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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07

Jacob Sauer and Ray Elwick are
sare. Had exceptional good luck
while at the special military school
10 which | was assigned for 80 days.
out OF a class of $50; 10 of which
were officers, balance n. q. o., II
were selected as instructors, s were
officers and 4 non commissioned of
ficers. was was selected as one OF
the four n. G. O. Selections were
made from our grades, % per cent
passing grade required for instruct
ors Some work 10 make 1t. Just
before leaving school | was called
before the colonel who informed me
that | was one of the chosen Few Sc
lected as an instructor, but inasmuch
az was non commissioned officer,
they would recommend me to attend
tbe army candidates school to be
commissioned, after which | Will be
used either in France or sent TO the
states. At present we are back De
hind the lines resting from the Dig
drive. Had my first good sleep IN
comfortable bed last night, the hrst
in six weeks can you imagine how
enjoyed it?
passed by John McKinstry
crave. He was shot through the
heart by machine gun and died fo'
his country. l have many thrllllhe
experiences that | would ike TO tel
but cannot get by the censor Lic'
the Huns did you say; well guess
we are doing it and they will run W
rho white flag of surrender some o
these days.
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MORE ABOUT CO. Il.
LETTERS FROM ABILENE BOYS
TELL OF CASUALTIES.
Reports Come Again That Dale 11t-
Ter Is Wounded and "Pini<ie'
Killed in Aetion-Stories
OF the Battle.

More letters have come In from
France bringing news Of Abilene
boys one from Fay Elwick says
sixty per cent Of the boys In Go. II
are on the casualty list lie and MS
brother, Ray, are both well but he
also regrets that "Pinkie' Cutler ana
Dewey Buchanan were killed IN ac-
tion.
Daye Wilkie says in letter to his
brother, jim:
Bun Dyer is all O. r., saw nm
last week Dale Cutler Is IN the
hospital with bullet wound through
the feshy parts Of both thighs. Grant
Fisher Is here in brigade headduar-
,ars a. The present time and l think
will probably stay. lie captured a
German horse for himself the 0ther
dav While on the way to the front
line. with message, he ran across
German gun which had been mt
with - she'll one of the horses was
loose so he just grabbed him and used
him from then on until we were re-
ueyed. German souvenirs are quite
plentiful. Any number OF men nave
German automatic revolvcrs. you
can sell them back behind the llncs
FOR from "a TO 800 francs. The Ger
man priyates automatic is a SNORT
ann while the officers automatic u
nuite long. They are both mighty
6ne yveapons. If one only had SOME
woy OF carrying stuff back from DC
mind . drive. he could get cart loads
.of stuff. Another way to get sun
Is TO search prisoners. Some OF 'h'
bows Just walk up to them and star
going through their clothes and they
stand for ii. Some Of them got goo'
witches that way What few Frehci
+hot were close to MS did nothing bu
follow the drive and collect valuables
We had quite a little rain las
might and this morning it is YER
cool went on duty in the mes
sage center mt half past six. Ther
is little to do so early, so I'VE use
INV time to good advantage
Lieut.. Lucier is commanding on
detachment now When the genera
and his to aides left, Lieut. Hale wa
nlaced in command Of the detach
ment. but he has been replaced D
Lieut. Lucier.
Zeke is in the hospital with pee
of shrapnel in his arm 1t happehe
on the third day of the drive W
had moved the brigade command pos
mn nearer the line and were JUST ge'
fling established in dugout. Thef
wasn't room for all of us in the aug
out so part of us We're gathere
around n roofless ruin just across Tn
road. | was sitting on the floor Jus
inside the door and the other boy
were lust outside the door when
shell burst about ten feet away an
Zeke got his wound. Luckily FOR a
of us the shells course was not d
rectly for US but half way across OF
front.
Carl Foltz and Allan Tober left +
Iash's kitchen to loaf away the a
ternoon. They intend to captul
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07

A letter from Alonzo Shirk, for
tima j member Of Go. II, and now in
a base hospital in France, tells OF Che
fighting and little of hospital Ire
over There" He says: | am gong
TO write you few lines this AFTER
noon as | am resting and have noth-
ing TO do. | have not been able TO
answer your letter, but believe me-
| sure had time reading them.
get them in punches as high as eight
in . bunch. Also got one from father.
guess | will have to tell you
where | am, and please don't worry
for | have not been so awful SICK
I have been in the hospital with IN
fiuenza, but am UP and feeling oettei
and on kitchen police. They have
three different kinds of diets here
LIQUID. light and heavy. There sure
is a LOT of them in the hospltal
wounded and sick, out OF nearly
every division. When l entered the
hospital they took all of my clothes
but shoes and cap. Then issued 'n'
sleeping suit, wardrobe and llgh'
pair of slippers with cotton lining
This is my khaki suit at present We
have four real American Aed Ifos'
nurses in this ard and have iiiti'
iron bed, springs, tick, pillow an'
between two sheets. This is SUR
nice to what we have been having.
was talking with one of the boys
in this ward and he said he wal
called out last June, the 10TH an'
already seen the front line. SOM
divisions have been up there tlre
| times. We only twice. Our first tim
time on the front we spent forty
three days of trench life. Then W
moved to a place in reserve Ior
week. From there we started In I'd
morning on Sept. % with one OF tn
awfulest artillery firing on our SIDE
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07

From John FoItz.
John Foltz writes: We are still on
The move, have stopped here In
sma,l town to rest few days before
going farther, we expect TO move III
few days. We will all be mighty
Glad when we get to a good resting
mace. where we can have accom-
mutations for bathing and drawing
new clothes. (Cut by censor) some
hattie and took part In big driVe
while In the field this last time. l
aincerely hope our division VIII not
have 10 get In many more sectors as
hot as this last one was sa"
brother. Carl, on my way over 10
uis M G. A., was with him all
dov Yesterday lie sure looks goou
and has an easy job. He likes II
inst fine. saw Mac Mccormick
no fellow that worked for MIR shad
,ncer He Is In the Military Police
- saw Albert Andrews about week
ago. He was fine. He is with the
ION Motor Supply Train. also
saw Vaughn Dyer yesterday lie IL
fat as a pig. Last night ! was ta'k'
Inc 20 DIN Strowig He came over
| ia see me.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07
From Leroy DAWSON

TeRov Dawson writes to his par
ants Mr.. and Mrs. j. III. Dawson
The first Monday we went over
didn't seem much like war, but before
rho day was over it sure looked nke
real war. was in the front me
every day for five days ana the
"wbiz bangs were bursting about
every second or so. Anyway mat rs
tho wav It sounded. Some OF the
hovs were wounded seriously ana
sona of them not so bad but | think
they will get along all right. bu1
tbare are some of the home boys VINO
win never get back. | was ABOUT
twenty feet away from one OF Ine
Abilene BOYS when big shell came
along and killed him. 1t sure was
hard to walk away and let MN ne
there but orders are orders ana we
have TO carry them out But there
,yera some Germans that paid for II
IN the other side. Don't know toi
SIRE how many of the home ooys
were killed. l considered mysel
awful lucky when l went through
tbere and did not get scratch MOI
gassed either. Some of the boys
were rassed little and went TO th'
bospital. sure hope they Se'
along O. K. Some Of the boys cap
tnrad a German COW and have stll
rot her. Every time we move w
take her along. I'm shy on paper
so this is a piece of Boche paper Una
I'm writing on. 1t can be h1ti
souvenir for you to keep. We wer
lin the second drive on the Verdul
front and it was pretty sim TOT u
t, the first time.
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IN Fa Ea

Raw Gish with Co. II writes to his
mother. Mrs. ]. 1. Gish: Well nave
haen in the battle | was telling you
about and everything has gone wen
except | got a scratch on my lett
arm that put me in the hospital but
it is very slight and | expect to De
ont in a couple of days, so don't worry
MS | am well and happy. Here IN the
hospital we are treated very wen ana
and have American girls for purses
You probably have read about Inc
drive we were in SO you know what
was done to the Boche.
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n n h

The people of Abilene are finding
moro definite information about the
hovs of 90. II. Letters are coming
N and each gives little more about
them. Curtis Brewer, Milton Jones
and Leroy Dawson write they are
well Dale Cutler tells Of hlmsell
and his brother in letter to ms
family Lieut.. Hugh CARVE has
been captured by the Huns.
letter under date of Oct. 4, Sergt'
Curtis A. Brewer 353rd Inf, in
France. to his father, j &c. Brewer
tells Of some of the lighting
have heard it rumored in circles
of quite high authority that they eA-
meet the war to end this year and al
indications point that way Inc
Germans are certainly on the rum
have been over the Top" and
through it all from beginning to END
For excitement you can't beat It
over the top" through shell hre
machine gun fire, gas and a Thousand
other things is plenty, and you
can lust tell the world if there ever
was hell, on earth, we have beer
in it. Have taken a goodly mum
ber of shots at the Huns and yo'
know l am pretty good shot and cal
bring down the game. / have beer
Knocked down once or twice by on
of those big Bertha shells ina
make a hole 10 feet deep and abou
% feet across once l was knocke'
down and partly covered with dlr'
but managed to escape without III
Jury. That was close enough for me
but am glad l had the experience
Have received no pay for 3 - month
and consequently am quite fiat. A.
mail Is following me around owe
France. Received twenty-five letter
the other day, the first mail in thre
weeks. Milton Jones, Geo hee
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p p n

Capt. II. W. Graves, formerly the
doctor at Carlton, writes to l. "a.
CleweH. that he is in charge Of a hos
pital in France and doing work for
the soldier boys.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07

Corp. Adolph Gile, VINO visited Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Reese several times
while at Funston, sent them an
epaulet taken from a German Of
ficers uniform and stained with
blood which tells what happened to
the owner. He says the American
bows are eating Irish potatoes, plant
cd and tended by the Germans on
French soil-some cosmopolitan food.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07
From Ward Kehler.

Ward Keller says in letter to his
sister, Miss Myrtle Keller; nope
Won got the cable we sent telling you
nat we pulled safely through the
hattie. AS our good old major says
aIta iuat providential that we re-
shared" If / were hurt now ia teei
lot like the man who went saie'y
through \ long and bloody war ana
an his way home was run over Dy
heorse. Lieut. Lucicr Is to ASSUME
command of Company II ana we are
All wei pleased to have so good anu
aa,,1o an officer as he In charge.
Sid was slightly wounded. haVe
oood reason to be proud OF my com
n,nv INV battalion and of my diyis-
ion There is no better In the U. o
army ana that is saying quite Dill
! eaw something when ! was AZ the
front would like to have had a pc
ture of. At a Red Cross Kitchen ~
badly shellcd town, a couple %
oooks were baking pancakes. The
oaa signal was given and there they
,yore cooking and serving pancakes
with masks on and long line o.
masked men whiting their turn as
If nothing had happened
Ray McCosh Dead.
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. McCosh re
oo,vad an official telegram last nigh
saving their son, Ray, had died Q
) pneumonia.
So far that is all that has peer
heard OF the boys who nave peer
killed or wounded.
~ ~ "a
! letter from Clarence Sampson
q who is with Co. II, to his mother
t Mrs ID. G. Sampson, says: sup
nose YOU have read all about now III
. Missouri and Kansas boys set then
hock Well we sure did give then
the trimmings Of their life, and foiK'
q host of all, | went through 1t all an
I came out without scratch. l got
= machine gun bullet almost throug
a the stock Of my rifle, but I've got
4 now rifle now. The papers said W
i aid GOOD work and I guess the Boon
thought it could never be taken.
r sure set those Dutch back to SC
tbo Yanks wade through their macf
r inc gun bullets. We did the dee
and you can guess how proud OF
q old major Is. He has given us wv
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07

some chickens and if they do we will
have chick 10 eat tonight
From John FoItz.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-11-07
, Tells OF the Fighting

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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR IVORY
Cotton Solution Being Largely Used TO
Take the Place of Elephant Tusks
in the United States.

The submarine danger and the use
Of ships for war purposes have les
scned the commerce between the
United States and Africa to a great
extent in the past two years, the
Scientific American observes. The
supply of many Of the products for
merly imported from the African
countries by this nation has been de-
creased considerably and inc some
cases has ceased entirely. Naturally
the users of these products have been
compelled to find substitutes Of
American make if they wished to
continue the use of these articles.
One of the chief imports from
Africa in the prebeIIum days was
ivory, the product of the elephant,
The boudoir of many Of the ladies
of the land contained many ilory
toilet articles, the piano sported IT.
iyory-topped keys, and many other
uses were made in this country of
the product of the tusk Of the ele-
plant.
With no ivory being imported and
having no elephants in this country,
Americans were compelled to find a
substitute. Old King Cotton came
to the rescue, Offering a means OF
producing artificial ivory that pos
sesses all the beautiful qualities Of
the real article A cotton solution
chemically treated by several proc
esses changes the raw product Of the
Sunny South to a hard ivory-colorec
substance that can be easily moldec
into any shape desired. Manufacture
and sale of this material as an ivory
substitute have reached large pro
portions.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
Some Political TurnOvers.

Delaware township furnished
some political surprises in the
recent election that nearly upset
the equilibrium of the political
prophets. First of all, Delaware
township is what is known in
Democratic circles as crock
ribbed" SO when the Democrats
nominated Cyrus VanDolah, a
native son, well-known farmer
and man against whom nothing
could be said, his election APP
peared to be a foregone conclus-
ion, but that didn't hinder N.
Voorhees, Myers, the Republican
nominee from gathering in 1876
for the office of as
SCISSOR.
Charles Updycke, a farmer
living near Rosemont, and a Re-
publican, beat Larson Reading,
Democrat, of the same vicinity,
for township committeeman.
To add to the Democratic APP
prehension, active Republicans
of the township say that they
will furnish the other two COM
mitteemen within the next two
years, but that, of course, will
depend upon what the voters
have to say about it.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15

On the other hand, John f.
Barber, Democrat, was unani-
mously reelected township col
lector, after serving one term in
that office.
The drys carried the Rose
mont district by Is majority,
but the vets had % majority in
the Sergeantsville district, Civ
ing them a net wet majority of
IA.
An interesting feature of
the election is that the wet and
dry votes of Stockton and Cali
fon, Hunterdon county's most
southerly and most northerly
boroughs, almost exactly offset
each other. Stockton cast Is
wet and 27 dry votes, while up
in Califon there were SO dry
votes and only 80 wet, so that
both victories were decisive to
the last degree. Clinton bor-
ough has been dry for several
years, and now Clinton township
will be dry as soon as the thirty
days of grace are up.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
Hatcheries Ready for Business

The various baby chick hatch
cries of this section are begin
ming preparations for the 1919
season, which is expected to be
the largest ever experienced,
despite the high cost of eggs and
feeds.
The 1918 season turned out
fairly well, although it kept the
hatchery owners guessing at
times, but the parcel post ship
ment of eggs helped them out
of the express muddle, which
was such a bugaboo the year
before.
1t is estimated that the num-
Der of eggs likely to be placed
in the incubators of the local
hatcheries during the coming
season will exceed three million,
which will represent a neat lit
tie investment, based on the
present price of eggs. One of
the hatcheries has already pur-
chased nearly two thousand dol
lars worth of pasteboard car
tons, in which to ship the baby
chicks during the coming sea-
son.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
MEAN MRS. SMITH.

With stores of the national capt.
tai opening at ten o'clock each
morning on account of the infu-
eLza epidemic, women of the city
will have to work fast to buy their
new fall hats. FIR men and women
alike agree that new fall hats are
essential.
Is there anything in the world
prettier than a pretty woman in a
pretty-and new-hat? That's one
thing the war hasn't been able to
change.
One Washington woman, the
proud possessor of a modest and be-
coming new autumn creation, was
seated on a bench in front of her
home the other day, giving the
neighbors a treat. We will call her
Mrs. Jones.
Along came the inevitable Mrs.
Smith.
ooh, I see You are sensible, Mrs.
JONES'" said Mrs. Smith, smiling
brightly and looking significantly at
the hat. FYou didn't get new hat
'his year" Washington Star.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
JOB PRINTING
done on time and at right prices !
at the
"RECORD" OFFICE F.;

Mrs. Louisa Duer, Mrs. Levi
Fite, Miss Ethel Engle, Miss
Anna Duer, and Herbert Engle,
Of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Levi
Sickle, of Wycombe, were en-
tertained at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Wiley, on
Sunday.
Miss Eva Horn, who is en-
ployed at the arsenal in Frank
ford, spent the weekend at the
home of George Horn and fam
lily.
Mrs, C. f. Radcliff entertain
ed friends at dinner on Friday
in honor of her mother, Mrs.
Louisa Carr, who left on Tues
day for Frankfort, where she
will spend the winter with her
son.
Rev. C. f: Radcliff spent two
days in the City of Brotherly
Love, calling on relatives and
transacting business.
Harry Bly, Slack, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Phineas R. Slack, has
won distinction in the present
war by having been promoted
to the rank of captain, Some
where in France" Mr.. and
Mrs. Slack have been receiving
congratulations from their
many friends since the an
nouncement was received.
Mrs. George Shoch entertain
ed number of friends from
Philadelphia on Saturday.
The Annual Rally of the New
Hope Presbyterian church and
Sunday School will be held Sun
day, Nov. 18th at 1870 A. M.
Mrs. Ella C.Weaver, of Camden,
N. j., will be the speaker. Mrs.
Weaver has a message for all
the members and friends who
will be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Morris,
who have been spending the
summer in New Hope, left on
Wednesday for Atlantic City
where they will spend the win
ter.
Mrs. Watson Belts, was a
Trenton shopper recently.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
BRILLIANT ARMY CAREER.

Gen. Baron Carl Won Plettenberg
commander of the German Guardt
corps, tie flower of the kaiser's
troops, is also general-adjutant to
the kaiser and very high in his favor
their friendship dating back to the
days when they served together it
the First regiment of foot guards
He is also former aide-de-camp tc
the emperor. Born in 1862, he saw
service as a young subaltern of the
Fifty-third regiment in the war with
France and won the Iron Cross al
1.-The battle of Gravelotte A years ago
after holding command of the FRS
foot guards he was at the head Of
the Twenty-second division in Case
until promoted to the command Of
the Ninth army corps in Altoona.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY.

Some English prisoners of war in
Germany,we have been told find fault
with the coffee supplied to them. We
fear some of the Belgian refugees
must suffer similar torment from the
tea which is prepared in their honor
by their hospitable British friends.
On disembarking from the steamer,
or arriving at the railway terminus,
the good Belgian folk find their cups
filled from steaming urns. Most Of
them are unable to protest verbally,
but they make eloquent faces trying
to swallow the infusion, which seems
to their unaccustomed taste like
medicine of peculiar nastiness. Their
hosts, of course, mean nothing but
kindness; indeed, they are doing to
the refugees precisely as they would
wish to be done by. But there can
be no doubt the Belgians would find
it much easier to take the will for the
deed if it were expressed in chocolate
or even coffee, instead of tea.-Man-
chester Guardian.
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Connections are Bad.

The up-county connections
from Lambertville to Northern
Hunterdon have been very much
impaired by the recent change
in train schedules on the Jersey
Central. Heretofore a person
leaving this city at $50 a. M,
via Pennington, might hope to
arrive in High Bridge within
three hours, but now it takes 6
hours, and no return is possible
that day,
The only way to make round
trip to either High Bridge, 25
miles away or Clinton, % miles,
in one day is via Yardley and
Bound Brook, about three times
the airline distance.
These are the poorest up
county connections that have
existed since 1886.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1918-11-15
Farmers Rally Program.

The program for the big
Farmers Rally, to be held in
Odd Fellows Hall, Lambertville,
on Monday afternoon and eve
ming next, includes "War and
Rural Progress" by DR.. Warren
H. Wilson, dean of the Teach
ers College, of Columbia Univer-
sity, New York City 1.-THE Home
as Factor in Rural Progress"
by Wilhelmina Spohr, of the
Teachers College; '"The Part of
the Country School in Recon-
struction," Fannie W. Dunn, of
the Teachers College; "The
County Farm Demonstration"
by a representative of the State
University; and "a Program
for Hunterdon County," by ia
son S. Hoffman, county super
intendent of Schools.
In the evening, with DR.. Will
son presiding, the program will
include "The New Education"
by Prof. F. G. Bonser, Teachers
College; and "The Reeducated
Soldier as a Factor in Rural
Progress" by f. C. Higbie,
Soldiers Agricultural School,
Trenton.