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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
STORM OF THREE DAYS
Kill 2248, INJURIES 1907;
SUNDAY STORM TOLL 1O3
! FREAKS OF THE TWISTER

Ta'
Nation, Ill, May 29.-r-In the tor
nado's visitation upon Mattoon
hundreds of men, women and child
rem lived three minutes of thrilling
drama.
4 horse and COW were grazing in
Joseph Abel's front yard. The
wind lifted them high in the air,
bore them a quarter of a mile
across the Illinois Central railroad
subway, and let them down gently
on q prairie, where they resumed
their grazing.
Baby Alice Abel was carried O.
an orchard. She was found kick
ing up chubby heels and dimpling
in glee, uninjured.
By q freak of the storm. the
walls of one house in Mattoon Were
completely demolished. and a bed
practically untouched. The
bed remained in an upright posi-
ton. ReScuerS found a woma ly-
ing in it unconscious. AT the foot
of the bed lay a four year old child,
dead. When the coverlet was pulled
back, a little wriggling. squirming
object was discovered. The baby's
birth was due to shock. Mother and
infant we're taken to a hospital,
cS ooAA ubSilt 1AASAy
to survive.
A patriotic freak of Yesterdays
storm was the carrying of a flag
pole from the home of G. M. Met,
calf, four blocks to the space swept
clear of the home of Raymond
Coon, where the staff was planted
in the soft earth with the Stars and
Stripes still flying.
Charleston, ILL.,, Nal 29.-Mrs.
Johanna Mcmahon, rs years old,
took her three grandchildren with
her when she went for a visit to the
home of Mrs. George Briggs. The
arms of the two wome We're found
clasped around the children when
they We're lifted from the wreckage
of the house after the storm. Both
were dead, but the children were
not injured.
Charleston, ILL.,, May 29.-George
kilgore, engineer, and James Hud-
lesion, fireman. stuck to their posts
in the electric power house, deter
mined the city should be kept
lighted. The tornado reduced the
house to p%ulverized stone. Mrs.
Hudleston died later from the
shock of her husbands death.
j. r. Sweeney and his wife fled
from their farm house to a ravine.
The tornado picked up the house
and dropped it in the ravine, crush
ing both Sweeney and his wife.
Bloomington. Ind. May 2S.-Six-
teen houses completely vanished in
the tornado here, leaving only the
cellars to mark where they stood.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY
GROWTH IS Reported
Encouragement Given Believed
Responsible for Good Diyi-
dends and Farming Profits.

Washington. May 2S.-Growth Of the
American beet sugar industry from
1870 to 1914. is traced in a report made
by the federal tradec commission to on
gress today.
In 1914 the country produced 700, 900
tons of beet sugar, 16 per cent Of its
consumption. At that time there We're
IS factories against three in 1870.
rapid development of the industry
since 1897" says the report, has been
largely due to direct encouragement
by the federal n state governemnts,
particularly the former"
In the five years ending with 1924,
manufacturing companies. according to
the report earned an average of II
e cent on their capital. In 1924
earnings were unusually small because
of the low price of sugar.
Beet growing. the report says, has
proved profitable to the farmer, al
though growers complain they do not
receive 40 price for their product com
mensurate with the price OF sugar
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
100000 AMERICANS
SERVING IN FRANCE
London Announces $500 Air
planes Will Be Built and 6, 900
Flyers Trained in U. S.

London, May 29.-An official state
mcnt issued here today says that cunt
ing the Americans serving in the
British and French armies and the adj
ditional units ordered to France there
will shortly be 100. 900 Americans in
France.
The statement says $500 airplanes
will be constructed and 5000 aviators
raine in the United States this year.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
ANTI-DRAFT PLOTS
FOUND IN DETROIT?
Five Arrested for Distributing
Circulars Urging Kill
the Draft"

Detroit, Mich, May 2s.-Accused Of
treason in connection with an alleged
nation wide anti CONSUMPTION move
ment, five Detroiters were arrested to-
day. The specific ~offense was the dis
tribution of hand bills bearing the cap
ton Kill the Draft" and announcing
a socialist mass meeting to this end
for Tune z
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
P PLYMOUTH COUNTY MAN
ENDS LIFE BY HANGING

LeMars. Ia, Nal 29.-Despondency
over the death Of his wife last fall and
worry because of approaching blind
ness are thought to have impelled Fred
Luebs. aged So years. to commit suicide
early today. Luebs was an old resident
Of Plymouth county. He committed sui
eide by hanging in his home. TIe lived
alone. Neiehbors found his body when
thar Gala. to find ont lie hp was si.k
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
ENTIRE VILLAGE WIPED OUT.

st. Louis, Mo-. May 29.-A tornado
came into being near Willisville, Perry
county. Illinois, late yesterday after
noon, virtually demolished that villige
without a single casualty, then whirled
southwark doing much damage to pro-
perry until it crossed the Ohio river
into Kentucky.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
NEGROES, BROKE. HoMEslck.

Washington, May 28.-With dreams
of wealth unrealized. homesick Ameri-
can negroes have petitioned the acting
governor OF the Gold Coast colony in
Africa to send them back to Texas,
Sam" who pictured lives or ease.
Whether any governmental assistance
will be given to the negroes 30 they may
return 10 the cotton fields OF Texas and
other southwestern Statee is
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
SPAIN URGED 70 Break.

Madrid, May 28.-Resolutions adopt
ed ct the great mass meeting in favor
Of the entente allies held in Madrid
yesterday were presented to the Span
ish minister Of the interior today. The
resolutions were to the effect that
Spain should break diplomatic rela-
tons with Germany M should accept
all the consequences from the action,
which she is compelled to adopt for the
defense Of her dignity"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
ORDERS PROBE
OF MONGOLIA ACCIDENT

Washington. May characterization
by the Senate naval affairs committee
OF the accident on h armed merchant
ship Mongolia, in which two American
He'd Cross nurses were recently killed,
WIS ordered today by the Senate.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
u. IS. SANITARY SQUAD cAEERED.

Paris, May 2S.---The FIRST sanitary
squadron of tho American expedition
AIRY corps received n warm welcome ON
its arrival here last night from London
On the way to the front. Tho squadron
is composed nc 1hD physicians anu sur
geons and rs nurses who marched
through the streets with the Americans
flag flying lndTd.uras anu flies pluyins.
to a British camp in ...a suburbs thai
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
COLLISION SINKS SHIP.

Lewes. Del, May 28.-The Norwegian
bark Stifinder, from Savannah. arrived
here today and reported that she col-
lided with the Norwegian steamer Sylde
off Hatteras. on May "a. The steamer
was sunk and the crew is aboard the
Stifinder.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
Illinois Worst Sufferer. With
Alabama, Arkansas, Tennes-
see and Kentucky Follow
ING With Heavy Losses.
TWlsTER CUTS WIDE PATH
Beginning With Destruction of
Andale, Kan, Friday, Each
Day Brings Increased Loss
of Life and Property.

Revised figures on dead and in
jured in the storms of the last three
days in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Al
ALBANIA and Arkansas, show the fol-
lowing dead and injured:
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
QUAKE IN

earthquake was experienced Sunday
night throughout snuthern California.
AT the own OF Brawley the quaks
rocked q school. whore exercises were
being held. SO severely hat several
women and children tainted and
panic WIS narrowly averted.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31
KILLS BRIDE AND HIMSELF

La Crosse. Wis. May 28.-William
Henry Wooden. 81 years old. murdered
his stepdaughter, Hazel Gutenberg
Franzen, 10 years old. and a bride OF six
days, then committed suicide here by
shooting himself and then taxing
poispn.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31

The latest in the series Of tor
nadoes, started late Sunday appar-
emily in the vicinity of Willisville,
in southwestern Illinois, swept
southwark across the Ohio river in
to Kentucky down the Mississippi
into Arkansas and Tennessee and
finally veered eastward toward Ala
balna, where the storm apparently
spent itself. The dead IN the four
southern states, it was estimated,
number 100, and the injured at sew
eral hundred.
Tie destruction began last Fri
daS.. ~ AEdaie. kas.. where &c
peop were killed and so injured.
Late Saturday another twister
struck the rich corn belt Of cen
trail Illinois, killing 50 persons and
srjuring perhaps 500 in Nation.
At Charleston, 10 miles east OF
Nation. 81 were killed and more
than $50 injured. Tho property
damage in the two cities is csti-
mated at 5000, 900.
Another destructive storm late
Saturday crossed a territory APP
proximately 100 miles north of the
center of Illinois, reached into
northern Indiana and caused the
loss of a dozen lives, the injury of
more than 200 and a heavy proper
ty damage.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-31

~ -
Memphis, Tenn, May G9.-5scports to-
day from the devastated territory in the
four southern states swept by tornadoes
yesterday II last night placed the
number o sdeaths at 103 and the injured
at more than 500. Around Hickman, KY,
40 persons were reported killed. Bardcll.
B~cnGuGlnt, Clinton and Ledford. also
reported losses.
In Mississlppi county, northeast ar
kansas. 10 dead and 70 injured were
reported, Elk were killed at Manila.
while Bucdotte and Clear Lake. reported
two each.
Heavy losses also were suffered in
Jefferson and Blount counties, Ala
harna.. where 81 were killed. At Sayre
eight were Killed. Village Springs and
Bradford, 20 miles north of Birming-
ham, reported II dead; Carbon Fill had
four dead while SylacaEga and Bibb-
vile caca reported enc dead.
In Tennessee the storms struck in
Upton Dyer and Carroll counties, talk
Ing incre thar a score of live At
Dyers5nrg eight dead were reported: at
Gates Lake, six dead; T~roZcvant, four
dead; Antioch, two dead, and at Sharon,
two dead.
Hundreds of buildings lave been de-
molisfcd and large areas Of growing
cotton and o crops were leveled by
wind ard heavy fail Of hail.
@ iAeItoi :. itttttttlG llldl= III SlCIIus lISt
appeared on .le Arkansas side of the
Mississippi river in Mississippi county,
near the town Of Manila. where eight
persons lost their lives. Crossing the
river IT Gates Landing. Dyersburg and
the territory about Hickman felt its
full! force late yesterday and last night
the mining town of Sayre. several hun
,ireG .r;!es to the south was swept.
Birmingham, Ala, Mny 2S.-Incom-
plet" reports carly today from territory
swept by last nights tornado, say that
at least 81 persons were Killed and more
than 100 injured by the storm. Com
muslic3tion to nan points is still cut
of.
Nashville, Tenn, Ma CA Treze-
vnttt. Tenn. disaptch says four people
We're killed and many injured in that
vicinity by Sundays storm. h storm
Three women we're blown 800 feet and
Killed
Mattoop, H., May 29.--With 81 knowr
dead. COO injured. and a property loss
estimated at $4,000, 900, Nation and
Charleston, twin victims of the tor
,.ado which swept central Illinois Sat
;:cGaS. today began organizing relief
measures for more than 5000 home
9ess persons.
Under supervision of the Red Cross
food stations ave been established
and> PLANS made for the burial Of the
etor,c victims <oday. Appeals have
been issued for none and clothing
plrticularly for women n children.
National guardsmen are patrollins
both towns. while the state health au-
ttorities nave taken every effort tc
guard against epidemics spread by pol
1utcd water.
An appeal for s25O.o00 to meet the i'm
mediate needs of the ornado victims
was issued today by the Red Gross.
Compilation of the first detailed sta
tistics on the disaster indicated tina
4;harleston's dead numbered 40 and
Mattoon's S.. One death was also re,
ported from rear Springfield, Mo.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-29

General George Mel. Presson and
Major Charles E. Davis went to Port
land Friday afternoon to meet IN the
evening the leaders and organizers in
that section of the new regiment OF
National Guard for Maine. Among
them were to be Harry NJ. Bigelow
of the Portland Press, Lieut.. Leroy
D. Moulton of Portland, Fred Redlon
and DR.. Foster. They also had bust
ness connected with the Portland
the city.
Miss Nellie S. Lord has returned
to her desk in the Office of State Pen
sion Clerk John Harper, after a two
weeks vacation, which she passed at
her home in West Lowell.
A touch of I'VE old days" was no.
ticed Friday. when a lady. a stranger,
asked one of the Capitol employees If
she would be permitted to visit the
third floor. by the way of the stairs,
instead of the elevator. She was Civ
en- full permission to try every STAIR
way in the building, being assured
that they were perfectly safe.
Miss Myra B. Rowell bookkeeper in
the Automobile Bureau, State DEPART
ment, will leave today for her. il.me
in Skowhegan. where she will pass
her two-weeks vacation. with the in
tention of trying the hunting before
returning here
Miss Elenor Haskell has returned
fror' her vacation and resumed her du-
ties in the School department.
The new time clocks, which will go
INTO commission next Monday, Oct. l..
are now reposing in state in the Of
flee Of Supt. of Buildings Brown and
are daily visited by many. who wish
to get points" on the machines. 90
that when they register for the first
time they can operate the lever like
old hands. See?
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MAINE TEACHERS
MEET AT BANGOR

The program for the annual convention
of the Maine Teachers Association,
which will be held at Bangor Oct Is and
rs was announced at the State depart
ment of education Friday as follows:
THURSDAY. Oct %.
1915 A. M.-School music festival.
Opera. Flowtow's Martha In concert
form by pupils of Eastern Maine high
schools.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
200 o'clock-General session in auditorium
THE Wider Humanity" DR. Francis
A. Rowley, president of the Ameri-
can humane Editorial Society.
"Our Schools. the Problem of Today.
the Hope Of Tomorrow" DR. A. o:
Thomas. State superintendent of
public schools.
THURSDAY EVENING.
General Session in the Auditorium.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. Is.
Rural School Group.
Chairman, Frank McGouldrick, Bar
Harbor
Address DR.. Augustus Q. Thomas, State
superintendent of schools.
The School Improvement League"
Miss Florence NJ. Hale, State agent
for rural education
School as Business" Dr. S. r.
Shear. Poughkeepsie. New York.
Chairman, supt. w O. Chase. Presque
Isle.
Address. President Robert J. Alley Of the
University Of Maine.
Grammar Schools, Past Present and
Future Supt. r. J. Libby, Caribou
of English.
Chairman. Ernest c. Mariner. Hebron
Academy.
Motivation in English Teaching: An
open discussion, opened by Principal
Anna Coughlin, Rockland.
THE Reorganization OF English in
Secondary Schools Clarence D.
Kingsley, Boston, chairman of the
New England commission on the re-
organization Of secondary education.
Iv-Department Of Secondary School
Principals.
Chairman, Principal S. r. Oldham, Pitts
deld.
A discussion will be held Of Charles W.
Eliot's Changes Needed In American
Secondary Education" to be participated
in by four speakers. to be later an
nounced. This will be followed by meet
ing Of the Secondary School Athletic
VWDepartment Of Science and Mathe-
niatics Science SESSION..
Chairman, H. A. n. Trickey. Bangor.
This session will meet at ALBERT hall
at the University Of Maine. A demon
stration will be given BY the department
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HOW TO SEND. MONEY
TO WESTFIELD BOYS

Westfield, Mass, Sept. 2s--Capt Lin
coin of the First Maine Artillery has
been appointed camp sanitary tnspec'
tor and orders have been issued to
close all refreshment stands and booths
not operated by the regiments. Some
of these are within the camp limits
while others are on the roads leading
20 Camp Bartlett. Hereafter 1t VIII
be impossible to secure pies. cakes,
pastry and other forbidden delicac'cs
on the camp grounds. These are not
included in the regulation army bill
of fare and it is believed their indts-
eliminate use as food units has aided
somewhat in effecting adversely the
health Of the soldiers.
The First Maine Heavy Field Artil-
lery band gave a concert of an hour
this afternoon at brigade headquar-
tiers and this will be a daily feature
hereafter. Col. A. T. Balentinc OF
the Milliken Regiment is acting as
camp commander.
Warning has been issued by organ
izs ton commanders to their men to
to instruct the folks at home not to
send currency by mail to soldiers
either at Camp Bartlett or elsewhere
Reports of the loss of sums vary
ing in size from one to 800 are be-
ing received daily. Even when sent
by special delivery. currency is not
safe. There have been many trans
fers and possibility of troop move-
ments is always imminent so thar
frequently it Is impossible to locate
the men for whom the letters are in
tended.
The loss is often serious, both to
the men for whom 1t is intended and
to those who send it. There is only
one safe way to send currency and
that is by registered mail. The off,
GERS recommend that money sent to
enlisted men be forwarded either by
express money order postal money
order or check. although the latter
method is somewhat inconvenient
Difficulties in regard to money was
encountered last year on the Next
can border and with the reorganiza
ton Of the regiments, this difficulty has
been increased since the troops were
modified at Westfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-29
Reward for Deserters

Here is something of interest from
the provost marshal general regard
ing the slackers and deserters:
No. s215. A reward Of $50 is pay
able for the delivery at the nearest
army camp or post Of a deserter. his
reward Is in full satisfaction of all ex-
pense incurred in said delivery. A
person who fails to report to his To-
cal board for military service at the
time specified in his order to report
is a deserter. A person who falls 70
report for military service to the ad-
iutant general Of the State by the
date specified in the order OF the ad-
jutant general to said person Is de-
serter It Is highly desirable from ev-
cry standpoint that an effort now De
made to round up all persons who are
celinouent in reporting for military
service. 1t is thought that if the fact
of reward is given the widest pubic
ity we shall have a great force OF po-
lice officers and even of individuals
interested in bringing such delinquents
under military control. If, after such
persons are brought to a military au-
thor.ty, 1t appears to the military au-
thoritv that their delinquency is not
willful they will be forwarded to a
mobilization camp and their local
beard will he given credit. If it ap-
pears that the delinquency was willfui
they will he prosecuted before court
martial as doserters. In either case the
reward IS PAYABLE.
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PRINCIPLES OF To-
eating FARE LIMITS

Inc general principles governing the
location of fare limits on an inter-
urban electric railway receives espec-
ial attention in a decision lust made
by the Public Utilities Commission on
complaint Of certain citizens of veazie
and Orono against the Bangor Rail-
way and Electric Co.
The company recently increased the
rate between Bangor and Old Town.
a distance Of 1866 miles from Is cents
to 20 cents. and readjusted the fare
limits to make four scent zones in
stead Of three. The first limit out Of
Bangor was placed one mile out of
Veazie, toward Bangor. and the sec
ond SO miles before reaching the post
office and waiting room in Orono.
Complaint was filed against
the increase and against the
locations OF the fare limits
The decision sustains the in
crease from Is to 20 cents. It states
that this complaint was not seriously
pressed at the hearing. and that. while
the commission might. "even under
these conditions. pursue the inquiry
into tho justice Of the general in
crease from Is to 20 cents; but there
Is no presumption that an average
rate OF one and one-third cents per
mile over an jnterurban electric rail-
road Is excessive. and we see no rea
own motion"
The Fare Limits
Speaking Of the fare limits. the COM
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CONY GRIDIRONERS
READY FOR FRAY
Portland, Maine,
September 9th. 1917.

Manager Francis Hill will take a
squad Of IA players to Skowhegan to-
day for the fracas with Skowhegan
high school eleven Of that town. The
boys are In good condition. although
of course not as yet hardened by
much work. They confidently expect
to start the season with decisive
victory. The team will be accompanied
by Coach Thompson. Cheer Leader
Willis Gushing and a delegation OF
loyal rooters. The following players
will make the trip: George Martin. fo:
Taber. lib; Redmond, RIB; Ted Mar
tin. oh: Pierce and Fisher. ends; FogE
and Newman. tackles; Hutchinson and
Hight. guards; Hutchins, sub quarter
back: Mclaughlin. sub end; Buckley.
sub Iineman.
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SELL TICKETS FOR
DANCE Benefit
AUGUSTA SOLDIERS

The boys Of the Junior Militia
Boy Scouts start out this norm,
sell the tickets for the benefit "a,
and dance at city Hall next Thu
evening. II will be remembered
this movement is TO provide fund
the men OF the Burleigh Battery.
liken Regiment. and COMPANY \
Maine Infantry II is hoped ans
lieved by those working for ,heN
of these companies that the citits,
Augusta and other Kennebec cite,
towns from which the regiments
recruited. will he fairly genera.
this good cause. They are con,
that many will purchase tickets
cannot attend the concert or dana
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-29

'"rhen she used Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. and one box OF Cuticura ONT
ment with two cakes of Soap healed
her" (Signed) Miss Claire Boisvert,
Huntsville, R. l.. August "a. 1916.
While Cuticura Soap works wonders in
most cases Of skin troubles it is also ideal
for everyday toilet use. Cuticura ONT
ment used for little irritations, pimples,
etc. will do all and more than the major
ity Of expensive creams in keeping the
skin soft and clear.
For Free Sample Each by Return
Mail address postcard: "Cuticura,
Dept. r, Boston," Sold everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-29
Maine Central Railroad Company
PORTLAND TERMINAL COMPANY
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT
Sailing Days for Less Carload Freight
.ErvERs OF FREIGHT:

TO SHIPPERS AND RECEIVERS OF FREIGHT:
Sailing
4
This
dspac a and delivery Of shipments.
handling OF
with War Board Washington
Of
dule villa their shipments
Of
OF themselves
H.
Second Vice
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Where's the End Maine?

Postal cards and brief messages In
other forms have been received within
the past few days from Augusta boys
who are with the I'd Maine regiment
which was at westfleld, Mass, and the
news has been sent home that the
bows are soon to be on their way but
we don't know where"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-29

took the form of blisters.
The blisters would break
open and water would run
from them which irntated
her hands, and she had to
wear thin garments. For
three weeks she did not
sleep night or day, and she
could not put her hands in
water or do her work.