These are miscellaneous articles from THE BALTIMORE NEWS, Tuesday, October 22, 1918:
(Not genealogical, but interesting nonetheless.)
MAKE "FLU" VACCINE FROM DEAD GERMS
Canada Now Using It To Combat Disease
(By the Associated Press)
Toronto, Ont., Oct. 21—A preventive vaccine for influenza is being distributed to Ontario hospitals, according to an announcement made today by the Connaught laboratories at the University of Toronto. The vaccine consists of dead germs of influenza and 18 grains of these germs are used in its preparation. Seven thousand doses already have been distributed.
The Connaught laboratories were established along the line of the Rockefeller Institute of New York and the Lister Institute of London, England, for investigation in the field of preventive medicine.
CROWDER’S OLD HOME TOWN
Years Ago Edinburg, Mo., Was Livelier Than Trenton
(From the Macon Republican)
Edinburg, Grundy county, where Gen. Enoch CROWDER was born, like many other towns in Missouri, missed its chance of becoming great when the railroad passed it by. When CROWDER was born there in 1859 it was quite a place, the old inhabitants say. They speak with enthusiasm of Grand River College, here some famous men were educated and declare that Edinburg was a much livelier town than Trenton, and would be a heap sight bigger by now if it hadn’t been for the blamed old railroad.
Uncle Albert MILLER, who came out to show the photographer where to take pictures, and who says he has lived in Edinburg 77 years, says that CROWDER was a quite a pert youngster, but that the folk couldn’t get him to go to Sunday-school. "But I hear he’s done fairly well since he left Edinburg," said Mr. MILLER, "and I guess he’ll get along somehow."
General CROWDER came back to the old town a few years ago and pointed out the lot where he was born. The house had been moved away no one knew where. Frank ELLIOTT runs a little store on the corner and remembers CROWDER very well. The place is reached by a smooth, hard road about six miles out of Trenton. Near a creek on the way is a gigantic hill, and overlooking a turn in the road is a rock bluff that looked as if it was put up to delight some landscape painter. There are several citizens in Trenton who remember CROWDER very well. But few people outside of Grundy county had ever heard anything of Edinburg.
NATIONAL BANK IS BUNCOED BY BARBER
Institution Sends $500 To Norfolk Man Who Forged Name Of Baltimorean
B. H. STEADMAN, a barber of Norfolk, has mixed himself up in considerable trouble as a result of using a simple scheme to defraud the National Bank of Baltimore and Benjamin KIERR, a barber of Baltimore, according to a dispatch from the Virginia city. The scheme, although a simple one, worked with surprising success.
STEADMAN wrote to the bank, it is alleged, said he had been arrested for not having his draft card and asked $500 of "his account" for bail. He signed KIERR’s name. The bank demanded KIERR’s bank book. STEADMAN, as KIERR, explained that both book and draft card were in the possession of a friend and had been burned.
The bank, after a proper interval, issued a duplicate book and sent it to Norfolk general delivery with the money requested, at the same time stating that a balance of $837 remained. STEADMAN promptly wrote for this, too. But about that time KIERR appeared at the bank, to learn that he had been arrested in Norfolk and had drawn $500.
STEADMAN’s arrest followed. He had liquor in his pockets, so charges of violating the Mapp liquor act, forgery and using the mails to defraud a national bank were placed against him.
LEONARDTOWN
(Special Dispatch to The News)
Leonardtown, Md., Oct. 21—Mrs. J. E. JOHNSON of London, England, who has just returned from France, where she had been engaged with the American Ambulance Corps, is visiting her friend, Mrs. R. H. SEARS of "Society Hill."
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Mrs. Allan COAD, who has been in New York since Mr. COAD joined the Aviation Corps, has returned to her home at Porto Bello.
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Capt. Alexander KENNEDY of St. Mary’s City has been appointed by Governor HARRINGTON to fill the vacancy in St. Mary’s Board of Education caused by the death of Dr. P. H. LLOYD.
These are excerpts from the NEWS OF MARYLAND AND THE VIRGINIAS column:
DENTON
(Special Dispatch to The News)
Denton, Md., Oct. 21—Mrs. Hibbard A. PAINE of New York has been visiting relatives here.
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Mrs. Leslie MERRICK and children have returned from a visit in Pennsylvania
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Mrs. W. A. ROBINSON of Philadelphia is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. I. T. FLEETWOOD.
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Mr. and Mrs. Roy CHANCE of Baltimore were visitors to county relatives.
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Cadet Jerome R. COX, in the aviation service at Norfolk, Va., has been spending a furlough at his home in Preston.
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Mrs. Marion IRELAND is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. JACOBS at Burrsville.
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Mrs. James E. EVERSMAN of Mardela Springs was a recent guest of Miss Mollie CAHALL at Burrsville.
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Mrs. Rachel HARVEY of Burrsville is visiting in Denton.
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"OVER THERE"
Private Jesse L. KLINE, Sixth Division, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. KLINE, Hagerstown, had not heard from him since he sailed for France the first of July, writes them that he expects to eat his Christmas dinner at home in Hagerstown if all goes well. He has seen some hard air battles between Allied and Hun airmen.
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"The only thing we think about now is the great day when the transports will pull into Hoboken with us on. That will be a great day for us and I know it will be the happiest day anyone has ever known," says Private Lewis BARBER, One Hundred and Fifteenth Infantry, in a letter to his parents, Chief of Police and Mrs. Thomas BARBER, Hagerstown.
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Lieut. Daniel E. WALSH, Three Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry, sends an inkling of what the Seventy-ninth Division has been doing in France. In a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. WALSH, Westminster: "I have some great tales to tell you all when I get back. You know they call a man who has seen no service a ‘John.’ Well, I am not a ‘John’ any more."
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The first Carroll county soldier to get the Croix de Guerre and perhaps the first Maryland airman to win it is Lieut. Lloyd SCHAEFER of Westminster, whose exploit was described in The News some days ago. Lieutenant SCHAEFER writes his mother, Mrs. Mary MYERS: "I knew you would like to hear from me since you learned of my being wounded in a battle with 15 Boche machines. I have one arm shot up very badly, two bullets went into my back and came out at my shoulder and badly shattered it, my right leg has two bullets through it, one through the knee and the other at the calf, altogether eight holes in all in me. My machine caught fire, but thank God I landed over in France and was safe from capture. My plane had 56 holes shot through it. I am at present in a hospital in France. When I am able will go back after the Boche stronger than ever." Lieutenant SCHAEFER volunteered at the beginning of the war.
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Well, from what I hear, the Germans are getting licked all around, and believe me, I don’t care how soon they get licked, either. They don’t fail to send a few shells over us once in a while. I heard one just now, but it is nothing unusual. I have been thinking that about next spring the United States will have an army large enough over here to wipe the Germans out, if things keep going the way they are now. They brought a German prisoner through here the other day, and a wounded one was brought to our dressing station. They both said that if the war lasts six months longer, there would be nothing left in Germany. –Bugler Walter B. COBLENTZ, Three Hundred and Second Sanitary Train, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver T. COBLENTZ, Middletown
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Mrs. Edward WATSON, Cumberland, received a letter that her son, Fred WALTON, in France, dated September 21, which says, "I was seriously wounded on September 16, by a long range Boche 16-inch shell bursting about five feet from me. I now have been in three hospitals and a dressing station, and must say the Red Cross cannot be given too much credit for the fine work they are doing. I was operated upon the same day I was hit, and a piece of shell removed."
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Tell all the folks around that I am all right, that we are giving the Huns hell and mean to continue till they are all licked and licked right at that. There will be no half way business about it. Don’t worry about me. I will come through all O. K. If the Lord is willing I will be home one of these days and hope to find things as I left them. –Private Charles E. EYLER, Three Hundred and Fourth Military Police, from Westminster
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Lieut. Ghiselin SASSCER writes home to Upper Marlboro: "I have been on the front for some time and thought I had seen some fighting, but this last drive was the real stuff. I was right in the wedge of it all. At 1 A.M. the guns all opened up together and kept pumping for hours and then the infantry went over. The next morning we followed up through miles of relinquished country. Everything was torn to pieces by the American shells. The fields, of course, had been uncultivated for years and were grown up with grass, and the barb wire entanglements were strewn with dead Germans and a few Americans. We passed a German wagon with two dead horses and two dead men with it. The American engineers were already repairing the roads. Our men got all sorts of souvenirs—German caps, boots, rifles, watches and a thousand other things. A dugout had caved in on a German soldier and all that was sticking out was one hand. Some of our men shook hands with him and said he was a good German.
"Among the prisoners whom I saw coming back were two women with Red Cross veils and red crosses on their arms. They were caught operating machine guns. Some weeks ago the Germans took a place where there was an American hospital. The doctor said, when we retook it, all the patients had had their throats cut.
"I have been out in the cold and wet for about three weeks with little or no food and sleep for days, but I feel fine. I often think how careful you were to prepare a bed for all visitors, and I have seen many a wet rainy night sleeping in a pup tent and damp dugout in a woods when I would have thanked God to have slept on our kitchen floor with a blanket. However, I am hard as nails, and feel fine and happy with anticipation."
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Mrs. J. Emmert SHIFLER, Mapleville, has received several letters from her nephew, Sergt. Evans POFFENBERGER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. POFFENBERGER, near Keedysville, who is now fighting in France, having trained at Camp Gordon and gone across in April. In one letter, Sergeant POFFENBERGER says: "I have seen many German prisoners. They are marked with different colored patches sewed upon their clothes so as to prevent their skipping away."
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IN THE VIRGINIAS
NORFOLK—When Secretary of the Navy Josephus DANIELS commissioned the torpedo boat destroyer Craven at the Norfolk Navy-yard, there was added to the American Navy one of the most powerful vessels of her kind in the world. The Craven is the first real warship built at the local navy yard in 25 years and she was built and commissioned, ready for service, in the record time of 11 months.
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RICHMOND—Fifteen Virginia women are now at sea en route for France, where they will engage in the work of the Y.M.C.A. John Garland POLLARD cannot say just when he will leave port with another group of his workers, but in all probability it will be in the near future. The Virginia women on the way over there are: Miss Laura ARMITAGE, Richmond; Miss Lucy BLANTON, Ashland; Miss Kathleen CARTER, Ashland; Miss Aline GLEAVES, Cripple Creek; Miss Mary PRETLOW, Norfolk; Miss Elizabeth WATT, Richmond; Miss Alice STERRETT, Richmond; Miss Trevan BOWMAN, Roanoke; Miss Caroline BOYKIN, Norfolk; Miss Dora DUNN, Roanoke; Miss Ethel HUNTER, Richmond; Miss Annie JORDON, Lynchburg; Miss Mary PRETLOW, Norfolk; Miss Thula ROOT, Roanoke; Miss Charlotte WORCESTER, Roanoke.
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EASTVILLE—The officers of the newly organized Community League are: G. C. OUTLAND, president; Rev. E. W. COWLING, vice-president; Clarence W. HOLLAND, secretary and treasurer.
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ACCOMAC C. H.—Capt. and Mrs. E. C. LEWIS of Greenbush have received word of the safe arrival of their son, Private Edward T. LEWIS, overseas.
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Mrs. James H. FLETCHER has returned home from the western part of the state where she had been visiting for several weeks.
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Mrs. L. M. TIFFANY of Baltimore is staying at her country home, Mount Custis.
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Miss Lizzie LEWIS of Baltimore is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley MELSON.
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ONANACOCK—The High School reopened yesterday.
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Rev. Thomas HEATH of Petersburg is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James HEATH.
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Misses Lawrence EAST and Mamie TAYLOR are home from a visit to friends in Pocomoke City, Md.
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Mrs. W. T. WINDER and Miss Gladys WINDER returned from a visit to relatives in Baltimore.
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George and Kerr WINDER of Baltimore are with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. WINDER.
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Mrs. William STEVENSON, who was the guest of her sister, Miss Vida KELLY, was called to Norfolk by the illness of her daughter.
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CRISFIELD
(Special Dispatch to The News)
Crisfield, Md., Oct. 21—Mrs. Joseph ROWLS of Philadelphia is spending a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John BETTS.
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Col. Thomas S. HODSON and Mrs. HODSON have returned from a visit to their son, Col. Clarence HODSON, in New York.
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Mrs. Ida KEENA of Washington has been spending some days with Mrs. Elton MASSEY.
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Mrs. Missouri DIZE has returned from a visit to Norfolk, Va., where she was the guest of her sons, Peter, Edward and Archie DIZE.
WAS HIS OWN REGISTRAR
Sylvester JACKSON (Colored) Filled Out Draft Card; Is Arrested
The police of the Northwestern district have discovered the original "preparedness" advocate. He is Sylvester JACKSON (colored) of 1205 McCulloh street, who, according to his draft registration card, registered in March, 1917, before the United States entered the war.
The police are somewhat puzzled over JACKSON’s case. They are trying to figure out whether the Negro privately declared war on Germany and had a registration all his own or whether he filled out his own card and made a slight mistake in the date. Their bewilderment is increased by the fact that Jackson is 34 years old and did not have to register in 1917 at all.
JACKSON was evidently his own exemption board as well as his own registrar, because he has not yet gone to war.
JACKSON was arrested by Round Sergeant WILHELM of The Northwestern district and charged with failing to register. He had a card from a New York draft board bearing a March, 1917, date and claimed to have registered in that month. It is believed the card is bogus. He was delivered to Marshal STOCKHAM.
Four of Same Name in Army
Elmer E. LOHR, Arthur C. LOHR, Chester E. LOHR, Preston L. LOHR. They are the three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Burton E. LOHR, 299 West Thirty-first street, and their cousin, all serving in the National Army. The sons are Elmer E. LOHR, 26 years old, who is with the Thirty-fifth Engineers in France; Chester E. LOHR, 24 years old, of the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment from Camp Meade, and Preston L. LOHR, 23 years old, who is in training at Lakehurst, N.J. The cousin is Arthur C. LOHR, who is stationed at Ipava, Ill.
SHAMES MEN INTO NAVY
Woman Who Induced Men of Pittsburgh to Enlist
(From the Pittsburgh Leader)
A woman in a chic white uniform, with a flowing military cloak which set off her flashing blue eyes and dazzling red hair, made a speech from the bandstand in a Pittsburgh city park the other day.
She was Mrs. George WHEELOCK, chief yeoman in the United States Navy, and when she appeared with the navy fife and drum corps as escort a crowd quickly gathered. She began by asking a square-shouldered young man:
"Why don’t you join up?"
"Can’t—I’m married," he replied.
"A-ah," said Chief Yeoman WHEELOCK delightedly. "I like to hear that; I like to hear a man say that; I like to see a man who hides his head behind a skirt because he’s a coward. It’s so inspiring!"
"Look-a-here," cried the man, "whaddaya mean talking to me like that? I gotta support my wife, don’t I?"
"Yes, but you can support her just as well in the Navy as you can here. How much do you give your wife a month?"
"I pay the bills all right," replied her listener.
"Well, you can pay the bills if you’re in the Navy, and she’ll know where you are at night. What do you do for a living?"
"I’m a machinist."
"Well, then, you can be a mechanic in the Navy. The Government will give your wife an allowance and you can send her $87 every month. I’ll bet you don’t give her that much now. How about you? Going to Join?"
She got her recruit.
A woman approached the platform with the plea that her husband be released from the Navy.
"He signed yesterday, but I can’t let him go. I have no income."
"If you let him go, you’ll get $35.50 from him every m ot, and you get an allowance from the Government, too."
"My Gawd, let him go," said the woman. "I never got that much money out of him at one time in my life."
FLUNKS 14 YEARS IN "EXAMS"
Thirty-Nine-Year Tussle With "The Law" Taken By Chicago Man
(From the Chicago Tribune)
Since 1879, James B. CROSBY of Rockford has wrestled with "the law," and twice a year since 1904—14 long years—he has taken the "exams" for admission to the Illinois bar, and as regularly has he "flunked." Yesterday he attacked "the law" on its home grounds—in the courts. He filed a petition for a writ of mandamus before Federal Judge K. M. LANDIS, directed against the Illinois Board of Examiners, demanding that he be issued a license.
CROSBY’s tussle with the law he recited in his petition, dates back to 1879, when he "matriculated as a student" in the law office of Caleb BENTLEY at Rockton, Ill. He "pursued" law for three years. Then in 1902 he entered the Harvard Law School at the University of Chicago, finishing up in 1904 and returning to Bentley’s law offices to again pore over legal tomes.
CROSBY, after this tortuous pursuit of a license, declares he thinks there is a frame-up somewhere.
ACCUSES GUEST OF THEFT
Mrs. Alice ADAMS Says Mrs. STANSBURY Took Diamond Ring
Accused of the larceny of a diamond ring valued at $150 belonging to Mrs. Alice ADAMS, 3104 North Calvert street, Mrs. Marion STANSBURY, 2422 East North Avenue, was locked up at Northern Police Station yesterday by Detective POHLER.
The accused and Mrs. ADAMS were friends, according to Detective POHLER, and were together at the former’s home last Friday, when the gem is alleged to have been taken from Mrs. ADAMS’ bureau. The ring was recovered at a local jewelry store, where Mrs. STANSBURY admitted selling it for $45, according to POHLER.
SOCIETY
October 21
The Baltimore Country Club was the rendezvous yesterday afternoon of a large contingent of society, and a number of teas were given. One was given by Mrs. Mary R. Thomas CARROLL, whose guests included Mr. and Mrs. Julian S. GITTINGS, Mr. and Mrs. Tyson ELLICOTT, Mrs. Andrew Melville REID, Mrs. Virgil LEWIS, Miss Constance PETRE, Mrs. William Livingston WATSON, Major DECROW and Mr. Harry WILCOX.
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Mrs. Andrew Melville REID has returned from the White Sulphur Springs, Va., where she spent the summer, and Atlantic City, where she went later, and is at her residence ??10 North Calvert street, where her daughter Mrs. Virgil LEWIS is with her and where they will spend the winter. Lieutenant LEWIS is stationed at Leehall, Warwick county, Va., near Newport News, where he is in charge of a balloon school. Lieutenant Howell REID, who has been at the front, has been ordered to Paris, and Mr. Andrew REID, who is in the flying corps, is stationed in New Jersey.
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Mr. and Mrs. John W. PEALE of New York have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Betty PEALE, and Mr. Daniel Le Roy DRESSER. Mr. DRESSER is a mechanic in the Six Hundred and Forty-second Aero Squadron and has been in France since August, 1917. Miss PEALE recently joined the Red Cross. Mr. DRESSER is the son of Mrs. E. Burnham DRESSER and the late Daniel Le Roy DRESSER and a nephew of Mrs. George W. VANDERBILT.
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Miss Mary BOONE has arrived at French Lick Springs, Ind., where she will stay for several weeks taking the cure, after which she will return for the winter to her residence, 10 East Chase street.
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Mrs. Walter B. BROOKS, Jr., who has been at the White Sulphur Springs has been spending a few days at the cottage at Brooklands and will leave tomorrow for New York.
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Mr. and Mrs. Eben SUTTON have returned from Atlantic City, where they have been for several weeks. Mr. SUTTON is in the Maryland General Hospital. Mrs. SUTTON is at the Stafford Hotel, where her sister-in-law, Mrs. John SCOFIELD of New York, formerly Miss Leila SUTTON, has joined her.
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Major Bruce COTTON, who spent the week-end with Mrs. COTTON at Cylburn House, their country place, has returned to Washington, where he is stationed.
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Major Edward McKEON has returned to Washington where he has been stationed for several months, after having spent the week-end with Mrs. McKEON at their town house, 12 East Eager street. Their daughters, Misses Phoebe Quinby and Elsie McKEON, are at St. Timothy’s School, Catonsville.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. Suffern TAILER, the latter formerly Miss Harriet BROWN of Baltimore, have returned to New York and have opened for the winter their house, 11 East Sixty-first street.
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A special train will leave Wilmington, Del., at 2 P. M., October 26, for the convenience of the guests at the wedding of Miss Miriam HUBBARD and Lieut. George MAURICE, which will take place at Widehall, the home of the bride’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur W. HUBBARD, in ??estertown, Md. The Baltimore guests will take the train leaving Union Station at 12:05, which will connect with the Wilmington train.
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Capt. Leopold BELLONI of the Italian Air Service has arrived at Hot Springs, Va., where he will spend two weeks.
Wife Of An Army Officer
Mrs. Austin B. Conradi
Mrs. Conradi, who was Miss Edna Hilgeman, is the wife of Lieutenant Conradi, and is actively involved in war work.
