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The Detroit times., 1917-08-24
GREEN VEGETABLES

fresh from the garden every morning
Purple Cabbage, 10 &c.
White Cabbage. 10 &c.
Green Corn. large ears. doz. 35c.
large ago Plant. each. zoe.
Summer squash Sc and ioc
Hothouse Tomatoes. 10 sc.
Choice White Celery, 3 heads Toe,
Home Grown cueumbers. for SC and
Sc each
Round Radlshes, bunch &c.
Spinach. caulifower, 8eets. Carrots
Turnips. Lettuce, Onions, etc etc
The Detroit times., 1917-08-24
12lNJURED
IN TRAFFIC
ACCIDEN
Automobiles and Street
Cars Have Regular
Field Day
TROLLEYS PROVE
BIG OFFENDERS
Several of the Victims
Are In Serious
Condition

Casualties FOR Month o. August
In the War % Make Detroit
Safe FOR Humanity
kIIIf-D
Is
MOI NnED
1913
MISSING
! (Sent TO PRISON.
The Detroit times., 1917-08-24

FRESH FRUITS
finest on the market
Thompson Seedless Grapes, box t5c
Choice Apples, for cooking or eating
Of re; PIX eoe.
Choice Huekleberries. a.. 22c
Jelly Mouids. doz. SOC.
Sour Cherries. for pies. a. lec.
LARGE Wstermelons. whole, half or
quarter.
Choice cantslovpe. ioo and i5e.
Pears. plums, Oranges, Lemons,
Bananas.
The Detroit times., 1917-08-24

Packed Lakeside Wrnkled Peas
The Detroit times., 1917-08-24
Not Kew West

Bul Blr That's corkins good
tropical leaf You're smoking judge
judge juno Rug Yes. right from
re kevs
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
u. S. CAUSE is JUST
ARGENTINA STRONGLY SUP
PORTS WAR POSITION OF U. S.
Brazil Breaks With Germany and
kaiser's Minister Is Handed
His Passports.

Washington, April 13.-The Argen-
tine embassy handed Secretary of State
Lansing note from it's government
strongly supporting the position this
country has taken in going to war with
Germany. It was as follows:
1.-The government of Argentina in
view of the causes that have prompted
the United States of America to de-
clare war against the government Of
the German empire recognizes the JUS
tice of that declaration, founded as it
is upon violation of the principles of
neutrality established by the rules of
international law which have been con-
sidered definite conquests of civili-
ZatiOn."
BuenOs Aires, April 13.-Herr PAUL.,
the German minister to Brazil, was
handed a note to his government and
passports for himself, said a dispatch
from Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian cap
ital.
Rio de Janeiro, April 13.-Tt is ex-
pected in diplomatic circles here that
other South American nations will soon
follow the example of Brazil in sever
ing relations with Germany.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
U. S. PLANS BIG FOOD ARMY
100000 Men and Boys for
Farm Work.

Washington, April 16.-PrOpOsals for
enlistment of a work army of 100000
men and boys for agricultural service,
and other drastic steps to increase food
production during the war, were given
enthusiastic encouragement on Friday
at the department of agriculture. Sec
rotary Houston ordered wide publicity
given to resolutions adopted at the re-
cent st. Louis conference of agricul-
ture experts looking to production of
greater crops as an emergency meas
ure. They recommended that con-
gress appropriate $25,000OO0 for use
~ the secretary of agriculture in such
a campaign.
upon the farmer rests In large
measure the final responsibility of win
ming the war;" declare the resolutions
made public here. Because of the
world shortage of food it is scarcely
possible that the production of staple
crops by the farmers of the United
States can be too great this year."
1t Is recommended that boys under
military age and men beyond the age,
and those physically disqualified should
be enrolled in the national army for
labor in the production of food, NUM-
tians and supplies.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
HOOVER HEADS FOOD BODY
Accepts Craftsmanship of New U. S.
Board and Starts an Inquiry
Among Allies.

London, April Is. The United
States, France, England and Italy are
cooperating to meet the present food
shortage, according to a statement is
sued by Herbert G. Hoover in accept
ing the craftsmanship of the new food
board in America.
Mr.. Hoover, who is head of the
American commission for relief in
Belgium, expects to leave shortly for
America to begin his new duties.
Meanwhile he has initiated q wide in
quiry in France, England and Italy re-
garding the food situation, having the
cooperation of the various govern
ments in this work.
The inquiry includes examination of
the prospects of the coming harvests,
import necessities, methods of food
regulation and control now in opera
ton in the allied countries and the
results achieved through these meth
DDS.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
SENATE PASSES ARMY BILL
sundry Civil Measure Also Approved
Effort to Raise Pay of En-
listed Men Fails.

Washington, April 13.-The senate
on Wednesday passed legislation car
rying appropriations of $450,000,00
The first measure to be given consid-
Grafton was the army appropriation
bill which passed the house in the last
session carrying appropriations of
$278,OOO,000.
Efforts by Senator Hughes Of New
Jersey to have included On amendment
raising the pay Of enlisted men from
So to $50 per month was defeated
when the chair ruled that such an
amendment was out of order.
Following the army bill the senate
passed the sundry civil appropriation
bill carrying appropriations Of $144,-
100000.
In the open senate the flood control
bill carrying an appropriation of $10,-
100000 was voted in as an amend
ment and the bin carrying a total of
was passed without roll
call.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
VOLUNTEERS FOR U. S.
100000 RECRUITS TO BE RE.
LEASED AFTER WAR.
Believed by This Plan That Feasibility
OF Depending Upon Volunteers
Be Determined.

Washington, April 14.-The war de-
partment prepared to issue instruc-
tons to recruiting officers which will
be in effect call for 100000 yolun-
teerS to fill up the regular army and
the existing units of the National
Guard. All recruits enlisted since the
declaration of war and those to be en-
listed henCeforth will be notified that
they will be discharged at the close of
the war, putting them in the status of
wartime volunteers.
Four thousand three hundred and
tfty-five men already have been en-
rolled into such status. This Is the
number of recruits since the passage
Of the war resolution.
Analysis Of the pending administra-
ton bill as it affects the regular army
and the National Guard shows that
provisions is made for the absorption
of 517,86S volunteers. OF these 161, $40
will be needed to fill up the regular
army and 206,349 for the National
Guard. AS 10000 men must be with
drawn from these two services within
six months to train the first 100000
increment of the selective conscript
army, their places must be taken by
that number of additional volunteers.
By this plan it is thought the feast
bility of depending entirely upon vol
unteers will be determined. Army Off
GERS are certain that it will show con-
gresS where there are some doubts of
the selective conscript plan, that
CONSUMPTION is necessary to maintain
an army adequate to meet the present
situation.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
BOLIVIA BREAKS WITH KAISER
La Paz Announces Severance of Dip
iomatic Relations and Denounces
German U-Boat Attacks.

La Paz, Bolivia, April 16-The note
of the Bolivia government of the Ger
man minister announcing the sever
ance of diplomatic relations with Ger
many denounces the attacks of Ger
man submarines on neutral vessels as
violations of international law and OF
The Hague conventions.
The note recalls that the Bolivian
minister to Berlin was on board the
Holland-Lloyd steamer Tubantia
when that vessel was sunk In neutral
waters a year ago.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
]. s. WAR TAX PLAN
SECRETARY M'ADOO SUGGESTS
TO CONGRESS EXTENSION AND
INCREASE ON INCOMES.
NO RECOMMENDATIONS MADE
Names Profit Tax Rates. Import
Stamp, Liquor, Amusement, SUGAR.
Coffee, Tobacco, Soft Drinks, Trans
portation Receipts, Etc.

Washington, April 16-Administra.
ton suggestions as to possible new
sources of taxation through which to
raise approximately one-half of the es-
umated cost of the first year of the
war, or $780,, 25O,O00, were submitted
by Secretary McAdoo to the senate
finance and the house ways and means
committees. The other half of the
cost is to be provided by $2000,000,000
of the bonds authorized by the war rev.
enue bill passed Saturday by the house,
which is expected to pass the senate
this week.
Outstanding in the suggestions are
greatly increased income and excess
profit tax rates, taxing of many i'm
ported articles now admitted free, and
stamp, liquor, amusement, sugar, cof-
fee, tobacco, soft drink, freight and
passenger transportation receipts, and
automobile taxes. All of the data Is
sent to congress for its information
and without recommendations from
the treasury
Probably the most far reaching pro-
posal concerns income taxes. The sec
rotary estimates that 80 per cent In
crease on both individuals and corpora
tons for 1916, cOllectable next June,
would yield $165,0O0,000 additional. For
1917 he points out that to lower the in
come tax exemption from $4,000 to
$1,000 for unmarried persons, from
$4,000 to $1,000 for married persons, to
leave the normal tax at 2 per cent, but
to raise the supertaXes materially,
would make the law produce $340,OO0-
900 additional in June, 1913, without
Oh ninc tho nnrnnrn Iinn tnN
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
GERMAN U-BOAT OFF CUBA
British Vessel Destroyed With Bombs
Member of Crew Arrives at
Key West, Fla.

Key West Fla, April 14.-The Brit
hanson was sunk by a German subma-
rine off Cienfuegos, Cuba, four days
ago and all hands landed at the Cuban
port 81 few hours later, according to G..
Peterson, member of the crew, who
arrived here from Havana late Thurs
day. Peterson claims to be q natural
lied American Of Norwegian birth. The
Germans destroyed the ship with
bombs.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
STATES TO INCREASE GUARDS
Governors Told to Fill Present Units
Before Forming New
Ones,

Washington, April 17.-Against the
judgment of military experts as to the
wise course in the present emergency,
the war department was compelled to
reverse a previous ruling and announce
that under existing law states have the
right to organize new units of the Ma
tional Guard. This opens the door to
expansion of the existing guard force
of about $4,000 men to 100000 at
peace strength or more than 100000 on
war footing.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
FAVOR PASSAGE OF BILL
FOR SOLDIERS FAMILIES

Milwaukee - At meeting of the
directors of the Milwaukee Red Cross,
it was voted to devote every effort
of the organization and it's influence
through the state, toward the passage
of measure now pending in the state
legislature for the relief of the families
of enlisted men either in the National
Guard or regular branches of the Serv-
ice. The bill is now pending in
committee of the assembly, and pro-
vides for monthly payments to an
amount giving $40 to a family one
dependent, S35 month to two, s45
to three, $50 monthly to four and SIS
per month for each additional depend
ent
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Schoolboy Apologies.

Kenosha-Clarence Dodson, school
boy, whose alleged statements against
the nation threatened to disrupt the
school system of Kenosha when the
boys in his classes refused to attend
school with him stood before the stu
dent body of 500 and made an apology
for his statements, and then led the
school in singing the "Star Spangled
Banner"
serve their country and their families
suffer when a lot of robust young fell
lows with no responsibility are per-
mitted to remain at nome. If they
showed the proper spirit they would
enlist voluntarily. There should be
no discrimination in the class of men
who should bear their burden of
danger. l believe CONSUMPTION is gen.
orally favored in this state"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
BOARDMAN DECLARES IN
FAVOR OE CONSERVATION

Oshkosh-Local military men ex-
press themselves in favor of President
Wilson's proposed CONSUMPTION to fill
the ranks of the United States army.
Gen. c. R. Boardman, former adjutant
general of the Wisconsin National
guard said:
Universal training must be carried
out in this country. CONSUMPTION is
to the present what universal serv-
ice will be to the future. There is
no Justice in having married men
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Council of National Defense Urges
Creation of Estate Councils of
National Defense"

Washington, April 16.-Every state
in the Union was asked by the council
Of national defense to create estate
council Of national Defense" to CO.
operate with the national body in pre-
pairing the nation for defense and war
against Germany. Such councils al
ready exist in a few states.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
FRENCH CHURCHES IN RUINS
Tombs Are RifIed and Sacred Things
Are Defiled by the Ger
man Troops.

London.-The correspondent of the
Times with the British army in France
telegraphs the following description of
the Dissertation of a French church
by the Germans before they retreated:
Though the Germans left in
hurry. they had time enough to wreak
their hatred on the church, to rifle the
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
To Use Lawns as Potato Patches.

New York, April 16.-Many wealthy
New Workers have started a move
ment to transform their fine lawns
into potato patches. Paul d. Cravath
offered the grounds Of his big beaud-
full estate for that purpose.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
BOY Is HERO OF FRANCE
Young Gounod Is Mentioned Five
Times for Deeds of Bravery
in Year.

Paris.-For the fifth time inside of
a year the name of a French youth
named Gounod is mentioned in the
war office dispatches, and his promo
ton to the rank of sergeant, with the
award of the military medal, is an
Dounced.
Gounod. who is but seventeen years
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
MATERNITY PROBLEMS
FEATURE BABY WEEK

Madison-Baby week programs this
spring will give prominence to prob
lens of maternity as well as infant
care. In the majority of Wisconsin
communities the date for baby week
will be May 1 to 6. The fact that
5000 mothers die in the United
States every year from conditions in
cident to motherhood has come to
light mainly through baby week cam
paigns and other efforts put forth to
have better babies and a lower infant
death rate.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Saws Mexico Is Neutral.

FL Paso, Tex, April 1.-THE first
message of President Carranza to the
Mexican congress declared the neutral
ity of Mexico in the European war. It
expressed hope that Mexico may bring
about a settlement
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
100000 for Defense.

st. Paul, Mimi, April 16.-Both
houses of the Minnesota legislature
passed the public safety commission.
bill as agreed upon by the conference
committee and the bill now goes to the
governor, who will sign 1t. The bill
carries an appropriation Of $1,0O0,000.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Austrian Held in Iowa.

Des Moines, Ia, April 16.-Federal
officials are investigating the case of
Nick Kroces, an Austrian, who was
taken into custody and upon whose
person was found quart of nitro
glycerin and several code books.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
6 -
Three Years for Bomb pIotters

Jersey City, n. j., April 14-Fritz
Kolb, German convicted of having
bombs in his possession, was SEN
fenced TO not less than three years
and four months, nor more than FIVE
years IN state prison.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Death Takes w. C.. Thorne

Chicago, April 17.-William Cobb
Thorhe, for years general manager of
Montgomery Ward & Co. and until re-
Gently its president, died of pneumonia
at his residence, 4S15 Drexel boule-
ward. He was fifty-two years old.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
100 Join Company i'm Day,

Kenosha, Wis, April 16.-A sta
ton was opened here for the recruit
ing of a new infantry regiment for
the National Guard. At the end of the
day 80 men had signed the muster
roll
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Death in Arsenal Blast.

Philadelphia, April 14.-An acciden-
tai explosion of powder in the govern
ment arsenal at Farnxford, where am
munition is being manufactured, killed
Philip McNally and fatally injured Jo-
seph Miller.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Throw Eonnb Off BRIDGE.

Portland, Ore, April ia man
detected in the act of placing a bomb
On an Oregon Short Line bridge was
seen to plunge off into the water
when guards opened fire. The guards
threw the bomb into the river.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Quentin Roosevelt eoino to France

Montreal, April 17.-Quentin Roose-
welt, son of Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
has joined the Canadian aviation corps
to obtain instruction for service with
an American army at the European
front.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Picked Enoineers for u. S.

Washington, April 1.-THE army
and navy will be supplied by the Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany with picked engineers to plan. set
I'D and operate telephone, telegraph
and radio plants for war use.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18

Through these efforts 1t was found
that the baby's health and welfare
were inseparable from those of its
mother. Because this is so, mother
care is now considered the first es-
sential to a health baby.
DR.. Grace L. Meigs, Of the children's
bureau, who spent some time in Wis
consin during a nationwide investi-
cation into maternal mortality, found
that more women from Is to As years
old die in the United States from
conditions incident to maternity than
from any other cause except tuber.
culosis.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Will Stop Maxine Whisky.

Chicago, April 14.-Distilleries will
cease producing whisky and turn their
machinery over to the making of dena-
tured alcohol, needed by the govern
ment. Denatured alcohol is used in
the manufacture of high explosives.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
SIackers Hit by Rabbi.

New York, April 16.-Rabbi Joseph
Silverman at the Passover celebra-
ton in Temple manuel caused q
sensation by denouncing from the pull
pit those who are seeking to avoid
military service by marrying.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Channels Starts Blaze

Salina, kan.-Stadc electricity de-
yeloped from a chamoiS skin strainer
and set fire to the gasoline tank in a
car belonged to D. e. Maltby.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18

Grand Rapids-Sixteen candidates
for citizenship succeeded in passing
the tests in Judge Parks court here.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18

tombs. Slabs had been lifted bodily
from the graves, not by an explosion
but by human hands. The graves are
empty. What was the ghoulish mo-
tive? Was it for the sake of the lead
IN which the bodies were incased? 1t
may have been, or else mere spite
against all sacred things which found
full vent in the wreckage of the
church.
Churches reduced TO ruins by gun
fire are a pitiable sight, but one
to which we become accustomed
here.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18

OF age, enlisted In the chasseurs at the
age of fifteen Lately he volunteered
TO lead daring stroke against the en-
envy, which he prepared and carried
out successfully, bringing back two
prisoners.
During the hand-to-hand fighting
which took place he killed three.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
Supreme Test Has Come.

81 venture to suggest also to all ad-
vertising agencies that they would per-
hapS render a very substantial and
timely service TO the country if they
would give it widespread repetition.
And l hope that clergymen will not
think the theme of it an unworthy or
inappropriate subject of comment and
homily from their pulpits.
The supreme test of the nation has
come. We must all speak, act and
serve together.
WOODROW WILSON"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18

addressing this word to the farmers
Of the country and to all who work
on the farms: The supreme need Of
our own nation and of the nations
with which we are cooperating is an
abundance of supplies, and especially
of foOdstuffs. The Importance of an
adequate food supply, especially for
the present year, is superlative.
without abundant food, alike for
the armies and the peoples now at
war, the whole great enterprise upon
which we have embarked will break
down and fall.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-18
9,871 ENLIST IN ARMY
AND NAVY SINCE APRIL |
APPEAL SENT TO ALL STATES

L ~ ~ (, L L 81
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-12-19

dr. Macdonald, after such terrible
experience. All 1 can say is that 1
hope Wally isn't permanently injured"
Mrs. Selfridge sighed and passed to
her place.
The eyes of the big man twinkled.
"Our little fracas has been a godsend
to Mrs. Selfridge. Wally and l will
both emerge as heroes Of a desperate
struggle. You won't even get a men
ton. But it's pity about Wally's
injuries-and his singing voice"
The younger man agreed with a
gravity back of which his amusement
was apparent. The share of Selfridge
in the battle had been limited to leg
work only, but this had not been good
enough to keep him from being over
hauled and having his throat squeezed.
Elliot finished breakfast and left
Macdonald looking over a long type
written document. The paper was q
report Selfridge had brought in to him
from a clerk in the general land Of
fee. The big Canadian and the men
he represented were dealing directly
with the heads of the government de-
partments, but they thought it the part
of wisdom to keep in their employ sub
ordinates in the capacity of secret
service agents to spy upon the higher
ups.