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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-05-24

The Missouri Negro Educational
and Industrial Commission. through
its chairman, N. c. Bruce Of Dalton,
Mo, has appealed to COMMISSIONS
William H Lewis, OF the Missouri Blu.
reau of Labor Statistics. to aid that
organization in securing statistical
facts and figures pertaining to the ne.
gro population of the state, the OBJ.
ject being to use all such information
TO elevate the race. One intention is
to persuade negroes TO heed the call
and lure OF the land and become farm
srs, a pursuit which offers splendid
inducements and profits to the race,
and makes all following 1t more indie
pendent than any other which Is now
open to this portion OF the states
population. Scattered over the state
are several hundred negro farmers,
either owning farms, or renting one,
or running one on the profit-sharins
plan Tor the owner, and all such are
making a huge success OF the venture,
and the majority are receiving encour.
ggement al u helping hand from
merchants and commission men, buy
ers and shippers. and the bankers they
have business dealings with.
Chairman Bruce is anxious to place
o II competent representative in the
e field in Missouri to gather informa.
lion from all negro farmers and from
others who are working as farm help
4 and also other economical facts deal
C. ing with the prosperity and environ
ments Of the rural negro of Missouri
Or Widespread publicity win be given I,
all such statistical details TO encour
Ii. age negroes to become farmers. Tn
at Bureau OF Labor Statistics funds ar
in not sufficient this year to undertak
let this work, but it is suggested. II som
philanthroplst will donate $500 to tn
he negro Industrial commission for thI
he purpose the work can commence wit
he the assurance that the next legisll
ms ture win be asked to approprIal
mt enough to complete the task. In Ne
all York where a similar negro industri
ted commission exists, $4,000 has ju
been appropriated for this purpose.
ere The Missouri commission Viii,
the was created as a negro welfare pro
the ositon by Governor Gardner, has
In ready. and without funds, save VIII
ere the members OF the commission d
&C mated themselves, accomplished muI
|, OF good. Hundreds Of negroes have be
yed persuaded to clean up their premis,
F plant thrift gardens, and look mt
of after the health Of their families. Sa
as. tary, health and thrift lectures are
az given In colored communities
shy members OF the commission and e.
yer Gated negroes. and this work is
.oad tlrely voluntary with each such vol
teer meeting his w expenses.
r-old Prairie HoIl.-The Prairie II
gain MOI consolidated district voted
iery. bonding the district for $4,000
the build a new brick building, and
proposition carried. Votes against
not bonding were II and FOR the bond
d 20 i92.
/, NJ Marthasvillet-The school board
employed the following teachers
o.n teach the M~arthasville public sch
: ~ the coming year: Prof. A. {. Ri
a. OF Holstein, principal; Miss Maj
say Welge Of here and Miss Anita III
Of Wartenton as assistants,
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FINAL ~SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given to all credi-
tors and other persons interested in
the estate Of Mary E. Hickman de
ceased, that the undersigned Admin
istrator will apply to make a final
settlement Of said estate, at the Nav
term, 1918, Of the Probate Court Of
Lafayette County, Missouri, TO be be-
gun and held at the Probate Court
room, in the CRY Of Lexington, on
the second Monday in May, 1918.
VIM. +. hickman,
Administrator.
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Mrs. B.. C. Chick Returned 60
Independence sunda y evenin Z
liter a visit here with Mr. aud
Mrs. James Brindell.
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SHERIFF,S SALE

Bv virtue Of an execution, issued
from the office of the Clerk OF the
Circuit Court of Lafayette County,
Missouri. and in favor of The Town of
Bates City, in Lafayette County, MIS-
souri,, and against Mollie Hill to me
directed and returnable to the June
Term, 1918, of said court, will on
MONDAY. JUNE 10th, 1918
between the hours of nine o'clock in
the forenoon and five o'clock in the
afternoon Of said day, at the front
door of the Court House in Lexington,
in Lafayette County, Missouri, sell
publicly. by auction, to the highest
bidder. for cash in hand, the follow
ing described real estate, to wit:
Fifty feet off Of the east side Of the
north half of Block "F" in the Town
of Bates City, in Lafayette County,
Missouri, for the purpose Of satisfy
ing a certain judgment for S7O.9O and
costs rendered in the Circuit Court
of Lafayette County, Mo-, on the
Dist day of February, 1913, wherein
the Town Of Bates City was plaintiff
and Mollie Hill was defendant anc
in which proceeding said sum Oh
5000 and the costs were declared BY
said Court to be a special lien IN ia
vor of The Town Of Bates City up
on the above described property, anC
said lien ordered enforced.
Given under my hand this 18th da!
! Of April, A. D., 1918.
j. C. TALBOT, Sheriff.
Aull & Aull Attorneys for Plaintiff
:. MAY II, 1918.
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EYECnTOR,S NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that Let
ters Testimentary on the estate OF
Fannie Glish deceased, were granted
to the undersigned on the 25th day Of
April, 1918, by the Probate Court Of
Lafayette County, Missouri. All per-
sons having claims against said es-
tate are required to exhibit them for
allowance to the undersigned within
six months after the date of granting
said letters, or they may be p%recluded
from any benefit Of said estate; and
il such claims be not exhibited within
one year from the date of granting
said letters, they will be forever bar
red. 49,,
Witness my signature on this 2bth
lay of April, 1918.
FRANCIS PATRICK MCCONNELL,
Executor.
Attested by
Stephen N. Wilson Judge Of Probate
for Lafayette County, Missouri.
(SeaD April 26, 1851
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE WIN VIII
ANNEXED.

WINITLNLUs
Notice " hereby given that Letters ~
Naturalization on the estate Of Robert Al
Wilson deceased, were granted to the un-
dersigned on the 18th day Of April. 1913.
by the Probate Court OF Lafayette County.
Missouri. All persons having claims against
said estate are required 10 exhibit them for
allowance to the undersigned within sir
months after the date Of granting said let
tera, or they may be precluded from any
benefit az said estate; and II such cInims
be not exhibited within one year from tnr
date ,f granting said letter., they will Re
forever barred.
Witness my signature on this iqlh day
Of April. 1918.
WILLIAM AuLL.
Administrator with win annexed.
Attostod BY
Stephen N. Wilson, Judge OF probat. FOR
Lafayette County. MISSOURI.
April 2e, 1918, It.
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LOST: Between Taylor avenue
and the Arnold school, a Gre
tonne Bag with a small Red
ross on it. Finder please bring
anne to this Office and receive
reward.
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OLIVE T~EMPLEToN,


Mrs. E. M. Petering returned
This morning from a visit in
Higginsville.
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ADMINISTRATIONS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby givens that letters
Of administration on the estate Of j:
D. Templeton deceased, were granted
to the undersigned on the 14th day Of
MAY. 1918, by the Probate Court OF
Lafayette County, Missouri. All per
sons having claims against said es-
tate are required to exhibit them for
allowance to the undersigned within
six months after the date of grant
ing said letters, or they may be pre-
cluded from any benefit of said es-
tate; and if such claims be not exhib-
tied within one year from the date
of granting said letters, they will be
forever barred.
Witness my signature on this l4th
day Of May, 1918.
OLIVE TEMPLETON,
Administrative.
Attested by
Stephen N. Wilson Judge of Pro-
bate for Lafayette County, Missouri.
(SEAL) May n, 1918.
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that letters
te%stamentary on the estate OF Susan
I Kirtley, deceased, were granted TO
the undersigned on the 9th day Oh
Anril. 1918, by the Probate Court OF
LAFAYETTE County, Missouri. All per-
sons having claims against SAID es-
fate are required to exhibit them Tor
allowance to the undersigned within
six months after the date of granting
said letters, or they may be preclud-
ed from any benefit of said estate;
and if such claims be not exhibited
within one year from the date OF
said letters, they will be forever bar
red. on
Witness my signature on this 9Th
day of April, 1918.
VIII LIAM AULL,
Executor.
Attested by Stephen N. Wilson Judge
of Probate for Lafayette County
Missouri.
April IL, 1918, At.
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FOR SALE: L good, gentle
horse, will, work anywhere.
Cheap if taken at once. Call
R IA M.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-05-24

WANTED: A job by young
man, experienced clerk. Can give
hest of references. P hone aS-
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Marthasville.-The school board has
employed the following teachers to
teach the Marthasville public school
the coming year: Prof. A. c. Ritter
Of Holstein. principal; Miss Martha
Welge Of here and Miss Anita Engel
Of Warrenton as ASSISTANTS,
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Prairie Hon.-The Prairie Holl
MOI consolidated district voted on
bonding the district for $4,000 to
build a new brick building, and the
proposition carried. Votes against the
bonding we're II and FOR the bonding
la2.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
RAILROADS PAID
S 9O,614, OOOA AS
ADVANCE BY u. S.

Washington, May 1.-lRailroads UNI
der the four months of government
operation just closed, received from
the government ~$90.614.000 as loans
on advance payments IN government
compensation, Director General Nc
Adoo today announced.
OF this amount $14,S 200, 1000 was for
government compensation for the
quarter ending March 81 on the basis
Of the three year average net in
come, and $76,S14,OOO vas in loans.
The largest sum, $43,9 1894, 900, went to
the New Haven for a year to help
THAI company meet maturing notes.
All but $77,514.00 0 came from the
government revolving fund for rail-
road purposes and $40, 100, 900 came
from funds turned over to the rail
road administration by railroad COM
panies from their surplus funds. All
outright loans we're made on demand
at 6 per cent and secured by ade-
quate collateral.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
Roll of Honor
U. S. Casualty List

Washington, May 1.-The casualty
list today contained 70 names, divid'
ed as follows:
Killed in action, s; died of wounds,
/; ;died of accident, 1; died of dis
eose. 8; died of. other causes, l;
wounded severely, s; wounded slight
ly, 81; missing in action, 2.
Three officers were named, Lieuts'
VIM. H. Jenkins and Franklin B.
Pedrick, are missing in action and
Lieut.. Nathaniel Greed was wounded
slightly.
Sick and Wounded Return
Washington, May IA total Of 113
sick and wounded soldiers were re-
turned to the United States from
France in the week ending April %,
the surgeon generals office today an
nounced.
Cadet Flyer Killed.
Dayton, o., May Lloyd Allen,
aged "a of New York city, a cadet
fiier at the Wilbur Wright Aviation
field, met instant death today when
his machine became unmanageable
while he was making a practice flight
and crashed into one of the school
buildings on the ground.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
Painting Huns Quit to Get
Breath Before Resum-
ing Their Attack.
NEW RESERVES TO
BE THROWN IN
Magnitude of Disaster
to Boche Grows as Dc.
tails Are Obtained.
Crushing Repulse Causes
New Optimism Among
Allied Peoples.

(6y Leased Wire to New Mexlcan.)
Stunned by the severe pun
ishment inflicted by the Brit
ish and French, the Germans
in Flanders have given up for
the moment their attempts to
gain further hill positions west
of Mont KENNEL. Meanwhile,
it is presumed that General
Won Arnim is reforming his
battered forces and bringing
up new reserves to hurl against
the granite allied defense.
German occupation of Mont
KENNEL, although a strategic
loss has not enabled the enemy
to encroach further into the
British and French positions
southwest of Ypres, nor has it,
apparently brought any nearer
the evacuation of the flatten-
ed Ypres salient.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
GERMAN ARcH-sPY IN
AMERICA UNDER ARREST

New York, May Federal author
tiles today arrested here a German
naval lieutenant commander who is
said to be the head of the enemy pro
,paganda in America, having been del.
egated to this work by Count Won
Bernstorff, when the former German
ambassador left this country. Pend
ing other expected arrests, the prison
er's name was withheld. The arrest
of the German naval officer, who has
thus far figured in the records Of the
federal authorities as Lieutenant
Commander X, follows on the heels
Of the apprehension Saturday of Marie
d. Victorica, alleged to have been one
of his most valuable ~lieutenants. The
woman who is detained at Bellevue
Hospital where she was taken after
her arrest suffering from the effects
of a narcotic confessed that she had
received about $4,000 from the Ger
man naval officer since her arrival
here in January, 1917, federal authori-
ties assert.
She denied the charge that she
used the money in %furInering the dis
semination of Sim Fein and Pro-
German propaganda here but said she
spent the money for living expenses
at hotels.
She claimed she owns a largo estate
in Chile and that the money she re
ceived represented interest on her
properties which had been managed
by the Germans.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
Extraordinary Precau-
tons to Foil Conspiracy
on the Pacific Coast.
CHIEF GERMAN
SPY UNDER ARREST
Secret Service Lays
Hand of Propaganda,
Bernstorff's Tool.
(sy Leased Wire to New M~exloan.)

San Francisco, Cal, May 1.
Acting on orders from
Washington naval military
and municipal authorities here
have taken extraordinary pre-
cautions to guard against a
rumored enemy alien conspir-
acy to destroy Pacific coastwise
shipping on May 5, the ami
versary of the birth of Karl
Marx, noted German socialist.
According to Information
received from the capital the
plotters planned to use nine
day chemical bombs which
were to be secreted in the car
goes of ships. Federal agents
declared they were confident
that precautions taken had
frustrated the purported plot.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
POPE BENEDICT
TRIES MEDIATOR
ROLE ONCE MORE
To Make Concrete Offer,
With Possible Aid of
Several Neutrals.
TEUTON PEACE
DRIVE ALSO ON
(By Leased Wire to New Mexicen.>

(By Leased Wire to New Mexicsn.)
The Hague, May 1.-(British Ad-
miralty Per Wire,ess Press.)-Pope
Benedict intends h. issue a new
peace offer on Whit Sunday, May IL,
Cologne newspapers announce. The
document, 1t is said, will be of a
more pressing nature than formerly
and will contain concrete offers OF
mediation by the pope with the
possible cooperation of neutral SOW
ereigns. Similar information Of the
pope's intention, 1t is said, has
reached Berlin, where 1t has been
received alphabetically.
This is not the first report eminat'
ing from Germany recently that the
pope is about to make another peace
move. The Neustenachsten, OF
Munich, according to a London dis
patch of April %, said that the pope
would make a peace offer as soon as
the western offensive had assumed a
new phase.
A dispatch from Stockholm Tues
day reported that a message from
Basel announced that Emperor
Charles, of Austria, was making a
new peace offer, appealing to italy
to consider it in her own interests.
That a peace offensive" would be
made by the central powers in the
event that the German offensive on
the west appeared abortive has been
predicted frequently in allied capt.
tails. This may be the beginning.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
FARMERS LEAGUE NOT
DISLoYAL, PRESIDENT SAYS

Washington, May 1.-Charges that
leaders and members Of the farmers
national non-partisan league are dis
loyal were answered today before the
senate military committee by A. o.
Townley Of st. Paul, the leagues
president, who is under indictment
tor alleged violation of the Minnesota
law. Townley was given an oppor.
tunity today to reply to the statement
of Judge J. F. MCGEE of Minneapolis,
a member of the Minnesota public
safety committee in the commuters
consideration Of the Chamberlain
court martial bill.
Townley categorically denied the or
ganization was disloyal.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02

BUY BONDS
Of LIBERTY
All Records Broken for
Number Of Subscribers;
Total So, 800, 00O,O 900.
DAYS YET
TO co OVER TOP

(By Leased Wire to New Mexican.)
WASHINGTON, May 1.-AlI records
for number Of subscribers to liberty
loans were broken today when treas
TRY fluctuations showed that approxl-
mateIy twelve million persons have
Bought bonds of the third issue. Total
subscriptions wene sent above $780,
100000 by early reports. The total
subscriptions as announced by the
treasury were $2,259,s14,6o0.
With four days remaining the num-
Der Of subscriptions Is two million
five hundred thousand more than the
9,500,00o Of the second loan and e
ly three times the number Of the first
loan.
The "Buy another bond" appeal
reached President Wilson today, and
also though he had already subscribed
for nearly $4,000 Of third liberty bond
he agreed to buy a $50 bond on the
lnstalIment plan, In accordance with
the standard suggestion of the "buy
another bond" solicitors.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
DRAFT MEN
FOR MECHANICAL
WORK ARE CALLED
Get Two-M Months
Course; No National
Guard Units Wanted.
(Hy Leased Wire to New MexlcaI

(5y Leased Wire to New Mexican
Washington, May IA call fol-
$685. additional draft men was issued
today by the Provost Marshal General
They are to be sent to twenty-five in
situations scattered throughout the
country for a two months course in
training in various mechanical duties
The men will be modified May 16.
with the exception of those from Vir,
ginia who will be called May %. They
will receive training as automobile
mechanics and chauffeurs, machinists,
b~lacksniths, sheet metal workers,
general mechanics, carpenters, cleo,
t~ricians, radio operators, concrete
workers and telegraphers. They will
be unassigned until after the compile
ton of their courses.
The call includes:
South Dakota $50; Dunwoody Insti-
tute, Minneapolis, MINI.
Texas 500, University of Texas,
Austin.
Utah $50. University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colo.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
Plot Fooled to
Wreck FIT. Bliss
Wireless Plant
Dynamite Is Discovered
Under Base Of Big
Steel Tower.

(Hy Leased Wire to New Mexican.
Ell PAso, Tex, May -Four
sticks of dynamite, 80 feet Of
coiIed copper wire and detonat-
lnu caps we're discovered late
yesterday buried under the base
Of the steel wireless tower at
Fort Bliss. The explosive was
found by an officer who was
training his men In entrench-
ment work near the tower.
The Fort Bliss wireless sta
tlon is known as the "mother
station" for the Mexican border
between san Antonio and Los
Angeles. II receives messages
from the wireless station at
southern department headquart-
ers at Fort Sam Houston and re-
laws them to the smaller stations
along the Mexican border. II Is
said to be the most powerful sta
ton on the border.
No arrests have been made.
Had the wireless towers been de
1t would have been necessar,
to relay all messages from TT. San
Houston to 1T. Bliss and the borde'
by means Of small field wireless set
q limited radius. Officers ar
unable to explain the presence o
he dynamite under the steel toweI
except that it was placed there witt
he intention of exploding 1t ant
wrecking the tower in order to inter
unit wireless communication alonl
he border. As far as is known
here are no Germans connected will
he affair. A heavy guard has beer
around the two wireless tow
,rs and no one is permitted to ap
,roach the wireless plant.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
GERMAN CHANCELLOR
X
WITH A
Must Pass Referendum Bill or Face National Re-
volt, Won Hertling Warns; Political Priv
ileges to Wealth Must Go.

ly the chancellor feared grave disor-
ders if the referendum bill which, he
admitted was hedged around with safe
guards, is not passed. A motion to
postpone action was defeated by five
to one :.
This is May Day generally a time
for strikes in continental Europe,
There have been no inklings of pos
sjble strikes within the central en-
pires except a call by tne German So
cialists of Austria several days ago
for a peace strike on May /.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
ANOTHER ASSAULT is
EXPECTED IMMEDIATELY

British Army in Flanders, May l.
(By the Associated Press. )-General
Ven Arnim made no further move
along the Flanders battle front last
night nor had the attack been expect
ed. The heavy defeat which the Ger
mans suffered Monday forced them to
pause and bring up fresh troops be-
fore continuing their drive for the
hill positions in the KENNEL region.
A few more hours however will suf-
flee for their reorganization and an.
other assault may be expected imme-
diately. The seriousness of the Ger
mai intentions here has been evinced
in mero ways. On Monday for
example. they pushed at least one
field gun forward to within seven hun.
dIed yards of the battle line and other
guns we're brought chose up.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
rs, 900 Belgian Boys
and Men Working
Under German Lash

London, May 1.-(Via Ottowa)-
Twenty-Five thousand Belgian boys
and men have been compelled to work
on military operations under the whip
of German sentries behind the Ger.
man lines in the regions of Valen-
ciennes and Maubeuge alone, accord
ing to Reuters Limited. The mortal
ity in the camp of the deported Bel
gians it reports is terrible. The num-
bers sent back as unfit are replaced
by fresh recruits.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-05-02
ALLIED COMMANDERS
ARE CONTENT To WAIT

After the intense flghting of Mon
day in which the Germans strove des-
perately to enlarge their gains on the
high ground north of the Lys, there
has been only local fighting.
Apparently the allied commanders
are content to hold on to their present
line and to let the Germans make
more attacks in an endeavor to drive
them back. lin their disastrous re.
pulse the Germans not only failed to
gain, although using larger forces
than the defenders, but they were
driven from some positions they had
held since the capture of Mont KEN.
nell last week.
Along the Flanders front and in ri.
cardy strong artillery bombardments
continue.
The Germans have been throwing
great numbers of shells into the
French positions around Hhngard,
south of the Somme, probably In prep
aration for still another attempt to
drive the French back to the Avre. A
German attack in the Noyon sector
brought the enemy into French posi-
tANAAS' hOhh WhASn nOWCNOi. IhCy MCI0
thrown out in spirited fighting.
American artillery on the Picardy
front has been busy Smelling enemy
targets, but there has been no infan-
try activity. On the Toul sector
American aviators have brought down
a German machine, the third in three
weeks.
Today's official statement reveals
10 break in the comparative quiet on
all the recently active fronts in Elan
ders and to the south.
The French troops in Flanders car.
ried out a small operation which was
important in that 1t improved their
positions on the valuable holding
ground about Locre, which protects
the flank of Mont Rouge.
On the Somme front the continu-
apce of artillery action of some vio-
lence is reported near Villers-Breton-
Deux and the south along the Ayre.