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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-27

Baby Boy Born.
A son was born yesterday morning
to Mr.. and Mrs. l.. d. Wiley of this
city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-27
Athena Child Ill.

The four year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Woodwork Of Athc-
ma. was brought to the local hospital
today, suffering from an illness.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-27

A daughter was born today in this
city to the wife of Joseph Helzeron,
who is member OF Co. L stationed
at La Grande.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
BIG GRANGE DINNER
Chamber of Commerce Directors
Winked at Hoover Tuesday.

The age-long hospitality of the
Anglo-SaXon race was amply illus
trated Tuesday at the noon luncheon
of the Indian Creek grange, when
twenty-five members of the board of
directors of the Topeka Chamber of
Commerce invaded the meeting with
an invitation to the grangers to use
the Chamber of Commerce rooms as
their headquarters at any time one or
more of them might be in Topeka.
That is it may have been a luncheon
to the grangers, but to the men from
the city it bore a striking resemblance
to a banquet of the first water
The C. of c. men were invited to
partake, and they did, to such an ex-
tent that their doughty progenitors
must have blushed exceedingly red
with shame. Great piles of chicken,
fried, chicken in pies, potatoes a la
innumerable modes. cakes and coffee,
and oh, all things nice soon disap-
peared under the combined onslaught
of the allied forces of farm and city.
And after the meeting a number of
speeches were delivered by represen-
tatives of both the allies. and the first
breaking of bread and eating of salt
will surely mark a new era of closer
understanding between the farmers of
Indian Creek and the business men of
Topeka.
The officers of the Indian Greek
grange who nearly incapacitated the
men from town for further business on
Tuesday are:
J. F. Cecil. master; H. L. Moore,
overseer; Glenn Pollom, lecturer; J.
NJ. Pollom, steward: Mr.. and Mrs. E.
r. CLANCY, assistant stewards; Mrs
Boyd Pollom. chaplain; Ray Kimball,
secretary; Peter Meyer, treasurer;
Mrs. J. o. Browning. Ceres; Mrs. o.
Niccum, Flora; Mrs. H. L. Moore,
Pomona, and o. F,u1Imer, gatekeeper
The members of the board of direc-
tors that gave the lie to the failacy of
the jaded appetite of the city dweller''
are:
c. L. Mitchell. president; w H
Davis, S. E. Cobb. Luther Bailey. E. L.
Overton, B. B. Eitelman, c. S. Elliott.
c. B. Merriam, W. A. S. Bird, George
P. Hayden, E. H. Crosby, W. W. Webb.
George P. McEntire. C. H. Trap. H. S.
Morgan, William G. Tandy, W. L.
Porter, r. r. Baer. George w. STAINS
field. w. G. Carswe1I, DR.. George H.
Litsinger, and F. NJ. Stoves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
TICKETS GOING FAST
Everyone Anxious to Attend Red Cross
Shows Friday.

Sale of tickets to Red Cross benefit
performances at all Topeka theaters
Friday afternoon is going with a rush
today. Several business men and or
CARNATIONS. fraternal or otherwise,
have purchased blocks of tickets for
their employees or for groups of chill
dren.
At it's Tuesday night meeting Capt.
tai council No. 1, the Knights and La
dies of Security, voted to purchase
tickets for the children of all mem
bers of the council. There are about
2,4O0 members.
The children may obtain the tick
cts by calling on L. Candy, financier
of the association, and presenting a
note from their parents saying the
parents are members of the council.
Admittance to any theater in the
city will be 0 cents Friday afternoon.
Practically every theater, with the
exception of the Grand, will give two
afternoon performances. At the
Grand one performance of An-Topeka
talent vaudeville will be given at $3.50
o'clock. The Red Cross tickets are not
good for evening performances.
Teachers are selling the tickets to
school children. The board of educa-
ton has arranged to dismiss schools
at O'Clock in order that the children
may see some theater bill and be pa
triotic at the same time by contribut-
ing to the Red Cross.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
WREATH FOR SAMMY
Old Chestnut Woman Sends Floral
Tribute to lie Petit SoIdat''
BY j. w. PEGLER.

American Field Headquarters,
France, Dec. 5.-Little Harvey Reamy
of Cincinnati, U. S. A, '1e petit Amera
icain soldat," sleeps today in a grave
on a bleak, snow-covered hillside. The
wind sings a lullaby thru the hilltop
pine trees. Atop the grave, half bur
led in the drifting SHOWS, a, wreath of
flowers marks the tribute by an aged
French woman. She was a chestnut
peddler with a stand close by general
headquarters
marine corps dropped dead on Thanks
giving day. He had just finished
cooking turkeys for his company.
On Friday the old chestnut woman
missed the slender smiling marine
She asked about him His comrad es
explained tenderIy-"Reamy, well, he
is mort
Her Son-Missing at Verdun.
The old woman wept. He was such
a pleasant, smiling faced American.
The tears trickled down her weather
beaten face, already lined deep with
grief at the loss of her own son-niss-
ing at Verdun for two years, and a
husband dying of wounds in a hospital
near the front somewhere.
Reamy was daily visitor at the old
Womans stand. His CHEEKY greeting
somehow helped her forget She
iedrned MS name and then ALWAYS
thereafter greeted him with motherlv
pflce1ie petit soldat" (the little
Soldier)
II was another tragedy for the lit
tie old woman Chen the bright faced
american passed away. Moreover. she
had missed the funeral, missed the
opportunity to see her American how
ON sunday, two days after Reamy
mad been laid to rest by his comrades.
general headquarters received a soiled
ana laboraeusly addressed envelope.
Inside was a brief letter and fiftv
francs.
Her Pathetic Letter.
You will permit me, sir the let
ter said in its curiously worded.
diff1cult French, ito send you fifty
francs. 1 desire to place a wreath
on the grave of the little Ameri-
can soldier who died tar from his
own country. L don't ask even to be
permitted to carry the wreath TO
his grave Please, sir, do not re-
fuse the humble offering of a poor
french woman who loves America
who loves the memory of this
dear, dear boy, who died far from
his own mother, while assisting
France. Do not refuse to place my
wreath for this poor little soldier
The signature was marguerite Gil
ly, the chestnut woman"
Today, early in the morning,
Reamy's comrades carried Nine. Gil
ly's wreath. on their reversed arms, in
a little procession to his grave.
They transplanted the flowers as
best they could.
And Nine. Gilly's letter, translated
into the English phrases here given,
cation on the Marine barracks bulle-
tin board
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05

or a bomb in the theater itself would
dive mighty Russia in blood and set it's
cities and towns aflame. The Moscow
conference ended on the edge of a
catastrophe, and again we felt that
Russia's case was hopeless. But to-
day, looking back, and putting to-
gether into one whole the red results
of the Bolsheviki revolution and the
bitter ending of the Moscow confer
ence, Russia's approach toward sue
cess is palmer than ever.
Then came the Korniloff affair
when the world looked on with flat
lungs at the Cossack "uproar," not
knowing the reasons for the eXtraordi-
nary event or realizing that the Korn-
iloff cause was lost one, even before
it began.
But all these crises are connected
and only natural in any revolution.
They would happen in any country
under similar circumstances and they
are as much to be expected, in a
revolution as a wind in a storm.
want to tell about them, in three
articles. They show how Russia is
heading and speeding toward strength
and safety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
WAR ORATORS COMING
Big Public Meetings VIII Be Held In
Auditorium January 1911.

Orators speaking under direction of
the war department, will address a
war conference in Topeka January To-
II. Governor Capper has approved
the meetings which will be held in
the auditorium. The purpose of the
meeting is to urge upon the public the
importance and necessity of the war
with Germany as well as details and
conditions leading up to war declara-
ton.
A series of patriotic meetings will
be held in western states in January
and several prominent orators will
speak during the week in Kansas
Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky. The
two days assigned to Kansas will bring
to this state all of the most able
speakers on the war question now Civ
ing their service to the government
The meetings were urged by George
Creel in charge of the federal public
information bureau
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
new DANCE FEATURE
Little Helen Wilson VIII Appear al
Red Cross Performance.

A new feature was added to the
Red eros performance at the Grand
Friday afternoon when it was an
nounced today that Helen Wilson, the
11-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred H. Wilson, 1859 Fillmore street,
will go on the stage in a dancing act.
Little Miss Wilson will be remembered
in a leading part in the Lost Prin-
cess which was given at the Grand
early this fail. She is a clever and
versatile lass and will add interest to
the Friday matinee given for the
benefit of the Red Cross
Helen Wilson's father, Fred Will
son, also appears in the performance
in blackface. He is the author of the
State Journals Louis Schnitz'' let
ters every Saturday evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
A TRAGI-COMIC DRAMA
Mysterious Force Back of Russian
Chaos-Has Faith in Outcome

London, Dec 5.-The situation in
Russia is unique in history, accord
ing to the Petrograd correspondent
of the Morning Post writing Saturday,
but it is not yet advisable to attempt
to raise the curtain upon the mys-
teries of the "tragic-comic drama"
The correspondent insists that Rus
sic will right herself if generously
allowed the necessary latitude by the
puzzled allies and next spring it will
put new armies in the field to fight
the invader with the success that
marked the Russian efforts earlier in
the war.
I'm the meantime" he adds, ''the
situation is extremely curious. Some
force which is above or beyond all
the contending parties is putting the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
TENER and BAN JOHNSON
SCRAP OVER WAR POLICY

New York, Dec. 5.-Governor
John x Tener, president of the
National league, is about to match
his strength with that of Ban john
son in a war time baseball scrap.
A policy of anti-calamity howl
ing will be placed squarely before
National league magnates by Gov
ernor Teper at the meeting here
next week. Johnson, meanwhile, is
crying for stringent reductions all
along the line, including a shorten
ing of the playing schedule.
Governor Tener declared today
that so far he has received no word
of a joint meeting in Chicago of
American and National league
magnates to discuss war time eco
Monies. He has also made it plain
he sees no reason for taking dras-
tic steps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05

of
with
fell
o a heavy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
RUSSIA IN CHAOS.
Weeks Ago Much BIOOdshed in
Russia Predicted.
Nation Will Pass Thru Series OF
Crises to Stability.
THERE DURING 3 UPHEAVALS
BOlsheviki in Orgy of Blood
Under Guise of Peace.
500 Men, Women and Children
Killed in the Streets.
THERE DURING 3 UPHEAVALS

NOTE: Following Is the first of a series
OF stories by William g. Shepherd, lately
United Press Staff Correspondent at Petro-
grad.
Three of the series were written at STOCK.
holm on the eve of the successful BolsheVlkl
uprising. The fourth and concluding story
is ii summary of Shepherd, written IN New
York and combining what he saw in Petro-
grad with the developments of later days
Shepherds stories from stockholm are
strikingly prophetic of the uprising that
later swept kerensky from his power
The first article of the series forecasts
the Bolsheviki revolt. The second to pc
printed tomorrow tells something OF
premier Kerensky's long and bitter quarrel
with the Bolsheviki, who subsequently trl-
umphed over him. me Edllor'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
MEANS'S COTTON DEAL
Witness Says He Lrrred Attorney and
Slain Widow Into Market Plunge.

Concord, n. c., Dec. 5.-William C.
Patterson resumed the stand today in
the trial of CASTOR B. Means, charged
with numbering Mrs. Maude A. King
In two hours and a half of grilling
cross-examination yesterday he dis
closed that Means was an unwilling
investor in cotton, but that he. the wit
ness, led Means on until he plunged
Mrs. King. Means and Patterson
agreed to share the profits and losses
alike according to Patterson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
YEGG SPIES ON TRIAL
Charge They Were in Plot to Blow
Up Bridges, Factories, Etc.

Detroit, Mich, Dec 5.-With the
jury completed, the trial of Albert
Karl KaItschmidt and five others in
dicted on the charge of conspiracy
against the United States government,
got under way in federal court today
The defendants are accused of waging
war against the United States thru
plots to blow up bridges, tunnels and
factories.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
IsY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.

u
Stockholm, Oct %, (by mail y
1t will be some weeks before this ar
ticle will be printed in America. Al
that time, anything may be happening
in Russia. But | am willin" to nave
this article placed beside the newest
hot-from Petrograd cablegram, no
matter how bloody and disturbing the
news in it may be and these follow
ing words run side by side with the
descriplit of the latest Russian crl-
sis:
Russia is following the lines of all
revolutions-and she is hurrying along
toward ironing out her ditficuitles-
Predicts New Crises.
If my American readers do not
chance to see this article alongside
exciting news from Russia, the chances
are that the exciting news will have
occurred a few days before; or that
it is due to occur shortly. For crises
are ~oing to occur in Russia at an
alarming rate. l expect bloodshed
in the streets of Russian towns and
cities / expect anything in the way
of a human storm that imagination
can picture, but 1 stand pat on the
declaration that Russia is being
rushed through the series of crises
that must come to any country in
revolution and that each crisis makes
the Russian people saner and the Rus
sian republic stronger
Kerensky knows revolutions by
heart: as a physician might desire to
hasten the various stages of a dis
ease in order that the cure may be
made the more quickly, Kerensky has
not avoided one single crisis. Blood
shed at wholesale, danger of death,
the apparent risk of civil war-he has
shrunk from none of these. He will
not shrink If his life is spared, from
any crisis that may come in the fu
ture. This grim man knows of only
one path for the Russian revolution
to take; it is the path that all coun-
tries must follow. and he knows there
are no daisy fields or resting places
alongside that rocky, bloody way.
III russia 6 Months.
The world may expect crisis after
crisis, thrill after thrill, shock after
shock in Russia-but it will all mean
that Russia is forging ahead toward
new strength.
I have been in Russia almost six
monthsi and through three great
crises.
The first crisis was a bloody one
the Bolsheviki uprising in Petrograd
and other cities and towns of Russia
1t was crisis that made us lose faith
in Russia. The killing of 500 men,
women and children in the streets, the
terrifying of 100000 citizens of the
capital OF the largest country on earth
the orgy of blood in which the Kron-
stadt sailors and the working men of
Petrograd INDUCED made it appear
THAT Russians were madmen, LISTING
for blood. There seemed no hope for
Russia If such madness were to have
sway.
But today, after having seen two
other great crises, and looking back
the ten weeks to those bloody days, it
is easy to see that those blood-lettings
helped Russia along the road toward
liberty and national unity.
Russia Forging Ahead.
There came the second crisis of the
Moscow conference, when we who sat
in the beautiful Moscow theater that
sunny August forenoon. expected, with
good reason, that rifle shot from the
troops outside the theater, or a shot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05

The correspondent instances the
various interferences with the ad-
ministration without, however, eluci-
dating his suggestion.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-09
DAMAGE BY FREEZES
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
viii Not be Known for Sew
eral Days-Trees Not
Materially Injured.

Weather bureau predictions of
freezing weather on Friday and Sat-
urday nights last were made good by
the weather itself
There was rain followed by cool
weather on Thursday and the cold in
creased with every passing hour on
Friday all day, with the wind blow
ing about 60 miles an hour from the
northwest. At eight o'clock on Fri
day night the mercury reached the
freezing point, dropping at an average
Of little more than a degree an hour
until it reached the minimum tenn
perature of % deg. at 4:3O a. m. 1t
was 10:45 a. m. before the mercury
had assembled to point above the
freezing mark, thus giving this locali-
ty nearly Is hours of continuous
freezing temperature.
The following night was nearly a
repetition. 1t was a little later in
the evening when the mercury reached
freezing, and also little earlier on
Sunday morning when it assembled
above the freezing point. But there
were nearly IL hours of freezing
weather on Saturday night, and the
temperature also went as low as p
deg.
A few people who made observa-
lions claim the mercury went as low
as 20 here, but from the best infor-
nation obtainable it is believed that
a minimum of % deg. will fit the
facts regarding tree level tempera-
ture IN the Crescent City citrus dis
trict.
On the west side of Lake Stella and
to the north, there was, however, a
great difference in the appearance of
the fruit. That on the T. c. Darby
grove was generally frozen hard, as
was some other in that section. South
and east of the lake the oranges and
grapefruit gave little evidence of dam
age, though as matter of fact much
of it was frosted. Tangerines ev-
ervwhere hereabouts were unmistak-
ably frozen.
1t is believed that fully three-ouar-
tiers of the fruit in the Crescent City
district had been shipped, leaving but
one-quarter of the crop on the trees.
This estimate may not be correct, but
it is not far from, the average APP
Proclamation of the best informed
growers.
While this estimate is probably near
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-09
TREATMENT OF CITRUS
TREES AFTER FREEZE
Director of Experiment Sta
ton Issues Press Bulle-
tin on Monday.

P. H. Rolls, director of the Uni
versity of Florida Agricultural Expe-
riment Station at Gainesville, has is
sued Press Bulletin No. 1852, which
treats of the treatment of citrus trees
damaged by cold. The News takes
pleasure in publishing the bulletin in
full in the hope that its suggestions
may be of value to citrus growers in
this county. The following is the
bulletin
When excessively low temperature
has occurred in the citrus region the
bark of the trees is quite likely to
split; if very cold even the trunks
of the trees may split. The first step
should be in the direction of taking
care of the injury as far as possible.
Frequently the bark is not all dead
even when a split has occurred. Death
sometimes follows as result of dry
ing out after the freezing.
The first step to prevent excessive
injury would be to bind the bark up
as carefully and securely as possible.
After the bark has been bound up and
put in as good condition as possible.
banking trunk will do much toward
preventing excessive loss of moisture.
When trees are treated in this way
care must be taken to protect the
injured portion against invasion by
rot fungi and attacks from insects and
other pests. Antiseptic solutions APP
piled to the injured portion will do
much in this direction. Trash and
other rotting stuff should not be in
cluded in the bank. This is the first
step in providing "first aid to the in
jured."
No one should be in great haste
about cutting off the injured portion.
If one is certain that the tops and
branches are all dead it is well enough
to cut the dead material away. How
ever, the most experienced persons
make mistakes in the direction of cut
ting out branches and even cutting
off entire trunks that have been left
quite uniniured, and in this way add
a good deal to the damage to the tree.
As soon as the new growth shows
definitely the extent of the injury all
the dead wood should be cut out and
Immediately burned. This is done
as a precautionary measure to keen
down melanose and withertip. Both
of these fungi grow readily in dead
citrus wood.
All the sprouts that come out from
the trunk or from the root should
be allowed to grow. The very large
root system needs all the leaf sur.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-09
Only One Day of Fair.

The V. |. A. at a special meeting
early this week, decided that owing
to weather conditions and the fact
that the people are not in a frame of
mind to elbow their wealth and APP
pear frivolous, that the two days Fair
which had been advertised for today
and Saturday, will be cut to one day
Saturday.
The Fair will open at II a. m. and
luncheon with hot cakes will be served
at noon for 25 cents.
The Chicken Supper will be served
at $3.50 as formerly announced, at SO
cents per plate.
The vaudeville performance which
was to take place on Thursday even
ing, was postponed, as also was the
parade announced for Saturday.
There will be special attractions at
the movies on Saturday night. The
tea room. ETC., and all other attrac-
tions at the Fair on Saturday will be
the same as previously announced.
Some of the V. I. A. are a trife
glum and have an idea that this glu-
miness is general and therefore the
ladies, much as they need the money
to pay their honest debts, hadn't the
heart to go before the people with
two days festival of 'leg pulling
endeavor.
That is where they are making a
mistake. No man would think of
taking his grudge against providence
and the weather out of these good
ladies.
If The News were permitted to Of
fer suggestion for V. /. A. motto,
it would without hesitation give this:
"Smile, darn We. Smile"
We believe the people of Crescent
City, hard up though some of us may
be, will fill the hall on Saturday and
at night will clear the boards of all
the provender provided for our ap-
petites. Anyway there won't be any
twelve baskets of fragments.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-09

face that can be furnished it to keep
ii in the best of health.
A citrus tree, whether sick or we'll,
responds readily to good methods of
cultivation The methods of cult
walton will be quite variable for diff
ferent classes of soils and different
groves. Whatever will keep the soil
in a mellow condition and keep it
moist during excessive drouth usually
produces the best growth. Cultiva-
ton of trees should be continued as
would have been the case if the grove
had not been injured by cold.
Many trees have been recently fer
tilted and these will not need another
application until large top growth
has been produced. Many groves,
however, have received the minimum
amount of fertilizer; to stimulate
healthy growth and produce a maxi
mum amount of healthy wood it will
be necessary to apply fertilizer to
such trees. The amount to be ap-
piled will vary with the condition of
the trees before the freeze. If the
trees have shown that they were
abundantly supplied with plant food
an additional amount will probably be
of little value. If, however, the vel
lowing of the leaves and the condition
Of the fruit have shown that the trees
were needing fertilizer, it would be
profitable to make an application.
Those trees that have shown decid-
ed following of the leaves will need
approximately full dose of fertilizer:
Most citrus trees after injury by cold
need only the ammonia element in the
fertilizer.