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Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
FIRST MAJOR ACTION SINCE ST
MlHlEL PROGRESSEs-20,oc0
PRISONERS TAKEN.
FOUR TRENCH LINES WON
Since September 26 Americans Have
Fired More Than 2,5o0,ooO Shells,
the Number at Times Reaching
as High as 10000 Daily.

With the American Army North
west OF Verdun.--In it's first major
operation against the Germans, con-
sidering the clearing out of the st.
Michel salient as local affair, the
American army In few days less
than a month, has liberated more than
forty-flve villages and advanced to
an average depth of ten miles, free
ing 165 square miles of territory. In
the offensive the Americans have cap
tured more than 10000 prisoners.
The Americans attacked on front
of twenty miles from the Argonne to
the Meuse and the advance has been
made in the face of almost insur-
mountable difficulties, due particular
ly to the nature of the ground which
is covered with hills, deep ravines
and woods. In addition the Ameri-
cans had fronting them four organ.
lied system Of trenches--the Hinden.
burg line, the Hagen position, the
Velker position and the Kreimhilde
position. They have forced their way
through all these lines. Ahead OF
them lies the Ereya position which
has been reached at one point in the
region Of the Bantheville woods. The
advance has been particularly diff,
cult because the Germans have stub.
bornly resisted every foot of the way
and have used more than thirty-three
divisions on the twenty mile front.
The enemy continues tG ;9a.ss :. ~
midable effort to hold this front in
order to protect his retreat lateral
line Of communication running
through Hrson, Mezieres, Sedan,
Montmedy and Longuyon. This line
already Is threatened and should the
Germans lose 1t, they will lose their
main line Of commune alton from
Germany into occupied France.
In addition to the prisoners, Gen.
Pershings men have taken more than
1877 guns Of large calibre, numerous
machine guns and anti-tank guns, a
great store Of ammunition and much
war material, including locomotives
and railway cars.
Since September 26th the Amerl-
cans have fired more than 100000
shells, the number at times reaching
as high as 100000 daily. The guns
used included n great number Of
heavy ones, and also some captured
from the enemy.
American ayiators and anti-aircraft
guns IN the period since September
% have brought down 230 enemy ma
chimes and 20 enemy balloons, despite
adverse flying conditions and bad
weather at times, Bombing airplanes
dropped more than 10000 Kilograms
Of explosives on railroad centors,
troop concentrations and other points
behind enemy positions
From the view Of the engineer the
most difficult task has been the re-
pairing Of roads and the movement jf
supplies, men, ammunition and food
to the front. More than 10000 engI'
neor troops are employed day and
night rebuilding shell-shattered roads
and using, where possible, crushed
rock from the villages destroyed by
the German shells.
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
Advanced On Deakat.

Washington, -- Al the governments
request, In order to insure prompt ana
uniform enforcement Of tho statute,
the Supreme Court agreed to expedite
proceedings involving interpretations
of the Reed prohibition amendment
prohibiting tho transportation OF In
toxicotlng liquors into dry states, and
fyed December 7 for hearing argu-
mentg.
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
100 KIlted In Wpoek,

London, 80 one hundred persons
were killed and 200 injured in the de-
railing OF the Bucharest express near
pistra, Rumauia, according to dis
patch from Amsterdam, quoting nd
ylecs from Vienna Several OF tho
coaches of the trala fell into the His
tritaA river,
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
ples In LtIssorlc Spot.

ChIcago,-lt was on the spot nov
designated M 5BS De Roven street
that Mary o'Leary's COW In 1871 hck'
cd over the lamp which started tho
grcat Chicago nrc, on the same spot
b.yearold Antonio curslo played with
mntehoa and was burned TO death,
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
Cut Furniture Manufacture.

Washington. Restrictions on the
manufacture OF furniture, eliminating
all new pattern for the duration Of
the war and ourtaIlIng active patterna
so per cent, were announced by the
war industries board
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
Lumbar ReatrIetIon,

Washington, Production or lum
Dor will be restricted to the flllng OF
essential requirements under regula
tIons issued by The War Industries
Hoard,
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
prsnlasnt Awards Medals.

Washington, -- Marshals Fooh, Jof
fro and IIalg and Generals Petain.
Dlag, pomhlng and GILLIAN, ohlof OF
ataff of the Belgian army, were award
cd tho plstingulahed Service medals
by President Wilson,
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
intluopra In Canada.

Toronto, 80 Spanish Influenza has
now spread throughout the Dominion
OF Canada, Theaters are closed In
many of the Canadian cities,
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
pasaea Military all,

Washington, -- Tho Senate passed
In record time tho s0,0oO,0o0,o 900 mill
tary deficiency bll the last important
measure to be considered hrf5Fe the
prediction recess,
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
More Ilmo For orhtors.

Washington, sa Under n now rule
announced the Supreme Court Will
limit arguments to one hour each for
both sides instead OF 90 minutes as
heretofore.
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
iltt pop on oaaollno.

washington, Fuel AdmInletrator
parheld lifted the ban on sasollneless
Sundays. effective AT once
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01

Notifies Berlin Nothing Can Be Gained
by Leaving This Essential Fact Un-
said-chiefs Of Allied Armies Must
Dictate Any Armistice-More Than
2OOO,oO0 Yanks Now in France, and
Going over Fast.
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
2,0O8,93l AMERICANS
LANDED IN FRANCE
SECRETARY BAKER SAYS THIS
NUMBER HAS EMBARKED FOR
OVERSEAS DUTY.

washington. - Embarkation or -
O0S,931 American soldiers to partici-
pate In the war overseas was dis
closed by correspondence between
Secretary Baker and President Will
son, given out at the White House at
the same time that the president =
reply to the German note was made
public by the state Department,
81 en- sure that this will be mat
ter Of deep qualification and assurance
to the country" said the president, re-
plying to letter from Secretary Ba.
er reporting on the number Of men
who have sailed from American ports
to October q.
Secretary Bakers Letter.
my Dear Mr.. President.
"More than 100000 American SOL
diers have sailed from the ports in
this country to participate in the war
overseas, In reporting this fact to
you, ! feel sure that you will be In
terested In the following data show
ing the progress of our military eff
fort.
"In my letter of July 1, 1918, in
formed you that between May s, 1917,
and June 30, 1918, over 100000 men
had either been landed In France or
were en- route thereto. Since July l,
1918, embarkations by months have
been as follows:
"July, 306,1S5; August, 2oOSlS;
September, 26l l,415; October IA to 81,
131, 1893. Total, 9S9S16.
Embarked to July |, 1918, 1,O1o,'
11b, Grand total 2,OOS,931.
I'm our overseas operations I feel
that we have good reasons to be
proud and thankful of the results OBJ
tained. Our losses have been exceed
ingly small, considering the size OF
the force transported and this is duo
to the efficient protection given Amer.
lean convoys ~ the naval forces, We
also have bo,n greatly assisted In
the dispatch of troops abroad by the
elloeation of certain vessels from our
allies, principally those Of Great
Britain
Cordially yours,
Newton d. Baker
Secretary Of War"
The Preeldont'o Reply.
The presidents reply follows;
my Dear Mr. Secretary
II am very glad to have your lot
ter Of this morning reporting that
more than 100000 American soldiers
have sailed from tho ports OF thus
country to participate In the war over
poas. am sure that thls viii be II
matter of deep qualification and re-
assurance TO the country and that
everyone will join me IN eongratuat'
Ing the War and Navy Departments
upon the steady accomplishment In
this all.important application of force
10 the liberation OF the world.
"Coldially and sincerely yours.
"Woodrow Wilson"
Sharp County record., 1918-11-01
Must DIssrm the Hun.

London, Oct, 2i,--0cn Sir A, Hunt
or sald ave must compel the sur-
render of the kaiser as Ithe Germans
compelled the surrender OF the EN-
peror of France ut tpe end of the
Frnnco.prussian war; Ihc nrmlstice
In n mnltcr for Marshal 'lNoch aud Ad'
mrnl Beatty to deeldeV The Germans
must be beaten 10 thHiV knees"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-19
BUGGIES

I have a stock of buggies [ want you to see. [
only carry the best makes to be had in stock, and
I price them right for quick sales. Of course you
will want to give your wife a new buggy for Christ
mas. Here's the place to get it. [ know the quail
ity of these vehicles, and [ know that [ can suit
you.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
COMMON BARBERRY MUST GO.

Further proof that there is a close relationship between the rust of bar berries and of wheat and other ce- reals has resulted in active cam paigns to eradicate the shrub in many communities. Two rather striking cases of this close relationship were observed recently in Indiana by rep resentatives of the United States De- partment of Agriculture. In one To- cality field of wheat, along one side of which grew a barberry hedge, was practically destroyed by the black stem rust. The case was so clear that IT farmers held a field observation day under the guidance of the county agent and immediately drew up reso- lutions, in which they stated that the relation was so clear that they wish ed to go on record as favoring legis- lation to eradicate all barberry bushes from the State. In another case a hedge of barberry and two deen plant ings were found on farm upon which a wheat field was so badly affected that the crop was a partial failure. A second field near by was very se- rfously affected also. as well as num- Der of fields in the vicinity. Simi- number of other States. and public sentiment favoring the eradication of the common barberry is growing rap- idly. It is said that Japanese bar berry does not harbor the wheat rust.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
CENTRAL AMERICA.

The first attempt to colonize Gen. tra, America was made by Christopher Columbus, who, while on his fourth and last voyage, landed on the coast of what is now Costa Rica, 416 years ago today Oct. 5, 1902. The natives were at first inclined to be friendly with the Spaniards and treated them in a kindly manner They soon be- came incensed at the treachery of the palefaces. however, and destroyed the small settlement which Columbus founded. Columbus, after loG:ng q considerable number of his men and one of his ships, abandoned the at tempt and sailed away to Spain. 9th CT explorers who followed in his wake were equally unsuccessful. In 1510 the SpaEiards established tEe:-.-.,::7a.-- a- in Panama. and In 1924 Cordoba founded several settlements in Mi caragua. In 1527 the city of Qua temala was founded, and about the same time Honduras was brought un- der Spanish rule. The aborigines of Costa Rica held out against the in vaders until 154O. when Badajoz par tially subdued them and built the city bearing his name. Salvador's native capital Cuscatlan, fell into the hands of the spaniards in 1855. Scat tered over Central America may now be found the ruins of many once pros porous cities built by the Spaniards.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
WOOL TO BE SCARCE FOR YEARS

Even with peace it is doubtful if price or otherwise, until long after the war" writes Douglas Jaspersen in Everybody's for October. "The neces- sity of rehabilitating the millions of men in khaki is already a problem This vast army to be reclothed will be a heavy drain upon the world S already exhausted wool and shoddy pleted Germany for wool and shoddy should further tend to increase; the shortage all over the world.
 Ever since the beginning of the war 5hoddy has been disappearing from our midst at an alarming rate. while the production of wool has been entirely inadequate to the world S needs.
 "In normal times the life of a pound of wool in it's various incarnations eX- tends over a period of years.
 But war, the most wasteful of all businesses, has changed the old order of things. And so, in a great many cases, the life of a. pound of wool has been suddenly reduced from some where around six years to as many months. Wool alone can never clothe the world. It has been shod- dy that has kept the worlds clothing bill down for many a year, and until the shoddy supply is normal again we can all expect to have more or less trouble with our clothes"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
EIGHTEEN YEARS IN
 FOREIGN LEGION

Private Louis Vasseur has had IS years of active service with the For eign Legion and wears two campaign medals for service in Morocco. He is 40 years old.
 "I joined the Foreign Legion be- cause I wanted to be a real soldier and get plenty of fighting" Private Vasseur told his interviewer through an interpreter. He got it.
 Before the present war, he saw ten years of service in Morocco. An in cident illustrating the kind of fight ing he participated in was modestly retold by him.
 In fighting against the moors, his company was ambushed. Seventy eight of his comrades were slain be- fore the others succeeded in cutting their way through to safety. He was wounded three times but In spite oi that he managed to carry a wounded comrade to safety.
 His first fighting in this war was at Gallipoli. He went from there to Serbia with the Foreign Legion, and in December, 1915, was so severely wounded that he has not been in ac- tive service since.
 Private Vasseur will tour the Sec ond Federal Reserve District on Lib erty Loan Train No. 1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
THE BATTLE OF THE THAMES

The battle of the Thames, fought
 105 years ago today, Oct. 5, 1913, was one of the shortest decisive en- agreements in history General Proc
 tor the English commander, made
 his stand on the banks of the
 Thames, near the Moravian town,
 with his left on the high and preci-
 pitous bank of ther iver. and his right on a marsh, running almost par allel with the stream for about two miles. The space intervening was covered with woods. The 400 white
 troops formed two lines between
 smaller swamp and the river, with
 their artillery planted in the road,
 near the bank of the stream. The
 Indians, commanded by the great
 TecUmseh, assisted by the brave
 Chippewa chief, Ashawahnah, were
 posted between two swamps.
 Their opponents numbered about 5000, composed of 120 regulars, five brigades Of Kentucky volunteers and
 regiment of cavalry under Col
 Johnson, the whole force command ed by Gen. William Henry Harrison. lie AIl0IlCdIS' dlIdCkeu y. 1 and the battle lasted only fifteen min utes. Tecumseh was slain early in the enga cement, after he haG o=-ereG a desperate resistance, and his follow l CTS broke and fled to the shelter of the swamp. The little force of Eng | fish troops was speedily overwhelmed by the opposing force. who outnum- | bered them nearly eight to one. i Nearly all of the British force were made prisoners, but Gen. Proctor es- capped in carriage, with his personal l staff, and few dragons. He was
 hotly pursued for son-o distance by i Johnson's horsemen, but finally ehud- ed them, and made his way to the western end of Lake Ontario. He
 was afterward censured by his su- l periors, rebuked by the Prince Re
 gent, court rt-martialed and deprived of ] his command for six months. Asha- | wahnah. Tecumseh's lieutenant, the | hero of fifteen battles, also escaped. l He lived to a ripe old age, and in 1 1858 attended a council at Brant- i ford, Ont, where he appeared with all his testimonials of bravery, including his "star and garter" a silver band
 on his high hat. a silver gorget, many
 medals, a sash of beadwork, and strings of wampum.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
SCHOOLS AND
 PUBLIC PLACES
 WILL NOT CLOSE

Hartford, Oct. 5.-In it's current campaign to check the epidemic of Spanish influenza, the state depart ment of health does not advocate the Instead, it is asking teachers to ob- serve the school children closely and to send home and report all those showing influenza symptoms. Theatre managers are being informed that they must carry out certain orders of the health department. If they do so, theaters will not be closed. In manufa curing centers containing large numbers of tenement houses, representatives of local health de- partments are being sent to the facto- ries to give one-minute talks on influ- enza prevention to the employees. The instructions of the state depart ment of health to the school author ities direct the latter to ask teachers 1 to send home any child exhibiting any symptoms fo a cold, and to send the 1 child's name and address to either the school inspector or the health of 1 ficer The brothers and sisters ot such a child will be kept in school Dr. Frank T. Black, secretary of the state department of health, saying that in all epidemics affecting schools. fewer
 children are infected when the
 schools are kept than when they are closed.
 When schools are closed, children
 are apt to play together at all hours of the day, whereas when they are ir | school there is a certain amount ot
 isolation, and when the ventilation ot
 school rooms is properly supervised
 pupils are far better off there than al
 home" said Dr. Black.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
ALL TRADES REPRESENTED IN THE
 BUILDING OF U. s. VESSELS
Majority of Employees at shipyards Are Not Familiar With Ship Construction, and Come From All
 Walks of Life and Professions

Boston, Oct. 5. - Butchers have dropped their cleavers and are swing ing the adz in the shipyards of New England. Barbers have learned to use the caulker's maui instead of the razor, so that Uncle Sam can have the ships he needs. Clergymen lawyers, doctors and college profes- sors have been taught to use the plane the hammer or the chisel that democ- racy may be triumphant. One poet daily plys a hammer with tree-nail- ing gang in Maine yard. The cler- gyman who. offered prayer at a launching of a ship at Portsmouth, N. H., was a shipwright.
 Men of all trades and professions have responded to the nations appeal for shipbuilders to meet the emer- gency of war. After few months work many are listed in skilled class. The aptitude they have shown has gone far to solve one of the Elmer gency Fleet Corporations most diff ficult problems in this district.
 At two yards in Portland, Me, 1t Is estimated that less than per cent. of the employees, who now number nearly 2,000, knew anything about ship construction when they began work there. But the training they received was intensive and these yards are steadily turning out vessels. There is still a demand for labor, notably in the rapidly growing steel ship yards at Bath and Portsmouth, but the sit uation in this respect has improved in recent years
 Patriotic cooperation of the work men has played an important part In the smooth running of the yards. There has been a marked absence of serious strikes. To the brawny ma tive sons" who make up the crews the thought that every hamber blow will leave it's mark on Prussian militarism is no idle fancy. Under the speed ing up system applied by the produc- toin experts, the New England dis trict has already launched more than twenty wooden and steel steamships i and has double that number on the ways. Additional facilities for build ing are under consideration, and con tracts already existing call for an eX- penditure of above $50,O00,O00, fol wooden ships alone.
 The Atlantic Corporation at Ports mouth is to build ten steel cargo ships of $500 tons each. It now has five ships on the stocks. with F. | 500 men on day and night shifts.
 . The Texas Steamship Company'' plant at Bath, Me, has delivered foul cargo carriers of 10000 tons each ane four more ships are on the stocks.
 The Fore River plant of the Beth 4 1ehem Shipbuilding Corporation, al though largely employed in govern ment work of another type, has foul of it's twenty ways devoted to the
 building of ships of more than lS''
 900 tons each for the merchant ma
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
HANKS VIEWS.

 These be stirring times sez John to me, these be stirring times, sez he, With areoplanes and Liberty-bonds, but how be you commin' on sez he. Oh wall, fair to middlin' jest so I answered him, But in the matter of Liberty Bonds, we hain't but jest begun. You see I bought two of course, then ma she followed suit, Then whe Hiram wanted two, we put - it up to Newt. Now Newt he hemmed and hawed a bit till sez lookee here, Do you suppose you like it if the Huns come over here. Wall by gosh that settled it, Newt he buoght one tew, And tother day be come to me and sez Hank I guess that I'll take two. And so we've got the habit and mean to do our share In buying Liberty Bonds to help the dear boys lover There"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
ADMINISTRATORS
 SETS SUGAR PRICE

Although the food administration made the announcement from its Hartford office several weeks ago that the two and the five-pound su- gar purchase rule had been modified inquiries are still being made by re- tailers about the new rule. Robert Scoville, Connecticuts Food Adminis- trator, sadi today that the rule was exactly as published by Connecticut newspapers and that it provided some relief for the retailers who will no longer confined to two-pound sales but may sell a family a weeks sup ply of sugar, but always on the basis of two pounds per month per mem Der of the family. MT. Scoville also said that the new sugar, carrying a higher cost, had not yet made it's ap- pearance in Connecticut to any extent and that when 1t did eleven cents would be the maximum price for the highest freight point in Connecticut. Bnder the latest regulations retailers will be expected to give consumers the benefit of fractional cents, and although one pound of sugar in Hart ford soon may very properly cost eleven cents. Five pounds should be sold for about fifty1two or fifty-sev- en cents.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-05
PLAY A GAME OF
 WITS IN FRANCE

With the American Armies in France, Oct. 5.-There is a battle of wits as well as of guns along the American front in the mountainous Lorraine country near the southeast ern end fo the western front. Ger mans try to deceive the American in- telligence officers by moving their ma chine-guns and batteries to a new po- sition every night.
 The Americans solved this problem by using a series of tracing maps which may be made daily and super imposed upon one another. When these are compared, the various points to which the guns have been moved are indicated. Then comes the op- portunity for the American artillery tc do work upon them.
 This system has proved very valu- able in locating the heavy batteries behind the German lines.