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~aHau~-sa~- .e..,
Washington, Oct. 16.-Corp' Leroy
o lambert Montana, killed in ac-
ton, Arthur S. Monroe, Wagstaii'
died OF disease. Sergt. John II. Van
locnen. Rantoul, Corp. Glen W. 81
der. Washington, Claude Eugene
Herman Topeka, Herbert O. Thom-
as southmound, and Charlie B. Sim
mona Protection wounded severely
are the seven Kansans in today's cas-
ualty list in which 10 are reported
killed in action SO missing in action
AGA wounded severely, 62 died o.
wounds, died OF accident, AZ die'
of disease, 173 wounded, degree un
determined and / wounded slightly
making a total of SS7 casualties.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17
Another Nurse Dies.

Junction City, Oct. 16.-Word
has been received here of the death
at Green Bay, Wis, of Miss Charlotte
Baenan, a Junction City nurse, who
was preparing to enter the Red Cross
service for overseas duty.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17
nathan Corps Dead.

Nathan Crops died at his home on
East Enterprise street, last night. He
was about so years of age and is
survived by a wife and children.
The body win be taken to Weber,
Kansas, for burial.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17
RroncI,lal Trouble

Mrs. A. f. sidenberder, Rockaeld.
Ind. states: For an attack OF
bronchial trouble which usually as
sails me in the spring I find Cham
erlain's Cough Remedy the only thing
that gives me relief. After using II
for a few days all signs bronchial
trouble disappears"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17
Death at Manchester.

The funeral of Mrs. Elvia A. Bur-
CESS, age %, wife of I. NJ Burgess,
who died Saturday evening was held
Tuesday afternoon. She is survived
by her husband and two little chill
dren.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17

of beating up his wife and treating
the family brutally Il cost him
500 fine and 80 days in Jail to give
him time to think about it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17

VA WHAT rs HAPPENING IN "a
m CAMP AND FIELD M
sn M M m M ~ N n ~ M
4 cable from Lieut.. Paul Roger
states that he is on his way home
from France.
"a ~ "a
Cameron Mutt, who fell with his
machine in Denver. has recovered
from the shock OF the fall and the
slight bruises he received and is on
his way to the aviation camp In
Texas
III ~ "a
T. NJ. Jones received cable from
his son sergt Milton Jones stating
he was we'll and receiving mail regu-
larly. II took III days for The mes
sage to come from France.
"a "A "a
Misses Ethel and Myrtle Smith
went to Hope to attend the funeral
If their cousin Charles Hoffman,
who died at Camp in Ohio. OF
pneumonia.
"a n ~
A letter from a comrade says that
John Foltz who was in a hospital IN
France. with pneumonia. is recover
ing.
n ~ -
Major perkins. formerly Captain
Of Co NJ Of sallna who was decorat-
ed for bravery and sent back to the
United states as an instructor spent
Fiday in Abilene.
~ FA FA
Corn. Roscoe Milleer has noeiiiou
hia parents. Mr.. and Mrs w 5. Mill
ler ~ his arrival safely overseas
R n ~
The war department notified Mr..
and Mrs. Marsteler of Buckeye that
their son Luther Marsteller has oe'h
wounded in action.
"a - -
Lieut. Joseph Curry of this city
who is on his way to the front has
been promoted to Captain and IS on
the Coloners staff
"a p n
Robert Millin and Roy Elwick have
received orders to go to the ElPaso
training school for mechanics.
N VA ~
Lieut. c N. Mitchell of Abilene,
formerly Of Denver. who is stationed
at Ft Riley has been promoted to
the rank of captain.
IN Va IA
Wilbur Nicolay has passed the phy-
steal examination and on October Is
will taken the mental examination
for the auartermaster's department
If the next officers training camp.
n - n
A telegram from Lieut.. France u
wilson to his parents. Mr., and Mrs.
n w. Wilson announces his arrival
IN New York city from France He
has been overseas for over year
was instructor in aerial gunnery'
served at the front for some time
and "a returned to the United States
as an instructor in one of the ava
ton camps here
~ - ID
Mrs George jameson "uo 1--WE
northwest of tokwn received card
stating her son George has arrived
safely overseas.
pa IN N
Iieut Chauncy Hunter left fOl
Camp Custer. Mich, where he viii Dc
stationed as instructor in the artil
lery
IN ~ "a
Mr. and Mrs. MuIIiu and Miss Lu
ey Lee went to Herington to see ROD
ert Mullin who passed through ther
Monday on his way to Texas wner
he has been transferred.
va Ea "a
/, Mrs !. I. Gish has received LEI
: tiers telling of the safe arrival ovel
seas Of her son Lester and OF the r
covery of her son Henry who ma
been In the hospital at Washington
= Pa ~ -
George Brann received WORD en-
his son william whose name appea
IN the Canadian casualty list reeel
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Thursday. October "a, IL
Sale starts at 10 o'clock a m. Cattle 5

so starts at 10 o'clock a m. Cattle Sale at O'Clock p III
OUR OFFERING
% head Of Cows mostly fresh and coming fresh us Winter
old uefers fall l5 head oil fearNns
t,o,sers head of Pure Bred Hefer II months '
puro Rred Bull Ensign Pontiac Hermne NO 7S
po pred Duroc sows side; is Pure beu puo'
[ cuts. pure Bred Boar; Pure Bred Duro 0p"e
Standard Emerson mower Deering hay rake riding eu''@
~ row yeeder stalk Deering binder hay sweep ~
- oro corn shelter spring road buggy Delaval cream
About 80 tons of good Alfalfa hay in barn and ABOUT ~
tons ensiage.
Y,nch viii he OF Enterprise for beneht OF n ~
TERMS: All $40 and under cash On sums ~ -
,raat o months with approved soou'
~ ~ doto Of sale but if paid only per cent WI"
- hnod No nronerv to be removed until settled for
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Dispersion Sale
80 Head Holstein Cows and Heifers
20 Head Duroc Sows, Pigs, Etc.

~ opr - Mr. Gish having purchased farm and expects 10
,oon w will close herd of highgrade HosenS
ana nrre bred Duroc Smeh farm onehaH me "S "
Ener
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BEAT UP HIS WIFE
AND WENT TO JAIL

John Rufener Of the Elmo neigh
borhood was arrested on a charge
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17

Clean old papers for sale at the
orice; Sc q bundle.
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What is a high Price?

VOUR dollar one hundred cents III money Ue
N government guarantees that
# YOU buy clothes you may get hundred cents IN
value for each dollar in the price, and you may not
You are willing to pay for value you're sure OF 1t
That's why you need clothes you should come to us
Hart Schatfner 4 Marx
Clothes that save
They offer the true economy Of assured quality We
guarantee that-the makers guarantee your satisfaction
You will find here mems clothing long wearing tab
RIGS: lasting style keeping, service giving clothes frees
GtIp bioer than ormerIy like all prices these days. but
low enough to give you values that mean savings and true
ecoDomv Hart SchaHner Marx clothes aIwOol
Ster1 Bros.
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GISH & SMELTZ

.nctioneers: Coils Mccullough b. he no
i Deh clerk; A. Flack Banker.
sale will be held rain or shine
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-10-17

Four sons Of Gilmore K wilson
arc now in the service and two more
are now preparing to enter Nu,
w,,sor was A former resident OF
Dickinson county but now lives al
Colorado SPRINGS, Colo. The Gazette
Of Colorado Springs recently printed
ntctures Of the six boys and called
them the Fighting wilson's Ih'
bovs in the service are Thomas }.
Ernest s.. Rex r., and Thee j. MT
and Mrs. Wilson have nine sons an'
oce daughter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Men Are Thoroughly Drenched.

The one eXtenuating circumstance
was that the wind, sometimes strong
enough to knock down even heavily
loaded soldier was at our backs. But
it did its best to blow the rain clear
through US and out the other side. In
five minutes we were drenched from
the knees up. and in ten the water.
puttees, began running down into our
shoes. But that had its advantages,
for after four or five hours of hiking
feet get hot and sore. and the water
was cooling. Still nothing really damp
ened the ardor of the marching men.
Join the United atAS.s Nav an see
the world shouto ane, " hile another
replied by chanting the first line Of the
old Army song. You're in the Army
Now"
Heretofore the marching feet had
ing, though mixed with a scuffie, for
the route step is not intended TO be
rhythmic. One could imagine Stone
wall Jackson's foot cavalry marching
the same way. But now il became a
steady "slosh. siosh. slosh." as the
water dubbed and sQueaked in the
shoes. The Army field shoe is far from
waterproof anyway, and TO what had
seeped through was added what pour
ed down.
In the midst of all this came a
column obliqued TO the side of the road.
"Spose it's some genral stahf cab. -
remarked some soldier. diSgustedly, but
when the cause of the trouble appeared
it was French milk wagon full of
clanhing pewter cans and driven by a
rotund woman of uncertain age. who
seemed even wetter than the soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04

then they came into a village, and there
packs. and the village street echoed
I'd their cramped shoulders and rubbed
their chilled hands. Here's where We
bunk tonight was the word that went
from man to man. and then came a wild
scramble for the barns that had the
most hay and stone floors on which
fires might be lighted to dry olive drab,
now so soaked it seemed black
Old Sergt Pop stopped at the en-
ira nee to the little house that had been
chosen as J. rompany'S headquarters
He cooked his head for mOmeIN. Yes,
there IT was This time there was no
practice about it.
Boom-oon}- oof1,. Thump, thump-
Jmp-uiap' BpcGn-oom'
There is no soUnd Ike it. i is i'm
;rnssjpl" ia mistake 1t or tn forget ii
once one has heard; the cannon at the
front
Pop listened again. II was quite
loud He Jerned his ragged gray ing
InHstaChe.
We're gettiu' there he said. with d
sort of grim satisfaction.
The recruit passed. Juggling his pack
. Hear that" asked the old sergeant
That's the real thing. that is That's
where you're goin' to tomorrow"
The recruit stopped and listened a
minute, wringing out the while a
drenched overcoat tail. Boorn-ooml
went the guns. Yes, they were quite
near
We'll" said the recruit, what d. you
think I come to France for-swimmin'
| 1essonsT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04

one thousand men trained in photo
graphic work are wanted for lnStruc-
ton at the new Army school for aerial
photography. which opens March 10 n
Rochester. y. Y. according to 4 call
issued by the Signal Corps Men
not physically fit for line service are
declared eligible for this branch. as de-
d disabilities are waived.
The urinary training at Rochester
Will continue four weeks. The sue
cessful graduates will be given a
months advanced training. after which
they will be organized into units and
sent overseas.
The best men" says the statement,
w Ill be- given still further training
/ for commission a. phutog5aphig jn-
teili@once officers. trat ~ orc Of tnr
Schools and then IN actual ft-.}ts a-
. the flying fields"
The sigma! Corps annnuu'cDgcat says
he Army seeks the fuliuW.:lir typ. o.,
men for this service.
Laboratory ana darkroom experts. cE-
Z peCIally fast news Photographers. fau.Ilal
with developing. printing. cnlarEinlr re
, touching finishing and panchrotnatjc pho
Biography. who can take Il plate from he
airTnen and hand it over ten minutes later
a finished enlargement. to the staff Off
! GERS. These men will work in motor lor-
rIes7 as close to The front md u ;fie, stan
as possible.
! Men able to keep the whole delicate
| equipment in good condition, such a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
BY THOMAS VI. JOHNSON.
Copyright. 1881

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. January Silt was tough
job that faced the regiment that day.
The rain was stopping, and the gray
clouds racing overhead, driven by a
gus;y wind, promised to break and, as
A man in the rear rank remarked, let
a little sunshine in" But the roads
were deep in mud and sometimes iii
slush.
The regiment had twenty miles to
march before shutdown with full equip
ment. That night it would billet in a
group of French villages which would
offer little but the smooth side of a
board as sleeping accommodations.
There would be one more march, then
a wait of indeterminate Lngth and then
the difficult. tickliSh task of relieving
French troops in the trenches and def
nitely taking over a sector of the front,
Yet nobody seemed to worry about it
You see explained the captain Of
7. Company. a tan. straight backed
yu.th. with rleau-.ut face. three or four
years out Of West Point, ITS all ia the
mon. \ while ago NpId haze jE"GH mt
We never could 90 1t There's one COM
pany m tins battalion thar We called
the Foreign Legion, because il had
twelve different Municipalities. Well,
there's a story in my company that one
day one of the HeutenantS was calling
the roll and had TO stop and sneeze and
when he sneezed ten men answered
| Here
When some of EN- reached US they
didn't know a rife grenade from a
counter attack We've got some re-
cruits now. but they're all right Just
look EN- over, and if you don't write
1t down in your little book that they're
all right, TIL wear an Iron Cross.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Men Look Decidedly All Right.

They looked very decidedly all right.
We were marching at the foot of a
cluster of low hills. and the thought
came what pity that all those people
back home in the United States. who
little guess what momentous events
are maturing here. could not be sitting
in that natural amphitheater, watching
their men marching along the road to
the trenches this morning early in the
new year. II would have stirred blood
more sluggish than American blood.
He must be a dullard indeed who
does not thrill at the sight Of soldiers
marching. There is something inspir-
ing about il. be they the blue-clad
poilus of France or the dark brown
British. but when they are Americans,
our own flesh and blood, and the he
holder knows to what they are march
ing and knows that they know it. he
is filed with something very close to
awe.
Statesmen may make speeches, news
papers may print editorials. you or the
man next door may go without meat
or wheat now and then. but these men
others who will follow are the men
who will win the war: some of them
will give their lives TO do IL.
New York has seen soldiers march
before. of late it has seen a good
many march, but never such soldiers
but they kept their intervals and dis
lance fairly well. They had twenty
miles to cover that dag. and already
they had settled down to it, bent a
little beneath the weight of their
packs. You could have looked the
seeing a single one of the brown felt
campaign hats that distinguish the
soldier at home. The familiar canvas
leggings had also disappeared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
COMPANY OF MARINES
TAKES $2,545,000 In
FEDERAL INSURANCE

The S0th Company, L. 5. Ma
rines. on active service some
where in France, is insured for
s2,545. 900.
This undoubtedly establishes a
record for individual company
insurance subscription. OF the
255 men in the company 254 took
out insurance for $4,000 each. tn
remaining member subscribing to
$4,000 policy.
In addition to this. 1SS men of
the same company made allot-
ment@ tota!ing S2,S30.50, for the
folks back home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04

aided by an excellent tenor from the
sergeant. he struck up the following
ditty, set somewhat irreverently. per-
haps, to the tune of that fine old hy mn,
1.-The Church's One Foundation;
They are the Ragtime Army,
The boys from T. s. a.
They CanRot march, they csnpet shoot.
What bloody use are they:
But when they get to Berlin
The kaiser he will say
''tloch! Hoch! Mein Colt What a damn fine lot
Are the boys from L. s. 4.
1t is really a British song-we have
not yet evolved any simon pure SOL
der songs of our own from this war
so must perforce borrow others-but
it made a hit and kept the men going
for several more kilometers. Then a
man in the second platoon started to
drop out.
'-Hey. we amt there yet" shouted
Serst. Pop. stick with US a while"
Il can't go no farther" said the SOL
der. o,t understood aud rather
young. who evidently had ali he could
do 70 tote his pack.
We'll. You amt very tough re
marke! rop. What IS This. your fist
enlistment2''
IN" soldier turned Il pcrspiriu=
Countonance and eruuted
Nope" he said. ferventiy, its mE
last"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Lieutenant Ousted From Army.

With the approval of the President,
First Lieut.. Afford J. Farley, Officers
Reserve Corps, 307th Machine Gun Bat
talon, at Camp Dix, n. J.. has been
dismissed the service. He was convict
ed by court-martial of the charge of
being drunk and disorderly while in
uniform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Youth Falls Into Puddle.

There is another mud middle tall
freckled-face youth slips and falls all
most full length in it He arises, with
the help of comrades, soaked to the
waist After profane moment he
British soldiers ditty that has appeaIed
so to the Yankees:
II Wanta Go Hone~
Again everybody laughs. After a
deep, narrow gully with stony siies
We emerge upon a sort of small table
hand. from which the road winds down
, in front OF US. Spread along the road
arc the Two urst battalions Of the regi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Stop Using a Truss

Truss WEARERS, Here's Great. Good. News
Tresome, Torturous Trusses be thrown away for
ever. and it's all because SrUhRTS PLAPho-PADS
arc different from the painful truss. being medicine
appcators made self adhesive purposely to prevent
slipping and to afford arrangement to hold tn.
di,tended muscles securely in place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
u. S. WANTS 1000 EXPERTS IN .,
PHOTOGRAPHY FOR WAR WORKsa

camera and optical construction and <s !.
IEatrnen. lens experts. cabinet makers, IN Z
S'ruHi"ht MAKERS etc, are wanted q
Men 10 it the finished prints into their
proper places ia the Photographic repro
duct ton OF the German front to work out
the information disclosed and to keep the
"hnic map 4 living hour-to-hour story
oi what the Germans are doing. This in
cludeS men familiar with map compila-
ton. map reading and interpretation to-.
biographical science ard drafting and re-
CURES keen analytical powers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Wear Brown Steel Helmets.

They wore either round brown steel
helmets. shaped like inverted wash ba-
sins. or soft brown-cloth caps, some
what like a Scotchman's glengarry.
Those who Wore their caps carried
their tin hats" slung to their packs.
Besides the pack-the old familiar cy-
lindrical affair. reaching from the back
of the neck to below the waist-the
men carried water bottle, bayonet am
munition, rife and two gas rnasks-one
the French. the other the British. Their
legs were swathed in the cylindrical
spiral puttee. which, for real war, is in
finitely superior to the old canvas leg
gin. Strapped to the packs was an ex-
ira pair of hobnailed shoes and, some
times, a pair of heavy arctics. Those
Were the men who were going into the
front line
About the waists of some were slung
apronlike affairs of sacking, divided
into pockets, and suggesting the shoe
bags that hang inside the closet door
at home They are hand grenade sac IS
and the men who wear them are grena-
diers. Bobbing up and down here and
there above the rows of heads are the
blued-steel tunnels attached to the
rifles of rifle grenadiers. Now and then
Chauchat automatic rifle. The others
carry their Springfields, sIune over
their thoulders by the leather sings or.
perhaps, with butt reversed.
They wear oVercoats cut short at the
knee. or slickers. Sometimes there is
an amusing contrast to the predomi-
nant yellowish- brown hue when a man
passes with gayly Powered laundry
bag slung over his shoulder Christ
mas present from home that he treas
its utility. A solemn-looking Celt car
r1es on his arm a straw-flled wicker
basket and in II a puppy. Not even the
trenches can separate him from his pet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
Troops Show Their Training.

But the greatest sight of all is the
men themselves They trudge along
sInartly under all the load, which gives
them sturdy appearance far beyond
that Of any American troops one used
10 see in the days before the war They
are actually StUrdier too Months Of
hard training and open-air life in the
country districts OF France have had
their effect 1t shows in faces tanned
or rudy, according to the nature of
me man; IN clear eyes and grinning
races, IN joking and laughing and
whistling.
II is queer thing about that FOR
eign Legion" Scarcely face in il
save Tor that of one Chinaman h11t
looks Almost as American as any old
print of Minute Men" or '.Nyasbinston
Crossing the Delaware" IT is the ne In
ing pot again. but heated, it seems.
white hot by the fire of war and turn
ing out the tempered metal as never be-
fore.
The first SQUAD of the first platoon
comes 10 "a puddle of melted snow water
mat stretches across the road There
is no gong around il, for we are march
ing along the side of a hill. With A
Splash the men start through it. A
Don't spit it says Remember the
JohnStown flood"
Everybody laughs and pushes ahead.
ineY are mostly young. these SOL
their officers-knoyvs how manv of
them nbbed when the recruitins, officer
asked their age Some of them. like
QUO FIRST Sergt. Pop, plugging alon1,
win the Youngest, despite his twenty
one years service and a touch of rheu-
lnaIisnn. pear the earmarks of old Army
men, but they are mostly the non.
CONS, serEeants and corporaIs. Prob
amy the average age of the soldiers
the mseiyes would be about twenty
three European military men say that
Is me pest age for soldiers in this war
they can stand it best.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-04
The Time the Milk Gets Watered.

That's the time the milk gets
another. who must have come from
IF Bordens could only see her now"
SO. with much mud and water, but
with jokes and sometimes song or
two. the men tramped along through
the rain They passed French mill
tary hospital with a group of couva-
descent blesses at the gate. and the Off
GERS and non-coms braced up the lag
CARDS by telling them not to let their
allies see them hang behind. If one
man remarked that he was wet or tired
another adJured him to Jaw. take it
out on the kaiser when we get VI.
front" Few. indeed. they were who
fell by the wayside. In fact, the reei-
mental surgeons report showed the
next day that only five were in hos
pital, some of these with mumps-
and it should be remembered that a
regiment now is $500 men. three times
the size of the regiments New York
used to see on Decoration day
1t was getting a little dark when
they passed through a village where
other men in khaki, but clean, dry
khaki, stood in doorways and told them
to go to it, old f. Payson Weston"
What regiment is this?" the march
ing men shouted back.
The til Infantry came the an
swer. And then they knew that their
journeys end was near, for the til
had started the day before and was
billeted near them.
At last, down the road, apparently
far. far away, they saw little lights;