The Sedan Times-Star from Sedan, Kansas • 1

A. A A i SEDAN, CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, KANSAS, AUGUST 29, 1918. NO. 35. VOLUME 46.

LOOSEN UP ON FLOUR. LETTER FROM JACK WARREN. DEDICATION OF Family Having a Enjoyable Letters From the Soldier Boys TWENTY-TWO IN NEW REGISTRATION Time on Western Trip. Boise, Idaho, Aug. 23rd, 1918.

SERVICE FLAG Editor Sedan Times Star: Dear Sir: Thought I would drop dutchmen's heads out of sixteen at the From Jay Dee Sanders. Camp Funston, Aug. 19, 1918. An Impressive Service at the To My Friends: I was called to Camp the 26th of you a few lines regarding our trip to Idaho. Left Kansas July 17th, arriving in Colorado a day later, joining our daughter Stella, her husband, W.

L. Bruner and daughter, Gladys. Was much gratified to find Stella so much improved in health and spirits. Here we enjoyed nearly a week in sight seeing. Leaving here our next stop Baptist Church Sunday 24 Stars.

1 Mayor Norman L. Hay made the main address at the dedication of the service flag at the Baptist church Sun July, from Sedgwick County, Wichita, Kansas. There were 285 of us. I knew about a dozen of them, but they were sent to Fort Riley and I have day morning at 11 o'clock. Before he never had the pleasure of meeting any of them since we parted the next was at Greely, Colorado, with a cousin Eighty to Twenty to Be the Ratio Beginning September.

1. County Food Administrator Lee iGartett frecetved a communication headquarters Wednesday authorizing a ratio of 80 to 20 in the siale of bread beginning September 1st. In plainer terms, the purchaser is only required to purchase an amount of substitute equal to one-fourth of his wheat flour purchase instead of half-and-half as heretofore. In view of past experience there can be no guarantee of how long this order will stand. Several days ago an order was received making potatoes a substitute at the ratio of five to one.

This order was recalled before it wa3 fairly announced. Will Go to Oregon. J. S. McNeal has tendered his resignation as assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Sedan, to the directors of that institution and accepted a similar position with a bank at Portland, Oregon, where the first of October he will move with his excellent family.

Mr. McNeal has filled his position morning. shooting gallery. If I do that well when I get across the pond, there Won't be many helmets left in a month or two, unless they get me, which I do not intend for them to do. We have only one hard-boiled Lieutenant.

The others are just fine. I can only get a 24 hour pass and that is not long enough for me to go home, so I am going to Mulvane some Saturday night and come back Sunday night. I can make those connections in that time and have quite a visit. Every first and third Saturday in every month is women's visiting day and believe me the camp is packed with skirts and we are glad to see the women for we are all beginning to feel like old bachelors. Come when you can and do not forget to give all of ours, Mr.

John Warren and family, enjoying their hospitality for a We left Wichita Friday night at couple of days, witnessing the auto 10:30 o'clock. There was the largest crowd I ever saw in my life. It was mobile race from Cheyenne to Den like a funeral and still like a vaude ver, which was certainly some race and believe me they went some. John Warren, his wife, Eleanor and daughter, Mildred, with their Buick Four, continued from here with us to Idaho. We made a stop at Cheyenne the boys you know a visit if it is only where the famous wild west show was being staged.

Here Albert Loyd left our party and returned home and was ville show. Some were crying, but most of them were "cheering, and shouting at the tops of their voices. The Home Guard was there to see us off. They stood beside the train to keep the crowd from crowding women and children under the train. The viaduct was crowded until there was not room for another one.

I waited until five minutes until time for the train to start and almost missed getting on, as it was impossible to make way through the crowd. Even after we started every street crossing was lined with people for fifty to one hundred yards each side of the track. for ten minutes. We appreciate the visits, and do not forget all letters are welcome. I remain your son, brother, nephew, cousin and friend.

As ever, much missed by the rest. We then pushed on through plains and moun at the First National for the past tains, reaching Blackfoot, Idaho and Jay Dee Sanders, Co. A. 10th Divis ion, Ammunition Train, Camp Funston, Kansas. our daughter Delia Shawver and family on the 30th of July.

Here we found crops good and the weather fine. One appreciates two or three blankets or comforts every night. And sleep, say I am way ahead of my alot-ment and my wife and myself are From Harry Brosius. Somewhere in France. Dear Dad: At last I will try and write you a few lines to let you khow that I am I always thought a train carrying five years with marked ability, during which time he has been regarded by its officials as preeminent for the clearhess and soundness of his judgment and for the quiet dignity with which he has pursued his work; during his entire tenure harmony and unity of action have appeared to be the dominant factors.

While right up to the mark and equal to any situation Mr. McNeal has adhered to the simple creed of honesty in all his business transactions and it has never apparently been too much trouble to much improved in health. soldiers went fast, but I got fooled. We just monkeyed along and it took until 6:30 Saturday morning to get to I helped my son-in-law, Mark still alive and not far from the front Shawver harvest his grain and it was cool enough to wear a coat with com but we can't hear the boom of the guns yet and don't know when that will happen. fort.

We can begin to see snow on Camp Pawnee, the detention camp in Camp Funston. There they kicked us off and we were a discouraged outfit for we thought that was to be our spoke however, those fortunate enough to be in attendance had a genuine musical treat, as the Baptist choir is no haphazard affair but shows the effect of excellent training. In the full choruses the choir, sang as one voice. Several of the children sang and recited in a very entertaining manner, selections appropriate to the occasion, after which Mr. Hay spoke.

No one present could fail to appreciate the justice and sensibility of his remarks and it is very doubtful if one single person differed with him or took issue in a single particular. The speaker believed in a peace with victory and never peace by a compromise bargaining of principles which would violate American rights, interests and honor and make our sacrifice again to be made by the next generation. He was quite outspoken in his opinion of Lord Lansdowne and other pacifists who talk peace by ne-negotiation, which Mr. Hay reiterated, must come only through dictation by the Allies; that to do anything else than to destroy the imperial govern-men of a nation which places no value on a treaty and whose pledges are worthless would necessitate doing the job all over again. The Mayor thinks we might not have to kill every man, maybe, but that their power must be destroyed.

He agrees with Senator. Lodge that greater than any drive the Germans have yet made, will be their drive for peace, and cites what Germany did to Russia, what they did to Italy and deplores the suggestions made by Lord Lansdowne and others of his ilk that the Allies should neglect no honest overtures from the enemy; and that to to hold Russia and Roumania would but invite disaster for the future. Not one. in the large crowd who had gathered Sunday morning to honor the twenty-four boys represented by the stars on the service flag but coincided with the speaker when he urged that all stand by the boys in the trenches and fight it to a finish. We must put up a stern front against such talk of the Lans-downes and the- pacifists," The war 1 has got to be gone through with.

There has to be a military decision in our favor, no matter what it costs I had quite a trip coming over. We the tops of distant mountains, a grateful view for one recently escaping the heat of good old Kansas. home. We did rot get much comfort were about twelve days making the trip and the weather was fine with the while we were on that camp, and Mr. Bruner and family and John none of us were foundered.

Tuesday morning they lined us boys up and marched us to the main camp. There Warren's started on their return trip via the Yellowstone National park, August 1st. Wife and I expect to remain here for awhile longer. Am Saturday' Enrollment of Those Becoming Twenty-One Since June Fifth. The following young men have become tweny-one years of age Blnce June 5th, 1918, registered at the office of the local board Saturday: Harold Orlando Mattocks, Wauneta.

Charles Franklin Boulanger, Chautauqua. William Anson Dennis, Sedan. Walter Irvin Seyler, Peru. Hobart Davis Randall, Cedar Vale. Lester W.

Byrum, Hewins. Thomas Emery Watts, Peru. William Calvin Johnson, Chautauqua. George Vernie Rucker, Elgin. John Morgan Cornett, Elgin.

Leslie Linn Rowland, Cedar Vale. Dewey Munday, Cedar Vale. Albert M. Bell, Hewins. John Alva Smallwood, Peru.

Pete Hanes, Sedan. Carus Wade, Sedan. Clyde Earl Moore, Elgin, Elmer Lyon, Cedar Vale. Alpha Bever, Wauneta. Elim Darnell, -Peru.

Leonard Alva Johnson, Hewins. George Cass Tannahill, Sedan. The number registered was considerably larger than was expected, based on the June 5th registration which was 80. That one-fourth as many should register in slightly more than 60 days would indicate that June and July are favored months to be born in. In view of the fact that there is quite a number of negroes in the county the fact was remarked upon at the time of the June registration that none had registered.

The same condition prevails in the results of the August registration all of those registering being white citizens. Examination and reclassification of the new registrants will proceed out delay. It will be only a very short time at the most until they will all be called. These Called for Next Week. Boys to entrain for Camp Funston, Kansas, under call No.

1237, sometime during the week beginning Sept. 3, 1918: 1. Willie Payne. 2. Carl Henry Clevenger.

3. James Clarage Glendenning. 4. Lyman Albert West. 5.

Carl Edward Skinner. 6. Lewis Mack Hensley, 7. Robert Ham. 8.

James Ellis 'Smith. 9. Joseph Jasper Foltz. 10. William Bryan Mann.

11. Clarence Lee Huckstep. 12. Arthur Raymond. Ashford, 13.

Carl Walton Mills. 14. William Taylor Fields. -15. Earner Cbrtis (Straight 16.

Gene Newton Hays. 17. Aca Claud Gates, 18. Charles Ezra Dearing. 19.

Richard Bryan Stotts. 20. Roy Eugene McClanahan. 21. James Leonard Courtright.

22. Leo Earl Bever. 23. John Delbert Morton. 24.

Lemmard F. Bray. 25. Charley Edgar Wynn. 26.

L. D. Akin. -27. Charley Ray Rost.

28. Clarence Guy Miller. 29. Dewey Munday. The fdllowinng registrants will en we stayed in a barrack all together for two more days, but had good eats.

planning a trip up in the deer coun Then they sent all the bunch and a try, having already enjoyed one trip up in the Lost River country where Missouri bunch to the receiving sta tion, about 600 in all. we feasted on fresh mountain trout, give any information permissible, while he has established a record for uniform courtesy. As a citizen he has the sincere regard of his associates and has been found a loyal helper in all public-spirited projects. As chairman of the local branch of the Red Cross he has systematized and placed the financial status on a firm 4asis, instigating a system that has worked without friction As a Mason he is a loyal, enthusiastic lodge man, interested in the work of the several branches and an active participant therein. He has recently been Worshipful Master of the local lodge, is a member of O.

E. S. and several other fraternal organizations. Several years ago Mr. McNeal It was the funniest sight I ever catching over three hundred of them.

On our return Mrs. Shawver gave a saw they had us boys marked from head to foot with blue chalk, showing the defective parts of our body. There dinner attended by over forty old Kansas friends who also enjoyed the was one Mennonite in the bunch and surplus of our trout. they cut his whiskers off and scrub Am much impressed by the agri bed him with a broom. He took it cultural possibilities of Idaho.

Irri exception of one day when it rained and we also had a little excitement as a sub put in its appearance and disappeared very quick when the cruiser and a destroyer fired about a dozen shots. We could see the periscope from the ship 'I was on. Some of the men seem to think there was nothing to it, but I saw it so believe it. This is a pretty country and the qropia look fine. You see lots of wheat, oats, barley and potatoes, but not very much corn; a little alfalfa and quite a bit of clover.

The stock looks fine. What cattle I saw were fat and look as though they were well fed and the horses the same. They work them differently than we do. Instead of working two abreast they string them out and don't use wagons, but two wheeled carts and can haul a fair sized load. They are away behind the U.

S. in harvesting as they cradle their crops and I have only seen two binders so far, but they don't have large fields like we do. I presume that is why. We were two days and three nights traveling on one of the most uncomfortable railroad trains I ever all good natured. There was a big gation and sunshine has produced abundant crops of grain, alfalfa, beets, and potatoes, the fruit being husky boy in front of me who refused to fight.

They called him a coward cut short by late frosts. and a booby, then wound up by giving him a cursing. When it came my Agricultural land rents readily for turn I said Rearing to go as soon as S150 per acre. Sugar beets will av- erage 12 tons per these bringing built a pretty bungalow home in the north part of town and was believed had located permanently. Whatever may be said in praise of Mr.

McNeal applies also to his wife whose social relations have been most pleasant. She is at present Worthy Matron in the local chapter of O. E. S. Their de $10 per ton delivered at nearby dumps.

Potatoes about 150 sacks to Uncle Sam can get me They laughed and said, 'You are all I went on. After we took the exam ination, they gave each of us a large sack and some of the boys thought we were going cotton picking. The first things they issued were two suits the acre, alfalfa hay three tons per acre at a minimum price of $1 parture for the coast city will be gen Wheat will probably- average 35 bushels to the acre. Glad to say we are very well' and expect to be back among you soon. Yours very truly, oi underwear, ine clerk said "one on and one in the and that is all I had until we got our full equipment.

When we got through the chute Jackson Warren. rode upon. You had to enter into the Military Training at State Normal about half dressed, they loaded about, side of the car and you couldn't lay twenty in each truck and away we down or get up and walk around when A unit of the Student Army Train ing Corps will be organized at the went, didn know where but were on the tram was in motion and the seats the way. very staight backs and no toilets Wheh we stopped we were located ion -e tra.ins and every tlme they Kansas State Normal School by an officer of the U. S.

Army, when would stop it would be anywhere from school opens September 10. All boys will be eligible for this training fifteen minutes to four hours. It took us two days and three nights to go about 5000 miles and I was worn out in the northwest part of the Main camp. Most of us boys were in the same part of the camp. There they issued us rifles.

We began to drill and learn the manual of arms which was The rifles, uniforms, overcoats and other equipment will be furnished the when I did get off and haven't had boys and faculty members by theov ernment. Under the arrangements for this training the boys of 18, 19, and 20 will be left in college unless not hard for me to learn. Then a any Jest 8Peak 1 euess 1 can't week' ago they ordered us to turn in8tan to hlt the baI1 llke 1 used our rifles. We knew it meant a trans- 1 been tyg to locate Or-f er. Saturday morning they called but that 18 as they out our names, split us all up in bunch- don allow ua to divulge any names of eome emergency should necessitate their being called before they are 21 towns and places and such being the es of from ten to fifty in a bunch, train for Fort Riley, Kansas, some- A dozen boys, students of last year and now in the training camp at Ft.

time during the four day period beginning Sept. 3rd. This is Call No, Sheridan, will return to Emporia when school opens to assist in mili 1199 for Special or limited service tary training. The government has made this arrangement so that boys may have the advantage of prelimi nary military training and at the same time go on with their college Ulass 1 men 1. Asa Harry Tindle.

2. Edward Jessee Calkins. 3. Oaks Richard Temple. 4.

Frank Wright McCurry. 5. Roy Mitchell Foster. Good Wheat Crop. case, one hardly knows what to write about but presume that when we get into action for awhile will have some interesting things to tell you in the line of experiences and may possibly bring back a few souvenirs.

We can send home such as helmets, buttons and medals we take from the Germans, but they are very particular about other articles such as postcards, handkerchiefs and other small articles. Well, Dad, I hope you are holding your own and everybody else the same. Will close this time. As ever, Harry. F.

Co. 30th Engineers, American Expeditionary Forces, via New York. work. Special war work will be giv en in Wireless, Telegraphy, Gas En gines, Chemistry, Bacteriology, Phys ics, Mathematics and other courses suggested by the Government. Many boys who had not expected to attend W.

F. Hancock was a visitor at The Times-Star office Saturday and let college this year now plan to be in. loose of a few items of interest dur ing his brief call. First one was that Metropolitan Airs at Wauneta. his son who is now in the army ser and it is going to cost.

The public's spinal column must be strengthend to meet the issue. Mr. flay paid deep and tender tribute to the boys gone and going overseas and praise for the Americans who have by their enthusiasm put pep into the Allied forces, that these boys had gone to do men's work and that when they get started the officers can hardly hold them back. The excellent address by Miss Flora Holroyd which followed Mr. Hay's, is published elsewhere.

Rev. J. R. Edwards, pastor of the church made the dedication a most imposing ceremony. The flag was dedicated to the following soldiers in the United States service: Private John R.

Edwards, Jr. Co. 137th Infantry, overseas. Sergeant James W. Co.

110th, Engineers, overseas. Private Glenn C. Crepps, Co. 139th, Infantry, overseas. Private Hiram M.

Williams, Co. 139th, Infantry, overseas. Cook Roy E. Dyer, Co. 139th, Infantry, overseas.

Private Ira L. Williams, Co. 313th Engineers, overseas. Private Wm. J.

Henkle, Co. M. 140th Infantry, overseas. Private Anthony Henkle, Co. 140th Infantry, overseas.

Private Robert A. Pumpelly, Co. 364th, Infantry, overseas. Private Garrett H. Pumpelly, 163rd.

Field Artillery Brigade. Private Miles L. Brewster, Air Service, Radio School, Columbia New York City, N. Y. Private Will D.

Kinnaman, Quartermaster Financial Div. Manhattan, Kans. Private Floyd Casement, Co. 10th, Ammunition Train, Camp Funston. Private Earl.

Richardson, Co. 7th Depot Brigade, Signal Service. Private Thomas H. Harkrader, Ambulance No. 18, Ft.

Riley. Private W. J. Worley, Co. 6, 4th Battallion 2nd Central 7 C.

Camp Pike, Arkansas. Private Eugene Burton, U. S. Marine, Battleship Arizona. Private Hoyd Carpenter, Camp Funston, 1st Recruit 41 Infantry.

Private James Jacobs, in U. S. ser- -vice. Private McKinley Jones, Manhattan. Private Cecil Hall, honorably discharged.

r.y Private Ivan McNaughten, 'Lands-man Musician of the U. S. Reserve Forces. Miss Alice Floyd, Y. W.

C. A. Hostess House, Kelley Field, San Texas. Sergeant Guy Weirshing 139th Ambulance Corps, 110 Sanitary Train, overseas. erally regretted.

Schools Open Monday. Monday will see the opening of the public schools of Sedan, Superintendent Roberts has returned from Lawrence where he attended summer school at the University and has been busy every since attending to registration, outlining courses, and seeing that all things are in shape for a good running (start. The teachers are commencing to arrive and by Saturday the entire force will doubtless be in the field. Professor Whitman and Miss Hattie Belle Maupin, of the high school faculty are already here and have Been assisting the superintendent. All necessary improvements to the various buildings have been made and all is in readiness to accommodate an even larger enrollment than last year.

Much of the routine work has been attended to so that they will not accumulate for the first day of school. The board of education and superintendent have secured a strong teaching force and everything points to an unusually successful school term. He Gave All for IJjs Country. The first sad news the Journal is called upon to chronicle of the boys who have gone over there is the reported death of Mr. Lacy Leffel, which report came to us through Mr.

Will Glendenning from his home at Bartlesville. We understand his relatives received the word that he had died in action and that is all. But to his friends in, Elgin it meant that Lacy Leffel died doing his duty for his For several days past our people have heard rumors of his death but we could not bring ourselves to believe it, but Mr. Glendenning says there is no doubt but the report is true. Elgin Journal.

Red Cross Stunt at Wauneta. The citizens of Wauneta and vicinity are preparing for a Red Cross stunt of full size to be held at that place the afternoon of September 7. An auction sale of various desirable articles, live stock and produce will be the main feature with entertainment and refreshments on the side. A display announcement by the chairman of the Wauneta Red Cross Chapter appears elsewhere in this' issue. Ice Ban Lifted.

The 'ice restrictions were lifted Monday. The few cooler days following the rain cut down the demand until the plant accumulated sufficient stock to justify loosening up of the regulations. Owing to the extreme hot weather Miss Colville has decided not to start her class in music in Sedan until the second week in September. The town of Wauneta. is taking on vice- on the Pacific coast had stated in a recent letter that the body of metropolitan airs to the extent of being lit up at night by electricity.

troops he was with had reason to ex pect that they would be sent to Si It all came about for the reason that beria soon, to take a hand in the Rus C. L. Kinnaman who conducts a gar age at that place installed a Delco sian phase of the European war. Light, primarily for his own use, but found that it provided a surplus of current to dispose of. Accordingly the New Odd Fellows hall and most of the business places have been wired for lights and are being successfully supplied with current at We went in the barracks, packed our clothes in the sack, rolled up our blankets and straw tick, tied them together (weighed about 125 pounds) then we threw them across our shoulders and fell in in columns of four and marched again on our way, but did not know where, this time on foot instead of on a truck.

We marched about three and a half miles, clear to the east part of the camp, where there were no one but negroes. The Lieutenant found out we had gone too far and we turned around and started back. Nearly every coon soldier said, 'You's like it, Just then I did not know whether I liked it or disliked it, but there was nothing to say, but march on. We marched back about one and a quarter miles, then went south about half a mile and found our right place and bleeve me we were glad when we found that place we called "home, sweet home." We are located in the best part of the camp, just south of the zone, in barracks building number 2225, so if any friends come up, be sure to call. There is one job I can truthfully say I don't like, that is what they call "police up." We all turn out after breakfast and pick up all cigarette stubs, burnt matches, waste paper and an old tobacco cud that some old hyena spit on the ground.

I do not mind the matches, paper or cigarette stubs, for I throw a few of them on the ground myself, but the tobacco cuds are almost out of my line of work. I usually put my foot on them and scramble them with the dust. Ha, ha. There was a bunch of boys who came from Sedan that I knew. One was the Watson girl's husband, but I cannot recall his name and another was Barney Barnett, of Hewins.

I knew him well. They are still in our division but not in the same company. My cousin, Noel Warmbrodt, is in the army somewhere but I have not located him yet. It is pretty hard to find a party in a camp of 85,000, unless you khpw. where to find We leave for rifle practice Wednesday as want to see if We'can shoot.

I can down- fifteen Mr. Hancock- has just finished -threshing out a 50-acre wheat crop "which made 1758 bushels machine measure, and besides feeling pretty good over that he was congratulating himself on getting out of Oklahoma with a good wad of cash to his credit two yearsago. He secured a farm down there in one of the new sections of that country and sold out at a good figure after raising eight straight reasonable cost from Kinnaman Delco-Light plant. A. H.

T. A. Organized. A lodge of the Anti-Horse, Thief Association was organized ftere nn crops. Each year since he left there Tie has recorded a total failure in that country.

This year the country is as bare as a main traveled highway and the farmers are going in together day night of last week at the city From Ira Simmons. Issoudan, France, July 24, 1918. Dear Grandparents: The weather has been rather warm with showers now and then, but I think it will be cooler for. awhile now. I have been busy as usual.

Nobody lays off in our squadron. We have everythinng nice in this camp. There are Movies almost every night at one of the two Y. M. C.

besides entertainments and concerts. Our squadron now has a piano and it is kept out in the mess hall so everyone can play it without disturbing the rest of the troops. The boys are out there now having a concert of their own. The men in the A. E.

F. are getting seven day passes now. We have three men on pass and will send three more as soon as they return. They are allowed go anywhere in the Allies' countries if they have relatives, but if they do not have any relatives to visit they can only go to Aix la Bains. This is the rest camp near Mt.

Blanc. I do not care much about getting a pass while I am in France, because I do not understand French, but if I could go to England everything would be all right with me. I am working on magnetos' at present and it is the best job that I have had vwJ't From what I hear; everything is go-(Continued on Fourth Page.) hall with 70 charter members. E. Wilkinson of Coffeyville worked up and bunching up their live stock and the organization and assisted in get driving it east in search of feed to ting the new members on a working footing, Officers of the new organization get them through the winter.

Republicans Organize. The Republican precinct committee are Matt Bosse, president; J. D. Mc Brian, vice-president; Ray Moore, men met at the court house Saturday secretary; Lee iGarreti, Treasurer. They hold their next meeting at the and organized for the fall campaign city hall this (Thursday) evening.

Brother Woodworth of Lafayette township was selected for chairman Mrs. Wallace Bumgarner of Colo, received a letter from their and Fred Mallonee of Belleville town ship, secretary. Several townships did not select son, Leonard Bumgarner who is in France that he is getting along fine mrecmct committeemen at the pn and likes it there but likes the States mary and the old committeemen are best. He says it is a pretty country expected to continue to hold their of iices in these townships. over there..