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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1917
Page
2
Dr G H Coons of Michigan Agricultural College outlines the wheat smut issue in Michigan crops. The article discusses causes, symptoms, and potential control measures for farmers facing this plant disease during the growing season.
Alpena pioneers county agent program with U. S. and Michigan Agricultural College support. Fifty-one counties joined since 1912, with 32 already appointing men before the war and more expected by year end. Reports show most counties accept and improve farm guidance despite early criticism. Michigan wheat smut and ergot issues cited. new treatment methods praised when properly applied. Over 100 two day schools organized to educate farmers in December and January across numerous towns and townships statewide.
British report says American engineers attached to the Gouze tucourt area near France endured shellfire, hid in shell holes, then joined the defense as German forces pressed. Engineers from New York helped patrol in the danger zone and fought valiantly, earning high praise from British commanders.
Ca G L Swiggett once with the University of Tennessee and former assistant secretary general of the second Pan American scientific Congress is named specialist in Commercial education in the bureau of education within the department of the interior. He will study local state and national business training opportunities advise on courses of study and aid in aligning training with business needs. The report also covers British repulse of German attacks near Cambrai with heavy German losses and continued fierce fighting as British and German forces contest positions along an 18 mile front.
I W Bouska renowned creamery expert will lecture at Michigan Agricultural College from December 17 to 22. A six day session for experienced creamery men features dairy faculty members and state pure food dairy department representatives assisting in the program.
A summary article notes that the Michigan Agricultural College faces higher expenses due to war effects, with laboratory material costs rising by about 60 000 dollars annually since 1916 and substantial war work draining funds beyond the increased appropriation given three years earlier.
Washington reports semi official Rome dispatches say Austro German invaders of Italy commit barbarities once seen in Belgium. Italian women and children were placed before troops near Zenson as locals sacrificed innocence. war taxes requisitions and labor conscription spread in Friuli. Bosnian troops accused of atrocities. cattle looted and homes burned. Italian HQ notes reduced frontline intensity, signaling shift of activity to other points with Italian British and French reinforcement ready for a concerted advance.
Lieut Patrick O'Brien a 27 year old flyer from Momence Illinois recounts escape after being shot down over Germany. After learning to survive he leaped from a slowly traveling train to flee German officers, swam canals, lived on field vegetables, crossed wire entanglements, built a bridge of sticks, and tunneled under to safety with Belgian aid.
Representative John J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn announces he will resign his seat at the end of December to practice law in New York City with Justice Luke D. Stapleton of the New York Supreme Court. He has served nearly 19 years and led the Appropriations Committee for four sessions, with the chairmanship passing to Swagar Sherley of Kentucky.
Report from India Texas via Army Telephone to Marfa describes Mexican outlaws firing on an American cavalry patrol five miles from here. Private Keise was wounded while American troops crossed into Mexico and killed 12 bandits, including Telipe Romero and Rafael Venoslado. Shacks in the settlement were burned after occupants fled.
December 1 report says rescuers reached the Old Ben mine workings and retrieved two bodies after a blast. The explosion rocked the area for miles, destroying the tipple and blasting shaft access, with flames erupting 100 feet high from air and main shafts. Eighteen miners were trapped by the blast.
Officials of the Illinois Central Railway ruled out anti American plots after a train carrying many soldiers to Camp Grant derailed due to a loosened brake beam opening a switch. Twenty three soldiers and two women were injured in the crash near Rockford.
A massive fire and preceding explosion locked down a barred zone at the Morse Dry Dock and Repair yard in Brooklyn. About 1,800 workers were held for examination by federal authorities as eight ships including the President Grant were towed to safety. The blaze originated in the Morse carpentry shop and spread to workers’ quarters, prompting extensive firefighting and police action.
Berlin reports actual armistice in sections of the Russo German front. A Russian delegation led by Prince Leopold of Bavaria aimed to begin a general truce with a meeting at Brest Litovsk. Censored dispatches from Copenhagen and Vetrograd note American protest and German authorization for talks to be held December 2 at German Brest Litovsk headquarters.
Washington on December 4 reports Provost Marshal General Crowder states no man will be exempt from military service due to dependents. The selective service law defers induction only to protect those primarily supporting others, not to exempt those with dependents from service.
National Geographic issues a war geography bulletin on Wenden near Riga in Livonia. The article recalls the 13th century Brethren of the Sword, their castle, and Walter von Plettenberg, linking Wenden to Riga and the tragic 1577 garrison self-sacrifice during Ivan the Terrible's siege, with later bishop Patricius Nidecki.
In a Caribbean port, U.S. Marines in a box near the republic's president watch a bull fight. To pass time they toss pennies into a river, drawing hundreds of local boys who dive for them. When pennies run out, the Marines bet with larger coins, one man dropping a silver dollar. A native warns the commander not to provoke the president by the spectacle.
Scarlet Rider Lieut. Col. G. E. Sanders of the Second Canadian Pioneer Battalion is said to be the first Canadian officer to propose that his command be taken over by a younger man. Despite the battalion’s fine work, Sanders insists pioneering is a young man’s job and asks to pass leadership onward. He previously served in the Boer War and commanded the Northwest Mounted Police at Calgary before and after the war.
Growth in sugar planting spreads from Durban to the end of the new Zululand railway line at Somkele. Natal and Zululand coast offer ideal sugar cane conditions. Farmers relocate from up-country farms to coast belts for profitability. Summers are hot but cane cutting and milling occur in winter, allowing growers to seek cooler climates seasonally.
A grave digger unearthed the half of a primitive corn grinding quern from early Scots land in Cramond. At about five feet deep he found the upper stone fragment about 18 inches in diameter with half of the central hole. No other fragments were recovered despite search.
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