Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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RUNS COUNTY I EVOFR
TRAINMEN DEMAND
4C ?ER CENT MORE
»A tKOAO MANAGERS ARE ASK
(O TO HANDLE PROPOSITION
COLLECTIVELY.
An ortMrr Iim b*#u mm -•« by bae-
rotary McAduo sutrorUing pa.vmeru
of »kr And iifm proiu* uau ia
•4*»nri«*ri» periods Thin Action w»s
taken no that cur porst*oa* or.d other
concerns Rhone !i»r«l >ear
«nd*
AMERICA MAS ENTERED GREAT mg tMl raporta nnd pk.Hcg their
AAR with ALL HER ROWER uiN nt regular IBtervaJ* daring iLs
FUL RESOURCES- < on leg year.
SUMMARY OF WORLD’S
IMPORTANT EVENTS
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS SEVEN-NAMED HERO
John Caraon of ?
years old -< .dental ’
rc bltusvlf nr lie oa
l«o eom pan iota
l Vernon IS
»Lo. and hill
Laui.n* wlib
Lafayette Only Nineteen When
He Came to America.
WANT ANSWER BY DEC. 31 EUROPEAN WAR IN BRIEF
Jo»*H Sena m c* Rep*aee*tat *es c*
<<;i« ana Ra 'can Yir«gtrs
Wiu Se He a Scan.
f.#*e.a/d lemar A* hi' * been
y*a**r'«<: to pr*' in. > every rat
r*ac la the country for In tease a
•MTH *or t'a smen and condt- »
•tlet nre approx .malSiy 4 per col
t.fber ttsa the present scs e The
general <fca. men <■/ • .s • «* o lab*.-
organizations pra*#nf*d me wear*
o*nie la tte g*ner*! r ar\**-e of the
railroad* u<Wig» *.t th «oantry Tb«
railroads art assed to answer
derr.ance by De< 2] m the latest
The railroad manager* are ran *♦*'•
mu U* «u «i laiw n iwh tut luv<«
meet for the urposa of handling tie
proposition at one and the aaten tin**
through a Joint committee represent
•
twe iat>or organ./sums stand read)
1# Ax like* we
It Is expected that the mil rone
managers and the representative* oi
fke employ <-* a ill meet a y "
neesjoQ in n few weeks p r*ably It
the hast in nn effort to *a< h ns
Mre*-rcrnt ca tha »««< q„»»iion.
RUM OFFER QUICKLY ACCEPTED
Cf*«n Te/getyFouf Pouf*
Delivered Answer m N-nety
M. a xte s.
Petrogrsd - -The report of Uie rep
f«a*ntA?4»«s neat through the u*
man linns by Front n Kryienao. the
Bolshevik! commander in chief, tc
begin negotiations for an hrmlatb e
«n given out here Hundav It
shows that the agreement to take up
the negotiations vu tbade on ba
,hxlf of the Gem arts by their con
snander In chief, and while the tier
mans wore given 24 hours to make
reply they delivered their answer In
9fl minutes It win agreed that the
conference should be> held Sander.
I Am 2. at German headquarters If
Brest iJiovnk.
tele of War Saving Stamps begin*
Washington — Americas now net
t lan for raising war funds nnd en
«enraging habits of thrift went Into
operation Honda) with the opening
of sales of war saving* stamps and
certificates at postoffirea and banka
The campaign it to continue for s
year In expectation of receiving tbf
I
The smallest unit In tbs plan is lb*
thrift stamp, which coats 2i«\ the
largest Is the war savings certificate
which cc*ata ShL 40. aud Is redeem
able In five years at fl.-O.
Cl 8 Engineers Take Hand In Fight.
With fhs British Army In FYanc#.-—
lerge numbers of American arm)
engineers working on the British rail
wa)s In the region cad GouxeaucouM,
caught in ths German turning movd
vnent. escaped by lying In shell holqg
and prone on the gTouad while the
British fired over them. There they
remained until ths British were near
enough to enable the Americans to
Join the ranks, when they fought
valiantly nnd played nn importau!
part In replying to the enemy.
Bank Earnings Greatest in History
Washington - Earnings of national
banks for the floral year ending last
June 30 were 9667.404.000 the great-
est in their history and l7d.764.COO.
or 13 per cent morn than for the pre
Ylous year, according to compilations
trade public by the comptroller of
the currency. Net earnings wets
|1M Itl.MD, sn increas* ovur the pre
ceding year of •S6.T7I.OOO, or 33 pet
cert On their capital stock the hanks
report net namings of 17.96 per cent,
lb* highest ever reported
DOMESTIC—
As officially announced by the dt
'wrfars. the twelfth annua: Louisians
•tats fair at Shreveport, had s paid
Many Occurrences ef interest and In *uendan< e of VI.Is* c cm pared w
ferreetien Aece'cefl h*-* in Cen- IS OOP last yea/ anc »no wee growi
eensee ftrrr profits aggregating $9,324
AMERICAS RART IN WAR—
in the interest of war time ef
IsAsaay aau ecenomy, railroads nave
Met authorised by the cMUberu
u a* mission lo abandon certain small
say stations service on spur lines
•nd minor ItsLlliUes for handling leaa
. nn carload lots of freight aau »UX
■cut oMaia.bg special permission of
he < omu..at<cn
Tbe seiohd draft of 800 ,606 men
or the Nationsi army will be Lads
:Seiicc L> iLv sod of Usj 4. uu>
sot until the questionnaire is com
pleted The draft reguwtions. ap
proved by Prasideot \S ilaon bstcowe
operative Nos. .0 and the cyuer
.ioahaire will go to 6 per cent, or,
f&.obfi. oh Lee U.
- ■ a- -
An American city In Prance, sur
ro rwRng and operwtiag th# largest
monition* manufacturing plant i the
world is te- ug constructed by the
l u<<ed rtntea army nt n point hark
j* the battle l.ne Prom it railroad
will radiate to every part of tne
wcatern &gb4ing 'me supplv.ng all
kinds of munitions lo tbe fight.ng
Aznrrvaa troops have p.avec an
important part in Genera! ltyng •
drive before tambrnl It is now p> *
sibie to tell the people of the I’mt
•d States for the first time that
American arm) engineers have bad
a large hand in the marvelous work
srttleA has been accomplished
—♦—
< ongersssnan John X Nelson, ol
Wisconsin, and Lit son. Byron *er*
ndi *ed by a federal grand jury ot
% charge of conspirac > lo violait
...
vicmsly had been indited charged
with failure to resist*' (dagrehs
-nsi Nelson was charged with ad
■ uing h.s son not lo register
lAocismenrary stamp taxes of tt.(
war hill vkent into effect Dec 1 Re\
-nue stamps n. »t b« sffised lu bonds
M indemnity or Indebtedness, cap*
al stork issues, stock transfer
urc»d ;i e sales on exchange* drafts
. mm las Airy notes conveyances at* 1
levus custom house entries, stearn
tickets, prox.e* aes.gn.neats of
of attorney playing cards and
"p "
>» er
red on
uaa of
A substantial %aag;ard of • the ^ORtiGN—
treat army of American aviators g'rW t economy
which will operate in I'ran e have n Frame is nsetssary tais trintci
arrived. For weeks some of them • n order to avoid a shortage Thu
had been training actively lor bat {is being nc com pi is ted by the tssu
lie front service, cooperating with an<e of coal cards by which au
:he American troops, rehearsing an 1 .mount is allotted to each fani l>
practicing attacks. with a limit of :44 pounds a no’.’'.
o- or fatnil:ea up to four peraocs.
Ths killing of two American s *
tiers and lha wounding of five oil:
er* several da) s ago. already repo’t
ed. was due te a heavy German shell
which hit a loaded ammunition wag
on. Rome of the men were on the
wsion and others were near by when
the shell, which was a chance shot,
struck
—o—
National guardsmen from every
state In the union have arrived in
France, it is per noted to he an
noutaed They are among the troop**
now training or lately arrived While
it Is not pern. It ted to disclose the
identity of units it may be said
that nil those whe sailed from the
t’niied States have arrived ratal)
and that some already are in train
ing within sound of the guns on the
battle front.
WAfHINCTON
President Wilson observed Thanks
living day quietly, spending much
ef lha time reading in his study.
Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson he at
tended services at the Metropolitan
Methodist church, but a oTixtling
ram caused him to abandon a con
templated auitunobil# ride.
Italy needs FOb.c 0 tons of coal ‘
•un Its civil and war Industries Vir
ually no coal is required for domes
.1c purposes *in<'e heatiug has be n
uppressed except In publ.c build
.rtis Cooking is done with fas at
hareoal Prices of charcoal, bow
ever average Sub a ton retail.
—o—
Sending of troops to Europe bv
iapan "Is imposeible Minister -of
■'nance Shod# declared in an ad
I dress before the National Economic
Assoclvt on s meeting at Osaka "Th*
eason is too obvious to explain
he Minister asserted 'The allies
mderstand Japan s peculiar position
1 n the war Japan has been and wit]
I’onttnue to assist the entente io
viher ways than by troops."
Francisco Villas followers were
reported to have dynamited a Mex
an federal pay train, killing thr
paymaster general attack.ng and d*»
’eating a train load of federala from
fuarez. cut tbe railroad and tele
graph lines and raptured many
horses, rifles and other elements. a<
cording to reliable and confirmed in
formation which has reached 1
Paso.
| I II r; NORIAN WAN MARRfN'NfW -
membars nf the American mission Details have h»*en officially re< v
had tbe quickest trip from 1/ondon d of one of the nurnt ssoguinarv
to Paris last week since the war be fight* in the northern xone in whirl
gan. They crossed the channel at wo Austro-Hungarian regiment?
the rate of J1 knots an hour, and ought unt 1 they almost eiteruiin.it
traveled from a French seaport to »d themselves The fight was l.u
Purls in a special tram at a speed »f Asiago during one of the malt
Unmatched in three years atacks against the Italians
Relief from th* sugar shortage in
the lioalou section was seeu in the
arrival of it KM.IM pounds of raw
sugar from l4>ulsiana.
An offer by the British admiralty
m decorate certalfl officers and men
of two American destroyer# for Iheir
services in combating German sub
marine has been declined. Hecretarrj
Daniels announced because the laws
of this country prevent soldiers or
sailors from receiving decorations
hom foreign governments
Mrs. Da 8auHss Acquitted by Jury
Mlnaola N 1 -It required hut on-
hour and forty thras minutes for •
Jury Is lupri ift* ungl i*er« »® reach
n verdht of not guilty 1n the tria
of Mr* Jtlancn I>e Saulies ft»r th*
murder of her divorced husband
John L. De Raul!*#, former Yale fool
ball sur and dubman at hia borut
near Weathury, Long Island, on th«
night of Aug. 2. Mrs l»e Hanlles
acquittal automatically esUblishcs
her a* the legal ro*tod Ian of bet
atm. John L I)« Kaulles Jr., accord
lag to bar attorney
Fourteen British mer<hantn»en o»
1.609 tons and over and seven o
less than l.tiOo tons were sunk 1>)
mines or submarines last week. *•
cording to the weekly admiralty
statement
The Austro-Huntrarlun government
according to a dispatch from Vienna
has sent an official reply ao« epttm
the Russian governments wt relent
proposal to enter into negotiation
for an armistice and a geaaral peac'
treaty.
Commissioner of Immigration British casualties reported durln*
White asserted that literature seized the past month totaled 120.03'i. <H
at the headquarters of Italian plot- vided as follows: Officers killed o.
tor. under arrest at Seal lie. Wash., nea oi wounds 1,182, men 24.292
Indicated that the men planned to ifflcers wounded or missing 3.837
• eixe foodstuffs In various parts of men El.lOfl.
the United States , —•—
Coal for domestic purposes lu Eng
K<ahtliaation of the llv# stock land has been rationed and price*
market through establishment of a have been fixed A week s ratloi
tone synCetn in shipping, will ha un for i four-room uouse la IPO pound,
deriaken by the railroads. Dec *. and for a five and ail room bones
under a plan evolved by the federal 00 ptainda lor the wmUr. si.
lood administration. j months
The public utilities :n west
Texas uuw and titter lb earl Texas
are merged into two turporaiion*
«>wn«u aad iuau oiled Ij the same
part s*, toe t Loner* of »Ub have
just be«n bled iu the office of the
se retar) of elate.
Gr««t Iron fiywhw*..* o:d ixacliines
of many types so- varying weights,
and Uteraiiy Luuc wu» of tuts of
lr»u «uu s’ee. of various ages aud
In n*aa) •.ages of n«st and u*premia
ton were loufcd la a lour of ih#
pwaltan Uar y grouuae at HuuisvJis
L> Kvpreaentnilve Kraus Holaday of
lue leg.sialive iavwet gating <omoj)t
It is aunounced at Fort Worth by
t o.ocei Koku «ou.imi. ih of Taj
infer no field tuai 1 iov addmoual
acs from Kelly fisud Kan Auiouto.
• wuid u« i.an* e*!»-u there at on. *
The lueu sue not stuOxat aviators
but are rnwhan «e uuHorcpcia anl
truck drivers wat ‘•» *■- » «uu
tt eu. t>er» of otaer irao** >.»*o in the
aviation service
Tbe Texas railroad cuuu.uiul has
issuad an older requw ag a.i ial*r
nr U#a railroads ui*rattif n Texas
aud all exp**** iOiupau,e» ersag<*d
lu the :r«..iyni isitun ot ireigui or
r:x-
t.a«ts a«*w exist.Ug a.id la io:<.e 1-e
t-seen the interuiuaa railways auJ
'.he ex press loci; au.ee
Postoffice raceipts for November
reached the highest h*ur in the
history of tb# Dallas oltice Darin;
, the .'0 days of Noveu.brr the poato!
hi** look lu • 1Kb.404-1. He t-ipu tor
November, lklf were |l4a.6"».&a.
The increase is 133.793 t>j* The in
• reaxed coat of first-class postal * ac
coun.s for the gall
- o—
Two suits lo rw.over an aggregate
of $70 186 for ail« m d damages an l
losses by reason of the failure (4 the
prison commission to cult vale an I
tare for two farms in a ordanre
with tbe provisions of tbe coturact.
ware filed in Ibe district court o.
Travis vouBty e.aiuat the stale
One of the moat far reai hing re
foruis to be re? ommended by any
member of th* iegisiativf InvestIgat
ing committee to that «omtnittee for
aubinissiun to the legislature is that
whtch is being evolved by W M Fly.
chairman ot tue bouse central con.
mil tee for tl.e crnui.on of a #ai#
board ot control
The board to lot ate the Northwest
Texas Insane asylum, vonsiating ot
Gove, nor Hobby. W A. Johnson
president pro tern of the senate, and
Attorney General B F. Looney at
ter hearing the claims of lha four
cities seeking ths location. unau<
inoualy selected W1* tttta t alls on
live first ballot Tbe other appli
cants were Fort Worth, Mineral
Wells aud Sweetwater
Showing th# bet earnings of the
1917 state fair of Texas to have
been 866.916.28, as against $72,831 41
in 1916 or an in re»se in net proll.s
ut $14 394 87. the annual finatu lal re
port of {Secretary Ft ration was read
before a meeting of the state fair
directors. The bulk of this cel profit
was immediately invested in Liberty
bond*, the directors vutlng unani-
mously to buy $M.40V of these bonds
Last Saturday night at 9 3b pro-
hibition became effective in McLea
nan county. The pro# carried tbe
county by a big majority in the lo< ai
option election held Oct. 2t>
General rains tall in uorth Texas,
the western part of the state and
parts of Oklahoma Tuesday night of
last week and Wednesday morning
The prw-tpltatton was greater at
soma points than others, ranging
from half ac inch to over two
inches.
Guy Turner, aged 14 of Waiaba
cbie, was fatally wounded whil«
hunting rabbits Death followed a
few hours Ister tv• tcy ~ mm .hoi
with a rifle The shooting la said U
have been accJd*iilad.
J. D lozndert. of 4'laburna. sold U
a prominent Fort Worth man. he
twe«n 8.60u and 2.900 acres of -’and
located about seven miles southwest
of Cleb ime The total ronaldermtio
was $11*.090 The land will be used
for ranching purpose*.
Cceg'-esa Corrm lesiooed Him Mayor
General and Washington Invited
Him Into Hit Military Family.
Mar ♦ J«*an Paul lWhe Yvrt Gilbert
Mi*tler was horn Reptember 9 1757.
You know this h'v **u named hero bet
ter t y his title than by any of hie #**|x
t*f ntiints. h* war the klnrquls de Lai
j layette.
W!i*i. th. birthday of Ufa/ett$ ha*
i*ot Ik^*ii gorierally cel*l»ruted in tbe
, United Btates. no 6th of September has
left) permitted to psaa without some
reoignltltio of loifayette** servlcea.
At the age of thirteen he Itiherlted
m tmxilroMe fortune, and he was oalf
Mime when be married tr.e g.*a<I-
'inughter of the Puke de Moalflwn. I»e-
k,. *♦- |,,« nrlstocn-tie educe Boo "twt etv-
Tlrontuent. he wns from r8ll6km$ an
ardenr lover of liberty.
"UepubBran anecdotes always do-
lighted tue.'* he wrote In bis »«• moira.
“and when m> new . oAnccttoon wished
to i.btaln for me a pla* e a* I *n4
l ot lu > tale displeasing tin ui to pre-
serve my itidependence.”
When he Amt heard of the llevolo-
tlon In Ameri* -i he “■■■paused warmly
tb* cause of idwrty" and offered hln
MTvIees to Files Ivenne. the AlRfbaa
r*-v. nrlonaey agent In France.
“Wl * n I preeei'.ted to Mr I*»*«ne my
Iwiyiah f*ice. f»»r I was acarccly nlne-
*v«tl \ertrs of age I sivoWe nuer of »ny
ardor In the cause thun of mj ciperl-
»tie w -i»te laifayette. "hut 1 dwelt
u|a»n the effect n»y dejvurture would
cause In f'raoce.’*
The credit of the < '• -r»tmental
tie** was e«* low that iVsne could
pr«*cure n veaeel. so loifayettn I
» -! «e«n-flv freighted the drif VT
t- curry himiudf and a donas a
other officers a cross the
Among Ioifayette a rt.m|«n
I r* r. Jr1 , n de Kalb, a native of
vurln. who hud long been in tbe i
1 • of France. Agnlnst the wriohea
his relatives nnd the orders of
’ayett
Vlrto
•atge to hl« girl-wife:
‘ From l«*ve to me become a
Arrieri*:.n; the welfare of Amer|'
« ■ I • titi.l up with the vvelf^
mnnklnd.1
Alia
French king Lafayette saiievl for Am
1 ■
Infnyette and his party landed
Georgetown. S in April, 1777.
. I
where the congress cornmlast.mt
nineteen year-old l»< y a major g«
at.d Wushingfoit invited hltu to Iwc
u member of hia military family.
The !*oy general Joined the Cl
nontal nriny In August. 1777. and in t
f- o» nth h»- fought «♦ Brand)
'vine, where the Ktars and HtHjve* w
l"-’ • r r i • 1 Info buttl# Lafii).
f* ght ns a volunteer, and wns Um
wounded After severs! brilliant
plotta be returned to France In 1
and was hailed as a hero.
• • \* M S
• Me \> l*.-i t. wns made commander t
chief of the National Guards. He 1
driven from his country by the
trenilsts. and the Austrians flung !
Into n dungeon, where he was on fined
f<*r five years.
Russian RnaontPa Escape.
Tbe record of eacapea trolu war
captivity has been claimed for a Rus-
sian prisoner who recently croaaed the
Dutch frontier In his twelfth attempt
to ea« Ipe Three tiroes he fled In the
direction of Luxemburg, twice he made
for Switserlund. ou several Oceanians
be t«H)k the road to Polaud and again
to lh ninurk, but In every case without
sure****. This was the first time It#
hud tried his luck In the direct lot. of
the Netherlands frontier, and after b*>
lag two mouths aud twenty duya on
tbe r*»ud *■!« ■« ** » npwuvd his perarver*
Boy Scouts on War Duty.
Naval dispatches In Britain are very
largely carr»«*d by Boy Hcouta. Speak-
ifig at a recent review Lieut. Gen.
Mr Robert Baden-Powell paid v*-ry
high pmUe to the work done ty theaa
lads, who. without any officers watch-
ing them, hut wi»rkinf simply under
their own hoy leaders, were doing (heir
patriotic duty to their country. "Kv-
ary night tritkoa* fail.” he continued,
"these bo>s have carried dispatebra
along that wild rout down to the ad-
miral at the buae, aud they d*’ atH»ut
six miles every night. I s«v» th* ooa
hundred and nlnetes-nth message f®
down It Is w-.nderful how those boyn
face difficulty and danger simply ^
cause they sr** eipcctcd to sn*J ret
S sense
game.' And
throughout lb* r*>untrj.
sey are expected tv mtui
of duty *P**J,n6
And that is *ru* ot b
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Hill, Tom W. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1917, newspaper, December 7, 1917; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth832243/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rains County Library.