WEDNESDAY; AUGUST .21." 1 J i
LA GRANDE EVlNTNa ODSli'.RVEn Mi A t
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PUBLISHED IN FRANCE BY BOYS
OK 18TU ENGINEERS.
Filled With News, llulh Comic and
", I'nthetie 'Homo Sons of
La Grande There. '
As thoro nro not a few fathers
'right here in La Grande who have
sons now in France, members of the
l(Jth. Engineers, a necessary section of
every army, for" without the engineers
to build railroads and bridges, to car
ry ammunition and food to the boys
on the firing line, it would not be pos
sible to carry on the war one single
day, the following excerpts from "The
Spiker," published by the boys of this
regiment, may be of great interest to
them, as well as hundreds of others
throughout the state, who knew these
ayoung men at work on many railroads
of Oregon just a few months ago.
Company C's claim to a record in
steam shovel work by digging 50 cars
after supper between 0 and 7:45 p. m.,
has aroused the interest of men of
V Company, who contest the claim.
If C Company made a record-by
digging fiO cars in an hour and three
quarters, with a mile haul, Captain
Hauser wonders' how F Company's
feat would be characterized. Here is
the ground upon which F Company
contests C's claim:
The record day's digging at tije
, S pit was 702 four-yard cars'
for ten hours, an average of . 70.2 per
hour. And that was done with an
'average haul of -ifiOO feet. The work
was done with a Model GO shovel, in
a cut from three to cloven feet, and
the fill at the dump averaged three
feet. ' :
That week F Company's crew dug
3U7 cars for a five-day run, or an
average daily run of 028 cars for a
ten-hour day, or bcttf r than a car a
minute' for almost a week.
Captain Hauser will wager that the
Sccord will stand, anywhere, under
similar conditions.
Taps Include Lightning Bugs?
Does the order, "Lights Out." apply !
tn glow worms? Private It. R. Stinc,
tf C Company, wants to know. Re- j
VMlly Private Stjnc captured .two;
"lightning bugs" single handed and'
imprisoned them n a glass jar. "i
He put the jar Under his bunk and;
after taps hail blown the other nieht
he set the gilded creatures and their
rlass cage on a shelf at the head of
his bed. Instantly a roar went up.
"Put out that light," "Taps is blew,"
"Put out. the censored, censored, cen
sored light, sn's. I can go to sleep."
Jtut Private Stine came back with
"Why don't you tell me to hang a
blanket over the m8on? These here
nnimals arc glow worms, and 'taps'
means nothing in their young lives."
"Shine little glow worms, glim
mer." This was softly hummed from
'a dark corner of the hut; ' The glow
worms kept glowing and have con
tinued to glow every night since.
Meanwhile several stickers for mili
tary propriety nro scanning the field
regulations to sec if there is nnything
relative to glow worms shining after
"lights out" has sounded.
Soon after the landing of Company
F in France, it lost three of its best
men not from bullets, but from dis
ease, of one nature or another, and,
(itrange, too, out of the entire 18th
Regiment, these were the only losses
sustained.
Captain Hauser, of Company F, at
the time of the burial of the men, de
livered the following tribute to their
memory:
It is with no little difficulty that
I address you on a subject probably
nearest our hearts and yet paradox
ical as it may scorn, one we would all
be glad to avoid.
In the month of December alone,
,ve Inst three more men from our com
pany, William Hancock, December 2,
tuberculosis; Herman Saupc, cerebro
spinal meningitis iind pneumonia, on
December 27, and lastly, December
ill, one of the boys we all loved and
'admired best, Gerald Barrett, in n
train accident. This brings the sum
total of our mortalities up to five, and
lu"" , , f i,
jt can be attributed solely to a freak
of fntc that the only five ncatns m
this regiment of Eighteenth Engineers
Railway, have occurred in the ranss
of Company V. This is one of the in- j
oYtilirnhlo things of life and while!
address ing you ii. hc mess hall the
other night the h.'.p .V thought slruck
me that innsmuih as death had
claimed fine of our best boys. FC i--
had taken them all finm the best com-
pa7i. This is certain!.-' "onaintenl
way of looking ot it, and .illh,Mii!h, it
mi. .mind too cs'itisi'i-al, the i i--
cumstanccs furnish us a justifiable ! whose station is nt Fourth nnd Wnbosh
pardon for thus relieving our fo -lings troots, so enraged him after his ntten
t this time Wo know we havj the tlon wns called to It by Dan Cnstello
sympathy of the entire regiment in that he smashed the "Hun" razor
our run of hard luck. It has been -1 against the court house wall,
pressed to us in so mn,-y different! "I wouldn't shave myself will, any
1 . of )ll0PC ; 1 ruzors if I had
nffirors and enlisted men of E Com-
,111-1 -"I 1
Sany, our brother Company from
Portland. . ,
Every one will admit that the spirit
of F. Company has been developed
to such a high degree, as evidenced
l)y the success attained at everything
we have tackled that our espriHe
corps can never PC oroscn mm ,
not be discouraged. While we are atj
a loss to understand why these calam-,
Itics' should be visited on us. let us re-j
solve that they should only serve U
cement the rest of u? closer together:
and build up our organization to with-
-stand any future shocks wo may be
subjected to.
: May it also serve as a guide for our
actions in the future, so that the un
worthy things we might be held ac
countable for should some familiar
disaster abruptly confront any one of
us, be reduced to a minimum. ' ,
If we will consecrate our future
standards of living and actions to
their memories, then theso five won
derful boys who gave their lives for
thejr country. .
their country The company F Honor
Roll, Meccr, Gramps, Hancock, Saupe,
and Barrett will not have died in
vain.
KENNETH D. HAUSER,
Captain 18th Engineers, Railway,
Commanding Company F.
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VILLA'S STEPSON JOINS
UNITED 3TATES CAVALRY
f
Manchester, N. II. William
Ceraro, aged nineteen, who says
he Is a stepson of Villa, the no
torious Mexican bandit, bns en
listed In the United States cav
alry here.
Ceraco says that throe yenrs
ago, during the bonier uprising.
Villa shot his father and mar
ried his mother. Cernco came
north with the New Hampshire
troops when they returned from
duty on the border.
He says that he likes the
United States so well that he
has decided It Is worth fighting
for anywhere and was very anx
ious to know when he could get
"over there." .
e-o-o-o-o-o
FOB ARMY SUPPLIES
Build Warehouses to Cost $218,
000,000. Permanent Structures; Are Being Es
tablished at Chicago and Other
Places. ,
Washington. Warehouse Construc
tion, completed or in process of build
ing, planned to facilitate the spoedy
handling of materials at storage points
for use of the army, Involves an ex
penditure of approximately $218,000,
000, tho war department announced.
When completed the projects will pro
vide about 33,800,000 square feet of
warehouse space, additional wharves
and piers and Improved harbor berths
at various points.
With few exceptions, the war de
partment announcement says, the
projects are permanent structures of!
concrete, brick and steel. The build-j
lng Is being done under the supervl-!
jilon of the construction division of the
army.
Warehouses have been completed nt
Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Bnltlmore,:
Hohoken, JelTersonvllle, Ind. ; Port!
Newark, N. J. ; Amerlcus, Ga. ; Chicago, !
Dayton, O. ; Richmond, Vu. ; San An-j
tnnlo, and Middlctnwn, Pa. Construe- j
tlon Is under way at New Orleans, Bos- r
ton, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Phil-,'
ndelphla, Newport News, Little Rock,
Ark.; Schenectady, New Cumberland,
Pa.; Columbus, O.; Charleston, &.Cv
and Norfolk, Vn. . . . . . ...
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13 SONS, 17 GIRLS IN WAR
John Ward of North Carolina Has 35
Children Boys In Army, Girls
In War Work.
Tlnlelgh, N. C John Ward, n negro,
of Goldshnro, has thirteen of his eight
een sons In the Ninth nnd Tenth Unit
ed States cavalry, while his seventeen
dnughtcrs are busy with war work.
The facts aro vouched for by Sheriff
It. H. Edwards of Wayne county, of
which Ooldsbnro Is the county sent. I
Ward also probably holds the record j
for quadruplets, says Sheriff Edwards,
who gives the record thus:
Ward was born April 21, 1856, at
Jnldsboro. Ho hns married three ;
times and his last wife Is now living, j
His first wife bore him fifteen chlldron, I
four at one time twice, three nt one time
twice, one at a time once. Ills second !
wife bore him two nt one time twice,
three nt onn time once nnd five one nt
a time. Ills present wife hns borne i
him eight, one nt a time. Ills first j
wife lived six years nnd three weeks ,
after marriage, his second wife eight
years and six months. The number of i
boys Is: By first wife, eight, by second
wife, five, and by third wife, five. Of !
those now In the service seven are by !
I tI1R nrsr. WHO, live q.v ine neconu mm
onc bT (,)c presrnt .fe. Another son
. ,)ns sprvp(1 tllc cnVnlry, but Is now
. vmg nt Wilson, N. C.
! SMASHES HIS GERMAN RAZOR
i Going to Buy Instead One
Bears a United States
' . Brand.
That
St. Paul, Minn. "Made In Germany." ;
j These words Inscribed on n brand j
new razor purchased the other day by
I Tradlc Patrolman Thomns Brown,
to," said Brown.
"Now I'm going to buy a good razor
nnd It's going to be marked 'Slade Id
U. S. A.' and don't you forget It," were
his parting words. ,
Pathway to Knowledge.
Ignorance seldom vaults Into knowl
edge, hut passes Into It through an In-
,prlne,)lnte ,,, of nhn-Ky rvm
nKht ,ntJ dnJ. throngh twnight.coie.
ridge
. .. .
Optimistic Thought
The jreatest saints have their Urns
of faintness.
ttm V
, lit
Out of the Trenches for a Breathing Space
' - ' iV- n'tribWod'''by James Mtgomerjr Flngg. ji
"They Are Our Boys; Get :
Ready, Everyone, for a Rush!''
The long train of freight cars whined
end grumbled as It strove to stop. In
thi. kucnvay of a great low building a
white capped and gowned woman re
leased a sunny smile and, turning bo
ber voice carried Into the building,
called out, "They are oures Bet ready
for a rush." . -
Just bow she could toll they were
"ours" would be, hard to explain, for
at the moment sho spoko hundreds of
the dirtiest, grizzliest men a woman
ever saw came fairly tumbling out of
the freight curs. A moment more she
was welcoming this muddy rabble with
a laugh aud cheering words. " "
HEALTH OFFICE
FIGURES GIVEN
ISIItTIIS A.V DIHOAI'IIS KOIt TWO
MONTHS IX LA GltAXDui" -
- BlltTII ItATHlNCISEASES.
A recent dispatch from Salem
Salem
states that, tho month of July iniido
a snd record In that city, so far as
blrtha aro conwinod, there being
only Tivo births reported by the,
health officer of that district.
In contrast Is tho following list
of births, as well as deaths, III La
Grande for both the months of
Juno and July:
The lecoid of births and deaths,
as shown by tho records in Dr.
Rlcardann's office for the, month of
July, shows mi increauo: ill ,thu
birth r.ito, as u;;ninst Juno, whilo
the death ru.c remains Just nbnm
the 4a;no. . .
In Juno' there wore seventeen
births recorded and ton duutbi-
;In July there wero twenty-tlirr,--
bfitliu and Ion dea-'hs, show
ing an increaa:i of six births, uml
the oame nomlier of diKttiis.
The detailed statements for
months follow: '
Tho -report follows:
r.ii-tbs.
Juno C To Mr. and Mia.
gene D. Seldnr, a son; To Mr
boi !i
Kn.
and
Airs. .John Perkins, a daiiKb'ler.
' Juno 9 --To Mr. and Mrs. Dank-I
A. Carbine, a daughter.
Jim.- !i -To Mr. and Jlrs. Hurry
C. Liiko, a son.
ll--"'o 'y,-. an I Mki. llminan J
Vblarsmi. daughter
June l-.--io .Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
II. Stioil, ii -tup hi-.
Jiinu 1,1. -To Mr. ind Mis. Clia3.
I. Snow, a ron.
June Ii;. To Mi. ami Mi 1.
Fr:ink Tditi In-ll, a hoii.
Juno 2v- -To Mr. and Mrs. Jno.
Zuomlol, a dvightor.
June !M. To Mr. and Mrs.
Oren Hhin 'Wagio-r, a daurhtor.
June :':. -To Mr. and Mrs. Mar
ian Clirfoid WoHver, a daughter.
Juno C,'. - To Mr. nnd Mrs. Ro
liert C. 'iiailhlH, a daughter.
June 2.. -To Mv. and Mis. Jno.
A. Wiseman, n son.
.Juno ';N- -To Mr. ami Mrs. Abra
ham Homy Harntl a daughter.
June; 29. '(o Mr. and Mis John
A. Dnt'iii, .1 daughter.
June- ..11 To Mr and Mis Geo.
Yompb, JaubVr.
June 30 To Mr and Mis Ernest
Lf: Key 11: j ar t . a son.
Ili-Hlhx.
Ji:nc- 11 Nancy Elizabeth Jeii
son. rped XI, yenis.
Jiin. 1!-Jny livurett Fulkeraon.
ager "i yens.
, .lone 12 -Josie Krsne" SeM.
Pifaiii.
"A Great Net of Mercy drawn throuffh
ilkHDMitllMMa.1iaM 13- i
' V ! U
1 IheAmericanlted Lross
Inside the bn'.lding there were more
women, all spick and'-span to white,
with faces beaming, handing out good
."homo cooked" food over spotless tiled
counters. Some of the boys fairly ran
for the food ; others went Into the long
batteries of baths, throwing out their
vermin ridden clothes to be sterilised
while they scrubbed their bodies back
to a healthy glow. : ' ' .
What luxury It nil was food, tables,
chairs, things to read, games to play,
pnper for writing, .n burher. shop, a
movie theater end good, clean beds I
No one ever thought thai, these' bap-
,-;: years. 4 .
J.iiio 13 Stephen uidlow Iiay,
agr-1 (9 years. - '
June. 13-e-Estnltu KllzalioUi Fow-l.-r,
used 5!) ycirs. ' (
June lfi. Elvin S. Gekelur,
aged 53 years. ' '
June 21. Robort Loo Wakefield
aged 58 years.
June 25. John Houghon, ugod
50 years. . ' -
Juno 27. Conrad Strnobcr, used
1!) years.
,iiy Births.
May 28 To Mr and Mia Oscar
iC. IluUcIn, a son, ail Hot Luko.
i June 22 To Mr and Mis D. A.
Snook, a son, at Hot Lake.
' Jtinf 23 Tn Mr and Mrs Frank
Ucchlln, a son,
i Juno 27 To
ILewLs llidler.
La Grande.
. Mr nnd Mrs M..
a daughter. In
i Union.
I July 1 To Mr and Mrs Itouth
II. McKonnon, a daughlur, in
Union.
I July 1 To Mr.
C. Patten, a son,
July 3 To Mr
-K. Dixon, ."v son,
and M:s. Harvey
In La Grando.
and Mrs Howard
in La tirando.
July -I To Mr and Wrs. Win. G.
1 Fleming, a daughter. In La tirnndo.
! July (i To Mr and Mrs Husk do
! Lane, a t;on in La Grande,
j July s To Mr ami Mru C. W.
I Ambrose, a daughter, In L:i
! Grande.
July 10 To Mr and Mis Clando
L. lliisi-k. a dangler, in Union,
j J.luly 11 To Mr and Mrs Giles
D. Van Honsor, a daughter in Ali
cel. I Jnlv 11 To Mr. and Mis Illicit
KAISER-AC1
"CAiN ' ATIILAj :FpIlaTE
i .'A ' & M.' I
1 ILLfmtm
'MiW" H-" " r pirate'
py, smiling women might bo tired, nor
were they tired then, even though all
day long they had been serving train
after train of French and English
troops, literally thousands ot them.
Yet what did that matter? For these
boys that enmo at the end ot a long
day these boys are "ours."
If your boy Is In France yon may be
sure he has a song of praise for tho
tine women at work In (lie railway
canteens of our own Red Cross, for at
every Important railway junction there
Is one of our Red Cross canteens and
at each canteen there aro 18 women
roul, true American women.
L, Connoly, a sou. In Lp, Grando..
" July 11 To Mr and Hra Itobt.
S. Kakln, a sou. 111 La Grando.
- Jnlv l'l --To Mr and Mis Krncst.
Wii'tklns, U. S.'A., a daughter.
July 15 To, Mr and Mrs John
1). McKay, a: diugh'ur, In La
Grandrv
July lfi To Mr and Mis Vornon
Hull, a dauplilur. In Union.
July 17 To Mr nnd Mis Geo. C.
Hanson, n daughter, In La Grim do
July 21 To Mr and Mrs Thos.
McKushlcr, son. in La Grando.
July 28 To Mr nnd Mrs Lewis
W. Smith, a soli, in La Grundo.
July 23 To Mr and Mis Goo.
Albert Hughes, a son, In La
Grande.
July 21 To Mr and Mrs Burmtrd
V. Johnson, a son. In La Grando.
j I leal lis.
j Juno 2!l Conrad Stroubea, aged
'19 yiyirs, In Union.
; June. 22 Daliy Hnook, Inr.-tnt, ut
Hot Lake. .
I July 13 "Mr.-i. J. J. Baker, aged
1 17 years, at Hot al-ko.
S July .14 (ienrgo Phelps, aged
J22 years at Hot Lake.
July lii JiuVhs Mevins, uged
77 yeai'H. at. Hut Lnlto.
j. July 22 M:iry I-Ileanor" Scho
jflold, aged 10 years, at. Union.
July 2 1 W.ildo llolBrord llach,
aged 17 yeain. l-.t. La Grando.
July 21 William Woldon Mc
Cully, aged 34 years, at La Grande.
"Aladdin and tho Wonderful Lamp"
at Sherry's, tomorrow and Friday.
Bring the kiddies and renew fond
memories of your youth. ' H-21-lt
JUDAS NERO
iii ALAR1C
MS
its'-
Y0T PiKEiS
CONFIRMED PROOF
Residents of La Grando Cannot Doubt
' What Has Been Twice Proved
(, lit gratitude for relief , from achea
and pains of bad backs from dis
tressing kidney ills--thousands have
publicly recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills. Residents of La Grande, who
so testified years ago, now. say the
results wero permanent. This testi
mony doubly proves the worth of
Doan's Kidney Pills to La Grande
kidney sufferers.
Ed. L. Bussoy says: I had been
subject' to kidney trouble at. times,
especially when a cold settled in the
small of my back. Dull pains annoyed
me and my kidneys got badly out of
order. About three years ago I began
using Doan's Kidney Pills and from
that time on, I have had something
on which i could rely. Whenever both
ered by my kidneys, ft has taken
Doan's only a short time to set me
right." (Statomcnt given November
20, 1012). On May 25, lftlii, Mr:
Busscy said: "I am ready to back
up every word of my former state
ment regarding my experience with
Doan's Kidney Pills, for I know they
have no equal. When my kidneys get
out of fix, I tnke Doan's and they
novor fail to do good work."
60c nt all dealers. Fostci-Milbum
Co., Mfgrs., "Buffalo, N. Y.
MISSING
ACQUIRING A
PERFECT FIGURE
Most women' who have perfoct'
figures did not liavo them orig- 1
inally. They havo acquired them.
A woman gradually takes tho
shape of her corset so the corset
produced by tho most artistic :
designer is the right one to wear
to secure a perfect figure.
nro most symmetrically and nr
tisticully designed. They nro
comfortable, stylish and grad
ually mold the figure into those
beautiful lines that ovcry wo
man admires and desires.
PAULINE,
LEDERLE
Topless Sport Model
Look Your Best and. lie
Comfortable in a
FkONT LACE CORSET
(he only cornet wild (he pntpnlrd
VENTILE
Back ard Front Shield
Be fitted to the corset designed for
your figure, Thero nro
, LA CAMILLF, MODELS
for every figure. They are always
fitted by a scientifically trained cor
setier. This service goes with the
corset and such comfort.
A full line of the latest models al
ways on hand. . Priced ot $2.00 and
up.
Mrs. Robt. Pattison
Corsetiere -
Res. 1702 Oak. Phnn Red 3221
BeFair
WITH THE
I1UV VOUIt Kl'ITLIKS l-'HOM
a rm.vn.NG oi-'i-tois that
PAYS ITS ritl.VTEII.H AllOVH
Til 15 U.VION' WA(iH Kt'ALK,
. AND IS A t'MON SHOP,
It Is the oft repeated story.
When Peoplo.of I'ulon County
want I'rlnliug (hat is hard to
execute, when they want u JoU
of work douo Unit : i-(MulroA
skill, workmanship, careful
planning and oarnost applica
tion, they, finally come to tho
Ubsorvcr's Job Priming Depart
ment. ...
This office does tho work,
but In nil candor, that Is tlio
class of work upon which thero
Is little profit, and frequently
Koino loss, bccmiso of tho Intri
cate nature anil tlmu-alisorbiug
features of such jobs.
"For Instance, when u Tele
phone Directory is to print or
11 High School Animal, such ns
tho .Mliulr, which is Just Issued,
nro to bo priiitpfl, the Observer
Job Printing .Department Is the
' only office In tho county equip
. mm! with iitiicliliiery, tyio uml
printers to get out tho work.
I'niim county must havo ami
inalntaiii such a printing office,
Hint can do (bo toclilncal, high
class work when It Is wanted.
j!But
Wo respectfully call your at
tention (0 tho. smaller work,
which we nro abiinilaiilly oiiiip
peil to On uml which should, to
n certain exlctit at leusi, go Ut
tlx- office that iiiiiliilains 11 plant
capable nf doing the bard class
of work. In the smaller work
Ibeiii is a profit uml wo respect
fully call upon business firms
possessing home prhln who
luiow upon reflection, that In
order to keep n big plant run
ning it must havo all classes ot
printing. lo not send us your
( I Imii ill. hard print lug, (bat
can not be done, by nnvono olsn
in (bo county, and then send .
your smaller work elsewhere. It
IS NOT I ' A HI. When it comes
to prices oil smaller work, it
stands to re.-iMtn (bat (Ills shop
can 11101x1 than couiH-tn with
liny other concern, for wo keep
n tegular form of oiiniivnieli
printers mid pressman mid pay
these men nbovo (bo I nlou
scale of wages.
If you nro n believer in well
paid labor mid waul In uphold
such principles, send your Jolt
prlntinu to (bis orilie, where it
will be handled at the least pos
sible cost lo you, and at. tho
same lime yon arc assured of n
good grade of work.
Observer
Job Printing Dept.
Printer
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