Tipton Tribune (Newspaper) - December 28, 1917, Tipton, Indiana DECEMBER 2", EIGHT DOUBT IVi serve for the Wells-Fargo Express FEBRUARY SOLDIER WAS Expresses Appreciation for Gift from I resignation of William XOT SIRE OF Gl MAX Peace Proposals Viewed the present agent of the DEPARTMENT TO Fargo Express will MAKE NO CALLS I | place January 4, he being j cheeked out on that and his successor will be Roscoe who I for a number of years was the genial for Bunch & when they 1 The I December 2S- conditions surrounding Count proposals ior a basis of cause officials here to feel some prehension as to their There is a disposition to feel the object of the German is simply to protract negotiations as long as possible without any expectation of an mediate peace agreement double purpose of leading the man people to believe that their eminent really is desirous of making j and of gaining time for strengthening of the man lines in the I One condition regarded as sible for the present at least is that | all ij conducted a grocery and bakery j the Junction up until a year or j Mr. Jones bears a large among the business Mity He Earlier Calls for in Special Previous to the holidays the members of the Present Day of this made two bed comfort kits and sent them to Capt. C. W. at Camp requesting that he give one to Sergeant Harry Thompson and one to some other member of the company who did not happen to be otherwise Capt. Mount has just the gift in a very graceful He IT T HOY Lieutenant in the NEARLY 111" IV TON'S COAL BY This Meant a of Probably to the The local conscription board has camp Dec. 2r,th. 1 ft 17. man for the com- just been advised by the state near of the conscription department of a Your express package came in due of the and he no doubt prove to be a Mr. who loaves the letter that has been received from cal office to become night policeman General federal has tion that no calls will be been with the Wells-Fargo company made for the mobilization of the last Tor the past four years or unit of the federal army call until proven to be most efficient after February It will be having worked up a nice called that Tipton county owes here in Tipton for the teen men on that call and the local The city of under Dispatches announce the appointment of Oakley son of W. of Fairview avenue to the position of a first lieutenant in the States he being one of two Indiana men who were given commissions this the other being George of son of Dale former auditor of state and at present editor of the Anderson Crittenberger the commission of a IS A SOLDI Now With Ihe Naval I the adherence of must be obtained to the peace the Germans are trying to make with Russia before it can become This is accompanied by a demand for the return of the German colonies now in the possession of thei Russian It tan be said that the position of the American government lias not changed in any respect with regard to its determination to enter into no agreement wilh a government does not represent the free will of This would dispose of any hope the Germans have that the Russians could induce America to subscribe to the peace treaty which they are now trying to As for the German colonies the American government has never recorded itself on the subject and Lloyd George recently declared that was a subject for the peace No provision is made in Count terms for the return to France of which is regarded here as a condition that must be met as a preliminary to any peace an understanding declared by President Wilson in his message to the 1 In the light of the extraordinary efforts Germany has been making to rid provinces of French it is believed here that Germany may propose a plebiscite of relying on the vote of the Gorman soldiers and the imported German population but such a proposal would probably he rejected by the United States and her Apparently freedom is promised Belgium by Count Czernin if all of the other German demands are met. But officials note that there is a almost inseparable from German in the shape of which Germany requires to insure the execution of all these complicated factors of the peace From public declarations of German statesmen and publicists it is understood that as guaranties Germany would insist on retaining control of Belgium for an indefinite The German insistence that the pledge to restore the political independence of countries occupied by the central powers shall not apply to nationalities which did not previously enjoy independence is regarded as aimed directly at the Polish Even were such a state created as a result of the peace treaty it would have to be on the lines of the subject kingdom which Germany and Austria already have It is accepted by Washington officials that the central powers are prepared to make every effort to retain control of Russian trade and which are threatening to pass to in return for America's substantial assistance in the Scrupulous care was taken by the state department not to commit itself in any comment on the peace No official intimation of the had reached the and how such suggestion might be conveyed to the States or entente governments was Lee of this has a ietter his son who is with naval forces of the States having been to a training camp at October s. the young man enlisted in the naval service and was to the training camp at Ft. 111., i where he was supposed to but the I father got a letter this week saying I that he was at Charleston and that I he was in I This enlisted in Co. 1 when company but he | was later released on account of Ibis He had not been home but a short time until he had a desire to gel into the service and he this time being with the He writes bis folks that he is getting along nicely and likes his new duties very GETTING POINTERS OX LAW Man Attended School of In at I F. K. Davis has returned from where he attended a school of instruction in the matter of the income tax which is being conducted by the U. S. Government in the Federal This tax is a war measure and applies to unmarried persons who earn or more per year and to married persons who earn or in excess of that Mr. Davis attended this school hoping to get information as would be of benefit to his A It Can Receive Price Overman Insane The clerk has been advised by the authorities at the hospital for the insane at Indianapolis that Price Overman of Wildcat for whom application for admission was has been The reason for it is that the case is chronie and the accommodations at the hospital are taxed to Mr. Overman has been in poor mental health for some and a short time since application was made to have him taken to Indianapolis for He was formerly at that institution for Off For Soldier Harry Albershardt and Ruben Smith left Thursday evening and on were sent out of that city to where they go into camp and also training in the department of the United States Both of these boys are excellent young and there is no doubt but what they will prove to be assets to the Taken to Miss Dora twenty-three year old daughter of Jacob south of the was taken to Indianapolis Friday morning and underwent a surgical operation at the Methodist she being a victim of Reports from there Friday afternoon were that she was doing board has been expecting a call for them at any The which was forwarded Friday morning will set this at The letter was addressed to Governor Goodrich by Gen. and reads as It been decided that there will be no more formal calls for deferred percentages of the present quota before February 1 While until they have enough men finally classified in Class 1. send forward promptly men selected under the old regulations to make up deficiencies in calls already the result of this decision will be that we shall be able to give the benefit of the new classification system to all men whose order numbers are so late as to place them within deferred percentages of the present Calls will however be made very shortly under the provisions of Section 149 for the special class of meni there For of composing the public mind and for the convenience of registrants this information ought to be given wide M is possible that Tipton county will not be called upon at all for the last increment nineteen going to fill the first of the county but letter to General Crowder indicated that this call might come at any time after February This will no upon the number of men that are served the ruling this applying to skilled men in various branches of the The purpose of the government at this time in classifying the conscripts is to get data that will enable the government to call on the counties | and get the kind of men of which it may be in It is possible that the government would have use for a thousand truck drivers a few hundred machinists or mechanics of other kinds and the classification that is going on will place at the disposal of the government the facts that would be needed in the event of such a So far as eligibles for military service are concerned it is under stood that in event of another the men in the first class will be first drawn At the present time a few more than 4 00 Tipton registrants have returned their blanks and they have been Only about 5 per of them are going into the first The opinion in the state is that 20 per of them belong in that class and that will probably be true of Tipton as it is the business of the conscription board to go carefully over of the blanks and classify the men as they should be classified regardless of their If a man has managed to get himself placed in the fourth class and the facts show that he should be in the first the change will he made and he will subject to duty under the of that It will be at least two weeks before all the blanks will be In the hands of the conscription board and it will require probably another week to carefully examine all of them and give them their proper one of the kits duly delivered to Harry but I sure have had a task in deciding where the other should The truth is. after examining the comfort kit my greatest difficulty was in convincing myself that I myself was not the proper person to have it. for it certainly was complete and an almost invaluable addition i to any Because of the truly of the I desired to place it where it would be to it to a man who because of application to his duties had earned it. and vet withall I had in mind that it to go to some that was not well and also I felt that as it was made by the sood women of Tipton it ought to go to some hov in the that ' e haled from j Under the first requirement most J of my boys were eligible and my problem far from The second eliminated all but a while the third and last narrowed the necessity for choice down to some three or there I And it was only the necessity of an eleventh hour decision that me to select Corporal plake as the boy entitled the most to your dandy nice This by his proper conduct and application to his duties has gone from private to first class private and on to and is truly a game little When he gets over there you need have no fear but that the owner of the gift crave will by no act of his acquire for he is a manly little fellow in whom you may take just pride in As I have said to you it is acts such as yours that gives a company commander the to try to do what few realize false upon and I appreciate more than I can tell you your kindly interest in these WADE Capt. Inf. by Mayor Lewis and 1 which was in this has Hershman been living at to the people of this city lie is twenty-seven i practically fifteen hundred tons of years of age and is He has and a considerable portion of serving as vice-president of the j this fuel was supplied at a time wheeler Auto Accessory I when the local dealers claimed they and in that line of j were not able to a In manufacture will equip him for his there were days here when not an as he will be in the ordinance I ounce of coal could had from department and will lie on the source save that provided by Mayor | He will be stationed at- Washington arid later may gr. across the HAVE A | In veay outset the i sought to this coal to the j people at actual cost but i found that he had placed the | too low and as there I slight losses on the first few Grocers Supplying Hotels Come due fo the shrinkage .in clcr some cars live and six tons short of the amount Any grocer supplying a hotel is I of coal which paid as a wholesaler and must i was slightly advanced and have a license under the I has enabled the city to take care of hood control act. according to he Thirty car loads of vices just received by Harry K. this coal has been or will federal food supplied by the time a couple of for The ruling came at from the legal department of the federal which holds that the food control should obtain as much with reference to this class cars now at the Lake Erie yards are The coming in this time Is Illinois lump and it is being delivered at The federal schedule permits even though many of this coal to be sold here at j be as exists in Mr. Lewis there is enough to the dealers whose sales at the price and SI per County food will not be The coal administrators in have been to be as trood as most of advised by Dr. Barnard to see to it soft conl is into the city ' that all retailers conform to this and is far better than much of it. and secure federal Mr. Lewis has arrangements made censes at for a few car loads MICH The IS. Oakes Incubator Factory a Very Busy Marion Taken to Michigan City Friday Home on Russell of the United States 1s home on a Russell I the haying been in that service for somt Sheriff J. L. of was in Tipton a short time Friday having in his custody Marion who received a life sentence to the prison north by a jury in the Madison circuit day last Some time last young Braden become engaged in an cation with his a Mr. and as a result took his life by shooting him with a calibre Braden is about thirty-one years of and a fine young He has been a resident of Anderson for a number of and up to the time of the shooting of his had never been in. any Tie will the mayor's office 7 nml after that date will not deliver any Just whaf Mayor Rouls is to do in the mattei is not but this source of coal j - supply should be denied the At tno present close to one see that it ' hundred anil forty people are to come and that it is ployed at the L. It. Oakes Incubator plied to those who need it. factory and there seems fo be no let Just what would have happened in on Hundreds of town had the not arranged are constructed weekly for hundred tons shipped out to all parts of the fuel at a time when there was the Besides the need for it is not Iof this concern makes a but it is quite sure that there would ' novelties for various firms have been untold this i throughout the same condition is liable to Dast or fiva Rouls should see that summer this factory been running through with about a half but last summer AGED Harmon Sustained Friday Hurts While walking from one room to another in the home of her Mrs. W. B. East Jefferson Friday Mrs. past eighty-three years of lost her falling to the floor with such force that her wrist and left hip was badly An examination revealed that there were no bones While her hurts are of a painful it is thought that she will recover from the even at her advanced car of coal possible to be secured from the field is brought into this Possibly there might be some arrangements made with local dealers to handle but if this cannot be done the city should do it. The people are entitled to this protection from a fuel such as we had a few weeks and up to the present time they have had a large number in their employ and indications point favorable that will continue so. THE Cold Wave Cross Members Can Get Their December 2S.-A marked cold wave has overspread the upper Missouri and upper Mississippi southward and is extending eastward and southward toward the Atlantic where the weather will be much colder Saturday in all districts north of Snow in the north and rain in the south preceded the Highest pressures of the winter accompany a disturbance extending from Minnesota northwestward into the Canadian northwest with central at thirty-one The movement of this disturbance is being predicted by the cold Residents of Dr. G. H. who has the office made vacant by Dr. Hanson In Court has moved his family here and are rest dents of 109 West Adams Paul who has been here the past Ave days paying a visit to his Mr. and Mrs. Frank residing a short distance south of the returned to Camp Friday where he Is taking training in the infantry school of The buttons for the Red Cross have arrived and will be supplied to the various township chairmen for distribution among the These can be had by presenting the your membership residing in the city of Tipton and being members of the organization can get buttons or pins by applying to John R. Nash at the First There are five thousand of these members in Tipton which Is a most Home From Oral went to Friday afternoon for the purpose of bringing Tipton hisi Jolly who has been at the Eastman for some having undergone i a He brought to Tipton in the Young The young man has been getting along nicely and is believed that hehe permanently The Kessler auo truck went to Torre Haute taking the household goods of Mr. Martin has been in this elty for soma but who goes to Terra Hauts to accept 6111
