AMERICANS BRAVE FIRE WORSE THAN HELL IN BATTLE as Though Going to a Picnic, German Officer Asserts; Women Chained to Gun, Shamokin Man Writes; Hazle ton Lad's Bible, Aunt's Gift, Recovered From Prisoner THERE will be tales of war to tell when the boys come march ing home. Pennsylvania soldiers •re having their experiences in France. Relatives are daily advised of the personal side of the war by letters that reach the states, cities and towns. The Committee on Pub lic Information, in touch with all parts of the country, learns that the Keystone state fighters are taking good care of themselves. The trans formation from artisan to soldier has 6Ti ven the Pennsylvanian a new view of the world. Information that has reached Lew istewn indicates that Company M. 112 th Infantry, was badly cut up in engagements from July 14 to 31. Lieutenant A. R. Mateer was in com mand of a platoon under Captain Fred McCoy, of Grove City, when they threw the first bridge over the Vesle and took the village of Chateau Diable. Mateer was wounded in the hand by shrapnel during an air raid two days before the fight and after getting first-aid treatment returned to his command. They were eight days and nights under heavy artillery Are when Mateer fell from shell shock and was carried to the hospital. Hesaw service on the Mexican bord er. Roy McCarty. of Lewistown. an employe of the Standard Steel Com pany. of Company M, 112 th Infantry, is in a hospital severely wounded. William Lloyd Rboades, twenty three years old. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hooker Rhoades, of Vine yard, was killed July 29. according to a letter received from his com mander. Private Rhoades died with face to the enemy and has buried with military honors. He leaves a young widow and five-months-old 6on he never saw. He was a member of Company I, 110 th Infantry, and the first drafted man from Mifflin county to die in action. Andrew S. Brownwell, thirty years old, was severely wounded July 29, according to a letter received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown well, of Lewistown Junction. Brown well was a member of Company D, Twenty-eighth regulars, and had been in service five years. The Twen ty-eighth Infantry lost 400 men in twenty-four hours. "Worse Than Hell' H f Writes Private George Fisher, of Indiana, & member of the Machine Gun Com pany of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, war- wounded in action July 18. ac cording to word received from him by his mother. He writes: "Well, they got me, but I am getting ready to go back. Even the German of ficers are acknowledging the fighting qualities of the Yanks. I saw a Ger man officer who had been taken pris oner He said he had fought Italians, Russians, British and French, but never saw a more determined lot of fighters than the Yanks. He said. 'They walked through shellfire worse than hell could produce and acted as though they were going on a picnic." " Private Harry James McKenzie, of Pittsburgh, reported severely wounded is a member of Company B. 111 th Regiment, formerly the old Eigh teenth of Pittsburgh. He is thtrty two years old. In a letter to his par ents he says: "I have been wounded, but I am getting better and am going back for more." Private Robert Pilston. of Pitts burgh. killed In action with the Cana dian army August 9, was wounded and gassed last year. His brother, William Pilston. is with the American army in France. Prowess of American Airmen Andrew Milko, of East Pittsburgh, received word yesterday his brother, Private John A. Milko, twenty-seven years old, of Company K, 110 th In fantry. had been killed tn action jury 24.* Slilko enlisted in June, 1917. He has a brother In the service. Among Pittsburgh men reported missing in action are Carl C. Ender ltUe. twenty-three years old, and Gus tav A. Tongerman. both members of Company M. 109 th Infantry. They were lifelong friends. Tongerman is the son of a German and has three brothers fighting in France. Charles A. Hamilton, of New Castle, a motor dispatch bearer, attached to headquarters of the Twenty-sixth Di vision. has written to friends here a letter telling of his experience in bat tle'. He writes: "It is a wonderful sensation to have an enemy aviator swoop down upon you. doing his level best to wing you as you go flying up the road. This happened to me three times within twenty-four hours. But I out witted them each time. I saw two airp'anes crash to the earth inside of fifteen minutes. Both were Huns. ECONOMY TALIC is all risht- ECONOMY PRACTICE is better.^! INSTANT POSTUM is an economy j drink —absolutely no waste. Besides it is convenient, saves fuel and sugar; and leaves nothing to be desired in tHe way of flavor . THY A CUP! ' . ' • THURSDAY EVENING HARJRISBURG TELEGRAPH AUGUST 22, 1918. Our aviators have it all over them when it comes to aerial duels." German Women Chained to Gun An interesting letter on operations in the battle zone, written by George Whitehead, of Mauch Chunk, has been received by John J. Johnson, foreman of shops for the New Jersey Central railroad at Mauch Chunk, and reads thus: "We are kept busy and surely have i the Frltzes on the run. I am located ! in a sector that is quite popular just jat present. Too bad I can't tell you I the place. It Is a common sight to | see prisoners by the hundreds coming I back, and when a fellow goes to the j front he sees dead Germans lying | right and left. j "We have all kinds of souvenirs, i such as helmets, gas masks, rifles ' and bayonets. One of our boys has a i German machine gun. The boys from ! our division went over the top last j week and captured lots of prisoners I and dugouts. "In one of the dugouts they cap- 1 tured six German women chained to I a machine gun. and In another they j found some women and a piano. The | boys were going to load this on a truck and bring it back, but they were prevented. "Am shipping a German helmet back to the states, and if it has the good luck to arrive there you can find it in my girl's poaeesston. How are all the boys? Tell Jim Campbell : ana Dad that Paris has Hazleton j stopped a hundred ways. Hoping to be with you on March 17, I'll close." ' Sergeant Stewart Evans, of Mauch .Chunk, a member of a United States ! engineer corps in France, and who I fought his way to liberty at Cambrai when entrapped by the Germans last | fall, has been promoted to lieutenant, ! with position on General Pershing's | personal staff. minded Hasletontan Get. Sight Joseph Marshall, a Hazleton barber, ; who was gassed and blinded while with the Twenty-third Infantry in France, has begun to see after three weeks in darkness. The doctors in j the French hospitals have worked out a method to heal the inflammation following tear gas in severe doses. ! Marshall's cure was the subject of | great joy to his relatives when he j wrote home-to say he had seen the ; sun after resigning himself to perm i anent blindness. ' I. L. Smith, of Freeland. who is in | France with the Thirty-eighth In fantry. has written'to his aunt. Mrs. I William McCarron. of Hazleton. tell • ing her that the pocket Bible she , gave him when he went to war was . recovered from a boche prisoner taken 1 when the Thirty-eighth reoccupied trenches from which they had been . driven in the opening of tjre Marne campaign. Smith said th/t the boys ; were called upon to fight so unex [ peetedly that they left their belong | ings In their dugouts and the Ger | mans speedily became owners of the I old American lines. Later the : "Yanks" swept forward and took i many captives. After Sergeant Joseph Murphy, of Hazleton. was hit by a bullet, the first face that he saw when revived in a Red Cross hospital was that of I his cousin. Miss Bessie ' Thompson, | with whom he had been reared in ' Hazleton and who went abroad as a | trained nurse last summer. Aviators From State College Lieutenant R. S. Davis, an American aviator who brought down a German filer in a duel, was manager of Penn sylvanla State College's football team in 1915. .He was graduated in 1916. He is the first of the many students and alumni from that Institution fly ing in France to win an air victory. Davis went overseas in Y. M, C. A. service shortly after leaving college. He found his hut duties too tame and enlisted in the French aviation corps. After completing his training he was transferred to the American forces and commissioned a first lieutenant. He has been flying on the western front for more than a year. "Whitey" Thomas, a former Penn State football end. Is also chasing the Huns through the clouds in France. "Casey" Jones, a football and track athlete, is an aviator with the Amer ican troops in Italy. Walter S. Far ley, State College's lacrosse captain and coach in 1916, was recently com missioned a.lieutenant in the marine corps. Captain Sanderson Detweiler, com manding Company C. 110 th Regiment, has sent a German helmet to his vife In Marietta and it is attrarting much attention in a store window. It was taken from a man who was shot in the drive against the Americans. Detweiler sent another helmet to his i sister. Miss Beatrice Detweiler, of Columbia. Mrs. Jennie Eddy, of Marietta, has I received word that her son. John M. ' Eddy, has been wounded in France. !He is serving with the Canadian i forces and was admitted August 9 to j the hospital. He went to England as a chauffeur for a physieian in 1915 i and while there enlisted in the ser j vice. He has been in the trenches two years and this was the first in- Jury. Shamokin In Casualty Lists I Just a week to the day after she ! had received a letter ftora her two' sons. Privates Clyde and John Lytle, Mrs. Catherine Lytle, of Shamokin, received a telegram from the War Department announcing that Clyde had died of wounds received in action on July 16. The joint letter from the Lytle brothers was the first they wrote after arriving In France late in June, and announced that both were well and on their way to the firing line. Private Clyde Lytle is thl first Shamokin draftee to pay the supreme sacrifice. Mrs. Charles Haines, of Shamokin. has been notified that her aon. Pri vate Charles Haines, United States Engineers, was wounded August 5. A like message was received by Mrs. Lulu Jacobs, of Trevorton, near here, specifying that her son. Private Dol phin Jacobs, also of the engineers, had been wounded the same day. Mrs. "James O'Brien, of Shamokin, is in receipt of a letter from her son. Private Bernard O'Brien. Second United States Engineers, from a base hospital, where he is recovering from a serious gas attack. Mrs. Robert Burrows has received a letter from her son. Private Arthur Burrows, also of the Second United States Engi neers. announcing that he has been In a has# hospital for several week*, recovering from machinegun wounds In both legs. Jermyn Man Awarded Medal Lieutenant David Morgan, of Jer myn. son of Mr. and Mrs. David Mor gan, has been awarded a medal for bravery action in France. He went from an ambulance to a trench to aid a wounded soldier, when a German shell dropped op the party. Morgan lay In the trench four hours before he was rescued, with his left l.arm broken. He had distinguished himself in action two weeks before, for which the French government awarded him a medal. Lieutenant Roy Faulkner, of the 109 th Infantry, wounded during the Marne offensive, writes to his par ents, in Scranton. telling of the part the local unit played in the big drive. "We gave them hell," the lieutenant says. "And the old 109 th was in the worst of it. We are the American unit that stopped the boche in his attempted offensive and turned the tables on him. Our regiment lost heavily, as we were In it first. About eighteen of our officers were hit, five being killed. Our regiment is be ing filled up. and we will drill some more before going into action again." Paxtang Board Calls Men For Next Quota The Paxtang Board yesterday after noon announced the names of the quota of thirty-nine men it will send to Camp Lee with the August 26 quota Monday morning The men have been notified to report at the board head quarters at 10:30 Saturday morning, and together with the men from Cltv Board No. 1 they will listen to a talk AUGUST /I _ *1 AUGUST fur s n AL t E ure MfXKCffIIGMZ* BELL 1091—23.10 IMTED IIARKIMBVHG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1018. . FOUNDED 1871 Wash Goods . i Notions Remnants in an abundance ® ® Bias seam tape--bolt of of useful lengths of gingham, B /\ v <r| fine cambric, 6 and 12 yards, tioiles, percales, to be closed V B m a "B B B B B ■ Friday sale, r.h,'X HUdV Udl JtiCilllu s c Fridat sale, yard, - ■ - i = =3 Novelty buttons for wash 19c dresses. Friday sale, card. 36-inch silk and cotton Some splendid specials will reign here to-morrow. , 5c gingham Tussah; good line a * o of piaid, Fnd,y sale, yard. Such values—such prices—such chances to save money ting bags.' Friday sale, c are truly remarkable. It's our way of disposing of odds 25c 40-inch silk embroidered ~ , e • wr u • j voile, Friday sale. yard. an( j ends. It serves the double purpose of cleaning for paper. Friday sale. . 00 us and a benefit for our patrons. 5c 44-inch plain colored t rrr . r V|,.* rnttnn anrf ,7i le finS™^aVe olo 'Friday Green tickets indicate these Friday Specials. sansilk *", cale vardi ! j 5 C \3sc Corsets Cups and Saucers Laces 4 Children's Embroidery edging eA BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. A fine lot of coutil corsets . ■ Jersey Coats | r olt fin Fr?day lt sale /aidS to \ in front and back lace, white Decorated Japanese china Closing out imported ven- • Y and flesh, medium and low CU p S an( l saucers. Friday , bands—mostly cream— Children's wool % jersey 1 ~ j bust, long ship, neat em- i widths _to 4 inches. Fn- sweatercoats—size, 4to 14 , Dress Goods broidery trimmed, every one * ' day, sale, yard, years with belt and catch • ° F . a good model. Friday sale, 25 C 101 > pockets-colors are: Rose, 32-inch mohair plaid skirt- . lZ 1 greetl) heathe!i Copenhagen Toilet Goods mg, also plain colors to use and sand. Fridav sale, each, in combinations. Friday Bowman's - second Floor Dinner set—loo pieces; „ . . . Empress rouge. Friday sale vard. - . . „ .. Filet lace edges and mser- fcQ QC i tf ' y green border decorations. . , , . , ~ sale, box, 45*- 1 Pump, and Shoe, Friday sale, W 19c 54-inch black and white Women's combination kid $18.50 JOc " , Hair brushss ' Frid *y shepherd checks, 2 sizes. pu mps. Friday sale, Clean up lot of children's sale - Friday sale, yard, Lemonade set pitcher ~ , . ... „ straw hats, Milan, hemp and 45c CI fin , , , , Venise medallions, small ' ' F wil,, " and 6 tumblers made of . .. , , . * fancy braid, tailored and „ . „. . Ofv. . . . . „ . and medium, also large sizes. j c• a i Hand scrubs. Friday sale, , ... „„„ glass, in lemon color. Fri- _. , , , trimmed. Friday sa e, * , 3 ' Women s white canvas lace = Friday sale, each, 3 ' each, 36-inch black and t white shoes, rubber soles and day sale, o shepherd checks. Friday i ie el. ' Friday sale, (PtPA C~ *■* *)(\~ sale, vard, $1.50 JC tO ZUC , , . fl1 CQ Boys straw and wash Baby talcum powder. 'l'"® bowman'S—Basemenu bowman'S— Main Floor. hats—white and colors. Fri- Friday sale, can. Women's champagne, light ———- sa ' e ' ea< -b> r 54-inch jersey suiting, and dark gray) dark brown, Of i — 4 r^ ,uULou,shef ' Fri " Eight More Days ' $3.25 $2.98 — 5 • Sc BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. BOWMAN s- Maln Floor I THI A. 1 ■ I White Goods ! • i „ _ . —■— Ihe August day".; c cf bags - Frp Picnic Plate, Wh,ie striped voile em- day sale, eac , . w-q 9 x broidered with colored dots, 4c ) Domestics and Saucers |h I Solo 39 inches wide, i-nday sale, J> LII JIaI.vEI.X L/ kJ dl L yard, Aubry sister's cold cream. v Cotton Challies—36-inches Paper picnic plate pack- Friday sale, jar, wide, 6 different patterns— age of 20 plates. Friday This sale offers a hig variety of dining-room 1 0 suitable for draperies or sale, . , . , .. . . . IOC comfort covering good style. A suites Ifl attractive designs and finishes . White Flaxons and Lncy Friday sale, yard, 9c 3-piece ft,med oak dining suite including extension white voiles. Friday sale, Powd er de Ria; extra fine 25C Paper Ice Cream saucers. 'able, china closet and buffet August sale price, *68.75 ' . '' " r- j i 100 10-ptece dining room suite Jacobean oak finish — • yh r saie, can, .... Fr,da y sale ' 100 ' William and Mary period - large buffet, 48-inch top. * DC 39 C waists 8 fight pat- 18c in extension table square closet, serving table leather Hemmed crochet bed- BOWMAN's-Mam Floor terns in plaids and strides seats on diners. August sale price Jj5149.00 spreads, size oßx*'>o. Friday Friday sak vard, ' Paper Napkins. Friday American walnut dining suite - Queen Ann period, . ! ah> each> • y ' p p J suite consists of ten pieces, genuine brown Spanish GraSS Catchers OF- sa e, leather seats on chairs. August sale price .. #215.00 g9 Ifloforlsr The Bowman restwell boxspring for all size lieds, * * Canvas trrass catchers will Bowman's second Floor Ivv lOi IOC covered in fancy art ticking, well upholstered a thor- r lln -t, r-intbc 4=; Y 45 c ' Bowman's Basement oughly good spring. August sale .price ........ #16.75 subject to mill stains, but fit lawn mower up to Restwell combination mattress - good ticking two no holes or tears. Friday. inches - Fnday sa,e ' , ♦,*• o • parts, single or full size. August sale price .. #IO.OO , . . ' OA Women S Union Suits Mens Union duits Genuine leather fireside chair high back spring seat ' ' O7C and back, same chair covered in a good grade tapestry, 77c „ Bleached cotton, low neck, Nainsook and light weight . . #/29.7. Bread Board sleeveless lace knees re- -cotton, sleeveless, knee Colonial oak buffet, plank top, fitted with mirror back, H cotton cras h with D . . . . , , ular and extra sizes ' Fri- lcn^h and short s,edves quartered oak, golden ppl.sh. roomy large red border-18 inches wide. Round bread board for ular and extra sizes, hn three-quarter length. Fri- linen and silver drawers. August sale #59.00 Friday sale, yard cutting bread. Friday sale, day sale, each, . sale each bowman's Fifth Floor. ' 59c 85c 19c 30c D_ __ Bowman's - Second Flaor BOWMAN'S—Basement. BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. I raveling Oagft flOSiery Men's half hose —silk, lisle, n ,,, n • Special Sale of ' Silk Specials <M" ne black, seconds. Friday sale, $5.75 ' *pair, 400 dress lengths of silks—4 to 6 yards in novelty silks, rpnfpmpri IfiA op P lain m'essaline, and taffetas; also figured voiles and V>CIIICIIICI I IYHJ VJIUVCS Tninlc* Zsc chiffons —this is a special purchase of garment manu- | facturers short ends—come early to secure the best P' c k" And a Famous Make of s, Mnw m c . F r ,fiay Mte . y . rt w-is ' . ' made, an opportunity for and colors, double' soles, Our black silk sale offers many most advantageous mOISCttC VJIOVCS one going on a vacation. Fri- high spliced heels, wide gar- savings on the better qualities which are the most eco day sale, ter tops, first and seconds. nomical in the end. Continues Friday and Saturday Friday sale, pair, > __J | $8.50 IPI AA 40-inch White Wash Satin. Fridav sale, yard, #1.85 BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. , SI.OO BOWMAN'S—Main FloSr. 1 _ —l BOWMAN'S—Basement. i ;; BOWMAN'S—Main Floor, L————■■—mm | ' t J . • i., i L . i. v. •jc .. X. —"V . - - i>. . . • iff. . .. .. on military life. H. M. Stine, of the Draft Instruction Board, will address them. Flavel Wright. Insurance man, frill explain the war insurance plan to them. The men are: Lloyd Raymond Kling. 1268 Market. Leonard Tavernlti. Hunimelstown. Frank E. Bowers, Enhaut. Christian W. Wolf. Enhaut. Joseph L Savastlo. Waltonvllle. Andrew F. Konecny. Middletown. Chalmer A. Wharton. 31>14 North Second. William W. Bickle, 1945 Brlggs. Leroy W. Wolfersberger, Hunimels town. Christlun S. Seaman. West Hanover. Carmie K. Schaffner. Oberlin. Daniel W. Sliuey, Oberlin. Ira L Shenk, R. No. 2. Hershey. Harry P. Buyer. Swatara Station. Mike Gustln. Bressler. James A. Baer. State Hospital. Norman L. Zeiders. 40 North Thir teenth. „ . . Harry S. Boyer. Swatara station. George L. Lautsbaugh, 721 North Nineteenth. Charles J. Burns. 2216 North Fourth. Michele Barrtuccl , ROtherford Heights. Wilmer W. Marks, Hershey. Lawrence Zimmerman. Hummels i William L. Mann. Penbrook. Joseph J. Wetty, R. D. 4, Duncan non. , Walter S. Hanshue, R. D. S. Middle town. Ralph Novinger, It. D. 2. Harrlsburg. David B. Barnes, Enhaut. Harry .1. Flshburn. 197 South Rail road, Hunimelstown. Harvey S. Holnn, Philadelphia. Herman J. Eisenhour, Humtnels town. Edgar E. Plouse, Hummelstown. John H. Myers, Swatara Station. Ignatius KVnsovlc. Pteelton. Frank R. Yorty. Grantville. Herbert H. Russell. Penbrook. Lloyd Shields. 244 4 Roas. Penbrook. John B. Hagy. Hershey. Santonio Loreto, Rutherford Heights. John M. Rob. Dauphin. Joe C. Blazi. Enhaut. Tells of Bayonet Charge; Harrisburg Boys Hurt In Base Hospital. No. 202. in France, Benjamin D. Stehn an. of Company K. Fourth Regiment of Infantry, writes that he has already seen service tn the front line trenches. In a letter to the secretary of Keystone Lodge. No. 42, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Stehman writes that in a recent attack they "took the Boche by surprise." and that "It wasn't five minutes until we had one on the end of our bayonet." Continuing, he says, "we never take prisoners when we go Into bayonet combat. It Is either you or him that comes back to tell the tale." Steliman was formerly employed as a brakeman on tlie Philadelphia Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A. R. Martin, of this city, a cook In Company I). One Hundred and Elev enth Infantry, is now in a hospital in France as a result of being struck In the .right arm with a piece of shrapnel while taking food to the boys in the trenches." The uccldent occurred on July 23: Slightly gassed on June 29. Warren P. Gotwalt is also In a French hos pital. A son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Gotwalt. 201 Muench street, he en listed in the Medical Corps attached to the Machine Gun Battalion of the One Hundred and Ninth Regiment. DEAD FISH IN RIVKII Liverpool. Aug. 22.—Thousands of dead fish floated down the Susque hanna past Liverpool this week among them were hundreds of bass and salmon. The fish were killed by poisonous substances being run Into the river lYi some of the up-river towns. Emperor of Japan Cuts Holiday; Riots Disturb Toklo, Monday. Aug. 22.—The em peror, It is, announced officially, has suspended his holiday at the imperial villa at Nlkko and will return to Toklo on August 21, on account of de velopments In the political situation, growing out of disturbance over the price of rice. Latest official advfices show that rioting has stopped in the large cities although It appears to be spreading elsewhere. WILL*EKKOT ROUNDHOUSE Marietta, Pa., Aug. 22.—Before many months a roundhouse will be erected on the new land recently purchased west of Marietta. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is making extensive improvements, and buying more land. Hundreds of'men will be employed. FLAGRAIBING AT LOYBVILLE Loysville, Pa.. Aug. 22.—Loysville Red Cross auxiliary will hold flag raising exercises with appropriate ceremonies on Saturday afternoon of this week. Following theae cere monies, an ice cream festival will be held by members of the auxlltexy. "SUFFERED WITH INDIGESTION Had No Appetite" says Florence Williams, 1019 South Ninth street, Harrisburg. "I wa miserable and work was a burden. My liver bothered me for a long time. I had Indigestion, had no strength nor ambition, had pain In my back, also hnder shoulder blades and In stomach. "I was nervous, appetite was and -did not sleep well at night. "I tried many treatments without result until a friend recommended Sannan. I now am not troubled any more and Just feel fine." Sanpan Is being Introduced at Kel ler's Drug Store, 405 Market street, Harrlsburg.—Adv. 3
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