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The Carlisle independent., 1918-08-29

sent mp by both sides and the field and the trenches were as bright as day. All up and down the trenches our men were lodging about. keeping out of the way of the bombs that were being thrown in our faces. It did not seem as if there was any place where it was possible to get cover. Most of the time was picking dirt out of my eyes that explosions had driven into them.
 If you went into 8 dugout the men already in there would shout. Don't stick in a bunch-srread out,' While you were in dugoat you kept expect ing to be buried alive and when you went outside you thought the Boches were aiming at you direct-and there was no place al all where you felt safe.
 But the fire bay looked better than the other places to me. had not been there more than few minutes when 8 big one dropped in and that bay was just one mess. Out of the 24 men in the bay only eight escaped.
 When the stretcher bearers got there they did not have much to do in the way of Tescue-it was more pallbear- CTS work
 4 stretcher bearer was picking up one of the boys. when a grenade land cd alongside of him and you could not find fragment of either of them. That made two that landed within twelve feet of me; yet l was not even scratched.
 When l got so that I could move I went over to where the captain was standing. looking through a periscope over the parapet. I was very nervous and excited and was afraid to speak to him, but somehow I thought I ought 10 ask for orders. But I could not say word. Finally a shell whizzed over our heads-just missed us, it seemed like, and broke out: What did you see? Whats all of the newsf" and so on. I guess chattered like g monkey.
 Then he yelled: You're the gunner officer. You're just in tim-rve To-
 
 l surely wished 1 was the gunner officer. I would have enjoyed it more if I could have got back at Fritz somehow. But l was not the gunner officer and I told him so. I had to shout at him quite while before he would believe me. Then he wanted me to find the gunner officer, but I did Tot know where to find him. If I could have got to our guns I guess l would have had another medal for working overtime, but I missed the chance there
 About this time another bomb came over and clouted out the best friend l had in my company. Before the war he had been one of the finest sing CTS in the Paris opera houses. When he was with us he used to say that the only difference between him and Caruso was S2500 Q night.
 4 poilu and l dragged him into a dugout, but 1t was too late. One side of his face was blown off; the whole right side of him was stripped of and four fingers of the right hand were gone.
 I stuck my head out of the dugout and there was the captain discussing the matter with himself, cursing the Germans from here to Helgoland and putting in word for the bombs every once in a while. All up and down the trenches you could hear our men eurSing the Germans in all kinds of languages. Relieve me I did my bit and l could hear somebody else using good old United States cuss words, too. t certainly did not make me feel any better. suf # gave me something 10 do. l think that was why all of
The Carlisle independent., 1918-08-29
ITO Be Continued]

Ludendorff is probably carry ing the 20 years that have been lifted of Foch's shoulders.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
Putting a Town Ahead

It's the combination of pulling
power among all classes of citi-
zens that put a town ahead.
Plans for the future can be
made in winter as we'll as in any
other season of the year.
Lordsburg can with profit look
ahead. In a general way, what
is needed next year is known
even today.
In order to build properly one
must plan, and plans are not left
till the las minute.
Let all L%ordsburg citizens keep
the needs of our town in mind,
and be prepared to act intelli-
gent y when the time for action
arrives.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
Stand Up for the Good Thugs

There are unfortunately some
men and women in the world who
are detriments to progress. An
exaggerated idea of self-interest
or love of convenience and lux
ury impels them TO turn thumbs
down to every good thing pro-
posed.
Lordsburg needs and wants
the men and women who stand
for the good things of self and
community INSTRUMENTATION will
talk for improved methods and
the necessary improvements.
The best thing that can be said
of any person in Lordsburg is
that he or she likes the good,
moral; sweet, clean, progressive
things in the community.
The worst thing that can be
said of any man or woman i'm
Lordsburg is that they like the
evil, the mean, the nasty, ugly
and bad.
Let's get on the right side OF
good citizenship make it unani-
nous.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

While posin' fer his annual haircut
Yesterday, Professor Alex Tansey, O.
Tharp's Run School, Number nine,
wuz lamentin' tn unusually poor
quality o intellect bein' turned out
by our schools an colleges these days
O. athletics an cigarettes. He says he
reckons Their haint two students in tn
middle West that knows tn difference
between specific an advalorem. An
tn worst o. It is, he says, they don't
seem t care. He says it's little less'n
remarkable how gracefully a student
kin glide thrO' college these days
without bein' infected-Without even
absorbin' somethin' thro' daily an
constant contact. A boy1l come out o.
college with sunburnt arms an a
chubby briar pipe an pose around fer
Il year er two an then start In t find
somethin' that jist suits him.
Professor Tansey says n college
career is a mighty pretty thing t look
back on in after years, but that it don't
git you nOthin' unless TIERS sOmethin'
in your noodle that wuz already there,
This thing o. sayin': Father got by
without KNOWN nothin' won't do. If
rather wuz successful he must o had
somethin' besides a standin' broad
jump record an Il diploma. It's true
lots o. merchant princes don't know
what altrulsm is, but they know how
L add an subtract.
You'd naturally think that n boy el
girl that tries t graduate from d
school er college without KNOWN how
. spell would he detected an detained
by tn professor, but somehow they
gain their liberty.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Some time ago a Princeton profess
sor said that he had only found one
student in three hundred that claimed
t know anything about Aristotle, sa
he said it wuz some kind o. a specially
prepared paper that wuz used by fer
tographers. Theirs lots o. Yale men
movin' around t'day in tn best circles
that think Portugal is a mimi town
in West Virginia an hat homihy Is
tn chief food o. tn crowded inhabi-
tants of Indianny.
1t would be fun t know jlst what
percent o. tn big, robust e~x-students
o. tn average college know that tn
United States has t. import beans an
that theirs two RS in February.
Anybuddy would think that Il young
man who struggles fer a education by
cleanin' wall paper an weedin' onions
in tn summer time t. git his tuition
money would finally come ~ o. tn
battle with a little dash O. information,
but they seem t be immune too. l
asked one tn other day what Initiative
an referendum mean an he said it
wuz unheard of when he went t coll
lege.
When Miss Maize Bud was within
her graduatin' essay this spring she
asked her teacher who tn Pilgrim Fa-
thers wuz, an her teacher said, "
don't know, dear. 1 only heard tney
come over"
1 don't know which is tn mogt use
full in maxim a livin' these days, a pI
amer er a education. TIL more folks
are supposed t know tn poorer they
seem t be, but you kin mortgage a pi
amer.
Copyright, Adams Newspaper Service
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
Rinulno Chime De.,s.

When first introduced, chime bells
were rung by a number OF men. each
grasping a rope from one particular
bell and striking It AT the precise mo-
ment the leader pointed a finger at
him for a signal. The custom original
ed in Europe, and was imported int o
this country when the first chin IS
were brought over. This was shor Nv
after the country's independence vas
declared, the new bells being pi iced
In Trinity church, New York cit II
required seven men to ring the seven
bells, and Il was not until $50 D than
n plan was devised whereby o IA man
alone was able TO ring the bel
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

"Who comes to town at break of
day, With flvver loaded high with
hayT" Why, the Farmer, Of cour Sc.
When he Gets Through figuring up the
Proceeds of this years Crop, he viii
buy a Swell New Car. If the Farmers
eyer go on a Strike, the rest Of AS will
have to live on Snowballs.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
Cash and Carry Illustrated

Says a Lordsburg woman: Il
think merchants should deliver
goods groceries and everything
to the woman who is at home
with small children and therefore
cannot trot around buying the
necessities of life and carrying
them home herself"
In a sense that is true. But if
the same woman were taking a
trip, and had to have her trunk
transported to the depot, she
would't expect others who were
not taking trips to help pay for
the transportation of her trunk.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
Beware o. III

There ore two kinds OF lgnoble old
age. ono Is decreplt, leery, totterlng
10 the grave. II Is the kind which NOR.
alists can use as a warning and a test,
The other Is the infinitely more danger
Gus kind. Il reveals a sound constitu-
ton beneath the rugs and dehlement
II cannot be used as a text, for Il
works the other way. II seems to show
that a man may drink, loaf and other
wise transgress, and yet keep goInG
physically.-Atlantic Monthly.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

This poor fellow doesn't Believe in
Advertising. He should Wake Up and
hear the Brides Sing. The man who
doesn't Believe in Advertising went
out Of Style right after the Civil War.
While he kicks about the Mail Order
houses. his Competitor is Making Hay.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
The Model nHoss"

Twill say this respecting the horse
and / have had much 10 do with every
variety and kind-thot for docility,
for faithfulness and for c%heapness Of
maintenance. give me the horse who
never sheds his coat or is bothered
with ~ingrOwlng toenails, who remains
wherever you place him and is ever
on the Job when he's wanted. That
horse Is the sawhorse.-Zlm in Car
icons Magazine.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

One New Mexico citizen who
claims to know tells us that the
difficulties of Single maiden la
dies" in this county is due to the
competition of widows and grass
widows. He says that no single
girl ION in years" can compete
with a dashing widow not the
kind we have in these parts.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

The Y. W. C. A. of the country
has a good work mapped out for
1t if it attends to the hordes of
young girls who are swarming
around army camps from nearby
cities. Army officers call them
"happers."
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

It is reported that many young men
are refused by the military authorities
on account of their %irregulaxly shaped
le IS. What is this to be, a war or a
c omic opera2
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

1t is now evident that a Lords
burg woman using powder must
be indulging in some of that war
camoufage we read about. It's
real war camouhage, too, for
doesn't it often lead to matri-
money.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

II IS becoming more evident each
day that the people in Germany are
looking more %anNously to the bread
supply than they r to the mythical
Kory Of scientific retreats.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

One Lordsburg man remarked
that in the neighborhood of four
cents each for an egg was a steep
price this time O. year, to which
the dealer replied that an egg is
a whole days work for a hen.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

All the grand dukes have offered
their crown lands TO the new Russian
government. Evidently they knew
when the tine had com e TO let go.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
Knob for Kettle Id.

Should the knob come off the lid II
a kettle a screw should be slipped
through the hole with the head to The
inside Of the lid ed a cork sore we'd
on the %prOtruding end.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Hunger is such an excru ciating ar
a;etlon that tightening the belt must
be a hollow mockery compared to the
elation that comes from hihGhing up
The s~uspenders.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

A great many hopeful people are go
Ing to learn this summer how much
easier 1t Is to raise potatoes theoretical
~ than It is. to raise them practically.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

An excellent provider is n man
whose wife doesn't mention having
nothing to wear more than II times a
day.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
wnat interested ner.

Nov, about this life insurance l
o~ntenplate taking out, premiums
AIRY ''Premiums?" chirped Ais wife.
l want a plush covered postcard al
'lm. John"
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
Expansion Of conere >.

Concrete roads expand ID ost In win
ter and contract most In F ummer. ae-
cording to the United st ties bureau
Of standards, because OF incre ases or.
decreases In the moistu re uiey con,
tain.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

While eve Tybody is busy raising food
and cutting down the food waste, let
nobody TAX 2 advantage Of the oppor-
tunity to XII tie the prices.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

There is nothing more pathetic In
the way Of a helpless minority than a
father. with the rest OF the family
united aluinst him.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Baseball fans trained and accus-
toned to roofing might mobilize to
cast asper lions and pop bottles at the
German su bmarines-
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Attention. is called to the fact that
nobody pr otests at the high cost Of
onions. SItIu fewer moan over the
price asked for arttchokes.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

A tin cav shortage is reported, but
the inefficient employee needn't feel
that the boss won't have one to tie on
him should the occasion arise.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

America is rich enough and powerful
enough W afford any kind Of righteous
war safe a cheap and inefficient one.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Speaking of an elastic CURRENCY, the
potatoes which have been serving as
legal tender have begun to sprout.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Some of the experts now handing
out the finished strategy on paper are
the same ones who proved beyond a
doubt. in the fail of 1914, that the war
could not last six months.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Perhaps q married woman ought 70
live longer than her husband, so she
ran hear what little good is said Of
him after h e is gone.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

With mi lttia guarding the bridges
and trestles S, the hobo who stops to
light his pl pc by n of them runs the
risk of beiT u shot as a spy.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Just at the time when society girls
were looking for new thrills, along
comes the chance to run war autos.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

The tailors say the average man
should have 10 suits, that evidently
being the tailor's dream of personal
h~appiness.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Whit Siberia wins admission to
stateh God in the new democracy, it's
n good guess she will change her
name
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

About the best use to make of a
crown no wadays is to bait it with a lit
tie chees e and use 1t for a mOusetrap.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

The world makes more history in
a day now than we used to study
about in a week in u school days.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Ambitious aspirants for military
command should go into training by
hunting devilfsh.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

For the geography and atmosphere
Involved in war in Asia Minor, consult
the Bible and the Arabian Nights
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

In these efete days of vacuum clean
ers a discarded scepter cannot even be
used for the beating Of carpets.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18
- TImn paasea

Today becomes yesterday 30 fast
that a fellows predictions become rem
~iniscences before he realizes It.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

The submarine crew who mutinied
were converts to the safety first idea
in modern transportation.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

In eliminating the last of the great
a%utocracies the world will eliminate
the last fruitful source OF wars.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

The women will soon be calling small
potatoes "little darlings."
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Kings palaces are built upon the
shifting sands.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Caveman methods are the kind used
by the people who get what they want.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Germany has one consistent policy,
and that is to deny everything.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

Sunshine is the reward Of those who
do not find fault with the clouds.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-01-18

a bird in the garden is worth two
In the cat.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-24
THE DEATH ROLL +!

John August GlOede died at the
home of his brother-in-law, Charles
Zoellick, route 4, Wednesday after
noon, following cerebral hemOr-
ohage. He was born in Mecklenburg,
Germany, July 80, 184S and came to
this country in 1869. He was married
in 1875 and for a time resided in
Pennington. He then lived on a farm
in route until he retired several
years ago when he and his wife went
to live on his brOther-in-law's farm.
He is survived by his widow and seven
children: Henry, this city, Mrs. Will
liam Habba, Mrs. Leslie Williams,
Fort Atkinson, Mrs. Harry Platz, Mrs
Charles ZOellick, Mrs. Henry Seefeldt,
route 4, and Mrs. Clarence Brandt,
GAINESVILLE. Funeral services will be
held Sunday afternoon at o'clock at
home and at 2:30 o'clock in st. Mark s
Lutheran church. Interment will be
made in the Lutheran cemetery.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-24
NOTICE.
24-31-7-14
City Clerk

In the matter of the application to
have discontinued and vacated, the
south fifteen Q5) feet of that part of
Clyman street abutting on and nor6p
of Block No. One % of Cole, Bailey &
Co.'s Addition, in the First ward, in
the city of Watertown, County of JEFF
fersOn and state of Wisconsin.
Notice is hereby given, that at a
regular meeting Of the common coun-
Gil Of the city of Watertown, to be
held on the 18th day of June, A. D.
1918, at the opening of said meeting,
or as soon thereafter as the same can
be heard, in the common council
chamber in the city hall of said city,
the said common council will act up
on the application of all the owners
OF lots and land abutting on the part
Of Clyman street described above and
at least two thirds of the owners OF
lots and land abutting on the re-
mainder of said Clyman street, to
have said part of Clyman street first
above described declared to be of no
public utility discontinued and va
Gated
Dated May %, 1918.
By Order of the Common Council
Frank S. Weber,
24-3l-7-14 City Clerk
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-24
NOTICE..

In the matter of the application to
have discontinued and vacated, the
east eighteen QS) feet of First street
abutting on and west of the south
ninety-siX (96) feet of Lot No. Four
a., in Block No. Forty-One (41) of
Cole, Bailey & Co.'S Addition to the
original plat of the town, now city, of
Watertown, on the east side of Rock
river, in the First ward, in the city of
WatertOWn, county of Jefferson and
state of Wisconsin.
Notice is hereby given, that at a
regular meeting Of the common coun-
ell of the city of Watertown, to be
held on the 18th day of June, A. d.
1918, at the opening of said meeting
or as soon thereafter as the same can
be heard, in the common council
chamber in the city hall of said city
the said common council will act up
on the application of all the owners
of lots and land abutting on the part
OF First street described above and at
least twO-thirds of the owners Of lots
and land abutting on the remainder of
said First street, to have said part of
First. street first above described to
De declared of no public utility, dis
continued and vacated.
Dated May %, 1918.
By Order of the Common Council
Frank S. Weber,
24-3l-1-l4 City Clerk
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-24
WAUKESHA BEACH OPENS
THIS YEAR ON JUNE |

Following the universal custom for
twenty years Waukesha Beach has
opened for the summer season on
Memorial day. But this year, feeling
that the sacred day of the nation
should be observed in it's sacred
sense, T. M. Toll, proprietor and man
ager of the park, has postponed his
opening until Saturday, June l. On
that day the park will be opened to the
public, better able to entertain and
care for it's thousands of guests then
ever before. The grounds are in ex-
cellent condition, the personal service
is much improved, and the launches
ire better able to care for the lovers
If water recreation.
This year there will be enlarged
service to all points on the lake. Reg
ular launches will run between the
Beach and all the upper lake resorts
and landings and there will also be
regular service to Pewaukee In that
way resorters and cottagers on all
parts of the lake can reach their
homes by water from the interurban
station at the Beach, the launches
leaving the dock Immediately after
the arrival of the cars.