Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-09-04
WORLD WAR T

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The war department has author
lzed contracts for the purchase of
ollVe drab melton cloth to be used in
Lne manufacture of wooden uniforms
Tor the army, amounting to S4.7O9. $50
Ihese have been approved by the
BOARD OF review in the Office of the
quartermaster general. Among 9TH
er purchase transactions approved.
is one for $500 worth of potato
Washers and M for $4,000 gross of
hooks and eyes, costing $11,5OO, the
latter Tor reclamation work.
Mae Kluk of Chicago. succeeded in
marrying three Camp Grant soldiers
and was getting allotments from I'm
Gle sam for each. Mae, aged 10. had
each husband make out SIC, 900 gov
eminent insurance in her favor. She
married Walter Kluk last November
10 and was a true and loving wife
until he sailed for France. Two
weeks later she met Private John Be
ran. A Wh1rlwind courtship followed
and John led Mabel to the altar on
NOV. 10Th. John went to France and
Mae kissed him goodby and sobbed
bitterly. Along, then, came bugler
NICK de Clio. Nick was a Latin and
hot-olooded. He met Mae, proposed
and was accepted. The marriage
bells rang on April 9th. Then Mae
made her fatal mistake. She foolish
ly introduced husband No. 3 to mo-
ther-in-law No. /. Notes were COM
pared and now Mae is in Jail facing
i've years Imprisonment and SIS, 1000
line. She is 10 and pretty.
The government has begun a ma
Clon-wlde campaign against the "yam-
p1re war BRIDE" Scores of these un-
s%crupulous women have already been
arrested and will be informed or sent
TO fed~eral-prisons. These wal brides
In numerous instances marry more
tina n soldier, receiving from each
SIS monthly from the soldiers pay
and a like amount from the govern
ment. One is charged with having
married IL men, collecting $3.50 a
month, while her husbands were in
training camps and trenches lover
there" Each of her husbands car
ries her photograph nearest his heart
longing for the day when he will come
back to her. Naturally these vampire
war brides are not anxious for the
day when Johnny comes marching
home again" Investigators claim
that country boys fall" most readily
for the vampires and that more than
a hundred indictments have been
prepared against the harpies. The
game is worked quick with a "love
at first sight" come-on and marry
before sailing" solution. The boy
pays SIS or half his pay to his
scamp widow" The government will
send the women to Jail, annul the
marriage and see that the soldiers
get all their money.
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The United States provides three
forms of financial protection for it's
fighting forces and their families.
They are:
Allotments and Allowances-Every
enlisted man in the active military or
naval service is under a duty to allot
SIS a month from his pay to his wife
and children. To these compulsory
allotments the government adds fam
lily allowances, ranging from SIS a
month for a motherless child, and SIS
for a wife without children, up to a
maximum Of $50. The compulsory al
1otments are the same for all enlisted
men, regardless of rank or pay. Pro-
vision is also made covering instanc-
es of a divorced wife to whom alimony
has been decreed and who has not re-
married. In addition to the compuls-
DRY allotments, the enlisted man may
also make voluntary allotments to
his parents, grandparents, brothers,
sisters, or grandchildren, and, if they
are dependent upon him for support,
the government may add certain
monthly family allowances. Not
more than $50 in family allowances
will be paid on account of any one
enlisted man. If the enlisted man is
already making a compulsory allot-
ment to his wife and children he need
allot only SIS additional to his broth
ers, sisters, parents, grandparents
and grandchildren, if he claims a fam
lily allowance for them. But if he is
not making a compulsory allotment,
he must allot SIS to such other rela-
tives to obtain a government allow
ance for them. BY this system of al
lotmeLts and allowances the enlisted
man and the government together
make provision for the loved les