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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
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Dr. M. P. Wilson
DENTIST
Office Over Kuhn’s Drug
Store
SHINER, TEXAS
All Work Guaranteed
Examinations Free
Phono 68.
P. A. DAMSEL, ID. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Offic« Over Kuhn's Drag Store
Resident Phone 222; Office Phone 221
Calls Answered Day and Night.
Don’t Forget
THE OLD RELIABLE
BARBER
0. C. DITTMAR
ALSO LAUNDRY AGENT
Leave orders. Will call every
Tuesday morning.
JOE HRUBY
Blacksmith
and
Wheelwright
All Kinds of Blacksmith Work
Neatly and Quickly Done.
Farm Work Especially
Well Executed
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per. It keeps you poated on the
doings of the community.
This Paper
will tell yon the things yon want
to know in an entertaining way;
will give you all the news of the
community; it* every visit will
prove a pleasure; it gives more
than fall value for the prince
asked for it.
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Guide
The Arms whose names are repre-
sented in onr advertising columns
are worthy of the confidence of every
pane* in the community who haa
money to speed. The fact that they
advertise stamps them as enterpris-
ing, progressive men of business, a
credit to our town, and deserving of
support. Our advertising columns
comprise a Bayers* Quids to fair
dealing, gwod goods, honest prices.
FRENCH TAKE MORE
TRENCHES ON SOMME
BRITISH MOVE UP LINES ALSO BY
HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS ON
FRENCH FRONT.
ON OTHER WAR FRONTS
Violent Fighting Continues Between
Italians and Austrians—Germans
Make Gains on the Russian
Front in Galicia.
ELECTION DAY
Latest News From European War.
The French troops in the Somme
region of France and northeast ofVer-
dun have again smashed the German
lines hard. North of the Somme, be-
tween Les Boeufs and Sailly-Saillisel,
to the east of the latter place and on
the St. Pierre Vaast wood sector, im-
portant gains were made in violent
fighting which proceeded throughout
Sunday. The attack on the St. Pierre
Vaast wood, which was made from
three sides simultaneously, netted the
French three trenches on the northern
side and the entire German positions
on the southern outskirts of the wood.
To the north, despite the stormy
weather, the British over a front of a
thousand yards captured the hills in
the neighborhood of the Butted de
Warlencourt.
Keeping up their offensive in the
Verdun region, the French have been
enabled to occupy the entire village
of Vaux, and also the town of Dam-
loup, a mile east of Fort Vaux.
Violent fighting continues south of
Gorizia, where the Italians are en-
deavoring to break the Austrian lines
and advance on Trieste. Fresh gains
have been made by King Victor Em-
manuel’s men on the Carso plateau
south of the Oppacchiasella-Castagnie-
vizza road, and south of this region
they are alternately bombarding the
Austrian positions at Jamiano and
throwing heavy infantry effectives
against the town. The Vienna war of-
fice says all the attacks at Jamiano
thus far have broken down in front
of the Austrian line, the Italians suf-
fering heavy casualties.
In the Transylvania Alps the Aus-
tro-Germans and Roumanians are still
at deadly grips, with both sides claim-
ing successes at various points. Ber-
lin records the capture by the Teu-
tonic allies of positions in the Pra-
hova valley, while Bucharest asserts
that the pursuit of the Teutons in tho
Jiul valley continues.
There ls.nq!p.^^-^rtL<£oming from
the Dobrudja region of Roumania
shedding light on the situation there.
Both Constanza and Mangalia, ports
on the Black sea, held by the forces of
the central powers, have again been
shelled by Russian warships.
In Macedonia fighting continues
along the Cerna river, but no impor-
tant changes in terrain have taken
place.
Small gains for the Germans on the
Russian front south of Dvinsk and in
Galacia and the Carpathian moun-
tains for the Russians are recorded in
the Berlin and Petrograd official com-
munications.
East of Gorizia and on the Carso
plateau, near Vallone, the Italians,
after violent artillery preparation, at-
tacked the Austrian line and, despite
the resistance of the Austrians, cap-
tured in the former sector the eastern
slopes of Tivilo and San Marco and
heights east of Sobre. On the Carso
plateau several wooded hills were
taken and an advance of two-thirds of
a mile wras made east of Segeti. Dur-
ing the fighting 4,731 Austrians were
made prisoner and six guns and nu-
merous machine guns and* other war
material was captured.
(Copyright.)
SUBMARINE DEUTSCHLAND
MAKES SECOND TRIP TO U. S.
Left Bremen on October 10 and Made
Trip Without Special Interest.
Carries Crew of 25 Men.
CSit at a table of 13 persons
on Friday the 13th of the
month.
CLet a black cat cross your
path.
^Break a mirror.
CWalk under a ladder.
C,And bad luck won’t touch
your business if you advertise
in this paper.
C,Trade ads. know no super-
stition.
CJf you have goods ^to sell,
Jet the ad. do it.
Gilmore Wins in Ballot Case.
Austin, Tex.—In a majority decis-
ion, the supreme court Saturday af-
firmed the judgment of the district
court and reversed that of the Fort
Worth court of civil appeals in the
case of C. E. Gilmore vs. Paul Waples
et al, from Tarrant, thereby finally up-
holding Gilmore in his contest with
the state democratic executive com-
mittee and holding that the name of
Charles H. Hurdleston, the governor’s
appointee, wras unlawfully certified to
the secretary of state as the demo-
cratic nominee for railroad commis-
sioner to fill the unexpired term of the
late William D. Williams.
John Copeland Acquitted.
Galveston, Tex.—John Copeland,
cashier of the State National Bank of
Marshall, was Wednesday acquitted
of the charge of killing William Black,
anti-Catholic lecturer, in Marshall, on
February 3, 1915. The verdict of ac-
quittal was brought in after the jury
had been out nearly eighty-four hours
and after it had twice requested its
discharge on the grounds of hopeless
disagreement.
New London, Conn.—Ten million
dollars’ worth of dyestuffs and drugs,
and, it was said, “possibly stocks,
bonds and precious stones,” comprise
the cargo of the German submarine
merchantman Deutschland, according
to a statement Thursday by Captain
Paul Koenig, commander of the craft.
The Deutschland succeeded in mak-
ing a second voyage from a German
port to the American coast, despite
the watchfulness of British and
French war vessels;
First of the undersea merchantmen,
by use of which Germany hopes to
keep open a trade route with the Unit-
ed States, the Deutschland, according
to her captain, is at present the only
vessel of that fleet. The Bremen,
which started a voyage from the city
after which she was named on August
26, he said, has been given up as lost.
He thought she “must have struck a
mine,” but, he added, “she has not
fallen a victim to this almost—block-
ade I am sure of that.”
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New London, Conn.—The German
submarine Deutschland arrived ibAhe
harbor Wednesday. \
V 6aptain Koenig said the Deutsch-
land left Bremen on October lOjtnd
made the trip without special inci-
dent. The entire crew comprises 25
men. The Deutschland appeared in
the outer harbor shortly after mid-
night and proceeded to the dock of the
Eastern Forwarding Company.
Captain F. Hinsch of the Forward-
ing Company, accompanied by Dr. R.
E. Black, the health officer, and other
officials, met the submersible on a
tug. The usual quarantine regula-
tions were waived and -the Deutsch-
land tied up at the dock near the
North German Lloyd steamer Willehd.
The Deutschland was said to have a
large cargo of chemicals.
The Deutschland first attracted
worldwide attention when, at almost
the same hour in the morning of July
9, she slipped in through the Virginia
capes.
Captain Paul Koenig, who brought
the vessel into New London, also com-
manded her on her maiden voyage.
The vessel reached her dock at Balti-
more the following night. She car-
ried a valuable cargo of dyestuffs.
The trip constituted a record voyage
for a craft of the kind, approximately
4,000 miles in 16 days.
The sub sea trader started on her
return trip August 1 with a cargo of
rubber and nickel, dodged through a
cordon of hostile warships watching
for her outside the three-mile limit
and arrived safely at Bremen after a
voyage of 23 days.
The submersible under her own
power slid into a “pocket” that had
been prepared for her at the wharf.
The craft’s entry into the harbor was
so silent that only a few persons were
aware that she was there.
Captain Koenig said that the boat
originally was expected to leave on
October 1, hut she was injured in a
collision and put back to port, delay-
ing her sailing ten days. The clear-
ance papers were made out for “Balti-
more or any Atlantic port.”
Until the last three days extremely
rough water was encountered, Cap-
tain Koenig said.
Brown Tosses Clapham.
Houston, Tex.—Pet Brown of Tay-
lor, the Texas wrestler, threw Sam
Clapham, British contender, in one
hour and one minute Friday at Hous-
ton. Under the conditions of the match
Clapham was to throw Brown twice in
ninety minutes, but he yielded the
match to his lighter opponent when
Brown threw him with a toe hold.
MEXICAN BANDITS LOOT TRAIN.
Twenty-Nine Carranza Soldiers Were
Ordered From Box Car and Shot
Down in Front of Passengers.
Chihuahua City, Mex.—After shoot-
ing the twenty-nine Carranza guards
of the southbound passenger train
which left Juarez last week, Villa ban-
dits looted the train, robbed the pas-
sengers and even took the clothing
from the women passengers. Dr. Haff-
ner, a German passenger on the train,
who was mistaken by the bandits for
an American, was struck over the
he^d by one of the bandits, who used
his gun as a club. Dr. Haffner was
not seriously injured. The bandits,
who wTere in command of Murgia
brothers and Sylvestre Quevedo, then
abandoned the train, carrying the loot
away in mule-drawn wagons.
There were approximately two hun-
dred in the command which held up
the passenger train as it was ap-
proaching Laguna station. The ban-
dits could he seen plainly by the en-
gine crew and passengers before the
train was stopped, hut because of the
nature of the country, escape was im-
possible.
After commanding the engineer to
stop, one of the bandits went through
the train ordering passengers to alight
so they Could be searched.
The twenty-nine Carranza soldiers
from the Juarez garrison, who were
traveling in a box car just back of the
tender, were ordered to alight and
were shot down in view of the passen-
gers. This escort was in command of
Captain Guzman, -who also was shot.
After the execution of the Carranza
soldiers by the bandits a systematic
looting of the train and the robbing of
the passengers started. The passen-
gers were robbed of their baggage and
personal belongings.
After robbing the passengers the ex-
press car was looted. Wagons drawn
by mule teams were waiting at the
Laguna station. After holding the
train one and a half hours, the ban-
dits permitted it to continue to Chihua-
hua City, about sixty miles south. The
bandit command marched away to the
north after watching it depart. They
a^-e believed then to have burned the
bridges between Laguna and Gallego,
twenty miles north.
A military train carrying- 400 Car-
ranza soldiers was sent out from Sauz
to pursue the bandits.
Rice Wih§ From A. and M.
Houston, Tex. — Outplaying their
heavier opponents in every depart-
ment of the football game Saturday,
the new Rice Owls reached the top of
their stride for the first time this sea-
son and for the second time in succes-
sion defeated Texas A. and M. by the
clean-cut score of 20 to 0.
Birmingham, Ala.—Estimates Mon-
day placed the number of miners kill-
ed in the explosion in the Bessie mine
of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron
Company Saturday at thirty.
Pastor Russell Claimed by Death.
Canadian, Tex.—Charles Taze Rus-
sell, known as “pastor” Russell, an
independent minister, president of the
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
of Pennsylvania and of the Interna-
tional Bible Students’ Association of
London, and prominent author of
studies on the scriptures, died Tues-
day on an Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe train en route from Los Angeles to
New York. Heart disease was given
as the cause.
Shiner 1 Mill and
Manufacturing Company
fSJKOI mdy for business, and will buy your seed sod pay
the highest market price.
HOLES AND MEAL ALWAYS ON HAND
vlSand your seed to the Home Mill
tad Patronise a Home Industry
D. C. DANIEL, MANAGER
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PALACE SALOON
W. M. ZAPPE. Proprietor
: the Mew Wm. Green Building. Front Street
Everything New; Finest Fixtures
in the City.
THE BEST OF
Liquors and Cigars in Stock
Fresh Beer Constantly on Tap
Give Me a Call and Be Sure of Polite Treatment
THE CITY SALOON
A Comfortable Place to Stop. Polite Treatment.
Call and See My Selection of
Wine, Whiskies and Cigars
Fresh Beer Always On Tap
AUGUST SCHRAMM, Proprietor
OPERA HOUSE BAR
I Invite all my friends and old customers to
CALL AND SEE ME
I WHJfcsep a full stock of the Best Whiskies, Wines, Beers
«od Cigars, and will always treat you right
ALBERT BERCKENHOFF
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WORLD OWES U. S. TWO BILLIONS
Obligations of Foreign Interests in
This Country Have Reached Amaz-
ing Total of $1,931,000,000.
Washington.—Obligations of foreign
governments, bankers and merchants
now held in the United States were
estimated by the federal reserve hoard
Friday at $l,93i,000,000. They are
distributed in geographical groups as
follows:
Europe, $1,627,000,000; British Amer-
ica, $212,000,000; Latin America, $88,-
000,000; China, $4,000,000.
The board’s statement points to
these figures as striking evidence of
the altered position of the United
States in international finance.
“Much interest,” says the board, “is
now centered on how the United
States will meet foreign demands for
gold should such ^demands arise after
the close of the European war. In
this connection the maturities of Eu-
ropean obligations held here are of
distinct importance. Maturities in
1916, $30,000,000; 1917, $103,000,000;
1918, $260,000,000; 1919, $300,000,000;
1920, $500,000,000; 1912, $200,000,000;
1923, $5,000,000; information lacking,
$229,000,000; total, $1,627,000,000.
OPERA HOUSE CAFE
For Ladies and
Gentlemen
Lunches at all
Hour A
A. E. POLLAK, Proprietor
SHINER,
TEXAS
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Villa Reported at Parral.
El Paso, Tex.—A message received
by Americans at El Paso from Chihua-
hua City Friday reported that Parral,
Chihuahua, had been taken by Villa
troops. This town was given as Villa’s
objective when the bandit moved
south from Santa Ysabel.
Seven Million Dollar Egg Corner.
Chicago, 111.—-Rising prices of food
products with particular reference to
the alleged $7,000,000 egg corner,
which is said to have boosted the
price of that eatable to 45 cents a
dozen and upward, continued to be
the subject of investigation at the
hands of federal and‘city authorities
at Chicago.
BISMARK SALOON
J. H. HUEBNER, Proprietor
The Oldest Saloon in Shiner
Will be glad to meet all my
old friends and customers
FRESH BEER ALMAYSON TAP
Next Door to Walters Bros.
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spent at home reacts in it* benefit*
with unceasing general profit.
_ Sent out of town it’s lif* is ended.
Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of continuou*
benefit. Business men should awake to the importance of keep*®*
this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious advertising
Sweden's Crown Prince Has Son.
Stockholm, Sweden, via London.-
The crown princess of Sweden gave
birth to a son Wednesday.
ThO H®M® the greatest in-
g ffggg terest—the home news. Itseverr
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Habermacher, J. C. & Lane, Ella E. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1916, newspaper, November 9, 1916; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1142368/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shiner Public Library.