Heavy artillery fighting and Allied reporting disputes in Lorraine
Reports from June describe heavy shelling near Toul with German gas use and a contested claim of a successful Leideprey attack. Meanwhile Allied fronts report attrition, shifting Austrian and Italian offensives, plus movement of divisions and dwindling German reserves amid worsening conditions on the Piave and Montello fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Taylor
United Press
Lorraine
Toul
maine
Leideprey
Names Wanted Exemption Board Seeks 21–Year-Old Servicemen
The exemption board requests parents and friends of men aged 21 between June 5 1917 and June 5 1918 who served in the military or naval service at the last registration to send names addresses birth dates and military assignments to prevent their names from delinquent mailing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
exemption board
Maximum War Savings Club pledges in county drive
A local county War Savings drive reports a list of firms and individuals pledging to purchase $1,000 in War Savings stamps as part of the Maximum War Savings Club. The roll includes Bank of Sheboygan, Kohler entities, Reiss firms, security banks, manufacturers, and citizens. A fire on a Chicago & North Western bridge near Dillingham plant is noted with no damage. origin unknown. A separate Associated Press item from Moscow notes Crecto Slovak control cutting rail links between Siberia and Russia, choking grain flow to Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of Sheboygan, Bowler & Bowler
Fred Burdick
A. D. Crocker
Crocker Chair Co
Citizens State Bank
Otto Foesta A. Hoenigsberg
J. W Hansen
Hammett
Walter J Kohler
Julius Kroos
Northern Furniture Co
Adolph Pilater Preas Publishing Co
Quimby
J. Rietow
Peter Reisa
Peter Reiss
Carita Reiss
Gertrude Reisa
John FP
Reiss Estate
Charlotte
Virginia
J. P. Reiss
A. Reiss
Wm A. Reiss
A Reiss Regina Reiss
C Reiss Coal Co
Reiss Steamship Co
Sheboygan Chair Co
Clarence Stevens Security National Bank
A. Westermeyer
W. A. Koilana
Fred A Dennett
Geo. P. Myers
G. A. DeWilde Falla Motors Corporation
Herman Schreier
Arthur Genter
Alfred C Steffen
The Vollrath Co
Anton Bratz
Kohler Improvement Co
Kohler Employees Benefit Association
Chicago & North-Western railroad
Thirteenth street
Dillingham Manufacturing Company
Preas
Moscow
Crecto
Siberia
Russia
Woman Hurt In Auto Crash After Commencement Walk
Mrs Paul Born, 1511 S Eighth Street, hospitalized with a fractured right leg in three places and back injuries after a car driven by George Beard struck and dragged her for about a block near Highth Street and Clara Avenue. Beard, charged with speeding, was arraigned and released on $100 bond. case adjourned to June 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra Paul
Eighth street
George Board
George Beard
Plans Perfected for July Fourth Celebration in Sheboygan
A North Side Improvement Association meeting approved a full July Fourth schedule in Sheboygan. The program features a 2 hour Fountain Park concert by the 60 member Concert Band, a 1:30 parade with military and civilian divisions, a national speaker at Fountain Park, and patriotic evening band concerts with red fire illuminations. A Kohler American Club dedication ceremony is also announced for Sunday with tours and dignitary attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northside Improvement Association
Howard Oebler
Sheboygan
Fountain park
ROBERT KROOS
North Side
Sheboygan county
Boy Scouts
Liberty Loan
Red Cross
Army Y M C. A
North Side Improvement Association
Uncle Sam
ton
Turner hall
Sugar Shortage Sparks New Canning Sugar Rules
Milwaukee June 21 42000000 pounds of sugar lie at the Atlantic bottom after submarine raids, prompting the national food administration to issue drastic consumption orders. County administrator A T van Seoy says canning promises to housewives may be withdrawn if enforced as northern states plan appeals citing earlier southern usage. He refuses to detail specifics while noting all sugar in canning factories must be confiscated to meet a desperate situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Atlantic Ocean
national food administration
A. T. van Seoy
Jony
Van Seoy
Bull moose injures car. doctor shoots animal near Duluth
A bull moose rammed a speeding car carrying Dr. B. D. Bettinghauser and companions near Pike Lake, shattering the windshield. The moose’s neck broke in the crash and was shot by a warden the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Duluth
Pike
Lake
Patriotic Meetings Held Across County With War Stamp Drive
Two patriotic gatherings occurred last night in Ourtown and Greenbush School District No 6. William Braasch Jr. and C E Broughton led discussions on the war and the nation’s role, followed by a large turnout for a War Stamp campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ourtown
William Braasch Jr
Greenbush
C. E. Broughton
Rutherford and associates sentenced in espionage case
Joseph F. Rutherford head of the International Bible Students Association and six associates were sentenced to twenty years in prison for conspiring to violate the espionage law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Joseph F. Rutherford
Russell
International Bible Students Association
Dentist Pohland Ordered to Report for Service
Dr August Pohland a well known local dentist with offices above C Imlg Sons Co clothing store was ordered to report immediately for service He departed this morning for Missizelop Two orders issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder clarify work or fight rules but do not specify professional baseball players or similar classes as useful occupations
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Pohland
C. Imlg Sons Co
Missizelop
Washington
General Crowder
Graduation Day Drama Honors Sheboygan High Class of 1918
Immense audience at the Opera House watched seventy six graduates of Sheboygan High School receive diplomas. The program featured the pageant When Liberty Calls, salutatory by Beulah Dewey, an oration by Max Wester, and a class poem by Lucile Johann. A fifty dollar Liberty Bond memorial was directed to fund a marble fountain later. Kenneth Dewey led as class president, Mabel Pestien honored with valedictory and the Girls Glee Club performed The Woodland Calla before alumni scholarship presented to Dewey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheboygan
Opera House
W. P Roseman
Beulah Dewey
Max Wester
America
alma
Wester
Misa Aurelia C Hintz
Amanda Artman
Mass Meeting Set For Liberty Loan War Savings Drive
War Savings drive details announced by Mrs Herman F Roenitz in Sheboygan. A Monday night meeting at Mead hall will organize Liberty Loan workers for the War Savings campaign running to June 23. District meetings and War Savings Day activities planned across Sheboygan Falls and county, with pledges urged before June 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman F Roenitz
War Savings committee
Sheboygan
Mead hall
Liberty Loan workera
Liberty Loan
theboygan Falls
Sheboygan Falls School board
Ma Reh
Woman's Liberty Loan committee
Frank Ogle
sigh & pl
Unsteady Hope Amid Austrian Strikes and Food Riots
Washington reports warn against optimism over Austrian strikes peace demonstrations and food riots. Government agencies note unsatisfactory food conditions and civil unrest despite early Teuton gains, with Austria reacting to slow progress and potential wider impact.
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UNCLE SAM
CARL 0. GROAT
United Press
Washington
state department
Teuton
Italy
Austria
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Piave
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gerting
Piave line
Montello
Adriatic
Zenson
San Dona di Piave
San Dona
Candela
Ludendorff
MAXIMUM WAR SAVINGS CLUB
Walter J. Kohler
Roy J Miller
J . Kohler
Evangeline Kohler
Marie C. Kohler
Lillie B. Kohler
Herbert Kohler
C. A. Kroos
Kohler
HERA
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Kohler Co
POHLAND
Mabel Pestien
Helen Benninghaus
Kenneth Dewey
Dorothy Zufelt
Gerard Pauly
Otto Kaufmann
Charles W. Holbrook
Lucile Johann
Elvira Fenn
Fenn
WILLIAM URBAN
Heald of High School
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