12 Sep 1918
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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1918
Page
1
An AP report says a troop ship carrying 2800 American soldiers was torpedoed 200 miles from the Eng gulf at 3 PM Friday. All hands were saved as the vessel beached, with troops from Chicago and Cleveland among the survivors.
East Central Normal School begins its tenth year amid war conditions with 294 enrollments and more expected. Chapel begins Friday at 11. Four faculty members remain in the field teaching SATC, while advanced students cover classes. Several parents seek enlistment for their sons. Faculty list includes Gordon, Covington, McClure, Robinson, Newcomb and others. Enrollment surpasses 300 for first three days. football practice starts. SATC admission interest grows with 50 to 60 applicants so far. Prof Newcomb arrives to start math and athletics duties.
About 85 associate members join 35 lawyers to assist in filing new questionnaires. The board, led by Orel Bunby Robi Wimbish and C. T. Barney, appoints volunteers across towns to speed registrations. list includes numerous named registrants and law firms.
A mass meeting at the Ada courthouse Wednesday night supported forming the Students Army Training Corps at East Central Normal. C V Gowing presided and Gordon outlined entrance qualifications, including high school graduates or equivalent work, with possible later lowering of standards for worthy applicants. Committees were named to raise funds for advertising and recruit men across the district.
Berlin says British attempt to advance south of Ypres and north of the La Bassée canal was repulsed. The German war office reports prisoners taken and British attacks reaching the first line at few points near Gouzeaucourt and around Epehf. About 3,000 British prisoners were captured.
The Queen Esther Chorus forms the Sing Song Club of Ada in Methodist church parlors. Members will study National Airs for war use with first rehearsal set for Thursday Sept 12 at 4 pm. Each member to bring copies of The Maple Leaf Forever Rule Britannia Italian National Hymn The Marseillaise and Sombre et Meuse.
The message urges readers who signed a June 28 note to buy war savings stamps and use them to cancel the debt. It promotes patriotic finance and wartime saving measures through stamps.
The Fourth Liberty Loan campaign in Ada and Pontotoc County will hold a meeting for women workers at the Christian Church in Ada on Saturday September 14 at 2 o'clock. Mr Ellison, campaign chairman, will outline how to proceed in selling Bonds. Mrs Byron Norrell, county chairman, asks all current and past workers to attend or send a representative.
Washington dispatch reports a call for stenographers and assistants to serve in the military administration issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder. The text names several local residents and notes travel and schooling plans, a meeting of defense council scheduled for Thursday, and a drought migrant movement through Jesse seeking Oklahoma locations.
Count Michael Karolyi, president of the Hungarian independ ent party, endorses Wilson’s peace program in a Buda pest letter to electors. He calls for early peace, says decisive victory is wasteful, and urges democratization, rejecting imperialist theories and alliances with Germany.
Provost Marshal General Crowder announced the initial call to colors will include men in the nineteen and twenty year old classes and in those from thirty two to thirty six. Questionnaires will go to registrants and local boards ordered to classify them for October calls. Eighteen to twenty year olds will be inducted into the student army training corps.
Dispatch from a European source says Petrograd is in flames in many districts with widespread looting and rioting. The report notes a breakdown of law and military order across parts of the city.
A request asks for the names and addresses of naturalized citizens born in Canada England Belgium or Italy residing in Ptto toc county to aid the Women's Liberty Loan Committee Ada Ohio.
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