s DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. '?! r H ?( ;fc YANKS-BLOCKED DRIVE ;Y-- Advancing Foe Had Surprise of Life When He Found Amcri' cans in Line. GRAPHIC STORY IN LETTER Tells of Our Troops' Heroic Resist ance In June Held by Many Offi cers to Have Saved Paris From Huns. Wnshlngton. A graphic eyewitness nceotmt of the lighting neur Chateau Thierry, In which American divisions, Including ihu marine hrlgude, took part, early in June, wus made public recently by the navy department. It Is In the form of n long letter from an oflicer of the marines to Major Gen eral Barnett, commandant of the corps, and the story told Is of peculiar significance, as In the opinion of many olllcer here It was the stand of the Americans nlong this line which saved Paris. TW name of the writer Is not dls- cl-.Kpd. The Americans were rushed to tl t line In motortrucks to support the hard-pressed French. On June 1 the marine brigade deployed in a support fiosltlon, the battalion commanded by MnJ. Thomas Ilolcomb hurrying Into the line as the men climbed out of the ck. The Germans were coming on, rttid June 2 the French dropped back, passing through the American lines. "Wd had Installed ourselves In u house In La Vote Chatel, a little vil lage between ChamplIIoti and Lucy-le-Bocage." the letter says. "From one side wv had observation of the' north and northeast. They came out on a wonderfully clear day in two columns across a whent flold. We could see the two twin brown columns advancing In perfect order until two-thirds of the columns, we judged, were In sight. Foe Slowed Up by'shrapnel. "The rifle and machine gun Are was Incessant and, overhead, shrapnel was bursting. Then the shrapnel came on the target at each shot. The white patches would roll away, and we could see that some of the columns were still there, slowed up, and It seemed perfect suicide for them to try. 'Then, under that deadly lire mid a barrage of rifle and machine-gun lire, the Boche stopped. It was too much for any men. "That men sdiould fire deliberately, and use their sights nnd adjust their range," he says, "was beyond their ex perience. It must have had a telling effect on the morale of the Boche, for It was something they hnd not counted on. As a matter of fact, nfter pushing bnck the weakened French and then running up against a stone wall of de fense, they were literally 'up in the air' and more than stopped. We found tharout later from prisoners, for the Germans never knew we were In the front line when they made that at tack. Thoy were absolutely mystified at the manner In which the defense stiffened up, until they found Hint our troops were In line." The letter telfs in detail of the days of fighting that followed. It describes a daylight charge ugalnst a maclilne gun host and of scouting raids up to June G, when the whole brigade swung PLANE MAY FLY This Is the Anierican-bullf liundley-Pugo airplane Lnngley, constructed for the proposed flight across the Atlantic. The picture was mnde ns tho machine was being prepared for Its christening. "Old Glory" at Front London. When the Illinois troops nnd Australians attacked together nt Vnlro wood and Hnniel. a sergeant of the American contingent took Into ac tion a smnll American flag, the gift of his mother. The men under him sur rounded and destroyed a machine-gun post hidden nmong treo trunks Just Inside tho wood. As they went on nf ter bombing the German crew, the ser geant brandished the little flag over his head and shouted. "Come on, fel lows; there's another one." Just ahead some Australians were lighting around a shnllow pit In which were five Prus sians and a mnchlne Run. Two or three Chicago hoys dashed up with their bayonets poised. One of them lit erally fell on n big Rhlnelander who was about to throw a bomb und sent him sprawling with a cracked skull, nnd, with the Australians, put the re minder of tho crew out of action and cleared a dugout behind of 11 wibinls slve fugitives. ON PARIS forward to straighten out the line. This action resulted In the capture of Bel lean wood. Hit Three Times, Still Fought on. Major Sibley's battalion of the Sixth marine regiment led tho way hero, with Ilolcomb In support. The woods were nllvo with enemy mnchlnc guns. That night word came back thnt Robertson, with 20 men of the Ninety-sixth com pany, hnd taken Bourcsches, breaking1 through n heavy machine gun barrage to enter the town. Robertson, fighting with an automatic In either hand, wns hit three times before he would allow himself to be tnken to the rear. Speaking of Individual acts of brav ery the writer says Duncan, u com pany commander, "before he was mow ed down hnd his pipe In his mouth nnd wns carrying a stick." Lntcr he adds, "Dental Surgeon Osborno picked up Duncan and with a hospital corps mnn had Just gnlned some shelter when n shell wiped all three out." Private Durilnvy killed Inter, cap tured an' enemy machine gun In Bour esches, which he turned on the foe with great effect, while at another point "Young TImmermnn charged a mnchlnc gun at the point of the bayo net and sent In 17 prisoners at a clip." When the enemy made a stand nt one point In the woods Sibley's bnt tnllon wns withdrawn and for an hour Spy Rounded Up By Trap Shooter Paris, There Is a certain United States signal service sergeant up In the Toul sector at the front who has been able of late to combine a little plensure with his business. The cen sor won't let one tell tho sergeant's name, but without revealing any mili tary Information It may be said that before tho war the sergeant was rated as one of the top guns nt a well-known trap-shooting club In the States. There Is not much trap-shooting Just now In Frnnce. They nre not cracK Ing away at live birds, either. But the sergeant got his pigeon shooting Just the snme. The particular front In which the sercennt operates Is Infested with Ger man spies. All sorts of things were hnppenlng. A "tramp" battery, one of. those par tlculnr guns thnt whisks up, slams a few at the Frltzlcs, then slides out on the Jump, found Itself being shelled the Instant it lined up for n shot. Again, every time there was a troop movement, jho movement was antici pated by the Boche. Beside that, ev ery time a body .of our men got to gether for any purpose whatever, the Germans shelled them wllh everything they had, big guns Included. Tipping Off the Hun. Now, the Hun doesn't use his big guns unless he knows what he's shoot ing nt. How he learned, however, was pretty evident. Some one back of our lines was tipping him off. The signal service sergeant vns the first to detect how It was done. His ( ACROSS ATLANTIC Still following the tiny Stnrs and Stripes, n little bigger thnn a pocket hnndkerchlf, but, ns one of the men said afterwards, "looking like n regu lar Hag," tho Americans, shoulder to shoulder with the Australians, passed through the eastern end of the wood nnd out Into the open fields again. "Tho llrst time I luve ever fought un der the American flag, Yank," said a tall, raw-boned Queerislnndor with n flrst-nld bandage round ills head. They arrived at their final objective, a group of strong, weli-sheatlied trenches linked with the rear defenses of Hnni el village, and hero the Chicago ser geant planted his emblem on a bit of wood and set It on tho parapet. Bul lets whistled all round It, cutting the silk Into ragged strips and eventually It was wholly shot away save ono un recognizable fragment, which was pre served as n precious souvenir of an historic dny. -l-M-M- HWlM4W'M"H"l"!,'M'i'W 4 V MINISTERS GO TO WAR, t ALL CHURCHES CLOSED Albany, N. Y. Willi the en llstment of Rev. William Wal lace Katon, pnstnr of the Moth odlst church. Schoharie church es are without ministers. Every church In the village has been clocsd up, temporarily nt least, for the call of Uncle' Sam. Rev. Mr. Katon will soon he on hi way to France for work with the Y. M. G. A. .f -H..H fHhfHMMM"l"t"l":l"H"f 'l'4nl"l' j nnd fifty minutes American nnd French batteries hammered tbo wood. Hughes, with the Tenth company, then went In. and his first message was thnt the wood had been cut to mince meat. Overton, lending the Seventy sixth company, finally charged the rock plateau, killing or capturing every gunner and capturing all the gun, with few casualties. The Eighty-second company lost all Its ofllcers, nnd MnJor Sibley and his adjutant, Lieutenant Ballnmy, reorgan ized It under lire nnd charged a mn chlnc gun nest nt the most critical time In all the fighting. "I wonder if ever an outfit," the loi ter said, "went up against a more des pcrato Job, stuck to It gamely, with out sleep, at times on short rations, with men nnd ofllcers going off like flies, nnd I wonder If In all our long list of gallant deeds there ever were two better stunts than the work of Sib ley nnd Holcomb." squad wns repairing signal wires back of the trenches. Tho sergeant halted In his work and gazed skywards. A pigeon wns going over his head. The sergeant watched It Idly, calculating as he stood there how far he'd lead It with a 12-gauge. Then with a sigh he went to lnylng a wire again. A few minutes later the sergeant stopped again. Another pigeon had risen from the wood. But a few min utes Inter, when a third pigeon nw from tho wood, the former trap-shooter tarried no longer. A half hour later ho bolted Into the quartermaster's depart ment, clicked a salute and spoke hur riedly. "Gimme n shotgun," he demnnded. Shotguns are a regular part of cer tain quartermaster's supplies. Soon the sergeant might have been seen standing behind a hedgerow gnzlnp to ward the nearby wood. ' Presently he was seen to stiffen, at the same time murmuring "pull." The 12-gnucre swung briefly In an nrc; a crack nnd a crumpled ball of feathers came tum bling toward earth. To mnke sure, the sergeant gave it a second barn just before It hit the earth. Clever Shooting. It-was pretty clever shooting. The bird wns high, going over fast and quartering. "Kill." murmured the ser geant methodically, as he retrieved the fallen gnine. Thnt afternoon the sergennt got four other birds. Attrched to a leg of each pigeon wns a code message In German handwriting. A short time later n detachment of military police got the owner of the pigeons. In his blouse nnd sabots he looked like any of the peasants tilling the fields behind the lines. On being stripped, however, he proved to be n German under officer. Since his cap ture the nightly bombnrdment of th" "Y" huts nnd other places where sol diers congregate has been more or les hnphazard. The Frltzles still chuck heavy stuff at them, but thanks to the ex-plgeon shot, the sergennt, they are not soorlng as frequently ns formerly "It's bum'enrds they're bringing In" says the sergennt. "Girl In Every Port." Boston, Mass. Writing to member of Fraternity Lodge of Rebeknhs In Mil ford. Lieut. Elbert M. Crockett, now on war duty In France, says: "Censoring tho letters of the boys to their sweethearts back home Is one of tho Jobs I'm up ngalnst most every night. Some of them hnve but one sweethenrt, and some of them have two, three nnd four." ANCIENT DEED IS RECORDED Placed on File In County Recorder's Office 100 Years After It Was Drawn. Lawrencevllle, Ind. A deed Issued to Jesso M. Lnlrd by the United States government In May, 1810, for 05 acres of land on Wilson creek, Dearborn county, has been placed on the books of the county recorder's olllce -or tho first time. The original tract of land consisted of 040 ncres and wns bought at 51,25 nn acre by Mr. Laird and Ida wife. The 05 acres, with the home stead, has not left the family nnd Is now owned by Snmuel M. Lnlrd, his grandson. Jesse M. Lnlrd and his wife aro said to have been the first whlto settlers on Wilson creek. Peach Pits Help win War. Yakima, Wash. Peach pits from tho orchards of tho Yaklmn valley nre helping to win the war In tho front lino trenches of Europe. Tho pits are used In tho manufacture of gas masks, fho charcoal produced from them having superior absorbent qualities WHAT "Speed upl" Is the call from Sur geon General Gorgas to the American Red Gross In Its campaign to recruit graduate nurses. With the American army overseas entering more nnd more Into the light ing, he said, tho need for additional nurses becomes imperative. The call is for 1,000 graduate nurses n week for the next eight weeks, or 8.000 by October 1, for the whole country. The states In Central division Illi nois. Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin have been enrolling gradu ate nurses steadily for military and nnvnl service, but will redouble their efforts to meet this urgent request. Tho public can help by urging every graduate nurse to enroll with tho Red Cross, nnd also by reducing calls upon graduate nurses in case of illness, using practical nurses wherever prac ticable and learning how to handle simple nllments In the home without outside help. "Waste not, wnnt not" will bo a new Red Cross slogan. Upon request of the war Industries bonrd tho American Red Cross will undertake a new line of work, the con servation of materials now going to waste. This salvage campnlgn will bo di rected by n new bureau of conserva tion at Natlonnl Red Cross headquar ters In Washington nnd will call for co-operation by chapters throughout Uie country acting upon Instructions given through division headquarters. Whilo the Red Cross will get the benefit of the material saved or col lected, the primary purpose Is not to raise funds for the Red Cross but to save materials needed In the winning of the war. A number of Red' Cross chnpters nl- New Dresses for School Wear yiiiiiuniiiiiiiitiiirTTTFaBfelM HMlillllll llmllll I1II11iBmTV 'i, ! New dresses for school wear, made to fit the requirements of the little miss from about seven to twelve years, seem to emphnslze the sim plicity thnt governs the designs In chil dren's clothes. Simplicity grows moro -and more popular ns the tastes of the public advances. Tho demand Is for strong fabrics, tho simplest lines, reliable workmanship nnd good finish ing. In materials, heavy cotton rep. -nnton crepe, strong, conrso linen reaves nnd the tried nnd proved wool rlothcs provide about all the dresses or general wenr. Waslmblo goods ire woven In colors that aro dark and permanent, strong blues and browns taking the lend for school wear. In tho aow frocks for fnll sleeves nre length ened so that they reach to the wrist, and there Is moro variety In their de sign, but otherwise styles do not dif fer much from those fnmlllnr to us In tho summer dresses. Little folks, In these days of v steam and furnace heated schools and homes, look to coats nnd wnrni head and footwenr to fortify thqm against the cold of winter. Tho frock lf brown cotton rep with onnds nnd bindings In white rep, shown In the picture, Is ns good an example of a serviceable everyday and school dress as nny ono could ask. Tho ma terial s laid In four box plaits which ire pressed In. They aro stitched down at tho front nnd back to the depth of j long yoke; their edges overlay a band of the whlto goods. Whlto irrow heart nro worked nt the ends f hotto bands. Tho neck mid leoves CAN WE() 3 DO? ready hnve salvage or Junk campaigns under way. These probnbly will bo modified by the new policy to n cer tain extent nnd chapters not now fcnl lectlng waste materials will wait until explicit directions nre reccLved before starting Into the now work. England was saved half a billion dollars' worth of materials wasted lie fore tho war and this country, using tho grent Red Cross membership of more than twenty million persons, should mnko a greater showing. Tho war Industries board will spec ify from time to time the materials specially desired and tho chapters that will collect them. To Mention Furs! To mention furs In hot weather Is nn offense, but short furs nre to trim cloth suits nnd coats next season, nnd long-haired furs will be seen on plush coats. Among next winter's model costumes Hudson sen! Is of gnnt Im portance, particularly on cloth coats. Ono smart model In buff-tan velours Is an exnmplo of this; It has a Hudson seal collar and cuffs and the coniLlna tlon Is 'pleasing. Then beaver and nutria nre also good. These shorter furs aro liked on cloth coats but Tor the rich plushes which arc shown ex tensively raccoon, oppossum ami skunk are Important In the order named. Fur fabric trimmings will be In good style among the fashionably dressed again nlso. How Hats Are Worn. Hats, be they large or small, are worn far down over tho forehead, so that the coiffure Is almost completely hidden. In front they nro pushed down nearly to the eyebrows, on tho side to tho ears, and In the back to the edge of the hair. nro finished with a white binding nnd white baud and nrrow bond ornament the pockets. At; the front n short, flat band of white slmulntes a tie with two smnll pearl but tons nt the top and three at the bottom. Attractive Parasols. A pretty parusol, carried at one of Ihe smart senside places recently, wan of plum tnffetn, quite plnln except for the bit of figured chiffon shirred over Ihe Inwnrd workings of the sticks nnd steels that regulate the going up und tho coming down of the parasol, anil a big black wooden bead, sewed (o each rounded point of a Rcalloped sec tion, that hung down, awning like, around tho edge of the parasol. An other smart parasol, very effective wllh a colored muslin frock, Is made of white tnffetn, with white enameled sticks nnd hand e and fVriule. 'I l only decoration Is a wide border of eyelet embroidery done with whlto silk threads. Costumes of Lace. Ecru lace frocks are particularly fashionable this Hiim,.-.er. The lace Is dropped over plain net, also In tho ecru hhmlo, uiid creum tinted tnffetn Is. used for the soft, plcot-edged snsh shnwl collar and cuffs, Buttons of tho tnf fota running up the long sleeve give a plqunnt tailored effect to somo of tlieso dainty lace costumes. Hay FevepCataiTh Prompt Relief Guaranteed SCHIFPMANN'S CATARRH BALM Aa vva mam Where He Is Expert. "So you'vo, Joined the army, Moso?" "Yes, sali." "What branch of the service nro yon lnTfl "Well, fmli, Ah's In do Infantry, but when wo gits t' France Ah's done nk ed de capntln to put me on dnt night raid wo'k. Glttln' Into de odder fel low's back ynrd dutiu' de night hours Is n Job Ah considers mahso'f particu larly experienced nt." Detroit Freo Press. , "t Lemon Juice For Freckles Glrlsl Make beauty lotion at homo for a few cents. Try Itl Squrezo tho Julco of two lemons into H bottle tSntulo!ns threo ounces of orchard white, shako well, and you have n quarter pint of the best freckle, sunburn nnd tun lotion, nnd complex ion whltcnor, nt very, very small cost. Y6ur grocer has tho lemons nnd any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchnrd whlto for n few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion Into the face, neck arms nnd hands nnd see how freckles, sunburn und tan dteappcnr and how clear, soft and whlto tho skin becomes. Yes I It Is harmless. Adv. Cottonseed Flour. Women students of the University of Texns recently conducted n scries of experiments with cottonseed Hour. These students volunteered ns suji Jects, nnd for five, dnys nto a Special dtet made up of cottonseed Hour In combination with corn meal, butler, sugar and grape Juice. Each subject had 300 grams or about three and one half ounces of cottonseed flour In the form of brend. 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You can idrnnot ccrtninly find immediate relief in Guld Medal Ilnarlcm Oil Cnpstilca. For more thnn "00 ycartt thii fnmous prep aiation hot been nn unfailing remedv for all kidney, bladder nnd urinaiy trouble. It in the pure, original Ilnnrlem Oil your great-Kr.-iTulmotlier used. About two cap culen eaehdnv 'will keep you toned up and feeling fine. Get It at pnv drag store, nnd if it (lees not Rive you nlmoet immediate relief, your money will be refunded. Re sure you cut the GOLD Ml-'DAL brand. None other genuine, hi boxes, threo size. -Adv. Interrupted Leccon. An undent French schoolhoue, de serted In the lllght of the villagers, was taken over by the Americans us part of tli headquarters of u Held iinibulnnce. The Interrupted lesion could be roi id upon tho bulletin board by the Yankee wounded, curried through, and' n Daudet among them could have woven a masterpiece from It. The moral that Ihe teacher was Inculcating when ho held his "dernlcrc linss" was this;' "The free man obeys his conscience and the laws of his country." And tho phi use set before the pu pils for their composition exorcise thnt day tho dnte was written on tho board, 'JO Mill, 1018 was; "Un JiMir do grand vent." They might hnve written It: "The day of tho big wlpd." Stars and Stripes. Skin Troubles That Itch IJurn und dlsllguro quickly soothed nnd healed by hot baths with Cutl cura Soap nnd gentle nnolntlngs of Cu ticuru Ointment. For freo samples, nddress, "Cutlcurn, Dept. X, Boston.' Sold by druggists and by mall. Soot 25, Ointment 25 und CO. Adv. No Occasion for Trouble. ".Tolhi," she said, nudging her hus band ns they sat In a half-lllled street car. "I believe that man over tliera Is frjing to flirt with me." "Do you wnnt mo to go over and pull h hi" bend?" "Aleiey, no J I wouldn't linyo you do anything for Ihe world. 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