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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
8
Iowa university plans to delay opening to October 1 with registration September 26 for three days. State officials report resignations and wartime measures, including army training units in 20 colleges and local price controls.
Secretary McAdoo announced the treasury will not seek more than eight billion dollars in taxes for the current year to fund army needs in France. He said bond sales will cover about two billion, with contracts carrying remaining costs. The House moved to cut estimates, defeating proposed taxes including an eight dollar bale tax on cotton and a tax on child labor products. Changes included extending a ten dollar business license, adding five dollars for wholesalers, eliminating auto hire gross receipts tax for most, and delaying soda fountain tax to November 1.
Francis Xavier Schilling of Marathon County Cassel chair and former state assemblyman received eighteen months at Leavenworth and a $3500 fine in Eau Claire Wisconsin court. Judge A L Sanborn sentenced him after a jury found him guilty on six counts for counseling draft registrants to claim false exemptions and disloyal utterances.
Allied forces push across 25 miles of front in Macedonia as 45 villages fall. Bulgarian retreat continues with stores and villages burned. Serbian units pursue relentlessly after complete defeat of Bulgarian forces.
Chicago dispatch reports Commander Moffett at the Great Lakes naval training station issued orders halting leaves until the influenza epidemic passes. The quarantine affects about 50,000 sailors with 1,500 already ill and one death reported.
Washington Sept 21 The nomination of Hugh H Robertson of San Antonio to be United States attorney for the western district of Texas was sent to the senate on Thursday by President Wilson.
A force of Japanese cavalry joined General Semenoff's Cossack troops and entered Tchita in the Transbaikal region on Thursday, signaling a joint movement in the area.
Madrid September newsroom reports Foreign Minister Dato urged strict discretion while awaiting cabinet meeting results. The international situation was reviewed and the exact conclusions withheld for now.
Washington reports United States and Great Britain have joined in mediation between North and South China after reports from British and American agents on the scene.
General Crowder and General March outline a seven billion dollar mobilization plan. The army may reach 4.8 million by July with 2.7 million new registrants called. Navy and Marine Corps calls to be issued soon, with voluntary inductions first and mandatory drafts if needed. Enrollment rules for under eighteen workers to be discussed by federal and state directors of the United States boys' working reserve.
President Wilson selects John W. Davis of West Virginia solicitor general to be ambassador to Great Britain. Davis, who arrived in Switzerland, will head the American delegation at the Berne conference on prisoner treatment and exchange with German missions.
London report says the allies advanced ten miles in Macedonia on a twenty mile front with German troops aiding Bulgaria now fighting alongside Bulgarians. Serbian official statement notes thousands taken prisoner as Serbs French and Greeks tally 7000 captured.
Sept 20. Aviator Putnam, the leading American ace with nine aerial victories, was killed in action in France. He lies buried in a buttercup field on the Toul front beside Lufbery Blair and Thaw.
Charles E. Chapin city editor of the New York Evening World confessed to shooting his wife two days earlier and, failing to kill himself, was indicted for murder in New York.
American delegates at the labor conference proposed that the conference endorse the fourteen points of President Wilson as the conditions under which peace may be established.
Washington reports from the War Department show it costs $423.47 annually to keep a soldier overseas and $327.63 per year to outfit and maintain one in the United States.
In Urup island volcanic eruption on September 19 caused a tidal wave that overwhelmed workers refloating a sunken ship, resulting in 29 deaths. The incident occurred near Tokyo with loud explosions reported.
London reports the new allied push in Macedonia widening. Serbians and French capture Koziak and surrounding defenses near Zborske after crossing the Gradesnitza river 20 miles east of Monastir. Over 4,000 prisoners and 30 guns taken. Allies advance about five miles on a 19 mile front between Vardar and Lake Dorian. Gradesnitza village occupied. Koziak heights give control of the city, key to the offensive.
Cardinal John M. FarleyArchbishop of New York died at his country home in Mamaroneck New York on Tuesday after a rapid decline following a relapse from pneumonia. He was born April 20 1842 in Newtown Hamilton Ireland to Philip and Catherine Farley.
Survivors report the German U boat that torpedoed the British steamer Galway Castle was blown up with all hands lost.
London reports an Interallied conference will be held in Versailles as part of ongoing Allied coordination. The date and exact participants were not specified in the available dispatches.
Washington September 21 Director General McAdoo approves American Railway Express company plan for extra rate hikes estimated to yield 28.67 million dollars. Public hearings will start October 8.
Captain R W Schroeder of Chicago reportedly set a new altitude record with a test flight at Canton. He climbed to more than 28 000 feet in the experimental plane amid officials and observers noting the pioneering achievement.
The Concrete, the new navy recruiting boat built of concrete, arrived at the municipal pier in Chicago under its own steam after traveling from Pittsburgh down the Ohio River.
Washington reports the war in straw hats continues as the industries board issues an order requiring manufacturers to introduce new styles for the next season and to produce only enough hats to meet demand. The aim is to conserve materials and curb excess production.
The War Department asks Congress for 7.847 billion dollars in added appropriations to finance a bold military program for the coming year. Plans call for nearly 4 million American troops in France next summer and about a million in training at home. Total army funding would exceed 24 billion, with regular and fortifications authorizations adding to the figure. Government outlays for the year are projected at 85 to 86 billion dollars. Current appropriations stand at 20.791 billion, including 5.402 billion in contract authorizations, and shipping board funding is expected soon for several hundred million.
A blaze at the American Button Company plant in Newark trapped eight girls a boy and a man in a cloakroom on the top floor. Another girl died leaping from a window. Nine others were injured, several fatally. The factory employed over 800 young women making army and navy buttons. The fire began in lacquer cans and an insulated wire caused an explosion. Many workers escaped via a fire escape as flames filled the building.
A neutral country report to the state department says allied citizens in central Russia face danger after the Uritski assassination. Five hundred people were shot and many others are held for execution if further attacks on Bolshevik leaders occur.
Provost Marshal General Crowder ordered local draft boards to allow voluntary induction of draft registrants into the navy and Marine corps. If voluntary inductions fall short, drafts will be used to fill the services. Marine corps contingents will be called within a few weeks.
Washington on September 21 Albert Strauss of New York representing the treasury on the war trade board was nominated to succeed Paul M Warburg as a member of the federal reserve board.
Amsterdam reports a devastating blaze at the Woellersdorf ammunition factory in Vienna. Many workers were killed or injured in the shell making section creating a panic after the fire.
Federal agents seized a man in Chicago who carried 150 registration cards and admitted selling them for ten dollars each as part of a draft card sale scheme detected by authorities.
In Chicago on September 19 fifty six women were appointed to malling department positions by Postmaster William B. Carlile. It marks the first time women are employed in this capacity at the post office.
The House approved a sweeping revenue bill of 8.182 billion dollars by unanimous vote aimed at funding wartime needs. Debate highlighted unity against Prussian militarism and support for taxing higher incomes and war profits, with passage expected to influence Senate action and November timing.
President Wilson proclaimed October 12, the four hundred twenty sixth anniversary of American discovery, as Liberty Day. He urged cities towns and countryside to stage commemorations and to boost the fourth Liberty Loan with a holiday for federal workers where feasible.
An official Berlin note states Germany is ready to participate in a proposed exchange of den s. Despite a seeming Austro-Hungarian rejection of a conference, the government’s offer remains open, according to Vienna officials.
Washington reports 1,811,000 tons actually delivered to the Emergency Fleet corporation this year with 2,606,000 tons launched and keels laid for 4,108,000. General Manager Pleg told the senate commerce committee that September deliveries likely reach 400,000 tons.
Amsterdam reports United States Minister Vopiekam and other entente ministers at Jassy have been arrested by Soviet order while returning through Russia. The seizure involves high diplomatic figures amid shifting wartime alignments.
In Trenton on Sept 28 Atto Seleh elt a patent attorney and Dr. Freder ich Bischoff were convicted in federal court of conspiring to defame soldiers and Red Cross nurses by circulating stories in 150 cities.
Paris reports Lieutenant Boyau, renowned French ace with 82 aerial victories, missing since Wednesday after a flight behind enemy lines.
Amsterdam dispatches report Social Democrats in Germany conducting numerous peace demonstrations. Protests staged in Essen Cologne and many Saxony towns as part of nationwide demonstrations.
The piece discusses the Epistle to Philemon and Onesimus the slave who became a son In bonds to Paul. It compares views on slavery, notes Paul’s call to receive Onesimus as a brother, and links to reform through the gospel. It also recalls Voltaire and John Gough as contrasts and cites Greenland missions illustrating spiritual change over civic reform.
The speaker argues it is a devilish lie to claim children cannot grasp religion. Christ would set a child as the model of faith, since children love and trust more easily than adults, so they should be shown Christ as the supreme choice.
A reflective line compares spiritual humility with philosophical stance, suggesting deeper insight comes from prayerful contemplation rather than detached reasoning. The saying emphasizes faith over secular doubt in pursuing truth.
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