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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-03-24
POLK STREET METHODIST
CHURCH WILL RAISE ITS
SERVICE FLAG TONIGHT

Tho POLK Street Methodist Church
viii pay homage 20 the boys that are
representing her in this fight for
humanity Ny unwilling her service
flag. containing fifty stars. one Tor
each boy in service this evening at
the > O'Clock service.
4 feature OF the meeting will he
the address on The Status OF
war" by the Hon Curtis Hancock
Of Dallas. state chairman of the
Good Roads Committee
Tho following program has been
prepared Tor the occasion.
Patriotic Prelude Mrs T. T..
Myers
Invocation br J y. Carpenter.
Anthem, "KiplIng's occasional
choir
Reading oselectedb Miss Tom
luson
Song. America Congregation.
Patriotic Selection Judge Brown
ins
Reading Mrs Fletcher
son selected ..Niss Blanfon
Roster 81 ION Street Methodist
s1mmies" Dr. q J. Nuun
rraseuteation of nag Nr bal.
lcugoc. Tor u NUNS class.
ite.ponse fof parent Prof Il. j..
/ Williams.
song siaT,Spnngied Banner
Response Tor CONGREGATION
Judge o. " Hall
Song Hymual SO 1ea r0nsrc.
cation
HDnsfirfiou
T r1.da. invitation s nltnuard
. fU roo public i0 attend this mpes.
s.sf service
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-03-24
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
FOR LOAN CAMPAIGN
HAS EVERYTHING READY

NJ y meeting III the executive
committee Of the Third Liberty
Loan Campaign for Potter
County Saturday afternoon AT y
o'clock AT the City Hall audi
toriuni. plans were made ana
everything II IN readiness Tor
beginning the campaign In TINS
county with whirlwind start.
All of the members ~ the
executive committee were pres
cnt with the exception ~ \.
Ehcrstadt and Mrs. ". u. Her
ring, who were cut ~ town M
the time.
i Miss ingalls,. 0i the organization
department Of the state campaign
committee was present al the meet
big. She explained that the state
executive committee. In making the
appointment of members, did so
with the belief that the women VIII
play large part IN the next cam
paign, and large number OF wo-
men were appointed on the differ
ent committees
MIS-. = IL MdUWfU Mhh 't''f'N
county manager of the women y
campaign committee She will work
In conjunction with Guy w. Faller,
who was elected 10 act as manager
of the campaign In the city
T. W. HaTdin will manage the
campaisnfiH, the rural districts. He
willNppoirt teams and captains for
the canvass ~ the county within a
few daNsy
H. IA nayAnport was appointed to
act as yice-fnanager Of the work in
the city and ,Ynl assist Mr. Faller
Al Stiihatt was elected as vice
chairman for the campaign. and he
will assist Judge Walker Hall who
is county chairman
Mrs. Tom Currie was made an
additional member of the executive,
committee
The appointment of committees
for the canvass of the town and
county during the loan drive will b,
/ made within the next few days
II is the intention OF the eXccu
tive committee 10 carry ont the cam
INaign in AN order similar 10 the pre-
yious Liberty Loan drives. Re,
/ Cross drives. etc The town will b.
/ divided into districts. with a com
mittee appointed 90 make q house
! 100 house canvass
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-03-24

navy recruiting station Liberal Of
ZEN are made iu men skilled BOO ihls
class uf work Ia addition fo good
pay
Married men eulisting in tho navy
are given au extra allowance uf Sd.
In case OF aife. go Tor tho Iifst
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-03-24

CHINA g. go Tor the second child and
s. for each additional child uudor
los years Of "a"
Carpenters in the aviation corps
constitute what ls known ~ the
ground personnel and advancement
Boo This branch of the service is un-
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-03-24

practically the application OF their
trade rkill % general aviation work.
Gas engine ru men are also need
ed for o.. r.pir NIX OF aviation gas
en- ines Further Information can
Boz had 3 IMPLYING al the local Navy
UoCruffuL station.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-03-24

usually rapid During th" first few
months thr are sent iu school after
which they are assigned iu aviation
duty fur thc repairing %, wines. pom
tons nyiur boat bulls ana bodies.
sen planes and dIrIg.hIrs
Their course ui training covers
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-01-10

%, 1907, and was an especially lovable
child, with a sweet disposition, and was
apt in her studies, being a child of rare
promise. Like some beautiful rosebud,
which blossoms unseen, so will the
beautiful spirit of Eunice Fisher blossom
with the angels, unseen by mortal eyes,
skies. Besides her parents she left a
young sister, Barbara, her grandmother,
Mrs. Eunic Campbell, and several uncles
and aunts.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-01-10

The Belfast Woman's Club will meet
at the home of Mrs James S. Hartman
next Monday evening at 7.3O O'Clock.
Members will bring their work and there
will be an interesting program. A silver
collection will be taken.
The meeting of the Waldo County Bar
Association called for Jan. 5th was ad-
journed on account of lack of quorum
probably to the April term OF the ou-
preme Judicial Court. The question to
be considered was the revision Of the Tee
table of the Association.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-01-10
Sees Slight to Dignity of Senate.

WASHINGTON, JAN 4. Senator Hard
wick, Democrat, declared in the Senate
today that President Wilson's action in
holding over his cabinet from his first
term, without submitting nominations,
was "contemptuous disregard" of sena-
torial courtesy, and he introduced reso-
luton calling on the President to inform
the Senate by what warrants of law or
authority" the present cabinet officers
held office.
The resolution went over without &C
ton and Senator Hardwick promised to
make a speech on it later.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-01-10
WINTERPORT.

Raymond Carleton has been ill with
the measles at Camp Devens, Mass.
Lieut.. w. j. Arlington has been here
from Camp Devens on brief furlough.
Mrs. Frank Eaton has opened her home
on lower Main street to the Red Cross
workers.
Chalmers Staples has enlisted in the
medical corps and left recently for Fort
Slocum, N. Y.
E. P. Ho pkins, who has been very ill
with typhoid fever, has slowly improved
during the past few days.
Mrs. William Uotten and son have re-
turned from two months stay in Mas
sachusetts with relatives.
Miss Marion Philbrook and Mrs. Matte
Cole returned to their clerical duties at
Wellesley, Mass, the first of the week.
The December shipment of knitted
goods for the Red Cross were: As sweat
socks, mufflers, ID pairs wristers and
three blankets, also 26 pairs of flannel
socks were in the shipment. Seven boys,
who have enlisted, were also fitted out
with knitted goods.
The cold weather has been the chief
topic recently. The river is frozen so
that the mail is brought across on sleds,
the first time for thirteen years. Plumb
ers were kept busy by bursted pipes,
truckmen were called in all weathers to
haul coal of which, fortunately, there was
good supply available. 1t is believed
that the Boston steamer made her last
visit to the dock here Jan. 3rd, until diff
ferent conditions prevail.
Mrs. Mary Grant died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. John Bolan, where
she was spending the winter, Friday,
after a brief illness with pneumonia.
Funeral services were held from the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Bolan Sunday p
M. Rev. H. D. Knowles officiating. F.
w. Haley had charge of the arrange
ments and the remains were placed in
the receiving tomb until spring, when
interment will be in Pilgrims Home
Cemetery, Monroe Besides her daugh-
ter, she leaves several grandchildren and
two sisters, Mrs. Martilla Ward of West
Winterport and Mrs. George Campbell of
this town.
The relatives and friends here of Mr.
and Mrs. Sumner C. Fisher, who are in
Jerome. Arizona, were panied to hear of
the death of their Oldest daughter, Eunice,
which occurred Friday of last week from
pneumonia, following an attack of meas
les Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher left their home
here in November, hoping that the eli
matte conditions in Arizona would be
beneficial to the health of Mrs. Fisher,
and lit lis diindeed for this trouble to
overtake them, located so. far,from rela-
tives and friends Eunice was born July
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
WEARY OF WAR
Sultan Said to Be Looking for
Favorable Terms.
Ottoman Government Alarmed Over
the Public Irritation In
Constantinopie.

Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 2S.-
According to d dispatch from the Turk
fish capital to the Lausanne Gazette.
public irritation in Constantinople
has become so great that rumors are
again rife that the Ottoman govern
ment will seek a separate peace.
The sultan himself, the message
says, would seek a separate peace IL
he could obtain favorable terms from
the Entente Allies.
Roumania Near Open Revolt.
Rome, Sept. 2S.-The situation in
Roumania. according to information
received here, has become alarming
for the Central Powers. The Rouman-
ian peasants. made enthusiastic by
the victories of the Allied countries,
are beginning to resist openly the Ger
man and Austro-H hungarian military.
Revolts have occurred at a number
OF places and the Roumanian govern
ment has sent agents to Berlin and vi
emma to obtain a mitigation of the Aus.
tro-Hungarian rule. The Roumanian
government is reported to have said
that If its request was rejected 1t will
be unable to guarantee the main
tenance of order.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
TO BECOME OFFICERS
Physically Fit R~egistrants First
Enter as Privates.
Adjutant General Makes Important
Ruling Affecting Men in
Class One.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-Under rul
lngs of the adjutant general made pub.
lie and ~superseding previous orders
on the subject, physically fit men be-
tween Is and As years of age who are
placed in class l by local draft boards,
or who would be so placed except for
o~ccupational deferment, cannot be.
come candidates for commissions in
the army until they have been induct.
ed into service as privates.
Registrars placed in the subdivi.
sion of class l reserved for limited or
special service. however, may be com
missioned direct from civil life and no
barrier is interposed to the commits.
sioning of Ahn direct from civil life,
providing their local boards have given
them deferred classification on de.
tendency grounds.
Qualified registraIts who have ap.
piled for commissions on army staff
corps and who are desired by a Ger.
tain corps, may have their classified.
tion and physical examinations by
local boards advanced on presenta.
ton of a certificate from a chief or
corps or department of the army. In
Eases where it is desired to commission
q class l man, he may be indicted
into service Immediately and promoted
thereafter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
General CroWder Acts Because
of the Spanish Influenza
Epidemic.
ARMY CAMPS SUFFER
More Than $4,000 Cases of the Disease
Are Reported From Canton
ments-Draft Call Was
Oct. z to II.

Washington, Sept. 2S. - Provost
Marshal General Crowder, because of
epidemics of Spanish influenza in
army camps, has cancelled calls for
the entrainment between Oct. z and
III of 142, 900 draft registrants.
In cancelling the call General Grow.
der acted upon instruction from Gen
eral March, chief of staff. Every state
and the District of Columbia had been
assigned quotas and the men were to
have gone to practically all of the
camps in the country.
6,13e New Cases Reported.
During the "a hours ending at noon
Thursday, 6,139 new cases of influenza
in army camps had been reported,
with ITO deaths, resulting chiefly from
pneumonia following influenza, and 1913
new cases of pneumonia.
Camps Kearney and Eustis were
added to the list, leaving only Is free
from the disease. The total number
of cases of influenza in all camps was
placed at 35,146 with 3,036 cases of
pneumonia.
One out or every four men at Camp
Devens, Mass, has contracted infiuen-
"a, it was announced and 10 per cent
of the cases have developed into pneu-
monia.
Greatest Increase at Dix.
The greatest number Of new in.
fiuenza cases.. 1907, was reported
from Camp Dix. While Camp Devens
reported fewer new cases, pneumonia
showed an increase there, 800 new
cases and SO deaths being reported.
Boston Tests New Serum.
Boston, Mass, Sept. 27.-Much in
terest was manifested in experiments
being made with a new influenza vac.
cine produced at the Tufts college
laboratories.
There are $4,000 cases of influenza
in Massachusetts, in the judgment of
Bernard w. Carey, ep~idemiologist for
the state department of health.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
Applies to French Field Comman-
der for Meeting to Arrange
Eventual Peace.
REVOLT IS INDICATED
Counter Move In Bulgaria Reported
on Foot-BerIin to Send Protest
Claims Premier's Armistice
Offer Not Supported.

London, Sept. 2S.-The British
government has received from an
official authorized source an APP
plication from Bulgaria for an ar
mistice.
Paris, Sept. 2S.-The French CON.
mander-in-chief in Macedonia official
ly reports that the Bulgarians have
asked for a meeting to arrange condi-
lions of an armistice and eventual
peace. The French commander re.
piled, refusing to suspend the opera.
tons but saying he would receive duly
qualified delegates of the Bulgarian
government.
Ask for Suspension of Arms.
General Franchet D'Esperey, com
handing the Allied armies In Macedo-
MIA, has telegraphed to the French
government that a high Bulgarian Off.
Ger has asked in behalf of General
army, the suspension of arms for As
hours to permit the arrival of two u.
thorized delegates from the Bulgarian
government. Minister of Finance
Liaptcheff and General Loukoff, com.
manding the Bulgarian second army,
are on their way to the French head
quarters with the assent of King Fer
dinand to range the conditions OF
the armistice and eventually the terms
of peace.
Berlin to Protest.
London, Sept. 2S.-Germany intends
to send a solemn protest to Bulgaria
against Premier Malinoff's request fol
al armistice, according to Berlin re
ports received in Amsterdam and for
warded by the Exchange Telegraph
company.
Berlin Claims Offer Unauthorized.
London, Sept. 2S.-Premier Malinon
of Bulgaria has made an offer of ar
armistice to the Allies, according to 6
Berlin message transmitted by the Elk
change Telegraph correspondent a;
Copenhagen. The message states thai
the premier's offer was made withou,
the support of other members of the
cabinet or of King Ferdinand.
The Berlin message says that Mali
MOTIFS offer has created great dissatis
faction in Bulgaria and hat strong
military measures have been taken tc
support the Bulgarian front.
Revolution Indicated.
According to statements from Sofia
by way of Jassy, it is added, a counter
movement against the action of the
premier has already been set ON foot.
This would seem to indicate that a
revolution is in progress in Bulgaria.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
Harvester Mercer Aporoved.

Trenton, N. j., Sept. 28.-The state
board of public utility commissioners
approved a merger agreement between
the international Harvester Company
Of New Jersey and the International
Harvester corporation. The combina-
ton will accomplish reforms in econ
omy and efficiency for the companies.
which have a capital of $4,000, 900,
and are engaged throughout the coun-
try in the manufacture. sale and re-
pair OF agricultural implements. The
combined will be known as
the International Harvester company.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
DRAFT LOTTERY ON MONDAY
Drawing OF 1900 Numbers to Re-
quire Approximately rs Hours.

Washington, Sept. 28.-Monday,
Sept. 80, has been set by Provost
Marshal General Z. III. Crowder as the
date for the national draft lottery to
determine the order, in the classes to
which they will be assigned, of the
$4,000, 900 men from Is to As who reg
istered for selective service Sept. IL.
The drawing will take place publicly
at the senate office building and the
numbers will be given to the press
and the country by district draft
boards as quickly as the list can be
printed and put into the hands of the
boards by mail.
II will be necessary this time to
draw m at a time, approximately H.
900 capsules, containing the serial
numbers. 1t will require approximate
ly rs hours to complete the task.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28

Chicago, Sept. 2S. - Charles A.
Hinsch, president of the American
Bankers association, in his address
before the annual convention of that
organization, pledged the fortunes and
lives OF its 1908 members to continue
the war until the last armed German
Is beaten to earth and a victorious
peace assured. Reaffirming the loyal.
ty OF the nations bankers to Presi-
dent Wilson in his prosecution OF the
war, he declared that they will keep
on lighting, mot to the last dollar, but
to their last unit or credit"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
Drive Germans Back Seven
Miles on TWenty-M Mile Front
in verdun Region.
TAKE TWELVE TOWNS
French-American Offensive Progress
ing Under Most Favorable Condi-
tions-12,0O0 Prisoners Taken
Haig Hits Line.

Paris, Sept. 2S.-Reports from the
battlefront in the Champagne between
the Suippe and Meuse rivers indicate
that the attack of, the French and
American forces is progressing under
the favorable conditions. The
French have captured the Butte du
Mesnil, the Butte du Souain, the Butte
du Tahure, and the villages of Tahure,
Ripont, Rouvroy, Cernay-en-Do rmois
and Servon-Melzicourt.
Seven thousand prisoners have been
taken by the French in addition to
5000 by the Americans. The Allied
troops in Macedonia have captured
more than 10000 prisoners, says a
statement from the French war office.
More than 200 guns also have been
taken.
Huns Surrender in Great Droves.
With the British Armies in France,
Sept. 2S.-The British, attacking at
dawn, smashed toward Cambria, on a
Is mile front, penetrating more than
three miles at some points. A strip
Of the Hindenburg line seven miles
wide, including five miles of the Canal
du Nord, was crossed.
The Germans are ~surrendering in
great droves.
q Advance rs Miles in Macedonia.
London, Sept. 2S.-The Allied adj
vance in Macedonia has reached a total
depth of rs miles, it is announced in
the Serbian wal Office statement re-
ceiyed here. In the fighting in front
OF Veels a great number of German
and Bulgarian prisoners and enormous
booty were taken" said the commu-
nique. The roads are absolutely
crammed with wagons loaded with ma
terial the Bulgarians have abandoned"
German Defenses Shaken.
Under Allied smashes on two wide
fronts between Arras and Verdun the
German defensive system based on
the fortress of Laon is being shaken
severely.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, while con-
tinuing the successful Franco-Ameri-
can thrust from east of Rheims to
Verdun, has hurled the British against
the German lines north of Cambria
on a front south of the Sensee river.
Yanks Take over New Sector.
London, Sept. 28.-General Perish
lng's American troops have taken
over a new sector In France and In
conjunction with the French have
forced the Germans on the defensive
On another battle front.
The gauge OF battle has been thrown
on a 40-mile front extending from the
Suippe river in Champagne, Is miles
east of Rheims, eastward through the
Argonne forest to the Mouse river
northwest of Verdun.
In the first stages of the battle the
Allied lines were pushed forward for
material gains-that portion immedi.
ately northwest of Verdun held by the
Americans to a depth of seven miles
and that of the French to the west
nearly four miles at certain points.
Under the terrific bombardment pre-.
ceding the commencement of the bat
tie the Germans hurriedly quit mmer-
Gus positions, and into these the
Americans and French went unim-
peded. At last accounts the Allied
attack was progressing favorably.
Many French villages and German
strong points had been captured.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
Saw, Won ludendorff Rules.

Amsterdam, Sept. 2S.--Philip Scheid.
eman, Majority Socialist leader, ad.
dressing the main committee Of the
reichstag, declared that Gen. Won Lu.
dendorff and not Chancellor Won Hert
ling, rules in Germany. I'VE are SUI
fering now because we under-valued
our enemies" said ~Scheidemann. q
regard the Brest.Litovsk treaty as an
obstacle to peace. This king making
business In the east must terminate
The dismissal OF former Foreign Sec
Rotary Won Kuehlmann was detriment
al to peace.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
BULGARIANS ARE DESEK INNS

German Troops Fire OF Men Fleeing
From Battle Line.
London. Sept. %. - German troops
are continually firing on Bulgarians
who desert from the battle line, 1t
was officially announced by the Serb
Ian war Office I'm the communique re.
ceived here.
German prisoners, according to the
communicate, complain that the Bull
garians Intentionally abandon in great
numbers German-made machine guns.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
ALLIES INVADING BULGARIA
Serbians, British and Greeks Are
Over the Border.

London, Sept. 2S.-yeles, 25 miles
southeast of Uskub in Macedonia, has
been captured by the Serbians.
Allies Invade Bulgaria.
Saloniki, Sept. 2S.-Invasion of Bull.
garia is under way. British and
Greek units are forcing their way over
the Belachista mountain range on the
Bulgarian border northeast OF Dorian,
says a British official statement issued
here.
North of Lake Doiran the Greeks
are nearing the crest of the mountains.
Dzuma Ombasi has been reached by
the British.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
BRITISH MOVE ON SIBERIA
Clear Enemy Away from Both Sides
of Dwina River.

w 6Wita nfsCf.
London, Sept. 2S.-British troops un-
der General Poole have cleared both
sides of the Dwina river in Russia to a
point 80 miles .south of Berentskaia,
according to authoritative information
received here.
~(Berentskaia Is about $50 miles
south of Archangel. The Allies ap-
parently control the Dwina half way
from Berentskaia to It's junction With
the Suchona river.)
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
PRESIDENT APPROVES PLAN
Workers Abroad Will Learn True
American Attitude.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-To keep the
workingmen in the Allied and neutral
countries informed as to the true at
titude of the laboring men of America
toward the war, the Socialist Demo
cratic League of the United States
will establish commissions at Milan,
Paris and other cities.
Plans for this educational campaign
abroad were approved by President
Wilson after they were laid before
him by Charles Edward Russell and
the other members of the Socialist
Committee which recently returned
from Europe.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
DETAILS OF RUSSIAN CRIMES
Received BY State Department
Thousands Starve in Prisons.

Washington, Sept. 2S.-Details Of
Russian atrocities describing scenes
Of horror almost beyond belief have
Just been received by the state depart
ment.
The massacre of thousands in Petro-
grad and Moscow by bolshevik mobs
was reported from the most authori-
tative sources. Prisons are so full
The victims Of bolshevik savagery are
left to starve without care.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-28
pArozns or

Neglected constipation may cause
piles, liberation or the bowels, appendt-
citis, nervou prostratfon. paralysis.
Don't delay treatment Beet reTuedy =
Foley Cathartic TabIoto. Do their work
surely. easily. gently. without injury -