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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
IA SALE COUNTY MAKES
BEST SHOWING IN STATE
IN FOURTH BOND SALE

In The State Council OF Defense of.
fetal publication La Sale County is
given the honor of having oversub-
scribed its quota by larger percent
tge than any other county in the state
IN the last bond sale
An article on the sale OF Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds contained the fol
owing paragraph about La Sale
Jounty:
La Sale made a remarkable show,
.ng in the Fourth Loan. The quota foI
the county was S4,973,600 and sub
cribtions were $6,3l0,050, or 1885,
80 over the allotment. The county
ed all the other counties in the per
aentage subscribed, 1876 per cent. The
distribution in the county was large
lbout % per cent Of the entire popu
alton buying bonds"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
Curious Coconut Crab.

The c0c0nut crab of Christmas is
land earns its name by the way If
mikes It's living. Except for it's an.
nual visit to the sea, It lives In Il hole
in the ground lined with coconut fibers
and climbs up the coconut trees to
procure Its food. According to Amer.
can Forestry this ''robber-crab's meth.
cd of carrying .coconuts is to strip
them of their husks and then to hold
the nut under some Of It's walking
legs, while 1t retires, raised high Oh
the hips Of those legs not used for
this purpose" After removing the
husk from the coconuts the crab
hammers on the round depressions at
one end till entrance is effected"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
n j
LEGAL Pun,

"A petition for an injunction, based
upon somewhat doubtful assertion Of
fact" says New York lawyer, "caine
before one Of the justices of the SUI.
preme court Of this state. After con.
sideratiOn OF the affidavit Of the petit.
TONER the Justice remarked: In this
case an injunction will not lie, even
II the relator does Case and Com.
ment.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
TREAT INSANE LIKE BRUTES
Damascus Authorities Keep Men Of
Deranged Mind in Chains in Full
View Of Passers- BY.

"Other sights and sounds. by no
means so agreeable, meet the modern
traveller, and doubtless those who jour
neyed through Damascus in Paul's
time as WELL" writes DR.. Francis Il.
Clark, founder Of the Young Peoples
Society Of Christian Endeavor. "Never
have | seen more hideOus objects than
the insane men of Damascus. Some
of them, probably those who are par
tfcularly violent, are fastened with a
heavy chain to a ring in the wall OF
some house or public building, There
they sit upon the sidewalk day and
night, covered, If at all, from the Bills,
tering rays of the sun or the dews of
evening, by little awning of burlap,
almost naked, gnashing their teeth, or
perhaps with stupid, dull indilfer-
ence in their eyes, depending upon the
charity of the passers-by."
'"The last spot we can visit Doctor
Clark says In concluding the chapter,
us the ancient wall through whose
windows 1t Is said that Saint Paul es'
capped. Here Is his brief account OF
this adventure; In Damascus, the
governor, under Aretas the king, put
guards about the city Of the Damascus
thinking to arrest me, and through q
window, In basket, was let down
by the wall and escaped his hands
1--WE looked with interest and rever'
ence upon the ancient wall, which very
likely was standing in the apostle
time, and at the window, from which
II is possible, but by no means certain
that he was lowered In basket
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
CHICKEN COMES HOME TO RoosT
NO, Not Barred Rock: Simply a
Common "Clocker.'

Odds, Alberta-A family near here
sold a number Of hens to a neilhhor
who lives some little distance away.
In the pack was "clocker," which
vas marked before being sent away.
In the evening Of the following day
they heard a clucking in the heu
house. investigating they found the
'clocker" in her old nest. She had
come back across country, a distance
Of three or four miles. One on the in
telligenCe of the Barred Rocks"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
City and Vicinity
News

Two girls are left in the central ex-
change OF the Marseilles telephone
company. the others being sick with
influenza. President A. X. Workman
is assisting His son-in-law, A. ID.
Hunter. Is among the sick members OF
the force
Capt Edward Ballard, whose son
Jesse died of influenza, went TO Spring
Valley Saturday to care for another
son, Edward. and family. Every mem
Der OF Edwards family is sick with
the influenza.
Phillip Godfrey OF the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station spent the
week end with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. r. Godfrey in East Ottawa.
Thomas kerrigan and John Dougall
returned to their homes in Chicago
last evening after spending the last
TWO days at the home of the formers
parents. Mr., and Mrs. William ker
rigan on West Main street.
Lieut.. Emmett Kelly who is sta
toned at the Students Training CAM
at the University of Illinois spent
the week end in Ottawa visiting his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ Kelly OF
Eastwood.
Mrs. William Dowuey left last ever
ing for her home in Blue Island al
ter a visit with Ottawa relatives.
Mrs. Edward Ryder left last even
ing for her home in Chicago after
visit with Mrs. william Kerrigan 70'
West Main street.
Lieut.. Roy f. Waters stopped OF
1 in Ottawa yesterday for a visit will
/ his mother, Mrs. George Waters oil
his way from Washington d. c. t
F Camp Funston. Kansas.
Mrs. Florence Jobst of Christie
street and Miss Viola Sisson wen
70 Galesburg Saturday for visi
With friends.
/ Michael Dinneen, who has bee
PENDING the summer with his son
I at Ogdensburg, n. T., returned to o.
ava on Saturday.
Word has been received here tina
Miss Beth Cole, daughter OF MI
and Mrs. Arthur Cole, of Chicago, ha
passed through a successful opera
ion for appendicitis, following an al
Jack OF influenza. and is now on III
road TO recovery Mrs. Cole was for
merly Miss Clara Merrified Of thi
city.
Miss Ella Cousins, l0S main stree
has recovered from influenza and re
turned to Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip Gaul OF Yves
Ottawa are the proud parents OF
baby son born yesterday.
VI. w. Mathews is able to be on
again after a three weeks illness
Mrs. John Martin returned las
night from Camp Grant at Rockfor
where she went to see her HUSBAND
who left Sunday for New Jersey.
Miss Helene Metzger, Of Harve,
eDent the week end with friends an
relatives in this city.
Miss Emily Co.e of Minneapol
spent a few hours with friends in O
lava today. Her mother will be r
nembered as Miss Eliza Easton, TO
merly of this city,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
Catholic In It's FRIENDSHIPS.

A certain cat, the story Of whose ca
reer u vouched for by cat club,
adopted litter Of young rabbits and
nourished them well. This cat was,
for that matter, very soclable and In.
elusive in her likings. One year her
constant companion was chicken.
The two ate habitually out Of the
same dish and slept every night In the
same Enclosure.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
WEB FOOTED ROOSTER;
LAND AND WATER FOWL
Owner Thinks He Mw b orakA
Because He Swims After
He Crows

ne Grows
Rockland, Mass.-Duke OF Monde
script, combination OF semtconyerJi.
BILE. land and water fowl, owned by
james Lawson, Jr., of this city, gave
On exhibition of his versatility before
select crowd one afternoon thi1
week Experts who have viewed the
bird declare they are baffled as 10
whether the Duke is rooster with
web feet or a drake with comb.
While amateur and professional
poultry fanciers are wrangling over
the species of this strange looking
'owl, the Duke himself straightens W
70 his full height and crows Justify ex-
actly like every healthy rooster. then
settling down he starts waGdling 10.
ward the brook at the rear Of his per
and in he plunges-for swim.
Several times during the past few
months Mr.. Lawson says he has been
offered large sums of money for Duke
by show people. who are eager to pur,
chase him, but he refuses to sell.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
How BLACK Watch" Got Name.

In the old days the regiments Of
the British army were known by the
color Of their uniforms, as the White
regiment, the Blue regiment, or the
Red regiment, and SO ad intlnitum. II
Is quite possible, therefore, that there
was Black regiment, from whence
came the Black Watch. The Red reg
iment, Incidentally, was CromwellS
lronsides. But the term BLACK
Watch" was also used for the Guards
Of the Dominicans or Black Friars,
and came to be applied also 10 the
scullions in the kitchens of the great
houses, whose business it was TO look
after the pots and pans.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
Good Advice.

The man who doesn't worry when
he ought to Is as bad as the one who
worries when he shouldn't. Worry.
Ing Is bad for the health, but prob.
ably not as bad as letting things drift.
In case Of rain. run for an umbrella.
Instead Of saying: "Don't worry" the
best advice to give man is Get
busy."-Thrift Magazine.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28

1t takes small boy to take the con.
ceit out Of one. Being a little stout
and not often well pleased with my
self, on one occasion when wearing a
new gown / asked my small son If
did not look rather WELL He eyed me
for moment, then took the starch out
# me by asking, Are you not just a
title wide across the skirtY
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
PARROT TRACTOR
TO BE SOLD HERE

H. Ward Condo, proprietor o
Condos tire shop, will sell the Par
rott tractor from now on. This tractor
was formerly made in Ottawa, but TO
lack of financial support the concern
moved to Chicago and has become
one Of the big tractor producers O
he country. Mr. Condo now has tw,
cars on exhibition.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28

Admission, Ala-Anniston federal Of
ficers are wondering if they must be-
Gin search for jaybird guilty OF
robbng the mails.
A postmen placed letter in the
box of Dave Young, Twenty-first and
Mobile streets, and then long CAME 4
Jaybird and took it out, If the jay
bird can be identified, the ease may
come before the next session of the
federal grand jury.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
TABLEWARE IN MANS STOMACH
Surgeons Relieve Him OF Some Forks
and Teaspoons

Stockton, Cal Surgeons have re
moved two regulation size silver forks
and a tablespoon from the stomach OF
Richard Williams. who formerly con
i1cted a clothing store in this city, Re.
moval OF the silverware solved the
mystery of an ailment from which VII.
lams had Suffered for about two years
It is thought VILLAS swallowed the
silyerware when in a delIrlous condt
ton.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
May Be for Brain Esu,

An unsigned correspondent notes
from the papers that this country is
importing LOT of "bean OIL" and he
wishes to he wised as to whether It
Is a hair restorer or something to
keep the wheels from creaking. We
are in the dark on the subject; prob
ably we need some.--Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
OIdtime Refrigeration.

Ice Is said to have been first cut
and harvested for storage in 1905.
from a small lake near Cambridge IN
massachusetts. But the mllionaires
If ancient Rome made snow serve the
same purpose. They got it from the
mountain submits and stored it in pits
covered with straw and earth.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
UTICA NEWS ITEMS.
SSSH sSs<sHSSSSS

Joseph Liebel mOvsd his household
goods to Chicago Monday. Mrs. Lie
be. and daughter Gertrude Left today
They will reside there.
George Halle't has moved his fur
nituIe out Of Miss Mary Carlin's house
into Mrs. ] Nortons house on Church
street.
Charles ShotIitt has moved his
household goods into Mrs. L. Pear
sons house on Church street. recently
vacated by Henry Sapo
Mrs. Butzow and daughter Kathe-
rine of Loda are visiting at the home
OF her sister Mrs Vi. f. Case, in
Utica for couple of weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs Sylvester Waters and
two children attended the funeral OF
the latter's nephew, Raymond New
man, who was buried in Spring Val
/ Icy Saturday Hd died at Camp
Greene in Kentucky.
| Mrs J. 7, Etzbach is attending %
business matters in Steward for few
days.
/ Miss Anna Anderson is visiting with
relatives in Hennepin for couple
OF weeks.
Mrs Geraldine Rose has returned to
her home in New Orleans after at
/ tending the funeral of her grand
father, A. Baldwin, which was held
IN Utica.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Manly an
rounce the arrival OF a baby girl,
horn at st Marys Hospital in La
Sale Saturday
Mr. and Mrs Thomas Shaughnessey
are the parents of .baby boy, born
at St Marys Hospital in La Sale
Saturday.
i Louis Donnelly has returned 70 his
home in St Paul, Mimi, after attend
ing the funeral of hs brotheri-in-.aw
DR.. ]. F. Etzbach
Bernice, the little h-yearold
daughter OF Mr. ami Mrs James
Crask, died Saturday morning al
O'Clock after an illness of few days
with pneumonia. Four other children
are i'll with the same disease. The
burial was made in Oakhill cemetery
Sunday
Miss Catherine Jones resumed hel
duties Monday at the Utica State
Bank as bookkeeper She has beer
ia for the past week with the in
fiuenza.
Mrs. Wright Esmond passed away
at her home four miles south Of utca
= saturday after few days illness
with the influenza, which developed
into pneumonia She was 90 years
old and had resided in Deer Parl
township for the past ten years. Sh'
is survived by her husband and three
= small children, her parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs Nuns Munson, two sisters ant
three brothers The fuenral was he'll
Sunday afternoon. The intermen
was made in Oakhill cemetery II
Utica.
r. Miss Kate Shumm is confined to 81
Mary's Hospital in La Sale by i'll
! ness.
Mrs Nellie Baker Amy pasSe
away at her home at 4 80 O'Clock SAT
urday afternoon. She had been il
since Tuesday with pneumonia. Sh
. was born in Utica twenty-siX year
ago. Surviving are her father Tx
Baker; two sisters, Mrs. Charlie
Chamberlain ami Miss Rebecca an
two brothers, Dayton and Oscar, ant
= one daughter, Louise. aged /. Tn
funeral services We're held az tn
J. house Monday afternoon Burial il
Oakhill cemetery.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
NOBODY LOVES A FAT MAN?"
Huge Virgi In Says Old Saying 10
False One

Clarksburg w. Var. Westerman.
who weighs 1853 pounds and claims to
he the heaviest man in the state, re-
Gently married Miss Irma Gavin. who
tips the scales at 119 pounds. The
couple will live on Westerman.s farm
near here.
The romance started in a hospital
where Westerman was patient. Miss
Gavin was nurse. Mrs. Westerman
says there is absolutely no truth in
the Old saying that nobody loves a
fat man"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
False Alarm.

A false alarm was sent into the fire
department yesterday at 1910, calling
the INTO the Odi Fellows hall The
department responded and did not
learn the alarm was false one until
the run had been made.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
Set In Thrir Waye.

VIII NEEDLE, the efficiency sharp, is
trying to teach the hens to lay square
eggs so they can be packed to bet.
ter advantage, but Is not meeting
much encouragement from the old.
fashioned hens.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
Card Of Thanks.

Mrs. Chris Heuser wishes TO thank
the relatives and friends AMI the Fra.
ternal Order of Eagles for their kind.
ness and sympathy during the sick.
ness and death OF her beloved hus-
band, also for the beautiful floral OF.
ferings.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
TURKS FLEE NORTH.
FROM THE BRITISH
BRITISH TROOPS MAKE BIG GAIN
IN OFFENSIVE ON TURkS-EN-
TER ALEPPo AFTER SLIGHT RE.
SlSTANcE.

London, Oct. 2S.-The war office to-
day made official announcement that
British cavalry and armored cars yes
terday occupied Aleppo. They met
with slight opposition.
This is the latest Of the great mum
Der OF victories won by the forces OF
Gen. Allenby in his advance eastward
and northward through Palestine and
Syria. AleppO is 49, miles north OF
Damascus and seventy miles east OF
the Mediterranean.
Turks Flee to North.
The Turks at the beginning OF last
week were defending Aleppo with H.
600 men. but these re tired to the
north. No news has yet been receiv'
ed that the railway junction, six miles
beyond Aleppo, has been captured.
hut II is not believed that the Turks
will attempt to defend it, and the fall
of the railway junction will mean
that a vital artery of the enemy com
munications has been cut.
The fall OF Aleppo is expected to be
a decisive factor in determining Tur-
key to sue for peace.
Cuts or Mesapotamia Turks.
In this official announcement there
appears still one more proof OF the
bursting OF the German dream of
world conquest. 1t was through Alep-
20 that the Berlin to Bagdad railroad
the backbone OF the Mitteleuropa idea,
was to run
But the practical effect of the vic
tory is still greater. The railroad
from Constantinople divides at Alep-
pc, one branch running into Palestine
the other south. and eastward to Bag
dad With Aleppo in the hands Of the
British the Turkish forces in Mesopo
talnia are in a'precarJous position. as
the railroad from Aiep0. has beer
theil main source Of supply
May Mean Ali 10 Russia.
An advance northward from AleppC
would cut off the Turkish forces il
Armenia and northern Mesopotamia
and would open a road over which
20 send help to the Czecho-Slovak and
other anti-Bolshevik forces in Rus
sia
Tie modern city Of Aleppo has q
population of 100000 Historically
the city is famous as the capital o.
Salahed-din, from which the Saracel
monarch directed his conquests d
northern Syria and marched out to dc
battle with Richard the Lion Hearted
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
CHICAGO MARKETS

Chicago market report furnished to
the Free 1rader.Journal by w. Ia
Etnyre, member Of Chicago Board OF
Trade, Moloney building, phone lo4i.
Correspondent Lamson Bros. & Wv
Chicago.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
Valuable Tannino Materja;

United States governments experts
have listed II woods. 1902 banks, nine
leaves. three roots and II fruits and
seeds that grow in Latin America as
yielding tanning materials of indus
trial value.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
OFFICIAL u. S. FOOD PRICES

Food Admins
retailers
they are as
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28
Optimistic TIiouaht.

No evangelical preccpt jostles out Of
chat Of law self-preservation.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-28

II you havo lost anything you can
nnd 1t by advertising In tie Free Trad
or journal,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-02

morning that he should thoroughly
renovate this attractive residence
and convert it into an inhrmary
adapted especially for the treatment
OF the eye and ear cases. DR.. Bor-
den is negotiating for the beautiful
residence of Mrs. Edna Page Bunker
opposite Coburn Park which he pur-
poses to occupy for a private res
idence.
Mrs. Emmeline Leonard of Fisk
dale, Mass, departed Tuesday after
visiting at the home of her cousin,
Harold 8. Bradley.
Capt. E. A. Cass and his daught-
er. Miss Jennie Cass, left here on
the o'clock train Tuesday for Ely,
Nevada, where they will remain for
an indefinite time with their daught-
er and sister, Mrs. Emery Fletcher
and daughter They have vacated
the house they have been occupying
on Water street.
Mrs. Nora Spaulding of California.
who has been spending several
months at the home Of her brother,
r. r. McNeelie, and with friends
here, left Tuesday morning for Port
land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-02
BELFAST

Many local. farmers have reported
that a distemper of some sort is
killing their hogs. Michael Collins
of Miller street has recently buried
Eve and many others have met with
"a similar loss. Others report that
their hens are dying. They are
found either dead or unable to stand
on their feet and soon die.
There are many bad colds in the
city but few real cases of influenza.
Some Of the physicians believe that
there are no real cases Of the dis.
ease and there have been no deaths
from pneumonia recently. Every
precaution should be taken by
those who have colds not to get
more, to keep in the fresh air and
sunshine and use throat sprays
1t is now definitely announced that
there will be no Maine Music Festi-
val this week either in Portland or
Bangor. In the former city there Is
a good deal Of influenza and every
thing of public nature has been
called off and places where people
congregate closed. Bangor, while
having but little illness. has closed
its schools. theatres, churches, etc,
and is taking every precaution. A
number of Belfast people motored
to Bangor to witness Chin-Chin last
night. After the performance to-
day the Bijou also will be closed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-02
No Developments
In Cayting Case

Bangor. Me-, Oct. las yet moth
ing definite has been ascertained as
to who is responsible for the death of
Arno B. Cayting. who was found dead
on Saturday in stretch of woods
just above Costigan in the town of
Greenbush. Sheriff elect Fernandez
who has been busy on the case has
been investigating the ncighborhood
of the crime and everyone who was
known to be near the scene of the
crime has been closely examined as
to any knowledge they might have
OF what actually transpired but all
have shown that they were in no way
connected with the deed.
About three and a half miles this
side of where Cayting was killed a
farmer who had been missing a num-
Der of bundles of wheat found them
stacked together so as to make a
small hut. This hut was lined with
daily papers all of recent date. No
track OF the man who occupied the
hut has yet been found.
AT present all :.,e clew that the Of
icials working on the case have is
the small revolver found near the
BODY. others which might have ex-
listed. being destroyed by the heavy
rains OF early part of the past week.
A number of rumors of strange men
seen in the vicinity are being thor
oughly investigated but nothing very
tangible has been unearthtd.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-02
YOUR SICK CHILD
IS CONSTIPATED
LOOK At TONGUE
" Cross. Fsverish or Bilious Give
"California Syrup Of Figs"

No matter what ails your child. a
septLe, thorough laxative should al
~nys he the first treatment given.
II your little one is out of sorts.
haIf-sick. isn't resting, eating and
acting naturally-look. Mother! see if
tongue In coated. This is a sure sign
that its little stomach. liver and bow
els are clogged with waste. When
cross. irritable. feverish. stomach
sour. breath bad or has stomach ache.
diarrhoea, sore throat. full of cold.
give teaspoonful of California
syrup of Figs" and in a few hours all
the constipated poison, undigested
food and sour bile gently moves out
Of its little bowels without gripping.
and you have a well. playful child
again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless fruit laxative" be-
cause Il never fails to cleanse the lit
tie ones liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach and they dearly love
its pleasant taste. Full directions
for babies. children OF all ages and for
grown-ups printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for bottle Of
california Syrup Of Figs" then see
that il 10 made by the California Fig
Syrup Company."-Adv.