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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-17
Armenian Situation

Where is Armenia and who are
the Armenians and why should
America give TO an Armenian and
Syrian Relief FUND.-
One OF the oldest of all the Chris.
tian peoples of the earth. That is
ahe Armenians. They live In a
prov ince that lies to the eastward
of Asia Minor, west Of Persia and
to the south of the Black Sea.
1t is, or would be beautiful
country, one of the earth's oldest
regions. It. has been under the
domination of the Turk for a very
long time and what the Turk
touches he pollutes and destroys
Despite the Turkish rule and the
constantly recurring massseres and
prosecutions Armenia was one Of
the fairest parts of the Turkish
Empire. The Armenians made of
it wonderful agricultural country,
q garden of the Near East The
land was fertile and the sheltered
valleys have wonderful climate.
ArmeDians have been hated by
the Turks from the beginning The
Moslem hated them because they
were industrious and prosperous
and he hated with hatred that
occasionally flsmed into murder,
loot and rape When the Great
War came and Turkey threw in her
lot with the Germans, the Turk saw
chance to forever rid his Empire
of the Armenians.
It was an order that 100000
Armenians be deported Of these
100000 escaped in one way and
another. The remaining 100000
were driven into the deserts or
Mesopotamla and Syria. AS they
went they we're killed by bayonet.
rifle. club, knife. and dagger. Some
were driven over mountain
precipices, thousands of others were
driven into deep rivers, others were
driven into the heart of the desert
to die. With the Syrians. the
Greeks, and the Jews of Western
Asia the Turks followed the same
plan. Millions of people died.
If the survivors are pot to perish
utterly from the earth America
must give to keep them alive. That
is why America is being asked to
give for their aid That is who the
Armenisns and that is something
of good
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-17
Certain Rich Men

The greatest capitalists of this
country are sometimes called the
idle rich," or rather miscalled, for
with many exceptions, of course,
the rich have not been idle. They
have been busy. doubtless in many
cases busy in predatory way, or
there is a possibility approaching
rather strong probability that they
would not be rich, and so far as the
great, the very great capitalists of
the present day are concerned, they
have surely been busy, some of them
engaged in legitimate enterprises
that not only were of great benefit
to this nation. but to the hundreds
of thousands of people in their EN-
ploy, and some of them busyily en-.
gagged in wrecking railroads and in
other nefarious schemes, to the end
that their wealth might be increased
and that of others decreased, to the
end that their Golfers might be filled
to overlooking and the treasure
chests of others emptied.
We have often wondered why
any man should care to pile up
treasure amounting to millions of
dollars, why any man should want
to become multimillionaire. And
yet, come to consider the matter
leisurely and thoughtfully, we think
it is a fact that the average human
never has quite enough to fully
satisfy him.
The man who thinks and says,
honestly no doubt, that if he could
have $4,000 he would be perfectly
satisfied, should his ambition and
desire be realized, will be just as
anxious. really more anxious, to in
crease his holdings to the extent of
another $4,000, the ambition of the
$4,000 man will be increased to
100000. or possibly more, and so
on.
But let us return to the capitalists,
for at this day and age in the Uuited
States of America the man who
counts his wealth by the thousands
instead of by the millions is looked
upon by many as a comparatively
poor man.
They. or at least many of them
have during the months that this
country has been engaged in wal
shown their patriotism plainly, have
shown that they are red blooded
Americans, have plainly shown that
country and not money comes first
Many of them. in fact all, we be.
lieve, who have been called for duty
have laid aside their own affairs
and served faithfully and well, with.
out compensation, in the places to
which they have been assigned.
The value of the good. work done
by these men of great executive
ability cannot be overestimated
and will not be fully appreciated by
all until the full history of the work
done by this nation in the world
war is written in the future
One of the not least benefits that
will be brought about by this world
W ar will be that it will no longer
be said of this country that it is a
dollar wOrshiping nation.
Dr0Y17inonf C.1aokorc
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-17
Prominent Speakers

Farmers Week at Columbia. Jan.
nary 20 to "a. will feature many
men and women of national reputa.
tons. Among these will be: Miss
Jane Adams, of Chicago; Thomas
E. Wilson, president Of the packing
firm of Wilson & Company; Miss
Julia Lathrop, head of the National
Child Welfare Bureau. Washington,
D. c.: Former Governor Henry G.
Stuart. of Virginia. extensive stock
man and member of the Live Stock
Advisory Board of the Hoover Food
Administration; George H. Neff. pub,
Usher of the Daily Drovers Tele.
gram; John M. Evvard. Professor of
Animal Husbandry and specialist
ia hog feeding, Iowa State College
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-17

The gas companies in Missouri
have been permitted to raise rates
on account of the increase in the
price of coal, and as usual the con
sumner gets it in the neck. He is
forced to pay more for both gas and
coal and there is no public utility
commission to come to HIS relief.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-17

Have your job printing done at
this Office All work guaranteed
and the charges are reasonable.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-17

Please bring the little tots in the
M0RNING.-Miss Belle johnson.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-17

Go TO Miss Belle johnson for
high-erade engagements.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03
Department of the Interior Alaskan Engineering Commissior
NOTICE

Passengers are required to pur- chase tickets before entering trains.
 Tickets can be purchased from the station agent, whose office is in the employment office, on the ground floor of the General Office Building. Alaskan Engineering Commission. or at Camp 4l5 North Nenana).
 Tickets will be on sale at any time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time before the departure of the trains.
 Regular trains for the south leave the foot of 4 street OH Wednesdays and Saturdays at a. m.. and from Camp 415 (No~th Nenana), for Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at ?. m.
 The following Is the schedule be tween North Nenana and Fairbanks, subject to change without notice:
 Leave Fairbanks at TOO a. m; arrive North Nenana, 1l:30 a. m.
 Leave North Nenana 1:0O p. m. arrive Fairbanks, 5:3o D. m.
 No tickets will be sold crossing the river. Those intending to tray el to Fairbanks must make the;- own arrangements for reaching North Nenana.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03

Lenox library, between roth and 71st streets on Fifth avenue. It was here that be provided for a picture gallery which is one of the largest. if not the largest private gallery in the world. It contains some of the most valuable and famous paintings by Velasquez, Rembrandt. Gainsborough. and other masters. Many of these canvases are said to have cost MT. Prick sev- eral thousand dollars each.
 Mr Prick also maintained beau tiful summer home at Brides Cross, ing Mass. He was one of the largest owners of Pennsylvania rail road stock, was one of that com pany's directors, and its dominating factor. He was also a power in Reading, Baltimore & Ohio. Norfolk & Western, and other railroads.
 On December 15. 1881. Mir. Prick was married to Miss Ada Howard Childes of Pittsburgh. Four chil- dren were born to them-two boys and two girls. Mrs. Prick, one son and one daughter survive.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03
HENRY CLAY PRICK.

Inc career O1 feGfr Sid! E4Ch has formed one of the most fascin- ating chapters in the romance of industry in the United States. At ten. boy on a farm in a family of only ordinary means. he was, at sixty, man of so many millions that his fortune, like those of Car negie and Rockefeller. was largely a matter of guesswork. even to him self. It has been said he was worth more than s1o0,Ooo,ooo. perhaps as much as s200,000, 0,00G
 MT Prick built up the greatest coke business the world, and ac. ouired such vast interests in steel that he was also one of the principal magnates in that industry. and 1T rounding out his career he became known as one of the worlds great est collectors of master paintings.
 Mr. Prick was born December 19. 1849, at West Overton. Pa. This village was named after the ma ternal grandfather Of MT. Prick. Abram Overholt, whose original fam fly name was Oberholtzer. and who settled in Western Pennsylvania when that region was regarded as the frontier of civilization. As the settlements along the Allegheny and the Monongahela grew. and Pitts burgh emerged from its swaddling clothes, Mir. Overholt became the leading miller and distiller of West ern Pennsylvania. His daughte-, Elizabeth. married John ". Prick. a young man or Swiss ancestry, who at that time was working as an engineer in the Overhoit distillery. IL was from this union that the future capitalist was born. The father attempted farming. but did not make q remarkable success of it, and as result young Henry Clay Prick was practically adopted into the Overholt family when he was about 12 years old. He re- eeived 3 good basic schooling, but there was nothing in his boyhood to indicate the remarkable ability which characterized his later life, excep! his eagerness to get into business. For time he was bookkeeper in his grandfather's distillery. and from this position he went to Morgan & Co.. coke dealers. and at about 2l years of age he appeared in Pitts burgh as their agen. The coke in dustry was in it's infancy. The iron masters of Pittsburgh were just beginning to appreciate the value of coke for their furnaces. Young Prick had an opportunity to acquire limited interest in a plant near Broadford. and out of the profits of this he acquired other holdings. He later joined a company to build a railroad to penetrate the Con- nelsville coke region, and in 1871, the year this road was opened, MT Prick organized the corporation of Prick & Co.,, which bought coal land and coke ovens in the Connelsville region. That was the basis of the Prick fortune. The undivided at tention of the rising financier was given to coke until 1882.
 In the midst of this period there came the panic of '73 and the fnan- eial crash of many ambitious oper- ators. At sheriff's sale Mir Prick purchased additional tracts of coal land and ovens, and a few years later the Mellons. powerful Pitts burgh bankers, became interested ;n
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03
the expanding enterprise of the young operator.

young operator
 The Carnegies, then developing heir great steel business in Pitts burgh, had taken large holdings in the Prick coke company. and in 1882 Mir. Prick found the Carnegie brothers willing to admit him as member of their firm in considera- ton of his giving them further in terests in his coke business. It was thus Mir. Prick became also a great manufacturer of steel.
 Through the Homestead strike of 1892, Mir. Prick came into national prominence. Differences had arisen between the Carnegie Steel compa- ny and its employees over a wage scale, eliminating in strike in- volving thousands of men; the call ing out of the National Guard and the proclamation of martial law. I. was at this periodTuly p. 1892 that Alexander Berkman. New York anarchist, tried to assassinate Mir. Prick. Berkman walked into MT. Tricks office, drew a revolver and fired, the bullet lodging in MT. Tricks neck. Mr Prick was shot second time and then grappled with Berkman During the encoun- ter. Nr. Prick was stabbed three times, but he downed his assailant and held him until the police ar rived. Berkman was tried and sent to the Western penitentiary in Pitts burgh for 2l years.
 Thirteen days after the attack, Mr. Prick walked to his office unat- tended and resumed the direction of the great strike. which continued until November 21 of that year. Mir. Prick was unmoved by the violence and protests of the public of the distress of the families of the strikers. He won, and never begrudged the price of victory.
 When Mir. Prick entered the Car negie Steel company he decided to make it the most powerful concern in the steel world Two of his i'm mediate ventures nected the Car negie concern many millions of dol lars with scarcely any investment. : Up to this time the switching charges between the various Carne, gie plants had been very profitable to the railroads and expensive D the Carnegie company. Mir. Prick built the Union railroad to weld the scattered Carnegie plants closer to- gether. This eliminated the switch ing charges and saved enormous sums for the Carnegie company.
 It was MT. Prick who later took over large portion of the Mesaba ore fields on Lake Superior in a big deal that guaranteed the Car negie company for fifty years minimum supply of 100000 tons of ore, driving a shrewd bargain with the Rockefellers, who owned these ore lands.
 Later, Mr Prick conceived the proposition of buying out Mr Car .negie entirely. and in association with Henry Phipps, the second larg- lest owner of stocks, and with the Incorporation of E. H. Moore and others, Mir. Prick asked MT. Carne- gie for an option on his interests. MT. Carnegie demanded SI,0O0, 900 for ninety-day option and named S157, ,950,000 in cash and bonds for his entire holdings. This price, with the additional cost of the stock of the other partners in the Carnegie i.o--ar,- A~o,,l. tlo o. r NK
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03

900. The matter was taken to J.
 P. Morgan, who was not impressed
 with the idea. The plan collapsed,
 MT. Tricks option expiring at d
 cost of a million dollars, which MT.
 Carnegie pocketed. This was the first failure Mr Prick had ever known, but it was also a blow to MT. Carnegie. for the failure of the
 Prick syndicate left him in the po- sition of having been on the marke: with his holdings, which apparently could not be sold.
 MT. Carnegie became very bitter and tried to oust MT. Prick entirely from the steel business. They de- veloped a quarrel with many rami- fcations. MT. Carnegie sought to have the board of managers declare Mir. Tricks stock forfeited at par value. MT. Prick replied with suit for injunction to prevent this confscation of his stock. but the suit was finally settled out of court by the reorganization of the Car negie company, which made several millionaires over night It made Mr Prick one of the men in the country, but it was disappointing to him when Carnegie, with the aid of Charles II. Schwab, succeeded in interesting Mir. Morgan in the scheme he had rejected. and out of this came the financing of the United States Steel corporation in 1901. By this again, Mir Tricks fortune was doubled. His s3l, 100000 invest ment in the Carnegie company was turned into s6l, ,300,0OO in the Unit ed States Steel corporation, all though Carnegie had stolen his thun- der. MT. Schwab was made presi- dent of the steel corporation and Mir Carnegie's representative in that concern.
 In 1903, times became hard and United States Steel dropped to a low level. MT. Prick then bought ev- erything he could in the way Of steel stock, and when the excite inert was over it was found he had acquired enough to be a power in that concern. His first move was to dethrone Mir. Schwab as presi- dent, but W F.. Corey. another Car negie man. succeeded Schwab. Then MT. Prick attacked Corey and sue ceedei in having him removed. Mr Farrell. Tricks friend, was finally made president of the great cor poration.
 The breach between MT. Prick and MT Carnegie never fully healed. 4 small instance of it was seen in Pittsburgh. where Mr Carnegie built a large office building. naming it after himself, next door to which Mir. Prick built another building. twice as large. and named it after himself. MT Prick. incidentally, be- came one of the greatest holders of real estate in Pittsburgh. In New York, Mir Carnegie built a mag home, and some time later MT. Prick built an even more pala- tial residence on the site of the old
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03
Another Silver Heresx.

Too many men seem to think that optimism consists only of seeing the silver lining to the other mans cloud.-Dearborn Independent
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03

FOR SALE-Furnished house of five rooms, attic, large basement and winter cellar for vegetables. Heat ed by furnace. Winter supply of vegetables. Full corner lot One of the most desirable parts of town. Inquire at News office.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03

GOOD TEAM, harness and No. 5 sleigh for sale. Inquire knut Roland, Third and C streets.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03

ROADHOUSE FOR SALE-Inquire
 News Office. 11-29
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03

FOR SALE-Man's clipped bearskin coat, medium size, full cut, $25. Inquire Miss D'Orsay's Tailoc Shop.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-12-03
WANT ADS

FOR SALE-Four-bu blue flame oil stove and oven, $S5. Apply Simson's Store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-14

Marnix and Fritz
Cremer. sons of Theo-
dore Cremer, minister
from Holland, who
came to this country as
sailors in order to reach
the sick bed of their
father, who has been
i'll in a Washington
hospital for some time.
The boys were unable
to book passage, so
they signed as sailors.
The National Pluto Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-14

Van Dyck's famous paint
ing, 1.-THE Earl and Countess
of Warwick and Child" con-
sidered one of the masterpieces
Of the Henry Clay Prick art
collection, which was willed to
the city of New York. The
Prick home will be used as a
gallery for the collection.
Photo by kno4flur L Co.. from Underwood 4
UnlrrwMml.
The Little River news., 1919-10-29
WILL WE GET COAL!

Red radicalism, which aims to dis rupt and overthrow the peoples gov ernment, seems in a fair way to disrupt American labor, if unchecked. C9m- promise and concessions have failed, but seem rather to aggreV&te and en- courage a movement calculated to end only in class rule and the abolishment of popular government President Will son has taken d stand that is backed by the great American public when he proclaims thar the threatened ceat s.rtlc will rot be permitted. The people must be protected; the rights of property and life must be upheld at all costs The coal miners go too far when they. to enforce their de- mands. would bring suffering, famine. death and poverty to millions Of help less people We believe that the ma iesty of the government and the strong arm of the law is great enough to meet any enemies of the public welfare, at home or abroad
 fight posing as a fight between labor and capital in which the inno- cent bystander. the general public. fur nished all the casualties would be a travesty on justice and make of gov ernment d sham The time fast ap- breaches when differences between la bor and capital must be adjusted by means other than the strike and by peacable and orderly means. a means that will bring exact justice to all re- gardess of who holds the biggest club.
The Little River news., 1919-10-29
Shower for Bride.

Che of tse most beautiful social events of the season was on Friday. at the home of Mr and Mrs. C. L. Briant, with Mesdames Briant and W. l.. Phil lips and Miss Juilette Corbett as host esses was a miscellaneous shower, honoriag Miss Julia oarasin. The home was artiat.cally decorated in bl * and gold the color scheme heinz carried out in the decorations of the bride chain Upon entering the guests were given cup towels to hem and embroidery their names on them which were presented to tn honore as souvenirs. A large pumpkin was brought in and she was asked to cut and when opened to be number of beautiful and useful gifts. Chocolate ice cream and cake were served.
The Little River news., 1919-10-29
PRETTY CHURCH WEDDING
Virgil Hicks of Muskogee and Miss
 Julia SarasiG Wed.

Mr Virgil Hicks of Musllogee, Okla, aud Mss Jalia Sarasin of this city Were married Saturday evening at SEC at lhe Methodist church, Rev. s. K Gurnett pastor of the church ofticiat ing Only the family and a few friends were present.
 The groom is engaged in newspaper #ork in Muskogee, and had only visit d this city once before He is form erly Of Fort Smith, where he bears da excellent reputation. The bride is d daughter of Mr and Mrs. F. A Sar- asiH, and came with her parents to this place nearly year ago. She is most eStimabie young lady and has won for herself a host of friends. For the present Mr. and Mrs. Hicks will make taeir home at MuskOgee.
The Little River news., 1919-10-29
FAIR 1T TENARkANA
street Carnival fo be tdded Attraction
 to Exhibits.

TeXarkana, Get. 27.-In response to largely signed petition, the Texas side City Council has granted permission for the Texarkana District Fair and Street Carnival to use the downtown streets for it's exhibitions, the grounds previously selected being now pnsuit- able, owing to the recent heavy rains.
 The fair and carnival will be held October 2S, to November 1, inclusive. The w A. Wortham Cornival Com pany will furnish the carnival attrac- tions, The TeXarkana Chamber of Commerce has announced large num- Der of premiums for agricultural. cat tIa. hog. poultry. and other exhibits, and there is fine prospect that the fair will be a great success.
The Little River news., 1919-10-29
Warming Order.

In the Little River Chancery Court, Little River County, Arkansas. Dan Roane ct al, plaintiff vs. Hattie Med :ock, defendant. The defendant. Mat tic Medlock, is hereby warned to ap- pear in this court within thirty days and answer the complaintiff herein, Dan Roane ct al, Witness my hand and lhe seal of this court. this 225tl. day of October 1919-Jas. H WI lIlns clerk Reynolds & Steel Atty. for Pltf Ben Shaver Atty adiitcm His
The Little River news., 1919-10-29
THE MOST

No organs of the human body are so important to health and long life as tile kidneys. When they slow up and com
 Find out what the trouble is-withont delay. Whenever you fee. nervous, weak. dizzy, suffer from steeplessness. or have pains m the baal,-,ca&e H2 at ouce Your kidneys need help. Thes 2 are signs to warn you that your !lId- neys are not performing thcsf 1T = tions properly. They are oHlF hatt doing their work and are allowing i'm purities to accumulate and be convert ed into uric acid and other pgfSg@s. which are causing yog distress al N.tt destroy you unless they are driver from your system.
The Little River news., 1919-10-29

We are told that wet cotton means disaster. and farmers who naturally feel impeled to begin gathering the crop at the earliest possible moment are urged to wait few days until the cotton begins to fluff and the ground is reasonably dry. It is going to be hard 10 do. but reason teaches us that it is the best way. We know that at best the damage and loss has been great
 but ii ye have chance to save the most possible out of the damage it will pay biz to do 1t. It is the only pos sible way to get the benefit of the highest prices, whereas badly damaged and gin eat cotton has no fixed value
The Little River news., 1919-10-29
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