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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
BELL SELLS HERD OF
 REGISTERED CATTLE
Prie- Winning Herd Brings Good Prices-Many to Go Out of
 the State

Tie dispersal sale at Oakwood Hills. the country home of Robert N. Bell. ST, brought out many local as well as foreian bidders. The sale took place Monday afternoon and was conducted by Tom Dempsey, sales manager. as sisted by Col D. L. Perry, auctioneer.
 The heard of registered cattle sold belong to Robert N Bell, IT,, who has volunteered for service and will leave on July :. It was one of the great prize winning herds of the country and the many experts present by theit bidding showed that they put hish premium on Mir. Bell as breeder.
 Thirty-e.ght head were sold, inclul- ing calves. heifers, young bulls and cows. and the average price received was $2z3. The highest price was paid for the ptize winning heifer Oxford Beautiful Gambege." She brought $60e
 The majority of the cattle sold will go out of Alabama. as 1t seemed that the bidders from a distance put d higher value on the offerings than did the home buyers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
RECORD TIME MADE BY POWER COMPANY
Ninety-Mile Transmission Line Built Ahead of Con-
 tract Time

Record time was made by the Ala hama Power company in building it's 90 mile transmission line from the
 power plant in Walker county to MUS cle Shoals. The company contracted with the government last winter to build this line and to have 1t com pleted by July 1, It was completed ana the company prepared to turn on tho mower more than month before the exniration of the period stipulated in the contract
 The line which extends from the western terminus at the Warrior steam nlant of the Alabama Power company to Muscle Shoals has 10000 voltage, and is built on H-frame structures The work of building it was equivalent to building a railroad of equal mileage The first thing done by the company was to clear off the right of way 100 feet wide, to prevent falling trees from breaking down the wires and inter- rupting the flow of the current The completion of this line is the first step in the elaborate government programme for Muscle Shoals. Before beginning the ertcion of the nitrate plants and the construction of the dams across the Tennessee river at and above | Sheffield. the government contracted with the Alabama Power company for l the necessary power to operate it's plants until the Muscle Shoals power plant could be developed.
 | The Alabama Power company. hav- | ing completed the line to Muscle Shoals. lis now building a 3o,000 kilowatt ex- | tension to the Warrior reserve steam
 plant, which makes second terminal.
 | The schedule calls for the completion
 | of this plant by October l, but the
 company will have it ready before that
 date if possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
EFFORTS MADE ID KEEP TELEPHONE
 SERVICE INTACT Precautions Taken to Get Operators to Central Of flee on Time This
 Morning

Tn anticipation of possible interference 1e with street railway traffic today. George Knox. manager of the Southern Bell Is'- ephone company, was one of the busiest men in town yesterday.
 The companys telephone operators live all .he way from Vivian to East Lake and somethnp had to be done to insure their being on duty today. All Of the conpany'r trucks and as many automP- piles as could be secured were scheduled L, begin making trips this morning at o'clock to get the operators to the cen tIal office Twenty-Five of the young women were quatered at the Hlilman hotel last night to insure their presence today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Mothers Day Letter Shows
 How Boys Are Sustained at Front By Thoughts of Home

, relative to write-gee, isn't he to be
 pitied?
 If my letters don't reach you at regu- lar intervals, or some are lost, just say I know he wrote, because l write nearly every day-at least every other day. un- less I am so situated that 1t is impos- sible to do SO I write to you all as | you all notice I always address to The
 Forbes Family
 | Last year this time was in Phila-
 delphia and thought I was long ways | from home But today I am over S5co
 miles away from old 22o Highland ave-
 nue and between us there lies great,
 big ocean.
 But when we crush Prussianism and Berlin is captured or seized by the all lies, there will be no more wars to be fought and the world will be free. l am proud to say that I am among those fighting for such a great cause.
 We will be lucky or fortunate if we can keep the war lover there," instead
 of in the United States. You have nc idea what these people have had to con
 tend with and what they are deprlving themselves of-the luxures of home life and kindred.
 Those we have lost are nothing com pared to those in France ana Ehglahu' and if we can keep our losses down as we have, we will be doing fine.
 T hope you all are in good health and will be when 1 come back. l hope to ma
 you just as you were when lett ui 1917. And if the good Lord will heip me I will return in a much better con dition than when I left. This life agrees with lie and teaches every man how dear those at home are to him and now lucky he is to have his parents Those who are with you at all times.
 "Re sweet, mother. Tonight when l SC to sleep my prayers and thoughts will be of yCu.
 'I am your son,
 ''CLIFFORD FORBES, Medical Dept. 167th Infantry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

Mothers day letters written by boys Tn France show how sincere the soldiers are about the cause for which they are fighting and how they are sustained by thoughts of those at home.
 Here is a letter from Clifford Forbes of the Highland Pharmacy, son of Dr. and Mrs A Brooks Forbes one of Bir- mingham's best known and most popular young men:
 April II, 1918. My Dear Mother: Tomorrow is Moth ers' day (among us soldiers, but don't know what it is in the States) and the government has offered a special induce ment to us if we mail a letter to our mothers tomorrow, so I am writing mine tonight to get it in among the first, so mine will be sure to be delivered to you. T am a lucky boy to have mother and, best of all, one that is as sweet and dear to me as you are, and, again, to have such a good father and a sweet sister.
 Ut makes no difference what is to be done or what is happening l can always find time to think of you all, and l all ways will as long as I am able to think.
 Mother, I want to ask one big favor of you: Please don't worry about me. 1 know Nou do but if I knew you didn't would feel much better.
 This is the third year I have been away from home on Mothers day. But if the war ends soon and I come back safe, I'll never miss another one if l can help 1t.
 Tn our detachment we have number of men who have no mothers to write to we have only one boy who hasn't a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
SHOP WORKERS TO BE GUESTS OF ROTARIANS
Morris Bush to Tell of Recent Red
 Cross Drive at Luncheon

number of representatives of the Southern Railway company including engineers. roundhouse workers. shop
 men and representatives of every in
 dustrial department. will be the sle-
 cial guests of the Rotary club at it's regular luncheon tomorrow at 1 o'clock at the Tutwiler hotel. Interesting
 talks will be made by Morris w. Bush,
 acting field marshal of the recent Rec
 Cross drive; pr. Henry M. Edmonds, J. Frank Rushton. field marshal of the recent Red Cross campaign. and Dr. Percy Woodal1.
 Plans are being made for a large number of local Rotarians to attend , the international convention of Ro- ltary clubs to be held in Kansas City Mo. on June 24 to 28 inclusive. The delegates from the local club arc | President F. H. Andrews. Dan Dimich /, and Dr. Percy H. Woodall. while at 1 least 35 members of the club will at l tend. The Birmingham delegation vii have two special cars and will leave
 ca June 22.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
CONDITION OF MISS
 HOEHN IS CRITICAL
Funeral of W. H. Herrick Held Yes.
 terday Afternoon

The condition of Miss Lena Hoehn. well known trained nurse whose skull was fractured Saturday night. when struck by a Norwood street car, is still very critical and but slight horcs are entertained for her recovery. Her relatives, some of them living in dis ,ant states. have been summoned to her bedside at the St. Vincents hos rital where she is being given every attention.
 The funeral of ". H. Herrick, the other victim of the accident. was he.d yesterday at Christ Episcopal chur ,h. Avondale, the Rev. C. EIenchell offi- ciating. He was laid away at Forest Hill cemetery with the Woodmen ct the World ceremonies. The deceased was T3 years of age and had been q resident of the city for. over 30 years and held many responsible positions in industrial circles. For the past number of years he had been in the employ of the Continental Gin Works at Avondale. He was a veteran of the Civil war and was held in high es- teem by wide circle of acquaintances
 Assistant Coroner Rives is investi- gating the accident and will probably render a verdict today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

Introducing the right honorable and Red Cross ct cetera drives around the Jef- ferson county diggings for the past year, Bert M. Meadow by name, it gives the writer great pleasure to say to the read CT, whether he be gentle or wild as a March hare, that this is the right-hand bower upon whom chairmen and chair men have depended to win the pot for our Nncle Sam in drive after drive that has bowled over the top with reckless abandon.
 MT. Meadow has gotten the habit in this war work stuff, and now when they btart a campaign for Uncle Samuel, whether 1t be Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Y. M. c. A. or round and back again, Bert just walks in and hangs up his lid and sheds his coat and says, Where S my desk" and they give him the first kitchen table that is not working, and there he stays until the cows come home with the sweet milk and cream.
 Bert is long on the boys who tear up the earth for a living, whether they are miners or farmers, and Is never more tickled than when some angular fellow D walks into the office and shakes the dust off his coat and mops his well tanned brow and makes a report that would make Karl Landgrebe jealous. lie dotes on the boys over the county and plays them to win against the high brows'' in the long run, and right often does he score.
 Drop in and meet Bert when there is a campaign on-no matter what it is, nor what it is for, he will be on the job-and you can't make him mad, no matter how big you make the check nor how long you keep him counting money.
 Bert NJ. Meadow-that's his name-of- ficial first assistant to campaign chair men-as long as they can use him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were issued in the probate office yeS- terday
 Dewey L. Iackey of Macon to Miss Thelma Ward.
 Jesse W. Hughes of Huntsville to Miss Mable Harris.
 George landmon or Montgomery tc Miss Rose Catherine Fox.
 Charles NJ Whiteside to Mrs Ade- laide M. Berry.
 w. F. Savage to Mrs. Sula A. Parks J. L. Lane of Beltonia to Miss Ev5 Dudley
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Will Circulate Petitions Ask in gThat Voters Pass on
 Six-Cent Car Fare MEN EAGER TO STAY, BUT SAY THEY MUST MAKE MORE TO LIVE Pevear Has Assured Them That Entire Increase in
 Fare Will Be Added
 to Wages

"We are not slackers. We
 will not demoralize this indus
 trial and commercial communl-
 ty by tying up the street ran-
 way system and hampering the
 government or any of it's units
 in it's war programme. The cars
 will run tomorrow as usual" "
 Thus spoke the employees ot
 the Birmingham Railway,
 Light and Power company
 the conductors, motormen and shopmen-iast night after re-
 viewing the situation and dis
 cussing it from every angle. They insist upon receiving wages
 more in keeping with the high cost of living, but they will not leave the serv- ice of the company and cause a sus-
 pension of it's business until the voters of Birmingham shall have had an opportunity of saying whether they are to receive an increased wage. At meeting held in Ben-Hur hall on Fourth avenue at o'clock last night the men employed in the street car service voted by a large majority to contirde at work until an election on the question of increasing the pas senoer fares from five to six cents can be held.
 TO CIRCULATE PETITIONS Petitions calling upon the city com missioners to order an election on that question will be put in circulation to- day. and it is believed that by Thurs day rght the necessary 2Oo0 slgners will have been secured. While the employees of the railway company will have charge of the circulation Of the petitions they request any other per sons. who may feel sufficiently in- terested. to assist them in securing signatures.
 I It icoked exceedingly gloomy all | day yesterday to those persons de- pendent upon the street cars to set l to and rom thelf placeS oI puSlhoe7 l or employment. Word had gone out
 that unless assurances were given by | proper authorities before night that l the requested increase in fares would l be allowed the conductors motormen and shopmen would not take out the cars this morning. They had received 1 offers of $4 a day and transportation l to Sheffield, Nashville and Little Rock, ! Nxb artiVlti6S r6Qul1 e hundreds of men, and where tne 1 wages paid are much higher than those 1 of the street car employees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
WEIGHT RESTS ON
AMERICAN FARMER

Upon no n class rests a greater
responsibility than upon the Ameri-
can farmer, who with his wives and
sons and daughters constitutes one
third of our population. He has the
first and great responsibility of pro-
viding food for the nation at home,
food for the fighting men abroad, and
food for u allies in the battle line
and their civilian population.
England, with millions of acres of
parks and hunting grounds converted
into farms a only raise crops to
feed her people half the year. France,
with every man in uniform, and
nearly half her fields overrun by
armies, does even less.
With her grain fields extended by
millions of acres of new land, Ameri-
ca is responding to the call and allied
hunger will never be an ally tt Ger
many. Billions of dollars of Ameri-
cas- huge wal loans are coming back
to the farmer in payment for his
grain and stock.
The farmer, for his future honor
and standing in the nation, must see
that every penny of this sum he a
spare is reinvested in war loans.
The Fourth Liberty Loan, now upon
us, calls for but a portion of what
America must spend in war efforts in
the next few months. 1t must be sub.
scribed promptly and overwhelmingly.
That the man who is not for us is
against us" is as true now as when
1t was written centuries ago.
II YOU buy a fifty dollar bond
when o COULD BUY a five hun.
dred dollar bond, you are not doing
ar full duty as an American.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
GAIN WEIGHT IN TRAINING
Young Women students In moneane
Also lnerease Height and
Lung Capacity.

Missoula, Mont.-Young women ~
dents in the freshman class at the vpa
versity of Montana here last ye3
gained in weight. height and lung c'
pacity, according to the report OF A!sI
Ina Cuttings. physical director ~
women. A thorough physical exalalp'
alton at the beginning of school lam
fall showed the condition OF heals
lungs, posture, feet, etc. A similar "
animation was made last spring,
The average gain In weight OF ea~'
girl taking physical training was = Nv
tie over four pounds, the average sa~
In height was about one-third mc4
and the average increased lung capa7
1ty was one cubic inch.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
GERMAN GRAVES
GRIM ANSWER

Now, across the graves of a mil
lion of his young men, the Kaiser is
beginning to see the sun set on the
smallest of his ambitions. "Foch will
never cross the Rhine is now the
German watchword. German cities,
shrieking beneath the visitation Of
allied and American airplane bombers
cry out: mo more Of this barbarity."
Such cries are echoed in the ghostly
laughs of thousands of Gotha and
Zeppelin victims in London and Paris.
The Rhine will be crossed, and
Cologne and Berlin will vince be-
meath the shells of Allied guns.
Five million men in France" cries
America. Remember Belgium and
end the wal in 1919"
To America and her five million
fighting men in France will come the
greater glory of the world war. But
that end will not be achieved with
out the sacrifice of thousands of
those men, nor without the most
earnest and united support of those
of us at home. Where we have given
valiant efforts to war work here
~tofore, we must thrust our sholders
desperately against the wheel of war
preparations from now on. To no
one person or class is it given to do
a greater share in this wal than any
other person or class. Each must
do his utmost.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
TWO HOLD OFF
Gun COMPANY
Tanks Caught in Pocket FIuhA
Until Last Bullet Is
Gone. .,t
BocHE SHELL GETS THEN
Caught Between earrage and HIM.
They Fight In Manner to Mako
One Proud 70 Be Of
Same RACE.
BY z. A. eATcHELoR.


Paris,-The Y. M. @. A. man thu
the story with tears In his eyes and
a break in his voice. he said that n
was the saddest thing that he ever
had encountered, which meant much
He had been a long time in Franco
SO death and suffering were no stran.
gers to him. But when he smoke ~
the sergeant and the private that they
had found dead beside their machine
gun he couldn't control his emotion.
It seems that the sergeant and tha
private had been caught in a pocket.
The Germans, In force, were in front
Of them. There was a barrage behind
which made it impossible for them to
rejoin their company. So they STAYED
and roughed it out. fought in a man.
e that made one proud to be Of the
same race.
Held Oft Whole Company.
When they found them there vas
pile Of empty shells several inches
high around the gun and not a single
round of unexpended ammunition re.
manned. The two had held off a whole
company Of Boche machine gunners
for several hours.
The enemy had been around a bend
in the road, a scant 80 yards away,
and hadn't been able to advance be.
cause Of the brisk fire Of the lone
American gun manned by the Ger.
geant and the private. The sergeant
had been evidently pointing the gun
and the private had been feeding II.
Their only protection had been a lit.
tie ridge where the dirt had been
thrown up beside thu road.
The underground just behind them
had been cut to ribbons by the Boche
bullets and the trees near where the
enemy had been were SCARED by Yam.
kee fire. It had been the hottest kind
of a fight and the Americans had been
winning against the terrible odds IN.
til a shell burst right on them and
killed both.
Whether it was a Boche shell Or
one Of u own, nobody ever viii
know. Both sides had been firing into
that part Of the wood. Whatever tho
source of the shell, 1t had done It'd
work quickly and thoroughly, for the
men we're badly torn, Death prob
ably had come instantaneously. They
had gone while the JOY Of battle nm
still upon them.
Death Not In Vain.
It was a glorious death but = sad
one because a few minutes after the
shell landed, the Boche had been
obliged to retire. Another half an
hour, and the heroic pair would have
been safe. But they had not died In
vain. The company that they had
held at bay carried back to the Ger
man lines a story Of American here
ism that will do much to convince tho
Boche that the men from across the
sea are going to decide the war. The
sacrifice Of these two lives will save
others.
They called on the Y. M. g. A. man
to help bury these two heroes. It was
not his first experience as a member
Of a burial party because he had been
at the front all through the big push.
As he aided in the burial he could not
help wishing that Of all the Thousands
engaged in that battle these two might
have heen enarod
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
KAISER PLANNED TO
RULE WORLD AFTER
6 MONTHS Warfare
Thought Theft of Iron and Coal
From France, Land From
Russia, Would Pay Bill

Planning world trade domination, II
not actual world rule, as the outcome
of a short six-months' campaign in
Europe, Germany now finds herself
outcast from among civilized nations,
her people impoverished, her honor
irrevocably stained by the blood Of
Belgium, and facing a future OF
fathomless ignominy and disgrace.
Il will make room for my growing
people by taking some more of France
and a few thousand square miles OF
Russia said the Kaiser. 1--WE will
get the iron and coal in Northern
France for manufactures which we
will sell the conquered population of
Russia, and this, besides indemnities,
will more than pay for the war. Eng
land will not dare come in, and our
merchant fleets will soon crowd her
from the world trade routes.
IF the United States does not
acquiesce, her manufacturers will get
no more of our dyes and chemicals,
her farmers no more of our fertl'
lizers. And we will also take away
from her all South American COM
narcao
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
AGAINST WIDOWS MARRYING
German Doctor Urges Q New Law "
Give Single Women 4
Chance.

Amsterdam, Holland,-Enactmeas y
= law in Germany to prevent wlovs.
from remarrying so as to leave ~ y
few available men for single womsu !.
urged in a letter to the Tag by . a. y.
mich doctor, Hans Won Herdg' =
points out that the widows, tnfv. ass
remarrying after the war, wouia ~.
q detrimental effect on the birth ss~
as most Of them are mothers ALREADY.
ION December /, 1910" ne w"no
.there were In Germany about 1872.
widows between the ages OF eisn ~.
and forty-hve. At a very mooes'
mate there ere now 600y000"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05
Five Million Men in FranceT"

Five Million Men in FranceI'
If the Americans at Cantgny, at Chateau Ihierry. along the
Marine and around Scissors, has proved a whirlvind which Won
Hindenburg could not withstand this year, what will be the German
when Forward to Victory rings out next year to armies
that hide the plains
The rich blood of sacrifice already strengthens the soil OF
American resolution from which will spring the flower OF triumph.
The sacrifice abroad must be met by sacrifice at home; NO
effort we at home can make will approach the price paid willingly
by those who do not return from the battle for Democracy.
Register the measure of your support by your oversubscnp-
ton of your quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-10-05

Every steel steamship turned out in our hundred and more
shipyards has more than a million rivets, and the rat-tat-tat OF
the riveters' guns swens i'll chorus with the clicking OF the
machine guns in France to drown the dying German cheers
over their submarine exploits.
The blinking dollars of the Fourth Liberty Loan will add
q shriller voice to that chorus and further lower German
morale.
It's easy to cheer for our boys in France. Make your dol
lars shout in the Fourth Liberty Loan. Germany will UNDER
stand their voice without translation.