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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-06-21

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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-06-21
uRcss ,s TO IS AS DRAFT AGE.

washington. June i5.-Three mil
iion Americans will be under arms by
nert August LIST. the Senate Military
Commiffee was told today by Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
Extension Of the age limits IN the
army draft viii be necessary. Gen.
crowder said, II the present rate OF
drAft calls Is continued. He estima. ,
Cd that all the men In class one woulu
bo exhausted soon after next January
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cla.. One Called On.

oen. crowder said that 1.stI.ooo oi
the !. a.41s. 900 men placed In class ! al
ready have been called to the colors
He estimated that some 100000 addi-
tional men for the first class would Dc
secured from the men who registered
iaat June S and that another 100000
win be added BY the reclassification
of men In the reexamination OF the
auestionnaires now being made.
RepuIsitions from the draft TO com
nlete the 1000. 900 total by August 1
Cen. crowder said. have been made
Of these 100000 will be draft regis,
trants and the others volunteers ant
National Guardsmen-
Everybody thinks there viii o
heavy calling during the nrst 80
months Of 1919. Mr.. Crowder said
Would Increase Age
Gen. crowder approved the genera
nrinciple OF the bill introduced by Sen
otor France. OF Maryland. extending
fho registration ages from Is to y
years. thereby providing additiona
men Tor military and Industrial serv'
Ice. He did not. however. approve TN
.re limits fixed in the bill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
HEARING ON RATES
ADJOURNED TO JULY 18th
Railroad Commission Hears Objections
of Cities to Increase in
Electric Rates.

The hearing before the Railroad
Commission to fix s'war rates. for cleo
tricity in thirty-three cities and towns
in Wisconsin, was adjourned to July
18th by the Railroad Commission at the
hearing held on Tuesday. A lot of evi
dence was taken by the commission
This included statements by the petit
tioning companies of the costs of sup
plying electricity in the cities mention
ed and the protests of cities against
the proposed raise.
In most cases the protest was made
on account of the fact that the
officials Of the cities believed that
the companies were furnishing insult
fcient service
The commission announced that nc
decision would be handed down on this
petition until after the decision in the
Milwaukee petition had been handed
down.
It is improbable that the decision will
become effective before the first of
August, but it is possible that the in
crease, if granted, will be effective as
to current used in July.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
FLOUR THIEVES
: SOUGHT BY POLICE
Unknown Parties Break Open Gar and
seal Six Hundred Pounds of
Flour on Tuesday.

Some people in Kenosha are going to
have white bread made of wheat flour
and they got the -four without taking
with it the fifty per cent of substitutes.
Boehm and Hanson reported to the police
early today that carload Of flour which
had been spotted on the tracks near
Grand avenue, had been broken open
during the night and six hundred pound
bags of -four had been removed from
the car. The burglars were careful in
their work and the police have no clew
to their identity. "Can t blame 'em
much" was the suggestion of one of
the police officers this morning. 1t does
get tiresome eating war bread" How
ever his feeling is not interfering in the
least with the officers making every pos
sible effort to locate the burglars.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
WILL ATTACH PROPERTY
Delinquents Are Given Ten Days to Set
tie After Which They Must Go Into
Court If They Want to Evade the
Payment of the Income Tax.

Sheriff Jacob Hermann and his de-
puties have opened the drive for the
collection of delinquent income taxes
IN Kerosha county and seventy five
delinquents, most of them residents of
the city of Kenosha, have received
formal notices from the sheriff that if
the delinquent tax charged against
them is not paid and paid at once that
the sheriff will attach any personal
property or real estate that they may
have and that the same Will be sold at
public auction to provide funds for the
payment of the tax The delinquent
list is not as long as in former years
but the total of it will run into the
thousands Of dollars
"There is not going to be any de-
lay in collecting these taxes" declared
the Sheriff. "The law makes certain
provisions for collection and these pro-
visions are to be carried out with Wig
or. We do not want to take property
and sell it at auction on Market
Square or at the front door of the court
house but we shall be forced to take
this action if the taxes are not paid.
We have found some errors in returns.
One man has presented both receipt
and cancelled cheek showing the
payment of the tax. A lot of them
have protested that they never had the
xpaa Vxykrah +h4 90 Ta1
but we can not settle that question.
The people must settle that with the
state tax commission or the local tax
officials after they have paid the tax.
Our duty is connected alone with the
delinquent taxi
As in past years there has been the
usual number of delinquencies returned
against former residents who are now
living in other cities and other states
and the formal notice has been sent to
these people right along with the no
tees to- people who have property in
this county. Payments are to be Wig
orously urged and if necessary suits
will be instituted in the courts to en-
force collections Of these taxes. Thous-
ands of people in Kenosha county have
paid the income tax and these other
people are not to be permitted to be
slackers.
Ten days is allowed by the notice
for the people who are delinquent to
pay the tax. At the end of that ten
days writs of attachment will be taken
out and the tax payers will be forced
to appear in court to defend these
writs. The cost Of collection as well
as the original tax must be paid by the
delinquents. A number of delinquents
have sent checks to the Sheriff to cover
the tax and it is expected that ma
jorit5 Of the claims of the city and
county will be paid before the cases
reach the courts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
(By United Pressl

Paris, July 5-Another German
counter-attae on the newly won
American positions at Vaux, west
of Chateau-Thierry failed yester-
day, the French war Office announc-
ed today. In local operations be-
tween Ribeeourt and scissors, the
French advanced nearly half
mile on two mile front, taking
220 prisoners. Between the Disc
and the Aisne, local operations
north of Mouln-S Sous Trouvent en-
abled the French to capture Ger
man position on front of three
kilometers, to the depth of 500 me-
tiers, taking 22O prisoners. West
of Chateau Thierry, German
counter attack upon Vauz failed
under French fire and prisoners
were taken. German attempts
failed northeast Of Mocel-Hauts in
Alsaee. -
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
New Door to Door Freight
and Express Service Be-
tween KenOsha and Chi
cago to Begin Aug. l.
SEVERAL TRIPS DAILY

AS soon as Kenosha business men,
who are in need of a better freight
service between this city and Chicago,
have signed the necessary agreement,
there will be stablishd between Keno
sha and that city freight and express
motor service which will do door to
door business thus greatly facilitating
the delivery of goods between the
two cities.
The company who will operate this
service will call at the door of the
business man in Kenosha for the
freight or express and deliver it to
the door of the consignee in Chicago
and vice versa.
This project is backed by the Siege
man Motor Car Company, of Milwau-
kee, which is composed of some of the
strongest men, financially, in that city.
Adam J. Mayer of Mayer Booth Shoe
Co., is president; T. FL. Parker of
Mueller & Sons Co., is vicepresident;
and the board of directors is com
posed of other prominent business
men OF Milwaukee.
The service will begin about August
/, when three motor trucks will be
started each way day. The charges
will be seventy cents hundred which
is fifteen cents less than the express
rate and only twenty five cents in ex-
cess Of the freight rate between
Kenosha and Chicago after June, while
the saving in time will be a great
factor.
The service rendered will be much
quicker than express and much less ex-
pensive and no more expensive than
freight, considering the hauling charges
between the terminals and warehouses
of the local business men.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
MAKE CONTRACTS AUGUST /
Plans as Accepted win Be Used for Ens
Construction Of Washington School
on North Side and the Mckinley
School on the West Side.

The plans of John D. Chubb, Chicago
architect, for the new Washington
school to be erected on the site Just
north of the Gi1lett school were ap-
proved and accepted by the Board of
education at special session held at
the city hall ON Tuesday evening and it
is expected that contracts for the new
building viii be let about the first
of August.
The building vii be a splendid brick
fire-prOcf building and the latest word
In the construction of school buildings
1t viii contain twenty-three class
rooms, az auditorium and gymnasium
and in addition several rooms to be
used for administration purposes. Ex-
perts in school construction who have
examined tho plans declare that the
school win be one of TIE most modern
If not the most modern building ever
erected in the Middle West.
The Beard of Education win play no
favorites in the new school buildings
and the plan accepted for the Washing
ton school win later be used as plans
for the building e Mckinley
school to be eres On treme
.sesf side q $40 i Is tkoagh4
probable that the work on both bald
ings will be started before the opening
of the winter wonths and that both
will be ready for the acceptance of
children at the opening of the new
school year in September of 1919 1t is
possible that the Washington school
will be ready for use by the opening
of the second semester of the school
year next spring. While the city has
not as yet received the federal permit
necessary for the issuance of the bonds
for the building of the schools it is ex-
pected that this will reach Knosha in
time for the bonds to be used in the
early fall. The bond market at the
present time is not particularly attrac-
tive for the sale of municipal issues.
The School Board will not be forced
to draw on the funds raised by the
bond issues until some time in the fall
and it is felt certain that the money
will be available by the time it is need
ed
No other business was taken up alb
the meeting of the Board Of Education
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
Doc Roberts
Gets One Year in
Milwaukee Jail
Last Member Of Roberts Luck Triangle
Convicted on Statutory Charges in
Milwaukee This Morning.
(By United Press.

Milwaukee, July 3-Dr. David
Roberts, Waukesha, the last mem
Der of the Roberts Lusk triangle,
was convicted on two counts alleg-
ing statutory charge in the Dis
trict Court for Milwaukee county
this morning and sentenced by
Judge Page to the maximum PEN
atty, one year IN the Milwaukee
House of Correction. The defen-
dant was given twenty-four hours
in which to effect an appeal to the
Municipal Court and such an appeal
will be made. The attorneys
for Roberts held that the charges
against him were outlawed because
the offense alleged took place more
than a year ago. The court re-
fused to sustain this contention
and declared that Roberts must go
to the House Of Correction.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
By William Philip simms

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent !.
With the British Armies in
in France, July 8. - AS result
Of the Germans retaking the ridge
northwest of Albert last night the
British are now back along the
old front line where the enemy
was stopped last spring. That the
Germans considerd tn position of
tn Britons over menacing to Albert
and Aveluy wood was shown by
the fact that four desperate at
tacks were made to capture this
position, az any price, since it was
taken by the British on last Sum
day night.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
LAND OWNERS LOSE
IN DRAINAGE SUIT

Judge Belden ruled against the land
owners Of the Root River Drainage.
district who objected to the assessments
for work still to be done in the district
and against the legal fees charged by
the attorneys in the matter. The mat
ter came up on the hearing Of an ap-
plication for an order to show cause,
being tried a week or ten days ago.
Judge Belden has ruled that the dis
trict shall not be divided at this time
and that the drainage district officers
proceed with the plan as laid out. His
decision follows:
F'Thc court can not say that the at
torneys' charges for legislative work
were not for the benefit of this district,
or that, if incidentally, it proves to
serve other districts in the state, that
they should be apportioned, or if appor-
toned, how. The commissioners have
not differed with the court as to tho
reasonableness of the charges for att
torneys' fees.
'The commissioners report fled on
March 81, 1913, will be confirmed. The
commissioners are directed to proceed
with the work as heretofore ordered,
including repairs to all work designed
to be done by the additional assess
ments asked for, as speedily as posi-
BILE, and to borrow on the credit of the
district, in anticipation of the addi-
tional assessments as the work is
duly accepted.
F'The district was created upon tho
petition of the interested landowners,
including those now questioning the
commissioners report and seeking an
order to show cause, etc. The work
should go on whole, as the district
was constituted and now exists
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
COUNTY ORGANIZATION
is NOW COMPLETE
Wheatland Organizes Subordinate Coun-
Gil of Defense at Enthusiastic
Meeting on Tuesday Night.

Kenosha county is now q hundred per
cent efficient in the organization of its
councils of defense, as the last subor-
dinate council in the county was or
ganized on Tuesday evening in the
town of Wheatland.
The flying squadron of the county
council composed of E. j. Sullivan, CLARK
Judd, Fl. E. Barden and Russell FL. Jones
went to Wheatland and after patriotic
addresses by Mr.. Judd and Mr., Barden
in which they showed the work that the
council was doing the Wheatland coun-
Gil was organized.
Joseph P. Quirk was elected chairman
Of the council; Henry Wehmhoff, vice
chairman; III. A. Runkle, secretary, and
John Kersting, treasurer.
The council will at once name a Food
Administrator and the orders Of the
national and state councils will be en-
forced to the letter in the town.
The meeting was most enthusiastic
one and it IS certain that the Wheat
land branch will be one Of the most
active branches in the county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
American Soldiers
Annihilate Whole
German Regiment
Yanks Fighting at Chateau Thierry Give
One of the Most Brilliant Exhibitions
of the War ON Tuesday.
(By Lowell Mellett)

Omitted Press staff Correspondent.
With the Americans ON the
Marine, July 2-(Evening) - The
Americans utterly demolished an
attempted counter-attack on their
new positions west of Chateau
Thierry this morning, taking 81 ad-
ditional prisoners. Our artillery
laid down a terrific barrage that
entirely cut oc the attacking
force, while the American machien
gun and rifle fire annihilated
them. A number of light machine
guns were captured in this new
fighting, raising the total taken
since last night to more than sixty.
Final checking up of the boche
prisoners taken in last night IS and
today's operations is expected to
show more than 900.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
fBv United Pressl .

Syracuse, N. y, July 3 Forty
eight dead at the county morgue;
some are believed still in the ruins;
more than sixty are injured, of
whom ten or FIFTEEN are so serious
" hurt that their recovery is re-
garded as doubtful, and the proper
ty loss is estimated at $4,000 as
the result of the fire and explosion
in the T. N. T., plants at Split Rock
last night.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
NV United Press,.

Rome, July 3 = Field Marshal
Mackensen and Gen. Won Below,
who led the German-Austrian often
sive last Autumn, are reported in a
Berne dispatch today to have gone
to Austria. Won Below is general
ly credited with having been made
commander in chief of the Aus
trian armies on the italian front.
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fBv United pressl.

Geneva, July B. Several regi-
ments of Austro-Hungarian SOL
diers quartered in Prague and
Gratz mutinied when their bread
ration was eliminated, according
to the Prague Tageblatt. The mu-
tineers announced they had enough
cartridges to shoot their officers,
whereupon the bread ration was re-
established and the revolt ended.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
nv united Pressl

Washington, July 8. Sixty
three more American soldiers have
been awarded the distinguished ser
vice cross for gallantry in action,
General Pershing reported to the
war office today. The names of
the men so honored were not made
public.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
(By United Press).

London, July 3-In connection
with the return of Sir George
Cave, from the Hague, it was ru-
mored today that peace terms were
mentioned at the Anglo-German
conference on exchange of prison
ers in that city. There is no con-
frmation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04

With the Italian Armies in the
Field, July 3-The previous esti-
mates Of 1,500 Austrians killed in
the recent mountain fighting is
now considerably increased. It is
known that two enemy regiments,
one of which was entirely fresh,
were entirely wiped out, all of
their members being killed or cap
tured. Czech-Slovak units, in
hand-to-hand fighting, killed an
Austian colonel and his. entire
staff. From prisoners and cap
tured documents it is learned that
the support from Austrian artil-
lery was very poor. The attack
ing party numbered less than the
enemy prisoners captured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
(By United Pressl i.

Rome, July 3-"On the lower
Piave we carried out thrusts north
west of Mt. Grappa," the italian
war office announced today. "We
captured 1900 prisoners and many
machine grns. -
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nv United Press).

Amsterdam, July 8 = Germany
denied sinking of the Canadian hos
pital ship Llandovery Castle, in
semi-oficial statement issued in
Berlin todays
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
(By United Press,.

Washington, July 3-Gen. Per-
shing's casualty list of IS today
was divided as follows: Killed in
action IS; died of wounds 8; died
of disease 4; died of accident and
other causes 6; severely wounded
u; missing in action SO.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04

Private Nicholas A. Schultz, son of
Mrs. Gertrude Schultz Of 274 Hanson
street, has distinguished himself as a
hero somewhere in France and is the
first Kenoshan to receive the highest (of
French honors, the Croix de Guerre.
The above is a translation of the
citation that accompanied the decora-
tion received by his mother who is no
doubt the happiest woman in Kenosha.
The citation explains the entire sit
uation Nick evidently plunged into a
burning aid station which had been
fred by the shells of the boche and
without thought of self danger, dis
played that indomitable courage and
sang-froid "a good French expression
for downright Yankee cool-headedness)
that is characteristic of our young
Americans and saved the furniture and
sanitary materials from the flames. The
fact thQt he was cited for courage
and GOODNESS verifes the suggestion that
he was in immediate peril.
Schultz was decorated ON June 9th by
General Puyperoux, commander of third
division of the Colonial Infantry.
Kenosha IS hero enlisted in the Am
bulance Corps on June End. He was
trained in Allentown, Pa, and sailed
for France the following January. Since
then ne has seen active service on the
French front in the Sanitation Service
Unit 544 and while in that division had
the opportunity Of giving the service
that was deserving of honors. AS a
result he has a souvenir that will mean
much in tie family history. It will
mean in the years to come that one
member of that family was recognized
for valor in the great world war, that
he was recognized by a country to
whom we owe our greatest debt. Schultz
has helped Kenosha pay her part of the
debt TO the countrymen of Lafayette
The little booklet that accompanied
the citation and which is now in ME
possession of proud mother, contain
cd a handsome French war cross en-
broidered in gold under which was in
scribed "Honneur nos Valiants
Soldats, /" (honor to our valiant
soldiers). Within the booklet was
the following verse:
Croix de guerre; sous lie drapeau
tn conquis 'Tnsigne du Heros;
Par tot, renaitra la Liberte,
Je tie salue unom de 'Humanite.
A literal translation is, ''Under the
Gag, you have won the hero s insignia,
che cross of the war; through you
liberty is revived I greet you in
the name of humanity"
Kenosha is proud of her first Croix
de Guerre. She is prouder of the young
hero whose brave deeds were worthy
of such recognition. She had something
more to add to her glories and the
name of Nicholas Schultz. will be remem-
bered long after this war has ceased.
1t is interesting to know that that
the first Kenoshan to win the Croix
de Guerre is the grandson of woman
who was born and raised in Germany.
and the fact that he has been dec
grated is proof in itself that in France
as in this country there is no prejudice
where 4here AA.lovaltv.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04

And if you did not subscribe for
War Savings Stamps the thing to do
is to do some manual labor to help the
nation out. If you can't let your
money work do the work with your
hands. The Red Cross can still use
a lot of loyal workers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04

The police have been asked to make
an effort to locate George Beyers a
Milwaukee man who disappeared from
that city on Tuesday taking a Ford
truck and a thousand dollars in money.
The telephone message to the police
declared that Beyers had been traced
To Kenosha
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
BULLETIN.
CIV United Pressl

Wausau, Wis, July Enormous
damage has been done by a storm
and cyclone which swept over a
wide territory this morning. The
path of the storm was from
Rochester, Mimi, to the Iowa state
line and over wide territory in
Northern Wisconsin. No detailed
reports of the storm have been re-
ceived as wire connections have
been seriously interrupted.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04

London, July 3 - Forty three
German airplanes and three obser-
walton balloons were accounted for
Monday, Monday night and Tues
day, according to the official avia-
ton communique. Eight British
plans are missing. More than
thirty-five tons of bombs were
dropped on enemy positions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-04
By n,ted pressl

Washington, July 3. It was
announced this afternoon that the
Federal Railroad administration
has taken over the oneration OF.
the Pullman comparg.
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nv ITnited Pressl

London, July - The Germans
last night recaptured most of the
ground won by the British north
west of Albert on Sunday, Field
Marshal Haig reported today.