The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 6, 1915, Page 6

SOLOVERS TELL AID STORIES Give Personal Touches Impossi- ’ ble to War Correspondent in These Days. |. JOKERS EVEN IN TRENCHES 4 Irish Spirit Proves irrepressible in his Face of Grave Danger—Sea Fight ; as Seen From. the En- if “gine Room. London.—The war mailbag is just now a prolific source of interest. Vivid letters from soldiers at the front or in hospital bases and scrappy notes from the tars with the “silent fleet” mirror the actualities of war with a wealth of intimate detail and picturesque personal touches impossi- ble to the harshly censored war cor- respondent. # The following is written from the ‘front by Corp. T. Trainor: “We have had German cavalry thrown at us six times in the last four hours, and each time it has been a “different body, so that they must have plenty to spare. There is no eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep and eight hours for play with us, whatever the Germans may do. G “The strain is beginning to tell on them more than on us, and you can wee by the weary faces and trembling hands that they are beginning to break down. “One prisoner taken by the French near Courtrai sobbed for an hour as though his heart were broken, his nerves were so much shaken by what he had been through. The French are fighting hard all round us with a grit and go that will carry them through. “Have you ever seen a little man i fighting a great, big, hulking giant who keeps on forcing the little chap about the place until the giant tires himself out, and then the little one, who has kept his wind, knocks him over? That’s how the fighting here strikes me. “We are dancing about round the big German army, but our turn will come. Our commanders know their business, and we shall come out on top all right.” Sergeant Major McDermott does not write under ideal literary conditions, but his style is none the worse for the inspiration furnished . by the shrieking shell: t “I am writing to you with the en- emy’s shells bursting and screaming overhead; but God knows when it will be posted, if at all. “We are waiting for something to turn up to be shot at, but up to now, though their artillery has been mak- fng a fiendish row all along our front, target for the German riflemen, but the joker was struck twice in rescu- ing it. “& wounded private of the Buffs re- lates how an infantryman got tempo- rarily separated from his regiment at Mons, and lay concealed in a trench while the Germans prowled around. “Just when hé thought they had left him for good ten troopers left their horses at a distance'and came for ward on foot to the trench. “The hidden infantryman waited un- til they were half-way up the slope, and then sprang out of his hiding place with a cry, ‘Now, lads, give them .hell!’ Without waiting to see the ‘lads’ the Germans took to their heels.” -From Men in the Fleet. Equally interesting are some of the letters from men with the fleet. Tom Thorne, writing to his mother,-in Sus- sex, says: | ; “Before we started fighting we were all very nervous, but after we joined in we were all happy and most of us laughing till it was finished. Then we all sobbed and cried. “Even if I never come back, don’t think I've died a painful death. Everything yesterday was as quick as lightning. “We were in action on Friday morn- ing off Helgoland. I had a piece of shell as big as the palm of my hand go through my trousers, and as my trouser legs were blowing in the breeze, I think I was very lucky.” A gunroom officer in a battle cruiser writes: “The particular ship we were en- gaged with was in a pitiful plight when we had finished with her—her funnels shot away, masts tottering, great gaps of daylight in her sides, : smoke and flame belching from her | everywhere, She speedily keeled over and sank like a stone, stern first. So far as is known, none of her crew was saved. She was game to the last, let it be said, her flag flying till she sank, her guns barking till they could bark no more. “Although we ourselves suffered no loss, we had some very narrow es- capes. Three torpedoes were ob- served to pass us, one within a few | c! feet. Four-inch shells, too, fell short or were ahead of us. The sea was | c alive with the enemy’s submarines, | c: which, however, did us no damage. They should not be underrated, these Germans. That cruiser did not think, | ¢! apparently, of surrender.” What naval warfare seems like to the “black squad,” imprisoned”in the engine room is described by an en- gine-room man of the Laurel, who went through the “scrap” off Helgo- land. Writing to his wife, he says: “It was a terribly anxious time for us, I can tell you, as we stayed down there keeping the engines going at their top speed in order to cut off the Germans from their fleet. We could | hear the awful din around and the scampering of the tars on deck as they rushed about from point to point, and we knew what was to the fore when we caught odd glimpses of the stretch- er bearers with their ghastly bur- dens. t Bi we haven't seen as much as a mos- quito’s eyelash to shoot at. That's why I am able to write, and some of us are able to take a bit of rest while the others keep ‘dick.’ “There ig a fine German airship hanging around like a great blue bottle up in the sky, and now and then our gunners are trying to bring " ft down, but they haven't done it yet. “It's the quantity, not the quality of the German shells that is having ef- fect on us, and it's not so much the actual damage to life as the nerve- i racking row that counts for so much. } ‘ “Townsmen who are used ‘to the noise and roar of streets can stand it better than the countrymen, and I think you will find that by far the -—fittest--men -are—those-of- regiments mainly recruited in the big cities. “A London lad near me says it’s no ‘worse than the roar of the motor "buses and other traffic in the city on @ busy day.” Gaelic Spirit Irrepressible. The Gaelic spirit has not deserted Sergt. T. Cahill under fire. He writes: “The Red Cross girleens with their purty faces and their sweet ways are @s good men as most of us, and bet- ter than some of us. They are not supposed to venture into the firing line at all, but they get there all the game, and devil a one of us durst turn them away: . “Mike Clancy is that droll with his Jlarking and bamboozling the Germans that he makes us nearly split our aides laughing at him and his ways. “Yesterday he got a stick and put cap on it, so that it peeped up trench just ifke a man, and ist artillery in the middle of France, “We heard the shells crashing against the sides of the ship or shrieking overhead, as they passed into the water, and we knew that at any moment one might strike us in a vital part and send us below for good. “It is ten times harder on the men whose duty is in the engine room than for those on deck taking part in the fighting, for they, at least, have the excitement of the fight, and if the ship is struck they have more than @ sporting chance of escape. We have none,” From a Dying Frenchman. The most dramatic letter comes from the French. On one of the fields of battle, when the Red Cross soldiers were collecting the-wounded after a heavy engagement, there was found a half sheet of notepaper, on which was written a message for a woman, of which this is the translation: “Sweetheart: Fate in this present war has treated us more cruelly than many others. If I have not lived to create for you the happiness of which both our hearts dreamed, remember that my sole wish is now that you should be happy. Forget me. Create for yourself some happy home that may restore to you some of the great- er pleasures of life: For myself. I shall have died happy in the thought of your love. My last thought has been for-you and for those I have at home. Accept this, the last kiss, from him who Joved you.” Writing from a fortress on the frontier, a French officer says the colonel in command was asked to send a hundred men to stiffen some reserv- R it Ri He nat official statements, both of Berlin and | tirected Vienna, the German and Austrian arms have achieved a ‘notable victory in West Galicia, smashing the entire Rus- sian center along a front of many miles, or, as Berlin roughly puts it, é across the whole western tip of Gall- cia from near the Hungarian border to the point where the River Dunajec joins the Vistula, which is right at the frontier of Poland. en does not compare with the number which some of Field Marshal von Hin- denburg’s rushes netted him in the north, the achievement, if subsequent reports bear it out, will mean at least a temporary Przemys. grad official communication that desperate battle has been engaged in since last Saturday night on the front from the lower Nida river to the Car- Pathian mountains, no further news has come through concerning the fight- ing in which both Berlin and Vienna considered in military circles here to give considerable color to the Teutonic which does not place its estimate of communication. correct, according to the military ob- servers, the Russian right flank is in danger of envelopment, the Russian left flank is threatened by strong Aus- tro-German forces. and on the Stry- Munkacs line, the position is danger- eral retreat. to any gains in the west, the British contenting themselves that the Germans’ attack on the scar- red Hill Sixty in Flanders have been beaten back; the French confirm this. inces also Berlin finds cause to rejoice. lin wireless comment received tonight says it seriously threatens the Russian right, and the fact that troops could be moved so far northeast before they en- countered resistance is considered a reflection on the Russian intelligence system. alty stated last night two German tor- pedo boats had been sunk in the North Sea. The British torpedo boat destroy- er Recruit also was sunk. follows: in the neighborhood of the Galloper and North Hinder lightships Saturday. officers and twenty-one men _ being saved by the trawler Daisy. by two German torpedo boats who ap- proached her from the westward and commenced an action without hoisting their colors. by a torpedo,only one deckhand being saved by the other trawlers. comprising the Aforey, Leonidas, La- ford and Lark, chased the two German vessels and after_a brief running fight of about an hour, sank them both, no casualties. men were rescued from the sea and made prisoners of war.” . NOTABLE VICTORY 22 Russian Center Defeated in Gae | t+ licia, According to the Official Reports. 6,000 PRISONERS WERE TAKER "2s Berlin and Vienna Celebrate with Dis- play of Flags—Teutons Also Claim Progress in Baltic Provinces and France. gr London, May 4.—According to the iN Though the 8,000 prisoners whom he Teutonic allies say they have tak- Public Vendue, to the highest bidder for cash in hand, to sat iefy said execution and coste. HASVE JOHNSON. 2B-td Sheriff of Bat: 3 County, Mo check to the Russian orces, which haye been hammering heir way westward since, the fall of Woman Danced With Lafayettee Ts 100 Years of Age. New York, April 30.—Hale and hearty, her bright eyes sparkling happily, though she will be 100 years Russians Reticent, Beyond the admission in the Petro- a received several hundred friends in a flower banked room at her home. Here are the most important impres- sions of the past 100 years, according to Mrs. Hawkins.’ “People’s morals aren’t as good-as they were some years ago. We are living in a ‘fly away\ age, with an astonishing lot of deviltry and slyness upsetting all the good work in the world, “Grover Cleveland was the best president in the past 100 years. “The Democratic party is the best party.” ; Mrs. Hawkins was born in Oneida County, N. Y., April 23, 1815. Her |i parents were Norman Kibbe, a prom- inent merchant and politician, and Electra Whitney, daughter of a prom- inent family. Her most pleasant ex- perience was her meeting with Gen- eral Lafayette whan she was 10 years old. He was passing through her fone village and stopped at the ho- el. “TI put on my best dress and went laim a victory. Reticence of the Russian official ommunication, though it may indi- ate that the battle is unfinished, is laims, at least to the claim of Vienna, ains so high as does the German General Retreat Probable, “If the Austro-German claims are us as to be likely to involve a gen- England and France make no claim with saying In the fighting in the Baltic prov- ejecting the Russian contention that ia only aporadie Guvalre Walder the great man. And what do you think,’’ she added, “I danced ‘a min- uet with him.’ “Uncle Joe” Keeps Promise Congressman’ Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois kept one night last week a Sink Two German Boats, promise made five years ago by London, May 3.—The British admir- state building at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The former speaker is a member ofacongressional party en route. to the Hawaiian islands. The promise was given at the time San Francisco and New Orleans were fighting for the possession of the ex- position. Mr. Cannon, then speaker | of the house, declared that if San Francisco should be selected as its site he would visit the’ grounds and participate in a Virginia reel. Members of the national board of management of the Daughters of the American Revolution last week reject- ed the offer of. the. atate of North} Carolina of the John Paul Jones estate for preservation as a memorial. The board decided not to accept the offer becaise of the many projects to which the The text of the admiralty statement “A series of small affairs took place “In the forenoon H. M. destroyer ecruit was sunk by a submarine, four “The trawler Colombia was attacked The Colombia was sunk Chased and Sank Germans. . “A division of British destroyers, “The British destroyers sustained “Two German officers and forty-four French Bombard Metz Fort. Paris, May 3.—The official report —>>—E_-E>-E—EEE—————————_——— — STATE OF M'SSOURI, County of Bates. In the Circuit Court of Bates County, Mis- old today, Mrs. Missouria Hawkins| tym’ N°” *°™™ 19!. In-vacation, April 13, i 26-4t HO. Maxey, Clerk. Mitchell E. Sween Warren H. Allen an s: Harry Cobras Pisiatiqe. a David B. Clapp, Harry W. Grantley and wif i i Sarah E. Grautle tf L. Bt bolas and the Notice of Final Settlement. unb nown cons: aliences, and immediate, oth voluntary and involuntary grantees of each of the above named defendants, Defendants. To the Arte named and mentioned defendants greeting: You are hereby notified that an action has been commen: named plaintiff in County in the stat: of Missouri for of obtaining of the defendants interest in or title to the real County Mi iri, ‘ibed Lots nine (9) and eleven (11) of the north- east quarter of section one (1), town- ehip thirty nine (89), (38) pad ‘lot twenty-two (22) and the weet “half of eix (6), township thirty-nine (39), range thirty-two gi ; and to have the court find and decree that D: RB. Clapp who in S: ptember, 1868 conveyed the jane ‘bed the same Sevenns in the ry in Bates 288; and that ants Grantley, date September 11, Recorder’s office in Book E at pag reformed on the record as to show that it in| deft fact conveyed lot 22 and the west half of lot 2% above described in of the description, as shown u; inoorrectl; lot 23 in said section. Also to reform the record of a deed from defendant, record in to the hotel where I shook hands with | Base 456 whe: plain fe claim title, said lot 22 and the west alt of lot 23 tn said section slx (6), but which weat half of the west haifof said fact conveyed, 80 as iow aid lot 22 and the wiat half of said lot 23 of id ection. Plaintiff's petitién ibove fendi nonresidents of the State of Mi states that there are subject matter of cannot be inserted herein because unknown and that they deriva thelr claim or title under dancing a waltz in the New York|ar the deeds above referred to and said ‘Se confessed and judgment rendered according the consorts, heirs, day to the prayer aH salt potion and the above allences, and immediate, meshe and remote, | Lescribed real estate to satisty the same. volantary and involantary grantees of the it is farther ‘by the court sfore- above particularly named def.ndante. said that s copy hereof be published in The Said action is returnable on the first day of | Butler Ws Z.mes @ weekly newspaper Seae eee ie Beg ut aati | outers eau ta Re ya} ouse ler, a! le- 0 \n- souri, on the fourth Monday in May; 1915, | sertion to be at least fifteen daye fe when you may a) otherwise confer t rendered accordingly. f ae farther ordered by the clerk in vacation’ Butler and pesitehen tl for | ? ANY ROOM? Has money to loan on farms at alow rate of interest. We make abstracts to all lands in Bates County. We have on hands at all times high grade farm mortgages for sale. DIRECTORS Sam’! Walls Wm. Seelinger Dr. J. M. Christy c. i Denton S. L. Coleman Dr. V. J. Cumpton Wesley Denton John W, Coleman J. E. Thompson insertion to ba nt | fAfteen before ' | the drat dey of the mene terms of talaeee court, H. O. Maxey, Clerk. a free yfrom the soos. 5 it 1088 e [seay] tte cours this i Order of Publication. fas. 13th day of April, rigees, }» heirs, det Notice is perery given to all. creditors and g in the estate of Joseph Kimble, deceased, that I, Ellis A le detemnend Charest at's nage panera aM Orel at @ ne: of Ba Probate Court. in Bat . tes et bat State of Missouri, to be held at couri, on the 10th day of May ELLE 26-4 Order of Publication. ainst yon by the above 6 cironit Soar of Bates 6 Durpose lecree of sald court divesting all in eald action of all apparent estate in Bates Executor. Order of Publication. In the Clroult Court of Bates Count, sourl, in Term, February 17,1910. 7? Me The State of Missouri at the relation aad to ofthe Revenue of Betss Couste he Ge stit enue of Bates ry of Meee Piaintis, 4 sit Xanier Deshey, Defendant aon Civil action for delinquent taxes . Mair ‘The State of Missourl tothe above mamed de- 1, in Book F at f & be " deed pxecated by said uate = W. Grantley ayd wife. Sarah ‘to the defendant L_ Stebbins, of 1859 and recorded in said fe 69,-be so }, range thirty-three lot twenty-three (23) in section e deacribed in said section one (1) was reonas David-B. C! ace thereto under a deed Harry 5 said section six (6:, instead in said record, ly given as lot 22 of the west half of L sald Record: r’s office in Book in he undertook aod intended to id Mose Martin, under whom Stebbins to Mose Martin, of Tl at ‘ae recorded as to show that only the 16s 28 was in | sto! the conveyance of th 0 ne} of this court to be bogue and holies in the ley of Butler, Bates county, Missouri, on the the aret day thereof, Gad. yleed to Sokaeseor® lay thereof, ant : tlon according to law the eame will be Bee jetes that if an: of the te are sal ey are and raons interested in the action, whose names rst day of the next term of sald Sout. gad ad H.O. Max! fe 7 of the record. kD clerk aforesaid plaintift’s eeed and judgm: at en! Atrud te rp i my as [sEAL) with the seal of said court hereun' this tamer ote ie patie = H, 0, Maxey crea Clerk. py of sa peel tiae be published in He i f iver Baler Minera quocessive weekly issues, the last jour 28-4 in your house for wall paper? We have