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Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09
Encel Cha6n Graphically ReIa:
tes Some Instances of The
Battles He Took Part In.

enlisted great fear OF a drive by
the Germans that would sweep
the Allied armies into the Eng
lish Channel. But we were too op.
tonistic to believe it, for we were
there to go forward, not back
ward. During this time one of
our officers entered a failing shop
and called for an American uni
form, to which the tailor replied
you don't want a uniform, you
want a bathing suit" While
there our boys experienced their
first battle, taking the KENNEL
Hill from the Germans. This
was a minor operation to what
came later, but then a great deed
in our estimation.
We left Belgium in August and
after a day and night in box cars
We landed in the Arras sector,
near st. Paul, France, where we
spent some very pleasant days,
hainp well back of the lines.
where we could have lights at
night and go where We pleased
without wearing gass mask.
In September We took another
move, which carried us thru
Albert, a once nice town, but
now completely destroyed, having
been under fire of both the Allied
and German guns. 1t was here
that the brave little Australian
army passed thru the retreating
British army and stopped the big
Spring drive in March. After
travelling for miles and miles tnro
a war wrecked country that look
ed more like a pararie swept by
a storm, we arrived at Hamel,
just back of st. Quentin and
Cambria, where we were to take
part in the big drive. We were
here for a month before | ever
saw a civilian.
On September the 18th we took
up our first positions in the Pic
ardy sector, within two thousand
yards of the famous Hindenburg
line. We spent two days and
nights in rest camp. Then or
Sunday morning, September 2Ott
at five fifty we put over a forty
five minute barrage on the cana
sector of the Hindenburg line
the strongest fortified position
which | have ever seen. This
was the most important part We
played in the battle. In thi'
particular sector there were nin'
hundred extra machine guns fir
ing at the rate of six shots a sc
cond, and nine hundred cannon
ranging from three to fourteen
bore, each of which begun firini
on the German position at five
fifty sharp. Under this barrag
and the cover of smoke and foI
our infantry went forward an
routed the German forces il
hand to hand fighting, because
was impossible to see ma
twenty PAGES away. After ou
forty-five minutes of hard fight
ing, which we spent all the pre-
vious night preparing for. we n
turned to a gutter sector, whel
we were held in reserve for tw
more days and nights, but read
to move on a moments motto
: During this time our valeal
dough boys" pressed forwal
). amid shot and shell too fierce f
O pen to portray. We then hi
d two more days rest and returns
! to the lines and entered our s
: cond engagement in this sectc
4 During this battle We had eigf
. cen men and one Platoon Lier
: enant wounded, but none kille
= The heavy shells fell thick a
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09
Pays High Tribute To The
Mothers Who Gave Their
Sons For The Freedom
Of Humanity.
Their Prayers The Main Fact
or in America Winning.

Va M LhAsEIkES0 VHNAAAhds
In the following letter to his
papa, Encel Chaffin, modestly
relates some of his experiences in
battles he participated in. He
served as gunner in Co. B., la
Machine Gun Battalion, which
saw some of the hardest fighting
that our American troops took
part in.
La Mans, France,
Sunday, Nov. "a, '18.
Mr.. J. R. Chaffin,
Gainesboro, Tenn, RI.
Dear Papa:
Today being set aside in the
army, as a day for writing
papa a Christmas letter, | shall
answer the call with my very
best effort.
There are now so many good
things to write of, that | hardly
know what to write in order to
make my letter the more inter-
esting.
First, our official newspaper
tells US that the censor lid is lift
ed, and this leaves open a field,
which | fell very unable to cover.
However, shall begin by telling
you of some of our Operations,
and my experiences in taking
part in them.
AS you probably know we sail.
ed from New York, May IL, for
some port in Europe, we knew
not which one. We persued a
Northeastern route for fourteen
days, finally landing at Liver.
pool, England, after an unevent-
full trip across the Atlantic.
From Liverpool we proceeded by
train to Folkston, port on the
English Channe. 1t was while
there that we heard the hrs
rumble of the cannon of the big
war. After spending a few days.
there we crossed the channel
landing at a well-known OLE
French town. Galaxy, where saw
the real effects of the war, man.
of the buildings and churches
having been destroyed by al
raids. We also saw our hrs
Hun prisoners. The prisoner
were exceptionally large. re-
faced and fat. We at once real
lied what we had to cope with
However, we learned later. tina
they were fed up on Allie
rations, and far better men tina
those whome they had left hold
inc the Hun lines. While 9
Callay we discarded a great POI
tion of our clothing and othe
equipment. On the first of Jun
we drew new equipment and ei
tered a training camp at Audric'
pronounced Audrique) whel
we remained for about six week
On July the tenth we crosse
the Belgium border and enters
the section just left by the inva
inc Hun. While here we co
t;nued training for while, al
Of last took up positions in t
lines between Ypres and keI
mel Hill. During this time the
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and all home folks a Joyous
Christmas and a happy and pros
porous new year.
Your loving son,
Encel.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09
epidemic.
Dissipation Is Always Dangerous

WtoeFauvh 70 hWsyO benbSiVeA
Dissipation, whether it be
drunkenness, excessive indul-
gence of any sort gorging with
food or what not is the enemy of
good health and the ally Of dis
ease especially disease like in
fluenza. Overwork is dissipa-
ton with many men and over
work is also a strong enemy o.
of health. Laziness is dissip-
alton with many men and laziness
which precludes a sensible
amount of sensible exercise is an
enemy of health.
The proper amount of proper
food at the proper times. the
right amount of the right kind of
exercise, the right amount of
work and the right amount of
play, the proper amount of sleep
in airy quarters. the cultivation
of a cheerful spirit--common
sense living intact. is what helps
most to keep well folks well.
And when man who is used to
being well gets influenza, the
common sense procedure for him
is to maintain the resistance he
has built up by getting in the
bed and staying there until that
resistance has outfought and fin
ally and completely defeated the
germs of influenza.
1t is undoubtedly true that a
great many persons who had in
fluenza during the recent epi-
demic were over treated some
times by doctors, but most often
! by themselves or their friends.
One man we'll known in his COM
munity, and known too. as an
intelligent citizen under usual
conditions, is said to have taken
6 aspirin tablets and several dos
es from each of three bottles of
patent medicine one day. was
vaccinated and used up the pre-
scriptions of a doctor during the
next three days, and drank all
the whisky he could get the next,
though when we'll he never drank
at all; wrapped himself up in hot
blankets for hours, in fact did
every thing that anv body sug-
gested to him. died. It il quite
probable if he could have held
out another day or two a dozen
more Of his friends and acquain-
tances would have been glad to
contribute their mites to his un-
doing. The truth is that the
average case of influenza proba-
bly, needs no medicine at all be-
yond the administration, perhaps
of a simple purgative. Excess
, sive amounts of aspirin, antipy-
, rim or any other coal tar drug is
positively dangerous practice.
, just as is the excessive use OF
, whisky. The use of strong ca.
, thartics is also a dangerous prac.
, tice in epidemic influenza. The
things to do. are these: Go Il
bed in a warm bed in a well ven,
{ tilated room. and call the very
/. doctor you know. When tn,
{ doctor comes, don't insist on run
e ming your case. but let him d,
|. it. If he thinks you do not neet
). medicine, don't demand that h
j. give you medicine. Stay in be'
n until you are able to get up
e which means there is no sort o
|. doubt about being well enough
IT Keep your body warm and ca
+" sensible amounts of easily diges
" ted and nourishing food. Slee
Il all you can. That's about a
,f for the average case. A cas-
D. that is worse than the averag'
Of should have the careful attel
IN tion of a good doctor Throughout
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09

that we came out as well as we
did. But We went into the battle
with all confidence of winning
and we won. We were too busi-
ly engaged with our part of the
battle to think of fear. During
the barge my gun mate said,
I'VE are giving 'em hell for the
first time, arn't we. | said
"yes, keep it up and we did,
and succeeded in pumping about
about two thousand shots into
the Huns. We could hardly
shout loud enough to be heard
two feet away, so we just laugh
ed and carried on"
Then on October 18th we went
over the top with l18th Infantry
and protected their flank in the
advance. During this advance
we saw the fiercest battle we
haye ever witnessed, having lost
three men killed and thirty
wounded, and original strength
having been l74 men. When
night came my corporal and |
were the only ones left in the
squad that | started out with and
it was supposed to have eight
men. We started out with about
two thousand rounds of ammuni-
tion and that night we had left
just two hundred and fifty. We
advanced over the crest and down
the slope of a hill. while a five
inch German battery fired at US
with open sights, only about three
thousand yards away. A numb
er of times | saw the smoke from
the cannon firing on us, and we
would duck into a shell hole or
a Jerry" dugout, only to find
ourselves sitting on a dead Ger
man, then we had an inclination
to move. The dead and wound
ed lay thick all along, and large
columns of prisoners came stragl-
ing to the rear, often by them.
selves inquiring the way to the
nearest cage.
We continued this advance un'
til October 10th, during which
time many other things of inter
ing took place, but space doe:
not permit me to relate then
now.
We reached a rest camp sever
miles from Albert, France, ant
on November lst we received th'
news of Austria surrender, ant
then we shouted for joy, for W,
were confident our efforts hat
not been spent in vain, and tina
we would not return to the line
any more. Then on the eve o
November 10th we received tn
news that Germany had signe'
the armistices and that the gun
would cease firing at eleven o
clock the following day. The
again shouted with new JOY
more than ever before, for W
knew this was the climax to tn
great historical event that ha
: been in progress for nearly fiv
years.
Thanksgiving day is now nes
It hand and we, one and all al
truly thankful beyond all wore
!, of expression for the gloriol
achievements in which we hay
! participated; for the unceasir
: loyalty of all the loved ones
: home, who have played such
gallant part and without who
we could never have won. v
shall never forgetsyour loyal d
: votion to the cause of libert
: the dear mothers who gave the
sons for humanity. nor the tru
|, which you placed in US; your la
or, your money. and most of
y !. your prayers have won the d
= for America and placed q ne
!, , wreath on the Statue of Libert
! which we are now longing to 81
E. Well, papa this is my Chri
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09
STATE HEALTH OFFICER
GIVES some ADVICE
ON INFLUENZA.
Tells How The Disease |
Spread and Best Way
To Treat Il.

DR.. Glen West. State Health
Officer, gives the following time
" advice as to the spread and
treatment of influenza.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09
How The Flu" is Spread.

Apparently, influenza is a mou-
tn to mouth, nose to nose and per
haps hand to mouth infection;
that is to say the infection is
spread fromiperson to person be-
cause of infected oral and nasal
cavities. Coughing and sneezing
splitting and spray crowdlng and
careless or uncleanly habits are
guilty factors in the spread OF
the disease. Undoubtedly the
carrier" blays a large part in
the spread of influenza Just as
in meningitis and in other COM
mnnicable diseases. The hand
kerchief should become a habit
with the people; promiscuous
coughing and sneezing and haw'
king and splitting should be taboo
discharges of all sorts from the
human body should be destroyed
liz possible and so disposed of as
to reduce the danger from then
to a minimum whers it is moi
possible to destroy them. Esp
ecially should all discharges from
the boby of the person sick b.
carefully disposed of. Cover ul
your cough don't cough if yo'
can keep from is. Don't sneez'
but if you just have to sneez'
cover it up.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09
How TO Beat The Disease

How TO Beat The Disease
The outstanding lesson that
the people should learn from the
recent epidemic is this. The in
|dividual who maintains his bodily
resistance by the common sense
observation of common sense llv-
ing is the individual who is going
to beat flu. This question OF
getting we'll or dying from di-
sease is simply a matter of fight
between disease germs and the
protective elements in mans
blood and tissues. These protec-
tive elements are maintained In
tie gratest abundance and IN
the greatest strenth and in the
best fighting shape in the body
of the fellow who lives right
and he is the fellow who wher
sickness comes, overwhelmed the
disease germs rather than being
overwhelmed by them. Common
sense living involves the opserv
ance of sleep recreation, exercise
work, air and the maintenance O
the normal functions of the ex
cretory orgons of the body. |
also involves the needing of tn
signs of nature by which the in
dividual is warned that the nor
NAL state is disturbed. For in
stance the fellow who insists o
staying out of bed when h
knows that he has influenzs
with the boast that he is nc
r going to let the grip down him,
! is certainly not following an
common sense rule of living.
!, is a fact that many men, some
E them very prominent men in Tel
t nessee lost their lives because
o their disobedience of CONNIE
sense rule in their obstinate r
y fusal to go to bed when tn,
r knew they were sick. The f,
IS low who insisted on getting
{ too soon and resuming his usr
activities also paid with his i
the price of his foolishness
" many instances during the rece
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-15
MODERN FASHIONS ARE
SEVERELY CRITICIZED

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8. -
Dresses which many women are
now wearing are causing them to
become "knock-kneed, knock-arm-
ed and sway-backed", recently de-
clared Mrs. ] Milton Mensendick
in an address before the Twentieth
Century club.
DIR. William A. Stecher, director
of physical education in the Phil
adelphia public schools, agrees
with Mrs. Mensendick that dresses
which make women answer to that
description are in style. but he as
serts that there is no danger that
they will become permanently dis
abled by their efforts to conform
tc the new fashion.
There is nothing the matter
with woman's frame of body, but
there is with her frame of mind,
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Sen. LODGE tUlOGIZES ROOSEVELT
AT SERVICES IN HOUSE CHAMBER

through the air went the announce
ment of Theodore Roosevelt's death,
and back came a worldwide re-
Spouse from courts and cabinets,
from press and people, in other
and far-distant lands. Through it
all ran a golden thread of person
al feeling which CLEANS so rarely
in the somber Journalism of public
grief. 1t would seem that here
was a man, a private citizen, con-
s~picuous by no office, with no
glitter of power behind him, no
ability to reward or punish, gone
from earthly life, who must have
been unusual even among the lead
ers Of men, and who thus demands
our serious consideration"
Senator Lodge was the only
speaker and the services were
simple. Prayers by the senate and
house chaplains and anthems and
patriotic hymns by the marine
hand added to the stirring spiritual
nature of the services.
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 10
In solemn services within the house
chamber today the Nations leaders
and representatives of foreign gov
ernments paid tribute to the men,
DRY of Theodore Roosevelt. Men,
bers of congress, supreme court
justices, members of the cabinet,
army and navy officers and diplo-
mats of many nations heard Sena-
tor Lodge of Massachusetts praise
Roosevelt as a statesman and as a
a
Crowded galleries and the throng
of men and women who could not
gain admission testified to the
personal feeling for the man whose
death shocked the world. 1t was
this to which Senator Lodge, a
close friend of the nan he eulogiz-
ed, referred when he spoke these
words in the great stiffness of the
house chamber
"a tower is fallen, a star is set!
Alas! Alas! for Celin.
1.-THE words of lamentation from
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-02-15
WAR NEVER TOUCHED
AUSTRIAN ROYALTY
ARCHDUCHESS DREW LARGE
ALLOWANCE FOR SUP
PORT

VIENNA, Feb. z. - The lat
est of the disclosures" so popu-
lar nowadays, show that Austrian
archduchesses, including the for
mer Empress Zita before she was
married, drew from the govern
ment large retainers for monthly
support and quarterly rent money.
The Austrian state bureau for army
affairs makes the revelation in an
official statement.
1t shows that Empress Zita while
still an archduchess drew as month
ly support and for rent the equiva-
lent of $500 at the peace-time
rate of exchange. Her address was
put down as either the Hofburg or
the Schoenbrunn, both imperial
palaces. which were placed, free,
at the disposal of the archduchess.
She had, however, in case of en-
nui, the choice of living in the
palaces at Reichenau, L~axenburg,
Gotzendorf or the Belvedere in
Vienna.
Archduchess Auguste, wife of
Archduke Joseph, received the
equivalent of $14,78S; Archduchess
Isabella, wife of Archduke Fried
rich, $6167; A~rchduchess Blanka,
wife of Archduke Leopold Salvador,
STAT; Archduchess Maria Chris
tine, wife of Archduke Peter Fer
dinand, $453S, and Archduchess
Marie Anna, wife of Prince Elias
of Parma, $3416 and additional
support for children in 1918.
Other disclosures reveal that
clothes, linen, food and other
things we're drawn from military
depots in huge amounts by the
archducal families. The case of
the Archduchess Isabella is par
ticular1y interesting since she had
three estates, the Albrecht palace
in Vienna, another castle in Ba-
dent and a great sea- in Teschen,
and her husband is considered one
Of the most wealthy men in Europe.
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FLU IN ALASKA IS
BLUE RIBBON EVENT
PERSONS NOT WEARING BADGE
SUBJECT TO AR
REST

NENANA, Alaska, Feb. z. =
The epidemic Of Spanish influenza
in Nenana and Fairbanks is apt
to go down in Alaskan history as
the blue ribbon" period by rea-
son of an order by the public health
authorities. This has compelled
everyone to wear on the hat OF
coat a piece of blue ribbon letter
ed Health Department" for
which a fee of 81 was required. If
the original ribbon was lost a dup
licate cost 50, and persons failing
to wear a ribbon were subject to
arrest and quarantine confinement.
The fees for the ribbons have
been used to pay expenses of civ
ilian sentries employed in guard
ing trails to Nenana and Fairbanks
and of quarantining travellers. Not
a sigle case of influenza has devel-
oped here or in Fairbanks.
More than $4,000 in food, medi-
cine and service was expended by
the Alaskan engineering commits
sion to aid Indians along the line
of the government railroad during
the recent epidemic of Spanish in
%fluenza. Thirty-one natives died.
The dead were buried by commits
sion employees.
At Question, a station 103 miles
north of here, the entire Indian
colony was taken down with influ-
enza and two children died.
Commission employees cut wood,
furnished and cooked food and
acted as nurses for the natives.
In Anchorage a vacant hotel
building was equipped by the COM
mission with stoves, cooking uten-
sile and other articles, to serve as
a hospital for treatment of Indians
ill with influenza. Natives near
this town and from other points
along the railroad were brought
here for treatment. Only four died.
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CUBAN SUGAR CROP
IS REACHING u. S.
OVER EIGHT THOUSAND TONS
SHIPPED TO RE-
FTNERIES

SAN JUAN, P. L., Feb. Al
though the sugar season is now
we'll under way, more than 5000
tons of new sugar having been
forwarded to the r%efineries, no
definite agreement has been reach
ed for. the purchase of island sugar
by the refineries. All sales that
have been made so far have been
on the basis of 1928 New York,
which price is based on that of
the agreement with the Cuban SUI
a planters.
The Sugar Producers associa-
ton, however, is working for a
definite contract providing for the
purchase of the entire crop at
$7.2S. Shipments of sugar are
expected to increase from now on
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RAIL FARES INCREASE
THROUGHOUT GERMANY

MUNICH, Feb. 8. - Railroad
fares, already soaring to unprece-
denied heights all over Germany
despite an equally unprecedented
poverty of service, are going up
again, and this time with a jump
to take away the travellers breath.
Prussia, attempting to make up
a deficit of a billion and a quarter
marks, is going to put up fares for
passengers so per CEN above the
present high rates. Bavaria and
the rest of Germany are expected
to do likewise and to be effected
by a general increase.
Coincident with this unwelcome
announcement comes word that all
passenger traffic is to be reduced
by at least SO per cent, all military
and freight trains by the same pro-
portion. The delivery of hundreds
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the old Moorish ballad, which in
boyhood we used to recite must, /
think, have risen to many lips when
the world was told that Theodore
Roosevelt was dead. But what
ever the phrase, the thought was
instant everywhere.
"Variously expressed, you heard
it in the crowds about the bulletin
boards, from the man in the street
and the man on the railroads, from
the farmer in the fields, the women
in the shops, in the factories and
in the homes. The judge on the
bench, the child at school, alike
paused for a moment conscious of
a loss. The cry of sorrow came
from men and women of all con-
ditions, high and low, rich and
poor, from the learned and the ig-
norant, from the multitude who
had loved and followed him and
from those who had opposed and
resisted him.
FLASHED beneath the ocean and