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Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
MYSTERY At
GALENA NOW
Young School Teacher Of Black
Jack School Turns Up Miss
ing-Can Find No Clue
AS to His Whereabouts

Galena Republican,: The mysterious
disappearance of Emmett Mcbride,
principal of the Black Jack school
southwest of Galena, occurred Sunday
afternoon and no trace Of the missing
man has yet been found.
Mcbride who is q highly educated
Young man began teaching at Black
Jack about two weeks ago filling the
position made vacant by the resigna-
tion of Mrs. Laura Meredith Baker.
During his brief stay in Galena he
had been living at the Oxford HOTEL
last Sunday morning he attended ser
vices in the Presbyterian church and
taught a class in the Sunday school.
After eating dinner at the Oxford ne
remarked to one Of the boarders
that he had an engagement from z
o'clock until 6 o'clock but he did not
state what the engagement was nor
where he would be. Since that time
he has not been seen nor heard from.
He had made no arrangements to be
absent from his school and he had paid
his board bill several days in advance
Rev. E. L. Mitchell has sent tele'
grams to his brother, who is in Han
over College, Illinois, and to his
sister, who is a member Of the high
school faculty in Hutchinson, Kansas
also to friends where he has been re-
Gently but none Of them know OF hi
whereabouts.
Mr.. Mcbride was a student OF th'
United Presbyterian College Of Pen
nslyvania, preparing for the ministry
but failing health compelling him Il
: give up his studies, he went to Colo
, RADIO for q time, later going to Eurek'
Springs, Arkansas. From there h
i. came to Joplin and worked for a Will,
) as billing clerk for the M. X. & I
J Railway company. Learning Of tn
! vacancy in the Black Jack school, h
decided to teach the remainder Of tn
; term. Prior to beginning the schoo
he had made application to the Vacan
cy and Supply department of tn
Presbyterian church, a branch o
: which is located at Pittsburg, an
when his disappearance first becam
known, it was thought he might hav
: gone to Pittsburg to ascertain If an
vacancy was open for him, but he ha'
not been heard from there.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
EASY TO DAREEN
YOUR GRAY HAIR
You can Bring Back Color and
Lustre with Sage Tea
and Sulphur.

.Whsn you darken your hair with
sage Tea and Sulphur. no one can
tall because It's done 20 naturally. 20
eVonly. Preparing thla mixture.
though, At home is mun1y ana trouble
some. At little cost you can buy at
any drug store the ready-to-use prep
aFation, Improved By the addition Of
other Ingredients called ''Wyeth's Sage
ana Sulphur Compound" You Just
dampOn q sponge or soft brush with
Il and draw this through your hair,
taking one small strand at q time.
BY morning al gray hair dlsappearA
aud. after another application or two.
your hair becomes beautifully dark
ened, glossy and iuxuriant
Gray, faded hair, though no dis
graco, n q aign Of old age. and a. We
all desire q youthful and attractive
appearances, get busy at once with
Wyoth's eaee and sulphur Compound
and look years younger. This ready
to-uso preparation q delightful toi-
let reQuislts and not q medicine. ~
q not lntolded for The cure. mitiga'
tiou % PREVENTION cf disease
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Speaking of hen peCked husbands,
a certain good wife required her mate
to remove his shoes every time before
coming into the house. One day see
ing some grease spots on his trOus-
ers started to remark the discovery
when the henpeck beat her to It with
II am willing to take of my shoes
but I'll be burned IL I'll 60 any fur
ther, madam, to get into your house"
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

@what words are derived from
'pedes,' meaning footf"
Edith Cannon: pedestrian"
Dorothy Dilloway: "Whaf Is n
'pedestrain??"
Miss Browne: "A pedestrian is q
man that wallrs-on his feet"
We welcomed Mr.. Reid back We'd
nesday after three days absence. The
Sophs are wearing q smile from ear
| TO ear. We are wondering why.
Examination began in earnest
Thursday morning. Here's hoping we
all pass, with flying colOrs.
Ralph Thomas in telling his book
review said: LADY Edith got sore"
Whom has he been associating with to
use slang?
In Elementary Science examination
Mrs. Tdente spoke Of the number OF
I different ways her name was spelled
"Some spell It Twenne, others Twen-
ty." Jack Wells: "Why not write
'one-half Of forty?'"
Claude Fish came back to us aftei
long absence, Monday afternoon.
Rslph Thomas gave an interesting
book report this week on "The Tails
man." by Walter Scott.
/ Miss Browne: "What is q littl'
Iprince called (meaning princeling) 2
Neyna Billello: "A princess"
Where are all the chalk and eras
ers?????
Sophmoresl SophmOresl
Oh what rot
What q swell class
They haint got!
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
CORRECTION

The social reporter of the Daily Cit
izen in sending in the report Of the
Musical given Thursday night at the
Methodist church by Mrs. M. /. Mich
ols' Sunday school class, made the
mistake of not including all the num-
bers on the program. Following are
the numbers left out:
Reading-Racheal SchlOeman.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wells.
Solo-Mildred Earls.
Reading.-Charlene opperman.
Solo-Lois Hunt.
Reading-Marian Rankin.
Solo-Kathleen Covey.
Piano Solo-Hel neMcAboy.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
Sophomore

Miss Bessie Kent was q Joplin Wis
itor Tuesday.
The pupils of the high school are
very busy this week with their mid
term exams.
On Wednesday q very interesting
English class on book reports was
held after school.
On account of the exams the Soph-
omores had to postpone their program
for Friday afternoon until next week
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
Cured at a Cost Of Is Cents

eight years ago when we first
moved to Nation, ] was great SUI
ferer from indigestion and constipa-
ton" writes Mrs. Robert Allison
Mattoon, III. 'T had frequent head
aches and dizzy spells, and there was
a feeling like q heavy weight press
ing on nv stomach and chest all the
time. l felt miserable. Every morsel
of food distressed me. ! could not rest
at night and felt tired and worn ou'
ali the time. One bottle OF Chamber
lain's Tablets cured me and l have
since felt like q different person..
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Gentle hint to late shoppers: We
know where some dandy bargains in
soldier and officer toggery can be had.
Do your buying early; some Of these
days you will want to take the vis-
itors into "son's" room and show them
the layout he wore when he went ov-
er the top
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

The two Hale boys, Ora and Elmer,
have accepted a place with the Buick
people at Halifax, Okla. These boys
date back in Baxter to the days when
the town was young. They have re-
Gently been employed at the Twelfth
street garage.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Out in Seattle they are capitalizing
Teddies' popularity by selling posters
of the cartoon Unto A Far Country"
You may be sure the average Amer
ican is not losing any bets these days
to start something new in the way Of
money-getting.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

A line party was given Friday af-
ternoon at the Elite theater by the
following: Ruth Howard, Neyna Bel
lelo, Dorothy DiIlOway, Marjorie Nc
Donald, Bernadine Jenkins, Hazel
Haley, Doris Stephens, Ruth Miller.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
DELEGATES TO WASHINGTON

The Chamber of Commerce has
been requested to name delegates to
the fourteenth annual conference OF
the National Rivers & Harbors Con-
gress, which meets at Washington
D. c., on February 81. Acting on
this request the following Baxter men
have been designated: DR.. W. R
Scott, ]. o. Goodwin, ]. A. Waid, o.
M. Gilman and o. M. Spratt.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

R.C. Treece left Thursday evening
for his home at Heron, Ill, after q
two days visit with his brother, ]. o.
Treece.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Late precincts have been heard
from: New York Republicans will see
to it that the Prohibition amendment
is ratified. Thanks, Broadway.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Charlie Chaplin and his wife will
visit Europe shortly. 1t may be pos
sible to induce the kaiser to smile once
more if Charley takes his funny
streak along.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
BAXTER HIGH SCHOOL
Junior Notes

Il is doubtful whether or not the
"Sophs" will take psychology the sec
ond semester, for it has been rumored
that Mr.. Rhine said that it was too
deep for them. Which we all know
is true.
/ suppose you all know that last
week was "lxid week" for the Juniors
the Freshies (poor things) have
just caught the joke and are now i'm
itating it.
The Juniors are earnestly trying to
find a play "that is to be the best
yet" The date is set for March 2.
We made and paid for a service flag
and haven't seen it since. What's the
use?
Mrs. Cammack, the high school mu-
sic instruction, is organizing glee
club. Voices were tested Monday and
musical sounds (?) filled the air.
Junior Program Given Friday-Hit
of the Season
An air of mystery hung over the
school Friday morning. The Juniors
were confding secrets and everyone
else was left out. At last in the sec
ond period in the afternoon, the Jun
iOr class president, Dorothy Cook, in
troduced the nsw teacher, Miss Prim,
better known as>Virgie Reece.
The Juniors were assembled into a
school, dressed as they did in about
the 4th grade, i. e. knee length
dresses, curls, hair ribbon, most Of
them had handkerchiefs pinned on
with Freshie class pins (safety pins).
The teacher called the roll and ev-
ery one had assumed q charming
name and assumed It with q quota
ton. The program follows:
Opening address-FlOssie Soft (Al-
ane Brubaker).
Belling the Cat, Dialogue-Friskie
John Opperman), Grey Car MAR
garet ThOmas), Pussyfoot (Clyde
Reeee), Longtail (Eula Pierson),
Whiskers (Thelma TraylOr).
Story Book Ball-Cynthia WiggS
dorothy COOke).
Piano Solo-Betty Marchie (Ollie
Estes).
Reading-Miriah MOseley (Cleta
Bryant).
School 0rphelie Wiggs and
Joe Stelle Dorothy Smith and Her
bert McAbOy).
Scattering Remarks-Miranda Jones
(Louise COvey).
Piano SOlO-Mehitable Bean (Aud-
rey COOPER.
Composition on COdfsh-Mary Ann
Higsby (Grace 0pperman).
Piano Solo-COlinda Lark Julia
Allen.
Home Sweet Home-Audience.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

The Penn. railway says women's
skirts must be made longer or rail-
road schedules slower. Why not build
a gangplank and load 'em like cattle ?
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Two days have passed and we find
no reference to Mrs. Wilson; certain
ly Mr.. Creel must be sick or the cables
parted.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Will the government be SO kind as
to take over the 100000 wrist
watches after the boys come home?
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Mrs. H. Hinton who has been i'll
for several days is improving.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Well, where do you expect woman
to carry whiskey if not in her stock
ings? She has no hip pockets.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

We positively refuse to discuss the
weather-every time we remark on
the splendid January days we are hav-
ing, some Jake takes the joy out OF
life by saying, "Yep, but she looks
like O weather breeder.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Mr.. and Mrs. 10y Martin Of Jop-
lin, will spend Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Stephenson.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31
NEWS AND COMMENT

After July first next we won't even
be near" beer.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Once upon time there was drug
store that didn't harbor a phonograph'
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

We once knew a man and wife who
lived so long together that they act
ually looked alike and worst of all
they had an old "yeller" hound that
looked just like 'em.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Good time now to get out your
spring duds and have friend wife
patch 'em up before the Club season
opens.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Natives in Germany thOt girls were
being punished when they were put
to polishing shOes-a new trade in
that country. Probably they would
have understood it better if the Am
orleans had chopped of their hands
or feet.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

News item says "butter is coming
down." Now If the millers will allow
us to suggest little of in the price
Baxter Springs news., 1919-01-31

Freshmen
Altho' we are Freshmen,
Just learning to talk,
We're not like the Sophomore
We don't throw chalk.
. Tuesday afternoon the school had
@sre driIi." The Freshies and SOphs
had ouite a battle, the ammunition
being yells. -
Miss Brown, in Latin l Class'
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
SALEM WOOLEN MILLS
STORE WILL ENLARGE
Lease Signed On EckerliI
Building, Adjoining Pre-
sent Rooms.

Leases have been signed by which
the Salem Woolen Mills store has taken
over the store room on Commercial
street adjoining and just north Of its
present location, known as the ECktilln
building. II is at present occupied by
pool and billiard hall.
Due to an increasing business and the
fact that the Bishop store is now man
ufacturing its own all wool goods for
the making into clothing of muen Of Its
stock, il was found necessary to secure
larger quarters.
The new store room will have u front
to correspond with the Bishop slore
and will have entrances cut to make the
three store rooms practically as %.
Work on the fe-medeling Of the EcAer.
lin building viii begin August OF
sooner and By September it will be oe-
cupied. The new room will be oeeu.
pied largely by boys clothing and other
lines Of young men 8 furnishings aud by
the enlarged shoe department.
The pool and billiard hall nov ~ the
Eekerlin building will occupy the Nm.
Brown & Co. wool rooms on isy Soata
Commercial street. The Brown com.
pany have already moved to their new
warehouse on Front street.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30

Willard is exhibiting some good signs.
He is peevish, an unnatural thing for
him. When an athlete grows into a hu-
NOR where he complains about little
thing II is time 10 call off his train.
ing, for he has reach a pitch for su-
preme cndeavor.
Champ Getting Peevish.
Today, Jess kicked about the fact
that his photograph has been printed on
the right hand side cover OF the official
program for the bout Dempsey's is
on the left hand side. In his workout
yesterday he kicked when timeEcep-
or for his workout failed to call time
loud enough for him to hear IL
Dempsey worked six rounds ycster-
day. There were two runds with Bill
Tate, two with Jamaica Kid and two
with Jock Malone.
Willard came near disaster. in his
workout Walter Monaghan head
struck Jess eye and skidded a very
short cut. The blood flowed and for
time It looked like the cut might be
bad Jess himself said afterwaie that
the cut was q mere scratch.
cit will have absolutely no effect
on me- he said He claimed IL was
the first time ever bled during lout.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
Pursuit OF Woman Leads
To Arrest OF Bandit Who
Robbed Bank AT Haines

San Franciseo, june .--"Buy old
time you mix with a woman its finish
ed declared Lee G. Carter, anas
Charles connefs, whose appearance at
a police station to secure the arrest Of
a girl, resulted in his own arrest on
charge of robbing the Bank OF Haines,
Or, Of over $4,000. Police says he con
fcssed when confronted with pictures
sent from Oregon.
Carter told police the girl recon-
panied him 10 Los Angeles, and then
deeamped with sllOO. When be saw
her in a downtown cafe here, he sought
o warrant for her arrest While az
the station, be accidentally disei 'sed
the fact that he was carrying an samy
revolver, and was arrested Hhile his
measurements were checked, and the
resemblance TO the northern fugitive
was discovered.
When the bank was robbed, the three
employees we're made to swear on a bible
not 10 give the alarm for 30 minutes.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
VICTORY PARADE TO
Be HELD AFTER NOON
Change Made In Program To
Accommodate Militia Men
From Portland.

The great Victory parade of Jhy
Fourth in Salem win take place 1T l:su
In the afternoon instead Of in the
morning. as first announced.
This change IN the program vas
found necessary in order 10 aeeonsmo-
date the military companies frort Port.
land and other organizations wac could
not take part if the parade was . De
held during the moraihg hours.
Other slight changes in the prog an
from those tentatively announced IA
elude postponing the afternoon eoi.eeft
IN charge Of DR.. II. c. Epley half an
hour. This "Tircd Mothers" eeneert Is
now scheduled for i;3o 0 clock at Mar
ion Square.
The baby pagade win take place =
the morning AZ 10 o'eioek instead OF
$3.50 Is first announced The street
sports are scheduled for O'Clock n
the afternoon with the speaking pAit
Of the program at Marion Square FEB
lowing the Victory parade
All airplane stunts viii iakc piaes
over Wilson Park. The proeFaia fef
the evening wiz aIse be a Nlilssn
park beginning with the folh aaasing
bx the pupils Of Mrs. Ralph White. =
fountain display and the rcsaiatisn
cherrian hand concert. and e'os,As ne
day with the display of iile WORK.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
IS GIVEN
OVATION ON LEAVING
Peace Commissioners Turn
Attention To Terms OF
Austrian treaty.
BY Fred S. Ferguson

UNITED Press Staff Cofrespondent.)
Paris, June s0.-With President viii
son en- route home and Premier Lloyd.
George in London, the allied peace com
missioners were expected to take up TO-
day completion Of the Austrian pace
treaty. Agreement on the principle Of
repatriations, reached last week, was
believed to have paved the way for
speedy assembling Of the remainder of
the document.
The president sailed from Brest on
the transport George Washington at
2:l5 yesterday afternoon, escorted by
the brcadnaught Oklehoma aud four
destroyers. He was accompanied by
Bernard Baruch, Vance Mccormick and
Thomas Lamont.
Although there was little ceremony
attending his leave taking at Brcss, he
was given a sendoff in Paris Saturday
night equalling in enthusiasm his o;ig.
inal greeting
President Poineare, Premier Lloyd.
George, General Pershing, memb,is Of
the American peace commission and
other prominent persons were at the
station.
s'Wilson left France justly satisfied
with his accomplishments, said 4 In
trangieant, Certainly, there arc still
iniustices to be corrected and there
are precautions still to be taken, but
Wilson is entitled to say the treaty rem
ders liberty to the peoples and makes
international law a reality. Equally
great was the signing Of the Anglo
American agreement to help France In
case Of attack.
"Whilo the house of commons will
unquestionably ratify the treaty quick
ly, it is certain the principal battle will
be in the American senate. On the out
come of this battle the future sec-rity
of good portion Of the world depends.
Secretary Won Haniel Of the German
peace commission and 20 other members
of that body left Versailles fos Cologne
on a special train at 9;20 this morning.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
Nationwide Prohibitions
Dream of Reformers For
Century, Becomes Realty

Washington, June S0-( United rress)
Uncle Sam, for years past the great
est consumer of intoxicating liquor, TO
night will take his seat on the world 5
water wagon.
Nationwide prOhibtion-the dream Of
refOrmers for a eentury-beeomes a re-
ality at midnight, when the war time
prohibition act, passed during the strug
gle with Germany to conserve food,
goes into effect, despite the appeal of
President Wilson that congress repesi
il IS it affects beer and light wines
Under the act all manufacture aad sale
of intoxicating liquors are crimes
against the United States.
Whether Uncle Sam win desert the
we'll known water wagon, for q brief
spree before constitutional prohibition
replaces the war time Get next Janu
airy, depends on congress and President
Wilson. Congress can repeal the act,
as the president partially desires, or
the president can declare demobihza.
tiOn of the armed forces complete, thus
in effect repeating ii.
125,000 Saloons Closed.
War time prohibition today inesns:
The closing of l25,OOO saloons, pnnci-
pally in big cities.
The closing of 1247 breweries (19l7
figures.
Practical abandonment of 641 diStill-
cries, already closed as war measure.
Loss to the government Of about
$3.50, 100000 annually in internal reve-
nue., and the loss of several hL;dred
to municipalities for licenses.
Diversion Of s2,OOO,0O0, ,000-the ma
tion 5 liquor bill---to other purposes,
with greatly increased sales of soft
drinks and ice cream expected.
Hundreds of thousands of men, en-.
ployed in the liquor business, must tind
other work.
One million habitual drunkardS--anti-
saloon league figures-must flnd some
other pastime.
The productive wealth and efficiency
Of the country will be increased lj per
cent, dry" leaders claim, basihs this
on reports from prohibition states.
Fifty thousand druggists will be put
under strict license not to sell hquor
Rept FOR medicinal or scientific pur-
Enforcement Big Problem.
ement of prohibition, even dry
leads admit, win be big ploblem
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
SERVICE IN SALEM NOT
LIKELY TO BE CRIPPLED
Entire Northwest System OF
Pacific States Company
Threatened With Tie-Up|
This Week.

Portland, Or, June 3o.-Fivc hun.
dred of the 900 telephone operators Of
Portland are striking according to off
cials Of the telephone girls union.
Strike leaders maintain that al Of
the 900 will be out by noon.
Officials of the electrical WORKERS
organization claim the electricians will
walk out in body tomorrow morning.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company is maintaining communications
to all parts of city, according to Off
eials of the concern. They decline to
estimate the number of strikers, saying
they care coming and going"
The operators are demanding maxi.
mum weekly wage of $40 instead Of
the present $l6; two weeks vacation
on full pay and double time fos Sundays
and holidays.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
Seattle Employees Out.

Seattle, Wash, June 30.-Following
a special meeting held in tie Labor
Temple last night, 1875 union eleetri-
eians, linemen and wiremen, employees
of the Pacific Telephone a Telegraph
company today joined the strike Of isO
telephone operators who walked out
yesterday morning in response to the
order of L. G. Grasser, vice-pr, sident
Of the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers
The final decision to strike in Seattle
came as a result Of the failure Of the
wage conference in San Francisco be-
tween union and company Representa-
tives TO come to any settlement. The
meeting adjourned Saturday in a dstd-
lock.
Although comparatively Efficient
service was maintained BY the local
company yesterday, union officials said
that the seriousness of the strike would