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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1918-05-31
.W.S.S.-

Milton-Work of grading
North Main street started.
Roseburg-191S crop pros
poets good. Surveys determine
definitely that at least a 20 per
cent yield will be enjoyed this
season by prune orchardists.
Production will equal 1917.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1918-05-31
FOR BIRTHDAY AND WEDDING PRESENTS WE HAVE

FOR BIRTHDAY AND WEDDING PRESENTS WE HAVE :
Of articles Gifts for ALL Following
those for relatives friends at home
In the trenches:-
Lights; Appliances Tasers
Stoves Red Heaters Irons ovnets Etcomfo Pads Etc ma
Picks and Sets Casseroes
Transparent Electric Stand Lamps Maneuns Sets
Wagons
Watche Raors Razor sps and Homes;
Safety Chds Sets We
Cooking unss Aeroite oukte Lamps
and Electric Light
Globes and Fixtures; ROGERS 1s47 sILvERWARE. "
..-' '''' PETERSON HARDWARE co.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
TIE REV. FATHERS
MURRAY AND McCABE
Priests at St. Eiary's May Be Appoint
ed ChapIains In The Army Sub
iect To Physical Examination

While they are still awaiting ply
sical examination in which they must
qualify, the Rev. Father F. J. Murray
and the Rev. Father McCabe, both of
St. Mary's Parish, are expecting to
be sent to France as Chaplains in the
Army.
Bishop Hayes, of New York, who
names all the chaplains for the army,
has asked for two priests from St.
Mary's, and with the consent of the
Rev. Father Rector, C. S. Warren,
Father Murray and Father McCabe
have volunteered as chaplains, subject
to a physical examination.
Father Murray is one of the most
popular priests ever stationed at st.
Mary's. He is a special favorite with
the young people, both in and out OF
the parish, and has done a wonderful
work here. He is too energetic for his
strength. but if he is physically quail
fed there will be no chaplain in the
Army better qualified to work among
Young men than he. 1t will be per-
haps a week or more before Fathers
Murray and McCabe will hear of their
appointment.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
TWO HUNDRED ENGINEERS
FROM CAMP MEADE
The 65th Regiment Arrive At Rifle
Range Will Probably Have Ten
Davs'Enstruction in Rifle
Practice

There arrived at the Naval Acad-
envy rifle range Saturday afternoon
a detachment of two hundred men of
the 65th Engineers from Camp Meade.
The men came in the cars of the
w, B. g. A, and were disembarked at
the lower gate of the Naval Academy
whence they were transported across
the Severn river to the range.
Detachments are coming and go
ing continuously TO and from the
rifle range While here, they are in
structed in rife practice, three OF
more naval officers, several petty Off
GERS of the navy, and enlisted men OF
the service, adept with the rife, Civ
ing the instruction.
While at the range the men are wei
housed in the barracks and huts built
for the purpose, and are made com
Portable in their quarters. They are
well fed and their general health is
reported to be excellent. They are
here for a ten or twelve days instruc
ton.
The officer in charge said to Capi
tai reporter this morning that tht
health of the men is the best. There
are no cases of measles, meningitis Of
mumps, and everybody is well ant
happy"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
NEW U-BOAT CHASER Id
TO BE TESTED TOMORROW
Chance Marine Construction Company
OF EastpOrt About Ready 10 Make
Delivery To u. S. Govern
meat

Final plans for the testing out and
shaking down" trials of another Of
the U-boat chasers being build here
for the Federal Government by the
Chance Marine Construction Com
pany are being made today. 1t is ex-
pected that the vessel will be tried
out tomorrow and if found in every
way satisfactory she will be sent to
Norfolk for assignment to a patrol
station in her dangerous work.
All of the chasers are being built
under uniform plans. They are ITO
feet long. with a beam of 15la feet,
and are so constructed as to make
them capable of weathering the heavi-
est kind of seas Their propulsion is
by three gasoline engines of COM
bined horsepower of 660 The con-
tract calls for a speed OF 10 miles an
hour. although some of the craft on
their trial tests have made % miles.
The contract price of the vessels, eX-
elusive of engine or other equipment,
was $4,000 each, but it is estimated
that the combined cost is about $780,
600 per boat
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
DR.. WOODS TO PROBE
FARMING CONDITIONS
Man Now Making Garden Addresses
Here To Heed Appeals of the
Farmers of State

With Dr. A. F. Woods, president of
the Maryland State College giving
weekly garden lectures in the State
House here each Thursday afternoon,
particularly interesting is the an
nouncement just made that the Ma
tional Council of Defense has appro-
priated $4,000 for an investigation OF
the acuteness of the farm labor prob
lem.
This sun does not represent all that
will be spent in the investigation, as
more will be appropriated when need
ed.
Farmers. from all parts of the State
have been beseaching the council to
aid them before it is too late, and in
this connection many have appeared
at Annapolis to urge the proper legis-
lation, advising that if conditions are
not bettered the farmers of this state
will be able ony to raise enough for
their immediate families.
The council. to aid in the raising OF
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
ANNEXATION IS
NEXT IN Line
City Extension Measure To Have
The Limelight During
Next Week
IS UP TO REPUBLICANS
Leaders Of G. o. P. Working Hard to
Hold Their Senators In Line To
Carry Out Platform Pledge.

The annexation fight will come TO
head in the Senate this week. 1t is
fully expected that the measure which
has already passed the House will be
reported out of committee either on
Wednesday or Thursday Then the
fight viii start on the floor and it
promises TO be real battle.
While the Republican leaders can
not yet definitely say how many G.
o. p. Senators viii stand fast against
efforts of the antis to amend the
Greater Baltimore bill, they are salts.
fed that the situation is improving.
Reports were circulated here that
several Republican Senators broke up
a conference last week in Treasurer
Jackson's Office by refusing to stand
by the bill. This report was errone-
GUS Several Eastern Shore Senators
dropped into the Treasurer's Office to
pay call on the new official and
while there Mr.. Jackson made a strong
appeal for support of the Greater Bal
timore bill 1t is said that there was
one Senator present, not an Eastern
Shoreman, and who has always been
recognized as unfriendly to the bill,
who threw cold water on the measure.
The G. o. p. leaders realize that the
responsibility rests on their party to
get the bill through the Senate un-
amended and every Senator will be
called upon TO stick in line and vote
down every amendment From a
Democratic and general end the eX
4
There are several Senators on the
Democratic side who may prefer a
referendum on the question, but once
this proposal is turned down it is be-
lieved that they will join the Demo
cratic City Senators in standing by
the bill
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
.I-Y DAYS VANISH
OYSTERMEN SMILE
ihesapeake's Pet Trade Has Had
Worst Season In Oyer Thirty
Years Conditions Are
Now Improving.

Scarcity of oysters, labor shortage
and frigid winter have combined to
make the present season one of the
poorest in years for oystermen.
The local situation was tersely
summed up in this manner by we'll
known commission man: This is the
worst season / have witnessed in 30
years We have had freeze-ups be-
fore, but we were able to obtain oys-
ters after a few days"
Not half as many of the bivalves
have reached the market during the
present season as last year, and
dredgers report a greater scarcity OF
mature oysters than has occurred in
10 years.
Early in the season fewer boats
were engaged in the trade than here
tofore, due to the difficulty in obtain
ing help, many tOngers and dredgers
having sought more remunerative en-
ployment First catches were poor in
quality, though brisk demand caused
prices to advance sharply.
After the dredging season opened
arrivals began to pick up, and sufti-
/ cient oysters came to market to meet
! the demand. Then came the cold spell
in the early part Of December, ef-
/ fectually cutting off the supply
! Since the freeze-up II weeks ago JUS
| four boats have reached port and theil
! cargoes found immediate sale a
/ fancy prizes, ranging from 81 fol
straight-ups to 81 a bushel for selects
The freezing over of the Chesa
peake Bay completely paralyzed the
industry-not only did the sailings o
pungies and bugeyes cease but the
/ supplies from Virginia waters were
cut OF by the suspension of bal
/ steamship traits.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
BAN LIFTED FROM
LAMB AND MUTTON
May Be Eaten on "MeatIess Days
Until april Is, Food Admins
TRITON Rules
RATIONS In EUROPE CUT
Food Situation Alarming, With The Al
lies In Danger From Breakdown
In United States.

Lamb and mutton may be eaten on
"meatless days" until April 10.
The Food Administration is making
this announcement indicated very
clearly that there is no chance now
for lifting the ban on beef and pork.
Since November 1 the Food Admin
istration declare Americas beef ex-
ports to the Allies have amounted to
less Than per cent Of the total cattle
slaughtered. The per capita con-
sumption of beef and pork during 1917
increased over that of pre-war years
Beef and pork must be left off the
menu on meatless days indefinitely, it
is indicated. Rations in Europe, the
Food Administration explains, have
been reduced to approximately one
pound of meat per capita a week, or
less than 30 per cent of the American
consumption. European rations today
are $50 low as TO tend to diminish
the morale and resistance of the AL
lies" Hoover declared
The situation in mutton and lamb is
different, however, he explains, and in
those States in which this Western
product is available lamb and NUT
ton can be eaten on meatless days for
time.
Throwing aside the secrecy which
for weeks has covered a rapidly de-
veloping world food crisis, Mr. Hoover
laid bare the alarming seriousness of
the situation Breakdown of trans
portation, especially railroads, was
blamed by Hoover Food deliveries
are short Corn and potatoes are rot
ting Some districts are virtually on
the verge of famine because of eX-
hausted food reserves.
Hoover's startling revelations are
intended, it is believed, 10 spur on the
railroads. the ships and the American
public TO get behind the Food Admin
istration and push through the food
that will win the war. In some quar-
ters- it was believed Hoover also was
aiming at Congress in an effort to stop
prop0Sed legislation to increase the
price of wheat, which, it is claimed,
would completely upset the food pro-
gram.
The situation, characterized by
Hoover as the worst IN HlSIOIyp IL
briefly as follows, according to Hoov-
ar's statement:
"Tho next 90 days will be the most
critical period in our food history.
by February 2S we will be short
45 900 600 bushels in cereals promised
to the Allies This deficiency is due
solely to railway congestion.
Laws of supply and demand sus-
pended by interrupted flow of distribu-
ton.
Food reserves in large consuming
areas approaching exhaustion.
Movement OF food over the National
Railroad to practically exclusion of
much other commerce the only solu-
ton"
Hoover's statement follows reports
of anxiety over the food situation from
Lord Reading, British Ambassador
and frantic appeals from heads of the
Italian Government to its embassy
urging quick action. Even munitions
and soldiers must wait on this side
while food is rushed across.
Sufficient ships are available to car
nv the necessary food, the difficulty
being almost entirely one of internal
! transportation
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
EXPLOSION" ONLY HOT
STAG HITTING WATER
Reported Hearing Of Noise And Feel
ing Of Shock In Annapolis Turns
Out TO Be Tempest In
Teapot

The cause of the mysterious eX-
plosion," which is reported to have
rocked several towns on the Eastern
Shore and villages in sections of Bal
timore County, has been discovered.
The explosion was also alleged to
have been heard and even felt in
Annapolis.
Said explosion" was pretty close
to Baltimore, although the shock was
not felt there.
1t was at SparrOws Point and was
caused by the dumping of several
hundred tons of red-hot Stag into the
waters OF Bear creek. This occurred
shortly before Z o'clock Saturday
night.
There was nothing to it, accord
ing to the telephone operator Tor the
Bethlehem Steel Company, when
asked about the explosion" why,
we have them every day and don't pay
bit of attention to them"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
DELEGATION OF
BUSINESS MEN
"a Washington Today for Con-
~ l.,.,ee With Secretcry Of Navy
~ MAKING ANNAPOLIS DRY"
,-...,, Satisfaction on Result Of Trip
~ r., Their Return This Afternoon

...uaaa headed by the Rev II.
r.-ran. and numbering about
.r. prominent prohibitionists
.....r.. visited Washington to-
., effort 20 impress upon Sec
..r.. Navy Daniels their view
...r. .raaa ity Of an executive
..r... Annapolis a dr. city.
.. .Ea.dou besides Mr.. Bur
mr Edward Jewell, VIM. +.
W. e. EIdmeycr, Charles G.
.....r aud I'll number Of others
-. Liberation returned to Annap-
...sl q O'Clock this afternoon, ap-
.... sell satisfied with their trip.
.a.ffeI that they had seen the
..-. of thc Navy, and that they
. him fu the interest Of a dry
acols
r, .h.. they had said to the Sec
.- and what his reception of their
.utar had been, the gentlemen
....r.I f.. announce.
a.a been generally understood
... m delegation was going to
s. #.run u1b an idea of taking up
.h Secretary certain alleged
.an. fn this town not entirely to
t.r..t interests of the hundreds of
...r. candidates for the Naval Acad-
.-c.. various times temporary resi-
a# u. tho city
~... .ai que ton was considered
.-.r .nu conference was not admit
..... ...m..r. of the delegation
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
NALY'S WORK ON
THE ROWING SQUAD
One Hundred Eiidshipmen Now
Training With Navy
FIVE CREWS DAILY
Race With Princeton Certain Ssilh
Pennsylvania Tentative
The Personnel

One hundred Midshipmen are now
in the rowing squad at the Naval
Academy, and i've crews daily report
TO the natatorium for practice, which
begins about $50. and lasts about
an hour and quarter, giving each crew
at least ten minutes work in the eight
cared scow in the tank.
The five crews, now practicing, and
ali rated rs first crews, from which.
with other material, the Navy crew
will finally be selected, are:
No. l. Brown, bow; > Sickle; 3.
Skies; 4, Talbert; 3, Graft; 6, Del
mont; Z, Kinney; s, Van Buren,.
stroke.
No. ?. Harris, bow; ,, Ripplin; 8,
Aller; 4, Murray, captain of the Navy
crew yet to be formed ;-5, Barnett; 6,
Ingram; 7, Smith; s, Post, stroke.
No. 3. Seitz, bow; ?, Brashears; 3,
Wallace; 4, Greselman; 5, Walding;
G, Mills; s, Kenney, stroke.
No. 4. Booker, bow; ?, Herman; 3,
Pave; 4, Jones; 3, Willings; G, Chalk
ley; Z, McMahan; s, Herman, stroke.
No. 5. Shoemaker, bow; ,, Ander-
son; 5, Smith; 4, Skinner; 5, Hogan;
G, Sterling; Z, Harrison; s, Holloway,
stroke.
Richard Glennon is the coach of the
squad, and James Cantler, boat keeper.
Midshipman S. S Murray is captain
Of the crew, and Midshipman w. F..
GriswOld, manager
The squad is composed of some of
the best man ever seen in the rowing
of the Academy, and never was the
squad eXcelled in spirit and enthusi-
asm for their work and training.
A race with Princeton is almost con-
sidered certain, and one with Penn
sylvania is tentative.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
BUSY BASKETBALL WEEK
ON FOR SAINTaJ0HNS
Plans Include Three Games In Four
DAYS, One Each on Wednesday,
FRIDAY And Saturday Nights

This will be a busy week for the ST
Johns basketball team. According
to present plans the Johnnies are due
for three stiG games, all of them in
side of four days. On Wednesday the
opponents will be the Catholic Uni
yersity team of Washington, and on
the regular schedule which will be
followed by the game with Washing
ton College on Saturday night. How
ever. plans are on for an additional
game which will settle the State
This IS with Mt st.
Joseph's College. The Josephites and
the Johnnies will, if present plans are
carried out, meet on Friday night to
plav off a tie for the championship.
They have met twice this season. each
winning a game. In the first contest
plaved here, the locals won Is to y
and in the second game at Emmits-
burg, the St Josephs were victors py
81 to 2S.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25

The visiting patriotic orders occu-
pied the middle block of pews.
The hymns were appropriate TO the
occasion, and solo was sung during
the offertory by Mr.. Perry Bone with
pleasing effect.
For the lessons the rector read a
part of the Eleventh Chapter of Isaiah
and also the story of the Good Samari-
tan. He chose the subjects of these
lessons instead of a text, the vision of
a righteousness and peace, and the
dedication of ones gifts to service.
The sermon was delivered without
notes, so that only the general sub
stance of the rector's remarks are
here given.
He spoke of the formation of our in
stitutions by George Washington. and
other like-minded men, sustained by
the help of God as they wrought to
improve the lot of mankind.
The ancestors of Washington were
familiar in England with the age
long struggle to safeguard popular
rights from the the greed of lIingly
tyranny. English history is full of il
Illustrations of the refusal of people
to identify their aims with those of
world would-be despotic monarch
Teutonic peoples when we hope they
will make a like refusal.
The institutions thus fashioned are
now imperiled by the spirit of abso-
lutism which-it is now abundantly
clear-knows no world limits. De-
scribed by phrases which are abhor-
rent in their pious lf-justification,
the spirit of absolutism would destroy
free institutions anywhere on the
earth.
But it is even more correct to say
that these free institutions are dedi-
Gated to a worldwide democratic
task, for the good of mankind. While
to many it may seem that we were
driven by an overwhelming external
necessity to enter the war, it is more
| true to recognize that we offered our
! selves to a task involving self-sacri.
! fee
The motives of the United States
i are abundantly clear. You canno
! point to anything that could be offer
| ed us for the sacrifice we make, any
] thing we would be willing to accept
| nor can you imagine the United States
on the other side of the conflict. MOI
can you think of this country as part
ner to an unholy bargain for the par
tition of world power. Our motive il
to serve and there is no moral righ
to stop while it remains possible fol
disorderly. minds and hearts to out
rage a world.
The rector closed by stressing th'
necessity to suppress the discourage
/ ment at home which is equal to de
sertion on the field" to follow tht
/ counsels of our government in th'
/ spirit as well as in the letter. For
while we commemorate those wh'
! formed our institutions, and ar
| grateful to those who preserved them
we are one with those in the presen
time who dedicate our free power
to the good of all men.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
WILL ARREST SOME
river Resort MEN
Aftermath of Case of John Conf
Who Was Released By Local
Court on Parole
FOLLOWS TAXICAB CASES
Baltimore Police to Act in sses Where
Liquor Has Been Sold TO Young
Girls Ia This County

Immediate action against several
river resort proprietors, both in Balti-
more ana Anne Arundel Counties, at
points adjacent TO Baltimore City. who
have been for SOME time openly defy
ing the law by allowing girls as young
as If years to visit their places and
drink intoxicating liquor. The action
will be taken as the result of the
revelations following the second AK
rest of John Conf, who was recently
tried and convicted in the Anne Arun
del County Circuit Court in conncc-
tion with an auto bandit case in
Anne Arundel
Conf was on parole from the local
court, as was Frederick Walls, who
recently shot and killed his wife at
GOvans.
While on parole Conf was arrested
in house on Courtland street last
Wednesday by Sergeant Stemplc, Of
the Central district, Baltimore, when
he was found there with a fourteen
year-oId girl and another one, II
years old. of Woodberry. 1t is al
legged that Comi is one of number
of drivers who have been using their
cars in an immoral traffic between
Baltimore aud the river resorts.
Conf is now wanted in Anne Arundel
County for violating his parole.
A bench warrant from the local
Court was taken to Baltimore last
week by Deputy Sehriff w. ID. *. Lee,
but Marshal Carter refused to honor
it until the case i'm Baltimore had been
disposed Of Whatever the outcome oi
that case he will be brought back here
and receive sentence on the original
charge
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
AN EASTER WEDDING
Mss Harzarel Sellman To Become The
Wife Of Mr. Frederick
+. Long.

Avoiding of more than local inter
.. wiu ako place in Emmanuel
church. Baltimore. on Tuesday in
rs.r Week. April .. when Miss Mar
arr Thomas Sellman will marry
SIR Frederick Farwell Long. Miss
um is the daughter of Mrs. Rich
m U sejman and is a grand
.asn..r og the late Thomas 5. lyle
MH %. Ulvidaouvillc, this county.
lrms many friends and relatives in
Annapolis. having frequently visited
armu the late Mrs w. Meade Hol-
af.. 80 Primrose" Mr. Long, who
uW uaaecd i'm government work,
..a of the late Or Frederick
awW long. of Chester, Pa, His
.r Mrs. George Forbes, lives in
.m0rc
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25

crops has 40 appropriated $4,000
for the purchase of four more farm
tractors. When they are put in oper-
alton there will be eight at work in
the state, the pioneer in this move
ment.
The tractors are hired TO farmers on
the acre basis and in a short while
on a fair charge, pay for themselves.
New York and other states have fol-
lowed Maryland and, like Maryland,
are encouraging the farmers to or
ganize tractor clubs, the combination
purchasing one tractor for the use
of all.
DIR. Woods is to report the result
of his investigation to the council and
is expected to make known the facts
shortly
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
Captain James West Died
AT Emergency Hospital

Can't. James West, 1908 South
Charles street, Baltimore, who was
known among dredgers in Chesapeake
Raw as king of the oystermen,' died
Saturday at the Emergency Hospital
Captain West was stricken with
paralvsis Tuesday afternoon as he
was about to board his pungy Ellen
and Alice. Surviving Captain West,
besides a widow, are three children
George and Walter West and Mrs. An
nia Ford-all of whom live at 1903
South Charles street, Baltimore HIS
bodv was taken to Baltimore.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-25
ST. JOHNS PROFESSOR
Wins 81, 900 Prize For Essay 10 Con-
test Conducted at Chicago.

DIR. Edmund E. Lincoln, who was a
professor of History and Political
Economy at St Johns College 1912
and 1913, has been awarded a first
prize of 1000 for an essay on the
subject of municipal electric light
ing compared with private ownership
of electric plants.
DR.. Lincoln's essay was based on a
careful investigation of all the ele-
ments which have entered into the
problems of municipal electric light
ing.
The contest was open to graduates
of any college in the country and was
conducted at Chicago.