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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
MISS RANKIN
AT WESLEYAN
CONGRESSMAN FROM MONTANA
TO SPEAK AT MT. pleasant
NOVEMBER 10.

Mt. Pleasant, Oct. 13.-Thet Iowa
Wesleyan College Lecture course ~
the coming winter was announced w
day and appears to be one or eScep,
tional merit. The course conslsts VI
five numbers and every NUMBER Is q
head-liner on the lyceum circuits.
The first number is lecture on No-
vember 10 to be given by Jeanette
Rankin of Montana, the first and only
woman representing her state IN con-
gress. This lecture is one OF the pis
gest features in the country tnls yea a..
and the college was very 1ortunate -
securing her. She will give out tnfee
lectures in Iowa. -
The second feature IS hathry u
Ridgeway, the entertainer, VINO 10
signed for December 10. MISS hiuse-
way is an excellent attraction IN nel
work and her popularity is attesteo
by the fact that she has appeared IN
more than fifty towns every year she
has been on the platform. ms Is
sure to be a popular number ana Is
one of the highest class.
The Metropolitan Grand Quartet Is
here on January g. This is said to De
the best male quartet the Lyceum mas
known for years. 1t is indeed a treat
for music lovers to have company or
artists such as these in store 1or
them.
RUSSELL Conwell, known as the
worlds greatest lecturer, will denver
his lecture, "Acres Of Diamonds, on
February 5. This is one OF the mos
famous lectures ever delivered IRON
the platform and it has been estlmatee
that it has been given hve tnousano
times.
The last number will be an educa-
tional and novelty entertainment by
Chief Caupolican of the Auroicano IN
dams whose home is in Chill. South
America. His lecture is most enter
tanning and inspiring and for six years
he has been star performer in the
greatest vaudeville and lyceum CIT
cults.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
SOCIAL WORK
IS DISCUSSED
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF cAARi
TIES AND CORRECTIONS At
! MASON CITY.

Mason City, Oct. 13.-Plans are
completed for the annual conference
of charities and corrections Of Iowa
here beginning Sunday and continuing
through Tuesday. Local committees
have gone the limit in making ar
rangement for the comforts and en-
tertainment of the delegates who will
attend the conference. which prom
ises to be one of the most important
in the history Of the conference.
SPEAK IN CHURCHES.
The conference visitors will make
addresses in the local churches Sun
day morning. The conference dinner
Sunday will be held at the Country
club and will be followed in the after
noon by the first session.
Mayor T. A.. Potter Of Mason City
will formally open the conference at
2 O'Clock with his address of welcome
Other features of the opening day pro-
gram are:
Presidents address. Paul S. Pierce
of the state university; Training
Volunteers for Home Service with
Soldiers Families" Prof. John L. Gil
lin. University of Wisconsin.
DISCUSS CHILD WELFARE.
500 o. m-Mass meeting in armory
"The Child Welfare Research Sta
ton" Director Bird T. Baldwin Of the
state university The State as the
Great Community" Robert A. Woods
of Boston. president OF the Natioral
Conference of Social Work; 1.-The
Child and the War" Dean Frederic
Siedenberg of Loyola university
Chicago.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
DINNER MEETING
FOR RETAILERS

The Ottumwa Retail Merchants as
socation will have big meeting and
dinner at Hotel Ottumwa Thursday
night. Invitations are being sent out
to all OF the members. Dinner will be
served at $50 and following this i'm
portant questions are 10 be discussed
that the board Of directors wish the
entire membership to participate in.
The fall booster trip to the trade
in the surrounding communities has
been abandoned for this year. 1t was
planned to make the tour early the
present month, but all OF the mer-
chants are too busy to make the trip
and the committee has abandoned the
idea,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The thinner 0artx-

A very handsome motor-car was
drawn up outside the physicians door.
The chauffeur touched his hat and
smiled as Bliss and his wife emerged
footman held open the door.
Glad to see you again, Hayes,
Bliss said pleasantly. Car going all
right?"
considering it's been slung up in
the garage for twelve months, sir, it's
going very we'll"
Wen soon get it in running order
again." Bliss declared. as he handed
Frances in. I'VE shall be going dow,
TO the South of France in ew
weeks"
The door was closed. the man
sprang to his place, and the car glided
off.
Frdnces was looking now almost
terrified.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16

not afford to buy at the stores came
here and paid 30 pfenniss, about ".
cents, for bowl Of this.
Their bread, meat and potato cards
were taken away from them, of
course, so they neither could give
them to other people nor get things to
eat on the side by means Of them.
have seen the stew and l believe al
most would have eaten nothing than
that. But, probably, If had had
nothing, could have come to that.
1t was nauseous mixture, but there
were no "leavings" when. those poor
people got through with their. bowls.
And these were not the beggarrtheoe
were the people who, in ordinary times.
were accounted the moderately well-to-
do.
A lot of the poor musicians and
artists used to 80 there, for the war
struck these people very hard. A great
many Of them had only enough money
to see them Though in peace times.
and. when war came. they were in hard
luck
We all used to divide with each other
as much as we could. but the size Of the
portions the best of Of us received
made dividing almost an impossible
thing
DUTCH TREATS
Those who went to these kitchens
sometimes took pieces OF bread that
had been given to them. Nothing was
served at the kitchens but the stew. It
was clean and we'll cooked enough, but
that is the best that could be said about
it. -
One of the very scarce articles in
Berlin was shoestrings- String Of any
kind was scarce, but ono had TO pay 50
cents a pair for shoestrings, even Of An
ordinary quality.
One thing the war did bring forward
that was the equality Of women a.
regards paying their way. When 81
young man took you into restaurant
you did not p-mit him to pay for yos1r
meal-you paid it yourself. You never
knew just how near to his last pfennig
your best friend was.
In Germany, though, this methoaI
prevails somewhat even IN peace times
Unless man Is a relative, a fiance a.
your husband, 1t Is best not to let him
pay for your meal The waiter may
think you "cocotte" Eight woman.
II you do, and you need not be surpris
ed If he Che waiter) will make some
familiar remark to you.
But. dur1no war times this Dutch
treat" business extended to everything.
Some Of the American women in Berlin
had more money than men who were
not German. for they would send home
for money, while the men would not.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
MAJOR WA1RoUs NAMED.

Des Moines. Oct. 13.-Maj. c. A
Watrous, prominent Des Moines archi
tect and well known throughout Iowa
has been appointed commanding Off
Ger of the Three Hundred Thirteenth
supply train>>located at Camp Dodge.
He will take active charge of the
train as soon as he has completed his
duties in the constructing quartermas
ters office. where he has been in
chIrge OF the Installation of heating
plants in the barracks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
GIRL RUNS ELEVATOR.

Waterloo, Oct. 13-Closely follow
ing the innovation of girl elevator
operators comes Naomi Wills who
qualities as a messenger boy
Miss Wills has begun her messen
ger service for the Postal Telegraph
company. Aside from delivering mes
ages she will do some Office work and
be given chance TO learn telegraphy
In tie opinion of c. H. Ashwell
manager, girls are more dependable
than boys.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
HARRISBURG HAS
LECTURE COURSE

Blakesburg, Oct 13.-The 19I7-1s
Community Lecture course dates fol
low:
Talbot Musical Co. November S.
c. E. Riddington lecture, December
II.
Hazel Hawkins Hollingsworth Con
cert Co.. January %.
Clara Fender Riddington, reader
February &c.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16
Find GREAT HERON.

Grundy Center, Oct. 1s.-Henry
Kruse found a great blue heron out
near his place and he will have it
stuffed The bird measures four feet
from the tip of one wing to the other.
It is a bird that is seldom seen in Iowa.
The 0ird must have flown against a
wire and killed itself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
LOOK FORWARD
TO Big RALLY
Hundreds of Scouts Anxious
to Participate in Con-
tests in Fall

The hundreds Of Boy Scouts of
the city are eagerly anticipating the
big rally and contest which will
probably be held in September in
the Board of Trade building or
Chestnut street auditorium. The first
action on this move was taken this
week at the bimonthly meeting of
the city scoutmasters. The commit
tee arranging the rally includes
Garfield McAllister, of Troop 4; Will
liam A. Frantz. of Troop c, and A
Miller, Troop 7.
The rally and contest was first
planned by Scout Executive ]. H
slime to create a closer relationship
between the various city troops. The
IDEA was heartily agreed upon at the
meeting and the scoutmasters at
once began to arrange for the event.
which will be the first of it's kind for
Harrisburg
Through the courtesy of Robert
IS. Reeves, general secretary of the
Y. NJ. c. A, another big time is
scheduled for the scouts when an
open house will be held in the asso-
clatlon rooms soon after school
starts. The scoutmasters will make
further plans for the big rally at
their next meeting which will be
held in the Y. NJ. c. A. building Au-
gust Z.
More than fifty local Boy Scouts
have taken advantage of the offer
OF Secretary Reeves, of the Harris
burg Y. NJ. c. A, to receive mem
bership tickets for the association
Tor the summer months. The scouts
receive the tickets at the scout head
quarters, in the Calder building, and
then have Mr.. Reeves, countersign
them. These cards give them the
privileges of the boys department
during certain hours of the day and
certain days of the week. The tickets
expire in October, but nevertheless
the scouts will have had several
months of enjoyment at the associa-
ton
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
TROOP II FINDS
A HORNETS NEST

At 10 o'clock the troop members
left the city for Little Round Top.
They arrived at their destination in
time to cook dinner.
After dinner some of the boys not
thinking they were having enough
excitement went in pursuit of some.
Scout Gilbert Lyons stepped on a
hornets nest and excitement in
plenty soon followed. Mr.. Manser
was bitten on the inside of his nose
and other scouts on all parts of their
bodies. Scout Lyons, however, got
the best of the deal, receiving ten
Stlngs. Games were played and the
troop returned home by a different
route.
At the meeting on Monday even
ing at 7.30, Mr.. Manser announced
that the scout camp at CraiChead
will be held during the last two
weeks in August. Offers for tents
nave been received from several
ilrms, but as yet none have been de-
cided upon.
Notice to Scouts of Troop II
All scouts of the troop are request
ed to attend the last few meetings
Detore we leave for camp as ar
rangements have to be made. Charles
II. Crist, scribe Troop II, Market
square Presbyterian Church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
First Hike of Troop II
to Hershey; Fine Outing

Members of Troop No. II of I'm
manuel Presbyterian Church went
on their first hike to Hershey re-
Gently, starting from the church at
sixteenth and Liberty streets, about
$50 o'clock. The report of the trip
by one of the scouts follows:
AT Rutherford after refreshing
ourselves with soft drinks at a little
store four of our number were in
vited to continue the trip to Hershey
by an autoist leaving Scoutmaster
Robert D. Young and Scouts Moore
and Hosmer to partake of their
lunch in the shade of sheltering
trees near Swatara bridge.
On reaching Hershey we found
the remaining scouts, who were
Joseph Gimper, Herbert Hasson,
Franklin Hoke and David Yowler
had arrived in Hershey before noon
and enjoyed themselves with the
amusements that Hershey Park af-
fords.
After swimming in the pool we
started home by trolley about 6
o'clock and arrived at 7.30, after
having spent a most enjoyable day."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
Middletown Scout News

Social Is Success-Boy Scouts of
the local troop held an ice cream
social last Saturday evening which
proved a big success. The receipts
We're more than $40. of which almost
half was profit. The scouts are plan
ming now to hold another social in
the near future to raise funds for
Ihe benefits of the Middletown Red
Cross branch.
To Organize Colored Scouts-The
heV. John 7. Daniels, new pastor
OF the Wesley A. NJ. E. Zion Church,
Market street, Middletown, has re-
celNed notice from the nation head
quarters of his appointment as
scoutmaster of Troop No. 2. The
Rev. MI. Daniels is organizing a
troop of colored boys and already
mas twenty-three members. A social
was held on Wednesday evening
When more than $21 was raised.
Headquarters for the present will be
the Wesley Church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
BOY SCOUT LIFE-SAVERS
BY ARMSTRONG PERRY, in (Boy's Lire)

= T was at Margaretville, n. Y, but
as Margaret wasn't around the
two boys decided to go swim
ming. In getting ready to go in
or as we might say, in coming to
himself-one of the boys outstripped
the other. Maybe he took off his
shirt on the run. Anyhow, he went
right into the water.
He couldn't swim, which was a
great mistake, as he was twelve
years old. He went in over his head
and that was mistake number two.
Besides this there was a strong cur
rent, so everything was against him.
The cool, calculating individual
who took time to undress himself
properly was a Scout This was for
tunate. The other fellow might have
drifted all the way down to Delaware
Bay if it hadn't been for the Scout
But Herbert Anderson, tenderfoot,
was right on the job. He swan after
his imperilled friend, broke a wrist
hold, secured a proper grip, reached
shore and Strengthened out the whole
situation. All he knew about life
saving his scoutmaster taught him,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27

he says. Whether he knew much or
little, it worked, and that's the OBJ
ject
Bronze medal? Sure!
X SEVEN miles from Laurens,
- S. c., there is a body of water
known as Holmer Pond. One
bank is steep and two feet from
shore the water is nine feet deep.
On the other side the bottom slopes
gradually.
Two boys started to take a third,
who could not swim, from the deep
side to the shallow side. He placed
a hand on the shoulder of each
swimmer. 1t was a risky piece of
business and resulted as might have
heen expected. The swimmers sepa-
rated and the other boy was left
without support. Frantically he
threw his arms about the neck of the
nearest boy. Both went down.
Harry McAllister, a patrol leader
in Troop l, saw the trouble from a
distance and promptly did his duty.
Although he was sixteen and well
known, he was taking chances in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
= NEWS AND NOTES OF THEIB0Y SC0ITz8

trying to handle two persons in deep
water.
He managed it by treading and
working his way toward shore. Most
OF the time he was under water, but
he held the others up.
The bronze medal which the Ma
tlonal Court of Honor awarded TO
him was well deserved.
THE movies have nothing on real
life when it comes to thrills, es-
pecially in Virginia.
A physician in New Castle, seeing
a drunken chauffeur driving, at reck-
less speed, car containing a young
lady, watching for an opportunity
and took charge of the car himself
The chauffeur objected and draw
ing a revolver, threatened the physi-
clans life.
The doctors wife witnessed the
scene and called for help. Scout Ce-
Gil Edward Wright of Troop 1, heard
her cry and went to the rescue. He
wrenched the revolver from the hand
OF the intoxicated chauffeur and IN
all probability saved the life of the
man who had given protection to the
young lady.
The National Court of Honor sent
the Scout a letter of commentator.
~ COUTMASTER GEORGE H.
- STAPLES. of Troop 4, Worces-
ter, Mass, prevented a suicide
one Sunday afternoon last winter.
There is n dentists Office in the
building where he is an engineer and
to this Office he traced the smell of
escaping gas The door was double
locked. Mr.. Staples quickly secured
keys and entered. He found the den
tist lying on the floor with a rubber
tube in his mouth. The tube con-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
Members of Troop 20
Will Hike Tomorrow

Members of Troop 20 are request
ed to meet at Fifth rtreet Meth
odsst church at 100 o'clock Satur-
day TO take hike. Scouts may
orlng their friends along on this
trip.
The next meeting will be held on
Monday evening at Z o'clock.
q. Park Weaver, acting scribe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27

T7HE movies have nothing on real
life when it comes to thrills, es-
pecially in Virginia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27

bound for Tony's cottage, which bor-
ders the Conodoguinet creek. The
chief sports of the afternoon will
be fishing, swimming and signaling.
Many whales are expected to be
caught. Obstacle races are always
numerous with Troop on such oc-
casions.
George E. Beard, scout scribe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
VISIT TO MAINE

Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer Wolf and
Miss Katherine Hughes, of 2116
North Fifth street, have left for q
three weeks stay in Maine, Connecti-
cut and New York, where they will
spend some time in Sleeps Head
Bay. New York city and Hartford,
Conn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
Troop Four Plans Outing
to Conodoguinet Creek

Troop will take a pleasure trip
tomorrow afternoon. The scouts,
accompanied by their scoutmaster
Mr.. McAllister, will meet AT the
square and take the 10 o'clock car
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27

nected with a gas pipe and the valve
was wide open. Chloroform had been
used, also. The atmosphere was
heavily charged and dangerous.
The scoutmaster shut off the gas,
secured help, removed the uncon-
sc1ous man to another room and
placed him beside an open window.
Then he called an ambulance and
the patient was removed to a hos
pital where he revived.
The cool, resourceful work of the
scoutmaster was recognized in a let
ter of commentator from the Ma
tional Court of Honor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27

A NTHONY FABER, a tenderfoot
~ Scout in Troop Z, of New Or
leans, La, would have received
an honor medal if the regulations Of
the National Court of Honor had
permitted the granting of medal 20
a Scout who had saved a life with
out risking his own.
With his father he was returning
from a hunt when a man in the dis
tance frantically waved his arms at
them. They stopped and when he
came up he told them that another
hunter had been wounded in the foot
and was lying in q swamp, about
three hundreds yards away, groan-
ing.
The Scout went to the wounded
man. Thanks to his training in First
Aid, he was able to apply a tourni-
quet and stop the the loss of blood,
which had become dangerous. With
guns and coats he improvised a
stretcher.
Right at this point he might easily
have made a serious mistake, but he
did exactly the right thing. He let
others carry the stretcher while he
held the stick which controlled the
tourniquet. AS the patient was car
ried two and a half miles, fatal con-
sequences might have resulted if the
tourniquet had been too tight or too
loose or the pressure too continuous.
In other words it had to be done
right.
The methods which he used are
common knowledge among Scouts,
but to the people who surrounded
the ambulance when the patient was
brought to it they were entirely new.
The crowd marvelled that a boy of
fourteen should know so much.
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