The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CANTON HERALD
RENTLY PROPOSE TO REMAIN ON OESEL ISLAND
TRIED TO SPUR HIS AUTO
21 BILLION IS VALUE OF
U. S. CROPS THIS YEAR
Cowpunchor Could Not Oot Used to
Kicking Forward to Maks
Cor Go.
Portland. Oro.—Hawley Moor ham.
the iMrlwnw of Roaring Springs. coo
now make hia 111 Tver get up and fit
aa well aa any sagebruab adorer is
three parta.
Hawley uaed to head « Jerky course
and atall on every grade. Tbo^tyodMa
waa be couldn't get uaed to kicking for*
ward to make the critter go, and. when-
ever he wanted apeed he alwaya kick-
ed back aa .be did when be rode the.
piebald rayuae. He Jupt would try to
dig In hla aptira.
The Ingenuity of Slim Crowley, who
lately turned the Skullspring Saddlery
Into the Palace -Oarage, solved the
problem. Slim filed up an uuxltlary
Nearly 1,000,000,000 Bushels
More Grain Was Raised
Than in 1916.
pound bales. Tobacco yield la given as
1.Ilia.451,000 pounds; sugar beets,
0,287,000 tons; beans. 15.701,000
pounds; qninns. 18,544,000 buabela, and
.... _____
cabbage, '0OZ.70O tana.
The apple crop waa 58,203.000 bar-
rels ; peaches, 45,086,000 barrels; pears.
13,281,000 bushels; cranberries, 240,000
barrels, and oranges, 12,832,000 boxes.
CORN LEADS ALL THE REST
Production of Grain and Other Farm
Products Far Exceeds Any Other
Year in History of Country—
Weather Ruins Flax.
Midget a Mother.
Hnvennah, Gu.—Sirs. Estia, a midget,
weighing only 30 ix>unds, la the mother
of a alx-pound baby l*oy. A Cesarian
operation wae performed. BottTmother
und child will- live.. The father Is Mix
feet tall and weighs 180 pounds.
Washington. — Fanners contributed
approximately $21,000,000,000 to the
wealth of the nation this year in the
production of grain and other farm
products, far exceeding uuy other ^cur
In the history of the country. Olf=thr<f
Immense total the com crop leads with
an estimated vulue of $4,053,072,000.
The oats crop Is valued at $1,001,427,-
000; wheat at $848,372,000, and pota-
W'heu Hawley kicks back pow she surs
■to*. ^
COMFORT IN NATIONAL ARMY BARRACKS
This photograph of the Germans on Oesel Island, near the mouth of the gulf of Finland. Is the first to arrive In
America und Indicates, by,the shelters the soldiers are building; that they Intend to stay there through the winter
at leakl."* At the right of the Illustration Is a German soldier signaling to a transport In the harbor.
ALLIED RE-ENFORCEMENTS BEING HURRIED TO
early estimates. A late season and
eurly L£osts hurt the corn crop, but
more In point of quality than quantity,
and there is more soft corn In the
country this year than ever before.
1,000,000,000 Bushels in Excess.
Nearly 1,000,000,000 bushels more
grain was rulsed than in 1910. The
final estimate shows a total production
of 5,066,728,000 bushels of the five
leading grains. This compares with
4.686.253.000 bushels last yea if, und Is
close to the record aggregate produc-
tion In 1915.
The total wheat yield Is given us
■650,828,000-• bushels, compared with
686.318.000 bushels last year, and 800,-
361.000 bushels, the 1911-15 average.
Corn .production Is estimated at
3.150.494.000 bushels, about 31,000,000
bushels under the preliminary figure
and compared with 2,566,927,000 bush-
els raised In 1916. The five-year nver-
. age was. 2,754,J.04,000 bushels and the
previous hunfper crop In 1912 was
3.124.746.000 bushels.
The yield of oats was also a record
one and. Is given as 1,587,286.000 bush-
els, compared With 1,251,837,000 bush-
els Last year. The five-year average
The National army’s "single men In barracks" don’t find wintry days and
nights unpleasant so long as they have letters from borne, newspapers and
music. — - • f
• ' r
He heard her story, heard that her
daughter would not let her bane the
cookies, heard how she hsri waited ■«,
Naval Paymaster Helps Out
L Grandmother in Distress._____
til the daughter had gone shopping
and then mixed the butter and done
the goodies to a perfect brown. This
moral' * she had stolen away and
come to thf station.
He helped her Into his car and
whisked her to Camp Ross. He found
j Roy for her and saw her weep for Joy
Ion Roy's blue Jucketed shoulder. He
| ate one of the cookies. Grandmother
and grandson visited and said good-by.
Mr. Doyle took her back to the de-
pot. helped her on a Chicago train, and
returned to his neglected work. He
whs tickled as a kid.
“Jove, she loved that boy,” be said
as he smacked hla lips.
145,000 bushels, against 48;862,000
bushels lust yeur and five-year aver-
age of 41,399,000 bushels.
The bgBtef*’rol| ,s finally estimated
at 208,975ftSkl bushels, against 182,309,-
000 bushels last year.
The bumper potato crop Is main-
tained In the final report; In fa^t the
figure of 442,336,000 bushels' Is a little
In excess of the prellmlryiry estimate
and compares with 286,953,000 bushels
i 'Tt- allies rushed re-enforcements to Italy to help stop the Austro-German advance when It was at Its height,
and these re-enforcements have~5een a great aid to the Itnt'nnw, The pbofograph shows one of the first batches of
French autos us they arrived In Mlljin. These autos are used as transport trucks.
She Stole Awgy From Home to Take
Boy Goodies and Was Barred
by the Guard.
Great Lakes, 111.—One morning an
old-fashioned grandmother from Chi-
cago carefully climbed off a train at
Great Lakes. She might have stepped
from the daguerrotype pictorial page
of an old magazine. A black bonnet
crowned her silver hair and was tied
^ 'with Stack ribbons under her chin.
. She gripped a large paper bug. The
. ! guard stopped her.
’ "You can’t come In today," he fold
, her. "Wednesday is visitors’ day." Her
I eyes filled with tears. "But Roy Is go-
I Ing to sea today,” she said. “I came to
, give Roy his cookies. „1 had to run
. away from home to get here. My
. daughter won't let to* go out of the
.: house much. She thln'-.s I am too
TAILOR OF THE TRENCHES
ONE OF THE TRAGEDIES OF HALIFAX
last year,
Wsathar Ruins Flax.
TTnfavorable weather conditions ru-'
Ined the flax crop and the yield Is esti-
mated at only 8,473,000 bushels, against
14.296.000 bushels last year. Produc-
tion of hay was 79,528,000 tons of tame
and 15.402,000 tons of wild, compared
With 91,192,000 tons and 19,800,000
tons respectively last year. The rice
Crop totaled 36,278,000 bushels, ugalnst
41.982.000 bushels Inst year. ' Ruck-
wheat production was 17,460,000 bush-
els, compared with 11,840,000 bushels
In 1916. The kaffir corn crop was 75,-
806.0W) bushels, against 50,340,000
bushels last yeur. ^
Following shows nrFn, yield per acre
and production in bushels of the lead-
ing crops:
Yield »
per
Area. acre. Production
winter wheat---- 27,430,900 IS 2 413,070.000
Spring wheat..... 18.511.000 12 3 232,758,000
Corn ........113.755,000 23.4 8,159,434,000
Oats ..........-,....43,972.000 3S 4 1.587 283,000
Rye ............... 4.503,000 14.7 30,146,000
Barley ........... 3,836.000 23.7 205.975,000
Kaffir corn ...... 6,153.000 14.7 75,836.000
Potatoes .......... 4,490,000 too s 442 333,000
Sweet potatoes .. 953,000 91.4 37,141,000
Hay, tame ....... 53,516,000 1.49 •TS.StS.OOO
Hay, 4rtld ........ 16.472.00q>, .94 •16,402 000
Flaxseed ......... 1.909,000 4.7 8,473,000
SAFETY PIN BRINGS IN $775
Auto Hita Man, Causing Him to Swal,
low Fastener—Operation Necea-
aary to Remove It.
. V.
New Tork.—Mrs. Ann Kelly of Elm-
hurst. proprietor of a trucking business
In Brooklyn and Long Island City,
must, pay Joseph O'Laughlln $775 be-
cause O’Laughlln swallowed a safety
pin. O'LaughIIn was struck by an au-
tomobile trttcli owned by Mrs; Kelly
and operated by John Mackey. He bad
Just come frotn a barber Ahop and was
adjusting the collar Of his woolen
shirt. The safety pin was In hla mouth
when the automohlle struck htra, and
the force of the collision caused the
man to swallow the pin. An operation
was necessary f^r Its removal.
A tuITor of the trenches on the west
^frunt, receiving a customer whose coat
leads mending. Ills.shop Is built of
salvaged Iron, boards and bricks and
bis sign Is on- old sewing machine
found in the ruins of a house. <•
Furlough Means Mule?
The reading class was In session
and the word “furlough” occurred.
Miss Jones, the teacher, asked If any
little girl or boy kuew the meaniug
of the word.
One small hand was raised.
“Furlough means a mule," srJd the
child.
“Oh, no. It doesn’t," said the teach-
Anciem Postcard Returned.
Sioux City, la.,--A postcard held for
more than twenty-seven years st the
Cascade (Mont.) post office has beeo
Returned to Sioux City, marked un-
claimed. The company that seat It,
a pioneer packing concern here, bat
been out of existence two decades,
Two British sailors digging forghe bodies of the members of their fami-
lies In the Halifax ruins, which are covered with pnow and Ice. The seamen
found the charred remains of tljplr relatives and carried them away. It waa
Jhst one of the thousands If pathetic rases caused by the great explosion.
One of the sailors had a wife and twb children, sud the other a wife and three
children. The entire families were wiped out
.Cotton -production this year Is esti-
mated at. 10,949,00L( equivalent 500-
that American babies and children re-
ceive the proper amount of milk. Amer-
ican men are leaving by the thousands
to fight and protect their women smd
children, but of what avail la It if In
the meantime the ehlMtrea are allowed
to starve at home?
“Yes, ma’am,” Insisted the little
girl. “I have the book at home that
says so."
Miss Jottea2dold the child to bring
the book to bfit. The next morning
4hit child mine ttgpied *JLh % book and
showed a picture of a soldier riding a
mule, under which was the caption:
“Going home on his furlough.’’
VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA’S EASTERN PORT
milk In the diet of babies and young
Without It Growth Ceases and
Children."
Health Is Impaired.
Undernourishment, especially In
Metal Coffins in Junlc
Grass Valley. OaL-6L stack
metal coffins that have not a
light of day far many ysara
vacant lot adjoining the busts
tlon of the city that la used ai
childhood, te the basis of many evils.
Hometlmes when th? brain cells are
starved it results 'in feeblamltxlad-
ness; It la conducive to tuberculosis,
to weak muscles and weak character.
It Is the leading cause of Inefficiency.
Orcarionall'f-the absence of milk la
due to Ignorance—the family falls to
realise Its Importance In the Infant's
diet. Usumllx.tfee family* simply can’t
afford It. Wages are higher, but the
price of foodstuffs manage to keep a
little ahead of them. Few workmen,
even earning a comparatively high
wage, can afford to pay $7 a month
for milk for. four children. Yet gd
would buy only n pint of milk a day
for each of theaa children.
Under these circumstances child
United States Children’s Bureau ieea
Danger In Situation Caused by
Washington.—The neWs that many
American babies are now going with-
out milk because of Its high price Is
a matler of grave alarm to the United
States children’s bureau.
“Milk Is fine food that all young
‘children must hive If they are to be
Strong and healthy," the bureau waritt.
“Whole Milk la rich In the elements
without 'frMch the child’s growth
’ceases and Tils health Is Impaired; In-
XurgfLflBi t0
there Is no food which can sup-
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Campbell, T. E. The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 1918, newspaper, January 4, 1918; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1118495/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.