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Newspaper
Checotah Times
Location
Checotah, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1917
Page
7
A wartime plea by Newnon MelIntosh, County Manager, calls Americans to support food conservation to aid Allied troops. The government seeks voluntary pledges to reduce waste and live economically, stressing loyalty, national honor, and the danger of required laws.
The government asks every church family to report weekly on food usage through December 30. Reports must be summarized and sent to Washington each Tuesday morning. Pastor W. Lyles Blackburn invites all to attend at 11 o'clock next Sunday, with explanations and report cards issued.
Daily activity continues at the Red Cross work room with yarn shipments arriving and knitters busy. Local Baptist, Episcopal, and Christian groups meet or sewed, plus a young ladies knitting club finishing twenty four Christmas bags. A new Belgium relief sewing department is planned. They seek old linen dresses, skirts, shirts, counterpanes, and worn kid gloves to repurpose for children’s wear and shield linings. The senior class and high school orchestra attended a Red Cross meeting in Lawrence Friday night.
Mrs HAC Kirstein of Greenville HL writes that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been used in her family for years as a quick cure for colds and bronchial troubles. She asserts it is the most reliable cough medicine they have used.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. led by A. H. Herring. At 11 a.m. preaching on Faith and Works by Pastor E. D. Cameron. 6:30 p.m. Young People's Union led by Edna Westall. 7:30 p.m. sermon on The History of Idolatry and Its Deadly Results the second sermon on the Ten Commandments. Good music.
Mrs. G. H. Smith of Brewerton New York says she has suffered stomach trouble for eight to ten years and that one or two Chamberlain's Tablets relieve indigestion and heaviness after meals. She notes the pills are a pleasant laxative and help the stomach function naturally. If troubled, she urges trying them to get well and stay well.
At the Episcopal church Rev Alten Jacobs will offiate and preach Sunday morning. The address continues with Lord of the Sabbath and includes Sunday school at 9 45 and the service at 10 30.
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh through constitutional treatment. It offers $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and invites readers to send for testimonials from BJ Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, with druggists selling the remedy.
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