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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
BIBLE CLASSES TO CLOSE.
Loss Of Micklewrisht Causes Y. m. c.
A. to Shorten Study Season.

Loss Of Micklevrisht Causes Y. m. C..
A. to Shorten Study Season.
Because Boys Secretary E. Z. Mickle-
wright will be taken into the army
with the contingent from this county
next week. tho bible study work Of the
high school and graded school classes
will b discontinued with meetings OF
tho glasses Wednesday noon and eve
ming. Meals will Be served by the
ladieS auxdliaTy for both gatheHngs
and special programs have been ar
ranged
The high school boys classes viii
meet Jointly ct noon and Chaplain
Charles E Chapter. of Gimp Dodge.
will DO the principal speaker. HIS
subject VIII DO ~The Challenge to
1--we" The Princess watahwaso COM
pany, which gives a concert IN the
city Wednesday evening will give some
selections at the dinner Glenn Miller
a high school senior will he toastmas-
ter and tho Cray-Hall orchestra Will
play.
At tho meeting IN the evening for the
grade schaal classes. Coach p. G. San
ford will speak on Clean Speech,
Clean Sports. Clean Habits" Motion
pictures will be shown. One hundred
seventy boys have been enrolled in the
graded school classes and moro than
100 in the high school classes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
ELDORA FIVE SLAUGHTERED.


csive Score of 81 to 4.
Coach Sanford's high school basket
ball five made merry at Edora Satur-
day night when they defeated the Ell
dora high school team by the decisive
score Of 81 TO 4. At no time was the
Eldora five able TO offer first class OPP
position and the early lead taken by
the Sanford clan was grad ually In
creased until the score had passed the
poi Mt "a minute mark. Darner was
the star at basket shooting, hitting the
ring ten times MarsAalItown's team
work dazzled the Eldora boys, who
were unable to offer any defense
worthy Of the name. Sanford started
his team with Gossard at center, Miller
and Darner at forwards, and Whitehill
and Crinklaw at the guard POSITIONS
Later McCreery went In at center and
Dixon at forward.
While the regulars were scoring their
big victory at Eldora, the second team
was meeting defeat by a sided
score at Colo, where It met the fast
Colo high school five. The final score
was 48 to 81.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
D.. LOCAL MARKETS.
Prices Paid to Farmers by Marshall
town Merchants.

Prices Paid to Farmers by Marshall
town Merchants.
The following prices are quoted by
Marshalltown dealers for the different
varieties of farmers provisions, grain
and produce.
Reynolds & Sheldon quote the fol-
lowing prices:
Butter-43.
Eggs-40.
Benedict Flour and Feed Company
will pay the following prices at their
place Of business in this city, subject,
however, to market changes:
Corn-1.10.
Oats-82.
Wheat-190.
The following market quotations are
furnished by II. Willard Son & Co..
Clear medium native wool-559 57.
Coarse and lOw-t5950.
Heavy, fines.
Pelts-1. 00@2.50.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
New Manager WooIworth Store.

o. G.. st. Julian, OF Minneapolis. has
been appointed manager OF the F. w.
Woolworth Company store in this city
10 succeed w. p. Mosher who recently
resigned and who is going soon to
Peoria to enter in business. MT. st.
Julian, who has been in charge OF one
Of the company's stores in Minneapo-
lis, came Saturday, and his wife will.
follow him in a short time. Mr.. Mosh
er will leave Wednesday for Peoria
where Mrs. Mosher who has gone TO
her home in Moline, will Join him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18

among u from no one knows Mlaars .
Y. m. SC. "A. secretary. serving out hot
coffee to my men. Every one else WAS
but he was standing at his work. utter
~ oblivious Of everything except the
men he was trying to serve. I've
never been much on religion. God
knows, but somehow the sight Of that
young y. M. C. A. secretary standing
there, the only man erect in all that
rain Of shells--,well. that is what gave
religion to me."--Harper's Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
Tho Y. NJ. c. A. Man Who Dared.

l shall never forget the story that
was told me OF certain incident on
Vimy Ridge. We had been making our
way one morning UP Sotnchez Valley.
where thousands Of brave French troops
have lavishly poured out their lives
to stem the German thrust, and shortly
came into full sight OF Vimy Ridge.
There was the s1dge whose narne has
echoed around the world, It's soil made
very sacred by the washing in human
blood long, low, SCARED hill, swept
bare OF any sign OF life except Tor its
deserted Zgzag trenches and few
gaunt, naked trunks. Up over
those shell torn slopes We wG,t, care
fully picking our way around the shell
Orators and thru the maze o. tangled
bar'bed wire. We passed the old 'front.'
line trenches and started across the
furi o,lsly torn ground Of No Mans
Land, covered with the dreadful debris
OF the battle which had RACED there
And then we came 70 the spot where
this thing had happened, as related by
a Canadian officer: within half an
hour after the ridge was stor7ned." he
eaid, before the line had even been
cons olidated, there suddenly appeared
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
Food Dealers Attention!

A meeting Of all Marshall county
dealers in food supplies Is hereby
called by authority Of the Marshall
county food administration for We'd
nesday evening. Feb. 20, at 7:45 O'clock
in the rooms OF the Marshalltown Club
at Marshalltown. Business OF great
Importance to dealers and consumers
will be discussed at the meeting. All
dealers in foodstuffs in this county are
notified to be present or send repre-
sentahvcs. L. C. Abbott. Admin
istrator: f. A. Moscrip, Assistant Ad-
minist rator.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
VETERANS WIDOW DIES.
Mrs. Eliza J. Knapp Passes Away At
Soldiers Home.

Pneumonia caused the death at 1880
Sunday evening Of Mrs. Eliza J. Knapp
at the soldiers home. Mrs. Knapp en-
tered the home April s, 1915 from
Douglas, Fayette county. Her late
husband. Charles Knapp. served IN
Company I, Sixteenth Wisconsin In
fantry.
Mrs. Knapp was a native Of Pater-
son, n. J., where she was born Oct. 10,
1870. She is survived by five sons and
two daughters. Myron s.. of Prairie
burg: Charles E.. of Waterloo: George
II. and w. A, of Marion: Frank T., OF
West Union: Mrs. Nellie Fl. Prouty. of
McGregor; and Mrs. Lille Longfield. OF
Fargo. n. D.
The body was taken today to Prairie
burg for burial, accompanied by the
son. Charles Knapp.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
Local Weather Record.

The range Of temperature Sunday
was % above and below zero, he
latter the temperature at O'Clock in
the morning compared with % above
and below Saturday, and % and :
q year ago Sunday. At this morning
the temperature was 25, compared with
below at the corresponding hour Sun
day morning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18

The pipe organ recently Installed at
the Elm Lutheran church was dedi-
Gated at "a union service held Sunday
evening with members OF the Swedish
Lutheran church. Rev. II. c. Holm, Of
Eagle Grove, president OF the Iowa
District OF the Norwegian Lutheran
church. was the speaker for the occa-
sion. Special music was furnished by
the choir and solo was sung by Elmer
Eipe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
Sheldon Mitchell,

Glen Sheldon and Miss Elda Mitchell,
both Of E1ldora, were married Saturday
evening at Sis at the home OF the
brides mother. Mrs. George w. Herst.
7l2 East State street. Rev. 3. +. Mar
tin performed the ceremony The groom
Is a farmer and the couple will live
on g farm near Edora-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
Mrs. Greaa's Schedule.

This weeks schedule for Mr.. Mary
Gregg, home demonstration agent, will
include the following talks and demon
STATIONS:
Monday, p. m.-Liscomb; demon
stration on the use Of vegetables in
wheat saving at the Reformed church.
Tuesday. noon--Bangor; demonstra-
ton of meat substitutes at all-day
meeting of Red Cross In Friends
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
MARRIED.


Edwin Bjorlund, Of Gilman. and Miss
Thea Larson, Of Grinnell. were married
at the study of Rev. A. J. Anders, pas
tor OF the Elm Lutheran church Sat-
urday afternoon at o'clock The
young people were accompanied BY
Ludwig Larson and Miss Jennie SVEN
son, Of Gilman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
church; at p. m. talk to the school

church; at p. m. talk to the school
children.
Wednesday, noon-Marietta township;
demons tradon Of wheat saving at the
home OF Mrs. Harry Moninger: at p.
m. a meeting OF the woman's commit
tee Of tho council OF national defense.
Thursday at office In court house.
Friday, 3 p. m.-Demonstration and
lecture on meat substitutes to the aid
society Of Central Church Of Christ.
Saturday, p. m.-MeetinS OF coun-
ell OF national defense at Y. M. G. A.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
CLOSING ORDER REscINDED.
Local Fuel Commission Receives
Formal Notice of Change.

The closing order which has been in
force for a few weeks Is rescinded, be-
ginning today, with the exception OF
tho lightless Thursday and Sunday
nights. The local fuel commission re-
ceived its formal notice of the change
late Saturday from State Fuel Com
missioner Webster. The state COM
missioner asks the local commission,
however, to request the people to be
as conservative as they can with the
use of lights and coal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-18
TO REMOVE DANDRUFF
= <$<%$%<%<<<$<<<<$<$

Get small trial bottle of Danderine
- any drug store for rev cents. pour
= little Into your hand and rub well
into the scalp with the finger tips. BY
morning most, II not all, of this awful
ecurf will have disappeared. Two or
three applications will destroy every
bit Vt dandruff; stop scalp itching and
falling hair.
Evening journal., 1918-04-13

JCn as she looks beyond those
g Shiny leagues whose depths
have claimed the countless prey
Of modern piracy and sees the
task still left to do, she calls.
IT'S not enough that we have
sent our sons, new troops though
they behave like veterans. IT'S
not enough that we have raised
an army of a million men and built
for them CantOnmentS.
New ships must bear these
sons of ours to that heroic shore
ofFrance innever-ending passage.
And following them must be more
ships, and more and more, to win
COnCluSively against the toll of
submarines AA4&1
Great camps like villages must
rear themselves in France to house
our troops. Great railroads must
build there too, and factories must
raise complete, SO pressing and
SO great the needs our arms in
France are now enCOunterlng.
The epiloguei is simple, friends.
The peace we long for must be
bOught-nOt by a tribute of our
rights but by our might expended
in the cause of liberty and right.
And every one of us must
count this time an opportunity to
do his fullest share-fOr here and
now the nation asks again for that
which makes the whole plan pos
Slble. Buy Liberty Bonds.
lcayrgsss ps r
RITZ R8N9ROTBWA CTsATs
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Building Up Russia-What Part
Should America Play?
Current Opinion

COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY, writing in
~ the March issue of Current Opin-
ion" ventures prediction, like many others,
concerning Russia politically and eco
nomically. His views Of the commercial
opportunities open in Russia to Americans
after the war are worth noting:
after period of destruction there should
come time for constructive work on
prodigious scale. Russia, with her great
natural resources, stretching across con-
tinent that forms almost one-sixth of the
earth's surface, offers to the manufacturing
nations of tho world immense field for
development. Russia emerging out of chaos
will no longer suffer itself to be selfishly
exploited by the grand dukes and the Ger
mans. There will exist no longer those handi-
caps which caused America several years ago
to refuse to draw up treaty with Russia.
items of millions of people in Europe and
America who are now employed either in
making munitions in using them will
turn to their normal ways of living and
lnboring The time will soon come when the
labor supply will exceed the demand and
the world will face once more the problem
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

ago that during the year 1917 the submarine
had destroyed more than two tons of ships
10 every one ton built. In the light of re-
vlsed figures to which we have recently had
access we know now that case would have
been more accurately stated if the proper
ton had been given as nearly three to one
In making this statement we include even
the new tonnage built by Japan, although, up
to the present, Japans ships have not been
IN the Atlantic Ocean and have not been
subject to the submarines attrition To be
concrete and specific, the shipping destroyed
directly by the submarine and indirectly
through mines which the submarines laid,
and by other hazards, was nearly three times
the total amount of new tonnage built by
all the Allies and all the neutrals. To put
it broadly and simply, so that the public may
as easily as possible grasp it's grim mean
ing the shipping Of the world, which is as
essential to the Allies as the throat to human
life, was destroyed nearly three times as
fast it was renewed.
There is reason to believe that the naval
authorities in Great Britain and this country
are cheerfully expectant of greatly reducing
the number Of sinkngs by submarines
through devices in preparation. 1t is
pretty safe to say that the U-boat will not
have it all its own way from now on Better
weather will bring about higher production
of tonnage. But the great task is still to
build enough ships that no matter how
aggressive the U-boat warfare may be, it
will still be possible for us to send enough
men and material and food to Europe to
make victorious war; And into this great
effort the country must put all the might it
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

of overproduction. The only country in which
supply' and demand will not clash will be
Russia, for she will need much after the
She will need first of all agricultural
machinery, for her one hundred and fifty
million people working the soil will need
harrows, rloughs, tractors and harvesters.
Who will furnish them? Germany? L.
evitaby, unless America grasps her oppor-
tunity. America is the only country in which
agriculture faces the approximate conditions
that exist in Russia, country in which
agriculture is conducted not in terms Of
square acres, but the basis of square
miles. America, owing to her machine max
ing genius, has been able to develop her
immense agricultural resources gigantic
scale, and for this reason it is from her that
Russia must learn and to which she will look
for machinery. 1t is great opportunity for
America, and it will be a great mistake if
she does not take every possible advantage
of It,"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

up of thoroughly trained men. 1t may be
that by this time the working forces in all
our yards have been brought to nearer 200, 900
new men we get are not skilled in this work.
They may be good machinsts in other lines,
but still they'll require much training. In
fact, with a large proportion of newly re-
cruted shipbuilders might see the aver
age output go as low as fifteen, or even
twelve and a half tons. 1t certainly wouldn It
be anything like twenty. And the men who
might have helped this yard come to that
average have gone to the army. . . Ship
building is a young mans business. .
Ir this plant more than $500 of our 1900
employees are inside the draft age These
men, the skilled shipbuilders upon whom
the armys very existence, to say nothing Of
its ultimate success, depends, were taken
away from us, both in voluntary enlistment
and by the draft AS one even pretending
to be a good American, l could not raise the
slightest barrier against the recruiting Off
GERS coming within yard, but I knew what
it meant when I saw our shipbuilders, trained
and skilled go marching out after them.
"The army has now agreed to return the
drafted men to the shipyards. 1t is highly
necessary that they should be returned. But
as yet it hasn't been willing to give US back
our young men who went out and volun-
teered. We need them now; never so much
as right now. What's more, the army needs
to have them here more than to have them
in khaki"
From many quarters there come insist
ent demands that the government take
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

methods, and in this the idea of the
ferro-concrete ship is gaining rapidly.
Submarine sinkings remain, as ap-
pears from the British reports, on an
aggravatingly even level. About a dozen
big British ships fall victims every week,
with proportionately great losses un-
doubtedly for other nations involved. In
certain quarters, however, great hope is
built on the new anti-submarine meas
ures soon to be applied with full force
The exact nature of these could not be
disclosed here even if the information
were fully available
Sir Eric, while pessimistic about build
ing, was optimistic about killing off sub
marines. He said one out of every four
or five German U-boats leaving a home
port failed to report. Captain Sato
Yamamoto, japanese naval attache at
Rome, arriving at an Atlantic port de-
clared Americans and Japanese sank
fifteen U-boats in the Mediterranean in
a single recent month. The Mediter-
ranean, it seems, has been the happy
hunting ground for the submarines.
n estruction Nearly Treble the
l. Renewal
"Collier's" sounds the tocsin for more
ships, as follows:
ut was stated in this paper two weeks
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

and summer. Senator Nelson is quoted
to this effect. To show that "our allies
have been warned in time to discount
the promises of Mr.. edwin NJ Hurley
chairman of the Shipping Board)," it
then prints the following passage from
Sir Eric Goddess speech of March 5:
"Despte glowing reports in the Ameri-
can press, there is no doubt that con-
siderable time must elapse before the de-
sired output is obtained'
How much tonnage will the United
States produce in 1918? Here the most
diverse answers are being given in the
public press. The optimistic still expect
the 100000 tons promised by Mr.. Hur-
ley some time ago. Homer L. Ferguson,
one of the greatest practical shipbuilders
in the country, cuts this in half Inter
viewed by Edward Hungerford for "Col-
lier's," he said:
"Based upon Mr.. Hurley's estimate of
10000 men working in all our yards a very
few weeks ago, I should say that 5000, 900
tens was a fair estimate for the present
year. We shpbuilders figure it out on a
basis of about twenty tons per year per man
that is, under ordinary conditions. The
Union shipyard, of San Francisco has pro-
duced as high twenty three tons per man.
But the climatic conditions out there are
better suited for shipbuilding than most Of
our Eastern yards, and the force was made
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Leading Articles in the Current American MAGAZINES

personally each case up for medical atten-
ton, the lieutenant ordered the man to take
OH ms SHIRT. 1t was removed revealing a
back crisscrossed at regular intervals by
ridges and burrows
Glow long have you been this way?" asked
the commanding officer
All night, sub, lieutenant" was the reply;
didn't get no rest tall, NAH back was
a-hurtin' me so. Anyways try to sleep pear
to me like dat misery d get worse amt
used to desc here army beds, nohow!"
The last remark, about the army bed. solved
the puzzle. The man had filled his bed sack
properly, and then had spread blanket over
the wire springs of his cot and crawcd under
the tick to sleep. Naturally the springs left
their imprint on his body, with some two
hundred and twenty pounds of avoirdupois to
counteract the slight padding effect of one
blanket.
An example of the unfying effect of song
occurred early in the life of the organization
The company was engaged in clearing the
ground around the barracks, and it was neces-
sary to move some heavy timbers, Ten or
twelve men would cluster around stick and
Try 10 move IT, the acting sergeant in charge
strutting along ahead and counting Zone
two, three. four-r-r!" for the step. Some
would start on the right foot instead of tho
left, and then would throw the entire squad
of when they attempted to change cadence.
Finally Potassium Acetate, in one OF the in
tervais while the sergeant was calling down
one OF the clumsy ones, began to chant:
Lett, An lett, An had good home an left
An left my wife an big fat baby.
Hayfoot, strawfcot, belly full o. bean soup.
Lett Ah left, All had good home an left;
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

When the British government came to
deal with its workers, Mr. Lloyd George
and his associates had "two compact
bodies to deal with-organized labor and
organized capital"
"Another great advantage was that he was
negotiating with Englishmen, and not mass
of nationalites, many Of them new to the
country and many having no spontaneous en-
thusiasm for the English cause. Hostile as
might have been the relations of these two
classes, point they agreed, and that
was the necessity Of defeating Germany.
With this attitude as a common meeting
establishing a working agreement. The first
consideration was that both parties, employ
ers and employees, should refrain from re-
garding the means of enriching
themselves. Workmen were not to obtain
exorbitant wages and employers were not to
exact outrageous profits. In the matter of
employers on war work, an average of their
profits for three years preceding the war was
taken and they were permitted to make 20
per cent in excess of that amount. There
was agreement that this modest excess
would provide sufficient payment for the in
creased energies and responsibilities, as we'll
AS furnishing an inctement to increased ex-
ertions. The unions, in behalf Of their men,
agreed to accept standard the wage rate
which existed at the beginning of the war.
While there was to be no increase in wages.
as wages, an ingenious arrangement was
made to compensate workmen for their in
creased living expenses. The government
the increased cost of living four
times each year and pays the men a bonus
that represents this increase"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
The Place of the Negro in
Americas Army
Outlook
Outlook
T VOW is it with the negro in. Amer
ica's new armies? Lieutenant
u (,l.ouI.. T,X-Jo o~o,,xo~.

VOW is it with the negro in Amer
ica's new armies? Lieutenant
Charles C. Lynde answers this
question in "The Outlook" by citing con-
crete examples Of the changes which
"Rastus" has been undergoing recently.
Moreover, the article is replete with anec-
dotes showing the typical American negro
humping against something that is new to
him. The stories are worth as much as
the assurance that all is well with the
negro recruits:
"Namc?' asked the captain, as he glanced
up at the denim clad negro on the other side
Of the desk.
"Tass," the man replied, shifting uncasily
from one foot to the other as the officers in
the registering line looked at him.
"'Tass who ?" qucried the lieutenant at
the service record desk.
"Po- Potassium Aceta' Smith, Cap'n."
At the full name the lieutenant laid down
his pen with hearty laugh.
"'Potassium Acetate Smith," he repeated,
slowly. eve ought to transfer that boy to
the medical department, II only on account Of
his drugstore name"
At sick call that morning, blown immedl-
atcjy after rcyeile, one recruit reported
severe pains all over his back misery" ne
called it, On the theory that sick-call malin-
gering could be checked only by examining