The Headlight (Carmen, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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Garden Seeds
As usual our store is headquarters for Garden Seeds Wc have just
received a full line cf fresh seeds from Barteldes Seed Co this week
This is the big Oklahoma and Kansas Seed Company who always send
out only the very best seeds adapted to this climate Most of them
are grown here in Oklahoma
We have a full line of bulk and package seeds All package seeds at
the old price — 5c 6 for 25c for large packages Some bulk seed is a
little higher and very scarce on the market Seed companies are
only delivering from one-fourth to three-fourth of seed contracted
Most all seed has doubled in price since we bought It will pay all
to buy seeds early and plenty for the season as we are sure to be out
of many kinds long before the season is over for selling seeds as
we have only one-fourth as many as usual of some kinds and if we
reorder the price will be more than double on many kinds
Barteldes Seeds have been the leading line of the Southwest for more
than fifty years Be patriotic plant lots -of garden and help to con-
serve food
J W MILLS
r "WAR-TIME "POETRY
I (Blame it onto the war— not I
I the editor)
THE KAISER’S DREAM
There’s a story now current though
strange it may seem
Of the great Kaiser Bill and his won-
derful dream
Being tired of the allies he lay down
in bed
And among other things he dreamed
he was dead
In a fine coffin he was liying in state
With a squad of brave Boches who
were mourning his’fate
He wasn’t long dead when he learned
to his cost
That his soul like his soldiers would
ere long be lost
Upon leaving this earth to Heaven he
went straight
And on his arrival he knocked at the
gate
St Peter looked out and in a voice
loud and clear
Said “Try down below Bill you can’t
get in here”
“Now” said the Kaiser “I call that
uncivil
But a welcome I’ll get from my old
friend the devil”
He turned on his heel and away he
did go
At the top of his speed to the regions
below
But when he got there he was filled
with dismay
For waiting oustide he heard Old
Nick say
“Now boys” said the devil “I give
you fair warning:
I’m expecting the Kaiser to come down
this morning —
“But don’t let him in for to me it is
clear
He is after my job and we want no
scabs here
For once he gets here there’ll be no
end of quarrels
And I’m also quite sure he’ll corrupt
our good morals”
“Oh Satan dear friend” the Kaiser
then cried
“Excuse me for listening while wait-
ing outside
If you won’t let me in tell me where
I can go?”
“Indeed” said the devil “I’m damned
if I know”
“Oh do let me in for I’m feeling quite
cold —
And if you want money — I’ve plenty
of gold
Let me sit in the corner — no matter
how hot”
“No no” said the devil “Most cer-
tainly not!”
“We don’t admit brutes for money or
pelf
Here’s the sulphur and matches make
a hell for yourself”
Then he kicked him out and vanished
in smoke —
And just at that moment the Kaiser
' awoke
He jumped out of bed in a shivering
sweat
And said “That’s a dream that I’ll
never forget
“I won’t go to Heaven I know very
well
But it sure is a shame to get kicked
out of hell”
—Contributed by W H Mills Twin
Falls Idaho
THE PLAINT OF A VOLUNTEER
Why didn’t I wait to be drafted
And be led to the train by a band
And put in my claim for exemption —
Oh why did I hold up my hand?
Why did I not wait for the banquet
Why did I not wait to be cheered —
For the drafted men get all tin credit
While I merely volunteered
And nobody gave me a banquet
Nobody said a kind word —
The puff of the engine the grind of
the wheels
Was all the goodbye that I heard
Then off to the training camp hustled
To be trained for the next half year
And in the struggle forgotten —
I was only a volunteer
Well perhaps some day in the future
When mylitle boy sits on my knee
The wars e?ct on
out-of-town traffic
volumes in the—
Bell System
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War-time Traffic
Extraordinary as have been the increases in local Bell
Telephone calling during the past months the changes in
out-of-town traffic volumes are even more remarkable
With unprecedented increases have sprung up new volumes
’ between places which heretofore had practically no tele-
phone interepurse and the demands for service by the
Government and its agents have been quite beyond
conception
Altogether the growth has been most remarkable and
success in coping with it has been due in great measure to
the public’s ready co-operation and appreciation of the
steady effort which the operating force is making an effort
which these young women of the great communication
army may be counted on to maintain in every emergency
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
DON’T WAIT DO IT NOW! BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPSl
And asks what I did in the great war
And his eyes look up at me
I will have to look back in those eyes
That at me so trustingly peer
And tell him that I was not drafter —
I was only a volunteer
— Contributed by Leon Edwards Cas-
ual Co 1244 M M S C Camp
Hancock Georgia'
Those profiteers who attemnted to
rob the government and the officers of
the army in the price of uniforms
should be given a chance to wear a
uniform Only it should be different
from the product of their factories
- — — - " 1
In 'justice to Mr Root it should be
remembered that he said Russia would
be all right if— Only the “if” did
not materialize
Mayor Hylan of New York says
William R Hurst is loyal and patri-
otic But sometimes a man needs to
pray for deliverance from his fool
friends'
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Salter, Frank A. The Headlight (Carmen, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1918, newspaper, March 22, 1918; Carmen, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2084513/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.