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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1921. PAOS Five OTTAWA FREE TRADER - JOURNAL. OF KEITH HIN I RELATIVES HERE GET WORD THAT BODY OF 129th INFANTRY SOLDIER, IS IN UNITED STATES BURIAL WILL BE IN UTICA. The remain:. Of Private Keith EC, Pierce, Company C. boy who died o( nun wound! In October 1918, In Prance hat hem received In Hoboken, New Vorki and will be shipped to Le Salle county tor burial, A telegram was re ceived this morning by Fred v., I'leree :.'l Nebraska street, father llt Hie iie.ni anu. Informing him that the remains hail arrived. The remains will mil lie brought to Ottawa, hut will he taken directly to Utica, the Old home ol the I'leree ramlly, where bUtlal Will he made, in the Eatntl) lot in the I'tica cemetery. The telegram received by Mr. Pierce announcing the arrival or his son's hody followa; "Hoboken, N. J.. July L'O, 1921. "Fted B, I'leree, "SfM Nebraska st . Ottawa, ill. "Body ol Private P, Pierce, 1880602 h is arrived New York City ami will be shipped in Mr. m. B, Case, Utica, iin nols at Government Expense, but not until you telegraph at government ex pense confirming above Instructions, Await further notice before making funeral arrangements or departing for burial ile.'-. matlon. "Qrayes Registration Service." Keith Pierce was kiiieii in accident of wounds received when ho v. as eleaning his army rifle Which he ae oidentally discharged. He wi s buried on iiiB 82nd birthday, s Private I'leree was horn In I'tiea. ami resided there during the early years of his life. He with the mem bers of his family moved to Ottawa when be was about sixteen years of age. He was employed at the King k Hamilton factory before entering the army. When war was declared he was one of the llrst Ottawm's to enter the. ser vlce, enlisting with the members of "Ottawa's own'' company, lie served with them while at Camp Logan, they were, stationed ex., anil while in ; France. He was greatly admired by nil wdio knew him. for his many fine charac teristics, He was survived by his father, Pred 10 Pierce of this city, three sisters, Mrs. J. V. White, of Chicago. Mrs. K. ii. denies of Peoria, and Mrs Bttelah Kowlle of Seneca, and two brothers J. A. Pierre and Lloyd Pierce of Ottawa. The time of the funeral services will ho announced later, as soon a the tiim- of the arrival of the body In Ctica is known. A full military burial w ill be accorded the ex-yank. POSTAL TO KEEP LOCAL OFFICE OPEN PENDING COMMERCE BOARD RULE According to official information re c Ived by Manager Bobbins of the local Postal Telegraph office this morning, the commerce commission has not banded down a decision In regard to the closing of the Postal Telegraph office in Ottawa. As soon as this word was received Manager Robbing launched a campaign to in crease the local business He stated today that tho local of fice wculd be open at least tor an in definite period and would handle ali messages and other business in the rome manner they have been in the past. It Is likely f the business of company can pick up to a paying scale during the time the office is scheduled to remain open the office will he kepi open permanently. A hearing on a petition of the com pany asking for permission to close the local office was held in SpiinyfuM last Wednesday, The city made no effort io contest the petition, feeling that it was useless in face of th" financial reports of the company, which showed that during the month of May of this year the receipts of the company amounted to just 'M). The company will continue opera tions in their old location in the C SPURGIN'S BLOND FRIEND QUIZZED 'Chicago, July 2fi. - Miss Elizabeth Thompson, alleged friend of Warren C, Spurgin, missing president of the Michigan Avenue Trust company, which was closed last week by hank examiners, was being held by author! ties today, her detention marking the 1irst. arrest, in connection with the case? Miss Thompson was held after! four hours of questioning as to her friendship With Warren Spurgin. She Is said to have admitted attending dinner parties with him and to have told of other girls entertained by the fugitive banker. The nation wide search for Spurgin was intensified to day, lames Kelly, director of the bank, who took its affairs in hand, es timated the loss at $700,000 and said depositors would be paid only sixty cents on the dollar. Belly A until'. Jlr. Perkins must be awful clever! I just heard him tell sis he could explain everything. Passing Show, London, 'WANTElv Ten laborers, at n,. ! AV F.HH'AN MAGXASTON1 WANTED -Maid for general lloi work; family of t'tree; no aSfdl "6 or ironing; liberal wages. P I M 1160. COMPANY C ARRIVE IN HOBOKEN ! (Main Want Ad Section Pagi I Ive I j j LxdSkA Loretta. and Kdward Hrady of Chi cago, are visiting at the home or their Uncle BUd aunt. Mr and Mrs. M. J. Flanagan On Congress street. Miss Laura Pitch of Bherida, Iowa and niece Miss Horothy Pilch of Urn k Island will arrive In Ottawa tonight to visit Dr Bill Pitch in Hits city. Miss Alice Kendrick has returned to tier home ill Chicago alter a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kemlrick in this oity M. J. Flanagan Is spending a few days in Dixon transacting business. Prank Dwyer has returned to his home In Chicago after attending te Funeral of Robert Kemlrick in tis city. Miss Bllen O'Connell Of West Otta wa left tor Chatsworth toduy for a visit with friends, Mr and Mrs. Prank Kendrick have returned t,, their borne In LaG range funeral of Robert Kemlrick In this rttv, Mrs. Qeorge Hayward and Mlsa Marion Qlelm have returned to their home on Illinois avenue after a visit with l A. Hayward in Minneapolis, Minn. - iiaric, i angan was a Btreator vis itor la-1 night, MINISTER. 50. SOUGHT AS GIRL'S ABDUCTOR omaha. Nebr., .inly 28 Authorities today are seeking the Rev, W. O. liar n il. BO, pastor of a church In Homer Nebr., who is alleged to have (doped with Hazel Riley, sixteen a farmers' daughter alter She had asked him to help her find work The girl was re turned lo her father by B deputy state sheriff last night, She said she had lived at the minister's home for sever al mouth's ami had come to love him. "When I asked him to take me a way" she told officials, "he said, he would if it were for an honorable cause.'' They are alleged to have left last Tuesday. llarrell is said lo havV left the girl al Hooper. Nebr, rejoined his wife who had been SAn an Omaha hospital, and left for the south in an automobile. "He would kiss me and tell me he liked me awfully well,. Hate I fold a deputy state sheriff. "1 first came to love him on our wav home ago." She with from a meeting several months declared six had spenw a llarrell, travelling in an week auto- mobile. She said lin y spent cine nlghl m the ear near ! remount. On an an- oilier night she said, they stayed in a hotel in Omaha MRS. KATHERiNE WOODS. WALLACE WOMAN, DEAD Mrs. Catherine Woods, S7, prom Inenl Wallace township resident. : p.. aed away at her borne yesterday afternoon about -i : .P o clock, follow Ing a two weeks' illness due to in firmities of old age. She was born March 7, 1S34 in Tip perary, Ireland, where sho resided until she came to this country in ISSfl. Upon her arrival in America she settled in Preedom township, where she made her home for a brief period of lime, after which she moved to Wallace township, whero she has since resided. Surviving she leaves three sons. John of Freedom township, Michael of Chicago and Patrick of Wallace.1 Sin- also leaves three gran (children I and five great grandchildren. Funeral services will he held at ! I o'clock tomorrow morning at St. Co lumba's church. Interment will -be made at St. Cohuuba's cemetery BOOZE, BEER SIGNS MUST COME DOWN Chicago, July 26j -ESstjablishments where liquor signs appeal are being raided by sipinds of prohibition agents sent out by John K.jellandor, supervising prohibition enforcement agent. The signs are to lie taken down, defaced or destroyed, so thai their call to the thirsty may come to an j end. Any mention of beer, whiskvj or ether liquor is expected to he basis for action by the agents. The squads were sent out at tho j Instaance of District Attorney Clyne. II is believed he requested the action upon his return Saturday from Wash Ington, where he conferred with Pro hibition Commissioner Hoy I). Haines. ALTON BOOTLEGGERS, 150 OF 'EM, INDICTED Alton, 111., July iit. One hundred and fifty indictments, including 110 against, persons charged. With violat ing the prohibition law have been re turned by the Madison county grand jury. The names of those indicted will not be revealed until warrants have been issued and the arrests made. esm. 9 cw sm urn sum m m iwi u TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY "HEARTS ARE TRUMPS" An Impressive Picturization of the Great Stage Melodrama Enacted by an All Star Cast The Season s Thriller Par Excellence Admsision 20c Children 10c A S PACK COURT ROOM DURING TRIAL OF CONTRACTOR'S CHARGE AGAINST PETER FARRELL AND THOMAS LOWE OPENS BEFORE JUDGE KOENIG JURY SWORN IN TO HEAR EVIDENCE OF ALLEGED "SLUGGING." Seldom in the history of local Jus tice courts lias such a crowd gathered i" hear a trial as thai which this morning packed into Judge Oeorge T. Koenlg's conri room at 10 o'clock, to hear the trial of Peter Parrell and Thomas "Timber" I, owe. lafbOr union mi mi ers. who are cnarged with hav Ing attacked B. H. Orendorf, super intendent of construction at the South Ottawa retaining wall, mid slugged him last Friday nlghl about 8:30 o'clock while he was in front of fhe C . O. i. P. railway station al the corner of Madison and Court streets Large numbers of friends ol the de fendants, members of the unions, contractors, and others interested In the case, jammed Into the small court room to hear Hie trial. Before the hearing started, such a crowd had gathered that it was impossible for anybody to gain entrance to the H Mans. Because of the many witnesses for both sides, and others who wanted lo learn the late of Parrel) and I owe. arrangements were made to hear the cane in the county conn room this afternoon at 1:80. State Demands Jury. State s Attorney Harry P. Kelly de manded that Hie ,ase be heard by a jury. The selection of the jurors took practically all the morning's, time. ii. r. Kelly, prosecuting, and Butters, tot the defendants able to make their opening menta before the noon hour, which court adjourned until A. K. were state after 1:30 count v o clock to reconvene at tin court. Attorney Butters was assist- ed by Attorney Dale Morahn. Parrel and Lowe will he tried on charges of assault and battery on Orendorf. which according lo law Is subject to a maximum fine of $100 and costs. The row is said to be the culmination of labor squabbles, con- i r eining Parrell, I. owe, Olendorf and the construction of the east side hill retaining wall. Following are the jurors who heard the cat-e: Or. o. O. Deenis, Wilbur Lawrence, Charles Miller, Henry Newell, Henry i Mosiey and o. Osmundson. Witnesses Are Called. The county court room was filled with men when the trinl opened this afternoon. .Mr. Ohlendorf, the com plainant, was the first witness to be eahed to the stand. He told or the alleged assault made last Friday night by Lowe and Parrell. Clarence Raley was the next wit ness called by the state. Mr. Haley was an eye w itness to the alleged at tack upon Mr. Ohlendorf. j. Shortly before three o'clock the slate concluded their testimony, peter Parrell, one of the defendants, was the first witness called lor the defense. SCULLY. LAND OWNER, IN DIVORCE SCANDAL Thomas A. Scully, one of the own ers of the vast Scully estate lands in Logan. Livingston and Grundy coun ties, general offices of which are lo cated in Lincoln, has recently been divorced by his wile, Mrs, Isabel Hur rell Scully, according to copies of tin London Evening Standard, which have reached here. Columns and columns of space are devoted by the Standard to the di vorce trial, described as "Sensational Cruelty Accusations Against Wealthy j Landowner." The Standard of the first of July I said: Tne Scully case came to an end today, the result being a decree nisi for Mrs. Scully, of Culford mansions, Cadogan square, who sought the dis solution of her marriage with Thom as Augustus Scully of Porchester tec race, on the ground of cruelty and misconduct. ' Denying the charge, Scully said If he was guilty of misconduct his Wife condoned it. .Mrs. Scully said she did not. "The case was heard in the. di vorce court by the president and a special jury." The conservative ICnglish newspa pers erupt into large headlines con cerning Hie Scully divorce action and trial. FOR QUICK UPSIILTS THY THE "WANT AOS IN THK FREE TRADER-JOURNAL. I II UNION LABOR MEN BARNES RECOGNIZED AS ANIMAL WIZARD Al O. names, who Ik bringing the only exclusively wild animal circus in the world to Ottawa Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1h recognised among showmen a1 all "animal wizard.' He has an un canny House of knowing just how to handle both the Wild beasts and the domestic variety. That he has been aide to Imparl his knowledge to oth ers lias lidded to his sue, ess and bus resulted In his building up a show that started with two small wagons to an organisation that now requires two special trains to convey It front city to lly. In I he in:: ai ls presented at each -v 'ir'uiMc or tin, Barnes evens thoro Is not one that the owner can not succe full) handle During tin war, when practically his entire forct of trainers were serving the various allied nations in the world's straggle for freedom, it was not unsual thing lor 'Mr. Panics Ulersonally "work" a doen acfH twice daily. With the assistance of Martha Florrino, who has been with him fur fifteen years, Mabel Stark, employe for nine years, and Vera Lindsay in her fifth season, Mr. Barnes frequently gave the en tire performance, and the excellent business everywhere Indicated that the CrOWds were satisfied. Not only that, inn superintendents of departments were scarce, and for days at a si retch Mr. Barnes super vised the putting up of the tents and the taking down and loading of the outfit. Many of the workiiigmeii had only one arm and others were minu I a leg, wdiiie in the youth ii was nec essary to use negro women to get the tents and seats ready. In spite of all the handicaps Mr. Barnes retained his cheerfulness, and during the various war drives his ad vance department posted thousands of sheets of paper, and bis animals wen always at the disposal of the local committees lor demonstrations. In addition Mr Han.es purchased a 11.000 cash bond in every city visited while drives were on, and in this way acquired $67,000 worth of tho government's guaranteed paper. HARDING ASKS LAWS FOR AGRICULTURE AND FUNDING RAILROADS Washington. July 24. President Harding sent a Special message to congress today asking legislation au thorizing ih" war finance corpora tion to handle funding of railroad in defbtedness and to tncerssa credit for financing agricultural exports Prompt action was requested but the presi dent did nol ask thai both features be confined to one bill. Republican leaders therefore adopt ed the plan of dealing with the rail road and a.gri'iltural questions in separate measures. Sen. Kellogg In troduced a bill drafted by Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Chairman Meyer of the war finance corporation, extending the powers of the war fi nance corporation to agricultural ex port financing, and increasing the cor poration's revolving credit fund from 1600,000,000 to $1,01X1.000.000. The Kellogg bill was offered as a substi tute for the pending Norris bill to create a new government export fi nancing ; corporal ion witli $100,000, 000 capital. Provisions dealing With railroad funding were stricken from the Hoo ver.Meyer draft, before It was pre sented, and republican leaders plan ned to consider later, and separately the president's recommendations that the war finance corporation take over railroad funding. The president asked congress to extend the authority of the war fi nance corporation to purchase securi ties probably up to S5oo.ooo.ooo now in the hands of the railroad corpora tions. This, tho president said, would lead to early adjustment and relief of the railroads. GREEKS FORCE TURKS TO TRANSFER CAPITAL London. July 86. The Turkish na tionallst government, owing to the successful Creek advances in Asia Minor, has been obliged lo transfer the seat of Its government and the Turkish nationalist assembly to Sivas. according patches to ti t 'on- tantinopli' Exchange Tol dls ;raph tin company. 75 Per Cent Deaths. Athens, July 20. An announce ment, by the Greek official agency late yesterday said the Turkish losses in killed, wounded, prisoners and miss in? amount, to T." per cent of their entire fighting strength in Asia Minor. TONIGHT JUSTINE JOHNSTONE in "The Plaything of Broadway" Also the latest Fox News TOMORROW EILEEN PERCY in "Why Trust Your Husband?", Great Comedy mm WEEKS LOOKS INTO FORD'S OFFER FOR NITRATE NOUSTRY u MUSSEL SHOALS PLANT, SOUGHT BY AUTO MANUFACTURER, OB JECT OF CLOSE STUDY BY SEC RETARY OF WAR. Washington, July 2 Details of ! Henry Ford's offer to purchase tho I government nitrate plant at Mussel 1 Shoals. Ala., for 160,000,000 and for lease for Imi years on completion of I tho Wilson and No. II dams, providing i power for the project, al an annual aggregate payment of $1,680,000 were I made public today by the War De partment. No action has been taken by tho government, although II was an nounced no other bids had Veen re ceived. The dam lea ie proposals include provisions to amortise in ninety four years the government Investment in the Wilson dam. taken at $40,000,000. Mr. Ford's proposal was based on prompt completion by the government of the Wilson 600,000 horsepower dam, for the power of which he pro posed to pay a lease fee each year or 61,200,000, together with S6,000 for maintenance ami 80,S37 against, amortisation of the government's In vestment in ninety four years. On dam No. :t, also to be completed and develop 850,000 horsepower, lie proposed to pay (480,000 in annua' Ii ase fee, tie- payment in each ca ; being u per cent on the government's Investment HuHcrt on acceptance of these two lease proposals was tho offer to pur chase "all of the property at nitrate plant No. 2. nitrate plant No. 1. tin Waco quarry and the steam plant at Gorgas, Ala., for 16,000,000, "If the Pnited States agrees to sell and the company purchases the sev eral properties," the letter said, "the company will operate nitrate plant No. 2 to approximate present capac ity in the production of nitrogen and other fertilizer compounds with the following special objectives. To determine by research whether (here may be produced better ferti lizer compounds at cheaper prices than the fertilizer using farmers have in the past been able to procure, and to determine what the application of electricity and industrial Chemistry may do for tho agricultural industry of the country. "To maintain nitrate plant No. 2 ready to be promptly operated in the manufacture of materials necessary in time of war for production of ex plosives. I The company also proposes thatiK i the maximum net profit which it shall j make In the manufacture and sale of ! fertilizer products shall not exceed S per cent. Designated representatives of the 1 American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Grange and the Farmers i union, cogeiner wun a represenia-in tive from the Bureau of Markets andiR two representatives of the company, are proposed as the composition of the board on profits and distribution. See. Weeks said the offer was still being studied and Indicated that con siderable modification would be nec essary. Mr. Ford practically Is ask ing a guarantee for the delivery of 600,000 horsepower from the plant, Weeks pointed out, and this the gov ernment cannot undertake. Weeks added that he had been in formed that a proposal was coming from a corporation which bo would not name. The government has spent altogether at Muscle Shoals, he said, approximately 67,000,000, and Mr. Ford proposed additional expenditures I of about $28,000,000 and proposes I paying interest and amortization I ( barges on the basis of $10,000,000 as I a value for tho present facilities. - Dire Penalty for Medical Failure. In the days of Babylon the doctor or surgeon who failed of a cure fre quently was condemned to have his bunds cut off by the public execution er. CONSUMERS WHOLESALE GROCERS 209 W. Main St. Telephone 1130 A. T. IRVINE Manager Wednesday - Thursday BARGAINS SARDINES Oil or Mustard 6 Cans POST TOASTIES OR CORN FLAKES Each 9c ALASKA SALMON 2 Tall Cans 25c KITCHEN CLEANER Each 5c IVORY SOAP Each 7c TOILET PAPER 7 Large Rolls ... From Vitth Avenue New York's fast-growing prestige as a fashion center Is Justified In tho advance glimpse of fall fashions by Hlckson, Plfth Avenue. The Btreet costume is of brick wool velour trimmed in bands of skunk. A novel skirt is curved upward In front and at the back center. The skirt and the large bell sleeves also curved are outlined by two rows of skunk, Tho "choker" collar is also of this fur which Is usid to catch the sash vffect at the aides The large black velvet hat, slightly turned back in front, is outlined with Jet at tho edge. A largo ''lack Jet ornament falls to the right shoulder from be neath the brim. Notice. social and Ice cream given by the lawn party young ladies of St. Francis' church on the church and the lawn be' ween school, Thursday night, July 88, Everybody invited. A i I fill atD it Ottawa's Most Reliable Meat Market UNION MARKET. 229 W.Madison. SPECIAL SALE FOR WEDNESDAY Steer Beef Short Native Steer Beef Pot Roast, lb 7c Native Steer Beef Brisket, lb 4c Fancy Native Steer Beef Round Steak, (Genuine round) lb 18c Fancy Lean Pork Chops, lb 20c Liberty Nut Butterine, lb 17c Pure Rendered Lard, (strictly pure) lb. . .10c Sliced Minced Ham, lb 12c Smoked Spare Ribs, lb 10c Fancy Round Veal Steak, lb. 20c Sugar Cured Corned Beef lb 5c Fresh Ground Hamburger, lb 10c SAUSAGE SPECIAL No better Sausage was ever made than the sausage we sell. s s p Fresh Frankfurts, lb Garlic or Polish Sausage, lb 12c p Fresh Made Bologna, lb 12c .25c!5 Pressed Flam, per lb Jellied Pigs Feet, lb Fresh Link Sausage, Fancy Summer Sausage, lb. 1-2 Tomato Soup, 2 cans for 15c Farm House Milk, tall cans, 10c Alaska Salmon, tall cans 10c 5 l WATCH FOR OUR BIG SALE IN . . 5 r KID AY J. ST. PATRICKS CHURCH SCENE OF NUPTIAL WITH REV. LAW. RENCE HACKETT OFFICIATING GROOM A RESIDENT OF WAL. LACE TOWNSHIP. At a very pretty marriage which oo CUr red this morning at 8 o'clock at St. Patrick's Catholic church. Miss Margaret Sheppard. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otho Sheppard, 1110 Illinois avenue, and John J. Pennessey of Wallace township were united in marriage. Rev. Lawrence Haoketl performed tho ceremony and officiat ed at the high nuptial mass. Miss Vera Dougherty, an Intimate friend Of the bride, acted as maid of honor and Joseph Donahue of Wal lace was best man. The bride wore her traveling gown of navy blue taffeta, with a navy taf feta hat Her corsage bouquet was of sweel peas Miss Dougherty wore a navy taf feta frock with a big picture hat. Her corsage was similar to the ono worn by the bride. After the church ceremony tho twenty-five nearest relatives of Mr. and Mrs, Pennessey were enter! nined at a reception at the Sheppard home. A four course wedding breakfast was served In tho dining room. Pink and white sweet peas were used as decor ation throughout, the house. Mr. Pennessey and his bride will leave Ottawa late this afternoon for Chicago, where they wdll make thetr , home. j Mrs. Pennessey has resided in Ot i tawa all of her life, and is one of the most popular girls in her circle of friends. She graduated from St. Xav ier's academy in the class of S and is one of the best known young women In the city. Mr. Pennessey is a nephew of Mrs. William .Murray of Wallace township with whom he has resided since tho death of his parents a number of years ago. He was educated in St. Bede's college near Peru, and since finishing school has followed the oc cupation of a farmer. He has many friends in both Ottawa and Wallace township. JOHN FENNESSEY ISS SHEPPARD AND ID THIS MORNING UEHLER ROTHERS Ribs, lb 7c 12aC j 12c 4 12k j lb. 12lc j B r AJf L.K