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BRINGING UP DETACHMENT OF 39 LEAVES FOR GAMP SHERMAN Jpreble County's Third List to Depart From Eaton on Thursday. EATON. O.. Oct. 3. Thirty-nine men included in the third detachment held for military service in Preble county will go to Chillicothe Thursday. The government has fixed the detachment's number at 65, but because of ; failure of the district board to mate returns on appeals filed by local registrants the quota is 16 short. The remainder will be sent to Camp Sherman upon return of appeals. In order to have a list of availables for service, the local draft board has 'issued a call for 350 men, and examinations, will be conducted here Thursday. Those included in the detachment scheduled to leave Thursday follow: Frank Schwarztrauber. Gratis; Lester Armstrong, Eaton; Charles R. Cupp, Camden; Chester R. Snyder, Lewisburg; Everett C. Geeting, Campbellstown; George Tapalman, West Alexandria; Frank F. Lyons, Lewisburg; Walter Ray Jones, Somerville; George Reese, Eaton; David S. Bolen, Eldorado; James F. Statzer, Camden; Chalmer H. Ross, Eaton; Clifford F. Ewing, Eaton; Alpha Guiler, West Alexandria; Clarence E. Purnhagen, West Alexandria: Enos B. Lesh, "West Alexandria; Neil Ramsey, Camden; Clarence A. Gilmer, Lewisburg; George R. Young. West Manchester; William McFadden. Eldorado: Jesse "tCHiot. Camden; Clarence H. Voge, West Alexandria; Fred H. Habekost, West Alexandria; Clarence L. McKee, Eldorado; Clifford Bechtol, Eaton; Homer C. Holsinger. Verona: Fred H. Clear, Eaton; Charles Watts, Campbellstown: Roy Lounsbury, Eaton: Carl F. Bourne, Camden; Robert Runyon. Camden; John O. Overholts, Somerville; Ivan Earhart. Eaton; Edward Landis. Lewisburg; Hale S. Agler. Eldorado; Hobart H. Biicke, Eaton; Robert Litehiser, Eaton; Fred Brinklev, Lewisburg; Leslie H. Sawyer, Eaton." MISSIONARY RALLY FOR GENTERVILLE CEXTERVILLE, Ind., Oct. 3 On Thursday, afternoon the Missionary convention will begin at the M. E. church. At 3 o'clock Dr. Jones of India, will give a special lecture, and "ill dress a number of persons in Indian, costumes. Arrangements have horn, made for the school children to .attend this lecture. Tn the evening there- will be a patriotic program, special music by the C. C. orchestra, and a stereopticon lecture by Dr. Jones on his work in India. Friends of the church and members are requested to bring their supper and dine together in the basement of the church ... .Mr. and Mrs. Ximrod Porrott attended the funeral of Gilbert Starr at Connersvillp. Ind.. Sunday. . . .Mrs. John King spent, a part of last week with her mother at. Williamsburg Mrs. Martha Robbins has gone to visit her son Elmer at Liberty, and will reman for several ' weeks. ... .Mr. and Mrs. Ira Little are spending the week with Mrs. Little's parents. .... Mrs. Nettie Charman and daughters were enter- , tained Sunday at the home of William Garrott's. north of town .John C King had forgotten Wednesday that he had reached ' the seventieth milestone in life and in order to remind him of the fact the. following' friends and relatives spent Wednesday evening with him:' Mr. and Mrs. Frank King. Helen and John WilMam, Mr. and Mrs. John Smelser and daughter Dorothy, Charles Savage and wife and Roy Vinton. . . .John Smelser and family were entertained Sunday at the home of Mrs. Smelser's sisters at r.illingsville, Ind Mrs. Dora Mendenhall has been quite sick for the past week, bat is better at prcseni writing. . A number of Centerville boys leave this week for army service, Julian Dunbar, Robert Peelle, Frank Henderson and Alonzo Jackson. Others have received their first card and may be called in a few days are Orville Richardson and Robert Lamb. . ..The Christian church will have an all day meeting Sunday, which will be a Rally day and home-coming for all friends and members of the church. Special programs for each session will be given. An unusually interesting program will be given in the afternoon consisting of musical numbers, readings and talks by visiting members. Church and Sunday school will be held in the morning. At noon a dinner will be held in the town hall, and in the evening a. former pastor of this church, Rev. Hall, will speak. Every member and friend of the church is requested to come, and enjoy a splendid day to-

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Uplift But By ARTHUR GLEA60N (For the last week the writer has been with the American Army where It Is nearest the front. He has eaten mess, watched the gas practice, and generally lived with this section of the army In each one of the villages where It Is billeted.) The men who came first are now here, well up toward the front, doing their bit in learning how to kill. It would be easy to writs general talk about these many man of many nationalities from all the states. One would then say that unfatigued youth is in their walk, In their eyes in their speech. They fill the villages with their slang and swing. They boost the prices till dinner in a simple country village costs $1. A tiny room, two flights up and cover a stable, costs 80 cents. A pair of leather gaiters, worth from $5 to $7, costs $14. But our soldiers "shell out" good naturedly, play baseball, throw hand grenades, sing, "Keep the Home Fires Burning" and eat three good meals a day with delicious white bread on the side. The trial of white bread left by our army is the outsandlng feature of the American invasion. Little Charlott, twelve years old, dressed in the uniform of the French Twenty-fifth, is leader of the peasant children who bring the mess around, and pick up. not the crumbs, but the slices that fall from the tins of our soldiers. Flaky, billowy white bread, what a comfort to the stomach that has grown sour on the browns of England and France! I believe that this war will be won by American white bread. Record of Minnesota Danes. But to come to cases. It is more convincing to tell of individual men I have met in this brave" little advance army. I have met the eighteen-year-old boy, whom we will call Bernard Beck, private, a Dane. He comes from Tyler, Minn. This is a village in Lincoln County, in the southwest corner of the state. It has a population of 700, and on the first call for volunteers (long before conscription) it responded with 41 men, of whom 22 are Danes. "You Tyler people are good Ameri-I cans." I said to Beck. "We had one fellow," he answered, "who talked up for the Germans, but he had to leave town." He pulled from his pocket a list of his friends who had volunteered from the village. There were Joseph Valdheim and Clinton Erikson,. of Norwegian descent; William Schnell and William Reitz, German: Charles Glynn and George Donovan. Irish; Carl Ollson. Swede; John Ferguson, Scotch; and the rest all Danes: Seventy per cent of the village is of Danish descent, so Beck told me, and all good Americans. Then there is Private Daniel Sandors, from Homestead, Penn. His father was a Hungarian. No Holes in Arm. "You don't find any holes in thatarm. do you?" he asked, baring the forearm, bicep and tricep. I did not. He asked sfor a wooden plank, and wadding his handkerchief into his fist, Italians Win S LORENZO ' - . wcormohs.-; . - 5-i.OREfCrO c . r.. i jiiuIlul unve in me isonzo

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and gripping a nail, he drove it through the board. Then he drove two at once. When he Is feeling fit he goes through more than one inch. He has offered to give a "Y" exhibition "Y" Is the army abbreviation for the Y. M. C. A. huts for soldiers with such epecialties as breaking a wagon axle over his neck by letting eight men hang on the axle, bending a gas pipe on his skull, lifting a man In a chair with two fingers, lifting a man and table with his teeth, drawing three motor cars full of people with his teeth, and lifting a man by a steel comb in his hair. He has gone by the name of the "Iron-Jaw King" in local exhibits at home. He is twenty-two years old and enlisted for the war with Mexico. Just as Sanders was sailing for France a New York tough saw him in the street and thought he had met a harmless country boy (the one hundred and eighty pounds of fighting muscle are hidden in "cit's clothes"). "It was our last day in the United States," says Sandors, reminiscently. "I was thinking I'll never see God's country any more. I was thinking of something else and hit him good. I'm not the strongest man in the world, nothing like that. I'll just do the show for the soldiers, so they can have something new every once in a while. We used to loaf together. Now we're at war together. WTell, Til have to beat it. I'm on water call tonight." A young marine of the Battalion of the Marines is a professional boxer, stripping at 149 pounds. ; He is the son of a horse breeding farmer in Missouri, who bred "Early Reaper, 2:09 flat," the boy explained. "I've come four thousand miles to get a crack at the Germans," he added. These boys are red faced, young, with drive. One meets many boys, eighteen and nineteen years old, but the average age is about twentythree. "There's not a touch of 'blueness' among them," said J. H. Edwards, secretary of the hut at . "They're just boys, full-grown to be sure, but boys." THOUGHTS TO THINK ABOUT Give happiness and live happily. Man's beliefs should be guided more by the "still small voice" within than by the mass meeting's tumult without. The only thing that a man gets that he does not earn is perhaps money, everything else comes as compensation for his observance of the law of living. The employer in the factory, store or office sends out his call for help through the "Help Wanted" columns of The Palladium. Is your new boss calling you today? on Isonzo rn . 4 .'f ait'!.''"vtl sector the Italians have captured . the ra iiih en iiiis nnnion matae cqcia-

One man came Into a hut and asked for a Spanish-French grammar. It turned out that this is his second enlistment. He first saw service in Porto Rico. You will find, now and again, a company of old timers, men who have been in service fifteen to twenty years. Sergeant Murphy, of the Infantry, has served for twenty-six years Cuba, the Philippines, all our brushes. These old time sergeants are the key of the army. They are on an equality with the men, but they understand discipline. Speaking for the few thousand men whom I saw in this furthest advanced section of the army, the regulars number about 25 percent, and the other tnree-quarters are volunteers who came in on the declaration of war. The regulars, with their experience, are well scattered among the newcomers, so as to give a foundation on which to build morale. The police sergeant of , with three gold teeth in his front upper jaw,

wnich come out in a' chilly smile, is another old timer. It is his duty to make the life of prisoners uncomfortable with hard work. Otherwise, the boys would break rules and stay out after hours. He was speaking of the lumber shortage and the difficulty of getting any pine boards for the huts. "I'm between fire and hot water myself," he said. When War Came to Texas A Texas man strolled into the hut where I was spending the night and began talking about his home and district. He lives thirty miles from Texarkana, and his hands were bunged up from his army work as "mule skinner." He told how the circulation of the local newspapers jumped as soon as war was declared. "The people thought they might as well know about it as not," he explained. I The Kaiser won't do," was his summary of Texas public opinion, and he explained why his state felt that way: "It's busting international law made our folks see the war it was shooting the steamers." - I sat near a group of soldiers in the hut at . They had come in for a cake of chocolate and a smoke. The talk ran on to the new army life of the last six months. 'Td give 'em a hundred dollars to send me back," said one. "I don't want to go back till I see something," replied the man across the table. "It's nicer to be over where you can savvy, where you can be with your own people," put in a third man. "Over here you have to make all kinds of movements to make them couerh up." "I came into the army to work," asserted a boy; "it makes a man out of you. "It makes a growler out of most," replied an older man. "Well, you've got to take it just as it comes," advised the philosopher of the group. "I'm getting all the money I need. Go back to the States and you will not be satisfied. I'll take another good taste of the army. I've got a brother, getting on six years in the 12th cavalry, says it's the nicest life he ve re lived." The American turn is in thenspeech all the time not only the charming Southern slur and the New England twang, but the little surprise in the wording itself. I was sitting next to a Louisville, Ky., man. and a camion driver came into the shack. When AH Other Lights Can Depend on

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The Southerner greeted him with: "I'm as glad to see you as I'd be to see my wife. And I haven't got any wife." A few minutes a man yelled: "Where's Bob?" -A voice from the next shack answered: "Here." "Can't you hear him breathing?" asked the Southerner. Youth of a New Country. These are all men whom I have met in our new army. I give their exact talk as It fell and the facts about their life history. This is America in the autumn of 1917 in the persons of her young volunteers. These men have come across willingly, even gladly, with a touch of adventure in their impulse and more than a touch of heroIsm. They are young with the youth of a new country. Curiosity is their mental attitude. They want to see great things, to play a part at a moment of history. Few of this advance army will ever see home again, for they will be first and longest in the trenches. But there is no foretaste of death in their Jaunty attitude, their humorous talk, the vitality that survives drill and punishing hikes and turns to nine innings of baseball for recreation. They are Texas, Iowa and Minnesota. They are youth. The Young Men's Christian association is being challenged to the biggest job of its life out here. Can it catch up this drifting humorous crowd of men in their idle moments and make them feel at home? The old methods and the old men won't go at all. The secretary with the professional glad hand and general smile and watchful eye would last about a week. The Bible classes and prayer groups are all right (Advertisement.) Formerly Had To Rest While Doing Her Work Tired Easily, But Since Taking Tanlac Richmond Woman Feels Well Again. Mrs. Martha Brooks, 311 South Seventh street, this city, used to be so nervous that she could hardly do her housework. She said she used to have to stop work and go sit down often to quiet her nerves. "But since I've been taking Tanlac," Mrs. Brooks said, "my nervess are bacb in good ehape again and I feel well and strong. I can do house cleaning, laundry work and sewing now and it doesn't bother me a bit. "I used to get so weak sometimes, before I tried Tanlac, that I'd have to stop work and rest. "My stomach was out of order, too. Gas formed in my stomach after eating and caused pains under my collar bone. My food felt like a hard lump in my stomach. My stomach is in much better con dition since I've been taking Tanlac." Mrs. Brooks said she was down, to 115 pounds in weight when she started to take Tanlac and that she has gained twenty pounds. "Yes. sir," she continued, "Tanlac is the best medicine I know of and I want to recommend it." You know Tanlac is all right or Richmond folks wouldn't publicly recommend it. Get Tanlac today and improve your health. Any good drug store sells Tanlac. Fail, You H a when it's too dark to or barn to the house.

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