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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-13

Special dispatches from Moscow.
pnbllshed last Saturday reported that
the dowager empress had arrived at
Kiev the Ukranian capital. This
news was coupled with the statements
that General Skoropadsk, the new
Ukranian dictator. had been one Of the
pages Of thciormer empress. and that
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch. who
also was reported TO be in kiev, had
taken a prominent part in the coupe
d'etat by which the Ukranian rada
was overthrown and a dictatorship es-
tablished The ex-dowager empress is
a Dane by birth. She had been living
III the Crimea in Strengthened oircum-
stances since the Russian revolution.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaivtch
is the former commanderipchief OF
the Russian armies and regarded as the
greatest of Russia's military leaders
Little has been heard of Grand Duke
Alexander Mlchaelovitch since the alb
dication last year. 1t is probable, how
ever, that he has been living continu-
ously in the Crimea He is a brother.
in-law of the former emperor.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-13
Germans Seize
Cars Mother,
Grand Dukes
DOwager Empress, Nicholas
and Michael Made Prison.
erS in Cdmea,

AMSTERDAM, May Ij.-The
Ukranisn press bureau has received
information from Odessa, accord
ing to which the former dowager
empress, Maria Feodorovona and
Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholsie-
witch and Alexander Michaelovitch
who had been living at Dulbar, near
Aitodor, in the Crimea, are in the
hands OF Germans.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-13
WOMEN CANVASS
CITY FOR SCHOOL
IMPROVEMENTS
Commerce Chamber Secures
Autos TO Help Voters, y

Th. ororr of t;f,.., vorno wor.r
who arc 10 ac, ,s nn;, nt III. c.n
na;gr com,r;,,e. 90 bsIn or, ,hn .chooI
lew and hond .IeS,;on pctoss ,omor'
row start on th.;, nart;crI oar, Of IN.
work this afternoon IN IN, brs;nrss s.c
t;on of the city
They will canvass every s,or. and
business .st n, shmept distributing the
folders printed by the Chamber of
Commerce. telling what the issues and
necess tie, of the election are The
women are prepared to answer oues-
tions and do great deal OF talking to
get voters to the polls.
Autos For Voters.
The Chamber of Commerce secre-
taries were busy this forenoon making
arrangements with the committee in
charge of autos so that there will he
plenty of cars on hand tomorrow TO take
voters TO the polls. One reason for
taking this pains TO get the voters TO
the polls is that many men an womes
do not know where the voting places in
their ward are
The complet, list of polling places
;s nuhl;Sbed IN tho hoa,d of .d,,ca,;o,,,,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-13

NJ Leygues said that in February,
March and April, 3,72J French steamers
and 7S8 French sailing vessels passed
through the danger zone where a few
months ago losses by ,orpedoing had
been very heavy. Not single ship
was sunk.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-13
Can't Maintain Minimum.

On the other hand he said, the NUM-
Der of submarines destroyed had in-
creased progressively since January in
such proportion that the effectiveness
Of the enemy squadron cannot be main
tanned at the minimum required by tho
regulations. The number OF enemy u
boats destroyed in January. February
and March was tar greater in each
month than the number constructed in
the same month In February and
April the number of submarines de-
stroyed was three less than the total
destroyed in the previous three months.
Due to Unified Campaign.
These results the minister declared,
were due 10 the methodical character
OF the war against submarines: TO the
close cooperation OF the allied nayies;
TO the intrepidity and spirit snirsiiny
the officers and crews Of naval and
aerial squadrons and to the intensifica-
tion of the use OF old methods and the
employment Of news ones.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-13
Conflict of Strategists.

Continued on Page 2. Column y
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-19
HUN COL0N|STS
IN RUSSIA ARE
NOT SATISFIED

AMSTERDAM, Aug 19.-"There is
not a single German colonist in Rus
STA who places the smallest faith in
the Russian government. Our minds
are made up If Germany does not
protect us with a strong hand there Is
only one way out, namely, to emigrate
to the United States or Canada"
This is the statement of Pastor
Johannes Schleuning, who has come
to Berlin representing the interests of
so-called Wolga Germans, farming
colony of 100000 persons established
along that river.
After the Brest-Litovsk peace
Schleuning returned from three years
Punishment in Siberia and made him
self spokesman of two million Ger
man settlers spread over different re-
gions of Russia.
According to his statement the col
onists were incorporated in the Rus
sian army nrSt sent 10 the RusSO-tel'
man front, and then some three hun
dred thousand were transferred to
the Caucasus. There they underwent
terrible sufferings. thousands died,
and those staying at home had their
properties confiscated and were re
duced to beggary, the Bolsheviki com
plotting their ruin.
Wolga colonists now ask to be as
sisted back 10 Germany or permitted
to settle in the Baltic provinces. Fail
ing this. they intend to emigrate to
America. declares Schleuning, who
thus places before the German gov
eminent a problem filled with peculiar
difficulties.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-19
COLD MINING IS
CLASSIFIED As
WAR INDUSTRY

The following telegram was re-
ceived today from Charles a. Sulzer,
delegate in congress from Alaska. 1t
will be read with interest by miners
and those Interested in the mining in
dustry in the territory:
washington, ID. C., Aug. II.
The following letter was received
by me today from Judge Edwin B.
Parker. priorities commissioner Of the
war industries board:
Referring to the personal confer
ence with you and the correspondence
passing between us recently l beg
tG advise you that the priorities board
has adopted the following resolution:
"'"Be it resolved by the priorities
board, That gold mining is an essen
tial war industry. and that the powers
of this board will be exercised so as
to accord to such industry preferen-
tial treatment in the supply, not only
of tools, machinery and equipment,
but in transportation service, fuel sup,
ply and labor supply"
Il expect other favorable action
from other departments for the relief
Of gold miners in the near future, and
also hope for legislative relief.
"SULZER. Delegate"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-19
FREE SHOWER BATHS
FOR TRAVELLING SOLDIERS

RALEIGH. n. c.. Aug. l9.-Soldiers
on troop trains when passing through
Raleigh refresh themselves from hot
and tiresome journey with shower
baths free of charge. A building con-
tanning one hundred shower baths, q
few yards from the railway tracks.
has been built with funds raised by
popular subscription. at a cost OF APP
proximately $1,000,
Governor Beckett several weeks ago
observed that many soldiers who
stopped here for exercise and refresh
ment displayed evidence of suffering
from the intense heat, and he ap-
pealed to the citizens of Raleigh to
subscribe to fund for bath house.
Within less than week enough
money was contributed. Besides max
ing cash donations, business houses
gave literally in material and labor.
In addition to the baths the build
ing contains large dining room
which is capable of seating two hun
dred men. Local Red Cross workers
say they can, within one hour, supply
food to train of five hundred sol
diers.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-19

The job printing department. OF the
Times is equipped with the lates, and
best type faces for artistic work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
DOLLAR PER MINUTE
FOR SOCIETY OF SON
MOTHER, DIVORCED, OULD
GIVE $4,000 TO HAVE BOY
WITH HER TWO WEEKS.

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Ten thous-
and dollars is the sum which Mrs. j.
G. Wilbraham offers to relinquish to
her former husband, Alvah W. Ross,
local realty man, for the privilege of
the exclusive company of her little
son, Wilfred, for two weeks in every
year. This figures out to about STA
a day, or, roughly, 81 minute for
the child's wakeful hours.
The offer is made in a suit which
the former Mrs. Ross filed in the To-
cal superior court through Attorney
John w. Kemp. incidentally, the
fact was made known that, following
the remarkable divorce suit in which
she figured here in 1916, Mrs. Ross
married j. G. Wilbraham, who was
named as correspondent in Mr.. Ross
action. Mr.. Wilbraham is one of the
most prominent hotel men in New
York city.
Technically, the suit asks for a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07

source, would solve the labor short
age.
He spoke of the tractor demon
STATIONS being conducted by the
State Council of Defense, and ex-
pressed the opinion that cotton price
fixing at this time is both unneces-
sary, unwise and unjust, although he
believed the farmers would not op-
pose 1t If it should become necessary.
No Help When Needed.
j. j. Brown, commissioner of agri-
culture, spoke on cotton price-fxing.
He declared that since the govern
ment allowed the law of supply and
demand to fix the price of cotton in
1914, when it fell to 6 cents a pound
it ought to keep its hands off now
until some actual pressing necessity
was shown for legislation. Then, he
said, the farmers will not object to
fixing the price of raw cotton if the
government will also fix the price of
manufactured cotton products.
The speech of President C. S. Bar
rett was a flashing excoriation OF
those who have advised the farmers
ers to be in politics, and when the
ever advises anybody but the farmer
to keep out of politics." he said. at
Is absolutely necessary for the farm
ers to be in politics and when the
war is over it is going to be absolute
ly necessary for the farmers of the
nation to get together"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07

night the artillery band gave a con-
cert and played a French war song.
She broke down and cried, and it
sure got my goat"
Just now two-wheeled cart pass
ed, its means of locomotion being
mich cow. Believe me, poor old
Bossy sure earns her salt "over
here" Often we see a COW and
horse hitched to the same convey
ance.
z Cents For Weeks Laundry.
Last week | had my laundry done
by French woman and she charged
me the outrageous sum of fifteen
cents! Think of it, fifteen cents for
two weeks washing! Did you ever
hear of such an outrage? They have
a queer way of washing cover here"
First they take the clothes down to
the creek, where they have a little
plank which sticks out over the water
about two feet, then they lay the
clothes on said plank and soap them
this is accomplished by dipping the
soap in the creek and rubbing gent
ly over the clothes. After this pro-
cess is over they grab one end of the
clothes and slap the creek furiously
in the face. I think this is done to
scare the fish, which are very large
and naughty, and sometimes they
(the fish, come up and grab the
clothes, which makes it bad for the
person who owns the clothes. Next
they lay the clothes on the plank
and beat h out of 'em with a big,
fiat stick, when the dirt becomes
frightened by the beating and the
noise and crawls out, dives into the
creek and swims away.
Wish l could see all of you, but
my place is here, and I'll never re-
turn until l see cold Glory" floating
from the highest flag pole in Ger
many.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
SALTS IF BACKACHY
And KIDNEYS HURT
Drink lots Of water and stop eating
meat for a while if your Bladder
troubles you

When you wake up with backache and
dull misery in the kidney region it gen.
orally means you have been eating too
much meat, says a well-lnown authority.
Meat forms uric acid which overworks
the kidneys in their effort to filter it
from the blood and they become sort of
paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys
get sluggish and clog you must relieve
themC4lke you relieve your bowels; re-
moving all the body's urinous waste.
else you have backache, sick headache,
dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue
is coated, and when the weather is bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The urine
is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often
get sore, water scalds and you are obliged
to seek relief two or three times during
the night,
Either consult good, reliable physi-
clan at once or get from your pharmacist
about four ounces of Jad Salts; take
a tablespoonful in glass of water
before breakfast for a few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations to
clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also to neutralize acids in the urine so it
no longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness
Jad Salts is life saver for regular
meat eaters. 1t is inexpensive, cannot
injure and makes a delightful, effer.
vescent Whitewater drink.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
STEFANSSON LOW WITH
FEVER IN ARCTIC REGION
Doctor Starts 3OO-mile Arctic Race
to Save Explorer.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska.-A messen-
ger arrived at Fort Yukon, Alaska,
from the Arctic Ocean with word that
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the explorer,
who is wintering at Herschel Island,
is suffering from typhoid and is very
low.
DR.. Burke, a Fort Yukon mission
physician, left Immediately over the
three hundred mile trail to the ex-
plorer's base. By taking five dog
teams and using them in relays and
by "muching" day and night the doc
tor hopes to reach Herschel Island
in ten days.
From Fort Yukon the trail north
runs up the frozen Porcupine River
and across the Continental divide
through the Rat portage. Alexander
Allen, a former member of Stefans-
sons party, accompanied DR.. Burke
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
Mother

Mothers Day." which falls on the
second Sunday in May, is the inspira-
ton of the tender poems composed
by Mrs. Lucy Baldwin Woods, which
we publish below:
All that's tender, all that's loving,
Speak, o mother dear, of you,
And a tribute we are bringing
To you, mother, Away true,
In the sunshine, or when shadows
Cast their semblance on our hearts,
Always your dear hand will guide US,
And your love to us imparts
Strength for tasks that are about us,
Strength to meet each newborn
day,
And your love that always keeps us
In our hearts will ever stay.
In our lives, when fluctuations
Come, and all the world is drear,
Our thoughts of you, dear mother,
Cast out all of worldly fear.
In our hearts, all through life's jour
ney,
Your pure love shall be our guide,
Til the closing of the curtain,
AS we reach the "other side"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
An Interesting Letter From France

Soldier Describes Condition
Quetude Day Big GunsR Belch Flames at Night
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
FARMERS FIGHT EFFORT
TO FIX COTTON PRICE
DAWSON MAN ON DELEGATION
TO GO TO WASHINGTON TO
OPPOSE LEGISLATION.
NO VOTE FOR CANDIDATE
Who DOES NOT FIGHT BILL

State Meeting of Farmers Declares
That Supply and Demand, Which
Fixed the Price in 1914, Should
Be the Only Determining Factor.
Increased food production by con-
tinuing to plant food crops until the
middle Of May, and emphatic opposi-
ton to cotton price-fiXing by con-
gressional enactment, unless the same
should become an imperative neces-
sity, were the keynotes of the meet
ing of the Georgia Farmers Union,
held in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives in the state capitol We'd
nesday morning.
A committee of four members was
appointed to go to Washington at
once to enter formal protest against
the plan to fix a price on cotton by
congressional enactment.
The Union, without a dissenting
vote, also passed resolutions by
which the Georgia Farmers Union
goes on record as refusing to support
any candidate for either the United
States senate or the house of repre-
sentatives who refuses to publicly
announce that it is his intention to
oppose any effort looking to the fix
ing of a price for cotton.
Prior to the passage of the two
resolutions a resolution strongly de-
nouncing the bill introduced in con-
gress, intended to fix the price of
cotton, was passed.
Weaver on Washington Delegation.
The committee appointed to go to
Washington to enter protest against
the proposed bill is composed of J.
H. Boykin, of Sylvania, who repre-
sents that district in the state senate;
A. W. Evans, of Sandersville; j. H.
Mills, of Jenkinsburg, state president
of the Farmers Union, and J. D.
Weaver, of Dawson. The convention
subscribed $500 to pay the expenses
of the delegation.
Farmers from every section of
Georgia packed the house to its ut
most capacity, and some took seats
in the gallery. Charles S. Barrett,
national president of the Farmers
Union, presided.
J. H. Mills, president of the Geor-
gia Farmers Union, stated the pur-
pose of the meeting and sounded
the main keynotes, He showed that
farmers can keep on planting corn
and other food crops as late as May
Is, and urged them to do so. On his
motion number of special commit
tees were appointed to make up re-
ports on various subjects.
One Of these committees waited on
Governor Dorsey with an invitation
to address the meeting, and he &C
cepted and was introduced by J. D.
Weaver, of Dawson. The governor
declared that the war will increase
agricultural efficiency in all lines in
spite of the labor shortage. He pre-
sented very strongly the necessity for
compelling all idlers and Migrants
to go to work, declaring that the man
who is not employed should not be
allowed to eat. He urged the farmers
to bring all pressure to bear on law
enforcement officials to see that the
vagrancy laws are strictly and con-
tinuously enforced. He believed this
itself, without men from any other
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07

modification of the divorce decree
which gave Mr.. Ross custody of the
child and ordered him to pay Mrs.
Ross $4,000 alimony in installments
of $1,000 each. Actually, it seeks
to enforce the terms of contract
which the former Mrs. Ross says she
and her ex-husband entered into
shortly after the decree was granted.
This unusual document, which Mrs.
Wilbraham exhibited, provides in eff
feet that, in consideration of his
former wife waving the $4,000 ali
mony, Mr.. Ross agrees to allow her
to see the boy the last two weeks in
January in each year. 1t was stipulat-
ed, Mrs. Wilbraham says, that she
was to see her son uninterrupted,
unmolested and alone" 1t is this lat
ter stipulation which she says has not
been lived up to. Hence her present
suit
Cheap at Price.
when we made that contract,
which he sent by lawyer all the way
from New York city for me to sign,
| thought that $4,000 was cheap in
comparison to the pleasure of seeing
my boy each year" said Mrs. Wilbra-
ham, who with her husband, is at the
Clark. "But when I came to Califor-
MIA last year l saw Wilfred-yes,
saw him, but Mr.. Ross sister was in
constant attendance. l couldn't see
him alone. The boy didn't feel nat
ural. He was as miserable as l was.
This year when l came with my
husband to make my visit 1 found
the same thing, only worse l also
found that the presents l had sent
him had never been received. A knit
ed sweater which l made myself was
never Worn by him.
"My husband and l are to remain
in Los Angeles until this is settled"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
is BURIED IN THE CASKET
THAT HE BOUGHT IN 1898
Selected the Wood Himself and Stor-
ed 1t Away Twenty Years.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.-Twen-
ty years ago julius Page went to a
sawmill and ordered his casket built
of butternut wood. He gave the di-
mansions and type of construction
desired. 1t was duly made and deliv-
cred to him.
The purchaser kept it in storage
until death finally called him on a
recent night. His remains were bur-
led in the coffin he bought in 1898.
Mr.. Page was IS years old. He
was born in Quebec, but lived most
of his life in and near this city. He
was a farmer by occupation. He
was widely known and highly re-
spected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
MRS. SARAH E. HORNADY.
An Appreciation.

An Appreciation.
Through the valley of the shadow
You have passed, o friend of mine
Yet your passing makes the future
Brighter for those left behind.
Brighter-for the life you lived here
Makes us know the way to go,
And your whole life's benediction
Casts its semblance here below.
In life's simplest walk you tarried,
Caring not for taTGished fame,
And to us you've left the blessing
Of pure and holy name.
So we grieve not at your passing,
Save a grief that is our loss,
For we count your life a blessing,
Helping us to bear the cross.
LUCY BALDWIN WOODS.
Dawson, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
MARKETING HOGS.

beats burying them. Steve Hoover,
Mt Pleasant, Iowa, writes, Com
menced feeding my herd of about
100 hogs B. A. Thomas Hog Pow
der over two months ago. Fifty were
sick and off feed. Nearby herds had
cholera. l did not lose one-they
are well and growing fast" WALL
BROTHERS, dealers, Dawson, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
SHELLMAN OVERSUBsCRIBES
LIBERTY LOAN QUOTA $4,000

Although Shellman's quota of the
third liberty loan was only $4,000,
her people have subscribed to date
S57, 200, putting them $4,000 over
the top. The campaign has been han
died by T. C. Sears, of the First Ma
tional Bank of Shellman, assisted by
an able committee who have left
nothing undone to put Shellman on
the honor roll.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
RECEIVED FOR FURS AT SA

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The sale of 871,-
815 more skins on the eighth day of
the International Fur Exchange auc-
ton today at Funston Brothers &
Co. brought the total sales to more
than S5,400,000. The days total was
about S625,000,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-07

Because gifts tonic and laxative effect, LAXA.
TIVE BROMO QUTNINTI is better than ordinary
1luinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember The full name and
look Tor the signature OF L, w. GROVE. soc.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-05-10

' county boy to go over. The receipt
of the letter from this young patriot
was a piece Of gratifying news to the
parents as the report had gained cur
rency that he had been wounded.
The lovely home of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. H. Brown on Main street has had
the pleasure Of entertaining this
week, their eldest son, Chester from
Asheville, N. c. and their two daugh-
tiers, Mesdames w. T. McGehee of
G%reenville and Ed. Brewer of Clarks-
dale. Mrs. McGehee was accompani-
ed by her two interesting children and
Mr.. McGehee was also here Sunday.
Mr.. Chester Brown is one of the lead
ing business factors Of Asheville.
Mr.. C. H. Calhoon, the popular
and thoroughly efficient general man.
ager Of the Grenada Grocery Com
pany, one of the largest by the way
of it's kind in Mississippi, left Mon
day for Louisville, KY, where he will
the meeting Of the Southern
Wholesale Grocers Association,
which was in session there three days
this week. Mr.. Calhoon is ever seek
ing to improve his company and is al
On the watch for anything new
in modern methods and his concern
is a model of efficiency from the sales
men on through the entire personnel
the company even to the drayman.
The Grenada Grocery Company is a
credit to Grenada.
Mrs. w. H. Whitaker had as her
guest for a few hours last week Mrs.