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The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
FOOD PLEDGES
SIGNED IN RUSH
/. BY HOUSEWIVES
Report Only 20 Per Cent
Aid Movement Branded
. as Falsehood.

District Food Administration ofiicials
last night declared their confidence
that practically every housewife IN
the District will have signed the food
conservation pledge cards when the
house-to-house canvass by volunteer
women workers is concluded.
Clarence r. Wilson, District food ad-
ministrator. branded as false a pub
lished report that more than 20 per
cent Of the women approached refused
to sign the pledges.
The food administrator estimated
that when the canvass is finished IL
will be found that less than per cent
Of the housewives refused to sign the
pledge.
Debate Figures Lacking.
Definite figures on the result of the
canvass were not available, but those
from one of the forty-one subdistricts
show that less than 1 per cent Of the
women refused to sign. In this dis
trict only six women out of a total Of
more than 600 refused. Women who
refused, Mr.. Wilson said. make no at =
tempt to conceal their dislike for the
government
Partial reports from some districts
show excellent progress. In the Park
View district 954 signatures were OBJ
tained in the first two days and 153
had signed previously. In the first
two days work in Petworth Gil house.
wives signed cards. Congress Heights
showed 167 signers and the southwest
section Of the city. exclusive of col
ored residents. reported 1,370 signers.
The work of the canvassers has
been much increased, Mr.. Wilson said.
by the necessity of making repeated
visits. 1t is necessary to make sec
ond visits to nearly one-fifth OF the
homes.
Officials predicted that by tomor-
row night many reports from dis
tricts not now heard from will be
made and the figures will show the
work nearly done. though II is ex-
pected the canvass will continue into
the first Of next week.
Nearly 1900 homes will be visited
by the canvassers, 1t is estimated.
Mails to be Used.
A follow-up campaign by mail will
be conducted by the administration
when the canvassers stop. New VOL
unteers are coming forward daily to
assist in the work. Every home in
the city not visited by the volun-
teers will be reached by mail.
Mr.. Wilson deprecated reports that
sugar cards would be resorted to
as a means of meeting the shortage
here in that commodity.
There are many measures being
considered" he declared. but there
is no intention on the part of the
Food Administration to put this prac-
tice into effect
Violations of the order issued by
Herbert C. Hoover forbidding COM
bination sales have been found, Mr..
Wilson said.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
P. O. DEPARTMENT
NEEDS GARAGEMEN

An open examination for garage
men. to fill vacancies in the Postof-
nee Department, for which appIica-
tions will be received at any time, has
been announced by the Civil Service
Commission.
Vacancies in the position Of garage
man in the Posoffice Department at
500 per year and such vacancies as
occur in the future will be filled from
this examination. GaragcInen, the an
nouncement said. includes filters and
lubricators.
Applicants should apply to the Sec
retary of the Fourth Civil Service dis
trict. 1T24 F street northwest, Wash
ington, d. c.. for Form 1900.
Many Of the positions open under
this heading range in salary above the
$500 mark. Competitors will not be
assembled for examination but will be
rated on subjects which are set forth
in the announcement.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
SKIN TIGHT SUIT TO
SAVE SOME CLOTH;
SLACK FIT, STACKER

The sausage suit" for men is
coming back. This is not a flip
pant fashion comment; it is a COM
mentary on the grim tragedy of
war that those who stay at home
must suffer too. Not only are civil
ian clothes to be shorn of their wool
to the extent of thirty or forty per
cent, but the tailors, by agreement
with the government, are to clip
and snip wherever possible to save
cloth.
The war style. as effected by an
agreement between the manufac-
'turers Of woolen cloth and the war
industries board of the Council of
National Defense. and with the tail
ors through the manufacturers, will
give little latitude for style varia-
ton.
Narrowness is the war vogue;
narrow trousers. narrow lapels, mar
row coats, even to the pockets, and
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
PURELY PERSONAL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Worth, of
Nashville, Tenn. have arrived in this
city to spend the winter.
Mrs. Benedict CroweIl has returned
to her home in Cleveland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Croly, Of
New York, have returned to their
home after a short visit in this city.
Miss Helen Walcott Is spending a
few days in New York.
Miss Constance Goodrich has re-
turned to her home in Boston. after
a short visit in this city.
DIR. Charles walcott has returned
ing of the .Jational Academy Of
Science in Philadelphia.
Herman H. Powell, of the Census
Bureau, is on a trip to his home at
Niagara Falls.
Cleveland Murray, of the Navy
Yard. is back at work after a months
illness.
Malcolm G. Witherbee, of the
Government Printing Once. has re-
signed.
Thomas r. Reilly has received a
probational appointment as clerk in
the War Department.
Frank J. Martinson, of the Interior
Department, has resigned.
Daniel NJ. Murphy, of the Patent
Ofice, has received a promotion.
Miss Agnes Garry has been trans
ferred from the Buresu of Engrav-
ing and Printing to the War Depart
ment.
Robert F. Kohr. who has been COM
missioned a second lieutenant, has
been placed in charge of an Automo-
bile Division Of the Engineer Corps at
Camp Lee. Petersburg. Va.
Paul Murphy has obtained an ap-
pointment in the Bureau of Standards.
Harry Cuthbertson, of Washington,
now is employed by a firm in Phila-
delphia.
Karl Walker is employed by the Bu-
reau Of Standards in research work.
Martin Abbott, of Washington, now
is at Fort Omaha with the Aviation
Corps.
Myles Connors has returned to
Washington after a trip through the
country with field engineering party.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24

narrow buttons to save button holeG
and lots OF button holes to save
cloth. The silhouette Is to be de rig
eur; audscious creations in straight
lines will be shown. Every fat
mans patriotism will be under sus-
picion. Any slack in the 1t OF =
suit will mark the Stacker.
The present trouser mode leaves
so little room for economy that
some designers, IL is understood. are
working on a trouser that will but
ton down the side, all the way
down. Waistcoats probably will be
taboo, and coats take their place
entirely by the evolving of a mas
culine basque. though not so daring
as its feminine prototype.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24


"Jedgee. All hab been tryin' TO- four
months to git nah wife ter sew a but
ton on nah shirt. She won't do moth
in All axes her ter do. En- den
she gets mad when All pokes her In
de jaw"
We'll. why shouldn't a woman get
angry when a man hits herr" the
court asked Herbert Morrow, ckSrg-
ed with hitting his wife.
"Jedge" shrieked Ellen, the wife.
"how you 'spect me to sew a shirt
when he keeps 1t on his back? Does
he want me ter stick de needle in
him? Eff he does, All kin do that
little thing jes' ter accommodate him"
"Jedge, All hain't got but one
shirE' said Herbert, zen All can't
go outen de street wild no shirt on,
kin Ah?'
NO." answered the court, but you
could have gone to bed long, enough
for her to sew on a button, or else
gone out and bought another one.
And now I'll have to punish you
because you are thoughtless. 1 can't
have you ding around bruising up
your. wife. The first thing you know
you will have her in the hospital
Pay a fine of 80"
Bum Shooting.
A little parlor rife which some coll
ored boys were fooling with at the
Arcade Market the other day al
most caused a murder.
Tom Coleman was showing another
boy how to shoot. They set up the
top Of tin can and banged away
at 1t.
Occasionally they shot at a rat.
Every few hundred shots they man.
aged to make a hit. And at a time
when they didn't aim at all they
shot george -.allory. an innocent by
stander.
George happened to pass through
the room where the target practice
was going on. He wasn't looking for
a hunk Of lead in the shoulder.
Tom admitted that George didn't
look anything like a rat. which he
said he was shooting at. And yet
he plugged him. sending a piece of
the boys sweater clean into the flesh.
And Just for being so careless with
the gun Tom must pay $50 fine or go
to jail.
Boys VIII be Boys.
Fred Brown, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown. has a habit of sticking his
tongue out at almost everybody. Once
In awhile boy Of his own age whips
him.
1t does no good, however. Thursday
afternoon, as he was on his way home
from school, he passed Rosie Cole.
Fred never did like Rosie.
Getting himself ready to run fast.
he stuck out his tongue at her and
did several other little naughty things.
He didn't figure that Rosie was some
runner She caught him. Then she
turned him across her knee and in
troduced him to the palm of her hand.
OUTRAGED. the boy told his mother
ana father. They got a warrant for
Rosie. Rosie was nabbed.'
She told the court that she wouldn't
let her. grandfather stick his tongue
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
LOCAL MENTION.

Is lbs. white potatoes. 4Oc; yellow
onions, &c lb.: Glib. sack flour, Ssc:
Sl2.0O bbl: 20-oZ. cans baking pow
der. 12c; 13 ozs. Cal. sardinss, I5c:
mammoth herring, for Csc; Star
socoa. CSC; our best tea, 5sc; Won
der coffee, 20c; Knox gelatine. l5e;
cocoanut, SC and lOc. az Fourth
ST. S. L. and all the J. T. d. Pyles
stores.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24

out at her. She wasn't a bit sorry for
thrashing the boy.
1t sometimes cost money to uphold
your rights and dignity. Rosie feels
as though she has done the conmu-
nifty some good, even II the court did
fine her S.
A "Catty, Argument.
Alice Jones has a bunch of flower
pots on her window sill all the time
Occasionally one of them is knocked
of and busted"
For a long time Alice has been won
dering what or who did it. Last Tues
day she was figuring up what it would
cost to hire a Burns or a Pinkerton
man to find out.
AS she stuck her pencil in her mouth
(all women do thaD she saw Ruby
Powelps big Thomas cat jump on the
sill and knock over one OF the pots.
Without stopping to put on her hat
and coat, Alice rushed out and de-
manded audience with Ruby. 1t was
no use to argue with the cat.
Ruby refused to discuss the matter,
and told Alice to leave through the
same opening she came in. Alice
said no.
Ruby took her broom and knocked
all the hairpins out of Alice's hair.
She battered up the poor girl some-
thing fierce.
But Alice feels all right now since
the court fined Ruby $40.
John Has Re-ssrired.-
A long time ago, someone swiped
eleven auto tires of an express
wagon. No trace of them was dis
covered until last week.
The owner Of the tires discovered
one of them on an auto over in south
east. Washington. He notified the
police.
The police found that this tire had
changed hands several times. The
first time, John Payne had a hand
in ii.
He sold it to fireman, who resold
1t to the man on whose auto it was
discovered. The tire cost ss5 at first.
but John alleged to have disposed
Of II for s12.
John swore he was at work on the
day OF the sale to the fireman But
how could he be at work and peddling
tire at the same time?
Besides, his record at occoquan did
not impress tie court very fayorably.
II was case Of in and out all the
time.
And now he's in again for sixty
days. .--...
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
CONDITION OF THE WATER.

Temperature and condition Of water last night
Great Fals-Tsmpenture, IS: condition, misty.
Dalecariia resersoir-Tsmpersture IS; condition
AZ north connection. clear; condition at south
connection. misty. Georgetown distributing res
ersoir-Temperature. is. condition at infuent
sAtenouse. clear; condition at edluent gate
house. clear.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
Camp Meade Boys Face
Deadly Fumes of Gas

Camp Meade, Nd, Nov. 23.-Two
hours in a poison gas filed cave was
the program today for twenty men,
bers Of the Twenty-seventh Engineers.
They wore the new gas masks and
felt no Ill effects. The cave" was a
mine on which they had been training
for tunneling.
The sappers faced carbCn-monoxide
and other deadly gases.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
OTHER TEMPERATURES.

TIDE TABLES.
Compiled BY United States Coast and Geodetic
- Survey.)
roday-Low tide. loi3 4. m. and io4g D. m.
high tide, 3:a T. m. and 400 .. m.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
Food Director Move. Office

Today is moving day at the offices
of the Federal food administrator
for the District.
Since his installation in ONCE, Clar-
enc r. Wilson has occupied offices
at 1883 X street northwest. This
afternoon all the personnel and equip
ment will be moved to 9ol Sixteenth
street northwest.
Expansion Of the War Trade Board,
which occupies part of the quarters
heretofore occupied by the food ad-
ministrator, caused the change.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
LOCAL TEMPERATUREs.

a; a. m, %; 10 q. m, q; ~ noon, Is; .
p. n-' u; p. m, k3; 6 p. m. q: p. m. 20;
10 p. m, 40. Highest. n; lowest. 80. Relative
humidity-s a. m. II; . p. m. IS; sp. m, c.
Rainfall (S p m. tc Q p nj. O. Hours Of sum
shine. So. Per cent Of possible SUNSHINE. 81.
Departures-Accumulated deficiency Of tenn
perature since January l, 1917, 81: deficiency
OF Temperature since November. 1. 1917, q; ac-
eumulated deficiency Of precipitation since Janu-
ary ], 1911, 40; deficiency Of precipitation
since November /. 1917, -ls3.
Temperature same date last yesr-Highest, 81;
lowest, q
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24

, Aat0nOeils i.nDs must b lighted at s.o'
The Washington herald., 1917-11-24
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

District Of Columbia: Fair, slightly colder
Saturday. Sunday fair, continued cool; mod
crate porth winds.
MarSland and Virginia: Fair Saturday; colder
east portion. Sunday fair. continued cool; mod
crate north winds.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
WOULD WORK ON FARMS
Two Boys Tired of City Life
Came to Mankato to Seek
Employment
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
Acting on a request from the police
department at Minneapolis, the Man
kato police this morning picked up
two seventeen-year-o lads, who
had run away from their homes in
that city. The boys were tired of
city life, and longed for the charms
of rural residence. Both were de-
termined, if possible, to get work on
farms. They left Minneapolis at 1880
last evening on the Omaha train, with
hardly more money than was neces-
sary to buy their tickets. They ar
rived in Mankato late last evening
and spent the night in a South Front
street lodging house. This morning
they were walking around town, and
happened to be looking at the new
bridge, when the police picked them
ur.
Both boys admitted that they had
left good homes. One of the two,
Lester Hanna said he was anxious
to go on a farm instead of going to
school, but his parents insisted on
his going to school. The other, Don
aid Hafsos, said he did not ask his
parents whether he could go, but just
went
The boys said that on the night of
Halloween, they, together with
about a dozen other young people,
half of them girls, rode in two au-
tos as far as Shakopee. At that
time it was the plan of Hanna and
Hafsos to leave the party at Shako-
pee and take the train the rest of
the way to Mankato, thus saving part
of the cost of transportation But
the girls persuaded the boys to go
back home, saying that they them
selves would get into trouble if the
boys left the party and started on a
runaway.
The whole party knew of the run
away plan of the two adventurous
youths, and it is not unlikely that
those who stayed at home told of
the plan and thus enabled the par
ents of the runaway boys to find out
that these two boys had gone to
Mankato.
Both of the runaway boys are sons
of commercial travellers. Lamb Nc
gregor, living at 1927 Second avenue
south, Minneapolis, father of one of
them, travels for the Lamb Nc cGregor
house. Oscar X. Hafsos, 1902 First
avenue south, father of the other
boy, travels for the Cross Implement
company. .t
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
F. M. Corbet, assistant superin-
tendent of the Great Western, from
Redwing, was business visitor in the
city yesterday.
F. o. Hillman of Redwing, general
superintendent of the Great Western
was in the city yesterday taking an
inventory of the round house. Dan
Morise has quit tine job of round house
foreman and has gone to Minneapolis
to take similar work for the Milwau-
kee
Mrs. J. H. Roth and her little daugh-
ter, Marie, from Watertown, S. d. left
for home today after a visit with Mrs.
Roth's mother, Mrs. Susan M. Pond, $50
Center street.
Mrs. Lewis Brown and daughter, Flor
ence of Peasant Mound are visiting in
the city as the guests of Mrs. Browns S
brother, Mayor Lee Champlin
Dr. r. T. Doods of Lake Crystal and
Frank w. Richardson, living near Gar
den City, have both been at Waukesha
Wis, attending the big cattle sales that
were held on Wednesday and Thursday
under the auspices of the Waukesha
County Guernsey Cattle Breeders asso-
citation.
Rev. F. H. Groom, pastor of the First
Christian church, has returned from Kan
sas City, where he attended the national
convention of Christian churches, and
win occupy his pulpit next Sunday morn
ing and evening.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
Nicollet County Board to Get
After the Pilferers
.FAKINC PHONE CALLS
These Are Said to Have Cut
Figure In Thefts; Lights
For Signals
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Nicollet county offers 5000 reward
and the township of West Newton Of
fers $40 for the capture of the thieves
who have been stealing wheat and
chickens in that vicinity during re-
cent evenings. Thursday, John Tolls,
August Strate, Will and George Palm
er and Joseph Kienlen appeared be-
fore the county board with stories of
the depredations of thieves who came
in automobiles, invaded chicken houses
and granaries and, when detected, had
gone so far as to shoot several bullets
at one farmer boy who attempted to
approach them.
One of the gentlemen declared that
he was convinced that the thieves n~-
certain when farmers houses are
empty by tapping the rural telephone
lines, calling up different houses until
they locate the right one.
Lights Used AS Signals.
Another assured Commissioner
Samuelson at his home early in the
week that lights high in the air ap-
peared to be used as signals. Mr..
Samuelson was unable to see the light
to which his attention was called by
telephone one evening, but several
trustworthy farmers solemnly assert
that they have seen the mysterious
lights, and unanimously they connect
the lights with the bogus telephone
calls and the nocturnal depredations.
At any rate, the West Newton town.
ship board has offered $100 reward for
capture in the township and Nicollet
county board on Thursday offered 5000
for the arrest Of any such thief in the
county.
Two autos are said to have travelled
together in the depredatiOns.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
WILL MAKE LIBERTY BREAD

Miss Lou Lombard of the state uni
versity extension department will give
a demonstration and exhibit of Liberty
bread at the F, M. Otto grocery store
on Saturday, November 10, at 2:30 p.
m. Miss Lombard will have as assis-
tents four high school girls who have
made Liberty bread, and they will mix
the dough and bake the bread G. A..
Keene, the North Mankato baker, will
furnish samples, and will make the
bread for the general trade, in order
that anyone wishing Liberty bread
will be able to buy it. Liberty bread
is made from rolled oats and wheat
flour. One pound loaf will cost ten
cents. The following places have
agreed to sell Liberty bread: F. NJ
Otto, Draper & Peterson, Flo, Hanson
and Brockmeyer, Fitzner, Olson and
Kamerer.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
GREAT APPLE DEMAND
Never Has There Been Such
Call For Fruit In the Past
Ten Years
From Saturdays Daily.

4
Everybody relishes apples, and vet
few people are aware of the present
apple situation. Never during the
past ten years has there been as broad
a market for northwestern box apples
as at present. Some years prices have
been higher, but there never was such
general demand for apples from ev-
cry state in the union. The north
west crop has shrunk considerably
this year from original estimates. On
October 26,s 27 and %, heavy winds in
the Hood River, Yakima, and We
natchee valley blew to the ground and
caused an almost total loss of about
fifty per cent of the unharvested
fruits, which detracts twenty per cent
from the northwest crop, originally
estimated at between $4,000 and 20,-
| 900 cars.
The car situation is more acute
than at any time in 1916. The
chances of fruit arriving frozen will
| soon be great and shippers are with
drawing all quotations for prompt and
future delivery very fast, and all or
ders are taken subject to conditions
! beyond their control. The apple crop
in Colorado and New York has also
suffered. Local fruit houses are get
| ing their orders to shippers as early
as possible.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
BUY HIGH.GRADE COWS

/ Mankato HoIstein Breeders Purchase
Carload of the Best Cattle.
While Messrs. NARROW & McCargar
were in attendance at the National
Dairy show at Columbus, Ohio, they
purchased a carload of registered
cows of very choice breeding.
They also showed their herd bull
at the National Dairy show, winning
second prize. All the grand cham
pions were brought together from
all the different shows over the en-
tire United States, and it is consid-
cradle credit to any community to be
able to boast of having SO great a
dairy animal in their midst.
Their winnings for 1917 were as
follows
Grand champion, Minnesota and
Wisconsin state fairs, second
prize at the Dairy Cattle
congress, Waterloo, Iowa, and the
National Dairy show at Columbus,
Ohio.
There was much criticism at the
ringside at both the Waterloo and
Columbus shows by the Holstein
breeders, practically all the best
judges and registered breeders fav-
oring the Mankato bull for first
place.
Sir Pietertje Ormsby Mercedes xiv.
had already defeated three National
Dairy show first prize winners, and
was never defeated in the show ring
until shown last month. The own
ers expect to put him through the
show circuit next year and are es-
pecially anxious to see him placed be-
fore another judge at the National
Dairy show in 1913
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-09
N0N.sUPPORT CHARGE

Lewis Singleton was again before
the municipal court yesterday after
noon on the complaint of his wife,
Adelia Singleton. on the charge of
non support. This is the third time
she has had him in this court. The
first time was on September 20, when
she was Adelia Burns. The case was
closed by the marriage of the two. He
was up for non-support on Oct 15. At
that time the court placed him under
asuspended sentence of 80 days, and
let him go on condition that he would
support his wife and report to- the
court periodically. Again he was be-
fore the court yesterday on nom
support charge. This time he pleaded
not guilty and the case went over to
next Monday morning. He was re-
manded to Jail.