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THE POLK COUNTY POST. A Semi-W eekly Newspaper. Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Tuesday and Friday issue DESCRIBES BRUTAL BY HANDKERCHIEF CERMAH PRISOHS life Entered as second-class m atter March 26, 1918, at the postoffice at In Aviator, Stranded in No Man’s French Soldier Tells How Huns Land, Faces Fire of dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Fed Prisoners Food Even Friend and Foe. Subscription {fates: $1.50 a Year Strictly In Advance; Six Months |1.00; Three months 50 cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. Dogs Refused. WAVED SIGNAL TO FRENCH TREATED WORSE THAN BEASTS CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. The Germans can soon be looking over their available material for the first president of Germany. By Fact Running Sergeant Baugham Reaches Comrades in Safety_Is Rewarded With Military Med al by the French. Rendered Half Insane by Hunger Men Fight Among Themselves for 8craps of Food— Sawdust „ and Straw In Bread. Let a man once get the pure clean taste of Real Gravely Chewing Plug—and he bids ordinary tobacco good-bye. Peyton Brand Real Gravely Chewing Plug ?**-- __ --- - 10c a pouch —and worth it Washington.—Flight Sergeant Jamas Bangor, Me.—In contrast with the The food admnistratiou says that all dishes are just as H. Baugham of Washington, who was anxiety or willingness of the German Gravel y last» to mach longer it cost» transferred from the Lafayette esca- soldier to fall captive to the allies, so palatable with the amount of sugar reduced. How about drllle • to chew than ordinary plug to the Purls Ajr Defense squad often manifested, Is the declaration of ron, has been reported a prisoner in Gaston Julian Defolrdt of Woonsocket gooseberry pie? ... •. >■ . . unofficial advices to his mother, Mrs. It. I., now visiting relatives here, that f , B. Gravely Tobacco Company Mary A. JBiyigham, president of the he would much rather die fighting on Danville, Virginia The governor’s “ consolidation committee” has made Dixie Agricultural company of Wash the front line than to go through such ington. Sergeant Baugham Joined the pulps arid miseries tjs he endured In its report and recommends that nearly all state officials Lafayette escadrllle In 1917 when he two years spent In a German prison be appointed by the governor instead of being elected by was eighteen years old and won the camp. Defolrdt, who Is twenty-?ou? • C v . ' ’ ’ ~ v ; v “ IT GOT MY GOAT! o Military medal, the highest French and well educated, was visiting In the people. The people do make great mistakes frequent honor to noncommissioned men. France when the war came and very ly when it comes to choosing officers, but they will The Incident that earned the ser soon he was In the ranks. On the sec (William Slavens McNutt in Collier’s Weekly.) „ geant the medal was described In a let day of his service at the front he measure up most of the time with the ones that the gov ter he wrote recently. Pnying tribute ond “ It got my goat,” the ambulance driver said shakily. was wounded in the left ear by a frag to the wonderful spirit of his French ment of shrapnel and three days later ernor would appoint for political purposes. “ I had four couches in the bus, three guys with badly frac comrades. Sergeant Baugham said: he was taken prisoner. “We had been sent out to patrol With many other prisoners he was tured legs—one of ’em had a shattered hip—and a fellow of the German lines and to at sent to the rear, and there they were PERTINENT COMMENT OF THE NATION’S PRESS bock tack anything enemy we saw. Having loaded like so many cattle Into freight that was bleeding from the mouth a little when they put Incendiary balls In my gun, I was pre cars and started on a seven dnys’ ride him in. But he thought he’d be all right, so I came along. pared to attack a German 'sausage’ to the prison camp at Altengrabow. CHICAGO NEWS: Occasionally a truthful man goes or The three fracture cases were yelling when they were put observatory balloon. Just as I was “At every way station where the fishing. beginning the descent to attack, I saw train stopped,” says Defolrdt, “the into the ambulance, and whenever we’d go over any kind a Boche airplane going in the direction German people gathered round and our lines to do photographic work, threw stones and spat In our faces. of a "bump they’d scream, so I was just easing* along els BALTIMORE SlIN: Some fellows think the first syl I of put on full speed and signuled to the We were subjected to all sorts of In slow as I could go. lable of patriotism is spelt pay. other planes to follow. They evident sults. Many of us were wounded, yet “ I ’d been crawlng along like that nearly an hour when ly did not see iny signal, for they we got no attention whatever, being go down with me. When I got given scarcely food enough to keep us I heard a knock on the window behind me. I opened it KANSAS CITY STAR: The crown prince is receiving didn’t 100 meters from the Boche I started alive and mnde to sleep on the floors and found the fellow who’d been bleeding from the mouth fewer congratulatory telegrams from papa. firing. The enemy replied by turning of the dirty freight cars. in horrible shape. ‘I ’m bleeding to death, buddy,’ he loose both guns at me. I must have finally we found ourselves In says. ‘Get me to a doctor quick.’ ‘The nearest doctor ‘s got him, however, with the first blast, the “When German prison enmp conditions St. Louis Republic: The crown prince made little for when I pulled up to make another were worse rather than better. There Paris,’ I told him. ‘And if I open her up these fellows dive he was silent. progress until he shifted his gears into reverse. “Then something happened that were about 25,000 men at Altengrabow, with the fractured legs—What about it, fellows?” I asked would make the guodest man on earth all nationalities mingled. We were them. ‘Let ’er go,’ the three of them said. ‘W e’ll get by.’ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Who will dare cuss, and as I am not one of the best, guarded by {lerman soldiers who had So l threw her wide open and came into Paris hell bent. Incapacitated for sendee at the during or after the war to return the rails and the wires you can Imagine that I left little un been front and who on account of their I left the fellow who was bleeding at one hospital and said. My motor stopped absolutely to unlimited and private control? dead. There was only one thing for me wounds were revengeful toward us. had to take the other three to another. After I left the Dogs Refused Prison Fare. to do and that was to dive, lose the fellow who’d been bleeding so bad it struck me all in a and try to volplane to the “It would be difficult to picture In WASHINGTON STAR: For the particular benefit of Boche French lines. As I went past the Ger words the awful conditions prevailing heap that all of that awful ride not one of those three fel t he all highest it is suggested that some of his spies make man machine it immediately came In that camp. Our diet consisted for lows with the fractured legs had as much as muttered a down and, putting some nice steel very the most part of hot water and de a surreptitious chart of St. Helena. close to him, I did all the acrobacy I cayed vegetables—they called It soup. moan. As soon as they found out I had to get in quick had ever learned. When I had finished Sometimes we were given herbs mixed with this chap they shut up tight, and not a word from OHIO STATE JOURNAL: When out in society we I found that I had come down from with grass to eat. Under such treat of them all the way in! I cut loose and cried like a discuss the situation from Swossong to Rome; when in our 10,000 to 1,000 feet and there was no ment the strongest men soon fell sick one kid. That got my goat!” Boche in sight. and were scarcely able to move about. own telegraph room, from Soizons to Reems. The smell of this soup often was ee Alone in No Man's Land. “I then looked around for a place to nauseating that men held their noses FOLKS AND FOIBLES KANSAS CITY TIMES: When the kaiser speaks of land. I saw a fairly good place off to while eating i t Dogs would take one sniff at It and refuse to e a t “ my faithful” allies,” he means Austria, which he is hold the right and made It. I then stepped At times the men became so des out of the machine—right on the face (By Claude Callan.) mg by the hair; Bulgaria, which he is sitting on, and of a dead Germnn. It took me a min perately hungry that they caught and Henry Nimble liked to be with his girl in the moonlight, Turkey, which has just made a break for the window. ute to realise what was happening and ate rats and even a dog. Occasionally I awoke to the sound of bullets whiz we were given herring broth, made by but he says that when a young man he never was happier zing past my head. That didn’t disturb boiling whole, uncleaned herrings Into JELLY, JUICES AND JAM me much, because I was wondering a thin liquid, the heads, hones and and sadder than he was one day when he was with Alice why somebody hadn’t burled the Ger scales of the fishes being served with late in the afternoon. They were in a very small buggy the rest. One of the prisoners was op MY, WON’T THE GIRLS GET BADLY SUNBURNED man. Looking around, however, all I erated on for appendicitis after his and were on the way to town from the country home of could see was dead Germans. It sud “ Membership in the Y. W. C. A. entitles girls to become denly dawned on me that I was In No transfer and four herring heads were Henry’s sister. As a rule Henry let one foot swing out of lodged In his Intestines, privates in the military department, the uniforms con Man’s Land. Of all the places there found the buggy, but on this occasion he put both of his feet on “I have seen prisoners, rendered half are to land In France and Germany I sisting of an arm band and a trench cap.” the dashboard. Of course he would not have done this if Insane by hunger, fighting among them had to land between the two. —x— "Then I realized what a predicament selves for bits of food. If one’s ra Alice had been nothing more to him than a friend, but as I was In and began to think up some tions were stolen or taken from him by they were engaged he felt that there could be nothing FOR 'THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE to get out of It The thought came force and he complained to the guard A country merchant whose goods had been missent way to me that If I was nearer the German the answer would be: “Why, are you wrong in his taking the liberty of putting his feet on the wrote to the general freight agent suggesting that he im lines thun to the Frpnch, I had better not all friends—allies? Surely there dashboard, and he wanted them there for two reasons. can he nothing to complain of.’ When prove the service by replacing some of the bonehead em get rid of those Incendiary balls In my the neutral commission would visit the In the first place he liked to slip down in the buggy so his pocket, for If the Germans catch you ployees with jackasses. with them you are shot at once. I camps the prisoners would be given a head would he lower than Alice’s. He had a notion that —x— climbed back Into my machine to the short cut of frankfurter sausage and she liked him better when she had to look down to talk to tune of bullets and took out a load of a lump of bread, so that It might ap HINT TO THOSE WHO WISH TO ECONOMIZE him. Two or three times he pretended that he was asleep over fjpO cartridges, threw them on the pear that they were fairly well fed, A Dodge City, Kansas, man has become so economical ground and then removed my compass just to see if she wouldn’t take the liberty of touching his 8awdust Bread. that, after washing his hands, he dries them on the kitchen und altimeter. "This bread contained all sorts of hair with her hand, hut she didn’t. His other reason for “The first thing I struck was n grave, stuff, such as potato peelings, straw curtains in order to save the towel. unfinished, with two of the enemy in and sawdust. All prisoners were made keeping his feet high was so she would not lose sight of —x— it. I eased myself down into It, lifted to sign papers Indicating their willing his shoes. They were his first pair of button shoes, and up one of the Germans and put the ness to work. If they refused to sign while they were real large he felt sure she would admire A CHANCE TO SNICKER beneath him. I started they were severely punished. The men Miss Tickle is a clerk in a Missouri bank. Now giggle. cartridges walking hack to my machine. As I supposed that they were to engage In them. Henry and Alice did not know how beautiful the — x —- got near It the Boche lines started farm work, but were sent to coal country was until they saw it at sundown. Every time their mltrallleurs and rifles at me, and mines, salt mines and munitions fac CONNUBIAL BLISS IN TEXAS the French, unaware that I was one of tories. I refused to work In a muni they passed a farm home, Henry wished he owned the “ Did your wife vote?” the Texas man was asked. them, also opened up. I had to walk tions factory and was tied to a poet place and could sit on the porch every evening with Alice, “ Twice,” h replied meek and lowly; “ My wife went down 500 feet between the Hues and It was for three hours. One group of pris and she felt that if she could sit there with him she never Joke with all that fire concentrated oners who persistently refused to and voted and then brought home a marked sample ballot no In my direction. One bullet passed so work were told that they would be would care to see another human being. She would want for me, and then I went and voted.” close to my face that I really felt the shot and were placed under a special to know that her parents were happy, but she would not wind. I decided that I’d have to go to guard. At the end of 11 days, during —x— one of the lines, enemy or friend, but which they momentarily expected to want to leave that little house and Henry even to see them. CHEER FOR THE HOME GIRLS Just then I heard a machine overhead. be executed, they were told that their When they reached Alice’s home she gave Henry his hat, (By Top Sargeant Leonard Fainter.) I looked up and saw white puffs break lives would be spared. and after telling her he would come Friday night to take These reports of American soldiers marrying French ing out all around It. “While in prison I slept on the same her to the party, he drove away. At the party Alice met Signaled With Handkerchief. cot for 18 months and In all that time girls is all twaddle. I don’t know of a single man—or the straw was not changed. When I the man who is now her husband, and a week later Henry “On the way the fire got so hot I married man, either—who either has married a French had to fall face down, and I didn’t left the straw was as fine as dust and began going with Kate. girl or wants to, nor can 1 find one of the boys who would move for, I guess, five minutes. There alive with vermin. After 18 months be willing to stay here after the war is over. France is a being no good reason for my being at Altengrabow I was transferred to like a dog, I yanked out my hand Mersburg. After an exchange of pris land of scenic beauty, but not of romance, and for an shot kerchief and waved It at the French oners had been effected I was taken to American there are no thrills over here except those of lines. Constance, where I was provided with “They finally got It after ten min a new suit of clothes and was well fed danger and battle. utes of waving, and I saw a French and kindly treated for eight days be Established .1889 officer beckoning me from a bit of fore being turned over to the allies. I woods. If there ever has been a faster suppose this was done In the hope that The suberb army of Japan is idle. Tf this was Japan’s 60-yard A Successful Business Career of sprint I never heard of 1L I in my new comfort and the Joy at be choice; if she took the position that beyond standing ran so fnst that I ran right Into the ing released I might forget the past Twenty-Five Years guard against actual attack of Germany upon the contig officer, and very nearly knocked his re “In Switzerland I was taken in volver out of his hand. I showed him charge by the Bed Cross and kept In uous territory she did not feel willing to actively engage my Identification card and then started the hospital there for 14 months. Had in the war. then there would be a valid reason for this cursing him for shooting at me. He the Germans given me proper treat INTEREST PAID ON TIME state of things. But Japan is ready to undertake war had been taking potshots at me out ment for my wound I would have re there. He apologised, saying that he covered In a few weeks; as It was. DEPOSITS work which she thinks ought to be done and in which could only see my head, because his after years of neglect d irt semlstar- judgment our allies concur.—Rochester (N. Y.) Post-Ex position was slightly lower than No vatlon and hard work. I was In such Man’s Land. Officers and Directors condition when released that for a press. "They took me up to the divisional time toy life was despaired of. Even H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. general, and I reported that I had seen now. after the best efforts of the Red more than 900 dead Germans and only Cross physicians and nurses, the left W. S. Kurre, Cashier It is proposed to have an army of four million Ameri two Frenchmen. It made him so happy side of my fact Is partially paralyzed W. H. Walker L A. Allen 0. D. Butler cans in France by June 1 next year. If more are needed, that he gave me a dinner, and compli and I can mo bat little with my left mented ms for being a good soldier." we have’em. < The Independence National Bank AT“ j[