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part of Boom1 county attend. The re-quest is made that county papers announce the meeting and also requestsoldiers to attend.BIG CROWDS.CROIX DE GUERREAre Attenling the Free Motion Pic tures at. Advance.Mrs. Georgietta Brindle be Awarded Military Honor.The frpe motion pictures given l*\ the Advance Commercial Club every Saturday night are being attended by,tobig crowds. The pictures are given I on an open-air screen. The crowd last Saturday night was exceptionally la rge.SON GAVE HIUFEON BATTLE FIELDPublic Ceremony to be Held Next Sunday Night When Decoration Will be Given.SEME SOEfrilONItalian Foreign Minister AgreeMto Compromise and WillThe union church service to be held at the Central Christian church nextWork Out Details Soon.IiiRestore Order in Liverpool, Eng-1,1t1be awarded by the French govern ment to Mrs. Georgietta Brindle, of this city, whose son, John Brindle, was killed in the service of his country on the battlefields of France.A communication was received by Postmaster John Huber relative to the matter Saturday from Major Thomas F. Ryan, of the ermy recruiting station at Indianapolis. This letter follows: -“Dear Sir:“I am in receipt of a French decoration the Croix de Guerre, with bronze star and citation certificate and translation of the same, which has been awarded to John Brindle, late corporal, Company E, 15th Infantry.“I thought perhaps both yourself and the citizens of Lebanon would like to have some sort of ceremony in the presentation of this medal to this| man's mother, Mrs. Georgietta! Brindle, 909 South Meridian street, Lebanon, Ind., she having given all that was possible for a mother to give! in behalf of her country. If you will be so kind ms to let me know what arrangements you desire to make, I will be very glad to let you have the cross delivered by my representative at any time you may designate.”The County SoldierB* Welcome ‘and Welfare committee has taken up the matter and will arrange m suitable program for the service next Sunday evening. A soldier of the United States army will be sent to confer the [ decoration upon the local war mother, | whose son was one of the few from Boone county to make the supreme sacrifice in the great war.This is the only instance in this county in which a decoration has been awarded posthumously to a soldier, and conferred upon his rslativse.The eommittee extends an invitation to the soldiers of all wars to attend the memorial service. It is to beSunday nifht will be in the nature of a memorial for the Boone county soldiers who were killed in the late war. The occasion will be especially significant from the fact that a French decoration and a citation for valor willLIVERPOOL, England, August 4.— Following a night of rioting in tin-general strike, soldiers, aimed with fixed bayonets and policemen, restored order early toduy.Time and again the troops and police charged the mobs of rioters and footers before they were dispersedabout 3 o’clock.There was an extension of the walkout when the street car employes struck today to enforce their demandfor back pay.The situation is serious and martial law exists in the bdsiness and residential districts. The trouble 'has been aggravated by the strike of part of the policemen, about one-half of the force being out.PARIS, August 4.—After many months of discussion an umicabie solution cf the Fiume problem has been found, the Petit Journal stated today. Foreign Minister Tittoni already has agreed to a compromise and will go tr. London soon to work out the details with Premier Lloyd-George, according to the Petit Journal.Fiume, which has been claimed by both Italy and Jugo-Slavia, will besubject to a political state, appeasing the desires of the Italian residents, but the Jugo-Slavs will be allowed to use the port ns a “sea window.The settlement, it is said, will be worked out along the lines of President Wilson's proposals.Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bales and children and Mr. and Mrs. Gaylard Flick and son spent Sunday at theSOLDIERS CHARGEFighting.land, After StrenuousaL-A iL - .JJU,1
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Lebanon Daily Reporter
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Mon, Aug 04, 1919
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