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JlHlf ?I? iUu? 51? $$$$$$ ilsSlsslJsIiSlssI? $$$ ? *3 2 ? * > ? ? * ? i * *? *" ig | I have just recei H I seen in Bamberg. ? with any kind of i < > ?M i j ? < w ft.. ' ? 1 A* A I THE E* ? ? ?? f ?! ? i? t ? < A I ? I also have on | I right. Come to s< ,??: Si / ?? .. ft' I ' . ; 5 3: * I] G. FIU I 1 TELEPHONE 49 ii CJTY OP YPRES NOW IN RUINS. Belgium. ? Roof Like Sieve. W/-T' Failing to Break Through Lines the As for the Cathedral, one cc Teutons Take Revenge on City. stand inside and look up at a i ? T- - -l- ?~~ o eiovo -whilA thfi W111CI1 was line a. oiviv, There is literally nothing left of terior was filled with stones, f: the once lordly city of Ypres except ments of marble statutes from heaps of dust and broken stones. A1-- tombs, charred wood . that c jj|; s though still within the range of Ger- bad been the wonderful ci man artillery, the city may be visited e(* roof, rags of burnt car in comparative safety as it is too far that y had been beautiful behind the lines to offer a certain tar- tures, broken glass of wonde get for continuous bombardment. color that had been the famous pa ? ' Ypres is 600 years old and carried ed windows. with it before the war the impression Such was Ypres after the first b of an honorable past. In the middle bardment. Whole streets had t ages when the Flemish merchants destroyed, yet there were still hoi were the great trader^ of Europe, the where people could live; there city was fabulously wealthy, being still a broken skeleton of what ^ for many years the center of the wool been a town, fez trade. After its properity passed,- it For six months Ypres was lef would have become obscure but for comparative peace; shells still fe: . the Cathedral and cloth hall, where the town at irregular intervals, the wool merchants once had met. it was possible for people to These two monuments were remark- there and to open shops for the tr< able examples of the architecture of that passed through to the battle ' ~ " 1 1 their time and for a hundred vears secona jtwniuarumcu*. 1'.'. had made Ypres known and visited by The second bombardment be ||tf^ the world. j without warning on April 20, 1 It remained for the Germans to | The first shell fell in the "G turn to ashes what had been a place Place" when it was filled with of beauty for 500 years. The first pie. It is impossible today to bombardment of Ypres came on No- any accurate estimate of the los vember 1, 1914. The town was then life caused by that first shell, Iff full of wounded soldiers and peasant those who saw it "still blanch refugees from the surrounding coun- j tremble with the mere memory c try. They were crowded principally j it was a heavier shell than any . ' in the Cathedral and the church of : had been used in the first bomt St. Nicholas, in the vain belief that j ment, coming from one of the j these sanctuaries at least would be ' siege guns. It could be heard fo: spared by the invader. seconds in the air, the noise < Huns Despoil City. growing as it came, like the soui The battle on the hills around Yp- an exPress train. When it fell res ended seventeen days later. The|^'ick smoke its explosion rose Germans failed to break through the bi?bBritish line, but the bombardment ^be storm of the bombard of the town, instead of waning, grew burst forty-eight hours later, ac more intense. The Germans, foiled Panie(l by the first waves of'pois in their attempt to capture Ypres, de- ^as use<* a?ainst the French termined to destroy it. For a long British lines. Day and night j period, heavy shells fell into the town l?nS period the great shells pc at the rate of fifteen a minute. The into the town in a steady sti j /lQC.+r?^1-riT, |while above streets and squares SOUIIU VL Lilt? CUUUUUUUS UMbi uvvtvu I could be heard fifty miles away. I fields hung a sinister cloud, gas The inhabitants of the town most- smoke and dust, ly fled soon after the bombardment When this bombardment ceas started. When it was ov6r they re- was hardly possible to find one's turned to find the beauty of their through the town. Houses town well nigh gone. The famous j streets had all melted togethi cloth hall still stood, but it was a! heaps of rubb .sh. The one 01 roofless skeleton; only its cellars were | walls which still stood served t< intact. The great square in front of Ipliasize the desolation, a few it was heaped with broken stones and ments of the church wall and t charred wood, and nearby lay the with their pointed arches, th broken bells, the famous bells of Yp- mains of a belfry, a scarred frag res, which for 600 years had sounded of the facade of the cloth hall, every hour across the level fields of these ruins one could locate l \ ' . Fi ItIZtI ifiZfllii ^Ta^ta^T^XJaaXAZM AXAAZAAS^A j|y?jypjwpjywjy?jypjyvp?j^wjwwj^?jw 27*47?{TTJ7TJ*^2* *4*7J7TJ7< ived a shipment of the finest m I now have on hand 75 head, mimal you wish. Come and s< ; PRICE IS R ( ? hand a nice stock of Buggies, ee me if you want a nice bug INK BA # 1 / ' ' #?. 4? *4* 4 A 4 4 4 V <4 A % 4 A m A A A A A A A A A i ?i? %< SIMON THE TANNER'S I^OUSE. ,ul(j To Become Church Army Center for .00f British Soldiers, in- * ,'ag- The house in Joppa, Palestine, the where St. Peter stayed with Simon VH!||U^Slil >nce tlle Tanner, is to- be secured by the ^pSillSllllillSiii lrv_ church army as a center for the care Lvas British troops fighting in Pales- , rful Church army centers are located ,int- in isolated North sea base^ in all important camps in the United kingom dom' Erance, Ita'y. Egypt an(t Elan- pll8||||||j||B|iaE leen ders' at Malta, Saloniki, Bagdad, Kut, Pi?|||||||l|ll!!III^K ?5& r Qlonpr th? hanks of the Tigris and the hati ten home from one hut in a day, and ft ftP?f AW^pI t .n a hut will supply 2,000 men with ^but to co^ee which accompanies | Mr. Gossett Leaves for Tennessee in but mines tomorrow to confer with mine )f it. increased shipments of coal for South tjSyjK T,VSW fr that Carolina points. They will seek to If \ >ard- have empty cars furnished mines ?iant which are prepared to ship coal *and fiji\ ftsB^janHV r ten will be out of the State several days. of it l(j According to the department ol iijiiiiiiiiiiijm I the agriculture' over 5,000,000 eggs !$BIS8 , 9qq spoil in cold storage each year be- p:jj||i? cause they have been washed or in J x some other way become wet before raent , . wgn fw? being sent to market. 1gHl *^;c3WKBEth^ com- Mil y//Ar ;oned German aircraft are marked with PbB wJ!Vn and a Maltese cross. Allied planes used K2gM :or a *-n Eui*ope are distinguishable by a KB /jH lured Painted bull's eye. American planes Snl MB*/1) -earn, ^ear a c^rcular blue field with a white #10 , an(j ! star and a bright red center. L-M\ I > and the more important buildings of the I I city had stood and could estimate the ;ed it completeness of the ruin. > way So Ypres remained for two more TT . ,. , J I,, , , . Have you studieu the govern: and years. The Germans completed their . , ? Ta *1 I .. . . , war savings plan? It is the sr in estruction during the past spring and ... 1 , \ . . proposition for encouraging two summer, removing the last recogniza- .. . . . .. !, , ? . among the people and at the y em- i ble vestiges of anything by turning ^ .. . . i, , time paying for the war that w frag- j heavy armor piercing shells against geen ower, Ithe pathetic ruins. By the end oi ' ,MI e re-j July there was literally nothing left Ask your postmaster, rura ;ment except dust and broken stones. 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