Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-31
WOMEN RESPOND TO
APPEAL OF COUNTRY
Sweethearts, Sisters and Moth
ers Urge Loved Ones to
Join the Colors.
MARINE OFFICER TO WE'D
MUSTER ROLL.

Women are responding splendidly
to the appeal of officers of the military
organizations. Sweethearts, sisters
and mothers of young men are
showing their patriotism in the ma
tional crisis by securing recruits and
urging their loved ones to join the
colors. &C.,. .
The Misses Louise, Irene and Es-
Their Cotter, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Cotter, Also Davenport
street, have brother, John, already
a member Of Company B of the local
guard. If war comes their younger
brother, Fred, now lieutenant in the
university cadet regiment at Lincoln,
will serve in the army.
Mrs. Cotter and the young women
are putting patriotism ahead of FAM
lily in the crisis. They have urged
their young men friends to join mill
itary organization and several of the
lads have already entered the guard
this week. .t.
Another young woman responding
to the appeal to. patriotic women is
Miss Minnie Abraham, 4lo North
Twenty-eighth avenue. She has two
brothers, Louis and Isadore, already
il Company A of the local guard, and
another brother in the regular army,
now stationed at Honolulu.
Would Shoulder Gun, Too.
I'm willing to shoulder,a gun my
self and fight for Old Glory" she told
Recruiting Sergeant Rogers of Com
pany A Friday morning at headquar-
tiers. Her eyes sparkled as she proud
ly told of her three brothers in the
service, 49, ...
Several young men of her acquaint-
ance are being interested and she
said she expected them to join soon.
An older sister is still in Roumania,
in territory overrun by the Teutonic
armies, and Miss Abraham declared
her desire to fight under the Stars
and Stripes to avenge the sufferings
caused by the kaiser's forces.
A letter has been sent by her to
the secretary of war offering her
services in any possible way in the
present crisis. r. .., d.
Marine Officer to Wed.
Miss Grace L. Adams, % of St.
Louis, is another woman whose pa
triotism takes precedence over all
else. She is now on her way to
Omaha to become the bride of Ser
geant Lee L. Carpenter, local re-
cruiting officer of the marine corps.
They will probably be married here
today, instead of April 7, as origi-
na1ly planned, because Sergeant Car
penter expects to be called at any
time now.
I'VE will be married at once" Miss
Adams wrote him, "but you will 60
ahead and fight abroad if necessary. l
am glad to have a chance to show
my patriotism that way, and would
much rather be the wife of marine,
away fighting for his country, than
to stand in the way Of his patiotism."
Gives Her Oldest Son.
With seven children dependent
upon her for support, one of them
being in a hospital, Mrs. Luella
Becker, Forty-seventh and Military
avenue, urged her oldest son, Howard,
only II, to join the National Guard.
He enlisted in Company D, after she
sent him to the recruiting station with
her written consent that he join.
Mrs. Kate Hunter, 2424 Larimore
avenue, was another mother who Of
fered her. son, Melvin Withheld, 10 on
the shrine of patriotism when the cali
for volunteers became insistent. Fri
day morning she consented to his
enlistment in the navy, and she said
goodby to him in Lieutenant Wad-
dell's office. The lad is nephew of
City Commission Charles Withheld.
Still another mother to put patriot
ism before mother love was Mrs. Eda
A. Bryant OF. East Omaha, who is
willing that her son, Fred Study,
should join Company A of the guard.
He is only II years of age, but the