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New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Kitty Gordon Sues Broker

Kitty Gordon, the actress, has had
her first experience in the stock mar
a suit in the Supreme Court to re-
cover s6,868. The defendant is Max
5. Rheinberg, who, Miss Gordon al
leges. told her in November 1916,
that he was a member of the Stock
Exchange firm of Halle & Stieglitz and
that he could successfully handle her
speculative account at the same time
indemnifying her against loss.
Miss Gordon says she lost the amount
she is now suing to recover.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

Plays and Players

Sir Alfred Butt, the London man
ager, cabled yesterday to Winchell
Smith and John L. Golden, asking that
Frank Bacon in "Lightnin' be sent
him for London engagement as soon
as the run at the Gaiety is concluded.
Tonight will be Hitchcock" night at
the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolc at the
New Amsterdam Theatre roof. Mr.
Hitchcock has volunteered as a roof
entertainer for one night before he
leaves for his tour in "Hitchy-Koo."
"Bee" Palmer, jazz singer and dancer
Of the Follies, took show of fourteen
acts to the isolation camp at Pelham
last night.
Josephine Whittell has been added to
the cast of "Gloranna," the new musi-
cal piece, in which John Cort will pre-
sent Eleanor Painter.
Bertha Kalich, the Polish actress
will return to the legitimate stage this
season, under the direction of George
Mooser, in three-act play by Char
called "The Riddle: Woman" Re-
hearsals began yesterday.
Mothers of New York sailors, sol
diers and marines killed in battle will
be honored Sunday night at the Hippo
drome. They will be presented with
gold stars by the Mayors Committee
of Women on National Defence. A sec
ton Of the amphitheatre will be set
aside for them. John Mccormack will
sing.
"The Follies" will end its engagem mt
at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Sep
tember ID, opening in Boston on the
10th.
Eileen Van Bienc will play the part
of Ottillie in "Maytime" at the Lyric
Theatre, the third since Peggy Wood
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Lawyer Sues Mrs. Harrison
A. K. Hitchcock Wants SIS. 900
for Services in Divorce Action

Mrs Mabel Judson Harrison, who re-
Gently obtained divorce in California
from Francis Burton Harrison, Gov
ernor General of the Philippine ISL
ands, was sued yesterday in the Su-
preme Court for $4,000 for legal SER
vices
Arthur K. Hitchcock, the attorney
who is suing, says that he was engaged d
last December to go to Manila in the
interest Of Mrs. Harrisonsand get GER
tain evidence. Mr. Hitchcock says that
he carried out the purpose of this mis-
sion and rendered service to his client
until May 6.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Women to Get Equal
Pay for Equal Work

EQUAL pay for equal work has
IL been recommended for the
women of Bridgeport's munitions and
related industrial plants by Otto NJ
Eidlitz, the umpire chosen by the
National War Labor Board tc decide
controversies between employers
and employees there
The conductorettes of London,
after four years of war, are striking
for wage equality, and many men
workers have Joined them.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Military Honors for Nurse

TRENTON, Aug. 2s-Miss Rather
inc V: Connolly an army nurse, waa
buried with full military honors here
to-day. She died yesterday in the
Reception hospital. Ellis Island. from
meningitis, contracted in a military
hospital. Her home was in Dix
Haven, suburb of this city.
Orders for the funeral were issued
by. ,AdJutant General Gikyson, who
SAID this was the first military
funeral accorded a woman in New
Jersey in his recollection
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
MRS. NJ. ANNIE M'KERNAN

Mrs NJ Annie McKernan. wife Of
the late Lieutenant John F. McKernan.
[. S. n, died Monday evening at her
home, 1856 Woodruff Avenue. Flatbush.
Brooklyn. Mrs. McKernan, who is sur
ylved by three sons-Thomas. John and
bald-was born in st. Johns. New
foundland. and was we'll known not
onl y in this city, but also in Boston
and Philadelphia, where she had been
active in business and social life for
many wears.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Miss Beatrice Archer Engaged
To Capt. Richard S. Haskew

=, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Archer, of 1881
Madison Avenue, have announced the
s.ngagement Of their youngest daugh-
yer. Miss Beatrice Copieston Archer, to
s.aptain Richard Selwyn Haskew, Royal
nnrlllery. only son OF the late K. C.
ca.xew and Mrs. Haskew, OF Forest
1ste, London, England. Miss Archer ~
MN the British Red Cross in Egvp,.
ine wedding will take place az soor.
a. war conditions permit.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
rre Drives Out Seventy Girls

seventy girls we're escorted by police
"sn =" yesterday out Of the candy factory
~, VI ne Hess Confectionery Company.
ssn'en vas filed with smoke from a
W. W. next door a. the plant Of Zuhr g.
TsAs'~ortn, cabinetmakers, S07 West
m f'lrleth Street The origin Of the
49, srx - unknown. II fed upon excelsior
tiar 'ahoer and attained such proper
As,.shat mat TWO alarms we're sent. The
a"Ks ~ estimated at $4,000. The
Tracts. ." k"'efn"eht con
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

and writers. He was a graduate of
Michigan Agricultural College.
Harvard conferred the degree of doctor
OF science upon DR.. Halsted in 1878.
lie was managing editor Of "The Amer
lcan Agriculturist" and later professor
OF botany at Ames College, Iowa. He
He was a former presidenu Of the
Botanical Society of America and the
author of number of agricultural
books. papers and bulletins. A widow
and three children survive him.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Three More Bodies Identified
AS Rockaway Canoe Victim,

Three more bodies recovered from
the vicinity of Jamaica Bay were iden-
tilted yesterday as those Of victims Of
the canoe tragedy in the Rockaway
Shoals in which eighteen persons are
believed to have been drowned.
The bodies were identified as those
Of Margaret L. McDonough, 434 Third
Street, Brooklyn; John E Tufts. POI
Franklin Street, Brooklyn. and Ensign
Edward NJ. Fitzgerald. U. S. n. IA
Johnson Street, Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
$500 Men in Edison Plant
Vote to Work on Labor Day

ORANGE, n. j., Aug. 2S.-voting on
a proposal made by themselves, en-
ployes of the Edison Storage Battery
Company, in West Orange. decided to
keep the plant running Labor Day, to
speed up work on batteries for the air
service and signal corps on the West
ern front General Pershing recently
cabled hurry request for this equip
ment
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Woman Candidate for
Fighting Brothers Job
Mrs. Beals, Sister of Seattle
Major, Is After Nominal
ton for Justice of Peace

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 28.-While
her brother, Major John E. Carroll,
former justice of the peace, is fighting
in France, his sister. Mrs. Othila G. G.
Beals. is candidate for election to his
place. Mrs. Beals has been filing her
brothers position since he went into
the service and now has filed petit
ton for nomination at the September
primaries
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
DIR. BYRON D. HALsTED

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Aug. 2S.--
pr. Byron David Halsted, formerly pro
fessor of botany at Rutgers COLLEGE.
died to-day at his home here, at the age
OF sixty-seven. He was born in Venice.
Cayuga County, and came from a
Quaker family Of educators, physicians
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Child Hurt by Motor Truck

Morris Freeman, eight years old, was
hit by motor truck yesterday near
ms home. at 610 Ninth Avenue His
skull was fractured and he was taken
to Polyclinic Hospital The driver of
the vehicle was arrested.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
y. 5. Takes Stevens Home

cs..nls ns bone Of Richard Stevens at
avsr ro,nt, Heboken, has been taken
ssns.y ~ the government for use Az
of s.n s.assscsnt hospital at the invitation
moxsa present owner. Mr.. Etevcns has
f4te - another building on the es-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Obituary
ARTHUR PLAYFAIR

LONDON, Aug 28.-Arthur Playfair.
the actor, died to-day at Brighton.
Arthur Playfair was born at Elich
poor, India. on October 20, 1869. His
first appearance on the London stage
was in December, 1887. He played
many parts on the English stage. and
came to America in 1901 and 1904.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

which the reports came Some were
children who had come under the no.
tice Of people who always have an eye
open for needy childhood and who sent
their names to the fund because they
had heard that it lists were always
open to the needy without question.
Other children are to be sent away
by the fund to-day. Still others to-
morrow. The days in which boys and
girls can still be sent out are growing
few, however, for all normal children
must be returned to the city in time
for the beginning of the school term.
Even after the school term begins,
however, the fund will continue to work
for special children
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

Eileen Van Benc will play the part
Of Ottillie in "Maytime" at the Lyric
the third since Peggy Wood.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-29

An American Ace" Ten
nensee Ten. Bob Hall,
Senior .Westony. 4 others,
Mario Nordstrom.
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NO UNPAID WARRANTS

South Dakota can be a proud state
on the first of the coming month";
The call has been issued for all oil
the outstanding state warrants and
they will be paid and then the only
debt thai the state will W is what
the capital building fund owes, and
as those bonds are owned by the gen.
eral fund of the state it would not
seem that we really owe any n any
thing. Besides being in this splendid
financial condition as to state finances,
the people of South Dakota have
placed the state in the first rank or
the states who are doing their full
duty to support the policy of the ma
ton in bringing about a safe condi-
ton of the worlds affairs. The Lib
erty Loan, the Red Cross, the Y. M.
c. A., the Y. w. c. A., the X. of c.
the Salvation Army and numerous 9TH
err wal activities have called upon our
people for money. Our people have
responded willingly and generously.
Our present crop prospects are put
by the government at about n hun
dred per cent. That we consider high
but the fact remains that we are
blessed with a prosperous year and
the agricultural development Of the
state is striding forward with a speed
that places South Dakota on the pin
nacle of success. No internal strife
in the way of political warfare hind
Iers us from having an efficient admin
|~istration of our state affairs. The
men who are asking for places In ou
national halls of legislation are al
loyal and patriotic. We have not al
this time n blemish on the honor o.
Jour commonwealth. We have a won
lderful and encouraging future before
Ius. 1t is now up to us as individual
~Icitizens to make this future possible
by keeping up the present state Of
personal efficiency that is so evidently
the aim of every citizen. South Da
kota is proud. She has the right to
be that way and she glories in the
Integrity and loyalty of her people
that makes this condition possible.
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and two children, and they couldn't
live comfortably on my pay. l want
to borrow enough money to provide
for them while l am gone. II / could
be sure they would have $50 a month
in addition to a big part Of my pay,
I'd enlist. How about it,"
why do you, with a wife and two
children, want to 90 and fight with
the m~arines?' asked the a
Because I am young and strong and
hale to fight, and l think it is my
duty" said the young man.
The old man pondered for a minute
or so and then he said:
"Oh, very we'll; I'll advance the
money. III lend you $500 and you
give me notes for it. That will pro-
vide $50 a month for your wife for
three years. II you are not back by
that time III renew the notes. l am
too old to 90 myself, but you a be
my substitute"
So SO promissory notes for $50 each
were made out--the first n dated
June /, Iceland signed by the young
man and also signed by his wife.
Then the young man enlisted in the
marine corps.
The day before he started for Paris
Island, S. c., to undergo intensive
training in the marine corps there, his
wife received a bulky envelope through
the mails. When she opened it she
found the So promissOry notes, every
one of them Endorsed Paid in full
and signed by the old man. There
was no letter accompanying the notes.
None was needed.
The young marine recruit called up
his benefactor by telephone and said:
"When | told you wanted to enlist
fight when | had a wife and two chill
dren. Maybe | didn't give you a very
satisfactory reason, but | want to tell
you now that you, perhaps uncon-
~sciously, have furnished a reason. Any
country that can produce a man who
has done what you have done is worth
fighting for"
ooh, hell" said the old man gruffly,
and hung up the receiver.
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W. S. S.
Y. w. c. A. DOINGS

The Summer School vesper service
last Sunday afternoon was led by Mrs.
A.. N. Porter who spoke on the sub
ject Personal Conservation" Spec
ial music was furnished by the Misses
Cutter.
In order that the girls who are here
for the nve weeks course may hear
Mrs. M. T. Kennedy speak, the song
service which was announced for June
80, will be omitted as no service VIII
be held on Chautauqua Sunday, July
7. The meeting Sunday evening will
undoubtedly be worth while as Mrs.
Kennedy has just returned from India
and has some very interesting things
to tell.
The service at the Methodist church
at Aurora Sunday evening was in
charge of a group Of girls from the
local Y. w. c. A. and Camp Fire. A
general talk by the county secretary,
Miss Keith, was followed by short
talks by girls representing these clubs,
Business Girls, Litta Dewing; College
Association, Bessie Chase; High
School Girls, Venie Orhrans; Grade
School Girls, Florence Brown. Miss
Muriel Spooner sang a solo. Miss
Laura Sexauer and Monte Martin took
the girls down in their cars.
The High School Club will hold
their regular meeting Friday afternoon
at the Public Library.
Twelve girls met Monday afternoon
at the library to hear about the Girl
Scout organization. Miss Hazel Mears
will act as captain for the older girls
troop and it is expected thai there will
be a troop of younger girls also. Any
others who wish to join should come
to the next meeting which will be held
at the library Monday afternoon at 8
o'clock.
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w WITH GOD"

Sioux City Journal-There are in
America a good many people toe
broad minded to be stampeded into
hatred Of a political enemy. There are
a good many who have regarded Ger
many as a political enemy, and such
she is. The Journal has leaned to the
moderate group, 1t believes. In so IA,
as 1t has leaned at all. It is not given
to calling the Germans Huns. for in
stance. 1t has had up to the present
no occasion to apply epithets. The
horrors of war 1t has conceived to b.
largely unmitigatable. For excessei
against humanity committed by indi
viduals Of the German army II hal
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COL. ORR'S

The Waukon, Iowa, Standard has
the following account of an event
which will interest Brookings people:
Col. and Mrs. Thomas G.. Orr are
here from Hot Springs, South Dakota,
visitors at the home of Mrs. Orr's
mother, Mrs. C. ]. F. Newell, and as
tomorrow is Col. Orr's SEVENTEEN
birthday they are going to have a eel
ebration III honor of the event.
The Colonel is a truly self-made
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NO FIREWORKS

Whereas, it has been made to appear
to the South Dakota Council of De-
Tense that the use within this state
upon the 4th day of july, 1918, or up
on the days preceding or following
said date, as provided for hereafter,
or inJconnection with any celebration
or festivity upon either Of said days,
for the purpose of observing or cele-
brating said days as a state or nation
al holiday, that fire crackers, Roman
candles, sky rockets, t%orpedOes, or 9TH
er things containing a substance OF
an explosive character, for such pur-
poses, is likely to interfere with the
public safety and the protection Of life
and property, and is likely to result
in injury of life and loss of property
within said state, and is likely to, and
will, interfere with the conservation
of powder, explosives, and materials
necessary for the successful prosecu-
ton of the war, and is likely to, and
will, interfere with the efficient appli-
cation of the civil, industrial and mill.
tary u of the state and nation,
toward the maintenance of the nation
al defense, and toward the successful
prosecution Of the war; it is, therefore
Ordered, That no person or persons,
upon said days, or in connection with
any such festivities or celebrations
shall sell or allow to be sold, OF shall
fire or discharge at any place within
the said state any such fire crackers,
Roman candles, sky rockets, t%orpedoes,
or other fire works, for said purposes.
This order shall be and become eff
~fective on and after the date Of its
adoption and publication, pursuant to
Chapter 81 Of the Session Laws of the
State of South Dakota enacted at the
special session of 1918, and shall be
in full force and effect up to and in.
Guiding the first day of August, 1918,
Made. adopted and approved by the
said South Dakota Council of Defense,
this Goth day of June, A. d. 1918.
South Dakota Council Of Defense,
BY Peter Norbeck,
Attest: Chairman
d Geo. w. Wright, Secy.
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tried to find in its own mind some ex.
cuse The imperial policy of frightful
ness as a means of terrorizing popu'
lations has seemed wholly malignant
and brutal and ineffective. Of course
While occasionally poking fun at oul
administrations effort to discourage
hatred OF Germany, The Journal must
plead guilty to a little Of the same at
titude. At least, by failing itself te
hate vocally it has exercised no infu
ence at all toward stirring up hatred
The Journal now wonders whether II
is possible for any people to go or
fighting the monstrous things Ger
many represents without developing
hate.
The line Of thought has been encour
aged by a statement in the house o.
commons by j. l. Mcpherson, under
secretary Of the British wal office
The statement shows the number o.
casualties in British hospitals behind
the line in France during the fifteen
day period from the middle Of May tt
the first of June, when German bomb
ers carried out seven hospital raids
The figures follow:
Killed-Ohcers, IL; other ranks
318; nursing sisters, S; women's aux
iliary corps, 8; civilians, 6.
Manufacturers, IS; other ranks
534; nursing sisters, IL; women's aux
iliary corps, Z; civilians, 70.
1t isn't the killings that matter 81
much, sad as they are; it is the pre-
meditated and deliberate character O
them. 1t may be that hatred of the
race that produced the killers may bt
avoided, but if so a great feeling O
pity must take its place-pity that mer
can so deile the quality of humanity
and so outvie the beasts-pity that {
tigerish and jungle conspiracy car sc
enslave the e~Xtirpation of many OF
Llat ndIlOU ; HlllllOuS. III the IDS
analysis, the feeling is not pity for the
brutes. but pity for the human race
which has produced them. And the
brutes are not the disciplined autom
atoms that soar over hospitals an(
drop the bombs. but those who behind
cruel masks invent the policies and di
rect their execution.
"Killed-Nursing sisters, 5. Wound
ed-Nursing sisters. IL" By order o.
the general staff.
That is a phase of kultur. That is
kaiserism, which goes forward bias
phemously with God" 1t is bound tC
be a struggle to maintain a feeling o
humanity toward the wretches whC
fight under the bloody and murderou!
banner. Toward the class of rulin:
Calibans that the banner represent!
there can be only one feeling-"Nt
quarter"
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a little while ago he was publishing
statements OF how little expense, com.
paratively, the draft registration and
the call of the men was to the coun'
try. II the general will think for a
moment he will realize that he could
not have performed the task OF calling
our three million army, if the newspa'
pers had not helped him perform the
task. And they did it gratis, at mat
Was the newspaper essential tnen
Well perhaps it will be needed again
for something just as important
General, where would you have beer
without the so-called "~non-essentlai
newspaper?
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man. for when he was but seven years
OF age he was left an orphan IN VIZ
GINA and was brought to Volney, Ia
by DR.. Thomas Barnes, who practlceo
medicine in Waukon and vicinity for
many years, but has long since passed
to the great beyond.
Tommy Orr, as a boy, worked al
odd Jobs until one day he discovered
an advertisement in a Lansing news
paper stating that they wanted a boy
to learn the printers trade. This was
before the war. So Tommy" mace
application for the place, secured II,
and worked in a print shop until he
went to wal as a drummer boy at the
age of fourteen. After the war he re-
turned to Waukon and for some years
worked as a printer on Waukon news
papers, this Standard being n OF
them. He then went to Lansing and
was employed by the grain buying
firm OF Hewitt & Lamkin, the senior
partner of the firm being the father
of this writer, who afterwards served
as sheriff of Allamakee county for a
number Of years.
About 1884 Mr.. Orr went to South
Dakota where he vas at once picked
as a candidate for the combined office
of Clerk Of Court and Register OF
Deeds, and that fall was elected, and
was reelected for several terms. He
was president of the Republican State
League, was president of the Repub
lican State Central Committee, was
deputy Food and Dairy Commissioner
was appointed twice, by two different
governors, as a member of the State
Soldiers Home Board and served as
a member of that board for three
years, when he was elected superin
tendent of the State Soldiers Home
which position he occupied for nearly
seven years, resigning on account o.
i'll health. During his nearly ter
years connection with the Soldiers
Home he made a host of friends among
the members of the CT. a. r., as viii
be evidenced by the fact that at {
meeting of the G.. a. r., at which he
was not present, he was elected by ac
, clamation, under suspension of thu
rules. as a delegate at large to the Ma
tionaI CT. A. r. convention 10 be helC
at Portland, Oregon, on the 18th o
August next.
Eleven years ago Col. Orr under
went an operation for cancer at tn,
Mayo hospital at Rochester, Minneso
ia, when nearly all of the intestine
were removed, and the Mayo brother
have said, not once but many times
that they lever in the history of thei
experience performed a more success
full operation, that Col. Orr might wei
be termed "a walking freak" as praC
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THE

.
If you want to see how war is af'
fecting all kinds of enterprises at the
present time just start out and try to
find some one to work for you at a
regular salary or to do some special
work. The new work or fight" or
der is causing many new adjustments
and the e%asygoing ones are getting
busy as fast as they can. The young
man who has not learned a trade or
acquired some useful technical eXper-
fence is very much at a disadvantage
in these days. He may not be ambi-
tious to fight but will have no valid
excuse to offer as to why he is needed
at home. There will be plenty Of OPP
p%ortunities now to advance from a
mere living making existence to a life
of usefulness. The new wal indus
tries schools which are to be opened
next week will afford an opportunity
to get a certain amount of technical
skill that will be helpful to young men
now and after the war is over.