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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16
COLERAlN

.rn,. ,,uIrruIu ~ G + I. wmr rI"nn-
,,,,Iy ,utrr,uIur1 ut III" home az Mrr. j.
T.. ,,ccL Of I'lrnrnut t;r"rr, Thurrhny'
Nr, {; Miller. "f l'Irnrnnt Grove
!, ,, , Trw duya with her dnuHhtnr.
MR. ! t. White
N,,.r- Faith uud MiIllccnt Walker
,y.,r the yur.In ur IhcIr rInI"r. Mrn' j.
{; rhruucr. or Pennington. W"nn"7-
hny. -
Milton YnT WIN IL buTinoHn caller IN
Wheeling W"hncr'lny.
Mra j.. l.. Simpson returned nome
rrt1n~ nrrcr n low days visit with her
daughter. Mrs T.. c. Entcr. or Jcrns"
lcm. -
Mr. AMI Mira. Gilbert Thomas hnd
fnp,Ily of JInrrisviIlc. O.. were the
runs,s Of relatives ni Colern!n SUNDAY
Mrs J. +. H"Ck. of Pleasant Grove
O. was Il caller in Colnrain "Wednesday
Mr. md Mrs Ralph Fox and family
returned IN their home In MckreSnorl
nrtrr II few days. visit with their IA
Their, Edward Fox.
Miss Hlnnrhr t'ulvin. OF Martins Fer
ry ,..thr guest Of her nunt. Mrs. ELS
worth Calvin.
pr. T.. =. Cope. Of Rnrton. wac pro-
t...innnI ruil-r IN C"l"rhin "Wednesday
Su,lrr II. NJ. Simpson. at l'arI"". wa
, caller Ia rnlcrnin Wehn"shay.
/ f. krysri, Of barton. ""r caller
Ia C"irInln Wednesday
hI,r ,i.ntrr I'rnI"hy nnh hn"rh'o'
uuII, urIu me- r"rntn 81 frl"nhn 10
| " hr"IInr I'"n'i"Y
M, ,rl h,r IT. rirshy "m1 n"'
I,,r,,.tI, hn,u r.tr,r"L - II,'I' h'''''
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16
MORR|STOWN, 0.

4 meeting will hc hrI1 in tho Freshly
| tr!hn churh FihaN EVENING ny Judg"
I.yurh president. AIR. Fmi"y. ~""rrIhrN.
anal TREASURER. It"v. Irrp'r mud others,
ur Tho ~ tinIr~,lilr hTnnrh At -" ltrI
mont rnuui, chapter "r The Led ,'i"se
Wa, ,r,,,t N,,t. ,,,s I.,. ,,.,.,,,
Lr,,hlu chairman
I.l.u- n,r I,,luu made r.,r - h"ur, 80
h""-c ,n","-n IT lh' '"~n=lIr 80 -
r,.L u /, .,tmuc."r-n,, T.. .nu lL,.
o,tcnIi"n T.. rLn v"at lmI".r'"".o ..r Tia.
worm u lr u'l ''ulr Va" 10 q - '.''I
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16
GRAFTON

, GRAFTON, w. Va. July l5.--R"C"nl
/ arrests ur men suspected of being lmcn''
, hers az II r"bbcr gang operating IN ms
/ locality were thought Ia has" broken
! up,hr gang However. the activities ~
| III" past work PROVE that TINS ~ moi
| true. At Webster. tvs" miles from
, GrnIi"n a store WIS robbed "l Si'V
! worth Of goods. Al FlrminSInh. = H.
= TINS county. II h"I." wns robbed ~! Sf50'
| Elu"Ih0ui,u fnIl"d Ia aid the officers
+ IN running dawn the thI"v"s. who Innd"
| good their ":''nlm.
| E",rlv"r Wrrkly. 1T thu drfnnci
= '.rnii"n hank 81 ':rnil"m. has hhvrrtiH'd
! Ihr nnIr If III" Property Tor July IL :"
HniIhfS IA" 'Irr'Hli"ra ma creditors "f
| ihni institution.
GrnIl"n hualnrn, inr"r".lr NJ. pull
| Ing hnrri i"r the huIlhiug at ia" ~"
p".,rh trnrri,m In" between 'Inrknhur-
| nnh i.rafi"n. las why -! liIhR"pnrI
I Ii"nrnI"mI. Pennington. '.mII"wnJ. Wen
| doll aud HIupr"n. 'Ih" completion -
| lh,r Ian" from 'InrkshurR T." %imrr"
, INV m,inn inquired md ntr"uR pro-"
rur. ~ being brought /" bear I" hnv'
! TIA" lin" ",r"nd l." connect with thu
I t:rnrt"m Lirhl nnd ii"nl c"imIrnuyn lIu"
| at tn" wcPr"rn odEc ur Ih" city limits
I'hlipuI In preparing for III" 'iHhth
! annual Hrsaion or IN" Enpiirt Assem-
! bly, If WnSt Virginia, which VIII b'
| held there August TO Ii inclusive. The
| speakers include Dr. w. ~. Mc,;l"ihin
/ I.nuiSVillr: Rev. y. NJ. DIXON. C"lum'
| bus. O.. Dr. Elknnah HUXLEY. fhiIIppE
! Rev. J. +. HrininSlool. tlarkshurE: MISS
Janet Mckay. Philadelphia. Dr Lincoln
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16
STOCKS AND BONDS

hcr rnrcnla. MIR. and Mrs Henry An
drr~nn hrr,. Tor Il few dnys.
Mira NJ Iinnth nnh hnnKh'"f H"''"
vl.Itrd friends IN hundred lA"I A'''tS'
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16

Nile. N-trpipi, Dnurh,rIy .f NEurXyund
returned hunrr Suu,Iuy after spending
ten days with Mrs E.wing's mother.
q :, I,, anal r,,I,. ,,,crdoa IN.
r,l.,., RATA si,,..,,l >t,,.,o
-"i an" w. '"'
T"''"S VII" Nh h"" NILS amy ''
"chlHb'
Misses lr"n" and Marie Whitrmhn
were tho Sunday guests "r Misses An
ME and Alta Atkinson
Mr.. and Mrr. Oscar Thomas nud III
tie daughter MhdnlIEr. Of W"lrl"n
spent several days with friends here.
EH'hihI and 1h"in"n th"d"s'"r Hr""'
sunday with Their nIitlG. jam llIi hey
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16
AMMUNITION FOR
THE SHORT INTEREST
GAME IN PUNCHES

NEW YORK. Jly l5.--lr'"rthintE
rrprcflnr tlI" attitude "f Ill" f"i"rh'
uuth"rIti"> towards tn" country H"'
ing inhuSirI" recurrence. 81 hlth ''''
n.nnry rates after u week at "H~''. i"'t''
.p"rIs IF a .mrI''i and persistent mar
n.l-r and signs 81 - I"rti"l check II,
Ii,purinmI rhnu"h..~ "f trad" lufhlSI'"'
lh.,. Hl,rr INTERESTS yah plenty al am
nJuuI,h'u 'iuit". va. W.
The nuI,rru,ui 'ul.r ~" h'tw''"
r",,rurii, ~ "lfu.t,Is " ti"'I i''h"
InutuIrr- Nn~ r. Ehr'ICh rr"''~''h''
Al host hI' rl.. f,.ItnH 'il'ri h' ih'
,r.thI..t, wee. -. ihriu" -" ink' II "a
ma iirlIrntI"n TINT ia" '"Irni'n' ia
r~,.I~ /" restrict Ir"rlts L" i''"i'f''
,t,,,,nrtIru. luitL.r H. IA ~ ntIl'ihE
a, IrIIuItr ...h'iulr- "t var inN"" VA
not ..,h,ulh',oI III nll"y nrI'r"h'n'i"".
'r,r,Ilur In vt" l- Wa ,u - r"t hhl
ht.u,I., hn~Ir lui thr t>i'nnti"n va
rIrrr,"d nIrn,rl ,nttr,.;N ~ the 'NI"'n.'
# quoted value" War Hhnr"' "uIi'i'"
the yr.n,,.,I "hrtrkHEr md rI""i"Ilr."
which r"llrwluE their trnin n!H" w'f
Gu-"til"'l.
u.unI vnr!.ty at sprCinlIti"H who's"
movements seemed I" Y" E"N"rn"I hN
speculative, CONSIDERATIONS. In these
yrnul,s changes were irregular and with
out influences Upon NOR" stable S"'uri-
ti'H.
Sem lm"n' "1S HH'l'u'''",H ~ =
hv Tia. Ei"air Htiriil"n III ili'' price ~
Liberty bonds which foil Z" ~ "N-In lur
regular lnts aud a. low rs ~ E"r niI "il'i
lot Til" treasury department d"h:a'
Of reports nf another war loan In IN"
near future WAS regarded ~ t"'hln'hI
Rcrnittnncrs t" foreign "rnlrrH wrI"
loss fnNhrablr 70 this market. sterling
advancing slightly over It's fixed quota
tiuns Of many months. with IL Hiift"nin4
If francs. ruhl"S and llrrs. Sh fhr ns
III. ChungrS had any HlSulfICInr" they
rrnhnhly rnin"ih.d wIuh TIA" lInpr"N'"i
ialliIary ami naval conditions OF the
entente al HES
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16
GREAT TONNAGE IS
SECURED FOR THE
U. s, WAR PRODUCT

NEW YORK. Ju!y l5---Thr' must In
t"res,ing d"rcl"pm"nt IN tn" steel In
dustry Is IN" pushing ~ III" government
program t"r huli'finG ct ships and
. railroad equipment. witch Will r"utIir"
APPROX lnu,"lv 100000" tons st"cls Onr
plates and shapes. According !" Wash
<re,rht cars !.~d mo 600 ln.r,t'I".iycs " III
be speedily Distributed. n"-'ur builders
an tho government RECEIVED HH~uranE-s
from rh.. mills tha' ~'""l " III Ia avnI'
able In ample amount t. i"','I' th" EAR
m he q fall steel constructor. 1t l.:
c.,I,n,t., thar 80" n"m tori 49, .t""l viii
no needed t,r rho rnra Hui i""."hn toms
FOR locnmniiE"a.
Tho anu"u rc"n,"u, rhnt IT,, Emergency
Fleet rnrporhi Ion IN hn'' ~" map
building plrut- constructed '"r ia" gov
eminent /" d" urIIih"d H." "a" h'iIilnS
nr 400 rnhrirnt"'l steel ~h."'. moan" -
th~ rt~cl trn'l,' that III" la" whYn Will
rrnh,blt require nnu f.,I'- - "tI1l''uItl
ntcnl nnh thrt th. huilh.'ls: " III" boar
Mill rrum,rr about e""." Ions "f Ht""'
,latna and -hnr""
Tho government has "!r'- awarded con-
trnct, for Zoo tom. Il -'ru"tnrnI ",''''
shapes for hangar" ,l"'I.' ANA "'n'r
buildings nnh will tnh. h"I% ga N"n,t"F
on pl,out i.nnn t"nH q; .'""l Ter "th'r
rtrurturrr. Including n ir"j"r' u" Hh'l'
n, ,.harl"Ht"n. w Nn d" 10y hrthK" over
the rosor,ar river ard "rt"n~ hul'hImES
n. tho Rock Isinn'l "r-'.'t.'l a"d th' N"'-
folk and l"nrI" iSlari-
Recent orders for NOR" IMAM :.'o"
cars and r"r II locomotives haH" h""n
placed. calling for n'nrly l-1.no" TINS OF
steel.
The United states Stool corporation y
Tune statement ir.hlrat"d that "rh'rs TAX
en- by tn" subsidiary companies hSI
month were only c45.nnh tons. passu
49,, .htomrnrs a. 250.uun tons. Inc
oxtput Of tngots Is estimated At .s3n. +,
0o0ton. and OF rolled products l.aNh"""
tons. 49,, .n
Sales az pig iron hay" h~rh CUT ""N u
duc-r, alike awaiting developments nj
oy.shinrtnu
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-16
N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE

WIIEFLIN':. w. Nn. July ~. u
FuruIRhed Tho Ints1lIK.nc", hv a u
iI.sIou G. CO. members Now f0rK Stock
EXCHANGE National HANK or West Vlr
rlula building. Wheeling. w. Va Louis
Irn nd niAnaRnr
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
PLATTEVILLE NEWS NOTES.

c. F. Dickensen of Lancaster, was
a business caller in Platteville on
Wednesday,
Frank Wrenn, who was born at Bee
town, died at Benton Saturday. Death
was caused by pneumonia
Mrs. Clarence Kicks, whose husband
was killed in the Blockhouse mine
some weeks ago, was allowed $500.
John Schroeder is at Camp Douglas
where he purchased farm for $35,-
0O0 1t has splendid buildings con-
tanning all the modern improvements
A double wedding took place on
Thursday, March LIST at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Writ Monroe of Mt Hope,
former residents Of Platteville, when
their daughter, Mrs. Iva Thorns was
married to Russell Simpson and ano-
Their daughter, Vera, married Ray
Handy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
AROUND THE COUNTY
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
CULLED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND CONTRIBUTED.
BLOOMINGTON RECORD NOTES
CASSvILLE INDEX ITEMS.
CASSvILLE RECORD CLIPPINGS.

Eighty friends surprised Mr.. and
Mrs. Enoch Groom on Tuesday even
ing. A general good time followed
with bountiful supper closing the
evening. A cut glass water set was
left as remembrance.
Mrs. Maggie Stephens received
word from Chicago that her daughter,
Miss Belva, who is studying the nurs-
ing profession, had been taken i'll with
appendicitis and had been operated up
on. Cheering reports have been re-
ceived
S. L. Wathan, Milwaukee road fire
man out of Dubuque, was here last
week visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Wathan. S. L. was recent
ly discharged from a three weeks stay
in hospital. He went back to work
Monday.
Alex Dresser who is employed in
Charles City, Iowa factory making
shells for the allies, is visiting with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Ores
sen.
The 500 club met with Mrs. Val Ish-
mael Tuesday evening, the occasion
being her birthday anniversary. Card
playing followed the prizes of the
evening being "spuds" done up in neat
paper parcels. Mrs. Ishmael received
a handsome gift as a remembrance Of
the occasion
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum are now
living on the Jacob Blum farm, Fred
Blum and family having moved on a
farm near Glen Haven
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett L. Groom re-
ceived a card announcing the birth of
12-pOund son to Mr.. and Mrs Louis
F. Kuehnle, of Dubuque.
Frank Bruer after a pleasant visit
with friends here and in Glen Haven
left Thursday for his Howard, S. D..
home. Chris, his brother, who was
here at the same time, returned Tues
day to his home in Ashton, Iowa.
very fitting program was given
at the home of Mrs George Groom on
Washington's birthday by the ladies Of
the Mission circle. The house was
decorated with red, white and blue
crepe paper and also American flags
A large picture of George Washington
over which was draped large flag,
was one Of the special decorations. The
management Of the program was in
the hands of a committee consisting
of Mesdames Wood, chairman, Kathryn
Schwerin and Rose Penhollow.
Mrs. D. Rupp had the misfortune to
cut her foot with an axe one day last
week while splitting wood.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
CHICAGO CASSVILLE CLUB

. Planning to meet four times a year
name, with M. Woolf as president and
Miss Lena Kleinpell as secretary and
treasurer, was formed last Saturday
evening after the G. c. G. dined sumpt-
uously at the Briggs House cafe.
Through the courtesy of Will Sturmer,
hotel manager, the party was given
the use of the parlors and club room.
There was music, and the folks, young
and near-young tripped off dances
from old-time quadrilles to the newest
foxtrots. There were speeches by Leo
Philipson, Prof W. p. COlburn and
Mrs. Prior, and Mr.. Plough gave an
excellent recitation. In attendance:
Ambrose and Sylvester Bernhardt, W..
P. Colburn, Walter Kuenster, Carl
Dietrich, Sam Groom and guest, Mr..
Starkey; Fred Mink, Ellie Houghton,
Karl Kleinpell, Carl Prior, F. Schwer-
in, Charles Teasdale, Harold Teasdale,
ROLAND Woodington, Will Sturmer, A.
G. Taylor; Misses Bertha, Lena, Edith
and Felicia Kleinpell, Emily Plough;
Mesdames Laura Prior, and Ray Wei
gel; Messrs. and Mesdames Walter
Brown, Holritz, Hugo, Earl Kuenster,
Walter Jefferys, James Silhanek and
daughter, Henry w. Plough, Leo Phil
ipson, George Stevens, Roy Williams,
Mike Woolf and their guests, Mrs.
Theda and daughter, Frank Stole.
Thursday, Feb. %, the members of
the country club of Glen Haven town
ship, met with Mrs. James Greenlee.
The rooms were decorated in the ma
tional colors, and the star spangled
banner waved over all. There was
music both vocal and instrumental by
members of the club. After which re-
freshments were served. And the
celebration ended by all singing "Col-
umbia, the Gem of the Ocean" The
guests departed feeling glad to be liv-
ing in the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
VIM. E. Houghton is recovering from
a tedious illness. His birthday is the
same as G. W's.-Feb. p, and Mr..
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
1917 FARM PRICES.
A Natice of Luxembourg May Organ
lze Cheese FactOry-Unique Ford.
Wolves Abroad.
Bloomington Record.)

UOINeS ADr0aus
Bloomington Record.)
Philip Meisenberg brought q dozen
eggs to town Saturday and sold them
to Ferris Bros. for 36 cents per dozen.
Total 1912. He traded out the bill and
paid the following prices: Sugar, 10
pounds, $1.00; salmon, 4 cans, $1OO;
corn flakes, 8 packages, $1OO; thread,
spools, zoe; I've, cans, 25c; Coffee
SO pounds at 19c, 1927. From an edi-
ton Of the Record of twenty years ago,
February 20, 1897, we quote the follow
ing prices from a J. B. Ludden adyer-
tlsement: Canned corn, &c and 10c;
soda crackers, per h., sc; II bars
laundry soap, 25c; Il boxes parlor
matches 10c; Granosf1akes, per pound,
15c; Postum, 24c; Japan tea, 19c to
45c; lard Sc; butter, 13c; eggs, 12c;
these prices reveal how the cost of
food has been climbing since that
time, also that the purchasing power
of eggs was never greater than at pres
ent.
John Morris, who lives on the VIM
Helner farm, is a native Of Luxem-
bOurg, the free state crossed by the
German armies when they entered Bel
GUM and northern France. Mr.. Nor
ris is an interested reader of the war
news and occasionally hears from mis-
old home, where they seem to be feel
ing the scarcity of food. Everything
is very high there A good COW sells
for 500 and other things in proper
ton AS a young man Mr. Morris
worked in northern France in the
towns now being destroyed by the
cOntending armies. He watches the
, progress of the armies with much in
: terest, being acquainted with much Of
the land for which they are fighting.
w. ]. Picha had a meeting of farm
ers Saturday to sound out the senti-
ment for a cheese factory. Those who
were present seemed favorably i'm
pressed with the idea. Mr. Boehring
Of Woodstock, Wis, a practical cheese
maker, was present and explained
some of the advantages of a cheese
factory. Mr.. Picha believes satisfac-
tory arrangements can be made to es-
tablish a new factory. A canvass will
be made to have the farmers pledge
sufficients number Of COWS.
Bert Field made a couple of short
axles for his Ford and now he runs
over the road in the sleigh track The
auto looks rather queer with the mar
row tread.
Over in the district northeast of
town several farmers have seen wolves
and heard them bowling at night The
animals have killed a few sheep, some
poultry, ETC.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
SPUDS HIGH AT PLATTEVILLE.

The potato situation is becoming a
very serious one to both the merchant
and the customer as we'll From the
various reports from the many sources
potatoes are getting very scarce
Prices have been advancing nearly
every day until each day seems a rec
ord-breaker One day last week man
was here from Galena who offered one
of the merchants three dollars per bu.
for all that he had on hand
On last Saturday Roy Taylor receiv-
ed telegram from Minneapolis offer
ing him a car of western potatoes at
$500 per bushel and since. this was
received the price has gone up nearly
twenty cents mOre.-Witness
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
FAYETTEVILLE JOURNAL ITEMS.

Thomas Kinsman was IA years old
on Saturday. His wife, and his daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. John Kinsman enter
tanned in the G. A. r. hall for him
Eighteen soldiers were present and all
had fine time. Delicious refreshments
were served. little grandson, Russell
barrow, presented each guest with a
flag as a souvenir of the occasion, and
later passed cigars. Miss Eta Kins-
man was here for the occasion.
E. A. Maynard, who has been super
intendent of the Skinner rooster at
New Diggings, since it's installation,
has resigned his position, effective on
March 1. Mr.. Maynard has been ten
dered much better position with the
Mineral Point Zinc Co., in Mineral
Point and starts on his new duties to-
morrow. Owing to the inability to
procure a house in Mineral Point at
once, his family will be located ia
Platteville for the present. S. E. Jones
will succeed Mr.. Maynard at the Skin
ner rooster.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ritter celebrat-
ed their twenty-ffth wedding anniver-
sary at their home on February oath,
at which they served a six o'clock din
ner. Those present were the Rev. Guy
Goodsell and wife, Mr.. Riter's brother,
John and wife, who were married on
tie same date six years later.
George R. Roth died at the home Of
his daughter, Mrs. Louis Lister on the
Homestead addition, Monday morning
at o'clock, at the age of IA years.
The body was taken to Savanna, Ill,
yesterday morning for burial.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Simmons of
Belmont celebrated their 62nd we'd
ding anniversary on February A.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
Domestic

Thirty thousand regular and National
Guard troops stationed at Ell PasO,
Tex, have been quarantined in their
camps there because of an epidemic of
pneumonia among the troops.
Legislation granting women limited
suffrage was Killed SO far as the pres
ent session of the Tennessee legislature
is concerned when the state senate
voted 10 to 10, to table Il motion to re-
consider bill for that purpose.
More than 200 employees of the Rock
Island shops at Cedar Rapids, Ia, tele-
graphed to Congressman Good reso-
luton supporting the stand of Presi-
dent Wilson on the rupture with Ger
many. A petition favOring peace had
been circulated in the shops and to
this the POO men object.
Twenty thousand men at work on
building trades in Cleveland, O., were
called out on strike by Business Agent
Smith of the Building Trades Council
LOIlOWIuS the lOCklIlS out VI I.1tO IlcIl'
Twenty-Five homeward bound en-
plOyees of the Ohio Steel foundry were
hurled through the air and then
crushed beneath train wheels when a
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight
struck their auto-bus at Lima, Q.
Seven were killed and twelve hurt.
Governor Whitman directed the
state athletic commission at Albany,
n. Y. to prohibit the boxing bout at
New York between Les Darcy and
Jack Dillon. on the ground that Darcy
is q ''slacker.'
The federal grand jury, at New
York, which spent five days probing
the alleged spy plot by which Ameri-
can newspaper correspondents were
sent to England as observers" indict-
ed Albert A. Sander, George Vaux Ba-
con and Charles w. Wunenburg.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-03-07
gruWnTIlrITlrInNIuI!IlIlIHIIrlTIIIIIIIInllIlIgI
News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
Observation-Disclosures
European War News

Charging five times, the Russians at
tempted to recapture heights taken by
the Germans north Of the NalputnO
road on the northern Roumanian 'front.'
hut were repulsed with considerable
losses, says the Berlin war office.
What may be termed the first stage
of the German retirement plan on the
ArfaS-SOmme sector seems to have
been about completed, says a dispatch
from London, and the Germans are
making q definite stand. Their line
runs from Essarts through Achiet-Le-
Petit to about 1000 yards southeast Of
Bapaume. The Germans are not eX-
pected to yield this line until further
pressure is brought to bear against
them.
Germany has a fleet of 100 battle
ship submarines, heavily armed and
capable of bombarding seacoast cities
and Notifications. 1t is said that the
disclosure was made by Admiral De-
gOuy of the French navy at Paris.
The Germans have already fallen
back behind Bapaume and the fall of
that town is imminent, according to
information from the front received by
military circles at Paris, France. The
new German line is said to run along
the road from Bapaume to Peronne
1iStn i'm hO of no
former town.
4 German air raid was made on the
seaside resort of Broadstairs on the
kentist coast, the London war office
announced. One woman was injured
by bomb dropped from d German
airplane.
a Berlin dispatch says the German
army headquarters announces vol
untary and systematic withdrawal Of
parts of the German advance positions
on both banks Of the Ancre, on the
Franco-Belgian front
Strenuous attacks, carried out by
German troops in the Carpathians, re-
suited in the capture of several Rus
sian positions on the heights, L Off
GERS and more than 1900 men, it was
officially announced at Berlin. Sew
eral counterattacks were repulsed.
The war office at London announced
that British troops occupied the impOr-
tant village of Gommecourt and cap
tured the villages of Thilloy and Puie-
sieux-Au-MOnt as well, advancing their
line more than half a mile to the north
east of Gommecourt
Turkish troops taken prisoner by the
British at kut-el-Amara now number
several thousands, Earl Curzon, men,
Der Of the war council stated in the
house of lords at London.
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The American hospital unit from
Naumburg, including Doctors Sauer
of I'll PasO, Frick of New York and
Nurses Bertha Becht, Mary Cannard
and Aida Meyer are on their way
home says Copenhagen dispatch.
Paul Dreher, a German subject,
known us an intimate friend of Jose
Miguel Gomez, was arrested at Ha-
vana on federal order and was held
without bail.
New York manufacturers and mer-
chants are rushing to supply the gov
eminent with war equipment. They
are working under a committee Of the
chamber of commerce of the United
States, headed in that city by Edward
u. Page.
a. sensation has been caused in Lon
dor by the news that the American
consular agent at Malmoe, Sweden
Joseph Westenberg, has been fined
$4,000 for exporting forbidden goods
TO Germany. Suit was brought by the
Forenade Dampskibe Selskab of Co.
penhagen.
CoaStwiSe steamers Of the Mallory
and Southern Pacific lines are pre-
pared to be converted into scout cruis-
rrs at short notice, it was learned at
Houston, Tex. The Mallory liner
Concho has just been measured by the
government to carry large caliber
guns.
Approximately $4,000 Indians in vari-
Gus parts of the country would be will
Ing to serve in the military forces of
the United States in the event of war,
according to a statement made at Den
yer, Colo. gsg'
Berlin reports that German subma-
rines which have just returned to their
base report the sinking of 81 ships.
Eleven were steamers, two were sail
ing ships and eight were trawlers.
Among the steamers sunk was Brit
ish transport, A-19.
T. bill to empower the president to
arm merchant ships, but not extending
the authority he requested to use
''other instrumentalities, in defending
American rights against the submarine
menace, was passed by the house at
Washington by vote Of 403 to 13.