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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-30
er guess the real reason.

err guess the real reason.
Our Colonel did the trick.
1t was the funniest escape ever I
took part in.
He was game one, the colonel.
The Fritzies had just massed, and
were beginning to top their parapet
for the charge. when, to our utter
amazement and terror, the colonel
sprang up the ladder, and in trice
was out on our own parapet for
all the Germans to see! Then, before
we could realize what had come to
him" he suddenly raised his arm, and
waving them wide, yelled at the pitch
of his voice-"Come on, Gordons,
Camerons, Seaforths, come on!''
For a moment we didn't tumble to
it, but when his purpose dawned up
on u.s. we let out such a yell, and let
drive such volley that-well, what
Immediately happened will give you
an idea Of the uproar. The Fritzies,
like one man, turned tail and before
you coulds have said Jack Robinson
every mothers son of them was back
again in the trenches. The charge
was "off" and the colonel stepped
down smiling.
A Frightful Bayonet Battle.
That may seem an incredible story,
but it's true. The Germans, we knew,
had good cause to fear US, for we had
given them an awful drubbing some
time before, but it was the colonels
wit that suggested turning the ter
rorizing name Of the Highlanders to
advantage. Had the Germans come
over that day, instead of funking, they
would have found a pretty small
handful to deal with. But the colonel
shouted as if he'd all the clans of
Scotland at his back.
That was enough.
Fritz declined the task of settling
with the purely phatom-legions at
our leaders back.
We could not always depend on
tricks for turning the tables on the
Huns, who are not easily deceived or
| frightened either. We had to take
part in fact, in many a bitter fight,
but it must have been the way we
did go into these fights that made
such trick possible.
I remember one frightful bayonet
battle in a wood, and any Germans
who survived it will have good reason
to remember it, too. 1t was the most
desperate affair imaginable land one
incident which occurred in 1t will
stamp it on my memory for all time.
In our little lot there was young
giant of chap. a proper Scot, big
boned, hardy, 1.-THE and of extraordi-
nary strength. How it happened that
this chap had lost his brother in the
war. He grieved for him most ter
ribly and he told me often of the
revenge he hoped to have. not the
revenge of the bullet-that was not in
his line-but the revenge Of the bay
onet. the long littering steel which he
could manage as 1 never saw anybody
manage it yet. He bided his time pa
tiently. His time came, and when II
did come --!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-30

4 yellow straw hat is pretty When
he brim is lined with blue linen.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-09
(By Associated Press)

Stockholm, Sunday, Sept. Slack
of reliable information possessed by
Finland and Sweden concerning inter-
nal affairs in Russia has amazed
American and Italian refugees who
has just arrived from Russia. Like
wise they are much surprised to find
Sweden and Finland in such normal
Russia is given little for
eign news except that indicating
weakness on the part of the Entente
and strength on the part of the Cen
tral Powers. The government now
actually controls the few journals
that are still appearing in Petrograd
and Moscow. The Associated Press
who filed the dispatch
can testify that Americans remaining
in Russia were treated to many an
nouncements that the United States
was again in the throes of an Indian
war The people of the United States
We're described as starving for lack
of sugar and flour. These stories
gained no credence among educated
foreigners.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-09
'DR.STEvENSON.
QUITS PULPIT
FIRST PRESBY..
CHURCH HERE.
DR. STEVENSON -.
Popular Presbyterian Min
lister Resigns to Assume
Charge of Santa Ana
Church-Leaves Sept. 22.

Rev. Thomas f. Stevenson, pastor
of the Ell Centre Presbyterian church
has resigned his local charge and will
leave within three weeks for the coast
to assume the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church of Santa Ana.
In making the announcement to his
congregation yesterday DR.. Stevenson
said that he had agreed to occupy the
pulpit of the Orange county church
for just one year and that he hoped
the end of this contracted service
would see him in a Y. M. c. A. uni
form bound for war duty in France.
DR.. Stevenson will succeed his
brother, Rev. Stevenson, in the Santa
Ana pastorate. The latter is now in
New York awaiting embarkation or
ders to go to Europe in the interests
of the Y. NJ. C. 4.
DR.. Stevenson has been the head
of the local congregation for three
years, coming here from lnglewood
His term as pastor has been very
successful and has witnessed a steady
growth Of the church. His farewell
sermon will be preached from the pull
pit of the church on Sunday evening,
September %.
Although painted at losing their
spiritual adviser at the zenith of a
highly successful pastorate, the men,
bers of the congregation wish him
we'll in his new charge and "bon voy-
age" on his projected trip to France.
No successor to DR.. Stevenson has
been suggested or considered to date,
although the official board has known
of the pending change for some time.
DR.. Spears, head of the Presbyterian
Sunday school work in the South,
will occupy the pulpit on Sunday, Sep
tember 90
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-09
IMPERIAL COUNTY
GIVEN VALUABLE
PUBLICITY STORY

In the current issue of the monthly
bulletin of the California Develop
ment Board, which circulates through
out the West, Imperial county and its
prosperity are given wide publicity
The article is from the pen of Don c,
Bitler, county development agent.
| The article, giving sketchy resume
of the crop and labor situation, is as
follows:
Picking of cotton in Imperial
county, California, will be we'll under
way by September Is. There are ap-
proximately $4,000 acres of cotton in
Imperial county this season, provid-
ing work for from 5000 to 5000 pick
ers.
The price paid for picking big boil
cotton has opened at $3.50 to $500 per
hundredweight, according to condition
of fields, with proportionately high
prices for long staples. An average
experienced picked can gather from
$50 to $50 pounds of short staple cot
ton daily.
Usually after September Is the
nights are cool, although in the mid
die of the day it is sometimes notice
ably warm.
Many women are employed in farm
work in Imperial county and are con-
sidered excellent for the lighter forms
of work. They are picking cotton and
cutting milo maize with considerable
success and are earning fair wages.
Women accustomed to work of this
sort will have no difficulty getting
employment.
More than 100000 acres of milo
maize must be headed during October
and November. The wages for this
work run from $4.00 up per ton, or
per acre, according to agreement
based on condition Of crop. This work
can be done by both men and women
and fair wages earned. An average
milo cutter can handle one acre, or
one and one-half tons of corn a day.
"The United States Employment
Service of Ell Centre lists and places
al Applicants for employment"
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-09
invoke MILITARY
LAW IN CASE Of =
YOUNG MURDERER

Los Angeles, Sept. "a brief pre-
pared and written by Earl Rogers, at
torney for Harold Denman, the young
soldier who was convicted some
months ago of the murder OF Philip
Metz, a Crown Hill grocer, has just
been printed and filed with the clerk
of the state Supreme Court, to which
appeal has been made. The document
contains several hundred pages OF
closely-printed matter.
Present interest in the document
arisis from the fact that it presents
an entirely new question and, if ef-
fective. it is said. will set precedent
that will affect cases all over the
country. The following phases are,
in substance, set forth in this brief:
Under the old articles of war,
passed by Congress during the Civil
war, it is provided that in time OF
peace state courts, such as the Supe-
rior court of this county, had the
exclusive right to try all soldiers and
sailors, and all persons in martial en-
ployment, for all crimes, no matter
where committed.
New Provisions.
In time of war, the military courts.
such as courts martial, has jurisdic-
49, TO try ard sentence such persons
If the military court chooses to de-
mand that right the civil court had to
yield jurisdiction, but only upon de-
mand
At the beginning of the participa-
ton of the United States in the pres
ent war, Congress passed a new set
of articles of war, and among the
provisions there seem TO be two which
change the whole system. They are
Articles 92 and 93 They provide that
all persons subject to military law
which may include all railroad men
shipyard workers and others under
direct orders or control of the fed
eral government, as well as soldiers
and sailors, who commit crimes, "shal
be punished as a court-martial may
direct"
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-09

TO ADVERTISE that furnished
room in the classified is to safeguard
that little extra income from lapses
due to sudden whims or events.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-09

c. w. Barton, member of the ex-
emption board, who has been spend
ing a short vacation on the coast, is
expected to return home on Wednes-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-09

TO ADVERTISE in the classified
for a tenant is to use the most direct
paying basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
NEWS OF WEST SHORE
Personal and Social Items ,
of Towns on West Shore

Harold Bishop. of Bowmansdale.
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M.
Tritt at Washington Heights
Mr.. and Mrs. David Eshleman, of
Washington Heights. spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. Eshleman at
Lemoyne.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. C. Taylor, %of Har-
risburg, spent Wednesday with their
daughter. Mrs. George Kline, at
darlington.
Samuel Growers, of Harrisburg.
was the guest of his brother. j. H.
Bowers, at Washington Heights.
James Reedy. OF Pittsburgh. spent
Sunday with his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. James Reedy, ST.; at Washing
ton Heights.
Miss Irene Rupp and Millard Coov-
er, of Camp Meade. Md, were guests
of Miss Maude PETER at Washington
Heights.
Miss Dorothy Lease and Miss Helen
Lau, of York. are visiting the latter's
sister, Mrs. P. r. Koontz, at Wash
ington Heights.
Mr. and Mrs. irwin Dearborn and
family, of Washington Heights,
spent the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
e. p. Tritt at Longsdorf.
Mrs. MerV1n OTTO ana cnlldren, OF
Washington Heights, are visiting
friends at Carlisle and Boiling
Springs.
Miss Nancy Porter. of Plainfeld,
spent Monday with her sister. Mrs.
George Otto, at Washington Heights.
Mrs. John Eager and children, of
New Cumberland. are visiting friends
at Williams Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Sellers, of
Philadelphia, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Shaner at New Cumber-
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Corkle and daughter,
of Steelton, visited friends at New
Cumberland yesterday.
G.. II. Reiff, of New Cumberland,
who has been very i'll for two weeks,
is improving.
Miss Irene Seaman is visiting
friends at Mechanicsburg.
Margaret Hollar, of New Cumber-
land is recovering from an attack
of scarlet fever.
The Rev. Roy Stevens and son, of
Philadelphia, are visiting relatives at
New Cumberland
John Marquet, of Middletown, is
visiting his son and family in Mar
ket street, New Cumberland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
ONLY THREE IN
LEMOYNE CLASS
Graduating Exercises Will Be
Held in Trinity Lutheran
Church Tuesday Evening

LemOyne, Pa. June 27.-The small
est class in the history of the Le-
moyne High School will be graduated
on Tuesday evening at the annual
exercises, to be held in Trinity Luz
theran Church. The graduates are:
Miss Elmira Bricker. daughter of L.
NJ. Bricker. proprietor of the West
Shore bakery; Miss Anna Baker
daughter of L. F. Baker, school di-
rector for many years. and Miss
Beatrice Barnhart. The smallest
class graduating from the local in
stitution up to this time was in 1914,
when the class was composed of five
members.
The Rev H. T. SearIe, pastor of the
United Evangelical Church, will
preach the baccalaureate sermon to
the class in Trinity Lutheran Church
on Sunday evening. A musical pro-
gram by the Lutheran choir will fea-
ture the program of the services.
DR.. Francis Green, principal of the
West Chester State Normal School,
will give the commencement ad-
dress Lemoyne residents may be
glad to have the opportunity to hear
such noted speaker, as it is seldom
his services are available for small
town commencements. Prof. ]. Kelso
Green, superintendent of the public
schools of Cumberland county, will
present the diplomas.
The program for the commence
ment exercises is as follows:
Music, orchestral; invocation, the
Rev. l.. f. Drash, pastor of the Church
of Christ. selection. "The Meadow
Song" girls chorus; grafton, Miss
Elmira Bricker; selection, orchestra
grafton, Miss Beatrice Barnhart; Sc
lection, Home to Our Mountains, y
girls chorus; grafton, Miss Anna
Baker; music, orchestra; address,
DR.. Green; presentation of di-
plomas, Prof. Green; singing, Amer
ica;" benediction, the Rev. A. l..
Bush.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27

acts as the transmitting agency for
the Army or the Navy which fur
nishes the supplies.
In addition to the prisoners ac-
tually on its records the Red Cross
believes that there are some two
hundred additional American prison
ers in Germany who have not yet
reached the prison camps where
they are to be located permanent
ly. The Red Cross, however, is al
ready prepared to care for these as
soon as reported and in fact has
stored in .Berne or in transit sup
plies enough to maintain twenty-five
thousand troops If necessary for six
months. Awaiting American prison.
ers sent to Tuchel is stock of Red
Cross packages of food and clothing
in charge of three of our captured
boys who are appointed the Red
Cross relief committee for that
prison camp. Similar reserve stocks
will be placed in other prisons as it
becomes evident that they are to be
used as centers for imprisoned AM
orleans, who thus will be fed and
clothed Immediately.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
Draft Boards Get
New Instructions

States draft headquarters has is
sued a bulletin to all local draft
boards urging them to make the
best of the short time allowed for
voluntary inductions and to bear in
mind that the need of specially
qualified men is urgent and that all
records should be placed in fire.
proof places. Boards are also In
structed to have a member or clerk
on duty at all times during the day.
complaint having been made that
some boards have been closing Of
fees on Saturday afternoons. Mem
bers of all legal advisory boards
have been directed to furnish to
registrants and to local boards dur
ing the making out of the new
missionaries by the new regis
trants, their assistance as was done
in 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
Twisted Eye Nothing to
Man Who Wants to Fight

Philadelphia, June 27.-That a lit
tie thing like q twisted eye cannot
keep a man out of the Canadian
army was demonstrated yesterday
by Oscar Carufel, French Canadian
who has enlisted at the British ana
Canadian Recruiting Mission. Sew
eral months ago Carufel went to the
mission headquarters and enlisted
for service in the Canadian army.
He was passed as fit by the medical
board, but when he arrived in Can
ada the doctors decided that he had
a cataract on each eye. With little
formality he was rejected by the
Canadian doctors and sent back
home. Soon after his arrival he
went to the eye and ear infirmary
and had his eyes examined The
.:6~&ors there could find no trace of
cataracts, but they found one eve
badly twisted and some of the mus
cles of the other affected.
ut is rather q serious operation, -
DIR. Alexander of the Infirmary told
Carufel, "and may lay you up for
some time. but am quite sure that
we can straighten out that eye."
"I would not do it, doctor" said
Carufel, "if they would take me in
to the Canadian army with the eve
in its present condition, but they
won't, so please start on me-"
The operation was quite SUCCESS
full and yesterday Carufel was back
at the mission with two eyes in
which there was not even a squint.
He was accepted and leaves to-day
for Canada, hoping that he will be
assigned to a French Canadian unit
and permitted to go to France as
soon as possible. Carufel, who was
born in Quebec, has been working
for some time in Lowell in a muni-
ton plant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
HALIFAX

The following were elected as Of
fcers of the local p. o. s. of A. for
the ensuing term, at the regular
meeting on Tuesday evening: Presi-
dent, 1. B. Zimmerman; vice-presi-
dent, r. E. zimmerman; master of
forms, John H. Chubb; recording
secretary, II. II. Potter; assistant,
John c. Miller; financial secretary,
P, c.. Fox; treasurer, w. d. Straw;
trustee, H. P. Hess; conductor, Myles
Motter; inspector, f. G.. Pottiger;
guard, Joseph Lands; delegate to
State convention at Lebanon in Au-
gust, Charles c. Westfall; alternate,
Mr.. and Mrs. John sammet, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, are paying visit
to his old home here.
The Rev. and Mrs. ]. George
Smith, w. C. Heisler, Miss Marion
Krick, are representing the local
Methodist Sunday School and Mrs.
H, S. Potter, the United Brethren
Sunday School at the County Sab
bath School. Convention now in ses-
sion at Hershey.
The Union Sunday School picnic
held each year at Enterline, has
been called off this year on account
of the war.
Miss Sarah Acker, of Steelton, is
the home of her mother, Mrs.
Esther Acker, in Fourth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Keiter, and
daughter of Dauphin, visited town
| friends Wednesday.
Miss Virginia Shoop, was sum-
moned to Chester. Tuesday, on ac-
count of the death of her only
brother, Joseph S. Shoop, aged "a
years, and a former resident of this
place. Mr.. Shoop is survived by his
wife and one child.
| Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Baker, and Mr.
| and Mrs. w. T. Willis, spent Wed.
nesday visiting friends in Reading.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
KERENSKY WANTS
GERMANY'S YOKE
OFF HIS NATION
Sookine. Russ Envoy, Certain
People Would Welcome
Allied Military Action

Washington, June 27.-The un-
heralded appearance in London yes
terday of Alexander Kerensky, for
mer provisional premier of Rus
sia, together with his announce
ment that he is on his way to
America and that he is certain Rus
sia soon .will be fighting again with
the forces of democracy against Ger
man domination, furnished the sub
1ect for discussion in official and
diplomatic circles that covered a
wide range.
AS there apparently had been no
intimation of Kerensky's intended
visit to this country, speculation
naturally centered around his pur-
pose IN coming. The belief seems
to be general that he not only will
seek to enlist the support of his own
people in this country in his efforts
to rehabilitate Russia and cast off
the German yoke. but will discuss
the subject with officials as we'll.
Appearing as he does at a time
when both the United States and
the entente governments are earn
estly considering how thew NAV hest
aid Russia to rid herself of German
influence and establish a stable gov
ernment, the visit of the one time
dictator of that stricken nation is
regarded by officials as having MANY
and far-reaching possibilities.
Russia Eager For Freedom
Coincident with the appearance of
kerensky in London. John Sookine
member of the Russian commits
sion sent to the United States bv
the kerensky government a year
ago, and now just back from
France, announced yesterday that he
had learned through intimate re-
ports from Russia that the people
would welcome military action bv
the allies to overcome German domi-
nation.
A few months ago, Mr.. Sookfne
said, this action would have been
intolerable to the people, but Ger
man aggression in spite of the Brest
Litovsk treaty, had caused so much
suffering and privation that allied
Intervention now would be hailed
with relief.
Mr.. Sookine's statement and that
of former Premier Kerensky con-
cerning the change in the sentiment
of the Russian masses served to
bear out reports received at the
State Department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
led Cross Is Forwarding
Food and Clothing to
Americans in Germany

OF these twenty-seven German
prison camps in which Americans
low are held, Tuchel, near Danzig,
to be the chief prison camp for
puf captured boys in uniform, ac-
eording to advices reaching the
american Red Cross. In each of the
fomps there are either captured SOL
#Iiers or else American seamen taken
from Summarized merchantmen. The
Red Cross had direct reports from
Two hundred and thirty-one men in
these camps at the beginning of
pune and to each is sending through
IT'S prisoners relief warehouses at
|Berne, twenty pounds of food a week
|and is supplying clothing, comforts,
tobacco and in fact, everything the
men need. In supplying captured
soldiers and sailors the Red Cross
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
RnY CoNFEssEs RoRRERIEs

COIumbIn, Pa, June Y. = George
Myers, George Obert and Hugh Don
ley, three boys who escaped from the
Glen Mills Reformatory, were found
here by an officer and the two first
named returned at once to the institu-
ton. Donley, who is Columbia boy.
was found hiding in a stable. He
stated that he had escaped from the
institution June s, and had made his
way to Pittsburgh. He returned a
short time ago to his native town, and
since his arrest has confessed to rob-
bing the Columbia Baking Company,
the Columbia Grocery Company and
the clothing store of 1. A. Fuld, for
which robberles other boys had been
suspected. The boy says he had no
accomplices, having committed the
thefts without the aid of anyone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
BRACE UP AND BE HAPPY
BLISS NATIVE HERB TABLETS
WILL MAKE YOU FIT

stomach catarrh and rheumatism.
She started taking Bliss Native
Herb Tablets. She writes that she
is now free from rheumatism and
the distressing stomach catarrh
that not only impaired her health,
but created a foul breath. l can
not say enough in favor of Bliss
Native Herb Tablets and I heartily
recommend them to all who suffer
as I have DONE"
Bliss Native Herb Tablets are
put up in a yellow box containing
200 tablets, enough for six months.
The genuine have the photograph
of Alonzo o. Bliss stamped -
with the trade mark. Price (R1
81. In any case where Bliss V
Native Herb Tablets fail to fulfill
all that is claimed for them, money
will be promptly refunded. Sold
by Kennedy's Drug Store and local
agents everywhere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27

Don't neglect the care of your
system, and good health, will add
many happy hours to your exis-
tence. Danish headaches, indiges-
tion, constipation and rheumatism
by the regular use of Bliss Native
Herb Tablets. They are wonder
fully efficient in purifying the
blood, cleansing the kidneys and
toning up the system. For thirty
years they have been recognized as
the standard herb remedy. They
contain nothing of a harmful ma
ture,. consisting only of herbs. roots
and barks.
Bliss Native Herb Tablets are
the favorite household remedy in
thousands of homes and have
maintained their supremacy by
the quality of the ingredients used.
Mrs. S. C. Walker, Hays, N. c.,
suffered many years as a result of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-27
Wormleysburg School Board
Starts Stamp Campaign

wormIeysburs, Pa. June 27.-All
Wormleysburg will rally tomorrow
night for the biggest patriotic meet
ing in the history of the borough, to
be held in the Town Hall at 8 o'clock.
The meeting will be in the interest
of the War Savings Stamp campaign
and will be in charge of the local
School Board. edward +. Baum,
president of the Board, will preside.
Efforts are being made by the COM
mittee to have John -Wachtman, of
West Fairview, who was in active
service with the British army in
France for eighteen months, speak at
the meeting. George Reed, of Har-
risburg. will be & speaker.