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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1918)
t h e p o l k c o u n t y p o s t NATIONAL ARMY MEN EAGER TO GET INTO FRONT LINE TO STOP BOCHE . A Som i-W eekly Newspaper. Published Twice a W eek at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Tuesday and Friday Entered as second-class matter March 26, 1918, at the postofflce at In dependence, Oregon, under the Act ol March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year Strictly In Advance; Six Months $1.00; Three months 50 cents. A ll subscriptions stopped at expiration. • __________________________________ "They’ll Make the Finest Soldiers in World,” Says General Over s e a s -S o ld ie rs Determined to Fight to Finish— Snipers Take Daring Chances in “ Pot Hunting”— Negro Troops Furnish Much of Humor in W ar Zone. Even a sm all chew of R eal G ravely Chewing P lu g satis fies. It gives more re a l to bacco comfort than a b ig chew of ordinary tobacco. % Peyton Brand Enough o f the American Nutlonal cally be called murder. The snipers army has urrlved in France to bear don't call It that. They call It pot out the predictions that this army will hunting. I have talked with several be one o f the finest bodies o f military and have beeu on the line with a few. men in the world. I recently went to They wouldn't any more shoot u song O R E G O N C O M E S N E A R TO G E T T IN G A S A L O O N a section o f France where new troops b*r(l or 11 uiagpie than they would kill are quartered fo r final training, writes one o f their own officers, but shooting The Post about three weeks ago received a letter from a Don Martin in the New York Herald. F ritz ucross the line— that's another 10c a pouch— and worth it __ mil- story. It is dangerous business, too. There I saw the vanguard o f the man in Nebraska who asked us to tell him if we knew of lions who were legally selected to serve I Many a sniper is sniped himself. Some last» so m uch longer it costs C ra w ly laats f tlu'm camoutlage themselves and “ a good town iti Oregon that needs a saloon” or if there their country. A general who has o stand to chmw than ord in a ry plu g I for hours in runge o f a thousand been all his life in the army fairly rltles. There is u young American o f was one he could “ buy at a reasonable figure.” He gives glowed in admiration o f them. ‘They are a splendid lot o f boys,” ficer from Massachusetts who is assign P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company us a reason for desiring to come AV est that “ this damn the officer said. “ They are proud to ed to technical work, who spends a day Dannila, Virginia state [N ebrask a] went dry about a year ago.” Twelve be here. They are sorry for the boys and a night each week on the line at home who are not to help in the sniping the enemy. H e does it be cents in stamps was enclosed for a reply and the change great battle fo r democracy. They want cause he likes it. H e is an expert rifle to get right in the line. They realize shot und he enjoys the hazards of his we were asked to use, as he stated it, for the following the I f You Can’t Sing a Cheer-up Thing dangers fully, but that doesn’t wor work and gets satisfaction from killing ry them. They have hnd their eyes Huns. purpose: “ Take a couple of beers on me.” The two best known Hun snipers are opened fully to the wonderful sacrifices The Post in reply told him that there wasn’t a saloon France has made. They have seen tiluck F ritz and C'ruzy Fritz. Black (Judd Mortimer Lewis.) If you are built F ritz Is dead. Crazy Fritz was wound- how the villages are stripped of every- If you can’t grin, in I lie state at file present time for sale, but if he didn’t So you can’t sing thing but the very old and the very ,?6, hut whether he is deud Is not An’ if you frown, gel caught at it he could open up one in almost any Oregon young, and yet they have seen how de- ■ known. Black F ritz harassed the A happy sort You better tliest termined and cheerful the country is. American sector for weeks. H e was a O’ cheenip tiling, Keep out of town, town and get rich in three months, and as a postscript So they are proud to be here, and they *»'ood shot und put bullets now und then You better hadn't An’ in tiie house, are going to make the finest soldiers i through a soldier's armor hat. But one that nine cents wouldn’t buy one beer in Oregon now, let Sing at all; Till it comes night; i day he was spotted behind u log and the world has ever seen.” Tliest let wildbirds A grouch is best alone a couple. Superlatives ordinarily are not per a bullet struck him between the eyes. A n ’ crickets call, "H e was a handsome chap,” said a ■ Kept out of sight. This week we received another communication from mitted by the censorship when refer sniper, An’ let the honey- "und hud beautiful hair, liloude ence is made to Americans. A deeply Why even nights Bees ba-zoom. him. He said he was mistaken in the state; that it was grounded principle o f the American us u girl's and combed buck like u col The little frawgs censorship Is that America, while glory lege hoy’s.” An' flowers breathe Sends cheer-o songs Washington he meant. “ I f he had blonde hair why did you ing in her own idealism and achieve Their sweet perfume; Across tiie I logs; ments, must not forget that France and call him Black Fritz?” That is the way An’ if you're sour, “ Because he hung so much crepe on England have been at war for nearly You better do, An' grumpy blue, W H E N T H E B O Y S CO M E H O M E four years and have set a very high our doors.” if you ain’t glad, A frawg is of There Is another Hun known as standard fo r Uncle Sam. But the su The tiling for you More use then you. perlatives Indulged In by the genera! Foolish Fritz, and a rather pretty story (W illiam Slaveils McNutt in Collier’s W eekly.) To do to help were sincere. H e actually believes the may be told about him. H e is not a If you can’t sing The world along You know what l W hen I get back I ’m going to kick National army will he as fine a lot of sniper. The men in the trenches can- A cheer-up tiling, men as ever stood In a uniform, and n° t tell Just what he is. Perhaps, they Is not to bu st You better go me loose a slab o ’ curbstone off Broadway an ’ eat it. after seeing them and talking with huve figured, he corresponds to uu Forth into song; Hide out, by jing! American football or baseball mascot T h at’s me! Yes’ when 1 get back tlie first thing I ’m to do them in more than fifty villages I H e is a mere youth und he takes dan must say that I think he has prophetic gerous chuuces. He might have been I ’m goin’ to buy me a great big heavy chain, an ’ I ’m goiu’ vision. Folks and Foibles shot u hundred times, but the Ameri All Show Their Mettle. to put one end around my ankle a n ’ the other end I ’m go To praise the National^ army does can snipers huven’t the heart to kill (B y Claude Callun.) in ’ to put around the Times building a n ’ fasten it tight, not imply disparagement o f any other him. "One day,” said a sniper who has wing o f our military force. The mili M ajor Dough has at last given up his pocket kuife. F or a n ’ then I ’m goin’ to say to my feet, I ’ll say: Feet, you tia group has already, in various watched him play uround like u kitten, several years his wife and daughters have been working "lie crawled up over the top o f the can step up and down in one spot if you get restless an clnshes with the enemy, shown the trench and went over to a log and lay patiently to make a city man of him, and they now feel stuff o f which It Is made. The 104th must move, but you ain ’t goin’ to take me no place no regiment, which halls from Massachus- ! on it. H e was there fo r an hour sun that they have succeeded. First of all they taught him to etts, has been decorated by the French ning himself. I had a bead on him all more. W hen he reached the point government for its valor under heavy the time, but what’s’ the use?— a mere wear shoes and suspenders. fire. All the men have made good, but kid. Another time a new sniper here where he didn’t complain much at having to wear shoes all they have done will unquestion saw him and was just about to pick instead of hoots one of his daughters gave him a pretty J E L L Y , J U IC E S A N D J A M ably be equaled by the excellent army him when I said ‘Nothing doing.’ We H e didn’t want to hurt her feelings o f draft men. The latter have the can’t exactly understand what It little pocket knife. L IT T L E E L E A N O R A N D T H E B E A N S physique, the initiative and the spirit. means. About two weeks ago I thought about the knife, so he didn’t say that he wouldn’t carry it give the youngster a scare, so I put Little Eleanor, when asked if she liked beans, replied As one o f them said, “ W e’re not here a I ’d bullet He put it away in a in a very small tree about a because he was afraid of losing it. because w e’re here ; w e’re here because “ Yes, I like beans— J like all kind of beans— green beans, It’s where we belong and where we foot from him. He scampered out of good place, and theu took out his big heavy knife and cut Want to be.” The training they re sight like a frightened puppy. I often some tobacco for his pipe. Although M ajo r Dough knew navy beans and human beiu’s.” ceived in the United States worked wonder if he or anyone else knows — x— that he is living in the shadow of little about anything except the cattle business, he took wondeas in them. ST R A N G E , B U T P O S S IB L Y T R U E In a little village a handsome young death. Maybe the Germans figure they some stock in the new bank and was made a director. A l ster In a private’s uniform suluted learn something from it.* However, (Society Editor, Topeka Journal.) most before he knew it his wife and daughters had him with the grace and snap o f a trained you’ll never catch me killing that kid.” A news item came into this office this morning mention regular. wearing a black hat that was much smaller than the white Negroes Furnish Much Humor. H e had the look o f the sol ing a woman who had six children all married and alive. dier In every line. Humor gleams frequently through one he still kept handy to wear to the ranch. But even a f “ Where are you from ?" I asked. the grimness o f war and much of it — x— H is wife H e nnmed a small city In the North- comes from the negro soldiers from ter getting the new hat he kept the big knife. T. B O N E G E T S P T O M A I N E O U T O N T H E T I N west. •the United States. A particularly dark was humiliated when he took out the knife in the presence Bone Rayer lias bad cold, which he says is ptomaine "W ere you ever a soldier before?" skinned private was overhauled re of company, and the grown daughter wouldn’t have her “ No, sir,” he said, smiling. “ I never cently by a military policeman. It was poison brought on by sitting in his tin motor car with the did anything before hut spend father’s on a country road anti the soldier was beau see it for anything in the world. But M ajor Dough top up. money and get arrested for speeding.” ambling along with his military outfit has a small knife now. It isn’t real small, but is so much “ Are yr.ii glad to be here?” as well as about 150 pounds o f sou- — x — smaller than the old one that the wife and daughters are “ I wouldn’t he anywhere else fo r j venirs o f France. L A T E S T STO RY FROM T H E TR ENCH ES His big knife is kept in the kitchen, and while anything in the world." “ Where are you from?’ asked the po satisfied. A n American hero who had killed a dozen Huns with Seated In front o f a small house, a liceman. he never carries it he sometimes looks at it and thinks of “ Me, sah? Tse from Alabama.” the hack side of his wrist was pointed out to a young wrinkled woman on one side, an aged the good old days. “ Whereabouts in Alabama?” man on the other and two wee chil French girl. She rushed up to him and cried, “ Oh, let me dren playing on the ground In front o f “ Don’t know, sah, exactly, but Tse kiss the hand that killed those Bodies.” “ Y o u ’re sure a him, I saw another young man who from Alabama.” Current Press Comment “ Where you going to?” chump,” said his trench mate later. “ W h y didn’t you would attract attention anywhere. As “ Well, I don’t ’xactly know, sah.” the officer who accompanied me ap tell her you bit them to death.” “ Where you coming from?” proached the young man Jumped to his A Missouri farmer who didn’t use smoked glasses when “ The last place I ’member, sah, ’s feet, snapped his heels together and — x— he looked at the recent solar eclipse is using them now.— saluted as if militarism was in his Barleybuck. Seems to me the train I A P A T R IO T IC D I T T Y I N O N E S H O R T S P A S M marrow. He said he came from a was on went while I's buying a few St. Louis Republic. (Detroit Free Press.) small town In the middle West. I things to tnke back when I go.” K ing George has eaten buckwheat eakes and seen a “ Do you know where you ure?” asked him about his affairs before he A patriotic arm I own, ball game already. W e Americans will have him asking Joined the artny, “ Can’t ’xactly say I do. sah (looking Siiid Jabez, spitting; “ I was In the lumber business,” the around with the feigned erudition of for root beer on his ice cream before this w ar is over.— private rejoined. “ I was getting along an astronomer), but I reckon I ’se some- Kansas City Star. I fractured it and now the bone pretty well— have n w ife and two chil where In France.' Is knitting. The effort of the esteemed New Orleans Times-Pica- The negroes amuse the French peo dren about like these here (pointing — x — to the two near his feet), hut even I f 1 ple. The big black hoys swing along vune to affix the name of “ B uddy” to the American sold knew my business was going to ruin I the country roads singing or smiling. M E L ’S M E L A N C H O L Y M O O D C O M P L E T E wouldn't go hnck If they’d let me. Tm They frequently organize a quartet Ip ier in France is comparable only to the task of nailing an (B v Mcl Moody, Himself.) here to stick It out to the finish and a camion and If the work in which they icicle to a hot plank.— New Orleans States. Synopsis: This is the saddest story ever told of silver you’ll find all the hoys the same way.” are engaged isn’t vitally important stop Senator Brandegee says that women do not need the The spirit o f all Is. as this young beside a road to “ put over" a few di threads among the gold. ballot to take their proper position in this country, hold minished sevenths, better known as denier said. Identical. The men Chapter I: By jinks, it sometimes makes me sore to lumber are here to fight for France and demo barber shops. And they know how to ing that they are already the “ queen bees” of the"United find my lialyeon days are done; the girls don’t look at me cracy. They understand exactly what do It. They are happy-go-lucky wher States. The idea, however, appears to he that a queen bee the Issues are. They understand pre ever found. no more, but smile on boys of 21. The End. is not satisfied if she is only allowed to bu zz— Santa Fe cisely why the United States came In — x — to the war and they will he disappoint N ew Mexican. BAN ON LOAFING ed If peace cornea before every allied P A S S IN G A G Q O P T H I N G A L O N G aim has been achieved. (Farm . Stock Bulletin.) Ord«rs Against It Issued to the Peace Among the first ten thousand N a Officers. C. F. M iller of Beebe has been in Miles City for some tional army men who came here to fill Loafers will no longer find Wabash, In various units may he found men rep time receiving medical attention, lb ' has purchased some Ind., a haven fo r them, tinder orders prairie dog poison from the farm bureau office and is resentative o f every branch o f citizen Issued recently by Sheriff Vrooman to ship. I saw motonnen. farmers, bank every peace officer In the county. They recommending it very highly. clerks, architects, lawyers, manufac provide fo r the arrest and sentence turers, brokers, commission men. car o f every man or boy In the county, penters— In fact, everything. There now out o f school, who does not work. A N H O N E S T * A D V E R T IS E R A Successful Business Career of were men with names suggestive of The public In general is asked to (A d in Clinton. Iowa, paper.) every nationality In the world. Twenty-Five Years help prevent loafing during the war Theae particular soldiers ere In with Germany and Austria, and Is ask northeastern France, where they are ed to co-operate with the offlelala W e have on hand a good supply of going through Intensive training to h.v telling them whenever a loafer Is equip themselves for the front line. used Fords at reasonable prices. They found. The sheriff promises to see 8niperg In the Trenches. won’t last long. that the men either go to Jail or to Far off there was a slight movement the state farm. \. Daebler, Ford Dealer. close to the ground. T w o snipers were watching. Tough to Bo Bumped. “ Go on shoot,” said one. — X— “The war Is producing a slang all "It’s your turn," said the other. H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W . Sears, V. P. Its own." writes a Y. M. C. A. secre W O M A N ’S C O M F O R T H O U R There was a snap of the trigger. “Ton binged him all right—that's tary overseas. “In England, for ex W . S. Kurre, Cashier (S p o rt’s Cousin.) ample. when you hear that a ship was three In two days." W . H. W alk er I. A. Allen 0. D. Butler W hen n woman wants to he really comfortable she kicks Perhaps this salplng might technl- ■bumped’ yon know It waa torpedoed." C L Y D E T. ECKER, Editor. 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