Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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SHINER GAZETTE. SHINER, TEXAS
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HEROES
THE
HUNQR
ROLL
The following names are of Texas
boys who have just given up their lives
in defense of their country, or have
been wounded, captured or missing
on the battlefields of Europe:
ARMY CASUALTIES.
Killed in Action.
Pvt. John E. Cacy, Itasca.
Pvt. Harry W. Dodds, Burnet.
Pvt. Theodore Hoes, Cameron.
Pvt. Benjamin Y. Brittain, Stephen-
ville.
Private James P. Walker, Ladonia.
Bugler Grover C. Jenkins, Village
Mills.
Private Guy W. Fant, Big Sandy.
Private Ira W. Walker, Thorndale. -
Private Elmer E. Dobson, Bells.
Private Barman P. Friesenbahm,
San Antonio.
Frivate Tommy Franks, Joaquin.
Died of Disease.
Pvt. Mose Fobbs, Crockett.
Private Harry Garrett, Marshall.
Private Atchinson, Elgin.
Died by Accident.
Mechanic Verdo W. Caruther, Atas-
cosa. t
Wounded in Action.
Pvt. Walter E. Turner, M isonville.
Pvt. John B. Rossa, Golden.
Pvt. Albert Earl Brooks, Ore City.
Pvt. Albert Turegano, San Antonio.
Pvt. Tom J. Hamilton, Lake Vicor.
Corp. Van Boston, Bartlett.
Pvt. Jephthia Clayton, Kempner.
Pvt. Seigfried William Ricklefsen,
Humble.
Pvt. Manuel A. Canales, Eagle Pass.
Pvt. Macario Llanes, San Antonio.
Pvt. James R. Poindexter, Naacona.
Pvt. William G. Day, Loma Vista.
Pvt. Joe Bugaj, Chappell.
Pvt. Manuel Molina, Rock Springs.
Pvt. Joseph Smith, Brownsville.
Pvt. John W. Stroud, Sulphur Springs,
Pvt. Joe V. Emmons, Houston.
Pvt. Elton A. Biggs, El Paso.
Pvt. Fletcher K. Smith, Longmott.
Sgt. William Shepherd, El Paso.
Corp. Fred Wallace, Pilot Point.
Musician Valmore Gabiel, El Paso.
Pvt. John L. Cunningham, El Paso.
Pvt. Joe G. Gorman, Pittsburg.
Pvt. George Bethel, Yoakum.
Pvt. William C. Penny, Arbala.
Lieutenant Grover C. Heidenfels,
Beeville.
Corporal John F. Tipps, Camp Bell.
Bugler Leman L. Stafford, Lancas-
ter.
Private Eddie L. Wynigear, Sulphur
Springs.
Captain Claud W. Shelton, Hubbard,
Sergeant Barrel J. Potter, Glenwood.
Private Ben A. Harden, Sulphur
Springs.
Private Willie Henry Meier, Shiner,
Private John O. Farmer, Sumner.
Private Lev D. Williams, Toysdale.
Sergeant Hugh L. Allen, Waco.
Private Henry J. Scheopner, Pilot
Point.
Private Claude W. Stripling, Mount
Vernon.
Bugler Paul Fercha, Galveston.
Private Henry Drake, Acquilla.
Private John E. Psencik, Mereta.
Private John J. Shotwell, Bering.
Private Paul Brooks, Gatesville.
Corporal Eddie Davis, Center.
Private Tom C. Brown, Waelder.
Private William P. Griffin, Silex.
Private Joseph P. Jurach, Karnes
City.
Private Barney A. Raezunar, San
Antonio.
Private William L. Boykin, Zavala.
Private- Emmett H. Gideon, Crockett.
Corporal Carl Leonidas Myatt, Lub-
bock.
Private Charles B. Garett, Texar-
kana.
Private Albert Roy Misemer, Cedar
Hill.
Private Jacob M. Casey, Marlin.
Lieutenant John M. Currie, Austin.
Private Eather Andrew Raburn,
Midlothian.
Private Thos. Grady Jones, Whites-
boro.
Private Alvy R. Owen, Elgin.
Private Dick R. Ragsdale, Dallas.
Private Perry F. Griffin, Sulphur
Springs.
Private Maurice Joy, Houston.
Sergeant Rolfe Wagner, Clyde.
Sergeant Roy W. Watson, Houston.
Bugler Homer Chastain, Garza.
Private Charles C. Wright, Cookville.
Private Hugh B. Pullen, Fort Kavett
Private Oley D. Haycraft, San An-
tonio.
Private Luther Kendrick, Runge.
Private Claud Milner, Abilene.
Captain Matthew C. Tompkins,
Waco.
Corporal Walter J. House, Bellevue.
Private Leslie W. Lynch, Oglesby.
Missjng in Action.
Pvt Howard J. Fortson, Texarkana.
Pvt. Henry Honerkamp, Present Hill.
Pvt. James A. Ivey, Bonham.
Pvt. Krueger Major, Brownwood.
Private Malcom P. Wollard, Gates-
ville.
Private Claude Everett, Bombarton.
Corporal Joseph M. McCaine, Hous-
ton.
UNITED STATES TRANSPORT
Was Formerly the North German
Lloyd Liner Kronprinzessin
Cecilie.
ALLIES MOP UP HUNS
ALONG WILE LiE
Washington.—The United States
army transport Mount Vernon, former-
ly the North German Lloyd liner
Kronprinzessin Cecilie, was torpedoed
by an enemy submarine Friday 200
miles from the coast of France, home-
ward bound, but was able to return to
port. No military units were on board,
but the big liner probably was carry-
ing some sick and wounded American
soldiers in addition to her crew of
probably 600 or 700 navy men. The
extent of the damage was not given
in the department’s advices, but from
the fact that the vessel was able to
return to France at a speed of four-
teen knots officials concluded that she
was not badly damaged.
The Mount Vernon is the second of
the great German liners taken over
when this country went to war to be
torpedoed. The first was the Presi-
dent Lincoln, which was sunk some
400 miles off the coast of France while
homeward bound.
Before the war the Kronprinzessin
Cecilie plied between New York and
European ports and when the war be-
gan she was on the high seas bound
for Cherbourg and Plymouth with §12,-
000,000 in gold bullion in addition to
many passengers. Instructions were
sent to her master from Germany by
radio to return to this country and the
liner immediate put back, arriving at
Bar Harbor, Maine. She later was
moved to Boston.
Suit was brought against the North
German Lloyd Line by banks in New
York for failure of the vessel to de-
liver the gold, and the case finally
came before the supreme court, which
decided against the banks. Later the
vessel was seized bjr customs officials
for the shipping board, which had her
ALLIES CONTINUE TO CUT WAY
THROUGH HUN LINES AT
ALL POINTS.
WEN ST. QUENTIN
Over 19,000 Prisoners Have Been
Taken by the British Alone
During the Past Week.
The Situation.
The British and French army con-
tinue to cut their way into the German
lines on various sectors of the .lower
part of the battle line, in Fraiice.
Notwithstanding the bad ' weather
which has caused somewhat of a slack-
ening in the violence of the opera-
tions, Field Marshal Haig’s forces have
materially encroached upon Cambrai
and St. Quentin, while further south
the' French armies are pressing north-
ward from Soissons in an auxiliary
maneuver with the same objectives
..in view.
Between the Vesle and the Aisne
rivers while the American troops are
fighting with the French, additional
ground has been gained by the allied
forces.
The British now are standing at
Villeveque, six miles from St. Quentin,
having earned out an advance over a
ten-mile front on the general line of
Epehy, Hesbecourt and Vermand. To
the north' the greater part of the Hav-
rincourt wood, one of the German
strong points barring the way to Cam-
brai, also has been captured.
Gradually the French are -working
their way around the St. Gobain for-
est north of Soissons in the move-
ment that aims at the outflanking of
.. _ La Fere and Laon and all the German
put in seagoing condition, the crewfr positions east of this region. They
having damaged the engines just be-
fore the United States entered the
war. The navy finally took the ship
over and she wras converted into a
transport to carry American troops to
France.
The Mount Vernon is of 19,503 tons
gross and before conversion had a
passenger-carrying capacity of about
2,000. Her speed is 23% knots an
hour.
TWO HUNDRED KILLED
IN CLASH WITH VILLA
fc.
Bandit "Leader Lures Mexican Fed-
erate to Rendezvous and Then
Opens Fire on Them.
El Paso, Tex.—Two hundred were
killed last Thursday in a battle which
lasted all day at Pilar de Concho,
southwest of Chihuahua City, between
the federal command of General Er-
nesto Garcia and Francisco Villa. One
hundred and twenty federals were kill-
ed and eighty Villa followers lost their
lives. This information was brought
to El Paso Tuesday by an American
from Chihuahua City,
dezvous suggested in the order and
flashed the signal, Villa’s men attack-
ed, an order and a signal having been
a part of Villa’s scheme to lure the
federals into a trap, according to the
American.
When Garcia,’s men reached a ren-
General Garcia returned to Chihua-
hua City, obtained 600 fresh troops and
is now pursuing Villa in the vicinity
of Niaca.
Preparations to resist an attack by
Villa on Chihuahua City on the night
of September 15 are in progress and
sappers are building elaborate defen-
sive works and gun emplacements
near the city.
Killed by Propeller.
Fort Worth, Tex.—Private Lee C.
Gillespie of Squad C, stationed at
Taliaferro Field, was instantly killed
Friday when he was struck on the
head by an airplane propeller which
he was turning over. His home was
at Tulsa, Okla.
Over 2,000 Recruits From Oklahoma.
Houston, Tex.—With arrivals Friday
over 2,000 recruits from Oklahoma
have reached Camp Logan for assign-
ment to units of the Fifteenth Division
during the past two days.
First Rain Since June on Border.
Eagle Pass, Tex.—The first rain
since July fell Friday. Indications are
for more precipition.
New British Ships.
London. — British merchant ship-
building completed and entered for
service in the month of August
amounted to 124,675 gross tons.
have reached the outskirts of the vil-
lage of Servais on the northern edge
of the forest and two and one-half
miles from La Fere, while a short dis-
tance to the north they have taken
the village of Mennessis on the St.
Quentin canal. This latter gain brings
the French within a little more than
eight miles from St. Quentin.
North of the Aisne near Soissons
the Germans are fighting hard to keep
the French in check, realizing that
the gain by them of much more terri-
tory in this region, in conjunction with
the maneuver that is in progress
around the St. Gobain forest, will place
the entire German defense line east-
ward toward Rheims in a critical posi-
tion. Near Laffaux and north of Cel-
les-sur-Aisne the Germans have deliv-
ered strong counter attacks, but the
French everywhere have maintained
their ground.
The Germans also are reacting some-
what south of Ypres, especially in the
region of Plcegstreet, where the Brit-
ish are threatening the recapture of
Armentieres. Counter offensive ma-
neuvers here and east of Wulverghem
were broken up by the British.
During the first week of September
Field Marshal Haig’s forces have taken
more than 19,000 prisoners and large
numbers of machine guns and quanti-
ties of stores.
That further big events are on the
program of the entente allies in the
prosecution of the war is indicated by
the fact that Newton D. Baker, the
American secretary of war, again is
in France for a war conference.
Concentration of American troops in
the American sectors in France is
proceeding rapidly and General Per-
shing now has under his direct com-
mand more than 90 per cent of the
troops who have reached the other
side. This was revealed Sunday by
General March, chief of staff, who said
that more than 90 per cent of the
Americans now are in the American
sectors.
General March made no comment as
to the purpose of this concentration.
He did say, however, that the custom
of brigading new divisions with the
French or British forces to hasten
their preparation for front line duty
had not been abandoned.
“But as our men go over there now
pretty well instructed,” he added, “the
time they stay in the training camps
over there is very much less.”
General March announced also that
the Twenty-seventh Division, previous-
ly training behind the British lines,
is now on the line in Flanders. This
was interpreted to mean that the di-
vision soon would be withdrawn to
join Pershing’s army.
In his review of the battle situation,
General March pointed out that the
Germans are retreating along a 100-
mile front from the Arras-Cambrai sec-
tor to Rheims, with Freinch, British
and Americans in close pursuit. Of
ficial reports show that the enemj
now is sixty miles from Paris at his
closest approach to that city.
Private ToLburt J. Landrum, Mount
Pleasant.
Private Oscar O. Ray, Morgan Mill.
Private Arthur Wilbur, San Antonio.
Private Luther D. Orr, Bowie.
Private August Strzelcvk, St. Hed-
wig.
Captain Hadyn Potter Mayers, San
Antonio.
Corporal James H. Hayes, Pitts-
burg.
Private James Q. Hansard, Van
Alstyne.
Preparing to Entertain Villa.
El Paso, Tex.—Chihuahua City is
preparing for an attack by Francisco
Villa on the night of September 15,
the second anniversary of his last cap-
ture of the state capital, Americans
arriving at El Paso from Mexico Sat-
urday reported.
Chicago Nationals Win Second Game.
^ Chicago—The Chicago Nationals
Friday defeated the Boston Americans,
3 to 1, in their second world series
baseball game.
Thirty-Five of Crew Lost.
Washington. — Thirty-five members
of the crew of the American army
transport Mount Vernon, formerly the
North German Lloyd liner Kronprin-
zessin Cecilie, were killed by the ex-
plosion of a torpedo which struck the
vessel last Thursday when she was
200 miles from the French coast home-
ward bound. The passengers included
senator Lewis of Illinois, who ;was
among those safely landed.
FINANCES GF VARIOUS FUNDS
OF THE STATE IS DISCLOSED
Report of Balances in Various Funds
and Disbursements for Quarter
Which Ended August 31.
.
Austin, Tex.—The report of State
Treasurer J. M. Edwards, of balances
of various funds and disbursements
for the quarter ending August 31,
which marked the closing of the fiscal
year, was completed Friday and shows
total balances of $6,S47,074 cash and
$23,088,247 in bonds, and disburse-
ments totaling $5,136,910 cash and
$4,500 bonds.
Treasurer Edwards is of the opinion
that the State will escape going on a
deficiency basis.
The balances to the credit of the
larger funds include: General revenue
$4,035,840, available school fund $347,-
984, permanent school fund $155,139
cash and $21,707,223 bonds, prison
commission account $165,072, Confed-
erate pension fund $505,071, State high-
way department $1,446,294. Other bal-
ances are as follows:
Balances in Funds.
Available university fund $4170, in-
spector of masonry $51, permanent
university fund $409 cash and $631,350
bonds, permanent blind institute land
sales account $1710 cash and $143,150
bonds, permanent deaf and dumb land
sales account $1591 cash and $130,490
bonds, permanent lunatic asylum land
sales account $30 cash and $135,250
bonds, permanent orphans’ asylum
sales account $96 cash and $47,000
bonds, A. and M. College fund $1110
cash and $209,000 bonds, unorganized
county tax fund $22,043, redemption
lands in unorganized counties $2679,
available university fund, medical
branch, $14,247; available lunatic asy-
lum land sales account $30,500, Texas
State railway $1125, cost advertising
lands in unorganized counties $633,
pro rata indebtedness fund $2185,
escheated estates fund $6037 cash and
$375 bonds, settlement of estates fund
$23,449, emigrant agency fund $91,
special loan tax fund $79,409 bonds,
excess purchase price account $6266,
special tax to pay Loving county bonds
$64, Hockley county special school tax
fund $60, endowment fund medical
branch university $611 cash and $5000
bonds. Bailey county special tax $338,
Spanish wrar veterans fund $4968, regu-
lating pipe lines $23,162, extra clerical
hire industrial accident board $92, pri-
vate employment agency fund $1753,
Cochran county special tax $19, vital
statistics $56, Winkler county special
tax $15, Upton county special tax $17,
federal vocational agriculture fund
$22,942, federa 1 vocational teachers
training $10,050, federal vocational
boflrfl economics and industrial train-
ing $9087.
Disbursements.
Of disbursements $2,638,527 was
from general revenue; $599,595 avail-
able school fund; $324,907 cash and
$37,500 bonds, permanent school fund;
$216,602 available university fund;
$747,323 prison commission account;
$354,955) Confederate pension fund;
$101,087, State highway department.
Other disbursements were: A. and M.
College fund $1053; available univer-
sity, medical branch, $554; available
deaf and dumb land sales account
$7920; available blind school land
sales account $13,552; available or-
phans’ asylum land sales account
$2961; settlement of estates $739; fish
^nd oysters $45,627; endowment fund,
tnedical branch university, $30; game,
fish and oyster fund $41,350; emigrant
agency fund $150; evtra clerical hire
industrial accident board $68; regulat-
ing pipe lines $35; pure feed, A. and
M. College, $10,678; Texas State rail-
way $15,264; federal vocational agri-
culture $4066; federal vocational home
economics and industrial training
$2002; bond investment companies
$7000 bonds; Spanish war veterans
fund $1.
We will win this war—
Nothing else really matters until we do!
The Flavor Lasts
m
®HDS
SOLD FOR SO YEARS
For MALARIA,
CHILLS and
FEVER
Also a Fine General
Strengthening Tonic.
SOLD BY ALL DRUG STORES-
The man who stops you on the street
to ask after your health doesn’t neces-
sarily care.
HOUR SICK CHILD
IS CONSTIPATED!
LOOK AT TONGUE
HURRY, MOTHER! REMOVE POI-
SONS FROM LITTLE STOMACH,
LIVER, BOWELS.
GIVE “CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF
FIGS” IF CROSS, BILIOUS
OR FEVERISH.
Government Releases Wool Clip.
Washington.—Failure of represen-
tatives of the Mohair Growers and Pro-
ducers’ Association to reach an agree-
ment with the government on prices
for this fall’s domestic clip of mohair
resulted in an announcement Thurs-
day through Lewis Penwell, chief of
the wool section of the war industries
board, that the price will not now be
fixed and the government releases the
fall clip.
Imprisonment for Grafters.
Washington.—Two years’ imprison-
ment for persons who seek fees from
relatives of dead soldiers for collecting
back pay and allowances is proposed
in a bill by Representative Treadway
of Massachusetts, ordered favorably
reported Friday by the house military
committee.
American Steamer Sent Down.
Washington.—The navy department
was informed Friday that the Ameri-
can steamer Lake Owens had been
sunk by a submarine, five members of
the civilian crew being reported lost.
Red Sox Win First Game.
Chicago, 111.—One of the smallest
crowds which ever turned out for a
world’s scries opening saw the Boston
Red Sox of the American League de-
feat the Cubs of the National League,
1 to 0, Thursday.
El Campo Rice Mill Starts.
El Campo, Tex.—The El Campo rice
mill has started. Rice is coming in
fairly well. Harvest is under way
and some blue rose will be cut this
week.
Dorothy's Bad Manners.
My little niece, Margaret, had been
promised a party. The time came for
distributing the invitations and I went
with Margaret. When we came to-
Dorothy’s house I said: “I’ll stay out
here while you take Dorothy’s invita-
tion in to her.”
When she came out I said: “Did
you give Dorothy her invitation.”
“Yes,” said Margaret, “and I told
her, ‘you’re welcome,’ and she didn’t
even say ‘thank you.’ ”—Chicago Trib-
une.
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled
No matter what ails your "child, a
gentle, thorough laxative should al-
ways be the first treatment given.
If your little one is out of sorts,
half-sick, isn’t resting, eating and act-
ing naturally—look, Mother! see if
tongue is coated. This is a sure sign
that the little stomach, liver and bow-
els are clogged with waste. When
cross, irritable, feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad or has stomach-ache, diar-
rhea, sore throat, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of “California Syrup of
Figs,” and in a few hours all the con-
stipated poison, undigested food and
sour bile gently moves out of the lit-
tle bowels without griping, and you
have a well, playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless "fruit laxative,” because
it never falls to cleanse the little one’s
liver and bowels and sweeten the stom-
ach and they dearly love its pleasant
taste. Full directions for babies, chil-
dren of all ages and for grown-ups
printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of “Cal-
ifornia Syrup of Figs;” then see that
it is made by the “California Fig Syrup
Company.”—Adv.
Northampton, England, points out
the site of a mill once operated by
ancestors of George Washington.
Practical View.
“I am so obsessed with my love for
you,” wrote the sweet young thing to
her soldier, “that I cannot eat a bite.”
“That is the kind of girlie for me,”
said the rookie; "with the price of eats
havin’ a blue sky limit, I could just
about support a wife who didn’t eat.”
—Florida Times-Union.
ASTHMADOR
AVERTS - RELIEVES
HAY FEVER
> ASTHMA.
kj\ BSegiix Treatment MOW
i&h All DruaaUta Guarantee
Squeeze the juice of two lemons into*
a bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion
beautifier, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three oxinces of Orchard White for a.
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra-
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms,
and hands each day and see how freck-
les, sunburn, .windburn and tan disap-
pear and how clear, soft and white tha<-
skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless.—
Adv.
Taking It Back.
“I see where an American ‘ace’ has
just downed his tentb German, after-
fighting a brilliant battle In the air-
against five enemy planes.”
“But why ihose tears?”
“They ax-e tears of remorse and self-
reproach. I once called that fellow a
loung^ lizard.”
There would be more better sons-
if there were more better fathers.
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