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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27
Trl-COunty Sunday
School Convention

A number from here are planning
on attending the Tri-County Sunday
School Association meeting in the
Swedish Mission church at Hudson
next Saturday and Sunday. An in
teresting and instructive program
has been prepared for both days.
Rev. Bird of this city will take part
in the program.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27

Mrs. A. F. Block is spending the
day in st. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Wright of
st. Paul spent Sunday at the John
Haddow home.
Pres. J. H. Ames and P. w. Ramer
are at Madison this week attending
a meeting of the Board Of Regents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27
Tuesday Club

October End
Presidents Greeting Miss Willett
Review of Last Years Work
Mrs. Ensign
A two Minute Discussion of Each of
Last Years Papers.
Hostess Mrs. Bliss.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27

Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Clark arrived
yesterday from Worthington, Mimi,
on visit at the home of the form
ers' mother.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27
BORN

To Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Camp
bell, Sept. %, 1917, daughter.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Rudesil,
Sept. Ii, 1917, a daughter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27
MARRIED

Miss Minnie Belling of Elmwood
and Adolph Kohl of Mann Valley
were united in marriage on Sept.
10, 1917, at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Belling.
Miss Martha BelIing, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor. Ferdin-
and Kohl, brother of the groom,
was best m a n, Miss Mary Kohl,
bridesmaid nd Otto Benholtz.
groom's attendant.
Mr.. Kohl is one of Mann Valleys
prosperous young farmers and the
bride we'll known and popular
young lady of Elmwood. The Jour-
nal extends congratulations.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27

Robert Forsyth Of Deming, N.
D., formerly Of this city, and Miss
Vera Hovlid of Menomonie were
married at that city last Saturday
afternoon. They went to Minneapo-
lis the same evening and expected to
leave for Deming Monday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-09-27

M ISIS Florence Mccormick and
Louis Wigen, both of this city, were
married O. Monday a t Duluth
They will make their home in that
city, where Mr.. Wigen is employed
in an ammunition plant.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
FIGURE GOO
FERRY FARES

The new county ferry, operat-
Ing between Tacoma, Gig Harbor
and Vashon island, will only take
In $500 in fees during 1918, &C
cording to the estimate of county
commissioners. This Is all that
the commissioners have provided
in their budget as receipts from
the ferry.
This sum, which means a gross
income of $50 a month or little
more than $50 day, is all the
county can expect, Chairman Bel
lingham said Monday.
There won't be much winter
travel on the ferry, and we don't
believe that the boat will take in
more than $50 month";" he said.
The good ship has cost . the
county about $4,000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
SWEDEN
FEARING
FAMINE
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)


WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. II.
Scandinavian representatives
here, particularly the Swedes,
pleaded today that the new SEM
barge on wheat will bring their
nations to the brink of starvation.
The Swedes declared their nation
will be the first to feel the pinch
of famine.
Under new regulations of the
export council, wheat, many
chemicals and forms of iron can
not be exported at all except
where used for war purposes, or
where needed commodities can be
obtained in exchange at once, OF
in Few excepted cases where a
small expectation would not be
detrimental to the United States
The pinch of this new rule is
likely to swing Sweden away from
her pro-German attitude more
quickly than anything else, au-
'thorities here believe. The Swed.
ish population, according to Axel
Robert Nordvall. delegate to the
United States, now gets only seven
ounces of rye or wheat daily, the
smallest ration in Europe.
"Sweden's grain crop this year.
he said, will be only twp-thirds
normal. He will need 100000
bushels FOR bread and it is impos-
sible to cut our ration further"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
lnty Ferry Causes Another Grand Old Pow-Vv'I'
PARK. BOARD
ACTS EARLY

Voting against the establish
ment OF ferry slip at PIT. De-
fiance park 15 minutes before the
time set for a public hearing of
business men and public officials,
members OF the Tacoma park
board few minutes later came
In for a severe roasting Monday
morning at the hands of those in-
vited to attend the meeting.
Charges that the park board
had permitted Its personal preiu-
dices to override public necessity
were made by those who learned
with disappointment that the fer
ry matter had ben turned down.
Some of the speakers declared
that the park board had deliber-
ately called public hearing. only
to take sly action beforehand
heading off any discussion.
Was To 10 Decisive.
The park board had called a
meeting for 1890, to which COM
mittees from the Commercial club.
Rotary club, city council, and
county commission, had been In
vited.
1t had ben the belief of Ia
comans Interested in the ferry
that all obstacles would be swept
aside at the meeting, and that
construction of the ferry slip
could be started quickly.
While the business men and
others were waiting in the halls
of the city hall for the hour of
the meeting. Prof. Allen, chair
man of the board, called the park
commissioners to order at 1915.
The report of special commit
tee, outlining requests for a ferry
slip at PIT. Defiance, was read.
Then Frederick Mottet, a park
commissioner. introduced a reso-
luton turning down the park
ferry slip plan on the grounds that
the park was within federal juris-
'diction and that the board had no
right to grant permission for the
slip.
Action Unanimous.
The resolution carried unani-
mously. Immediately afterwards
three OF the commissioners,
Vaeth,, Mottet and Craig. left the
rooms. Chairman Allen and
Commissioned Newbegin alone re-
manned to face the men who
were trying to locate ferry land
ing.
The question of federal permits
sion for establishing a ferry slip
at PIT. Defiance had previously
been taken up with the business
men, and they had agreed to get
a special permit from Washing
ton, ID. G.
1T certainly looks to me as II
we have all been turned down
without a hearing" declared A..
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Omitted Press Leased wire.)

PETROGRAD, Sept. 17.-Hav-
ing subdued the armed dissension
in its confines, the provisional
government moved rapidly today
In settlement Of political disputes.
Formal proclamation of Russia
as a republic, issued by Premier
Kerensky, destroyed growing
propaganda traceable TO German
agents that Kerensky was plan
ming a dictatorship.
1t was also a warning, In the
public's view today, to any other
leader who might aspire, as Kron-
iloff did, to such d.etatorial pow
ers, that the government was sole
ly peoples government.
The constitutional convention
which Is to devise the machinery
of the Russian government has
already been called for Dec. IL.
There were indications today,
however, that long before this
time some sort of a representa-
tive Russian assembly would be
outlined and delegate powers to
prevent any repetition of the mis-
understanding which led to the
Korniloff revolt.
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v. Love. when Secretary Cover
had explained that the park board
had already met and adjourned.
Criticise Board.
I'VE all of us were invited to
come here and thresh this matter
out. Now we find that the board
has taken the whole thing into Its
own hands and turned down a re-
quest which the whole city Is
making"
Chairman Allen told the room
full of men that the park board
was simply acting on the question
as IL had been previously placed
before the commissioners, and
that there had been no need of
another public hearing He OBJ
jected strenuously to being
placed ION the defensive" by the
men present.
A number of men. including Ar
thur G.. Prlchard, II. +. Messenger,
A. V. Love. Frank Day, and
County Commissioners Slayden
and O'Farrell all criticised the
park board for its evident attempt
to kill the ferry plans because
some of. the members were per-
sonally opposed to placing slip
In the park.
Ask Reconsideration.
"The county commissioners are
frequently called upon to do
something which they cannot af-
ford. or which they do not per-
sonally approve, because the pub
lie waa's it," declared Commits
sioner Slayden. ut seems odd
that this park board should ignore
the wishes of the people in such
summary manner"
After wrangle that lasted
nearly an hour. in which Allen
was the target of swift questions
and heated speeches, the business
men voted vive voce on a resolu-
ton asking the park board to re-
consider its action.
They demanded that the park
board announce at once whittier
or not 1t would continue to re-
fuse to permit a ferry slip In tho
park. IL all legal and financial OBJ
stacles were cleared away.
Chairman Allen replied that he
would notify the members to APP
pear.
But I don't know whether they
will come to special meeting"
he said. 1.-THE park board is a
pretty hard body to get together
sometimes.
Want Service.
II. w. Stine, of Burnley, Wash,
delegated by the Peninsula Com
mercial club to come to Tacoma
and urge quick action towards
placing the new county ferry On
the Gig Harbor run, was one OF
the delegates who appeared at
the park board office Monday.
THE people across the water
want this ferry started at once"
he declared.
1--WE don't care where Il lands
in Tacoma. All we ask is that
the boat be started at once. We
have farm products over there
that we want to get to market.
Tacoma Is the proper market for
the entire peninsula. Get the
ferry started, gentlemen, and you
will please whole lot of farm
ers who need 1t badly"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
MANY VISIT
CAMP LEWIS

Plumbers and few roofers and
linemen comprised the construc-
ton force working at Camp Lewis
Sunday, most of the workmen TAX
ing the day off.
Visitors took advantage of the
fine day in large numbers. Men
at headquarters estimated that
1000 automobiles passed the
building during the day.
About 500 men have been given
physical examinations thus far
Some reflections have been made
for defects which the men con-
cealed from the draft board physi-
clans. In their desire to get into
the service. Only a few, army doc
tors say. have seemed glad to be
rejected.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
RUSSIANS
ON ROAD
TO RIGA

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE
Russian army is driving back to-
ward Riga along a wide front.
Within the last five days it has
advanced more than seven miles,
the Russian embassy announced
today.
The whole Russian military es-
tablishment is being reorganized
under Gen. Alexieff and disloyal
commanders are being ousted.
First official cables. from Petro-
grad to the embassy received to-
day were most encouraging. They
showed that the Korniloff rebel
lion had been put down without
bloodshed, the morale of the
troops lis splendid, and the gov
eminent stronger than ever"
Official word that responsible
ity for the Korniloff detection has
been fixed upon mis- advisers in
stead of himself, is regarded here
as an indication that the famous
Cossack chief will not pay the
death penalty for this crime.
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1000, walk OUT
IN FRISCO YARDS

CONTINUED From Page One.)
largest plant In this section, hum
dreds OF men who had entered the
plant at 8 o'clock began to walk
out before 8, and for the first
time in the plants history not a
hammer was lifted or bit OF
work done.
The strike Is expected to para
lyze completely shipbuilding in the
San Francisco bay district, affect
ing all plants, large and small,
San Francisco, Oakland and Ala
media. 1t was stated at the head
quarters of. the iron trades coun-
ell that the situation is now up to
the federal authorities at Wash
ington and that federal agents
have already begun work towards
an adjustment.
Mayor Rolph, who has taken an
active part in the effort to pre-
vent the strike and who is himself
interested in shipbuilding, was al
his office at a. M, and immedi-
ately plunged into series OF con-
ferences with both sides in the
controversy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
cONFIDE IN
: new REPUBLIC

The Petrograd council of work
men and soldiers formally recon-
mended representative assembly
to be eonvoked Sept. rs to set ~
a definite power to lead the coun-
try until the, constitutional con-
vention shall decide upon a COM
plete syste moi government.
In the meantime. Kerensky's
recognized cabinet appears likely
to have more complete support
from various factions than the
previous ministries have been able
to muster.
Armies Now Loyal.
Evidence of the loyalty of the
Russian armies is now overwhelm-
ing. Preliminary reports from the
commission investigating Korni-
lofts revolt indicate the rebellious
troops were deceived into belief
they were marching against Ger
man plotters. Scores of officers
are already in custody.
Gen. Kaledin is still at large
and at the head of a rebel move
ment, but his forces were not
large and his own troops-the
Don Cossacks-insist they are
loyal to Russia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. II. =
Five thousand striking carpenters,
joiners and helpers won the first
point here today when one OF the
largest steel shipyards in the city
agreed to use only lumber cut in
S-hours mills. The plant, The Sc
Iattle Construction and Drydock
Co., employs 225 wood workers
and these men returned to work
this morning.
Other shipyards and contractors
'stood pat and as a result most
contracting jobs in the city were
idle while the shipyards either
worked with reduced crews, or not
at all. Skinner & Eddy, another
of the big steel ship yards signed
the 8-hour agreement Saturday.
The strike is an effort to assist
striking mill and forest workers to
obtain an S-hour day in northwest
mills.
The biggest result is has gained
so far is to awaken interest among
government representatives here in
an early settlement of the mill
strike. Negotiations were at
tempted some weeks ago but fail
ed because of the refusal of bo.h
side to negotiate the S-hour de.
mand
DR.. Henry Suzzallo, chairman
of the state council of defense
and Henry M. White, government
mediator in Seattle, both an
nounced their intention today tc
reopen negotiations If possible.
The |. w. w. who have been
active in the camp and mill strike
held an all-day meeting in Seattle
Sunday at which a plan to "strike
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
COINGTO CAMP
In MACHINES

DRAFTED men of Tacoma and
Pierce county who form the sec
ond quota going to Camp Lewis
Wednesday will be taken to the
camp in automobiles provided by
Rotary club members.
Secretary Woodbridge Of the
club notified Controller Shoe
make Monday that sufficient cars
would be provided for all of the
100 drafteds men. The cars will
leave the city hall Wednesday
morning at o'clock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
America Must Stop
War, Says Gen. Booth

In tour of the country he al
ready had travelled 1900 miles.
He spoke at the Commercial club
Monday noon and will speak at a
meeting at the First Presbyterian
church Monday night.
Religious Wave.
IAN unprecedented wave of in-
terest in religion and Christian
ity is sweeping over England and
France and America today" he
said.
ut may be that 1t is due to the
great sorrow and suffering caused
by the war and to the great loss
of life. / do not know.
"A peculiar phase of the situa-
tion is that the moving picture
theaters are thronged.
Apparently people are seek-
ing escape frof fearful sorrow
thru the mirth which the movies
furnish.
"Yet at the same time the
churches are thronged. They are
being filled to the doors. Is II
thru the lesson they have learned
by the war;"
Gen. Booth Is a tall, soldiery
figure. His every moment is in
tense. His words carry fire and
deep conviction-and tenderness.
"MX great anxiety is for the flu
ture cradles sof the world. I Sc
riously view the next 40 or so
years.
The picked men--the athletes
n body and mind-are being shot
down."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
SILVER HIDES
PERISCOPES

AN ATLANTIC POR$. Sept. IT.
Submarines with silver-plated
periscopes are now at work, pas
sengers ON an American liner in
port here today declared. They
asserted this plating mirrored the
sea SO perfectly the periscopes
were invisible.
Off the Irish coast torpedo
was fired at this American liner,
but missed by SO feet. Gunners
fired one shot at random, as no
submarine was visible.
Wireless warnings against u
boats off the American coast were
picked up by. this liner last FRI
day afternoon, passengers said.
They declared the message came
from Cape Race, British station.
No trace of the submarine re-
ported as Smelling vessel off Nam
tucket Friday morning had been
found today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
BY j. w. II, MASON.

Written for the United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-Pre-
mier Kerensky is compromising
with the conflicting factions in
Petrograd until the first elections
of the new Russian republic are
held next NovembeP.
1t is a new role for the impetu-
Gus radical, but in accepting it.
Kerehsky is showing higher quail
ties of craftsmanship than he has
previously displayed.
To save Russia, Kerensky must
become the Russian Lloyd George.
The British premier's great quail
fly has not been the way in which
he has directed the war so much
tas his success in uniting conserva-
tives, moderates and radicals at
home.
Kerensky, radical like Lloyd
George, must bury his personal
politics for the rest of the war as
Lloyd George has done, or Rus
sia s dangers will become unbear-
able.
Kerensky is trying to do this
very thing. His first effort to
effect a working agreement with
the constitutional democrats, who
represent the professional classes
in Russia, has temporarily failed
because the extreme socialists
would not work with the consfitu-
tional democrats.
But while Kerensky has been
unable, for the present, to bring
the moderates into his cabinet, he
has been strong enough to keep
the extremists out.
A middle-of-the-road policy Is
now In action in Petrograd for the
purpose of giving all factions time
to accustom themselves TO new
conditions.
It requires a violent readjust-
ment for moderates and lex
tremists to work together. Eng
land delayed In solving the prob
lem and France hasn't wholly
solved 1t yet.
1t is not surprising, therefore.
that the new non-partisan way OF
looking at questions, should re-
quire time to get into action in
Russia. 3.
But It is coming. Already the
necessity for It is recognized by
leading Russians. and the first
recognition bridges the most diff
cult ground. sThe next step will
be to have the road clear for COM
promise on domestic questions by
Russia's first republican national
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
TRY WOMAN
FOR PERJURY

A jury is being chosen Mon.
day in Superior Judge Chapman Is
court to try Mrs. Il. l.. Cloud OF
Tacoma nthe charge of perjury.
Mrs. Cloud, who was sued by
L. Schoenfeld q Sons last April Id
Judge Yesterdays court for in
surance on 463 yards Of carpet,
is. alleged to have sworn falsely
that the carpet was burned,
while in the premises occupied by
her at 1506h Pacific ave.
NJ. u Gordon and A. o. Bur-
moister are attorneys for Mrs.
Cloud.
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'1f the name of humanity this
war must stop! !.
There was only one thing
America could do, and that was
to step in and stop it."
This was the answer of Gen.
Darlington Booth. president of the
Volunteers of America in Tacoma
Monday, when asked to give his
idea on the relation of Christian
ity to the great war.
Gen. Booth arrived in Tacoma
by auto from Seattle at II o'clock,
with his travelling secretary. Mai.
Frank Mccormack, andeAdjt. and
Mrs. Brooks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
NK>CLEARINGs.

drawals and deposits ranging be-
tween $4,000 and $50,000
monthly.
Another showed balance In
November, 1915, of $4,000.
, An account d Mrs. King in the
Irving National bank here showed
he had $4,000 ON deposit In
August, 1915.
That was at the time she mar
roed DR.. Chance. The typewriter
on which the King will was writ
ten reached New York today from
Chicago. It will be shown the
grand Jury in an effort to prove
the will foreary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
CHERRY TO HAVE
INNINGS LATER

: Blackberries have temporarily
sidetracked maraschino cherries
at the Puyallup cannery; but the
cherries, which are one of the big
products of the cannery, will have
their innings again later. A
thousand barrels of cherries have
been bought. Few manufacturers
are making maraschino cherries
this year. and the market Is large.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
GOVERNMENT TAKES HAND:
Omitted Press Leased Wire.D

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.--Wil-
liam Blackman, mediator from
the department of labor, today
took charge of the shipyard prob
lem on the Pacific coast.
Seattle workers are still out,
but 1000 men at Portland Ore.
have-withheld striking pending an
adjustment.
The delegation of Portland men
who conferred Saturday with
Chairman Hurley Of the shipping
board AMI Rear Admiral Caps of
the emergency fleet corporation,
conferred again today.
Rear Admiral Caps and Medi-
ator Blackman arrived at a deci-
sion today regarding concessions
the government VIII make. The
problem has been taken from the
jurisdiction of wage adjustment.
Nothing official has been re-
ceived at the shipping board re-
garding the strike of $4,000 work.
ers at San Francisco.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
SPECIAL POLICE ON GUARD
Omitted Press Leased Wirc,l

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. II. -
With announcement from the
carpenters union that pickets
would be established at all local
shipbuilding plants where a strike
had been declared and the declar-
alton from the shipbuilding COM
panies that they would attempt to
reopen their yards some time to-
day or tomorrow, violence in the
wooden ship builders strike was
feared today.
The police department has spe-
cial details of men along the wa
terfront. The unions announced
this morning they are firmly op-
posed to violence.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-17
NAVY PLANES
SCORE HITS

LONDON, Sept. 17.-British
navy planes scored hits against a
large German destroyer and sew
eral trawlers in an air raid car
ried out between Ostend and
Blankenberge, the admiralty an
nounced today.
The planes bombed destroyers,
trawlers and drifters of the
enemy.
lone large destroyer was hit
amidships and probably two out of
four trawlers were sunk" the ad-
miralty declared.