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The Washington herald., 1917-07-16
FIERCE SLAUGHTER
ON WESTERN FRONT

London. July 15.-Slaughter of the
fiercest kind marked another sabbath
on the Franco-German front, where
al DAYS are consecrated to Mars alone.
The departing sun saw the road with
the chivalrous name bathed in new
torrents of blood, the slopes of the
Champagne heights dotted with new
hillocks of bodies.
A frightfUl dual battle was fought
throughout the night and all day long.
The Teutons emerged viCtoTs on the
Poad-of-the-Ladies. the French in the
Champagne. The respective gains on
these widely separated fronts curiously
counterHalance each other.
TIE French gained on a width OF
500 meters and n depth of 800 meters.
They ;ook $50 prisoners.
The German gained on a width of
1850 meters and a depth Of 800 meters.
They took $50 prisoners.
Paris asserts the Teuton assault on
the Chemnin des DANES vas only part
ly successful. violent counter attacks
having elected the Crown Princes s
troops from all but a few elements Of
trenches on 4 501-meters front. Berlin
docs not concede the reverse in the
Champagne declaring the French at
ldChS were beaten on.
Violent Laon Fighting.
The French official communique il
lustrates the terrible see-saw char
Ictcr of the fighting on the great high
way below Laon. The Germans Sc
lCcted the French salient just west of
Cerny. eight miles southwest of Laon
for a series of onSlaughts launched
with powerful electives and aided by
the use of liquid fire. Very violent
lighting continued all night with al
ternate advances and retirements, >
SAYS the Paris statement.
The advance of the Poilus north of
High Mountain and on the slopes
northeast of the Teton is described by
the French war office as a brilliant
piece of dash and determination. Com
ducted with exceptional vigor." the
official account says. "the attacks
were successful in attaining all the
objectives."
A powerful organized network of
German trenches was captured and
held against unceasing Teuton COun-
ter attacks which many times develop
ed into terrific hand to hand carnage
Nine officers were among the prison.
ers taken. The French "seventy-fives"
saw to it that no large reserve bodies
could be organized by the Germans to
come to the relief of their hard press
ed comrades. Wherever such auxiliary
troops were gathering behind the Ger
man line they were taken under the
annihilating fire of Petain's guns and
scattered to the four winds.
There was heavy gun fire on the
Nerdun front. interpersed with recon-
noitering actions
Only patrol encounters and raids
were reported in the British official
report.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-16
RUMANIAN CABINET CRISIS.

Jassy. Rumsnia. July ia cabinet
crisis is confronting the Rumanian
government. -Four Conservative min
listers have refused 70 cooperate with
Premier Brstiano and they demand
that two more Conservatives be ad-
mitted to the cabinet. They insist
that NJ. Bratiano resign and that
Take Jonescu, minister without port
folio. be appointed 20 succeed him.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-16
GERARD H0NORED BY KING.

New York. July 15.-king George
has conferred the grand cross OF the
Ancient Order of the Bath upon
James W. Gerard, former Ambassa-
dor to Germany. II was bestowed in
recognition of Gerard's work TO bet
ter conditions of British war prisoners
IN Germany.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-16
SLASHED, LEAPS TO DEATH.

New York. July 15.-After slashing
both wrists, solomon Guggenheim.
stopping at the Grenoble Hotel. at
Seventh avenue and Fffty-sixth street,
plunged from a fourth story window
TO his death in the courtyard below
this morning. The police were inform
ed that Guggenhoiy had been despond-
ent; owing to the ioss of large part
The Washington herald., 1917-07-16
FLAYS KAISER
IN REICHRATH
Praschek Declares in House
that Austria Should Re-
nounce Wilhelm.
CBy the International Ners serytcs

By the international News servtceA
Zurich, july I5.-Austria should de-
tach herself from the Kaiser. the for
mer Czech minister. Herr Praschek.
declared in the Austrian Reichraeh
Saturday. say dispatches from Vienna
today. Praschek said the hate OF the
world Was not directed at Austria.
but at Germany. and that peace could
not be obtained by clinging TO Ger
many's side.
Must we continue TO sacrifice our
interests TO the expansion OF Ger
n-any's7 Must we continue to submit
to German militarism which drew us
into the war;" he said.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-16
RANTzAU APPOINTED
Foreign SECRETARY
German Minister at Copenhagen to
Succeed DR.. Zimmerman,

Copenhagen, July 15.-Count Brock
dorff Rantzau, German minister here,
will succeed DR.. Alfred Zimmerman
as German imperial foreign secretary,
say Berlin correspondents.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-16
REAR ADMIRAL EMERY DEAD.

Newport. July 1a-Resr Admiral
William Il. Emery. L. s. ". retired.
died here today. Rear Admiral Emery
was II years old. He wRs graduated
at the United States Nstal Academy
in 1855 and was put on the retrsd
list In 1905.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
oct. lst to Nov. I5th.)


STATE OF WISCONSIN COUNTY COURT
FOB BAYFIELD, COUNTY
In the matter of the Estate r, pxo,,,.a
of John Agre. Deceased.
On reading and fling the petition of Siv-
ert Agre. Administrator of the Estate of
John Agre. deceased, representing among
other things that said deceased died seized
of certain real estate therein described.
and that it is necessary to sell or cucumber
the same to pay the funeral expenses and
expense of ad 1linistration of the estate of
the said deceased, and praying for license
to sell all or part of the same. and. it APP
pearing to the Court that the personal
estate in the hands of said administrator is
insufficient to pay the debts funeral ex-
penses and expense of admiration and
of the said deceased that it is necessary to
sell or incumber all or part of said real
estate for that purpose;
is IS ORDERED. That said petition be
heard at a special term of said County Court
to be held in and for said County. at the
court house in the City of Washburn on the
4th Tuesday, (being the 27th day. of Novem-
Der A, D. 1917. at 10 O'Clock A M.
TITS FURTHER ORDERED, That this
or.Ier be published at least four successive
weeks. before said day fixed for the hearidg
of said petition. in the Washburn Times, a
weekly newspaper, published at the City of
Washburn, in said County. and that copy
thereof be served personally on and on all
persons interested in the said estate and
residing in this county at least twenty days
before such day.
Dated Oct. 23rd. 1917.
Nv order of the Court
H. P. Axelberg. County Judge.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
1T WAS A NOISY CARGO.
But 1t Completely Cured the Skipper
of His Fear of u Boats.

But 1t Completely Cured the Skipper
of His Fear of U Boats.
a skipper who took cargo of loco
motives across the Atlantic when the
u boat warfare was at its worst gave
this ringing story of the trip:
1--WE left Philadelphia with sixty To-
comotives, all incased in huge wooden
boxes. intact and ready to be taken of
the. ship and placed Immediately on the
tracks to start dragging ammunition
trains to the front.
1.-THE Delaware was as smooth as
pond as we made our way down to
the bay, but the first wavelets that
struck us at the capes started some
thing that made me want to take a
header off the bridge. Every one of
the sixty locomotive bells in the hold
began to ring! And they all kept ring
ing all day and all night all the way
across the Atlantic.
cat first I thought of going back to
dock to have the bells taken off. But
that would have amounted virtually 10
unloading the whole cargo because OF
the manner in which the locomotives
were slowed. 1t would have meant a
weeks delay, and I was supposed to
get to sea as quickly as possible. So
We put out that night with those sixty
mad bells going hammer and tongs
continuously.
II thought we would all lose our
senses. Sleep was out Of the question.
It was like ringing eight bells eighty
times a minute in sixty different keys.
You've seen Sir Henry Irving in the
play The BellsY Well, 1t was like
that, only this was no play, but real
life. 1t seemed, as one member of the
crew who is by far too imaginative
said, as if the ghosts of all the MUIR
dered ships were changing up at us out
of the depths of the ocean, warning us
Of the u boats that had Uttered the sea
floors with their bones.
1--WE fell in with some nasty wealth
er as we neared the other side. The
vessel rocked and tossed, and every
time she plunged a whole cataract Of
bells went tearing down toward perdi-
ton. We're in the u boat zone,' re-
marked the man at the wheel to me
one night. sGoodv 1 cried. I hope a
torpedo hits us soon. Then perhaps
Ill get some Sleep
"The destroyers that met us didn't
know what to make of us. They
thought we had all gone crazy drunk
and were trying to tell the q boats
exactly where we were. But told
them I was cured of the fear of o
boats forever."-P Philadelphia Ledger.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

imposed on Prussia by Napoleon at the
treaty of Tilsit, whereby Prussia was
restricted to a standing army of $4,000
men. She kept to the letter of the law
by maintaining her army at the pre-
scribed number, but her trained citizen
reserve force was limited only by the
population of the country.
The military history of the United
States is as remarkable as the rise and
rapid growth of the nation itself. In
1870, as fixed by an act of congress,
the rank and file of our army amount
ed to 1,216 men, and in 1914 an English
expedition with only $500 men was
able to seize and burn Washington.
CONSUMPTION first made its appear
ance here at the time of the war be-
tween the states. At the beginning of
the war in 1861 our whole regular force
was but $4,000 men. Atsfirst the north
ern army was increased by volunteer
enlistment, but the unexpected pro
longation of the war proved this meth
od too slow to replenish the waste of
the armies, and in 1868 the govern
;nent resorted to q draft.
The first attempt to carry it out met
with forcible resistance and led to a
serious riot in the city of New York,
which lasted for several days.. All op-
position, however, was put down and
the draft executed with all possible
forbearance and justice. Exemptions
and substitute purchases were so free
ly given in the north that the draft had
little effect except as a stimulus to
the states in bringing to full strength
their quotas of volunteers by voting
bounties.
In the south, however, CONSUMPTION
was sweeping from the first, and to-
ward the end of the war 1t became
omnivorous. Every man between the
ages OF seventeen and fifty-five was le-
gally liable to service, the only excuse
being physical incapacity.
The total number Of men called un-
der arms by the government Of the
United States between April, 1861, and
April, 1865, amounted to more than
2,750,O0O, nearly half of this number
being raised by CONSUMPTION. If to this
we add the 100000 men from the
southern states the total armed force
Of the country at that time amounted
to almost 100000, drawn from pop
ulation Of only $4,000, Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
What Is a SapIing7

The soldier who thought "sapling'
was young pig was evidently Som
ersetshire man, for correspondent
writes: Highly amused, read aloud
your 'sapling' story to friends. When
had finished SOmersetshire woman
who was present asked, Well, what dc
you call saplingT "A young tree
replied. rs it? she replied. Now, I've
always heard young pig called sap
ling in Somersetshire.' Further Inquiry
revealed that others say the same
From which we gather that the soldier
came from Somerset, while evidently
his officer did not.-London Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Whv They Have Green Backs.

Why the United States banknotes
are printed with green backs is not
generally known, although there is a
most excellent reason for it. The great
drawback to paper currency, says the
Baltimore American, is the likelihood
of it's being counterfeited, and there
fore experts are constantly at work to
contrive ways Of making it impossible
to copy such bills.
Stacy J. Edison was the man who In
1857 invented the green ink that Uncle
Sam uses on his bank bills. The ink,
which was patented, is anti-photo-
graphic-that is, it cannot be photo
graphed, nor can counterfeiters in try
ing to get facsimile Of the notes move
it with alkalies. The secret of the in
gradients Of the ink Of course is care
fully preserved.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

AT THE coming meeting OF
the county board to be-. held on
the 9th of Novem Der there will
be introduced resolution pro.
viding for the bonding of the
county for a half million dollars
to complete the road building
program of the county. The
Times believes in good roads as
a means of settling up the coun-
try. we believe i'll the mainten-
ance of good roads to every part
of the county. but we feel that
this is not the time to get the
most value for the money ex-
pended and that TO bond the
county at this time for that sum
for the improvement of roads
would be an unWise act for the
county board.
Conditions at the present
time are not normal and they
will not be normal until after
this war is over. Labor is diff
cult to get and will be more so
as the war continues and men
leave for the front. Materials
are high and difficult to get.
Were the bonding proposition
to come up at any time when
conditions we're normal and
when we could get value re-
ceived for the money expended
we might feel differently about
the bonding proposition for
roads. but at the present time
we believe it an unWise act.
1t is true that Bayfield, county
has not been getting value re.
ceived for the amount of money
which has been expended but
we believe this is due to the way
in which road matters have
been handled in the past and we
would favor any change that
would improve this condition.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
DRAFTING AN ARMY
CONSUMPTION Had Its Origin In
France In 1893.
THEN SPREAD OVER EUROPE.


Icons Hands Forced the Other Ma
tions to Adopt the System-lts Intro
duction Into This Country.
CONSUMPTION originated in France In
1893. AT that time the country had
just passed through the long and
bloody war of the French revolution,
which the monarchs of Europe had
banded together to crush. France, I'M
der Napoleon, had come forth victori-
! Gus, but her army was exhausted, and
it was evident that some new system
Of recruiting would be necessary, as
volunteer enlistment no longer sufficed.
It was then that General Jourdan
brought forth and passed the law es-
tablishing CONSUMPTION. Since then it
has been the basis Of all French mill
tary legislation and, to a certain ex-
tent, Of that Of all other countries.
1t was through the terrible power Of
CONSUMPTION that Napoleon was enabled
to carry on the gigantic wars which
characterized his reign and by means
of it, after losing in the SHOWS of Rus
STA the largest army that up till that
time had ever been put into the field,
to reappear few months later with
another army almost as large.
Out of necessity the other nations
were forced to follow Frances exam
pie, and CONSUMPTION became general.
Under the French regime every citi-
zen between the ages of twenty and
twenty-five was liable to service for
five years. Prussia, however, still fur
Their developed the powers Of conscrip-
ton by reducing the period Of service
in the ranks and passing her soldiers
as soon as they were sufficiently train
ed into reserve force, thus by de-
grees training her whole population.
This latter system, which was con-
sidered as one of the most farreaching
and important events of the last cen
fury, owed it's origin to the condition
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

100 acre q act of land for sale in
Town of Blyv.ew.. Ct. S. 50.-R. B.
Sec. 34) at the sacrifice price of
$12 80 an acre. Fine trout brook
runs through it. Best sandy loan
soil. Easy to clear. No ravines to
speak Of l. ,ok this snap over.
M. S. Anderson, 424 Nicollett Ave.
Minneapolis. Mimi.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

cut off but American ingenuity was
not long in getting into the game and
n producing in this country what
formerly was made in Germany.
Now the rest of the world is getting
along nicely without German made
goods and the German empire is
going to have an awful setback when
this war is over when they find that
what they formerly supplied is now
manufactured in other places.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Fooled Both Ways.

A sportsman came to grief at the
first fence. Pluckily remounting, he
met the same fate at the second at
tempt. Asked the cause of his dis
asters, he said: cit vos like zis. Ven
We koms to re first fence did link my
horse vud jomp, bot he did not 1omp'
so vent over hishead. Ven We koms
to re second fence did link he vud
not jomp, and he did jomp, so vent
over his tail.'- Milwaukee Free Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

DID YOU ever notice that print
paper was coming back into the old
color used before the war started,
and the best of it as that it is coming
back with dyes and bleaches manu-
featured in the United States. When
the war started some people, who
thought nothing was right unless it
was manufactured in Germany. did
not see what the rest of the world
would do with the Germany supply
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The first three months of 1913 were
notable for their political assassina-
tons. There were five-the Turkish
var minister, Nazim Pasha, Jan. 70;
the premier of Salvador, Manuel Il.
Araujo, Feb. 4; the president and vice
president of Mexico, Francisco I. Ma
dero and Jose Pine Suarez, Feb. 70
and King George Of Greece, March il.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Round thu Circle.

Friend-Why do you maintain such a
large Office force?
Financier-To prevent outsiders from
bothering me.
'But / thought that was what your
executive secretary was for"
"Oh, no. He is here to prevent the
Office force from bothering Nellie
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Poultry Note.

"She made a goose Of herself"
"HOWY'
Trying to act like chicken. Dos
ton Transcript.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
The Sins.

Miss Gladys got no fewer than six
gold headed umbrellas for birthday
presents"
'She must be something of a reign
ing belle. Baltimore American.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Our Help.

did you succeed in hiring a new
cook?'
mot yet She is looking up my ref
erences. Exchange.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

The wise prove, the foolish confess
by their conduct, that life of employ
ment is the only life worth leading
Paley.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Father Knew.

Tommy-Pop, what is a glutton?
Tommy's Pop-A glutton, my son, is a
grown man who can eat almost as
much as a small Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Metals and Heat.

In the reflection Of heat brass stands
first and silver, tin, steel and lead in
the order named.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Swedish Luth. Church
Washington Ave 18th st.

Washington Ave 18th st.
Services as follows until furthe
notice.
Bayfield,, Nov. 25th 1870 a. 10.
Washburn, Nov. % 7:30 p. IA.
Birch Lake, Nov. 27, 200 p. IN.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

1t is better to be always prepared
than to suffer once.-Latin.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

He is twice conqueror who can
restrain himself in the hour of victory.
Cyrus.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22

One cannot always be hero, but one
can always be a man.-Goethe.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
Mahogany Trees.

Mahogany trees do not attain their
full growth till they have reached the
age of 200 years.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-11-22
An Arabian Titbit.

Cheese today is not common among
the, Bedouin Arabs, butter being pre-
ferred. There is a substance closely
corresponding to cheese mentioned in
Samuel. This consists of coagulated
buttermilk, which is dried until it be-
comes quite hard. 1t is then ground,
and the Arabs eat it mixed with butter.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-28

We, Thos. c. McRae, President, and Thos. c. McRae Jr.. Cashier, of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of our knowledge and be- lief.
 Thos. C. McRae. President. rhos. c. McRae Jr., Cashier.
 Attest:
 W. V. Tompkins.
 D. L. McRae.
 E. l.. Cox,
 Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of June, 1917. My com mission expires March 28th., 1921. Seal Wren Scott, Notary Public.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-28

ReXall O1deriie3 cure Consti- patton. Guthries.
 Rev. Q. L. Bennett of Louisi- ana will begin a protracted meeting at Laneburg, July 18th. He will hold services under a big tent. Everybody come and enjoy these services. The meet ing will continue for ten days.
 If it's in the drug store line you can usually get it here and at a saving. Hesterly Drug Store.
 Rev. J. C. Johnson, pastor Prescott Circuit, will preach at Holly Springs July 1st. II a. m. and at 3 p. m. will begin a pro- tracted meeting at Rosston.
 Rev. Jno. r. Taylor of Friend ship Circuit. one of the most consecrated ministers of the Little Rock conference, will as- sist in this meeting. Don't fail to hear him.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-28
ADVERTISED LETTERS

The following is the list of let ters remaining for fifteen days in this office unclaimed and if not called for by July 9, 1917. will be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office:
 Gents-Lang Collins, B. M. Hodntl. L. J. Hood. J. P. Looney Frank Pickens, Oscar Watson, J. w. Shackelford.
 Ladies-Mrs. Nancy Cook. Mrs Matte l.. Thomas. Mrs. R. l.. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Beggs. Miss Lena Hayden. Miss Deulah Hen- derson. Miss Febie Johnson @ {, Mrs. Annie Reese, Miss Rosy Tidwell, Miss Daisy Thomas, Mrs. Jennie Whit. aker, Miss Bessie Woods, Mrs. Frank Temple, Mrs. R. D. King. Leana Ro. gers.
 When calling for the above please say advertised" and pay one cent on delivery.
 John A. Marr. Postmaster.
The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-28
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