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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24
YANKEES QUAIL AT
PINK DECORATIONS

nose, from every Dutch gun in front
of us, but the boys jest yelled and
laughed and away they went. Say,
they didn't pay no more attention to
the major when we came to them
rocks than If he hadn't been there at
all.
81 went back to give him mes
sage from my captain and he was
standing by the rocks and up came
the colonel and the colonel gave the
major blinking hell for not stopping
the battalion where he said, and the
major was madden n hornet, and he
double damned the colonel right back
again and he said: How the cruel
fed damnation could stop them
crazy, wild-eyed sons Of perdition? If
that hog-faced crown prince and his
whole damnety damn Dutch army
couldn't stop 'em, what the b could
I dor"
And Those Marines.
good fighters
Good fighters?" the soldier said !;
"say, every time l see marine l
want to go up and give him kiss.
IF they ever get started again they
will never stop till they get to Ber-
lin. Now, you listen to me. know.
Say do you know what l saw them
marines do?
"They had taken three trenches and
was stopping in the third to fill their
pockets with grenades and bombs be-
fore tackling the next trench that
was chuck-full Of Boches. The Dutch
was using mustard gas and we was all
wearing our masks. The grenades wuz
passed around.
"The marines filled their pockets
and hung 'em on their belts and then
they seemed to decide that they need
ed more for the job than what they
had, so what did those crazy nuts do
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24
Smoky City Sees Snakes.

Pitt,burgh.-Charmed by the glar.
ing headlight of a standing automobile
a five-foot snake, eight inches In cir.
conference startled pedestrians in
the downtown section recently. Po-
licemen were summoned and the rep
tile was dispatched. Its arrival In the
business district remains mystery te
the police department
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24
IN WATER 10 HOURS
Is SAVED BY COFFIN

Indiana, Pain the water for
10 hours and a portion of the
time clinging to "a rough box
which contained the casket of
an American soldier who had
died at sea was the experience
of Frank S. Kepple of Advance,
near here, following the sinking
of the steamer President Lin
coin, according to a letter from
Kepple to his folks here.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24

WATERFOWL, Mass. viii tear down
Galen tavern. built In 1740, In which
Washington was once guest.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24

A regular girl never thinks her pho
tograph looks like her unless X
doesn't look like her.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24

II the average mans digestive APP
paratus Is all right his conscience
Doesn't trouble him much.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24
Pessimistic.

What do you think of these light
less nights?"
We'll. they have dark possibilities
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24

Az adept at tackling, Howard Barry,
once a captain of football and now
lieutenant of war. Lieutenant Barry
was last years captain of the Univer"
sity of Pennsylvania football team
and is now a lieutenant at Camp Cor
don, Ga.
but whip off their gas masks and fill
'em up with grenades and then, carry
ing their masks like they was market
baskets, up they jumped and down
they comes on the Dutch in the next
trench all spraddled out, and they
bombed 'em till there wasn't nothing
but jest grease spots left.
"Oh. you marines, boys, my hat Is
certainly off to you"
And likewise you infantry and you
artillery.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15

is near by, was practically unknown
Distances were great, travellers came
with their own coach and horses and
servants, and an arrival meant addi-
h0nal places at the masters table and
In the servants hall, additional beds,
and stabling and feed for from six to
twelve horses. 1t vas part of the flex-
tble, cordial social system, and the
hospitality and provision was on a
large scale. Everyone was welcome /:
brothers and sisters, nephews and
~nieces, and cousins to remote degrees
friends passing north and south, cross
ing from Maryland to lower Virginia,
or only IN their way to the plantation
next beyond. Not least welcome were
strangers, with and often without let
tiers.
"Rainy days, or the early winter
evenings, were devoted to cards. Wash
ington's account books indicate that
playing cards were quickly used up.
The profit and loss columns record his
winnings and losses, which at times
mounted to nine pounds at a sitting.
1t was a liberal age. Not only was
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
FASTENED TO INFORM WIFE
"Mary. We Are Elected" Was Lin
coins Form of Telling HeIpmeet
the Good News.

Perhaps one of the most character
istic of the Lincoln anecdotes may be
revived with timeliness. On the night
of his first election the little frame"
home of the Lincolns in Springfield,
ILL.,, was thronged with eager neigh
bors and friends. Reports for a while
came in early and f%avorably. Then
they were less promising. The crowd
dwindled. Then came the news that
Lincoln had carried the country. The
rest of the story will better be told
by that great man himself. "When
there was no longer any doubt, or
reason for doubt" he related after
ward, 81 went up to my bedroom and
found my wife asleep. l gently touch
ed her shoulder and said, 'Mary!' She
made no answer. I spoke again a lit
tie louder, saying, Mary Mary! we
are elected!'"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
The way for a young man
to rise is to Improve himself
eUery avay he can, meUer sus-
pecting that anybody WiShes
to hinder him.-LincolG.
Election Incident.

Lincoln was a clever politician and
never hesitated when president to play
trumps in a crisis.
Colonel A. K. Mcclure said that he
told Lincoln he couldn't carry Pennsyl-
vania in 1864 on the home vote unless
he ~furloughed 10000 Pennsylvania sol
diers and sem them back here to vote.
Lincoln hesitated only a moment and
then requested both Meade and Sher-
idan to send 5000 troops into Pennsyl-
vania for the election, which was done.
McClure's prediction was evidently
correct, as Lincoln, even with the
10000 troops voting here, carried
Pennsylvania by only SIP. To this
plurality was added some $4,000 as the
result of Pennsylvania soldiers voting
in the field.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
Both Were Early Risers.

form of the general approached their
foot, the bystanders, apprehending dam
ger to him, with silent and spontane-
Gus accord braced the stairway with
their shoulders as he mounted, and
waited there until he descended"
TN 1914, when the British fleet sailed
i up the Potomac, they saluted Mount
Vernon instead of destroying it. The
place was bought in 1859 by the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association of the
Union. At that time the only objects
in the house that had been associated
with it's Immortal owners life were the
key of the Bastille, the clay bust which
Houdon modelled, a plaster bust of La
fayette, the old globe in the library
and some camp equipment.
During the Civil war Mount Vernon
was by spontaneous consent of both
sides the only neutral ground in the
country. Soldiers left their arms out
side the gates and linen in blue and
men In gray fraternissd before the
tomb of the father of their divided
country"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
WOMEN LOVED BY LINCOLN
Loss of One of Them in Early Youth
Cast a Lifelong Shadow Across
His Heart.

There was a wild rose slip of a girl
In a blue sunbonnet, with whom he
walked the lanes of his homespun
days. There was a clever, cultured
woman, whose brilliant intellect
lighted his ascending way in the Illi-
nois legislature. And there was the
belle of the gay social set at Spring
field, who fiuttered across his pathway
as it led to Washington. One he
loved, and one he tried to, and one
he married. These were the women
that he courted. They loved Lincoln.
To them the greatest American was
far nearer than a lofty figure on a
high pedestal. They heard his heart
beat!
These were the women that loved
Lincoln. One of them today lies near
the banks of the Sangamon where he
loved her. To the last there was with
him the long, long sorrow of her loss
that cast its shadow across his heart
in youth. AS late as 1864 he pushed
aside state papers in the executive
mansion at Washington to talk of her
late in the night to a friend who had
come from back home. One. rests
peacefully in a little cemetery at
Pleasant Ridge, III. The mother of
five children, her tombstone reads:
"Mary Owens Vineyard" One lies
at his side in the great mausoleum in
Springfield, where the state keeps her
bier and his heaped with fresh, fire.
grant flowers. When an assassin's bui-
let took his life, the American peo-
pie mourned a great president. She
mourned a great Observation-Disclosures
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
"After Breakfast He Rode Out to
Overlook the Laborers."

outside servants, and %overseers, all
with their families, constituted an
army Of several hundred. Everything
and everybody that had no relation to
the big house, as the masters dwell
ing ON a Virginia estate has always
been called, fell under the direct jul
risdiction Of Colonel Washington. . .
The house servants and all those con-
nected with the domestic side of life
in the big house were the RESPONSE
bility of Mrs. Washington.
UA FTER the fashion of most old
"A Virginia homes, the kitchen was
In a detached house. next to the big
house, and professions of pickaninnies
carried the heaped dishes across the
lawn into the family dining room. The
modern or even the now old-fashioned
cookstove was unknown. The altar of
this temple was a great fireplace with
an opening which would accommodate
half a dozen grown persons. Here
andirons held wood cut to cord size,
and often oak logs which strained a
brace of black backs to lift into place.
Cranes of iron, wrought in the black
smith shop over the hill, swung steam
ing kettles above the glowing Goals.
Quarters of beef, young sucking pigs,
and rows of fowl, game and domestic,
were roasted on splits. Corn pone and
sweet potatoes nestled In the ashes"
They refurnished the house almost
throughout, ordering the goods from
London, where the Virginia colonial
danes did most Of their shopping,
though it was then more distant than
is Japan today.
HTHEY both were early risers,
L though breakfast was not early
for all the household. Washington in
winter often made his own fire in his
library, and there, over his correspond
4ence and accounts, did an immense
amount of work in a few hours. Mrs.
Washington rose when he did and d.
rected the beginning of the days do
nestle duties into easy and ordered
channels. After breakfast he rode
out on one of his horses to overlook
the laborers on the various farms into
which he divided Mount Vernon estate,
and returned, according to Custis,
4punctual as the hand of a clock, at a
quarter to three . . and retired
to his room to dress, as was his GUS
TOM Mrs. Washington chose the first
hour for religious devotion in her own
room, an unfailing custom her life
long. Dinner was a mid-afternoon
meal after the Southern tradition.
Washington rarely ate any supper,
though it was always spread for his
household and guests. When at Mount
Vernon it was his habit to retire at
nine o'clock"
UDEFORE the Revolution Mount
- Vernon bore its share of the
open-handed hospitality which distin-
guished Virginia colonial life. The
brief call of visitors, whose home base
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
LlncoIn's Stories.

1t seems probable that some Of Lin
coins stories, genuine though we may
believe them to be, were current before
his time; for instance, the one with
the Kentucky flavor referring to the
brand of whisky which General
Grants enemies protested he used
with too much freedom. Lincoln dis
claimed this story in my hearing,
stating that King George III. of Eng.
land was said to have remarked,
when he was told that General Wolfe,
then in command of the English army
in Canada, IA mad, that he wished
Wolfe would bite some Of his other
generals.-From Lincoln in the Tele-
graph Office"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15

Is 1t any wonder that this famous letter is still hanging on the rails
of Brasenose college, Oxford university, England, as a model of pure and
exquisite English and as a compelling expression of a great heart and
mind?
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
WASHINGTON IN
PRIVATE LIFE
Was Typical Country Gentleman
or His Superb Estate of
Mount Vernon.
DIRECTED WORK OF SLAVES
Father of His Country Actively Super
Intended All Farm Labor-open-
Handed Hospitality a Feature
of the Daily Life.

@EoRGE WAsHINGTON'S
home life at Mount Vernon
was divided into three perl
DDS: ID From 1852, when as
a youth of twenty he inherited the
family estate, to 1775, when he left to
take command Of the Revolutionary
army: (2) from Christmas eve, 1888,
when he returned home after peace
had been made, until 1889, when he
became president (3) from 1897, when
he retired from the presidency, to 1850,
when he died. During the war and
during his presidency he visited the
place occasionally, but only for a few
days at a time.
Some delightful glimpses into this
happy home life are given by Paul
Wilstach In Mount Vernon" published
by Doubleday, Page & Co.
WHEN George Washington became
wv master of the Virginia mansion
1T was not nearly so large as 1t is to-
day, for he built the banquet hall on
the north, the library on the south, the
third story, the verandas, colonnades,
piazza and tower, the great barn and
many Of the other outbuildings, be-
sides laying out and planting the gar
dens.
1t was not until after his marriage
to 'the charming widow" Martha Dan
bridge Gusts, in 1859, that the family
life really began.
With Mrs. Washington came the two
children Of her former marriage, Mar
tina and John Parker Custis.
"These four were the nucleus of a
busy and extensive life on the estate.
The gradual accumulation of shoemak-
ers, t~ailors, smiths, carpenters, wheel
wrights, masons, charcoal burners,
farmers, millers, hostlers, house and
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15

Up the Potomac, They SaIuted
Mount Vernon Instead of Destroy
ing 1t.
gambling on a moderate scale consid-
cred a fashionable diversion, but the
family at Mount Vernon %patronized
the lotteries on various occasions"
HERE are some extracts from the
IL diary of John Hunter, a London
merchant, who spent a day and a night
at Mount Vernon in 1885:
"The general came in again, with his
hair neatly powdered, a clean shirt
on, a new plain drab coat, white waist
coat and white silk stockings. At
three dinner was on the table, and we
other room, where everything was set
off with a peculiar taste, and at the
same time very neat and plain. The
general sem the bottle about pretty
freely after dinner. and gave success
to the navigation of the Potomac for
his toasts, which he has very much
at heart.
"We had a very elegant supper
about that time. The general with a
few glasses of champagne got quite
merry, and being with his intimate
friends, laughed and talked a good
deal. Before strangers he is generally
very reserved, and seldom says a word
4. . . At twelve / had the honor of
being lighted up to my bedroom by the
general himself.
"When the general takes his coach
out he always drives six horses; to
his chariot he only puts four. . d.
l fancy he is worth 100000 pounds
sterling and lives at the rate of 5000
or 1000 a year."
TN the final period the life at Mount
L Vernon was livelier than ever-the
good, old-fashioned life of a Virginia
country gentleman; open house to all
many guests, both American and for
eign, but both George and Martha
Washington restricted certain time for
their own.
"After dinner he spent an interval
talking with them, with a glass of Ma
deira by his side,' and then withdrew
to his library again, where he made a
hasty survey of the newspapers, of
which he received a great many, and
retired for the night at nine o'clock,
If possible without appearing at sup
per.
"When the gentlemen Of the Alex
andria assemblies sent their polite in
vitation to the general and his wife for
their winter dances he replied that his
dancing days were over. But he drove
up to town frequently for visits that
included a duck dinner at Mine Host
Gadsby's City hotel, a review of Cap
tain Piercy's Independent Blues, and
the casting of his last vote. The poll
Ing place was up a flight of outside
steps, so rickety that when the huge
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
Only Thrift
Will Win
This War

First--By retaining from buying any
thing not absolutely necessary to
health and efficiency. This self-denia1
releases Goods and Services" that
your Government now needs for war
purposes.
Secondly--By investing the money
you save in War Savings Stamps, you
are 1oaning your Government money
which is necessary for success. And
you are helping yourself.
These baby bonds" are the best and sim
p1est Government security--they pay you 4
per cent. interest compounded quarterly.
Buy Thrift Stamps for IS cenfs--Buy War
Savings Stamps for S4.13 at your
Post Office or any Bank.
This space contributed by Five Mile Beach Journal.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-15
Zmc0M'S lime Zubufe
to BerguUed Mother

A Z this time, above all times, when our thoughts revert to the man
II By many considered the greatest president that our country has
4 n had, we are proud to publish a letter wrien By him to a bereaved
mother. 1t went from the heart to the heart, and its message still sirs
the sul of motherhood.
The letter waS this:
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-03-05
A-=------=- 81
HSOCIAL NEWS Isl
B--=---=--= ---1-----E 29

, Mrs. William Startsman. Instructor,
rhursday-St Paul's Lutheran Ladies'
Aid Society. Mrs. Paul Kntzke, instruo-
tor Inspection committee meeting with
Mrs Virgil :. Reiter. instructor.
Frday-The Woman's Guild OF 81.
/ Pauis Episcopal church, and the Pyth-
ian Sisters Of Hammond Temple No. 45.
Airs p. j. Lyons. Instructor,
Mrs. w T. Hardy 81 Detroit street.
is chairman Of the Womens work de
partment,
The directors meet every third Thurs
day In the month.
Members OF the Civilian Relief and
Home Service department of the Red
Cross are at the headquarters every
Monday and Friday afternoon. Mrs J.
NJ. Turner. sos Truman avenue, is chair
man
The surgical dressings classes moet
daily and every evening except Tuesday
some OF the patriotic organizations
and clubs devoting their meeting days TO
Red Cross work follow;
The American Alliance meets on all
teruate Thursday evenings at eight
O'Clock at the Chamber Of commerce
The Soldiers and Sailors Ala Associa-
ton meets every otheF thursday EVEN
ting in Room j of the superior Court
building.
The ladies Of s. Joseph's Catholic
church meet every Tuesday and Wed
nesday afternoon and Thursday evening
at 81. Margaret hospital.
The irving school Red Cross Auxiliary
holds its meetings in the school every
Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday and Fri
DAY afternoon.
Every second Tuesday in the month
The Farent-Teaehers Club Of the Lincoln
school meets all the school for Red Cross
work
The Mothers club Of the Washington
school meets from three TO four O'Clock
Friday afternoons
The North side Ladies Club meets the
first Friday afternoon in the month at
the home of it's members.
The Amicitia Club meets every third
Thursday afternoon in the month at the
home of its members.
The Colonial Club meets the third
Thursday afternoon Of the months at
members homes.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-03-05


Tor their cooperation in regard to TIE
establishment or tuberculosis hospit-
al for Lage county. The anti-tuoercp-
lasis society and also the Lake county
medical society will be represented All
the called meeting ~ the Lake counts
council and urgently endorsed an ap-
nrapriatfan far the erection ot this
much needed institution In Lake
eonnty
The matter 81 gardens was discussed
hv the defense board and in response
a a bulletin from the state board urg
ins that wide publicity be given to the
necessity ~ gardens this year the
county council favored plan con
reived By Mr. n W Mevn that the Sec
retary write each superintendent 80
schools in the corporsted towns and
cities asking them 70 urge the cuitiva-
ton of gardens and cards viii he furn-
shed each pupil with the following
questions. Are g0H going TO make
garden Yes. or no-If net WHY"
These reports viii be sent to the
county council of defense and VIII BE-
acted upon by them. Chairman Peter
son reported that he had no official
notice from headquarters as to when
The Lake County War Conference was
to Be held 4 bulletin from the state
council IN regard - the sheep killing
dog problem in Indiana was read. The
state council wishes investigat upon
the possibilities Of increasing the sheep
industry and protection for the same
from tho ravages Of dogs. The law
provides that It shall be lawful for any
person al any time 10 Kill any dog
which may be found running. worrying
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-03-05
CONCERT SET FOR MARcH nth.

A faculty concert to be given by
members of the Hammond Musical coll
iege. was to have been given several
weeks ego. and TO have been followed
by others in rapid succession. Owing.
however. to the severe weather condt-
tions. fuel restrictions, etc, this has
been impossible.
The program to be given viii un-
douhtedly stand pre-emiHeRt in the an
nails Of concert work in this city; all
selections viii he interpreted by finish
ed artists, who are at the head Of their
various departments Of the local must
cal institution. soioists as follows:
Mr. Karl Reckzeh. the talented pianist
whose previous work in concert here
win long be remembered by his hear
ers. Mr.. Samuel Carton. tenor. under
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-03-05

prayer? You probably have; I have
10 you know what real Christian Sci
enlist does from the time he awakens
each day to the time he goes to sleep
at night9 RE prays, If there IS any
one thing that the Christian Scientist
Ands vii! bring him peace health pros
perity and happiness. it is prayer. and
rs ends thai the more he prays The
more Of peace end health and prosperity
and happiness are his Therefore. the
more Of these desirable qualities or
conditions ne manifests The more you
may be sure he prays
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-03-05

The history department Of the Ham
mond Woman's Club met at the home OF
the chairman Mrs. George Roberts. $40
South Holman street, yesterday after
noon for an Important session. The an
nuaI election Of officers took place and
was Followed with Very interesting
program. The Roys Quartette Of the
high school sang and the program open
"a with solo by Mrs. a. X. Thompson.
entitled Keep the Home Fires Burn
ing" Mrs W. p. Muir told now the
United states census is taken and Mrs
W. Al Jordan told Of camp life at Hat
uesburg The committee greatly APP
preciated both talks. The election re-
suited i'll the reelected or Mrs. Roberts
for chairman and the other officers are
Mrs NJ r. Ludwig. vice chairman; Mrs.
"A. s. Kennard, secretary, and Mrs. $. f.
Swain. member Of the calendar COM
mittee.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-03-05
why Wrinkles Come Early

HEADACHE causes wrinkles st early
age. No pain is more vicious than headache.
CORNELISDN'S HEADACHE LIVER PILLS
will give you speedy relief and make more
medicine IN necessary tomorrow. They quickly
relieve pain and contain mild. sure laxative
which usually removes the cause Price 100.
AT ALL DRUGGISTS.
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