Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 44, 1 January 1919 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 1919.
62 DEATHS IN EATON DURING YEAR OF 1918
25 Died From Flu in October County to Receive W. S. S. Tablet. EATON, O.. Jan. 1. Sixty-two persons died In Eaton during the year 1918, as shown by the records of Registrar Earl Dalrymple. The average age of those passing away was 60 years. In October the greatest number of deaths took place, due largely to the Influenza epidemic. In that month the deaths numbered 25. Following is a complete list of the deaths and ages: January Frances Hubbard, 79; Charles Ackerman, 65; Harriet Young, 77; Mary A. Mitchell, 89; Lee Holden, 35; John H. Hoops, 28; Ma'.lnda Deem 87. February George H. Kelly, 69; Theresa Deckwitz, 87; John T. Holmes, 69; Aaron Lewis, 66. March William McClain. 75; Ethel Bruce. 35; W. E. McChrlstle, 59. April Isaac N. Sliver, 75; Dorotha H. Gray, 25 days; Catherine M. Fudge, 74. May Arthur Hewitt, infant; Barbara Rau. 81; Helen Raikes. 74; Michael House. 81; John W. Smith, 69; William C. Johnstone. 60. June Sarah Wilson. 71; Clarence Minnlx. 5. July Mary Troop. 83; George Shafer, 54; Rebecca Orr. 68; Rosa Fox, 75; Robert Myler, 40; Jacob A. Krug, 60. August William H. Brower, 80; Susanna Snyder, 94. September Thomas St. John, 84; Lewis Acton, 61; Martha Trunk, 75. October Blanche Thum, 63; Elizabeth Creager, 67; Charlotte Heppes. 77t Carrie Hartrum, 16; Martin Hoover. 74; Laura Waggoner, 27; Ella Sullivan. 87; Carl Wehrley, 33; Charles Miller. 40; Ruth Waggoner. 34:
months; Edward Barnes, 11; Margaret Baker. 84; Walter Stebbins. 32; Margaret Conrad. 8; Emaline Waden, 83; Robert Mehaffey, 33; Carl Thum, 39; Hannah E. Johnson, 54; Stanley Cole, 13. November Laura Upham. 75. December Ida C. Bennett; Jonathan Flora, 81; Edward Y. Teas, 88.
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FIRST MOTHER TO GREET U. S. TROOPS THE MOTHER OF LIBERTY
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The Statue of Liberty, picture taken from an airplane.
Next to their own mothers, wives and sweethearts, the most welcome sight to the U. S. soldier boys returning from overseas is
the Statue of Liberty. The joy of the returning troops, pent up for days while at sea, bursts its bounds when the statue looms up on the
"Fascination and Beauty" of 90-Mile Gale at Sea Described by Trueblood
County Coroner Carl W. Beane, reflected In November, declined to qualify for the office and the county comnfssioners named Dr. Casnius Trefflnger for the place. Dr. Trefflnger returned a short time aiiro to Eaton, after serving for several months in th medical division of the army at a southern camp. He attained the rank c lieutenant while In the service. Funeral services for Henry Blackford, father-in-law of Dr. L. R. Pryor, of this city, who died at his home In Van Wert, were held here Tuesday afternoon, followed by burial in Mound Hill cemetery. A son, Samuel Blackford, lives in Dayton. Mr. Blackford was 64 years old. He lived In Eaton a number of years ago and was engaged in the livery business. He had lived in Van Wert the last ten years or longer. He remarried following tho death of his first wife. The second wife survives. While on a visit to relatives at Camden. Preble county. Miss Nellie Bostlck. of Columbus, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Nancy Bostick, was stricken with paralysis and death enFtied in a few days. Funeral and burial were held Monday at Camden, where the decedent was born and reared. She was about 60 years of age and was well known in this city. She was a daughter of the late Jerry B. Bostick, of Camden. Eaton's fire loss in 1918 was the smallest In many years past, so states Fire Chief George Shaver. A few hundred dollars would cover the entire
loss for the year, the chief says. The
fire department responded to 16
alarms during the year.
For its splendid record In the war savings stamp campaign of 1918 Preb
le county is to receive a bronze tablet.
according to advices received by Har
ry L. Rlslnger, county chairman of the
savings stamp committee. Chairman Rlslnger also is to receive a gold medal for distinguished service in the campaign, and his assistants are to . receive bronze medals. The tablet to
I the county will be unveiled, after Its
fTfeceipts, with appropriate exercises
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I Cupid's toll In Preble county in the
year 1918 totaled 127. according to the
marriage license records in probate court. His record in 1917 was 210, or
a falling off of 83 in 1918, as compared
with the preceding year. Twenty dl
vorce suits were filed and an equal number of divorce action granted in
common pleas court In 1918.
With their boat tossing on a 90-mile
gale, a leak in the bottom of the vessell and three days from the coast of Ireland, Herschel Trueblod, a former Richmond man. recently of Chicago, now with the United States Navy, describes a "terrible, beautiful storm" tbt members of the crew of the U. S. S. Luella experienced on her initial trip across the Atlantic. "We got away from Sidney, Nova
Scotia, the evening preceding the
"Peace Rumor," wrote
"There was considerable rivalry
to slide back and forth. Imagine trying to sleep while going through gymnastics like that, and everything bangin and crashing in the room. The operator had been cussing a blue streak when my turn came to crawl out in the middle of the night and go on watch for four hours. Oh, it was wonderful! "The next morning with tugs on the way. the sea got oh not rougher
smooth as glass. The tug3 were not ex-
Trueblood. ' Pectel fr about two days and we were
soon in radio coinuiumi-auuu im
MEDICAL CORPS OF ARMY PLAYED BIG PART IN FRANCE fEy Associated Press) GENERAL HEADQUART ERS, AMERICAN EXPEDITION A R Y FORCE, Jan. 1. The prodigious effort of the medical department in the army In France is revealed in statistics which The Associated Press Is now permitted to make public. When, on Nov. 11, the armistice suspended hostilities and the great expansion and extension work of the medical department was suspended, there were in operation 283,240 beds in camp and base hospitals and convalescent camps with about 100,000 of them vacant. There were on duty in the American Expeditionary Force at that time 12,989 doctors and 8,593 nurses. The authorized nurse strength - of the army when America entered the war was 206 and of doctors 300, figures that testify to the work the medical corps was called upon to perform. The hospitalization of the army in France is interesting. Basically it consists of mobile organizations. To each division there are four field hospitals, two evacuation hospitals and one mobile surgical hospital and in addition there is fixed hospitalization, consisting of camp and base outfits and convalescent camps, with an authorized bed capacity of 15 percent of tbe strength of the command. There are now 85 camp hospitals serving training and billeting areas while for general service and for the treatment of more serious cases and battle casualties there are 115 base hospitals. These base hospitals occasionally are single institutions of from 1,000 to 3,000 beds or are grouped in hospital centers. Twenty such centers of from 2,500 to 15,000 beds are in operation. Convalescent camps at the bed rate of twenty percent of normal hospital beds are authorized for the purpose
IS Not III NeW i dtty training as possible and fifteen such
camps are in operation at present. The American hospitals are partly in French barracks, school buildings and hotels and partly in constructed cantonment of demountable buildings. All the buildings taken over were remodeled and outfitted for the purpose, lighted and heated and modernized, while the demountable huts are models of their kind.
horizon. The above picture of the famous statue on Bedloe's Island was taken from an airplane. The tents and buildings of Fort Wood are visible.
Railroad Brotherhood
Soldiers to Complete Camp Construction (Ry Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 1. Because of differences with civilian laborers and difficulty in getting them. Camp Knox, at Stithton, Ky.f will be completed by soldiers. All civilian workmen have been paid off. Not only has civilian labor been replaced as a result of a series of labor dirturbances which have hampered the completion of tbe camp, but the contract for building the big cantonment has been taken from the contractors. The camp will be used in connection with the artillery firing center about West Point, Ky., as a permanent training center for field artillery. It will not be as large as had originally been planned. The culminating difficulty is said to have been a strike for payment for time- spent travelling to and from Louisville and reimbursement of transportation expense, government representatives declare that housing facilities have been available at the camp. When the discharge of civilian workera began, labor agents for the Hog Island shipyard appeared, offering jobs to all discharged men. This was done at government direction, it was indicated, in order that the men should not be without work.
Artificial legs and arms were in use in Egypt as early as 700 B. C.
There are now about forty women working with the police force in London.
Sims to Be New Heed of Naval War Cc&J
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan.
plans for a comprehensive expansli of the Naval War College at Newpo R. I., until its work will reach office throughtout the fleet. Vice AdmUf Sims, now commanding American na al forces abroad, will return to O presidency of the "college when b present duty is completed. t
Plenty of Reading Matter for Americans in. Rasst -. tBr Asuoclated Prss LONDON. Jan. 1 There will t plenty of reading matter for tt American soldiers isolated in northei Russia this winter, frozen in for sevt months as far as water transport tion is concerned. The American M. C. A. has dispatched 9336 genen books, 1200 reference books, 10,44 text books, 19,782 magazines and new papers, 600 Testaments, 350 Biblej 11.500 pictures and numerous oth adjuncts called for.
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get the news when it really came. It was about the second day out at midnight when yours truly plucked it
out. of the ether. From the firemen down in the bottom to the wheel house up on top it went mighty quick as you can imagine. We got no more real news until November 21. "The trip across! Oh, sweet, la! la! About the fifth day out the Atlantic looked like this ; the next day, thusly, VVVVVV. The first time I was sick; the second time not sick, but scared. I thought Lake Michigan could get rough, but, O man! we were rolling at an angle of 55 degrees. We had to tie everything on the ship down. Even chairs would topple over; drawers would come out of desks; dishes breaking and crashing, and the water came up in the companionways of the ship. To eat was almost imposisble, for it was impossible to cook anything. It was all too much for my descriptive po vers. "Then we began to get short on
coal and didn't have power enough to
head her into the swells. The wind and sea took us away north about even with Queenstown, Ireland. The ship started leaking and then we found ourselves going backward at about two knots per hour. Finally our captain, an excellent man, came out and told
us to send out, not an S. O. S., but a general call, to be relayed to Queenstown for assistance a thing done only In case of grave necessity. A British
ship picked up our call and relayed
our message in. In side of an hour we received word that two big United States tugs were leaving to come and I
tow us In a distance of 360 miles. All this time we were rocking about in a 90-mile gale. Aside from the serious side it was a beautiful sight. First we would be way up high, and then down so low that the waves on cither side were high as a house. I said I was scared; I wasn't. The sight was beautiful and fascinating beyond t'escriptlon. Don't think there was thunder and lightning; there wasn't. Most of the time the sun was out. But, Lord, how that ship did rock! It was impossible to sleep for three nights. Our shack is about six feet, six inches wide, .our bunks being lengthwise the width, and when she
rolled my head would first hit one side feet way in the air, then my feet
wcu.d hit the other side head way up
in the air, with just about six inches
us by about forty miles to the rear. However, one morning, we spotted
them and the rest of the trip was uneventful, except that we were running
short of food. So after 16 or 18 days of crossing, we woke up one morning and found ourselves safely anchored in the harbor at Brest. "Three Minutes Intermission Chapter 2. "After a visit to France I am saying that you all can thank your lucky stars that you were born, raised and are citizens of the good old United States. You have no idea of the difference existing in city life, buildings, transportation, housing, pleasures, etc. France is all of one hundred years behind, judging from this town, for it is certainly, quaint, historical, slow and dirty. 'On the other hand, it has some beautiful girls, but that is getting away from the material and drifting into romance more or less. "The streets are crooked, narrow, and dirty, and the cleanest thing I have found yet is a 1918 coin, and that had a hole' in it, like Chinese money. "The town is full of French and American soldiers and a lot of American sailors, and I saw a bunch of German prisoners. They are pretty much contented.
"The chances are we will take coal here and go up to St. Nazaire, where we will lay to, to unload cargo. We are waitin gfor orders here and what will follow is speculation."
(By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 1. The leaders of the three big brotherhoods declare they have not been consulted concerning affiliation with "The Independent Labor Party," which was or
ganized recently in Chicago by the federation of labor of that city. It was reported that the heads of the brotherhoods here would be asked to join the movement to organize trades unions of the country for the 1920 presidential campaign. William G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, said he had not been consulted about the project and besides, he explained he had no authority to frame political policies for the brotherhood. "We have men of all political faiths in cur organization, which is non-partisan," said Mr. Lee. "The question of affiiiating with any such organization as the proposed labor party would have to be decided at the triennial con
vention, -v. "Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and Timothy Ehea, acting president of tho Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen, also said they had not been consulted about the new movement.
NEAR EAST RELIEF WEEK.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 1. Governor Cox today issued a proclamation designaing the week of January 12 to 19 as the Near East Relief week, and calls upon all citizens of the state to give all they can for the relief of suffering Armenians, Syrians and Greeks who have been persecuted by the Turks and Bulgarians.
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Ellis Opposes Religious Instruction in German
Eaton, Ohio
Osborn will send its high school
quintet here Friday evening to do battle with tho local high school at basketball. The locals have played three
games this season and have not been defeated.
Reorganization of the Preble Coun
ty Board of Visitors has been effected by electiong R. II. Whitesell, of Ea
ton, president and Mrs. John Cook, of Eaton, secretary. The board has just filed its report for the year 1918,
which sets forth that the board found upon its visit to the various county charitable and penal Institutions that
all county charges were receiving good care. The report recommends that the women's department at the county infirmary be enlarged in order to do away with the present crowded condition. Conditions at the county
children's home were found good in
every particular. School has been
abandoned at the institution and the children are attending the schools in Eaton. After searching diligently for the last three months. Rev. J. Elmer Ylngling of the U. B. church, recovered his Ford car that was stolen from the county fair grounds during the annual fair last September. The car ; was recovered in Cincinnati. i
ft3y A!nclajed Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 1 Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public instruction, has certain ideas concerning the teaching or use of German in the schools. Recently he was asked by those in charge of a parochial school: "If all the branches in a parish school are taught in English is there any objection to teaching religion in German?" The Ellis answer said in part: "You know just as well as I know that the people of America are insulted by any disposition of either schools or preachers to bring up in the future
reminders of a nation and its conduct which has slaughtered our youth, despoiled our homes, violated our traditions or love. When do you propose to get away from it? If there is
any religion lett in uermany tne world today sees no evidence of it. Why, therefore, would you wish to use the German tongue to teach principles of piety and fraternity to your Children? The approaching legislature probably will answer your question very emphatically and I think you ought to be one of the first to agree to the program which shall speak to make everything in this country American home, school and church just as soon as we can." Mr. Ellis has explained he has no jurisdiction over such schools as asked the question.
Funeral Service for Mrs, Sarah Harlan Thursday The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Jane Harlan, 67 years old, who is dead at her home in Bethel, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Christian church in Bethel, interment being at Bethel cemetery. A husband, Milton
Harlan, and one son, Denver Harlan, en attorney of this city survive.
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atsy
-.&iift Good Evening Everybody Did you know that I have purchased Finney's Confectionery and Luncheonette? Well, I have. Now, folks, I am not going to put anybody out of business nor am I going to set fire to any barns, but I am going to stay right here in business and make the finest line of Home Made Candies in the State of Indiana, (outside of Terre Haute, where I have ten stores) but it will take a little time, so don't be impatient with me. In the meantime:
appy New Year to All Patsy Sez: SOME MEN were afraid they would have to go
to war and their wives were afraid they WOULDN'T have to go.
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