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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27

ence among the Polish troops which
took Grodno Of considerable number
of Boy Scouts. These scouts took a
prominent part in the actual fighting.
The company 1 met numbered seventy
scouts, aged from fifteen to nineteen.
It had originally numbered 140, but
had already lost half its members in
killed and wounded. They were ac-
cOmpanied by Girl Scouts, who per-
formed sanitary and Red Cross work.
"The rank and file of the Red army
form a marked contrast to the Com
munist regiments which defended
Grodno. Polish aeroplanes fly over
the Bolshevik lines and distribute
large quantities of prisoners passes,'
telling the Red army men that If they
come over with these slips Of paper
they will be well received and well
fed. These prisoners passes have
been a great success.
II have spoken to many Of the Red
prisoners and their story is always the
same. They are modified at the point
Of the bayonet. If they hide in their
home woods their wives and families
are arrested. They are sent down to
the front In locked box cars.
zone group Of twenty men from the
district of Smolensky, belonging to the
fifth division, whom I met on the road
a few hours after their capture, said
their journey to the front took four
days, during which time they were
given no food or drink, nor were they
let out Of the train.
''In the end they ate the trampled
scraps and leavings of fish heads,
bones, etc., which they had thrown
on the floor the first day. At the front
their rations were four vobla. "a most
unpalatable fish, for two days. Every
thing else they were told to seize from
the peasants.
''They were given rifles only just
before the attack, when a machine
gun manned by Communists was placed
behind them, and they were warned
that If they did not advance they
would be mown down.
1.-THE Communists had told them If
they were taken prisoners the Poles
would beat, starve and torture them.
None the less, they seized the first op-
portunity to hide in the woods during
the attack and desert, because Ito
use their own words) nothing could
be worse than their Communists
They were delighted at their reception
by the Poles, and expressed intense
satisfaction at having been given two
solid meals already that day.
among the various papers picked
up In Grodno was one headed Down
With the Retreatv Poland Must Be
Smashed to Atoms runs this procla-
nation. The tide has already turned.
Not only are we no longer on the de-
fensive, but we are preparing our
great blow and have even begun our
offensive. :. We are mObilizing
all our Communists and shall shortly
be victorious on all fronts OF late
l have many times recalled to mind
the parting words of Comrade Axelrod
to me at Kovno. Give my regards to
Pilsudski,' he said sarcastically, and
tell him we shall meet him very soon
lin Warsaw"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27
Abslnthe Returns to France.

Absinthe, long fought in France, and
prohibited overnight when the war be-
gan, is said by the authorities to have
returned in the disguise of various
imaginative names. One poster that
attracts attention shows the tall old
absinthe glass with the sugar spoon
across the top and the one word
Finally" indicating to the addicts of
the green liquor that they may have
the old sensation again in spite of
the law.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27

Harry Lucht has received his COM
as registered architect fol
the state of New Jersey. Mr.. Lucht
is the designer of several of the
borough's most attractive houses.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27

"Red" Leaders Ousted From Germany.
NJ. Zinovieff and M. Losowsky, Rus
sian soviet delegates to socialist
conference at Halle, have been or
dered by the German government to
leave the country.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27

1t has been decided to convert the
present st. Johns Church into paro-
chial school and to build new church.
The plan for school is heartily sup
ported by all members of the parish.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27

movd from Second street to Wash
ington place.
Harry Lucht has received his COM
mission as a registered architect fol-
the state of New Jersey. Mr.. Lucht
is the designer of several of the
borough's most attractive houses.
Miss Eleanor Fragali is now lecov-
ering in the Union Hospital, New
York, from serious operation for
appendicitis. Her many friends are
pleased to know that she is progressing
rapidly.
The mission in st. Johns r. G.
Church begins Sunday, November %.
Miss Margaret Dunn has now fully
recovered from a severe operation and
will return to work on Monday.
A building is being erected on Pali-
SADIE avenue by James Maylath,
brother of the Cliffside butcher.
Miss Alleine Malligan has returned
for the Thanksgiving vacation from
the University of Maryland where she
| is a sophomore.
| Frank Weiksner is home over the
Thanksgiving holidays from George
| Washington University.
About six O'Clock Monday night fire
was discovered in the apartment OF the
Mahoney family in the building owned
by Joseph Coppoletta. As the Cliff
side fire engine was in the garage for
repairs it was necessary to send for
the Edgewater engine. Although the
! fire was confined to two rooms, the
house was generally damaged by
water. The cause of the fire was
probably a burst water pipe.
1t has been decided to convert the
present st. Johns Church into paro-
| chial school and to build a new church.
The plan for school is heartily sup
ported by all members of the parish.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27

BOYS! GIRLS!
$4,000 In Cash Prizes
For Palisadian Subscription Contest
FIRST PRIZE, $50 GOLD
SECOND PRIZE, $25
THIRD PRIZE, $40
FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH PRIZES, S. EACH
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scrptons to the Palsadan
CONDITIONS CONTEST.
girls eighteen of
younger.
The contest starts November 1920
tonsm be in at 50 a
subscription money with the subscriptions
subscription secured 1000 points credited to the
must be
Saturday. December 49, 1920 which
Subscriptions received after that date will not
counted in the contest
will be announced December 10Th
Palisadian.
prizes before December 25th that
receive them Christmas presents
Welnghorst
and girls Everybody has
winning the subscription blanks and
then get busy
may be CHARLES L. MAR
Avenue Grantwood
N. Telephone Clfside.
Contest o.
It
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27
CRODNO BATTLE
ISDESCRIbEDBY
AN EYE WITNESS
Capture by Poles Was Serious
Blow to Soviet Army.
POLES START NONE TOO EARLY

Their Advance Was Merely a Fore
staIIment of the BoIshevik Offensive
Enormous Forces Were Concen.
.trated on the Polish Front-PoIish
Artillery Firing Was Excellent, but
Bolshevik Firing Was Weak--Boy
Scouts Take Prominent Part in
Fighting.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27

tonnage is composed Of steel or iron
steamers.
During the year ended June 80 last
4SO vessels. of 100000 tons, were
classed in the United States; 594, of
1891, 900. In the United Kingdom, and
105, of $1,000, in Japan. More than
90 per cent Of this tonnage consists
Of iron and steel steamers.
Striking increase is shown in the
number of large vessels under con-
struction, fifty-six of those building
being each Of 10000 gross tons or
over.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-11-27
CLlFFSIDE PARK NOTES.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Renter have
movd from Second street to Wash
ington place.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09

THE public anxiety for Garfield
l. through his long battle with
death was deepened by a general dread
OF the vice presidents succeeding to
the presidency. The people as whole
knew nothing of Chester Alan Arthur,
except that he had been only lately
removed from the collectorship of the
port Of New York as a machine pol
itician, and that he had been nomi-
mated for the vice presidency as a
henchman of Roscoe Conkling.
After Arthur had been sitting in the
vice presidents chair only a little
more than two weeks, he opened big
White House envelope one day and
flushed as he glanced at the unexpect-
ed contents-the nomination Of hated
'Half-Breed" to the collectorship of
the port of New York. With an ex-
cited gesture, he summoned Senator's
Conkling and Plat, and the three
"Stalwarts" famed up with rage at
the challenge to them from the new
administration. When the New York
senators resigned thir seats and ap-
pealed to the legislature of their state
to re-elect them as protest against
the administration, the spectacle of
the vice president descending to that
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
Shankle Badly Hurt.

B. H. Shankle was, terribly in
jured last Sunday afternoon
when his Ford overturned, but
he is now recovering.
He was driving on the River
road Sunday afternoon, and
when two hundred yards south
of the Diggs store, he lost con.
troll of his car with the result
that it turned over, pinning him
beneath. 1t was several minutes
before sufficient help could ar
rive to release him. The only
other occupant was his dog, but
the animal was not hurt.
Shankle was rushed to the
Hamlet hospital. His face was
split from his forehead down by
the nose and off across the right
cheek, caused evidently by the
windshield. Over 80 stitches
were required. 1t was thought
at first that he was internally in
jured; however he is now re-
covering despite the fearful
wound to his face.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09

melee lent color to the already IN
favorable impression of him in the
public mind.
When in the midst Of the fight and
a losing fight, Garfield was shot. the
American people revolted at the
thought that Arthur and the "Stal-
warts" should profit by the assassina-
ton. The public mind revolted also
at the prospect of a political boss en-
throned in the White House, with his
motley following about him.
That popular picture of Arthur, as
city politician out of the pages Of
Puck, was distorted and untrue, simply
because the background was omitted
from it. The real, the native character
of the man had been shaped in sur
roundings very different from those in
which the country found him when he
first came under its attention. Born
in Vermont to a Baptist minister, a
man of education and high principles,
who had come over from Ireland and
who soon afterWard settled in New
York state, Arthur had grown up in
village parsonages, where the living
was plain and the thinking high.
When the great test came and he
stood silently for three months in the
shadow of the high office, Arthur found
himself, and he left petty politics and
factions behind him as he entered thel
White House. The public was incred
ulous at first, but was convinced att
last that he honestly meant to be pres-l
ident of all the people.
Some of his old associates in NAL
chine politics were as astonished att
the change that had come over their
"Chet' as Falstaff and his crOnies'
were when Prince Hal became King
Henry v. Not that the new president
coldly repealed the claims of friend
ship. He simply put first his obliga-
tons to the whole country. though It
cost him dear in the regard Of men
like Grant and Conkling, who set him
down as an migrate.
"Why, general, IL SIN were still
president OF the New York County
Republican committee. you would be-
here right now asking for this very
thing" protested the head Of that or
ganization.
HAs president Of the New York
County Republican committee" AT
thur frankly admitted with a smile. Il
certainly would; but since ! came here
/ have learned that Chester A. Ar
thur Is one man and the president 81
the United States Is another Z
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
Minstrel Show By Boys.

The boys of the Rockingham
High School will give a Minstrel
in the school auditorium, Thurs
day evening, Dec. 10Th. 1t will
consist of choruses and witty
dialogues. Come out and see
Pete, Sambo, Ned, Bill, Rastus
and all the other ringers" per
fern.
Proceeds to 60 to High School
Athletic Association.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
PERSONAL

| vi Couloc you AllO", DuG-Nlll lSt'
mas falls on Saturday this year.
S. w. Steele returned from a
months visit in Arkansas Mon
day night.
w. c. farrell on Thursday of last
week moved from Steele's township
to EntWistle.
Miss Edith Ormond has begun her
music class; others desiring to join
will please phone 100.
Mr.. E. A. Linney, of Boone, spent
Monday night here with his aunt
Mrs. ]. w. Stephenson; he was en-
route to East Carolina to hunt deer
Friends here will regret to
know teat Miss Lucille Elliott is
quite i'll; her nerves have given
her much trouble.
President Wilson Saturday ap-
pointed A. w. Mclean, of Lumber.
ion, as assistant secretary of the
Treasury to serve until March 4th.
There will be an oyster supper at
the Woodmen Hall at Roberdel No.
2 Saturday night, the 18th. Every
one invited.
The new Board of Commissioners
of Scotland county, sworn in last
Monday, are: w. G. Buie, ]. w.
Jones and Angus Blue.
Appointments for Rev. w. r. Cop
pedge for Sunday( Dec. 18th, arc:
II a. m. Pee Dee No. /; 300 p. m.
West Rockingham; 700 p. m. Rob-
erdel No. 1.
The new bank of Laurel Hill, over
in Scotland county, opened for bust
ness Dec. list, with r. NJ. Calhoun
as cashier. Z. V. Pate is president.
This makes six banks in Scotland
county.
Presbyterian church for Sunday
Sunday school at 10. Sermon, sub
ject at II by Way of Illustration
At 1880, "The Way of Life" A
hearty welcome is extended to all.
A. f. Dallas, pastor.
Walter L. Steele writing the paper
from Memphis Monday says he is
leaving on the It'll for Dallas, Texas;
that he has been having a good
time in Memphis eating loaf bread
pork chops and everything else goot
to cat, but it costs like the devil.
In Scotland County Superior
cou.t last week the case of the State
against Cleve Chavis, charged with
assault with intent to kill Ellerbe
Quick, was continued to next term
Will Chavis and Walter McGirt
charged with selling whiskey, were
found guilty and sent to Arson
county roads for six months each.
f. NJ. Cole and family on Wednes-
day of last week moved back to
Charlotte Cl&ude Polk at the auc-
ton sale several weeks ago re
bought the Eo"c and a part of the
original tract lie had sold this to
r. r. Cole lArt summer. Mr. Polk
and family GO now again living at
their old ho:lr.
Rev. Harry North left Wednesday
for Raleigh II make his home He
was made secretary of Education
for the North Carolina conference,
at the recent conference at Rocky
Mount, and is locating in Raleigh
as his most central point. He is
succeeded as presiding elder of this
Rockingham district by REV. J. H.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
Pratt-Gibson Wedding.

At the home of Mrs. Joseph
Gibson Wednesday night, Miss
Willie Gibson and Mr.. Luther R.
Pratt, of Greenwood, S. c., were
united in marriage. Rev. Bruce
Benton officiared.
The couple have the best
wishes of a host of friends. They
will reside in Washington.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
Jailed for Abduction.

Sid Simpson is in Jail here at
Rockingham charged with abduc-
ton and clipping with the wife of
John c. Norton. They came
from Scotland county, and he
was tried here Monday and
bound to court under $500 bond;
he is still in Jail here.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09

Mr.. ]. w. Hudson, of Monroe,
spent Tuesday with Mrs. Stephen
son, his sister.
Miss Mildred Stephenson is in
Charlotte taking a medical chemis-
try course.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09

H. T. Baldwin and family wish
to thank the people of this com
munity for the kindness shown
them during the sickness and
death of wife and mother.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
Campbell Box Party.

There will be a Box Party at
the Campbell school Friday
night, the 10th, to which every
one is invited. Proceeds for
school betterment.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
S. w. Bostick Dead.

Mr.. S. w. Bostick, aged 50,
died at his home in Mineral
Springs township Dec. End. He
was buried at the family grave
yard the 3rd.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
Low prices prevail at Lowry's
Watch his ads.

See our line of blankets and
comforts; reduced prices on ali
grades. -McNair Furniture Store
The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-02
MEXICAN CONDITIONS
CHANGED


w. E. Hildebrand and Sam Heslett
were in town yesterday from the
Cerro de Orc mine, returning to the
property this morning. They report
conditions throughout their district
the best in many years, and say that
Americans are, afforded every pos
sble protection.
The gentlemen. related an instance
where q squad Of Mexican soldiers
visited their camp, which in former
times would have been the occasion
for iooting. In this, instance however,
the soldiers told them that they had
strict orders not TO nolest any for
.'gners, especially Americans, and
their Instructions were carried out to
the letter. Not so much as meal did
she soldiers eonfiscate.
This is taken by the mining men
- reflect the attitude of the Sonora
government toward Americans; and
rs result, they predict if the So
rora movement proves successful, a
wenderful era of peace and pros
perity for. the West Coast Of Mex
loo.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-02
MISSING MEXICAN LAD

Mexican Consul Hernandez Of this
city yesterday received an inquiry
Phoenix concerning the present where
abouts of Reuben Cervantes. Ger
vantes, according to the letter is a
young lad about II years Of age, and
was living up to about a year ago
with a Hindu family near Chandler,
Arizona On April 10, 1919, he dis
appeared and has not been heard from
since. Anyone knowing anything
about him will confer a favor on his
friends by writing to Fred J. Wright,
room Nicholson Bldg, Phoenix,
Arizona
The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-02
RECOMMENDED NEW FIRE
ENGINE

At the meeting of the Fire Depart
ment last night, it was voted to re-
commend to the city council that an
other fire engine be purchased. At
present the department has only one
engine and although this has proven
suffice nt in the past, things would
go badl;, should two fires happen to
break out simultaneously in different
parts of town.
The engine which the department
will recommend that the city pur-
chase is an American-La France ma
chse, the same as the one already
belonging to the department. only a
later model; and in addition the new
machine will have force pump for
handling fires on the hills where the
pressure is low.
The machine recommended will
The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-02
AS THE EDITOR SEES IT


In Judging others, we often forget
shat we ourselves have limitations.
Take a public official, for in
stance.
We elect him to off ce without first
subiecting to tie acid test, ether than
as the opposing party may apply 1t
After he is elected he develops cer-
tain traits of character of which We
were uniformed
They do not just exactly accord
with our own ideas, and We proceed
to ''hand it to him"-from distance.
By the time we are through with him
his own mother would have difficult?
in recogn ling him. He has no horns
in evidence, but We often give him
credit for possessing them.
In reality, however, he may be a
really decent fellow, a ia MY capable
official, and he may be performing
the duties of his office in an accept
able manner-possibly even better
than we could do.
Truly, the beam in our own eye is
a great d storter of vision, from which
many unjust criticisms arise.
The Lord has provided that Sun
day shall be day Of rest and wor-
ship.
We make it one of rest, though
many of us overlook the worship. !
But we might vary the routine a
little with advantage to ourselves
and the approval of the Lord.
We might spend Sunday after
noon in walking over the town. We
might note the condition Of the
homes and property of other people,
and then each strive to have our own
property just a little cleaner, and
more attractive than that of othera
Of course we couldn't each one
have the best, but the improvement
would be SO wonderful and SO far
reaching it would make of this town
a small paradise on earth.
Just as diversion, if for no other
The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-02

-eason take Sunday afternoon off
and use your legs-also your eyes.
Good men are plentiful in this
world. They will always be plentiful
as long as the world remains as It is.
But even "a good man sometimes
:heds his coat of righteh usness in his
own home. 1t is there that impatielice
sometimes finds it's outlet-uncon-
sciousiy, no doubt, but none the less
true.
And the wife bears the burden
pays the penalty of the sins of others
who have produced this lapse in the
good man.
Even a good man would do well to
think twice before he lets off steam
in his own home.
And the rest of us, ditto.
If you pass a man on the street
and he favors you with growl on a
scowl, you wonder if his stomach
pains him, OF whether it is SIMPLY
the nature of the brute.
10, the Lord did nc, slip cog, but
some one else did. His nature was
warped In the making. The sunshine
Of happiness was probably foreign to
him in his childhood days. Instead
of kind words he may have received
harshness or neglect, for such ma
lures. while, possibly hereditary to
an extent, are often the direct result
Of early environment.
A smile is better than a scowl, and
Fit you keep this fact in mind you will
do much toward shaping your career
In after Life,
An exchange suggests referendum
on the cost of living. But we object.
Prices might be advanced to include
; the cost of the referendum.
f. Wise men tell US that every normal
person born into this world is endow-
ed with certain comparable att.
tributes. Say, what's an attribute?
The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-02
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that Laun-
dry Workers, UNCONVENTIONAL examin-
alton win be held on May ID, 1920 for
the purpose Of filling vacancy in
the position Of Laundry Worker in the
Supply service at Nogales, Arizona.
Application blanks and further in
formation may be obtained from the
Local Secretary, Board Of Civil Ser
eice Examiners, at the immigration
Office, at Nogales, Arizona.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-05-02
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces the examina-
ton for Railway Mail Clerk on May
Is, 1920. Application blanks and
further information may be obtained
from the Local Secretary, Board of
Civil Service Examiners at the I'm
migration in Nogales Arizona.