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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-03-09
The Pay of Officers.

Officers of the army are paid accord
ing to- rank held by them. A second
lieutenant receives $141.67 initial pay
per month; first lieutenant, S166.67;
captain, 5000; major, $3.50; lieutenant
colonel, $291.67, and a colonel, $333.33,
with an increase of 10 per cen known
as longevity pay for each period of
five years of service, provided that
such increase shall not exceed 40 per
cent.
The pay of a brigadier general is
$4,000 per year; major general, $4,000;
lieutenant general, $4,000, and a gem
eral, $4,000. These officers receive
no increase for continuous service.
All officers are entitled to be fur
nished public quarters, with fuel and
light, but if these cannot be provided
the officers receive a committed money
value of the same. The allowance for
quarters for q second lieutenant is
two rooms, or $24 per month; for a
first lieutenant, three rooms or corr
mutation of $36 per month; a capta n,
four rooms or Communication of SIS
major, five rooms or communications of
$50; lieutenant colonel, six rooms or
Communication of So: colonel, sever
rooms or Communication of $S4; briga
der general, eight rooms or commute
ion of 500: major general, nine rooms
or Communication of sos; %liautenan
-aneral, ten rooms or Communication o
400; and a genera. eleven looms .
,mniutntion of S132. All receive
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-03-09
He FINALLY GETS IN ARMY
Colorado Giant Who Weighs 240
Pounds Finally Finds a Place
in the Service.

Denver, Colo.-After trying unsuc
cessfully to enlist in the aviation corps,
as a yeoman in the naval service, or
as a member of Uncle Sans ''land sail
ors"-the marine corps-William
Lloyd Harbour, eighteen years old,
five feet eight inches in height and
weighing 240 pounds, was finally &C
cepted as a chauffeur in the engineer
ing corps, and is now on his way to
France.
The eighteen-year-old giant has q
chest measurement of 40 inches, a 40
waist, wears a ~ hat, size s gloves
and So shoe. Harbour weighed IL
pounds at birth, 1856 when he was
eleven years old and nearly 200 when
he was fifteen.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-03-09
RETURNS AFTER TEN YEARS
Wan6erer Comes Back to Old Home in
Army Uniform and Then Leaves
for France.

Chicago.-After ten years of wan
:ering, away from all communication
with his family, Howard Clarke, scion
If one of the oldest and most distin-
yuished Chicago families, returned to-
isit those he left behind for probabl,
he last time. He returned in the uni
firm Of Il United Statas soldier. He il
How Capt. Howard Clarke, and afte
"a Few days here. left to reioin his reg
'afnt ut Il Pacific port. and HIS lat's.
n'irn ''.'n trl,e him to the buue
= al France.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-03-09
RESULTS, NOT EXCUSES, ARE
WANTED.

Frederick Winslow Taylor, the ia
Their of Scientific Management, always
said in his famous lecture, printed now
for the first time in the March Ameri-
can Magazine:
"What your employer wants is re-
suits, not reasons. He wants you to
get there, and he is not interested in
your explanation of why you failed to
get there. There is one saying which
we have all used since childhood, and
which has had no little part in the
failure of unsuccessful men. We have
all of US said: Il have done the best
that | know how; no n could expect
any more of me- Now, whenever a
man fails to get the result that his
employer asks for he should feel in
tense chagrin and disappointment, in
stead of feeling satisfied because he
has done the best he knows how
What we are in the world for is con-
tinually to learn to do better than we
know how. And be sure that in ninety
nine out of one hundred cases your
employer has very little interest in
hearing that you have done the best
you know how when you have failed.
ANDREW Carnegie came back from
England one summer, and found that
one of his superintendent had made
an unusually large profit IN his plant.
He wrote this mar a check for fifteen
thousand dollars as a gift. Another
of his superintendent had lost money,
and when this man started to explain
to Mr.. Carnegie the reasons for this
loss, Carnegie said: ooh, John, don't
bother about telling me any reasons.
One single reason is good enough:
Just tell me that you are a fool; that1l
do"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-03-09

'SMILAGE' BOOKS WILL
CHEER THE SOLDIERS

Camp Devens, Aver, Mass
"Smileage books" for the sol
diers is the latest device for
making the man-in-khaki's life as
cheerful as possible while at
cantonment camps.
"Smileage books" r issued
by authorities in charge of camp
amusements and are guaranteed
to contain 100 good times for
any recruit fortunate enough to
possess one, which will cost So.
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08
STANLEY HAS DEVISED
"VACC" CARD SYSTEM

ATLANTA, Ca, April S.-An en-
ployment card system to be used in
the crusade against vagrants has been
devised by Hal M. Stanley, commits
sioner of labor, and will be proposed
by him to municipal employment bu-
reaus which he is establishing.
His plan provides for employers
to furnish their employees with a card
showing that they are workers. not
idlers. This card will be printed ac-
cording to standard form to be used
throughout the state, and there will be
space for punching the card at regu
lar intervals.
Commissioner Stanley believes the
employment card will be useful in
pushing the campaign recently launch
ed by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey to
force the vagrants of Georgia to go
to work as a war measure.
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08

appeared on the street Sunday morn
ing, fully one hundred crowded auto
mobiles and five hundred marchers on
foot, including some of the city's lead
ing women, carrying umbrellas in one
hand and the Stars and Stripes in the
other, were in the parade in the af-
ternoon, marching through Broad
street.
The parade was lead by the chief of
police enveloped in Old Glory and in
cluded leading church members and
three members of the city government,
lawyers, business men, teachers, the
state senator from this district, one OF
the members of the house of represen-
tatives and number of Confederate
veterans.
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08
ROME RED BLOOD
PARADE ON SUNDAY

ROME. Ga, April SIN the local
daily paper yesterday morning appear
ed call addressed to Red-Blooded
Americans" asking that they parade
Sunday afternoon as a protest against
the action OF ten Rome protestant
preachers in using their influence to
that had been arranged for the day
called off because it was against the
sanctity of the Sabbath" Although
there was cold, driving rain, in an
swer to the call and in spite of lack
of arrangements and the fact that no
one knew of the matter until the paper
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08
ASTONISHED
RHEUMATICS
MOST JOYOUS
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, THEY
ARE RECOMMENDING "NEU-
TRONE PRESCRIPTION 49,"

"Neutrone Prescription SO" in few
days will permanently timber up and
remove all aches and pains that none
except a rheumatic suffer. The most
slleptical persons have at once be-
come its warInest endorsers.
As relieved patient expressed it,
You can distinctly feel modification
of stiffness in your joints and mus
cles.'
"Neutrone Prescription SO" acts in d
mysterious manner that is almost un-
believable, when in fact it immedi-
ate1y relieves the most obstinate
cases of rheumatism.
Are you troubled with rheumatism?
II you are "Neutrone Prescription SO"
will cure you, yes cure you.
Go to your druggist and say good
bye rheumatism. Mail orders filled
on $1.00 size.
For sale by Howell's Pharmacy,
Americus, Ca, and leading druggists
G. erywhere adv
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08
PinkstOn's

restaurants and all heads of families.
which has just been issued by DR..
Soule, federal food administrator for
Georgia, through his executive head
quarters in Atlanta, which is in charge,
of D. F. McClatchey.
The order requires all persons and
firms included above to file an inven-
tory not later than April IS showing
the amount of flour in their possession
in excess of 80 days supply. The
allowance of the Food Administration
for one person for 80 days is six
pounds of -four. Hence if there be a
family of five persons, they are al
lowed to consume 80 pounds Of -four
in 80 days. All in excess of this
quantity must be shown in the inven
tory which is to be filed In te ojceS
here of the food administration
Dealers in -four are allowed to SELF
to customers on the basis Of this g.
pound allowance per person per
rnohtn, and hence are limited to the
amount actually necessary to supply
their regular suctomers. Restaurants
ard hotels are likewise strictly limit
ed to this allowance. Atlanta hotels
have stopped serving wheat -four en-
tirelV
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08
CITY MarShal'S Sale.

Will be sold before the courthouse
dt or on the first Tuesday in May be-
tween the legal hours of sale the fol-
Ii wing described property to-wit; One
bale of cotton, and described by re-
ceipt to W. Dowdle, issued by Par
ker's Warehouse, No. A Marks A. The
original weight of said bale of cotton
being 295 pounds, and levied on as
the property of Peter Dowdle, to sat
isfy two city tax fl fas for the years
1915 1915 in favor of B. w. Warren,
transferee, VS.. Peter Dowdle. This
4th day of April, 1918.
w T. MAYNARD, City Marshal.
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08

G. Loomis Allen, traction mag
nate of Syracuse, N Y, a director of
the War Board of American Elestric
Railways, at salary of $4,000 a year.
has disappeared. At the same time
Mrs. Roland R. Merchant wife Of the
deputy state attorney of Maryland, is
some. It has been stated that the two
were friends in Baltimore, where Mr.
Allen spent much time when he was
engaged in his war board work. Mr..
Aliens family issued statement
they knew where ne had gone, but
they did not lift the mystery.
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08
For Solicitor General.

To The People of the Southwestern
Judicial Circuit
l respectfully announce myself a
candidate for the office of Solicitor
General of the Southwestern circuit
in the coming state primary. prom
Use. if elected. to perform the duties of
the office, to the best of my ability, and
in strict accord with the obligations
imposed by law upon the holder OF
this responsible position.
I will greatly appreciate the support
of the people of this circuit in the com
ing primary. G. Y. HARRELl4.
Americus times-recorder., 1918-04-08
SERIOUS SHORTAGE
OF FLOUR IS AHEAD

ATLANTA, Ga, April S-The seri-
Gus nature of the flour shortage in
this country is proven by the order
requiring an inventory by all whole
sale and retail dealers. all hotels and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15
AACSTEPHENSON,
ONCE THE RICHEST
SENATOR, |SDEAD

MARINETTE. Wis, March 15.-
Former United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin died here
early today after a long illness.
Senator Stephenson once had the
distinction OF being both the Oldest
and the richest man In the United
States Senate. He outlived his allotted
three score years and ten" by al
most twenty years, as he would have
been ninety years old June Is, next.
In spite OF his advanced age, Sena-
tor Stephenson. up to the time OF his
illness, was always an active and
energetic worker. His fortune was
estimated at over s20.OOO.OOO.
Senator Stephenson was born In
Frederick, New Brunswick, Canada, in
1929. His only education was the
common schools. At the age OF
eleven he was cooking at his fathers
lumber camp. At the age Of sixteen
he left his Canadian home and made
his way, penniless, to the wilderness
of Michigan. After serving as lum-
ber-jack, cook, sailor lumber camp
owner and farmer, by industry and
hard work. he became the greatest
lumber producer In the world.
He served three terms in the House
being FIRST elected in 1852. In lsW he
was chosen To all the -unexpired term Of
Senator John c. Spooner.
In 1909 after Senator Stephenson had
been elected to succeed himself. charges
that his election had been brought about
by the unlawful use OF money were
made. After an investigation. the Sen
ate found no evidence that would have
warranted unseating him. and he con-
tinued in office until the expiration or
his term in 1915.
Senator Stephenson Ia survived by i've
children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15
STAY HOME, FRENCH
OFFICER ADVISES
AMERICAN GIRLS:

american girls, keep your nome
fires burning so that your sololers
will have a cheerful Homecoming on
their return from war" is the aoVice
of Lieut.. Jean Labat, OF the sFrehen
high commission to the American girl
who wants to go to France.
American girls should not go 10
France in any other capacity thah
that OF a Red Cross nurse Lieutenant
Labat told the Y. w. c. A. girls IN
an address at their headquarters.
American women should not go TO
France to accept Industrial positions.
They should leave these to the French
women who are not only releasing
men for the French army. but earning
q living that in many cases a dead
husband once gave,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15
AMERICAN SOLDIER
WOUNDED IN FIGHT
ON MEXICAN LINE

LAREDO. Tex, March 16.-one
American soldier was wounded in a
battle between Mexican bandits and
an infantry patrol near Zapata, sixty
miles southeast OF here, it was re-
ported here today. The pursuit OF the
bandits is still on.
There were eight or ten Mexicans
In the band OF desperadoes. When
the patrol was within q few hundred
yards of them, the bandits made a
stand, and one OF the first bullets
pIowed through the American soldiers
shoulder. His comrades rushed the
Mexicans and they ned. scattering
through the brush.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15
70 MILLION PEOPLE
USE CASCARETS--WHY

candy before going TO bed. and IN
the morning your head is clear.
tongue is clean, stomach sweet,
breath right, and cold gone and you
feel grand.
Get a 10 or 20 cent box at any
drug store and enjoy the incest
gentlest liver and bowel cleansing
YOU ever experienced. Stop sick
headaches, bilious spells, indiGes-
ton, furred tongue. offensive
breath, and constipation. Mothers
should give cross. peevish, feverish,
bilious children q whole Cascaret
any time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15
DRAFTED MAN BLINDED
BY SUICIDE ATTEMPT

HAGERSTowN, Nd. March Is
Raymond Brosius. the young country
merchant, of near Hancock. who shot
himself through the head with pis-
toll recently after he had been notified
to report for military duty, faces
life OF total blindness The bullet,
piercing his head too far to the front
to kill him. destroyed the sight of
both OF his eyes, his right eye beins
ahot out.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15
Only True Tonic for Liver
and Bowels Costs
l0CentS a Box.

Cascarets are a treat They liven
your liver. clean your thirty feet Of
bowels, and sweeten your stomach.
You eat one or two Cascarets like
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15

Moneys Worth or Money Back
DJKaufndnInc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-15

MARINETTE. Wis, March 15.-
Former United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin died here
early today after a long illness.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-01-24
SAYS FOOD MOST IMPORTANT
MATTER BEFORE ALLIES NOW

Food is the most important mat
ter now before the allies" David Lu-
bin, American representative in the
international institute of agriculture,
said today.
cit is useless to deceive ourselves.
1t is necessary to feed our armies
well and in view of the increasing
consumption of food and decreasing
production we shall be unable to do
this unless exceptional weather pre-
walls this spring and unless extraor-
dinary measures are applied. l am
reporting to the States department
and also to congress that Europe's
crops may be worse than last years,
and that the mobilization of men in
the United States for farm work may
be necessary. We should also con-
slider plans for devoting land in the
eleven arid States to grazing pur-
poses so that the United States will
be able to supply cattle and replen-
ishment of the diminishing stocks.
"Our allies are dependent upon
the United States. Without its help
they would reach a condition similar
to that in Germany and Austria in
which there is merely food enough
for the armies, with the civil popu-
lation dying off,"
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-01-24
GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE
CONTRACTS TO PAY WELL
FOR CASTOR BEAN CROPS

The government needs castor oil
for lubricating the aeroplanes which
are expected to play big part in
winning this war. The supply is short,
and this section can produce castor
beans, and the government means
to make it profitable to the farmers
to plant castor beans.
Mr.. Evans, in speaking of the mat
ter, said, "Castor beans are an easy
crop to produce in this section. Wo-
men and children can harvest the
crop. 1t is crop that is good for the
land, and I am ready to give the far
mers in this section a contract for
all the beans produced by them to
pay them $500 bushel at their sta
ton.
/ will furnish the seed for plant
ing at an exact cost to the Govern
ment, plus the cost of transporta-
ton, to the farmer, and will give full
directions as to how to plant and
care for the crop and harvest. ANY
farmer that wants to take advantage
Of this offer and prove his patriot
ism, can write to me at Hamlet. NJ
c., and / will see that information
and contracts are supplied"
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-01-24
LUMBER MEN AND
ROAD BUILDERS NEEDED

Washington, January 21.-So
urgent is the need for lumbermen
and roadbuilders for immediate ser
vice in France that the. War Depart
ment has made an exception to it's
previous ruling, and will now allow
experienced men of draft age to en-
list, under certain conditions.
Any man between eighteen and
forty-one years Of age, who is quail
ned physically and by experience,
may enlist for this service; but they
must obtain permission to do so from
Major c. E. Clarke, Chief of Engin-
eers Office, War Department., Wash
ington, D. c., by mail or telegraph.
The men required will be sent to
France as soon as they are assembled,
without being held here for military
training.
Tremendous quantities of lumber
are required by the American troops
in France. A special regiment.
known as the goth Engineers, is be-
ing. recruited to cut timber in the
forests of France and manufacture
it into lumber. This regiment will
include experienced men of every
class required in lumber camp oper-
ations.
The goth Engineers needs immedi-
ately 1000 woodsmen, sawmill men,
machinists and others who have
worked at numbering. 1t also needs
5000 men who have worked at road
building. These men are to construct
road from the woods to the mills
and from the mills to the distributing
depots. In connection with both the
numbering and road-building opera
tions complete crews Of men expert
enced in the great variety Of ma
chinery used and in the camp and re.
pair work involved are required.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-01-24
FRIENDSHIP

Mr.. August Lowery, of Wexford,
spent Sunday here, the guest Of Mr..
Jesse L. L6wery.
Mr.. Oscar Sellers spent Sunday in
this community.
Mr.. John Gaddy, of Morven, spent
Sunday here the guest of Mr.. Jesse
Gaddy.
The little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Merriman is slowly improv-
ing.
Sunday school next Sunday at 10
o'clock. Preaching at II o'clock.
We are glad to say that Mr.. Sow
ell is abel to be out again.
Miss Otis Griggs, assistant teach
err of the Vaughn school, has been
sick for the past week. Mrs. Allie
Adams has been acting in her stead.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-01-24
MAYSVILLE

Mr.. d. E. Burch, of Mt. Croghan,
spent several days of last week in
this section.
Mr.. L. L. Jordan and son Vester
were in Ruby recently.
Messrs. D: E. and B. II. Burch were
at the home of Mr.. L. E. Griggs last
Thursday on business.
Mr.. Eugene Jones was in Morven
Thursday.
Messrs. Thomas Rivers, Oscar and
Lonnie Hunter spent last Friday in
Chesterfield
Mr.. e. B. Smith, of Mt. Croghan,
spent several days of last week in
the Wexford community.
The ffteen-year-old son of Mr..
Jim Tucker is quite sick with pneu-
monia at his home.
Messrs. ]. T. Davis and Wilbert
Tucker were in Ruby last Monday.
Mrs. w. P. Gulledge is rapidly i'm
proving.
Mesdames D. E. Burch and H. A.
Jackson, of Mt. Croghan, visited at
the home of Mr. w. P. Gulledge Sun
day.
Mr.. E. d. Myers took dinner with
Mr.. Peter Jones Monday.
Miss Frauline Burch, Of Elizabeth
has been appointed as third teacher
for Wexford. She began her duties
last Monday morning.
Mr.. e. X. Smith and two of his
| children, of Black Creek, were in
this section last Friday.
Mr.. j. T. Griggs was in Ruby one
day last week.
Mr.. B. H. Burch was in Mt. Crog.
han last Friday.
Messrs. ID. E. and B. II. Burch
spent last Friday night at the home
of Mr.. Wilson Teals near Wades-
boro. Mrs. Teal is seriously i'll with
pneumonia.
i Mr.. r. X. Pittman, Of Wamble Hill
was in this section last Saturday
Master Preston Burch spent the
weekend in Mt. Croghan.
Mr.. Jim Tucker has severe case
of the grip.
Messrs. f. ID. Myers and j. w
Adams spent Thursday in Wadesboro
Mr.. j. Wesley Adams motored to
Chesterfield Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Tucker are very
much improved. /.
Best wishes to The Advertiser.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-01-24
ELIZABETH

Mr.. and Mrs. Japhus Moore visited
in the Wexford community Saturday
night and Sunday.
Miss Frauline Burch left Monday
to take up her work as assistant
teacher in the Wexford graded
school,
Mr.. J. L. Burch made flying trip
to Chesterfield Saturday in his John
Henry, accompanied by Mr.. J. H.
Burch, Miss Frauline Burch and Miss
Bette Ratliffe.
Mr.. H. j. Hendrix is sick at this
writing. Hope he will soon be in
good health again.
Mrs. M. F. Sellers, Miss Hattie Sell
lers and Mrs. Japhus Moore visited
at the home of Mr.. A. P. Allen Fri
day.
Mr.. H. w. Hancock is recovering
from an attack of pneumonia.
Glad to report that Mr.. J. S. Sell
lers, who is in the Columbia Hospital,
is rapidly improving.
Sunday school next Sunday at
Z:5O. freachlng by our regular pas
tor Immediately after Sunday school.
Everybody is invited.
Mrs. B. r. Sellers and daughter,
Mrs. Mary Hancock, of Ruby, visited
at Mr.. Cyrus Sellers Friday night
and Saturday.
Mr.. Andrew Allen has been very
sick with measles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Japhus and Miss
Florence Moore and Mr.. Hughs, Miss
Hattie and Master Claudio Sellers
visited at Mr.. John Moore's Sunday
afternoon.