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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14
Mrs. Elsie Smith Dies of Burns.

Mrs. Elsie Smith who was so
severely burned Monday night
at her home in Waverly, died
Friday about noon at the Lex
ington Hospital.
Mrs. Smith was about 18 year
of age. She is survived by her
husband and one child eighteen
months old, besides several sis
ters.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14

Joseph Ebeck, age Sc years,
father of Mrs. Anna Toman of
this city, died Monday at his
home near Kansas City. He is
survived by his wife, two sons.
and three daughters.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14
Registered Agnus Cattle Sale.

heSlSleTeu ABHuS CdILle Odie.
The Carroll County Breeders
will offer 46 head of Registered
Agnus Cattle at auction in Car
rollton, Mo-, Friday, February
21st. Sale begins at 1 P. M. q
bulls and 25 cows and heifers
will be in the offering. Black
birds, Prides and Lady Idas will
be among the families repre-.
sented. For catalouge write ].
w. Rea or Roy H. Monier, Car
rollton, Mo.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14

BY rigid enforcement of the
state game laws Commissioner
Birmingham has paid the ex-
penses Of his department and
created a fund of $27845.35 for
the purpose of purchasing a
state park. The practice Of econ
omy in state offices has resulted
in the payment of the state debt
of $2,000,0OO.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14

Mrs. F. T. Zuklin of Kansas
City, spent Thursday here with
friends.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14
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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14

Misses Talbot, Browning. Mi
lam, Galloway, Lee, Brooks, Viii
son, Welborn, Berry, and Camp
bell left this morning for Park
vile, Mo, to attend a w. c. T..
u, convention.
Rev. Robert Burress of Camp
Dodge, arrived Tuesday even
ing being called here by the i'll
ness Of his mother, Mrs. Mary
MmreSs.
William Herd, William Bour,
Carl Petsch and William Smith.
who saw service overseas in
France, arrived home Thursday
night from Camp Dodge, Iowa,
where they we're mustered out.
A marriage license has been
issued to the following:
August Norman .-.............. Alma
Flora Roehrs s.......-.....-......-...A Alma
Mrs. John Worland and little
son, Norman, of Kansas City,
arrived Friday night to visit her
mother, Mrs, w. z. Mitchell.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1919-02-14

A message was received Tues
day morning from Daniel Taney,
stating that he had arrived
from overseas and was at New
port News.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-10
Dublin, Ind.

H r. Bilby has bought the home
place of the late Mrs. Emily Hall.
Mrs. E. S. Morgan was shopping in
Richmond Monday
Mrs. Ed Horseman was brought
home from the hospital last Saturday.
Mrs. Leslie Beard was a guest of
Mrs. Frances Wharton Thursday.
B. F, Hayden and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. James McCarty, motored to Gin
cinnati last Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. William Hickman
spent the week end in Indianapolis,
with relatives.
Mr.. Steffy moved his family Tues
day to their new home recently pur-
chased in Cambridge City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Braden of
Cartha sc, Ind, we're guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. c. Huddleston. north of town.
William Smith returned home last
Thursday from visit with relatives
in Kansas.
Harry Bell of indianapolis spent the
week end here with his parents.
Kenneth Huddleston joined the ma
Wy last week and has left for San
Francisco
Mrs. Joseph Copeland. of Milton,
spent Sunday here with her mother
and sister, Mrs. Rachel Sarver and
daughter, Jessie.
Mrs. Preston Mason and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Drischel and son
and Mrs Belle Martin we're Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Myers.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Brown and
niece, Miss Marie Good, of Indianap-
oils spent few days last week with
o. H. Morris and family. They all
motored to Dayton, Ohio on Wednes-
day and stayed until Thursday.
The children Of Amos HuddlestOn
celebrated his eightieth birthday an
niversary at his home last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs T. j. Wilson and Mrs.
Martha Welker Of Millville, Mr.. and
Mrs Ben Wood Of Newcastle, called
on Mrs. Sarah Howan and daughter,
Sunday afternoon.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-10
News of the County

CAMDEN - The Presbyterial Mis-
sionary convention met in United Pres
byterian church at Fairhaven Tuesday
evening and Wednesday. There were
delegates from Dayton, Richmond, Col
lege Corner, Hamilton, Oxford, Morn
Ing Sun, Cherry Fork, Sycamore, Gin
cinnati, Seymour and Stanton, Ky.
Tuesday evenings program was: De-
votional, Mrs. Jennie Johnson; anthem
by Fairhaven choir; exercise, Juniors;
solo, Roy Benham; address, Miss Kate
Hill Wednesdays program was taken
with business. A short address was
made by Miss Johnson. All sessions
were we'll attended.
Owing to the crowded condition Of
first and second grades in Camden
schools, another teacher has been
hired and will take up her work Mon
day morning. Miss Guntle of West
Alexandria will have charge
ECONOMY - Mrs. Charles Morri.
son was in Fort Wayne to attend the
conference Of Charity and Correction
this week. Mrs. Morrison was ap-
pointed delegate by the Indiana
Yearly Meeting, and this is the thir.
teenth session she has attended.
MILTON - The annual home-com-
ing of the Milton Christian church will
be held Sunday. Bible school at 9: 80:
sermon by the pastor at 1O:45. bas-
ket dinner will be served in the ba Sc
ment at the noon hour. In the after
noon there will be a miscellaneous
program of songs, readings and ad.
dresses. Miss Yegling, a reader of
Indianapolis, who has attended several
hOme-comings Of the Milton church,
will be on the program. All members
and friends of the church and Sunday
school are invited to come with well
filled baskets and enjoy the day
ECONOMY-Seward Beard offered
gift of the corner lot, where a store
building formerly stood, for the cree.
ton of a Community hall.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-10
800 Hold Pep Meeting
at H. S. Chapel Exercise

Pep and plenty OF it, was displayed
by the High School at the auditorium
exercises Friday morning, previous to
the departure Of the football team Fri
day afternoon. All the school yells
were given and every member OF the
team was sent away with the ring of
over 800 voices wishing him success.
School songs We're sung by the
school quartette. composed Of Kenneth
Dollins, Leroy Harding, Wynn Evans
and Floyd Nusbaum. Mrs. Clara Lyle
man sang a solo: Manager Vernon
Coach Rock, Captain Emslie of the
football team, Leroy Harding. a mem
Der of the team, and Captain Thorn
burg of the basketball team. spoke.
Ford weekly movies were shown.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-10
New Garden, Ind.

The Ladies' Aid society met at the
church Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Paulson
spent Sunday evening with her par
ents, Oscar Bailey and family.
Clarence Martin and family called
on friends at Richmond and White
water Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rothermel were
in Union City and Winchester Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Williams and
family spent Sunday with Sam KEN
and family at Webster
Luther Liebold and daughter, Ru-
by, have returned from Columbus, O.,
where they have been visiting rela-
tives.
The missionary society met at the
home of Albert Williams Wednesday.
The meeting was called to order by
Mrs Martin.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
4 Question of Plenty
of Water
And the Dramatic Part
It Played in the Fortunes
of a John Doe
BY John ]. Leary, Jr.

yelled 80 loud the District Attorney
out home heard them, So did the
Posto.y!ce people, and your friend 1T
out Just hop. skp and a Jump AHEAD
Of the Postoffice inspector with
warrant. 1t was moro luck than fair
shooting, for you see, the Postoffice
folks sent one-legged inspector to
got him, and he couldn't move as fast
as man with two real legs,
"Then the suckers sent out delega-
tion to look things over and see what
they ought to do about 1t. They always
do, you know. They buy first and
then investigate. Even the wise ones
who know all about old DR.. Caveat
Emptor and would recognize him q
mile off do that. They told their tale
of woe to about everybody and got
all sorts of advice. They didn't want
to send good money after bad, and
anyhow, they were in bad way. That
is, some of them were. You see, these
had steered your friend up against
live ones with rolls. They didn't know
what to do and it began to look as
though I'd get the mill site after all
when 1t occurred to one of them to
take another look in the mine.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
No Hope
For Vermin

For the first five minutes q vac
uum is created in the cylinder, loos-
ening up the garments. Then steam
at 120 pounds pressure is applied
for twenty minutes. At tempera-
ture varying from 254 to 280 de-
grees Fahrenheit, all vermin are
killed. Live steam eats up what
ever insects may have lurked in the
khaki folds. Five minutes more Of
vacuum dries up the moisture on the
clothes and loosens them up again.
When they emerge at the other end
Of the steam cylinder, the clothes
and blankets are free from foreign
matter and clean.
But the uniforms are also wrin-
kled, and that is where the soldier
has his kick. The same steam which
at 120 degrees pressure has killed
vermin has put creases into his uni
form which no tailor can remove
Those creases are in to stay.
When you see a soldier on tht
street in wrinkled uniform, dom
blame him for the creases on hi
coat. The chances are he has jus
been through a cootie mill.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

the lowest form Of human life in the
A. E. F. he also knew that there we're
few generals who welded half his in
fluence and he must have derived some
compensatory amusement from the
process Of filling his wastebasket with
poems painfully composed by colonels
or better in their candle-lit billets.
And after all, it was Ross's fault that
his privacy remained undisturbed. The
18th Engineers, with which he crossed
to France among the first $4,000, con-
tldently sent him to the officers train
ing school, but he escaped from there
wildly and, smelling printers ink from
afar, showed up at the office of the
then Matching A. Z. +. newspaper,
which was destined within a year to
reach a circulation of half a million.
Later, when he was asked if he could
do his work more advantageousiy with
a commission, he replied that, person
ally, even corporal's chevrons would
cmbarrass him painfully, and as for
prinking up in a Sam Browne belt, he
believed that, while the doughboys
were ploughing ahead through muck
and wire and gas and hell generally,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
No Constructive
Thought

The effect on our national life of
this mental torpor, which keeps paca
with the increase in population, is evi-
denced on every side. Our depart
ments, for instance, are seethins with
petty politics and notoriously lacking
in constructive thought. To illustrates
an employe receiving, say $1,000
year. after a year or perhaps a few
months will conceive the idea that he
or she, as the case may be, is worth
more to the state; so instead of prov
ing his or her worth by better and
more proficient work an appeal is made
to the Senator or Assemblyman Of his
or her home district to bring pressure
to bear upon the head Of the depart
mcnt to allow an increase of salsry.
Fearful of the possible outcome Of
resisting this pressure, the increase
is granted, to the detriment, of course,
of the entire department, as such bare
faced favoritism only results in the
decentralization of the morale, destroys
the authority of the department. head.
c1eates dissatisfaction among the other
employees and invariably sets low
standard of work. Back of the mo-
tive which moved the Senator or As
semblyman to favor his constituent
was thoughtIess willingness to do a
favor which would cost nothing to the
dispenser. In fact, lack of constructive
thinking is becoming a real menace and
is directly attributable to our public
educational system, which fosters a
stereotyped routine, denies initiative
to teachers and turns out boys and
girls who have never been given en-
couragement to think and act for them
selves
Isn't it about time, then, to change
the popular slogan-a higher standard
of living in every American home-to
a higher standard of thinking in every
American family? This accomplished.
the living business will take care Of it.
self.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

A FTER Hoboken, Camp Mer-
~ ritt. After landing, cootie
mill Just before sailing for
home, cootie mill. Life for an over
seas soldier is just one delousing
process after another.
The cootie-may its tribe de-
crease-gets warm welcome at
the New Jersey camp; 280 degrees,
to be exact. Whereupon the little
alien withers away. America is not
a fertile field for it's activities.
Since the day when Robert Burns
brazenly addressed his verses "To a
Louise" we had gradually grown OBJ
livious to the existence Of the in
sect. Lice were not mentioned in
polite society. Then along came a
war which not only gave the species
an international vogue, but also fur
nished English-speaking peoples with
IA less offensive appellation.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

II SAW the most curious advertise
ment the other day. 1t started
H. off like this; "Wanted, a man
who knows how to think. :"
Well the more looked at that ad.
the more 1t was impressed upon me
there was nothing funny about it. 1t
was the most serious indictment had
read Cor a long time. "Wanted-a-
man-who-kmows kow-to think" And
yet we boast Of being the most pro-
gressive nation on the earth. The
ad. evidently referred to man in our
great middle class, which set me TO
thinking. Did l personally know any
men of that type who gave evidence
Of sane, constructive mental ability,
and if so, what mathematical proper
tion did they bear to the non thinkers
recalled some months spent in the
hammer shop Of large steel plant
doing war work, where the day shift
numbered some sixty men. OF these
there were three who could follow q
discussion intelligently to q logical
conclusion. By that mean a man who
had an opinion, for instance, on the
government ownership of rails, or
national prohibition, or the effect of
price fixing on wheat. Well, three is
5 per cent Of sixty, very good show
ing 80 far. On the train that carried
me daily back and forth to my work
were many mechanics employed in the
car shops of railroad company a
few stations beyond mine, and although
I made point of talking with them
on matters Of common interest, such
as the advantages or disadvantages of
union membership, the outlook of labor
after the war, etc, I seldom found a
man who could discuss a subject beyond
his own little narrow point Of view, OF
if he did it was only to echo the opin-
ions of the daily paper which he hap
pened to read. Ny record shows that
I talked to over fifty men withou,
finding one who thought things out fol
himself
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Wanted: a Man Who
Can Think
Quite Surprising, Too. to
Discover How Scarce an
Article He Is
By E. K. Parkinson

some years ago. when Il started an
inquiry to ascertain the Gauss Of ths
phenomenal sale Of certain food prod.
uct. The result showed that per
cent were influenced by friends, SO per
cent by advertising and 55 per cent by
statesmen in the shop. In other words,
only per cent had purchased because
they thought the article of sufficient
value to themselves.
To discomfit those who may wish
to cheer themselves by the thought
that the men referred to were probably
chiefly foreigners I will add that not
one was a foreigner; they were all
Americans who had had a common
school education in this country.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
Ross, the Man Who Edited a War
By Sergt. Alex. Woollcott

T IMAGINE the inner feelings of an
American newspaperman who, at
n. twenty.seven, found himself the
managing editor Of one of the
most widely read. sworn at and sworn
by journals In the world, and who, IN
the pausea between dashing off an
editorial and rejecting 800 manuscripts,
had chance to reflect on the fact
that a grateful republic paid him Just
sa8 month and found for his services.
There you have the ironic situation Of
Private Harold W. Ross, of Salt Lake
City, San Francisco and Paris, who
helped to bring up 1.-THE Stars and
stripea" In the way 1t should 60 and
eventually took over its editorship.
This irony had its lights and shades,
however. For, while he knew he was
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
A Desert
|! Now

"Well, sir. I'll be hanged If the first
man who looked in didn't all but
throw himself down the shaft. The
blamed thing they'd seen full of water
almost to the top week ago was dry
as bone. What had happened was
this. They were then driving the
Roosevelt tunnel. 1t didn't approach
that mine by many, many miles as
the crow flies, or would if there were
any in that neck of the woods. But
way down deep somewhere there was
fault in the rock. You know what
I mean-a geological error, or crevce
like, that ran all the way across coun-
try to that Roosevelt tunnel, and when
the tunnel men exposed one end Of
it, blooie. the water all leaked out.
1t sure was dry.
"1f that committee hadn't been made
up Of churchmen there'd have been a
glorious drunk that night. Instead,
there was sort of combination pink
tea-prayer meeting. AS I live, the
suckers had got q s3,o00,Oo0 mine for
about 100000 They got it yet.
"And your friend? Well, last I
heard of him he was sitting on the
beach looking in the direction the COM
pass says is north and wishing he'd
saved some of that stock for himself
Nope, he amt back yet don't know
if he ever comes back. I don't think
he's got the necessary price"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

~oMEwHERE IN Central America.
- where get rich quick man are
safe from postoffice inspectors
and United States marshals who
n.x wish to take them to court on
.harses Of using the mails with in
aert 70 defraud, is one young man TO
h.hon the announcement that the
Roosevelt tunnel in Colorado is com
.,i.+sa must come as reminder Of
swbst might have been"
His story l got from man from
she mines who, in his own resentment
i. losing millions, was willing to ad-
,r;t that the young man in question,
srho he blamed for his own loss, was
pthe hardest luck guy in America
and to commiserate with him in his ex-
s,s he told it in the Pullman as we
,~sre heading toward New York from
en- upstate point after he had men
sioned the town he hailed from.
arver know q chap there named John
spoe7" ! asked. 1.-The name, as might be
seuspected, Is fictitious.
he glared at me.
Eyes, know himl" he growled.
S,Riyer looks nice from here, doesn't
At.a The river did, as matter of
fact. look more inviting than an at
aempt to discuss Doe, who apparently
rad done something to the man from
Abe mines. So we discussed the river
sor q matter Of five miles or more.
trhsn the miner reverted to Doe.
"You we're asking about Doe bit
hack" said he. "Friend of yours ?"
"Classmate," said l. ~ haven't seen
or heard of him in twenty years since
he settled in your country"
"Well, he amt there any more
said the man.
"So?" said l. willing to let him talk
or not as he might wish without any
nrging from me.
"Nope; he's in Central America
somewheres; fugitive from Justice
Strange said l. "He was the son
of minister and the grandson Of a
bishop
THAT helped send him there" he
replied.
Indeed, that also is strange said
4. booking over another mile or so
Of river.
yep" said the man after another
pause. "You see twas this way. Your
friend came out our way with little
money and a winning disposition. He
was q real cute cuss, too. He didn't
drink or cut up much, but the regular
guys all liked him. He made little
more money and then went in for
snines.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-11

no decent man could feel comfortable
who drew desk job and q commission
at the same time, a tactless reply
which, by the way, rather disconnected
some of those present Ross later be-
came exceedingly thorny when he un-
esrthed plot to pin a decoration on
him.
remember encountering him one
morning, sitting tired, dusty and dis
consulate on the side of the road along
which the wounded men of the I'd Di-
vision were being carried out from
Belleau Woods | thought it was
cooties troubling him, but found that
it was conscience. My inquiries on
the subject provoked flood Of ex-
pert profanity.
"-," he groaned, "at home /
was always q non-producer and here,
on battlefield, I'm a non-combatant."
Ross is occasionally embarrassed by
being referred to as the father of the
STARS and Stripes" war orphans. His
innocent connection with that bounc-
ing young family Of more than 5000
French kids, was, however, only that
Of founder, director and propagandist