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Milford chronicle., 1920-10-01
MTLLVTLLE

Mrs. Clara West is suffering from d
sprained wrist.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ringler and daugh-
ter of Bishopville spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Ringler.
Mrs. Mary Quillen has returned home
from Philadelphia where she has been
for some time with her children.
The Ladies Aid met at the home of
Mrs. Philip Short on Thursday night.
Stephen =. Evans and Mrs. Kate An
derson are improving the looks of their
homes with new coat of paint.
Mrs. Florence Freed and son called on
Mrs. Dorothy Ringler on Saturday night
We are glad to report that little Billy
Ross Ringler who has been sick is inn
proving.
Mrs. Isaac West is spending a few
days with her mother.
Miss Marguerite Hill Of Selbyville is
teaching the Piney Grove school and
boards with Mrs Lemuel Lynch.
Milford chronicle., 1920-10-01

Mrs. Jennie Johnson of Dagsboro is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. T., Waga
mon here.
Miss Helen johnson of Barratts Chap
el, is the guest of friends in town.
w. W. Pepper has been on a business
trip to New York City.
Milford chronicle., 1920-10-01

Milford Chronicle want and for
sale ads are result-getters.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17

Rupert Blue. former surgeon genera
of the public health service, and 10
seph III. White, senior surgeon a
Washington, were nominated to be as
sistant surgeons general at large il
the public health service
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
Low NECKS HEALTHY,
GIRLS, DOCTOR SAYS.

London-A low-necked blouse isn't
pneumonia" blouse at all-it's a
health-giving, life-saying garment.
Anyone doubting this statement is
at liberty to consult Professor Leon
ard Hill, who has been making inves-
legations for the Medical Research
committee.
A bashful man would shrink from
investigating so fiimsy and decollete
! a portion OF Women's wearing apparel.
But Professor Hill isn't bashful
He investigated and made discover
les, all in the sacred cause. of science.
He asserted that the blouse does
not cause pneumonia, but is condu-
Give to good health-the open neck
acting as chimney to the clothes,
letting heat and moisture escape.
This (the discovery, not the blouse)
leaves women cold They always
knew it. It's one of those things they
might have told Professor Hill, saw
ing him all the expense of research
work
'The healthiest people in the world
are sailors. said a woman physician
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17

Fh0maS Il. Brewster OF St Louis.
chairman of the coal operators scale
committee in the central competitive
field, asserted the price of coal would
be raised if the % per cent wage in
crease be granted as recommended by
the commission appointed by President
Wilson to settle the coal miners strike.
Indictments charging conspiracy
were returned at Indianapolis by /
federal grand jury against l25 oper-
ators and miners The indictments
are drawn under sections 4 and of
the Lever act and section 81 of the
criminal code.
Diamonds valued at $4,000 are to be
sold at New York and the proceeds
given for Armenian relief, by Mrs. An
drew D. White, widow of the former
president of Cornell university.
Three persons were killed and Is IN
jured when switch engine dashed into
an interurban electric car near Kan
saS City, Mo.
Ripe olives and olive preparations in
glass containers are barred from Mon
tana and their sale prohibited by or
der of the state board of health at
Helena.
John Bloom and Andy Thompson
died at a lumber camp near Mar
quette, Mich. after drinking moon
shine" whisky.
Mrs. Helen c. Statler, granddaugh-
ter, of the late Governor Woodbridge.
announced at Kalamazoo that she
would be candidate for the Repu-
biican nomination for congress in the
Third Michigan district
The senate at Charleston. w. Va,
ratified the federal suffrage amend
ment, Is to IA. ending a warmly con-
tested fight. The house of delegates
ratified the amendment a week ago, Al
to 40.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
REAL ADVERTISING RATES.

Paper famine is forcing newspapers
and periodicals all over the country
to combine, reduce size, raise adver-
Using and subscription rates, or in
many cases go out of business alto
gether. Numerous Sunday papers
now sell at 10 cents or more. The
Ladies Home Journal sends us its
new advertising rate-card, and you
may be interested in seeing what that
heightened monthly charges for it's adj
vertising space. The rate is $12 a
line or S16S an inch A full page in
colors costs $1,000, and if it is the
back cover page it runs up to $4,000
These rates are for one insertion The
Saturday Evening Post rate is SO a
line, and $4,000 for last cover page
How many pages would you like at
these rates?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
Happenings
Of the World
Iersely Told
WGShingfOn

The bodies Of about $4,000 Of the
American dead in France will be re
turned to the United States, while be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 will remain
permanently Inferred overseas, Secre-
tary Baker informed Chairman Wads-
worth of the senate military commit
tee at Washington.
The house at Washington approved
the section of the army reorganiza-
ton bill which gives relative military
rank to army nurses.
A bond issue of 100000 to pay
adjusted compensation to former serv-
ice men might result in disaster" Sec
rotary Houston told the house ways
and means committee, which is con-
sidering soldier relief legislation at
Washington.
A delegation representing the South
western Millers' league called on Chair
man Payne at Washington to protest
against the preferential now existing
in export rates on grain.
An investigation of the United States
Grain corporation was ordered by the
senate at Washington.
The department of justice at Wash
ington will proceed against all cor
pOrations alleged to be trusts, regard
less of the recent decision by the Su-
preme court in the steel corporation
case.
A % per cent wage Increase for BIZ
luminous coal miners is recommended
IN a majority report of the commission
appointed by President Wilson at
Washington to settle the coal strike.
An authorized peace-time army of
$4,000 enlisted men and 1890 officers
was approved by the house at Wash
ington, which by vote of 70 to p re-
fused to amend the army reorganiza-
ton bill so us to fix the maximum
strength at $4,000 men and Ia, POO Off
GERS.
The loss to the government as re-
suit of the supreme courts decision de-
claring stock dividends not taxable as
income will be nearly half billion
dollars, according to an estimate by
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Roper at Washington.
The allied governments will receive
no further loans from the American
government Secretary Houston an
nounced at Washington. Loans made
TO the allies to date total $500 ,S34.-
649.94 of the $4,000, 100000 authorized
by congress.
Rupert Blue. former surgeon general
of the public health service, and JO-
seph III. White. senior surgeon at
Washington. were nominated to be as
sistant surgeons general at large in
the public health service.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
Domestic

Damage estimated at $1000.000 was
done in Pittsburgh, Pa. ar< vicinity
by Il seventy-two-mile wind that swept
over the district. Thirty derricks in
the gas field were wrecked. Many per-
sons were injured.
Safe blowers opened two safes on
the seventh and eighth floors of the
Weightman building at Philadelphia
and secured $4,000 worth of bonds.
The Ward line steamship Esperan-
"a. which went aground off the coast
of Yucatan, Mex, has been fioated and
arrived safely at Progresso. Mex, ac-
cording to a message received by the
line at New York.
The American steamship Balabac.
owned by the United States shipping
board. was destroyed by fire at Port
Said, Trinidad The cargo had been
discharged and it was awaiting orders.
Wilbur Smith, negro, and a for
mer soldier. was shot to death by six
masked men near Legrand. Ala, after
his arrest on charge of attacking a
six-year-old white girl.
A boxing exhibition staged by Co
lumbia university students at New
York resulted in the death of Mil
ton Sternfield of Albany, a former
United States army lieutenant and
postgraduate student.
The American Legion mt New York
has received a gift of 100000 from
the Y. NJ. c. A.. which has recommend
ed that the income from the fund be
used for the benefit of men disabled In
the service.
Mrs. Stanley Bl0mski was sentenced
at Rhinelander, Wis. to serve 20 years
at the state prison at Waupun for the
murder of her s:x-year-old son, Albin.
Her husband, tried on the same charge,
was acquitted.
Six persons were killed when a ait
ney bus" in which they were riding
was struck by passenger train at a
crossing at Bremen. Ind.
Eleven persons were killed and many
injured in a storm at Melya, fancy
county, Missouri.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
FAINTS TWICE AS SHE
BARES STORY OF LOVE

GAINESVILLE, Wis, March 12.-Miss
Ruth M. Doyle, pretty 20 year old
farm girl, tainted twice in court to-
day during hearing of her suit for
$4,000 damages based on an alleged
breach OF promise against Isaac A.
Connors, son Of a former prominent
county democrat Miss Doyle alleged
that Connors promised marriage last
June and in the following August. She
recently became a mother.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
GRIP OF GASOLINE
is ALL-POWERFUL.

Gasoline is wonderful stuff. One
pint represents 10000 b. t. us" of
energy. A "B. T. u" (short for Brit
ish thermal unit will lift $50 pounds
one foot. Thus there is in that single
pint OF innocent-looking fluid enough
power to lift six tons $50 feet into the
air-that is to say, 200 feet higher
than the top of the Washington mon
ument.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
Personal

General Pershing will leave Wash
ington about March 25 for the Pana-
ma canal zone to inspect the military
defenses there.
Julius Kayser, eighty-three years old.
manufacturer of gloves, underwear and
hosiery, died suddenly at his home al
New York. He was born and educated
in New York. A widow and two
daughters survive.
President Edmund James James,
head of the University of Illinois for
Is years, rendered his resignation to
the board of trustees at Urbana.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
PROBABLY HAS AN EXTRA SET OF
RTTTT0NS

(From the Kankakee Republican,
The public is invited to call at the
Republican office and see one of the
best equipped pants in the state. We
will be glad to show you.-Chicago
Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
Foreign

In a note dispatched to London
from Berlin, Germany tells the allied
supreme council she cannot consider
the allies reservation giving them the
right to alter sentences which may he
imposed upon German war guilty"
The note states the German supreme
court at Leipzig, which is now pre-
pairing to try the accused, will be
aided by German law, not by foreign
demands
Fully a hundred thousand Mexican
labOrers are prepared TO emigrate into
the United States through the four
principal border towns within the next
60 days according to reports printed
in the leading newspapers of Mexico
City.
Bolshevik troops have cleared the
hostile forces from the entire peninsu-
Ia of Yeisk. in Circaucasia on the Sea
of Asov, it is announced in soviet of
fetal communique received from Mos
cow.
Thirty thousand nonbolshevik Rus
SLAMS, after cutting their way through
the bolshevik forces in Siberia and
marching 1000 miles, have arrived at
Verkhne-Udinsk, according to a dis
patch received at London.
In accordance with its threat to shut
down its plants in territories where
labor continued hostile, the United
States Steel corporation announced at
Pittsburgh, Pa, that the Wheeling
plant will be scrapped first and the
Ohio plants will follow.
The special trade union congress, in
session at London, voted overwhelm-
ingly against the strike policy and in
favor of continued efforts by constitu-
tional means, to effect the rationale
cation of mines.
The French revenues from taxes
during February amounted TO 794, 000.-
900 francs, an increase of 215. 000,0 600
over the budget estimates, and 34O.-
100000 over February, 1919, says a
Paris dispatch.
Several hundred persons, are dead
and thousands are homeless as a re-
suit of an earthquake which destroyed
Makhit, Grakali and other villages
within a radius of 60 miles west of
Tif1is, Transcaucasia.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow
announces that the Russian soviet and
Ukrainian governments have informed
the allies that they are ready to nego-
tiate peace with Poland Immediately.
Dr. Karl Helfferich, former minister
of the treasury, was at Berlin found
guilty of libeling Matthias Erzberger
former vice chancellor
Bella Kun. the former Hungarian
communist dictator. has been re
moved from Steinhof asylum at Wen
ma and interned with his associates
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17

i"and the unhealthiest perhaps are
nuns
/ All the same women are glad to
know they stand in right with sci
sence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
WHISKY IN CHURCH COR
NERSTONE WAS WORTH
3 CENTS A DRINK THEN.

Cincinnati Long after the last cell
lar has gone dry and the last drop of
whisky has been consumed there will
remain bottle of liquor that, ac-
cording to tradition, is entombed in
the cornerstone of the Universalist
church at Montgomery, Ohio
William Swain, II, village histor-
ian and former schoolmaster of Mont
gomery, is authority for the tradi-
ton that a quart of liquor is conceal
ed within the cornerstone of the
village church.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17
Why the Ed. Fled.

Why the Ed. Fled.
"Colonel Sister celebrates his sill
yer wedding tomorrow, having been
harried since October ?. 1894. Ed.
monitor Bulletin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-03-17

Fully hundred thousand Mexican
the United States through the four
principal border towns within the next
60 days, according to reports printed
in the leading newspapers of Mexico
City.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
MONDAYS NEWS


The Annual Thanksgiving Service
of the Presbyterian Women's Mis-
sionary Society was given to good
ly and appreciative audience last
evening. The chorus of young girls
supported by Mrs. Fuller and Misses
Policy and Allen, sang the hymns,
Watchman, Tell Us of the Night, "
20, Zion Haste" and "Hark, Harll
My Soul" with Mrs. Robertson at
the organ. The theme of the pro-
gram was THE Torch Bearers, the
whole giving the power of the Word
of God as it has gone into all the
world Bible verses on "The Word"
were given by the members followed
by prayer. Mrs. Ross, the presi
dent, gave an able paper on Every
Man in His Own Tongue" the
story of all the many translations
of scripture from the beginning to
the present day. Mrs. Lamkin pre-
sented the thought, Unto All The
World" giving the story OF how the
scriptures have been carried into all
the lands and to all races, in pleas
ant voice and manner. Mrs. Nc
Coy's paper was given by her daugh-
ter, Margaret, who gave very finish
ed rendering OF her theme, "The
Power OF the Word" Mrs. Policy
followed by beautifully rendered
reading on the Coming OF the Gospel
to lonely mining camp. Mrs.
Policy always captures the hearts of
her audience and this was no ex-
ception.
After music, there entered the
professional OF young women, the
Torch Bearers. Down one side of
the church came those dressed N
white carrying lighted candles and
the Bible, meeting on the platform
the other line OF black robed women
to whom they gave the Light of the
Word, and marching slowly out. two
and two. The effect was beauti-
full and appealing. A very gener-
Gus offering completed the program.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
WOMAN SHOOTS COP;
THINKS HE'S ROBBER

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 1-Charles
j. Backer, As years old, a park guard,
was shot and instantly killed In For
est Park by Mrs. Marie Scott, who
with her husband, Samuel ]. Scott,
was driving through the park in an
automobile, the curtains OF which
were drawn.
According to William b. Bittmeir,
another guard, his and Backer's at
tention was attracted to the car by
the fact that the curtains were
drawn. Their suspicious being arous-
ed, they gave chase. When their
truck caught up with the automobile
Blttmeier called on the driver to
halt.
Whats your hurry" demanded
Backer.
He was answered by the barrel OF
q pistol poked through the flap OF
the curtains OF the machine. Before
he could draw his own revolver two
shots were fired from the machine
Bittmeir saw Backer stagger and
fall He drew his own revolver and
went to the other side of the car,
calling on the occupants to throw
up their hands. Mrs. Scott pulled up
the flap OF the curtain and handed
him a 38 calibre revolver.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01

Mrs Clifford Payne entertained o
company OF young people at dinner
Saturday al her home on Granite
street the occasion honoring the 2 lst
birthday anniversary of her son.
clyde Young. Ten young men and
ladies sat down to fine dinner after
which delightful evening was spent
Those present were Misses Esther
Kleinhammer, Dorothy Jones, Luella
Herrick. Lucille Brundgge and Mar
garot Van Dyke. and Messrs. Don
Provost, Killing Schuerman, Francis
Winter, Raymond Long and Clyde
Young.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
WOMEN TAKING MEMS
JOBS IN THE ORIENT
BY Henry W. Kinney.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent }
TOKYO-(By Mail-The inroads
which Japanese women are beginning
to make into various fields of actlyi-
ties heretofore monopolized by men,
are increasing day by day. and even
In government offices are representa-.
tives of the sterner sex being forced
to yield to their weaker sisters.
Although II Is generally said that
women have no head for figures. the
statistical section OF the department
OF agriculture was one of the first
government branches to employ wo-
men in clerical capacities, although
they have for some time past served
us telephone operators. The expert
ment has been declared such success
that hereafter the forestry offices
will follow the example, and girls
will be allowed to enter the service
as clerks or stenographers. Their
pay as such will run from 35 cents
to 65 cents day, which is not so
bad for Japan.
Women are also being employed re-
Gently as detectives, as 1t has been
found that they are particularly use
full in certain lines where men fail.
1--WE have found female detectives
very useful" says the head of one
of the Tokyo police precincts. Men
cannot be used for shadowing women,
while women detectives do this very
well We do not, however. employ
women who are too good looking.
We have already number of women
on our detective force. ranging in age
from 20 to 40 years. One of these
was formerly an actress, while others
come from various walks OF life"
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
The Act Of December II. ia

The Act OF December IL, 1919,
amends the Act of March 26, 1908,
relative to filing applications for re-
payment of purchase moneys and
commissions paid in connection with
land entries which have been rejected
and payments in excess of the amount
required. The new act limits the
time of filing application for repay
ment or payment Of excess amounts
TO two years after the rejection of
the entry or the payment of excess
amounts. or two years from the date
of the act as to entries rejected or
excess payments made heretofore.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
FRIDAYS NEWS
Get Acquainted Dinner.

The many Eastern Oregon people
living in Ashland held q get-ae-
qualnted Thanksgiving dinner In the
Chautauqua Pioneer Hall yesterday
Those present were: !. Sampels and
family. f. X. Loughlin and family,
Mrs. II. J. Dodge and son, Claude
billet and family, Charles Millet, Mr..
and Mrs. julius Koch, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Farmhouse and three children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Flory and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Gllliland and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Greiner.
Mack Smith and sister, Mrs. May.
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Nortridge, Miss
Maude Nortridge. Miss Pearl Penion.
Lewis Penion. Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Nc
Gilvray and grandson. Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Wehrli, and daughter Irene.
Mrs. LorettaWehrli and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Brick Maddis. Miss LEILA
Miller, r. U. Johnson and famil,
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. p. Wehrli and tw 4,
children.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
Celebrated Goldcn Wedding.

Mr. and Mrs. w. f. Jordan enter
tained IA relatives and friends at
dinner yesterday in honor Of the gol-
den wedding OF Mr.. and Mrs. p. C.
Jordan. MIR and Mrs. Jordan were
married in Rockingham county. vir-
ginia, in 1870. They came from
Virginia to Oregon In 1908 and have
resided in Ashland since that time
All the children were present except
one daughter. Mrs. j. W. corbin OF
Harrisburg. Virginia. Those presen;
were MIR. and Mrs. p. c. Jordan. Mr.
and Mrs. }. 5. Jordan. Mr.. and Mrs
w. +. Jordan. Mr.. and Mrs A. E.
Jordan, who recently came from vlr-
ginia and located here. Mr.. and Mrs
Ed Coovling OF Chicago. Adeline
Cooring. claudine Cox. and Fannie
and Olga Jordan. Many beautiful
gifts we're given Mr. and Mrs. Jor-
dan and good time was enjoyed
by ali.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
SLATED FOR PREMIERSHIP.
(By the United Press) }

(By the United Press)
LONDON, Dec. Winston Spen-
Ger Churchill minister for war and
air, celebrates his forty-sixth birth
day today He was the son OF the
late Lord Randolph Churchill and
Jennie, daughter of Leonard Jerome
of New York, and has all the vitality
and energy of the Anglo-Saxon races.
Although comparatively young for
his high position Churchill has been
largely in the public eye for the past
20 years. While he apparently has
more political foes than friends. no
party dare ignore him, and he Is slat-
cd for the premiership at some fu-
ture date, by all the wiseacres.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
Wedding Announced.

Ashland people have received the
announcement of the marriage Of
Paul Williams, Il former Ashland
young man, and Miss Fern Bellin-
ger which took place at the home of
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jasper Newton Bellinger of Lebanon.
Much interest is taken in this we'd
ding In Ashland, where both young
people are well known. The bride
was popular teacher in the city
schools for several years, during
which time she made many warm
friends in the city. Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams will reside in Maumee.
Ohio.
Ashland weekly tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1919-1924, 1920-12-01
Missouri Thanksgiying.

Ashland residents originally COM
ing from Missouri were the Thanks
giving guests of Mr.. and Mrs. s. b.
McNair, Thursday, in commemoration
of the happy days of long ago when
these people observed Turkey Day
in the old home state. Those who
enjoyed the hospitality of Mr.. and
Mrs. McNair were Mr.. and Mrs. How
ard. Rose, Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Fra
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Harner, Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. McNair and Mrs.
Katherine Haverkamp.