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The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
$4,000 men IN
first DRAFT CALL
President Issues Order Calling
Soldiers Into the Service
of United States.
1262,985 MEN IN The ARMY
War Department Announces the Quo
tas to Be Furnished by Each
State-Credit Given for Men
Now in Service.

Washington.-The war department
has promulgated a formal order from
the president drafting 6S7,000 men into
States under the selective CONSUMPTION
law. The order shows what part Of
the total must be furnished by each
state and territory.
The only steps now remaining are
distribution by the governors Of
state quotas among the local exemp
ton districts and the great lottery,
which probably will be held next
week and which will establish the
order in which reg1strants are to pre-
sent themselves for service or exemp-
ton.
The men summoned for service will
be used to fill the regular army and
National Guard to war strength and
to organize the first 100000 Of the new
national army.
Total to Be 1,262,9s5.
The total Of these three forces will
be 1862, 1856 men.
Later another 100000 will be called
out, supplemented by sufficient men
to make up losses and maintain re-
serve battalions.
Following is Secretary of War
Bakers announcement Of the order:
by virtue Of the authority vested
in him by an act Of congress, entitled
An Act to Authorize the President
to Increase Temporarily the Military
Establishment of the United States
approved May ID, 1917, the president
Of the United States has ordered the
aggregate number Of $4,000 men to
be raised by draft for the military
service Of the United States in order
to bring to full strength the organ
izations Of the regular army and the
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26

organizations embodying the mel
bers of the National Guard drafted
into the military service of the United
States and to create the national army
and has caused said aggregate
number to be apportioned to the sew
eral states and territories and the
District Of Columbia as set forth ID
the schedule hereto appended.
Must Apportion Quotas.
''The governor Of each state and ter
ritory and the commissioners Of the
District Of Columbia, acting for and
by the direction Of the president and
in accordance with said act Of congress
and rules and regulations prescribed
pursuant thereto, shall apportion the
quota so apportioned to such state, ter
ritory or district and shall comnluni-
cate to each local board established
in such state, territory or district no.
tice Of the net quota to be furnished
by such board, and such net quotas
shall thereupon be furnished by the re-
spective local boards as required by
said act of congress and rules and reg
ulations prescribed pursuant thereto"
In computing the number of men to
be required from the various states
the government put to the credit Of
each state every man it now has In
the National Guard and every man 1t
has contributed since April 1 as a
war volunteer to the regular army.
Computation Method.
c,;< 90 1O6.
ger the national army Of 100000, the
entire National Guard at war strength
and the number Of war volunteers
needed on April 1 last, to bring the
regulars up to the war strength, the
grand total was apportioned according
to population.
This gave a gross quota for each
state, from which net quota was COM
puted by checking off the number OF
National Guardsmen available for fed
eral service and the number OF men
given by the state to the regular army
since April 1.
The apportionment was made on the
basis Of an estimated grand total Tor
the United States and it's possessions
Of 1O5, S66,O56 inhabitants.
Total Of 1,152,995.
Each will furnish under this appor-
tionment the men it's total registration
would indicate as fair proportion,
rather than the number the actual pop
ulation Of the district would Indicate
The total of these gross quotas is l.
152,9S5 men.
Credit Is given to the various states
for a total Of 465,985 voluntary enlist
ments in the National Guard and reg
ulars, making the total net quota 1oI
all states 697,O0O men.
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
ProverbiaI Wisdom.

All countries have sayings deallns
with marriage, mostly taking rather a
cynical view. The Italians seem to
take fatalistic attitude. for they say,
I'm buying horses and in taking wife,
shut YOUR eyes and commend yourself
to God" A wholesome piece of advice
is contained in the Hindu saying,
women are wise offhand and fools
on reflection-so take your wife's first
advice and not her second" The Irish
saying is very comforting, ga mans
best fortune is his wife"
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
HERE AND THERE

The hermit and Olive-backed
thrushes have spotted breasts, are
larger than an English sparrow, with
rather long bills. The former is dis
tinctly rufous on the back.
Five years ago the pupils in the
Kwangju Girls Industrial school, 10
rea. never had seen crochet needle,
yet they have acquired such proficiency
in crocheting that they have earned
about $500 for the self-help depart
ment Of the school.
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
Cardiac Professionalism.

Cardiac Professionalism.
Biff-Td go a great way for girl
like that.
Buff-Well, she'll give you your
walking papers all right if you try to
win her.-Town Topics.
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
CONVERSATIONS

China contains more American mis-
s,onaries than American business
men.
The government maintains 27'S4o
miles of road in Spain and has more
han 5000 miles under construction at
the present time.
An inventor In England has COM
hined q rubber flesh brush and soap
dish, provided with vacuum cup on
the bottom to hold It upright when
used for the latter purpose.
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
Building Records Broken.

All records for quick building work
are said to have been broken in run
ming up the new training cantonment
at the Presidio, near San Francisco.
San Francisco lumber firms got togeth-
er and delivered two and a half million
feet of lumber in three days. over 0oo
carpenters and helpers built 30 build
ings in 10 days. When top speed was
reached midway on the job new
building was finished every 80 minutes.
The buildings are permanent, modern,
sanitary and adequate.
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
No Wonden

No Wonden
''She says her husband can't even
keep her in pin money"
II know, but she buys diamond pins"
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26

try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com,
Mound. took six bottles and today l
am a healthy woman able to do my own
Homework. I wish every suffering
woman would try Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound: and find out tor
themselves how good it is. '-Mrs. CARL
A. K1Eso, 500 North Ave-, Aurora, LII.
The great number OF unsolicited tes-
timonials on file at the Plnkham Lab
oratory, many OF which are from tlme
proof of the value of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, IN the
treatment Of female ills.
Every ailing woman in the United
States is cordially invited to write to
the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co:
(confidentiaD, Lynn, Mass, for special
advice. It is free, will bring you health
and NAV save your life.
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26

Only children play ball. Men make
q business Of it.
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
NUMBER OF MEN T0BE RAISED IN EACH State

Allotment by raised by seecive draft for ons
popuauon OF
enlisted National Guu
June
allotment quotas net
of the
twoa appearing in the finale olunnof the
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
MRS, K|ES0 SICK
Seven MONTHS
Restored to Health by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Aurora, Ill.-"For seven long months
7 suffered from female trouble. with

severe pains Ill my
back and sides until
I became so weak I
could hardly walk
from chair to chair,
and got so nervous
Iwould jump at the
slightest noise. I
was entirely unfit
to do my house.
work, I was giving
up hope of ever be-
ing well, when my
sister asked me to
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26

Waste wood products from Southern
sawnaills are to be used in the manu-
facture Of paper.
Since the outbreak of war South
African mines have yielded 100000
600 worth of gold.
The song sparrow is about the size
of an English sparrow. but with a
longer tail; streaks and large spot on
breast. The chipping and field spar
rows are smaller, with no spots on
breast; the former has lines on head
the latter is rufous and sings yery
sweetly. q
The Tomahawk., 1917-07-26
Vacation Just as Cheap.

PA, are women ever optimists?"
"Oh, yes, my son. The woman who
tries to convince her husband that you
can take vacation tour as cheaply as
you can stay at home is an optimist."
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
Fermentation Shown
In Hospital Attacks

Paris, Saturday, Aug. Is, tdelayed.)
Lone of the hospitals behind Verdun
on which German airplanes dropped
bombs a week ago is at sVadelain-
court The fire caused by the bombs
spread rapidly to the whole building,
and the glare showed UP more palinly
than ever the large red cross painted
on the roof. The aviator threw a Sec
ond bomb, which demolished a pa
yilion in which were three crews of
surgeons who were performing opera
lions. The surgeons, nurses, and
wounded were obliged to quit the
building.
At about the same time a German
aviator attacked the hospital at Cha
eau Mont Hairons. The bomb ex-
plodad in a ward filed with wounded
men, killing one of them.
Ten wounded soldiers were killed on
the same evening at Beirupt by a
German shell.
Proof of premedftation on the part
of the German authorities in making
trese attacks is furnished by a pho
| tograph found on a German aviator
brought down at Dead Man HILL The
photograph, represented the vadelain-
court hosital, with the red cross sign
indicated clearly.
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so MILLIONS
Contributed TO
WAR RELIEF WORK

A directory has been issued by the
Federal Council of Allied War Chart
ties comprising some rs national or
CARNATIONS engaged in war relief work
in the countries of the Allies and
showing that the funds raised by these
organizations up to the present time
and since the beginning of the war
aggregate, in money andsthe value of
supplies shipped abroad, $50, 100000.
The Directory further states That the
organizations represented in the Fed
eral Council have membership of
more than 1000, 600 persons with
5000 branches throughout the United
States 49,
The figures quoted above, it is de-
clared, are not necessarily final, but
underestimate. rather than oyeresti-
mate, the facts.
The Directory contains a statement
issued by Judge Robert S. Lovett, I'M
til lately chairman of the Committee
on Cooperation of the American Red
Cross. urging that the public continue
to subscribe funds to the various, or
ganizations, and to in. no way lessen
their activities because. of the present
broad scope of the work undertaken
by the Red Cross itself.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27

New York, Aug. 22-That Germany
is on the edge of famine and is max
ing supreme efforts to keep her des-
perate internal plight from becoming
known to the outer world was the COM
sensus of sentiment among passengers
who arrived yesterday by a neutral
liner at an Atlantic port Several of
these passengers have been recently in
Germany and they agree in the dec
laration that foreign residents who de-
sire to leave the empire are kept in
seclusion several weeks before being
permitted to depart and no informa-
ton Of any sort respecting civil or mill
tary life is permitted to reach them.
William Bartholomew of Philadel-
pllia, Who has been general superin-
tendent of the Pure Oil Company of
Holland at Hamburg since 1897. ar
rived with his wife. He is living
testim onial of the food shortage and
it's unwh olesomeness having lost fifty
pounds in the last few months He
said it was impossible to get a square
meal in Germany and that conditions
We're pretty bad" For six weeks be-
| fore he was permitted to leave Ham
burg he was kept in seclusion and did
not know what was happening in the
city,. All the knowledge he obtained
of the actual economic situation was
cleaned before channels Of information
were closed to him. Everything was
done -courteously but effectively.
Axel Bahnsed, who has been in Ger
many representing a harvesting com
pany of the West, returned with his
| wife and children. He sent them tc
Denmark two years ago and remain
ed in Germany until recently. Insult
| ficient and improper food brought
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
Playground Children
Will Gixe Exhibition
At Seaside Saturday

Elaborate preparations are being
made for the seventh annual play
test of the Public Fairgrounds for
next Saturday at Seaside park. The
program will be divided into two
parts. The first part consists of track
and field athletic events for both boys
and girls, which start at 2 p. m. The
boys are divided into two classes,
those weighing 80 pounds or under
being classed as Juniors, and those
over 80 pounds as Seniors. G
The, Junior boys events consist of
the 75-yard dash, 30-yard relay, run
ming broad jump, standing broad
jump and baseball throw. The Senior
boys events are the 100-yard dash,
440-yard relay, running broad and
running high Jumps and baseball
throw. The events for the girls are
75-yard dash, 30o-yard relay, run
ming broad, and running high jumps,
and baseball and basket ball throws.
There will also be three free-for-all
events for the boys, entries being
taken on the field. These will consist
Of three-legged. obstacle, and sock
races Bronze medals will be offered
for first places in all regular events
and ribbons for second and third
places. Ribbons will be awarded for
first second and third places in the
free -for-al1 events. The A. G. Spald:-
ing Co., which has a local branch with
the American Hardware Co., has Of
fered silver trophy to the play
ground that makes the highest NUM-
Der of points in all regular events,
both boys and girls. Points will
count as follows: five for first place,
for second. and 1 for third.
The second part Of the program
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
GERMANY, STARVING, TRIES TO
HIDE NEED, ASSERT TRAVELLERS
Philadelphia Back From Hamburg Lost Fifty Pounds
in Few Months-aoTand and Scandinavia Hard
Hit By American Embargo

q /
down his weight thirty pounds. His
fellow voyagers. knowing his expert
ence and that of Mr.. Bartholomew,
wondered how badly the civilian pop
ulation of Germany Jared If two
healthy looking men with money were
SO i'll nourfshed In German cities.
All food supplies, = one of the refu-
gees from Germany said, ''are sent to
the soldiers and the civilian popula-
ton is stinted almost to the point of
starvation. The robust can stand this
for a time, but the aged, the children
and the invalids suffer and die Every
thing and every body Is sacrificed for
the army German economic condi-
tons are so hopeless that Germany
cannot hold out against the Allies
Mrs. Petronella Johansen, who has
been, three months in Scandinavian
countries, said the necessaries of life
could not be obtained there except at
high cost and that few people in the
United States realized the serious con-
sequences a food embargo meant for
Holland and all of Scandinavia, par
ticularly Sweden. A plain dinner in
any city in Sweden costs $3.50, and
ant for one cup of coffee.
|. According to other passengers on
the steamship, several members of the
party travelling with Mr.. Bartholo-
NEW confided to them that conditions
in Germany were unbearab1e, and
that she could hardly hold out unit
spring. All food and clothing, they
said, were being used exclusively fol
the military forces and the civilian
population was suffering incredible
hardships. Nj
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
PUEBLOS LOOK
FOR BIC CROPS
IN 1917 SEASON
Indians Made Active Response
to Call for Increased
Production.

Santa Fe. N. M. Aug. 27-An in
increased crop production in New
Mexico has developed in the. elaborate
preparations being made by the
Pueblo Indians for their summer and
fall dances in which these Indians ap-
peal annually for bountiful harvests.
The dances of the Is Pueblo villages
take place each on the day held sa-
cred to the patron saint of the partic-
ular village. Thus they are scattered
through August and J the autumn
months, from the Santo Domingo corn
dance on Aug. to the fiesta of San
Geronimo at Taos on Sept. 80, and
ending with the dances of the Tesuque
and Pojuaque villages near Santa Fe,
in December.
The Pueblo Indians own the most
fertile lands in their several districts.
farming and granting these lands I'M
der the protesting hand of Federal
government. When the movement for
Increased production began early in
the present year, agents of the Indian
Department, teachers in the Indian
day schols and other familiar with
the Pueblo peoples, made a thorough
campaign among them to induce each
village to increase its acreage. The
response was surprising. The thrifty
Taos Indians have about doubled
their cultivated areas, and substantial
increases have been effected in all the
Pueblo farming areas.
Having put forth an unusual effort
on their farms, the Indians now pro-
pose to supplement this effort with an
equal increase in the attention given
to the harvest ceremonial appeals.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
CRIPPLES ARE
PUT BACK into
GERMAN ARMY
Miners, Insufficiently Fed,
Strike Coal Output
Decreased.

: Copenhagen; Aug. 27-Revelations
of the growing difficulties of Germany
are coming out during discussions in
the Reichstag Main Committee at
Berlin
The trouble which the military au-
thorities have to obtain men to fill the
ranks of the army is shown by an in
serpellation by Deputy Davidsoln.
calling attention to the practice of re-
calling to the service pensioners dis
charged for disability. e
The Interpolation says that men re-
ceiving pensions for SO per cent. and
more Of total disability, and even
cpipp1es to whom supplementary PEN
sions have been granted, are being
constantly forced into the s,rmy again,
and that in some cases men are taken
from hospitals before their treatment
is completed.
Statements made in the Reichstag
committee in debateson the fuel prob
lem show that strikes OF miners in
Silesiae last month. reduced the Ger
man production of coal by more than
100000 tons,s and Vice Chancellor
Heifferich uttered an urgent and earn
est warning against further strikes.
The government report stated that
the production had been affected by
inadequate food supplies. This was
eorroborated by speakers of various
parties, who said that undernourished
| workmen could not do a Abnormal days
| work. A representative of the mill
tary authorities stated in the same
connection that more miners could
not be spared from the army.
X The gravity of the situation is
shown by the seriously considered
proposal to restrict the production
| of iron,, although this is needed for
| munitions.
Socialists, Centre and Radical
| speakers brought up this subject in
! connection with the question of the
recent retirement of General Groe-
ner, the Munitions Minister, who, ac-
cording to a current report, was fore
ed out of the War Bureau by repre-
sentatives of the oil, iron, and steel
industries because he insisted on ade-
quate protection of the interests OF
workmen under the civil mobilization
law. Speakers asserted that the ex-
plantations of the government regard
ing the generals retirement were I'M
satisfactory.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
LOSS OF APPETITE,
LOSS OF WEIGHT,
SLEEPLESSNESS, ETC

are all overcome by Recupertabs, they
are made after the formula of DR.. AL
bert Robin, the famous French physi-
clan. and are being used very largely
in Paris and other European capitals.
When taken for a short while they
will give positive relief in all cases of
nervous exhaustion, mental depression.
lack vitality. general debility, ane-
mia, ETC.,
The Glycerophosprates of which
Recupertabs are composed, contain
the element necessary to overcome
these conditions. They are now being
prescribed and recommended by many
physicians in this and foreign coun-
tries as the best, quickest and surest
nerve and blood tonic that they know
Of
sRecupertabs are for sale at all drug
stores at soc and 800 per package
or will be sent direct upon receipt of
price.
Curtis Chemical Co., No. Ala West
23rd ST. New York. Distributed in
Bridgeport and vicinity by J. D. Harti-
gan. No. 81 Fairfield Avenue.-Adv.
RI tf$
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
APPLES, ORANGES,
FIGS and PRUNES
Are The Four Fruits Used in
Making "Fruit -tives

"FRUIT-A-TIvES" is the only
medicine in the world that Is made
from the juices of fresh ripe fruits.
Thus. it is nanifestly Unfair to say, ST
won't take Fruit-a-tives because I have
tried other remedies and they did me
no good. On the other hand, the fact
that "Fruit-a-tives'' is entirely differ
ent from any other preparation in the
world, is just why you should give it
3. fair trial, in any trouble of the
Stomach. Liver, Bowels, Kidneys or
Skin. "Fruit-a-tives',' is composed of
the active principle Of fruit and the
greatest nerve tonic ever discovered.
soc a box, s for $3.50. trial size, Csc.
At all dealers or sent by Fruit-a-tives
Limited. Ogdensburg, N. Y.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
Church Celebrates
26th Anniversary

The 25th anniversary of the First
German Evangelical Lutheran Zion
church at Grand and Catherine
streets was celebrated with three
special services at the church yester-
day. The Rev. H. c. Steup of New
York, pastor of the church when it
was founded in 1892, preached the
morning sermon, and the Rev. Her
man Wehmeyer, the present pastor,
gave an interesting history of the
church since it's foundation.
Exercises for the children were
held in the afternoon Rev Edward
Fischer of Danbury spoke.
In the evening. Rev. P. Wilhelm of
BronxviIle. New York, a former pas
tor of the church, addressed the so
members of the Young Peoples So
ciety.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
Fairfield Democrats
u
Feast at Clambake

Fairfield's Democrats held a clam
bake at Red House cottage, Saturday
afternoon. Nearly $50 members of
the association gathered about, the
festive board and listened to speeches
by Collector of Port James L. Nc
Govern and Lynn w. Wilson, com
mending the administration at Wash
ington and the spirit which is actual
ing the smaller communities in this
country to greater organization.
The occasion was as a prelude for
the fan campaign. The Democrats
of Fairfield expect to ts-rn out a good
vote at the October election and are
working actively to accomplish re-
suits.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27

commences at $3.50 O'Clock, and con-
sists of drills, folk dances, group
gamesss and the presentation of prizes.
Some of the folk dances scheduled
are, the<Danish Dance of Greeting,
Highland Schottisch, Sheperdess, the
jolly Miller, Czardas. Szhebogar, and
others. 81
The handiwork of the children
which has been done during the sum-
mer will be displayed and ribbons
awarded for the best work done in the
five classes of work, elementary and
advanced sewing, reed basketry, reed
and raff1a basketry, and raffia work.
The Wheeler & Wilson band will fur
nish music during the exercises.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
VETERANS OF FOREIGN
WARS MEET IN 18TH
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT

New York, Aug. 27.-with two vet
Grams of the Mexican war, both over
80 years old. present, the 18th annual
encampment of the Veterans of For
egn Wars opened here today. The
veterans have not given UP hope Of
fighting for the United States simply
because they are Old according to AL
bert ]. Rabin of New York, the COM
mander in chief of the society. Mr..
Rabin said is per cent. of the menu
beers of the organization had already
enlisted for the present waE