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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-08-30
Local and Personal

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Pair four-year-old work mares
for sale by T. l.. Humphfres, near
FOrker.
Success manure spreader, guar
anteed in good condition, for sale
by ]. w. Moberly.
Bring in your scrap iron. l am
paying 60 cents per hundred for
it. F. M. Alexander.
The Locust Greek school begins
next Monday, September 2, with
Miss Eulah May Estes as teacher.
Edgar Barton, another Laclede
soldier, sailed this week to join
General Pershing's forces in
France.
N. E. Willbarger, barber in the
Weaver shop, has moved his family
here from Sumner and is occupying
the Nelson residence.
Regular meeting of the Royal
Neighbor camp on Friday after
noon of this week and it is desired
that there be a good attendance,
Byron Lamme is hauling out
concrete material preparatory to
putting a basement under his resi-
dence and installing furnace heat.
The Linn millinery store will be
open September 3. Announce
ment of opening will appear in
the Blade later. Mrs. M. D. Linn.
Fourth quarterly conference at
the Methodist church, Thursday
evening, August 20, at $3.50. Reg
ular services next Sunday, preach
ing morning and evening,
The Linn County Baptist AS
sociation is in session at Linneus
Friday, Saturday and Sunday of
this week. Rev. Stratton and
others from Laclede will be in at
tendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Casteel re-
ceived word this week that their
son, Mahlon, had arrived safely
overseas. He had been at a
training camp in California since
last October.
When you have backache the
liver or kidneys are sure to be out
of gear. Try Sanol, it does
wonders for the liver, kidneys,
and bladder. A trail will con-
vince you. Get it at Rexall store.
The Woman's Foreign Mission
ary Society will meet next Wed
nesday, September 4, at 2:3O;
with Mrs. J. E. Welsh. 1t is the
annual election of officers and as
large an attendance as possible is
desired.
Piano Bargain: Someone in the
vicinity of Laclede by paying a
small amount can procure a good
piano, slightly used, in very nice
condition. For particulars write,
OIney Piano Co.. P. o. Box SIG,
st. Joseph, Mo.
J. E. Marsh has given up teach
ing this year after being elected to
the superintendency of the schools
at Plattsburg, and has entered the
service of the Burlington as time
keeper at the round house in
Brookfeld.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson
received a letter last Saturday from
their sons, Fred and Ed. It was
the first word received from them
since they sailed for France last
spring, They are both members
of a supply company.
The Misses Walker entertained
q. number of young people at
tba;r bome last Friday evAninO in
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1918-08-30
ON LOCAL SUBJECTS
Local Items and Int esting Bits Of
News Of All Sorts

Mrs. J. n. DuckYorth received
word this week tha her nephew,
Guy Maxwell, had been wounded
in France, the exi snt of his in
juries not being sta: ID. He is the
son of the late DR.. and Mrs.
James Maxwell wlo lived in La
clede some thirty years ago. He
enlisted from st. Lo8is.
y
The Laclede schools open next
Monday, which will be enrolment
day, the regular class work to be
taken up Tuesday morning.
Parents should see that their
children are there the first day.
1t is important that all get an
even start in their class for by so
doing the results will be much
better.
In a business letter to this Office
last Monday A. R. Bissett of
Moulton, Iowa, said he and Mrs.
Bissett had just returned home
from spending a week in Chicago
with their son, Robert, who has
now left for oversee service.
Robert joined the army during the
Mexican trouble and saw service
on the border. He likes army life
fine and is enthusiastic about going
''over there"
The annual Linn county con-
vention of the Royal Neighbors Of
America will be held in Linneus
in September. A meeting of the
county officers will be held at
Linneus on Friday afternoon of
this week to fix the date and pre-
pare a program. Mrs. Ida Davis
of Laclede, district deputy, will
give a prize of $500 to the camp
bringing the largest class to the
county convention for adoption.
The county conventions have
always been very enjoyable meet
ings for members of the society
and the coming meeting should be
no exception to the rule.
Miss Gretna Spokesfeld pleasant
ly entertained a number of young
friends at the home of Mayor
Allen Tuesday evening. Those
present were Misses Beatrice
Harter, Catherine Moore, Nora
Wade. Ellen Garside, Pauline
Sensintaffar, Gladys Henry, Ruth
Foreman, Marcedes Mouser, Ruby
Walker, Nina Kranz, Ruth Doak,
and Messrs Loren Potter, Ray
mond Garside, Lee lIandree,
Elmer Henry, Harry Glover,
Luther Moorehead, Cecil Barton,
Ross Welsh. and H. E. Brenner,
Mrs. Allie Harter, Mrs. Bigger
and Mrs. Foreman were guests of
Mrs. Spokesfeld the same evening.
If the Linn county publisher
who wrote up" one of his La
cIede subscribers last week for
refusing his paper before liquid
ating a four year subscription
account has been mailing the
paper to said subscriber these
four years at the regular news
paper rate of postage he has been
violating the postal laws five times
a week for the past three years.
A daily paper cannot be mailed to
q subscriber at newspaper rates
after he becomes six months in
arrears, and a weekly paper after
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
"WAR BRIDES" DUPE SOL LDIERS
Women Fortune Hunters Arrested for
Having More Husbands Than
Law Allows.

San Diego, Cal.-Almost since the
United States entered the war soldiers
have been victims of women fortune
hunters. Girls at various camps are
being arrested charged with having an
over quota Of soldier husbands, and
in every case the question of insur-
ance was the motive.
This city has been no exception to
the rule, and with the thousands Of
soldiers and sailors in training at the
camps near by federal officials are
always on the alert, and as q result
two girls are under arrest. They gave
their names as Miss Mae Smith and
Mrs. Elsie Byrnes, and both are
pretty. They were caught in the act
of mailing about 20 letters to sailors
and soldiers asking for money for
clothes and travelling expenses. In
every letter written by the girls was
the phrase: 81 wish you oceans of
love with a kiss on the top of every
wave" The girls also received 18
letters from ardent lovers and each
letter contained money.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
THESE TWO MEN
REFIT THE ARMY

work far into the night. The more the
camp speeds up the more troops Major
Fawcett invites the war department to
send through the camp. The ideal Of
seeing to 1t that no man crosses the
seas for service with clothing and
equipment which is not new. or as good
as new. has just about been reached.
Troops are detrained from the interior
in dusty, faded clothing. patched and
pulled out of shape. and go onto their
ships in an incredibly short time dress
ed up like a show window display.
His lieutenants in charge of money
disbursements, subsistence, cOnstruc-
tion, transportation. and reclamation
are at his door with brand-new COM
plicatiOns every few minutes. Bewil-
dered supply officers. who have come
to the camp without the slightest idea
Of what Is expected of them (and who
would have resigned before coming had
they knOwn) appear at his door look
utes to the general run of his tele-
phone conversation, forget their scare.
iNswer his questions with n prompt
ness and definiteness which seem to
surprise the men themselves. and go
out with their heads up, smiling conf
IDENTIFY. and accomplish changes and
refittings and substitutions such as
they had never dreamed of.
Work Well Divided.
The work under Major Fawcett sub
divided itself naturally so that no dis
propOrtionate burden falls on any one
department, with one exception. For
accounting purposes 1t is absolutely
necessary that one man should have
charge of what, in quartermaster Ian
guage. is called property" He must
sign every invoice and assume respOn-
sibility for it financially. This job
under Major Fawcett is that of Capt.
G. E. Thrall, Q. M. q. q Captain
Thrall has counted it biz II n when
he has had more than fOal ttgt ) sleep
since the war. started.
Captain Thrall han ltN.r been
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
American Telephone Operators
Now Serving in France.
Hundred Who Were Sent over Civ.
ing Such Efficient Service More
Will Be Sent.

Washington.-To the 100 girls from
America now doing service as military
telephone operators in France, 100
more in training schools here may soon
be added, leaving a reserve force of
400 more on file out of about 5000 ap-
plications.
The telephone is referred to as the
NERVES of the army" and the young
women who have been accepted for
this work have undergone tests as Sc
we're as those to which soldier at the
front is subjected.
The telephone exchanges often are
only short distance behind the
trenches. and the operator must pos
sess both courage and calmness under
dangerous circumstances.
"These girls" said Capt. e. ]. Wes-
son, who recruited the unit, are going
to astound the people over there by
their efficiency. In Paris it takes from
40 to GO seconds to complete one call.
Our girls are equipped to handle 300
calls an hour"
Other reports that have reached the
war department from France sliVE
that the American hello girl is making
good rapidly in task as difficult as Is
to be found back of the front line
trenches.
The first group of operators entered
training school here on January -
for instruction in advanced telephony.
They received practice in the largest
New York exchanges and were then
tried out at military cantonments. The
course included talks upon personal
hygiene.
The first contingent sailed on March
.. Other groups sailed in March and
April and were stationed at supply de-
pots and debarkation bases.
In addition to speaking both French
and English fluently, every one of
these girls has stood loyalty test
which proved that she could be trusted
with military information.
The uniform prescribed consists Of
coat and skirt of navy blue serge,
shirtwaist of navy blue Palm Beach
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

She soon ran through the money she
inherited, and, to obtain more, commu-
nicated with Greek living in Spain.
an agent of the spy bureau established
in Barcelona by the Germans.
When mother and son were arrested,
the boy was just about to engage in
the aviation service in order to obtain
information to be supplied to Germany.
writer in the Paris Midi identifies
the Greek as the head of German prop
aganda in Spain and director in par
ticular of the service for arranging ex-
pl0sions in factories. He was reg
ular visitor to the girls school at Bar
celOna, where he went to see three
little girls whose guardian he was
supposed to be. One of the youngest.
about eleven years old, handed over
to him, on each visit, several letters,
which he carried away.
These three little girls were French.
being the daughters of Nine. NJ. The
merry Widow" used to pass on any
information that she obtained to her
son, who wrote 1t to his young sister,
placing it in the. middle of his letters.
which were never really examined,
when 1t was seen that they were let
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
Copies the Antique.

A simple form Of cross stitching
which really copies what is known as
Italian "assisi work." offers sugges-
tion for the needleworker who is look
ing for a pillow or screen to go with
an oak-paneled and oak furnished
room. The work is done on heavy
round thread linen, with della robbia
blue cotton. Stiff cross-stitch designs,
with suggestion of dignity to them,
birds, trees, etc, are first outlined with
straight and diagonal stitches of the
same lengh In black. After this the
background is filled in with the blue
cross stitches.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

of the figured material In blue and
white. The sleeves are Of georgette
with cuffs of plain foulard and tho
plain goods serves for the little vest
at the front and the short sash. A
white Organdie collar, finished at the
ends with the smallest Of pearl but
tons, Is In harmony with the frock.
The same tiny buttons are placed In a
clpse-set row on the vest.
SO far as beauty is concerned, one Of
these frOcks is as pretty as the other.
The cotton frOck is likely to outlast
its rival and costs less for the materials,
so 1t is worth considering where econ
omy or patriotism urge one to save
money.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
TO CAMOUFLAGE A HOME
Just a Few Simple Suggestions That
May or May Not Be Exactly
Followed.

Hang the crayon portrait Of Aunt
Anastasia over the bad place in the
living room wall paper.
Back the sideboard up against the
place where the walnscoting was
blistered during a chatting dish party
given by your predecessors.
BY keeping the player-piano going
you can easily overcome the banging
Of the faulty radiator in, the living
room.
The temperature may be made agree
able by constant exercise with wall
weights, dumb bells and rowing ma
chimes. On heatless days you can thus
fool your landlord and yourself at the
same time.
Place a large Japanese umbrella up
against the ceiling in the library
where the radiator upstairs has leaked
through.
Where you have too many pictures,
hang them one over the other, the pic
ture of your relatives on the bottom
and those Of your wife's relatives on
top.
Hang a towel rack over the place
where the genuine marble has peeled
off the bathroom wall.-Richmond
Times-Dlspatch.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

There are some novelties in gingham
plaids and in plain and plaid silks
combined that seem to belong to youth
full maids and are destined to rejoice
the heart of the flapper. More lrresisti-
BILE than all others, the beautiful white
linen-covered parasols, exqulsitely
hand-embroldered, prove that no new
design can outclass them. Natural pom
gee embroidered in its own color, be-
longs in the same class and there are
the usual bordered pongees, employing
bands of vivid cOlors, all designed for
the use Of grOwn-ups.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
MERRY WIDOW TO Die
French Woman Found Guilty by
Court-Martial.
Sold Military Secrets to the Germans
in Letters to Her
Children.

Paris, France.-Brief announcement
has inst been made that Paris court
martial has condemned to death as
n spy Nine. M, thirty-sev"n years
old. Her son, Noel, sixteen <Nars old,
who was accused of being her accom-
plice, was ordered to a penitentiary
colony until he comes of age. The
court believed he was too young to be
held responsible for his acts.
AS the case was not heard in public
only few details have become known.
such as that Nine. MS husband was
killed at the front in March, 1916, and
that the wife soon started life that
earned her, in the circles she frequent
ed, the 1ame of "The Merry Widow"
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

Great strides have been made In our
country In weaving and colorlng mate
rials, since the war has thrown us on
our own resources. And among the
novelties that demonstrate how sue
cessfully cotton has been turned into
lovely dress fabrics. there Is the new
cotton foulard. 1t Is very light and
supple, has II pretty sheen, and Is
printed In the same smart and striking
patterns as silk foulard. Two dresses
are shown above, one of silk fOulnrd
and crepe geOrgette and the other of
cotton fOulard, figured and plain. with
sleeves of geOrgette. The cotton dress
is In every way match for its silk
rival.
The dress at the left combines geor-
gette crepe in warm tan color, with
foulard in the same color, covered with
a lacelike pattern in white. Whether
the background Is printed in on the
fOulard, or the figured pattern is
bleached out, the fern leaf and flower
motif that covers the surface Is very
delicate and beautiful b. In the skirt
the fOulard is set on over the gOrgette
crepe but in the bodice the order is re-
versed. There Is a short plain bodice
Of the silk with an overbodice of crepe.
This has short kimono sleeves length
ened by broad band of foulard and
finished with shaped ilOunce of crepe.
In the cotton frock low-necked slip
of dark blue foulard serves as a
foundation for a sleeveless Overdress
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
Hats Not Doing Things by Halves.

Hats Not Doing Things by Halves.
Hats are not doing anything by
halves this season. If small they are
tres petit. If expensiveness of trim
Is their ambition, they go the limit in
breadth and to emphasize it add q
natness in crown and trimming, says
the Dry Goods Economist.
When they are Of straw they are the
toughest straw, and If they started
out to be tailored, the severity of their
lines Is perfection. AT the moment
they wish to simulate perfect purity
in all white creations. Wings, breasts,
straw, ribbon, flowers-all are In spot
less white, not, even dlmly sh9dowed
by an unpleasant thought of how long
they can remain clean.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

The parasols that find their place in
the sun this summer do not include
among them the luxurious affairs that
used to flourish in pre-war times.
There appears to be less variety than
in past seasons and simplicity Is Il
feature of the styles in this summers
sun-shades, but there Is variety
enough; the fad for hat and parasol to
snatch helping out In this regard. BY
1.-The very simple expedlent of adding
Z border of ribbon or silk, matching
the scarf or bow on hat, to the edge
of a plain parasol, the smart matched
set Is achieved. Sometimes bag re-
inforces this pair making q set Of three
pieces.
Japan has sent over quite a number
of small pretty parasols with short
and novel handles that are interesting.
Among these there are white silk para
SOS with sheer hand-painted medal
lions, as large as saucer, set In about
the edge. The medailions are appar-
emily made of strong silk muslin with
flower designs, sometimes outlined by a
tiny gold cord, painted on them. In
another Japanese parasol the white
silk covering is partially lined with A
plaque of this painted muslin and the
sunlight filtered through gives love
ly shadow picture. The parasOl at the
left of the picture is Japanese model
with bamboo frame, tan-colored silk
covering printed in cOlored figures. The
! American .sun-shade at the right is
practical and attractive, being in the
best of all colors for real service. II
is green with blue dots ringed with
white.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

caught ratified. He swears now and
then. but laughs at himself when he
swears and he never lets anybody else
get ratified. Captain Thrall is a much
more tired looking man than he was a
year agO-but like his chief he has
found that the best way to keep men
moving is to meet ignorance and stu.
pldity alike with friendly grin and
straighten them out as they go along.
Major Fawcett left the regular army
II years ago and was for many years
purchasing agent for the Philippine
constabulary. Captain Thrall came
from the ranks of the regular army.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
Lemon Juice
For FreCkIeS
GlrIsi Make beauty lotion at
home for a few cents. Try I'll

Squeeze the juice Of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces Of
orchard white, shake well, and you
have quarter pint Of the best freckle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complex
ion whitener, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck.
arms and hands and see how freckles,
sunburn and tan disappear and how
clear, soft and white the skin becomes.
Yesl 1t is harmless.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
GIRLS DO GOOD WORK

cloth and straight-brimmed hat of blue
felt, while the regulation grange and
white cord on the left sleeve is used to
designate their rank, as operator, su-
pervisOr, chief operator and so on.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
Reaaar Had $500.

Memphis, Tenn.-John Johnston,
professional beggar. cursed a white
woman when she refused to buy a pen
Gil from him. He was arrested. At
the city Jail when he was searched
$500 in currency was found in his
clotheA
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
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"DUKE" JUST A HORSE,
JOINS RED CROSS BODY

Seattle, Wash.-The life and
services Of Duke will henceforth
he devoted to the Red Cross.
Duke is pet horse and be-
cause its owner, Frank Larson.
had no money to contribute to
the Red Cross. he gave Duke.
The animal was brought to the
Red Cross headquarters and
duly receipted for.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
WHILE OVER THERE HE
GETS DIPLOMA OVER HERE

Knoxville, Tenn.-Although
Clay Barber, Knoxville lad, is
"over there" a formal presenta-
tion of a diploma to him as the
only boy graduate of the Carter
High school occurred here. Pa
irons attending the schools ex-
ercises beheld the seat of the
only boy graduate draped with
Old Glory.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
Described.

"Pa. what is a profteer?"
"a man who would rather get rich
quickly than win the war quickly"
Meade County news., 1918-07-18
Lively Work of Major Fawcett
and Captain ThraII at
Camp Blank.
SPUUCED UP FOR OVERSEAS
Hungry and III-cIad Soldiers Well Fed
and Made Spick-and-Sp for
the Voyage, to Battle
Front In France.

Washington.-Maj. George w. Faw-
cett is the camp Quartermaster at an
American embarkation camp. 1t is his
first business to see that troops going
overseas find comfortable, healthful
temporary quarters and have plenty of
food. The camp is more than rest
resort for travellers. When II was
established less than a year ago in
coming troops were warned that they
must not rely on getting any of their
overseas outfit here This Is so COM
pletely changed under Major Fawcett's
administration that there is nothing
an organization can possibly need
which this camp will not supply nearly
as fast as the men can be marched
up TO his warehouses to take the sup
plies away.
Major Fawcett has a ten-foOt square
office In an unpainted shack. He sits
Mt little desk with two clerks, one be-
hind him and the other at his side. A
telephone receiver is strapped over his
head all the time. The officers requir-
ing supplies for the present and fu-
ture who come into this camp make
mistakes, big and little, but not one
of them has ever got anything worse
than an amused or an ast0nlshed grin
from the camp quarteima ,ter. at is
easier and quicker to gvo "A man what
you know he wants." the major says,
"than to waste your time, his, and the
governments, by quarreing with him
because he has not put his needs in
proper shape"
Makes 1t Easy for Them.
Army regulations require particular
printed formulas for acquisitions, pre-
pared with scrupulous attention to
small details. Major Fawcett has
taught his men to accept any scribbled
memorandum on the back of an envel-
ope or a bit of wrapping paper, tell the
applicant for supplies to come back
in half an hour, and then, when he re-
turns, hand to him perfectly arranged
form of requisitlOn, stating alli his
needs with military eXactness, and at
the same time directing him to a store
house where his supply Is already
waiting.
The interior traffic of the camp has
increased until 100 big motortrucks
are tearing through the streets from
dawn until dark, and half Of them
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

Women of Fife. Scotland, have
agreed to provide the labor for harvest
ing the fax crop.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

When Baby Is TeethinQ
GROVES BABY BOWEL MBDICINB win correc,
the Stomach and Bowel troubles. Perfectly harm
less. See directions on the bottle.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

ters from a brother to a little sister
at school.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

Most men mistake the slightest ap-
plause for an encore.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

There is probably nothing quite SO
sure as consequence.
Meade County news., 1918-07-18

Madagascar, the worlds third larg-
est island, has an area equal to France,
Holland and Belgium combined.