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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-06-26

Mrs. Ruth Irwin Brookes, wife OF
the late George D. Brookes and daugh-
ter of the late William Fl. and Ann B.
Irwin, of Alexandria, die,l IL Wash
ington last Sunday.
Miss Pauline Brawlel, of eth
Fayette street, has. gone to Baltimore,
where she will spend the summer with
her sister, Mrs. Munday.
We'll Brothers this afternoon moved
into their new store building at 521
King street. The store room has
been completely remodeled by Con-
tractor Samuel De Vaughan and is
one OF the most attractive meat stores
in the city. A large modern ice box
for meats has been installed in the
rear of store. The upper floors OF
the building also have been remodcled
and will be used for residential p'r-
pocas
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22

Scenes at Southern shpbuiding yards
sells being turned
pictures made by c. Hubbe
Pathe News Weekly and have been
No general of the at Southern port
big ships are in of construction At the
left of the picture eghr virtually ready
for the sea- No gives idea of the activity
building this being of the largest
the arc light The plants working night shifts
against the uboats No Snegro employed
at the Dixie lpyards They overas and
much of the lighter work releasing
work shows of the thousands
been IN the pine forests of the South by the
the utmost diligence getting
out their product Ito help the boys in France"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22
DIXIE WOODS RAPIDLY
GOING into SHIPS
Biggest Sawmill In World at Work
in Forests, Running Day
and Night.

Southern pine is helping to
win the war.
While Congressman and Sena-
tors are quarreling over details
and putting On the gridiron the
heads of Departments, the mills
of the piney-woods are turning
out tall timbers for brave ships
In one Southern shipyard four.
teen ships were on the way this
week, while another had just
been launched.
Far in the forest the biggest
sawmill in the world, equipped
with the most modern machin-
cry, is ripping through the big
timber. Towering pines, as ma
jestic as any Oregon fir or Nor
way spruce, are falling beneath
the blades of the sawyers.
Railroads tracks, laid hastily
across the wiregrass, send a long
trainload a day of lumber to the
yards, sawed to specifications,
ready TO be modelled into stanch
bottoms for transatlantic voy-
8 res, 1t is a race against the
submarine, and the advantage
just now is with Southern pine.
Nobody knows just what the
South is doing in the new-old
craft of shipbuilding, unless it is
Edward Hurley, chairman of the
Federal Shipping Board. Many
officials know a part of the story.
Ten thousand workers know
what is on their own ''sector. :"
But probably not until the war is
over can the complete history of
Southern pine In the great war
De published.
One of the men who has seen
3 bit of the work came back to
Atlanta this week with a chest
full of photographs, some of
''sem to be hidden away until
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22

creosoting, including oil and Ia
Dor, ranges between 3 and 5
cents. Fence posts treated in
this way have been in place fif-
teen to twenty years, and are
still sound. In addition to the
low cost, wooden posts have sew
eral advantages over metal or
concrete, namely:
Creosoted posts hold staples
well, greatly facilitating { h
erection or the dismantling of a
fence. Such a fastener is much
easier to repair than those used
on metal or concrete posts.
Creosoted posts are stiff, nei-
Their bending nor breaking. Met
al posts are often bent by a large
animal in a pasture, and are with
great difficulty Strengthened.
Concrete posts are often snapped
through the carelessness of q
driver in backing a heavy load
into fence.
Creosoted posts are light and
easily handled; many may be
handled at one time on a wagon,
and one is but small load for a
man. If it becomes necessary to
move a fence the creosoted posts
are easily pulled, which is not
true of concrete posts.
TIL obvious advantage Of
using creosoted posts rather than
ordinary wood posts which are
not creosoted is that the ordi-
nary post will rot out in a short
time, necessitating constant re-
pair of fences and replacing Of
posts. The creosoted post elimi-
mates this trouble to a very large
extent.
The College of Agriculture in
its circular, "Prolonging Life Of
Farm Timbers," gives full infor-
nation as to creosoting. The cir
cular is free upon request.-Prof.
James B. Berry, State College Of
Agriculture.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22

their story is no longer a secret,
some to be released" at once.
He brought hundreds of feet of
movie film depicting some of the
scenes in forest and shipyard.
World Traveller Thrilled.
The photographer was G. J.
Hubbell of the Atlanta Office of
the Hearst-Pathe Company. Hub
bell has been "all over" He
spent his Christmas a year ago
in Hongkong, in a hotel infested
with smallpox. He has cranked
his camera in a dozen lands. He
has had ringside place wherever
there has been "big doings."
But he declared as he exhibited
some of his pictures that he
hadn't been thrilled by anything
quite as much as when he watch
ed the building of these ships for
Uncle Sam.
There's so much to tell, and
so little I'm allowed to tell, that
/ don't like to talk about it., :"
said Hubbell. 1t took all kinds
of Government permits to get
there, and all kinds of trouble to
get pictures after l got there.
And the guards around the yards
have an unpleasantly careless
way of handling their sawed-off
shotguns. The insist on resting
the muzzle on your trousers
band while they demonstrate
with you about butting-in, and it
isn't good for the nerves.
8 can't tell you where any
thing is, or how big the ships are,
or any other details I'd like to
give you. But these pictures
have been giveL the Government
o. K, SO you can use them.
THE movie film will be re-
leased pretty soon, both in the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22
TREAT WOODEN FENCE
POST WITH CREOSOTE
Makes the Post Last Much Longer
and Insures Better and
Cheaper Fencing.

Many farmers are thinking Sc
riously of substituting posts of
metal or concrete for those OF
wood, without first Investigating
the merits of the creosoted wood
en- post. This is not good farm
economics, because it has been
demonstrated t h creosoted
wooden post will give better
service at a lower annual cost.
Metal in time corrodes, concrete
decomposes under the action of
alkali and frost, but wood, prop
erly treated, is, for many years,
unaffected.
Creosote may be obtained from
any of the oil or coke companies !;
during normal times costing 10
to Is cents per gallon. Often coal
tar may be obtained from the
local gas company at 3 to 5
cents per gallon. The creosote
or tar is heated to a boiling tenn
perature and applied to the posts
with brush. A necessary pre-
requirement is that the posts be
peeled and thoroughly seasoned /;
only under these conditions can
the treatment be a success. One
gallon of oil will suffice for Is to
20 posts. Usually the cost of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22

Hearst Pathe educational series
and in the Hearst-Pathe news
weekly. Don't miss them"
The shipbuilding operations
are under the general direction
of the Federal Shipping Board,
and the work is being handled by
most expert lumbermen, mill op-
orators and shipbuilders posi-
bic to obtain, Mr. Hubbell said.
Its wonderful to see them
wade into the big woods" he
said. Whoever said all the
Southern pine had been cut away
was badly mistaken. They IRE 60
ing farther back into the woods
for it, that's all. 1t takes big
trees for ship work, and they re
getting them.
"They re speeding things up,
too. Instead of letting the saw
yers tramp from place to place,
there are automobiles waiting,
for them, and they are raced
through the woods, whether
there a road or not.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22

turns it this way and that at the
touch of lever, jerking it into
any position desired as though it
were a feather. Tracks run ev-
erywhere. Lumber is kept NOV
ing in a straight line from stump
to freight car. There is no lost
motion, no lost time.
II wish / could give you some
figures on the footage turned
out, but they won't let me. But
you can rest assured of this: The
South is doing its share of the
big work of building ships for
Uncle SAM
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22
Railroads Through Forests.

Railroads are being laid
through the forest for handling
logs and sawed timber, and a
trainload of finished lumber
leaves. the big mill every day.
That is just one of the mills, and
l understand there are many
others.
"You III notice in one of the
pictures bunch of negro women
wearing mems overalls. They
are using hundreds of women
around the mills, putting them
to doing the lighter type of work,
such as stacking light lumber,
pushing trucks along the rails,
handling odd jobs. This releases
the men for the man 's-sized jobs.
The mills are running night
and day. Electric light plants
brighten the yards and guards
are on duty every hour in the
twenty-four to keep idlers or
trouble-makers away.
mot all the lumber is going
direct to the Southern shipyards,
but it is all going into some
branch of the Government serv-
ice or some enterprise approved
by the Government. Some of the
timbers are being shipped to
Chicago, for the shipyards on the
Great Lakes. Some of the lum-
Der perhaps went into The big
environments 1t has had the
right of way. over the railroad
lines.
The best brains have gone in
to this work and there is plenty
of money behind it. The most
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22

electricity. At the big mill there
is what they call a mechanical
niger" that grabs log and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22

modern machinery is used every
where. Nothing is done by hand
that can be done by steam or
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
GERMAN REPLY
NOT A SURRENDER
BY ANY means
More Than Likely Very Little Atten-
tlOn VIII BE Paid to II.

Washington, October 21-The Ger
man reply to the United States, in
brief, is nothing that will tend to stop
the war at present.
Briefly, it says, in part: Germany
consents to evacuate Belgium, but
needs several months for the opera
tion; denies responsibility for loss of
women and children in torpedoed
ships, but offers to suspend provision
ally unrestricted U-boat warfare in
the interests of peace; disputes the
right of foreign powers to dictate in
German internal affairs, asserts Will
sons information regarding Ger
many's war methods came from pre-
JUDGED sources; will abandon the
claim that a mixed commission must
arrange details of the evacuation of
occupied territories; that Germany
would let the German and American
commanders in the field arrange the
terms of an armistice, and the Ger
man government, would give certain
political guarantees under certain
conditions.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
ALLIES SWEEPING
!, AHEAD IN TOR
RENTS OF rain
Are Drawing Steadily Nearer Client
and Scheldt Riyer-TOurnal Vlr-
tually In British Hands
Floods Made by the Foe
Fail to Prevent Cross
= ing Of the Lys.

Paris, October 21-The Allied forces
while pushing further into Central
Belgium on the north, are fighting
their way forward on the south to-
ward the Belgian border, south of VAL
enciennes, Sunday the Allied troops
had to fight the elementsfi, as well as
the Germans. Rain fell continually,
and the soldiers were soaked and part.
ly blinded, while airplanes were of
little use.
With spirits undampened, however,
the Allied troops continued their eff
forts, and in Flanders they worked a
little nearer to the important city of
Ghent, and are approaching very close
to the west bank of the Scheldt. On
the right of the front in Belgium the
British fifth army has to all intents
and purposes taken Tournai, an i'm
portant railroad junction.
General Gouraud and the Ameri-
cans are fighting in most difficult
country against determined and
strong resistance. They are making
slow but Solid progress in the task
of pushing the enemy toward the
southern Ardennes and un both banks
Of the Meuse.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
MAN RECEIVED COAL
STOLEN FROM C. & 0.
Should Have Been Tried on Felony
Charge Instead of Petit Larceny.

Leonard Johnson, of Augusta,
Bracken County, was accused of
standing by and seeing boys throw 30
bushels of coal off of freight car on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and
then of buying the coal.
He was tried on charge of know
ingly receiving stolen goods, but the
Commonwealth insisted that he
should have been tried on the charge
of stealing from a common carrier.
The first charge in this case was a
misdemeanor, and Johnson was event.
ually convicted TO petit larceny, as the
value of the coal was less than So.
The offense for which the Common
wealth wanted to try Johnson is fell
ony.
The question for the Court of APP
peals to decide was whether Johnson
should have been tried on a misde-
meanor or a felony charge, and the
Court held that he should have been
tried on a felony charge, that is TAX
ing property from common carrier
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
THOMAS v. BUCKLEY DEAD

Relatives here received a telegram
Sunday evening announcing the death
in San Francisco, from pneumonia, of
Thomas V. Buckley.
Deceased--was thirty-four years of
age. He was a native of this county
but had made his home in San Fran
cisco for the past ten years with his
brother Edward.
He is survived by four brothers
Edward of San Francisco, Timothy of
Kinston, N. C., James and John of
this city; four sisters, Mrs. R. ]. Hen
derson, of Portsmouth, Ohio, Mrs.
Eneas Myall, Miss Mary Buckley and
Mrs. Clint Calvert of this city.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
Yanks Advance In Mud and Rain

With the American Army North
west of Verdun, October 21-Fighting
in a drizzling rain and through thick
mud, the Americans northwest of YER
dun today advanced on a three mile
front everywhere, driving the Ger
mans back.
The battle lasted all day. The
Americans "nibbed off" Bois Rappes
and Bois Clair Chene, west of Banthe-
vile, while another detachment, in
the fiercest kind of fighting, progress
ed slightly northwest of Bantheville
through heavily wooded ground, near
ly reaching the next German line OF
defense, the Freyla system.
1t was reported that single Amer
lean platoon cleared up Bois Claire
Chene, trianglar wood, whose po-
sition, on a slope, especially was diff,
ficult.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
NO MORE SUGAR
FOR CANNING PURPOSES
Late Order From Food Administrator
At Louisville Stating That Satur-
day Was Last Day.

Louisville, October 21-No more su-
gar can be secured for canning pur-
poses. Federal Food Administrator
Fred NJ, Sackett has issued an order
that the issuance of Saturday should
be@ the last, and similar regulations
have been promulgated by every Food
Administrator in the United States.
Exceptions will be allowed only in
cases where County Administrator
reports to Mr. Sackett that a particu-
lar lot of fruit will go to waste if not
canned with sugar, and even then the
sugar cannot be secured without writ
teun permit from Mr., Sackett. Mer-
chants over the state are instructed
in Mr.. Sackett's order to turn in for
redemption all their canning certifi-
Gates.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
HEALTH BOARD
OPENS EMERGENCY
HOSPITAL here
Red Cross Society Appeals to the CIti-
zens For Donations to Same to
Help Care For the AFFLICTED.

The Mason County Health Board
has opened a necessary emergency
hospital at 215 Bridge street, Mays
vile, KY, for the purpose of caring
for residents of Mason county, suffer-
ing with the prevailing influenza epi-
demic and are badly in need of as
sistance
There has never been a time when
those with willing hearts could help
as much as now The nurses and
doctors are doing their full duty
Wholesome food is the greatest need
of the hour. Patients who get same
recover rapidly. Therefore, in the
name of the Mason County Chapter of
the American Red Cross 1 respectfully
request the people of Mason county to
at once contribute the following ar
ticles for the use of the above men
toned suffers, to-wit:
Milk.
Chickens (alive or dressed.)
Eggs.
Fresh beef.
Vegetables of all kinds
Mrs. M. E. H. French, Phone No. 3s4
has been placed in charge of the hand
ling of this work and will have full
charge of same. If, unable to give any
of above articles cash donations will
be received and converted into same.
Leave all articles donated with the
E. l.. Manchester Produce Company,
corner Third and Sutton streets.
This epidemic will not last long.
Mason county has never failed to re-
spond to such call. Your help is
needed now. Let your response be
prompt and generous. God will bless
all who give.
MASON COUNTY RED CROSS.
BY ]. N. KEHOE, Chairman.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
URGED TO PRODUCE VICTORY
MIXED FLOUR

Louisville, October 21 Federal
Food Administrator Fred NJ. Sackett
has sent a bulletin to all wheat mil
lers in Kentucky, urging them to pro-
duce Victory mixed flour, which con-
tains 20 per cent. substitutes and
with which the purchase of additional
substitutes is not required. The bull
letin is as follows:
within the past few days | have
received from Mr.. Herbert Hoover,
United States Food Administrator, a
request to urge upon you the produc-
ton of the Victory mixed flour, and to
arrange your mills, to make the Vic
tory mixed flour at the earliest possi-
BILE moment, and to urge you as soon
as you can to confine your sales to
this exclusively for household use.
while there is no rule against the
making of the. straight wheat flour, ii
is Mr.. Hoovers hope that the Victory
mixed -four will replace its use in ev-
cry home in the country, and he is
urging you to enter upon its manufac-
ture with as little delay as possible.
"Inaddition to this the Food Admin
istration is urging nupon merchants
to handle only the Victory mixed -four,
as its use will save the housewife
from the moral obligation of doing her
own mixing, and win tend TO create
the demand for the product"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
EELL AND BROKE LEFT ARM

Miss Lizzie Conrad met with pain
full accident at her home on East Sec
ond street in the Fifth Ward yester-
day morning. She had occasion to go
into tie yard, and stepped upon wet
board in the porch floor, slipping and
falling, and in trying to prevent bad
fall got her left arm under her, break
ing it just above the wrist. AS she
was the only assistance about the
home to her aged and crippled moth
er, Mrs. Mary Conrad, the situation is
not a pleasant one for them.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
THOMAS b. CURRAN DEAD

Thomas B. Curran, aged 55, died at
the home of his mother. Mrs. Hannah
c. Curran, Saturday afternoon about 4
o'clock, after long illness of Bright's
disease For several years he held
a lucrative position in New York and
was compelled to give 1t up on ac-
count of his failing health, coming
here and recuperating, afterwards
taking a rosition with the B. & o.
Railway in Cincinnati He is sur
vived by his mother and four broth
ers, Messrs. Arthur, Charles, Harry C.
and William. The funeral occurred
this afternoon.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
Air Raids on London Now More
Difficult

London, October 21-Enormous air
dromes, used in carrying out raids up
on London and other English towns
have been abandoned by the Germans
in their retirement from Northern
Belgium. Air raids will be increas-
ingly difficult upon England now and
the evacuation of ostend and Zee
brugge will make the work of the
British navy easier in keeping the
channel clear of submarines.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
TO REPORT ON WHEAT PRODUC
TI0N

Louisville, October 21-Government
reports on the Kentucky wheat crop
will be checked by the Office of Feder-
al Food Administrators Fred NJ Sack
EFT, who has called upon the County
Administrators to report the number
of bushels threshed in their county
All threshermen were required to
keep accurate records and report to
the County Administrators.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
To Mrs. Curran ana Sons

"oh! Ye who mourn some beloved
dead.
Remember well what only can avail
The souls departed to the shadow
land.
Let sacrifice for such he duly made
Let pious offerings to high heaven
plead;
Let prayers and faithfulness attest.
'Tis thus your love will scar above the
tomb
And weave the wreath to crown your
holy dead"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
RECEIVES HONORABLE DIS
CHARGE

Mr.. Charles Eitel. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John W. Eitel, of West Third
street, who last May went to Fort
Thomas and a few days later was
sent to Camp Forrest, Chattanooga,
Tenn, where he-spent several months
and who for some time has been at
Camp McClellan,z Admission, Ala, re-
ceived an honorable discharge on ac-
count of infirmities that impeded his
training as a soldier and arrived
home last Saturday afternoon.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
MAYOR OF HUNTINGTON DIES

Leon s. Wiles, Mayor Of Huntington,
died in that city Friday of pneumonia
after weeks Illness. He was born
in Ripley June 26. 1878, and was son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Newton p. Wiles. He
was married to Miss Laura Fitzpatrick
in 1904, who survives him, together
with four children. His remains we're
taken to Ripley yesterday afternoon
for interment He was well known in
this city, and was a prominent to-
bacco man.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
PATIENTS ARE MOVED IN

The Health authorities decided on
the residence of Mrs. Thomas on
Bridge street instead of the Bramble
property on Forest avenue, which
they originally considered. City and
county nurses, Misses Casey and Wal
lingford took charge this morning and
have arranged everything in shape for
the moving in and taking care of the
Flu" patients.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
MRS. ETHELINE PETERSON

Mrs. Etheline Peterson of West Sec
ond street died Sunday morEing at II
o'clock, after a short illness from
pneumonia. She is survived by her
husband, Samuel Peterson, and five
children, three boys and two girls.
Funeral arrangements have not been
made.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
SPECIAL REGISTRATION DAYS

Qualified voters, who were, not able
to register, on account of sickness or
were not in this city between the
hours of a. m and p. m. on October
LIST. regular registration day, can reg
lister at the County Clerks office, on
next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
October 2S, 90 and SO
If any one failed to register for any
reason other than sickness or absence
from this city, he CANNOT register.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
Belgian Army at Dutch Border

London, October 21-Allied Forces
in Belgium are within ten miles of
Client, according to the official state
ment on operations there. The Bel
gian army has established itself along
the Deynze-Eecloo, canal. It's. left
flank is on the Dutch frontier
French forces have thrown the enc
my rear guards back over the Lys,
and Notwithstanding floods brought
about by the Germans, have crossed
the river and established bridge
heads.
The second British army has cross
ed the Lys along the whole of its
front Since October IA the second
army has captured 6;A2e prisoners
and 169 guns.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21
STILL ALIVE

Grover Frederick, one of Uncle
Sans boys from Mayslick, who was
reported as killed early last June, is
still alive, according to letters re-
ceived by his mother from him dated
October 7th. He Is in hospital re-
covering from wounds received in
battle.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-10-21

Mrs. Owen GrifIith died Sunday af-
ternoon at her home near Fernleaf,
The funeral will occur tomorrow
morning ana inteFmeRt AZ the Ger
maniown eeme,sry,