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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-03-22

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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
MASON MUST
FURNISH s.
men IN AUGUST
Thirty Men win Go to Fort Thomas
and Five Go to indianapolis For
Special Training During First
Half Of August,

Mason county will give thirty-fve
more white men to the army during
the first half of the month of August.
Major Henry f. Rhodes, chief of the
Selective Draft Department of this
state, Monday issued a call for 800
selectives to report for general mill
tary duties between August and 10.
The men will all be sent to Fort
Thomas for immediate service and
OF this 500 Kentucky men Mason
county is called upon to furnish thir-
ty
In addition to these thirty men, Ma
son county is called upon to furnish
five men for special training as au-
tomobile chauffeurs and mechanics
These men will report on August 10
-and will go TO indianapolis to enter
training there for month or so
The Mason County Exemption
Board has not yet issued its calls on
the Mason county men as there is yet
plenty of time for the young men to
prepare themselves to go away to
camp. The calls are expected to be
issued within the next few days, how
ever, or soon after the board COM
pletes the task of examining the 140
young men only recently coming
within the draft age limits.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
LEWIS COUNTY
OIL COMPANY
To ORGANIZE
New Concern VIII BE Organized Here
TO Develop What is Supposed to
Be Big Oil Fields in Neigh
boring County.

A company was organized here yes
terday for the development of Lewis
county for oil and gas. 1t has long
been reported that oil and gas
abounds in large quantities in Lewis
county and it has often been planned
to organize a company to see Just
what lies below the surface in the
mountainous section of that county.
Experienced oil and gas men have
men looking over the Lewis county
fields and came to the conclusion that
oil and gas must be there in large
quantities. These men came to Mays
Vile yesterday with determination
to organize a company with a few
Kentucky residents in It so that a
charter could be granted in this state
and they were but short time in Sc
curing influential men here as men,
bers of their pool.
Application for a charter was
made with County Clerk James
Owens this morning. The firm will be
known as the Lewis County Oil and
Gas Company and they will be capi-
talized at $25,OOO
The new company owns oil leases
on FIVE thousand acres OF Lewis coun
ty land near Tollesboro and on the
headwaters of Triplett Creek, where
it is said there are strong indications
of the existance of oil and gas.
The company proposes to make
Maysville its headquarters and the de-
velopment of the Lewis county fields
will begin in very short time after
the granting of the charter. The in
corporators are Messrs. G. w. Ginther,
of Huntington, w. Va, F. H. Perry,
of Cincinnati, Marshall Mereton, Nor
wood, Ohio, and A. d. Cole, of this
city.
Maysville may yet become quite an
oil town and if the new concern
should strike oil or gas in Lewis
county it will make quite a boom in
this city.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
JOSEPH WALTON. DIES AT LEX.
INGT0N

Relatives here have been advised of
the death yesterday morning at 1O:3O
oclock'at his home in Lexington of
Mr.. Joseph Walton, prominent to-
bacco dealer. Mr.. Walton was a ma
tive of the Germantown nelghborhood
but for several years has been en-
gagged in the tobacco business at Lex
ington. Mr. Walton has been suffer
ing for some time with cancer of the
stomach and only recently submitted
to a surgical operation. His wife,
who before her marriage was Mrs.
Carrie Pickett, of this city, survives.
Funeral will be held from the home
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock and
burial will be made in Lexington.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
TELEGRAPH POLE FALLS
ON MAYSvILLE MAN
Charles L. Nauman. Jr., Gang Fore
man on the C. & o. Railroad,
Meets With Serious Accident
On the Ashland Division.

Relatives here learned yesterday of
the injury a few days ago at some
point along the Ashland division of
the C. & o. railroad of Mr.. Charles E.
Nauman, Jr,, who is in charge of a
crew of telegraph linemen,
Mr. Nauman's force has been short
for some time and he was doing some
of the line work himself when tele-
graph pole fell striking him across
the head. He was injured rather SER
iously and was removed to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad company's
hospital at Huntington, w. Va, where
it is reported he is improving very
we'll.
Word of Mr.. Nauman's accident was
brought here yesterday afternoon by
railroad men from the district in
which he was injured
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
LOWER CLASSES
may Be SAVED
BY EXTENSIONS
Draft Age May BE Extended and Reg.
istratiOn Held in Time TO Pre-.
vent Drawing on Deferred
Glasses.

Washington, July 30-Senate and
House military committee members
believed today congress will pass
draft age extension proposals and
that registration will be accomplish
ed in time. to avoid drawing upon
classes two, three and four.
Opposition to lowering the ages are
gradually disappearing, but House.
attempt to prevent men below 21 from
being sent abroad is certain. Many
members would be ageeable to some
form of universal training for men be-
low this age, making them available
as trained soldiers when they came
of age, Though no word has come
to Secretary Baker to indicate what
limits he will ask there is a general
feeling on the hill that he will request
registration of men 10 to 40, or pos
sibly 45 years of age. Men in touch
with the war department, however
think the upper limit will more likely
NC dlOullu %, Ill lHlS connection, III
is pointed out that for the older men
the draft law would develop largely
into a work or fight proposition, CIV
ing the war department considerable
control-with no labelling it-over the
Industrial disposition of men, This,
the department is anxious to avoid.
The original class one will be eX-
hausted in September but there are
the June 5th q year olds to draw up
on and it is expected that new regis
tration of 81 year olds will be held in
September so that it is likely the ma
ton will tide over until congress acts
without taking deferred class mem
bers.
This means, however, that adoption
of extension must be made and regis
tration done before the first of the
year, according to the general view.
Secretary Baker is working on a sur.
vey of the industrial situation with
a view to determine what effect age
extensions would have upon vital war
plants. He will be ready with his
conclusions by the time congress re-
turns.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
WOMEN MEET
THIS AFTERNOON
FOR DISCUSSION
Plans For City Food Conservation
Demonstration at Germantown
Fair VIII BE Discussed at
Meeting This Az
ternOOn.

There will be a very interesting
meeting of the women of the Food
Production, Food Conservation and
Home Economics sections of the Ma
son county unit, Kentucky division
United States Food Administration
this afternoon at o'clock at the First
M, e. Church, South, Second street.
Miss Lula Logan, member of the
Exhibits, Posters and Slogans sub
committee of the Committee on the
Kentucky Fair Exhibits of the Unit
ed States Food Administration, ar
rived last night and will address the
women at this meeting.
1t is urged that all of the women
who have signed Food Pledge Cards
and all who are interested in the pro-
posed demonstration in the interest
of Food Conservation to be held at the
Germantown Fair this year, are urged
to attend this meeting this afternoon.
A full discussion of plans for the
Germantown Fair demonstration will
be held this afternoon and Miss Lo-
gan, who is experienced in such
things, will give some suggestions and
help the women solve the many prob
lens that will confront them.
The women of Bracken and Robert
son counties will join the Mason coun-
ty women in the Fair demonstration
but all who can possibly be on hand
this afternoon at this meeting are
urged to come.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
ASKS FOR DIVORCE

In the Mason Circuit Court yester-
day Sudie McClelland Rose filed suit
for a divorce from her husband, Will
liam Rose In the petition she states
that they were married in 1908 and
that her husband was travelling
man. She lived with him until 1910
travelling over the country but claim
ing Maysville as their home. In 1910,
she says, the husband left her and she
has not since lived with him. She
asks for a divorce from the bonds
of matrimony from the defendant and
to be restored to her maiden name,
Sudie McClelland.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
AMERICANS have
ADVANCED THEIR
POSITION z MILES
Charge Through Severe Barrage and
Make Decided Advance - Ger
many's Crack Regiments
Are Held Back.

With the American Forces on the
Aisne-Marne Front, July 30-Through
a barrage as deadly as any the Ger
mans have laid down on any sector
for months, the American soldiers,
comprising men from the middle west
and eastern states, pushed their line
forward little more today, and to-
night it forms the apex of the long
Allied front.
Their progress, though less than
two miles, is regarded as brilliant
operation in view of the determined
countering by the Germans.
On either side the French also
moved forward, while pressure was
maintained against the east and west
lanks.
Information early in the day indi-
Gated the withdrawal of the Fourth
guard but it developed that the re-
nowned organization and the Bava-
rians were still on the front and the
strong opposition they offered iusti-
! fed their reputation. But their sacri-
flee was in vain.
The Americans withstood two heavy
attacks during the night, and at day
light began their operations, which
left them well to the north of Sergy
on the long slopes approaching the
heavy woods beyond NeIles, little
town directly east of Sirgienes-Et-
Nesles, whose retention the Germans
bitterly opposed
The east line swings northeasterly
opposite this point and then drops off
in the direction of Cierges and Bon
cheres. The Ourcq river had been far
behind the line, being pushed across
the line to the northeast.
The Germans are holding positions
in Nesles forest, from which their
guns are shelling effectively.
1t was late in the day before the
whole of Sirgienes was cleared. The
Germans clung to the northern part
of the town tenaciously and used their
machine guns murderously.
Neither side used artillery in this
particular battle. There was hand to
hand fighting in the streets in which
the Americans proved the masters,
driving the enemy before them.
The story of the fight for the pos
session of Meurcy Farm, lying direct
ly south of Seringes, will long be
remembered in the history of the di-
visions. The Germans on their with
drawal, left behind a strong force of
machine gunners and infantry. The
Americans moved forward through
the yellow wheat fields, which were
sprayed and torn by bullets. But they
advanced as though on drill ground.
The American guns laid down a
heavy artillery fire, but notwith-
standing this, many of the Germans
| remained when it came to hand to
hand fighting. In group of farm
buildings the enemy had set up strong
defenses. Here the Germans stuck to
their guns and the Americans rushed
them and killed the gunners at their
posts.
1t was battle without mercy, and
typical of similar engagements along
the whole line. The Prussian guards
and Bavarians everywhere fought
in accordance with their training, dis
cipiline and traditions, but were out
witted and out-fought
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
EXCURSION BOAT FOR NITRO

The large excursion steamer "Vir-
ginia" passed up the river yesterday
on her way from Louisville to Char
lesion and Nitro, w. Va. The steamer
was recently purchased by the Char
leston-Nitro Transportation Company
from Marshal Brothers, of New AL
bany, Ind, and will be used as an e0-
cursion boat at the West Virginia city
which has grown up around the great
government munitions plant there.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
ENGINEER'S FOOT CAUGHT IN
MACHINERY

Mr. Thomas Carpenter, engineer at
Mcdaniel e Fossetts Coal Elevators
in the East end suffered severely yes
terday morning when his foot was
caught in the machinery on the small
gasoline tow boat Emma H." The
small boat was hauling sand to the
East end elevators. Mr.. Carpenters
clothing was badly torn and his foot
severely mashed. He will be laid up
for several days.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
ARM CUT IN MACHINERY

Ed Taylor, an employee of the
Maysville Twine and Fly Net Factory,
suffered a slight accident yesterday
afternoon when his arm was caught
in the machinery and torn slightly,
The young man was taken to the Of
flee of DR.. Woodson II. Taulbee in the
First-Standard Bank Building where
the wound was closed by a few
stitches.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
INJURED IN AUTO WRECK

Former Sheriff John Clarke was
rather seriously injured in an auto
mobile wreck last night. Mr.. Clarke
with Mr.. Charles Hopper was driving
through from Cincinnati when his car
was wrecked. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Clarke's car was badly damaged.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
MIR. REYNOLDS LEAVES FOR
CAMP TODAY

Mr.. Luther c. Reynolds, local life
insurance man, who recently received
his appointment as Y. NJ. C. A. camp
secretary, will leave today for Camp
Zachary Taylor where he will take
up his new duties.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
WAR PICTURE DRAWS MANY

There were large crowds at the
Gem yesterday afternoon and the
Washington last night to see the pic
ture "The Claws of the Hun" 1t was
an usual war picture which greatly
pleased. These war pictures are the
ones the general public is enjoying
inst now.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31

The largest stock of Fountain Pens
ever purchased by us-now on display
in our show window. Conklin Origin
al Self-fller fully guaranteed. No ad-
vance in price. See and suit your
hand. j. T. KACKLEY G. co. 31-3t
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31

According to reports received here
Corp. Vincent Ellis, patient at DR..
Spragues sanatorium in Lexington,
is improving nicely
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31

Mrs, Elizabeth Robinson, of VIM
chester, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
James II. Hall, of East Second street
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31

There is no improvement in the
condition of Mrs. Frank Devine, of
East Second street, who remains very
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
NOTICE
TO MASON COUNTY STOCK HOLD.
RRS BURLEY TOBACCO co.

Present your stock Certificates Al
Farmers 4 Traders Bank, MaysVIIIe,
Ky- and receive your dividend cheek.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31

Mr.. Frank Gift remains in serious
condition at his home in the county
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-31
WANTED, SCRAP IRON

Highest Cash Prices paid for Scrap
Iron, Metals, and Feed Bags. Call
s. GREENWALD
Telephone 31S. Plum Street.
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30

Have you bought a Thrift Stamp
today?
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30

Allenby, on the road to Jericho, fell
among thieves-and the thieves had
the surprise Of their lives.-Wall
Street Journal.
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30
WHY NE ARE At WAR WITH GERMANY

= !. & = = :. = = + : :. !. :. :. :. :.
& ''The object of this war is to :,
+ deliver the free peoples of the :
: world from the menace and the :.
= actual power of vast military =
: establishment controlled by an :,
= irresponsible government, which, :.
= having secretly planned to dom :.
:. mate the world, proceeded to :.
:" carry out the plan without re- :.
- gard either to the sacred obliga- :.
:. tons of treaty or the long-estab- +
: lished practices and long-cher- +
:. ished principles of international :.
: action and honor; This :.
+ power is not the German people. :.
: 1t is the ruthless master of the :.
= German people. 1t is our :.
+ business to see to it that the his !.
= tory of the rest of the world is !.
4 no longer left to it's handling" :.
= President Wilson, Aug 81, 1917. !.
+ :. : :. :. :. :. :. : :. :. :. !. = :: =
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30
POETIC FRENZY STILL
GRIPPING THESE PENS

The celebrated contest as to which
could remain mounted on Pegasus the
longest, which started between Judge
Otis J. Baughn, of Florence, and P T.
Slayback, of Ray, last New Years, is
by no means ended. 1t will be remem-
bered that Judge Baughn fired the
opening gun by sending a smoke
check with the seasons greetings to
Mr.. Slayback, who retaliated by re-
turning the check with appropriate
verse. The judge replied, and now
the latest retort of '"P. t." has been
made public.
Just what response the Florence
jurist will make to the following out
burst of Mr.. Slayback is subject that
may well engage the imagination of
cur readers:
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30

vening peace in which we will be COM
PEELED to prepare for another war
"The German program of frightful-
ness holds that to shock men into
submission by sheer brutality is more
effective than to kill them. Let no
one imagine that the unspeakable bru-
talities committed in Belgium and
Northern France was the work of ir-
responsible and dissolute drunken
soldiers. The Prussian soldier, bad
as he is, is a thousand times better
than his officers. These officers are
the devils escaped from hell who is
sued printed Instructions to their sol
diers infested with loathsome disease
to slash and mutilate the victims of
their depraved lust so that other sol
diers might know and avoid them.
Fighting is part of nature, say
the Germans, and we will employ all
the forces at our command to destroy
the enemies of Germany. Only quite
recently the Kaiser said, God wills
the destruction of all the people OBJ
posed to Germany
'''God with US; God ordained is
the cry of these incarnate fiends as
they sweep on their pathway of rape,
pillage and murder of the innocents.
The German people believe this They
have seen Belgium struck down and
enslaved, Russia betrayed and ruined,
so far as this war is concerned, and
they are readily accepting the doc
trine that might makes right. Of all
the ridiculous, wild and improbable
stories circulated to cripple American
preparedness, the story of German
mutiny and uprising is most ridicu-
lous. There is and there will be no
mutiny among those murderers. There
is just one way to end this war speed
lily, and that is to devote all our time,
all our energies, all our strength, and
every dollar of our money TO so equip
and strengthen the American army
that they may hurl all the devils of
Prussian autocracy back into hell"
DR.. Fred A. Perry in address at
Phoenix recently.
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30
ARIZONA SAVES
LOTS OF MEAT

PHOENIX, Ariz., Mar 3O.-Recent
charges by critics of the food admin
istration to the effect that the meat
conservation program has not result
ed in saving of meat are refuted in
a report compiled by M. T. Grier,
state chairman of the hotel and res
taurant division, showing appreciable
savings in meat, wheat flour, sugar,
butter and lard by the public eating
places of the state during February.
Despite the fact that the meat saw
ing program in Arizona was confined
to pork, the total savings as reported
by the hotels and restaurants amount
ed to 22,432 pounds or enough, it is
estimated, to ration the entire Ari-
iona regiment for a period of five
days.
The following table shows the
gains made from month to month
since the tabulation of figures was
started:
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30

Through taxation, interest on loans,
and higher cost of living, it is esti-
mated that every Englishman with an
annual income of $500 gives $3.50 to
support the war. One reason for this
high cost is that Britain began the
war without properly approaching it's
financial burdens. 1t was the "Busi-
ness as Usual" cry that prevented
the pouring out of money at first
which, if then given, might have
meant saving for England later, and
especially saving of English lives.
This war can not be won without
sacrifice. Let no one think it. If
Germany wins, or even makes a draw
of it, our future sacrifices will be
many times greater Let no one de-
ceive himself as to that Right now
we are pouring out getting them
ready. We must your out dollars to
equip them, but most of all, to fur
nish them with the instruments of
war that their lives may not be lost
by being put up as man power against
machinery. Many of our boys will
die; but some we may save if we are
ready to spend the last dollar of our
resources in giving them the tools
with which to make a fair fight.
Right now it is dollars and boys"
In some ways it is a question of "dol-
lars or boys" This is no abstract
generalization. 1t is question for
YOU to answer personally, with seri-
Gus thought of what money YOU have
available Every dollar held back for
mere luxury, for non-essentials during
this war, means a greater chance of
the loss of a boy-it may be of your
boy.
If you have no boy in service, and
hold back your dollars, can you look
your neighbor in the face when he
loses his boy? If you do hold back,
where do you think you are going to
stand in your neighbours estimation
when this war ends?
The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-30
A FAMILY
MEDICINE
In Her Mothers Home, says This
Georgia Lady, Regarding s ack-
Draught. Relief From Head
ache, Malaria, ChiIls, e..

Ringgold, Ca Mrs. Chas. CASTOR,
OF this place, writes: "I am user
of Thedford's Black-EGaught; in fact,
It was one of our family medicines.
Also in my mothers home, when l
was child. When any of us child
ren complained Of headache, usually
dose of Black-Draught, which would
Spring, we would have malaria and
chills, or troubles of this kind, we
would take Black-Draught pretty reg
ular until the liver acted well, and
we would soon be up and around
again. We would not be without it,
for 1t certainly has saved us lots of
doctor bills. Just dose of Black
Draught when not so well saves
lot of days in bed"
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
in use for many years in the treat
mente of stomach, liver and bowel
troubles, and the popularity which it
now enjoys Is proof of it's merit.
:. If your liver is not doing its duty,
you will suffer from such disagree
able symptoms as headache, bilious
ness, constipation, indigestion, ETC.,
and unless something is done, serious
trouble may result.
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
found valuable remedy for these
troubles. 1t is purely vegetable, and
acts in a prompt and natural way,
regulating the liver to it's proper
functions and cleansing the bowels of
impurities. Try it. Insist on Thed-
ford's, the original and genuine. q 20