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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03
HUM0R AND PATH0S
MiNGlE IN STORIES
TOLD DRAFT BOARD
Continued on Page 81

hght than the young men from the
country was shown here yesterday
afternoon In the number asking for
exemption. Out of 10 per cent OF the
city men who passed examination
only about 30 per cent asked for ex-
emption and the majority of them
were married men.
Out of IS of The country residents
who passed in the physical exams.
fully sixty per cent of that number
asked for exemption. In one or two
particular instances it was noted that
the country men asking for exemp-
ton, had no grounds whatsoever. They
had been merely residents of the
country and so far as performing any
actual war duties they reneged en-
tirely.
Many Have Flat Feet
Flat feet was one of the most com
mon defects found with young men
examined yesterday. Defective teeth
was next in line in keeping youths
from serving i'm the draft army. The
question of Hat feet il one of most
importance with the government II
is found that men with fiat feet can
In no ways compete with the men
who have good pedal extremities In
long marches, the man with poor feet
falls out entirely and become burden
on the company.
Sound teeth is regarded as another
very important requirement for the
soldier. That soldier may properly
digest the army rations he must have
the best of molars.
Hernia was next in line with defects
found common among the young men
examined.
In the test for eyesight the major.
ity of the young men passed.
A rather piuful scene was enacted
in the high school gym yesterday
morning when deaf and dun mute,
who had been caught in the draft
was ready for examination. He was
at once taken to pr Blue when phys
icians were informed by the young
man who brought him to the high
school, that he was unfit for service.
Dinner Brings Him Up to Weight.
The question of big hearty noon.
day meal was the determining factor
in deciding whether Ettore Vignochi
would be accepted as one of Uncle
Sans fighting men Shortly before
noon EttOre was called for examina.
ton. He was just one pound under
the requirements for war service.
Ett0re wanted to go, but the NEEDLES
ruled he was too light. An agreement
was finally reached that Ettore should
come back for re-examination before
Dr. Burrows. He went home, ate Il
hearty meal. and coming back for
examination it was found that he was
pound heavier and he was then
passed upon for war service.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03

ing for great campaign to recapture
Baedad from the British ana drive
the British Mesopolamian armies
back to the Persian Gulf. according
TO Athens dispatches today
The Greek consul TO Canstantinople
who has just returned TO Athens. told
the correspondent OF the Socole that
two Turkish divisions from Dobrudja
and two from the Galician front are
now marching into Mesopotamia,
They are exceptionally well equipped
and supplied with heavy artillery.
The Turks are under command of
Field Marshal Won Falkenhayn. They
are to be followed by Austrian and
German troops. who, the Germans be-
lieve can be spared from the eastern
front because Of the Russian retreat,
The campaign against Bagdad Is to
begin early in September,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03

Ono of the most familiar quotations
from the Bible which are not to be
found there upon research Is "thc lion
lying down with the lamb" The spir.
ii of the reference Is correct enough,
but turn up the passage in Isaiah and
you will find, THE wolf also shall
dwell with the lamb. and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid. anG the
calf and the young lion and the fatling
together" The popular mind has con
tlcnsed the geological miscellany, and
TO the incorrect version ALTERATION has
no doubt contributed Exchange.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03

Dodging a Twenty Hour Day,
AREN'T you going home" inquired
Mr. Dolan.
Not this day nor tomorrow" replied
Mr.. rafferty,. I'm not going to work
more than eight hours a day. and the
only way | can he true 20 my principles
is to stay away from home, where
they're taking down the stove and
shaking rugs. Washington Star.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03
CONTINUE HEARING
ON LOCAL FIGHT

of the petitions il ultimately viii fall
the part of the commissioners 10 pass
on the petition. Should they care 10.
it is held, the petitions could be- de-
cared invalid even tho they were
drawn in proper form. In this manner
the petitions it ultimately win fall to
PEELED to proceed with mandamus in
the Circuit Cdurt and compel The com.
missioners to print ballots containing
the question and calling an election
to permit The people 10 decide the fate
Of the present government
1t is not considered however. in
administration circles that such a
course will be adopted Tho council
men are supremacy optimistic that
heir present case can be proven be.
You'd the question of a doubt
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03
What She Wanted.

A woman of uncertain age required
the services Of page boy and inserted
IN the local paper an advertisement
headed. "Youth wanted"
One Of her friends. with little humor
and less taste, sent her bottle Of a
celebrated wrinkle remover, a pot of
fairy bloom, n set of false teeth and 4
IlaXen wig,--London Telegraph.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03
HAMPSON RETIRES
FROM AUTO BUSINESS

J. A. Hampson. who has been en-
gagged in the automobile business at
~ W. Madison street, under the
name of J. A. Hampson and Son. has
retired from business and the store
has been leased to the Ottawa Bank
ing & Trust Go. Mr.. Hampson and
wife left for Omaha in their automo-
bile Saturday afternoon for a trip thru
the west The Oakland agency has
been transferred to Mers & FINLAND
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03

Some women who marry in hnste are
kept 10 terribly busy trying to support
their husbands that they have no
leisure for repentance. = New York
Globe.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
(Mcin want add section page fve.)

WANTED TO RENT--Four or five
room cottage in desirable location
would like possession soon. Address
534 h. Main ST.. phone 905-k.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03

WANTED TO RENT---Good poderA
house with FIVE to seven rooms with
garage II possible In good location.
VIII rent Immediately, Phone Client
Motor Co,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03

An egg eustard will not cur1lc %
boil II It IL placed In dish Of cold WI
ter and baked slowly.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-03
KAISER TELLS MEN
TO HOLD THEIR LINES

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Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
ARMOUR NAMED IN
 PROBE OF CHICAGO
 STOCK YARDS co
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paid by Frank R. Pegram. bool1keeper and cashier for Prince. Armours share was S194,0O0, which entitled him to l9.49o of the new stock, he and Prince having divided the obligation on pro rata basis of their ownership of Junction stock. Later however the money was loaned back to them. Wad- den insisted that he obtained ample security for all loans made while he was treasurer.
 Since the organization, it was shown, the Chicago Stock Yards company. controlling the properties belonging to the Chicago Junction Railways and
 Union Stock Yards company, has made
 enough money to pay the Junction
 stockholders their 9 per cent and the
 stockholders in the new concern 10
 per cent. Distribution of Chicago
 stock yards dividends has been effect
 ed by having clerks and bookk eepers
 entered on the records as drawing
 quarterly checks of ST, 7,500, $1S,700 and
 S25,0OO each. These were endorsed in
 blank and deposited in Boston banks
 to go to the holders of share warrants. Four times year check for approx
 imately S38,000 was drawn, pay to
 the order of New York check" which, l according to the correspondence. Croll | received for Armour.
 Prince, CrOll and Walden referred several times in correspondence to "the
 packers but Croll and Walden de-
 nied that any other packer than
 Armour was interested in the stock yards company, so far as they knew. In one letter Prince wrote to Ar
 mour that if necessary he would meet the packers" and explain the advan- | tage of the new company Croll said he knew nothing of any melon cut | ting adding that he had nothing to do with the payment of dividends by the Chicago Stock Yards company. E. N. Manning, boOkkeeper for Prince & Co.,, was the only other witness | giving details of the payment of divi-
 dends. He identified Albert E. Herring | W. :. Mitchell, Harry P. Nash and | others as clerks and bOOkkeepers who | for a brief minute four times a year held checks for princely incomes, which | they immediately endorsed and turned | over to Prince X Co. He also pointed | out the checks for $2.50 and $5 re- | ceived by the officers and directors ot ! the Chicago Stock Yards company or | the one or two shares of stock which | they held to qualify them.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
ARIZONA REPUBLICAN SATURDAY MORNING.

reduction of it's meat and sugar con- tent to save money
 Senators New and McKellar sug- gested that more garments could well be made in the home but Gen. Sharpe said "sub-letting contracts into homes meant sweat shopping" and he added that there are enough factories to make all the garments that will be needed.
 Referring again to equipment condi- tions at Camp Custer, Senator Hitch cock presented a letter from a woman who said 200 mems ears were frozen in one day because of lack of clothing and that many still were wearing summer clothing. The writer also said 26,000 pairs of shoes sent there were too small.
 'Is it possible that men are freez- ing for lack of clothing?" the Nebras- kan senator asked.
 T don't know" replied General Sharpe. T know there have been complaints that many sizes of shoes were too small. We have shipped ample supplies of clothing there."
 Why don't you wire the commander at Camp Custer and see if these con- ditions are true?" Senator Weeks asked and General Sharpe promised to act upon the suggestion.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
Far Apart Tn Ideas

LONDON, Dec. 21.-It has been inn possible thus far to confirm the unof- ficiaI report from the Petrograd cor respondent of the Exchange Telegraph company and the Germans have re- iected the peace terms of the Russians, but a long dispatch from the Russian Semi Official News Agency reveals that the Bolsheviki realized how far apart were their ideas from those Of the Germans. The dispatch is an ap- peal to the socialists of the central powers to bring their influence to bear on their rulers. It says that the so- cialists in all countries must under stand that between the peace program of the Workmen and soldiers delegates and the peasants delegates and that of the German capitalists, land owners and military generals, there are 1rrec- oncilable contradictions. If those two programs alone brought us face to face peace would be impossible because the Russian people have. not dethroned the monarchy and the bourgeoisie of their own country only to bow down before the monarchy and the bourgeoisie of another country.
 Peace only can draw near when the strong and decided will of the workers 
 | heard"
 The Rada, the governing body of the Ukraine, apparently is maintaining its determined stand as to the Bolsheviki government It is reported that it has converted it's sympathies with the movement of General Kaledines, the Cossack leader into definite alliance. | Advices received from Russia are to the effect that the Bolsheviki commits | sioners after receiving the Rada's re- | jection of the Bolsheviki ultimatum, sent another one, giving the Ukraine a | further AS hours in which to reconsider l it's refusal to acquiesce in the demands of the Bolsheviki government. Another report received here says that Odessa now has definitely gone over to the side of the Ukraine. De- tails of the capture of RostOv- Don 1 printed in Petrograd show there were six days of fighting before the Cos sacks entered the town last Saturday. The red guards lost 800 men killed and 1000 wounded in the fighting. The l Cossacks gave short shrift to the red guards, whom they hate. The Bolshe- wiki chiefs fled from the town on board warships. The cruiser Kolkvida (Kol- chida?) grounded in the river and was destroyed by the Cossack artillery.
 There has been no important fighting at Nakhitchevan, province of the Don where the Bolsheviki troops have fra terniZek with the Cossacks. A clash has occurred between the Bolshevik and Ukranians at Bolgard, Bessarabia The town is on fire.
 The Terek and Kuban Cossacks arc reported to be experiencing trouble ir their own territories, the hill tribes o1 the northern Caucasus having risen. | is also said that some of the Cossack. in the Don territory are dissatisfied with their leaders and are being wor over by the propaganda of the extrem. ists.
 Combating reports in circulation that the Bolsheviki commissioner
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
URGES HELP BY
 SAVING TONNAGE
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LONDON. Dec. 21.-Premier Lloyd George today in addressing a deputa- tion of agriculturists in regard to the food supply, referred especially to the problem of shipping the magnificent fighting material of the United States to Europe. Agriculturists at home could facilitate the task by saving ton- mage, the premier declared.
 Our very security depends on the increased cultivation of the land," he continued. We want. if possible to get three million acres into cultivation. We are beginning increasingly to req lize the extent to which agriculture enters into the whole task of carrying on the war
 You who are not working within sound of the cannon may not be faciN.S danger nevertheless you age doing that! Doing a work that assists the country in this grave hour of it's fate. By increasing cultivation, you can enormously increase the shipping at the disposal of the government to bring the men and munition needed to defeat the enemy"
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
German Force Tripled

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN NORTHERN ITALY, Thursday, Dec. 20.-A careful compilation of the strength and disposition of the tre- mendous Austro- German forces which originally concentrated for the Italian offensive, probably have been aug mented by troops from the Russian front, has just been completed by the French military authorities. The summary shows that between the middle of November and the middle of December the bulk of the enemy forces has been steadily shifted from the lower Piave line to the sector be- tween Vidor, on the upper Piave, and the AsiagO plateau-the part that is held by the French-until the forces which now are trying to batter their way into the northern Italian plains have been nearly tripled. This army, the summary states. is all the stronger because of the fact that it includes fully seven German divisions known to be engaged against the allies.
 This formidable strength of the in- vader accounts for the scattered gains that have been recorded during the last fortnight eliminating in the cap ture on Tuesday of Monte Asolone These positions are only a few miles from the plain proper and therefore as in the case of Col. Della Beretta captured a few days previously, theil acquisition is valuable. Positions flanking other mountains still are held stubbornly by the Italians, al though the enemy is able to enfilade movements to and from otherwise strategic heights.
 In gradually relinquishing a few points and in falling back in this sec tor upon new line, the Italians are
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22

again strongly and strategically locat- ed. They have made the enemy pay dearly for each yard of ground gained and have put up determined defense that augurs well for the future, es- peciall since the French are success pecially holding every foot of their line and have strong reserve forces behind their battle front The Italian troops by the end of October had increased forces on the Asiago sector and by the middle of November the sector from Asiago to Stelvio had been vastly strengthened.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
POPULAR COUPLE
 WE'D IN BUCKEYE
Special to The RepubIican)

BUCKEYE, Dec. 2l.--The marriage of Miss Ollie Carter daughter of Mr.
 and Mrs. J. NJ. Carter, prominent cit
 izens of this place. and Orrery Kemp, was sOlcmuized this evening at s o'clock at the home of the brides par ents. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Bridges in the presence of the immediate friends of the bride and groom The bride is one of the most charming young women of Buckeye, while the groom in the year he has lived here has proven himself a young man of sterling qualities. MT. and Mrs. Kemp for the present will make their home in Phoenix. Mir. Kemp ex- poets shortly to be called to the colors.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
FIND BRAIN MISSING
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TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 21.-Examina- - ton today of the body of Lucius B. Berdan, retired wholesale grocer who died suddenly in Chicago last week, revealed that the brain and one kid
 ney were missing. The examination was conducted by Coroner William H. Hartung assisted by a chemist. Other organs of the body were removed and will be examined closely for traces of poison. If necessary they will be sent to Chicago, but no orders to that effect have been received, the coroner said. Berdan's widow, who disappeared from her apartment here last Sunday, has not been located by the authorities.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
MAY GET BRANCH BANK
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FL PASO Dec. 21-EI Paso may be selected as the location for a branch of the Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas
 Judge w. R. Ramsey, chairman of the board of the eleventh federal district, announced here tonight he would rec
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
American Engineers Praised

PARIS, Dec. 21.-The conduct of the American engineers at Cambrai was praised in letter written by General J. B. Seely, commanding a Canadian cavalry bridgade to Wilson Cross, vice president of the American chamber of commerce in London which was read today to the American Luncheon club by F. B. Powell, the chairman.
 T am at home for few days" Gen. eral Seely wrote ,'and before return ing to France I cannot help telling you of the extraordinarily gallant fight put up by handful of American rail- way engineers during the second phase of the Cambrai battle. I happened to hear of it first hand and the facts are worth recording.
 They were running their train for ward at dawn and laying a line in front of it when they found themselves surrounded by Germans. No man thought of surrendering. Some fired with rifles to cover the retirement and others fought hand to hand with crow bars and picks. Not one man of the party fell unwounded into the hands oi the enemy"
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22

ommend a branch of the Dallas Feder-
 al Reserve Bank being established here. The proposed district to be served by this branch includes all of the section
 west of Midland, Texas, to Tucson, Ariz., and north to Albuquerque, N. M. + would have d reserve of S100,000, 900 under the present plan of organization.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22

sou company, has arrived in Phoenix from Camp Funston, having been
 granted a furlough over the holidays.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22

While here he is the guest of his uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs. M. c. McDougall.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22

lContinued from Page Il the war and also Il 1,OOO,OOO lire during Italy's neutrality.
 Deputy Pirolinrs speech embraced all of Italy's political animosities for the last two years and it was made with the approval of a large group of deputies who are determined to carry on the war. While ex-Premier Gio- litti's statement virtually was forced from him, it is considered in parlia- = mentary circles that he has pledged himself to disregard the past and aid the war party.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
Christmas For Americans

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
 FRANCE. Thursday, Dec. 20.-The
 rush of Christmas cable messages from
 the American soldiers to their homes
 began today. Company commanders sent to the telegraph office thousands
 of messages for the soldiers mothers,
 wives. sisters, sweethearts, relatives
 and friends.
 The first of the Christmas concerts and entertainments for the children. | especially the little refugees, will be | held Saturday in a theater in a town where the correspondents have their | headquarters. The entertainment has | been arranged by the American offi- cers and the sub- b-prefect of the town, and noted singer will be brought from Paris through the efforts of the 1 French staff.
 | There will be a Christmas tree pre- sided over by Pere Noel, or Santa Claus, who on other days is an Ameri-
 can officer. Many American soldiers contributed to the fund for the pur- l chase of the gifts, one machine gur
 battalion alone having raised 3,00t | francs.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22

have refused to convene the constit- uent assembly, Moses Uritzky, com missioner for elections to the assembly, has issued a manifesto in which he gives assurances that the assembly will be assembled as soon as the 400 deputies have registered themselves at his bureau.
 It is said that a great quantity of valuable property has been taken from houses of the rich in Petrograd by the mobs- that have been searching for liquor. Among the buildings sacked is the palace of Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, widow of Grand Duke Vlad- imir. Special dispatches say that the plundered people are absolutely with out redress.
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
CLOTHING SCARCITY IN ARMY DENIED
 BY GEN. SHARPE
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changes to Secretary Baker to secure modern business methods"
 Regarding the present army ration, which General Sharpe said costs 40 cents a day as compared with 2S cents before the war, he declared that it's success in building up men to go over the top had been demonstrated and he protested against agitation from the surgeon generals office for
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
SERGEANT MURRAY HERE

answered the call to the colors, was
 connected with the McDougall-Cas-
Arizona republican., 1917-12-22
FINLAND STARVING
 AND FOOD WILL , BE SHIPPED SOON

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