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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-06-04
WlLLIAMS eUR0


has been here taking care Of his bust.
ness interests and visiting with rela-
tives, has returned.
Frank Fetzer and wife and Fred
! Kleyer, all of Pilot township, were Wis
itors here Thursday.
John Kelting of Genoa Bluffs. who
has been iiere visiting with friends
and attending to business. has re-
| turned.
Frank Baily and son, George, of
Iowa City were visitors here recently
with relatives.
Martin Hill and his son Byron, both
of North English, who have been here
attending to- business and visiting
friends have returned home.
Thomas Jones Of Hilton township
and Chas. MCGUIRE Of Green township
| we're business visitors here Saturday.
August "Hudgepohl, one of the Ger
| man farmers of Iowa township trans
acted business here Thursday and
visited with friends.
During the storm here Thursday
night lightning struck the house Of
John O'Donnell and also struck the
barn Of William Ellis and killed his
two horses.
William Cooney of Fillmore town
ship, and H. H. Langley OF Summer
township, who have been here visiting
| with relatives and friends have re-
turned home.
George w. Mcdonald of Des Moines
and Miss Ethel Mayne of this city
were united in marriage here Thurs
| day at the home of the brides mother,
Andrew Yearin Of Pilot township,
who has been here visiting with rela'
tives, has returned.
Henry Glandorf Jr of York town.
ship was. business visitor here Mon
| day.
G. H. MAhoney, who resides on his
farm west Of the city was visitor
here Thursday with his friends.
Henry Faltinson Of Hilton township
who has been here attending to his
business and visiting with friends, has
returned.
Jasper Monetter, who resides south
Of the city on what in the early days
| was known as the "Oaks Farm" was a
visitor here Monday.
Edward Cole OF Cedar Rapids is
here this week on work in connection
With the electric light system.
C. A. Black of Iowa City is here this
week visiting with relatives and
friends.
David Robinson Of York township,
who has been here attending to bust
ness and visiting with relatives and
friends, has returned home.
T. ]. Collins of Parnell was here
Friday visiting with his friend, Daniel
Driscoll.
Mrs. M. H. Carroll d.daughter of
Parnell were visitors here Saturday
C. H. Klever of York Center was a
visitor here Saturday with friends
who we're former neighbors.
John Arp Of Iowa township. was a
visitor here Saturday with friends.
John Krickenberger of English
township, who has been visiting here
| with relatives and friends, returned
home Saturday.
D. M Evans, who resides east OF
this city, in what is designated as "Ev.
ansville," was visitor here Monday.
Clarence Dane and Edward Ford,
who reside on farms in York township,
, were business visitors here Monday.
Lewis Myers Of Nebraska is bust.
ness visitor here this week with var.
ious relatives and friends.
Jack King of Millersburg was Wis.
itor here Monday with relatives.
W. 8. Bovard of Chicago is here this
week attending to his business inter
eats .....
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MADE WREATHS
MANY YEARS

Davenport, June 1.-Wednesday
the members of the w. r. G. Of Dav'
EXPORT met at the armory on FIFTH
street to make wreaths with which TO
decorate the graves Of the soldiers Of
the civil war Memorial day. and there
was one among them who, as she
worked, let her thoughts wander back
to the first time the wreaths were
made with fingerp that trembled stu
with the poignan eorrow OF the los J.
OF dear ones. Sho %as was Kate Raft
OF 1882 Farnam street. and she tells
Of the first Decoration day in Daven-
port.
1SLLs OF FIRST TIME
Mrs. John Behrens, who passed
away several years ago, conceived the
idea OF decorating the graves OF tho
soldiers before Memorial day had
been established here AMI one spring
day about SO years ago, Mrs. Behrens
with Mrs. Raft and three others met
in the basement Of the old Christian
church, now Hibernian hail, and low
ingly fashioned green wreaths to
beautify the graves OF those gone
from them not 80 very long ago. And
they took them to Oakdale cemetery,
and with quiet little ceremony
placed them on the graves Of the sol.
diers who a few years past had Of
fered their lives that the union might
endure. There was no parade, no pa-
triotic speeches, no flare Of band
music, but the true Memorial spirit
permeated the little group and the
homage that they paid their dear de.
parted ones came from hearts In
which grief still was fresh.
w. R.Nc. TOLLS OVER WORK
This little band Of women contiu-
ued making the wreaths these years
For the past 50 years since the or
ganization Of the w. r. c., that body
Of women has taken over the pleasant
duty and each year on the 18th Of
May meets for this purpose.
For thirty-four years Mrs. Raff has
met with the women on this day,
missing but two days ii this time. AZ
on time on May 80 she was IN Port.
land, Ore, to attend her daughters
wedding, and took part IN the Memoir.
ial day services therel Mrs. Raffs
father, Henry Kenowtr. fashioned
the first rings, g. A. r. land w. r. C.
which were covered With Sresnes1
and used in the decorat5AA
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lBy Associated Press STAFF



With the American Army IN France
May 3l.-(Delayed)- Lieut.. Doug
las Campbell Of California goes the
honor Of being the first "ace" in the
American flying corps. 1t was Lieu
tenant Campbell who shot down the
German biplane near PontA-Mousson
today. 1t was his fifth victory to be
confirmed ofncially.
It is probable that another ACE
will be announced shortly and the avi.
ator to win the honor probably will be
Lieut.. Edward Rickenbacher Of Colum.
bus, Ohio. the former automobile
racer. ,Onicial confirmation of the
victory reported gained by Ricken.
bacher Thursday will bring his string
Of victories to the coveted five.
FIGHTS HIGH IN AIR
With a number Of other pilots Lieu.
tenant Campbell was out early today
They we're acting as patrols and as
protection for an American observa.
ton machine returning with British
bombing airplanes.
Some distance away Lieutenant
Campbell saw German airplane at a
height Of Of $500 meters. He sped to-
ward it and when he get near the Ger.
man the enemy biplane began to dart
in and out, firing bursts from his ma
chine gun The German did his best
to get a shot home but Campbell kept
circling and darting at high speed.
The battle continued for twenty min.
utes before the enemy observer aban-
doned his gun. Campbell saw that the
Germans ammunition was exhausted
and he closed in on him.
eocHE REFUSES TO SURRENDER
Lieutenant Campbell tried to signal
the German to surrender and descend
on French soil but the latter apparent.
ly decided to take chance on getting
home. The American got on the tail
Of the German, forcing him down but
all the time the enemy was getting
nearer home. Lieutenant Campbell
again signalled without success and
then when choice came Of permitting
the German to escape or shooting him
down he cut loose with his gun and
poured q deadly stream Of incendiary
bullets into the German machine
which crashed to the earth inside our
lines
Lieutenant Campbell downed his
first German airplane on April Is in.
side the American lines. For this
achievement he was decorated with the
French war cross. His second enemy
airplane was brought down on May al
and his third and four victories were
achieved In the ten days up to Friday. ]
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CHAPTER TX.
Upheaval,

I-a sForty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty
one, fifty-two, flfty-three--for good.
ness sake!-flfty.four, fifty-fve.'
Carol looked helplessly at her dusty
hands and mopped her face desper'
ately with her forearm.
David, watching her from the bed
IN the adjoining room, gave way to
silent laughter, and she resumed her
solemn count.
''rory-six, forty"
I "F1ftysix," he called, Don't try
any trickery on me-"
"Ftftysix, fifty-seven. flfty-eight
fifty-nine, sixty" She sighed audibly.
"Sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three,. sly
ty-four-sixty-four perfectly fresh
eggs" she announced. turning to the
doorway and frowning at her husband
who still laughed. "Sixty-four per
fectly fresh eggs, all laid yesterday
"Now, I give you fair warning, my
dear, am no cold storage plant, and
Won can't make me absorb any sixty
four egg-nogs daily just to even UP
the demand with the supply. I drank
seven yesterday, but this is too much
< You must seek another warehouse"
"You are very clever and facetious
Davie, really quite entertaining. But
what am to do with sixty.four fresh
eggs?"
aAnd I may as we'll confess frankly
that / consider minister's wife dis
tinctly out of her sphere when she
tries to corner the fresh egg market
particularly at the present price Of ex
istence. It isn't scriptural. It isn't
orthodox. am surprised at you. Carol
It must be some more Methodism
cropping out. l never knew Pres
byterian to do it."
And as for milk"
~There you go again-milk. Worse
and worse. Yesterday I had milk
toast and milk custard and frest
milk, and buttermilk. And here you
come at me again first thing today
Mix"
"Seven whole quarts have arrived
this morning-bless their darling ole
hearts,"
"The cows?"
.The parishioners," Carol explained
patiently. Ever since the doctor said
fresh milk and eggs. we've been flood
Cd with milk and"
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KTTCHIN REFUSES
TO RETRACT CHARGE

Washington. D. c., June MAJOR.
ity Leader Kitchin declined today to
retract his charge that a newspaper
publishers lobby, seeking repeal Of
the zone postage system. influenced
the administration to insist upon Tsve-
niue legislation at this session of con-
RresS.
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UKRAINE CONTINUES
TO RESIST GERMANS

Washington, D. c., June 1.-The
German are using artillery to put
down the peasant revolt in Ukrainia.
said dispatches received here today
from the Petrograd telegraph bureau.
Tho revolutionaries are said to be
burning the forests, destroying crops
land refusing to surrender agricultural
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ALLIES AIR RAIDS
DISCOURAGE TEUTONS

Washington, D. G., June l.-Allied
air raids on German towns are demon.
alizing the German people. Advtces
to the state department today said
hat the effect upon the population OF
cities bombed was far greater than
heretofore reported.
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ARMY BILL GOES
TO SENATE TODAY

Washington, D. c., June Passed
by the house in record time, the army
appropriation bill carrying $12,041,-
6s2, 900, the largest amount ever In.
cluded In such a bill and authorizing
the president 70 call into military serv-
ice as many men as can be equipped
and trained, was sent to the senate to-
day.
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CAMPBELL GETS
FIFTH GERMAN
California Aviator Is First
American Ace; Ricken-
bacher Qualities.
[By Associated Press STAFF
COrrespondent1


With the American Army In
France, June 1.-Another German
alrplane was brought down this
morning by an American pilot In
an air battle, crashing near st.
MlhleI, In the sector northwest Of
TouI, according to unofficial lnfor-
nation.
This duel was one Of series Of
: aerial eombats that occurred this
morning.
Tho enemy machine brought
down began falling after the
American had poured a stream Of
bullets into the opposing plano.
The American alrman made
prisoner Thursday by the Ger
mans was Lieut.. Wllfred v. Cas-
grain Of Detroit.
[Dispatchss from tho American
front Thursday reported that dur
ing an aerial combat an American
machine had been forced to land In
No Mans Land
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-06-04

~ FAN CARSON, North English
aviator who was injured In
an aeroplane collision overseas.
He writes home that all is we'll and he
will soon be able to resume his flying.
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Well, swan, Mrs. Duke, If you don't
beat all. Yes, I'll take that chair. It
may not be worth five dollars. but you
are"
Carol ostentatiously collected the
five dollars, doubled it carefully into
tiny bit, and tied it in the corner of
her handkerchief.
my money Mr.. David Arnold Duke,
and shall buy candy and talcum with
It,"
Then she ran into the adjoining
room to answer the telephone.
Mrs. Safer looked about her hesitat.
ingly and leaned forward.
David" she said in low >voice,
Carol ought to 90 home to her father.
It's dangerous for her to stay with you.
Everybody says So Make her go
home until you gre well. She may
get it too il she goes along. They'll
take good care OF you at the Presby.
terrain hospital out there, you minis
ter and all"
The laughter, the light, left David's
face at the first word.
II know it, he said in heavy
voice. 81 have told her to go home.
But she won't even talk 1t over. She
gets angry If mention it. Every one
tells me it is dangerous-but Carol
won't listen
Just until you get well, you know"
Il shall never get well unless she is
with me. But ] ap trying to send her
.away. What can do? I can't drive
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-01

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KIDD |El|||Il
Ik1IUHII
IN W. II
hi VII III
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GERMAN KUL.TUR NAILED

German propaganda was almost sue
cessful in producing in America an
overwhelming admiration for what the
paternaf Prussian autocracy had done
for the welfare of the German working
classes. But what are the facts? G.
A, Myers the well known research ex-
pert tells us:
That women and children have al
ways worked like beasts of burden on
the farms and in the cities of Hun
land.
That sweat shops and wretched ten
ements abound.
That the people suffer from lack Of
food and fuel
That they labor for stretches Of
hours unparalleled in other countries
for starvation wager.
We have heard from German kultur
about the Wanted social insurance
laws, but Mr.. Myers uncovers this part
of German deception. 1t seems that
the average invalidity pension in 1913
was less than one dollar per week. The
average old age pension was rs cents
per week. The average widows pen
sion was IS cents per week. Judge
these facts beside the cost Of the main
tenance of one person, which, for the
barest subsistence is $140 to $3.50 per
annum.
Another point to be remembered is
that the whole scheme, poor as it is
from a financial standpoint was not
meant for the benefit of people but was
simply sop thrown out by the gov
eminent. The German people seem to
have taken the bait They have sold
their place in civilized society for that
which enslaVes Them to a. master they
now so ardently support in his world
hutcheries.
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WHEN OUR CHAPLAIN
LEADS IN PRAYER

l have sat in stately churches,
Built of costly wood and stone,
Listened to the mighty organs
Pealing forth in mellow tone;
Heard ministers whose eloquenee
Made dome and arches ring
Sat enraptured while / listened
To some noted choir sing.
But the holy benediction
Never rested on me there,
As when listening to our chaplain
AS he. prayed in open air.
For my soul is lifted upward
From the sGrdid things Of earth,
And l seem to catch vision
OF life and it's true worth.
0, the soldier in the army
Is but mixture quaint,
For some of him is sinner
And some OF him is saint.
But the bigger, better portion
q tell II to you square)
Comes right up to the surface
When our chaplain leads in prayer.
For he rouses all our manhood
And we're anxious for the chance
To join the Allied forces
Who are fighting now in France.
know not what will be my lot
When on the other side,
FOR rate has many cards to play
And this old world is wide;
But if, when victory is won,
They leave me sleeping "over there
In heaven I'll wake in answer
To Chaplain Bassler's prayer
Co h 1n2d Am TT Cann HanoonE- G.
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Making Az, Army

Arthur Hunt Chute, late of the First
Canadian division, tells of the early
experiences of q little Cockney SER
geant. in training the famous "First
Canadians" afterwards the flower Of
the glorious Canadian army
Finally, all seemed to be wrapped in
slumber except myself and the little
cockney sergeant. who had come to
and was moaning as though in pain.
approached him and inquired If
could do anything to put him at ease.
Jaw, it amt the rough 'anding that's
a-botheri' O. me, but oh, my Gawd,
was -wonderin' 'ow I'd ever make SOL
jers out O. this mob from ell 1t fair
makes me groan, 1t does, to think o.
what's ahead, I tell we I've lad the
'andlin' o. rough stuff in me day. I've
hammered the fear o. dooty into toughs
from Mile End Road. and I've seen the
sweepin's o. ell made into an army,
and where tkere is 'ope sees it, but
Gawd biz me, there's no hope for these
Canadians. Ye cawn't make an harny
ST. tot them Ne. seq 7 1t eawnt be
DONE"
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THESE ARE TIMES

When there is a call for Lnen-men
by the millions-nen who can fight
men who are courageous and strong
men who are willing to offer their very
lives that righteous humanity may be
protected and preserved.
BUT
There is also a call for men-and the
numbr must be far greater-who, with.
out the lure of adventure, without the
compensation of military hOnors, with
out the attraction of the spectacular
and the romantic, can courageousIy give
God-speed to the departing loved ones,
can uncomplainingly deny themselves
the Injuries and some Of the convent
ences of life, can lay their gifts of
wealth upon the affairs, and can give
themselves in patient, persistent, tire
some labor.
THESE ARE TIMES
When the commercial, industrial, and
scientific enterprise Of the nation are
diverted into channels that converge
at the scene of history's greatest strug-
gle, and when the travail of modern
world demands the absorbed attention
and mfnistration of the individual OF
humblest potentiality as well as of the
master minds of the age.
BUT
There must be no sighting of those
enterprises of humanitarian, educa-
tional, and religious purposes from
forth the impelling spirit in those fund
amental principles that make civiliza-
ton worthy of all this sacrifice, and
upon which rests the burden of preserv-
ing those principles during the present
stress as well as projecting them uni.
versally into the future,
THESE ARE TIMES
When man robs his brother man Of
his very life, when blood is as rain upon
the EARTH when suffering of body and
mind is a common passion. when brute
force seems to prevail over righteous
effort and when voices are heard crying
Where is God?''
BUT
Never before have men given so lib
orally of their time and substance in
the service of. their fellows; never be-
fore have men had God come so deeply
into their experience; never before have
men realized so keenly the comfort OF
confidence in Him; never before have
men partaken so richly of His power
and His grace, and never before has the
world been so fully convinced that the
only final solution for it's unrest, its
sorrows, it's strife. its sin, may be found
in the message embodied two thousand
years ago in the humble Man of Cali
lee.
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The American Spirit


Henry ]. Allen, editor of the Wich
tia (Kans.) Eagle, devoted admirer Of
Roosevelt, Woman's Suffrage and Billy
Sunday, returned from France after
having just escaped a U-Boat. medi-
itates as follows:
1--WE been thinking about this u boat
business; how it would be IL we had
the Germans job. I have been trying
to think if there is any one In Wich-
tia who could go out and run U-boat
the way these Germans run U-boats,
and I've been trying to imagine him
sitting on the front porch of the
Country Club or down at the Elks Club
talking about it; telling how he lured
the captain of a ship by his distress
signals to come to the rescue of a
sinking ship and then destroyed the
rescuer, and I've been trying to figure
out how the fellows sitting around him
would take it. They'd get up and
leave. He'd be outcast as unspeak-
able, and no brag or bluff or blare of
victory would gloss over his act. We
simply don't think the German way,
We have a loyalty to humanity deeper
than our patriotism. There are cer-
. tain things self-respecting men can't
do and live in Wichita. But there
seems to be no restrictions in Ger
many"
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I776I9I8

3 The descendants of the compatriots Of
Washington and Paul Jones are fighting
once again side by side with the de-
seendants of the eompatriots of Lafayette
and Rochambeau. The time an oppor-
tunity have come for a nation to pay a
great national need and America is pay
ing France the debt she long has owed.
dom of America the French fought on
American soil under the command of an
American. Today in the war for the free
dom Of France and for the preservation
of liberty TO America, and indeed to all
the world, Americans fight on French soil
under the supreme command Of q French
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TRAINING PAR EXCELLENCE

Especial to Hancock Edition of Trench
and Camp. }
Camp Upton, L. l.-One of the COM
panies of the 2Sth Division, known as the
keystone Division, now at Camp Upton,
was drilling the other day, and was be-
ing watched by a large crowd of Upton
ties. The excellence and snap of this
particular company excited favorable
comment among the onlookers and the
following conversation between two sol
diefS was overheard
Gee" said the first. ''those guys are
good.''
They out to be-" said the second.
them fellers are regulars
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man.. The honors are even and the
honors are great.
No true American who knows the his
tory of his country and loves the honor OF
his country but thrills at the thought of
the American army in France. The in
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TRENCH AND CAMP
CAMP HANCOCK. Augusta, Ga.
EDITION., 1000.

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