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THE GETTY TIMES SEVENTEENTH YEAR GETTYSBURG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 1918. PRICE TWO TWO SONS GAVE LITTLE TRACE OF OLDER MEN MAY GAVE HER LIFE SHIFT BLAME OF IN BATTLE WITH VALENCIENNES IS; LIVES FOR CAUSE SCOURCE IS LEFT ATTEND COLLEGE TO SAVE SISTER LOAN FAILURE FLYING CIRCUS IN ALLIED HANDS of FWmer Xew Ches- Gettysburg Rapidly being Freed Students at Gettysburg may In- New Oxford Woman Had Three Littlestown Paper Defends Posi- Lloyd Schaeffer in Letter to his Haig Reports its Capture by. Oi. vJ. j-, rtP in rtf I rt.T rtrtf" i ter Residents Fall on Fields of France.

of Influenza. Board Ap- dude Men out of Business i Brothers in Service, Two of tion of its Banks. Why not Brother Tells how he is Get- I British Troops. Held against proves Opening and Professions. them in France.

Gettysburg? ting along. Counter Thrust. IN SEPTEMBER FIGHTING! CHILDREN MUST BE WELLj LENGTH OF TERMS FIXED; A VICTIM OF INFLUENZA HAVE THE ARMY ACCOUNTS; AY BE SENT BACK HOME AMERICANS' BIG ADVANCE Killed tr' ht and the Second' School Board will Open here but: Nothing Provided for Summer Raymond Hesson, Nephew of Their Argument is that Banks here Decorations for Bravery and Achieve- With the French they have Gone PuDils must Observe Certain Pre-j Short Intervals between the Other Sanders, Broadway, Dies of Illness Died Day after he was Notice Received. Pupils cautions. Other Data.

Terms. in France. should have Deficit. Made up Littlestownj ments the Lot of Brave Young! Aviator. Recovering.

to Ten Miles in Few serious eases of influenza were New orders have been issued which i Miss Christina Swomley, a trained The present issue of- -the-Adams The following letter nas been re- Daniel H. Withers who formerly er In the week regarding i ward from Five Sharp Assault. (By Cable)" Nov. 2--Valenciennes is the hands of the British, Marshal Haig reported to-day official communique which told city had finally fallen after attack launched early this below Littlestown. An uncle of the fed as a boys, Joseph Withers, lives a.

Newj The churches of town generally will' Chester and works at the foundry in be re-opened on Sunday. Announce- I New Oxford, ments of the various services A telegram was received at the to-day's Times. Withers home on October 4, last, car-! The public and parochial maier IaL rying the word that one son, Harry, be re-opened on Monday morning, -was k-lled In. action On the following- hours later, another the Withers home In- matlon was given death. Her sister is She attended Institutions have been instructed schools, and the War Department to receive Oxford High School.

She was I County. roops stormed forward over front about the city which ill try and tell you something finally felL The British quickly es- case. As vou know, Fritz tablished themselves and. beat off sev- shot me down and made a pretty good er strong counter-attacks and are i definite i job of It; In fact he nut five bullets 1 now In definite possession. Four KS En jjit.westa-.vn are prac- hroagh me op throao my aakle tbjousand additional German prisoners jail men whose experience may, In the i from Ae Carlisle Hospital less than beany on the line, and i my have been taken.

judgment of the proper authorities, a year ago. within a ievrmi.es or tne ior aEm and but not -least, two! Valenciennes has been an obiective sCountv Border. Fortv three ier cent I Her lather, i. b. cuea i throngs mv back, wnicn struck jny lor the JBrmso.

armies for several i nf rne- or me re weeks. Alter witndrawmg from the Belgian coast, the Germans apparent- i ly determined to establish themselves In such a way as to prevent the vim IK. i.ne- i ture of the famous old lace citv, and (term, academic work, Including In- Swomley of Hamburg; 3 om other for days they held against rented i ley, of York; Xeely Swomley, of 00 Or WUt i Paris an Officer, Hos- attacks when it was felt the city must i ment of Health. company. Thursday nighc the father of the heroic lads received another telegram were closed before the influenza All of the saloons In from the War Department.

"Washing- tation so they are not affected- ember! rer; Daniel Swomley, in a living lc i squadron, overseas; Heimer Swomley, with the American Expeditionary Samuel Swomley, In the Army. 1000 loaned to people bonds ir who i and -after a few days they dls- faU Three leered the wounds In my back were a the Britisn early mornmg to bnking dis- of -h begin on was the county, the saloons wuL re-open i jf aT 31. John, on zhis also being undear garnrdav. ton. In this message she father was informed that his other son, had died on.

September 7, from wounds state direction. received in action. Judging from urns Some of the public schools of the information, he died the after he had been wonndea. -Harry Withers at th the morning of Monda; and end on the afternoon of June 21, 1919." poison me, so t- back ea an every morning i the jment will be made la the New Oxford U. cemeterv.

The following statement with refer- ence to the work of the coros has Alarms in JOOO worth RAYMOND Sanders, and they were credited to the 3IcSherrystown Bank, When Cashier Jones explained our much In all my life. However, I shot hf S3 raaa one out was on Part of lt been flooded to keep I off Hai s's Persistent troops, but the and I was fighting tlle i tixe mf antry tanks and famous "Traveling Circus" itime -which is some if eat. to the Federal Reserve offi- I will receive the French a afc Valenciennes is a key poiat in tha advance toward the strongrv fortified Qf a ew mile3 charge of all S- A. T. C- He- was aeed 23 vears.

In action -was 'twenty years, eleven Monday. months and six days old. John With- Miss Helen Cope, supervising prm- ers, at the time of his deaSn. -was cipal of ithe Gettysburg schools makes aged twenty three years, moifths. and seven days.

Besides their i eleven this statement: Pennsylvania. Delaware. Maryland llnflaenza- The oabllc scoools of Gettysburg and the District of Columbia, and af- i fects Gettysburg College. land. together, thoagh, and formulated insigna -with which I am tickled T)arfc of thft Raymona Hesson was a son 01 Mr.

i plans that in utare drives, no matter death- I suppose I will he laid Mrs. D. J. Hesson. of Taneytown, the buyer, lives, the bank ad- jup for a faw months yet.

It has been father and mother, they leave two will ooen next Monday. November 4. land was graduated from vanem money for the purchase of days now since I was shot sisters, Misses Vernetta both at hme. MAY GET- BIG SUM dt a rrr c- m-rro cti Ltle scnooi; U-non ana Oar bsLnks bave purc i Influenza will not be admitted. Seven Both of these boys enlisted In Com- i days must elapse af Ler the recovery camp they were assigned to a Parents should carefully note this as machine gun.

company of the 112th teachers win have Instructions to regimen; and the early part of carry out the order. There should I London, Nov. 2--French and Amer- lean 'trooos after carrying the heights land believe -me I can pull through. befcwen the Lys and Scheldt Rivers, T-TTTT GnTAAT the Glarioa Collnr ana "Our banks have purchased about All my leg wounds are healed up, and have advanced on a fT nt of ten miles entered the Army, being train- worfh. of bonds, and this does my arm is doing well, but my back is i a on the latter stream Hai-announc- ied a was a mem- noz include any money advanced for still nasty.

They are trying to save ed to day TJ-B Franco-Americans the 313th. Infantry. he pt rcaase by ilaryland jmy arm, as It seems there Is some- advanced from Sv to ten miles, sis parent, a brother, depositors, which wall total another thing broken that rsvorks my shoulder-! an(i have also a member of the In the Third Loan Littles- and a graduate of town more than doabied its qniita. Gettysburg College in 1913; a sister, in the dr ive she Residents or Carroll County will; Miss Mary Hesso attendins rhe TOp May, 191S, they, with others from this be complete co-operation between camp, were sent overseas. Accord- jhoine and school that the disease may Ing v) a letter written by Harry, ibe speedily stamped out.

which bears date of August 29, 1918, I I be In addition to a similar sum au-! caotured 19 villages. Littles- I The boys think I will be sen; to the Among the Important towns captar- iia-and States to lecture. I don't know. In ed were Andenarde arid Deyuze? the first a few days they are going to seiw my Surely Lirtlestowii up, and the Lord knows if I i Rome, Nov. 2--Italian troops have jean stand any more, as I am losing cleared the'Asiago army check- I my nerve.

i Eeau had The Ing account, did not cose a unique experience of 1 They have captured a number of to be done by raising John, who had meft with some mis- 1 fortune and was confined to a hos- i pital from June 2 to Aagns: 20, had IN DRIVE! TM rejoined the company during the week 000 3. year for five years. prior to the date of the letter. This Espect Substantial Assistance in! roU Record is snows that he was mortailv -wotmded short time after retrains to Carrying on Tjiuted "War thorlzed last 3Iav bv their County IXCREASE ALLOWANCE penJ1F to 5ecureT wliy vere no the seeing Paris in an ambulance as they Or tent peaks and heiffWand the same DurooseL, Gettj-sburg banks asked to make up i took me all through Pans coming in- taken 3000 additional -orisoners. bv I 71 66 Poan lnst the I the aud put the county 'over the hospital and it so funny cavalrj reacbed -New Order.

the top some oi tne omcers and I of Pordenone, 30 miles beyond i went for a short walk as I wanted iliddle Piave. WOUNDED I to get my strength back in -my leg The River Lhreava has been cross- i and we walked the streets of Paris In ed on a wide ust a the command- Work Campaign. I Plans for the the United War Work Drive within the HAS ARGUMENT sthe ten counties comprising the Sixth STILL Section 4 of the bond issue er I says: That the board of county com-! campaign in mfssioners shall, notified by board of The Car- -jjjg sugar allowance of two pounds not very en-: monthly a person for householders proposition. Ir nzs De en increased three pounds i monthlv bv Food Administrator Hoov- i Is now-effective. Dr.

E. H. from those Hurt. among i pajamas- Gee. but -we had Tots of fun, and -I am going to try and go to A i 0 a I iMerwyn C.

Fuss and James My i ed In France, and are In a base hos- JL can Milan, Nov. 2--Italian patrols-have ached the Tagliainento River, ac- I cording to batclefront dispatches re- of Taneytowa have been jseeni to want me to move around and jceived here to-dav. I I leel so much better when I do. the Lati Town Conncfl Wants Some Part in Health Question if it Pays Officer. onierence held at tae Y.

M. C. act and of the approximate amount of upnly for a i money that they will require for the necess Dr. W- A. Granville Is chairman purpose aforesaid, advertise and sell Paris.

Nov. 2--The Inter-Allied conj has forwarded to of the district committee is charge said bonds, as above provided, or so of this end of the drive. Addressing I many thereof as shall be necessary to i Harry L. Miller has been appointed i the various county representatives, he produce the sum designated by the by the Hanover borough council to fill; declared that students in the colleges 'board -of education, but in no event term of the late Pri- of the ten counties could be counted shall the credit of the conntjr be i "te restrctions mvo the unexplred term of the late Pri-! of the ten counties could be counted the credit of tne county be i serve d. vaie Paul E.

Lau, as borough treas- upon ro do their bit in providing fands pledged to an amount In excess of! fhis relaxation of urer. The new treasurer was acting for the soldier and sailor welfare work and the Board of Gommis-i ace on ne ase sn ar in Private Lau's stead, as treasurer, because so many of the young men sloners shall pay over tne entire pro-; mojl ths ago was made possible. Mr. while the latter was s'erving his coun-lniay soon be on the nghzlng fronts ceeds ot the sale of bpnds to the Board Hoover's statement said, through the try. Private Lau died several weeks themselves.

The khaki soldiers of the Education, xoid manufacture of the beet sugar ago from pneumonia, at Fort Niagara, colleges are included In the drive. "As the S100.000 bond issue was CT the new cane crop The trouble between Burgess Harry George M. Kirk and Miss Helen provided by the Legislature -I he South, reductions of consump- G. Newcomer and the borough healthjAdlar, of Philadelphia. State Student 4 6 Commissioners agreed to raise manufactoring.

freer board was brought before council by executive secretaries, outlined the sum by a direct tax, it is rea- OO rtation conditions olaces will remain as at uresent, BIG EVENTS COMING Wedding Ceremony at Lutheran Par- sonage in Taneytown. Ralph E. Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E.

E. Hess, and Miss Edna V. 1 Next Few Days Momentous in History; of 'the World. (By Telegraph) Washington. Nov.

2--The next. Paris, Nov. 2--The Franco-American drive on the Alsne front Is being I carried out In conjunction -with the major operation west of the Meuse day. Additional prisoners taken num- 1400. for the student! sonable to suppose the that, the latter the burgess, who charges the health; organization plans officer witb.

neglect of duty. 1 campaign. There -will be committees 1 aci OK tne ot tfte lormer, so; Burgess Newcomer told council that 0 workers mace up of faculty mem- far as the needs of the schjools arej Health Officer Stambaugh has no jbers and students within each college TOncerned Q7c and by the public. ATTORNEY HURT on Tuesday portant are drawiRg Avidly'' tro-Hnngarlari foreign minister, nas by their pastor, Rev. L.

B. to a close ard the nls Hafer. ore or a31 hree events Vienna newspapers tell tnat twenty may happen: Austria is expected Austrian divisIoTJS which were 2.1JU i stipulated duties he is to perform for land institution of learning. By agree- thai, had It been kncwi! McClean Stock Breaks Arm in Hunt- 1 A BIG ONE the boroug-h, and that he has not com- me nt any contributions made by fac- at CTln "would be available plied with state regulations an re- lty members will be credited to the throu il the gard fumigating houses following students' division. Whatever sums Issue would not have been; ing Accident.

McClean Stock Esq. cases of contagious diseases. are raised by the respective colleges asket or But. the fact seems to with an unfortunate accident while i Harry L. Myers, of Falrfield, has a.

i turnip from his garden weighing. terms to be proposed to Germany; of York, met seven pounds. the Kaiser may abdicate. i Council should Investigate, the bur- i gess said, inasmuch as the health officer Is paid by the borough and that the people of Hanover are entitled to know whether "he is performing the duties assigned to him. The burgess further told council that a plan suggested by him to follow up quarantined families, which 'he said credited toithe county in which i remain if tne voters, next Tues-j out gunning for rabbits near the! order of the Food Adminis-j i day, approve the bond issue, the com- i Stock bungalow, at Iron Ridge, on! trator, all meat stores in Gettysburg missioners will be required to obey I Friday, I will be closed on Sundays until fur- rom the Versailles conference.

It issvealed here to-day. they are located. President Wilson worked until late; London, Nov. 2--The German sob- last night and was astir early marines are concentrating at their morning on data forwarded to him-bases, according to information re- FUNERAL 'Services for Mrs- Holder to be Held on Monday. ithe law.

To the best of our knowl-! In climbing over a fence the the health board refused to consider at a previous meeting, was accepted, by boa'rd at the conference, at the suggeslti6n rr of''the health officer himself The body of Mrs. C. R. Holder will arrive Sunday evening on 7:00 o'clock train via Harrisburg. Private funeral Monday afternoon' from the home of her owtTfer, Mrs.

George J. Bushman, Rev. J. B. Baker officiating.

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