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cl to the colors from across the
river. He is fifteen years old and
his father, who is postmaster at
New Market, through Captain Wil
liam F. Harrell, in charge of the
local recruiting office, secured special
permission from the War Depart
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to Fort Marfa, Texas. He is now
a member of the Sivth United States
Cavalry. The above photograph
was taken at Fort Slocum. Young
Dunlevy in a recent letter to his
father says he likes the service and
urges others to join the army.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
RAILROAD RUMBLES
MEN WHO FOUGHT AND WON
EIGHT-HOUR DAY BATTLE;
GARRETSON GREAT LEADER
W. S. STOV^
W.'G:LEE. TRAINMEN
W S CACTER-FIgEMEN^ENGINEMEN
CONDUCTORS.
The mobilization of the forces of
labor for the war is directing more
and still more public attention to the
leaders of the four railroad brother
hoods. Current Opinion, a leading
magazine, in its lust issue says: "The
most dramatic scene enacted in Wash
ington in recent years was the final
session between the railroad brother
hoods and the Senate Committee on
interstate commerce," which biought
into bold relief the brotherhood
chiefs. Austin U. presi
dent of the Order of lJail\yay Conduc
tors is given in this review the dom
inant position. We quote from this
interesting article as follows:
An Accurate Thinker
"The comrades of Garretson say
that he is an accurate thinker, a skill
ed analogist, a student of history and
economics, a materialist and a sen
timentalist. He calls fact and poetry
into his writings and addresses, and,
though not a church member, lie reads
the Bible at his home. In his office,
1 during: waiting moments, and often
on his travels.
I "That great Book, he says, covers
i the whole range of human experi
-1 ences and is tlie best of all guides for
warriors, orators, managers and dlp
| loinatlsts, regardless of circumstances
! or centuries.
"The conductors themselves, think
; ins men and debating men, as they
! go up and down and back and forth
! across the continent on slow freights,
j last freights, passenger trains and
' specials, made no mistake in their
valuation of Garretson. They jump
ed him over tho heads of other of
j fleers in their brotherhood and elect
i ed him first vice-president, that he
I might the sooner become chief of
j their order."
If Garretson was the mouthpiece
I and evangelist of tho four brother-
I hoods in their great contest with
I the railroads, \V. G. Lee, head of the
| Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
| (brakemen). was their XCthan Allen,
jwe read, whose demand that the
I British surrender "in the name of
the great Jehovah and of tho Con
! tinental Congress" would not have
| been incongruously voiced by l,oe
| himself. Incidentally, it is the pledge
of these four labor leaders that, in
time of war, the railway oerutives
of America will be with and behind
the government to a main." Says the
biographer:
J.ee IN Big I'nolor
"A man of battle, candid and brave,
Uee holds that no struggle is ever
| really ended until one side gives up
lor is chased off the field. Brakemen
| constitute his host youngish men
j from farms mostly, and excitable as
colts. Hard-handed men, too, and
I often heedless whether they are here
to-day and to-morrow somewhere
I else.
"No character nourished on toast
! and tea could execute his task. He
i has ridden through the sleet and rain
i on the roofs of boxcars in the past.
In those days, when a brakeman met
! with a misfortune between the bump
ers or on the tracks, a collection was
j taken up for him all along the line.
■ Charity fed him while he was in bed
and buried him when he died.
| "Lee, gladiatorial of jaw, square of
I trunks as a block of granite, came
; to his present post through the ranks.
I That is testimony enough as to his
strength. Brakemen once, like him
, self, had no standing as citizens, nor
j rights in their hard and hazardous
; employ.
"Now, In the little railway centers
of the country, brakemen own prop
ici ty. They belong to churches and
| societies. Some are village council
! men and directors of the public
schools."
Warren S. Stone
( We observe that Hie plan of War-
I ron S. Stone, among the chieftains
I who besieged Congress, was less mili
tant than advisatory. Stone went
willingly, or was maneuvered into
strange company. Boycotts and
strikes of others have been of pass
ing Interest to him and to the Broth
| eriiood of locomotive Engineers.
Ijike Garretson, Stone is a native
of lowa, I,ee being from Illinois. The
, lather of Stone owned a large prairie
; farm at a time when corn was low
and interest high, liven so. Stone,
meaning to read law, entered college.
But several of his brothers, he con
] tided to the writer in The Nation's
Business, "were railroad men, and the
I life they led eating at restaurants
instead of at home and son on to
! g. ther with the wages they earned,
lured me to a fireman's place on the
Hock Island Kailroad."
At the age of tweny-four he was
| given an engine, and for two de
cades was a locomotive engineer on
I the railroad where lie had begun as
a fireman. The brotheVhood. of which
i Stone is president at a salary of 310 -
000 a year, owns a fourteen-story of
: flee building in Cleveland, Ohio, and
! •I'® New York Central is one of its
tenants.
Firemen's Chief
Such, briefly pictured, are the ora
tor. the warrior and the counselor
who, abetted by the Supreme Court
| drove the eight-hour law into the
! sheepskin statutes of the United
I States. Tlie fourth, William S. Car
; ter, chief of the liremen. is ihe
I strategist who laid the ropes so that
they could be most effectively pulled
llt was Carter. of Texas, "small".
spectacled, in motion constantly
I whether sitting down or standing up "
who negotiated the treaty between
I the brotherhoods three years ago in
the city of Washington. The recent
j eight-hour victory is tho fruit of that
i treaty.
Tarter Is middle-aged. like the r<>st
His father, a Cor.federate soldier died
at Vicksbttrg. His mother married a
rancher in Texas, at the close of the
Civil War. Carter, with ability to talk
all day and .hold his audience intact
is said to be a better orator than h
was fireman. And yet he left school
and went to live with the cattle when
he was nine years old. At twenty
he gave up a 1100 job as ranch fore
man for a 150 Job on a locomotive.
Ciarretson ceased to be a conductor
I-.ee a brakeman, Stone an engineer
and Carter a fireman many vears ago
The evolutionary process of develop
ment has gone on with them. Just, as
with other leaders in Industry. They
have not been dealing with materials
but with men men wise and fool
ish. bold and timid; rash and prudent
fair and fanatical; taciturn and gar
rulous. They have become experts—
the chiefs and It is observed by
th° writer In The Nation's Business
•hat "they are all American-born and
bred and stand four-squared in the I
matter of patriotism."
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Railroad Notes
Rain has halted improvements
east of the Pennsylvania railroad pas
senger station.
'Jacob Schnader, ticket examiner at
tho Pon'nsy station, is back on duty.
Captain of Police Paul 1.,. Barclay,
of the Philadelphia division of the
Pennsylvania railroad, has returned
from a business trip to Philadelphia.
J. K. Shepp, brakeman on the Bal
timore division of the Pennsylvania
railroad who has been 111, reported
yesterday for duty.
Mahlon Boyer, of Heading, a re
tired Philadelphia and Reading rail
way telegrapher, yesterday cele
brated his 72nd birthday anniver
sary.
I.i. Iv. Morris, recently appointed
assistant trainmaster for the Phila
delphia and Reading railway, with
headquarters in the oftlco of General
Superintendent W. H. KefCer, as
sumed his n.ew duties yesterday.
RECORD SUNDAY ON READING
Reports show another record Sun
day on the Philadelphia and Reading
railway. A total of 18,000 cars were
handled eastward. There were forty
trains run over the Lebanon Valley
branch, fourteen of which were dou
bleheaders. A total of 2,2 27 cars were
sent out of Rutherford yards. There
were forty trains west, hauling 1.990
cars, and a total of 4,217 transported
on the Lebanon Valley alone. East
Penn handled 2,430 cars.
Standing of the Crews
HAHitisßi iu; SUM:
Philadelphia 1)1 Vinton —The 121 crew
to go first after 4 p. m.: 119, 110. 129,
126. 125, 123.
Engineers for 125, 123.
Fireman for 110.
Conductor for 121.
Engineers up: Steffy, Brooke. I.
Gable, Ilubler, Hogantogler, J. Gable,
Sellers, Howard.
Firemen up: Grimwood, Bomgard
ner, Hepner.
Conductors up: Hooper.
Flagman up: Nophsker.
Brakemen up: Knupp, Leitheiser,
Edwards.
Middle Division —The 115 crew to go
first after 2.20 p. m.: 18, 19, 32, 21.
Preference 4, 3, 9.
Engineers for 115, 32, 3.
Firemen for 18. 19, 3.
Conductor for 3.
Brakeman for 9.
Engineers up: Blizzard, Felghtal.
Bomberger, Rensel, Tettemer, Ford,
Corder, Brink.
Firemen up: Kline, Smith, Kene
day, Mitchel, Adams, Johnsonbaugh,
Markle, Orr.
Conductors up: Coup, Leonard,
Heiner, Barger, lillbish, Klotz, Glace,
Dottrow.
Brakemen up: Deckert. Arnold. Gil
bert, Humphreys, Kraft, McCabe,
Blessing, Murray, Hemmlnger, Rum
felt.
Yard Crura—Engineers up: Rtarner.
Morrison, Beatty, Feas. Kautz, Wag
ner, Shade, McCord, Snyder, Myers,
Ileffelman, Buffington, Auman, Miller,
Beaver, Esslg, H. R. Myers.
Firemen up: Roberts. Miller, Burns,
ts-- ■ ; s
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart
In the Clearance of Women's Suits Philippine Hand-Embroid-
Are to Be Found Exceptional Values ere d Lingerie
tThe reductions average one-third and in some cases they are /Sk "V amples o^l^anti
as much as one-half, so the opportunity of realizing a substantial \ft VJ ""Kw made undermuslins
saving is assured. F J t g ,J. JbL- \ come direct from the
Materials are the choice fabrics of the spring season, and the placing them side by
sizes for misses and women are complete. [ V\. /II 1 I *'[ \\ side with French
$20.00 suits of fine quality poplin, made in a belted style with large en- LM' l' • lingerie it is difficult
veiope pockets; sailor collar of white faile silk; in Copenhagen, navy, sand • *-■ ' I W*i— to illdce which tVPe
Price rf!*:. . K ! nal . c .'. ea . ran r e s 12.50 mr^Z j ■ f is the lovelier.
$25.00 suits in wool faille and poplin; the coat is made with a box plaited i|| h Night gOWHS at $1.95 to 5lJ.OO
back, semi-belted; fancy inverted pockets, finished, with stitching; large Swl I \\\ Knvelope chemise at.. $2 50 to
cape collar, trimmed with bone buttons; in navy, tlfign T P* T mirr Xirts at > OS to '?
Copenhagen and black. Final Clearance Price vlUiOv 11 SKirtS dt to p)tUU
$32.50 and $35.00 suits of fine poplin and Poiret twill made in plain T7nrlf>rmilQlir>Q I7nr flirlc nrtrl Vnnrtn WTnmort
tailored or belted models; in sand, Copenhagen, navy and black. *OO Cn UllUti IllUblinS tOi LrlrlS CinCl I OuilQ WOlTien
Final Clearance Price iPArf&.OU
$39.50 suits of French serge; the coat is made with a deep voke and fine .. Th , c Ma -Y showin S abounds in dainty pieces of undermus
plaits front and back finished with a narrow belt trimmed with fancy gilt ' ins I° r misses and girls, and not the least attractive gar
buttons; double sailor collar of self material and silk poplin n(* llients are those at low nrices
in tan. Final Clearance Price mJAO.wW * 1
Princess slips, 8 to 16 years 75c to sl.#s
$35.00 suits of Poiret twill in navy and black, made with a deep yoke Drawers 30c to 50c
and.box plaits falling from yoke, finished with a double strap Cf| Knickers, with embroidery 300 to 50c
belt; cape collar of fancy Khaki Kool. Final Clearance Price.. ' >3" Night gowns . 00c to SI.OO
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart—Second Floor. Black saline bloomer S' to 18 years 50c
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart—Second Floor.
Sport SilksThatMakeThis a No Woman Ever Had Too
Season of Colorful Apparel Many Skirts
Bright colors and distinctive patterns arc the vogue this ' ' — ■■ —*" And it isn't often nowadays that such splendid grades of
season and these beautiful qualities of sport silks have done navy blue serge are offered at former season prices.
much to popularize this tvpc of apparel. 71 /[ ft VL*l nn II was our 8:00(1 fortunc to have an attractive contract with
Foremost in sport silks'are- IVI Ul K 11 /(/ one of America s best serge nulls, and now our good fortunc
. g° cs to women who want to possess a new skirt.
New sport stripe silk jersey for coats and suits, beautiful color ah i • .. , , , . 4t . ,
biendings, 36 inches; yard SI.OO t-. All-wool, in guaranteed colors, 42 and 44 inches wide.
Khaki Kool—the most talked about silk this season—beautiful f QT* 'i arcl sl—s and SjSI.OU
three-inch dot effects in gold and green on white ground, checker J Dlyes, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor.
blocks, and bther striking designs and solid shades — .
Fancy Prints; yard .. $3.50 I\/¥ 'l'd'
Soiled Colors; yard $3.00 /l/f 1 /7 / J Q IT) PJI
Plain White: yard *3.50 L LOI I £ * a a
Piping Rock in gold with gold check combination to match for m
trimming and purple with purple and gold check combination; yd., $3 Before going into service TS ''B JjU <d| "W
Roman stripe Tussorah for combining with white and natural _ /A "JPR Jjk
Shantung; yard $2.75 every member of the militia # x # m • m
Sport Shantung in 25 patterns; yard. $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 and $2.50 • V > V I W V \T \ _
White Khaki Klan, new white plaid in heavy weight, 40 Or of the Officers' Reserve 1
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart—Street Floor. groups should have every A Sturdy Bov Needs
one of his garments durably *
Silverbloom Cloth For m ;t d ' or , idc " tin r" o „,'. Sturdy Shoes
1 he ideal way of marking , _
. t 1 his is the time of the year when Big Brother Scout and
IDOn I 1S USC ° ( as ' l s woven Little Junior Scout need sturdy shoes if they are to respond
1/ICOcCO name tapes. These tapes to the call of the great outdoors. And sturdy shoes cost less
Assuredly one of sum- In stripes, plaids and solid should be applied to gloves in the end than the kind that go to pieces in a fortnight.
in<>r'<s mmt sorvireahlr ma- i i . We ve specialized in youngsters shoes for the past ten*,
tcriats for w<Mnen's and chit ,°, S> b9 * 1,05, cr >'- "lwear,. rain- vears-we've studied the weak points o( boys' shoes and we
dren's outer garments and "i~ mches < Wldc> coats and caps. believe we have largely overcome those weak points,
especially attractive when w ar " va l s among the It will afford enjoyment to any parent to visit our boys'
made up into skirts and wash goods include many of notion section is shoe section, and it will be a matter of keen satisfaction to
frocks. the most pleasing styles of headquarters for these fast note the moderateness of prices.
The variety of styles is voiles that we have seen this color tapes. S oTe a ß n - lU ° W calf KC ' Skufter button shoeß, wlth oak loathcr Btltched
one of the attractive fea- Sizes 5 to 8 $1.95
tures of this long-wearing ', ill - dozen, 8.">0; 6 dozen, nJ| {„ X 2 $••'*
fabric and in each one of the fprcetinir 12 dozen, StJ.OO. Tan scout shoes, with long tips from vamp seam; elk soles
thirty-eight patterns which iroiti tuc price and Goodyear stitched—
we are now showing there viewpoint as their styles are I„ all colors. .*.'.' .*.'.* |!!;! || S
are splendid opportunities sa lst > in K- Dives Pomerov A st PW rt „ G i\ n m ® tal calf shoes, in button and blucher style with heavy half
for aHrnt enworc Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. ' y btew a™. double soles and Goodyear stitching; sizes 9to 13%, at $2.50
' ( ' Street Floor. _ Street Floor. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart —Street Floor, Rear.
Johnson, Houd?nshel, Gardner, Rip
pley, Mell, Engle, Kruger, Henderson,
Main, Selway, Gilbert, Laurer, Dill,
Gormley, Wirt, Klineyoung, Mount*, j
J. E. Lourtr.
lOngineers for 2nd 7 C, Ist 15 C, 2nd ]
15 C, 3rd 15 C. After 4 a. m., 16 A.
Firemwi for 4th 7 C, 23 C, 26 C. Aft- I
cr I o'clock a. m., sth 7 A, 16 A.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT
Middle Division Englnemen
marked up at 12.01 p. m.: Keane,
Crane, Sparver, Crlmmel, T. D.
Crane, Graham, Keiser, Crum, Tay
lor.
Enginemen for 665, 669.
Firemen up: Hopkins, Cornprobst,
Gates, eßalor, Holtzman, Wlnand.
Firemen for 29.
Philadelphia Division Engine
men marked up at 12.01 p. m.: Llnd
ley, Bless, Hall, Osmond, Crlsswell.
Firemen up: Burley, Shaffner,
Floyd, Seliindler.
THE READING
Ilnrrisburg Division 2l crew to
go first after 12 m., 24, 10, 3, 16, 8,
11, 7. 16, 6, 56. 51, 53, 59, 57 60.
Firemen for 56, 59, 71, 8, 11.
Flagman for 8.
Brakemen for 59. 60, 3, 7, 16, 24.
Engineers up: Eittle, Bilig, Hoff
man, Barnhart, Minnick, Schulyer,
Gruver, Lackey. Bordner, Griltlth,
j Frauenderfer, Kauffman, Wireman,
Bowman.
Firemen up: %ukowski, Bushey,
Hummeback, Rolneck, Ellenberger,
Hummeback, Rolneck, Ellenberger,
Frullinger, Kroah, Grove. Smith,
Klnderman, Vansdalan, Bitting,
Gallagher, Gaegler, Myers, Roberts,
Helges, Eisley, Bond.
Conductors up: MeCullogh, Wise,
Shover, Keifer, Bashore, Derrick.
Brakemen up: Flurrey, Waniple,
Butler, Luttrcw. Siegfried. Keaner,
Spangler, Shepley, Reidell, Craig,
Wieley, Still, Blacligates, Mosey,
Shuff, Gross, Pile, Fasick, Edmonson,
Beashore, Mcurne, Boesch, Gardner.
ENOLA SIDE
Philadelphia Division—r2ol crew
to go first after 3.45 p. m.: 243, 219,
222, 236. 208, 227, 205.
Firemen for 222, 208.
Conductor for 22.
Flagman for 19.
Brakemen for 08. 19. 27.
Brakemen up: Whitlngton, Elch
elberger, McCombs, Snyder, Walt
man.
>Ud(llc Division —116 crew to go
first after 3 p. m.: 120, 102, 107, 105.
YARD CREWS—ENOLA
Engineers up: Sheaffer, Bretz,
Kauffman, Flickinger, Shuey, Myers,
Geib.
Firemen up: Rider, Wolf, Webb,
Arndt, McConnell, Holslnger, Noss,
A. W. Wagner, O, J. Wagner.
REFUSE TO GIVE
UP ALL HOPE
[Continued l-'rom First Page]
of the Eighth Regiment, N. G. P.,
has issued an order to members of
Companies D. and I to assemble at
the armory if the signal is given.
Captain George W. H. Roberts, com
mander of the Governor's Troop, is
sued a similar order. Many of the
soldiers had not received the order
ond were on tho streets In full uni
form this morning anxiously await
ing -the arrival of the French mis
sion. They were greatly disappoint
ed when they learned that the mis
sion would not arrive here to-day.
Children in the public schools, who
flnd were in the streets in full uni
ting the time the party was sched
uled to be in the city, were also dis
appointed.
The Nation In an article headed,
"Joffre and the Genius of France,"
in tho current issue says:
"No imaginable event In the long
months of conflict still to come can
rob the victor of the Marno of his
pre-eminence. lie is the one
grandiose figure of the war. No
Imaginable event can rival the battle
of the Marno In its significance for
the history of the world and civili
zation. It does not matter that Mar
shal Joffre has been replaced as
leader of the French armies. It does
not matter that the battle of tho
Marne left a heavy task and tre
mendous sacrifices for tho French
nation to carry through. If the
genius of JolXre spent Itself on the
Marne, it was in the performance of
a supreme mission carried out
amidst all the circumstance of a
great drama—a mighty Issue decid
ed after agonizing suspense amidst
the hush of a watching world. After
two and a half years of crashing
conflicts and untold heroisms, of
sweeping victories and great re
treats, of a war map unrolling it
self over three continents, it is still
impossible to go back to the now
old story of the Marne without that
catch of the breath, without the sa
cred awe, aroused by the presence
of powers and issues almost mora
than human. The drama of the great
war has worked itself out contrary
to all the rules of dramatic con
struction. Hardly had the play be
gun when the climax was upon us.
Forty-one days from tho rise of the
curtain to the pitch of the action,
and thirty-two months of slow de
scent towards a final curtain not yet
In sight. Is it any wonder the events
and the man of those first forty-one
days still maintain an unapproach
able fascination?
"If the Marne was a victory won
for civilization by France, it was
also won in accordance with the
genius of France. It is Impossible to
read again the story of the first five
weeks of the war without recogniz
ing that at bottom there is truth in
the oft-exaggerated generalizations
about the peculiarities of national
genius. Perhaps we are to-day, after
two and a half years of war, in
clined to stress too much the new
discoveries of the French tempera
ment. It has become a coaimonplace
to say that, instead of a frivolous
people, the French are really the
most practical of nations; Instead of
a nation of talkers, tttey arc really a
nation of doers; instead of a gay
nation, a serious nation; instead of
an imaginative people, a plodding
people. For French elan wo are
asked to substitute French endur
ance unto death. But what adds
glow and poetry to the battle of the
Marne Is that It was fought and
largely won In the spirit of the old
er, historic French virtues and traits.
It was won by the old French hero
ism, and more than that, by the old
MAY 8,1917.
French Imaßlnatton founded upon
innate reason. Hrilllant, but unsafe,
wo ure accustomed to soy of the ex
ceptional master In chfess. Brilliant,
but unsafe, used to be the common
place generalization of the French
national temperament. Brilliant and
daring was the strategy of the battle
of the Marne. It was a victory of
the French mind over the German
mind. '
"The difference between German
strategy and French strategy in the
campaign that ended with the Marne
was the difference between mechan
ical precision and imagination. The
German plan was to set into motion
two enormous pincers, one swinging
in from Belgium, one from the west
tern frontier between Nancy and
Belfort, and to crush the French
armies somewhere in the valley of
the Seine. The French plan did not
call for the exertion of all the power
of the nation's armies to resist this
strangling maneuver. Joffre took the
chance of holding back the Iron
pressure with part of his forces
while watching for the opportunity
to throw the remainder In a ham
mer-blow against the enemy claw
from without. The German armies
were all in place when the hostili
ties began; the machine was com
plete in every part, and once set into
motion, had only to be kept going.
The French armies were not all in
being. Joffre preferred to wait and
see. Against, the German machine
he had what is called in chess a
combination: that is to say, against
caution and method he opposed
mind. He created one new army
while In the full course of retreat
and brought another army from his
extreme right wing to play a decisive
role in the center of his line. Noth
ing In tho history of the war can
rival for combined foresight and
daring the gathering of the army of
Bretons and Normans, the Sixth
army, which Joffre first attempted to
throw against the northern claw of
the German pincers from Amiens.
The attempt failed. But the army
that was driven back around Amiens
appeared within a few days around
Paris. Then it was thrown against
von Kluck's right wing on the Ourcq,
and the battle of the Marne was
won. The German plan of victory
counted upon existing armies arriv
ing at a certain place at a certain
time. Joffre's plan depended upon
the creation of a new army and its
arrival where and when it was want
ed. It is this evocation of an army
from the void which gives the
dramatic, the characteristically
French touch, to the great event.
"Up to the moment of execution
the plan of the Marne, if it had been
known to the outside world, would
have been called brilliant, but un
safe. As we look back in the fuller
knowledge of to-day we see that it
was both brilliant and safe. For ir
the battle of the Marno there wert
revealed to the world a synthesis ol
the traditional French genius anc
the unsuspected virtues we are now
aware of. The conception of the bat
tle had French imagination anc
dash; its execution revealed thOSl
marvelous powers of resiliency anc
endurance which have stirred th(
imagination of the world. The vic
tory which saved the cause of inter
national faith and democracy was
won by men who rallied to the at
tack after five weeks of disaster and
retreat. The men who were hurled
back with bloody loss at Saarbruck
stood like an iron wall against tho
Kaiser's furious attacks before
Nancy. Tho men who were beaten in
Alsace came under Foch to shatter
the Prussian Guard at La Fere'
Champenolso. The Breton and Nor
man territorials who save way be
fore von Kluck around Amiens were
the men who on tho Ourcq carried
out Joffre's injunctions to dlo in their
tracks if they must, but not to givo
way. In tho decisive moment French
imagination was justilied by French
devotion."
Personal and Social
Annual Spring Meeting
of Callapasscink Club,
The Callapasscink Club of Shire
] manstown held their annual spring
j business meeting at the home of
Frank Zimmerman. The follow
ing officers were re-elected to hold
office: Frank Zimmerman, president;
David M. Hupp, secretary and treas
urer; Isaac Hess, Walter Zimmerman
and Kemper Bitner, board o£ direc
tors.
New members were presented and
business accomplished. It was de
cided to hold the annual spring open
ing of the clubhouse, situated along
the banks of the Yellow Breeches
j Creek, Saturday, June 2.
The following young men are
members of the society: Frank Zim
merman. David M. Rupp, Isaac Hess,
Walter Zimmerman, Kemper Bitner,
, Joseph Clouser, John D. Bitner, Geo.
J. Wertz, Arthur K. Rupp, Harry
Frey, Lawrence Miller, Kdgar Zim
merman, Russell Rupp, Eugene Bit
ner, Ralph Bates, Alexander Wil
liamson, Robert Miller and Thomas
Lantz.
VISITORS AT SUMMERDALE
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Peters, of 217
Peffer street, entertained the fol
lowing guests over the week-end at
their bungalow In Summerdale: Mr.
ond Mrs. Joh nTripner, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy E. Hoover, Miss Arrie
Gully, Miss Betty Peters, Mr. Chas.
Yowler, Miss Arma Wirth, Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Brenner, Edward
Marlon, all of Lancaster.
GTESTS AT HOUSE PARTY
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pattlson
Cox, of 1720 North street, entertain
ed the following guests at a week
end house pnrty: Miss Pearl Yalin,
Miss Elizabeth Killinger, Miss Eliza
beth Wilson, James O. Elder, of
Princeton; Earl L: Kunkle and
Eugene Miller.
RAISING FUNDS FOR NURSE
Waynesboro, Pa., May 8. There
began to-day a two-day canvas for
funds sufficient to employ a visiting
nurse for the sick people of Way
nesboro. Women of the Waynes
boro Relief Association and the
Civic Club visited many people ol
i town soliciting subscriptions.
The amount of money desired Is
$2,500 and $825 .has already been
i subscribed.