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E •«*. 4 . V k-«**Vk *•*-*>«. ^ *. ^ m>' i Letters From Our Soldier Boys Oct. ID, 1918. Dear CouHin and All: Will write you a few line« thiH evening don't know if I answer ed your last letter or not. We have been pretty busy for the last two weeks at the front and moving around. We are nettled aKain for a few days anywa , ao I am trying to Write u few letters. This was as far aa I got last night, seemed like 1 couldn’ t write, guess you have hud the same feeling. Ha! H r! Well i am still in France helping win the war. I sure have put up some fight. Wo put in about a- bout six» days at the front, where there wus some real war going on and we had u pretty hard time, hut are resting up now for another drive I glees. They are driving the (leimans every place they strike them. The Germans .don’ t seem to be using anything but muchinc guns and artillery. They don’ t stand for bayonet fighting and ulways give up be fore it comes to that point Guess they don’ t stand much show with the American hoys. The shrapnel from the artillery seems to be doing more damage than anything else. The dough boys go so fast it is hard for our artillery to keep up, a$ the roads are torn up badly in some places. There were times when we had to hit our ears with cotton to protect us from the noise of our own artillery, but when we got a little farther advanced we were all right. O f course there were lots o f enemy shells burst ing on each side of us, but we soon got used to that. One day we were in a small town in a building and they were shelling the town and one shell hit the building we were in just in the next room down near the ground and knocked u big hole in it, but never hurt any of us, so wo thought we were pretty lucky that trip. We are seeing lots of country and sights to make up for our hard times. Hud a chicken supper one evening. Wish you could have l>een there. It was the first time I ever saw anybody get a meal without using water, but that old French lady didn’ t waste uny water to prepare a chicken supper. Well we had one chicken supper in WILKIN BOOKS SENTTOM E That Dark-haired Chap t,rom No Army in History Ever Read as clothes in today. Hop*; they get place and also very interesting, Omniverously as the them issued for it would help. It is known all over the worhi Yanks. n fellow to crawl out mornings .and people have come here for Don’ t think the war will last any the sulphur baths since the time longer than this year, but that of the early Roman Umpire a| EFZ51 DETECTIVE STORIES isn’ i saying when we will be few hundred years befme PR back to the States. (Christ. Was just talking to some boys There is an old temple here Unexpected Demand for 8eriout Read that had just been over here on- built to the Goddess o f Diunc, ing Surprise to Librarian*— Tech nical Book* Great Aid to the |. hbail two weeks. They were which was built about 200 B. C. Ambitious Soldier. from Illinois and Wisconsin. It is used now as a mission and They didn’ t like the experience contains many relics of the early , Washington.—More than a million very much, but guess they will days. There is a cogwheel rail- book- h. vc In— ii sh:p|a-d abroad by get used to it in a little while. road altout seven mints long up the American Library us-»-elation for They claim the English and Mt. Itevard, from which place tho us,- <ij' the American expeditionary j force. The total avulluhre wua 8,000.- - French bud tried to tak»* this one <*an obtain a fine view <>f the 000, at.-J this will be supplemented by town for two years fiut could entire Alps Alts. The Y. AI. C. a united war work campaign contri nevendoit, and the Americans A. here has leased a large tem- bution of *.‘1,300,000 out of Its total of took it in about two hours, so pie, which was formerly a large $ 170..V io . ooo for the six allied welfare organizations. you see there is some difference, gambling house, second in size About »-tie-half o f the area covered , I wrote to Charles a few days to Monte Carlo. It contains In France hy the American expedition grill rooms, large gambling ary for»-»- lius received Its first apt-ink- j ago. ling of books. The distribution Is pro Well. I haven’ t seen a soul I rooms, a large teeatre and danc. ceeding rapidly and next July th ere! At the bath house, Will be established lu Pari* a central knew from the West or East ing hails. sine® I have lx*en over here. which is about 390 ft. square reference library o f 10,000 volumes, available to any American soldier in Don’ t know where everybody and three stories high, one can France. Upon application of a hut keeps themselves. How is Mr. obtain almost any kind of a bath secretary any hook in the Paris li Barnes by this time? Where is imaginable. There are several brary will l*e sent anywhere In France free of charge. Ella Smith now? The reason I suites of rooms, which were re At every bookshelf the men And a didn’ t answer her letter was be- served for J. P. Morgan and poster winch reads: “ These books are cause it was so long before I got several other big boys. The loaned on the honor system. I f you it that I knew they wouldn’ t be town is situated on the largest fall, it falls. America Is far away, tonnage scarce and bboks precious. at the berry patch anymore and lake in France and contains a Play square with the other fello w ; he This has played square with you." I didn’ t know if she would ever bout 100 large hotels. Fiction Predominates. get it or not. Tell her hello for place before the war was one of Tin* books sent to Europe have been the largest summer resorts in of two kinds, those contributed and me. / Well, I hope Uncle John is ¡the world. Yesterday I made a those purchased by the funds o f the home again and all are w ell and | trip to Hantecombecombe Abbey association, which have amounted to $1,000,000. The variety of contributed the best o f everything. which was built by the princess books Is astounding and ranges from Well John, w hen are you go- of the Savoy about 1125. I nev- mystery stories to theological treatises, ing to make that trip to Indi-;er saw anything to equal it. It from murder yarns to Milton's poems. Fiction, of course, predominates. ana? I will write you when I is taken care of by several old No army in history ever read so am going to be back there and monks and is now owned ami omniverously as has the American you meet me there. How will I taken care of by the king of Ita- army in France. The men are greedy that be? ly. It cor.taius several tombs of for books. In the days when the sup ply was inadequate, the demand was Well I am tine and expect to princes and princesses, also so great that a doughboy who had stay that way. Give all my best counts and countesses. There taken over In his barrack hag a copy regards. are a number of'aimost priceless o f O. Henry's “The Four Million” split It Into pamphlets, each containing one Hoping all are well and happy, painting* there also. I visited o f the author's short stories. He with love and best wishes to all, the king’s chamber,# where he passed the copies, thus, abbreviated, Algie. stays when he comes to visit along the line, and they literally were read to pieces. Pvt. Algie It. Moss, 148 Am- there. On the way there I met The most Insistent call Is fo r detec bulance Co.. 112 Sanitary Traim Chester B. Murphy, an attorney tive thrillers and for tales o f the A. P. (). 703. of Portland, w ho just came over Rocky mountains. Next comes the de mand for poetry. Robert W. Service -------------------- here. He is a ” Y ” secretary Is the soldier’s favorite poet, with Itudyard Kipling a close second. Guide books which describe cha teaus, cathedrals and points o f his toric Interest are In great demand, as well as histories of France. A recent cable message to this country calle»! for BOO oopl.-s of “ Jeanne d'Arc,” sliow- lng that the Muld of Orleans is us popular as the modern French maid ens. Demand for Serious Reading. The librarians have been surprised at the unexpected demand for serious rending. Many a soldier has evident ly chosen war times to get in a dig at some books the reading o f which he has hitherto postponed to a more convenient season. With a perfectly straight face a doughboy Inquired the other day for Roswell’s “ L ife o f John- son.” O f morse mom than one Inappropri *m é u u u u tM ***M 4 u t+ ét**m m **4 *4 U i ate book has found lts way o\ -i-seas. I 5 Imagine the emotions of the young K New Schedule Effective Nov. 1 ’ 18 jj giant who stalked into a “ Y ” hut. set tled down for a quiet evening, and \ Kingston--Stayton--Salem \ found thnt the Arst book staring him AU TO STAGE Í In the face was one of the gusldest and most effervescent of the Elsie 7:87 . m. Lv Kingston Ar 1:45 p m books. 7:50 ** Stay ton 1:20 - Most o f tbe money spent for the 8:00 ** 1:10 ** Sublimity 56B.OOO purchased books has gone for 8:20 '* 12:50 ** Aumsville t technical volumes designated to aid 8:40 " 12:90 ** Turner the ambitious soldier iu mastering the 8:55 ** State Hospital 12:15 " science of war. Among these are books *00 " C otta«« Farm 12:10 ** 8.10 '* A r Salem on the psychology of color for the Lv 12:00 “ eanmuAage corps, the chemistry of ST AYTON-KING5TON high explosives, ballistics, sanitary en 7:15 a. m. Lv Stayton Ar 2:15 p. m gineering. hydrostatics, meteorology, Ar KinirtoK Lv 2:00 " applied geology and other subjects on which the modern soldier must be a ♦ MeM't.s Train 62 Northbound ROUND T R IP TICKETS GOOD specialist. POI i ii IK i Y D A Y ! Aix Les Bains. Oct. 7. 1918. and is a Hne fellow- Ht* is di»- Dear Father:— ferent from most o f those fel- 1 have been*here since the 2nd and ^ think he will be well inst and still have 3 more days ^^ed here. I am sure enjoying before I have to go back to th ej® ^ 84'^ and this trip is worth a company. We are allowed a 7 i iot ^yvne who gets the days’ furlough every f our, chance to take it. Will hate to months, but this is the first time back tho lor I imagine we any of u^ had a chance to get a- , have a rather hard winter. wav (ilenn Porter. There are ten boys from my France anyway. It is getting company and we are in the Alps pretty chilly over here now. mountains about 25 miles from This is a dandy Our company got some winter Mt. Blanc. F A C /V - 65 rm says that down South the best people won’t chew anything but Real Gravely. They know how it’s m ade — the Gravely way. It costs nothing extra to chew this class of plug. A Finds a Five Hundred Dollar Ring in a Giant Codfish * Wm It goet further—that's why yon can let Ike f e d latte o f this clots of tobacco without extra cost. Real G ravely C hew ing Plug 10$ a pouch-a n d worth it P-B. GRAVELY TOBA.ÇCO. Ç & -, PAKYJU^LJE u & A L - Farmers & Merchants Bank of Stay ton, Oregon C apital $25,000.00* ^ o <• •> ■c- •> v o A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE * •> W e carry a large line of dry goods, shoes, notions, gents’ furnishings, hats, caps and rubber goods, etc. ; % * OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT \ V has a large line of fancy and staple groceries, canned goods, smoked meats. In fact ev- erything you w ill find in a first-class Merchandise store is to be found here at prices that are right. , ♦ * % ♦ * a GEHLEN’S STORE ? j AN FRANCISCO.'— Seafaring men, friend« of H. C. Pa'lly. ii flaherman wh< Ims J uki returned from Bering sen. contend along the waterfront here thai Dally Is entitled to a medal with h palm or two on It. and for two reasons Hither he Is the luckiest man that ever went Ashing, or he Is the biggest Ash ing trip Ananias In or out of cnptlv- Ity. Rut let Dully tell his own story. | “ See this ring?" he asked the oth er day of a sinnll group of friends, at the same time exhibiting a solitaire “SOLID IVORY” IN TH E ARMY diamond In plutlnum setting that had Kingston ‘ Salem $1.75 Stayton-Sal«*m $1.62 evidently been worn hy a woman, and Recruit Believed That He Should Subiimity-SaU*m $1.50 which was Inscribed “ From C. to J." Carry Out Hia Order* upon the Inside. Ham m an Auto Stage Regardlese. " It ’s u daisy, Isn't It?" was Daily's next question, which he answered him Vanoonv«»- Rnrracks, Wash.— Cer self hy saying: "It sure Is, nud I’ll tell ye how I got I t I wns up In the Bering tainty In regard to hut one part o f his sea cleaning rod Ash at the rate of thtee a minute and paying no portlculai orders on "»he part of a recruit sentry attention to anything else, when suddenly I picked up the biggest codfish Fd here nearly caused the wounding of I ever seen In me lifetime. He was a beauty, too. Fat? The fattest I’d evei Library Chief Says Books Keep Yank an officer o f the day. The sentry, I Soldier* Out of Trouble handled. armed with a loaded rifle, challenged Overseas. “ All right, mates. I plumped hy knife Into him and wns Just ubout tc the officer on his approach. pass him along when something shiny In Ills 'Inanls' caught my eye. It was this New York.— Declaring that the "H alt I" he shouted In best form. ring. Yes, sir; this same sparkler that I'm a-showln' you. "leisure hour o f the American over The officer hnlted and watted for the "Now, lads; how'd that ring get In that Ash's stomach? Whose ring Is tt, seas Is the hour o f greatest inoral rest o f the challenge. or whose was It, anyway? I'm willing to return the ring to the owner, hut peril," and thnt good reading does "H a lt!’’ shouted the sentry again. ownership must he satisfactorily established, ns the stone alone la worth $.r>00 mneh to keep lonely soldiers straight. The officer began to exhibit Interest, a Jeweler tells me. Yes, sir, B00 beans—slmoleona— plasters. Dr. M. L. Rainey, Aeld manager of the especially ns the sentry threw up his "I'm going to look up a brainy newspaper fellef— If there are any brainy American Library association, has re rifle ami took careful aim. ones left, now thnt the smart guys are all at the front or getting ready to go ported to the New York state branch “ H ey! What the blatikety-hlnnk are t|ior,— and have him write a story about It, and mebbe I'll get a nice reward, how soldiers, sailors nnd social worle- you doing?" shouted tho officer. nuwuy. If the owner Is found.” \ era have been provided with good rend- "I gm nmers to any ‘hnlt’ three times I tng matter. Doctor Ralnc.v said that and then Are.” said sh< sentry. In ten nonths the association has es The officer ther. explained that this tablished 42 libraries for the arm.» drastic action v a.- only to la r 'opted 'and -tot ked them with 000,000 boo's when the ehalli t'v -d Intruder (I'd not and 2,^00.000 rin.vTln s. at! of whirl, answer as per ami the sentry had been contributed. The working was much r "ev*-d to I — :rn that he force consisted of Sis ivrsoo-- on would m>’ i i n -.a.; k'.llirg unlit he Uilrd of whom so. vod wltliou, pi.y. got • .VC t h e " « . ’ S / PEYTON B R A N D n \ o (G e r n e s small chew of Gravely holds its good taste. 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