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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29

gave a delightful program of solos,
duets. quartets, readings and char
acter ske -ches and was greatly en-
joyed. They appeared last year on
the course and were liked so well
that they were again brought to
the city and were even better liked
than before.
The first part of the program was
varied and the last part consisted
Or camp songs and camp versions of
many of the popular songs. Three
OF the quartet appeared in khaki
uniforms and the fourth in the uni
form of the United States navy.
Next year the B. Y. P. U. will
again put on a lyceum course which
will be better than any of the pre-
ceding courses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
SOCIAL EVENTS

The regular social meeting of the
society will be held next Monday
evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
Memorial Service Program.

The program for the Gold Star
memorial services which has been
arranged by the Tri-City Luther
league federation to be held Sunday
afternoon includes musical numbers
and an address by the president of
the federation, Carl Faust of Mo-
line. Services are to be held in the
gymnasium of Augustana college,
beginning at o'clock
Following are the numbers on
the program:
Opening song-America.
Prayer-Dr. E. F. Bartholomew.
Selection-The Wennerberg cho-
rus.
Violin solo-Oscar Kubitz.
Address-Carl Faust.
Vocal solo-Mrs. J. A Martin
Song, 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
Cralle-BerteIsen Engagement.

The announcement OF the en-
gagement of Miss Bertha Bertel-
sen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ia
cob Bertelsen, 2103 Seventeenth
street, to Chester L. Cral,e of 1905
Eleventh street, will be of inter
est to many Rock Island friends OF
the couple. No date is set for the
wedding. but it will be celebrated
in the near future.
Miss Bertelsen will be honored
at several pre-nuptial affairs in
the weeks preceding her marriage
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
kRle-keHy.

A wedding which comes as a
happy surprise to many Rock Is
land people, is that of Miss Wini-
fred Kelly and Peter kale, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kale, us
Fourth avenue. The ceremony
took place Wednesday, April %, in
Mendoza. but was kept a secret
here until yesterday
Rev. F. ]. Cleary, former assist
ant pastor of ST Joseph's Cath
Ollie church, this city, performed
the wedding ceremony. The cou-
ple was unattended. The bride
wore a suit of blue serge and a
blouse and hat to match. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kale came to Rock Island
Immediately after the ceremony.
They will make their home at 221
Seventh street.
Both young people are we'll
known here. Mr.. Kale was dis
charged from the service March
8, after serving for about ten
months in the chemical warfare
department at Astoria, Long Is
land. N. Y.
Mrs. Kale has been in training
as a nurse at st. Anthony's hos
pital for the past two and q half
years. She was to have finished
her course this summer. Her
home is in Elmwood, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29

Miss Linderholm
Second piano parts, Mr.. Samuel
SOM.
Clyde Downing at the piano.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-01-09
FORMER CO. A SOLDIER
WAS SHOOTING HUNS
Irwin E. Mccormack, of Donnybrook
Says 1t Is No More Thrilling to
Take a Shot at a German
Than at a Gopher

Irwin e. Mccormack, son of Mr.
and Mrs. j. D. Mccormack of Donny-
brook, was in Minot Saturday, enroute
to Fort Des Moines hospital, after
spending his Christmas furlough with
his parents.
Mr.. Mccormack left Minot October
2, 1917, as member of Co. A and
he has seen some severe fighting in
France.
In the battle of Cantigny he suffered
| injury from shell shock and he was
in the hospital for three months and
eight days, being treated for this in
! jury. The shell shock effected his
nerve and his heart and he is still re-
| ceiving treatment for this. Any
sharp noise startles him but he is
growing better gradually and it is
believed that in time he will fully re-
cover.
| A ten inch she'll fired by the Huns
struck close to where a number of
members of l Co. 10, Reg. First d.
vision were at work just behind the
lines, killing twelve of the men and
injuring many others. The Germans
had spied the American party and the
shells were coming pretty close. The
! Lieutenant had just told the men to
get under cover and they had just
started to scatter when the shell
struck. Mr.. Mccormick says that
generally one can hear the shells com
ing but this one was not heard by
any of them. You never hear the
shells that "get YOU. He was rem
dered unconscious by the explosion
and when he regained consciousness,
he remembers of seeing the ambu-
lance.
At another time, he was so close to
an eNplosing shell that one of his ear
drums was broken. He can hear but
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-01-09
little in that ear. A fragment Of the
al L IL

little in that ear. A fragment Of the
shell broke his watch.
Mr.. Mccormack says that he was
brigaded with the French and five
hours after the hard fought British
had evacuated their trenches at Cantig
ny, his division took up their posi-
lions. He was in the Battle of Sois-
sons when the Germans started their
big drive July Is, but three days late,
the Huns were driven back.
"A bombardment is like a fierce
electrical storm. We are nervous,
then we grow quiet and have no fear.
We got so used to firing at the enemy
that it did not seem any worse to
take shot at a Hun than at gopher.
You'd just think that he'd get you if
you didn't get him, then take aim and
fire away. When was drilling, l
often thot that it would be impossible
for a man to delibera tely kill another,
but you forget all about this in war.
I was in the automatic rifle squad. l
was told that the average life of an
automatic rif1eman in the trenches
was four minutes. We used the
French rifles, shooting from Is to II
times per clip. It took about three
seconds to reload. You just press
ed thumb piece, the clip dropped out,
the other tip is showed up and the
gunner is tapped on the shoulder,
which is a signal to fire. In the
squad there are the first and second
carriers, first and second gunners and
three ammunition carriers. The
French rifles do not work very we'll in
cold weather. We like our own
Browning guns better.
"At night, our automatic rifles
would be put out on the advance post
and ordered to fire ten shots every
thirty minutes, perhaps. This was
done to keep the German raiders back
in their trenches.
"In June, before the Americans got
over there strong, the British and
French were pretty we'll whipped. The
Germans had come at them in mass
formation, which tho bad for the
Huns, caused much damage to the
Allies. The machine guns could ac-
count for four waves of the Huns but
after that the guns would become so
hot that the reserve barrels would
have to be put in. The barrels
would actually get so hot that they
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-01-09

would bend right over. The Ger
man dead were piled up as high as
mans neck some times. The 18th AM
erican engineers were with the Bri-
fish when the big drive started March
81 and l understand that only two out
of the number were accounted for.
'The Hun prisoners of the 1919 and
1920 classes, mere boys, surrendered
gladly, but the old Prussian guard
surrendered only at the point of the
bayonet.
"We didn't know a great deal of
what was going on in the trenches.
This was just as we'll for had we been
taken prisoners, we would not be able
to give the Huns much information.
"The Americans never gave back
ground once taken, except to retreat
for kilometer or so to give the ar
tillery chance to clean out Hun ma
chine nests, after which we would 60
right on.
"There were not many of the First
or Second Regiment, North Dakota
soldiers, but who were either killed
or wounded. Fourteen days from the
time we landed in France, we were
sent right up to the fighting line. I
received three bullet wounds while
fighting in the Toul sector, two above
the right knee and one in the arm.
That happened when l was out on an
advaced post. had seen German
sniper, bobbing his head up above the
trenches. De'd drop back and bob
up about four feet away each time.
l was behind a pile Of sand bags II
crawled around the bags to get bet
ter shot at him when some Hun ma
chine gunner must have been watch
ing me, for he sure did pepper me.
Later, managed to get one of the
bullets out of the sand pack which l
have for souvenir.
"Its Hard to tell you how we suf-
fered at times from hunger. In
the thick of the fighting it was often
hard to get food up to us and l have
gone 48 hours without bite to eat. |
Some of the food would be gassed !
and that is not fit to eat. Other times
our food would be blown up. These
hardships were worse than the actual
fighting.
IL am surely glad that enlisted
and would gladly enlist again for the
same cause.
"The Americans sure did good job
after they got started. A soldier
from the United States was landed
every 8 10 seconds on French soil
after they once got started. In the
battle of Cantigny field piece was
fired every half second.
"The American soldiers were there
with the rifles They'd pick out a
certain man and take aim. The French
fired more at random.
1.-THE Red Cross, Salvation Army
and the X. C. did wonderful work for
the soldiers. The Y. M. C. A. was
not 80 popular, as many of the boys
were out of funds at times and one
could not secure anything from the
Y. M. G. A. unless he had the money
to . penny"
Mr.. Mccormick returned on Hol-
land boat landing in America on
Thanksgiving day. There were $50
wounded men and $50 officers on the
boat.
He states that the European people
are slow. One American with his up
to-date methods, will do as much work
as five Europeans. He does not like
the climate Of Sunny France" where
it rained most of the time and he
doesn't like the customs.
Speaking Of the girls of France, he
says there are some swell dressers in
Paris, but for the most part, the
French girls dress sloppy, to his mo-
ton. Not many Of the Americans
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are marrying French girls. The
French officials would welcome the
Sammies, but he understands that a
soldier is not permitted to marry with
out Uncle Sans consent. At least
that's the way it is doped out to the
Yanks over there.
He was in Base Hospital 50 when
the arnistice was signed. There was
some celebration. The German pri-
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-01-09

soners were as happy as the French
and danced with Joy, throwing up their
hats. The French women insisted on
kissing all the doughboys they met.
Mr.. McCormack's brother, Clarence
w. Mccormack, of Co. A, was killed
July 20, in the Battle of SCISSORS, but
Irwin did not learn Of this until his
return home. He failed to get his
mail.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19
PLANT HOMIE GARDENS.
When Made a Family Affair They
Yield Good Returns and Pro-.
vide Money for Investment.

Home gardens are needed as much
ffiis year as last for their contribution
TO the worlds food supply, SAYS Rufus
w. Stimson, agent in charge of agri-
cultural education for the State Board
of Education of Massachusetts. In
addition, Ire points 0ut they should be
made to assist mat grially In the pur-
chase Of Thrift and War Savings
Stamps. Thus the gardens will serve
in a four-fold capacity. On the pa
triotic side they will help feed the
world, and they will put money at the
disposal OF the United States Govern
ment with which to carry out its world
policies and ideals Az well as meet the
obligations imposed by the war. On
the other side, they will provide the
family table with an abundance of
fresh vegetables ard fruits, and they
will enable the family to make finan-
eial investments that will bring good
and sure returns.
Mr.. Stimson thoroughly believes IN
the home garden He would make it
family affair, parents and children
working in partnership in the garden
! ing enterprise. He has no sympathy
! with any plan which arrays the child
against the parent, as is done by pro-
grams which call upon the boy to show
, how much he can Guido his father.
Where parents and children work
| together the waste that occurs when
the children alone have the garden is
eliminated Children often weary Of
thing and drop it. When O. garden
is neglected there is waste of labor,
| material and money. But when their
elders are interested, the children are
steadied, neglect is prevented, and the
garden enterprise is carried through
to the harvest
Whether for home consumption or
public sale the fruits Of the garden
should put money in the purse and
open productive channel for the pur-
chase of War Savings Stamps.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19
VICTORY LIBERTY
LOAN CAMPAIGN
BEGINS APRIL q
New EngIands Organizations, Which
Have Carried On" For Two Years,
Leading the Country on The Fourth
loan-Pians Greater Activity Than
Ever to "Finish the job"

N. Penrose Hallowell, Executive
Chairman Of the Liberty Loan Com
mittee of New England who was in
Washington three days recently
discussing Liberty Loan matters
with the Treasury Department,
makes the following statement:
at is important to check immedi-
ately the growing impression that
the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign
is to be abandoned and that the
Government will finance its needs by
means Of short term notes to be
placed among the banks. There is
no truth in such a rumoT."
Secretary GLASS has officially an
nOunced that the campaign viii be
launched not later than April 21st
and has called on all Liberty Loan
organizations to hold together and
use their utmost endeavor to distri-
butte the new securities as widely as
possible among investors.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19
SUGGESTED THOUGHTS.

Germany said: Americans are ex-
travagant; they can't save" Ameri-
cans have not only proved that they
can save, but the saving habit has
become fixed. Watch them buy War
Savings stamps!
straight lines have come to stay"
Straight lines are in vogue in other
things than dress. The straight line
to independence is investment In War
Savings stamps.
Great hearts that gave and counted
not
Their youth, but gloriously fought
And died that Freedom shall not die"
Shall We hesitate to invest our small
savings in Thrift and War Savings
stamps to maintain that for which they
gave all.
Hard work Is the only remedy for
present Ills" True, but of what avail
Is hard work IL the money received
therefor is squandered? Why not
buy War Savings stamps, and thus
combat both present and future ills.
Spring models are becoming more
numerous every day" Even the 1919
War Savings stamps appear in new de-
sign and color
"Noma.n patriotic and put IN end -
oI't'r conditions" To show your
p, 4 SIN and upto.dateness buy War
Savings stamps
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

Editor "Hcrald":-
The Vermont General Assemb.y IS
now on the home stretch.
One important measure for Essex
County is bounty on black bears
which in+eat It's region generally,
and are . met nee not only to sheep
'ET, &c cth: Dung stock. A bill
las raaao3 o., House for this pur-
Aoao and vii, most likely go thru the
Senate, a5 NJ Amos C. Masters of
Maidstone Is most appreciative of
present niece site and has conse-
lquentIy done a great deal of work.
Under the law as now existing,
hunters can kill both male and fe-
male deer ON December Is ito De-
aem1or 10 A good law, because
YOU cent wait TO see their horns.
Walter Hartman Of Canaan, is
trying to pass g bill appropriating
money for new road from Leach
stream across to meet the Wallis
Pond road and avoid the abrupt turn
and almost impossible road thru Can
ada. This will be agreat convenience
TO persons desiring to go from Can
aan to Averill Lakes.
An attempt will be made this week
to pass the bill granting Presidential
suffrage to women over the Cover
ncr's veto. Mrs. Clara Chapman
Gait and many good and some med
locre lawyers say that he is wrong
and the bill is constitutional.
whatever else may happen, we be-
lievo this legislature is for economy
Everyone is trying to save money.
There is need enough of this wher
our Governmental expense has IN
creased $4,000 00-outside the mil
itary in ten years. Let US hope thai
this bill becomes law.
A bill which will eliminate tuber
-culoeis in cattle has passed the HOUSE
and will pass the Senate Tuesday
without much doubt.
All measures for the enactment o
uniform laws have failed-a sltua
lion very much to be regretted, leav
inc I'll subjects considered therein il
chaotic condition as it has Away
haor heretofore. Someday howe We
these measures will pass, for right al
wavs py~vails finally.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19
Wednesday, March 10, 1919

Wednesday, March 10, 1919
Entered at the Post Office at
Island Pond, Vermont, as second
class mail matter.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

Mike O'Dowd called by the Govern
ment, under oath testified as follows:
Direct Examination by MI. Bull
lard.
'Uho1 IS your name?"
"Michaer.
"And where do you live?"
"Brunswick, Vermont"
"Do you represent that town in the
legislature this year,"
yes.
''Do you know this Alfred Smith
that was on the witness stand?"
81 do.
"Know what he was doing last
summer"
Gle was newsboy on the Grand
Trunk Railroad.
along in July or August did you
buy some liquor of Smith,"
81 did,.
Glow much did you ouy?"
"Why in the latter part OF July,
K be exact on the date, do not re-
member,-I did not pay any attention
to it it was after haying and | had
got through hayihg ana | gov Oh 'he'
Ifalh ana went 10 1SlaH" IoIu anu
l bought quart l Wouiu MOI Say.
What place between lSlahu roma ana
North 0trat1ord
,t ,,yoc +ha 1oLa1 m, tba Viii
What was the laOel on 'he Wills
Key you ooughC!
Inc laOel was lnPeriaI "hlsheS :
Are you acquainted WIN taaC
brand, Mike
why l thlnk am -,
"Dld IL tell on Che taoei "iieSe IL
was made
1T ala
"WhereE
i ana not examine Vhe laOel very
close, understand IL was p'aue Ill
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

If the Kaiser had gone into Paris
&c would have been at the head of
Inc league of nations. Who is tax
ing his place? Who will take his
place?
#######
Europe ought to have the JAM
tor sweep up those discarded crowus
and send them to be melted into
something useful.
##*#*##
1t does not seem to have occurred
to anybody that returned soldiers
may have their own ideas about what
they wish to do.
*#**##*
Tourists have already begun ask
ing the booking agents 70 sell them
tickets to Europe. Evidently they
can't wait until the place is tidied up
a bit for visitors.
****#**
Mr.. Hohenzollern calls himself
Count William. The rest of the
world will call him no account.
*#F*#**
In the event OF a restoration Of
the railroads to private ownership,
some of the returning directors will
feel as much my-tified as Rip Van
Wrinkle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

e. e.. Gusrd the .ChiIdrens Health g.
Mrs. Efawr BOX 26, Bennett, Wis
consin, writes: eve have always
used Foley's Honey and Tar CONF.
pound for colds and find it great.
The c1ildrn all run for it when they
see the bottle and ask for more"
Contains no opiates, safe, and harm
sq5noo o4 JoHe1 4dWoId s7a!5 ana 'ssaE
colds Group and whoopit7 gcough.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

AS far as New England is CON-
cerned this is enough. The same or
ganization which has successfully
operated in four Liberty Loans will
be ready and pulling at the leash by
April 31st, and the coming campaign
will be carried ON with ths' utmost
activity.
THE problem OF the Treasury has
been to find an attractive. form of
security to offer this public. The con-
siderable discount at which the Sec
ond, Third and FGurth Liberty Loan
long term bonds ara selling. (due en-
tiraly to the enormous volume which
1t has been necessary to sell in
short space of tiluel would make it
extremely difficult, to sell another
long term issue at par unless the
rate was made comparatively high.
by establishing not over 4A%
rate on previous issues the Treasury
accomplished tha remarkable and
most economical piece of financing
that the world has ever' seen. If
rates of interest on these various
loans had been continuously and
substantially increased, we would by
this time have had outstanding long
term bonds bearing az rate Of at
least so and. due to the amount,
probably even then selling at dis
count.
This, without question, would
have driven down the prices of all
other outstanding securities, and
would have made difficult, or even
impossible, the financing of many
good companies, ths operation of
which was necessary to the Govern
ment during war times.
ITO issue at this time a long term,
high rate bond would be foolish; for
in normsd times a 40 Government
bond should sell at a substantial pre-
MUM, and it would be manifestly
unwise to saddle the country with
4R% or so rate for long period
Of years This also would further
depress the prices Of existing secu-
rites.
"The Secretary OF the Treasury,
therefore, has wisely asked. and the
proposed bill provides that he be
given the right to issue a compare
lively short term security at a rate
OF interest sufficiently high to make
its sale possible.
When the armistiCe was signed
the unjustifled feeling which sprang
up almost over night that as the war
was over there was no further ne
cessity for the purchase of Govern
ment bonds is, fortunately changing
very rapidly.
"The country now realizes that
contracts which the Government bad
made for the active continuation of
warfare must be settled that our
men abroad must still be clothed and
fed and eventually brought home and
demobilized.
at Is naturally impossible to cut
off expenses all at once and the Vic
tory Liberty Loan must be sold to
meet expenses already incurred and
only temporarily met by the issue Of
Treasury Certificates.
Americans are not in the habit Of
! leaving unfinished a thing which
they have seriously undertaken and
they will not in this case. The war
| financing is not yet finished, so when
the time comes everyone, including
those who are Eood-naturodlv grum-
bling about taxes, etc, will PIT their
hands deep In thor pockets and
draw forth enough to oyogaaaacribe
the loan TINE sooner 70 rs successes
fully behind ms tHa loss troubles We
hall have for the future"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

Just between ourselves, you
never will wise-up to high-spot-
snoke-joy until you can call a pipe
by its first name, then, to hit the
peak-of-pIeasure you land square
on that tWo-fsted man tobacco,
Prince Albert!
Well, sir, you'll be so alfred
happy you'll want to get a photo
graph of yourself breezing up the
pike with your smoSethrottIe wide
open! Talk about smoke sport!
Quality makes Prince Albert so
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

appealing all along the smoke line.
Men who never before could
smoke a pipe and men who've
smoked pipes for years all testify
to the delight if hands out! P. A.
cant bite or parch! Both are
cut out by our exclusive patented
process!
Right now while the going's
good you get out your old jimmy
pipe or the papers and land on
some P. A. for what ais your
particular sn1okeappehte!
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-03-19

buy Prince Albert
tnS handsome
that classy,
the tobacco