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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1919-03-14


enemy's position, bayoneted two OF the
gunners and. shot the third and so en-
abled the infantry to advance. A bar
rage was laid on the Bois de Jomblets
behind which the l25th Infantry moved
forward and shortly after noon again
occupied that woodland under heavy
shell fire.
Between and o'clock the 127th In
fantry worked ahead and engulfed
Bellevue Farm and Hill 23O, leaving
Reddy Farm, with its terrible circle Of
fire, still in the enemy's possession but
in steadily closing salient. Not long
after, the l25th Infantry again lunged
forward on the left and took the Bois
Planchette and the Bois Pelger, of
which they held the former but were
obliged to relinquish the latter before
nightfall. 1t was in the Bois Pelger that
Pvt. H. j. Devereaux, Co. M, angered
because German machine gun, after
wounding his corporal, continued firing
on the latter, strobe forward with his
rifle and put gun and gunners out Of
business.
The situation was now such that the
command OF the 9th French Army
deemed it probable that a concerted
advance could break through, and such
an advance on the part OF the 1st United
States and the 38th and 3rd French
Corps was ordered, to begin at 4:l5
o'clock on the morning of August 2.
GENERAL ATTACK BEGUN
During the night the 4th French Di-
vision, right of the 32nd United States,
which was slightly behind, cleared out
the strongest position in its front, the
hill crest of the Courteaux Farm, and,
thanking from there toward the left,
strangled out the woods of the Pats de
Charmery and came up in the line with
the Americans on Hill 230.
At the hour set, the attack began, the
advance battalion of the 63rd Brigade
being supported by the batteries of the
10th Field Artillery and those of the
Gath Brigade by the 174th Field Artillery
while each battalion also had machine
gun company and number of 37mm.
guns and Stokes mortars for clearing
out machine gun nests.
The movement progressed rapidly,
and it soon became evident that the
enemy, despairing of further effective
resistance on that line, was retreating.
Reddy Farm was passed, and by 9 a. m.
the attack had become pursuit, which
pressed with all possible vigor and de-
layed only occasionally and for short
period by bursts of machine gun fire,
pushed on northward through Chamery
-Coulonges, Villome and Cohan, over
great stretches of abandoned trenches,
while ahead the smoke, flames and ex-
plosions of burning supplies, ammuni-
ton dumps and bridges indicated the
haste of the German retreat. By mid
night the front line was north Of Draw
egny, more than six kilometers beyond
its starting point, and French cavalry
patrols were still beyond.
ARTILLERY ORDERED FORWARD
So rapid was the advance that during
the night two batteries Of the l47th
Field Artillery, each accompanied by
two trucks of the 10th Ammunition
Train, were ordered up to join the In
fantry advance guards and give i'm
mediate rapid fire with open sights il
machine gun opposition was encounter
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Capt. Winters, who says: "Some time
when you lack copy for your paper
you might run this 32nd Division arti-
Gle. 1t is correct and gives good des-
cription of operations up to the
Argonne drive.]
The division which deployed on the
ground vacated by the 3rd, directly
under the guns of one of the strongest
positions that the Germans possessed
between the Marne and the Vesle, and
was charged with the duty of immedi-
ately attacking and conquering that
position, was more strictly new divi-
sion than any other of these from the
United States which had thus far taken
part in the counter-offensive.
The 32nd Division, of which Maj. Gen.
William g. Haan was in command, con-
sisted of the 63rd Infantry Brigade
[from Michigan] under Brig. Gen.
William D. Conner, containing the
125th and l26th Infantry and 120th Ma
chine Gun Battalion; the Gath Infantry
Brigade wisconsin, under Brig. Gen.
Edwin B. Winans, containing the 127th
and l28th Infantry and the l2lst Ma
chine Gun Battalion; the 57th Field
Artillery Brigade under Brig. Gen. G.
Leroy, containing the 10th, 12Oth and
l2lst Field Artillery Regiments wis
consin) and the 147th Field Artillery
Regiment South Dakoto); the 10th
Engineer Regiment, and divisional
troops.
The division had arrived in France
early in March and been designated as
the Replacement Division of the First
United States Army Corps. In this
capacity it continued to act, sending
about half of its partly trained infantry
personnel to other organizations, until
April 18th, when the imperative need
of more troops at the front caused the
32nd to be made temporary combat
division" and sent, after training
course of four weeks, to quiet sector
in Alsace where for time in June il
held front of q kilometers.
SENT TO RELIEVE 3RD.
But it had experienced no heavy
fighting whatever when, on July 10, it
was hastily withdrawn from the Alsace
sector and sent by train to the west OF
scissors and then, by truck, to relieve
the 3rd Division in front of Cierges.
That under such circumstances the
work of its tactical and staff units
eshould have been so we'll conceived,
go smooth and so uniformly successful
as to render its difficult and hard
fought operations almost models OF
their kind, was one of the best proofs
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possible, if proof were still needed, OF
the rapid adaptability of Americans,
given the proper instruction, to the
most exacting requirements OF modern
warfare.
The advance regiment of the divi-
sion, the 127th Infantry, was looking
down on the tangled woods OF Cierges
and Grimpettes as the sun came up on
the morning of July 30th. The COM
mand of the sector did not pass to Gen.
Haan until IL a. m. With the Gath
Brigade in front, he had his troops ad-
vancing three and one-half hours later,
after a preparatory fire OF 20 minutes
by the divisional artillery, to attack,
with the 2Sth United States Division,
the machine gun nests in the Bois de
Grimpettes which by thanking fire were
holding up the progress OF the latter
on the left.
Under the lash of German shells and
bullets the men probably did not feel
just as they had upon the drill ground,
but instructions for the Offensive
Combat of Small Units" had told them
precisely how such woods should be
taken and they took them in precisely
that way, while ahead of them moved
a nicely adjusted barrage laid down by
batteries, many of which had learned
how to do it while acting as instruction
batteries at various artillery schools of
the A. f. F.
ENEMY ATTACKS FLANK
Immediately after they had traversed
the woods, the enemy attacked their
right flank viciously from the Bois de
Cierges. But there was also method
prescribed for dealing with such at
tacks. Two companies were echeloned
back on the right and, promptly throw
ing the Germans out, pursued them in
to the Bois de Cierges while the 2Sth
Division proceeded northeast to Cierges
village and, finding it evacuated by the
Germans but full of gas, took up line
on the high ground just outside of it.
The enemy may have heard that in
front of them was a division of new
troops, to whom night attacks are sup
posed to be especially disconcerting; at
any rate they tried one about 10 clock,
dashing out of the great Bois Meuniere
to sweep the handful of Americans
from the Bois de Cierges. The Ameri-
cans, however, met them with the
bayonet, and after half an hour of VOL
fish hand-to-hand combat under the
trees it was the Germans who fled back
northeastward leaving large proper
ton of their numbers dead on the
ground.
While this was going on through the
night in the right of the sector, the
63rd Infantry Brigade, in consequence
of the progressive narrowing of the
front and squeezing out of divisions,
was relieving the 2Sth Division on the
left, thus extending the front of the
32nd Division across nearly four kilo-
meters. Ahead of it lay now, to the
right, Cierges and the creek valley in
which it lies and, to the left, the long,
open slopes of the Ourcq valley reach
ing up to the small wood of Les
Jomblets, on Hill 2l2, spur OF Hill 220.
ACROSS OPEN SLOPES
By the fire from this wood the right
of the 42nd United States Division was
being held up and severely punished in
Sergy, about kilometer to the west.
Consequently, by order of the 3Sth
(French) Corps, another methodical
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1919-03-14
STOPPED COUGH AFTER INFLUENZA

STOPPED COUGH AFTER INFLUENZA
"Foley's Honey and Tar is the best
cough medicine l ever tried, writes 3.
B. Mcdowell, R. F. D. 1, Box li9. Ar
lington, Tenn. my son had influenza.
He had the worst kind OF a cough.
tried everything but nothing did any
good. God sent me friend with Foleys
Honey and Tar, and In two days his
cough was gone. ."-Hites Drug Store.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1919-03-14
Amendments To
Be Voted Upon
Three Amendments to State Con.
stitution To Be Submitted
Monday, April 9TH.

At the election to be held in this State
on Monday, April z, 1919, there will be
submitted to the electors three pro-
posed amendments to the Constitution
of the State as follows:
A proposed amendment to Section
10, Article X Of the Constitution,
authorizing the State TO borrow money
to be used for highway purposes and
issue bonds therefor, and to read as
follows:
"Section 10. The state may contract
debts to meet deficits in revenue, but
such debts shall not in the aggregate at
any time, exceed two hundred fifty
thousand dollars. The state may also
contract debts to repel invasion, sup
press insurrection, defend the state or
aid the United States in time of war.
The money so raised shall be applied
to the purposes for which it is raised or
to the payment of the debts contracted.
The state may borrow not to exceed
fifty million dollars for the improve
ment of highways and pledge its credit,
and issue bonds therefor on such terms
as shall be provided by law"
The effect of this proposed amend
ment, if adopted, will be to provide
that the State may borrow money for
highway purposes and issue bonds
therefore.
A proposed amendment to Section 3,
Article XVI of the Constitution, to pro-
hibit the increase or decrease OF salar-
les of Public Officers, and to read as
follows:
"Section 8. Neither the legislature
nor any municipal authority shall grant
or authorize extra compensation to any
public officer, agent, Semploye or con-
tractor after the service has been rem
dered, or the contract entered into.
Salaries of public officers except Su-
preme Court justices, circuit court
judges, probate judges and judges of
courts of like jurisdiction, shall not be
increased nor shall the salary of any
public officer be decreased after elec-
tion or appointment"
The effect of this proposed amend
ment, if adopted, will be to prohibit the
change of salaries of Public Officers
after appointment or election, except
those of justices or judges of courts Of
record.
A proposed amendment to Article
XVI of the Constitution, by adding a
section thereto to be known as Section
II, and to read as follows:
"Section IL. 1t shall be forever law
full in this State to import, transport,
manufacture, use, buy, sell, keep for
sale, give away, barter or furnish every
kind of cider, wines, beer, ale and por-
ter, and to possess the same in a pri-
vate residence. So much of Section IL,
Article XVI of this Constitution as pro-
hibits the manufacture, sale, keeping
for sale, giving away, bartering or fur
nishing Of vinous, malt, brewed or fer
mented liquors, is hereby repealed
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1919-03-14

Quick help is best help. A dead
man does not appreciate your favors.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1919-03-14
sd Fought Way
toOurcqHeights,
Thence to VeSle
Relieved 3rd In Front of Cierses
After Baptism in Quiet Sector.
GREAT WORK AT JUVIGNY
Crazy Artillery Fire Dazed Ger
man in Attack on Crucial Point
Near River OiSe.

From "The Stars and Stripes, France,
Feb'y 7th, received by The Herald from
Capt. Winters, who says: "Some time
when you lack copy for your paper
you might run this 32nd Division arti-
Gle. 1t is correct and gives good des-
cription of operations up to the
Argonne drive.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1919-03-14

AT the election to be held in this State
on Monday, April z, 1919, there will be
submitted to the electors three pro
posed amendments to the Constitution
of the State as follows:
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1919-03-14

But the 32nd kept on, largely because
OF many such acts as that of Machine
Gun Sergeant Dougold Ferguson, 126th
Infantry, who, when the infantry near
him was held up by German machine
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LISTEN TO AMBITIONS VOICE
Desirable Companion May Fail to Call
Again if She Is Not Accorded
Recognition.

Most young people seem to think
that ambition is a quality that is born
in one and which cannot be materially
changed, but the greatest ambition may
be materially injured in many differ
ent ways. The habit of procrastina-
ton, of postponing, the habit of pick
ing out the easier tasks and putting
off the difficult ones, for example, will
very seriously impair the ambition.
Whatever affects the ideals affects the
ambition.
Ambition often begins very early to
knock for recognition. If we do not
heed its voice. if it gets no encourage
ment after appealing to us for years.
ii gradually ceases to trouble us, be-
cause. like any other unused quality or
function. it deteriorates or disappears
when unused.
Be careful how you discourage or
refuse to heed that inner voice which
commands you to 20 forward. for If
you do it will become less and less in
sistent until finally it will cease to
prod you and when ambition is dead
has set in.-From "Ambi-
tion and Success" by Orison SWEET
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Put your feet down in the right
place. and then stand firm.-Lincoln.
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important to Mothers
HIS SCHEME DIDN'T WORK
This Colonel Evidently Was Wise as
to the Foxy Ways of His
Junior Officers.

In the regular army it is one Of the
customs of the service, when at reg
ular army post, for the junior officers
TO call upon the senior officers. To
comply with this custom without MAX
ing the calls, the junisr officer fire.
quently waits until he knows the senior
officer is away and then calls at his
LONE and leaves a card. One night
when / was stationed at post In
Texas, I saw the colonel down town
and on my way home stopped at the
colonePs quarters and put my card
under the door. l was just leaving
the porch when | noticed a car at the
gate. and on closer inspection / noted
that the colonel was in the car and
was awaiting me at the gate. He
said: "Kind of ate to make
IL call, isn't it, LIEUT." This became
one of the colonel's best stories, and
to say that l was more than once
would be putting 1t mild.
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Taxing the M,II.onaires.

Under the new scale of income tax
imposed by the recent United States
revenue bill every citizen in receipt OF
S150,000 or more Il year must pay al
least half of it to the state.
Mr.. Henry Ford, for example. is said
To have an INCOME of S25,000,000 d
year. of which the revenue authorities
will claim between S15.000.000 and
500 900 0O0-a sum sufficient to keep
1000 families In modest comfort for
ever.
But even Mr. Ford gets off lighter
than Mr.. John ID. Rockefeller, who is
reputed to have an income of $780,
100000 a year Mr.. Rockefeller's
contribution 70 the treasury. it is said
will not fall short of SS0.000.000 for
the current year--a sum which repre-
sents 1000 times his weight in gold.
OF course, man is like any other
animal that growls when it's hungry
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only twenty thousand dollars to re-
nounce all claim, free the old gentle
man, go away and leave you, senior,
to pay your court to the heiressr'
He laughed softly at Stanway's
quick, angry frown, and continued
swiftly:
1T Is because I have very urgent
need Of ten thousand dollars. It would
save me from an embarrassing posi-
ton, senior. You do not guess how
embarrassing. And am very modest
ly asking merely twice my actual
needs.
"True, there is more to gain by slit
ting the throat of my esteemed kins-
man and inheriting the whole. You
see, don't mind speaking frankly, be-
tween friends.
"But, on the other hand. the danger
Of which you speak would be much
greaterand / need the money now,
not after the courts can have had time
to haggle over the will for q year or
two. So, senior, you have my offer.
What do you say7"
II say" cried Stairway hotlJ, that
you are . scOundrel, and ! believe
only 30 much OF what you say ~ I
Judge wise. II Senior de Il 0uerfa
dIeG, Why then Jon 90 to ths haneman
provided Gaucho and his men allow
ron to 70 that far. You viii rave hin
~ nava v0ur own rex. Do yoQ ah06-
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GROOMING cows is FAVORED
Animal Is Naturally Clean and II 10
Dairyman's Duty to Keep Her
So-Means More Milk.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Sightliness and attractiveness are
feminine assets which extend even to
the dairy COW. Naturally she is q
man has been obliged to confine the
dairy cow closely in stables during
certain periods of the year, with the
consequence that unless he daily
brushes and grooms the dairy mat
rons, their sleek, seemly coats soon
lose their gloss and luster and be.
come densely matted with dirt and
litter. For the same reasons that it
pays to groom horses-greater effi-
cheney from neat, spick-span coats-it
also proves invaluable to doll up
the dairy cow daily by vigorous appli
cation of brush and curry comb. Cow
comfort-that inexplainable condition
of well-being which means animal
satisfaction and the economical pro-
duction of the maximum flow of mink
is fostered by careful and persistent
grooming during the season when the
cows need such extra attention. as
ordinarily during the pasture period
the animals of their own accord keep
themselves clean.
The enthusiastic use of the brush
and currycomb, supplemented by a
moist cloth, as siege guns against
dust and dirt. are good mediums for
increased production, according to the
opinions of progressive dairymen re-
ported to the United States depart |
ment of agriculture. They maintain
that the clean coats and luxurious |
feelings of contentment induce in |
creased production of milk. II you |
doubt the profits from grooming dairy
cows, put 1t up to Bessie and her
stable mates via the referendum-vote
From sanitary standpoint, the
1ensely matted, filthy and caked coat
Of the dirty cow is one of the main
sources of contamination in milk.
Filth dries on the body of the animal.
md, unless ii is removed previous to
portion of it is likely to
all into the milk pail and carry un-
desirable bacteria with it. Hence,
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That man has great t0morr0ws II.
fore htm who has great yesterdays -
hind hin and = trying to put q great
1eel q srUa11eD ITO his todayA
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Absolutely. 1 shall make bettel

7 Absolutely. shall make better
terms"
Stairway went to the door.
''There is going to be no more max
ing Of terms" he said briefly. 81 shall
talk to you henceforward as I'd talk
to rat in trap"
Tore sprang up swiftly, his face
flushing darkly with rush of angry
blood.
"You shall see," he cried harshly,
'sthat even rat in trap may have
sharp teeth. You fool, it is / who will
offer terms-or dictate-at my pleas
urew
He turned away with a short, ugly
laugh. Stairway for the first time felt
little shock of positive dread; fear
that he was risking too much; that he
had no right to assume this RESPONSE
bility. For there was something in
Torres voice which told him that the
man was making no idle threat.
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CHAPTER VIII.
At Three O'clock.


The questions perplexing Stanwa,
were these: "Is there large force
of men backing Tore and Juarez? Are
they alone in the thing?" And there
was only one way to answer them.
As the afternoon slipped by ant
dusk came down upon them, sweet anG
warm, through the groves of orange
and olive trees, Teresa sent word to
| the mems quarters for all, excepting
| a half dozen of them, to come to the
| house.
Those not coming in were to remain
on guard over the corrals into which
the saddle-horses had been herded. and
to serve as sentinels along the bor-
der. The guard over Tore and Juarez
was doubled; the two men were dis
armed and assigned to couches upon
the opposite side of the drawingroom.
Doors were fastened, windows
locked, shutters drawn, and the haci-
enda was like an old fortress in time
of siege.
81 do not anticipate an attack" STAN
way smiled into Teresa's grave face.
"Surely the insurgents are not looking
for complications with this country.
But we are taking no chances. 1t would
take whole regiment of them to trou-
BILE us here tonight"
'But are we doing right?" she whis-
pered a little fearfully. eff we gave
them the money-it is so small part
of papa grande's estate-he would be
out of all danger. And as it is
"It is a bluff of Torres, pure and
simple" he told her. "If anything
should happen to Senior de la Guerra.
Tore and Juarez would not last If
teen minutes with your little army Of
retainers. senorita. They talk big,
both of them, but am not afraid"
But when she had given him her
hand and a wan smile by the way of
"Buenas noches," he was not content
until he himself had seen to the watch
fulnesS of the men stationed here and
there throughout the big house. And, |
by the way of final precaution, he saw |
that another man slept that night at |
Pedro's side, in front of the senorjta's |
1oor, and that both men were armed.
He had not again gone to where |
Oempton fumed and worried in the Ii
,rary. 1t was his thought to leave the
awyer to chew upon the cud of sus-
,icion his own parting words had given
lin, TO make the night long and I'M
,yentfuI for him, so that his trembling
title soul might have time for thought.
1t was late when Teresa needed his
Irging and went to her room. He left
Ter at the foot of the stairs leading up
0 her chambers saw Pedro preparing
o spend the night at her doorway, and
hen went to his own room, decided to
leep until the stiller hours of the
light came; then to superintend in
erson the watch which was being
ept throughout the house.
On his way to the wing of the build
1g which had been given over to him,
e passed through the drawing-room
Dr. the last time.
Juarez seemed to be asleep upon his
OUCH Half a dozen of Gaucho's ~
ueros, all armed, were scattered
bout the room, their quick eyes show
,g how alert was the spirit within
lem. Tore, sitting at table idly .
1rning the leaves OF an illustrated .
ook of poems. rose quickly when
tanway came into the room and |,
.epped to his side.