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Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13
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We understand that three of CIR
young lady Red Cross workers he
volunteered to become student nurs ),
Miss Blanche Austin, Miss Ethel Al
derson, and another whose name the
News Champion is unable to secul e.
They are awaiting call to the colo-s
at some hospital training camp.
L. H. Easterly has another letter
from Levan, and he expects to be out
of the hospital soon, in fact Is prob
ably ready for the fight again right
now, General Pershing reports that
there are about 10000 Of these minor
casualties that he did not cable to
America, but is sending report of by
courier.
On a 81 day leave of absence, Ser
geant Ira D. Sankey, has been visiting
the Partch family at Castleton for
some days. He is on sick leave. A
motorcycle crashed into the horse he
was riding in the ammunition train
work and broke his ankle. He left
on Sundays train for Camp Funston,
but cannot report for duty yet.
A recent letter from Del Austin Of
Sapinero to his mother, Mrs. Pattie
E. Austin, is written from Camp Dix,
N. j., and speaks of the fine trip
east. He doesn't see anything in the
way of crops that come any where
near Colorado, even in the long trip
thru Texas, Oklahoma, and the north
central states. "But factoriesw When
we came thru Pittsburg, it was one
vast factory, and SO darned smoky
you can't see thing. saw world
of things that l cannot remember to
tell about all at one time"
Word has indirectly been received
concerning Hugh Frew which leads re-
latives to believe that he is in hos
pital in France instead of being a
prisoner of Germans. Letters from
his brother John, received by mutual
friends, and written the 11th of Aug
ust, state that Hugh is in hospital
suffering from wound in the leg. OF
course it greatly relieved the minds Of
his sisters and brother here. John
Frew is fighting at the front in the ITO
infantry, while David is in the Bird
artillery regiment, also in France and
has been since the 1st of May.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13
SOLDIERS CORNER
HINsDALE's ROOL OF HONOR

From the Lake City Silver World:
"our hearts, our hopes are all with
thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers,
our tears;
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with thee-are all with thse.'
Andrew Zeigler
James Steinbeck
Albert Croft
Watson Avery
Neil Foreman
Aiming Hammond
Ben +. Hunt
Vernon Freeman
Tom Haipin
Ralph Foreman
Lester Palmer
Earl Mex. Disney
+. c. French
Bernt T. Hailand
Ovan r. Officer
Harry Cross
Matthew B. Kinney
Russell Steinbeck
Frank johnson
Chris Halpin
Rurrie Madison
I'D. Pickett
Joe Halpin
Alva Baker
James Zeigler
Hugh Mcleod
Norman Ready
Emory Sweet
Fred f. Maurer
Harry Kern
Leslie Sleeper
Ronger Brolin
Henry Carman
Clip Jory
Charles Brennan
Paul Brennan
Moody Ramsey
Chester Richards
Knowlton Wiley
Carl Watson
Leonard Miles
Glenn Ogle
Lloyd Nix
Joe Ferrari
Charles F. Whinnery
Rufus H. Milne
James NJ. Milne
John o. Milne
Irving Youmans
Fielder Brown
Charles Doran
John Halpin
Ed. Vernon
Eyoraff Varpnp
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13
Everett Vernon

As announced last Sunday, the COM
munity flag, which the Ladies Aid has
provided, will be unfurled with appro-
pirate exercises at the city auditorium
Sunday at s p. m. Everybody within
ten miles of Lake City is expected to
attend. The flag bears fifty-four stars,
with room for others as may be needed
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13

Some of these boys come from Lake
Fork and Cebolla are of course on the
Gunnison county list.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13

John Rozman writes to Gunnison
friends from Camp Macarthur, Waco,
Texas, that he is in good health, and
that army life is great thing.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13

Fred Goding of Somerset was sent
to Camp Cody by the Local Board on
Wednesday to fill vacancy of recruit
from this county who was turned
down by the doctors.
George Ray Shroyer of Somerset
CESS to Camp Travis, San Antonio,
Texas, on Saturday to take the place
of Ernest Mazza who is unable phys
ically to continue his military duties.
OF the list of Gunnison county s.I-
diers in the training camp or in France
which numbers now close TO 300. just
81 have had the News Champion or
dered sent to them by friends or rela-
tives. That leaves over 200 without
the home paper. Don't you think
they would like it?
Every physician in the United
States, no matter what his age, is be-
ing registered for war service. Not
probable of course, that the very aged
ones will be called to France, but there
is no telling when they may answer
to some call for the government, and
as those who will be left at home may
be few in number, it behooves us to
keep healthy. Fortunately, Gunnison
has q reputation Of being the most
healthy district in Colorado.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13

Chas. Whinnery came in from Camp
Lewis Wednesday morning. Chas.
was unable to pass the required phys
ical examination to enable him to en-
ter service.
Gunnison news-champion., 1918-09-13

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The Washington herald., 1918-04-14
Smart Blouses at $500

A large assortment of voile,
organdy and batiste blouses,
some with rolling collar finish
ed with pleating and trimming
of rose and green; organdies
are in flesh and white with
dainty tucked fronts and some
trimmed with lace and embroi-
derry, with the new shawl, roll
ing and flat collars,
The Washington herald., 1918-04-14
Smoek. at $1.9S and $3.50

Attractive Smocks of Ameri-
can crepe and linene, in all the
popular colors = rose. All C e
blue. green, yellow and white;
in the slip-over and coat mod
belts: some are hand-embroi-
dered. ...
PaIais RoyaI-Third Floor.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-14
The Blouses at S2.s5

Are new satin striped tailor
ed silk models with the new
soft satin rolling collars that
inish in a soft tie. Also new
blouses. and pongee blouses
with the new washable satin
shawl collars. Colors are white.
flesh. coral and Alice blue.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-14
SILK Might Gowns, Special SIS

OF satin or crepe de chine. in empire.
hubbard and sleeveless models: tailored
or fancy, styles; some with nlet or
.Paiais Roysi-Third FIoor.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-03-07

vsss l6Ssfines SAsve ~ 6Sn6w -
noN bseeket-tN1SlAs. A46kAng.
siset of nAokiAs gun Anlle&s talIo1
him. He leaned up On oas WiAs tip
and beetied into s.ras OF cloud.
The circus Of fifteen Huns had
been broken up long aso. The flight
commander was alone now. He
shouted into his bombers' tubs, and
that gioved and gogled gentleman
who hxd been twisting his milled ad-
justing screw and feeling for his oil
can-one can never be too careful
with these English swine-and whose
neck ached from sitting for an hour
with his eyes fastened to the padded
sight Of his Georx combined sight
and range finder. jerked down his
six remaining little bomb release
leavers and sat back in his cockpit
and rested his neck.
Six thousand feet below. five 11o-
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-03-07

- - SSilS &
80 eno&1nf eeunf K II i sS :
n~eanD ~ ~ uns&h 4 ~ =
As6ee AnA wsat o. wi1h : ts1SoGk
deus bAns. scsring tAEee: See6e -
that they ran sQuawklng tArongA ~.
broken hedge and bod to be re6n1-
cd up the next morning and iockea
In village pound.
In the rag Of cloud above the nieAk
commGtder turned back ana his
bomber ran his gum lovingly through
Its traverse and his great Gsfman
heart dallied conscisntiouslys osee
thoughts OF carnage. His night's
work was done. He had bombed
London.
Target obscured, sir!" called the
sergeant. and the second lieutenant
plunged fro mvisious Of the military
cross into furious cursing. cursing
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-03-07

In his cockpit in the sky, dallying
In front of the iron drenched area of
the barrage until he was caught by
That blaze of light from below, the
night commander shouted to his
bomber to shoot down the beam.
Just as a she'll tore past him and
Durst In smoke and flame 100 feet
above him and small strip of his
engine cowling ripped up and went
to hailing wildly against the struts.
only chaser on his tail could be
doing tat. He shouted through the
tube to his after gunner. But no
answer came. He turned to look.
HIS after gunner's head was off and
his cockpit a splash of blood. Shells
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-11-14
It
Cured
Me

Mr.. samuel Mckinley, 3507 II.
18th ST.. Kansas City. Mo-, Mem
ber OF the Society of U. s.. Jewelry
Auctionoers.
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way along the road we kept on filing,
as the saying Is. 1 did not care about
being tough then. and was ready for
the wagon.
Only now there were no wagons
They belonged with the other troops.
So had to ease along as best I could
for what seemed like hours-to my
feet-until we turned of onto another
road and halted for a rest. found
out later that our officers had gone
astray and were lost ut this time,
though, Of course. they did not tell
US so.
We arrived at our section of the
trench about three o'clock that after
noon and L reJoined my company.
was all tired out after this trek sand
found myself longing for the Cassard
and the rolling wave, where no Mara
thons and fve-mile hikes were neces-
sary. But this was not In store for
me-yet.
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the step and stuck his head over the
parapct and got II square, landing
riri beside me. / thought he was
Killed. but when we got back we found
he was only wounded. The men who
saw ~ were over the pnrapct before
the order was given and then the
whole bunch after them. because they,
too, thought he was killed and figured
he never would know how they came
out about their vows. All the men I'm
the company were glad when they
found he was only wounded.
While half OF us were on the firing
step throughout the day or night the
other half would be in the dugouts or
sitting around In the bottom Of the
trench. playing little games, or mend
Ing clothes or sleeping or cooking or
doing thousand and one things. The
men were always IN good humor mt
such times and it seemed to NE even
more so when the enemy fire was
heavy.
If u man was slightly wounded down
would come the rifles to order arms,
and some pOilu was sure to shout
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Right this way. One franc" 1t was
II landing joke and they always did 1t.
The poilu who did 1t most was Swiss
and he was always playing n joke on
somebody or initiating some one Of
us or making faces.
We We're all sorry when this Swiss
'wcnt west" as the Limeys say, and
we tried to keep up his Jokes and say
the same things and so forth. But they
did not 30 very we'll after he was
dead. He got his In the same charge
In which the chaplain was wounded.
He WAS one Of the bunch that charged
before the order was given, when the
chaplain got 1t, and was running pretty
near r'c until we got to the Boche
wire. l had to stop to get through,
though must of 1t was cut up by artl-
l"ry lire. hut he must have jumped it,
Tor Whcn | lOC@ed up he was twenty
or thirty PAGES ahead OF ire. We got
to the Germans about that time ana
] was pretty busy for while. But
soon | saw him again. He was pulling
his hayon"t out of n Boche when an-
other made II jab Mt him and stuck him
in the arm. Then the BOche made q
swing at him with his rifle, but the
Swiss dropped on one knee and lodged
1t. He kept defending himself with
his rifle, but there was another Ger
man on him by this time and he could
not get up. The corporal of our squad
came up just about that time, but he
was too late, because one of tho
BochcS got to the Swiss with his bay
onet. lie did not have time to with
draw it before our corporal stuck him.
The other German made pass ut the
corporal. but he was too late The
corporal beat him TO it and felied him
with terrific blow from his rifle butt.
The Huns were pretty thick around
there just as another fellow and N.Y.
self came up. A BOChe swung his rifle
nj IN" corporal and when hc lodged II
the R0chc almost got me. The swing
took him off his feet and then the cor
poral did as pretty 81 bit of work as
ever saw. He jumped for the Bochc,
who had fallen. landed on his face
with both feet and gave It to the next
one with his bayonct all at the same
time. lie was the quickest man ever
saw.
There were couple OF well-known
Snvntc men In the next company and
l saw one Of them get under Fritz's
guard with his foot and. believe me,
there was some force in that kick.
He must have driven the Germans
chin clear through the back OF his
neck
We thought 1t was pretty tough luck
To lose both the chaplain and the viii
lngc Wit In the same charge, along
with hnll OF our officers. and then have
To give up the trench. Every man in
the bunch was sore as boil when we
got buck.
CTo Be Continued)
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CHAPTER vi.
Fritz Does a Little "strafeIno.n ~

''O SSSo - 1tkti0
My outfit was one Of those that saw
the Germans place women and chill
dren in front Of them as shields
against our fire. More than third of
our men. should say, had been pretty
tough criminals in their own countries.
They always traded their pay against
handful Of cards or q roll Of the
bones whenever they got chance.
They had been In most Of the dirty
parts Of the world. This war was not
such much to them; just one more
Job In the list. They could call God
and the saints and the human body
more things than any boss stevedore
that ever lived.
Yet they were religious In way.
Some OF them were always reading
religious books or saying prayers In
different ways and between them they
believed in every religion and super
stltion under the sun, / guess. Yet
they were the toughest bunch I ever
saw.
After they saw the Germans using
the Belgian women the way they did,
almost every man In my company took
! some kind OF VOW or other, and
most OF them kept their VOWS, too, (
believe. And those that were religious
got more SO after that.
Our chaplain had always been very
friendly with the men, and while I
think they liked him they were so
tough they would never admit 1t, and
some of them claimed he was Jonah,
| or jinX, or bad luck Of some kind. But
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-11-14
CHAPTER v.
With the H75'a-D

"sSu SHC "fo8.
My pal Brown, of whom spoke be-
fore, had been put in the infantry
when he enlisted in the Legion, be-
cause he had served In the United
States infantry. He soon became q
sergeant. which had been his rating
IN the American service. never saw
MIN In the trenches, because our out.
nts were nowhere near each other, but
whenever we were I'm billets at the
same time. We were together as much
as possible.
Brown was funny card and never
saw anyone else much like him. A
Dig, tall. red-headed, dOpey-looking fell
low. never saying much and slow In
everything he did or said-you would
never think he amounted to much or
was worth his salt. The boys used to
call him "Ginger" Brown, both on nc
count Of his red hair and his slow
movements. But he would pull a sur
prise on you every once In while,
like this one that he fooled me with.
one morning about dawn we started
out for walk through what used to
lie DixmlIde-ples of stone and brick
and mortar There were no civvics to
be seen; only mules and horses bring
Ing up casks Of water, bags of beans,
chloride of lime, barbed wire, nmmu-
milton. etc. 1t was n good thing we
were not suDerstitlous. At that, the
shadows along the walls made me feel
shaky sometimes.
Finally Brown said: "Come on
down; let's see the '75's.'" At this
time I had not seen "75," except on
train going to the front, so I took
him up right away, but was surprised
that he should know where they were.
After going half wny around Dix
nude Brown said, "Here we are" and
started right into what was left of
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they all told him their vows as soon
as they made them and he was sup
posed to be q sort OF referee as to
whether they kept them or not.
During my second stunt In the front
lines things got pretty bud. The Ger
mans were five to our one and they
kept pushing back parts of the line
and cleaning out others. And the
weather was as bad as 1t could be
and the food did not always come reg
ularly. Now. before they took their
would have been kicking and growing
all the time. but, as 1t was. the only
time they growled was when the Ger.
mans pushed US back.
Things kept getting worse and you
could see that the men talked to the
chaplain more and quite few Of them
got real chummy with him.
One morning Fritz started in bright
and early to begin his strafc. The
lieutenant was walking up and down
tEe trench to see that the sentries
were properly posted and were on the
job. a shell whlzZcd over his head
and landed just behind the parndos
and the dirt spoutcd up Ike imagine
a Yellowstone gcyser looks.
Another officer came up to the lieu
tenant-a new one who had only
Joined the company about II week be.
fore. They had walked about teb
yards when another shell whiZZed over
them. They laid to and third one
came. There were three In less than
hVe minutes, directly over their heads.
Then shell landed on the left side
OF the trench ard poiIu yelled that
four men had got IT. They were all
wounded and three died later. The
lieutenant went over to them and Just
after he passed me lad got 1t square
not far from me end was knocked
over to where / was lying.
The lieutenant came back and
helped me with the tirst-aid roll and
then the Germans began using shrap-
mel. The lieutenant was swearing
hard about the shrapncl and the Ger
mans and everything else.
Farther to the right shell had Just
struck near the parndos and made q
big crater and across from It, against
the parapet, was young chap with
deep cash I'm his head, sitting on
the fire step and next to him q fellow
nursing the place where his arm had
been blown off. Our bread ration lay
all about the trench and some Of the
poiius were fishing 1t out OF the mud
and water and wiping the biscuits off
on their sleeves or eating as fast as
they could. Only some OF the biscuits
had fallen In bloody water and they
did not eat these.
A young fellow. hardly more than a
boy, stumbled over the parados and
fell Into the trench right near the
lieutenant and the lieutenant dressed
his wounds himself. I think he was
some relation Of the boy.
The lieutenant asked him how he
felt, but the boy only asked for water
and smiled. But you could see he was
In great pain. Then the boy said /:
"Oh, the pain is awful. i am going
to die"
"You are all right old man" tho
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lain was put out OF commission. AS
we were lined up, waiting to climb on
to the fire step and then over the par
apet, this chaplain came down the
line speaking to each man as he went.
lie would not say much, but Just n
few words, and then make the sign OF
the cross. He was In black cussock.
He was just one man from me as
we got the word and stood up on the
hre step. He was not armed with as
much "a pin. but he Jumped up on
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big house. I kept wondering how ne
would know 30 much about 1t. but fol-
lowed him. Inside the house was
passageway under the ruins. 1t was
about seven feet wide and fifty feet
long, I should judge.
At the other end was the great old
''75." pOking its nose out of a hole In
the wall. The gun captain and the
crew were sitting around waiting the
word for action, and they seemed to
Know Brown well. / was surprised at
that, but still more so when he told
me / could examine the gun If l
wanted to. just rs If he owned It,
So / sat I'm the seat ana trained the
cross wires on an object, opened and
closed the breech and examined the
recOll.
Then Brown said: "Well, Chink,
you'll see some real gunnery now" and
they passed the word and took sta
lions. My eyes bulged out when I
saw Brown take his station with them!
"Silence" is about the first com
Tnnd = gun crew gets when 1t Is going
"t!On, but 1 forgot all about It.
ed out and asked Brown how
he q gunner. But he only
81. m. ~ looked dopey, as usual.
The. to and expected to get a
COL \ III the officer, but he only
grin! so did the crew. it
SEEM I'd 1t oil framed to spring
on ~ = they expected / would be
surpr"
So vt cotton I'm our ears and
the N called the observation
tOwc' ,ort distance away and they
gave he range. Then the captain
Scaled a. meters" to Brown. They
placed the nose Of shell I'm fuse
adjuster cn,. turned thc handle until
it reached scale 412S. This set the
fuse to exp ode Mt the range given.
Then they ahmed the shell into the
breech, locked It shut and Brown sent
his best to Fritz
The barrel slipped back, threw out
the shell case ut our feet and returned
over cushion OF grease Then we
received the results by telephone from
the observation tower. After he had
fired twelve shots the captain said to
Brown. "You should never waste your
self In infantry. son." And old dopey
Brown just stood there and grinned.
That was Brown every time He
knew about more things than you could
think of. He had read about gunnery
and fooled around Mt .Dixmude until
they let him play with the "75's." and
finally here he was, giving his kindest
to old Fritz with the rest Of them.
never saw a battery better con-
ceaifd than this one. Up on t,ae ground
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-30
SHE GOT COMPOSERS MIXED
Queen Victoria's Error Must Have
Caused Mascagni to Pass an IN
comfortable Few Minutes.

Sometimes when a great parsonage
essays musical criticism embarrassing
errors arise. Once Queen Victoria
invited Mascagnl the composer of
Cayalleria Rusticana. to play for her
at Windsor castle. When the musician
was at the piano her majesty said:
Il am passionately fond of one of
the numbers of your opera"
Mascagni played the Intermezzo.
NO" said the queen. that is not the
melody ! mean"
Mascagni played the Prelude.
That's not it, either"
Mascagni played the dramatic Duet.
The queen became almost impatient.
I'll help you to remember it," she
said. and hummed a few measures.
With Increasing CONSERVATION Mas
cagni listened as the queen sang the
Prologue to Leoncavallo's / Pagliacci
lie Gaulois, in telling the story, does
not say whether the musician inform
ed the queen that she had made a
mistake.-Youth's Companion.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-30
vERMlN ATTRACTED BY FOOD
u No Scraps Are Around There viii
Be Little Trouble With Ants or
Reaches,

The surest way TO keep a house free
from ants is TO leave no food lying
about on shelves or in open places,
where they can reach it. Ants go
where they find food. and if the food
supplies of the household kept in
ant-preof metal containers or in ice
boxes, and if all foods that may hap
pen 10 be scattered by children or 9th
ers is cleaned up promptly. the ant
nuisance will be slight. Cake, bread
sugar, meat. and like substances, are
especially attractive 10 the ants. and
should be kept from them.
Reaches viii not frequent rooms
unless they find some available food
material. and If such materials can
be kept from living rooms and offices
or scrupulous care exercised TO see
that no such material is placed in
drawers where it can leave an attrac-
tive odor or fragments of food. the
roach nuisance can be largely restrict
ed to places where food necessarily
must be kept.