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The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
NEWS OF WEEK
Told Herewith in Tabloid
Form
Condensed Items of Interest
for Every Member OF
the Household
MISCELLANEOUS.

Under the new agreement between
Sweden and the allies, the allies will
gain 100000 tons of shipping in the
next week
During the last few weeks the Swiss
arrested and interned 215 Hun spies.
German statesmen still maintain
that Belgium must be retained to give
them somewhat of a lever to force a
German settlement.
Evidences of cruelty to prisoners in
Germany have started a great cry in
England as to going into the empire
and freeing the boys or practicing re-
prisals.
V. H. Huck, manager of threshing
machine company at Nashville, Tenn,
is under arrest, charged with insult
ing Red Cross fund solicitor.
Diplomatic relations between Cuba
and Mexico have been broken off, and
their ministers called home.
A reduction in the price of coal to
domestic users is promised because
the railways will be required to pay
more under the law
Four more express companies have
determined to join the consolidated
companies and seek a share of public
business.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
GENE AL.

All the mules and horses on tbs
west front are to be supplied with gas
masks.
Mrs. r. j. Darbin, wife of private
in the British Army, committed sui
eide by throwing herself under train.
Land in the Portland (Ore) district
to the extent of $4,000 acres has been
opened to settlement by the secretary
of the interior.
Rumors of Uboats lurking around
the Atlantic ports of this country float
in with every new steamship arrival
In order to meet the wage increases
and other expenses of conducting the
railways, Director McAdoo has or
dered 25 per cent increase in freight
rates.
April meat exports to Great Britain
totaled 100000 pounds compared
with 161, 100000 pounds for sane pc
riod last year
Al the l. w. w. trials in Chicago it
was admitted by some of the defend
ants that German money had fur
nished the incentive.
The presence of lewd women in
numbers in proximity to the training
camps has led to the belief that Ger
mans are sending them.
Over 100000 letters arrived at New
York from soldiers on Mothers Day.
The general assembly of the Pres
byterian church adopted a resolution
opposing any kind of peace following
an inconclusive victory.
Wild rioting took place in Halifax.
N. s., when two soldiers were arrest
ed by the city police. They were lib
Grated by their comrades.
1t is said that Won Hindenburg has
typhoid fever and his condition is
critical.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
DOM EsTic.

Secretary Daniels. in a Decoration
Day speech, insists that the U. s. navy
will wipe out the submarine peril.
The surgeon general of the United
States reports the health conditions at
all camps as good and growing better.
Philadelphia saloons have cut the
size Of standard glass of beer from
IL to eight ounces.
Attorney General Gregory urges all
citizens to report every case of dis
loyalty of which they have knowledge.
Now that all the man power of the
country is to be used in war work the
Government will inoculate with anti
typhoid serum all who apply.
Some 100000 men will be indicted
into the military service of the United
States during June.
Retail merchants of the nation have
undertaken campaign to sell $780,
100000 OF thrift stamps in the coming
month.
During the week ending May rs 10
new steel ships OF an aggregate ton
mage of 63,4S6 We're completed.
AT the recent primary in Arkansas
women We're allowed to vote. They are
still barred at the general election.
The sale of many thousands of
pounds of spoiled meat to soldier
camps in Texas is charged to Morris
& Co. and Wilson & Co., Chicago
packers.
Drys are still seeking to force the
United States senate to place a ban
on the making of beer.
Red Cross subscriptions are expect
ed to reach nearly s150,000.000 by the
time all points are heard from.
A three-inch black band with a gold
star is recommended as badge for
American women who have lost a rel
alive in the war.
ALI Americans have been called upon
to celebrate the glorious Fourth as
marking an epoch for democracy in
the history of the country.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Second Fiddle.

One of those international gather
ings which consist mainly of dignity
and broken English was in progress.
and a certain polite and much honored
Frenchman had been presented to the
mayor of the town in which the gath
ering was being held.
"Ah. permit me re honor of giving
you my fluctuations. and to your tai.
ented family likewise. Re music it ees
a beautiful gift, and l hope to haf re
honor of barking your performance. II
Pardon. m'sieu'," said the mystified
magnate, but you are mistaken.
know nothing of music"
"Ah. but that is vot You call your
hang back-your modesty. hat hear
it several couple of times Eat your
wife plays re first violin and Eat you
play re second fiddle to 'er.'
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
PERSONAL.

Giuseppe Bevione has been appoint
ed chief of the Italian section of avia-
ton
The University vof Tennessee has
conferred the LID. degree on Presi-
dent Wilson.
Miss Helen cAllester yeowoman
in the navy, is missing from her post
at Dallas, Tex, and is being searched
for.
Gen. Leonard Wood has asked Presi-
dent Wilson to be allowed to take up
his duties in France. No answer
Former President Taft and Theo-
dore Roosevelt have made up their
quarrel and held a consultation at
Chicago hotel
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Why "Behemoth" Survives.

The books of the New Testament
were originally in Greek; those of the
Old Testament. of course. in Hebrew.
When the first authorized version"
of the Bible was framed. early in the
seventeenth century. the scholars who
undertook the work of translation
We're puzzled to identify some of the
scriptural beasts. The crocodile was
unknown in Europe at that period.
and. not having even heard of the
hippopotamus. they let the Hebrew
word "benen0th' stand.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

see 20 "a homer
but 1
jnrul and
passed.
nrul
only xegh old but ride hoss with the best of them
things
o eve
Again the explained the he himself would
a
old fellow
pleading defending
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

and h but he mas peeh
real difficult tasks IN th war
learned the >e"
added as new SITUATIONS anu
remembered OF theh
commission women IN the army put II
her the recognition OF er
bgad general all salute li
Nehhorn
christened her 8heha
just call her Major Billy
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
FOREIGN.

German Socialists are making ii I'M
comfortable for U-booaters by inauir-
ing why the United States can land
men in France
A German book issued in London
contains hints of treason affecting A.
600 influential people in the kingdom.
Peace negotiations between Russia
and Ukrania are now under way. in
spite Of the violation of all agree
ments as to that matter by the Ger
mans.
1t is estimated that the Germans
have lost 1000 airplanes on the west
front in the last 60 days.
People of Denmark are expecting
the United States to knock out the
kaiser in the world war
The Russians are satisfied that they
are to be again forced into the war
by continued German aggression.
Irish Nationalist and Sim Feiners
are near break over the questions of
CONSUMPTION and home rule.
London papers declare U. S. con-
querors are mere boys. but kaiser's
crown will be placed in museum.
A British air raid back of the Ger
man lines killed 200 citizens.
1t is now said the recent epidemic
in Spain came from germs released
by the grew if an interned U-boat.
Sweden has carried her point in the
food negotiations with the United
States, despite German threats and
| interference.
Deaths in Serbia exceeded births by
more than 1900 in the last year.
Failing to secure concessions from
| Britain or the United States as to ship
| ping space. Switzerland is endeayor-
! ing TO buy German ships interned at
neutral ports.
Prince of Wales has made a trip 10
Rome to insure the Italian people of
| continuing British cooperation.
Great Britain reports that 65.OOy
| German prisoners are held on the IN
land. Most Of these are employed 81
farming.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
ACCIDENTS

Rose Langel, 10, of Evansville. Ind.
is dead at her home from bleeding at
the nose
During a dust storm in Kansas Lo-
rem Pew drove his automobile over
his father and mother, whom he was
on his way to rescue.
A locomotive explosion at Nashville
ILL.,, resulted in the death of Fireman
Fred Cogle.
Four are dead at Windsor, Ont,
after drinking beer mixed with wood
alcohol
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
WAR eREvITIES.

According to the most reliable fig
ures the allies hold 664,104 German
prisoners.
Senator Lewis of Illinois says that
by December l our forces in France
will equal England's.
Eighteen Belgians have been exc
cuted by the German military authori-
ties in the last two weeks.
Eighty-eight persons were killed in
Cologne when British airmen made
raid on that city The populace is ter
rified.
Cadet Paul NJ Currie of Minneapolis
was killed at San Antonio, Tex, when
his airplane fell 200 feet.
A plot was discovered in Ireland
whereby a certain faction was to re-
lease and arm interned prisoners TO
fight England.
Sick and wounded soldiers to the
number of 106 were landed at New
York last week
Three submarines were sighted off
the coast of the United States last
week
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

Mrs. NJ. A. Tanning of Cleveland,
wife of well-known traction mag
nate. thinks so much Of the Victory
poster of the national war garden COM
mission that she is putting up the pa
per-" as they say in the circus bust
ness, with her own hands. She has
visited a dozen cities on this mission.
Mrs. Tanning helped Clara Barton
organize the Red Cross in st. Louis
in 1888, and worked with her in the
river floods.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

squirrel. Anyhow, he was marching,
holding before him jonquil with a
long. sapyy stem. He must have seen
in the blossom something more than
an everyday five-cents-apiece flower,
for he held 1t before him as an altar
boy carries blessed candle. The
woman stopped permitting the sQulr-
rel TO look at the slow-moving figure,
but the man paid no attention. The
1onquil might have been magic wand
that was visioning to him jonquils that
blp0mad in fha rdan % hi, ,-,,,.b
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

Odd Cure for Deafness.

There have been recorded many
cases of deafness and speechlessness
being cured by accidental means. such
as sudden noise or an unexpected
visitor. or II startling question. and
IN one case nj least Il midnight fail
our of bed But one of the Strangest
cases belongs to Il former war. where
soldier lay for fifteen months I'M
der the influence of catalepsy. Final-
ly. in despair. the doctors ordered the
hagpipes to be played near the pa
tents bed. That did the work.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

the
booth The
him what he that
moi him a
replied
a
iceman anda ske for his arrest
was a which indulge
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

into headquarters and asKeu TT ne
could see the general. He was told the
general was busy. but would see him
presently. This didn't satisfy him.
He had come some 300 miles ito see
the jinrul, and wanted TO see him.
Just then the general walked out
of his office. The old chap sprang to
his feet. crying: Hello, Jake; | see
that you are jinrul now, and"
Come right on in, Mack" said
the general. and they shook hands.
"Come right in. I'm powerful glad to
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

HUUH II Ildn UVpTUutdtu Ute UUUtH
where she was offering the bonds to
everybody who passed. aud when he
was asked to buy bond refused in
somewhat surly manner. When asked
why he would not buy he gave the
surprising answer that he was Ger
man.
The woman was somewhat sur
prised that any German should con-
fess to being in the District when the
enemy alien law strictly forbids his
being here. So as he moved away she
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Judge Rosina of Chicago says nine
tenths of marriages contracted to
evade military duty end in the divorce
courts.
Thomas ]. Mooney, San Francisco
bomb plotter, was again sentenced to
be hanged in the next 80 days.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

tell what wonderful thing
who marching through park carrying onqut
of the when
he cav
OF an
Then he unlocked his his
holds a blessed cande-and marched
really
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
LABOR.

A strike in Argentina on June 80 is
expected to tie up all traffic in the
nation.
Director McAdoo is out in a warning
10 railway men as regards the privi-
lege of striking
Certain railway men are protesting
over McAdoo's recent order as to IN
creases, believing they are being
sighted
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Admitted He Said somethina.

A fine distinction was drawn by a
man in the names he had called a
neighbor. In suit before the London
derry assizes one of the defendants de-
MED calling the rector thick-headed
old fool, but admitted calling him a
pig headed humbug.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

needs bit of help
looking
scarcity stiff proposition before
Y A
ring in the conf
the baefelds
of
capital.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Words and Music.

So that singers can use monographs
TO play their Accomplishments. an at
tachment has been invented that dis
plays the words of songs on a reel of
paper as a record Is being played.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Many Lonesome Girls Working for Uncle Sam

CIT HE City of Lonesome Girlies."
! that more girls cry themselves t
in any other city in the whole world.
TO Washington since the war began.
Every one of the 10000 is little home
sick grille, too. They have come from
every corner of the Union and from
every city and hamlet. Every one of
them wants to go back home, too.
1t is all because Washington is
just great big lonesome town. 1t is
town of grand distances and every
little stranger is overawed by the big
things and the big people here end
she wants to get back TO the home
folks and the family circle. Incle
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Germans "joke' Didn't Seem to Be Appreciated

one of the who during the Liberty selling
bonds at the terminal
and puy well in after
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
NEUROLOGICAL

Gen. De Vallieres of the French
Army was killed on the west front
while leading his men into action.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

' ~o' % Ne7oiieh anu wal w
partment officials sing the praises of
the draft system they always mention
provost Marshal General Enoch Crow
DER, Lieut. Col. Hugh johnson, Lieut.
tol- Allen Guiiion and few others,
put none of them seem to know that
Major Billy" Wellborn is mighty big
factor in the draft machine which is
running so smoothly.
Major Billy" is little girl who
keeps the thousands and thousands of
rules and regulations for draft boards
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
FIR S.

The insane asylum at Columbia, S.
C., was destroyed by fire and 16 I'M
fortunates persisted, with IL others
missing.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Probably All Symbols Looked Alike to Him

LIE You couldn't call walking
he him
arounduness count sparrows and feeding
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
Fighting Spirit Shown in Veteran, "Ony 68''

beaenu the sort one would imagine sayo
interest outside anars
of his shoulders as he walked
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

That Is Washington. It is safe to say
0 sleep In Washington each night than
Approximately $4,000 girls have come
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07

A new army school for nurses from
81 to IS is to be opened in Washing
ton on June Is.
The Monticellonian., 1918-06-07
) WASHDNGTONf, d
:, SIDELIGHTS =
major Billy an Authority on Draft Regulations

drafted in
played the military
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-11-25
NOTICES.
TNIVERsAL, DROTHERuOOD

UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD
Problems discussed every Sunday $50
also lecture every Tuesday and Friday
nights, s o'clock Labor College. 6lS 5.
Harvey
WE BUY diamonds, old gold, silver More.
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ANGUS Seely Spermatic Truss, guar
antecd to contract opening; fitted by
expert. also abdominal belts, elastic
trusscs. shoulder braces. Westfall Drug
60 Oklahoma City
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WHEAT FARMS.
RANCH 4


FARMS FOR SALE BY OWNER
Al, my farm lands for sale, prices az. 70
farms not as good 2in aere. vood
smooth lana; good 2.storv, Groom hou.s,
barn and outbulldlngs, 100 acres fIrt
growing wheat, balance being pr.nsrsS
for oats and corn; nice location wi,ss
from Porter Okla. $50 per acre. Alss
lso acre and five O.acre farms; most .If
snsse n, nave some growing wheat. balls nee
and town. Will sell on terms N Xa.,rsSs
no exchanges considered, am no, yr,ss2
10 sell, but do offer 10 sell Al pricss eSS5
WI appeal TO YOU solus Uursics.
Porter Okla
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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE.
OR TRADE.
MISCELLANEOUS TRADES.

TO TRADE for good oklahoma farm.
stock u dry goods. groceries and nH~
lurcs invoice about 81 500, 5-room res
Idrncc. AN located I'm one ~ the best
business towns In Okuhom1; well cstih-
ushcd trade, stock In nrst-clnss com
druu, nothing hut good farm cou7ld-
cred Address Box o.. Kingston, Okla.
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SEEDS. PLANTS AND TREES.

BERRY plants for sale; varieties. black
berries. Early Harvest Early Robin
son. dewberrles, Early Austen; pric
fl25 per 100 Il. NJ. Skiryin. Box SC
Holdenville, Okla.
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CATTLE AND STOCK.

FOR SALE-26 head high grade Holstel
cows and heliers: l2 2-year old spring
ers, 10 yeRrlngs for sale cheap II take
soon. Lone star Dairy, Mulyane, Kan
GOOD. large spun OF mules for sale. Call
at 1909 G.inwood
500 HEAD OF goats for sale some full
blood Angora; must sell at once. Write
I'd l'tz. WhteSbOro. Okla
TWELVE fresh cows. heavy mixers,
reds and Jerseys cash or terms SOY
on Exchange Bldg Walnut 42lb, or
Walnut 60S7
FOR SALE
Fine Durham milk COW, heavy mixer
fresh In few days
r. H. GARDNER,
Walnut l2lS Walnut 1855
FOR sALE-Registered Jersey, or win
trade for graded COW ll5 r.. 10Th.
PHONE Maple SOC before selling your
cows any kind Also calves Highest
prices paid
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2NalL Weat Main

Walnut q 1904 West Main
TO TRADE-Eauity in l6O-Rcre farm, II
miles southeast Oklahoma City, for
form IN Wa~hta or north bali Of Caddo
county or viii use n late model light car.
e. King Colony, okla,
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20 IIorcn. Flrm Dcpt Re'. Maple 2N7'
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ainui ~ tV''5 west MAIN
BEST farms m Bryan county TO select
from, In tracts from 80 to 50O acres:
viii loan 4O percent ~ value on any farm
offer you. write wants first letter: no
trnde Holmes Colbert. Norcland Hotel.
burant OH'r
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FARM AND ACRE TRACTS.
Oklahoma

0vy m ~ Al ACRES bottom land.
wv Nil one-halt mile from the
w ny - iuterurhHn, nicely I'M
,royed every foot real land price $1,000.
listing 2y70.
Sec Harrell, Farm Dept Res, Maple 1918
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
NOTICE..

To Whom 1t May Concern:
Please take notice that the i've
stock hereinafter described was tax
en- no on the 2lst day of June, a u.
1918, same being found tresspassing
upon the farm OF George ii. Decker,
west OF Kadoka, South Dakota. The
aforesaid livestock are held for the
damage which they sustained by the
trespass upon said farm, and the
owner thereof can procure the afore-
said livestock by calling at the office
OF NJ. X Easthouse, attorney, Kado-
ka, =. ID. and nay the damage which
the aforesaid livestock has sustained
with the additional yardage expenses
and expense for keeping the same
from the 2lst day of June 1918, and
up to the time the livestock will be
taken possession of by the real owner
The livestock herein referred 10
which is now held by George II,
Decker is described as follows uo"wit:
One sorrel mare and colt mare
branded j Il 5 on the left shoulder
One bay mare and colt mare brand
ed II. O. r. on the left shoulder,
One black mare branded W on left
shoulder.
One buckskin mare branded " on
I lett shoulder.
One bay mare and colt mare brand
ed b 5 on left hip.
One 2-year old mare wolf bitten, a
slick.
One brown buckskin, gel6ing brand
ed W on left shoulder, reached
name.
Dated this 27th day Of June y. ID.
1918.
George II. Decker.
Magnus X. Ea-thOuse,
Attorney for the Plaintiff. 52-tl
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FOR SALE--I wish to sell my
property of 7 acres. 3 room house,
good barn, 2 good wells and big
dam. On account of nv health
| will sell at a bargain. Inquire
at the Press office. ]. {. Heck
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DR.. ]. NJ. Walsh, Specialist. Eye,
Ear. Nose and Throat. First
National Bank Building, Rapid
City, 5. d. ATT
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The Kadoka Press

C.. n. Leedom and +. T. Nellor,
Editors
New-York tribune., 1918-04-25
live Must Go Drv.
Let's Think 1t Over First

Better regulate than abolish
liquor, a Massachusetts physician
warns.
Replying to the comment of
DR.. D. 0. Edison, printed previous
ly, the superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League Of New York
maintains that few anarchists,
Socialists and agitators are pro-
hibitionists.
In a stimulating, if not stimu-
lated, letter IS. r. G." calls upon
the esoteric of the prohibition
cult to cite good literature not
reeking Of the wine cup.
Prohibition may be a plunge,
but it is certainly plunge tow
ard better things. writes n. ]. NJ.
Bogert.
Lets take time to think it
over is the reply of John j.
Splain to those who would rush
the Federal prohibition amend.
ment into the Constitution.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-25
Women to Give Dinner-Beneft
For Summer Comfort Kits Fund

Under the auspices of the Woman's
Naval Service dinner will be given
at the Waldorf Astoria on Tuesday
evening, April 80, the proceeds of which
will be applied to the Summer Com
fort Kits Furd. The speakers will be
James NJ Beck, Patrick Francis MUIR
ply, Henry A Wise Wood, Alan R.
Hawley and Nine. Yvette Guilbert
The patronesses include Mrs. Robert
Bacon, Mrs. Herbert l.. Satterlec, Mrs.
Charles Cary Rumsey, Mrs. James
Speyer, Mrs. Bourke Cochran, Mrs.
Charles S. Whitman, Mrs Charles Dana
Gibson, Mrs. Schuyler Warren, Mrs. Jo-
seph S. Stevens, Mrs. Walter Damrosch,
Mrs. William Fl. Crocker. Mrs. Seymour
L. Cromwell, Mrs. Walter E. Maynard
and Mrs. John Greenough.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-25
Wanted: Another Solomon; Two
Mothers Claim The Same Baby
Mrs Gusse Fener Declares Infants We're Mixed at
neur Hospital and Demands Baby Blanche
Leonif in Exchange for Annie

gathered. Mrs. Felner seized Baby
Annie in her arms.
'She is mine, tell youl" she cried.
See! Blanche looks like your boy
Julius and Annie is like my little boy.
noticed that the second time the
nurse gave her to me she seemed big
ser than she had at first, and / noticed.
too, the tag had slipped from her arm.
You give her to me, and if you don't
want to take Blanche I'll keep them
both"
1--WE will let the Judge decide to-
morrow. Mrs. Leoniff replied. "If he
says we have the wrong babies, we ex-
change. admit there may have been
q mistake, but don't think So"
AT the Gouverneur Hospital. near
the Leoniff fat, the head ward nurse
Miss Julia A. Donnelly. was asked
about the possibility of such mistake
ut is next to impossible, but, of
course, it might have happened" she
said. "Thc children have identification
tags put on their wrists as soon as
they are born, and the mothers names
are on the foot Of their beds. Mrs.
Felner's child was born early in the
morning and was given to the mother
before Mrs. Leoniff's baby arrived. I'm
less the women exchanged tags I do
not understand how it could have hep-
pened."