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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
WOMEN TO ATTEND
D WELT ARE
CONFERENCE He R {
CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN
OTTAWA JULY t3.1@MRS. IRA
COUCH WOOD TO LEAD MEET.
lNGS.

A two days child welfare confer
ence for all the women in La Sale
county will be held in Ottawa on next
Thursday and Friday under the d.
rection of the Woman's committee
of the National Council of Defense.
Mrs. Ira Couch Wood, of Chicago.
state chairman of the Child Welfare
committee Of the national body and
head OF the Elizabeth Mccormick Me.
mortal Fund, will be in Ottawa during
the two day session to conduct the
conference
Mrs. Wood is a speaker of great
ability, and has gained a wide reputa-
ton for the work done along child
welfare lines and as thetalks will be
along one of the most important sub
Ie0ts of the day, it is thought large
audiences will be present at all the
sessions
This year is the year set aside by
the government as official Baby
Year when it is hoped that. the
lives Of at least 100, 900 babies will be
saved. More babies in the United
States die each year than French sol.
diers have been killed in action, and
most of these lives might be saved
with the proper care and precautiOn
The government hoping to save these
lives has requested the women of the
nation to hold conferences all over
the country to discuss and learn me
lhOds for conserving the health of ba.
bies, and il is important that every
man and woman. whether they are
the parents OF small children or not,
shall learn how to care for the ba.
bies.
Mrs. Wood will arrive in Ottawa on
Thursday morning and will be enter
tanned at a luncheon at the home OF
MIS-. 'HditcS htcU, on lnp UOfln DUH
AT = O'Clock she will meet all the
chairmen Of the various Child welfare
committees in the court house for a
conference to discuss the establish
ment of welfare station.
Later in the afternoon. all the ply
Sicians in the city viii be invited to
meet with Mrs Wood, for a short
conference.
In the evening Mrs. Wood will
show a very interesting moving pie
ture at library hall and will give q
short talk in connection with the pic
ture This picture will he free and
every man or woman in The city is
urged TO attend.
ON Friday morning the children OF
the city and the surrounding eommu
nifty will be shown a picture at tbs
/ Orpheum theatre This moving pic
| ture show will also be free Othpl
public meetings will be held on Fri
day afternoon and Friday evening.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
WILSON SAYS WIRE
CONTROL Is NECESSARY

Washington, July u 6--Presdent WY
son this afternoon sent letter to
senator Martin. leader Of the major
Uy in the senate urging immediate
passage of the resolution cuthorn'ns
him to take over all lines of commnni-
cation should the necessity arise,
The presideyt was most msisten'
in his letter declaring that the ieeA
lation Is absolutely necessary TIL.
letter reached the senate just at y
time when the leaders had recide0
that there was no necessity of acting
in the matter and 1t threw Their plans
into confusion,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
DRAFT BOARDS ARE
PREPARING TO FILL
AUG. CALLS FOR MEN
SEMl-OFFiCIAL REPORTS lNDl.
CATE HEAVY ALLOTMENT OF
QUOTAS FOR NEXT MONTH.

While nothing official has been re.
ceived by the local draft officials as
to the time and size of draft call
in August, members of the local Sc
lective service board, are making pre-
paratiOns tor a federal summons for
troops during the first few days or
next month. Unofficial reports reach.
ing draft headquarters in all sections
of the state are that Provost Marshal
General Crowder will shortly an
n0uhce the August quotas.
From semi.otficial information In
a peremptory order to speed the WORK
of reclassiication and also the class
ilica;ion of the 1918 registrants, it is
belived that Illinois will be calico
upon 10 furnish It's next draft quota
early during August, 1t is conceded
that it the quota is as heavy as dur,
ing June that all of the 1913 class
OF regisirants placed in class / will
be required to report
The 1918 registrants are all boys
reaching their twentytirst birthda,
since June :, 1871, and it is forecas,
that at least 75 per cent of the meh
viii be eligible for class | and i'm
mediate military service However
If this class can be materially in
creased by reason Of the reClassifca
ton the 1917 registrants will be the
first called for service.
Work or Fight Order Effective.
The work or fight order is proving
OF material assistance to the officials
of the selection boards. Registered
productive work and who refuse OF
lail TO find more useful positions
may be Immediately picked up under
his order and inducted into military
service. Already there have been a
large number who have needed the
orders. but there are many others ar
fected who have paid no attention
1t is not the disposition OF the Sc
lection board to work any hard
ships. but men fitted for more useful
work than tending bar clerking in
stores. operating elevators or the
various clerical positions in which
he work can be done as well by wo
men will be required to obey the or
der In the shortest possible time
The federal free employment bureau
will assist in every way possible In
placing those affected by the order
The 1918 class OF registrants are
returningtheir questonnaire3 in q
very satisfactory manner Already
about seventy.dye have filled out the
blanks and reported to their selec
ion boards As soon as all have
/ been received they viii be checked
over and classified At a date TO be
announced by the War department
/ ,he registrants will be called for the
physical examination, to determine
their fitness for military service,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
ALLIES TO BUY UP
ARGENTINE RESERVE
SUPPLY OF WHEAT

Washington, July 1.-THE entire re
serve stock OF Argentine whea'
amounting to more than one hundred
million bushels, probably VIII be pur.
chased by tile allies it became known
this afternoon
In order to create the great surplus
stock of wheat al low prices it Is
understood that purchasing agents %,
the allied governments shortly vii;
move TO take over Argentine's sur
olus at approximately $l.40 per bush.
al
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
INTERURBAN KILLS
TWO ROWING cows

The east bound interurban ear.
reaching ottawa about eleven O'Clock
last evening struck and killed two
cattle a short distance east of the
County Farm The ear was in charge
of Motorman Alex Gowen
The owner Of the cattle or manner
IN which the cattle reached the track
had not been learned up to a late hour
this afternoon by the interurban com
pany,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
OTTAWA BOYS LAND
ON ITALIAN SOIL

Word has reached Ottawa of the
safe arrival in Italy of Clarence
Glover and Stoy Rigden, two well
known Ottawa boys, who are mem.
bers of the University Of Illinois am
bulance corps The boys were among
the first United States soldiers to be
sent directly from the United states
to Italy with the American Expedition
arv Forces.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
SENATE FIXES WHEAT
PRICE AT $2.40 BU.

Washington. July S.--The Senate
this afternoon accepted without roll
call the House compromise amend.
ment to the agricultural bill fixing
the price of wheat for 1918 at S2.40
This settled badly disputed ques-
tion which threatened " deadlock
Con gress.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06

dead as announced at
noon today:
List OF Identified Dead.
Clayton, Mrs, Pekn.
Wishart, Clyde, wife and two chill.
dren, Pekin.
Richer, Mrs. Martin, Pekin.
Roulns, Mrs. John. Pekin.
Holden, Miss Mamie, Of Blooming.
ton, a former resident of Pekin.
Herren, Miss A. o., 4oi South Sec.
ond street, Pekin.
Partial List OF Injured.
The injured in ST. Francis hospital
are:
Jacobs, Miss Mildred; hand crush
ed
Osborn, Mrs w A.; back broken.
Osborn, Miss --, sister OF Mrs w
A. Osborn. foot crushed
hampton. ----, head lacerated and
bruised.
Mrs. Heiken. Mrs. Maud Wage and
NJ. e. Smith, all residents of Pekin
nave been taken to Pekin hospitals.
They are suffering from injury and
shock.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
DARING RAID is MADE
OVER STRATGETlC
DEFENSES =
U-BOATS DAMAGED
eiRDMEN REPORT FOUR DIS
TtNCT HITS IN ATTACK OVER
BELGIAN pORTS--LATE FLASH
ES FROM THE FIELDS OF
STRIFE.

London, July THE British ad
mlralty announced today that on the
first and third OF July British avia ors
dropped fifteen aud one-haIf tons oi
bombs on enemy territory. setting
nre to Bruges and bursting the Zee
brugge lock gates. Several subma
fines we've damaged and four hits
were made on an enemy destroyer.
Take 400 Austrans.
Rome, July THE Italians have
captured more than four hundred Aus
tridns and gained more ground along
the new Piave river line General Dia.
reported to the war office To-Day Aus.
tran counter attacks around Monte
Grappa all failed
Rioting in Portugal.
Paris, July 6Via Agence Radio To
the international News Service. Sev
eral persons are dead or wounded as
Lisbon, following meeting of The
Democratic and Reyomtionists party
according to information from thai
city today
Two hundred and forty arrests have
been made
u. S. Beats OF Raiders.
Paris. July G-An attempt by the
Germans To raid the American sec
tor in the Vosges Mountains broke
down. the French war office reported
today
Detachnents Of French troops pen
etrated the German lines in Cham
pagne taking some prisoners
The Germans made an attempt to
raid an American position on the
1oul front, but were repulsed
Expect Drive to open Soon.
Washington July 6-Delay in Ger
man endeayors on the Western front
is plainly preparatory to heavy
assault in force by the German high
command, Chief of Staff General
March said today. But when this a
tack will come and where the genera
did not attempt to guess.
II is very evident, however. that the
German control is making the highes;
preparation for another attack.
Fatefuf Hour Here.
London, July 6-"The fatefu hou,
OF the war is here" said Chancelo,
of the Exchequer A Bonar Law, in
addressing the interallied parlamen,
He added ''lf after three months, ou,
enemies have won no strategic oh
ject, their campaign has failed
Yank Beats Three Fliers.
With the American Army in France
July g.. During the air fighting OF
Friday on the Marne front one Amer
lean plane overcame three Germans
driving them back behind their owr
lines.
Another American was attacked b,
two Albalrosses tbig type German
machines). The American gamel'
continued his reconnaissance mission
meanwhile lighting the boches, one o
which was seen to dive earthward
Throughout Friday morning th
American artillery heavily shelled th
German front with gas projectiles
/, Is now permitted by the censo
TO announce that Lieutenant Waite
Tromler. who led Il successful rail-
south Of Montdider (Picardy front
on mne GOTH was killed in that a,
ton
Artillery Active.
London. July title German arti
lery developed great activity dnrin
the night in the sector OF Viller'
Bretonneux and in the Ancre vale
tContinued on pare 3, col. 81
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
The Early Report.

feofla Ill.,, July t.==0np hundred
ana hfty persons. according to The
most accurate information available
at o'clock this morning, were drown.
ed shortly after midnight today when
me river steamboat Columbia sank in
me Illinois river near Wesley City,
midway between Pekin and Peoria.
More than 800 persons, jewellers EN-.
toying an outing on the river were
aboard the toat.
submerged log which ripped
hole III the prov Of the boat is be.
leyed to have caused ii 10 sink.
Pollce of Peoria and Pekin, scores of
doctors and nurses and hundreds of
civilians are at the scene of the wreck
iding in the work OF recovering the
bodies and in caring for the surylv.
ors. No accurate list of the survivors
IT The victims is yet available and the
death toll may exceed $50 or may be
ess than that figure,
The Columbia, huge fiat bottomea
excursion boat, owned by the II F.
Mehl Excursion Company. had been
chartered by the South Side Social
club OF Peiln Tor a river outing. Four
hundred and fifty members of the club
were on board and an added hundred
persons or more were picked up al
Kingston Mines The boat was Re.
urning from Al Fresco park when the
ragedy occurred
The known dead at O'Clock this
morning were.
Mrs, Mamie Holden, Of Blooming
ton; Mrs. l.. o. Hefrin, OF Pekin, Mr.
| and Mrs Clyde Wshart and thre.
children, OF pekln. Mrs. Martin Rich
er, Pekin, Mrs. John Rueling, pekln;
! and Mrs. Al OHera OF pekin.
Scores of bodies taken from the
river have not been identified
Many passengers aboard the boa,
we're seriously injured and were tax
| en- to hospitals here or taken to pekln
rs fast as theF We're rescued.
AT an early hour it had been def
nitely established that $50 persons
| had been rescued
II Is believed that the Columbia
feeling her way along the river in y
tense fog, steered a course too close
70 the shore and thus encountered the
| lOg The boat. after striking the log
| backed away and water poured IN
through the huge hole torn by the log.
II is believed scores who were nor
drowned were crushed and maimer
when the steamboat broke in twc'
the upper decks crashing down on the
lance floor where the greatest erowc
was centered
The steamer sank rapidly and hor'
ror was added to the scene when thc
lights of the boat went out, throwing
he entire surroundings into inky dark
lness Darkness and the dense fos
seriously hampered the work OF rescu'
ne the victims
Horror at the scene Of The wreck
was indescribable as the passengers,
who a few minute. before had been
gaily dancing on The deck of the boar
were plunged into the water the
| screams and cries OF terror were
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
ILLINOIS RIVER STEAMER SINKS: $50 DROWN
COLUMBIA CARRYING 500 OR
MORE CAPS|zES NEAR PEORIA

PEORIA July 8A o'clock this afternoon fifty bodies had been
recovered from the death the wrecked Columbia pleasure boat
About half of these have been identified
Although local police officials still place the estimated death toll
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06

hundred and htty, state and boat officials are con-
hdent it will not exceed one hundred.
The following is partial list of the identified
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
Take 400 Austrians.

Rome, July 6 The Italians have
captured more than lonr hundred Aus
trians and gained more ground along
the new Piave river line, General Da.
reported to the war office To-Day Aus.
frian counter attacks around Monte
GIappa all fniled
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
EAThEA.

Fair tonight. Cooler
Sunday. Partly cloudy
Sunday and possibly un.
settled.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06

OTTAWA JOURNAL
Established 1880
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-06
Artillery Active.

London. July G.-The German art',.
,ery developed great activity durine
the night in the sector Of Viller,
pre,onneux and in the Ancre vale,
tContinued on pare 3, col B.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-18

the folk in Serbia arc fleeing from the
BulgArs"
ssrblss GsthssmAns.
. Up to the north Of Us, hundred
miles. say, We learned men, women
and children we're dying from expos
use and hunger and such horrors were
occurring a. the world had not known
Tor many centuries. Up there some.
where In the ruek We knew there was
an American newspaper man who had
been seeing II ALL Would he scoop Us }
Ought We to 20 and see the thing with
our own eyesi | telegraphed the story
Of the travellers 70 Athens, where II
was put on the cables for the United
States This va, the first story that
reached the outside world OF the
Geih,emane through which the Serbian
nation was passing. Then | went TO bed
10 think Il out
The next morning we went out Of
the city along the road 10 see "
more refugees from Serbia we're com.
ing. We met them, a small group, tired
almost TO exhaustion, hungry, dirty and
sleepy, after twenty days OF hardship
They we're too worried or too happy a.
reaching safety TO talk intelligently
about what they had seen so we helped
them to stir up the dust on the road
back to Monas,ir, and, an hour later
we got their story in the coffee house
after they had intoxicated themselves
with hot coffee and food, and put III,
stories on the wire. The London sVe.
ming newspapers carried seven column
head, on these American stories Of III,
Serbian hegira--an unheard-oi display
Of headlines in England
/ decided not 10 20 into the noun
tains. The coffee house al Mona,,iI
was the place for me. There cout
get a new story daily, with all the lates'
developments. Monaitir, besides, wal
the end OF the telegraph lines
always stick to the end OF III,
cable" was one OF Richard Hardins
Davis's maxims Somebody will a.
ways come along to you with a story.
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Correspondents CantAlwuys
See What They Write About;
It's Better They Shouldn t

busy telephones, were watching the bat
ile and knew exactly what was happen
ing CouriefS came occasionally 10 the
general with dispatches that told him
what was going on but have always
felt sure that General French came TO
10 the front that day merely 10 hear
the noise and see the physical NANTES
tallon Of his own handiwork lie was
soalIoping the line OF the forty-mile
horizon with shell smoke AZ a house
keeper with her tiny shears seallops the
edge Of table cover.
Never Such 4 Sight Before.
II was a sight for any man TO see,
especially for the men Who had created
H. Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander
none Of them ever saw such a sight
as this. In all the landscape before Us
men wefy dying like mere germs; hu-
man life was Al the lowest quotation
il has ever been In civilizations his
tory. Somewhere down there poison
gas was being used for ~ first time
so the telephone said. ~ some point
before our gare 10000 Canadians,
caught In a German trap. were being
slaughtered. and at another point TO-
600 Germans were being wiped out
Looking through our glasses we could
see in distant trenches the backs of
British soldiers. men who were TO die
IN a charge that night
But seeing II gave only meager un-
derstanding OF It. Our ears, our eyes
and, 10 a certain extent, our noses
helped US 10 sense what was going on,
but il was too gigantic 10 he taken in
by the senses alone. The imagination
Of man. working through the centuries,
had produced this machinery Of war,
and II was by imagination alone,
I founded on a mass OF small facts. that
ono was able to understand what this
machinery, now in full and ponderously
terrible operation, was accomplishing
In the story which ! eabled to America
that night | made no pretense Al tell
ing the military purpos,. what |
had seen | avoided the fashion OF the
old-time war correspondents who criti-
cised and aualyEed as dramatic critics
do at a first night could only tell
what had seen, heard and smelled
that day. To tell what the battle
meant and how il was going was be
yond me. as it was beyond every one
else, except the men bending over the
maps at headquarters From these men.
two days later | got something OF the
real story; they were Just beginning
10 get the facts together
Can't Always See Stories.
There are times when It is impos-
siblc for correspondent TO see his
story when 10 see il would mean to
/ lose H.
A young man Of the vague nation
ality OF the Levant came into my room
one winter day in Salonica, wild-eyed
and covered with mud and the marks
Of Macedonian travel
The Bulsars have got Monastir,
he said, but broke through theii
lines, and | have been travelling or
foot five days to reach Salonica. Wher
they came into town they broke into
the American Red Cross storeroom
tore dowr the American flag and drew
sword on the American Red Cross
men in charge and made them turn
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over a lot Of Red Gross flour to them"
The stor. was a long and exciting
one. but | had known him In Mon.
astir and knew that could believe
him, Therefore | put the story OF the
attack on the cable and Americans
were reading II within a lew hours. /
introduced my story by saying, "A &C..
port which reached Salonica today In
licaies that the American flag has been
torn down and insulted al MonAstir by
Bulgarian soldiers" Later events
proved that the story as sent il was
true In every detail, but some weeks
later ! received. In my usual batch Of
anonymous correspondence, letter
from the United State, signed a Bul.
gar Girl" in which was severely
criticised for having sent such a story
without having myself witnessed the
incident
A Fair Question.
"You war correspondents are always
telling Us what somebody else has seen
and told you Why don't you 20 out
and see things yourselyesl" wrote "A
Bulgar Girl"
Her question was a fair one hut in
the instance to which she referred NO
correspondent would have tried to break
through the strong line OF her Bulgarian
brothers' advance to attempt 10 witness
an incident that had already happened
There was a little coffee house al
Monastir, where a few OF us spent our
evenings in those days Of November
1915, when the BulgaS were just abou
TO pOunce on that quaint and ancient
city and we were Just about 10 leave
H. The doy opened late one night, anC
when the Blast OF fresh air had blowr
away the fog Of Serbian tobacco smok'
we saw a group OF travel-slained ner
and women file IN through the en-
trance, their faces strained but smiling
we come from Ushklb." one o.
the travellers explained I'VE hay'
come by horse and on foot The road
are lined with horrors, and II IS onll
BY Gods grace that we are here Al
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task by his teacher
"Johnny" she said. the next time
you are absent ! want you 10 bring
me an excuse from your iathef telling
me why you we're not here
II dnn'I want 10 bfInR An excuse
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DId Bsttsr Hlmself

Johnny D.. who had seen eight sum.
meu 90 by. not very long ago de-
yelopsd = londnss, for playing hooID
from school, After two or three Of
lenses OF this kind hs was taken TO
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from my father" protested N, ~ I
Why mott" asked the sssehss, ~
"'cams father liant any soed q
making eA, ks," 4 Topeka State
Journal, Yafy|
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-08-10
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