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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07

itor is coming to investigate mining
property near Chaparral. The visitor
proves to be Barrett, and Noel wrings
a confession from him, admitting that
he sold the business secret to the oppo.
sition.
Later Noel, receives a letter from
the Colonel urging him to return home
and telling him that Muriel and Allen
are to be married. 1t is too late for
Noel to stop the wedding.
When he returns home he finds
Allen has wearied OF Muriel and is
carrying on an affair with Valera
Greenway, famous New York beauty.
Noel attempts to break up the affair
and failing decides to win Valera
away from Barrett, so that Muriel may
again be happy. Noel accomplishes
this and in so doing falls in love with
Valera, who he learns at heart is a
fine girl, caring for her invalid mother
and finds she is the one woman for
him.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07
RICHMOND WILL
have BALL IF
LEAGUE STARTS
Camouflage, Says Eggemey-
er, of Report that Rich
mond to Be Out of League.

Richmond will have q berth in the
Central league this season II the
league does not disb4nd, according to
Elmer Eggemeyer, president OF the
club.
There ID no question about Rich.
mond landing a place in the league If
the league starts at ALL" President
Eggemeyer said Monday.
The report that Richmond will be
out Of the league, under new plans be-
ing made by the president of the
league, Is camouflage, according to
the president Of the Richmond aggre.
cation.
Rights to be Decided
Territorial rights will be decided at
a meeting Of Central league represen'
tatives to be held in Louisville on
Jan. Is. Richmond will send a repre-.
sentative to the meeting
The following is reprinted from a
Chicago paper:
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Jan. Pres
ident Harry .Stahlhefer of the Central
league is reported to be busy trying
to form a circuit for this year. Neces.
sarily II must be radically different
from the one which finished last sea.
son. The president does not discuss
the situation because it is complicated
at present.
Muskegon is out for good and the
players are being disposed OF. Wach-
tel. the star pitcher. goes to Columbus
and Pitcher Allen to the Fort Worth
team. Outfelder Herndon was sold to
ST. Paul. -,.
Grand Rapids Also Out
Grand Rapids will not try to wealth.
er another season and with Muskegon
gone Michigan is no longer to be ira.
versed by Central clubs. Manager
Essick, who has been at the head Of
the Grand Rapids club. goes to the
Vernon Coast league club as manager,
not only as playing boss, but business
manager as well. in which latter capa.
city he had trying and wisdom-be-
getting experience at Grand Rapids.
Peoria still has under consideration
berth in the Western league, but
there is reason for saying that il the
Central can be reorganized with other
Illinois towns as members, Peoria pre-
fers TO remain in the organization with
which It finished last season after the
Three Eyes quit.
A Tentative Circuit
A circuit much discussed Is compos-
ed Of Peoria. Rockford, Bloomington
and Decatur, or Terre Haute as the
western division and Dayton. Spring
field. Fort Wayne and Evansville. The
aggregate would be as large as that
Of the latest planned Western league.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07
KEEP LOOKING YOUNG
It's Easy-f You Know DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

The secret Of keeping young is to feel
young -. to do this you must watch your
liver and bowels - there's no need of
having sallow complexion - dark rings
under your eyes - pimples bilious
look in your face - duh eyes with no
sparkle. Your doctor will tell you ninety
per cent Of al sickness comes from in.
active bowels and liver.
DR.. Edwards, well-known physician
in Ohio, perfected q vegetable com.
pound mixed with olive oil to act on
the liver and bowels (which he gave to
his patients for years.
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the substi.
tute for calomel are gentle in their action
yet always effective. They bring about
that exuberance Of spirit, that natural
buoyancy which should be enjoyed by
everyone, by toning up the liver and clear.
ing the system of impurities.
You will know Dr.. Edwards Olive Tab.
lets by their olive color. 10c and 25c per
box. All druggists.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07

The old boys back from the bone
yard will be pinch hitting for the draft
ed players next season. Filling the
depleted ranks of the big leagues with
retired graybeards will be the order of
the day.
1t may be that the aged and infirm
who show up for spring practice will
astonish the managers with their MIN
Bile department. They may show them
selves to be far more spry and frisky
than anyone would huppose. At the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07

present time, however, it looks like
better guess to say that the man
ayers will be more amused than aston
ished.
Every comfort should be provided to
make the season pleasant one for
the old gentlemen and if necessary the
rules should be modified When a
few of them die on bases, as they
likely will from shock or heart failure
in most any exciting game, 1t is only
decent that the game be postponed till
others still order can be found to fill
their places.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07
On The Screen

Because OF a Woman" with Belle
Bennett at the Murrette today and
Tuesday.
Noel Clavering is business manager
OF the Everett Mining Company, in a
West Virginia town. There is a ser
ious leak in the office and suspicion
points to Colonel Gwynne, father of
the girl Noel loves. To protect the
Colonels name, Noel takes the blame
by disappearing, although he suspects
Allan Barrett, the company's mineral
expert. He becomes an operator at
Chaparral, little station on the Santa
Fe.
Months later he receives word a Wis.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07
Palladium Want Ads Pay.
WE ARE NO STRONGER
THAN OUR FIGHTING BLOOD

assured.
But you should take no chances with
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Write for valuable booklet about the
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07

If the fans next season are thought
full and considerate they will try to
keep q straight face while the veterans
are performing. When an old gentle
man limps out to bat the fans should
not laugh too heartily. II one OF the
old men should try to steal a base it
would never do to roar with mirth at
his feeble scanpering. And 1t is to be
hoped that umpires next season will
be more courteous and mild than is the
rule. They might offer an arm to the
aged batter and help him to first if
he gets a base on balls.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07
ICHAIRMEN OF WAR
COUNCILS SELECTED

Chairmen as follows have been
named by the Wayne County Council
of Defense to have charge of the war
council work in the different town
ships: Abingdon, Will Smoker; Bos-
ton, joel Moore; Center. John Jack
son; Clay, Lewis Kinsey; Dalton, Har-
ry Macy; Franklin, VIII Curtis:
Greene. Will Lewis; Harrison, Frank
Wori: Jackson, Claude Kitternan;
Jefferson, Bert Souders; New Garden.
Ancil Dwiggins: Perry. Walter Brlm-
fiel; Wayne. Harry Gilbert: Webster.
Alpheus Baldwin.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07

superintendent of police has created
much comment.
Mellett has appointed as police COM
missioners John Stockdale, who is rep
resented to be salesman; Charles l..
Smith, commission merchant and
James w. Sansberry. banker Smith is
a Republican, but neither he nor Sans
berry has been connected with police
affairs, devoting their time to their
business.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07
Physical Fitness Our Sole Reliance.

FhySiCdl ffthesS Ouf Soie Reliance.
The great world struggle will be
won by stamina. Courage without
physical fitness is absolutely worth
less. That is why our great army is
made up only of men who are without
the slightest physical defect.
But there is constant warfare
closer home, that you are vitality in
terested in. 1t is the warfare of dis.
ease against your health, a struggle
that is always going on, and one for
which you must always keep your
system prepared.
And your blood supply is the fort
ress upon which you must depend. If
it is kept pure and free from any
weakening influence, the germs of
disease cannot find Judgement, but are
promptly expelled. and good health is
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07
IS Earlham Football
Players Receive ''Es''

Fifteen Earlham men receive "E's'
Tor work done in football.
The men who received the letters
are: Captain Calvert Gordon, Cnyder
Hoerner, S. Mills. Raiford, Pitts, Jes.
sup, Fl. Mills, Hadley, Johnson, Tits.
worth. Brown. lookout, and Osborne.
Gordon was chosen by Heze Clark OF
the Indiana Daily Times as a member
of the allstate football team.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07

No. only did Ferdie Schupp per-
form brilliantly throughout most Of
last season and top it of with shut
out in the worlds series, but he also
distinguished himself by striking out
more men in one game than any other
twirler in the big leagues. Early in
July he famed all even doze Cardinals
in one afternoon. Jim Vaughn of the
Cubs was the star striker-out after
Schupp. He struck out eleven men in
one contest, ten in another. nine in
three games and eight in three. No
EN- out in so consistent way as
Vaughn.
Harry Laross, we'll known minor
league outfielder, who finished last
season with the Peoria Central league
team, is recent enlistment. He goes
into the Quartermaster's end of the
war game.
The American Association pitchers
will have to do without their shine
balls and other such tricks next sea-
son. Queer deliveries were so many
in the Association last season that the
batters were almost helpless and the
umpires were frantic. Looking over
the balls seemed to do little good and
no matter how many new ones were
thrown out the pitcher would continue
to tx 'em up for the queer shoots.
Ii many OF the most successful hurl
ers are obliged next season to return
to their old deliveries. 1t is safe to
bet that there will be some free-for
all batting.
Onie Bush, who has made his
home in Indiana all his young life, has
decided to move to Detroit. where he
announces he has good position,
though just what is not stated.
Horace Milan, the Washington Sen
ators utility outfielder, is now train
ing for the aviation service.
Just as expected and predicted Hub
Perdue's retirement was not for long.
The Gallatin Squash, set free by Chat
tanoosa, signed with New Orleans the
other day.
Charley Workman, shortstop of the
Chicago Cubs, is making the off sea-
son his honeymoon. He recently was
married to Miss Pamela Hinde of Kan
sas City.
The Smith family in the majors lost
two more members when Elmer Smith
of Cleveland and Sherrod Smith OF
Brooklyn decided to go to war, but
there is still enough of them left to
make quite ball team.
Mike Doniin once National league
ball player OF some prominence, later
an actor. is now in the movies He
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-07

William NJ. Benninger. member OF
the Pennsylvania house from North
ampton, e the father o. seventeen
children
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-04-19
OVER THE T0P
Dy Arlhar 0ay Empsy. 90 AmsEIesa solaIa


|
for that purpose. The quartermaster
sergeant never goes into the front-line
trench. He doesn't have 10. and have
never heard Of one volunteering to
do 40.
The company sergeant major sorts
the rations and sends them in.
Tommy's trench rations consist OF all
the bully beef he can eat, biscuits,
Cheese. timed butter lsometimes II
men 10 TIM. jam or marmalade, and
occasionally fresh bread tten TO o
Loaf. When II is possible he gets tea
and stew.
when things are quiet. and Fritz is
behaving like q gentleman, which sell
dom happens, Tommy has the opportu.
nifty or mak'lg dessert. This 10
"trench pudding" II ia made from
broken biscuits. condensed milk, jam
little water added. slightly favored
with mud-put into q canteen and
cooked over little spirit stove known
as "Tommy's cooker"
a firm'in Blighty widely advertises
these cookers rs a necessity for the
men 10 the trenches. 0ullible people
buy them--ship them to the Tommies,
who. Immediately upon receipt OF same
throw them over the parapet. Some
times a Tommy falls for, the ad. and
uses the cooker In dugout to the dis
gust and discomfort OF the other oc-
cupants.)
This mess Is stirred up In tin and
allowed to simmer over the flames
from the cooker until Tommy decides
that II has reached sufficient (gluelike)
consistency. He takes his bayonet and
by means Of the handle carries the
mess up in the front trench to cool.
After II has cooled OF he tries to eat II.
Generally one or two Tommies in a
section have cast-iron stomaehs and
the tin Is soon emptied. Once ! tasted
trench pudding. but only once.
In addition to the regular ration 10
sue Tommy uses another channel to
enlarge his menu.
In the English papers O Lonely
Soldier" column is run. This IL for
the soldiers at the front who are sup
posed to be without friends or rela.
.!yes. They write 70 the papers and
their names are published. Girls and
women In England answer them. and
send out parcels Of foodstufrs, ciga-
rettes. candy. etc. have known
"lonely" soldier to receive as many as
Ave parcels and eleven letters in one
week.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-04-19
CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex.

Suicide Annex.
I was in my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door Of
same was a little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called Suicide Ditch" Later on
I learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known % the "Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
dept In mud, washed in mud, ate mud
and dreamed mud. had never before
realized that so much discomfort and
misery could be contained In those
three little letters, NJ U D. The floor
of the dugout was an inch deep In
water. Outside 1t was raining cats and
dogs, and thin rlvulets were trickling
down the steps. From the dir shaft
Immediately above me came a drip,
drip, drip. Suicide Annex was a hole
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six
feet high. II was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
were twenty steps leading down to 1t.
These steps were cut into the earth,
but at that time were muddy and slip
perry. A man had to be very careful
or else he would "shOot the chutes."
The air was foul, and you could cut
the smoke from Tommy's fags with a
knife. It was cold. The walls and
roof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven into these timbers. On
each nail hung miscellaneous assort-
ment of equipment. The lighting ar
rangements were superb-one candle
In q reflector made from an ammuni-
tion tin. My teeth were chatterlne
from the cold. and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much
While was sitting bemoaning my
fate and wishing for the areside q
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-04-19
CHAPTER vIIi.
The Little Wooden Cross.

After remaining In rest billets for
eight days, We received the unwelcome
tidlngs that the next morning we would
ego In" to stake over" At six In the
morning our march started and, after
a long march down the dusty road, we
again arrived ut reserve billets.
was No. in the leading set Of
fours. The man on my left was named
"Pete walling." CHEEKY sort Of fel.
low. He laughed and joked all the
way on the march, buoylng up my
dropping spirits. could not figure out
anything attractive In again occupying
the front line. but Pete did not seem TO
mind. said 1t was all In lifetime. My
left heel was blistered from the rub
bing Of my heavy marching boot. Pete
noticed that ! was limping and offered
to carry my rife. but by this time ] had
learned the ethics of the march in the
British army and courteously refused
his offer.
We had gotten halfway through the
communication trench. Pete in my I'M
mediate rear. He had his hand on my
shoulder, as men In communication
trench have to do to keep in touch with
each other. We had Just climbed over
bashed-in part Of the trench when
in our rear a man tripped over loose
signal wire, and let out an oath. As
usual, Pete rushed to his help. To
reach the fallen man he had to cross
this bashedin part. A bullet cracked
in the air and I duck"d. Then moan
from the rear. Ny heart stood still.
/ went back and Pete was lying on the
ground. By the aid of my fiashllght
l saw that he had his hand pressed to
his right breast. The fingers were GOV.
cred with blood. I flashed the light
on his face and In its glow grayish-
| blue color was stealing over his coun.
/ tenance. Pete looked up at me and
/ said: "Well, Yank, they've done me in.
can feel myself going West" His
voice was getting fainter and had to
kneel down to get his words. Then he
gave me a message to write home to
his mother and his sweetheart, and l.
like a great big boob, cried like Q baby
was losing my first friend Of the
| trenches.
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Home. the fellow next to me, who was
writing a letter. looked up and limo
Gently asked. Say. Yank, how DO you
spell 'connAgrntion'
looked at him in contempt and an
swered that did not know.
From the darkness In one Of the cor
ners came a thin. piping voice singing
one Of the popular trench ditties en-
titled:
Pack up your Troubles IN your Old Kit
Bag. and Bmils. Smile. emile."
Every now and then the singer
would stop to cough. cough. cough, bni
II was q good illustration Of TOmmy's
cheerfulness under such conditions.
A rnachine-gun ofiicer entered the
dugout and gave me hard look. !
sneaked past him. sliding and slipping.
and reached my section Of the front.
line trench. where ] was greeted BY
the sergeant, who asked me, "Where
In - ave you beenf"
made no answer. but sat on the
muddy fire step. shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating In my
face. About half an hour later
teamed mp with another fellow ant
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten O'Clock ! wal
relieved and resumed my sitting posi-
ton on the fire step. The rain sud
denly stopped and we all breathed &
sigh Of relief. We prayed for the morn
Ing and the rum issue.
10 be continned next week
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-04-19
A BADGE OF HONOR

A Liberty Loan button Is 9 badge
Of honor Rightfully obtained it marks
the wearer as one who has performed
q distinct, definite service to the
country.
Not ell can fight, not all can work
directly for the Government: but I'm
buying a Liberty Loan Bond. or War
Savings Stamps, every American ran,
deTs some service TO the nation. u
has been put within the reach aud
power OF every citizen to aid the
United States financially: It IL Q poor
American who withholds support from
the Government, from our soldiers aud
sailors fronting death on bastlefeIds
and oceans.
Iron crosses to German soldiers.
and diamond orders exchanged be-
tween Turkish and German soverelgns
may be but the honors Of atrocity.
But q Liberty Loan button. simple as
Il IL, signifies patriotic duty done
and 10 an insignia Of honor.
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"AlI that our soldiers need 10 . sill
better rear organization" - George
clsmsnesau, former Premier Of
France, Jan. "a, 1918. Il 10 up to you
to provide that BY buying Liberty
Bonds.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-04-19

The Globe Is Gillian Coutty's only
official newspaper.
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TO be continued next week
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-18
The Motor Vehicle i'm Court

ings, pedestrians are not exempted
from making reasonable use OF their
senses in crossing streets at such
places, each having an equal right
to use of streets.--l6 N. w. (Iowa)
$50.
Speed of Less Than Twelve Miles
Per Hour on Principal Street
Though street was one of princi-
pal thoroughfares, where it was clear
of vehicles other than street cars
it could not be said that defendant
was negligent where he was Oper-
ating where he was operating his
automobile at speed less than IL
miles an hour at place other than
street internationally N. W..
Qowa) $50.
Competency to Testify as to Speed
of Car.--Defendant, who had oper-
ated an automobile for two years,
and who stated that on the occasion
in question he watched his speed
ometer closely, and could say wheth-
er the speed of the automobile ex-
ceeded II miles an hour, was COM
petent to give opinion that his au-
tomobile was travelling less than 10
miles an hour.-167 N. w. Qowa)
go.
Driver of Jitney Bus-Scope of
Employ1nent.-Where jitney bus
company, licensed to run jitney
bus on a certain avenue, directed
its driver to follow that route only,
and did not know or have reason
to believe he departed therefrom.
it was not liable for injuries suf-
fered by a passenger whom the driv-
er was taking to his home outside
the route; the driver not being with
in the scope Of his employment
l67 N. w. (Wis.) 736.
Owners Liability for Acts of
Chauffeur.-Where the owner kept
an automobile in the garage of
manufacturing company Of which
her husband was president, and ar
ranged that the company should fu!-
nish a chauffeur for the Car for the
use of her mother, and at the moth
er's request the car was sent in
charge of chauffeur in the general
employ of the company, he was not
then the servant of the company,
and for his negligent collision with
another automobile the owner was
liable.--103 A. (Pa) US.
Speed Linits.-That cities limit
speed for vehicles does not neces-
sarily render a lesser speed careful
in view of Code Supp. 1913, Section
l57lmlS, providing that upon ap-
preaching pedestrian who is upon
the travelled part of any highway,
and not upon sidewalk, every per-
son operating a motor vehicle shall
slow down and give a timely signal,
and section 157lml9, providing that
every person operating a motor We
hicle on the public highways shall
drive the same in careful and pru-
dent manner, and at rate of speed
so as not to endanger the life or
limb of any personally N. w.
(Iowa) $50.