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The Holly chieftain., 1919-07-03
WALTER PERSON ONE OF
WARS LUCKY HEROES
Runs the Gauntlet of Liquid Fire,
Gas, Grenades, Etc, and Es-
capes Miraculously.

The following news item appeared
in recent issue of the Denver Post
and will be of interest to many
Chieftain readers:
r.;slltIng liquid fire, gus, gren-
ades, barrages and machine gun
fire. without wound, only to
spend five months in the hospital
as result of drinking gas poi
soned water, was the experience of
Walter Pierson of Lamar, Colo, who
enlisted in the navy July, 1917,
when only eighteen.
His excitement started on the
way across in April, 1918; his trans.
port was sighted by a Hun SUBJ
marine three days out of Brest.
The career of the German raider
was cut short by shot from the
U. S. S. Henderson, conveying the
transport fleet.
Pierson passed thru the Belleau
Wood engagement, assigned as a
pllarInlclSt mate, assigned as q
rines. He lodged liquid fire and
shrapnel there and at Chateau
Thierry during July.
Coming out the night of July 10
of water, which proved to be tainted
ed his thirst at q shell hole full
of water, which proved to be tanned
with mustard and chlorine gases.
This caused hemorrhages of the
stomach and it was not until Oct.
30, after passing thru che st. Mi
hiel and Mont Blanc Ridge engage
ments in September, that Persons
trouble was diagnosed. He was sent
to the base hospital at Hyeres,
where he remained until. March,
1919, recuperating. Pierson expects
to attend the School of Mines, hav.
ing received his discharge June Is,
after nearly two years of war ser.
vice.
The Holly chieftain., 1919-07-03
Airplane Is Expected Here
at 6 Tonight.
TOWN NOW IN HOLIDAY
ATTIRE FOR TOMORROW
Minor Sport Events and Horse
Races All Lined Up-Many Town
Folks Will Eat Dinner At Big
Cow Club Picnic.
Boom! Boom! Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom
Everything is in readiness for
Hollys big Fourth of July celebra
tion tomorrow!
The minor sports program for the
early morning is all dOped out;
the band is limbered up to a fare
ye-well and the Cannack airplane
ye-well and the Cannuck airplane
o'clock this evening.
The old town is decked i'll flags
and bunting and gives every out
ward evidence that there will be
big doin's here tomorrow.
Harry Lee, the main stem of
the dancing pavilion has large
50Xs0 foot tent erected and the floor
down in good shape
The Holly Cow club has cordial
ly invited all the town folks to
join them in the big basket picnic
dinner in the grove south of town
tomorrow noon, and we're going to
be there. All the townspeople
should bring well filled baskets so
that we will have plenty for the
out-of-town visitors who will be
here.
Every Hollyite should constitute
him or herself q duly appointed
committee of one to do whatever
he or she can to help every visitor
enjoy themselves wherever oppor-
tunity offers.
Anyhow, we're all ready for big
day tomorrow. Let everybody get
out and get in the game-go your
best. Let's really unloosen and eel
citrate.
The Holly chieftain., 1919-07-03
Ed. Jones Will Erect New
Structure 1Wxl2O.
TO BE EQUIPPED WITH
MODERN MACHINE SHOP
Will Cost when Fully Completed
$4,000 - Construction to Begin
This Month and to be Completed
About October 1st.

mobile garage and machine shop
one of the largest and the most
modern in the Arkansas Valley.
This is settled fact for Ed.
Jones has made all arrangements
for the erection of the building on
his lots at the corner of Main street
and the Santa Fe Trail just south
of the Holly Union High school
building and has let the contract
for its construction, and men be
gan hauling the sand for the brick
and cement work this week. The
cost will be approximately $4,000
with all equipment.
The building will be l00x12O feet
in size, with pressed brick front.
The rear portion of the building
on the alley east will be two stories
high, and 2nd floor will be devoted
entirely to- the machine shop and
repair department. This shop will
be modernly equipped throughout.
The main street front and Santa
Fe Trail elevation of the building
will be of plate glass and pressed
brick with suitable sales rooms and
modern office appointments, and in
every way up to metropolitan gar
age construction.
This location is ideal for the pur-
pose for which the building is to
be erected, situated as it is on the
trail, and in view of the immense
tourist travel through Holly, which
is increasing each year, the enter
prise seems well warranted both as
financial and business venture.
Construction work will begin soon
after the 4th and it is expected will
be completed and ready for Occu-
pance by about the first of October.
Mr.. Jones has not fully decided
whether he will operate the plant
himself or whether he will lease it
to someone else, though he has al
ready had no less than four appli-
cants wanting to lease the property
as soon as it is ready for occupancy.
The recent decision of Mr.. Jones
to erect this garage is the sequal to
his purchase of the two lots some
two years ago. In fact Mr.. Jones
had in his minds eye the picture
of this garage which he has now de-
cided to build. He appreciated the
value of the ideal location and
though he said nothing about it at
that time it was the motive which
prompted him to buy the lots.
This new garage will be mater
ial asset to Holly's commercial and
industrial interests and Mr.. Jones
is certainly to bs highly COM
mended for this tangible manifes-
tation Of his faith in Holly as well
as his business enterprise and pub
lie spirit.
The Chieftain predicts that the
building of this garage by Mr..
Jones is the dawning of a new era
of commercial enterprise in Holly
and that it will be followed by
other features of both private and
public expansion Now is the time
to stick in Holly and get in the
game in the making of larger,
more modern and better town,
and greater public conveniences
The Holly chieftain., 1919-07-03
WILL ARRIVE
HERE AT TOO TONIGHT
Lieut.. H. T. Johnson. World-war
Ace. Left Denver in His Ma
chine This Morning

SAAA&V . AAAo 1SVA AAAAk
Lieut.. HIT. johnson, one of
the wOrld-war aces who has
seen over seas service, and
who will make the airplaine
flights here tomorrow, left
Denver early this morning.
He flew to AryO, Colo, about
rs miles northwest of here
reaching there at 10 this
+ morning to rest for a few
+ hours.
Lieut.. Johnson, according
to telephone conversation
+ between w. w. HeckethOrn
+ of the H.-B. garage here and
JOhnsOn's father ut Denver
about noon today, will reach
Holly between 1880 and 500
O'Clock this evening and will
descend somewhere on the
north end of the Holly COun-
try Clubs golf links, where
he will be meet by a commit,
tee of Holly citizens and
I brought to town.
The Holly chieftain., 1919-07-03

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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
The Buddhist HymnaI.

Yamanaka was strong Buddhist
and a leader in the movement to re-
vive and reform Buddhism and estab-
lish it as a bulwark against the rapid
encroachment of Christianity.
He decided an excellent way to do
this was to found a high school for
girls which would be more attractive
than the Christian women's. So he
erected fine buildings and Installed
modern methods. He hired good .each-
ers. All the paraphernalia OF the best
western schools was taken over. In
fact, the curriculum was about as close
as it could be to that of the Christian
school not far away. aell except as to
religion. Buddhism was a prominent
feature of the institution-not the old
fashioned Buddhism, but the new form
which has borrowed freely from Chris
tianity, even down to the Sunday
school hymns. The girls were taught
to sing the famous old Christian
hymns with only the word Buddha
substituted for that Of Christ.-The
Christian Herald.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
MAY HAVE BEEN ERlCSSON'S
Interesting Speculation Arising From
Discovery of Ancient Galleys
Buried in Norway.

A traveller in Norway has been look
ing at the two ancient ships, in one
of which, though probably in neither,
Lief Ericsson may have reached the
western world five centuries before
Columbus. Nothing proves that either
of them was Ericsson's galley; moth
ing proves that it wasn't. The ancient
pagan custom that buried the craft
of the sea-hero preserved the galleys
away in the soil of Norway, thanks
to a covering of potter's clay, and a
twentieth century farmer recovered
the second one. The savants looked
it over, and dated it from the ninth
century, contemporary with the ad-
venturous Ericsson, possibly his own
ship. About seventy feet long, the
vessel is shaped not unlike a double
pointed rowboat, fiat and low, with
forked uprights for Is pairs of oars,
and the conventional dragon carved on
bow and stern. Under the floor are
the compartments where the voyagers
doubtless stored their provisions. One
can imagine the watcher at the PROV,
the helmsman tugging at the tiller. the
galley master high in the poop beat
ing with his great hammer the rhythm
| for the thirty oarsmen. 1t is far more
| difficult to imagine how they slept and
ate in rough weather.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08

care how many animals were destroyed
by predatory beasts, because meat was
plentiful. But since meat has become
all the way from $40 to $15, instead Of
from $1.50 to $3.50, we urge that the
department give US experts in cooper
alton with our own activities for the
determination Of these pests"
1t is true that predatory wild ami
mails, like the mountain lion and wolf,
are expensive. The biological survey
is emphatic in its statement that the
average gray wolf kills $1,000 worth
of live stock year, and a mountain
lion $500 worth. The coyote, which is
the smaller prairie wolf, rivals his big
cousin in destruction. The biological
survey claims to have reduced the wolf
population of New Mexico by 260 in
dividuals in three years.
Incidentally, naturalists and sports
men will be interested in the state
ment by the biological survey that in
the Pecos mountain region bears have
uses these words:
During the recent grazing season
bears killed approximately 125 head of
valuable cattle in the Pecos region.
Similar damage in the Black range and
in the MogollOn mountain makes it evil
dent that total of at least 250 head
of cattle as well as a large number of
sheep were killed by bears. These facts
are worthy of consideration, in view
of the general and concerted efforts
now under way on the part of sports
men to enact legislation that will pre-
vent trapping of bears or hunting them
with the aid of dogs"
Naturalists and big game hunters
hold that bears seldom kill big game
or stock, and that when individual
bears get the stock-killing habit it is
an acquired taste. Big-game hunters
holding these views have been active
in promoting state legislation for the
protection of grizzly and black bears,
which otherwise are doomed to speedy
determination except in the national
parks, which are wild life sanctuaries.
TIE warfare against prairie dogs,
anu OllcI IOuCulS 10 1SSS
exciting, but there is much more
money at stake. In New Mexico in
four summer months cooperative
work in exterminating prairie dogs
was conducted over 652,000 acres of in
tested land, 3,403 landowners assisting
in the work. An average of over 90
per cent of the prairie dogs was killed.
On the untreated land the total
loss of the crop, or at least a so
per cent loss, often occurred as a re-
suit of prairie-dog infestation. 1t is
estimated that the crop saving effected
by prairie-dog control amounts to ap-
proximately S500,000
Multiply this by a dozen or more
the number of states doing the same
kind of work-and the size of the job
is apparent.
A new angle to the situation is the
recent public announcement that prai
rie dogs are good eating and that vari
Gus towns in the infested areas are go
ing to put them on the bill of fare.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
hoy
SCOUT s
SCOUTING AND AMERIcANIsM

Speaking of America" says Chief
Scout Executive James e. West, zone
Of the biggest movements afoot today
is the Amerfcanization movement. Be
ing an American means something to-
day, when the eyes of the world are
turned to America as the hope and
leader of mankind.
Scouting goes hand in haNd with
Americanization. A scout who lives up
to his oath, to do his duty to God and
country, to keep his scout law, to be
helpful to all people at all times, is
making himself into an American of
the best kind. It isn't necessary to
have been born on American soil to be
a good American.
"Some of our finest scouts, most 10y
al to our flag, most active in Liberty
loan and other patriotic work, first
saw light under foreign skies. But
that doesn't matter. They are Amerf-
cans just the same, because they stand
for what America stands for and be.
lieve in America as the land of hope,
opportunity and brotherhood.
"Stop and ask yourself if you are
being an American-the right sort of
American, through and through. You
want to serve your country. Every
scout loves America. Maybe some OF
you envied your older brothers and
friends who had chance to fight fol-
| her, die for her. You need not envy
anyone. You can live for America, and
that is the greatest service you car
offer her just now. She needs you
Be Americans!"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
Copyright, W. g. Chapman

a sack beneath her head making a
resting place for her with my fur coat.
Then with my knife / cut away her
dress over the wound.
There was bullet hole beneath her
breast, stained with dark blood. l ran
down to the rivulet, risking an ambus-
cade, brought back cold water, and
washed 1t, and stanched the flow as
best 1 could, making bandage and
placing it above the wound.
have dim remembrance of losing
my self-cOntrol when this was done,
and clasping her In my arms and press
ing my lips to her cold cheek and beg
ging her to live and praying wildly
that she should not die. Then
raised her in my arms and was stag
gering across the cave toward the tun-
mel which led to the rocking stone.
And then. just as 1 approached the
barricade Of earth-filled bags Leroux
and the man Raoul emerged from the
tunnels mouth and ran toward me.
stopped behind the barricade.
Presently 1 saw something white
| fiuttering from the tunnel. 1t was a
white handkerchief upon a stick OF
| wood.
Then Leroux's voice hailed me from
| the tunnel.
Hewlett |" he called, and there was
no trace of mockery in his tones now
''will you come out and talk with me-
Will you meet me in the open, If you
prefer?"
/ fired one shot in futile rage. Il
struck the cliff and sent a stone f1yins
into the stream.
Then silence followed. And I tool
JacQueline and carried her back int
| the little hollow space. I put my hant
upon her breast.
1t stirred. She breathed family
though she showed no sign of con
| sciousness.
Heaven knows what was in m,
mind. 1 stood beneath that awful cat
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
SCOUTING IN GOOD CONSPIRACY.

There is a natural relationship be-
tween successful men and ambitious
boys.
The forward-looking program of
scouting cannot fail to appeal to pa
triotic Americans. The foundation
principle of rotary is patriotism.
When the ideals and the principles
of these two organizations-rotar
and scouting-are analyzed, they are
seen to contain the same qualities.
When the church and scouting strike
hands to work together for boys, the
conspiracy is a good one. When the
schools and scouting agree upon a
program for boys, it is well for boy.
hood.
And when rotarians and scout lead
ers work shoulder to shoulder to train
boys for good citizenship, the highest
court in the land will pronounce the
conspiracy good one.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
Dresses in Snanish StuIe

In his distinguishing black on the
forehead and yellow or. the throat, the
Maryland yellow-throat is one of the
most beautifully marked of any mem
Der of his tribe and gives an appear
ance of Spanish grandeur, says the
American Forestry association of
Washington. There is no mfstakIna
the song of this bird. and it is rendered
in variety of ways which make it
sound like any one of the following
"Which-is-it? which-is-it?" or "What-a-
pity, what-a-pity; or "Which-way-sir :
which-way-sir?" or ''I-beseech you, I-be-
seech-you;" ;" or "Witchery, witchery,
witchery." The bird is particularly
fond of thickets by the side of running
water.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
He Was Learning.

An Indianapolis physician has new
Office boy, who himself has ambitions
to become doctor. The other day a
little girl came into the office and
asked to see the doctor. He isn't in
just now," informed the boy, and in the
conversation that followed asked her
who was sick.
my papa" answered the little girl.
"And just wanted some medicine for
him. He isn't sick enough for the
doctor to come to see him."
The Office boy thought minute.
Then, ''Is he insured?" he asked.
The little girl nodded that he was.
The look Of hesitation left the Office
boys face. "All rightl' he said. "rll
fix him some medicine"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08


aract firing at the blind rock, and now
l was back behind the earth-bags
shooting into the tunnel.
So the afternoon wore away. The
sun had sunk behind the cliffs. 1 had
fired away all but six of my cartridges.
Then the memory of my similar act of
folly before came home to me. I grew
more calm.
I felt my way around the cave with
the faint hope that there might be
some other egress there.
There was none, but made out a
recess which l had not perceived,
about one-half as large as the cave
itself, and opening into it by a small
passage just large enough to give ad-
mittance to a single person. Here
should have only one front to defend
| So 1 carried Jacqueline inside and
began laboriously to drag the bags OF
earth into this last refuge. Before il
had grown quite dark had barricaded
Jacqueline and myself within a place
the size of a hall bedroom inclosed
upon three sides with rock.
And there 1 waited for the end.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08

exterminating rodents and predatory
wild animals, and in every case the
results are much more satisfactory and
less expensive than under the bounty
system. / have before me now par
tial report made by the men in charge
Of this work in the southwestern part
Of the country through the council OF
defense of the state of New Mexico.
"In the spring of 1918 the governor
of the state authorized the use of $685.
600 from the fund known in our state
as the war fund, and under an agree
ment covering the plan for the cooper
ative work as executed. Under this
agreement $4,000 Of this amount, in
conjunction with an equal amount by
the department of agriculture, was set
aside and applied in reducing losses in
live stock due to predatory wild ami
mails, an increased force of hunters
was placed in the field, trapping was
resorted to by this experiment; the
results have been very satisfactory.
Estate hunters have total of 1872
days, at a cost of $5,741.44. They have
taken 642 coyotes, 124 bob cats, IA
gray wolves, predatory bears, includ-
ing grizzlies. The average cost of
animals in June was $S8.87; in July,
1888; August, $5.93J The government
operations In the state during the same
periods cost $9,225.70, and resulted in
the killing Of AIT coyotes, II bob cats,
Al gray wolves, 13 mountain lions, 2
bears. No reasonable estimate of dam
age inflicted by predatory animals that
has been advanced can show anything
other than the return on this invest
ment of a very high rate of interest.
The estimate generally accepted-and
Il is conservative, indeed, in view of
the present high value Of live stock
is that each gray wolf destroys an
nually 81 900 worth of live stock; each
mountain lion, $500; each coyote and
bob cat, $50 worth; predatory bears
may be rated In the same class with
wolves. On this basis the saving rep
resented in this cooperative work is
nearly nine times the amount of ex-
penditure. Thus you will observe that
the estimated saving to the people of
the nation, you might state, is $131 800,
at cost of about $4,000"
While the facts presented by the
New Mexican representative are not
clearly arranged, they afford glimpse
Of the situation that prevails pretty
much all over the far West, and the
whole nation is interested, too, as Mr.
Fernandez said in closing:
"We are all interested in that in
dustry. We send our wool-20,000 ,0OC
or 25,000,000 pounds-to the cities OF
Philadelphia and Boston, so that those
merchants can have that product
which will increase the employment
of their people. We send our meat tC
the packing houses. All. the American
people are interested in that. There
was a time when the people did not
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
SCOUTS in ENGINEER CORPS.

Lieutenant Gassin of the 303rd engi-
neers is in charge Of group of scouts
at New Brunswick, N. J., taking up
one of the most interesting features Of
scouting.
This corps is designed to lay foun-
dation for practical engineering work
in the future. The outline of instruc-
ton follows:
Preliminary-Road sketching and
reconnaissance, use of compass, pace
scales, methods Of recording notes,
forms for traversing with compass and
note book, estimating distances.
Sketching Board-Contour maps,
drainage systems, travelling by map,
field work with sketching board.
Panoramic ketching-Locating OBJ
jects that are visible, use of vertical
and horizontal clock-face system.
Knots and Lashings-Their use in
engineering, rigging tackle, placing
sheer poles, lifting weights, construc-
ton of trestles.
Pontoon Equipage-Use Of RATS in
bridging, demolitions, removal of
stumps and rocks, sanitation.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
SCOUTS TO FIGHT TREE RUST.

Chief Scout Executive James e.
West in New York city is in receipt
of the following letter from George D.
Pratt, conservation commissioner of
the state of New York:
''We are contemplating employing
boys for the eradication of the blister
rust in the Adirondacks during the
summer. My thought has been that
we would have a camp of about fif.
teen boys
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
ROTARY BACKS THE SCOUTS.

The Rotary club of Montgomery,
Ala, at its weekly meeting saw DEM
onstration of the scout program. The
boys showed bandaging, carrying, resus-
citation, modifying, fire-making with
out matches and other bits of scout
craft.
They were heartily applauded, and
as a result of their exhibition the boys
work committee of the Rotary club
unanimously voted to establish a first
class scout council.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08

There are many surprising stories
about toads, observes Philip Hale, edi-
tor Of the "As the World Ways" col
umn in Boston Herald. Here is one of
them, taken from book containing the
names and crimes of people in North
umberland. England. In 1893 stone
mason, Mr.. George Wilson, "wantonly
immured" n toad in a wall he was
building, making for the toad a close
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
John Goes Alone.

John was a tightwad. but Mary was
unaware Of the fact until one evening
when he had asked her to attend the
theater with him. Upon arriving at
the theater John stepped up to the box
office and purchased one ticket and
called out to Mary. waiting close by In
the lobby, 'Mary, here's where you buy
your ticket; I've got mine." A litter
passed through the waiting crowd, and
SO John had to attend the performance
alone, while Mary with crimson face
lost herself in the crowd.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-08-08
Valuable Daughters.

A daughter is of considerably more
value to the Kaffir than a son. Up to
the age of ten, Kaffir girl is kept at
home; then she has to earn her own
living, either as a servant at a white
lady's house, or by assisting her IA
ther in hoeing the mealie and corn
patch. AS soon as she reaches a mar
riageable age suitors arrive. Beauty
is a small attraction in the eyes of
the Kaffir lady-killer. The father bar
gains with the suitor. A very fair price
for a good girl is eight oxen.