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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
500 SLACKERS FAIL
TO RESPOND TO CALL
OF ILLINOIS BOARD

East st, Louis, H., Sept. 25.-Fed
eral authorities today started a search
for more than 800 registered men who
tailed to respond for examination
This is 25 per cent of the number
called for examination.
In the negro district where the re-
cent race riots occurred, 3l5 men are
missing
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
PROMINENT RUTLAND
FARMER A BENEDICT

Fred Spencer OF Rutland township
and Miss Nellie Jamison, of Mar
seilles, were married at the Presby.
terian manse in this city last night
at 6 Is by Rev j. f. Vonckx The
couple were unattended and modi
fed form of the Episcopal wedding
ceremony was used.
Mr.. Spencer is former Ottawa
man and Is an ex-member of the Board
of Supervisors,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
TO DRAFT 100 MEN
FOR CO. C-W|LL THEN
HAVE WAR STRENGTH
FRANK BOYE, NEW CORPORAL,
TELLS OF CHANGES TO BE
MADE IN LOCAL ORGANIZATION
CHURCH SERVICES IN CAMP.

Further details, embracing the
changes to be made in Company c
when it is to be known as Company b
1863 Infantry, were given today in a
letter written by Corporal Frank
Boyle to his mother, Mrs Peter Boyle
and sisters. incidentally it is men
toned IN his letter that Frank has
been boosted to corporal and now
wears the two stripes no his sleeve
Indicative of his Office
Mr.. Boyle has taken to soldering
like the proverbial duck to the water
and in his letter shows his keeness
for the army game. He says:
Camp Logan Sept 20, 1917.
Your most welcome letter re,
ceiyed and up until this afternoon
have been very busy, but will an
swer now.
You will probably see by the
papers where they have started to
re-organize the regiment Com
pany c will not be split but will
receive 100 men from Company b
to make the required number of
$50 to company Later it will
be known as Company B.
You will no doubt be pleased to
hear that have been advanced to
corporal and will receive an in
crease in salary. There is lots OF
work to be done yet and it keeps
me pretty busy, but | am getting
along fine and will not have to
drill or do any guard duty now.
II is getting little cooler now
in the day time. Everything Is
hurry here and they are equipping
the men as fast as they can. we
have electric lights in our tents
now and it is just like sleeping
In a hotel.
We all received our supply OF
winter underwear the other day
consisting of two union suits, four
pairs of socks one heavy woolen
sweater and another uniform.
They feed us better now. II was
not what they gave us, it was the
way II was cooked that the fel-
lows kicked about. but now we
are getting it cooked much better
and plenty of 1t.
have to go for the mail three
times a day--at 10000 a. m, l:0o
D. m. and A 80 p. m. and believe
me, the boys are anxiously await
ing my return.
So Pete is going to send me
"boy Well tell him ! Will be
glad to get it, but to be sure ana
wrap it good and use a strong box
MS great many of the boxes we
receive are all smashed. They ar
rive O. X. II packed in good
stout box as most of the smashed
ones are only shoe or candy BOXES
with nothing wrapped around
them,
The band plays every mofhlhS
for three or four hours. They are
lust about one-half block IRON US
and it is nice to hear the music
while we are working. They nave
all kinds of amnsements al tue
Y, M. C. A. every night, but there
is nearly always something DONG
in our company so there IS no
reason for any one getting home
sick or lonesome.
We will have field mass in camp
every morning now as the chap-
lain of the Seventh regiment Is Il
Catholic priest. We will not have
to 90 to town to church any more
FRANK
The letter from Camp Houston pu
lished in yesterdays Free TRADE
Journal. was from Elmer Levy to Il
! sister, and not from Elmer Me'1s'
as was previously stated.
4
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
ESSANAY FILM co.
AT STARVED ROCK

The Essanay Film Co., of Chicago,
are working on new picture at Stary-
ed Rock, which will take a couple OF
weeks to complete. Sixty members of
the company arrived there last even
Ing and today they are making pre-
pora,ions for picture making.
The Essanay Company has studio
In Chicago and every year come to
the Starved Rock region to make GER
tain scenes for their various pictures
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
LIEUT.. Fullerton
ARRIVES OVER THERE

Lieut. Bushnell Fullerton, one OF
the newly commissioned officers from
TT. Sheridan, who was ordered to re-
port at Hoboken, ~ j., on August ~
for foreign service, has safely reached
his port OF destination, according to a
message received this morning by
friends In Ottawa.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26

Washington, Sept. ga general
strike of machinists employed at gov.
ernment navy yards threatened today
as a result of President Wilson's ac.
tion In declining to take a hand in
the dispute at this time.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
MEX|CANS FINED:
HAD A BIG ROLL

Two Mexicans were picked up drunk
In Washington park yesterday and
taken to the city Jail to sober up
This morning they were taken before
Police Judge Koenig and were each
fined 300 and costs One of the men
reached inside of his pockets and
pulled out roll of bills containing
over 800, out of which he paid the
fines.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26

Sergeant Seidleckl will be In Otta.
wa all day Friday at the recruiting
station In the postotllce to take enlist.
ments In all branches of war service
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
Why Not Find Out?

Every time a young man sees pret-
ty girl purse her lips he wonders II
there Is anything In the purse for him.
Boston Transcript.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
PERU WOMAN ASKS
FOR DIVORCE DECREE

Alleging cruelty and nonsupport
Mrs. Rose Dobberstein, OF Peru, To-Day
instituted divorce proceedings In the
circuit court against Robert Dobber'
stein. who she married May 30, 1913.
The separation occurred January D,
1917. when the complainant accuses
the defendant of leaving her depend
ant upon the charity of friends and
without penny. They have one
child.
Another Divorce.
Mrs, Blanche Hester has instituted
proceedings for divorce against Ralph
N. Hester giving cruelty as grounds
upon which her plea viii be based
The Hesters were married at Bloom
ington, August Is, 1914, and separat
ed In May OF this year
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-26
THE WEATHER.

Illinois: Unsettled to-
night and Thursday; prob
ably showers.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
$2O,OOO,OOO

Mr.. Edward +. Simms, OF Paris, Sells
Interests In Oil Lands To Harry J..
Sinclair For Twenty Million
Dollars.
Friends throughout Bourbon Coun-
ty will be pleased to learn that Mr.
Edward F. Simms, of Paris, KY, and
Houston, Texas, has disposed of his
immense oil holdings in Oklahoma,
Texas and Mexico for s2O,O0O,0OO.
Mr.. Simms is native of Paris, be
ing the son of the late Capt. w. f.
Simms and Mrs. Lucy Blythe Simms.
He is a brother of Miss Lucy Simms,
a,ho resides nj Tho old SiY,ms her,.l
Mt. Airy" in this city, and of Mr. w,
e. Simms, of Woodford County. Mr.
Simms makes frequent visits to Bour-
bon County, where he owns and is de
veloping his large landed estate of
more than 1000 acres ON the North
pike.
A dispatch from Houston, Texas,
last night said:
HOUSTON, TEXAS, March S.-The
Gulf Corporation, headed by
Harry j. Sinclair, has taken over the
control of the f. f. Simms interest
in Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico, in
cluding holdings in the Goose Creek
field near Houston, the Freeport Mex
can Fuel Oil Company, with its big
holdings in the Tampico oil fields, its
near New Orleans and its
1eet of tankers, Mr. Sinclair announc-
I'd yesterday. The monetary consid-
eration was $2O,0O0,OOO.
Mr.. Sinclair also confirmed reports !
hat he will build a pipe line from the
field to the Gulf and |
establish a refinery on the Gulf to
handle Oklahoma, Texas and Mexican |
md Costa Rican crude oil.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
TODAY Is The REGISTERS 52nd BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS TO EVERYONE CHOICEST BLESSINGS BE YOUR LOT
WATCH OUT GIRLS

Lexington is no longer a village"
said Mrs, Clarence Egbert, Lexing-
toms police matron, this morning,
"and the young women of this city
cannot parade the streets at night
without escorts in the expectation
that the police will know them"
Ever since the closing of the re-
stricted district" said Mrs. Egbert,
there has been criticism that immoral
woman are walking the streets at
night with no interference from the
police. The chief of police and the
police judge assured me that the lott
ering of unchaperoned women on the
streets Of evenings will not be per-
mitted, and Lexington girls will be
expected to keep off the streets if they
do not wish to be misunderstood"
81 believe the mothers are in large
to blame for the numbers of
girls on the streets in the evening.
Young women who wear loud clothes,
and paint and powder themselves and
90 out after dark unattended will
have no ground for indignation or
)fTense if they are taken to the police
station by an officer and asked for
explanations. LEX. Herald
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
DISGRACE TO THE STATE OF
KENTUCKY

If eleven senator's have brought
shame and disgrace on the nation-a
deeper stain and a more damnable
outrage has been committed in Ken
lucky. If the charges made against
the doctors, nurses and attendants at
the Feeble Minded Institute at Frank
fort are true.
Then let the courts backed by the
Humane Society and the people of the
State at large make it hot for the
perpetrators of the deed and give
them what they deserve-"Make the
punishment fit the crimew If it is
possible inthis day of advanced civil
lization, to have a helpless child
placed in an institution for the treat
ment of a pitiful afiliction,-to
be cruelty treated, to be sent home to
its parents, bruised and mutilated
corpse, then in Gods name what pro-
lection have we in the law? Let
the Commission investigate, and if
they fail to do their duty, let the very
rocks and stones on Kentucky's hills
cry out and call them "cursed"
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
UNIQUE PLAN

OMAHA, March Municipal veg
etables gardens are to be established
in Omaha this spring and summer,
according to plans recently outlined
by representatives of the city's eleven
indorsed charity institutions. Every
vacant lot within the city limits is to
be put under cultivation and whatever
profits accrue from the crops will be
used for the city's poor, according to
the plan.
Under the present conditions of abb
normal prices for foodstuffs, the char
ty workers assert that their scheme
is "an economic venture rich in poss-
Utilities" and contemplates a co-opera-
ton with real estate dealers and pri-
vate property owners in an intensive
cultivation Of every vacant lot in the
city. The charity associations ap-
pointed a "Vacant Lot Gardening
aOmlllllet NulCu VIII ul'ci tdht "
hire experienced farmers to plow and
plant the land. Once plowed the land
viii be granted to dependent families
with the understanding that they cul-
tivate it successfully. If they fail to
DO this, the land will revert to the
committee and will be sub-let to some
other worker. Those who are allowed
to keep their land the entire season
are free to use or sell all it produces.
All crops harvested by the committee
will 90 into the city's charity fund.
1t is said that practically twenty
five acres of land are already in the
hands of the committee to dispose of
rs it wishes. As soon as weather per-
mits cultivation of this land and as
much more as the committee can OBJ
tain will be started.
Jacques Rieur, general secretary of
the Associated Jewish Charities, is
chairman Of the committee.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
Little Dorcas Club Recital.

The Little Dorcas Club will give a
Concert at the Normal Chapel Mon
day Evening at 7.30. This musical
will be Of exceptional interest on ac-
count of the Juvenile performers who
range in age from nine 70 twelve.
There will be several piano selections,
vocal solos and some recitations.
The entire entertainment was
planned and perfected by the child
ren without help from any grown up.
This enterprising little band, which
has recently furnished (by their own
efforts) childs room at the Pattie
A. Clay Infirmary, is now trying to
raise an endawnaAnt s..-d SO as tn
1nake irPJssible for children to occupy
the Dorcas room free Of charge. Ger
tainly they should be encouraged in
their good work and the people of
Richmond should attest their appre-
citation filling the Normal Chapel,
Monday evening. Tickets are fifteen
and twenty-five cents.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
BOOTHS DIARY

The Diary of Wilkes Booth taken
from his body after his capature, is
now in the hands of the proper invest
igating committee, having been hand
over to it by the authorities. For
some reason its contents were not
used in the trail. 1t shows that he
was an agent of the Confederate Gov
ernment and received money from it,
and that at on G. time, at least the plan
was to kidnap Mr.. Lincoln. 1t is be-
Harold in the assassination. The en-
try made on Friday the 2lst of April,
one week after the murder, shows that
it must have been written imperfect
agony of mind. 1t describes his po-
sition, with broken leg in the midst
of a swamp, alone an outcast, an as
saasin weighed down by his guilt, and
a feeling that God would refuse for
giveness. 1t is altogether such a cry
of human agony as seldom finds eX-
preston in words.-From the Kentuc-
ky Register FEBRUARY 1867
Mr. G. A. Phelps left this week for
Akron Ohio to make his home.
Mrs. Robert Bruce Stanford, came
up for the Cecilian Club.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
STROLLERS PRESENT THE
LION AND THE MOUSE

The Lexington Leader of Sunday
morning comes out in flaming head
lines, with a very complimentary
notice of the play "The Lion and the
Mouse" which was presented by the
"Strollers", the dramatic organization
of the University of Kentucky, at the
Opera House, Saturday evening.
Among the stars, and there were
many, was Miss Mamie Miller
Woods the charming daughter of Hon.
C. E. Woods, our former distinguished
fellow-towns-man.
Unquestionably Miss Woods was a
fayorite with the audience from the
moment of her first entrance to the
final curtain. A beautiful girl, charm
ing in personality. accomplished, it
,,,,l-il--. vi,ui,iu ,iisis sr-1ea-nt'ur ci
the part Of Shirley should be popular
with the audience when to these She
added a wonderfully sweet stage
voice and a depth of feeling Of which
most amateurs are incapable. Her
acting in the "denunciation scene"
was little short of professional.
William Shinnick, another eXper-
fenced actor, had the leading comedy
part, that of Fitzroy Bagley, and as
usual he made hit He is a natural
comedian and kept the audience in a
good humor at all times.
Lexington Leader
Mr.. Shinnick who has the honor of
being president of his class, is un=
usually gifted and posses great his
.rinic ability. He is the son of Editor
Edward Shinnick of the Shelbyville
Record.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
MISS CLAY IN NEW ENGLAND.

Miss Laura Clay, of Kentucky, one
of the most distinguished suffragists
of the South, has been spending the
past week in Rhode Island, having
been prevailed upon to visit that
state after attending the meeting of
the National Executive Council in
Washington. She will then pass a
few days in Massachusetts, where the
suffragists are to give her a recep-
ton. AS the Woman's Journal now
has so large a circulation that it has
to go to press earlier in the week, in
order to get the copies printed and
mailed before Saturday, we cannot
now give the date of the reception,
but it will probably be next Monday.
Massachusetts suffragists should
watch the daily papers or telephone
to headquarters for information.
Miss Clay will then spend a week
in New Hampshire, by invitation of
Miss kimball, the State President,
and will probably 90 on to Maine.
Miss Clay is a woman Of much a
bility, a kinswoman of Henry Clay.
She is also one of the noblest, most
unselish and most devoted workers
for the suffrage cause in America.
She has labored for it in many states,
and is full of most interesting infor-
nation about the rapid spread Of the
movement in the South which was
long regarded as the stronghold of
conservatism on this question. No
one should miss the chance to hear
her.-Woman's Journal.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
FIFTY YEARS AND TWO

Friends with you've idly wandered down years now ftySo
Tho the sunshine and the shadow still together and YOU
Do remember the morning when you my message came
Up and down each printed column there name
OF some to cherished but today where they all?
Like the leaves and flowers that perish they gone beyond recall
Still the memory Of their lives has meowed by the years.
And the record Of my pages brings alike the and tears
Here a babe bonand the hearts and hopes beat high
Just beneath requiem sad. and ponder with sigh
Then turn the yeowed page and bride passing near
slight and girlbh FORM to many hearts held dear
A vision OF bau,y-snt Of orange blossoms sweet
The groom tall dark and handsome and the picture complete
Then again columns tell you, while memiy reaches
OF meeting in the Court Room-and the old distinguished bar
And fancy hear them, of old their rung
In the eIo4uenee Of pleading when you and young
On sadnng looking backward ho the violet haze Of tears
SO together lei US turn to the pages OF the years
Let dip into the future" where the pages all are white
eyes above the mountains and behold the light
Let sing the song OF triumph all undaunted you and
Reach hand help and courage weary passerby
beyond the clouds that lower there will burn brighter light
To guide earth has vanished the tired spirits of the night
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
DAUGHTER FORCED To
KILL FATHER TO SAVE
HER LIFE
Tragedy in Oldham County as Result
of Drunken Mans Rampage.

LAGRANGE, KY, March12.-
George Washbum, aged fifty three
years, a farm hand on the farm Of
John Baltorff, near Goshen, in this
county, was shot and killed by his
daughter, Mrs. Goldie Washburn Rehl,
aged thirty years, when he threaten 70
kill her last night Washburn came
home drunk Saturday night and
~-t~~oi his wife who is paralyzed
and struck ner twice. ne eiien pro-
cdeded to brandish a knife and threat
en- the lives of the members Of the
family.
Frances Washburn, a fifteen-year
old daughter, at time appealed to the
neighbors for protection, and several
men succeeded in quieting the drunk
crazed father and husband Yester-
day, however, he secured more liquor
and again became violent, Finally
he threatened Mrs. Rehl, who had
come from Columbus, o., to nurse her
invalid mother. Mrs.Rehl grabbed a
shotgun and fired the shots causing
instant death.
The County Attorney of Oldham
county instructed Constable Snyder
to release the woman on light bond
after he had learned the details of the
killing. An inquest into Washburn's
death was taken up by Coroner Weeks
the hearing being conducted at the
scene.
The victim is survived by his wife,
four daughters, Mrs. Rehl, the slayer;
Frances Washburn, fifteen years old;
Lille Washburn, employed in Charles
ton, w. Va, and a married daughter
in Charleston, w. Va, and three sons,
Jesse Washburn, a member of the
First Kentucky Infantry now in Texas
Manuel Washbun, seventeen years
old and Wesley Washburn, twelve
years old.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16

Governor McCreary spoke to a full
attendance in Eastern Kentucky State
Normal Chapel on Wednesday morn
ing on the subject Thought and
Action in the World of Today" Gov
ernor McCreary urged the student
bodyto take a worthy part in the
progress Of the state and OF the world.
Religion, peace and education are the
trinity that make people happy;
Thought and Action are the great
duality that make for success.
Touching the war; Governor Nc
Creary said that, though a soldier
he was for peace; but always
peace with honor. His speech was
especially timely, Thoughtful, and able.
All VINO heard it enjoyed it fully, and
hope was expressed that our disting-
dished fellow ,owns-man and friend
would again honor the school and the
community with another such splen-
did and patriotic address.
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
AND THIS IN RICHMOND!

Our attention has been called to one
of the most brutal and inhuman deeds
which possibly, has ever been COM
mitted in Richmond. This has refer
euce to some small children ages II
and % months which were found
by the Associated Charity workers
this week. Both babies were in most
pitiful condition having been beaten
and bruised until it was necessary to
take them to the Infirmary until ar
rangements can be made to place
them in the Children's Home in Louis
vile.
Now scarcely had the ink dried on
our pen after hearing of the case of
the lad from Frankfort, when this
came before us. We had previously
said "everthing," nearly, and we can
nothing bad enough for the guilty
parties, unless we prescribe the pen
atty OF the Mohamedan counsel across
the waters. Trail by ORDEAL"
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
LAUGHS AT H. c. L. PERIL;
WAR VICTIM CAN'T EAT

WASHINGTON, March 7.-FranE
kelly Of Ashland, KY, who came
peahy being a victim of poison gases
On the French front and whose stom-
ach has been ruined by the noxious
fumes passed thru Washington today
enroute to his home.
He is just back from the European
war where he fought with the British
army in France.
"fhe American people don't know,
about the horrors of the war
over there. 1t is awful, he said.
Ifeits, was one of five Assericans
sIliJ inbste,s together ii the 3.stisi,
army He saw the other four die
around him. He himself nearly died
from the effects of the poison gas of
Ehe Germans,
Representative Caleb Powers sue
eeded in securing his release and he
topped here to thank him for what
le had done.-Louisville Herald
The Kentucky register. (Richmond, Ky.) 190?-1917, 1917-03-16
HERE IS WHAT
The Moonlight Schools of Kentucky
Are Doing.

At Manchester up in Clay county
not long ago, there was a celebration
which probably stands without a par
allel in history. The ranking feature
was parade. At the head of the
column "Uncle" Ed Stivers, 50 years
of age, carried an American flag. In
the imposing line, he was next to the
oldest schOlar-for every one of the
667 men and women were beginners
in school.
They were celebrating their eman-
cipation. They had learned to read
and write. They were a battalion of
the army which the Kentucky Hit
eracy Commission is delivering out of
bondage. "No Illiteracy In Kentucky
In 1920" is the slogan of the move
ment. The aim for 1916 was to teach
$500 persons to read and write.
Mrs. Stewart is known nationally
as "Mother of the Moonlight School.
Up among the Highlands in the first
night school for adults, she conceived
the idea which is fast bringing to the
State the emancipation which citizens
Of Clay county celebrated. More than
that, the crusade has extended to
other States, and the authors pattern
has found adoption.-Barbourville
Advocate