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The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-01-11
A MILLION GREEKS
MASSACRED HE SAYS
PHILLIPS COUNTY MAN ACCUSED
OF KILLING MAN AND WOMAN
-oNE MAN IN! HOSPITAL IN
LITTLE ROCK.

Helena. Jan. Accused of killing
Jim Ferguson, an alleged boot1egger,
and Mrs. Asa Hubbell, whose hus-
band is lying dangerously wounded
in a Little Rock hospital, W. A.
McMinns was arrested at Scrubb
Grass on white river late yesterday,
and is in jail here pending an ex-
aminating trial on a murder charge.
The double killing occurred during
Christmas eve brawl, according to
McMinns, who admits shooting Fer
guson. He denies killing the woman
and says that she was shot by her
hus band, Asa Hubbell: 1t is said
that HubbeI went to the assistance
of Ferguson and that the woman may
have been accidentally shot. Hub
bell was wounded in the hand and
was sent to Little Rock for treat
ment His condition is said to be
serious, as blood poisoning has de-
veloped
Ferguson. McMinns and the Hub-
bells formed part of little colony
whose members live in house boats
ON the White river at Scrub Grass.
The place is almost inaccessible ex-
cept by going down the river in
boats, and for that reason the double
Killing was not reported until Sun
day.
McMinns says that Ferguson, whom
he accuses of Bookkeeping, made an
attempt to attack hirn, and that he
shot in self defense. Several wit
nesses were present, but they re-
fused to discuss the shooting. All
have been summoned for the examin-
ing trial.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-01-11
STOLEN WATCH is THE
HERO OF THIS STORY

Chicago, Jan Crime, war, resti-
tuition and a happy ending all figure
in the strange story of Harry w.
Cander's watch.
Besides Mr.. Canders. the persons
in the story are Charles NJ. Burns,
a Red Cross clerk, who enlisted in
the Princess Pats two years ago,
fought at Mons. Ypres and Vimy
Ridge and now home on leave; and
Albert j. Arroll, general secretary of
the National Committee to provide
cooks for the national army.
Three years ago hotel thieves
stole Canders' watch 1t is assumed
that they pawned it. AT Vimy, Burns
bayoneted a Boche, and after the
fashion of soldiers, Investigated his
effects. which yielded papers show
ing him to have been German
reservist who had applied for natural.
ization papers in Chicago, and a
watch Burns took the watch and
the other day, as a token, presented
II to Arroll
Today, Arroll, strolling into tn ;
hotel where his friend Gamblers is
assistant manager, took cut the time
piece. Canders' eyes fairly bulged
as he exclaimed, Don't open it, I'll
tell you that's inside, it's my name. =
II was
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and helpful control.

and helpful control.
We of the cotton states cannot
afford to have our patriotism ques-
upon any food plant, NOR can we
equally afford to raise the grain, the
cotton seed, we can and should in
this dire emergency, unless the gov
eminent helps us to keep the fiber
above the cost of production and in
sures the same reasonable profit that
wheat growers are assured in the
season to come.
The United States Food Admins
tration has made a good beginning.
1t is carrying ON some valuable ex-
Fermentation with the seed of the
cotton plant.
1t does not yet comprehend the
full significance of what it has
done itself, when as department of
the United States it secured the
long desired. long expected recogni-
tion of that plant as food plant.
1t has made and it will make and
correct mistakes. 1t has not treated
the cotton seed unfairly, for the seed
has averaged in market value. as
good price per pound as wheat
Government recognition of the cot
ton plant as food plant may mean
as much or more to the cotton states
as the invention of the cotton gin.
Therefore welcome it, See that mis-
takes are few and promptly correct
ed. See, in homely phrase, that the
cotton plant is properly cared for,
nourished and fed then MIXED on
its proper side for the common good.
the milk fairly paid for and fairly
distributed without profiteering.
SO may our plant help to win the
war so may our lands and our people
be safe, so may our farms grow cot
ton and still be fit to grow it under
the best plans which science and
practical agriculture may devise and
we henceforth may not have to
make single years crop and its con
sumers pay us for years of anxious
and prOfitless toll. Our war and our
cotton! Our cotton and our war!
Read, study, think of the two in
connection, and whatever betide you
at least you will not go wrong.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-01-11
, QUA COTTON AND OUR WAR
(From a Southern Spanish
War Soldier.)

Our cotton and our war. Both
are misunderstood, both are in dan
ger because our people are asleep.
Our war. Germany, dissatisfied
with "her place in the SUM- sets
out to conquer a better one by killing
all who stood in her way, robbed the
cotton plant of its place in the sun,
and cost less than dozen American
cotton states 81 900, 100000 on their
cotton and cotton seed crops in the
season of 1914-15.
Germany sought to make secret
alliance with Japan and Mexico with
the intention of marching an army
across our undefended Mexican bor-
der through the cotton states to
Washington, promised to give Mexico
the largest of our cotton states and
left the inference tnat others would
be handed over to Japan. If this
isn't oar war, whose war is it?
Both white men and black have
been buried alive for less hideous
crimes than Germany committed in
Belgium and Servia, and would have
committed. in Dixie if her armies
ever put foot on southern soil. oh
Dixie. awake!
Your soil, your daughters have
been in danger, are not out OF it
yet
Our cottonl There are but twelve
states of the union where the cotton
plant thrives. But twelve where ev-
cry man, woman and child is directly
or indirectly. interested in its culti-
walton and in the prosperity it brings
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IS HELD ON CHARGE
OF DOUBLE MURDER
REFUGEE DECLARES GERMANS
HAVE TAUGHT TURKS MORE
EFFICIENT BRUTALITY-MAN
THOUSAND DROWNED.

New York, Dec. 31.-At least a
million Greeks, men, women and chill
dren, have persisted as the result of
organized massacres and depreda-
tions by The Turco-Teutons' in
Asiatic Turkey, according to state
ment by Lazaros George Macrides,
son of leading merchant of Trebi-
zond. through the Armenian and
Syrian Relief Committee here today
Macrides, who recently arrived
here, says he was one of party of
1000 Greeks which was rescued
by the Russian fleet that bombarded
the town of Ordou late last August
and took the refugees aboard. He
had been taken to Ordou, he said,
when the Turks raided Trebizond
and seized his fathers store along
with other Greek merchants.
Those of us who were between
Is and so were drafted into the
Turkish army" said Macrides. Our
women and children and the older
men We've placed temporarily in
hotels and orphanages until the op-
portunity came to dispose of them
in the most approved Teutonic
fashion. which in this instance turn
ed out to be by wholesale drowning.
The unfortunate victims drowned
were towed. out for several miles
into the Black sea and then calmly
dumped overheard just like so much
garbage. None survived German eff
ficiency has organized the natural
brutality of the Turk and made ii
many times more effective. | should
think that, at the most conservative
estimate. at least 100000 of my
fellow countrymen have persisted
miserably through the organized cru
city of this Turco-Teutonic alliance.
The only hope for the future lies in
America"
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KNITTING NERVES.

Said the willy propaganda as he a.
"a great array
OF the loyal women workers knitiu,
busily away,
Each one happy inthe service M
the doing of her bit,
Colt in Himmel, help the kaiser!
for those women never quit
BY the shades of Hohenzollern,
they men to keep 1t up
They viii nullify the efforts Of Va
Hindenburg and Krupp;
More than foemen in the trenches o
I hate these suffragettes
Who would stab the mighty PrHIn
with their needle bayonetf
-Come my brothers. cease your -
ing all your work is not to ma
Match your subtle propaganda viz
the woman's stubborn wilt
All now, Fritz, an idea cometh7l|
is f1imsy but it serves
Go and tell the loyal damsels M
this knitting hurts ther nerva1
But the Sammee's wife and moth4|
and his sweetheart and his frisnl|
Never let their fingers falter m
their energies unberd.
And they make the scornful anssa]
"whi1e there's one OF them u
serves
We will fit him for the sKlrms.|
and WEN camouflage our ners1
Arlene Spica|
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The steel helmets adopted O' v
French and British weigh one =
one half pounds each.
Wooster, o., is consolidating =
nilipal offices and abolishins se'us
jobs.
Finley Shepard, New YORK, =
adopted two little girls. Previous
he had adopted a little boy
Uruguay has decided that an -, n
sells landing passengers at Us ~ ~
must be equipped with wireis''
graph apparatus.
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LEGITIMATE WONDER.

I see girl has sued a man for
calling her a chicken"
Goodness. | wonder what she'd
have done if he'd called fIer an old
hen Philadelphia Bulletin
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Reciprocal Gifts

Let us suggest you reciprocal gifts
supply with just the desired article While
had during the holiday period have
of diamonds Watches brace
let's avale cameos pins of other
desirable lines you in the jewelry line
meet vourd demands
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
McKelvie and Taylor
Announce Itinerary
AT South Platte Towns

The following schedule will be
followed by S. R. McKelvie, republi-
can candidate for governor, and H.
g. Taylor, republican candidate for
railway commissioner during the
coming week.
Monday. September 80: wauneta, ar
a. M: Palisade ar IL a. M; Trenton,
ar p. m. Culbertson, ar. $3.50 p M
MCCook. ar. p m. (Speak at s p. m y
Tuesday. October !: lndianola, ar a.
M; BARLEY. ar. 1890 a. m; Cambridge
ar IL a. M; Holbrook, ar. 2:3O p. m.
Arapahoe, ar. $3.50 p. m; Beaver City. ar.
y. m. (Speaks at p. ny
Wednesday, October 2: Orleans, ar s
a M: Alma, ar. $50 a. m: Republican
City, ar. 1918 a. m; Naponee, ar II a.
m; Bloomington ar. IL a. M; Franklin,
ar. p M; Riverton. ar 3 D. m. Red
Cloud, ar. p M; Guide Rock, ar. 6
D. m; Superior, ar. 1880 p m. (Speaks at
s p. m)
Thursday, October 8: Nelson, ar. a.
M; Nora, ar. $50 a. m; Ruskin, ar. 10
a M; Deshler. ar, l0:45 a. m: Hebron,
ar. II m; Chester, ar. 2:3O p m; Hubbell,
ar. 3:15 p. M; Reynolds. ar. 4:3O p. m
Fairbury, ar. p. m. (Speaks at D. IN. }
Friday, october 4. Dller, ar. s a. m
Odell, ar. a m; Barneston, ar. 10 d. m.
Liberty, ar II a. m. Wymore. ar 80
p. m; Blue Springs, ar. 2 p. M; Holmes
willie, ar. 2:45 p. m; Virginia, ar. $3.50
p. M; Eilley, ar. AIS p. m: Adams ar.
p. m; Pickrell, ar. y. m. Beatrice, ar.
1880 p. m. (Speaks at ) p mo-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
Sergeant Short Sends Hun
Helmet Back to Friend

Sergeant Walter Short, first mem
Der of the police department to don
the khaki, has sent to his friend,
Detective Frank Lee, second mem
Der in the service, a Hun helmet
as memento of the Marine drive
There are two heavy indentations,
on the side and top. The heavy
headgear has evidently been worn
a long time for the internal padding
and swaziland are worn and stain
cd. 1t is now on exhibition at Jack
Whittaker's place on West Broad
way.
Sergeant Short writes in letter,
telling of the exciting times in
France and urges Lee to hurry and
get into the big game. Detective
Lee is impatiently awaiting the or
ders to move. He has repeatedly
asked to be transferred from Com
pany A, and to correct the only
minus 100 point in his physical ex-
animation has voluntarily under
gone a surgical operation to straight
en- his eyes and remove a pronounc-
Cd case OF crcss-eyes. 1t was the
only point where he was marked
90, He has also had his classif-
cation changed by which he is ad-
yanced to Class Al, waving all ex-
captions.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
Hog Cholera Serum
Monopoly Charged
Under Present Plan

Sidney, Neb.. Sept. 2o.-(Special
Telegram. lin his address to an
audience that filled the district court
room last night, S. r. McKelvie,
charged the Neville administration
had created a monopoly in the sale
of hog cholera serum. The state
veterinarians, said Mr.. McKelvie,
has issued an order to the serum
companies that they shall sell only
to veterinarians, thus depriving the
farmers of the right to buy direct.
Any intelligent farmer or county
agent, can, Mr.. McKelvie said, ad-
minister this serum successfully and
the effects of this order is to give
the veterinarians a monopoly and
greatly increase the cost to the
owners of hogs. Mr.. McKelvie cited
this as an illustration Of the indif-
ference of the present administration
to the welfare of the people as a
whole. Mr.. McKelvie's discussion
of adjourned politics" was received
with enthusiasm as was his refer
ence to the machine control of the
democratic party.
Short speeches were made also. by
Railway Commissioner H. G. Tay-
lor, State Senator B. ]. Bushee and
James Rodman, candidate for repre-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
Of
OMAHA At HOME
IN new CHURCH
Religious Edifice Dedicated
Sunday Morning, Rev. Mr..
Dodson, St. Louis, Off,
Ciating.

Dedication OF the First Unitarian
church, Harvey street at Turner
boulevard, occurred Sunday morn
ing. The program included, in ad-
dition to the regular service and
hymns, an address by William F.
Baxter, chairman of the board of
trustees, who gave a short sketch
of the history of the Unitarian
church in Omaha.
Mr.. Baxter told of the first Uni
tartan church services held in Oma-
ha in 1866 in Gise's hall on Douglas
street and the organization of
church three years later with the
Rev. Henry F. Bond as the first
settled minister. The first church
building was at Seventeenth and
Cass streets and was under the
pastorate of Rev. Newton Mann. 1t
was dedicated December IS, 1891.
After Rev. Mr.. Mann's resignation
in 1910 the church building was sold.
From 1910 until 1914, when a dwell
ing house at Fortieth and Cass streets
was rented and used for meetings,
the Women's Alliance kept up the
church organization. In 1916 regu-
lar services were resumed in Tur-
pins hall. In October of that year
Rev. Robert F. Leavens was settled
as minister. Then followed the steps
which lead to the building of the
new church, the cornerstone OF
which was laid in July 1917 by Will
liam Howard Taft, former president.
The sermon Sunday was delivered
by Rev. George R. Dodson, minister
of a Unitarian church, St. Louis.
The musical program was given on
the organ, the gift of Mrs. G. w.
Mixter, in memory of her father,
the late Thomas Fitzpatrick. Eloise
West presided and Mrs. O. w. Ell
dredge sang several solos. The
services were concluded by prayer
offered by Rev. Robert Leavens.
An organ recital will be given at
the church tonight at 8 o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
Fremont College Notes.

Mrs A. Kate Gilbert presented to the
students at chapel THE American
Creed" In an effort to impress this
upon the minds Of the students 1t Is to
be frequently repeated during the esI
sembly hour.
The college is cooperating with thsN
government in every way possible, both
by training men and women for civil
service positions and by offering q course
in the study Of the constitution and In
the common branches in the night school,
which is opened for the convenience Of
those who cannot take the day work.
Members Of the scientific class. under
the leadership Of Miss Mabel Holland,
distinguished themselves by impersonat-
ing the members of the faculty at chapel
one morning and afterwards appeased
the faculty by giving them a generous
watermelon feed in Mrs. Clemmons' din-
ing room.
Delegates from the state woman's
Christian Temperance union convention
visited college Thursday and Friday.
Thursday morning Mrs. Margaret Flem-
ming of woodville, secretary Of the young
peoples branch Of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union, greeted the stu
dents and spoke briefly concerning her
department Mrs. Lizzie o. Middleton Of
Kansas City, head OF the department Of
scientific temperance instruction, gave a
very splendid address illustrating her re-
marks by charts prepared by leading
scientists
The commercial class organized by
electing the following officers for the
term: Paul Sjoblom, Winner, S. D.. presi-
dent; Mabelle McKibbin, Kansas City,
vice president; Stella Hamel Spencer,
secretary.
Prof T. B. Kelly was able to resumed
his work at the college Monday morning
Mrs Kelly. who took Ill in Chicago, was
able to return with him. Mrs. Kelly is
slowly convalescing. Professor Kelly and
the Girls Glee club appeared on the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
program Wednesday evening
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
Two More Council
Bluffs Boys Fall
On French Battlefield

Two more Council Bluffs boys
have fallen victims to the Hun on
the battlefelds of France. Paul
Paulson, only son of Mr.. and Mrs
Neis Paulson, ll09 South Seventh
street, and Herman Nelson, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Nelson, 1921
South Seventh street. Their parents
were notified Sunday afternoon by
wire from the War department.
Pauson was killed in action Septem-
Der IS, and Nelson died of wounds
the next day, September H. Thus,
living on the same street in their
home town, they made the supreme
sacrifice almost on the same day.
Paulson was % years old. He was
in the first draft of registered men
and was assigned to Company ].
558th infantry. He was unmarried
and for many years was connected
with the street railway company,
serving in recent years as a con-
ductor on the Iowa School for the
Deaf line.
Herman Nelson was p years old.
He was member of Company l..
He enlisted in the company the day
following the declaration of war
against Germany. His parents re-
ceived six letters from him on Fri
day and one on Saturday of last
week. They were newsy and full of
confidence. They bore dates of All
gust q and %. He referred to the
hard fighting in which he had been
engaged and said he expected to go
t. tie rear in couple of days "and
have long rest" He had lived in
Council Bluffs during the greater
part of his Life.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
Jefferiis Big Man Of
Real Congressional
Magnitude Says Rush

John Rush, former city treasurer,
and former national bank examiner,
said to a Bee reporter today, re-
garding the present congressional
campaign in this district:
This is no time for partisan poll
tics. Our country, not the demo-
cratic party or the republican party,
but the whole country and all the
people, is engaged in the winning of
the greatest war the world has ever
known, and when we have won this
war by force of arms, our national
congress will be confronted with
stupendous problems of readjust-
ment and reconstruction. The
whole future of our country will
depend upon the correct solution OF
these problems.
1T is our patriotic duty to send
men to congress at this time, only
because Of their ability to deal with
these great problems, and in my
judgment, there can be no pos
s,ble question that Albert w. JET
ferris is the man for US to send to
Washington as our next represen-
tative.
HE is man of real congression-
al magnitude; big, both mentally
and physically. He is safe, sane,
conservative and able, and the peo-
pie of this district should vote for
him, without regard to their or
binary political or party affiliations
He easily measures up with the
leading men in congress, and you
may depend upon it that if we @end
Iefferis to Washington, we sill all
be proud of him, and proud of our
selves for sending him there"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
IOWA READY TO
START DRIVE ON
LIBERTY LOAN
Reports to Headquarters Indi.
cate That About 0ne-HaIf
of States Quota Now
Subscribed.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. 29.-(Spe,
cial. )-Early reports to the state
Liberty loan headquarters indicate
that up to Sunday at least, $90,000,-
600 bonds. or over half of the states
quota of Sl47,900,000, had been sub
scribed. The indications are that
the loan subscription will go over
the top early this week. Apparently
the counties are vying, one with
another, in undertaking to be first
over the top and to over subscribe
their quota.
Corporal Bailey of Company M,
the Red Oak company in the le8th,
has returned from over there to do
instruction work. Twelve members
of Company NJ were killed in the
fighting on the Marine front, north of
Chateau Thierry, while charging Hill
2l2, he reports. He was in the fight.
He tells of the death of Corporal
Stephenson, also of Red Oak, whom
he said died like a man, with smile
and with his gat splitting steel. He
shot once after he was hit and got
his man."
The problems of tuberculosis have
been greatly accentuated by the war,
DR.. A. E. Kepford. director of the
Red Cross and head of the state de-
partment on tuberculosis, asserts.
DR.. Kepford will be one of the
speakers at the conference to held in
St. Louis October 2 to 4. He says
that prompt and adequate measures
must be taken everywhere for the
treatment of soldiers, who have been
rejected because of the prevalence
of this disease.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
HEAD OFFICE OF
MACCAbEES FOR
BLUFFS OR OMAHA
State Commander Winters An.
nOunCes Jurisdiction to In
CIude States of Iowa and
Nebraska.

The general headquarters for
Iowa and eNbraska of the Macca-
bees will be located in either Coun.
Gil Bluffs or Omaha, and the bust
ness of the order in the two states
will be concentrated in one of these
cities.
The announcement was made
Sunday afternoon by M. Grant Win
tiers, state commander, whose juris-
diction covers Iowa and Nebraska.
He arrived Saturday afternoon from
Utah and is stopping at the Grand
hotel. He has been sizing up the
west for the last six months, and
will now concentrate his energies
toward the development of the or
der over territory very much larg-
err than the two states where he is
its supreme head.
Mr.. Winters says the order has
now more than $4,000 members and
has become one of the strongest
fraternal organizations in the world.
He has been identified with it in a
managerial capacity for 80 years
and is enthusiastic over its rapid
development. He says it has paid
out more than $l00,000,000 to wild
ows and orphans of its members
in the last SO years, and has $20,000,-
600 of its reserve fund in Liberty
bonds with $23,000,000 cash in its
home and service fund, in addition
to large fund set apart for war
work. The order keeps up the dues
of all members in war service and
pays all death and disability claims
of soldiers. A feature of the home
and a service provides for the care
of returned soldiers in their homes,
as well as dependent members OF
their families.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-30
Colonial Building STYLES.

II is a remarkable fact that the three
buildings in Philadelphia which are re-
Eardcd as peculiarly characteristic. and
which may be said to have set the style
for similar structures in this country.
were DESIGNED by amateur architects.
These buildings are the Girard National
Bank. Christ Church and Independence
hall, which probably should have been
mentioned In reverse order
While the colonies deveoned several
promising painters, the architects prov
ince, until the approach of the last CEN
fury. seems to have been relegated to the
carpenter and builder. virtually all Of
the buildings that we revere as excellent
examnlrs of the colonial style are the
products OF carpenters and not of archi-
tects. There was no specializing in those
days. and the carpenter studied the re-
finrmrnts of architectural style, and such
cn~i1c""i1g ms was rsod also came from
the same hand-Philadelphi Ledger.