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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-11

Sergeant Wedding was 80 years of
age and unmarried. He worked here
for Albert Swanson, now deceased, in
the cement contracting business.
He was good soldier in all that this
implies. Since having reached France,
letters to his parents here brought the
news that he had been assigned to an
officers training school and had been
recommended for promotion to COM
missioned office. He was young man
widely known and held the respect and
high esteem OF all his comrades and
friends. Officers of Company C re-
garded him as an excellent soldier and
it was while in Texas two years ago
that he rose to the rank of sergeant
He was always diligent Of his duty and
set a high example, both as man AMI
as a soldier, for the men under him.
He may easily have been the sergeant
referred to in the French dispatch
quoted, who, with four men, put to
fight German army patrol of nine
men. Sergeant Wedding was made Of
the sort of stuff which goes into men
of that kind The details of his death
however, will probably not be known
in Webster City until some Of his com
rades-of whom there are number Of
Webster City boys-write home to
friends or to the stricken parents. The
story given out by the French war
Office gave no details as to the number
of men killed, though the very nature
of the engagement indicates that men
must have lost their lives during its
progress.
Webster City will ever remember he,
first son who gave his life in the
struggle to make the world safe for
democracy The sympathy OF all goes
out unstintedly to the Borrowing par
ents and other relatives The death of
this fine young man brings closer to
home realization of the worldwide
war The death in battle Of Webster
City's first soldier victim goes far to
make more widespread the grim de-
termination Of loyal Americans in this
community to stand firmly behind
their soldier boys and to be of every
possible help, in every conceivable
way, to aid in the struggle to stamp
out the last trace of kaiserism, the
divine right of kings and all the other
forms of Imperialism expressed in the
autocratic belief in the right of the
few to rule the many-a belief that
permeates German and Austrian roy
atty and that furnished the match
which touched off the world holocaust
in Europe four years ago in July.
When the news came Saturday
night, Mrs. Wedding was Frustrated
with grief, All day yesterday she
was in \ ID under the care, of a
physician. Her health is none too
good and the shock OF the news OF
her sons death was more than she
could bear. She is better today,
however, and this morning was able
to sit up short time. The family
all feel keenly the loss of this be-
loved son and brother and fine young
man.
Marion Wedding, brother, who
had enlisted and was at Camp Cody,
Deming, y. NJ, was recently dis
charged on account Of slight ply
sical disability.
J. w. Wedding, the father, is a
veteran of the civil war and a mem
Der of the local G.. A. Il. post.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-11

hall. The officers are, president, Mrs
e. l. Johnson; vice president, Mrs
John Cresslin; secretary, Mrs. F,
Daniels; treasurer, Mrs. R. E. Wilson,
All who can should turn out and
help iii starting the work
A. Fear went to Webster City Sat-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-11

urday to take the rural carriers ex-
animation. Art takes the examina-
ton each year to keep his mental
machinery fabricated.
Hear w. w. Loban at the opera
house Tuesday evening.
March II.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-11
Hamilton County Farm News.

Using therein, and shall provide for
the distribution of the same. He shall,
upon inquiry, mail or distribute list
showing available stock for sale,
which list shall be revised every three
months or as often as conditions war
rant
Meetings.: There shall be two gen.
eral meetings a year of the member
ship of the association, the first one
the last Saturday in May. and the sec
ond the first Saturday in December.
Special meetings or division meetings
may be held when called by the presi-
dent of the association or by the
director of the breed.
Bylaws:
Amy member disappearing
stock sold through this association or
failing to live up to his guarantee,
shall be expelled from the association.
ALI pure bred stock sold through
sales of the association must be &C
companied by certificate of health,
which certificate must at all times be
in conformity with the state laws.
3.-No live stock shall be allowed to
be sold in the sale ring of the associa-
ton unless it is the property of a
member of the association.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-11


south of 'Duncombe to Henry w. Lex
Of Fort Dodge last fall, and bought thu,
Geo. BerOgan quarter section four
miles east of this city, took possession
of the new farm few days ago. The
Berogan family have moved from
their old home to the former J. S.
Melvin place west of town, which they
recently purchased.
Farm Bureau Starts Drive.
Five hundred new members to the
Hamilton County Farm Bureau be-
fore Saturday night, March 16, is
the goal set in the membership cam
paign now being waged by the
bureau.
z At present the bureau has a men,
bership of three hundred and it is
hoped to raise this number to eight
hundred within the next week. 1t is
not believed that there will be- any
difficulty in so doing, as the county
has at no time previously, been
thoroughly canvassed for farm men,
bers. Added to this, the amount OF
benefit, which is proven to be de-
rived from association with this or
ganization of the foremost farmers OF
the county, has removed every doubt
of it's merit in the minds of most peo-
pie.
The bureau township directors are
privileged to name cooperatOrs to
assist in making the canvass or may
adopt any plan that seems most
feasible in their individual case. The
aim is to have at least thirty men,
bers of the bureau in each of the
seventeen townships of the county.
Much Wheat to be Raised Here.
The patriotic response OF Hamilton
county farmers to the request to
plant spring wheat has been enthusi-
astic and the entire carload Of eight
hundred bushels of Marquis spring
wheat, secured through the food ad-
ministration at Minneapolis by A. c.
Hoot of the Webster City Mills, has
been sold. Continued calls lot more
seed resulted in his ordering two
hundred bushels additional supply,
which is expected to be shipped in a
few days.
Gov. w. l.. Harding has issued a
proclamation urging farmers to grow
spirit wheat He declares that on
Dec. the condition of the winter
wheat crop in the United States was
the lowest ever recorded and says
that the situation has become so SER
ious that the government is asking
a big increase in spring wheat acre
age. Iowa has been asked to increase
it's acreage at least five hundred
thousand acres.
The governor states in his procla-
nation that he will appoint man
in each school district in the state
to be known as the official seed
wheat agent whose duty it shall be
to ascertain the needs in their dis
trict regarding seed wheat.
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FIRST WEBSTER
CITY BOY KILL
Ed IN France

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TOURING CAR, PASSENGER Si5s5
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STANDARD ROADSTER SlSs5
ALL PRICES r. O. Z
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
Ship Builders Ask
For Many Employees

f. w. Edgerton of Astoria, repre-
senting the George F. Rogers Com
pany, ship builders, was in Ashland
the latter part of the week in the in
terests of his company to secure men
to work in the wooden shipyards in
that city. Mr.. Edgerly states that the
company can use all the men who ap-
ply, and can assure them Of steady
employment, as the government has
announced that the yards will be kept
busy as long as the war lasts. AS
toria is a pleasant city for summer
home, and the work in the yards is
under comfortable and
pleasing surroundings, with band
and ball teams, and many appurten-
ances for recreation and pleasure. ].
l.. Alnutt of Alnutt's Billiard parlor,
in the Elks building, has the agency
for engaging employees for the Rogers
Company shipbuilders, and any one
desiring information can get 1t by
applying to him.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
Agea Man Not In
List of SlackerS

Rev. William Johnson. a well
known and dearly beloved clergyman
Of Ashland, will not go down in his
tory as one of the Stacker class if the
work accomplished by him yesterday
is an example. He not only taught
his class as usual in the Presbyterian
church, but he filled the pulpit in
that church at the morning service
in the absence of the pastor, Rev.
II. A. Carnahan. In the afternoon
in company with Mayor C. B. Lam.
kin Mr.. Johnson went to Wagner
Creek where he preached in the
school house. At the close of the
service there he was requested to go
several miles farther up the noun
tain to deliver sermon to an aged
couple over 80 years old, who were
not able to attend the services in the
school house.
This Mr.. Johnson gladly did, re-
turning home in the evening appar-
emily as fresh as when he started out
in the morning. AS Mr.. Johnson is
S4 years of age this record is re-
markable one.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
Red Cross Drive Commences
Throughout the State Today

Portland, May 20.-The great drive
of the American National Red Cross
began in every part of Oregon today,
with the aid in view of raising $780,
600, of which Portland is to contrib
ute $25O,OOO.
Early indications point to the en-
tire sum being contributed in the
first three days of the drive.
At the opening of the Oregon drive,
Henry L. Corbett, state chairman, is
sued a warning against any persons
who do not contribute being branded
as "slackers."
Contributions to the Red Cross
are purely voluntary" said Mr. Cor
bett. I'VE have no right, and must
rot assume the right, of branding
non-contributors as 'slackers.'
I'm this connection, am in receipt
of the following telegram from Ma
tional headquarters of the American
Red Cross, which l would impress
on every worker in the Red Cross
Drive" This telegram reads:
I want again to urge upon you
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
Ashland. Oregon. llthIa Springs
"Oregon's Famous Spa"
NUMBER 1851

very strongly the necessity for in
the chapters in your terri
tory that contributions to the Second
War Fund are to be voluntary in
every sense of the word.
"Ardor on the part of our workers
which takes the form of coercion can
not but hurt the Red Cross. Will
you particularly caution workers
charged with the conduct of indus
trial plant campaigns to see that en-
ployes are neither coerced or emban-
rassed into giying?'
81 cannot make this any too
strong" continued Mr.. Corbett.
1--WE don't want the Red Cross
campaign associated with strong
arm methods, understanding, or
similar forms of coercion.
Il am certain everyone is anxious
and eager to give. Let us simply Sc
cure these voluntary contributions.
Ashland will not start on this drive
today on account Of starting the cam
paign for the relief fund Wednesday,
which will include the Red Cross
drive.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
War Work Planned
For Farmers Boys

"Our country is calling for all the
hogs we can raise" says the Yamhill
Record, Here is the farmer boys
chance to serve his country. The lit
tie pig at weaving time is an inter-
esting and playful little animal. 1t
ought to be a pleasure for boy to
feed it and watch it grow in size and
value. The boy should have piece
of ground worked for him and he
should plant and raise his own feed
with his own labor. He should not
be given free access to his fathers
high-priced mill feed because that
would reduce his part in raising and
fattening the hog to mere nothing
and would destroy the best educa-
tlonal features of his enterprise.
"As a first lesson in economy which
means profit, the boy should have
explained to him the chief object of
having a hog on the farm is to con-
vert much cheap unsaleable material
into a high-priced product. Hog fats
contain lots of glycerine which IS
used in mixing explosives, something
our country must now have in enor-
nous quantities.
Raising hogs would be splendid
patriotic service and at the same time
the boys can feast their imagination
upon the thought that they are doing
something really big when they are
producing something having the pow
er to blow big craters in our enc
my's trenches, and thus be the means
of saving the precious lives of many
of our American boys"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
Each District Has
Different Faults

Assistant Surgeon Charles B. Wade
with the naval recruiting party has
the painful duty of rejecting 60 per
cent of the men who are applying
here for enlistment in the navy, says
the Marshfield Record. They are eX-
ceptionally healthy specimens of
manhood, said the doctor, but flat
feet makes them unfit for service.
One cause for this is going barefoot
ed in childhood, the other wearing
English walking shoes, which allows
the muscles of the fet to relax, in
time producing pesplanus. Their
disappointment is great says the sur
geon, upon hearing they cannot go.
Many of them come back the third
and fourth time to induce the doctor
to re-examine them or change his
mind. This is practically the only
defect found in the men of this sec
ton.
In Southern Oregon, where the par
ty first began the Oregon recruiting
campaign, goiter was the rejection
cause for large per cent of the
young men applying for enlistment
The water of that country is the
cause of that defect, thinks the doc
tor.
In Eugene, where many students
were examined, defective eyes were
the chief physical disability. Not
only weakness, but actual defects of
vision were encountered, this because
of the long hours spent in lamplight
study.
The 60 per cent found unfit here,
is an unusually high percentage of
reflections. The average number is
40 per cent,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
Great Western Epic
Seen at Camp Lewis

Americas great epic of the West is
written up in the drab prairie streets
of Camp Lewis. Here in the great
national cantonment are poured out
the romantic legions of the world j
fiction, gathered in from all the
fringes of the last frontier so strange
ly, and for so great a task.
In population the largest, in char
acter the strangest, of all of Uncle
Sans great war-chools; a bewilder-
ing panorama of story-book and real
life; of clerk and cowboy; of Bret
Earte and Walter Gesant, the two
apostles of the "seamy side" at its
extremes, with a dash of Rex Beach
and a scattering of Ralph Conner's
rugged types; here the wide-brimmed
sombreo flanks the city fedora, and
to round out the picture of this queer
marshalling of the tabled West for
he trenches of Europe, the full-blood-
ed Indian.
The camp itself is like, and yet un'
like, its fellows which dot the coun-
try; Camp Lewis is one of those
boom cities, mushroom-like in the
beginning, whose bones chart the
trail to the last ever-moving frontier
Of today. Its population, many
weeks passing before the camouflage
of khaki, wiped out the superficial
differences Of type, represented
stampede to a gold strike; the same
changing Kaleidoscope of picturesque
figures, crossing and criss-crossing in
the bewildering labyrinth of the new
made cantonment; the same apparent
expectancy; the same half
hesitant pause upon the threshold of
a new experience; the same half
frank, half-suspicious mingling of pi-
Dneer and pioneer; the same quick
eye and ready hand.
The poetic mingling of rich and |
poor is common to every army camp |
N the country; in the West it is an
everyday phase; unremarked. Here
1t Camp Lewis is the mixture of all
he elements associated with frontier
ife, many of them grown strange,
wen to the metropolitan centers of
he West itself, but which the clarion
# war has summoned from the cat
lie ranch, the coast waters of the Pa
ific, the mountain trail, and the for
Artheur Player in June
unset.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
P0StmaSterS To Be
Marine Recruiters

In order that every man between
the ages of IS and &c years of age,
either married or single, may have
the opportunity of enlisting in the
United States Marine Corps, every
postmaster in Oregon has been auth
orized to examine, accept and trans
fer men for this excellent branch of
service. The Marine Corps is the old
est branch of American service, is
mentioned in the same breath with
the Foreign Legion of France, the
Texas Rangers, Northwest Mounted
Police and the Pennsylvania State
Constabulary.
Marines are specially trained,
splendidly equipped and fight as ar
tillery, infantry, cavalry, signal men,
aviators and in any manner that ne
cessity or the occasion demands. In
recognition of their splendid record
IN the past and their excellent
achievements in the present struggle
for democracy, Congress has author
lied the increasing of the corps to
75,500 men in order that they may
take over and maintain a separate
section of trenches in France.
United States Marines wear sepa-
rate and distinctive uniform from
either the army or the navy They
also have their own corps device
which consists of an anchor, globe
and eagle, and is worn on the hat,
cap or helmet of the marine. 1t is
by this small device that the marine
is readily distinguished from all 9TH
er branches of service,
Registered and unregistered men
between the above mentioned ages
who are desirous of enlisting may
do so. Registered men must furnish
a statement from their local board
that they are not needed to fill the
current quota of the draft and that
mission has been granted for their
enlistment in the marines. Married |
men must have a written consent |
from the wife that she consents to |
his enlistment. Your postmaster will |
gladly assist you in obtaining your
release from the local board and will |
also explain this splendid branch OF
service. Ask him today.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
Junior High School
Subscribed $4,000

The Junior high school closed last
week with the enviable record of sub
scribing $4,000 in Liberty bonds
and thrift and war saving stamps
Saturday afternoon when 1t was
learned that this amount had been
reached an informal jubilee was held
on the school lawn with music and
speaking. A banner graces the lawn
announcing that this school has loan
ed Uncle Sam $4,000. This amount
has been contributed by the teachers
and pupils of this school in bonds
and stamps, for its years work, the
latter being subscribed only since the
first of the year.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
What Mothers Day
Meant To Sailor Bow

Mothers Day probably meant more
to the boys in the army and navy this
year than ever before. Not that the
boys did not always have a great af-
fection for mother, but she was ta-
ken for granted at home where she
was always present to smooth away
the rough places. But this year, TO.
many boys who are experiencing
their first breaking of home ties, the
observance of Mothers Day brought
thoughts of mother and home a lit
tie dearer than they had ever been
before.
Anyhow, this is the case with Jim.
mie" Rouse, a young Ashland lad
who left home this spring for the
navy and is located at Mare Island.
Of course, mother was always first
in Jimmie's affections, but this year,
owing to the separation and the seri-
business of the great adventure in
which he is engaged, brought mother
a little nearer to the boyish heart, so
on Mothers Day he hunted up the
very incest card he could find to send
to his mother, Mrs. Elva Rouse, on
which he wrote: II went 10 Moth
ers' Day services today and got a
white carnation in remembrance of
you, and am wearing il now. i am
mailing this little card and bushels
of love and kisses. Your sailor boy,
Jim"
The reverse side of the card con-
tanned the following beautiful senti-
ment, which appealed to Jimmie as
exactly expressing his sentiment:
To Ny Mother
Yesterday you went into the Valley
of the Shadows for me. You did it
cheerfully and with high courage
for Loves sake. You emerged tri-
umphantly with me in your arms.
To-day it is my privilege to go into
the same Valley. A New World is
Icing born. That which is conceived
is called Holy. am carrying it on
cheerfully, mother, and with your
high courage. The triumph is as
sured. God bless you.
Mothers Day, May II, 1918.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20
NOTICE.

A meeting of all contributors to the
Normal School Campaign Fund is de-
sired for Tuesday evening. May 2S,
in the City Halls o'clock, for the
purpose of selecting the committee to
have charge of the campaign. 1t Is
quite possible that some have not had
an opportunity to subscribe to this
fund and want to help in this cause;
you are also invited to come and
make your subscription that evening
and assist in the organization.
FRED c. HOMES,
Chairman of the Drive Committee.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-05-20

vacant These were draped with the
Stars and Stripes, and represented
three boys from the class of 1918
who have gone out during the past
term to enlist in their country's serv-
ice. These are Earl Beigle, some
where in France" Lloyd Turner with
the Quartermasters department sta
toned in Texas, and Harvey Watt,
president of the class who left the
Gore part of the week for San Fran
cisco where he has entered radio
training school. These members Of
the class were not forgotten. how
ever, and in the roll call of the pre-
sentation of diplomas, their names
appeared on the list, and the diplo-
mas were granted them.
Commencement exercises for the
graduating class were held in the
Chautauqua building Friday night, at
with large assemblage of interest
ed parents, relatives and friends were
in attendance. The building was
beautifully and artistically decorated
with flags of the allied nations, the
stage was banked with flowers, while
the speakers stand was draped with
the high school service flag of more
than 100 stars, representing the boys
who have gone out from that institu-
tion and enlisted in the service Of
their country.
The exercises were notable for
their simplicity, AMI consisted only in
vocal selections by the class and
music by the orchestra. Miss Alta
Scott read a class prophecy in which
she foretold the ultimate career Of
the various members which was huge
ly enjoyed by the audience as well as
those whose future was foretold.
The leading event of the evening
was the address by Rev. c. A. Ed
wards, pastor of the Methodist Epis
copal church, who, at the request Of
State Superintendent j. A. Churchill,
gave an educational and patriotic ad-
dress which was inspiring and fired
his youthful hearers with the zeal of
patriotism for their country's welfare.
DR.. G. w. Gregg, member of the
school board, in brief address, pre-
sented the 49 diplomas to the class
of 1918, which had met for possibly
the last time in an unbroken body
after period of happy youthful in
tercourse during their high school
career.