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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28
No 10461-
Order for Hearing Guardians Final

NO lU4bI
Order for Hearing Guardians Final
State of Minnesota, County Of
Hennepin. In Probate Court.
In the Matter Of the Guardianship
of John Maher, incompetent. !.
On receiving and filing the Final
Accounted John L. Carr as Guar
dian of the above named Ward, and
his petition praying for settlement
and allowance of said Account and
that he be discharged as such Guar
dian and the sureties on his bond re-
leased from further liability on that
behalf.
1t is Ordered that said petition be
heard and said Account examined at a
Special Term of this Court to be held
at the Court House, in the City of
Minneapolis, in said County, on Mon
day the 22nd day Of July, 1918, at IL
o'clock in the forenoon, and that all
persons interested in said matter ap-
pear before said Court at said time
and place, then and there to show
cause, if any there be, why said &C
count should not be allowed and said
Guardian discharged as prayed for in
said petition.
And it is Further Ordered, That
noticeof such hearing be given to
said Ward and to all
persons interested therein, by pub
fishing this order once in each week,
for three successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing in the Echo de
POuest a newspaper printed and pub
lichad in said County.
Dated at Minneapolis this 9th
of June, 1918.
By the Court: :
JOHN A. DAHL
Judge of the Probate Court;
John T.. Carr. 7-12
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28

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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28

Les Pilules Rouges sont en- vente a
Ia ROSE DRUG CO., 303 E.
Hennepin Avenue. Expediees par
la MALE a toute adresse.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28

u,faudrait des u
ROUGES a toutes les femmes
parce quill leur faut toujours
du sang, beaucoup de sang.
Faire prendre les Pilu]es. Rouges
a une femme anemique, nevrosee,
c'est CONNIE 81 on lui transfusait du
sang neuf, exceptionnellament richie
ct chaude.
VOLTA pourquoi o u ne lessons de
recommander aux femmes qui souf-
trent d'appauvrissement du sang, a
celles qui redoutent les fatigues de
la m%aternite, du travail, de Sc forti-
fier d'avance contre toutes les
6preuves en- prenant quelques boz
tes de Pilules Rouges. u
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28
AIM OF THE FOREIGN LANGUA-
GE NEWSPAPERS IN
AMERICA

To help preserve the ideals and
sacred traditions of this, u adopted
country, the United States of Amerl-
ca: To revere it's laws and obey them:
To strive increasingly to quicken the
public sense of civic duty: In all ways
to aid in making this country greater
and better than we found it.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS
PAPERS
LOUIS N. HAMERLING, President.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28

Toutes lettres, correspondances,
etc., doivent etre adressees CONNIE
suit:
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28

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les tromper.
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rier, 131 Vliet,
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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28

ECHO DE L'OUEST,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-06-28

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nueraient a faire leur devoir.
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vivre dams la pauvrete est beaucoup
plus ditficile.
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lie: il ny a qu'un m~a1tre-autel, qui est
pour Dieu; mais que d'autel late
raux!!!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
1000 WILL BE GUESTS
OF BABIES HOSPITAL
Little Boy Goes Early to Make
Sure About Christmas
Eve Party

Sammy. eleven years old, appeared early
this morning at the Babies Hospital dispen-
sary, 334 South Ninth street, respectfully to
ask when the Christmas party was to begin.
His mother had had twenty children, ten Of
whom are living and four of whom are
under six years of age.
MA hasn't time to come and I'm to bring
the kids" Sammy announced. Il guess there
will be five or six of us
Sammy and his family are just a small
contingent of the many families the Babies
Hospital of Philadelphia entertains each
Christmas Eve. The party is to be given
at 334 South Ninth street at . o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. but all the hospital d..
rectors and nurses know that mothers and
babies will begin to arrive soon after ~
o'clock. Provisions have been made to care
for more than 1000. Each child will be
given a toy, and refreshments will be served
the mothers.
Little Evelyn, just past four years old.
who has been coming to the dispensary since
she was two months old. has received a doll
every Christmas at her own request. When
some one asked her the other day IL she
would like another dollie this year she
replied: "Oh, no. Use got So many shillren
now. / want some furnisher for them. 'Spose
Santa will help me furnish a house? Shill-
rens Is a big trouble"
although we have on our list only chill
dren under six years." explained Miss Clara
Pickering, financial secretary of the organiza
ton, there are always a few older ones
whom 1t Is impossible to turn away. Some
times we haven't enough gifts to go round
The Babies Hospital has for six years
been giving babies n better chance for life
through the care given at It's dispensary.
1t conducts an out-patient department for
the treatment of sick infants and for the
prevention OF disease. Through its visiting
nurses instruction Is given the mother in her
own home, the aim being to make the baby
well and to teach the mother how to keep
it so. There Is also a social service depart
ment to give advice and help in many diff
| cult problems, and to improve home condi-
tons for the babies under its care. A pre-
natal clinic is provided. During the year
eighty-nine women attended the clinic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
DEATHS OF A DAY
DR.. Alvin Struce

DR.. Alvin Struce, formerly a well-known
Philadelphia practitioner, died Thursday OF
pneumonia, succeeding an attack of Influenza.
in Guatemala, where he had been doing re-
search work for the Rockefeller Institute
since 1916. New of his death was cabled to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Struce. of
449 Hermitage street, Roxborough, yester-
day. 4
Doctor Struce graduated from Central
High School, where he won a scholarship in
jefferson Medical College. He finished his
course in medicine in 1914 and shortly after
ward became resident physician at the Epts-
copal Hospital. Later he went to the Ablng
ton Memorial Hospital in the same capacity.
The body, accompanied by Doctor Struce's
widow, is en- route to Philadelphia. A cable
gram of coincidence from the President of
Guatemala was received by The doctors par
ents yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
CALL REJECTION FINAL
FOR BARNARD STATUE
London Advices Say Philadel-
phian's Criticized Figure Of
Lincoln Is Refused

The decision reached by the American CONF
mission concerning the rejection of Georges
Grey Bernard's statute Of Lincoln and the
acceptance of st. Gaudens's statue for a
place in London will not be upset, according
to advlces received from London today.
The statue, to be placed near Westminster
Abbey, is to commemorate 100 years OF
peace among English-speaking peoples. Ber-
nard's Lincoln, which raised a storm Of pro
test because of it's "uncouthness." had been
accepted by the British, but a commission
appointed TO decide between the Barnard
figure and that executed by st. Gaudens. se-
lected the later. Herbert Adams, president or
the National Academy of Design, is sponsor
for the statement that the commission has
made n final decision.
Mr.. Barnard when told of this decision Sat-
urday secuted the report that said he had re-
ceived no official notice concerning the re-
lection of his much-discussed figure of the
great President.
Or. Nicholas Murray Butler, Elihu Root.
]. p. Morgan and other Americans Interested
in the project of erecting a statue of Lin-
coin in London have been informed Of the
decision Of the British First Commissioner OF
Works.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Philadelphian I'LL in Chicago-Nancy lynne Tells About Re-
ception for Enlisted Men-Comments on Various
"s&.a, Things and People

ilton, United States army. Lieutenant Ham
ilton has recently returned from overseas
service.
Mr.. and Mrs. James wallace Telfor. 1924
Diamond street, will leave for washington
tomorrow to be the guests of Mrs. James
Sharp, Highland avenue, Cleveland Park,
d.. c. Mrs. Telfor was formerly Miss Mabel
II. Virginia Wilson and was married at the
home of Mrs. Sharp last April.
An interesting wedding of last week was
that of Miss Selma A. Gessler. daughter of
Mrs. Jennie Gessler, of 430 North Thirty
fourth street, and Mr.. James T. Moore, OF
Thirty-sixth and Chestnut streets. which took
place on Wednesday afternoon at the home
of the brides mother, with the Rev. w.
CORTLAND Robinson. pastor OF the Northmin-
ster Presbyterian Church, Thirty-sixth and
Barring streets, officiating. The bridesmaid
was Miss Marjorie Swindeman. of Toledo,
o., and the best man was Mr.. Henry Ritten-
house Shellenber ger. Mr.. and Mrs. Moore
will be at home after February 1 at 430
North Thirty-fourth street.
A wedding of interest will be that of Miss
Alice Katherine Gilbert and Mr.. Marcellus
Hood Mclaughlin, United States marine
corps. which will take place at 8 O'Clock on
Tuesday, December 81, at the home Of the
brides aunt, Mrs. william r. Nicholson. of
Bala. The ceremony and reception which
follows will be attended by the two families
and a few Intimate friends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
SANTA CLAUS EARLY
ON JOB AT CITY HALL
Old St. Nick Especially Good to
Mayor and Brother-Oicials
Remember Employees

Santa Claus reached City Hall early this
year.
Mayor Smiths office received most of the
time and attention of the good old Saint Nick.
Numerous boxes of cigars and mysterious
looking packages began arriving at the
Mayors office early this morning.
Brother joe the Mayors secretary. was
not overlooked. Each time the Mayor re-
ceived a big box of cigars or a package of
large proportions a small one arrived for his
brother.
The various departments in City Hall were
not ignored. The old custom of giving the
directors a lavish present of some sort or
other has been dispensed with In recent years.
Instead of expensive presents cut flowers
are more in order. Many of the directors
and department heads distributed gifts among
their subordinates.
Employees under Director krusen and
Assistant Director Mace, of the Department
of Health and Charities. Jared well. A five
dollar gold piece was the gift Of the heads
to these employees.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
POOR RICHARDS AT FEAST
Christmas Joy Reisns at Clubhouse at Moor
Today

Christmas joy reigned unrestralned In the
clubhouse of the Poor Richard Club at noon
today on the occasion of their annual Christ
mas dinner.
All formality vas discarded and the time
was allotted TO informal entertainment by
nome talent. assisted by n jazz" orchestra
and Il syncopated quartet,
Al the plate OF each member were a va
rIety of gifts ranging from pocket memo
randum books to liniment for sore joints,
good alike for man and beast. There were
socks, digestive pills to relieve possible dis
tress after devouring the plenteous dinner,
paper towels, cigars, tobacco. cigarette
papers TO roll your own,' and cough drops
TO relieve the hoaraeneEs acquired from cheer
Ing or jeering the home" TALENT
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
TELLS L. S. WORK ABROAD
DR.. George Raiguel Speaks Before City
Business Club

Saying that the United States does bigger
things, in quicker time and in a better way
in other lands than she does in her own,
DIR. George Raiguel, publiclst and Y. NJ.
c, A. commissioner. in an address before
the city Business Club luncheon AT the
Hotel Adelphia, characterized our work in
France as little short of miraculous.
Doctor Raiguel denounced the. statement
that the United states won the war as
false and unfair to our brave allies. Ac-
cording to him, France, England and
America won the war and this country's
contribution was an ideal.
"Our great work begins now continued
the speaker, "in the rehabilitation Of the
war-torn countries. This victory Is not n
gift. but a tremendous trust which this
country must fulfill as she has always full
filled her trusts
Phlladelphians have played a GREET part
in the struggle, according to Doctor Raiguel'
who named Generals Atterbury and Biddle
and Colonel Groome as conspicuous eN-
amples.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
MAJOR ERIC PEARSON
COMES HERE TO WE'D
Miss Mary d. Sharpless Will
Marry British War Hero
Within Four Months

Major Eric 4, Pearson, of this city, who
wears the military cross and the Distin-
guished Service order Medal, awarded by
King George. has returned to America to
marry Miss Mary ID. Sharpless, of Chestnut
Hill, a member of a socially prominent
family.
The wedding, which promises to be one of
the events of the social season, will take
place during the next four months. before
the officer returns to his command, the Kings
Royal Rife Corps, or is mustered out of the
service.
The engagement was announced by Miss
Sharpless's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. Wilson
Sharpless. more than a year ago, when Major
Pearson was here on Through.
The bride-to-be is connected with several
OF Philadelphia oldest families. Her mother,
prior to marriage. was Miss Susan d. Dixon,
and Mrs. Russell Thayer, Mrs. Arthur Il,
Newbold and Mrs. Percy Heating are her
sisters. Mrs. Sharpless is a sister of A. J.
Dallas Dixon. George Dallas Dixon and
Thomas j. Dixon. and F~itz-Gugene Dixon,
who married Eleanor Widener, is a first
cousin.
Captain Russell Thayer, Captain Edmund
Thayer and Lieutenant Alexander Thayer,
of the American EXpeditionary Force. are
first cousins of Miss Sharpless, who is better
known in local society as Mollie.
She has been prominently identified with
war activities during the last several years
as a member of the Emergency AID or Penn
sylyania and the American Red Cross.
Major Pearson enlisted October, 1914, and
IL n veteran of four years OF warfare with
the British army. during which he many
times distinguished himself for bravery and
GOODNESS under fire. He came to this city
from England twelve years before the war
started and affiliated himself with the broker
age house of Elkins, Morris & Co.
In pre-war days Major Pearson lived in
Fifteenth street near Locust and was a mem
Der OF the Markham Club and other exclusive
organizations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
WALTER HINES PAGE,
E~X-AMBASSADOR, DIES
Onetime Envoy to London,
Scholar and Editor, Succumbs
to Years Illness
Pinehurst, y. c., Dec. 90.

Finenurht, ~ -, beC' 90
Walter Hines Page, formerly ambassador
to Great Britain, died here late Saturday
night after an illness of many weeks. Doctor
Pages health began to fail nearly a year
ago and he gave up his post as American
representative at the Court OF st. James
late in the summer.
Doctor Page returned to the United States
on October IL and was taken directly from
the steamship to a hospital in New York. For
a time his condition showed improvement,
but late in November he suffered a relapse.
Early this month he rallied and ten days
ago was brought TO Pinehurst. For a while
he seemed TO grow stronger, bu; suffered a
second relapse last Thursday.
Most Of the members OF Doctor Pages
family were with him when death came.
They included Mrs. Page; his daughter,
Mrs Charles G. Loring, of Boston; his son.
Ralph W. Page his brothers. Henry A. Page,
Junius r. Page and former representative
Robert n. Page. Major Frank c. Page, who
accompanied his father home from England,
arrived Sunday morning. Another son, Cap
tain Arthur w. Page, is now serving in
England.
Arrangements for the funeral have not
oeei CoHnpleteu, out II was announced tlaI
services would be held tomorrow morning
at II o'clock in the Page Memorial Church
in Aberdeen. y. c..
Walter Hines Page was editor of the
magazine the Worlds Work and n member
of the publishing firm of Doubleday, Page &
Co, of Garden City. l.. l., when, in March,
1913. President Wilson appointed him Ameri-
can ambassador TO Great Britain.
Virtually all Mr.. Pages life before his
ambassadorlal appointment had been spent
in literary work. He was the author of
works on the development of the southern
portion of the United States. in which he
was particularly Interested as n native of
Cary, n. c., where he was born August 10.
1855.
In his work on the 'Upbuilding OF Old
Commemorative" Mr.. Page disclosed his in
terest in the culture of a broad national
feeling in the South. He was interested in
the moral and political education of the
negro and formerly was a member of the
Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of
the Hookworm, to which John d. Rockefeller
contributed. For years Mr.. Page was a close
student of finance. Commissioned as an
cities OF the United States and Investigate
the work done in the public schools, Mr..
Page wrote a series of articles which were
influential in causing the reorganization OF
school systems in several large cities,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
PROF. ELLIS TO co TO SIAM
Jefferson Medical College Man Accepts
Offer

DR.. A. G: Ellis, associate professor Of
pathology in Jefferson Medical College, will
go to Siam to organize the department Of
pathology in the Royal Medical College in
Bangkok.
Doctor Ellis, who Is president of the
Pathological Society of Philadelphia, is one of
the most prominent Psychologists in the coun-
try. He was invited to Siam shortly before
this country entered the war. but decided to
withhold his acceptance because Of the
serious depletion of the medical faculty due
to their service overseas,
Doctor Ellis is a prominent member of the
Medical Club of Philadelphia, the American
Association of Psychologists and Bacteria
logists and OF other similar societies, He will
be accompanied to Siam by Mrs. Ellis, who
will do hospital work in Siam. Mrs. Ellis
was In charge Of the first Ited Cross nurses
sent out during the Spanish merican War
and had supervision OF the typhoid cases at
Camp Meade.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
ROGER Sherman Mitchell

Roger Sherman Mitchell died on Friday at
his home In st. Davids after an illness of
several months. He was q son of DR.. Henry
r. Mitchell, of Asbury Park and st. Davids,
former secretary Of the New Jersey State
Board of Health, and was a direct descendant
of Roger Sherman, of Connecticut, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Mr.. Mitchell, who was forty years old, was
graduated In 1901 from Princeton University,
where he was a member of the Cottage Club,
He was a member of the Princeton Club and
the Manufacturers Club. Besides his
father, he Is survived by his wife, who was
Miss Margaret Ashmead, and by a son and
daughter. He was connected with the Phila-
delphia branch of the Worthington Pump
Company,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
FRANCE HoNoRS DIR. ABBOTT
Philadelphia, Serving With Jefferson Hos.
initial Unit, Decorated

DIR. Frank c. Abbott, Of the jefferson
Hospital STAFF, who went abroad with that
unit at the outset of the war, has been dec
GRATED by France. Word Of the honor be-
slowed on the physician has just been re-
ceived. He lives at 1859 Hazel avenue.
For many months Doctor Abbott served
with the American troops at the firing line,
and with shells dropping around him aided
in saving the lives Of many who were badly
wounded.
Doctor Abbott served as a surgean about
three years. He was connected with the
French army before the United States enter
ed the war. In the course of his arduous
work he performed many dihhcult opera
tons and was frequently commended by the
cdicerg Of the Amegican and French forces
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23

The members of Red Cross Auxiliary No.
a25. at the Philadelphia Electric Company,
have been making and filling over 100 bags
containing toys, warm garments. candy,
fruit. a pocketbook containing ten pennies,
ana other gifts, which will be distributed
20 the children at st. Christopher's Hospital,
and to Atty Of the children at the seybert
Home. In addition to this. they will give
a number of Christmas dinner baskets to the
poor families Of the, city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
Alexander 2. Brown

Alexander Patterson Brown, a wealthy re-
tired Philadelphia shoe manufacturer. died
suddenly on Saturday at Daytona, Fla. He
left this city about two weeks ago on a tour
to Florida and Cuba. He had spent several
days at Jacksonville and had proceeded south
as far as Daytona, where he was fatally
stricken. Mr.. Brown had been in poor health
several years. He was a bachelor. Mrs.
Isabella Brown, OF 1887 Locust street, widow
of william Brown, Jr, Is his sister, and Will
liam Alexander Brown, an attorneN of the
same address, Is a nephew Mr.. Brown in
late years lived at the Hotel Walton.
He was born in this city seventy years
ago,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
Frank A. Cook

Frank A. Cook died yesterday at his home,
14l5 North Sixteenth street, after q weeks
illness of bronchial pneumonia. Mr.. Cook,
who was twenty-eight years old, recently
returned from Camp johnson, Jacksonville,
Fla, where he had been in the service three
months or more.
He was in the employ Of W. G.. Davidson
a Co, Inc, wool merchants. SO South Front
street. He Is survived by his wife, who
before her marriage was Miss Helen c. Nc
CHM, daughter of John McGlinn, a wealthy
brewer and distiller who died In June, 1916.
His mother and a brother, who Is In the serv-
ice in France. also survive Mr.. Cook.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
TO EXHIBIT CAPITAL ART HERE
Two Paintings by Miss Violet Oakley for
Senate 10 Re Shown

The two paintings which will complete Miss
Violet Oakley's commission to decorate the
State Senate chamber have been finished and
will be placed in the Capitol early in the
new year.
They will be exhibited for a week at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
this city before being sent to Harrisburg.
The paintings represent the activities against
the slave trade and the faith which marked
the living of the Society of Friends among
the Indians.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-23
Barclay r. Leeds

Barclay r. LeedF, a member OF the So
ciety of Friends. died on Friday at his home,
5S2l Baynton street, Germantown, after an
Illness of a few days. Hd was In his eighty
nth year. -Four years ago, Mr.. Leeds re-
tired after nearly half a century's service as
an accountant with Powers n .Welghtman and
that ARMS successor the Powers-w eightman-
Rosengarten Company. chemists, at the Falls
OF the Schuylkill plant. He was "a native of
New Jersey but spent most OF his life In this
city. He In survived by two sons, Morris 70.
Leeds and Arthur M Leeds.