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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1918. PLAT POLITICS; PARIS SUES TO RECOVER EPIDEMIC AT ITO PREVENT SPANISH INFLUENZA HAWESVILLE GIRL IS ANIMATED NEWSPAPER Eastern Kentucky Goes $310,550 Over Quota and Keeps Right On LIGHT COMPANY PAYMENTS HOLD DP BILL CAMP ABATED START USING NOSTRIOLA NOW GOES INTO CXBCTJIT COUBT TO hopeful that unreported subscriptions OBTAIN 932,000 ALLEGED ILLEGAL COLLECTIONS. y.aj maKo situation better than ofllclal "ttures indicate. House Republicans Score DAVIESS COUNTY' OVKR. Official Figure Is $19,570, 888, But $20,000,000 Already Is Pledged.

31 Victims of "Flu;" Number of New Cases Drops To 120 During Day. "Nostriola" Is Antiseptic, Cleansing, Opens Air Passages and Prevents Diseases of Nose, Throat and Bronchial Tubes. War Risk Board Delay Deficiency Measure. Already Hns $50,000 More Than Quoui. Special tn Thi Caw rl Tru rrt a 1 Ppecia.1 to Tho Paris.

Oct 17. Suit was filed In the offlco of W. H. Webb, clerk of tho Bourbon Circuit Court, to-day by tho city of Tarls against the Paris Oas Electric Company, seeking to recover the sum of $32,000, with interest, which it claims has been Illegally paid to the Owensboro, Oct. 17.

Davieas ooun- rv with i Special to Til Courier-Journal. twui Lii 4 tn fiOU t. quuiu ot any county in Kentucky $1,637,400 went over "An ounce of prevention Is worth Lexington, Oct, 17. The Eastern BUREAU IS DEFENDED a pound of cure." TOTAL OF SICK 11,261 Kentucky Liberty Loan area, compris one Ot the moat successful ever waged light company during the past five years Don take chances, but get NOS- for current for lighting the city streets. nt man TIUOLA" Balm or Liquid of your ing fifty-six counties, has accomplished the task of raising nearly ten million ivii nu iio.vo iyi cauj jimuo The petition claims that the previous ouuscnytiona aouoiea tneir druggist to-day, and let every member of the family start using It night dollars for tho Liberty Loan In a week.

th I uuiiiiB uie closing nours oi Chairman J. W. Stoll asserted to-night and morning. For Htno ii a. administration had made two contracts with the light company for current without previously submitting the question to a vote of the people, and that therefore monthly payments, averaging about Froper precautionary measures that over twenty million dollars are ol A bis decline in tho death toll and new cases featured developments in the influenza situation at Camp Zachary Taylor during the twenty-four hours i vj-caaiunm yegxmen wouia ready pledged, and that money is still towels, drinking vessels or other articles previously used by the sick.

All druggists sell and recommend "NOSTHIOLA." It costs but a trifle and It is something that should bo used at this season by every member of the family to prevent and relievo colds, which often lead to catarrh and other diseases if not checked promptly. "NOSTRIOTvA" Balm. Liquid and the special Nostriola Atomizer Outfit can be obtained at Taylor-Isaacs Drug Incorporated; T. P. Taylor Incorporated; Taylor-Bennett Prug Incorporated, and all drug stores.

(Advertisement. should be taken speedily in order to prevent taking cold, as an acute cold may prove to bo an acute attack of deficit "a.Ke up me county HoWPVdr the .1.. coming in. endlnir at 8 o'clock last nltfht. The fatal! i ui ineir country and poured In a The official figures are $10,570,600, but glowing reports are being made to show 5G5S, have been illegal.

A few weeks since the light company offered a compromise to the city on a basis of a reduction of tl.SOO yearly on the cost of current to the city, and a 10 onr roflntfnn nn bills Of private sweu.ni oi uouars. Tn-n P-hr the tie -number 31 as compared with 39 for the previous like period. Admissions dropped to 120 the lowest of any day since the disease became epidemic. One that the ioan is still going strong. more tnan above the quota, with Washington, Oct.

17 (by A. Partisan political discussion and criticism of tho War Risk Insurance Bureau delayed action by the House to-day on the Six Billion Dollar Military Deficiency Bill. Leaders hope to pass the measure to-morrow and send it to the Senate, but Representative Sherley, of Kentucky, in charge of the bill, warned the House that this was impossible unless discussion was confined to "what is In the bill." Commendation and condemnation of Spanish Influenza. The germ which causes Spanish Jnfluen7.a resides in the nose, throat and bronchial tubes. Infection, therefore, is readily communicated from the sick to the well by sneezing and coughing, or by infected Lexington and Fayette county lead consumers, which, acting under the ad a expeCletl jjYiaay with a combined pledge of over three hundred and eighty patients were Qis-miKcui frnm the hnsnital as cured.

In Ih Thir f'W vice of Its consulting engineer, v. n. Weiss, of Kansas City, the city refused million dollars. Total Influenza cases admitted since uiuoriy ioitn campaign Daviess county, with a quota of Tho largest subscription here to-day to The total amount, including interest, which the cllv seeks to recover In the the epidemic started are ana oi these 7.S43 have recovered. Total deaths have reached 6-15.

Yesterday's victims was ior ordered by telegraph oy the heirs of rh lain L. V. Harkness. suit will aggregate former Standard Oil magnate, who owns LOGGERS WILL GATHER were: Private Roy McSwane, 22 years old, Kvnnsvllle. Tnd.

uie great walnut Mall estate in tne county. AT LEXINGTON OCT. 22 The subscription in the district means FLEMING COUNTY CLOSE Private George E. O'Neill, 25 years the work of the War Risk Bureau were more than for every man, woman and child. freely voiced during the two-hour dis TO $337,050 QUOTA Honor flags were to-day awarded to Appalachian Cong-ress To Have Two cussion of appropriations of for arrs ivnolt county; union, uoone clerk hire and for additional juusy Days and Elect Officers.

Special to The Courier-Journal. Oct. 17. Flemings family allowances, both of which were approved. Representative iladden, of old, Salem, Mass.

Private William H. Witt, 24 years old, Worchester, Mass. Private Ulas Johnson, 21 years old, Klrkmansvlllo, Ky. Private Blno Meager, 25 years old, Wadsnorth, O. Private Arch Williams, 2S years old, Spottsvllle, O.

Private Artie E. js'eCt. 22 years old, Mt. Sterling, O. Private Tony Pranchewic, 24 years old, Springfield, 111.

Private Edwin J. Krles. 21 years old. burg's fourth Liberty Loan honor tlasr has been received and is now floating county; inarpsburg, Bath county; Boone, Mason, Johnson, Letcher, Kenton, Menifee. Pendleton, Perry, Pike Garrard, Scott and Boyd counties.

Ashland Catlettsburg, Rush, Princess, East Ford and Malty are in Boyd county. Following are the subscriptions of the counties given officially to-night: Illinois, Republican, denounced the bu reau as "outrageously Inefficient" in ad. Special to The Courier-Journal. over tho city hall. CTwinir F.llznville and Hillsboro are ministration, and said it was "filled with -ii.

inn ion cicviuji ui umbers idlers." Representative Treadway, of win iL i Congress Massachusetts, Republican, defended the other communities In the county that will also soon be flying flags, as thcy have all gone "ovc-r the top." Under the ruling that every community that subscribes its quota Is entitled tn a fln? there nrobablv will be one for Bath 21G.500 Bell ill i next ruesaay ana Wednesday. Sfastn-ma will i bureau lor accompllsmng a great vui ume of work In a short time, while oth Cardington, O. Candidate James G. Zimmerman, 24 years old, Duncannon, Pa- er members exchanged Information re in ilia ruwnix Hotel, and loggers and persons Interested In loosing from all parts of the country are expected to attend. The programme for the meeting is as follows: garding the bureau work, seeKing explanation of delays in checks going to Private Harry w.

utt, yraus um, each of the nineteen precincts as the news from the different precincts grows more encouraging each day. The latest report to-day from Fleming Booue Bourbon 835,550 Boyd 706.W0 Bracken 390,150 Breathitt 25,200 Campbell 1,800,000 Carter 177,300 Clark 1,012,750 Carlinville, 111. MISS OlSCIE JACKSON. Special to Tne Courier-Journal, Hawesvllle, Oct. 17 All Hancock county, and parts of Barren and Henderson counties, are ringing with gratitude and praise of ifiss Cecle Jackson, Hawesvllle correu'pond-ent of the Cou-ner-Journai, for distributing the mo-mentous peace news of the last few days over the telephone, several hours before the arrival of the newspaper.

When the first big reports came, showing the utter collapse of Germany's dream of world-dominion, and giving every indication of her desire, even anxiety, to surrender, Muss Jackson got on the telephone and called Lewisport, Pelleville, Patesvi'lle, Dukes, Hiildale, Lyons. RoseviKe, Midway, Skillman, Chambers and many other conr-munitfeis, and ga-ve them lihe real news of the moment reading the headlines of the Courier-Journal. The result was that hundreds of rural residents, who usually get their war news hours, often days, late, knew about the big things as soon as the "city Miss Jackson was undeterred by the fears of the Liberty Loan workers, that the peace news might slacken up loan subscriptions. Hancock county knows that Pres soldiers families. Want To Buy Congress.

Tn thi nniuni discussion which con OCTOBER 22, 1918. Private Felix lieaoszewsui. old. Wis. Private Roy McLenan, 33 years old, countv is that JSO7.700 has been subscribed in the county the quota being cr luurtas ot wei- MITIA T)rjlrln Tl Jamesrille.

O. J337.050. eluded general debate, as the bill went Private John Elmer Salter, l'J jears of the Lexington Board of Commerce. Reply by John Raine, president Slea- old. Bloomer, Wis.

Clay 59,050 Elliott 2,500 Estill 226,500 Favette 3,021,051 Fleming 307,700 Flovd 1S5.000 Garrard 241,000 NEW HAVEN HAS GIRL uv ijumDer uompany. Tne to amendment unaer me uve-imnuic rule, Representatives llagee, of New York, and Campbell, of Kansas, Republicans, advlcating a Congressional Committee to the Government ex Private Charles Robeson, za years oij, dairville, Ky. Private John M. McGinty, 29 years old, uoBser, dj- ur. Stanley Krebs.

RURAL ROUTE CARRIER JlllGl KLtlillKSII I by the Lexington Board ot Commerce. Wanatah, Ind. Private Abraham Calloway, 22 years penditures, appealed for election of a old, Clayton, Ala. Grant ZJi.SX) Greenup 144,500 Harlan 191.250 Harrison 42S.3O0 Private Daniel Dodges, si years om, Special to The Courier-Journal. Mow Haven.

Oct. 17. Miss V- iiiraiei ya.ny. OCTOBER 23. 1918.

9 a. m. to 12 Business meeting. 2 p. m.

to 5 p. Round table: 'The AdvuiitHciio nr Free Springs, Ky. Bnnriv Kellv. 26 vears old; mother, Josephine Haean. daughter of Mr.

Jessamine 410,31.0 Jackson 31,150 Johnson 200,250 Elizabeth Kelly, Goreville, 111. Othar R. Chalfant, 21: mother, Rena Logging." John F. Shea; "The Diead- Preston Hacan. has been appointou mail carrier on Route 1.

She is the first woman to be appointed to such a Chalfant, Cambridge, O. Ch.irlev Woodard. 24: father. J. E.

Kenton 2,324,400 Knott 23,400 C. L. Babcock; "Costs," W. T. Latham; Knox 102,150 ident Wilson will not accept anything but unconditional surrender, and the war news will do more good than harm," she declared.

And Miss Jackson did NOT write this position In this vicinity. Mrs. Florence H. Dawson has sold her farm, one mile south of New Haven, to J. .7.

Couchey. of Rinerland, for $3,000. Laurel 53,350 vuiuine t. i Holt. Address by Capt.

Snyder, United States Army. Address by Lieut. Sauvage, French Army. Open discussion. Lawrence Lee in.500 story.

Woodard. Henderson. Ky. Candidate Archie Coleman, 24; foster-mother, Mrs. Richard Seay, Kcnbridge, Va.

Second Lieut. Sanford H. Potter, 20; Boston. Mass. Ezra Young, 21; mother, Annie Beason, Liewisburg, Ky.

Charles E. Day. 32; mother, Mary The fourth Liberty drive tor tha TsTfiv Haven banking: district in i p. m. uanquet.

Tnnan ta nHniin Leslie 5oO Letcher 322,250 CLASSIFICATION IS NOT Lewis 54.300 Republican Congress. iiepreaemauyu Heflin. of Alabama, Democrat, in reply referring to election expenditures in several States, charged the Republicans with "absolutely trying to buy the House and Senate." Pay for the army, amounting to was the only Important military appropriation considered to-day. It was passed without discussion. Several appropriations for civil departments also -were approved, as were legislative sections giving definite authority for tne enlarged powers of the Shipping Board for the extension of ship yard facilities.

Should the House complete the bill tomorrow It could not come up in the Senate before Monday, the Senate adjourning to-day until that time so the Finance Committee may work on the War Revenue Bill without interruption. Majority leader Martin announced that the Senate Appropriations Committee -will begin consideration of the Military Deficiency Bill to-morrow. SENTENCED FOR HAVING LIQUOR IN POSSESSION IVALUUUtU, ior California schools and making bats for! Nelson county with a quota of 585.000 went over the top the first day with S95.000 subscribed. Lincoln 310,000 lean uaseDau teams. COMPLETE IN 13 COUNTIES Special to The Couner-Journal.

Frankfort. Oct. 17. Flue has interfered with classification of men registered under the new draft, and with physical examinations. MaJ.

Henry F. Rhodes stated to-day The followine counties have made McCreary 600,000 Madison 400,500 Magoffin Maaon 821,000 Menifee 15,000 Montgomery 363,100 Morgan 65,000 Nicholas 105,800 Owsley 27,650 Pendleton 333,300 Perry 215,000 Pike 331,250 Powell 95,500 Pulaski 170,750 Rockcastle 25,700 Rowan 66,900 Scott 555,350 Whitley 129,100 Wolfe 11,000 Woodford 453,100 no report on classifications, and unless they do promDtly Kentucky will be the last State In the Union to Do You Think There is No Competition? Bracken. Carter. Cumberland. Har A personal offer to those who fear Spanish Influenza din.

Johnson. Lawrence. Mapoffin, Marion. Marshall. Martin.

Metcalfe, Louisa Dav, Lanesville, Ind. Carl E. Sherman. 22; mother, Carrie Sherman, Bellevue, O. Otis Redman, 21; grandmother, Ann Redman, Mt.

Vernon, Ind. Ivey a Lawrence. 30; wife, Maude Lawrence, Luarel, Wis. Frank E. Whlsman, 30; father, David C.

Whisman, Taylorsville, Ky. John S. Marshall. 23; father, Charles Marshall, Cannelton, Ind. Leroy Ruggles, 22; mother, Nellie Ruggles, Waterbury, Conn.

Deaths that occurred at the base hospital yesterday from causes other than influenza were: First Lieut. Zachary D. Harden, 27 years old, Headquarters Company, 71st Field Artillery, son of Mrs. S. D.

Harden, Raleigh, X. pneumonia. Corporal Paul Liggett, SS years old, Field Artillery, Central Officers' Training School, son of X. J. Liggett, Xerw York City, pneumonia and meningitis.

Private James L. Barry. 21 years old. Battery 67th Field Artillery, son of J. D.

Barry, Crown City, measles and pneumonia-Private George G. Caldwell, 25 years old, iMcRae, measles and Perry and Whitley. REV. S. P.

PRY0R, FRANKLIN, Columbus Man Buys It In Louisville and Gets 110 Days. OVERSEAS FOR Y. M. C. A.

Speclnl to The CVmrler-Journul. Franklin. Oct. 17. The Rev.

S. ANY doctors are urging Pryor. pastor of the Collece-street the use of a soothing an Presbyterian church, has been granted a leave of absence by his church in order that he may accept a secretaryship of the Y. M. C.

A. In overseas work. Special to The Courier-Journal. Columbus. Oct.

17. Roscle Irvin. 32 years old. of this city, was sentenced to 110 days on the state penal farm for unlawful possession of intoxicating liquors. Irvin admitted that he bought 6 ouarts of whiskey in Louisville which he placed in a telescope.

Later he dropped the telescope, breaking three of the bottles, and then he procured a feather pillow for the protection of the remaining bottles whioh were found the tele-scone by the police here. He will depart Sunday for York whence he will sail for France. Subscriptions By Districts. Subscriptions by districts now are recorded as follows: Subscription. 'Per- Districts.

centage. St. Louis $230,900,200 ftllinneapolis 177,163,460 .843 Boston 375,461,700 760 Dallas 82,765,650 .656 San Francisco 256,591,800 .638 Chicago 539,862,300 .620 Richmond 166,371.100 .594 Kansas City 153,325,700 .588 Cleveland 350,182,950 .583 Xew York 943,792,000 .527 Philadelphia 239,331,450 .478 Atlanta 86,869,050 "The situations in the different districts to-night," said the loan headquarters announcement, "may be summed up as follows: "St. Louis Certain of its quota, but owing to inliuenza, expects no large Louisville Man Writes of Being Wounded At Chateau Thierry SPRINGFIELD COUPLE DIE SAME DAY OF INFLUENZA tiseptic like Kondon's for inside the nose and head. I want to make it easy for folks to get this relief.

HEREFORE, I hereby authorize any druggist to let you have a 30c tube of "Kondon's" on the understanding that if you don't think it is worth many times that to you, you may return your tube to the druggist and get your money back the druggist to collect said refund from me. man dead. There are towns, villages, barns and chateaus, one maps of ruin, destruction and desolation. There are wet, cold, sleepless, restless nights, and during the twenty-one days my clothes Lieut. Carl Bullitt Rauterberg Five Members of George Young's Family Dead Within the Past Week.

were never changed, and it was seldom one had an opportunity to wash On Transport Sunk By Huns. Only once during that time did I take a bath. It was on tho fourth day after. oversubscription. Minneapolis Tjnofn-clally reports quota obtained, but Is striving hard for oversubscription.

BostonStruggling hard to overcome serious setback occasioned by inliuenza epidemic and is hopeful of success. Dallas Conducting wonderful patriotic drive In face of unusual discouragements, including drouth. Is San FranciscoMaintaining steady increase in face of bad agricultural conditions In some sections. Chicago Having difficulty In obtaining larger subscriptions. ueiiienuuus ngnemg.

in nearly all French villages there are fountains in the main square, at which horses alono are permitted to drink. It was too tempting. I quickly stripped and was In It. I have never enjoyed a bath more. Two of us dared it, and the poor fellow is dead now.

He was killed the day after I was hit. Fine, clean-cut chap, of whom I had erown Mrs. Charles Rauterberg, 952 South Fourth street, has just received a copy of a letter which her son, Lieut. Carl Richmond Peace talk and iniluenza have hurt the campaign, but confident of extremely fond. I shall never forget, quota.

Kansas City A belated sales drive, hampered by influenza, is giving workers an uphill task, but they are strong in determination to 'win. Cleve too, there was a church, another item (Signed) Thomas N. Kenyon, Owner KONDON'S SRUAIj -MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA landSales improving and wniriwind nnish expected. Xew lork Moperui, out one Invariably finds in these French villages.

Just acrces from us where we were bathing. There was an explosion and its tower gave way and fell crashing to the street below. That same afternoon I passed this church and magnitude or problem not being unarr est mated: Dig money must come nrst. Philadelphia Making a real battle against enormous odds caused chiefly by suddenly stopped short, for there was Influenza. Atlanta Trying nard and music: unmistakably an organ, too.

Some of the lads had found the organ If anyone thinks there is no competition amongst the big packers he ought to go through a day's work with Swift Company. Let him begin at the pens when the live stock comes in; let him try to buy a nice bunch of fat steers quietly and at his own price, without somebody's bidding against him. Let him realize the scrupulous care taken at the plant that not one thing is lost or wasted in order that costs may be held to a minimum. Let him go up into the office where market reports are coming in, and reports of what other concerns are doing. Let him watch the director of the Swift Refrigerator fleet, maneuvering it over the face of the country like a fleet of battleships at sea.

Let him take a trip with a Swift Company salesman and try to sell a few orders of meat Let him stay at a branch house for an hour or two and see the retail meat dealers drive their bargains to the last penny as they shop around among the packers' branch houses, the wholesale dealers, and the local packing plants. And then, when the day is over, let him have half an hour in the accounting department, where he can see for himself on what small profits the business is done. (Less than 4 cents on each dollar of sales.) If he still thinks there is no competition in the meat business it will be because he wants to think so. and from out of its depths came the mournful, strains of 'There is no place like That night we again took uip our positions in the front line. One United States Railroad, Administration W.

G. McADOO, Director General of Railroads Bullitt Rauterberg, has written to his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Bluth, of Xew York. Lieut.

Rauterberg has been in France since last May. The transport he sailed on. the Moldavia, was sunk and practically all of his men lost. He is with the 58th In-fantry, and has had some thrilling experiences. Mrs.

Rauterberg has another son, Henry Bullitt Rauterberg, at Camp Zachary Taylor In the Central Officers Field Artillery Training School. The following is part of Lieut. Rau-terberg's letter telling of his experience in the battle of Chateau Thierry, where he was severely wounded. It was thought for a time he would lose his right hand: "My Dear Uncle Karl and Aunt Having seen the greater part of Xorth-ern France on foot, it is my sincerest and dteire to spend this two weeks' leave on its southern shores, to view it from comfortable Pullman car windows, and to go and do just as I please. Will probably spend the greater part of It at Biarritz, as it has been highly recommended by all who have must nave a sense or humor, tninK, in order to stand it all.

M'nving; Down Germans. "I had to pass through a cut on Louisville Nashville both sides of which our machine guns were spitting their little pellets Into Special to Tho Courier-Journal. Springfield, Oct. Young died last night of influenza and his wife died this morning of the samo disease. This makes five members of this family who have died within the last week.

Frank Head, son-in-law, died las; week and Mrs. Head, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Young, and her child died this week. Harvey MeElroy.

Special to The Courier-Journal. Lebanon. Oct. 17. Harvey Mc-Elrov one of this city's best known yountr men and a farmer and stockman widelv known throughout this part of the State, died at the home of his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace W. McElrov. this mornlne- of pneumonia, followine an attack of influenza.

He was 111 only a few days. He was 38 years old and is survived by his parents two brothers. Stanley L. and Allan, and one sister. Mrs.

Oliver Kelly. Jnmes Thomas Kins-Special to Tho Courier-Journal. Hawosville. Oct. 17.

Thomas King, 90 years old, one of Hancock county's best-known citizens, died, at tho home of his son, John H. King, near Hawesvllle, of paralysis. He is survived by three sons. John H. and Matt King, of Hawesvllle, and William King, of Lewisport; one daughter.

Mrs. James Brown, of Hayti, Mo. Funeral services were conducted at the grave In Poplar Grove cemetery by the Key. K. M.

Gabber, of Owensboro. Mrs. Ballla Allis. Special to The CourlerrJournal. Paris Oct.

17. Mrs. Ballla Allis. aged 70, widow of A. P.

Allis, for many ylars a prominent business man of Parts Had at the homo of a relative In Richmond this morning. The body will he brought to Paris for burial and the funeral will be held at the grave in the Parts cemetery Friday afternoon. Mrs. W. Watts.

special to The Courier-Journal. Lexington. Oct. 17 Mrs Watts 57 years old. ono of the wealthiest women In Central Kentucky died this afternon of Pneumonia at Richmond, where she had cone to nurse her daughter.

Mrs. Harry Blanton. who has the same dis- tho German lines. Xow a machine gun is one of the most hated weapons. RAILROAD and usually draws heavy shelltire in order to silence them.

This the Ger mans were doing at great rate. One of my men was knocked out, and I told tho remainder to drop into little graves dug In the side of tho road. Graves' are small holes dug by the men themselves by means of a minia CHANGE IN TIME Effective October 20 visited tnere. Fought For Xvtenty-ono Days. "For twenty-one days straight, up to the time I was hit, it was light, fight, fight.

I have never experienced anything like It In all my life. It Is past hlatorv now and common property. We started in just northwest of Chateau ture shovel. This tney aid. Knew that the shelling would not continue for long.

I myself dropped Into one at the head of the column. They were striking very close. Blo-bloom, and my lights went out. I don't know how long It was that I lay unconscious. My first Impression was that I had passed into another world.

Slowly consciousness returned. I moved first one leg, then the other. They seemed to be quite all right. Then I loosened my left arm, for I had nearly been burled, pushed the earth from around me, raised mvself on my right elbow. Wow'.

Something was wrong somewhere. I soon saw my hand was in what would be called a beautiful condition. I waited a few minutes to make sure that no more shells were coming with my name written on them, and then went back to the dressing station." Thierry, covered some tnirty miles or more, and crossed the Vesle River. It was there that one of the enemy's 77s (high explosive) knocked me out. Perhaps it would be interesting to you to know some of the sensations one goes through with all that hell gomg on about one.

There are times when you would welcome death with outstretched nrmn others when there is not an in strument of death made that could possibly harm you. mere are limes wh-n the bowels of hell itself would seem a haven. Machine guns (pop-pop. pop-pop, raster man you can couul, and many them, and us thev pain you on their Oats The New Oat Food A luscious combination of figs, dates, raisins and selected Oats "Sweetened with Luscious Fruits Think of it the fruit and the cereal of a perfect Breakfast, perfectly delicious and wonderfully nourishing in one dish, at Less Than a Penny a Dish! AT YOUR GROCERS COLDS AND GRIPPE YIELD TO CALOTABS OVERNIGHT For Cincinnati, train No. 10 will leave Louisville at 6:30 a.

m. instead of 6:50 a. m. Train No. 6 will leave at 4:50 p.

m. instead of 5 p. m. For Nashville, Birmingham and south, train No. 1 will leave at 10:10 p.

m. instead of 10:05 p. and train No. 7 at 3:15 p. m.

instead of 3:05 p. m. Local train No. 9 (except Sunday) will leave for Lebanon, Greensburg and Bowling Green at 5:10 p. m.

instead of 5:15 p. m. For Norton, Knoxville and Atlanta, train No. 23 (Jacksonville train) will leave at 8:30 a. m.

instead of 8 a. and train No. 21 will leave at 8:30 p. m. instead of 8 p.

m. For Lebanon, Stanford and Richmond, train No. 27 will leave at '7 a. m. instead of 6:40 a.

m. For Lexington and Frankfort, on week days, trains will leave at 7:50 a. m. instead of 8:07 a. 1:30 p.

m. instead of 1:45 p. and 5:15 p. m. instead of 4:20 p.

m. For Shelbyville and Bloomfield, train No. 18 will leave at 7:50 a. m. week days instead of 8:07 a.

and train No. 52 at 5 :25 p. m. daily instead of 5:10 p. m.

mission of death), trench mortars that tear holes in the ground big enough to drive a ambulance Into and completely cover it The 210s and 310s are quite similar There is choking, suffocating, death-dealing gas. liquid Are that transforms a living human into a charred crackling mass a fraction of a second. There are nasty, barking grenades the snap and thud of a rifle, and the clash of bayonets, the groans of the severely wounded and dying. There is barbed wire that tears, holds and over which many never crces alive. Thore Is the stench of the hu- Swift Company, U.

S. A. Louisville Local Branch Eighth and Nelson Streets W. A. Fisher, Manager Citac.

Garton Rtiscoo. Special to The Courier-Journal. Cadiz Ky- Oct. 17. The body of Carton Rascoc.

who died recently at CamDbellsville. of influenza, was here and buried yesterday. He was a son of Mrs. Anna Rascoe. of this place, and a sister of Miss Timmii Rascoe.

He is survived by his wiaow. who fs now auite 111 with in-fluenza In Campbellsvillo. TWO DEATHS, 1,000 CASES-OF INFLUENZA IN BEDFORD Special to The Courier-Journal. Bedford. Oct 17 Grover Marlev.

29 years old. a leading drug-cist of this city, died this afternoon from influenza, maklmr two deaths in this city from the disease The comae-ion is spreading: rapidly over this county, and especially In this vicintiv. one physician reporting twentv cases and others near that number during- the oast twenty-four hTtrS( estimated there are 1.000 in the county, with a number of deathe Xrom. the disease. To break up a cold overnight or to cut short an attack of Influenza or grippe, physicians and druggists are now recommending Calotabs.

the new nausealess calomel, that is purified from all dangerous and sickening effects. Those who have tried It say that it acts like magic, by far more effective and certain than the old style calomel, heretofore recommended by all physicians. One Calotab on the tongue at bed time with a swallow of water that's all. Xo salts, no nausea nor the slightest interference with eating, work or pleasures. Next morning your cold has vanished and your whole system feels refreshed and purified.

Calotabs is sold only in original sealed packages, nrice 35 cents. Recommended and guaranteed by aii druggists. Your money back If you are not delighted, "Pull" If it took a "pull" to get in, it only takes a kick to get out. You can be businesslike without being brusque. It is not important to know of the mistakes that others have made, because the thing is still waiting to be done right..

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