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Newspaper
Hartford Republican
Location
Hartford, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
4
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Columns discuss road taxes and political maneuvers in Ohio county, with notices that Mason and Heavrin seek Republican ballot spots for congress and appellate court. The piece reviews Austrian wartime setbacks, German education contrasts, and praise for Rev. A D Litchfield while urging reader opinions on current issues.
Military observers weigh the impact of newspaper reports on President's stance in Michigan senatorial race. Henry Ford, once allied with a wartime junta, emerges as a GOP candidate rejected by Michigan voters. National war fatigue runs high as Allied fronts hold. War Savings Stamps program prompts local civic ads, highlighting patriotism beyond dollars. Local writer recalls a past quarrel and defends candor in public discourse.
Joseph Palliser of the New York World endowed annually 500 for the top editorial of the year. This year's award goes to Henry Watterson of the Courier Journal for a June year war situation piece. Watterson, aged about eighty, is praised for honesty and fearless journalism.
Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio divisions report quotas and subscriptions. Total quota 9.4 million, subscribed 12.6 million, oversubscribed 3.2 million, overall 134.0 percent of quota. Kentucky shows 2.11 million subscribed against 900k quota. Indiana subscribed 2.71 million against 2.1 million quota. Ohio subscribed 7.78 million against 6.4 million quota.
Fragmented column blends humorous musings about planets and weeds with warnings about a new auto law and headlights. It mentions Dr. Joe Taylor diagnosing appendicitis, Ike Mason as congress stenographer, and a public notice offering to buy old teeth and jewelry for cash amid wartime thrift emphasis.
A. R. Peyton is authorized to possess and occupy up to 200 acres on Lewis creek near Beaver Dam by paying ten cents per acre to Ohio county. The land lacks recorded ownership and adjoins a coal company. Evergreen Camp No. 219 W O W hosts an Ice Cream Supper at Heflin Hall June 29 with proceeds to Red Cross. Bohemian press notes Hungarian railways will supply summer clothing made of paper cloth.
An official note from the German war department, cited by the Spanish ambassador in Berlin, says money sent for interned civilians, prisoners of war, and military prisoners must go through the Bureau of Prisoners Relief, American Red Cross in Washington. Remittances are likely to be credited rather than paid in cash, enabling spending at prison exchanges.
Military prisoners receive sixty marks weekly for officers and similar ranks and fifty for noncommissioned soldiers. Civilian prisoners get sixty marks weekly for men of higher social status and fifty for others. Incomplete state returns show about 3.4 million women registered for war work under the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. The War Department notes the 12 cylinder Liberty engine weighs 25 pounds per horsepower with 450 horsepower, 1.8 pounds per horsepower, and fuel use around 0.46 pound per horsepower hour. Monument unveiling for Archie Stevens slated Sunday at Goshen Cemetery at 2 pm. Kidney and bladder remedy Sanol advertised at 46-yr.
An Attorney General opinion bars using the public school fund to pay teachers in districts with fewer than fifty pupils unless emergency physical conditions justify dispensation, and prohibits funds in districts under twenty five pupils. The opinion implies consolidating smaller schools.
Millet seed eight dollars per bushel and stock peas two twenty six per bushel are listed by D L Sandefur of Beaver Dam Kentucky along with soybeans at four dollars per bushel In other news a German submarine and its crew were reported destroyed by an American submarine off the Virginia coast near Chesapeake Bay after seeking shelter at an Atlantic port, with details from passengers aboard an American steamer.
A wireless dispatch describes a U S submarine patrolling with periscope showing when the Unit sighted the American craft near Tange. A torpedo fired, followed by a loud explosion recorded by microphones. The American sub then searched for survivors but only a surface trace of the vanquished raider was found.
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