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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
FARM BUREAUS AVERT FIRE
LOSSES

Fire damage in California this year
is only 40 per cent. of that of prev
ious years, fire underwriters state,
due to the work of fire companies mi
tiated by the farm bureaus. To avert
a threatened loss of foodstuffs thru
fire, the bureaus organized local rural
fire companies in $3.50 farm-bureau
centers of the State. OF these, 257
companies purchased automobile trail
ers, containing fire-fighting equip
ment for grain and grass fires, and g.
391 farmers enlisted in rural fire COM
panies which covered a territory of
1902 square miles. The loss in Cali
fornia from grain and grass fires was
$750,000 a year before shortage and
pro-Germanism increased the fire
risks, and it is probable that at least
half million dollars worth of food
stuffs has been saved by these rural
fire companies.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
NO BARS, BOLTS; BOYS REMAIN
AT THE HONOR FARM

Annadale, N. 1.-THE value of the
honor system in handling young pris-
oners of the state reformatory en-
ployed in working the state farms in
Hunterdon county has been fully de-
monstrated, according to Frank Moore
superintendent of the institutions, in
his annual report to Gov. Edge.
Mr.. Moore believes the system, COM
bined with healthful outdoor work, is
the best devised for effecting reform
among young prisoners. Right from
the start the boys employed at the
farm have been placed on their honor
He says:
Living quarters were fixed up for
the first of them in farmhouse, and
the first night they were there the Of
ficer in charge, E. Smith Hoover, told
them he and other officers. were going
to another farmhouse and would leave
them alone, on their honor, for the
night. There have been no locks, bars
bolts, watchmen, or anything -whatso-
ever that would make the farm any
different from any other in the county,
and never once has the trust reposed
in the prisoners been broken"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
PRISONER TELLS OF HUN CRUEL
TWIN THEIR CAMPS

Lawrence, Mass.-Fred Rosenbloom
of this city, a German prisoner since
February, 1916, and now informed in
Switzerland, writes to his relatives a
tale of Germany cruelty which, he
says, is typical of the treatment pris
oners get in Germany.
early one morning we were all
called up" he writes, and made to
stand at stretching post for two
hours without moving an inch. If any
one moved he was punished for four
days by having to run around the
camp for three hours with a thirty
pound bag of sand on his back" In
the afternoon this was done again, he
says, and the prisoners torture was
increased by having to wear wooden
shoes.
give Frenchmen resented the treat
ment and bayonets were run through
their bodies" he says. "One day the
men were compelled to stand twelve
hours without leaving, and by this
time they were too weak to rebel.
"a French corporal, IS years old,
was sleeping with his clothes on, ow-
ing to the cold. A German corporal
accused him of intending to run away
cut him across-the face and left him
on the ground to die"
Rosenbloom fought on the French
army at Verdun and was taken pris-
oner in the German drive.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
CRAWL THROUGH STREETS TO
GET WOUNDED YANKS

Philadelphia, Pa.-Rescue of a par
ty of eight wounded Yankees from a
house around which were many Ger
man shippers, is described by d. j.
Cain in letter to John d. Callahan, a
Philadelphia boy stationed at Camp
Wadsworth.
Cain was one of the party who took
part in saving the injured men. Sew
eral days afterwards he was gassed,
and is now in a base hospital in
France.
I'VE were just about to be relieved
after some hard fighting" he writes,
when a lieutenant asked me to take
detail over to a little place where
some of our wounded men were hid
ing. They were unable to get back
to us because of boche snipers. We
waited until after dark, making lit
tiers out of doors. Then we started
crawling through holes we had dug
through the houses, because all the
streets were covered by Jerry's ma
chine gun sipers.
"One of our lieutenants was sta
toned at corner to keep the boche
sniper busy. We were to wait until
we heard him shoot and then gallop
across. Everything worked out all
right. We got across two such streets
and then through a house by ducking
low and running we got into the place
where the wounded men were. There
were eight, and four could walk We
had hardly gotten in when five shots
came smashing through the door
after spending some anxious min
utes volunteer was sent back for
help. but he could get none, and then
we decided to try to get through
"Ducking low, we started off around
corners, through houses, and across
streets, and at last we reached the
headquarters, only to discover that no
one had assisted the wounded that
could not walk and they were back
there yet. We got them, but not until
after doing lot of Daniel Boone
stuff"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
. G G G G G co0c0o
, SOLDIER LETTERS @
. G G 6 G 6 6 G GG00o G
Somewhere in France, October 2, 1918.
Co. d. 14th NJ. G. Bri.,
American L. f.

Somewhere in France, October 2, 1918.
Co. d. 14th NJ G. Bri.,
American e F.
Mrs. John Holland
Dear Mother:
will take the greatest of pleasure
in answering your kind and welcome
letter which l received today and was
more than glad to hear from you and
was glad to know you was we'll and
l was proud of your photo and it sure
looked natural. Where did you have
it taken? This leaves me well and l
am getting as fat as a pig. 1t was
awful cold last night. I got awful
cold one time last night. Mother have
you ever heard from Owen? l never
have heard from him. Mother some
of these days before long l will be
back to you and that will be a great
pleasure to me. Mother we have
plenty of grapes to eat here and plen
ty of wine to drink but | don't like
the wine, but believe me you ought
to see me make the grapes fly. Mother
will have. some photos taken and
send you one just as soon as | go
where | can have them made. Today
is a ne day, but it looks like rain.
Mother tell Aunt Malinda and George
hello for me and give them my love
and best of regards. Red got letter
from his mother saying she was well
but had not heard from him in three
months He is we'll and fat. don't
when he wrote to her, but Il wrote
not long ago for him.
Mother l write you every week.
don't know whether you hear every
week from me or not but it takes the
mail a long time to come and go for
it has long road to travel. Mother
if you don't hear from me when you
think you ought to don't be uneasy
| for | am safe here and write you ev-
cry chance | get. Mother two more
uuNS anu Will bt ONtl lltlc Slh
months. 1t don't seem that long to
me, doesn't it to you? Mother tell
Aunt Ollie and all of them hello for
me- Tell Laura said for her write to
me and tell me who she married.
Mother | would like to see you but
don't know just when ! will get to.
Mother | think / will make you a $40
more allotment for you to keep for
me until | get home for want to have
plenty of money to go around and see
all of my friends when come home
and l don't want to have to work for
It. Well mother / don't know much
to write, but Sara and you know how
well | love you, so | will close hop
ing to hear from you soon.
From your son,
| EARL HOLLAND
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
BAC0RE

when | was engaged with my pa
rishioners in raising the funds with
which our parish house was built, my
wife assisted materially by the sale
of her home made marmalade. So
when a serious illness brought an in
terruption to my sons college course
we began experimenting together in
the marmalade making on a CONNER
cial basis.
First, in bedroom of the parson-
age, until we spread so that we filed
the cellar and the attic and all the
halls; and finally in the three stores
that l have taken over here, we have
been learning that the production and
sale of any good food is a paying
proposition"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
WIRELESS SERVICE FOR THREE
PHILIPPINE PORTS

Manila. p, Equipment for the in
stallation of three radio plants or
dered early in 1917 and delayed on ac-
count of war demands is promised
soon and II is hoped that In another
six months wireless communication
between Manila, Cebu, and Iloilo may
be established, These new plants will
assure continuousSeryice between the
three big ports of the islands should
the present telegraph and cable lines
BIO interrupted.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
CHANGE MADE IN EDUCATIONAL
REQUIREMENTS s. A. Il. c.


The War Department has issued in
structions defining its policy in regard
to the change in educational require
ments for admission to the collegiate
section, Students Army Training
Corps. An effort os being made to
keep these units up to authorized
strength. Due to the pressing need
for officers in all branches of the SER
vice, men are continually being trans
ferred to Officers Training Camps A
new system of recruiting these sec
lions is being worked out, and pend
ing its completion, the War Depart
ment directs that institutions where
present number of indicted men is
less than its authorized quota, may
certify for induction such students
who do not have the prescribed NUM-
Der of units, but whom the head Of
the institution and the commanding
officer of the unit, jointly, believe to
be competent to pursue one OF the pro-
grams prescribed Due consideration
will be given to such high school
training as applicants have had, also
to vocational and business experience
to previous military training, and to
such personal qualifications as are
relevant to the making of an officer.
The purpose of the foregoing arrange
ment is not to abolish educational
standards, but to permit such relax
alton as is necessary to bring the
strength of the corps to its total au-
| thorization.
An applicant for admission to the
Students Army Training Corps should
apply by mail Immediately to the edu-
cational institution of his choice for
detailed information.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
SOmsthing New
Sometime Good
Big Pound Cans
Pacific Brand
Species of TUNA
LEAVES PULPIT
TO ANSWER CALL
OF MARMALADE
Boston Pastor Quits Post to Help Son
Make Food Delicacy.

Boston, Mass.--The resignation of
the Rev. DR.. Charles II. Moss, ID. d.,
after fifteen years as pastor of the
First Baptist church, Maiden brings
to light an interesting field of en-
tleavor to which. the well known
preacher will devote his future efforts,
A business man of unusual capacity,
with ten years of active business eX-
perience before entering upon his
twenty-four years in the ministry, DR..
Moss is to devote the years of his re-
tirement from active preaching to the
development of a business in which
son Roger has been successfully en-
gagged during the last year-the man
ufacture of marmalade.
at is not as unusual or sensational
a thing as it sounds" said DR.. Moss
in the office of the clean little plant in
which the marmalade is made.
"The questions of bread and butter,
the questions of the future welfare of
my family and especially my son, who
is engaged in this work, are involved.
My health has been such of late years
as to unfit me for the heavy duties
of so large pastorate. have turned
to the business side of life again, with
the assurance of my physician, as well
as the personal conviction, that it will
add years to my life"
81 shall retain a pew in my church
and shall always preach to some eX-
tent, for l love it," continuer DR.. Moss
but it is time for younger and
stronger man to assume the parish
load. For several years, ever since
underwent a serious operation, | have
been looking to the time when l could
lay aside the burdens.
"The line of nedeavor into which
should go was a matter of serious
contemplation and it was from my
wife that the inspiration came.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
RATS DESTROY CANE

Rats every year destroy about 6 per
cent OF the growing sugar cane In
Jamaioa.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
chesapeake & Ohio Ry.

~ilGSdPGdNe q OlMo ny.
Schedule subIsOstO ossnQs without notice
Effective Sunday May 26th.
East Bound
No. 8 will arrive a:4s q. IN
No. 2 will arrive 1850 p. IN.
No. 1s will arrive S,26 p. m.
No. 4 Will arrive $40 p. m.
No. 16 departs 2:e0 D. m.
West Bound
No. 10 will depart S:25 q. m.
No. s will depart TOO q. m.
No. II will arrive 1000 q. m. !
No. will depart $40 D. In.
No. will depart 1850 D. m.
Trains No. 10. IT, Is and 10 are
daily, except Sunday.
W. W wIKoFF, Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
RAILROAD TIME TARLB
RE||'

Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves Maysville 6:3S a. m.
daily except Sunday.
No. leaves Maysvills $40 D. m.
except Sunday.
No. 2Os leaves Maysville 4:1O p. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysville 9:45 q.
IN, daily except Sunday.
No. 210 arrives in MaySville 2:s6 D.
IN, Sunday only.
No. 16 arrives in Maysville $3.50 D.
m, daily except Sunday.
H. g. ELLIS, Agent
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
MAYSVlLLE HARRIET

The United States Government has
issued a request that young turkeys
be held on farms until following
weights are reached Hens pounds
and over, young toms 12 pounds and
over.
The E. L. Manchester Produce Co,
Inc, U. S. Food Administration.
License No. G-O9467.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
WOME KEEPING HOUSEHOLD
ACCOUNTS

In an Oregon county where 10 wo-
men enrolled in the classes and clubs
by the'home demonstration
agent 233 household account books
were placed in creating interest in
thrift and home management.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
PINWHEEL FLYER MAKES 1872
LOOPS

Dallas, Tex. Lieut.. William T..
Campbell attached to Lovefield, estab-
lshed what is believed to be world
record for consecutive loops in an
airplane. Using a Curtiss plane with
a special motor, he accomplished 1872
consecutive loops without descend
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-07
BEWARE OF SPANISH INFLUENZA

1t is caught by breathing a germ in
to the nose or mouth. Sterizol kills
germs and prevents disease. Sold by
MRS. GEO. SHIPLEY,
SOB East Second Street.
Why not try Ledger Want ADJ
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19

BOARD OF EDUCATION
President-C. A. McCue
Secretary and Treasurer - Harvey Hof-
fecter, Robert s. Gallaher, Edward L..
Richards, Orlando K. Strahorn
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19
CHILDRENS DAY
OBSERVED
Interesting Program at NJ. +.
Church

Exceptionally pleasing was the
service in observance of Children
Day at the M. E. Church last Sum
day morning. Many patriotic fea-
lures were included in the program
which follows:
Song, America the Beautiful, by
School; Invocation, by School;
Song, Forward! Be Our Watch
word, by School; Responsive read
ing by School. Dialogue, Dedica-
ton of Little Children to Christ
and Country-Mother, May Du-
hamel; Columbia, Mildred Major;
Children, Kathryn Townsend,
Sarah Durnall, Lydia Cox, Bertha
Love. Song, For Christ and for
our Country, Primary Glass; Song,
Columbia, the Gem Of the Ocean,
by School; Colloquy, Learning
Daily Lessons, Wilkins Cooch,
Kathryn Townsend, Robert Grant
ham, Lydia Cox, Sarah Durnal,
Edna Moore, Mary Campbell,
Dorothy Stoll, Bertha Love, Elsie
Walraven; Colloquy, Doing Our
Bit, Glen Love, Bertha Love;
Scouts, George Powell, Henry
Townsend, Marshall Manns, John
Morrison; Camp Fire Girls, Doro-
thy McNeal, Alma Robinson, Mar
ion Durnal, Evelyn Stoll. Song,
The Star Spangled Banner, by
School; Song, The Flag, by School
Recitation, The Soul of Old Glory,
Miss Edna Green; Song, The Cross
and the Flag, by Boy Scouts and
Red Cross Girls; Song, Marching
Song, by School; Address by our
pastor, Rev. Frank Heison; Song
The Chapel Steps, Graduates :
Olive Porter, Delena Leak, Anna
Patched, Dorothy Hoffecker; Col
leauy, The Stuednts Response =
John Williams, a young student
Columbia, Mildred Major; Sll
Galahad, John Hoffecker; College
Girl, Hannah Lendell. Recessiona
Battle Hymn Of Republic, BY
School.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19
APPLETON

Our public school closed for the
summer vacation on Wednesday of
last week. Under the direction of
their teacher, Miss Ida Kimble, the
pupils gave a very interesting play
entitled Mother Goose in War
Times" The exercises were held
on the shady lawn at the school
house.
A number of our residents at
tended Childrens' Day service at
Big Elk" Chapel, on June 10th.
Messrs. Chester Buchanan and
GuStivis Blackson of Camp Meade,
and Phineas Peterson of Humph-
reEs, Va, were weekend guests OF
the home-folks.
Head of Christiana Sabbath
School observed Childrens' Day on
the morning of June 18th. The
church was beautifully decorated
the programme was excellent and
the attendance unusually large.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19

er army of women already on the
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19
WOMEN ON THE FARM

Continued from Page g.
dry vegetables and fruits. The girls
under instruction canned over A.
100000 containers and the women
more than 30, 100000 containers. At
the minimum wholesale price of
these products their value aggre-
gated more than 81 900, 900, and the
recorded activities represent only
a part of what was accomplished
under the leadership of these wo-
men employed by the Department
of Agriculture and the land grant
colleges last year in the production
and conservation Of fruits and
vegetables. There are in the pan
tries Of the United States today
more Of such products than there
ever were before, and every con-
tainer represents an equal amount
of commercial pack released for
transportation across the sea. This
service is in it's infancy, so to speak
Within another four or five years
| | do not doubt that it will be ex.
tended to every agricultural county
in the United States, and to many
Of the cities. It's accomplishments
will be multiplied many fold if the
women of the land through GROUP
action and local organization woulG
accept and put into practice TIT
teachings Of these leaders.
1t is hard for many people to un
derstand that national accom-
plishment is the sum Of individual
accomplishments, that the aggre
gate of the millions Of bushels o
pounds Of increased production o
of decreased consumption is com
posed of the few bushels or fey
pounds produced or conserved b.
the individual. Too many peopl
are trying to serve the country b.
doing something spectacular, eS
pecially by coming to Washingto
or by going to Europe. The servic
that we most need now is the servic
Of individual performance in on
own homes, III our own business
and i'll our own neighborhoods.
The Woman Army i'm Farm Home
But there is another vastly erea
on arDlI- nf ,unnlnb n lraa1y on, ri
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19
KEMBLESVILLE

Miss Bertha Crossan of Philadel-
phia, is the guest of the home folks
at the present time.
DR.. Harry Moreland and family
Of Wilmington, Del, were the
guests of DR.. and Mrs. F. B. West,
on Sunday.
1920 was taken in on Saturday
night as admission for the enter
ta:nment, which has been pro-
nounced by many as the finest
musical treat ever listened to.
We all sympathize with George
Wilkinson in his severe loss, when
six of his finest cows and calf,
were killed by lightning on We'd
nesday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Good and
Miss Sue Good of West Grove,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Good on
Sunday.
Miss Mary Boyd was the over
Sunday guest Of Miss Alice Fell
Mr.. and Mrs. Blackburn, and
daughter Miss Gladys, of Whining
ton, spent the weekend with their
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Blackburn.
Miss Helen Batting of the w. c
S. n, is home on vacation, as is
also Miss Alene Worth, of Millers
Vile State Normal.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19

bake on L. c. CARROTS lawn, on
Saturday night, June 20. An in
teresting feature Of the evening
will be a talk on the war, by a
prominent speaker. Refreshments
of all kinds will be for sale.
Miss Martha Smith and Ruth
Garrett are visiting at Adra
Smiths, Elkton.
L. C. Garrett and family spent
Tuesday at Bethel.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19

land, and they are doing a man S
share Of agricultural production
and conservation. | speak of the
six or seven millions Of farmers
wives. Most Of our publicists and
leaders have forgotten them. Most
OF them are III the kitchen before
daylight and long after dark; they
cook and sew, and generally they
wash, often even for the hired men,
they cultivate the gardens, they
care for the poultry, they make the
butter, and often they work in the
fields. | have seen them hoeing in
the hot sun while their babies lay
III the shade Of nearby trees. They
are truly and to the limit Of their
strength and their marvellous pa
thence the helpmates Of their hus-
bands. They are the world S strict
est economists, and it's most heavily
laden burden bearers, for while
! they take on the burdens Of voca-
ton they do not lay down the bur-
dens Of sex; they bear children and
they grow old prematurely.
| | can imagine no finer thing for
a city woman to do in this war
emergency than to go to the farm
, for the harvest or for some other
period of labor strain to help her
country sister bear these burdens of
kitchen and farm. Any good wo-
man would keep house for a sick
friend; the nurses in France are
: scrubbing floors in hospitals. 1t
seems to me that some Of the splen-
did zeal of our American city wo-
: men to render war service might
find satisfaction in the farm homes.
Women can Solve Problem
: | do not undertake to prescribe
any precise method of organization
or mobilization, or to set any limit
upon the activities of women in the
field of agriculture. | have tried
I merely to tell you something of the
r problems as | see them. have full
: faith that when the women Of Am
erica address themselves seriously
' and sympathetically to this prob
y lem, as they have addressed them
e selves to other problems within thu
V sphere of their particular response
\ bility, or within the range of thei1
;, particular fitness, they will worl
i out methods far more efficient THAI
&c the mind of mere man can conceive
'e 1t will be blessed thing if OIL
II of this trial and the occupations
: and economic readjustments t.
which we must resort we can estab
lish new relation or revive an ole
,S relation between the town woman
and the country woman; if we cal
T. make farm home life more comfort
le able; if we can make city home lif
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19
STRICKERSVILLE

The festival given by the P. O..
5. Of A. at Mechanics Hall Wednes-
daT evening of last week was a
success. Fifty-five dollars was
realized.
Misses Edith Braunstein and
Rachel Watson have been recent
guests of H. |. Garrett and family.
Mr. and Mrs. John McKeon were
oEer-Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs, Mccoy.
The members of Wesley NJ. E.
church will hold a festival and
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19

more wholesome if we can get into
the country something more of the
city's spirit of aspiration, and if we
can get into the city something
more of the country's spirit of hui
mlllty; If we can take to the coun-
try the order and the progress Of
the city; and if we can take to the
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-19

city the freshness and the fragrance
of the country. | venture the sug-
gestion that such an undertaking of
blessing and beauty will yield a
richer accomplishment under the
acknowledged instinct of woman
than under the boosted philosophy
of man.