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Newspaper
Elko Independent
Location
Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1918
Page
4
Local notes show visitors and residents in Elko with arrivals from Verdi Devil's Gate Metropolis Deeth and North Fork. Birth announced in California. local officials and families visit Elko. government gasoline rumors circulate. Major Oscar Griswold from West Point visited. small local quarrels and a playful taming of news circulate.
A local rumor is confirmed with Mr. R. C. O'Neil stating that tungsten was found in marketable quantities with a government engineer. Steps to develop the metal are anticipated soon. Mr. A. McQueen arrives as deputy forestry supervisor and plans move to town with his family. Chautauqua signs set tomorrow as ticket day with ward captains appointed and a townwide season ticket drive planned. Willie Coochem pays a twenty dollar fine for hooch and faces ten days’ roast by the city. F D Sisson overcharges effervescence and gets a five dollar reminder of the righteous ways.
Reports describe rapid actions to revise pay scales to deter workers from shipyards within days. A Y M C A dugout near German lines serves Allied troops. In London Eagle Hut the Y M C A feeds 2500 meals daily to American soldiers. At Camp Lewis a secretary notes a dog taught to salute officers.
Poet John Masefield describes seeing YMCA workers in France bringing hot coffee to soldiers in a dugout shortly after a predecessor was killed there. The vivid scene underscores wartime morale efforts amid danger.
The city of Amiens thrived on woolens linens velvets silks and shoes with strong commercial life aided by the Somme river and its tributaries. It boasted wide paved streets canal corridors a famed Promenade de la Hotel and rich medieval fortifications later becoming a textile hub and capital of Picardy before the upheavals of war.entuk
A YMCA war work secretary known as H White is buried in France marked by a small white cross. He ran a hut near the Muss Omb front and contracted pleuro pneumonia while aiding soldiers. The YMCA YMCA era reports about 200000 Chinese laborers in France building railways and working behind the lines, with huts established for them.
A jumble of personal names and places appears in a damaged notice. The readable items include individuals such as Hatch Metropolis Butler North Park Johnson Eureka Rankin Salt Lake Breth Sacramento and others, with scattered city names like Salt Lake City Reno and Morgan City. The fragmentary list provides no clear action or outcome.
Representatives of 500000 railway shopmen urged the railroad administration to raise the new wage scale, warning that great dissatisfaction could lead to many strikes. At the first hearing before the Board of Railway Wages they said they had trouble agreeing on a scale for the six shop trades.
Bulletin from the National Geographic Society reports Amiens under bombardment by German brigades. The city lies north of Paris and southeast of a major channel seaport within range of heavy artillery, with the attack described as battering the town.
The article recalls Amiens experiences with the Prussians including the Battle of Amiens in nearby Villers Brettonneux and Drury and its capture in November 1870. It mentions notable Amiens natives Peter the Hermit Blausset Volture Gresset and Ducange and notes the 1802 Treaty of Amiens restoring colonial territories to France and recognizing Napoleon era changes.
Ady. tr. announces new price schedule for dental services by The Whitesides Dental Co. The notice lists updated charges for fillings cleanings and examinations with emphasised value for patients seeking affordable care.
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