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The Keota news., 1918-12-20

and scanned with hard and uni0ve'
'Iy wrinkles to stop nnd look
1Gwn. lie was about To push
tho child away. but the little hands
were raised with such utter confidence
that In spite nf himself lac actually
did lift her In Ills arms and gradually
edge his way nearer the window
through the dense crowd. Tho child
looked and looked with staring eyes.
a. Il she could not take 10 enough at
tho wonderful procession ~ Il went
around Its allotted space. The cold
hands ,clutched tightly ut the old
The Keota news., 1918-12-20

A Necessity.
"0ood will among men 10 . prime
Aecessity Of reasonable living.
Old Bennett.
The Keota news., 1918-12-20
Old Crusty's'
Christmas
BY
OLIVE HARPER
1913. Western Newspaper Unioa.)


ISTER. Mister! Please
hold me up 10 ! can
Sec"
These words came
frorl the lips OF . baby
OF four. blue with cold
and Qaivering with a
great desire to see the
wonderful display Of
moving toys In the
show window OF q large
store.
This strange request
In the childish treble
caused an old man
whose face was lined
The Keota news., 1918-12-20

out3eNf0 compl0Xj0n0.
NOTHING better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment - needed 10 make
The complexion clear. scalp clean and
hands soft and white. For free can.
piee address "Cuticura. Dept. Z. Boz.
ton" Sold b. druggists and b. nail.
0oap u Ointment q and 60.-Adv.
There's no outside cure for 'I" trou.
The Keota news., 1918-12-20

0epends.
do you favor the opcn-door pol
icyr
"Not in this kind Of weather"
The Keota news., 1918-12-20
A Christmas Wish.

ThouRh the Wea&hee'0 very cold
Here's q warm wish very old.
May your Christmas day b merry
Vsry.vsry-very.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-15

are as gay and bright and full of color as paint and curtains and plants and flowers can make them. There are such good beds and mattresses in the dormitory, such warm fires on cold days, such quantities of electric lights and tables for writing with unlimited stationary, games, playing cards and newspapers and magazines of all kinds.
 ''In the canteen proper the girls in their blue and white uniforms look so nice and the food is so good. You cant think what it means to them. When they have money they pay a nominal price, simply to keep them out of mischief-4 cents for a huge cup of coffee or cocoa, and correspond ing prices for everything else.
 q have arranged for an unlimited supply of the best fresh milk, butter, jam, syrups and buildings and des- serts, ana l must say they are more than popular. One big, fair boy at B. drank four cups of milk one after the other, and may tell you that three of our cups make a quart; and when he was finished he said, I wish mama could have seen me do that and I wished she could, too.
 "The shower baths are as popular as the canteen or the recreation room, and there are always men in the dor mitory and i'll boys in the infirmary Up to now it has seen a boy coming | down with humps, or pneumonia, or grippe, but never any wounded are coming back
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-15
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

In the United States Commissioner s
 Court in and for Cordova Precinct, Territory of Alaska-In Probate.
 In the matter of the Estate of James
 Grady, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given that o. E, Lambert, the administrator of the estate of James Grady, deceased, has rendered and presented for settle ment, and filed with the above en titled court, his final account of his doings as such administrator, and that Tuesday, the 3d day of September, 1918, at 10 o'clock a. m of said day, at the office of the United States com missioner and ex-officio probate judge of Cordova precinct, at Cordova, Alaska, has been appointed by said court for the settlement of said ac- count, at which time and place any person interested in said estate may
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-15
NOTICE

The city has employed a regularly licensed scavenger and residents must not employ any other person to do his work. All refuse matter and gar. bage must also be kept in the reg ulation cans, as prescribed by ordin. ance. In the future the throwing of any paper or refuse over the rail on Front street lE strictly prohibited.
 w. H. CHASE
 Health Officer
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-15

Save food or go on short rations.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-15

appear and file exceptions to said ac- count and contest the same.
 E. F. MEDLEY, United States Commissioner and ex- officio Probate Judge in and for Cordova Precinct, Territory of Alaska
 Date of first publication, June AIS. Date of last publication, June 25-18.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-15

Anne Hopkins, one of the most pop uIar of Washington's society girls. who was married recently to Capt. John Gregory Hope of the Royal Flying corps. Captain Hope is in Washington on detail by the British war office.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10

Stephen Bonsall, veteran war CORE
spondent, is major attached to the
general staff in Washington. He has
covered for New York newspapers
wars in almost every country in the
world for the past thirty years. Later
he has been in the diplomatic service,
and then was commissioner of public
utilities in the Philippine islands.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
OVERMAN BILL is PASSED
BY SENATE, VOTE So TO IS
Gives President Authority to Co-Ordi-
nate and Reoruanize Government
Departments During War.

Washington, April 3O.-Rejecting
all amendments designed to limit the
presidents authority, the senate
passed the Overman bill, with its gen.
eral grant of power for the executive
to coordinate and reorganize govern
ment departments and other agencies
during the war.
The vote on the measure, which
now goes to the house, was So to IL.
many senators who opposed the adj
ministration in the long fight over pro-
posed amendments joining the major
ity when the test came on final pas
sage.
Only one Democrat, Senator Reed
of Missouri, voted against the bill. Re-
publicans who voted against it were
Brandegee, Cummins, Dillingham;.
France, Gallinger, Harding, Johnson
(CalD, Knox, Poindexter. Sherman,
Sterling. Sutherland.
AS passed by the senate, the meas
ure authorizes the president to make
such redistribution Of functions
among executive agencies as he may
deem necessary" and to utilize, CO.
ordinate and consolidate any execu-
tive or administrative commissions.
bureaus, agencies, offices or officers
now existing by law, to transfer any
duties or powers from one existing
department or to transfer the person
mel thereof" These powers, however,
shall be exercised only in matters
relating to the conduct of the pres
ent war;"
The measure also provides that II
the president believes any agency
should be abolished he shall report to
congress, and congress will arrange
for transfer of appropriations in any
reorganization, limiting their expen-
diture to the purposes specified by
congress.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
Knew What He Wanted.

In Seventh avenue one Of the
first requisites for satisfactory exist
ence is to learn the language. Sew
enth avenue has language of its own
and the great difficulty Of mastering
it is that it is so much like English
that it becomes unusually confusing.
A roughly dressed boy Of twelve wan
dered into a drug store at Thirty
fourth street and approached the soda
fountain. There was crowd about
it. but he forced his way through ana
ordered "bonnella" soda.
The clerk after some delay provided
It, but the boy Immediately objected
that the drink was not for him.
81 meant t. tell yuh,'' he explained,
81 wanted it in a sanctuary containet.
It's for me kid sister out in the per-
namberator.'-Ne York Herald.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
AL RUSS REVOLT HUN FAKE
rench Newspapers Say Reports of
Monarchial Restoration Ema-
nate From Germany.

Washington, May 1.-Reports COM
q from Finland through Copenhagen
lat revolt in Petrograd had result
b in the restoration of the monarchy
hanated from Berlin, In the opinion
French newspapers as given In an
kicial dispatch.
The French public is advised to ac-
pt the news with caution, since 1t
4 not been substantiated by later
,norts either from inland or Moscow
by the allied ministers in Sweden.
.oThe French papers," said the dis
tch. receive with great reserve the
port sent out by German propaganda
|ht serious troubles appear to have
oxen out In Petrograd, and that a
bnarchial restoration is likely to
How In favor of the former czaro-
Ech. Alexis Nikolaievitch. The Petit
urnal writes:
I" Prudence should all the more be
|llowed in this matter, because 1t Is
the greatest interest Of the Ger.
ans that troubles should arise In
7ptrograd to justify an Intervention
r which they are ready"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
SENTIMENT ALL RIGHT, BUT
Youngsters Reason for Buying Carna"
tons Knocked All Pathos Out
of the Incident.

He was a poorly dressed youngster-
of perhaps fourteen years.
His trousers were shabby, and there
was only one button on his thin coat.
He wasn't tall enough to push through
the crowd of women around the bar
gain countey where fresh carnations
were on sale at two cents each.
Finally a salesWoman saw the grimy
hand reaching out, with six moist pen"
MES and shiny dime in it, and in an
swer to his 81 want eight, please, alt
colors," he received an assortment of
pink, red and white flowers, all show
ing more or less the effect of rough
handling.
A woman who stood near by built
up a pretty little story about him.
She was certain he was q little news
boy, and that the flowers were for his
mother who probably was i'll in free
hospital.
Tenderly the child adjusted the It's
sue paper around the carnations, and
queer little smile curved his lips.
"Are your pretty flowers for your
mother little bOy?" asked the senti-
mental bystander.
"Naw," answered the youth with
an impish grin, they're for my girl"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
YANKEE AlRMEN WIN FIGHT
Capt Hall of coIfax, Ia, and Auto
Racer Bag Hun Over German
Trenches.

With the American Army in France.
May PA German airplane was
brought down in enemy territory the
other night by Capt. Norman Hall of
Colfax, Ia, and Lieut.. Edward V. Rick
enbacher Of Columbus, o., after bat
tie over the American line on the Toul
sector.
The American birdmen first engaged
the enemy machine over the American
lines. Lieutenant Bickenbacher, well
known as an automobile racer in the
United States, swept over the Boche
and opened fire with his machine gun,
while Captain Hall, formerly MEM
Der of the Lafayette escadrille, DART
ed behind the German and also open"
ed fire.
The Americans peppered the enemy
machine with bullets and drove it down
until 1t fell behind the German
trenches. Captain Hall and Lieutenant
Rickenbacher returned from the fight
unscathed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10

To drive a tank, handle the guns, and
sweep over the enemy trenches, takes,
strong nerves, good rich blood, a good.
stomach, liver and kidneys. When the
time comes, the man with red blood in.
his veins 'is up and at it." He has iron.
nerves for hardships-an interest in his
work grips him. That's the way you
feel when you have taken a blood and
nerve tonic, made up of Blood root
Golden Seal root, Stone root, Cherry
bark, and rolled into q sugar-coated
tablet and sold in sixty-cent walls by al
most all druggists for past fifty years
as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. This tonic, in liquid or tablet form,
is just what you need this spring to,
give you vim, vigor and vitality. AT the
flag end of a hard winter no wonder
you feel rundown" blue, out of Sorts
Try this Medical Discovery" of Dr..
Pierce's. Don't wait! To-day is the
day TO begin! A little ''pep," and you.
laugh and live.
The best means to oil the machinery
of the body, put tone into the liver,
kidneys and circulatOry system, is to-
first practice a good house-cleaning.
/ know OF nothing better as laxative
than a vegetable pill made up of May
apple, leaves of aloe and jalap. This.
is commonly sold by all druggists as
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and
should be taken at least once week to-
clear the twenty-five feet of intestines.
You will thus clean the system-expeL
the poisons and keep WeH. Noa0 is
the time to clean house. Give yourself
a Suring house cleaning.-Ady.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
j. s. MEN DEFEAT
HUNS IN BATTLE
NEAR To V|L[ERs
Americans RepuIse Big Force At
ter Hand-to- Hand Fighting.
FOE SUFFERS BIG LOSSES
German infantry Attacks After Two
Hour Artillery Preparation, Only
to Be Driven Back After
Fighting.

With the French Army in France,
May "A heavy German attack
launched against the Americans in the
vicinity of fllers-Bretonneux was re-
pulsed with heavy losses for the en-
envy.
The preliminary bombardment by
the German artillery was very In
tense and lasted two hours. Then the
infantry rushed forward, only TO be
driven back, leaving large numbers OF
dead on the ground in front OF the
American positions.
Hand-to-Hand Fighting
The German bombardment opened
at five O'Clock in the afternoon and
was directed especially against the
Americans, who were supported on
the north and south by the French
After two hours three battalions
Of infantry charged. There was
hand-to-hand fighting all along the
line, in which the enemy was thrust
back, his dead and wounded lying
In all directions.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10

If you find it impossible to tell twins
apart tell them together.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
WILSON BUYS A $50 BOND
President Issues Challenge to q
Million Men to Join Loan
Match.

Washington, May president VIII
son called upon 100000 Americans to
match him with $50 Liberty bond-s5
down and SIS q month.
Inaugurating "buy-another-bond"
campaign, the president, after pur-
chasing all the bonds he felt he could,
got another $50 one, on the installment
plan, providing million people In the
country would go with him on the
proposition.
Washington, May 3.-Only $249, 000,-
600 remains to be subscribed to the
Third Liberty loan to reach the three
billion minimum goal, and headquar-
ter statement said, 1.-THE prospects for
sn oversubscription are considered
hopeful" The total reported Thurs
day night was S2,751, 360,7O0, which
did not include subscriptions obtained
Thursday. 1t was an addition OF
S172 100000 in the last "a hours.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10

NATION and equipment faclllueS
rant.
To Ask Unlimited Power.
ecretary Baker indicated he would
nit q proposed measure, probably
ln amendment to the draft law, TO
bit the unlimited authority asked.
nder the existing draft law, as con-
led by Chairman Dent of the mill
committee and others, there is au-
I,ity for the use Of only 100000
under draft. Mr.. Dent introduced
ill to authorize draft total OF f.
900 men, which, with volunteers al
dy in the service, would make an
innate possible maximum strength
100000 men.
The house military committee will
.nediately resume consideration of
annual army appropriation bill and
|cretary Bakers idea Is that 1t shall
|bvide only for the number immedi-
bly, foreseen.
100000 Men Planned.
Indications are that 1t Will carry pro-
ion for equipment, transportation,
h and other expenses Of approx
4tely 100000 men, as part not of
'ecific program, but as a furtherance
a blanket authority plan involving
use of all or part Of the funds APP
Dpriated and supplemental appro-
atoms later on as their need may
come apparent.
Secretary Baker, at the conclusion
/ the hearing, dictated this state
}nt:
! THE war department program was
esented to the house military COM
|ttee. 1t involved the expediting of
L training Of men and the increasing
the army as rapidly as ability to
|uip and transport them can be fore
len. The secretary of war declined
discuss the numbers Of the proposed
my, for the double reason that any
'ecific number implies a limit, and
e only point Of limit is our ability to
Iuip and transport men, which is con-
antly on the increase"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
LAYER OF FIVE TO PRISON
..,ap Farmer Who Murdered Mich
,can Family Is Given Life Sen.
tence Day After.

Alma Mich, April Coleman
|r,++,g German farmer, was sent to
rouette prison Monday night, where
= will serve a life term. Sunday
orn,ng he murdered In cold blood
I. ond Mrs. Willard Kimball. tenants
L his and their three children. That
|,obt he was arrested and confessed
&c crime. Monday he pleaded guilty
nd was sentenced. Justice never
boved more swiftly In this part or
Michigan.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10

also other BuncheS or SwellingS. No blister
no hair gone, and horse kept at work. Eco
nomical only al few drops required at an appli-
cation 81. per bottle delivered. Book R free.
sgS0RBHE, IT, the antiseptic liniment for man.
kind, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Swollen
Veins and Ulcers. $1.25 bottle at dealers or
delivered. Book Evidence free.
W.FY0uNa. p. D.F, $40 Temple ST., Springfield. Mass
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
Sc PERISH WHEN SHIPS
COLLIDE OFF DELAWARE
Seamer City of Athens Rammed by
French Warship-SeVen U. S.
Marines Lost.

An Atlantic Port, May 3.-Sixty-six
lives were lost and sixty-eight persons
were saved when the City of Athens,
a Savannah liner, was rammed In
fog by q French cruiser off the Della
ware coast at l a. M.
The armored PROV of the warship
cut a death wound into the passenger
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
BAKER SETS No
LIMIT ON SIZE
Of i. 6. ARMY
Wants Forces Increased as Fast
as Ships Can Garry Them.
ASKS UNLIMITED AUTHORITY
Colossal Military Program Submitted
to House Committee-$1 3,OOo,ooo'-
600 to Maintain Fighting
Machine.

Washington, May "a colossal mill
tary program was submitted on Ihurs-
day by Secretary of War Baker TO the
house committee on military affairs
Here are the principal features OF tne
plan:
1. Expenditures on the army aggre,
eating $4,000, 100000 in the next nscai
year, more than twice the total OF TINS
years outlay.
2. Manufacture of artillery on stu
pendous scale, involving the 1mmedi-
ate erection of enormous plants, the
whole outlay representing several Dill
lion dollars.
8. Drafting Of at least 1,OOO,ooO ao-
ditional registrants and as many more
as can be equipped and transporter 10
France, with the prospects favoraOie
to maintaining an army OF 5,ooo'ooo
men in the field next year.
He told the committee that 1t wouio
be ill-advised to restrict the number
of men to be utilized and that the siEe
of the army should be increased in the
discretion of the government, as trans
fQ0ll1fi62
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-05-10
Sarcastic.

81 hope I'm not taking you from
vour work" "No; just come down
TO rhe Office to receive visitors"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-26

This afternoon a very lengthy dis
patch was received from Gen. Task
er III. Bliss. chief OF staff and the
permanent; American military mem
Der OF the supreme war council at
Versailles. This message reviewed at
great length all OF the developments
along the western front None of the
Information which it contained was
made public. Officers who were in
position q know the contents of the
message. while declining 10 be quot
cd. declared that il was very plain
hat while the situation was very
grave because of the enormous
weight Of the German offensive, II
was Likewise even more plain thet
disaster was not here. All agreed
that a turning point would be reach
ed and that then the fun weight OF
the AnglO-French counter offensive
will be manifest.
Divided as TO Objective.
Officers here are divided as TO the
exact German objective. Many think
it is 20 pave the way for a sweep
ing drive on Paris. others that the
channel ports are the hope Of the
German general staff. Either is pos
sible at present, it is pointed out.
That the Anglo-French counter
offensive must be developed in the
near future is the opinion Of the
majority CT officers here. They say
that Hais now has sufficient rein
forcements in men and guns 10
sharply st:ffen his resistance in the
vicinity o. Bapaume. If this is true
they should be making their pres
ence felt IN the very near future.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-26
BATTLE NEARING CRISI$ {
Pers11ng Recon1n,endsIE ).
Anow Men to Accept
Decorations of the Allies

International News Service
WASHINGTON, March 20. - on
recommendation Of Gen. Pershing,
congress today took steps to make it
possible for American soldiers to ac-
cept the decorations of foreign coun-
tries. Sen. Chamberlain, of the mill
itary affairs committee, intro1lced a
resolution in the senate granting 10
all members of the military and
naval forces the authority to accept
such decorations as are conferred
by such government upon members
of its own military and naval forces" p"
Gen. Pershing has cabled the fol-
lowing recommendation:
Service of our troops with France
has already resulted i'm a number OF
cases of individual gallantry. Some
Of these have been rewarded by ci-
tations in orders by the French and
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-26

the city. so that now the battle line
IS virtually straight from CombleS
northward to the Scarpe river
a violent struggle is raging in the
COmhleS sector. with the Germa7 :
in the direction of Albert
Claim Old Positions.
The German war office claims
that the British have been driven
back in the Bapaume-Peronne dis
trict 70 the old positions which they
occupied two years ago and that the
German advance continues. How
ever, the Teutons are meeting wit1
the utmost resistance and il is an
nOunced that fresh troops and new
supplies of guns are on their way
&c reinforce the battle-weary heroes
of old England
Judging from the German claims
the kaiser's armies have advanced
from y 20 10 miles in certain dis
tricts OF their offensive zone since
the battle opened six days ago. Ac-
cording TO the German war office
reports the fighting line now runs
rorthward from the Disc river ha:f
way between NoyOn and Chauny
past Nesle, Licourt, Brie, Peronne.
COmbles. Bapaume and Croisilles.
Prepares Counter Attacks.
II is believed that Field Marshal
Haig has made preparations fo-
strong counter attacks and that the
advanced German positions viii
soon be under heavy pressure if they
are not already.
In his report on Monday night
Field Marshal Haig said that heavy
fighting continues along the front,
indicating that the German thrus;s
CONTINUED on PAGE TEN.J
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-26

international News Service:
CHICAGO, March 26.-A concert-
ed drive on pro-GerTnans and dis
lOyalists 10y those in authority ana
by many VINO are not but who are
imbued with strong ideas Of Amer
icanism. is on today in the middle
west. The action OF police and
private citizens is also held as an
indication that the present German
drive on the western front has in
tensifed tie war spirit Of loyal mid
die westerners.
With =, men IN jail here TODAY.
the police made short work OF local
celebrations in honor OF German
victories.
At Benton, Ill. irate citizens rode
a woman Of Bohemian birth out 4
town on a rail. She was charged
with disloy atty.
At Delphos. O., great excitemen.
prevailed. the loyal citizens making
a house 10 house tour and draggins
all pro-Germans out and forcins
them TO kiss the Flag
DuquOin, III, reports thai four