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The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
OVERS AND CLEANERS.
Iowa Association Opened Two Days
a Convention Today.

Des Moines, Aug. 13.-The Iowa
Dyers and Cleaners association open.
ed its annual two days convention
here this morning with full attend.
ance. The discussion of the profession
during war times brought out full
representation
In addition to the regular Legislative
sessions there will be score Of form
al and informal "war-times" discus
sions.
The scarcity of dyes and uncertain
ty of others will come in for full dis
cussion at the afternoon session II
was announced by the associations
secretary.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
GROUP c MEN WANTED
Mahaska County to Furnish Two Of
iowa's Quota of $50.

Des Moines, Aug. ia call for
$50 special and limited service Iowa
registrants was issued by Adjutant
General Lasher Monday. They are ask
ed to report to the commanding officer
at Camp Dodge during the two day
period beginning Aug. 80. The men
wanted under this call are those who,
owing to physical defects have been
classified in group C and are qualified
only for special or limited service. On
ly white men are wanted, and nobody
qualified for general military service
will be indicted among them.
Mahaska county is asked for two
men as her quota.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15

ent of our Sunday school reports an
average attendance of fifty pupils. q
most excellent record a
R. D. Robertson threshed oats Sat
urday of last week that went AZ bush.
els to the acre.
A good old mother in conversation
with us this week remarked that she
did wish this war would stop and
prices get back to something like
normal. She went to town the other
day she said, and had to give So cents
a yard for four yards of calico to
make the old man a sixty cents shirt
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
AME RICANS ARE
HITTING THE HUN
eoMsARolAe POSITIONS TO TAEI
81 NORTH OF THE vEsLE.
CAPTURED GUNS PUT IN USE.
Doughboys Shell the Enemy With
Cannon Taken From Them.-De.
tachments Rakins the Field
for More Hun Ammunition.
(By Frank j. Taylor,)

With American Armies in France,
Aug. l3.-The American forces contin.
lie to harass the German positions to
the north of the Vesle and some very
heavy artillery preparations of bonn.
bardments are being thrown out from
the enemy's lines.
There was some infantry fighting on
the part of the American forces last
might but earlier in the day they were
unmolested save for Ger
man faint which failed to develop in
to an attack. .a"
Doughboys attempted to storm Ger
man positions on the heights north of
the river last night but were unable
to maintain their gains owing to the
extreme heavy machine gun fire or
the enemy. sa
This was the second attack Of the
day the American forces going over
the top from hastily dug trenches in
the morning. "1 f
Turn Own Guns on Enemy.
Yesterday north of Fismette they
drove the Boches from the woods and
captured machine guns which they
turned on the fleeing enemy.
The Germans later by the use Of
counter attacks drove the Americans
from the woods.
Yesterday the American forces cap.
tured thirty machine guns from Ger
man stronghold at Chateau Diable.
They brought them back and used
them against the Germans until they
ran out of ammunition. -
Rakins Field For Ammunition.
Then they dispatched detachment
of infantry to gather in some German
machine gun ammunition from the
rear areas. They now have sufficient
ammunition to keep the Huns going
until they capture a new supply.
Most of the German positions are
still held by Prussian troops mostly
from machine gun companies. They
prevent much hand to hand fighting.
.. More Dead Left on Field. 49,
A real attempt to feel out the allied
strength has taken the form OF an at
tack at Fismette, little village north
west of Fismes. This, however, was a
failure as the American shooting was
so good that not single man was able
to enter the village and the assaulting
troops retired, leaving fresh sprinkl
ing of dead on the battle field which
already has been fatal to so many
Germans.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
TO GET MORE PAY
Western Union Employees to Receive
Ten Per Cent Increase.

New York, Aug. 13.-Announcement
of a general increase of ten per cent
in wages to all employees of the West
ern Union Telegraph company, belong.
ing to the association recently organ
rtized by the company, has been made
here The increase, retroactive from
July applies to about $4,000 workers.
The advance is subject to approval
of Postmaster General Burleson, now
in charge of telegraph and telephone
lines under proclamation of the presi-
dent.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
ALLIES ADVANCE
land TIGHTEN GRIP
PRISONERS NOW NUMBER 10000
Officers 1900.
OVER 10000 MACHINE GUNS
Have Also Been Taken Since Last
Thursday - Main Road over
Which German Artillery Must
Retreat Has Been Cut.

London, August 13.-Brtish forces
advanced last night north of Roye
and along the northern banks of the
Somme taking additional prisoners
Field Marshal Haig announced in his
official war office statement from the
British front today. ..
American troops are fighting to
the north of the Somme.
German counter attacks were re-
pulsed near Frauquescourt between
Roye and Chaulnes. A hostile enc,
my attack in the Merris sector of
the Flanders front failed.
Allies improve Positions.
ION other fronts the allies i'm
proved their positions north of Roye
and on the northern banks of the
Somme," the statement said.
Additional prisoners were taken.
A local attack in the neighborhood
of Frauquescourt was repulsed. A
few prisoners were taken in patrol
encounters south of the Scarpe. A
hostile attack in the Merris sector
was repulsed in sharp fighting"
ISyVOO FTiSOncTS o pdte.
Paris, Aug. 13, 1916 A. M.-Ger-
man prisoners taken from Thursday
to Sunday now exceed thirty-seven
thousand of which twenty.three hun
dred are officers, Marselle Hutton, a
military expert of the Echo De Paris
declared today.
Hutton said that more than one
hundred cannons and over ten thous-
and machine guns had been captured.
The total number of prisoners TAX
en- since July 10 number more than
seventy thousand, Hutton said.
First Stage Of Battle Won.
With the French Armies in the
Field, SIP p. NJ. August 13.-With
the enemy throwing gas shells and
clinging desperately to such positions
as Loges Wood and the Heights near
Lassigny, the first phase of the new
battle is ended
When, the second phase of the bat
tie begins the Germans may evident
ly be found between the prongs of
the allies pincers.
The allies have won the necessary
solid base and are prepared to
squeeze
Enemy Raids RepuIsed.
Paris, Aug. 13.-"There were no
important events during the night"
the French war Office statement an
nounced today
"In the Voches and in the Upper
Alsace region enemy raids were I'M
successful"
Hun Retreat Cut Of.
With the French Army in France,
Aug. 13.-Although the Germans have
been reinforced and are resisting
more strongly between the Avre and
the Disc, their fresh divisions have
been unable entirely to stop the ad-
Vancing French, who now have a firm
hold on ThiescOurt plateau. South
of Roye and northwest of Noyon, the
French hold positions that command
the only roads leading from Roye and
Ribecourt, toward Noyon, over which
the enemy can withdraw his artil-
lery.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
wilson Invited To Cedar Falls.

Cedar Falls is wide awake. Three
minutes after the town had the news
that President Wilson is coming west
on a speaking tour on behalf OF the
Fourth Liberty Loan. the local Com
mercial club had dispatched tele'
gram to Washington. invited the presi.
dent TO make one of his stops in Iowa
at Cedar Falls. N
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
Won HINDENBURG
is UP AGAINST 1t.
CAN HE MAINTAIN HIS LINES OR
MUST HE RETREAT.
RESERVES ARE BEING USED UP
Ten Of the Forty Fresh Divisions Have
Already Been Thrown in With
Little Effect.-cost of Holding
Lines Terrific.
(By William Philip simms.)


/ With the British Armies in France
Aug. 13.-Field. Marshal Won linden
burg is today face to face with a
poser Can he maintain himself on
the present line or will he be forced
to face an undignified retreat along
the lines over which the French and
the British drove him in 1917.
And can he hope even to assume
the offensive again or must he be
made only to act purely on the de,
Ifensive?
+ Prisoners Tell of Conditions.
General Foch and Field Marshal
Haig by the battle at Amiens have
plainly given him a hard nut to crack.
Prisoners just taken admit that the
Germans will be unable to resist fur
ther in their present positions.
They declared that the battle of the
Marine had a demoralizing effect on
their whole army while the entrance
of America is regarded with dismay."
Haig's new blows have greatly add
ed to this depression. The feeling is
gradually spreading that the Germans
have finished their course
..... War Not over Yet.
But Germany herself is not finished
and undoubtedly will put up stub
born fight for sometime to come.
Nobody here as yet has indicated
that the war is over. &c.. .
Won Hindenburg however is closely
facing the possibility of a purely de-
fensive warfare. ......
The five months of the present fight
ing was nearing its end when Field
Marshal Haig struck his serious blow
Thursday.
Enemy Using His Reserves.
German divisions in reserve on the
whole Western front are very low.
| would calculate that there are not
more than forty divisions. Since
Thursday some ten of these have al.
ready been identified and as a result
of Won Hindenburg's half successful
blows two large salients remain to be
held.
The cost of holding them is huge as
the allies are pounding the enemy's
lines ceaselessly day and night, just
as they pounded the old Somme line
which became untenable.
May Shorten Their Lines.
Owing to the heavy losses the Ger
man armies which are fast dwindling
may be forced to shorten their lines
in order to maintain sufficient number
of reserves to hold even this.
In the meantime a comparatively
hull continues. British positions have
been improved along the Somme. Else.
where there is only local fighting.
Won Hindenburg Advises Retreat.
Rome, Aug. 13.-Evacuation of the
whole salient on the western front,
formed by Ypres, the Montdidier Sec
tor and the Verdun area, is being
urged upon the kaiser by Field Mar.
shall Won Hindenburg, chief of the Ger
man general staff, according to a news
agency dispatch from Zurich today.
Headquarters Behind Rhine.
German great headquarters have
been removed from France into Ger.
many, behind the Rhine river, it was
added.
The explanation given was that
headquarters were transferred be-
cause Of the activity of allied airmen.'
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
,nheriss 5000 Kroner

Peter Fasting. young man OF Story
City inherited 5000 kroner from his
fathers estate in Norway recently.
That is about $4,000 in American mon
ey. OF this amount he gave half 10 his
sister in Norway and invested = pA0
of his share in war savings stamps.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
Late Potatoes,

Speaking about late potatoes, B. V.
Sewers at his place on North Market
street has some coming along, planted
August LIST that are likely to make new
potatoes if the frosts stay off long
enough, say into October. A Septem'
Der freeze would be fatal.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
Fall Vegetables.

Fall turnips, salad crops and snap
beans should go into the ground now
says Food Administrator J. f. Deems.
The end of the planting season is
drawing near and no time should be
lost in putting in these late garden
crops,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
NO MORE soozg ON rRAINa
MeAdoo Orders Sale Of All Liquors
Discontinued.

Washington. d. c.. Aug. 13.--Saie
of liquor in railroad stations or on
railroad trains was forbidden by d.
rector General MeAdoo today In an
order effective Immediately and ap.
Flying to all lines under government
control @ a7a
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
NORWEGIAN ship
6IlH8R6TAD SUNK
THREE MORE FISHING BOATS
ALSO sUNk--cREWs LOST.
POISON GAS FROM Hun SUB
New Method Of FriGhtfuIness Tried
out by ,undersea craft-ons Of
the U-Boats is Sunk by
Americans.

| ,aE5 ---E -. a
Washington, August 13.-The navy
department was informed today that
the Norwegian steamship Sonorstad
was sunk off Fire Island yesterday
morning by German submarine.
Members of the crew haye been land
ed at an Atlantic port.
Three More Fishing Boats Sunk. !.
Boston. Aug. 1.-TWO submarines
raided the fishing fleet on Georges
banks and the fcrews of the fishing
schooners, Oldtime and Cruiser. prob
ably were lost when their boats were
sunk by gun fire without warning.
according to the crew Of the fishing
schooner, Mary Sennett, who were
landed her today. The Sennett
was also sunk by gun fire and shells.
were fired at the boats when they
were putting away, the fishermen
said. Eii@- ~
The Sennett, Oldtime and Cruiser
were fishing in the same neighbor-
hood when the Sennett's lookout
noticed two submarines several miles
away. As the underwater boats,
were apparently paying mo- attention
to the fishermen at the time the
Sennett's crew continued fishing az
ter putting water and provisions in
the boats as a precautionary meas.
ure. y,te,e
She'll Hits oldtine.
AS they kept an eye on the strang-
ers. thinking they might be Ameri-
can boats, one of the submarines
submerged and the other took a
wide circle around the little group
of three fishermen.
The first intimation the fishermen
had that the submarines were hos
tile was when a shell suddenly
crashed into the side of the Oldtime.
She turned over and sank SO quickly
that the Sennett's crew were certain
the men could not have escaped.
The Oldtime had hardly disappeared
when shell dropped alongside the
Cruiser, Immediately followed by an
other shot which expoded on the
water line. The little craft crum-
plea up ana went aoWn before tne
I; res nav : -'NAN'e " srp " ''
m.ru s.,n...ss .nL
rha No. eannattss 49, Al -,
u,oft Co. s,,ni,ar a.,d ME- ~ 80.
10. lI. ~. - sanins ~ - 49,;
~ shot oresbad IT. ~ q. !as
h ~ ~ $500 - 80 "a sann i;,,o 49,
800. HH,.g1. - -, -,
uashinoto n 20 nas
from oil DISCHARGED on the water bv
the German submarine operating Of
the middle Atlantic coast. oyercame
six men in the coast g,iard station
and lighthouse ON Smiths Island.
North Carolina Saturday evening
the navy department was advised
today by the commandment of the
sixth naval district
i If the gas attack were deliberate.
as most officials believed II consti.
tutes a new and ingenious form Of
frightfuiness and SO far as has been
reported was the first direct EFFORT
of the German raiders to harm per.
sons or property ON American shores.
= ~ m. u,.....aIc..
i,r, -,
me gas was saiu ~ .ne comhana'
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-15
Assassin Of Eichhorn Executed.

Amsterdam, Aug. 13.-Boris Dan.
skio, the assassin of Field Marshal
Herman Won Eichhorn. was executed
on Saturday. according to advices from
Kiey. The sentence was pronounced by
a German military court.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Broke in Store.

Saturday night some person, whose
name and whereabouts are unknown,
chiseled a panel out of the rear door
of the Lynch drug store and entered
the building, carrying away all of
the small change in the cash drawer,
all of the opium and other narcotic
drugs. Apparently nothing else in
the store was disturbed, which leads
one to suspect that the theft was Ell
ther committed by some one addicted
to the morphine habit or some shrewd
burgler who makes it his business to
rob drug stores in order to sell them.
Such a theft has never been commit
ted in Edgefeld before. If the offend
er is apprehended, the federal gov
ernment will probably take hand
in the prosecution as it is a violation
of a Federal statute to have such a
large quantity of narcotics in ones
possession.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
A Soldier Costs $423.27.
The Camp Saliva.

The Camp Saliva.
Camp Sewer soldiers may be inter-
ested to learn that it costs The United
States government s327.73 to keep
each one of them here yes.r and that
their cost of maintenance is Increased
to $423.47 when they are ordered
overseas.
Under the direction OF Brigadler-
General R. E. Wood, acting quarter
master-general of the army, statistics
have been gathered from the clothing
and equipage, subsistence, conserva-
ton, reclamation and hardware and
metals divisions Of the quartermas-
ter corps to indicate just what it costs
year to maintain soldier overseas
and in the United States. These stats
tics show that the cost is $423.47 a
year to equip and maintain a soldier
overseas and sS27.7S to equip and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Influenza Claims Heavy Death
Toll.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE recent
epidemic of influenza in the United
States caused more deaths than oc-
Cured among the American expedi-
tionary forces from all causes from
the time the first unit landed in
France until hostilities ceased.
This announcement today by the
census bureau was based on unofficial
estimates of the total casualties
among the overseas forces and re-
ports from 46 cities having COM
bined population of 23,OOO,OOo, which
showed S2,3O6 deaths from influenza
and pneumonia from September Q to
9. s.....s: ~ .5s~
Normally these cities would have
had 1000 deaths from these causes
during this period, it was said, leav-
ing approximately $4,000 as the num-
Der properly chargeable to the cpl
demic.
"The total casualties in the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces" said the
announcement, "have recently been
unoficiany estimated at 100000. On
the basis of the number thus far re-
ported, it may be assumed that death
from all causes, including diseases
and accidents, are probably less than
As per cent. and may not be more
than 40 per cent. of the total casual
ties. On this assumption, the loss of
life in the American expeditionary
forces to date are about 100000 or
$4,000"
The total of deaths due to the in
fluenza epidemic in this country is
not known, the announcement said,
as only the 46 cities for which fig.
ures were given report vital statistics
to the census bureau. The greatest
mortality due to the epidemic, in pro-
portion to population, was IA per
thousand, was reported from Balti-
more.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
"Pounds and Francs"

When our boys come back from
cover there" they will scarcely know
how to "make change" with Ameri-
can coins, having become so accus-
toned to the money of France and
England. One boy writing home says
he has few days off after some du-
ty and will pass the time in seeing
some of the sights of France. But, he
says, "It takes pounds to travel and
! only have francs"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
EdgefeId's Memorial to Her
Dead Heroes.

The U. D. C. of Edgefeld wish to
stand on record as promoting the
first memorial to our dead heroes.
Every one interested in this will
please see the president of the Edge
field U. D. C. Chapter, Mrs. A. A.
Woodson. This is movement which
every man, woman and child in the
county should be interested in and
all organizations will be asked to as
sist. We should place on our public
square a shaft or other memorial to
perpetuate the memory of our boys
and do it at once.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
Honor Roll.

More than 200 pounds Of nut
shells and fruit stones have been sent
to Johnston Red Cross headquarters
from the Beginners Sunday School
class of Philippi. The contribution
puts the following boys and girls on
the "honor ROLL"
Viola Clark, Wilbur Clark, Nora
Derrick, Henry Woodward, Gertrude
Pardue, Olivia Pardue, Everette Der
rick, Lewis Derrick, Grant Williams,
Henry Williams, Frank Williams, Jas
per Derrick, Martha Derrick, Pauline
Derrick, Kenneth Claxton, Catherine
Claxton.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
maintain one in the United States.

maintain one in the United States.
Subsistence, figured at 60 cents per
day amounts to $251.85 per man over
seas; figured at SO cents per day in
the United States, it amounts to
$1S9.90.
The cost of initial equipment for
the soldier in the first year in the Uni
ted States is S115.30. The cost of the
initial equipment Of the soldier over
seas for the first year is S4241. This
cost Of S42.41 is for articles which
are in addition to the regular equip
ment. Thus it appears that if the SOL
dier did not take with him a great
deal of his old equipment already sup
piled him in the United States, the
contrast between the cost of equip
ping and maintaining a soldier in this
country and abroad would be much
more marked.
Not only is the amount of equip
ment needed abroad greater than that
needed in this country, but the stats
tics of the conservation and reclama-
tion division show that equipment and
clothing overseas is subject to much
harder use, wears out more quickly
and is less effectively reclaimed than
similar material, clothing and equip
ment used in the United States. The
amount of reclamation of each indi-
vidual soldiers equipment in the Un-
tied States is $3.50 year, while
the amount of reclamation of similar
material abroad is but $33.31 per
man per year.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-11-20
discourse to the fullest.

ulSSOu1SC w GllC 4o1lSo0s
Mrs. W. S. Stokes and Miss Ruth
Stokes have gone to Columbia to join
DR.. Stokes, and they will now reside
there. DR.. Stokes is employed on the
State Educational Board.
Mr.. Guy Forrest and family are
now living here, the former having a
position at the Johnston Oil Mills.
Miss Emma Bouknight went to
Charleston last week to act as page
for the president general, U. D. c.,
Miss Mary Poppenheim, at the exc
cutive board meeting of the U. D. C.
The general convention being called
off at St. Louis the president general
called this general meeting at Char
lesion.
There have been many homes here
afflicted with influenza, and in some
several of the family were i'll at the
same time. The beautiful spirit with
which neighbors and friends have
gone into these homes and ministered
to the sick, has been noted. There
were many that labored thus whose
names were not learned of, perhaps,
and all of these were surely loving
their neighbor as themselves" These
beautiful! acts were such that it would
be good to give their names but as
there were many, some might be un-
Intentionally left out. In one home
when death made two visitations,
kind neighbors and friends sent every
meal as long as sickness lasted.