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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-25

In 1902 the site Of Hotel Tulsa,
l5OXl4O, was sold for $50 Eight
years later the site was bought
for the erection Of the hotel for
$4,000.
Quadruplcd I'm 90 Days.
one % ;hc most strikingInstapccs
OF property advances Is that OF the
Jump in price OF the property at
Third and Main streets, where the
Palace OF Sweets is located. Early
in 1906 prospective buyer obtained
an estimate on the property M
$1,000 Thinking this was little
high he decided to wait and I'm thirty
days again scruccd an estimate,
which this time was $500. \ little
disEruntlcd at the advance OF $500,
he thought he would wait little
longer, In 60 days he returned To
the city to find that it had sold for
S2T.0U5 At the same time the same
man had an offer of the sites OF
the ten-stOry Daniel building and the
simmons hui,..uE Tor $1,000. which
he also refused.
In 1904 the only brick store build
ings on Second street were those
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-25

OF Marks Mil was fought near
than twenty years ago. The battle
where Fordyce is situated.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-25

comparative T1gUrCS.
The following table shows the de-
velopment Of Tulsa along various
lines for the past three years and
places Tulsa in class by itself
among the cities OF the United
States,
Populatlon--l9l5. 2S.24O; 1916,
5A2t0; 1914 January I, 1913, 7S,-
75h.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-25

Patriotic. Generous Tulsa.
Tulsa's record for patriotic dona-
tions and investments In Liberty
loan bonds since october, 1916. is 40
o.,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-25

undivided, profits, deposits ana total
resources of the banks IN Tulsa un-
dor the coup,rollcr's call Of June %,
1ylN,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-25

American National Bank
Capital. surplus and
undivided profits IS $50 10000
Deposits .......... 2IO7,A297l
Total resources ...... 2,926,953.S7
Producers state bank.
capital and surplus 3 lG5, 100000
Undivided profits .... 2,03A69
Deposits ............. 2,GAI,9O334
Total resources ...... 2.Sl5.315.59
Union National Bank.
Capital surp, profltss 37s.36S9l
Deposits ...... ...... 3.055.106,5l
Total resources ..... 4,55i,lS6.J0
Total capital and sur
plus .............. 3,06I.50l.6A
Total undivided profits 32O,244A5
Total deposits ........ 3,O91,6S5.SS
Total resources ...... 6O,G9l.595.Gg
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-25

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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
MAY RAISE AGE LIMIT ROF
VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT

Washington, May 24.--Another
move toward full utilization of the
country's man power was made to-
day when Secretary Baker sent to
congress the draft of a bill propos-
ing to raise the maximum age limit
for voluntary enlistment in the army
from 40 to SIS years. All men over
40 so enlisted should be assigned to
noncombatant service.
In a letter to Speaker Clark asking
that the bill be pushed Secretary
Baker said:
Every man above the age of 40
years who is enlisted in noncom-
Blatant branches of the service will
make available for duty with the line
troops a man within the prescribed
age limit for all troops
MANY men whose long experience
as mechanics and artisans will ma Ike
them particularly valuable to the va
rious staff corps and departments
may thus be secured instead of
younger men without such expert
ence, and the efficiency q: the staff
corps and the departments thus viii
be increased"
There probably are 100000 men
between the ages of 40 and So, and
many thousands of them already at
tested their desire to serve by bonn
harding the department with appli-
cations. While the greater majority of
the men in this class undoubtedly
will be restrained from enlisting by
family and business ties, the num-
Der at liberty to join the colors is
expected to be more than sufficient to
meet the purpose in view.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31

Yokohama and a proportionate
amount in Kobe; while in Korea
Americans have devoted one-day-a
month earnings to the cause.
In all $4,000 has also been sub
scribed to Liberty bonds. When II is
considered that the christmas drive
for the Red Cross resulted in obtain
ing LOO names of men. women and
children. practically all American
residents in the Empire, the work
represented my the figures given
above will show that the American
community in Japan is active in sup
port of the war.
1t is expected that the new form of
organization will give systematic and
further growth to this work.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31

deduct increases granted since 1915.
The recognition of the eight-hour
basis, thought important as prin-
cipal, does not materially affect the
scale of new wages granted. For in
stance, a man who in 1915 received
SO for a ten-hour day would now get
s4.2S for ten hours, but this $4.23
would be considered as Sass for a
days work (eight hours) and So
cents for two hours overtime. When
read ustments are made later, in
volving possibly extra rates of pay
for overtime. the full effect of the
new principal will become more ap-
parent.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31

The proper food for one man may
be all wrong for another. Every
one should adopt diet suited to his
age and occupation. Those who
have weak stomachs need to be es-
pecially careful and should eat slowly
and masticate their food thoroughly.
1t is also important that they keep
their bowels regular. When they be-
come constipated or when they feel
dull and stupid after eating. they
should take Chamberlain Tablets to
strengthen the stomach and move the
bowels They are easy to take and
pleasant in effect. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
BIBLE SAVES LIFE
OF AMERICAN LAD

With the American Army in
France, May 26.-Many stories have
been told since the beginning of the
world war of lives being saved by
Bibles, but the United States probably
will have the distinction of being the
first country to have actual possession
of bullet-punctured Bible, which
saved the life OF one of its sons,
William r. Wilson, 19-year-old SOL
der of Newcastle, Pa.
Young Wilson is alive to-day in a
hospital in the rear of the American
sector in Picardy and rapidly recov-
ering from "a minor wound A Bible
and small trench mirror, which he
was accustomed to carry in his left
breast pocket, DETECTED a German
sharpshooter's bullet from his heart.
According to his friends Wilson,
who is an orphan, had been in the
habit of reading the Bible daily. He
was resting in the rear lines last
Sunday with his Bible as his only
comfort. He was ordered to a front
line, where sharpshooter's bullet
felled him. Comrades who carried
him off found that he was suffering
only from a flesh wound in the
breast, thanks TO his Bible and the
trench mirror, through which the bull
let passed. A second bullet struck
him In the arm, but this wound is
not serious.
Wilson says he is going to present
the Bible to the United States as soon
as he is discharged from the hospital.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
JAPS ORGANIZE
RED CROSS WORK

Toxic, May 1.-The japanese
Chapter of the American Red Cross
has been organized by the election of
the American ambassador, Roland S.
Morris, as chairman, with a council
composed of twelve Americans, three
from each of the four principal dis
tricts of the country. S. III. Ems
worth, of New York, stationed at Yok-
ohama, was elected vice chairman;
+. n. Frazer, of Toxic. treasurer; Mr..
Phelps of the Y. NJ, c. A., executive
secretary. Branches of the American
Red Cross are being organized in
Toxic, Yokohama, Kobe and Ssoul.
The Red Cross Society Of Japan,
which. of course, has territorial juris-
dictiOn I'm the Empire of Japan, gave
its cordial consent TO the organization
which is to take over the work which
has been vigorously carried on by
American residents since the United
States entered the war
Early last summer American resi-
dents organized themselves into what
was known as the American War Re
lief Committee and up to the present
time have been actively engaged in
the rolling of bandages and making
of garments and other supplies for
the wounded at the front Some 49,
900 yen has been subscribed by the
American community in Toxic and
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
TELEPHONE CALLS FOR
TINE OF DAY BANNER

Chicago, May 25.-Watch repairing
in Chicago has more than doubled
as the result of the telephone COM
pany's refusal to give the correct time
of day to subscribers on and after
May 1, according to jewellery houses
and department store heads here. The
order also has increased considerably
the sale of new watches and alarm
clocks to persons, who hitherto have
depended largely on the telephone
company for the time OF day.
According to the manager of one
of the largest department stores in
the city, the watch repairing by his
establishment increased more than
fifty per cent before the order became.
effective, and the sale of watches,
especially the cheaper kind,and alarm
clocks leaped forward rapidly.
Figures complied by telephone ex-
perts showed that more than $50, 900
persons in Chicago called the operator
daily and asked the correct time,
please" Repeal of the time-honored
custom telephone experts declared,
was due to the burdens imposed upon
facilities of the company by the war.
and several other causes. Children,
some of whom were unable to tell
the time, it is said, were the chief
offenders, while others wishing to
show that they could use the tele-
phone, always demonstrated by ask
ing for the correct time"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
Yanks Coming Strong.

One of the boats which brought the
Yanks into port was the first of the
ninety-days ships built at Seattle for
the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
When the lads landed the Yanks on
other ships chaffed them regarding
the seaworthiness of their hastily
built transport
Il hear you guys spent all your
time bailing out on the way across, -
yelled one trooper.
"G'wan," replied the aggrieved one.
THAT boats a floating palace. And
there amt no wharf rats to eat our
legs off, either, like you got aboard
that tramp"
The tramp" referred to was one of
the magnificent Dutch liners recently
seized and pressed into service on the
American side of the water.
Yes, the Yanks are coming and they
are coming strong. The great mi
grafton back to the old country is on
in full food. If the present monthly
rate is maintained who knows but
what a year from now Uncle Sam may
have more than 100000 men on
French soil?
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
OFFICIAL SCHOOL CALENDAR.
County Board of Education.

E. S. Howard. S. S. 0. C.
Div. No. ii. NJ. Hoover. Hart
ford, Ky.
Div No. 90. W. Duff. Fordsville.
Ky.
Div. No. 3-H. l.. Carter. Narrows.
KY
Div. No. Al. o. Autry. Baize-
town, Ky.
Div. No. 5-otis II. Stevens. Beav-
er Dam. Ky.
: Div. No. 6-Nat Lindley, Center
town, Ky.
Time of Meeting-1st Monday In
February; 1st Monday in April; LIST
Monday in June; LIST Monday in Au-
gust; LIST Monday in October; LIST
Monday in December
County Board of Examiners-E. s.
Howard, Mrs. l. S. Mason, Mrs. o. w.
Duff.
Jan. 25 and 26-Common School
Diploma Examination.
May 10 and 11-Common School
Diploma Examination.
May II and 1S-County Teachers
Examination (white).
May "a and 25-County Teachers
Examination (colored).
June 22 and 23-County and STATE
Teachers Examination (white).
June 2S and 29-County and State
Teachers Examination (colored).
Sept. 20 and 21-County and State
Teachers Examination (white).
Sept. ~ and 2S-County and Stass
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
Road to Happiness.

Be amiabl cheerful and good ma
tured an you are much more likely to
be happy. You will find this diff
cult, if not impossible, however, when
you are constantly troubled with con-
stipation. Take Chamberlain Tab
lets and get rid of that and it will be
easy. These tablets not only move
the bowels, but improve the appetite
and strengthen the digestion. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
LOVES OUTLAWRY
PROMPTS KIDNAPPING
(Stewart G.. Master in
Louisville Herald.)

Leave $4,000 in gold under tn,
old oak tree at the crossroads a
midnight-or you'll never see you
child again!"
Thus has run the kidnapper's cod,
from time immemorial Youngster.
have been stolen as hostages. to b,
abused and kept in terror while can
tors awaited ransom from the franti,
parents.
But here is a motive for child
theft.
Old hearts. hungry for the com
panionship of little boy prompted
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse l.. Hunt wealthy
Californians. to spirit 6-year-Old
Jackson Gordon away from his
mother, Mrs. Maryon Phelps Gordon
and his stepfather, X. A. Gordon. OF
San Francisco.
Love Supcrsedes Codes.
The outlawry of love!
Affection, they argued, was the
greatest law, superseding civil and
criminal codes.
Their own children lost by death
going into the sunset years with an
unstilled yearning for childish laugh
ter and the confiding touch of little
hands, the aged couple had become
enarmored of the sturdy, handsome
boy whom fate had brought into their
lives.
The Hunts had been close family
friends of Mrs. Gordon. Jackson's
mother, since she was girl. Before
she married Gordon, they had taken
care of her son. by a former hus-
band, and had, in their overweening
love for him, instituted legal proceed
ings to adopt the boy.
1t was while Mrs. Gordon was hav-
ing these preliminary adoption papers
annulled in San Francisco that the
Hunts paid her visit, and, agitated
at the prospect of losing the lad they
had come to regard as their own, took
him away as he was trudging to
school.
There was no other incentive than
love.
And love defied the law
But Love Loses.
THE law" they said. paradoxically.
in an anonymous message to the
mother, gives justice to all. All is
well with Jackson. He is with those
who will care for him. Justice makes
it So"
But the law quickly recovered the
boy and restored him to Mrs. Gordon,
despite the sobbing protests of little
who had come to regard Mr.
and Mrs. Hunt as dear papa and
mama"
81 would rather have lost all my
money than lose the boy" said Hunt.
brokeniy.
I'VE gave him a home" added Mrs.
Hunt, when there was no other place
for him. He has grown around our
hearts. 1t is as though we had Just
lost another of our own children"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
U. S. SOLDIERS GO
IN HUGE NUMBERS
Big Fleets Of Transports
Landing Our Boys
"Over There"
louisville Herald)
By ROBERT y. DOMAIN.

Paris, April30 (by maiD Amer
lean troops are pouring into France
at nearly triple the speed with which
they were disembarked during March.
They are landing at several ports. AT
one port in Northern France. which
was visited this week., the disembark-
ing was taking place at feverish
speed.
Out beyond the breakwater there
steamed into sight one misty morning
fleet of American transports.
Aboard these ships which, because of
their draught, could not enter the
harbor. were men enough to populate
goodsized American city of the
third class.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
DI r e C T O r Y
ROCKFORD.


Ch'm'n. Board-James Wilson.
Clerk-Rushing Hunt.
Police Judge-John T. Jackson.
Marshal-Will Langford.
BEAVER DAM.
Ch'm'n. Board-W. T. Mckinney,
Clerk-R. w. King.
Police Judge. w. Cooper.
Marshal-R. F. Stevens.
FORDSVILLE. -
Ch'm'n. Board-W. r. Jones.
Clerk-Olla Cobb. y
Police Judge. p. Kessinger. A
Marshal-Grant Pollard.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
Double Benefit.

An important principal contained
in the Director. Generals order is
that reductions in hours since 1915
are not to be regarded as increases
in pay. This means that employees of
the four brotherhoods affected by the
AdamsOn Act are to receive additions
on top of the increase developed by
that act.
For instance, an engineer who
made $4 a day working ten hours in
1915, may have had his pay in
creased to So for the same number of
hours under the AdamsOn Act, But
for the purpose of applying the new
scale, the IS is considered as "a a
day of eight hours, with 81 for two
hours overtime. Consequently the
pay will be increased on the basis of
"a day, and overtime will be paid at
the same rate of increase.
On this principal train employees,
including members of the leading
brotheThoods, will receive approx
mately the following proportional in
creases over 1915 pay, or their
equivalent when pay is based on
miles operated; Passenger engineers,
IL per cent; passenger iiremen and
helpers, 2S per cent; passenger con-
ductors, Is per cent; passenger bag
gagemen, 3S per cent; passenger
brakemen and fagmen, 40 per cent !;
freight engineers, Is per cent;
freight hremen and helpers, "a per
cent; freight brakemen and fagmen,
40 per cent. These men also must
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
Get Rid of Your rheumatism.

Now is the time to get rid of your
rheumatism. You will find Cham
berlain's Liniment a great help. The
relief which it affords is alone worth
many times its cost. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
LAKE BED FASTEST TRACK.

The dry bed of a former lack in
the Nevada desert is considered by
mOtorist the finest speedway in the
world. 1t is IL miles long and its
surface is as smOothe and hard as
rubber.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
Troops lowed Ashore.

All day long French tugs, snorting
and painting. dragged huge British
barges loaded with American troops
into the vast harbor. At night the
harbor was lit up with myriads of
twinkling lights as the work contin-
ued.
Besides the quays stood long trains.
some with American engines with
steam up. which pulled out. one after
another as the troops were hurriedly
jammed aboard. The population of
the French seaport saw little of the
disembarking, the quays and railroad
yards were we'll guarded.
There was no cheering. The lads
who climbed aboard the French
trains were too tired for that. The
trip over had still left many of the
lads pale and weak. Seasickness is
enervating enough even on board a
liner de luxe in times of peace, but
abroad crowded transports general
nausea is contagious.
The boys did not sing when they
climbed into the freight cars. Most
of them Topped down and went to
sleep instantly. One or two started
Where Do We Go From Here" but
the rest evidentaly with their sea legs
still waiting for swells, sternly adj
vised the chanty men to can that
noise"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
Short Lines Not Affected.

Men working on the monthly, daily,
hourly, piecework and train-mile
basis will benefit by the new allow
ance, and members of the four lead
fng railway brotherhoods, whose pay
was raised through operation of the
Adamson act, are to receive from 10
to 40 per cent additional, a smaller
increase than they had asked of rail-
roads shortly before the Government
took CONTROL.
The wage order applies to all en-
ployes of the 164 roads now under
Federal management, but not to the
so-called short lines unless they are
retained by the Government after
July l. 1t affects employees of ter
minal, union station and switching
companies, lighters, ferries and tugs
owned by railroads, but not employees
of railroad boat lines on the lakes,
rivers or cOastwise.
To meet the expense of the wage
increase, the biggest ever granted to
railroad or any other class of en-
pIoyes at one time, the Railroad Adj
ministration has granted an increase
in freight rates of about 25 per cent
and a substantial increase in passer-
ger rates also.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
HARTFORD.

Mayor. e. Bean.
Clerk. A. Howard.
Police Judge. M. Grove.
Marshall. p. Casebier.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
CIRCUIT COURT.

Judge-R. w. Slack, Greensboro.
Com'th. AttOrney-C. E. Smith. Hart
ford.
Clerk-A. C. Porter. Hartford.
Master OmmissiOner-Otto c. Mar
tin. Hartford.
Trustee Jury Fund-Cal p. Keown.
Hartford.
LIST Monday in Marcn-13 days
Com'th. and Civil.
LIST Monday In Maya days-Civil.
LIST Monday In July-12 days
Com'th. and Civil.
Sd Monday in September-12 days
Civil.
4th Monday in November-12 days
-Com'th. and Civil.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
COUNTY COURT.

Meets first Monday In each month
Judge-Mack Cook.
County Att'y.-A. ID. Kirk.
Clerk-W. C. Blankenship.
Shcriff-S. A. Bratcher.
Superintendent. S. Howard.
Jailer-Worth Tichenor.
Assessor-D. +. Ward.
Surveyor-C. S. Monkey.
COrOner-Dr. A. B. Riley.
FISCAL COURT.
Meets Tuesday after first Monday
in January, April and October.
list District-Ed Shown. Hartford,
Route 3.
End District-Sam l.. Stevens, Beay-
er Dam.
3rd District-Q, b. Brown, Simmons.
4th District-G. w. Rowe, Center
town.
9th District-W. C. Daugherty, Baize-
9th District-W. S. Dean, Dundee.
7th District-B. F. Rice. Fordsville.
9Th District-B. G. Rhoades, Hart
ford, Route s.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-31
R. R. employees To
GET Big increase
More Than 100000, 900
Per Year Is Total Of
McAdoo Order.

washington, May 27.-General pay
increases for nearly two million rail.
road employees were announced to-
day by Director General McAdoo, eff
fective next Saturday, and retroactive
to last January 1, carrying out sub
stantially recommendation of the
Railroad Wage Commission. The
aggregate of the increases probably
will be more than $3O0,OOO,OOO a
year. half of which will be distribut-
ed within a few weeks as back pay in
lump sums ranging from about 500
to nearly 5000 each.
The Director General departed
from the Wage Commissions recon-
mendations in the following particu
lars:
The principle of the basic eight
hour day is recognized, but owing to
exigencies of the war situation hours
of employment are not actually re-
duced and overtime is to be paid pro
rata: future adjustments of pay are
to be made on the basis of eight
hours;
In addition to the ordinary scale
of increase, day laborers, employed
mainly on track work, are to get at
least 21s cents an hour more than
they received last December 81;
A minimum of So cents an hour is
established for the shop trades, in
Guiding machinists, boilermakeers
and blacksmiths;
Women are to receive the same.
pay as men for the same work, and
negroes are to get the same as white
men for similar employment.
All increases now ordered will be
determined according to percentage
scale based on pay received in De-
cember, 1915, and any increases
which have been allowed within that
time will be deducted. In many
cases raises in pay in the last two
and a half years are about equal to
the increases now approved and con-
sequently those employees will get lit
tie or no more. To correct just such
situations when injustices are appar-
ent will be one of the principal duties
of the new wage board, whose crea-
ton was suggested by the Railroad
Commission. In no cases are wages
to be reduced.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-30

Eighteen tracts of land were
sold Tuesday by Sup't j. H. Nc
Gregor, the buyers being the fol-
lowing named persons:
Florence NJ. Thwing, j F Com
stock, Eug Rousseau, Frank w
Foster, Jacob Huber, Louis Lid
strom, Clifford j Larson, John
Marxen, Orville M. Gibson, H E
Weeks. O A Haxby. Nettie l. Da-
Wis, Mather Herman, JAS A Shell
ton, Eldon w Clark, Edwin L
Browne, Robt L Cheney.