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SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919 THE MALHEUR ENTERPRISE, VALE, OREGON. PAGE SEVE1 Id. ..- - n & H X O s o 3 M W O When you think of cost of honey, think of the food value One pound of FOSTER'S HONEY Has food value of 16 eggs, or 2 quarts milk, or 6 lbs. apples, or V4 lbs. beef CLEANING AND PRESSING IS OUR BUSINESS and we are equipped to do all work in the right way. See us about keeping your suits clean and mended. We will keep your wardrobe ready for all occassions with no trouble or worry on your part. Ordering A New Suit? If so stop in and see our patterns in some of the nifty new summer weight goods. Perfect Fit and Workmanship guaranteed. VALE CLEANING WORKS - J. W. Dorsey, Manager WAR'S HISTORY TOLD BY VETERAN (By a Free-Lance) From the Notes and Memory of one who Fought, Suffered and Lived thru the "First Two Years of Hell". Do not miss a word of this story, told by an actual eye witness and participant. First Installment Issue of April 19 To Be Continued poral- -and should be accquainted HHHHtttHH I I I IHH TWO YEARS OF A LIVING HELL ing hate in every direction. Running i low to avoid any direct gauge on my j advance, I had proceeded some eighty yards when a "baby" landed. Glancing over my shoulder to determine its The tenseness of the nerves tighten ed as Major Morphy acquainted us with the approach of the enemv. vet it had been what we were expecting for j character, I'll swear by all thats liv the rain of shells that were bursting in&" or dead that its appearance re- overhead told only to well what to ex- ! semb,ed 8 dud but my judgment Spring Clean-up time is here and Mr. and Mrs. Home Beautif ier will need many kinds of paints and varnish. Come in and let us show color charts and help in selecting the right paints. VALE HARDWARE CO. Saxon Humphrey, Prop. Vale, Oregon fc . ' ejsj . I - e-s First National Bank VALE. OREGON THE BANK OF SERVICE CAPITAL $50,000.00 SURPLUS $ 8.000.00 The increase Production and Income that will come to the Mal heur Valley from theWarmspringg Project will demand in creased Banking Facilities and we are prepared to. serve you. COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES. We have complete Files and Records for Safekeeping of Docu ments and Bonds without charge for the accomodation of our customers. pect, for we had in the course of a few weeks come to learn that there never was to be a counter attack in day light but that the enemy would first try to kill the moral of the op posing force, by presenting us with a rapidly fired rounds of "scrap" and "junk" in order to prepare a resting place for his men, when they came over our tops. Leaving the Major and the Captain in the "Bay where we were I saunter ed down the traverse and into the next "bay", and not finding there that which I was looking for went down still further into the trench. I was perhaps some three bays away from the remainder of the squad, when look ing over the top of the parapet, I found that I had got in the position that I was hunting for. Yes is was an ideal place for the coming fray, for the enemy had to pass through the high entanglements that the previous detachment had rudely constructed, and with the fore sight of "angles" or was at error, it was a live one, and as I dropped to the ground in a prone position, thirty or forty feet from where I lay, I too learned it was a throbbing, rendering "Live Baby" for I had no more than got in position, than I was bodily lifted and sent in the air for some twenty feet, shrapnel hizzed, and the broken fragments of a shattered shell filled the air. I landed, yes and landed none to gentle, the force of contact had undoubtedly sent me in the air for twenty feet, and in returning to mother earth, it was on my right side. As I layed there for a few moments getting back my breath, and seeing that I was all there that old saying came to me "A miss is as good as a mile" and so it was. Breath regained I once again set out to get cross that stretch of ground that laid in my immediate front. It was the longest four hundred yards that was ever measured, for in getting across that distance I was hurled twice to the ground by the concussion with the information at once, and the conditions as they are here man your wounded" I had turned white and faint and was droping to the floor when he reached my side steady ing me to the floor, at the same time calling for the orderly. It was only momentary, the twinge in the should er caught me, and with the exertion I had undergone in reaching quarters had sent me faint. "I'm all right, Sir, have the others wait, I am to go back with the reinforcements, only a slight 'blighty' no harm." As he turned to give orders to the orderly who had by this time appeared on the scene, another voice was heard, and looking up and in the direction from which it came, the General was half way across the room. "Adjac ent; the Fall in, what are the condi tions and ." Then seeing me on the floor, some what the worse for wear said, "So, it is you Corporal of "demons" left to my right a gap of j of shelIs- and was made to run, and some twenty yards between the struc- ' run 1 di1- seeking cover in shell hole tures. This is what I called luck it to she" hole for I did not dare to pre saved me the return trip back to the sent to much of a target to the enemy squad and also gave a clear vision of and know that the bys at my rear the field, where as their vision was : were depending on me to get in and blurred. This meant I would be able deliver the message and return with to check their passage through the : re-inforcements. They could hold out gap, with rapid fire, and could wait at the rate they were going for a at leisure for the squad to come down i matter of two hours at the very latest rhp line ivhon thev haA honrH tha and tnen l Knew it wouiu De ail ot. firing, for the sound of the Lee-Enfield can rapidly be heard when there is not a over much or load from the opposite field. It was this that I now depended upon to kill the crack and sound of fire, for with the enemy in mass formation it was a simple mat ter to stop the force with a few well directed shots, and is was these shots that I was aiming to put over. They arrived at the gap fully twenty deep and in width at least sixty, what targets, (Prussian Guards). Laying my rifle over and in between two loosely piled sand bags, I cut loose, amplely protected from their fire by the inner sight of some com rad's neglect to lay that last row of nags lengthwise. I had jammed some five or six bullets in the magazine of the gun, having once unloaded, when the re mainder of the squad showed up, the oys laughing swearing, and all in ;ood humor. By this time there had fallen some with them, for they would be without food for the guns and outnumbered three or four to one. Wanting a rest, short of wind, my heart beating a rapid tatto, I reached the fringe of the wood that was my destination for the time being, when Zing, a whine a burning sting, a full swing to the left, and as if some one had dropper a ton on. my shoulder, I dropped to the ground, only to be up and away the next moment as the rain of leaden fire encircled me, and forced me to seek cover in the brush, and near trees of the wood I was new into, Throughing my right hand to the left shoulder I took it away cover ed with blood, I felt no pain, but that of a burning sensation, and going over my entire body I found that it was the only place they had got me, just how severe I could not say, and for the time being was to mad to care. My remaining cloths were torn to shatters, and I must have been a sight to the j sentry, who was tationed a few yards ! away,cap gone rifle gone, and clothes , r eigni 01 uie enemy, anu uieir , streaming in the wi,ldj with more or K-u.e.-, we e u.octung me way 01 tnose ,css mud an(1 b,00(J mixed Qn my .eninu wnen as 11 uy pre arranged WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE President, ('has. W. Nelson; Vice-President, J. T. Logar ectors, Elis Rose, James M. Weaver, C. 1 Crandall; Cashier, Albert W. Reed. Dir- STOP THINK AND ACT o o a o 2 a H as od H CO H M S5 h WHAT DID YOU GET? Go ahead, pay the landlord your good hard earned dollars each y ears. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT? Figure up what ynu have to show for the "HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS" you gave him " a fat bundle of receipts." THAT'S ALL YOU GOT How much are they worth today? You couldn't buy at crust of bread with them. What will your landlord do to you if you fail to pay our rent. HE'LL SAY "GET" Just "figger" up the rent you have paid in ten years, quite a sum, isn't it? The amount what's this? You've bought it twice over? Impossible you say. Not at all figures don't lie. DONT LOOK FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE, BUT IF ITS A BARGAIN YOU WANT, LEONARD COLE before investing your hard earned $$$$$$$ 1 Door South of Depot, Vale. Oregon J WHY NOT NOW? lans the enitre squad sent over "three apid" in succession. They faultered ind there seemed to be a ripple as hey began falling, some distance in he advance of where they had been ndoubetedly shot. Was it that the re maining force crowed them forward, I have often wondered as to this, for it had often occured, not only on this field but else where on other lines. '1 he direct fire of our boys soon be- fMI to tell, our guns were getting a 'rifle warm, and in some cases jamed. In such cases, we would pick up the :if'le of some comrade who for the ime being was out of the fray. We lad fought for the greater part of an hour, and still the enemy were pre- sisting in coming through the gap, always emmussed, gaining nothing ex cept the honor of the field. Some would relate their experiences to those at home and then there were those that got it clean. We had been fighting for some twenty minutes, when Captain De Sales left the squad with Major Mor phy, and went north up the trenches, such as they were, and when we had fought on but for a short time re turned with another detachment, who were under Sergeant McGill of the 5th division. Sergeant McGill always had a nack of being in the right place at the right moment, for it was he with his little squad that had turned many a fight nearing its climax and end to that of a victorious counter. We boys were sure glad to see that it was our old reliable, and when they got into i.he stride they too laughed as the rest. My experience had always been that is soon as the Sergeant made his ap pearance on the scene, I would be call ed to do something else, and so it was to be this time too. The Sergeant had but placed his men when on glancing up the "bay" I saw Major Morphy miiing down, just leaving the traverse who catching sight of me beckoned me to him. leaving my post on the rude ly constructed "fireing step" I went to meet him. We circled the traverse that he had but lately turned and said, "Corporal Report at once to headquarters for reinforcements, allow a safe factor, and bring them by the shortest route. Take these paper ; with you to the General." Saluting, I turned and walked up the bay for some ten feet where I had seen a crumpled spot, and there wv- tire person. "It was hell buddy, I have been watching you for the last five minutes What's up?" said the sentry as I got to my feet again for I had tripped over a fallen tree trunk, and was sprawled on the ground in a very akward position, for I had been run ning with my head over my shoulder the greater part of the time, and did not pay much attention to my immed iate front, for there I knew I would be among friends and comrades. I an swered in jerky words "Hell counter four to one, Bruce and Fifth squads holding must get to headquarters for re-inforcements. Will be back his way." On again. But in front of me now were my friends and so to the rear, all caution was thrown to the wind and having gained my second wind I went down the trail to the road on the double, reaching the road I severed to the left sharply and began to catch my stride as in old track days gone by, when again I was stopped by a ommand to "Halt" and a sentry standing in the center of the road way I broke and coming up close enough so that he cold hear me distinctly I said "Dispatch to Headquarters. He nodded and I gathering speed carried on. I could not see the town and turning sharply hulf left, proceeded to make time. It takes longer to tell than the actual time in which it was accomplished. I had gained the en trance of Headquarters, when I met an orderly, and saying to him. "Is the Adjutant in? If so the compli ments of Major Morphy on dispatch Corporal Urgent." Swinging on his heel, he entered the office only to return the next moment, 'Corporal the Adjutant wishe to see you at once, this way." As we nteied the room, there were M-vrnil officers that I knew, and the Adjutant looking up returned the salute as giv en and I placed on his desk the papers I that were given to me to deliver. He glanced over them rapidly, then look ing up said, "What are the conditions briefly, reinforcement! needed'.' Cor poral ." Answering I said "f00 men, and hell; can hold an hour or two no more" Turning to the officers that were in the office he said, "Boys Major Morphy is in it, you Major Kingsley take your your company and proceed at once to their aid, Captain O'Hara take your command and pro- Major Morphy must be in need of ad ditional aid. Carry On, Adjutant." And the General stooping over me spoke in the voice, that all of us men knew well, for he knew his men and they knew him, man for man, no pomp outside of the regular routine of army orders and the K. R. O. He was all man, and it was for him that we boys went through hell, our everyday life was linked with that of his, and we all swore by him. I do not believe there was another general on the field that the men loved as they loved Gen eral French. Many of the boys had been with him In South Africa in 1802, and there learned that he never asked others to do that which he himself would not do in person. He asked "Corporal are you hurt badly" and turning to the orderly that still stood at attention, said "Call Major King at once." I looked up from the floor where I was resting, and laughing, said "No, Sir, nothing but a twinge in the left shoulder will be alright in a few minutes,' must return to Major Mor phy." He laughed, and turning to the Ad jutant who by this time had returned to his desk, gathering up the reports, said to him "Would we had more, such as he is, always ready, and only knowing orders. All right, Sir, report to me any information from Major Morphy at once, and see that Corporal is tended to before he leaves". At that Major King entered the door, saluting the General and seeing me laying on the floor, turned toward my direction, and as he striped the left shoulder bare, laughingly said, "Corporal some of these days we wont be at hand as ready as now, why man it is only a crease, good for you; but they will get you yet." continuing the examination . and dressing the scratch, for that is all that it was, he asked if I had seen my father and brother, "No, Sir. Is Dad and Frank in quarters. I've been in the southern divisions with the 10th and only just got here. Won't have time to see them this trip, for I go right out with the reinforcements to the aid of Major Morphy, but will see you and them when we finish, and I get back; What billet are you in? Regards to Dad and Frank if you see them." The steady tread of murching feet, and the clear call of the commands could now be heard, and knowing that it was Major Kingsley, I got to my feet, not without some twitching, and calling the attention of the Adjutant, said "Will report in detail when I re turn, Sir." Saluting I left the office, only to hump into my brother, now a commissioned officer, "Hello, Frank see you later see Major King am with Major Morphy and Captain De Sales don't tell the girls at home only a scratch." By the time I reached the door I could see Captain O'Harn coming up with his command, and the tail end of the Major's disappearing up the road, and joining this attachment, I dropped in step with Captain O'Hara and we were off. (To Be Continued) n nun m t t t n t Our Aim Is To Give You Good Groceries At Reasonable Prices We Appreciate Satisfied Customers That Stav With Us BEST OF SERVICE ALL THE TIME AT VALE'S EXCLUSIVE GROCERY FRESH. FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES. Diven and Company Formerly "M. F. Co." 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