Appleton City Journal
Appleton City, MO
15 August 1919

Two Schools Get Honor Flags
Chairman Lawton reports that while there are a number of school districts in the county which went over their quota in the recent War Savings Stamp drive, there were only two who received the requisite over subscriptions – 160 per cent – to entitle them to the honor flags, they being Bear Creek and Bradford. The flags have been received and arrangements are being made for appropriate celebrations in both districts to be held in the near future.

Freight Traffic Very Brisk
There seems to be more freight traffic over the Katy than ever noted before. At noon here Saturday there as a regular tie-up in traffic. Four or five fireight trans occupied most all the trackage and it took quite a while to clear the situation so that the two passenger trains could get through, and then with much delay. The Katy’s rolling stock is sure kept on the move these days handling the immense traffic.

Coming – “Pershing’s Crusader”, at opera house Friday, August 30, a special war feature. Watch for further announcements.

The Best Plaster
A piece of flannel dampened wih Chamberlin’s Liniment and bound over the seat of pain is often more effectual for a lame back than a plaster and does not cost anything like as much. – Advt.

Farm Barn Burned
The large new barn and outbuildings on J.H. Walker’s farm just south of Ohio were burned early Wednesday morning causing considerable loss to Mr. Walker as well as W.H. Blackman who lives on the place and had considerable machinery, hay and grain in the fire. The loss is only partially covered by insurance.
It is not definitely known how the fire originated, but it is thought that their car exploded, as young Lonnie Blackman had just gone to the barn to get out the car to start to the State Fair with other parties and the first that the folks in the house knew of the fire was when they heard Lonnie’s screams for help and they looked out and saw the barn on fire and he was trying to tear off his clothing which was on fire. He was badly burned and as yet has not been in shape to talk about the matter or tell how it happened. A report from the Blackman home early this (Thursday) morning stated that he was seemingly getting better, but is in pretty bad shape. He just returned home a few months ago from war service in France where he served in the Argonne Forest battle with the huns, and was pretty badly gassed, but was in good health otherwise.
The loss will fall pretty heavy on Mr. Walker as he had just built the entire set of improvements, including the house, barn and outbuildings since the cyclone of a few years ago, which wiped out everything clean. To rebuild the burned buildings now will mean the expenditure of a goodly sum for addition to the inconvenience by scarcity of labor and other things.

Now Paying The Price
The war cost the United States over a million dollars an hour for a period of two years.
The dominant note of the powers Seat be at Washington these last few years seems to have been “hang the expense”. Today the American people are up against the proposition of paying the price of that criminally mistaken policy. Everybody and everything are out of joint and the government itself in peril as the result of living, not beyond our resources – for they are practically inexhaustible – but on a basis where prudence and common sense seem to have been utterly lost sight of in our mad quest for we hardly know what, regardless of cost or consequences.
Nations, no more than individuals, can disregard the laws of sanity and righteousness without coming to grief sooner or later. The remarkable thing about it all is that we have not yet learned the lesson sufficiently to restrain ourselves from running into all sorts of follies and excesses. – Springfield Republican.

It Couldn’t Be Done
There was a hard boiled sergeant who delighted in “picking on” the men just from civilian life. One day he was giving the command, “Right dress”, and one of the fellows was napping and did not do as commanded, after the sergeant had called it out several times. Then the sergeant was furious and shouted to the fellow” “Hey, you, dress right!” and somebody else hollered: “How much can you dress right on $30 a month?”