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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-21
Tuesday, Dec. 3rd

beginning at o'clock p. m. sharp,
the following:
10 HEAD OF HORSES
Including pair of mares, years
old in foal to horse; pair big geld
ings and 6 years old, good driving
and saddle horse years old, 4 good
mare colts coming 2 and 3 years old.
80 HEAD OF CATTLE.
Consisting Of 10 good mich cows,
some fresh now, others will be soon;
l full blood Shorthorn bull coming
8 years old, some good 2-year old
heifers, 10 head Of spring calves.
40 HEAD OF FALL PIGS.
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
Consisting of grain binder, corn
binder, manure spreader, gang plow,
cultivators and other implements.
TERMS:
On sums of SO and under, cash
all sums over $40 credit of 9
months will be given on approved
security at 10 per cent interest from
date of sale; only per cent will be
charged if paid when due. No prop
erty to be removed until terms are
complied with.
- w goncht
MNa ~ ~
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-21
WGdnGSday,NOv.27
Commencing at / p. m. sharp
A HEAD OF HORSES.

Dun mare, smooth mouth; bay
mare, 6 years old; bay colt, year
old; black colt, year old.
Good mich COW.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07

Der. He had been engaged in the
spring, he explained, and to prove it
pinned the engagement ring guaran-
tee to his QUESTIONABLE, Love let
ters were offered to show intention
to marry before the draft law men
aced and a Wichita paper with news
of an announcement party and pic
lures of the bride and bridegroom-to-
be was sent to a draft board. To
prove that one bridegroom was no
marriage Stacker, a Jewish couple
sent in marriage contract made out
last winter.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
WILL TAKE OVER GERMANTOWN
ED STEAMER LINES

Washington, March 6 - President
Wilson intends to take over the Ham
burg-American and North German
Lloyd Steamship Companies wharves
and docks at Hoboken, N. J. He ar
ranged today with Senator Martin,
Democratic eader, for an amendment
to the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill giving him such authority.
Although the government has been
using the dock properties of the two
German companies, President Wilson
told Senator Martin at a White House
conference today that it was deemed
necessary to take over the legal title.
No details of the Presidents plan
we're given Senator Martin, but ar
rangements we're made to take up the
urgent deficiency bill in the Senate
today ahead of the war finance cor
poration measure, to expedite the de-
ficiency appropriations and also the
matter relating to the German docks.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07

There Is more Catarrh In this section
OF the country than all other diseases
put together. and for years 1t was sup
posed to be lncurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment. pronounced
it incurable. Catarrh is local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine. manufactured by f J. Cheney G.
Co., Toledo, Ohio. Is a constitutional
remedy, Is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
OF the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails TO cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials
+. J. CHENEY IL co, Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills :or constipation.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07

ing for them is practically nothing.
All that is required is place to keep
them which need not be expensive
and slight expenditure for food The
mice are fed lettuce, oats and greens
and are very hardy. They are ship
ped to the Chicago depot from the
Pacific coast with practically no loss
and are kept at the Central Depart
mental Depot until called for by the
various hospitals. Maj. Shields ex-
planned, however, that the supply is
SO limited that the depot is unable to
keep any on hand and has been oblig-
ed to use every facility at its disposal
in order to find enough to supply
present needs of the hospitals.
Pneumonit is generally recognized
as one of the most deadly diseases to
which soldiers are subject. They av-
erage death rate is S:3 per cent. In
consequence of this fact it presents
itself as a deadly menace to the men
at environments both here and abroad
but if sufficient supply of white
mice can be obtained the death rate
can be appreciably lowered.
In the diagnosis of pneumonia with
white mice, secretions from the nose
or throat of the patient are injected
into the animal, and then, by Sc
ries of experiments which are exc
cuted quickly, the exact nature OF
the disease is ascertained and the
proper treatment can be administer
ed. No other animal can be used for
this work, the Major said.
Maj. Shields said that he is now Sc
curing white mice from several NOUS
cries in the United States and a small
supply from Canada.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
QUEER REASONS ADVANCED BY
MEN SEEKING DRAFT
EXEMPTION

The very serious business of select
ing from the manhood of Kansas City
the National Army was attended by
much humor and pathos. The Draft
Appeal Board, from its opening ses-
sion, was besieged by throngs who
sought to serve their country in any
but a military way, and exhausted
their ingenuity in thinking up rea-
sons why they should not be drafted,
And in contrast, there were those
who yearned for army life and some
times were hard put to it to prove
they would be useful to their country
in soldier uniform.
There was the man who declared,
in answer to a question as to why he
thought he should be exempted, that
no other man in the world except
himself could live with his wife To
this a member of the Draft Board
replied: "If should tell her on what
grounds you are asking exemption,
I'll bet you couldn't either"
I. There was the representative of a
county organization who asked the
District Board that his entire county
| be dealt with leniently, since it was
Ian agricultural county, and there
Twas the woman of AZ years who
fasked exemption for her 3O-year-old
husband because she loved him SC
much. There was a coffee salesman
who pointed out that several hotels
would suffer If he were called to the
colors.
Likewise there was a petition sign
ed by forty members of a Sunday.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
ARMY NEEDS WHITE NEGRO,
DENTS ARE USED IN FIGHT
AGAINST PNEUMONIA

Chicago-He is just a little thing,
with snow white hide, and beady eyes,
yet he is destined to play most i'm
portant part in the world war, "He''
is the white mouse.
Maj. w. A. Shields, chief medical
officer at the Central Department
Supply Depot here, says that these
mice are needed in large numbers
now and that If there be those who
are in quandary as to how best
they may serve their country, it
would be well for them to look into
the white mice industry.
White mice, Maj Shields said, are
among the most important needs of
the army hospitals. Upon securing OF
a sufficient number of the tiny rod
ents may depend the lives of many
hundreds of American soldiers and
sailors.
Pneumonia is the specter with
which the tiny mice are called upon
to do battle, and, according to the
medical supply officer, if the mice
can be had in sufficient numbers, they
can crush this prim plague of the
environments and trenches. They can
alleviate the suffering caused by pneu-
monia by the sacrifice of their lives
for the manufacture of serum.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
Various Kinds Of Disease

Through elaborate experiments it
has been discovered, according to Mai
Shields, that pneumonia is of sever
al kinds, each being distinct from the
other and requiring a different serum.
There is, however, but one way in
which to determine which form of the
disease has attacked the patient. That
is through the use of white mice
The question that faces the medi-
cal supply officers is to get the little
rodents which play such an import
ant part in army hospital service.
Before the war, said Maj. Shields,
mice were so plentiful that 10 cents
each would purchase all one might
desire.
Then came the war and the sudden
demand for large quantities of the
rodents. Immediately the price leap
ed upward Today, Maj. Shields said,
white mice are quoted at $1.22 each,
with the prospects that the price has
not yet reached the top.
"This is a sample of the patriot
ism of some of the people of this
country" Maj. Shields said. at is
sad commentary upon such persons
that they will let their greed out
strip their duty to America. A white
mice breeder recently wrote, asking
my quotation on mice. When I told
him-giving him figure that six
months ago would have been consid-
cred extravaganza replied that he
could get 10 cents apiece more else
where, and he refused to let us have
any"
Not all persons, however, are like
this, the. officer added. A woman in
California who sends on an average
Of fifty mice month to the Chicago
depot has requested that the check
In payment for the rodents be turned
over to the American Red Cross.
While the department could not do
this, 1t was none the less exceedingly
gratified to note this spirit.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07

school conducted in rudal church
five miles from a town asking for
exemption for the schools superin-
tendent, and asserting the school
could not be maintained without his
leadership.
Work for the Government did not
exempt from military service. A
postmaster in vain filed an affidavit
that rural mail carrier was neces-
sary to the proper distribution of the
mail on his route, and a District
Draft Board refused to make any con-
cessions for an assistant secretary of
State Board of Agriculture seeking
exemption on industrial grounds, al
though many influential public men
were interested in his case. The
physical director of high school
who had charge of the school military
drill was not exempted.
On the other hand deputy United
States collector of internal revenue
was placed in Division /, Glass 3, as
a necessary Government employee He
was engaged in technical work in the
administration of the Income Tax
Law.
One Buchanan county man assign
ed five reasons to the Appeal Board
why he should be exempted. He said
he was under weight, had a crippled
foot and defective eyesight. These
reasons were rejected Then he claim
ed he was the sole support of his faith
er and, that being diallowed, made the
claim he was farmer working on
land his father rents. He was certi-
fled for the National Army.
Although the small salaries given
country school teachers in this as in
other States are notorious, many
school boards in the Kansas City dis
trict filed affidavits that the teachers
were necessary in educational work.
In one case ian act of God" was
responsible for an exemption claim.
The overlooking of the Platte River
in Buchanan county devasted the farm
Of the grandfather of a man already
serving at Camp Funston The
grandparents were left destitute and
foryt Of their neighbors netitioned the
district draft board to return the
grandson from training camp.
Some actual fraud and deceit was
found among those seeking to avoid
military service One man, asking
exemption on the ground that he was
the sole support of his wife, chal-
lenged the draft board to find that
either he or his wife had funds or
property. They accepted and dis
covered he had bank account OF
about $500 that had been hidden in
a safety deposit box and that his wife
owned property.
Another man became i'll when noti-
fled to report for service and his moth
er asked that he be examined and ex-
empted because mentally unbalanced
The doctors made a written report
finding that the mans mental condi-
ton was brought on by his own wolf.
ton.
Some queer exhibits reached the
draft boards to back up claims fol
dependency. One man produced Q
jewelers. diamond guarantee ISSUED
last April to prove a dependency
claim in the case OF marriage sine,
May IS. He pressed dependency
; claim although married last Septem'
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
VALUABLE ADVICE
MaysyilIe Citizens Should Profit BY
The Following Statement.

Doan's Kidney Pills we're used by
this Maysville resident.
Their merit was shown-the story
told.
Now comes further evidence.
The testimony is confirmed.
The remedy was tested-the results
lasted.
Could Maysville residents demand
stronger proof?
It's Maysville testimony. 1t can be
Investigated.
A Sorries, lock and gun-smith, w.
Second. and Wall SITS, gave the fol-
lowing statement in January 1912.
1.-The action of my kidneys was ire
|gular and the kidney secretions con-
tained sediment. had backaches and
when l stopped over, had trouble In
straighening up. Colds settled in my
back and kidneys, too. Doan's Kid
lacy Pills stopped the trouble and my
SbAck and kidneys became as strong
and well as ever"
A LASTING EFFECT
On November IA, 1916, Mr.. Sorries
said: Il am the same strong believer
lin Doan's Kidney Pills today, as when
II gave my former endorsement.
haven't had any trouble with my kid.
0neys In that time and l believe the
cure they gave me will be perma.
nent"
Mr.. Sorries is only one Of many
Maysville people who have gratefully
endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. II
your back aches - II your kidneys
bother you, don't simply ask for Q
Kidney remedy-ask distinctly fol
IO0ANS KIDNEY PILLS, the sans
That Mr.. Sorries had-the remedy
BACKED by home testimony. SO cents
Nat all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.
IProps., Buffalo, N. Y. when You
yBack Is Lame-Remember the Name.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
WASHINGTON OPERA TONIGHT, THURSDAY, MAI

c. Frank Nash about your Insurance.
c. Frank Nash about your Insurance.
c. Frank Nash aboGt your Insurance.
G. Frank Nash about your Insurance.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07

Never hit man when he is down.
1t isn't fair. Besides which he might
get up and lick blazes out of you.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
Bred In .MOuseries-

White mice are bred in "mouser-
ies." the Major said, in explaining
how the animals are reared. They
breed rapidly and the expense OF car
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07

There seems TO be a bond Of sym
pathy bewteen good docking lass
and n good lookine glass
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
RAILROAD Time TABLES
FsfgsaaAs'17a

Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves Maysville 5:35 a. m.
daily except Sunday.
No. 0 leaves Maysvllle $40 p. m.
except Sunday.
No. 200 leaves Maysville $40 p. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysvile 9:45 q.
m, daily except Sunday.
No. 2lO arrives in Maysville 2:35 D.
m, Sunday only.
No, 16 arrives in Maysvllle S:45 D.
m, daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-07
Use the
Telephone

The grocer, the butcher, the mer.
chant-anyone you wish-they are all
in reach at moments notice.
Whether weather conditions are
stormy, threatening or fair the tele.
phone is in waiting to save unneces.
sary footsteps.
Everybody is your neighbOr; every
town, county and state is next door.
Call Contract Department for install.
latiOn information.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-02-07
next QUOTA WILL
Go TO CAMP MEADE
Draft Board Tells About the
Plans For Sending the
Men.

Fairmont's remaining percentage OF
the first draft Will go To Camp Meade.
Nd. instead of Camp Lee. Va They
viii leave Fairmoat during a five d.
period beginning February IS, accord
ing TO official notice received here by
the local draft board this morning.
within tao next I'VE days the local
board Will be notified OF the exact
number of men due to fill Fairmont's
remaining quota OF the first draft and
within ten days will receive Official
notice of the exact day and hour OF
entertainment and route to be followed:
The last quota is to be composed OF
white men only.
Credit cards Of the local draft board
at Camp Lee now show that there are
sixteen men yet due from the !ocaA
board. This figure is uncertain now,
ever. as the local board has fecelFeu
no official statement
Orders received this morning stated
tho local board was to complete us
1no+a 7-Iti. men already CLASSIFIED IN
Class / and il necessary to eXpedits
nhSs,caI examinations OF enough OF
Glass l men to make up the quota
I-i,', necessary alternates.
In speaking of the physical exam
inations for local men. Captain KEN
BE White. chairman Of the local board
said this morning: within the next
two or three days the local draft 9oa aT1
viii prepare to examine anu. d pnssic vii be
m md I'D of lowest order numbers dis
closed to be fit for general nlIiIdIS
s fg by such physical examination
Stn.Se,. the more liberal rules for ply
s Snef4 examination it is more than
likely that numerous resisttantts. mere
tofore rejected will be found ph 800
" lit lrd fo1%arded TO camp
sszFf5e local board has not yet worked
ont any plans for physical exsni1 ma
lions but viii have this ready 1or
announcement within the next rev
days.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-02-07
Bv ASSOCIATED Press.)

WASHINGTON Feb. with z, 179 American troeps
aboard the Cunard liner Tuscana conveyed by British
varships has been torpedoed and sunk OF the north coast
Of Ireland
Indications early today that 168 American army
officers and soldiers have not yet been accounted for -
tie sinking Of the Tuscana. British admiralty dispatch
es account for 2011 American officers and as sry
o-s.
First news of the sinking came report to the War
fsepartment early last night announcing that 100
ors had been landed at Bundrana and Larne, two widely
separated Irish ports This made public about ten
O'clock and until the arrival of State department dispatch
two hours later feared that than 400 nelud
ing the Cunarders crew, had persisted.
No mention Of the fate of the crew made In the
State department advices but War department message
saying that 100 survivors had been put ashore indicated
that the convoy vessel got alongside the sinking transport
quickly and relief ships made the Of disaster
a few hours.
Additional dispatches reached the War department.
today saving that some 600 survivors at LaFe, Ire
land and that 81 are at Isay, Scotland
The dispatches said the British authorizes were DO
ing everything possible to make the survivors as comfort
able possible and sending supplies to the places
where they landed.
No mention Of the time of the sinking was made IN
either Of the official messages but the received
in London at three p yesterday. coded list OF
survivors coming into the War department early to-
day.
The troops aboard the Tuscania were mainly former
Michigan and Wisconsin national gUardsmen now atc
ed to the thirty second division trained at Camp acI
thur Texas Several aerial squadrons and several com
panes of Twentieth engineers forestry regiment were
aboard.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-02-07

Secretary Baker issued the following
statement today:
''The sinking OF the Tuscania
brings US face to face with the losses
of war In its most relentless FORM L
is a fresh challenge to the civilized
world by an adversary who has re-
fined but made more deadly the
stealth of the savage in warfare. We
must win this war and We will win
this war. Losses like this unite the
country IN sympathy with families Of
those who have suffered loss They Al.
so unite US to make more determined
our purpose to press on.
''As rapidly as details come in they
will be given to the public in order to
relieve anxiety where possible and mo-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-02-07
It viii Direct Compilation
of Data for Selling Price
Increase Move.
ALL on NET TOB BASIS
Kenova and Thatcher Field
Operators Are Grant
ed An Increase.

a. .,,o nez,inE of the Central west
Syjrginia Coal Operators as@O1i'-slS. :,
.,..s-eeTdav it was decided that ti-e u'; ~.
S,I,oS, Trbich an application for an IN.
S.rcsea IN the ceiling price Oh cS'aL nc nc
~, node be collected and a coflnllINS ~
,,sili he named by President JeFN'ns' ~, "
Tbe association to take the MAJ IT. 20 .
ana fly a uniform method Oh InaNiAA'
out the cost sheets -..,.5.,, that
:. che Fp+I,re all the operators Ins1NS
~ 80 and condrct their business
49,. :, not ION basis. At present some
~ 80, do business upon a ret ION
Y,ss;e and some on gross ton anu
some confusion results at times 49,.
The car supply today IS not Guy
hatter than 1t was yesterday II SHa'
70 nossible it is bit worse ana Ih0"
sends of miners are idle.
The West Virginia MtnlhS -NS'
,S,bIisbed at Charleston. IS ce'tsIt.
maj the present condition Is la.s ~
dine to incompetent 11anaSenaenl VI ellS
1.ailroatis and is pointing Out ll, ,'!s -
where the Chesapeake and OI !s,o tts -
been at fault In the fiESs $3.50 .!SS.-S n
4{lss series the edieoE. ~ q: J,
f5oI,s13s aDnounced: I'VE shall undef-
take to snow, AIst' -.,.o+,ay-. +.
Eoan+ OF This railroad is incomplete" /,
~ secoyd that there is utter lack OF
ssng du corps in its organization
<,,i,,i that II uses immoral methods IN
tb i,es conduct of its business and
s sn that no amount of increased
1cTenne allowed it would benefit eIth-
er the public or the stockholders, ~, nn,
dor the present management That
edjtor in later article cites the tran
ing Of the virginian railroad with a
parallel line in the Windins Gun tie s.o
in this state al, and 1--WE was 3,n aote 70
a dispatch from Washington las1
RIGHT announced that the coal opera
tors in the Keuova field and in the
thatcher field were today granted an
increase of 20 cents on the selling
ton. The new rate is effective Feo'
ruary Z
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-02-07
Y.W.D. OBSERVING
MOTHERS WEEK
Events of Various
Kinds Are Being Held
For Mothers.

"aIothers. Week" Is being observed
=, fbe Young womau's Department Oh
the y. N. c. A. this week. Social
events ave FOR both the high school girls
and the graded school girls OF the de-
partment are scheduled A SPECIAL IN
yitation is being extended to nlotners;
Tomorrow night Will be Mothers
Night, for the High school girls AN
High school girls of the department
and their mothers are urged TO ateeno;
Beginning at T:3O o'clock an in1oInai
nrogram will be carried out. Mothers
and daughters are requested to bring
their knitting. .o
viii be a similar social event for the
graded school girls and their mothers:
Mothers are urgently invited TO attend
both events and get better acquainted
with the department and its actiVities'