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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-18
TWO LETTERS.

In the Letters to the Editor" col
umn in this newspaper the following
appeared yesterday under the head
ing where Are This Mans
Friends?"
To the Editor of the Herald and
Examiner:
SRI am in the army because |
love the United States just at much
as | do my native country, Greece
but won't somebody kindly write me
letter!
Before leaving Chicago had host
of friends, both male and female, but
since | entered training here | have
Mt received letter from any of them
So, if you have space, please print a
few lines to let my friends know my
address here.
SPEROS THANOS,
Care c. & B. School,
Camp Sherman, Ohio.
Here is one friend he has found
Read this next letter and ask your
self the question; Am | doing all
| can to render the life of these boys
less lonely?
To Speros Thanos, Camp Sherman,
10. Dear Sir
don't know you, but, by gosh! |
won't let you suffer, so here goes for
what it's worth. | am a down-state
high-brow from Decatur, ILL.,, floating
around up here in the city for week
or two in the interest of my firm.
This morning my eye fell on the
inclosed clipping in the Herald and
Examiner and boy, | know what it is
to want to get letters when away
from your old stamping ground. |
get as hungry for them as a dog for
a bone
Well, boy | am glad to lend this
much OF my time to one who's gone
to the front to uphold this country
and to fight my end of the battle
there. Owing to- my age near the
60 mark-all | can do is to stay back
here and conserve all | can, and kick
in" with all the spare change | can
to help take care of the boys.
Every old-time sacrifice to give
has become positive pleasure AT
the hotels, out on the road, | tell
them to give me one egg and the
other to the boys, and one spoon OF
sugar and two to the boys behind
the guns. That's the kind of stuff
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-18
Subscribers Letters.
Good to Get Home Paper.

Mr.. Babbage Dear Sir: Find
enclosed rs cents in stamps for my
paper six months it seems good to
get our old home paper again.
Yours truly.
Mrs. l.. X. Wright.
Owensmouth. Cal Star Route
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-18

When you have backache theliver or kid
neys are sure to be cut OF gear. Try San
oil, it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and
bladder. trial soc bottle will convince
you. Get it at the drug store.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-18
From r. r. Payne.

Custom. KY, Sept. 0, 1918. Mr..
]. D. Babbage. Dear Sir: Please
to pay my subscription to the News
find enclosed check for three dollars
for year 1918 and19l9. Many thanks
for sending the paper along.
Yours Respectfully,
r. r. Payne.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-18
From Miss Rebecca Ricketts,.

MIR. John ID. Babbage. Cloverport,
Ky. Dear Sir: Enclosed you will
find S1.5O money order for which
please send to the following address
The Breckenridge News for one year.
Yours very truly,
Rebecca Ricketts,,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-18
RED CROSS SOCIETY

RED CROSS SOCIETY
Portable wooden huts for use in
France will be shipped from this
country. in response to request
from the Commissioner to France.
An appropriation of $1j3, 1O2 has been
made by the War Council for this
purpose
Mr.. X. w. Rowland OF Hardins-
burg assisted in the management of
an ice cream supper held at the Hen
drick school house, Saturday evening,
Sept 9TH and when the affair had been
concluded and all expenses paid, Mr..
Rowland turned in $43 to the Hard
insburg Red Cross Chapter.
The Hites Run Chapter of the Red
Cross which is branch OF the Glow
export Chapter, turned into the later
society $3i30 recently, which it made
in giving an ice cream supper in the
Hites Run community. This
chapter deserves especial commenda-
ton because of its limited number
OF members. but evidently it is made
up of quality and not so much guam
ity.
Mr.. L. Walker of Hardinsburg
of Hardnsburg is a patriot and a
devotee Of the Red Cross work in
that he will not sell ice cream to be
sold by others unless they promise to
give their profit to the Red Cross.
The Cloverport Red Cross Chapter
room is open on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday afternoons OF every
week The women have begun on
the cotton sewing and atpresent they
are cutting out and making women's
morning Jackets and under skirts for
II year old girls.
The chairman OF the sewing depart
ment desires to have as many women
to help in this work as will come and
do either cutting, machine or finger
work
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-18

How many miles of road will the
road fund of your county improve
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
CANNON AND CROPS CONSUME
THE SAME MATERIALS
Wartime Conditions Threaten FertiI-
izer Supply.

Every cannon crash and every burst
Ing bomb on the battlefields of Europe
uses up important fertilizer materials.
A single skirmish may consume more
potential plant food than would be re-
luired to feed the fields of an entire
township, and the quantities burned
Up during a real bombardment are ire
nendous. Last year more than 6OO,-
300 tons of nitrate went to make ex-
olosiyes, in the United States alone.
Millions of tons Of sulphuric acid were
likewise consumed.
Fertilizers and warfare bear a most
intimate and most sensitive relation
ship. War decreases the supply of
fertilizing materials and at the same
line increases the Importance of their
use. Food production takes on a pa
.riotic aspect. The farmers tools of
production become of Importance Sec
md only to the needs of the army it.
self. Yet when Mars is the arbiter
he preference on materials must go
20 the soldier rather than to the farm
er. This accounts for the shortage of
materials from which fertilizers are
made.
But now a new danger threatens the
spring fertilizer supply. The labor
supply has failed. The needs of the
nunition plants and the shipyards
have been so great as to seriously
Drain the fertilizer factories. Many
plants have lost 80 to 40 per cent of
their labor, and there is no prospect
for improvement by next spring.
In normal times spring fertilizers
are turned out by working the fac
tories al high speed during the late
winter and early spring months. Only
half as many laborers are employed in
November and December as in Febru-
airy and March.
With the present difficulty of getting
laborers, it a be seen how remote is
the chance of speeding up to double
production next spring. There is only
one way to get out the fertilizer ton
mage needed for next years crops, and
that is to start in now and run every
factory as best it may every day from
now until spring.
But manufacturing every day must
mean shipping every day. Fertilizer
factories do not have and cannot get
storage space for this tremendous
bulk of goods. Finished goods must
be loaded directly on the cars and
shipped to the consumer.
Here is where the farmer must help.
He must place his order Immediately
and accept immediate shipment. In
no other way can the problem be
solved.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
CAN AMERICA PRODUCE
HER OWN POTASH?

New light Is thrown on this inter-
esting question by facts and figures
contained in a recent publication of
the bureau Of soils Of the United
States department of agriculture.
Bulletin No. 572 gives a careful
analysis of the probable potash sup
ply to be had from the cement indus
try when apparatus for Its recovery
has been universally installed.
On the basis Of an average produc-
ton of 100000 0 barrels of cement,
the total potash escaping at present
amounts to about $1,000 tom annually.
1t has been demonstrated commercial
ly that 80 per cent of this potash is
recoverable and experiments show
that 95 per CEN of this amount is in
available form or may readily be made
available. On this basis we would
have a production of approximately
$4,000 tons of available potash each
year.
Since only about so per cent Of the
potash in the raw material is ordinar'
lily volatilized in the process of making
cement, as handled at present, there
is a prospect Of still further quantities
to be made available from this
source.
The present high prices of potash
are encouraging installation of collect
ing apparatus and when once install
the cost of potash recovery is smal'
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

By virtue of a writ of feri facias, to me d.
rected, issued out of the New Jersey Court OF
Chancery. will be sold at public vendue. on
WEDNESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF
JANUARY. NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND NINETEEN,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon of said day,
in the Court Room, No. pol, Second Floor,
Guarantee Trust Building, in the City of At
lantic City, County of Atlantic and State of
Situate in the Township of Egg Harbor
(now Somers Point City,, County of Allan
tic and State of New Jersey.
Beginning at a post standing on the bank
of Patconk Greek being a corner to Master
John Scull's about sixty links from the
Southeast end thereof, and extends thence
chains and seventy-fve links by low water
mark to Hosea English's line 90 South
%ffty-six degrees East in the said English's
line eight chains and thirty-eight links to a
post in said English's line go North thirty
degrees and a half East four chains and fifty
links to the said John Sculls line; (4) in
said line North sixty-one degrees West seven
chains and eighty links to the place of be-
ginning.
Excepting therefrom the following describ-
ed lot Beginning at the third corner as
mentioned in deed of Harry F. S; Wescott ct
al. to Mary H. Flemings, recorded in book
$50 of deeds. page 479, and runs thence Cd
North thirty and one-half degrees East as
recited in said deed two hundred and seventy
eight feet to Southwest line of a public road
thence ca Northwest along same three hun
bred and seventy-fve and three-tenths feet
thence CD Southwest making an interior an
gle of ninety-ive degrees and thirty-six
minutes one hundred and seventy-four feet
thence (4) Southeast making an interior an
gle of one hundred and twenty-four degrees
and thirteen minutes eighty-nine feet to the
second course in the aforesaid deed thence
CD South ~ffty-six degrees East along said
old division line three hundred and thirty
eight and three-tenths feet to the beginning.
Seized as the property Of Arnold DeBrier
ct ais. and taken in execution at the suit of
Alvin P. Risley and to be sold by
ALFRED J. PERKINS.
Sheriff.
Dated December IA, 1918.
Herbert r. Voorhees,, Solicitor.
PRS fee 500 40
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

Up to the present time all shipbuild-
ing records We're held by the British.
They had a highly developed industry
that had been in full operation for gen.
erations; most important of all, they
had the yards and large numbers of
skilled workers to assure them first
place. After April 6, 1917, it was nee
essary that the United States, under
extreme pressure, should create the
yards, recruit and train the workmen
and turn out the materials before II
could hope to increase in any consid-
cradle measure the American rate OF
production and the annual output.
That is what has been actually done
in spite of persistent efforts to mini
mize the success of our hurried war
methods. 1t has been a marvellous
achievement, rejecting honor upon
American enterprise and skill, upon
American shipbuilders and ship work.
ers.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
ANOTHER AMERICAN CON-
QUEST
Baked Beans Have Made a Place for
Themselves in Europe.

Beansi Do you know them? Bos-
ton bakedi Red beans on toast! Or
Just beans. Home and foreign con-
sumption of beans has increased rap
idly in the past few years. The war
has oiven thousands of Europeans
their first taste of real yankee pork
and BEANS" This "bean habit" will
sity IN the European bill of fare, as
1t has on the American.
Possibly no other cultivated crop Of
fers a quicker or larger cash return
than does the field bean. In the past,
bean growing has been confined to
comparatively small treas but grow
ers have found out that there are va
rieties adapted to growth in most every
section of the country.
While beans have been looked upon
by some as a poor land CROP" they
do best ON a fertile soil that is neither
extremely light and open nor too heavy
and compact. The bean is a legume,
capable by virtue of its root structure,
of taking nitrogen from the air, but
owing to it's brief growing season the
nitrogen-gathering bacteria on the
roots have but a short space of time in
which to fix nitrogen. Fertilizers used
on beans should supply nitrogen as
well as phosphoric acid and potash.
The rapid growth and early maturity
secured through the use of fertilizers
are also valuable in enabling the crOD
to escape rust, blights or early froets.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

1t is cheering to learn from the
department of agriculture hat in Au-
gust there was an improvement in
spring wheat to an extent which will
add 21,000,0 900 bushels to the crop.
This will make a spring wheat harvest
of 343,000,000 bushels, or a total wheat
harvest of 500, OOO, 1000. This is 1O1,-
100000 bushels below the expectation
last spring, but it is a pretty big pro-
duction, just the same, says Buffalo
Express. The wheat situation is bet
ter than it has been for two years, but
nothing like the free use of wheat can
be expected before the end of the war.
With the encouraging wheat report
we have a d~iscouraging corn report
that is, there was deterioration in Au-
gust which cut the prospective crop
down by 317,00O,O 900 bushels to 2,672,-
100000 bushels. Corn lost III, 10000
bushels in July. We need all we can
get of all kinds of grain and this loss
will be felt, though, of course, not so
severely as would a heavy loss In
wheat.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
NOTICE |!

Pursuant to Section 500 of Chapter 236 of
notice is hereby given that the undersigned,
Tax Assessor of Galloway Township, will sit
at the Town Hall in Smithville, N. j., on
Monday. December 30, 1918. between the
hours of nine o'clock a. m. and three o'clock
p. M. when the assessment list for the year
1919 may be inspected by any taxpayer for
the purpose of enabling such taxpayer to as
certain what assessments have been made
against him or his property and to confer
informally with the assessor as to the cor
~rectness of the assessments, to the end that
any errors may be corrected before the filing
of the assessment list and duplicate with the
Atlantic County Board of Taxation.
CHARLES f.
Assessor
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

ness, just because you've Managed
to Hang on to the Job you've Got.
But Are you Hitting that we'll?
Are you Getting Along better than
you were this Time Last Year?
Have you Pushed Along as Far
as the Guy you Started Even with
Five Years ago? Put down the
Figure that you think Really Repre-
sents your Present Gait. Isn't it
more like Five Hundred than One
Thousand? It's Five Hundred if
You are just Holding your Own.
And Maybe you're Slipping Some,
and only Betting them Out at about
a One Hundred and Twenty Three
clip.
That's your Offensive Form, we've
been Slanting At. Let's have a
Lamp at your Defensive.
Have you Got on, Or Stayed on,
the Water Wagon since the last
time you Checked Up on yourself?
Have you Taken Care of your
Health, both Physically and Morally
or are you the Same old Boob that
you were-Falling for the Booze,
FOR Gambling, for the Up-all-night
stuff, and just simply Getting Older
and not Moving Forward at all?
Are you Making Errors every day
-Booting the Pellet all over the
Field for an average of about Six
and Seven-Eighths?
Give yourself a Closeup! You're
not such a Star, are You? Maybe
you Never will Be, but, having
Doped Yourself Out, you can Dis
cover where your Weaknesses are,
and you can Become some Sort of
Big Lacquer instead of remaining
a Busher throughout the World
Series. 1922
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

wUST before the White Sox and
Giants started to Rip Into
~ one another in the Worlds
Series. the Dopesters got Busy Civ
ing them the Up and Down and
Trying to Figure Out their Chances
in advance of the Merry Muss.~
One Sharpshooter, in Particular,
had the stuff Down Fine. By his
own little Fancy System, he could
tell you that Eddie Collins on a
Sunshiny Day would be worth
sixty-three more Points on Defence
than Charley Herzog, or that Joe
Jackson, in the Fourth Game, was
Liable to bat eighty-one Points
better than Bonnie Kauff. Old Mr..
Henry K. Arithmetic, who Wrote
the Book. had nothing on this
Seer when it came to Juggling the
Decimals. He came pretty near
Telling You just what Every Pitch
was Going to Be. a Week before the
Show Started.
This Doping System doesn't make
Much of a Hit with me, when Ap-
piled to the Grand Old Pastime.
You can't put a Ball Game under
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. it Is Played
and Get Anywhere in the Way of
Result. Past performances, not
Futures, are the Doings to Apply
the Acid Test to.
But a little Doping Out of Our
selves, once in a While, will do
None of us Any Harm. Suppose
you Get out the old Pad and Pencil,
and Give yourself a Once Over to
see how you're Getting Along in
this Worlds Series you're Engaged
in Every Day.
Maybe you Think you've been
Batting One Thousand in your bust
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
NOTICE. oE SETTLEMENT |

Notice is hereby given that the Accounts
of the Subscribers as surviving executors of
the estate of Thomas E. French, deceased,
will be audited and stated by the Surrogate
and reported for settlement to the Orphans
Court of Atlantic County, on Tuesday, the
fourteenth day of January next, at which
time application will be made for commits
sions.
Dated December II, A. D. 1918.
THOMAS H. FRENCH,
LEWIS E. FRENCH.
Herbert R. Voorhees,, Proctor,
Atlantic City, N. j.
Prs fee. S5.SS.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

Hindenburg's familiar instructions
to his generals to do their work with
out pity because no general who look
age Is bearing fruit. His generals
have tried to live up to his theory,
God knows. If there Is any brutality
they have failed to infict when oppor-
tunity offered it was because it had
escaped their reading, or they had not
the brains to invent it, says Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. Yet they are no
match for the cool, smiling, humane
F'och, and his equally cool and smiling
l~ieutenants.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Absecon will be
held at its office in the City of Absecon, coun
ty of Atlantic and State of New Jersey, O.
Tuesday, the fourteenth day of January
1919, at $50 o'clock in the afternoon, I'll.
the election of directors for the ensuing yea
and for the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before the meeting.
RAYMOND S. STEVENSON, Cashier.
Absecon. N. j., Dec. 13. 1918.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

The feat of the two British flyers
In one machine who captured sixty
five Germans, and flying around them
herded them into the British camp,
would have aroused only derisive
smiles If set forth in q work of fiction.
When the history of this war m to
be written, its incidents will make It
read like an imaginative romance.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

There is more Catarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and for years 1t was supposed to be
incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies
and by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced 1t incurable. Catarrh
is a local disease, greatly influenced by con-
stitutional conditions and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Medicine, manufactured by F. ]. Cheney 6
Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is a constitutional remedy.
Is taken internally and acts thru the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One
Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any
case that Halls Catarrh Medicine falls to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
f. J.. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
advertisement
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
TRUST
COMPANY

Pleasantville, N. j., Dec. 10, 1918.
Notice is hereby given to the Stockholders
of this institution that the annual meeting
will take place at the Banking House on
TUESDAY, JANUARY IA, 1919.
at $50 o'clock in the afternoon, for the pur-'
pose of electing directors to serve for the en-
suing year and for the trans action of such
other business as may properly come before
the meeting.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28

Certainly the king business is not
what it used to be. Young Crown
Prince Charles of Roumania has de-
clined to desert his recently acquired
bride, ever though she is of humble
birth, in order to be sure of succeed
ing his father on the throne. Thrones
are so unstable nowadays.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-28
PUBLIC NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that persons hav-
ing bills against the City of Pleasantville
must have them In the hands of the City
Clerk on Friday preceding the regular meet
ing nights of Common Council, which are
the first and third Mondays of each month.
otherwise they will not be paid.
By order of the Common Council Of
Pleasantville.
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS,
City Clerk.