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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
Fighting Fourth Liberty Loan
Facts and Figures
WHERE THE MONEY
COMES FROM

Where does all the money come
from to carry on this stupendous
war ?" The question is a common one
but the facts are assuring, There Is
in reality, more gold in this country
today than there was before the war !;
and certainly there is much more pa
per money
According TO a statement from
Washington there is more actual
money. gold. silver and paper cur.
rency In circulation now than at any
previous time in the Nations history,
and there is bigger share for every
man, woman and child.
In brief, ii is wealth, or goods in
some form which has been destroyed.
The cost of the war is largely repre-
sented by the destruction of goods. re-
ferable to money only as means of
recording their value, and that money,
in this sense, plays a role secondary
to goods. II is the quantity OF goods
demanded by war which forms the
real economic expense of this terrible
struggle. Money remains; goods are
destroyed. The war is really being
carried on by credit.
A United States Treasury report on
August is showed IS .559, 000, 900 in cir
culation-s700,000 600 more than a
year ago and S175 zoo, 900 more than a
month previous. making an average of
s5244 for each person.
These figures on the stock of money
bear little relation to the nations &C
tual wealth or to its credit resources,
since these amount TO many times the
actual money available.
The ability OF the government TO
borrow and TO obtain enormous sums
OF purchasing power over goods need
ed in the war. thus depends not only
on the wealth of the country. but also
upon its sound finance and the skilled
mobilization of its resources. That
the finances OF the United States are
sound. the mobilization of its re.
sources skilled and the confidence OF
its people in them absolute, is more
than proved by the rapidity and eager
ness with which its three Liberty
Loans have been over subscribed
That the Fighting Fourth, about to
be launched. will meet with an equal
response cannot be doubted by any
one who knows the spirit of the Amer
lean people.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
WOMEN WORK ON HIGHWAYS
Service In Oregon Highway
Department

Salem, ore.-Women are replacing
men called TO war service in the state
highway department of Oregon. They
are driving water carts used in wet
ting down maeadam roads before they
are rolled, and are employed as check
ers and weighers at the various gravel
pits and rock bunkers. State Highway
Engineer Num- has issued orders that
wherever practical they are to replace
men, who win be discharged with or
ders to get into more essential forms
Of labor.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
BUYING BONDS
is NOW A HABIT

To buy a Liberty Bond has become
a habit with the people of the United
States, a growing habit, and no one is
complaining. This is proven by the
figures.
On May 2, 1917, the First Liberty
Loan was announced and the cam
paign began one month later. TWO
billion dollars in 3ikTo bonds were of
fered and brought four and one half
million subscribers. The subscrip-
lions amounted in all to more than
three billion dollars. of which only
two billion were allotted. The out
standing feature of this first loan was
the promptness with which it was ar
ranged and conducted. Taking only
two weeks to be formed and selling to
four and one half million people
where only 100000 people were habit
ual purchasers of bonds, presents al.
most a miracle in finance.
To the Second Liberty Loan, offered
for sale Oct. /, 1917 and closed Oct 81,
1917, there were nine million subscrib-
ers and the amount subscribed was
s4,617,532, 600 Only s3.s0S, 1855. $50
was allotted. The outstanding feature
of this campaign was the important
part which labor, fraternal organiza-
tons and the women of the country
had in il.
The Third Liberty Loan campaign
was inaugurated on April 6. 1918, the
anniversary of the entrance OF this
country into the war. Three billion
dollars were offered. About seventeen
million people subscribed s4,170.109,
$50, all of which was allotted. This
campaign was made notable by its
wide distribution among the people
and the large response made to it by
the rural districts.
The newest loan, the Fighting
Fourth, is to be placed on sale Sept
rs. The sale will close Oct. 10. pc
riod of but three weeks. Within that
time 1t will be necessary to sell a very
much larger volume of bonds than was
sold in any of the three preceding
campaigns. The amount of bonds TO
be offered has not been officially an
nounced but because of smaller de
mands being made upon US to finance
our Allies not more than five billions
may be offered.
However, ii is certain that the
amount offered for sale will mark the
Fourth Loan as one of the greatest
pieces of governmental financing that
the world has ever known. II only
five billion dollars of the Fourth Lib.
erty Loan are offered for sale and are
disposed of within three weeks. II will
be the largest Offering ever made by
any government and subscribed to in
so short time.
The new loan is 1.-THE Fighting
Fourth. title that has been adopted
for it by the Publicity Committee OF
the New England District Our army
in France has begun to take its stride
and additions to the army from now
on will show in a growing degree the
fighting spirit manifested up to the
present time. The people of the United
States, the stay-at-homes, in subscrib
ing to the Fighting Fourth Liberty
Loan are simply keeping step to the
same tune which is animating our sol
diers and sailors and airmen.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
D'ANNUNzIO GETS EVEN
chairman Of Italy Raids pola
in Reprisal.
Austrians Having Attacked His Quar-.
tiers, He Drops Bombs on Their
Naval Arsenal.
BY WARD PRICE.

Italian Headquarters at the Front.
Maj. Gabrielle dAnnunzio, Italy's
poet-:i rman, who led the raid on
turous personal reprisal for an Aus
TRAN night air raid during which one
of the enemy machines dropped a
bomb literally within yards of his
sleeping quarters. The bomb did not
explode, but Its impact knocked over
and broke a glass from which dan
nunzio had drunk an hour before. The
soldier-poet gayly started off In the
afternoon with his pilot in new type
of fast. weight-carrying land ma
straight across the Adriatic sea to
Pola, the Austrian naval base. dropped
IA bombs on the arsenal and re-
turned safely to his aerodrome.
/ was waiting there when he ar
rived amid a round OF cheers from
his squadron.
There was a heavy barrage fire."
he told US, land once l thought our
trail had been struck. But not n
single one of the Austrian chaser ma
chimes got up after us. The Austrians
were very keen to get me, but they
missed good chance this afternoon"
D'Annunzio will wear henceforth in
his flights an ivory-hllted dagger.
This weapon is the distinctive mark
of the Italian storm troops. and all
the eight airmen who took part in
the raid on Vienna have been named
by their comrades THE Storm Troops
of the Air"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
CONVERSION OF LIBERTY BONDS

1t is often asked by owners OF Lib
erty Bonds if IL is wise to convert
their first and second issues into high
er interest rate bonds. To them
it should be said that the First 3hs
are completely tax exempt and conse.
quently there is demand for them by
presons subject to high rates OF add
tional taxes. This demand has caused
them to sell higher in the market than
the other issues. They therefore
should not be converted but persons
with ordinary incomes will probably
find it advantageous TO sell them and
purchase as. 1t would seem gener-
ally advantageous to exchange the As
for ANS, This can be done only be.
fore Nov. 8, 1918. Most banks will at
tend to exchanges, sales and pur-
ehases.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
HELP THE GOVERNMENT

Purchasers of Liberty Bonds who
wish TO help the Government to the
fullest extent should keep the bonds
which they have purchased, and when
they buy additional bonds do SO from
the Government during loan offerings
rather than in the open market, as the
money paid for bonds purchased in the
market does not go to the Government
but simply to previous holders. On
the other hand, those who must real.
ize upon their investment can always
do SO at the market price.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
MONEY rs MADE TO FIGHT

With fine spirit of patriotism DR.
James o. Ely of Winnetka. ILL.,, father
of Lieut. Dinsmore Ely who died from
Injuries received in action. gave the
proceeds of his sons life insurance
policy of $4,000 for the purchase of Lib
erty Bonds. This in a sense, doubles
his sons help to the cause to which
his life had been dedicated Even in
death his work goes on, fighting in the
cause he loved
Lieut.. Ely had an aeronautic career
replete with hairbreadth escapes and
was cited for extreme bravery in van
gushing German plane in his first
fight in Picardy.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
LIBERTY BOND Or

BY Helen NJ. Cummings. Attleboro
Mass
Some day is your boy going to ask YOU
why ~
When need was urgent, stress was great
Your help was not forthcoming?
When, In Hehs fray. he stubbornly
fought 10 hold the Hun,
Woundeo. sunering. almost spent.
GOD give me strength to keep shi.
dread beast from Home.
From an ! love, from my fair land.
In olden days. battle ragged, and 40 the
story goes. ~
That just as long as were upheld the
Leaders hands
So surged the tide OF victory
OF ours
Your boy and mine
Uphold their hands and help them save
tae free mans Right
or-fail them and fer spermore -
slaves TO Asrdsroas MigAsf
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
Strike Bio Gas Flow.

Warren, PA gas well making 49,
100000 cubic feet a day was drilled in
by the Pennsylvania Gas company at
Bear Creek in Elk county. 1t is the
biggest well drilled in northwestern
Pennsylvania in the last three years.
Its roar could be heard for two miles.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
OUTFIT OF A SAILOR

To supply sailor with a single one
OF each OF the several articles of cloth
ing he Is obliged to have costs SIS. 10.
This brings his entire outfit TO not far
from the price of one 800 Liberty
Bend.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-09-25
DID Ne Really Mean III

Mount Vernon, N. VA sign r ~
front of a local theater reads:
He'll With the Kaiser and Big VauO'
Vile Acts"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
HENRY VETTER DEAD.
Old Time Kenosha Resident Succumbs
to Injuries Received from Falling
Down Stairs in Racine.

Henry Vetter, age 65, died at st.
Mary Hospital at 11:30 after a weeks
illness Of injuries received by falling
down a flight of stairs. Mr.. Vetter was
at the home Of his sister, Mrs. Philip
Homelsen, at Racine, and in going
down the stairs last Saturday tripped
and fell, being SO seriously injured in
ternally that he died last night.
Henry Vetter was one of the ld-time
residents, having come here with his
parents from Germany when he was
only year old. For great many years
he was night Waterman at the Balm
Wagon Works on Main street where he
was still employed, but having short
vacation he had gone to visit his sis
ter, Mrs. Philip Homelsen.
He. is survived by one brother, Alex
Vetter, of Prairie avenue, Kenosha;
and three sisters, Mrs. Annie Becker,
274 Maiden Lane, Kenosha; Mrs. Caro-
line Shirk, Michigan City, and Mrs.
Frances Homelsen of Racine. His
brother, Joseph Vetter, died at his home
on Prairie avenue, in Kenosha, about
month ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
PIONEER WOMAN DEAD.
Mrs. Mary Matilda Simmons Cheever
Died at the Kenosha Hospital
Late Friday Evening.

Mrs. Mary Matilda Simmons Chez
yer, aged eighty three years, widow of
the late Hurlbert Brigham Cheever and
one of the pioneer women Of this sec
ton of the country, died at the Keno
sha Hospital late Friday evening fol
lowing long illness.
Mrs. Cheever was born in Fulton
county, New York, August %, 1884,
but she had spent most of her life in
the town Of Benton near the state line.
She was married to Hubert B. Cheever
in August Of 1859. A devoted Chris
tian woman, Mrs. Cheever had been an
active member of Park Avenue M. E.
Church in this city since 1872. For
many years she had made her home in
Kenosha with her sons, the late DR..
William r. Cheever, and more recently
with DR.. Homer l.. Cheever.
She is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. Mary Ella Jones of Live Oak,
Fla, and two sons, Charles H. Cheever
Of Libertyville, Ill, and DR.. Homer L.
Cheever of Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
First Publication, May 9, 1918.
GHERTFF,G SAFE


STATE OF WISCONSIN = IN MUNICH
PAL COURT FOR KEEOSHA COUNTY.
Charles Zingler, Plaintiff, VS.. Sophie
Malzahn and Freda Malzahn. an infant.
Defendants.
By virtue and in pursuance of a judg-
ment of foreclosure and sale rendered by
the above named court in the above en-
titled action on the 3rd day of May, A. D.
1917, in favor of the above named plaintiff
and against the above named defendants, /,
the undersigned, sheriff of Kenosha
county. Wisconsin, shall offer for sale and
sell at public auction and vendue at the
and county of Kenosha, state Of Wiscon-
sin, on the 22Hd day of June, A. d. 1913,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon of that day,
the following described mortgaged prem
ises, directed in said judgment to be sold,
or so much thereof as may be sufficient
to pay the amount due TO the plaintiff
upon said judgment for principal, inter-
est and costs, together with the expenses
of such sale, which said premises are de-
scribed in said judgment as follows, to-
wit:
Ten d0I rods wide off of the entire
south side of the west half of the
northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section sixteen (16), town
ship one IL north, range nineteen g19)
east, containing two and one-haf OH
acres of land, and lying and being in
the town of Randall, in the county OF
Kenosha, and state Of Wisconsin.
Dated Sheriffs Office, Kenosha, Wiscon-
sin, May 4th. A. D. 1918.
JACOB NJ. HERMANN,
Sheriff Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
CAvANAGH. BARNES & CAVANAGH.
Plaintiffs Attorneys. No
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
First Publication May %, 1918.
DETERMINATIONS OF HETRSHIP.

First Publication May %, 1918.
DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP.
STATE OF WISCONSIN - COUNTY
COURT - KNOSHA COUNTY.
In the matter of the descent of lands of
Leopold Wehmhoff, deceased
Notice is hereby given, that at the Spe-
clal Term of the County Court, TO be held
in and for said County, at the Court House
In the city Of Kenosha, in said County, on
the last Tuesday. of June, A. D. 1915 the
following matter will be heard, considered,
examined and adjusted:
The application of Henry Wehmhoff to
determine the heirship and descent OF lands
of Leopold Wehmhoff, whose last place of
residence was in the town of Wheatland,
deceased, said lands being described as
follows, to-wit:
An undivided one-hfth interest in and
to the following described lands: All that
piece or parcel of land lying and being in
the town of Burlington, County of Racine
and State of Wisconsin, known as the Sc
Il of Section Twenty two (22), Township
Two CD North, of Range Nineteen (19)
East; also the Sc II of the NE IL of Sec
ton Twenty-Five COY, Township Two (2)
North, of Range Nineteen 90 East, and
all that piece or parcel of land lying and
being situated in the Town of Wheatland
County of Kenosha and State of Wiscon-
sin, known and described as the e i of
the NE II of Section twenty-five (22)
Township Two (2) North, of Range Nine
teen (19) East
Dated May 10th 1918.
By the Court
Geo. w. Taylor.
VIZ Judge
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
MILK DEALERS FORM
BOTTLE EXCHANGE
Effort Will be Made to Stop Large
Loss of Bottles for Local
Milk Dealers.

Practically all of the milk dealers in
the city are interested in a new organi-
cation chartered by the state today to
be known as the Kenosha Milk Bot
tiers Exchange The officers of the
new organization are: President, Axel
Langren; vice president, John H. Bar
Der; secretary, G. W. Rhadans, and
treasurer, Arthur A. Otto.
The company is organized without
capital stock and it will be in charge
of the collection of milk bottles
throughout the city and see to it that
they are properly separated and re-
turned to the owners.
Every dealer in the city has agreed
to cooperate in the matter ana it is
thought that the plan will be big saw
ing in bottle cost to the dealers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
HOLD BOY WHO
DEFACED MONUMENTS
Ten Year old Charged with vandal
ism in Cemeteries in Court
This Afternoon.

Steve Kluberg, aged ten years, was
brought into the Municipal Court this
morning charged with vandalism. 1t
was alleged by the officer who picked
up the ten year old, that he had ruth
lessly violated the cemeteries at the
south end of the city, that he had
broken crosses from monuments in
both Green Ridge and St. James eeme-
terry. The boy admitted that he had
broken the monuments and was unable
to make any excuse for his actions.
Judge Tully took into consideration the
tender age of the defendant and order
ed that his parents be brought into
court this afternoon. Repeated com
plants have been made against dam
age bling done to monuments in the
cemetery and an effort will be made to
have young Kluberg's parents pay
The damage done and the boy placed
on parole to insure his good behavior
in the future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
NEW CALL FOR NURSES.
Special Effort Being Made to Secure
Registration of Trained Work
ers in the State.

A special effort is being made to Sc
cure the registration of every retired
nurse in the state of Wisconsin. There
are women in every community who
are eligible for registration under the
law, but who, for one reason or an
other, have never availed themselves
Of the privilege. Many are married and
have abandoned their professional
careers while others have taken
the requisite training but have never
put it to use.
Today it is matter of patriotic
duty for each woman who is en-
titled to the rank of registered nurse
to make application at once that she
may do what she can to fill tie rapidly
thinning ranks of the profession. 1t is
stated that forty thousand nurses are
needed to the military hospitals and
that only eighteen thousand are enroll
ed The gap between these Plumbers
must be met, not only by the training
schools, but by every retired nurse,
throwing other considerations aside
and Offering her service to her country
in its hour of need.
The law relating to registration of
nurses was recently amended so as to
make eligible for registration any ap-
plicant, who apply on or before june
/, 1918, shall at the time of making
such application have graduated from a
reputable training school for nurses
connected with a general or special
hospital and who at the time of such
graduation shall have received course
of at least two years training in such
training school and shall pass an ex-
animation to determine the fitness and
ability of the applicant to give eff
fieient care to the sick.
1t is necessary that application for
registration be made by June /. The
time is short and women who ar eligi-
BILE should lose no time in writing to
DR.. j. M. Dodd, secretary of the Wis
consin State Board of Medical Elk
aminers, Ashland, Wis.,, for the neces-
sary blanks.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
irst PubIication. Nav 8. 1918.

First Publication, May O. 1918
NOTICE TO SELL REAL ESTATE.
STATE OF WISCONSIN - IN COUNTY
COURT FOR KENOSHA COUNTY.
In Re. Estate of Frank Van Der Wee,
Deceased In Probate.
1t appearing by the verified petition of
Joseph Funck, the administrator of the
estate of Frank Van Der Wee, deceased,
among other things, that the personal es
tate of said deceased in the hands of said
petitioner is insufficient to pay in full the
expenses of administration, last sickness
and funeral, and the debts outstanding
against said deceased, and that 1T is neceS-
Sary TO sell or incumber the whole of the
real estate of said deceased, for the pay
ment thereof, or of some part thereof;
Anu SAID petitioner praying that he be
licensed and empowered to mortga ge.
lease or sell, as to the court seems advan-
tageous and expedient, the whole of the
real estate of said deceased. described in
Such petition, or so much thereof as shall
be necessary, for the payment OF such
expenses and debts
THEREFORE, IT rs oRHERED, That
said petition and the matters therein be
heard at the regular term of said Ncourt,
! to be held at the Court House in said
| county, in the City of Kenosha, on the
hrst Tuesday of June, 1918, at the opening
of court on that day, or as soon there
after as said petitioner can be heard;
AND, IT is FURTHER ORDERED, That
notice of such hearing be given to all
persohs Interested, -by puDucau0n hefeoI
three successive weeks previous to said
time, in the Telegraph Courier. q news
paper published in said county, and by
serving a copy hereof personally on all
i persons interested in said estate including
guardians of such as are minors or in
competents if any, and residing in said
county, and on the attorneys of all persons
who have appeared in the proceedings
herein, at least twenty days before such
hearing
Dated at Kenosha, Wisconsin, this
eighth day of May, A. d. 1918.
By the Court,
GEO. w. TAYLOR,
| we County TY1d0p
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
DEATH OF BENEDICT coNFoRT1
With Paralysis and Dies From Eff
fects Within a Short Time.

Benedict Conforti, seventy-one, died
at the family home at 25 North Ere
mont avenue, at ten O'Clock Friday
night after twenty-four hour illness
with paralysis. Mr.. Conforti was en-
gagged in the grocery business with his
son and on Thursday received stroke
of paralysis which caused his death a
few hours later.
He is survived by his widow and six
children, three sons and three daugh-
tiers. The sons are: Anton, Samuel and
Albert, the daughters are, Mrs. Gelsa-
nina Gallo, Mrs. Cespuglio Levena, and
Mrs. Theresa Belmont. All the child
rem are residents of Kenosha except
Mrs. Belmont, who lives in Italy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
First Publication, May 9, 1913.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

KENOSHA COUNTY COURT In PRO
BATE.
In the matter Of the estate of Teckla
Bittner, also known as Teckla Bednarski,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims
and demands of all persons against Teckla
Bittner, deceased, late of the City of Ke-
nosha, in said County of Kenosha, will be
examined and adjusted by the County
Court of Kenosha County at the regular
terms of said Court to be holden at the
County Court room, in the City Of Keno
sha. in and for said County, on the first
Tuesday of September A. D. 1913, and on
the first Tuesday of November, A. d. 1918,
at ten o'clock A. NJ of those days; also
that the time until and including the first
Tuesday of October, A. d. 1913, is the
time allowed and limited for creditors of
said Teckla Bittner, deceased, to present
their claims for examination and allow
ance.
Dated at Kenosha, the fourth day Of
May, A. d. 1913.
By the Court,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
WI County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-30
BOY SCOUTS WILL BE THERE.

Kenosha Boy Scouts will have a big
field meet and grand review of all
the Boy Scout troops in the city on
July 4. In the morning of that day
the exercises will consist of outdoor
sports, probably at Nash park, and in
the evening the proceedings will be at
the Armory. The Scouts will also be
in the big parade. "The Boy Scouts
will do their bit, whatever it happens
to be,' said Scout Executive James
Knapp, today, Gin putting across the
big doings on the Fourth of july