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HOW HOLLY GROVE HEARD
 THE NEWS.

Holly Grove, Oct. 15, 1918 The Brinkley Argus, Brinkley, Ark. Gentlemen:
 Immediately after your MT. Folsom so kindly phoned me the good war news, the writer, got one of these blanks and wrote the following on same, and posted i'll front of post office.
 SUNDAY, 10-13-1S 9 a. m. GERMANY HAS ACCEPTED PEACE TERMS OF PRESI-
 DENT WILSON.
 Signed,
 Brinkley Argus. Phoned to Rue Abramson by Wm. B. Folsom. The news soon spread over town, and we thank the Argus for being on the job at all times. Best wishes.
 Very truly yours,
 Rue Abramson.
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BR1N1K<.IL,EE'Y BOYS SACRIFICE
THE ONLY SON OF MR. AND
 MRS. w. K. SIMS.
Claude D. Sims Dies in France
 Sept. 18th.

A telegram from the war department at Washington, tell ing of the death in France, of their only son, MT. Claude D. Sims, on Sept. 25th., was re- ceived, by MT. and Mrs. w. K. Sims, on Monday evening late.
 The message was a severe shock not only to the parents Of this popular and brave sol dier but to the entire populace of Brinkley and particularly to the older citizens who have known and loved Claude since his early boyhood in Brinkley.
 No information as to where the death occurred was given in the telegram.
 After finishing school at the State University where he was an exceptional bright and popu- lar student, and before he had reached his majority, Claude was forced to go to Arizona TOT his health and was rapidly re- gaining same when the war came on.
 From Arizona he won an ap- pointment at the Officers Train ing Camp at the Presidio at Frisco, California. He was within few days of finishing when he was again stricken. He was then forced to take a prolonged treatment at Hot Springs for a malignant attack of rheumatism. While at Hot Springs his one thought was to get wei and enter the service. He assisted in organizing a company at Hot Springs and
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upon his recovery came home and organized a company for the Fourth Arkansas. The prospect of seeing actual ser vice in the field for his country was not as promising as the young patriot desired and he accordingly volunteered and en- tered the service at Little Rock on May 18th and was sent to St. Louis. He was there for only a few days when he was sent to Ft. Sill, where he re- mained for only a short while
 and as a member of a crack regiment of Field Artillery, he passed thro Brinkley on July } en route for France. His in- teresting and gifted letters to his parents, MT. and Mrs. w. K. Sims, several of which have ap- peared in the Argus, will be remembered by hundreds who appreciated them to the fullest,
 Next week the ARGUS will publish another one of these a letter of Claude's received by his parents after his death.
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ORGANIZATION FOR MON- ROE COUNTY UNITED
 WAR WORK COUNCIL

Chairman, John E. Moore Clarendon.
 Vice-Chairman, Mrs ]. H Stack, Brinkley. County Executive Committee Elmo Chaney, Brinkley. H. K. Wellborn, Holly Grove J. E. Pinkley, Clarendon. Treasurer, w. H. Brown
 Transportation Geo. P. Reid, Brinkley. Captain J. $. Theriac, Cial' endon-
 C. R. Gordon, Holly Grove,
 Emergency c. o. Bogle, Brinkley.
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m appearance one is struck py me fact that the patient looks sick. His eyes and the inner side of his eyelids may be slightly Sloodshot or con gested.' as the doctors say. There may be running from the nose, or there may be some cough. These signs of cold may not be marked; never theless the patient looks and feels very sick
 Tn addition to the appearance and the symptoms as already described, examination of the patients blood may aid the physician in recognizing Span tSh influenZa.' for 1t has been found
 (Continued on page 4)
 Tell 'em you saw It Tn the ArQus
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Sight Not to Be Foraotten.

When one is fortunate enough to see a line of swans etched upon the sky near sunset, mile or more high, as has been my luck but twice in my life, one has seen something he will not soon forget.-John Burroughs.
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L. K. Brown, Brinkley. J. H. Stack, Brinkley.
 R. F. Milwee, Clarendon. J. E. Pinkley, Clarendon. P. C. Mayo, Holly Grove. J. A. Walls, Holly Grove. B. J. Lambert, Holly Grove. J. c. Palmer, Blackton.
General County Committee


 Brinkley-C. F. Greenlee, E. D. Mcknight, Frank Andrews. Jake Lamm, B. Emmons, Vim. B. Folsom, John Gazzola, T. T. Bateman.
 Cache, (Clarendon) HI. B. Bateman. .i. J. Jeffe'ies, F. L. Benton, E. J. Bondi, G. A. Franklin, o. c. Galloway, H. G. Barofsky, w. c. Thomas, H. F. McCollum.
 Duncan, (Holly Grove)-Rue Abramson, June Davidson, w. A. Patterson, l.. c. Renfro, c. w. Johnson, J. I. Matthews, H. c. Lair, Cay Hawkins, J. c. Williason, w. M. Bobo, (coD Jerry Cross (col)
 Cleburn, (Palmer) - M. s. Rhoades, J. D. Parker, M. H. Hill.
 Dixon-J. A. Sain, c. B. Everett, Henry Move.
 Greenfield, (Zent)-P R. An derson, M. A. Haynes, A. T. M. Ward.
 Hindman (Blackton) R. D. Shell, T. l.. Graham, J. V. Ma lone, Floyd Palmer, Dr. P. B.. Terry, Charley Ferrall, Arthur Moody.
 Jackson, (Holly Grove R. F. |D.)-R. J. Walker, w. A. Capp, Sa Ables, Bruce Crow, J. R. Sands, (coD Walter Scott, (coD Montgoery, (Indian Bay)- w. D. Burge, Jr., w. P. Mayo, l.. M. Robinson, B. P. Jackson, Jr., w. c. Swift, Albert Jackson, (colD Allen Brown, (coD.
 Keevil-W. l.. Donovan, sam Bickerstaff, George Campbell, George Chedisterr l.. B. Haynes John Miley, w. R. Lovejoy, J. L. Sipson.
 Raymond-J. H. Vandyke, D. L. Burns, John Turner, Tom Tracey, Will McCurley.
 Roe-F. Troter, W. E. Till man, J. H. Phipps. Hall Minnis, John T. Davis J. o. VanNatta $. T. Fortune, P. A. Fridell.
 Richland, Cotton Plant, R F. D)-J. c. Davis, Eugene Skillern, J. s. Sorrels, D. F. An derson, c. s. Anderson, c. S. Henderson, J. L. Bowers, (col) F. R. Betton, (coD. i Pine Ridge--J. D. Burke, w. P. Lynch, Jake Breeding, u. w Knight, Nathan Newby, F. M Henderson, U. B. Mccoy. J. A Wellington.
 Smalley, (Turner)-W William Caviness, D. Beedles. L, T. Sud doth, Walter Smalley, J. X Kornegie.
 l Cypress Ridge, (Monroe)- I. E. DeShazo, J: w. Morris, T L. Pledger, Dr. w. T. Bradley tJ.D. Sebastian, Lee Grimes.
 Committee on Publicity and
 Supplies. w. B. Williams, Brinkley.
 w. F. Vaughan, Clarendon. F. R. Atkins, Holly Grove.
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All Should Know the Bible.

No man can be wholly uneducated who really knows the Bible, nor can anyone be considered truly educated man who is ignorant of it.-Exchange.
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i, $. Public Health Service Issues Official Health Bulletin
 on Influenza.
l .7EsT WORD ON SUBJECT.
.,.,,;c Probably Not Spanish in o,i,in-eerm Still unknown-Peo- esonld Guard Against "Droplet ,....4ionn--sureeon General Blue .,kss Authoritative Statement.

washington, D. C.-(Speciai.)-Ai |.bouoh King Alphonso of Spaln was - If the victims of the influenza cpl
 ,.n,,o in 1893 and again this summer, Er.,,;sb authorities repudiate any |,,o,m to influenza as g Spanish dis |soso If the people of this country do not take care the epidemic will be- |,ore so widespread throughout the |rn,tad States that soon we shall hear
 kho disease called American" infiu- |ensa
 In response to request for definite Information concerning Spanish infiu- |,nza. Surgeon General Rupert Blue of khe '. S. Public Health Service has .u.horized the following official inter |dew:
 What is Spanish lnfluenza7 10 t homethino newf Does It come from
 epaIn'
 aThe disease now occurring in this tountry and called Spanish 1nfiuen- d resembles a very contagious kind bf cold accompanied by fever, pains
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01
LARGE SCORES MADE
In EARLY BASEBALL
Annals of Game Are Full of No.
table Achievements.
Greatest Number of TalIies In One In
ming Were Made by Chicago In
Game Against Detroit-Deie-
hanty Was Siugger.

In the early days of baseball no club
was considered to have a safe lead
over the opposing team with anything
less than margin of 20 runs to the
good.
With the beginning of professional
baseball in the early seventies, and
the launching of the National league,
these conditions changed, and big
scores became the exception and not
the rule. Thirty-six years ago was
played, at Chicago, the league game In
which the record number of runs was
made. Chicago and Cleveland were
he opposing teams on that historic
July "a, In 1882, and the former tri-
IMPLIED by score of 35 to 4.
Many other league-swatting records
have stood almost as long. The great
est number of home runs in a major
league game was scored in contest
between Detroit and st. Louis In 1856.
when seven circuit hits were made.
This record has been several times ex-
ceeded in minor circuits, and at Corsi-
cana, Tex, in 1902 no less than 19
home runs were smashed out. The
worlds record for the greatest num-
Der of runs in one inning of league
game has stood since 1888, when Chi.
cago scored Is runs-two for each man
lin the 'lucky seventh" of game
against Detroit, Burns and Weidman
being the twirlers whose delivery Jared
so badly. AS late as 1908, ct Cleve
land, ten runs were scored in one in
ming, nine hits were made, and each
batter who made a hit got a run.
The individual batting records for 6
single game are headed by the won
derful performance of Beaumont OF
the Pirates, who in 1899 got six hits
In as many times at the bat. Ever
more sensational was the feat of Dele
hanty of Philadelphia, in 1896, wheI
in a game against Chicago he went tt
bat five times and got four home run!
and single.
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and the horn
and sounded
might call her Tor the
politely invited the miss to con-
recital at end
everybody aoundaad snow
cowda body
charged lance
behal Of
Don't that the angels In
little winged
cherubs ablowng gold"
q I'm blow with
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ties Of the empire in the popular will;
that the power of the king Of Prussia
to control the policy of the empire is
unimpaired; that the determining ini-
tiative still remains with those who
hitherto have been the masters Of Ger
many.
Feeling that the whole peace OF the
world depends now on plain speaking
and straightforward action, the Presi-
dent deems 1t his duty to say, without
any attempt to soften what may seem
harsh words, that the nations OF the
world do not and cannot trust the
word of those who have hitherto been
the masters of German policy, and to
point out once more that in conclud-
ing peace and attempting to undo the
infinite injuries and injustices Of this
war, the government of the United
States cannot deal with any but VERT
able representatives of the GERMAN
people who fave been assured of a
genuine constitutional standing as the
real rulers of Germany.
AS it must deal with the military
masters and the monarchical auto
Gratis of Germany now, or if it Is like
ly to have to deal with them later in
regard to the international obligations
of the German empire. it must de-
mand, not peace negotiations, but sur
render Nothing can be gained by
leaving this essential thing unsaid.
Accept, sir, the renewed assurances
of my high consideration.
(Signed) ROBERT LANSING"
"Mr. Frederick Oederlin,
Charge d'affaires of Switzerland,
AID Interim.
"In charge of German interests in
the United States"
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went into overseas work, one of its
first acts was to purchase and ship
tons of athletic equipment. Up to the
present the "Y" has provided hun
dreds of athletic directors recruited
from the foremost athletes of caller
generations and tons of sporting para
phernalia. The X. of c., starting
little later, is developing similar
program. Directors use every art to
get the backward, the shy, the non
athletic soldier into the games for the
good of his body and his morale, a
tremendous aid to the winning OF the
war. The "Y" and X. of G. men seek
to enlist the greatest number of men
in sports rather than to develop
small team of crack athletes.
The figures, based on the activities
of one unit, show the result. They
were taken in comparatively small
region and were selected at random.
Baseball engaged the attention OF
,423 men of this region in week.
The games were witnessed by l2,OOU
men, which would be considered very
good weekly attendance for minor
league club, and as many spectators
as a big league team in the second d.
vision often draws IN seven days. Here
the proportion of players to spectators
is one to ten, while in league baseball
it would be 1 to 400, figuring 80 play
ers as the average number appearing
uookIv on tho diamond
voIIey Ball First.
VOlley ball, probably the most popu-
lar game for soldiers, engaged 1,6O5
players with large gallery. Boxing
ranked third in popularity, with 1927
men participating, while 5000 soldiers
| looked on. Compare that one to nine
average with a big fist fight crowd
viewing the efforts of two men. Ten
| mis- exercised 227 men, while 805 par
| ticipated in track and field sports. Bas
ket ball engaged 1913 soldiers, while in
door baseball, soccer and rugby foot
ball worked the muscles and minds OF
| hundreds. Just as Waterloo was wor
on England's cricket and football fields
so this war may be decided by thu
athletic contests of the clean-living
hard-hitting American boys.
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eddy" the sounds OF
whats said
Buck a he answered
Couple replied
backwoods for some sports
blustery fellows
secretly despse
the
Then sight of the The man with the re
lowered his looked the eddy
well Familiarity IF there amt old BUCK!
the draft 3uck?"
AN amt wasth
either"
thought reply yet s
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(By E. A. BATcHELoR.1

I A.
What is putting the pep into the
push toward Berlin which the Yanks
are giving Kaiser Bills bad Boches?
Athletics certainly are helping. How?
BY raising the morale and the muscle
Of the American fighters. In one unit
pated in athletic sports. They had &c.
275 spectators, meaning that for every
six soldier spectators there was one
soldier participant. Better record than
baseball or football has in the U. S. A,
ne c'est pas?
Rank of Popular Sports.
How did the sports rank in popu-
larity among the soldiers? Volley ball
came first. Baseball was second. Box
ing was on the limb. Track and field
sports were just out of the money.
Basket ball was fifth. Indoor base
ball, soccer, rugby, tennis, etc., were
in the ruck.
Athletics surely are putting muscle
and pep" into the young men who
must handle the rifles, artillery, gren-
AIDES, spades and other implements Of
warfare. Besides this, there is the
high morale generated by tingling high
spirits and good health which blesses
the well-exercised body.
Contrast the figures above with a
worlds series baseball game, where
$4,000 spectators watch Is men con-
test, or Yale-Harvard football game,
where the Yale "bowl" held 10000 fans
while % men struggled to uphold the
supremacy Of Old Eli and John Har-
ward. Contrast it with boxing cham
pionship match where gate" of up
ward of 100000 witnessed bout
between two men,, Consider the great
er advantage, the widespread bene-
fit of sports involving one contestant
| to every six spectators.
Everyone in Game.
The figures are furnished by the Y.
| NJ. c. A., one of the organizations
which assumed the responsibility OF
| spreading mass athletics among as
many of our soldiers as would respond
to the opportunity. The Y. NJ. G. A.
was the pioneer to make everyone
get into the game. When the X. of c.
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FOE ATROCITIES CONTINUE
Germans Drive Civilians Into Terri
tory Under Shell Fire.

Germans Drive Civilians Into Terri
tory Under Shell Fire.
Washington, Oct. 25.-While Presi-
dent Wilson considered his reply to
the Teuton peace moves, additional
proof of German atrocities in territory
being evacuated by the kaiser's troops
reached here.
One of these was tale Of horror
dispatched from the British front tell
ing how the Germans drove civilians
into territory under Allied shell fire,
many being killed and MANNED.
This and other outrages reported are
regarded here as giving the lie to the
latest German cry that such crimes
were not being committed by their
soldiers and that orders had gone out
to prevent them and punish those
guilty.
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of Italian palace
$40 the damage she
had been looking the chair stepped
be
chair emba madam.
and I'll into court myself
OF
the antiques
take a
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czeeho-sIav Union Delayed.

Philadelphia, Oct. 23.-Thomas Ma
saryk, president of the newly formed
organized Czecho-Slovak republic and
head of the delegation from the exec
utive committee of Serbs, Croatians
and Solvenes at Agram, told the inter
national conference of small nations
here that there could be no actual fed.
Grafton of Czecho-Slovaks for a long
time, because of the number and d.
vergency of dialects spoken by the in.
dividual units of the new nation.
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OBJECT TO FORMER STATUS
Belgian Officials Desire Independence
of Nation.

Washington, Oct. 25.-Efforts OF
German statesmen to create the i'm
preston in neutral countries that Bel
GUM will revert to it's former status
as a "neutralized" nation after the
war drew from the Belgian official in
formation service here the statement
that Belgium will dot consider re
turn to that state of guaranteed neu
trality which, violated by Germany
brought England and indirectly the
United States into the war and will be
satisfied only with its complete indie
pendence.
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passenger on the car WdHIeu 10 CIIUNc
off a small girl who footed her way
from Capitol hill to Center market the
other forenoon. Her presumable moth
er bore the af1liction with a,chronic pa
thence characteristic of parents VINO
are too mistakenly fond to make their
youngsters behave, but the passengers
around were not so placidly resigned.
Two jolly, commonplace women, each
loaded with empty baskets and cord
bags, had things to say On the subJect.
and they said them good and loud:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01
WHO ARE THEY?

One of the best jokes Is the
story from Cincinnati that major
league players "over the draft
age" plan a tour Of Cuba the
coming winter. If the man who
sent out the story will enume-
rate the major league players
who have passed their forty
sixth year we'd like to see it,
lust for curiosity.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01
HOW SPORTS HELP SOLDIERS
Americans Trained to Do Their Work
In Quickest Manner Possible
With Their Guns.

According to a returned American
soldier, the Yankee sport training is
helping them over there, in that United
States soldiers do their work, which
Is to kill as many Huns as possible, In
the quickest and most natural way.
An English Tommy will chase Hun
half mile, he says, to get chance
to stick him with a bayonet, when one
shot from his rifle would do the trick
at once. French soldiers have a ten
dency to wait until they can grenade
their foes, but the Yanks get bead
on the other fellows and drop 'em
quick with their rifles.
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FREE AGENTS IN 192O7 I

If there is no baseball in 1919
i majority of the players will
become free agents. This will
mean that in 1920, or whenever
the game is resumed, they can
sign with anyone they please.
Of course the magnates may
agree among themselves not to
tamper with each others play
ers. But, this will not neces-
sarily mean protection for them.
The players may band together,
toe.
These are grave times In the
history of the national game, as
well as the history of the nation.
Only time can tell what destiny
has decreed for it's future.
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WALTER MAYER JOINS ARMY
Red Sox Player Loses No Time In Re.
turning Home, Arranging Affairs,
and Departing.

Walter Mayer of the champion Red
Sox lost little time returning to his
home In Cincinnati, arranging his af-
fairs and answering the call of his
draft board for army service. He ar
rived home on one train and within
an hour was ION the way to Berlin"
meaning that he had been bundled off
to camp. In that hour he invested his
share of the worlds series receipts,
after making several donations to war
welfare work
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: III as1st 4 4 & 4 4 + "a:
ARMY JOB FOR KANSAS COACH
Homer Woodson Hargiss Selected to
Head Athletic Department of
Oregon College.

Another Kansas conference football
coach has gone to the big league.
Homer Woodson Hargiss, athletic d.
rector and coach at the Kansas State
Normal school. has been selected from
d dozen or more candidates to head
the athletic department and coach all
major sports at the Oregon Agricul-
tural college, Corvallis, Ore.
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100000 Italians In France.

Washington, Oct. 24.-Italian forces
numbering nearly half million men
are in France. General Mangin, in
telegram of congratulations to the
Italian minister Of war, disclosed the
fact that Italy has full army corps
in the great battle in France. The
Italian embassy here pointed out that
in addition to this combatant force of
more than 100000 troops, the Italians
have had approximately 100000 DOE.
combatants and work troops behind
the French line since early in the war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01
BAN ON RACING IN ENGLAND
Bonar Law Will Not Hear of Resump.
ton of Sport-No Useful Purpose
Would Be Served.

Bonar Law recently declined to re-
celve a deputation from the League Of
the Man in the Street to hear obiec-
tons to the renewed restrictions on
racing in England.
He stated that as the question of
racing had been settled, no useful pur-
pose would be served, adding that the
league was in error in thinking that
cranks had access to the members of
the war cabinet the only outside body
consulted by the cabinet being the
Jockey club.
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with this noisy
trouble We not allowed things like
quite startling umbrella
shell handle topped a yellow celuloid hoof.
They
oaired gorgeous
the
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Soccer in California.
California football league (soccer)
will be made up of eight elevens.
FIanner Takes Up Farming.

Joe Flanner, veteran assistant sec
rotary of the National commission, at
ter years of service with basebalPs
high court, has closed his desk and
gone to South Dakota, where he has
a farm. He has been in bad health
and If he finds that the outdoor life is
benefit to him probably will not re-
turn to office baseball.
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DIRECTS ATROCITY INQUIRY
Slayer Of Edith CaveII Heads German
Civilian Board.

Civilian Board.
London, Oct. 25.-The Daily News
says that the commission of neutral
residents Of Brussels which is to in
vestigate charges of unnecessary dev.
astation and destruction in the Ger.
man retreat in Belgium will be under
the direction of Baron Won der Lanck'
en-, civil governor of Brussels.
1.-The selection of Won der Lancken
is extraordinary" says the News
when it is recalled that he played
a leading role in the murder of Edith
Cavell. 1t was Won der Lancken who
ignored the representations of the
American minister, and refused to al
low Miss Cavell to receive a visit from
a Belgian lawyer"
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tyn navy yard. He says he likes the
work, all except the getting up at six
o'clock in the morning to open "the
store" In addition to running the cam
teen, Casey is captain of ball team
of navy men, among his players being
Jimmy Hickman, formerly Of the bod
gers, and Harry Hoffman, a pitcher
who belongs to Brooklyn.