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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05

The following statements arc
from the Official Review OF the
First Year Of War, made public
bv the Committee on Public In
formation:
Total estimated expense OF the
United States Government In the
first year of war, without loans
to the allies, is $4,000, 278,679.07.
During the first year Of war
the United States Army has IN
creased in actual strength from
1924 officers and 202,510 enlisted
men to 123,8Ol officers and l.
52S.924 enlisted men. Strength
of the Navy today is nearly 2l,.
600 officers and 100000 enlisted
men; strength year ago was
1872 officers and 77,946 enlisted
men. The total number OF per-
sons now in the Naval Establish
ment exceeds 425, 900.
The first contingent of the ex-
peditionary forces landed safely
at a French port 88 days after
war was declared. American
troops went on the line for their
baptism of fire 1877 days after war
was declared.
Nearly $4,000 mechanics and
other civilian employees are work
ing at navy yards and stations.
More than 700 privately owned
vessels have been purchased or
chartered by the Navy.
Some 300 wooden mills are
working on Army contracts.
Over 10000, 900 pairs of shoes
have been ordered for the Army.
Treasury Department floated
$6,616,532,300 subscriptions to
Liberty bonds.
Loans to total Of So, 1882, 900,
600 had been made to cobelliger-
ent nations to end Of 1917.
Total weight Of steel thrown by
single broadside from the Penn
sylvania today us 1865 pounds
maximum broadside of largest
ship during Spanish American
War was $500 pounds.
Two weeks after war was de-
clared contracts had been made
covering the requirements of an
Army of 100000 men, this ma
teriaI comprising 100000 items,
More than 1000 manufact-
| urers bid for Navy business.
Total deaths in the Army from
April 6, 1917, to March IA, fol-
all causes, was reported by the
Adjutant Generals Office to be
1,191. Of this number, 1872 were
reported as killed in action and
237 died or were lost at sea. The
total number wounded in actor
was 404. Thirty-fve men have
been reported as missing; % o.
them are said to have been cap
tured. Casualties in the Navy
and Marine Corps from April
to December 81, 1917, include
naval officers and 139 enlisted
men, killed or died from wounds
No officers were reported a.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05
g" will smash the German line in France you will smash
that damnabe Hun propaganda at home. GEN. PERSfiING
COMMITTEES FIND PEOPLE ANXIOUS
FOR WAR WORK FUND PLAN.
All Names Pledge Sgners Will be Printed In This Bulletin
Weeky---See That Your Name Is on The List

The who
of the Vermion War Work
the who
usually
called every little while for War Work purposes
Savings and Thrift Stamps and Liberty Loans.
will have their a
confidently expected the list will practically
and the district your loyalty
by and having the list
pearing represents pledge
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05
cR11sH HUN PROPAGANDA

One doctrine or the other must
prevail either the German brutal
right Of might or the civilized
might of right-one or the other
must succumb in this conflict to
the death. And should it be the
German doctrine-then shall we
fall under the domination OF a
people that have robbed and
raped and looted and burned and
killed, that the "kultur" OF a
military oligarchy shall live.
Prussianism is devoid of honor,
truth, justice or mercy, as its own
acts have proved, and its defeat
is necessary first step for the
peace of the world and the free
dom of civilization.
For the safety of American In
situations it must be destroyed
for the safety of American free
dom, yours and mine and all OF
us.
Nor is the fighting all to be
done by our soldiers in France
and Belgium-there is fighting to
be done by the patriots at home.
Already we are invaded by
Germany; the boche advance is
in our midst as surely as though
it wore spike helmets instead of
the emblems Of the l. w. w. and
the pacifsts, speaking and writ
ing both German and English.
AS their spies and agents under
mined Russia, so also they seek to
shake the very foundation of this
republic through the contempt
ible route of intrigue and plot and
dissension breeding propaganda.
And directly and indirectly
they are working through some
of the German and a very few
American" newspapers, through
the LaFollettes, Stones, Varda-
mans, Hardwicks, Gronnas, Kit.
chins, Reeds, Hearsts, Riders
Starr Jordans, Lochners, Vie.
recks, and all the more ignorant
but equally disloyal Of the paci
fists-the /. w. w. rabble.
We must shut the mouth of Sc.
dition at home or else show our
selves recreant in the support. OF
our boys who have gone to
France and Belgium to help make
the world safe for democracy.
| And the world cannot be made
safe for democracy until we
crush the boche and his comforts
among us-the enemies within. .
| We are in the midst of war, ou1
war, the war Of every freeman
of every man and woman who
does not indorse cowardly muir.
derous assault upon the weak and
innocent, brutal injustice, and
Iatrocious acts; and if we would
Ipreserve the Stars and Stripes
and all they stand for We must
| fight the Huns abroad and the
pacifiists at home with all oul
strength.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05

WHAT We HAVE DONE
Colossal Tasks Accomplished BY the United States During the First
Year Of War.

wounded in action, but 10 en-
listed men were so reported.
Government now operates $780,.
900 miles Of railway, employing
1,O00,600 men and representing
investment of SIT, 100000, 900.
Bonds, certificates of indebted
ness, war-savings certificates, and
thrift stamps issued by the Treas
ury up to March IL totaled &c..
$50, 1902, O52.96.
The United States Government
had loaned to foreign Govern
mcnts associated in the war or
March IL, 1918, So, 436, 1929, $50.
To March II the War-Risk In.
surance Bureau had issued poll.
eics for total Of $12, 465, 116, 500
to the armed forces.
AIlotments and allowances to
soldiers and sailors dependents
paid by the Government in Feb.
ruary amounted to $19,976,543.
The Ordnance Department
manufactures about 100000 items
One type Of gun with it's carriage
has 1890 parts, exclusive of ac-
cessories.
For training troops in canton
ments 1000, 100000 rounds Of am.
munition have been bought.
The Navy has developed an
American mine believed to com.
bine all the good points of vari-
ous types of mines, and is manu-
featuring them in quantities.
Army medical training schools
have been created with capacity
Of $1,000 officers and men-15.-
600 enlisted men and 5000 Off.
GERS already trained and gradu.
ated.
Naval communication service
operates all radio service; 5000
youths are studying radiotelegra
ply at two naval schools.
M e d ic a officers numbering
1,675 are members of the Medical
Department Of the Navy. Navy
maintains $4,000 hospital beds
and 5000 are being added.
Of 63,203 candidates for off
GERS commissions at two officers
training camps 44,578. were sue
cessful; a third series is now ii
progress with $4,000 attendance.
| During the year the latest type
| Of naval 16.inch gun was com
pleted for our new battleshirs; i
throws a projectile weighing 2,
leo pounds.
When war was declared, IL:
naval vessels were building or all
thorized, and contracts have beer
placed since that time for 949 yes
sells.
Before the war a total of ST. 500,
600 had been appropriated for al
service. Congress has made $691,
600, 900 available for aircraft pro
! duction in first year of war.
/ Over 20 large companies ar
manufacturing airplanes, Is ar
producing engines, and more thai
400 are producing spare parts, &C
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05
GASOLINE

Unless this stuff is indispens-
able to your business or house.
hold avoid its use. One pint Of
gasoline will impregnate 200 GU
bic feet of air, and make it ex-
plosive. When used at all, it
should be handled by daylight
only. Keep it outside of the
building, in an alright can,
painted red and marked "Gaso-
line" Never keep in glassware
or uncOrked receptacle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05
cessories and supplies.

cessories and supplies.
Naval training camps have a
capacity Of 100000 in summer,
$4,000 men in winter.
In Is environments 650,000,000
feet Of lumber were used.
Paymaster General of the Navy
drew checks for more than $50,
100000 in one day-February %
for munitions; total advertised
purchases for the Navy for 1915
were $19,000,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05

War is making bare the
worlds cupboards; the granaries
are being emptied, the flocks thin
ned, the herds butchered, the
mines scraped. War is making
everything dear except human
life. The destructive monster is
consuming more food than it is
producing. Want follows hard in
the wake Of war and the whole
world is threatened with hunger
the menace of which will become
greater with the prolongation Of
nostilities. Victory will go to the
combatants who are best fed and
nourished. The food question is
paramount. Food production is
as essential to victory, as food
saving. THE SPADE AND THE
HOE MUST BEFRIEND THE
RIFLE AND THE BAYONET.-
From a statement by the British
Ministry Of Food.
| The monthly per capita con-
sumption Of wheat -four was or
dered reduced to six pounds in a
proclamation issued by the ma
tional food administration this
week. The reduction is necessary
the food administration states if
the shipments of wheat to our
soldiers and the allies are to be at
all adequate and the people at
home are to have even this
limited quantity of wheat for
their own use during the period
from now until the present year S
crop is harvested.
From now until harvest no ef-
fort must be spared that will re-
suit in the saving of wheat, :" says
A. d. Wilson, federal food admin
istrator for Minnesota, "and for
tunately there is every indication
that there will be an abundance
of substitutes, as mills are chang
ing constantly to milling either
barley, corn or rice. The $3.50
rule must be rigidly observed and
everyone should cut down his
consumption of wheat -four to the
limit. The meat situation is con-
siderably relieved and we can use
meat, except beef and pork on
Tuesday, whenever it will result
in the saving of wheat. Generous
use of potatoes and gravy will un-
doubtedly reduce the consump-
ton of bread. This is the best
/ time Of the year for a shortage of
bread supplied because it is the
season when eggs and dairy pro-
ducts are abundant and fresh
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-05

Shortly, after the Winton list
arrived another from one of the
committees at the Pioneer mine put
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-19
Sandhills Section Has
Good Crops; Indians
Make Fine Showing

John Bachelor, leading cattleman
of the sandhill section, is here from
Valentine, marketing the last OF a
string of 4,500 head of steers which
he has grazed in the sandhills, Pine
Ridge and Rosebud agencies this
year. u
Conditions in the -sandhills were
fine this year." said he. I'VE cut the
normal crop of hay and the grass
has been fine in its quality. Wheat,
corn, potatoes and other crops have
turned out excellently and our peo-
pie have proved that our section is
no longer the remnant of the Great
American Desert
a was at the Indian fair at the
Rosebud agency recently and saw a
really wonderful exhibit of the grain,
root and grass crops raised on the
reservation by Indians. 1t was a
revelation. Indians have gone to
farming quite extensively on the
rich bottom lands and benches, es-
pecially along the White river.
THE showing they made would
have been credit to the richest
agricultural counties of the south
eastern part of the state and the
contributions of food stuffs they
have made to the general program
for winning the war, during the
present season, show they are real
patriots at heart as we'll as in prac-
| tice"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-19
RAIL MEN LAND
JOBS ON THEIR
FORMER ROADS
Government Control Does Not
Necessitate IdIeness on the
Part of Former Omaha
Officials.

Railroad passenger men of Oma-
ha, who were automatically re-
: moved from their positions when
the government took over the oper-
alton of the roads and discontinued
many offices, are gradually landing
good jobs, and mostly with he
roads they formerly represented.
John P Cummins, who was head
of the Union Pacific advertising de-
partment, has become passenger
train and station inspector on the
main line, his territory extending
from Omaha to Ogden. and over
the Denver-Kansas City line.
Godfrey is Supervisor.
Tom Godfrey, for many years
agent of the passenger department
of the Missouri Pacific, becomes a
supervisor of passenger business,
having the Nebraska lines and a
corner of Kansas as his territory
q Ed Perry, former travelling pas
senger agent for the Missouri Pa
cifc, with Omaha as his headquar"
tiers, now is train and station In
pector for the same road, with Jur'
isdiction over the Kansas lines. His
headquarters are in Hutchinson
Kan. =.
Sam North, formerly travelling
passenger agent for the Illinois
Central, remains with the company,
looking after stations and general
train service in western Iowa and
South Dakota
Shields Job Unchanged.
Harry Shields, former travelling
passenger agent for the Wabash
continues with the company and
without much change in his duties
J. S. McNally, who was a dlvls'
ion passenger agent for the Rock
Island, is in charge of the com
pany's passenger business, with Me-
braska and Kansas as his''terrltory
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-19
Charles Nave is Struck
and Bruised by Auto

Charles Nave. laborer, us South
Seventeenth street, sustained severe
bruises about the left side Of his
body Thursday morning when
struck at Nineteenth and Harney
streets by an automobile driven by
F. ]. Dinble. 26l7 South Fifteenth
street.
According to witnesses, Nave was
going south on Nineteenth street
when the automobile, which was
going east on Harvey, struck HIM
After being attended by DR.. {. H.
Walters he was able to go home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-19
Burglars Blow Safe in the
Office of HinChey Laundry

Burglars blew up the safe of the
Hinchey Laundry company, 1909
N street, Thursday night and OBJ
tanned 500 in cash and $9S in checks.
Entrance was gained through a
window which was left unlocked
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-03-22
Girls Have Pretty Face
And Beautiful Complexion

An Atlanta mar makes new discovery
that makes an old face look years
younger. If your skin is dark, brown,
or covered with freckles or bIemishes,
just use a little Cocotone Skin Whit
ener; it's made with cocoanut oil and Is
perfectly harmless. A few days Us.
will improve your looks 100 per cent
The WORKOUT skin comes of evenly,
leaving no evidence Of the treatment,
the new healthy under-skin appearing
as . lovely new complexion.
just ssk your druggist for an ounce
Of COcOtone Skin Whitener, and II be.
will not supply you send twenty-five
cents TO The Cocotone Co., Atlanta, Go,
and they will send you q box by return
mail
If your hair lie hard to comb IL kinky,
happy and will ley stay straight, just
use Cocotone Hair Dressing and II Will
become straight. long, soft, glossy an6
beautiful in q few days mall orders
filled 25c for large box,
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-03-22

FouND-A black horse mule. l5h snds
high. same we traded off last year and
owned by Gypsies as far as we learn
W. S. Jamison: EIba, Tenn. as
About the biggest excitement Som
erville has had was witnessedIhere last
Friday when an airplane from the Mill
ington Aviation Field made a landing in
the field of j. L. Mayo 10 the southern
part Of this city. The pilot who was
operating the machine for the first trip
without his compass lost his way from
Millington to Whiteville 'and went out
the Southern Railway to Iuka and then
turned back along that road and when
be reached this city his gasoline was
about exhausted, making 9 landing
necessary. He landed bis machine
without mishap and reported by tele.
phone to headquarters, He spent the
night in the Mayo home ;and next day
cleared for Millington. reaching that
point in safety Many hundred visitors
from this city and vicinity had their
first opportunity Of viewing at close
range . genuine airplane. and few that
could visit 1t while hers failed to accept
the opportunity.
For SALE-Two hot-blast heating
stoves, q foui burner coal oil stove with
oven, and q Monitor Range. All first
class condition. Mrs.. L. NJ. Hooper,
South Main street. 3-29
As The Falcon goes to press on
Thursday c. NJ. Reames, the new post
master at the SomerviIle Office, ID
checking over the books, accounts, and
holdings of~lthstofic with ]. N. Maxwell
retiring postmaster and 1t ia expected
by the end Of the week the new Official
will'be in charge of the Office. He has
appointed Miss Olive Ivy Of Hickory
Withe as bis assistant, and together
they will be prepared from every stand.
point to give the patrons: of thu lSom.
erville postoffice icareful and efficient
service. Mr.. Reames has been lin the
publiclife of this city for q number of
years, having run the Reames Paramacy
here for a number Of years. having
sold out to Price Drug Company about
the first of the present year. By ed.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-03-22
LEMON JUICE IS
FRECKLE REMOVER
Girls! Make This Cheap Beauty Lotion,
to Clear and Whiten Your Face.

Squeeze the juice of two lemons in
to a bottle containing three ounces Of
orchard white. shake well. and you
have q quarter pint Of the beat.fEeekle
and tan lotion, and complexion beAuti-
fer, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounce Of orchard white for Q
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands each day and see how freck-
les and blemishes disappear and how
clear, soft and white the skin becomes,
Yes! 1t is harmless. If
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-03-22

ucstion and adaptability he is thoroly
qualified for the duties Of his new DO.
sition and that he will give q thoroly
satisfactory administration of the
affair of his Office there should not b
doubt.
We can furnish home grown Wake
field Cabbage plants at IS cents per
100, or 300 for q 81. The Falcon.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-03-22

Earliana and Stone tomato plants for
sale at The Falcon Office after March Is.
1~OOfOr'sl, IL for is cents. Home grown
plants, 329
H, s Shaw has been appointed by
Secretary Of Treasury McAdOo as War
Savings Director at the Somerville
Bank g. Trust Company and has on
hand at that institution q supply of
War Savings Stamps and will take
subscriptions for Liberty Loan Bonds.
WANTED Country butter, eggs and
other produce. viii pay the highest
market price. Carter Grocery Com
pany. 3-29
Mrs. W. F. Cooke arrived here from
Florida . few days ago and is spending
= few weeks with relatives here before
joining her husband. Capt. W. F. Cooke.
at his post at Fl. Keogh, Montana. She
haa been spending the winter in Florida
and 10 on her return trip to the north
for the summer.
Cabbage and tomato plants for sale
Alexander Vessel Farm. / mile east Of
Somerville.
Robert Day whose graduation with
honors from the training at the ground
school for the Aviation Corps was men,
toned recently in these columns is home
for few a days with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. W. G, Day. He will report
for duty at Dallas, Texas, about the
end Of the present month.
We have twenty five tons Of cotton
seed saved from the first picking, be
fore frost, which We are offering for
planting. Call on us for prices and
samples. j. B Burnett&Bro. Som
erville. tt
Lieut.. Walter Rhea, accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Y. Wilson and Thomas
Buford of Memphis, spent q short
while last Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs W. A. Rhea, Lieut.. Rhea ia
attached to Camp Sewer. and left
Memphis Monday at the expiration Of
q ten days leave Of absence.
WANTED to Buy Stock peas, sor-
ghum seed, hides butter. eggs, and all
kinds Of country produce. Will pay
the best market prices G. W. Locke,
Somerville. II.
This community and county has com.
planned sharply of labor shortage re.
Gently and yet labor agents lhave
thought it promising enough a field for
their work that two have spent several
days this week here among the negro
population trying to induce negroes tC
leave here. one carrying his captives
to Maryville in East Tennessee. the
other to no one knows where. Every
man in this county who wants work
can get it right here at home at re.
m%uneratiye wages, and as for us, we
think we need 10 agents to take labor
away from here. What you say, Mr..
Farmeri
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-03-22
LOCAL AND PERSONAL


It will certainly be to your interest to
place your FIRE insurance with E. A.
Maddox Advt. If.
Spelling Bee at the court house to
night.
There will be preaching at RehobOth
IN next Sunday at the usual hour.
H. l.. Higgs of Roblnsonville, Mis-
sissippi. was the guest of bis mother,
Mrs. NJ. A. Higgs the past week.
Break your cod or LaGrippe with 3
few doses Of 666. adv. 4-3
Or. j. s. Washington is spending
this week looking after matters on his
plantation In Monroe county Arkansas.
County Agent W. A. Owen had as
his guest the past weekend his.brother.
Luther Owen. of T~ishomingo, Mis-.
sissippi.
Mr.. and Mrs, w. G.. Blalock and
little daughter Marie Louise spent the
week end with her mother, Mrs. M. A.
Riggs,
For SALE-Half & Half cotton seed,
genuine and well mstured. Apply to
W. s. Wilson, R. /. 322
Capt. E. A. Maddox returned the first
Of the present week from Hot Springs.
Arkansas, where he has been for the
past month for rest and recuperation.
Mrs. Eliza v. Pulliam of Memphis
is this week guest Of Mrs. C. L. Dick
inson at the latter's home In this city.
She will be remembered as having lived
for q long time in this city.
For RENT Brick business house in
good repair, bewteen the Hotel Bryson
and Goosmann's jswelry store, See
Mike Lintz, owner. II
Rev. w. F. Maxedon preached at
the colored Methodist church last SUM-
day afternoon. He gave them a good,
old fashion gospel sermon. which all
appreciated and enjoyed.
For SALE Williams Early Big Bool
Cotton Seed. s5 per 100 pounds. Early
Yellow Dent seed corn So per bushel,
W. F. Feathe.s. Warren, Tenn $50
Mrs. w, A. Rhea returned Friday
from . weeks visit with Memphis re-
latives. Lieut.. Walter Rhes, being also
in Memphis enjoying a leave of absence
from his military duties at Camp Sewer.
The material and parts Of the new
pipe organ for the Methodist church in
this city are all here and n builder from
the factory Is expected here at an early
date to put the organ in its place in
the church ready for use.
L. F. Cstron on Tuesday shipped to
st. Louis two cars of fat cattle and
hogs. about fifty head of each, fine.
fat. high quality stock and went along
with them to'the market. We are ex
pecting a good report on his sale.
Rub MY -Tism. Antiseptic Relieves
Rheumatism, Sprains. Neuralgis, etc. as
Miss Tina Moore who lives In the
sixth district near Center Point has
contributed the material land knitted
four sweaters for Fsyette county boys
n the army. The sweaters have been
sent thru tina local Red Cross organizes
tion.
Mr.. and nrs. Lee Catron have q new
girl at their home in the fourth district
; and have Christened the little Miss 81
Elise Catron. That she will grow W
to honor her parents and be as usefuI
an her aunt Of that name is The Fal.
cons good wish for her.
A. v. Luck Of Hickory Withe brOugh,
TO town last Monday eight hogs for
which he received $Ss7.@. Seven Of
tAess ASgs we're less than o year old
ssd the eigAt weighed etSo pounds, be-
nj 10 prime market condition be w8
nj Is czno gross pT p0un6.