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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-04
Urbach Eberdorf, Germany.
December 20, 1918
As ever your son,
FOUNTAIN.

Dear Sister:
VIII write to yon today. 1t is
Sunday and has rained most Of the
day. There are two things that are
plentiful in this country. They are
rain and mud. Received yours and
mothers letter today and was GER
tainly glad to hear from you both.
Well, / don't think it will be long un-
til we will all be home. We crossed
the Rhine River on the 18th inst,
and have been in this town just two
weeks today. Don't know how long
we will stay here. We have been in
foreign service now long enough to
entitle us to service stripes.
Ana well and hope you and all the
family are well. Tell mother / will
write TO her this week some time.
My paper supply is running low as
you can see it is not so very good
at that. You see some queer sights
in Germany. 1t is not an uncommon
sight to see couple of cows hitched
to a pillow, and they used some of
the same devices in farming that
was being used at the time Kris
Columbus crossed the Atlantic. For
instance their threshing machines
are couple of sticks and the wheat
being ON the floor of barn, is
beat out with the sticks. Will tell
you all about the war, or all know,
when l get home. Yes, our Division
al mark is a crossed arrow, which
means we broke through the enemy's
lines. 1t is a red arrow about two
and one-half inches long and is
worn ON the left shoulder on the
sleeve of the coat or blouse. / do
not know very much of the French
anguage,-just little, and guess
| will soon forget that. You mus
write to me often and ! will write as
often as / can. Regards to all.
Your loving brother,
GRANVILLE c. ELAN,
Battery D., 23rd F. A.,
Amer. e. f. France, 3rd Div.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-04

IT'S TIME TO begin to get ready
for that Thanksgiving demonstration
for the boys that gave us our real
Thanksgiving Day and made the Fifth
Loan the Final Loan.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-04

Driving Horse, 7-years-old, lady broke
Mich Cow, 5-years-old, fresh Feb. 10th
Yearling Mule
Heifer
2 Cows to calve April or May
4 Calves
4 Hogs, weighing 80 to 100 pounds each
Sow and 8 Pigs
Four year old Horse Mule
Five year old Horse
Deering Binder
Deering Mower
Mccormick Hay Rake, good as new
Two-horse Slide
I Five-tooth Cultivator
30 Good Ewes
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-04

'N-N~A w ~c~O'
Mr.. John w. Carpenter,
Mt. Sterling, Ky.
Dear Brother:
Win try to write and send you an
other letter and hope to have more
luck this time than / had the last
time l wrote, for the letter was new
er sent and / got it back.
Since / wrote you have been So
ing some; l have been in four ma
tons in the last thirty days, and was
in three of them, France, Belgium
and Luxemberg in two hours time,
ON November Goth. Starring about
November 18th, we liked about one
hundred and fifty miles from Mar
veaux, France to Vallendar, Ger
many, a town ON the East bank Of
the Rhine river, about four miles
down the river from Coblenz, which
city is being occupied by the Ameri-
can forces by agreement of the ar
mistice Of Nov. 18th, 1918, We
stayed in Vallendar about five days
and then liked back into the hills
about or 10 miles to a little village
called Arzbach. We stayed about =
days and had our chrimtnas time,
which was a dandy for the army. We
had a fine dinner, consisting Of
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-04

Breaking Plow
Double Shovel PIow
80 Barrels of Corn in Crib
rs Bushels shelled Oats, good for seed
$50 Bales first-class Clover Hay
Some Mixed Baled Hay
IS or 80 two-bushel Wheat Sacks
so or 60 new 4-bushel Dat Sacks
Ice Box, Wheelbarrow, Stove, 80 Tier
Rails, GOO Tobacco Sticks, few Chicken
Coops, IL Steel Traps, l2-gauge Shotgun,
single barrel, Patent Churn, Kitchen table,
Some other Household and Kitchen Furni-
ture' and many articles too numerous to
mention
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-04
AS we have purchased farms in other Counties we
Tuesday, February nth

Beginning at 10 O'clock A. NJ at the Davis Orear farm
on the Spencer Pike miles from Mt Sterling offer
for sale the following Personal property.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
Condensed Telegrams

[ Army uniforms hereafter are to be fitted on manikcnS. A Waterbury. bartender has been held on charge of alleged sale of li- Quor.
 President Wilson will review the Pacinc fieet at San Francisco early in September.
 Eamonn de Valera, President of the Irish Repuplic," has not agreed to visit ProYidcnce Aug 2S The proposed extraordinary tax on wealth was voted upon favorably by the German Council of State. Oscar Hammerste:n, the theatrical producer is critically i'll at the Lenox Hall Hospital, in New York. Bridgeport police are to cooperate Exportatior of Kentucky whiskey has begun as a result of the lifting of embargoes in the British Isles.
 A Russian soviet government wire less dispatch from Moscow reported a BoishevIk movement in Bulgaria.
 Mayor kinseIIa announced that he would probably appoint a woman as agent for the widows aid fund for
 Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, who is to take command of the destroyer force in the new Pacific fleet, arrived from France.
 King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium will be guests at the White House during their visit to Washing ton next fall
 North Dakota's Bone Dry law was declared not legally passed by the Legislature in an opinion of the State Supreme Court.
 King George received Marshal Foch today at Buckingham Palace and con ferred upon him the rank of Field Marshal of the British army
 The delegation of 300 West Point cadets who are visiting the battlefields of France were given a reception at the Ecole Polytecnique in Paris.
 A number of children going picnicine at Lake Compounce from Bristol, Conn. had the experiences of a trolley car wreck without serious injury to them selves.
 The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Belgian chamber of deputies pass ed favorably upon the question of the ratification of the Peace Treaty with Germany.
 Alfred Norris, a discharged army man was held in the town court at Milford, Conn. charged with robbery on three counts, of cottagers at Sea side Beach, near here.
 Two small children, one in Provi- 'dence and the other in Valley Falls were so severly burned while playing With matches in their homes that they died later in hospitals
 A strike Of employees at the Blake slee Forging Company at Southington, Is expected to be declared shortly as the result of refusal of the company officials to grant demands twice made by the men.
 EmpIoyes of the Peck Stow G Will cox company have rejected, in mass meeting, the latest offer of the com pany for ten per cent increase in wages, and nine hour day in place of the ten hour schedule
 Gustav Pabst, president, yesterday purchased at auction for the Pabst Brewing company, securities of the company with a par value of $2,SS9, / 300, the property of alien enemies. The securities brought $1,476 SIT.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
HELD IN S4,oo0 BAIL FOR
 LARCENY AND ASSAULT

New York. July 30.-George Graham Rice, who fiji st gained unenviable mo- toriety because of his connection with Maxim and Gay, tipsters on the races. was held for trial in $4.00O bail to- day on two indictments charging assault. Rice. whose real namc is Si- mon FIerzcg, is accused by John Hen dra of Bethlehem, Pa. of appropriat- ing $2,000 given him for the purchase of stocks.
 Rice appeared as his own attorney and made a long statemene>- to the court, in which he charged tn;:t Dis trict Attorney Swann was beluS made the tool of Wall Street brokers who were trying to ruin him because he had sued them for hundreds of thou sands of dollars. He declared he was ready to go to trial at any time
 Mir Swann replied that speaking from memory, he recalled that Rice had served two terms in states prison and one in Elmira.
 This man has handled millions in worthless stock" he said. "Wc have asked for three other indictments against him.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31

Washington, July 30-The peace treaty with Germany was discussed by President Wilson today with four more republican senators, all of them understood to be unwilling to accept the league of nations in its present form.
 The question of including reserva- tions in the senate's ratification of the treaty is understood to have been the chief topic of discussion, some of the presidents callers telling him unre- served ratification was impossible and MT. Wilson reiterating his aver sion to any change or qualification which might reopen diplomatic nego- tiations. Each of the senators indi- cated afterward that his views had not been changed.
 In turn the president saw Senators Dillingham; Vermont; Harding. Ohio; Fernald, Maine, and Lenroot, Wiscon- sin. He talked for an hour with each of them, going over many features of the Versailles negotiations. None would discuss his conversation with the president in detail, but Senator Harding, who is a member of the for eign relations committee made brief statement saying Mir. Wilson had em- phasized the possibility that senate reservations might encourage other nations to qualify their acceptance of
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
Further Airing Of
 Army Irregularities
5erviceable Airplanes Destroy ed By Order of American Army Officers.

New York. July 30-A "million dol lar fire' in which 100 or more service able airplanes were destroyed by or der of American army officers was described by several witnesses whe appeared today before the house sub committee which is investigat ting cruelties to prisoners and other alleg- was conducted by Representa- tive Roy al C.. Johnson of South Dakota, and Representative Oscar F. Bland of In- diana, republicans. The third member of the sub committee, Representative Henry Flood of Virginia, democrat was not presetnt.
 The destruction of the airplanes took place at Colomoey les Bellies. near Toul, and the details of the fire were supplied by several former non-com- nissioned officers and men of the air at. the tine- None of the witnesses could give any reason for the bonfire or tell under whose orders it had been conducted.
 At the opening of the hearing Rep resentative Johnson announced that a cable message from sGenera1 Pershing 2 to General March, chief of staff in which the head of the A. F. F. denied that any destruction had taken place, would be read into the record The cable message was not available until after the hearing had closed and then proved merely a denial of a reported burning of automobiles and damage to other war material at St. Nazaire
 The investigation into the airplane fire closed the hearings of the sub committee in the United States The inquiry will be conducted in France next month
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
iRREGULARITIES CHARGED ON
 s MEXICAN NATIONAL RAIL WAY

Mexico City, July 3O-The arrest of Davis Morris, an American general superintendent of the express system, and Felipe Pescador, former general director of the Mexican National Railways, was ordered today by the district court, as the result of an in vestigation of railroad affairs
 Morris and Pescador were charged with irregularities in the financial of fairs of the railways.
 A writ of "amparo'', which is a process staying further proceedings and somewhat similar to the Ameri- can writ of habeas corpus was ob- tained by both men, delaying further Judicial action for seventy two hours At the end of that time the arrests ordered by the court will be made un- less further judicial action should change the courts course.
 The investigation of affairs of the Mexican National Railways followed the publication by newspap pers here of many criticisms on the mana cement and allegations of irregularities. Pes cador recently resigned as director general of the railways and Colonel Pawlino Fontes, mafager of the southeast railways, was appointed to succeed him on July g.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
PROPOSITION MADE TO END
 CHICAGO TRACTION STRIKE

Chicago. July 30.-Officials of Chi cagos surface and elevated electric lines met tonight with representatives of the +, 900 striking car men and Governor Frank O. Lowden in a move to end the strike that has par alyzed electric line transportation for two days. Announcement was made following the conference that the com promise agreement a rejected by the men Monday night. when they voted an immediate strike would be sub- mitted Friday night for a referendum vote. L. A. Busby. and Britten I. Budd. heads of the surface and elevated lines, respectively. and William D.. Ma hon. International president of the street car mems union, attended the conference with Governor Lowden.
 The proposition offered anrS eight hour day, time and one half for over time and maximum wage of sixty five cents an hour for surface car men and sixty seven cents for elevated men.
 Unless some means is found to get the workers back on the cars pending their final decision on the proposition Chicago faces at least two more days of the strike. A referendum. if taken Friday night and resulted favorably to accapeance of the proposition. prob ably would h~ .--,1 ----l i-- time to start cars Saturday morning.
 In the mesi-I,4---- ----.~..s of Chi cagoians must walk long distances and other thousands pay toll to the bus men" who have jumped at the profits to be made by operating automobiles and trucks.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
MISS MABEL HARRIS MET
 DEATH BY DROWNING

Paterson. N. J.. July 30-Miss Ma - bel Harris. 2Qyear- Pompton girl whose parents reported her missing Sunday after she bad failed to return from a canoe trip she had taken with her fiance. Lester Decker. and whose body today was recovered from the Ramapo river. met death by drowning, according to the opinion given by County Physician Armstrong after an autopsy performed late this afternoon.
 In announcing the physician's yer dict, Prosecutor Dunn said tonight that no water had been found in the lungs, but explained this by stating that the girl may have fainted from fright before striking the water. No marks of violence were found on tLe body.
 Fred Harris. who helped pull his sisters body from the water, express ed belief that the girl met death as the result of an accident.
 Decker, detained as a material wit ness in connection with the girls dis appearance, tonight was still being held by the police.
 Following a conference held to- night with County Physician Arm strong and police officials, Prosecutor Dunn announced that there was no evidence on which to hold Decker and that he would ask Magistrate Ramano to release him from custody tomorrow as his account of the accident in which Miss Harris met her death was now fully corrcborated.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
DESERTED HIS MEN
 UNDER ENEMY FIRE

Aver Mass, July 30-Convicted of deserting his men whom he had led into the fire of the enemy, Samuel H. Stone, formerly second lieutenant of the 101st Infantry Regiment, has been sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to begin a ten-year sentence. A cable despatch from France notified officials of Camp Devens of the finding of a court martial at Eccomoy which con victed him in January.
 Testimony by members of Stones platoon in Company H, 101st, showed that he had headed night patrols to hte edge of No Mans Land four times when, having drawn the fire of the enemy, he left the men to their own resources and withdrew. Again when his company was going into action at Chateau Thierry in the first wave Stone was seen to run to the rear A guard in the supporting line hailed him, but Stone was allowed to proceed when he said he was returning for maps His platoon suffered losses which, the court-martial held, includ- ed needless loss of life due to Stones defection.
 Stone, whose home is in Boston was an officer in the National Guard before it was Federalized and the 101st Regi- ment formed.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
TURKS AND TARTANS ARE
 MOVING UPON ARMENIANS

Paris, July 3O.-(By The A. P)- Turgs and Tartars are moving upon the Armenians from three sides. They have cut off the American relief sup plies and threaten all the remaining Armenians with eXtermination unless additional military protection is af- forded, according to despatches from Major JoSeyh C. Green of Cincinnati. who is directing the American relief administrations work from Tif1is.
 Herbert Hoover, director general of relief. immediately submitted Major Greene's message to the peace confer ence, which already had similar re- ports from other American and Brit ish observers.
 Major Green, under date of July g, sends the following from Tif1is:
 Had a. long conference with the Ar nenian president today. The situation is orse. The Turkish army, well pre- pared, and Tartars are advancing from three sides. If military protection is not afforded to Armenia immed lately, the disaster will be more terrible than the massarresr in. 1915. and the Arme- nian nation will be crushed. to the ev- erlasting shame of the allies.
 Relief work is impossible in the present situation unless order is re- stored. Cannot something be done to have the British forces to the Cau-
 Under date of July A, Major Green telegraph: "The Turks and Tartars are advancing in the districts of Karabagh and Alagbez. They now occupy ap- proNinately the reopened territory of Russian Armenia. Khalil Bey a Turk ish colonel, is commanding the Azer- baijan Tartars"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
RECEIVERS OF R. !. CAR LINES
 AUTHORIZED TO AR6tTRATE

.r Providence, R. l., July 30.-By a de- cree issued in the superior court by Judge Doran late today authority for the receivers of the Rhode Island Go to arbitrate their differences with the car mems union is provided on con sdftion that the strikers resume work
 It does not specify when the car men shall return to work, but reads
 that when" they return and accept one of two plans outlined in the de- cree, the receivers shall submit to arr the wages shall be. the date for that wage ito take effect and what work ing conditions shall be.
 The arbitrators, who would be eith- CT the utilities commissioners acting as individuals. or citizens of the state chosen by both sides and the third members and chairmen chosen by the governor. would determine what is proper evidence to be considered and decide the questions in dispute: The decision of the majority would be deemed an award which. in any case, would be subject to approval of the court.
 Objections of the union on these two points were again indicated to- night when the officers. although de- clining to discuss the court action or probabilities. pointed to the absence of their counsel; John. J. Fitzgerald, at todays hearings as the answer to the unions attitude. They would not say whether the subject would come up again for vote by the men. The opin- ion of union members was that the men would reject the newest propo sals entirely.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31

the league.
 Tomorrow the president will see three other republican senators while the senate resumes debate on the treaty and the foreign relations com mittee begins public hearings on the economic sections with Bernard Ba- ruch, an advisor to the American peace delegation as the first witness.
 Both the senate and the committee had recessed over today and many senators went over for the first time the official text of the special defen- sive treaty with France, submitted for ratification by President Wilson. AL though most of them reserved judg- ment, it became apparent that the treaty's ratification would be bitterly contested.
 Two objections about which debate is expected to center are that the treaty departe from the tradition of no enangling alliance and that it violates the constitutional provision that congress alone can declare war. Those who base their opposition on the latter ground declare that by the promise to go to the aid of France immediately in case of an unprovoked attack on her from Germany, all flu ture congresses would be deprived of their privilege to decide for war or peace whenever the treaty terms were invoked.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
FoODSTUFF TO BE SOLD
 THROUGH POSTMASTERS

Washington, July 30.-Through the postmasters of the country, the war department tomorrow will offer direct to consumers it's present available supply of surplus foodstuffs amount ing to approximately 341, ,0Oe. .O00 pounds. This surplus, consisting of canned vegeta bles and meats. is ex- pected to be sold within a week, at prices representing the cost to the government plus postage.
 Arrangements for the sale Of the foodstuffs directed by a resolution passed yesterday by the house, were made today at a conference held by Secretary Baker with postoffice de- pertinent officials and Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania, author of the resolution.
 Secretary Baker at the close of the conference said a price list covering the entire. available surplus would be prepared at once by Assistant Sec retary CroweH. This list. it was said at the postoffice department. would be sent out to each of the o4.000 post masters of the country and to every rural route carrier. s.
 The poStma SterS and carriers under arrang gements made at the conference will act as government salesn1en. in forming interested consumers of the prices and methods of sale and talk ing orders for the foodstuffs.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
HOMER s. CUMMINGS TALKS
 POLITICS WITH PRESIDENT

Washington, July 30=Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the democra- : tic national committee discussed with President Wilson tonight the political outlook for 1920 and the attitude of the country toward the peace treaty and the League of Nations, describing his observations during his recent two months trip through fourteen western states.
 The conference which lasted more than half an hour, was the first the national chairman has had with the president since last December Mir Cummings refused to discuss the pos sibility of MT. Wilson again leading his party in the 1920 election and would not affirm or deny that this subject was preached during the con- ference.
 Chairman Cummings said he told the president the country was over whelmingly in favor of immediate rat lfication of the treaty and it's League Of Nations covenant without change or reservat ton As to the political sit uation. MT Cummings was understoel ; to have been emphatical1y confidentS
 Many matters of party interest were understood to have been taken up. and policies and legislation considered from every conceivable angle
 The president was said to have out lined to MT. Cummings the tentative itinerary of the trip he will take through the country to give the people eIII aSSOoiil CI SleW dIOSHlp HarlS. The proposed trip was understood to have received the chairman's appro- bation.
 In no state he visited, MT. Cum mings informed the president, did he find a majority of the people oppos- ed to the League of Nations On the contrary. 8he said, if the people had an Opportunity to vote the ques- ton today, ten to one majority would be given in favor of immediate ratifi- cation of the league and covenant
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-31
N0 Explanation of
 Sinking of Submarine
Three Lives Were Lost Of Pleasure Beach-Six Others of Crew Were Rescued.

New London. Conn. July 30.--A na- val beard of inquiry will be appoint ed by Captain J. N. Dufrees. L. $. N, to investigate the sinking today of the United States submarine C-2, which went down in Long Island sound. off Pleasure Beach, with the loss of three lives. The six others Of the crew of the undersea boat were rescued by the coast guard cutter Acushnet, which was accompanying the G-2 while the latter was conduct ing experiments with depth bombs. Officers of the submarine base here made no explanation of the accident.
 The G-2 was one of an earlier type of American submarines and was list ed as an obsolete craft. It was built by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company at Bridgeport and was launched in January 1912. Naval men from the submarine base dragged Nthe Sound waters this evening. in an effort to find the bodies of two of the dead men which were not recovered.