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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
7
Col. W. L. Peel starts a Christmas membership drive aiming for ten million nationwide, with five hundred thousand in the Southern division. The effort employs a large staff, branches, and posters as Georgia freight cars for salt supplies are arranged amid a shortage scare.
Gov Dorsey appeals 250 Georgia cities for Y M C A war fund drive. Atlanta names Jones Ewing food administrator for city and Fulton county. Statesboro plant of Statesboro Oil Co. destroyed by fire. Athens farmer D A Fair hospitalized after a pipe accident. Bainbridge patriotic pageant and singing event draws crowds. Fort Oglethorpe Thanksgiving dinner for soldiers marks hospitality week. Atlanta veteran H G Lamar dies after poker quarrel at Soldiers Home. Macon to open second largest balloon school for war front prep. Madison farmer Pink Harris found dead in cotton patch. robbery suspected. Atlanta Paul Sabel German escapee arrested in New York connection. Savannah Secretary Baker visits en route to Camp Johnston. Athens will of James M Smith probated. caveats filed by several claimants.
Reports say Russian and German troops fraternize on the eastern front while negotiations for armistice proceed. Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria indicate acceptance or talks for cessation of hostilities with Russia as internal Bolshevik friction grows. Vienna notes widespread armistice on Russian sectors and a Russian deputation to arrange a full front accord.
Two US observation balloons escaped and drifted across Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma before grounding. The Fort Omaha balloon tethered by 6000 feet of cable caused widespread damage to wires and poles while another balloon carried two army officers after breaking free near Fort Sill Oklahoma.
Americans in the trenches around Cambrai took up rifles and fought with British troops after engineers and doctors were caught in the German assault. They borrowed rifles and joined the fight shoulder to shoulder, sharing the danger in the renewed push against German offensives.
A western sheep men committee left for New Orleans to evaluate moving millions of sheep to southern states. Dr. S. W. McClure noted homestead act passage drives sheep men westward, arguing grazing lands must be found in the south or elsewhere. The report will go to the National Wool Growers Association.
London telegram reports General Vandeventer confirms recon patrols that German East Africa is completely cleared of the enemy. The entire German overseas empire has passed to Allied hands, with Belgian forces alongside.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule argues bulk cereals offer equal or better nutrition and sanitation compared with packaged goods. He cites water absorption, longer cooking, and a study by Sherer-Gillett Co. showing package items cost 3 to 20 cents more per pound, urging households to buy in bulk to stretch dollars.
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