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THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
Eemember every fifteenth subscriber up to the first 500 will
receive a $5.00 WAR SAYINGS STAMP free. This applies to 1
subscriptions filed direct with us or directed filed with us I
through the Campaign Solidtors. Let CofdoVB. Go
Names of those who have won $5.00 War Stamps:
... Application No. 1, Fred Eayer |
fA .. RONDC Application No. 15, Mrs. Van Vechten UVCf the I
to as many oUlil/iJ Application No. 30, Chas. Quinton
a Application No. 45, Mrs. D. P. Griswold 99
as you can Application No. 60, Melvin E, Holben £ QH
■ Application No. 75, Juliet Steinmets •
Application No.'90, Robt. Gottschalk
Application No. 105, Fred Baihley
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PRACTICAL WAR IRK
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COALINGA, Cal., April 10.- -Drives
and campaigns for war charities are a
thing of the past in Coalinga, and yet
every war charity requiring support
can get it, as the result of a system
of community war work financing put
into operation here some time ago.
It is said to have proved a great suc
cess.
The Coalinga chamber of commerce |
appointed an organization committee,
which received a pledge from every
person in the community having an
income or earning wages that such
person would give one per cent of
each month’s earnings or income to
general war relief, and let the com
mittee apportion the amounts.
Seventeen hundred pledges, with an
income of $3,000 monthly, were se
cured within a relatively short time,
and the committee announced it
would continue its work until every
available person had been pledged.
A minimum pledge of one dollar a
month was fixed, the committee tak
ing the position that one who could not
afford to pledge that sum could not
afford to pledge anything.
The first disbursement from the
fund was to the Red Cross. A year s
dues in the Red Cross was paid ror
each person who had joined the com
munity fund plan, thus relieving the
Red Cross of making a local drive,
and preventing a needless duplica
tion of effort.
The committee announced that it
would care for proper demands from
the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., the
Knights of Columbus, and any other
organizations working for the benefit
of soldiers and sailors in the same
way, and would apportion its receipts
as the community deemed best and
the work aided seemed to warrant.
Local charities will be cared for
during the war from a fund of $240
raised by a charity ball, thus prevent
ing solicitation for such purposes.
If any surplus remains when peace
is declared, it will be paid to the Red
Cross, as a continuing activity.
The machinery which operates the
community work will be used to help
he government in any drives for 1'ur
her Liberty loans or other proper ac
ivities not covered by the fund itself.
■ THE Win IFFECTS
WISH CIVIl SE1CE
LONDON, April 10—The sum of
5500,000,000 was expended in main
taining the civil services in Great
Britain for the past year, says an of
'icial announcement. This includes
the sums spent on the king’s palaces.
Immense excesses of expenditure over
the amounts originally estimated are
accounted for by war bonuses, in
creased cost of labor and material,
and the higher cost of food.
In some items there are consider
able savings. Members of parliament
turned back their salaries to the
amount of $75,000. There is a saving
ir. the estimates for prisons, due to
the decrease in the number of prison
ers. Reformatories and similar in
stitutions, however, cost more, owing
to a larger number of juvenile de
linquents. There were considerable
savings in the diplomatic and consular
service due to the withdrawal of mis
sions from enemy countries.
Another side of war is reflected in
an item of $3 for a warrant revoking
Sir Roger Casement’s knighthood.
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STRANGE SIGHTS GREET
VISITORS TO BAGDAD
BAGDAD, April 10.—Nothing in this
land of strange things strikes the
European visitor so strangely as the
“corpse ship.” It is a huge barge
piled high with native corpses, many
of them several years old, which are
being carried down the river to rest ir
a cemetery near the whitened bones
of the prophet.
The bodies are piled on deck
packed tight in straw cases, on top o
which the Arab attendants sit non
chalently and play a native game re
sembling dominoes. Some of th
corpses are comparatively new, other
old. It all depends on how long i
took the family of the deceased t
save enough money to pay the cost o
transportation.
3RILLIANT ROCKETS
AS AIRPLANE DEFENSE
BEHIND BRITISH LINES IN
■'RANCE, March 8 (by mail).—One ni
he Germans’ favorite devices for op
losing British airmen on night raids
or reconnaisances, is a barrage of the
so-called “chain rockets.” These con
sist of long chains of brilliantly lum
inous balls, bright green in color
which are sent upwards like sky
rockets in strings of thirty or forty
and which hapg suspended in thi
sky for a considerable time, appai
ently for the purpose of catching th
airplane and setting fire to it.
The rockets must be driven up witl
tremendous force, probably from
gun, for they rise to a height of te
thousand feet, and can be placed wit
great accuracy. The fireballs appea
to be about a foot in diameter. A
they rise they are often caught by tf
wind, and assume beautiful curve
Sometimes the whole line topples an
turns before it vanishes, floating f<
a few moments like a row of strani
green Japanese lanterns. It is su
posed that the balls are supported
the air by small parachutes.
Thousands of these chain-roeke
are fired by the Germans on every «
easion when the entente airmen *
tack a town or camp. They are part
of the regular shrapnel barrage which
is used to hamper the attackers, but
they give a much more spectacular ,
. effect that the bursting shrapnel, ;
which only gives a momentary flash t
in the sky and then is gone. <
H a machine is caught by a search- ;
light, hundreds of the chain-rockets are
straightway sent up towards it. They ,
, make a remarkable spectacle as they i
are seen climbing up the sky and pass
ing one by one across the beams oi
light, and finally appearing in their
appointed station in the upper dark
ness.
> British airmen declare that the seo
. aation of having these chain-rockets
> fired at them is rather pleasant than
otherwise. It is difficult to believe
, that anything so fantastic, beautiful
a and fairy-like, can be really danger
n ous. On a cloudy night, it is said,
h nothing is more pleasant than to float
r over the rolling clouds and to watch
8 the green chain-rockets pierce the
e. mist here and there, casting a weird
5 radiance over the mountains and val
d leys of cloudland.
,r In the midst of a really rigorous
;e barrage, the chain-rockets thread the
p- skies in scores of fiery chains, float
n ing past the invading machine on
every side, leaving behind.them thin
ts trains of scented smoke.
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t- Save food or go on short rations.
A MOTHER IN ISRAEL
LIVERPOOL., April 10.—The list of
nourners at the funeral of Mrs. Jane
arris, who recently died here, shows
hat she left over three hundred
lescendants. She was ninety-ni.ie
fears aid, and had ten children.
seventy-four grandchildren, one hun
dred and eighty-seven great-grandchil
dren and thirty-one great-great-grand
ehildren.
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Until Further Notice
CHANGE WATER SERVICE
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On Wednesday, April 10, water will
I be turned on between 7 and 8 o’clock
in the morning and between 4 and 5
o’clock in the afternoon. On Thurs
day if conditions do not improve water
will be turned on one hour each day,
from 4 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
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Also remember: A man on the spot with a
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bucket of water at the outbreak of a fire
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is worth more than an auto pumping engine of
1,000 gallons per minute capacity a half hour
■ later. So fill your pails and tubs. jj
I Cordova Power
Company