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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

The Governor has appointed Aylett
2. Nicol. of this city, a Notary Public
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

Section B. Of the Woman's -A9xiIi-
airy CT ST. Pau's Church will give
a chicken salad supper in the Parish
Hall Thursday evening Of this week,
from 8 to g o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23
ONE OF ALEXANDRIA'S most NOTED INDUSTRIES


Family for Nearly Years. Having
Been Purchased 3, 1920
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

Margaret. the little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Cecil f Leake, aged two
wears, died at their home, lOlG Duke
street. last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

Mrs. William F. White and Master
William Franklin White, Jr., o. ia
Duke street, are the guests Of the
formers brother-in- and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Stoler. at THAR home
in PHILADELPHIA.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

There will be special meeting of
the members O.. Emmanuel Lutheran
church tonight at 7:30 at which the
Rev. Stillrlan. Of Baltimore will pre-
side.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Missionary Society OF the NJ.
r, Church South will be held tomor-
rev afternoon at o'clock in the Su"-
iav school room of the church. This l.
an important meeting rs the DELEGATES
will be elected to attend the annual
meeting TO be held in Harr!sonDurg,
Virginia. in May. Mrs. Thomas W.
Robinson will give a four minute talk
or the Liberty Loan. Not only mem
bers of the soc;aty are invited but all
members and friends o: the church
will be u;yen a cordial welcome.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

The Emanuel Bible class OF Christ
church Sunday school will entertain
its members and friends tonight with
a smoker and entertainment in the
Parish Hall at s o'clock. An excellent
program has been arranged and prom
!nent speakers will address the class.
All men not identified with any Bible
class of the city are invited to the er-
tertainment and the soldiers and
stranger in the city are most cordially
invited to be present. as good time
IS assured TO all.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

An automobile collision occurred at
the corner Of King and Pitt streets
this morning. One of the machines
carried % men. Beth machines were
somewhat damaged but the men es-
capped serious injury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

The body of an unidentified man.
thought TO be about so years old. is
ct Demaine's mortuary pal'lors in this
city awaiting the result OF an inquest
which will be held there this afternoon
at 4 o'clock by Coroner r. G. Yates
OF Del Ray. The man was killed
by an automobile which struck him
while he was walking along the road
near the new race track south of the
Highway bridge ir Alexandria county
late Yesterday afternoon. He is sup
posed to have been cmployedtiononet
posed to have been an employe of
Charles Schwartz of New York. who
brought string Of horses 70 the Ar
lington Park traciI where races are to
be held the coming week.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

The city of Alexandria was honored
yesterday afternoon by visit from a
distinguished gentleman in the person
Of Mr.. Charles VI. Schwah, Director
General of the Shiphuilding program
of the United States Mr. Schwab,
accompanied by Mr.. Charles P::ez,
Vice President Of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, and Mr.. Charles w.
Morse. OF the United States Steam
ship Company, came over from Wash
ington ana made thorough inspec-
tion Of the Virginia Shipbuilding Cor
poration's yards. Senator Martin,
chairman of the Senate Appropria
tions committee. and Representative
c. c. Carlin were also among the
di:tingashed members Cf the party.
Mr.. Schwab expressed himself as
highly pleased with the general aD-
pearance CT the plant and compliment
e? the skipyard officials here or the
splendid progress they had made in
thc work
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

Mr.. Joseph F. Noodfeld, Of this
city, and Miss Mary E. Weaver, Of
Fairfax Court House, will be married
tomorrow evening at s o'clock. The
ceremony will take place at the resi-
icnce of the brides mother, Mrs. J. 3.
Weaver. at Fairfax Court House.
They will reside in Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-23

Mir. Gardner /. Boothc, the Director
for the City Of Alexandria of Thrift
Stamps and War Savings Stamps, re-
Gently rcquestly the appointment of
assistant directors for this city, to CO.
operate from now on to the close OF
this campaign in this important mat
ter. The following gentlemen have
been appointed ASSISTANT directors by
the Director fer the State Cf Virginia.
Under authority Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury: Messrs Robert 5.
Jones. Thomas +. Dyson, Leopold Ru-
ben. Frank A. Steele, W. A. Smoot,
Julian Y. Williams. Robert /. Payne,
Leo P. Harlow, ard Norman l.. Will
liams3n. This organization no doubt
will conduct successful campaign for
the rest Of the year IN the sale cf
Thrift. Stamps and War Savings
Stamps.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
CHAPTER XIV.
The Croix de Guerre.

When we had been on the shore
for about three weeks we found our
selves one morning somewhere near
Sedd-el-Bahr under the heaviest fire
I ever experienced. Our guns and the
Turks were at it full blast, and the
noise was worse than deafening.
A section of my company was lying
out in a shell hole near the commu-
nication trench with nothing to do
but wait for a shell to find them. We
were stiff and thirsty and uncomfort-
able, and had not slept for two nights.
In that time we had been under con-
slant fire and had stood off several
raiding parties and small attacks from
enemy trenches.
We had no sooner got used to the
shell hole and were making ourselves
rs comfortable as possible in it when
along came a shell of what must have
been the Jack Johnson size, and we
were swamped. We had to dig three
of the men out, and though one of
them was badly wounded we could not
send him back to the hospital. In
fact, the Smelling was so heavy that
none of us ever expected to come out
ct it alive.
So Is vs.; hks keeping yaul OWL
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children california Syrup of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love it's pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, Mother! If coated, give
a teaspoonful Of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out Of the bow
els, and you have WELL playful child
again. When the little system is full Of
cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, di-
arrh9a, indigestion, colic-remember,
a good inside cleansing should al
ways be the first treatment given.
Millions Of mothers keep "California
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask your druggist for a
bottle of "California Syrup of Figs"
which has directions for babies, chill.
dren of all ages and grown-ups printed
on the bottle. Beware of cOunterfeits
sold here, so don't be fooled. Get the
genuine, made by "California Fig
Syrup COmpany.'-Adv.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
ORIGIN OF WORD "ROORBACK''
Name Given to First Notable Cam
paign Lie, of Which James X.
Polk Was the Victim.

In 1874 James K. Polk was nomi-
mated by the Democrats for president
After the nomination the Albany Jour-
nal published what purported to be
an extract from .Roorback's. Journal
of trip through the South, repre-
sented to have been made some few
years before, in which he told of see
ing gang of colOred men being driv-
en- to the southern market, all branded
81. K. P.," as the property of James K.
Polk. The object was to stigmatize
Polk as heartless slave owner. The
publication was resented by the Demo-
Gratis as forgery and a libel ON their
candidate, and so it proved to be, for
1t turned out that there was no such
person as Roorback and that the pre-
tended letter was written by a. disrep-
utable politician Of New York who
posed as an abolitionist. The incident
caused much hard feeling and the
word roorback became a synonym for
campaign lie.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
The man was telling us that some

The man was telling rs that some
time before they had seen the Turks
bringing up ammunition from some
storehouses, but they did not come
anywhere near. He said their sergeant
wanted our messenger to tell them
that, too. He would say few words
very fast, then he would SILVER again,
and his jaws would clip together and
he would try to raise his hand. but
could not.
Then our sergeant asked the name
of the other sergeant, and when the
man told him he said the man was
senior to himself and therefore in
command and would have to be obeyed.
He seemed to cheer up a lot. after
he said this and did not shiver any
more, so thought I would volunteer
then, so said to him, "Well, mon
vieux, do you think we are seeing real
Smelling now?" And then 1 was going
to say 1 would go, but he looked at
me in funny way for a second and
then said, swell, my son, suppose you
go and find OUT
I thought he was kidding me at first,
but then saw he meant it. I thought
two things about it-One was that any
thing was better than staying there,
and the other was that the old dugout
was pretty fair place after all. But
[ did not say anything to the SER
geant or the other men-just went
out of the dugout. The sergeant and
another man went with me and boost
ed me over the back wall of the hole.
I lay fiat on the ground for a minute to
get my bearings, and then started off
l set my course for where thought
the communication trenches were, to
the right. and I just stood up and ran
for I figured that as the shells were
falling so thick and it was oper
ground I would not have any better
chance if I crawled.
I tripped several times and went
down, and each time thought 1 wa:
hit, because when I got. it in the thigh
at Dixnude it felt a good deal a.
, though 1 had tripped over rope
+ And one time when I fell a shell ex
ploded near me and I began to shive
, again, and I could not go on for
long time. All this time I cid no
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

/ improved II health 80 I could do my
homework; we now have little one, al
Of which owe to Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Mrs. o. S.
JOHNSON, R. No. 8, Ellensburg, Wash.
There are women everywhere who
long for children in their homes yet are
denied this happiness on account OF
some functional disorder which in most
cases would readily yield to Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
-Such women should not give up hope
until they have given this wonderful
medicine trial, and for special advice
write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass. The result of 40 years
experience is at your service.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

think 1 would get through. but finally,
when I reached what had been the
communication trench 1 felt l had
done the worst part of it, and began
to wish very hard that I would get
through was not at all crazy about
going west.
The mouth of the communication
trench had been battered in and the
trenches it joined with were all filled
up. There were rifles sticking out
of them in several places, and I
thought probably the men had been
buried alive in them. But it was too
late then, if they had been caught, so
I climbed over the blocked entrance to
the communication trench and started
back along it. 1t led up through sort
of gully, and thought it was a bad
place to dig a communication trench
in, because it gave the Turks some
thing like the side of hill to shoot at.
Every once in while I would have
to climb in and out of a shell hole,
and parts of them were blocked where
| shell had caved in the walls. In one
place saw cOrpses all torn to pieces,
so I knew the Turks had found the
range and had got to this trench in
great shape. At another place I found
lots of blood and equipment but no
bodies, and I figured that reinforce
ments had been caught at this spot
and that they had retired, taking their
casualties with them.
The Turks still had the range, and
they were sending a shell into the
trench every once in while, and /
was knocked down again, though the
shell was so far away that it knocked
me down with force of habit more
than anything else. I felt dizzy and
shivered lot, and kept trying to think
of Murray or anything else but myself.
So finally l got to the top of the
little hill over which the gully ran,
and on the other side I felt almost
safe. Just down from the crest of the
hill was one of our artillery positions,
with the good old '75s" giving it to the
Turks as fast as they could. 1 told
the artillery officers what had hap.
pened, had a drink of water anc
thought would take a nap. But when
they telephoned the message back tc
division headquarters the man at the
receiver said something to the Officer
and he told me to stay there and be
ready. I thought sure he would send
me back to where came from and
knew I never could make it again
> but I did not say anything.
TO BE CONTINUED
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

uedtu watch, WIN the smells tuning
up for the dirge. It was Impossible to
listen to the shells. If you kept your
mind on the noise for any length of
time it would split your eardrums,
am sure. So all we could do was to
lay low in the shell hole and wait for
something to happen.
Then they began using shrapnel on
us, and one of our machine gunners,
who got up from his knees to change
position, had his head taken clean off
his shoulders, and the rest of him
landed near my feet and squirmed a
little, like chicken that bad Just been
killed. It was awful to see the body
without any head move around that
way, and we could hardly make our
selves touch it for some time. Then
we rolled it 10 the o.heG side of the
hole.
Then, to one side Of us, there was
more violent explosion than any yet.
The earth spouted up and fell on us,
and big clouds of black smoke, sliding
along the ground, covered our shell
hole and hung there for some time.
One Of our sergeants, from the regular
French infantry, said it was a shell
from a Turkish 155-mm. howitzer.
That was only the first one. The
worst thing about them was the smoke
people who think Pittsburgh is
smoky ought to see about fifty of those
big howitzer shells bursting, one after
another.
We could not tell what the rest OF
our line was doing or how we were
standing the awful fire, but we fell
sure they were not having any worse
time than we were. In a few minutes
we heard the good old eos" star
pounding, and it was like hearing ar
old friends voice over the telephone
and everybody in our shell hole
and we could barely hear each other
Still we knew that if the "75s" go
going in their usual style they woult
do for an enemy battery or two, ant
that looked good to us. The "75s
made the noise worse, but it was al
ready about as bad as it could be
and a thousand guns more or les
would not have made it any harde
to stand.
One of our men shouted in the sci
geants ear that the men in line ahea
, of us and to the right were trying t
give us message Of some kind. oh
sergeant stuck his head above tn
parapet and had look. But stage
where I was-the sergeant could sc
= for himself and me, too, as far as
was concerned.
He shouted at us that the men i
y the other trench were trying to sign:
y something, but he could not make
!. out because the clouds Of smoke wou]
: roll between them and break up tt
words. So he laid down again in tt
bottom of the hole. But after a viii
> he looked over the parapet and sa
a man just leaving their trench, ev
IDENTIFY with message for US, and /
y had not gone five steps before he W:
y blown to pieces, and the lad who fc
y, lowed him got his, too, so they $toppe
trying then.
= And all the time She ''75s" we
~ sending theirs to the Turks not f
! over our heads to 900 yards behi1
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
Arduous Task.

Mistress Really, cook, what have
you been doing? Seven o'clock, and
the rabbit not put on yet!' Cook-"1
can't help it, ma'am; I never knew
anything take SO long to pluck in my
life ~
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

ana = ROOQ zeal on
the time was not
able to go about.
Our greatest desire
was to have a child
in our home and one
day my husband
came back from
town with a bottle
Of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
mpound and
wanted me to try it.
It brought relief
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

which are so common to women, should
take the right tonicfor womanly system.
If woman is borne down by pain
and sufferings at regular or irregular
intervals, by nervousness or dizzy spells,
by headache or backache, "Favorite
Prescription" should be taken. "Favor-
tie Prescription" can now be had in
tablet form as well as liquid at most
drug stores. Send to Doctor Pierce's
Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y, for q
ten-cent trial package of tablets.
For fifty years DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets have been most satisfactory in
liver and bowel troubles.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
Cruel!

Bess-What can send the lieuten-
ant to amuse him?
Belle-Why not send him your pho
tograph?
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
WAR CROSS

he patrlo Ito
spirit and devotion
with which Aneri-
can women have
so far performed
war-service work
and made sacrifices
has never been
equalled in the
his tory of any
country. Mothers,
wives and sisters
support this burden
with strength and
fortitude. But
those who are al
ready miserable
from the complaints
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

us, and the howitzers were dropping
their 24O-pound bits Of iron in every
vacant space and some that were not
vacant. It was just one big roar and
screech and growl all at once, like
turning the whole dog pound loose
on piece of meat.
The conclusions felt like one long
string Of boxes on the ear, and our
threats were so dry that it hurt to
swallow. which always makes your
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

Every mother imagines her baby's
toes look like rOSebuds.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

When Baby is TeethinQ
GROVES BABY BOWEL MEDICINE viii correct
the stomach and Bowel troubles. Perfectly harm
less. See directions on the bottle.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20
The JOY OF
MOTHERHOOD
Came to this Woman after
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to
Restore Her Health

Ellensburg, Wash" After I was
married l was not well for long time
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

Harmony is all right if it is harmony
of your kind.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

Danyille, Va
/" DR.. Pierce's Favor
tie Prescription is q
wonderful tonic for
expectant mothers.
My own experience
with it has proved to
me that it not only
keeps the mother in
a healthy, happy con-
dition but it also
helps wonderfully in
n,,eventinp suffering.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

Electric locomOtivce -;aing -
creasingly adopted in III, Africa q
Underground has7,a-.~
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

My sister also vouches for the Prescription
Just as enthusiastically as do"
Mrs. d. L. Parton, 627 Monument st.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-12-20

ments, they did not care which-only
to be ordered to do something. There
was not a commissioned officer left
with either of the detachments, you
see, and you might say we were up
in the air-on1y we were really as. far
| in the ground as we could get.
The man thought there were other
of our lines not far behind us, but we
knew better; so then he said he did
not see how any one could get back
from there to our nearest lines. !
did not see either. Then we all fig
| ured we were forgotten and would not
| come out of there alive, and you can
believe me or not, but did not much
care. Anything would be better than
just staying there in that awful noise
with nothing to do, and no water.
| Our sergeant said he would not ask
any man to attempt to carry the mes
sage, because he said it was not only
certain death, but absolutely useless
And he began to show that he was
near shell shock himself.
Then I began to SILVER again, and
thought to myself that anything would
be better. than sitting in this hole wait
ing to go ''cafard," so decided to vol
unteer. did not think there was any
chance to get through, but it seemed
as if just had to do something, ne
matter what. l had never felt tha
way before, and had never beer
anxious to Ego west' with shell fol
company, but I have felt that wa,
since then several times, I can tel
Won
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-01
| .n! n G
LHUUIl HUI UULO
EXTENSIVE SHIP
BUILDING PLAN
SUBMIT PLANS TO WILSON
CALLING FOR 100000 TONS
EVERY SIXTY DAYS.
ALL Be WOOD VESSELS
Difficulty in Obtaining Large Tim
bers Is Cause of Delay in Work,
Is Claim - May Change Type of
Vessels Constructed.

Washington, March IA plan
under which shipbiulding labor as
sumes responsibility for turning out
five million tons of wooden ship
ping during the coming year was
submitted to President Wilson to-
day by John J. McGee, former
chairman of the skilled labor bu-
reau OF the emergency fleet cor
poration, who arrived in Washin z
ton last night. Mr.. McGec stated
that he speaks for the Brotherhood
OF Carpenters and Joiners and the
American Federation of Labor.
McGee said that if the president
will put the program into the hands
OF the workers themselves, they
will produce 100000 tons OF dead
weight wooden shipping every sixty
days after construction is under
way. The plan contemplates the
building OF many new yards and the
taking over of those now in exist
ence.
Difficulty in obtaining large-size
timbers in quantities is the chief
cause for delay in the shipping
boards wooden ship program, ac-
cording to Mr.. McGcc. He favors
dropping the Ferris type and pro-
ducing 50O0-ton ships Of the Don
nelly, Hawks, or Hough design.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-01
.STRIBLING GIVEN
NINE YEAR TERM
INDIAN ACCUSED JOINTLY
WITH TUBBY, OF MURDER,
is FOUND GUILTY.

Jim Stribling, accused jointly
with William Tubby OF the murder
ci Matt Hooper, a Love County
farmer who was killed while board
ing a Santa Fe train at the Union
Station here the night of Feb. Is,
was convicted Of first degree man
slaughter and his penalty assessed
at nine years imprisonment in the
sta.e pcnitentiary. The jury which
had the case under consideration
since 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
returned is verdict at II 30 o'clock
this forenoon.
A severance was asked and grant
ed to Stribling, and William Tub
by was uied first. The Tubby jury
has been out since 1l:15 a. m.
"Wednesday and up to the time the
jury came in in the Stribling case
had not returned a verdict.
In discharging the jurors the
court thanked them for their serv-
ice and commented on the duty OF
good citizens to serve as iurymen
when called, and said hereafter it
would be his practice to excuse no
man from jury duty except for ex-
treme reasons. There was only one
melaber of the regular panel on the
jury. A special venire of
50 jurors had been summoned after
the regular panel was exhausted
and nearly all of them had been
called before the jury was secured.
nearly all Of them having been chal-
lenged for cause on account of hav-
ing read OF the killing and having
formed Or expressed an opinion as
to tn guilt or innocence of the de-
fendant.
The Jury was polled at the re-
quest Of the defense and after it had
passed out the defendant was re-
turned to Jail.