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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Rose Always Popular,

1t is doubtful If there is any other
flower so widely spread over the globe.
so universally represented among the
races Of men in all times as the rose.
Pesore the Christian G-a men chose
the finest Of the species and improved
them insofar as possible. And it was
during the invasion of the barbarians
from the north German countries dur
ing the dark ages that the culture of
the rose was driven into the more pro-
tected places, like the converts and
the larger castles.-St. Louis Republic
Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS OF WORLD
Big HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Kernels culled From Events Of Mo.
ment In All Parts Of the World
OF Interest to All tho
People Everywhere.
European War News

A dispatch from Petrograd says that
General Hoffman, commander of the
German army invading Russia, has re-
piled to n communication from Ensign
Krylenko, bolsheviki commander in
chief, inquiring If an armlstice would
be declared, by saying that the Teuton
advance would be continued until q
treaty Of peace was signed and car
ried GU along lines laid down in the
German peace terms.
Further evidence of the growing
strain In relations between Germany
and Austria over the refusal of the lat
ter to participate in the renewed at
tack upon Russia is given In an Off
cinl dispatch received at Washington
from France. 1t quotes the Austrian
premier as formally reiterating on Feb
ruary % that Austria-H Hungary will
take no part in military action against
Russia or Roumania and will not send
her troops into Ukrainia.
The British hospital ship Glenart
NAiNAAtt MAANA MNhI uOWh III nv ~
toll channel, was torpedoed, according
to survivors, "a of whom were landed
at Swansea, Wales. Nothing has been
learned Of the fate Of the others, in
Guiding Red Cross doctors, nurses and
orderlies. There were approximately
200 persons aboard the hospital ship.
The British steamship Philadelphia
has been sunk by a submarine. 1t left
New York with a cargo for British
ports on February IL, and was torpe-
decd about February 20.
The Japanese, according to reliable
authority, intend to take action in 81
IBERIA at an early date. The situation
In Siberia Is considered grave, owing
10 the inability of the Cossack general.
Semenoff. head of the anti-bolsheviki
movement in that vast territory, to
secure allied support, for which he has
appealed to the japanese.
German forces have occupied Reval,
on the Esthonian shore of the Gulf of
Finland, 200 miles w~est-southwest of
P~etrograd, after an engagement with
the Russians. This announcement is
made in the official report from Ger
man general headquarters.
British casualties reported to Lon
don in the week ended Monday were
3.5T1, the lowest Of n week for sew
eral months.
It was announced in London that
Germany's peace terms have been &C
cepted by Nikolai Lenine, the bolshe-
Wiki premier, and Leon Trotzky, for
eign minister. Lenine asserts the de-
mornlized and retreating Russian boil.
sheviki army refuses absolutely to
fight.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
All Can Do a Little

We all live in a world which is full
Of ignorance and misery, and the plain
duty of each and all of us is to try
to make the little corner he can in
1uence somewhat less ignorant, some
what less miserable than it was before
he entered it.-HuXley.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Can't Resist odor of Onions.

The inquisitive subscriber of Whar-
ton wants to know if we are "tempta-
tion-proof." We a pass a book sign
and turn up a successful sniffer at a
julep, but there's a little restaurant on
Travis street that makes US take the
other side because of the almost ire
sistible odor of fried onions that pours
out the front door all the time.-Hous-
ton Post.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Carter. cartoonist. Is Dead.

Philadelphia. March Robert Car
ter, c%artoonist of the Philadelphia
Press, whose work was familiar to
newspaper readers all over the coun-
try, died suddenly in a hospital to
which he was hurriedly taken when
he became suddenly i'll from an ar
terial ailment. Mr.. Carter was forty
four years old.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Differing Views on Marriage.

When a marriage is announced, the
brides woman friend says: Il wonder
why they waited so long. She was get
ting old and Grabbed" And the
groom's man friends says: what did
he blamed fool marry so early for?
He'll lose the best years of his life."-
Kansas City Star.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
British Tribute to WASHINGTON

George Washington, first president
of the United States. A true Eng
lishman of the Ppm and Hampden
breed, he taught tyranny-in the per-
son of George IH-a lesson which is
still remembered, and which has had
much to do with the free development
of the British empire-London
Graphic.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
windstorm in Kansas FeIIs Wires

Kansas City, Mo-, March miles
of telephone and telegraph poles are
reported down in southeastern Kan
sas as q result of a windStOrm, and
railroads are having difficulty in NOV
ing trains. Hail Of unusual severity.
driven by the tifty-mile wind, caused
considerable damage.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Advice to Sentimental.

When a fellows in love he might as
we'll go right up to her and make a
fool of himself first as last. Anything
is better than holding It in until he
gets spontaneous combtstion.-Rich-
mOpd TimeS-DiSpatch.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
A Comforting Consideration.

"Gasoline is likely to be even more
expensive, they say"
Eyes. Every time my motor won't
run 1 feel a thrill of satisfaction at the
way I am economizing."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
paoord for Portland Cement

The year 1917 holds the record for
production of Portland cement, a total
of approximately ~93,554,0OO barrels
having been manufactured, an excess
over the preceding record production,
that of 1913, Of nearly 100000 bar
relS.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Personal

Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, for
merly Mrs. Henry M. Flagler of New
York, who died at her home at Louis.
Vile, KY, last July, left stocks, bonds,
jewelry and other personal property
valued ut SOS, 800, COO.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Churches Taxed In Greece.

Every church in Greece must pay
a tax of 8 per cent of it's annual in
come, and every monastery a tax of
5 per cent. Penalties are provided for
evasion of the taxes.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

The director of athletics at one army
camp has arranged a program as a
means of determining the relative ath-
letic caliber Of the companies in the di-
vision. Each man is required to pass
in eight of the following tests to obtain
d positive mark for his unit:
Jump s feet from a standing posi-
ton; chin 10 times; clear a bar at 4
feet 2 inches; throw a 12-pound shot
SO feet; climb a 20-foot rope in Is sec
onds; dash 80 yards in Z seconds; run
a mile in 6 minutes; lift a 6O-pound
weight over the head with one hand
sit up from a supine position with a
5O-pound weight suspended from the
back of the head.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

A statement prepared by the war
credits board includes the following
explanation of it's functions and activi-
ties:
when a concern that has a contract
with the war department for supplies
has shown the board that it needs fnan-
cfal assistance and has been able to
comply with the act by giving adequate
security, the board has approved an ad-
n payment and the money has been
received in many instances where the
case was urgent the money has been
paid over to the contractor the same
day the application has been filed.
However, the board does not act in
any n as a bank. 1t is only when
the manufacturer has reached a point
where financial assistance is needed, in
addition to his banking lines, hat ap-
plication for advance payment for his
goods is considered favorably by the
board"
Between the time of it's creation in
November and January "a the board
approved advances to contractors to
falling $145, 551, 600.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

It isn't wholly because Of a chilly re.
ceptfon that some people are all wrap
ped up in Observation-Disclosures
Record.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
DailV Thouuht.

To thine own self be true, and il
must follow as the night the day, thou
canst not then be false to any man.
ShakeSDearA
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

No commodities may now be export
ed from the United States nor import
ed, without license. According to q
statement by the war trade board the
military and tonnage situations have
made increasingly apparent the neces-
sity of instituting a complete and thor
ough-going control of all exports and
imports.
Licenses for the export OF import Of
coin, bullion, currency, evidences of
debt of ownership of property and
transfers of credit will be issued by
the treasury department; licenses for
all other exports and imports, includ-
ing merchandise, bunkers, ships sup
plies, etc, will be issued by the war
trade board.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
U.S.-Teutoric War News

Japan has directed inquiries to the
entente powers and the United States
government to test their feeling to-
ward Il proposal to institute joint mill
tary operations in Siberia to save the
war supplies stored at VladivOstOk and
along the Siberian railroad.
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Two more American soldiers died
in the hospital from the effects of gas
shells fired by the Germans during an
attack on the American trenches in
France. Throughout the day groups
of men were discovered who suffered
from the effects of the poisonous
gases and by night the victims num-
bered about sixty, most of whom are
not badly affected.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Warrington

VI NV CAAahN dAlO OuS
military affairs committees, high army
and navy officers, representatives of
the allied missions in Washington and
a large number of civilians witnessed
the first demonstration of the Brown
ing machine gun. 1t was staged under
the auspices of the ordnance depart
ment. The new weapon met every
test.
Sensational charges that rules and
orders Of the national food admins
tration at Washington have enabled
the big meat packers to gain control
Of practically all of the country's out
put of certain food products and re-
strict the business of their small COM
petitors were made at the hearing in
Chicago before Basil NJ. Manly, exam
liner for the federal trade commission.
Food Administrators Hoover issued n
statement denying Francis J. Heney's
statements that food administration
employees were ~exerting an influence
In the interest of the packers.
Exemption from the stamp tax of
short-time notes given by member
banks to federal reserve banks to IA
cilitate issues of Liberty bonds and
Wa Savings certificates was agreed
upon by the house ways and means
committee.
Complaints charging unfair trade
practices were issued by the federal
trade commission against SO manufac-
turing firms, as the result of a long
and intensive investigation which has
revealed "a very serious and unhealthy
condition In certain industries"
Application of railroads operating in
Missouri for increased interstate pas.
senger rates, based on intrastate tariff
increases recently allowed, was tenta.
lively approved by the interstate com,
merce commission.
"The next Liberty loan will bear in
terest at a rate of AZ per cent" sale
Representative Meeker of Missouri. OF
the floor of the house. 81 have that in
formation direct"
q
President Wilson issued a proclama
ton at Washington guaranteeing ev
cry farmer a minimum of 81 a bushe
for 1918 wheat. He also indicated
that farmers will as far as possibl
, be exempted from the draft.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

Small stocks of corn in the hands of
dealers in New England and other
Eastern and Southern states, with the
exception of Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia, where SURPRISES were pro-
duced, are indicated by reports to the
department of agriculture. Actual
available supplies in the Southeastern
states are said to be greater than ever
before, although the amount of corn in
the hands of distributors and other
dealers is much below normal.
Most districts in the Southeastern
states have sufficient supplies for local
needs, while dealers in many places,
especially Mississippi, Alabama, Geor.
gia and Florida have shipped large
quantities of corn to the larger mar
kets.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

German Imperial Chancellor Won
H~ertling's speech in the reichstag con-
tinuing the discussion of the war aims
Of the b~elligerent powers has not
changed the situation, in the opinion
of high officials at Washington. In
stead of marking an advance toward
peace, it is regarded rather q DELHI
erately calculated to strengthen the
hands of the German m~ilitaristic party
by e~ndeavoring to convince the Ger
man proletariat of the impracticable
nature of President Wilson's aims as
disclosed in his most recent address
to congress on February IL.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

A "War Cyclopedia," providing the
public with information on the great
war in the form of a handbook, is the
latest publication issued by the COM
mittee on public information.
The salient facts of the war are
briefly stated in alphabetical form in
300 pages. The cyclopedia also con-
tains a chronology of outstanding
events ranging from the murder at
Serajevo of the Archduke Francis Fer
dinand, June %, 1914, to the British
national labor conferences approval of
President Wilson's war aims, December
%, 1917.
The volume may be obtained by adj
dressing the Committee Of Public In
formation, 10 Jackson place, Washing
ton, D.. c., and %inclosing % cents to
W. cost of printing.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

The outbreak Of lawlessness in
County Glare. Ireland, it is announced
officially in London. made necessary
the sending of additional troops to the
county to assist the police. County
Glare has been declared a special area
under the defense of the realm act,
which is tantamount to martial law.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

While figures are not yet available
on the proportionate number of 81 and
So smileage books being purchased for
use by men at the camps and canton
ments, the commission on training
camp activities, in charge of the sale,
states that there has been unexpected
demand for the larger books. Smileage
books selling for 81 contain 20 coupons
good for admission to camp entertain
ments books selling for So contain 100
coupons.
From two to five coupons are re-
quired for admission to Liberty thea
ters at the camps, although many of
the productions are Of the class which
command 81 prices in metropolitan
houses.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

It is estimated that within the next
six months $4,000 t 100000 men will
be given intensive military training in
schools and colleges. They will be
drawn from the armed forces of the
nation, men now in training camps or
about to be called, and registrants
under the selective service law.
With a view to mobilizing the educa-
tional institutions Of the country for
this special training there has been
created in the war department a "com-
mittee on education and special train
ing" 1t will encourage and arrange
for the technical education of men
needed by the several branches of the
army.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08
Foreign

The Spanish steamship Igotz Mendi,
with a German prize crew from the Pa
cifc ocean on board, is ashore near
the Skaw lighthouse, says a dispatch
from Copenhagen. Two of the pris-
oners aboard are Americans.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

In England priority must be given to
the manufacture of wartime boots
over all but government work. The
boots must be made of classes of
leather and to specifications approved
by the director of raw materials; the
manufacturer must stamp on the up
per his registered number and on the
sole the retail price, together with the
words "war time"
The following are examples of styles
and prices per pair: Mems heavy
shoes, $3.50; city clerks shoes, S4.S7 to
$3.50; women's stout shoes, $3.16 to
$500; women's first-grade glace shoes.
1888 to 1886; boys shoes. 50 up
girls shoes, $1.S7 up. Altogether there
will be 50 types of wartime boots. The
heels Of women's shoes are not higher
than IL inches, but it is understood
that wartime shoes represent in all
particulars the manufacturers ideas
of what the public desires.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

News OF schemes to swindle farmers
by men advertising to be authorized
farmlOan association organizers is met
by the statement by the federal farm
loan board that organizers are not en-
ployed.
In order to borrow money under the
farm-loan act farmers must organize
cooperative national farm-loan associ-
atoms in their local communities. 1t is
a violation of a ruling of the farm loan
board for a national farn-loan ~associa-
ton or a joint-stock land bank to spend
money for promotion purposes.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

There is no standard recipe for "vic-
tory bread" the only requirement be-
ing that it must contain not more than
so per cent of wheat flour, the remain
ing 20 per cent being composed of corn
meal or corn flour, rice, potato flour, or
other cereals recommended by the
food administration. Victory" pies
and doughnuts, which contain not less
than one-third nonwheat flour, may be
sold on wheatless days if the same
recipes are used throughout the week.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

Lady Furness, one of the noted
women of the British peerage, is serv-
ing as a nurse in the Red Cross be-
hind the lines in France. Many, like
her, have given up personal comforts
and the joys of social life, to enlist
their efforts in their country's cause.
Many are serving in the hospitals
close to the firing line in France.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

A soldier Of the United States cav.
airy border patrol was shot through
the arm while patrolllng the border
nenr San Elizario. The soldier was
riding with a comrade when two Mex
leans opened fire.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

The worlds record for coal produc.
ton In eight hours time, held by an
Illinois mine, was shattered when the
American mine, located near Vim
cennes Ind, holsted 5.911 tops
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

Airplane mnil service between New
York and Washington will be in daily
operation beginning April IS, the post
Office department announced. Eight
machines win be furnished by the war
department.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

Federal agents raided the headquar-
ters In Brooklyn of the Pastor Russell
foundation and seized books and pa
pers. The raid was made In connec
ton with the arrest of followers Of the
sect In Toronto, Ont, who are charged
with publishing n book alleged to be
sedltinus.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

The war department announced the
retirement Of Brig. Gen. James Parker,
who has been in command of the Ma
tional army environment at Camp Gus
ter. Mich.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

The war department announced the
retirement Of Brig. Gen. James Parker,
who has been in command of the Ma
tional army environment at Camp Gus
ter, Mich.
Federal agents raided the headquar-
ters In Brooklyn of the Pastor Russell
foundation and seized books and pa
pers. The raid was made In connec-
ton with the arrest of followers Of the
sect In Toronto, Ont, who are charged
with publishing a book alleged to be
seditiOus.
Airplane mail service between New
York and Washington will be in daily
operation beginning April IS, the post
Office department announced. Eight
machines WIN be furnished by the war
department.
Additional disclosures, both from
witnesses and letters, showing the Chi
cago packers in efforts to stine compe-
tltion in the food industry, were made
NJ Chicago before federal trade com
mission examiners. Small dealers, who
confessed fear of financial ruin be-
cause of their testimony, told how
Swift 4 Co, either "steam-rollered'
them out of existence or brought them
into line.
The license Of Moses Newberger OF
Amsterdam. N. Y, has been revoked
the United States food administration
announced, because of sugar sales a
more than reasonable figures.
An indefinite respite has been grant
ed five negro soldiers of the Twenty
fourth infantry, sentenced by court
martial 20 be hanged for participation
in the Houston riots. Appeals for elem
ency, reaching President Wilson from
clergymen and negro organization
were the cause.
The death list of the Red Cross line
Fiorizel, wrecked at Broad Cove, is 1O1
with "A saved, according to a wireless
message from Cape Race, two mile
from where the ship lies broken on tn
rocks.
Thirty officers and enlisted men O
the naval tug Cherokee are believe,
10 have been lost when the vessel foun
dered in n fierce gale Off FenwicI
island iightship, % miles from the Del
aware capes. The survivors who 90
away on the first life raft were safel
landed by n British steamer.
A soldier Of the United States ca,
airy border patrol was shot throug
the arm while %patrolling the horde
near San ElizariO. The soldier WE
riding with a comrade when two Me,
teams opened fire.
BY a vote Of 30 to Z the wisconsI
state senate condemned as dlsloyi
United States Senator Robert M. l.
Follette's attitude on the war. A 10.
atty resolution, originating in the r
publican caucus, and which alrcad
had passed the house, was adopted /
the senate with an amendment col
demnlng La Toilette.
The worlds record for coal produ
ton In eight hours time. held by q
Illinois mine. was shattered when Il
American mine, located near vi
.. IND hnisfed hQ1f tome
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

by a vote Of % to Z the Wisconsin
state senate condemned as dlsloyal
United States Senator Robert M. La
Follette's attitude on the war. A 10y.
atty resolution, originating in the Re.
publican caucus, and which already
had passed the house, was adopted by
the senate with an amendment con.
demnlng La Toilette.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

American-built ordnance of the lat
ter type and heaviest caliber-1O-inch,
12-inch and 14-inch rifles-are in serv-
Ice on the sector of the western front
held by the American army and on the
italian front, 1t was learned at the war
dpD0rtmant
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

An official communication issued at
Berlin says: "The auxiliary cruiser
Wolf has returned home after fifteen
months in the Atlantic, Indian and Pa
cihc oceans. The Wolf brought home
more than 100 members of crews of
sunken ships and articles to the value
of many million marks"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

A revolution in Germany was pre-
dicted by Doctor Cohn, independent
socialist deputy, in an address TO the
reichstag, the Volkszeitung of Cologne
says. Doctor COINS address, made
during the debate on the peace treaty
with Ukraine, threw the reichstag into
an uproar.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-08

Before the war the navy's bureau of
Identification had the inger-print rec
ords of 100000 men. In the last year
the number has increased to about
900, 1000. In taking the finger-print
record of the navy recruit the impress
sfons of all ten fingers are obtained.