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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
TAKE TOWNS BEYOND HAM.

Berlin, Sept, 7, via LondonD-
On the heights northeast of Fismes,
in the Vesle region, the German
forces yesterday repuIsed renewed
attacks by the Americans, says the
official statement issued today by
the German army headquarters.
On the Somme and Disc rivers the
enemy followed the Germans re-
firing by way of Ham and Chauny
and during the evening was en-
gagged in fighting the German rear
guards on the line OF AubigHy-
Villequier Aumont.
With the American Army On the
Atsne Front, Sept. 7.-CBy the AS
sociated Press.) - (NoOuD The
Germans fell back a short distance
early today before the pressure of
the French and Americans to the
east of Revillon at about the cen
ter of the line between Conde and
Reims.
Nanks Strike New Blow.
With the American Army on the
Aisne Front, Sept. 7,-tBy the AS
sociated Press Additional forces
and supplies We're brought up by
both the Americans and the French
last night and early today the
I'ranco-American line was again
advanced. The allied artillery Of
both heavy and small calibres is be
ing used to tear holes in the enemy
lines.
The new forces were brought mp
along the Aisne 10 the west Of Fis-
mes where the Germans are en-
trenched along the canal parallel TO
the river. The big guns behind the
FrancO-Amercan line were set in
play upon formations far to the
rear, while all the cross roads were
subjected 10 n punishing fire.
Close In Slowly Rut Surely.
The Franco-Amcrican line con
tlnued to close slowly but with un-
erring certainty about the German
left flank that had chung to tine sec
tor TO the west Of Bcims. Particu-
larry determined resistance was dis
played by the enemy remaining at
the point in the angle made by the
line swinging upward toward the
AisHe. The Germans used their
artillery late on Friday with an
possible vigor and their machine
gun crews defended the retreatiug
army point by point
Lines Are Advanced.
Nevertheless the lines Of both the
French and the Americans were ad-
yanced early today
Reports brought into headquar-
ters indicate that the German di-
visions in this sector are as Ger
tainly bound for the Aisne as those
already across the river further 20
the west. But they are determined
to exact as large a price as possi-
bic before yielding the territory
which has already cost them so
much 10 hold
The German artillery was active
along The river front throwing an
enormous volume of high explosive.
shrapuel and gas shells into the
lines that were constantly harassinr
them.
Huns Withdrawing.
Menaced by a salient increasing
in danger the Germans yesterday
began a withdrawal from the NesIe
valley to the right OF the Ameri-
cans. On the west flank the
Americans held firmly, while the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
LISTED AS KILLED
IN ACTION; ALIVE
AND FEELING FINE

New York, Sept THE report
in today's casualty list that Cap
tain Joseph r. Davies Of RosIyn,
III, was killed in action is erron-
eous, according TO his business as
sociates here
Officials Of the Blaine Mining
company OF Maryland said ne Was
u Washington and Ia good health
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
LATE BULLETINS

tu Atlantic Port sept. :.
Two German submarines disc
gai,cd as fishing craft and cur-
rying sails arc operating o few
hundred miles OF the Atlantic
coast, according Ia information
transmitted 10 the naval uu-
thorlties by the officers of Brit
i-h and French steamships ar
irving here.
Toxic, Friday, Aug. 80. By
the Associated Press Japan
C>c cavalry ON Aug. 2G ocCu-
pied ErUsuOyars 81. on the So
surf river front iu Siberia 90
miles northeast Of Lake Khan
ka, according 90 au omcial
statement issued today by iha
Japanese war onicc.
Stockholm, Friday. sept 6.
ton;rary To reports received
from official BoisbcYih sources
travellers who have arrived nt
lianaranda, Sweden, from Uos-
COW, assert HAT Premier Len
inc is dead.
London, Sept. E. CaSualties
among the British forces rg-
ported in the week ending TO-
dny totnIed 2O.Gf0 officers and
men, compared with uu aggrc-
gate of li,t~i reported In the
previous week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
REPORT hun
.LANDSEETHS
WITH revolt
German People and Army,
Demoralized by Defeats,
Near Open Outbreak.

London, Sept a. General de-
moraiiEaiion OF the German
population and widespread and
growing dissatisfaction in the
German army, accompanied by
mutiDy and GCserlioES are de-
soribed in q dispatch 10 the
Daily Telegraph from its Rot
terdam correspondent under
date Of Thursday. The CORES
pendent says that Information
reaching him Is so sensational
as to inspire skepucism but de-
ciares thai he has received cor
r0bOratiOn from authoritative
sources. lie asserts that tire
German troops are filled with
dependency and secthing with
mutinOus spirit and that ont
breaks have occurred in several
units. principally BaI aTian ana
SileSian.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
HAIG FORBES
PUSHING FAR
PAS SOmME
Advance Carries Them
Miles Beyond River
Gain in Flanders.

With the British Armies in
France, Sept. :. CBy the Asso-
ciated Press, (NO0n) British
troops today advanced TO the
eaSt Of LOHgaFeSne and Liera-
nOnt III the rCgiGn northeast Of
Per0nne. Other forces OF Field
Marshal Uaig crossed the
. Nuriu-EinS road.
In The Lys salient the Brit
ish north Il ErquiEghem are
pushing toward the western
bank OF the river LyS- The
British have advanced north OF
hiii 63 to lie ROsSignOi.
Tie British are we'll to the
east Of HancOurt and are more
than nine miles to the east OF
the river SOmmC. Along the
Cologne river Tinc0urt has been
reached.
London, Sept. 7, q p. mD-Brit-
ish progress on practically the
whole battlefront from HavrincOurt
wood to the river Aisne continued
this morning with rather greater
rapidity than had been expected.
British troops advancing last
night on the front southeast and
Of PerOnue captured
SoreI-Le-Grand, and
Netz-en-Couture, says today's wal
office announcement.
Fighting their way toward the
left flank of the Germans positions
along the canal du NOrd from Hag-
IfncOurt northward the British pen
rsrateH, the western part Of Favrin.
Court wood, taking prisoners as they
Gain in Flanders.
In Flanders the British are push
ing toward Messines, near the
southern end Of the Nessines ridge
and they advanced their lines last
night a short distance in the direc-
ton of the town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
TERCINER is CAPTURED In
FRENCH ONRUSH; YANKS ON
AISNE PERIL FOES FLANK
Troops of France Drive Forward Two to Four
Miles on Front of Twenty-Push Far Beyond
Ham-Americans Forcing Enemy Over.

London, Sept. 7, p: m.-Tergnier, three miles
west of La Fere, has been captured by French
troops.
The French have advanced a 2O-mile front to
an average depth of two miles and at places to
a depth of four miles. They occupied Tergnier with
out opposition.
The French troops also reached the forest of
Coucy and now big stretch of entirely
ground
Paris Sept. 7-On the front between the Somme
and the Oise the French continued press forward
last night overcoming the resistance of the Ger
man guard, according to todays Office
port.
TAKE TOWNS BEYOND HAM.
Pushing east of Ham, French troops have occu-
pied the towns of Dury and Ollezy, than three
miles beyond Ham. North of the Ailette the French
have made further advance, winning the entire
lower forest of Coucy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07

One incident of the Arras front
terminated in a whole Bayariau Gi-
vision being disaTUed and trans
ported to Bavaria, where it was
placed in d prison camp and the
nutiny Of one of the SiIe5Ian reEi-
.ments resulted IN nearly q hundred
Of its men being executed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
Thousands Descriing.

A huge number of ueseru0us are
occurring. the correspondent says,
and it is estimated that there are
more than twenty thousand desert
ers in Berlin alone. Large mum
bers are scattered throughout the
country and the authorities are
having the greatest difficulty in
trailing deserters, owing 20 the con
I.Fance Of the working classes.
Nevertheless. hundreds have been
arrested and generally these have
been seuten aed to 10 years impris-
0nmeHL A great number Of impris-
Cned desarters broken by solitary
confinement have been released and
sent back 10 the ranks
Dis0bedierce and defiance of Of
fCeTs is common at the front, &C
eOrding TO the information and
similar spirit is shown in the muni-
ton factories, where the workers
deliberately are slowing up. with
the result that the output has been
seTiouSIy decreased
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07

Asso ciated Press . .
Leased Wire Report
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07

The public interest today is
equally divided between the IN
broken advance of the allied armies
and the apparent signs that the
German people are in state OF
nervous anxiety bordering on de-
uoralizatiOn- More editorial space
IS being given here recently to fu-
ture events than the retreat Of the
German army
The belief that something like a
panic has seized the German pop
ulace is not based upon stories from
neutral sources. which have raised
false hopes in the past. but upon the
utterances Of the leaders IN the Ger
nan nation and the appeals OF Ger
nan new spapers to the public 10
keep its head. while they them
selves admit the seriousness Of the
military situation.
The enperor's bold vein OF as
suranca. Chancellor Won Hertling' s
franchise speech. General Linsin-
gems stringent order. and above all
Field Marshal Won Iiudeuh hurE's
PROCLAMATION. are cited as manifest
Efforts 70 check the decay OF the
German spirit. which II S contend
q must exist 70 have called them
birth.
Upset by Defeats.
In sh0r. lt IS declared that the
Gernan people and perhaps also the
hiliary chiefs evidently are greatly
disturbed bg recent events The IN
Nresr II military c0umeutators
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07

NJ c m ber Of A a dit
Bureau Of Circulations
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07

CC0nLIHHed On R2&s TEree.9
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07
Huns Withdrawing.

Menaced by a salient increasing
in danger. the Germans yesterday
began a withdrawal from the VesIe
valley to the right OF the Ameri-
cans On the west flank the
Americans held firmly, while the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-07

Washington. Sept. THE cas-
ualty list given out today by the
war department contains 293
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
LOCAL NEW s..
Rural School report
cards at the News Office.

Money to loan on farms. First
National Bank.
For auto insurance for S years see
H. G. Griffin, State Mutual. ,f-X
For the highest market price on
poultry and eggs phone No. 9.
JOE WELLS will sharpen your
saw Leave orders at residence or
News Office.
Don't fail to call on DR.. Mccoy,
Optometrist, before getting your
glasses fitted. Over Ramsay's S
Store, Carthage, Mo. 20 years
practice.
DANGER-I will prosecute any,
one found hunting, with dogs or
without. on my farm or land rent
ed by me. No exceptions made.
p. S. Winter. 10 6tx
Bring your old tires to the Auto
Tire Shop. opposite Teeter's fur.
niture store, for repairs and half
soles, We pay 3 cents pound
for junk tires.-F. B Dunning,
manager. soft
Take your poultry and eggs to
Hammond, the east end house, for
the highest prices.
We appreciate your produce
trade and pay the highest market
price for butter. cream, poultry and
eggs.-Crow Mercantile Co.
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05

Patterson & Rex shipped
mixed car of hogs and cattl
Wednesday and will ship anothe
later IN the week
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05

Patterson & Rex shipped a
mixed car of hogs and cattle
Wednesday and will ship another
later IN the week
Miss Opal Kunkler of Ore, Mo
spent Sunday with her parents, T.
L. Kunkler and wife.
List your farms and town proper.
ty for sale or trade with y G..
Griffin, Jasper, Mo. I2tf
DR. Mccoy is the Optician 10 fit
your glasses Rom 20, over Ram
saws store, Carthage. Nc. 40
years practice.
Money to loan on farms. First
National Bank
JOE WELLS will sharpen your
saw. Leave orders at residence or
News Office.
Bring your harness to L NJ.
Robinson's harness shop and have
it dipped and put in good shape
for the winter
See the leading film artists at the
Liberty Thealer Wednesday and
Saturday nights,
CREAM-Bring it to Wheat for
a satisfactory test and the best
price.
Motion pictures at the Liberty
Theater Wednesday and Saturday
nights
No hunting or trapping on the
farm owned and occupied by my
brothers, my sister and myself
We say it kindly but firmly INC
trespassing, - Miss Althea Arm
strong. I6tf.
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
PeriIs of Literary Life.

The man who talks too much isn't
half as apt to get into trouble as the
fellow that writes too much, and
somebody keeps the stuff that he wrote
and digs it up against him.-Wilming-
ton News.
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
For Rent

Either one or both of my houses
on North Main street. One a 7
room house with good yard. garden
spot and outhouses; the other a
new 6 room bungalow.--Mrs A. R.
Guffey. I4-tf
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
This Means You.

No hunting with dogs or guns
allowed on my farm or any land
have leased.-John S. Gresham.
n Ctx
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
No Hunting.

Hunting on my farm, with or
without dogs, is forbidden and
parties found disregarding this
notice will be prosecuted. George
Waltz and Son. II-8tx
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
This Means You.

No hunting with dogs or guns
allowed on my farm or any land !
have leased.-George Earl. off
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
M. E. Church Notice.

1t was said that IL man who lives only
with himself and for himself is apt to
be corrupted by the company lie keers.
We would like to see you in the SER
vices of the NJ. Il. Church next Sun
day. Increased attendance last Sun
day indicates our recovery from the at
tack of the 'Spanish Influenza"
We welcome you to the services Of
the church.
]. w. Moore, pastor.
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05

Mrs. w. H. Knott returned from
Kansas City Monday.
]. A. Ward shipped a car of hogs
to Kansas City Monday.
Mrs. w. E. Moulton is visiting
her sister in Springfield.
Mrs. Bertha Houck Of Sarcoxie
is visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Will Wallace is visiting her
parents. Rev. and Mrs Pinnell
Miss Rachel Ginther It turned
Saturday lroin a visit in Illinois.
Mrs. Henry Covert ard children
visited r >latives in Joplin last week.
Ellis Howard and wife OF Car
thage spent Sunday at +. |. Hil's
Miss Carrie Gather visited her
sister, Mrs. Taylor, in Kansas last
week
Yale CDrdcr and family pf Jop.
lin visited his parents here last
! week
Mrs. !. A. Boyd aEi six children,
S miles west, are all down with in
fuenza.
Norval Gray aud family Of Webb
City visited Ed Preston and family
last week.
Pete Lang and family of Went
worth visited in the community
last week.
Tom Kunkler shipped a car of
mules south Monday night, start
ing for Atlanta and Memphis.
Harley Follmer of the Sweeney
Auto School in Kansas City visited
his parents here last week.
Mrs. Pearl Barlow and little son
of Carthage visited last week with
1 her mother, Mrs. Ed Calvert.
Mrs James Cherry and Mrs. Art
GUSTS of Carthage visited p. V.
Roberts and family Saturday.
w II. Hoover, aged father OF
Mrs L II. Owen and Mrs. w. T.
Simmons, is in poor health.
Let me dip your harness and put
it in good shape for the winter
E. NJ. Robinson, harness maker.
Misses Pauline Roberts and Dor
othea Hille of Cottey College. Ne
vada, visited their parents over
Sunday.
: Mrs. Dick Embree. who wa!
called to Iowa recently on the
death of her brother, is i'll with in
huenza.
Mrs. W. T. Simmons was callet
{ to Sedalia last week on account O
the illness of her daughter, Mrs. A
F. jacket.
Fred Pike writes from hospita
in France to his aunt, Mrs. Maym'
Peterson, that he is recovering
nicely from shrapnel wounds.
t Ormon Schooler, Mrs. Allen Mil
! ler and Mrs. Miller's 14.year. OIL
brother are the new influenza case
in town, as far as we have learned
S Mrs. Willis Patterson, S mile
! north and I west of Jasper, fe
and broke her left arm Monda
morning above the elbow. d.
Knott reduced the fracture.
r. c. Patterson bought tn
George Wagner place, three mile
west of Jasper, last week. This
', nicely improved SO acres an
J. will make the Pattersons mic
e home. Charley Sullens engineere
the deal.
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
Remember.

Wheat wants your produce
Cream. butter, eggs and poultry.
The Jasper news., 1918-12-05
We Deliver Groceries.

All grocery orders promptly de.
livered.-J, R. Wheat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25
A LESSON TO THE FOOLISH

NOTHING hut satisfaction can be felt
L at the conviction of Rose Pastor
Stokes for violation of the espionage law
1t is not necessary to go into her motives
She may he as loyal an American as We
have, but she has shown that she is an
unsafe person to be at large when the
world is on fire. She has exhibited about
as much judgment as a baby with a box
Of matches in powder factory.
There are persons who do not believe
in war and there may he a few sane native
born Americans who do not believe in this
war, but most of them have the good sense
to keen quiet. They are not setting up
their judgment against the judgment Of
mankind in a great crisis, and if they
cannot help they have the good sense not
to hinder. Perhaps Mrs. Stokes wished to
be martyr and she may regard herself as
such, but the rest of us will he charitable
enough to regard her as a misguided and
mistaken woman who is safest just now
under restraint.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25
THE WONDERS UNDER THE LID

Y THE War Department has lifted the lid
- from its army transportation activities
and let us see what is beneath.
a II tells us that 800, 900 men are now in
France, that 100000 will be there on
July ! and that they are going across at
the rate Of 10000 month.
Put an average of 5000 on z ship and
this means that fifty transports a month
are crossing the ocean. They are not
sailing separately, but in vast conveys:
vet they are going at the average rate of
nearly two every day, producing that
bridge of ships of which we have heard
much.
No such stupendous transport of troops
was ever before attempted in the history
3of warfare. If no other evidence were
available, the success of this great move
ment would prove thakgthe German sub
marine campaign has failed. But this is
only the beginning.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25

will meet II twenty-five Of them vote
favorably the amendment will be adopted.
In the meantime the House of Represen.
tatives is attempting to force prohibition
upon the country for the period of the war
by executive decree which shall forbid the
use of food grains or fruits in the produc-
tion of alcoholic drinks. 1t has inserted
an item in the agricultural appropriation
bill setting apart s6oOO,OOo for an educa.
tional livestock and grain production cam.
pagn, none of which may be used unless
the President issues the decree indicated.
The pernicious practice of putting
riders" on appropriation bills was never
less eXcusable than in this instance. 1t is
within the war power of Congress and the
President to conserve the food resources
Of the nation. If Congress thinks that we
should have wartime prohibition it ought
to have the courage to say 50 directly in
a measure that will have to stand or fau
on its own merits.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25
JUDGE BONNIWELL'S FIX

THERE is nothing in the dispatches from
L Washington to indicate whether the new
classification of useless employments is
intended to include candidates for office
on the Democratic ticket in Pennsylvania.
Yet fate seems determined to make the
toll in which Judge Bonniwell and his asso-
ciates are engaged appear the very symbol
and essence of superfluity.
Neither of the big parties will know how
to take hold of life again until the war
ends. That is obvious. Old issues are
either dead or dying. But the situation is
hardest for the Democrats Judge Bonni.
we'll had no sooner hosted the flag of the
Demons cause to a conspicuous place than
Congress began talking of the elimination
of beer and light wines. simultaneously the
order of Provost Marshal General Crowder
was issued TO sweep the Bonniwel terri
tory of all its sprightliest bartenders. The
moral effect of these departures will be, of
course, cumulative and immeasurable
There is a tragic significance. too, in the
fact that the blow falls in Pennsylvania
with the sanction of the great fathers of
democracy at Washington.
The spirit OF the Democratic party, in
other words, no sooner lifted its head in
this State than something hit it in a vital
spot The blow had the force of the larger
democracy behind it, Democracy, It would
appear. means one thing in Washington
and something vastly different in Pennsyl-
vania.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-25
TESTING THE LIBERTY MOTOR

RulGHER in the air than any Congress-
man ever ventured on the wings of
hysteria. TO attitudes which no tempera-
mental sculptor may reach even by a lively
stmagination, went the Liberty Motor in the
frst test flights over the mail route be.
tween Bustleton and New York
l'The engine drove a heavy mail machine
At about hundred and thirty miles an
hour through fog and rain. Those who
heard the Liberty Motor come believing
over the landing field say it didn't seem
ike o motor. II might have been the wild
heart, Of tempest tanned for the moment to
the amiable business Of carrying people S
letters and their invitations to dinner
4 lieutenant Edward Killgore who drove
this first mail plane equipped with the new
motor. predicted that in a short time he
will make the flight between here and New
York in thirty minutes. He carried four
hdndred and fifty pounds of sand in the
Eachine
rThat's for ballast" said he. This
motor doesn't travel at its best without a
heavy load. You need the sand to hold
her dopn~
The lieutenant and his plane seem to
have answered Mr. Borglum.