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The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25
THEIR NAME IS AMERICAN LEGION

In connection with the speaking
tour Of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, whose
portrait is here presented, in IA states
in the interest of recruiting for the
American Legion, 1t has become known
that there is movement to get to-
gether all the veterans Of patriotic Or
~snizations. The attitude of the G. A.
toward the proposition is shown by
the following extracts from a letter
from G. E. Adams of Omaha, COM
mander in chief, to Henry D. Lindsey,
chairman of the national executive
council of the American Legion: -..
I'm my opinion the time has now
arrived for all army men and oil patri.
otic societies to strengthen their po'
sition by federation of organizations.
This action cannot come too soon-the
Reorganization that Is so rife today
must be curbed. And it will take the
united force Of us all to make the
proper American construction that Is
% urgently needed. I have visited u
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The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25
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The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25

would Ike 10
If
Harry Spencer
whom
20.
Landlord serving notice rents
vanished
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houshoders Mrs.
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25
Did the Aztecs Build This Ancient Wisconsin City,

Crawford three miles from
history origin ana
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25


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and named
Just see what knd OF
Lieutenant
Here anfaher made and here's
aphne that ut that dine 10
dreamed OF
made several attempts to with
Finally made 1t N
train We arrived tan2
half F..
few about miles Of Kmgoea
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The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25
First Airp|anes Over the Continental Divide

flight history the Continental
flying
of air service
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25
Ladies' Aid" Is a Fifth Wheel in the
Machinery of Political Party
:" %s "
BY MARY GARRETT HAY Eastern Political Leader

The Ladies' Aid is fifth wheel in the machinery
of political party. Men and women should work to-
gether There no place for the Ladies' Aid in poll
tics Men and women should serve side by side the
committees should labor together in the assembly dis
trcts should together evolve plans, platforms and poll
tics; should, in short, be political partners
Together both sexes do better work than either
acting alone. Men have had the experience the long,
practical training in political procedure They have the
business alerness keenness accuracy and understanding
Of the interreation of things Association with them
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25

"Whats in a Name?" Interview This H. S. Brown
BrownT' 1t nognans
u speaking I'm one OF
don't down on the ent
and wait q
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25

"UTCdlNSON, MlNN.-A mOtner ne
IL apprehension, is still sending up
in God. I Iaayed night and day. My I
saved. knew God would spare him.
I am thankful-the most thankful
mother in the world"
She is Mrs. 8. G, Peterson, mother
of Lieut.. Harold G. Peterson, one of
the two American aviators snatched
from execution by Mexican bandits
through payment of ransom.
Her eyes frightened in her great
Joy, and she longed to see him, to take
him in her arms, for he is her only
boy. She and Mr.. Peterson have
asked the war department to let Lieu
tenant Peterson come home for a reuni|
for the Heutenant's father, who owns
Minneapolis, keeping in constant tou<
vt was the greatest message we
In her exultation. 1T came from Harf'
crossed the Mexican border into Amer
but think Of him.
"Mr. Peterson had raised the entire
''Then Mi. Peterson got telegra
Baker told him not to send the $4,000,
the matter In hand"
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25

o
history a the Nevada
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25

not"
"The flats aren't worth the price
you ask. They're between two car
lines, and they're dirty, and all the
tenants"
:But you've got the wrong-
I'VE sent an ultimatum by the
janitor. We're willing to pay-
"Wait minute, tell you. My
name is Brown, but am not your land
lord. don't own any fats and never
raised your rent. It must be Harry
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25

Glenwood Springs. =
All three left the mountain resort
within five minutes of each other, the
first jumping of at noon: They arrived
over Denver at 1:2O. Their average
fight time was one hour and twenty
minutes for the bee-line distance Of 13O
miles. 49,
- One Of the planes was piloted BY
Lieut.. Edward Killgore. This 6yer
whose home is in New York, Is grand
- ~ = r nar<houd ,,Snno~R
The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25
Ransomed Aviator's Mother Prayed for His Escape

MNN mother from eepess nights Of
thanksgiving
answered My
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
A MISSOURI DRY" ENFoRcER
Shrader Howell Chosen as Prohibi.
ton Director for Missouri.

Washington, Nov. 28.-Shrader P
Howell, an assistant attorney general
Of the state, was chosen today by the
internal revenue bureau of the Treas
ury Department for the post of fed
eral prohibition director for Missouri
The appointment will be formally
made today. Howell will have
charge of prohibition enforcement
under the Volstcad law in Missouri.
The position pays $4,000 year. In
letters to Jouett Shouse, assistant
secretary Of the Treasury, and Daniel
c. Roper, head of the Internal rev.
enue bureau, who made the selection,
Howell was strongly Endorsed by
Governor Gardner, Attorney General
McAll;ster, former Attorney General
Barker, members of the state supreme
court and most of the Missourians i'll
congress.
Howell is a graduate of the acad
emic department of the University of
Missouri, studied law at the Uni
versity of Michigan, and took a de-
gree in law at Georgetown Univer-
sity. He was secretary. to the late
Congressman David A. DeArmond,
of Missouri, and later secretary to
Attorney General Barker. He was
continued in that office by Attorney
General NcAllister.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
MISSOURI'S YOUNGEST BANK
CASHIER RESIDES IN SPRUCE
Francis K. Goodwin is Just Al Years
Old and a Native of Bates
County.

Spruce, Mo-, Nov. 26.-Much land
is changing hands here as i'll other
sections of the county. This city
enough houses could be secured.
Like many other places, the high cost
of building material and labor has
caused shortage OF houses
The Farmers Bank was organized
here last summer and opened for
business August 1, 1919. 1t has built
up a good business. The cashier.
Francis K. Goodwin, is native of
Northeastern Bates County and is
just FL years old. He is the young
est bank cashier in Missouri.
The section of county around
Spruce is the Oldest settled portion
of Bates County. The first settlers
came in 1870 and many of the old
families and their descendants are
still living on the lands of their an.
cestors. The farmers are we'll off
and prosperous.
The quiet town lies in the eastern
part of Bates County, about three
miles west OF the Henry County
line and IL miles east of Butler. 1t
was founded in 1883 and is a good
inland business point. 1t is about
eight miles west of Montrose, the
nearest railway station. It is on the
main auto highway from Butler to
Clinton, and many tourists daily pass
through the place.
Spruce has three good mercantile
establishments, bank. cream sta
ton, garage and blacksmith shop,
Odd Fellows Hall and two churches.
1t is in the center of rich agricul-
tural country, and. being nearly half
way between Butler, on the Missouri
Pacific Railway, and Montrose. on
the Katy line, it commands good
trade from wide scope of country.
The post office has two rural routes
and two daily mails, one from But
Ter and one from Montrose.
If Spruce ever gets railway it
will become quite an important city.
1t is possible that some day in the
not far distant future that it will Sc
cure railroad, and that is now the
dream and hope OF all her citizens
St. Louis Republic.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
WARN OF NEW BOMB PLOT
All Packages During Holidays
Should be Examined Closely.

New York, Nov. 2S.-New York's
prominent citizens today were Off
cially warned by the district attor-
ney's office against the possibility OF
bomb-bearing Christmas packages.
Acting on advices received recent
ly from the Philadelphia police, that
radical plans had been discovered
for repetition on a wholesale scale
during the holidays of the bomb
mailing plot of last May Day, the
district attorney advises caution in
handling all parcels received between
now and New Years Day. Citizens
were advised to carry all suspicious
looking bundles received by mall
express or otherwise" to the fire de-
partment's bureau of combustibles or
the police departments bomb squad
for examination.
The May Day outrages were cited
as examples of the extent to which
desperate-minded radicals will go in
order to inflict punishment upon the
representatives of law and order,
whose duty it has been to suppress
the advocates of direct action
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
Congress Will Deal With Bolshevists
Clark Says.

Mexico, Mo-, November 2S.-'T he
opinion seems to be that very soon
the peace treaty. including the
League of Nations, will be ratified,
with certain reservations, and the
Senate can then devote itself to our
own domestic affairs" said Champ
Clark in speech made in the Court.
house here tonight He declared
Senator Lodges plan to have Con-
gress declare the war at an end is
futile, because a resolution without
President Wilson's signature would
not be worth the paper it is printed
on. Bolshevism cannot flourish in
American soil. That soil was dedi-
Gated to liberty" he continued.
anarchists and Bolshevists should
be imprisoned or deported: Con-
gress will find ways to deal with
these pestlent disturbers of the pub
lie peace. My own judgment is that
there arc enough laws on the statute
books to dispose of all of them. RI,
however, it is found that existing
laws are not sufficient we will enact
some more"
Clark was the guest OF the Mexico
Chamber of Commerce this after
noon and tonight he was given 4
luncheon at the Missouri Military
Academy and dinner at the Hotel
Hoxsey. He made talks to the
students of the academy, Mcmillan
High School and Hardin College.
He spoke to large audience in the
Courthouse at 8 O'Clock.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
Hanged Ten Men in A, E. F.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-The annual
report OF Maj. Gen. Enoch Crowdcr,
Judge advocate general OF the ARM
makes public for the first time an OF.
ticial summary of the capital" cases
occurring in the army since April g,
1917, the beginning of the war period.
Death penalties were adjudged in
l45 cases from that date to June 80,
1910, and execution OF the sentence
was consummated in thirty-five cases
ten in France and twenty-five in
the United States. Murder was
charged in two OF these cases, muir
der and mutiny in nineteen assault
in eleven and assault and murder in
three.
I'm no case according to the re-
port, was a capital sentence for a
purely military offense carried, into
execution"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
Cortland.

Clarence Earl Simmons, who is All
aviator at Fl. Sill, Okla, is enjoy
ing 80 days furlough with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Sim
mons.
Mrs. Hannah McClintic and Mrs.
John Everman are enjoying a visit
from their sister, Mrs. Lizzie Nc
Canda and niece, Mrs. VIM. Stevens
of Canton, Illinois.
Mrs. A. w. Shay, Mrs. P. l. Tur-
ner, Miss Maude Morgan and Miss
Beth Turner attended a missionar y
meeting at the home of Mrs. {. A.
McCombs in Butler Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson returned
home from Girard, Kansas, Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. P. w. Carnie and daughter.
Gladys, sons John and Charley and
her nephew, Duncan McAllister, Lett
Friday night for their home III
Idaho.
Ed Dipple returned home Thurs
day morning from his brother-in-
laws funeral at Cissera Park, Ill.
Mrs. Ira Hart and Mrs. Early, of
Peru neighborhood spent Tuesday
with Mrs. A. w. Shay.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
U. S. Doesn't Need Hun Ships,

Washington, Nov. 2S.-Navy de-.
partment officials expressed surprise
today at the action of the supreme
council iii alocating one German bat
tie ship and destroyer to each of the
Allied and associated powers for ex-
permental purposes. The United
States has not asked for any OF the
German vessels and said they would
be OF little use to this country. even
for experimental work. as it is as
serted there was little the American
navy can learn from the German
vessels. Probably the ships, after
being inspected by boards of naval
officers, would be placed on exhibit
ton at scaports and later be used as
targets for the fleet. it was said.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
Huns in New Defiance.

Berlin. Nov. 2S.-It is said in au.
thoritative quarters that Germany
will not comply with the demand OF
the Entente for four hundred thou
sand tons of docks. dredges and tugs
as an offset to the German warsnlps
sunk at Scapa Flow.
1T is indicated that Germany would,
stand pat on her proposition to refer
the dispute to The Hague tribunal.
1t is claimed that Germany should
not be held responsible for the acts
of the marine forces at Scapa Flow.
Paris, Nov. 28.-The supreme
council decided today all enemy war
ships shall be destroyed except those
to be turned over to France and ltal,
in compensation for their war losses.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
A MULE RA1DED BoLsHEv1K1
With Two Victims in Hospital the
Reds Returned Maud to Yanks.

Chicago, Nov. IA Missouri
mule with lot OF kick got the best
of band OF Bolsheviki in Siberia re-
Gently. Alfred l.. Flude of the Y. NJ.
c. A., who was with the American
boys in Siberia for more than a year,
tells the story -
This mule was captured from
American soldiers one dark night in
the Suchan mine fields" said Mr..
Flude. THE Bolsheviki took several
soldiers, too.
A few days later the Bolsheviki
opened negotiations for an exchange
of prisoners. When they approached
our lines they brought not only the
Americans, but the mule, leading him
by long rope and keeping at a safe
distance.
" What's the mule for?' asked one
American.
-" Take the beast away, replied the
Bolsheviki leader. We don't want
any prisoners for him. He put two
men in the hospital in one day.
You're welcome to him. Good by.'
The American mule. by the way.
is big curiosity in Siberia. When
he arrives townspeople line the roads
to look at him
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
/. o. P. After $1oo,ooo,ooo 1oao
'Slush' Fund, Charge.

Washington, Nov. Exchanges
that the Republicans have started 4
"slush' fund for the 1920 campaign,
that may total $loo, 100000 were
made Thursday bv w. w. Durbin.
state chairman of the Ohio Demo-
cratic executive committee. in an
open letter to Chairman Ho,hcr S.
Cummings of the, Democratic nation
al committee
Durbin declared that J. B. Dean.
X. X. Leblond and Fred A. Geier OF
Cincinnati had admitted contribute
ing $1,000 each to preliminary Re
publican campaign fund.
Will Hays, Republican chairman.
Durbin declared, has been conduct-
ing meetings to secure money from
big business men beyond all dreams
of avarice' and he considers the
1920 campaign as "a commercial
problem"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
Wilhelm Believes He is Safe.

Amsterdam, Nov. 26-The Tele-
graf, quoting IAN authoritative
source" says both the Netherlands
government and Ex-Emperor Will
liam of Germany still are confident
that nothing will come of the report
that there will be a demand for the
extradition of the one time emperor.
The newspaper adds that Frederick
William. the ex-crown prince, who,
it says, has less to fear from extra
dition than his father, takes the mat
ter more seriously.
The Telegraf's authority says that
the breach between the former en-
peror and his son, while not healed,
is less bitter, the son having yielded
somewhat to his father because of
the wishes of his mother.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
Bulgars Agree to Pay $44s, ooo, ooo
Indemnity.

Paris, November an. Stambu-
liwsky, premier of Bulgaria, signed
the treaty OF peace between this
country and the allied powers at
Neuilly Town Hall today.
Frank L. Polk. American Under
secretary of State; Henry White and
Gen. Tasker Fl. Bliss signed for the
United States.
By the conditions of the treaty.
Bulgaria is called upon to surrender
all works of art, and valuables taken
from allied countries during the war
and pay an indemnity of -approxi-
mately $44s, Ooo, 900.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04

Salt water has appeared in the
famous Tepetate oil fields, which has
a production record of 100 million
barrels OF crude petroleum since the
first well was brought in. The wells
which have gone to salt water are
two of the Mexican Gulf Oil Com
pany. one OF forty thousand barrels
and the other of sixty thousand bar
rels daily flow; and of the Texas
Company. one of seventy-five thou
sand barrels and the other five thou
sand barrels daily production. Salt
water first made its appearance in the
tield two weeks ago and spread until
it ruined the wells.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04
Butler Pleased by Quick Results.

Everyone is pleased with the quick
results of simple witchhazel, camphor,
hydrastis, ETC., as mixed in Lavoptik
eye wash. One mans eyes were SO
badly strained he could not read
without pain. Two applications re-
lieved him. A lady with weak, in
famed eyes was greatly helped by
ONE bottle. We guarantee a small
bottle of Lavoptik to help ANY
CASE weak, strained or inflamed
eyes. Guynn & Sons Drug Store.
(C1ay's Old Stand). 6
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04

Approximately 1000 bales of cotton
burned last week in a fire which swept
part of the St. Louis Cotton Com
press Company's plant at Eldorado,
Ark, says a dispatch. The loss is
about 100000. Spontaneous com.
bustion in a coal bin is believed to
have started the fire
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04

When William Patterson, a well
known farmer of Dayton vicinity in
Cass county, gets mad, he is too nu-
merous to mention, and loses all rea-
son. The other day, his Elgin car
didn't run to suit him so he covered
il with hay and soaked it with gaso-
line, after which he set = match to it
and watched il Aurn.-Clinton Demo-
crat.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-04

Approximately 100000 acres Of
Mexican land have been granted as
concessions to Germans to encour-
age German colonization there, or
have been sold to German capitalists,
who have been working on arrange
ments to take forty-five thousand
Germans year into Mexico. That
information, startling in its i'm
mensity, is CLEANED from perusal OF
the official publication of the Mexico
department OF industry, commerce
and colonization, under date of
March IS of this year and bearing
the official Mexican government
stamp. The bulletin with the COM
plete information came into the
hands of American official investi-
gators just recently.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
RENTS

A horizontal raise in rents is exciting the leading cities OF
the country and a great cry is being raised against what is called
the rapacty OF property owners.
This is a question that will adjust itself i'll time. The higher
the rents the greater inducement there will be to build houses
until the supply exceeds the demand, when prices will come down
In new countries where there are no houses people manage
to get along The man who has a grading contract on a railroad
loads his wife and children into a wagon, provides himself with
a tent and strikes out. When he comes to a spring along the
right-of-way he raises his tent and finds shelter and comfort
in it until the job is done, Those who live in apartment houses
must have elevator service, hot and cold water and other con
veniences that cost money and they must pay for them. 1t they
could be satisfied with a tent on a vacant lot their rent would
cost little. What landlords are doing is what everyone else is
doing--getting all he can, Commerce is I aralyzed because there
are no ships, and yet in New York 400. vessels are tied up be-
cause seafaring men refuse to work unless they receive more
money. Everything is so high that the wageearner cannot live
on what is paid him. The honest farmer is not behind in his de
mands and is coming into his own. Fruits and vegetables, chick
ems, eggs and butter are bringing war prices, and everyone is
eamoring for a little more.
The war has upset things, and while the workingman is re-
ceiving more than he did formerly, his money is worth only about
IS cents on the dollar, and it takes more of it to live on, In the
final audit he's worse off under big wages than he was under
small wages. The prohteer is not confined to the big operator.
everybody is profteering all he can, but time will bring things
back to the normal ultimately. No one can escape the effects OF
such a war as we have just gone through. Everyone suffers and
will suffer until he finds other ways of doing things. lust now
il is pull Dick, pull devil, and get what you can, It is a bad state
OF affairs and to damn the kaiser does not mend matters any.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-22
FEED THE AIR SERVICE

The American public should voice a loud and long protest
against the starvation of the United States army air service, now
threatened because of the failure Of the Republcan-conuoled
congress to appropriate funds sufficient to sustain it. David Law
renee, special correspondent Of The News Scimitar, issued a
timely warning in his Washington dispatch of Monday, and the
public, knowing the facts, should give expression to its reaction
to these facts,
OF the war emergency should be maintained and the service given
every opportunity for development. Congress should see that
the American army is provided with funds ample enough to enable
it to keep pace with the armies of all other nations and to stimu-
late American civilians to a like progress in aviation, 1t would
be most un-Amercan to let the world forge ahead of us in any
branch Of aeronautics, We are the young giant who is accus-
toned to keep we'll ahead OF the field in evolution, But Great
Britain is already two strides beyond us in aeronsutic evolution.
One OF her alrpanes has made a nonstop flight across the
Atlantic and one OF her lghter-than-air machines has lust COM
pleted a highly successful round trip across that identical body
OF water, The pride OF the American people must surely be
piqued, even If that of the pickering solons has not been.
The age of Tennysons "argosies of purple SAIL has indeed
come and the nation which does not realize il and act accordingly
is going to be looked upon as backward. Before many decades
aircraft will be playing as important a part in the commercial
social and industrial affairs of the worlds peoples as the auto,
mobile is today, viii American traditions not be violated if
American craft fail at any time to navigate the air with as much
power and speed as any other craft? 1t goes without saving that
il any other people is able at any time to travel faster than the
American people the latter shall be left behind. That is not
Americas proper position.