Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1918 — BULLETIN. [ARTICLE]

BULLETIN.

NORMAN WARNER, ONE OF Z . RENSSELAER’S OLDEST CITIZENS, DIED AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY THIS, MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:15. FULL PARTICULARS AND FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE GIVEN LATER. GREATEST GAINS BYJANKEES VILCEY AND NORROY FALL AND ARMY CONSOLIDATES ITS LINES. London, Sept 15—General Pershing’s army, according to this afternoon’s news, is making fine progress. Since yesterday afternoon it has advanced from two to three miles on a thirty-three-mile front and the fortress guns of Metz have come into action against it. The American line at noon ran through Norroy, on the Moselle, Haumont, Doncourt and .to Abaucourt on the old line. It has been discovered that there were six German divisions operating in the St. Mihiel salient. That would ! give a total strength of 60,000 men, or a rifle strength of 36,000.