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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

Judge Cam Mullins and the
Fiscal Court have bought a
crusher and engine for the county
This is the best move made yet
toward road building in Rockcastle.
1t not only insures keeping up
what roads we have but makes 1t
possible to build more. The State
Road Department Is urging that
the county vote the 20 cent road
tax, in which event the State will
pay s.. out Of every n. spent on
the roads. This means the State
will pay $4,000 a year. Don't
you think It is worth your sober
thinking. and lastly your vote on
November sth.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

A letter came from Logan Bry'
ant addres.e ed 10 the editor this
, week, but the main part OF
Logue's communication was a
clipping from the London Daily
Mail, which the Censor did no
let pass. Therefore has address
and name was all We got. His
address is 800 Aero Service
Squadron, American, Exp. Forces
Via London. Eng.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

To NY PATRONS; The Flu has
had me knocked out this week,
but l hope to be able to serve you
by Monday. Hope you all have
recovered from the epidemic and
my sympathy is with the be-
reaved ones.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN RENNER,
The Dray Man.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

Nothing has been needed worse
than lights during the influenza
epidemic and no industry has had
the difficulty in trying to keep 60
ng that the Mt. Vernon Power
Company has had. Mr.. Perciful,
his son Willie and Alfred Bryant,
the three who operate the plant
have all been down. Homer
Proctor came to our rescue for
one night, when he was taken
sick. Had it not been for 5. Il.
Proctor, who dropped his own
work and took charge. the town
would have been in darkness for
more than a week. Not only the
Power Co.. but the people Of the
town. owe Mr.. Proctor a vote OF
thanks and a debt of gratitude for
his sacrifice. Mr.. Bryant is now
able TO be back on the job for hall
time, and in two or three nights,
the regular sil.night service will
be resumed.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25
DEATHS.


have not been reported The
death toll OF .Brudliead has been
repoi ted through the Brodhead
letter and in the remote parts OF
the county there have been sew
eral deaths within the last week
which we have been unable to
get, as communication with the
registrars has been impossible.
The list follows
Mrs. Hester Mullins, wife of
Dolphie Mullins, of Pine Hill,
from pneumonia following inffu.
enza.
Mrs. Will Doan. of Mt. Vernon
and two children. Mr.. Doan has
been in a critical condition but
some better at this time.
A two year old child of Robt
Spoonamore. dropsy.
A child OF Bev Thomas on the
18th and one on the 10th. Both
influenza victims.
Willie Payne, age about Ie
years. son of w. d. Payne, died
of pneumonia following influenza.
The seven ;year old daughter
of w. G. Clark, of Livingston,
died of influenza. Mr. Clark lost
another child about a month ago.
John William Morris daughter
at Pine Hill, died from influenza
Mrs. Laura Baker, wife of w.
M. Baker, died last Sunday of
pneumonia following influenza.
The baby of Mrs Susie Cum.
Minis. The father, Will Cum Minis
was killed in the mines in Har.
Ian county only few months
ago.
Mr. john Jones ,-ot Mt.-Vernon,
died Monday night. He was 6S
years of age and was suffering
from tuberculosis and other com
plications.
Sam Lewis Sowder, age II,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Micaiah
SOwder died Monday night of
pneumonia following influenza.
Perry Burk. an aged citizen,
was found dead near his home
Tuesday. Cause of death apoplexy
Mrs. VIM. McHargue, who was
Miss Matte Butner before her
marriage, died Tuesday of pneu-
lnonia, following influenza.
A son 'of Charley Cromer, of
the Skeggs Greek section. died
of influenza. Mr.. Cromer's
mother died the following day
from the in6rmities of old age
A son of Will Ponder of near
Livingston died last Monday and
on Friday Mr.. Ponder lost his
daughter. Both victims of flu.
Miss Isabelle Tyree, living near
the fair grounds died of influenza
Monday.
Mrs. Geo. Hellard died at Liv.
ingston from the effects of influ-
enza.
The death of Albert Parman's
0rother.in-law whose name we
are unable to get, living in the
Gauley branch sectio N near Liv.
iugston, is reported.
Jess Bullock, son of Hon. E.
Bullock, tdied at Reading, Ohio,
and his remains we're brought
here for burial Monday.
Eugene Gentry. son OF the late
George Gentry died last night
OF influenza and heart trouble.
The report reaches here Just
as we go to press that a Mrs
Robinson and Mrs Stewart, Dave
Stewards mother, both ofOrlando,
died night.
A small child of Steve Morris
died at Pine Hill last night.
The second death occurred in
the family of Micajah Sowder
last night, when their FIVE year
old baby passed away, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sowder are certainly having
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

Mrs. Alice Davis, Superintend
ent of Schools, requests US to say
that all schools will be notified
when to open and that the notice
will be sent out just as soon as
authority from the State Board
is given for the re-Openipg.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

It's now Judge Carmical, who
has received his commission as
Police Judge of Mt. Vernon, sue
ceeding T. J. Pennington who re
signed and moved to IOklahoma.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

There will be no pie supper at
Scaffold Cane school house Satur
day night October 26, 1918
Cause, influenza.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

The oversee casualty list this
week shows two Rockcastle boys
missing ir action. They are Will
liam Ballinger, Son of Egbert
Ballinger, Wilde, aud Arthur
Franklin. son of Mrs. Ella Frank.
lin, of the Wilde section.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

John Mink. of the Brindle
Ridge section lost his house and
all it's contents by fire few days
ago. No insurance.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

Mrs. H. A. Smith was called
here from Terre Haute, Ind on
account of the death of her father,
John Jones.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

The remains of Milo Butch
Mcclure, youngest son of Sam
Mcclure arrived here from Camp
Harrison Monday for burial.
Another Rockcastle boy who paid
the price for liberty and freedom
for you and for me. The boy
who gives his life in an American
camp is as much a patriot as the
boy who falls upon the Western
front.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25
LOCAL

Private Casper Livesay, Co. l.,
10Th Inf A. L. f., France, via
New York.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25
CATARRH CANNOT BE
CURED

with Local Applications, as they
cannot reach the seat of the dis
ease. Catarrh is a local disease,
greatly influenced by constitut.
ional conditions, and in order
to cure it you must take an ln-
ternal remedy. Hollis Catarrh
Medicine is taken interhalln and
acts thru the blood on the mu'
cous surfaces of the system.
Halls Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best
physicians IN this country for
years. 1t is composed of some
of tie best touics known, COM
bined with some of the best
blood purifiers. The perfect
com bination of the ingredients
in Halls Catarrh Medicine is
what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions.
Send for testimonials. free.
FL CHENEY, & CO., Props, +,
Toledo, Ohio.
All Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills Tor consti
patton
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

Those who attended the funer.
al of Mrs. Matte Butner Nc.
Hargue were: Mesdames G. NJ.
Ballard, Minnie Anderson and
Alice Davis. Misses 10 Davis,
Onie Silvers and Matte Chestnut.
Messrs. j. c. Moore, w. II. Car
mical, Dwight Bowman, Richard
Cox. Robert Mckenzie, Jesse
Meadows and Mckinley Perciful
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

Carl King, son of Mr.. George
W. King. and a merchant at Crab
Orchard, died there last last
night of influenza He is sur
vived by his wife, who was Miss
Beulah Wallin, daughter of W.D.
Wallin, also of the East End. Mr..
King was about IS years old and
was a very popular, clever young
man. He had lots of friends in
his home town who deeply regret
his demise. Much sympathy is
felt for his wife and parents in
their great loss. Interior journal.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

Miss Sallie Stewart, of Wilde,
and Mr.. B H. Parsons. near here,
went to Jelllco, Tenn, Sept. 9th,
and were married in that city.
They had meant to keep it a secret
for some time but the folks be-
gan to get wise about a week
ago and they had to tell it. They
are a splendid young coupleoaud
the Signal joins a host of friends
in extending congratulations. e
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-10-25

For SALE: A good Jersey
COW 7 years old.
j. II. MEADOWS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
BOOKS CLOSE TONIGHT
Very Last Opportunity to Register for
the Primaries.

City Clerk Covel1 sounded a final
warning today to all persons in Topeka
who wish to register. The books close
tonight sharp at 10 o'clock. so only a
few hours are left to register. All day
long the office has been jammed with
people determined to register in the
eleventh hour" but the city clerk
says that only a miracle can bring
registration this year up to normal
Thursday ATS people came in to
register. This number was probably
due partly to the fact that the ma
jority of people were uptown for the
circus and took advantage of the oc-
casion and partly to the limited time
left to register. But in spite Of this.
more than twice that number are ex-
pected to register today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
Kansas Must Furnish at Least
so Per Cent IS Men.
CrOWder Order Will Raise 1900
More Men for Army.
SEVERE ON RURAL BOARDS
Percentage of Glass 1 in Cities
Is Much Larger.
Rigid Investigation of All
Shortages in Draftees.

Local draft boards which fail to
place at least so per cent of the 1918
registrants in class 1, are to be inves-
tigated by drift officials. The order
affecting general classification of new
S. Huffman, adjutant general, by Pro-
vost Marshal Crowder.
Should the Crowdcr order be rigid
ly applied in Kansas, the number of
service men under the new registra-
ton would be increased nearly 80 per
cent over early estimates. Recently
draft officials estimated that Kansas
would furnish 4,5OO to 4,SOO class 1
men from the 600 registrants of last
June. The Crowder order would
boost the states front rank list to
5000.
Wichita and Sedgwick county boards
are the only ones in Kansas which
listed more than SO per cent of the
registrants in class 1. In those dis
tricts the number of men, Independent
Of physical disabilities, who were
placed in class 1 totaled about 60 per
cent. Not more than As to so per cent
of the total were expected to be avail
able for service.
General Investigation.
The Crowder telegram, however,
asks that investigation be made of all
districts in which less than a net total
of so per cent are placed in class L.
1t is probable that the telegram will
result in a general instruction for re-
classification in all sections of Kansas.
Exception to the SO per cent rule,
Crowder said should be allowed only
where heavy alien registration is Sc
cured by local boards.
Many rural districts will be hard
hit by the order. The percentage of
class / men is much larger in the cities
than in the small towns and country
districts. In order to meet the new
instructions, it would be necessary for
many of the boards to boost their pres
ent estimates of front rank men nearly
fifty per cent. The increase for the
state would range from twenty-five to
thirty per cent.
Crowder's telegram is mandatory. 1t
emphatically states that searching in
vestigation shall be made of all board
actions wherein less than a net total
of fifty per cent of the registrants are
given deferred classifications or not
listed as available for immediate SER
vice call
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
HUNS FEARED ~YANkS
An Attack Was Called Off Because
Americans Were Opposite.

With the French Armies in the
Field, July 25, (night).-"If all the
American army has the same temper,
the German cause is lost a German
officer prisoner told his French cap
tors today.
The officer said a German attack
planned late in June, in the region of
the Ourcq was called off because of
the mannerNin which the Americans
there previously had fought.
Further evidence that the crown
princes offensive was held out to the
Germans as peace offensive was
found on a placard in an evacuated
trench, addressed to the French troops
and signed by a German infantry
corporal. 1t declared that England is
using science to protect herself while
America, fearing Japan, fought to
earn England's support. But the chief
argument was that the German ad-
vance was irresistible, that Paris
would socfi be taken and that France
should not delay peace by continuing
to fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
TO FIGHT FOREVER
Nzech in Austrian Parliament
Defies the Government.
Declares His People VIII Hate
Dual Monarchy to End.

Amsterdam, July 26.-''The Czechs
declare they will hate and fight Aus
tria forever and, God willing, they will
in the end destroy her completely be-
cause Austria embodies a century old
crime against the liberty of mankind
said Deputy Stransky, a Czech Social
list in moving in the Austrian lower
house, an indictment of the ministers
for their decree ordering the partition
of Bohemia.
Highest Duty to Harm Austria.
1.-The highest national duty of the
Czechs is to harm Austria wherever
and when ever possible" continued
Stransky. This we owe to the Czech
people and to our loyalty to the Bo-
hemian crown which loyalty can only
be put in practice by betraying Aus
tria- Therefore we are determined to
betray her whenever we can"
Demand Amended War Aims.
Amsterdam, July 26.-Austrian So
cial Democrats have introduced an in
terpellation in the Austrian lower
house asking that the government ne
gotiate imm ediately with Germany
with a view to jointly fixing war aims
and peace terms and repeating Aus
trian readiness for peace without an
neXations and indemnities, according
to a Vienna dispatch to the Nieuwe
Rotterdamsche Courant. The socia
Democrats assert that the Austro-
Hungarian government does not act
sharply enough against the military
party of Germany which momentarily
has the upper hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
Half Million Munitions Work.
ers Will Soon Be Out.
Government Must Yield or Send
Strikers to War.
MISUNDERSTANDING IS CAUSE
Strike Originated in Misinter-
pretation of Order.
Government and Workers So
Far Are in Deadlock.

London, July 26.-Striking NUM-
tions workers now number 100000,
not including tens of thousands of
persons who have been forced into
idleness by the strike. Unless diff
ferences are adjusted today. it is be-
lieved here that half a million work
ers will be out.
The situation is a result of the ac-
tion taken at Leeds when delegates
representing. 100000 workers in dis
tricts thruout the United Kingdom
voted to strike until the embargo on
labor was withdrawn.
Strikers and the government are
deadlocked. The government is refus-
ing to withdraw the embargo. offerine
instead an inquiry into conditions il
the strikers will return to work. Dele
gates of the strikers at Birmingh CHA m
have rejected this proposition.
The situation is plainly up to the
government which must offer fur
ther compromise or al-y out its
threat to force idle army eligibles into
the war.
Strike Result of misunderstanding.
London, July 26-The munitions
strike had its origin in the deficiency
of skilled labor. This deficiency neces-
STATED the government making plans
for an even distribution of labor, but
some firms, by offering attractive
wages, managed to secure an unfail
proportion of skilled workers. The
government, therefore. laid an EN-
barge on three Coventry firms, which
were told an excess of skilled hand:
could not 3e permitted. One of thes@
firms thereupon issued a notice say
ing the government embargo was
meant to al ply to men earning thu
standard district rate of pay and in
structing foremen in the future to en-
gage only semi-skilled workers. 1t u
said the men misunderstood ths
pprport of the embargo, which wa
| wrongly interpreted as an attempt t
! GUST skilled workers and drive them il
| the army by means of low wages
Aside from this the men contend th'
embargo is a restriction of their righ
to dispose of their labor on the bes
terms obtainable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
IS SHORT ON MEN
Draft Calls To Be Delayed by
Exhaustion Glass 1.
Boards Must Make so Per Cent
Glass 1 Out of Glass of 1918.

Washington, July 26.-Rapid ex-
haustion of class 1 to the extent that
some local draft boards may be unable
to fill the August call, was indicated
by instructions issued TO the boards
by Provost Marshal General Crowder
today.
Must Delay Further Calls.
Crowder declared that he will be un-
able to place further August calls un-
til all the men who registered June 5,
are finally examined and classified. He
ordered boards to halt Immediately all
releases of class 1 men to the navy
and marine corps and emergency fleet
corporation until enough men are in
sight to fill the calls to August.
Crowder's instructions bear out state
ments by members of the house mill
tary committee that there will be only
100000 men left in class 1 by Sep
tember 1.
Comb New Registrants.
Washington, July 26.-Provost Mar
shall General Crowder today informed
state draft representatives that more
trants in the 1918 class are expected
to be placed in class l as physically
qualified for general military service
and instructed them to give "specia
scrutiny to report of any local board
which fails to classify this percent
age"
This estimate, General Crowdel
said, is based upon a study of the
operation of the draft and the only eX
ceptions which will be recognized arr
| in the communities having a large
alien population, or which have re
leased large numbers of the 1918 clas'
| to the navy, marine corps or emer
gency fleet.
"The national average should b'
much higher than so per cent because
| Industrial, agricultural and dependenc!
/ requirements and physical rejection:
should be much lower" Gen Grow
der'S message said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
CASUALTIES LIGHT INDICT WIRE co.
Secretary Baker Says o. s.
Losses Not Excessive.
High Officials Say They Will
Not Exceed $4,000.

Washington, July 26.-German
losses the past two weeks have been
10000 or more, according to high
general officers estimates today.
He doubted that American casual
ties would surpass $4,000 or that
American plus British, French and
Italian would exceed 100000. These
figures, presented as an offset to wild
German propaganda, claims of enor-
mons slaughter of Americans, include
all casualties which put men hors de
combat. German propaganda has
claimed first that hundreds or thou-
sands of AMERICANS were killed and
later items of thousands" This line
of misinformation is seen here as a
double attempt to cover defeat al
home and to endeavor to dismay the
timorous in this country.
Death Rate Per 1000.
Figures furnished by the war de
partment show that the death rate Of
Americans in battle has been eight PEI
thousand while there was exactly tht
same proportion of deaths from di
sease among the eXpeditionary forces
The officials said this undoubtedly wa
the lowest death rate among troops a
war in the history of the world.
Not Out of Proportion.
Secretary Baker declared that the
American losses have not been out o.
proportion to the numbers engaged ol
to the extent OF the operations in
volvedA
The suggestion has been made II
the secretary that the cehsors abroad
could we'll exercise their prerogativ'
of killing copy when German propa
ganda cables as to exaggerated losses
or disasters appear. The secretary i:
understood to feel that the American
people, as a whole, take little stock il
anything the Germans say. But GER
tain element, including pacifists, pro
Germans and the timid, use German
tales to serve their own ends.
AS for German losses, the Ameri
cans are in a good position to ge
reliable data for they are on the ad
vance and therefore, according tt
Baker, have superior opportunities fol
observation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-26
TANK ON TONIGHT
First Appearance of w. S. s.
Campaign Feature.
Circus Clowns Aided in Great
est Days Sale.

The circus throngs in Topeka
Thursday contributed more than
s1,1OO to the total sales of war saw
ings stamps in the liberty castles on
Kansas avenue, according to reports
today from Cashier Crosby of the re-
tail merchants division of the Shaw
nee county war savings stamp COM
mittee.
The total sales Thursday morning
amounted to a little more than $500.
In the afternoon the clowns from the
Barnum & Bailey show sold about
$500 worth of the stamps. The
Thursday sales total is nearly equal
to the combined sales of the thrift
stamps sold Tuesday and Wednesday.
day.
The feature of the campaign today
will be the initial appearance of To-
peka's own tank. 1t will lead the pa
rade of the drafted men to the train
tonight, and it's majestic progress thru
the streets is expected to typify the
Juggernaut of the American war ma
chine as it applies to the advances of
the troops in France. And the people,
too, are expected to act out their
parts.
In Europe every man stands ready
to bear his part, and when the SER
geantS whistle blows Tor the attack
there is no faltering and hanging back
and cries of You first" Not they.
They go over the top purely as a mat
ter of course and without any mock
heroics.
The people at home are expected tc
do this, too.f When a person passes
a booth where war savings stamps are
for sale it is that persons duty to stop
just a minute, lay down his quarter
and put the green stamp in with the
rest of his collection. Like the boys
at the front there should be no hang
ing back on the part of the purchaser
when a demand of the government is
made for finances 'in the name of the
war"
Tank on Streets.
! The tank will work on the streets
all day tomorrow. and in the evening
it will be returned to it's shed, jack ed
/ up from the body of the truck or
which it is built and there it will stand
until the clarion bugle of the fourth
/ liberty loan sounds late in September
/ and Topeka will rise to meet the de-
mands of another war drive.
| The liberty castles on Kansas ave
nue. were open all day today. althc
/ the fair salesla dies were assigned fol
duty at just two periods during the
day When the girls leave the booth.
! the boy scouts take them over as
rule and work the crowds as they pas
along the street, using the castles as
sort of raliying point from which t,
sally forth for the attack of some pc
destrian's pocketbook.