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The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1918-05-22
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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
SENATOR'S FAVOR NEW DRAFT
BILL

Washington, February S-Favorablc
report on the War Departments bill
amending the selective draft law to
require registration of men as they
reach twenty-one years, and basinG
quotas on the number of men in class
one instead of on State populations
was unanimously ordered today by the
Senate Military Committee.
The proposal to exempt men as they
reach thirty-one years if they have not
been drafted, which was opposed By
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
was not included in the bill
An amendment proposed by Senate"
New, of Indiana, to require registra
ton of youths at nineteen years AMI
over, also was rejected.
Another bill farvorably reporte
which affects the draft would author
ize the President in any emergency t.
call into immediate military servit
skilled experts in industry or agricu =
ture, regardless of classification, res
dence or quota.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
CONSTIPATION
And Sour Stomach Caused This
Lady Much Suffering. Black
Draught Relieved.

Meadorsville, Ky.-Mrs. Pearl Pat.
rick, Of this place. writes: II was
very constipated. I had sour stomach
and was 80 uncomfortable. ! went 10
the doctor. He gave me some pills.
They weakened me and seemed 10
tear up my digestion. They would
grippe me and afterwards It seemed
was more constipated than before.
l heard Of Black.Draught and do.
cided to try It. found II Just what
needed. It was an easy laxative, and
not bad to swallow. My digestion soon
improved. I got well Of the sour stom.
ach, my bowels soon seemed normal.
no more gripping. and I would take a
dose now and then, and was In good
shape.
I cannot say too much for Black.
Draught for It is the finest laxative
one can use."
Thedford's Black.Draught has for
many years been found of great value
in the treatment OF stomach, liver and
bowel troubles. Easy to take, gentle
and reliable In It's action, leaving no
bad after-effects. It has won the praise
Of thousands Of people who have uoed
It. NC-135
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
JUNIOR COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
Organized Here and Officers Are
Elected-To Have Many Acti'l.
Ties 10 Look After.

Uncle Sans fourth line OF defense
was established in Maysville recently
when beyy OF enthusiastic young
girls organized for war work at the
home of Mrs. Il. l.. Worthington,
Chairman OF the Common Child's Wei
fare League Of Defense.
Mrs. George Longnecker, county
chairman, addressed the meeting and
In an inspiring manner pictured the
great opportunity for service and the
need Of cooperation In the part OF
even the youngest Of our citizens. The
object Of the organization Is to rem
der aid and comfort to soldiers and
war orphans, and to assist In every
way in carrying on the various activi-
ties Of the County Council OF De-
tense.
Branch chapters will be organized
in other parts Of the county In the
near future. Their immediate work
is the making of quaint and simple
little garments for the French and
Belgium orphans pursuant to direc-
tons from the State Council Of De-
Tense; also to make scrapbooks for
sick soldiers, and trench candles to
comfort our own boys in the trenches
somewhere in France" A number of
these articles are already completed
and more under way. Any one having
bright pieces or small remnants of
goods or yarn in their scrap bags or
bright and short clippings or pictures
to contribute, please call up the
chairmen of committees, who will col
lect same.
The following officers and chairme1
of committees were appointed:
President-Thelma Stahl.
Vice Observation-Disclosures Barbour
Second Vice Presldent-Nan Cnt
nault.
Secretary-Evelyn Taulbee.
Treasurer-Eloise Burgess
Chairman Committee on Sewing -
Mary Downing.
Chairman Committee on Knitting
Adelaide Davidson.
Chairman Committee on Scrap
books-Ann Maltby.
Chairman Committee on Trench
Candles-Leslie Worthington.
Chairman Committee on Soliciting
Mary Woodson Taulbee.
Chairman Committee on Entertain
ment-Anna Fred Harbeson.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09

Washington, February S-With the
total abandonment of heatless Mon
day throughout all the States south of
Virginia today, Fuel Administration
officials were hopeful that continued
warmer weather and improvement in
roalroad traffic would permit relaxa-
lion of the order all over the United
States after next Monday. In an
bouncing this today Fuel Admins
rator Garfield said improved weather
and traffic conditions had made fur
Their enforcement in the South I'M
necessary.
The States affected are North and
South Carolina, Tennessee. Georgia
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana. The first section of the
closing order establishing a preferen-
tial list in coal distribution and thS
section providing penalty for nom
compliance will continue in force.
1t was announced also that in all
other States in which the order is
operative fuel may be furnished on
future Mondays to heat and light lofts
and workshops occupied by members
of the International Allied Garment
Workers Union.
AS Saturday will be observed gen.
orally as half holiday and as next
Tuesday is Lincoln's birthday ami
versary, there will be a three and one
halliday shutdown. Officials believe
this will go far toward relieving the
situation. The original programme
called for the last heatless Monday on
March %.
State Fuel Administrators are CIV
en- power in an order issued today
by Fuel Administrator Garfield to
withhold emergency coal supplies
from consumers whose interests will
be least affected by the curtailment.
Heretofore the State Administrators
have exercised control over the diver
sion of relief fuel to industries or
persons suffering most acutely be-
cause of the shortage, but the new
order enables the individual admins
traitors to cut off some consumers
from the supply.
The administrators are urged to ap-
point an Advisory Committee of three
men whose knowledge of local condl-
lions will assist in determining what
consumers best can stand reduction
in current supply.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
DEATH LIST
OF Tuscania Increased-Number Lost
Is Near 200, Later Estl-
mates Show.

London, February S-Revised hg-
ures indicate that the loss of life on
the Tuscania probably was consider
ably in excess of yesterdays esti-
mates of 1O1. 1t is now believed COM
plete returns will show the NUMBER
of dead to be nearer 200 than 100.
Reports received at the American
embassy yesterday indicated the loss
of 1O1 lives, while the British Admir-
alty's estimate was 21O. This discrep-
ancy now appears to have been due to
the fact that the figures supplied to
the embassy evidently did not include
the missing, of which there are still
many.
1t was announced today that ar
rangements were being made by Brit
ish and American officials jointly for
great military funeral for the Tus-
cania's dead.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09

A large train load of soldiers pass
ed through the city over the c. & o.
Yesterday. They stopped for short
time at the foot of Market street and
exchanged greetings with large
number of Maysvillians that soon con-
gregated.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
NASHVILLE WINS BOTH GAMES

Two basketball games were played
last night by the teams of Augusta
and Maysville High Schools. The first
game between the girls of these
schools was very one-sided' affair
Maysville winning by score of so
to 9. The second game between the
boys was more exciting, the score at
the end of the first half was very
close, in the second half the Maysville
team shot ahead, winning by a score
of AZ to 20.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09

Rev. w. F.. Gregory, of Barbour
vile, will preach at the Third Stree
M. e. Church Sunday morning AMI
evening in the place of Rev. Tee
Anderson, who was to have filled e.
pulpit and the announcement of whc |
appears on another page of today 3
Ledger.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09

NASHVILLE PRODUCE MARKET
Following are this mornings quo
tations on country produce:
Eggs, Gloss off ....... Csc
liens NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2Oc
boosters ................l 5c
SprlngerS .............. &c
turkeys ..............,. .zlc
DUCKS ................... 2lc
Geese .17c
DulttT .O-C
Y. S. Food Administration License
No. G 09467.
THE E. L. MANCHESTER PRODUCE
COMPANY, Inc.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09

Out of respect for the memory of
the late c. w. Kinney" McClanahan,
Mayor Russell has ordered that the
fire bells of the city tap toll this
morning during the hour of the fun
oral
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
OUR CoLORED CITIZENS

Noah Johnson, janitor at the High
School, is able to be out and has re-
sumed his duties there after an at
tack of the grip.
Burns Chapter No. 81 Order of East
ern Star, will meet Monday afternoon
at 2:30. All members are asked to
be present.
MRS. SUDIE COMBS, w. NJ.
Mrs. Anna B. Perkins, Secretary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09

An Irish Port, February S-As the
list of Americans on board the
Tuscania was lost when the vessel
went down, it will be impossible to
ascertain the names Of those lost I'M
til the names of the survivors have
been cabled to the United States.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
PRICE SET on SHERIFF'S HEAD

THIVE SET VN SHEKIFF'S HEAD
Harry Carey notorius outlaw
writes his mother that he is sheriff
and a respected citizen but when she
arrives she finds price on his head.
See this at the Pastime Monday, Feb
ruary II.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-02-09
MONDAY CLOSING ORDERS

VIII BE Abandoned SOOn-Suspended
Today by Garfield In All States
South OF Virglnia-ImprOved
Traffic Conditions and
Warmer Weather May
Relieve Whole
Country.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

IN MIS-. crane en-
tered the house, smiling happily with
the thought of a morning we'll spent, q
distinct odor Of seorched potatoes
erept up her nose. Hurrying into the
kitchen through the sitting room, a
surprising sight met her eyes.
Molly, supremacy unconscious OF
burnt potatoes. was busily superintend.
ing the cutting out Of a big red cross,
while Myra's unframed fingers were
clurfsily following instructions. The
boy, whistling happily, was gathering
up the remains fstan silk, from which
the dainty sewing bag, hanging across
the chair arm, had been cut.
At a glance the mother knew that
something unusual had happened, and
burnt potatoes and everything else
were forgotten until she heard the
story of the casualty list and how II
had awakened the heart Of her daugh-
ter at last.
With her arms about her daughter,
the mothers eyes looked 0ver the
bronze tresses and smiled bravely,
proudly at her son, who was soon to
be n of Uncle Sans soldier boys.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
WHEN PLINY VISITED BELGIUM
Great Roman Has Left Us an Inter-
esting Description Of Country
as He Saw IL.

Pliny, the learned and industrious
Roman naturalist, who persisted In the
eruption of Vesuvius, 70 A. D., visited,
In the course of his duties as an Off
cial of the Roman empire, the heroic
country which we call Belgium. 1t is
interesting, comments the Protection
list, to recall his description of this
country.
''There," he wrote, "the ocean pours
in its flood twice every day, and pro-
duces a perpetual uncertainty wheth-
er the country may be considered as q
part of the continent, Or of the sea.
The wretched inhabitants take refuge
on the sand hills or In little huts.
which they construct on the SUBMITS
of lofty stakes, whose elevation is con-
formable to that Of the highest tides.
when the sea rises they appear
like ~navigators when 1t retires they
seem as though they had been ship
wrecked. They subsist on the fish left
SO the rcfluent waters and which they
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

such a whisper as If she didn't ait al
like to repeat such words but felt she
must as Mr.. Sum said they were really
quite all right
eft means upside down, Mrs Morn
ing-Glory," said MI. SUM-. NOW take
myself for example. If / were down
on the earth. rolling about all over the
land, I would be most decidedly tepsy.
turvy. / would be down when I Should
be up, and in quite the wrong place
away from my home I'm the sky.
"In the sky I can hook down and talk
to the flowers and the trees and the
birds, and shine upon the people, but
whatever would I do rolling about the
earth? .
"Folks wouldn't like me then. ]
would burn them, though I wouldn't
mean to of course. But I Just wouldn't
be able to help it. Children and
grown-ups would go around calling and
crying out:
ooh, look out of the way, there
that awful old Mr.. Sun. Hurry,
harry out of the way.v And I'd be SO
big it would be hard for them.
TT would be mighty hard for me too,
as I love children and couldn't bear to
hurt them"
EYES," said Mrs. Purple Morning
Glory, 81 see now what topsy-turvy
means. 1t would be a most upside
down world If things were like that,
most certainly"
"Are you going to stay here all sum
mer" asked Master Blue Morning
Glory.
eyes," said Mrs. Purple Morning
Glory, "and I will tell you the reason
why. This is a city apartment and it's
not a very big and cool and beautiful
one. It's in a most crowded part of
the city and the little children who live
in here are quite poor.
"Their mother loves flowers so she
took an old soapbox and planted our
seeds in 1t. Then when we began to
peep above the earth she laughed end
smiled and said, MY pretty flowers,
you will grow for me?' Then she put
-
pieces of string and attached them to
the window-blinds and we are twining
up those, as you see you are doing,
and your sisters and brothers.
"There r more beautiful places for
us to be than on the window-ledge of
a poor. city apartment where it is hot
and dusty and crowded. But these
people don't get many flowers and l
think it's our duty to say a pleasant,
bright good-morning each day to the
mother and daddy and children in this
apartment"
Mr.. Sun beamed and smiled that he
agreed, but just then came the mother
to look at her flowers, and to her de-
light she found that four morning
glories were already outi
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
DADYS U[NNG
[AIRY TALE
CITY MoRNING-GLoRIES.
81 nAQN GRANAMB MNeR

swell how do you do" said Mr.. Sun,
to the morning-glories, show are you
this fine summer day? Just arrived
for the season, eh?"
And Mr.. Sun chatted pleasantly
along.
eyes, we've come for the summer"
said Mrs. Purple MOrning-Glory.
"Dear me-" laughed Miss Pink Nor
ning-Glory, "you don't suppose, do you,
that Mr.. Sun thought we had come for
the winter"
And all the morning-glories rustled
and shook g little as they laughed over
the good Joke: *E s:%rr~e--
"Imagine our growing in the win
ter" said Miss White Morning-Glory,
and Master Blue Morning-Glory said,
swell, then everything would be
topsy-turvy." \
whats topsy-turvyT" asked Mrs.
Purple Morning. Glory. "These chill
dren," she said to Mr.. Sun, "do get so
slangy. And goodness only knows
where they get it from-certainly not
from their mother"
"No, Mrs. Morning Glory" said Mr..
Sun, "they don't get their slang from
you, but then you mustn't mind a few
little harmless sayings they may pick
up-especially a nice n like topsy-
turvy, for 1 must admit that I'm
rather fond. of that myself"
"Indeed," said Mrs. Morning-G Glory.
swell, then, if Mr.. Sun likes the ex-
preston 1t casts a much brighter light
upon It,"
"Ha, ha, joke" rustled and whis'
pered the younger morning-glories,
Mother Purple Morning-Glory has
cracked a joke and a good one, too
Ha, ha, joke!"
cts a great honor, madame, to joke
in such a fine and complimentary man
ner to me. I'm honored, greatly hon
ored.".
"You must tell me what topsy-turvy
MEANS" said Mrs. Morning-Glory il
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01

In the northwest section. 1t a an apartment house. The boy rang the bell
In the downstairs hall, but. receiving n o answer, mounted tn steps to the
apartment in question.
Still nc answer So the boy rang the bell in the next apartment ana
when a woman answered the bell he asked if she would take the letter for
the absentee.
"Why, you had better take that letter down to Mr. SoandSos office"
said the woman.
"Yes, man," said the boy, and departed.
When he came o the row of mail boxes, he stopped, looked around, ana
acted. He did not hesitate in the least. His power IF decision "a very
good. Power of decision is a fine thing, too
He calmly tore the special delivery stamp off the letter, and dropped the
mssive into the proper mail box, making it appear al If the regular mailman
had delivered it.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
Combined Effort.

The great artist who paints a picture
which compels the admiration of the
world does not do so with one sweep
of the brush in one moment Of inspira-
ton. The great masterpiece is the
product Of thousands of strokes Of the
brush, of ininitesimal bits of pigment
put on the canvas layer after layer,
each done with consummate art. Every
tiny bit of paint, every swift stroke
does Its tiny part toward what becomes
at last q marvel of ages. So must we
work, stroke by stroke, a bit here and
a bit there, until u masterpiece has
been completed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
The
Awakening
@<B
BY MINNIE M.
wright, 1918, by the Mcclure I
per >Syndicate.)

per Syndicate)
",By, Myra, I'll be late for lunch, but
If you get hungry don't wait. Molly
won't mind warming mine over"
Myra, comfortably settled in the
easiest chsir of the sitting room. lazily
waved q slim white hand to her
mothers CHEEKY good-by, and turning
toward the window watched the lively
little body cross the street and join
several other dear mother people on
the corner. Myra laughed scornfully.
I'm surprised at mother; such a
motley crowd, tall, short, fat, lean,
rich and poor"
Myra, however, failed to take note
of the one connecting link among the
women. Each one carried a huge sew
ing bag and everyone from old Mrs.
McCane's worn brown lining mon
strosity to the wealthy Mrs. Van
Eaton's creation of satin and ribbon
was overlooking with its burden of
brown and gray yarn and partially
finished garments for Uncle Sans
soldier boys.
Myra yawned and turned lazily to
q book inzher lap, but somehow she
could not get interested. A coming
party was uppermost In her mind and
she was having rosy visions of her
self in the new satin gown which she
had ordered just that morning. She
was wondering If she could get slippers
to match the delicate hue of her dress
material, and if she had better have
her hair done by a hair dresser or trust
to her own nimble fingers to get just
the correct amount of wave into the
glossy strands of bronze. Pleasant
reveries were interrupted by the In
sistent peal of the telephone bell.
Her eager greeting Of her dearest
chum was cut short in Mortified dis
may.
"Cut out the party? Surely, you
must be mistaken, Dora-why l or
dered my dress today. On account OF
the war? My soul. This old war makes
me tired. 1 don't see what this country
got into it for, anyhow. / wish to
goodness 1 lived in a warless age
What's that-make comfort
bags instead of dancer Well, Of all
the nonsense. No, I won't help. 1t
makes me tired. Nc, I said, Dora.
BY"
Myra returned to her easy chair,
pouting dreadfully. She caught up the
book she had tried to read and flung
it to a far corner of the library table.
Her childish spite thus appeased, she
slumped down into the ,luxuriant
depths of the chair and sulked herself
to sleep.
Her brother awakened her later by
f1inging the morning newspaper into
her lap. Myra turned lazily to the
woman's page and read the fashion
talk first. Then she skinned the love.
lorn letters and read the next chapter
In a thrilling serial Of love and adj
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
Cold Drinks Bad .
for Your Stomach
How to Avoid the Digestive Miseries
That Hot Weather Brings

Gold drinks in hot weather are bad
enough for any stomach but doublyso,
in fact, dangerous--when the stomach
is out of fix and you suffer from indi-
gestion, acidity, food-repeating, heart
burn, sour stomach, and that awful
puffed-up, bloated condition after eat
ing. In fact, all stomach and bowel
miseries r greatly aggravated in hot
weather. You can't be too careful.
Sunstroke can be traced ia many cases
to poor digestion. Everyone should
watch their stomach In hot weather.
Keep it sweet and cool. Here is an
easy and pleasant wayto correct stom-
ach ills. A compound has been dis
covered which surely takes up the
harmfuljuices and gasesfromthestom-
mach, leaving it sweet, clean, cool and
comfortable. You won't know you
have a stomach If you take one or two
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-01
WOMEN FARMING IN
WESTERN CANADA
Success Has Followed All Their
Efforts.

On the train from Edmonton to Win
nipeg the writer took a seat beside a
soldier who had returned from tho
front. On his breast he wore the
beautiful distinguished service medal.
One coat sleeve was armless, and on
his left cheek he bore q scar that he
would carry to his grave. He had
served his country faithfully and WELL
At the first call for soldiers In August
1914, he fastened to the recruiting
office, leaving his 320-acre farm, with
it's crop ready for harvest, q fun
equipment of farm implements, plenty
of horses, and a wife. The wife should
not be last on the list for size proved
the master of the situation, and 10y
ally took hold of the question OF pro-
duction, while her husband was On HIS
way to fight the Hun. And b sue
ceeded. In 1915 she succeeded, and
again in 1915, and when her husband
returned In 1917 she IA able to show
some contemplated farm buildings
completed, the indebtedness Of the farm
paid off, q considerable addition TO the
stock, and the land ready for a 1917
crop. This was the story told by tina
| soldier, and wasn't he a proud mani
He was now ready to do what he could
to keep up the period OF prosperity
and provide food for the allies. Tbs
women of Canada have done n0bIy
during the struggle.
Among the most successful farmers
Of the Oak Lake district, Manitoba
are the Misses Clara and Beatrice For
ward, who, for the past fourteen years.
have farmed their own land, doing all
the regular work ON the farm. such az
! blowing, seeding, summer following
and reaping. They have been espe~
cially successful with stock, and rave
a splendid herd of ~shOrthOrnss both
purebred and grade. At the recent
Brandon sale they purchased a new
purebred stock bull for 500. Their
herd was last year increased by "a
calves.
Miss r. M. Hillrnan Of Keller Sas-
k%atchewan, Is another successful
woman farmer. She has gone tn ex-
tensively for grain growing, and farms
1,12O acres. She also owns sone OF
the finest Percheron horses I'm Sas~
katchewan.
The prairie 20 boasts OF many
women who have had more on less sue
cess, though few are farming on the
same large scale as Miss Hillman and
the Misses Forward. These
have demonstrated, and are still dem
onstrating, that a versatile woman
may be just as good and successful a
farmer as her brother.
There are other women, too, on the
Canadian prairies, who, though they
have not had thrown upon them the re-
sponsibilities Of running n farm"
have been decided factors In masking
the farm a success. They assist their
husbands by keeping the farm ac-
counts, reducing the grOcer's bills nv
their management of the poultry and
butter, taking care Of the house. and.
very often, proving good advisers tn
the economic management of the men
and general conduct Of the farm work.
The man who moves to Canals TAR
ries with him a wonderful asset In q
good managing wife.--AdVertasemeut.