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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17

dem mad, und dey chust wipe der
sweat away from DER faces undptel me
to go some blaze, und walk away, so
am wroting idt adj you.
Veil. Heine, see puy der bapers
dot der Chernnan army ISIS still adj
vancing. Vun thing, Heine, dot We
half to gife credit to der Cherman
army for und dot iss dot idt meter re-
treats. Chust read der Chefman
bapers und you will see puy der
notices dot der army iss always ad-
vancing. but der funny thing apoudt
idt iss dot der sneaking son-of-a-gun
nefer says vich way dey are advancing.
Take der present advancement, for in
stagnance. Der whole Cherman army
ISIS advancing TOWARD BERLIN,
und der alleys iss greatly assisting in
der advancing, und offering efery in
dueement for more speed I suppose
ven our army hass adj last pushed
der Chermans clear back across
Chermany dot der Cherman chenerals
will say, "Anoder victory, see We haff
brought vot ISIS left off der army back
home"
Veil, Heine, I will close for der
present occasion as T am nodt dream
ing apoudt iceicles chust now. und der
weather. man hass turned on all der
steam. IF idt keeps on mooch longer
like ISIS idt der present time, will haff
to swim or der sweat will drown me.
Hoping you are der same,
Your fader,
LOUIE SCHNITZ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17
MONDAY.

Mein dearson Heine:
To argumify ISIS superfluous, und
brevity ISIS der spice off life, SO here
NIT ISIS der check.
Say, Heine, der oder night hadt
der funniest dream. Idt vos a regu-
lar night-horse. I suppose you see
puy der bapers vot kind off weather.
We are hating. A greadt many Their
mometers und all records half been
broken, und der sparrows iss all dying
because idt ISIS SO hot dot all der bugs
iss fried, und sparrows can't live on
cooked meat. tnyvay, apoudt der
dream. In der first blaze I thought
dot I got oop ouidt from BED und vent
puy der furnace down, und filled idt
oop NIT coal. trying to gedt der house
warm. After fooling around nit der
furnace, und fixing oop some cracks
puy der windows to keep der cold on
der ouidt-side I took a shovel puy der
front sidewalk und commenced to
shovel der snow. Und sooch snow,
Heine. Eferytime I shoveled shovel
full away. two more shovels full came
down from der sky. Briefly soon l
gate der chob oop, und den began
trying to gekick der ice off der front
steps, but chust den, Heinz, mein
dream stopped, und Mamma cried
'ouidt. "Vot iss? Vuy iss idt dot you
ISIS ge-kicking me in der back?" Now,
Heine, efery blaze half I tried to tell
peoples apoudt dot dream, all Ger
neighbors, und oder peoples, but TO-
body will listen, und idt seems to make
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17
SOLDIERS WENT.TO 1T
Z. NJ. C. A. Man in France Threw
Away Goodies to Carry Wounded.

Paris, Aug. 1. (by mail) THE fin
est carload of supplies that ever came
up to me--and had to abandon it,"
said Karl Cate, y. NJ. c. A. secretary.
when he arrived in Paris, dusty, worn.
staggering from exertion and lack of
sleep.
Our station was close to the front
directly in the path of the German ad-
vance. I just got my car unloaded
when word came that we had to beat
1t. That car was loaded with Ameri-
can cookies and chocolate and cigar
cites and writing paper and chewing
gum and cigars. I had a canton and
started to load with the idea of get
ting on board as many supplies as
possible and saving them. I piled on
Just one box, and then it struck me
that the 7. NJ. C. A. would look pref
ty rotten toting a canton load of sup
plies back from the front when the
roads were full of refugees and there
were wounded soldiers coming back
box"
He did chuck off the box and put
IN Its place five wounded soldiers
whom he picked up along the road
Every other available inch of space
on his canton he jammed with women
and children refugees from the in
vaded territory and set out for the
rear.
ASH left I yelled to the American
soldiers. There's a carload of stuff.
Go to it. Help yourselvesr and be-
lieve me. they did,
Cate reached Paris with his canton
two days later He had driven con-
stantly except for brief intervals of
sleep taken in the ditch by the road
side.
After hasty meal. without bath,
without even a chance to dust and re
fresh himself. he started back to his
job to cary what comforts he could
to his section of American soldiers in
the battle line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17


two in American. We yelled to them
to come over and join us. They ad-
vanced a few PAGES and then opened
fire on u.s."
Zolnowski smiled rather unpleas-
antly as he patted right arm that
bears machine gun bullet.
They didn't last long. We made
one dash for them. Not one Of 'em
got away. They were Germans ALI
right There was another group com =
ing up. I got a private and then the
officer in charge sailed into me. l
tried to shoot him with my rifle, but
1t was broken. 1 got him all right
tho"
The Chicagoan seemed inclined to
END the converse ton there.
How'd you get him % asked, after
a little pause.
Just turned the butt end Of my gun
around and dubbed him over the head
with it, replied Zolnowski in the
most matter of fact tone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17

the cemetery and not the hospital. The
women wept openly and crossed them
selves, while the hat of every man in
the crowd came off in a respectful sa-
lutte to the dead.
The sight was one to wiring the
heart, but the indomitable spirit of
America bodied up whenever a man
able to talk above a gasp was found.
Many Of the wounds were from
shrapnel. Where they were not really
serious their possessors told the tale
of what they had been thru.
'Lets Get EN-, Boys:"
1t was 8 o'clock in the morning of
July Is before the platoon to which
Louis Cook, of Rayville, La, belonged
saw the Germans approaching.
Our officer just yelled, Let's get
'em, boys!' and we started after
ahem," said Cook. THE Hefnies were
coming up on the south bank of the
Marine and there were only eight of
us to about sixteen of Them but we
sure cleaned out that first batch. My
pleasure ended right there, tho, for
piece of shrapnel banged me in the
left arm and it was back to the woods
for me. But. believe me, my company
did its share in driving the<H Huns into
the river"
If anyone wants to know why the
Americans were at first driven back
from khe liver bank, they are hereby
referred to .Lonnie Shelton, OF Bur-
dine. KY. Shelton's unit alone took
over so prisoners when the Ameri-
cans returned to the counter-a attack
and but for the fact that number
of them were knocked out, as Shelton
WAS. they Would have still been going.
They knocked us back at first by
the most terrific barrage I ever saw
turned loose, but we didn't stay back
long" declared he. I'VE gotsthe order
to counter-attack and the way we
waded back into Mr.. Boche was some
thing to write home about. I've never
seen such bunch as we had. They
advanced yelling like hell. bayonetted
and shot down every Heinie that
didn't know enough to get out of the
way. Those guys could never beat
America in a thousand years, and tell
'em said So"
Huns Dressed in Allied Uniforms.
"Heinie" tried out one of his favor
tie stunts of dressing up some OF his
soldiers in French and American uni
forms, according to Anton Zolnowski
of 284S South Turner avenue, Chicago
I'VE saw ten men on the edge of q
little wood little distance away, eighs
of whom were in French uniform and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17
GIANT SKELETONS
Scientists Seek to Unravel Mystery OF
Discovery Near st. Louis.

East st. Louis. ILL.,, Aug. H.
Scientists will try to unravel the mys-
terry surrounding the unearthing of
skeletons of eight unusually large men
and a dog by Iaborers building a dam
near the outskirts of <his city. The
heads of the men were very large and
each contained thirty-four teeth of ex-
traordinary size. The dogs bones
were found entwined In the arms of
one of the skeletons.
Bits OF pottery nearby lead the au-
thorities to believe that the men were
Indians. Scientists will try to de-
termine the period in which they lived.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17
Thad Harper, Topeka Boy,
Writes Graphically of War.
. Hun Prisoners InspireThoughts
of Heartless Cruelty.
YANK WOMEN IN CANTEENS
Boys Eat Tons of Home Cooked
"Grub" Served Right.
War Is Just Like Great Grid
Sport, After All.

Thad S. Harper. of headquarters
mounted section. 13s infantry. A. e.
F., has written to his mother, Mrs.
L. B. Harper. of 500 Lafayette street,
telling something of his life in the
army. The letter is as follows:
Let me take you on a little trip
thru busy camp in France. We will
walk on a typical American board
walk. The buzz of a sawmill, the
throb OF q power house engine, the
hammerinE of the carpenters, the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-17
Two KiTIed in -ExpIosion.

Kansas City. Aug. 1.-Two men
were killed at noon today by an ex-
plosion of the ammonia compressor
at the Wilson & Company's packing
plant in Kansas City, Kan. The fac;
that 1t was the lunch hour probably
saved several employees from injury.
The damage to the plant was slight
II was said.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-18
4 QUIET COURT
Effective Service for Children and
Good Citizenship Rendered By Ju-
venile Court of Fulton County,
Maximum of Service at Minimum
of Cost.

1t is altogether probable that there
are citizens in Fulton county who
never heard of the Juvenile Court of
Fulton county and if they should
come to the county seat they would
hardly know where to look for such a
court; for, unless circumstances arise
which bring the person directly into
contact with this court, that person
might never know Of it's existence. 1t
does not seek, nor does it get any
great amount of publicity. There are
no bar dockets issued, no juries called
and no sensational trials held, and yet,
in it's sphere, it is quite as important
to the wellbeing, the social, economic,
and moral welfare and the general
progress of Christian civilization
among the citizens of this county as
are the higher courts whose proceed
ings and work are known to practi-
cally every one in the county.
The Juvenile Court in Fulton coun-
ty consists of the judge, who is at
present Judge A. M. Barber of the
Probate Court, and one probation off
GER, DIR. c. A. Cole, who combines
one office and acts as chief exe:utiy 4
in carrying out the judgments of the
| Court.
During the year 1917, 125 cases
where children have been involved
have been adjusted by mis- Court and
only seven children have bceL COM
mitted to state institutions at the eX-
pense of the county. This number in.
cludes two children sent to the Cleve,
land Protestant Orphan Asylum;
four boys sent to the Industria
School at Lancaster, and one girl tt
the Girls Industrial School at Della
ware.
i Homes have been found for about
/ 20 homeless children.
The efforts of this court are alway:
toward keeping children with theiI
natural guardians at their own home:
and preventing the children wh'
bibing wrong ideas in regard to life
/. forming low standards of conduct, o
!, in any way getting wrong start. Tn
home, school, and church are held b,
. this court to furnish the best mean
. of training for good citizenship an
worthy manhood and womanhood.
There is always another chanc
t given to the wayward boy or girl an
: then another and another, and onl
: as last resort is a child committe
to a correctional institution.
r One important division of thi
!. court is that of Mothers Pensions. l
. Fulton county about 5000 per mont
. is paid to 20 mothers to enable ther
= to keep their children with them an
j under the mother influence during tn
: formative period of their lives. Th
highest pension paid is $25 per mont
= and that to mother, herself in poo
health, who has five children deper
a dent upon her, and who must pay he
f house rent and support herself an
|. five children by her own work.
(. The Probation officer is kept bus
: investigating, for nothing is taken fC
|. granted in this court, advising, pleat
ing, and cautioning-it is his work
keep as many cases as possible out
court. In addition to all his OF
i, duties, he seems to be considered |
Continued on page 81
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-18
PHILIP VERHULST.

Died at Winameg January 10th,
1918. The cause Of death was blood
poisoning from which he had suffered
for a week.
He was born in Belgium July 9th
1888 and came to this country in
August of 1912. He worked two
years as a farm hand at Waterville,
but for the past two years has lived
in Pike township where he has been
partner in the management and
operation Of the T. B. Struksacker
farm.
War devasted his native country
and birth place, and having had no
word from his parents it is believed
the family is all gone excepting one
brother who is in the Belgian army.
Those who knew Philip best say it
was a real pleasure to meet him,
see his pleasant smile and hear his
kind words. He was never too busy
to help a neighbor. None will miss
him more than his faithful partner
and fellow countryman, Gasten Scin-
tubin. He had declared his pur-
pose to become an American citizen
having taken out his first papers
May 1915.
Although without kin in this coun,
try the people of Winameg hoaored
him by doing all possible to give
him decent burial Services were
held in the Christian Church Mon
day January 14th. Rev. J. A
Wharton officiated. Singers of tht
church rendered good music. Bur
ial was made in the Winameg GENE
terry.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-18
CLEANERS MEET
Supreme Arbor Ancient Order of
Cleaners in Convention at KaIama-
zoo, Michigan - Important Action
Taken-H. Ell. Hough Reelected Su-
preme Vice Chief Cleaner.

The Supreme Arbor Ancient Order
of Cleaners held Their Biennial con-
vention at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
last week from January 9th to 18th.
Those going from here were Walter
Leininger, Harold Kutzley, and H. H.
Hough.
The convention was one of the best
and largest ever held by the organ
ization, the hotels of the city be-
ing taxed to their utmost capacity.
At the open session held on Jan
uary 9th among some of the speak
ers of national reputation were SEN
ator Hobson and Herbert Quick of
Washington D. c., and Gov. Sleeper
of Michigan.
The convention went on record as
favoring National Prohibition, and
commencing the great work being
done by the Red Cross.
The organization made provisions
for taking care of the insurance of
all members joining the army, giving
them full protection.
The Cleaners have added five new
states in the last year and are now
doing business in ten of the best ag-
ricultural states in the middle West
with a membership of over $4,000
farmers.
The Cleaners furnish protection tc
their members and plan of cooper,
alton that does not interfere with
the local merchants in any way; this
society, as is well known, believes in
community welfare, not with any sell
fish interest but for the good Of al
concerned.
H. H Hough of this place was re-
elected Supreme Vice Chief Cleaner
for a second term.
On account of the blizzard some Of
the delegates were three and foul
days getting back to their homes.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-18
SENTENCED FOR LIFE
Motion For New Trial In Lehman Case Heard and Over
ruled-Frederck Lehman Sentenced by Judge Wolf
To Imprisonment For Life-Notice of Appeal
Judge VOLTS Charge to The Prisoner

The last chapter in the Lehman
murder case so far as the Common
Pleas court of Fulton county is con-
cerned, closed last Wednesday after
noon when Judge Wolf sentenced
Fred Lehman to Imprisonment for life
in the State Penitentiary, after hav-
ing overruled a motion for a new
trial.
The motion for new TRIAL was filed
by counsel for the defense on Satur-
day, January 5, and time set by the
Court for hearing was Tuesday, Janu-
airy Is, at o'clock a. m. Delays oc-
Cured which made the actual date of
the hearing Wednesday afternoon.
Attorney F. B. Fowler for the De-
tense, argued the motion for a new
trial at some length, but failed to con-
vince the Court that the motion should
be granted.
Attorney F. S. Ham for the State
in his address to the Court, paid a
tribute to Judge Winn that those
present in the court room, who had
attended the sessions of court during
the trial felt was merited, and Judge
Winn responded in the same vein
complimenting the court, the jury anc
the counsel for the State in high
terms.
Notice of appeal of case to the
/ higher courts was given and the pris
oner was asked the usual formal ques
tion as to whether he could give rea
son why sentence should not be passed
upon him, to which he answered mo
In sentencing Frederick Lehman
found guilty by the jury of murde.
in the first degree, Judge Wolf useC
the following language, which i
worthy not only of a careful reading
but should be read more than once
and its significance carefully consid
cred:
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-18

growing in the position which he oc
cupied when the Registration Day.
came; he registered as from Lorain
county and was among the last con-
Jingent sent from that county to Camp
Sherman, he with others was trans
ferred to Camp Pike near Little Rock,
Arkansas, and Walter possibly be-
cause Of his previous training and eX-
perience was made Mess Sergeant.
He entered upon his new duties with
the same zest and enthusiasm that has
ever characterized his work and took
pride in the savings he was able to
make without sacrific Of quality, guam
tity and efficiency He took special
pride in the Thanksgiving menu
which he was responsible for. Early
III December he was taken with scarlet
fever but had recovered from that
trouble and was convalescing when he
was taken with pneumonia which was
the cause Of his death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard have been
under keen anxiety ever since the first
news of Walters illness, Sunday tel
egram from an officer in charge at the
Base Hospital at Camp Pike brought
the tidings that he was very seriously
i'll ana on Monday Mr. Howard start
ed for Little Rock on N. Y. C. train
. which was late: at about GAS a
telegram was received announcing
Walters death. The message was
sent forward to Bryan and was hand
ed to Mr.. Howard after the train
left Bryan; he left the train at Butler
and returned to Wauseon Tuesday
morning.
The body of our Soldier Boy will
be brought back to his home town un-
der escort of six Of his comrades, very
likely arriving about Sunday and the
first service flag of a Wauseon home
will change its blue star for one of
gold. One of our own homes has
made the supreme sacrifce-the su-
preme gift besides which money,
achievement, all else that is worldly
sinks into insignifcance: They have
given the life Of one as dear to them
as their own lie to the cause of HUI
man Liberty and Right; to which their
country stands pledged to the last dol
lar and to the last of the lives of such
boys as these, any one of whom is
/ greater in value than all the combined
dollars of the world.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-18
NOTHING like IT IN so YEARS
Saturdays Blizzard Surpasses Any Storm Within Memor!
of Oldest Residents--Wause Foundry Unroofed
Live Stock Suffers--Plumbers Kept
Busy Harvesting the Aftermath.

Of many persons interviewed, and
of the opinions of many others, old
residents of this county, that have
been repeated to us, there are none
who can remember a storm in this
section which paralleled that of last
week, beginning on Friday night and
continuing until Sunday.
The gale blowing, as reported in
some places, at the rate of " miles an
hour, the intense cold and the snow
which was piled up in great drifts
by the wind, all combined to make
the storm the worst on record. Houses
long considered weather proof were
tested and found wanting by wind and
frost. Every tiny crevice and crack
furnished an opening large enough
for the strong wind to force the dust
like snow through until the snow
banks out of doors had their nina
ture duplicates indoors. Water pipes
and drains that had never been known
to freeze before, troze and later
burst, leaving an aftermath of the
storm from which the plumbers are
reaping a harvest, and which makes
them teel somewhat overworked. Fam
lilies gathered in the warmest room
in the house to keep warm. The gas
supply reached the vanishing point
anu in some homes the fuel also
reached that point. Hands, feet, ears
noses, and even the faces of those
who we're obliged to venture out were
frozen; trains and mails were cut out
by order of the weather; interurban
cars could not run, and business gen.
orally was at a standstill. Wauseon
was snowbound! Out in the country
farmers had to step lively to keep
stock from freezing and even then
there were some losses and live stock
suffered from the intense cold.
One carload of cattle was reported
as having all animals in the cal
save one down-froZen to death. IL
Toledo railroad yards two carloads Of
hogs were reported frozen to death
friday night the roof from the new
addition of the Wauseon Foundry was
blown off by the high wind.
Roads were effectually blockadeC
by drifts five feet deep in some place:
and milk destined for the condensoriel
was not delivered until Monday anC
Tuesday. Township trustees and roaC
supervisors have been kept busy thi'
week tunneling through drifts anC
opening roads for travel
Partial relief for the coal famine
which is becoming chronic in Wau
seon, was afforded Monday by the re
lease of two cars of "governmen
coal" which were snowbound on D
IT. & l. railway track near town; on
car was assigned to the waterwork
plant and the other car was distrib
uted in small lots by C. M. Harrison
to those in greatest need
We may get worse storms, but W
hope not; in fact, we hope that thi
win be the last of its kind for thi
season, at least.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-18
Sentence OF the Court

This has been most responsible
case, and the Court has not been un-
mindful of the burden of the obligation
resting upon it in the attempt to dis
charge the duty that devolves upon a
Court in such a matter. | want now
to express my thanks to the counsel
for the courteous treatment accorded
the Court throughout this long trial,
and say that | appreciate the feeling
of counsel with reference to the same.
| want also to say that this Court is
but human, and that probably it erred,
at times. 1t would be strange in five
weeks if a Court would not commit
some errors. l feel as | felt at the
time OF the trial, that all doubts were
being resolved in favor of the defend
ant, but l think l might have been in
error and there may have been some
doubts, as counsel for the defense has
suggested, that were not probably re-
solved in favor of the defendant. AS
counsel has also suggested, that will
be a matter for a higher court to de-
termine. With what the Court die
upon those various questions at tht
time, it now feels content; perhaps moi
in every detail, but generally so. The
case was certainly most vigorousl!
prosecuted, and was ably defended
l don't believe l have ever seen ;
better jury impanelled in any case, anl
l have been connected with the court
in one capacity or another for perhap
! twenty-five years. | have seen
good many juries impanelled, but l d
say that | don't believe l ever saw
better, more conscientious, more care
ful, painstaking, than the jury tha
was impanelled in this case.
The principal question raised b
counsel for the defense is that the yer