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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
FOCH'S GREAT DRIVE

Unless the German high command
succeeds in stiffening up its lines and
bringing Marshal Foch's magnificent
drive to an end, the war will be over
by Christmas.
This view of the latest war news
from the western front is expressed
by American officers CT high rank
and by administration officials in close
touch with the military situation in
Europe.
In all quarters a feeling of opti-
mism and even enthusiasm is mani
Tested This is true of diplomatic
officials, as well aus government Off
Gals and military men.
The fail of Lens was generally re-
garded as of the highest Importance.
For Approximately two years the
British forces have been virtually at
the gateway to this great French
coal center. The fall Of Lens was
reported about; two years ago and its
vital Importance to France was point
&c, out at that time.
One of the greatest blows to French
industry was the loss of this impor-
tant coal region, the Germans having
held the better part of Frances coal
deposits since 1914.
After having held Lens solidly for
50 long against repeated attacks, the
enemy would net have surrendered it
unless absolutely compelled to do so
in order to prevent an actual breach
in his fighting front.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
LEGAL NOTICES

TIRGINIA-In the Clerks Office OF
the Corporation Court Of the City of
Alexandria, on the 31st day of August
1913.
Fanny Bates Porte VS.. Charles II.
Porter In Chancery.
Memo.-The objecs of this suit is to
obtain for the complainant an abso-
late divorce from the bonds of matri-
'aany from the defendant on the
grounds of wilful and voluntary deser-
ton and abandonment for more than
three years prior to the institution OF
this suit; custody of infant children;
resumption of maiden name, and for
general relief.
1t appearing by an affidavit filed in
this cause that the defendant. CharlSs
II. Porter, is a nonresident of this
State: 1t is ordered, That said de-
PENDANT appear here within fifteen
days after due publication of this
order, and do what is necessary to
protect his interests in this suit.
Robinson Moncure, 2. @. A copy
Teste.
Newell S. Greenaway,
Clerk
By Cora Duffey, D. c.
ON
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
DEFEATED CANDIDATE
This One Gives Some Interesting Data
In Inventory.

This One Gives Some Interesting Data
In Inventory.
He survives in Hamilton county and
lives to laugh. The other day he gave
Times reporter the following al
legged complete inventory of his cam
paign wherein he was defeated for
office:
Il lost four months and twenty
three days canvassing; lost 1913
hours sleep thinking about the cleo
ton; lost twenty-three acres of corn
and 4ny entire sweet potato crop; do
mated Sill to church and Red Cross
work; gave away two pairs of sus-
penders, four calico dresses and thir-
teen baby rattlers; kissed 1913 babies;
kindled 100 kitchen fires; put up ten
stoves; bought seventeen gallons of
lemonade and fourteen cases Of soda
Pop at picnics; gave a couple of ice
cream suppers; sent missionary to
China or somewhere; attended twen-
ty-one funerals; fell in one grave try
ing to let the coffin down; sprained
my ankle and several votes besides
washed dishes nine times; cut eleven
cords of wood; stopped hogs twenty
two times; pulled 474 bundles of fod-
der; walked 920 miles; shook hands
1906 times; told 2,102 lies, and talk
ed enough to make in print 1000
volumes the size of patent Office re-
port; Joined fourteen lodges and prom
ished GIT people job; served as judge
at nine schoolhouse debates, which
cost me forty-nine votes by actual
count; helped move seven families.
dogs and all; cleaned chitlins for a
half day pheasant job); baptized
four different times by immersion and
twce sprinkled; made love to nine
grass widows and old maids; got dog
bit thirty-nine times and then got
beat Morristown (Tenn.) Evening
Mail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

VIRGINIA-In the Clerks Office of
the Corporation Court of the City of
Alexandria, on the 31st day of August,
1913.
Hylus D. Osborn rs. Margaret A.
Osborn. In Chancery.
Memo.-The object of this suit is to
obtain an absolute divorce from the
defendant upon the grounds of wilful
desertion and abandonment for more
than three years prior to the inStitu-
ton Of this suit.
1t appearing by an affidavit filed in
this cause that the defendant, Marg-
aret A. Osborn, is a nonresident of
this State: It IS ordered, That said
defendant appear mere within fifteen
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

aChristnas shopping to start n
October"
"Curtailment of useless gifts"
purchasers to carry bundles
home"
"No increase in the working force,
or extra hours of work"
From present indications these
suggestions will appeal to many ct
the approach of the holiday season,
especially that referring to useless
gifts. Millions of dollars are spent
toward the close Of every year in TIE
exchange of presents. 1t is pleas
ant custom running back into the cen
turtles from which it is difficult C
break.
While some persons prefer to be-
lieve the war Will be over by CHRIST
mas, we fail to see any such indica-
ton at present. Hence there viii
necessarily be manay curtailament;
in Christmas shopping.
The authorities in our country are
doing everything possible to con
serve our resources. That there
should be ret-anchment during tht
holiday season must be apparent 4
all.
But should the dreams of optim;st:
be fulfilled by the defeat of Germany
the Christmas of 1918 would be rec
letter day not only in America, bu
throughout the civilized world.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
SPECIAL NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Braddock Light and Pow
er Company, Incorporated, Tor the
election of directors and the tran
saction of such business as NJ.
properly come before said NEE,
will be held at the Office of the Cor2-
panv, Alexandria National Bank
Building, Alexandria, Virgini@
Tuesday, September seventeenth,
1918, at / O'clock p. n.
2O6-t d S. r. BOWEN, Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
THE MURMANSk RAILROAD
An American Built Road In the Arc
tic-Why the Germans Should
Find 1t Hard to Flank 1t.

The allies are now marching into
Russia from the north. They are al
ready far souh Of Archangel, where
cur marines joined them. The Ger
mans have again called upon Finland
in any case the Germans themselves
10 move against them. Presumably,
will try to attack. And, from the
map, he new Murmansk railroad,
parallelling the Finish border as it
does for almost its entire length, seems
to offer the most vulnerable OF open
tanks.
But the Germans themselves know
better than that. The Murmansk rail
road is about as far as possible from
being an open flank. And just now
there is at least one man in America
who is in position to tell why. That
vladimir Goriachkovsky, the big Rus
sian engineer who built it. It was
built in less than eighteen months
when, after nearly tive years of war,
Russia found the absolute need Of hav-
ing an ice-free port on the Arctic.
Goriachkovsky was chosen for the job
because he was an engineer who had
already solved many problcms-his
last work had been 4 railroad along
the foot Of the Altai mountains-and
it was known that the Murmansk
would be road Of many problems.
And when it was planned and located
never for moment was it forgotten
that it was a railroad which sooner or
later might be would-be object Of
attack.
Deliveries on Schedule Time.
But, first, to look at it only as a
railroad. 1t runs from Svanka, the
mainline junction east of Petrograd,
SIX hundred miles moth to Kola. lis
lat two nundrei niles is witnia the
Arctic lircle, arA kola is the world
Arctic railroad terminus. To bull.
the Murmansk in a year ard 4 naif---
it was finished in November, 1917
100000 men and 1900 horses were
put to work. And III one sense it IS
an American railroad, for it was built
with American materials.
Three years before the marines
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
SPECIAL NOTICES
Notice.

The annual meeting of the share
holders of the Union Building Com
pany will be held at is office, 10 So
Fairfax street, Alex, Va, ON Mon
oay, September 16, at II o'clock a. IA
This meeting will be hello for the cleo
ton of officers for the coming year
and such other business as may come
before the meeting.
Myron NJ. Parker
President.
Louis Boyer, jr., Secretary.
207-td
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
MUST FIGHT THE Huns

A year ago lasL Jui! q "o~eh -
more sAlexandrians were entertained
bv Mr.. NJ B. Harlow, at his country
home at Muirkirk, Prince Georges
county, Md. Among the guests was
Hon. C. C. Carlin. the United States
was at that time about to fight with
the Allies. The conversation after
: dinner naturally turned on "a: war.
Some thought that the blocE .de OF
Germany would eventually stl:'e the
nation into submission, otEar! Sd"
various economic troubles in st,re for
tie Teutons. Mr.. Carlin, after al hal
their say, slowly observed that the
only way to conquer Germany is to
.isbt her. The Huns could rot re
starved, nor were other suggestions
which had been made practical. There
was but one way to Lring about peace,
and that vas to bate the nation
which pre-: .itated the war fight her
to finish.
The wisdom OF Mr.. Carlin's remarks
are in evidence today. The allied world
has been edeavoring during the past
four years 20 .starve Germany. This
measure has failed, AMI the United
States, with the other allies have long
since realized that the only way to
bring peace is to use thu sword as
ruthlessly as have the descendants Of
Atilla.
Uncle Sam has rolled up his sleeves
and with his sword is slasning right
and left, while England, France, Port
ugal and other allied nIt..a,is are
showing their earnestnes.; in the good
work.
The Germans, with all their fright
fitness and might, are una.le 20 stand
before the forces of civilization. Trey
are on the run, retreating ali the time,
snrrendering place after place upon
which they have brought ruin and
sorrow.
They will soon reach the Rhine, but
that stream will prove no carrier for
the exasperated allies, who arc bent
ueon carrying the war 70 Africa.
The Rhine cities are :lcmbl:ng N
their boots and are form:n" ieagEe
tfor. protection against ar raids. the
prussian death chickens ara coming
hume to roost. For long time these
Prussian war birds seemed to he
co,nplacent citizens Of Germany the
finest end most beautiful Of fowls.
They and the submarines were rhc
anointed messengers Of Inc Kaiser's
Cctt to carry Kultur to ;ha benightei.
The German peole have themselves
end their Government to thank Cor
the calamity that has come upon
them The weapon they fashioned
for others has returned! 20 :>,ague
th.m.
The Rhine is no long", .wh ~ the
Germ:n Rhine. 1t is becoming the
y led Rhine, and the CT lies i:iat for
rntrIr rejoiced in the hol2; : being
close tc the stream of glor:i Il patti
v.;sm now wish, doubtless, that they
We're a good many miles away. And
ms probabilities are tina: re Rhine
wi, become more and more 2np.eas-
an to live near. and chat It's cities
vii! &c largely depopula;c,l un''cr TIE
Increasing terror of nightly vista
tt::,RS Of the Nemesis Of the ar.
What q man soweth that sii;dl he
reap: and what nation soweth, that
Shall it reap too. And The harvestt
o. blood IS beginning II SHOW its
kicrd- ed tints along the h.,irc.
" ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
ROOMS FOR RENT

FOR RENTER nice. clean he>i
rooms. Also a nice apartment for
light housekeeping. Electric nehi,
hot water. Mrs. Nettie Harris. 202
King street, z1l-5F.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

STENOGRAPHER and typewriter i
a construction office; good wages
and conditions. Apply at AlcXan'
dri Co. Lighting Co.'S power house,
foot of Wolfe street, at once. Ask
for Mr.. A. w. patersiiia.
201-tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
Notice

A stated convocation of Mt. Vernon
Royal Arch Chapter No. IA, will be
held Friday evening, September 6,
1918, at 1880 o'clock.
The election Of officers for ensuing
year and the annual reports should
interest all of the companions. Do your
BIT.
A. G.. UHLER,
2OS-5t Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

days after due publication of this
order, and do what is necessary to pro-
tect her interests in this suit.
VIM P. Woolls, P. Q. A copy-Testc.
Newell s., Greenaway,
Clerk.
BY Cora Duffey, D. c.
210-4w.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
CHRISTMAS OF 1918.

As the holiday, season approaches
each year the suggestion ""shop early"
appears IN many newspapers. /. a
cartoon printed in g contemporary this
week the fc,io":1S paraSrss!,.s ap-
cared:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

WANTED-Clcrk for Camp Humpn-
reys. Salary and expenses. Apply
Gil King street, Alexandria, Va.
202-t f.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

WANTED-Checks clerks to chcc!;
freight at the Potomac Yards.
Permanent positions. Apply to
Agent. 2O2-IZ't
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

Observation-Disclosures waitrcs-
ses wanted; good pay. Apply Mon
ticello Cafe. zO9-tt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

reached the White Sea, our ships and
our freight handlers were going there
with rails and construction machinery.
When no pick would open the frozen
ground, great fires were built to thaw
it for brigades of American steam
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

KITCHENMAN-Saiary, So a week.
Apply MONTICELLO CAFE.
20G-tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
HELP WANTED

COOK wanted male or female; good
wages. Apply New Southland
Hotel Alexandria, .. 2Oo-tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05

CONTINUED On page four)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-09-05
ROOMS WANTED

ROOM AND BOARD wanted in pri-
vate family by married couple. Adj
dress a." this office. viii call to
arrange terms. 2IG-ot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16

A big oversubscription to the third
liberty loan will carry out the promise
of the United States that it means to
obtain liberty for the world regardless
of cost. 1t will make good the prom
Use to the associated nations. weakened
by four years of conflict, that they can
have Americas money to the last dol
lar; that the five billion which has
already been advanced to them is only
a beginning. A large oversubscription
will be warning to the enemy. and
in a language that a materialistic mind
can understand. that it is its tottering
and pyramided financial structure
against the unimpaired finances of a
fresh nation, a nation of vastly great
er resources which has only begun to
fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16

To say that the liberty loan Will pc
an overwhelming success is not suffl-
Gent. We should be able to say that
IL will be the greatest success on rec
ord. and doubtless it will be; provided
fhe campaign is conducted with unre-
hitting vigor. Over-confidence is ex-
.tremely dangerousI it is enervatins'
and tends to slackness. Our patriot
ism. our love of justice and liberty,
our ideals of free government and our
belief in the right of small nations to
live. will all vanish like smoke unless
we back them with liberty bonds No
great ideals and no great spiritual at
tainments can ever be reached until
we are prepared in some form to pay
the price The whole country. and es-
pecially our boys at the front who are
battling. not only for these great ideals
but also for themselves and their
homes, depend upon those at home
backing the loan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
DINNER STORIES

They were on their honeymoon.
He had bought a boat and had taken
Ter out to show her how well he could
handle it, rafting her to eend the
sheet. A puff of wind came and he
shouted in an uncertain tone. Let go
the Sheet" No response. Then again.
Let go that sheet, quickH Still no
movement
A few nIinutes later. when both
were clingiI.s to the bottom OF the up
turned boat. he said:
why didn't you let go that sheet
when / told you to, dear2'
81 would have" sobbed the bride.
IF you had not been so rough about
it. You ought to speak moe kindly
to your wife"
The young man and the Pirl were
:tanding outside the front dor, hav-
ing a final chat. He was leaning
against the doorpost, talking in low
tones Presently the young lady
looked round to discover her father in
the doorway. clad in a dressing gown.
why, father, what in the world is
the matter" she inquired.
John" said the father. a1dressing
himself to The young man. you know
have never complained about your
complain o. that now; but Ior good
Tess sake stop leaning against the
tell-push and let the res. of the
family get some sleep"
He was a good fellow. tho a bad
shot, SO he was asked to join the shoot
ing party. The gamekeeper. in great
disgust, watched him miss again and
again.
Dear me- said the sportsman. the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16

The increasing determination of
American public opinion to see thru
their gigantic and costly job will have
results in the future no less salutary
than those which have already fol-
lowed from American intervention.
To see this thing thru means, of
course. primarily a volume and a rate
OF American military preparation
which when it comes to a head will
make German success hopeless. It
means at the present time the train
ing, equipment and munitioning of
more soldiers, the building of more
ships. the production and transporta
ton to Europe of more food and the
absorption of an increasing large
proportion of American capital and
labor in war work. But, says the New
Republic, it means more than that
The thing which the American peo-
pie are committed to seeing thru is
not merely the defeat of the German
autocratic imperialism: 1t is the Gre
alton of a new world after the war. in
which Imperialism in all its manifes-
tations cannot live. and in which all
peoples will enjoy the same opportun-
ity of disposing of their own lives that
they did before the war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16

1t is not only patriotism. it is sound
loan bonds. They sell at par
and yield Az per cent interest
When the war is over they will sell at
a premium as United States per
cent bonds did after the close of the
Civil war 1t is true that the value
of the liberty bonds depends upon win
ming the war. So does the value of all
bonds and all stocks and all united
States paper money. What would any
evidence of public. of corporate or of
individual Indebtedness be worth if the
United States and its allies should not
win in this contest? What were Con-
federate bonds worth in London after
Lees surrender?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
ONE OF WARS LESSONS.

Not only has the war on the trusts
been brought to a halt by the war
against autocracy, but the public has
we'll nigh forgotten that trusts ever
existed. Prosecutions have ceased
and the laws against business combi-
nations, are rusting from lack of use.
Whatever merit the Sherman law
might have had in days gone by, its
utter impracticability in the present
crisis has been amply demonstrated.
In fact, the very bodies who have been
urging its enforcement have, in three
or four important cases, suspended
further action until after the terminal
ton of the war. and the government
in carrying out it's war program, real
izing the wisdom of industrial combi-
nation as an indispensable element of
business efficiency. did the very things
which the Sherman act itself prohib-
tied.
Crucial events since the outbreak of
hostilities have revealed better than
all the volumes of legal treatises. says
the Wollmen Review, the glazing fall
lacies and weaknesses of this law, and
failed in its Interpretation excepting
oy the elastic rule of reason"
The country has come to realize IN
full force that only by industrial COM
bination, wisely regulated and admin
istered, can the business men of this
country economically and efficiently
conduct business and enter into com
petition in the worlds markets against
combinations so carefully fostered by
foreign governments.
The country now sees that the ben
efits of combination can be achieved
by wise administration and proper re-
strictions and that it is not necessary
to destroy indu stry i'll order to correct
some incidental evils engrafted upon
IT, Judging from the governments
experience. d repeal of the Sherman
antitrust law and substitution of
regulative statute aimed at the evils
Of combination rather than at combi-
nation itself will receive serious con-
sideration after the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
LEST WE FORGET.

The desirability of the third liberty
loan bonds as an investment must APP
peal to every citizen, in addition to the
feeling that in buying these bonds he
is performing a patriotic duty.
The bonds will bear interest at the
rate OF AZ per cent per annum. will
be dated and bear interest from May
9. 1918, and will mature September
Is. 1928. The first coupon will be for
1923 days interest and will be payable
September 1 8, 1918, after which inter-
est will be payable semi-annually
March Is and September Is. This
arrangement as to interest dates is
made in order to avoid having the in
terest payments in this series of bonds
fall upon approximately the same
dates as those of the second liberty
loan.
The bonds are not convertible and
are not subject to call for redemption
before maturity. The bonds carry the
same exemptions from taxation as
those of the second liberty loan.
The secretary of the treasury is au-
thorized to purchase third liberty loan
bonds to the amount of one-twentieth
of the original issue of such bonds
during the first year, and in each sub
sequent year one-twentieth of the
amount outstanding at the beginning
of each such subsequent year until the
expiration of one year after the termi-
nation of the war. A similar provi-
sion is made with respect to the bonds
of the second liberty loan and the
bonds issued upon conversion of bonds
of the first liberty loan.
| Third liberty loan bonds which have
ben owned by person for six months
prior to the date of his death will be
acceptable at par and accrued interest
! in payment of United States inheri-
lance taxes upon his estate. This ap-
plies also to 4 Il per cent bonds issued
upon conversion.
The campaign opened April will
close May 4. Subscriptions will be
payable in the following installments:
Five per cent on application, 20 per
cent on May %, 35 per cent on July Is,
and 40 per cent on August Is. No
fhstallment payment is required to be
made in the month of June on account
of the tax payments which are due in
that month.
| Payment in full may be made with
the application on or before May 4.
but bonds will not be delivered before
May on any subscription for an
amount exceeding $4,000 Full pay
ment may be completed upon sub
scriptions for any amount on May 9
or any subsequent installment date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16

there comes an hour when he is
homesick, lonesome, yearning for
companionship and sympathy. The
boarding housek eeper daughter is
the only woman he knows. She is on
the spot, and into her ears he pours
the sentiment with which he is brim-
ming over and the deed is done. Moth
er attends to all the details of the
wedding.
The number of boys that get en-
gagged without knowing it and married
without wanting to is appalling. How
they are to escape is past finding out
since youth is the time when the love
game is the most alluring of all sports.
and one at which every boy and girl
must play.
We older ones can only warn them
that it Is always a hazardous game.
that neither side ever plays fair, and
that Cupid had better be watched as
he shuffles the cards