snspenders, Safety Razors. Shaving and Smoking Sets,
Hair Brushes, Hat Brushes, Military Brushes, Fine Dress Shirts.
Mackinaws, etc.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-12
All Aboard for Santa Land!

Our Store is Christmas Headquarters for all the
myriads Of TOYS so dear to the hearts Of the Bows
and Girls. Toys by the hundreds, from Sc to $l0.
Bicycles, Sleds, Air Rifles, 22,caliber Repeating Ri
tles, Flexible Flyers, Skates and Footballs; Field
Guns, Machine Guns and Battle Tanks for the larger
Boys. Games, Game Boards, Rocking Horses, Veloc-
ipedes, kiddy Cars, Wagons, Carts, Mechanical
Trains, Automobiles, Erector Sets and Educational
Toys for the smaller Boys.
CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENTS and DECORATIONS Of All Kinds
Festooning, Wreaths, Bells, Tinsel, Holly, etc.
Superb collection Of DOLLS, (bring the Girlies
to see the Doll Booth in the Show Window Dolls
from Sc to 1915. Rubber Dolls, China Dolls, I'm.
breakable Dolls, Doll Carts, Buggies and Doll Furni-
niture of all kinds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-12-12
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
TOTTENVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. James Hooper have
returned to Baltimore after q visit
with his parents. Captain and Mrs
Abram Ricklow.
Mrs. Harry Carver and son, have
been visiting her parents at Concord.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Alschuler and
children have gone home to Brooklyn,
after n visit with his brother.
Private Robert Hollowell, who was
drafted from here o months ago
and sent to Camp Mcclellan. Aniston.
Ga, has received his discharge and is
home with his parents.
James Currie is home from VIII
liamsburg, Va. where he went several
weeks ago.
Harry Wood is wounded in the right
hand from a letter received from him
by his mother. Mrs. M. Wood of But
Ter avenue.
Harry Gilchrist of the navy. was
home yesterday for a visit.
Lieutenant j. Leonary Mcdonald
has returned to Indian Head. Nd,
after a visit with his parents, Mr.. n
Mrs. John Mcdonald. the past several
days. :
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith have
moved from johnson avenue to Pleas
ant Plains.
H. B. Cole will lecture on 1.-THE
Birth of a New France" at the school
tonight.
The nomination of officers for Bent
ley Lodge Odd Fellows/will take place
tonight at q meeting OF the lodge.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
OPENS
BUSY SESSION
Many Measures of Peace and
Reconstruction Will be Con-
Sidered Before March 3
B1 Associated Prsss.

00 AooOfN0tC0
WASHINGTON. Dec. Problems
of peace n reconstruction promise
to occupy fully the third and last ses-
SION of the sixty-fifth congress, which
opened today at oon to continue I'M
til 1t ends by limitation on March 3.
After q ten-day holiday following the
long second war session. most of the
members of both Senate and House
were on hand today to start the work
of the winter.
Framing OF the legislative program
had been held in allegiance to await
the address of President Wilson an
hour after the opening. This program
must cover an extraordinary conges-
ton of business including the many
annual appropriations measures. rev.
enue legislation. investigation and
miscellaneous bills.
The usual formalities of the open
ing of q new session were hurried
through because of the fact that
President Wilson, about to sail for
Europe, desired to deliver his adj
dress on the first instead of the Sec
ond day of the session.
After calls of Senate n House
rolls to disclose presence of a quor-
om, committees were appointed to
notify the President and the respec-
tive branches of congress thai the
new session had begun.
Long before the converting hour.
spectators thringed into the capitoi,
pressing particularly to the House
gallery for the joint session at /
o'clock to hear President Wilson.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
DECEMBER COURT TERM
By Special Correspondent.
T~ottenville Burglary Case on the
Calendar.

TOTTENVILLE, Dec. 2.-The De-
cember term of the county court for
the county of Richmond convened at
the court house at Richmond this
morning. County Judge J. Harry
Herman is presiding during the term.
There are a number of civil and
criminal cases on the calender to
come before the court.
One of the cases from this end of
the island to come VI at this time
will be that of John Geraldson, sew
enteen a old, of Barnard avenue,
Tottenville and John LaFord of 319
West Forty-fourth street, Manhattan,
indicted on a charge of burglary.
Geraldson will also LAY to answer
a charge of breaking jail.
He with LaFord were arrested in
July on q charge of having forced
an entrance to the residence of Louis
Rively of Arthur XIII road. and steal
ing a quantity of jewelry BELONGING
to two boarders. They were locked
up in the county Jail at Richmond
and while awaiting action by the
grand jury, Geraldson escaped
through a Goa chute September IA
and got away. He was caught Mon
day night, November IS, while MAX
ing his way across the island on a
tuck and again locked up in the
county Jail at Richmond.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02

MORE WORKMEN
Only to Clean Up the Morgan
Plant, However, Says Super
intendent Eldridge

An advertisement appearing in the
New York papers, to the effect hat
construction laborers were required
to rebuild a large government plant,
and Offering employment to men be-
tween the ages of FL and so 81 the
T. A. Gillespie Loading Company,
agent, at Morgan, has caused consid-
cradle comment, in view of the fact
that Chairman Senator Henry L.
Myers of the Senate Investigating
Committee. which is investigating the
cause OF the explosion at this plant
on October I and 5, announced off,
cially at the hearing on November IL,
the suspension of all reconstruction
work at the Morgan plant, under or
ders from the Ordnance Corps of the
War Department at Washington.
Robert S. Eldridge, the general
manager of the plant, when consult
ed this morning concerning the ad-
vertisement and reminded of the
statement made by Senator Myers
said the men thus obtained were to
be used in cleaning up the plant and
putting things III order. Although all
reconstruction work has been stopped,
Mr.. Eldridge said hat men were still
being employed to finish mp buildings
which had beer started before the
order stopping work had been re-
ceived from Washington. The build
ings are being enclosed so that the
york n materials already placed on
them will not be lost.
1t Is known that many car loads of
materials are being received at the
r'unt daily and when questioned con-
corning the arrival of this stuf~, Mr..
Eldridge SAID that rothing vas being
reserved. but what was ordered aud
could not be stopped. He also main
tanned that he did not have any Idea
as yet what the vast tract of ground
will be used for by the government.
Rumors are constantly being heard
about the city and vicinity concern
ing the stopping of all work at the
plant, the laying off of all office help.
The rumors have even gone so far as
to have exact days set when the Of
fee help is to be discharged, but these
| days come and go, and the help goes
to work. 1t has also been said that
many men have been dropped, but 1t
Is then learned that the greater num-
Der of these men have stopped work,
not because they were laid off, but be-
cause the hours were cut down and
they were not allowed overtime or
Sunday work.
On November 10. the Daily Bulle-
| tin which is issued at the plant con-
, tanned the information that the New
| arkers and Elizabethans, DESTROYS of
travelling back and forth to the plant
daily a la de luxe still have the OPP
portunity of SO doing as the plant is
to nave a fine automobile leave New
! ark. daily, about 7.30 A. M. and the
| plant about SIS p. M. The running
time, about one hour. will afford
means for a pleasant and restful ride
which cannot be obtained by other
modes of travel.
This would lead one to think that
II the plant was TO close down, these
| extra accommodations would not be
| put in service. However from all that
\ can be learned the officials at the
| plant seem to be as much in the dark
as to the future, as those on the out
side.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE
Staten Island Lodge of Elks Hold
Memorial Exercises.

BY special Correspondent.
TOTTENVILLE Dec. Am inn
pressive service was held In connec-
ton with the annual memorial of Stat
en- Island Lodge No. 784 Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks yester-
day afternoon at Viemeister's hall, OPP
posite Elks' club house.
The hall was crowded to the doors
with h members and friends of tho
lodge An elaborate program was
carried out that began with the OPEN
ing ceremonies of the lodge conducted
by the officers. Following selections
by an orchestra Miss Elsie Krauss sang
The Vacant Chair" Leslie G. Gossin,
an old member of the order, a guesr
at the Actors Fund Home on Staten
Island. who was the orator of the day.
gave an excellent address on the order
and what part It took in the recent
world war.
He paid a tribute to the departed
members in whose honor the service
Is dedicated each year on the first Sun
day in December.
Franz Kaltenborn, theP celebrated
violinist, played several selections.
Emil Zeh, tenor s~oloist, sang and the
Singing Society Einighit sang 1.-THE
Lords Day." and The Soldiers Fare
Well" h closing exercises were con
Quoted by the lodge.
The memorial committee in charge
OF the arrangements included ]. Harry
Thomas F. Curley, John A. Lynch,
Adolph Schuster, c. Livingston Bost-
wick, Archie Gordon. DIR. George
Mord, J. j. Worrell, Matthew j. Ca.
hill. Thomas Kenny and Henry A
SeesSelberR.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
CHURCH HOLDS PATRIOTIC
SERVICE SUNDAY EVENING
Large Audience Present at Bethel
Methodist Church When Fine Pro-
gram Is Given.

Blu Specia, C0rreSDondeHt.
TOTTENN1LLE, Dec. Am elab-
crate program was carried out at the
patriotic service held at Bethel Meth
odist church last night.
The church was filled to its capac-
ity and the service was one Of the best
held during the past year on an occa-
sion Of this kind. Members Of the
Police Reserves. Red Cross. Company
E. 18th Regiment Corps of Cadets,
under Captain Leonard Wait, and Boy
Scouts. under Scoutmaster A v. La
Forge, attended in a body and occu-
pied forward seats in the church.
The church was appropriately deco
rated. The choir under Andrew NJ.
Sprague, choirmaster, rendered patri-
otto airs with the congregation joining
in many. Mrs. William II. David, So
loist. rendered when the Boys Come
Home" Rev. c. s. Hunt. pastor of
the church, and Stuart l.. Ritz were
the speakers.
Mr.. Hunt spoke upon "By-Pro-
ducts of the War that are bringing
to pass great social reform. Mr.. Ritz
spoke upon some of the problems of
reconstruction that now confront
America. Both talks were alon pa
triotic lines and the service through
out was full of patriotism.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
AUTO LICENSES
FOR NEXT YEAR
Max Gibian Has Been DeIegat-
ed to Issue Them in Perth
Amboy

The automobile licenses for the year
1919 will be issued by Max Gibian.
the agent at the Perth Amboy Garage
Company on Madison avenue.
The state commissioner has ordered
the agents to keep the office open on
the following dates: December 2 to
December IA inclusive, till Ave o'clock
in the afternoon; December 16 e 26
inclusivet up mail six in the evening,
and from December ~ to 81 inclusive.
until ten o'clock at night.
All license holders must secure their
licenses by January l and all appli-
cations for the renewal of licenses
must be made by the applicant in per-
son.
The drivers of motorcycles are COM
PEELED to bring their 1918 license with
them in order to get the 1919 license.
An order has been issued that no alien
enemies will be allowed to hold IL
lenses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
Jews Attacked at Lemberg

81 4 associated Press.
VIENNA, Wednesday, Nov. 27:-
Hundreds are homeless at Lemberg
as the result of pogroms against the
Jews In that city. 1t is reported that
many people have been killed and
wounded. Three churches and eighty
houses were burned and wholesale
looting has taken place. The trouble
is said to be extending west to Jara-
SLOW and south to Drohodycz, as well
as to many towns in western and
eastern Galicia.
Jewish reports say that the disor-
ders were not attributable to Bolshe-
vism but were the outcome of an eff
fort to prevent the Jews from carry
ing out the principle Of self-determin-
alton according to President Wilson's
program.
Disinterested observers state that
the fighting Is the outcome of the fact
that the Ukranians in Poland wish to
be free and under Ukranian rule. In
Lemberg there is a preponderance of
Polish inhabitants while around the
city the Ukranians are In the major
ity. The people of Lemberg. with the
exception of the Jews. want to unite
with the Poles. The Poles, therefore,
according to these observers. are pur-
suing a policy OF violence against the
Jews.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
by N. e. Al
Copyright 1918.

get that number" I said, ask
Mrs. Brown to come for me-"
Apparently the address proved my
respectability for the man abruptly
became human, decent, friendly. And
then / loathed him as a hypocritei
"Sit here. miss" he said politely,
but gosh, don't faintl"
The blackness into which I drifted
was something more than a faint-it
when Mrs. Brown arrived.
The Madison Emergency Hospital
to which she too me has ceilings q
mile high-at least hat was my i'm
preston when ! opened my eyes after
days and nights of troubled dream
ing. Mother Lorimer was there. with
the nurse, but I was too tired to be
astonished at her presence.
Influenza, dear child" she ex-
planned when she saw hat I recog-
nized her. mot a word now. darl-
ing. just close your eyes again."
/ dtdn't care to talk-I cared for
nothing at all except to cuddle in
hat safe white bed. At least 1 felt
quite safe when / was awake. for
Mother Lorimer was with me. but
when ! went to sleep and lost her, I
was tortured by a terrible need. II
was like hunger, or like thirst. I was
always watching for a certain old r..
F. d. man who used to bring the mail
to me back in my ~girlhood's home. I
expected him to bring me q letter
from Bob n in II Bob was going to
tell me what we would name IT."
That would be hard. OF course. IL 1t
were q girl really couldn't think
of a single nice name for a girl-but
II 1t were a boy. we might name 1t for
Daddy Lorimer. Only. of course. that
wouldn't be fair to Jim Jr. Jim
might marry some day. and would
naturally want a son to be named for
himself.
Ito be continued1
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
EightIeth Chapter

Eightteth Chapter
The broad walk of the empty
pleasure park stretched endlessly
across a world which seemed to rock.
Somewhere near me a trolley buzzed
along, but 1 felt I never could risk a
trip to the city in garments which
seemed expressly designed to adver-
tise their wearer as a woman for sale.
/ felt in my bag for a dime for the
phone-and came across Alexander
Browns card. Call Mrs. Brown"
the obliging secret service man had
said. Great Girl, Mrs. Brownl" 1
remembered. Well, I certainly need
cd a great woman to help me in my
present emergency. I clutched the
card in q very cold hand and entered
the watchman's Office.
The a within was heavy. hand
some. middle-aged.
"Well, grille. you can bet I'm glad
you called!" he said with a leer
which he meant to be 1attering.
Plainly I was learning n good deal
about life In a very short time. |
realized that no woman can wander
about unfrequented spots at unac-
countable hours without learning a
lesson. / thought OF all the nice com
Portable women / know, women who
are hedged around with conventions
and protected by a fathers or a nus
bands money. Can they possibly un-
derstand what a woman faces once
those protecting barriers are crossed ?
If young girls could only know. /
thought. fewer would be advertised
as missing in the daily papers
and more Of them would be patient
with the safe homes they often find
so dull.
The guard handed me the tele-
phone book and leaned close to me
as II to help me find a number. I re-
sented the familiarity-yet I found
myself clinging to his arm as I hand
ed him Browns card.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
BIC LINER BRINGS
1900 SOLDIERS
Mauritania Docks This Morn
Ing After Receiving Great
Ovation in Harbor


NEW YORK, Dec. 2-The British
steamship. Mauretania. sister ship Of
the Lusitania, is In port today with
the first large contingent of American
troops from overseas. The 1000 men,
mostly no-n-combatant troops which
were stationed in England, will be
taken to Camp Mills on Long Island
during the day. Demobilization will
take place at this camp in the future.
Troops aboard the Mauritania, mum
Der 4,205, according to a statement by
the military authorities. including $50
wounded men from the battleflelds of
France. When h big liner left
Gravesend Bay for her North river
pier, Mayor Hylan and-his party were
aboard. The mayor announced that
Secretary of War Baker had denied
his request that the troops parade in
New York before going to camp. 4,
A tremendous chorus of whistler
from every I'M of craft broke
loose as the Mauretania steamed
slowly up the harbor. The liner was
gay With a multitude of flags. e Her
rails were lined with cheering. jesticu-
lating soldiers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
Fuel Conservation Notes

The fuel administrator points out
the possibilities of conserving quan-
titles of domestic. anthracite by using
No. / buckwheat for banking pur-
poses. 1t has been demonstrated that
In using stove, egg or broken anthra-
cite in furnaces, whether for hot-air,
nigh or low pressure steam or hot
water, 1t is not only possible, but BEN
enclal, TO use a proportion of No. 1
buckwheat. In some cases as high as
oO per cent. has been used satisfac-
tory. The procedure Is as follows:
At night, after the fire is shaken
down and some of the larger coal put
on, the fire can be banked for the
night by shoveling on a top dressing
OF No. / buckwheat. This top dress
ing tends to hold the draft and aids
in the proper and economic combus-
tons of the coal body as q whole. The
exact proportion of the small and
large coal should be determined by
experience n by weather conditions.
In the morning, at least during tho
mild weather, the furnace should be
shaken down as usual and fired with
some of the regular coal. After the
ire has come up nicely, the fire can
be checked or banked by using a
quantity of fine coal as a top dress
ing as above. The two sizes of Goa
should never be mixed. but kept in
separate bins and the buckwheat used
only as a top dressing; and for this
purpose 1t should not be used except
with the larger sizes of anthracite.
The ordinary furnace does not have
sufficient draft to produce satisfactory
results when the buckwheat is used
with either chestnut or pea.
From now until cold weather is APP
parently an ideal time to start this
AFactise. as In most cases the real
need for heat Is to take the chill off
the house in the morning. The egu
ar coal can then be used for supply
ing this initial heat, and for the bal
ance of the t~wenty-four hours the
fire banked by using the b~uckwheat.
All winter long, except perhaps in the
most extreme weather a top dressing
of the fine Goa can be used to advan-
tage for banking the fire at night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-02
PLEASANT PLAINS

Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Whitney, of
Fairbanks, Alaska. visited the for
mer's sister, Mrs. C. C. Wincapaw, of
Prince Bay, the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Clark and
children have returned home after
a visit with her father. DR.. Blocker.
of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Ernest Lenoir and children
have been visiting in Manhattan the
past week.
Mrs. G. r. Whitney, of Friendship,
Me-. Is with her daughter. Mrs. C. C.
Wincapaw, for the winter. Mrs.
Whitney is e~ighty-two years old and
came down from Friendship alone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Kahn and
son visited in Manhattan over tho
holiday.
U. 8. Grant Council. Jr. o. u. A. NJ,
will meet tonight at Amicitia hail.
Alon Bement, of Columbia Univer-
sity, will lecture on Marine Camou-
fiage" at the Rossvlle school tonight.