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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1918.
11. S. iliums MH
FRUITY IH GUIS
Base American Flotilla in British
Waters, Jan. 31.—(Correspondence
Associated Press.) —Every part of the
Lnited States has supplied a hero in
love romances that have culminated
in happy marriages between Ameri
can bluejackets and blue-eyed Irish
maidens since the arrival of the Amer
ican destroyer forces in the south of
Ireland. After the war, every part of
the United- States from Maine to Cal
ifornia and from the Great Lakes to
Florida, will boast of an Irish bride
who was wooed and won in her na
tive land by an American sailor.
All of the brides are looking for
ward to that happy day when they
will see what their husbands so proud
ly proclaim as “God’s country.” Al
ready the American sailor has sur
prised his Irish bride with all nec
essary documents to establish her
identity as an American, and some
have even had their property in the
United States transferred to their
wives as a precaution in case they
lose their lives for their country.
There is the marriage of a former
ranchman, Bert Adams, to Bridget O’-
Rourke, whose family descends from
an Irish king of that name. Adams,
who is a boiler maker on one of the
destroyers, hails from Hugo, Colora
do. He is now arranging to have his
ranch in Colorado deeded to his wife
as a precaution in the event of his
being torpedoed. His wife’s relatives
live in Bruce, County Limerick, and
there is plenty of anecdote connect
ed with the family’s relation to the
O’Rourke’s of kingly fame. “I don’t
know anything about ranching,’’ Mrs.
Adams told the Associated Press cor
respondent, “but I am preparing my
self for the fair land Bert has told
me so much about by studying a histo
ry of Colorado.”
Then there is the case of Mary-
Ridge, head waitress at the leading
hotel here, who lost her heart to» Har
land G. Ritchie, a machinist’s mate,
first class, of Allston, Mass. She was
one of the most popular girls in town.
The dining room over which she pre
sided is out of bounds to enlisted
men, but Ritchie contrived to see her
when she was off duty. They knew
each other for four months before Mr.
Ritchie led her to the altar in the
village church.
But the record for love at first sight
among the Americans belongs to a
young seaman, Paul Valachovic by
name, who used to work in the ma
chine shop of the General Electric
Company at Schenectady, N. Y. He
fell in love the first day he stepped
ashore here from his destroyer. Ada
Jones, a Cork girl, was the object of
Cupid’s dart. After the war Valacho
vic is going to take her back with him
to that thriving c ity in New York.
A few of the Americans first met
their wives on visits to England.
Charles Harmon Cobia, of Charleston,
S. C., fell in love on the beautiful
Cornish riviera w-ith Ada Gilbert, a
widow of 24, whose home was in
Plymouth. Another English bride is
Nora Elizabeth Kitt, who married Jos
eph W. Hishefild, of Des Moines, la.
But the majority of the Americans
married Irish girls who lived in the
vicinity of the American naval base,
and whom they met at the dance hall
or roller skating rink. Thus Doris
Francis Phillips is now Mrs. Leo
Vincent Flavell, of Hanover, Mass.,
and Mary Ellen Sullivan has become
the wife of Thomas A. alschi, of Mt.
Carmel, Pa. After the war Mary
O’Keefe, who became the wife of Ed
ward C. Turner, expects to desert the
trying climate of southern Ireland
for that of sunny San Jose , Cal.,
which is her husband’s home. William
• Spaulding, of DeLand, Fla., has mar
—tied Esther Allen, while Oral E. Cox,
< f lola, Kansas won the hand of Phyl
lis Rose Rogers. \
Among others of the American sail
ors who have taken to themselves a
wife over here are Benj. J. Moore,
of Dallas, Texas; Elbert R. Icking
ham. of Pensacola, Fla.; Harry E.
Holder, of Denver, Col., and Michael
J. Dello Roco, of Schenectady, N. Y.
And the list gives promise of growing
steadily.
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Contribute Sponges.
Tarpon Springs, Fla., Feb. B.—The
Greek-American fishermen here have
made one of the most unique gifts that
the American Red Cross has yet re
ceived. Each fisherman captain as his
boat unloaded, contributed a bunch
of sponges to the lot being gathered
for the Red Cross. Today the sponges
were sold for SBOB at public auction
on the sponge exchange here, the on
ly public sponge market in the
United States. The money, was sent
to the Red Cross.
Social Life.
The art of conversation la said to
be lost, but we don’t miss it when the
gossip is sood.
AMONG THE FIRST AMERICANS AT THE FRONT
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Group of a few of the Americans
who were the first at the front in
France. Several of them are of the
hospital staff and others are members
of a band. These men are seeing ser-
TOO MUCH INVESTIGATION.
While they are crying “investigation”
And try to saddle here and there
the blame,
Many are spouting ton s of informa
tion
That inform so little it’s a shame.
Can’t you fellows cease to chew the
rag? /
Can’t you bloomin’ bloody politic
ians
Cut and cover your fuss and brag,
And use that steam to make am
munition ?
You fuss and rant and lose a peck o’
time;
Doggone you, you're like a pack o’
wids;
You how-1 and cuss and whine
While K. Bill slips under us the
skids. ,
Some o’ you fellows are pretty big
guns,
And doubtless you know a whole
lot,
But this is bigger than the biggest
ones—-
Just look at the job you've got.
We fellows South are bow on the
move
Making grub for the boys over
there,
But ships won’t slick the ways with
sand in the grove,
But some o’ you fellows don't seem
to care.
In most wars, men need guns to
shoot,
And the guns, they need skill for
the clips. *
For both of these, 1 wouldn't give a
hoot,
• Unless to carry them we hare the
ships.
And this means big guns, litle guns
and such,
And tho’ you fellows should push
at a mighty clip,
The most of you don’t seem to hurry
much— *
You seem to have the investigation
pip.
Stop your foolin' and push things
along—
To soihe it may be a good-sized pill,
But in the end you can say “so-long,”
And bid farewell to Kaiser Bill.
But careful now, you listen to me,
Stop chewing that rag you chew-,
And send an army over the sea,
Lest Kaiser Bill say farewell to you.
—Contributed.
SLATTERY REPORTS
BUSINESS IS GOOD
ANNISTON, Ala., Feb. B.—J. M.
Slattery, secretary to the federal re
serve board in Atlanta, who holds his
citizenship in Anniston, was in the
city on business today Mr. Slattery
says reports received at the bank indi
cate that business is unusually good
throughout the Atlanta federal reserve
district. The Atlanta board, he says,
i. • now very busy laying plans for the
next Liberty loan drive, which will
start soon. Mr. Slattery was formerly
secretary to Fred L. Blackmon, con
gressman from this district, and is
interested in the amendment campaign
now under way in Alabama.
THE AMERICUS
vice behind the British lines in France,
but very little news of their activities
has reached this country. British of
ficial photograph. Copyright, Under*
wood & Underwood.
REGULATIONS AND
LIMITATIONS FELT
DAILY IN ENGLAND
LONDON, Feb. 8. —Regulation of
(prices and limitations of profits to be
' obtained by producers of necessities,
have developed during the war to an
extent probaoly never before known
in the British Empire. Restriction on
prices and profits have been extended
tc many kinds of supplies required by
the people or for government use in
the prosecution of the war.
Among the necessities most vitally
concerned, are food, fuel, munitions
and shipping. To w-hat extent these
have passed under government regu
lation is shown in a report submitted
to the house of commons by its com-’
mittee on expenditures.
< The price of coal has been regultaed
at the pit mouth, while the profit that
may be made by wholesale and re
tail merchants is strictl yprescribed.
Ninety per cent, of the British mer
chant shipping has been requisitioned
at varying rates per ton, based on the
market rates current in 1914. Non
requisitioned ships are running "on
government account” at a narrow
margin of profit.
In the building of standard ships,
the basis of the contract is cost plus
a percentage between ten and twen
ty per eent.
The ministry of munitions has at
tempted to fix “the lowest possible
prices consistent with a reasonable
return to the contractor and with
due regard to the urgency of supply.’’
■ Roughly, the maximum profit consid
ered reasonable for a main-contractor
is 10 per cent., or 2 12 per cent, for
supervision fog sub-contracted work.
As the demand for munitions exceeds |
the supply competitive bidding for
contracts has stopped. Prices are
based upon investigation of actual
costs at cotnractors’ works, checked
ty the costs charges at national-own
jed factories in the same line, of pro
duction.
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Here’s an old ftishioned recipe for
corn muffins that has recently been
revived and used with unusual success
in several of the larger New York ho
tels : To make three and a half dozen
muffins take one quart milk, six ounces
butter substitute, twelve ounces of
light syrup or honey, four eggs, pinch
of salt, two ounces baking powder,
one and a half pounds cornmeal and
one and a half pounds rye flour. The
butter and syrup should be thoroughly
mixed; then add the eggs gradually.
Tour In the milk 4nd add the rye flour
mixed with cornmeal and baking pow
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Fine Horse Accidentally Killed*
Florence Thorne, the splendid ma
hogaXy bay trotting mare owned by
Mr. Chas L Ansley, slipped on the
pavement cn Cotton avenue Tuesday
anj broke her hip, which resulted in
her death a Jew hours thereafter. Mr.
Ansley feels the loss very keenly, as
he was very much attached to the
mare, and she was generally consid
ered the best more in the county, as
well as the fastest. She was a bred
in the purple trotter and possessed
the most wonderful endurance imag
inable
Familiar Remark.
Our second chilli had red hair, and
whenever we took him out someone
would remark about it. When the
baby was two years old we were giv
ing a dinner party and while waiting
for the guests to arrive I was putting
on the last touches and brushed the
baby's hair. He looked up at me and
said: “I pose de lady will say, ’Wher’
did your baby det his red hair?’ "—Ex
change.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
in order to cure it you must take an
internal remedy. Hall’s Catarrh Medi
cine is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the beet physicians
In this country for years. It is com
posed of some of the best tonics known,
combined with some of the best blood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
the ingredients in Hall’s Catarrh Medi
cine is what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
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Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
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