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Evening journal., 1919-09-17
Snch WAS Life

What is believed TO he the body OF a
prehistoric man. - feet In length, was
found buried in Jackson, Mich.
Evening journal., 1919-09-17
For Thai Uiob Cost Of Shoes.

4 Missouri blacksmith has the opln-
ion that after several generations OF
barefoottlng the human race would have
feet so hardened that cold could not
penetrate and thin steel soles might
be tackled on.
Evening journal., 1919-09-17

Andre J. MacGirk worked ~ years
without taking vacation, and he thus
was able TO save enough money so mis-
widow didn't owe cent after she had
settled for his funeral.
Evening journal., 1919-09-17
This is Another Way to Get aIvacaiiOa

InlS Is AnOthcf way 10 bel ~ NdtdliOh.
When a man finds something good
his first thought is 10 get 10 the house
tops and yell the glad news 20 HE
neighbors. and that explains this.
I have been wanting a vacation.
felt the need OF it But / couldn't
think OF a reasonable excuse. The eX-
cuses I thought OF seemed reasonable
enough 20 me. but each one Of them
got cold feet when | grOOmed him for
presentation TO the boss.
And then Providence interviewed. Al
ways trust Providence. A hitherto
meek and lowly appendix reared up on
its hind legs and started something, and
here I am in the hospital having the
time Of my life.
The appendix is goine. Peace 10 its
ashes. BY the way, have always won
dered II it wasn't an appendix instead
OF a rib that formed the frame work
for Eve. Let an appendix have its own
way one time. and there is never any
more peace on the premises. still, 1t
may have been a rib.
But what started 10 say is this: ]
have infinite leisure. books, papers,
flowers two wonderfully kind nurses,
a handy colored boy named John. an
oak tree that mods at my window and
invites an infinite variety OF birds TO
call around.
Believe me. this IS the life.
IF you are planning a late vacation.
lake no thought Of the mountains or
The sea. Consider your appendix. You
can swap it for two weeks Of luxurious
idleness. and stay within reach OF Paris
Mountain water. Mack.
Evening journal., 1919-09-17

JEFF Davis. the hobo king. SAYS it
would be fine idea If everybody took
a months vacation every year and
spent that month tramping, picking up
a living as one goes along. Mebby so,
but we'll lock our pantry window and
nail up the chicken house door wpen
they come tramping, picking along.
Evening journal., 1919-09-17
SOCH U
E[I1]:::[[]lF{ .]a&;
Did You Tell Us That the British Have
No Sense of Humor?

WITNESS (at Bangor County Court :;
My children will assist her.
JUDGE: Well. and who is your sis
ter?
WITNESS: I said my children would
assist her.-London Chronicle.
The lumber cut OF the United states
last year was 81 $500. $4,000 feet, whlch
about equals the political platform
plsnks which will be sawed between
now and the Tuesday after the first
Monday, November, 1920.
Evening journal., 1919-09-17

ed him and bit him. Durango. rescued
and in hospital. says You out TO see
the sealion, though"
Paris womon's short skirts and bare
legs are downright wicked" exclaimed
Mrs. w b. Arnold. of Arkadelphia. Ark,
arriving in New York. She went TO
France 10 fetch home" her son, a sec
ond lieutenant.
Over-rlpe straw hats are legitimate
prey ruled the New York night court,
refusing TO, prosecute prankstcrs who
smashed Moses Gardner's summer I'D.
"Straw hats called IN? Step down"
ruled the court.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-10-02
$4,000
Soldiers Relief Commissions

Soldiers Relief Commissioner.
The Board at this time authorized
and directed the Auditor to issue
warrant on the General Fund to F. F.
Latta in amount of $500 on account
Of warrant No. 2245 which was lost.
Paid by warrant No. 1857.
Also directed the Auditor to issue
warrant on the General Fund to A.
M. Rolph in amount of $500 on ac-
count of warrant No. 1921 which was
lost. Paid by warrant No. 1858. Also
a warrant on the Poor Fund for $500
on account of lost warrant No. 824.
Paid by warrant No. 865.
On motion the Board adjourned to
meet September 10, 1919.
Read and approved this oath day of
September, 1919.
J. E. VanScoy, Chairman.
Attest: H. B. Owens, Auditor.
Logan, Iowa, September 10, 1919.
The Board of Supervisors of Har-
rison County, Iowa, met in regular
adjourned session with all members
present.
This being the date set for hearing
on the report of the commissioners to
assess benefits and to apportion the
costs of construction. fees and dam
ages, in the Grimes Drainage Dis
trict, the Board took up the matter
and after hearing the objections to
the assessment and apportionment
continued all matters relative to the
above, until September "a, 1919.
BOYER SUB.
This date also being the date set
for receiving bids for the construc-
tion of improvements in Section B OF
Section 1, in Boyer Sub Drainage
District, the following bids were re.
ceived, each accompanied with certi.
fled check for 10 per cent of tn, esti.
mate.
S. o. Briggs & Son. Omaha, Neb.
| 27R cents per cubic yard.
M. E. Mills, Logan, Iowa, 311l
cents per cubic yard.
After consideration it was moved
by Heath, seconded by Erixon, that
the contract for construction Of i'm.
provements above described, be let tc
the low bidder, S. O. Bribbs & Son, Of
Omaha, Nebraska, at their bid Of
| 27R cents per cubic yard.
Roll Call: Heath, yes; Erixon, yes;
VanScoy, yes.
On motion the Board adjourned tc
meet September "a, 1919.
Read and approved this Oath day
Of September, 1919.
]. E. Vanscoy, Chairman.
Attest: H. B. Owens, Auditor.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-10-02
BOARD PROCEEDINGS.

Logan, Iowa, September IL, 1919.
The Board of Supervisors of Har-
rison County, Iowa, met in regular
adjourned session with Supervisors
Heath and VanScoy present.
! This being the date set for hearing
in the matter of special assessment
of benefits in the Spiegel Drainage
District, on the report of the commits
sioners, and this matter coming on,
the Board of Supervisors after hear
ing the objections entered and being
fully advised in the premises, over
ruled all objections and approved and
adopted the report of the commits
sioners, with certain notifications,
and levied against the tracts of land
and the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway Company, included in the
District, the sum of $3152.27, in con-
formity with the report, as modified,
of the commissioners, and directed
the Auditor to enter the same on the
tax list and to certify the same to the
Treasurer for collection. (See Drain
age Record No. 8, September 10,
1919
The following reports were APP
proved by the Board of Supervisors:
SOLDIERS RELIEF COMMISSION
REPORTS.
Logan, Iowa, September 8, 1919.
To the Honorable Board of Supervis-
ors of Harrison County, Iowa.
Gentlemen:
Herewith my report as Soldiers
.,clief Commissioner for the year end
ing August 81. 1919. as fillows:
Balance on hand September
LIST, 1918 ---------
Received from Soldiers Re-
lief Fund -----$1 $4,000
Total Overdraft ------- 22.00
Total -$172. 90
Disbursed as per vouch-
ers attached $172 90
2. West,
Soldiers Relief Commissioner.
Logan, Iowa, September 8, 1919.
To the Honorable Board of Supervis-
ors of Harrison County, Iowa.
Gentlemen:
Herewith my. report as Soldiers
Relief Commissioner for the year end
ing August 31st, 1919, as follows:
Balance on hand Sept. 1,
1918 1892
Received from Soldiers Re-
lief Fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10000
Discussed as per vouchers 1910
Balance on hand Sept. !, 1919 2l92
Total $122.92
Balance Sept. 1, 1919-------$ 21.92
C. N. Caldwell,
Soldiers Relief Commissioner.
Logan, Iowa, September 8, 1919.
70 the Honorable Board of Supervis-
ors of Harrison County, Iowa.
Gentlemen:
Herewith my report as Soldiers
Relief Commissioner for the year end
ing August 81, 1919, as follows:
Balance on hand Sept. 1, 1888 1.18
Received from Soldiers Relief
Fund 100. 90
| Overdraft 6.82
Total ------------------$1OS. 90
| Disbursed as per vouchers
M
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-10-02
Old Chinese Industry,

Experts differ as to how long ago
The Chinese began to make rugs.
There are some who think it is one
OF the native arts Of China and others
maintain that 1t is acquired. Never
theless, it is safe to say that, like the
other arts of the Flowery Republic.
Chinese rugmaking is Of very great
antiquity.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25
CONNECTICUT IS
 ANGRY AT THE
 HUN CRUELTIES

Hartford, Nov. 24-Henry Nor genthau, the late Ambassador to Fur key, moved more than 250 women from all parts of the state to tears of indignation, of sympathy and of anger as he recited the story of the German and Turkish atrocities against the helpless Christian peo- ples of the Near East, and graphi- cany pictured the desperate plight of the few adults left living and the more than 3O0,000 orphaned children whose only hope is the great land they know as America.
 As he told of the people dying so fast that it was impossible for the living to bear them, and every death one of starvation; of how little chill dren barely able to lisp but two words Bread" and "Anerica." pitt fully putting forth their appeal to every stranger soft sobs ran through the room and dainty handkercaiefs were frankly used. The story of tiny ; tots painfully searching through the earth for grubs and roots to eat, or hunting about newly arrived freight and passenger cars for drops from tallow candles and rancid fat from fabrication boxes. would have been unbelievable except from the lips of one who, like MT. Morgenthau, has seen and knows.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25
NO FIESTAS TO
 BE HELD OVER
 MEXICAN GRAVES

Mexica City, Nov. 25.-A new mu-. nicipal law forbids Mexicans to hold
 fiestas in cemeteries over the graves of their grandmothers or other rela- tives, as has been the annual practice of the poorer people on All Souls Day. This action has been taken at the request of the church authorities.
 For years one of the most popular holidays in the long calender of such days in Mexico has been All Souls Day which by regulation of the Catholic church is dedicated to the dead and as such should be observed as a solemn occasion. The poor class of native, however, had turned it into a day of hilaritv and general rejnin-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25
THE ROWLAND DRY GOODS co.

MT. Morgenthau frankly told the women that while many of the things he told them were almost un- believable, there were countless more things he could tell them, except that they were too vile to be spoken of, even in the name of charity, and others so unspeakably inhuman that he would hardly be believed even though he did speak from personal knowledge and not from hearsay.
 In clear cut statement the late Ann bassador made plain to his audience the fact that the fate of these little children and their future is not a world problem, but distinctly and purely an American one. He pointed out that from the stanpoint of edu- cation the facilities are reasonably ample, or can be made so. It is the pressing problem of food and clothes that must be solved. There is no food in these stricken lands and there is practically no food in any other land save America
 Food is the one factor that will solve the desperate situation of Ar 1nenia, Syria and Palestine today and that food must come solely from America for another year at least. So, too, must come the money to buy it, for generous and charitable as are the other nations of the Allied world, they cannot possibly give of money, in a measurable way, until their own economic problems are more stable. America must save these little chill dren if they are saved, and in the saving of them America will be doing a generously selfish thing in that these stricken children will build up an industrial and prolific race in the stricken lands that will ever rernem- Der it's debt to the great land of the setting Sun
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25

find a happy group drinking pulque and singing songs over the grave of some dear and deceased relative.
 The merry-making was stopped this year by order of the city council.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25
As Influenza

Is an Exaggerated form of Grip, LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE TABLETS should be in larger doses than is pre.s--s+s-S -rr ordinary Grip A good plan is .-ot to wait un- til you are sick, but PREVENT TT by taking LAXATIVE PROMO QUI- NINE Tablets in tinaA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25

ONLY a day and W Thanksgiving Day will be here! Everybody is looking forward to a turkey feast and other good things.
 Good clothes play an important part on the occasion, too. It's one of the ''Dress Up'' days of the season. And toward this end we have provided for the men and young men of this community. The suits and the overcoats they want are here-plenty; all are demon strative of the style refinements
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25

Edifying at the army bargain sales to watch the war slackers to fight for the clothes he was afraid to wear Wall Street Journal
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25
me Tickle Makes You Cough

HAYES' HEALING HONEY Stops the Tickle Heals the Throat and Cures the Cough. 35c. A free box of GROVES OPEN -TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds Head Colds and CrnrD with every bottle.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-25
:Ihanksgiv
---the clothes ---the tZGrkeU

and the quality which distin- guish clothes of the better kind Made by the House of Kuppen- heimer; rich fabrics, new pat terms; variety for every pref erence.
 Of course, we can't SUD- ply the turkey. We're not in the turkey business. But when you consider the economy in wearing Kuppenheime CT Clothes, you save about enough to pay for a turkey. Good clothes wear long; you save money because you don't need to buy SO often.
Evening star., 1919-12-05

The signed cards will be turned in on
Sunday at the evening service.
Pledges are to be made for a period
of three years. although the amount
pledged can later be diminished or
raised by the signer. The sum being
sought is sufficient to cover all activ-
tiles of the church and will do away
with the minor campaigns now at
tending the church year. The amount
asked from the Episcopalians of the
nation is s24.00O,00O.
In the churches of st. John, St.
Thomas and the Church Of the Epiph-
any, where the pledge cards have
been mailed out to the membership,
there will be special services, bearing
upon the nationwide campaign. at
the regular church hour Sunday
morning. Sunday afternoon will be
given over to a visit to the church
members by the appointed canvassers
Of these churches. There will be a
luncheon of the canvassers at 1
o'clock in the parish house at the
Church of the Epiphany preceding the
active canvass on Sunday.
Henry P. Blair, chairman Of the can
vass board of st. Marks Church. will
address the body Of workers at a
Evening star., 1919-12-05
SUGGEST CL0TURE CHANGES.
Two Resolutions introduced in
Senate to Amend Rules,

Two resolutions providing for
changes in Senate cloture rules were
introduced yesterday and referred to
committee. One. by Senator Curtis,
republican, Kansas, would enable the
Senate to invoke cloture by major
ity instead of by two-thirds vote, as
required now.
The other. by Senator Kellogg, re-
publican, Minnesota, would limit de-
bate on a bill to one hour for each
senator after six hours general de-
hate.
Evening star., 1919-12-05
EUGENE VISITS PARIS.
Former Empress Windows Over
look Spot of Personal Significance.

PARIS, December 4 (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-Former Empress Eu-
genie is once more visiting Paris.
travelling as usual under the name
of Countess de Pierrefonds. After
consulting a specialist as to her eyes
she will go to her villa at Cap Mar
tin for the winter.
The windows of her apartment look
out on the Tuilleries Gardens, the site
of her palace where she played such a
brilliant role and from which she es-
capped nearly fifty years ago wh n
the empire fell.
Evening star., 1919-12-05
MORE ROOM ASKED
BY PUBLIC PRINTER
Plea in Annual Report for Ad-
dition to Facilities, Due to
Increased Work.

Most earnest recommendation" Is
made by Cornelius Ford, the public
printer, in his annual report that Con-
gress make at once an appropriation
sufficient to erect one section of a new
building for the esta abliShment, extend
ing from Jackson alley to H street
and running west sixty feet, and that
as soon as this is finished another
section be erected. He says, that the
work at the government printing Of
flee has been handicapped for years
and that under new act of Congress
there will be greatly increased
amount of work placed on the big
printery.
An appropriation Of 100000 for the
purchase of machinery, double the
present allowance. is also urged in
the interests of economy and eff
cheney. Another appropriation of 500,
600 for the installation of the Offset
process to give better service and
keep down the costs is also strongly
recommended by Mr.. Ford
Retirement System Urged.
Emphasis is again laid by Mr.. Ford
on the necessity for congressional ac-
tion for the retirement of aged emu
ployes Of the government printing Of
flee. He says:
THE number of persons in this office
who have reached old age and are no
longer able to give to the government
the proper service is increasing. There
is no disputing the fact that economy
demands the aged employees be retired
and younger persons be put in their
places. /, therefore, again invite the
attention of Congress to the need of
legislation providing for the retire
Inent of such persons"
Plea for Increased Salaries.
Earnest plea for increases in sala-
fles for supervisors and clerical help
whose salaries were fixed by law
years ago and who are now suffering
from the decreased purchasing power
OF the dollar Is also made by Mr.. Ford,
saying:
The salaries of many clerks and su-
pervisory officials are fixed by law.
and in some of the most important
ones no change has been made for
is responsible and trying; the fact
that so many persons are leaving the
service and new ones taking their
places means the constant supervision
and training of inexperienced employees,
and the volume of work for which
they are held responsible, has in
creased a hundredfold. The low SAL
aries set for clerical work prevents
many positions provided by law be-
ing filed and some of that work
must be done by just any one we can
find, and not always satisfactorily. A
higher rate should be set for clerical
and supervisory work. and while it is
true that 1 have jurisdiction in some
cases. the fact remains that the great
Evening star., 1919-12-05
TEAMS
TO CANVASS CITY
Washington Diocese Allot-
ment Is s203, ,O0O-PIedge
Cards Go Out Tonight.

Pledge cards for the nation-wid
campaign of the Episcopal Church. in
which effort the Washington diocese
allotment is $2O3,O00. will be given
out in nearly all churches of the dio-
cese tonight. Canvassers will be in
structed as to their districts.
Tomorrow will be given over to the
active canvass of the complete men,
bership of the Washington diocese.
Evening star., 1919-12-05
|CZECHOSLOVAKS GOING
TO HUNGARIAN Frontier

COPENHAGEN. December 5.-The
Czechoslovakian government has or
dered the mobilization of three mill
tary classes, says dispatch from vi
emma to the National Tidende here.
Vienna newspapers say six regiments
have left for the border. A Prague
dispatch says that twenty-one divi-
sions of Czechoslovaks are advancing
toward the Hungarian frontier.
Czechoslovakia apparently has been
excited by the reported monarch;al
developments in Hungary following
the evacuation of Budapest by the
Rumanians, and the aggressiveness
reported displayed recently by Hun
garian frontier forces. Recent ad
vices from Prague announced an at
tack by a Hungarian frontier detach-
ment on Czechoslovak troops. The
Hungarians were Ultimately driven
back across the border, It was stated
Evening star., 1919-12-05

special meeting to be held in the
church this evening. There will be
luncheon in the parish hall on Sunday
before the canvassing body begins its
effort of calling upon the church men,
bership.
Evening star., 1919-12-05
majority must look to Congress for

Modern Boilers Needed.
A separate appropriation Of $150, 900
to provide four new 500-horsepower
boilers to modernize the plant is
among a number of recommendations
for improvement of the service.
Evening star., 1919-12-05

Very Stylish Coats for the
larger girls, E to IA. Corduroys,
kerseys, velvets and other ma
terials; velvet, plush and self
material collars. All are
marked up to $1o75.... $3.50
Evening star., 1919-12-05

Dubbelbilt M a ackin ws in
the new plaid m a ckinaw
cloth. Sizes 10 to Is years
Warm and serv- Go 7ss
;ceahle ....... y IL./O
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-01-02
POLISH ARMY ON
ITS WAY TO BERLIN
Thirty Thousand Soldiers of Resur-
rected Nation Reported To Be
Marching To Take Hun Capital

tCopenhagen, Jan. RLOn the heels
OF report that Polish army of 80
600 men is marching on Berlin and
has already entered Frankfort on the
Oder, so miles east of Berlin and oc-
cupied Beuthen in Prussian Silesia
and Bomberg in the province of Pos
en-, comes an apparent confirmation
from Berlin that events in Posen are
assuming grave character. A large
part Of the provinces of that state,
are in the hands of the Poles, who
crossed the frontier at Skalmierce, 62
miles northwest of Breslau. It adds
that the German troops there must
retreat in the face of superior num-
bers- 1t is also reported that the
Polish government at Warsaw has or
dered the mobilization of all Poles.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-01-02
Berea Oil Fields May Rival
Famous Big Sinking Section
Big Oil Company From Deep Sands Ct Wyom-
ing To Make Thorough Test-Wll Have
Branch Office In Richmond.

Madison county has become as rich
an oil producing field as the far-fam-
ed Big Sinking section Of Lee county.
Oil experts and geologists are con-
vinced that there is a lot of oil in the
Berea section, in the southern end of
this county, and they are going TO go
after it. These men know the oil
game, too, for they are from the deep
pools of Wyoming and the west and
understand conditions which are re-
quisite to success in the oil business.
That they have confidence to come
here and give the Berea field thor
ough try-out speaks volumes for the
possibilities of that section.
For several weeks past the Domes-
tic Oil 4, Refining Company, of Cas-
per, Wyoming, have had men investi-
eating the oil situation throughout
various sections of this state and they
have finally decided to open up the
Berea oil fields where It is expected
they will bring in some good wells. 1t
has been known for some time that
the Berea field gave promise of being
one of Kentucky's good oil producers.
Several wells have already been drill
ed to the first sand in this section and
while these wells have an estimated
settled production of from five to fif-
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-01-02
Troop Ship Still Stranded

New York, Jan. 2-Constant pound
ing of waves against the American
transport Northern Pacific. stranded
on Fire Island since Wednesday, has
-un qoDsq no Lsq5Tq dIqs sQ4 usAIp
til now it is only $50 yards from
shore. Heavy seas sweeping over
her are making it inadvisable as long
as these conditions continue, to re-
move the 5000 troops, civilians and
navy crew who sailed on her from
France Christmas.
This afternoon the wind shifted and
the work Of taking those on the trans
port off began. The men were trans
ferred in small boats both to rescuing
vessels md to the shore where ambu-
lances and nurses awaited them.