Six local men on casualty list
Six city residents appear on today's casualty list with statuses ranging from severely wounded to missing in action. Names include Private Willard Bretz and Sergeant Isaac Noye, both reported severely wounded, plus Private Earl Smoley and Private Edwin C. Wells listed as wounded or recovering in base hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
Willard Bretz
Susan Bretz
Harris Street
Bretz
Isaac Noye
Mary’ Noye
Hunter Street
Marion Smoley
Logan Street
Earl Smoley
Smoley
One Hundred and Eighth Field Artiller
Camp Meade
Edwin C. Wells
H. C. Wels
Penn Street
Arthur G. Black
George W. Black
North Street
145Th Infantry
William J. B. Rehrer
Emma Rehrer
Market Street
Middletown
Rehrer
Clarence E. Fahnestock
Newville
Edward ©. Punch
Williamstown
Guerney Haven Campbell
Deaths and Funerals: Emma J. Bixler and Catherine Walde
Emma J. Bixler of Wormleysburg died at home of apoplexy at age 81 after long paralysis. She leaves eight children, eight grandchildren, and one great grandchild. funeral Saturday at 2 PM at Messiah Lutheran with burial in Camp Hill. Catherine Walde, widow of Henry Walde, died yesterday in her 75th year from multiple illnesses. She leaves three sons John Henry Charles and three daughters Mary Newell Catherine Cline and Anna Adams. funeral Saturday at 9 AM from 2130 North Fifth Street with burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Jane Bixler
Wormleysburg
Bixler
Amos Fisher
Marysville
John Taubert
Lillie Seaman
Alice
Katherine
Leatrice Bixler
J. Fred Hummel
H. P. Bixler
H. W. A. Hanson
Messiah Lutheran Church
Harrisburg
Camp Hill Cemetery
Catherine Walde
Henry Walde
John
Henry
Charles
Mary Newell
Catherine Cline
Anna Adams
Adams
North Fifth Street
William V. Dailey
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Pershing Praises Yanks in World War I Operations
General Pershing issued a preliminary report to Secretary Baker detailing American Expeditionary Forces actions through November 20 1918. He credits officers and soldiers for heroism and describes key battles from Cantigny to the Meuse Artois and Meuse Meuse Argonne campaigns, including St Mihiel and manpower and matériel shortfalls and French aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John J. Pershing
Baker
France
Pershing
Meuse
Germany
Picardy
Foch
Tou
Chaumont En Vexin
Abbeville
Montedidier
Piardy
Cantigny
Aisne
Paris
Marne
Chateau Thierry
Montdidier
Bouresches
Belleau Wood
United States
Soissons
Brezy-de-sec
Beau Repaire Farm
Vierzy
Tigny
St. Mihiel Salient
Port Sur Seille
Moselle
St. Mihiel
Verdun
Forest of
Argonne
St. Mihiely
Seventeenth Corps
Nongard
Vigneulles
Au Court
Vignaulles
Fresnes-en-Woevre
Metz
the Meuse
Hindenburg Line
St. Quentin Canal
Rheims
Belgium
General Pershing
Europe
Murmansk
States
America
Burial of George Routzahn in Benderville Service at Lutheran Church
George R Routzahn 67 noted undertaker died returning from Chestnut Grove Cemetery. Burial Saturday morning at Bendersville Lutheran Church with pastors Rev W D Scott and Rev Hiram Griest. Survived by son W O Routzahn and two daughters Mrs Harry Group and Mrs Edward Taylor, plus four grandchildren and three sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Routzahn
Benderville
George R. Routzahn
Chestnut Grove Cemetery
Bendersville Lutheran Church
W. D. Scott
Hiram Griest
Routzahn
Jonas and
Leah Routzahn
Bendersville
California Kelp Drives Potash Frontiers On Pacific Coast
California researchers describe harvesting giant ribbon kelp Macrocystis pyrifera for potash as Germany’s war constraints boost American resources. Mechanical harvesters cut beds two to four feet deep. kelp absorbs potash and iodine from seawater, with notable selective uptake and even traces of gold in kelp cells. The article notes growth cycles, holdfast origin, and historical geology of German beds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Germany
Pacific
Journal of the California Fish and Game Commission
America
Department of Agriculture
Kaiser
Edward Porteous
Porteous
Central
Europe
Plymouth Singing Party Wins Much Applause
The Plymouth Singing Party appeared at Stevens Memorial Methodist Church in a delightful program of classics and popular pieces that drew large audiences and repeated rounds of applause. The group was part of the Capital City Lyceum course with more acts announced for next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Stevens Memorial Methodist Church
Capital
Lyceum
Navy Girls
Princess Watahwaso
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Vaux
George W. Read
Lorraine
Vosges
Twenty Eighth
Ieee Arm
Barron Po
Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Iowa
Charles A. Towne
John L. Clem
Shiloh
U. S
G. Atkinson
Court of Claims of Washington
New York
Wonder Store
Market St
Joseph Pennell
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Record
Bethlehem Steel Co
Baldwin’s
New York Shipbuilding Co
E. Phillips Oppenheim
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