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The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13


Dec. 29th. 1919.
Dear Mamma:
We received eight sleighs OF mail
last night from Archangel. / was
up until 8 a. m. sorting it out. We
sure were glad to get it, and some
of the boys got some packages from
home.
We had fine Xmas, plenty OF
wild turkey for us all. and the Red
Cross sent up stocking for each
man with candy and nuts and ciga-
rettes. We have plenty of warm
clothes over here and we sure need
them for il is some cold" All Of
the rivers are frozen over and we
are miles away from the Railroad
and all we have in the way of trans
portation is sledges. The snow is
over two feet deep and we have
snow shoes to use when we go on
patrol.
Everything has been quiet for
the past few days, but the hardest
fight / have been in was since the
peace armistice has begun on the
western front. This is a strange
war over here. just when we think
things are going nios, the crazy
Bolshevicks start something, but
always to their sorrow. The last
time B. Co. mixed it with them we
were outnumberei four to one and
after the fight we still held our po-
sition and also several thousand
roubles that the burying party got
off the dead.
The boys in France are going
home right along, but the Lord only
knows when we will get away from
here. OF course the war here is
nothing to compare with what they
had in France, but we lose a few
men in every fight we have and a
man hates to get killed nov aftel
the big war is over. however. we
will have to stick it out until the
finish.
l am first Sergeant of B. Co.
now, our 1st Sgt we had is dead
Had rather be with my platoon, but
| had no choice, had to take it.
The boys are talking 80 loud
about going home that ! can't write
any more. They think they will be
taken away from the front in few
weeks, bat OF course they are just
guessing.
The last letter / had was dated
Nov. 7th. Give Papa and Frances
my love. Lovingly, BRUCE.
Scr, G. b. MILLER,
Co. b., 339 Inf,
Eloki, Archangel, Russia.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13
Our Present Duty.

Our Tresent Duty.
The days of sacrifice, of self-deni-
al, OF economies, forced and real,
are not over. Unselfish devotion
to our country and our country's
needs is as necessary now as it was
last October.
For, although the armistice is
signed, the Peace Conference is on,
the German army almost a thing OF
unpleasant memory and the boys
are coming home, the end is not yet
for any of us.
Uncle Sam hasn't finished the
jobs not out of the woods. We
are not free from duty's demands.
Those ofus who have made worth
while record of patriotic service
during the months OF war are to be
congratulated no doubt, but after
all we have only done our plain
duty and we have builded for our
selves more than we have helped
our country.
Because we have stood in the
pot light and have made records
that are held up TO others as worthy
of emulation does not relieve us OF
any new duty that we are now call
ed upon to perform. In fact, be-
cause we have done our share and
by doing it have been given a lead
ing place in our community, we are
all the more in honor bound to
continue our work and to answer
our country's call to finish the job.
Today the appeals for service are
as vital as they were before Novem-
Der 18th. These appeals are for us
to do our part of the public work of
financing the Government through
War Savings Stamps and the Fifth
Liberty Loan and in making prof.
cient other various war aids.
Behind every one of these appeals
we see that titanic struggle-the-
shell-swept battlefields, the bomb
rent hospitals, the wreckage of
buildings and the ruin of cities. We
see the surging back and forth of
fighting armies, the slow return OF
laden ambulances. the ghost-like
clutter of crosses on the hillside.
And then along comes Sam Smith
with shattered leg and bis lifelong
limp. And he tells stories of other
fellows who were with him in that
fight he will never forget, and who
were done up far worse than he;
fellows who will have to learn all
over again the job OF earning a
living.
Then more than ever we realize
that our task and the task of our
country is far from being done, and
If we are truly patriotic, il we are
right inside, we heed the appeals
and mentally decide to see it
through. This is all we can do and
the least.
In view of these conditions and
in the bright light of these pressing
duties, the man and woman who
does not carry on" who takes the
stand that he has done his share
and is free from further obligation,
will be most unpleasantly conspi-
cuous.
There are slackers in peace as
well as in war times. There has
been an awakening of the national
conscience. The American soul
has been reviyified. We view our
duty to our Government differently
than we did before the war. and
public opinion will properly reward
sacrifice and patriotic effort. At
the same time 1t viii remove and
destroy the laurel wreath, IL The
wearer avoids the performance Of
bis present duty. Loyal commun-
tiles willnot tolerate slackerism now
lany more than they did then.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13
Wanted!

Car of Stock Peas. Last yearthe
market went down from the start.
This year may see the same. !
will pay $500 per bushel for clean
straight grades, sacked in Q bushel
or 2 IL bushel good sacks. II not
sacked $1.50 per bushel, for three
weeks only. If you have any kind
of stock peas better bring them in
now. T. M. MCDONALD.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13
Kirkland, Wash. Feb. "a. ,1a.


Dear Mr.. Sparks:
Please send the vidette to me at
this place until further notice.
came to Seattle to be with my faith
er, during his wife's illness, several
weeks ago. She died and am now
waiting for him to wind up his af-
fairs here SO he can go South with
me. viii probably be here several
weeks.
Yours very truly,
MRS. ]. T. WALKER,
Kirkland, WASH, R, 2,
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13

Bread and circuses may have sat-
isfied ancient Roman plebeians, but
the fastidious modern proletriat de-
mands ham and eggs and movieS,
and even then is not satisfied.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13

Those people who said there could
not be a League of Nations to en-
force peace. evidently did not fully
know our wonderful Woodrow.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13

1t will be helpful, too. if the job
Offered the returned warrior shall
enable him to take care of the ex-
munition worker in the style to
which she has grown accustomed.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-03-13

Ex-President TAFT says the con-
stitution of the League is a wonder
full piece of work, and Taft has al
ways been good judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
CHILD WELFARE BILL
 SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

Montgomery, September 26.-(Spe- cial)-Goyernor Kilby Friday signed the child welfare bill. which creates a department for the purpose of lock- ing after the welfare of all childr en in Alabama. It is a companion bill of the one which provides who Shall work in the state and is known as the child labor bill.
 Another bill of general interest ap- proved by the chief executive requires the reading of the Holy Bible in all schools supported in whole or in part by state funds.
 Other important general bills ap. proved follow:
 Regulating the manufacture. sale and disposition of insecticides ani fungicides in Alabama. adopt budget system. under which Alabama is being operated.
 Authorizing proper county author ities to furnish telephones for offices of clerks of the circuit court. sheriff, jailor, probate judge and registers in chancery in all counties. Amending an act 70 authorize any county to issue special tax for school purposes.
 Amending registration laws and re- quiring that qualified electors be per- mitted and authorized to register once yeaE
 the filing of pleas or set-off, reconp- ment, etc
 Amending section , of an act to au- thorize the holding of elections by municipal corporations for the purpose Of obtaining authority to issue bonds for public improvements and fixing time when elections shall be contested
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
TWO IN JAIL IN CONNECTION WITH COOPER SHAVING Arrested on Warrants Sworn Out by Self lf-Styled
 Psycho-Analytical
 Detective

Nashville. September 1s-Dennis E. Robin J. Cooper. and Nora Lee Jones, negress, charged with being accessory before the fact, were held to the grand jury without bail at their preliminary hearing held before a magistrate this aft ernoon. following their arrest this morn- Hansen of Memphis. a self styled psycho- analytical detective.
 The grand jury is now in session, and is expected to consider the cases of Met calf and the negress next Monday.
 Both vigorously protest their inno- cence.
 Mrs. Cooper said that she knows I don't know anything about this murder" the negress declared as she was led to- ward her cell.
 Metcalf appeared angry as on Thursday he had been questioned by the police de- partment and released by that branch or the constabulary as not . having knowledge of the crime
 T am innocent and have told all that l know. 1 cannot tell more if they kill me. If they try to kill me trying to make
 
 their hands and not mine," he said
 When sharply questioned as to the &C., tivities in the Cooper home during the last week of the young attorneys life, Metcalf said that they held some high old times out there," referring to Coop CTS activities with his male companions in the absence of his wife. X Nearly every morning SWe would have to take lot of whisky bottles out of the room; they had been drinking and playing cards"
 Nora Lee Jones made a clear and con nected statement. She said:
 I came to the Cooper home about eight weeks ago, taking the place of Mr. Met calfs wife. who left the next day.
 "On the night of the murder I was upstairs. MT. Cooper came up at about S:0 and kissed his children goodnight. as he always did. He did not seem pecu- liar.
 Later when he went outside in answer to the call at the door heard the un- known man say to him:
 "Is there a car here'?'
 And MT Coopers voice answered back, Yes, there's one here'
 When MT. Cooper did not return homo that night I had stayed in my room on the second floor from until 7 o'clock the next morning, I did not call the po- lice because I did not think it was any of my business. MT. Cooper was man who did not like for people to interfere with his bus mess. He never spoke to us servants ex- cept to say; that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
FALL IN" AND
 "SO TIRED''
Mir. Burgess Feels Much Bet ter Since Taking ZIRON
 Iron Tonic

Investigation and research work by many of the leading medical author ities show that many weak, tired people often lack the. necessary amount of iron in their blood. Iron is needed to keep the system in good condition. Weakness and that "tired feeling" frequently disappear when iron is supplied.
 Mir. c. c. Burgess, of 2412 Wells street, Nashville, Tenn, says: 'Ziron has done me lots of good. I was about all in. I did not have any appetite and my back was so weak that I could hardly do my work and at night was so tired. Since taking Ziron I can do my work and don't get tired, and feel better every way"
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
BIG REALTY DEEDS
 RECORDED IN COURT

Notice of several large real estate transactions were filed with the probate court yesterday. The deed for the 21o acres bought by the Birmingham Realty company from w. M. Leary. Robert Jemi- son. Jr. and others, shows the considera- tion to have been $s5ooo in cash, s2coooo in notes, secured by mortgaae and the assumption of two existing liens on the property amounting to about $2oo.000 This brings the total paid in the neighbor- hood of $4S5, ,0oo
 The war tax alone on this transaction amounted to about $2S5.
 Another purchase by the Birmingham Realty company for ssO,00O was tNe prop erty previously owned by the Mountain Home Land company. which lies north west of the crest of Red mountain. Only restricted mineral rights passed in this case.
 The same company bought som, city holdings of the Glenwood Realty con- Nny for s75.Ooo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27

Montgomery, September 26.-(Special) Lawmakers of Alabama spent Friday clearing away a mass of old house and senate calendars, pamphlets containing propaganda for the scores of measures that have come before the legislature during the 1919 session, from their desks and valuables were placed in order for the final adjournment when the days work is completed on Saturday.
 Dozens of the representatives said Fri day they hoped to be able to leave Mont gomery for their homes ,on Saturday afternoon, but the length of the las, days session is not known at this time Night sessions have been held during the week, and it is likely another will be held on Saturday. Many times the clock hands have been run back a few hours by other legislatures, this permitting the solons to work additional hours. But the fact that one minute past F o'clock will be Sunday may be the cause of sine die adjournment before that time. It was said that many lawmakers would insist that all business be over by the time the clock hands reach the midnight hour. They -do not warf to make laws on Sunday" and they do not believe that clock hands should be run back even five minutes That this would be a vio- lation of the spirit of the state constitu- tion. which limits a session to 50 days, is the belief of many
 FEW IMPORTANT BILLS LEFT
 Few important bills are on the calen- dsrs of either house on the 50th and final legislative day. Appropriation bills have been disposed of and will be in the hands of the governor some. time Saturday or Monday morning. --
 One important bill to come up in the house is the senate bill which provides for an amendment to the state consti- tuition, which if voted by the people win permit the collection of an inheritance tax on certain valuables left by deceased persons in Alabama.
 The senate will be asked to concur In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
GRAFT DIVORCE BILL Y KILLED BY GOVERNOR

Montgomery, September 26-tspe- cial.)-Governor Kilby has. sent a veto message to the senate of Alabama on the Craft divorce bill. which permitted divorce when either of the contract ing parties remains away from marital obligations for a period of one year.
 On the house floor it was argued this bill would grant divorces to Alabama girls who married strange soldiers dur ing the war. The soldiers deserted the girls in short time, it was said, and have not been heard of since.
 The senate upheld the governor and the bill was killed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
Solons Spend Day Preparing
 For Final A djournmen mt
By WILLIAM l.. GoRMLEY

the house substitute to the Craft bill.
 which provides for an amendment to the
 constitution permitting the state to lend
 it's credit to the development of the har- Dor at Mobile. The substitute was by
 MT. Tunstall and was adopted at the Thursday night session of the house. Little interest is being shown by the lawmakers in legislation now pending in
 the two houses. In checking up Friday they found that they had been able to get nearly all their local measures out
 ot the way. and they appeared to be sat isfied with what had been done during the three months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
FEW IMPORTANT BILLS LEFT
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
INDIGESTION
 Caused by ACid-St0rllaCh

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 There are other stomach disorden which also gre sure signs of Aeid-Stonaeh-belch ing. heartburn. bloat after eating. food re. beating. sour, gasey atom ach. There are many ailments which. while they do not cause much distress in the stomach itself. are. neverthe- less. traceable to an acid stomach. Among these are nervousness. biliousneee. cirrhosis ofthe liver. rheum atism. impoverished blood. weakness. insomuia, melanchOlia and long train of physical and meDtal miserics that keep the victims In miserAble health year after year.
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 BATONlc
Evening journal., 1919-04-05
New Germany Has Almost
HopIess Trouble Legacy

men," If they can be called that, will
be, can be told only by time. If they
succeed in bringing Germany out OF
the muddle Of tangled political, social,
economic and foreign problems, it will
be an everlasting tribute TO the repub-
lican form Of government. If they fail
and have to call for help from outside
Germany, as no small proportion Of
Germans who are pessimstic predict,
II will be because the militarists and
the Junkers left too much OF a bad
legacy to carry in these trying times.
Just what tremendous difficulties the
new republic faces cannot be appre-
ciated fully nor described in their
proper relations by a foreigner, espe-
cially when German leaders themselves
cannot straighten out in their own
minds these problems, which change
almost daily.
But there are high lights that stand
out, or group themselves under heads,
and the best q correspondent can do
is describe these problems as they ap-
pear, not so much TO a foreigner, but
to Germanvs republican cabinet, which
is trying 60 master them all at once.
The following series Of articles on Ger
many's situation politically, socially,
economically, and in other phases that
can be covered, may be altered by the
time these stories get TO print, but
they will describe the chaotic, COM
plicated, unrestful situation out Of
which the new German republic was
born.
Evening journal., 1919-04-05
BY FRANK J. TAYLOR.

United Press STAFF Correspondent
BERLIN, March 20 (By Mall Ger
many's infant republic was born with
no silver spoon, unless liberation from
militarism and kaiserism can be inter-
preted in that way. The new republic
begins with the most hopeless legacy
Of troubles that any nation ever faced
So interwoven and tangled arc the
problems which the new republic S
cabinet is undertaking and struggling
against, while new ones rise constantly,
that the words Of a German, who said,
There's not a man in all Germany who
sees at one time more than half Of
the maze Of dangers that might eX-
plOde and overthrow the State" are
true.
There are those who say the situation
is beyond solution. They hold that
the slate Of the past should he wiped
clean, and that the German State should
start all over again, much as Russia
tried 10 do. The government realizes
this would mean disaster and complete
loss Of confidence in any form Of gov
ernment and struggles TO avoid it.
II Is hard enough to change the form
Of government when things are running
smoothly, and when all parties agree
TO il. IL is hard enough to begin
republic where no government existed
at all before. The Germans find their
task made far more difficult by the
reason that their country was COM
pletely reOrganiZed, and the new re-
glme has TO answer Immediately for
all the deluge Of failures and mistakes
Of the old.
Germany today can be visualized per-
haps as pepper full Of popcorn, most
OF which has popped, but some Of which
has not and is still going Off. Each
explosion shakes tho whole mass. This
unstable state IS held together only
by the walls of arms That still sur
round it, for many are they who would
like 20 escape from the burden.
Germany's new government is tack
ling the problems with optimism and
hope-cOnndence is hardly possible, as
yet. Right here it might be said the
new German government is one without
brilliant leaders and is without great
men in it. This the Germans, them
selves say, and do so without regret
I'm their voices. The Germans have had
enough Of great men, and seem glad to
trust their future TO mediocre, honest
citizens.
This Carpenters Reichstag," as it
has been called, has already weathered
storms OF opposition, during the try
ing months when the Ebert-Scheide-
mann party guided Germany from mill
tarism, and put TO flight the adoption
of a provisional republic constitution
at Weimar, on February 10. The great
mass Of German people have expressed
their confidence in at least the hon
esty and impeachable good Intentions
of the Citizen Congress"
How successful these Citizen States
Evening journal., 1919-04-05
PASSOVER.

~, NE Jewish feast OF Passover fails ON the 18th day
Nsm corresponding this rNvlth Tuesday April ij
The celebration begins the evening Of April ii with
sundoyyn. The manner Of It's Observance determined
largely by the biblical ordqances concerning this feast
II is to observed Wilmington and elsewhere for
period Of seven days. Those who cherish customs that
originated after Bible times will keep the feast eight days
The coremonals are such as calculated to bring
home the historical event which the feast commentaries
namely the newborn freedom vouchsafed to Israel after
the long period Of oppression endured under Egyptian
tyranny. The eating Of uneavened bread Is enjOned
number Of times in the biblical regulations touching the
observance Of the feast Unleavened bread Is
characterized as the bread of anlcton and is also
ferred to in the Bible the bread that uneayened
because Of the enforced hasty departure from Egypt In
postbblical times the earnest decre to keep the in
functions most scrupuousy led the teachers of Israel to
enact laws such the Of special dishes that had
been guarded from contact with ayen and reserved only
for the Passover season.
charming and effective feature in the celebration Of
the feast is the special Seder service around the festive
family board the first evening Of the feast to which
the Orthodox add second evening AT this family service
a special ritual known the .Haggadahn Is read. This
ritual contains the story Of the redemption from sery
tudc certain reflections Inspired by the memories Of old
and certain psams This followed by the festal meal
after which Grace is reced The service concludes with
the reading Of additional psalms the recitation of prayers
and the singing Of time-honored hymns. To This home
service stranger and homeless are cordially invited on
the table in front of him who presides the meal
placed objects reminiscent Of the ancient service and
servitude such bitter herbs reminder OF the bitter lot
Of those who tolled in Egypt; roast bone calling to
mind the ancient paschal lamb roasted egg memorial
Of the free viii Offering that brought addition to
the paschal lamb parsley and the bowl OF salt water
symBolizng The hyssOp and its use the first Passover
observed in Egypt and confeclion Of and apples
to represent the clay which Israel worked bricks
The Passover falling at the beginning Of Spring had
originally pastoral and agricultural character which in
time was overshadowed by the historical event assocat-
ed later with the feast Freedom and its obligation is
the keynote OF the celebration The Reform synagoes
hold special services only the first and seventh days
while the orthodox observe also the day and an
additional eighth day.