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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
12
Local items report Mrs. Ira Coy returning from Ohio to her home, several residents visiting relatives in Claypool Warsaw and Hammond, and many young people resuming school duties in Anderson Chicago. Also ads urge oiling harness and selling typewriter ribbons at the RECORD office.
Former Governor Samuel M. Ralston leads a wartime gathering in Indiana urging that any citizen opposing the war must leave the country. French Lt. Paul Perigord praises unity and calls for German aid to end the war. Local items note Jesse Lynch auctions, John Ayers sick leave, and Recoup magazine orders.
Classified notices advertise Ladies Home Journal and other magazines with a trial order offer. Bliss Native Herb Tablets promoted for rheumatism indigestion and kidney issues with 200 doses for $1. Also an extra 373 acre farm near Silver Lake with house barn granary hen houses cistern and well for sale by Julius Magnin.
Dr. J. A. B. Sherer, for the Council of National Defense, told county councils that thrift, conservation, and sacrifice will grow as plans unfold. He urged mobilizing skilled labor for emergency war industries to boost effectiveness. Will H. Hays urged silencing traitorous utterances and reporting unpatriotic action to authorities. Franklin W. Fort stressed conserving food amid European shortages and enforcing food regulations.
At the Indiana State Council educational section meeting a resolution was adopted pledging educators to support the United States Boys' Working Reserve to supply labor for crop production and industrial efficiency amid men serving in the army. The section endorsed the junior Red Cross sale of war certificates and high school patriotic leagues. D B Waldo of Michigan State Normal School and W H Wells spoke.
BE. B. Leach of Ohio and Earl Dean Howard of Illinois join BE. I. Lewis of Indiana in stating that transportation is the key to solving the fuel shortage. Fifty fuel administrators back a resolution supporting the national administration to meet current demands.
Dr Frankwood E Williams of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene urged organizing to help those disabled by the war. Major John D McLain from the Surgeon General’s office lauded Indiana’s medical advisory boards under Dr J R Eastman’s direction.
Joseph H. Oliver, Indiana chairman, outlined the drive to foster thrift through War Savings Certificates. He announced distributions amounting to ABB s 300, 000, aimed at supporting government crisis efforts.
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