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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-10

ganic trouble Whlch
pulled me down un-
til / could not put my
foot to the floor and
could scarcely do my
work, and as / live
on a small farm and
rails e six hundred
chickens every year
it made it very hard
for me. -
81 saw the Com
pound advertised in
our paper, and tried
"A IA a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-10
Did He Really Mean If2

Mount Vernon, N. "a sign In
front of local theater reads: ''To
He'll With the Kaiser and Big Vaude-
vile Acts"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-10
Naturally.

doesn't he write machine poetry"
'Yes, it's mostly about automo-
biles."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-10
NOW RAISES
600 CHICKENS
After Being Relieved of Or.
ganic Trouble by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Oregon, Ill.--"I took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for an or
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-10-10

ane United States has 10000 army
officers.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12

The value of the gold. silver. cop
per. lead and zinc mined in Nevada
in 1917 was over $53, 600. 600. accord
ing to preliminary figures compiled
by Victor C. Heikes of the United
States Geological Survey Department
of the Interior. This total represents
an increase of over So, 900. 900 in spite
of the fact that there was a slight
decrease in recoverable zinc and a
marked decrease in both gold and
silver. There was a fair increase in
the output of both copper and lead.
The average prices of silver. copper
and lead were unusually high in 1917,
and this fact had much to do with
making the total value greater than
that of the previous year.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12
Want Mexican Labor
And ALI Saloons Closed

San Francisco. Jan. 8.-Removal
of all restrictions on the importation
into the United States of Mexican
labor and the closing of saloons for
the period of the war we're recon-
mendations submitted by the execu-
tive committee by the State Council
of Defense in conference here to-day
for solving CALIFORNIA; labor short
age problem.
In asking that saloons be closed in
California through State or Federal
action, the committee on farm labor
of the State made this announcement:
The efficiency of farm labor is
greatly reduced by the existence of
saloons. Furthermore, great num-
bers of able-bodied men would be
released to useful pr oductive indus
try if the saloons were abolished.
For these two reasons, and wholly
aside from the moral issues involved
State and Nation should take imme-
date action to close all saloons for
the duration of the war"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12
NEW TO-DAY
Notice To the Public

Complaints have been made TO this Office
and to the Board Of County Commissioner
against the permission and existence of GER
tain nuisances within the town Of Eureka,
and particularly on the ditch on Spring and
Buel streets. and owing to the danger to health
thereby. the prevalence of diseases at present,
and the necessity of cleanliness as a proven
tive therefor. and at the request Of the Coun-
ty Commissioner
Notice is hereby given that the dumping or
throwing OF garbage, rubbish, tin cans, etc
into. at or near the ditch on Buel and Spring
streets, within the limits Of the town Of Eu-
rekA, is, under the laws Of the Stete Of Neva-
ia, q public nuisance. and punishable rs 9
misdemeanor; and that any further ofense OF
this kind will subject the person or persons 50
offending to prosecution, and to the payment
Of all costs and damages caused by such acts,
including the costs of removing or abating
such nuisance.
JAMES MACKEY,
Sheriff Of Eureka County, Nevada.
Dated at Eureka, Nevada, this 18th day Of
January, 1918.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12
ASKING REAL DEMOCRACY RULING
Government Asked to Eliminate Long
and Short Haul" Clause

A united drive has been launched
by all Intermountain States now suf-
fering because of the so-called ''long
and short haul'' to have a clause in
corporated in the new Government
railroad bill eliminating for all time
the long and short haul" provisions
on freight rates and providing that
railroads charge no more for a short
than for a long haul. The question
was taken up at a meeting of the d.
rectors of the Reno Commercial Club
Saturday night, says the Reno Ga
zette. The organization is taking
the initiative in the matter and is
Tendeavoring to have commercial or
ganizationsin all Intermountain cities
place the question before their sena-
tors and representatives.
AS a result of the meeting tele-
grams were sent to Director McAdoo
of the railroads. Senator Key Pitt
man, Congressman E. E. Roberts and
to commercial organizations in Salt
Lake, Phoenix, Tucson. Boise. Spo-
kane, Occur d'Alene, Great Falls.
Ida, albuquerque. N. NJ. and Pen
dleton. Ore, setting forth the ques-
ton and asking cooperation in hav-
ing it remedied.
The telegram to Mr.. McAdoo was
as follows:
The Intermountain and Southern
States have been Disseminated
against by railroads and their growth
retarded by practice of charging
more for a short haul than for a long
one. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has decided in our favor. but
now it is powerless to enforce rul-
ing. The whole situation will be
cleared and relief granted if the
Government bill now contemplated
will provide that no greater charge
shall be made for a short haul than
for a long haul. We are backing
the Government. Will it back US in
a plea for fair play?
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12

will make possible improper or mis-
use of the public land; and my ac-
tons will be directed against legis-
lation or departmental action tend
ing towards such results.
Third have always been a con-
sistent Democrat and / am entirely in
sympathy with the progressive legis-
lation of the Democratic party and
especially with that tending toward
the betterment of the working class
and my efforts will always be found
exerted in that direction.
"Fourth-There is nothing in any
of my relations in any regard that
will prevent me from giving proper
and favorable consideration to all
matters. AS an attorney l have al
ways tried to be loyal to the inter-
ests of my client and if | am ap-
pointed by you that shall still be my
principle and henceforth | shall have
but one Observation-Disclosures people
and our common country.
ia .Tmight addhin1 this connection,
if | am honored by this appointment
| shall Immediately sever my connec
ton with all private interests as at
and client and devote my en-
tire time to the service of our State
and Nation. Sincerely yours.
CHARLES B. HENDERSON,"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12

Washington, ID. c., Jan. Every
contention raised against the selec-
tive draft Act was swept aside by
the Supreme Court to-day in a unani-
nous opinion delivered by Chief JUS
tice White unfolding the law as con-
stitutional. Authority to enact the
statute and to send forces to fight
the enemy wherever he may be found.
the court held. lies in the clauses Of
the constitution giving Congress the
power to declare war and to raise
and support armies.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12
STATES SEE
FREIGHT RATE RELIEF

Now that the railroads have come
under the control of the United
States Government, the people OF
Nevada with those of the other In
termountain States are renewing
their efforts to get relief from the
abuse of the exorbitant and unjust
freight charges to which they have
been subject under the policy of the
'.long and short haul" practiced by
the railroads.
While the people of Nevada are
generous and always willing to pay
for value received" they do not
like to be made the goat too often,
as they feel they have been made in
the matter of freight rates. They
are now asking that they be not
charged more for the short haul than
for the long haul-that is, they are
willing to pay the same rate for
freight sent from the East as the
people in California pay; but they dc
not think it just to pay the rate to
California, and also the additional
rate from California back to Nevada.
To be relieved from hisIlong-stand.
ing abuse to which our people have
been subjected by the railroads is a
consummation devoutly to be wished,
and only reasonable and just. An
effort is being made to have inserted
in the railroad bill now pending be-
fore Congress some provision for the
relief from this abuse, and such 9
bill should receive the unqualified
support of all who are genuinely
working for true democracy.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12
OUR NEW SENATOR
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT NEvADAN

The people of the State generally,
and the Democrats especially. are
gratified by the recent appointment
by Governor Boyle. of Charles B.
Henderson of Elko to the seat in the
United Senate made vacant by the
recent death of Francis G.. New
lands.
Mr.. Henderson is a we'll known at
torney of Elko and has spent practi-
cally all of his life in this State.
where by industry and application to
business he has built up large inter-
ests, and has been instrumental in
materially developing the resources
of eastern Nevada. He is in the
prime Of life and the vigor of man.
hood, which will stand him in good
stead in these stirring days of war.
Mentally, he is above the average.
and is we'll fitted by training and
experience to assume the duties
which will devolve upon him as a
member of the greatest law-making
body in the world.
Mr.. Henderson received his APP
pointment at the hands of the Gov
ernor only after careful c~onsidera-
ton of his fitness for the position,
and judging from the statements
which be made to certain questions
put to him by Governor Boyle. found
in another column of the SENTINEL,
we have reason to believe that a wise
has been made, and that Sena-
tor Henderson will give a good &C.
count of his stewardship to the peo-
pie of Nevada and to the people of
the Nation.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12

Washington. Jan. 7.-Butter is
selling in Berlin at $2.25 per pound.
sugar at Sc cents a pound. ham and
bacon at $2.ll per pound and Ameri-
ian soap at five bars for SLIP. This
information received by the food adj
ministration comes through a reliable
source. The prices are from four to
five times as high as those now pre-
vailing in the United States.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12

Washington. Jan. 8.-President
Wilson addressed Congress at 1890
to-day on international relations.
1t was expected he would discuss the
recent peace feelers.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12
Railway Worker. No. Exemp.

Men of draft age who are en-
ployed by the Government in opera
ton of railroads will not be classed
as employees of the Government un-
der the new regulations. according to
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Question had arisen as to whether
men should be classed as skilled
Government employees or unskilled
industrial employees.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS

In Unmixed Words What
America Will Demand-Ger-
many Must Evacuate and Re-
store Territory She Has Over
Ridden and at Peace Conference
1t Must Be Known Whether
Her Emisssries Speak for the
People or for the War Party
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-01-12

The Woman Suffrage amendment
passed the House Thursday.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-14

were compelled BY the climate 10
wrap up in about fourteen pounds Of
rag carpet, with an extra trim
ming Of bearskin on chilly day.
They inoculated themselves with the
idea that human nature wasn't hui
man nature as long as 1t was covered
up,and while they have pretty we'll
disabused themselves Of that error
around Plymouth Rock it yet clings
to some other parts Of the country.
There is good acting, good music,
considerable humor. and much grace
full motion in Flo Flo. All the girls
are pretty on the stage. and look
fairly we'll off of it. When Jack Nor
ton and Joe Elvy came on We
thought they were Potash and Perl
mutter. Tom Gordon was a pretty
fair imitation Of good boy from the
sticks, but John Ross and Andy
FRANCIS as Pink and Mudd are GER
.,ain)y the stars Of the cast. CordeIa
Hanger plays Flo Flo, who is look.
ing for fame and fortune, and as
long as she hangs on to her face and
her shape she has a more than av.
erage share of both. The shop girls,
displaying the goods of the Bride
Shop gave Ocala' fair idea Of
most important division of a New
York department store, which is the
greatest show any woman wants . to
see. The music is good; there is no |
voice Of extra ability, but there is a |
pleasing total.
In short, Flo Flo is play of con-
siderable merit, and If it makes re- |
turn date in Ocala everybody who
didn't 60 this time will see it the
next.
There was big gallery attendance,
bus the lower floor was not more than
two-thirds filed A good many peo-
pie came in from the country, some
from as far away as Inverness and
l-eesburg, while points inside thu
county were well represented.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-14
CROWN PRINCE WRITES TO DAD
ABOUT THOSE FOOL AMERICANS

On the Run, Somewhere in France
Everywhere in France. All tho time.
Sept. %, 1918.
Dear Fadder:-
l am writing on der run, as der
brave and glorious soldiers under my
command have not seen der Rhine
for so long dat dey have started back
dat way, und, Of course. I am going
NIT dem. o. Fadder, dere has been
yum offel dings happened here in
France. First, started in my often
sive, which was to crush de fool
Americans. but dey know so little
about military tactics dat dey will
not be crushed yust like | want EN-.
! sent my men in der big fight in big
waves ven dey got to der Americans
dey all said "boo' as loud as dew
could boiler. Veil, according TO vat
you always told me, de Americans
should have turned and run like balzes
but vot do you dink? Dem fool Amer
leans don't know anything about war,
and instead of running de odder way
dey come right toward us. Some of
Gem vas singing about "ve wont Come
Pack Till It's Over Over Dere," or
some odder foolish song, and some Of
dem were laughing like fools. Dew
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-14


are SO ignorant but dey are 20 Of
full reckless NIT der guns and ven dey
come toward us den my men took
a notion dey wanted to go pack to
der dear ole Rhine. We don't like
de little dirty Marine anyhow. And
oh, Fadder, dem Americans use such
offel language Dey knows nothin OF
Kultur and say such offel dings right
before us, and dey talk blasphemy
too. Vat you reckon dey said right
In my face? One big husky from a
place dey call North Carolina, he said
oh, Fadder! I hate to tell you what
an offel ding he said but I can't help
IL. He said, ITO hell NIT de Kaiser!"
Did you ever hear ANGLING so offel ?
l didn't dink anybody would say such
an offel ding. It made me mad.
wouldn't sthand and hear such an Of
fel ding SO I turned and run nit der
boys. Vos l right? Vot? Und, oh,
Fadder! You know dem breast plates
vot.you sent us-can you send some to
put on our backs? You know We are
going der odder way now, and breast
plates are no good for der cowardly
Americans are shooting us right in
der pack. Some of der boys took der
breastplates and put dem behind, but
der fool Americans are playing ode
Star Spangle Banner" nit machine
guns on dem plates. Can't you help
us? You remember you said in your
speech, "nodding could stand before
der German soldiers" Oh, Father, I
don't believe desc ignorant Ameri-
cans ever read your speech for dey
run after US like We vas lot of rab-
bits. Vot you tink of dot? Can't you
send dem some of your speeches right
away? Dey don't know how terrible
We are. Can't you move my army
back to Belgium, we're We Won all our
glory? My men can vip all der vim
men and children vot dem Belgians
can bring us. But desc Americans
are SO rough and. ignorant. We can't
make dem understand dat We are der
greatest soldiers on earth, and ven We
try to sing Deutschland Uber AL
lies,' dey laugh like a lot of monkeys.
But We are getting der best of der
Americans. We can out run dem.
Fadder. If We are not der best fight
ers on earth, We are sure der best
runners. Nobody can keep up nit US
ven We tink of der dear old Rhine,
and my army never tink so much of
dat dear old river as dey do now. Let
us know right away vot We can do
by return postoffice.
Crown Prince Willie.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-14
Flo Flo Pleased
Ocala People

or "Flo-Flo' which is coming to
the Auditorium Monday night, the
editor of the Ocala Star says: u
So far as this town is concerned,
the people who press agent Flo Flo
make mistake in their way of adj
vertising the play While not COM
ing out and saying 90, they. create
an impression that it is decidedly
bold, and while the theater-going
world is so used to glaring displays
of the feminine form, and to songs
and jokes that border on land often
cross the border) indecency, that its
shock nerves are atrophied, yet there
are considerable number who will
not go to performance If they sus.
pect there is something in 1t that
may not be discussed in polite socie-
ty. There was an impression out
Flo Flo was over the border, and It
is our opinion that the said impress
sion diminished rather than in
creased the attendance.
Those who braved this impression
were agreeably disappointed. There
is nothing shocking about Flo
Flo--tho fifty years ago the first act
would have csnsed stampede to the
street in any American theater, and
the fact that any married man would
have gone to see it alone would have
given his wife. cause in any court for
divorce. But we have advanced in
half century and learned that true
modesty is not always wrapped up
in clothes. Flo Flo is bright and
pretty play. There is nothing in 1t
that lady may not look upon with
approval-nothing that pureminded
man (ifl there is such person. may
not view with equanimity. It is true
that the sight Of young lady in pub
lie arrayed entirely in her corset, her
Or, pantaletteS her shoes and stock
ings, is somewhat unconventional
but even so she Is more modest than
when she Frances forth attired in a
grass mat and string of beads
around her neck, or when she sings,
Take off a little bit more" and suits
her actions to the words. Also there
was a scene or two in which when
the fairies were in the spotlight
there was not much left to the mag
nation, but this was not any more
interesting than the parade ON the
streets any warm summer afternoon
when man can stand N, some con-
venient place where he can look
westward.
We noticed that quite number of
the married men present did not
bring their wives In this they made
mistake, for in our opinion the dis.
play of lingerie was very gratifying
to any matron of good taste. It
might have been more so, tho, to a
bride-to-be planning her trousseau.
: 1t was some lingerie, all right; we
rather admired it ourself, and, SO far
as we were able to Judge, 1t was mod.
estly displayed. We rejoice to know
that the great American public Is
getting rid of its primeval ideas Of
modesty, first impressed on it by the
pilgrim fathers, whose lady friends
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-14

sian mulberries, 2, and guavas, %.
Most Of these have borne two crops.
Have never had serious loss by frost.
Terms: $4,000 cash, or, If desired.
5000 cash on immediateposse ssion and
SLIGO April /, 1919 at per cent in.
terest. Title good. If not sold in
80 days price will go up.
Apply to ]. A. cox Owner,
Corner Garden st. and N. Iowa Ave-,
5000 Lakeland, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-14
improvements

On ~ Is large club boat house; on
l and 2 (10Ox1s5) is cottage with 4
bed rooms, dining room, cook room.
pnatry and bath room. A large closed
hall with fireplace) between bed
rooms. Another fireplace in one Of
the bed rooms. Two large closets and
one small one. Front and rear veran
das. Good arrangements for the care
OF 30 chickens. Plenty Of city water
Fruit Trees
Oranges, "a; peaches, s; lines, s.;
kumauats, q; Thomas Grapes, 2: Rus
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-14
FOR SALE BY OWNER

Lots 1, Q and lis interest in lot q
in Lake Parker Club Addition to Lake
land, Fla.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-19
WESTERN SENATOR'S RENEW FIGHT FOR
 HIGHER WHEAT

Washington, March 1S.-Western sena- tors renewed their fight for a higher guaranteed wheat price today. citing the ability of farmers to make more money raising other cereals. shortage and in creased cost of farm labor and vital neces- sity of insuring adequate wheat sup plies.
 The debate was on Senator Cores pro- posal to increase the price for the 1918 crop to s25o per bushel. A two-thirds majority is required to suspend the rules for action on the proposal, and its ad- vocates are said not to be hopeful of mastering the necessary votes when the test comes, probably tomorrow.
 Wheat prive fixing. Senator Nelson of Minnesota, republican, asserted, has been an "abject failure" He advocated an open market, with prices fixed only by natural laws, or extension of price fix ing to other cereals which have increased in price and are more prontaole Tor farmers to raise.
 While expressing reluctance to increase the cost of living by raising wheat prices, Senator Kellogg of Minnesota declared such action absolutely necessary in or der to stimulate production and prevent A national and world shortage Other senators speaking in support of the Gore amendment included Borah of Idaho, Curtis of Kansas and Norris of Nebraska all republicans
 "The result of fixing wheat prices much | lower than would be obtained in the open market" Senator Norris said,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-19
Sale of Gerard's
 Book Enormous
By HOLLAND

New York, March 1S--(Special)-Jam w. Gerard, while. convalescing from serious operation which the course of local trouble that was due to exposure in Germany made necessary, learned that the sales and royalties of his book. -Four Years in Germany, already amounted to more than s90,ooo. It is not the money remunerationa however, which pleased MT. Gerard so much as the ev- idence furnished by the large sale of the book of the nationwide interest in the conditions which he reported based upon personal observation when ambassador of the United States to Germany.
 Just as the money returns to Mir. Ger ard on account of the sale of this book are almost $lO0,0OO and will be in the course of few weeks as much as that, another evidence of the widespread in terest in his story was furnished a few days ago. The shrewd judgment of some of those who promote the production of new movie film inspired them to turn Gerard's book over to experts who are competent to transfer story from the pages of book to the films. Therefore a great public which has read the book and probably will continue to read it for sometime, will also have opportunity to see the story upon the films. Probably the royalties for this production will be very large, so that unsuspected by MT. Gerard when he began to write the book, the income from it would proba- bly, justify the statement that it is to be numbered among the best sellers of this