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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
TOOK HIM AN HOUR
TO WALK BLOCK
Had 10 HObbIe Around on Two
CaneS-AbIe to Work First
Time in Four Years Since
Taking TanlaC.

Il hadn't ,been able to do a days
work in four years when ] began tak-
ing Tanlac, but 7 have gained thirty
pounds and am now putting In tuti
time every day said J, c, Fischer Of
Edmonds, Okla. .r
Pour years ago, he continued, I
was taken down with typhoid fever that
left me go weak and rundown l could
lust manage to hObble around on my
two canes and It would actually take
me an hour to 70 R block sometimes.
] had catarrh badly and 1t gave me no
end Of trouble. My appetite was poor
and even the lightest food | could Eet
would upset my stomach. | was mis-,
cradle night and day and took an
kinds Of medicines without getting any
better, 10.
Il begun to pick up Immediately alter
] started on TSnlaC and after ilhlsheu
my third bottle. l threw away my canes
md went back 10 work. ] kept on lax
ing Tanlac-have 10Y taken tiVe not
lie. haven't missed a days work since
the catarrh has disappeared; can eat
lust anything ! want to, sleep IKE 4
log and | sure thank Tanlac LOT my
recovery .
Tanlac is sold In Memphis exclusively
bv Weiss Pharmacy successors 10 ia
cobis pharmacy. Main street and IN
ion avenue, and Warnock Drug o.
I'm Gayoso Hotel block. auN'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
"JACKlES" TO SEE OWN
STATION BEFORE WORLD

GREAT LAKES, Ill.,, Dot. 26.-Jackles
who coined the navy to see, the world
in accordance with the navy slogan, are
10 see their own station, the Great
Lakes naval training station, before
launching on the inspection tour of the
globe,
Lieut.. Commander A. c. Wilhelm has
issued an order directing that sight
seeing parties be started by the regl-
mental commanders, and for them TO
see that competent petty officers be
placed In charge for the purpose OF eS-
planning points OF interest on the big
station. While the parties will he ~,
lected IN military fashion, each win
nave its "tinpan alley setting, with a
barker hawling information through n
megaphone.
Many Of the Jackies sent here are put
IN detention and from there 20 to an
other outlying camp for the remainder
OF their training, They are shipped to
sea, having seen only one OF two OF the
big camps,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
A Tonic and
Health Builder

Take CALCERRS to rid yourself Of that
Weakening, persistent cough, which is
threatening you with throat or lung
troubles. Even IN acute cases affecting
throat and lungs, CALCERRS have
given much relief--inNmany eases help
Ing to restore health. Thcy give
strength to combat Illness, Contain cal.
cium (a lime salt), so compounded as
to he easily absorbed
Caloerbs. so cents box. At all drug.
alsts or from manufacturer, postpaid.
ECKMAN LABORATORY, Philadelphia
Makers Of Eckman's Alternative.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
WOULD POST NAMES
OF ALL WAR L0AFERS

The posting Of men who do not work
regularly Is the latest move against
the war loafer'' suggested by the Mem
phis war work committee. Employers
Of the city have been requested to in
stan bulletin boards at their places Of
business on which will be placed the
names Of all their employees who do not
work six days a week, The committee
also asks that these names be sent to
the community labor board.
The committee Is continuing to urge
the employing OF women in every avail
able position to release men for essen
tlal work that can not be done by
m NOTICES to employers, asking
that women De employed in all the
positions possible, have been sent out
and appeals have been made through
newspaper advertisements to the wom-
en- Of Memphis to aid their country by
taking the positions vacated by soldiers
and by men who are being called to
other lines of essential industry,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
NEGRO CHAUFFEUR
VANISHES AFTER CRASH

Of an automobile which crashed into a
car owned by Il. c. Atkins 4 Co. and
who effected his escape by II daring
dash through a fire engine house,
At Ei5 Friday while the runahout
owned by T.. G. Atkins g. Co, was stand
ing in front of the establishment,
Main street and Butler avenue, someone
ran a large touring ear into the smaller
car, completely demolishiug 1t, Before
anyone could arrest the driver. he ran
swiftly through the fire engine house
and made his escape. The firemen re-
ported to police that they recognized
the driver as Dan Cleary, aa employs
of James Kinnane. The number OF the
car indicates 1t Is the property of A. NJ.
Uoftusl Wilkes.
The police have the car.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
COLUMBUS HAD HIS
WORK CARD, BUT

Columbus Crowder, negro, 493 South
Wellington street, when arraigned be
fore Police Judge FItzhugh Friday
morning on q charge Of being a war
loafer, attracted the attention of the
court by his aristocratic name.
He sin't living up to the reputation
Of his namesake," declared Assistant
Chief Pass, who prosecuted him for
not working.
Evidently not declared the judge,
when he found the negro's work card
was out Of date. Neither our old
Christopher Columbus, nor our hard
working provost marshal-general. II
fine him S25, and turn him over ia
Sheriff Perry, who wants him on a
capias for violating the liquor law"
"Sho' amt nothin' In a name" NUT
tered Crowder, rs he followed the sher-
iff Off to the county Jail.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
WAR PROJECTS
ARE ORDERED BEGUN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The war
department today instructed the CON
~stitution division to proceed with eight
projects involving the expenditure OF
more than Sl,0a9, 500.
The projects include the development
Of additional water supply at Fort
O%glethorpe. Ga, by the purchase OF
Green lake land and the Ridgedale
pumping station, and extension Of pres
emit distribution system, the total es-
timated cost to be $Sb2. 900.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
WARM WAVE TO SAVE
FUEL FOR FURNACES

With temperatures averaging 20, %
and rs above zero covering a great
lbrtion of the Northwest, and a heavy
low hanging around southwest Texas,
local United States weather observers
Friday predicted fair for Friday night,
Saturday partly cloudy, probably rain
and cooler in the northern part OF
Tennessee.
Observers said the warm weather
coming in out Of the Southwest would
shove the cold weather away from
Memphis, and send 1t along at a merry
clip toward the East, where killing
frosts occurred at several places Fri
day,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
JUDGE GREER'S SON
Is NAMED MAJOR

Aubrey NJ. Greer, son Of Judge J. NJ,
Greer, Mas been promoted from captain
10 major Of infantry, following his
transfer from the t43d infantry regi-
ment to the l42d infantry, Maj Greer
has received his baptism Of fire In
France and is now on the front.
lie was one Of the youngest lteuten-
ants in tho Spanish American war.
serving nj the age Of IL In Porto Rico
Maj Greer before the wal was en-
eared In business IN Beaumont, Tex,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
SEEK TO RECOVER
$118 ON WATERMEL0NS

Alleged overeharges on the shipment
of two cars loaded with watermelons
sent from Florida and Georgia in June
and JULY 1914. to the Feldman Commits
sion company of Helena, Ark, result
ed in a suit being filed in the federal
court Friday against the n, c. e. st.
l.. and Frisco railroads for S1lS.62 and
6 per cent interest.
1t is charged that the railroads
handling the cars asked more than the
freight tariff permitted. The matter
was laid before the Interstate ON
merce commission, who ordered the
railroads to pay the compliments
$l1S,62, but the order was not complied
with, it is held. The suit is to re-
cover amount OF the order.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
LONG QUAKE RECORDED.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 25.-Au earth
quake Of moderate intensity and lasting
almost an hour, occurred during the
night At some locality about 1900 miles
from Washington. S~eismographs OF
Georgetown university this morning
showed the shocks at ll;4I y. M, and
continued until 12;4h o'clock n. m It
was thought by Father Francis J, Ton
derot, director Of the observatory. that
the center of the disturbance was to
the southwark OF Washington, and
probably in the West Indies or Central
America
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
JEWELRY NOT U

Detectives Horan and Hurst have
found no trace Of the jewelry stolen
from the residence OF Mrs. Fannie kelso.
1850 Adams avenue, in broad daylight a
few days ago. The jewelry is valued at
about $3.50.
Mrs. ,Kelso went upstairs to attend a
sick person, leaving her door unlocked
She thought her jewelry safe. When
she returned the jewelry was missing.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
UPHOLDS PARIS.

BASEL, Oct. 25.-At a conference of
the party leaders Of the Austrian lower
house, held recently, Stransky, one of
the Czech chiefs, declared that in flu
ture all negotiations between the Aus
TRAN government and the Czecho-Slo-
wax government must be carried on
with the Paris organization. J~ugo-Slav
deputies made a similar declaration, it
IS said,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
68 HOSTAGES SHOT.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 25.-From the
time that Moses Uritzky, commission
er for elections to the constituent as
OF Russia, was assassinated late
In August, up to Oct, !. 6s hostages.
including five priests, we're shot by the
Bolsheviki, according to Petrograd dis
patches. quoting the newspaper Pravda.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
ANARCHISTS.

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Five avowed
anarchists. convicted OF circulating
enforcement literature including
urging munitions workers to
go on strike, were sentenced to con-
finement in prisons in the federal court
here today. Three of them were given
20-year terms. a fourth, who turned
evidence, was committed for
three years, and the fifth, a woman, for
Is wears.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
ADVISE DRAFT QUOTA.

SPRINGFIELD, M. oct. s5.-Adit p
Gen. Frank A Dickson was advised by
Provost Marshal Gen, Growder %oday
that the provisional and temporary
draft allotment for Illinois from the
1875 class Of the Sept ~ registration
will be 1854, or approximately l9 per
cent Of the September enrolment be-
tween theEe nRne.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
RACE "THICKENS. -

Candidates for office Of claim agent
TO succeed c, r Quinn, recently ele-
tated to commissioned, are increasing
daily. The latest candidate is Jack
Rocco. chief deputy to sheriff Perry.
and former desk sergeant at police sta
ton. Others In the race, it is said, are
Frank ]. Rice and Ernest Miller.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
REFUSES INCREASE.

WASHINGTON, oc'. c5.--Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield today refused to
grant hituminous coal miners an in
crease of wages sought In connection
with the plan for Sterilization of wages
worked out for the anthracite miners.
He held that the bituminous situation
did not require wage increases,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
TO BUILD

Material Is being purchased nv Mar
shall Mott, Of the Mott Store company
of Manila Arb. Tor the construction
IN Memphis Of = hig elevator Tor sack
ing cleaning, receiving and r%eshipping
grain ard tor the manufac'urtng "
meal The plant' viii be 10, ste6 at
Thomas streq and the Belt Line tracks.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
SIXTY DRAFTEEs LEAVE,

UNION CITY, Tenn, oct. -. 'CSpl).
Stxty-tour young men draftccs le1
here at Z o'clock today for Camp
Wadsworth, s. G.. These young men
are nearly all from this, Oblou, county.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
To Employers and Employees:

The coal miners of the United States rave adopted, with a considerable degree
o success, the plano of posting a bulletin at their plants listing daily Or weekly the
names of employees who do not work. regularly.
1T is one OF the chief aims of this committee to cooperate with employers in
having employees work six full days each week. nd to hate end ve ask all employ
of the City of Memphis to post such bulletins in their plants and send a copy
thereof to the Community Labor Board, 1913 Court avenue city.
The Community Labor Board will write a letter to each employer of the City
of Memphis making this request and that laer should be posted along with the
bulletin so that the employees will appreciate the Importance of working six full
days. week, thereby keeping their mt off the bulletin and out of the hands Of
the Government Labor Board.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-25
Memphis War Work Committee
ton Exchange, Merchants Exchange, Chamber of Commerce, Lumbermens Club a
purpose of acting with the properly constituted authorities in relieving the pr
TO MPLOYER

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hm Ss and OMe buildings heretofore MN men, Tymn r @g elevators the are building wagons they are handling hM in
heIpk and numerous other things that hMnh wmw were mhmdG'
Employers will hP@ wmd~w % mo""@gNm mOw work rhn@ hm they om@eo every u%Gdm n%d %mwh.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27
Newspaper Poetry Defended.

Here is a word of cheer for the
ngsuffering newspaper poet Walt
Mason, as quoted by George Matthew
Adams in the New Success, believes
that ''People want poetry easy to read,
poetry with a jingle in it, poetry that
treats of the things and conditions
they are familiar with, and they want
their poetry clean and wholesome.
''The best American newspaper
poetry fills all these requirements,
and that's why it is doing SO much
good. A man sees in the newspaper
clever rhyme full of hope and en-
enlargement and he cuts it out aud
shows it to his friends, and carries it
in his pocket and takes it home.
''The modern newspaper poets are
doing more to brighten the world and
make it a good place to live than all
the extinct poets in the Hall of Fame
or Westminster Abbey ever did The
newspaper poets are forever preach
ing the sanest optimism, designed for
the people who really need the in
fluence of optimism-the bread-win-
ners, the weary and heavy laden"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27

"Anyone can plan and arrange a
lawn and yard" is very often heard
when talking of house building. Per-
haps anyone can-but 1t requires
thought 10 plant and build In a way
that will give beauty. rest and har-
mony. Too many people plant trees,
bushes and flowers without regard to
the buildings, scattering them pro-
miscuously over the yard as if each one
were to be walked around and exam
ined for sale. There is no beauty Of
design-just lot Of trees and flowers
Good Plan First Essential.
The first essential then for an at
tractive home is a good plan for the
entire improvement. Whether the
house is large or small, and the
grounds city lot or a country ten
acres, have a plan and try to make the
whole a harmonious picture.
Before drawing a line of the plans
or driving a single stake for location,
make a pencil sketch of the house and
the grounds, locating the house, out
buildings, walks, shrubbery, garden
and all appurtenances.
The simple rules for planting, stated
years ago but never improved, are:
/. Keep the center of the lawn open.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27

In the New England Bulletin of the
American Red Cross there is a splen-
did review of tits work during the past
year from which the following is an
extract under the title of THE Human
Side"
1.-THE American Red Cross recognizes
that our first duty for humanity in this
war is the protection of our soldiers
in France. 1t recognizes also that this
duty lies with the United States gov
eminent and that the government is
responsible for 1t. AS q supplement-
airy relief organization the Red Cross
stands ready to cooperate with the
government in this work, and to put
its organization, money and supplies
into service at the call of the Ameri-
can army whenever and wherever they
can be of use. Fully realizing the dis
advantages that are always met in a
foreign country, and with the view of
keeping our soldiers in touch with
things American, the Red Cross begins
at the port of landing in France by
establishing rest stations. These rest
stations extend inland toward the
camps and are located in a series at
junction points and railroad stations
where the soldiers are required to
wait for train connections.
"Chief work of the American Red
Cross in helping care for wounded sol
diers lies in its cooperation with the
government in supplying an efficient
nursing service; in assisting the Army
Medical corps in cases of emergency,
and in furnishing materials for hos
pitfalls. There We're on March l, 1918,
more than twenty-three hundred Amer
lean Red Cross nurses employed in
base hospitals and in the French mill
tary hospitals throughout the republic.
The total number of hospitals of va
rious sorts in the French republic ex-
ceeds five thousand, and more than
half Of these are receiving all or part
of their medical and surgical supplies
from the American Red Cross.
Re-educaton.
"The re-education of mutilated sol
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27

Women are swarming into new ac-
tivities to meet the needs of industry
and to release men for service at the
front These war times call upon
every individual to do some kind of
work, excusing only the very old or
the very young from active service.
And women are acquitting themselves
like men. They are getting down to
business in uniforms scientifically de-
signed to meet the requirements of the
various kinds of work they have I'M
dertaken to do, and to meet their own
sense of fitness. Many a smart uni
form proclaims that it's wearer is do
ing her bit by discharging the duties
of some man who is "over THEREFOR
on the way.
For the factory or farm or garden
there are overettes aud service suits
like those shown in the picture. They
prove to be immensely convenient for
house work, and for outings in the
woods or mountains there is nothing
so comfortable and satisfactory as the
service suit. For tramping, climbing
and fishing 1t has any outfit that in
cludes a skirt discredited,: there is no
comparison between them for conven-
fence.
For work that does not demand
] breeches or bifurcated skirts there is
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27

great care, for here trees may work
disastrous effect in the sale of prop
erty.
In subdivision work, it is more often
a question of putting in trees than of
taking them out; and yet the question
of taking them out must be consid-
cred. Parts of Il tract have been rem
dered poor from the point of view of
what would be termed thoroughly de-
sirabe home sites by having too many
trees. When the ground is level too
many trees mean dampness. Hence
scientific thinning forms a portion of
the real estate subdivider's study in
making a wooded tract salable. 1t
is pointed out in this connection that
it is a wise rule to save all the trees
on tract of land
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27
Finding Help for Harvest.

Kansas answered the call for in
creased food production. Kansas plant
ed more wheat. Kansas knew, OF
course, that a tremendous amount of
man power would be required to har-
vest that crop. But Kansas wasn't dis
mayed. Uncle Sam called for more
wheat. Kansas planted more wheat.
Kansas knew that wheat would be har-
vested and that people in the towns
and cities would go to the fields to
help do it!
And that is precisely how it is being
harvested-by people from the towns
and cities of Kansas. A literal exo-
dus of all the urban people hasn't been
necessary, of course. But all that were
needed went-and more were ready If
needed.
The statewide campaign for town
volunteers for farm labor service dur
ing the harvest was launched at Kan
sas City conference the latter part Of
May. Representatives of the United
minded all the cooperating agencies
at that conference of the policy that
department has been urging since the
beginning Of the war-the use of town
man power for local farm labor needs
during seasonal emergencies
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27

diers is being carried on Jointly BIZ the
French government and the American
Red Cross. There are between fifty
and sixty schools of various kinds for
this work. The Red Cross has provid-
ed more than six hundred mutilated
soldiers with artificial legs of the best
type, and has established a factory
near Paris where artificial limbs are
manufactured. BY arranging for con-
sultatiOn between the surgeon and the
manufacturer, the Red Cross has been
able to secure the best possible treat
ment for each case.
With the wantOn destruction of
homes by the German army and the
uprooting of the population in the dew
astated regions. the home as an in
stitution in France Is in peril. Real
izing this condition, the Red Cross Is
endeavoring to keep the soldiers
homes intact; to find homes for the
outcast children who have neither
homes nor parents and to help the
refugees and repatries to find place
to live until they shall be able to re-
build their homes.
1.-THE most telling work of the Red
Cross in France, as far as helping to
win the war goes, is the care of the
families of the French soldiers. The
Red Cross is giving to the needy fam
lilies Of these French soldiers supplies
and money, according to their needs.
'When the German army invaded
France, hundreds of thousands Of
French people were driven from their
homes and are now scattered through
out the republic. These people are
known as refugees The number has
increased, of course, for various rea-
sons until now there are more than l.
100000 embracing all classes and ages,
except able-bodied men. There are APP
proxlmately 100000 refugees in Paris
alone.
"The housing of these people is one
of the greatest problems of the French
government The American Red Cross
is cooperating with the French govern
ment in this work"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1918-06-27

Have a grass plat, large or small,
and keep it clear and smooth. Ar
range trees and shrubs to secure these
open spaces. Flowers in the center
of the lawn are like patches on the
carpet Put the blooming plants along
the border that they may have back
ground. Plant along the foundations
of the house and outbuildings, so that
these may be hidden by a mass of
green.
,. Plant in masses.
Surround the yard with masses of
shrubs and trees, giving glimpses of
the home within. Flowers and shrubs
appear best with green background.
Most people are too stingy with
their planting. Masses of spirea, by
drangea, lilac, barberry, roses, weige.