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
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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?
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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.
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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