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WEEKLY .ESTABLISHED 185#WOODLAND. CALll'ORNlA. FRIDAYDECLARATIONWAR SIGNED++++♦♦ :•*ORDERSWIRELESSSouthern Pacific Places Guards On Yolo Co. Bridges♦4 M*WASHINGTON WHISTLES BLOWNWAS WITH GERMANY PAPERS ALL COUNTRIESWORLDStern realities of war were again brought heme to Yolo county today when armed guards began patrolling bridges along the Southern Pacific line. This is not the first time this has been done, as the railroad sent out guards for a similar purpose but a few weeks ago.At the Yolo bridge there are two guards, one for night duty and the other for day. This important Yolo county bridge is being watched day and night.Similar conditions exist at Knights I Minding, Peart and the other bridges of importance in the county.WASHINGTON, April 6. -War was in Washington and on the Potomac The Southern Pacific and other rall-river nearby, was openpd wide and luu,,s have all of the bridges ofARE SIGNED1:13,EASTERN TiME, BYOil PRESPjEhTWILL BE ADVISED THIS MOVE INSIDEOF 24 HOURSdeclared at 1:11 this afternoon.A* excth that hour President Wilson signed the joint resolution passed by the house and senate, declaring a historic war resolution, message* to state of war bHween the I nited States all the countries of the eanh wereand Germany. 1J|f»An hour before, the resolution w*as ment's action, signed b \ ice-Pr««ii dent Marshall at The *:»;e department Informed theSwiss minister here, representing Ger-their screeches could be heard in ev- Iniportanee patrolled during the tenseery corner of the nation’s capital. t,mes lhr°ugh which the nation is nowWhile the ink was still wet on the l,ass‘ng. 1 he S. 1’. lines alreadj ha\etheir guards out and will add to thenumber in a few days, according tosent notifying them of this govern- advice* received in this city today.12:13.These »er«* the la^t formalities ne- man interests In the l utted States of cesaary to make the Pnlted States an this country s a.tUm. The minister ally of F.ntdand. Frame and Russia will communicate the word form llyw ^ i;r.....~ ft- |In the world war of democracy to Berne by cable and thence to Iter-Great Night TonightFor Local Elks’ Herdagainst atHocrac.Un.TliCafora 1m th» 1iAs the president affix* d his slgna-, ln!?ed St;'v- representative* in ev-Tonight will be a big one In local .Via Klkdom. Woodland Ixdge, B. P. O. Wlt;ture to ths document. Lieutenant Con»- **ry foreign and South American cap- ** P'lnea lt;f entertainers, and J.^de*mander It) ran McCandless signalled Kal should have the news within the ^ ^Klnnon °f Oakland, grand esteem-a«-nH» the strict to the navy depart- n«xt twenty-four hours. lecturer, will be specially honored arimen; that war was (ornllly on and President Wilson signed the war !l I‘MIKe HjIs evening. He is to porders were flashed out from the gov- resolution while alone in the library officers for the ensuing ear, titernrnent wireless to the ships at sea lt;f the White House two minutes after ;M fallows: Asa Proctor, hxa’.ted \Vlt;and t«» the forts of the United States, it had reached the executive mansion N. Merritt, hxalted Lead- MlSimultaneously every set am whistle from the capltol. Kniftit; .!. I). Stephens, Fxslted InI/iyal Knight; E. K. Gaddis, ExaltedjCrI iiitf tieiu ir L.' nioVil * C* f . KMHt* tuf
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Woodland Daily Democrat
Woodland, California, US
Fri, Apr 06, 1917
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