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Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07
NOW A SOLDIER OF I
THE GRAND OLD ". s. A

w. II. Pruitt, formerly owner of the
Valley Steam Laundry, also connect
ed with an automobile concern here,
who was reported by the morning pa
per as having disappeared suddenly
without stating his destination
writes friends here that he is now a
soldier of the army of the United
States, connected with the Quarter
masters Department at. San Fran
cisco.
1t is evident that an injustice was
done Mr. Pruitt, in the statement
printed in the morning newspaper OF
July "a, according to some of the
mans staunch friends located here
1t is thought that he was upset By
business worries and, while not mean
ing to defraud anyone, went to th'
Coast to investigate the army as {
refuge.
At ny rate, Mr.. Pruitt is now sol
der of the country and is past The
slurs of his enemies, say his friends
They think a soldier should have pro
lection from a cowardly newspaper in
.sinuation.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07
J. STANLEY BROWN
For
Assenblyman
GEN, MONASH A JEW
AND A SOLDIER, TOO
primaries August 27)

correspondence of Associated Press
Melbourne, Austl ALA, June "a
Lieutenant General Sir John Monash,
who now commands the Australian Az
nv Corps-the Anzacs fighting in
Francis Jew. He is the most
representative of number of Aus
tralian Jews who have enlisted. In
him, too, the Australian Army Corps
has an Australian commander. He re-
Gently succeeded Lieutenant General
Sir William r. Birdwood, who is an
English officer and a professional
soldier. Sir John Monash is a citizen
soldier.
Ffty-three years old and a resident
of Melbourne, General Monash IS a
graduate in law and in civil engineer
ing of the University Of Melbourne,
and is a member of the University
Council. He entered Melbourne Uni
versity from the Scotch College here.
He was a brilliant student. When he
had left the institution he took up
civil engineering. He was always ac-
lively interested in things military
but it is on record that not long be-
fore the war when he was consulted
about boy who longed for a cadet
ship at Duntroor (the Australian
West Point he said:
"If the boy has any aptitudcs with
which he can enrich and widen his
mind, don't let him live his life as q
professional soldier through times OF
peace. There is nothing so narrow
nothing more deadening than the
walls of administrative routine, text
book and regulation by which he vii
be surrounded. Let him find his great
life interest in whatever he is fitted
to practice and to study. If the days
of fighting should come, he will be
all the more serviceable because he is
at his best in what he is best suited
to accomplish" L."
When the war broke out Monasl
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

aouses every day, while the same of
er must visit the barrack room:
d mess tents during the breakfast
'Aner and supper hours to find ou
j.. there is any cause for complaint.
The kitchen establishment of Brit
IN army camp varies widely under
different circumstances. At garrison
enters in France the cookhouse Is
/. large building shared by seVera
Gnits. and is under the charge of {
ergeant-chef who has been through
! special course in military cooking
II is his duty to superintend person
lily all cooking done in the regimen
al cookhouse Each unit, in its turn
has a chief cook who is responsible
or all the meals of his unit.
In the field, however, the cook
house is a thing Of mushroom growth
When unit is on the march the sim
plest method of constructing tenn
rorary kitchen is to place a number
of kettles on the ground in two par.
allel rows, block the leeward end OF
the passage thus formed with another
kettle, and light a fire in this impro
vised trench. AS soon as the fire
has been started, one or two rows OF
ettles can be placed on top of those
,lready in position.
If the stay at particular spot is
likely to be for any appreciable length
of time, a good field kitchen is i'm
provised by digging narrow trench
for the fires and placing Ae camp
kettles above this. Sometimes chin
ney is built of sods.
For stay of three or four day:
regular field ovens are constructed
An arch of sheet iron is erected ant
on top of this layer of clay is piled
With this oven it is possible to Civ
the men roast meat for dinner as oft
en- as the joints are Forthcoming from
the supply column. Enough bread t.
feed whole battery can be baked il
one of these ovens.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07
News In Brief

Ralph H. Schultz Of this city was a
passenger on the Southern Pacific
this morning for Waco, Tex.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07
HOW TOMMY GETS HIS
FOOD WELL COOKED

Behind the British Lines in France,
July 1.-THE Importance of the kltch-
en- department of the army cannot be
.overated, for if men are to work hard
and efficiently they must be decent
lv fed. For this reason the kings
Regulations" provide that it is the
first duty of every commanding Off
GER to see that the soldiers meals are
properly and sufficiently provided" "
1t is further ordered that an officer
must inspect the kitchens and cook
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

was a colonel Of militia in his native
state, Victoia. Also, he was in COM
mand of the Australian Intelligence
Corps, composed of citizen officers.
The formation of the three first ex-
peditionary brigades found him an ap-
plicant for command, but others
were given service before he was Sc
,lected. For a short time he filled the
office of censor-in-chief Then, a
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07
Notes About Town
INSURE YOUR HAY WITH RAY
EDG GAR.-Adv.

JOHN J. POWERS, who died in this
city, was inferred in Evergreen ceme-
terry at 9 O'Clock yesterday morning.
His two sisters, Mrs. Will French of
San Francisco and Mrs. Wilson of
San Diego, attended the funeral,
which was conducted by Mulligan &
Bowen.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

fresh brigade being required for Gal
lipoli, he obtained the command of It,
"Monash Gully" on the tragic PENN
sula commentaries that fact that he
and his brigade did yeoman service
there. In France, because Of his rep
ultation gained by his organization of
the Third Australian division, ne has
been regarded in many quarters as
the Commonwealth greatest soldier,
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

A. j. Smiley of Santa Ana, who
corrals all the honey he can lay his
hands on, is sleuthing around the VAL
ley just now in quest of all sorts of
this delicacy. Mr.. Smiley is at the
Princess.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

INSURE YOUR HAY WITH RAY
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

Miss Aubrey Patterson Of this city
is spending her vacation at Camp Cur
~, Yosemite.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

Complete instructions for home
aiming and drying will be sent 10
; ne readers of this paper upon appA-
alton to the National War Garden
Commission, Washington, D. C., en-
{! losing a two-cent stamp for postage.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07
INSURE YOUR HAY WITH RAY
EDG GAR.-Adv.

JUDGE ROBERT G. HILL, who
was appointed at the meeting of the
County Farm Bureau as delegate
for Imperial county to the meeting
called at Sacramento for August 8,
for the purpose OF organizing a state
cooperative grain growers associa-
ton, left today for Sacramento to
attend the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

r. L. Grey, travelling auditor for the
Western Union, is stopping for few
days at the Princess.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-08-07

LICENSES TO MARRY were is
sued yesterday to Charley Abel, Al
years of age, native of Texas, and
Maria Burgas, as, native of Mexico,
both residents of Calexico.
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ate, as the orthodox church requires
that marriages be celebrated in a
church.
Major Allen Wardwell, of the
American Red Cross. who was look
ing after the interests of foreign pris-
oners, interceded with Bolshevik Of
ficials, but Peters, The head of the
commission for the suppression OF
contra-revo1ution. was firm in his re-
fusal to grant Captain Hicks i'm
munity if he left theSAmerican prop
erty and walked into the Russian
church which stood in an adjoining
court. When the hour for the de-
parture of the British officials from
Moscow approached. the situation be-
came desperate. s.
Finally one of the Lettish women
who was guarding Captain Hicks, be-
came interested in his plight and tele-
phoned to Peters. addressing him in
the Lettish tongue. Her appeal was
! needed. She assumed responsibility
for the delivery Of the English officer
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ILLINOIS GAVE
MOST SUPPLIES
Nearly IS Per Cent of Quar-.
termasters' Supplies Were
Shipped Out of Chicago.

Chicago. Dec. ga larger amount
Of supplies were furnished the army
during the war by Chicago and H.
linois than by any other city and
state, according to the Chicago Asso-
citation Of Commerce which has just
completed a review Of estimated fig
ures.
In announcing the figures, which
are said to have been confirmed by
the federal government, the associa-
ton officials say that in two months
ended September 20, last, Chicago.
the Great Central Market" of
America, supplied nearly rs per cent
of all quartermaster purchases.
In the same period, the resume
shows, Illinois provided 1877 per cent
Of all supplies purchased by the
quartermaster, a new high record.
New York state ranked close to the
top with 14.7 per cent of the total of
$233,552,259 purchases in that period.
The total was tabulated by the sta
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go abroadi Consequently foreign men
who hoped to leave Russia shortly
could not hone to see their sweet

go abroadi Consequently foreign men
who hoped to leave Russia shortly
could not hope to see their sweet
hearts for an indefinite period, pos
sibly never, if they left them in starv-
ing, disrupted Russia, where food is
denied to persons not regarded as
Transformations workmen" and all
persons not in sympathy with Boil
shevism are dispossessed. y
Many officials Of the French and
British colonies married in the last
trying days Of thei stay in Moscow
and Petrograd. but the wedding of
Captain W. L. Hicks, military aide to
Bruce Lockhart, the British diplo-
matte representative in Moscow, was
accomplished in the face of greater
obstacles, perhaps, than those of 9TH
err Entente citizens who managed to
marry between Jail sentences and
searches.
Captain Hicks was II of the
French and English officials who were
held as prisoners in the American con-
sulate general at Moscow. He was
engaged to marry Madame Melinina.
but dared not leave the American
premises to mar her. Most of his
official associates were in prisons
charged with contra-revolutionary &C
tivity and in danger of execution.
Russian priests refused to perform
the ceremony in the American CONSUL
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tistical division Of the director OF
purchase and storage.
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Kentucky, comprising the east
ern. section OF the central states, pro
vided in the two months 1914 per cent
of the total.
Figures given out in Cleveland by
James B. McCrea. president OF n
American Meat Packers association,
show that since August, 1914, Amer
lean meat packers supplied American,
Allied and neutral countries with
more than 8,460,O87,31O pounds of
meat products. This included 2,179,-
7O9,993 pounds of beef and $780,
377,817 pounds Of pork.
For the four years preceding the
outbreak of war, the total meat ship
ments to all foreign countries were
4,943,512,568 pounds. It Is said that
during this time forty million hogs
and four million cattle were slaugh-'
tered.
Despite the war drain, increases OF
from 10 to 43 per ent in hog produce
ton in Wisconsin during the wal is
announced in reports filed with h
Wisconsin State Food administrator.
Official and unofficial calculations
show the number of hogs in the state
in the past veal increased to twenty
two and a half per cent, and the
number of pigs between W. n six
months old 43.8 per cent. The NUM-
Der of cattle of all kinds increased 10
per cent and the number of dairy cat
tie 1872 per Gent.
The secret of true wisdom Is to
know vour IGNORANCE I'd
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PIED PIPER MAY RETURN.

st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 23.--If bust
ness, picks up for the original Pied
Piper he may find an experienced aid
in q ,hotelkeeper in a southern Min
nesota town.
This particular landlord went to a
ness, only to find the hotel and many
other buildings there overrun with
rats. according to w. A. Wittbecker,
state hotel Inspector. No Pied Piper
to lure the rats into the river could
be found, so the .hotelman planned
his own strategic campaign. For a
week he served banquets especially
for rats. putting out on silver plat
tiers, so to speak, all kinds OF deli
cacies to tempt the most e%picurean
rodent. On the seventh night he served
the usual banquet but poisoned every
dish with s~trychnine, a drug that
drives rats to water, surer hi the
Pied Piper ever led them there. And
the morning after. a" screened@c OF
water set outside by the landlord was
! piled over with 682 dead rats, by ac-
tual count.
Inspector Wittbecker related the
incident today to show that the genial
greeters are versatile men; that the
state inspector is often compelled to
go outside his prescribed duties and
also display versatility. A case in
point is that for a swat the fly cam
paign planned early next spring in
a northern Minnesota town.
NJ Wittbercker's inspection last
faIiIdisclosed a superfluity Of flies
f, around a restaurant in the town and
the restauranteur was served with a
notice to clean up. He-protected that
as fast as he caught and Killed flies.
others took their places and suggested
that a town campaign was needed.
The town mayor agreed that per-
haps the restaurant keeper was right,
then insisted tina Mr.. Wibecker re-
turn at the opening Of the 1919 fly
season to direct the big swatting cam
paign. Wittbecker plans to accept the
unusual commission to make the
town less attractive for flies as a~sNm
mer place. 1s.s
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-23
ROMANCE AND
TRAGEDY WERE.
PUT TOGETHER
Men of the Entente Powers
Marry Russian Women
While Raids Go On.

Copenhagen, Nov. 30-(Correspond-
enc of the Associated Press)-Ro-
nance was intermingled with tragedy
in the trying days when the foreign
colonies were attempting to get per-
OMISSION to leave Russia. Arrests,
searches and threats of execution
were relieved by marriages between
men of the Entente powers n Rus
sian III
The Bolshevik government would
not grant Russian citizens permits tc
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dent Canadian Pacific and w NJ Neal secretary of bnd% % E1~
Canada has been meeting its railroad problems similar to those faced by the u S. railroad administration
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bm of this board which meets at egar intervals take up questions relative to comrhL'p passenger
GG@ rM P %V T GnM n %M av MM 20 AA ad rn m a. nHnsT m m p@ 1 f%% 5 the eastern d%
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TRADING AGAIN r

Minneapolis, Mimi, Dec. 23.-Since
the food administration has with
drawn all restrictions in dealing with
rye futures, trading on the Chamber
Of Commerce floor here resembles the
old days when wheat futures were be-
ing dealt in. The market is more
lively now than it has been for many
months. grain men say.
AS the result of reports that the
food administration will soon be out
of the market for rye, much activity
prevails in rye futures trading. OFF,
Gals of the food administration, how
ever. believe the government intends
to continue buying rye, but that the
requirements will not be as heavy as
they have been.
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at the train which was to carry him
out of Russia. A priest was hastily
engaged and the party stopped in ar
orthodox church on the way to the
station. where the ceremony was per-
formed just half an hour before the
bride and groom started for England.
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state would be left utterly without
military protection.
However, many cities have no real
protection except the home guards.
and 1t is considered possible that de-
spite the fact that they have had no
legal status. these will continue on
the job for some time.
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SING NATIONAL SONG.

Pierre, S. D., Dec. 23.-OnsN@ the
same plains and along the same:s.wa-
ter courses, where arrows wizzed, at
white men and bullets whined at red
men not a great many years ago, the,
sons IF Indian chieftains are sing
ing The Star Spangled Banner.
Indians on South Dakota reserva-
lions sent their share of fighting men
to France. Every community and a
great many private Indian homes
proudly display service flags. The
stories of Indian heroism and native
resourcefulness on the fighting line
have been told. The bucks are COM
ing home now and their parents and
families Ire celebrating.
A few days ago forty full-blooded
| Sioux held a celebration at the home
Of Iver Eagle Star. on Brule reserva-
ton. The victory over Germany was
the cause for rejoicing. Most of the
diners had sons or relatives at the
front.
When the dinner was finished, the
guests rose and, standing at attention.
sang the national anthem. Since then
other communities have held similar
gatherings and it seems quite prob
able that the Sioux song victory and
peace will hereafter De The Star
Spangled Banner.
1000 sLACKERs.
Calgary, Alta, Dec. 23.-Ffgures
lust made public by the military, in
dictate there were about 1000 slack
ers in the province of Alberta. The
lists show there were 535 defaulters
who failed to register under the mil
itary sefvice act and there were
slightly less than 500 men who failed
to report after receiving CONSUMPTION
! Approximately 5000 men. were or
dered to report for military duty in
this province, under the draft act.
What steps will be taken here re-
garding defaulters Is not yet exactly
that they should be punished. In the
east very stiff sentences have been
According to recent military or
ders defaulters brought before a gen.
eral court martial have been given
terms of ten, and twenty years i'm
prisonment.
eral court martial held in Military
| district IS since his court was estab-
lished in August last to deal with
these men. Defaulters here have been
given the opportunity of joining the
depot Battalion as soon as they were
!arrested.
THE HOMIE GUARD QEsTIoN.
Helena, Mont, Dec 23.-The
status Of the home guard in Montana
iis arousing considerable interest in the
1many cities in which the guard was
|organized: .5i
The general movsment eve wa le-
gally recognised by the state yet on
several occasions, II ts said to have
acted. Whether. With b declaration
of peace; 1t shall disAbnd, Is the Ques-
4 ~, SEIa4 sl4.sA24L E-shErE 49,. H.n-lhaS
Som say the guard should contin-
ue its existence while the state coun-
cil and county councils OF defense con-
Itinue to operate. or at least until .
new regiment OF militia can be orr
| ganixed or a constabulAry IL formed.
\ THE constabulary plan has q constd-
News that . regiment OF infantry,
Regulars, would, enter Montanasst to ro-
4 place the Utahs(United Htates) Guardl
| who have been. stationed At Butte and
iGreat Falls. atlayed fear that the
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CANADIAN CASUALTIES.
Ottawa, Dec. 23.-In today's Can
adam casualty list, R.. Abbot, Superior,
Wis, appears among the sick.
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The secret Of true wisdom is to
know you ignorance. Il
Arizona republican., 1918-07-14
RATIONAL CONSERVATION
 OF GASOLINE IMPERATIVE

consumption for freight vehicles, and. provided there is a reasonable conser- vation by all concerned, it may not be necessary to seriously interfere with pleasure cars and motor boats.
 Tt must be borne in mind, however, that the paramount use for gasoline is for war purposes, all of which require ments will be supplied. The volume of this will largely govern the situation.
 Tt seems possible that rational con- servation by the public will render government action unnecessary
 The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce is cooperating with MT. Requa and w. Champlin Robinson, director of oil conservation, to help in this conservation movement. While there is need for saving, there is no suggestion of any necessity for curtailing the use of passenger cars on Sunday or any other day, nor the issuance of gasoline cards to limit the amount to be sold to each individual owner.
 War interests will come first. but, as Mir. Requa indicates, with rational conservation by the public, there should be ample for general needs.
 The production of gasoline in 1917 was 65,000,O00 barrels of 42 gallons each.
 The first quarter of this year the production was 17,3S4.000 barrels. as against 13,700,OO0 barrels for the same period of 1917.
 On April 1 there were 12,700,000 bar rels of gasoline in storage.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-14
ABOUT ALL USED
 ARDEA[ERS|N
 PHOEN|XMERGE

The Phoenix Auto Clearance House has effected a consolidation of the used car departments of practically every automobile dealer in Phoenix The deal is the result of the success w. H. Grant made of the Phoenix Auto Clearance House at it's old location on First street. Only being established about three months, he sold hundreds of cars, gathered a strong sales force about him, and made the dealers real ize the economy of the present meth ods he uses in the sale of used cars. Willard Creighton, formerly manager of the used car department of the Roper Motor Car company. has pur- chased an interest with MT. Grant in the business. MT. Creighton has had a long experience in the automobile in dustry and is well known locally. | The lot on which Babbitt Brothers displayed their used cars, corner of Central avenue and Monroe, is now occupied by the Phoenix Auto Clear | ance House. together with the former office and shop of Babbitt Brothers at 8 Van Buren.
 Automobiles are put into first class condition before being offered to the public. The large number of cars on sale gives the purchaser a variety to choose from and enables him to see