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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
3
There is a weekly Sabbath School every Sunday at 10 a m with a primary department and two classes for boys and two for girls. Preaching services alternate Sundays at 11 a m led by Pastor Rev McKay. Everyone is welcome.
Eastbound trains include No 84 local freight at 2 55 pm No 94 fast freight 12 40 pm No 8 fast passenger 9 19 pm No 362 local passenger 6 33 pm No 6 local passenger 10 00 am No 40 fast passenger 2 43 am Flag 40 for Topeka east. Westbound shows No 83 local freight 7 45 am No 97 fast freight 11 58 am No 5 local passenger 6 35 pm No 361 passenger Jersey 10 43 am No 7 fast passenger No 39 fast passenger.
Washington reports detailed War Department instructions for enforcing the new army draft. States assign registration duties to governors and mayors or boards in cities over 30,000. Presidents call upon public officers, while officials rely on citizen registrars to carry out the law, with volunteers urged to contact officials immediately.
The article outlines a new universal liability to service with registration at voting places under state and local officials. It details sheriff and mayor led boards, registrar quotas, sworn registrars, and the process for absentees and the sick. It also notes banks asked to cooperate in a separate bond offering and rapid loan subscriptions to support government needs.
The notice outlines how absentees and the sick may register by mail or in person on the sixth day after the president's proclamation. It directs county or city clerks to provide instructions, with specific guidance for those in large cities, institutions, jails, and reformatories. Complete regulations reach sheriffs and large-city officials five days after the proclamation.
Sir Hardmann Lever of the British war mission forecasts a Washington based central committee to buy all U S supplies for allied governments replacing J P Morgan & Co He predicts Germany will be nearly bankrupt in credit markets after the war and that Teutonic debt and interest will strain their finances while the Allies will finish the war financially secure through direct gold flows large American security sales and loans.
Agriculture note from M F Ahearn of Kansas State College explains beans suit any average soil and warm conditions. Plant after soil warms, risk of frost gone. growing season May 10 to September 15. Discusses string green shell and navy field beans with planting methods, pollination, and harvest by machinery. In separate items, Mrs Henry Snyder aged 81 dies at Effingham. ex Populist George W Crumley, legislator from Elk, dies in Emporia.
Kansas Land Bank appoints appraisers led by chief Nate Hern of Cheney Kansas with Dan F Callahan president. Appraisers include C C Evans Goodland J B Punk Russell Richard Rohret Junction City D A Namsey Osage City W Vanveer Scott City Slugh Clary Las Cruces NM R W Hefflin Santa Fe NM and Robert Campbell Anadarko OK. They will be paid eight dollars a day plus expenses.
Washington report says and administration bill to grant title to seized German war bound ships was blocked again after Mr Mann objected. Seventy one German and Austrian merchant ships seized by the government will be repaired and ready for commission within five months unless concealed damage is found. They will add 585 722 tons to American mercantile marine and some may be ready in four months for transports if needed. Honolulu report says negotiations closed between Matson Navigation and the federal shipping board to tow the Minterned German vessels in the Hawaiian islands ports to the Pacific coast for repairs and then use them for war purposes.
Mrs Cora G Lewis state board member proposes using high school home economics rooms for canning and food preservation during vacations. She suggests employing domestic science teachers, running clubs for girls and mothers, and adding pressure cookers and a small in basement canning plant to boost community food supplies for the war effort.
Mrs. Jenni Moyer of 842 East North Street Lima Ohio recounts her displacement recovery after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sonative Wash. She praises the remedies and offers to answer letters from suffering women and notes she was a midwife for seven years.
In a quoted exchange, Jones says Smith was arrested today for drowning his dog in the river. Brown questions the charge, noting that officials claim a sunken bark obstructed navigation and prompted the arrest.
A vintage ad features a claim for Red Cross Ball Blue laundry blue while a Western comic exchange mocks the Hindenburg line. Three Fingered Sam and Brandy Bob riff on the phrase with a joking taunt about a lariat.
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