Baptist Union
Elects Officers
Dr. William Franklin Named
President of Ministers and
Deacons Group.
Dr. William Franklin was named
M president of the Ministers’ and Dea
cons’ union of the New Era Baptist
association of Nebraska, now in ses
sion here. Tuesday morning.
Othpr officers elected are A. N.
Harold, assistant president; W. J.
Andrews, secretary; H. C. Garner,
corresponding secretary; Rev. J. D.
Davis, treasurer; and Rev. J. Burt,
board member.
Present convention of the associa
tion opened in Omaha Monday. The
association is divided into three de
partments: the Ministers’ and Dea
cons' union, the women's auxiliary,
whose sessions began Tuesday af
ternoon at 1:30, and the Association
of Churches, sessions of which will
begin Thursday afternoon at 1:30 and
close with services Sunday afternoon
at 3. Dr. W. F. Botts is moderator
of this organization, and H. L. An
derson is secretary.
Dr. H. F. Botts. pastor df Zion
church. Omaha, preached Tuesday
morning at 11.
jWidow of Early Nebraska
Minister Dies in Omaha
Mrs. John Huston, widow of a pio
neer Nebraska Presbyterian minister,
died Tuesday morning at the home of
her son, L. E Huston, 3325 North
Fifty-ninth street. Mrs. Huston had
lived at the House of Hope for the
last four or five years, until two
weeks ago when she suffered a nerv
ous stroke and was removed to the
home of her son.
Rev. Mr. Huston, her husband, or
ganized the First Presbyterian church
at Atkinson. Neb., in 1SS2. He died 30
years ago.
Besides L E Huston. Mrs Huston
Is survived by two other sons. J. J.
Houston of Omaha and T. R. Huston
of Milwaukee.
Funeral services will be held at the
Kramer Undertaking establishment
this afternoon at, 2. following which
the body will be taken to Atkinson,
where Mrs. Huston will be buried be
side her husband.
Man Wanted in Wyoming on
Check Charge Held Here
H V. Jones, living at 2120 Califor
nia street under the name of Murphy,
was arrested by Detective Franks
Tuesday on information received from
Sheridan. Wyo , where he is said to
be wanted for passing worthless
rhecks. He is held for investigation.
ONE OF OURS
By WILLA GATHER.
Famous Nebraska Author.
(Conturned from Yesterday.)
synopsis.
Claude Wheeler, son of s Nebraska
rancher, is disappointed in wedded life
with Enid Ruvee. religiously cold daugh
ter of Jason Royce. Frankfort (Neb.I
miller. After a year and a half together
the goes to China to visit her younger sis
ter Caroline, a missionary, who Is 111, and
Claude goes to army officers' training
camp and 1s commissioned a lieutenant.
He had three years In a small denomina
tional college In Lincoln, where he be
came a friend of the Erlich family,
motherly widow and five sons. He has
friends in Ernest Havel and Leonard
Dawscn, young farmers and neighbors of
the Wheeler family. He has an elder
brother, Bayllss, In buslneas In Frankfort,
his father. Nat. and a younger brother,
Ralph. While home on leave from camp
he falls In love with Gladys Farmer, high
school friend of his wtfe. Claude goes to
France with hit company. He and Lieu
tenant David Gerhardt, who gave up a
musical career to enter the army, become
friends o the transport. In capturing a
machine gun nest Claude Is slightly
wounded in the ankle by an exploding
shell. While on 10 days' leave ho and
Gerhardt visit Madame Mid KUO. Claire,
French friends of Gerhardt’s while he was
studying violin in France several years be
fore. They rejoin their battalion and go
to village of Beaufort. .An ambushed Ger
man officer fire® into a crowd of eoldler®
and civilians In the town square, killing
several and wounding others, before he is
dispatched by Claude's bayonet and a
shot from Sergeant Hlek's revolver. Csp
in in Maxey was shot. In the leg by the
German and seriously wounded. The
Yanks and French girls make merry In
the town, pending, the time when the
American* mufrt ihortly lwt®. Claude
and (ierhardt utroll about the afreet®
watching the merrymakers.
BOOK FIVE—CHAPTER XVIII.
“With us it's always a feast or a
famine.'' the men groaned, when they
sat down by the road to munch dry
biscuit at noon. They had covered
IS miles that morning, and had still
seven more to go They were ordered
to do the 25 miles in eight hours. No
hodv had fallen out yet. but some of
the boys looked pretty well wilted.
Nifty Jones said he was done for.
Sergeant Hicks was expostulating
with the faint hearted. He knew that
if one man fell out. a dozen would.
“If I can do it. you can. It's
worse on a fat man like me This
is no march to make a fuss about.
Why, at Arras I talked with a little
Tommy from one of those Pal bat
talions that got slaughtered on the
Somme. His battalion marched 25
miles in six hours, in the heat of
July, into certain death. They were
all kids out of school, not a man of
them over five foot-three, called them
the 'Bantams' You've got to hand
it to them, fellows "
1 11 hand onything to anybody, but
I ran t go no farther on these. " Jones
muttered, nursing hia sore feet.
“Oh. you’ We re going to have you
onto the only horse in the company.
The officers, they can walk!1'
When they got into battalion lines
there was food ready for them, but
very few wanted it. They drank and
lay down in the bushes. Claude went
at once to headquarters and found
Barclay Owens, of the Engineers,
with the Colonel, who was smoking
and studying his maps as usual
“Glad to see you, Wheeler. Your
men ought to be in good shape, after
a week's rest. Let them sleep now.
We've got to move out of here before
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midnight, to relieve two Texas bat
talions at Moltke trench. They’ve
taken the trench with heavy casual
ties and are beat out; couldn't hold it
in case of counter attack. As it's an
Important point, the enemy 'will try
to recover it. I want to get into po
sition before daylight, so he wont
know fresh troops are coming in. As
ranking officer, you are in charge of
the company."
"Very well. sir. I’ll do my best.’’
"I’m sure you will. Two machine
gun teams are going up with us, and
some time tomorrow a Missouri bat
talion cotnes up <o support. I’d have
had you over here before, but I only
got my orders to relieve yesterday.
We may-have to advance under shell
ftfre. The enemy has been putting a
lot of big stuff over; he wants to cut
off that trench."
Claude and David got Into a fresh
shell hole, under the half burned
scrub, and fell asleep. They were
awakened at dusk by heavy artillery
fire from the north.
At 10 o'clock the hattallon, after a
hot meal, began to advance through
almost impassable country. The guns
must have been pounding away at
the same range for a long while; the
ground was worked and kneaded until
it was soft as dough, though no rain
had fallen for a week. Barclay
Owens and his engineers were throw
ing down a plank road to get food and
the ammunition wagons across. Big
shells were coming over at intervals
of 12 minutes. The intervals were so
regular that it was quite possible to
get forward without damage. While
B company was pulling through the
shell area. Colonel Scott, overtook
them, on foot, his orderly leading his
horse.
"Know anything ahout that Ugh*
over there, Wheeler?" he asked.
"Well, it oughtn’t to be there. Come
along and see."
The light was a mere match-head
dhwn in the ground. Claude hadn’t
noticed it before. He followed the
colonel, and when they reached the
spark they found three officers of A
company crouching in a shell crater,
covered with a piece of sheet-iron.
"Put out that light," called the
colbnel sharply. "What's the matter.
Captain Brace?"
A young man rose quickly. "I’m
waiting for the water, sir. It's com
ing up on mules, in petrol cates and
I don't want to get separated from
It. The ground s so bad here the
drivers are likely to get lost."
“Don't wait more than 20 minutes
you must get up and take your posi
tion on time, that’s the important
thing, water or no water."
As the colonel and Claude hurried
back to overtake the company, five
big ahells screamed over them in
rapid succession. "Bun. sir," the or
derly called "They're getting on to
us; they've shortened the range.”
"That light back there was Just
enough to give them an idea,” the
colonel muttered
The bad ground continued for shout
a mile, and then the advance reached
headquarters, behind the eighth
trench of the great system of
trenches. It was an old farmhouse
which the Herrgans had made over
with reinforced concrete, lining it
within and without, until the walls
were six feet thick and almost shell
proof, like a pillbox The colonel
sent his orderly to enquire about A
company A young Lieutenant came
to the door of the farmhouse
"Where is Captain Brae*, lieuten
ant?”
"He and both of our first lieuten
ants were killed, colonel Back In
that hole. A shell fell on them not
five minutes after you were talking
to them.”
"That's bad Any other damage?"
"Yes. sir. There was a cook wagon
struck at the same time; the first one
coming along Juliug Caesar's new
road The driver was killed, and we
had to shoot the horses. Captain
Owens, he near got scalded with the
stew.”
The colonel called In the officers
one after aother and discussed their
positions with them.
"Wheeler." he said when Claude's
turn came, "you know your map?
You've noticed that sharp loop in the
front trench. In H 2.—the Boat's
Head, I believe they call it. It's a
sort of spear point that reaches out
toward the enemy, and It will be a
hot place to hold. If I put your com
pany In there, do you think you can
do the battalion credit in case of a
counter attack?"
Claude said he thought so.
"It's the nastiest bit of the line to
hold, and you ran tell your men I pay
them a compliment when I put them
there."
"All right, sir. They'll appreciate
It.”
The colonel bit off the end of a
fresh cigar. "They'd better, by thun
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der! If they give way and let the
Hun bombers in, it will let down the
whole line. I'll give you two teams
of Georgia machine guns to put in
that point they call the Boar's Snout.
When the Missourians come up to
morrow, they'll go in to support you,
but until then you’ll have to take care
of the loop yourselves. I've got an
awful lot of trench to hold, and I
can't spare you any more men.”
The Texas men whom the battalion
came up to relieve had been living for
60 hours on their iron rations, and on
what they could pick off the dead
Huns. Their supplies had been shell
ed on the way, and nothing had got
through to them. When the colonel
took Claude and Gerhardt forward to
inspect the loop that B company was
to hold, they found a wallow', more
like a dump heap than a trench. The
men who had taken the position were
almost too weak to stand. All their
officers had been killed and a ser
geant was in command. He apologized
for the condition of the loop.
"Horry to leave a mess for you to
clean up, sir, hut we got it bad in
here. He's been shelling us every
night since we drove him out. I
couldn't ask the men to do anything
but hold on.”
"That's all right Ton beat It with
your boys, quick! My men will hand
you nut »)m» grub as you go back. ’
The nattered -defenders of the Boar's
Head stumbled past them through
the darkness Into the communication.
When the last man had filed out, the
colonel sent for Barclay Owens.
Claude and David tried to feel their
way about and get some Idea of the
condition the place was In. The
strench was the worst they had yet
encountered, but it was less disgust
ing than the flies; when they inad
vertently touched a dead body, clouds
of wet, buzzing flies flew up into their
faces, Into their eyes and nostrils.
Under their feet the earth worked and
moved as if boa constrictors were
wriggling down there—soft bodies,
lightly covered. When they had
found their way up to the Snout they
came upon a pile of corpses, a dozen
or more, thrown one on top of an
other like sacks of flour, faintly dis
cernible in the darkness. While the
two officers stood there, rumbling,
squirting sounds began to come from
this heap, first from one body, then
from another—gasses.
The boys went back to the colonel,
who was standing at the mouth of the
communication, and told him there
waa nothing much to report, except
that, the burying squad was needed
badly.
I expect!” The colonel shook his
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he asked him what could be done
here before daybreak. The doughty
engineer felt hjs way about aa Claude
and Gerhardt had done; they heard
him coughing, and beating off the
flies. But when he came hack he
Beemed rather cheered than dis
couraged.
"Give me a gang to get the
casualties out, and with plenty of
quick lime and concrete I can make
this loop all right in four hours, sir,"
he declared.
"I've brought plenty of lime, but
where'll you get your concrete?"
"The Hun left about fifty sacks of
it in the cellar, under your headquar
ters. I can do better, of course, if I
have a few hours more for my con
crete to dry.”
"Go ahead, captain.” The colonel
told Claude and David to bring their
men up to the communication before
light, and get them ready. "Give
Owens’ cement a otjance. but don't
let the enemy put over any surprise
on you."
(Continued in The Momlnr Bee.)
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Suit for an injunction and an ac
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being handled for the Butterfield
concern by Attorneys A P. Bachman
and Charles G. Hensley.
Man With Jewelry Held
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carrying a grip filled with watchea
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