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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-15
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HIDDEN LETTER PUZZLE.
First IS IL front, but not in back.
Seconds IN tight, but not in slack;
Third IS n June, but not in May,
Fourth s II said, but not in say;
Fifth IS in man, but not in men,
Sixth IS in robin, but not in wren;
Seven Is IN pail. but never in tub.
Eighth IS IN bear, but Is not in cub,
Ninth IS in halt, but IS not IN lame,
Ny whole IS an actress OF Movie"
fame.
A BUNDLE OF "STIC (K) s"
each word ends n S-T-I-C.)
l. Keenly ironlcaL
2. SpringIng.
3. A cement.
!. GrandIoquent.
5. Hoping for the best.
c. Capable Of being moulded.
7. Corroding.
8. Powerful.
8. Mysterious.
10. To take the gloomy view of
matters.
ANSWERS.
HIDDEN LETTER PUZZLE-Th edd
BGrd.
BUNDLE OF 8TICCK)S-1. sQrca-
site. 2. Elastic. g. Ma-stic. 4.
Bom5d-Stic. 5. Optimistic G. Plastic.
7. Ccu-Sttc. 8. Drastic 9. Mystic.
10 Pe88jmi-Stic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-15

MI I'm going to Grandma
house to stay
And rest all through the month of May:
| hope you'll mind your nurse and
play"
looked at her and didn't dare
To let her know | didn't care.
| thought, I'll never comb my hair
And run about just everywhere;
And slide the broken cellar door.
And swaller apple seeds and core.
And sit upon the basement floor.
And eat just all want and more.
But fore she'd been away week.
| had a splinter in my check
A stomach ache that made me shrek.
And such a cold | couldn't speak.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-15
WHEN ALGY RAN THE CAR

"LGY WAS NINE years old, no
more and no less. and his birth
day made him feel like a man.
b A. the breakfast table he
smiled AZ everybody. He was proud
Of his years. AS his sister. Nora. was
wiping the dishes. ALgy rolled UP the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-15

E%AA OTHER USUALLY has some
NJ Ia " favorite plant that she wishes
"a to have prominently dis
= 3 X played. The window box
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
MUCH NEEDED WORK
 BEING DONE ON THE
 STREETS THIS WEEK.

City officials are having some much needed work done on the streets of Newport this week, crews of men being engaged in cutting the weeds along sidewalks and ridding gutters of filth and trash. A reader of the Independent has suggested that war be declared on the leaves that have fallen and accumulated in vast heaps in the streets and yards. He sug- gests series of "bon fires"
 Another reader suggests the forma- tion of big pavement district as soon as possible. How about it, peo- pie? The Independent would be glad to have expressions from property owners.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
LOCAL EXEMPTION
 BOARD BUSY WITH
 ITS ROUTINE WORK.

The local exemption board is no longer engaged with the many duties that kept the members busy for more than year. However, the board is still an institution and perhaps will not be discharged for several months. Questionnaires have been mailed to the 18-year-old class of registrants, there being about 150 in Jackson county, and the boys have already be- gun to return their papers, properly executed.
 Carl Bellingrath, clerk of the board, has been notified that his discharge from service has not been considered yet. In fact, arl has made such a pro proficient clerk that the adjutant gen. erals office has written him that he will likely be sent to other places for clerical service after hes has com pleted all the work here.
 The board has received notice of the honorable discharge from service of Clyde Phillips, whose home is near Newport, and Herman Lody of Brad ford. These young selectives were started from here to the state of Washington, but were stricken with influenza at Billings, Mont, where they entered hospital, the induction of men for the spruce division being stopped by the time they recovered.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
NARROW ESCAPE
 FUR TRAVELLERS.
White River Passenger Train Wreck ed Monday Near Calico Rock,
 But None Is Injured.


 Passengers on the southbound White River railroad train No, 205 experi- enced narrow escape Monday after noon at 3:30 o'clock when every coach and car of the train left the track three miles north of Calico Rock, ac- coding to A. M. Edgar, who was on the train returning home from trip to Aurora, Mo. Passengers for this city did not arrive here until 11:5O Monday night, though the train was due at 7:30.
 The train was running at a speed of about twenty miles an hour when the rails spread, causing the cars to leave the track, the two rear coaches in which nearly all the passengers were riding being wrecked badly. The rear coach was torn up the worst, rolling over, and barely escaped crashing down steep embankment into the river. An investigation show ed that rotten ties from which spikes had worked caused the rails to spread. caused the wreck. The train ran on the ties for three or four hundred feet before stopping.
 Fortunately, or niraculously, none of the passengers sustained an in- jury. The passengers were taken to Calico Rock in a box car, where they ate supper, and were met there by n extra train of box cars and cabooses and taken to Batesville, and then to Newport. Northbound passenger train No. 210 left Newport this morn- ing three hours late. It is believed the wreckage will be cleared away to- day.
 At Newark Tuesday morning tho tender of the engine of the Cushman local was derailed, causing the train, which is due here at 10:30 to be de- layed several hours. The switch en- zine crew from Newport went to New ark at noon to place the engine ten- der back on the track. The accident occurred at the gravel pit one-haH mile from Newark.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19

Private Frank Hammond of Eight Mile arrived this morning from New York and is en route to his home in the country to see his wife and little son and many other relatives in the Eight Mile vicinity. Private Ham, mond was member of Company E.. who was sent long ago to France, where he was severely wounded by shrapnel on July IS in the battle of Chateau -Thierry. He was sent to a hospital in France, where he was kept for two months until he was bought across to New York, where he has been in a hospital for convalescents, being discharged from there a few days ago and given few days fur lough. Mr. Hammond was married few weeks before enlisting and has a little on out at his home whom he has never seen and naturally, is very anxious to get out to see the little man today. His little son is Jack son county's first war baby.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
'fLU' SITUATION
 MUCH IMPROVED
Present Favorable Weather Will Tend Greatly To Cheek Disease Here,
 Says Physician.

The influenza situation in Newport has shown improvement during the past "A hours, according to Dr. H. O.. Walker, secretary of the local board of health. All the physicians did not report the number of new cases of in fluenza they probably have observed since yesterday, but pr. Walker be- fieVes, according to information he has at hand, that conditions are grow ing rapidly more favorable, and he states that the present condition of Che weather will tend greatly to check the disease.
 It is probable that any of the quarantine regulations will be raised this week, it IS stated.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
PRESIDENT WILSON
 TO BE PRESENT AT
 PEACE CONFERENCE
(By The Associated Press

Washington, Nov. 19.- President Wilson will go to France early in De- cember to take part in the discussion and settlement of the main features of the peace treaty. He plans to sail immediately after opening the regu- lar session of congress on December 2. How long he will remain is not known. He will be the first president to visit Europe and the first to attend a peace conference for the settlement of issues growing out of war in which the United States took part.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
WARS COST TO THIS COUNTRY ESTIMATED
 AT SITS, ,00O, ,OO0, ,OOO

Washington, Nov. 18.-The direct cost of the war for all beliggerent na- kions to last May l, was reported at about SITS, 5,OO0, 100000 by the Federal Reserve Bank Board Bulletin issued today and it is estimated that the cost will Amount to nearly $200,0 ,O00, ,OOO before the end of this year. These calculations were compiled by the board from various sources and while their accuracy is not vouched for, the board believes the figures are sub stantially correct.
 For purely military and naval pur- poses it is estimated that all bellig- serents had spent about $132, ,000, ,000,- GOO to May l, or about three-fourths of the total war cost. The balance represented interest on debt, and oth- CT indirect war expenses.
 How the cost mounted as the war grew in proportion from year to year sis illustrated by tabulations showing that the mobilization and the first five months of the war in 1914 cost all belIigerents about $10,000, 100000. In 1915, the expenses jumped to $26,- 100000, ,O0O; in 1916, they increased to 38,0O0, 100000, and in 1917, they were estimated at $6O,00Q,00o,00O, This year expenses have rul only a gittla above the rate last year.
 About $150,000,000 of the total war cost has been realized by war loans of various nations and comparatively little by taxation. The public debt of the pincipal entente allies is calcu- lated at approximately $105,00e,00O,- 900, or more than twice as much as the aggregate debt of the central powers, set at $45,O0o,0 100000. This does not take into consideration debt incurred since last May.
 The enormous size of the war costs and debt is illustrated by comparison with the anti-war debt of the seven principal belligerents, which did not axceed $25, 0o,OOO,ooo. The cost of suppoting this debt was only about s1.0O0, 100000 year. Hereafter the annual burden to pay interest and sinking fund allowances will be not less than 100000, GOO, and pobably much more.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
RAILROAD LOSS
 REP PORTED LESS
During Nine Month Period Govcrn- ment Operation Of Railroads
 Shows Financial Gain.
(By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Nov. 19.-- The pros- pective loss to the government through the operation of railroads and guaranteeing fixed return toA companies has been reduced to about two hundred million dollars for nine month period ending October first from approximately five hundred million. This is indicated by report of the Interstate Commerce Com mission showing the government re- ceiyed the net um of $518,656,00 from operations of leading railroads during the nine month period.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
CITY COUNCIL PASSES
 AN ORDINANCE AT
 MEETING LAST NIGHT

A meeting of the council was held last night, when an ordinance, which provides for activities of the local Board of Health was passed. No oth- CT matters of importance were dis posed of. The ordinance passed is published in today's issue of the In- dependent.
 The fire truck which has been pur- chased by the city is expected to reach Newport within very short time.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19

Mrs. R. D. Dennis and children of Cow Lake are spending two or three days with MT. and Mrs. Frank John son on Laurel street. Mrs. Dennis has the sympathy of her many friends Tn the recent death of her husband.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
(By The Associated Press.)

London, Nov. 19.- The German submarines 4o be handed over to allies have passed through the Kaiser Will selm Canal on their way to England, according to Kiel advices transmitted by the Exchange Telegraph.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
ROBBERS ARE EXECUTED
 IN BERLIN AND ORDER IS RIGIDLY ENFORCED.
(By the Associated Press.)

Amsterdam, Monday, Nov. 18.--A Berlin telegram dated November 18th says during the twenty-four hours before it's dispatch not shot was fir ed in Berlin and the crisis was appar- ently over. Order is maintained with an iron hand, according to the tele- gram, and robbers were punished by immediate execution.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
GENERAL PETAIN
 IS PROMOTED TO
 RANK OF MARSHAL (By The Associated Press.l

Paris, Nov. 19.-A Havas dispatch says that General Petain, commander in chief of the French armies, is to be raised to the rank of marshal of France, the cabinet council has de- cided.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
QUORUM COURT HOLDS ADJOURNED SESSION
 IN NEWPORT MONDAY

The county quorum court held an adjourned session at the county court house today for the purpose of ratify- ing the road taxes and other matters that went over from the regular ses- sion of few weeks ago as unfinished business.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
By The Associated Press.

Paris, Nov. 19-Two hundred per- sons were killed in an explosion at Wahn, southeast of Cologne, accord ing to reports received here.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
WILL SURRENDER
 FLEEI THURSDAY
The First Section Of German Fleet To Be Surrendered To Allies
 Has Left Kiel.
(By The Associated Press.)

Copenhagen, Nov. 19.-The first section of the German fleet to be de- livered to the allies left Kiel Sunday for the North Sea.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
JEWISH OUTBREAKS
 IN POLISH GALICIA
 ARE REPORTED TODAY.
fBv The Associated Press. }

VDy lHe ASSOCIdCcU fOoS.T
 Stokholm, Nov. 19.-Anti-Jewish outbeaks with numeous fatalities to Jews in several towns in the western part of Polish Galicia are reported by the Jewish press.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
(By The Assoc.ated Press.)

London, Monday, Nov. 18.-The program for the surrender of the German fleet provides for taking over the ships by the allies Thursday.
Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
CONGRESS ADJOURNS THURSDAY BY AGREE
 MENT OF LEADERS
(By The Associated Press.)

By The ASSOclated PreSS.J
 Washington, Nov. 19.-Congress will adjourn Thursday under an agreement between the democratic and republican leaders.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24
AMATEURS RUN WILD.

Plumbers are useful; but you
don't take a sick tooth TO a
plumber.
There are watchmakers who
are almost magicians. The
experience of a lifetime has
given them a deXterity ap-
preaching the supernatural
Yet we perversely send for a
rasftter when we want a gas
pipe fixed.
Political revolutionaries of
the more radical kind are less
methodical. One would mag
inc that the right person to dis
cuss the needs OF the working
man would be one who had
worked at some kind of a trade
himself. You can be a good
bricklayer, and still possess
capacity for organization: but
bolshevists don't recognize this.
To be a leader of their ranks it
is generally a qualification 20
be ignorant of all trades. They
usually pick a man who has
never worked at any useful job
in his life.
He is often a literary failure.
He may have tried to teach a
school at some time, or he may
be a discarded college profess
sor. He is hardly ever a COM
petent machinist, painter, plas-
terer, carpenter or boilermaker
but he knows a lot of long
words.
If Trotzky or Lenine' have
mastered any trade to the point
Of qualifying for union wages
the name of it has not been
made public. But Heaven
knows they can talk.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24

lands requiring drainage. and
cut-over forest areas, needing
further clearing.
Bringing these lands o Use
fulness would require a large
expenditure of money, but I'M
DER good administration woal,t
give an immediate opportunity
for labor, and would eventual
~ provide many thousands of
soldiers with their own farms.
II would also add materially
TO the national wealth. If h.
confers q benefit to humanity
who makes two blades OF
grass grow where one grew be-
FORE. certainly 2 plan which
makes land hitherto useless
grow valuable products also
benefits humanity.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24

degree of military and naval
strength, but it will be pooled
and administered by the league
under army and navy officers
selected from its various menu
bers. There will still be bomb
ing planes, submarines, tanks
and similar confetti, but they
will only be used to suppress
any member of the league who
wants to fight.
The generalissimo of the
composite army contributed by
the subscribing nations may be-
long to the nation that tries to
start a riot. 1t will be his duty
to lead his congratulations
against the army of his own
nation. If he is captured his
own people won't know wheth-
er to kiss him or hang him. He
will still be their commander
in-chief.
If there are fifteen subscrib-
ing nations, and twelve of them
decide to steal territory from
the other three, the three may
appeal TO arbitration. The
assessors Contributed by the
fifteen nations) will vote
twelve to three against the ap-
pellants, which suggests that
the time spent in arbitration
could be saved by a two-minute
exercise in simple arithmetic.
The moral thereof is not that
the principle is an absurdity.
II isn't. 1t il a magnificent
IDEAL but-like all ideals
presents difficulties in material
izing. The difficulties in this
case are stupendous, but not
sufficiently so to discourage us
from trying to approach as
closely as possible to realiza-
ton.
We shall not attain to it, but
we shall attain to something
we'll worth while.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24
PAINT LICK

Mr.. Jim Fucker spent Friday with
his mother.
Mr.. jas. y. Denny was in Lancas-
ter, Saturday.
Mrs. Joe Woods and children are III
with the "Fld"
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Graves are
i'll with the Flu"
Miss Ava McWhorter is visiting
relatives near London.
Mr.. Jas. A. Todd and Morris and
Dave Todd were in Richmond, Friday.
Mr.. James Rucker, Of Lexington,
spent Fri lay with Mrs. l. c. Fucker,
Miss Stella McWhorter came home
Saturday for the Christmas Holidays.
Mrs. Fred Hall and Miss Mabel
Hall are visiting relatives in Louis
vile.
The Paint Lick Garage is demon
strating a big fine Buick Six, this
week.
Mrs. A. G. Bother and son, Harold,
are visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. .. Bufchell.
Miss Mary Stewart and Miss Maude
Wilson, We're guests Of Miss Annie
Todd, last Sunday.
Mrs. Arthur Breeze Of Middles-
boro, visited her mother, Mrs. E. E.
White, the past week.
B. d. Maupn, representing the
Williams Oil Co., Of Irvine, was in
our town, Saturday.
Miss Fannie Kidd, of Wallaceton
was the guest several days the past
week of Mrs. Thos. Logsdon.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Woods were
hosts, Friday 10 a very delightful din
ing, The occasion being a family
reunion.
Mr.. +. c. MeWhorter has purchased
a handsome home on East Main street
Lexington, KY, where he will move
his family soon. 1t is with much re-
greet the community will see Mr. Me
Whorter and his family leave and it
is hoped he will be pleasantly situat-
ed in Lexington.
Mrs. Elizabeth West, age sixty
nine. died at her home near here De
cember 18th, of pneumonia, following
influenza. She is survived by two
sons, Edd and Walker, also one daugh
ter, Mrs. Charley Bowman, all of
whome reside near here. Her re-
mains were laid TO rest in the Rich
mond cemetery.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24
Lancaster, Ky, December "a. 1918
THE PERIL OF
PATERNALISM.

There is abundant logic in
the tendancy lately shown to
entrust important private in
dustries to the government. We
have been passing through
acutely critical times.
1t is necessary even under
normal conditions that indus
tries should be supervised by
the government, particularly
when they grow to such a size
that they are public utilities.
1t is the only way to provide
safeguards against private
tyranny.
When a man invents a new
product or a new field of indus
try he invests time and money
in the hope of success. And if
it becomes so useful that every
body wants it it is a utility. But
if it is taken from him without
compensation every one else
will take care to prevent his
own product from becoming
generally useful. He will stop
short of making it good enough
10 be universally popular.
Several years ago a group of
scientists conducted expert
ments with Theoretically sealed
jars and tins, and worked out
processes of preserving animal
and vegetable products. The
result Of their experiments was
commercialized, and the out
come was the packing business,
which many people declare to
be a utility. 1t is. And there
are Others. --the barber bust
ness, for example. Whiskers
are pretty general among
males.
Without the promise of a
fair bargain in the case of mu-
nicipalization no one will try to
develop anything into real use
fulness. He will expect it to
be taken from him as soon as it
becomes really worth while.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24
Reclainling Waste Lands.

At the close Of the Civil War
the United States possessed a
Western public domain which
seemed almost boundless in ex-
tent.
Many of the soldiers, accus-
toned by their military eXper-
fence to am out-of-doors life,
felt the call of the land. In
large numbers they took up
government claims and devoted
themselves to a farming life.
Our great army, also coming
back from a vigorous out-of-
doors life, is likely TO feel the
same call.
Secretary Lane, realizing
that we have not the desirable
pablo lands of forty-three
years ago, wisely proposes the
owned by the government, to
reclamation of waste lands
furnish the soldiers with the
opportunity of becoming farm
ers or fruit-growers.
The secretary states that
there are oyer two hundred
million acres Of waste land in
the United States capable of
such transformation. They
consist Of arid lands requiring
irrigation for fertility, swamp
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24

burg. Bluford Sebastian q Iowa.
Leslie. John and Butler Of Gar-ard
County, d. +. Sebaitian Of George
town Ry. and Everett Sebastian, who
is Somewhere IN France"
Wade had been a member Of Free
dom Baptist Church for more than
twenty years. Uftcntimes he had
told his friends that his hope was
stcadfast and he was ready and will
ing 20 60 His friends find consols -
tiou in the belief that he Is now
where The former things have pass
ed away" and he is forever free from
the things which caused his affection
here.
The body was Laid TO rest in The
Lancaster cemetery.
May the sustaining grace OF
Jehovah comfort the bereav,d ones
in their hours Of grief.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24
Sebastian.

Wednesday morning. December
18th 1918, Wade H. Sebastian. pass
ed from this world Of cares and trou-
BILE out into the Great Beyond. Hay-
ing been born April 2nd, 1871, he had
lived forty one years. The most Of
his lie was spent in the patient bear
ing Of many oiFlctions. For the last
four years he was an invalid Of CON
taDt suffering. His death, caused By
heart trouble and complications AZ
Asthma and Bronchitis, was not a
surprise to his friends.
Those left 10 mourn his loss are his
father and mother, Thomps and Mar.
tina Sebastian. two sisters. Mayme Sc
bastian and Mrs. W. h. Grow. six
brothers, Asby Sebastian Of Waynes-
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-24
On Guard.

Thoughtful people are shuddering
over the appearance Of certain ghost
" forms emerging from. the shadows
hanging over Europe-spectral fig
ures dancing about the bubbling caul-
dron of European politics and gov
eminent.
Soon they may be stalking across
The earth like furies. Oceans will
net stop them. Neither islands nor
continents will be safe from their in
vasion.
It is this spectcr Of rapinc, Of law
lcssuess, Of destruction, whose SIMS
ter shadow is most plainly cast across
our pathway 1t is Bolshevism, and
we should be worse fools not to pre-
pare ourselves for its appearance in
our midst than we were not TO pre-
pare for war. Already the men upon
the watch towers Of our civilization
haze warned Us that its head has APP
peared above the horizon In Amerl-
ca It's muttering can be heard by any
one who lays his ears TO the ground.
The men who warn US Of this peril
are being sneered at as a alarmists,
out so were those who warned US Of
the now extinguished confagration
Of war. Our principal trouble is. we
DO not heed the prophets !-Cincin-
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