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The Tacoma Times from Tacoma, Washington • Page 2

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The Tacoma Timesi
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Tacoma, Washington
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DESCRIBES VERDUN The story of how charge after charge of German regiments, avorlng to capture Hilt 304, were repulaed by the French at Verwaa told Sergt. Mlrat of the army at a banquet at the entity club Monday night, at which French anil Brltlih officers imp Lewis and the judges of the state supreme court were honor U. Mlrat also was at the battle of the Somme. "After seeing part of America's preparation at Camp Lewis, ow It Is only a matter of time until victory roiues," said Lieut. i.

(Hubert of the French army. Capt. K. M. Maudsley of the British fresh from the front, that the most frequent puraf-e In the British trenches now Is, "Never mind, stick to It; the Americans will be out soon." 8.

M. Jackson, president of the club, presided WARN THE JAYWALKERS Jaywalkers, beware! The police department 1b giving warning that folks who have been cutting corners on downtown streets must 'reform or be hauled up for violation of the traffic ordinances. With the number of auto accidents Increasing, Hie police have come to the conclusion that a large proportion of persons run down by autos have been "jaywalkers." "Times have Comraisuloner Pettlt. Tacoma is growing, and I think the to do is to enforce the 'jaywalker' provision, as well as the laws regulating the drivers." DESERTER YRS. Private William D.

Jennings, Company 14th infantry, who deserted from Vancouver barracks Oct. 20, was sentenced at Camp Lewis Wednesday to 26 years' imprisonment and forfeiture of all Jennings was traced from the barracks by a string of auto thefts and arrested in Seattle six days after his disappearance. At Bothel be broke Into a store and stole two typewriters. Private George Warren, who accompanied him, was examined and found Insane and discharged from the army LEGION OF LUMBERMEN To speed up the work of getting out fir and spruce lumber urgfently needed tor airplane and ship construction. Col.

Brlce P. Dlsque, representing the war department, is seeking the co-operation of all men engaged in logging and mill work In an organization to be known the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen. The campaign has been starte in Portland, where Col. Diwque la makln his headquarters, and the organization being promoted the war department. It has the backing of Howard Coffin of the aircraft production TO RENAME WATERWAY? Believing it will aid mariners better to find their bearings in port, Tacoma waterfront men are making an effort to have the ttajne of Hylebos waterway changed to "Bast waterway," so that new gnaps coming out will show the change.

The waterway is the outlet of Hylebos creek, named for Father Hyleboa, pioneer Catholio priest. THIEVES LOOT THEATER Whett the Vautfette theater, 11th and streets opened Wednesday for the afternoon performances, it was discovered that bad broken into the place and ransacked it Tuesday night. Between and $60 u.i taken from the box office. Entrance was forced hru the back door. HUNGER STRIKERS WIN (limited Frees Wire.) WASHINGTON, D.

Nov. 28. country's first major suffragette hunger strike ended in complete victory for the woman tiarty when the eight remaining White House picketers were unconditionally released from the district jail here today. Twenty-two Were given their freedom yesterday. TEETH TEETH DENTISTRY That YOU CAN I mSfflm DEPEND ON When you need good not visit the best vEnF dental parlors in your city.

You cannot afford Waflte yOUr money An expert at extracting teeth Is Slid time With ineXPeri- constantly in attendance our encea ana unqualified gas given when desired dentists. I Come to out office, Electro Dental Parlors, and your dental work will be painless, permanent and perfect; and above all will be the best dentistry that money can buy. We send you a personal invitation to come and discuss your teeth troubles with us. You need not fear the dental chair in our offices; we cause you no pain or inconvenience and we make no charge for consultations or examinations. PLATES We operate the largest making department in city and produce the very highest class of Crown, Bridge and Plate Work known to modern science.

We will stake our reputation on being able to fit you perfectly, and give you complete satisfaction in every way. DR. AUSTIN DR. BURNS Dentists 10 GUAR ANTEE WITH ALL WORK 17 Yearn at Tacoma Theater Building 1 cSSB I IS litll CORKER 9TH I AND BROADWAY Thnridfty, Nov. 29, 1917 -THI TAOOMj Page Two Doings of the Duffs Squirrel Food Grandad of Our Turk Had Big Drumsticks and Plenty of White Meat, Too; His Name Was Dodo This is DODO lie iued to i look and this is the TIRKBV, his great, iiml-oii.

As you eat yoiiir Thanksgiving day turkey be sorry that It isn't his great, great, great-grandfather you have ou your table. For the great, great, gpeatgranddaddy of the ISI7 turkey lhad larger "drumsticks," and more white breast meat than his great, great, great-grandson brings to the table this day. That old bird fully a half larger than the turkey. The old-timers, back in the 16th century, liked to eat dodo meat. In fart they liked It so well that the lant dodo dropped out of Bight 230 years ago.

The'accompanying picture of a dodo is one restored in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. It contains dodo hones found on the Inland of Mauritius, the last dwelling place of the turkey's great, great, greatgrandfather. The dodo, according to Dr. T. Ahmstead Savage, noted Australlan explorer, occupies a prominent place in the modern turkey's family tree.

Dr. Savage has devoted the OH, JOY AND RAPTURE If ever Joy and love, nilrtli ami mnalc, met and each other, it ww MinOy here. An llu- chimea four Ntmked the hour, the soft, HHeet strains of MemleliMohn'ii wetkMjiK marcb ffamted thru the air, anil slowly the bridal party demanded the stairs and took their places. The bride, a picture of beauty, tike atairway URAUended. At tlie landing "he wm met by the groom, and together they went to the Improvlned lUtar, over which sunponded a beautiful marriage bell.

Kiirtnj; a of the UnpreHHive Nervion HUm (tor pia.yod softly "To Wooed (Ky.) New Kn. HITS POLE; SAVES WOMAN To avoid running down a woman who bad started to cross the street and tben turned back, C. H. Parker, army poat bus driver, drove bis car into a telephone pole at 15th and Commerce Wednes- a day afternoon, risking his life and the tires of bis three soldier eengers. lie wan cut on the forehead by broken glass, and bis auto was badlr smashed.

Be Thankful You Ait Not Eating Your Thanksgiving Dinner in Germany. I greater portion of his ltfe study- I ing Jilt (1 of all ages and all lands. He says the first of all Thanks-i Kiving fowls (only they didn't I have Thanksgiving days then was the archaeopteryz, the Urst bird science knows of. It had teeth, could swim as well as fly and walk, and was a Hah eater. Then came the the apteryx, moa, dodo, Mexican wild turkeys, and finally have the Thanksgiving day bird.

Some of the branches of this family were, the peristeropod-es, ralli, otides, alectropodea, sbrlges, ooiu, halcyones amd passers. Speaking of the turloey's groat, great, great-grandfather. Dr. Savage asserts It was the sillleftt bird that ever lived; didn't know enough to run away from the ax and took so Uttle exercise that It 1 was fat and ready for the butcher knife at any time. When the Portuguese first came to Mauritius Island they found great flocks of dodos.

It was sociable, standing around the strangers and yelling like goslings. Man took advantage of friendliness and ate and ate until the dodo became extinct. Somebody Is lining to Be a Nervous Wreck Jury Returns Verdict of Guilty in 4 Minutes A jury In Judge Kasterday's court Wednesday afternoon broke a record when after four deliberation it returned a verdict of guilty against Andrew Sevens, tried for burglary. Goods stolen from a North End home he said he found on the street. ASTOUNDING RE PORT FOR TACOMA The wife of a merchant had Btomach trouble so bad she could cat nothing but toast, fruit and hot water.

Everything else would sour and ferment. ONE SPOONFUL buckthorn bark, gly-j cerine. as mixed in Adler-1-ka' benefited her INSTANTLY. Because Adler-i-ka flushes the ENTIRE alimentary tract it relieves ANY CASE constipation, sour stomach or gas and prevents appendicitis. It has QUICKEST action of anything we ever sold.

The French Drug Cor. 13th and Pacific Aye. Mail Broken Glasses To Us for Prompt Repairs I NOT CELABSRS I Oil KABTH KACHLEIN BROS. TaranM'i Leading Opticians Tnoona 28 ThU lAtcattnn. Here and Elsewhere James Breene, Pacific avenue 1 soft drink dealer, is bound over I to U.

S. grand jury for selling hard cider. Police raid George McCann place at Old Town seize another batch of cider. (ir.uc steamer Santo him isj loading lumber for South America at St. Paul dock.

16-ln. and 4-ft. slab wood. Keystone Lumber Co. Main 328.

adv Tacoma fir emergency couimittee receives and apportions order for lumber for 20 U. S. vessels. at Hofstetter's Military supply before buying Christinas presents. Ilofstetuu-'s, 13th andj Pacific.

adv. Military police Alfred i Wlrt on charge of leaving Camp Lewis without leave. Dr. dmtlat, 203 -J' War deportment assigns 2,000 of new officers to various regiments. Canadian casualty lilt name of H.

W. Archer, Tacoma, I as wounded, and W. L. Young, Portland, gassed. Dr.

Marry, Dentist, Warburton bd. adv. V. s. grand jury Congressman John M.

Nelson and son, Byron, of Wisconsin, for draft law evasion. Auto Ooafctor and up. Palace Hardware 1511 Pacific Aye. adv MSW ORLEANS, Nov. 29.

Markham missed fa-, vorite pipe. What's more, it didn't turn up. And for three days he was, as Mrs. Markham: put it later, "almost unliveable with." She ventured that only after the pipe had been found. John Markham, aged 10, had drafted it for "war to be exact, for use as a on a toy U-boat he was building In the cellar.

Allen enemy members of theatrical and musical companies are refused admittance to District of Columbia. COMMKIICIAL IIINItKKT PKINTINfI CO. Malu 4IT. Belfrian army, re-recruited and supplied, Is ready for another offensive against Germans, I will nif steavmer Aberdeen returns to Aberdeen from voyage along west coast In search of possible whaling station for North Pacific Whaling Co. Kvim J.

Mac Donald taken to Walla Walla to begin serving term for $17,000 embezzlement from I Hankers' Trust Co. Lieut. Warivn (irinuii of t'eii-j tralia, returns home with his new commission from the Presidio to spend Thanksgiving with his family. Plum Padding and Fruit Cake. Uuenwald's, 1112 Broadway, Twenty-three thousand Cutthroat trout are planted in Osti-ander and Coal creoks, Cowlitz county.

The following birth MHMMIM were filed in the office of the dc- partment of health at the city hall Friday: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Krank Harwood, Ta-j coma Nov. 11, son; Mr. and Mrs.

Wisko Hlaganch, Xo. a Ist Nov. 11, daughter; Mr. land Mrs. 2123 Soj, Nov.

7, sou; Mr. and Mrs. i Emll Jacobsen, 4928 No. Qulne Nov. 24, sen; Mr.

and Casper Johnsen, 2702 No. 27th' st Nov. 9, daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Radich, 2612 No.

31st Nov. 1, daughter: Mr. and' Mrs. Roy D. Whitehoad, Nov.

21, son; Mr. and 1 Beattie Armstrong, 2308 Ash, Nov. 17, daughter. TO NATIKK FOLK FIiYIXG CASTERS HAHKY JOLSDX Other Hh; ainli Acts Sift?" FOR A DIAMOND Select one now while the price is lftw. IHainoiMlii are distantly im leasing i in value.

They Invrstnu i.l as jDt i 11 I 4nL well as ull (of beauty. iiro Sr SEX "lls IA! Jft JS" I American u( Blue White A tnouil. Our low a. mierow 11 12 Turlftf Aye BMaMlnhivl IHMO. TACOMA THEATER FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOV.

30 DEO. 1 Sprtial Freckle-Faced I Matinoe gK Tho llroadway Amusement Unique Sowilc jftiiui of Sm Wk Wcessrul Song VWk. from Stratton-Porter'n Novel A Nature Sclntillat-lng with Wit, Mimic and I'uUios KnrtorMd by the Clergy of Every Denomination At il.i> Miiiinri- nil Ticket Hnrctuwiers may briiiK I Kid FICKK. to 91.00; Satnr.l«y matinee, lower floor, SOo; balcony, 2.V; children any neat Curtain 2:30 and 8:20. By Allman By Ahem Melbourne L.AST DAY TO SKK "The Sixteenth Wile" Iti Dutiful lUid Itefitwhing IMay With I'ictty Hyland COMING TOMOISKOW "UNDER FALSE COLORS" Featuring Frederic Warde THK RIAXOH BiO her Rig.

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