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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
Brick Porch improves Old House.

The transformation a broad porch
of nice-looking face brick will bring
about on an old-style frame house is
wonderful. One sees in various places
along the streets houses on which such
changes have been made, and he is
forced to admit that a great improve
ment has resulted. While the effect
is so striking, the cost. of such an adj
dition Is not so great.
A combination of rough face brick
of reddish-brown coloring, white stone
cap and turned columns painted white,
with the steps and porch floor of con-
crete, makes an attractive appearance.
A new brick porch would be valuable
addition TO many wooden houses of the
old type, which now boast of old-style
narrow piazzas.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03

a s We climbed ont ~ the shelter
~ of our trenches for my first and.
perhaps. my last I thought al
venture Ia No Mans Land the word
was passed
over the top and give EN- helli"
That Is the British Tommies hattie
cry a. they charge the enemy. and II
has often sounded up aud down those
long lines In western France as the
British. Canadian and Australian sol
diers 80 out TO the light aud the death.
We were divided into six parties OF
ten men. each party having separate
duties % perfwm. We crouched for
ward. moving slowly in single file,
stumbling into shell holes and over
dead men some very long dead Land
managing 10 keep Ia touch with each
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03

other though the machine gun bullets
began 20 drop men almost immediate
II. Once We were started We were
neither fearful nor ratified We had
been drilled SO long and so carefully
that each man knew Just what he wns
to do. and be Kept right on doing 4
unless he got biz To me Il seemed
the ground was moving back undcr
me The arst ten yards were the
toughest. The thing was perfectly or
ganized Our FIRST party OF ten was
composed Of signaiers They were pay
Ing out wires and carrying telephones
to be uses during the fifteen minutes
OF our stay IN the German trenches
la communicating with eur battalion
Headquarters a telephone code had
been arranged. using the names u our
commanding officers as symbols. ~neN.
fcrd I" meant FIRST prisoners being
sent back Rexford - meant "Our
lirst wounded being sent over" Rex
ford e. meant 1--WE have entered Ger
man trehch Tile code was very COM
plefe. and the sigualers had been drill
cd IN Il Tor week. Ia ease the tele-
phone wires were cut, the Signaicrs
Nere 10 send messages back by the
une ~ ride xrenades These are ride
projecilics which carry little metal
exiiAder~ 70 contain written messages
aud which burst into fame when they
strike the earth. 50 that they can be
easily found at night The ofteer In
charge Of the signalers was 80 remain
~ the point 81 entrance. With his eyes
On lis watch Il was his duty TO sound
a warning signal eve minutes before
the end of eur time In the German
trenches
The leader u every rarty OF ten also
had whistle with which 10 repeat
the warning blast and then the tpal
blast. when each man WIS 20 drop /
everything aud gcs back OF our srsil- |
iery ere. We we're not to leave any I
Gead or wounded ia the German trench I
on account Of the Information which I
the Germans might thus obtain. Be
fore starting ON the raid We had re
all marks from oar persons. In
Guiding even our Identification disks.
Except for the signalers. each party OF
ten WAS similarly organized First.
there were two bayonet men. each
with nm electric nasbl;ght attached to
bis rifle. 50 as to give light for the di-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03

ing up Is not Just suitable term.
We were crawling about on all fours
| Just far enough out in No Mans Land
| TO be under the edge Of the German
shell fire and taking what shelter we
could la shell holes while our leaders
picked the way to start across. The
extra heavy bombardment had warned
the Germans that something was about
to happen. They sent up star shells
and IS O s." signals until there was
q glare over the torn earth like that
which you see at the grand finish OF
Pains fireworks display. and mean
while they sprayed No Mar's Land
with streams OF machine gun fire. In
the face OF that we started.
1t would be absurd to say that we
were not frightened. Thinking men
could not help but be afraid. II we
were pallid, which undoubtedly we
were, the black upon our faces hid II.
but our fear struck voices were not
disguised They trembIed and our
teeth chartered.
We sneaked out single file, making
our way from smell hole 10 shell hole,
nearly all tue time on all fours. crawl
ing quickly over the fiat places between
this small shelter. The Germans had
not sighted US. but they were squirting
machine gun bullets all over the place
promlscuously, like man watering a
lawn with garden hose aud they
were bound TO get some OF us. Behind
me | heard cries OF pain and groans,
but It made little impression on my
benumbed intelligence from the mere
fact that whatever had happened had
happened 10 one OF the other sections
of ten and not 10 my own 1t seemed, |
some way or other. no affair 10 con-
FERN me. Then a man In front OF me
doubled up suddenly and rolled into a
shell hole. That simply made me re-
member very clearly that I was not /
o stop on account Of It. 1t was some
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
Small Suburban Lot Best.

The ideal size for a suburban lot,
If you do not keep man or horse,
is about one-siXth of an acre-say, 90
by 80 feet. This is all that the owner
can keep in apple-pie order. provided
the place has plenty of vegetables and
flowers. This assumes that the family
is willing to spend $50 year for out
side labor. fertilizers, seeds, bulbs.
etc. 1t also assumes that the wife is
willing to spend an hour a day in the
garden and is not ashamed to be seen
raking, planting and doing everything
except the hard labor.
Those who move from the city TO
the country will make great mistake
If, under such conditions, they attempt
more than this. Gardening is an ex-
pensive business and one might as well
recognize the limitations of the game.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
NOTICE 10 CREDITORS.

ESTATE OF JOHN w. YOUNG, DE-
CEASED.
Notice is hereby given by the I'M
dersigned Emmett c. Young, Admin
istrator of the estate of John w.
Young, deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against the
said deceased. TO exhibit them with
the necessary vouchers, within ten
months after the first publication of
this notice, to the said Administrator at
the office of Frank T. Disney in Sho-
shone, Lincoln Co., Idaho.
Dated July IA, 1917.
EMMETT c. YOUNG,
Administrator of the estate
of John w. Young, deceased
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
HILL cITY-sHosHONE.

We are now in a position to handle
Twin Falls and surrounding irrigated
lands in connection with Camas Coun-
glad to explain the combination to
stockmen. and to those who desire to
raise alfalfa hay in the irrigated dis
tricts and own pasture land in Camas
County. You can get rich by owning
some pasture land North of you.
We have fine combinations now ready
for the investor
Write for information.
THOS. H. SCRUGGS,
a3-1m. Hill City, Idaho
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that I, John
Fleming, convicted of the crime of
Murder in the First Degree, at the
october term, 1908, of the District
Court of the Fourth Judicial District.
in and for the County of Lincoln.
State of Idaho, and sentenced by said
Court to serve term of Life imprison-
ment in the Idaho State Penitentiary
at Boise, Ada County, Idaho; will
make application to the Honorable
State Board of Pardons, at their next
regular meeting after the legal publi-
cation of this notice, for an absolute
pardon.
j27-a17 JOHN FLEMING
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Serial No. 015S24.
NOTICE FOR PUBL


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Land Office, HALEY, Idaho,
June %. 1917.
NOTICE is hereby given that August
Bitterman, of Owinza, Idaho, who on
July 80, 1914. made Homestead Entry
Serial No. 015S24, for NJ Section %,
Township South, Range 81 East Boise
Meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make three-year Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, be-
for Frank T. Disney, u. S. Commits
sioner, at Shoshone. Idaho, on the 18th
day of August, 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses:
August Moser, Barbara Med, Henry
Wiederspan, John S. Moser, all Of
Owinza, Idaho. -
BEN r. GRAY.
Register
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
Tricks of Bombing.

When the Canadians first introduced
bombing the bombs were improvised
out of mess tins, the fuses were cut
according to the taste and judgment
of the individual bomber, and just
when the bomb would explode was
more or less problematical. Frequent
ly the Germans have tossed our bombs
back into our trenches before they
went Off That was dangerous and ir-
ritating They can't do that with
Mills grenade or any of the improved
factory made bombs, because the men
know just how they are timed and are
trained to know just how to throw
them. Then the Germans used to
work little bomb trick of their own.
They learned that our scouts and raid
ers were all anxious TO get a German
helmet as souvenir. They'd put he'll
NETS on the ground In No Mans Land
or in an advanced trench with bombs
under them. In several cases men
looking for souvenirs suddenly became
mere memories themselves.
In several raids when bombing was
new the Canadians worked trick OH
the Germans with extensively fatal eff
feet. They tossed bombs into the
German trenches with six inch fuses
attached. To the Germans they looked
Just like the other bombs we had been
using. and. I'm fact. they were-all but
the fuses. Instead OF having failed
to continue burning. as the Germans
thought, those fuses had never been
lighted. They were Instantaneous fuses
The ignition spark will travel through |
an instantaneous fuse at the rate of |
thirty yards a second. A German would 1
pick up one OF these bombs, select the ]
spot where he intended TO blow up a
few OF us with our own ammonia and /
then light the fuse After that there |
had 10 be new man IN his place. |
The bomb would explode instantly the
long fuse was ignited.
The next day when ! got up after
this disastrous raid my bunkie said
Something sure raised h with our
'As those automatic self cooking
revolyers did with Kentucky we'd
ling when. some one made remark
on the bride" / replied.
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one else's business TO pick that man
up. Next, according to the queer psy-
chology OF battle, | began to lose my
sensation of fear and nervousness.
After ] saw a second man go down
gave my attention principally TO u con-
sideratl0n of the irregularities OF the
German parapet ahead of us. picking
out the spot where we were to enter
the trench. 1t seems silly to say it,
but | seemed to get some sort of salts
faction out of the realization that we
had lost the percentage which we
might be expected to lose going over
Now, Il seemed, the rest OF us were
safe until we should reach the next
phase OF our undertaking. | heard di-
rections given, and | gave some my
self My voice was firm. 1t surprised
me. and | felt almost calm. Our ar
tlllery had so torn up the German barb
wire that Il gave us no trouble at all.
We walked through it with only few
scratches. When we reached the low.
sandbag parapet of the enemy trench
we tossed IN few bombs and follow
w 'AtAh AAHAt N'NA 60 NNNA 00 tAt nav
exploded. There wasn't a German In
sight. They were all in their dugouts.
But we knew pretty well where every
dugout was located. and we rushed for
the entrances with our bombs. Every
thing seemed to be going just as we
had expected Il To so. Two Germans
ran plump into me as | was rounding
a ..-tfI In
They had their hands up. and each of
them yelled:
"Mercy, kameradw
l passed them back. to be sent to the |
rear. and the man who received them |
from me chuckled and told them to |
move lively. The German trenches I
were practically just as we had ex-
pected 20 find them, according to our
They were so nearly similar
TO the duplicate section In which we
had practiced that we had no trouble
finding our way I'm them | was just
that really the only tough
part OF the job remaining would be
getting hack across No Mans Land
when It seemed that the whole earth
ituliN iht kOcS AZ Tue hAi. Tux " ihp-
nent | was stunned and half blinded
BY dirt blown into my face When
was able TO see | discovered that all
which lay behind me was mass of
lpturned earth and rock, with here
md there a man shaking himself or
'crambling out OF II or lying still
Just two minutes after we went into
heir trench the Germans had explod-
u mine under their pararet. l have
ilways believed that In some way or
mother they had learned what spot
We We're TO raid and had prepared for
is Whether that's true or not. one
hing Is certain-that mine blew our
rganization. as we would say In Ken
ucky. plumb TO hi" And II Killed
r disabled more than half OF our
arty +
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
Value of Vegetable Garden.

A vegetable garden never hurt the
looks of any lot. 1t doesn't take a
dreamer to rave over 80 by 40 foot
plat of growing lettuce, ripening to-
matoes or sturdy potato plants-not In
these days of high prices. Indeed, II a
piece of ground has demonstrated its
productiveness, it is more saleable than
ever when put on the market.--Wis-
consin State Journal.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
Serial No. 015S23.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
BEN R. GRAY. -
Register -

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Land Office, Haley Idaho,
June 2S, 1917.
NOTICE is hereby given that John
S. Moser, of Owinza, Idaho, who, on
July 80, 1914, made Homestead Entry,
Serial No. 015S23, for NJ Section 21.
Township 7 South, Range 81 East.
Boise Meridian, has filed notice of in
tention to make final three-year Proof,
to establish claim to the land above
described, before Frank T. Disney.
U. S. Commissioner, at Shoshone, Idaho,
on the 18th day of August, 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses:
August Bitterman, Henry Wieder-
span, Jacob Miller, Barbara Med, all
of Owinza, Lincoln Co.. Idaho.
BEN r. GRAY,
Register.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
OVER THERE
The Thrill and the He'll OF
the Trenches. Described
by an American Boy.

Sergeant Alexander McClintock Of Lex
ington, Ky, snd the Canadian Army Has
Gripping Tale That Every American Will
Read, For He Tells the Facts-Unadorn-
ed. Wounded, Distinguished Conduct
Medal Man, He Was Invalided Home,
but Is Going "0ut There" Again to Fight
For Uncle Sam and His Allies. An In
spring, Interesting, Personal Narrative.
Full Of the Spirit and Atmosphere Of tho
Trenches.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
No. ). "0ver the Top
andGiye'E Hell!'
BY Sergeant Alexander nccllniock,
D. {. NJ. 87lh Overseas Bait.
Canadian uren. Guards.
Copyright. 1871 by tho Bell Syn
dicste. inc.

sergeant MccHafock. icho has seen
serolce "a Froace. fcas decorated for
brarcfB. sconnded. inralided home and
- Bolc eadeaporin0 10 pei a cOmDlissioh
~ our arnlB A commission ~ me Ca
aadiea army aicdi.s him u ne returns
70 join his Ola command Ia me INST
and second articles ~ graphically de-
scrites MS thinning. ma fgip 10 France
aud the elaborate preparations made
Tor bomb raid an me GcrmaH trenches.
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Great Confusion.

There was much confusion among
those OF us who remained ON our feet.
Some one gave an order to retire. and
some one countermanded It, More
Germans came out Of their dugouts.
but instead OF surrendering as per our
original schedule they threw bombs
among us. 1t became apparent that
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
No. 4-shiftsd to the somme.

Sergeant McClintock takes part in the
greatest of all battles and tells of the
hell OF Il. The front In Belgium was
really n rest sector in comparison with
it," he says. The extensive preparations
of the allies for open warfare afterwsrd
abandoned because OF the failure of ex-
pected developments.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03

we would be killed o. captured II "
stuck there and that we wouldn't re
any more prisoners. | looked at m,
wrist watch and saw that there re
NAMED but five minutes more of tn
time which had been allotted for OIL
stay In the trench, so | blew my whis
tie and started back | had seen Pri
yate Green (No. III ,250J knocked dow
by bomb IN the next section, and
picked him up and carried him GU
| over the wrecked parapet. | took shell
ter with him In the first shell hole, bu
found that he was dead and left hin
there. A few yards farther back to
ward our line | found Lance Corpora
Glass In shell hole with part of his
hip shot away. He said he thought he
| could get back If | helped him, and !
started with him. Private Hunter
who had been IN a neighboring shell
hole. came to our assistance. and be.
tween US Hunter and ! got Glass to
our front trench.
We found them lining uD the suryiv-
ors Of our party for a roll call. That
showed so many missing that Major
Lewis, formerly of the Montreal Star,
called for volunteers to go out I'm No
Mans Land and try to find some of
our men. Corporal Charleson, Private
Saunders and ! went out. We brought
In two wounded and we saw a number
OF dead, but on account Of their black
ened faces were unable to recognize
them. The scouts later brought in sew
eral bodies
OF the sixty odd men who had start
ed in our party forty-three were found
to be casualties-killed, wounded or
missing. The missing list was the
longest. The names of those men were
marked I'm. b. k missing; believed
killed. on our rolls. L have learned
since that some few Of them have been
reported through Switzerland as pris-
oners Of war in Germany, but most Of
them are now officially listed as dead
All OF the survivors of the raiding
party were sent twenty miles to the
rear at O'Clock. and the noncommis-
stoned officers were ordered to make
reports in writing concerning the en-
tire raid. | never slept more than an
hour at time for several days and
nights. l would doZe off from sheer
exhaustion and then suddenly find my
self sitting straight up, scared half to
death all over again.
There may be soldiers who won't
get scared when they know they@are
in danger or even when people are be-
ing killed right around them, but I'm
not one of them. And I've never met |
any Of them yet. l know boy who
won the military cross in the battle of |
the Somme, and | saw him ON his |
knees before his platoon commander,
crying he was coward
and begging to be left behind, just
when the order to advance was given.
In this war in every Offensive, big
)r small. the man who has been train
ID to throw bomb thirty yards is
)usier and more important than the
'ellow with the modern rifle, which
Will shoot mile and a half and make
hole through a house. In good
many surprising ways this war has
,arried us back to first principles.
a crusaders mace which l
nee saw in the British museum that
would make a bang up knob kerrie,
much better than the kind with which
hey arm our No. 4 men in a raiding
ection. 1t had a round iron head,
With spikes all over It, 1 wonder that
hey haven't started factory to turn
hem out.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
COUNTY TREASURER'S WARRANT
CALL NO oo

Lincoln County Warrants of the fol-
lowing series are now payable at my
office.
School Dist. No. 2.......-...........No. 1852
School Dist No. 7....No. $3.50 to 5404 inc
School Dist. No. 1S.......-....No. 543S only.
School Dist. No. 42.....-......No 5464 only.
Interest stops on the above Warrants
August 9Th, 1917
All previous warrants called.
Dated at Shoshone. Idaho. this 30th
day of July, 1917.
WALTER H. COPP,
County Treasurer
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rectlon Of bnyonct thrust and con
trolled b. button at the left hand
grasp Of tile rife. Besides his rife, all
Of these men carried six or eight Mills
No . baud grenades. weighing from d
pound and Ave ounces to pound and
seven ounces each.
The Lineup.
They are the same shape as a turkey
eeg and a little larger Upon with
drawing the firing pin a lever sets a
four second fuse going. One OF these
grcnades WIN clean out anything liv-
Ing IN ten foot trench section IL
VIII also kin the man who is throwing
II II he holds II more than four sec
onds after he has pulled the pin The
third man Of each ten was an expert
bomb thrower. equipped as lightly as
I possible TO give him freedom OF ac-
ton. He carried a few bombs himself.
but the main supply was carried By
the fourth man. who was not 10 throw
any unless the third man became
casualty. In which case No. 4 was TO
I take his place. The third man also
carried knob kcrrie. heavy bludgcOn
20 be used III whacking an enemy over
the head. Ours were made by fasten-
Ing heavy steel nuts on q stout stick
OF wood, very buslnesslike contr-
vance The fourth man. or bomb car
rier, besides having a large supply of
Mills grenndes, had smoke bombs, TO
he used IN smoking the Germans out
OF dugouts and later, IL necessary. in
covering our retreat and also flimite
bombs. The hitter are very dangerous
to handle. They contain mixture of
petrol and PHOSPHORUS and weigh
three pounds each. On exploding they
release liquid fire which viii burn
through steel
The nth, sixth. seventh and eighth
In line were called utility men. They
were TO take the places of any Of the
FIRST four who might become casual
ties, In addition they carried two
Stokes gun bombs each. These weigh
nine pounds apiece. have six second
fuses and can be used In wreclSlng
dugouts. The ninth ana tenth men
were sappers, carrying slabs of gun
cotton and several hundred yards OF
instantaneous fuse. This explosive is
used IN demollshing machine gun en-
placements and mine saps. The sap
pers were TO lay their charges while
we were ut work In the trenches and /
explode them as soon as our party was |
far enough ont on the return Journey /
10 be safe from this danger. In add
ton 10 the1e parties OF ten there were
three Of us who carried bombs and had
orders 10 keep near the three officers.
to take the place OF any one of them
that might go down and meanwhile 10
use our own Judgment about helping
the jolly old party along. ! was as
signed one Of the three.
In addition to the ralding party
proper there was relay call across
No Mans Land at ten PAGES interval,
making n chain 10 show us our way
back 10 assist the wounded and IN
Ease OF opportunity or necessity, TO re
rnforce us They were ordered not TO
leave their positions when we began
10 come back until the last man OF our
party bad been accounted for The
lnal section OF our encourage was com
posed of twelve stretcher bearers. who
iad been specially trained with us, so
hat they would be familiar with the
rench section which we We're TO raid
The Raid and It's Result.
There were two things which made
I poSSti,le for our Railing Marty 10 get
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03

The fourth article of this remarkable
personal narrative win appear soon. 1t
is entitled:
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03

was sort OF subconscious. mechanical
confidence IA our undertaking. which
was u result OF the scores of times we
had gone through every prearranged
movement 10 eur practice duplicate
German trenches behind our lines
Without either OF those influences we
simply could NOT have left the shelter
and faced what was before us
An Intensified bomhardment from
our guns began Just AS soon as we
bad climbed "over the top and were
lining up for the journey across. lin
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-03
The Raid and It's Result.

There were two things which made
Il possible for our raiding party to get
started across No Mans Land one
was the momentary quickenlng OF the
blood which follows big aud unac.
customcd dose OF rum. and the other