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Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-20
SPURNED BY WILSON
Will Entertain no Offer From
Huns for Discussion

The Austrian government has
askeda meeting of representatives
from the belligerent nations for a
discussion of peace terms. The
request, however, has meet with
no favor from the allies. 1t is
believed to be a scheme of Ger
many to get some advantage. The
porpossal came to the United States
and was Internationally rejected
by President Wilson. In doing
so this government spoke for all
the cobelligerants. On receipt of
the Austrian note Secretary Ian
sing was derected to issue this
formal statement:
i am authorized by the presi-
dent to state that the follwing will
be the reply from this government
to the Austro- Hungarian note pro-
posing an official conference of bel
ligerents: The government of the
United States feels that there is
only one reply which it can make
to the suggestion of the imperial
Austro-H Hungarian government. 1t
has repeatedly and with entire can
dor stated the terms upon which
the United States would consider
peace, and can and will entertain
no proposal for a conference upon
matter cncerning which it has
made its position and purpose SO
plain.'n
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-20
With Local Board

Hurbert McGill Whithorn,
Charles Byron Thomas and Albert
Jones Butler reported here We'd
nesday to entfain for Clemson Col
Iege in South Carolina. They go
for special work.
Twenty-four negroes have been
called to report here between Sep
TENDER % and 26 to leave for
camp to train for regular service.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-20
Lusk--Little

Mr.. Frank Lusk and Miss Ad-
die Little were married last week.
The ceremony was said by Squire
W. E. Robinson, this being his first
marriage ceremony since his Undue.
ton into the magistrates Office. A
large number of young people we're
present, and accompanied the
groom to the home of his mother,
Mrs. Melvina Lusk, in the First
district, where a splendid wedding
supper was served. The bride is
the daughter of w. A. Little, of
the Whitthorne community, and is
a fine young lady. The groom is
a successful farmer and a most ex-
cellent young man. They will re-
side in the First district.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-20
plea to Patriotism

To Subscribers.to the Second Red
Cross War Fund,
Your subscription becomes de-
linouent if not paid by October l..
All who have not paid will call at
Bank of Huntingdon and set
tie with Neill Wright, cashier,
except those who subscribed
1t Trezeyant will settle with DR..
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-20

Earl Dill, progressive young
farmer on route 6. brought two
loads of cotton to Huntingdon last
week and sold them for over $500.
One load sold for $306, the largest
amount ever paid for a load of
cotton in Huntingdon.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-20

Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Moore, after
visiting Mrs. Moore's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. NJ. McAuIey. left the
first of the week for their new
home at Macon, Ga.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11
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LEG All. NOTICE

To Kate Smith, whose place Of resi-
denee IS Hazard, Ky, you will take
notice that The said plaintiff, did on
The 3d slav of September, A. p, 1913,
file petition against you IN the Conn
mon Pleas Court. Division of Donles-
tic Relations, Montgomery County, o.
praying for a decree Of divorce from
you, upon the grounds Of gross neg
leet Of duty, being cause No. 4S921.
You are required to answer her pc.
tion not later than six weeks after
this date Of the first publication q
this notice, to-wit, September &, 1918
or such divorce may be granted
CHAS. b. SMITH. Plaintiff.
Per M. II. Jones, His Attorney.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11
Program.

Program.
|. Chorus-8 to $40 b. m.
2. Song" America"
Chorus and Audience.
8. Invocation.
Rev. f. .. Day.
4. Remarks by Chairman.
Atty. William o. Stokes.
5. Song Star Spangled Banner
Recitation"O Old Glory"
Song French National Hymn.
Garfield School Pupils.
6. Address.
Harry Coleman.
z. solo--"A Call to ALL
Mrs. Essie Wilson.
8. Remarks.
DR.. johnson.
9. Address my Race, My Coun
try, My Flag
Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons.
10. Song Keep the Camp Fires
Burning
Chorus and Audience.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11


American, Greek-American. In tiEne
of peace our name is Negro and IN
time OF war, fellow citizen.
ssThis is Gods war. A chain break
ing war. My chains have to be
broken. No man can keep ns osat
of this war. cause no man is keeping
as out. The Germans did not pass
at the Marine, for 100000 colored
soldiers drove them back. The rea-
son the Kaiser said this was white
mans war for IL African Negroes can
do this, who can neither read noi
write. what will the American Me-
gro do?
II have the biggest job in the
world. speak for l0,00O,0o0 Ne
groes. in language that every one un-
derstands. Speaking for my country;
and for you. God teaches men 4, war
what they refuse to learn in peace
Let 'em fight Fifty years ago I
was nothing, nor was YOU. Tonight
am j man, What am | fighting
for? am fighting to introduce my
people into the polite society Of man
kind, used to sing Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot now sing "Star
Spangled Banner" / used to live IN
y log cabin, tonight | sleep under
5000 roofs / call home. What am
fighting for? Fifty years ago ! was
property of man, tonight my plow
turns on MILLIONS Of acres of land !
own. What am | fighting for? Fifty
years ago was naked to civilization.
tonight | am dressed. | am fighting
for the stars and stripes. Satisfied,
no regrets for the past and no fears
for the future. Death knows no color
line and bullets know no race.
aWhen Teddy Roosevelt wanted te
90 TO France, $4,000 Negroes put
their names on the book to go with
him. Just think, Teddy and $1,000
Negroes, wouldn't that have been aw-
full! | can see the kaiser now get
ting himself together.
when the talk was out that they
would put all Of the Negroes in the
front line to save the white troops,
that didn't worry me. We didn't go
over there to play. This is his time
to put his best foot foremost. They
say to me that / am from Africa and
ought to 90 back. We come by invi-
tation. 1t has been 300 years since
/ come from Africa, but it viii be
more than 300 years before / &C
back.
Sometimes they say this is not ou1
flag and country. Be still, press on
Once | was down and that flag stood
me on my feet. The Germans say
this is not my flag. Old Glory stood
me on my feet and wrote upon my
race the word Woman gave me
spelling book to write my name il
the book Of freedom; took me out OF
log cabins, put me in homes; put raj.
ments on daughters, put garments or
young men. Ours is the greatest flag
the flag that never touched the
ground. Did not ii put speeches or
the lips of Booker I. Washington ?
Did not it put marriage certificate
on the walls of my home and let ms
know who the father Of my children
were?
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11
MISSIONARY BOARD MEETING.

The Missionary Board of the Nor
wood Avenue Church Of Christ viii
meet at Mrs. Annie Howard's, Is
Louie street, Thursday evening, Oc-
tober 10th All members are re-
quested To be present.
Miss Mal4aia Hill, Pres.
Mrs. ]. N. Myers, seey.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11
The Students
Army
Training Corps
UNCLE SAM WILL SEND you
10 WILBERFoRCE UNIyER-
sITY, WILBERF0RCE, OHIO

Pay your board, room and tuition
and $4,000 per month, beginning Oct.
/, and give you military training under
an army officer.
Conditions
You must be a student enrolled IN
the college department, be is years
old and pass the physical examination
required of soldier,
The Purpose
TO get you IN line for commits
stoned officer or an expert in army
service BY giving you military train
ing while at the same time you are
given as much college education as
possible.
Fall session begins September 17th.
Enter at once if you wish to avail
yourself Of this rare opportunity.
For full particulars address w. $,
SCARBOROUGH President.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11
SPECIAL NOTICE.

All members Of the Benevolent
twenty-five club are requested tc
meet at the residence of Mrs. Dora
Hickman, 406 Norwood avenue, Mon.
day night, October 14th. Business d
Importance. BY order Of the presi
dent.
Mrs. Dora Hickman, President.
Mrs. Vernetta Smith, Secretary.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11

NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH
Corner Hartford and Costello SITS
Order of Services:
Preaching II q. n., and s p. m.
Sunday school $50 a. m. All are in
vited. Come.
DIR. e. j. ANDERSON, Pastor.
JOHN JONES, Clerk.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-11

ROOMS Furnished rooms with
bath. CaH at 4s Maple street Mrs-
aEamsia IEilioEk.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
Made Wife's Coffin.

No coffin to bury his loved one was
the experience of man living in Potts
vile, Pa, after his wife had passed
away victim of influenza. He is a
man with knowledge Of handling tools
and decent interment, so he purchased
the lumber for coffin at local lumber
yard, and built the same to the best of
his ability.
The question of procuring cofir
within his means was one that he could
not properly meet and yet refuse to &C
cept charity, hence, he took the above
course, then covered it with material
that took away the thought of laying
away his loved one in an indecent man
ner.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

ing into Switzerland and then fnts
Haute-Savoie. From there they went
to Lorraine. Nine. Pellier hoped that,
even though her village had been bonn
barded, her home might have escaped.
She found nothing except her bare
fields.
You changed that picture, you Amer
leans, who can never be bombarded,
who can never lose through war five
out of the seven dearest to you 1t
was not your husband and children
who died; not your wife who was
widowed; not your little ones who
came back, bony and tubercular, to
home that had vanished. Not yours
but only the grace Of accident saved
you, not yours, but It might have been
and so you changed the picture. You
could not build up with your own
hands that heap Of stones into a home,
nor till the fields, nor bring Nine. Pei
lier back to hope and the children
back to health. But through the Red
Cross you saved the remnants OF that
family that had suffered as you might
have suffered.
Things the Red Cross DID
You took the mother of Nine. Pei
lier to Red Cross hospital to be treat
ed for sanaemia. You took the little
girl, who was In the first stages OF
tuberculosis, to O Red Cross sani
tarium. You found place which
could be made habitable for Nine. Pei
lier near her fields which she was
anxious to till. You gave her clothes
and furniture; you got her seeds; you
lent her implements. You sent Wis
iting doctor to watch over her health
and that Of her little boy. You sent
nurses, who achieved the mighty VIC
tory of making her and the child take
baths. Later you persuaded her to let
him 60 to refuge not far away where
he might attend school and where she
could often visit him. Through the
help of your Red Cross hope and cour-
age and ambition have come back to
that woman, and she is rebuilding her
family life. The biggest thing one hui
man being can do for another you, II
you are a helper Of the Red Cross,
have done for that mother.
Red crossI saw Its work every
whore In Franes-in fields and In
blasted villages; In hospitals and
schools and clinics; In refugees and
vestIarlee for widows and orphans and
for the sick children Of soldiers fight
Ina to keep you safe from the enemy.
This symbol Of help has double
meaning now for Americans, who have
always taken for granted the blessing
of safety. It stands for your willing
ness to pay the price Of exemption, OF
pity, Of sympathy. A bitter, black
road this road Of war, but across 1t,
like a beacon Of hope, you have flung
the Red Cross.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

Teachers and all citizens interested
in the educational affairs OF the State
should arrange to attend the meeting o
the State Education Association to BIZ
held in the city OF Wheeling November
27-2eth. The discussions OF the ses'
sion will be grouped tbout two topics !!
Teaching the School Room Subjects"
and "The New School Code for West
Virginia" One new feature OF the
meeting will be the assembly singing
which will be In charge OF DR.. Hollis
Damn, head Of the Ithaca School Of
Music and author OF the "Dann Sys-
TEN" In use in the schools OF West Viz
ginia.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
Hagerstown Rate is Corrected.

After several months delay, the Nor
folk & Western passenger rate between
Shepherdstown and Hagerstown has at
last been reduced TO IS cents, the prop
er figure, the same becoming effective
last Wednesday.
After the new three-cent a mile rate
went into effect, the tariff clerk added
a half cent a mile to the then existing
rate, believing that We were then enjoy
ing the two and -a-half cent mile rate.
Several times,it is stated, the local
agent here has asked the railroad to
correct the error, and not much speed
being shown this paper short time ago
took the matter up with the regional di-
rector of railroads for this territory, and
at last we now save p cents each time
we make round trip to Hagerstown.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

stopping ten minutes for refreshments
at Red Cross Canteen.
Think of big cup of hot coffee and
wealth of man-sized ham sand
wiches served by the Red Cross-wo-
men with the Joy Of service In their
eyes. Think Of ten minutes for re-
treatments within sound of the guns
such refreshments served by such wo-
men. Did ever a weary lad have such
refreshments? Did ever a cup Of cot.
fee and sandwich taste 80 goodf
It is service like this, the supplying
Of "food that's got honey taste" at
q time when q mans spirits are likely
to be at lowest ebb, that moved Com
manding General Of the American
Forces to write on December 80: "The
extent Of the work Of the Red Gross
Is only limited by the number Of MEM
bers 1t has and the amount Of funds
available for its use"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
Found Her Home Coma

One Of the ways to say that man
Is good hearted Is to descend to ex-
pressive Americanese slang and say
"he'd give you his shirt"
A young Italian officer did exactly
that-gave the shirt off his back to a
baby Just born. 1t was during a flight
Of the Italian refugees just after the
italian army had been tricked BY the
AustrtanH.
Here's the storY;
An italian officer, who had been a
volunteer worker at the station when
the crush came through, walked into
the American Red Cross Office at Bo-
logna, Italy, and told Of a poor young
woman who had given birth to a baby
on the train In which he was riding
few nights previously. They had been
riding for over 16 hours, and the
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

pound nv husband wanted me to try It
{ took it for a week and felt little bet,
ter kept it up for three months, and
/ feel fine and can eat anytnng no"
without distress or nervousness. -Mrs'
]. WoRTHLME, 2S42 North Taylor ST.
Philadelphia Pa.
The majority of mothers nowadays
overdo. there are so many demands
upon their time and strength; the result
is invariably a weakened, rundown,
nervous condition with headaches, back,
ache, irritability and depression and
soon more serious ailments deveioP.
It is at such periods in life that LYDIA =;
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound VIII
restore a normal healthy condition, as
it did to Mrs. Worthline.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
On his death bed, Michael pismar,

On his death bed, Michael Pismar,
17-year-old mute, Of Kulpmont, Pa,
spoke for the first time in his life in
clear tones that could be distinctly
heard by members Of his family who
were crowded about the sick bed. He
died Of influenza few hours later. The
boy had been a mute since his birth
and had no occupation. His case was
so serious it was deemed advisable to
transfer him to the emergency hospital
in the Washington school. AS he was
lifted from his bed to be taken outside
and placed in the ambulance, he startled
all by saying, "Where are you going to
take me-" He died a short time after
entering the hospital.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

The new signal corps camp adjoining
the cantonment at Meade, has beer
named Camp Benjamin Franklin and
the next field for drill Franklin Field. Ii
is the largest signal corps training
grounds in the country The new bar
racks accommodate $4,000 men. Charles
Mohr, of Coopersburg, Pa, a conscient
ious objector, who refused to wear a
uniform even after a non combatani
position had been assigned him, has
been sentenced to Is years hard labor
at Fort Leavenworth.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
HE GAVE HIS SHIRT OFF HIS BACK
How an Italian Officer Travelling on Train
Helped New Born Baby.

wretchedly poor and disheartened
mother had been TANNED in with the
hundreds OF other frightened Italians
on the same train. Hungry, tired and
miserable and In a frightfully weak
ened condition. she had scarcely suffi-
cient clothes for herself, not to speak
Of properly caring for newborn babe.
The young officer stripped himself OF
his shirt, and there among this fright
ened, half starved, forlorn crowd the
poor Italian infant was wrapped In it,
first body covering.
Mother and babe were afterwards
nursed back to- health, clothed and
looked after by the American Red
Cross. And this is only one small, Is
olated incident among thousands that
come under the working Of the Red
Cross.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
Elmer Marpole and Clarence snapr

Elmer Marpole and Clarence Snapp,
Of Winchester, ran afoul the State Pro-
hibition officers at Berryville last
Wednesday night, and as result they
we're held by Magistrate Crow for ac-
ton Of the grand jury on charges Of
bringing liquor into the State. They
had 4S quarts in their possession The
State prohibition officers werein Charles
Town looking out for some bootleggers,
about whom they had tip. They over
heard the Winchester party talking in
restaurant. The State prohibition Of
fcers ran ahead Of the crowd out Of
Charles Town and nabbed them just in
side the Berryville corporation limits.
Justice Crow held the two men for the
grand jury. Two women who were with
the men were released, as no charges
were made against them.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

Your Labor C0untS-every ounce
Of work you do helps some soldier who
is fighting over therel This war IS beng
fought as truly in the household and IN
the workshop as it is in the trenches.
Some of our American women are
borne down physically and mentally,
by the weaknesses Of their sex. They
suffer from backache, dragging sensa-
ton, bearing-down pains, very nervous
and pain in top Of head. II they ask
their neighbors they will be told to take
Favorifs Prescription OF DR.. Perce's
which has been so well and favorably
known for the past half century.
Weak women should try it now. Don't
waitl Today is the day to begin. This
temperance tonic and nervine viii bring
vim, vigor and vitality. Send Dr.. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y, loc. for trial pkg. tablets.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

King George of England heard the
other night that Eagle Hut was over
crowded and hundreds of boys landing
from an American transport were on
the streets in London without stop
ping place. He sent word "Send 100
over to the palace for bed and break
fast" Secretaries secuted the streets.
found the men without rooms and sent
them to the palace in automobiles
furnished by the King and the Y. M. c.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
FULL VANISHED
HAM SANDWICH
What Ten Minutes for Re
treatments Means In
Modern War.

Think Of what refreshments mean
sover there" Think Of the Sammie or
the Poilu coming out Of the trenches
with q thirty-six hour leave Of abb
sence, getting aboard the train or mo-
tor on the L. o. C.-the Line Of Conn
nunication between the front and the
rear. Think Of these tired fellows
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
HUSBAND GONE SONS GONE :
HOME AND RELATIVES GONE
A Fact Story Telling Just What the Red Cross
Did for Mime. Pellier.
By an Eye Witness
MAUDE RADFORD WARREN

This Is the picture I saw last Janu'
airy In France,-and you have MERCK
fully changed It'll Color enough there
was-above, the eternal blue; in the
background. fields Of living green.
which the German shells could not
prevent from creeping back; In the
middle foreground. a long village
street 80 battered and burned that
It was merely canyon Of cream-col'
ored ruins. In front Of one little
broken house were four figures IN
black-an old woman, poking among
the fallen stones In q vain search Tor
bomethinS that could be used; a
younger woman, seated on what had
once been q doorstep, with her face
hidden in her arms; and a little boy
and girl, who stared, half frightened,
half curious, at the desolation about
them. The little boy held In his thin
hand Red Cross flag. All four were
pale and gaunt; the faces and bodies
Of the children showed none Of the
round curves that make the beauty Of
q child.
This Is their history, When the
war broke out, Nine Pellier, her
mother and her four younger children
were visiting her husbands mother In
the north Of France. Her husband
and two elder sons were at home In
Lorraine taking care Of the summer
crops. Then the warl The mother
in-law of Mime. Pellier was III and
could not be left Her old mother
was afraid to travel to Lorraine with
the full care Of the four children. Be-
fore they could all start together the
Germans invaded Bad news Is allow
ed to come into northern France, and
30 as the months passed Mime. Pellier
learned that her village home had been
bombarded and that her husband and
two sons had been killed. Except for
the Belgian Relief Commission, which
operates in northern France also, she
and her little ones would have starved
outright. At the best they were un-
dernourished. Then the great push
began, and hopes for France grew
high. But as the French soldiers adj
yanced they had to lombard the north
ern towns. Nine. Pellier begged the
Germans to let her 60 away with her
children-even into Germany. This
was refused. She tried to seek safety
In some cellar whenever there was q
bombardment. Nevertheless q shell
killed two Of her children.
Found Her Home Coma
Home gone; husband gone; brave
soldier sons gone; little, tender boys
torn into shredsl That woman's face
would have shown you what she had
suffered-her face against the batter
ed ruins the Germans had made. At
last she and her mother and her two
remaining children were repatriated.
They knew the infinite relief Of cross
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

An unusual condition was found at
the city and county Jail in Winchester
one day last week. Jailor Lewis E.
Armel and his wife were found to be i'll
Of influenza and the prisoners locked
in their cells with no food.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14

pAShAy AASSs
time. / went to q
doctor and he said
| had nervous indi-
gestion, which adj
ded to my weak
condition KEEP me
worrying most OF
the time and ne
said if / could not
stop that, 1 could
not get well: /!
heard so muchabout
Lydia E. Pinkham' g
"L.Il COro-