The Ada Weekly News (Ada, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1918 Page: 1 of 12
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Consolidated with Ada Weekly Democrat Sept 1 1910
VOLUME XVII OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
WIU RESIST GERMAN ADVANCE
NO FOOD SUPPLIED UNTIL
GERMANS REVOLT
fly Called Proas
Letrograd' Feb lS-r-The bolahe-
Tiki foreign office announced today
that Ruaaln will fight If the Ger-
mans advance against Russia they
will be declared counter revolution-
ists and fought like Alexieff and
Kaledine No trade relations with
Germany are possible the foreign of
flee declared The Germans will get
food only when they revolt and Join
the Russian Proletariat
The Germans have begun an ad-
vance on Reval a port on the Gulf of
Finland
Tried to Blow lTp Bridge
i Berlin Feb 19 — The Russians
made an unsuccessful attempt to
blow1 up the bridge over the Dvina
river the German war office an-
nounced today An earlier announce-
ment by the war office declared the
Germans had crossed the Dvina In a
newl nvasion of Russia
The fact that the Russians tried to
blow up the bridge bears out a Pe-
trograd dispatch today declaring that
Russia will fight
Germans Enter Dvinsk -
Berlin Feb 19 — Germans have
entered Dvinsk with little resistance
the war office announced Dvinsk
in located on the Dvina river 100
miles southeast of Riga
huh mma
PMTIC LEIfiUE
v
- To give the school boys and girls
an opportunity to align themselves
on the side of democracy and liberty
in the world war a new organisation
la being perfected In the schools of
Oklahoma called the Oklahoma
School Children's Patristic League
Sapt Floyd is pushing the organisa-
tion in Pontotoc county Each local
will be given a handsome lithograph-
end charter which is to he signed by
- each member subscribing to the prin-
ciples laid down in the charter de-
claring its purpose
HlGHT MEN ON WARSHIP
MONTANA INJURED
By United Free
‘ Washington Feb 19 — Eight men
were injured when a cartridge case
exploded on the United 'States ship
Montana during target practice' the
navy department announced -today
fail PLACES FARM HANDS
IN DEFERRED DRAFT CLASS
Washington Feb 19 — A bill pro-
viding that farm laborers be given
deferred classification was introduc-
ed In the House today by Representa-
tive Flood chairman of the Foreign
Affairs Committee Those affected
would have to be steadily employed
in farm work two years before the
law became effective
ROBERT WIMBI8H JR
APPOINTED TO ANNAPOLIS
Congressman Tom D McKeown
has appointed Robert Wimblsh Jr
of Ada to the U S Nalal academy
at Annapolis a very high honor to
any American boy Robert will leave
at once for Salisbury Mo where he
will take a special course preparato-
ry to the entrance examination which
will take place In April
GERMAN AIR RAIDERS
MAKE WATER HAUL
By United Press
London Feb 19 — There were no
Msoalties and no damage in last
night’s air raid Lord French an-
nounced today
ME MINIES
By United Press
Buenos Aires Feb 30 — Port work-
ers today boycotted ' trans-Atlantic
steffmers loading meat at packing
hemes affected by strike This ac-
tion Is believed to be the forerun-
ner of a general port strike
GENERAL KALEDINRS
COMMITTED SUICIDE
Petrograd Friday Feb 30— Gen-
eral Kaledlnes hetman-of the Don
Oeesacks committed suicide at Novo
Teherkask during a session of the
government which he attended The
government decided to resign After
the decision General Kaledlnes went
to an adjoining room and shot him-
self General Naharoft succeeded
General Kaledlnes as leader of the
Don Cossacks and ordered the im-
mediate mobilisation of all Cossacks
to fight the bolsherlki
GOVERNMENT WILt ORDER
MANY TRAINS OFF AND
RAISE RATES
By United Press
- Washington Feb 20 — Curtail-
ment passenger traffic by sharply In-
creasing passenger rates and elimi-
nation of competing government
overnight trains between the middle
west and commercial centers is ex-
pected to be ordered soon ty tbe rail-
road administration Interchangeable
tlcketB will be Introduced reducing
Inconveniences to tbe minimum
Steps being worked out in detail will
be In effect as soon as completed by
McAdoos order Passengerless days
were considered but this plan Is not
believed probable with the return of
warmer weather
The most drastic cutting of passen-
ger traffic will be In the middle west
Some reduction will be made on east-
ern routes but officials pointed out
that 4000000 miles have been out
from their schedules already Trains
will be run only when loaded to ca-
pacity All upper berths must be fill-
ed Club buffet cars are not permit-
ted The exact per centage of In-
crease In rates has not been decided
MME KERENSKY
f Mme Kerensky wife of the ex-
premier and revolutionary leader J In
Rueela to arrive in this country Be
fore her marrlaoe Mme Kereneky wee
a well-known Russian actress
PROVIDING ROUSES
FOR SHIPYARD MEN
By United Freeo
Washington Feb 19 — The govern
ment today prepared to launch a gi-
gantic housing program to give de-
cent shelter to American war factory
workmen A fifty million dollar en-
abllng appropriation is being rushed
The plan Is modeled after the Brit-
ish and one of the most ambitious
war moves the government has made
to improve labor conditions Tbe
houses are to be made of permanent
structure wherever expedient and
compatible
GROW A GARDEN IS SLOG-
AN OF GARDEN BUREAU
Oklahoma City Okla Feb 20 —
(Special) — "Grow a Garden" has be-
come tbe slogan of tbe Garden Bu-
reau of the Oklahoma State Council
of Defense and this spirit hBB per-
meated every office at tbe State
House In Oklahoma City "Grow a
Garden" has been stamped upon near
ly every piece of the voluminous cor-
respondence and printed matter
which has gone out from every
government department at the Capi-
tol County directors are oemg rapid-
ly appointed andthe organisation of
gardening forces 'In the state Is al-
most complete The latest bulletin Is-
sued by the bureau touches on the
planting of tomatoes peppers and egg
lanta failure to grow which success-
fully Is often due to not starting the
plants In advance The seed should
be planted in a flat or plant box and
in four weeks transplanted to a cold
frame Use a springing can or per-
forated tin bucket or can to avoid
washing the seed from the soil
Place the box after planting In a
warm place When -seeds have germ-
inated keep the box in a light place
In a window or on a shelf outside a
window
OLDEST PAPER IN
ADA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21 1918 LARGEST CIRCULATION NUMBER 44
OF
LACK OF SHIPPING MAKES NEC
H8SARY SLACKENING OF
PACE FOR THE PRESENT
ly United Press
- Washington Feb 19 — A gradual
slowing down of Industry throughout
the eastern part of the United States
is under way and will continue un-
til the American shipbuilding pro
gram now lagging catches up high
officials say Lacking sufficient ships
to import necessary raw materials
and to export the finished product
industry faces an enforced and wide-
spread curtailment ' '
I
CONTRACTS CUT GLASS OUTPUT
FOR YEAR FIRST ORDER
" TOTALS 44000
I
The Ada glass factory has scored
a big bit by closing a contract with
one of the largest jobbing houses in
the United States for practically the
entire output of cut glass for the
coming year The Initial order is for
$44000 one of the largest if not the
largest ever placed at one time By
the end of the year much more than
this will have been manufactured and
delivered To handle this contract
Manager C V Gowing will leave
Saturday for the East to secure thir-
ty or forty cutters
The other departments of the fac-
tory are also making rapid progress
and the product is sold up to the lim-
it of production This includes the Hr
lumlnating glassware ornamental
glassware tumblers etc large quan-
titles of which are being manufactur-
ed -
The experimental work in overcom
ing difficulties in the manufacture of
caskets has been completed and a
number of the thirty-inch size turn-
ed out and are now being trimmed
However- none will be put on the
market until molds for larger sizes
can be installed and all be put on
the market at one time This matter
of getting the molds has caused the
management more worry than any
of the numerous difficulties that have
had to be overcome The eastern con-
cerns where the orders were placed
have been so badly handlcaPPd by
the war that they have not yet com-
pleted the molds and ' Mr Gowing
states that if he is unable to get re-
sults on his trip East he may' just buy
the equipment to do this work make
the molds and get to work on the
caskets
The growing business of the fac-
tory makes it necessary to build an-
other furnace Material is already on
the ground and work will start in a
few days
ADA INSURANCE MEN
FORM ORGANIZATION
A meeting of the insurance men of
Ada was held yesterday afternoon
and an organization was formed by
the local men with the ultimate in-
tention of having the organisation
cover tbe entire state Frank L
Finley was elected president and
Harmon Ebey secretary
The meeting was addressed by
Richard L Drake executive secre-
tary of the Insurance Federation of
Oklahoma Mr Drake explained the
purposes of the federation movement
The ’insurance federation pf Oklaho-
ma is a part of the National organis-
ation which extends over forty-five
states of the nation
Mr Finley will appoint a member-
ship committee that will conduct a
campaign in the immediate future
throughout the county and another
meeting will be held at which it is
expected will be present the new
members and those who the commit-
tee have in prospect
Tbe purpose of the organisation is
to create a closer bond between the
buyer and seller of insurance as well
as between the buyer and seller of
Insurance as well as between Insur-
ance men themselves An education-
al campaign will be conducted In Ok-
lahoma by the various county units
Volunteer speakers from the federa-
tion will address Industrial and civic
organisations on insurance matters
generally
Just received a carload of alfalfa
molasses The best and cheapest feed
for stock and chickens Try a sack —
Ada Seed and Feed Co Phone 697
2-19-2td — ltw
PONTOTOC COUNTY
SUDS FAIL TO
STARVE ALLIES
HOOVER TELLS SENATE COM
MITTKE ONLY SEVEN PER
t ' CENT LOST
I t- '
By United Frees
Washington Feb 19 — Lauched
and fcnalntalned with the avowed pur-
pose of starving the entente allies
Germany’s U-boat campaign has mis-
erably failed Figures given congress
by Hoover showed today tbe loss of
but seven pec cent of food shipments
last year Hoover warned againBt rail-
road failure which he said hurt food
shipments more than the enemy’s
submarines
PREPARING TO RESIST NEW IN-
VASION BY GERMANS TROOPS
ORDERED TO FIGHT
By United Press
Petrograd Feb 20 — Demobiliza-
tion of the Russian army and fleet
has been stopped it was announced
today ' Russian troops are ordered to
resist he German advance and evac-
uate positions only when necessary
destroying all property that might
serve the enemy when retreating
Preparations are being made for a
stubborn defense of Petrograd The
entire press urges the government to
fight
Germany’s Excuse for Hostilities
? Petrograd Feb 20 — A Tsarkoe
Selo’Wireless today picked up Prince
Leopold’s address ordering tbe Ger-
man advance against Russia He
said “We want no annexations or con-
tributions but restoration of order
Russia is the center-of anarchy and
the contagion is spreading into Eu-
rope Civilized Europe understands
that the Germans are defending or-
der in Europe"
Germans Demanded Indemnity
London Feb 20 — Foreign minis-
ter Trotsky speaking before the Cen-
tral executive committee of Pan-Soviet
Thursday announced that the
Germans at Brest-Litovsk reduced
the indemnity asked of Russia from
four billions to one and one-half bil-
lion according to a Petrograd dis-
patch German Ship Strikes Mine
Copenhagen Feb 20 — twenty
lives were lost when a German ship
struck one of -their own mines in the
Baltic sea according to a report re-
ceived here
SOLDIER FROM WYNNEWOOD
CCTDENTALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF
Dallas Tex Feb 20 — Luther
Ventress Wynnewood Okla 142nd
infantry Camp Bowie accidentally
shot himself last night in the hos-
pital here and is not expected to live
BOLSHEVIKI WILL
NOW SIGN TERMS
London Feb 20 — The bolshevik!
government agrees to accept Ger-
many’s terfns as dictated at the
Brest-Litovsk conference
The statement was transmitted
through the wireless telegraph sta-
tions of the Russian government to
the government of the German em-
pire at Berlin The text reads:
“The council of people’s commis-
saries protests against the fact that
the German government has direct-
ed its troops against the Russian
councils republic which has declar-
ed the war at an end and which is de-
mobilizing its army on all fronts
The workmen’s and peasants’ gov-
ernment of Russia could not antici-
pate such a step because neither di-
rectly nor indirectly has any one of
the parties which concluded the arm-
istice given the seven days' notice
required in accordance with the
treaty of December 16 for terminat-
ing it
"The council of people’s commis-
saries in the present circumstances
regards itself as forced formally to
declare Its willingness to sign a
quadruple alliance at Brest-Lltvosk
"The council of people’s commis-
saries further declared that a de-
tailed reply will be given without de-
lay to the conditions of peace as pro-
posed by the German government
(Signed) "For the Council of Peo-
ple's Commissaries
"LENINE TROTZKY”
Night School
Monday Tuesday Thursday and
Friday 7 to 9
STAUFFER’S BUSINESS COLLEGE
107 West 12th St
2-I5-8td — 2tw
Consolidated with Pontotoc
I
SKEPTICAL OF TROTSKY WILL
“PROTECT” UKRAINE AND
FINLAND
By United Press
- London Feb 20 — General Hoff-
man leader of the -German militar-
ists at the Brest-Litovsk peace con-
ference wants proof of Russia’s wil-
lingness to accede to German terms
a Petrograd wireless said today Ack-
nowledging receipt of the people’s
commissaries wireless message sign-
ed by Lenine and Trotsky which de-
clared the bolsheviki were forced to
express a willingness to sign German
peace terms Hoffman declared he de-
sired to see the original signatures
They are being forwarded to Dvinsk
German Finds Pretexts
Amsterdam Feb 2 0 — Germany
will not allow Finland Lithuania and
Ukraine to be ruined by bolsheviki
excesses foreign minister Kuhlman
declared in the Reichstag according
to dispatches received here He said
he would see what effect the new mil-
itary plans hav toward Russia
JOHN LIND
'John Lind former governor of Min-
nesota was named by Secretary Wil-
son chairman of the advisory council
that will assist In tha administration
of a war labor program Intrusted to
the department of liber by the presi-
dent EXPERT COMPLIMENTS
HIGHSCHOOL GARDENS
Prof D C Mooring of the exten-
sion department of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College is in Ada to-
day in the interest of the hone
gardens He has spent part of the
day in the city schools telling how
the pupils can increase the output of
vegetables and relieve that much food
for the warring nations In Europe
Prof Mooring congratulated the high
school strongly on the start it has
made to cultivate the vacant lots by
planting them to potatoes By plant-
ing tbe potatoes they can have the
crop off by about tbe time school is
out and then can carry on the work
by planting black-eyed peas o some
other crop
Prof Mooring is traveling about
the state and Is receiving the very
best co-operation on every side in the
garden movement
RIG SALK OF HEREFORD
J O Southard one of America's
most successful Hereford breeders
Is making announcement through the
News tihs week of bis semi-annual
sale of tbe well known Monarch
Herefords One item In particular
needs emphasis: The profit in dol
lars and cents to the breeder of pedi-
greed Herefords over ordinary cat-
tle A start of a few heifers and cows
with calf at foot will in ten years
make a fortune for anyone This is
being demonstrated all over the
country by beginners and those sea-
soned in the business It Is a lamen-
table waste of time and energy to
produce scrub cattle when the same
feed and care will reward the cattle-
men so handsomely In the pure bred
line Mr Southard has the record of
60 head of his Herefords through
the sale ring in 60 minutes at an
average of $950 The breeding of
Herefords Is In itsl nfancy and the
breed for marketing them is unlimit-
ed Mr Southard especially wants
the boys at this p"' - Go nrui take
your boys It will pove tn educa-
tion for them
Co Enterprise Jan 8 1
SENATOR MAKES PLEA FOR GOV
KRNMENT OWNERSHIP OF
RAILROADS
By United Frees
Washington Feb 19 — Senator
Johnson today declared In the senate
that the nation is marching straight
toward tbe goal of public ownership
in openig the fight to retain tbe rail-
roads under government control af-
ter the war He said the people have
at laBt come Into their own He vig-
orously assailed the compensation
provided for the railroads in the con-
trol bill stating it is indefensible in
tbe present crisis - Answering the
charge that politics would play an
important and injurious part in the
management of the road's he said
"I’U risk any kind of politics under
government ownership rather than
politics I have seen under private
ownership" He said a few months
of endeavor has shown there must be
absolute unity of purpose and with
private ownership such co-ordination
and nationalization is impossible
Johnson criticised those who disa-
giee with the president in taking
over the roads saying their seizure
was absolutely necessary for the safe-
ty of the nation
11001111 smifs
IIIOSWEITIFOTES
Postmaster J W Westbrook this
morning received $109620 worth of
thrift stamps and saving certificates
The campaign for these is on In earn-
est conducted by W C Duncan and
it is likely he believes that these
thousands of stamps will be bought
up before many days
Robt Wimblsh as the head of tha
four minute men is sending speakers
to the various schools ana theaters
and other places where they can tell
of the thrift stamp movement y
News from the Battlefields
Berlin via London Feb 19 — The
war office communication today says:
“Western theater: On many parts
of the front the artillery duel3 were
revived during the evenlg The In-
fantry activity was limited to reeon-
noitering engagements
“Aerial activity was lively through-
out the day and night Bombs were
dropped extensively on military con-
struction works behind the enemy’s'
front and the airplane attacked Lon-
don In the last two days sixteen
enemy airplanes and two captive bal-
loons have been brought down in
aerial fighting and by gunfire"
Rome Feb 19 — The Italiant roops
are showing much activity and are
harassing the enemy all along the
line There also has been considera-
ble artillery fighting according to
the report from general headquarters
Horse Taken Up
One bald-faced stocking-legged
dark bay horse four or five years
olrl Was wearing saddle Come to
my house Feb 13 four miles south
of Ada on Byrd’s Mill road — Abe
Dew 2-8-2td — ltw
BROADWAY BIDS VERNON
CASTLE FAREWELL
By United Press
New York Feb 19 — Broadway to-
day said goodbye to Vernon Caistle
captain in the Royal flying corps and
premier dancer killed recently The
church was packed with leaders of
the theatrical world on one side and
men wearing Khaki on the other
MILITARY POLICE
IS CONSIDERED
F 1 United Press
Oklahoma City Okla Feb 20 —
Police Chief Nichols Is touring
Camps Doniphan and Bowie confer-
ring with commanders on the plan of
establishing a military police here
to co-operate in stamping out vice
and make it safe for visiting sol-
diers W O W PLEDGE SUPPORT
TO THRIFT MOVEMENT
The W O Wa nd Woodmen Circle
held a rousing meeting Thursday
evening for the purpose of arousing
Interest In the Thrift Stdmp and War
Savings Certificate movement The
outcome was the pledging of near-
ly $1000 by the members present
Addresses were delivered by W C
Duncan C E B Cutler M R Chll-
cutt Robert Wimblsh Miles C Grigs-
by and W C Williams Meatless and
whontless sandwiches and good cof-
fee was served The coffe- was donat-
ed for the occasion by Keltner Gro-
cer Co
t
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Norrell, Byron. The Ada Weekly News (Ada, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1918, newspaper, February 21, 1918; Ada, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1784191/m1/1/?q=%22United+States+-+Oklahoma+-+Pontotoc+County+-+Ada%22: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.