The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 April 1919 — Page 5

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ELIZABETH FORD CITED FOR VALOR

During the bitter fighting in France in September 1918, when j the United States' Marines took the heart out of the Prussian Guards, and in fact, out of the whole German Army, and during the wicked fighting at Belleau Woods and vicinity, some twenty Marines captured the little French village of Bouresches. Scarce 200 yards beyond lay the German trenches. As the Germans were driven from the village of Bouresches, their artillery dropped a fierce barage behind the village to make impossible reinforcements being sent to our soldier boys. Our boys fought until their ammunition was exhausted, their food was gone, and they had no water, and still they held the village, and still the barage fell around them, when suddenly out of the hell of fire of the barage a truck broke through bringing water, food, and munitions. Upon receiving this, our American “war dogs” proceeded to drive the Germans, out of the trenches. It seems to have fallen to a certain American Motor Car Company that here was an opportunity to do some advertising, and so it ran a full page advertisement in the newspapers recounting the above facts, and then inserting the following line: "It was a truck that did this glorious work.” Everybody was glad and rejoiced that American industry came in just, at the right time to endorse American courage and heroism. A manufacturer of another motor truck doubted the state )T> ent, and wrote the War Department asking if it wasn’t one of ththr trucks that should have received the glory, and was informed by the War Department, that neither their truck mentioned in the advertisement was entitled to the glory, but that it was a ford truck that showed up just at the particular time. The latter manufacturer advised us of these facts, and we wrote the Wai Department, and the attached correspondence speaks for itself. FORD MOTOR COMPANY Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps. Washington, February 15, 1919. Sir: Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of the 11th inst., and m reply the Major General Commandant directs me to inform you that the truck mentioned in your letter was a Ford truck. There are enclosed for your information an extract from a letter from Major Frank E. Evans, U.S.M.C., Adjutant of the Gth Regiment of Marines, A.E.F., and a copy of a poem by Wallace Irwin entitled "Elizabeth Ford.’ Your respectfully, J. D. Brady, Ist Lieutenant, A. A. & I. M. C. R. Mr. C. A. Brownell, Manager of Advertising, Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich. (Extract from letter from Major Frank R. Evans, U.S.M.C., Adjutant, Sixth Regiment, U. S. Marines, A. E. F.) MARINE FORD HISTORICAL “Elizabeth Ford, as the regiment knows her, has a unique careeii Not only in Quantice, where 1 drove her, hut in Bor doaux, and later up in our training area, she carried everything from kick men to hard tack. Then we had two months in the trenches near Verdun, and at the end it seemed as though she would have to go to the scrap heap. Her top was entirely gone and we made a mail wagon of her. In some way the men, who have an aiVi-ction for her thm you van hardly vompivheml. patched her together and we brought her down to out tiist billets. A week later we had to go to another area, forty kilometers north of Paris, and in the long trip the Elizabeth Ford sailed along without mishap and was the talk ol the division. “Then we came up here and she rose to the heights of her service and her record. The night we took Bouresches with twenty odd men, and news came through that others had filtered in and the town was ours, we shot out a truck load of ammunition over the road. The road was under heavy shell and machine gun tire. Later in the night we sent the Lord out with ialiens. I*oi the next five days she made that trip night and day, and for one period ran almost every hour for thirty-six hours. She not only carried ammunition out to the men who were less than 200 yards from the Boehe, but rations and pyrotechnics; and then to the battalion on the left of the road, in these evil Belleau Woods, she

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THE SYRACUSE AND LAKE fVAWAsEE JOURNAL

ELIZABETH FORD (By Wallace Irwin) We carried her over the sea, we did, And taught her to hep, hep hep— A cute little jinny, all noisy and tinny. But full of American pep. Recruited into the Corps she was— She came of her own accord. We flew at her spanker the globe and the anchor And named her Elizabeth Ford. ’Cute little ’Lizabeth, Dear little ‘Lizabeth, Bonnie Elizabeth Ford! She was short and squat, but her nose was^sot For the Hindenhurg line—O Lord! She hated a Hun like a son-of-a-gun, The Kaiser she plumb abhorred, Did chunky Elizabeth, Hunky Elizabeth, Spunky Elizabeth Ford. We took her along on our hikes, we did, And a wonderful boat was she, She’d carry physicians, food and munitions. Generals, water cr tea. She could eimb a bank like a firstrate tank And deliver the goods aboard— When we touch our steel Kellies to “Sornper Fldelis,” Remember Elizabeth Ford. ’Cute little ’Lizabeth, dear little ’Lizabeth, Bonnie Elizabeth Ford. She took her rests in machine gun nests And on bullet-swept roads she ehored. Where the Devil Hounds were first on the grounds Os a section of Franee restored— Why, there was Elizabeth, Chunky Elizabeth, ! Spunky Elizabeth Ford!

carried the same, and water, which was scarce there. For these trips she had to stop on the road and the stores were then carried by hand into a ravine. 1 saw her just after her first trip and counted twelve holes made by machine gun bullets and shrapnel. “At one time the driver, Private Fleitz, and his two understudies, HaUer and Bonneville, had to stop to make minor repairs, and another, when they had a blowout, how she and the men escaped being’ annihilated is a mystery. The last time 1 saw her she was resting against a stone wall in the little square of Lucy-le-Bocage, a shell wrecked town, and she was the most battered object in the town. One tire had been shot oIF, another wheel hit, her radiator hit, and there were not less than forty hits on her. We are trying every possible way to find new parts and make a new Ford of her. She is our Joan of Arc and if it takes six old cars to make her run again r we’ll get those six and rob thew.”

S. C. Lepper, the local Ford dealer, is naturally proud of Elizabeth’s war record. — (Adv.

i'.iii ’tvvas oa the day at these murder-woods Which the Yanfctas pronounce Be I loo; We were sent to knock illy the hopes of Prince Willie And turn ’em, around d. u. We prayed for munitions and cleared our throats With a waterless click—Good Lord! ! When out of a crater with bent ! radiator Cl imbed faith.ft.il Elizabeth Ford! ’Cute iit tie ’Lizabeth dear little 'Lizabeth, Bonnie Elizabeth Ford. With a cylinder-skip she had made iho trip. Water- and cartridge-stored. With her (mod a wreck and broken neck She cracked like a rotten board. Hunky Elisabeth, Chunky Elizabeth, Spunky Elizabeth Ford. When they towed lier out of the town next day Said Corporal Bill, “Look there! 1 know of one hero who shouldn’t draw zero '• J When they’re pas in’ the Croix de Guerre. Who fed the guns that’s startin’ the linns Plumb back to Canal du Nord?” So his Cross—and he’d won it! —he tied to the bonnet Os faithful Elizabeth Ford 'Cute little 'l.izaheth, dear little ’Lizabeth, Bonnie Elizabeth Ford! Where shrapnel has mauled her we’ve now overhauled her, Her wheels ajid her gears restored. Her record’s clean, she’s a true Marine And we’re sending the Dutch War Lord A note by 'Elizh&ettt, Chunky Elizabeth. V Spunky Elizabeth Ford! SOUTH SHORE . Robert McCullough and mother of Chicago are at their cottage getting it ready for summer. Miss Emily Vorhees is at home after visiting several weeks at the home of Mrs. Sudlow at Vawter Park. Ike Mellinger, who spent the winter in Goshen, is at home warbling with the redbirds at Mrs. Bossier Walter’s cottage. George and Phyllis Miller visited at the Russell Warner home Sunday. Mr. Jordan, who has been sick the past winter, is not improving any. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lewis and friends visited at the lake Sunday. Bert Searfoss and family visited at the Marsh Cummins home near Piereeton Sunday. Misses Gladys Lecount and Henrietta Brunjes visited Alice and Frieda Lung Sunday. Mis Mae Swank, of Syracuse, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Searfoss Sunday night. Dwight Doty of Milford and Ray Lecount of Walnut Hill visited at the Gideon Lecount , home Sunday. Warren Burkey’s boys ol Goshen called on Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Baker Sunday. Elijah Brakes of Goshen was at his cottage Sunday. Mrs. John Swank has been seriously ill since last Thursday with influenza and gallstones. Mrs. John Brunjes and children were at the lake over the week end visiting with D. H. Brunjes and wife. James Waltz and family of Goshen visited John Rentfrow and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McKibbin helped Charles Harris of Cabin Hill buzz wood Friday. Irvin Wogoman and family of Syracuse visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wogoman, Sunday. Mrs. Robert Burke visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weaver Sunday. Donald McClintic of Vawter

Park visited with Joe Swank Saturday night and Sunday. ; O WHITE OAK Mrs. Ollie Miles of Chicago came Tuesday to visit her sister, Mi’s. Floyd Strieby, who is critically ill. , Mrs. Clarence Coy who has been sick is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. William Tom and two sons spent Sunday with Forest Kern and family. Mr. ’Albert- Steward and sister, Mary Brqwn, of Syracuse spent Sunday at the John Dewart home. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Ilowe were Sunday guests at the Earl Hammond home. Warren Wetson, C. 11. Rookstool, Orlando Stiffiler and Chester St i filer were at the New Paris sale Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Enteral Jones and two sons, Keith and Roy, were Milford callers Saturday. Mrs. Burton Howe anil Jay Kinney attended the big dinner at Crowd school Friday. Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart spent Tuesday with their daughter, Mrs. Jacob Bucher and family. Mrs. Ellen Warble assisted Mrs. Clarence Coy, in house work Friday. Lester Dewart called on Ernest Mathews Friday afternoon. Clarence Coy called at the Insley home Sunday. Jane Rookstool spent Sunday afternoon with Mary Dewart. Mrs. Orlando Stiffler spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ross. Jess Rookstool of Syracuse is spending a few days with the Stiffler family. Ernest Wathews and wife called on the latters brother, John Roop, Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fisher and family spent Sunday with Lloyd Dewart of Milford. Samuel Dewart and wife spent Sunday at Martin Long’s home in Syracuse. C. H. Rookstool and William Wyland spent Sunday forenoon at the John Dewart home. Those who spent Sunday with William Coy and family were Oscar Masters and wife of Syracuse, and Air. and Mrs. Geo. Kuhn of Milford. Air, and Mrs. Jacob Bucher and son Wayne enjoyed Sunday dinner with Ernest Alatliews and wife Rev. Wild of Huntington spent Saturday night with Air. and Airs. James Dewart. CH ; SOUTH END Mr. and Mrs. John MeCloughan spent Saturday night and Sunday with George Perry and family of Mishawaka. Mrs. Alonzo White and daughter Alice spent Saturday and Sunday in Claypool with Daniel Wolfe and family. Airs. Ben Biller and daughter Eula spent Sunday with Jesse Strieby and family. Airs. Orlando Plank spent Thursday of last week with Mrs. Jesse Darr and family. Airs. Mary Wogoman is visiting this week in Goshen with her son William and family. Those from neve who attended the surprise party on William Wogoman of Goshen were, John i Auer and family, Orlando Plank ! and family, Jesse Darr and family and Mrs. Mary Wogoman. Little Miss Mildred Rookstool of Elkhart is visiting this week with her grandparents, Mr. and Airs. Alichael Rookstool Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hummel spent Sunday with the latter’s

parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Gilbert, and family. William and Vera McCloughan i spent Sunday with Fred Kline I and family. • . ... — — <1 - * TIPPECANOE . . William Gerard ana Ed Aiock framed I. Kuhn’s barn. The North Webster Threshing association built their machine shed the middle of this week. A. W. Scott and Chas. Grissoip are helping Ray Scott build his barn. * ‘Mrs. Clarence Lewallcn visited with Mrs. Kenneth Baugher Wednesday. Ray Scott hauled lumber from Cron •we 11 Wednesday. Mary Kuhn called on Bertha Poppent'oose Wednesday. The storm Wednesday blew a hen house across the road belonging to F. O. Richcreek and upset a storm buggy ip which tore off part of the roof; it also Mrs. Thus. Nine was riding, bruising her severely. J. Garber, J. L. Kline, Mr. and Mrs. Israel Cripe and two daughters, and Airs. Snodgrass called bn Ed Coy and wife Thursday evening. Mrs. Celia Baugher accompanied her sister, Mrs. Wrn. Ritter, of Warsaw, to Indianapolis to the hospital. Mr. and Mrs Stanley Morehead called at the Garber and Kline homes Sunday evening. —_____—;—o WEST END E. W. Hire and Frank Swihart of Elkhart spent Sunday here. George and Neal Phoebus and families, Air. and Mrs. William Bower and Chas. Edged and family spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Anna Edged. Harold Sheffield returned to his work in South Bend Tuesday. .1. F. Weybright, T. S. Sheffield and family spent Sunday at the home of B. H. Doll. Chas. Lutes and family spent Sunday at North Manchester. Claude and Melvin Niles sold their place of business at Milford Junction to A. Miller of Nappanee. W. E. Sheffield is on the sick -list; suffering with heart trouble. o NORTH SIDE Mrs. Carrie Shannon came from Warsaw to spend Sunday at home. Mr. and Airs. Don Strode and children took dinner with G. H. Bailey Thursday. Mr. and Airs. Benj. Hentzell have gone to the country tor a few days. Airs. Anna Grubb's son came home Sunday from overseas. Some of the members of the Church of God went to Mount Taber Sunday night. Mr. and Airs. G. H. Bailey took dinner with Mr. and Airs. Frank Younce. We thought we heard a nightingale singing, but we discovered it was Ben humming “Yankee Doodle.” " C. H. Bailey has built a fine hew rubber tired push cart. NORTH END Miss Eva AlcFall spent last week with her sister, Mrs. Clinton Bushong, and family. Mrs, Cora Pease of LaPorte is visiting her sister, Mrs. Tennis Haskins, for a few days. Airs. Haskins, who has been quite ill, is slowly improving. Mrs. Ed McFall and daughter and Mrs. Clinton Bushong and children called on Airs. Aladison McPherson Sunday. Miss Eva AlcFall spent Sunday with Misses Bessie and Mary Kincaide. CANAL MAY BE BUILT Delphos, o.—Construction and operation within five years of the Aliami and Erie barge canal with its branch to Lake Michigan through Fort Wayne, Goshen, and South Bend, was declared to be assured by,Avery M. Groves of Fort Wayne, secretary of the Central Inland Waterways association in an address here last night. Mr. Groves was attending a meeting of delegates of Ohio counties called for the organization of a body to further the construction of the Lake Alichigan branch of the canal. Mr. Groves declared that the construction of the waterway is next in importance only to the Panama canal, and that it would

increase the population.of c os through which it passes 10C or cent by attracting new i retries to them. The speaker .i development of waterways i , to ■ only way to meet the transj tion problem successfully. “We have no antagonism ever to the railroad," •Mr. G. said, “but it has !•*>.- t p that the railroads cannot hi T all of the traasi • ’•on •! therefore if this transport a is to be handled we must our attention to the water\v o ——-— LIGHTED CHICKEN COOPS « Prof. James E. Rice of the Department of Poultry Husba y, Cornell University, -Ithaca, NevC’ York, in a statement issued ti few days .ago at the meeting of the New York State Poultry Associations in New York City, declared that tests carried on at Cornell during a period of fortyeight weeks, with more than 200 hens and pullets, have proved beyond the shadow-of a doubt that lights in chicken coops have a direct effect on the production of eggs. The coops were kept lighted until nine o’clock every * night throughout the test, and the egg totals showed that 100 hens and pullets in the lighted chicken house produced 125-3 10 more eggs than the same number of chickens in the unlighted coops. The reason for the increased production of eggs in lighted coops was given by Prof. Rice as being that the hens had more time in which to eat. There was no long wait between supper and breakfast. Prof. Rice said that the same amount 11 of feed was'required by the busy layers as by the other hens, but the hens that had the artificially long day ate their food more slowly. At wholesale prices, the increased number of eggs in the lighted coop during the period of the experiment amounted to $71.88. The average increase in the production of eggs for hens in lighted coops was placed at “one dozen or more’ per year by Prof. Rice. Under this r”stem, the poultry-man, it is >. !. has absolute control over the egg production, since the laving millets stopped laying when the lights were turned off for a Deviod and began again when the lights went on. Prof. Rice explained that one reason for the increased nrotit on the eggs was because the hens continued laying through the late autumn and early winter when the price of eggs is highest. — O-L —-■ LOCUSTS ARE COMING Indiana is to be the storm center of a swarm of locusts that will swoop down on the United States the latter part of May, according to entomologists with the United States department of agriculture. These locusts, the entomologists say, have been sleeping under ground one kind for seventeen and another kind for thirteen years. -With the arrival of warm weather the little pests begin to yawn, stre + h, kick off their shells and scamper off to infest the trees in about twenty states of the union. The seventeen-year locusts or brood ten, as they are scientifically known, or by some scientists as homopterous hemipterous insects, will start in at the extreme east end of*Long Island and go mostly west and south. — -o— —— BIG GARDEN YEAR Home gardening is starting off this year in every section of the country with the momentum gained during the two gardening seasons in which the United States was at war. This is the conclusion drawn from reports to the garden specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture from garden leaders in most of the States. According to these reports gardening has spread to every element of the people and has become a fixed factor in city and suburban as well as rural life. With' experience gained by amateur gardeners in past seasons and with gardens assuming a permanent , rather than a temporary character, this year is expected to be the greatest year ever recorded in making waste land produce food. CORN CONTEST During the past few years jconsiderable interest has been manifested in the “Five Acre Corn Contest Work” in different parts of the State. This is n contest for grown ups ana should appeal to every corn grower in the State. Arrangements have been made for a State Extension man to be here in this County, April the 9th and 10th to give us information in regard to this work, during this time several meetings will be hold over the County at different places with he thought of increasing corn yields bv the Five Acre Corn Contest . plan. Time and place of such meeting will be announced later.