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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
2
A 1917 proclamation stresses the selective service system as the quickest path to defeat. It notes June 5 registration of nearly 10 million men aged 21 to 80 and urges personal duty to register at local boards with registrars awaiting at booths. Crowder signs as Provost Marshal General.
A government appeal urges every man who is 36 or younger by September 12 to register. It stresses volunteer spirit and quick action, asking individuals to learn where to register and be ready to provide vital personal facts when questioned by the Registering Board.
The Waterman School Board invites sealed bids for daily transportation of grammar school pupils from Fish Bond District to Barstow and back for nine months starting September 16, 1918. Send bids to Lubin J. Henderson. The Board may reject any or all bids. J. F. Price, Clerk.
A. A. Nixon states he will not be held responsible for any labor plans insurance supplies or materials furnished in connection with the operations or promotion of lessees on the White Flower quartz claim in the Rand Mining District San Bernardino County California. Dated 9 5 6.
Mrs. T O Carter and her daughter have returned from their summer vacation, resuming daily routines and plans discussed before the trip. The family enjoyed a quiet, collegiate town visit and report good weather and rest.
The Barstow Union High School Board invites sealed bids for specified laboratory supplies and apparatus. Obtain the list from H. B. Thomas, 1255 Tamarind Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. Bids due before September 6. Bids must be itemized. The board may accept or reject bids in whole or by items. H. B. Thomas, Clerk.
The undersigned Bb. FUNCHEON Clerk of School Board invites bids to furnish material and labor to build a school house 16 by 20 feet located one mile north of Minneola California. Bid details available from the clerk as of August 20, 1926.
Col. Churchill of the General Staff warns American editors that letters from American prisoners in German camps praise food and treatment, but are censored and must state well treatment. The officer notes rules compel false statements and censor destruction of any contrary content, deeming such letters unreliable and not authentic for publication.
Washington August 15 Paper mills listed as essential and fourth class for coal by the war industries board. The order cuts free copies of papers exchanges and returns, reduces reading matter by a sliding percentage based on six months’ space usage, and requires mills to pledge to supply only papers to signers agreeing to conservation rules. Sunday papers must cut 20 percent, other dailies and weeklies 15 percent, magazines must first reach a standard weight then cut sheets 15 percent.
Notice to Mrs. Clara Starr that Labor and Improvements totaling 100 dollars were expended in 1916 on the Modern Maid Mining Claim near Atolia Rand Mining District San Bernardino California to hold the lode under US Revised Statutes 2824. Co-owners Carpenter Vermilyer require fifty dollars from Starr within ninety days of service or publication, or her interest will vest in the subscribers.
A historical notice lists registration precincts for September 12 across Amboy Atolia Bagdad Daggett Goffs Hesperia Hinkley Halleck Ivanpaugh Kelso Lanfair Pine Knot Stagg Silver Lake Victorville El Mirage plus a roster of registrars led by R W Torrey J E Lackey and others. includes Local Board Office address Mrs Harry Haynes and assistant judge E A Reinerth.
A wartime notice explains that those not paid in advance by September 15 will be dropped from the subscription list. The paper declares enlistment with Uncle Sam for the war period and appeals to readers to support or drop it, inviting responses about subscriptions.
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