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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
ALL ARE WELCOME
TO Join XMAS TREE
EXERCISES HERE
Plan Big Celebration In Honor of
Day and Peace Which Has Come
To the World After
War.

People residing in the country con-
tiguous to Watertown as we'll as the
city people are invited to participate
in the exercises attendant upon the
community Christmas tree planned
for Tuesday afternoon between &c
and 6 o'clock.
1t is fitting that on the day thai
commentaries the birth of the Prince
of Peace, community has been
brought into new and closer relations
by its united efforts to achieve a grea,
victory should join in such a celebra-
ton of Christmas as it has never had
before. The first thrill of joy that
found expression in a great spOntan-
eOus demonstration, is over, but there
remains with all of us deeper and q
quieter sense of gladness that may
we'll find its own expression in the
lights, the songs, and the good cheer
of community Christmas tree.
So let the spirit of thankfulness be
present in the heart of every one who
attends the community tree celebra-
tion, thanfulness that after four long
ARE once again at peace with one an
pther and that in so many American
homes there is rejoicing because her
sons have come back.
The Christmas season is the time OF
giving and some of us may feel that
we would like to help those who have
been less fortunate than we. The drive
for the fatherless children of France
ends on Christmas day. and a box will
be provided by the Christmas tree
committee wherein people may drop a
contribution for the poor orphans OF
France if they so desire Thus a
christmas festival in WatertOwn will
end by bringing joy and peace to
some of the million orphans of France
whose fathers have given their lives
for the cause of liberty
J AS thank offering, let every home
to which boy is returning, do some
thing to help keep with it's mother a
little French orphan whose father will
never come back.
In such way we will round out a
perfect Christmas with merriment and
gladness for those of us from whom
the shadow of war has been lifted
and with tender thought for those
across the seas, who, however they
may rejoice over the coming of peace
must still carry heavy burden OF
Sorrow.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
Officers Elected
Chapter No. 49, f. and A. M.

The annual meeting OF Watertown
Chapter No. 40, Free and Accepted
Masons, was held Thursday evening
and officers were elected:
Worthy MaSter-Dr. F. G.. Haney
Senior Warden-W. F. Richards.
Junior Warden-E. V. Brand.
Secretary-Ferd Schmutzler.
TreaSurer-W. F. VOss
Trustee-Emil Creuz.
Senior Deacon-J G. Calhoun.
Junior Deacon-Fred w. Voss
SteWardS-Walter Schmmel, Charles
j. Seager
Tiler-E. B. Kramer.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
Fearless,
16-3t

A man who makes SIS week has
been advised by writer that he can
marry and get along, providing he has
saved up a fund. That sounds reason
able. A man who can save fund out
Of $15-a-week salary has nothing to
fear from marriage or anything else.-
Kansas City Star.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
MEN BREAK JAIL.
But Are Captured Here By Captain
BOlger.

Two youths, aged 10, who broke
Jail at Rio on Wednesday, were caught
at Watertown Junction during the
night by Officer NJ Bolger The men
had been arrested at Wyocena for
stealing articles from stores and were
taken to the Jail at Rio, but it was an
easy matter, so they told Captain
Bolger, to break away. An officer
came here on Thursday and returned
them to COLUMBIA county.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20

Satisfaction is guaranteed
whether your purchase consists
of watch, a ring, a brooch, a
scarf pin, a piece of silverware
or any one of the numerous ar
ticles Bearing the name Hail.
mark and sold exclusively by
w. d. SprOesser Co. 18tf
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
Verdict For $500.

Herman Ohrmundt was plaintiff in
an action tried n the circuit court at
Jefferson this week wherein the plain
tiff sued to recover money in a real
estate transaction. The case came be-
fore Judge Grimm and a jury, and the
latter awarded the plaintiff a verdict
of $500 The plaintiff was represented
by Otto Kuenzli of this city.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20

Cleanliness is the first law of
health, inside as we'll as outside. Let
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea be
your internal cleanser, then your or
gans will be pure and clean, your
health good, your system right. Start
tonight. Tea or Tablets 35c. Bittner
& Tetzlaff.-Adv
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20

What would Christmas be
without music? A VictrOla
brings the Christmas Carols
right into your home. w. d.
SprOesser Co., exclusive Victor
agents for WATERFOWL. 18tf
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
How TO Carry Ink,

When travelling fasten all the bottles
and small jars by adhesive tape. Fas-
ten the tape to one side of the neck,
carry it across the cork and down on
the other side. -Celluloid and ivory
boxes and jars may be fastened in
the same way. They are easily opened
and yet so securely fastened that there
is no danger Of leaking.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
Plattdeutscher Verein.

At a regular meeting of the Water
town Plattdeutscher Verein Thursday
evening, William Wolburg was elect
ed trustee in place of Fred A. Block,
deceased
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High School Notes

The Boys Glee club met on Tuesday
evening.
The school orchestra held rehearsal
Wednesday evening under the leader
ship of r. A. Buell.
The freshmen and sophomore
classes and the Camera club held
meetings Thursday evening.
Basketball IS the students nlain
sport. The candidates for the first and
second teams are practicing daily in
the gym.
The Forum Debating club held its
regular meeting Tuesday night. The
following program was rendered:
Current Events BOettcher
Debate, Resolved, That the U. S.
should operate the railroads per,na-
nently -----------------
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20

Select your toys, dolls, books.
chinaWare, candies, kiddie kars,
wagons and Christmas and New
Year cards at WatertOwn's
largest toy store, The Fair. w.
F. Gruetzmacher, Prop, 400
Main street. 20-3t
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Marriage Licenses.

Fred ]. Stahlin, Lauella Schmidt
Rubicon.
c. Moen, Maud Beisner, Watertown
G. P. Bannister, Viola, Title M
Brown, Beaver Dam.
Herbert Otto, Anna Hollander
Westford
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New T.. nj. e. r. & L. sched-
ule, leave n. w. depot $3.50 a.
M, leave East Limits 9:45 a.
M. and arrive at n. w. depot
10000 a. m. Sunday only. 1t
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Affirmative W. Calhoun, M. Halver-
son, M. Richter; negative-C. Stew
enson, c. Kading, c. Laffey.
Three Minute Speech----T. Bandelin
Critics Report Thomas
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iInlnOrtelIeS,
ruScuS,

Red ruscus, immOrtelles,
ground pine and lockwood, also
nice assortment Of blooming
plants, palms and ferns suitable
for the holidays, at the Stuebe
Floral Co. store. 16-3t
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20

For Watertown and vicinity-Rain
tonight and Saturday. Not much
change in temperature. Coolest dur
ing last night 80; warmest today so.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20
Crockary Saver,

OrOCkGEy SdVEFs
Danger of breakage is eliminated IN
a new mOtOr-driven dish washer In
which the dishes are held stationary In
wire baskets and water is forced
around them.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-12-20

Kitchen chairs and silver
ware for sale cheap. Inquire at
III North Washington street.
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| THE DEATH ROLL

The funeral of Mr.. Albert Bast, who
died on Monday, will be held Satur-
day afternoon with services at 1:3O
in the home, 1400 Prospect street, and
at 2 o'clock in st. Johns church, the
Rev. F. H. Eggers officiating. The in
terment will be in the Lutheran Gene
terry. The funeral was postponed until
Saturday to allow a brother who is
stationed in a military camp in
Georgia, to attend the funeral.
The death of Herman Erdmann oc-
Cured Thursday morning in OcOnO-
moWoc. He was 10 years of age and
is survived by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Erdmann, one sister,
Miss Martha, and a brother, Frank
who is in military service.
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ALWAYS BUSY

Always Busy.
A girl roomer always has a batch
of finery to wash.-Ksnsas City Jour
nal.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

opening the Allies road to the Rhine. How
much further that road will lead, to a
Berlin, is subject for hopeful specula-
ton"
The New York Evening World"
thinks there are scant hopes that the
Kaiser's warriors can continue to keen
215 miles between the Allies and the
Rhine:
"The nearest point of the Allied battle
front to the Rhine lies about the junction
of the bit of Belgium still free with that
part in German hands. 1t is 215 miles from
the Rhine.
During the four years of war the test
of strength has seesawed backward and
forward over range of about sixty miles.
with the Germans fast retreating to
the outermost line held by them
"The German Emperor has made his chief
bid for the support Of his people on the
fact that no fighting has taken place on
German soil, the slight invasion of Alsace
not counting in his claim. 1t would be q
living lesson could Germany be made to
endure of the cruel suffering she has
caused the innocent people of France A
German force which has been beaten with
such celebrity during the past month could
hardly endure to reach the Rhine. or 10
1t did, would be in pretty poor fighting shape
when it arrived.
at is neither absurd nor imnossible bow.
ever, to imagine retreat of such magni-
tude- The great Napoleon once made
longer one and brought back but one-twen-
tieth of his grand army"
The New York Tribune has struck
the popular chord of American opinion.
AS its "unmilitary expert observed in
an editorial which has been widely re-
printed:
Plain unmilitary Americans with never
square inch of khaki in their wardrobes
and not smidge Of Napoleon's wisdom or
their tongues end out to cheer and
celebrate a battle that speaks for itself
Whether there are pincers to snan or
sahents to be squeezed we do not give
hoot. The most exposed flank in the
world leaves US cold as cold The Allie.
are licking the tar out of the Boches. tha
Allies are going forward as fast as tanks
can take them, and the Germans arc oo;n
back back, back. For US, the Allies. hin.
hip, hooray,
THE objective? We know and we'll ..,,
which is more than most experts will,
take chance on doing.
"The objective is Berlin,~
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
From The Baltimore Su7a

which resulted in the capture of nearly 400
Germans returning from leave
"They had heard the heavy gunfire, but
had no inklng their lines had been pierced.
"hen they reached that part of the road
between Harbonnieres and Vauvillers
daring British airman dropped bomb on
their train, bringing it to a standstill. Be-
tore they could get under way again a
squadron of British cavalry rushed UP and
surrounded it, demanding its surrender.
whereupon Boche prisoners soon started on
the next lap of their journey under cavalry
escort to British prison camp"
Inc cavalrymen went after the Ger
mans like hounds in a chase. according
to "The New York Sun" correspondent.
"Our cavalry was held up at Marco1av.
by machine guns, so the horscmen with
drew until a fleet Of small tanks could be
called into action. These rambled into the
town and made short work Of the machine
gunnerS ana SnlperS. When the Germans
saw the tanks coming they scooted out of
the houses and tried to escape across the
open country.
Our cavalrymen, noting this, leaped their
horses over the fences and were on them
like hounds in chase, sabering the panic
stricken Germans right and left Seven
hundred prisoners were taken by the horse
men,"
And then the Allied airmen swooped
down with their machine-gun fire. Jo-
seph w. Grigg describes their part in
''The New York World:
"Chasing the enemy troops by airplanc
was one of the most common diversions
and wrought havoc among the fleeing enemy
detachments. Seeing British troops at one
point held up by strong enemy party in
trench with machine guns, another air.
man routed the whole lot with fire and
scattered bodies all over the field as the
enemy fled precipitately. Four hundred of
the enemy retreated to a gulch, hoping to
hold it with rife and machine gun fire. but
the airmen swooped down upon it and from
a height of fifty feet slaughtered the Ger
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

TF George M. Cohan is to get the
credit for discovering that gun
rhymes with run, then several
hundred thousand of his country
men over in Europe share the honor of
discovering at first hand that both words
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Looking for a Strategic Line
From The Ne1o Eueniag

mans with bombs and machine gun fire.
At another place 100 of the enemy sur
rendered to a small party of British in
fantry. When they realized that it would
be impossible for any of them to get out
alive under such rain of bullets they
capitulated forthwith" :.
''The varied achievements of the avi-
ators is suggested by the following dis
patch to ''The New York Herald from
Percival Phillips:
"The airmen have scored many sensa-
tonal successes since the beginning of the
advance. They have pursued anti-tank
guns, shot down crews, attacked trains
bringing fresh troops toward the broken
line, circling arotnd them at fifty feet and
firing into the windows Of cars on both
sides, chased teams of horses drawing OBJ
servaton balloons out of danger and killed
them all, including machine gun men and
the occupants of staff cars coming forward
to try to investigate the situation. Some
of these staff officers as we'll as ordinary
infantry of the line marching away from
in front of the Australians and Canadians
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

must have had a horrible time avoiding
the machine guns in the air.
And then the airmen returned to re-
port what they had observed. Perry
Robinson writes to "The New York
Sun" about them:
with the rapidity of our advance the
first day something like panic seems to
have set in back of the enemy lines. Scenes
Of the utmost confusion were noted bv o,,r
avlators, who reported that men and
vehlcles were streaming over the roads in
Wild mass, the soldiers throwing awav
their rifles and all equipment in their hurry
to reach safety. Even their wounded vera
lett behind. German orders which we IN
tercepted show that confusion rn1od o,,o,
IN 1he minds of the commanding officers"
Writing of the work of the arnoored
cars, the same correspondent said:
Inc crew of one said they met
German transport which tried to turn
around to escape. Four mounted oficarc
came gailoplng up to see what had han
pened and all were shot from the car which
then proceeded to round up the personnel
OF the transport. At several places o,r
armored cars overlook both mechanical and
horse drawn transport along the roads, and
after shooting the horses took the mon
prisoner. At one place the crews of the
armored cars stopped railway train and
iet it afre. At another place the cars
drove through a village, where the soldiers
were still asleep. unaware of danger The
car drove through, shooting into windows
In one house officers were just preparing
to sit down to breakfast, but their mea1
was interrupted by hail of bullets
With the enemy retreating. specula-
ton arises as to how far he will be
forced to go. "The New York Mail"
observes:
att would not be too much to saw at
this stage Of the operation that if Allied
victories on the Marne closed Germany's
road 20 Paris. the Victories in Picardy are
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
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cars, with infantry advancing in their wake
with dreadful deliberation, is written plain
on the Plateau of Santerre, beyond our old
front line.
"F'rom the forward machine gun nests to
the snug headquarters Of the 11th German
Corps at Framerville the fugtives left a
trail Of debris and booty dropped pellmell
in their wild desire to reach the Somme.
Deserted batteries confront you at the edge
of ruined villages, and some of the fields
are dotted with documents strewn hap
hazard by the fleeing staffs.
~ passed through eight miles of re-
claimed country and four villages which
Germans held until yesterday morning, and
every yard Of this interesting journey re-
vealed fresh proof of the CONSERVATION of
the enemy and the inability to check the
panic among his troops.
"Here and there a German lay where he
fell, staring at the flow of khaki with
astonished eyes. In lars they used as
prepared for breakfast when the tanks
rolled up the wire. Along the level high
way passes the gaunt skeleton of a
British aerodrome, tangled wisps of rusty
iron and crumpled fragments of the hut
cncampment which we abandoned and then
shelled until no German dared show his
face above the level of the grass"
An Associated Press dispatch gives
vivid picture of frightened German
general running up a road, pursued by
a British "whippet" tank:
"Where the tanks and the armored car
batteries pressed far forward in the rolling
country there was much agitation among
the enemy. A report came back that
British tank, probably one of the fast little
whppcts, had been seen chasing frightened
German general up the road. But the enemy
general was not ptone in the direction in
which he was going. Observers reported
considerable columns of enemy transport
going eastward in hurry during the middle
Of the day."
The magnificent work of The tanks
against enemy machine guns was illus
trated At small town south Of the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Look Out, He Has Tasted B.ood

Amlens-Roye road, where the adyanc-
ing French infantrymen were DELAYED
by machine gun fire. According to an
other Associated Press dispatch:
Five ponderous, armored monsters went
over and rolled directly into the place
Their crews discovered that the houses
were crowded with Germans manning ma
chine guns, principally from second story
windows. One tank leisurely advanced unon
mouse while hail of bullets splashed
of its metal hide. After reconnoitring at
close range, the tank backed of. and CHARGED
home It's great weight crushed in tho
whole building, and it continued forward
until the structure was fattened out with
the enemy machine gunners thoroughly
effaced.
After this success the four companion
tanks engaged serious groups of the enemy
and the house-wrecking machine proceeded
10 roll down and f1atten nine other houses.
This tank literally crushed the entire viii
lage and all the enemy Within"
Further testimony as to the headlonp
: flight Of the Germans is furnished bv
''The New York SUM-:
"The tanks and cavalry had gone still
further and were having merry time along
roads blocked by great masses of retreating
Germans These advanced patrols rounded
up prisoners and obliterated machine gun
nests and even captured two batteries of
artillery.
"These batteries were so thoroughly sur
prised that they and their servants we're
made prisoners in their shelters Little
wicker baskets filled with supplies for
breakfast were found in the Shelters Still
another indication of the rapidity of the
advance seen in the unmarked condi-
tion of large stretches of the country over
which the French moved up. So precipitate
was the German retreat that they did not
wait to fire gum"
A French officer is quoted by Paul
Scott Mower in his dispatch to "The
Chicago Daily News as saying:
"The reconquered ground is strewn lit
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
The Sad Plight of Superman
The NeaU York World.

US, and twice in pushing him back we
seemed to be working uphill.
"This time it is not too much to believe
>,the spring food of our hopes will sweep
the enemy back to his proper frontier.
each hour blow follows bloY as Marshal
Foch and the British generals working with
him keep after the enemy, giving him no
breathing spell. We need talk no more Of
counter offensives, for the initiative is now
in our hands"
When the tanks, both the large ones
and the 'twhippets," began clearing the
way for infantry action there was the
greatest confusion among the disorgan-
lied Germans. Percival Phillips, after
long service as correspondent with the
British armies, says he had seen moth
ing like it previously. He cabled this
version to '"The New York Herald":
"Never have I seen more striking evidence
of dismay and disorganization among a
surprised enemy than on the battlefield l
visited this morning. The story of the
headlong fight before tanks and armored
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

the important point is that the Boche
seems to be moving his watch back to
the Rhine.
"The Crown Prince" in the words of
one commentator, ''instead of following
his nose, seems to be following his re-
firing chin"
And the scrappy Yanks and their
comrades are following the s'invincible"
Germans at a pace that is setting new
records in the four-year marathon.
In his review of the military situa-
ton, General Peyton c. March, chief Of
staff of the American armies, said that
Marshal Foch has the enemy on the run
Marshal Foch, according to General
March, is working on the sound princi-
pie that when you get an enemy going
you keep him going; never give him a
chance to recuperate or think it over
keep on hitting him."
Observers agree that the enemy is
really going at pace that exceeds any
OF his previous movements. In a dis
patch to "The New York Sun" Gerald
Campbell describes it thus:
For the fourth time, without reckoning
the innumerable ripples and eddies along
The shore line, the great tide of battle is
sweeping across the same tract Of Frances
soil. But this time there is a difference.
Inc tide Is rushing out faster and more
irresistibly than it ever came in.
so far, while both the ebb and flow
OF the battle tide have been governed by
the immutable law $50 far and no further
'ne inward flow has been swifter than the
ee6b. Twice the enemy almost overwhelmed
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

ganizing force. Cavalry got into action
on scale previously unknown, with the
following results, as reported by Joseph
W. Grigg to "The New York World":
cat no time since the earliest days of
the war has much cavalry been used,
nor so successfully, and to a squadron of
this division lies the credit of having per-
formed a real Wild West train hold-up
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Our Collector viii Call at Berlin
From The Columbus DISPATCH.

orally everywhere with stacks of German
cartridge boxes, trench mortars and other
materials. The dugouts and posts of COM
mand contain clothing, boots and half-writ-
ten letters. Everything proves the disorder
in which the enemy retreated.
"Some officers were even soundly sleep
Zone and quarter miles) behind the lines
when our infantry arrived At Reasons sur
Metz | saw an immense store of grenades
paper bandages, cartridge boxes and ma
chine gun bands"
Nor were the tanks the only disor-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

rhyme with Hun.
For the Ger
mans are really
on the run.
It may be a
mere coincidence
that their Berlin
ward sprint began
with the crack Of
an American gun,
and then again it
may not be a
coincidence. But