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THE POLK COUNTY P O S T . A S em i-W eek ly New spaper. Published T w ic e a W eek at Independence, P o lk County, Oregon, on Tu esday and F rid a y Entered as second-class matter March 20, 1918, at the postotlice at In- dependence, Oregon, under the Act oí March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Y e a r S trictly in A d va n ce; S ix M onths $1.00; T h ree months 50 cents. A ll subscriptions stopped at expiration. YANK TELLS OF SOLDIER’S LIFE IN THETRENCHES This Mag signal is the Utter “ G T h e tress wonts the sap- ply shop fo send oeer more Gram Uncle Sam w ill Hand Him Real GRAVELY Chewing Ping In a Pouch from Yon The U. S. Mails will reach any man in Uncle Sam’s Service. When you send him tobacco, let it be good tobacco—tobacco worth sending all that long way—the flat, compressed plug of Real Gravely. 0™ Of Pershing’s Veterans Re lates His Experiences. Give any man a chew of Real Gravely Plug, and he will tell you th a t’a the kind to «end. Send the best! Ordinary plug is false economy. It costs less per week to chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of it lasts a long while. C LY D E T. E C K E R , Editor. CHAMPION HOARDER OF THE UNITED STATES ILL EAGER FOR THE FIGH flavor—improve your smoke. G L A D Y S NO L O N G E R LU C E (Philadelphia Record.) Announcement was made today o f the marriage o f Miss Gladys Luce, a Mahnnov township school teacher, to Corporal Marvin .Jones. NO B A N ON M USH A Quenemo girl with a lover in France says she doesn’t care what non-essentials the censor cut out o f “ his” let ters, now, because they dare not cut out the mush. Mush, she lias discovered, is on Mr. H oover’s approved list. MBS. O CCY W A T T L E S H A S B E G U N A SOCK Mrs. Occv W attles has begun a sock for a soldier, which like the war, will hi finished someday. Then, she says, she will begin on tin other s o c k for the next war. T H E B U TC H E R B U S IN E S S IS GOOD IN K. C. It is assumed that tl io Kansas City butcher whose safe was robbed of $600 tin other dav made it back earlv the next morning. M A Y B E . A L L IT W A S W O R TH An Idaho bridegroom asked the officiating minister after the ceremony how much he owed him. The minister replied, “ Oh, whatever you think it ’s worth.” So the bridegroom gave him a dime. ■ — x— O. W H E R E IS T H A T BO Y T O N IG H T ! Where is the boy who hunted about town for l bolt stretcher and a sawdust pump? W H E N E X P L O R IN G IS E X P E N S IV E (Pittsbu rg Leader.) A Missouri livery stable keeper put his hand in a mule’s mouth to see how many teeth the mule had. The mule closed his mouth to see how many fingers the man had and the curiosity of both man and mule was satisfied. QUICK! QUICK! WHAT POES THE H. STAND FOR? There is a man at Poison, Montana who writes his name H. Shure Poppin. SEN D Y O U R FR IE N D IN T H E tJ. S. S E R V IC E A POL'CH OF G R A V E L Y Sergeant, Wounded in France and valided Home, Gives an Account of the Trip of First American Contin gent to France and of Their Entry Into the Trenches— Describes Artil lery Fire and Gas Attacks. Dr. Francis T. Nash, medical director U. S. navy, and ili« wife, Caroline, well known in Washington society, are under indictment by the grand jury in the District of Columbia on a charge of hoarding food. Sergt. Floyd M. Clark, wounded in The following foodstuffs, soaps and fats were found ¿it France and invalided home to Fort the .Nash home by federal officers: 2200 pounds of granu McHenry hospital, told the story o f the men General Pershing led to France as lated sugai,595 pounds of blown sugai, Id pounds of pow- tjje vangUur(j o f me American expedi dered sugar, 0 3 7 pounds of Domino sugar, 122 pounds o f tionary force, ham, 185 pounds of strip bacon, 387 tins o f sliced bacon, “ I enlisted at Fort Slocum, New Vork, and In June, 1914, I went down 07 tins of roast beef, 58 tins o f corn beef, 10 tins o f corned to Galveston and was signed In with beef hash, 50 tins of dried beef, 05 tills of OX tongue, 552 the Twenty-second infantry. It was the way down that 1 got acquaint pounds of substitute lard, 30 tins of Wesson oil, 29 pounds on ed with ‘Duck’ Smith. H e’s on the o f cotton seed oil, 48 quarts of olive oil, 138 cans of sar books now as Sergt. Merle C. Smith dines, 48 cans of Hake fish, 1 can o f tuna fish, 12 cans of from Dubois, Pa., which is out near Pittsburgh. But he’s got such short deviled sardines, 0 glasses o f codfish, 77 cans o f salmon, legs that we Just natcherally called 2 cans syrup, 35 cans o f molasses, 5 cans o f German sau him ‘duck.’ H e’s the best pal a man sage, 2 cans o f lima beans, 25 pounds of lima beans, 3 jars ever had. H e’s got a heart of gold and from the very first off w e’ve shared of apple butter, 6 jars of maraschino cherries, 5 pounds of ind shared alike. And he Is sure some black beans, 8 jars of mince meat, 43 cans o f string beans, talented. H e’s a natcheral born musi Boy, you should hear ‘Duck lOti cans of string beans, 300 cans of Campbell’s soup, 192 cian. blow a bloody cornet. H e can play cans of Franco-American soup,27 cans o f Royal baking any Instrument he can pick up. It don’t powder, 112 cans o f French peas, 95 cans o f sifted peas, make any difference what the instru ment Is, give him five minutes and he 80 cans o f asparagus, 40 cans o f impittjed mushroons, 9 begins to get real music out o f It. cans o f asparagus tips, 2 bottles of cordial, 1 case o f Great “ H e’s always got a guitar with him W estern champagne, I case of Italian wine, 0 quarts of »nd he knows all the music there Is, all them deep Spanish songs you hear whiskey, 48 quarts of California brandy, 84 quarts of down on the bonier and a whole string sherry, 1 can G. W . coffee, 12 bottles of anchovies, 13 cany of ‘Blues.’ By the time he gets through o f Russian caviar, 138 pounds o f coffee, 39 cans o f Old with the Frltzies he’ll know all the music In Europe, too. Dutch Cleanser, 80 cans o f California peaches, 11 cans of “ Along In 1916 they organized the Van Camp milk, 137 cans of Eagle milk, 100 cans o f corn, Thirty-fifth regiment and 20 o f us were taken from each company o f the Twen 20 cans o f candles, 57 cans o f Spanish peppers, 50 pack ty-second, to help make it up. Then, ages of gelatine, 953 pounds o f rice, 2 pints of Solarine, 0 In the spring o f 1917, we were trans cakes o f Bon Am i, 09 glasses of Beach Nut jelly, 5 glasses ferred to the Eighteenth regiment and I went In the headquarters company, currant je lly ,5 pounds o f imported tea, 29 pounds o f black i was made a sergeant Just before we tea, 12 jars o f Libby jam, 5 cans o f cove oysters, 2 pack started across. ages o f macaroni, 68 bags of salt, 150 pounds of loose salt, “ In May the word went around that we were at w ar strength and from 25 pounds of powdered cocoa, 22 pounds o f B aker’s choco that time on we were getting the hot late, 3 gallons of maple syrup, 86 cans o f tomatoes. 8 sews every day that we were going or that we were going to be packages of spagheti, 12 cans of talcum powder, 36 cakes across, moved North, or were going to San o f shaving soap, 1 box Babbitt’s soap, 2 boxes Iv o ry soap, Francisco or some other place. Goes “Over There." 2 eases Naptha soap, 6 dozen assorted can goods, 4 bottles “ But nothing happened until the of pickles, 12 bottles o f honey, 3 cans o f potted ham, 6 cans first week In June, when we got the o f Rex ham, 6 cans o f boned chicken, 1 box o f olive soap, irder to pack up. The dope was that 30 pounds o f gum drops, 20 pounds of chocolate candy, we were going Into camp at Gettys- ourg or at Syracuse. Nobody I knew 186 pounds of assorted soap , 12 cakes of Sapolio, 30 had a hint that w e were going across. pounds of assorted candy, 1 case pickles, 7 pints o f grape Of course, everybody wanted to go but if they had let out where juice, 8 bottles of ale, 38 cans California pears, 23 pounds across, we were going it would have got of prunes, 47 cans o f beets, 2 cans o f W . B. cocoa, 32 cans around In no time. of apricots, 30 cans o f deviled ham, 34 dozen orange, “ W e had a fine train with Pullman cars, they sure gave us a fine trip. marmalade, 38 cans o f pineapple, 16 boxes toilet soap, 90 In France you’re lucky to get a ride cans o f spinach, 12 cans o f cherries and 975 pounds of n a freight car. W e went along easy ind stopped In a lot o f small towns. flour. JELLY, JUICES AND JAM if you smoke a pipe, slice Gravely with your knife and add a little to your smoking tobacco. I: will give Dealers all around here carry it in 10c. pouches. A 3c. stamp will put it into hu hands in any Training Camp or Seaport o f the U. S. A . Even “ over »here” a 3c. st.'.mp will take it to him. Your dealer will supply envelope and give you official direc tions how to address it. P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO COMPANY, Danville, Va. T h e P a te n t P o u ch k ee p » it F reeh a n d C le o n a n j G oo d —I t im n o t R e a l G ra v e ly w ith o u t th :e P r o te c t.a n a c u l E stab lish ed 1 8 3 1 Iment was sent up In the first relief. My battalion was chosen from the reg iment. W e had about 5,000 men going up the first time. W e took up u front about a mile long. “ Well, there was some groaning when we found what kind o f trenches they had handed us. They had mud up to your shoetops and they were lousier than a cuckoo. We went in at night and spent the first few hours getting our dugouts fixed up. “ This first trip in the trenches was only for ten days. But we were glad to get the rest, when It came time for us to be relieved. We wanted the chance to get a bath. “Our trenches were only 800 yards away from the Frltzies and we could see them fine. During our stay In there we got a chance to try some shoot- j Ing, but there wasn’t much doing ex-. cept the shelling from the German trenches. In th a t! ------ t — — In * '- * our * - "“ battalion *- stay we lost sixteen men killed and wounded. T w o o f them were killed by snipers’ bullets and the other seven by artillery fire. “ Well, w e went back to our billets Com ing F o r the R id e in trucks and it was while we were back there that I got shot In the foot (From the Stars uml Stripes.) when a rifle went off. It blew a hole History relates that In my foot. Something got Into It and it don’t seem to heal very fast. There was a young fellow named Hyde, They cut off my little toe, took out the bone and used the toe to plug up Who once at a funeral was spied; the hole. I guess It will do fine If It When asked who was dead don’t grow a toenail on the bottom of He just nodded, and said: my foot.” “ 1 don’t know; I just came for the ride!” Leaving out ttie many-intention- ed and loyal people who have come They Can Sew and Are Being Taught to do real good practical work over Red CroM Work. here, it seems to us that a good Seemingly sane seamstresses o f sen sible sewing circles sometimes say se many of our fellow countrymen— most of them in cit’s clothes, soma verely silly sentences. But don’t you dare make that as- in skirts, and some even in ktiaki— portion in the presence o f a certain “just came for the ride." Rewing circle at room 300, Mason What they are doing over here is building. Los Angeles, fo r although not beyond us. They speak vaguely of single member o f the class would “ uplift,” of investigation," of “co hear you. they would all understand ordinating branches,’ ’ and some what you said. The society referred to Is the Auxil even more brazen speak of “getting iary o f the Red Cross fo r the Hard of atmosphere;" nothing more. Some Lota Their Curiosity. Hearing, a class which has Just been —we will let the reader guess the “ It's a funny thing about that shell-. organized entirely o f deaf women who gender—are so naive as to exclaim: Ing. About the first day we were duck are engaged In making sponge wipes, “ Why, didn’t you know that France ing all the time. Whenever we heard compresses and other surgical necessi is all the rage this year? Everybody shell come over w e all wanted to ties for the Red Cross. is coming over!” know where It struck. A fte r about j And Oh* Did. If that “everybody” referred to the first day we got so used to it that This story comes from the fron t: the millions of the National Army, w e’d never even look around to see In a certain town In France two all would be well; but we rather where it went. Most o f the shelling French girls boarded a tramcar where was done early In the morning or late in was seated a British colonial sol imagine that the young lady—you in the e> entng. A t first, the most of dier, who happened to be a military guessed it—who employed the word had reference to “ everybody worth us had the shakes somewhat. Yon policeman. fe lt all qulvery all over and yon For some minutes the girls conjec while” or “everybody in our set.” couldn’t stop, no matter what you tured as to what the “ M. P.” on his Now, while "everybody worth while” thought about. arm brassard might mean. They fail or “everybody in our set" have their “ Our dugouts had little French ed to arrive at any satisfactory con uses—when in khaki, toting a gun stoves In them. Them French stoves, clusion. however, so eventually one of or an automatic, or (in the case of ain’t no good. O f course, we used 'em | them plucked up courage and, smil the ladies) working in hospitals or and sometimes they did pretty w e ll.' ing sweetly, asked: cantens—we don't see how they can The trouble was that the smokestack “ Qu-est-ce que e’est, m’sleu?” has to be run out the door o f the dug- “ Oh. th a t!’’ answered the unverac- he so useful if they approach the in that spirit. People who out, and when the wind blows that t lous Tommy, It means 'Mam’selle war come over to France without defin way It blows the smoke right back Promenade.’ *’ Then, making good his opportunity ite, concrete, telling work planned Into the trench. “ It was pretty wet and uncomfort-! with true colonial enterprise, he add out ahead of them.people who mere able a lot o f the time, but, boy, I want ed: “ W ill you?”— Pearson’s Weekly. ly drift over here because they have to tell you, I ’d rather he In the trench-, the drifting money and because “ its ' LO N E S O M E MAN. es any day than drilling. the tiling to do," are really hinder “ The only time I ever came real near The lonesome man, who is not love^ ing the cause more than they are to getting hurt on that first trip up was For whom nobody caree— helping it. , the evening before the day we were I W ho never has been turtle-doved Nor lectured on the stairs; We are cheerfully foregoing a lot relieved. A wagon drawn by m ules. Oh, what must bs ills lonesome state They never stopped In the big places; was brought up to take away a lot of of expected parcels from home be Wrhose pillow is a stone. >ve went through most of them nt eats we hadn’t used and I had a de cause we are told that they take up Who staggers on to meet his (ate, ■light. Finally, we got to Hornell, N. tail o f seven men out to load the wug- Unguided and alone. too much space in the ships destin ?. And that was where we got the on. W e had the wagon almost load ed to bring men, steel, beef and the The bachelor—that human crab *eal dope. The word came around ed when the shells began to come over. W ho goes through life a-scowl, other rock-botom essentials of war :hat orders had come to hold up the But they were going over our heads Who at a fleeting Joy may grab over to us. It doesn’t add to our To drop It with a growl. rains because the ships had not reach and we didn’t pay much attention. That fellow all alone who wends cheerfulness to see our forfeited ship 'd their docks. Then we knew we Then M ajor Duke came along in His way to anywhere. space taken up by a lot of folk who were going over, and, boy. I ’m telling the trench not a great ways front us j Counting some noees as his friends. Though nons of them may care. you there was some cheering. “just came over for the ride.” , and he yelled o u t: ‘You boys better "W e went on bonrd about eleven come out o f that. One o f those shells [The Stars and Stripes is publish The lonesome man, sad Is hit loti » ’clock at night, and that same night w ill fall short pretty quick.’ ed in France by American soldiers.] Cheap is his poor estata ive started out, but were later held up “ W ell, we only had a few more boxes for several days. I don't know what to put on and I says, ‘Throw on the tvp were waiting for, but when we rest lively, boys, and beat it.’ started out we had a convoy o f war Just about then old Frltzie sends ships. In' our company we had a Dan one over. fo u know you can hear ish lad whose father was a sea -cap them cornin’, and you can tell Just tain. This Dane kid had been In ev about where they w ill land from the ery port in the world. Just as soon sound. I knew this shell was going as he saw the port he says: ‘W e are to come near fo r it sounded loud. I going into the port o f ----- . That had kept my uniform pretty clean and didn’t mean much to us, but ho told when I heard that shell, I sure did us It was in France. hate to throw myself flat In that mud “ W ell, boy, I wnnt to tell you It Is e were standing In. the prettiest place In the world. It Takes a Chance. looks Just like a picture, a handpnlnted W ell, I took a chance and didn't I picture. It Is the prettiest town I fa ll flat. I bunkered down and so did ever wnnt to see. the rest of the bunch. The shell ex “ W e were at that enmp fou r#en ploded right over our heads about day and while we did quite a ^ot o f 25 feet In the air, I guess. Something drilling, we got liberty to go back to hit tne on the head and knocked me the town, and we began to learn their over and my tin hat fell off. lingo. They wouldn't let us spent! “ I grabbed the hut and we beat it much money and at that time they fo r a dugout. The driver o f the V.ag- didn't know how much money we got, on beat us In. though. H e sure hnd so prices were cheap. the shakes fo r a minute. I looked at Into tha Trenches. my hat and It had a big dent In It “ W ell, w e got the kinks out o f our where a piece o f shrapnel struck. Tw o selves during the two weeks we stayed other men in the detail, messengers, at that camp. I guess there must o f had holes cut in their blouses by fly been more men coming over, because ing bits o f the steel, but none o f us one night we gets the word to be I were hurt. Boy. I sure was tickled ready to move on the next day. They j when I found I wasn’t hurt none. The moved ns In box cars. W e were two : luck o f It was that It busted so high days and two nights on the road and in the air that the bullets had kind of must have gone about 450 miles; it , . lost their power when they hit us. was a swell trip, The country looked Qne o f U)e four mule9 on the com- great at that time o f the year and we i hat wagon was h it One o f his fore were loaded down with flowers all the ; legs was broken and we had to shoot time. j him. "W e went Into camp a t ----- , which “ It was the first trip np for that U about four miles behind the front i guy that was driving the mules and line trencher W e were billeted In you should have heard him swear barns and stables from Saturday nntil when he found out he was all righ t Monday night, when we took oar first “ W e had one gas attack. H a lf the trick In ths trenches. Oar division men were on guard and half asleep was feeling fine and they all wanted to when the patrol runs In and wakaa ns gat a chance at fighting right away. np and makas ns pat on oar masks. Thera were four regiments la our T w o o f oar men ware knocked out by f e e wd tag ooa battalion from sack rag- the gns. bat they recovered. j CLASS FOR DEAF WOMEN W ho never Alls a family pot Nor shakes a furnace grate! And yet—somehow he seems to be Astonishingly fat! Perhaps he's not so lonssome as W e think he Is. at that! —Richmond Ttnies-Dispatch. W h ere A n sw er M igh t Be Found Highway Engineer Nunn assured the commission that he can lay a pavement equal to any patented Hadn’t Seen It. pavement at less cost, « 1 11(1 the com W lfey— I tell you It takes a smart mission has authorizd him „U> go person to get the best o f me. Hubby— I don’ t know. What Is the ahead. Why was this not done at tIre very start? Other states have best o f you? laid first class unpatented pave ments. and Oregon had only to fol Her Preference. “ Would you reform a man to re low’ their example.—Portland Tele form him?” gram. “ Not If I could get a man who The answer to this question might didn’t need reforming.” lie found in knowing who own the Its Drawback. control of the stock in the Warren "Money Is the root of all evil." Construction Company. — Benton “ That’s not the worst o f It. It 1* the hardest o f all roots to get to County Courier. grow.’’__________________________________ The Independence National Bank Established .1889 A Successful Business Career of Twenty-Five Years INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. « • D. W. Sears, V. P. W. S. Kurre, Cashier W. H. Walker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler