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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03
Commissioners Notice
Public. Building & Loan Association

Frederick R. Kearns. Mary M. Kearns, Jno
T. Porterfeld, Trustee, j. H. Fritts, Real
Estate and Improvement Company of Balti-
more City, and VIM. M. Kennedy, Substi-
j.. tute Trustee. :.
Extract from decree entered in the above
cause November 18th. 1918.
And it is adjudged ordered and decreed
that this be referred to Commiss Toner
in Chancery, s. w. Washington, with in
structions to report:
(a) The real estate owned by the defen-
dant, Fred 3. Kern.
tb) Its value and annual rental value,
and whether the rents and profits thereof
will pay off the liens existing thereon in
five yea rs. r.,. .x;.ti,a .hsrao, ~ .b.,r
priorities.
Id And such other matters as any par
ty in interest may require, or such other
matters, as said commss Toner may deem
pertinent, whether required or not
But before proceeding to execute this de-
cree, said commits ioner shall give the Lien
Holders notice, as required by Sec: q. Oh.
1879. Code of W. Va. us13) and said Com
missioner shall further give notice to all
parties to this suit, of the time and place
of taking the said account, by publication
for successive weeks in the Spirit of JEFF
ferson' a Newspaper published in jefferson
County. W. Va. and said publication shall
be equivalent to personal service of all par
ties interested of said notice. And what
the Commissioner shall do under this decree
he shall report to this Court.
Copy Teste:
C. W. CONRAD. Clerk.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that / will proceed
to execute the foregoing decree at my Office
in Charles Town, w. Va, on the 18th day
of December, 1918.
Given under my hand this 25th day of
November, 1918.
s. W. WASHINGTON.
Commissioner in Chancery.
NOTICE TO LIENHoLDERS.
To all persons holding liens by Judgment
or otherwise on the real estate or any part
thereof of Frederick r. Kearns:
In pursuance of order of the Circuit
Court of Jefferson County W. Va. made IN
a cause therein pending to subject the real
estate of the said Fred R. Kearns to the
salts faction of the liens thereon. Won are
hereby required to present all claims held
by you and each of you against the said
Frederick r. Kearns which are liens on his
real estate or any part of it for adjudica-
ton to me at my Office in the town of
Charles Town, w. Va, on or before the or
day of December, 1918
:, Given under my hand this 25th day of
1918. -
s. w. WASHINGTON.
commissioner in Ghancery
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03

The total gifts and subscriptions
to the United War Works fund foot
up the magnificent sum of $203,179-
OBS, according to the report of DIR.
John R. Mott, director-general of the
campaign. The amount asked for
was SITS, 100000. This is the larg-
est sum ever provided by voluntary
offerings in this or any other country
and is a tribute to the generosity
and heartfulness of the American
peon1a
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03
UPS and DOWNS OF THE GREAT
WAR.

How tickle fortune favored one
side and then the other, victory
smiling now here, now there. The
greatest game of seesaw the world
has ever known. Belgium, first to
suffer, was last to be freed. The
dramatic story of Russia, and Italy's
amazing victories. A special article
of great interest and hitherto un-
published facts in The Washington
Star Sunday, December 8.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03

The Rev. G. Peyton Craighill, of
Epiphany Church, Richmond, has been
called by the vestry of st. James
Episcopal Church, Leesburg and now
has the call under consideration and
will give his reply during the coming
week
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03
e. M. JON ES
FLORIST
Headquarters for

uSduQudflVrS TOT
CUT FLOWERS, FUNERAL DESIGNS
AND POTTED PLANTS,
HI adquarters for French and Hollard
Bulbs of all kinls
Visit the Green House in harles Town.
507 West Washington Street..
And Patronize Home Industry. Prices
Right.
Oct II If.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03

W. F. Patterson. -.......-............. Defendant
OBJECT OF SUIT.
TO recover judgment a certain note
of defendant to plaintiff dated December
4th, 1914, and interest thereon from date
and costs of suit, and allowing of per
cent, amounting to S1,S21.S1 of Novem-
Der 30th, 1918, and interest from that date
and to attach the said estate of defendant
to pay the said note, interest and costs.
1t appearing, on affidavit filed in this suit
that the Defendant W. F. Patterson is a
non-resi dent of the State of West vir-
ginia he is hereby required to appear with
in one month after the date of the first
publication of this order, and do what is
necessary to protect his interest in this
matter. 1t is ordered that copy of this
order be forthwith published once aweek
for four consecutive weeks in the Spirit of
Jefferson, newspaper printed in the
town of Charles Town in the County of
jefferson. and be posted at the front door
of the Court House of Jefferson county, at
least twenty days before judgment or de-
cree is rendered.
c. w. CONRAD,
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Il. c, GREEN. p O.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03

For earache, toothache, pains,
burns, scalds, sore throat, try Dr.
Thomas Eclectic Oil, splendid rem
edy for emergencies.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03
ADVERTISED LETTERS.


List of letters remaining in the Post
Office at Charles Town, jefferson coun-
ty, w. Va, on Saturday, Nov 30
1918. Persons calling for same will
be required to pay one cent for each
letter.
S. M. Lewis, Oils zimmerman. G. M.
Bromwell, Will Bumsby. C. w. Cooley,
C. B. Holsclaus, John Kraymack, VIM. o.
Brien, Saml. l.. Pitts burg, Laurent Petit
guard, ]. C. Payne, Herbert Roberts, Shep
herd Med. Co., Chas. D. Walker, letters;
Dr. c. w. Watts, A. R. DERRICK c. F. Con-
nner. Rev. R. R. Ramsey. Mrs. Fannie Will
low, Miss Bernice Baldwin, Mrs. G. w.
Faulkner Mrs. Ed. Wowak letters; Mrs.
R. ]. Lewis, Miss Jane Kelly, Mrs. B. E.
Pow, Mrs. Ellen Peterson, Mrs. Laura Row
land Miss Ethel Schanck, Mrs. Jim Snyder
Miss Kate May Lynch, Miss Ida Withamp,
Miss Hannah Williams, Mrs. Atwood Wine.
The above letters, if not called for
within fifteen days will be sent to the
dead letter office. Persons calling for
them will please say that they are adj
vertised. S. C. YOUNG. P. M.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03
NOTICE.

IN OPEN COURT.
In the matter of S. w. Washington, Ad-
ministrator of w. Frank Fowler.
The report of the account of s..
Washington, Administrator of W. F. Fow-
ler decd. confirmed at the January Term
1918, of this court being now before the
Court and two years having elapsed since
the appointment and qualification of the
said Admins traitor. and said report show
ing that legal notice to claimants to prove
their claims had been given, on motion of
the distributes of the estate of
said decedent. by attorney, it is ordered that
the Clerk of this Court do publish and post
of said W. F. Fowler. deceased, do show
cause before this Court on the last Monday
in January, 1919, against the payment and
delivery of the estate of said decedent, in
the hands of said Administrator, to its dis
tributes.
Teste: CHAS. A. JOHNSON,
Clerk County Court of Jefferson County.
Nov. gift
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03

The Jersey heifers from Louisville
KY, make excellent cream cows
Wallis sale Dec. 7th.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03

Any Of the aforesaid tracts lots me Az thereof 10y
signed Sheriff sale, of the amount Novenpe c
Given under my hand this 18th day
Nov. 19-4t.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-12-03
PUBLIC SALE
OF Valuable Real Estate

Pursuant to the authority OF de-
cree of the Circuit Court of Jeffer-
son County, w. Va.,entered IN the
chancery suit therein penang en-.
titled State of West Virginia against
Mrs. Annie Mondey Daley and Mrs
C. A. J. Hoke, ct. al, on the 9Th day
of November, 1918, the undersigned
will sell at public auction, IN front
of the Court House, in Charles Town
w. Va, on
Thursday, the 10Th, Day OF
December, 1918.
commencing at Has a. M, the fol-
lowing property:
THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF
LAND living at Millville, on both
sides of the B. & o. Railroad, reach
ing to the depot, containing about
ga of an acre on the north side and
ga of an acre on the south side OF
the Railroad, improved by
COmmOdiOus Residence and
Store Building and Ware
House.
Chicken house, &c. The property
carries with it valuable rights and is
in the center of a thriving quarry
neighborhood, and has been store
and post office property for thirty
years.
TERMS OF SALE:-One- third
cash, balance in two equal payments
payable in one and two years from
date of sale, said deferred payments
to bear interest from day of sale and
be secured by retention of title and
assignment of insurance against loss
by fire equal to the amount of the
deferred payments.
GERARD D. MOORE,
Commissioner of School Lands,
for jefferson County. w. Va.
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Order of Publication,
Nc State of west virginia.

The State of West Virginia,
jefferson County, To-wt !:
At Rules held in the Clerks Office of the
Circuit Coourt of jefferson County, on
First Monday in December, 1918.
B. N. Freeland ...........-.. Plaintiff
VS..
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
By Hilaire Belloc
pecsal Gable to The Trtbu~s)

tcpecsdt Cd6te to The Trt0uHs)
LONDON, June 17.-Late dis
patches show the positions on the
Italian front as just the reverse Of
"nat was the principal peril on that
front as at first indicated.
The Italian front follows the Piave
aver through the plain and then
'ends around through the foothills
VI The Alps, making flank facing
a0rth. This flank facing north has
just behind it the main Italian com.
aonications by road and railway.
~ Is therefore in this sector, where
oritlsh troops are mingled with Ital-
,ans' that an Austrian success would
vac TO the greatest results.
AZ was here that the chief pressure
vas exercised by the enemy on the
nslago Plateau and both sides of the
'enta Plateau, but it was here dur
as ene first two days Of the battle
,aat the enemy had the least success.
,'s principal advance was in the
ssa'p across the Piave. Here he
s1s0 several ,bridgeheads on the
,' ss'srn bank, oae at the main rail-
sr0ssing TIN miles above the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Germans Attempt
To Raid u. s. Lines
At Three Places

WASHINGTON. June 17.-Aside fom
patrol activity in Picardy, Lorraine and
the Vosges, no important Developments
at points held by the American troops
IN France were reported in to-night's
communicate from General Pershing,
In the Vosges hostile raid was broken
up by the American fire. The state
ment follows:
There have been no important de-
velopments at any of the points oc-
cupled by our troops. In Picardy, in
the Chateau Thierry region and in the
Woevre artillery fighting of moderate
Intensity occurred. Patrols have been
active in Picardy, in Lorraine and in
the Vosges, where hostile raid was
broken up by our fire during the
night"
Repulse of local enemy attacks in the
Woevre and in the Chateau Thierry re.
glon was reported to-day in Genera
Pershing's communique for last night
The communique follows:
"Section A.-This morning in the
Woevre the enemy executed local
attack against the left of our positions
During the attack there was brisk ar.
tillery fighting. The assailants not
only failed to penetrate our lines, but
were thrown back with severe losses
and left on our hands several prison
ers, of whom one was an officer.
In the region of Chateau Thierry
two local attacks made by the enemy
during the night on the line Boures-
ches-Bois dc Balleau, were easily
broken up. Artillery on both sides
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

shells of all calibre. succeeded in in
tegrally maintaining his position
against the desperate repeated assaults
Of a numerically superior enemy, in
f1icting the heaviest losses on the at
tacking forces.
Private Saldana, after firing all his
ammunition at the advancing enemy,
fought hand to hand and was thus en-
Gbled to save his machine gun.
Corporal Tonka, single-handed
worked machine gun, moving down
the enemy SO that none was able to ap-
proach the position he was defending.
Sergeant Mourier, commanding a half
section of troops, fought off the enemy
waves that beat against his line, and
though wounded refused to leave his
post.
Private Maliarenkoff, wounded in
the beginning of the action, refused to
Russian here who speaks French. My
place here is to give an example,
Captain Weber, commanding a sec
ton of machine guns. menaced by the
enemy's advance, fired all his car
tridges and then aided in saving the
guns before he met the oncoming en-
emy with his revolver, killing many.
Until recently the legion had many
Americans, including Al Mcclellan, a
former state Senator OF Louisiana from
New Orleans, who came to France
when America entered the war. He
had failed to pass the physical exam
ination for the United States army.
Mcclellan, who is sixty-five years old,
has fought with the legion in every
battle. Last month his company in
the desperate fighting in the vicinity
of Villers- Bretonneux volunteered to
fill gap in the line. All knew that it
meant death or capture, but they held
until reinforcements arrived, though
the reinforcements found them wiped
out to q man.
who ss'S SoYe three a N tSe % ae
was wounded on May 81 in hand-to-
hand fight with German, whom he
| killed
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
lhe Casualty List

WASHINGTON, June 17.-The army
casualty list to-day contained thirty
nine names, divided as follows: Killed
IN action, 6; died of wounds, 2; died
OF accident (airplane), /; died of dis
ease, d; wounded severely, "a; wound
cd (degree undetel mined), /; missing
in action, /.
'Nomes Wtt'out rank otren are those Of p,f-
uGtes>
Casualties among the American ma
rlnes overseas from the date of their
landing to last June number TIT, &C
cording to summary issued tonight
by Major General Barnett, Marine
Corps commandant.
The summary includes all the cas-
ualties heretofore announced, as we'll
as those given in list received to-
day, but which has not yet been made
public. The marine casualties are di-
vided as follows:
Officsrs-Killed in action, s: died of
wounds received in action, 8; killed
(airplane accident, l; other causes,
l; total, 10; wounded severely, 26.
Enlisted men-Killed in action, 1O1:
died of wounds received in action So;
died of disease, Is: accidentally killed.
2; other causes, 2; total 172. Wounded
severely, 1874; wounded slightly, 373;
total 507. In hands of the enemy, Il;
missing, /.
The lists follow.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

ern Italy. She can recall Custozza
and Novara. In the Italian wars of
/ Francis Joseph's early days she had
Radetzky as leader. He was a
Czech. The flower of the imperial
armies at that time were the Slavic
troops. They were the main prop
Of Francis Joseph's throne. They
hated the Italians and fought
against them gladly.
Even in this war Austria Hungary
could count on the Southern Slavs to
defend Trieste and the Auriatic
provinces against Italy. But since
the Italian settlement with the Jugo-
Slavs, the whole situation has
changed. Austrian SIavs are fight
ing in the Allied ranks. The Slav
peoples Of the Dual Monarchy are
practically in revolt. They have
nothing to fear from the breakup of
the monarchy-nothing to gain by
shedding their blood for it.
Borevic is no Radetzky, though
himself Slav. He no longer leads
troops whose heart is in their work.
The spirit which won Custozza and
Novara is dead. Every Austrian,
Hungarian and Slav in the armies in
Italy knows that the cause he fights
for is not Austrian, or Hungarian,
or Slav, but German.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Military Comment
BY William l.. Mcpherson
ME Borevic offensive in North
crn ItalV is Or1v in tho nav

by william l.. McPhersOn
THE Borevic offensive in North.
crn Italy is only in the mar
roWest sense a counterpart OF
the Ludendorff ofrensives in France
ana Belgium. The Austro-H -Hunga.
'ia' armies are equipped with some
OF the newest German offensive
wrinkles, like The artificially created
log and the dirigible smoke clouds
which cover the first rush on the
enemy's lines. They have the latest
Casslng devices and may have bene.
fitted by a certain amount of train.
ing in the Won Hutier storming meth.
DDS.
But there the resemblance ends
borevlc's strategy has departed
widely from Ludendorff's. The Ger.
mans, moving west from St. Quentin
on March 21, attacked on fifty-mile
front. That was the limit which
they set on their capacity to mass
troops for breaking through opera.
ton.
Borevic is more ambitious. He has
chosen a front of ninety miles OF
more. But he hadn't divisions
enough to maintain an attack or
such an extended front without com
promising his ability to delivs.
crushing blows at specified points
such as Ludendorff has always aimed
at delivering.
The spread-out offensive is an aid
to the defensive in that it enables the
defender to apply great deal more
OF his strength in melting the first
shock of the attack. 1t involves
many separate battles, instead of one
great battle on sector, where the
assailant has created an overwhelm.
ing superiority in numbers. 1t equal
ICES the chances Of the offence anc
the defence-whicn is in violation o1
the fundamental Napoleonic doctrine
Of concentration for attack.
In the battle last fall at the heat
waters of the Isonzo-which the Ger
mans call the Battle of Caporetto-
the German High Command strucl
with all the weight Of the best Ger
man and Austro-Hungarian troop.
at single poorly held sector of the
Italian line. The line broke at that
critical point. The bulk of Ca
dorna's forces were almost caught ir
the trap they had constructed fo1
themselves to the east of the Lower
1sonzo. That was the true strategy
of break-through and development
1t cost italy a disastrous defeat anc
it only just escaped breaking Italy's
military power irreparably.
Borevic participated in the Capo
retto campaign. But, left to himself
this year, he has disregarded it's les
sons. The strategy of break through
and development called for violent
thrust southwark into the Italiar
plain, either between the Piave anc
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

the Brenta, or, further west, between
me Brenta and Arsiero. The first
offensive, if successful, would have
compelled an Italian evacuation of
the area between the Piave and the
Erenta and the surrender of Venice.
The second, with Vicenza as it's i'm
mediate objective, would, if success
1ul, have forced still greater Ital-
ian retlrement-to the famous line
of the Adige.
Borevic, nevertheless, launched a
general attack from the Adriatic to
the headwaters Of the Astico River.
NO sector along the ninety-mile line
was overlooked in the assault. AS a
consequence the Austro-Hungarian
driving power was dispersed to the
point of insufficiency. Some small
local objectives were gained in the
first three days. But the Allied line
has nowhere oeen eroken and Allied
counter attacks have been begun at
once, there being no necessity of
hurrylng reserves to any single criti-
cal point at which the integrity of
the whole battle line was threatened
by serious penetration.
Both Italian and Austrian COM
muniques have reported violent
fighting on all portions of the line.
In the critical northern mountain
sectors, west of the Brenta and be-
tween the Brenta and the Piave, the
armies under General Conrad Won
Hoetzendorff, Austro Hungarian
Chief of Staff in the earlier years of
the war, seem to have failed to make
any material impression on the Al
lied positions.
On the Piavc River line the armies
under General Kuchbach have been a
little more successful. They have
cleared the west bank of the river
from St. Andrea, due east of Treviso,
up to the Montello Plateau, a little
north of Nervesa. The Italians still
hold the Piave from st. Andrea down
to Fossalta. Below that point the
Austro-Hungarians made some prog
ress Sunday and yesterday morning,
reaching Caposile, about TWO miles
west of the Piave, on the northeast
ern border of the marshy district
stretching down toward Venice
These results are inconsiderable
Until Treviso is taken the invaders
will hardly venture very far along
the sea coast.
The offensive has so far taken no
very definite form. 1t has been a
; demonstration on a grand scale
rather than a clean-cut, logically de-
veloped operation, with clear OBJ
jective. Can it take definite shape
before it's momentum is absolutely
checked? That is a question which
will be answered by the fighting of
the next day or two. So far it has
seemed to be only a more or less per-
functory response to command
from Berlin to cut loose and do some
thing.
AustriaHungary can look back to
great victories on the soil of North
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
Foe Loses a Third
OF His Efectiues
In Attack at Toul
Hilaire Belloc's Views of the Battle

Adriatic at San Dona, one at the
middle railway crossing called Ponte
di Piave, which also carries a main
road, and one just under the foothills
at Nervesa.
But if the necessary retirement
from these points is served by we'll
covered lines Of communication and
so long as the front holds there is no
fear of disaster.
1t is on the other side of the noun
tain front that the danger point lies,
because even a slow, orderly retire
ment here would soon reach lines of
communication.
The two important features Of the
first days fighting are the presence
Of German troops and the great
vigor Of the Allied counter attacks.
The Identification Of the position of
the German troops, which has not
yet been revealed, will materially
help US to judge where the enemy
expects to drive through.
AS to Allied counter attacks, it is
noticeable that their chief success
has been in the mountain regions,
which most threaten the front and
where a failure would have the most
serious results.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18
u. S. Artillery
Sn1ashes German Plan
To Capture Xiuray
(By The ssocioted Press }

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, June 16.-In their attack on
Xivray, on the Toul sector, to-day, the
Germans hoped to enter the village and
carry off a large number of prisoners,
but the alertness of the American ar
tifery observers completely overturned
the enemy plan. Examination of the
Germans captured in the fight dis
closed that the enemy planned the raid
a week in advance and that She 600
special troops who look part in it were
rehearsed behind the German lines.
The enemy plan was to send forward
large party without preparatory ar
tllery fire. This party was to take up
a position near the American barbe d
wire and then send up signal rocket
for box barrage to cover Xivray vii
lage and the approaching communica-
tion trenches, while the heavier artil-
lery was to lombard the villages in the
rear.
American artillery observers saw a
New-York tribune., 1918-06-18

large number of Germans creeping
about in No Mans Land, and thinking
they composed a large working party,
the artillery was signalled for bar
rage. The American artillery and ma
chine guns went into action imme-
diately, and before the enemy barrage
could get started had inflicted heavy
casualties on the unprotected Germans
in No Mans Land and played havoc
with the plans for the raid.
The original enemy plan was for the
attacking party to divide into three
sections and to enter Xivray from three
different directions. Only one section
actually reached the outskirts of the
village, but only after it had been cut
up badly by the American barrage. Of
these, only small group got into
Alvray, where they were quickly sur
rounded by the Americans and either
captured or killed. Eight prisoners.
including a lieutenant, remained in
American hands.