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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19
Still Cheerful,

did you attend Miss Seresum'i
birthday party?"
ooh, yes. was there"
What kind of time did you havor
1.-THE best ever" -...
what is your impression Of herr
"she's q game loser"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19
Reversing Conditions.

Mrs. Flatbush-How that boy OF
yours is growing! I believe he is tall
or than his father
Mrs Bensonhurst-Yes he is. You
see we are now cutting down the boys
alothes Tor his fathar-
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19
Camp for TN. TubercuIar.

A bill appropriating $4,000 to oper-
ate camp for tubercular inmates of
state institutions, established at
Tomahawk Lake, in the Wisconsin for
est reserve, was passed by the state
senate of that state without opposi-
ton.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

FOR SALE-8O acre REIMBURSEMENT,
seventy tillable, good spring, 8 miles
from town of 800, less than thirty
from Minot, bargain this week,
$500 handles it; 100 acres, modern
buildings, mile from Logan, in
valley. Price $3.50 per acre.
James L. Shaw, Real Estate Man,
Logan, N. ID. S-19-tf
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19
WANT ADS.
For Rent, For Sale. Lost.
Found, Taken up.

WANTED, JOB-For season cooking
on car for threshing crew. Good
cook, always sober and on the Job.
Eight seasons experience. E. A.
Deering, l.. B. $685., Mantenideo,
MINI. S-19t2*
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

Become life member of the
Worlds Permanent Peace Association
by sending 10 cents to 40.
Secretary of w. P. P. A..
S-l2-t2 MinOt, N. Oak.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

STRAYED-About a month ago. one
ten-month-old heifer. black. white
face and hind legs. Finder please
notify Thomas Sampson, Burling-
ton, N. Oak. S-19-t3
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

FOR SALE-A high grade second
hand piano-cheap if taken at once.
s: Rognlie, at Blakey Drug Store,
MlnOt, N. ID. S-19-tf
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

WANTED-to trade, player piano for
auto, new or second hand. S. J.
Hognlie, at Blakey Drug Store, Mi
not N. d. S-19-tf
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

FOR SALE-Fine residence lot on
north side, cheap. p. O. Box SAB,
Minot, N. d. S-19tf
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19

The Independent for up-to-date com
mercial printing.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21

comes the hardy Chrysanthemum and
annual Wall Flowers, Drawing severe
frosts and Frightening up the garden
with their CHEEKY blossoms, even de-
flying the first severe storm, ere they
pass into their Winter sleep. They
often give a supply Of flowers for the
Thanksgiving decorations and closing
the garden book with pleasant
memories of what has gone before.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21
MEMBERS UNITED FARM PRES OIL AMERICA
ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES,

yWSnite1;simonson me- Tffibune Bldgsi New York N J.
F. F. Gilmore, tr, 1O7 S. Fourth St, Louisville, Ky.
Geo. W. Purcell. Victoria Bldg. st. Louis, Mo.
+. The nearest representative is at your service.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21

can deliver your message about those goods to nearly 5oO,ooo real
prosperous homes (the kind you think about on Thanksgiving Day.
viz:
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21
Farmers Want Good Clothes
Farmers Want Good Shoes
Farmers Want Automobiles
ESQ do their wives)
ESQ do their wives.)

Farmers want the same necessares and the same Injuries that
doctors, lawyers, bankers and business men want.
ttheir families likewise)
What's more, right now the farmers have got the real U. S. dollars
to satisfy every single want and then some.
If you make or sell anything that is useful or ornamental-to
American citizens of either sex or any age-and you want to sell
more-the following
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
EQUAL SUFFRAG|STS
 IN REGULAR SESSION
Mrs. J. D. MatlOck Ind0rsed for Position on Board
 of Education

Mrs. J. D. Matlock of E,nsley, one of the most prominent club women of the Bir- mingham district, was indorsed as a can didate for membership on the BirIning- ham board of education at the regular meeting of the Birmingham Equal Suf- frage association, held yesterday after noon. The meeting was one of the most enthusiastic and best attended in many months, owing to the interest taken in the proposition to have woman member of the school board
 Mrs. Matlock has been prominent In the work of organizing the several school Improvement associations of the district, and is fully conversant with the school situation. Among the other candidates suggested is Mrs. D. A. Echols of Ensley, also a member of the Equal Suffrage as- sociation and prominent social and church worker, and identified with many of the fraternal orders of the district. Both ladies are interested in school af- fairs and their friends claim are eminently qualified for a position on the board. It is authoritativefs stated that George R. Byrum, whose place on the board the ladies seek, will be a candidate
 Among other business transacted was the reports of the several standing and special committees. pr. W. A. Oates, state prison inspector, was unanimously indorsed for his present position. Mrs. W. l., Murdoch spoke on child labor legis- lation and the status of the working wom- en of the state and urged more active cooperation in bringing about needed re- forms. The paper by Mrs. Hill on Prison
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
keIloge's Ssnitone Waters Make You Aei Like a Boy You Feel Just Like
 Jumping Over 8 Fence.

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 If you are over worked. run down and careworn-have no spunk for anything at all-these amazing little waters will thrill you with the health and vim that bring the real joy of living.
 Send coupon below today for a free soc trial box of Kellogg's Sanitone Waters.
 The regular $10O size of Kellogg's Sanitone Waters Is for sale in Birming- ham by Adams Drug Co, 1901 Second avenue; Averyt's Chain of Drug Stores, 109-111 N. goth street; Dewberry Drug Store, 2031 Second avenue; Norton Drug Store, 1880 Second avenue; Parker Drug Store, First avenue and goth street; Pat ton Pope Drug Co., 300 N. goth street; Gum Drug Co, Fourth avenue and 20th street; Eugene Jacobs Drug Store, 904 Second avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
THE FRENCH ARMY
 OF BELGIUM

"The French army of Belgium consist ed of. to begin with, two territorial di- visions. four divisions of cavalry and a naval brigade. Directly after it's consti- tuition It was strengthened by elements from other points on the front, whose arrival extended from October 27 to No- vember Il. These transported reinforce ments were equivalent to five army corps, a division of cavalry, a territorial division and 16 regiments of cavalry, plus 60 per cent of her heavy artillery
 Thus was completed strategic ma neuver. The movement of troops was methodically combined with the pursuit of operations, both defensive and offen- sive, from the Disc to the North sea-
 "On October 2 our left rested on Nieu- port. thanks to the successive deploy- ment of five fresh French armies, three French armies consolidated, the British army and the Belgian army
 The review in the fourth installment takes up the operation in Flanders as follows:
 The German attack in the two Fland- CTS was conducted strategically and tactically with remarkable energy. The complete and indisputable defeat in which it resulted is therefore sig nificant.
 The forces of the enemy for this operation between the sea and Lys comprised:
 l. The entire fourth army, command ed by the Duke of Wuertemburg, con sisting of one naval division, one di- vision of Ersatz reserves liberated by the fall of Antwerp, the twenty ond, twenty third. twenty sixth and twenty seventh reserve corps and the forty-eighth division belonging to the twenty-fourth reserve corps. 2. portion of another army under General Won Fabeck consisted of the fifteenth corps, two Bavarian corps and three (unspecified) divisions. 3. Earth of the sixth army under the command of the crown prince of Ba- | varia. This army. more than third oi | which took part in the battle of Fland- CTS. comprised the nineteenth army | corps, portions of the thirteenth corps and the eighteenth reserve corps, the | seventh and the fourteenth corps, ths l first Bavarian reserve corps, tho | guards and the fourth army corps. ] 4. Four highly mobile cavalry corps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
A Mental Fes

A Mental Feat Girls and photographers have ona paradoxical quality in common.' What Is that?' Both can give positive negatives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
CHECK OF THE GERMAN ATTACK ALONG THE COAST

The enemy, who had at his disposal a considerable quantity of heavy artillery. directed his effort at first upon the coast and the country to the north of Dxmude. His objective was manifestly the capture of Dunkirk. then of Calais and Boulogne,
 and this objective he pursued until No-
 vember 1.
 On October 23 the Belgians along the
 railway line from Nieuport to Dixmude were strengthened by a French division. Qusiliers marines). During the subsequent days our forces along the railway de- veloped a magnificent resistance against an enemy superior in number and backed by heavy artillery. On October 20 the in
 undatons effected by the canal and the railway line spread along our front. On October 30 we recaptured Ramscapelle, the only point on the railway which the Bel gians had lost. On November 1 and 2 the enemy bombarded Furnes but began to show signs of weariness. On Novem- Der 3 he evacuated the ground between the Yser and the railway, abandoning cannon, dead and wounded On Novem- Der 3 our troops were able to re-enter the Dixmude district. The success achieved by the enemy at Dixmude at this juncture was without fruit. They | succeeded in taking the town. They could not debouch from it.
 The coastal attack had thus proved a total failure. Since then it has never been renewed. The battle of Calais so noisly announced by the German press | amounted to a decided reverse for the Germans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28

ary l5 was very satisfactory and much superior to that of the German infan- try On an average each of our regi- ments nas 4S officers. The state of the army as regards the commissioned ranks from the highest to the lowest Is declared to be exceptionally bril- liant. The army is led by young, well trained and daring chiefs. and the low CT command ranks have acquired the art of war by experience.
 Including all ranks. France now has more than 2,5OO,000 men at the front. and every unit is, or was on January 15 at war strength.
 In the other arms. which have suffered less than the infantry. the units are all up to. or above. regulation strength
 This fact constitutes one of the most important advantages of the French army over the Germans. While Germany has created a great number of new units, army corps or divisions. which absorbed at blow all of her available resources in officers and men, the French supreme command has avoided the formation oy new units except in limited number, and has only admitted exceptions to this rule when it was able to count with certainty on being able to provide amply for both the present and future requirements of &Jthe new uits as regards all ranks with out encroaching upon the reserves needed for the existing units.
 At the same time, thanks to the depots In the interior of the country the effec- tives at the front have been maintained at full strength The sources of supply for this purpose were the remainder of the Il classes of the reserve. the younger classes of the territorial army and the new class of 1914. A large number of the men wounded in the earlier engagements of the war have been able to return to the front
 With regard to the supplies of men upon which the army can draw we learn that | there is practically half as many men In the depots at the front, in other words, about 1,250,O00
 Further supplies of men are provided by the class of 1915 and the revision of the various categories of men of military age previously exempted. AS result of this measure nearly half million men have been claimed for the army.
 In the depots in which the new soldiers are being trained the services of many officers and noncommissioned officers, discharged as convalescents, after being wounded. are utilized. There are still many voluntary enlistments. and with all these resources of men, the army can
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
ARRIVAL OF THE
 BELGIAN ARMY

'There remained the Belgian army. On leaving Antwerp on October 8. the Bel gian army, which was covered by SO0C British bluejackets and 60O0 French blue jackets, at first intended to retire as far as to the north of Calais. but afterward determined to make a stand in Belgian territory. Unfortunately, the condition of the Belgian troops. exhausted by a struggle of more than three months, did not allow any immediate hopes to be based upon the strategy employed of us- ing them. To our opposite end a French effort was necessary. That effort was made by the dispatching to the north of the Lys of considerable French forces, which formed the French army of Bel oii1ro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28

her resources in men to the detriment of the existing units.
 (5) The allied armies on the contrary possess the power of reinforcing them selves in very considerable degree.
 It may therefore be declared that in order to obtain complete success it is sufficient for France and her allies to know how to wait and to prepare victory with indefatigable patience.
 The German offensive is broken.
 The German defensive will be broken in it's turn.
 Part two under the caption, ''The French Army As It Is.' deals exhaus- lively with the condition of the army after six months of war. The compiler. beginning his review on February l., states that the condition of the French army is excellent and appreciably su- perior to what it was at the begin ming of the war from the three points of yiew-of numbers, quality and equipment.
 In the higher command important changes have been made. It has in fact been rejuvenated by the promo tion of young commanders of proved quality to high rank. All the old gem erals have been gradually eliminated. This rejuvenation has been carried out in a far-reaching manner. The result has been to lower the average age of
 general officers by 10 years. Today
 more than three-fourths of the officers commanding armies and army corps
 are less than 60 years of age. There are, in fact, at the front extremely few general officers over 60.
 This rejuvenation was facilitated by number of circumstances, notably the strengthening of the higher regi- mental ranks and also the system of promotion for the duration of the war. AIrx, vl.r< l<se,r fI.o colonels now command brigades. The cavalry after six months of war still possesses an excess of officers. | The artillery, which has suffered rel atively little, has also an excess of ot- | ficers, and is further able to count | upon a large number of captains and | other officers formerly employed in the
 arsenals or in technical research
 Finally the reserve artillery officers 1 have nearly all proved to be excellent | battery commanders.
 | The losses In the junior commits stoned ranks have naturally been high
 est In the infantry. There is, however,
 nothing like want of officers in this | army. Many captains and lieutenants
 wounded by machine gun fire have 1 been able to return to the front. The ! reserve officers have in general done
 remarkably well and in many cases f have shown quite exceptional aptitude | The noncommissioned officers pro
 noted to sublieutenancies make excel | lent section leaders.
 | It must be emembered also that 1 thanks to the intellectual and phys ical development of the generation
 now serving with the colors; ant
 thanks, above all. to the warlike qua1'
 ities of the race, and the democratic spirit of our army. we have been ablC
 to draw upon the lower grades ant even upon the rank and file for off
 cers. Many men who began the wal
 on August as privates now wear tho officers eppaulettes
 The state of our infantry on Janu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
DECISIVE BLOW
 STILL TO RE STRUCK

On October 2S Prince Rupprecht oi Bavaria declared in an army order that his troops had just been fighting un- der very difficult conditions" and he added: Tt is our business now not to let the struggle with our most deuest- ed enemy drag on longer, the decisive blow is still to be struck" On October 30 General Von Deimling, command ing the fifteenth army corps (belong- ing to General Von Fabecks com mand) issued an order declaring that 'the thrust against Ypres will be of decisive importance.' It should be noted also that the Emperor proceeded in person to Thielt and Courtrai to exalt by his presence the ardor of his troops. Finally at the close of Octo- Der the entire German press incessant- ly proclaimed the importance of the battle of Calais.''
 in Poland explain in large measure the passionate resolve of the German general staff to obtain a decision on the western theatre of operations at all costs. This decision would be ob tained if our left were pierced or driven in. To reach Calais, that is. to break our left to carry Ypres, that is, to cut it in half; through both points to menace the communications and supplies of the British expeditionary corps; such was the German plan in the battle of Flanders. 1t was plan that could not be executed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28

1 to drive in the right of our northern army
 under the shock of powerful masses. This
 was the battle of Ypres.
 l In order to understand this long, des- 1 perate and furious battle we must hark back a few days in point of time. At | the moment when our cavalry reached | Roulers and Cortemark October 1S) our territorial divisions from Dunkirk, under | General Bidon, occupied and organized a, defensive position at Ypres. It was a | point dappu enabling us to prepare and
 maintain our connections with the Bel l gian army. From October 23 two British and French army corps were in occupa- l ton of this position, which was to be the
 base of their forward march in the direc- 1 ton of RoulersMenin. The delays all | ready explained and the strength of the l forces brought up by the enemy soon
 brought to a standstil our progress along l the line, Poelcapelle, Paschendaele. Zand- verde, Gheluvelt. But in spite of the stop I page here, Ypres was solidly covered and l the connections of all the allied forces were established. Against the line thus | formed the German attack was hurled | from October 25 to November 13 to the north, the east, and the south of Ypres. | From October 26 on the attacks were re- newed daily with extraordinary violence. 1 obiging us to place endorsements at | most threatened positions as soon as they | came up. Thus on October 31 we were obliged to send supports to the British | cavalry. then to the British corps between | which the cavalry formed the connecting | link, and finally to intercalate between 1 these two corps a force equivalent to two army corps
 Between October 90 and November G., | Ypres was several times in danger. The | British lost Zandvorde, Gheluvelt, Mes i sines and Wytschaete. The front of the allies thus contracted, was all the more difficult to defend but defended it was without a recoil. The arrival of three | French divisions in our line enabled us I to resume from November to November | 8 a vigorous offensive. On November 1C | and il this offensive brought up against 1 fresh and sharper German attacks, was | checked. Before it could be renewed the | arrival of fresh endorsements had tc
 be awaited, which were dispatched to the north on November 12. By November IA 1 our troops had again begun to progress barring the road to Ypres against the German attacks and infiicting on the en. l losses which were especially terrible in
 and British artillery had crowded nearly
 300 guns onto these few kilometers oi front.
 Thus the main mass of the Germans sustained the same defeat as the detach- mcnts operating further to the north along the coast. The support which, ac cording to the idea of the German gen.
 eral staff, the attack on Ypres was tc
 render to the coastal attack, was as flu. tile as that attack itself had been.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
HOW THE GERMANS
 RUSHED TO THE SEA
 TO FLANK ALLIES
Ccontinued from Page One,

Sixth German army was deployed against us. We retained all our positions, but we could do no more.
 "Once more endorsements, two army corps, were directed, no longer on Beau vais, but towards Amiens. The front was then again to extend. A fresh army was constituted more to the north. From September 90 onwards we could not observe that the enemy, already strongly posted on the Plateau of Thiep- val was continually slipping his forces from south to north Accordingly, on October l, two cavalry cSps were di- rected to make leap forward and, op- erating on both banks of the Scarpe. to put themselves in touch with the garrison of Dunl1irk, which had pushed forward as far as Douai But on October and 3 the bulk of our fresh army was very strongly attacked in the district of Arras and Lens. A fresh French army corps immediately was transported and de- trained in the Lille district.
 But once more the attacks became more pressing and on October it was a question whether retreat would not have to be made. General Joffre reso- sumed, though it was clear that, as our sumed, though it was clea rtnat. as our front extended to the sea, it was by a mere ribbon of troops and did not yet possess the solidarity to resist with con- plete safety German attack the violence of which could well be forced. It was at this moment that the transport of the British army to the northern theatre of operations began.
 Field Marshal French had. as early as the end of September, expressed the wish to see his army resume it's initial place on the left of the allied armies. He eX-
 plained this wish on the ground of the greater facility of communications and the impending arrival of two divisions of infantry from home and of two infantry divisions and a cavalry division from In- dia. General Joffre decided at the begin ming of October to meet the marshall s wishes and to have the British army re- moved from the Aisne.
 But the detraining took longer than had been expected and it was not possible to attack the Germans during the time in which they had only cavalry in the Lille district and further to the north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28

Conditions in Alabama" proved of un- usual interest
 Mrs. H. H. Shell announced that Dr. Anna Shaw, the president of the national organization of woman suffragists, would make an address in Birmingham on April II at the Jefferson theatre. The commit tee on the bazar and lunch to be given next Saturday at the Tutwiler hotel an- nounced that the programme had been arranged and would be announced later