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The Laclede blade., 1918-05-31
PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come
and Go During the Week

Roy Parker left Tuesday night
on business trip to Oklahoma.
Mrs. Daugherty of Hale visited
over Sunday with Laclede friends.
Miss Helen Mckee of Macon is
the guest of Miss Catherine Moore
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. M. Lomax
spent Monday with relatives in
Chillicothe.
Mrs. j. U. Luyster is home from
an extended visit with relatives at
ElPasO, Texas.
Karl Ross returned Tuesday
from spending several days with
relatives at Woodstock, Iowa.
Earl Cotter, employed in the
gunstock factory at Chillicothe,
spent Sunday with home folk here.
Mrs. A. J, Caywood, Mrs. Roy
Rowland and Miss Esther Rowland
spent Tuesday afternoon in Chilli
cothe.
Capt. j. Fl, B. Smith and Mrs.
Morris of Milan were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Nc
Efee.
Mrs. r. M. Thompson and chill
dren of Centerville visited relatives
here Sunday, guests of Mrs. N. j.
Thompson.
Mrs. John Cook and daughter,
Miss Anna, of BrOOkfield visited
at the home of E. B. GudgelI the
first part of the week.
Allene Skulley returned We'd
nesday from visiting reveral days
with her aunt, Mrs. Laura Meg
Donnell, in the country.
Mrs. J. E. Byrd has returned to
her home in Kansas City after a
visit of two weeks with relatives,
guest of Mrs. A. s. Byrd.
John Tooker, another Laclede
boy, has landed safely overseas,
card notices to that effect having
been received a few days ago.
Mrs. Shelby Cross and children
returned home Saturday evening
from a visit with her sister, Mrs.
John Handwerk, Kansas City Kan.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Kethley
motored down from Browning
Sunday for a short visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Calhoun.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Q. Aber are
home from their visit in Illinois.
They were caught In a heavy rain
Wednesday and left their car at
Monroe City.
Miss Eulah May Estes, who
taught a very successful term of
school in the Locust Greek district,
left Tuesday to take ten weeks
course at the Kirksville normal.
Miss Jennie Stark, teacher in
the high school at Warsaw, is here
to spend the vacation season with
her aunt, Mrs. Harry Landree and
family. She will return to War
saw for another year.
Don't let the, weeds get the best
of youths year, for We have the
cultivatOrs that kill them. Come
and see our two row, as well as
our springless, leverless, easy to
handle single row. Linneus Bum-
Der Co.
Prof. Byron Western, super
of schools at Spickard,
will spend the summer attending
the MarygiIle normal, while Mrs.
Western and children viii remain
The Laclede blade., 1918-05-31

to Fort Dodge, Iowa, took dinner
at Hotel Brown here last Saturday.
They were from Carroll and Char
iton counties.
Miss Emma Gould, rs president,
and Mrs. A. J. Caywood, as dele
gate from Chapter r, will attend
the P. E, O. state convention that
convenes at Excelsior Springs
next Tuesday morning for a three
days session.
A. J. Brady, a successful and
we'll known farmer living just
west of Forker, on Monday
bought the o. I. Fay farm of 12O
acres half mile east of Forker.
Mr.. Fay will remain on the place
until next March.
Miss Daisy Rankin, principal of
schools at Carthage, came Friday
night and remained with home folk
until Monday night when she left
for Washington, D. c., to take a
department clerkship rendered her
on a civil service examination.
Several troop trains passed
through Laclede Monday taking
soldiers from Camp Funston to
eastern camps, their first jump to-
ward France. Will Bassett passed
through early Monday morning
and Frank Weaver was on a train
that went in the evening.
The several fine rains of the past
week came at an opportune time.
Farmers generally report a good
stand of corn, yet there are some
fields being planted oyer, and
some replanting is being done.
Wheat, oats, medows and pastures
are coming on we'll and conditions
generally are above the average
year.
Captain Edmund Edwards, son
of the late Ben. B. Edwards,
clerk of this county who died in
office, is now in France. After
removing from this county to
Texas with his mother, Edmund
attended a military school, later
enlisting in the regular army, and
has steadily advanced until he is
now captain Of an artillery
company.
Lon Cotter, who has been in the
train service out of Brookfield for
the past ten years, has resigned
from the Burlington and enlisted,
in the army railroad service. He
spent Sunday here with Mr.. and
Mrs. s. w. Cotter and left Monday
night for jefferson Barracks. He
expects to depart within a month
for overseas service as conductor
on the American railroad in
France.
The ladies folding surgical dress
ings at Red Cross headquarters
last Tuesday were Mesdsmes Bar
ton, Stratton, Lee Wilson, Hamil-
ton, Gould, Frank Power, VIM.
LOmax, Walker, Frank Welsh,
Noah Wilson and Tracy and Misses
Eta Power, Emma Gould, Berdie
Power. Dorothy Stratton, Allene
Byrd, Lena Kent. Jean Brown,
Garside. Gladys Power,
Fern Thurman and Ruby Walker.
the surgical dressing |
unit meets every Tuesday after
noon. ]
The Laclede blade., 1918-05-31
ON LOCAL SUBJECTS
Local Items and interesting Bits Of
News Of All Sorts

Eighty-four soldier boys enroute
to Fort Dodge, Iowa, took dinner
at Hotel Brown here last Saturday.
They were from Carroll and Char
iton counties.
The Laclede blade., 1918-05-31

Miss Emma Gould, rs president,
and Mrs. A. j. Caywood, as dele
gate from Chapter r, will attend
the P. E, O. state convention that
convenes at Excelsior Springs
next Tuesday morning for three
days session.
The evening leader., 1918-08-15
Our Plan

Our plan is to bring the Wants-to-
Sell and Wants-to-Buy together. We
will advertise these wants at no cost
to the Wants, except in case of a sale
or tenant secured, when a commits
sion will be expected. We thus give
special advertising and effort to sell
to each Individual property and salts
factory results by this method should
be sure.
Those wanting certain kind of
property are invited to send US de-
scription of the want. We will adver-
tise this WANT while the name of the
party interested will be unknown
This is the most fair and sure method
of satisfying a prospective buyer.
Also if properties for sale are listed
with us, we will advertise them, and
thus bring buyer and seller together
The evening leader., 1918-08-15

There is only one way to make good that promise
and that is for every last of put in every
OF his working day where it does the most good.
And there just minutes but whole days lost every
time man changes his job man has to be found to
replace him. He loses time in moving He takes time
to catch on to the ways in the new plant
When manufacturer needs more men, it is his duty to
the country whole disturb plants that are
engaged in essential work. but to get the Govern
The evening leader., 1918-08-15
FOR RENT

No. LIN Fire Ward No. 5.
One large room, suitable for light
housekeeping, at So week; rooms
at 81 each a week.
No. 2.-In Fire Ward No. 5.
Six rooms, furnished as sleeping
and light housekeeping rooms.
No. 3.-In Fire Ward No. 5.
Cottage of five rooms, furnished.
VIII rent through the summer for $40
a month.
No. 4.-In Fire Ward No. 4.
Cottage of four rooms, unfurnished.
Hot and cold water and bath conven-
iences. $11 month.
Three furnished rooms, at $3.50 a
week each.
No. Elm Fire Ward No. 2.
House of six rooms, furnished;
sleeping porch; modern conveniences.
Also shelter for automobile. $500 a
month.
No. 7.-On E. Tarpon Avenue.
Two nice, well-aired rooms, furnish
ed. Inquire for terms
No. 8.-On E. Tarpon Avenue.
Two light housekeeping rooms; one
bed room. Inquire for terms
FOR SALE
No. LIS.
House of rooms, in Fire Ward No
4, for $1,500. A bargain.
Also lots in same section for $3.50
each. A good proposition to build
rental cottages on these lots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
|RUM0RS WHISPER |M' 'ADOO AND WILSON ARE N0T IN ACCORD |ON SEVERAL THINGS Secretary Opposed Wilson Congressional Letter and Also the Presidents
 European Trip WANT ,M'ADOO TO
 ACT ON WARRIOR
 BEFORE RETIRING Sevier Complains of Huge Freight Increases Sloss
 Company Bears Under
 Present Rates
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

Washington, November 23.--Very few peorle in Washington believe that if nancial reasons prompted Secretary McAdoo to tender his resignation from the cabinet
 The Secretary of the Treasury is the ablest of those surrounding the President. and yet he has been able to exert less influence than Postmaster General Burleson.
 Quite recently, the Secretary and the President. if gossip, more or less uf : ficias--may be believed. have been at logger heads 1t is understood that McAdoo advised against the publicG ton of the Presidents letter in which he called upon the country to Elect a democratic Congress, not becatise tiia republicans opposed his war policies, but because with a republican coii- gress, he could not write the form of treaty that he desired to write.
 This letter, many democrats agree, was the principal factor entering Into the defeat of Democrats. Burleson, the political adviser of the President. insisted. it is understood, that the let ter be written McAdoo stood out asainst it. according to this report, democratic reverses throughout the country.
 The President concluded that the ad- vice of his tallyrand was the advice he would adopt, and his right-hand bower. aware of his prestige in all. other respects. was reported to bu deeply ehagrinned.
 It Is generally whispered that more recently another difference of opinion has developed. The President wanted to announce his intention to attend the peace conferences at Versailles. The Secretary of the Treasury advissd against the plan of the President to go to Europe The remaining mem bers of the cabinet aware of f1ie d1- sire of the President. disagreed with McAdoo. The President thought the wisdom of the majority the wisdom he should heeds and McAdoo again waS thrust into obscurity.
 It was then. according to the gos sip, that the Secretary of the Treasury
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Summary of the News
SECTION X.

 1-American casualties number 238.l17. Future status of railroads subject of much discussion. Runors whisper McAdoo and Wilson not in accord Divisions which bore brnnt of fight ing announced. i2--Kennedy urging general protest, 3-Forney Johnston on advisory com mittee for railroads. 4--Editorial. 5--Civic bodies to accompany truck on initial trip.
 Birmingham as basing point for steel prices assured s6-Jefferson county leads in purchase of Liberty bonds. Mississippi win seek to provide sol- diers with land. S--Machanics ready to return to Bir- mingham. 9--County agents inspect hog and pea nut industry. lo-Cotton problem engages attention of all.
 SECTION B. 2-Boys and girls of Alabama make great showing in war work drive. 3-Services at the churches. 4-5--Amusements 9-Sports list.
 SECTION C. 1-2-A chronicle of society. 3--Havoc wrought by British airmen in raids in Belgium. 4--Doughboys become souvenir hunters. 5-Captured by sub, Lieutenant Isaacs has thrilling journey. 6--Paper as war industry. -Czecho-Slovaks rebirth is like great romance. S--Dolly Dalrymple. A g. Musgrove's latest words received with grain of salt 10 News among Birmingham Boy Scouts H. Markets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
PEACE COMMISSION
 PERSONNEL. IS FAR
 FROM COMPLETION
American Delegates to Have at Hand Vast Amount of Data for Their Special
 Guidance
Fly Associated Press

Washington, November 23. With President Wilson OK pectcd to sail within less than two weeks, so far as can be gathered the personnel of the American commission which is to represent this country at the peace conference is not com plete, even as to its principals. This is believed to be tie ex- planation of the delay in mak- Ing public announcement of the names of the commissioners, which the recent White House statement said would be made presently"
 Meanwhile attention is being given to the selection of the secretaries and att taches of the American mission and to the collection Of the large quantity of historical and legal data that will be required. The nearest parallel to the approaching conference probably is to be found in the famous conference of Vii enna of 1874, which gathered there to rearrange the map of Europe after Ma poleon's downfall. Accordingly, earnest study Is being given to the preliminaries leading up to that conference and to it's detailed proceedings as far as these have been preserved.
 The two Hague conferences of 1897 and 1907 also developed methods of proce- dure. and a wealth of subjects regard ing the ideal relationship of the com munity of states that would be of as- sistance in arranging the programme of at Versailles. For their spe- cial guidance, the American commissions CTS will have at hand d vast amount of
 information regarding the smaller na- tionalities of Europe. the arbitrary di- visions which have been made on that continent in defiance of racial ties and natural affiliations for purely political reasons. and the latest conceptions of the present desires of the oppressed races, all representing the results of close study by some of Americas most eminent uni. versity men. directed ,hy Colonel House.
 The American comT isioners, in addi- ton. will have the be- fit of exceedingly detailed and definite 7 structions on every conceivable point. IT ise instructions are believed to be in prei ration now by state department officials.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
THIRD ARMY LEADS
 IN ALLIED ADVANCE
 IN ID GE ERMANY
Fly Associated Press

Washington, November 23-(By the Associated Press. 1.-The American army of occupation may be the first of the major military forces moving toward the Rhine to set foot on German soil. General Pershing reported today to the war department that his advance had reached the line Ingelderf- Detzderf- Remich- -schengen, Dnchy of Luxembure. tor just across the MoseIe from Renish Prussia Tonight they will be moving toward Coblenz. the Rhine -bridgehead assigned to the United States to hold lover German territory.
 French forces reached the Rhine near the Swiss border some days ago. 1t may be that patrol attachments of that army already have penetrated through the 40-kilometer zone which will be held as neutral ground until the peace treaties. fix new boundaries. but 1t Is regarded as probable tne American Third army will lead the real advance into Germany.
 tive of the American advance. General March furnished clue to the military situation that is to exist while the peace conference proceeds at Paris. On the left the British army of occupation will stand along the Rhine with the spearhead thrown aer.ss the river a Cologne and spreading like d fan on a 30-kilometer circle, At Coblenz the Americans will occupy a similar posi- |tion and at Mainz, still further up the river. the French will hold the third great highway into the heart of Ger many.
 Thus three main roads to Berlin it. self. each held by a strong army, ready to sweep forward at moments notice, t.AI1 xl <<<kt IA. AZ. threat against which there can be no organized resistance All of Germany will stand at the mercy of the occupy. ing forces. ss sss a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

 Since tho censorship has tcen let down it has become known here just who were in the thick of the lighting from tie first to the last in the de- |fense and later in the offensive which crushed the armies of the Kaiser.
 July 15 the Germans launched their last offensive The American Forty second, or Rainbow division. received the brunt of the attack north of Chal-
 one sur Marne. The French largely
 outnunbered all the others on the long
 battle front, though the British and Italian units and the Ninety-third
 American division composed of negro infantry from Chicago. New York. Washington, South Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee and Mississippi, was involved. At this time the allied line never f1inched and Germany was held on the defensive from that time and before the great allied offensive of July IS was launched and turned the tide of war.
 BEGINNING GREAT OFFENSIVE The First and Second American di- visions were selected as the driving force With the Moroccan division between them, anl with other French in opposite Soissons at daybreak, whilA other American divisions, co operating on the Chateau Thierry side of the sa-l lient. started han,mering. Before the Aisnc was reached after weeks of fighting. the Third, Fourth. Twenty
 sixth, Twenty -eighth Thirty-seccnd,
 Forty second fRainbow) anG Seventy seventh American divisions had taken part.
 Then the First army was organized
 with General Pershing in command just before it nipped off the. St Mihiel salieut on September 12. This salient had been a sore spot for the armies of
 the French for four years. 1lie Fifty second, Eighty ninth, Forty second and First divisions with the Second di- vision in reserve. attacked on the south
 side of the salient. The Twenty sixth division accom- panied by the Fifteenth French dIvi- sition pivcting on the Eeat fortress struck the impregnable Eparges on the north side This operation. which was altogether by the Americans. was in 2i hours, when the French entered SC MihieL
 LIBERATION OF RHEIMS
 On october on the same hpct north of Chalons. whore the Forty second several months before had stopped the German dive the American Second di- vision was, the ceIiter or moving wedge in the French attack which forced the .ierm:aus hack and liberated Rhehps and later i1acn with much terrain.
 Then the Americans were civei. the
 hardest icB of the war--the hinge 10
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
OTHER CoUPs ATTEMPTED

Berlin. November 23.-(By the Associa- ted Press 1.-The result of the Sparta GUS activity continued to be reported with menacing frequency from various sections of Germany.
 On top of Thursdays report of events at Kiel, (where the extremists usurped the power of the local authorities) come reports of similar attempted coups by followers of Kerl Liebknecht. indepen- dent socialist, at Hamburg and Dussel- dorf.
 The movement failed at Hamburg but it succeeded at Dusseldorf
 Berne. Switzerland, Friday, November 22.-Marthis Erzberger, who headed the German armistice scoinnission in the negotiations with Marshal Foch, has is sued denial in behalf of the commis- sion that it had obtained concessions from the armistice terms fixed by the allies, says a Berlin dispatch
 Articles appearing in the German press" says the Erzberger announce ment, relating to obtaining conces- sions in the terms of the armistice, are not all in accord with the facts. They are rather the opposite of the facts Tn spite of all the fnconyeniences which are already apparent in the acceptance of the severe conditions of the armistice which has been imposed upon us our adversaries have not shown the slight est consideration
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
UNION DELEGATES
 TO ASK S1 AN HOUR
 AS MINIMUM PAY

Norfolk. November 2s. Sixteen dele gates. representing as many unions whose members are employed at the Norfolk Navy yard, left for Washington tonight to appeal, to the navy department and wage commission for an increase in the minimum wage scale of $l per hour because of the high cost Of living.
 Union leaders declared tonight the movement for wage increases is general among the navy yard workers through out the country and that every navy yarc and station will be represented at the conference in Washington Monday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
VISIT POSTPONED

Paris, November 2S.-Premier Clemen- ceau was reported early today to have gone to London but he is still in Paris A semi official note published this even ing in the Temps explains that Premier Lloyd George has invited M. Clemen- ceau to visit London and that the French premier has accepted in principle though the date has not yet been fixed. The premier certainly will not go to London. 1t is added, before King George and Queen Mary have made their Intended visit to Paris at the end of this month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
BRITISH MARCH ID
 GERMAN FRONTIER
 BEING CONTINUED

London November Field Marshal Haig s report on the movements of the British army of occupation, issued to- night, says:
 tier is proceeding satisfactorily. Ad- vanced troops of the Fourth army have crossed the Ourthe river south of Bo- nal and are pushing forward to the east
 Fs'The number of guns left behind by the retreatipg enemy now in our hands exceeds coo A number of airplanes and quantities of rolling stock have also passed into our possession.
 FRENCH STATEMENT Y Paris, November l3.--The war office announcement tonight on the operations of the army of occupation says:
 .:'The complete occupation of the lib- erated territories in Alsace and Lor- raine is in process of achievement. Dur ing the course of the day our troops in- stalled themselves in numerous towns and villages in the Sarre valley. notably in Dillingen, Sarrebruck and Sarrelouis. where the general commanding the First army entered at the head of his troops
 ,..In Alsace French advanced guards reached the former frontier and took pos. session of Woerth, Froeschwiller Reis- choffen, as well as Soultz and Bischwii- Ter Everywhere the French troops were enthusiastically welcomed by the dellv- cred populations.
 I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

sition pivotine on the great Fortress of Verdun and swinging from the Mouse to the Aisne river, The Thirty third, Eighteenth. Fourth. Seventy ninth, Titirty-seventn. Nincty-first. Thirty-fjfth. Twenty-eighth and Sew cnty-seventh divisions made the ini- rial attack on September 26 with the Third, Thirty second and Ninety sec onc divisions in support Later in the days of fighting the First, Fifth, Twenty sixth. Twenty ninth, Forty second. Seventy eighth, Eighty-sec- ond and Ninetieth divisions took their places In the line until the final crunlbliEg of the German army be- came roUt