WE DO FINE BOOK and JOB PRINTING TRY US! VOLUME IV—NO. 25 AMERICAN RED CROSS WEEK, IDNEIB TO 25 All next week is Red Cross Week, as proclaimed by President Wilson, May 25, 1917. From June 18 to 25, inclusive, is to be devot ed to the increase of membership and collection of money and sup plies. The week will be observed in a befitting manner in Indiana county. The membership commit tee co-operating with the auxilia ries throughout the county, have outlined a comprehensive plan that is expected to have the desir ed results. Soon Indiana county will send its quota to the new ar my, being raised by selective con scription. Shortly afterwards the armies will be sent to the battle front in France. It is necessary to look the matter squarely in the face. Some of the soldier boys may be injured, some may be sick. The Red Cross will be right there APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP - AMERICAN RED CROSS INDIANA COUNTY CHAPTER Date I hereby apply for membership in the class checked below and enclose the sum of Dollars ($ ) therefor. Please check class desired and be sure to write name legibly. ( ) Annual Member $ 1 ( ) Subscribing...annually 2 Name ( ) Contributing..annually 5 ( ) Sustaining annually 10 Home address ( ) Life one payment 25 ( ) Patron one payment 100 Boro or Twp Cut Out and Mail to Geo. H. Fulmer, Indiana, Pa. Ex-Sheriff Jeffries Must Pay $375 for Negligence Conduct or Speer Not Guilty—Ernest Phil ips, Charged With Murder, Now On Trial. In criminal court here this week p the jury returned a verdict of $375 against ex-Sheriff George H. Jeffries, of Rochester Mills, for negligence in serving a paper on the son of S. M. Cunningham, of Clarksburg, on a breach of prom ise case brought by Miss Horrell. The sheriff, through his deputy, Harry Williams, accepted the promise of the defendant to ap pear instead of placing him under arrest and he left the state. Mary Waugaman recovered a verdict of $35 against H. A. Beat ty for an attachment against her goods taken for the debt o£ her husband. Robert Clyde, of East Mahon ing township, pleaded guilty to assault and battery on John North who in company with a member of the state constabulary had called at his place to kill two dogs on which the county commission- One Killed, One Hurt, By Premature Blast Joe Combo, aged 18 years, was killed, and Tranquillo Pucci, 20 years old. was seriously injured by a premature explosion of dyna mite in the Fulton Run mine of the Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co., four miles north of this place, Monday afternoon. Combo was preparing dynamite for a shot when the blast exploded. He lived at Creekside, while Pucci lived in Carneytown, near the mine. THE PA TRIOT to take care of and nurse them to health. Following injuries the Red Cross work becomes effectual. Base hospitals must be ready to take care of their assignments and to effectually do this must have every desired article neces sary for modern treatment of med ical cases and surgery. It is this latter part that the auxiliaries show their work. Bandages, sur gical dressings, linen, bed clothes and sick apparel are made up in the auxiliaries' home places; sent to the Chapter headquarters and from there are requisitioned as they are required by National headquarters. The English, Bel gian, French and Allied Red Cross organizations are about at the end of their resources, and they are depending upon the United States Red Cross to help out. ers had reported the tax unpaid. Clyde used a shovel on the officers, who overpowered him, after which they arrested the defend ant. The court sentenced him to pay the costs and a fine of $l, making a total of $22. A non-suit was directed to be entered in the ejectment, case of Philip Evans et al. against Harry McClurghon, respecting the title to the small lot on which the Zion church stands in the second ward oi Indiana. The building was used by the colored folks of town until the congregation disbanded seve ral years ago. Joe Regent, of Graceton, was convicted of aggravated assault and battery inflicted on John Kos marcik, by cutting him in the hand and mouth with a knife. In the case of Commonwealth vs. W. A. Speer of Indiana, charg ed with adultery, the jury return ed a verdict of not guilty but pay the costs. The case now on trial is that of Commonwealth vs. Ernest Philips, a negro, who is charged with the murder of Jack Covington, of Jo sephine. last March. LIST OF LETTERS Remaining uncalled for in the In diana postoffice June 9, 1917: B. A. Clark, Mr. G. R. Fulton. Mr. Antonio Cilione, A. Curuso, Mr. L. H. Getman, Mr. Jesse Lit tle. Mrs. Wilbur King. Mary Klos ki, Mr. Alfred Learn. Miss Annie Lubert, Mr. S. T. McCullough. Miss Caroline Piper, Mr. James C. Smith, Mildred Slovensky, Mrs. Margaret Whitman. When inquiring for letters in this list please state that they were advertised, giving date. HARRY W. FEE, P. M. Published Weekly by the Patriot Publishing Company INDIANA, PA., SATURDAY, JI NK 16, 1917 Who will head the Government's food board DON'TS TO BE REMEMBERED BY ALL LOYAL AMERICANS New York, June 14— Dr. Pres ton W. Slosson, of the history de partment of Columbia University, has drawn up a list of "Don'ts on the war." Some of them are: "Don't say 'My country right or wrong.' We are right." "Don't call national necessity and international justice by any name as vague as 'national hon or. ' "Don't say Wall Street or Brit ish gold' or the 'Northcliff press' made this war. You don't have to bribe a nation to make it resent the murder of its citizens. Don't call every pro-ally * pro- British.' Great Britain is only one of a dozen or so of the Allies. "Don't say that both sides think they are fighting a defensive war. A man may honestly think that two and six are eleven, but it does Indiana Woman Is Aunt of Gen. Perching Mrs. Joseph Pershing, of West Philadelphia street, is an aunt of Gen. John J. Pershing, of the Un ited States army, who is now in France with his staff awaiting the arrival of the American troops to be sent to that country to fight. Gen.'Pershing, who is a son of John Fletcher Pershing, was born and reared near New Florence. PENN-MARY MINERS TAKE $22,550 IN LIBERTY BONDS Employes of the Penn Mary Coal Co. at Penn Mary, this coun to four words : " o peace with au paign with the Bethlehem Steel makers, of whom they are really a part, and when the books were closed for the day last evening they had subscribed $22,500. There are about 550 men em ployed at the plant, which has been a busy one for month on month. The Bethlehem Steel Co. plan is to pay for bonds out of the corporation and allow the men to pav in installments. \ WANT BISMARCK ST. TO BE FUNSTON AVE. Hutchinson. Kans., June 13— Because the residents of Bismarck street here are patriotic, a peti tion is being prepared for submis sion to the city commission, ask ing that the name be changed to Funston avenue. not make them so. Don't call universal training 'Prussian militarism.' It is