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The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12
FRANCE USING LAUNCHES
 IN RAIDS IN HUN SUBS

A French Atlantic Port.-France in her work of safeguarding the coast from mines and submarines Is using a large number of motor launches of the standardized Ameri- can type which came over under their own steam with a loss of only one out of fifty.
 One of the most successful boats used for the work is the canonniere which. working with Diesel engines, can steam 5000 miles at ten knots an hour without refuelling, and so could cross to the United States under its own power. The craft carries guns big enough to deal with any submarine, as well as depth charges, and its low draught en- ables it to travel over minefields that would wreck destroyer. The aNeidSe SlLe ol tnlS NeSSel Is aOOut 400 tons.
 For mine-sweeping the French use an economical form of trawl. The sweep is lowed astern. being held out by floats, and the trawl itself has ingenious underwater appliances for keeping it at the required depth, and a new device for cutting mine adrift whenever it touches the trawl line
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12
Walter Ahrens of Nome, who

walter Ahrens of Nome, who shipped on the Sea Wolf out of Nome. recently. elected to remain in Anadir, Siberia. when the schooner reached that port. and all efforts on the part of the officers of the ship to induce him to return to Nome proved unavailing Ahrens said that he would try his luck pros pecting in that section. whence goodly reports were received from those already engaged in mining there.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

The fact that one outfit is drill ing for oil in the Seward peninsula is interesting good many others who believe they know somewhere on the Peninsula there are "seepage indications" Some of these have expressed their intention of doing some exploratory work at an early date. It would give the cheechacoes the surprise of their life if in the eleventh hour of Nome's depression oil was struck and the camp started to booming. Stranger things have happened.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

men who are injured are treated, nurses and doctors are constantly on duty. A band gives concerts in the yard each noon.
 Housing has been the greatest problem. Two miles beyond the city on a high bluff overlooking the river is rising a new city to be peopled exclusively by shipyard workers. High wages are the rule as at other yards, with riveters, many of them negroes. making es high at S25 and $50 a day. Loyalty is preached in season and out.
 In peace times this yard com pleted merchant ships in six months or less, but it is bettering that now even as it has more than cut in half the time for turning out de- stroyers. Officials and workmen alike have ever before them on a bronze tablet set in the side of a stone column the words of the founder of the yard, the late Collis P. Huntington. master railroad and ship builder in the nations pioneer days:
 Here we will build good ships; at profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always good ships"
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

Behind the screen of swift-moving tanks, armored motor cars and cav airy, the assault divisions rush into the German positions, occupying trenches, stamping out isolated nests of resistance and collecting the masses of prisoners. The infantry necessarily move more slowly than the mobile assault forces. but when one takes into account the width of the usual thrust operation nowa- days and it's depth, the movement is wonderfully fast, and days operations, if successful. mean the occupation of many square miles of territory
 In particular, speed has been ap- piled to the movement of artillery. which is the vital thing in holding the positions won. Mechanical inn provements have been applied to gun tractors so that now guns can be brought up in a quarter of the time that was necessary few months ago. In the same way the tank has become a mobile gun bat tery. able to fire as it advances.
 Motor transport is the essential factor in concentrating infantry. Food, ammunition. water and all supplies are carried up in motor trucks.
 As fast as the line moves, the engineers are busy extending the light railways, and as fast as the rails are laid, they begin to carry their burden of supplies and ammu- nition. Many miles of track can now be laid by a single section of engineers in a day, and by the even- ing after successful attack, the late field of battle is criss-crossed with line after line of steel rails, all hard at work consolidating and preparing for a further step for ward.
 As speed of attack develops on the Allied side, so the helter-skelter character of the German movement in the opposite direction must in- crease. The effect of sudden push-back on the German line is like the impact of a locomotive on a train of freight cars-the shock drives the farthest freight car far thest back. The effect of the Allied blow is immeasurably enhanced by the speed with which it is delivered
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

Millions of moths recently swarm ed into Seward from some place un- known. They were found hanging in all sorts of places, especially where lights were turned on. The insects were of the regular cloth eating variety. Oldtimers claim never to have seen anything like it.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12
PIONEER SHIPBUHDERS

New ship ways, towering trestles, spreading shops, fields of steel and the incessant clsmor, day and night of automatic riveters, great steam hammers and whirring ma chinery are the symbols of wartime shipbuilding at Newport News, where deep sea craft have been turned out since the sos.
 In this great plant 12,000 men and women are working at top speed. Sliding quietly from the ways, without a semblance of the ceremony that attended launching in the days of peace. ship after ship has been built and fioated only to lose itself in the maze of com merce at this gateway to the At lantic and to the fields of France.
 When the wartime history of the Newport News Shipbuildmg and Dry dock company is written, it will be an interesting chapter in the rom ance. of the destroyer. It will tell how farmer boys from the rolling plains of the West. who had never seen ship. and women whose only experience with metals had been in the handling of pots and pans, answered the call of their country to build many of the destroyers which steadily are removing the menace of the submarine and keep ing open the lanes through which the millions of American soldiers are going to the Western front.
 How we'll these men and women have done their work under the guidance of skilled workers, is dem onstrated by the fact that every destroyer turned out has more thar met the eXpress-train speed required under the navy contract. And it is no secret. at least not here, that the finished ships which have gone into the war zone have given good account of themselves even as the Tanning and other pre-war products of this yard have added new laurels to American naval records.
 While all possible energy is going into the building of the bridge of ships" to France and their guard lans, the expansion of this plant into one of the worlds greatest shipyards is planned for after-the- war needs as well as for those of the present. Shop after shop has been built and cranes and other labor saving devices installed so that when peace comes. foreign yards may be met in the great race that is inevitable for the restoration of destroyed tonnage.
 Even now, there are ia the build- ing two of the largest shipways in America. Here. after the war, will be laid down two of the monster battle cruisers Congress authorized in 1916, designed as the fastest and most powerful ships of their type on the sea.
 Nearby these new ways, four emergency ways have been thrown up on ground made" within the year. On these emergency ways naval vessels are building and more will follow when these are launched. A few hundred yards away more fighting ships are building. two and three to on set of ways. On still other stocks merchant ships and other craft are being put together.
 Turbines largely have supplanted the old-style reciprocal drive engine and it is on these that women have been pressed into service, perform ing the delic e work of finishing t'e myriad brass paddles against which the steam strikes to revolve the turbine drum, much as water runs mill wheel
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

1,185,000 tons of sugar will be saved the first year if each of LIS uses one ounce less each day. This will keep sugar plentiful and cheap.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

FOR SALE, CHEAP-Large tank heater and pipe drum; flush toilet, good as new; also sink. Inquire Simson's.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

DOG FISH-Sc pound. Johnson's Store. l3
The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-12

FOR SALE-Horse and fine baske sleigh. Apply A. J. Ghezzi.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
REVIVAL At
U. B. Church 8 ! u !,
Series of Evangelistic Meet
. ings Will be Begun in
That Church Next
Thursday.
REV. THOMAS COMES
Is Accompanied by Prof.
Brooks, in Charge of
Singing.
REV. THOMAS COMES

a series of revival meetings will be-
gin at the U. B. church, October 10,
to continue through period of two
and half weeks. Rev. f. J. Thomas
Of Marshalltown will be the evangelist
in charge and Prof. c.. f. Brooks will
have charge of the music.
The meetings held by this eyange-
listic team are advertised as safe,
sane, spiritual. successful"
Rev. Thomas served as a private,
later as artiiicer in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war; seeing service in Cuba. Since
the war he has been an active member
of the Spanish War Veterans. He cir
culated the petition for signers to
organize the camp at MarshalltOwn.
and was. upon organization. elected
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07

of imported Australian sheep on a
ranch owned by the secretary of the
National Woolgrowers association. He
used to live at Gooding, but now lives
at Salt Lake City.
From Sept. 9th to 18th, attended
institute at Boise. One thousand
teachers were enrolled and the one big
feature was series of fourteen lee
lures on america and her Relations
with other Nations by DR.. II. II. Pow
ers of Newton, Mass. Webster City peO-
pie who have heard DR.. Powers will
know what a rare treat this was. That
week counted for the first week of
school, so next week l complete my
first month of service in an Idaho rural
school, ten miles northwest of Bliss. l
am finding a year in the west very
pleasant and profitable, but am sure
that there is no place equal to Iowa for
Il permanent home.
Cordially yours,
Lillian l.. Crosley.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
Wilson's and the Kaiser's Way.

There is Il remarkable contrast be-
tween two documents recently sent out
to bereaved parents Of soldiers, one by
President Wilson and the other by Will
lam of Berlin. The presidents letter,
written to father in Beloit, WiscOn-
sin, reads:
My Dear Mr.. Gerald: May / not
express to you my profound sympathy
for the loss of your sons, Lieutenant
Gerald and Sergeant Gerald, and for
the wOunding of your other son, Cor
poral Gerald, and express, not my sym
pathy merely, but my admiration for
the services which your sons have Civ
en- and the great sacrifices they have
made for the safety of their country
and the freedom of the world? l sin
cerely hope that III years to come, ana
even now in the midst of the first an
guish of these losses, you may be cheer
ed by the consciousness that your sons
accepted destiny touched with I'M
usual distinction and which will he for
ever memorable throughout the world.
Woodrow Wilson
The communique forwarded by the
German kaiser to Frau Meter was vast
ly different Her nine sons had been
sacrificed in defense of the Fatherland.
Therefore, to her William of Berlin
wrote:
sHis Majesty, the kaiser, hears that
You have sacrificed nine sons in defense
of the Fatherland In the present war.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07

best personal worker / have ever had
on my work. He has fine power and
ability TO lead men to Christ in song.
Brother Brooks is faithful, earnest
conscientious Christian man. ! there
fore cheerfully commend him to any
church or pastor.
$. l.. Hart, Pastor NJ. +. Church.
MarShalltown, Iowa.-Rev. +. J
Thomas was a resident of our city and
a pastor here for two years. His
preaching. his pastoral work, and the
publication of his paper. THE Good
News" of which sixty thousand were
distributed gratuitiOusly, were a large
factor of influence in our city. Hi-
sense of honor, his Christian character
and his devotion to the gospel are OF
the highest order. Thomas is a Chris
tian gentleman, qualified for service
He is clear, courageous. and force
full gospel preacher. He is studious
using his time with discretion. He
selects his subject matter. with the
judgment of the collegialA He has a
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
Editor Movers Of to France.

Editor c. Z. Meyers of the Radcliffe
Signal, left Tuesday night for New
York, where he will sail for France to
engage in Y. NJ. G. A. work with the
American army This makes the Meyers
family engaged in 100 per cent war
work. Mr.. Meyers son, Atlee, has been
in France with the army for year,
and his only daughter, Margaret, is
taking nurses course at Moline, Ill.
As his wife has been dead for several
years, this leaves the whole family in
war work.
Miss Maude Cammack, who has been
the efficient forewoman in the Signal
Office for several years, has taken over
the paper.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07

tents and beds we can raise that to
600. Before reaching this place we had
been settled for three days on the side
Of Il hill, and when we put up our tents
the authorities decided we were too
conspicuous there, so we packed up
again and moved here. The Germans
sure did some great photographing
while we were there but dropped no
bombs.
Saw them shoot down one of our
sausage balloons and after twenty or
thirty minutes up went another one in
the same place. Could see the ohser-
vor's parachute open up as he came
down. Mr.. BOche went after the Sec
ond one, too, but was kept at a distance
by our anti-aircraft batteries.
Is Transferred.
Now the hardest part Of all comes.
I'm transferring to the American Red
Cross No. 5 in a pretty big city. An old
friend, DR. Tarnowsky, of Chicago is at
its head and they have three thousand
beds and he asked for me three months
ago, but l couldn't get away at that
time as our unit X was taking over
this mobile hospital and l wanted to
stay by and help it get started, but my
work here has been entirely surgical
and l want to do medical work, if pos
sible. That is what he has offered me
and can do work in my own line.
Have gotten quite attached to this
bunch and hate to leave, bat if can do
work that I'm better suited for, it will
be better. Think l can get some work
at the great Pasteur institute and that
will surely be the opportunity of a life
time.
Major Macrea has certainly done
great work with the outfit and he sure
ly put Iowa on the map and our bunch
has certainly turned out terrific
amount of work, but I'll still be with
the boys and will be able to keep them
longer than we can in a mobile hos
pital, but III get up here every now
and then.
If could get out of it gracefully, ]
think I'd do it.
My love to everybody.
Yours heartily,
1t. R. C. Crumpton, NJ. c.,
A. r. G. Hospital No. 5,
A. p. o. 702, A. e. f.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
Made Them Pay for Shoes.

Sheriff Nelson and Harry Bossert
motored to Des MOines Friday in
pursuit of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Clark
and IeMar Mcconnell. who on Septem-
Der Dist had taken out on approval,
two pairs of shoes from the Bossert
shoe store. promising to pay for same
later in the evening. on the pretext
that they had not received their week
ly check. Instead. however, they
boarded an outbound train and evil
IDENTIFY forgot to call on the above firm.
Messrs. Clark and Mcconnell were
employed for about two weeks at
Farlin's bakery. and used this firms
name as Il voucher for their honesty
and integrity.
They were located in Des Moines
and compelled to pay the bill.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
Saddle Used by Villa.

Captain A. NJ. Martin is the owner of
the handsome Mexican saddle, display
ed in the show window of the L. E. Stu
art wall paper store, which was given
him during the period of encampment
of the Thirty-fOurth division at Camp
Cody, Deming, n. NJ.
Aside from being a very costly and
beautiful example of Mexican work in
leather, the saddle is saidNto have been
taken from the back of one of Villa s
horses which was shot from under i'm
at the time of the Columbus, N. NJ. mas
sacre. After the raid the saddle was
taken from the horse and later came
into the hands Of the mayor Of Deming
who presented it to Captain Martin.
Local leather connoisseurs have de-
clared the saddle to be very valuable
and in old Mexico, because of its asso-
Citations, it is valued at $500 in Next
can coin.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07

senior vice commander: and, later on,
commander. While at Racine, WiscOn-
sin. he was elected chaplain Of the
camp there, and also has held the office
of department chaplain of the Vet
Grams Of Iowa. and was commander Of
the local camp.
Following are several testimonials
from ministers of different denomina-
lions concerning the work of Rev.
Thomas and Prof. Brooks.
/ consider the Rev. Il. J. Thomas
big timber" safe, sane. sound of
doctrine, optimistic rcvivalist, and
Il safe man to invite in any pulpit, hay
ing concluded printable series of
for the writer, which were
and uplifting. Get him and
he'll get results.
+. r. Ingram,
PastOr-United Brethren church.
To Whom it may Concern
Becker, Mimi, January 81, 1876
Brother Brooks is not only the best
chorus leader and solo singer, but the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
Another Letter from Miss CrosIey.

Bliss, Idaho, Sept. 2S.-Eds. Free
man-Journal: 1t has been some time
since l sent you a letter from the west.
Most of my time until l began teach
ing was spent on a large Idaho ranch
at the busy season of the year, and
found little time for writing.
That ranch, however, was very In
teresting place. 1.-THE Turnupa
ranch-was leased in 1914 for period
of five years by my brother-in-law, C.
A. Smith, and his son-in-law, Douglas
Hitchcock. At the end of the fourth
year, these gentlemen found that re-
turns justified them in purchasing the
ranch and began at once making ex-
tensiye improvements, which for the
present will be chiefly upon the land
itself, leveling, fertilizing, preparing
more land for cultivation, etc. The
ranch is an ideal one. 1t consists of
400 acres, all but 80 Of which will soon
be under cultivation. 1t lies on both
sides of the main line of the Oregon
Short Line to Portland Cars are side
tracked at little station eight miles
from Cooling for the loading Of stock
or grain. The grain is loaded right
from the threshing machine.
An old water right-the water COM
ing from the Little Wood river, which
flows through the ranch, and from ca
nails from the Big Wood riyer-makes
it impossible that this ranch should
lack water necessary for irrigation.
Previously had but little real know
ledge as to how this irrigating is done.
To be well done, one man must be on
the job all the time. Channels are
changed by blocking and making new
openings and shallow bitches, and by
damming. These people use canvas
danes chiefly. Others use head gates,
some having as many as a hundred.
This has been an unusually dry year
and many ranchers in Idaho are short
of water, the cause being lack If snow
storms last winter.
There are many places OF interest
near Cooling, but so far l have been
on but one sight seeing trip. Early this
month with. my niece. Louise Smith
Bolte, and her husband and little
daughter, spent a Sunday in lager
man valley-a beautiful spot. We first
drove to Bliss, twelve miles from Cod
ing. and from that place entered the
valley by winding road, which gives
one a view of the two rivers in the val
ley, the Snake and one of its tributar-
les, the Malad. The waters of the one
are Il deep green in color, while the 9th
or is a bright blue When they unite
for about mile, these distinct colors
can be seen, the Snake on the west side,
green, and the east half perfect blue.
When we crossed the Malad bridge, we
saw the mammoth flume which follows
the course of the river and carries wa
Ter 10 mig I'LL, tiilli! luilcS away.
The Idaho Irrigation Power com
pany, which furnishes power for all
the towns. between here and Boise,
has all its plant in the Hagerman. One
big one is at the Lower Salmon Falls,
just out of Hagerman, and another is
at the Thousand Springs, six miles up
the river.
ranches in the valley, aud much fruit
is produced there. We saw fine herd
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
Lyon Went Over Quickly,

Jewell Record: The quota that Lyon
township was asked to subscribe for in
the fourth Liberty loan was ,$107 800.
The minimum amount was fully sub
scribed by noon of the first day of the
campaign, Saturday, September 2Sth.
BY Saturday evening the immense
amount of work in connection with the
subscriptions was practically complet-
ed, with but a few subscriptions in the
township yet to be secured, and the to-
tai bond sales amounting to $10S,900
This splendid result was achieved
through the efficient organization of
the loan committee, of which VIM. An
dersOn was chairman. Subscriptions
We're received at Hood, & Snyder's gar
age, and splendid force Of workers
aided the people in making out their
pledges. They were Mrs. Att Alex
Alexander, Mrs. l.. G. M. King, Mrs F.
II. Ferbitz, Miss Ada Dalbey, George
johnson, Otto Fenton, B. c. Hansen
and the chairman, VIM. Anderson.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
|DAub pain | |
AT kAM |
Yellow Paint Daubed on
Porch at Town Home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John
Havinga.
NO CLEW IS FOUND
Every Effort Being Made,
However, to Apprehend
Guilty.
NO CLEw IS FOUND ID
(From Fridays Daily.)

Kamrar. Iowa, Oct. 4. Considerable
excitement was caused in this town
this morning when it became known
that during the night last night some
one daubed yellow paint on the porch
of the John Havinga home While the
work is believed to have been done by
young boys about the town, nothing is
known for certain, but every effort is
being made to locate the guilty parties.
Only a small quantity of paint was
used. 1t had been daubed on the floor
Of the porch. The only clew thus far
developed is that stranger bought
80 cent tin of paint at the hardware
store yesterday. No one knows who he
was, however.
The Havinga family are highly res
pected citizens here and no faint OF
pro- ermanism attaches to them.
The Freeman-J ourIlal has no pa
thence with people who take the law
into their own hands and, by the use
Of yellow paint at night, sit in judg
ment upon the patriotism of others.
1t is cowardly trick and it is to lie
hoped that every effort will be put
forth at Kamrar to apprehend the
guilty parties. 1t is nothing less than
mob law and those INDUCING in it
should be treated as law breakers.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07

worthy family that cooperate with
him. Their success in our city was
marked and still bears fruit. The ma
terial and spiritual interests of the
church were greatly advanced and the
educational work still lives in the
hearts and minds of our citizens.
Rev. o. ID. Elicit, PHI. d.,
Pastor Of Presbyterian Church.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-10-07
lettings About the
County.
Safe Overseas.

Stratford Courier: Cards have been
received here by relatives stating that
Clifford Lander and Albert Q. Olson
are safe overseas. Mr.. Lander is in
England and Mr.. Olson in France.
Bruce Stotts, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lon Stotts of Homer, has also arrived
safely on French soil.