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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-10

mOtnerS, personally as naQ Deen ar
ranged before the telegram came, that
cut his furlough to two short days
"That was the most important mes
sage of all" he said. Thanks to the
American women the boys inFrance
eat white bread three times day, and
get good roast beef, and fine food y
He is a splendid advocate for the viz
tues of American womanhood, says
there are no others to compare with
them, and that the boys would rather
look at movie of an American girl,
than the prettiest of the French
madamoiseles.
Every soldier wants letters, and it's
a lonesome boy who receives none.
Find out who the ones are who won't
getletters, and write to them, whether
you know them or not. II you can't
send boxes slip dollar bill, or five
dollar bill in the letters. But write,
anyway"
PRAISES OFFICERS
OF his superior officers, Corporal
Skinner has nothing but praise. who
wouldn't 60 through hell with man
like that" when he tells of Lieutenant
Nelson, who after an eighteen milo
hike, with his men with nothing to eat,
walked three miles further on, to get
tape and bandages to bind up their
poor. tired, feet, and open the blisters,
and then was up before any one else
in the morning, with headache tablets
for them. And of Lieutenant Walter
Schafer, who when George Box was
missing overnight, was about to start
OUT and search No Mans Land, alone
and single handed, for him, and would
have, too, had not Box appeared from
a shell hole, where he had been hiding,
thinking a party of Frenchmen were
Germans. e."
The boys are impatient for the time
when Captain Steller can get back to
'h1s boys" as he calls them. If his
sight is impaired, SO that he can't re-
join them, they want Lieutenant
Younkin for commander, not new
man. Skinner insists that G company
has the finest officers in the whole
Rainbow division.
RUMoRs ARE LIES.
All the rumors afloat about the
casing c. the boys, the unknown ter
rors of the trip across, the story of
one boy striking his officer, all these
malicious rumors, that near break
The hearts Of the people at home, he
nailed as absolute lies.
g Company was in the mud and
slime of the trenches for twelve days,
without rubber boots, and when they
ook their shoes OF, the skin came of,
90, "but they didn't complain"
Be DEAD THAN STACKER
That's the burden of his tate, They
lon't complain and the people Of
0ttumwa will be sure to back their
,wn heroes. After his talk the rela-
ives Of the boys over there thronged
lp to the box where Corporal Skinner
vat with his parents, shook hands
With him and gave innumerable mes
Iages to be delivered by him. Wheth-
n he forgets the wording of these
messages. he will never forget the
spirit of them, and the boys of G
Company will know that the people Of
)ttumwa. Of Iowa, of the United
States are with them heart and soul
md money, to the end. So Merle
Skinner was sped on his way, back
o 1.-The hell OF the trenches" after
90 brief a glimpse of home folks.
,ut as he said, 81 would rather lie
here in the graveyard in France,
where the Iowa boys are buried. than
)e in the United States. Stacker"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-10
JAMES NORMAN HAIL..
IOWA AVIATION HERO,
FALLS IN AIR FIGHT
GBy Associated Press Staff
CorreSnoni ent1

With the American Army in France.
May 7.-Delayed)- AFTER thrilling
battle with enemy airplanes ten miles
north of Pont.A-Mousson, Captain
James Norman Hall of Golfax, Iowa,
one of the leading American aviators,
made spiral dive to earth and was
last seen close to tho ground, appar
emily trying to land. His subsequent
fate is unknown
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11

completely subside for many months
and the spring will find this road un-
fit for travel as it is now. The road
must be graveled some time, why not
do it at the earliest practicable mo-
ment and save the unnecessary ex-
pense Of keeping the grade in shape.
-Sanborn Sentinel.
The annual losses from rodent pests
including of course the rat, in the
United States are about $500, 900, 900.
The rodents are fit allies Of the Huns.
Americans can fight the Huns, there
fore, by fighting the rodents and saw
ing $3OO,O0O,0OO in foodstuffs. Farm
ers' Bulletin 932, issued by the Unit
ed States department of agriculture
at Washington. of the farm. The bu-
reau of biological survey at Washing
ton will help to organize campaigns
for the systematic destruction OF such
pests.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
CITATION FOR HEARING ON FIN
AL ACCOUNT AND FOR DIS
TRIBUTION

Estate of Henry Timms, State of
Minnesota, County of Redwood, IS In
Probate Court
In the matter Of the estate of Henry
Timms, Decedent,
The State of Minnesota to all per-
sons interested in the final account
and distribution Of the estate of said
decedent: The representative of the
above named decedent, having filed in
this court his final account of the
administration of the estate Of said
decedent together with his petition
praying for the adjustment and al
lowance of said final account and for
distribution Of the residue of said
estate to the persons thereunto en-
titled Therefore, You, and each Of
You, are hereby cited and required
to show cause, if any you have, be-
fore this court at the Probate Court
Rooms in the Court House, in NJ
City of Redwood Falls, in the cot
Of Redwood, State of Minnesota Z
the 30th day of December 1913 q
10 o'clock a. m. why said petitiot
should not be granted.
Witness the Judge of said Courr
and the Seal of said Court, this 25th
day of November, 1918.
A. R. A. Lauden, Probate Judge
Frank Clague, Attorney for Petitioner
20-3ts
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
THE CREED OF THE DECENT

I am decent. am not particular
ly pious, nor superior, but plain de-
cent. I don't like soiled clothes,
nor unkempt hair, nor fingernails in
mourning, nor muddy shoes, nor
coarse speech. l am not fi1icky, nor
proper, nor fussy, nor fastidious. l
am decent. / like wholesome things
drinking cup, clean plate, tidy bed
a white table cloth, an individual
and a child with it's face washed. I
don't like adulterated bread, adulter-
ated drinks, nor adulterated people.
don't like dealers in scandals, ugly
hints, inuedos, nor any stab-in-the-
back gentry. They are the Shiny
snakes and singing mosquitoes of
the human race. don't like anybody
who talks against Uncle Sam. If
any person does not like this country
let him go to another. To live in
Uncle Sans house and whisper
against him is nasty. For a wife to
speak slurringly of her husband, or
a husband to speak so of his wife, is
also dirty. don't like spies, sneaks,
tattle-tales. trouble makers. They
are the same as lice. Ugh! I like the
nakedness of cleanliness better than
the covers of perfumery. l like clean
anger better than a smoky grudge.
I don't like religion that is ugly fan
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
CITATION FOR HEARING ON Pc
Triton FOR PROBATE OF
FOREIGN WILL.

Estate of John Anderson, State Of
Minnesota, County of Redwood, In
probate Court, In the Matter of the
Estate of John Anderson, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to all per-
sons interested in the allowances and
probate of the will of said decedent:
The petition of Catherine Anderson,
representing that John Anderson, then
resident of the county of Spokane
State of Washington, died on the 7th
day of December, 1917, testate aid
that his will has been allowed and ad-
mitted to probate in the superior
court in and filed for the county Of
Spokane, State of Washington, being
filed in this court, together with auth
ticated copies of said will and of the
probate thereof in the court above
named, and praying that said will be
admitted to probate in this State, and
that letters of Administration with
the Will Annexed be thereon granted
to R. G.. Rogers, Now therefore, you,
and each of you, are hereby cited
and required to show cause, if any
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
ROAD is BAD

The condition of the new state road
through Sanborn at this time is some
thing fearful, and the village auth
rites and county commissioners
should gravel and complete at least
che mile on the south end Of the
road witnp It unnecessary delay. The
grade on the south end is being cut
up in such bad shape that consider
able expense must be gone to in or
der to get the grade in shape again
for gravel Not only does this bad
road cause considerable hardship to
farmers hauling loads to town, but
til s also putting residents of the iii.
lage and near vicinity to consid ar
able suffering from sickness on ac-
cunt Of the doctors not being able
to travel. Reliable authorities do not
look for the influenza epidemic to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
LOOKING AHEAD.

Today the world is talking of a
League of Nations, project which
we usually speak about in America as
the League to Enforce Peace, an or
ganization which is led and sup
ported by some of the ablest and most
notable Americans.
The purpose of this League of
Nations, to which the president of
the United States and most of the war
leaders in other nations are commit
ed, is to give international law the
backing of an armed organization.
War-making is easy when any ma
tion so disposed can start a war, just
as highway robbery would be easy
if there were no law against it and
no law enforcing organization to sup
port the law. If there were law
against robbery but no police force
to enforce it, there would, manifest
ly, be infinitely more robbery than
there is now. Law has not obliterat-
ed robbery; but it has minimized it
enormously.
What is needed to stop wars is an
international law against wanton war
making and an international organi-
ztion with power to enforce that law.
The proposed League of Nations is
such an organization.
Formed at first merely for the ele-
mentary purpose of defending civil
zation against wanton war-making
like Germany, inevitably, as time goes
on, this organization will increase it's
scope. Something like confederated
world state, with a world executive
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11

scientific institutions, gymnasiums,
hospitals, boulevards, market places
and parks. M. Hebrard, architect for
the French government has spent ten
years perfecting these plans, which
are now full-panoplied, and forty
architects and engineers have been
employed under his direction.
A League of Nations? Certainly!
Anything else would be monstrous
and deliberate betrayal Of humanity.
A world capital? Where else could
a League Of Nations, have its seat?
We may well, therefore, take new
interest in the plans so ably support
ed by the great Norwegian sculptor
Anderson and the vigorous minded
American Fitzpatrick.-Duluth Her
aid.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11

body and a world judicial tribunal
to handle all purely international
matters, will some day come upon the
world. The world war has fastened
it's coming.
When there is world federation,
even in the primitive and experiment.
al form of league to enforce peace,
there must be world capital.
Very well; the plain for that cap
ital is already on paper. 1t is the
creature of the thought of Hendrick
Anderson, a Norwegian sculptor; it
is already a generation old; very
early advocacy Of it in this country
was made in the Herald many years
ago by F. w. Fitzpatrick of Omaha,
formerly of Duluth; and in the Om
aha World Herald of recent dates the
project has been revived in view of
the early coming to this country OF
the author Of the plans.
It is fascinating project; and if
it appears to some that we had best
get our league of nations before we
find it's capital and plan its building
still there is no harm in specializing,
on and supporting the plan that was
made long ago when the possibility
of putting it into effect seemed gen.
erations if not centuries further off
than it is now.
In making the plans for the world
capital-which present discussion fit
tingly places in Constantinople- Mr..
Anderson had the help of the ablest
architect in Paris, who evolved splen-
did plans for a wonderful city its
great convention halls, universities,
libraries, banks, municipal buildings,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11

YOU have before this court, at
Probate Court Rooms in the
House, in Redwood Falls, Count
Redwood State If Minnesota, o.
Goth day Of December. 1918, at
o'clock a. M, why the prayer OF
petition should not be granted.
Witness the Hon. A. r. A. Laudo.
Judge of said Court, and the seal o.
said Court, this Ind day of Decem-
Der, 1918.
A. r. A. Laudon,
Judge of Probate Court
A. C. Dolliff.
Attorney for Petitioner.
COURT SEAL) 20-3ts
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE, REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA

atescism, nor learning that is an Of
fensive egotism, nor any excellence
that is degraded to selfish ends. |
may be poor, but / can be clean. !
may be ignorant, but / don't have to
be course. I am one Of the great
mass Of people in these United States
who will put up with almost any
thing but-dirt. From dirt, physical
mental or emotional, from dirt, good
Lord, deliver us.-Dr. Frank Crane.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
LOOK OUT!

The housewife Of Holland would all
most as soon be without food as with
out her Real Dutch Drops" as shA
quantity calls GOLD MEDAL Haarlem
Oil Capsules. They restore strength
and are responsible in great measure
for the sturdy. robust health Of the
Hollanders.
Do not delay. Go to your druggist and
insist on h Il supplying you with GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules. Take
them as directed, and IL you are not
satisfied with results your druggist will
gladly refund your money. Look for
the name GOLD MEDAL on the box
and accept no other. In sealed boxes.
three sizes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
KIDNEYS WEAKENING?

Kidney troubles don't disappear Of
themselves. They grow slowly but
steadily, undermining health with
deadly certainty, until you fall . vic
tim to incurable disease.
Stop your troubles while there Is time.
Don't wait until little pains become big
aches. Don't trif1e with disease. To
avoid future suffering begin treatment
with GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Cap
eules now. Take three or four every
day until you are entirely free from
pain.
This well-known preparation has been
one of the national remedies Of Hol-
land for centuries In 1886 the govern
ment Of the Netherlands granted q
special charter authorizing its prepara-
ton and sale.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
DENY ALLIED ENJOYS
REFUGE IN ARCHANCEL
By the Associated Press

Kandalasl<a, Russian Lapland, July
31.-The Allied embassies, which re-
Gently left Vologda for Archangel,
were not permitted to remain in Arch
angel and have arrived in Kandalaska.
The embassies left Vologda July 25
in response to a message Of Tchitch.
erin, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister.
declaring they were in great danger
and bombardment of Vologda was
threatened for the next day. He urged
the embassies to come to Moscow, but
the ambassadors decided to proceed to
Archangel, where they expected to
communicate with their Govern.
ments.
At Archangel the Soviet. acting
under orders from Moscow, refused to
permit the foreign representatives to
remain, but placed two small Russian
ships at their disposal, and aboard
these they left July 2S, escorted by
Russian trawler, on an uneventful Voy-
age across the White Sea.
On the night they were leaving
Archangel it was reported the Moscow
Government had ordered that the sail
ing Of the ambassadors be prevented.
London, July 31.-A Russian wire.
less communication received here
says that NJ. Tchitcherin, the Boil
shevk Foreign Minister, has sent
the following message to M. Joffe, Boil
shevik amba ssador to Germany:
THE American consul general, Mr.
Poole, who is charged with the mis-
sion of maintaining diplomatic rela-
tions with the councils government
at Moscow, visited the Commissary of
Foreign Affairs and declared in the
name Of the British diplomatic repre-
sentative and the council generals of
France, Italy and Japan that they
approved the declaration previously
made by Mr.. Poole to the commissary,
which essentially follows:
In conformity with. the personal
opinion of the Allied consuls there is
no reason to believe the situation in
general outlines is changed by the
departure of the ambassadors from
Nologda. The representatives of
the aforesaid Powers expect to re-
main in Moscow as long as cir
cumstances permit them to do so
and they are permitted to use the
privileges attached to their func-
tions, especially direct communica-
tion with their respective Govern
ments, unless they receive other in
structionS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31

Roma. 81 luglio
Dale notizie gunte dal fronte in AL
hania, confermate da un communicate utfi-
clale. 81 rileva che gil austriaci. nello
sforzo per reagire Contro Ioffensiva
franco-italiana. hanno spiegato una con-,
siderevole attivita' durante questi ultimi
giorni ma senza rlsultato.
Vivaci combattmenti. con esito favor
erole per gil italiani, sono stati rappor-
tati lungo IL pevoli owe gil austriaci 81
sono sforzati mantenere le loro posi-
z.oni.
leri laitro gil italani hanno con pieno
successo lanCiato un poderoso aSsaltO
contro gil austriaci ed annientato un
energico colpo del nemico. Con rasist-
enza del francesi esSi hanno estese le
loro difese intorno ad Arco di Voli, sulla
strada di Elbasan. eli austriaci at
taccarono da un punto vantaggoso a
nord del Semeni. ma furono respinti con
perdte gravssime. Gil taliana. inoltre,
catturarono cannoni prigionieri in pa
recchie minori incursioni a nord d Berat
e vic!no al mare.
Al fronte in Italia continuano | duelli
di artiglieria lie incursioni da parte
della fanteria in parecchi punti del
fronte speCialmente lungo lie linee dele
montague.
Gil aviatori austriaci furono abbas-
tanza attiva. ma tire loro areoplani fur
ono abbattut sopra il Montello a nella
regione d Monte Grappa.
II Ministero della Guerra ha annun-
ziato che tutti gil ufficiale e soldati. pre-
sentemente addetti a lavori di uffico. do
vranno essere sostituiti da coloro che.
per fertile riportate in battaglia, sono
incapaci per un servizio attivo.
Tn dspaccio, giunto ieri da Berna.
dice che II disastro al fronte occidentale
ha causato depressione in Germania,
come quella in Austria -Ungheria per
la disfatta sui Piave. | tedeschi del sud
accusano 10 state maggiore generate ger
manico di aver deliberatamente sacrif-
cato lie truppe degli stati meridionali
della Germana.
Nellinteresse del RESIDENT ebrei in
Italia II Governo mandera' in Palestine
una missone composta dell'avvocato An
gelo Levi. Bianchini del Dottor Gia-
como Arton la quale sara accompagnata
dalla Missione Medica Zionista Ameri-
cana.
Larrivo dele truppe americana in
Italia, per entrare in azone al fronte
ital'ano. ha dato luogo ha dimostra zoni
imponentisSime, specialmente Miano
ed a Torino.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
BOLSHEVIK REGIME
NEAR END OF TETHER
By the Associated Press

London. July 81.
Information reaching Stockholm,
says the correspondent of Che Times
there, shows that the Bolshevik re-
gime has come to the end of its tether,
and that the Russian masses--work
men and peasants-are about to rise
in arms against Bolsheviki tyranny.
Official representatives of the Social
Revolutionary and Social Democratic
parties in Russia, have arrived in
Stockholm says the correspondent. and
have issued a remarkable appeal to the
socialists of Europe. They call upon
the socialists to form an international
commission, representing all socialist
parties, to visit Russia and ascertain
by direct investigation whether the
Russian socialists are not right in de-
clarins that the Bolsheviki have
brought widespread evils on Russia.
destroyed industry, caused universal
starvation, despotically oppressed the
people and are now concerned only in
retaining power at all cost.
The representatives are Rusannoff,
for the Social Revolutionaries and
Axel-Rod for the Social Democrats.
They. represented their respective par
ties in Stockholm in the summer Of
1917, when an abortive attempt was
made to organize an inter-socialist con-
ference,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
ALLIED GAINS SMALL.
BUT ARE SIGNIFICANT
By the Associated Press


London, July 81.
Although the Allied gains during the
last twenty-four hours may seem small,
some of them had been exceedingly
significant, teegraphs Reuters corre-
spondent at the American front in
-|ranCe. The chief feature of the recent
fighting. he says is the French advance
from Oulchy-le- which carried
the villages of Grand Rozoy and Cugny
and swept the Germans off of the Butte
CT Chalmont. This hill was a center of
enemy resistance along the western side
of the salient.
German guns situated on the Butte of
Chaimont had been able to rake the
Soissons- s-Chateau-Thierry road almost as
far as Nillemontoire and hurl a cross
fire upon the advancing French and
American troops in the valley of the
Ourcq The French now are able to
harass from this hill the enemy's retire
ment and should be able to clear the
Thierry road and the railroad between
Oulchy-le- and Fismes and bring
much needed assistance to the Amer
leans in the village of Seringes.
1t will be costly task to take the
Neses Forest. but ther are alternative
possibilities in the comparatively open
ground to the westward. The railroad,
which is the key to the Ourcq Valley. is
in Allied hands. The correspondent
writes;
The enemy may certainly plume him
self on his retirement according to plan.
but it can scarcely be according to plan
that he left hundreds of tons of ammuni-
tion behind him. There is as yet no con-
Ception of the enormous figures to which
these losses in materials of war will run.
When the vast numbers of shells actual
ly captured are added 10 the millions of
shells exploded either by himself or by
the Allied fire some idea of his loss may
be gained The enemy has moved his
guns wonderfully well. but his gunners
have been warned to he snarin" of am
munition and to fire only when necessary
to support his infantry"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-31
GERMAN GUNS POUND BRITISH
Teuton Artillery Rages on Flan-
ders and Somme Fronts
By the Associated Press

London, July 31.-The German artil-
lery displayed considerable activity last
night in the region of Merris, on The
Flanders front, taken yesterday by the
Australians. and in the KENNEL sector.
the War Office announced today.
II WAS also active on both sides of the
Somrne.
Prisoners were taken In raids and
patrol encounters in the Lens region and
north OF Bethune.
The statement follows:
Several prisoners were captured by
M during. the night in successful raids
ard patrol encounters in the neighbor-
hood of Lens. north OF Bethune and on
the northern sector of our front. A hos
tile raiding party was driven off by our
Are southwest of La Eassee.
THE enemy artillery has been ac-
tive on both sides of the Somme and
has shown considerable activity about
Eerris and In the KENNEL sector"