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The Springville-Mapleton new sugar factory started cutting beets Oc- tober 10, with a prospect for a ninety day campaign .

The Fourth Liberty Loan gave promise of being fully subscribed for, both locally and nationally, on Oct. 17. Utah was to raise $18,570,800, of which, on October 19, all was subscribed. Already the authorities of the nation are making arrangements for the Fifth Loan. Men and munitions captured. Since July 15 and up to Sept. 30, the Allies captured 5,518 officers; 248,494 men; 3,869 cannon; more than 23,000 machne guns and hundreds of mine stores. During the period from Sept. 10 to 30, the Allied armies in France and Belgium captured 2,855 officers, 120,192 men, 1,600 cannon, and more than 6,000 machine guns.

Woman Suffrage was defeated in the Senate of the United States by a vote of 53 to 31, on October 1. The two-thirds vote necessary was there- fore, not received in the Senate. The resolution had been passed by the House, submitting to the states the Susan B. Anthony Suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution. President Wilson had made an appeal to the Senate to pass the Woman Suffrage bill as a war measure. A terrific explosion in the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Shell Loading Company, Morgan, New Jersey, took place in October, beginning on the 4th and lasting that night and throughout the day following. The villages surrounding were abandoned and the few remaining were in danger. Hos- pitals were filled with dying and injured, there being upwards of 1,000 cas- ualties. Millions in property damages resulted from this series of terrific explosions.

Jack R. Ainsley with his mother were two of the survivors of the Perth Amboy, a tugboat with a number of barges in tow which were sunk by a U-boat off Cape Cod. An interesting and heroic narrative is told of him. While the U-boats were shelling the tug this youngster of ten summers climbed up the mast and waved "Old Glory" defiantly in the face of the U-boat. He didn't care a continental if there had been fifty of the mur- dering boches. What more could show the spirit of the real American? The U-boat commander opened fire upon the boat without warning which action is a feature of the outrages latest perpetrated by the Hun pirates.

Officers needed in the war department, by July, 1919, will number ninety thousand of all ranks, for services with the army overseas and at home. A large number of these must come from the colleges and universities of the United States. Complete mobilization of all colleges and universities in the United States for the purpose of developing officer material is therefore necessary, and a complete readjustment of these institutions has been made to put them practically on a military basis. This has already been done with the leading colleges of Utah. The University of Utah, the Bfigham Young University, the Agricultural College, and others. The action has completely revolutionized the leading educational institutions not only of our state, but of those surrounding, and of the whole country.

The war news was generally favorable for the Allies, who continued the whole month their sucessful drive against the German army. The Hin- denburg line was broken. Many towns in France were retaken, and the British, French and American forces took thousands of prisoners, many guns,

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and great stores of munitions. Indications that the German army of the West is crumbling were numerous. Two peace offers, Oct. 8 and 12, from Germany, were refused by the Allies and the battle went on constantly. The evacuation of Belgium and France by the Germans being seemingly at this writing only a matter of a short time. Turkey is about to surrender, the British at one time taking 50,000 prisoners. Bulgaria sued for peace, and obtained an armistice on the Allies' own terms. The Americans did heroic work in the sector occupied by them. Lille, France, was taken by the Allies on Oct. 17. Mrs. Ida Elizabeth Smith, daughter-in-law of President Joseph F. Smith, and widow of the late Elder Hyrum M. Smith, of the Quorum of Twelve, died at her residence in Waterloo, September 24, 1918, at the age of forty- six years. She was the daughter of Andrew G. and Elizabeth Fife Bowman, and was born at West Weber, Utah, April 19, 1872, spending practically the whole of her life in this state, except the two or three years that she was with her husband on a mission in Great Britain. She leaves five children, the youngest of whom was seven days old at her death, and was named Hyrum M. Smith, after his father. She was a faithful Church worker, a kind and loving wife and mother. She took great interest in missionary work while in Europe, and did much for war relief, &s well as for the relief societies and their labors in Europe. She was a leader at home in labors of the Primary. Spanish Influenza increased alarmingly in the United States in the early part of October. Influenza and pneumonia in the army camps raised the death rate among the troops during the week ending October 4, higher than in any other week since the mobilization began. It increased from 32.4 deaths per thousand for the week ending September 27, to 81.8, an increase of 250 per cent, up to October 11. The admission rate for disease thus large- ly increased. During the week ending September 20, before the influ- enza epidemic began, the death rate was only 4.4 per thousand in the cantonments of the United States. In Utah the influenza increased during the early part of October to an alarming extent. The state health authorities of Utah promulgated a regulation on October 10 ,closing all public gatherings throughout the state. A similar regulation was promulgated by the health board of Idaho. On the 11th of October, the First Presidency of the Church, in compliance with the regulations of the state health authorities, closed the Latterday Saints temples, all meetings, Sunday schools, and other services, in the Tabernacle and in all and any Latter-day Saint chapels or other places of assembly, during the time set by the officers in charge.

John A. Groesbeck reached Salt Lake City from the front in France on July 15, the day when the Germans began their fifth drive. Mr. Groesbeck is the first Utah man to return from the battle front. He had been in service in Red Cross Transportation work in France about ten months and had seen active service since January 12, 1918. Owing to his age he was refused a place with the American Ambulance Corps and therefore engaged in the American Red Cross Transportation Department in which he has done excellent service, having been in three big retreats since he joined and besides having had some narrow escapes from capture. He relates the some startling adventures in his work of operating ambulances in of the Red Cross from the Swiss border to the extreme north end service of the allied lines.A concourse of relatives and friends met Mr. Groesbeck upon his arrival and there were scenes of fondest affection and thankfulness for the return safely of one who has been engaged in the great conflict which at present is rocking all Europe to its very foundation and making the world tremble. Mr. Groesbeck was formerly in the automobile busi- ness in Salt Lake City.

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DIED IN SERVICE Private Seth McConkie, Vernal, Utah, reported dead of accident, Au- gust 8. Arthur G. Sullivan, Eureka, Utah, was reported killed in action, August 7. He enlisted April 19, 1917, at age of 22. Walter B. Hanks, Loa, Utah, was reported accidentally killed at the ship building yards, Bremerton, Wash. He was the first soldier boy from Wayne county, to die in service. Joseph Clyde Muir, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Muir, of Clinton, Davis county, Utah, died Sept. 30, at Camp Lewis. He was twenty-one years of age, and had been training at the camp since August 26. Private Wm. C. Layton was killed in a railroad wreck, France, July 23. Memorial services were held in his honor at Layton, September 8. Among the speakers were Governor Simon Bamberger, and Elder David 0. McKay. Lieut.-Col. John M. Craig, 44 years old, for a long time with the 20th Infantry, at Fort Douglas, and with the first contingent of American troops in France, and a veteran of many years in the army, was reported killed in action. Private Harold Cox, son of Amasa Cox, Fairview, Utah, died at the Camp Lewis hospital, of pneumonia. Private Cox waa twenty-two years old. His body passed through Salt Lake City on the 6th of October, for interment at Fairview. Sgt. Morris Ginsburg, stationed at the University of Colorado, at Boulder, Colorado, died Sunday night, September 29, of pneumonia devel- oped from Spanish influenza. He was formerly one of the proprietors of the American Florist Company, Salt Lake City. Private Glenn Callan Perkins, U. S. Marine, was killed in France on July 19. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Perkins, residing on Brady Ranch, north of Pocatello. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, and was twenty- five years old; enlisted in the Marine corps, in August, 1917. Corporal Flemming Hall, Midvale, was killed in action in France, July 20. He was born in Kensington, Kan., March 21, 1889; joined the regular army at Fort Douglas, May 4, 1917. From Fort Bliss he went overseas in June. Memorial services were held in Midvale Sept. 22, 1918. Sadler Elmer S. Snyder, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Snyder, of Salt Lake City, and who enlisted June 21, 1817, in the artillery, fell from a train and was discovered in an unconscious condition by the side of the track. He died a few hours later. He was born in Kansas and was 22 years old. Waldemar Jensen, brother of James M. Jensen, Salt Lake City, was re- ported killed on the front July 15. He formerly lived at Monroe, Utah, was 32 years of age and unmarried. He is survived by two brothers and his father, in Denmark, from which country he came about ten years ago. Arthur Duffin, of Ogden, who enlisted in the United States Marine corps, January, 1917, and went to France in November of the same year, was killed in action at Chateau-Thierry, according to news received by his sister, September 18. He died from wounds received in action on the firing line. He was the son of H. Duffin, who survives him. Winston Arnett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Millard F. Arnett, Salt Lake City, twenty-four years of age, died from wounds received in action, according to word received here September 20. He was born in Utah; attended High School at Butte, Montana; entered the army on September 19, 1917; went to Camp Lewis and had been in France four months. Marion J. Fletcher, a sergeant-major of the 133d Heavy Artillery, died in France, according to information received at Kaysville, October 1, where he has a sister residing, Mrs. Dr. Rutlidge. He was twenty-two years

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old, and volunteered a year ago last March in Monmouth, Illinois, and had been in France not quite two months. His mother lives in Montana. Frank George Sainsbury, of Fielding, Utah, son of R. Sainsbury, and Sarah Ellen Tidwell Sainsbury, died at Camp Morrison, Virginia, of pneu- monia, according to word received October 5. He was born at Fielding, November 1, 1896; enlisted April, 1918, and went into a training camp in Texas, from which point he was transferred and sent to Camp Morrison. Edwin M. Gray, born at Central, Sevier county, Utah, October 30, 1892, attached to the 318th Engineers train, in service in France, died in a rail- road accident, in France, July 3. He enlisted with the Engineers Corps, January 24, 1918, and received his training at Vancouver. He sailed for Europe, May 6. He was not married, but is survived by his mother and a step-sister. John Henry Paulson, twenty-two years of age, son of John A. Poulsen, of Mammoth, Utah, died of pneumonia at Portsmouth, New Hampshire Navy Yards. He was born in Safford, Ariz., and enlisted in the navy, April, 1917. His body was taken to Richfield for interment, where his mother died, May 30, of this year. He has one brother, August Poulsen, on the firing line in France. Frank W. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Thomas, Salt Lake City, died of influenza aboard the hospital ship Comfort, at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, on Monday or Tuesday, September 30 or October 1. He was a grad- uate of the East High School and studied for a year at the University of Utah. He was twenty-two years old, and prior to his enlistment was man- ager of his father's farm at Peterson, Utah. Private Alexian E. Koshaba, twenty-four years of age, was killed in the performance of military duties, by a cave of the sand embankment at Camp Lewis, Washington, September 14. He was a member of L Company, 76th Infantry; born in Persia, and had been in the United States seven years. He left Salt Lake for Camp Lewis, July 23. A military funeral was held in Salt Lake, September 20. Herbert I. Wilson, of Eureka, Utah, died as a result of injuries received in one of the drives made by the American forces in France in August. He was forty years of age spent his early boyhood in Payson, and also worked ;

in Tintic on a number of occasions. He enlisted in Salt Lake City; was sent to Fort Leavenworth; later to Camp Merritt, New Jersey; going over- seas early the present year. Private John Arthur Hogan, of Tooele, twenty-three years of age, died suddenly at Philadelphia, according to word received in Tooele, September 29. He was born in Evansville, Indiana, August 8, 1895, and had resided in Tooele for eight years, prior to his enlistment with the Marines, in May, 1917 He was trained at Mare Island, California, and in Cuba. The fu- with military honors. neral was held in St. Marguerite's Church, Salt Lake, of Panguitch, Utah, Joseph E. Riggs, son of J. A. and Christina Riggs, the killed in action was reported September 11, in the casualty list among 1894, went into the on the firing line in France. He was born December 3, left in December and army November 3, 1917, sent to Carnp Lewis where he arrived overseas on the 24th of that month, with M Co., 163d Infantry. He official notification of was in numerous engagements in the trenches. The his death stated that it had occurred August 1, being then with the 126th Infa St. Clarence E. Allen, Jr., was killed at the front July 15 according to word received in Salt Lake City, August 6, by his father Clarence E He was a graduate of Yale and of the Columbia Law School, also of Allen military training school at Stanford, admitted to the bar in 1916, entered ^tenant, AugMt, »17. Monterey that same year, graduating as second ™ ™' V*™^'. 1 He became first lieutenant on being ordered abroad inRegiment of the the 30th Reg- had been in the front about two months, in ular Army. He was born November 18, 1891.

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Henry M. Jones, twenty-nine years of age, son of Sylvester F. and Susannah M. Jones of Enoch, Utah, is reported dead of wounds sustained while battling with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He is the first man from Iron County to give up his life for his country in the present war. He entered the army October 3, 1917, went to Camp Lewis, thence east and across the water on May 5, this year, with an infantry regi- ment. He was the first man called from Iron County, the first to go over- seas, and the first from mere to 2ive his life for his country. First Lieutenant Gilford Davidson, son of Mrs. N. C. Davidson, San Francisco, was killed in action July 31, in an aerial engagement with the Huns. Lieutenant Davidson was at one time a member of the Utah Na- tional Guard, but joined the aviation corps when the war broke out. He had his preliminary training at Berkeley, California. He was born at Wichita, Kansas, October 26, 1896, and was a member of the 145th Field Artillery before he was transferred to the aviation school at Berkeley. He enlisted in May, and was chosen to go direct to France with a small chosen corps of fliers in August. Naval Dental Surgeon Dr. Weeden Edward Osborn, Salt Lake City, was struck by shells June 6, and instantly killed, while assisting a wounded fellow officer to a safety zone on the western front in France. So heroic was the deed that the service cross was awarded to him posthumously by General Pershing, who commended him, in a special notation, in official order. Osborn came to Utah some years ago from Chicago, where he was born, was graduated in 1915 from the dental school of the Northwestern university, and practiced several months in Bingham, then in Salt Lake, where he was associated with Dr. A. B. Wherry. He served at the navy yards, Boston, until December, 1917, when he was detached and assigned to duty on the Alabama, and on March 30, 1918, was ordered to report to the commanding officer of a regiment of marines with the expeditionary forces in France, with which regiment he was serving at the time of his death. Private James W. Crosland, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Crosland, of Holden, Utah, died of pneumonia, in a French hospital, August 12, 1918. He was born in Holden, February 7, 1888; left his home October 3, 1917, for Camp Lewis, where he re- ceived his training. When Presi- dent Melvin J. Ballard organized a Y. M. M. I. A. in Camp Lewis, Pri- vate Crosland was chosen second assistant, November 25, 1917. He had previously performed a mis- sion in that district, leaving his home November, 1909, and return- ing December, 1911. He left Camp Lewis February 27, 1918, went to North Carolina, then to New York, and sailed about May 6, 1918, for France. He was in the big drive between the 15th and 23rd of July. His parents received a letter dated July 23, which stated that he was feeling fine, and that the Americans had been victorious. His brother, Lawrence Crosland, with the Marines, received mustard gas burns in the big battle June 14, at the time that Grant Lyman received wounds which resulted in his death. James' brother, George, registered September 12, 1918.

A Study for the Priesthood Quorums for 1919. By action ot the General Com- mittee on Course of Study for the Priesthood, taken at a meeting October 10, 1918, it was decided that a book to contain selections From the doctrinal writings and say- ings of President Joseph F. Smith would be used as a text for the Melchizedek Priest- hood Quorums and Classes for the year 1919. It was also decided by the committee that it would not be the best policy to prepare a special text book for the Priests for 1919, since most of the Priests are in military service. It was therefore recommended that a book entitled, The Ancient Apostles, uy Elder David O. McKay, be the Priests' text book for the year 1919. It was also decided that the text book for the teachers for the year 1919 be the same book as that for the Priests; namely, The Ancient Apostles, by Elder David O. McKay. The text book adopted for the Deacons for the year 1919, it was decided, would be Incidents from .the Lives of our Leaders. It is designed by the committee to prepare an outline or guide for the study of the book containing the doctrinal writings and sayings of President Joseph F. Smith for the use of class teachers and students.

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The Halloween Party Elizabeth Cannon Porter 67

The Loyal Sons of Utah. A Song with Music William A. Morton and Evan Stephens 70 How to Lessen Contributions to Crime 74 Editors' Table—"I have Dwelt in the Spirit of ...........

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Some Current History ™ "The Shepherd of the Range." °J - °* Sentiments from the Soldiers ;

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