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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16
October Dusts and Colds

With October dusts annually comes
the epidemic of colds and then comes
Grandmother with her old-fashioned
remedy Turpentine and Goose
Grease
Science has now replaced the bad
odor from this oId-fashioned remedy
with ~Wintergreen and other
healing oils, the pleasing fumes OF
which when inhaled, will cut the
phlegm, clear the head and relieve the
tickling in the throat.
While the Turpentine and Goose
Grease are drawing out soreness, the
healing fumes are soothing those ten
den inner membranes, quoting the
cough and clearing the head.
You can get a jar of this old, yet new
remedy at your druggists. Use it on
the first case of cold, bronchitis, ton
silitis, Group, sore throat in your
house. Remember-relief in twenty
minutes. Get jar of Men-Tho-E
today. For sale at all druggists.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16

piling the pulped coffee in heap,
covering it over, and leaving it IL
hours. When the fermentation is COM
plete, the coffee is washed with water
in large watts until all traces Of slimi-
ness have been removed. The water
is then run off and the coffee spread
out on tables, or mats and constantly
turned over in the sun until it Is thor
oughly dry. In this stage it is known
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16

titled of his serious illness and his
mother, Mrs. Anton Woerdehoff and
his brother-in-law, Mr.. Richard Krapfl
departed for his bedside Monday and
were with him when he died. The
news of his death has caused deepest
sorrow among countless friends in the
vicinity.
Cyril Woerdehoff was 81 years old
and was son of Mrs Anton Woerde-
hoff. He was born on the Woerde-
hoff homestead near Petersburg, jan
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16

as parchment coffee, and it is usual
to send it to the coast to the coffee
.curers to undergo its final treatment
before it is shipped. Here it is spread
out in the hot sun, on large cement
floors. 1t is then placed in machines
which, by means Of a heavy vertically
revolving wheel, takes off the husks,
or parchment, and polish the bean.
HENRY GOODHILE, Agent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to extend our thanks to
the kind friends and neighbors who
assisted US during the sickness and
following the death of our dear moth
er.
D. ]. Kearney and Sisters.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16
COLESBURG.

DR.. A. E. Kepford of Des Moines and
County Agent Krall of Manchester
were here Wednesday afternoon and
gave addresses at the school house. A
number of visitors were present. The
talks were especially for the pupils
and will certainly be helpful to them,
if needed.
Franklin Phillips, who has been Ill
for the past ten days is now able to
be out He is with the S. A. T. G. at
Fayette. 49,
Robert Gray and Frank Flynn, both
of whom have been taking special
courses of training at Ames, are
seriously i'll with pneumonia, follow
ing Spanish Influenza. Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Gray left Friday night for Ames
in response to message that their
son was worse. Mrs. Fannie Bush
accompanied them and will offer her
services as nurse.
Mrs M. A. Plat has been very ill
with neuralgia of the heart. She
is improving at the present time.
Mrs. Ida Walters returned home
from Lima, Thursday to care for her
mother in her illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Brockmeier
will move to town shortly, into their
new home on Delaware st. A sale
was held on the Brockmeier farm
Saturday to dispose of stock, farm
machinery, ETC. Good prices prevail
ed. VIM. Adams has taken possess
ion of the farm. II q 1Hi SIS Gs,a-
The Womans Foreign Missionary
Society met with Mrs. M. E. Dittmer
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. w S. Adams is suffering from
a severe attack of rheumatism, but at
present appears to be improving.
Miss Verda Evers, who has been
threatened with typhoid fever is re-
covering. w e
Mesdames F. c. Wilson and D. s.
Mallory have gone on a visit to rela-
tives in he e. w. Knee home at Aber-
deem, S. D., they started Wednes-
day, expecting to be gone a week.
A great and abiding sorrow has come
to the hearts and and home of Rev. and
Mrs. P. M. Phillips in the loss of their
eldest daughter, Mary Alva Phillips.
The death of the young lady ocur-
red shortly before six o'clock Satur-
day afternoon, October 18th, at Cha
pin, Iowa. She was taken i'll while
teaching at Chaplin. Her illness reach
ing critical stage about two weeks
ago, when her mother was summon
ed to care for her. Brain fever de-
veloped and not being of a strong
constitution, the patient was unable
to withstand it. Miss Mary was %
years of age, very bright and cap
able young woman, and ambitious to
secure a higher education. She was
a junior in the U. I. U. and planned
to teach this year, then complete
her special course at that school.
Beside her parents, Rev. and Mrs. P.
M. Phillips, she is survived by four
brothers and one sister-David, who
is in the service at Camp Mcclellan,
Alabama, William, teach
ing in our public school, Franklin with
the 8. A. T. c. at Fayette and Ernest
and Ruth at home. To these our
60 out in the loss OF
dear daughter and sister AS to the
funeral arrangements, we know not
1t this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Robson of
Edgewood were among our Sunday
visitors.
Harry Brown is numbered among
he sick. G. A. Dodge and son, Glen
ire also on the sick list, though none
If these gentlemen are seriously ill.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16
Fish and Pigeons Akin.

love to the partners of their choice
practically in the same way that pig
cons coo and bow to their mates.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16

assistance during the sickness and
death of our beloved mother, and for
the beautiful floral offerings.
Carl and Ida Schagun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16
PETERSBURG BOY DIES AT CAMP
DODGE.
(Dyersville Commercial. J

Word was received Tuesday night
of the death of Private Cyril Woerde-
hoff son of Mrs. Anton Woerdehoff, of
Petersburg who passed away at the
base hospital in Camp Dodge at S
o'clock that evening, the result of
pneumonia, which followed an attack
of the epidemic, Influenza.
The members of the family were no
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-10-16
CARD OF THANKS.

We take this means of thanking our
neighbors and friends for their kind
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
HLTERACY COSTS MILLIONS

The Saturday Evening Post strikes
a most vulnerable spot in our ma
tional economy when it makes the
astounding declaration that this
country loses over eight hundred mil
lions of dollars yearly through the IL
iiteracy of its people.
At first glance this would seem
10 be an exaggerated estimate, but
when one comes to carefully consider
the limitations of an illiterate the
statement does not seem so over
drawn. The illiterate man or woman
is at a discount in every avenue of
industry. He or she is incapable of
filling any but the most menial of
positions, and even the work of these
lines is not nearly so we'll executed,
as general thing, by illiterates as
by those of moderate learning. Prob
ably the most disastrous effect of IL
literacy is found on the farms of the
country.
An illiterate farmer as a general
proposition is a back number. Prog
ress is foreign to his nature. Unable
10 read and keep pace with world
thought and world improvement, he
clings to antiquated methods in his
work, with the result that frequently
a great per cent of his effort is vast
ed OF course, this is not always the
case, but too often 1t is. The Posts
estimate of eight hundred millions,
rightly applied, would go a long way
toward ridding the country of this
source OF shame and modification
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
of the best grain God ever caused to
grow out of the ground.
SAVE SUGAR NOW TO
INSURE FOR CANNING

In order to make sure that there
is sufficient sugar to meet the re-
quirements Of the 1918 canning sea-
son, the United States food admins
tration is making renewed appeal
for greater conservation of sugar.
II you want to be sure Of your
canned logan berries next winter,
favorite marmalade, ounce jelly, or
help Mr.. Hoover save sugar for the
housewives, who are relied upon to
fill the pantry shelves with all these
good things in the canning season.
Arrangements have been made
whereby every housewife, by signing
an official certificate, will be able
to secure an ample supply of sugar
for canning and preserving fruits and
her family upon assuring the govern
ment over her own signature, that
the sugar will be used for this pur-
pose only and that she will limit her
household in the use of sugar for
all other purposes to three pounds
per person per month.
Now, in order to provide this sup
ply Of sugar for the home Gamers,
Mr.. Hoover calls upon US all to do i
little extra saving on sweets. By US
ing less sugar in your tea or coffee
and eliminating all frosting or sweet
ened Filings in cakes and by eating
less candy or no candy at all every
body can help save sugar for the
Gamers. Instead of sugar use cane,
corn and maple syrups, honey or mo-
lasses in cooking.
To sweeten your cereals serve them
with syrup or sweet fruits, and extra
important Of all, stay your hand
when 1t reaches for the sugar bowl.
That extra spoonful sprinkled over
your strawberries or ladled into your
coffee may seem only little bit,
but with everybody doing it, the
spoonfuls soon mount up to sacks.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06

win; that there is even possibility
of war 10 be lost. Every american
should face this possibility.
America must give and give of
all that she has France has suffer-
ed and bled for nearly four years.
All this time she has been fighting
our enemy, the enemy of all civiliza-
tion. And now our own sacrifices
have begun.
1--WE must make this sacrifice
count for victory We must give up
our wheat to the allies. AS a mill
tary weapon, wheat is as valuable as
gunpowder; it is as necessary as
shrapnel. The necessity for limiting
ourselves now to one-and one-half
pounds of flour per person per week
and even of going without it entire
ly, must not find us Stacking. We
have corn, oats, barley and potatoes
in plenty. Is going without wheat
too great price to pay for freedom?
There can be no question. What
really matters is to see that the arm
les are fed. 1t is up to America, and
America must meet the crisis"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
MEN TAUGHT USE OF
RIFLES IN CAMP

The national army and many Or
ganizations of the national guard
having been equipped with the Unit
ed States rifle, model of 1917 (modi
fled Enfield, it became necessary to
devise some plan whereby troops
could be efficiently trained in the
use of this weapon in short time.
A statement authorized by the ord
nance department tells how experts
in shooting, many of them members
of United States teams which won
international shooting matches, were
commissioned and sent to various
camps to instruct officers and men
in shooting and in the operation and
care of the rifle.
In one camp officers under instruc-
tion from these men gave demon
stration in dismounting and assembl-
ing this rifle, while blindfolded, the
record time being minutes for dis
and % minutes for assembl-
ing. There are Sc parts to the rifle.
These officers in turn instruct me-
chanics classes, the mechanics being
trained to make repairs to rifles in
the field. Frequently they have to do
their work at night, when they will
not be allowed to use lights, and
therefore they must be thoroughly
trained in taking down the rifle and
putting in new parts by sense of
touch.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06

Phone news items to the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
GOOD OLD "CORN PONE"

The wheat shortage is destined to
make the people of the United States
acquainted for the first time in their
history with the great American
grain-corn. When one comes to
think of it, 1t is really surprising
how few people in our land really
appreciate this grain as they should.
Corn bread, rightly made, has no su-
perior as a regular article of diet.
Those who have become accustomed
10 its use frequently prefer 1t to all
other bread and insist that one never
loses relish for 1t.
Corn was the staple article of food
OF the American Indian, than whom
a finer race physically never existed.
II was also the mainstay of the Afri-
can slaves Of the south for two CEN
turies, and on 1t they throve and la
bored. II is acknowledged by lead
ing physicians that corn bread is
much more healthful than wheat
bread, and when once one has acquir-
ed taste for 1t he becomes a con-
vert for life. 1t is the merest drivel,
TO say nothing of craven disloyalty,
for any Of our people to bewail
forced abstinance from wheat bread
so long as we have untold millions
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
TIME FOR CALYX
SPRAY ON APPLES

All apples should be sprayed within
ten days from the time the petals
fall. The object of this calyx appli-
cation is to thoroughly cover the
calyx end of the apple with arsenate
OF lead before the calyx closes. II
spraying Is done too early the petals
will be coated and will drop off,
leaving the calyx proper without a
thorough covering. In large orchards
where 1t takes several days to make
the application, spraying should start
when about so per cent of the petals
are off. A few orchards in the val
ley are ready for this application at
the present time. There will be a
difference of few days to a week
or ten days in different localities
Get your spray tanks ready and start
as soon as the petals are practically
off.
Where 1t is necessary to spray for
scab, use 1 gallon lime sulphur to
30 gallons water and pounds of
arsenate Of lead paste or l pound of
powdered arsenate to SO gallons OF
water. Use plenty of pressure with
driving spray so as to penetrate
into the base of the calyx. Spray di-
rectly into the calyx for the calyx
cannot be coated by striking it from
the side.
Green aphis is showing up in some
orchards and where 1t is necessary
to spray for this, add pint nicotine
sulphate to 100 gallons of the above
combination. Where nicotine is to be
used without lime-sulphur, add 4
pounds of soap to 100 gallons.
Pear orchards infected with scap
should be sprayed at this time with
lime sulphur / to so and arsenate
Of lead may be added where it is nee
essary to control leaf-eating insects
such as the sawfly larvae, canker-
worm, cutworm, etc. 1t is not neces-
sary at this time to spray all pears
with arsenate of lead because the
calices do not close up so thoroughly
on pears and may be filled with ar.
senate at the next application.
c. c. CATE,
Dated May L. County Pathologist.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
OREGON ARTILLERY ON
THEIR WAY TO FRANCE

THE Canadians were all seasick,
or sick for fear of submarines. You
lanks are worried sick for fear you
won't get enough to eat"
1 So one of the crew of the vessel
that took the 65th artillery of Ore
gon. Washington and California over
seas set forth our case, according
TO letter written by an Oregon sold
ier says the Portland Telegram.
The Canadians not only do not
need the quantity of food that an
American must have, but they actu
ally do not want more. They'd SOON
er win this mans war"-as the Sold
iegs say.
This trip of the 65 has been rath-
er lacking the beauty and glamour
of the first voyage, through the can
al The Atlantic crossing is less
picturesque and pleasant, fraught
with the sadder side of leaving home
and the relentless consciousness that
death turks in the very waves. The
rapid changes of temperature from
the cool of Oregon to the heat of Pan
ANA and back to the ice of New York
in a fortnight have laid the men open
to grippe and tonsilitis. Aside from
these diseases there has been sur
prisingly little real sickness on the
vessel.
The sea has been rough in COM
parison with the glassiness of the
Pacific, but the whole trip from the
time the men left the Pacific coast |
has been one of pleasant weather and |
climate.
The manifestations that the men |
have seen during the course of their |
trip have gone long way toward
convincing them of the enormous |
character Of the undertaking upon
which they have embarked. In the
of miles that they have
Travelled they have never for a min
ute been without some reminder Of
the vastness of this world war and
the tremendous length of the tenta-
cles that are supplying the allies with
the means of pursuing the conflict.
AS they near the European coast the
tenseness is easily felt and
the men are knowing more and more
surely that they are going out on the
largest task that time has ever set.
Oregon homes were far away thc
night the 65th left port, but the
hearts of the men that lined the rails
and watched the lights Of America
go down into the western horizon
we're none the less full. They have
come to a realization of the united"
nature of the states and have lost
much of the provincialism that youth
80 often carries with it. They looked
back at those dimming lights and
knew that ways would be long and
paths hard before those wan CLEANS
would rise out of the sea to greet
The returning regiment
Many expressions of regret were
made, but no one heard a voice that
would have exchanged positions with
he proudest civilian youth in all the
and behind those fading lights.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
NOBODY SCARE-PROOF,
NOT EVEN VETERANS

Just smell of this paper / am
writing on and If it does not smell
Of powder 1t is not the fault of the
Boches. / am now about five min
utes, walk from the German front
line trenches and am writing this
from place where even a 42-centi-
meter would make no impression.
Sounds fishy, but it is true. / got
real taste of war this afternoon
while coming up. The adjutant and
| were driving up in a blackboard
behind a pair of fast mules. The
Germans seem to take a fancy to
the road we travelled and shells began
to drop with their customary regular
ity. You can hear them on their way
and tell how near they are going to
land by the sound. We got along
all right and arrived at our destina-
tion. Oh, yes, forgot to say we
were up for the purpose OF paying
the boys and was sitting on a strong
box containing $4,000" writes Carl
Standish of Battery A 101st artillery
from France, in a letter published
in a recent exchange. I'VE got out
Of the team and went in with the
box and had just come out of The
dugout when z-z-z. along come a big
Boche shell. Whang! She landed
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
WHAT is WHEAT BREAD
TO A FINAL VICTORY

Mr.. Louis Parker, the eminent
English dramatist, recently penned
a stirring message to the front on be-
half of the British people. The last
two lines read:
In Gods name, what are eggs and tea
Compared with final victory?
"The American people, say a food
administration bulletin, must ask
themselves this question in regard
to wheat. What does 1t matter
whether we eat barley, corn meal,
or oatmeal bread, as compared with
the winning of this war?
I'VE have suddenly come to real
ize that it is not an easy battle to
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06

"Of course in the danger zones we
wear our helmets or masks at the
alert and anyone who is at all nimble
can adjust one in four seconds. We
have had much drilling in this sub
ject, for it is darned important, and
are all prepared for emergencies. /
have been through the gas chamber
and have experienced the effects of
lachrymal (tear) gas. After staying
in the chamber a few minutes you
are ordered to remove your mask,
and let me tell you it is a case of
quick exit after that. l cried for 10
minutes, and at that it was only a
mild mixture. Nice smelling stuff,
too-not bad at all. The chlorine is
the most deadly and hope l never
get up against it."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06

Don't care how brave a man Is
know he's scared Of the big ones
Why, the other day French major
who had been on the job ever since
the war started, made a 15-foot dive
into a dugout to escape one. This
paymaster's job sounds like one OF
the safest in the army, but when
tell you what have been through
the past week you may change your
mind On two different nights pieces
Of shrapnel came through the roof of
the place where ! was sleeping, and
another night during an ar raid. one
Frenchman was killed and l6 wound
ed less than 75O yards away. Oh.
yes. l am seeing a little bit OF the
war-and now that | am at the front
can write more fully Of it. Just then
a shell landed on the roof. but don't
worry, for there is 90 feet of solid
stone above my head and 1t is the
safest place | have been in a week.
But If you go outside you keep your
eye peeled for the nearest shell hole
or dugout and make a world record
run when you hear one coming over.
Our regiment has not lost a man yet.
So don't worry. am all right and
am going to sleep now.
"The guns are quiet tonight. oc-
casionally you hear them bang away
but it is only regular fire Would
It not be fine If you could come and
live this life for week to see what
/ is really like? 1t is a queer sem
;ation the first time you are under
lire and know that they are firing
10 get you. That is the part that
seems to make you sore. We got
pretty well used to fire during our
training period, but there is an alto
sether different feeling when they be-
gin to throw them at you. / honest
y don't fear shells half as much as
I do gas, for you can hear shells
coming and even If you are unfor-
tunate enough to bet in the way the
chances are that you will not be kill
ed unless it hits nightly close-but
-he gas gets you and gets you quick
II you don't see it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06
10000 VOICES.
And Many Are the Voices of Ashland
People,


Fifty thousand voices-what a
grand chorus! And that's the num-
ber of American men and women who
are publicly praising Doan's Kidney
Pills for relief from backache, kid
ney and bladder ills. They say 1t to
friends. They tell 1t in the home
papers. Ashland people are In this
chorus.
Here's an Ashland case:
J. R. Maxedon, newspaper agent,
977 B street, says: II couldn't say
too much in praise of Doan's Kidney
Pills, for l have never found any
thing that has done me 80 much
good when l have needed a kidney
medicine. l use Doan's Kidney Pills
whenever l have backache or I no
tice my kidneys are not acting prop
erly, and 1t takes only one box to fix
me up in fine shape"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Maxedon had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06

about rs yards off and we all ducked
and then everyone had the laugh on
the other fellow. No one hurt. but
all scared.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06

FOR A VIGOROUS PROSECUTION
OF THE WAR TO A VICTORIOUS
CONCLUSION.
FOR STRICT BUSINESS PRINCI-
PILES IN MANAGEMENT OF STATE
AFFAIRS.
FOR RURAL CREDITS EXTENSION,
IRRIGATION, DRAINAGE AND DE-
VELOPMENT OF ALL OUR RE-
SOURCES.
FOR ASSISTANCE BY PORTLAND
CAPITAL AND BUSINESS TO Ev-
ERY SECTION OF OUR GREAT
STATE
FOR THE RIGHTS OF BOTH LABOR
AND CAPITAL UNDER A SCHEME
OF MUTUAL COOPERATION.
For Good Roads, but Fighting the
Paving Trust
We are paying about $4,000 more per /.
16-foot mile of Bitulithic pavement
in Oregon than is being paid in Wash
ington. Let us build good roads in
every county in the state-GIVE
EVERY COUNTY A SQUARE DEAL.
Elect MOSER and you will forever
hanish the subtle influence of the
Paving Trust from Oregon politics.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-06

]. s. MacMurray, teacher OF sing
ing. Address Hotel Austin. 45-tf
Evening star., 1918-05-26

WINDOW SHADES.
sHADEs-Good quality opaque shades. fitted
to your windows, only 75c: the best quality oil
OPAQUE shades, 95c, hung free. We call with
samples. KLEEBLATT. 11th and 81 SITS. ne.
WINDOW SHADES MADE TO ORDER; EsTI-
mates cheerfully given. Phone NJ. $500, or
cali 500 7th st. s.w.