Mansfield advertiser

              VOLUME XLVIII
MANSFIELD,  PENNSYLVANLV. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1918.
NUMBER .3
Scrifoanl I.eiRh .VLon.
FROM  LEir.H   ALLEN
Tlie foUowinif is a letter from Ser¬ jreant Leitth --Xrcn wvilten fi~om Toui'.s. France,  on   Octolier  24.   1918,  lo   hi.s Fister. M's« (ievt'ude Allen: Dearest Sister:
-Am writing on paper which don't match the envelope—but can you jmajfine how much this talilat cost? Six fr.nncs and a half, or about a dol- l.Tr and f^i.xteen cents. .Iust imaKJne!! .\n<] it is the cheapest I can fiml. Writing papp'- in liov foim is not to be had for fifteen francs any more, so I will have to write on *oilet paper, I Kuess. One mijrht as well as to try to use the paper the Y. M. C. A. has and they claim it is the best they can pet. Well, we should worry, it can't last forever.
I returned day before yesterday •f-onn a trip to tho front to find your letter here for nie. I went to the f.-ont on my truck to taice some offic¬ ers luffffage, etc, to a certain division and brinar back some Geiman machine sun,«. About noon of the third day I reached a citv which the Ge-mans had recently held and it was a stranKc fipht to see s deserted city, locked, barred, shuttered and closed in every ¦way and yet trucks, motorcycles, fojrThg' cars, sUppiy waRurs, etc., rushing madly helter-skelter every- V.'liere. The only ones on the streets were so'die's, all intent on their dn- tits. The buUdin;rs in their closed / condition, shRtte:ed in places, ?rave the strangest, most weird effect to the place imaginable. I felt as though I were in some lonely cavern, deserted for years, until it had become actually dead; then suddenly invaded with a Myriad of busy ants. I was wondei- inp where I wns going to eat when I .saw a sign pointing to a Red Cross canteen and I made for it. Found it by the station and run by American women. They told mc that they fed as high as 10,000 men in a day, and that during the German invasion only had they left their post. They are the only women in the town and the manu¬ al labor is done by old or retired French soldiers, who stay with them always. The Red Cros.s is doing a marvelous work in this war. j
We are all worried about the notes | Germany seems to be trying to force '• from us about peace and hope they | will cease at once. I wish you might ' know and see conditions as she has forced them on Fiance and England. .\Tn sure that would settle it once and
fnv all. We feel as ^hou^rb Germany feels us tho,weak link in tho chain iii'.d is trying to finish it thru u.-<, Imt iim confident that tha notes will cease presently.
Hut I've wandered fom my trip. From this city I proceeded on (()\va"i{ the lines and some way out of the city iiegan seeing graves which looked vciy new. 1 inquired of tbe traffic (lips when these fellows had gone west nnd he snid sortie of the grnves. iv fact most of them, were nol more Ukui three days old as tho countvy there had not long been liberated. I'oor, Irnve Americ:ins! It mnkes one shudder to think of the sacrifice which must continue for perhap.-t a long while yet. Had it not been forbidden I believe I would have stopped to see whnt the regiments and division.^ were. When I see these things il makes me \ cry much dissatisfied to think 1 must stay here in the S. O. ,S. and not be making a bigger sacrifice.
I finally caught up»with the division fo which I was going, as they were marching toward the lines. I deliver¬ ed the boxes and i-cceived the guns. Brought one back and put it in the Amer. Exp. in storage for the lieuten- nnt who took it'. He took the machine gun and its whole crew and v/a.s so proud of the (tun. He is such a fine young fellow, and I suppose h^'s right in the thick of it tonight.
I stopped in Paris a few hours to see the flags and trophies lieing dis¬ played about the streets in honor of the country already liberated. It seem¬ ed great to be in the city aeain, but I didn't stay lone iis I felt I should hurry here with the guns.
Am writing this in th« Y. M. C. A. while waiting for the movies to be¬ gin. There has already been a reel on the Third Liberty Loan as it was launched in New York. Rather behind times now, isn't it?
Loads  of  love  to all  from,
LEIGH.
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BRITISH WOMEN WORKERS IN A GLASS FACTORY
.MANSFIELD-ALFRED  GAME
British women glass workers are to l)e vi-ry useful In  llicf reconstruiilim   perhxl women glnss factory workers removliiK tlic ^-Inss  iIimI  h:i» crfcie from ii broken ixit.
•)ur(ppt'.    I'liotograph  shows
The hig game of the scmson was played Thursday afteinoon on the athlatic grounds at Smythe Park, when Mansfieid S. A. T. C. dofeafed 'Alfred University S. A. T. C. by the score of HT-". Gio.it credit is due to the "fiph!" of the team and the spirit in which they "came back" after Al¬ fred's touchdown in the first quarter. Much credit must be given to Captain Sayre, who ran the team in great form and also to the pleyeis who tough; wi'tli all their .^p^rit for the glorv of the Red and Black of M. S. N. S. }
The line-up for Mansfield wus: I
Left  End       Mitten.
Left Tackle Foreman j
Left Guard   Shultz
Center      Dartt '
Right Guard       Green
Right Tackle   O'Leaiy
Right End     Vosburg
Quarter    Sayre,  captain
Right Halfback Tunock
I eft.  Halfback       Neaiy
'Fullback       Frey
Substitutes: Crotzer for Greene, Avre' for Vocburg, Connelly for Crot¬ zer, Davis for Frey, Kirkwood for NeTry.
Touchdowns: Sayre 1, Neary 1, Vos¬ burg 2, Mitten 1.
Referee—Prof. Croman, of Troy.   W.  S. S.  	
LIEUTENANT RAYMOND
BOGARDUS WOUNDED
THANKSGIVING FOOT
BALL AT GALETON
The  following  is   a  letter  written from  Tours, on November  10, to his parents: Dearest Folks at Home:
What faiiytUkle like days are pass¬ ing. EVtf y •'day it -seems as though something of the utmost importance happens, only to be followed by news of some greater occurence. But luck¬ ily for us it all is for the Alliei, and pence, whether thrji armistice or oth- arwise, is surely about here.
The   cute   little   letter  from   Grace was very interesting.    If I only had j more time I would write them a letter, l lut time is rather scarce, as usual. I sunpose by now they a'e back home.
Tom left yesterday to take charge of his company. I surely hated to have him leave and he was sorry to go, but we will have plenty of time after we get back to renew our friendship. He is going to be a fine officer, I know.
My gracious! The yelling going on outside is something fierce I suppose— some more startling news. Must go out and find out what it is.
Hooray!! The Kaiser has abdicted. I cnn jest imagine the wild excitement in the wild excitement in the States today, and I suppose that by tomor¬ row we will hear that they have ac¬ cepted the armistice terms.
I must stop and read the papers. Am so excited can think of nothing to write. Will try to write a i-eal let¬ ter next time. Am keeping well as an ox. Nothing seems to faze me any¬ more. Love from,
LEIGH.
Mrs. Harry Bogardus has received word from her son. Lieutenant Ray¬ mond Bogardus, that he was slightly wounded on November 6. He is in one of the base hospitals, and doing fine, he say.s. The letter telling her of the incident follows:
November 10, 1918. Dear   Mother:
Just scribbling to let you know I'm o. k. Was slightly wounded on the 6th, but am now at a base hospital in the rear and feeling fine. Expect to be up and about as soon as I can beg, borrow or steal some clothes, as my own are finished and what was left of them were lost on the trip down here. Don't worry, as it is a good rest for me. Will write as often as I can. RAYMOND,
The Ways of the Warriors as Seen *y Mansfield-Richmond Huskies on the Trip   to   Our   Neighboring   Town.
DONALD HOARD WRITES.
The many friends of Donald Hoard will lie pleased to read th? following letter from him, as since he har, been across  the  waters   it  has  been   very ' hard  to get  any  news of  him.     His | parents kindly let us have the follow- I ing that we might let the readers of the  Advertiser  know  how  Donald   is ' getting along: |
Somewhere in Belgium,     { November 7, 1918.     j
Dear Mother: I
I am now going to write you a real letter, as it has been a long time since I have.   There have been a good ^
many reasons wliy I haven't written, ¦ j^j^ „f t^e good Thanksgiving dinners but mainly, because we have not been , ^^ ^ad renounced for the sake of fhe located long enough at ary one nlace t^ip. O, yes. we were upholding the to get our mail out and censored,       , ,,pj^,. (,,j ^jgh school, we were! By the
On Thanksgiving morning the foot¬ ball team of the M. R. H. S. started for Galeton to show the Gnleton war¬ riors the why anff wherefore of the game.
Until the time wc arrived in Wells¬ boro everything went smootMy, then cnme corduroy roads which started the endless ordeals. Rain came, we were cold, and we thought with leng¬
th    move continu-
\v'e are just back
:i'.v ti< >. >um.w wlibn
wriL^an you four
WHERE MR. HOHENZOLLERN MAY RESIDE
On October .'50 Raymond had written his mother as follows:
Have received all you letter.s and one of Dad's written in New York. I suppose that he is over here by now providing everything went o. k. I sort of expect to see him along the road cne of these days peddling cukes and chocolate to the boys. We are mov¬ ing so much that it's hard to tell all of them, but we manage to weather them all ri.ght and thrive on night marches. At present the battalion is in reserve a slight distance from a pretty hot front. I am comfortably fixed in what was once a German dugout and which no doubt had a German occu¬ pant up to less than a month ago. A very good dugout tho. We have to hand it to the Dutchman that made it. It will seem so strange to spend more than one night in the same place that I won't know how to act. No doubt an order to move will come rolling in about 2 a. m. Anyhow, I'm soon to bed come what will. You would hard¬ ly call this place comfortable, but when you go thru a few actions you sort of re-adjust your ideas of com- fortablones.-i. We've rustled a stove and it's warm, dry and comparatively loomy. what mo:e do you want? Some ot the big boys come rather close but you feel like laughing at them with a place like this over your head. Hope thnt everything goes o. k. on the new job.
Mail service f'om the States is ex¬ cellent now. Received letter mailed Pctobcr l~> today, lo days from the States to f;ont line is good, I'll say. Remember me to all, when you write would like to find time to write, but we are ju.<;t too' I usy with what seems to be more important things. Au revoir. RAYMOND.
; -J    W.   S.   S.	
LOCAL   METHODISM   ACCEPTS i THE CENTENARY PROGRAM
We have ben on i>l!y for two mi>nt' from the friJlit ¦ -a we Will move.    ' na^ or five lettert^     hic>S I ha'i to tear up,
I have beei tcin -ferred to the In¬ telligence Se-ti<ir .)f tho Third Bat¬ talion of the 14^h Infantry. The work IS very interesting:. In your letter you spoke of the "forest", where you thought we were in. Well, I cannot say that we were there at that time, but that part of tho country has since iieen some very henvy fighting.
I do not think that near ail of my letters have reaoheti home because you said Dorothy had received none from me. I have written fcr several. Did my Sister Nell cer say anything about receiving letters from me? I have not heard from her.
Well, don't worry about ma, as the thing, I think is about about over-, and
Private Ray W. Miller
Son of Frank L. Miller. He is in the Service Detachment, 7!)th Div. • Quartermaster Corps., A. E. F. Below ' is a letter which he wrote on Novem- I bci '2 to his father: ' Dear  Father:
, I will now wriie you a few lines to ' let you folks know how I am getting ' along all o. k. I hn' e taken out an ' in.-urance on my life of $in,tjO0, so if ' anything happened you would get it.
Hij^h School Oratorical Contest.
The Seniors are to have their ora torical contest next week Wednesday ¦ ' ""^ '-'"'"K '-" "t'"'' V"" some money to evening preparatory to the county P"' '" the bank for me soon. I hare contest Institute week. Every Senior "°t yet received any of the Mansfield bRs written  a nape--, snd the try-o-i*   Papers you have i'eni me.    I received
time we reached Galeton we felt like
martyrs in a thankless cause.    It was
a little After noon -wjhen wr reached
the   burg.     As   it   was   Thanksgiving.
we had to cat and with  thoughts    of
home and the eats we were missing,
we munched away on a hamburger and
washed it down with a glass of milk.
All this time the    rain was drizr.ling
down as  were our spirits, but  for a
moment the sun shone and we changed
our clothes and hurried to the football ' field.
I We didn't recognize it when we saw I it, for it was in truth a potato field I ju.st as it had been planted. Mud— ¦ water-hummocks and ditches, in fact, I anJ   'he   place.   High   School   Chapel
it was "no man's  land"    with    shell
holes and sticky mud.
The game started and in five min¬ utes   our   nearest   friend.s   would   not
have  recognized  us,  we  were  so  be¬ daubed with mud.   We scored first and
we  probably  will  not go on another , l     ¦      .^-i .,    ,       <.
,      .    .  , . w   u *     .   were ahead until the  ast few minutes
front right away.   We have .seen four I    ,    , ,       ^  , .       , , „__
Tin- villa 111 .Vrhilleioii, wlilcli is on llie islauil of Corfu, it i>t reported, ¦mlU probnbly be the perniniiout lioiup of llie deposed kuUier If the necessarj' arrangements cnn be iiiiide. The villa was nequired by the former Geriuiiu emperor iu 11X17 tiller Uie denth of F.miiress Kllzabetb of .\ustrla, for whom U was built lu  1S!H).
POSTSCRIPTS
According to n Russinu scientist ex¬ cessive tHlkiii;; Is II dniigeroiis disease.
An liidividiml eoflee percolator has been Invented to be ciniiiped on a cup.
Pronged grips Unit tit Uie puliu of the band have been Invented fur liuiid- ling cakes of Ice.
An nvlHtlon school has Ihh'u estab-^ Ilshed at Liiiiii under sub.sidy uf the Peruvian governiueul.
BilllHrd nnd pool tnbles nre cleaned by means of nn electric brush.
I'lirt of Uie orgnnlKutlou of the <'liliie.se court liv the days of the em¬ pire was n stuff of live astrologers.
Sir t'buries WyiidliMiii. the famous Knglish actor, served n.s a surgeon lu llu- .\merl(im (,'ivil wnr.
The sugar ration lu Zurich, SwitKwr- luiid, for a recent luontli wns LI pounds, and of bread u half-pound a Uny.
» At the official lioard meeting on Monday night of this week it was de¬ cided to accept the Centenary askings for this church. This means that local Metliodipm proposes to do its part in the big war reconstruction program of the Methodist Episcopal church in¬ volving the expenditure of more than one hundred million dollars in the next five years. This is the largest thing the local church has attempted in many years, but is only in keep¬ ing with the big things being done today.
Next Sunday will be given to set¬ ting forth this program. The morn¬ ing subject will .be " Mansfield Meth- odi-'-iu's Place on the Battle Line." The evening service will be a "Sunday Evening Social" with a platfoim meet¬ ing. Both will be big sarvices and the evening service unusual. The details are not yet worked out for announce¬ ment.
fronts, two active and    two in»<'live, e-o you see we nee I a little rest.
I received the clippi'nqrs you sent me about the daaih of Orson Wilcox today. An ambuhince driver told me about it several diiys ago. Your mail comes thiough quite regular, but out¬ going mail is very irreprnla'"- Have you received my Christmas bo.>i cou¬ pon ? I had onlv a minute to write that little note, and couldn't find any paper, so used a leaf out of a memo¬ randum book. Reed has written sever¬ al letters and they aR cante the same day. I iecei''cd three of yours today. The Mansfield Advertiser come.s about half of the time, but '^it's worth the money" to g<'t it that often. I got | n postal from Mrs. Ross and a card from Edna Rost today.
This paper i.s .some I bought here in i Belgium—five  >heets  and  five envel- , opes costing ore    franc    or    twenty cents.   That isn't l)ad.    I like Belgium better than I de France. The peasants .seorn to be a  more prosperous class, j nlthough the c luntry is in a terrible ' sliane
Well, I have to close to get this let¬ ter censored  1 y the lieutenant.     Re- | member me t«   everybody, as  I think i cf them often. i
Lo\-i of love to you and the rest of '.ho !'imily.
Yoi!   lovimr son, Pvt.   rONALD V.   HOARD, Ib'ld   Battalii n.   Intelligence  Section, Itfith Infantr., 37th Division. No. 2,- 900,021,    Am ricnn       Expceditionary Forces, A. P  O. 763.
 VV.  S.  S. 	
Will Vlail CalenAirs. Next mont'   we  will   mail  out our calendars.    Tiiey   will   somewhat   re-
of play, when Galeton by a long for¬ ward nass scored the touchdown that won the game.
Peihaps it is imagination, perhaps not; anyway, 1 think we were treated j about the snme as Wilhe'm the Second and his six sons would have been in Mansfield during the celebration No¬ vember 11. We do not intend to whine but here is the combination we we'e cip against, away from home, without even a coach, playing in mud to the top of our shoes, no one to give us an encouraginir word, all the peopla on the side lines liteially playing with Galeton. So wc real'y played agiv.nst about one hundred and fifty. And then Galeton won only 12 to 7, not so bad, everything considered. ¦
But the next time we go out after scalps we want at least a de'<fent ground to play on and a teacheR»or someone along who caies to'lceep up our morale. For after all we are a high school and not a college team and are yet young in the game.
(One of the Players.)
 W.  S. S. 	
M»^AT MARKET
for places on the public pragram will bearin Wednesday morning before the High     School,     the   members  of  the faculty acting  as  judges  in  the pre¬ liminary eonte.st.    The ones succeed¬ ing in  obtaining a place on the pub¬ lic program will compete for suitable prizes,    and    it will be an    entertain- . ment of great benefit lo the students, and   interest  to   the  public,  who  are most    cordially invited to attend.    A I small  admission  fee  will   be  charged , to defray the expenses    of    the pro- programs    and   prizes.    One     rather laughable incident in connection with the contest ig the fact that nearly all ¦ the  Seniors  chose  topics  of the  day , for their themes.    The orations writ- , ten in September sound almost ante- / diluvian now, so rapidly Vipve tho great is.= ue3 of.M)e day chanjred becau<<e of | the coming of peace, so that many of these  youthful  orators   had  to  write
entirely   new   speeches.     This     gave '.	
Mrs. Jones the delightful  (?)  oppor- ^ Chicken Thieves Bu^y.
tunity of correcting two sets of pa- ¦w^ednesday night of last week, just peis from the Senior class, which ^f,^^ M^^I^ Garri.son, of this boro, numbers thiity-four members. The j ^.^„ j,^,, ^^^^ ^^ ^j,^ f^^-^^, ^^^^ „^^,. orations surely should be excellent aft- , j^j,^ Corners, ha<l crated some chick- er all this pains to make them up-to- , ^^^ preparato,-y to bringing them in date. Now, do not forget the date, ' ^^ Mansfield for the winter, someone Wednesday,  December 11, 8:00 p. m., : ^^^,^ ^^^ ^j. ^^^ ^^.^^^^ containing ten
, of Merle's choicest fowls. Merle had nnd the event, prize oratorical contest ^,„jh^,.gj thirty, intending to bring and the speakers, your town boys and ; ^j,^^ ^^ ^^^^ ;„ ^^^ morning, having gtrls, and  the  admission,  twenty-five j ^^^   -^  ^„^  ^^^^^  ^„^  ^^^^^^   .^ ^j,^
"^^^ other; but somehow the thieves over-
W.  . . i>. looked the larger crate, so Merle had
BLOSS   VEIN   CO.\L | enough  for  Thanksgiving  dinner,  at
The best for family use. Mere- '¦ lea.st, left over from the raid.
dith Mine.    One mile from brick I   W. S. S. 	
road, just south of Blossburg, j Remember your fellowmen, and do 50t4 I your Christmas shopping early.
two letter.s from you and one postal from .Mrs. Thomas Bolt. Tell hev I v.'as glad to hear from her. Tell Mart Falkner to write to me. We have fresh beef and potatoes, coffee, bread and all kinds of canned good:* you could think of. I am well fixed for winter. They have given us ove- coats, and rain coats. I would like to have all the things after the war is over. I can send my money home for you to give Mr. Allen to put in the bank for me on my book he has got at tbe bank. I will send it all, as I will send the money through the Y. M. C. A. I think it better in the bank, do you? I will know what a home is when I get off this. Well I gueta I will close for this time, so good-bye. Lov« to all.   Write soon.
Piiva'te iJay  VV.  Miller. Service   Detachment,   care   79th   Dir. (Quartermaster, American E. F.     /'
j I will be in Mansfield at Kolly & I r.ayiits   store   every   Wednt.slay   an>l
Knlurday to supply you wilh choice , cuts r.f firstdasn meat. I will give I you the same expert moat cuttLne ser- j vice that I did when I w^is at Swart- I wood's laA winter.
Itf BERT   A.   J0?PAN.
 w. s. s.    ,:v.,
Wants lo Keep in Touch "Wittl'Town.
Milelrton, Pa., NovertjJb^r 25, 1918.
Editor Coles: 'Iv^'
Dcv Sir: Inclosed ple,T,»e find check
semble those >( last year in style and   of $1..")0 for which kindl^-.advanco my
subscription date to thp' .-Vdvertisei one more year. It is nearly 18 years since we graduated from the >^0' mil on the hill, but I .still need the Ad¬ vertiser to keep in touch of the old town.
Yours Truly, S. E. .lE.VNlNCS, Millerton,  Penna.,  R.  D.  2.
s!7e. We've doubled our ord?r this yeir. If yoi want ono of these pret¬ ty c.ilendars lailed to you please state ,so on a pos'.d card er letter, giving address. 2t2 DECKER &  COOK.
The Vtdder Stadio, The Photogrraphers in  Mansfield.
The birdman sho-.vn in the al.cve picture is .\rthur Swan, nt ono time a resident of Mansfield an<l an employee of the Advertiser. He is now sta¬ tioned at Kelley Field, San Antonio, Texas, where he is attached # the aviation branch of the service as an instructor. .Arthur ha.s made good :n this department and has a bright futuie before him .should he decide to continue in the work. IK- recently siiffe'oil a;i I'.ack of influen/.a, which developed into pleu'o-pneumonia, and he was quite ill for a time. He has 1 een visiting his mother. Mis. EvelynSwan. in Elmira, and they were in .ManF.f:eld for ThanksgNing, being g lesls of Mis. Swan's parents, .Mr. ami M';S. John Lamb.   Arthur's many friends here were mighty glad to sc- hira.