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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-06-26

prisoners which had been taken
in the battle of Lake Erie were
being disembarked from Commo-
dore Perry's vessels. The regi-
ment was embarked in small
boats and transported to one of
the Sister Islands, where it. was
encamped for two or three days.
From this Island it was removed
to Canada and engaged in the
BATTLE of the Thames on October
5th, 1913. On the 10th of Octo.
Der, the regiment arrived at
Sandwich, Canada, opposite De-
troit, Michigan In a few days
it arrived at Portage, where its
horses had been left and it de-
parted from Portage on it's re-
turn to Kentucky on October
21st. 1913.
1t will be observed that Thorn
as W. Atkinson, David Doke,
Zachariah Holiday, Robert M.
Johson and Richard Perkins had
already served in the company
of which Capt. John Butler was
captain, in a campaign in Indiana
and Illinois, while VIM. R. Price,
Michael Mckinley, VIM. Lawson
Hiram Hancock, Jesse Clark,
John Bryant and John White
had already seen service in the
same war as members of Capt.
John W. Shirley's company,
which made a campaign in Ohio.
The members of Capt. Atkin.
sons company nave all long age
joined the silent majority, but
many of them left descendants,
whose posterity yet reside ir
Adair county. The writer per
sonaIly knew but one of these
soldiers, George Young, who re-
sided for many years and died il
the decade between 1870 anC
1880, upon a farm upon the wat
ers of Glensfork, of Russell
Capt. Thomas w. Atkinson was
a lawyer, as appears from the
records Of the courts. Chapman
Dohoney resided near Milltowr
and in after years became a very
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-06-26
SKETCHES OF ADAIR
COUNTY.
Historical and Biographical thai
viii be OF Interest TO all
Readers Of the News.
BY JUDGE II. G. BAKER.
NJ o.
BY JUDGE ii. c. BAKER.
No. 81.
ADAIR COUNTY IN THE WAR OF
} 1812-1S15.

There was, also, attached to
this army a battalion under Ma
jor Henry Rennick and another
under Major Toussaint Dubois.
The entire force was under the
command of Gen. Samuel Hop
kins, whose headquarters were
at Vincennes, Indiana. The
troops were marched from Louis
vile to Vincennes, and on Octo-
Der 10th. General Hopkins set
out at their head to attack the
towns of the Kickapoo and Peoria
Indians, which were upon the
Illinois river, The former was
about eig hty miles and the latter
about one and twenty miles from
Vincennes. After crossing over
the Wabash river, it was discov-
cred that the guides were unac-
quainted with the country and
the soldiers suspected them of
treachery. The food and forage
gave out, and the men became
greatly dissatisfied with the
leadership of General Hopkins,
and evidently their officers coin.
cided with them in their views.
The reasons for their discomfort
and dissatisfaction have not been
remembered, but taking advan.
tage of the fact that their term
of enlistment had expired on the
18th day of October, on the Goth,
they openly mutinied and refus-
ed to proceed further or to obey
any command of General Hop
kins. Hopkins called for five
hundred volunteers, who would
continue the campaign, but not a
man volunteered. The army
then proceeded to march back to
Vincennes and reached Fort Har-
rison, near Terre Haute, on the
25th.. Hopkins followed after
them and at this point disbanded
and discharged them. Here he
organized another army of three
: regiments Of Kentucky militia,
of which coIonels Phillip Bar
bour, Nicholas Miller and Wilcox
were the commanders, respect
lively. Many of the Adair coun-
ty men reenlisted in these regi-
ments, which. during the month
of November following, returned
to the country of the Indians and
destroyed the Prophets Town,
consisting of one hundred and
sixty houses and containing all
the Indians winter store of pro.
visions. They. also, destroyed
other towns and villages of the
Indians and returped to Vim
cennes on November 25th.
There is no record extant o.
the memb5fship of Col. Wilcox
regiment. Probably many o
the members of Capt. Butler
company served in this regiment
tradition has existed in tn,
Montgomery family, in Adai
county, that the William Mont
gon1ery, who appears on the rol
J, of Capt. Buffers company, wa
at the burning of the Prophet
Town. Evidently, after the dis
charge of Capt. Buffers com
pany at Fort Harrison, VIM
Montgomery enlisted and serve
to the end of the war in som
other regiments or regiment
since the writer has heard Rob
ert M. Montgomery and Capt
--t ------ -
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To be continued next week.

There are two ways to win
this war. The first is to work
hard, and the other one is to
keep at it.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-06-26

this William Montgomery was
their brother, and after they
had returned from the New Or
leans campaign to Adair county,
in the summer of 1915, that their
brother was then serving as a
soldier some where in the North
Western country, and had not at
that time returned to his home
since he had departed as a men,
Der of Capt. Buffers company,
in September, 1872, but that dur
ing the fall of the year, 1915,
while the family was sitting be-
fore the fire at night, with the
doors of the house closed. the
family dog gave warning of the
approach of some one by bark
ing, and in a moment they could
hear footsteps approaching the
door of the house. The mother
sprang up and clapping her
hands together, and in an ex-
cited voice, cried out: There is
William. The door was opened
and sure enough it was William.
CAPT. THOMAS w. ATKINsoN'S co.
Of the troops which rendez-
voused at Newport, Kentucky,
on August 31st, 1913, and which
composed the army which Gov
ernor Shelby led to Canada, and
which fought the battles of the
Thames and performed the other
services in that campaign, was
the company from Adair county,
which was commanded by Capt.
Thomas W. Atkinson. This
company was a part of Col. Hen
ry Renick's regiment of Volun-
teer Mounted Militia. The Off
GERS of the company, besides
Thomas W. Atkinson, Captain,
were Joseph M. Hays, lieutenant,
Elijah Stapp, Jr., ensign: John
H. Sneed, Geo. E. Elliott, Ga.
brieI Jones, and Aaron Trabue,
LIST, End, 3rd, and 4th sergeants,
respectively; while Benjamin
Smiles, James Edmund, James
Armes and Lyngum Selby were
the LIST, End, 3rd and 4th corpo.
rails, respectively. The private
soldiers of the company were
Solomon Armstrong, John Ash
worth, Sherwood Atkinson. VIM.
Bennett, Joseph Bishop, Isaac
Bradshaw, Alexander Bryant
John Bryant, VIM. Caldwell, Jes'
Sc Clark, Chas. Coates, James
Coates, John Creel, Chapman
Dohoney, David Doke, Hiram
Hancock, John Harrison, Mich
ael Harrison, VIM. Hayes, Zach
ariah Holiday, Robert M. John
son, James Jones, Marshal
Kemp, VIM. Lawson, Michae
Mckinley, VIM. P. Moss, Rich
ard Perkins, Gideon H. Price
VIM. R. Price, Benjamin B. Ray
Isaac Robertson, Henry Roller
(probably Roland) Nicholas Sci
I by, Daniel Self, Haskins Trabue
Jesse White, John White, ant
George Young.
Col. Henry Renick was a citi
zen of Barren county and hi
regiment. including Capt. Atkin
sons company, was organizes
at Urbana, Ohio, on August 31st
1913. The arms and supple
for the regiment were Furnishes
from. an arsenal at Newport, XIV
Lieut.. Joseph M. Hays and Sher
wood Atkinson, of Capt. Atkin
; sons comnanV. were the adm
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
WRITE TO THEM!"

New York, Feb. Fl.
Tell the women of America to write
| letters to their men at the front,-and
then more letters. It's home-letters
that hold the front-line trenches"
! This is the message brought back to
| America by Captain H. H. Pearson, the
! first Canadian to go to France after
| war was declared, and the first to see
service with Kitchener's army. Later
he was wounded when a bomb struck
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton headquarters at Belgian Poper-
inghe, of which he was in charge. He
has seen hundreds of men go over the
top, and a lesser number come back
again. He has been over the top and
come back again. Both from exper.
fence and from observation he knows
what it is that puts heart into soldiers
when they stand near the edge of No
Mans Land, with the shells bursting
around them.
For two years, Capt. Pearson, as a
commissioner officer Of the Canadian
Army, has supervised the Young Mems
Christian Association work along the
entire Canadian front in France. He
was wounded twice and 'gasSed" and
has now been sent home by the Canad-
ian Army to tell the folks back home
of the conditions "over there
So Captain Pearson, a big. modest
man, with as untroubled smile as if
he had never heard of worldwar.
but with remembering eyes that all
men have when they come back from
it, has good deal to say of woman's
plain duty in war time.
Write to Him and Do 1t often.
Write to them!" he urges. "1f you
have a relative or friend at the front
write to him. and do it often. Let
tiers from strangers don't count, of
course, but the others-no one can
say how much they matter. Why do
you suppose that the Young Mems
Christian Association spends thous-
ands of dollars every month for paper
and ink? 1t isn't SO much because
we are thinking of the home-folk;
they must look out for themselves in
time of war. We want those letters
written so that the mothers and the
sisters and the wives and the sweet
hearts back home may answer them
as soon as possible. It's the answers
we are interested in, because we
know how those letters in the familiar
handwriting are going to help win
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
PREBLE COUNTY
TEACHERS WILL
MEET SATURDAY
Meeting of Teachers at Eaton
Will Be Home Affair.

EATON. o., Feb. 12-Addresses and
other features Of meeting Of the
Preble County Teachers association.
TO be held Saturday in West Alexan-
dria, In the high school auditorium,
will be supplied by persons living in
the county, the meeting to be strict
Iva home affair" The following pro-
gram is announced:
Morning session, 9:30-Invocation,
Rev. J. w. Miller, West Alexandria;
piano solo, Byron Young; 1.-THE Ne
cessity and Value Of High School Ath-
letics," F. o. Grasshoff; Measuring
the Work OF the Public Schools" Reu-
ben Koch: Teaching Children How to
Study" Miss Zetta Huber, director
Of county normal school; Elementary
Science" c w. Walters. of Eaton;
THE Relative Attitude OF Teacher and
Pupil" Miss Anna Grouse. West Al.
exandria school Life" F.. E. Rine-
hart, president West Alexandria Board
of Education; intermission; "Qualifi.
cations of Good Member of Board Of
Education" Alfred Murray, president
Jefferson Township Board Of Educa-
ton; "The Press and the Country
Schools" Editor Ralph r. Raney, New
I Paris: value OF School Exhibits"
Miss Gertrude McShane, Camden; ITO
What Extent Should the School Gen.
Germ Itself With the Social Life OF the
Pupils" Miss Mary Swartzel, West
Alexandria; Mental Arithmetic" At
torney f. S. Dye. Eaton; domestic
science department of West Alexan-
dria schools will serve lunch at noon.
Afternoon session, 100 o'clock
1.-The, Teaching OF History and the
War;" E. H. Young; "Parent-Teachers
Association Mrs. Bertha Larsh; "The
Challenge OF the Crowd" e. c. Eiken-
berry, president Preble County Board
of Education: THE Medical Examina-
ton of School Children" DR.. S. P. Car
ter, member West Manchester Board
OF Education: THE War and the
Schools W. S. Pin..erton, clerk of
Israel township Board of Education;
Should Grade Pupils Study at
Home?" Mrs. Blanche Shively; inter
mission; violin solo. Eugene Derby,
West Alexandria; How Can the
Schools be Of Greater Service to the
Community" G. S. Dennison; "Ele-
mentary Civics in the Grades" John
OLeary, superintendent Eaton
schools; Teaching Latin in the High
School," Miss Zelma Nunnamaker;
Shall Teachers be Paid When Schools
Are Closed on Account of No Fuel"
G. w. Mcintosh, West Alexandria:
Army Life at Camp Sherman, Z. E.
Mcclellan; adjournment.
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tive Esch said. Including operating
expenses, taxes and interest and regu
lar dividends on outstanding stock
Any surplus above such payment
ought either to go to the government
to aid It in meeting the guarantee, OF
be equally divided between the ownerl
and the government.
"The minority also believe that the
rate making power should remain il
the hands of the interstate commercs
commission 1t is the one body urdef
our government. that has had the reg
ulation OF railroads, including theft
rates, in charge. 1t is not necessary
to give to the president, even In time
OF war, the power to initiate rates. No
other nation at war has changed it,
rate making power. No other nation
has given to single individual this
power, not even autocratic Germany.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
Home Letters Hold Front-Line
Trenches Says Wounded Officer

the DatLle,
Americans will never see the most
terrible part Of the war, Captain Pear
son declared
THE most terrible part of the war
was that first winter of 1.-THE end
of 1914, the beginning Of 1915" he
said. During that first winter Of the
war, when the enemy marched against
us with machine guns and all the mod
ern instruments of warfare, and we
had no guns, no ammunition, nothing
but sheer strength of will to so on
it was really the letters from home
that held the lines for us. We did il
because the home-folk expected US to
do it, and said so in their letters.
You may say that this is all senti.
ment. Well, this is war of senti-
ment. It's sentiment that took us
over there to fight, and it is sentiment
that is taking you Americans.
Anyhow, soldiers are like that
I've known some of them that haven't
gotten a word from home in all the
time they have been gone, more than
three years now. 1t may have been
because their women were slackers,
and it may have been because their
letters had gone astray. They were a
very different lot, as a rule, from the
chaps who got letters from home regu-
larly and they went into the fight with
different spirit.
Sometimes a boy who hadn't heard
from home for two years or more
would get his letters at last, lot of
them in bunch. You ought to have
seen his face when he saw his name
on the envelope, and knew that those
letters were for him. You ought to
have seen how many times he. got
those letter out and re-read them,
when he thought no one was looking!
You ought to have seen the vim with
which he went into the next battle!"
Tell Him The News.
What kind of letters should the
home-folk write to the soldier at the
front? Literary quality isn't the thing
most needful in them, of course. Per
haps the best of them all are the ones
packed full of little homely details
accounts of the new neighbors across
the street, aid of the words the baby
has learned to say, and Of how jim
my is growing out of all his clothes,
and getting to look more like his dad
dy every day-and if he just grows up
to be half so good man it will be all
right. These are the letters that are
oftenest re-read by the soldier before
he goes over the top, just common
place letters that tell of everyday hap
penings back home and of the love
and the trust that are in keeping for
him there.
Don't Blur Letters With Tears
Certain other types of letter ought
never to be sent to the men at the
front. One is that written by the self
ish or thoughtless woman whose
closely written pages are blurred with
her tears, and taken up with her own
sorrow in having her soldier so far
from home, and her plea for him to
come back at once, since everything
is going wrong without him. One Of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton secretaries in France tells of
promising young chap who came back
from leave with every appearance of
having been drinking heavily.
You see," the young soldier told
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21

This story is plea to the folks
back home to write to their sol
diers wherever they may be and
to keep on writing.
Without the mail from home the
Canadian troops could never have
endured the horror of the terrible
winter of 1914-15, when though cut
numbered and out-armed, they held
at bay on their sector the Kaiser's
trained troops and helped save
World Democracy.
From practically every man in
close touch with the troops comes
the appeal to do everything pos
sible to get the folks back home to
write. They urge that the home
folk be asked to write now and to
keep on writing, that they do not
wait for an answer, but send letters
regularly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21

ton man. Il got letter from my mot
ner, and she was so worried about my
going wrong over here, and SO sure
that | had inherited alcoholic tenden-
| c1es from my father that | got des-
rerately blue, and went on spree to
forget all about It,"
Moral Conditions Are Good.
Moral conditions in the army are a
great deal better than is commonly
/ reported, Captain Pearson said. No
mother, he thought, needed to worry
more about her soldier-son on this
score than she would il he were any
where else. The army is as safe a
place for boy as can be found. But
the hometown across the seas seems
long way from the shell-scarred
/ field in France, and there is little to
remind man of the home-standards
and concentrations in the strange
new life within range of the bursting
shells. He needs letters from his
family to do it. In maintaining high
| moral conditions, as well as in keep
ing the morale of the army what It
should be. Captain Pearson believes
that letters from home play a larger
Men don't talk much about home
sickness, end perhaps women don't
understand just how lonesome life is
for them over there" he said. 1--WE
seen big, rough soldiers, the most
hardened ones in camp, turn all wom-
an when it came to cuddling some
French youngster who happened to
be about the place, some baby that
En cf ~,
or that they imagined looked like one
OF their own. It's the unusual soldier
Mems Christian Association worker
snapshots Of his girl back home, or a
picture of his mother, or OF his chill
dren"
All women want to help in war
time. The trouble is that most of them
would like to so over to France, or
in some way to give personal service
to the soldiers. But the real way to
be OF aid is to do ordinary, unspectac-
ular things over here, to send their
men off cheerfully, and to write the
kind of letters that keep them of good
courage.
Get Ready to do Mems Work
There is very little that women
can do for our soldiers over there
SdPt0Iu cd1SO ucCIdTSu. w nat Tue
American women ought to be doing
now, in my opinion, is to be getting
ready to do mems work, in case of
war lasting a long time. In France
you will see them busted with almost
every task that men formerly did,
hitched to the pillow in the fields, driv-
ing the motor cars in the cities, doing
almost everything you can mention,
brave, devoted women who are every
whit as good soldiers as their men at
front. In Canada and in England it
is almost the same; there are few men
left at home, and the women must do
the work.
When 1t comes to sending home
boxes to the soldiers overseas. WON
en- should DE sure that they send gifts
that are needed land that won't spoil
en- route. A lot of junk merely clut-
tiers things up for the soldiers there.
But letter is a gift that is always
timely, and never in the way
War just shows how wonderful
| women can be. But sometimes they
don't understand how lonesome SOL
diers get, and how far from every
thing they feel over there on the bor-
der OF No Mans Land. They wait
for answers to their letters, and don't
stop to figure out that they are neg
lecting one of their wartime jobs.
Write to them"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
CONTRIBUTED VERSE
A TOAST

A TOAST
Here's to that flag, that grand old flag,
That starry flag of the red, white
and blue.
Here's to that flag, that proud old flag,
'fis emblematic of all that is true.
Here's to that flag. my flag-your flag,
sProclaiming to the world. Democracy
rs superior to Autocracy!
Glorious flag. wonderful flag,
When this most frightful, bloody war
is DER.
May you as you wave, mean peace
evermore.
. Mrs. Russell Wiley.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
ALL UTILITIES
Tcontinued From Page one.1

the minority of the committee declar-
ed the proposed rate Of compensation
is too high; that the power to initiate
rates should rest with the Interstate
Commerce Commission, rather than
with the president and that the roads
should be returned to their owners one
year or less after the proclamation OF
peace, instead of two years as propos-
ed by the house bill.
Owners of our railroads should be
content to receive guarantee of pay
ment of all fixed charges" Representa-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
CONSTANT SUFFERER FINDS
RELIEF

T have been a constant sufferer from
kidney trouble and three months ago
was down sick in bed for my back
ached so severely I couldn't get up"
writes C. F. Reynolds. ALP Herrick ST..
Elmira. N. Y. While in this condi-
ton we read of Foley Kidney Pills so
commenced taking them. In a few
days l was up out Of bed" Foley Kid
ney Pills strengthen kidneys and blad-
der. Recommended for backache. rheu-
matte pains. sore muscles. stiff joints.
For sale by A. G. Luken & Co.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
Economy School Pupils
Will Honor WASHINGTON

ECONOMY, Ind, Feb. 21.-A pa
triotic entertainment will be given by
the Economy schools at the Methodist
church Friday evening. The program
will include plays by the different
rooms, drills and music An admiss-
ion of 10 cents and 20 cents will be
charged. the proceeds of the entertain
ment to go toward paying for the ad-
ditional Fairgrounds for the school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21

Persons may register at any time
for work in any department of the
night school Those who register
early. however, will receive more
credit in the work than others.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
SCOUTS WILL MEET

Scout Master Schaluch will meet all
boys of Scouts OF Troop Three Satur.
day ut the high school. The boys Will
enjoy hike.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
April. Persons may register witt
Principal Carman at any time,

An art teacher will be secured for
the Art department. The appointment
will be made Friday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21

The automobile class meets Monday
evening in the lunch room.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
Might School Echoes

Kent Morse will have charge of the
French classes and Miss Grace Wood
yard will have charge Of the beginners
and advances classes in Spanish.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21
Court Records
MARRIAGE Licenses.

Homer Arthur Bertsch, 30, farmer.
Cambridge City, to Mary Daphne
Daley, 81, Milton, Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-21

The following corps of teachers will
have charge of the classes; Benjamin
Null, public speaking; Miss Margaret
O'Neil, typewriting; l.. B. Campbell,
stenography; L. A. Newgard, book
keeping: G. c. Sipple, commercial
arithmetic; Miss Margaret Wicke-
meyer, gymnastics; Kent Morse,
French; Grace woodward. Spanish; C.
O. Mays. drafting; Mrs. Theodore
Roberts, sewing; Miss Mable Keller,
sewing; Mrs. Clifford Bennington and
Miss Ruth Bartel, millinery: J. H. Will
Jams and William Saunders, auto
mobile: Miss Agnes Osborn, practical
nursing; e. r. Murphy, gardening.
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Mrs. Herbert Shipman.

Mrs. Herbert Shipman.
Mrs. Herbert Shipman. only heir
of Edison Bradley of New York and
Washington, has given part of her
New York mansion to the American
Red Cross for workrooms. She is
an active workers herself.