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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

Persons knowing themselves
to be indebted to the late Fred
A. Block are requested to call
and settle as soon as possible
at COL North Second street. ct
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
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TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Under a ruling Of the War In
dustries Board at Washington, d.
c., newspapers cannot be sent to
any subscriber who is more than
three months in arrears. If you are
in arrears and wish to ,tinue
your subscription, Sent ash or
check for amount owing or three
or six months or year in ad =
vance. Unless this is done the
paper will be discontinued at
once.
WatertOwn News Publishing Co.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
Miss RAna Mass.

Miss Rena Mass, Is years of age,
daughter of Mrs. Josephine Mass of
Lebanon, died this afternoon of pneu-
monia. She was sick one week. Be
sides her mother she is survived by
three brothers, Arnold, Elmer and
Martin, at home The date of the fun
eral will be announced alter.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
News of the Bows

Thomas Brooks today received
letter from Lieutenant Murphy of Co.
g in France He is in good health.
W. j. Stacy received a letter today
from his son Joe, who is with Co. E
in France, stating that he is in good
health
Private Arthur PrOchnOw is report
er missing in action in France, tele-
gram being received here today to that
effect. ..F
Mr. and Mrs Henry Fendt have re-
ceived word from the son, IsadOre E.
F'endt, announcing his safe arrival
overseas. He is in an unassigned
quartermaster's corps.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Kruger, North
First street, received a telegram this
morning from their son Hilmer, stat
ing that he had arrived in New York
He was wounded in the right wrist
while fighting in France. He is sta
toned at Camp Dix, N. ].
Fred Kuetke, 913 Jones street, re-
ceived a letter today from the general
hospital in France, stating that his
brother, John E. Kuetke, who was Sc
verely wounded during October, had
died of his wounds. He was a member
Of Co. H, 1T Inf, and left from Camp
Dodge, Iowa. Four brothers and seven
sisters survive.
A letter has been received here from
Francis Barnes of Pipersville, with
a field battery in thirty-second divis-
ion in France. He is recovering from
| she'll shock and with a number of
others are stationed at hospital in
one of the old and formerly royal es-
tates, removed from all danger OF
| noise in an effort to recover their
normal condition.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
record:
Wauwatosa, I'LL.
Beaver Dam, 90.
Portage, OLA.
OcOnOmOWOc. 20.

OCOIIUuIOWUC, lF"U.
Watertown scored 164 points against
their opponents 81. Fred Henke, left
halfback, did the stellar work Of the
eleven this season, scoring sc of the
164 points. Saturday was the first de-
feat for the locals in the past two
years with the exception of the state
champion tussle with Marinette in
1917.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
Silver SprucesPopuIar.

0IIVCT
The silver spruce of British Co
lumbia is in such demand for airplane
construction because the trees grow
extremely tall, sometimes $50 feet, and
they taper but little toward the top.
From them can be obtained long wing
beams for flying machines, which run
from 10 to IS feet In length.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
THE WEATHER

For Watertown and vicinity-Fair
tonight and Tuesday. Not much
change in temperature. Coolest dur
ing last night 20; warmest today Al.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

In compliance with the above
proclamation the business
houses of WatertOWn will be
closed all day on Thanksgiving
Day, Thursday, November %.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
Train Time Change.

The morning passenger train south
On the North Western railroad, now
leaves at 5:28 instead of 500 as for
merly.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
Firemen's Meeting.

A regular meeting of the Watertown
Fire Department will be held in the
city hall Tuesday evening. The meet
ing will be called at 1880 o'clock.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

News want aos are small but the
cost is smaller. but wise investors use
them for best results.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

ReIorec, CurrnS, EuSerCOn, Hodu
linesman, Kellogg, OconOmOwoc; time
keeper, r. A. Buell..
There will be no game here on
Thanksgiving day and the football cur
tain has been rung down. The seasons
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
THANKSGIVING

Liberty Loving America pauses in this war-wasted
world for day, to observe the custom inaugural
ed by Pilgrim forefathers. 1t warmly well
come the promise of peace, because that h a ii
mean right rather than might, kindness rather
than kultur, brotherhood rather than barbarism,
democracy rather than autocracy, humanity rather
than brutality.
Truly all of are thankful that better order of
things shall be left heritage to following gener-
ations, and sincere in that thanks for the OPP
portunity each has been given to- make his per-
sonal sacrifice on the high altar of civilization In
spired by such thoughts, America pledges it's pow
er for permanent peace this feast day of free
dom.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

; Private Arthur Prochnow is report,
er missing in action in France, tele-
gram being. received here today to thai
effect ~ ~
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

w. j. Stacy received letter today
from his son Joe, who is with Co. f
in France, stating that he is in good
health.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

Thomas Brooks today received q
letter from Lieutenant Murphy of Co
C in France. He is in good health.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

Job work done at News office.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25

Mr.. and Mrs Henry Fendt have re-
,eived word from the son, Isadore E.
t'endt, announcing his safe arrival
overseas. He is in an unassigned
luartermaSter'S corps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
PROFESSOR IS OUT
Dismissed From University of
Chicago Faculty.
The "'itty Bitty Lady" Is Bet
ter Today.

Chicago, April 17.-Mrs. r. NJ.
Granger, the 'itty bitty lady, of Prof.
w. L. Thomas. was pronounced recov-
cred today from her nervous break
down, but still under care of the pro-
fessor's Wife
Inc professor, distinguished sociolo-
sist, was dismissed by the trustees of
chicago university yesterday on orders
from President Judson
The handsome young southern girl
and the elderly, bald-headed savant
are to appear Friday in morals court
TO answer charges growing out of their
capture together in a hotel room here
1t IS the same court where the pro-
lessor, as an expert in sociology, has
appeared so often jotting down notes
on the peculiaritieS and characteristics
OF those men and women who break
the morality statutes. Now the pro-
lessor himself is to sit amongst the
plumed and painted women the slat-
terms of the street and the flashily
dressed male who habitually appear
before the judge.
The professor accepted his dismissal
1rom the university faculty without
comment. His attorney Clarence OAR
row, promised complete statement
later. Aside from the formal state
ment of dismissal the university board
of trustees made no announcement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
CANADA CONSCRIPTS
All Unmarried Men Between 20 and
23 Must Go.

Ottawa, Ont, April 1.-THE Cana
dian government, in an official state
ment issued last night, announced that
II had decided upon -1eaSureS neces-
sary to obtain substantial reinforce
ments for the Canadian expeditionary
force Need for these reinforcements.
it was asserted, has become imperative
because of the critical situation which
has developed on the western front.
Desiring to speed up operations of the
military service, the government has
decided that unmarried men and wild
overs between the ages of 20 and %
are not indispensable to agriculture
and other essential industry. They
will be called out first and ALI eXemp-
tons in their case abolished.
An order in council has been for
mulated which provides that youths
upon reaching 10 are subject to the
service military act
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17

and leather goods and it was deemed
essential to get at once the leather out
put. including wool drawn frcm the
hides of kids and sheep that goes into
the manufacture of wooden goods The
Tanners council, an organization of
the tannery owners is getting that in
formation now and furnishing it to
the government at a cost of $780, 900 to
$4,000. They collect statistics of raw
material. different KINDS of leather,
amount in stock as well as the cured
or finished product, but the census
bureau proposes to ascertain more
than that The bureau wants to know
the uses to which the raw material
and manufactured product are to be
put, the stock on hand, consumption
by the manufacturers and the pros
pect of having a supply for the coun-
try's future needs, all of which defves
into the field of shoes. boots. saddles.
beltings, harness and many finished
products of value. The census Will
gather this information by mail and
thru special agents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
A LONG WAR YET
General Wood Predicts Another
and Another Loan.
Another and Another Draft Be-
fore We Win.

Kansas City, NO., April 17.-There
will be another liberty loan, and an
othtr-no one knows how many
and there will be another draft, and
another and another. You must real
ize this is no ordinary war. 1t is a
great crusade with all the best ma
tons struggling for a great principle.
It will end-when we win.
These were some of the striking
features today of the address of
Gen. Leonard Wood to nine thousand
persons who attended a liberty loan
Qualification here.
Having returned but few weeks
ago from the fighting front in France,
General Wood gave a fresh version
of the allies situation. Turnout his
talk, he emphasized that the war will
be long and fraught with many sacri-
fees in America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
FOR 1920 CENSUS
Congress Must Provide for
Ten-Year Count.
Vast Amount of Useful Data To
Be Obtained.

Washington, April 17.-Congress
will soon be faced with the necessity
of providing millions of dollars for the
1920 census.
Just what inquiries will be made at
every American home is the problem
now being worked out. before deter
mining upon the exact appropriation
needed. Census Director Rogers es-
Inmates that the total cost of the cen
sus, in Guiding the annual and other
inquiries occurring during the decen-
NAL census period. if done in accord
ance with plans the census bureau has
formulated, will not exceed 100000
600 to $22, 100000. The estimated cost
OF taking the population census alone
is $40, 440, 900.
bureaus plans contemplate the usual
elaborated inquiries on manufactures,
agriculture, mines and quarries, an
nual special inquiries and other work.
This includes vital statistics. statistics
of cities and states, tobacco, cotton
and cottonseed products. Taken CO..
lectively, Director Rogers says that
the estimated cost of various lines of
work, would run. manufactures. mines
and quarries, s2,593, 900; agriculture
Sc, O49, 900, mostly for field work;
ditures for the census of 1910 were
about SIS, 100000.
The census bureau is receiving many
suggestions for extension of the field
of nationwide enumeration. There
has been great demand to know the
stock of hides, leather, and manufac-
ture of saddles, shoes, boots, betting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
FUEL FIGHT BREAKS
Garfield McAdoo Row Liable to Cause
Worthless Days Next Winter.

Washington, April 17.-Controversy
between Fuel Administrator Garfield
and officials of the railroad admins
tration over the supply of railroad coal
threatens serious coal shortage next
winter
Failure to supply coal cars at mines
is causing fifty per cent under produc-
ton in some fields, it is charged. Hun
dreds of consumers aroused by the
early buying campaign are unable to
administration, an exodus of miners is
or from fields where mines are able
to operate only two or three days
week.
John Shelton Williams. purchasing
agent for the railroad administration,
is alleged to be seeking low priced con-
tracts with individual mines which
would slice forty million dollars from
McAdoo's fuel bill. This carries an
inducement of 10 per cent supply of
cars for mines agreeing to low prices
mines interferes with production by
throwing miners idle and creating la
Dor unrest, it is charged.
Garfield wants to pro-rate the avail
able car supply forcing all mines to
suffer alike when there are INSULT
cient cars to go around.
War industries are seriously threat
ened by reduced output which for the
week ending April fell IA per cent
below the low output of the preceding
week.
voorhees, days. such as upset the
nation last January, may have to be
resorted to again next winter, officials
warn, unless an agreement is reached
between McAdoo and Garfield.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
STRIKES FORBIDDEN
Minnesota War Board Makes Move
to Solve Problem.

St Paul, Mimi, April 17.-Strikes
during the war were forbidden by an
order today of the Minnesota safety
comm :ssion, the state war board. The
order forbids strikes or lockouts and
directs employees not to ask for union
recognition in shops where the labor
organizations were not recognized be-
fore the war.
While the commission believes the
order will solve Minnesotas labor diff
ficClties during the war, union lead
ers declare the edict anita COMICS la
Dor. They pointed to the commits
sior's stand against the striking street
car men in the Twin Cities last year,
which led to a general strike. only
settled by the presidents mediation
commission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
LESS PRINT PAPER
Production in Marked Decline From
Lack of Fuel.

Washington, April Introduction
CT print paper declined in the four
weeks ending March 81, as shown in
statistics made public today by the
federal trade commission. Shipments
continued to exceed production and
mill socks showed a decrease of more
than 1000 tons.
From January 1 to March 81, the
total print paper output was 291.746
tons. OF which 266,o7 tons was stand
ard news
The production for the correspond
ing period of 1917 was 327,037 and
3OI.707 tons, respectively. Loss of
production in March was attributed
largely to lack of fuel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17

believed he made minute plans for
ending his life After escaping from
the hospital grounds he made his way
to the bridge, tore his nightgown into
strips in order to make a rope and,
after fastening it around his neck and
to the bridge jumped off about thirty
yards from the south approach.
DR.. O. F. Narcotic. coroner, was
called Immediately after the finding
of the body but announced that an in
quest was not necessary Meyer was
wIdower and is survived by a broth
er, III. A. Meyer, of Phillipsburg, and
by two children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17

BANKS OF SHAWNEE COUNTY
Berryton State Bank, Berryton
Dover State Bank, Dover
Peoples State Bank, Rossville
Rossvi1le State Bank, Rossville
Richland State Bank, Richland
Silver Lake State Bank, Silver Lake
Wakarusa State Bank, Wakarusa
Willard State Bank, Willard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
JUMPED OFF BRIDGE
Richard e. Meyer, State Hospital In
mate, Commits Suicide.

Richard E. Meyer. "a years old. an
inmate of the state hospital from
Phillipsburg, Kan, committed suicide
by hanging himself with his night
gown on the brickyard bridge some
time Tuesday night. Meyer made his
escape from the hospital by picking a
lock. His body was found this morn
ing by Pat Brennan, a gardener at the
hospital.
Meyer. it was stated today. had
shown suicidal tendencies ever since
he entered the state hospital and it is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
FIRST LAWRENCE HERO
Capt. Ernest Weidel Dies of Wounds
in France.

Lawrence, Kan, April 1.-THE
frs. Lawrence boy with the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces in France to
lose his life was Capt. Ernest Weidel,
engineer corps, It was announced here
today He died of wounds. News of
his death was received in war de-
partment message to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. E. A. Weidel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17

BANKS OF TOPEKA
Bank of Topeka
Central National Bank
Citizens State Bank
Farmers National Bank
Guaranty State Bank
Kansas Reserve State Bank
Merchants National Bank
Shawnee State Bank
State Savings Bank
Topeka Morris Plan Bank
Topeka State Bank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-17
REICHSTAG ASSEM- LES
New Taxation Bills To Be Consid-
cred in Hunland.

Amsterdam, April 1.-THE German
reichstag reassembled Tuesday, when
the new taxation bills approved by
the bundesrat were introduced. The
proposals include a spirits monopoly
and beer and wine taxes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-18
WORKED AS FARMERETTE.
A Portland Painter Helped in the Indi-
ana Harvest Fields.

Out in Indiana portrait painteg who
belongs equally to America and Europe,
worked as farmerette during the past
season, regardless alike of cold rain or
midsummer heat. She went into the
harvest fields before sun-up to help gath
er the grain, and finished her lsbors by
helping the farmers wife wash the
dishes.
1t is long step in industry from
painting princesses, celebrities and mil
lionaires to shocking oats, but Mrs. Mira
Edgerly, artist, traveller, and citizen of
the world, has proved that she can do
the one as well as the other. She says,
moreover, that she found one task quite
as interesting as the other. She ia wide
ly known in Washington, which has just
learned of her experiences.
Mrs. Edgerly became a farmerette
quite by accident. She did not belong
to a unit of the woman's land army. She
made her experiment alone. II Just hap
pened, she says, for she had spare
month not provided for in her plans. She
had gone to Chicago, after several weeks
passed in Washington, d. G., to execute
an important commission. War work
called the man who was to sit for his
portrait out Of the city, so Mrs. Edger-
ly sought a place in the country where
she could really rest. Someone directed
her to La Porte and thence she ventured
to Westville, where she found board on
farm.
In Washington, the artist had been en-
gagged for several months in making
character studies of men and women
whose names are known in the great
world AS exhibition of portraits by
'Edgerly," had attracted much attention
and she had more requests for sttings
than she could grant, for her fame had
preceded her She had painted the duke
and duchess of Connaught, Princes Dol
gourski, Princess Henry of Pless, the
duchess of Hamilton, and many other
titled persons too numerous to count.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-18
COLLECTING SALMON EGGS.
Successful Operations Have Been Carried
Out in Alaska.

The bureau Of fisheries, department of
commerce. announces that very sue
cessful collection of sockeye salmon
eggs was made at the close of the
spawning season in Alaska for the Afog-
max station, the total amounting to 81,
6Sl Goo which constitutes the largest
take of that species since the Katmai
eruption in 1912, and seems to indicate
the complete recovery of the stream
from the disastrous effects of that oc-
currenee. In view Of the encouraging
situation commercial fishing for sockeyes
by the natives, which has been prohibi-
tied for a number of years, was resumed
on limited scale during the summer.
Humpback eggs to the number of $685.
900 were also secured, and in continual
tion of the bureaus efforts to establish
q run of this species in Puget Sound
during the off year, 5,750,000 of them
were sent down from Afognak and di-
vided between the Birdsview and the
Holds canal Washington hateheries.
With them came 25,S00,000 sockeye eggs,
of which 20,700,000 were reshipped from
Seattle to Canadian hatcheries on the
Fraser river. The remainder viii be de-
veloped at the Quinault station, in an
effort to build up the depleted run of
fish in streams Of that region
Though not unusually large, the take
of eggs at Yes bay was satisfactory the
total for the season comprising $685.
600 sockeye and 1,365,000 humpback.
Most of the eggs of the latter species
will be shipped to the Maine stations,
in continuation Of the effort to estab-
lish the humpback in Atlantic waters.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-18
F1NE-GRAINED U. S. SURGEONS.
War Has Not Calloused or Dulled Their
Sensibilities.

With the American Armies in the
Field, Nov. 9.-tCorrespondence of the
Associated Press War has not cal.
loused or dulled the sensibilities of the
American army surgeon. Nothing stands
out finer or nober than the tender care
and earnest solcitude with which Amer.
lean military doctors handle their sol
dier patients.
In a three-day trip through the St.
Mihiel sector the correspondent of the
Associated Press had many opportuni-
ties of observing the work Of the Ameri-
can medical men. He visited a number
of field dressing stations and also sew
eral hospitals just back of the battle
line, through which hundreds of wound
ed Americans were passing.
Disabled American soldiers, from the
time their wounds are dressed at the
advance casualty station to the time
they arrive Mt the b.st base hospital, re-
ceive the most sympathetie and tnnla
care at the hands of the army doctors.
They get better care and more attentive
treatment than an average person would
in peace times To render the soldier
free from pain, to make him comfortable,
cheer his spirit, the American military
doctor will exhaust every recourse will
sacrifice sleep and food and all personal
thought of himself
Thousands of instances occur every
day where army physicians so absorbed
and so sympathetically interested in
their patients, will keep night after
night an anxious and unbroken vigil
over the progress Of their condition, and
will rest only when ordered to do so by
superior officer
Besides the use of anaesthetics the
Yankee doctor, caring for his fighting
comrade only as he would care for
brother, resorts to hundred other
means of relieving the wounded mans
distress. In the actual battle zone he
has to act as physician and nurse, for
no women are permitted in the front
lines 1t is always impressive to see the
gentle, cautious way he places his pa
tients in bed, the infinite pains he takes
to cause them as little suffering as pos
sible when applying or removing dress
ings, and how kindly and reassuringly he
speaks to them.
The ambulance drivers and stretcher
bearers spare no pains to see that the
sick and wounded in transit from the
front over broken French roads suffer
no hardship or discomfort.