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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-02-15

Notwithstanding England and France have been in the war
four years and the United States only one year, prices are not
nearly so high in those countries as in ours. Yet we know that
we raise far more foodstuf than either of them and that when
it comes TO all resources, we far exceed either of them. Maybe
prices soar in America because. as we hard an editor of a great
newspaper say not long ago. "one half of our people are trying
to rob the other half We confess that we must admit that APP
pearances tend to confirm the verify of this editors statement,
but If what he said is true. the war will go on until we cease to
make money-making the first and foremost thing in our lives.
Let us cast about us and see how nearly the editors statement
is correct. We need an inventory Of ourselves for ourselves ev.
cry now and then and the "nows' and then should not be too
widely separated, either.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-02-15

Whether one has ever learned to row or not up to now, he
certainly is learning Woodrow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
u. S. EXPOSES
GERMAN TRICK
TRANSFER OF SOLDIERS FROM
RUSSIAN FRONT is TRUCE
VIOLATION.

Washington, D. c.. Jan. discharges
that Germany Is violating the terms
of the Russian truce by withdrawing
troops from the eastern front and
transferring them to the western bat
tie lines, were made today by the war
department.
The war department made this
statement.
"The general staff Of the United
States army announces that the Ger.
man military authorities are evading
these terms of the Russian truce
which provide that German troops
we're not to be withdrawn from the
eastern front for use in the west dur.
ing the peace negotiations. German
troops on the Russian front are be-
ing allowed to go home on furloughs.
These soldiers are then transferred
to recruiting stations and sent to the
western front.
"The troops are taken in this way.
man by man. for two reasons: First,
because it deceives the Russians, and
secondly, because the eastern troops
hove been SO influenced by the Rus
sian revolutionary propaganda that the
German military chiefs have decided
to separate the men and scatter them
in unaffected western regiments.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
ANOTHER DAY
IS WHEATLESS
FOOD ADMINISTRATION ASKS
THAT NO WHEAT BE EATEN
ON MONDAY.

Wheatless Mondays are the latest
addition to the program of conserva-
ton planned by the United States Food
Administration.
In the most recent food pledge cards
sent out, all loyal Americans are asked
to observe two wheatless days, Mon
day and Wednesday. in addition to the
wheatless meal every day. Housewives
are urged, If they make their own bread
to always combine other cereals than
wheat and If they buy it, to buy only
war bread. The object is, to consume
only two thirds as much wheat prod
ucts as were consumed last year.
Saturday is porkless day, and Tues
day is meatless day, making two pork
less days in the week. It is requested
that each day be made a fat saving
day, and this can be done by frying
less food, and by using vegetable oils
for cooking instead OF butter. 1t is also
asked that every day be made a sugar
saving day.
Besides these particular kinds Of
saving, everyone is urged to eat As lit
tic Of all kinds Of food az will support
health and strength, since all saving
counts for victory. The following is
taken from Herbert Hoover's message
to all members Of the food administra-
ticn.
The whole great problem Of winning
the war rests primarily on one thing:
the loyalty and sacrifice Of the Amer
lean people in the matter Of food. II
we are selfish or even careless, we are
disloyal, we are the enemy at home"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
STUDENTS AT IOWA
STUDY WAR MAPS

Iowa City, Jan. 29.-As a means Of
keeping the students at the state uni
versity acquainted at all times with
the positions of the armies in the Eu
rcpean war zone, the department Of
history maintains in the main library
a specially drawn series Of maps with
vari-colored pins to represent the bat.
tie lines OF the different nations. An
active interest has been stimulated
among the students and group Of
persons is usually to be seen clustered
about the maps.
Courses are being offered in several
of the departments which deal with
the present war and the readings are
to be obtained in current newspapers
and magazines. The university auth.
critics believe the history that Is be-
ing made today is of as great import.
ance to the student ae the history
which came out Of the past.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
OLD LANDMARK NEAR
CHARLTON BURNS

.F Charlton, Jan. 29-The residence Of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Campbell, who re-
side a few miles south of Charlton,
was destroyed by fire at an early hour
on Sunday morning. Only small
portion OF the contents were saved.
Mr. Campbell carried but small in
surance and the loss is quite heavy
to him and his wife who are we'll ad-
vanced in years. The house was an
old landmark. being one OF the first
buildings erected in Lucas county. 1t
was located at what is known as
Charlton Point where the town site
was originally planned, but afterward
changed to the present location.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
.KEOKUKCO. MEN
WANT OFFICES
POLITICIANS OF BOTH PARTIES
PLANNING FOR FALL
ELECTIONS.

Sigourney, Jan. 29.-Political mat
tiers in Keokuk county are beginning
to take on life for the coming election
this fall. For member of the legisla-
ture w. c. Windett OF What Cheer
has announced himself as candidate
for the republican nomination. Can
didates for other Offices are: For
sheriff, r. l.. Smith will ask for a
second term; John Fixmer will ask
for another nomination for the ONCE
of county recorder; for county treas
urer. Deputy H. NJ. Gladfelter will be
a candidate; D. M. Patterson will most
likely be a candidate for member OF
the county board Of supervisors. This
leaves but three places for which
there are up to this time no candi-
dates, and these are-one member OF
the board, county attorney. clerk Of
court and county auditor.
On the democratic ticket J. c. Ken
nell is expecting a denomination for
county auditor; Deputy Howard Rich
ardson will likely be candidate for
clerk OF court; e. J. Grimes for sher-
i'll; John Baty for member Of the
board OF supervisors. This also leaves
three places for which there are no
candidates.
In the race for the judgeships in
the sixth judicial district there seem
to be an abundance Of candidates.
Judges Willcockson and Talbot will
not ask for reelection. Judge Henry
Silwold is a candidate for reelection
from Jasper county but he has an OPP
ponent in his own county in the per-
son Of Attorney John Cross; Mahaska
county also has two candidates. Irving
Johnson and James M. Patterson:
Washington county will present
Charles Dewey, while Keokuk county
will present Henry F. Wagner. Max
ing six candidates in the field at pres
ent for the three places to be filed.
AS there are three to be elected all
six Of the men now in the field will be
nominated, unless others should come
in, and three Of them elected judges.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
CAPITAL
REBELS PRIZE
Red Guard, Backed By Len
inists, Wins Control of
Helsingfors.

Copenhagen, Jan. 29.-The red guard
has won complete control of Helsing-
fors, capital Of Finland. Stockholm
dispatch to the National Tidende re-
ports. It is not known whether the
Finish government officials escaped
from the revolutonaries.
Disorders have been prevalent In
Finland for several weeks and news
dispatches from Stockholm yesterday
said revolution was in progress In
the eastern provinces.
NEW GOVERNMENT FALLS.
The issue lies between the Finnish
government, which declared complete
of Russia and organized
the white guard, and the bolshevi6
and Russian red guards.
The bolsheviki government appar-
emily is willing to agree to Finland's
separation from Russia, its opposition
to the Finnish government being
based on the ground that 1t Is bour-
geoise.
RUSSIA REFUSES AID.
The red guard proclaimed civil war
last week and was said to have 70
ceived the promise of aid from the
Petrograd government. In reply to .
protest made by Finland the Russian
government said it must support the
proletariat Of Finland in the struggle
against the bourgeoise.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
CRASH WRECKS
BIG WAR PLANT I.
Explosion and Fire Destroy
Alcohol Refinery at
Marquette Mich.

Marquette, Mich. Jan. 29.-An e1-
plosion, apparently accidental, fol-
lowed BY fire, wrecked the chemical
department of the Pioneer Iron COM
pany's plant on the outskirts Of this
city early today. The loss is estl
mated at more than 100000.
The company was working night
and day on government contracts.
Company ohicials said there was no
loss OF life in the explosion. -Four
buildings have. been leveled and 1t is
a question whether the flames can be
controlled owing to low water pres
sure and temperature OF 10 below
zero.
EMPLOYEES ESCAPE DEATH.
The explosion, which started the
IRE at 1880 a. M, disrupted the auto
matte sprinkler system and made
leaks in the water mains leading to
the plant. rendering the task of the
nremen more difhcult.
That there was not serious loss Of
life probably was due to the fact that
most of the employees were in the boil
er room eating lunch.
The building crumpled like house
Of cards and windows mile and a
half away we're broken. One after
another condensers containing ele-
ments OF high explosives blew up and
great flames in succession licked up
the refinery, the primary chemical, the
barrel and the storage houses and
tanks.
RETARDs WAR WORK.
The plant is a wreck. The immed-
late loss is regarded as less serious
than that Of the resultant idleness, as
it is said that the machinery cannot
be replaced in less than nine months.
The company had been working at
full capacity on government contracts.
Theoretically the chemical plant
was immune to accident and the be-
lief in a malignant outside cause ,s
held by the police, who have thrown a
dragnet about the city to gather all
suspicious characters although the Of.
fetal announcement of the fire assigns
accidental causes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
FLOOD WARNING ISSUED.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 29.-1nstruc-
lions were sent out today by the rail-
road administration to local railroad
authorities to prepare to fight floods
expected later this week If thawing
weather develops.
Streams are out Of their banks in
West Virginia and Kentucky and with
temperatures rising today railroad ad-
ministration officials feared rapid
extension of the melting area. Snow
covers the whole eastern part of the
country to an average depth of six
inches. The bottom layer has once
melted and then frozen. forming a
smooth surface from which water Of
the melting upper places will flow rap
idly il the thaw is sudden.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
WAR IS TAKING
MEN TEACHERS
RANKS OF IOWA MALE PEDA-
GOGUEs ARE BEING DEPLETED
BY ENLlSTMENTS.

Des Moines, Jan. 29.-Calls to the
colors have depleted the ranks of
Iowa's male school teachers and &C.
cording to John E. Foster, state in
spector of secondary schools, 1t is i'm
possible to meet all demands Tor
teachers.
Calls are being made of this de-
partment." said Foster. Frequently by
school boards who want teachers to
replace men who have enlisted in the
service or who intend to enter the
service. Because of the large num-
bers who are entering the service
there has been brought about in Iowa
a shortage of teachers and shortage
which Is growing greater day by day.
There is little relief in sight and 1t
will be impossible to obtain enough
before the close of the war"
According to Foster, the branch OF
the school system which will feel the
effects OF the shortage most will be
the manual training departments. He
said that in many places in Iowa the
janitors we're being pressed into ser
vice as manual training teachers and
that with the beginning OF another
school year many OF these depart
ments would not reopen.
In one small Iowa city minister
is now substituting as teacher, fol-
lowing the enlistment Of the regular
teacher. Foster said that many boards
were accepting anyone who could
qualify as a teacher under the state
teachers requirements.
It is estimated by the secondary
school inspector that the percentage
of male teachers in Iowa schools has
decreased this year to below eleven
per cent of the total number of school
teachers. The percentage of male
teachers in the state in 1872 was 80.
In that year there were 5,901 male
teachers. The percentage of female
teachers was CT.
In 1880 the percentage of male
teachers had decreased to "a, or 1884
male teachers. There were 1894 fe-
male teachers.
The percentage of male teachers in
1890 was 10, or 4,97S male teachers.
There were 22.275 female teachers.
In 1900 the percentage OF male teach
ers had decreased to Is per cent, or
4,94S male teachers. There were
23,S41 female teachers. In 1910 the
number Of male teachers was 1853, or
10 per cent. There were 24,909 .fe.
male teachers.
The latest estimate Of the number
of teachers in Iowa as presented BY
Frank Joseph, assistant state super
of public instruction is H.
227: there being 24,496 women and
2,731 men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
ARMY WANTS MEN
FOR ENGINEER CORPS

The army remount service needs A.
600 men over 81 and under Al years IF
age who have had experience with
horses to enlist for service in the auxil-
larry remount depots. quartermaster
corps, and the national army.
Men between IS and 81 years of age
and over 81 and under Al years Of age
are also desired for the 31Sth Engin-
GERS (sappers) now at Vancouver bar
racks. Washington state. and for the
S1sth Engineers (sappers) at Camp
Fremont. Palo Alto. California.
Men accepted for these regiments
will first be sent to Jefferson barracks
for enlistment and preliminary equip
ment and from there to their regiments
in Washington and California.
The sappers is an interesting branch
Of service and will train on the Pacific
coasts where there is delightful eli
mate, before going to France for duty.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
TEACHER WAS
NOT DISLOYAL
CHARLTON WOMAN, INSTRUCTOR
At LEVY SCHOOL, ExokER-
ATEO By AUTHORITIES.

Charlton. Jan. 29.-Miss Mary Pfrim-
mer, who is teaching at Levy and who
was charged with being unpatriotic,
spent the week end with her relatives
and friends here. She was charged
with taking the school flag down, roll
ing it up into a ball and throwing 1t on
the floor, and with refusing to allow
her pupils to salute the flag, and with
trying to drown their voices while they
were singing America by ringing a
large bell. It was proved that the
charges were made through spite
work and Miss Pfrimmer has been
completed exonerated by the authori-
ties,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOT E 30 OK
By LEE PAPE
. o Q O o Q q

Yesudday after skool me and my
cuxzin Artie was making fudge in
Arties kitchen. me perviding the sugar
and the coco and Artie perviding the
milk and the kitchin, the fudge ternins
out swell but a little soft. and l sed, G,
bot II we Good make this holesale and
sell it to stores, everybody wood buy it
and maybe we wood both be million
aires vile We was still in short pants.
G, lets take some Sampils Ground to
diffrent stores and see II they will, sei
Artie.
WITCH we started to do. putting the 3
biggest peeces in a peece Of paper and
going to Coonses grocery store, me
saying to Mr.. Coons Mr.. Coons, do you
ever sell home made fudge? Me and
Artie can make it swell. and we got a
ideer to mako it holesale II va can get
somebody to sell 1t for US.
And we showed him the fudge and
he took the biggest sampil and ate l.,
saying, Pritty fair. pritty fair. II
didn't have SO mulch eating chocklitt
and stun like that on sale alreddy Id be
glad to do bizness with you, but ad-
miro your progressive spirit and pre-
dick you'll both get along in the verld.
And me and Artie went to Smits
meet store and asked Mr.. Smit, and he
took the next to the biggest sampil and
time. I'm afraid candy and meet wood
emit get along very good together. but
got to hand it to you boys for your
progressive spirit.
And me and Artie went to Whites
drug store and asked Mr.. Wife, him
taking the last sampu and eating 1t,
saying. Yes. It's fudge, l reckernize the
taist, its fudge, all rite. Well now il
l put reel home made candy like this
on sale, 1t wood make sutch a hit that
nobody wood buy my other candies.
and l coodent afford that. But you
boys have the reel persressive spirit.
there's no doubt Of that. you have the
reel progressive spirit.
And me and Attic went back to
Arties house and ate the rest Of the
fudge and wished we hadent made the
sampils SO big
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
TOWNS ARE FLOODED.

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 29.-High
water on the Cumberland and Ten
nessee rivers as result OF the heavy
rains and melting SHOWS was causing
damage today in this state and Ken
lucky. The crest Of the flood in the
two rivers has not been reached and
further damage is expected.
At Burnside. KY. the Cumberland
was higher than ever before known
and the business section was flooded.
At Knoxville the Tennessee river
was 10.5 feet above flood mark with
. stage of Is feet expected by to-
night.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
DAIRYMEN FINED
FOR IMPURE MILK

Sioux City, Jan. 29.-The maximum
fine OF 800 or 80 days was assessed
against Frank Neck, 26 years old, and
Joe Thomas, 81 years old. dairymen
living north of the city, when they
were arraigned in police court this
morning on charges Of selling adulter
ated milk Two quarts Of milk with
large globules Of filth and sediment
collected in the bottom of the bottles
were introduced in court by w. d.
Hayes, city food inspector, as evidence
AGAINST the two men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
Fleet of Packets and Other
Craft Crushed in Great
Noes; Marooned Men
Are Helpless on Rushing
Boats.
WIDESPREAD FLOOD
DAMAGE EXPECTED

Psducah, KY, Jan. 29.-Descending
fee gorges in the Tennessee and Ohio
rivers converging here today swept
the winter fleet of packets and other
craft from their moorings at up-river
points and in the Paducah harbor and
carried them on down the Ohio. APP
peals for help from persons marooned
on the ice bound craft plainly were
heard as they we're carried past this
city.
PACKETS STAND ON END.
Eleven steamboats, and two dry
docks, with an estimated value OF
1888, 900, are included in partial list
OF the vessels damaged or missing
from the Paducah harbor alone. The
Eagle packet line, St. Louis, lost four
boats valued at 100000.
A report from Metropolis, ILL.,, said
several packets we're seen standing
on end in the ice as the floe passed
that place.
EMERGENCY CABLES BREAK.
Eagle line steamboats,, st. Louis
packets, several Tennessee river and
other smaller craft were in the harbor
here when the gorge broke Add
tional cables hastily were run to shore
but failed to hold them and one by
one they we're torn from their moor
ings and swept on down the river.
The survivors of the helpless fleet
are expected to reach Cairo, Ill.,, late
this evening
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
TWENTY BOATS SUNK.

Metropolis, ILL.,, Jan. 29.-Ice gorges
sweeping down the Tennessee river
caused a heavy loss to river steamers
and other craft today and endangered
a score OF lives. Fifteen boats were
carried away by the ice foes. Twenty
Of them, including the Bald Eagle and
Spread Eagle are reported to have
sunk.
The Paducah drydocks, one con.
tanning the steamer American. and
the other the steamer Rapids, both
passed here. The City of Cairo was
torn. from it's moorings and seriously
damaged. The Cowling also was
swept away. but lodged down the riv'
or apparently little damaged.
The ferry Alfred. fastened to a
derrick boat, was carried down the
river.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
,MoNoNeAHELA ICE MOVES.

Pittsburgh, Pa. Jan. 29.--Reports
reached the weather bureau here to-
day that the Monongahela river was
rising rapidly from Fairmont, w. Va,
north of Pittsburgh, and the heavy
ice was moving out. 1t was expected
the ice would reach the pools in the
neighborhood of Pittsburgh tonight
and every possible precautions against
damage to river craft was being taken.
The ice in some places is feet thick.
The Monongahela mas been closed by
severe weather for more than a
month and large quantities of coal
badly needed by the mills in this dis
trict have been tied up.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
SHUTS BARES
ENEMY'S AIMS
COLONIES IN AFRICA ARE
SOUGHT FOR WAR PUR.
POSES ONLY.

London, Jan. 29.-Lieut. Gen. j. c..
SHUTS, lecturing before the Royal Geo.
graphical society on East Africa last
night, contrasted the British and Ger
man colonial viewpoints. Germany is
not looking for homes for settlers and
has no population, particularly farm
ers. for emigration. he said.
Germany's colonial aims, the gen.
eral said, are dominated by a far
reaching conception of world politics.
Her real aims are military and to get
strategic positions for exercising
world powers.
GERMANS SEEK WORLD POWER.
Germany's ambition, he added, Is for
great east and central African en-
pire, embracing the colonies now
owned by the British, Belgian, French
and Portuguese, lying south Of Lake
Chad and north Of the Zambesi river.
This territory, General Smuts de-
clared. has been desired by Germany
to supply raw materials for the Ger
man empire but mainly for raising a
great African army TO carry out her
schemes Of world conquests.
Germany, General Smuts said, pro-
posed to have harbors on the Atlantic
and Indian coasts of Africa for naval
and submarine bases, from which both
ocean routes could be dominated and
Anglo-American seapower brought to
naught.
The native armies would be useful
in the next great war to which Ger
many already is giving attention, de-
clared the general.
aRITAiNs SEEK PEACE.
Great Britain's objects in Africa
are inherently pacific and defensive"
he continued. Looking to the future
from the broadcast viewpoint and look
ing further upon Africa as half way
house on the road to India and Aus
tralia, the British empire asks only in
ternal peace and the security of its
external communications.
ut cannot allow naval and subma-
rine bases to be organized on both
coasts of Africa to the enlargement
of the sea communication Of the en-
pire and the peace of the world.
AS long as there is no real change
Of heart In Germany, no irrevocable
break with militarism, the law Of self
preservation must be considered par
amOun3s
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
FUNERAL OF IOWA SOLDIER.

McGregor, Jan. 29.-The body Of
Private Leland F. 'Bachtell, who died
of pneumonia at Camp Cody. n. NJ,
has bean brought TO Clayton county
and buried in the cemetery at Ma
tional. He was 20 years old. He
enlisted June rs in Company F. One
Hundred Thirty-si,th regiment His
two grandfathers, Cornelius Morgan
and T. D. Bachtell, pioneers of Clay
ton county, both served in the civil
war in the Twelfth Iowa infantry.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
EDDYVILLE MAN DIES
AT SOLDIERS HOME

Eddville, Jan. 29.-The remains Of
John Bowers, who died at the soldiers
home in Marshalltown on Saturday,
were brought to Eddyville Monday
Short services were held at the grave,
interment being made in Highland
cemetery. The deceased was former
ly a resident Of Eddyville and has
many friends in this community.