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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1918)
SUPPLEMENT this picture Sunday: at the Star next expect to be back to the U. S. A by next winter, at least I hope THE STAYTON MAIL Bluebird presents Dorothy , Phillips in “ The Girl in the ____ . ¡Checkered Coat” at the Star LCttCr trOITl M ir tin theatre next Saturday evening. Two sisters of entirely differ- Mrs. J. H. Thoma has just re-, ent characteristics and moral ceived the following letter from intent, who are utterly unlike in Carl Martin: appearance as they are in dispo- Somewhere in France Jan. 90, 18 sitions, will be interpreted on Mrs. J. H. Thoma: the screen by Dorothy Phillips Dear Friend: —Will write you in “ The Girl in The Checkered a few lines to let you know that float.“ Photographic trickery the socks you gave Mrs. Mutsch- will enter largely into the amaz- ler to send me have arrived ami j jng developments of a gripping they are very nice and I thank plot that leads through sensa- you very much for them. They ' tional episodes and thrilling sit- just got here as I was about uations to an entirely satisfactory ready to leave the hospital and and desirably happy ending, they sure will come in just right I^on Chaney and Wm. Stowell for its cold yet, but not as cold, will be principals in Miss Phillips as it has been for the last two sup{>orting company, drawn months. from Bluebird’s most skillful I have been in the hospital for players. almost a month now, I had my —------------------- tonsils taken out and my adnoids cut out and my ff>ot fixed up so I will be all right again. How is i John? Is he working at the mill?| Well its petting late so I will close for this time. Best wishes The following letter received to all, good bye from j by W. A. Higgs from his eon in Carl Martin ; France, will be read with inter- Co. F. 18th Eng. Hy. Postoffice est by his friends. No. 705. A. E. F. via New York. January 19, 1918. W. A. Higgs, Stayton, Ore. Dear Father: - Will drop you a few lines tonight. I am well and ¡feelin g fine, hope you are thei With an elephant as a love i same. I have been assigned to postman Ned Townsend, son o f' my company at last, our old reg- an English settler in the Trans iment was bursted up after we vaal, conducted a most unusual arrived here. I have been assigned to Co. A courtship with Gretel Von Haa- gen. The difficulty was that of the regular engineers, I will Gretel’s father, who was the be with them until the war is nearest neighbor to the Town over. I suppose that it is awful cold sends. was supremely jealous to see an Englishman so much more at home. It isn’t very cold here successful than he, a native Boer| the only thing that I dislike is on his native veldt Old Von | that it rains a great deal. I expect the rest o f the folks Haagen drowned his sorro.vs think I have forgotten them, I mostly in drink and when his son Eitel, left him in anger and his haven’t written to anybody but daughter eloped with younR you since 1 have been over here Townsend, he resolved to obtain You can tell my stepmother or Lois to make me a big fruit cake revenge. It was some time in coming. ; and some good old home made Gretel had a bouncing boy and candy, if they ever have time, was mistress o f a fine farm when i because we can’ t get any sweet her drink crazed father incited ; stuff at all over here, that is it is the natives to attack the Town- awful high. Is Germany going to sign W il sends. The attack failed. The old Boer came to his senses just son ’•! peace terms? I haven’ t We are in time to take part in the agon- [ seen arty paper lately. izing search for his grandson, treated very nice. There is a Y. whom he had neverseen and who M. C. A. every place there is any had been stolen by a huge soldiers, W’e can get tobacco, baboon. When everything else we can’ t buy all we want to at had failed to produce the missing one time but we can get some infant. Charlie the huge ele- right along. I f they sold every phant. who had been very fond one as much as he wanted to buy o f the baby, was seen breaking I a few of them would buy it all. his way through the jungle with ; This trip is worth a whole lot the baby safe in his cradle swing- to me. I f I get back it will be ing wildly from his trunk. See worth ten years of my life. I QUi Letter from Cecil Riggs, in France Man and Beast so. It is awful hard to write an in teresting letter home, because a person has to be so careful what he says. I must close this time I haven’ t heard from you or any one yet, but hope there is mail on the road. I can always be found at my address now. I f anybody wants to send me any thing you give them my address. Ha! Ha! Pvt. Henry C. Higgs, Co. A 2nd Eng. k. E. F. Addressing Mail to Soldiers Crippling the Lumber Industry Enforcement of a “ regional eight-hour day’ ’ in the Pacific northwest may shut down many sawmills and logging camps. England had to abandon the eight-hour day to speed up pro duction in war industries and ab olished union rules and regulat ions. Enforcing an eight-hour day would speed down production in this great lumbering region on the west coast. In the face of $3.15 and $3.50 a day paid for common labor in the lumbering industry of the northwest, the South pays $2.20 to $2.50 a day. On the top o f this the South is to retain its ten hour day and the northwest mills and camps are to be forced to eight hours. Is it fair to single out a single industry in one section of the country for discrimination to lower production? Even the South is crying out against this as it will restrict the output o f ship timbers which the South must have. The war will teach the nations, and among them the futility of local eight-hour legislation Mail intended for members of the expeditienary forces in Eu rope should bear the name and address o f the sender in the up per left hand corner, and should give the name of addressee, o f ficial designa'ion o f unit or or ganization to which he belongs, and the words “ American Ex peditionary Forces” or A. E. F. Under no circumstances should the location or station of a mili- itary organization be included in the address on the mail for any member o f such forces. The correct address for such mail would be as follows: ' Private John Doe, Battery F, 146th Field Art. Am. Ex. Forces’ ’ Mail intended for anyone on board of one of our naval vessels should have upon it the name of the vessel and be sent in care of the postmaster at New York. Parcels must not weigh over seven pounds and must be se curely packed and well wrapped and tied, hut is not necessary that tin or wooden boxes should be used. Articles prohibited are intoxicants, poisons, explosives; any inffamable material, such as matches, and improperly packed perishable matter. All parcels must be prepaid in full at the rate o f 12 cents per pound or fraction of a pound. Letters or parcels for the ex peditionary forces cannot be in sured, or registered, or sent C. 0. D. Money orders may l>e is sued at domestic rates. Letter postage is three cents for each ounce; newspapers one cent for four ounces. All parcels must be examined by the postmaster and have en dorsed upon them “ No prohibit ed matter contained in this pack age.’ ’ This rule also applies to all parcels sent to persons aboard naval vessels. Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School 10 a. m. Epworth League 6;30 p. m.t Prayer meeting every Wednes day evening at 7:30. Meeting o f the Sunday school board the second Monday of every month at 7:30 p. m. O f ficial board meeting the same evening at 8 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. John Boedig- heimer of Shaw were Stavton visitors Saturday. Star Theatre next . , Saturday M e t h o d is t C h u r c h Pastor W. J. Warren