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The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28

be repetition of the dash of General
Won Kluck on Paris in 1914, when the
German artillery and transport could
not keep up with the infantry, and the
French were able to turn back the in
vaders at the Marne. Reports from
have indicated that the German in
fantry, relying on it's mass attacks,
has fought without the customary re-
sistancc of artillery. To bring up
heavy guns requires time, and the
German advance will steadily become
more painful and costly.
While the German line of communi-
cations has been growing longer the
British have constantly moved nearer
their base of supplies; it is probable
that the line where stern battle will
be given is not far away from the
present position of the allied armies.
There has been continued activity
on the Italian front, but no attacks OF
Importance have been made by either
side.
OF the lines in the Luneville and
Toul sectors American guns have
bombarded the enemy once more, but
no infantry fighting is reported there.
North of the Somme battlefields
there have been no engagements OF
significance.
The British troops in Palestine
have captured the village of Es-Salt
in the hills east Of the Jordan and are
in advance of the first line running
west to the Mediterranean.
The Russian bolsheviki are report
ed to have recaptured the city of
Kherson from the Germans.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
BATES COUNTY BOY DEAD AT
FUNSTON -
John Dykman, Member Of the Select
i've Draft from this County,
Victim of Pneumonia.

| Word was received in this city
Wednesday that John Dykman, who
was a member of the selective draft
from this county. had died OF pneu-
monia at the training camp at Camp
/ Funston.
Young Dykman was suffering from
bad cold when he left Butler for
the training camp March 4. After az
irving at the camp the cold became
worse and finally terminated in pneu
monia His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Dykman, OF near Amsterdam,
were notified and went to Camp
Funston, arriving there before his
death.
The body was brought back to his
old home and funeral services will be
held at the Mulberry cemetery Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Besides his parents he is survived
by three brothers. Reikus, Claude and
George, and one sister, Minnie.
With the death of John Dykman
another of Bates County's brightest
young men have been sacrificed to
the great god of war, and while his
death occurred in the comparative
quiet of camp hospital he is just as
much a hero as if he had died on the
blood soaked fields OF France and
when the final rolls are made up his
name will be there with those who
gave their lives for their country.
-fte was born and raised in the west
ern part of this county and attended
school at Amorct. afterwards gradual
ing at the Butler High School in the
class of 1917. After finishing school
he accepted position in the Amoret
bank (which he retained until he left
for the training camp a few weeks
ago. He swas young man of the
highest character. ambitious, ener-
getic and possessed a bright future II
the business world. The heartbroken
parents, brothers and sisters have the
sympathy of the entire community in
their bereavement.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
Churches Getting Closer Together

For the last two weeks the Ohio
Street NJ. E. Church, OF this city has
been undergoing thorough spring
house cleaning and decorating and as
a consequence the congregation has
virtually been without home. The
NJ. Z. Church, South, invited them to
worship with them until their church
was ready for occupancy. The invl-
tation met with prompt response
and for the last two Sundays good
part of the congregation at the
congregation at the church services
and about one-half of those attending
the NJ. +. church. South, Sunday
school, were from the Ohio street
church. This shows that the bitter
spirit that prevailed between the two
organizations for SO many years $
being forgotten and more tolerant,
christian spirit has taken its place,
which in time may lead to reunion
of the two bodies.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
Rural School Clerks Asked to Help.

All clerks of rural schools in Bate:
County have been asked to make q
test of twenty-six ears Of corn and
take it to the Annual School Election
This is to be done by the rag doll
method. In order that every one may
know the method a bulletin on seed
corn testing has been mailed to each
clerk. Much of the corn of Bates
County will not test over eighty per
cent but some will test above ninety
five. Every clerk that does this
simple task will do a patriotic deed.
If seed corn needs to be tested it is
the duty of every one that sees this
need to talk testing without ceasing.
1t is to be hoped that much good will
result from this campaign and that
every one will see the necessity be-
fore using the field as a testing labor
atory.
County Seed Corn Chairman.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
GERMANS SHOOT "a Ia MILES
Long Range Gun Bombards Paris

That the Germans have developed a
gun with a range far in excess of
anything SO far dreamed of seems
certain.
Since early Saturday morning Paris
has been shelled at intervals by gun
or guns stationed somewhere behind
the German lines, the nearest point OF
which is 62 miles from Paris.
Late reports indicate that the gun
has been approximately located at a
point "a I-2 miles from Paris.
1t was at first thought the shells
were being dropped from airplanes.
but examination of shell fragments
indicate their having been fired from
a rifled gun
Little damage is being done and
experts say the weapon has no mill
tary value.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28

Richard keele:. for several years
clever and accommodating clerk in
the gents-clothing department of the
Saml Levy Mercantile Companys
store, has severed his connection with
that firm and accepted position
with the Pollard Insurance agency.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
Church Services at Usual Hours
Sunday.

The churches of Butler have decid-
ed that they will hold their services
at the usual hours next Sunday,
March 81. That is, they will not set
their clocks ahead for one hour until
after the Sunday services. So if you
had planned to go to church Sunday
don't set your clock ahead until after
wards.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28

rector General McAdoo today ordered
railroads to move their clocks ahead
one hour at , o'clock Sunday morn
ing in conformity with the law.
Trains will leave for destinations Sat-
urday night at the old time
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
A Fine Rain.

The greater part of Bates county
was visited by fine rain Friday night
and Saturday. 1t will be of inesti-
mable benefit to the growing oats
and grass, in fact, one can almost sec
the bluegrass in the court house yard
grow. The oat crop in the county IS
perhaps larger than for any previous
year and it is all looking first class.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
Night Trains to Be Hour Late.

Washington, March 25.-Most
night trains technically will be one
hour late next Sunday morning, as
result of the changing OF time under
the new Daylight Saving Bill. Di
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28

Postmaster Joe Harper of Nevada,
died at his home in that city Friday
morning after a long illness of heart
trouble.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28

The situation, as it stands. seems to
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
GERMAN DRIVE LOSING
MOMENTUM
Hun Losses Estimated at 10 to &c
Per Cent of $4,000
Employed.
AMERICANS OFFICIALLY
b REPORTED IN FIGHT

London, March 27.-Telegraphine
late on Tuesday, the correspondent
of the Daily Mail at British head
quarters in France, says that nearly
two-thirds of the entire strategy re
serve of the German army now has
been thrown into the fierce and vigor-
ously conducted attack.
This German reserve" he adds
consisted OF eighty-five divisions
totaling I,275,ooo men, out OF total
number now reaching not far short
of 200 divisions, or possibly 100000
men, which they have upon the west
ern front After the first day thirty
three of these divisions were put into
the battle. On the third day another
twenty-one are known to have taken
part. Since then they must have
drawn upon the reserve for a few
more divisions.
1t is. therefore, clear that we have
been struggling with the whole avail
able strength of the German army,
and the marvel is that our soldiers
have held out so obstinately and
steadily against odds 50 heavily
against them
London, March 26.-The German
Dutch, German Swiss and German
Danish frontiers will be closed to in
ternationaI traffic on Wdesnesday or
Thursday, according to a. Central
News dispatch from Amsterdam.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-28
(Rv The Associated PresSl

After six days of terrific fighting,
the German offensive in France is be-
ginning to show signs of losing its
momentum. The progress of the EN-
emy has materially slackcned and the
form of the dent made in the allied
line west of Cambrai has begun to
resemble the familiar wedge-like
salient instead of the broad, straight
forward movement of an offensive
which carries all before it.
AT its apex this wedge has gone be-
yond Albert, to the south of that
place, and is to the westward of the
old allied lire as it stood year ago,
when Won Hindenburg began his
strategic retreat" From this point
the line runs off to the northeast at
a gentle angle, with the line to the
south running back until it reaches
the Oise river.
In spite of tremendous eNertlons
and terrible losses, the German ef-
forts to widen the tip OF this salient
were defeated on Tuesday. The Brit
ish lines have stood firm 10 the north
and have forced the Germans to turn
southwark toward the point OF least
resistance.
Official statements issued at Lon
don confirm the report from Berlin
that American forces are engaged in
the struggle. They are reported
as fighting shoulder to shoulder
with the French and British in the
region of Roye on the south side OF
the salient driven into the allied
front. There has been no official re-
port sent to Washington as to the
identity of these troops who are TAX
ing part in this greatest battle in his
tory
Allies Are Ready to Counter-Attack
With the slackening of the German
pace, there are indications that the
allies are ready to strike back some
where along the front. Just where
this blow will be launched will not be
known until it is struck, but it may
be expected that its impact will be
terrific. 1t is known that the allied
war council at Versailles created a
great strategic reserve of men to be
used in just the contingency which
confronts the armies which have
borne the brunt of the fighting since
last Thursday morning. This force
probably will be launched when and
where it is believed it will break the
force of the German onslaught and
send the enemy reeling back over the
desert from which the British have
slowly withdrawn.
Each succeeding day reveals the
plan of the Germans absolutely to
crush the allied lines west of Cambria
a terrain which could not be defended
by Won Hindenburg year ago. Each
official report shows that this sector
is valueless from a military stand
point and that the Germans have paid
a terrible price for their advance to
the lines established by the allies dur
ing the first two years of war. 1t is
officially reported that seventy Ger
man divisions, or 10000 men. have
taken part in the fighting and that
troops have been moved from every |
part of the western battle front to re-
inforce the armies which have been
forcing the British to fall back. OBJ.
servers at the front say that the Ger
man losses have been frightful and
that the enemy has lost from 10 to
20 per cent of his men, by the most
conservative estimates.
Repetition Of Dash Made By
voa Nuek
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02
SdeliAns&MrMoa
a PROMlNSnRN NOM

II 'INSIDtRAION o hc liberty hlppnc, for generous ro
Il UV " P"c {" wTh and place worship 10
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W,nc'N my Signature to these
am N'led home while
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promise to work harder be more ciirrr, AT INV own lr,d and ,
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promise o u' u wal work n I.., I'M Ic
do my utmost Inc tack ''' WI"
p"n'c to be thrifty order to buy stamps, Liberty bonds, o
o.'c ] me me To- subscribe to the Red Cross the Y NJ necessary
promise be sensible m buying family to put aside the desire
"N"c' ana thereby release skilled labor national need,
promise To cat more wisely and instead ONLY Y5c,t
gay ana on" nca' day week. will must ,lppy ou
soldiers with meal ''''' ''
W>c I" slam scauu wherever reptile lc, Will be toll
Grant H eN when absolutely know they
wise WH ook upon them with alien spcak lc
YciHF G." my governor viii crack him on the nose if
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W c" snort months We have been and
N 0 are exposed at Washington knowing spread dnen means
ana ana comfort 10 the lohcn1oIcrr> and Ilp,burp,
W the the ,,, i,,
nave gone MlI c c'Iors and who fighting
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promise preach belief and l.u,.
t'" over the blood lust, of mrcrasr nat g,
'U un1cI the Rrcl though I'M is in
promise to see Tim, thing through with smile c,i,y
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" the ay routine but when am PLAYING remember . # i, onI lr
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

never get anywhere because they are
content to stop at aspiring
You are going - have a good dav If
YOU have AS good an appetite for your
work as You have for your breakfast
You may not believe it, But it takes
a barber just as loug to cur a bald
beaded mans hair as it doe, for him To-
cut a long-haircd mans hair.
\ scientist has a Stcrlilng nroccs,
whereby all danger j, removed when
you kiss But lhl, IS a waste at effort
Nman expects to take chance, when he
kisses a girl
After You have roamcd around public
places for a while you will notice that
the handwriting on the wall usually
show, ignorance and bad spelling
The theoloeianS have taken the he'll
fire out OF He'll and have discovered
that the lava pits and birthstone lake,
are all myth Some OF these days
they will be telling us that Hell is a
fine Summer resort
ModcSty may be a maiden, necklace.
But necklaces arc old-iasmonrd and arc
seldom worn with low-cut waists
Sometimes a man remains happily
married because he is a good liar and
has no trouble in inycutlng excuses.
\ man will do lot Of things when he
thinks no one is watching him that he
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02
WHY is AN INSPECTOR?

0UR THOROUGH ORDNANCE corps provides n-
specors at all plants producing supplies for the war
department and does the quarermacrs corps for such
goods within its scope The object being OF course
to that the nation gets its moneys worth as nearly a,
possible in this OF high prices eliminate hodd,
from uniforms sawdust in shells sand in sugar and other
wise work for proper fulment of contracts All Of whct
is as il should be- as far as it goes
But II is announced from Camp Dodge that ground gas,
found In the canned tomatoes and rice packages Tn,
American army not being composed of goats or human
ostriches such violations Of the pure food regulations r
perilous. The Hun hireing who would commit such at
oense is end, of course but have learned to cx
pect fendishness from the Huns The important question
now is, where was the Inspector when the ground glass
apped1 Ii that there should he more inspectors
they should do inspecting or both
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02
A HELPFUL HINT.

I ORD RHONDDA, British food controller, having dc
cided that smokers cat less than smokcle,s persons
il is easy to the advantage Of this scientific discovery
For thing provides fine alib for the henpecked
husband whose wife protests that his cigar bill is too high
He easily demonstrate that spite Of the war tax
clear Havsnas and Pittsburgh soges haven't advanced in
price in any such proportion bread and and other
vands, and that he is probably saving more by smoking
than he would by absainng and eating more Along the
line plausible is made for the broken New
Years resolution Of the citizen who decided to he like that
good little boy who didn't the filthy weed And there
also is the to those who oppose sending cgacts
and "mskins' to the soldiers At least it one answer
though another might be framed in shorter and uglcr
words Lord Rhondda is patriot whose name should
become a household word
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DAILY AVERAGE PAID 10 1cc
DECEMBER CIRCULATION - III, lJU
"Saue the Waste and Win the War"
LEARN HOW TO SAVE FOOD.

THAT INTENSIVE campaign along food conservation
lines to be begun Frda, under the auspices .o the
Oklahoma City branch of the womans committee OF the
national council of defense deserves the hearty support
Il those who have to pay the grocery bills and who
have feed the brutes War needs and present price,.
should furnish sufficient incentive for ali women to avail
themseve, of this opportunity to get expert advice and
instruction where both are needed 1t is simple enough 90
observe wheatless and meaess days but to make this
patriotic sacrifice without adding the household expense
account and still keeping the family we'll fed introduce,
complicated problem. And that is where the experts
in with scientific demonstration of what do and
how.
Men not innocent bystanders, but in most home,
they bystander far management OF the culinary
department is concerned and it is therefore mp to the
do of the saving in food matters just as
they have done good deal OF wasting the free aud easy
days of peace and low prices They should cooperate
heartily in this move to put food economy scientific
basis which is to help them well the government
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02
H:1storpg
b1CS ~
One Hundred Year. Ago Today

One Hundred Year. Ago Today.
lSl8-Gcneral Jackson proceeded to
raise a volunteer force in Tennessee for
war with the Florida Indians.
Seventy-Five Years Ago To-day
l84i-Martn Brlmmcr was iuaugu
rated mayor oi the city Of Boston
Fifty Years Ago Today.
SoS-John DOYLE one of England
most eminent political caricamri,,,.
died in London Born in l79S
Twenty-Five Years Ago To-day
lS9}-TroepS called ont in Holland
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02
MANY Kind Folks

Wilmington journal Republican
Some men arc so kind hearted that
they will marry girl for her money
rather than see her remain an unhappy
old maid-lukc Mclukc And now and
then one finds a girl vet i'm her teen, So
kindhcartcd that she will marry some
old chuckIchcad, past 70 in order to
he nice TO him during his declining
years and rcrhap, give hardly a second
thought to the fact tina, he's got oodc,
ot money
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

Doc Lcwstader says that in these
times when the Government is trying to
raise money by every means, it might
he a good idea TO make a woman take
out license and pay her war tax on,it
when She wants to shoot her husband
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

Devote each day to the object then
in time and every evening will lind
something done Goethe.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

Miss Helen Finerty leaves tomorrow
to resume her studies at the University
AZ Lawrence. Kan
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

There arc also those who regard Col House as a man
Ct mystery because he isn't grand stand performer and
doesn't want a political office
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

Mr. Roy Fincrty lett last night 10
resume his studies at Ann Arbor
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

Don't Feather Your Nest With Bor.
rovcd plumapc
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IToorayl

Wen take our guns
And shoot the Huns
Way over there I'm France.
Won make them smell
Some Yankee he'll,
Just give our boys chance
BILLIE Wood
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02
Names IS Names
Our Dgilv Special

{ II Nccdlcman is a tailor in Louis
willie. hy
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

As usual New Years pictures wearing few clothes
this season but thai style in accord with fashions
dictates in general this year than usual
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

To suppress riot. among unemployed
worklnumcu.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

Luke MCLuke Says.
! Some men Who aspire TO great things
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Old Stories
d1zNe7sWt7H4pe' Ne, t74p

The receipt, at the Kansas CITY stock
yard, for 1897 were.
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Calves ....................... lO44b
Cbcrp '''''''' J'II1'5gS IJI137|
Horse and rrlc. ''Y7'o0D 37o01
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Mr., {. p. Walker Of Perry is visiting
friend, here
Mis- Myria Cooke spent New Years
WIN Miss NIlce PANE M Guthrie.
NJ. ,,n..., Il - ...
W. ,I, ",''' ,,.,., I'', M.'' mas o'e,' NN'I'ng
L,, "Iy,'", N: - ''1> 'c'"'''u 10
'''''' '''.' '','..l,.ll. ''>.
Fifteen Years AGO
+ W Wardwcll returned this morn.
ing from a trip 10 kan,a, Cry
Harry Carson. day clerk at the Lee
Z, expected home thi, evening from
hdnNas Oilr where he has been spend
ing the holidays
r, .,.
-. ne I"OO'nE business ol Oklahoma
',N "', ,"''''>'u ~ per cent Inc
"'uI','T mousse OF -oJ Okl1homa a.I ol,y ana
GO oy,,',,' snI n,n '' 81, ,'""" III I"l ana
F''.''''.'" ''' '"'-
ob,cr,cJ ;n "" n,.., .''I ,,,,,,lI ,' 'aa IVA, wS1
INV Mis-, Ruth u,rncr Miss 'I',iI C,T,
", "' ,'' ,N""IN dnu
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02

Mr. C. +. Walker OF Perry is visiting
friends here
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-01-02
Fifteen Years Ago

i w Wardwcll returned this morn
X from a trip TO Kansas City
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"On hook, OF steel hang here
Good resolutions for the coming ysal'
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His Column
CODELT.AT /OLo
Advice

1913
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-17
THOSE INCOME TAX RETURNS.

Because very brilliant congress which knows 50
much how to coordinate departments etc, and how to
the war lacked the ingenuity to frame an under
standable internal law the internal
commissioner has it necessary to ad, a month
to the time allowed for filing personal ;ome tax
returns The public has March 81 instead OF
only until Feb IS discharge this disagreeabe duty
The given for the rostponement is that peo-
pie need more time to figure their under
the law Critics of the administration are prone II
the revenue commissioner might have added that
reason they need because the neces-
blanks and explanations have been furnished
his department. that they ought to have been
in the hands Of the public many weeks ago The de-
partment shouldn't be blamed over-much the delay
1t more largely due the that internal
revenue experts themselves have had an awful time
figuring congress that passed the law
meant.
Anyhow the public necessary blanks
or can get them by applying any internal revenue
collector, and several millions facing
the pleasant prospect of graphing for a or so
with last years accounts and trying varying de-
grees Of success to tell the truth about their incomes
and the they owe Uncle Sam.
It's safe to say that not one Of all those millions
when he finally submits return. be sure that
he has got it right. And nobody else will ever know
either. Even congress. which the law doesn't
know what il means It's all a matter Of opinion
1t is well TO remember, however that simply
matter Of the taxpayers opinion The internal revenue
department has the last word about it.