davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

The Women's Missionary Society Of
the Christian Church held a very in
teresting meeting Wednesday after
noon. Mrs. Haines, visiting member
from Nebraska, gave an inspiring and
instructive talk about Missionaries
she has seen and known, as she point
ed out their pictures from our charts.
Mrs. F. C. Stallsmith, Pres; Mrs. ].
J. Roberts, Sec.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

The Standard Electric Light Com
pany, operating in Kansas City, Kas.r
has filed an application with the pub
lie utilities commission for a sur
charge in rates for power to large
users. The company asks for seven
tenths OF cent increase on all energy
used for power only between O'Clock
in the morning and 4 O'Clock in the
afternoon. Some small changes are
made In the rates for smaller users Of
power current.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

The Poinsettia Club met with Miss
Sara Kelsey Wed. afternoon. The
diversion of the afternoon was needle
work and knitting. A one course
luncheon was served to Mrs. Fred
Nichols, Miss Anna Webb, Mrs. L. G..
Meyerding, Mrs. L. A. Stoskopf and
Mrs. Will Mckinney. The club will
meet with Mrs. L. A. Stoskopf at her
home on R. R. 5, Wednesday after
noon, Oct. %.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Governor Capper's private secretary
may be whisked out or the executive
office in the midst Of the fall cam
paign by the long arms OF the selective
service. W. F. Souders registered Sep
tember 5 and when answering his
QUESTIONABLE made no application for
exemption. He was placed in Class l
by the local board Of Topeka and sub
ject to the call for limited service men
at this time.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Corporal Oliver W. Keener, son of
Phil L. Keener, who left San Francis
co four weeks ago. with American
Expeditionary Forces, under General
Graves, has arrived safely at ST.
berian Port, according to a Govern
ment message just received. To our
knowledge he is the first Baxter boy
sent to Siberia.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

The price of hogs Is to be stabilized
30 that the farmer can count on get
ting for each 100 pounds Of hog ready
for the market thirteen times the aver
age cost per bushel Of corn fed into
the hogs. This is the statement Of
the national food administration as
recommended by the committee on
agriculture and livestock at their re-
cent conference in Washington.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Elbert f. Root, one Of the pioneers
Of Leavenworth, is dead following q
years illness. He was born in Chau.
tauqua County, New York, in 1888, and
came to Leavenworth in 1857. He was
in the hardware business, but retired
ten years ago.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Green Casebier. one Of the early
settlers Of the Southern part Of Leav-
erworth County, died in q Kansas City
hospital recently, and his funeral was
held at Neely. He was born in Iowa,
sixty.three years ago. He was a school
teacher in Kansas forty years ago,
but was interested in banking in later
years.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Frank Beebe and family left
Thursday for Philipsburg, Mont,
where they will make their future
home. Mr.. McBee has been employed
in the H. D. Long Electric Shop for
some time.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Miss Mae Clark returned Wed. even
ing from St. Louis, Mo-, where she
has been in the McLain Hospital for
several weeks taking treatment for a
crippled foot. Miss Clark comes home
greatly improved and expects to be
permanently cured. ..
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Brown en-
tertained at six o'clock dinner Wed.
evening, Miss Verna Canaday, Mr..
and Mrs. o. NJ. Spratt and daughters,
Jane and Virginia, and A. d. Brown,
of Eldorado. Iowa.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mrs. G. Roy Miller and little son,
Roderick, of Toronto, Canada, came
over from Joplin, where they are
spending a few weeks with Mrs. Mil
ler's parents and spent Wednesday the
guests Of Mrs. H. D. Long.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mrs. o. r. Pennington and daugh-
ter, Doris Lee, have returned from
Tulsa, Okla, where they have been
visiting Mrs. Pennington's father, c.
F. Noble.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mrs. G. w. Skinner chairman of the
Home Service work in Baxter, went
of Joplin Thurs. morning to spend the
day with Mrs. Ira M. Bryant, Secre-
tary of the Home Service work in
that city.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. William Allen White
recently left Emporia for q two weeks
trip in the East. Mr.. White will make
Liberty Loan speeches, three days
each. in the districts Of Philadelphia,
Boston and New York.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mrs. o. G. Cornelison and little son,
Jack, went to Joplin Thurs. to spend
q few weeks before going to join Mr..
Cornelison who is working m the
shipyards in Oregon.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mrs. Rosa Page and children have
returned from Miami where they have
boon the guests of friends for several
days.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mrs. II. b. Francis of Webb City,
Mo-. is the guest of Mrs. Bert Kuhn.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

Mrs. r. NJ. Gilman and Mrs. W. W.
Wyatt were Joplin visitors Thursday.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-10-11

]. r. Green has returned from =
business trip TO Arkansas City. Az
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

shreWdness one day dropped this role to pick up the Co0nler of the adven- turous past. the Coonley that grabbed luck and fortune with a stranglchoId and, aided by nerve and crusty old Mars, brought home the bacon to Coonley the business man.
 When my father died," said the shipbuilder of the present, "he shared his estate with myself and several brothers. We had visions that our Nebraska patrimony must geek other fields and pastures new in order to grow into such an ornate bankroll that we coulc, have the size bank ac- count that we felt was necessary.
 "Sentimentally, we felt that as the Coonley fortune had come out of the ground of the West it should be put back there again to thrive and wax fat and become so robust that it would stand alone as a monument to the sagaCity and the we" re of the per manent owners. Looking about, we decided that we would get into cattle grazing in the famors Texas Pan- handIA
 We bought our acres and we stocked the range. We went along carefully and the first year we found that we had just about made our ends meet, but that the future was still an uncharted sea for us. The following year we lost 1900 three-y -year-olds, that spelled a loss of $5O,0O0 for us, and we on
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23
Helping the Blind

It was then that Doctor Cockett lost her hair. And now she wears it cropped like q little boy, bobbed.
 Had to do it." she explained laconi- calIy. "Too much dirt"
 A sad leavc-taking was had with Dixie" when Doctor Cockett was or dered back to France once more. An almost human affection had sprung up tatveen 'Dixie" and herself Doctor Cocbett explained.
 "Dixie' was wonderful" she ex- pIained Tn the morning sometimes he erumbles a little at the cold. And on Sundays when he should have been taking his rest like the other field am- balances, there he was out all through the long day, crowded with blind Ser han soldiers. darting all over the
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

in the war;" Doctor Cocl1ett said sim ply "Wo couldn't understand it. The French would comfort us as we grtcved That's so magnilicently like them. TactfuIly, as we flung the pa pors down impatiently when the inde- cIsion was greatest they would say: That MT. Wilson is a very wise man. He will tell you presently the time is now ready.
 And when the time did come our ioy was unbounded. But the beauty of the French in consoling us"
 Of course, when America entered Doctor Cockett wanted to be with hef own people. She was given per mission" by the French. That is, they allowed her to leave their service, but in recognition of her valuable efforts France gave her a. blue service stripe, and told her to come back in her SerV- ice "any time"
 "You know something happens to VOL when you set foot on the sacred soil of France. l cant tell you what if Is. When your men come back to 1o11 VOL will see something of 1t as we have seen it and all the SuoolVl- sions and the friIls and the things that do not matter drop off the minute you cot foot in France. We saw your mon parade in Paris on the Fourth of July, 1917. They were not very well fitted into their uniforms yet,
 ."rbcv looked much paler, some of +hor than the men we had seen, the British and the French. We could hardly see the flag at all, I may say ,.hen if went by. And then we saw tbom parade again. They had called for volunteers from the First DlVlst1n made up of those wonderful men who wore at Cantigny. They had called Cor, volunteers for d raid, and the trou- l,1a with the American boys is that when you ask them to volunteer they all volunteer, and the you have to choose from among them.
 Parading in Paris
 .And so they all volunteered, and thev found themselves on the tram and found themselves coming into a strange city-and it was Paris. And thev were told n a joking way by thefr officers that they had made mistake. that they had not heard right, if was q parade and not raid at all. and so they paraded. NeteraHs' with the mud of the trenches still upon them! And then, l assure you, that we could not see the bright stars
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23
Linking Up the Sante Fe

We still were enamored of the for tunes that lie in the ground, however, and we hit upon q pioneering scheme that we though was a lulu. We de cided that wo would farm our broad and fertile acres, and after we had grown such crops that we should pe- come famous, ye anxious farmer would purchase our lots and we would make money.
 50 we engaged the best dry farmer in the State of TeNas-he didn't claim this, but he was entitled to the place and we started. Our crops fourished and grew like the green bay tree, rHd one by ono tho gentle homest"ahcr began to buy our lots and farms at our price. The Coonley fortunes ap-
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

of the flag untouched and unsettled in that first Fourth and Fourteenth of July. 1t was still hard to look at the flag, when you realized what those men had done since.
 Do you all know what they are like? You cannot know the way we have known over there. This is the sort of thing we see. It does not make any difference in what uniform you are working over there if you are an American. If I did not have this uniform. I should be working for one of those six other societies. As sure as anything. l could never keep out of it. It has been the hap picst time of my life.
 Meeting an American
 "L was walking up the boulevards in Paris on q bright sunny afternoon We had seen SO much of decorations, tue British with their modest colored ribbons and only wearing the ribbons which arc British, as it should be; and the French with their ribbons and their medals and bright colors-the color of red the crimson of the Legion of Honor. They arc all heroes, and some of them have to wear two rows, they had so many decorations.
 "I was not thinking much about them, but suddenly, about a block away, I saw, head and shoulders above all the rest-we know our boys; we know them with civilian clothes, be- cause they look us straight in the eye T saw this fellow, a rough-loOIling customer. He looked like a lumber jack He was not very well shaved. His puttees were upside down. He evidently had had first-aid somewhc @ in dressing station, and his clothes were mussed up. They lad been rolled up, wet and stained, and had not been pressed.
 But he had his head up high, and when 1 came near enough to see I saw shining on his breast d brand-new Croix de Guerre Suddenly it came over me that we don't mind the wounds so much in a way. You just have a sort of a numb sorrow about them. But the thing that got us was the look in the eyes of those men when they come out of battles. This fellow had evidently had his part, and, I thought to myself, there he was alone on those boulevards among all the rest of the men. They give them twenty,four hours off, if they have
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

had decoration, to go home and cele- brate; and you know how it is if you have had something nice happen
 you, something that you have done that you have been wanting to tell { about-you like to go home and you like to celebrate, and this fellows French comrades went home, the poilus. The British had made friends for four years in France and they were not so far from Blighty.
 And he was quite alone, and looked lonely. We always spoke with the enlisted men over there, if they showed any signs of speaking at all, or wanting us to. And so I went over. I bowed and smiled at him and said, 'Howdy?" And he said, Hello, Y" He had most wistful look in his eye, and then stopped and put my hand out and he gripped it so hard and pumped 1t up and down, and started to say something more. t
 T was going to ask him something about how he got out and what he was going to do with himself that day, and I suddenly found myself un- able to speak at all, and he was evi' dently in the same case, because his eyes filled up and he pumped my hand down, and we neither of us spoke. We would not have been any. thing else but Americans for anything else in the world. We were each of us quite alone there. But that is the kind of work the American woman can do. I wish I were sure they knew Us by the look in our eyes as we are sure that we know them.
 True to Their Women
 Their hearts are absolutely over here When I talk to a roomful of women, I like to tell them that, and I tell them also that when they stand and lean on the counters, with their elbows on the counters and look and look and look at us, at first we are a bit embarrassed and then we real- ize that they are not seeing us at all. They look straight through the work CT, the American woman over there, way across the sea to some woman that they have left back home. It adds to our responsibility 50 per cent. If you are just representing yourself, you can be any kind you like, but if you are representing splendid Ameri- can women to the men who have ideals, and high ideals as they have. 1t is a great, big responsibility
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23
By Gordon Mdckdy

BUDDY of cheek and clean of limb,
 Howard ". Coonley, vice presi- dent and general mana ger in charge of administration of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, looks like . golfing clubman rather than shrewd, keen Witted business man who pursues the gay and festive dollar to it's lair
 Weu-groomed, brown as a berry and clear of eye as an athlete, he is content as a patriotic duty to sit in his office the day through and wrestle with figures. apparently too remote and serene to be bitten by the bug of adventure and romance But as it is an axiom in baseball that the star shortstop wants to pitch and Ty Cobb would rather play first base than shine in his own element and outfield, so does the Coonley thoughts at times wander in retrospect to the days when he was the architect of his fate in romance and the captain of his soul in adventure
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

pearcd tO he made, when fly 'P peared in the ointment.
 We needed a railroad. We were forty miles from the Santa Fo ana Ill order to bring the ~plenthd l1''N products that we were raising 10 market il was necessary to c5tap"7" q railroad We tried to get the 9'I',,' F1e to build q spur; but they N|'e long on attention and short on prom ises at that time and we knew lh"1 it was up to us. So we decided 99 our credit was excellent and our aA''', were high, we would build the railroad ourselves We did, the whole 1or'' miles of it.
 Acres for Acres
 The railroad finished, we decided that we must have towns along the road. So we went to other settled ana established places and offered to move them bodily. houses and all, to our railroad. You know Texas is very flat there, and all you had to do 10 move a town was to hitch tractor to house, and enough of them to the town, and pull away.
 ITO make these wholesale depar lures attractive we offered one acre of our beauteous land for every acre they deserted, and the lure was too strong-they all came with Us. In the midst of our joy we finally came to the belief that we must have the county seat in our town.
 This was in Crosby County, Texas, and the only way to do that was to bring enough immigrants and settlers into the place to make 1t the largest in the county. An acre of land to a man made this possible. Then we had a special election called. We had tractored enough homes and voters in them into Crosbytown, where we lived, to carry the election and we became the county seat.
 We also introduced our expert in dry farming to them and they saw the light and stayed with Us. Things became prosperous to us and then along came the War went to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and here l am. But shortly after the war broke out and tho United States was into it the santa Fe wanted to buy our railroad. The forty miles were necessary ill their busn ness. the ont cinls said, and they wanted tu huoW our price.
 We thought of all our struggles to
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

countryside l fixed up a long plank to hold nine more sightless men, ana another Serbian sat on the front seat with me, and described the scenery of the lands we passed through
 On the return to France, she em- parked on a hospital ship at Salonica. The destination was Toulon, trip of six days durat-J-- on the Mediter ranean ordinarily. There were 600 patients on this hospital ship suffer ing from cholera, fever, the deadly Serbian malaria, frost bite and gan grene. Germany had not yet proclaim ed submarine warfare upon hospital ships, so this vessel had painted on the side a huge white cross and was brightly illuminated.
 Shipwrccked in Africa
 For twenty-one days the ship was chased by an Austrian submarine, and fired upon once A Greek island of. fered a haven of refuge until the sea viper was thrown off the track Then a furious storm broke loose, the ship lost her bearings, and in two days, they found themselves at Tunis. An other storm was unleashed when they left Tunis, and they were driven fur ther down the African shore.
 The surgical dressings gave out, as did all the other supplies, and Doctor Cockett declared that never in all her experiences did she undergo such keen anguish as hearing the groans of those poor fellows who were for.ad to go unattended for more than fifteen days. Everybody on board was sea- sick. which added to the general dis comfort. The full southern moon cast it's effulgent beams directly upon the boat, and the long journey back was one of constant anxiety for fear of another U-boat attack
 On her return Doctor Cockett was given an old car, with horse lorries fastened to it. With Amiens as a base, Doctor Cockett and ten other American ambulance drivers made their way through sh-apncl right into the actual field of battle. Between the eleven American ambulance driv. CTS operating i'll that sector 5000 wounded, gassed and refugee French Worc transported each month
 But we spent about as much time under the ambulances as We did in them,' Doctor Cockett unused.
 Added to all the distress was the constant anxiety of the eleven Ameri cans, hoping that America would come
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

md our place in the sun and also the county seat, and we told them a price that was modest-we thought 1t wss at least. The Santa Fe people de- murred, and we told them that wa didn't want to sell that bad anyway.
 Finally there came another dav The railroad needed our road and thev offered to buy us out by giving us bonds and securities for our road in, theirs. We looked the market over and saw that the bonds and securities they were offering were selling at S1 on the market So We took the offer Then with these bonds and securitie. we started another selling campaign. and when we counted up and checked on the span of years we found out many things.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23

SSFTYHE safest place in the world for
 A an American woman is in an army camp in France" That's what pr. Marguerite S. Cockett, just re- turned from France, thinks of Amer ica's fighters. With two other Amer ican women Doctor Cockett was the first to establish a ''Y' hut for Per shing's men when they first rested foot in France.
 Doctor Cockett, who graduated from the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia in 1905 and later studied art under Charles Crafty. is we'll known to thousands of Philadelphians. Just before leaving for France she lived in Bryn Mawr. She is a fellow of the Academy of the Fine Arts.
 It is extremely probable that no woman, not even the famed heroes of Greek and Roman days, have under gone the adventurous experiences that have fallen to Doctor Cockett in the last three years. As a fondly cherished testimonial of her services, France placed on her right arm d blue service stripe, while above it are two gold stripes given by America.
 After practicing medicine for eight years following her graduation from the Womans Medical College, Doctor Cockett in 1914 closed her practice in Boston to study art abroad. And then the great war commenced and, like thousands of others. she was forced to revise all her plans. She canceled her passage on the Mauretania for Au- gust II, 1914.
 Volunteer for Serbia
 Week after week she delayed sail ing, always hoping that conditions would change so that she could take up her cherished art work. Then she got impatient and went 70 Philadel- phia, where she studied sculpture un- der Charles Crafty. At the end of two years at a studio exhibition in 1916 all her works were sold.
 Then not content with remaining away from so much adventure she bought car and went abroad under the American fund for French wound ed. She put a federal ambulance top on her car, which she christened Dixie"
 For three months Dixie was we'll known sight on the roads about Paris. where Doctor Cockett carted around hospital supplies. It was hard work, with long hours, but in those first three months of service Doctor Cockett gained a love for France and her holy cause that has been her one pre- occupation.
 France sent troops to Serbia to stem the Hun tidal wave there, and when the call for doctors was issued Doctor Cockett stepped forth She was sent to establish a Franco-Scr- bian field hospital. Nine ambulances which started by boat for the hos pitaI are lying in the Mediterranean now with their brave drivers, sunk by German U-boats. But Doctor Coc5ett and Dixie made the long trip overland from France to Serbia.
 Work of the most tedious nature followed For three months Doctor Cocllett drove aler ambulance and worked as a doctor at the same time Often she vent for several days with out sleep. Night and day the most heart-breaking scenes took place right tn front of her eyes. Desolation was on all hands, and often supplies failed to reach the hospital. On these occa eions Doctor CoCkett and her few Gauntless comrades were almost fam from lack of food. Pitched high II the still night air were the shrlek' of the desperately wounded SerblanS and French, who were without dress tnes.
New Britain herald., 1918-12-23
Getting the Breaks

Not only had the Coonley dollars gone into the ground, but they had established towns. made a county seat. built a railroad and last, but not least. had permitted the various Coonleys allied in this adventurous quest to break even on the money they had spent" {
 And this chapter de luxe came forth from the Coonley of the past during a discussion of the future of Hog Island and how Philadelphia financiers and fathers might act toward the project in the time to come.