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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-09

former position in Brooklyn. He was
a member of the 7eth Division.
Word has been received from
George w. Phillips, son of Rev. and
Mrs. George w. Phillips. OF this place
that he will be home by the last OF
May, from France.
From present indications II Is al
most an assured fact that MS place
will have a fast baseball team on the
field this summer. The manager VIII
he Marion Mondoker, who in former
wears has so successfully guided the
teams from this place. The diamond
will be put in good shape by the Hell.
meta Club, but will have no
interests In the team. Teams want
ing games should address Marion
Mondoler. Helmetta-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-09

George and Daniel Stonaker. bro
theirs, have formed a co-partnership
In the general trucking business.
Benjamin Goldsteins WHIT conducts
the department store on Railroad ave-
nue., has purchased from Joseph 3.
Lane, OF Camden. the large tenant
house formerly occupied by Mr.. Lane.
Mr.. Goldstein will shortly occupy this
home as a dwelling and will not build
a bungalow as he proposed !,
Rev. Thomas Kearney, rector Of
st. James Catholic church, of this
place has a large class of children
who will receive the Sacrament Of
Confirmation on Monday. May 26th at
an elaborate service to De held at the
local church. Bishop Walsh, of the
Trenton diocese will officiate and 1t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-09

council baseball team win play the
nine representing the boys division.
The business mems volley ball
games this afternoon will bring to-
Rether Stremlau and Comings in two
games; Mcdonald and Robbins In
one game; Fuller and Robbins one
game and Mcdonald and Fuller one
game. Robbins team nov leads the
league.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-09

Robert has an uncle who takes great
deli-ht In teasing and asking questions
Of his little nephew every time he gets
a chance. One day he asked him IL
he knew who George Washington q
For mercy sakes." exclaimed o
ert. don't you know who George
Washington Isl Why, he's the man
that invented Americans"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-09
Sport DoingS
At YIN. CA.

The Brooklyn Central Y. NJ. c. A.
swimming team had little trouble
last night in defeating the local mer-
men in en- aquatic meet, the visiting
combination securing forty-ntne
POINTS es compared with eleven made
by Amboy.
Tomorrow afternoon on the Rari-
tan Copper Works diamond the boys
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-09

During the Summe services vii %
held in st. Georges Memorial chnrcn
in the afternoon instead or IN 1he
evening.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-09
JAMESBURG

Mr.. and Mrs. Peter LaPlace have
received word from their son, Corpor-
al Joseph LaPlace. that he has ar
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
LONGS FOR 30 BELOW ERA
Yankee Soldier in Archangei Writes About Life al Top of WorId-Money
 Carried in Baskets.

Washington.-"Eyery now and then we are told We will be getting out of here in day or two. But the days are six months long up here"
 This comment from letter written by a doughboy in Archangel has ex- pressed to Red Cross workers what they assert is the American soldiers tempered objection to service in north Russia.
 There are 269, ,S31 inhabitants in Archangel," the letter cites, "of which POS, S,502 are dogs. Every Russian has five or six dogs It is so far north here that We hope soon the weather will moderate to 80 degrees below, and be tropical for a while. We are so deep in ice and snow that the natives have to build fires on both sides of the cows before they can milk them.
 "A kopec is worth one-tenth of a cent. There are 100 kopecs in ruble. That makes a ruble worth dime. All the money is paper, coins having gone out of circulation. A kopec is the size of 6 postage stamp A ruble is like a cigar coupon; a 25-ruble note resem- bles a porous plaster and 10O-ruble note Is about like the Declaration of Independence. A street car ride costs 60 kopecS, but most of us would rather walk than carry the money In 2 market basket"
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
D. A. R. NOTES

I believe there is soldier of the Revolutionary War buried in Lee County. In the Biographical and Historical Memories of Eastern Arkansas, Page 582, there is write up about D. N. Davis, of Haynes. II give in part:
 D. w Davis, one of the old set tiers of this county, and son of David W. Davis, who came to this state in 1929, was born in the old Dominion in 1916, and accompan- jed his father to Arkansas in the above mentioned year, settling where the younger Davis is now living This was at that time a wilderness and there were, in what is now Lee County, about forty families on the east side of the L'Augille and none on the west.
 David W. Davis, Sr., died in 1837 ' He was born in 1761 and partici. pated in the Revolutionary war He was on a warship with Capt Peterson during the principal part ot the war, and was with Gen. Wayne in the war with the Indians, be ing wounded in the shoulder in tho last engagements. His wife wa: born in TIT and died in 1861.
 Our subject, D. w. Davis, Jr. was educated in the subscription schools of Kentucky, and after com ing to Arkansas received instrue tion from his father, who was ar unusually fine scholar in his day and a fine mathematician *" @' His father held the right of pre- emption on the land which he en tered in 1886, there beng 160 acre in the original homestead. ****"
 A year ago there was sent t the Continental Library in Wash ington a list of Revolutionary Sol diers buried in Arkansas compiled by Miss Clara B. Enc of Van Bur en who is member of the boar, of the Arkansas History Commission and we'll known D. 4. R.
 If the name of David W. Davi IS on thls list then his service ha been proven and it remains for tn L'Augille Chapter to locate an, mark his grave. If Miss Enc ha never heard of David W. Davis, w will write to the Pension Bureal to find whether he received pen sion the last five years of his life (The Government did not pay pen sions for Revolutionary services til 1892 If he did receive a pensiol or if his widow claimed it, tn commissioners will send to us, ire of charge copy of his application which gives date of his enlistment leugth of service, rank of officer under whom service was rendered battles engaged in, wife's name date of marriage, etc. It is yer
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
Negroes DeplOre
 Race AgitGtiOn

Austin, Tex, Sept. 3.-Two thou sand negroes and more than 100 white people met here last night to discuss the race question which speakers declared is acute.
 The meeting, which was held at the invitation of the Executive Board of the St. Johns Missionary Negro Baptist Association, with a membership of 10000 negroes in II counties surrounding Austin was opened by the reading of resolution adopted by the Executive Board of the association. In part the resolution was:
 We discourage and emphatically declare our opposition to people of the North who do not understand conditions in the South, intermed- ding with our relationship *@%%If we are left to ourselves, we will in time adjust all our differences for the good of all concerned.
 We tender our services to local and state authorities in allaying this nervousness and uneasiness now ex. isting between the races"
 A portion of the premable says Those magazines, newspapers and peridocials published by negroe. that magnify the wrongs and min. imize the good, the negro sheet that publishes and brandishes before tho eye incendiary articles at this time IS an enemy rather than friene to the race. The magazines that urge upon the negro to force him self into political positions ex, cept where such is mutual upon tn, part of both races is laying tn, Foundation for the. race riots ant bloodshed in the South"
 Ex-Mayor Woodbridge advised tb, negroes to be prudent and contro the more radical members of thei race, for their own protection i for no other reason. The whit, man who is larger in number an, stronger in power will not tolerat, social equality, he said. A woma, outraged or a white man killed hv negro here now would cause bloody riot, continued the sneaker i Negroes here say this is tb beginning of statewide movement
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
Wrong Information Is
 GiUen to Farmers

Fayetteville, Sept. 3.-Farmers of the state have been given wrong advice concerning the plant ing of abruzzi rye thru the columns of a prominent daily of the state, according to c. V. Watson, As sistant Director of the Extension Division of the University of Ark ansas, who says, "The farmers have been advised to plant at the rate of two bushels per acre, and we fail to find authority for the rate of seeding so recommended.
 "The Extension Division has been using Abruzzie rye in its demonstration and farm practices for four years. Our experience and the concensus of opinion of farmers who have grown abruzzi rye IS that from two to three pecks per acre of this rye is am- pie seed on the average soils for a grain crop; if for soiling crop ex- clusively, heavier seeding probably four to five pecks per acre might be recommended.
 Farmers Bulletin No. 894, on page II, gives a rate of seeding which is in accord with our Arkan- sas experience. The only authority for two bushel rate of seeding is Vfor common varieties of rye and Ffor soiling purposes only. One of the great claims for abruzzi rye IS, that on account of it's vigorous growth and stooling ability, the
The courier-index., 1919-09-05

cf the H. B. Opp ranch iD Sutton and Menard counties. e.s
 Lee Brothers had for their brand the gracefuI fieur de lis. Anchors are common. but only the John W. Franks ranch in the Osage reservation boasts of the Swastika.
 A hash knife, a hat, the Masonic square, a key a turkey track, bell. crossed walking sticks, an hour glass, a tree. a boot, slipper, nag, an ample. a flower, ladders rakes, spaces, a fence, a doll baby, cotton hook, fishhook. a bottle, bridle bits, irving pan, pitchfork and even comet may be seen among the long list of brands
 "scuple" indicates that the rancn owner was a druggist before becoming cattleman Hearts, diamonds ana clubs are found among the records or brands, but the spades are those or agricultural designs.
 The tendency is toward smaller brands. Branding causes cattle to lose in weight, and the larger the brand the greater the suffering of the cattle and the greater the loss of weight, so the old-time custom of great brands, covering the whole side of COW, IS passing away. Hides are more vaiu- able today, also, and the big brands injure the leather.
 The easiest brands to read are those made with the stamp iron, that is, an iron forged into the figure or charac- ter desired. Sometimes the cowboys encounter a maverick far from head quarters, and in the exigency of the occasion an iron rod is heated and . .srunning" brand is executed.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05

probable that the Secretary of Virginia Historical Commission can give us his service. There are many ways to obtain proof.
 David W Davis, Sr., may not have been soldier of the Revolution. but we do know he was first settler. At this writing we know the name of but one white man who was here before him-that man was John Patterson about whom I hope to have something to say later.
The courier-index., 1919-09-05

quantity of seed rsqli less than the connel [ rye. X
 "The unnecessary anz per acre advised by aa| agriculturists will cot of the state a larst | supply of Abruzzi ys ' CT. Using more seed
 is needed will prevsh who wish to SOW thn taining seed.'
The courier-index., 1919-09-05
This Animal licked
 Like Dynamite Bomb

New York.-A letter carrier left for John T. Mcfarland of SIT Forty-seyenth street, Brook lyn, a special delivery package about s foot square last evening.
 Hearing ticking inside the package Mcfarland became con vinced he had received bomb. He flung the package out of a window and promptly routed out of the house his own and the family on the floor above. No ex- plosion followed.
 Mcfarland summoned Detec- tive Joseph Mahon from the Fourth avenue station. He dropped the package into a pail of water and cautiously opened 1t. Inside was q turtle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
POLITICAL CAREERS.
Theodore Roosevelt During All His
Adult Career Made Politics HIS
Profession.

One of the unusual features of
Theodore Roosevelt's career was
practically all his adult life he made
politics his profession.
Few bright and capable men like
Roosevelt enter at the age of %,
and retire only when they die or
reach their ambition. Usually poll
teal careers are undertaken only
after a man has attained some degree
of success in other callings or as a
temporary incident.
The administration of government
is one of the most dignified fields of
human effort, either for high position
or in local field. Young fellows OF
the first order of ability should be
encouraged to enter it. Yet it creates
surprise when young man of special
ability and thorough education un-
dertakes it early in life as a career.
Some people even think he is lower
ing himself
The reason for this feeling g that
political success is frequently won
only by subserviency to selfish poll
ticians and interests. This is not an
excuse relieyeing capable men from
the responsibility of taking public
office as civil service: But it does
tend to drive out of public life
great many fine young men. They
could do a world of good if like
Roosevelt they would enter what is
really the profession of government.
The clean and able administrator
should be sure of backing at the
polls on the basis of his efficient
work. He should not be made to de-
pend on cliques and bosses. Then the
word politician" would lose some
present unfortunate suggestions
And more of our best young fellows
would seek politics as profession.
Of course political salaries are and
will be low. But political conditions
should be such that any able and
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
Dantziu.

! The old fortress of Dantzig is rich
In NapOleonic lore. 1t was here that
the Man of Destiny failed to heed the
intimations of grand council OF his
Observation-Disclosures, Ney, and the rest,
that his star had passed perihelion; it
was here that he upbraided them for
having grown soft in prosperity, and
for opposing the invasion of Russia !;
and it was from Danzig that his le-
gions Jumped off, for the Inflated
Moscow campaign.
In later day Dantzig was the
background and the base for the north
ern shear of Mackensen's gray-green
pincers that took Warsaw. Look at
she map of the blunt salient that Rus
sian Poland made into the heart of
the central empires in the days before
the war, and the strategic value OF
the fortified city in the rear Of the in
yading Germans can readily be seen.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
No Dimming Yankee Spirit.

The Yankee spirit in the midst
of the carnage and travails of war
is eXemplified in a letter written
two weeks before the signing Of the
armistice to Edwing c. Brandenburg,
former president of the Washington
board of trade, by his son, Sergt.
Milton F. Brandenburg, who has
been in France a year. Dark fore
bodings flashed through the mind Of
the father as he read through the
epistle until he came to the last SEN
tence. The letter reads:
Il dislike very much to have to
write this letter to you, but the time
has come when l must ask your ad-
vice on a matter of great importance
to me, the complication of which has
caused me nights of restlessness and
many a day of anxiety.
"You will understand when l tell
you that many happy home has
been wrecked, and in fact even hui
man lives upset by similar troubles,
and that is why I haven't written you
about it before, but now I feel that
you should know at once, as it means
such a great deal to me.
Even though I am in France,
dare not communicate the state of
my mind to any of my friends here
so go to you. l know l am asking
good deal of you, but your loyalty
more than warrants it and I am go
ing to ask you and expect you to tell
me from deep down in your big
heart if you think that jeff will ever
be as tall as MUTT"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
FIyinu In Franklin's Day.

BENJAMIN Franklin, who closely re.
ported the aerial experiments he view.
ed in France in 1888, wrote:
"The Improvement in the Construc'
ton and Management of the Balloons
had already made rapid Progress /;
and one cannot say how far it may go.
"a few Months since the idea of
Witches riding thro' the Air upon a
Broomstick, and that of Philosophers
upon Bag of Smoke, would have APP
peared equally impossible and ridicu-
lous.
"These Machines must always be
subject to be driven by the Winds.
Perhaps Mechanic Art may find easy
means to give them progressive Mo
zion In a Calm, and to slant them a
little in the Wind"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
COMMUNITY MORALE.
Most People Did Not Know at First
What the Word Meant.

Much was said during the. war
about morale" Most people did not
know at first what the word meant.
Many thousands of newspaper COM
positors persistently spelled it
morals until the irate editor tore
his hair sufficiently in their imper-
turbable presence.
The United States raised by private
subscription some $20O,OO0,000
purely to promote the morale among
the soldiers. This was spent through
the Y. M. G. A, K. of c., War Camp
Community Service, etc. 1t was
recognized that a soldier with heart
and hope and good cheer in him will
fight three times as we'll as one who
is depressed.
The same need exists in every day
civic life, from seething New York
and Chicago, down to the littlest
Lonesomehurst on the prairies. AS
the soldier is better fighter if his
morale is good, so the citizen needs
morale to perform we'll his task in
industry and in the state.
There are already many organi-
cations that work for community
morale. Every church, every helpful
social center, every fraternal socitey
is one. But there are vast numbers Of
people who are not touched by these
activities. Some Of these organiza-
lions have other purposes so distinct
that they do not definitely promote
this end to any extent. There needs
to be a positive influence to help peo-
pie to self improvement, to give
them new hope and ambition.
The churches do their best to &C
complish it, and throw their doors
wide open to all. But differences in
religious beliefs, and the opposition
Of many people to religious in
fuence, prevent the church influence
from becoming universal. What
every neighborhood needs is morale
center where every citizen can find
something that he can understand,
and that he can feel somehow reach
es out to his need.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
49, -. ~ " y -
Coal Family Numbers 200.

Ammonia, aspirin, carboiic acid. 10.
digo, oil of wintergreen, sacchadn,
toilet water-this isn't druggists
catalogue. It's just the first names
Of q ieH Of the members Of the coal
tar family. W.
/ The chemical department Of Bar
reff & Co., New York, has just pre-.
scented to the American Museum Of
Natural History chart showing this
family tree. More than two hundred
direct descendants of Old King Coal
are indicated on the chart, and, each
In its proper place. the descendants
are represented by typical specimens.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
man who can afford it
should find the calling attractive.
THOROUGH WORK
How a DEBORAH Citizen Found Free
dom From kidney Troubles.

If you suffer from back2che--
From urinary disorders
Any durable disease of the kidneys,
Use a tested kidney remedy.
Doan's kidney Pills have been
tested by thousands.
DEBORAH people testify.
, Can you ask more convincing
proof of merit?
Chas. o. Moore, w! Water St., De-
corah, says: "At times l have severe
pains across my kidneys and can
hardly bend over to put on my shoes.
My kidneys act irregularly and Of
ten my ankles swell. / always use
Doan's Kidney Pills, procured from
Wangler's Pharmacy at such times
and they fix me up in quick order. /
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
ARMY'S FIGHT ON DIS.
EASE.
Doctor Says Civil Authorities Can
Obtain Same Success if They
Wish.


Cedar Rapids, lathe death rate
of Cedar Rapids has been higher
than that of the armies of the United
States since the war began. DR.. Will
liam A. Evans, noted health special
ist, declared in an address given here
and then he went on to say that the
military authorities have afforded an
example of sanitation and treatment
of public health that might we'll be
emulated by civil authorities. Doctor
Evans touched on the matter of in
fuenza and the vast toll of deaths it
has taken in the country.
-Four hundred thousand deaths
of influenza and less than $4,000
Americans killed in the war, is the
record of this country since the in
fiuenza germ was brought to Boston
harbor in August, 1915" he said,
at is the fault of the people of the
United States. Public sentiment must
be crystalized and it must force the
accomplishment of public health
corrections"
Doctor Evans declared that every
community should have a public
health officer who would devote his
entire time in the interest of public
health. He spoke of the fly pest in
America and the toll of life it had
taken. He called attention to the
fact that the city of Havana, Cuba is
fyless and declared that if the health
authorities of that city were able to
drive the fly from their midst other
cities certainly should be able to ac-
complish the same ends. He said
military rule in Havana had been
able to clean up the city and now the
civic authorities keep it clean.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
Wood in Demand.

The unique timber of Turkey and a
few other localities--the fine, hard
grained, compact lockwood so much
priced for engravings, rules, etc., is
move so scarce that the forest products
laboratory in Wisconsin is seeking
American substitutes. Only the Florida
lockwood and the wahoo of Arkansas
and other parts of the South approach
nearly. Other hardwoOds suitable for
some Of the coarser uses include mas
tic, torchwOod, witch hazel, great rho
dodendron, mountain laurel, thornap-
pie and yellow buckeye. T.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
he Brute.

POpperton-"The wife has gone
shopping and left me in charge of the
baby, and I'm blest if I know how to
keep the beggar quiet" Grimshaw
(after critically regarding the bowling
tuvenile)-'I should think you could
easily keep him quiet, both in a vocal
and physical way, by gagging him care
fully, tying his hands behind his back,
binding his feet together, mailing his
clothes to the floor, and then admins
tering chloroform to him."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30
coeonut Palm the Tropical Cow.

Copra consists of the dried meats
Of coconuts. 1t contains from so to
63 per cent Of oil.
In India. Cochin China, the South
Sea islands and> elsewhere the oil has
been used as food since the dawn Of
history, for the fats contained in II
are singularly like the milk fats Of
mammals in most respects. 1t Is al.
ready in wide use in this country as
nut margarine" which is coconut oil
into which some butter has been melt
ed and the whole churned with skim
milk-that is, milk with the fats re-
moved-and worked as ordinary but
ter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-30

recommend Doan's at every oppor-
'tunity.
Price COO at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
DOan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Moore had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
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