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THE DAILY PANTAGRAFH, BTX)OMTNflTOtf, TUESDAY MOTWTTNO, NOTTttrBER II, 3919. I noise, whistle, bell, coming Recalling Armistice Day Theaters It had been for some time. Officer lost all their dignity and waved and shouted as they went by; military Seven Years in the Army in Lamp and Battlefield Few of the Bloomingtoo Sol "For th Defsnss" Friday. The conflict of the reel with th unreal Is the theme upon which Elmer H. Hlce has bullded his new play.

"For th Defense." which will hsv It first performance on any tage thl week under the management of John Williams. With Richard Bennett as the star, the piece will com to th Chatterton for one night only, Friday, November 14. It 1 said that In the leading role Richard Ben-nett has a part In which his fin talents will find full expression. Mr. Williams hss surrounded his star with a notable company of player.

Adv. D. A. U. P.

Club. Th D. A. V. P.

Club will meet Thursday afternoon at th horn ot Mrs. Nellie Bishop at Heyworth, diers, Cttosen at Random, Tell How They Were Situated Just One Year Ago Scores of "Mutt A Jsffi Dream." In presenting "Mutt and Jeffs Dream" thl lesson, Mr. Hill offer an entire new show. This frolicsome hodge podge of the stage which has weathered many season successfully will be the next attraction at the Chatterton Thursday night. A company of real funmakers, a concourse of singing and dancing girls who embody the art of terpslthore at Its best, a scenic equipment that compares favorably with the most pretentious production before ths public and stsge settings that appeal both to the eye and heart, are employed in this thoroly up-to-date offering.

Adv. They had been on a hard driv for day, and they (Imply drop! In their track to get som rest. At night, a couple of bonfires were built on that part of the front, and som skyrockets sent up. Th soldiers were glad the war was oier, but loo much Jaded to do a great dual of Jollifying. Sixty-Seven Persons in Big Rotary Meeting Up to date slxly-seven members and friends of Rotary are going on the special excursion to Champaign next Saturday.

That many reservations have been made. Two Pullman cars hav been chartered for th trip. The party will leave Bloomlngton Saturday morning and return Sunday morning. The occasion is an inter-clty meet-lng of Rotary In Illinois and delegations from cities all over th state will be present. The big men In Rotary wh will be present are: Albert H.

Adam of Atlanta, international president of Rotary; John N. Them Were Scattered Over France. Tou will rub tlbow with him today th man who one fbort Mo In th uniform ot th, American lighting man on land -j' SbT- 0r sea. iwiiiiniiuu and of every other town of tills aec- tum will be paced today by icorea of these men, and their friend and from th direction of Bockford. Our barracks wa awakened by a "fir call." Then everything quieted In camp until we "fell In" for an II mile hike" thru Rockford's streets.

Arthur R. Spelbrlng, Waynesvllls, former sergeant Battery 17th Field Artillery We were in action on the front. At 11 o'clock our battery gave 'em hell, then all was quiet. At first We couldn't qulto believe It that the wnr was over. It didn't seem natural.

Wa felt like throwing our tin hats Into the air, shouting, running wild, then after a minute's thought we "tested" the armistice and founj we could wander safely over the ground where a few minutes before death hnd rained in every conceivable form. Then the hllnrlmis spirit died, for celebrating did seem the proper thing. It was a lime of thankfulness and one to remember In honor of those khaki clad pals who had "gone west." Corporation Counsel O'Con-nell Was nt naval enslgh school at Municipal Pier Training Station, Chicago, awaiting orders for sea duty, which were expected within a week. Entire outfit forced to spend armistice day at work while Chicago went wild. Scott McCullough, assistant In city engineering department Was making surveys for a tank ramn near Camp Polk, Raleigh, N.

Worked with other men or the 472nd Engineers all day. There was a big celebration at Raleigh. Ken Anderson, son of Commissioner J. F. Anderson Was with the 6Hth Coast Artlllerv ek'ht miles east of Bordeau, France.

Great rejoicing when word was received. James L. Pnge, patrol driver, police department Was with 870th Infantry, the "Black Devi's" of the old Eighth Illinois Infantry, on the Belgian-German frontier. Had been In the open several days in wake of German retreat. Because of faulty communication didn't know until 3 p.

m. that the armistice had been signed. neighbors who greet them may have rub their cyea to realize what a I'yer or vincenne, first vlco-presldent; James Finley, Chatta. I nooga, Tenn third vice-president; and R. Havens, international ser- geant-at-arms.

Gov. Lowden will bo present. He Is a member of Rotary at Springfield. There will be a big parade In Champaign at 1 p. m.

Everybody will change thla short year has made In the lives ot these men. But today the Hurry! Hurry! TODAY LAST THaUrg lighting man ot yesteryear may be Inclined Uiaa ordinarily to say: 'A year ago I was In sucii and such ounp" bs It near the battle front attend the Michigan-Illinois football gams in the afternoon and at 6:30 there will be a grand banquet. of i ranee, or on the far shores ot the FORREST M. FEARI8. Forrest M.

C. aaris, Co. K. 13th Infantry, Is visiting his mother, Mrs. Mlna Hummel, 105 South Allin street.

He has been in the army seven years. He was overseas two years. On the way to Bloomlngton he vlslteid his sister, Mrs. Goldle Balgeman, in Chicago. In his seven years' experience in the army he has visited many parts of the and has a wonderful collection of Incidents which have occurred within his observation.

The term of his enlistment does not expire until next February, but as his presence at home was needed he secured his release and will remain here. cat or south or the lake of the north In our own country. Just at ranaom tne raiuavraoh re porters yesterday picked up just a few ot me nuiuireu or such reminiscence which anyone can secure bv tuning and asking the man at his elbuw: wnera were you last year on this date?" ponce rorgot tneir customary cynicism and brightened. Th question asked continually of th hospital people was "How soon will get home?" Later some of th hospital folk went to the home of a French peasant woman who had sup. Plied them with eggs, etc.

She told them what the war had mount to her; four sons and a daughter had been killed. Before she had finished there wero tears in the eyes of tho Americans who had come Joyfully to celebrat th signing of the armistice, Miss Catherine Smith was at Varennes in tho vicinity of Verdun. She had just come oft duty when the news of the armistice arrived. The hospital start saw the flashing of lights thru ths sky, but wer pessimistic because they had been disappointed five days before. But when they heard hands playing and the general hilarity they began to believe the rumor.

Frenchmen would shout gaily as they past by "A la guerre finis." Tho patients In the hospital were unable to celebrate by a demonstration, but there was great Joy among them. Miss Susie Boyd on armistice day was hanging to the narrow balcony of the American Y. M. C. A.

oulldlng In Liverpool, Kr.gland, waving the flags of the allies, while a very delightful tenor singer led the populace below In singing patriotic songs. Miss Hoyil says she felt as she Imagines Barbara Frletchle felt. Americans took the news rather calmly. They were not permitted to leave camp and the routine went on as usual pt Knotty Ash camp. English peopfe quit work and danced on the street and were as hilarious as staid English people can be.

Miss Fannie Woodbury was at Base Hospital 68, eight miles from Nevers, Fiance, where there were 20.000 wounded American men. The news came about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and was received with some skepticism as reports of an armistice had been received several days earlier and then denied. Several bonfires were started by the boys and nurses, but officers promptly ordered them out. because of danger of fire. The kaiser was burned In effigy, but otherwise there was no particular hilarity.

Misses Anna Miller, Bertha Duff, Edna Smiley and Nettle Yarp were at Camp Grant, nursing Influenza patients. A few days before the armistice the first three had been transferred to regular army Bervice and expected to be sent overseas. Harold Toohey, In navy I spent last armistice day In Chicago. I left here on the afternoon of November 10 and returned to. the Great Lakes after a furlough here.

The sailors owned the city vt Chicago that day and night. Then on November 12 I was sent east and went to sea. i. Walter "Butch" Henllne We tore up Louisville on armistice day. after we got away from Camp That's a real day for any ex-service man, because it is his holiday.

Sergt. James Jones, recruiting cfTi-cer I was In the officers' training school at Camp Grant. The report was expected. About I o'clock In the morning we heard a hellofalot of Dr. A.

E. Rogers says "I was In sn evacuation hospital at ltevinge)-, rr T1 r-- Hi II 1" Ilk: nance, in me eastern Argonne on Armistice day. We got the news by telegraph but during the moraine JESSE L. LASKY I I To Help the Community Council Do Its Thinking John E. Matthcwc, secretary of the Community-Council, hi.a sent to all the organizations affiliated with the council the list of sixteen projects which were proposed as possible lines of activity at the last meeting, lie asks consideration of these projects and the thought of the eacn uttllluted organization upon the points that they think ar most important.

He says: "The projects from on to six Inclusive were decided by rising vote to be tho moet important for the council to consider at this time. However by unanimous consent of delegates present, it was decided to acquaint your organization with the projects at issue. You are requested to instruct your delegate to report on such projects ns your organization would recommend for the council to consider and adopt for its working program at this time. "A special meeting is called for November 18, 1919, at the public library, 7:30 p. Bloomlngton, III." the group of doctors with whom i was associated remained In the darkness of the X-Kay room and searched the bodies of men who had been in tin last day's fight for Imbedded bits presents Bryant harbor not far away.

It did not take he suilors In the hospital long to learn what Wa the mutt.tr. and the ships kept up the din all morning, lidding nolHe to hullabaloo occasioned by the din of thousands of other racket," Varle1 otnef klnd" Thomas S. Weldon was located at Lamp Kearney, near San Diego, on the 11th of November laat year. 1 he soldiers carried on their routine work of drill and other duties much the same as on other days. But th echoes of the great celebration at San littwo were curried to tho camp and of course the soldiers rejoiced.

Hebe Hudson, was in the naval hospital at Great Lakes, where two weeks previously he had submitted to a serious operation for the relief of a mastoid abscess. The people at the hospital were isolated from the rest of the world at Great Lakes to a large extent, and the men in the ward where young Hudson was locat-cd did not know the wur was over on the Uth. In fact It was the next any, when his mother and sister visited him In his ward, that he first learned the news of the signing of the armistice. T. Fitch Harwod was located In the machine gun school at Chattlllon-sur.

Seine, France on the 11th of No-veniber. This was a school for officers, and he hud been there for some weeks. Capt. Harwood had gone over to France with the 86th division. On the day of the signing of the armistice, the great camp and city broke loose with a riotous celebration and kept it up with scarcely an intermission for three days and three nights.

lialph M. McCord was at tl.e same machine gun school at Chattillon-sur-Seine where Capt. Harwood was located, and he witnessed much of the same scenes in the way of a cele. bration. Emmett Gunn Was located at Camp Joseph E.

Johnston, near Jacksonville, ue year ago today. The soldiers of the camp received the news of the signing of the armistice with perfect calmness, and there was little or no celebrating. In the city of Jacksonville, a few miles away, the people tore the lid off and let 'er go. The soldiers were not permitted to leave the camp that day, the officers probably figuring that not many of them would return if they left. George Benard, South East street, belonged to the 9th colored regiment He had been wounded a number of times at the front and the day before the armistice had returned with his regiment for a rest at Brest.

"We got trips in the air with the aeroplane men for a celebration, that ws about all," he says. "We gov the good news at guard mount in the morning. We were lined up In great long ranks on the parade ground and. standing at attention, the general read aloud the words that could be heard all over the field and we all gave one big whoop." Here 1 how It struck Jo Ensen-burger: "I was at Camp Kearney. San Diego, Cal That camp is tree miles long and very narrow.

The news got loose at headquarters at the east end of the camp. You could tell It by the whoops and yells which swept wfcrtward like the blowing of a storm. It came weirdly and in great waves like the muslo of the storm in the William Tell overture." Ralph Heffernap was ft Paris on Armistice Day. That city was wild. By It o'clock In the morning the demonstration had reached Its height.

At the same time the next day it was still going on Just aa great. He ay: "Just to show von how thev of shell. About twelve cases were examined during the morning. In the afternoon we had more leisure and joined in gaiety made known outside of the hospital by the firing of guns." wmm Policeman Carl Glermnn With 6Sth Coast Artlllerv near Bordeau. France, where a big demonstration was held.

Paul Gibson, pressman at the Pan-tagraph Was at Camp Arcadia, near Los Angeles, Cal. Member 64th Balloon Company. Worked and drilled all day at camp, while the city of Los Angeles celebrated. Dr. T.

D. Cantrell was snmvMt In IM similar work "Thl Is the way I put It; on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, while I was working in the 11th base hospital located at 7 j3 Qwamoufljirlcral Q'uiure 'Marseilles' with a sublime Inspiration that I had never heard before. They sang it over and over again. Everybody the black Moroccan soldiers of Africa, American soldiers and the populace Joined In, and the IT. B.

band echoed It In the crowded streets. Thousands of French cavalrymen rodo In columns of four with lighted Chinese lanterns on the tops of their lances." Dr. Robert A. Noble had gone to Paris on the 9th of November to purchase supplies for the hospital of which he was in charge; located at Staden, Belgium. The city of Paris had already begun a preliminary celebration of peace when Dr.

Noble reached there, and It reached its height on the 11th. The city was wild. Dr. Noble completed his work there and was to leave that night. He could not get thru the streets to the railway stations on account of the crowds, so he sought the underground railway.

As he traveled thru the country back to Belgium every town was celebrating. Miss Alice O. Smith was with a mobile hospital unit at Clermont in the Argonne. For a week the hospital equipment had been packed awaiting orders to hove on, but orders had been held up pending armistice negotiations. From the point where the unit was located cessation of the gun fire was plainly noticeable, and news of the armistice came almost Immediately.

After the news came, the nurses went down to the main road which led to Sedan. It was filled with trucks and cars, as Nantes, the Armistice was signed. We couldn't celebrate. were loo busy. They were bringing In the wounded from all the evacuation hospitals on our front.

I was in charge of the X-Rsy laboratory and I suppose we made 76 platea that day iiut the French in Kanto celebrated; and it kept us busy to kee the bovs from 8ubk-8hsrp Wddinr Mis Frieda Subke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Subke, 1107 South Lee street, and Fred James Sharp of Galesburg. were married at 4:30 yesterday afternoon at the home of the bride's parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Sharp left last night for Galesburg. Carl Guetschow was stationed at debarkation hosppltal No. 6. in New York City, and walking guard post on 47th street after midnight on Nov.

11. About 2 o'clock In the morning the racket broke lose and continued until he went off guard at 6 a. m. It was still going on when he went back on duty next day, and he did not have a chance to have any personal Jollification. Dr.

W. H. Gardner was a lieutenant going into Nantes to get "vln rouge." Curtis Wladell. of Hudann ui'i fc. Absolutely guaranteed to bring relief to grouches, peeves and ingrown dispositions.

Fine for that heart-achy, down-in-tlie-inout feeling. One dose cures a pain in the conscience and turns a blue funk into a rain-how of joy. Use freely afternoon and night! Reserv Your Seats Today. had to stick to a bed with the flu all day last November 11th. He was In a griat hospital room at Camp Wood, Texas, with hundreds of other flu fHATTERTON OPERA HOUSE colonel in charge of a sanitary unit, i a front line organization with the American forces under Gen.

Pershing 1 on the drive for the German cltv of Metz. In fact the outer fortifications of the city were taken on the morn- lng of tho 11th. prior to the order to cease firing. When the actual end- lng of battle came, the soldiers of that sector. Dr.

Gardner says, were too tired to do much celebrating. patients. The ward-boys brought the news of the armistice but no celebration was possible. All day be heard the "fracus" in the camp and In th town, but all was still in the ward. Paul Banderson.

nuu of th "American stores, experienced the joys of armistice day in New York. He had recuperated from serious wounds at a Brooklyn hospital and 8:16 p. m. ThlirS. iP.n.

EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD. Mutt and Jeff's Dream came up town to see a show. He says "My first knowledge of the news was when 1 saw men aud women throwing olored streamers from the upper windows on Broadway. That was only the beginning of a mammoth demonstration. One of the odd things that I saw was the spectacle of American girls overwhelming and kissing a Follow the Tracks of "WapT To the Lan4 of Romance, Advent are and Love I P.

S. Every person attending "It Pnys to Advertise" is entitled to 'steen million dollars worth of stock in Mr. Washburn's '13' soap unlucky for dirt. Bie dividends in laughsl The tale of a ne'er-do-well who shook tlic dust from industry. Come I Also Harold Lloyd Comedy.

Matlnws 2:15. 8:45. Evening 7:15, Admission 20c. Children 10c. oop ot Tench soldiers in the celebrated.

We had come In a ma- chine from the forest of Fontaln Blaugh that morning. When we got to the heart of the city It took us an hour to go but a distance of a few 17" street." Theodore Reece, 405 East Olive street, ma at the officers' training school Waco on Armistice day. Ild the officers discipline let up one bit for the glories of that day? Not one bit. The only exhilaration came early in the morning when the buglers, who usually sounded reville with military exactness, seemed to have gone crazy down at the headquarters house and blew all the calls of the day. There was a military parade and an exhibition bayonet drill in the coliseum at Waco.

That was all." Herman Gunn, who was In the medical department of the army, was located at the hospital center at Mar Sur Allee, in France on the day the armistice was signed. He says that the hospital people got up an Impromptu celebration, which was participated in by all who were able to leave their beds. The colonel in charge of the hospital was leader in the celebration. The whole community joined in the Jollification. Alfred O.

Brown was serving as first lieutenant with Company M. 164th Infantry and was located at Contres France on the day of the armistice. The officers were engaged in drilling placements for duty at the front with the Forty-first or Sunset division, irwaa the duty of the officers each morning to lead out a blocks, the streets were so jammed with people. The Frerifch pulled us out of our automobile and kissed us. I lost part of my uniform and came out of the affair wearing the cap of an Algerian and a coat of another nationality.

All nations were mlxt Algerians, French, Americans, Belgians, Canadians, New Zealanders and Rntfllsh. They paraded In drove." Ir. Frank Deneen was returning to Camp Meade from a leave of absence when he paused at Baltimore, to witness the most oolossal celebration he had ever seen. "Nobody went to work In Baltimore," he says. "Not even the soft drink parlors were open and It was almost Impossible to get something to eat.

The parades began at a. m. and lasted far past midnight." Frank BM was with th th artillery at In Southern France. "I saw that nltrht the girls' choir of the Catholic church of La Bourne march thru the streets led by their bare-headeU priests, singing the I'un For the Whole Family! Prices $1.00 to 25c. Admission 30c.

Children 10c. Matinees 2:15, 3:30. Fight 7:16 and 9:00. uuuy or some to an open field sumo miles from town and put them thru hard work all day. That morn-1 iiig when they left the town there I had been no news of tho armistice, And COnilPnilAntlv tl.a Bnlrliora u-Ant i CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears -Slgna'tur of MVg.

I He had seen Dolores come dripping from the stream and tiptoed forward John D. Williams will Present a New Play by the Man Who Wrote "ON TRIAL." ONE NIGHT FRIDAY, NOV. 14 Seats on 8a Is. Pries 50c to $2.00. The Star Is RICHARD BENNETT Th Play I the Thrilling Sensational Mytry Story.

Tor the Defense' By Elmer R. Rice. With a supporting cast of players seldom seen outside theatres in New York and Chicago. 2:30 p.m. SAT.

:Mp.m. Don't Forget to seize her. buddenly from a chasm in the rocks a great bear rose, growling fiercely, and the girl snuggled behind it. MAJESTIC Theatre Monday Has Every Woman Her Price? She Offered to Sell Herself for Cash to Save Her Husband's Honor. BESSIE BARR1SCALE "HER PURCHASE PRICE" Never a Film Like This Georfft Wahh IN i at "The Winning Stroke.

PsoJut Death Did Qultf 8esl Thl Great Picture, Story Dolores, the gwiewirmf of the Canadian wilds, whose lore of animals makes tliem her friends ad protestors from men of prey more heartless than the beasta themeelvea. A Tale of Love and Villainy thru their daily routine all unknowing of the great news. In the evening lien the deatchment marched toward town, ae they passed a turn In the road, some children came running from a house, dancing with glee and "homing "Le guerre (the war is ended.) When the detachment reached town, they found all the population The regular drills and other work continuc4 next day with the soldiers and for several weeks afterward, in spite of the armistice. Millard easier, nephew of aster -In-Chancery A. W.

Feasley, was in Argonue Forest when the armistice was signed. He says that there was surely a jollfication on that day. The soldiers made more noise In ratifying the event than they did In battle and especially was this tnie of the J-renoh soldiers. Many of them had been in the trenches for four long ear and they simply went wild. Edwin S.

Sage was In an evacuation hospital about forty miles from Toul when the news was received Jnat the armistice had been signed. got Word by wire that morning" Jjid Mr. Bage, "and you can Imagine that there was sure some rejoicing there. You see the Germans came ingerously near taking Tout on one and when the news came the Americans had broken across tho famous Hindenburg line and the inns were fleeing toward German ter ritory, every message was breathlessly awaited and when the word finally c.ime that the war was all over, there vjs rejoicing on every side." Harold Ramage, In the naval sor- v'Ce, was In th hnnttltnl altnrhMl In The Virginia Belles A Colonial Musical Offering Beautiful. 'The JUMPS' WITH SIDNEY SMITH an Rialto and LaMont "Th Talkies Boy." ack to Gods Country" In Person.

Arthur Rigby Th Dean of Minstrel. Nau) it ain't Venus International News Coming Out othe Bath "Tub Featuring: Nell Shipman, the Brilliant Swimming Star 16 Varietiei of Wild Animate. Thursday, Friday, Saturday Wm. Russell in "Six Feet Four." Stolen from a caravan, reared for the harem, sold for cash to the highest bidder, this girl found little difference between the out-and-out market for women at Cairo and the secret purchase of women among London's "400." Also Two-Reel Bill Parma Cvms4y and "Topics of the Day." CASTLE Wed. Thursday Admission 25c Children 10c Alwsys th Best in Vsudevlll and Feature Picture.

Matinee Continuous 2 to p. m. Night Two S.hows 7:00 and 9:15. Prices Mat inoe 12c. Night 11c, 22c, 33o.

Children lie. Island navy yard, at Phila- "ipphia, having been taken there; J'th pneumonia when about to em-i ark for Kurope with a band of sail- 1 rs from Great Lakes. On the morn- 1 "it of the 11th, he says he was awak- i ned at o'clock In the morning by noise of sirens blowing from Hundreds of ship anchored In th mM set tms pss-ens WmS I.