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The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-10-10
CHAPTER VI.
Frit. oess q Lltsis ~strassIns.-

Fritz osss . Little "strasslne.-
Ny OUTFIT was one Of those that saw
tho Germans place women and chill.
dsen In front Of them a. shields
against our Ore. More than u third Of
our men. ] should say. had been pretty
tough criminals In their own countries.
They always traded their pay against
handful Of cards or q roll Of the
bones whenever they got chance.
They had been In most Of the dirty
parts Of the world. This war was not
such much TO them; just one more
Job In the list. They could call God
and the saints and the human body
more things than my boss stevcdorc
that ever lived.
Yet they were religious In n way.
Some Of them were always rcnding
religious books or saying prayers In
different why's and between them they
believed In every religion md super.
stitIon under the sun. ! guess. Yet
they were the toughest bunch I ever
saw.
After they saw the Germans using
tho Belgian women tho way they did.
almost every man In my company took
some kind Of d vow or other, aud
most Of them kept their vows. too. I
believe. And those that were religious
sot more 10 after that.
Oar chaplain had always been very
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-10-10
COLORADO SCHOOLS CLOSED.
Rigid Measures Taken TO Stop Spread
Of Influenza

D"nvcr.-E Eleven additional deaths
making Il total OF thirty deaths from
Spanish influenza. were reported
Monday to Dr. william ". Sharplsy,
manager Of health. and he estimated
that there were 100 new cases In the
city. bringing the total number up To
approximately 800. DR. Sharplcy A.
serted, however. that he believed the
plague was under control.
Colorado State University al iiOulds,
liz closed until further notice to pre-.
vent the further spread Of influenas
ninong the students. The state School
ri Mines will be under the strictsst
quarantine and limited academic In
s,ruction viii be continued under ths
most rigid rules. The Agricultural
college nj Fort Collins viii have IT,
Gao students under close health sur
Vigilance and IN cooperating fully with
the local and state health authoritic,
10 prevent influenza from spreading.
Governor Gunter issued n procIAmn
ton urging health officers to adopt
measures to prevent IN" Bprcnd Of In
fluenza. and many cities have already
taken such action.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-10-10


Woodrow Wilson. ell
Vivian commander In ch'ef OF the Unit
." STATES arm! anu navy. IN person ~
""" S"P'e'nner w. turned over /"
AmeHcah mlhthry ESTABLISHMENT III"
en"re i''o'"n men netweeh the ages
~ e'R"'een a"" ior'y'nve embraced ~
tue se"emoer IL PRESENTATION.
Ihe great Undertaking started prnc-
ucs'!y on the minute. ana then went
S'ea"iy FORWARD.
anna ceremon'e" PROFOUNDLY INT
pr~sslS" an" ~ transcen'ient historical
eenincence. Eeh. ieyton Z. Mach.
ch'eI ot MAN OF the army, received ~
perSoh THIS VAST i"rce or Mn yet uuunl'
FORMED reserves. On oehHIS 0S the mil
nary branch ~ the government.
SVVVV0V :" Aese ~ jury.
Ana from I'M" reservoir ~ isAn pow
er-the largest body 0f citizen soldiers
ever "hcred ny the people OF any nn-
'l"h I" their Ov"rn'n"nt-<'cncru'
March IN to recruit the nriny Of @UH.-
ND men when ne hms promised I"
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CHAPTER v-continued.

never saw a battery better con.
cealed than this one. Up on the ground
you couldn't see the muzzie twenty
yards away-and that was all there
was to see at any distance. There
was q ruined garden Just outside the
gun quarters, and while the gunners
were there picking apples there would
be q hiss and an explosion, and over
would 60 some Of the trees. or maybe
man or two, but never a shell struck
nearer the guns than that. The poilus
used to thank Fritz for helping them
pick the apples, because the explosions
would bring them down. in great style
Shells from our heavy artillery passed
just over the garden. too, making an
awful racket. But they were not In II
with the "75's."
They gave me little practice with
"76" under the direction of expert
French gunners before l went to my
14-inch naval gun. and. believe me, II
was q nne little piece. Just picture
to yourself little beauty that can
send a S8-pound shell every two sec
onds for five miles and more, IL you
want 1t to. and land on Fritz vest
button every time. There is nothing
like better than a gun, anyway. and
have never since been entirely salts.
fed with anything less than 10"
AZ you probably know. the opposing
artillery In this war is so widely sepa.
rated that the gunners never see their
targets unless these happen to be
buildings. and even then it Is rare. So
since an artillery oflicer never sees the
enemy artillery or infantry, he must
depend on others to give him the range
and direction.
For this purpose there are balloons
and airplanes attached to each artii'
lery unit. The airplanes are equipped
with wireless, but also signal BY
smoke and direction Of flight, while
the balloons use telephones. The OBJ
servers have maps and powerful
glasses and cameras. Their maps ar
marked of In zones to correspond with
the maps used BY the artillery odicers
The observations are signaled to q
receiving station on the ground and
are then telephoned to the batteries
All our troops were equipped with
telephone signal corps detachments
and this was Q very important arm
Of the service. The enemy position ID
shsaIed before an attack, either "a
barfags o. otherwise, and eommunica'
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-10-10

and you would be surprised to nee how
quickly our corps established com.
municntion from a newly won trench
70 headquarters. for instance. They
we're asking for our casualties before
We had finished having them. almost.
Artillery nrc was directed by men
wAoSe duty II was to dope out the
range from the Information sent them
BY the observers In the air. Two men
wers stau0oed at the switchboard.
one man to receive tn" message and
the other 10 operate III" board. Az
eooo ~ the range WIS plotted out II
Was telephoned to the xunncrs aud
hey did the rest.
The naval guns at Nxmude were
Aeuassd o. lat cars and these were
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-10-10

I As...ssne.s With the George Mathew Adams
GERS legs. which might have made it
worse, only he was good.natured about
it. Then he said that he had been
asleep In a battalion headquarters dug
out, about hundred yards away. and
only walked up when part of the roof
caved in on him. Yet he did not know
he had been shelled!
went on down the road stretch,
but soon found 1t was easier walking
beside it, because the Huns had shelled
1t neatly right up and down the middle.
Also, there were so many wrecked
horses and wagons to climb over ON
the road-besides dead men.
After I had passed the area of the
bombardment and got back on the
road sat down to rest and smoke. A
couple of shells had burst 80 near the
crater that they had thrown the dirt
right into the dugout, and was little
dizzy from the shock. While was sit
ting there a squad Of TOmmies came
up with about twice their number of
German prisoners. The Tommies had
been making Fritz do the goose step
and they started them at 1t again when
they saw me sitting there. 1t sure
Is sooo ior u iaush any tihe' inns
goose step. i guess tney eau u that
alter tne teiiow VINO invented IL.
one thihg . I'ao hotlceu ABOUT rri'A
was tie way MS coat hareu OUT a' .he
po.'oih' 80 ! tooK 'n,s chanee ~ nnu
OUT aoou' IT, WINE .ley n"',eu ioI
resi- JUST niue iarther uowh 'ne
roao' l iounu tnat they c"rr'eu .heir
emergency k'ts In their coats' ihese
KITS contained canned meat TOBACCO
aeeules. threau una pias'er-a' '"'s
Ill auui'ioh 10 their regular PACK.
Ihen l drilled down the ROAD some
more out had to stop pretty soon 70
let column OF French infantry SWING
on 10 the ROAD from a neid. Iney
were on their way to the trenches az
re-enforcements. After every two
companies there would be wagon.
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them. we were IN 'ne rear OF the COL
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tTo n CONTINUED,
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Nearly $1,000. 900 First Day for sons.

DonVcr Eighteen thOmsnnd Denver
patriots swn'i"d IN" knisrr's latest
pence proposal Monday to the tune NJ
S.njO.30o IN Fourth Liberty i.onn
subscriptions. while more than $4,000
others from outside counties swclicd
tho chorus with &.si2.7oO. milking
colorndo's total subscriptions ni m,
cloHr " III" firvt day III m" official IN
trnrirr drive. ,losrs.0oo. Practically
every one Of ia" ci,y's 25O.Oo0 cltixens
'nc"i ~" "ns' for one minute and thrn
i'tan subscribing Drnvrr's $4,000. 0or
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-10-10
DICTIONARIES vow VENGEANCE WHEN GERMANS HIDE
BEHIND BELGIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

synopss-Abert Depew, author story
in the United States during which
petty officer frstcass starts soon after he
receives his honorable discharge from the
France with determination enlist He
assigned the dreadnaugh Cassad craftsmanship
him high Later is
the Flanders front He trench
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
COLD FEET CAUSE TROUBLE
Chilled Extremities May Be Held Re- sPonsibIe for Many Physical Ills,
 Says Physician.

Cold feet are generally a sign o1 poor circulation. They usually accom- pany such diseases as acne and TO sacea. ROsacea is that redness of the face that comes from dilatation of the capillaries of the skin and looks like a fine red network, especially about a bulbouS nose.
 pr. Douglass W. Montgomery of San Francisco, in an article on Rabelais descriptions of rOsacea, quotes a fa- nous English physician in holding that cold feet were the cause of rosacea, adding ''it may very well be that he was correct, as chilled extremities, es- pecially in sedentary people, undOubt- edly react disadvantageously on the internal organs, causing catarrhs and other congestiOns and lowering the re- sistance to infection, and all of these are the steady accompaniments of rosacea.
 Furthermore, those who have rosa cea habitually have cold feet, and it is very difficult for them to get them warm."
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
NOT DUE TO BAD ToNSILS
Theory That Rheumatism May Be Traced to Infected Condition of
 Throat Is Given Jolt.

The prevalent idea that there is a distinct relationship between the tOn- sils and rheumatism" receives q se- were jolt in q report by Drs. $. J. Grove, $. Shelton Watkins and Alma $. RothhOlz in the bulletin of the Johns Hopkins hospital. These investigators followed up nine cases after the ton sils had been removed. Only two showed improvement, two showed no improvement and five of the cases are much worse. Yet in each of these cases it seems certain that the tOnsils were the source of infection.
 Tonsillectomy, as cutting out the tonsils is called, is always q trying Op- eration. Sufferers from rheumatoid arthritis are generally middle-aged, and the disease is generally well ad- vanced when they seek medical advice. There is often marked anaemia and q distinct lessening of ability to with stand pain. Therefore it is doubtful if they should be subjected to such a painful operation.
 The investigators express skepticism as to the efficacy of tOnsil removal in other rheumatic affections-rheumati fever and chorea, for instance, but say that when the tOnsils really are the primary source of infection their re- mOval may materially help the cure by preventing constant reinfection.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
COOKS JOB IS SIMPLIFIED
Pie Crust That May Be Kept on Hand for a Year Is Now Being
 Made.

It will be good-by to fathers fine old paper weights made from mothers pie crusts if Minneapolis is invaded by the new pie crust making company which is looking over the field here, says the Tribune of that city. Guaranteed to float, six little individual pie crusts, which are destined to displace the big pie which it is necessary to cut, are to be put out in cartons already baked and warranted to last for more than year. All mother will have to do when surprised by company is to go to the pie crust file and pull out couple of records, play a little pumpkin, lemon cream or custard over them, put them In the oven a few moments and the trick is done.
 Of course, the prepared crustS can only be used for open-faced pies, no means having yet been devised to fur nish the upper crust for the hunting case variety of pies. It will be up to some genius to devise a means of sell ing pie filler in tubes, la tooth paste and shaving father.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
Four Minute Talks

The subject for the talk to be made at the picture show by one of the local Four Minute Men, Saturday night, next. will be hip-building. An important announcement will at that time be made regarding the voluntary registration of skilled mechanics and workmen for service in the shipyards building ships for army service.
 The subject for the Four Min ute-Men next week will be as follows: Eyes, for the Navy.
 The information given in these talks is absolutely reliable. con- ing from the fountain-heads at Washington, and giving some of Uncle Sam's views on various phases of the war. During the year, each and every topic pertaining to the conduct of the war will be handled by speakers at the picture shows in four minute talks.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
HE HATES HIS HALF MILLION
So Kansan Proposes to Use the Money in Founding a College for Teach
 ing of Hobos.

pr. E. D. Sonnanstine of Glrard. Kan, who possesses half a million dol lars and 'hates them everyone" is in St. Louis to found Q hobo college. says the St. Louis Star.
 The hobo college will teach man his A E C's if he doesn't know them. IL will also teach a number of useful trades. The founder is an ardent dis ciple of James Eads Howe of St. Louis, the original millionaire hobo"
 Sonnanstine grows quite indignant when he attacks the popular assOeia- ton of the hobo with the ''panhandler,' the ''moocher," the professional tramp or the ''barrel house" denizen-
 Tramps, he characterizes as ire trievables who have been outlawed by the hoboes.
 Hobo" he told a reporter, ''is de- rived from 'bo,' word used in Austria. meaning a worker travelling to and from his work 'Hor is a universal salutatiOn of one man to his fellow the hail of a cheery man. Thus hobo is nothing more nor less than a whole some, life-lOving workman, infected with wanderlust that leads him along the highways. working at his trade from place to place. Isn't he to be ad- mired rather than cOndemned<'
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
Additional Local News

The purchasers of the Snow flake school bonds have declined to accept the bonds because of alleged irregulations Tn some of the proceedings of the issue. Another election will have to be held and the entire business will have to be done oyer. The notice of election will start in next weeks issue of the News.
 Lew H. Mickey, for years state livestock inspector for Ma vajo county, has resigned his position. His resignation was asked for by Sam Bradner, pre- sident of the state sanitary board, for political reasons only. MT. Mickey has made good off cer but he did not support the candidacy of Hunt for governor last fall, hence he was forced to walk the plank.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
KNEW NOTHING ABOUT CASE
But Woman Got Herself Called as Wit. ness So She Could Express Her
 Opinion of the Defendant.

Senator Tillman, discussing an in vestigation, said the other day:
 "Some evidence is malicious. It re minds me of old Mrs. Bing.
 Mrs. Bing, a thin, wiry old lady took the stand in a case against one John Bang. The lawyer began:
 Now, madam, you will please give your evidence in as few words as pos sible. You know the defendant?'
 "'KnOw who?'
 "'The defendant, Mir. Joshua Bang.
 "'Josh Bang! I reckon I do know him, and I don't know nOthin' to his credit, nuther. Why
 Please answer yes or no to my questiOns.'
 What questionsY
 Do you know MT. Joshua Bang?
 "'YOu ask Josh Bang if I know him Ask him if he knows anything about tryin' to cheat pore lone widder like me out of a three-year-old COW. Ask
 "'Now, madam
 "'Ask Josh Bangs wife about that thor brick she put in a batch O butter she sold last summer. Ask
 These matters, madam, have noth- ing to do with
 Ask Josh Bang about lettin' his old mother die in the almshouse. Ask Mehitabil Bang about the time she was caught in a neighbor's field milk in four cows on the sly. Ask
 Really, madam, do you know any thing about this case or do you not?'
 No, don't know nothin' about it, but I've had it in for them Bangs for the last thirty-seven years and I got myself called as a witness, so as to get even. l guess I've done it, too. Good afternoon, sir"
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
USUALLY NOT so CARELESS
Story of the Steward and the Cock reaches One of Late Admiral
 DeWey's FaVorite Sea Yarns.

Among the late Admiral Dewey's sea stories was one about an inefficient steward.
 "A sea captain'-so he would be gin-"drank off a cup of coffee and then started back with a cry of hOr. TOT, for there in the bottom of the cup lay two gigantic cockroaches.
 ''The. sea captain summoned the steward in a voice of thunder. He pointed out the two cockroaches to the man, and demanded an explana- tiOn.
 "'Tm certainly very sorry, sir stammered the steward. T don't un- derstand it at all. I hadn't an idea them two cockroaches was in that there cup of coffee when give it to you. They float, usually, you know, sir, and when see one I always take it out, of course, sir, before servin'.'"
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
~rhe Most Terrible siaht.D

A great violiniSt says that American women are 'inhuman." "Do you know what to me is the most terrible sight in all New York;" he asks. "Worse than the pitiable procession of little girls up Broadway? It is the women in the foyer of the opera. When I look at them it is with pity and with dis may, and finally with terror. How can there be so many women, ask myself, who look so inhuman? Oh, the splen- dor of their perfection, how terrible it is. One after another, one after anOth- CT, see them; early middle-aged and middle-aged, calm and magnificent, their toO-abundant flesh carefully cor seted, their arms and bOsoms shining, every detail of them speaking how they live in the realm of the body, and how much thought and time it has talk en to give them that special aspect of perfection. One knows how they live, how sheltered are they from every un- comfortable physical sensation. They shrink from discomfort more shudder- ingly than a braver race shrinks from in."-Woman's Home Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
Advertisement

Sealed proposals will be re- ceived at the office of the Maya jo County Highway Commission at Holbrook, Arizona, until 12 Noon. February 18th, 1918. for furnishing and building four pile trestles on the Holbrook- Winslow road; the work will in- YolYe the driving of 1850 lineal feet of piIing and framing of 34, 800 F. B. M. of lumber.
 Plans and specifications will be furnished to prospective bid ders upon receipt of $2.00 which will be returned on receipt of a bona fde proposal or the return of the plans and specifications in good condition on or before Fe- bruary 18th, 1918.
 w. E. FERGUSON,
 Secretary. NavaJo County
 Highway Commission. Feb. 8-15.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
THAT EXTRA GLASS OF JELLY
Tale Is Something Like That of What Happened to Man Just for Lack of
 a Horseshoe Nail.

"You've all heard that old saw about what happened to one man just for the lack of a horseshoe nail,~ said Uncle Jim B, coming into the village store one morning. "Ven, I can tell you a tale thatH lay it in the shade. It was q recent happening at our house. We had company in the house that planned to leave on that early morning train this morning and mother and the girls got up before daybreak to get an extra good breakfast. The table was decked out with a fresh tablecloth and all the best china and glassware, and they had fried chicken and made cream gravy and hot biscuits, and there was sirup and preserves and goodness knows what all.
 But just before they called the company out, mother decided that she wanted one more glass of jelly to put on. One of the girls came up out of the cellar through the trap door that opens in the dining room. and when she had set the pitcher of cream on the table she climbed up on chair on the other side of the table to get the jelly off the top closet shelf. Coming down she tipped the chair over, throwing her against the dining table. Of course, that turned the table over, and as it went over all the best dishes and that wonderful breakfast slid through the open trap door, landing with a smash at the bottom of the cellar.
 "There wasn't time to get another breakfast before train time, and not much left in the house to get, either. So you see the company was disap- pointed, the women folk were just plagued to death, and all the best things ruined, all for the extra glass of jelly-but you better believe didn't stay around home to quote that old saw to them. m."-IndianapOlis News.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
War HospitaIs for Horses.

All the horses in the veterinary hos pitals on the British front in France are fed four times day. The more de- times. When they are particularly run down and in danger of being mistaken for boneyard hatracks of a sort, the patients get nothing but cooked foods, and they fairly revel in them. They have tOnics, too, and it is remarkable to see the improvement in their cOndi- tion that a few weeks work. The diet for "debilities' consists of oatmeal gruel, linseed gruel, boiled turnips and scalded oats. Later they get crushed oats and chopped hay, and almost be. fore they know it they are in the con valeScent ward.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
suhmarine piseases studied.

Passed Assistant Surgeon R. W. Nc Dowell has compiled some interesting facts in connection with disease incl dent to submarine duty. The most ire quent ailments observed in the sub marine service include effects of gaso- line fumes inhaled, gastrO-intestinal disturbances, ear troubles, infections of the respiratory tract, conjuctivitis, rheumatism, or myalgia, burns and in- juries and nervous complaints. Of spe- cial interest is gasoline poisoning, the effect of inhaling gasoline fumes pro- ducing what is known as gasoline jag" The D class of submarines have gasoline engines, and Surgeon McDOw- ell has seen a large number of cases of poisoning due to the inhalation of the fumes of raw or burned gasoline.
The Holbrook news., 1918-02-08
HIS CONFIDENCE MISPLACED
Virginia Negro Has No Trouble in Finding Explanation for Dissp-
 pearance of His Bottle.

"SOme folk in Virginia will do al- most anything to get a drink of liquor" observed a resident of Richmond. "The colored population particularly miss their drinks. Recently an old negro persuaded the conductor of a train to take him back a quart. The conductor refused at first, but after he had lis tened to the negrO's pleading he said he would send it down by a friend Ot the cOlored man. The latter waited patiently, but the quart didn't come. When at last the darky saw the con- ductor he asked the latter what had become of his bottle.
 "'Why, didn't you get itY said the conductor stalling. of course.
 "'Cose I didn't get it. was the reply.
 "T surely sent it down by your friend Johnson said the trainman-
 "'YOu sen it by JOhnsingY answered the colored man. 'AIought jes' as well sen a clover leaf by a rabbit was the negro's rejoinder as he walked away in disgust