BATTLEFIELDS
ARE CLEARED
BY PRISONERS
DIXMUDE, Belgium. Oct. 31 (by As
sociated Press).—Scattered over the
low-lying country between Ypres and
Oixmude, scene of many a battle,,
are thousands of German prisoners un-1
der guard of British and Belgian sol
, diers, as well as civilians who have
been called into the gigantic task of
clearing up the battlefields and once
more making the country lit for habi
tation. They are stacking sheils. re
covering brass cases and burying the
dead. There si a military efficiency
about their work and the progress
they are making is most gratifying for
all the governments concerned.
One may still see the ruins of many
British and Belgian tanks, caught in
the German shell fire, now twisted and
r broken wrecks. Now they lie rusted
and neglected, mere shells of the
once powerful machines which went
into action. Some of them are almost
buried in the mud, otheres hang pre
cariously on the edge of dilapidated
trenches, while still others stand high
in the fields where they were aban
doned by such of their crews as sur
vived. Many of them are torn and
riddled as though their heavily-ar
mored sides were little more than
paper.
Perhaps the most impressive fea
ture of this dead and blackened land
scape are the trees. Gaunt and stark,
stripped of every limb and branch,
they stand out against the skyline, so
many lifeless sticks.
Whole villages have disappeared,
ground by the big guns into mud or
; dust without one vestige remaining to
mark their location. This is true of
Poelcappelle, whose former existence
would not have been suspected had not
a Belgian major volunteered the in
formation that here his battalion had
once held its main street for three
days.
Many live shells still remain in the
fields, and today as a party was pass
ing within a few miles of Dixmude
they were startled by the explosion of
one of these “duds.”
Reconstruction is going forward.
Near the shack reared by one thrifty
Belgian who has returned to the site
of his former home is a disabled tank,
a shell having ripped through its side
and exploded in the interior. From
one side of the tank to that humble
shack stretches a clothes line, and
on given days the family washing is
hung out to dry.
Children of that family play in the
broken tank, enacting, as they have
often heard related, the grim story of
the battle. That is, they play whop
they are not at work, for Belgium is
using even its children to rebuild its
homes.
E. P. Kendall, general manager of
the American Can Company, is not op
timistic regarding the future outlook
for the Alaska fisheries unless a more
satisfactory system of fish propaga
tion in the territorial waters is adopt
ed. Mr. Kendall declares emphatic
ally that the waters of Alaska are be
ing fished out. He says this after an
experience of thirty-five years in the
fisheries from the Columbia river to
Alaska.
William H. Smith, a former resident
of Nenana, was released from the fed
eral penitentiary at McNeill’s island
on September 22 last. Smith was tried
in the Fairbanks court for embezzle
ment, and upon conviction was sen
tenced to serve eighteen months in
the penitentiary. He was given a pa
role last July, and upon the expira
tion of his term in September was
* formally discharged from the prison.
We ship by boat or rail fresh
cooked crabs or crab cocktails. Order
from Dave Phillips, P. O. Box 217.
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make the bread at the City Bakery
famous.
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relieves ANY CASE sour stomach, gas
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tors and patients. It removes foul
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| Hiiiioiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii rj^ HE unprecedented amount
j rRCERNING I of family washing coming
1 Matrons into our laundry recently,
being unusual for this time of
year, naturally excited our curi
osity as to where it all came
from, so we investigated.
In going down the names of
| * more than six hundred of our
regular customers, we found
that the most progressive and
up-to-date women are among
our patrons. We do not mean
that only the well-to-do women
are our customers, but we mean
the women who live in well
kept homes, who know how to
| maintain them economically,
and at the same time, how to re
lieve themselves of tasks involv
ing drudgery or tending to dis
turb the equilibrium of the fam
ily home life.
We found them to be women
who have time to take an inter
est in things outside of their
homes without neglecting them,
and who employ themselves at
home in ways that are more
profitable and pleasing.
Brainy women who think out
their household problems, who
look to the future—as business
men do in their important busi
ness affairs—women who have
1 modern done and could do a home wash
| ing as good as any housewife,
! phoneT sind women with plenty of
strength and energy, too.
• But above all, women who *
have reasoned out that in the
long run washing done at home
or by inexperienced persons un
der unsanitary conditions, find
that the losses are more than the
gains—in money, time, comfort,
health and the attention to their
families which is the right of
every family to expect and the
joy of every right - thinking
woman to give.
You can appreciate the feel
ing of pride and satisfaction that |
was ours in making such a dis
covery, yet we found, too, that
there were still a few names
that should be there, but are not.
The only excuse we could make
for them is that they have not
yet learned the advantages to
be derived in the long run by
sending the washing to an es
tablishment of over fifteen
years’ experience, that washes
and handles clothes by the most
modern, scientific and sanitary
methods — handled mostly by
strong, clean and healthy em
ployes, who are an asset to the
community—also that it is bet
ter to pay a few cents more for
the satisfaction that would be
theirs, the money they would
save by longer wear of clothes.
Begin now. Let us show that
we can do for you what we are
doing for hundreds of others.
Bundle up your laundry and call
Phone 66.
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