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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
DOCTOR FOOLED BY TWINS
Candidates for Merchant Marine So
Much Alike One of Them Is Elk
amined Twice.

Boston, Mass.-Two nineteen-year-
old brothers-James r. Miller and Earl
w. Miller of Chadbourn, N. Care
the twinniest twins that ever hit Uncle
Sans merchant marine training ship
here.
The examining surgeon was the first
TO be fooled. First he examined James
r. Then he turned to his desk to
make out his record, taking for grant
ed that James would pass to the
next room. But he didn't. He thought
there was more to come. And of
course he was examined again. "Gosh,"
he thought, 'they do a pretty thorough
job here"
earl" said the doctor, still talk
ing to James, you sure are an i'm
age of your brother"
Just then Earl entered the room.
"Tm through with you, James," said
the doctor, speaking to Earl.
Don't I get examined?" inquired
Earl. Aud then a great light dawned
on the doctor.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
LOST LIP IN BATTLE
NOW HAS new ONE
New York Officer the Subject of
an interesting Operation
in England.

A surgeon has played a trick on
Lieut.. Clement G. Felt of Olean. N. Y.
But the lieutenant is not angry about
it. In fact, he is one of the happiest
men in London. He was hit by a shell
on September 20 in the terrible battle
between Cambria and st. Quentin,
when the Hindenburg line was broken,
He lay unconscious in a shell hole,
nobody knows how long. He doesn't
When he came to himself, he found
that he was wounded in the hip, in the
hand, and also that his lower lip had
been blown away. He was taken te
hospital and examined by a surgeon,
who in due course placed him under
an aneSthetic and made him a new
lip. The work was so perfectly done
that even the lieutenant's own mother
would never detect that the present Lip
is the second one that her son has
worn. All that remains to show that
he was wounded in the mouth is a
slight scar, just a badge of honor.
Lieutenant Felt often wondered
where the new flesh came from that
went to his face. Was it taken from
the anatomy of some generous colonel,
or major general? Was it a contribu-
ton of some pretty young English
maiden? That was what he hoped
most of all. Lieutenant Felt is a bach
elor. But, alas, it wasn't. Only the
other day INT the disillusionment.
The bandages of his W left hand,
which he thought had been damaged
by the shell, were %unwrapped. Then
he discovered the trick the surgeon had
played upon hin while he was under
the influence of the ether. There was
a deep cut in the hand. That was
the new lip.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
G00SEB0NE F0RECASTING
Prophet Thinks That Cold Weather
viii Last Well Into Spring.

l.. S. Sargent, Junction City, Kan,
has made his annual "goosebone"
weather prophecy. 1t calls for a steady
winter, UNMARRIED by periods of milder
weather, and the low temperature will
last well into the spring. The breast
bone of the goose is used in casting
the weather, the amount and location
of the dark coloring matter indicating
the period when winter weather may
be expected. Mr.. Sargent has been
keeping the goosebone weather records
for more than 80 years and claims for
the goosebone a batting average of
1000 as a weather f%orecaster.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
FIND MANS SKELETON
Lumbermen Solve Mystery of Aged
Persons Disappearance.

The mysterious disappearance of
Smith Flohr, an eighty-year-old noun
taineer of M~ountaindale, Pennsylvania,
missing since August 20, and for whom
a search covering the Blue Ridge
mountains for miles around has been
going on since, was solved when two
lumbermen, John Brown and Solo
mon Nom, while passing through a
densely wooded section of the noun
tains near Old Forge, stumbled across
the skeleton of a man.. Near by
a hat and coat enabled the discov-
erers of the body to identify it as that
of Flohr.
On the day of the old mountaineer's
disappearance he had been visiting a
son, Irwin S. Flohr, at Mountaindale,
and decided toward evening to make
his way across to Blue Ridge Summit,
where another son, D. S. Flohr, lived,
intending to spend the night there.
Despite efforts to dissuade him, F1ohr
started out across the mountains.
From that moment until his skeleton
was discovered about a mile from the
main mountain road, his whereabouts
puzzled the countryside. 1t is now as
sumed that he became confused, a
dered into the thicket and after becom-
ing exhausted, collapsed, and later died
of starvation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
HONORED BY FRENCH
Yankee Doctor Wins Commission
as Captain.
Hiehest-Ranked American Citizen in
French Army During
War.

Paris.-The highest-ranked Ameri-
ing the present var is DIR. Henry Mi
chel of Augusta, Ga, who earned a
captains commission in the service
of our ally before transferring over
to the United States army.
Doctor Michel came to France at
teered in the French army. Owing to
the crying need for surgeons, he was
at once commissioned as q second
lieutenant and assigned at a base hos
pital. His hard work and ability won
him promotion to a first lieutenancy
half of 1916 when he was stationed
at Troyes, the great evacuation CEN
ter for the French wounded.
Afterward Doctor Michel was trans
ferred to Lyons and was placed in
command of a military hospital there
and promoted to captain. The For
eign Legion has it's base depot at
Lyons, and Doctor Michel knew al
most all of the Americans enlisted in
that unit. He was also a great friend
of United States Consul Jones at
Lyons.
A year ago Doctor Michel offered
his services to the A. e. f. and was
sent to American Red Cross hospital
No. 1 at Neuilly, the former American
ambulance. He is also surgeon in
chief of the American hospital for
civilians in Neuilly.
Only a few other Americans have
ever received commissions in the
French army, and they were all sec
ond l%ieutenants with the exception of
William Thaw of the Lafayette Es-
cadrille, and Sweeny of the Foreign
Legion and later of the tank corps,
who were first li%eutenants. The avia-
tor pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille
were only s%ergeants, with the excep-
ton of Dudley Hill, an adjutant. Luf-
berry was only a second lieutenant.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
An Old PinwheeI.

Frank Emmons, a Manhattan (Kan.)
man, celebrated the signing of the
armistice with a p%inwheel which was
bought in 1884 to celebrate the cleo
ton of Blaine in a political contest.
The fireworks were bought by the
Manhattan Republican Flambeau club.
and when the election was lost the pin
wheel was put away and served its
purpose Monday in celebrating the
bringing of peace to the world, just
.hirty-four years later.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
FIXED CUCKOO CLOCK
Bird in Timepiece Made in Germany
Now Says bob White"

iNOW OoyS POD WHilSs
John G. Wagner, a jeweler of Vim
cennes, Ind, has the distinction of be-
ing the first Indianian to naturalize
the bird in a cuckoo clock made in
Germany" Immediately after the
war was declared, when his son enlist
ed in Battery e, One Hundred and
Fiftieth Field Artillery, Mr.. Wagner
stopped the clock, c%ontending that the
"cuckoo" was Germany's national bird.
The clock failed to operate for a
long time until recently. Mr.. Wagner
spent many hours in rebuilding it and
finally completely Americanized the
bird, which now says bob White" in
stead of "cuckoo."
AS soon as the announcement was
made, a number of V|incennes people
who are owners of the "made in Ger
many cuckoo clocks crowded Mr..
Wagner's store and ordered their
''cuckoo" clocks made over.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18

did great work in France, and you're
doing it here too"
The knights of Columbus have
boarded the transports at quarantine
and the docks and have given to the
troops stamped postcards so thai
they could communicate Immediately
with relatives. In hundreds of in
stances the Knights have sent tele-
grams for men who did not have the
price"
Army chaplains have gone among
the troops on the ships, taking mes
sages for relatives, jotting down
phone numbers, extending cheer and
facilitating the removal of the
wounded
Y. NJ. G. A. men have given away
thousands of newspapers daily to re.
turning soldiers. meeting them as
their transports put into quarantine.
officers in Charge.
Some of the most difficult tasks con.
nected with the return of the soldiers
have been those of Major Gen,
Shanks, in command of the port OF
em%barkation Brig. Gen. McManus, di.
rector of troop movements, and Vice
Admiral Gleayes.
The service of Gen. Shanks has EN-.
braced the period of heaviest troop
departures from Hoboken, which was
the most important port of embarka-
ton in America and which sent a
large bulk of the record number of
100000 troops in one month when
troops were badly needed at the
front.
1t was the work of Gen. Shanks tc
see to it that there were sufficient
transports for the soldiers, plentiful
accommodations and utmost secrecy of
departure. In one night, in the record
month, half a dozen large transports
stole out of the Hoboken piers, load
ed to capacity with soldiers, and NJ
inkling of it reached the public.
It was the job of Admiral Gleaves
to make certain that the seas were
bridged with conveys so that no mis-
hap should occur to the transports
Gen. Shanks sped away. That he did
his work satisfactorily is attested by
his promotion q few weeks ago from
rear admiral to vice admiral. Not a
transport was lost on a Europe-bound
trip.
Gen. McManus was in command of
the port of embarkation for three
months, while Gen. Shanks was sent
to command Camp Kearny, California.
Gen. McManus now resume his posi-
ton as director of troop movements.
When men arrive at Manhattan or Ho-
boken or Brooklyn, Gen. McManus de-
cides whether they shall be sent to
Camp Mills, Camp Merritt or else
where.
The staffs of these officers have
been working long hours every day
and many hours of the night handling
the returning troops. Though here
and there difficulties have arisen
through misunderstanding of privates
minor officers still infused with the
rigidity of wartime regulations, these
difficulties have been smoothed out by
the commanding officers, and the mat
ter of meeting and greeting and ham
ding the returning troops has been
done in the smoOthest possible manner.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
KEEP PIGS IN PARLOR
Custom Has Become Popular in West
ern Canada.

It's the style nowadays in Canada
to have a pig or a number of pigs.
Everybody who can has Joined the pig
drive, which was officially ushered in
at Victoria, B. c., by the passage of
the pig act in the Victoria council.
This act provides that pigs may be
kept by anyone in the city.
His Reverence, c. M. Schofield,
bishop of British Columbia, Church of
England, has joined the pig drive. He
has a number of porkers in his yard
which he guards almost as carefully
as he does his flock of "sheep" at the
church next door.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
Iron Cross for Loan podqer.

A citizen of Conyngham, a farming
district near Hazelton, Pa, has re-
ceived through the mail an Iron Cross
for distinguished services in the
fourth Liberty loan drive. On the
cross are these words: Scott Helf
Uns" ("God Help Us'). Where the
emblem came from no one knows, but
it was sent in recognition of the fail
ure of the recipient to take any ponds.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
Work Certain for Heroes.

Olympia, Wash.-Plaeing 100000
acres of arid land in this state under
irrigation at a cost of $250,000, 900 and
furnishing work for thousands of re-
turned soldiers and sailors is part of
a plan being worked out by Gov.
Ernest Lister. By this plan it IS ex-
pected homes may be made for $4,000
families.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
BROTHERS EACH ENLIST,
THEN MEET IN PARIS

Delaware, O.-Private Fl. J..
Stricklin and Corporal Clifford
Stricklin live in this city. Mel
Their brother knew that the other
was in France. Each knew that
the other was headed for a
camp in the United States for
training. They met on the COM
pany street in the same camp
near Paris.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
OPERATE UPON
WOUNDED men
ON BOARD SHIP
Vessels Equipped for Giving Ex-
pert Surgical Aid.
RED CROSS IS GREAT HELP

Every Provision for Comfort of SOL
diers After Arrival Made in Advance
Many Organizations Help in the
Work-Army Stats Work Night and
Day in Handling the Returning
Troops - Great Difficulties Sur
mounted.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-01-18
BLACKSMITH IN DANGER
ACTING AS SHOE CLERK

East Weymouth, Mass.-When
J. II. Moran, the village black
smith, retired after Al years of
shoeing horses to work in a re-
tail shoe store, the manager
made the following comment:
Hell get in wrong if, bending
over, he grabs some of the new
trade in the old way and ex-
claims Lift up, Bess.'"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-28

too, probably could have served his
purpose better than that these words
should have been his last. Difficult al
II Is TO reconcile oneself to the decree
OF Divine Providence that the re
moval of that great patriot at this cru
cial moment was not mtimely, we can.
not but realize, rs he would have beer
the nrst TO acknowledge, that the last
yestige of animosities which might
have continued TO impair his highesi
aspirations was buried with him, and
thereby The perfect union. which he 81
ardently desired against all things i'm
American was attained.
Thus we find The Republican part,
resuming full legislative authority
thoroughly united and invigorated by
the peculiar confidence which so Otter
carried II TO victory in former years
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-28
LAST THOUGHTS ;
OF ROOSEVELT
Desired Republicans to Close
Ranks and Give Attention
to Domestic Issues.
TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF WISH.
Colonel Harvey In North American Re-
view Presents Facsimile of PEN
clled Memorandum Left by
Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt's last thoughts
were Of the great domestic issues of
his country, issues whose determine
tion Will decide the veal or woe of the
next generation. He saw in united
Republican party, just given vote Of
confidence and a commission to formu-
late and carry into action policies OF
reconstruction, the guarantee OF the
prompt recognition and successful
handling of these domestic problems.
Tangible evidence of this is a memo
rsndum, the last penciled thoughts OF
the late President To Colonel George
Harvey and the North American Re
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-28
Churches

In the District Court of the Third
Judicial District of the State of Id
aho, in and for the county Of Ada.
Settlers Irrigation District, Petition
er,
In the matter OF the petition Of the
Board Of Directors of the Settlers Ir-
rigation District praying for the judi
cial examination and approval and
confirmation by the court of all the
proceedings of said Board and said
District relating to the entering into
contract with the United States of
America for the purchase Of approx
imately 1928 miners inches of the
storage waters of the Arrewrock Res
ervoir for use upon the dry or par
TALLY dry lands lying under the can
ais of and within said District and
irrigated thereby. and like confirm
alton and approval of an apportion-
ment Of benefits to said lands for the
purchase price of such waters as
basis for the Ievying of twenty an
nual assessments on said lands for
the purpose OF. paying of and dis
charging the purchase price of such
storage water, and for a confirm
alton and approval of all the proceed
ings of the said District and its said
Board in relation to the said contract
and purchase.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
petition of the Settlers Irrigation
District in the above named cause
has been set for hearing at the Coun-
ty Court House, Ada County, Idaho,
in said cause on 10Th day of March,
1919, at the hour of 10 O'Clock A. M.
of said day and that the said petition
is for the purpose of procuring the
said court to ratify approve and con-
firm all the proceedings taken by
petitioner in the apportionment of
benefits to the lands in this cause
set forth on account of the purchase
of approximately 1925 miners inches
of tile storage water OF Arrowroek
Reservoir for the dry and partially
dry lands within said district and of
procuring said court to approve and
confirm apportionment of benefits to
t.said lands by the said Board made on
the 4th day of February, 1919, as
! in said petition set forth, and all OF
( the proceedings by the said Board
Of Directors had in the purchase of
/ said water and in the contracting
\ with the Reclamation Service of the
United States therefor and in the APP
/ portionment of benefits because there
OF and all other proceedings by the
said Board had in said PREMISES and
! that any person interested in the sub
ject matter of said petition may on
! or before said day demur to or ans
wer said petition, and that in default
of such demurrer or answer they will
be estopped from proceeding .oi
kind whatsoever challenging the said
acts and conduct of the said Board
and the said apportionment or assess
ments to be levied Hereunder and
pursuant thereto, save and except as
otherwise by law provided.
Done by order of the said District
court
In testimony whereof | have hereto
set my hand and. affixed the seal Of
said court this the 25th day q Teh,
ruary. 1919.
STEPHEN UTTER.
/ (seal) Clerk of the District Court.
By Thos. E. Powell, Deputy.
| 1885,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-28
Ro0SEVELT'S DEPARTING
WORDS TO HIS C0UNTRYMEN

Col. Roosevelt died about A o'clocl
on the morning of January 9. Til,
previous evening at a great patriotie
rally in the New Yorl; Hippodrome /
message was read from him, writer
especially for the occasion. In it wa.
this striking sentence:
I'VE have room for but one flag. the
American flag, and this excludes the
red flag, which symb6Iizes all. war
against liberty and civilization just az
much as il excludes any foreign fias
Of nation to which we are hostile
: and we have room for but one
soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to thu
American people"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-28
TIME CARD ON THE
OREGON SHORT LINE

Schedule of arrival and departure
OF trains at Meridian station.
Outbound
No. ITO passes Meridian at 1920
a. m to connect with Nos. II, west
bound, and Is. east hnuud,at Nampa.
no. 176 passes Meridian at 11.O6
p. m. to connect with No. 4, east
bound.
no. $50 passes Meridian at 600
p. M. to connect with Nos. and IS.
west bound. and No. 6, east bound.
No. TIA (pony) passes Meridian at
;Sl a. m. for Huntington (no
Schange.)
Returning from Nampa-
10. III passes Meridian at 3.S2
r M after connecting with train II,
west bound, and Is. east bound.
no. 175 passes Meridian at 1917
p N. after connecting with No. 4,
Past bound.
TO. Ia passes Meridian at s.13
m, after connecting with No. 10,
vest bound, and No. 8. east hound.
no. l7S tpony) passes Meridian al
PISS a. m. -
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-28
POOR FINANCE
TO LET BANKS
TAKE V. LOAN
BY NJ. 8. Wlidman, Head of the
Department Of Economies and
Political Science at Stanford
University, California.

Just about two years ago we began
TO make war and stopped making
lot of other things or made these
other things only in limited supply
Railway construction came to a dead
stop. Equipment was worn out faster
than it was replaced. All over the
country building operations were sus
pended. In the North Atlantic states
alone the deficiency in building IS
estimated by the Department of Labor
to exceed s500,000,000. If the situation
all over the country is comparable to
this, the accumulated need for con-
struction now exceeds two billion dol
lars. Through a wide range OF manu-
features from automobiles to chewing
gum curtailment was the order of the
day until now we face deficiency
In numberless commodities OF custom
airy use.
The emergency which led to curtail.
ment is happily past. The interest
Of all classes of people requires the
quickest possible resumption of normal
activity. Consumers want the goods,
returning soldiers need the employ
ment The heavy war taxes call
for correspondingly large production.
while European reconstruction will
open the way for exports.
This resumption of enterprise, if we
embark upon it as we should, will
require bank loans on a tremendous
scale. The high wages and high cost
Of materials will necessitate advances
proportionatety greater than in the
past To be available for this purpose,
the funds of the banks must not be
absorbed by government requirements.
The necessity for wide public partici.
patton in the Victory Liberty loan is
even greater than it was In the case
Of earlier loans when curtailment OF
Industry diminished the needs OF pri-
yate business.
II the banks are compelled to carry
the government, they cannot at the
same time carry their customers. For
every billion dollars worth of bonds
left on the hands of the banks there
will be just billion less for the re-
vival of industry and the employment
Of labor.
1t is to the personal interest of every
nan and woman in America to sub
scribe to the Victory Liberty loan out
NJ his or her savings.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-03-28
Facsimile Of Last Memorandum Of
Colonel Roosevelt, Penciled Few
Hours Before He Died.

view the country and the Republican
party are indebted for the publication
of this interesting document which car
ries message from him ''who, being
dead, yet speaketh." In the leading
article OF the current number OF the
North American Review Colonel Har
vey sets forth the vital import of this
last penciled notation Of Mr., ROOse
yelt He says:
"Mr. Roosevelt died the acknowl
edged leader Of the great party into
which he was born. His last written
words, penciled by his own hand a few
hours before his death and addressed
in the form of q memorandum for the
brilliant young man for whose selec
ton as Chairman of the National or
ganization he was largely responsible
were these, as reproduced above IN
facsimile:
"'Hays
see him; he must go TO Washington
fer 10 days; see Senate and House;
prevent split on domestic policies.
: "Here.is evidenced as clearly as If the
few words filled volume Mr.. Roose'
Selt's realization of both his RESPONSE
blllty and his obligation. The simple
memorandum marked the Inauguration
of definite party policy, to be carried
through to no less definite conclusion
It was more than passing thought Oh
a mere suggestion. II was Message
slgnlfyImg the need OF immediate ant
unremlttlng vigilance in achieving
complete unity Of action in resolving
domestic problems before attacking
those OF wider range soon TO be thrust
upon the country-a true soldiers cal
first TO close the ranks.
Nothing could be more Characters
tic or more clearly illustrative of TIL
breadth OF vision, the foresight, th'
directness In method and the painstak
ing attention Of the man. Nothing