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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-07-11

lines Of trenches and putting in the bomb-proofs.
all as carefully as though the lives OF all depended
on the way in which they are constructed. We see
them in various maneuvers In the field; We see
them in their camps, apparently very much at
home and happy. And it Is quite evident that they
are q~uarsered in by no means what is the least at
~tractive part of France. for the surroundings are
beautiful in every instance.
A most interesting portion of the pic.ure Is that
showing a grand review of the Americans by Gen:
Pershing and Major General Siebert. 1t was held
on a large plain and Enthusiastically evidences that
Uncle Sam has many thousands OF men across the
water. No American but will feel a thrill of pride
as he sees the very evident fitness of his fellow
countrymen and their numbers.
The great businesses of the country To-day is
war. From nearly every home men are being call.
ed into service in the army or navy by means OF
the selective service. Hundreds of thousands OF
others have volunteered. A great number OF these
mon are already in France. In consequence, the
life of our boys in France is a subject of universal
interest. This picture affords the first complete
and authentic record OF the American army in
France.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-07-11

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includes those who registered on
June s, 1918. Any registrant classified
In Glass 2, 8 or 4 may volunteer for
this service provided he 10 physically
qualiaed and ales waiver signed by
iis dependent or dependents. This
offer will be- withdrawn ut noon on
July II, 1918.
q. W. Morris returned home Tues.
day night from st. Louis whore he
had been for q few days with his
daughter, Miss Virginia, who under.
went another very serious surgical
operation 1t st. Johns Hospital Mon
day morning for simucitus, the same
trouble with which Lawrence Well!
was afl icted, Miss Virginia was TAX
en- sick last January and In February
underwent all operation which wal
only partially successful. She stoot
the second operation very nicely, and
her surgeon hopes that It may etiect
complete relief, although u will BE
several weeks before she will be able
to leave the hospital. Her many
friends here hope that her recover!
|. may be 40 speedy - possible. -Farm
ington News.
!. From the Bonnie Terre Register Q
! July 9Th, "Mr. Tony Hilliger OF Fla
River and Mise Esther Allen OF Bonn,
2 Tcrre were united In marriage las
Q Saturday night Of the homo Of aud b
Rev. Velvic6, pastor OF tho Methods
church. The bride WAS acc0mpanle,
9 BY her mother, who, with the pastor
family, we're the only witnesses. Bot
the bride and groom have Tor som
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named for the King. As he descend ed it in 1757 an attempt was made to assassinate him and the would-be mur- derer was tortured in one of the Guard Rooms in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. There are any number of rooms filled with paintings of various periods and finally we come to curious set of pictures of royal residences well worth looking at if only to show the extrayagance of the French kings. The room in which King Louis XIV. died may be seen. Then there are more pictures, some very remarkable because they are by Madame vigee Le Brun, >who made-a speciality of painting famous women. Several pictures of Marie Antoinette and her children by Madame Le Brun's brush hang in one of the>rooms
 Another room shows number of clocks for it seems that this King was particularly fond of clocks and had an entire room of curious ones all set to strike at the same hour. After a short walk through the arcade we come upon more pictures. many of these of Napoleon. There is also stat uary-one piece especially interesting to the United States-it being copy of the well-known statue of Washing
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Language when there is work to do under the mistietoe.
 After each humble home has been decorated with its tree, its greenssand holly, and flags, there will be the Christmas goose to catch-and many Devil Dog, who has cast longing eyes towards particularly corpulent speci- men of bird will have the pleasure of pursuing and picking 1t for some thrif- ty French housewife.
 Some of the Marines will be In Paris at the time. enjoying the various fes- tivities arranged there for American lighting men by their fellow country- men from Gods Own Country. No man from the States" will be forgot ten in the jubilation which Is being planned.
 Scattered Over The Globe
 For those other thousands of Ma rines whom fate has decreed that they shall spend the holiday at less notable places on the earth's surface, the day will be more than an ordinary one. In the tropics they will have special leaves, sports, 'eats" and general merrymaking. for wherever in tho world two or more Americans are found, Christmas is duly celebrated.
 The boys in the training camp at Paris Island, s. C.. will spend the day as they did last year. no drill. only baseball. good things to eat and plenty of lolling about in the warm climate with only pajamas as the regulation uniform. Those Marines on shipboard will share in the usual festivities arr ranged for the men of the Navy. but this year there will be extra frills in honor of the victory won.
 | All in all, this will be . Christmas that every Marine will remember-a real Victory Christmas.
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most magnificent kind. There is a. beautiful council chamber which would be known in America as a''liv- ing room" owing to its resemblance to a meeting place for the family, al- though the furniture is mtoh grander and the decorations more brilliant than those found in America. There room of Josephine and the room which was occupied by Queen Victoria dur ing her visit, which, was re-decorated at, that time. There is beautiful dining room and up to date kitchen where a French chef will be installed for the Peace meeting.
 The stables are at this place where the state coaches have been preserved. The one used by Napoleon Is especial ly fine in its gliding but Is said to com pare with the British Tanks for com fortable riding. However, 1t is not likely that the Peace delegates will be asked to take a ride In ione of these gilded coaches.
 The gardens of the Grand Trianon are particularly fine and nearby Is the golf links, an eighteen hole course, used by many wealthy persons in the French social world As this Is Presl- dent Wilson's diversion he may take the opportunity of playing on this his- toric course.
 The Little Trianon will play no part in the affairs of Peace and the writer merely mentions it because 1t will be ,, of interest as the playhouse of Marie Antoinette.
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Sedan, which started on November 1 and ended when the whistle blew to quit work on the day the armistice was signed
 It Is a safe wager that the 5th Reg iments band will be playing Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here" on Christ mas morning as part of their jubila- ton, but the gang will not all be there. Hundreds of them lie buried in the ravines of Belleau Woodrow called the Wood of the Marine Brigade and upon these graves the grateful French people will be placing new i American flags, where the elements have destroyed the original ones and humble tributes ofs holly berries. And in the homes in America to which these boys will never return proud mothers will wind the laurel oi victory around the holly wreathes which will hang before their service | flags with their stars of gold.
 In The Hospitals
 Numbers of the Marines who have been wounded in the past years fight. | ing will spend Christmas in the base hospital in France, where they vii be given royal time by the Red Cros.
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Next to this wonderful Hall tis the Room of Peace, where the famous painting of France in chariot drawn by four white horses is shown. This is the work of Le Brun and Is one of the most famous paintings of the hum dreds in the Palace. On the other side of the Hall of Mirrors is the is seen in chariot drawn by wolves. This picture is by Vouet and is equally as famous as the one by Le Brun. There are 166 rooms in the palace proper and 1t would require page after page to do justice to their beauty and 1t is doubtful if the Peace delegates will be able for lack of time, to study their beauty in all details.
 It has a chapel with several altars and wonderful church ornaments of great historic value.
 Park And Fountains
 The park and garden is quite as wonderful as the Palace, for the park was laid out by Frances master gar dener of that day. Le Notre, who was employed by Louis XIV to make the plans Happily these gardens are the same today and after looking upon them President Wilson will probably care little to look upon those surround ing the White House.
 The great basins where the foun- tains play at certain times surpass anything of their kind in tie world. The basin of the dragon and the basin of Apollo are the most beautiful. A grand canal brings the water used from the nearby lakes and ponds In the early days it was piped from the Siene and pumped from Marley. At present water is so scarce that the fountains play only on certain days. when 1t seems that all Paris goes out to see the extravaganza of the early regime
 In 1855 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were received at Versailles with great ceremony. The newspapers of that day announced that the fountains played all day and that Napoleon III danced with the Queena at the ball at night and afterward enjoyed an opera in the royal theatre at Versailles.
 Grand Trianon
 The Peace delegates will lodge al. F the Grand Trianon within walking dis tance of the Palace at versailles--the smaller place which contains a mum Der of very comfortable bed rooms There are rare Persian carpets, Turk ish rugs and antique furniture of the
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An Unique Christmas Gift

This Private has just passed his nineteenth birthday. He was just eighteen when he enlisted at Buffalo, he went through shis trainingaper quickly and got to France in lime to help the Marines take Belleau Wood i;
 but he fell, wounded severely by a piece of shrapnel which took away q part of his skull and paralyzed him.
 After being sent back to America he gradually improved until he could be pushed out on the hospital sun porch in wheel chair. The wound in his head healed and soon he had recov- cred his powers of locomotion until he could navigate with only crutches.
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France $10O.000,000
 The palace presents an imposing ap- pearance when approached directly from the Avenue de Paris, wherc one sees huge statuary of various kinds most of them being the work. of great sculptors, but visitors usually enter at what is known as the Chapel entrance.
 All along the corridor are famous paintings. so beautiful and rare that the visitor might spend weeks in their examination. The Hall of the Cru saders is next and there we see huge pictures concerning the Crusade among them ."The captured of Jeru- salem'' and Christians addressing thanks to Heaven" The whole room is elaRorately decorated with the coat of arms ofthe Crusaders. The gallery of Sculpture is then shown and al- though it contains heroic statues of the French kings. both in bronze and marble, the paintings are much more interesting.
 Attempted Assassination Of King Louis XIV
 We soon come to the great stair case of the Ambassadors, which was the Court entrance of Louis XIV. Then we pass through another large room with the wall covered with paintings. This room used to contain staircase
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ton by Houdon, a copy of the one in Statuary Hall yat the Capitol at Washington. This was presented by that State and unveiled with great ceremony August 10th, 1910. Before the war some flowers were invariably found at its base placed thereby Amer lean visitors.
 After going through many rooms we come to the great gallery of Battles 390 feet long and filled with paintings and tatuary--mainly busts of great warriors. There are many rooms here and their brilliant decorations and many pictures dazzle the eye. Each one means much to the lover of French history, but the average travel CT soon becomes weary and wants to see some of the royal apartments.
 The bed rooms of the Kings are shown perfectly restored by Napoleon also those of Marie Antoinette, whose remarkable taste is shown in it's dec, oration. There is small passage connected with this apartment which the Queen used on October 9th, 1789 when she took refuge from the irate people.
 There are wonderful libraries. grand living rooms of Kings and Queens filled with the most beautiful furni |-ture and dishes of the period. The several Council Chambers, which will probably be used by the Peace dele gates from time to timesare especially interesting. They contain rare old tables and chairs with a great candel abra of the period. Of course, there is a magnificent clock. One of these rooms was used as King Louis Six teenth's study Under Louis XIV il was a favorite room of meeting be tween that King and Madame Du Barry.
 Where Peace Conference Will Meet The Hall of Mirrors, where the Con- ference will be held, is perhaps the grandest of all the halls and overlooks the Palace gardens. It was used al one time for state ball room. lt2is nearly 250 feet long, about 35 feet wide and forty-two feet in height Seventeen large windows look out on the beautiful park and gardens. The walls facing the windows are covered with mirrors in gilded niches from which the room derives it's name" In the days of the Kings great fetes were held here. Among them was the mar. riage of Due de Bourgogne and the reception of the Ambassador of the King of Persia. at which time the throne was brought into. the room. A number of paintings showing the peace pacts which have been slgnea aere are on the wall
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-rthe institution by which they swear eternal fealty (next to their own Corps.) No wounded Marine or any American soldier or sailor will be al lowed to be home sick this year-the Christmas which celebrates this year not only the day itself but also Peace and Victory.
 Back home in the hospitals on this side the lads who are not able to spend the day with their families will be equally well cared for. There is one lad in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital a Marine-who will probably celebrate December 25th not by receiving some thing but by having something taken away from him.
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In Europe

But the most memorable celebration of all must fall to the lot of those Marines who are still in Europe-who are on the Very ground they fought over and helped redeem from the clutches of the Hun. One can be very sure that the French and Belgians will not let the, occasion pass without fes- tivities of threefold fervor.
 Picture the scene which occurred a few days before Brussels was formally occupied by the Allies. Thirteen offi- cers of the Marine Corps travelled by motor into the city, past number of armed German guards who did not attempt to molest them. They were immediately surrounded by crowds of inhabitants who discovering that they were Americans gave them tremen- 6ous ovation. The people shook the officers hands, kissed them and really made it impossible for them to con tinue their progress.
 Such an impromptu celebration as this over the mere sight of Americans in liberated territory is merely an in- dication of the treatment that our fighting men will receive wherever they find themselves on the 25th.
 Billeted With French Families Those Marines who are billeted with French families will find the same spirit that would make them feel the spirit of Christmas back on some American farm. There is the tree to be brought in and the French young sters will proudly accompany their big American guest as he shoulders the axe and picks out a suitable one in the woods. Then France is the land of mistletoe-it grows in abundance there-and most of the lads will not need any Handy Guide to the French
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Then came his nineteenth birthday sand with it a-present of cane from his nurses with instructions to go ahead and use 1t.
 Now if all goes well, and his nurses believe it will, they are planning to take away his cane on Christmas morning and tell the young veteran that he can walk again like other men.
 What better surprise could anyone wish?
 There will be almost more joy in the hospitals this Christmas tide than any where else for will not the prospect of gradually regaining their health and activity as well as the knowledge of victory won cheer the men as nothing l else could?
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 TIA o OTHER branch of the United s E States. service will celebrate # Y Christmas this year in as many ~ different parts of the earth as the devil dog Marines Some of the sea soldiers will participate in the seasons festivities in the Philippines, some in China. while some will be hunting bandits in Santo Domingo. Others will make merry on the dread naughts of the navy, others at shore posts and in training camps.
 Many will spend the day among the people of liberated France and good many will always remember their De- cember 18th spent in conquered Ger many. While the Kaiser-that-was is eating his cooked goose in retirement, with his favorite daschund standing sadly by the 5th and 9th Regiments of U. S. Marines will be in the vicinity of the Rhine as part of the American Army of Occupation.
 Just a year ago the American Sec ond Division of which these two fam ous regiments form an important part was being used for all sorts of prosaic duties behind the lines. The infantry men were building railroads and land ing coal, the Marines were chiefly en- gagged in police duty in the French ports of debarkation-tha necessary but irksome task which long ago led them to incorporate In the Marine hymn the lines
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 Euer look oR HedUen's scenes.
 They acilE find the streets are guarded
 by
 The United States Marines"
 Christmas, 1918, however, finds them the heroes of Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood-the boys who blocked the road to Paris. It finds the Second Division the veterans of the Soissons drive, which began on July IS the drive which reduced the St. Mihiel salient beginning September l2, and the October End drive in the Champagne which broke the Boche hold in that region It finds them veterans of Pershings great sweep to
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The Palace
 The Palace dates back to King Louis XIII, who was fond of hunting | and had a small Shooting Box built ons the site-a sort of rest house for himself and friends after big hunt. Gradually it was enlarged and finally became the home of the Court under Louis XIV, who secretly married Madame der Maintenon. a beautiful woman forty-seven years of age. The Grand Trianon was built for her and Is quite as beautiful.
 Louis XIV also used Versailles. This King was under the influence of his mistress. the famous Madame Pompa- dour, and his extravagance through her influence made him very unpop- ular. He was always despised by his people. Then came Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who enjoyed Yer sailles to the limit. The Little Trianon was built so that the Queen and her court might play at farming by pre- tending they were peasant girls The revolution ended this Kings reign and Versailles was no longer the home of Kings.
 Napoleon
 When Napoleon came into power he-restored. the parts of the Palace that had been ruined by the revolu- tionists for 1t is said that mobs surged through those magnificent halls and destroyed many beautiful decorations while France underwent a reign of terror. At present it is the headquar- ters of the French Army. but is being "dressed" for the Peace Conference The building is one of the greatest in the world, not only in size but in poin. Of decoration.~ for some of the worlds greatest artists have worked on its walls. Before the war it was open to visitors for small sum It cost
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ing out of the worlds greatest - conflict will be, held at Yer sailles. It is perhaps the most beautf- ful palace on earth, located in an ideal spot within easy distance of the City of Paris.
 It has been the scene of the signing of many important treaties affecting the destinies of nations. Here the treaty ~of peace between Great Britain and the United States was ratified on September ard, 17SS, and on the same day Great Britain, France and Spain entered into an agreement restoring certain Colonial possessions of France. place for the present Conference be- cause it gives to France the honor and satisfaction of reversing the situation of 1a70-1S71, for on the same spot where Bismarck dictated his harsh terms peace delegates will mete out Nthe inhuman crushed Germans the justice which an outraged world de- mands as a righteous punishment. The meeting at this place <xill be special humiliation to Germany for it was in the very room where the conference will be held that King William of Prussia. grandfather of the ex-Kaiser was crowned on January 18th. 1871.
 There is a small town near the palace whose principal reason for ex- istence seems to be the palaces. the large one and the two Trianons known as the Grand and the Little. The peace delegates will be lodged in the Grand Trianon, which Is already being fitted with steam heat, bath rooms and all modern conveniences. It was the model for the French building at the St. Louis Fair. tie structure being a faithful reproduction.
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Copyright, 1918,

> HE PEACE conference to settle the momentous problems grow
 ing out of the worlds greatest conflict will be, held at Yer
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BM o OTHER branch of the United
 M States. service will celebrate # Christmas this year in as many ~ ~ different parts of the earth as
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THE NEW GLOVE WATCH FOR
 MOTORISTS.

WRIST WATCH Is all very well when one is bare-hand- ed, or when an ordinary.
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but the motorist who wears a heavy, gauntlet glove finds 1t inconyenient to push back the gauntlet sin order to glimpse the time of daye eespecially when both hands are busy driving the car For motorists--ma sculine or feminine-there is a new glove-watch; or watch-glove, if you will The gauntleted glove fastens at the wrist under a broad, but simple, kid strap. and the open-face watch Is inserted in an opening in this strap. Watch and strap come off when the glove comes off; but If one Is insistent about know ing the time every minute, an ordinarys wrist watch may be worn on the other hand-under the gauntlet glove