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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-01
State Board Has Record Of Military

The vital statistics division of the
secretary of states Office furnishes
undisputable evidence as to the ex-
act age of many persons in Mich
gan eligible to military service. The
records extend back for period of
more than 30 years and the names of
all persons born in this state are on
file in the state department.
act age of many persons in Michi-
gan makes a false statement as to
his age and birthplace, it will be pos
sible to obtain evidence that will
send him to a military prison, by
looking up the records on file at Lam
sing.
Famous Speaker to Visit Owosso.-
Known as 'sThe jungle Man"
DR.. Howard A. Musser, Of Detroit,
will be in Owosso on Sunday all day.
He will speak at the First Methodist
church in the morning and at the
Corunna Avenue Methodist church in
the evening. A mass meeting at the
First church is also being arranged
for O'Clock of the afternoon, with
DR.. Musser as the principal speaker.
DR.. Musser has had unusual and
thrilling experiences as a missionary
in India, and is known as "The
Jungle Man. He is a man of extra
ordinary achievements, is brilliant of
speech, and in the vigor of manhood.
AT present he holds the responsible
position of area superintendent on
the staff of Bishop Henderson, with
headquarters in Detroit. The people
Of Owosso cannot afford to miss this
treat.
(Signed)
REV. f. j. WARREN,
REV. w. j. DUDGEON.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-01
Ncmencf
MddleAge
Many distressing Ailments experienced
by them are Alleviated BY Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Here is Proof by Women who Know

Lowell, Mass-"For the last three years have
been troubled with the Change of Life and the bad
feelings common at that time l was IN avery ner-
yous Condition, with headaches and pain good
deal of the time so was unfit to do my w'&k. A
friend asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
Bile Compound, which did, and it has helped me III
every way. am not nearly SO nervous, no head
ache or pain must say that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is the best remedy any SICK
woman can take."-Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, Rear
$50 Worthen ST., Lowell, Mass.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-01
You are Invited to Write for Free Advice.

medicine been successful in womans
suffering Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
helpful writing Lydia
Medicine Co.. Lynn Mass Such letters received
answed by women only and held instruct confidence
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-01

Tells Friends Take Lydia E. Pinkhams Remedies
North Haven Conn-"When As had the Change OF Life
which trouble all have At first it didn't bother me
bearing pains called In doctors who
told different things but they did not cure my one
said, why don't
Fnkhams Vegetable Compound WashG Well got
them Vegetable Compound and could
egainng health. also used Lydia Pnkhams
Sanave Wash and it has done great deal good ANY one
who suffers from female troubles Change OF
Life them the Pnkham remedies There about 20
who think the world of hem"-Mrs FLORENCE IsEL
1877, North Haven, Conn.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
TO DECIDE STRIKE
Coal Miners of Four States
Meet in X. G.
Rejection of Fine Clause VIII
Mean Tie-Up.

Kansas City, Nov. 12.-Alexander
Howat, district president of the Kan
sas Mine Workers, was elected tenn
porary chairman of the delegate con-
vention of coal miners of Missouri,
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas in
session here today. Howat is opposed
to the automatic penalty clause
idea which Fuel Administrator Car
field has insisted should be inserted
in contracts between miners and
operators.
Kansas City, Nov 12.-Coal miners
of the Southwestern district, which
includes Missouri, Kansas Oklahoma
and Arkansas, were to meet in con-
vention here today to decide whether
they should accept or reject the So
called automatic penalty clause'i@ in
their proposed working agreement
with the Southwestern Coal Opera
tors association.
Rejection of the clause, according to
union officials, will result in all prob
ability in an order for a general strike
of the 5000 miners of the district.
The federal fuel administration has
urged the miners to accept the pen
aItv clause" but the miners contend,
their officials explain, that the clause
would permit the operators to impose
fines whenever mime Is luIe WllnOut
first investigating to determine re-
sponsibility for the tieup.
Oppose Garfield.
About $50 delegates are expected to
attend the convention which was
called following a recent conference
in Washington between officials of the
fuel administration and union Off
cials. Dr. H. A. Garfield, fuel ad-
ministrator, urged the acceptance OF
the clause on the ground that it would
insure continued production. Some OF
the union officials argued against ac-
cepting it, however, and urged that
| the kansas City agreement" abolish
| ing the penalty clause" stand. Doc
tor Garfield refused to approve that
| portion of the Kansas City agreement
| The convention here was to be pre-
sided over by the district presidents
who includes: Alexander Howat
| Kansas; D. A. Frampton, Missouri
John Wilkinson. Arkansas Oklahoma
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
LICENSE BAKERS!
Affect Breadmakers in Every
City in United States.
Government to Standardize In
dustry-Make Price Lower.

Washington, Nov. 12.-All bakeries
in every city of the land are to be
put under government license be
ginning December 10. and made sub
ject 20 food administration rules gov
erning ingredients and weights CT
loaves by President Wilson's procla-
nation planned for issuance today.
The effect. as forecast by the food ad-
ministra ton will be to standardize
bread, eliminate waste in production
to consumers and gradually to force
prices for pound loaveS downward,
perhaps to seven or eight cents a soaf.
While prices are not to be fixed,
fancy breads are to be eliminated and
all bread baked in regular sizes of
one, one and half, two and four
pounds. Fixed standard weights are
to let consumers know which loaf is
really the cheapest. Three pounds of
sugar, instead of six. are to be al
lowed for a barrel of flour and two
pounds of vegetable oil instead of
six pounds of lard or oil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
Loyal Troops Now Only Is
Miles From PetrOgrad.
COssacks i'm City Join Forces
Against MaXimaIiStS.
KORNIlOFF BACK IN GAME
Report He Is Organizing Gov
ernment at Moscow.
Finland Seizes Opportunity to
Declare Independence.

Premier Kerensky. at the head of
200. 600 loyal troops. is marching on
Petrograd. where the Maximalists rap
idly are losing power The Bolshe-
Wiki uprising in Moscow was abortive.
apparently. and the loyal troops have
driven the revolutionaries into the
Kremlin
General Korniloff, leader of the fu-
tile revolt of some weeks ago; General
Kaledines former hetman of the Don
Cossacks; Michael Rodzianko. presi-
dent of the duma. and Professor Mi
lukoff, constitutional democrat lead
er, are reported to be forming a gov
ernment in Moscow. Probably such
an organization would be more con-
servative than the Kerens1y ministry
and whether it is supporting Kerensky
is not yet indicated.
The Bolsheviki and the Kerensky
forces have not yet engaged in extern
sive fighting. Loyal troops have oc-
cupied Tsarskoe-Selo, fifteen miles
south of Petrograd, and Premier Ker-
ensky and his troops are reported at
Gatchina, about thirty miles south
southwest of the capital. Food sup
plies in Petrograd are reported low
and the CossaclIs there are backing
the Minimalists in resisting the Maxi
malsts.
Revolt Not Spreading.
Apparently there have been no fur
ther defections to the Bolsheviki from
the army and garrisons. Petrograd
and Moscow appear to have been the
only large cities affected by the up
rising of the followers of Lenine.
| Loyalist troops control the chief wire
| less station, one report from which
says that the overthrow of the revolt
is only a matter of days or hours.
/ This is borne out in part by the lack 4
| timely advices from the Bolsheviki
headquarters in Petrograd.
The radical element in Finland has
seized the opportunity to attempt TO
set up separate government. Gov.
| Gen. Nekrasoff has been dismissed
and his place taken by a sailor ard a
state of war has been proclaimed.
The Finnish diet has voted to give
supreme power in the province to a
! state directorate.
italian resistance is stiffening along
the Piave line and in the SuganS
valley, the Austro-German progress
| is slowing up. The invaders have not
| been able to cross the Piave from
around Feltre to the Adriatic. The
! Vidor bridge head on the eastern
bank of the river, was defended stub
! bornly by the Italians who finally re-
/ tired across the river after blowing
up the bridge.
Big Battle i'm Italy.
| Violent fighting is in progress
around Asiago and the Setti Communi.
to the west. The permanence of the
1 Piave stand depends mostly on the
success or failure of the Austro-Ger-
man blow in the Asiago region mill
tary observers think.
In France there has been little fight
ing activity of moment. The Ger
mans have failed to counter attack In
an attempt to regain the Passchan-
daele ridge, the capture of which has
rbeen completed by the British.
In Palestine the British advance
continued. More villages and addi-
tional prisoners have been lost by the
| Turks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
CALL BIG CONGRESS
National Security League TO Foster
National Service Meeting.

New York, Nov. 12.-Cardinal Glib
bons, William Howard Taft, Theodore
Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers are
among the signers of a call for "a
congress of national service in Chi
cago February 21 to %. 1t is ex-
pected ten thousand delegates will as
semble under the auspices of the Ma
tional Security League The invita-
ton reads in part:
The war has forced new social.
political and economic problems on
America. Today, there IS a greater
need for an educational campaign for
civic preparedness than there was
three years ago for military prepared
ness Our relations with other ma
tions and the functions of our govern
ment have become so complex as to
demand understanding, thought and
service from every American. The
business of the government is every
mans business"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
IS JINX CROSSING
Youth Injured Near Place FaI-
ley Family Was Killed.
Car Ran Into Truck That Was
Out Of Gasoline.

Just 200 yards east of where the
Falley family was killed at the Union
Pacific crossing, Jack Saunders, a
Kansas City youth, was badly hurt
Sunday evening in an automobile acci-
dent. The lad was taken to Topeka
and placed on a Kansas City train.
The extent of his injuries is not
known. Ed Martin, a farmer living
near Kiro, struck the Ford truck
which the lad was delivering to VIII
Flynn, a st. Marys automobile man.
When Saunders reached the home
of A. r. Til fany on Route s, he dis
covered that his car was out of gaso-
line. About that time Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Orlopp, 100 Western avenue
drove along. Saunders asked them for
gasoline and they drove to the first
store. purchased gasoline and re-
turned.
Upon arriving in front of the Tiffany
farm they found Saunders lying at the
side of the road groaning. Martins
car, without lights, it is claimed, ran
I, into the truck which Saunders had
been driving. Saunders was painfully
injured about the lower part of his
body and a wheel had been knocked
off the truck
The Tiffany children heard the
noise and carried the lad to the side
Of the road. Later he was taken into
the Tiffany home and VIII Flynn. the
st Marys garage man, was summoned
| The lights were not burning on tbs
Saunders car because he was out o.
gasoline. No physician was called
Flynn took the boy to Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
Austrian Attempt to OutfIank
Romans in Vain.
Hun Invaders Halted "Every-
where on North Front"
10000 PRISONERS BERLIN
Asserts Retreating Force in
Piave Valley Cut Off.
Germans Have Advanced Down
River as Far as Feltre.

Rome, Nov 12-"On the Asiago
plateau and at Longarone the enemy
failed completely" declared the war
office statement today.
Rome, Nov. 12.-The Italians have
resisted the enemy everywhere on the
northern front along which the Aus
trians are attempting to outflank the
Italians river line,~the war office re-
ports. on the plain there is brisk
firing across the PiaVe river
Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy Nov. 12.-(By the Associated
Press. 1.-The enemy's operations on
the north and east in an attempt at
encirclement of the Italians have not
succeeded. The menace on the Ital-
ian left wing also is virtually past.
Berlin Reports 10000 Captured.
Berlin, Nov 12.-The Austro-Ger-
man forces in northern Italy have cut
off 10000 retreating Italians in the
upper Piave valley, the war office an
nounces. The Italians are said to have
surrendered.
The German statement says the
Teuton forces have advanced from
Belluno down the River Piave and are
standing before Feltre.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
WRECK TROOP TRAIN
500 Soldiers Narrowly Escape-BIame
Pro-German Plot.

hundred soldiers narrowly escaped in
Jury or death when a troop train was
wrecked on the Great Northern tracks
near here yesterday Officers today
charged the accident to pro-German
plotting.
iured and a score of soldiers bruised
Several officers were slightly injured.
-Four coaches carrying 200 soldiers
overturned
The train was speeding at forty
miles an hour and the rear coach was
derailed as it crossed a switch pulling
the other coaches after IL
Louis W. Hill. president of the
Great Northern. went TO the scene in
his automobile and started q personal
. investi cation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
Y. M. C. A.
Campaign
COM MITTEES

Team No. Is. L. Courtney. cap
tain; C. E. Jones. G. S. 1smert, W. j.
Lewis, C. E. Bascom, Will Dyal, F. j.
Bell and Roy Thompson.
Team No. &c. P. Adams, captain;
FL. S. Morgan, E. H. Anderson, F. B.
Parker, C. G. Blakely, F. B. Bone
brake w. c. CarsweIl, G.. A Guild,
George P. McEntire, B. P. Bartlett j.
P. Slaughter. E. C. Arnold. G; d: Skin
per, E. R. Stants, D. F. sh1rk' George
ii. Hoyes and L. A. Gillette.
Team No. 3-J. C. Snediker, cap
tain; F. o. Morns, John d. Trap, A
v. Linden, ]. F. Close, Ralph Camp
bell and w. S. Baker.
Team No. has only one member,
G. H. Wood, who will solicit subscrip-
tions in the Santa Fe shops.
Team No. 5-Judge ]. S. West. cap
tain; Charles I'll. Sessions, Herbert L
Armstrong, n. A. Turner, George M
Crawford, James A Troutman, ]. w
Robinson, e. H. Iogueland and T. M
Lillard.s
captain; l. S. Ferry, Frank Crane
J. c. Moh1er. J. c. Waters, J. E
Griest, Guilford Dudley, Walter A.
johnson, Cecil Howes, E. B. Kellam
and H. L. Shirer.
Team No George Godfrey
E. d. Clithero, w. w. Webb, C. L
Gregg. J. E. Spalding. A. S. Amber
J. Win Kelley. Hugh McVey, w. w
Whitney, L. c. Bailey, Oscar Cropper
H. o. Maddox, H. O. Garvey. Robert
Stone F. A. Anton, Robert Blair
Frank Curry, Bert Overton, S. J. Rice
and w. B. Gasche.
Team No. 8-Frank C. Beck, cap
tain; H F. Guthrie, Z. D. Spickerman
Richard Wilson, the Rev. c. E. Rash
B. B. Eitelman, L. c. Rain, L. r
Manley, Major Glueck, H. J. Brock
! TO1oT
! Allen.
Team No. 9 is a one-man team, w
B. Collinson, who will secure subscrip-
tions from the Santa Fe general Of
| fices.
Christopher Thomas will captain
/ the boys of Topeka high school in
/ securing subscriptions from the stu
/
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
|QUIz DRAFT men
Classify Qualifications of Each
Man in 100000.
Does Not Affect Those Called
Under First Draft.

Washington, Nov. 12.-President
Wilson formally put the new machin-
cry for the carrying out of the selec-
tive draft bill into operation today
with the publication of the foreword he
has written for the regulations under
which the second call will be made.
The regulations themselves and the
questionaires which more than 9,OOO,-
900 registrants will be required to fill
out are being forwarded to local
boards, but have not yet been made
public,
War department officials estimate
that the whole process can be COM
pleted within sixty days This means
the draft forces before the middle Of
next February. as the period of classi-
fication will not begin until Decem-
ber Is.
The president describes the new
plan of dividing all registered men
subject to military service by classes
as being intended to produce "a more
perfect organization of our man
power"
Inventory of Trades.
THE selective principle must be
carried to its logical conclusion" the
president said, and he added that there
must be made a complete inventory OF
the qualifications of each registrant
in order to determine the place in
the military, industrial or agricultural
ranks of the nation in which his ex-
perience and training can best be
made to serve the common good"
The inquiry projected in the ques-
tionnaire will go deep into the quail
fications of each of nearly 10,OO0,OOC
men. The success of the plan and its
completion within the estimated time
rests absolutely upon whole hearted
support given by the people, especially
by the doctors and lawyers of each
community, and the president calls
upon them for that unstinted aid
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
IT IS KIRKPATRICK
Santa Fe Telegrapher Secre'
tary Chamber of Commerce.
He Was ozark Horse" in Race
for KelIey's Position.

T. c. Kirkpatrick, 1886 Polk street.
was this noon unanimously elected
secretary of the Topeka Chamber of
Commerce to complete the year 1917.
kirkpatrick has lived in Topeka for
5 years Ten years of that time he
has spent as a telegraph operator for
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railway. He is. absolutely new at the
Chamber of Commerce work but upon
the high recommendation of several
members of the board of directors of
the organization he was unanimously
elected over several candidates, in
Guiding a high salaried secretary
from out of town.
The proposal of his name as sec
retary was a complete surprise to the
members of the board. No mention
of his candidacy had been made be-
fore today.
VIII Accept Place.
Kirkpatrick was informed this
noon of his election to the office. ard
promised to accept the position. He
will probably resign from the Santa
Fe office force this week and will
start on his secretaryship not later
than November 10.
Il have had no experience in such
work Kirkpatrick said this after
noon, but it has been one of the
things that I have always wanted.
was not approached on the subject
until two or three days ago and ther
ii was very indefinite"
Miss Minnie Jones. stenographer al
the Chamber of Commerce, this morn.
ing presented her resignation to the
board of directors. She has accepted
a position as private secretary to ]
Will Kelley. formerly secretary of this
4 Chamber of Commerce and now finan-
cial director of the Piersen Telegraph
/ TranSmitter COMPANY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
3 SOLDIERS KILLED
Troop Trains in Rear End Col
lisiOn in Colorado.
Third Section Crashes Into
Second; IS Injured.

Denver, Nov. 12.-Three soldiers
were killed and sixteen injured short
Iss before 6 a. m. today in wreck of
a troop train near Cotopaxi, Colo. 70
miles west of Pueblo, according to a
message received here at the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad offices. The
troops were said to be travelling east
from Utah.
According to railroad officials the
accident was a rear end collision be-
tween sections two and three of a
train carrying troops eastward. The
conductor of the second section re-
ports his train was travelling about
five miles an hour when the third
section, moving 25 miles an hour.
crashed into him. Most of the troops
were infantry from Salt Lake City,
according to the railroad report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
AWAIT VILLAS ATTACK
Federals Strongly Entrcnched at Oil
nagO-Brother With Bandit

Preside, Tex, Nov. 12.-with the
Ojinaga garrison firmly entrenched on
three sides of the Mexican town oppo-
site here and $50 reinforcements from
the federal garrisons at Juarez and
Chihuahua City approaching, Mexican
federal officers at Ojinaga are await
ing the next move of General Fran
cisco Villa and his brother Hipolito,
who, with 400 men, are stationed at
the Malone ranch; fifty-five miles
southeast of Ojinaga.
That Villa has abandoned for the
time being his threatened attack on
Ojinaga is the opinion advanced by
Col. Rosario F. Castro, commander of
the Ojinaga garrison.
1t was announced at FL Paso last
Saturday that Hipolito Villa. paroIed
by United States government had
broken his parole and was believed 20
have crossed the border.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12

General conditions give indication
of a continuance of fine weather, with
temperatures we'll above normal, Mr.
Flora. local meteorologist, announced
this morning Temperatures started
today at 40. this being above nor
NAL The mercury will probably touch
so later in the day. Tomorrow is ex-
pected to be a repetition of today.
The official forecast reads: Fair to-
night and Tuesday: somewhat warm
er in west portion tonight.
At O'Clock this morning the wind
(Continued on Page Two.J
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
he COVETS BELGIUM
Won Tripitz says Retaining ReIgium- Is
Decisive Issue of War.

Amsterdam. Nov. 12.-At a meet
ing of the New Fatherland party in
Munich yesterday Admiral Won Tir-
pitz. former German minister of ma
rine, made violent annexation
speech. He said the question whether
Germany or England became the pro-
tector of Belgium would be the de-
cisive issue of the war.
"A mistaken solution of the Bel
gian question would stunt our exports
and the reserve capital of our indus
try and degrade us to being bona
slaves"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
VOTE AGAINST STRIKE
South Wales Miners Vote Down Oppo-
sition to Drafting More Workers.

London. Nov. 12-An important sec
ton of British labor has given a de-
cision in favor of continuing the war
until victory is attained. The South
Wales mining area, sometimes called
the storm center of British industry.
has been ballotting for several days
on the question whether to strike #
the government proceeds with a
scheme for "combing OUT more men
of military age for service in the army.
BY majority of three to one the min
ers have decided against the strike
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
WRECK MUSIC STORE
Strike in Lyon & Healy Factory BE.
Heved Back of Bomb

Chicago, Nov. IA bomb explo-
sion wrecked the front of Lyon &
Healy's downtown music store early
today, causing $500 damage.
Four hundred employees at the COM
pany's factory here have been on
strike for several weeks and the po-
lice believe the explosion was the re-
suit of labor troubles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
PRESIDENT TO BUFFALO

Buffalo. Nov. 12.-President Wilson
reached a suburb of Buffalo from
Washington at 1880 this morning. His
special car was detached from the
train to be brought here later in time
for him to deliver his address this
afternoon at the annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
MORE FINE WEATHER
Temperatures Mild All Over Country
Tuesday To Be Fair.

Hourly temperature readings for the
day reported by the local office of
the United States weather bureau: