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vol 4 ME X ALLIES CAPTURE MANY PRISONERS 111 WEST SECTOR German Official Reports t ontirms the Claim «. Victory in First Day of Great Offensive. TWO YEARS AGAINST FORM. Is the British army to redeem its, nan e and sustain its fame, ««,er al most a century of inefficiency, is the question students of the European war aie aski ig themselves. The latte, part of June the Brit-: ish launched the unexpected offen sive that had long been expected, and the slogan of the men behind the guns has been proclaimed. “Two years of preparation against forty.” Germany undertook the great task of conquering her European sis ter nations commercially after many years of preparation. Germany has enlightened the world as to the best course to pursue, in the salvation of a nation, commercial ly, and in heroic deed. England .has proven a great dis appointment, so far, in the great struggle, but her slogan today is “Two years against forty,” meaning the nation was unprepared at the outbreak of the present conflict, and proposes with two million trained soldiers to uphold the flag of the Brit ish empire. Official dispatches report Anglo- French successes in the west, conced ing great loss of men. and Germany does not deny the strength of her enemy. The German lines in some places have been penetrated to a depth of two miles, and many thousands of prisoners have been taken. North of the Somme, where the brave French and British armies met | in co-operation, various points of tac-, tica) valueZ have been taken. The struggle of the allies is in-; tended to continue oyer the rolling plateau around Rlbert. The Irish and the Scotch are in evi dence, and the haughty Englishmen are endeavoring tA outdo the heroics of their clansmen. The German* official report of Sun day confirms the claims of the first day’s report by the British. NEWS OF SATI RDM S NIGHT British and French troops thrown forward in a grand offensive against WARNER’S Rust-Proof CORSETS I > • ARE BEST i| EDWARDS BATESVILLE DAILY GUARD. • the tierman lines on both sides of the river Somme, sixty miles north of Paris, have penetrated at one point seveial villages and captured a labry inth of trenches extending to a depth of 1,000 yards on a depth of seven miles. The drive, the most spectacu lar in this region since the British captured Loos last September, began Saturday morning after the German trenches had been bathed in a hail if shells from guns of every caliber for days. Progress has been reported all along the entire front of 25 miles. The greatest success was on the (Continued on Page 4.) MAKES LONG JOURNEY IN UNIVERSAL FORD — Rev. Mr. Pate, pastor of Baring Cross Bapti-i church, together with : his wife, arrived in Batesville Satur day in their Ford car. The party is fully equipped with camping outfit, and have the back of the front seat of their car arrang ed so that it can be turned back, and the car thus becomes a sleeping room on occasion of necessity. At other times, they have a tent and enjoy their rest on the ground. Rev. Pate and wife are spending a month's vacation in North Arkan sas. They will go from here to Har rison. Last fall they made the entire journey from Los Angeles, Calif., to Little Rock in their car, making the trip on thirty-five dollar's worth of gasoline, one dollar for repairs, and with only one puncture. It is their intention to make the .Vtura trip in this same car at some time in the future. LOCAL CAPITAL ASSISTS IN FORMING NEW CONCERN G E. Yeatman, member of the firm of Yeatman-Gray Grocery Company, returned Saturday night from Ham | son, where he spent a few days as- J sisting in the work of taking invoice of the Ozark Grocery Company. The Harrison Grocery Company was organized in Batesville some few days ago* T. E. Milburn of Calico Rock is president and Jeffery Dixon is secretary-treasurer. Dr. R C. Dorr, G. E Yeatman and Joe M. Gray of this city are interested in the new enterprise, which is capital ized at $40,000. The company has a large territory tributary to Harrison and North Ar kansas. and the firm will prove one of the strongest of its kind in the state. BATESVILLE. ARKANSAS, MONDAI EVENING. JUL) 3. l«l*i Time For Preparedness Un Sam is about to get slipped up on because of not having undertaken the Preparedness Policy sooner. The New Program is on, however, and Uncle Sam has already learned that he must not be caught in such unpreparedness again. But what about you? Are you going to take any of the lesson to yourself individually? You may l»e "get i ting by” alright now, with a good job. and in good health but are you laying by part of your earnings for that un expected day when you are suddenly attacked with sick ness, disease, loss of income, and nerd of funds for vari ous things with which we are all constantly confronted? The time air preparedness is at hand every day. It is against great odds to try to fight Life’s battle with out preparation, anil inexcusable to fail to prepare when you can. Why not moic while it in day and you have the opportunity, for the night will tome when you cannot work and may ponnibly he unprepared I Use this bank which is established to supply your every need to Save for that day when you most need. I Union Bank & Trust Co. "THE BANK THAT HELPS.” Savings Banks Loaned Free. Fdur Per Cent on Savings “PINAFORE” I Qperetta To lie given Monday Night, July 3rd at the Alumni Ball, ladmission 35 and 50 cents. For Benefit of New Episcopal Church. Ticket* on Sale at Terry Drug Co. and Ca»ey Drug Co. HOW LANCELOT MINOR MET A WAR TIME ENEMY . l i-....,! vitit rnv nld homr: WP to be , ; Lancelot Minor, who was loved by ' a Urge circle of friends, died a fev I days ago at Newport. J Mr. Minor was a gallant Confed ; erate soldier and |ook great interest I in the growth and development of the ' United Confederate Veterans. Once it became a question as to ’ whether he should attend or could at > tend an annual meeting of the United >rate Veterans. His friends wanted him to go. and one made the i following appeal to his wife: ! oh. Mather. !•» him go. ten years again may pass I him An' maybe -ome who ran His ol’ chest wound's been painin’ Since the war of sixty-one. Get out hi* ol’ gray jacket ' An' hi- cap an’ flannel shirt, ; Stitch up the bullet’s jagged wound An’ brush away the dirt. Give him fare to Richmond, ' Let the Southland see her son, painin' Since the war of sixty-one. Here nt the story of the chest wound referred to by Mr. Minor's friend. The conversation included in the story is as nearly as possible a ' verbatim account. The story was pub lished in 1H95 or 1896 in the Newport Herald while Thoma* Ward was the Herald's editor. “Bristol, ain’t H?" "Ye*, •ir." “How far are you going?” “I am on my way home, sir, I live m New Jersey.” "I am going to Charlottesville to visit my oin novne; w i elected to ride some hours together. so let me give you my card. Minor's I my name.” “I am pleased to meet you. I ' The name ‘Minor,’ however, recalls to my mind one of the saddest inci -1 dents I encountered in the civil war. H%ve a cigar? “It was the drfy before the surren der at Appomatox. Our forces came ' up with what we took to be heavy numbers of Confederate* behind • breastworks between us and an old I blacksmith shop. After a while it I i seemed to me every rebel had fallen | except one handsome young fellow I । whose battery squad had disappeared and left him alone to man the gun that had been doing some disastrous work with us. All eyes were on this ad, admiring his courage as in wild despair he seized a musket and began ■ to fire at us with determined ferocity | I and deliberate action of a true soldier.' Tn a short time he fall, the lone hero , an^ last of that little detachment. All his comrades were prostrate around I him except those made prisoners. “The sun had set about half hour : before and the moon was rising red > through battle smoke. Our men were । moving the wounded into the old i blacksmith shop We were ordered • to press forward. But before leaving I the field I felt a strong impulse to > find and inspect more closely the face j of that handsome boy. I found he had been picked up and left for dead in the shop. The moon was shining in through an opening and by ita aid i I saw that he was yet alive, hut his wail was most pitiful. He would ut > ter no other words, however, than 'Annie Minor,' 'Annie'—whom I took 11 be his sweetheart. Well, I, too, had a sweetheart far away. 1 fumbled in j my pocket for u piece of money and 1 Jound a five-dollar Jold piece. Writ ing a few words on a piece of paper ; 1 had my tobacco wrapped in, I । folded the coin inside and pinned it on his jacket and hurried on. I have often wondered. Mr. Minor, if that 1 poor girl would ever know how ten- I derly and with what sincere sym- 1 pathy that little search and sacrifice | was made, and whether she would i ever hear how heroically he died.” “Do you rrmemlier. Mr. Edwards, chat you wrote on that paper?” “I think it was ‘To help care for this hero is he lives or give decent I urial.’ " “Mr. Edwards, in a little home in I Newport, Arkansas, is a sort of cab inet. a little rosewood affair, an heir- ' loom in the Minor family, and in it | are treasures that memorialize fair, and square deeds done by friend and foe. trinkets and gewgaws that have , (Continued on Page Four) J. I. STURDILANT DIES SUDDENLY AT NEWARK „ “is. ...... U of Newark sustained a distinct shock I when it became known that J. I. Stur divant, aged 55 years, had dropped dead at his home there. Burial of the deceased occurred at Newark Sunday afternoon. Mr Sturdivant, who has conducted I a drug store at Newark for many i years, went to his store Saturday ] morning, and feeling badly, decided to | return home, a short distance away. Just as he entered the house he fell, I and expired from an attack of heart trouble. He had been in comparative • ly good health, however. Mr Sturdivant is survived by hi wife. Many friends throughout this section will mourn the loss of this t good citizen. AUTO DRIVERS SHOULD EXERCISE MORE CARE Attention is called to the reckless ness of some Batesville automobile drivers in the matter of earing for their head lights at night while driv ing through the country. Some drivers, meeting another car in a narrow strip of road at night, fail to dim their headlights, in conse quence of which the driver of the other car is partially blinded, and is _ unable to drive his car accurately. If each driver would remember to dim his lights when the cars pass one another, all danger of accidents from I this cause would be eliminated. Just a Minute Are you going to “burn up” this summer just because you have to use your old wood or coal cook stove? Why Not Get an Oil Stove or Range? Our Buck’s Oil Stoves save time, oil and trouble, and do not. heat up the kitchen. Come in and let us show you some of their advantages. ! C. W. Maxfield Co. “The Beat for the Money” Batesville, Ark. NUMBER 173 TROOPS AGAIN CROSS BORDER AFTER BANDITS 4 .Captain Elting Returns to American Side After Chase of Several Miles Into Mexico. LITTLE NEWS AT W VSHINGTON Sunday's dispatches stated Amer j ican troopers are again across the Mexican border, chasing bandits. j Capt. El tinge, in command, crossed । 'he border Saturday evening with a : detachment of troops in pursuit of eight Mexicans who raided near Fort Hancock and ran off a number of cat tle. Sunday brought no .important de- ■ velopments to Washington in the I crisis. Neither the state department i nor the Mexican embassy had any word as to when Carranza’s reply । to America’* demands will be made. WHISKEI TAX ORDINANCE LOSES IN JUSTICE COURT This afternoon the replevin suit of * of Jim Cooper vs. Wells Fargo Ex press Company resulted in a verdict for Cooper* iij the justice court of R. r • y Recently tMr. Vooper instituted suit if replevin, ^iad received a package of liquor at the local express office, mak ing bond against the tax of 50 cents per package as procided by Bates ville city ordinance. At the trial of the case, the justice held Mr. .Cooper had the right to re eive his shipment without paying the • city tax of 50 cents. The case will be appealed to the I circuit court, and no doubt to the j supreme court, and perhaps the fed- ' I era) court on the ground of interstate commerce. Those paying the tax on packages of liquor without protest are saving their receipts, and the city, in case I the higher courts decide against the tax. may lie called upon to reimburse, it is said. A team belonging to Lander* & Shaver became frightened on Chest nut street and ran to Main street, be ing checked in front of Conine’s store. where the wagon drawn by the run aways came in contact with another wagon, doing slight damage this morning. ,