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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Nearly Millicn War-Risz
Checks Mailed in October
"Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State. "

In the month of October the Bu-
reau of War-Risk Insurance of the
Treasury Department mailed 957,-
24O checks, of which 934,157 were
for allotments and allowances, SOFA
for compensation, and 1909 Tor
Government insurance.
To date the bureau has sent out
7,4S6,434 checks. representing to-
tai disbursement of $23O,oO0,OCO.
More than 1860 death claims,
representing $11S, 100000 of insur-
ance, have been PAID to, date.
Total Near $4,000, 100000.
The insurance written on the lives
of soldiers and sailors by the Bureau
Of War-Risk Insurance is now close
to s36. 100000. Up to October
81 about 100000 applications, rep
resenting $35, 100000 of insur-
ance, have been received.
Almost $2,00O,OOO,Oo0 of new in
surance was written during October.
This is a marked decrease from the
figures for recent months and was
caused by the epidemic OF Influenza
which retarded the movement OF men
to camps. Nevertheless the Bureau OF
War-Risk Insurance received during
October more than six times as much
insurance as the largest commercial
life insurance company in the world
wrote during the entire year of 1917.
With the resumption Of steady en-
trainments, the flow of new insurance
is now returning to its normal rate
of approximately $1,O0O,OOO,OOO a
week.
Average Mounting Rapidly.
The average amount cf insurance
applied for per man is mounting rap
idly. Almost without exception new
men Joining the colors are taking the
full $4,000 of Uncle Sans insur-
ance The average amount is now
$S,743.
According to the best available es-
Inmates, the Army and Navy are now
almost 95 per cent insured.
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance
has received to date about 100000
applications for Government lnsur,
ance and 100000 applications fol-
allotments and allowance, and has re-
ceived and answered in addition more
than 3,5OO,OO0 letters.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
The Best Hot Weather Tonic

GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC enriches the
blood, builds up the whole system and will Won
derfuIly strengthen and iortify you to withstand
the depressing effect of the hot summer. SOC.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Nation to Give Thanks Nov. 2s

Washington, Nov. 17.-President
Wilson in a proclamation today desig-
mated Thursday, November 2S, as
Thanksgiving Day and said this year
the American people have special and
moving cause to be grateful and re-
joice. Complete victory, he said, has
brought not only peace, but confident
promise of new day as well. in
which "justice shall replace force
and jealous intrigue among nations" "
The proclamation follows:
"It has long been our custom tc
turn in the autumn of the year in
praise and thanksgiving to Almighty
God for his many blessings and mer-
eies to US as nation. This year we
have special and moving cause to be
grateful and to rejoice. God has in
His good pleasure given US peace. 1t
has not come as mere cessation of
arms, mere relief from the strain
and tragedy of war. 1t has come as
great triumph of right. Complete
victory has brought us, not peace
alone, but the confident promise of
new day as well, in which justice
shall replace force and jealous in
trigue among the nations. Our gallant
armies have participated in triumph
which is not marred or stained by
any purpose of selfish aggression. In
a righteous, cause they have won i'm
mortal glory and have nobly served
their nation in serving mankind. God
has, indeed, been gracious. We have
cause for such rejoicing as revives
and strengthens in us all the best les
sons of our national history. A new
day shines about US, in which our
hearts take courage and look forward
with new hope to new and greater
duties.
ssWhile we render thanks for these
things, let US not forget to seek the
Divine guidance in the performance
of those duties, and Divine mercy and
forgiveness for all errors in act or
purpose, and pray that in all we do
we shall strengthen the ties of friend
ship and mutual respect upon which
we must assist to build the new struc-
ture of peace and good will among
the nations.
Therefore, :, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-eighth day of Novem-
ber, next, as a day of Thanksgiving
and prayer, and invite the people
throughout the land to cease upon
that day from their ordinary occupa-
tions and in their several homes and
places of worship to render thanks
to God, the ruler of nations.
s'In witness whereof, l have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
ssDone in the District of Columbia
this sixteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and eighteen, and OF
the United States of America, the
one hundred and forty-third.
"WOODROW WILSON.
''By the President.
"Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Treasurer's Notice.

The County Treasurer's Office will
be open for. the purpose of receiving
taxes from the 18th day of October,
1918, to the 18th day Of March, 1919.
All taxes shall be due and payable
between the 18th day of October,
1918, and December 31st, 1918.
That when taxes charged shall not
be paid by December 31st, 1918, the
County Auditor shall proceed to add
penalty of one per cent. for Janu-
ary, and if taxes are not paid on or
before February 1st, 1919, the Coun-
ty Auditor will proceed to add two
per cent. and five per cent additional,
from the 1st Of March to the 18th of
March, after which time all unpaid
taxes will be collected by the Sheriff.
The tax levies for the year 1918
are as follows:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Trespass Notice.

All persons are hereby warned not
to hunt or trespass in any manner
whatsoever on lands owned or con-
trolled by the undersigned. This
means you, so stay off.
C. T. Swearingen.
Trenton, S. C.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
How To Give Quinine To Children;

FEBRILINE is the trademark name given to an
improved Quinine. Itis .-asteless Syrup, pleas.
ant to take and does not disturb the stomach.
Children take ii aid never know il is Quinire.
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseare nor
cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try
it the Next time you need Quiuine for any pur-
pose. Ask for 2.ounce original package. The
name FEBRILIN3 IS blown ir bottle. 25 cents
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Mills

Mills
For Statepurposes 81
For Ordinary County z
For Constitutional School Tax 3
For Antioch a
For Bacon School District 7R
For Blocker 2
For Blocker-Limestone a
For Golfers a
For Flat Rock a
For Oak Grove 3
For Red Hill a
For Edgefeld 8
For Elmwood No. 8 2
For Elmwood No. 9 2
For Elmwood No. 80 2
For Elmwood L. C. 3
For Hibler 3
For Johnston IL
For Meriwether (Gregg) 2
For Moss 3
For Ropers z
For Shaw a
For sweetwater "A
Talbert z
For Trenton S1s-
For Wards z
For Blocker R. R. (portion) Is
For Elmwood R. R. (portion) Is
For Johnston r. R. 3
For Pickens R. R. 3
For Wise R. r. IA
For Corporation IL
All the male citizens between the
ages of 21 years and 60 years, except
those exempt by law, are liable to
poll tax Of One Dollar each. A >capi-
tation tax of SO cents each is to be
paid on all dogs.
The law prescribes that all male
citizens between the aces of IS and
So years must pay $500 commuta-
ton tax. No communication is includ-
ed in the property tax. So ask for
road tax receipt when you desire tc
pay road tax.
JAMES T. MINIS,
Co. Treas. E. C.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
Epitaphs in France

The New York Globe has recently
published a collection of epitaphs
which a Canadian officer has brought
from overseas that he found scrib-
bled by the soldiers on the little
wooden crosses that dot so many
fields and woods of sunny France.
Here is one:
Here lies the body of Elmer Opp.
Who fourteen times went over the
top;
And every time he brought a Boche,
Till sniper got him at last, b'gosh!
"And another, markedly different
in sentiment, reads:
Churchill funked it-he lies at rest;
Nobody grieved when he went west;
Whence &c came or where he goes
Nobody cares, nobody knows.
"No leisurely literature, conceived
and written in the silence of the
sanctum Of studio, in these lines.
Here are the hatred and scorn which
every real fighting man feels for the
chap who turns coward. Here is the
tribute paid to the unsung hero with
his booty of Boches. Here, too, in the
case of both coward and hero is the
humor which is the never-failing,
saving grace of the soldier, the humor
without which he could never fight as
he has fought and is still fighting.
"All over France are little wooden
crosses raised for unknown soldiers
and simple verses scrubbed by I'M
known rimesters. And the soldiers
who lie under the little wooden
crosses-with the few exceptions who
funked, like Churchill-and the SOL
diers, who, with gaiety, penciled the
little epitaphs upon the wood-all are
heroes"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
Sale of War SAVINGS
and Thrift Stamps
In Vermont TO Nov.
2, 1913
As Reported to the State Dis
tributor of War Savings
REDEEM YOUR WAR SAVINGS
PLEDGE!

Towns and cities printed in capitals
have already exceeded their quota in naa-
turity value OF sales
It must be borne ia mind that the pro-
ceeds OF the sale Of War Savings and
Thrift Stamps have been anticipated by
the Treasury Department, and. there
fore. the redemption of pledges made to
the Treasurer of the United States for
the purchase OF Stamps before January
/. 1919, is not only matter Of honor,
but is absolutely Indispensable.
The original act for authorizing the
sale of War Savings and Thrift Stamps
provided for a total issue of $4,000, 000.-
900, maturity value. The actual receipts
for sales in the United States TO October
23rd were 1907 ,154 48S, which represents
maturity value of about $780, 0oe. e08, or
Approximately one-haH the original issue.
Congress has now increased the author
ization to 81, coo, 000. 600 and it is probable
that the sale of War Savings and Thrift
Stamps will continue as long as occasion
exists for Federal loans.
Vermonters are not only urged to fulfill
their pledges, but to continue the thrift
habit and the purchase Of War Savings
Stamps.
HENRY L. FARWEIL.
State Distributor War Savings.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Table Decorations


In table decorations this year Santa
Claus viii beam from the midst of
patriotic place-cards and the national
colors mingle with the regulation green
and red. Here are little figures made
of crepe paper, representing America,
England and France. They are sim
ply little pasteboard paper dolls with
printed or painted faces, dressed up in
paper clothes and tiny paper hats. To
make the table complete, Belgium,
Italy and Serbia are to be represented.
Each little figure might bear a tiny
flag. They are supported by strips
of cardboard pasted to them at the
back and are to be used for place
cards or merely for ornament.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
THE EVENING
CALIFORNIAN
Established weekly lss7-Daily 1915

Established Weekly Iss7-Daiiy 1915
Published daily, except Sundays
and holidays, by the w. d. Pelley
Publishing Co., Inc, at Eastern Az
enue and Main Street, st. Johnsbury.
VT. Telephone $50.
TERMS-By mail, 81 year; six
months So; three months, 81. De-
livered by carrier in st. Johnsbury at
80 cents month. All subscriptions
by order of the government are pay
able in advance.
AS members of the Associated
Press that organization is entitled ex-
clusively to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this pap
er and also the local news published
herein. All rights of republication of
special dispatches herein are also re-
served.
Entered as second-class matter
May 1, 1916, at the post Office at St.
Johnsbury, Vermont, under the act
of March 3, 1879.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
The Speakership

A new aspirant for the speakership
of the next Vermont house of repre-
sentatives appears in a movement
among his friends to promote the
cause of Addison E. Cudworth of
Londonderry
The latest entrant has had long
legislative experience. He will be
serving his third term in the house
and has sat for two terms in the
senate, serving as head of the judic-
larry committees of both bodies. He
is municipal judge in Brattleboro.-
Burlington News. e
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18

24-Corner Spring and Central
streets.
25-Underclyffe (private)
26-Corner Cliff and Winter streets
27-Corner Webster and Summer
streets.
28-Corner Cliff and Mt. Pleasant
streets.
Main Street Section
31-Sum1ner street, opposite Bright
look Hospital.
32-Brantview (private).
34-South Park, front e. N. Turner's.
35-Prospect street, near st. Johns
bury Hospital.
36-Corner Eastern avenue and Main
street.
37-Corner Maple and Main streets.
38-Arnold Park, near A. F. Nichols.
Railroad Street Section
41-Granite Square, across railroad
tracks from Swift Company.
42-Corner Eastern avenue and
Cherry street.
43-Railroad street, head of Port
land street.
45-Pillsbury and Baldwin.
46-Corner Cross and Railroad
streets.
47-Railroad street, front Citizens
Bank entrance.
48-Corner Maple and Pearl streets.
49-St. Mary street.
Paddock Village Section
'2-Passumpsic street, near Hastings
Bridge.
53-Railroad street, north near ST
Johnsbury Garage.
54-Ramsey Park, near water tub.
56-Corner Emerson and Pleasant
streets.
Sun1merville Section
62-Corner River street and Marion
avenue.
63-Corner Portland and Caledonia
streets.
64-Harrison avenue.
t65-Corner Portland street and Con-
cord avenue.
67-Corner Portland and State
streets.
E68-Corner Concord avenue and Lib
erty street.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18

Canton flannel, eiderdown flannel
and pushes are used for the doggies,
ponies and circus animals that prove
Accordingly interesting and dear to
his babyship. Patterns for them can
be bought from any of the standard
pattern companies and they are stuffed
with sawdust.
The doll pictured can be made to go
through many antics. She is without
a body and her coat is to be slipped on
over the fingers of whoever undertakes
to amuse the baby. She will bow her
head, wave her arms and dance.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
ST. ]. FIRE ALARM
Directions for Giving Alarm

Directions for Giving Alarm
Citizens are earnestlyrequested to
keep themselves informed as to the
location Of Alarm boxes, so that
should fire occur in their vicinity
the alarm may be given promptly.
Keys to Fire Alarm Boxes are in
the Door. Break the glass, unlock
the door, pull the hook down once
and let go, and if possible remain at
box and direct the fremen to the
fire. ,--.,.t
Location of Boxes in St. Johnsbury
Following us list of fire alarm
boxes and their location:
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
PRESS COMMENT
Gen. Foch for Receiver

Germany's debts are now computed
to exceed her assets. Therefore she
is financially insolvent. For more
than four years she has been morally
insolvent. 1t now remains for the
Allied Powers to appoint receiver
to wind up her affairs.-George Har-
vey's War Weekly Review.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18

an easy way to skin a beet without
bleeding 1t and causing 1t to lose color
10 to put II in cold water as soon as it
is cooked. Then draw the hand gently
down the beet and the skin will drop
bH without trouble.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18

finley climb aboard their loaded
truck at shutdown, fifteen miles
behind the lines. They rumble
through the winding streets, out on the
white road that leads to Germany
The man at the wheel used to be a
broker in Philadelphia. Beside him sits
an accountant from Chicago. A news
paper man from the Pacific Coast is
the third. Now they ali wear the uni
form of one of these organizations.
The road sweeps round village and
on a tree is nailed sign: Attention!
L'Ennemi Vous Volt! The Enemy
Sees You'll"
They glance far up ahead and there;
suspended in the evening light, they see
a Hun balloon.
"Say, we can see him plain tonight"
murrnurs the accountant from Chicago.
land don't forget" replies the Phila-
delphia broker. that he can see us just
as plain.
The packing cases creak and groan,
the truck p1ods straight toward that
hanging menace.
They reach another village-where
heaps of stone stand under crMnpled
walls.
Then up they go, through the strange
silence broken only when great pro-
jectile inscribes its arc of sound far
overhead.
They reach turn. They take it.
They face a heavy incline. For half
a mile it stretches and they know the
Germans have the range of every inch
oft. The mountain over there is where
the big Boches' guns are fired. This
incline is their target.
The three men on the truck bring up
their gas masks to the alert, settle their
steel helmets closer on their heads.
At first the canton holds its speed.
Then it slackens off. The driver grabs
his gear shift, kicks out his clutch. The
engine heaves- heaves- and stalsl
Quick! Spin itl' calls the driver.
The California journalist has jumped.
He tugs at the big crank.
"Wh-r-r-r-r-r-r-room!
The shell breaks fifty yards behind.
Another digs a hole beside the road
Just on ahead.
And then the engine comes to life.
It crunches, groans and answers.
Slowly, with naddening lack OF haste,
Ii rurnbles on.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18
When the Engine Stalls on
Dead Mans Curve!

"Wh-r-r-oon!" That one was close
behind. The fragments of the shell are
rafting on the truck.
Now shells are falling, further back
along the road. And the driver feels
the summit as his wheels begin to pick
up speed.
Straight down village street In
which the buildings are only skeletons
of buildings. He wheels into the court
yard of great shell-torn chateau.
"Well, you made it again seei" says
smiling face under a tin hat-a face
that used to look out over a congrega-
ton in Rochester.
"Yep!" says the driver glancing at
his watch. And we came up Dead
Mans Curve in less than three minutes
including one STALL"
Later that night two Americana boys,
fresh from the trenches bordering that
shattered town. stumble up the stairs
of the chateau, into sandbaggedr
where the Rochester minister has his
canteen.
"Get any supplies tonight" they ask.
"You bet I didl" is the answer, "What
will you have?"
Whats those? Canned peaches7
Gimme some. Package of American
"a ooo-o~s @o1x0 oS
chocolate-an' some of them cookiesl"
"Goshl" says the other youngster
when his wants are filled. What would
we do without your"
You hear that up and down the front,
a dozen times a night-"What would
we do without thern?"
Men and women in these organiza-
tons are risking their lives tonight to
carry up supplies to the soldiers. Trucks
and camionettes are creeping up as close
as any transportation is permitted.
From there these people are carrying
up to the gun-nests, through woods,
across open fields, into the trenches.
The boys are being served wherever
they go. Things to eat, things to read,
things to smoke, are being carried up
everywhere along the line.
With new troops pouring into France,
new supplies must be sent, more men
and women by the hundreds must be
enlisted. They are ready to give every
thing. VIII you give your dollars 10
help them help our men7
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18

A larger figure of Santa Claus is
also made of crepe paper with the help
of white cotton. It is built ON a stick,
with wires attached for arms and legs.
On this frame body of cotton is fash
Toned, wound to place with thread.
The head is a ball of cotton covered
with pink crepe paper. The eyes are
painted on and cotton makes the eye
brows and beard. Red crepe paper
and cotton form the coat and hat.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-18

West Side Section
21-South End Machine Shop, Fair
banks.
23-Front of Fairbanks Inn.
23-Front Of Main Office, Fairbanks.
24-Corner Spring and Central
streets.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-27
BONE DRY NATION
AFTER NEXT JULY
HOUSE APPROVES PROHIBITION
MEASURE, WHICH NOW GOES
TO CONFERENCE.
Efforts of California and Pennsylvania
Representatives to Extend Dates
Prohibiting Manufacture and Sale
Of Wine and Beer Defeated.

Washington. - National prohibition
effective next July 1 for the period of
the war, was approved September. %
by the house, which adopted, 1874 to
~, the senate prohibition rider, to the
$12, 100000 emergency agricultural ap-
preparation bill. The measure now
will be sent to conference for adjust
ment Of differences between the two
houses on appropriation items.
After voting in the committee Of
the whole to accept an amendment
permitting the importation Of wine
until next May l, the house later re-
versed it's decision and, by vote of
121 to so, retained the original senate
provision that importation Of wine
must cease when the measure becomes
effective upon it's signature by the
president. The amendment was ap-
proved by the house agricultural COM
mittee to meet an objection by the gov
ernments Of France, Italy, Spain and
Portugal.
All efforts otherwise to amend the
legislation were defeated. A proposal
by Representative Kahn Of California,
Republican, to extend the effective
date for prohibiting the sale Of wine
and beer to December 81, 1919, was
defeated, 112 to 50, as was one by
Representative Beshlin of Pennsyl-
vania, Democrat, to change the date
for stopping the manufacture Of beer
and wine from next May to December
1, 1919.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-27
RUMANIkN HEIR QUITS.
Action of Prince Charles Follows Out
break Against Germany.

Copenhagen.-The Rumanian crown
prince has fled from Rumanian terri
tory and arrived in Odessa, according
to the Ukrainian newspaper Krewskaia
Mysl.
News of the flight of Crown Prince
Charles of Rumania follows closely re-
ports that came from German sources
of an anti-German outbreak in Ru-
mania in which Queen Marie, who Is
an uncompromising sympathizer with
the entente, was the prime mover.
King Ferdinand was reported to be
-hofdfmg a1oof from the movement.
Crown Prince Charles is known to
have been in sympathy with the atti-
tude Of his mother in her bitter hatred
for all things German.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-27
German Papers Blame Austria.

The Hague.-As was to be expect
ed, Austria is made to bear the brunt
of blame for the failure Of the Ger
man peace offer. Having first ex-
pressed great surprise, the German
press is now venting its wrath on Aus
tria Even members Of the German
legation at The Hague pretended to
be astounded and depressed at the
news Of the offer, although the cor
respondent learns on excellent author
ity that the Germans first endeavored
to- mobilize the Dutch government
Into intervening for peace. The Dutch
refused, so the Austrian scheme was
resorted to.