Orange Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 228, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 12, 1918 Page: 3 of 6
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• CELEBRATION
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CELEBRATORS
START SOMETHING
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England, Italy, the
ITjiijfced States unit Franco were re-
r„twl,,ninK tl“' whr‘
oilier.
Irish?” asked tin-
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IVl'koro was no conscription In Ire-
anil they rtidn’t help," was tho
Then find there it started
took three pence-inukers 1o pull
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them (apart.
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1 have tinned rnv office Ji
I'pcrth street on river from
N*. 545. Oct . 30, 1018.
Georg's call
NOWTHATWAR
IS OVER CHRISTMAS
WILL MEAN MUCH
The movement to send
to ,'all
soldier
A FEW EXCESSES
SETTLE IN COURT
All celebrations have their excesses,
so did the great and happy one which
took place yesterday in Orange. Most
of the disturbances and breakage of | |>ovs ,, Christmas package, irrespective
law was through drunkenness. Because „f t|„. flict that they wave no coupon,"
it was such a happy day and the cause j will he taken up by the Chamber of
such an exceptional one for jov, the Comticrce, together with the various
officers of the law. were very lenient j (li(| Bm| civic societies of the city,
with those whose celebrations could j Perhaps hundreds of thousands of
not remain within the hounds of the American soldier hoy* are “over ,
law. Several fines were paid, however,1 w;tl, no immediate relative to remcin-
for drunkenness and assault, the for-j |„.r tliefn1 on the great festal day and
mer predominating.greatly. Taking in- jt these men that- the people of On-
to consideration the magnitude of the an)f(. are called on to provide for and
event celebrated, the percentage of j giv,. them a taste of a home Christmas
misdemeanor was small rather than ' dinner.
otherwise.
THIS ISXIUR FIRST TIRE AD
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We have1
termining
buyer* the
money.
We hove
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ontumed year in de-
Ik t t»r* Would c*v* our
st t#rvice for their
fount
The xerretury of the Cli/iinber of
CViimnerce will he jrbnl to meet and
eoofer with any or all of the church
j societies and any of the organizations
who. bu«mlle the>e matters, to the end
that these hoys will he remembered,
; nloiif; with those who have parents or
rel itives w ho w ill send to them.
ORANGE CHAMBER
IS NOT SLEEPING
MAN&IELD
fade Casing
Gixas 13
10 per cent
grade tire*. i
hr cant mol
ki cost than
mileage at
hther similar
Talk to i* about them.
HILL MOTOR COMPANY
Phone 66^
As* an evidence thuj the Orange
! Chamber of Oonimerre is not sleep-
ing Sunday's and Monday's Gal voh-
ton News, Houston Po>/t and Betitr-
1 moht Kiiterprise ran storihs about llieir
action to ^et behind the movement
( to assist in seeurino lower cable raleh
j to Torto l»ieo from 'Texas ports, and
J also the movement . to perfect a**-
’ rangements to secure eqi-over and re-
• claimed land for the government, mid
also the announcing of the time of
i holding the Inland Waterways
1 ,engue.
All of these matters wore handled
! bv the Chamber of Commoree through
, The Leader several days ago and
have been taken up with the proper
authorities before Houston. Galveston
and Beaumont took any action what-
ever.
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What An Old Geeser Did
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There was an (lid geeser,' he had *>i
ibf of sense, tie started up a
World War Won
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❖ There was au old neeier! he had -J* J .
❖ a Inf of (sense, lie started up
•> i>usjircss on a dollar eighty cents. •> Tke Following Remarkable Story Was Written the Day Be-
❖ The dollar for block met the ❖
❖ eighty for an ad brought him *>
❖ three lovely dollurs in a day, by <•
•> dad. Well, he bought more goods •>
❖ and a little morn space, and lie •>
❖ played that system with a smile ❖
ft on his face. The customers flock- <•
❖ ed to his two-by-four, and soon *>
❖ he had to hustle for a regular »!*
•t* store. I p on the corner where ❖
<• tile people pass, lie' gobbled up a <♦
❖ corner that was all plate glass. •>
fore Peace Was Declared — The American Troops at
Verdun Jarred the Whole German Army Along a 400-
Mile Front—And the Troops for the Most Part Were
Formerly the National Guard.
By THOMAS M. JOHNSON
(Special Correspondent Ne*v Yor** Sunu.)
With the American
North of Yenlun, Nov.
First Army
the Germans. In the cellar of what
With the |w,,| been the quaint little chateau
eager
enty-eighth, with many men from New
Jersey and up-State
<• He fixed up the window with the <*
<* best that he had and told them ♦> news being flashed from battlefield to j,r#|r(| f|H. lunch table how flu* Sev
❖ all about it in a half page ad. He ❖ battlefield of the signing of the armis-
❖ soon had them coming, and he ❖
❖ never, never quit, and he didn't ❖
❖ rut down his ails one jit. And •>
*2* lie’s kept things humming in the
❖ I own ever since, and everybody *1 the Seventy-seventh Division, standing <<>wn amt
❖ calls him the merchant prince. *>
of his troops pas*.
New York had
dominating
i u’>ort the
•> Some say it’s luck, hut that’s all ♦>
❖ hunk, why, he was doing business ♦>
❖ when the times were punk. I Vo- ♦>
❖ pie have to purchase and the
❖ geeser was wise for lie knew Hie *>
<* way to get 'em was to advertise.
❖ Aledo (III ) ^Standard.
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PEACE PARADE
Continued From Pago One
| COULDN’T GET
THE FLAG, TOOK
COON AND ALL
retreating1 faster than 1 ever saw them
j retreat before, unless perhaps on that
first headlong day at St. .Miliiel. This
1 is Hie most silent hattfc imaginable.
ltiglit up at the front thrre is se ireely
1 a ' in to he heard and rernarkahh lev.
i machine guns. It isn't really a bottle,
just now it’s a ‘walk away.’ Almost
! all our troops have to do is to man'll.
i You people at home wlio.e lm.sbafids,
J |)|-,,Hiers j and h»\er. are in this arms
one that they fully carried 1 hrmij*h. i should see them now, the wav . lie;.
ihe iiitvinational fSlnpxaid <din- swarm like locusts all over the e.m*
paiiv ’a employe* followed the the . ur-, ,rv. U seemed there were mum
pentor.s and caulkers. Throngs ol Af}, . , T.
. i Americans at St. Milucl. It wan n
them—the numbers countless. ,, , ■
Aud next e«me a unit the sight of <,orIlnrnl s pared lo the
which gripped ever heart. That in'“ld> .irmy "'hieli is sweeping up the
brought a pang, yet with it the ten- : Mens'*. «nd Pershing leads a fi.'-hiiiig:
tiercst of nieinorics. The Conten,-rate I force today such as no other Air.civ
.soldiers, some in their beautiful uni-ican general ever did, unless perhaps
lorms of gray, with their b inner jit was Grant.
proudly aloft, and with the know lodge! |„„k at them shows it is -i great
lice the Yankees were never
to get at their foes as now.
“Armistice?’' said Major General finally .stormed ft he irface
Itidiert M. Alexander, eoininander of the citadel that look' * «»'
Her a clever flanking ad-j
in the street at Bit*»ney, wiitching some vnnee from tile west had euptnred Hill
Armislieer Tli.it's •-*+•> »n the edge of linnnmgne Woods,,
the farthest thing from our tluoights. where as we ate the \meriean.s and
What we want to do is. to eateli up Prcnoli were “ii.opping e,." wiiat In.'
with (hose beggars so We can give them, (ienuans remained among its leafy
another licking." fastnesses.
Certain it is that the (iermans are' Col- Butier Too!: citadel
It was the troops of I lit ’Glib 'nd
soAlfcftihfV they' hAi\ tht' entife t%*Dotl
nfmlft1»en were foj(eil* Po'str.rt
again. IVtM now,|he vHHf*! ^t;? foliage
■Clark brown still fulLl^f *cfeat! a ml
deadly gaij—Is far behind theTjghtilig
lines of the Seventy-eighth |>jvjL’jionf
who are still pressing forwartf. > |
^HifiMigli streets strewn with tSergmfi
helmet>, rifles apd grenades wrr west
to the eilApleJ. ft is a building }>r<*bibiy
as old as the rhah'au ami as lArji®
a gmal sized armory at li'imr*
suggesting one in its appr <r:»ncei with
blunt towers and thh*k stone walls,
built upon Hie ert\st of a steer hh v
looking, straight down into tire street*
| ;l Grand I’re, where for a lime the
New Yorkers amt derseymen strove
mightily scale tin** bluff in (he ♦face
of a w'nHuwing machine g,,n nre from
till' towrp. ' ' J ? t
That fight • must have laeir like .he
storming-of. *n;me aneierd .castlVr. All
along the eri'st u ere, (b rn'.in machine
gun pits, ftirajied .ith empty shells
alul umlrriejtt h were deep difgOlitS,
but two dt least of our shells had
crashed in npftn the* occupants. It
was only v/lien Hill 210, heltinc! the
citadel, Inul been taken th the Gt-fl-
itiiins could be driven from that for-
t ress.
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ODitli llmt fin.dly took the lull . i>•1
l.ieut. Col. C. M. Under look Hie fit .-
Whin
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g»jli Ihth
fon OilcAih.
|1« ihih Is n**i) , iibout
the
del. At
3 loth
tlie same I ime the
.ere fighting in a
:liH>th and
desperate 1 neater nppeayance
swuving iiattle for tile Unis des I .ogrs, '' wears better.
gitclie.i on shelves or around the sink,
paste It or. Indtead of tacking. t A jnue!j
is the'.result and
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Now Showing
A large sehs<^tiorr :>f all pure wool |
suitings. Better otfWtoday. Don’t delay. First
selection is the best.
Americai/Woblen Mills Co.
If galves
At the Holfghd Hotel. S. GEl^ERT, Mgr.
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free air. free water
We op/rate th« be»t filling atationin Orange.
of whut day* of hitter fighting can
mean, when brother nrisks against
brother, and the conflict is long and
Yesterday a negro had a large Am- | j,nrj y(.f with their reuiembruium uJ
oricun flag. Along enme a truck and u> ^-oiithat wan theirs, the mom
bunch ol cclobrnturs. They needed i f)rv ()f jj,(* ,tavs nf liome-couiing, when
the flag, but the negro eouhlu t s©e p(,Ju.4, reigned once more, and bitter
*t that way. Finally, not being *l^‘‘ ness and strife was forgotten. 11 <>w
to talk him out ol the flag, niev heav - j and how jealous
od negro, flag and all into the truck j jv *0 j)C guarded us their ranks grow
and took him on their way rejoicing.
pitifully thinner as the years gir by.
- j '[qie lntecnifttianaI Shipbuilding Com
Li)jyy;l’oidt!Titl’"w t')V1 1
. I flying,, they inarehinj along, ami a
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army, not only in mmiher.s, Imt in
qualities as well. The greater purl of
the troops who broke llte German line
were National Army troops, “amateur
j soldiers.” One wonders where else i:i
history lias been us.-icinblcd sucli a
I mult it mie of splendid men.
March Unde- Bright Sun
The sun was shining and I lie sky j
must blue yesterday and Hie road:1
fairly dry, so that the trucks and w .g-
! oils4, moved quite rapidly, with infantr.
I columns quite often taking the grass 1
■ ... „ _ . ■* I* I at the side of the roads, to jog along
j liner, stronger group it would -miolv, •’ b i
I tiix the must diligent searcher to t,mj. | merriiy with many « j‘>hc mid lough. |
Following the blacksmiths came the. ^ w,,s indeed a wondertull\ cheer- ,
! representatives of one of our faithful | ing day and the ambulances were few
) allies, beloved of us only as a dear sis-1 and far between, with the dressing1
tor country, who hns suffered witlT'tis! s(„tions ulimist deserted, while ti e sin-j
: and for us, nnd hns rttrried her phrt( „ .imlered .dnilessly nl.ont !(»,,!.-!
i thrmigh to the end, cun be. Tl,o(j|1;; f()r sfMII(.t|linK j,, I
j Italians ol Orange, with the Hags ot -
i ill the allies—“our flags”—on the,
i cars.
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'SEtp Wdrke ra Who
template Looting
3 Galveston i
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you any wa]
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Rental informati
Our Galveston / Ston
sell or rent ym Furr
on most liberaperms.
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stock of both/new ar
ond hand / Furniture
select froi
Oraiiye people in the decorated curs
followed. And the decorations were
appropriate to the dav and very hi'au
tiful. Some boro the allied colors
draped gracefully on them, ot tiers l.ofo
jjthnt most beautiful of all si^hts-
iho American flag—symbol of all that
a notion holds dear.
Many of the cars bore decorations
!,h«t elicited shoots of mirth from the
SI spectators. Many were the posters
| that were genuinely funny. And the
I most despised and hated of all beasts
—the hateful representative of the
house, of Hohonzollorn—the cause of
years of sorrow and grief and blood-
shed—was depicted ou many of the
cars. But the'" war lord,” us shown
in yesterday's procession, was 'shorn
‘of nil of his former beloved jiomji
grandeur, and Was displayed in a way
tlml fitted his present condition.
The National Shipbuilding Compa-
ny's employes were tioxt represented,
and their ranks were well filled.
JI They were followed by more ilecorut
'j|ed cars, several hearing "Liberty
| Hells,” their sweet tones bringing j \yoot|
anew the message of a peace find has
again fallen., upon the world'1—of a
•‘joy that cornelh in the morning.” ,
most no fighting , and vvh.at wounded
j do conic in are hit for flit* ime.t part j
!i jitly by machine gun bullets which I
will lie .1 quickly.
Now and again one saw little groups |
of prisoners, but only little groups, j
One of the great impressions carried [
away was the tremendous effect of ihe j
artillery1*fire. Wherever one went the j
ground was torn up by our shells and !
the fresh earth heaped and piled about
as if billions of ants hud been digging.
One can readily believe that it was the
most intgn.se concentration of Ameri-
can artillery ever made.
Start f i
forest
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tlirnutfl^ tjjie Argnimr
Hu* Nqw Workers made
themselves immortal in fame, 1 went
ftloii)f mail t r.Misfimited by Hie
•in i' k^,ors 0,11 <‘Ugi:*eers but now hrijfht
r«l hfi^us© ft was with
ft was nJ>Jt»I**<t with tin
cm m hi eft bricks of the demolished vil
lucres near by. I passed Ion*/ rows of
old German (tuirouts now inli ihit> d l*\
Americans and came finally to the
swift rmiDUip: Aire Itiver, heVonlT '
which is the dark mass of llonrpqjitt.' ”
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Why
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WheryvyToil buy here
you get tfie\best tools on
>ought right
of
the mar
and s0ld right. All
the standard makes of
shin/and house carpen-
ters’and machinists’ tools.
The Sabine Supply Co.
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THANKSGIVING
SERVICE WELL
ATTENDED
A simple, but sweetly impressive
Thanksgiving service was held lust
evening for all who participated—nn
occasion for the rendering of sincere
thanks for the greatest mercy the
world has ever received.
Rev.. YV. \V. Watts conducted the
service and I tec. Kelmls had charge at
the music. The entire congregation
joined in the singing T»f songs of
Thunkagiving and praise, mid never
have"people fmd greater opCiutbui for
real thanksgiving.
Rev. Cowan read u scripture passage
from Psalms, and many in tie- congre-
gation gave eloquent testimonies of
their gratitude.
The meeting was well attended.- and
whs a source of much pleasure to
tunny Sincere In-arts.
Tilhe Clin go r sags that the reason
she didn’t lust ioiig ns ladies' teller
the bank w»* because when Mr*.
Pushing Along Aire Valley
Turning east along flic Aire I passv
cd the first large numbers of I m ips
going forward. .Making way for an oc
casional truck or tractor drawing a
[heavy gun and lurching along like a
drunken elephant, these troops were
pushing along the Aire valley, crossing
the river on the bridge built by .he
:i(l2d Kngineurs.
I canie to (Irand I ’/re, once a pretty
town upon the river bank, with the
forest as a hack^r until. Near it. vor
large German supply depots, heaped
high with lumber, barbed wire and all
Planner of material.
Grand I’rc itself is in, n sad state of
destruction, with scarcely a lipusc or
building intact, while its jcnnrt-fi is
sniaslied with u greap gap in its
northern widl; where a Gertnnn shell
had entered, "blot a stngtr mhrk .show-
ed on tlie southern side, the direction
from which the Americans fired l»e-
fore they took the town. The steeple
was intact, but inside the church altar
cloths and religious ornauients we're
scattered about and defiled by dirt and
mire.
Grand Pre still showed signs of the
that raged there for
* * Seventy-scv-iMtth
ty-eigklh Divisions
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Orange Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 228, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 12, 1918, newspaper, November 12, 1918; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth564720/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.