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Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
FIND FRENCH EASY;
 THINK so, ANYWAY
(Boston Globe)

Scene: A small cafe in Paris on the right bank of the Seine. Time, 9 a. m.
 A stout hearted French workman is seated outside the cafe quietly enjoy ing his Cafe Creme" in a glass in which now and again he is dipping his war bread"
 Three American soldiers passing by also stop at the cafe, and take seats outside. These boys look spick and span with their clean shaven faces and their boots well polished. While waiting for their drinks they quietly gaze at the passerby who also glance at them and remark at their smart appearance.
 Without the slightest suspicion that their French neighbor is likely to over hear then and to start the converse tiOn, one of the American soldiers quietly says: Mice day today!"
 The brave Frenchman, however, thinking that these soldiers are allud- ing to his habit of dipping his bread in his coffee, turns around and says in ihs native tongue: Yes, like the kid dies"
 The soldiers, smiling as usual, think ing that they, in their turn had un- derstood the Frenchmans exclamation, said Yes"
 Following which both parties rose | from their seats and each went it's way under the impression that the English and French languages are not, after all, so hard to understand
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
MUTUAL LIFE MAKES
 B|G GAINS IN 1917

Another year of large gains in all departments was realized by the Mu- tual Life of New York in the twelve months ending December 31, 1917.
 The distinguishing feature of the annual report of this company are the good returns to policy holders. Total ling over seventy million dollars during the year just closed they exceed by $5,- 277,453.7S the amount directly received from policy holders during the same period, and bring to over one billion, four hundred million the total pay ments to policy holders since the or ganizatiOn of the company in 1S43.
 The distribution of these benefits, however, in no degree prevented the making of substantial gains in the company's financial resources. Its ad- mitted assets, now $633. .999, ,569.37. show an increase of $9,469,525.20 over the year before, and the contingency re- serve now S17, 1909, 997.0S, is $1,357, ,257. .31 greater than in 1916.
 In the department of new business, too, big progress was made. 1nclud- ing dividend additions, revivals and increases in existing policies, the total amount of new business paid for was $209, 920 an increase over the pre- cedng year of $24.S36, 907.
 Of this new business, over 995 per cent was written in the United States and Canada. In December, the only remaining foreign" agency, located at Havana, was closed, and the company is now, as has been substantially the case for several years, operating ex- clusively on the North American con- tinent.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
SUMMONS
 W. K. MEADE;W WAS STATEP|ONEER

Word was received at the office of the governor yesterday of the death at Tombstone of W. K. Meade, member of the exemption board of Cochise county who had recently been appointed to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Sheriff Harry c. Wheeler. MT. Meade. a native of Virginia, was a pioneer of Arizona. He came to the territory either early in the eighties or late in the seventies and took up his residence at Tombstone which claimed him as a citizen to the time of his death.
 When Mir. Meade went to Tombstone it was developed into one of the most famous mining camps of the world. He took a prominent part in the af- fairs of the town during it's early period and stuck to it when the de- cline came. MT. Meade was United States marshal for Arizona throughout the second Cleveland administration. At that time Francis J. Heney was at- torney general of the territory and c. NJ. Bruce was secretary. These men constituted a democratic triumvirate which practically directed the affairs of the party.
 On his retirement from office at the beginning of the Mckinley administra- tion MT. Meade resumed mining.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
PATRIOTIC MEETING |s HELD AT PARKER
Special to The Republican,

PARKER, March 1.-The town of Parker, to keep up with the patriotic times, declared Saturday, March g, to be Thrift Stamp Day" and a general red letter day.
 With the object in mind of dis posing of considerable number of baby bonds and thrift stamps, the city patriotis saw to it that liberal supply of the green goods were dis tributed to the postoffice, the bank and the depot in readiness for a regular slaughter sale.
 The women of the town, in keeping with the principles of equal suffrage, volunteered their services, and were ! divided into squads of five, each being assigned to some section of the town, with one woman assuming the responsibility for the stamps from each squad.
 In the afternoon. horse racing was the main attraction, followed later by a wheel of fortune" in charge of loyal citizen with a strong voice would call out, Lick a stamp and help lick the kaiser" to boost the sale of stamps.
 During the evening, celebrations were in progress all over the town, mainly, the unfurling of service NaS at the city hall, with speeches.
 Business men observed the occasion by closing their places of business, including the mines, while the fair ones of the town disposed of the thrift stamps.
 At Il o'clock every stamp in the city had been licked, and the citizens felt that the war had progressed con- siderably along the lines of a success ful prosecution.
 Officials attribute the great success of the day to the whole hearted sup port given by everyone in the en- tire Parker district.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
RABBIT TRAP |S
 G|LCHR|ST PLAN

It isn't often that a person is placed in a position to aid in the conserva- tion and production of food at the same time, but this is the business and life work of Donald A. Gilchrist, connected with the biological survey of the United States department of agriculture.
 MT. Gilchrist is an expert on the eXtermination of rabbits and rodent pests, which have cost the farmers of Arizona thousands of dollars in de- stroyed crops. The particular stone by which he has been killing two birds is trap which he has perfected to rid the growers of the troublesome jack rabbit and cottontail.
 This trap is of simple mesh wire construction, so simple in design in fact that any farmer can build one at few dollars outlay. It is placed on the rabbit trails leading into fenced fields of alfalfa or grain and the nightly catch is from ten to twenty animals in the Cochise county districts in which they have been tried out.
 The animals are skinned and the flesh used either for human con- sumption or for feeding poultry. There was 8 good market all last winter for cottontails in Douglas. Bis bee and other mining camps and this helped in cutting down the meat bills of workers families.
 The jacks were used principally for poultry feed. In some instances the
 meat was ground or chopped and fed
 raw, in some cases cooked and was often mixed with grain feeds in pre- pairing mash. The hides have an ac- tual cash value of from 40 to 50 | cents a pound, thus adding to the in- come of the farmers installing these | traps of the government design. MT. Gilchrist has now taken up his l work in the northern counties and | will devote the next few months in | the eradication of the prairie dogs
 which infest parts of Coconino, Yava-
 pal, Apache and Navajo counties
 This work is effectively carried out by poisoning. Already thousands oi dollars have been saved to the farm
 CTS of these counties through the work of the government in this line
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
W|CKERSHAM STAGES
 ST. PATRICK DANCE

MT. Wickersham, of the Wickersham Dancing academy, has gone to a great extent in the making of preparations for a great St. Patrick dance, to be held tomorrow evening.
 Green will be the principel element around which the decorations will cen ter. There will be green favors, green costumes and green spot dances. The only thing that will not be green will be the music, that will be "jes' jazz"
 Miss Margaret Priester, who has danced her way into the hearts of the Phoenicians, will dance a delightful Irish solo to, Kelly" MT. Wickersham and Miss Priester have arranged a clever double number to Mickey"
 The Favorite Quartette has several fine Irish numbers, and if St. Patrick could be there himself, he would surely think that bit of Killarney had been transplanted to the Wickersham Acad- emy for Dancing.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
ST. JOHNS ENJOYS
 PLEASANT W|NTER|

ST. JOHNS. March 14.-The open winter has been quite an advantage to live stock and many horses and some cows have stayed on the mountains all winter long. The recent storms have wet the mountains up quite well but the rains of ten days ago took out most of the snow that had accumulated so that farmers here are fearful that the river will fall very early this season unless more snow falls on the noun tains in the near future.
 The new court house for Apache county is practically completed now. The building is on the mesa just south of the older part of St. Johns and on the newer part of the St. Johns town site. It is built of a native sandstone and is almost the color of cement bricks. It is very conveniently ar ranged and was built at a cost of s45,OO0. On April we are to have a house. warming for the new building and the people of Apache county, as well as from the neighboring counties, are being invited to take part. There will be speeches and historical sketches and in the evening dancing in con- memoration of the event
 Unusual effort is being made by Apache county farmers in raising food crops this year. St. Johns farmers will put in the largest crop that they have had for 20 years. Irrigators at the upper end of the river are filling | their reservoirs to their utmost capa- city and are cleaning ditches and pre- pairing every available foot of land. Apache county has never produced all
 it's bread stuff and of recent years the grist mills of early days have nearly fallen into disuse, but arrangements are now being made to run one of them
 to supply the people with food as nearly as possible.
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
GRAPES SPOIL IN SPAIN
(New York Times)


 On account of the war and the lack of tonnage thousands of punches or Malaga grapes are spelling on the piers at Almeria, Spain, as the United States is almost the only country to which the fruit can now be exported. Under normal conditions the grapes packed in small barrels with sawdust were brought to New York, Boston and Philadelphia in fast passenger liners, which made the trip in eight to ten days. Now they have to be sent on slow freighters. As result a quantity of the fruit is in poor condition on arrival and is con- demned by the board of health of the port. A British freighter arrived re- gently at an Atlantic port with 53,000 barrels of Malaga grapes in her hold. but the fruit was in such condition
 that much of it had to be destroyed
Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
BUT ONE-F|FTH IF 1917 CORN
 CROP REMAINS

The quantity of corn remaining on Arizona farms March l, 1918, was 173.- 900 bushels or 20 per cent of the 1917 crop. according to the government grain report issued today. Corn of the 1916 crop on farms March l, 1917, amounted to 77,0OO bushels or 10 per cent of the crop; and of the 1915 crop, 96,OO0 bushels or 16 per cent of the crop was on farms March l, 1916. The proportion of the 1917 crop merchan- table was so per cent. About S6 per cent of the 1916 crop was merchantable and of the 1915 crop, S5 per cent.
 The quantity of wheat remaining on farms March l, 1918 was S3,OOO bush els or f per cent of the 1917 crop. Wheat of the 1918 crop on farms March l, 1917 amounted to 9S,OOO bushels or 8 per cent of the crop, and of the 1915 crop. 131,O ,OOO bushels or 12 per cent of the crop was on farms. March l, 1916.
 The quantity of oats remaining on farms March 1, 1918 was S0,O00 bush els or 20 per cent of the 1917 crop. Oats of the 1916 crop on farms March 1, 1917 amounted to 51,000 bushels or 15 per cent of the crop, and of the 1915 crop. 60,0O0 bushels or IS per cent of the crop was on farms March 1. 1916.
 The quantity of barley remaining on farms March l, 1918, was S1. 900 bush els or per cent of the 1917 crop. Barley of the 1916 crop on farms March ], 19l7 amounted to 90,000 bushels or per cent of the crop; and of the 1915 crop, ll9OO0 bushels or 9 per cent of the crop was on farms March i. 1916.
 Estimates of the quantity of grain on farms March 1, 1918. for Arizona and the United States are as follows:
 Arizona
 Corn. 1918 1917. Corns. bushels. .173,000 7700O Wheat, bushels. .. 33,000 9300O Oats, bushels.... S0,0O0 51 .00O Barley bushels. SI00O 10000 Corn, Co merchantable S01o S6qc
 United States
 Crop. 1918. 1917. Corn, bushels. I ,292 9O5, ,OOO TSP, 1903, ,OOO Wheat, bushels 111,272, 900 100 $50 ,OOO Oats, bushels. 595 195, ,0OO 394, ,211, ,OOC Barley, bushels 4S,404OOO 33,244, O0C Corn, Co mer-
 chantable ... 603% S3.9%
 Estimates of the percentage of the crops which is shipped out of county where grown are as follows Q0-yea1 'averages): For the state, corn, pei cent; wheat 9 per cent; oats, 13 per cent: barley (S-year average), 34 pel cent; for the entire United States corn, POP per cent; wheat. 5S.5 pei cent; oats, 29.6 per cent; barley (S- year average) 49.2 per cent.
 These figures were compiled by L M. Harrison, field agent for the gov. ernment.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Requiem Mass for Soldier

A solemn Requiem Mass for Ray
mond Pichotta, the first boy from For
est County to fall on the field of action,
was celebrated at St. Ambrose church
Tuesday, June 18, with Rev. A. l.. Buy
taert, pastor, as celebrant; Rev. John
j. Loerke, Clintonville, deacon; and
Rev. Richard Buytaert, Coleman, sub
deacon. A half holiday was observed
by the Menominee Bay Shore Lumber
Company to permit employees to at
tend the services.
Raymond Pichotta was one of a large
number of young men from st. Am
brose church to join the Forest County
company which was organized soon af-
ter war was declared. He was under
age, but readily received his parents
consent to enlist. He left Wabeno
with his company for Camp Douglas,
Wis, last July. Later they were trans
ferred to Waco, Texas, where they
were trained and equipped for overseas
duty. Early this year they became
members of the rapidly growing Ameri-
can expeditionary forces in France
where the first of their number to fall
on the field of honor met death May 20.
In his funeral sermon Father Buy
taert paid high tribute to the character
and habits of the deceased He exhort-
ed the community to unite as one man
and pursue steadfastly and without
faltering their common task of helping
the government push the war to sue
cessful end.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
White Elephant Sale

One of the big features of our Fourth
of July celebration will be White
Elephant Sale Everyone will be ask
ed to give some article to be auctioned
at this sale. Farmers may give farm
produce such as dressed chicken or
a live one, a bunch of onions or radishes
or any other product Townspeople
may give dishes, crockery or any bric-
brac that could be Sold Give any
thing from stick of candy to White
Elephant or from package of pins to
a stovepipe. All articles will be auc-
toned and the proceeds will go to the
Red Cross. Here's chance to those
who cannot give money; give articles
that can be turned into money. Re-
member the White Elephant Sale.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Thrift Pledge
Drive Launched

The campaign to solicit pledges for
War Savings Stamps was inaugurated
in Forest County last Monday. The
work is progressing encouragingly, but
the sum to be raised Is large Ola, ,0OO
and therefore it is evident that persis-
tent effort must be made in order that
the county's past proud records in go
ing over the top may not be marred by
failure at time so critical as the
present for the boys exposed in the
front line trenches.
The sense of security that the people
of the county have enjoyed in the
thought that the war is 5000 miles
away has been rudely shocked by the
appearance on the late casualty lists of
the names of Raymond Pichotta, Wa
beno, killed in action; Frank Wines,
Wabeno, seriously wounded; and Sam
Cheney. Crandon, seriously wounded.
Our boys are now exposed on the field
of action One of them, we know, will
not return. We, the stay at home
army, must make every effort to sup
port them now. The most available
means at hand is to buy War Savings
Stamps
War Savings Stamps are baby bonds.
They are secured by all the property of
the United States. They are as safe
as the Rock of Cihra tier When YOU
buy these stamps you are not giving
anything away. You are simply lend
ing your money at per cent compound
interest to the most dependable in
stitution in the world, the treasury of
the United States
You may buy these stamps any month
of the year. They cost SALT in June.
They will cost $4.18 in July. Each sue
ceeding month they will cost one cent
more The plan of the government is
to have each person pledge now what
they will invest in these stamps be-
tween now and Jan. /, 1919. Meetings
will be held throughout the county
June % at which time all the pledges
will be turned over to the government.
Realizing how serious the situation
is in France and what our boys, For
est County boys, are. facing and will
face for many months to come, can you
or anyone in conscience pass over this
matter lightly?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Wabeno Will
Celebrate July 4th

A meeting of the Wabeno Patriotic
Americans was held at the town hall
Monday evening to discuss the matter
of having 4th of July celebration in
Wabeno this year. The National Coun-
Gil of Defense urges every town to fit
tingly observe the 4th this year and it
was decided to put on celebration
here.
Committees were appointed to make
the necessary arrangements for the
celebration and they are hard at work
on the plans. Come to Wabeno the
4th and help to celebrate in big patri-
otic way. An interesting program will
be given. Following are the committees
To Solicit Funds
Robert Maislein
John Dickinson
James Kenny
Finance
S. D. Switzer
]. T. Sims
Games or Amusements
Fred Colburn
James Kenny
Ross Richardson
Program
Mrs. a. E. McGraw
Miss Orpha Marsh
VIM. Hubbard
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
Annual Red Cross Meeting

The annual meeting for the election
of officers of the Wabeno-Soperton
branch of American Red Cross was
held at the Town Hall June 18th at 8
p. H. The following officers were re-
elected: Mrs. H. E. McGraw, chair
man, Miss Edmire Quinlan, secretary,
Mrs T. A. Richardson, treasurer. Mrs.
F. O. Rusch was elected vice chairman
to succeed Mrs. H. A. Weingartner.
The following were reelected mem
bers of the Executive Board: Mrs. S.
D. Switzer, Mrs s. A. McGraw, and
Mrs. F. O. Courtice. The Branch made
the following during the past year:
Surgical Dressings 1928
Socks SO
Sweaters 81
Wristlets Al
Scarfs Sd
cepted:
Receipts
Annual Dues $341 90
Magazine Dues 10000
Contributary Dues 5000
Movie Benefit 11.75
Concert 1000
Refunds on Memberships 140.25
Refunds on Red Cross Drive 1863. 70
Gifts
Men in Bay Shore Camps 'S41.03
Mrs. j. T. Sims 5 800
Mrs S. A. McGraw 500
Martin Seemal 1000
Mrs J. V. Quinlan 1000
Mrs. P. j. Noer 200
Ben Slowe LOO
Soperton Boys Club 1000
Wabeno Civi: Club 20.50
Royal NeighDors 25 90
Lutheran Ladies Aid $500
Miss Longhurst's pupils 252
Sundries 30.65
Expenditures
Remitted to Chapter S412.00
1909 lbs. Yarn 350.52
sos yds. Muslin 1888
45 lbs. Oakum 12.45
q rolls Cotton so
II spools Thread so
Pins .54
178 pcs. Tape e I73
70 yds. Outing FlanneI 9.62
2874 yds, Gauze 264. 40
pkg. Needles 10
20 Knitting Needles 80
Express on Materials 2.31
IL yds. Oilcloth 264
Expenses 41.88
Cash ON hand 43 50
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21
NOTICE POTATO GROWERS

The last date for receiving applica-
tions for seed potato inspection and
certifcation is July l. Send your ap-
plication with $500 application fee to
the Horticultural Departm snt. Madi-
son, Wisconsin.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-06-21

Give our boys in the Army and Navy
every fighting chance. Pledge yourself
to save to the utmost of your ability
and to buy War Savings Stsmps.
The Pascagoula chronicle., 1918-06-22
NELSON-AklNS.

Miss Bertha Nelson, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. +. ]. Nelson, and Mr..
G. l.. Atkins were married Tuesday
evening, June 18th at $50 o'clock by
Rev. w. H. Carter at the First
Methodist church of Howison, Miss.
in the presence of large number of
friends and relatives.
The bride wearing a veil of Illusion
in cape effect and a gown of white
gorgette crepe and carrying white
dahlias, was ATTENDED by Mrs. Maude
Davis matron of honor. Miss Nellie
May Nelson. maid of honor and Miss
Faith Cirlot bridesmaid.
Mrs. Davis was dressed in a blue
gorgette and messaline gown and
carried an immense bouquet of pink
dahlias. Misses Nelson and Cirlot
were gowned in yellow gorgette. and
carried trailing bouquets of shasta
daisies. Miss Isabella Nelson, the
small sister of the bried was flower
girl. Misses Ruth Daniels and Nelma
Lauderdale were ushers.
The groom was attended by Mr.. w
Calhoun, best man, and Mr.. Alfred Nc
Intosh groomsman. The music for the
occasion was furnished by Mrs. Il.
W. Helin and Miss Esther Daniels.
After tie ceremonv a reception was
held at the home of the brides parents
The Pascagoula chronicle., 1918-06-22
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BRIDGE

The Bridge Club was delightfully."-
entertained on last Saturday afternoon
when Mrs. j. A. Tabor was the charm
ing hostess. The four tables for the
players were arranged on the delightful
porch up stairs, and the lovely decor
ation8 Of potted ferns and palms added
a refreshing note of cool green to the
pleasant surroundings. Three inter
esting games were enjoyed. The club
prize, four Thrift Stamps, was won by
Mrs. N. P. Emmitt, and the guests
prize, box of handsome correspond
ence stationery, was won by Miss
Blodgett.
Following the games of auction de-
licious plate luncheon of chicken salad,
brown bread, tomatoes, crackers and
iced tea. was served by the hostess.
Participating in the pleasant afternoon
with the club members were Miss
Adele Krebs, Mrs. J. Blodgett and Miss
Blodgett.