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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-21

The Committee on Roads has re-
ported out the bill proposing State
purchase and control of the Valley
Turnpike. and the Committee on Cen
cral Laws has reported out the bill es-
tabiishng at the University of Virginia
ll9 scholarships and the bill providing
for inspection OF the health of school
pupils The Committee on Courts OF
Justice has reported out, by vote OF
TO ,. the Bowers resolution, propos-
ing initiative, referendum and recall,
which is expected TO produce some in
terest on the floor Of the Senate and
the House.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-21

Friends OF Alber, O. Boschen, Dele
gate from Eicnmond and alleged OPP
icaent OF chtIter-ci.anGe legislation.
yesterday stated u'at they had no Gear
that Mr.. Boschcn would not support
the measure advocated By the City
Council They said that MIR. Bosche n
had not committed himself TO the bill
because he mad not, at the time he WAS
asked his position. had time thorough
Is TO study the matter. II. they con-
tended. the people Of Richmond want
the bill TO pass, II was practically GER
tain thai Mr.. Buschcn would support 1t.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

Gently designated Prof. G. |. Christie
to represent the department of agri-
culture on the newly established war
labor policies board. He is state di-
rector of agricultural extension work
in Indiana, and recently came to
Washington to supervise, under Assis-
tant Secretary Ousley, the farm labor
activities of the department of agri-
culture. The war labor board con-
sists of a representative from the war
department, navy department, ship
ling board, railroad administration,
department of labor, and department
If agriculture. The board will un-
Gertake the formulation and ex-
ecution of policies in regard to in
dustrial relations that are the COM
mon concern of the various depart.
ments and other Independent admin
istrative agencies of the govern
ment."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24
MITCHELL'S
The Mems Store

and technicians of all kinds, includ-
ing radio and buzzer operators, are
needed by the signal corps.
In nearly every large city the fed
eral board of vocational training,
through local school authorities, has
established schools of radio commun
i-ation where men of draft age who
Lave not been called may receive a
preliminary course in the operation
of radio and buzzer instruments.
There are about coo of these schools
where instruction is given, usually in
the afternoons and evenings. 1t takes
about 200 hours for a student of ay-
erage ability to obtain a speed OF 20
words a minute, sending and receiv-
ing. Further information regarding
these schools may be secured from To-
cal school authorities.
Electrical engineers and men with
good fundamental training in engin'
oering or physics are particularly in
demand for signal corps work. Mer
of satisfactory qualifications are Civ
On three months training in special
school, and have every opportunity to
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

4 silver loving cup, first prize for
the best exhibit of special fancy
packs of citrus products at the ma
ttional orange show, has Just been re-
ceived by Mrs. Dora R. Barnes, home
demonstration agent of the depart
ment or agriculture and the state ag-
ricultural college in Polk County
Florida. The exhibit put up by Mrs.
Barnes and some of her club women
was first shown at the Florida state
fair where it took first prize. At the
request of the Orange Growers asso-
Ciation the exhibit was sent on to
San Bernardino, Cal, to the national
show. Another exhibit Of special
packs from Polk county has been
sent by Mrs. Barnes to the Museu
Nacional at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
ct the request of DR.. Carlos Moreiro,
in charge. DR.. Moreiro has written
the office of extension work, south,
that the exhibit is the finest they
Lave ever seen and that it will be
given a prominent place in the mus
cum.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

Homing or racing pigeons, known
as flying homers, are in great de-
L,and by the signal corps Of the U.
S. army as carriers Of messages, and
the department of agriculture urges
pigeon raisers to give more atten-
tion to their breed. The pigeon sec
tion Of the signal corps buys mature
homers having satisfactory pedigree.
breeds them and trains the young
birds. AS the homing instinct of the
old birds is already established and
can not be changed, only the young
birds thus trained can be used for
military communication. They are
one of the surest means of conveying
word across the battle fields. Per-
sons desiring to furnish the war de-
rartment with homing pigeons should
apply to the chief signal corps Off
GER of the nearest cantoment.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

A standard for butter manufactur-
ed in this country is being considered
by the committee on definitions and
standards, composed of representa-
tives Of the department of agricul-
ture, which is charged with the en-
forcement of the food and drugs act.
and of representatives of the associa-
tion of official agricultural chemists
and the association of American dairy
food and drug officials.
A hearing on the subject will be
held in the bureau of chemistry,
Washington, D. c. Butter manufact-
urers and dealers and state officials
interested in the subject are invited
to be present,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24
Agricultural War Work

A Red Cross pig club-the first
one in the U. S.-will send to the
st. Louis market in September 5000
hogs from Carroll county, Miss. This
will mean more pork for the coun-
Try, more money for Carroll county
and contribution estimated at $10,-
900 to the Red Cross. The Red Cross
pig club was organized last winter
ty o. F. TURNER, county agent in
Carroll county. He started out to
combine pork production and Red
Cross work and tried to get $500 peo-
pie to raise one pig to be known as a
Red Cross pig. Instead OF $500 mem
Ders he got 5000 in county that has
only 1900 voters. Every banker,
lawyer, minister, physician and near
ly every merchant in the county is a
member. The pigs ware weighed on
the last Saturday Of each month and
a $25 prize registered pig is given
as a prize to the member whose pig
makes the greatest gain through the
month. Five hundred negroes are
members.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24
France, May II, 1918.

Dear Mamma and Papa: The light
is poor and 1t well be some time be-
fore the electrics are on, but think
better write any way as | may not
get chance tomorrow.
Well, saw an air raid on Paris
a few days ago, the 23rd raid, per-
haps you read of it. The German
planes, four Of them, were sighted
crossing the French lines so the alarm
was given in Paris. The Germans
failed to get to Paris, but we saw
the antiair craft gun shells explode
in the air, heard the reports of the
explosives, saw the lights on the
French planes. 1t was a clear, moon
light night, ideal for raid. 1t seems
the French have good defense
against airplanes now. We did not
know at the time that the Germans
failed to reach Paris, and it was
quite as exciting as If it had been a
successful raid. The people in Paris
are aroused by sirens, whistles, etc.
and are supposed to take to cellars
and shelter, but they are accustom-
ed to them and pay very little atten-
tion.
From here we can see airplanes
flying around at any time, most"
trial trips. We occasionally see a
french dirigiable or observation bal
loon. 1t is surely fascinating to watch
them. ] would like to tour in one,
but. no chance, of course!
We are practising driving trucks
in a park near here, large park
end very beautiful The hardest
work would be pleasure in such sur
Ioundings and such weather. We had
cutie distinguished audience this
afternoon, three lieutenant generals,
two colonels, one lieutenant cnlonel,
a couple of majors. several Ameri-
can lieutenants and French lieu
tenant. Gerenal Joffre passed us the
ether day, but ! turned around just
in time TO see the back of his car.
! did see General Bliss tclay, how
ever.
Well, | had to stop ara light q
candle, electric lights are a bite late
in France. This certainly has heer
a wonderful experience | could
spend half Of M lime tel'inG What
/ saw the other nslf, if / tcli it ali.
There are quite number Of fel
lows in the Frencs army who weTc
Ia the L. S. when the war started.
They came over to join the army,
but are going back when its over.
One fellow was chef in the Fair
mont hotel in San Francisco. Several
were jitney drivers from New York.
One fellow showed US picture OF
his wife and four-year-old child in
New York. There is another fellow,
is years old, who went to an Eng
lish school for year and half.
He lives in Paris and is well off and
for some reason or other has taken
a liking to Art Spooner and me. If
we can so arrange 1t he Is going TO
show us around Paris. He gave me
a dandy French-E English pocket die
tlonary. He has never been in Amer
lea, but like the rest, is anxious to
so.
There is French canteen near
here where we can get cream cheese
(fromage), sardines and figs. Sew
eral kinds of cheese they have here is
fine with the war bread and the figs
in France are the best ever. We saw
one place in Paris where they had
many kinds of American canned
goods, California fruits, Armours'
leef, ETC., but all pretty expensive.
Can't write more tonight, even my
poor little candle is about to go out,
and | must make up my bunk.
Love, HAROLD.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

The bureau of markets is to open
in several cities where producers and
owners of motor trucks can get in
formation looking toward the estab-
iishment of motor truck routes for
farm produce. 1t has been found that
r,any trucks are idle part of the
time and their owners are ready to
make fuller use of the trucks IL reg
ular routes can be established in pro-
ducing sections during periods of the
Heaviest crop movements. Buffalo
n. Y, and Philadelphia, Pa, are the
first two cities where information Of
fices will be opened,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24
Phone job orders to the Tidiugs.
INTERURBAN AUTOCAR co.

Leave Ashland for Medford, Talena
and Phoenix daily except Sunday
at 900 a. m. and 100. 400 and
5:15 p. m Also on Saturday night
at $50. Sundays leave at 900
a. m, 1890, 4:30 and $3.50 p. m.
Leave Medford for Ashland daily ex-
cept Sunday at 500 a. m. and 100,
400 and Sis p. m. Also on Sat-
urday night at 1915. On Sundayn
1890 a. M, 1890. $3.50 and $3.50
p. IN.
Fare between MedfOrd and Ashland
80 cents. Round trip so cents.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

Groups of small sheep growers on
the Minidoka reclamation project,
Idaho, where approximately 500 set
tiers are producing sheep on their
farms, are consolidating their flocks
into larger bands for summer graz
ing. A field man of the department
of agriculture is assisting in the
work. The experiment in co-opera-
tive grazing was tried in 1917 with
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
two range bands and the results were
so satisfactory that the number of
bands has been increased to four this
season. Approximately 5000 sheep,
representing "a small flocks, makes
up the four bands, which will be graz
ed on the Sawtooth national forest.
The farmers act as unit in their
Gealings with the forest service and
cooperate in furnishing supplies and
equipment and in employing the nee
essary herders and camp movers.
Through this cooperation 1t is pos
sible for the small sheep growers to
realize the benefits of inexpensive
summer grazing for their flocks. The
idea also is being tried this season
en- several other reclamation projects
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24
s0HDIER's i1ETTERs
(Continued from mage ~

Continued from page 2.)
most completely covered with beauti-
ful flowers.
There was a speech going on and
a crowd around. 1t rained hard for
awhile in the afternoon, but it didn't
send US to shelter.
i feel about Paris as did of New
York, almost usueless to try to tell
labout it. | must get this to the CEN
sor now. Love,
HAROLD.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

Many foreign women who have re-
ceived training in food conservation
from home demonstration agents of
the department Of agriculture and
the state agricultural colleges are vol
urteering for special canning work.
One canning class held in Massachu-
setts was composed of four Firms,
two Lithuanians, two Poles, two
French, two Swedes, two Italians and
two Armenians. These women all
understand English and will spend d
large part of their time this sum
mer giving demonstrations and help
ing people who speak their languages
with canning work.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

stitutes. The demonstrations are held
in the homes, in settlement houses,
in churches, in liberty bread shops,
and in milk stations. A member of
the group usually acts as interpreter
or young school girl comes to trans
late the demonstration to the moth
ers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

A new type of fruit which has been
named the tangelo has been produced
py the bureau of plant industry and
IS a cross between the tangerine Or
ange and the grape fruit, or pomelo.
AS a class the tangelos resemble
round oranges more than either of
their parents and are exceedingly var
liable. Two well-recognized varieties
have been thoroughly tested and have
been distributed to co-operators for
further trial. The angelo has little
acidity and resembles a tender and
good favored orange more than a
grape fruit or tangerine.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

A boys and girls liberty food club
is being organized by the department
OF agriculture and the state agricul-
tural colleges, composed of all club
members in the 33 northern and west
ern states. In order to become a
member of this club each boy and
girl enrolled in club work must sign
card pledging himself or herself
through food production and food
conservation, to help win the war
and world peace. By this pledge each
member promises to endeavor to the
hest of his or her ability to follow
instructions, attend meetings of the
club, make an exhibit, keep accurate
records, and make complete report
Of his or her activities and achieve
rients. Each member is then furnish
ed with a handsome certificate By
the state club leader, and upon suc-
cessfully completing the work of the
club for the year is given diploma
OF achievement.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

take examinations leading to promo
tion.
Men who have had experience as
electrical repair men, wiremen, and
mechanics are also desired for as
signment to special schools and later
TO field organization.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

The U. S. department or agricul-
ture urges hunters not to shoot pig
ions in air, for they may be homing
I'geons being trained in many Sec
tons by the signal corps of the U.
S. army to carry messages across
battlefields. Farmers and other
breeders who allow their birds a few
hours of liberty each day are liable
to loss from shooting
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

Five former club champions have
Just been appointed paid leaders in
hoys' and girls club work in the CO.
operative extension activities Of the
department of agriculture and the
state agricultural colleges in the
rorth and west. A drive for mem
bership is under way and many new
leaders are being selected to help the
boys and girls with their summer
projects. April there were 5000
men and women leaders enrolled in
this work in the north and west. An
increase of nearly 700 emergency
leaders since that time brings this
force of extension workers near the
1900 mark.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

Many letters in regard to the ad-
visibility of collection and sale Of
old tin cans are being received from
private persons by the department
Of agriculture. The department has
Leen informed by company engaged
in detinning work that cans practical
ly free from rust and foreign matter
arc worth $12 a ton fob. its factory
and that there are from 1000 to 5000
cans in a ton. The company stated
it believes the recovery of tin cans to
lie advisable only in the larger towns.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

The demand for specialists in the
army is increasing daily. Mechanics
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

RADIO AND BUZZER
OPERATION Is TAUGHT
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

To acquaint students with the de-
partment OF agriculture and its work
so they may be better able to coop
crate in campaigns to produce and
conserve food, extension workers Of
the department will give lectures in
summer schools in some of the state
agricultural colleges. Arrangements
have been completed for Prof L. A..
Clinton to give a series of five lee
lures at the summer school of the
Colorado college of agriculture oh
the activities of the department.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

The secretary Of agriculture has re-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-24

Home demonstration agents of the
department of agriculture and state
agricultural colleges are helping wo-
men in this country who speak for
eign languages with their food prob
lens. In order to interpret the gov
crnment's rulings to these women,
literature has been printed in several
languages and demonstrations are
being given in .he use of wheat sub
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-11
American Officials Not Impressed.

Washington.-Offic and dplo-
mats here, on reading Germany's pur-
ported peace terms, as outlined Mon
day in dispatches from London, re-
called that British officials recently
predicted peace offensive" and said,
furthermore, that they expected that
terms to be offered in behalf of Ger
many would be framed so as to appear
most attractive to Great Britain.
Mondays dispatches, officials de-
clared, seemed to fulfill that predic-
ton. Every peace move made
by Germany since her first offer has
been promptly branded by the allied
statesmen as subtle propaganda to sow
dissension and discord among the al
lied people, weaken their resistance
and to lead to what has been charac-
terized as a German-made peace.
Foreign Minister Balfours positive
statement in the house of commons
that no suggestions of peace negotia-
lions had come to Great Britain
through neutral seemed to put the
situation beyond the realm of serious
consideration.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-11
Brave Act RECOGNIZED.

The navy department has commend
ed Matthew McCabe, water tender
for gallantry and heroism in jumping
overheard from the United States
steamship Pocahontas and rescuing
from drowning a fireman who had
either jumped or fallen overheard
When the man was seen to disappear
from the ship McCabe, without hest
tation, jumped into the water and sue
coded in getting line around the
man, who was hanled up on deck. Nc
Cabe enlisted in the navy August,
1916, at New York.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-11
HUNS SEND FORTH
AN OFFER OF PEACE
REPORTED THAT MOVE is Being
MADE TO BREAK THE RANKS
OF ALLIES.
Peace Agent Sent to London With
Proposal That Germans Give Up
Claims in West and Restore Bel
GUM, If Britons Will Quit.

London.-A Central News dispatch
from The Hague, on May 6, declared
that Germany had made her first de-
finite move in the new peace offensive
by sending out peace feeler to Eng
land, consisting of eight terms, two
of which promise the remuneration of
all German claims in the west and
the restoration of Belgium.
The peace agent that Germany is
said to have sent to London is COM
monty supposed to be former war
minister of Holland.
Foreign Secretary Balfour an
nounced in the house of commons,
Monday, that no peace proposal has
been made recently, nor is there any
neutral representative here who made
tentative and informal suggestions for
peace negotiations.
The German terms supposed to have
been sent by the peace agent, are as
follows:
l. Germany renounces all claims in
the west.
tonomous independence.
3. AlsaceLorraine to receive au-
tonomy within the German federation.
A. The status in the east to remain
as at present.
.. Austria Hungary to make con-
cessions to Italy in Trentino.
q. The Balkan questions to be de-
cided at an international conference.
Z. All questions affecting Africa
and Asia-Minor to be solved at the
peace table.
8. Germany to abandon all claims
to Kiao-Chau, but to require certain
economic concessions from China.
Kiao-Chau, which Germany promises
to give up, was leasehold on the Chi
nese coast. Germany secured a ninety
nine-year lease on the tract and built
a strong fort there. The fort was at
tackled by japanese and British forces
at the outbreak of the war and it was
reduced. The allies then occupied
KiaO-Chau.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-11
Flaqler's Florida Railroad.

There is no railroad from Key West,
TO Cuba, and could not we'll be, as
nearly 200 miles of ocean intervene.
What Mr.. Flagier did was to build a
railroad along the eastern coast of
Florida to its southern extremity, and
thence on piles and artificial viaducts
to Key West, and to provide for the
transportation of loaded trains both
ways between Key West and Cuba by
huge ocean ferry boats constructed and
equipped specially for the service.
There are no figures Mt hand as to the
cost of the work done by Mr. Flag
Ter. 1t has been of great commercial
value.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-11
MRS. POTTER PALMER DEAD.
Chicago Social Leader Succumbs t
Attack of Pneumonia.


Sarasota, Fla.-Mrs. Potter Pal
mer of Chicago is dead at her winter
home here of pneumonia.
Mrs. Palmer, who was born in Louis
vile and was the widow of Potter
Palmer of Chicago, where she was a
social leader, had been ill for some
time.
During the Worlds Columbian expo
sition Mrs. Palmer was president of
the board of woman managers and
visited Europe for the purpose of in
terestlng foreign governments. Later
she was appointed by the president of
the United States as the only woman
member of the American commission
to the Paris exposition. She was the
possessor of membership in the Lee
gion of Honor, awarded by the French
government.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-05-11

To drive tank. handle the guns, and
sweep over the enemy trenches, takes
strong nerves, good rich blood, good
stomach. liver and kidneys. When the
time comes, the man with red blood in
his veins us up and at It," He has iron
nerves for hardships-an interest In his
work grips him. That's the way you
feel when you have taken blood and
nerve tonic, made up of Blood root,
Golden Seal root, Stone root, Cherry
bark, and rolled into a sugar-coated
tablet and sold in sixty-cent walls by al
most all druggists for past fifty years
as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoy-
cry. This tonic, in liquid or tablet form,
is just what you need this spring to
give you vim, vigor and vitality. At the
fag end of a hard winter, no wonder
you feel rundown" blue, out of sorts.
Try this Medical Discovery" of DR..
Pierce's. Don't wait To-day is the
day to begin! A little ':pep," and you
laugh and live.
The best means to oil the machinery
of the body, put tone into the liver,
kidneys and circulatory system, is to
first practice good housekeeping
l know of nothing better as a laxative
than vegetable pill made up of May
apple, leaves of aloe and jalap. This
is commonly sold by all druggists as
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and
should be taken at least once a week to
clear the twenty-five feet of intestines.
You will thus clean the system-expel
the poisons and keep toeH. No,o is
the time to clean house. Give yourself
q spring house cleaning.-Adv.