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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Mr.. r. Watkins spent Sunday here.
Mr.. Kenney Phillips spent Sunday
here.
Mr.. b. r Jones attended the Bank
ers' convention in Atlanta last week.
Miss Louise Webb, of Maddox, is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. II.
Turner.
Miss Villa Ansley left Monday for
Jacksonville, Fla, to spend the sum-
mer.
Miss Mary Pipkin has returned to
her home in Albany after visit to
friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. S. Goneke spent
Thursday in Americas.
Mrs. C. C. Ansley, Jr., and Miss Mary
Ansley visited Americas Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Hill and Miss
Harriet Hill spent Wednesday in Daw-
son.
Mr.. Roy Scarborough, of Adams, Wis
tied friends here Monday.
Mr.. j. H. Randall, Jr., visited Lees
burg Thursday.
Mrs. H. T. Simpson and Mrs. c. II.
Mcdonald spent Thursday in Ameri-
Gus.
Mrs. Frank Cook and Miss Bertha
Lee. of PARROT, visited friends here
Friday.
Mr.. Guy Orr, of Newman, was a Sun
day visitor here.
Mrs. W. C. Lunsford, of Americas,
spent Thursday here, the guest of
friends.
Mr. Guy Wells, of Albany, was 6
visitor here Friday.
Miss Mamie May Thomas, of
Dawson, is the guest of Miss Rosa
Christie.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Randall, ST., and
Mr.. w. H. Lunsford, visited friends in
Leesburg Friday
Mr.. w. M. Long and Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Long, of Atlanta, spent the
weekend here, the guests of Mrs.
Matte Rhodes.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07
SOLDIERS MOTHERS
MAKING CAS- MASKS
U. S. INTRUSTS DELICATE TASK
TO INTERESTED WOMEN TO IN
SURE ITS BEING DONE WITH Ut
MOST CARE.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 4.-Wom-
en- who, as wives, mothers and sisters
of soldiers, have deep realization OF
the necessity for painstaking care III
their work, make the gas masks for
the America narmy At plant whose
location is not made public thousands
of them are engaged, not only in max
ing them but in conducting tests of
the finished product,
1T soon became apparent that the
type of women needed could not be
secured through the ordinary chan
nels of employment" says a state
ment the Gas Defense Service, "and
men were sent to localities displaying
service flags to obtain women vitality
interested, who would be most loyal
in their work. and extremely anxious
to send out perfect gas masks"
Those selected were trained in spe
cial courses until they became pro-
ficient, the statement adds. After that
they were assembled in divisions, COM
panies, platoon and squads, under
women leaders, and the Defense Ser
vice says that the mothod produced
unusual results both in discipline and
extent of production"
Soldiers who have experienced the
horrors of being "gassed" have lee
tured to the workers, and special mo-
ton pictures have impressed upon
them just how the deadly fumes,
against which the work of their hands
is the only defense are used.
Major General william S. Sibert,
recently appointed as director of the
Gas Service, conferred with Secretary
Baker. He was designated with view
to bringing more closely together its
various branches. The general is
busily engaged on plans for the CO.
ordination of all lines in connection
with the production of offensive and
defensive gases
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

the world that GeImany yearns lO

the world that Germany yearns ior
peace, Kaiser Wilhelm is secretly pre-
pairing for future war during which he
probably expects to carry into execu-
ton the foul plans he failed to foist
upon the world this time owing to the
action of the United States in throw
ing its strength into the breech when
the Entente Allies we're fairly we'll
exhausted, and when 1t looked as
though the Great War would end in
a stalemate. The terms of the new
military treaty between Germany and
Austria have just become known, and
they practically place the military
and economic resources of the latter
country under control of the Berlin
government
Paragraph one of the instrument pro-
vides that "The Allied nations of Ger
many and Austria-Hungary shall di-
vert all their care to have their ar
mics enter into any eventual future
conflict prepared at the maximum of
their strength. Only thus can a flu
ture war be of brief duration, for had
the armies of both allies been in this
condition in 1914 this war would have
been ended long ago" and in para
graph Two is a provision that "All
male inhabitants capable of bearing
arms shall receive proper and thor
ough military instructions" But 1t
is paragraph three of this remarkable
instrument which places Austria-Hun-
gary wholly within the clutches of
the German militarists, for after pro-
viding that the organization, instruc-
ton and employment of the cal
lied troops" shall be drawn up accord
ing to zone common principle" there
appears the astounding provision, the
initiative of which shall be left pripc1-
pally to Germany"
Thus are the hands of the proud
Hapsburgs to be tied behind the war
chariot of the Hohenzollerns and the
peoples of the Dual Monarchy forced
to do the bidding of German masters
whenever these war-crazed demons de-
termine upon pillaging one of their
neighbors. The convention, we are
of the opinion, is one possessed OF
about as much virtue as that forced
upon Russia at Brest-Litovsk, and will
be regarded by the victorious Allies
at the end of the war in the same
light
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07
MEMORIALS OF THE FUTURE.

Emerson once wrote To-day is a
new day. It is too dear with its hopes
and invitations, to waste a moment on
the yesterdays" Yet for his writings,
Emerson drew exhaustively on the
past.
The yesterdays are mint whose
coin, experience, we cash today.
Retrospection suggests introspec-
tion-viewing back over a vista OF
years, we unconsciously seek in our
own characters the qualities that en-
nobled the martyred dead.
To yesterdays great we may profit
ably turn for inspiration, guidance,
warning and example.
The worthy lives measured off into
history and biography by the yester-
days, are a perpetual >fountain-head of
ideal courage and power for us today.
"That these dead may not have
died in vain" let us renew that deter
mination to deserve the heritage they
bequeathed. In the hallowed memory
of yesteryears face forward, a reso-
lutte power for all 'gainst power for
one.
Only suppression can kill Oppress-
ion; monocracy must yield to democ-
racy. Nature demands progress,
Prussianism is evolution backwards.
Civilization must apply the brakes
and permanently shut off the auto
crat power!
A sacred obligation to those gone
before is our incentive to do this
faithfully and we'll. Preservation of
those cherished ideals for which they
fought and bled is the highest tribute
we could pay the heroes of memoir
ial day, and in the after years every
day will be a hallowed memorial day
for the boys who die in France,
So, renew the resolve to dissolve
the bond of brutality! to succeed and
do it cheerfully, not tearfully
Though it tear the heart and rend
the soul, let's do our part. attain the
Freedom For All Forever!
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

great exponent OF thrift, and New
England and the Northern American
colonies, and afterward the northern
of the thirteen original states, showed,
and perhaps still show to some extent
the influence OF his teachings. But the
great West and the South would have
none of these thrifty ways and con-
tinued, up to the time of the civil war;
at least, to live in the Old free-handed,
liberal manner.
But even before the beginning of the
present war there we're evidences of
a change. The vast increase in saw
ings-bank deposits for one thing.
very clearly indicated the fact that
quite a large part Of the American
people had begun to save, but even
then thrift in the sense, for instance,
in which a Scotchman or Frenchman
understands the word scarcely existed
in this country at large.
But with the country now engaged
in the most colossal war of history,
all this is rapidly undergoing change.
The government realizing that its
power to wage war successfully de-
pends upon the ability of the people to
meet the steady demand thai will be
made upon their resources. has uhder-
taken through it's agencies and organi-
cations to educate the people in thrift
ard The results are becoming more aud
more apparent day by day.
France, on the contrar., was taught
her lesson more than quarter OF
century ago and she has been im-
proving upon it ever siAce dan to that
fact is die the wonderfr! showing
she has been able to mll;o financially
as well IS militarily in the conduct of
the war. France has few people who
are very rich in the English or
American sense of the word, there be-
ing on:I ? per cent Of the total lla-
tional revenue in the hands of those
whose incomes at more than $4,000 a
year But almost every Frenchman is
thrifty, and hence the government has
back of it not a pyramid Of wealth
resting on it's apex, but wealth upon a
broad base, extending over practically
the whole land. Americans who are
DESTROYS of perpetuating free institu-
lions would do we'll to study France
as a land of thrift.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07
NEWS

Miss Agnes Wells spent the week.
end in Cuthbert.
Mrs. Laura Long, of Leslie, is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. Matte
Rhodes.
Mr. Erwin Thompson left Saturday
for Fitzgerald for a few days before
going to Virginia to enter Army Y.
M. c. A. work.
DR.. and Mrs. H. T. symptom visited
Americas Wednesday.
Mrs. Rufus Edwards has returned
home after spending several days in
North Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Phillips, Misses
Winnie Phillips and Annie Lunsfo:I
were in Americas Wednesday.
Mr.. H. H Hale visited Americas
Wednesday.
Mrs. w. R. Booker, of Americas,
spent Thursday here, the guest of her
mother, Mrs. Ann Booker
Miss Susie Lunsford spent Tuesday
in Albany.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Phillips spent
Tuesday in Albany.
Miss Nettie Burton visited Americas
Tuesday.
Mrs. F. P. Love, of Eufaula, Ala, is
the guest of her mother Mrs. T S.
Burton.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Simpson enter
tanned at party Monday evening in
honor of Miss Villa Ansley.
Miss Alice Ansley left Saturday for
Brookfield, Conn, where she goes to
study at the Brookfield School of Mu-
sic.
Miss Ethlyn Smelling, of Richland
is the guest of Miss Harriette Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Mcdonald, is
spending few days in Savannah.
Miss ALA Wells, of Benevolence, is
the guest of Miss Hattie Sue Wells.
Miss Leone Webb, of Maddox, is the
guest of Mrs. W. H. Turner
Messrs. Ward and Harden, of Cuth-
bert, were Sunday visitors here.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07
that members of council were fnan-
Cially inter ested in city contracts and
purchases of supplies.
Eighteen Dead; Many injured.

GENEVA, June 4 Eighteen
women and children were trampled
to death and a number of persons
were injured in panic which fol-
lowed an aerial raid alarm at mid
night in Mannheim yesterday, accord
ing to dispatch received here. The
streets were crowded when the alarm
was given and wild rush for shelter
ensued. 1t developed later that the
sighting of a squadron of German
aviators returning to their base near
Mannheim.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07
WAR TINE THRIFT.

Thrift is a word as little understood
in America as perhaps any other OF the
shorter words of our language The
American people heretofore have. OF
the whole, rather scorned the prac-
tice of thrift, as not in consonance with
the largeness of their continent and its
opportunities.
1t is true, Benjamin Franklin was a
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

We don't understand the idea of it,
but 1t must certainly test the mettle of
both officers and men Souther Field
to wear those hot coats when they
visit Americas during such hot
weather as this.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

With the increase in parlor and
sleeping car rates just promulgated by
Director General McAdoo, we may ex
pect an increase in the number of
travellers who ride nearly to their des-
tination in day coach and alight at
the station from the Pullman step.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

The wise man is the one who puts in
his winter coal supply now, but he'll
have to be rich as well as wise, if he
is able to pay both the coal baron and
the ice magnate at this season
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

A henpecked man is one who, when
with his wife down town, does not
turn around and look when swell
chicken in very short skirt passes by.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

It's curious how a woman won't
believe her husband when he tells her
the truth, but will swallow well-pre-
pared fairly tale without any trouble.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07
COTTON IN BETTER
SHAPE this YEAR

WASHINGTON, D. C. June A.
The condition of the American cotton
crop was 1928 per cent. of normal on
May 25th, as against 70, the average
for the past ten years on that date, the
bureau of cotton estimates reported to-
daV
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

After they have had a great big fuss
and have patched it all up, a man and
his wife are so sweet to each other
and to everybody else-for a time.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

This is the season when the small
boy begin searching out the best
"swimmin' holes and littel later
the typhoid season will begin.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

This dry spell may retard the corn
crop just little, but soon the tasty
roasting ear will be in our midst and
even the lowly paragrapher will be
glad.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

A silk stocking shortage is fore
cast in trade journals. And if this
be literally true, it should end the
controversy as to how much of the
stocking should show between the top
of the shoe and the bottom of the
skirt
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

1t is sad but true that the person
who attempts to gain favor because
Of the attainments of their relatives
seldom amount to anything themselves,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Sly Howard says he used to drink
whisky, but has quit. A lot OF people
have quit since they are unable to
get it.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

The average married man Away
has our sympathy, but sometimes VIC
look askance at the fellow who was
married during leap year.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Some of the war bread sold in
Americas is pretty bad, but at that II
Is a great deal better than the "Black
Bread of Berlin"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Why does a woman wear one OF
these see-all-you can waists and then
get mad If you try to see all you can?
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Aan will go out in company or to
restaurant and eat things that
he'll efuse and fuss about if his wife
offers them to him at home.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07
Leesburg, Georgia, June 2, 1918.

As between paying alimony and hav-
ing hay fever we are OF the opinion 1t
is about ifty-hfty.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Sunday school picnics are becom-
ing fashionable again, and the attend
ance is increasing accordingly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Apparently the ladies show less In
terest in the ballot after they get 1t
than they did before they had It,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

You see very few men devoting
much time to teaching their own wives
how to swim.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

As the number Of tanks in Georgia
decrease the number on the battle
fields Of France goes up.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

1t has been our observation that
the only women who don't wear short
shirt lie the ones who are not built
thsA va.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Entered as second-class matter al
the Postoffice at Leesburg. Ga.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-06-07

Subscription Rates: $3.50 per Year.
payable strictly in advance.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18
HANGING REPLACES
 RIFLES IN MEXICO

CHIHUAHUA CITY.-Hanging has replaced firing squad executions in northern Mexico. General Fran cisco Murguia prefers the rope to the bullet for disposing of con- demned men as he says it saves ammunition, which is difficult to obtain. When General Murguia's s troops capture the bandits who burn trains and loot towns he orders them strung up to the nearest telegraph poles. Passengers arriving here from the south recently reported having seen 35 bodies hanging from telegraph poles along the Mexican Central railroad
 When Villa last attacked the state capital here, General Murguia or dered more than 100 of Villas par tisans within the city hanged to the cottonwood trees in the Alameda. Last week a paymaster of the army who was short in his accounts was found hanging form a limb on one of the principal streets.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18
COAST RAIL HEAD
 REACHED IN 8 DAYS

J. c. Ensley, we'll known Ne nanaite, who left for the Outside over the Broad Pass trail, writing to an acquaintance in Nenana says that he made the end of, steel of the coast end of the line in eight days travel from Nenana.
 Ensley left Nenana on July 21st and carried pretty heavy pack, containing grub, etc. He says he passed Doc" Ehlen and Mike Fly land four days out from Nenana. The trail, he says, was in good con- dition and he had a fine trip all the way through.
 The communication which gives the above news was written on board the s. s. Alaska at Seward, shortly before the vessel sailed for the States.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18
Dr. R. R. MYERS
 DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL

H. E. Mccarthy, resident manager at Dawson of the Yukon Gold Cor poration, has made formal denial of the report that that company will cease to operate unti lafter the war with the close of the present season. Not only do we propose to continue to operate,' said Mir. Mccarthy, but we contemplate an extensive increase in the operations of our properties"
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18

complete their journey.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18
THAT FIRE DEPARTMENT

The Kaiser said in the early day
 When Uncle Sam first went into
 the fray: "Why shoud we fear the Yankee
 troops? Can they cross the sea without boats
 or sloops? And if they should cross and hope
 to win, Pouf! We could beat their army
 with ease, Even if it could cross the seas With the fire department of our
 Berlin" And then, as the fray begins to
 thicken, Enter the wild, untamed marine, Who loves a fight as a coon loves
 chicken; Fights all day with no rest between Gets up at night to seek fight, Stays up to fight with all his might {; And over the top they're wading in 1! o, Kaiser B., it appears to me, You soon should summon-since
 others flee That fire department of your Berlin. The bold Bavarian with precision Launched its men on the Yankee
 band, And it was badly chewed division That legged it back across No Mans
 Land; The Saxon's next; then the Prussian
 Guard, Tackled the bunch, but found it
 hard Perhaps it is time, good kaiser, now Since the ranks of your Prussian
 Guardsmen bow, To blow on your whistle and sum-
 mon in That fire department of your Berlin. It might be we'll that you hurry up, For the wild marine is upon his way And neither Hindenburg, you nor
 Krupp, Can postpone the approaching day When they will sweep with triumph
 ant din, Over the Rhine, and on, and in And then you'll need, and you'll
 need indeed, To summon with hottest haste and
 speed, That fire department of your Berlin.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18
DUNKIRK IS POPULAR
 WITH ROCHE BOMBERS
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE The city of Dunkirk holds the record for the number of times a town has been subjected to bom- bardment of every kind. It has been shelled twenty-five times from land, four times rem sea, cree by a Zeppelin, while more than 400 afraid warnings have b,@l given or different occasions.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18

MT. and Mrs. Cecil H. Clegg ar rived in Nenana today on the steam CT Yukon. They are on their way to Fairbanks for the winter from Hot Springs and will transfer to the steamer Reliance at Nenana to complete their journey.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18
SOCIALISTS ARE MUCH OPPOSED
 ID HUN PEACE

BERNE.-Details received here of the recent national conference at Vienna of the German Social-Demo- cratic party of Austria show that strong protest was made against the Austro- German domination of Russia and Rumania, and new and liber- alized peace formula was presented This is one of the powerful organi- zations of Austria and the national conference was attended by repre- sentatives of all branches of indus try from lower and upper Austria and from the Alpine regions and the south. The resolutions recite:
 "The national congress of the German Social Democratic party of Austria protests against the Brest- Litovsk and the Bucharest treaties as contrary to the principle of peace of understanding without annexa- tion and contributions.
 "The congress therefore demands that, before the ratification of these peace treaties, they be laid before the parliament for examination and amendment.
 "The national congress demands that the governments of the Central Powers offer general peace to the governments of the Entente on the following bassis:
 q. Establishment of league of peoples of all countries which will carry out general disarmament and settle all disputes between peoples by courts of arbitration.
 "2. Abandonment of all annexa- tion and contributions, not only in the West and South, but also in the East and Southeast. (Not only as to Belgium, France, Serbia and Italy but also as to Russia and Rumania.
 33. The border states separated from Russia shall be given full right of self determination" Half col umn suppressed by censor)
 Even in the mutilated form that the resolutions came across the from tier they indicate, the strong oppo- sition of this powerful industrial element and an urgent wish for peace.
 Another resolution after describ- ing the general state of excitment among the working classes, councils them not to provoke a general strike at present, but to get ready for the 1 decisive fight" ahead between capital and labor, which it calls "the great fight"
 The government is severely critic ised for the food regulations, the resolutions declaring that "the upper classes have never been subjected to equality in economic sacrifice. They have escaped the privations of the war partly by exceptional regula- tions working in their favor and partly by circumventing the law, and partly by clandestine purchase of food supplies, thus leaving the poor class to bear the burden.''
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18
IDITARoD NOTES
s sssssxsssHssssss .

According to H. B. Parkin, who recently visited the Iditorad coun- try, although it is very quiet there at the present time, the season has been good and he thinks that the gold output will amount to quite as much as that of last season. The Yukon Gold company, Beaton & Donnelly and the Riley Invest ment company worked their dredges through the season and employed large gangs of men. All of them took out quite a substantial sum of money.
 Al Walsh and associates, working the Summit Association claims. are said to have taken ,at $SO,OOO in gold in their first cleanup in the spring. They have had good season.
 The Yukon Gold company has practically workcl out Fl of the ground they had lay; on in the Flat creek district. They "xpect to finish all of it by this fall, and it is re- ported that they will d. ;mantle tEeir big dredge and ship it out o: the district.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18

A new wireless station of great power has been established at the Naket Inlet cannery. Business can be transacted from this station with any part of the world by relaying the messages.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-18

War is an ugly thing, but a Ger. man peace is uglier-Russian farm CTS are producing German food.