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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1919-11-14
TOWN AND COUNTRY
About Local People and Events and
Other Matters Of Interest

Laclede.
Wanted, a cistern cleaned. Cal
phone 174 or 10.
Pork and beans 2 for 25 cents al
Disney & Disney's.
White Filler soap 4 bars for 25
cents, at Disney & Disney's.
Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels
So 90 each. Mrs. Harry Landree,
phone 81
Two rooms for rent, furnished
or unfurnished. Apply to Mrs.
e. B. Skulley.
Just received, a complete line of
mems rubber boots and overshoes
at Disney & Disney's.
Leon Lomax was at New Cam
bria yesterday looking after his
farm property near there.
A concert will be given by the
colored school Thursday evening,
November q, at the Laclede opera
house, proceeds for the colored
school. Admission 25 cents.
Mrs. G, B. Peacher and her
son Elmer have changed places,
Mrs. Peaeher moving to town
while Mr., and Mrs. Elmer Peacher
moved to the farm northeast of
town.
The W. G. T. U. will hold an
day all meeting with Mrs. Landree
next Friday, November 81. This
is of special interest as a report of
the national convention win be
made.
Here's another real coffee value
we are going to offer to the trade
for one week only. Red Wolf
Steel Cat coffee in one pound pack
ages for so cents, limited to one
pound to the customer. The Home
Store.
The ladies will begin their can
vass for the sale of lyceum tickets
next Wednesday. Please be pre-
pared to meet theU,. Season
tickets, ST 90; school children, so
cents. Single tickets 80 and Is
cents.
Fay Luyster, manager of the
photograph department of Rusk's
Music Store, Brookfeld, arrived
home last week from a months
visit to the Victor Talking Machine
factory at Camden, N. j. and the
Brunswick Phonograph Factory at
Chicago.
Rev. Siegel of Sumner will
preach at the Christian church
Sunday evening at 7:45. All
friends of the church cordially
invited. Hereafter Rev. Siegel
will be here on the third Sunday
of each month, preaching morning
and evening. '
T. q. Barbee received word 9
this week of the death Of his q
father, Washington Barbee, at his
home in Portland, Oregon. The c
slder Mr.. Barbee was a pioneer Of z
Sullivan county, residing on one Q
farm there fifty years previous to
removing to Oregon twenty years s
ago. He was in his 95th year, Q
Rolling. A car of Fanehon high r
patent -four and iced which should
De on track the last part Of this
week or first part of next which we
ire going to offer for sale at car Il
loor, 4s pound sack FanehOns3. 10 k
yer sack, 100 pounds bran $2.10, II
100 pounds grey shorts, $3.50. 100 J
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1919-11-14

Jhe0O DOeslker,f VINO uaS SOlC
his farm and will shortly move tt
Indiana, will hold public sale al
his home a mile northeast of La.
clede on Wednesday, November
26. He has horses. cattle, hogs,
farm implements and feed for
sale. The bills are being printed
at this Office today.
On account of the bad weather
and bad condition of the roads,
| O. E. Coram's purebred stock
sale was postponed from Monday
of this week to Saturday. Novem-
Der %. Mr.. Corsm has some fine
Big Type Poland China hogs and
Hereford cattle and the best kind
of day is needed for the sale.
Residence property continues to
change hands. W. E, Shell has
bought and moved into the Felt
property and A. J kinn has bought
the Collier place occupied by Alva
Brinkley and will get possession
next week when A. j. Havens will
move to town and take possession
of the property vacated by the
Linn family which he recently
bought.
A large wild animal, thought to
be a bob-cat, was seen Tuesday
near Locust creek bridge at the
old mill site southwest of Laclede.
1t appeared to be fat and unafraid
and acted like it migAt-have escAp-
ed from some wild animal show.
If the farmers in that vicinity will
watch their fiocks they will prob
ably find this animal feeding off |
their sheep.
: The remains of Miss Katherine |
Waters will be buried at Linneus
this afternoon, being brought there
from Kansas City. She was the
daughter of Mrs. Chas. Wilson
and a granddaughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R j. Alexander of Laclede
aud was we'll known here She
had been employed as stenographer
n Kansas City aud died from
appendicitis. She was about 20
vears of age.
With the removal of W. S. Saw
lge to Santa Ana, Cali, Laelede will
ose a good family and their going
s deeply regretted. He shipped
lis automobile this week and the
amily will leave soon. But we
re also to gain a family, Mrs.
katherine Fruin having leased the
Iaight property to be vacated by
he Savage family, will move here
rom Meadville. to the delight of
Ter many friends here.
Mrs. 4. E. Gould was hostess
0 the P. E. O's Wednesday after
DON at q thimble party. The /
uests outside the membership /
Tere Mrs. Lille Hall, Mrs. Lay I
on, Mrs. ]. E. Welsh, Mrs. Della
ohnston. Mrs. Mollie Clay, Mrs. {
Ielga Butterfeld, Mrs. Bette
Iomax, Miss Laura Love, Miss
hristena Johnston. A luncheon
as served the principal course r
eing delicious chicken pie. The
Ostess was assisted by her sister, r
Irs. Bruins and Miss Lois Gould. !
l..
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1919-11-14
For Sale

Extra good Jersey milk COW and
some clover hay. W. S. SAVAGE.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03

When we first came over 1 started do
ing the clerical work on the ration
dump which was in charge of Lieu
tenant Wagner. 1 continued this work
until he was promoted to captain and
sergeant in which capacity / have
been ever since.
Captain Brennan made me a SER
geant three days after we landed in
France and he placed me under Wag-
ner as ration figures are important.
He is a great fellow and / get along
with him Al. He treats ME fine and
has a lot of confidence in me. Be
lieve me, he is the one man to soldier
| with.
He was mighty careful OF his men
and 1t was due to him hat our COM
J pany came out as it did. We all owe
it to him that we are alive. Exper-
fence is a good teacher and his TWEEN
ty-five years saved the lives of many.
He Is beloved by everyone in the out
fit and his word is law. If he gives
an order il is complied with.
l recall when we first hit the Metz
front est Mihiel) he told me to go to
the division headquarters about q
matter. Nobody knew where the
headquarters were but / was told TO
lgo and / went-where / don't know,
' 7 roamed through the woods (beaT
In - 4EnSis was the first time we
we're n6eY the lines) and / heard
sheIIs coming for the first time. You
learn the sound~Sasy and If you are
quick you car always ran TO th'
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03

an hour or so and decided that there
was nothing that we could do but go
to bed. You know everybody here
has the idea that if a shell or bullet
has your name on 1t you will get it;
no use keeping awake waiting feS il.
The next morning / got up a little
caught it and much to my surprise
found out that all the machine gun
ming was lone by the French, who
had received word of the signing of
the armistice before we did. OF
course we cursed the guard who sort
of got our wind up unnecessarily.
That tells o how we got the
news of the armistice. OF course it
was good news, but the boys were so
tired that they hardly realized what
1t meant and from what you wrote
the excitement was more intense by
far back home.
1t Is hard to realize Just what
Jerry overhead" means; that the air
ia IoWsv with enemy a~irplanes and
that your HE Is hanging In the ball
ance for it is one % the few weapons
of war which it is Impossible to COM
ba4 with for planes never nght one
another at night. They simply bomb
bomb, bomb.
Let me tell you a little about my
captain. He Is q Regular Army man
and has seen twenty-five years serv-
ice, wearing more medals than any
man in the division. You know that
conditions are very much different
here and naturally my work changed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03

at night no man would ever think of
showing q light for fear of enemy
aeroplanes. But we being under cov-
err took a chance. 1t being a very
raw night and the shed being so wet
and damp, we made q small fire after
making sure we were not exposing
ourselves. Naturally the place was
full of smoke (wet woody but
We didn't mind that as we warmed
up q bit. When the fire had been go
ing about ten minutes we heard the
cry OF the sentinel: Lights out.
Jerry overhead but we tried to COW
er up the fire and cracks in the build
ing, thinking we might get away with
1t. However, he soon smashed our
door and demanded that the fire be
put out. We still tried to fake it,
when all OF a sudden we heard heavy
machine cunning and at very close
range. We all rushed for or canteens
and spilled out on the fire whatever
little water We had, because, let me
tell you, a machine gun overhead is
no thing to monkey with. We then
thought that Jerry was wise to the
fact that the woods were full of
troops, because he seldom uses his
machine gun against troops unless he
knows there is a crowd. He usually
drops bombs as large as whiskey
kegs. The machine cunning kept up
for q very long time II 1t was all
being done within a radius of me
half TO one mile of where my outfit
was.
We listened to the affair for half
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
Today We Celebrate
Peace Precedents,

Reace
The only peace conference compar-
able to the n now gathered In Paris,
in the number of nations involved,
was that which met in Vienna follow
ing the defeat of Napoleon and his
Punishment to Elba. The great differ
ence between the congress OF Vienna
and the present gathering in Paris,
however, is hat In the former there
were great and conflicting national in
terests involved and each nation rep
resented sought to get away with
something.
It is interesting in the light Of what
is taking place in France today, to re-
call some of the features of hat menu
orable gathering at the court of Fran
els in the Austrian capital. a gathering
which had assembled to dynastic inter-
ests, whereas, the world today Is be-
ing adjusted in the interests of dem
ocracy. Present at the deliberations
were the Austrian emperor, the car
of Russia, the kings of Prussia, Ba-
varia, Wurtemberg and Denmark, and
nearly all the statesmen of prominence
in all Europe. The Duke of yelling
ton, Viscount Casterleagh, Lord Stew
! art, Count Clancarty and Gen. Cath
cart represented Great Britain. Prince
Talleyrand de Perigord, the Duke OF
Dalberg, and Count Alexis de Noailles
spoke for France. The Russian car
and the Prussian king were accompan-
led by their ablest advisors. Sweden,
, Spain. Portugal, and all the other min
or German and Italian states, were
represented by highly important look
ing and brilliantly uniformed gentle
men. Only the United States and
Japan, Inc also Turkey. among the
nations of Importance, were lacking
at the meeting.
For weeks the delegates did little
u indulge in q succession of mag
nifcent festivities. The Austrian peo-
pie were ruined, yet the Austrian EN-
peror spent vast sums in the enter
tainment of his distinguished guests
Ludwig 0 Beethoven presented sew
eral new compositions to the world al
Vienna during this period, and assist
ed In the Feat mass which solemnized
the anniversary Of the execution OF
Louis XVI. Prince Metternich pre-
sided at the councils, but Talleyrand
was the leading spirit of the congress
called to remodel the map of Europe
IN such a way as to further the am
billions Of the a>~~~chs.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03

Gems, samu9 Leagher. Franak vliet.
Streets and road committee, Frank
Vliet, William jolly. Charles Culver.
Light committee, Theodore Clark,
Charles Culver, William Jolly.
Poor committee, Charles Culver,
John o. Cozzens, Frank liet.
Law committee, Samuel Leagher,
Theodore Clark. John Cozzens.
Police committee, William jolly.
Theodore Clark, Samuel Leagher.
But very little business was tran
sacted at the meeting, which was
largely given I've to congratulations
of the new Democratic head of the
borough, who, in his first message,
promised an up to the minute admin
istration for the borough.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
PARTY AT FORDS
MFR. and Mrs. Hartung Entertain New
Years Eve.

and Mrs. Hartung Entertain New
Years Eve.
By Special CORRESPONDENT.
FORDS, Jan. "A New Years Eve.
party was given at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John B. Hartung of Fairfield
Terrace, Fords.
The evening was delightfully."- spent
in singing and dancing. Music vas
rendered by Hergert Cline and Cath
rel Cocoon. At midnight refreshments
were served.
The guests present were as follows:
and Mrs. John B. Hartung. Misses
Agnes and Gertrude Hartung, Eliza
beth Inkulenick and Ella Stefanson
of Fords; Mrs. Coogan and family and
Mrs. w. Merwin and daughter OF
Perth Amboy, Messrs Herbert Cline
and Cathrel Coogan of Tottenville.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
RUB YOUR BACK!
STOPS LUMbAGO
Don't Drug Kidneysl Rub the
Pain Right Out With Old
"St. Jacobs Linament"

Back hurt your Can't strsighten up
without feeling sudden pains, sharp
fches and twingesf Nov LISTEN That's
strain. and you'll get blessed relief the
moment you rub your back with sooth:
ing, penetrating "st. Jacobs AnimentP'
hess and stiffness SO quickly. You
Simply rub 1t on and out comes the
pain. It 10 perfectly harmless and
doesn't burn or discolor the skin.
small trial bottle from any drug store.
and after using It Just once, you'll for
get that you svsr had baoksohs, lum-
bago or scistioa, because your back
will never hurt or cause any more
bsen rscommsnded Tor. 10 years Stop
1rugging kidneys They don't cause
therefore car not cause pain..Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03


ground and let them pass over. Well.
you can imagine me going through
that woods.
were gas shells / took no chance but
walked with my gas mask on for
about an hour. ] say walked, but /
would walk for about two minutes
and then flop on my stomach at the
sound of a shell. The joke of it was
I left my compass and spent near a
whole day trying to find headquar-
tiers. When l did succeed I learned
/ had been travelling in circles and
was only a half hour away from my
company. The next day the captain
wanted me to show him where 1t was
and he sure was surprised that I
found 1t.
Another thing about the captain,
he never sends where he goes not. /
have seen him get up at midnight
and bring the transport up to the
front under heavy shell fire when he
could have easily sent a sergeant to
do 1t. 1t is that spirit of s~elf-sacri-
flee that teaches you to admire aim.
L saw within the last two weeks
Ben Avchen, George Kemeny, Sosin.
Klivan, Duke Frankel n Max Krei-
elsheimer.
May get a furlough next week; IL
so / will try and get some decent
souvenirs and send them home. /
had some helmets and other German
material but due to the exigencies of
the campaign / had to sbandon every
article / possessed,
NATHAN.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
big INCREASE IN NUMBER
OF AUTOMOBILE LICENSES
Between 5000 and 5000 Licenses Is
sued to Date BY the Local Agent

A0-
sued TO Date by the Local Agent
Between 5000 and 5000 auto.
drivers and motorcycle licenses for
the ear 1919 have been issued to
date by Max Gibian, the local agent.
This is between 900 and LOO more
than were Issued last year at this
time.
A steady stream Of people still
come and go for their grey cards
with numbers which makes 1t posi-
BILE for them to operate their automo-
biles. So great was the rush for tags
on New Years day that the office of
the garage had to remain open
throughout the morning.
Although enemy aliens were allow
ed to secure car licenses, a ruling
from the commission at Trenton
made it impossible for them to obtain
drivers license and over 10 alien
enemies were refused the necessary
! permit to operate their cars.
The final rush was kept down
somewhat, many of the people OBJ
tanning their licenses before the last
day of the old year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
MAYOR SChWEI-KERT OF
SPOTSWOOD NAMES MEN

By Special Correspondent.
SPOTSWOOD, Jan. Shortly after
he had been sworn in as mayor Of the
borough on Wednesday by Borough
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
From Sgt. Nathan Margaretten

Dear Parents and Kids,
Am feeling fine and hope to hear
likewise Of you.- Received yours of
the 18th and the 18th. From your
description there must have been
some excitement when the armistice
was signed. You asked how the boys
took peace here. / think I wrote you
about that; IL not I will repeat. We
had pulled out of the Argonne front
and were on u way back of the
lines. We halted the night of No
vember 10 in Apermont Woods and
were fortunate enough to find an old
corrugated shack used formerly by
French artillerymen. We used 1t as
a shelter.
L don't know il you know this, but
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
Letters From
Local
Letter from George S. Walker

INtttf TON UeOIRe ,. walker
Langres, Haute Marine. Dec. 9, 1913.
Feeling fine. Our battalion, the
32S, 344 and 500 comprise the First
Tank Brigade which has been cited
five times for meritorious action and
bravery; four times by the United
States and once by France. Born In
1866 and stii, going strong"
GEORGE S, WALKER.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
SPOTSWO0D ENTERTAINING
Sunday School OF Reformed Church
Holds Christmas Program.

fohltutN III Va hAtAtNfN
Holds Christmas Program.
SPOTSWOOD, Jan. 3.-The Sunday
school of the Reformed church held
their Christmas entertainment in the
church on New Years night and was
largely attended. The church was
prettily decorated with greens and
other plants. The program follows:
Opening song, school; song, Hal
JOY the Holy Child" schaal; inyoca-
ton. Rev. William French; The sta
Rejoiced," school; scripture reading.
school; song, The Message We Love
to Hear" school; exercise, by Blanche
Campbell. Ada James, Edith James.
Herbert VanDyke, Clinton Hodapp.
Kenneth Magee, Kenneth Hodapp;
song. Glad Bells" school; recitation.
Hello Santa" Ada James: song.
Welcome him, The Prince of Heav-
en-" school; recitation, Howard Prig-
ge: song, This Is the Holy one"
school: recitation, Arthur Hines; song,
Tell the Joyful Tidings," school;
song, w See the Savior in His King
ly Glory" school; address, Rev. VII
liam French; offering; benediction.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03

Clerk Joseph Hodapp, Jr., Mayor Pc
ter Schwei-Kert named the following
men as officers of the borough for the
Ioming year:
Borough clerk, Phineas NJ. Bovine.
Borough recorder, Augustus Garger.
Borough engineer, Alvin b. Fox,
Perth Amboy.
Borough attorney, Judge Peter r.
DAILY.
Poung keeper, James Gordon Ben
nett.
Borough marshals. Joseph Beebe,
George Lott, Leonard Magee, Elwood
Petty.
Finance committee. John o. Coz
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03
Stamp Specials

soc in Stamps Free With
Plain or Stuffed Olives.
Extra choice; bot. loo
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-03

$500 in Stamps Free with
Mixed Tea; fancy, new
crop; Id. Coo
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soc in Stamps Free With
Worcestershire Sauce
Choicest large bot 15c
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soc in Stamps Free With
Pepper or Mustard;
Pure; large box 12o
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soc in Stamps Free with
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Quality 2 rolls,
for .............. loo
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$500 in Stamps Free with
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$3.50 in Samps Free with
NJ. 4 j. COFFEE;
Old Government;
pound ........... $50
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$1,000 in Stamps Free
with Baking Powder
celebrated Premium
ID. ............ 49c
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$1.00 in Stamps Free with
Package Best Laundry
Crystals-none bet
ter .lUc
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$l00 in Stamps Free with
Vanilla or Lemon Ex-
tract large bottle. Zoe
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-07-03

his examination at Camp Devens he
was rejected on account of weak
heart He was later sent to Georgia
where he was stationed. There he
fried the second me To go across
hut was rejected for the same cause
After receiving his honorable dis
charge he returned to Newport where
he had employment and boarded with
his sister 4 short time ago he SUI
fered a shock of the brain which Was
the cause of his death. He leaves
an only daughter Miss Phyllis Jewett
of Canaan; a father f. B. Jewett and
sister Blanch Jewett who live in Dix
mont and the younger sister Mrs.
Florence Jewett Soper of Newport be
sides numerous other relatives The
family have the sympathy of host of
friends from this place The funer-
al services were held Tuesday after
noon at , o'clock from the home of
his sister in Newport. The remains
were brought to this place for burial
in his fathers lot beside his mother
Albert Tilton and sister Mrs FL
della Brown accompanied by their pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. Hebron Tilton
motored to Skowhegan Sunday where
they visited in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs W. O. Chase.
Box stationery, postpaid 25c TO $1.00
Sampson & Avore, Skowhegan.
Mr. and Mrs Nathan Gray and son
Ralph accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Allen and Master Horace made
a trip to Lakewood and North An
son Sunday. At noon they sat down
in the shade to enjoy a very appe-
tizing lunch which consisted OF Green
peas which Mr. and Mrs. Gray picked
from their garden that morning Of
June 10Th and prepared for the pie
mic dinner and if there is any on
can beat it please let rs hear from
them
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-07-03
tNSON CENTER

The saw mill which WAS owned by
Alton clark Of Arson Valley. MAS en-
tircly destroyed by fire Just after mid
might. Thursday. also about one half
Of the white birch squares stuck near
the mill and threshine machine and
some sawed lumber stored in one
end of the building together with all
The machinery Mr.. Clark had just
finished saving there for the summer
and there had been no fire after 4
p. m. One OF The crew took a last
look around at II and al Il. IN. Il
neighbor walked them up to tell them
the mill was burning. IT is thought
fire had caught during the afternoon
in the saw dust and had smouldcred
for hours Loss $1,000 with no in
suranee.
\ party of strawberry pickers who
visited New Vineyard Nj. found the
berries very plenty and returned with
"A large lot Of the delicious fruit
School closed Friday with a picnic
dinner which had tn be held AT the
schoolhouse ON account of the rain. II
has been "a very successful term with
Miss Helen Pane as teacher
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-07-03
EAST ST. AIRANS

The schools in town closed Friday
June p. for the summer vacation
The Five Corners school was taught
at the beginning OF the term by Miss
Erma Buzzell of Exeter who was lik-
ed very much by both pupils and pa
rents bur who was obliged to give
up The school on account of i'll health
and Mrs. carrie Ramsdell Fisher was
red 10 complete the terms work.
Mrs Fisher is one of the best teach
ers aud formerly taught school in
Massachusetts and later several years
in Dexter where she held a fine po-
sltlon and was always noted as an
energetic. enthusiastic teacher who
devoted herself at all time TO her work
and Five Corners school was certain
ly fortunate in securing her services
for the terms work. Thursday af-
ternoon, June 26, Supt Clifford, Mrs.
Clifford and parents and friends of
the pupils were present and all en-
Joyed the prO9ram presented by Mrs.
Fisher, including some of the term s
work which certainly showed the
good training of the pupils Espec-
tally the flag drill and poem and we
hope that il Will be possible for Mrs.
Fisher to be retained for the coming
term.
Among those who were present at
Etna camp meeting June 30, were ID.
l.. Frost, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Martin
and son Evan of St. Adams, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Martin of Hartland and
many others from this vicinity, in
Guiding Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Ellis,
Ruth Ellis and Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Nichols; also Mrs Ann Woodcock of
Ripley, Eva Wing and Walter Will
kinS.