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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-07

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
In the clerks office Of the Corporation
Court of the city OF Alexandria, on
the 23d day of July, 1918.
Lottie \. Connolly, who sues for
herself and all other creditors of
Harry Z. Connolly, deceased, VINO
NAV come in and contribute to the
costs of this suit, and in her own right
as widow, and also as guardian for
MYRTLE L. Connolly, an infant, COM
pla;nant, VS.. 2. II. Cox, sergeant adj
ministrator of Harry E. Connolly, de-
ceased. Myrtle L Connolly, an infant,
II wears Of age, and F. ?. Russell, her
Guardian ad Item, Annie Connolly,
widow, Spencer Connolly, Paul Conncl-
L., BERTHE C. Lynch, Matte c. Fisher,
Della Connolly, Sallic c. Carroll and
Augusta Parsly, defendants. In chan
Gerry.
Mem - is
10 snbi. ,. ..n- al
of Har E '
PAYNE. iiis AeOtS: u,
account of his personal |
tive: for partition CT the IL
of which he died seized anon.
entitled, and communication Of
tdowcr: for sale of the real esta,
the infant Myrtle L. Connolly and
plication CT the proceeds to her mai.
tainance, schooling and support, ana
for settlement and distribution of his
estate, and for general relief.
1t appearing by an affidavit filed in
this cause that the defendants, Annie
Connolly, widow; Spencer Connolly,
Paul Connolly, BERTHE c. Lynch, Mat
tie C. Fisher, Della Connolly, Sallie c.
Carroll and Augusta Parsly, are non
residents Of this state: It Is ordered
That said defendants appear here
within fifteen days after due publica-
i,tion of this order and do what is nc
Icessary to protect their interest in
this suit.
Robinson Moncure, ?. Q. A copy
Teste.
Newell S. Greenawsy, Clerk.
BY Cora Duffey, Deputy Clerk.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
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 3 LITTLE BENNY'S 3 NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE
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We was eating suppir lsst mite, and pop sed, If this meet was eny tuffer it wood be a f1zzical impossibifty.
 Now, Willyum, I cant help it, sed ma, I've told the butcher time and time agen, but he says he does the best he can, so wat more can do? You can baw1l the everlasting blazes out of him, that's wat you can do, sed pop, wy, this meet awt to be on my shoes insted of on my plate. The best he can, nuthing.
 Well wy don't you go erround and speek to him about it yourself if you think you know how, sed ma. I will, III go erround and tell that fellow ware he gets off before touch another morsi1, I'm not a man that can eat vile there's rong to be right ed, sed pop. And he got up and 1 sed, Can I go with you, pop? Wich he dident say coodent, so did, and wen we got erround to Smits meet store 1t was jest closing up and MT. Smit was locking the door, MT. Shit being a grate big man with a red face with a fearse Impression on it, and pop sed, Are you the proprietor of this, store?
 That's me, sed MT. Shit.
 We'll my names Potts, sed pop. ] I've herd verse names, and I've herd darn site better, sed MT. Srnit. | You sent me some stake today, and I woodent awfer it to a dog, sed pop. | Good for you, it's too hot to feed dogs meet, sed MT. Shit. And he looked even fearser than he does without trying, and pop sed, of corse speaking as man to man, I realize you have your difficulties the same as anybody elts, but as special fa- vpr wont you try to send us better meet?
 | I do the best I can, sed MT. Snlitt. | We'll, that's all eny man can do, sed pop. And we went back home and ma sed. Well, wat did you say to him
 Never mind, we are going to have tender meet rum now on, sed pop And me and him ate dizzsrt.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF THEATRES AND AMUSEMENT

the piece by two young persons wishing to get married, and a capable cast, is beyond the ordinary expecta- ton. Peals of laughter greet the quiet efforts of MT. Liebert to turn the phrase and the action into ac- count. He is a master comedian and is ably assisted by Nat Griswold and Mildred Adler.
 J. Warren Kerriyan, prime favor ite of Bridgeport audiences, appear ing in the rough and ready parts, finds his ideal in '"The Turn of a Card" one of those sensational TO- mantle dramas which give delight as well as offer a moral.
 Probably the most sensational in- dIvidual who appeared upon the stage is that juvenile virtuoso appearing under the title John Knox" Au- diences received the surprise of their life, for while his stage presence does not denote full ease yet the music that comes from the violin makes him master at the bow. Au- diences simply could not get their fill.
 
 bounding and upon the horizontal bars, exhibited an ease, grace, and an expertness second to none. They also used the trampeline to good ad- vantage.
 Mel Mckinley and company offer a novel comedy oddity, in which several persons toke effective parts Mir, Mckinley himself has unique ideas which he pla0hs into action fol laughter. He entertains in full ] measure.
 The Justa Trio, disclose three col ored performers of unusual versa tility, They dance, play the plan, and one of the members executes foreign ballet steps with precision and artistic delicacy,
 Hearst Pathe news offers a full round of America and Europe.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02

A collision of two German railway trains between Scheidemuls and persons.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
Compare Americas
 ReSeurces With
 Those of Germany

The Treasury Department author- izes the following:
 Pessimistic Americans. who view with alarm our increasing national obligations may derive a great deal of comfort from a comparison of the fi- nancial condition of the United States contrasted with that of Germany.
 The total resources of the United States are estimated at about $250,- 900, 0,000,000; our annual earnings are estimated at about S50,000, ,000, ,000. Our national debt, including the third Liberty loan, may be put around $12,- 900, 100000.
 Before the war our Government was spending about $1,000,00O,000 a year. When the war is ended, inter- | est charges, less the interest collected from our loans to our allies, Govern ment insurance expenses, and other necessary expenditures growing out ! of the war may conServatively be es- timated at something like $1,000, ,000,- | 900. We are confronted, therefore, when peace comes, with raising only a couple of billions a year revenue, a slight task for a nation of such tre- mendous wealth, capacity and resour- ces.
 The resources of Germany before | the war were estimated to be ESQ., l 900, 900, 900. The annual expendi- lures then of the Imperial Govern ment were about $500, 900, 900. Her debt now is $50, ,00o. .0o0, 900 and her resources and man power have been 1 severely impaired. After the war she is confronted with additional expendi- lures growing out of the war totaling some S4,000,000, ,000.
 The interest of her war debt, even if the debt grows no larger, will be about $1,50o, ,00o, ,000. Although she Is niggardly in her pensions to pri. vate soldiers and their families, ST.. 00o, 100000 a year would hardly suf- flee to pay even small pensions tc her injured and the families of hen soldiers who have been killed. HeI war debt must be paid some time and sinking fund of per cent. would add s1,50O,000, ,00o to her annual tax ation. Here Is a total increase o1 $4, ,ooo. 900. 900 all due to the war
 Of course both the United Statei and Germany may greatly increase their debts, but the increases will no change the relative situations.
 The German Government hai drained the German people of thei] gold, even their jewels and heirIoomi yet the Imperial Bank of German, now has but little over $500, ,O0O, 0ot of gold in it's vaualts. The United States has made no special effort tt
 obtain gold, has made no call upol
 the people for the precious metal and yet today has in its Treasur, vaults practically s2,5oo, ,o00,o0O O HnIa cotn. and hllIlion.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
PLAZA

Norma Ta1madke has furnished many admirable cinema plays to the screen loving public but never such a story---and so well staged story as ''The Safety Curtain which opened at the Plaza yesterday afternoon.
 ''The Safety Curtain brings Kip ling's India to the screen in a manner that deserves unlimited praise for the clever director. The main thread of the story is always in evidence and you are held on an edge from the first scene to the last---for right at the very beginning there's a theatre fire and a wife-beating match and your blood is boiling with enthusiasm be- lore you are fairly started on the sec- ond reel of the six.
 Eugene OfBrien has the role of Cap tain Merryon, playing opposite Miss Talmadge who appears as Puck" the little, toe-dancer.
 The Four American Beauties weren't beauties at all They were funny-faced tramps but in that skit entitled Fun on the Wharf" they did some singing and hsrnlanizing that will not be forgoten by any of their auditors for some time to come One would wonder how so pretty a voice could emerge from such a homely face.
 LeRoy and Cooper are two very young chaps---not even nearly out o1 their teens and theirs was a singing and piano offering that could hold its place on any vaudeville program.
 Sidney and Townley had an easy vic tory with their Subway Filtration, fos they worked the act up in idea fashion and that finishing dance mum, Der was a treat.
 Kennedy and Nelson offered a won derfui and screamingly funny tum
 bling act as the concluding number
 on the vaudeville end of the bill.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02

Mrs. Herbert c. Hoover, wife of the federal food administrator, registering astonishment and admiration at the number of potato bugs captured by a diminutive girl scout guest at the Hoover home. Mrs. Hoover entertained a large number of girl scouts from Washington at her country residence, and went to the soil with them in a girl scout uniform.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02

Shipping in Montevideo, Uruguay, is paralyzsd as the result zof B strike rve sa Anns sasaxnmnWnR 1a s2->A---Msa&
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
As to Declaration of War

There is no set form for a dec1ara- Hon of war and 1t has even been ques- toned whether a formal declaration of any kind is necessary. An Ameri- can writer on international war says: "An act of hostility, unless it be done In the urgency of self f-preservation or by way of reprisal, is in itself full declaration of intention; any sort of previous declaration therefore is an empty formality unless an enemy must be given time and opportunity to put hinE.elf in a state of defense, and it Is needless to say that no one asserts such a thing to be obligatory" l" Formal declaration of war preceding the beginning of hostilities was more common in ancient times and in the middle ages than in modern times. h. vestigation has shown that of 118 wars between 1700 and 1872 less than ten showed declarations of war prior to hostilities.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02

Documents taken from German sol-, diers captured on the French front show that a pillage system has beeza orEaniza& -------.---'1lll
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
POLES

There is something to laugh at something to remember and some thing to soethe at the Poii perform ance today, review of yesterdays s semi-weekly opening shows that the sensational. the artistic and the odd may go toggther and blend with happiness,
 Probably the greatest comedy play lot ever enReted since the Poii thea tFe has been built, is that offered b7 Sam Iisbert and company in. '%The Ind of the World" Based upon eewish life, actuated by the head ot me family reading too deepiRg .pi
 au Inn aiGseti fuszas
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
peckarIs Protest

An advertisement appearing recent ly in the Wathena Times reads: 'The man who sold Decker some fresh eggs recently will be surprised to know that one of them hatched some hours after MT. Decker bought them. By the sheer good luck that seems, to attend MT. Decker, the egg was not sold be- fore the nativity, so Decker's store still retains its reputation for fresh goods. The little chick has had tender care from Mrs. Decker. The farmer who sold this fresh egg may have the chick by paying for this adv, as MT. Decker carries only fresh goods guar anteed and has not taken on side line of poultry. y."-Kansas City Star,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
"RpRrHA,s ESTABLISHMENT. .n

visited one of Bertha Trost's es- tablishments in London once and found that a register was kept of every visitor. More than that, an expert piokpocket was constantly en- gaged-not to steal money or other vaiuables-to get possession of inn portant letters and other papers which might be used afterwards foE blackmailing purposes.
 There was never a prominent per son appeared in police or assize court, but some .GeTpan agent WAS thara tstal.Ine n6tasH for one assths
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-02
JUNE IMPORTS saeo, $50, 900.

Washington, Aug, 2-The value of imports received in June and Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania and Africa, according to a government statement yesterday was $266, 6,a60,6T1, compared with $305,- 6a,930 for June, 1917.
 For 12 months ended June 30, the imports amounted to $2,e4e, ,s50. .00o compared with se,s59,s55.1s5 for the year before,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
He Couldn't SPELL 1t.

In the spelling list for class in
certain Indianapolis school were the
words singing and smuggling. The class
was asked to write sentences using
these words TO show that they knew
the correct meaning of each. One little
fellow, Robert, wrote:
"The Italians are a singing nation
"The allies will soon be singeing the
beard of the kaiser"
With sideward glances he watched
his teacher mark his paper and TIM
idly asked:
as it all right?'
"Yes," she said, 'but the kaiser mas
no beard; he has a mustache."
"I know, l know, but | wanted 100
on my paper, and l couldn't spell
mustache. indianapolis News.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16

to 80 per cent of all their disabled
men back of the lines, while the re-
naming 10 to 10 per cent are entirely
self-supporting. Take a lesson from
these scientific savageS.
God grant that your dear boy may
come home to you safe and sound, but
if he should be hurt give us a chance
to bring out all that there is in him,
to place him in the very best possible
condition to work for his future, and
for the future of tat Sc who love him.
And so you will do NEST for him,
most for yourself, and most for the
country he gave so much to save.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
STREET TALK
By LAURA E. RICHARDS
of the ViuiianteS.

"Ohl isn't it dreadful?" the neighbor said;
isn't it dreadful?' said she;
ITO send your boy to be murdered there,
Away across the sea-
The boy you bore and the boy you nursed,
In travail and pride and pain,
The heart of you and .he eyes of you,
To be fou1ly smitten and slainr%
Now hold your peace" said the War
Mother;
(And the sound of the guns in her earD
IF these are the words for you to speak.
They are not for me to hear.
The half of my heart is with my son,
But the half that here must stay,
It beats as high and it beats as proud
AS his own brave heart today.
Now hold your peace" said the War
Mother.
(And the sound OF the guns in her
hearth
''My son and stand side by side,
However the seas may part.
It's he with the sword and / with the
word;
God give US 10th to thrive!
Come life, come death, TO our last breath
God grant US so to strivei"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
Watch Your Stomach
In Hot Weather
A Cool, Sweet, Strong Stomach Your Best Safe
guard Against Summer Sickness

Keep your stomach in good work.
ing order during the hot summer
months and you will have little to fear
in the way of sickness the advice
many physicians give as hot weather
approaches.
Good, sound, common sense advice,
too. For very frequently, and especial
ly in hot weather, these common stom-
ach disorders which SO many people
seem to regard as ofminor Importance,
do open the way for serious illness.
So keep your stomach sweet, cool
and comfortable all summer long The
extra war work-ehange of diet-poi-
sons that come with hot weather-all
hit us in the stomach. The strongest
stomach will need help this summer as
never before.
The one easy way if you have the
right remedy is to rid the stomach of
500 much acid. Because it's superacid-
ity that interferes with digestion and
assimilation, and this causes about
all those stomach miseries you are so
familiar with-heartburn, food-repeat-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
CORN VS.. PORK
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
of the ViqiIantes.

If the war goes on Gas it seems likely
to do) we may come to Doctor Kel-
lOgg's way of thinking and cut out
the raising of pigs altogether. He es-
Inmates that it takes nearly ten pounds
of corn to make pound of pork, and
that when we get the pork we are
worse off than if we had none. This,
suspect, is true, for I, under orders
of my doctor, have had no pork of any
kind for three years.
Kellogg is an extreme vegetarian, OF
course, and his statements must be
read in the light of that fact. And
yet he has logic on his side. Why
continue to feed the most vital food
of the human race to droves of ami
mails whose flesh is admitted to be I'M
wholesome to many people and without
which all of us would be better off?
Another curious reflection comes in
when discussing the raising Of any
kind of flesh food. How much of the
com or oats goes to supply energy for
exercise on the part of the animal?
Every time a pig or steer takes a
trot or a gallop around the yard a
considerable amount of food is used
up in a muscular action. This sounds
like joke, but it isn't, it is a seri-
Gus observation on the part of vegeta-
rianS.
The Germans, with their usual eff
cheney, have taken these matters in
hand. They have decreased the num-
Der OF pigs not only to save food, but
TO preserve a certain balance in the
ration. We may yet come to Kellogg's
point of view and begin the re-
duction of pork raising to save corn,
retaining only enough pigs to act as
scavengers of the kitchen refuse.
This much we can do, we can feed
our hogs with care. I wonder how
many Western farmers still feed their
pigs as they used to do by throwing
the corn into the pen? At that time,
with corn at Is cents bushel, it didn't
matter how much was trampled into the
mire, but now the case is different. we
are careful to clean our own plates,
and yet am not sure that the farmers
are making their cattle feed go as far
as it might by careful rationing. Ami
mails used to be overfed on our farms.
Are they being scientifically fed now?
Corn and wheat can win this war,
and when the final choice is made pigs
must go, cotton and wool be reduced
in amount, and cattle be raised without
exercise and in the most economical
way.
AS I write these things I am sud-
denly taken anew with the wonder OF
the changes that have come to this
America of ours. That we of all ma
tons of the world should be seriously
considering how~to conserve our food
supply, makes clearer than any other
measure the appalling blight which the
war, with its destructive agencies, has
thrown over the entire earth. 1t is in
credible but it is true. 1t is not only
true, but is becoming each day more
vital in our thinking. How shall we
feed the allies, ourselves and the waves
of the North sea?
We must double production, we must
save, and we must use with scientific
precision.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
There Was But One.

"Oh, my DEAR" said the new proud
mother to her husband, II wish you
could see the new baby across the
way. It's perfectly lovely! Such q
delicate, sweet little creature as 1t iss
It's a perfect little cherub, with the
loveliest eyes, the sweetest little
mouth, and the cunningest little nose.
1t looks as if it had just dropped froEa
heaven, and every tiny feature had
been fashioned by the angels"
rs it as nice as our baby" quickly
asked her husband.
Mercy, mol Not half" was tho
emphatic reply that came from the VIZ
cinity Of the dainty-ruffled crib.-Den~
yer Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16

ing, indigestion, sour, gassy stomach
and that miserable, bloated, puffed-up
condition after eating.
Now here is good news. An easy,
sure relief has been found to get rid oh
the harmful acidity and gases in the
stomach. 1t is called EATONLC. q
good tasting compound that you eat
just like candy. A tablet or two of
EATONIC after meals will work won.
ders. You can have no idea of what
sure, quick comfort EATONIC brings
until you do try it. Use EATONiC
after your meals, enjoy a good appetits
and get full strength from fine food you
eat. At the same time protect your
self from summer stomach and bowel
miseries.
Get big box of EATONIC from
your druggist today. He will tell you
that people who have used EATONIC
say that they never dreamed that any,
thing could give such quick and won-
derful results. 1t costs only SOC box
and if it fails in any way, your drug
gist. who you know and trust, will re-
turn your money.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
CaSIIs Beili.

"Yes'm," through his bruised lips
confessed the little boy whose hair
sprangled uncurriedly and whose
freckles were as the sands on the sea-
shore, 1--WE been fighting. Skinny
Smith bet me a thousand dollars that
his brother who is in the army would
kill more Huns than nay soldier broth
er would. l bet him a million dollars
his old brother wouldn't do any such
thing Then he bet me a billion he
would, too. | didn't know any bigger
number than that, and so, o. course,
had to whip im."-Kansas City Star.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
No Kick Then,

The motor car dealer met an under
taker one afternoon to whom he had
recently sold a secondhand car.
"Well, Lane" said the dealer, show
about that car sold YOU? Every
thing going satisfactorily?
"Well," replied the undertaken, at
did give. me little trouble at first.
/ used it for a mourning vehicle, you
know, to carry the mourners and
friends, and they don't like TO be shook
up in their grief. But now I'm using
1t as a hearse, and L haven't had any
complaints so far."-Harper's Maya
zine
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
Judicial Pun.

A certain judge was trying case
where a dealer sued a steamship COM
pany for the loss of some pigs in a fire
on board a cross channel boat. 1t came
out in evidence that the steamer had a
large deck load, and here the damage
was greatest.
The judge thus began his charge to
the jury:
Gentlemen, to put these pigs on
deck was a rash act, but to fry them
was a rasher."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
RED CROSS LEAGUE OF LOVE
BY EDWIN MARKHAM
of the ViuiIantes

of the Vigilantes.
0 League of Kindness, woven in all
lands,
You bring Loves tender mercies in your
hands;
Above all flags you lift the conquering
sign,
And hold, invincible, Loves battle line.
o League of Kindness, in your far-flung
bands,
You weave a chain that reaches to Gods
hands;
And where blind guns are plotting for
the grave,
Yours are the lips that cheer, the arms
that save.
. League of Kindness in your flag we
see
A foregleam of the brotherhood to be
In ages when the agOA;es are done,
When all will love and all will lift as
one
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
Fiery Red Pimples.

A hot bath with Cuticura Soap followed
by an application of Cuticura Oint-
ment TO distressing eczemas, etc.,
proves their wonderful properties. For
free samples address "Cuticura, Dept.
Y, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap %, Ointment % and 50.-Adv.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-08-16
One Thino That Holds Its Own.

Everything else is getting smaller
doughnuts and cakes and pies-but
the piece of mind" we get from our
critics is the same old regulation size,
Memphis Commercial Appeal.