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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07
BOURBON OUT IN FRONT
Blue Grass County Leads State
in Thrift Stamp Drive
Chairman s. E. Bedford Has Made
Fine Record and People Have
Come Forward In Pleasing
and Commendable Way.

Paris, Ky.-A Bluegrass county,
Bourbon, holds the record so far in
Kentucky, size, population and quota
considered, in the sale of Thrift
Stamps and War Savings Stamps.
Chairman s. E. Bedford has reported
to State Headquarters at Louisville
that his organization has disposed Of
100000 worth Of Stamps. Its quota
is $349,24O, and the Bourbon organiza-
ton is planning to have all of this
amount either sold outright or pledged
before the Third Liberty Loan cam.
paign is finished in his section of Ken.
lucky.
The Paris Kentuckian-Ci Citizen, which
is actively cooperating with Mr.. Bed.
ford and his organization in this great
war activity, has the following article
with reference to the campaign In
Bourbon:
"Fifty-nine Bourbon county people
have been enrolled in the one thou.
sand dollar War Savings Stamp Club
as result of their subscribing for the
maximum Of stamps permitted by the
United States Government.
"Other persons have literally sub.
scribed for War Savings Stamps in
mounts from five to five hundred dol.
lars each and as a result Chairman s.
e. Iedford has disposed of more than
one hundred thousand dollars worth
of War Savings Stamps through his
working committees distributed in
Bourbon county. Bourbon county's
allotment Of War Savings Stamps Is
$349,240, and our people must hurry
themselves a bit and subscribe quickly
for the stamps remaining unsold.
I'm the War Savings campaign Bour.
bon people, rich and otherwise, have
come forward with their subscriptions
to this gilt edge investment in a most
pleasing and commendable way, for
all Of which County Chairman Bedford
and the members of the precinct COM
mittees are highly appreciative. How.
ever, the unsold War Savings Stamps
must be sold before the next issue OF
Liberty Loan Bonds, which will be Of
fered to the public in April.
Get busy you patriotic and liberty.
loving people Of Bourbon. Call on
some member Of the, committee and
buy literally of the War Savings
Stamps, the best and most desirable
investment obtainable today. Do your
duty now-don't wait until members Of
the County. Committee, all busy bust
ness men, look you up to beg you to
do your patriotic duty
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07
HOPE OF POVERTY

No boy should regret his poverty If he looks at rightly is
capital trade One builds purpose out of it. We have boys
gappe their poverty and make themselves rich and the leaders of
out of it. Everything depends uopn the person puts
thing to and there ane for boy to put poverty than
there wealth. The ability to loaf not fine for boy the
necessity to work Poverty tie mother of serance and self
rence the secret of We congratulate the boy who has
to make his the world He have to feel hard
knocks but they assist poor by should find something
possible 1t be mbe position, but any place will
show the stuff him and at the time provide opportunity
work 1t the work that counts lazy boy may stumble
hidden treasure but there very little of that around and of little
worth when found Work the thing there nought but failure
without
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07

Beauty may be only skin. deep. but
that's deep enough II girl has beau
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07
THE TRUTH ABOUT
eczema and PILES

Thousands and thousands Of people, says
Peterson, are learning every week that one
80 cent bex Of Peterson's Ointment will
abolish Eczema and Danish piles and the
grateful letters l receive every day are
worth more to me than money.
had Eczema for many years on my head
and could not get anything to do 1t any
l owe you many thanks for the good 1t has
done me. There isn't blotch on my head
now, and ! couldn't help but thank Peter
son, for the cure is great, Mrs. Mary Hill,
42e Third Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
have had itching piles for Is years and
Peterson's is the only ointment that re-
lieyes me, besides the piles seem to have
gone. A. b. Ringer, 1927 washington Ave-
nue.. Racine, Wis.
Use Peterson's Ointment for old sores,
salt rheum and all skin diseases. It BAN
tshes pimples and blackheads In less than
W days and leaves the skin clean, clear and
pfeasant;to look upon. Druggists guaran.
tee It
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07
TAKE KEER y )URsELF, BILL!

What would this country Go if Mr. McAdoo should suddenly
dieY
We might along but in the opinion of the President the
United States would probably have hard time finding anybody
else who could do big things, .e-
Mr. McAdoo is no doubt very able He is a son-n-aw
of the President 1t is said that candidate to succeed Mr.
Wilson os president of the United States
All of these good putting McAdoo
the front of things But in the back woods times wonder
if Mr. McAdoo isn't being little bit overworkednt being put in
charge of too many big enterprises for good the enterprises
and for the country.
Are there other big in this country who are able and
safe enough to responsibilities City (Col Record
The boche at the front could have told the Berlin papers month
ago that the American army no joke
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07
HAVE A THRIFT POCKET

A thrift pocket is a character build.
er-it tests your capacity to resis.
You will find 1t as alluring as the
penny bank you once had on the man.
tlepiece. Select the pocket-any one
will do-and then select the coin.
Suppose your thrift coin" is q nickel.
Every nickel you get goes into the
thrift pocket. You can not borrow
from the thrift pocket nor lend from
it. Experience proves that 1t isn't
wise even to make change from 1t,
and that it is a failure II you are not
honest, scrupulously honest, with n.
Every time 1t gets over-heavy, put 1t
into Thrift Stamps. Thrift Stamps
are light.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07
w. 8. 8.
SCHOOLS DO GOOD WORK

Louisville, KY, April /, 1918.
Mr.. j. B. Mantle, Secretary Jefferson
County, War Savings Committee,
GIL Columbia Building, Louisville,
Ky.
My dear MIR. Mantle:
have the honor to report to you
that tho War Savings Societies in
Louisville public schools number 637.
A few are yet to be organized. We
have been in operation approximately
three weeks, and during that time
have Sold Thrift Stamps and Baby
Bonds amounting to $11,934.00. I be-
lieve that every school has done its
best, and that this work will continue
ct high speed throughout the year.
The schools that have contributed
$4,000 or more are listed below:
Girls High School .............$2,62S
George Rogers Clark School 80. $50
Normal School ................ $50
George w. Morris School ...... 500
Longfellow School ............. $40
We feel that special. congratulations
are due to the Girls High School with
its amount totaling s2,62S, and to the
George Rogers Clark School which
leads the elementary schools Of the
city with total Of $3.50. It is true
that many of the smaller schools may
have done quite as well II we con-
slider the average amount sold. For
the months Of April We shall have
computed the average amount sold on
the basis Of the average number be-
longing. This will make fair COM
parison between all schools.
Yours truly,
o. L. REID,
Superintendent
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07

To err is human; to criticize Is
more so.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07

Everybody who owns a car admits
that the worst driver In the world is
the other fellow.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07
SIXTH FOR BAYLISS

Paris, May sergeant Bayliss, an
American aviator attached to the
French air force, has brought down
his sixth enemy.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-05-07

Some men will give a almost any
thing you ask Of them to a good cause
except their own time and effort.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26

OF BIG FLOOD
Yuma Sun.

This Sunday morning is the second
anniversary of Yuma's great flood.
1t is true that the levee broke on
Saturday morning, January %, just
as the first evidence of the coming
day appeared in the eastern sky.
1t was not, however, until the noon
of Sunday that the crest of the great
flood was reached. That was a blue
Sunday for Yuma. Water was rae
ing down Main street three feet
deep and mud and Colorado river
silt had covered the town from the
railroad to Prison hill with it's slime.
1t looked like ruined city and that
the task of cleaning it up and getting
back into business again would not
be worth the labor and the cost.
Business blocks were ruined, homes
had collapsed and the wreckage of the
flood was on every side. Hundreds
of citizens paraded the streets along
the edge of the ebbing flood. Nearly
thousand people were homeless and
had to be sheltered and fed. The
telegraph wires for twenty-four hours
had been carrying the story of Yu-
mas great misfortune
Two swiftly flowing years have
passed and Yuma is a bigger and a
hundred per cent better city than be-
fore the flood. With brave hearts
and tireless energy the people of Yu-
ma dug themselves out of the muck
and the mud They set their homes
in order and went to work with
will. They did not ask for or
accept outside help to feed or shelter
their homeless.
In two years Yuma has built new
business blocks, paved her main
streets, installed a new sewer system
and is going ahead to pave more
streets and beautify the city in many
ways. The food was a great catas-
trOphe, but it made better city out
OF Yuma. The spirit of progress was
born as the waters receded. Yuma
has had two years of unexampled
prosperity. The people of the city
during the past year have bought
Liberty bonds, subscribed to Red
Cross and the Y. M. G. A. war fund,
have sent their sons to the fighting
line and are doing all they have been
called upon to do. The future for
Yuma never looked brighter than it
does this Sunday morning Our face
strong We are building a great
little city on the banks of the Colo
RADIO and we want the world to know
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
WAR STAMPS SAME AS WAR
BONDS.

The term war stamps" as applied
to the smallest investment now be-
ing sold at the postoffices, railway
stations, in banks, private business
offices and schools throughout the
country, is an inappropriate designa-
tiOn of an investment that stands
alongside Liberty bonds, and in every
respect their equal. The stamps when
bought to the amount of $4.12, means
that the owner has a government
bond, drawing per cent interest,
salable for cash at the face value and
redeemable by the government for SIS
in five years time. The investment
is an ideal one for the small savings
OF children, working people in re-
ceipt of small wages, salaried persons
OF moderate means, who constitute
the great unnumbered millions of
the people of America, whose mites
are mighty as the nights of our
mightiest millionaires. 1t is possible
that the great war now on may be
determined by the weight of the saw
ings of humble Americans, who ap-
preciate what Mr.. Frank Vanderlip
has said in advising people to cut
out all sorts of luxuries, be wise and
invest savings in these little war
bonds while they are cheap and thus
be able to buy double or treble the
amount of luxuries when luxuries
become cheap again.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
LYMAN DAM WILL BE BUILT.

The farmers in northern Arizona
ject are to get $4,000 of state
money as loan with which to COM
plete that project
This was announced after a con-
sultatiOn Saturday at Holbrook of
Governor Hunt State Treasurer John
son, Secretary of State Osborn and
representatives of the owners of the
land under the project. To this will
be added $4,000 to be put up in
cash by the Lyman Water company.
"Of the $1,000 acres of land under
the Lyman Dam project" said Gov
ernOr Hunt "the state will take title
to $4,000 acres and will loan $780,
600 on it, or $40 an acre. The other
5000 has changed hands and the
title is not clear for the purposes of
the state. To cover this 5000 acres,
the Lyman Water company will put
up 100000 in cash.
With the money secured from the
state the completion of the Lyman
Dam project is assured and the farm
ers of that locality at last see their
way out of the slough of despond in
which they have been laboring since
the destruction of the dam some years
ago.
supervising the construction of the
dam thus far" added the governor,
"but from now on, the state will have
an engineer on the job to see that it
is constructed according to agree
ment
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
NEW LAW FOR
H0MESTEADERS

A new federal law concerning
hOmesteads and hOmesteaders has
has been enacted which means much
to both the homesteader and the
producer of farm stuffs.
A hOmesteader may leave his
ranch by filing proper notice, and
work on any other ranch for an
other person and have the time he
is so engaged applied as the time on
his residence on his homestead.
That is, he may work on another
ranch to help in the actual produc-
tiOn of farm products.
One of the hardships the home
steader has had to contend with
for years, has been to leave his
land for the purpose of making a
living. The land office depart
ment was made to see this, and as
consequence, homesteaders were
allowed five months from each
year during which they might go
anywhere and make a living. This
helped.
And now comes this additional
ruling of allowing homesteaders
to work on another ranch in the
actual production of ranch pro-
fuce, and all the time they are so
engaged be applied on their home
steads as actual time spent in resi-
dence on their homesteads. This
helps, and there are lots of our To-
cal settlers, holding down claims,
who will avail themselves of this
chance to hold their claims while
making living at working.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
WANT WOODSMEN.
WASHINGTON, January "a

WASHINGTON, January 24-So
urgent is the need for lumbermen
and road builders for immediate SER
vice in France that the war depart
ment has made an exception to it's
previous ruling, and will now allow
experienced men of draft age to en-
list, under certain conditions
Any man between eighteen and
forty-One years of age, who is quail
fed physically and by experience,
may enlist for this service; but they
must obtain permission to do so from
Major c. E. Clarke, Chief of En-
gineers' Office, Washington, D. c., by
mail or telegraph. The men re-
quired will be sent to France as soon
as they are assembled without being
held here for military training.
Tremendous quantities of lumber
are required by the American troops
in France. A special regiment, known
as the goth Engineers, is being re-
cruited to cut timber in the forests
OF France and manufacture it into
lumber. This regiment will include
experienced men of every class re-
quired in lumber camp operations
The goth Engineers needs immedi-
ately 1000 woodsmen, sawmill men,
machinists and others who have
worked at numbering. 1t also needs
5000 men who have worked at road
building. These men are to construct
roads from the woods to the mills
and from the mills to the distributing
depots. In connection with both the
numbering and the road building op-
erations complete crews of men ex-
perienced in the great variety of ma
chinery used and in the camp and
repair work involved are required
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
Robbed a Printer.

Fred Jackson, ex-printer, who lis
prospecting at Empire Flat and liv
ing in Jack O'Connor's ranch house,
was in town this week, having come
in to replenish his supply of grub
which was rendered sadly deficient
by reason of call, during his alb
sence, from a back-door visitor who.
packed off all the grub in sight.
While there might, under ordinary
circumstances, be certain degree of
mitigation in the fact that the thief
took grub only, and that he probably
did so on the ground of expediency
or because necessity knows no law"
the fact remains that the fellow
who would steal from printer is a
moral degenerate, and the deed too
despicable to be cOndOned by even
the most maudlin Prussian apolOgist.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
MATT MYSTERY UNSOLvED.

YUMA, jan 23.-The body of Au
gust Matt, who was found hanging
from tree near Gadsden was buried
yesterday afternoon in the Catholic
cemetery. Four persons, Andrew
and Joseph Matt, brothers, Theresa,
sister, and F. P. Auerbach,
brother-in-law were at the graveside
when the remains were laid to their
final resting place. Matt's brothers
and sister, at conference yesterday
morning, decided to bury the body in
the Catholic cemetery here
With Matt in the grave was buried
the secret of his mysterious death.
All Yuma valley is still discussing
the strange way in which he met his
death. Though coroner's jury rem
dered a verdict of suicide there are a
great many different opinions ex-
pressed as to the manner in which
Matt came to his death.
Matt at one time was a prosperous
shoemaker in Wallace, Idaho. He
sold his business and disappeared
from Wallace and was not heard of
again by the members of the family
until his body was found hanging
from the limb of tree at Gadsden
Andrew Matt, brother, denounced
e. c. Matt of Arkansas City, Kans.,
as an adventurer who was trying to
obtain money under false pretenses.
They said that they knew of no such
person. Chief of police Levy received
a telegram from E. c. Matt last We'd
nesday night instructing the author
tiles to bury Matt and deduct 500
for a headstone and to send the re-
mainder of his money to the writer
of the telegram at Arkansas City.
The money found on Matt's person.
amounting to a little over fourteen
hundred dollars in currency was
turned over to Matt's' brothers and
sister by the sheriff's office. In ad-
ditiOn there is deposit of nearly
ten thousand dollars in bank at
Wallace. A receipt for a $1,000
Liberty bond was also found on
Matt's person which was turned over
10 the family.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
OUR STOCK OF GOLD.

The gold monetary stock (coin
and bullion used as money! in the
United States on November 1, 1917,
is estimated in Secretary McAdoo's
annual report at $3,041, 100000. The
increase in the past 10 months has
been 4,500,00O, and in the past
three years $1,236,5OO,OOO. In five
years the portion of the worlds gold
monetary stock held by the United
States has increased from approx
mate1y One-fifth to more than one
third.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
Rig Moved on Property.

The drilling rig of the Arizona
Standard Copper company was NOV
ed out to the company's property this
week. Owing to it's weight and the
sandy roads, it was necessary to dis
mantle the rig and move it by sec
tions Everything is now on the
ground and the work of assembling
the outfit has commenced. AS soon
as the outfit is fully assembled work
on the first hole to be put down will
be started. #. j. Carrigan, general
manager of the company, left for Los
Angeles on business Wednesday
night, and expects to be back here
early next week.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
OPPOSES WAR
INVESTIGATION

All doubt as to President Wilson's S
view of proposals in congress for re-
organization of the government war
making machinery was swept away
Monday by a statement in which the
president said the war department
nad accomplished a task OF unpar-
alleled magnitude and difficulty with
extraordinary promptness and eff
Cheney, denounced the congressional
var Investigations and declared that
reorganization by legislation was pro-
posed after effective measures or re
organization had been perfected.
The presidents statement was is
sued as result of a speech in New
York Saturday by Senator Chamber
lain, chairman of the senate military
committee, and after he had asked
the senator on the telephone whether
he had been correctly quoted. Sena-
cor Chamberlain's reference to Gin
action and ineffectiveness of the gov
ernment," the president finally called
IN astonishing and absolutely and
unjustifiable distortion of the truth.
He said he regarded Secretary Baker
as one of the ablest public officials he
mad ever met
In the statement most observers at
the capital saw the collapse of what
promised to be a historical struggle
Senator Chamberlain whose commit
tee has framed bills to create war
council, all powerful under the pres
ident and to provide one-man control
of munitions and supplies, declared
he would continue to fight in spite of
presidential opposition 1t was rath-
or generally conceded, however, that
the measure would have but little
chance in the senate and probably
none at all in the house.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
KNIT FOR THE RED CnOSS.

Inmates of all Arizona state insti-
tutions will be called upon to knit
garments for the Arizona soldiers and
the Red Cross, according to a plan
announced this week by Governor
Hunt. The plan will be carried out
by the commission of state institu-
tions, which will provide knitting ma
chimes and furnish instruction. Ap-
proximately 500 operatives will be
added to Red Cross workers by the
new plan, it is estimated. The state
prison, pioneers home, industrial
school and hospital for insane are af-
fected by the order.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
COPPER PRODUCTION EXCEEDS
HALF BILLION DOLLARS.

The production of copper in 1917
was slightly less than in 1915, ac-
cording to preliminary figures and
estimates collected by B. S. Butler, of
the United States Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior, from all
plants that make blister copper from
domestic ores or that produce refined
copper. At an average price of 27
cents pound the output for 1917
has a value of $50, 100000 as
against values of $475, 100000 for
1916, and $19O,OOO,OOO for 1918.
A fine line of KokOmo tires and
inner tubes-the best tire made.
Parker Motor Co.-Adv.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
KEEP YOUR BONDS.

Liberty loan bonds are worth one
hundred cents on the dollar. The
man who sells them for less is poor
sort of patriot. In fact the man
who sells them at all before the end
OF the war, except in cases of absolute
necessity, is very much lacking in
actual patriotism.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26

There are two things the taxpayer
must bear in mind. The first is that
under gross income must be included
all money or it's equivalent received
from any and all sources during the
year 1917; and under the head of de-
ductions he must not deduct any liv-
ing or household expenses or depre-
citation on his residence or automo-
bile which is used for pleasure pur-
poses.
The above statement must be pre-
sented in person to the collector of
internal revenue or one of his dep
uties
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
Takes Another Exam.

Lyman Lightfoot left for Yuma by
auto Wednesday to submit to another
physical examination for war service.
In the first draft Mr.. LightfOOt was
rejected by the medical examining
board, but according to the new rul-
ing all those rejected must be re-
examined.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26

Consolidated, Old Dominion, Arizona
Copper, Magma, Shannon, Shattuck-
Arizona, Iron Cap, Arizona United,
Grand Gulch, Arizona Commercial,
United Eastern and Consolidated
Arizona.
The Copper Queen is a dividend
payer, but published no figures.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
School Closed.

Owing to an epidemic of measels
public school was closed last Monday
for ten days. On Monday there were
twelve new cases developed and the
attendance was reduced to such an
extent it was thought advisable to
close the school temporarily The
children who have the pesky disease
are getting along fine, and it is ex-
pected that when school starts again
they will all have recovered from
their unpleasant illness and be ready
for their school work.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
Here From Blythe.

Tom Carrigan of Blythe, accompan
led by his wife, drove up from the
Palo Verde valley last Monday and
spent a couple of days visiting the
formers father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs T. J. Carrigan.
The Parker post., 1918-01-26
Some Cold.

Tuesday morning brought the cold
est spell of the season, and at the ice
plant there was an inch of ice on the
water in the tank from which the
town supply is drawn. While no
thermometrical record was made, it
is safe to say that the mercury drop
ped considerably lower than did
Bryan, in the peoples estimation,
when he quit the presidents cabinet
on account of his pacific convictions.