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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
SPORTING ITEMS

New York, leads in national league,
Chicago in American League.
Wilbur Cooper has won IL and lost
six games for Pittsburg. the tail end
team in the national league.
Bart Lewis of Auburn, ILL.,, won the
open trophy professional shoot at
the preliminary event of the Grand
American Trapshooting tournament,
Chicago, scoring 1875 out Of a possible
200.
Frederick B. Alexander and Harold
Throckmorton of New York Saturday
won the final match of the national
patriotic doubles lawn tennis tourna-
ment which this year took place of
the national doubles championship.
Willard May Fight.
Apparently there was real founda-
ton for the recent report that Jess
Willard was preparing to reenter
the ring; that he had his eye on the
winner Of the Fred Fulton-Carl Nor
ris bout as a prospective opponent.
Jim Coffroth. the California boxing
promoter offers $4,000 for such a
match to be held at the Tia Juana
race track on Thanksgiving day.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED THOROUGHBRED
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest
to all the People.

Indications are that our government
Is preparing to take control OF the
coal industry.
Germany agrees to demands OF
Spain and will hereafter give protec
tion to hospital ships.
The Rockefeller foundation has
appropriated $6,426,872 for war work
since January 1, 1917
The Costa RIGA government, it IL
reported, is contemplating withdraw
ing from the Pan-American union.
Cuba's offer to provide a mobiliza
ton and training ground for some
American forces has been accepted.
Venice Saturday celebrated Amer
ica's entry into the war in a demon
stration organized by the general
committee of Venice to assist in the
war.
Ireland's farmers this year have
produced wheat crop 53.8 per cent
larger than last years and 1871 pei
cent more than the average crop fol
1911-15.
Twenty-Five sugar companies of Ha
waii will pay to the federal govern
ment taxes under the excess profits
provisions of the war revenue bill
now before congress more than 81,
100000.
Authorization to issue bonds an(
certificates totaling $11, 53S,945, 460 a
one time is provided in the new wal
budget bill in congress embodyin,
recommendations of Secretary Nc
AdoO.
The third case of infantile paraly
sis in two days was discovered a
Davenport, Iowa. Aug. IS. Stric
measures are being taken by authori
ties to prevent the spread of the dis
ease.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24

and also the Isonzo river and now are
at deadly grips with the enemy along
a front of 81 miles.
Nearly 10000 prisoners already have
been counted by the French and Ital.
ians, and doubtless this number will
be materially augmented when full
details of the fighting are at hand. In
addition, The Germans and Austrians
lost heavily in men killed or wounded
and in guns and machine guns cap
tured.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
NEW TRENCH IDEA
GERMANS STARTED
ADVANCE FORCES NOW SCATTER.
ED OVER A GREAT DEPTH
IN TRoNGHoLDs.
DEEP DUG0UTS DISCARDED
British Artillery Breaks Up Shoulder
to-Shouider Fighting in Long Ditch
Start Of Fourth War Year
Brighter for Allies.

British Front in France and Bel
bium.-The beginning or the fourth
year of the war finds the Germans
rapidly making a radical change in
their methods of defense along the
British battle front in northern France
and Belgium. The continuous line of
wonderfully constructed forward
trenches with their deep dugouts, in
which lived and fought great numbers
of men. are fast passing into the dis
card.
The enemy Is adopting a system of
scattering his advance forces over
great depth.
Cunningly constructed strongholds
among the shell-holes now conceal in
Vulnerable small and more or less iso-
lated garrisons of men who formerly
fought shoulder to shoulder along the
great stretches of picturesque bitches,
through which communication was not
broken for miles.
Germans Built Death Traps.
This alteration has been brought
about by the ever-growing preponder-
ance of British artillery which buried
the German front line trenches under
an avalanche of shells and has left
the defenses nothing but heaped fur
| rows of earth and has made the fam
GUS dug-outs veritable man traps in
which countless thousands have lost
| their lives without chance of fight
ing back. The continuous deluge of
breaking steel made repair work on
the trenches impossible and as the
Germans were gradually passed back
they, of necessity, were forced to in
vent another mode of stemming the
ever-advancing tide.
So 1t has come to be depth of de-
lenses upon which the Germans de.
pend in many places rather than the
strength of his first line trenches. The
recent allied offensive east and north
of Ypres disclosed many examples OF
this new scheme of fighting, which
bids fair to take the place of the tao
tics of the last three years.
outposts Now Far Apart.
| Wherever the German front line
trenches have been made untenable
or where British attack is expected
one finds the new order of things The
first German lines now often consis,
Eof strong outposts concealed in shell
craters or copses, and a considerable
distance apart.
Back of these outposts are chains
of shell-hole nests, each nest consist
ing of two or three craters connected
by underground passages that Otter
lead to dug-outs. AS the entire ter
ritory is pitted with holes, this is easy
of accomplishment and it may be pre-
sumed that the Germans figure it will
be hard for the allied observers to picl
out the defended shell-holes from the
thousands of Others scattered about
Where time has allowed, the Ger
mans have made the shell-hole de
lenses with elaborate care. Each mes
is heavily protected by barbed wire
and the chambers beneath are rein
forced with timbers and concrete. Ii
these the infantry Turk with machin,
guns and rifles. ready to rush out ant
begin firing If an attack is launched
against them.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
FORMER GEAR NOW is
PLACED IN SIBERIA TOWN
Nicholas Romanoff Becomes Plain Cit.
izen Of Tobolsk, Once Station
for Russian Exiles.

Petrograd-It was officially an
nounced Monday for the first time
that the new residence of Nicholas
Romanoff, the deposed Russian en-
peror, is at Tobolsk a western Sibe-
rian town, which recently achieved a
dubious publicity in revolutionary Rus
sia as the birthplace Of Gregory Ras-
putin. the mystic monk who welded
remarkable influence over the ex-
emperor's family up to the time of the
priests assassination in Petrograd last
December.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
Christmas Cheer for Our Troops

Washington.-Every American sol
der and sailor, whether at the battle
front in France or in training camp at
home, on ships at sea, or stationed on
shore, is to have Christmas remem-
brance from home" Red Cross Off
cials have just completed plans for the
Christmas cheer and arrangements
will be worked out Immediately.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
Guilty of Draft Conspiracy.

New York.-Dr. s. j. Bernfeld and
Louis l. Cherey, indicted members of
exemption board No. SO, Tuesday Ell,
tered pleas of guilty to charge of
conspiracy to obstruct the draft law
as they were about to be placed on
trial. They were sentenced to two
years each in the federal penitentiary.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
G. A. r. VETERANS MEET.
51st Annual Encampment In Boston
This Week.

Boston.-The Grand Army of the Re-
public modified here this week for
their 51st annual encampment.
The encampment formally opened
Sunday with an impressive patriotic
service
In the parade on Tuesday from 1O.-
600 to $4,000 veterans were in line, as
compared with the 10000 who march
ed at the last national encampment
here 10 years ago.
The business meetings of the G. A.
r., the Woman's Relief corps and the
Sons of Veterans were held Wednes-
day. Colonel Orlando A. Somers. of
Kokomo. Ind, was elected commander
in chief OF the Grand Army.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
SAYS STATIC CURRENTS
NOW MAKE SMUT FIRES
Electricity Should BE Grounded and
Dust Drawn Off by an Exhaust
Fan, Says Expert.

Washington State College, Pullman.
After studying smut explosions and
fires in Washington wheat fields for
four years the state experiment station
has reached the following conclusions:
1. There is static electricity about an
operating separator. This static cleo
tricity will set fire to, and consequent
ly explode, smut and dust made by
finely pulverized straw or other or
ganic, combustible material that may
be floating in dense clouds in and
about the separator. An explosion of
this character is merely a matter of
getting the combustible dust and the
air mixed in the right proportions.
2. Threshing machine operators who
have wired their separators so as to
carry off and ground" the static cleo
tricty have had no explosions.
Draw off Dust With Fan.
3. The inflammable mixture of smut
and air can be greatly diluted-and
therefore rendered less explosive-by
using an exhaust fan to draw off the
smut dust from the cylinders.
4. When dust and smut have been
drawn off, over the cylinder, the sepa-
rators have gone through the season
without an explosion.
5. The fire that usually destroys the
separator burns the sacked wheat,
straw and shocked grain, is on the out
side of the machine. If the litter is
kept from accommodating under and
near thresher, the destructive out
side fires are more likely not to occur.
sprinkiers Control Fires.
6. Separator operators who have in
stalled properly designed sprinkler
system in their threshing machines
have been able in most cases to con-
troll the fires starting with smut ex-
plosion with small damage
| These conclusions represent the
findings of 10 men of the state college
and experiment station staff, among
whom were engineers, chemists, farm
crop specialists, farm mechanics, sepa-
rator operators and practical wheat
growers.
Static electricity is generated in an
operating threshing machine by the ac-
ton of straw smut and other mater
ial whipping against the parts of the
separator. 1t is condensed on metallic
parts of the thresher, which are more
or less insulated from the ground by
the grease and oil of the journals, and
by the wooden parts of the separator.
Sparks Jump Across Gap.
This electricity, when accumulated
in sufficient quantity, jumps over or
breaks down the insulation, forming
spark very much like lightning in
the sky or electricity jumping the
spark gap in spark plug. This con-
dition is always present when grain
is threshed in very dry weather. Sepa-
rator men have seen these electric dis
plays in the cylinders when running
at night, and often receive shocks by
coming in contact with some part of
the machine.
Smut is highly inflammable. When
dry and mixed with air in the right
proportion it is fired by the electric
sparks; in fact, a mixture Of air and
smut ignites very much as does the
mixture Of air and gasoline ignite in
an automobile engine.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Newark, N. j. Cortland Parker,
lawyer and member of distinguish
ing New Jersey family, aged go years.
Roanoke, Va.-The body of for
mer Senator John w. Kern Of Indi-
ana, who died at Asheville, N. c.,
was brought to the Kern summer
home where the funeral services
we're held Sunday.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24

Mother-"Johnny. did you take
your cough medicine regularly at
SCHOOL,"
Johnny-'No'm; Tommy Budd likes
1t, an he gimme a banana for it."
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
Won sernstorff Goes to Turkey.

Berlin.-Count Won Bernstorff, the
former German ambassador to the Uni
ted States, has been appointed to the
post at Constantinople.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24

Soldiers Equipment Cost $156.3o.
Washington.-It costs the United
States just $156.30 to equip an infan-
tryman for service in France.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-08-24
krupp Plants May Strike.

London.-A strike of workers in the
Essen and Dusseldorf districts is
threatened
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OF Oregon's quota of TIT men under
the first draft call sos have been rails
ed and certified.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17
. . . . . 80 . . . . . I
HElGHBoRHooD NOTES.
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West independence Items.

West independence Items.
The Idle Hour club met with Mrs,
Henry johnson last Tuesday.
Most of the corn in this vicinity
Is laid by. Haying has started and
the early oats will be ready for the
.-hii ifsaa der { HIS his Syeek.
j. w. Adams and wife of Webster
City were Sunday callers at the John
Schweppo home.
Nearly everybody in this commu-
nifty is attending the Chautauqua at
Webster City.
/. Mrs. Male Pringle and son Andrew
and family of Webster City visited at
the Jim Paswater home last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Gerber OF
Webster City were visitors at the j
w. Chalfant home Sunday.
Peter Zeihan and family visited
At the John Zeihan home in Webster
City Sunday.
Roy Rutledge, who has been i'll fol
. few days, is reported better at this
writing.
July 16.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17
Dubuque in the near future to take

Dubuque in the near future to take
nurses training.
The Geo. Rick family left Sunday
for an overland trip to South Dakota
in their new car.
The Herbert Cotton family came
Sunday for a visit at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Cotton. Their
many friends will be glad to renew
acquaintance with them.
F. r. Payne of Fort Dodge spent
the week end here on business and
visiting friends.
Many people from here are taking
in some of the excellent Chautauqua
programs in Webster City.
Mrs. w. P. Bossenberger received
notice from Washington, D. c., Sat.
urday Of her appointment as Red
Cross examiner in the nursing cours-
es, and she has been requested to ex-
anime the classes at Iowa Falls.
Jack Ranger lost valuable mule
Sunday from blood poisoning.
There is new corn crib going up
on the Carr farm tenanted by Harley
Mason.
Miss Louise Bossenberger, Mrs. De
Boer and little daughter, jeanette
Martinson and Mrs. w. P. Bossenber-
ger autoed to Webster City Monday
to hear Judge Lindsey and Katherine
Ridgeway at Chautauqua.
Mrs. l.. Martinson and daughter
Carmine spent Monday in Webster
City.
July II. :,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17
Kamrar Items.

Mildred Seamands returned home
Saturday after a weeks visit in Web.
ster City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wientjes and
Miss Rosie Wepel of Webster City
were business visitors here Friday
During the rain storm Monday af-
ternoon lightning struck the Henry
Vaupel residence, damaging 1t quite
badly.
Mrs. ]. F. Crawford of Webster
City visited over Sunday at the S. G.
Thompson home.
Miss Heyer is clerking at the o.
L. Gilbert store.
Quite a number Of Webster City
friends attended the Grandma
Thompson funeral here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Waterman Wis
tied Tuesday at the Eugene Sea-
mands home.
R. R. Mickle of Newark, S. D., was
q visitor here Thursday.
I A few of our residents are attend
ing Chautauqua at Webster City.
Mrs. Ellen Berryhill is visiting at
the F. A. Kayser home in Webster
City.
Miss Matte Brandow was a Web
ster City visitor Monday.
July II.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17
BIGGEST ADvERT|S-
ING CAMPAIGN

| Washington, July 17.-More than
$600,O00,00O worth of free advertis-
ing was given to the United States
government in it's campaign to float
the liberty loan, according to esti-
mates made by treasury officials.
This does not include the hundreds
of millions of dollars worth of space
given in small country newspapers
which never reached the attention
OF the government.
Whole newspaper pages, moving
pictures, millions of posters, sign
boards, hand dodgers, paper bombs,
and hundreds of other means of
bringing the bonds to the public
We're donated to the government by
patriotic citizens.
The use of the editorial and adj
vertising pages of 273 technical pa
pers was donated, trade journals
threw open their columns. Boy
Scouts spent weeks in folding and
mailing 100000 folders printed in
the government printing office.
Thirty-siX different languages
were represented in the hundreds
|of foreign language papers which
came to the assistance of the gov
eminent.
Almost 100000 large posters
were distributed in all parts of the
country, free of charge. The num-
Der of posters distributed by local
committees for local use would more
than double the above number.
More than 100000 copies of Sec
rotary McAdoo's liberty loan speech
es and 100000 circulars describing
the loan We're mailed from Washing
ton and distributed free. Almost
100000 liberty loan primers were
distributed free to the government.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17
Homer Sayings.

verva, the little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Rae Elliott, had very
painful accident Monday evening.
She was playing in the parlor and
sljd> from the sofa to sofa pillow
on the floor, running a sewing nee
die in her knee. She was taken to
Webster City and the needle located
with the use of the X-ray. Drs
Richardson and Wyatt removed the
needle and she is getting along
fairly well.
Ashberry johnson heard the Bryan
speech at Stanhope Wednesday af-
ternoon, July IL.
Chaucey vegors has purchased a
-. plant. 1t will be fn-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17

port for service as surgeon in the
regular army. He was uncertain a!
to where he would be sent.
The people of Jewell will have q
community picnic for the Jewell sol
der boys at the park next Thursday
afternoon at o'clock. The soldier!
will come down from Webster Cit,
on the afternoon train. Col. Hyatt
of Webster City will deliver an ad
dress and there will also be music
and speaking by local people.
Mr.. Dairymple of Belmond is here
for u VISIT at the home of his son
Chas. Dalrymple, and family.
Arkley and William Minert, chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Minert
|of Humeston, Iowa, are here for 9
visit at the home of their grandpar'
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder Everett and
two daughters of Mason City spent
Friday and Saturday here visiting
friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Everett were
former residents of Jewell.
Mrs. Ed Knudson was a Webster
City caller Saturday afternoon.
John Wills returned Friday even
ing from Bancroft and Alden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin latham left
Friday morning for Minnesota fol
"a visit at the home of their daugh.
ter, Mrs. Andrew Larson, and fam.
lily.
Mrs. S. O. Westre was Webster
City visitor Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. o. Omundson went to Randall
Wednesday for a visit with hel
daughter, Mrs. j. Gil Peterson.
Harry Loder was business caller
in Boone Wednesday.
Mrs. George Knudson was a Web
ster City caller, between trains Wed
|nesday afternoon.
Rexford and Herbert Henderson
spent Sunday at their home in Story
City.
Miss Bessie Brekke spent last
week in Randall visiting her friend
Miss Francis Henderson.
Harold Hitler Of Hubbard and sis
ter, Mrs. Connie Fetland, of Des
Moines, visited friends here Friday
Miss Bess Ostrum made an over.
Sunday visit with friends in Hub
bard.
Miss Esther oppedahl of Dawson
Mimi, is here visiting at the home
of her uncle, P. o. Sexy, and other
friends.
July 16.
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17
THE AMERICAN
TROOPS IN PARIS

Paris, June 30.-Letter to Free
man-Tribune from w. S. Forrest, U
P. Correspondent: Care du Nord is
the great railway station of Paris
through which American troops will
pass on their way to and from the
front. General Pershing and his
staff had their first glimpse of Paris
through its big front door.
Otherwise it is the happiest and
saddest place in the French metropo.
lis. The happiness is made. in Amer
lea. The sadness is, Of course, the
war.
If the American women could see
the results of the handy bags they
sew and send to France and the
money they collect in America to
cheer the soldiers at the Care du
Nord they would feel justly compen-
stated for every cent and every hour
of work.
In a great hall in the basement of
the station French poilus gather to
be entertained by vaudeville artists
and to have luncheon furnished by
Madame Couicol, a benevolent
French woman who assures America
that American soldiers will be just
as welcome. The men are leaving
for the front-passing back to the
firing line.
When the luncheon is finished the
work of tens of thousands of Ameri-
can women is handed to the soldiers
by kindly faced American women in
Paris doing the work of the Ameri-
can Fund for French Wounded.
These include Mrs. Mary Beech
Needham, wife of the late famous
American writer, and Miss Brent of
Chicago. Hupdreds of stuck bags"
sewed and provisioned in every state
of America are handed to the eager
poilus.
Big, strong men, who know that
within twenty-four hours they will
be back fighting death in the firing
line, almost weep and bless the
American women. The bags contain
whatnots of every description
needles, thread, soap, towels, tooth
brushes and paste and hundreds of
things that cheer men cursed with
almost three years of war.
On the night thei French poilu
received his first message direct from
General Pershing and was intro
duced to the American officer, the
United Press saw, what kindly Amer
lean women were doing to cheer the
soldiers of France. Captain w. F..
Margetts, aide-de-camp to General
Pershing and Major Churchill of the
general staff, represented the Amer
lean army. Four hundred and fifty
poilus cheered the American Off
GERS and American, . women until
their Threats were tired.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-17
captured GERMAN
SHIPS TAKING SUPPLIES
TO THE SCAND|NAY|ANS

stalled soon.
r. G. Pierce was business visitor
at the county capital Wednesday.
Alva Shaffer and H. H. Barnhart
and families were callers at the Will
Miller home recently. They found
Mrs. Miller improving slowly from
her severe attack of rheumatism.
She is taking treatments from a Wis
|consin physician.
Rev. Wright of Lehigh began a
series of meetings at the Christian
church Monday evening.
The w. c. T. U. will meet Friday
of next week at the Yoeman hall to
sew. Let as many as possible be
present, as the needs are urgent.
Mildred Mcfarland visited her
sister, Rena Daily, Thursday.
Elton Harrison of Webster City is
visiting his uncle, j. B. Harrison,
during his summer vacation.
Mrs. Frank Williams and Mrs.
Elmer Boynton expect to leave for
Iowa Falls July 26 to chaperone a
party of ten young ladies on their
summer vacation and also to attend
the yearly state Baptist association
to be held there.
Mrs. Lyle Beebe entertained the
Embroidery club Wednesday of last
week, complimentary to her mother,
who leaves soon for her home in
Texas.
The young people enjoyed a very
pleasant time at a party at the
Beebe home Tuesday evening in
which they initiated the new barn.
The w. C. T. U. will hold an ice
cream social at the Yeoman hall
Thursday evening. Let everyone
come and help in a worthy cause.
Jessie Pierce and Cecil Mulhclland
are attending Chautauqua at Web
ster City this week.
Mrs. Geo. Carpenter visited her
Mrs. Mauke, Friday.
Clarence Vegors and wife were
business callers at Stratford Tues
day evening.
Zelpha Leksell is visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Chas. Elliott, this
week and attending Chautauqua.
Several of the farmers in this To-
cality are Smelling corn.
July II.