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THE ONTARIO ARGUS, ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 101 HOSTESS HOUSE FAMILY REUNION How It Happened to Entertain Only A. E. F. Mother Who Visit ed Army of Occupation. People Are Coming to the Golden Rule FOR SUMMER NEEDS Because They Know They Will Get The Right Goods at Lower Prices BIG CORPORAL DUTIFUL SON. No Knightly Courtleri Ever Acttd With More Gallantry to Lady Fair Than Old Ha and Hie Doughboy Pale to Thlt Little Whit Haired Woman Dress ad Exqulaltely In lack. By GRACE GOULDER. (With the American Y. W. C. A. Over eeae.) ObMbBBj ficrnmiiy. March 2H (By Mall.) Ii i 1 1 1 i -ti i i'IkIh bbw iii OtMw A Mu corporal came Into Hal I W C. A. Hostess House nml asked fur the director, MaM Itutli WoodsmaH. who comes from ( oliiiiiiln HBflafa, Cnlo. "(.'oillil my mother stay here?'' he begun ill BBCB, trying his BBM t.. cowi lila excitement "Your mother !" km-imm! Mis Wood amall. "How Old your mother hit get hero?" "Well, alio lan't hern ytt, but If alio MM) will yon BMP her?" i if course I will, but " Sin- didn't IIiiInIi, fur tin- boy bad smiished bU cap burk oil bin bead mid wae out of the dooi on a run. Tln ruriHiral'e villi remained a my triy for two diiyn. Then one evi'iiliis JurI at dusk h Hub- white bnlriMl wn iiinn dressed exquisitely In bbirk ap peared In thn sitting room of tin' Host iss linns.., and the corporal wiih hover lull bi'blnd Iiit, trying to be beside lnr mid Inn U of Iiit mid In front of her all tit once. He wua carrying hoi ii big fur one Willi t ln-iii wore throe doughboys, pnli of the cm-por. ' They trli'il to keep hi tbo liiickgrniiii'' bill their cyei were glued on her fine KveiMuie In ibe Kitting room nlteiilloii. There art no I apeuklng mill or women out of ml form In Ibe Third Army urea. . here was a unman In civilian clothe Mothers lire unhenrtl of with theiirni) Hill lbl MM u mother, everyone l,mw After awhile someone fann J a .1 bout ibis moilnr Had Been Interned During War, She and her husband, MM iere I ..in In (ieriniuiy, but bad been lull urullxed. lived III Han Francisco I'.e fure Ibe war Ibey left for Wei-linden, i.i-i iiiiiny. ihiii their Invnlbl hi' ' II uiliibt haw ireutniuiit at Ibis laptnw beallb reaort. 'I lu-v brought their other children wlili Ibeiii. one wua Waller, a amull hoy, and the other wan It n 1 1 li . now . .1 1 mm n I Slepp of lbs Ainerbiili Army When the war waa declured they seiii Itulph buik to America, I use be wum of mllliary age, ami they did not want ti tin to tight for the kulaer Then America ciileicil Ibe war Mr- Sic. Mra. Anna Stepp ahe la told tbla part of the atorjr . "I'nill n mi. nth ago I hiuln i h.-.u.l f i ..11. Italpb for two years and a half I'irii before America got In the war mall waa held up. I didn't know whether be wan In the army or mil but I waa sure be waa, hecuilsc well becuuau be la un American ' Here she siu.H'd a minute to smile up in inn, "After awhile we heard fn.m B f i lends that he waa In the army mid that he had come over here. Thai wua all I ever knew. It'a Dearly five year Ince 1 have seen html "l If course It waa awfully hard 1 coil. Ini get word to blm und he couldn't to me. My huabund used to tell me It wouldn't help Itttlph any for me in cry ' tried Dot to before the real of them anyway. My daughter got worse sieuillly she Is no better We . 'oi.blu't lift Ibe roer fiMid for li.-t afn-r awhile And she haled lo ne worried uboiit Itulph, ao I uaed '.. keep lip beforo tlieUI. "Ijtst Juuuury my hueband came In (i.lileii. id... ui lua cltlleu papera. An American aoldb - In Ralph's company who waa In the office heard his name ui"l asked him If he waa any relation In Halph He didn't tell him Italpb I'utileni but weut after ltlb lie didn't tell Halph bis father was bete. When they met they couldn't l,.llee their eyeg. - Kn-r since then I have been trying In aee Itulph. He couldn't come lo V . i.sl. adeii because It wai out of the American area, and I couldn't gel II. rough until today more than two months." They asked her If her Halph had changed much In all that time lib. yes ery much Hut do you know, I think it Is because all thai long time when I didn't know where he waa or how he waa I gut In (In habit of thinking of blm as he was w ben he was a baby I kept sewing him aa a baby ynl remembering the way he felt when he waa little. Ian't that queer? And now look at blm:" Ami the corHrul tried not to see the dorutlon In her eyea. "Kite yeurs la a long time to wait to aa your hoy," ahe murmured, and kept her eyea on him. Again ibe had forgotten the people around her. It.- corporal cleared bis throat "This la why I aik d you If you could ki i p my mother, Mum Woodsuiall. I dii'n't want her to couie unleas ahe bad good place to itay. Ah, thanks awfully." And that ia the etory of bow the Hostess House happened to entertain the only known A. B. F. mother win tuu Vialtsd the uttuf of WccupsUloU. fe Le7l Wrrf I isris Not t-trccp Tear. Good Items for Men at Money Saving Prices Summer I'mmis $1.00 Either Knit or Athletic Style Good WoA Shirts 7o Si. ft Summer Dren shirts $1.00 (Suit Oollara) Mill's Blue Bib Overalls $1.6r. Qood blue color and well made W.-.ist Oreralli $1.50 Good Work S.ix.'J pail's 2i Black and White Dreei8ox-2pairi .. .25 i. u's Work Gloves, a grea! ralue . . $1.00 Either Gauntlet or Wrist SPECIAL Men's Athletic Unions . 59c Tho many frlemU f MIhh Ku-Ui. Ilrimn iBBdered her a iiiUii.IIiiihoi' Kliownr Tuoaday eenlug at UM BBBM of Mra U Aduui Many b tlful and uaeful Kllta were aliowureil ipofl the projective bride The liouai' waa laatetully decorated In fattt und ureon During the eit-ulng nau lial numhera were loiitrilniled by Mlaaea Viola llUhted and IUh.Ih Ki. laou and MeHdain f, i i'Ibiiio and Larue lilarkuhy At the cloae of l!i .vfiihig dullrloua refn-'liiiiiiiiii wert aerved by the hoataaa. DEMOCRATS ENDORSE MEASURES ON BALLOI AImi l.ave Approval of W k"'' ' X- Hi. iin Krn.l Drl.gte lo alatr I.-iliiK al I'urWaud Laal Wek. Endorsing the Irrigation and brain age Bend meaaure and the It. veil Highway proposal, aa well giving their approval of the leagu of Natioui, tin- DBA "laiii: CB Coninilttee for Malheur county cloat-l .ling ,.l ' 'il The mueiing wtin furlhtr In i' reaolutlon by Instructing lie delegie to the meeting of the Slate l'eiiii.1 aWitt to vote lu favor of p lulions thai utlglit be endorst-d fav oring theaa meaaure and the league The resolution were prepared ami presented by a lonnulltee compoKi-d of H t' Eaalliani, Vale, and K H Test and J K BjlBBlBBf f Oularlu H II Deartnoud of Vule waa IM .1 to alt. ml Mu ii lug of the S'ale leutral coinuiltiee at Portland which was called to al-' new national coii.inliteeman for 0 gon to auceed W II Uorninrouk wl j recently moved to Vancouver, Washington You are Sure lo Like Warners E, Corsets $1.00 to $4.00 Every oim boated with Warner! ftunoui double boning which strongly nip pints ;ii id ;it (lit- same tiliir is very liht ami flexible. Every Pair is Guaranteed Large !' to Rust, Break or HAY GRADING WILL BE 4 'dill i. K.I flub Offira I.immI llflln- in Hay UroHCVk ami Ht.Hkiiirn aa HimtH I..I M.-. i iii llii For Uie piirpi-i ui i.uliiig tbl problem of hay grades and pi i meeting will be held In IB. CoBSflUJf clal club rooms al ;t o'clock Salni day afternoon to which Hit men und the hay growers of this sec lion have been Invited TJie mi lug waa culled upon the suggestion of u number of hay growers in ilie Ontario and Nyaaa section who nlxe that some effort should be nm.l to put their Industry upon a hSMBf footing. The call for the me.lliig-1 slgnul by the Ontario OBBMMNW bJbS which at the request of the hay men offered Ita good offices to assist in bringing the stockmen und hay grow ers together, believing O1..1 1 judication of differences thai have heretofore existed will In ! 1.1 m-ni to the entire communn following Is the ciri ular li ter which waa sent form g 1 ami . xpluina In detail the purpose, of iin- meeting, to wl.n :. 11 1 I ed a large number ot MuMfcBM hay growers will ion 1 Iteallring lliui tl.c pru ii.rity "f Malheur fount) Is primarily d- p. n '. eut upon the I lii'i'i ". and that the welfare of IS entii community will he MVBMBi h' l tual good will and better fp Of)W I Hon bwtwoen the stock men anil tin hay growers of tho couuty. a Ing of Hit- two Interests is ifgfi Saturday Specials A food Turkish Towel, 2 for 2Do Golden Rod Washing Powder . size package for mi iiiiiul early. Memorial Day STORE CLOSED ALL DAY As i tribute to our Old Boldien and - timsc who liiiuir the Supreme Sacrifice in tin' lat World Conflict- we will keep mi STORE CLOSED ALL DAY. Our Special Muslin 19c a yard A good longcloth Bniahed Muslin, ' Inehea wide, excellenl for Undermiwliti MAKE IT RIOMTo IBS end that the great udvuiiluK1 which Mulheur I'ounty offers for the raising and feeding of slock may Bt readied 10 the fullest exi.-ui ' Kvery feeder, who operatea III this region, without making Die pi .1 It to which he Is entitled, makes a loss not only fur himself but for tin' 1 ..mu unity us well, and every stock .nun who lulerlumlis 1 1 r wlthoui i.btalnlng the highly profitable re turn which Hie fa wimble climatic toudltlons should luaure, not unit 1 loatw personally but Injures the in duslry he Is engaged In. and conse- lUilill) the welfare of ISS 'nuililu nliy "That better methods may In M lowed und a consecjuent increu .- train muds, thai through the Intro .1 ii. 1 inn of grinding maclilnery u por tion of our hay crop may be made In to meal and a gain thernhy 11. 1 that better unit hods of cutting, cur ing and stacking hay may be encour uged und the feeding value of sum. thereby enhanced, that the hav growers who put up a first class pro duct loiitalning the highest feeditiK value will he rewarded accordingly and the merit of llielr product NBSI nixed is uf ih- meeting ! r iiresetit practiii' H.. farmer who puts up a prime article of hi. "Ivm a lesa net return for BUM than the one who puts up a poor iu..' Ity of h-tv tln.-s, and It H deslntl to be ascertained whether ihrouKh . gaj eratlim of Iho two interests this cm ditlou cannot be remedied Willi these purpose In view; you are inwii.l to attend a Joint IBS ferent e of hay growers and stock m 1 t.i bo Inhl in tin Ontario 1 uininer 1 lal flub room.-, in the city hall ..I P m Saturday. May 31 Aa it 1. Impossible for us to get letters ti. til growera and stockmen, we would al so appoint you to notify uu many of the above as you may happen to see above date will be Flag l:y in Ontario and you will be able to enjoy the celebration planned for that date.' The Right Kind of Summer Clothes al Lowest Prices New Summer Skirts $2.48 to $4.9,? Piques, Gabardine and Nefi Fancy Weaves. New Waists $2.98 and $4.98 New Suits $22.60 Stl t dresses I4.W 19c & Special Purchase: Women's 9 inch Whit" Buck Lace Bool for $4.95. This is uiil niie ui mam items where our tores linyine,' power ami selling for cash, are hie, factors. Women's Gunmetal Lace, grey cloth top $2.M Buy a pair while tin ij lat Shoe Findings that are Money Savers! Shinola and 2 in 1 10c Romni i.u.h, in, in. Shoe Laceal for 5c Mi I IB Round Laoesj 10 in., 5c S'uwhitt- 25.: Black .r Tan SI Dw 25c Mule ' STORES BIG REDUCTION SALE STARTING SATURDAY. MAY 31 Startling low prices on the following lines: CH1LDRENS DRBS8B8 from I to 14 yearn. LADIKS APRONS and houne dresses. WAISTS in georgette, erepe it chine and pongee. CORSETS now is the time to get your new corset below cost as we are closing out this line. COMBINATION suits in erepe de chine. CAMISOI.KS and bloomers; a limited numher MILLINERY below cost (except our new white line' trimmings, etc. SALT TNDS SATURDAY. JUNT 7 Just received a new shipment of silk hotjg, knit underwear and the popular seal pax In) ladies. STYLE SHOP Georgia Hull M H Shoes at Prices You Can Afford to Pay. MENS Skin Work Shoes $2.98