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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1916)
I)iefc 2lbtcihmg ift fiir hie ^amtlienglieber, mclcfyc am licbftcn Deutfa Icfcn. $3Di Sftautilofic 6c-? curouniidicn Anon it bos ilangfannscrbcii be; beuridjeu Slngriffs nielfad) als Pr-I lahmen aufgcfatt nirb, barf man; nidjt nergeffen, bat e* fid) bei 3?er*1 bun md)t urn raidje Sdjldge be* fjelbfriegci tjanbelt, roo man burd; embeitiidjen Pmfat) geroaltigcr i'iaj* jcii an ber entfdjeibenben 3telle einen rafdjeit Prfolg ergielen fann. t£s! roirb erft fpdtcr, nacbbem man Pin-! blicf in bie Pingeltjeiicn be* iier- j iant* ber .Wamofe befommen bat, mit nmger Sidjertjeit beurtent roerbenj tbnnen, ob bie franjofiidien Dffen- j ftncit in ber Pbampagne nidji am Pnbe baran fcpcitcrten, baf; bie bort oufammengejogenen £>ccrc uad; ben bisberigen ISronbfdtjen bei fvelbfrie* ge» angefefct tnorben finb, fo bat bem ?lngriff bie 9iad)balhgfeit nnb t'lu* bancr febitb, bie gur lleberroinbung j be* reinblidien Siliberuanbe* notroen* big tit. lie £rieg*erfat)rnngen aui! Cftafien baben in ib.rcr uunerdnbcr* ten t'lnroeubung any beu europdifdjcn i!rieg*fd)aupldbeu noUftanbig ner fagt. t'lud) feit itriegibegum bat bie 2aftif fid) mclyrfad) gednbert,: roa* im .'perbft 1914 riduig roar, ift bentc Idngft iibcrlebt. 9lud) in ber dcutfdjcn titmice fmb mandje Xog mcn, mit benen fie in ben itrieg ge= j treten ift, laugft iiber ^orb geroorfen roorben 9iur groei 3?cifpiele: P* roar ein abfelut fefliieficubrr Vebrfa’j, bat in ber ILicrteibigung mir cine 3te£luug gerrdbtt mib mit alien pir i'crfugiuig fiebcnbeu 2)iittcln au*ge bam roirb. Pin fpibrer, ber Ijciitc *ro Sk’ftcn bcnad) banbeltc, fdimre nibig jeinen Albfdyicb liebmcn mib uadi am’c ferren. pn cincr '.Breite non ."punbcrteii non W-ilomctcrn liogt ein t'k-roirre non SdjiipcngrdL'ca, ?pi:ibernnien, i9erbiubuiig*gEdbcn, ltmerudnben, SUocfbdufern u. f. ro in grower iiere iuntercinanber, fo bat bon einen; rafdjeit Surdptotcii gar feme 9iebe metjr feiu fann. ;J,ur rrd)Iad;t foliien alle uerfiigbaren Wrdite fo jutammengegogen roerben, bat ’ie 511 eimieititdier ©irhing fom Jueu fdnnen. Cm ber 3dyladit non ilk'rbuu ift e* nod) gar me pi gleid). jcitigeni Pinfap gang grofjer .Warner j , .r_ -v gnoimnen. otnmer waxen c» mtr, S eil all ioncr., berm grirgre cine1 rrom pon fount ittclir ok 2(1 ftilo ueiern cimiatiin. SWan pcrgleid)e Dattut 5. tB. Me fvrontau-bebnung Dor Xeutjdjen in ber 3diiad)t bet doibringen (25. iHugtift lyiJi, rco jloidtjeittg ottf enter 3trede non ■ rber To ^ sUiomctcrn aiigenriffett rnrbr. tsoldje f'imberiiitgeu in ber •iri ber tivnoenbung ber ihnupfmii .cl |iitb nur mbgltd) in citter t'irmec, de im *rieben griinblid)c tUrbeit in ber f'lttvbilbung ber tfiiijrcr oiler ©robe gcleiftei hot, bemt nur fo fbn nen bie neitett ©ebanfen Don ben Uliterfuljrcrn BerftanbnkooII attfgt nommen uttb Dor bent ^einbe fadjge* rntif; angcrocnbet toerbett. ©etoifj Sing biefe Ummonbinng ber i'lnfd)an nngen ttid)t oime fHcibungcn bor fid), aber biefe tnaditen fid) toeber nod) aitfjen nod) im gnbergcbitk fiiblbor. i Xrill, fo noaoenbig er in, reid)t bo fiir allein nid)t au$. lie Xeutfdien baben and; in ber letter. 3odie bo? oon ?[nfang an cingefdjlagcnc rtampfoerfabren ^rtgefett; nod) dnem Sfngriff, ber griinbiid) norbe reitet nor, loffcn fie cine 'i'aufe ent treten, bie jur SBorbereitung eincs iteiten Sprunges nod) portDcirk be nittt mirb. Xicfcc llntcrbrud) in oer detocgung baucrt je nad) ben Serbditnifien cincn abcr mcfirere 2a gc. G» ift ie.hr roofil moglidj, baij in bicfcr 3cil flnfdye gcmadjt tocr bcu, uorjugetien. banit abcr aurgege-' ben tnrrben, roeil matt erf emit, ban bie Sadjc nodi nidit jur 9tcife ge fommen iit. 3oldie SSerfudjc crfdiei nL'u bonn ganj naturgematj in ben I franjoHdjen 2ageSbcrid)tcn alS ab-1 geidilagene Jlngrirre, todtjrenb fclbfi- j oerilanbltdi bie beutidicn amtlidien 2elegramme bariiber fd)toeigen. i fiber niemnnb glanbt im Grnitc, baijj bie 5°rtnUirung bed Slngriffed fo glatt nad) bem SSillcn ber beutidicn ,2iifirang Dor fid) gefje; baju finb bie ivranjofeit oiel ju tiidjtigc (Segncr. 'fiber anf ber auberen 3citc iit cs>\ and) fail'd), immer mieber jeben ab getoieienen Sngriff aid 3icg anju feben. benu bie Grfalirung jeigt bodi jur Weniige, bafj bae- ailed nur oor iibergelienbe Grfoigc find, bie ben sHerhnt cities Don ben Iicrtndcfigen 2curidien angegrirfenen iJJimfted mobl auffditfcben, nidit abcr enbgiiltig Dcrhntbern fomien. 2aju reidit bie gegenrodrtige franjofiidje flbtoclu 2aftif nidit an*. SMe 3d)Iad)t Don ’T'crbnn inirb Don ber frangdfiidini £ccresleitung nidit gefiibrt roie cine GntidieibungSidiiadit, fonbern rote pin ftambi nm Beitgetoinn. ber GittfdieibuiigSidiladit fann nur ber Hngrirf ben 3ieg an Jbie etgenen fvabnen teficln, in bem fiamuf urn Beitgetoinn geniigt bad ^inbaltcii. Derbunbcn mit gelegnitlidhcn Heineit &or*tofjen. ffber ber Santof um Beitgetoinn bat nur bairn feine 33c rcditigung, Duenn in ntifclidjer f3rifi' SP—dnbcmngen in ber aflgemeiuen £age 511 crroartcn finb, bie gefxattcn, miter giinitigcreii Scrgaltniffen fnofl bir limtfdjcibung 3U fudjeii, alfo aii jugreifcix. (is ift cerrriibt, bariibcr jejjt fd)on xirteilcix ju rooflen, 00 bie franjbftfdjc ^ecceSleitung bci Serbia? bcsbalb riditig Ijanbclt, rocxl fie be redjtxgt ift, aixf ba? Gingrcifcxi fri fdicr Strafte linb emeu fid) baraus er* gebenbejx 3ieg ju lioffen. Xcnfbar ift es ja, ban englifdje unb ruffifdje t'Irmccu fndjen rocrben, bie Gntfdjei bung Ijerbeijufuljren, rociin fie bie Xaitfd)cu bxtrd) bie Miimyfe cor Serbun alv geniigenb gcfdjroddjt er adjteix, unb rs roirb fid) jeigcn, ob biefe )lied)!iung nidjt xnel)rere ^-ebier | aufroeift. llngrftort rnnbl Cnglnnb nnfcrr Soft 2lnterifanifd)e ©efdjdftdleutc in Xeutfcblanb bcfdjmcren fid) bariibcr, bafj bic Softccrbtubung in it tlirein $ciniatlaube burd) Cinglanb miter brodjeu ift. Unter ben Umftdnben ift ed fiir fie fo gut toie uumbglid), (^cfdjaftdDerbiubungen aujtccbt gu crtjalten. 28ie au§ Scrlin braliilod gemel bet teirb, treffen bort jest einige Sriefe ein, bie 'Snfangd ^aiuiar tn '.'Inter if a nuf bic Soft gegeben rour bcti. ^citimgdpoft fdieiucu bie 6ng* Idnber iiberbaupt nirtit rnebr burd) gulaffen. 28ie ber 'Berliner Morre fponbent ber ..Seorlb" brabtlod met bet, crbielt er itn dWcnat Sfpril uur pier amenfamicbe efeitungcn. Slit ber beutfdjen, fiir Jlmerifa ’ bcftinuuteu Soft frelit ed. mic bier | fd)on mehrfad) ertudbitt xrurbe, eben fo fdiliimn. Xic roenigett Brie re, bie con ben (fngldnbern bnrdrgc laffett merben, treffen nut etner Serjpatnng Don mebreren Sionatcn : ein. Site ffeitxtngen merben grunb- j fcifelid) non trnglanb gcitoblen. Sic Stnatd - Srfretdr ilanfing crflfirt. unrig uufcrc fHegierimg fid' | in ibren Serbanblungcn mit (Jug- i lanb megeu cnglifdrer Serlceung be; : Bblferrcdit; nod) eittent beuebenben ! Sdtieb-jgeridrtdocrtrng ridrten. Bid biefed Xdjiebdgericbt enlfd)icben bat j merben mbbl itecb einige v,nbre Per geben. Unb bid babin tann (rug lanb ruljig feine Sofiraubereien fort fefeen. ■ Xtrnfc ber irifdirn ^frbrUcnfiilirrr gn ftrcttg. Xie (frmerbung ber irifdren ^ba rer. b:e mit ibrem Xobe iit bie rHuii-, mce-batle be; um feine f>-reibeit fain- j pfcitbeu irifcfjen Bolted ciutretcn, lafet fid) uur burdr bie nollftiinbige j Storfiofigfeit ber brixifdjcn illegic- j ruugemiiuuer erfliiren. 23ie ^.r- j lanb non jelrer bnrdi bie cugiifdyen ! x'iu .neuter unb ibre iWcgierungdroert- j geuge mit ausgeiudjter tpurie beban- j belt merben ift, fo and; bicdmal. | Xie Jlufftiinbifdjcn in Siibafrifa murben beguabigt; 2ir libroarb Uarfon, ber giibrer ber Ulfter-fHc bellen, iit cine ber mndjtigftcn Ser fbnlidifetteu in SRcgicrxiiig^freifen. v-bn befiinftigtc man burd) einett Soften im Stoalitiondfabiuett; fur Scarfe unb feine iWitrebellen giebt e; uur Sniper unb Blei. Scibft Sritenbldttcr, bie foitft iiber feinen 2ltt ber britifdjen ,vtcrrfd)artdfligue j ein StifeTalleit mtdbriicfcn, fmb gum Xeil entfefet bariibcr, bafg bie ?ld guitbd unb Slopb (Georges fid) nidjt beffer beratcu lichen unb ibrem Blutburft geboten. Xer Unnnlle i iiber btefe Bluxtat Chtglanbd padt 1 ; fdDbft jene ^rlattber, bie bidber nod) 1 bent Bcrrater fRebmonb Jyolge Iciftc ; ten. Xad Slut ber (frfd)offcneit mirb bie irifd)e 'Jtaffe incur aid je i gufammenfitten. SBier-(J?rolMftion nintmt nit. i SB a f I) i n 1 o n. Xrofc ber Xat fadje, bafe (prohibition? - Wejebc in fieben Xtaaten feit bem 1. ^uli 1915 in it raft getreten finb, ift im I at if at ben fvi?faljahr, cnbcnb 30. £nni 1916, forocit fct)en ntebr SBIiisfctj in ben (Per. Staaten crjcugt aorben air fc juror. (Bericbte an ba? ^nlanb- , fteuer - (Bureau jdniben bie (Sefanit- | jimabme ber (Bbi?feriprobuftion fiit ! bar J\i?falfalir auf anndbernb 1U-- j 000,000 (Saflotten. SBahreub be? gleidjcu 3citraum? j tit bic $erftefluttg bon (Bier juriitf gegamjen. Xie gefamte '-Pterpro imftion fiit- ba? Jvirfaliaftr, cnbcnb | 30. Juni, roirb auf 60,000,000 (Sal* . lonen treniger gefebabt, air in ban : tioraiifgegangenen J\irfaijaljre. _ Xn? ncuc (Bdgicn be? (Hcitli?tar.j!fro - i SB a f ft i tt g t o n. Xc§ 9?cidi?- j | fanjlcr? jiingfte Seufjcning betreffr ! j einer „neiten i'elgiat?", ai? cine ber | ! bcutfdicn Jjriebenrbebingungen, fin bet jetjt SBeridjten an? Berlin nad), dfuffldrung. Xeutfdilanb, fo ireifjt Or, befteht auf cine gefonberte (Per roaltung be? uldntifdien Jcil? nor. (Bclgien. Xie fylamliinbcr, etroc bie £>alfte ber SBcroifcrimg Selgien?, 3. 700,000 Xeelen, fallen ilne cigcne (Serroaltimg befommeu, miter befen beren Sferiirffidjtigung Hirer Xr ra the/it nb SSaHe. Sfeibe (Pbu’eddjaften jeoodi, foroeit c-i (Tertretung naii aiiBcri augdtt. nutcr enter IfcurraLe gieruitg ftcljcn. «OFTHE WEEK CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS National, Political, Personal and Other Matters in Brief Form for All Classes of Readers. WAR NEWS. Tiie reorganized Serbian array has landed at Saloniki. 80,000 strong, to aid the entente allies. * * * David Llovd-George has been as signed to the difficult task of settling the trouble in Ireland. * * * Sir Roger Casement has been In dicted for high treason by a grand jury in London. He will be brought to trial on June 26. * * * Major Moraht, military critic of the Berlin Tageblatt, writing of the Austro-Italian campaign, says the Italian casualties thus far are not less than 80,000 men. * * * The Germans have captured French positions on a front of approximately two miles between Dead Man hill and the Cumieres village, nortliw'est of Verdun, according to Berlin reports. * * * Since the beginning of the war D50 persons have been killed and 1,616 injured in the British Isles hy German attacks by sea and air, according to a statement made in parliament hy the home secretary. * * * Paris financiers are perfecting a plan to “corner" the battlefiieids of the west at the end of the war and making their fortune out of charges to tourists for permission to inspect the scenes of big fights. * * * The portable field kitchens, which the soldiers call “goulash cannon," are being introduced into the streets of the poorer sections of Berlin, selling warm dinners to all comers for “5 pfennigs per portion. * * * Out of the 80.000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners confined in the camps at Orenhurg. eastern Russia. 17.000 have died owing to the absence of good san itary measures, bad food, lack of clothing and exposure to the cold, ac cording to a report of the American embassy at Petrograd. dated March ir>. 1910. * * * A mother who gives birth to twins, or triplets, in Germany, is entitled not only to the nursing money and the weekly war assistance which the government provides, hut may collect the prescribed sum in duplicate or triplicate according to the number of children born, according to a ruling published by the Imperial Insurance bureau. GENERAL. Out of the G4U,0'iii people who have heard Billy Sunday in Kansas City, 7.O00 have hit the trail. * * v James J. Hill, railroad builder and capitalist, died at his home in St. Paul. Minn., after Slaving undergone a crit ical operation. » * * Evelyn Nesbii Thaw, who was di vorced by Harry K. Thaw, last month, and Jack Clifford, her dancing partner, were married in Baltimore. * » * The Rockefeller foundation has an nounced that it has appropriated $1,000,000 for war relief in Poland. Serbia. Montenegro and Albania. * * * Martial law will be continued throughout Ireland until further no tice. according to a proclamation posted by the military authorities of Dublin. * * * Directors of the Union Pacific rail road have elected Edgar E. Calvin president to succeed A. L. Mohler. whose resignation, due to ill health, takes effect July 1. * * * Seventeen deaths was the Memorial day toll this year. Six persons were drowned, four killed in automobile ac cidents and one in a runaway in New York Four persons were killed at Dallas, Tex., when a wooden awning collapsed, and two persons met death in an auto accident at America Forks, Utah. The injured total over forty. * * * Henry Ford, of Detroit. Mich., who organized the Ford peace expedition which sailed for Europe last winter, may return to Europe soon to'Tenew his efforts to bring about peace among the warring nations, it is said. * » •* Submission to the voters of consti tutional amendments providing for woman suffrage and for four-year terms for all state officers who shall be subject to recall, was advocated in resolutions adopted, by democrats of Arkansas in state convention at Little Rock. * • * Universal jitney transfers are available now in Topeka, Kan. The jitney owners announced that passen gers can now go to any part of To peka where the jitneys are in opera tion. * • * More than 200 Mexican men and women were murdered a short time ago when rebels fired on a train be tween Mexico City and Cuernevaca. according to private advices. Women and children were among the victims. All were government employes. * e • Prices paid producers for meat ani mals continue to increase.♦ From April 15 to May 15. the increase was 1.7 per cent compared with an aver age decrease of 1.6 per cent during the same period in the last six years. I Boise, Idaho recalled its mayor. J. W. Robinson. Charges of incom petent police administration figured i in the recall. * » * The Methodist general ccnfi.-cjce voted 434 to 360 at Saratoga. N. Y„ to retain the rule that Methodists must not play cards, dance or attend theaters. * * * Three men at MacGregor, la., were drowned following a cloudburst which caused the flooding of the town. The water rose six feet in five minutes and the men were unable to escape. * * * Dr. Arthur Warren Waits, New York poisoner, was sentenced io die in the electric chair during the week of July 10—the penalty for the mur der of his father-in-law. John E. Peck, of which he was convicted. * * * A rough place in :i road near Tulsa, j Okla., detnoated 200 quarts of nitro ! glycerin causing the death of two ; men, l he destruction of a school-house i and damage to windows in Tulsa, j four miles awaj* No trace of the men could be found. * * * The town of Merrill, W1s„ is to have a "fly week.” A committee har offered prizes for the best fly traps made by the boys of the city or others who are interested. A first prize of $.1, a second prize of ?3 and : a third prize of *2 have been offered. * * * New print paper made from hither 'o unused woods, under direction of the forest service laboratories, has been successfully tried by two large : newspapers, and in all eleven kinds of wood never used before have given promise of being suitable. A number of tree.- have been found suitable for maniia paper and box boards. SPORTING. Barney Oldfield set a new record for the speedway track at Indianapolis 'ecently. Taking ids life in his hands. Barney tore around a slippery track over tlie two and one-half mile course at a speed of 102.6 miles an hour. * * * Tlie Omaha high school won the Missouri Valley Interscholastic trade : meet at Kansas City. Omaha scored 41 points. St. Joseph being second with 25. Lincoln. Kansas City. Kan., and Kansas City Manual were the ' other schools entered. * * * Missouri won the ninth Missouri Va’_ lev track meet at Columbia. Ames, la., was second, and Nebraska finished fiLh. SiRmson of Missouri broke his own world's ceeord in tlie 120-vard j ! hurdles with a time of 14.3. In the 320-yard hurdles Simpson tied the world's mark of 2: ::;. which lias stood for eighteen years. * * « Dario Resta won the sixth annual international sweepstake; on "the Tn dianapolis motor speedway Memorial I (lay. completing the 300 miles in 3 j ' hours, 30 minute and 10.82 seconds, j He finished two minutes ahead of Wil- i bur D’Alene, who was second, and j j tbrea minutes ahead of Ralph Mulford : third. Rf sta won the $12,000 first | I prize and the usual trophies; D'Alene's j i reward was $6,000 and Mulford’s j $3,000. WASHINGTON The senate passed the rivers and I | harbors appropriation bill carrying : about $43.Oi'Mt.0i by a vote of 35 to • 32. after adding many amendments. 4 S *■ Half a billion dollar: will be the ■ government's internal revenue tax roll ! for the fiscal year ending June 30 next, i according to a statement issued by I Secretary MrAdoo. * * * ; A naval building program of from j sixteen to twenty-five battleships, 250 submarines and thousand < of airships I is being advocated by Representative i \ Farr of Pennsylvania. * * * Prices of foods in the United States ! have increased on an average of 1 per cent from February 15 to March 15, ! according to figures made public by ' the Department of Labor. • * * A committee of Syrians from New | York appealed to President Wilson j and Commissioner Polk of the State I Department to seek permission from I Turkey and the entente allies to get j food to Mount. Lebanon, an autono mous Turkish state, where they said 80,000 persons already had died of starvation and many are suffering. * * * Cornell with total of 45 points won the forty-first intercollegiate associa i tion meet at Cambridge. Mass. Two records, one in the 440 yard run and the other in the 12'l-yard hurdles, were broken Points scored were: Cornell. 45: Yale. 29: Stanford. 22: California. 22; Pennsylvania. IS; Dartmouth, 14; Michigan, 13; Harvard. 11; Princeton. J 10; Bqwdoin. 5; Syracuse. 3: Penn. I State. 2; Massachusetts Institute of j Technology, 1. * * * | President Wilson has issued a proc lamation calling upon the people of | the United States to celebrate Flag ! day. June 14. with patriotic exercises, j giving expression to “our thoughtful | love of America.” » r * Congressman Reavis has introduced a bill providing that small fruits, ber ries and vegetables shall not be j i shipped in interstate commerce in | ! containers other than those contain- j ■ ing a full quart, pint, half-pint, or multiple thereof. * * * The end of a protracted struggle came Just recently in the grant of transportation and a camping conces ! sion to the “Old Faithful" camping company of Livingston. Mont, by the Interior department. I • * * A new note from General Carranza, asking for a definite explanation of the continued presence of American 1 troops in Mexico and renewing his | previous request for their withdrawal., j has been received by the State de partment. FIRST PH0T06RAPH OF VERDUN IN RUINS This photograph of Verdun was taken recently during a lull in the terrihe bombardment. The city is a mass cf wreckage and ruins, hardly a house remaining untouched, and has been utterly abandoned hr the civil popu lation. DECORATED FOR HER RED CROSS WORK For her devotion to duly in the Red Cross work in France. Serbia and Macedonia. Mrs. Harley (t.nten, sister ol General French of the 3ritish army, was recently decorated at Saloniki by General Sarrail (man with folded urm$ at right) with the French military cross. The decoration took place in the presence of British. French and Greek officors am- a number of Mrs. Harley's coworkers in the Red Cross. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS VISIT LONDON A trio cf the czar's husky fighters, wearing many decorations attesting their bravery, aiding the British Red Cross by the purchase of St. George's flags in the Strand, London. MACHINE-GUN PLATOON AT EL PASO t if* •-TTrtMATttXA^ The feeling of unrest existing in El Paso is expressed vividly In this photograph showing the machine-gun platoon of the Twentieth infantry en camped in front of the courthouse at El Paso. POSTSCRIPTS The strength of tungsten filaments haS been Increased more than 300 per 'cent since they began to be used for electric lighting in 1908. Chinese railroad embankments are protected from floods by planting them with a native grass with tenacious roots that resist erosion. An English inventor's soft collar for men or women has loops under the ends through which to pass a aecktie to draw the ends together. A baby coach built to resemble an automobile has number plate, wind shield. lamps, fenders and mud guards. French cotton spinners have estab lished a laboratory for determining the percentage of moisture or any abnor mal dryness in cotton, that which is too dry being regarded as defective. German textile experts have suc ceeded in treating wool yarns by a process similar to that of the mer cerization of cotton, the wool being given a bath of bisulphate of soda at | high temperature. j UNVEILED AT WEST POINT Statue of George Washington un veiled recently at West Point by Miss Charlotte Delafield, a descendant of the late Maj. Richard Delafield of the institution. It was presented by Rev. Dr. Slattery of Grace church, New York, and was accepted for the gov ernment by CpI. Clarence P. Towns ley. superintendent of West Point. The donor was described only as a ■ patriotic citizen, a veteran of the Civil war.” The gift of the statue was the vesult of a conversation between the unknown donor and Colonel Townsley in which the former learned that West Point possessed no statue of the first president. A Canceled Debt. Hemmandhaw—I notice Bennie Iieanbrough is wearing his nose in a sling. Shimmerpate—Yes. It's a little debt he collected from Utah Umson. “Little debt?" ^ es. Umson owed him a grudge for several months and last week, you remember, was Pay Up Week.” It's a Motor Age. Truly we live in a motor age. When a Fayette parson drove down the street there in a spick and span a>a chine a mule colt gave its mother o.‘W farewell look, then followed the cgi down the thoroughfare.—Kansas City Time*. Larger Bills. "Is Dr. Goofer your family physi cian V' “Not any more." “Wasn't he satisfactory?” “Yes, but he taught an automobile."
