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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

More than $1,000 ,OO0,O 900 of war
risk insurance has so far been writte1
covering over 100000 persons il the
military and naval services. The aver
age amount of insurance applied for is
nearly $4,000. The maximum permit
ted is $4,000, and the minimum ST.
600.
Final figures show the United States
army, both here and abroad, is well
over so per cent insured. In many
camps 80 per cent of the personnel is
protected by government insurance.
The insurance now on the books of the
bureau is more than three times as
great as the ordinary insurance held
by the largest commercial company in
the world.
All new persons joining the service
may apply for insurance within 100
days OTTER joining the colors. Auto
matte insurance ceased for all men,
regardless of enlistment date, on Feb
ruary II.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29
LESSON FOR MARCH 81
JESUS OUR EXAMPLE IN SERVICE.

GOLDEN TEXT-Let this mind be in
you, which was also in Christ Jesus
Phil. 2:5.
in helping others.
MEMORY VERSE-Follow me.-Matt-
go.
EASTER LESSON.
LESSON TEXT Cor. 15:50-5S.
GOLDEN TEXT-Thanks be unto God
who giveth US the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christi Cor. 1856.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Plans for the organization of camp
baseball teams and leagues are be-
ing formulated by the general direc-
tor of athletics in camps and canton
ments. According to the commission
on training camp activities, within a
month soldiers will have company,
regimental, and divisional teams, and
these teams will form company and
regimental leagues. No divisional
leagues are contemplated because of
the distances between camps, but
where travelling conditions permit in
ter-camp games will be arranged.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

An ordnance base that will cost an-
proximately $25,O00,0O0 is under con-
struction in France. 1t will include a
gun-repair plant equipped to refine
more than 800 guns a month a large
capacity carriage repair plant; a
motor-vehicle repair plant capable of
overhauling more than 1000 vehicles
a month; a small-arms repair plant to
handle $4,000 rifles and machine guns
a month; a large shop for the repair
of horse and infantry equipment; a
r%eloading plant capable of reloading
about 100000 artillery cartridges a
day.
The ordnance base will include 20
large storehouses, II shop buildings,
100 smaller shops and magazines, and
machine and tool equipment costing
S 5,000,000. Approximately $50 officers
and 10000 men will be required for
maintenance.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29
MOST IMPORTANT
News OF WORLD
bIe HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
KerneIs cuIIed From Events Of Mo
msnt In All Parts Of the World
OF Interest to All the
People Everywhere.
U. S.-Teutonic WarNews

Germany's threat Of a great spring
offensive on the western front no long
er impresses American military men.
In Its weekly review the wal depart
ment records conclusion that the en-
omy, In spite Of his vast preparations,
will not take the offensive unless
forced into It.
After n terrific artillery preparation
large numbers of the enemy crossed
No Mans Land on the extreme right Of
the American sector northwest of Toul.
Apparently the purpose of the raid
was quickly accomplished and only a
comparatively small number entered
our lines.
The Spanish and Swiss ambassadors
mt Berlin have been directed by the
German foreign office to notify the
American government that Germany
will proceed with measures against
American property in Germany in the
same proportion that action is taken
against German property In the United
states. Reuters Amsterdam CORE
spondent reports to London.
Fifty persons were killed and great
material damage was done by bombs
dropped by allies airmen when they
raided Koblenz. Germany, according to
n neutral traveller, who arrived at The
Hague. the Times says. 1.-THE people
believed the raiders were Americans"
the traveller said.
II is now permissible to announce
that American artillery in the Lune-
vile sector in France has located and
blown up a battery Of mine throwers.
The battery had been causing a great
deal Of trouble for several days.
Secretary Baker had his baptism of
FIRE In the front line trenches on the
American front in France md while
he was returning a German shell burst
within less than fifty yards Of his mo-
torcnr. He wns not injured.
President Wilson issued n proclama.
tion taking over 100000 tons Of Dutch
shipping within the territorial waters
81 the United States. At the same
time similar action was taken by the
allied governments on 100000 tons OF
Dutch ships In their Respective ports
The ships will be Immediately put into
service In the most vital war work OF
the moment-getting men to France
n food TO the allies.
A German alrplane flew over the
American sector northwest Of Toul
France. and dropped rubber balls
eighteen inches in diameter, filed will
Ilquihed mustard gas. This is the first
iime. 50 far as Is known, that an air
plane has been thus employed. The eff
feet OF the gas was not serious.
Twenty-Five British and Canadian
officers. 10 Of them commissioned, ar
rived at al Atlantic port direct from
the western front. They will be sem
90 various army camps and detailed e
Instruct American soldiers In tht
latest arts of trench warfare.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The prospect for the 1918 wheat
crop in Japan is said to be very good
by a report to the department OF
commerce. The 1917 crop is estimated
n: nearly $4,000 900 bushels.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

From June 3 to December L, 1917,
only $50 arrests were made or re-
ported to the department of justice
for failure to register under the Sc
lective service act. Of these, 1858
were released after having registered
and prosecutions were begun against
2.059, of which about 1900 cases are
still pending.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The National Education association
announced at Washington that a bronze
tablet would be presented to the school
In the United States that leads in the
sale Of War Saving stamps.
-Four persons, two men and two
women. claiming French citizenship,
but who both American and French
authorities say have been intimately
connected with German espionage ac-
iivities In the United States, were ar
rested In New York by agents of the
department of justice. They will be
turned over TO immigration authorities
for deportation to France.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor. vigor-
ously defended the loyalty of organ
lied labor In the United States in the
war against Germany in an address at
New York at n meeting called by the
National Civic Federation to discuss
after-war problems-wlth particular
reference to labor and sociological con-
litions.
Fire of reported incendiary origin
destroyed the Lincoln. Suppes, Rose
and the new Kline buildings at Johns
'own. Pa, causing a loss Of about ST.
e0O.OO0.
Mrs. Hugo R~eisinger, sister of Adolf
plus Busch, wealthy st. Louis brewer,
now dead, was summoned to the office
OF Charles f. de Woody, division SUI
perintendent of the department of JUS
fice Mt New York for questioning as TO
her acquaintance with Count Robert de
Clairmont and the other alleged spies.
Cadet Flyer Ellis B. Watts of Port.
land. Ore, was instantly killed and his
instructor. Capt. L. v. Drake, Royal
Flying corps, was injured at Fort
Worth. Tex, when their airplane fell
800 feet In a spinning nose dive.
Wage Increases for all of the LOO.
600 employees Of the railroads of the
country have been decreed by Director
General McAdoo's railroad wage board
NcCOFuinR W MluIlluJlOn ODlNlne0 III
washington. II is estimated that thu
increases proposed by the board will
aggregate 500, 100000. ..
Ralph F.. Cay. his wife, Myrtle
their daughter. Mary, and son. Ralpl
J.. all of Anderson. Ind, were kille,
instantly when the family's automobil,
was struck by a passenger train nea
Pcndleton.
The COO shipwOrkers who laid dow
their tools at tho Baltimore Dry Dock
and Shipbuildlng company plant q
Baltimore. Nd, on Monday, returne
20 work Wednesday. The strikers M
nounced that the layoff was due TO
misunderstanding of the wage adjus.
ment board scale.
George Borden. n negro Of Gold
bOro, N. c., has given IA sons to III
wnr. He II the father of 30 children
e living and IA Of them in the Unite
Stntes army either In this country {
n Frunce.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Mrs. Thomas Edwards of Oberlin,
O., age ~ninety-ive, gave her four sons
and numerous grandsons enough
canned stuff from her OWN garden to
supply them for the winter. She did
all the work herself, except the plow
ing.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

A division of 'betterments and adj
ditions' has been added to the railroad
administration in charge of Judge Rob-
ert S. Lovett. The division will have
Jurisdiction of betterments and addi-
tons to railroad lines throughout the
country.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29
BASIS FOR LOANS
TO FARM OWNERS
Federal Board Issues Rules for
the Guidance of Land
Banks.
MANY MECHANICS ARE NEEDED
Ten Thousand Skilled Men Wanted for
Service in the Aviation Section OF
the Signal Corps-New Kind of
Bullets.

Washington. - The federal farm
loan board has issued the following
rules for the guidance of the land
banks in determining what area con-
stitutes a farm for loaning purposes:
First, Generally-The farm must be
of sufficient area to yield at the hands
of an ordinarily capable farmer, put
ting it to the use to which it is gen
orally adapted and using average meth
DDS, an income sufficient to maintain
the family of the applicant and dis
charge the interest and amortization
payments.
Second, Specially.-Where through
intensive farming or the practice Of p
speciality a sufficient income has been
regularly derived from a tract de
fcient in area for ordinary farming,
Or where the application of the pros
pective borrower shows that he is by
experience capable of producing such
an income from such q tract, such area
may be accepted as sufficient, provid-
ed the land has a stable and perma-
nent market value sufficient to warrant
tIie lOdu dppIIou LOT. InlS ruling does
not apply to fruit and orchard lands
which have already been the subjects
of definite rulings by this board"
Under the first paragraph of this rul-
ing loans may be made to the ordinary
farmer on the basis of average skill
and efficiency, and no tract of land
will be accepted as a farm eligible fol
a loan under the federal farm loan act
unless it is large enough to support
the family and take care of the .loar
under the average farm conditions Of
the neighborhood.
But under the second paragraph O.
the ruling the intensive farmer or the
man who practices a profitable special
ty, or who shows himself able to de
so, will be given financial support by
the federal loan system, even though
his farm may be too small for ordinary
farming purposes, provided that tn,
land quite apart from its use has
stable and permanent land value which
will make the loan safe whether it il
well operated, or badly operated, O
not operated at all.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Following the plan adopted for Cal
ifornia and Colorado, the food admin
istration has appointed a commission
to determine the cost of producing
sugar beets in Nebraska. The COM
mission has no power to fix prices,
but it is expected that its figures will
serve as the basis for voluntary price
agreements between growers and pur-
chasers Of sugar beets.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

George Borden. n negro Of Colds
boro. N. G., has given IA sons to the
war. He is the father Of 30 children,
e living and IA Of them In the United
Stntes army either in this country or
IN Frnnce.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The present war has brought forth
a new kind of ammunition for airplane
use i'll the form of special cartridges
containing bullets for armor-piercing,
tracing. and incendiary purposes. All
Of these cartridges are of the small
rifle calibers, according to a statement
authorized by the war department.
The t~hree-tenths of an inch diameter
and short length of the bullet left lit
tie space for the armor-piercing ele-
ment or for tracer and incendiary COM
position, but such combinations have
been made.
The bullets developed by the United
States ordnance department have been
tested on land and from airplanes' to
see if there is any difference in their
performance when fired from a quick
~ moving airplane in the upper atmos-
phere and when fired on land. These
tests indicate that the United States
has developed a class of special
cartridges with a performance fully
equal to Or surprising that attained
abroad.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Mrs. Carrie NJ. Eveleth of Lewiston,
Me-, whose record for nursing cover
SO years, has attended more than
three hundred babies, and in all the
time she has been nursing has never
lost q case.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

From the beginning of 1914 to Au-
gust 1, 1917, there was a total advance
of 80 per cent in the retail prices of
bread, according to the department of
labor. In the last few months there
has been a decrease, and prices are
now &C per cent higher than at the
beginning of 1914.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

More than 1000 tons of anthracite
coal were condemned in Pennsylvania
markets by representatives of the fuel
administration recently in the cam
paign to compel the delivery of clean
coal.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

All cheese now in storage must be
marketed before June Is, unless Spe-
ciaI permission to hold is given by the
food administration.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The first law that God gave unto.
man was the law of pure obedience
for as much as to obey is the proper
office of a rational soul.-Montaigne.
"It is only when tomorrow's bur-
den is added to the burden of today
that the weight is more than we can
bear"
A Christian on his knees can get a
clearer vision of heaven than a SIN
ner can with a telescope.
An inconsistent Christian is no evil
dence that the Bible is not true.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

According to an announcement by
Secretary Lane additional parks will
be open to tourists this year on the fol-
lowing dates:
Yosemite, California, May 1 to No
vember 1; Rocky Mountain National
park, Colorado, May 1 to November
L; Sequoia National park, California.
May 10 to October 10; General Grant
National park, California, May Is TO
October 10; Mesa Verde National park,
Colorado, June 1 to September 80;
Mount Rainier National park, Washing
ton, June 1 to September 16; Glacier
National park, Montana, June Is to
September IS; Crater Lake National
park, Oregon, July 1 to September 80;
Yellowstone National park, Wyoming,
June 25 to September Is.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The COO shipworkers who laid down
their tools at the Baltimore Dry Docks
and S%hipbuildlng company plant at
Baltimore. Nd, on Monday. returned
20 work Wednesday. The strikers np-
nounced that the layoff was due to a
MISUNDERSTANDING Of the wage adjust
ment board scale.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Qualified men registered under the
selective service law may be indicted
into service to fill the call for 10000
skilled mechanics needed by the avia-
ton section of the signal corps. by
applying to their local boards. Men
not registered may enlist at recruit
ing stations.
The present call is particularly for
machinists, auto mechanics, engine re-
pairmen, %gunsmiths, chauffeurs, car
penters, blacksmiths, tinsmithts, sheet
s1etal workers, propeller makers,
wireless operators and constructors,
i~ailors, tent-makers, sail-makers, truck
masters, vulcanizers, welders, and ex-
perts on magnetos, ignition systems,
cameras, watches, and clocks.
Men will be SEN to San Antonio,
Tex, for segregation by trades, fol
lowed by a brief course of instruction
at flying fields or factories, then or
gained into squadrons mostly for
service overseas. Additional informa-
ton may be secured by application to
the air division, personnel department,
Washington, D. c.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Ralph F. Cay. his wife, Myrtle.
their daughter. Mary, and son. Ralph
J.. all OF Anderson, Ind, were killed
instantly when the family's automobile
was struck by a passenger train near
Pendleton.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Type of dirGble and new Italian flying boat NIacchi, used by the Italian
navy for patrol work along the Adnahc.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The mayor of a suburb of Antwerp
has been ordered to deliver to the Ger
mans forty fat cats.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The new Mexican service badge"
will soon be issued to officers and en-
listed men who served under certain
conditions in Mexico and on the bor-
der. Persons not now in the army
who would have been entitled to the
badge and whose separation from the
service has been honorable may secure
authority from the adjutant general
to purchase and wear the service
badge.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

An illustrated catalogue of official
war photographs and s~tereopticon
slides has been issued by the division
of pictures of the committee on pub
lie information. In it are listed about
1000 pictures available to the public,
including photographs taken by the
signal corps, navy, marine corps and
French and Belgian official photo
graphs.
Each picture listed may be had
either as a Photographic print or as a
stereopticon slide at a small price. The
catalogue may be secured by sending
five cents to the division of pictures,
Washington, D. G.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

After n terrific artillery preparation
large numbers Of the enemy crossed
NO Mans Land on the extreme right Of
the American sector northwest of Toul.
Apparently the purpose of the raid
Sas quickly accomplished and only a
comparatively small number entered
our lines.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Wage Increases for all of the 1.7OO,-
900 employees Of the railroads Of the
country have been decreed by Director
General McAdoo's railroad wage board.
according to information obtained in
Washington. II is estimated that the
increases proposed by the board will
aggregate s200,OO0.OOO.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

There will be no consistory until
after the war, Pope Benedict an
nounced/ at Rome.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Attacks by German storm troops in
the regions of Newport, Dixmude and
Merckem gained a footing at some
points, but all were expelled by u
ter-attacks, says the Belgian official
statement.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Germany's threat of a great spring
offensive on the western front 10 long
er impresses American military men.
In Its weekly review the VAR depart
ment records conclusion that the en-
envy, In spite Of his vast preparations,
will not take the offensive unless
forced into It.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

About twenty English woman gar
deners are going to France, where they
will take up the duty tending to the
graves of dead British soldiers.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

A German airplane flew over the
American sector northwest Of Toul,
France. and dropped rubber balls
eighteen inches in diameter. filed with
ilquified mustard gas. This is the first
tlme. so far as Is known, that an air
plane has been thus employed. The eff
feet OF the gas was not serious.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

British airplanes dropped a ton of
bombs on the German city of Mann
helm on Monday, it was officially n
nounced at London.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

II is now permissible to announce
that American artillery in the Lune-
vile sector in France has located and
blown up a battery Of mine throwers.
The battery had been causing a great
deal Of trouble for several days.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Twenty-Five British and Canadian
officers. 10 Of them commissioned, ar
rived at IN Atlantic port direct from
the western front. They will be sent
60 various army camps and detailed to
instruct American soldiers In the
latest arts Of trench warfare.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Fire Of reported i~ncendiary origin
destroyed the Lincoln. Suppes, Rose
and the new Kline buildings at Johns
'own. Pa, causing a loss OF about ST.
e0O.OOO.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

f. G. Schroeder of Denver was held
to the federal grand jury ut st. Louis
In a thousand-dollar bond for making
an alleged disloyal remark.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Seven enemy airplanes were brought
down, according to the Rome war Of
flee report. Two were accounted for
by the Italians, two by the French and
three by the British.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The National Education association
announced Mt Washington that a bronze
tablet would be presented to the school
In the United States that leads in the
sale Of War Saving stamps.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

The British labor party announced
in London that it regards with anxiety
the prospect of Japanese Intervention
in Siberia.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Cadet Flyer Ellis B. Watts Of Port
land. Ore, was instantly killed and his
instructor, Capt. l.. v. Drake, Royal
Flying corps, was injured at Fort
Worth. Tex, when their alrplnne fell
800 feet In a spinning nose dive.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Mrs. Hugo Reisinger, sister of Adolf
plus Busch, wealthy st. Louis brewer,
now dead, was summoned to the office
OF Charles F. de Woody, division SUI
p~erintendent Of the department Of jus
fice ut New York for questioning as to
her acquaintance with Count Robert de
Clairmont and the other alleged spies.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-03-29

Fifty persons were killed and great
material damage was done by bombs
dropped by allies airmen when they
raided Koblenz, Germany, according to
n neutral traveller, who arrived at The
Hague. the Times says. 1.-THE people
believed the raiders were Americans"
the traveller said.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

The United States bureau OF stand
ards has developed a 1abor-saving de-
vice making color tests of cottonseed
OIL
Mrs. Rebecca Mayo. age ninety, still
conducts a shoe store in Province
town, Mass. She has had charge OF
the business since her husband died,
in 1875.
All printers among the Russian pris-
oners in Germany are being kept busy
on propaganda books in Russian, to
popularize the kaiser and everything
German.
The flag pole on top OF a tower on
q New York hotel has been so mount
ed that if can be lowered into tubu-
lar casing for painting OF repairing.
Two Mt. Holyoke college girls. re-
Gently hired as drivers OF milk routes
In South Hadley, Mass; have proved
so efficient that they viii be retained
In their jobs
1t is estimated that there are 20
COO tons Of coal. which can be re-
claimed from the SchuyIkin river be
tween SehuyIkin Haven and Auburn,
Pa. Several washeries take coal from
the river bed when the weather PEP
mits.