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Baptist Church
Services will be held as follows Sun

Services will be held as follows Sun
day, Feb. o:
Sunday school at 10 200 a. M
Morning service at II 100 a. M. Sub
ject Sons of Liberty
All members and friends are urged
to be present at this service
Prayer and praise service in the af-
ternOOn at 3 100 O'Clock.
Young Peoples Meeting at 6 80 p m.
An interesting meeting is planned.
Sunday evening this church will
unite in community observance of
Roosevelt memorial Sunday.
Beginning Tuesday night, Feb. II.
Pastor O'Beirne will preach series of
sermons. The subject will be 1.-THE
Challenge of Great Need
Meetings each night at S 200 o'clock.
You are invited to attend all of these
services.
REV. c. f. O'BEIRNE,
Pastor
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TOWN OF WILLARD
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
from camp.
Mrs Fred Wager is on the sick list
this week.
Miss Faye Pierce arrived home last
Wednesday from Minnesota.
Ralph Arnold left last Monday fO1
Eau Claire to attend the short course
|. NJ Mcfarland and family have all
been sick with the influenza and Mrs
Mcfarland is dangerously i'll with
pneumonia. Three of her daughters
are here from Iowa Neighbors and
friends of the McFarland's are anX-
iOusly hoping for her recovery.
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l.. E. Sanders, who has been EN-.
ployed as bOokkeeper at r a | Is
Garage for some time, left Monday fol
Miles City. and Emigrant. Mont.
Union memorial services will be held
in the Methodist Episcopal church
Sunday evening at Z 40 in cOmmemOra-
ton of Washington, Lincoln and in
honor of Roosevelt There will be
speaking. singing of patriotic songs
and special numbers. You are in
vited.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-07
FAIRVIEW
COrrespOndence

Special Correspondence
Miss Ruth Rodgers visited at the
Sawyer home last Sunday.
Ladysmith callers this week were
Mrs. S. Butler, Fred Strahm and G. j.
Grassl.
Misses Ruth Tilley and Edna Delhi
attended the teachers meeting at
Bruce last Saturday.
John Moore Jr., Charles and Henry
Nichols came home from camp and
spent Sunday at their homes here.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-02-07
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Applications for marriage licenses
were made by the following TO the
county clerk this week:
Lewis E. Wilson, Hayward and
Bessie Hilliker, Ladysmith. Feb. 3.
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DAILY MARKET REPORT

Minneapolis Grain.
Minneapolis, Feb. 5.-Oats, Febru-
airy, SEC; May, 57Bc. Rye, February,
$1.43A; May, $1.42. Barley, choice.
$4,000 Corn. No white, $1.260
1928; No. yellow, S1.29@1.31.
Duluth Flax.
Duluth, Feb. 5.-Flaxseed, February,
1888; May, 1895.
Chicago Grain.
Chicago, Feb. s. = Corn, March,
s1.261s; May, s1.21; July, s116M.
Oats, March, 5SBc; May, 5S1Ac; July,
56Ac.
South ST. Paul Live Stock.
South ST. Paul, Feb. 5. - Estimated
receipts at the Union, Stock Yards:
Cattle, 1900; calves, 200; hogs, $500;
sheep, 600; horses, 60; cars, 205.
Steers, $8@1475; cows, 5000; calves,
s7@13; hogs, $16.90@17; sheep and
lambs, $7.50@15.50.
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SOLDIERS IN GERMANY
ANXIOUS TO RETURN
HOmesicE To Get Back To States Now
That GlamOr of War
is Over


reside near Tony, have just received
the following letter from their nephew
Wilfred Baribeau, now with the Amer
lean army of occupation in Germany
from which it is evident that the sol
dicrs are getting very homesick for the
Z. S. A., especially now that the eX-
element and adventure of war are
gone:
Oberlieber, Germany
Jan. 6, 1919.
Dear Aunt and Uncle -
AS / have not heard from you for a
long time. thought | would write and
find out what is the matter | am
still in Germany; have been here in
this place almost a month and am sick
and tired of it. Would sooner be in
France where / could talk to the peo
pie and enjoy myself a little. All we
go to the Y NJ. c. \. or go to bed. |
find it very lonesome here.
| have been overseas one year now
but it seems longer to me. All | think
of. now that the war is over. is when |
am going home We are situated about
) miles east of the Rhine river. This
is a very pretty country and is called
Rhenish-prussia. There is lots of
pretty scenery along the Rhine river.
This is very billy country The eli
mate here is mOderate-it hasn't
frozen up yet The farmers are still
blowing and the grass is still green so
you see it isn't very cold. / suppose
that it is quite cold back there. They
don't have very cold weather here, the
people say. 1t showed little Christ
mas eve. but it melted right away.
| guess it will take quite while be-
fore everything is settled up so Uncle
Sam can take all his troops back. OF
course. some of them will go back, but
I guess we are elected to see it through
to a finish-that's my luck every time.
We may not be back until the middle
of next summer and maybe not then.
Although we have it a whole lot easier
now. I tell you it was fierce during the
big battles We endured lots of mis-
cry and hardships but l came out of it
safe and sound, so far
Well give my best regards to all the
family circle and to all who inquire
about me. / will close, hoping to hear
from you, or see you all soon. With
best wishes for happy and prosper
Gus year in 1919, remain as ever your
loving nephew,
PVT WTJFRED BARIREATT
G. e.. 10th Engineers. Am. f. f.,
France. A. T. 0. 1874
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-22
CHAPTER ~.

The hero Of the fete. with the dark
eyed little beauty upon his arm.
reached the top Of the second flight Of
stairs; and here. beyond a spacious
landing, where two proud-like darkies
tended a crystalline punch bowl, four
wide archways in a rose-vine lattice
framed gliding silhouettes Of walters.
already smoothly at 1t to the castanets
Of LA Paloma." Old John Minafer.
evidently surfeited, was In the act Of
leaving these delights escorted by q
middle-aged man Of commonplace ap-
pearance. The escort had a dry, lined
face upon which. not ornamentally
but as matter Of course. there grew
a business mans short mustache; and
his thin neck showed an Adams apple,
but not conspicuously. for there was
nothing conspicuous about him. Bald
ish, dim, quiet, he was an unnotice-
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ably, as to mutter, "Rifrah!" Pos
sibly he would have shouted 1t; and
certainly most people believed story
that went round the town Just after
Mrs. Amberson's funeral. when Geor-
gle was eleven. Georgie was reported
to have differed with the undertaken
about the seating of the family; his
indignant voice had become audible:
"Well, who Is the most important per-
son at my own grendmothers fu-
neral7" And later he had projected
his head from the window Of the fore
most mourners' carriage, as the under
taker happened to pass
"Riffraffl"
There were people-grown people
they were-who expressed themselves
longingly: they did hope to live to see
the day, they said, when that boy
would get his come-upanceI (They
used that honest word, SO much bet
ter than deserts" and not until many
years later 70 be more clumsily rem
dered as "what is coming to him.C
Something was bound to take him
down some day, and they only wanted
to be thereI But Georgie heard moth
ing Of this, and the yearners for his
taking down went unsatished. while
their yearning grew the greater as the
happy day OF fulhllment was longer
and longer postponed.
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ward the Seventh beard. Amelia. Ike
wise full-bodied, showed glitterinS
blond hair exuberantly dressed; .
pink, fat face cold under q white-hot
tiara; a solid. cold bosom under q
white-hot necklace; great. cold, gloved
arms, and the rest of her beautifully
upholstered. As George ascended the
broad stairway they were precisely
the aunt and uncle he was most
pleased to point out to a girl from out
of town. as his appurtenances in the
way Of relatives. At sight Of them
the grandeur of the Anderson family
was instantly conspicuous as a perma-
nent thing: 1t was impossible to doubt
that the Ambersons were intrenched.
in their nobility and riches. behind
polished and glittering barriers which
were as solid as they were brilliant.
and would last.
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Seemed to Float
able part of this festival, and although
there were dozen or more middle
aged men present. not casually to be
distinguished from him in general as
pect, he was probably the last person
in the big house at whom a strange,
would have glanced twice. It did not
enter Georges mind to mention to
Miss Morgan that this was his father
or to say anything whatever about
him.
Mr.. Minafer shook his sons hand
unobtrusively In passing.
'I'll take Uncle John home," he
said In a low voice. '"Then I guess
I'll go on home myself-Pm not
great hand at parties, you know
Good night, George"
George murmured a friendly enough
good night without pausing. Ordt
narily he was not ashamed Of the Min
afers; he seldom thought about them
at all, for he belonged, as most Amer
lean children do. to the mothers fam
ily-but he was anxious not to linger
with Miss Morgan In the vicinity OF
old John, whom he felt to be dis
grace. .
He pushed brusquely through the
fringe Of calculating youths who were
gathered In the arches, watching for
chances to dance only with girls whd
would soon be taken off their hands.
and led his stranger lady out upon the
floor. They caught the time Instantly
and were away in the waltz.
George danced well, and Miss Nor.
gan seemed to float as part of the mu.
sic, the very dove Itself Of LA Palo-
ma" George became conscious OF
strange feelings within him: an exal.
tation of soul, tender but indefinite,
and seemingly located In the upper
part of his diaphragm.
The stopping of the music cana
upon him like the waking to an alarm
clock; for instantly six or seven Of
the calculating persons about the en-
tryways bore down upon Miss Morgan
to secure dances. George had to do
with one already established as a
belle, 1t seemed.
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him, would they? He doesn't even
know you, does he, mammaT
"That hasn't anything to do with it."
Eyes. 1t hasl I mean: none Of the
ANDERSON family go to see him, and
they never have him come In their
house; they wouldn't ask him to. and
prob'ly wouldn't even let him."
"That isn't what we're talking
about"
II bet," said George emphatically.
II bet If he wanted to see any Of 'em.
he'd haf to go around to the side
doori"
"No, dear. they"
Eyes, they would, mamma! SO what
does it matter II I say somep'm' to
him he didn't Nke7 That kind O.
people. don't see why you can't say
anything you want to to EMP
"No. George. And you haven't an
swered me whether you said that
dreadful thing he says you did,"
"Well-" said Georgie. Anyway,
he said somep'm' to me that made me
mad" And upon this point he offered
no further details; he would not ex-
plain to his mother that what had
made him mad" was Mr.. Smiths
hasty condemnation Of herself: "Your
mother ought to be ashamed" and
"a woman that let's a bad boy like
you" Georgie did not even con-
slider excusing himself by quoting
these insolences.
Isabel stroked his head. "They
were terrible words for you to use,
dear. From his letter he doesn't seem
very tactful person, but
"He's just riffraff," said Georgie.
you mustn't say So" his mother
gently agreed. "Where did you learn
those bad words he speaks Of? Where
did you hear anyone use them?"
"Well, I've heard 'em serreval
places. I guess Uncle George Amber
/; son was the first ever heard say 'em.
Uncle George Anderson said 'em to
papa once. Papa didn't like it. but
Uncle George was just laughin' at
papa, an then he said 'em while he
was laughin.'"
"That was wrong of him." she said,
but almost instinctively he detected
was Isabel's great falling that what
ever an Anderson did seemed right to
her, especially If the ANDERSON was
either her brother George or her son
George. "You must promise me-" she
said feebly, never to use those bad
words again."
II promise not to-" he said prompt
ly-and he whispered an immediate
codicil under his breath: "Unless get
mad at somebodyl' This satisfied a
code according to which, in his own
sincere belief, he never told lies.
That's a good boy" she said, and
he ran out to the yard, his punishment
over.
AS an ANDERSON he was already a
public character, and the story Of his
adventure in the Rev. Malloch Smiths
front yard became town topic. Many
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R%--E-

people glanced at him with great dis
taste thereafter, when they chanced
to encounter him, which meant moth
ing to George, because he innoeently
believed most grown people to be nee
essarily cross looking as normal phe-
nomenon resulting from the adult
state; and he failed to comprehend
that the distasteful glances had any
personal bearing upon himself. If he
had perceived such bearing he would
have been affected only so far, prob
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"0ld times starting all
over againI My Lord"
CTo BE CoNTINUEDl
Ono for Mamma.

One for Mamma.
sent my small daughter into the
front room to do some busting. Not
hearing her around. stepped quietly
into the room and found her sitting
idly by the window with her work
unfinished. said to her: Don't
you know Satan fnds work for idle
hands to dor She quickly replied:
"He must be something Like you
Exchange.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-22
DARk-Eveo LITTLE BEAUTY OF NINETEEN.

synopsisMaJor a
his upnrsng and hs youthful accomplishments mischief
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-20
OU|MET MEETS
CHICK EVANS
IN BIC CLASH

PITTSBURGH. August l9.-Charles
(Chick) Evans. Jr. OF Chicago. ana
Francis Ouimct. Of Boston, conceded 10
be the two foremost amateur golf play
ers in America, will meet tomorrow at
the Oakmont Country club in 3b-hole
second round match in the national anna
teur golf championship. American golr
enthusiasts have waited for more than
four years to see these players In action
against each other.
Ouimet won the opportunity to meet
his principal rival for amateur golf
honors by coming from behind today 10
win a first round match from e. c.
Clarcy, Of Philadelphia. The Boston
golfer trailed Clarcy TO the 18th hole,
where he was one down. He also lost
the oSth hole and became two down with
eight to play. He squared the match
at the send and won at he 35th green
by two and one.
Evans. the present champion. had an
easy time winning his way into the Sec
ond round by defeating Dwight W. Arm
strong Of the Home club. and 6. The
Chicago golfer was n favorite tonight
in the betting on tomorrow's match.
This was duo 10 Ouimet's recent Illness
and to the great strain the Boston play
or played under Monday in the qualliy-
ing round and in his match with Clarey.
Robert Gardner. OF Chicago. showed
to-day that he is still the Fighter or
old. when he orfrcamc lead OF I'VE
holes and defeated Maxwell MarSton, or
New York. to |.
The New York delegation met with n
severe reverse to-day as Marston. Gardi-
ncr White. Jerome L. Travers. and John
G. Anderson went down to defeat. Trav-
crs. n former ChampionE%shot In tho
eighties all day. while his opponent. a..
G.. Waldo. Jr, Of Detroit. was in tho
"vcrtics and ~ result Travcrs lost
by an and score.
The snuth's strongest entrant. Rob-
ert T Jones. Jr.. OF Atlanta. and Nell
son whitney. OF New Orleans.won places
in the second round. Jones had diff
cult time defeating James S. Manion
of St Louis W. g. F0wnes. Jr.. o.
Oakmont and his Clubmatc. S. Davidson
Heron and Grant a. Peacock dcfeatco
their first round opponents.
The pairings for to-morrow's play:
Jones versus Gardner; Crookston YER
sus Ncppcr; Hoffncr versus Peacock
Waldo versus Fowncs: Whitney versus
Thompson; Storms versus Heron; Plat
versus Tcwkcsbury: Evans versus Out
met
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sncciaI DIsmtch to The 1ntelligencer.

Special Dispatch to The 1ntelliGencer.
MORGANTOWN. w. Va. Aug. ls-1n
addition to being the most promising
sound West Virginia has ever had. her
1919 football aggregation promises also
TO be the heaviest especially so FAR as
tho rush line is concerned. There are
six men who will be candidates for the
line who will total fourteen hundred
poup/ in weight, or an average OF 233
pounds per man. These are Joe Har-
rick, who is in the pink of condition FOL.
lowing his <ncss last spring and weighs
Els: Dusty" Rhodes, who weighs z4O;
Edgar Grove the Huntington high CELL
ter, who tips the beam at 247; oscar
Mullan, the Piedmont giant. who was a
candidate of parts for the 1918 team and
who weighs 21., and Joe Setron. the Par
kcrsburg high youth who was making a
strong bid for a guard position in 1913
when the "nu" interrupted the season.
md who distances tho field with the
mark ~ 200 pounds at present.
Last year Sctron was mere kid but
he has taken on additional age as well as
weight and strength and will be no less
valuable as n candidate this year than
last. Mullan is another younGster who
is real football material. He knew prac.
tically nothing Of the game when he
came here last year. but he soon showed
not only that he learned rapidly but that
he must be rcckoned with when the
scrappy end of the game was to be con-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-20
" Y, U,E[EVEN WILL De STRONG
ON BEEF AND Drawn TH|SYa

s,dered. Rhodes won his Letter A'
1916 and Of course 10 being Evoo -
consideration by Coach Mc1ndf1
who runs second only to Setron -
Is another man not to be oveftooeoe2p
high school he was distingunAo
only for his weight but for htS. ooe1
and especially for his lighting 80
stiles. ~
Webster and Harrick, Of c0utDe
counted upon to make the team NJ
fail but the other four have ~ ~
ceive the final test. How No03
VirEinia's rush line look WIN
and Webster at tackles; RhooA1esN
Sctron at guards and Grove Cd
1t might not be much fro0 -
standpoint but It will D~
pounds in weight besides ha9dAH
in reserve for an emergency. IT,
age weight for a line would an00S
all existing records for football goo9
OF course, however. there 10 leo1 -
one chance in ten that this WIN ~
lineup. That lineup leaves out 0ueh u
candidates as Ice, Bailey. XcCa4
Merideth and a half-score Of 81
hardly loss we'll known and cApAheA
who will be candidates for the HHe
though McIntire Is convinced that 81
big man Is better than . good little
the big man must show all th1 -
requisites Of q finished GridirDA 49,
before he gets the CALI Tor duty ~ h.
big games.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-20
PERRY GRIFFITH FIGHT WILL
Be THE BEST EVER SEEN HERE
! BOTH FIGHTERS WILL ARRIVE IN
THIS CITY THIS MORNING AND
HOLD LIGHT WORKOUTS
THIS AFTERNOON.
Ham Ritz Williams Fight Proving AL
most as Popular as the Main Go.

With championship bout with Jack
Britton in Wheeling during the month
Of September as the reward TO the win
ncr, Johnny Griffith and Jack Perry will
20 the limit for. newspaper decision
at Wheeling park Thursday night. That
these boys will do their 'darvslCst" is an
assured fact. as Matchmaker Otto has
notified both boys that the winner Will
be matched with Jack Britton.
More interest has been added TO this
weeks bill by the arrival Of Battling
BclIairc of Brooklyn y. Y, who will
meet Francis Ford in IN" second four
round bout. Bcllairc comes to this sec
tion with a reputation Of having fought
some of the best men in the lightweight
class.
Ham Ritz Of Warwood and Billy Will
liams of Martins Ferry are putting on
the finishing touches today. and both
are confident of winning.
Chick Wait Of the South Side and
Young Crock Of the East End will open
the show with four round bout. start
ing promptly 1T $50 o'clock.
Ringsidc and reserved scat tickets
can be secured at the Stcwart-Filans
pool parlors. Fort Henry Smoke House
and Mcclure cigar stand.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-20
DIVIDED TIE DoUBlET

BOSTON, Aug 1s.-Boston and St
Louis split even today. the visitors win
ming the first game to and losing tho
second to ! in eleven innings.
Hornsby. who went to first base. where
he played well. tripled. scoring two runs
in the first inning Of the opener. st.
Louis scored two runs in the fourth on
hits and errors.
Cruises single. Holke's sacrifice and
Mann's double over Center FieAier
Smiths head in the eleventh won the
second game for Boston. Score:
First game R.H.E.
ST. Louis 20 90 2 90 o o o. 9 1
Boston .....O o 0 GO l 1-2
Woodward and Clemens; Ffllingim- Nc
Quillan and Gowdy.
Second game r. II E
st. Louis ....OOoo1oooooo-1 /
Boston 100000 3
sherdcl and Dtlhoefcr; Heating and
Wilson.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-20
BURTON WILL
SAIL Upton
CHALLENGER

LONDON. July 81. Correspondence
Of The Associated Prcss)-Sincc his re-
turn to London from America, Sir
Thomas Upton has set about the task
Of completing his arrangements for next
years contest for tho American Cup in
earnest says the Yachting World. The
most important decision so far arrived
at. Sir Thomas told writer in that per-
iodiCal. is to send the 23mCtrc Sham
rock to America early next year TO act
as a trial boat in the tuning-up spins Of
tho challenger. Shamrock ". Asked
who would have charge Of the British
! boat. Sir Thomas replied that w. T..
Burton had consented to sail the chal-
lcnGcr in the race for the America cup.
and also take charge Of the 23-metTc
Shamrock.
Naturally he will have his own pro-
fessional skipper" Sir Thomas added.
Mr. Burton will also be responsible for
engaging the crews of both boats and. in
fact. he will be in entire charge of the
on the other side. Charles E. Nicholson.
her designer. Is going over at an early
dato for the purpose Of thoroughly ex-
amininE Shamrock ""
"Do you think any alterations are
likely 10 he made in her." Sir Thomas
was asked.
THAT Is matter which am leaving
I entirely 10 Mr.. NiCholsons' judgment.
Many experienced yaChtsmcn are Of tho
opinion that Shamrock w is far and
away the best boat have ever had ~
represent me in this great contest"
IF you lose this time will you chal-
lcnEe again."
II have the greatest hopes that !
shall be successwui in this my fourth
attempt to bring back the cup. but If
! am not successful I can only say that ]
shall give Mr. Nicholson an order 10
, build another boat"
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Lawn Eete.

Tho Girl Scout Troop No. OF the
Kings Daughters Day Nursery. held a
lawn fctc last evening on tho lawn sur
rounding the old Haskin homestead nj
the corner Of Thirty-fifth and Eoif
streets. beginning ut $50 o'clock the
girls served delicious turtle soup
supper Mt tho Nursery. AT the lawn fcte
at o'clock soup wa2 also sold. together
with other daintics usually found AT
these affairs. The girls in charge OF
Tho affair were: Misses Mildred Richie,
Lillian McElroy. Agnes Bell. Sarah MOL
te. Edna Hurley. Ellen Wncclcr ana
Nadalyn Hawkins
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-20
CHAMPIONSHIP BOUTS
HERE NEXT MONTH

Local boxing ianS ar" ShowerlnG All
SORTS nr commitments on Matchmaker
Goo w. otto. of tn" Whr"ling Athletic
Assu,.iatiuu for Ia" brand of boxing ne
is putting on at H." park.
During the month Of September lora'
fms Will Sc. tire" chaiIri"uS. The ffrss
being BATTLING Lcvinsky. liEht-h"av--
weight champion Of TIA" who'd. who ~
10 meet Harry G;r"h; Jack Rrttun fac
ing the winner of til" Pcrry-Grifritn
fight. and the third will b" the feather
weight champion Johnny k!lbane'
AGAINST loca! 80 FOUNDER Walter Coo
Stewart.
No city in the country Is staging hey
ter shows than those named above. ana
Mr. otto Is proving himself to be a gooo
promoter and sport in giving the loca'
fans the best there Is.