Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-08-14

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Lieuts. Jas. G. Herr and Geo. B.
Hill were dismissed from the service
at Camp Custer on the eve of the
85th divisions introduction to over
seas duty. The charges were not
made public.
Martin Young, a U. S. aviator, fell
2,200 feet from an aeroplane and sur
wives to fly again. Young was train
ing in France when the accident hap
pened. He was taken to the hospital
where he recovered.
$50
Over SO per cen of the Wisconsin
registrants Of the class of 1917 have
fully complied with the selective SER
vice law. This is a remarkable rec
ord and one with which no other state
in the union can compare.
Don't hang crepe on every young
fellow who is called for service in the
army. Tell him rather that he is go
ing into the biggest opening that the
world ever gave for a career. The
Stacker now will not be very popu-
lar when the war is over.
The Naval Reserve Force has
granted three-months %furloughs to
newly enrolled men for the purpose
of gathering the crops. The men are
placed on inactive duty but are put
to work and report weekly to the
nearest naval commandant.
In August, 1914. Belgium and
France %viciously attacked Germany,
and in retaliation, the Germans start
ed for Paris. In less than six weeks,
they were within twenty odd miles
of the French capital and now they
are fifty miles further from it than
they were then.
AS a result of arrangements Of the
government for the employment of
laborers, the state Industrial COM
mission has been notified that Wis
consin must furnish 1855 ment to
serve in various war industries dur
ing the next two months. State di-
rectors of the employment service
are now at work on the problem of
organizing the quotas.
The Waukesha Defense Council has
decided to take action. against idle
farms. One case where a 28-acre
place has been misused for several
years with the hay growing and al
lowed to rot in the fields was taken
before the court for a decision. Out
of this may grow general action in
compelling the cultivation of idle
land.
Sophia Rulhe of F~reeport, was ar
rested on a federal warrant, charg-
ing her with violation of the espion-
age act and particularly with having
said upon learning of the death of
Capt. Arthur F. Moseley while on ac-
tive duty in France, that he got just
what he deserved. The m was
bound ove to the next term of the
Federal grand jury which will be
held in Freeport next month.
To supply as much as possible the
unprecedented demand for leather,
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture is urging that slaughtered
and dead animals on the farm be
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skinning of animals on the farm and
the care of hides is not given a great
amount of consideration and through
carelessness many hides are cut and
scored when they are removed. By
devoting a little extra time and care
in skinning animals to make sure the
hides are not cut or scored the farm
er can increase their value on the
~ nr1yn% 1nryAro1 %S-nAo o.~-s-
hides scores show very plainly and
in many cases one Aalf of the thick
ness of the leather is lost by such de-
fects.
Members of State Council commit
tees may be able to relieve anxious
minds with the following official in
formation: Gen. Pershing has ar
ranged with the French Government
for sections of the country to be used
as military cemeteries and the Quar-
termaster corps has organized and is
now operating in France certain or
CARNATIONS called Grave Registration
Units. These units are charged with
the duty of burying the dead, caring
for the cemeteries and preserving
Identification records of those buried.
This is done in such a manner that
there will be no confusion or doubt
as to the identity of any soldier now
buried when his body is transported
home after the war. For obvious
reasons no other course could be fol-
lowed under existing conditions the
main reason being transportation.
The war department authorizes
publication of the following order
from general headquarters, American
Expeditionary Forces, published in
France on June 10, 1918:
Two aluminium Identification tags.
each the size of a silver half-dollar
and of suitable thickness, will be
worn by each officer and soldier Of
the American Expeditionary Forces
and by all civilians attached thereto.
These tags will be worn suspended
from the neck, underneath the cloth
ing, by a cord OF thong passed through
a small hole in the tag, The second
tag to be suspended from the first
one by a short piece of string or
tape.
In the case Of officers the tags will
be stamped with the name rank reg