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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13
Daily Thought

He is foolish to blame the sea who
Is shIpwrecked twlce.-SyruA
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13
GOT HIS HAND
BADLY BURNED
West Mineral Man, Known in Baxter
Springs, Lost His Hand When
He Picked Up Live
Wire
Columbus Advocate:

i OOiumDuS AuVOcaLe'
At Mineral Sunday afternoon Perl
Duvall, city marshall, was so badly
burned when he deliberately grasped
a live electric wire that he may die
as a result of his injuries.
The accident occurred at 2:10 Sum-
day afternoon. At the east city lin
its of Mineral, where the $500 volt
power line enters the village, one of
the wires had, in some manner, be-
come shortcircuted and burned in
two, and had fallen to the street.
The live wires sizzled and smoked
and burned the grass where they
struck:
City Marshal Perl Duvall lives
about one block from where the brok-
en- wires dangled down. Someone
told him that electric wires were
down. With the idea Of drawing the
wires to one side, Duvall went to the
crossing, and approached them.
A man, q short distance away, saw
Duvall reach out his hand to grasp
the wire, and shouted a warning:
"Look outl Don't touch It'll" But
he was too late, and when he saw,
the next instant, Duvall's hand came
in contact with the deadly wire, and
the flames enveloped him, the other
man turned and walked away, sick at
heart. He felt certain Duvall was
doomed to a certain, horrible death in
q few seconds.
Vernal Land, of the telephone ex-
change at Mineral telephoned to the
Empire District Electric Co., at Co
lumbus, to shut off the power. The
message was relayed to Scammon,
and the switch at that place was
thrown off killing the power at Min
eral, Weir and Columbus all at the
same instant. 1t was perhaps 10 or
Is minutes, from the time the un-
fortunate man touched the live wire,
until the fatal current was thrown
off. And in the meantime the scar
ing force of $500 volts had burned
off his right hand at the base of the
fingers, leaving only the thumb.
Also, his right arm, above the elbow
was burned black, and his left arm
had holes burned in the flesh, as
large as ones finger. Worse than
these injuries, Duvall's feet were hOr-
hibly burned, as he was grounded
and at the point of contact with the
earth the slectric current was burn
ing his feet and ankles.
1t seems incredible that he was not
killed instantly. He was unconscious
when finally released from the wire.
The marks of all his fingers showed
plainly on the insulation, which
burned through where he had grasped
the wire.
The injured man was taken to his
home, and DR.. Reed gave him medical
attention. It was thought last night |
that there was no hope for his re-
covery, as it was supposed that his
internal burns would surely b. fatal,
even If his outward injuries were not
extensive enough to alone cause his
death. It was regarded likely, also,
that both feet would have to be am
putated.
Duvall rallied enough last night to
explain how he happened to take hold
Of the wire. He said he believed the
insulation would protect him. Elec-
tricians say, however, that the insula-
ton Is merely intended TO protect the
wire from the rain and snow. A pow
erful electric current burns through
insulation, a. readily - paper, when
Ghort-eircuteA
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13

Sergt. Raymond d. Cook is home
from Camp Funston, having been
honorably discharged from the army.
He will enter the real estate and min
ing business with his father, F. R.
Cook.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13
Pleasant Old ACE.

What blessings are these-that the
soul having served Its time. so to
speak. In the campaigns Of desire AMI
ambition, rivalry and hatred, and all
the D" ions, should live In Its own
tho. - the expression goes,
81 apart. Indeed, II 1t has
In ny OF what / may call the
70 .udy and philosophy, nothing
can be pleasanter than an old age OF
lelsure.-Exchange.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13

Mrs. j. H. Riseling has been called
to Columbus by advice of the very
critical illness of her daughter, Mrs.
Fern Older. Pneumonia is the cause
of her illness we learn.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13

H. H. Mcclure has received word
from oswego that Ed. Potter, who
clerked in his grocery store here until
he enlisted, and went to France with
the S9th division, was severely wound
ed in action just before the fighting
ceased.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13

Keep Christmas.
There Is a better thing than the
observance Of Christmas and that "a
keeping Christmas" - Henry Van
Dyke.
eAnGAa.A
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-12-13

; q christmas
: mtsh
! Wherever there 10 sickness
; May Santa Claus bring health;
!; Wherever there is poverty
; May Santa Clar' bring wealth.
, Wherever one = weeping
May tear to smiles give way.
Wherever sadness hovers
May JOY come Christmas day.
To every heart that's aching
May peace and comfort come,
And may an outlook rosy
Supplant each outlook glum.
May friends now separated
Soon reunited be,
And every one find gladnesS
Upon his Christmas hee.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
DEBS AS A MARTYR

ULDO nO n MnN Nv
The conviction Of Eugene v. Debs
was a foregone conclusion. There was
no dispute about the things he had said
and there was no question that any
American jury would ind that his lam
gusge tended to Construct recruiting,'
to '%'incite, provoke and encourage re-
sistance to the United States' and that
its urpose was to "incite disloyslty Ia
the military and naval forces" Those
are the counts on which he was con-
victed. Those were the aims of all
the anti-war propagandists, of whom
Debs is the most distinguished repres-
entative.
He made 10 defense because there
was none. The one thing to be said
in his favor is that he didn't bubble
as Mrs. Stokes did, pretending that
her attacks on "the Government" were
not aimed at the National Administra-
ton in Its war activities. Probably
even a stronger Indictment to passive
ty in Debs' case was the groundwork
which that attitude makes for his pose
as a martyr to the cause of free speech.
The stage was all set for 1t, even to the
presence of Mrs. Stokes to hold the
convicted mans hand and ready with
her announcement that this convic-
ton twill mean the conversion to our
cause of many Of the millions in this
country who either know or have heard
him. The verdict will greatly help
the movement and makes us tremend-
ously hopeful and joyous"
Mrs. Stokes was free to make this
proclamation of joy, it will be observ-
ed, through the consideration of the
capitalist courts she has so often de-
nounced. If she had ever been con-
victed of crime in her native Russia
she would not have been allowed to
go about melting to further crime
while the courts passed upon the cor
rectness of her trial. Butthat evidence
Of the fairness of the country of her
adoption will not prevent her from
i'm peding the Government Of that coun-
try to the extent of such power as she
has, to that same extent aiding that
country's enemies, or from using the
imprisonment Of Debs ''for all there is
in it" in that campaign of d~isloyalty.
There has been times when such q
campaign as is planned for the cause
might have done considerable mis-
chief here. At present the interest of
the American people is focused upon
st. Mihiel and the Hindenburg line so
completely that they will pay scant at
tention to the prison which holds Debs.
Our martyrs to liberty are dying by
thousands across the sea and it will
take a generation before any other sort
of martyrdom appeals to Americans.
imprisonment is nothing new to Debs,
but this time his cell door will shut
out the limelight more completely than
In any of his previous experiences.
Even his champion, Mrs. Stokes, is
likely to lose her conspicuity when our
victorious soldiers come marching
home.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
FIRST RAINCOATS. NOW SHOES

The arrest of an Army officer, six
Government inspectors and four shop
foremen, as well as the two owners of a
Long Island City factory, for frauds in
Government supplies. follows the rain
coat scandal. The announcements of
the Department Of Justice seem to in
dictate long continued and persistent
frauds, through which defective shoes
and leather goods for the aviation SER
vice were furnished to heGovernment.
No doubt the probe will be pushed, as
it should be, to the bottom of the scam
dial and all of the guilty will be punish
ed.
The motive in this case, as in the
raincoat case, was greed. Morally
those crimes are thefts, with the ad-
dltion of such bribery as becomes nec-
essary to carry the thefts through. But
black and disgusting as are such at
tempts to reap money at the risk Of
the lives of soldiers fighting in the field,
they have always been the accompsni-
ment of war. The embalmed beef
scandal of the Spanish Var was more
extensive and more outrageous, than
anything which has as yet been brought
out in this one, although the Hughes
report in the airplane mess is still to
come and may make a black page in
our history.
The thing thatis new in this war, or at
least is more energetic aud firmly or
gained now than in earlier struggles,
is the effort to defeat and punish such
crimes. The Government has made
energetic, and, to a large extent, sue
c%essful, efforts to prevent the people of
the country from private profteering.
Figures have recently been published
which show that prices for food and
other necessaries were higher during
the Civil War than they are now, aud
that difference is accounted for by the
fact that at that time the control Of
prices vas left to competition without
any restraining hand. Today the will
to make profit from the necessities of
the people Is as strong as it ever was,
but its scope is considerably restricted.
The will to plumber the Government
is good also and is widely distributed,
but the power of such swindlers to pro-
tect themselves through influence in
high places is not working 80 we'll as
in the case of the embalmed beef of 20
years ago, or the whiskey ring of the
Civil War. That the suspicion of
such a power of protection may be
snuffed out it is importantly that the
men guilty of these and of all other
frauds upon the Government shall be
punished to the full extent OF the law.
l-Brooklyn Eagle.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
Proofs of Wisdom.

The first characteristic Of a good
and wise man at his work is to know
that he knows very little; to perceive
that there are many above him wiser
than he; and to be always asking
questions, wanting to learn, not ITO
teach.-Ruskin.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
Under False Hair.

Artificial and substitute hair is be-
ing made in Germany, according to In
formation gathered by commerce re-
ports, which say:
1.-THE importation of human hair
from China has long been stopped.
The surrogate which is being used is
really a substitute for silk.
"At first silk hair was made, but the
sale Of this article was forbidden by
the government. For dolls glass hair
is made"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
FOR RENT

Coy Winter Apartments.
Hot Water Heated (Janitor service)
Constant supply Of hot water, day and night, while
furnace is IN operation.
Independent hot water heaters attached to gas cooking ranges
Laundry tubs, gas an electric private entrance hall to each apartment
Abundance of sun and light All large ooms.
Completely furnished for housekeeping. Plenty of extra large closets.
Brooklyn-Hart Apartments,
Northwest Corner Atlantic and Wildwood Avenues
Will rent from October to May or by the year.
First Floor -Four. Bed rooms, combination dining and sitting room,
kitchen, bath, toilet laundry, mnrored wardrbs to ceiling; completely
~ furnished. s4
Rent October to May SIS per month. yearly lease $500 per annum,
graduated payments)
Second and Third Floors Five bed rooms, extra large n in front can
be turned into sitting room) dining room, kitchen, bath, toilet laundry
tubs extra large closets completely furnished.
Rent October to May $3o per month. yearly lease $500 per annum,
graduated payments)
Apply local Agents or Albert Hart,
800 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-09-27
1918 Tax Rate

The tax rate for the City of Wild
wood for the year 1918 has been fixed
at 1918 per 500 valuation.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1918-05-02
air-Minded Thought.

We are not well up in the matter
of national diplomacy, or the gov
crning of however erroneous, that
England mirht make some head
way in setting her Irish troubles,
by applying to Ireland dose of
the thing for which the Allies are
fighting, at least in a definite pledge
by parliament that the remedy shall
be applied without stint when the
war is over" Possibly there would
be less trouble in getting Irish sol
dicrs under such a promise. Word
X Works.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1918-05-02
SPOUT SPRING

The Rev. NJ. G. Vancleve viii
occupy the pulpit at the Baptist
Church Sunday morning.
Mrs Albert Crow, whose serious
illness was noted by We correspon-
dent last week, is much improved.
Oscar Barnett is in a very serious
condition with complication of dsi-
eases. He was working in the oil
fields, but came home Thursday a
very sick boy.
T.. G.. Wills, of Harrodsburg,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Asa Barnett. He had been to
Beattyville to visit his parents, the
Rev. and Mrs. J. |. Wills. Mrs.
Wills had been very sick for several
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. O. Mize had a
number of visitors Sunday. Among
them were: Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. W.
Bush, Mr.. and Mrs. James Isaac
Mize and Mr.. and Mrs. Goebel
Bush, all of Naughn's Mill.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1918-05-02
Prohibition in War Zone.

NOu uTOp vi llquOl hShV Win
included-is available for beverage
purposes in the zone completely
under control of the American EX-
peditionary Forces, nor can the men
secure it for such purposes within
the law.
Not only that, by American mil
itary leadership is moving toward
total abstinence from beverage Ii
quor of all kinds as the ideal for
American troops in all territory.
These statements are made on
the authority of Daniel A. Polling,
who has been to the front as an
emissary of the United Committee
on War Temperance Activities,
which committee is made up of the
Anti-Saloon League, the W. c. T.
T., the Board Of Temperance, Pro-
hibition and Public Morals of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, the
Board of Temperance of the Pres
] byterian Church, the Prohibition
National Committee, and practic-
ally ever other temperance organi-
cation of consequence in America.
Mr.. Poling's statements in a com
munication to the National Enquir-
er indicate revolution in the atti-
tude of the military authorities
toward drink since December /,
1917.
Rev. William NJ. Woodfn, Asso-
ciate Secretary of the Presbyterian
Temperance Board, reporting con-
ditions, after a personal investiga-
ton previous to DIR. Poling's, as
serted that conditions were about
what they are in wet cities of the
United States.
There was a great deal of trouble
when our troops first went to
France, for many of them disgraced
themselves by drinking liquors.
There were many scenes in Paris
which shocked the French people
and embarrassed the army. have
this from French people as well as
Americans living in France. The
exodus of the army from Paris was
as much on account of drink as on
account of vice"
Because of these facts DR.. Polling
reports that Paris has been de-
cared barred zone to men on
leave. saw the refusal order of a
private who asked for leave to visit
his fathers sister who was resi-
dent of Paris suburb"
1t is DIR. Poling's conclusion that
under present conditions "a com.
posite of the American soldier in
France reveals a man living on q
higher moral plane than the mora
plane Of civilian life Temperance
Clip Sect.
From the above it is clear thai
President Wilson, Secretary Baker
General Pershing, and all but th'
wet members Of Congress, are do
ING all in their power to keep on
boys over there sober and moral
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1918-05-02

We commend them for this. These
men in this connection will receive
praise from all the sober people of
the country, and condemnation
from all those who wish to make
drunkards of our boys so that the
liquor profiteers can get Their earn
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1918-05-02

ings, pension money and war risk
insurance when they return home.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1918-05-02
& COMPANY
Spring and Summer Goods.

We invite YOU call and see them and get prices be-
fore making your purchases for Spring and Summer We
handle Upto-Date Styles, and Goods of high quality has
always paid buy good goods and now than ev-
er 1t is patriotic as they longer and save labor.
We handle Queen Quality Shoes for women, WakOver
Shoes for men, Hart Shafner Mark and Matchess brand
Mems Clothing Aston brand Mems Hats Arrow brand Mems
Shirts and Collars Dry Goods Notions, Millinery Suit Cas-
es Grips Lnoleum Oil Carpets Mattings Lloeum Rugs
Wall Paper Beds Mattresses Springs Cots Saddles Harness.
Farming Implements Hay OATS Horse Mule and Cow Feeds
Kanawha Salt Sudebaker Wagons In fact, aim is to
handle as near as possible everything the people
Have you bought Savings Stamps or Liberty Bonds?
lust think of the sacrifices many making then
surely you will do your bit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-19
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-19
KEPT Her AWAKE
The Terrible Pains in Back and
Sizes. Cardui Gave Relief.

aarksville, La.-Mrs. Alice Johnson,
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awful.
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night ! took different medicines. but
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until took Cardui
was not able 10 DO any of nv work
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was confined to my bed off and on. col
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| shall always praise Cardui. con-
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-19
BOND RALLIES HELD
In RURAL DISTRICTS

ATLANTA, Ca, April 19.-Through-
out the Sixth Federal Reserve District
Friday evening Liberty Loan rallies
were held in the country school
houses, where many thousand farmers
and their families heard of the needs
for the loan and the necessity for the
earnest cooperation of every man
and woman at this critical juncture
with the government for the prose-
cution of the war At these meetings
6 special message wa read from
Secretary McAdoo in which he stress
ed supreme Importance in raising
money for the support of the armies
being sent abroad and the reason
why the farmers of the South should
do their part in the fullest extent.
Reports from every district indicate
that the farmers are squarely behind
the government in this campaign
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-19
BRIG. CEN. REsCHE
PUT OUT OF ARMY
GERMAN BORN OFFICER DIS
CHARGED FROM COMMAND OF
Bath GUARD DIVISION AT CAMP
CODY.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Dis-
chage from the federal service ot
Brig. Gen. Frederick E. Resche, of
Minnesto, a Germantown officer COM
handing a brigade of the S4th Ma
tional Guard division at Camp Cody,
New Mexico. has been announced in
army orders.
Failure to main his command on
an efficient footing is the cause Off
cially announced for giving the officer
an honorable discharge. Certain re-
marks attributed to him, however,
have drawn attention to the question
of his loyalty, and while no overt act
OF dfsloyalty has been charged against
him, his utterances are being investi-
gated.
The primary desire of the War De-
uartment, it was said at the depart
ment, was to get out of the service
an officer of high rank who shown by
the reports of inspectors to be lack
ing in zeal and enterprise in prepar-
ing his command for conflict with
tie German army. For that reason
he was promptly discharged and the
question of his loyalty left to be pass
ed upon by the civil branch of the
government.
The discharge make civilian of
General Resche. Had he been a regu-
lar army officer the War Department
course would have been different.
The 34th division, composed Of
troops from Iowa, Minneapolis, North
Dakota and Nebraska. General
Resches successor has not been Sc
lected.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-19
LIGHTING COMPANIES
WANT HIGHER RATES

ATLANTA, Ga, April 19.-The fill
ing by the Central of Georgia Power
Company of a petition for an increase
of Is per cent in its rates for elect
trio power, which is sold in the city
Of Macon for lighting and street car
purposes, and sold to industries there
and throughout middle Georgia, and
sold to number CT middle Georgia
towns for street lighting, makes iC
very interesting to speculate as to
what will be the attitude of the rail-
road commission in the matter of pub
lie utility rates this being one OF a
number of similar petitions which have
been filed with the commission.
The Central Georgia Power Com
pany is in much the same situation
as other public utilities in Georgia
and other state 1t has sold its en-
tire output of power and cannot take
new contracts. Many industries in
its territory are awaiting expansion
until they can secure cheap power.
The company owns large undeveloped
water power sites. In order to de-
velop them and harness their power
its earnings must be increased, and
this can only be done by increasing
rates. Meanwhile. in all the wide
territory it serves, the benefits of inter
urban trolley car service and abundant
cheap electric power, must wait UNI
til the definition of policy of deal,
ing with public utilities. Owing to
the extreme shortage of coal, the
authorities in Washington recently
urged state commissions to allow pub
lie utilities to earn enough to de-
velop their water powers, a very
strong letter having been written on
the subject by Secreatry McAdoo and
cnncurred in by President Wilson