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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26
FRoTHINGHAM ENLISTS.
Former Lieutenant Governor Of Massa
chusetts Gets Commission.

Boston, Oct. 25.- The resignation of
Louis A. rockingham, former lieuten-
ant governor, as member of the board
OF trustees Of the Boston Elevated Rail
way company was announced by Govern
or Mccall to-day. In his letter of resig-
nation Mr., rockingham said he had re-
ceived a commission in the army,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26
A Theory.

His ship to the sailor is veritable
sweetheart. His ship possesses waist,
collar, stays, bonnets, laces and dozen
other feminine accessories. Perhaps that
is why ship is called "she. Boston
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED AT ONCE -First-class Jumper
William Milne Granite Co. l90tS
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26

FOR SALE--A few choice pure-bred Ancona
cockerels from the worlds best-laying strain,
price 81; Raymond Moulton, Washington, Vt,
Z. f, d. No. /, lapt6'
Courier Democrat., 1918-10-31

huJourned, ana cases pe1fdlng on IN
dictments from the grand jury will
probably be tried at Bismarck during
the December term.
Hankinson.-Horatio D. Gates, in
service in France with U. S. marines
from this city, has been commended by
Secretary of the Navy Daniels for con-
spicuous bravery in attending wounded
comrades under withering shell fire.
Bismarck.-The record Red Cross
acre production for Burleigh county
has been moved up by a recent report
Of $40 proceeds from an acre devoted
to Red Cross support. The previous
high record acre for the county brought
500.
Bismarck.-North Dakotans now own
an average of $62S worth of war saw
ings stamps per capita, or a total of
$3,997,2 ,246 worth for the entire state.
The quota allotted to the state, and
which should be raised before January
], is $19,00O,000.
Fessenden.-Much curiosity has been
aroused here over the recent discovery
of a porcupine at large in field neal
this place. So far as known, none OF
this species has ever before been foun6
; wild in this state, and how this anima
came into this section is unknown.
Fargo.-Local ministers of nearly al
religious faiths in Fargo united in 6
petition to the state board of health tt
permit reopening Of places of worship
which are temporarily closed, together
with all other places of public gather
ing, on account of the influenza epi
demic.,
Courier Democrat., 1918-10-31
NORTH DAKOTA

Grand Forks.-This county is $780,
400 ever its quota on the fourth Liberty
loan.
Fargo-The North Dakota campaign
for Jewish refugee relief made good
progress last week.
Park River.-An automobile accident
near here resulted fatally to ]. e. Cole,
a Minneapolis fur buyer.
Jamestown.-Lieut.H H. B. Curtiss has
been stationed here as instructor of the
students army training corps.
Valley City.-Dr. E. G. Allen, newly
elected president of the state normal
school at this place, has arrived to as
sume his duties.
Jamestown.-A. G. Maxwell, former
general manager of the Midland Con-
tinental railroad, with headquarters in
this city, is dead at Cleveland, Ohio.
Minot.-Three little girls, daughters
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Hartness, who
live % miles northeast Of Norma, were
burned to death in fire that destroyed
their farm home.
Hoople-Robert and Leo, sons of
Charles Reynolds of this place, aged
respectively 6 and 10 years, each lost an
arm through the explosion of a stick
Of dynamite which they found.
Linton-The October term of the
Emmons county district court has been
Courier Democrat., 1918-10-31

other organizations. That if nothing
else, should make US glad to give our
share towards this noble work. AL
together one hundred and seventy
million dollars is to be raised in the
United States. Of that one hundred
million goes to the Y. M. C. A.,
fifteen million to the Y. w. C.
A., thirty million to the National
Catholic War Council, three million
five hundred to the Jewish Welfare
Board, fifteen million to the War
Camp Community Service, three mil
lion five hundred to the American
Liberty Association and three million
to the Salvation Army. Or, putting
it in the form of percentages, the Y.
M. c. A. gets 58.65 per cent; the X. C.
1850 per cent; the Y. w. C. A. and
War Camp Community service each
$50 per cent and the Jewish Welfare
board, American Library Association
and Salvation Army each 2.05 per
cent. This apportionment was made
by agreement with the government.
This combined drive is made at the
request of the government. The
work of the different organizations
is so regulated that there is little
duplication in effort. The work is
fully appreciated by our soldiers and
we would be lacking in support of
them and in patriotic spirit if we did
not raise this money gladly. The
soldiers are giving their very lives
and we are but giving a part of our
property.
Official pledge cards may be used
and fifty per cent Of the donation
paid at once, twenty-five per cent on
January 18th and twenty-five per
cent on March 1st next. It would be
very much preferable, however, to
pay the donation all at once, as it
would save trouble and expense in
connection with it later on, and it is
not going to be so hard for anyone to
pay it all in cash now.
| am going to ask you to give this
matter publicity in your paper this
week, to urge on everybody to CO.
operate so that we can get this drive
Courier Democrat., 1918-10-31
INDEPENDENT VOTERS LEAGUE
OF CAVALIER COUNTY

L
A few more days and the state
election will be thing of the past.
Beyond question the issues to be
decided are the most important that
ever came before the people of our
state. ,s
The first issue is whether we are to
adopt and follow out the socialistic
program Of state ownership of
elevators, flour mills and packing
plants, and ultimately and inevitably
include farm lands.
The next and more important issue
is whether we are going to allow the
state to be controlled for another two
years by enemies of our Republic.
The present state administration is
composed of men whose creed makes
them as much enemies Of all loyal
citizens Of our state and country as
lis the military class of Germany.
This is true for the reason that
Townley, Bowen, LeSueur, Randall,
and the rest of that crowd are social
lists and they have been loyal to their
political principles, and that neces-
sarily means disloyalty to our form
of government, both National and
state. They have obstructed the
prosecution of the war in every way
that they could and still keep out Of
the hands of the representatives of
the department of justice, and in fact
some of them have overstepped the
line and been arrested and convicted.
! Arthur LeSueur, now secretary of
the League, was not inconsistent
with his political beliefs when on
April 5th, 1917, he closed his in
famous letter to the undesirable
citizen VIM. D. Haywood with the
words "The damned war business is
going to make it mighty hard to do
good organization work or good radi-
cal work of any kind, but I think the
fight should now be centered against
spy bills and conscription. In other
words at a time when the God fear
ing people of the United States clear
ly understood that the issue in the
war was whether or not our democratic
form Of government could be pre-
Courier Democrat., 1918-10-31
UNITED WAR WORK
CALL FOR FUNDS

The following letter and township
apportionment for the campaign for
funds for the United War Work was
given us for publication and is self ex-
planatory. Atty. Crimson and his COM
mittee has thoroughly convased the
situation and plan to have this drive
given full attention on election day.
Read the letter carefully and on cleo
ton day go to the polls prepared to
! do yorr share. The letter is as fol-
lows: -
The Editor:
/ am enclosing you some Of the
literature sent out by the United War
Work Campaign committee; also a
list of the apportionment for the diff
ferent precincts of the county. We
have to raise $26,OO0.0O in the week
beginning November 11th. Because
of this epidemic of influenza, we are
not going to be able to have any
public meetings or gatherings of any
kind and it will be hard for the
solicitors to get around to see every
one. We are therefore planning to
get our committees in shape and to
have them working at the polls on
election day. In that way they will
see almost everybody in the township
and without driving around, and we
hope in that manner to lessen the
work for all. The amount to be
solicited at this time is almost twice
as much as in the last Red Cross
drive, but the work is important anG
we believe appreciated by cverybod!
The soldiers all write home of the
excellent work that is being done by
the Y. M. c. A., the X. C. and these
Courier Democrat., 1918-10-31

Grand Forks.-A state wide music
contest is the latest innovation in con-
nection with the annual conference
week to be held at the state university.
Soloists, clubs, choruses, ETC., will COM
pete after tryouts in various district
groups which will be arranged for be-
fore the state contest takes place.
Fargo.-Go to Sunday School day,
which was to have been observed in
many parts Of the state last week, had
to be put over, as the temporary ban on
public meetings unfortunately timed
itself so that this was about the only
week in the states history when no one
could attend Sunday school. November
II has now been fixed upon as the day
for the big rally.
Courier Democrat., 1918-10-31

over on election day if possible. Use
any part of this material that-yo can.
Respectfully yours,
G. Crimson,
Campaign Director for Cavalier Co..
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03
Berthelot's Soldiers Complete
Capture of St. Thiery Massif

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Oct. = f2 %. M, (By The
Associated Press General Bcrtnelot's
forces, r the course Of the night and
this morning, completed their conqucsts
of ST. Thierrv massif northwest of
Rheims. occupying Poullion and taking
thc fort cf st. ThlcrTy.
The French now dominate the plain
to tho east ana threaten the German
positions all along the Aisne- Marnr
Cpnal from Rcthcnv to the north in
Guiding the fort of Brimont. where vcr~a
posted he guns that ACCOMPLISHED the
greater part of the destruction OF
Rheims.
The French lines were pushed slight
" northward toward Rcthcrv~ Inc
ccnUues- of the important positions
around St. Thcrrv and the advnosa o.
General Gouraud's men in The region
o. Saint Marie-a-Py. in the Champn.roeney ~
increases the gravity of the situation
for the German forces holding The
icIchts to the east OF Rheims.
Further slight advances b. Noth
Gouraud and Bcrthclot in those reYiicna
viii make of the Rheims salient an
ether pocket from which the Gerrlans
will find an exit with difficulty
Fighting continued during, the night
in tha .ubu,ls OF s.. Quentin The
Gcrmaus were trying to re7ai:' IN
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03

doughboys We're again advancing with
out the additional danger of running
into their own barrage.
During the interval German shells
were falling on the wreckage of Mont
faucen and Cuisy
The line of advance was outside our
view, but rapidly shellbursts in that
direction told US that the Germans were
also heavily shclling our forward lines
The men in battle up there were som-
of Uncle Sans least experienced sol
dlers, fighting like veterans We. how.
ever, turned back into the battle of mud
and weather which was raging behind
US while the battle of blood and steal
went on ahead.
Slipping and sliding over the mud
INTO which our pioneers were hcaving
their sackfuls of stones. VIC again
reached, by turning from the village. a
road running through wide area of
the Hindenburg line. Shells had torn
this road so that the wheels of the
ever-present traffic ahead slipped down
into the holes and lodged there until re-
moved by the combined force of hus.an
hands and gasolene
Every few hundred yards along the
road we bumped into the tail of an
American truck and stopped. Ahead
trucks stalled traffic Of every descrip.
tion and flooded the road completely.
Both sides were a shell-pitted morass.
while behind heavy cannon, drawn by
six horses, soon cut of our retreat.
The road flooded full eventually. and
here we remained for thirteen hours.
Somewhere, a mile ahead, auto trucks
down to their hubs in mud were vsinlv
striving to extricate themselves. Hours
later the line moved slightly, Ono
truck short distance ahead sllpped IF
the road side into the morass. 1t was
hlled with wounded men
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03

other buildings nave suffered similar
fate. No wall stands. The dead still
lie there, unburied.
Our car crawled on, hopelessly slow
in the mud, until we reached a point
close to Montfaucon. We pulled tn >
car to the side of the road.
The nosie Of bursting shells and the
rattle Of machine guns, blending into
the road. seemed dangerously near,
though in reality the sound was coming
from some distance ahead on the firing
line.
Traffic was now stopped This was
AS near as it could approach to the fir
ing line. Suddenly one of the most
dramatic incidents | have seen in this
war occurred
Muffed shouts from far ahead seemed
to come rapidly nearer through the
driving rain which had begun to fall.
The sound formed itself into words as
it swept closer. 1t said:
"Tcll the artillery to lengthen the
range; we arc advancing"
1t fell from mouth to mouth past u
down the road, truck drivers, every one
yelling its relay.
That phrase had started from an ad-
vance skirmish line, where some off,
GERS ingenuity had not waited for the
ground telephone wires-possibly put
out of action by shellfire--to tell the
artillery to lengthen the range. The
message had been shouted back to
waves behind. who relayed it on, until
it had filtered from mouth to mouth
down our road to the signal station
where unbroken wires connected
directly with the batteries.
Within a minute after the me ssye
had passed the batteries had ceased FIRE
completely and then opened up again,
The range was heightened, so that the
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03
Elements Fail
To Halt Push
OF American.
Continued from page !

horses throughout the blackest, rain
icsS night maginable-su was the
experience Of l. s. Kirkland, corre8
sponden- for "Leslie's Weekly" and
'nyse9f during Sunday night and Mon
d. norning Here we saw evidenced
spirit Of cheerfulness and indefa
.sshlc resolution which is winning
sr-c-ica's greatest war.
EYcry type of war vehicle stood in
: .a line which extended several miles
80 OF Monfaucon. Ambulances filled
n cheerful wounded, motor cars full
officers, heavily loaded trucks by
hundreds. tanks, cannons and caissons
a. were held there by the elements
while Americas pioneer engineers, in
fact everybody. fought the battle Of
the mud in pitch darkness and the
driving rain.
Kirkland and myself, driving a small
automobile, started early in the after
noon. en- route for the headquarters OF
the army unit which has been fighting
The epic struggle in the vicinity of
Mantfaucon. Reaching the No Man.,
Land Of few days ago, we began to
visualize the difficulties which our fight-
ing army is encountering. Roads in
terrible condition arc being rebuilt lit
orally under the wheels of the con-
stantly moving lines of traffic which al
ways follow behind every battle. t.
feed the men and bring up guns.
Soldiers with small jute bags on
their backs lined the route. dumping
rocks from the bags into whccltracks
tractors, hauling heavy gun or lgh.
touring car--crushed them into an oozy
mass below. In some places the rocks
rad sunk into firm bottoms. and the
wheels, revolving swiftly graspcd
solid surface as they lurchcd ahead
Roads Built Quickly
Reaching a ruined village. We found
men with jutc bags leaving the village
They were literally carrying what was
lot Of this village for out into the
roads leading to and from it, Rock
heaps, which once had been houses. were
at last disappearing into sacks. while
an aptlike stream Of men kept moving
in line, an endless chain. Meantime
the crawling mass of traffic on the
road never stopped, except momentar-
lly while willing hands got behind and
lifted straycd ambulance trucks or
bread wagons back into the roadway.
If serious accident occurred. the sam,.
hands ruthlessly showed the vehicle
into ditch.
The village church, in small pieces
is scattered over ten miles of this road
while the Town Hall and dozens Of
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03
Official Statements

our front since the night before last
has run cast oHSt. Quentin to Berth
cncourt on the River Disc.
In the course of the day, enemy
attacks developed against the sec
tors Of Estrccs, Joncourt and Les
dins. The enemy penetrated our
lines on both sides Of Scquehart,
but counter attack threw him back
again.
st. Quentin, in which only recon
noitrng detachments were stationed
yesterday, has been occupied by the
enemy.
There have been outpost engage
mcnts in the region bstwccn the
Alcttc and the Aisnc rivcns.
Northwest of Rheims VIC withdrew
our troops frfom the River Veslc to
positions in the rear. The enemy fol-
lowed with weak dctachments in tho
evening and occupied the line of
Vcntelay and Villcrs-Franquex.
III CiIt SIidui i'dSl llC, VIC iCTCIl It-
sumcd their united attacks. In the
forenoon these assaults were directed
against the front from Ste. Marie
.APy to Monthois, and in the course
of the day against the line between
Somme-Py and the Avrc. The at
tacks broke down. Local breaches
were cleared again, for the most
part. by counter attacks
The new position taken up the
night before last on both sides of
the River Aisne runs from Monthois,
beyond Challerauqi, to the Bois
dAutry. TO the north Of Bnarville
and straight across the forest of Ar
gonnc to Apremont.
Advance guards several times re-
pulsed enemy attacks before these
lines. In local raids we threw the
Americans back and out of the Bois
des Ogons and adjacent lines.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03
BRITISH

LONDON (NIGHT This morning
The enemy attacked strongly north :
west of St. Quentin with fresh troops
from his reserves and succeeded in
pressing back cur troops from the
village of Scquchart, when his pro-
grcss stopped.
Local fighting has taken place to-
day north Of Crcvecourt (south of
Cambrail and west Of Cambria, but
without material change in the situa-
ton. AS result of their operations
yesterday and last night in tho neigh
borhood of Cambra Canadian troops
now hold the suburb of Neuvillc st.
Rcmy and the high ground west Of
Families.
Early this morning the enemy COM
mcnccd to withdraw on a wide front
south and north Of La Basscc Canal.
Our troops are following up the with
drawal closely and have taken pris-
OncrS.
LONDON DAN.-Aftcr maintain
ing strong pressure on the enemy
throughout the earlier part Of the
day, in the afternoon the SD Division
attacked the centre of the German
defensive line, which runs from Fon-
sommes to the neighborhood Of Beau
revoir. The attack was successful
The village Of Scquchart and the
hamlet Of Presclles were captured
and the mmes-Beaurevoir line
preached.
North Of this point Joncourt was
cleared Of the enemy, and the Aus
tralians completed the capture of the
enemy's defenses south of LIE Oatelct
and Gouy.
In the sector north of Cambria all
day was terminated by a successful
attack at dusk, as result of which
New Zealand and Anglo Scottish
troops drove the enemy from Creve-
coeur and Rumily and established
themselves on the high ground east
and north of those villages. Several
hundred prisoners were taken by US
III these operations.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03
Allies Fighting Through Sea ofMud
Make New Gains on Flanders Front

advanced for distance o $4,000 yards
southeast of Roulcrs.
PARIS. Oct. 2.--Thc Allied cnvelop-
ing movement against Turcoing. Rou-
baix and Lille. in Flanders, is becoming
accentuated, according to semi official
announcement made here to-day
The French army under General De
goutte. now operating in the vicinity Of
Roulcrs, apparently was sent north
from its old position on the left Of
General Mangn after 'thc break
through of the Belgian and British
forces was definitely established.
The towns of Menin and Roulcrs,
railway functions in Flanders. have
been set on fire by the Germans in face
OF the advancing Belgians, British and
French troops. French guns now con-
troll the railway line running from
Ostend, through Thourout and Roulers
to Courtra.
British monitors are cooperating ac-
lively in bombarding the German lines
on and near the coast.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03

Lights were not permitted on ac-
count Of enemy observation planes, so
the wounded were unloaded in the dark
ness and the truck tipped on to its back
in the swamp.
Here IN tins mess. all night long
under the heaviest raln-and toward
morning under enemy shells. which
shricked like lost souls before their
heavy explosion staff colonies worked
beside douehboys like beavers to extri
cate the tic-up so that the wounded
might reach hospitals Everybody was
cheerful, though miserable.
AT daybrcak | saw an American can
tam, with his once immaculate uni
form saturated with mud, walking
down the road with two walking
wounded cases whose bandaged heads
did not deter them from Kidding the
captain about his mud, A staff colonel.
with stocking cap on his head. his
poots caked with mud. his raincoat
'spattered from neck to knees. was up
''N S"SH'eei pdnE az the front
mess kitchen in the woods taking his
ordinary turn for cup of coffee. The
only evidence there was that he was =
colonel were the silver eagles on the
shoulders of his raincoat.
Damn the Kaiser" he muttered with
a smile.
And in the same spirit more walking
wounded filtered back from the firing
line with an expression of cheerfulness
on their faces that would have bucked
un the worst mudcaked pessimist
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03

the canal. continues to resist with
marked emery.
Between the Aisnc and the Vcsle
the French troops gained new adj
vanccs west of Rheims. The French
hold Pouillon and Thil and the south
crn outskirts of Villcrs -Franqueux
The massif Of st. Therry is now in
the hands of the French. We also
gained ground north of La Ncu-
vllettc and carried out line to the
southern outskirts of Bethcny.
vG laysdirclcsc fsivcG lc(Ncu- m ml
In Champagne the night was with
out change.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03
GERMAN

BERLIN (NIGHU There were
violent partial engagements in Fland-
crs and Champagne. Before Cambrai
the day passed quietly.
BERLIN DAY.-In Flanders. on
both sides Of Cambria and in the
Champagne, we warded off violent
enemy attacks. In quiet sectors of
the front, near st. Quentin, north
west of Rheims and west of the Ar
gonne, we withdrew parts of our sal
lent lines to positions in the rear.
North of Stadcn (Bedgium) ward
ing off enemy attacks. we captured
about 100 prisoners. The enemy at
tackled on both sides of the roads
leading from Ypres to Roulers and
Menin, and obtained a footing in
Ledeghem. We captured the eastern
part of the place by a counter at
tack.
Enemy partial attacks south of
La Bassee were repulsed.
The fifth day Of the battle of Cam
bria again ended in complete failure
for the enemy. North of Sancourt
our troops beat back assaults of the
enemy, which he renewed seven times
Further south the enemy pressed
forward temporarily beyond Aban-
court Bantigny and south of Bile
court, toward Cuvillers. Our counter
attack threw the enemy back be-
yond Abancourt and Bantigny, and
savXed the brave Wurttemberg de-
tenders of Blecourt from being sur
rounded by the enemy.
At Cambria and south Of it, en-
envy assaults broke down. Rumilly
remained in the hands of the enemy.
Between lie Catelet and the Disc
New-York tribune., 1918-10-03
Pershing Captured
12O Cannon in Drive
Great Mass of War Stores
Taken In Last Week
Along the Meuse

WASHINGTON. Oct 2.-Generu Per
sings communique to-day says that n
partial count of the material capture
during the last week by the American
troops advancing between the Neuse
and Argonne rivers shows 120 guns o
all caIibres. $50 trench mortars, 30o
machine guns, 100 heavy tank guns
thousands of artillery shells and nun
dreds Of thousands Of rounds of small
arm ammunition.