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Neb State Historical S? v VOL. XXXV. PLATTSMOUTH,, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1917. No. 27. 1 (I I f y -J 'J . 7. ; i i 1 i! A GERMAN INFAN TRY IS MOWED DOWN BY FIRE ENEMY ATTEMPT TO RETAKE LOST GROUND ONLY ADDS TO HIS LOSSES. HAIG KEEPS GRIP ON GAINS British Losses Declared to Have Been Light; Little Fighting in Night. Today found the British in Flan ders holding all the valuable ground they gained in their attack of yes terday when they surged forward on an eight-mile front on both sides of the Ypres-Henin road, penetrat ing the German lines more than a mile in places and capturing pris oners in excess of 2,000. All the reports emphasize the completeness of the success the British troops accomplished. The hold Vedhoeke, Zevenkote and num erous strategically important farms and wooded tracts which had been heavily fortified by the Germans, but which were captured in the resistless British sweep. Late yesterday the Germans be gan to counter-attack, but every thrust was effectively dealt with by the British guns, which wiped out the advancing lines of German in fantry. The heavy casualties sus tained in these fruitless attacks evi dently impelled the German . com mand to order their cessation for there . were no reptiUons of them during the n4ght and the British J were able to consolidate their new won ground without disturbance. In some sectors the British con tinued their offensive tactics dur ing the evening. Local attacks, notably northeast of Langemarck resulted in the clearing out of a number of strong points to which some German forces were clinging. Correspondents' dispatches today re port the continuance of similar tac tics at night when the new line was considerably improved in strength. Today's advices further announce the resumption of British attacks this morning southwest of Cheluvelt where a position desired by the Brit ish was still held by the Germans. This was assaulted by British forc es which advanced to the attack at 9: SO o'clock. From none of the other fighting fronts were there indications in the morning's dispatches of opera tions of. more than ordinary im portance. London, Sept. 21. The British war office, after the receipt of Field Marshal Ilaig's report, today issued this bulletin: "More detailed accounts of yes terday's battle confirms the com pleteness of our success. "During the evening local attacks delivered by us in the neighborhood of lower Hamlets and northeast of Langemarck cleared up a number of strong points and completed the capture of our objectives in these localities. It is now established that in the many counter attacks deliv ered by considerable forces of the enemy during the afternoon and evening his casualties were unus ually great. "The clear light of the latter part of the day enabled our troops to obtain warning of impending at tacks, and in every case the ad vancing lines of German infantry were destroyed by the concentrated fire from our rifles,' machine guns and artillery. "The obstinacy with which the enemy 'constantly repeated his at tacks only added to his losses with out recovering for him any of the valuable ground which we had won. "Exhausted by his previous ef forts, the enemy made no counter attack's during the night, and our troops were able to consolidate the positions undisturbed. "Out own losses in the battle were iisht. "In the course of the night smal hostile attacks were driven off west of Havrincourt anJ' west of Lens." IN. COUNTY COURT. tit ', From Satu clay's Dally. There was filed by Attorney C. E. Tefft in . the county court, this morning, two petitions, asking for the probation of two estates. One from Weeping Water, the petitioner being D. H. Mills, asking that the estate of his late wife, Phoebe Jane Mills, which is estimated at $5,000 be probated. The other the estate' of the late Eugene T. Tool, of Murdock, end aggregating $ IS, 000, and signed by Mrs. Minerva H. Gorder of Weeping Water. NOT SHOWING MUCH IMPROVEMENT From Saturday's Dally. Mrs. C. L. Pitman was a passeng er to Council Bluffs, Iowa, this mor ning, where she goes to visit Mr. Pitman at the hospital ,at that place. It will be remembered that Mr. Pitman fell from a scaffold some ten days since while working on an elevator at Council Bluffs, and sus tained internal injuries. The doctors at the hospital think that in the fall one of the kidneys was injured, and probably jerked loose, and that an operation will be required. Mr. Pit man objects to the operation, but if required for the return of health will submit to it. It is to be hoped by his many friends that it. will not be found necessary. SHIPS FINE POLAND CHINA. Fr"i Patvrdav's pally. This morning Mr. Peter Halmes, shipped to Harry Schroeder. of Greenwood, a fine hog from his herd of Poland China's for his herd. Mr. Halmes is a breeder of fine hogs. and is constantly buying the finest o add to his herd, and the one which he shipped this morning is a hog, which rapidly grows into large hogs, being easily kept and raised. With the advance of everything, the days of scrub hogs is numbered, the he best breeds are the only ones which will survive. BACK FROM COLORADO. From Saturday's Daily County Attorney A. G. Cole, and Sheriff C. D. Quinton, who have been spending a few days at Am herst and Holyoke, Colorado, where they were at the farm of Mr. Cole, where he had some matter to look at on the farm, returned home this morning. Mr. Cole says his wheat, of which he has sixty- acres seeded, is up and looking fine, as also is the corn. Mr. Cole brought home with him four potatoes, which were beauties, and we took the liberty to measure them, they averaging twelve nches around the long, way and nine inches around the other way. Sheriff Quinton stopped in Omaha on his way home, to look after some business there. MISS MARY FRADY DEPARTS. From Saturday's Dallv. Miss Mary Frady . departed this morning for Des Moines, where she goes to accept a position with the Des Moines Photo Material Com pany. Miss Frady has been em ployed in the studio of the Olson Photo Company, and is familiar with tlle materials handled, and will thus be equipped to enter the new duties which will devolve upon her. Miss Mary is a ready student and we are sure she will make good in this new position. ... --- DRIVES OAKLAND FROM VIRGINIA From Saturday's Dally. i nomas Copenhaver and son, Bryan, of Salem, Virginia, started the first of August, and visited with a number of people along the way. driving west all the time until a few days since they arrived at the home of the brother of Mr. Copen haved, near Union, S. Copenhaver, and have been visiting there since Mr. Thomas Copenhaver is a jolly old soul, and is in the city today visit ing at the home of his cousin, L. V. Copenhaver, of Plattsmouth. They have sold their car to Stephen, and when thjhave concluded their visit will return on the train. Mr Copenhaver and son have had an excellent time coming out, having put in .about seven weeks on the way and visiting with friends. They are also visiting at the home of C. F. Harris, as he also came from that place. " - .'Z.y. PLATTSMOUTH AGAIN DEFEATS OMAHA GIANTS TOOK THEM INTO CAMP BY A SCORE OF NINE TO FOUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON. LAST GAME OF THE SEASON Witnessed by a Good Natured Crowd Who Took Occasion to Roast the Umpire and Advise the Players. The curfew has sounded and it is all over with the ball players, and the fans will have to talk about this game of Sunday for a long time, as it is all they will get for this is the last run of shad for the season. It is like the last day in the even ng of a street carnival or country fair and the fans were in that frame of mind yesterday, especially during the latter part of the game. The game began with no one on he visiting team getting past first. while Beal of the Red Sox saw third. ut that was all. The second and hird innings continued fruitless for he husky boys from Omaha, but dur- ng the, third there were runs made y Beal and Salsberg, while in the fourth Roy Starnes. shortstop for thej visitors passed safely over the home' plate. The Red Sox took cognizance' of this run by annexing two more to their count and proving their ability j to take and hold a safe lead over the American Giants. The Giants did not see home again until the ninth, when they made three more runs. With the Plattsmouth aggregation the fifth in ning added four more runs to their ally, making eight, and in the sev enth Hay contributed one, making nine. All this time the visitors had but one to their credit, and so much nterest in the game was lost on ac count of its one sidedness, although their other runs? coming in the ninth, kind of evened things up a little and revived momentarily interest in the game. Some of the features of the game were two hits by Salsberg, Gillham and Mason and one each by Stimpson and Herold. When the stock of the visitors went down the toboggan slide in the latter part of the fifth inning, the captain of the giants took their catcher, Roy Wright, the clown of the team, out, putting First Baseman Moore behind the bat. In the seventh Roy Barnes, their pitcher, was traded off for Brown, who had been playing in center field, and he must have been set to work in high all the time ,for he went off like a Roman candle, but was hard to hit and this fact doubt- ess kept the score down from then on, the Red Sox scoring but one man. Hay lost control in the ninth and three runs were made by the Omaha team. As Moore, the big catcher who fol owed Roy Wright behind the bat. was running home, he ran into Her old, dislocating his wrist and putting him out of commission for the rest of the game, Grassman going in to take his place. The crowd good naturedly roasted the umpire, Fred McCauley, and was not backward about it either. They also did a little giving of advice to the players, knowing that this was the last of the playing and so indulg ed in having a pretty good time gen erally, which was coming to them. The runs by Innings were: Om. Giants0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 Red Sox 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 1 x 9 LETTER FROM ROY HOLLY. Wm. Holly received a letter from his son, Roy, yesterday, telling of the trip of the boys to Ft. Riley, and of their arrival there at 2 in the morning, when they were at first compelled to take cold show er baths, and received some cloth ing which occupied them until four a. m., when they were allowed to sleep on the floor, with sacks of straw for a mattress. Then was drilling most all day, making the initiation of the boys one of real army life. They think they will like it better after they are occus- tomed to the schedule. WILL LIVE IN COLORADO. From Friday's Dally. C. W. Baylor, after living in Plattsmouth for a number of years, during which time he has been in terested in the best for this city, and having been engaged in a num ber of lines of business, all of which he has made pay, as well as having conducted it to the interest of all the citizens, is tomorrow to leave here to make his home farther to wards the setting sun. Mr. Baylor and family will depart with their car for .Burlington, Colorado, where he has a farm, and where he will locate on his land, where he will make a farm. At this time there is nothing but the land there, but we expect to know soon of a farm, when they will be living in com fort. IN JUSTICE COURT. From Friday's Dallv. Yesterday morning Louis Beuchler who resides near Cedar Creek, drop ped off the Schuyler train, and when he came to return to his home on the farm he was in a somewhat unsteady condition, and was therefore refusal a ticket at the Burlington station, as provided by law. He was incensed and thought of bringing the arm of the law to hear on the railroad com pany for refusing to carry him to Cedar Creek. When told that the agent did not dare soil him a ticket, when in an intoxicated condition, he -declared they would have to prove he was in that condition. Chief of Police Barclay invited him to stay at the city jail last night, which he did, and admitted that he had drank oo much blackberry cider, .and was assessed a fine of ten dollars and costs, making thirteen dollars in all which he paid into the city's funds. and went on his Vay rejoicing. HANDLE GUNS WITH CARE. There is-many a serious accident which results from the carelessness with which fire arms are handled. We have an instance in this city. wherein one of the soldiers who went to Fort Riley, had to go to a local physician, but a few days be fore he departed and have a shot picked out of the side of his face. The young man who was working on a farm, prior to his departure. was going along the road) when a friend called from a field in which he had been hunting, saying: "Give me leave," when the young man said "blaze away." The man with the gun thinking to test the cour age of the young man and give him a surprise, drew up his gun, and shot past him. The gun which probably was dirty or had the shot rammed hard, scattered, and one shot im bedded itself in the right cheek of the to-be soldier, and flattened it self against the jaw bone. It re quired an incision to remove the siot, the bleeding was quite pro fuse, but. the wound was small, and will soon be entirely gone. Still this shows how careless peo ples are with guns. It has been said it is the unloaded gun which generally kills. Better handle them with care boys. SURPRISE ON 85TH BIRTHDAY. From Friday's Daily. The friends and neifabors of Grandma Eatheridge, of Greenwood, who is a sister of Mrs. S. E. McEl- wain, of this city, gave the good lady the surprise of her life when they went in a body to her home last Sat urday evening, loaded with good things to eat and with a determina-! tion to make life pleasant for their aged friend. The evening was spent in a most pleasant manner, with one of the features the bounteous and de lightful supper and with some tokens of remembrance which were given her. The house was enlivened with many a favorite song. The following were there: Mrs. Annah Baird, Mrs. J. Cline, Mrs. O. W. Marshall, Mr. O. W. Marshall, John M. Armstrong, Mrs. Electa Brittenhan, Mrs. T. A. Crvircle, Lewis L. Laune, Mrs. D. J. Hoenshell, J. W. Johnson, Mrs. J. W. Johnson, Mrs. Gilbert Crouch, Mattie Armstrong, A. R. Birdsall, Willard McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hand, Mrs. W. L. Hand and sous, W. J. Brittenham, Dorothea Birdsall, Thel ma Birdsall, Leuverae Birdsall, Lau ra Jeffery. Bessie Birdsall, Carrie McCarthy, Ella M. Laune, Elizabeth Laune, Ruth Laune, Mrs. John Mc Gill, Mrs. John Graham. WRITES INTEREST INGLY OF LIFE AS A U. S. SAILOR LAD CYRIL JANDA TELLS OF EXPERI ENCE ON BOARD SHIP ALSO IN MEXICO. Says He Does Not See How the Sol diers Stand It Down There No Trees or Grass. San Diego. Calif., Sept. 16. Dear Sister and Vine: We just got back from Mexico a few days ago, and were sure glad to get back, for really I do not see how the soldiers can stand it down there with not a tree or even a blade of grass in sight nothing but hills and sand. I suppose you heard about the German and Mexican smugglers we caught. I wrote father about them. They have not received their sen tence yet and I do not know when they will be given -sentence. I am going to church today. I was at the beach yesterday afternoon swimming and cut my foot on a piece of broken bottle, making a gash about two inches in length. The doctor has for bidden me to leave the hip until it has healed.. Glen Neill. who is also from Plattsmouth. went to Los An geles last evening, and will visit with an uncle until Monday. You wished to know what we do when-we are at sea well just the same as when in port, and this is the schedule: At five a. in. the chief master of arms comes through the ship and shouts our "l"p all hammocks, he ru and lash up, rise and shine sailors." The minute that word is passed ev ery one springs out of his hammock. We have until 5;15 to get out, dress, lash up our hammock and put it in our locker, so you see we have to hurry. We have from 5:15 to ex ercise a little and get a cup of black coffee. At 5: CO the order comes to "turn to," which means get to work. We have an hour to scrub the decks, wash all the painted work and polish all the brass work, and at 6:30 comes the order "Scrub and wash clothes." This we go after for half an hour. At 7:00 the first bell rings for break fart and we have to wash up, put on clean clothes, and at 7:15 we are all supposed to be in readiness. At 7:30 we go to breakfast and at 8:30 the order comes to "turn to" and we go on wjth our work until 9:00 o'clock. At 0:00 o'clock we have questions and the captain's inspection, then morning exercise until 10:00 o'clock. Then for a half hour we have time to get our mail, and at 10:30 we have torpedo defense practice until 11:30, when the call comes to "knock off." The first bell rings for dinner and we have fifteen minutes to wash and clean up, putting on clean clothes. At 11:45 we must be ready for din ner which is served at 12:00 o'clock. We have an hour and a half, for this meal, when the order conies again to "turn to." and we begin the after noon work. From 1:30 until 2:30 we have submarine defense practice, from 2: 30, to 4:30 we have different drills and then for fifteen minutes we get mail. From 4:45 to 5:30 we wash clothes and then until 6:00 we have quarters whe nthe first supper bell sounds and we clean up and don clean clothes for supper at 6:15, sec ond bell, when we have to be ready. At 6:30 we have supper and our day's work is over and we are at leisure im. til 8:45 when we have to sling our hammocks, undress and get to bed at 9:00. Everyone has to be in his ham mock at 9:05 when the order comes to "pipe down," and we do not dare say another word. Here we have to stay until 5:00 a. in. the next morn ing. That is our work for four days of the week, but on Wednesdays, Sat-j urdays and Sundays we can sleep un til seven o'clock, which are holidays, and we have to wear the best clothes we have, and we are not allowed to work. On Wednesdays we have clothes inspection, and if we are short any garments we are given shore lib erty until we have purchased some. You see by this that a sailor does not get t olay around except on holidays, The work is not so hard but it is at it all the time and keep going. Well that is the life of a sailor, except in the training station, where they drill all the time. " , I remain, your brother, CYRIL JANDA. " HER 70TH BIRTHDAY. From Friday's Daily. Yesterday was the 70th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Conrad Meisin- ger, and in order that she might cele brate it in the proper manner, her children and their families, armed with baskets filled with many good things to eat, gathered at her home about 6 o'clock last evening to as sist her in the birthday festivities. An elegant dinner was prepared, which was served at an appropriate hour and to which all did ample jus tice. The remainder of the evening was devoted to visiting with Mother and various amusements which made the time pass most pleasantly to all. This happy occasion was in the na ture of a surprise as the children had not kept Mother posted as to just what they were going to do, and when they arrived at her home, she was very much surprised, but soon recovered and joined in the evening's pleasures. The children iii attendance were J. C. Meisinger and family, J. E. Mei- singer and family, George H. Mei singer and family, P. A. Meisinger. Misses Laura and Matilda Meising er and Mr. Leonard Meisinger. GERTRUDE MORGAN WINS PRIZE From Friday's Daily. The publishers of the Christian Endeavor World. which is the offi cial organ for the Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor, dur ing the past summer had a contest for increasing the circulation of the paper, and Miss Gertrude Morgan was aked by the executive com mittee to take charge of the mat ter of pushing the paper among this immediate vicinity, which" she ac cepted and entered into the matter with enthusiasm. The result is she has won the first prize for the state, which is fifty dollars in gold. The results 'of her work, being seventy new suliscribers and fifty-seven re nowulvaiKl which we consider very good, indeed. . FACTS CONCERNING THE PLATTSMOUTH STATE BANK We are informed that certain peo ple are spreading the report that the Plattsmouth State Bank is owned in part by parties in control of the oth er banks in this city, and in the near future will be consolidated with one of them. This is an absolute falsehood, as no man actively connected with any other bank in this city lias a single share of stock in this hank. The statement is also being made tliat certain changes will soon be made in the management of this bank, and that Mr. Roberts is to re tire from the bank, which statement is equally false. PLATTSMOUTH STATE BANK, lly J. M. Roberts, Cashier. HAS SCALES TESTED. From Saturday's Daily. Arthur Troop who has a good deal of weighing to do on his farm south of the city, has concluded that the proper way to have the scales so he knows they are right, is to have the state Inspector of weights and measures test them, and accordingly took out with him this morning inspector John Wonderlich and will have the scales tested. Insure Without Cost After the currency panic of 1 907, with all the losses it entailed, what would you have been willing to pay for insurance against another such disastrous experience? To-day, through our membership in the Federal Reserve Banking System, we are able to offer it to you without any cost whatever. You and one 1 MEMBER 11 first rmTiormL bank Why pay exchange when we par all outside checks THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL. A visit at the New High school building, which is making great strides towards being a building, shows a large number or bricklay ers at work, and the walls grow ing rapidly. With the rising of the side walls, and the erection of some of the steel bridging, gives one an idea of the capacity of the gymnas ium, which is located in the base ment. From now on the building will take shape more rapidly. AT DEMING NEW, MEXICO. From Saturday's Daily. ' J. R. Jones tells of receiving a letter from his son, Robert, who ar rived at Deming, New Mexico, a few dayg since, in which he says that New Mexico is properly named for they have killed numbers of scor pions, horned toads and flees down there. The camp' is situated in a valley with walls on all sides of them, and during the day it is in- tensely hot and at night cold. FROM STERLING, NEBRASKA. M. H. Mockenhaupt, of Sterling, Nebraska, was in the city for a few hours last Friday evening and 'Sat urday morning looking after some matters of business connected with his various land proposition.;. Mr. Mockenhaupt has been in the real estate business for the past few years, and has been selln g a great deal of land in Southeastern Ne braska. This week he sold at .2.hty and a 240 acre tract in Johnson and Gage county to Cass county parties. This is an excellent part of the state and all lands are advanc ing very rapidly. AT McMAKEN'S NEW BUILDING. The workmen are pushing the construction of the new garage for ward at a rapid pace. About three fourths of the steel work had been completed, and one-fourth of the sheeting for the roof. Yesterday they brought the large boiler which is to furnish steam for heating pur poses, and the installation of it will be pushed rapidly. The work now is in shape for the completion of the brick work, and the bricklay ers, who have been working on the garage for L. H. Puis at Murray for some time past will complete that job by the end of this week, and will return to Plattsmouth and they will go on the McMaken job next Monday. VISITS BROTHER HERE. From Friday's Daily. Joseph Soker and wife, of Okla homa City. Oklahoma, who have been visiting in the city for the past few days, the guests of Mr. James Soker, departed yesterday afternoon for Schuyler, Nebraska, where he will visit for some time with relatives of his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Soker have been in attendance at a Bohemian conclave at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and came back this way for a visit of a few days at several points along the way home. They spent a couple of days at Omaha before coming here and after visiting at Schuyler will go to. Lincoln, and from there to Pawnee City for visits before return ing to their home in Oklahoma City. can secure this insurance protection by becoming of our depositors. r I -jff I 1