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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25
MAY CHANGE FORM
OF ARMY; EACH Co.
WILL HAVE ESQ MEN
PERsHiNG RECOMMENDS CUT IN
SIZE or DIVISIONS - START
KILLINGS" AT FORT SHERIDAN
TRAINING CAMP.

Fort Sheridan, Illinois, July 25-Re.
serve Officers Training Camps Signs
of the reorganization of the army on
the French plan seem to be in the air,
although the camp authorities say
they know nothing about the matter.
The reports from Washington declare
that General Pershing has asked that
the army drop its antiguated organi-
zation and be formed on the French
army plan, with 1880 men in a divi-
sion instead of 2S,500, as in the Amer
lean army, and $50 men in company
instead of an average of 1913.
General Pershing has recommended
this change because American sol
diers will alternate with French
troops in the trenches and unless units
are the same size confusion would
result from the interchange.
While nothing is known definitely
by the, students in the training camp
regarding the proposed change in
army organization the sudden call
for such large numbers of lieuten-
ants seems to argue that the new
plan is already being either seriously
considered or is accomplished.
Under the French plan Of organiza-
ton fewer men will have the honor
of being captain, just half in fact,
but there will be many more lieuten-
ants.
"Weeding" Out Units.
The dropping of men not considered
as good timber for making officers
out OF goes remorselessly on, and a
fayorite form OF greeting between
training camp men now is Hello,
you here yet?' But the men are
consoled by the fact that after this
week the agony will be over for those
men left are pretty sure to be Of
ficers.
1t is thought the officer instructors
Of the companies have already made
up their lists OF the forty-fve men
who will be majors, captains and
lieutenants, and the names Of the
,rty odd who will be second lieu
tenants. but, Of course, there will be
some changes.
The Michigan men were filing all
day before the examination board
who have to put their approval on
the recommendation Of the company
instructors. The Michigan men went
in pale, and trembling, expecting the
august examining board to put them
through a most grueling test or even
through the third degree. They came
out in short order, however, marvel
ing that only two or three questions,
and those generally as to whether or
not they had had previous military
experience, whether they thought it
would rain tomorrow or II they liked
fried chicken better than Dreaded
veal chops--or at least they declared
it was something like that.
Just Matter of form.
Most Of the men concluded that the
passing in review before the exam
lining board was merely perfunctory
and that they wouldn't upset cap
tain's recommendation unless the
man being examined should try to
bite a regular army major in the leg
or set fire to the barracks.
The men admitted, however, that,
while the examining board did not
length, they regarded them with a
question them deeply or at great |
length, they regarded them with a
very searching gaze and were proba
bly, able to judge man in very
short time.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25
LIVE AND LEARN--86,
SHE GOES TO COLLEGE
BY International News Seruice

BY International News Service.
Madison, Wis, July 25. Mrs Amy
d. Winship. eighty-six years of age,
oldest college student, has returned
to attend the Summer session at Wis
consin University.
Because of the difficulty to get to
classes during the Winter she at
tended college at California Univer.
sity.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25
Quit Claim Deeds.

Ethelbert Richmond and wife to
Fred p and Harry f. Richmond, It's
10 to IL, b -. l.. & W. p. Co.'S add,
Marselles, ST.
Edw. Leptak and wife to Fred II.
REM, It's 10 to IS sub It's sub
seh swil SO 81 3, 81.
Fred H. REM and wife to Fawcett
Plumb, 1t II sub It's 4 3 sub seA swh
Sc 81 3, ST.
Fred IT, REM and wife to Edward
Liptak, It's 10 II u t3 IL sub Its 4 >
sub sei4 swh SO, 81 3, ST.
Same to Chicago, Wilmington &
Franklin Coal Co., It's Is Is sub It's
4 5 same, ST.
Same to Leo j. Liptak and wife, 1t
IA sub Its ) etc, same,
Eugene Wideman TO T. Smurr 1t
3 b SO States add, Ottawa, --.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25
AN OPERATION
AvERTED
was very 81.

Philadelphia, Pa. Zone year ago |
was very sick and I suffered with pains
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Warranty Dee DIS.

f|NNNNs
VIM. 4. Craven ct al to Alfred Carl
son. Its - II b Its / 3 IA b I,
Crotty, $1,000
DONNA Michelini and husband to
Ricardo and Erminia Bernadonj, Ma
SW1I = "a / 81
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25

Jelly Glasses. per dozen ... .23c
Mason Pint Fruit Jars .... Csc
Mason Quart Jars .....,... 79c
Ferndell Can Rubbers. extra heavy,
white rubbers, doz. for 49,, 25c
Job lot Extracts, labels damaged,
Lemon, Strawberry Pineapple, A.
mond, 4 bottles for ..... 29c
25c cakes Baking Chocolate .1oc
Mason Quart Jars Cocoa ......20c
Long Cut cocoanut, pound 49,. 25c
FINE FOR SALADS.
Jap Crab Meat, tin ........... 29c
Fancy White Tuna Fish ... 25c
Small tins Lobster ....,.. 25c
Curtiee Eonea Chicken or Turkey.
Large tins Hawaiian pineapples zoe
Short Quart Stuffed Olives .29c
Short Quart Olives .......... 29c
neutrality-suspicious. young m
livery Truck
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25

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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25
Quality and Lew Price Win IradeFair Treatment Retains
At (iodfrey's Cut Price Grocery
Car King Quality Flour. Ask your ncighbor
about it.

EfuiiSG breakfast or ". r. Tea.
500 cases Canned Goods, labels
damaged now on sale.
No 2 tins. no labels, Corn, Peas,
Tomatoes, String Beans ...... 10c
&c tins Milk, each ........... &c
q LARGE tins Potted Ham ..... 29c
$50 tins Spaghetti, Cheese and
Chill ..,....,.......,,, loc
15c tins Peeled Peppers .,.. 10c
15c tins Chill Con Carne ... 10c
200 tins Strained Tomatoes ..10c
3 cans Sifted Peas ....... 29c
soc tins g. &. N. ChoWder -. .20c
imported Fresh Mackerel, tin .1oc
No. g tins Peaches or Pears ..19c
200 tins fancy LIGHT Molasses loc
Curtice Blue Label catsup ....19c
Coo bottle Red Wing Grape
JGice ..............,.. SIC
an 10 drive New Milhurm Electric De-
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-25

marriage on RODert Scnmlut, q former
Freedom boy, to Miss Mabel Clark OF
Dearborn, Mo. The wedding occurred
In Brownsville, Texas, July It'll They
will make their home In San Bonita,
Texas, where Mr.. Schmidt Is one OF
the proprietors Of the San Benito can
ming factory. We extend best wishes.
DR.. Lowry and family spent Sunday
with Sheridan relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mccarthy of Chicago
visited at j, Stewards part of last
week.
Il. G. Brignon and Jake Rye have
purchased new REQ automobiles.
Mrs. Vim. Snyder, Miss Emma Ar
entsen and Herman Arentsen we've
Mendoza visitors Monday.
Mrs. Hans Tank and baby of East
Moline Is visiting Mrs. J. Stewart this
week.
Martin Ostrem and family, Ole An.
derson and family, Mr. and Mrs. MAJ,
tin Goodman, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peter.
son. Misses Hannah Nelson ahd
Bertha Johnson and Simon Johnson
were guests at John Johnsons Sun.
dy.
Miss Mildred Snyder visited her
aunt Mrs. o. G. Friestad Sunday and
Monday.
Miss Nettie Malaise entertained the
Young Peoples choir at her home
Wednesday evening.
The second in the series of sermons
on Winners and Losers will be given
In the M. e. church Sundy evening,
July 10Th. The reading for this even
Ing from Ralph Parlette's lecture, "The
University of Hard Knocks will DO
the chapter on Going Up
An historical and spectacular repre-
sentation of colonial days and events
that had to do with the making of oul
nation will be given in the Harding
church Friday evening, August 3rd, by
The Harding Choir Orchestra and Boy
Scouts The entertainment is divided
into three parts with SIX scenes II
Illustrated by several taDieaux and dia.
logues and songs. Thirty young PEG.
pie take part Everybody come.
Several of the Boy Scouts went to
Ottawa last Friday evening to see Co.
c drill.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
THE LABoRER is WORTHY OF
HIS HIRE.

Speaking to a friend on the occa.
sion of his golden jubilee, Father Der.
nard Vaughan, S. j., said:
Il have this consolation. that,
whereas servants so often NOWADAYS
lose their places, 1 have been in my
Divine Masters service for fifty years
and during it | never gave notice. and
/ have always found him to be the
Friend as described once by a little
boy, One who, while he knows all
about you, loves you just the same
Of all the priests laboring for the
Master who have such severe toll and
who might be more easily tempted to
give notice" than foreign mission
aries! Nothing of material comfort
is allowed them in the very nature OF
their work; nothing of the sacrifice
they have made is appreciated by the
primitive people among whom they
dwell; but in spite of every hardship
they spend their lives gladly to the
end, satisfied if just a few more sheen
be added to the fold of the True
Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05

longer get at home, to beg pitifully
for food, clothing and medicine.
Through the few rags that hang
about them show their gaunt and
languid members. The people are
forced to abandon the mountains and
seek refuge in the plains against the
incursions of the ferocious balloons
that are attacking not only flocks but
also children-famine has made them
flesh eating.
Yet in spite of these difficulties we
have managed to build a combination
school and church at the Missions of
U%pington, costing $4,000. 1t was an
expense we couldn't put off longer;
because Upington is a growing center
the priest there having doubled the
number of his Christians in the last
year.
Let us hope we shall not be forgot
ten by the Sodality of st. Peter Claver
in it's periodical allotment of funds
so we may be able to relieve a little
of the misery it has pleased Provi
dence to send our dear Christians Of
Orange River.
Bishop Simon ofthe Orange Riper Vcorfote.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
A LITTLE MISSIONARY

1t was quite fitting that she was
named Mary,-this bright faced, hap
Ply little maid, for her natal day oc-
CURED on the birthday of the Blessed
Mother of God, a fact that o%ccasioned
the child no little satisfaction and
happiness. 1t seemed to her that
the Blessed Mother must have an
especial fondness for the children
whose birthdays we're on the same
day as hers, and who, moreover bore
her beautiful and holy name.
And she was shocked, indeed, when
a schoolmate whose name was Mary
also, announced that her mama said
she was going to call her Maize here
after, because Mary was SO common
and ordinary.
When our friend Mary related this
incident to her mother, Mrs. Milton
said that it was a sad thing when
Catholics begin to consider the beau
tiful names of Gods saints and heroes
too common and questionable to be-
stow upon their children.
md1y was oil Ouu 1lCClS girl DIS well
as a very lovable one. Her mother
came upon her one day looking in the
looking glass and laughing to herself.
When asked the cause of her amuse
ment she said it made her laugh to
see what ugly faces she could make.
I'm not a bit pretty anyway" she
frankly declared, "but I can make my
self look worse. l wonder how it
would SEEM" she went on as she
turned away from the mirror that re.
vealed her %plainness, eff I had pretty
curls and nice soft dark ayes and no
freckles. | guess | wouldn't feel at
home, would l, mother? Anyway, I'm
a Catholic and my names Mary and
I've got a dear father and mother, SO
| don't care about anything else"
Then she would ask Mrs. Milton if
there was anything she could do to
help, for Mary vas devoted to her
mother. Every morning before going
49, 44 80
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
MANcHURIA'S HARD WINTER.

Winter has been hard for the
priests in Manchuria where an almost
Arctic cold prevails. In it's train came
typhus fever, jaundice and diphtheria
to lay the missionaries low and add
to the terrible strain. Famine caused
many deaths in the Catholic popula-
ton, and was the reason for a large
emigration of the wretched people
who hoped to find work and food
elsewhere.
Bishop Choult has been able to add
to the toll of Christians, however, and
states that 1881 grown persons were
baptized. Many of these came to the
mission first for food for the body,
but remained to obtain nourishment
for the soul. Sustained and strength
ened by this great sacrament they are
better able to bear the trials of their
lot.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
A PERPETUAL MEMBERSHIP EN-
BOWS SOUL FOREVER,

If you were offered a good life in
a policy for a small sum you
would gladly accept it. And yet for
the sum of forty dollars-the cost of
a Perpetual Membership in the Socie-
ty for the Propagation of the Faith,
you a insure your soul forever.
Endowment, future income, or divi.
dend-paying policies are excellent
things, but what are they in compari.
son to a policy of this sort, one which
for one payment land a small one.
at that endows your soul, assures it
a future income and pays dividends
forever?
You will never be forgotten. Your
policy will eve expire. You will
lever cease collecting on it as long
as the Society for the Propagation
of the Faith lasts, and that will be as
long as the world exists!
One payment, the entire sum OF
forty dollars, Or the same amount in
small payments spread over one year
will make you the holder of a valu
able soul insurance policy. Today is
yours. Tomorrow belongs to God
Now is the acceptable time. The
chance, put, aside now, may nevel
present itself to you again.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05

listed in the Navy and Marine Corps;
one enlisted on the 18th and three
on the goth. The indications are
that two or three will enlist every
day this week. Among the Mary
land troops sent to the border,
more than one hundred were boys
from St. Mary's. Be it remembered
there is no pressure whatever on the
boys to enlist; it is entirely voluntary,
prompted by the patriotic atmosphere
which pervades the institution. Broth
er Paul, the director, is intensly patri-
otto; he is constantly impressing upon
the minds and hearts of the boys
that religion and patriotism are in
separable. "One country and n flag
is the dominant note at ST. Mary's.
There is a cadet corps of more than
two hundred boys, fully uniformed
and equipped up to the Wal Depart
ment standards, which is drilled twice
a week by an officer from the United
States Marine Corps. l have been
amazed at the esprit de corps mani
tested by these youngsters during
competitive drills. l question if there
is a similar institution in the country
that can show a record equal to that
of st. Mary's.
The people of Baltimore and the
state of Maryland should be proud of
it's work. The director regrets that
the people of Baltimore do not take
more personal interest in st. Mary's.
1t will repay any one who will take
the time to go out there and go
through the various industrial build
ings and witness the training the boys
receive. Brother Paul will gladly well
come all visitors and show them
through the institution.
Having been a director on the part
of the state for a number of years, |
may be pardoned for a seeming par
TALLY and enthusiasm for this school.
sort it is, it's training and uplift of the
boys sent there, who are taught to be
self-respecting and self-supporting
citizens.
Although, as is we'll known, the
school is in charge of a Catholic
brotherhood, yet there is absolutely no
effort at PROSECUTING. The faith of
each inmate-Protestant or Jew land
there are many of the latter)-is
scrupulously respected.
AS a non-Catholic, l am glad to bear
public testimony to the great worth of
this institution.
John e. King.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
PROTESTANT "PoET SCOUT"

John Wallace, better known as
Captain Jack" Crawford, a noted
Indian fighter of early frontier days,
died recently at his home at Wood
raven, Long Island.
Capt. Crawford wrote a number OF
plays, stories and poems and was
known as the Poet Scout" He was
chief of scouts under Gen. Custer at
the time of the Custer massacre, but
it is said that he was on his way to
Clusters headquarters with dispatches
when this event took place. Later he
played an active part in the pursuit
of Sitting Bull. He was not a Catho'
lie.
Several years ago, during the A. P,
A. movement, Captain Jack paid
the following beautiful tribute to our
good nuns:
"Oh, friends, oh, friends! theirs is
a noble work! How many a veteran
of the war, who wore the blue or the
gray, can yet recall the soothing
touch of a Sisters hand, as he lay
upon the ~pain-tossed couch of a hos
pital? Can we yer forget their
sympathetic eyes, their low, soft.
spoken words of encouragement and
cheer, when the result of the strug'
gle between life and death yet hung
in the balance? Oh. how often, how
often have l followed the form of the
good Sister Valentia with my sunken
avnS as she moved aWaV from nv
cot to the cot of another sufferer, and
l breathed from the most sacred
depths of my family beating heart
the fervent prayer: God bless her!
God bless herr
My friends, l am not a Catholic,
but l stand ready at any and all times
to defend those noble women, even
with my life, for l owe that life to
them"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
CRUELTY AS WELL AS NEGLECT
FOR CHINESE BABIES,

1t seems that active cruelty as we'll
as neglect fall to the lot of poor
Chinese babies, for a Sister of Charity
at Ningpo, says, that on the Feast of
the Presentation, a baby boy was
brought in dying. The Sister at the
doc had just time to baptize him
when he died in her arms. His lit
tie body was black and blue all over.
AS it is not often that boys are so
badly treated, the nuns made inquiries
and found that the baby's mother was
dead and his father had put him out
to nurse. Then, not having enough
money to pay the nurse, this woman
Ill-treated the baby.
The long nails of the Chinese are
instruments of torture for the poor
babies, particularly for the baby
girls. W. have a little one now diving
from the terrible pinches she has re-
ceived. One can see the marks of
the nails, the flesh pinched right
through from one side to the other.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
A LONG JOURNEY.

A White Father who had to make
a journey of one hundred and twenty
miles through the African wilderness
had this experience:
"At n time 1 believed l would
have to go to sleep in the brush with
the elephants as my only companions,
for they have overrun the country to
such an extent that the people have
actually been driven out. My bicycle
came to grief, so that l could not re-
join my porters; | had nothing to eat,
but found shelter finally in a poor
chapel of reed, which l reached about
nine o'clock in the evening. If l told
you that l was not afraid, l certainly
would not be speaking the truth. In
the midst of the equatorial brush, in
the middle of the night, one does not
feel like a lord of creation. However
the trip ended safely"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
THE ROYAL ROAD TO SUCCESS

Father A. Merkes, F. NJ, has been
sick since January, with the fever
that prostrates SO many Europeans in
India. He says he would be discour-
aged except that suffering is the royal
road to success in the religious life.
Speaking of general conditions, he
states that he badly needs a school
for one hundred Taniel children of
Nellore, in order to safeguard their
eternal souls, but prospects are poor
according to his outlook:
Il need not tell you that we are
going through these difficult times
and that we almost entirely depend
on America for temporal help; and
there is a danger that this help will
also stop or be greatly diminished
May Divine Providence avert this
disaster!"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05

The person who does not pay as he
goes seldom succeeds In accommodating
anything. 1t is better to deny oneself
at times than to run in debt for I'M
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
SPANISH DOMINlCANS FROM THE
PHILIPPINES NOW IN ToNKIN.

Right Rev. N. Arellano, o. P, has
charge of a mission in East Tonkin
that enjoys an unusual distinction.
The priests are Spanish Dominicans
from the Philippines, and they state
that there is not a single Protestant
or minister of any sect in their field.
The population consists entirely oil
Catholics or pagans.
The mission is in a very satisfac.
tory condition, and the Catholics
evince great fervor. This is especial
ly shown in the feasts, religious pro.
c%essions and pilgrimages which fire.
quently take place and which are
marked by all the brilliant accessories
at the command of the people who
are very poor. About four or five
hundred adults are baptized every
year.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
MONKEYS ARE ATTACKING
CHILDREN.

The war and its consequence, the
falling off of European support, the
practical destruction Of all local aid,
the high cost of living, the shortage
of priests,-in fact everything con-
spires against our plans of extension.
To these miseries caused by the
war has been added a dry spell of
fifteen months duration. Day by day
u Christians see their flocks dimin-
fishing on account of lack of pasturage.
They themselves bear about with
them the marks of suffering due to
famine and every other sort of priva-
ton. Not a day passes but number
less children present themselves be-
fore the missionaries to ask in feeble
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
WHO WILL HELP SOME YOUNG
JAPANESE APOSTLES TO Sc
CURE A TRoUSSEAU?

Bishop ComDaz announces that Nag
asaki will have three new native
priests next year-an event that is a
cause of rejoicing for Nagasaki, and
also for those in the United States
who have been helping along the
great work of forming a native cler.
gy in mission countries.
Now the education of these young
men is practically finished, but to
start them well, on their apostolic
career they need many things, in fact
they need a trousseau, SO to speak.
To fit them out with books, yestments
hnd other needful objects ought to be
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
John r. King.

perhaps not as yet taken up mission
work in a practical manner. Of
course offerings of money are the best
way of giving assistance, and bene-
factors are promised a share in all
the first Masses said by the newly
ordained priests. Send donations to
the National Office and they will be
forwarded.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-05
PROTESTANT RELATES AN
OTHER INSTANCE.

Sir: The war spirit has struck St.
Mary's Industrial School (of Balti-
more) in great shape. During the last
twelve months one hundred of the
boys have enlisted in the Navy and
Marine Corps. Conduct reports are
regularly received relative to these
boys, and in every instance the rec
ord is good. Last week nine boys en-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-10
DAILY REMINDERS

Make some of today's want ads
serve YoU-by answering a few OF
them. p. 80 80 49,.
Wanted-Two more passengers for
motor party around island, "a each
Lewis Garage, phone 2141.-Adv.
For Distilled Water, Hires Root
Beer and all other Popular Drinks
try the Con. Soda Water Works Co.
ADV. L. r.. j..
The mighty little want ad is made
mightier by the Star-Bulletin's large
circulation. For real results use the
E.-B. want ads. :.
sAinsworth PrecisiC instruments,
surveyors levels and transits, for sale
at Patterns, successor to Arleigh &
Co, Hotel street.-Adv.