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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-27

George b. Weldon. Ia sale
Hsunie \ Jacobson. Sheridan
Dion :. Lejx. Ott1va.
duAG T. L4Hel. Daygaa.
Ear. H. Smith. MaIseuI,s.
Ttanc;' L. Ar-sy-or-. N5Tscilles
james w. HiEg Seneca.
L. D. Hart. Chicago.
Francis j. Wolfe. Ottawa.
casriss p. KHut>on. Ottawa.
isu'ei Madden. Tru. Grow.
addison Small. Wlthar..
taai.cs ". Coleman. Ottawa.
ku III \. iiur,h. Dayton.
Nt'-Im Il! Barber. TROY Grove.
Nthur : johnson. Leiant
Reh',t G. Wiley Earl,Il.c.
Elge L. Fiiz-r. LELAND
llerh.r :. HaisSo Nai.h.m
NHs'lo ferrIro. Marss.l!cs.
Joseph NJ. Larson. Leland
Thomas +. Costello. Ottawa
Gcor-c falhett. Wedrou.
William Gordon Marse.lle-.
Homer :. Hess Wedron
Matthew borame. Wallace.
Frank c. Lehman. Mendoza.
George J Elzor. Ottawa.
Aitrei l.. ientl. jr.. Serena.
Nm. Geo. ta0er. Mendoza.
agder7 j. Dime LELAND.
Joseph J. McNally. Troy Grove.
William K. Smith. Marscillos.
Clarence H. Meenan. Earlyille.
Arthur Nottingham. Sheridan.
John ". Reutner. la Sale.
Fred West. Jr.. Mill.ngtOu.
Charles l.. Thomas. Marseillas.
Frank Z. Lind. Meriden
,arolce killelea. Seneca.
John j. O'Neil. OTTAWA.
Joseph " Schif.sen4. o., Ottawa.
Matthew II. Berg, Mendoza.
Daniel j. Burke. Rutland.
Frederick JocaSon. tlca.
William G.. Schultz. Narcotics.
Carl !. Anderson. Leland.
Forest n Graves. Seneca.
Paul L. Fischer. Ottawa.
Hay j. Stevenson, MENDOZA.
Jerome j. Heaton. Seneca.
Thomas A. Griffin. Seneca.
John S. McGinnis, Ottawa.
Michael +. O'Connell. La Sale.
benjamin =. kratz. Troy Grove.
Waldo A. Turk, Earlville.
Fred y. Sontag, Mendoza.
Pete Mctrovi,ch, Ottawa.
Charles Nicholson, Ottawa.
haX III. barrow. Chicago
Martin Seward, Leland.
Chan les +. Crane, La Sale.
Leo Henry Zolper, Mendoza.
John ]. hurry. lr,, Wallace.
James r. Carney, Marseilles
Daniel McGinnis, Wallace.
Albert +. Buchner, Ottawa.
Arthur E. Cast, Ottawa.
John F'riestad, Ottawa.
Vern l.. Marks, Troy Grove.
Wn. Brown. Jr.. Pittsburg, Pa.
Class II.
Accepted Tor special or limited mil
Try service:
Morris l.. Iolbrook, Mendoza.
Frank h, Warren, Ottawa,
Daniel Callahan. Ottawa.
Fred II. Benkert, Ottawa.
Russell l.. Jackson. Ottawa.
Herman a. Lucas, Jr., Mendoza.
Gail A. Barber, Sheridan.
Clarence G.. Duffy, Ottawa.
Otto Christensen, Ottawa.
Charles T. bradford. Ottawa.
Harley H. Werner. Ottawa.
Evan $. Hall. Sheridan.
Arthur Gerding, Ottawa.
Philip II. Godfrey, Ottawa.
Elmo G.. Lan2i, Marseilles.
Francis j. Wolfe, Ottawa.
Louis j. Haas, Serera.
John Donahue. Wallace.
Thomas r. Carter, Ottawa.
Class ~.
Rejected.
VIM. f. Walsh. Ottawa.
Ne!ls Nelson. Seneca.
Burr Z. Phillips, Earlyille
James White, Marscilles.
Elmer r. Classon, Wedron.
Gus Gebhardt, Ottawa.
Nickel, Ottawa.
'harles b. Forrest, Chicago.
Henry +. Grandgeorge, Sheridan.
James c. Finley, Nallham.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-27

state of Illinois, County of La Sale.
SIS.
], Charles H. Hook one OF the man.
aging officers. and Lorenzo Leland.
and Oscar Haeberlc, two OF the direct.
or OF the First Trust Company of OF
tawa. Illinois. corporation of the
State o. Illinois. being severally duly
sworn. each upon his oath states:
That he makes this affidavit for the
purpose Of complying with the re-.
QuiIemcnts of Sections 0 and 10 of an
act OF the General Assembly of the
state of Illinois, entitled AN Act to
provide for and regulate the admins
trltion of trusts by trust companies"
That the foregoing report of the
said The First Trust Company of OF.
tlwa. Illinois. on December 3lst. 1917.
sind the exhibits accompanying the
same are true and correct in all re.
spects tn the best of his knowledge
and belief, and that he has examined
the assets and books of the said com.
pany for the purpose Of making said
report.
CHARLES 4. HOOK.
LORENZO LELAND.
OSCAR HAEBERLE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
This 7th day Of January, 1918.
tseaD FLOssIE y. ALLISON.
Notary Public.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-27
Speaking Of overerowded Professions.

We don't believe this, but Il was
passed on to us
Over a, high school one of the es.
taemed examiners asked reeisirant:
do you drink"
That's my business." responded
the angry registrant.
ANY other business?" asked lhe
doctor, just like that.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-27

Old stun.

Old Stuff.
There is no serious sh0rtasc q.
sugar.
No need !os haardlng.n
The local shortage is due 10 tran
Dortation difficulties.
lE.s;eetera.
tls Mr.. Sweeney In the h0use9)
We'd believe il ourselves
Ii they hadn't sprung that same -taf
Last summer.
About the coal situation.
50 We rise TO inquire
Why the administrators
Don't think up New One?
Because
That Old One about transportation
difficulties
And car shortage,
Needs rest
Gawd knows,
And again WE THANK YOU.
o
Well, well-here's another little yio- /
lation of the well-known Sunday clos
ing ordinance. This brings our bat
ting average as a prophet well into the
800 class and the year is young yet, /
Stick it our Chris-ya may get to be
candidate for Supervisor yet-ya
never can tell,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-27

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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-27
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
First Trust Company of
Ottawa, Illinois

AS trust company, qualified in the
State Of Illinois under AN Act to
provide for and regulate the admin.
istration OF trusts by trust com.
panies," flied with the Auditor OF
Public Accounts, and showing its con.
dltion at the close of business De.
cember 3lst, 1917.
Assets.
Deposited in other Banks $3J,452.77
Loans secured by Mortgages
and Bonds. constituting
first lien on Real Estate,
on which there shall be
less than one years inter
est due or owing. ..... $4,000. 90
Total Assets ......... $S5,952.77
Liabilities.
Capital Stock paid in. go. $50. 900. 90
Undivided Profits ... $685.
Deposits ................ 29,593.14l
Total Liabilities .... $S5.952.77
Affidavit.
State of Illinois County of IN Gallo
Evening star., 1918-01-27
INCREASED PRICES FOR
WAR BREAD PREDICTED
Demand for Wheat Substitutes
Given as Cause by Master
Bakers Association.

CHICAGO, January 26.-1ncreased prices
for war bread under the new government
regulations were forecast at the execu-
tive committee meeting of the National
Association of Master Bakers here to-
night. President Henry w. Stude sAd
the demand for wheat substitutes no
doubt would tend toward higher prices.
1.-The National Association" said Mr.
Stude. has asked the government to take
the same control over the cereals to be
used in bread that 1t has over wheat. 1,
is an unfortunate fact that at the pres.
ent fiours to take the place of wheat are
market than is wheat flour. The supply
of these substitutes Is not all that we
could wish. 1t must therefore be obvious
that the new regulations, If they have
any effect on price, will tend toward an
increase"
Members Of the association pledged
their full cooperation to the governmen,
in its new program for the conserya tion
of wheat.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
ASK ALL TO OBEY ED|CT
Retail Merchants Urge D. C. Busi.
ness Men to Observe Strictly
Heatless Monday.

With all the department stores plan-
ming to remain closed tomorrow-the
second heatless Monday-the Retail
Merchants Association last night urged
every business man in WASHINGTON again
to live up to the spirit as well as the
letter Of the law by keeping his estab-
lishment closed.
Although the fuel administration or
der permits heat sufficient to prevent
pipes from freezing. few merchants are
expected to open with a temperature at
40 degrees in their stores.
Z Grocery stores. food establishments
and laundries are exempt entirely from
the heatless Monday order, and drug
stores may remain open to sell drugs.
medicinal supplies and newspapers.
No confusion is expected this week.
as all have had ample time to study the
details Of the fuel order.
Theaters. bowling alleys and other
places OF amusement will be open again
tomorrow as on the first heatless Mon
day, but must close Tuesday.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Bitter Campaign Now Being
Waged Between Pan-Ger-
mans and Foes of Warfare.
SCHEIDEMANN JOINS
HANDS WITH ERZBERGER
Count Czernin Tries to Attract Pres
ident Wilson's Attention in Enun-
citation of Austria's Stand.

The voices of peace advocates have
again been raised insistently in the cen
trail empires, following quickly upon
what is largely regarded as a new dec
laration of Germany's warlike purposes
in her chancellor's speech.
simultaneously a report is current
that the bolshevik government in Russia
has decided to continue the Brest-Litovsk
peace negotiations and another, quite
unverifed, that Austria is prepared to
make peace with Russia Independently
from Germany.
That Count Czernin, in his statement
of Austro- Hungarian peace aims, was di-
reeting his remarks toward President
Wilson is admitted by the Austro- Hun
garian foreign minister.
Scheidemann Peace Note.
The peace note in Germany was sounded
by Philip Scheidemann, the socialist
leader, who. in his remarks following
Chancellor Won Hertling's speech, pleaded
for peace before spring came with its re-
newed bloodshed.
Regarding Russia, however Scheide-
mann's speech was more than a plea; it
was a warning that the military leaders
Of the imperial government would be
hurled from power if they did not
bring about peace with her
Scheldemann insisted that theIa was
ground for a general peace on the basis
Of the program laid down by President
Wilson, on eleven points OF which an
agreement was easily possible. He was
as uncompromising as Chancellor Won
Hertiing, however, as regards Alsace-Lor-
raine. declaring this territory must remain
German.
Scheidemann's words comprise perhaps
the most radical utterance that has
yet come from his wing of~the party in
the reichstag, the majority of moderate
Evening star., 1918-01-27
ORDERS TO U. S. ARMY MEN
FORBID NEWSPAPER WORK
War Department Amends Regula-
ton Relating to Publication Of
Books by Those in Service.

A War Department order forbidding
officers and men in the Army to pub
lish books on military instruction or
tactics without first submitting them
to the general staff was amended
yesterday to prohibit also persons In
the military service from serving as
correspondents for any newspapers or
other publications. Publication of
personal correspondence even will be
prohibited.
The War Department adds. however.
that no objection is held to the pub
lication of soldiers private corre-
spondence, with his consent, providing
the letters are sent through the reg
ular censorship machinery: Military
censors are at the same time ordered
to delete criticism of superiors or of
policy, scandal of any sort, injurious
reports concerning comrades Nor any
thing likely to arouse controversy"
Evening star., 1918-01-27
ANTHRACITE FIELD CLEARING.
Philadelphia and Reading Officials
Relieve Congestion Ended.

READING. Pa, January 26. With
continued favorable conditions, railroad
congestion in the anthracite fields will
be entirely cleared by Monday. accord
ing to an announcement made here to-
day by high officials of the Philadel-
phia and Reading railway. The an
nouncement was made at the conclu-
sion of a conference between President
AT. Dice, Vice President c. H. Ewing.
General Manager F. NJ. Falck. 1. A.
seiders. superintendent of motive pow
ar. and General Superintendent W. H.
Keffer, at which the freight and coal
situation was discussed.
II was stated by these officials that
the congestion on the Reading had not
1ays had been caused by the inability
Of connecting lines to take care Of the
traffic offered them as rapidly as it was
anthracite region is rapidly being
cleared, and that 'if nothing happens
entire field by Monday"
Evening star., 1918-01-27
TO R0UT VICE IN N. Y.
District Attorney to Start Probe Of
Disorderly Houses.

NEW YORK. January 26.-With list
in his possession Of more than one hun
dred disorderly houses and gambling
places. District Attorney Swami an
nounced that John Doe" investfga-
tion would be begun next month as q
prelude to driving out of business all
disorderly resorts in New York and
causing the conviction Of their pro-
prietors.
The statement was made after the
district attorney had conferred with
Mayor John f. Hylan.
..The mayor is going to clean UP the
city" said Mr.. Swami "He is deter
mined to make this city cleaner and
better place in which to live. ! Yt4
Evening star., 1918-01-27
WORLD WILL STARYE
UNLESS WAR SOON ENDS
U. S. Minister to Denmark Declares
Two More Years of Conflict Would
Cause Universal Suffering.

NORFOLK, Va, January 26-That
verge Of starvation If the European
war continues for two more years, is
the opinion of European food experts
declared DR.. Maurice Francis Egan
United States minister to Denmark and
dean of the American diplomatic corps.
DR.. Egan. who has just returned from
his post in Copenhagen. and came to
Norfolk to attend the wedding of his
niece, Miss Anna McCarrick, declares
in practical slavery and that the same
is true of the other small European ma
tions
Small Nations Hard Hit.
Shut off from America and. Great
Britain by embargoes, under the
shadow of Germanvs land and sea
menaces. and with a rigorous winter
gripping the continent Dr. Egan de-
clared the little nations are in dire
straits and helpless. Food Is so scarce
that the famous Danish wolf hounds
are being slaughtered for food.
DR.. Egan warns the United States
against German espionage, with its
far-reaching tentacles. declaring that
his embassy had proofs of the posses
sion of minute maps of this country,
and especially of Virginia waters. He
declares that every citizen should
awake to the sinister danger of treach-
erous Hun Vaccinations.
Realize Boon of Liberty.
only those who live within the
shadow of German oppression" said
Dr Egan. "can realize the priceless boon
OF liberty. Any one who knows con-
ditions in Denmark must feel the de-
sire to fight for the overthrow of Prus-
sianism. The hope of Europe rests on
America.
The United States must bear the
orunl OF the war for the time being,
and must win the victory, if the races
are to be saved from slavery and if the
world is to be rescued from the fate of
impending starvation"
Evening star., 1918-01-27
CITY FIGHTING MENINGITIS.
spartanburg Iheaters, Churches and
Schools Closed by Authorities.

SPARTANBURG. S. c.. January 26.-
The United States public health serv-
ice and the city board of health today
issued an order closing all theaters.
poolrooms, amusement places. schools
and churches in Spartanburg until
the meningitis situation is under con-
troll here.
Health officials say that there is no
epidemic of the disease here. but that
new cases are appearing in different
new cases have developed at Camp
Wadsworth. The order is effective to-
night, and tomorrow there will be no
service held at any church. The pub
lie schools of the city will not open
Monday.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Needs of Allies Govern System Of Curtailment
Which Becomes Effective Tomorrow Under
Rules of Food Administration.
WAR BREAD TO CONTAIN INCREASING
PER CENT SUBSTITUTION FOR WHEAT
ers Wholesalers and Retailers Get Dnecfons-Two Wheatess
One Meatess Two Porkless Day. Week-Mehod
Largely Voluntary

The American people will bread diet tomorrow
part raonng system prescribed last night by President
ministration calls it.
asked for the purpose of creating
larger export surplus of food for the European allies Curtamen
of consumption will be accomplished largely by voluntary effort
will be employed wherever permitted under the food
troll
raonng SYSTEM prescribed by the President proca
nation and by Food Administrator Hoover list OF regulations
forms 1918 food program
Evening star., 1918-01-27
U-BoATs' HUGE FOOD TOLL.
Seven Million Pounds Of Bacon and
Cheese Sunk in One Week.

NEWPORT, England. January 26.
Addressing the farmers Of Monmouth
shire today, Lord Rhondda, the food
controller, said that in one week in
December submarines destroyed three
million pounds of bacon and four mil
lion pounds Of cheese.
The enemy might put the allies to a
great deal of trouble, inconvenience
and priyation, but they could further
null in their belts and laugh at the
Germans He claimed to have reduced
the price of thirteen of twenty-one
articles of prime necessity.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
PEDESTRIANS GET EXCITED.
Turn in Alarms on Seeing Drying
Ont" Fire in Building.

A watchman drying out the remod-
eled government building on 14th
street, just below Pennsylvania avenue.
excited pedestrians on the Avenue early
this morning and kept the firemen busy
answering alarms turned in from near
by boxes.
The watchman built fire from shaw
ings on the third floor OF the building
which hast lust been remodeled for gov
ernment uses following a fire several
months ago. and pedestrians. seeing the
glare of the flames. through the struc-
ture was on fire. Two alarms were
sent in within ten minutes and nearby
companies had just returned to their
stations when they were forced to
make a second useless run.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
ROBBERS WITH AXES, KILL
TWO FARMERS IN BEDROOM
Victims Hacked to Death While
Asleep-Men Escape With $loo
and Watch.

SHARON, Pa, January 26.-Robbers
armed with axes Thursday hacked and
killed two farmers at Robinson's Grove,
near here, it developed today.
The victims, Evan and Thomas Davis.
fifty-two and fifty-seven years Of age,
respectively. were attacked while asleep p
in their bedroom. The robbers got 500
and a watch The murder was not dis
covered until today, when neighbors in
vestigated the failure of the brothers
to appear about the farm as usual.
1t is believed that the murder was
committed Thursday night, as the
brothers were last seen that afternoon.
The authorities have no clue to the
perpetrators of the tragedy.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
VICTORY BREAD.

Beginning tomorrow, it must
contain not less than 5 per cent
of cereals other than wheat flour.
This substitution will be in
creased gradually until February
"a, when the content Of substi-
tute f1ours must be at least 20
per cent, and thereafter not less
than this proportion must be
maintained. Bakers will not be
permitted to bake or sell any more
all-wheat bread.
Housewives are urged. but not
required. to bake victory bread,
but hereafter they may buy no
wheat flour unless at the same
time they buy an equal weight
of other cereals.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

shelters had been transferred tenn
porarily to another department.
The big shops where hundreds Of
workers are engaged in the manu-
facture of the Navy's torpedoes are
located only a few hundred feet from
the shelters. One building. devoted ex-
clusively to woman workers, was but
a hundred feet away.
The terrific concussion threw most OF
the girls into Mysteries, and many OF
them tainted. When it was seen that
their building was not harmed and that
none of them was hurt they were
Quieted and went on with their work.
The discipline of the large force OF
marine guards and seamen on the
island was up to the best traditions
Of the service. Led by Capt. Beach.
the marines and bluejackets attacked
timbers even before the flames were
put out.
: Some of the dead were badly man
gled and were extricated with difficulty
from beneath heavy concrete blocks.
Other victims were buried deeply in
the ruins and it was impossible to
reach them for hours.
1t was reported at first In this city
that scores of the girls employed In the
shops had been killed and the excite
ment among their relatives here ran
so high the guards had difficulty In
handling them.
A dispatch to the Navy Department
from the commandant of the station
said there were no suspicious ctrcum-
stances connected with the explosion
hut no details were given.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
WOMAN GIVEN PRISON TERM.
Mrs. Katie Ahlers Sentenced fo,
Killing Phil E. Tucker

DALLAS. Tex. January 26.-A sen-
tence of five years was returned TODAY
by the jury in the case Of Mrs. Katie
Ahlers. alias Katherine Travers.
charged with the killing OF Phil e.
Tucker last October.
Miss Myrtle Cunningham. fuckers
stenographer. was fatally wounded at
the time he was shot down on q busy
downtown. street by Mrs. Ahlers The
latter charge against Mrs. Ahlers will
be tried soon.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Socialists of Germany
Menacing Government;
Bitter Peace FiQht
BY GEORGE RENwICK.

BY GEORGE RENWICk.
Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
New York Times. Copyright, 1918.
AMSTERDAM, January 26.-The
Weser-Zeitung asserts that a new in
trigue is being engineered by Philip
Scheidemann and Matthias Erzberger,
with the object Of bringing about a
revision of the reichstag peace reso-
luton of July 19, SO as to replace it by
much more moderate declaration OF
policy. The newspaper regards Scheide-
manns statement in the debate on the
suppression of the Forwaerts that "the
state of affairs in Germany today is
the same as that in Austria before the
strike broke out" as a threat of a
strike on the Austrian pattern, and the
paper considers it ominous that he is
supported by Erzberger.
Even More Alarmed.
The Kreuz Zeitung is even more
alarmed. 1t maintains that the Ger
man socialists are as one with DR..
Adler, leader Of the Austrian social
lists, in the statement wherein he said:
I'VE have broken the ice. II other him
derances appear, we are there and we
won't fail in a decision in that case.
What we have already achieved is not
all by long ways
The Kreuz Zeitung links up with that
Eberts' declaration in the reichstag com
mittee day before yesterday, in which
he greeted the action of the Austrian
workers, assured them of the full SYM
pathy Of their German comrades and
also the declaration Of Scheidemann' 8
warning the government lest the work.
ers be persuaded to resort to other
measures.
Teuton Workers as One.
"Thus," the KreuZ Zeitung points out,
"the Austrian and German workers are
one regarding the employment of the
strike weapon. The fear of the German
government that German workers might
have acted similarly had they been given
the news Of the Austrian action appears.
therefore, to be we'll grounded"
The same journal asserts that the Aus
trian strike particularly affected the
munition factories. and points out what
a great danger similar action would
mean in Germany. The paper severely
blames the government for allowing the
socialists to attain a position of such
nOwar
Evening star., 1918-01-27
China Halts Russian Supplies.

HARDIN. Manchuria. January 26.-
Chinese officials here have cut off all
exports Of goods to Russia, thus ac-
centuating the food shortage in that
country. The Russian frontier authori-
ties have dled q protest, threatening
to suspend the operation Of the Chi
nese Eastern railway.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Typhus Invades Russian Workers.

PETROGRAD, January 25.-There are
more than 100 cases of typhus in the
Petrograd Isolation Hospital Most Of the
patients are from the working classes
brought on by undertaking The hospitals
also are treating many cases Of what is
called hunger typhus, chiefly among fac
tory workers.