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The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
KEEP ON KNITTING REGISTRATION TIME. c
GREAT DEMAND FOR GARMENTS
FOR SOLDIER BOYS

The following items are taken from
the Central Division Red Cross Bulle-
tin of February 5th, received in our
local work-room YESTERDAY:
What To Do and What Not To Do
Keep on knitting!
"Rumors are circulating that knitted
articles will not be needed after Feb
ruary 1st. The Bureau of Military
Relief announces emphatically that
ter! Knit next spring! Knit next
summer!
However you may stop work en-
trench caps. Yard used in trench caps
could be better used in sweaters, muf-
flers and socks. The War Department
will give each soldier a trench cap.
But keep on knitting everything
else!
"Mittens, socks and helmets are the
most needed abroad.
The immediate and imperative
need abroad for mittens, socks ana
helmets, as well as the order OF inn
portance in getting out various knitted
goods, is set forth in cablegram
from Paris to Henry p. Davidson,
which has just been received:
Regarding knitted goods in chapter
boxes, the order of importance of
articles is as follows:
First-Wristlets.
Second-Socks.
Third-Helmets.
Fourth--Sweaters.
! Fffth-Mufflers.
The first three named articles
should be produced in large quantities
AT the expense of all other chapter
work except front parcels, and, in
view of the situation here, even be-
fore you supply the men in the train
ing camps"
The work is moving along smoothly
and encouragingly at headquarters.
The new supervisors are at their
places each day and are handling the
work and the workers splendidly. The
superintendent with blue head colts,
supervisors with the red; and workers
with white colts and all in their white
aprons, make an interesting looking
work room. The attendance has been
good, quantities of work have been
turned out, and we are already well
along with our quota, assignd for
February.
A new class in surgical dressings
will begin Tuesday, February 9th.
All who desire to enter this class
must give Miss Abrams their names
before then.
Miss Abrams and Miss Rosenblatt
spent Wednesday in Des Moines in
the interests of the Red Cross work.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
BIG LABOR PROBLEM IN IOWA
Governor Harding Asks All Boys Over
Sixteen and Under Draft Age to
Register.

Des Moines, Iowa, Feb 19.-Govern.
or Harding today issued the following
proclamation:
ITO the Boys of Iowa:-The com.
monwealth of Iowa is confronted with
a labor problem of no small proper.
tons. More than 10000 men who one
year ago were engaged in productive
enterprises are now a part of the
military establishment.
Notwithstanding this decrease in
our labor supply we must make every
effort to increase our food production
and sustain our allies who are heroic
ally holding our common enemy at
bay while our army is being trained.
There Is one source of help to which
we instinctively turn in this crisis.
Iowa has more than one hundred
thousand boys between the ages of
sixteen and twenty inclusive, who are
eligible for membership in the United
States Boys Working Reserve whl"h
is being organized on a nationwide
basis to help solve the labor problem.
These boys are brave, eager and pa
triotic, but too young for military
service. They will gladly enlist in
the cause of agriculture and rerder
no less loyal service than their broth
ers in the army.
Because of the existing labor short.
age, and the pressing need of food,
and by virtue Of authority vested in
me as Governor Of the State of Iowa.
[ do hereby set apart and proclaim
the week of
February 25th to March 2nd
as State Enrolment Week of the rIni-
ted States Boys Working Reserve
During this period | urge all boys
over sixteen and under draft age to
present themselves before their local
school superintendent for ell 'ollment
IN the Iowa Division of the Boys
Working Reserve. l trust no parents
will hesitate to encourage their sons
to join the Reserve. II is not a mill
tary organiZation-thos who join
merely volunteer for urgent patriotic
work which will develop them physic-
ally and mentally, pay them wages
and for which. If the requirements
of the Reserve are fulfilled, the United
States Department of Labor will
award a bronze badge Of honor
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Almost a Revolution.
BIG GAIN FOR DRYS
Survey Shows 1874 Dry and els Wet
Counties in U. S.

Washington, Feb. 16.-The board of
temperance, prohibition and public
morals of the Methodist church an
nounced today that survey it had
just completed shows there are 1874
dry counties and 6l5 wet counties in
the United States, dry gain for the
year 1917 of lightweight counties. The
Dictrict of Columbia was made dry by
act of Congress, while New Hampshire
Utah and Indiana were added to the
prohibition states by legislative action
and New Mexico by vote OF the people.
New York added L. towns to its dry
list and Illinois closed saloons In its
state capital.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
BELGIANS CHAFE UNDER Yoke
For Force Of Arms From
German Usurpers.

Washington, Feb. 16.-Serious pop
ular uprisings against the German
yoke of occupied territory in Belgium
was reported to the Belgian legation
here today, in official dispatches from
the Belgian government at Havre.
Crowds parading in the streets o.
Antwerp, Brussels and Malines have
caused the German authorities to re-
sort to force, and to order troops TO
the affected districts.
The manifestations We're precipi-
tated by the activities of the German
political party, the Actirists, towards
patriotic autonomy in Flanders.
One chief justice and two other
justices of Belgiums appeal court
have been deported from Belgium
because of their activities in the mat
ter.
Almost a Revolution.
Or February 4, six hundred Actir-
lists participated in riot which re
suited in the German forces being
dispersed by the Belgians.
In the city of Malines a delegation
Of six hundred citizens stormed the
city alone.
The situation was characterized by
the Belgian legation as CLOSE to
revolutionary.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
RURAL. MAIL MEN
EXAMINATION FOR CARRIERS
SATURDAY, MARCH 9.

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces an open com
petitive examination for rural carriers
at Oskaloosa, Iowa, March 8, 1918, at
IL o'clock noon. AS a result of this
examination an eligible register for
Mahaska county will be established.
from which is is expected that certi-
fication will be made for filling va
cancies at Fremont and Barnes City
and ether vacancies on rural routes at
post offices in the county as they may
occur in the future. For information
and application blanks apply to.
r. H. Walton. Sec'y.
U. S. Civil Service Commission.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Lively Runaway.

Ed Odem, residing southwest Of
town. had bad runaway on South
Third street at the noon hour today.
He was hitching to new wagon at
the Rock Island station when his
team started and dashed north to
Second avenue where they tried to
turn west into Second avenue. They
overran the Baptist church parking.
smashed up the wagon and were halt
ed before doing further mischief. No
one was hurt and the team was UNI
injured.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Patriotic Duty To Work.

morning
Patriotic Duty To Work.
"The President has requested that
all of the striking members of our
union return to their work." said
Stuart.
1--WE are telling them that il is
their patriotic duty as American cti-
zens to return tomorrow to the ship
yards, in which there are about six
thousand members of our union now
striking in Greater New York"
All night long the executive of the
striking carpenters to go back to the
ship yards.
President Scores Hutchinson.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 18.-Presi-
dent Wilson has telegraphed William
l.. Hutchinson, general president of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers, that he can see nothing to be
gained by comforting with him per-
sonally about the strike of shipyard
carpenters until he has accepted and
acted on the principle that in the
present circumstances of the nation
no body of men has the right to strike
until every other method of adjust
ment has been tried to the limit.
In effect the president declared
that if Hutcheson did not want to
give aid and comfort to the enemy he
would send the men to work and
leave a settlement of differences to
the adjustment board, and declined
to see him until he had done So
Hutchinson Runs To Cover.
New York, Feb. 1S.-A message
signed by William L. Hutcheson.
president of the Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners, was sent to
President Wilson today assuring him
that representatives of the union had
been instructed to use their influence
to have the strikers return to work
at once.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
SHIP STRIKE IS ABOUT over
Men Yield To the Patriotic Call To
Return To Work Until Differ
ences Are Adjusted.

New York, Feb. 1S.-Striking ma
rines and carpenters in the ship yards
and in the New York vicinity to the
number of about five thousand were
back at their places this afternoon
according to John Stuart, who is in
charge of the local Offices of the Ma
rine Wood Workers. Union,
John Rice. chairman OF the Marine
Union, who presided at meeting
held at brooklyn this morning. said
that by tomorrow mornihs there
would not be one man out Accord
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
TO AID RED CROSS
Jefferson County Appropriates Public
Funds for Use

Fairfield, Feb. 16-At the meeting
of the board of supervisors it was I'M
animously voted by the members to
appropriate from the funds of Jeffer-
son county the sum of $500 for the
use Of the Red Cross shops of Jeffer-
son county, The money will be paid
to the chapter in six installments of
$3.50 each, and will accomplish much
good for the community in general
and the soldiers at the front in par.
ocular.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
SENSATIONAL WATERLOO CASE
Judge Over-Ru.es Motion For Direct.
ed Verdict in Trial of Or.
Longshore-Moon

Waterloo, Iowa, Feb. 16-When the
LongshOreMoon, attorneys for the
defendant presented a motion that the
court direct verdict in favor of the
defendant. alleging in support of the
motion that the testimony presented
| by the states witnesses was not ad
deged victim of the illegal operation
made the statements duplicating the
woman doctor as her dying declara
ton.
The motion for a direct verdict was
oyerruled by Judge c.. w. Mullan.
The evidence presented by the state
Thursday by three women witnesses
nurse and two neighbors was of a
very damaging character.
Asked False Testimony
Mrs. Lee LOvelett stated on direct
and cross-eXamination that DR.. Long
shoreMoon had by persuasion and
coercion attempted to have her agree
to appear and testify falsely. The
defendant, she stated, repeatedly ask,
ed her to testify to the effect that
she, Mrs. Lovelett, heard Mrs. Minnie
Ballard ask her to perform an illegal
operation but that DR.. Longshore-Moon
refused the request. Mrs. Lovelett
asserted that this was the exact sub
stance of her remarks but that she
refused to accede to the wishes of
the woman doctor.
Mrs. Pearl Johnson, also a neighbor
Of the woman doctor stated that the
defendant had also requested her to
testify falsely but that she refused.
Mrs. Johnson asserted that DR.. Long
shore. Moon in formed her that if she
would so testify that Mrs. Lovelett
would also testify to the same, effect.
This alleged conversation occurred in
an alley, in Waterloo, according to the
witness.
Nurse on Witness Stand
The nurse who attended Mrs. Minnie
Ballard, who died, from the effects OF
the alleged criminal operation, testifi-
ed Thursday morning and afternoon
that the woman doctor had said, IF
| ever get out of this scrape or deal
| will never let any one else come to
me for advice. | will shut the door
in their face" ]. c. Murtagh, counsel
for the defendant attempted to have
Mrs. Phoebe Wehland, the nurse,
change her testimony regarding this
alleged "scrape or deal" as referred
to by DR.. Longshore- Moon but withoS
success. The nurse stuck to her story
after four hours grilling.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
TOOK CATE MONEY
COUNTY PROFITS FROM SCRAP
AT NEW SHARON.

County Attorney Maxwell A. O'Brien
was in New Sharon yesterday to try
two men who relied upon the fistiC
methCl to settle an argument. Meth
err one of the would-be pugilists seem
ed willing to state the reason for the
battle but the county appropriated the
gate receipts and are $25 and costs
richer than before.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Put Machinery in Order.

Winter time is the best time for
getting the corn planter and reaper
tuned up. Don't wait until the day be-
fore the implement is needed. Labor
will be scarce next summer and ev-
cry hours work done before spring
means one saved on busy day later.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Enemy Airship
In Third Raid
Over London

London, Feb. 19.-There was no
casualties and no damage in last
nights air raid over London by
the Germans, Lord French, Com
mander in Chief of the Home De-
lenses announced today.
This is the third air raid over
London on successive nights. The
other two resulting in the total
casualty list of twenty -seVen kill
ed and forty injured.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Goes to Washington.

Ivan Pollock OF Libertyville who has
been teaching in the state university
al Iowa City left Saturday for Wash
ington p, c. whore he goes to accept
d position In the civIs service. MI. Pol.
lock i 4 graduate Of Parasns college.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Bad Air In Mine.

Bad air at No 4, Hooking, came
near proving fatal to several miners.
Mr.. Coard, Dutch Gore and Mike Ora
dy were entirly overcome and had
to be carried out.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
Mary E. Masters
Andrew z. Masters.

Andrew z. Masters.
In the District Court of the State of
Iowa
In and for Mahaska County, April
Term, A. D., 1918.
To Andrew z. Masters:
You are hereby notified, that on or
before the 4th day of February, 1918,
a petition of Mary E. Masters will be
filed in the Office of the Clerk of the
District Court of the State of Iowa,
in and for Mahaska County. claiming
of you divorce, on the ground of
desertion.
And unless you appear hereto and
defend before noon of the second day
Of the April Term, A. D. 1913, default
will be entered against you and judg-
nsnt end decree re .dersd thereon
as pray ed for in said petition.
Ben Mccoy.
S0w4 Attorney for Plaintiff.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Rounh Roads.

The below freezing temperature of
d the week left the roads in bad condi-
= ton in places but in others auto traf-
fic is possible.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
Tax Time Here.

Taxes are due and payable and the
cash is rolling In for County Treas
urer Tullie Graham.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21

McKINNEY-Born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Mckinney of Monroe town,
ship, Wednesday, February IS, 1918
a girl
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21

BARNES.-Born, to Mr.. and Mrs
Wilbur Barnes of Leighton R. F. D.
No. 2, fine son.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21

HADLEY.-Mrs. w. B. Hadley re-
ceived word yesterday of the death,
Friday morning, of her granddaughter,
the little seven years old daughter of
Lindley M. Hadley and wife, at Den.
Yer. Death followed two attacks of
tonsilitis and complications. Funeral
Sunday in Denver. Little Margaret,
named for her grandmother, was an
unusually bright and attractive child,
and the only child of her beloved par
ents. The sympathy of their many
friends go out to the family in their
great sorrow.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21

iCREW-Dorothy Crew passed away
at the Mercy Hospital, Friday, Feb. Is,
1918, at 1920 p. m. of Appendicitis. AT.
ter an illness of days, age 81 years.
She leaves father, mother, two sisters
and two brothers. Funeral services on
Sunday, Feb. 18th at Delta, Ia Inter
ment indianapolis cemetery.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21

ing to Rice, New York will have a
full complement of workers tomorrow
morning.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21
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BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES

!. /. i. ~ /. \ + !. j. + + + + !.
Egbert Den Hartog, Taintor. 26
1854
Henrietta Pothovin, Pella. ... %
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-02-21

BREWER-Edmund Brewer passed
away at his home in Monroe Town.
ship, Feb. Is, 1918, or old age, after
an illness of three weeks, aged sc
years, 8 months and IA days Three
daughters and two sons survive. Flu
neral services Sunday, February 18th,
at the Wymore church at 2 p. III. In
terment in Wymore cemetery.
Water Valley progress., 1918-02-02

The veil, long loved Of women, some
times undergoes a short period of re-
tirement. but is never wholly forgot
ten or neglected. Except for small
face wells and much abbreviated mo-
tor wells. the season just passing has
not occupied itself with this particu-
lar prerogative Of womankind. Even
so the small-face veil, in considerable
variety, is fact Of every well-regu-
lated wardrobe. 1t is often incOnspicu-
GUS to the point of being nearly invis-
ibR. The plain, open-mesh varieties
of finest threads almost reach the van
ishing point. But signs and tokens
are pointing to the return of wells, and
suddenly they have appeared on all
four corners at once.
Some rather startling things happen
to the tace when wells of fine mesh
that are hardly discernible, indulge in
one or two bold figures in applique
or embroidery. These figures can be
seen long before the veil itself comes
into view and they play curious tricks
on the eyes that follow them. Except
for the plain mesh face veil they are
the most popular Of the wells of today
Water Valley progress., 1918-02-02

An example of this bit Of feminino
waywardness appears in the pictures
showing next-to-invisible veil with
two large and aggressive clover leaves
on it. One of them obllterates about
half of the mouth and the other threat
ems an eye. Perhaps they are intend
ed to make us look twice at pretty
face.
A becoming veil with the same sort
of mesh, has very few widely scat
tered and wildly black dots on It, that
are as sparkling as the black patches
Of colonial days. These wells are
worn with small hats or turbans. An
other new design has small wavy lines
of embroidery mingling about all over
the mesh. This one IL less becoming
than the dotted or plain patterns. but
leads us to believe that women are
about to revive the veil and q to any
length with it. Wells that cover the
hat and reach to the shoulder have n.
ready begun lowering Over small hatsI
Wells Of chiffon wound about streel
hats are extended into scarfs that en-
circle the throat and hang in long
end over. the shoulder.
Water Valley progress., 1918-02-02
TheDeep Seal Peril
gsEss.sGGIesl@
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
Copyright BY w. G. Chapman)

MacBeard stepped out of range has
tily. He disliked violence, partly as
an attempted violation of the principle
OF the conservation of energy, but
principally because he was coward.
ut is all our lives for the missing
part of the manuscript, or none," said
Donald.
MacBeard rubbed his hands to
gether. In that Internal light he
seemed hardly less monstrous than the
creatures about him.
"YOu will think differently In few
moments" he answered. And taking
the implement that he had used be-
fore, into his hands, he struck another
note.
Instantly the resilient wall closed in
| about them, and, with the same slow,
steady pressure. they were urged for
ward, Clouts in the lead. The note
sounded again; they stopped. Clouts
was now Immediately in front of the
sacrificial knife of bone. And, very
slowly, he began to lean forward.
At any other time he would have
presented an appearance distinctly lu-
dicrous. He seemed to be waddling
slowly. and with great dignity. toward
the razor-edged weapon. He stood
stock still, planted his legs hard in
the ooze, and began to bend forward,
as If he were about to undertake some
calisthenic exercise.
Donald understood what was hap
pening. The monsters were urging
Clouts' body downward in such a way
that the edge Of the bone knife would
lie Immediately against his breast.
Then, with an increased pressure,
Clouts would be forced down until the
keen bone sliced his body in twain.
He plunged his hand into the mound
and drew out bone. Whirling it
Water Valley progress., 1918-02-02

grew DINNER again ss Clo,sts h
out with his lips the tune OF &C.
the North"
THE submarine!' gasped Da
pointing before him as he ran.
But, even as he noared 1t, 1t
to grow dim. Not more than
dred PAGES away, the vessel sag
obscurity as they raced toward
seemed gradually to be blotted n NJ
fore their eyes. I'll
And slowly, almost imperccsI s
the cloudy curtain began to al D
and to dissolve. MI w
Donald gasped for air.. He IN
Clouts coughing. and saw the I y
stagger as he ran. Ida fell batk 4
his arms. The submarine We !
fifty PAGES away. and she was nd
more than a cloudy image upo(
night.
On they ran, cropping throug} q
complete blackness. The mir WI ~
wine jelly. Donald had almost stSl
to breathe. He ran with his In, Nfu
Of a little reservoir of air. vi ~ i
! exhaled slowly. ~
He could see neither q ,uts \ h9,
vies. but he believed that the b
struggling toward the subr iaf4no
And he found 1t, and Il lem. ~
by miracle. He had the sood fCSs
to blunder into them as they tue1f
the outer door Of the airlock.
Somehow they opened 1t. Th&g
Ida inside and followed, ThSl1k
door was closed. Clouts. redl1SGsO
ward, opened the inner one. AZ
stale, worn-out air within the a n
tower seemed like ozone.
Water Valley progress., 1918-02-02
CHAPTER xl.
The Interioper;

bS sbssSs sORGts N.Y.
Ida went into Donald's cabip, ,sn.
aid himself arranged to sleep n the
messroom. Davies had his cdtb md
Clouts the FIST watch. Presentl, q on
aid found himself alone.
He got into his hammOck, 1iG
could not grapple with the ia aon.
1t seemed so unreal that he III *.
pected to awake and fnd that had
been delirious, and that he NJ bust
coming to after rescuing Ida Il ~ the
wreck of the Beotia. He fe11 esre
and more nervous. He got up sat
down at the table, staring the
darkness in front Of him. 80.
Suddenly he leaped to ASSx
a choked cry. AcrosG the "a
at a distance Of about eight q
saw, mistily outlined, the ~
body Of the woman whom ho1k3
ined that he saw in the hUfse
timore-and again outside
He stared at her dncredj a 81
saw her SO family that onl< a
believed himself the victimvof
cination. The faintest Elur} n
played about har. showing ~
ethereal spirit that seemed III
in vapory cloud 4 -
But this was TO monster 4.
those devils Of TIL sea. n n, ~
most beautiful ,wdycs nv,,ons =. y.
had ever seen Or III y
He stumble foss
ont shands 4 r. Heard IA 4 sst]
faaxfasta taRI6qd Side b. Il feet & bol.
He tried to catch be ~ hiI
self that he was not dfe but d
eluded him with ease, s ID IA
before his eyes, now hs u me
Suddenly the door ep 1on1
saw Ida standing in tn ay,sI
the light Of the can ~ i
cabin.
"Donald!" she cried. Eu9ht
1 thought saw a wd 50 {
door,"
ida 7"
The denial died on his 3e
not sure. He glanced abo
him, and, at the far Cd AolGI
he saw the dim outlines ~
again.
Ida, peered through S ~
She saw nothing. but - n
Donald's movements carroct
''Donald! Who 4 she9 IA n
she come heref"
s.There is nobody, ~ He Asar
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