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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Crop conditions have been relieved
by rain in some sections Of Natchi-
toches parish. but in the vicinity of
Natchitoches the drouth continues
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Women of Lake Charles are taking
a lively interest in the campaign for
enrolment of nurses. The quota of
Calcasieu parish is eight and it is
planned to more than double this num-
Der.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Misses j. Z. Howard. Edna R Brown
and Katherine Kelly. nurses who grad
uated at Monroe and Joined the Red
Cross, have been ordered to Camp
Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Members of the Amite Red Cross are
trying to meet the allotment in the
large number of sweaters to be sent
into the New Orleans chapter by Au-
gust 10. Amite was given 100 sweat
ers to make.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Much excitement prevailed at Hon.
er when a well OF the Consolidated
Progressive Oil Company on the
Featherston lease blew out spoutIng
eighty feet in the air, establishing be-
yond a doubt the presence of oil ana
gas in Claiborne.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Mayor Carter of Hammond has es-
tablished the record for assessing the
largest fine ever exacted In the City
Court, S1,100 on an alleged blind tig-
er operative. and so far payment has
not been made.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Seven miles of the highway from
the Mississippi line to F1uker has
been completed and work on the bal
ance of the road to ceanect with the
good roads is being vigorously pushed.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

The Lake Charles city commission
council has authorized Mayor Trotti
20 advertise for bids for motprizing
the fre department. the maximum
amount to be spent being $4,000.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Returns OF the election to raise q
four mills tax for the public schools
were canvassed by the st. John Par
fsh School Board July Is, and was.
shown defeated by the big taxpayers.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

The new model road between Gov
ington and Madisonvi11e is nearing
completion, having been shelled and
graded. When this road is finished
1t will be one of the best in the state.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

The Donaldsonville draft board has
been advised that the regulations
governing the physical examination OF
registratrants have been modified so
as to permit the. acceptance of men
sixty inches in height, and weighing
ITO pounds.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

Preparations for the coming grind
ing season are under way at the Glen
dale sugar mill. owned and operated
by Mrs. Emile Barch of Lucy. The
small crusher is being replaced by a
much larger one.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-08-10

tation. Their rsyages have been most
felt west Of Hammond and in the Pom
chatoula section, the upper end Of
Tangipahoa, 30 far, being comparative
ly speaking, immune from the pest.
Parish Agent Cassell advises the ju-
dicious use Of poisons &s the most ef-
fective means of Kidding the fields of
the worms,
The Covington curb market con-
Quoted under the auspices of the Wo-
mems Progressive Union every Wed
nesday and Saturday. has proven a
boon not only to the farmers, but to
the housewives of this and adjoining
towns, fresh vegetables and fruit ap-
pearing at every session in profusion.
There has been an ice famine At
Franklin on account of a breakdown
of the machinery Of the Franklin Ice
Works. The management of the ice
company is having the machinery re-
paired. Meanwhile provisions have
been made to purchase ice from New
Orleans and elsewhere.
Plans to organize an $4,000 company
at Monroe to build a potato curing
plant which would buy and store po-
tatoes until the market is favorable
for their resale, were adopted at q
Chamber of Commerce meeting. Both
sweet and Irish potatoes will be
handled.
Much excitement prevailed at Hon.
er when a well OF the Consolidated
Progressive Oil Company on the
Featherston lease blew out spouting
eighty feet in the air, establishing be-
yond a doubt the presence of oil ana
gas in Claiborne.
The Donaldsonville draft board has
been advised that the regulations
governing the physical examination OF
registratrants have been modified so
as to permit the. acceptance of men
sixty inches in height, and weighing
110 pounds.
Preparations for the coming grind
ing season are under way at the Glen
dale sugar mill. owned and operated
by Mrs. Emile Barch of Lucy. The
small crusher is being replaced by a
much larger one
Mayor Carter of Hammond has es-
tablished the record for assessing the
largest fine ever exacted in the City
Court, S1,100 on an alleged blind tig-
er operative, and so far payment has
not been made
Members of the Amite Red Cross are
trying to meet the allotment in the
large number of sweaters to be sent
into the New Orleans chapter by Au-
gust 15. Amite was given 100 sweat
ers to make.
The knitting department of the
Hammond Red Cross workers is being
kept particularly busy and now comes
special order for between sixty and
seventy-five sweaters to be ready by
August Is.
Finishing touches are being applied
to the new water filtration plant in
West Monroe, which Mayor Tippit
says he expects to be in operation by
the end of the next week.
The first Iberville man to give his
life for his country in the present war
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
DECLINES
SEAT IN SENATE

Washington, April 26.-Speaker
Clark today declined Governor
Gardner's proffcr OF the Missouri
scnatorship to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by Senator Stones death.
Mr.. Clark's announcement came
after two days OF consultation with
political and personal friends.
Mrs. Clark, to whose Judgment
the speaker gives great weight, and
Mrs. James NJ Thompson, the
speakers daughter, urged him not
to relinquish the speakership. Chair
man Ferris, OF the Democratic con
grcssional committee, also urged
him not to accept
Women suiiragists called on the
speaker today to urge him to accept
on the ground that his vote was
needed to carry the senate for sui
frage
1t was reported at the capitol to-
day that the senatorShip might be
offered to Walker W. Graves. OF
Jefferson City, or Nenophen Wills
ley Of St. Louis.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
Dutch Bar America
From Getting War
Supplies in Indies

(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, April 26.-Hol-
land has placed an embargo on
the expectation from the Dutch
East Indies of tin, tin ore, Gin
chona bark, quinine, quinine
salts and kapok, all of which are
needed in large quantities by
the United States for war pur-
poses.
Official notification of the en-
barge, effective April 22, was re-
ceived today and has caused
much perturbation. Officials de-
clined to indicate the probable
reasons, but in some quarters it
was suggested the measure was
in retaliation for the American
requisitioning OF Dutch ships.
Elsewhere it was thought to
have been prompted by the criti-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
FAMILY HAS NARROW
ESCAPE FROM BURNING

A six-room dwelling house owned
by O. NJ. Rcd6eld and occupied by
Bird Pruitt, at the corner Of Eighth
avenue and G. street northeast, was
almost destroyed by fire of unknown
origin about 2 o'clock this morning.
When the family was awakened by
the noise of the fire the entire in
terror of the house was filled with
flames and smoke and it was only
with great effort that they made
their escape. Little of the contents
of the house was saved, a piano be
ing among the household effects
burned. The three rooms where the
fire did the most damage were virtu-
ally burned out. The total loss on
the house and contents was esti-
mated by Fire Chief Rceder to be
about 81 800.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
WOUNDED AMERICANS
FOUND IN DUGOUT
SOME DETAILS OF REMARK
ABLE BATTLE AT SEICH-
EPREY.
(By The Associated Press)


With the American Army in
France, Thursday, April 25. - Two
American soldiers wounded in the
engagement around the Siecheprey
last Saturday were found alive to-
day in a dugout in no mans land.
The dugout had been badly smash
ed by German shell fire, and how
the men managed to keep alive in
the rain and mud and under con-
tinuous German bombardment, ply
sicians say, is little short of mirac-
ulous.
Another soldier, Ramona Demun-
sky, of New Haven, Conn, was bur
led alive for three days, when he
crawled to the surface. Demunsky
was born in Russia, but had been
naturalized. He was found by Red
Cross stretcher bearers who went
out into no mans land this morn
ing. The Germans fired on the
Red Cross flag, but the stretcher
bearers kept waving it and the en-
emy fire stopped.
The American troops in the Sic
cheprey fight, additional details
show, were outnumbered in some
instances eight to one. The latest
adWceS are that the American cas-
Continued on page 3.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26

cal situation in which Holland
finds herself with Germany.
The embargo on tin and tin
ore will prove especially embar-
RAISING to the United States.
Supplies needed for munitions
and food preservation were ex-
pected to come from the Dutch
East Indies, as the British are
taking the entire output of the
Straits Settlements. About TO-
600 tons of tin were bought by
the United States last year from
the Dutch East Indies, and the
amount probably would have
been increased this year.
Cinchona bark, quinine and
quinine salts are needed for me
dicinal purposes by the army.
Kapok is vegetable product
used in making hammock mat
tresses for the navy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
Pleased With New
Carter County Roads

Byron !. Rauch, from the state
highway department, arrived here
yesterday from Oklahoma City and
with County Commissioner w. +.
Whitson went over the roads west
and southwest in Mr., Wilson's dis
trlct. He expressed himself much
pleased with the system and with
the quality OF the roads built in that
part Of the county Today he went
north to travel over the part of the
national highway through this coun-
ty going to where it leaves the
north line OF the county near Drake.
He will return and go over the low
er portion OF the road.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
One LONG-RANGE
HUN GUN SMASHED
is FRENCH REPORT

Paris, April 25.-One of three
German long range guns which have
been bombarding Paris has been de
stroyed, according to Deputy Chas.
LeBoucq of the department of the
Seine.
The deputy said he had talked
with the general commanding the
sector near Crepy-en-Laonnois,
where the big guns are stationed.
The enemy, he declared, is con-
structing new emplacementS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
81 draft MEN
LEAVE FOR TRAVIS

Sixty-one young men OF Carter
County left Ardmore late this after
noon to enter their country's service,
going from here to training at Camp
Travis, San Antonio, Texas.
The call was issued for 100 in or
der that the local exemption board
would have no difficulty in obtain
ing the required number and, had
it been desired, or ordered, the full
100 could have been sent today.
Chairman Carlock, Of the cXemp-
ton board, said today that this was
the most patriotic bunch of young
men that had been before the board.
All wanted to go and it was not a
question of picking them out who
would go, but who must remain be
hind.
They are a fine looking lot of
young men, all apparently fit as can
be, and are entering into the war
game in earnest. They assembled in
front of the west entrance to the
county courthouse, where a picture
was made.
There were many wives, mothers,
sisters and sweethearts at the court
house with them. Good-byes were
reserved for the time of the depart
ure of the train and a very lively,
rather than sad spirit dominated.
Every man was given a card and
bears on his coat lapel tag with
his name, registration number and
his destination. The men left in
charge of Stanley Cox of Ardmore.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
BRITISH BAYONETS
BY THOUSANDS
USED IN ATTACKS
MANY HUNS KILLED WHEN
ENGLISH STORM THE
TOWN OF VILLIERS.
SIX HUNDRED PRISONERS
Haig's Men Bottle Up French City
Just Captured by Enemy and
Wreak Fearful Revenge on Much
Surprised Foe.

With the British Army in France,
April 25.-The story from Nilliers-
Bretonncux was most cheerful. The
Germans began their attack on Vii
Iers- BretonncuX about o clock yes
terday morning after a heavy bonn
bardment including great quantities
OF gas shells, which forced the Brit
ish to pull out Of parts OF the town
and hold it lightly. At that hour
heavy mists were hanging over the
whole region, and under cover of
this the Germans advanced, support
ed by five bulky and heavily armor-
ed tanks.
simultaneously with their attack
at Nillcrs- Bretonneux, the Germans
also began operations to the south
against the French and north OF the
river Somme. At Sailly-Le-Sec and
Naire several attacks were rcpulsed
Huns Uses Tanks.
The first drive against Nillers-
BretonneuX was made with two diyi-
sions, and this attack was thrown
back. The Germans Immediately
put two fresh divisions into line and
again surged forward. Five tanks
were sent to the north through the
valley leading the southQrn part Of
the town, and these engines were
followed by large forces of infantry.
BY noon the Germans had swung
a salient about 5000 yards wide and
1000 yards deep about Nillers- Bre-
tonneux and were holding the towns
strongly. This they continued to do
until 10 o'clock last night, when the
British delivered a surprise counter
attack. There should have been d
moon 10 assist the British, but the
sky WIS heavily overcast and dense
mist hung over the regino.
Enemy Had Rude Surprise.
According to prisoners, the enemy
had no expectation of further trou-
bic from the British last night and
were sitting snugly in their new po-
sition when the storm broke. The
German artillery had perhaps been
lulled into false security and was
doing little shcling.
At the appointed hour the British
gunners put down a sharp barrage,
and the British infantry drove for
ward. The attack was made from
the southwest and northwest on
Nillers-Bretonneux, and these two
forces drove i'll toward the eastern
part of the town in a converging
movement. AS a result the British
bottled up the town.
English Rush the Town.
The British infantry Immediately
rushed the town, and heavy hand
to-hand fighting ensued, the bayonet
being used freely. Six hundred pris-
oners were taken here and a great
number of the enemy killed. The
town was virtually cleared, and to-
day only few scattered pockets oi
Germans are in the place. Some OF
them are still dug in along the Vii
lerS-Bretonneux- -Marcelcave railway
embankment with machine guns and
these are causing some trouble, but
their ultimate determination or cap
ture is certain.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
DAILY BOND REPORT

Washington, April 26.-Liberty
day opened with a total Of $l,956,-
T76,650 subscriptions already raised
for the nations third big war cred
it. or within 43,300,000 of the ST.
0O0,0O0000 mark which will be pass
ed before night.
The day was a holiday by presi-
dental proclamation, and virtually
everywhere efforts were being made
to speed up the sale of bonds by
demonstrations.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
CBy The Associated Press

On the French Front in France,
April 26.-The more they advance
along the road toward Amiens, the
more perilous becomes the salient
the Germans are forming in the
Somme region, especially in view of
the fact that the allied reserves are
virtually intact and the allied armies
now are commanded by a single
chief.
The present moment is less favor
able to the German plans than when
they started their advance March 21.
Then a weak point existed between
the French and British armies. Now
there is no sensitive part of the line,
since the unified command has given
the opportunity to make the most
practical use of all the allied troops.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
WEATHER FORECAST

Ardmore and vicinity: To-
night and Saturday cloudy
warmer.
Oklahoma: Tonight and Sat
urday, cloudy, warmer tonight.
West Texas Tonight and Sat
urday partly cloudy.
Local Temperature.
Maximum temperature yestcr-
day Is degrees, minimum last
night 4S.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
ENEMY PAYS FRIGHTFUL
COST FOR LITTLE GAIN
Presidents Daughter, CHy?S
LibertyDqy Guest, WMSing
AtConuention Hall Tonight

Ardmore's observance OF today as
national holiday, another Liberty
Day. will be confined largely to the
concert given tonight at $50 o'clock
in Convention Hail. under the aus
pices of the Lions Club, by Miss
Margaret Wilson, daughter OF Ptesl-
dent Woodrow Wilson. Miss Will
son arrived yesterday at noon, with
her personal friend and chaperonc,
Mrs. Ross David of New York City,
and has been resting quietly in her
apartments at the Wilmington Ho-
tel. The strain of tour that began
Feb. 20 and will continue until June
1 has been trying and Miss Wilson
is dcyoting her entire time TO rest
and quiet that, as she expressed IT,,
Il may do my very best for Ard
more tonight
Home Guard Escort of Honor.
At a convenient time tonight the
Chamber of Commerce Band and
the Ardmore platoon OF the Carter
County Home Guard will assemble
and escort Miss Wilson to Conyen-
ton Hall. The band will play a
brief program Immediately preced-
| ing Miss Wilson's concert.
No changes have been made in
the program selected by Miss Will
SON and Mrs. David, which was pub
lished in yesterdays Ardmorcite.
Immediately after the concert Miss
Wilson will hold a very informal re
ccption and greet all who wish to
meet her. As it is expected that the
attendance will tax the capacity OF
/ Convention Hall, the reception
must, Of course, occupy a brief pc
Rod and it will only be possible for
the patrons to pass rapidly before
her in single file. Miss Wilson and
Mrs. David will leave Ardmore to-
morrow afternoon for Dallas, their
next engagement
When Miss Wilson registered at
the Wilmington yesterday the pen
she used, and which had been used
by no one else, was preserved. II
. was suggested that it be raffled OF
auctioncd and the proceeds givcr
the Red Cross. When permission
to do this was asked. Miss Wilson
not only consented. but wrote an
autograph which will also be turned
over to the officers of the Red Cross
Plans for the disposal OF the auto.
graph and pen will be announced
later.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
Wilson Buys More Bonds.

Washington, April 26.-President
Wilson made a second subscription
to the third Liberty loan at local
theater last night, taking $1,000
worth of bonds. He made his first
subscription for $1,000 worth at the
same theater two weeks ago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
ALLIED ARMIES FACED
BY SUPERIOR NUMBERS
French Hold Stubbornly to Line ir
HoIlebeke Sector.

Although faced by a superior
iorce in the ten-mile sector between
Baillcul and Uollebeke, the Anglo
French troops holding the line bat
lied stubbornly all day yesterday,
giving ground only when compelled
to by weight of numbers.
The line seemed to have held fair
ly well to the southwest of Mount
KENNEL which is virtually impreg-
nablc to frontal attack, but to the
northeast the Germans were appar-
entity able to push forward far
enough in the neighborhood of
Nierstraat to enable them to ap-
proach the height on the flank.
Try to Smash Hun Wedge.
The allied effort naturally will
be to concentrate against this en-
emy wedge and drive it back again
sufficiently to ease the pressure on
the easterly side OF Mount KENNEL
That they have not conceded to-
height to the Germans is evident by
the wording of the London official
statement which admits only an en-
cmy footing there, and reports the
battlel still continuing.
Definite possession Of KENNEL
hill by the Germans might mean
that the British would have to aban-
don the Ypres salient, according to
correspondents at the front.
The fighting on the Somme front
has died down to artillery fire, fol-
lowing successful execution yester-
day of the British coup which re-
claimed the village of Villers-Bre-
tonneux from the Germans. The
British troops last night completed
the operation here for the time be-
ing by cleaning out hostile posts
which were holding out to the
southeast OF the village. There it
establishes the British once more
well on the high ground in this sec
tor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
BATTLE SUMMARY

Flanders again is the scene of the
full tide Of battle. Against Mont
KENNEL and the other hills form
ing the protecting bastion to the
plain, east and north of Yprcs, the
Germans are hurling thousands Of
troops. Standing on their second
defense line and with Mont KENNEL
still in their possession, the British
are fighting tenaciously
Unable to make appreciable prog
ress against the defense Of the Brit
ish, French and American tropos
on the line south OF the Somme in
Picardy, the enemy swung his at
tacks to the northern battle ground.
AS on Wednesday, his first as
Saults on the seven-mile front from
Bailleul to Kennel to Wytscaete
were successful, and the allied
troops were compelled to give up
their first defense line.
The tactics of switching attacks is
not new to the Germans and was
persisted in by them in their vain
attempt to capture Verdun two
years ago.
After the first successful lunge
on both sides Of the Meuse the en-
emy tried to gain his objective by
attacking first on the right bank
and then on the left. Apparently
the Germans are now trying the
same method by alternating between
Picardy and Flanders in attempts
to reach Amiens and wipe out the
Ypres salient.
What Is Their Plan?
1t is not improbable the Germans
may be making strong attacks on
various sectors in an endeavor to
cover preparations for an effort
elsewhere, but it is significant that
they have attacked on the most i'm
portant sectors on either battle
front.
South Of the Somme, the Ger
mans have been driven from the
high ground and the village of Vii
lers- Bretonneux by the British with
the loss of 900 prisoners. Further
south they hold Hangard, On this
front, heavy artillery duels are ii
progress.
American wounded in the fighting
on the French sector from HangarC
to Castel are arriving in Paris.
In the Woevre near Regnieville
which is five miles northeast O
Seicheprey, where General Per
shing's men were attacked heavily
last Saturday, the French have re
pulsed strong German attack. Tht
enemy gained a footing in advanced
elements, but the French line wa!
later re-eStablished.
Zeebrugge Channel Blocked.
Complete success, it is authorita
lively announced, attended the dra
matte raid into the German subma
marine base at Zeebrugge. The en-
emy it is said, will be compelled 70
some weeks to use Ostend as a bas,
and the British then can deal NOR
easily with the German warship
and submarines. The channel a
Zeebrugge was blocked and mucl
damage done to the enemy defense
and shipping.
1t is reported that the German
vice admiral in command at Zee
brugge has been dismissed as a pun
ishment for allowing himself to b
surprised.