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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
2
The week brought a range of events across the city including cultural performances, sports updates, and community meetings. Notable moments featured notable speakers, performances, and collective efforts to support local initiatives and neighborhood improvements.
From All Over The World notes retail coal cuts to $1 to $1.50 in Chicago after Wilson's order fixing mine prices nationwide. White House to set middleman and retailer charges. costs to be based on production estimates from the federal trade commission. Also, food administration fixes a 11 PM September 8 end to spirits production for beverage use, with internal revenue rules citing the September 9 deadline. Senate rejects some finance committee plans, then adopts Gerry’s shift raising surtaxes on incomes above $500,000, aiming to add about $46 million in revenue and total war tax receipts of roughly $72 million after broad debate.
A British official communication says Mexican gunboats must patrol the gulf shore to prevent neutrality violations by German agents. It also reports Canadian forces have captured two thousand yards of German positions west and northwest of Lens in a drive that began early Tuesday.
Seventy three alleged anti draft rioters from Seminole county are held to the federal grand jury in McAlester Oklahoma in bonds near 500000. The sugar industry pledges supply for navy and army in 1917 18 at 100000 tons per year with price set by food administration.
The 1917 wheat crop in Ireland was 53.8 percent larger than last year and 371.1 percent above the 1911-16 average. Across Europe violence unfolds in Spain with widespread rioting amid a general strike in Barcelona. Salonika faces massive destruction and displacement as fires burn, and a Cuban decree transfers four German steamers to the U.S. government as prizes of war.
Reports from Dover and Margate recount German air raids with two planes shot down. Pershing says victory comes from strong American and Allied blows. Coal prices vary around 2 dollars, Washington state highest at 3.25. Petain visits Pershing and praises American troops. St Louis doctors face scrutiny under selective service. British gains along Epres Menin road lead to heavy losses for Germans. Judge Speer upholds draft law, claiming no involuntary servitude. US railways plan the largest troop move, starting September 5. Mexican loan talks progress in El Paso and New York. East St Louis riot indictments lead to arrests. Boston welcomes Civil War veterans for Grand Army encampment. Northwest strike calls affect several industries but progress remains orderly.
Nebraska lawmakers are urged to send seed samples to the state food commission for free testing under a new law. The effort seeks to help farmers improve germination rates of alfalfa oats and other seeds, aiding wartime production and weed elimination.
The Defense Council plans to aid tenant farmers in Nebraska after severe hail damage by surveying Merrick Polk Fillmore York Hamilton Clay counties to find farmers unable to afford seed and to secure credit. The aim is to plant a large winter wheat acreage this fall and convert damaged corn lands to wheat if seed is affordable, noting seed prices of 2.60 to 2.85 dollars a bushel may block purchases without financial help.
State fair will run a department offering expert advice for frail and deformed children. Last year few parents visited due to limited advertising. A list of conditions includes cleft palate, club foot, dislocated hip, rickets, tuberculosis, and mental backwardness. Applications and exam dates are provided by Danielson at the state capitol. entries close September 1 for help and August 20 for the Better Babies Contest.
State officials travel to a national conference on a systematic plan for public school vocational education. The national government funds the effort conditionally on states providing matching sums. Nebraska allocates 18000 dollars to match the federal grant for the first year.
The federal farm help agency at Lincoln with the state labor bureau reports more job applications than openings, and forecasts a late autumn rush with corn husking. Meanwhile, Daw son county seeks 1500 dollars back from tax overpayments, and Lincoln county asks the state auditor to review a 1300 dollar remittance claimed for 1911, signaling potential wider overpayment issues.
Under the administration food control bill the sum of 115000 dollars has been set aside for Nebraska counties to place an agent in every county where no regular county agent is employed. County agents and food emergency agents will organize and mobilize agricultural resources for maximum production.
State Fire Commissioner W S Ridgell informs school boards that the 1917 legislature placed the fire escape law under the fire commission with requirements for two story or taller school buildings. He urges immediate installation of approved stairway fire escapes and monthly fire drills, plus ongoing fire prevention instruction.
Chief H W Dunn of Omaha has a box car of booze he may offer to the war department for medical use. Attorney General Reed says the liquor can be shipped interstate to the war department under federal law, not state law prohibiting internal liquor shipments.
The state irrigation board approves five state aid bridges including North Platte over the South Platte river at $20,000 and Scottsbluff over the North Platte Hartley over the Republican river at $10,000. It notes an upcoming meeting to consider Ashland toll bridge Pollack bridge north of Plattsmouth a new Platte bridge at Yutan and a suffrage petition drive listing 33 000 names coordinated by Mrs W E Barkley.
Home economics specialists at the University of Nebraska rate cottage cheese as a superior protein source. A pound provides about one fifth of a pound of protein, mostly digestible, at a lower cost than meat. It claims daily protein needs can be met by a pound of cottage cheese for an average adult.
The agriculture board urges every community to examine a food drier on display at the state fair. It notes a real food shortage and widespread waste of fruits and vegetables due to failing markets, shipping limits, or produce conditions. Windfalls or specked apples could be dried for use.
Nebraska items report Lincoln moving to establish a public market while Lincoln hosts Merchants Market Week with record crowds. Community news include Cowles Webster county raising 2500 for Red Cross, hogs at South Omaha selling for 19.25, 140 enrollments at boys camp during Sept 2 7, and other local highlights.
Major L. B. Sturdevant head of the Sanitary detachment of the Fifth Regiment at Lincoln has been appointed assistant chief surgeon at Camp Cody in Deming New Mexico. He succeeds in the post and moves to the camp for service in the field hospital organization.
Mayor Miller of Lincoln received a letter from the War Department requesting the creation of a telegraphy school in the city's high school.
The store of E. W. Starlin at Filley was broken into Sunday night. Thieves took sixty yards of silk goods seventeen pairs of shoes and other articles in the burglary.
The Lincoln Commercial club paid its last formal compliment to the Nebraska national guard with a luncheon in honor of the twenty four officers who were in Lincoln.
E J Hainer of Lincoln has succeeded T E Williams as president of the First National Bank at Aurora. Williams has been connected with the bank for thirty years.
The Nebraska fair promises to be its greatest, slated for Deshler from August 28 to 31. Ten new tracing stalls and an addition to the grandstand have been built to enhance the event.
The state fair management will again provide free expert advice for frail deformed and defective children and invites parents or guardians to participate in the program.
About 450 men stationed at the fair grounds have moved from their quarters to the Lincoln auditorium. Officials cite the Nebraska state fair as the main reason for the change in quarters and expect the troops to remain there until ordered to return by state authorities.
Columbus coal dealers urge patrons to stock up now as labor troubles curb mine production and rising nationwide demand narrows supplies.
The weekly output of the Antioch potash works averaged one hundred tons per day for the week ending July 29.
Large poster directories prepared by the Lincoln Commercial Club will be placed in public spots during the first week of September. They aid visitors by guiding them to Lincoln’s sights and helping locate the most interesting sights in the capital city.
Mrs John W Johnson a patriotic Hastings woman offers to teach telegraphy at her home free of charge to young men who wish to enter the army as telegraphers.
The German American State Bank of Lincoln will hereafter be known as Continental State Bank after approval of its articles of incorporation by the state banking board.
Jesse Harris a Humboldt mill stenographer initially joined the draft but failed to be accepted after passing the physical. He is three feet tall and has three brothers all drafted. The Falls City examination preceded the later rejection.
The Fort Snelling aviation reserve corps lists eighty Nebraskans for officer training and about one hundred fifty five more Nebraskans recommended for a second training camp opening August 27. Names include Breeze Lincoln Yale Bell York Burke Omaha Carveth Lincoln Campbell Omaha Caldwell Omaha Gray Lincoln Kirkendall Omaha Kelly Lincoln Hubbel Lincoln Hecht Plainview Lesher Grand Island Miller Omaha Myers Harlan Selzer Lincoln Shillington Omaha Williams Lincoln Williams Lincoln Weaver Columbus and others from Humboldt Lincoln Oakland Ulysses Crete Omaha Scorrs Scottsbluff Liberty York Neligh Lincoln Hastings Beatrice Uni Place Lincoln Omaha and more Nebraskan students.
The War Department urges Nebraska recruitment to full war strength before training. Unmarried men aged 18 to 40 may enlist for the war only at Omaha, Lincoln, Norfolk, Grand Island, Sidney, Alliance, Hastings recruiting offices. National guard members may seek a commission. uncalled registrants may enlist but not after local board notification.
Guy Rathbun secretary and physical director of the Beatrice Y M C A and football coach at Beatrice High School for six or seven years resigns to join Indiana University Bloomington as first assistant to Jumbo Stiehm in coaching football and other athletics.
KE Fassett, former editor of the Review-Herald at Arlington and longtime Nebraska newspaper man, died in Colorado Springs last week after a general breakdown.
The Seward Independent-Democrat owned by State Auditor W. H. Smith and edited by F. W. Mickel lists subscribers who quit the paper citing its zealous pro American attitude.
Several Lutheran church choirs pulled out of the fall cantata in Omaha because they refused to participate with Kountze Memorial, one church that had shown interest.
Miss Mary Pascoe of Fremont arrives from New York for a visit with her father before departing to France to become a dictation in an American hospital. She has been connected with the Edison company in New York and has lectured on dietetics across the eastern states.
Mrs. S P Howland who lived in Juniata for more than forty six years died there recently. Funeral plans were not listed in the fragment. The notice notes her long residence and recent death in Juniata.
Music at the fair will again be furnished by the Nebraska state band of Lincoln and Green's band of Omaha, also by the Peru boy scout band and bands from David City Orchard and Osceola, and three bands with the circus.
Twenty five men from Ainsworth went to the farm of William Billeter five miles northwest of town. The bachelor had cut and stacked his wheat but could not get help to harvest and secure the grain.
President Wilson announces fixed anthracite prices effective September 1, naming Harry A. Garfield of Williams College as coal administrator. Prices range from 4 to 5 dollars per ton fob mines. Jobber profits capped at 20 to 30 cents depending on delivery area. Bituminous prices fixed with a 15 cent jobber profit limit. Rescreening or reshipment costs allow up to 5 cents per ton.
In Houston Texas twelve whites including civilians police and a national guardsman were killed and many wounded when negro soldiers of the Twenty fourth U S infantry opened fire during Camp Logan guard duty. Capt J W Mattes of the Illinois field artillery was killed while trying to intervene. The violence began after two soldiers were arrested and a halted ambulance was fired upon.
The War Department has ruled that tribal Indians are not subject to the draft since they are not citizens and may claim exemption like aliens. Counsel for tribesmen requested the ruling. The article notes most Indians maintain tribal ties and estimates a large number will be exempt under this ruling.
Washington reports Cuba has accepted an offer to provide a mobilization and training ground for some American forces. The number and description of forces to be sent cannot be disclosed for military reasons.
Boston Massachusetts and Portland Oregon were contenders for the 1918 G A R encampment city. Atlantic City New Jersey was a close contender, losing by one vote at the business session.
In remarks attributed to Lloyd George the focus is on wheat stocks and food outlook. He notes previous stock figures of 6,480,000 quarters rising to 8,500,000 quarters with a reserve of 1,000,000 acres. He says good weather would yield very satisfactory supplies.
New York union leaders and former socialist party members who left over its war stance issued a call for a conference on labor and democracy to be held in Minneapolis on September 5. Provisional committee secretary Ester M Wright said the conference aims to nullify the effects of the so called people’s council conference in the same city beginning September 1.
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