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Conger Reynolds newspaper clippings, 1916-1919

1916-07-30 Des Moines Capital Clipping: ""Battlefield of Marne Is Being Restored As Place to Live But Graves There Number Thousands"" by, Conger Reynolds Page 2

Don't go without fine jewelry another minute when you may take advantage of such an unusual offer as this. 
Store Open Saturday evenings. Come tomorrow. 
Iowa Jewelry Co. 
416 Sixth Ave. 
JAKE LEVICH Prop. 
R, W. SPENCER, Mgr. 
The Victrola Shop. 811 Locust. 
THE TEA CUP DEN
is popular because location and pure washed air make it the coolest place in town-free from humidity-the appointments are attractive and the menu inviting. 
Lunch here daily-bring the whole family and enjoy our 
Special Sunday Dinner-50c
Sliced Tomatoes Sliced Cucumbers
Ripe Olives
Roast Pork and Apple Sauce with Mashed Potatoes Creamed String Beans
New York Ice  Chocolate Ice Cream
Peach pie Cocoanut Custard Pie Lemon Pie
Coffee, Milk or Iced Tea
The Recall Store 
OLSEN"S PHARMACY
Sixth and Locust POACHED EGGS AND CREAMED CELERY. 
One cup cooked celery, one-half cup celery stock, two tablespoons buttering, three tablespoons flour, one-half cup of the water. Make a white sauce, add celery and pour into a hot platter. Place the poached eggs on top and serve at once. This may be served on toast. BETTY B. City, 
CHERRY PIE. 
(This is an example of an indefinite recipe.) Nearly fill a crust with seeded fruit, sweeten to taste, sprinkle evenly with flour or cornstarch, add bits of butter, put on top crust and bake. AUNT JANE 
Beulah Schenk crops were covered with weeds. Oddly enough, the weeds often included wilde poppies and corn flowers and daisies the tricolor of France.
It was evident that the soldiers had been buried where they fell. The graves dotted the country wherever we went, and there was no order in their arrangement. In one part of the battlefield, just south of the village Barcy, was a bit of ground comprising perhaps half a section comprising perhaps half a section in which they were every few feet. That is known as the "field of the five thousand dead."
REMAINS OF BATTLES
We drove thru Barcy, scene of some of the hottest fighting of the battle, thru Etripilly, Puiseux Acy, and on up to Etavigny, which was lost by the French, taken, lost, and taken again in five days. We saw the cemetery at Chambray where the French fought with machine guns from behind the stone walls for three days. It was full of officers in graves close under the loopholed wall. 
At Champfleury farm we saw the house that had been von Kluck's headquarters until the 7th of September. It stands on a hilltop from which one can survey the plain thereabouts. The chairs that German officers had placed in the small trees to make to make themselves comfortable observation posts were still in position. Repairing of the fine old house had been started, but it still showed the damage done by the French shells which came to call on von Kluck. The walls had been opened in many places and priceless furniture and decorations of the period of Louis XVI was a mass of wreckage. The French tried by successive assaults for two days to take this hilltop and when they finally got there the house itself was taken only by bayonet and pistol fighting from room to room. 
ONE UNHARMED BUILDING. 
In every village were houses with only the walls standing  Weeds and moss grew over the pitiful mass of broken stone and charred walls inside. In only one village was the church intact. Everywhere else the churches showed crumbled towers, unroofed walls, wrecked interiors. Even farmsteads in the open country had suffered. Of one group the only building left unharmed was a distillery. 
The shell holes everywhere showed what the big guns had done. And the walls pitted thickly with small marks told how the rifle bullets had swept like hail thru every contested street. There was no mistaking the fact that war had passed with no gentle touch. 
But it have passed. Most of the inhabitants have come back to reconstruct their homes or to build new ones. Seventy miles north of them the guns are roaring on the line which the battle of the Marne established. And on the field of the first great battle a serene peace has settled, as completely as if the war were a historical rather than a still continuing fact. 
PAVING COMPLETED FOR THE STATE FAIR
All paving on the East Grand avenue will be completed before fair week, Councilman Budd announced after an inpection Thursday. 
Intersecting streets have been oiled in preparation for the traffic to the fair grounds. Some work yet remains but it will be finished in ample time, according to Budd. 
Budd says he expects to have all the weeds down in time also. 
OFFICER CALLED INSUBORDINATE
R.E Wells, patrolman was discharged from the police force Thursday by Chief of Police Jackson, who claimed the officer was insubordinate and had been absent from duty without leave.
Wednesday night Wells is said to have reported for duty without his badge. He asked permission to go home and get it. Later he is said to have told another officer to telephone the station he was not coming to work.
D.P HOGAN FAVORS LAND BANK HERE
D.P Hogan of Massena, member of Taft's commission sent to Europe to study the rural credit system, thinks Des Moines is the logical place for a farm bank, and says so in a letter to R.P Bolton, secretary of the Greater Des Moines committee. 
Mr. Hogan, sho is an expert on land matters, asks Mr. Bolton if he may appear before the farm loan board during their session here and speak in behalf of Des Moines.

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Don't go without fine jewelry another minute when you may take advantage of such an unusual offer as this. Store Open Saturday evenings. Come tomorrow. Iowa Jewelry Co. 416 Sixth Ave. JAKE LEVICH Prop. R, W. SPENCER, Mgr. The Victrola Shop. 811 Locust. THE TEA CUP DEN is popular because location and pure washed air make it the coolest place in town-free from humidity-the appointments are attractive and the menu inviting. Lunch here daily-bring the whole family and enjoy our Special Sunday Dinner-50c Sliced Tomatoes Sliced Cucumbers Ripe Olives Roast Pork and Apple Sauce with Mashed Potatoes Creamed String Beans New York Ice Chocolate Ice Cream Peach pie Cocoanut Custard Pie Lemon Pie Coffee, Milk or Iced Tea The Recall Store OLSEN"S PHARMACY Sixth and Locust POACHED EGGS AND CREAMED CELERY. One cup cooked celery, one-half cup celery stock, two tablespoons buttering, three tablespoons flour, one-half cup of the water. Make a white sauce, add celery and pour into a hot platter. Place the poached eggs on top and serve at once. This may be served on toast. BETTY B. City, CHERRY PIE. (This is an example of an indefinite recipe.) Nearly fill a crust with seeded fruit, sweeten to taste, sprinkle evenly with flour or cornstarch, add bits of butter, put on top crust and bake. AUNT JANE Beulah Schenk crops were covered with weeds. Oddly enough, the weeds often included wilde poppies and corn flowers and daisies the tricolor of France. It was evident that the soldiers had been buried where they fell. The graves dotted the country wherever we went, and there was no order in their arrangement. In one part of the battlefield, just south of the village Barcy, was a bit of ground comprising perhaps half a section comprising perhaps half a section in which they were every few feet. That is known as the "field of the five thousand dead." REMAINS OF BATTLES We drove thru Barcy, scene of some of the hottest fighting of the battle, thru Etripilly, Puiseux Acy, and on up to Etavigny, which was lost by the French, taken, lost, and taken again in five days. We saw the cemetery at Chambray where the French fought with machine guns from behind the stone walls for three days. It was full of officers in graves close under the loopholed wall. At Champfleury farm we saw the house that had been von Kluck's headquarters until the 7th of September. It stands on a hilltop from which one can survey the plain thereabouts. The chairs that German officers had placed in the small trees to make to make themselves comfortable observation posts were still in position. Repairing of the fine old house had been started, but it still showed the damage done by the French shells which came to call on von Kluck. The walls had been opened in many places and priceless furniture and decorations of the period of Louis XVI was a mass of wreckage. The French tried by successive assaults for two days to take this hilltop and when they finally got there the house itself was taken only by bayonet and pistol fighting from room to room. ONE UNHARMED BUILDING. In every village were houses with only the walls standing Weeds and moss grew over the pitiful mass of broken stone and charred walls inside. In only one village was the church intact. Everywhere else the churches showed crumbled towers, unroofed walls, wrecked interiors. Even farmsteads in the open country had suffered. Of one group the only building left unharmed was a distillery. The shell holes everywhere showed what the big guns had done. And the walls pitted thickly with small marks told how the rifle bullets had swept like hail thru every contested street. There was no mistaking the fact that war had passed with no gentle touch. But it have passed. Most of the inhabitants have come back to reconstruct their homes or to build new ones. Seventy miles north of them the guns are roaring on the line which the battle of the Marne established. And on the field of the first great battle a serene peace has settled, as completely as if the war were a historical rather than a still continuing fact. PAVING COMPLETED FOR THE STATE FAIR All paving on the East Grand avenue will be completed before fair week, Councilman Budd announced after an inpection Thursday. Intersecting streets have been oiled in preparation for the traffic to the fair grounds. Some work yet remains but it will be finished in ample time, according to Budd. Budd says he expects to have all the weeds down in time also. OFFICER CALLED INSUBORDINATE R.E Wells, patrolman was discharged from the police force Thursday by Chief of Police Jackson, who claimed the officer was insubordinate and had been absent from duty without leave. Wednesday night Wells is said to have reported for duty without his badge. He asked permission to go home and get it. Later he is said to have told another officer to telephone the station he was not coming to work. D.P HOGAN FAVORS LAND BANK HERE D.P Hogan of Massena, member of Taft's commission sent to Europe to study the rural credit system, thinks Des Moines is the logical place for a farm bank, and says so in a letter to R.P Bolton, secretary of the Greater Des Moines committee. Mr. Hogan, sho is an expert on land matters, asks Mr. Bolton if he may appear before the farm loan board during their session here and speak in behalf of Des Moines.