The Ottawa World from Ottawa, Kansas • 1

St-. 0 s. 1 F. S. MICKEY, Publisher.

OTTAWA, FRANKLIN COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917 VOL. 1. NO. 5. THIRTY-SIX MEN LEFT FOR TRAINING CAMP.

HARRY K. THAW AGAIN ROCK CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER. THE. A. H.

T.A. At about 11 o'clock Friday THE REASON. By Berton Bradley. IS COMING Last Friday evening the patrons of Rock Creek school met Sued This Time for $500,000 By Boy He Abused and for $150,000 by Parents. morning, thirty-six of the drafted men, with many friends and and organized a community cen relatives, met at the court house.

Each drafted man wore As a Rprmel to hia heatino- in ter. A short program was given by the children, after which a business meeting was held. The following officers an American flag on his coat A. 1.111V1 iVUll AlUg VAA. VVUIVI Oi.e Thousand Brave Men and a Quarter Thousand Fair Women to Visit Ottawa Next Week.

I www TJoilmr oliVororl a cVinrf Now Ynrlr last Christmas anita address to the men, after which were filed in Philadelphia today the band waved a selection in for an aggregate of $650,000 front of the court house. Then, against Harry Thaw by Freder- led by the band, the men lck Gump, of this city, and were elected: Walter Kock, president; E. W. Smay, Vice President; Miss Ellen Larson, Secretary and treasurer. Committees on refreshments and program were appointed.

Following this a social time was enjoyed, during which doughnuts, coffee and aooles were served. marched to the Misouri Pacific his parents. depot. While waiting, for the Young Gump asks for $500,000 Ottawa should certainly put on her best clothes and hang out every latch string next week. The Anti-Horse Thief Association will hold its state convention here, beginning Tuesday and.

holding over Thursday, It is announced that about a thou train, the band helped to keep as damages ior cruel and mnu-up the spirits of the men by man treatment, while the parents playing such lively tunes as claim it is cnargea "What are we fighting for?" pacifists cry. "Why are we warring with Germany, why?" "Well when you give us a query like that We must admit that it knocks us quite flat. What are we fighting for Truly, not much, Trivial matters like freedom and such, Mere bagatelles scarcely worthy of strife, Like decency, honor and fairness and life Righteousness, safety and' common humanity, Comfort, security, happiness, sanity Things unimportant like mercy and truth, Threatened by beasts without pity or ruth. Silly and empty and hollow our cause, Merely a war for mankind and its laws, Merely a fight against murder and lust, Evil and brutishness trampling to dust All that is goodly and lovely and fair! Doubtless its silly of people to care To rescue the world from the Prussianized brute Which wallows in slaughter and fattens on loot; But some of us most of us manage to see The world will be Prussian unless it is free, And, therefore we fight, and if need be, we die, Because we MUST fight or be slaves that is why! 'Hail, Hail, the Gang's All tnat tne injuries received nave An auction of the products displayed at the fair was held from Here," "Hot Time in the Old rendered the boy a nervous Town," "Dixie" and many oth- wreck and that he will be an in-ers. valid for life.

which about $4.00 was netted. It was decided to hold these meetinfirs the first Friday of Benjamin Sisson, the thirty- The attorneys tor the bump seventh man, was out of town family are Frank P. Walsh and in Joaenh Shannon of this citv each month hereafter. sand men and two hundred and fifty women will attend, and the local reception committee expects that the hospitality of Ottawa will be taxed to the limit to take care of them. They will not ask for anything "free." The ruling price for lodging will be fifty cents where two occupy a bed and seventy-five cents for single beds.

But our hotels cannot provide for more than a small fraction of the crowd. A. time to leave with the rest, but and William A. Gray, former dis- I A II. T1- I.J 1 1 MISS FLORA MOFFETT.

wired that he would join them tnct attorney oi rnnaueipma. at Camp Funston. The attorneys for Thaw are Miss Flora Moffett died at her home at 213 East Red Jacket There was a large crowd at James uay. uoraown oi rnna-the station to see the men off, delphia and former Governor but despite the efforts of the Stone of Pittsburg. band and others to cheer, it was Thaw was declared insane by street at 9 clock on Tuesday moraine.

Oct. 9. The cause of death was paral P. Elder is making a list of a auiet, solemn crowd, many a jury aiter an auempi at aui- ysis. tear-stained faces anions them, cide and his mother was named AN INTERESTING MEETING, mostly of 'those being left be- as guardian of his person.

At- Miss Moffett has lived here for thirtv-five years and was homes where delegates can be Telephone or see him. Chanute is expected to send 9.50 neonle on a snecial train and mna. xne departing ooys qiq ui mow aoowuiuw DEMOREST PICKERING A wedding which will be of in well known here. She was born The Young Men's division of not seem to mind so much, he aws in Monroe county, Ohio, and was numerous other towns will be i rnmmowo snme (nmressed tnemseives as nmuie iui uauiagcD, vi iuuSU III t- 1 I I I I I I I 111 JUlllllll i I 52 vears old. She is survived represented by large delega terest to many Ottawa and Franklin county people was sol held a very interesting meeting being eager to go and get at the insane i -i 1 Soon Kaiser.

by two sisters, Miss Lucretia as the case is at issue, tions. last Tuesday evening. There 4Ntt-v o'nnnlT'AV'O -pVTirvi TTonCflC I It is expected that the number will arrive on Tues Moffett of 213 Red Jacket and Mrs. W. R.

Cody of Hutchinson; arid three brothers. John Mof emnized the parlors oi tne First Baptist church of Scottsbluff. Nebraska on Thursday, probably ten days, depositions will be taken here and in New York, New Hampshire and Cali if Keen opHvp in or- GENERAL WOOD SAYS SOL- day evening trains. Farmers of the snrroundinsr country will JX lJ liV il-CAV. tVA.

-y m.m.m. I ganizing and building up the QIERS GET TOO MUCH PAY. VMiTin Mon'o flivisiAn in Tfansas October fourth, when Miss Othel fett of Enid, Sumner Mof fornia. luuiig aixwi a uiTujivu meet them at the trains and es fett of 213 Red Jacket, and Wil liam Moffett of Lawton. Okla.

M. Demorest, only daughter ot Mrs. Florence Demorest of City. They told how their or Wichita, Oct. j.

nsBprtPfi that Thaw rnvt them to the rooms of the ganization had started, with Gen. Leonard Wood, speaking Wn a private Funeral services were held a' forty men at the tirst meeting, here tonight, decried the new itarium the Kirkbride sani- Wellsville became the bride of Mr. Aaron Earl Pickering of Shawnee Wyoming. The Rev. Edmund T.

Brown, pastor of the i i. and how it has crown until to scale of pay tor the American tarium. under only nominal re- 10 a. m. today at the home, in charge of Rev.

J. H. Oliver of the Trinity M. E. church, and burial was in Baxter cemetery.

day the membership numpers array. He declared that the straint that his quarters cost nearly three thousand and they present scale, which he considers him $90 a week that he has a i. i-L T.I. XI ri III i 1 1 .1 1. 1.

I attendant of his own attendant oi nis owr vajv-k Buiucijr Mm mgu, uiiov wlvate immhor TAlir thousand. kad man nnf nt a rrnnrl onlHior i i i rc Baptist church, periormea tne ceremony. Miss Demorest was born in Miami county near Paola, but FOR BUR- BROUGHT HERE IAL. rX, Vvi I uou V- choosing ana nis own cnauueur. The Kansas City organization He declared that the man in the ttp iA tn he a familiar fieure Chamber of Commerce, where they will register and be assigned to lodging places to which local automobile owners will be expected to convey the visitors.

Sometime during the convention the A. H. T. themselves will put on a street parade that will be worth coming down town to see. Local owners of automobiles are also requested to.

be present at whatever time mflv be designated to take the has lived the most ot her lite in has covered one thousand mues rai5ks of the American army now on tne public roads in his great this season on booster trips, draws as much pay as a French tony.no- The bodv of Mrs. Abbie Smith Yanklin county. For six years These men drove to Ottawa in maj0r. He said that too much It is charged by implication she resided with her parents in Fales, widow of the late Philetus Fales, was brought to Ottawa Monday from Conn. North Ottawa.

an automobile to encourage tne paJ, tends toward dissipation and tnat iunacy proceeding was a orgaMzation here and give them destroys the army morale. He Qhterfnae to nrpvent his extra- Mr: Pic.kerine was formerly ot the benefit of experience gained Would like for the soldier's fam- dition to New York on a charge Siloam Springs, Arkansas. At SUOam ioprings, Allvaiisais. nv Mrs. Fales died October 3, 1917, as a result of an abscess of the uic i vvuuiu line iui ouiuigi the time of the big western land in the Kansas City division, and t0 get most of his pay.

miK UvV, lr. invito the HttflWa men tO the I cniA tVio n-nn Kirr tl 1915 both 7 to get most oi his pay. He said the big to invite the Ottawa men to the visitors on a sight-seeing trip 0f criminal assault upon Gump one thing this nf1 is announced that the state opening in the fall of over the While we have liver. The funeral was held on Tnesdav. Oct.

9. at the Federat I. -VT IT 1 "1 1 1 3 c.tiuiiLiv liccua ai liiio tunc 10 uuiiuj uwus he and his bride tooK govern Young Men's convention to be held in Kansas City this winter. nr Bunker Hill monuments or 101 JNeW lOrK Will uc reprcsemcu 'nitiless nublicity." adding that the pivil trial nnd ment claims. The couple be ed church, Rev.

Powell otthat church conducting it. Mrs. Fales They drove back to Kansas Uty this is the time when the people tw Thaw's lunacv be John Brown Cabins or other historical ruins to show, we do ex-nect to exh ihit the nrettiest ur- came aquainted last spring while both were spending their shouVl know evervthine. for 'uesday night alter the meet was a member of. the Presbyter disproved, that the criminal charge will again be pressed.

uDon the rjeonle depends the out five months leave ot absence to-now town the United ian church. She and her husband had both been school ing. The uttawa envision expressed their appreciation of the come ot he war. me ul iuc wai. from their land in Scottsbluff, Thaw assault upon young- Thaw assault upon young- States.

He was accorded the greatest Frederick Gump. occurred teachers here in former days Nebraska. recention ever eiven any visitor Mrs. Fales was 75 years old. interest shown by the visitors and feel that they have been greatly benefitted by their talks, lnat r.hristmas niffht in a "buffer Miss Demorest took land nine SPOKE TO STUDENTS.

in Wichita. Une hundred and ty miles north of Cheyenne, and is survived by one daughter, T71 1 -I 1 1 4 mrs. rrea ouonx, wnu, viwi while Mr. Pickering located sev and would welcome them pacK at any time. ten thousand persons gathered today to give him a royal greet Kriice K.enneav oi lvionwom- room" a sound proof chamber, in the Thaw appartments at the Hotel McAlpin, in New York city.

When the details of the assault hecame known, the lay ner nusDanu. came wiui uic enty miles farther west tne foot hills of the Laramie Moun Near the close ot the meeting ery, representative oi ner- winsted. Conn. The ing. Governor Capper was also a guest.

General Wood made bert Hoover, tood dictator oi tne terred in Highland the young men were joined by tains of Wyoming. After October 15 Mr. and Mrs. United States, spoke to the the A. H.

T. who had been three speeches, was a guest at a banauet and attended the inter dents of O. U. at chapel last holding- a meeting in the next pjplroriniT will be at home for public throughout the United States suddenly realized that the treatment accorded the young Thursday morning on the con- room. The A.

H. T. asked national wheat congress. His MISS BEULAH FIELDS. the winter in Scottsbluff, where servation of food, Mr.

Pickering has a responsible the young men's cooperation in taking care of and entertaining Word was received in Ottawa Mr. Kennedy's message con rernino1 the cruelty 'and ruthless special train lett tonight tor Camp Funston. MORE MEN CALLED. position with the Great Western sno-ar enmnanv. the de eeates to the A.

H. T. A. Kansas City boy by the millionaire was a manifestation of a sensual mania of which medical jurisprudence is keenly aware, but of which examples seldom Sunday of the death of Miss Beulah Fields of McPherson, convention to be held here next Tn the. snrintr thev will remove ness of Germany in the war was verv interesting and brought week, which the young men Kansas.

Miss Fields was a mem to Mrs. Pickering's claim near Torrinffton. Wyoming, where home the fact that every person home the tact that every person Todav. October 11th. examin reanilv nromised.

bef Qf thg ml clags of the Qt in the United States should be TWevsitv and was o-rad- tawa University and was grad ations of 184 more men for the they will make their home P. R. Moise ot tne nome fJnards extended an invitation interested in winninff the war draft army will tart. All men uated with honors. are detected modern history.

Especially interesting, to those who sought to explain and construe the extraordinary whim which led Thaw to beat the boy "He also said that a very good between numbers Sbi) and 5os The cause of Miss Fields' CONGRESS SPENT TWENTY to the young men to attend the meeting of the Home Guards at wav to heln win the war is to death was Hodgkins Disease, are to be called and examined, examinations to start at 8 a. m. aid in the food conservation at aid in the tood conservation at BILLION. the court house Friday evening. with which ghe had suffered for home and stop the great waste She had the best several years.

She had the best who had been- entrusted to his care, with no other aoDarent de each day. The same board will Washington, Oct. 5. Since Con of food in this country. be charge again, Drs.

b. C. of medical attention, but it was RE sign than to cause him agony, gress ronveneri its extraordl' Herr and John B. Davis? Frank WANT FLOUR PRICE DUCED. of no avail, and death came at was the connection between this nary war session last April, and NEW SERVICE STATION.

8:20 Saturday mornmff. Miss up to today, it has placed at tne lin county is nine short of its quota; Shawnee county is thirteen short. Only white men TPJolIa wq hnrn Tnlv 2fi. 1892. atrocity by Thaw and contentions of William Travers Jerome and other noted attorneys Standard Buys Site 50 by ,70 at McPherson, and was twenty- I are being sent from this district Wichita, Oct.

9. -Following speeches by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. ex-Governor W.

five vears old. disposal ot the administration 17 billion dollars and has auth- orized contracts for almost 212 1 billions more. Most of the mon-! From Hempy-Reed Motor Company who sought relentlessly to prevent his discharge from the hos so far. The funeral was charge ot R. Stubbs of Kansas and Gov Dr.

Price of O. U. and was held pital for the criminal insane in ey was for war purposes, mclud- JUDGED INSANE. ernor Arthur Canner. calling at The Standard Oil company Mondav mommer at 10 clock.

New York, that Thaw was an incurable, dangerous lunatic de- ing 7 billions tor loans to tne will build a regular style service tention to the contributions tne United States is makinsr to the FLORENCE V. HANKS-ROB- A commission composed of station at the corner of fourth anite his surface showing ot BINS. Dr. F. A.

Trump and Dr. H. The appropriations commit nnH Main streets as soon as fi war, the wheat and food con sharp intelligence. K. C.

Post. tees, through their chairmen, Kennedy, found James W. Wells servation consress in session nal arrangements are made for the ronstruction. They pur Mrs. Florence V.

Hanks-Rob- to be insane Tuesday atternoon NARROW ESCAPE. here at the Forum adopted reso hitions demanding that the gov Mr. Wells has lived on a farm Senator Macklm and Kepresent-ative Fitzgerald, made the figures public today, coupling with chased the lots from the Hempy- bins, age 54, died at Pomona at 3:15 a. m. Wednesday, October near Lane for about fifty-five ernment's $2.00 wheat price be reduced or that a reduction be Motor Co.tor a considera tinn of $6000.

10th. them the declaration that uon-o-ress had done its work in fur years and is a bachelor, it is renorted that he is very well One of the World's reporters who is a young man at about the right age to begin thinking of Mrs. Robbins was born made in the nrices of food that George W. Early representing Muskineum. Ohio, and came to nishing the money for the war fixed financially.

His brother, wheat produces. The action was I the Hempy-Keed (Jo. was ut Franklin county twenty-three very effectively. Albert, with whom he has lived 'tawa Friday. for many years, was appointed years ago.

She is survived by James W. Robbkis. her husband, guardian. MARRIAGE LICENSES. MEXICO IS O.

K. such dangerous things as matrimony, walked into the office of the probate judge this morning and said, rather indistinctly, "I want to get the marriage licenses for the past week." "All riffht." Mr. Short replied. and two sons. Ward E.

Robbins unanimous. More than a thousand farmers, mostly from Kansas and Oklahoma, at the International Wheat Show and Food Conservation Congress here today, pledged themselves to return home and rell their whet at the Govern AUTO RACE. The. marriace licenses issued of Williamsburg and Lloyd Chicago, Oct. 9.

Reports of Robbins of Pomona. 1 i- lr -fst-u 4-Vik, r.Ql"TWO- outlook for the during the past week are as fol n. hrio-ht perma lows: STEPHEN HUTCHINSON. Hand bills are out announcing the auto and motor cycle races nenrv of the Carranza govern' and getting up from his chair he walked over to a cabinet and be Ki uneth R. Whitney, Chilli- w.svn i'ti Movicn were hroncht pothe 28.

lllCllly AX i-A V- v. 1 v.w Hun Alvaro Ohre- The funeral 1 Stephen gon of Mexico, who arrived on Hutchinson, the son of Stephen tin a Waohino-ton. He is TTiit.r.hinson of Tacoma. to be held Forest Park Monday afternoon. This is an unusual attraction for Ottawa and should draw a large crowd.

Glen LeMaster and Dare-Devil ment price, to per? their Meighbors to do the thing nnd help the sornm it in every way possib''' to win the war. This afternoon the farmers gan getting out a blank as he said, "How soon do you want to get married?" The young man wilted and has not yet fully Anna F. Durall, Pomona, 520-Phillip W. Brandon, Rantoul, llliD VV CJf lv.j accompanied by Maj. Harvey W.

was held Wednesday morning at 24. Miller. U. S. who met mm at wiiuamsourg oy iev.

lvicuiam, Talo ViAth professionals, will listened to Julius H. Barnes, di- IJSLdlGU UUI1UO X. iwi 4-1, ur.iof and will o-n with him of the Methodist church 1 H( 1. a roftnr of the United States Grain make a dash for a nurse of $500. Ruth K.

Lindenburger, 26. ixrooVvina-tAn Rtcnhen was four vears old Liberty Loan in Every "A corporation. cars are both equipped to tmAH-inna in Mevifo are anrl was killed at Lincoln. jviiui 1 very good," General Obregon October 5, by being run over by make seventy' miles an hour on Home." Our service free. run.

curity State Bank. Everett Truitt, Ottawa, 18. Harriett Burgess, Ottawa, 15. Telephone news to No. 191.

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