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HOME GARDE.' OP MRS. FERDINAND E. REED, WIFE OF THE VICTORY GARDEN DIRECTOR. IV lAl'RELHIRST.
DEAR FRIENDS: Last Sunday we
cave a list compiled from our lo
cal seedsmen of the best varieties
of fruit to plant In our home gardens
and the best sorts of each for our home
use.
Today we will consider, as briefly as
possible, the little "tricks of the trade"
which make some fruit do so well, and
inattention to which makes so many
' failures. Often In all gardening as
well as fruit raising Just a little more
work of preparation, etc.. or the same
amount of work differently applied,
makes all the difference between suc
cess and failure.
Kind of Sail Preferred.
Our fruit trees, shrubs, vines and
plants bhould all be set out now just
as soon as possible, while they are dor
mant. After they start to grow in the
spring transplanting gives them a setback.
The land best suited to the growth
of an apple tree is a deep, moist loam
but it will produce fruit upon almost
' any soil except one that is very wet or
composed largely of sand.
J'or pear trees strong, rather moist
land is preferred, with good drainage,
but it. like the apple, grows well ou a
variety of soils.
i'each trees like sandy loam, clay
loam or even clay, if it is thoroughly
drained and not too much enriched be
fore the trees come into bearing. The
ideal roil is a light one with a clay
subsoil and with many small stones
. . mixed in it to give it drainage.
The apricot thrives in a warm, rather
thin soil with full exposure to the west.
The nectarine a smooth-skinned
peach) has the same requirements.
f'lum and prune trees like a deep,
moist loam, though they grow under a
variety of conditions if given plenty
of exposure to air and sunlight.
Cherry trees, as we know, seem to
grow wonderfully anywhere In the Wil
lamette valley. The best soil for tbem
is said to be rather light and moder
ately rich and warm.
In deciding just what fruit trees to
set out on your land the foregoing may
be helpful as an index of the variety
which thrives best on the kind of soil
you have, although wo know that near
ly all fruit does well on nearly all the
toil we have in our gardens, if the spot
where the fruit is planted is properly
prepared and drained.
Haw to Prepare the SolL
As our gardens are most of them too
Wet t plow yet. a place to set out our
new fruit trees or bush fruits will have
to be spaded up and prepared for each
itidtvidiuaily. provided the spot you
choose is dry enough to work now.
Most of our soil is clayey, which is a
stroni; soil, rich in elements of plant
and tree growth, but it retains mois
ture too long, is too adhesive and in
dry weather becomes hard as a brick.
No fruit trees do as well In such a soil
as where it is broken up by adding
sand. muck, leaf mould, -manure, etc.
I.ime Is a great help to break up a
hard clay soil, besides swvetenelng it.
and even coal ashes, m'here nothing
better is available, though possessing
do virtue of themselves, lend to loosen
the soil.
To set out a fruit tree a good-sixed
space should be loosened up very deep
ly. In the finest commercial orchards
of Oregon (which means in the finest
fruit section of the country) a method
often practiced is9to set off a small
charge of dynamite in the hole where
each tree is to grow, not because the
ground is so rocky, but to loosen up the
soil for a distance around in all direc
tions. The same principle applies in digging
a place for our garden fruit. The
larger and deeper place you loosen up
the less resistance will the new rootlets
rind and a tree in such a prepared bed
can grow twice as fast as one in bard,
impervious soil. '
If the spot by the fcnse or in some
long-uncultivated corner that you
choose for your fruit tree Is very hard,
take a pickaxe and loosen it up and
then work it over with the spade.
Krttlaa- Out Trees.
There are two or three worth-while
"tricks'- to remember here. The first
Is to carefully take off your top soil
when you begin digging to set your
tree and put it In a pile by itself, then
make the hole for the tree a little
deeper than you want it and put some
of the richer top soil at the bottom to
set the tree on and All in the rest
around it. using the sub soil for the
top.
After the spot has been deeply
loosened i plowed or spaded), the hole
for the tree need be only large enough
to allow the spreading of the roots in
their natural position, the size depend
ing on the size of tree planted. If the
soil Is very poor some well-rotted ma
nure or fertilizer may bo added and
well mixed with the surface soil put
about the roots of the trees, but that is
not generally necessary here. Coarse,
ttnfermented manure may be added af
ter two or three Inches of soil are cov
ered over the roots and should be mtxed
with the remaining soil or spread on
top.
In buyinr your trees of the seeds
man, he will prune them for you and
tfll you just how deep in the ground
to set them. A planting table of
standard dtstanees apart recommended
for planting fruit companles this ar
ticle. Our seedsmen warn us particu
larly not to crowd our fruit together,
as all fruit needs plenty of room to
grow.
Having your tree set in the bottom
of tiie bole on a cushion of fine loose
top soil, spread out the roots carefully,
trimming off any broken roots, and
cover with about three inches of the
top soil, then press this soil down firm
ly with the feet all around the tree.
Now throw in some more soil and if it
should be at all dry. turn in a pailful
of water now, before filling the hole
up completely. Then till up the hole
with the subsoil. The soil should be
pressed very firmly about the roots, but
that on the surface should be left as
light and loose as possible.
The top soil shou'd be kept loose at
all times by thorough cultivation, first
to prevent the escape of moisture by
forming a layer of loose nonconducting
soil (a dust mulch) on the surface, and
second, hastening the preparation ot
plant food by the introduction of air.
Cherry trees, however, seem to do well
surrounded by sod.
Setting Oat Small Fruit.
In general all the foregoing applies
to our bush fruits, which are set usual
ly in rows, spaced according to the
planting table given today. But the
general points of deep loosening of
soil, keeping the richer top soil to put
about the roots, adding fertilizer, etc.,
where needed, spreading out the roots
carefully, firming twoj or three inches
of soil ' down around thera with the
feet, adding water in the hole if the
soil is dry when you set out your fruit
and rilling in the top soil loosely so
that a soil mulch is .made and kept up
on top; all this applies to setting all
fruits and if carefully followed will
make a wonderful difference in its
growth and yield.
A brief glance at the peculiarities of
the bush fruits may be helpful in de
ciding which are best for you to raise
in the soil peculiar to your garden and
how to treat each individually.
Berry Fruits.
Raspberries, loganberries and black
berries all do well here. Nowhere in
the United States do all these fruits
grow to greater perfection, and, of
course, the loganberry belongs, to bur
coast alone, so wo should take particu
lar pride in it.
These small fruits all succeed in al
most any soil that is not too wet and
heavy. They must have sufficient
moisture during the'gTowing and fruit
ing season, but the essential feature of
a good berry soil is thorough drainage
not only during the growing season.
but also during the winter months, Soil
that becomes saturated with water and
remains so should never be used for
berries. Nothintr can take the place
of thorough cultivation for berries. The
spring cultivation should start as soon
as the soil is dry enough to be worked
and should be deep enough to loosen
up the soil, yet not so deep as to in
jure the feeding roots of the plants.
The summer tillage should be shallow
and frequent and continue regularly.
Two Kinds of Berry Fruits.
Those berries called "upright grow
ers are such plants as produce erect
canes: and "viny growers' are such
plants as the logan and Phenomenal
berries and Evergreen. Himalaya Giant
and Early Mammoth blackberries.
which produce long prostrate vines or
canes.
There are two systems of planting
the hill and the row." The hill
system affords the best opportunities
for cultivation, air drainage, sunlight
on all sines of the plants and ease in
harvesting the crop, while the contin
uous row permits the planting of more
plants.
The upright growers may be planted
according to either system, but viny
growers must be grown in hills or they
become a dense hedge, whose berries
it is almost impossible to pick.
Upright growers should be planted
six feet apart each way in the hill
system or three feet by eight feet In
the continuous row. Viny growers
should be planted in rows eight feet
apart and the plants from 16 to -I feet
apart in the row.
Training and Staking.
The upright growers in hills should
be tied loosely but securely to a sin
gle strong stake from four to six feet
in height .t each hill: where they are
planted - in a continuous row they
should be trained to and supported by
a single line of posts four to five feet
high in the row. These posts should
have wooden crossarms nailed at the
tops and about 1 feet from the
ground, and wires stretched between
these arms upon which the vines or
canes are trained, tying them with
strips of soft cloth.
The viny growers Bhould be treated
in the same way, but the stakes may
oe higher and more wires (or poles)
may be used.
Cnrranis aad Gooseberries.
The peculiarity of the currant is that
it is a heavy surface feeder, so it
should- receive heavy annual dressings
of well-rotted manure or commercial
fertiliser. After thoroughly working
the manure into the soil, the surface
should be left smooth and as near level
as possible. Regular surface cultiva
tion should continue until picking time.
Gooseberries are peculiar in that they
will grow well in a partial shade, pro
vided it does not become so dense as
to cause the gooseberry mildew.
A north or northeasterly slope is
better for gooseberries than a southern
slope, as the gooseberry is very partial
to a moist, rich, deep, well-drained
soil. - Gooseberries are shallow-rooted
plants, but very heavy feeders. Be
careful not to cut the roots in hoeing.
Gooseberries, like loganberries.
delicious when fully ripe, and should
not be considered as only useful when
green, lucre is no better iruit crown
for canning, spicing or preserving: than
ripe gooseberries.
Grapes.
Grapes should be grown by every
home gardener. A grape vine trained
over the porch, etc., is beautiful at all
seasons of its growth and gives us most
valuable fruit besides.
When grapes are grown commercial
ly they are pruned so closely that a
vineyard looks like a field of brown
stakes with twisted brown knobs on
the tops, but in our own dooryard it
it not necessary to sacrifice so much
beauty and quantity of fruit, simply
that the size may be increased.
The vine needs a trellis support of
some kind always and it must be well
pruned or the numerous runners will
draw from the plant so that it cannot
fruit properly, though pruning does not
commence for two or three years after
the vine is set out.
Grapes need a well-drained thin soil
with a warm southern exposure. A light
gravel soil or sandy soil containing
many very small stones is best. Plant
on the south or west side of the house
or where they get plenty of sunlight,
and on high, well-drained soil.
The crown of the vine should not be
planted deep, as the grape naturally
roots near the surface. A little fine
ground bone mixed with the soil about
the roots is very BeipruL
Strawberries can be grown in any
good rich garden soil, but a light sandy
loam gives tne earliest berries: how
ever, we are especially favored here
by being able to raise ever-bearing
strawberries, so we can have them
from May to late in the fall.
Never plant strawberries in or near
clover sod or hay fields. In a very dry
summer on liRht land the crop is often
injured by drouth, but if a heavy
coating of stable manure is turned un
der before setting and the land is
mulched or well cultivated to main
tain a soil mulch, a crop can be carried
through a gret deal of dry wea.ther.
Select your plants with care, those
with young, white roots and plenty of
them are best.
Have your soil well loosened and
pulverized. It Is well to add some wood
ashes to it besides manure. Strawber
ries are usually set in rows two and
one-half to three feet apart and one
foot to one and one-half feet apart
in the row. Trim the roots of your
plants even and cut off all but a leaf
or two of the top before planting. Do
not expose the roots to sun and air
while planting. Keep them, covered
with soil or a damp cloth. Plant in
bed rather than a long row. Dig
trench and plant the roots deeply so
that the crown is just' even with the
surface. Spread out the plant roots
carefully and press the soil firmly
about each and maintain the eoil-mulch
on the surface at all times to keep in
the moisture, give air drainage, and
kill the weeds that must always be
kept out of a strawberry bed.
It takes only a few well developed.
well cared for plants to supply a fam
ily with berries enough, indeed it is
said that strawberries produce, under
good conditions, more bushels per acre
than the potato.
Besides the economy in raising your
own berries is the great advantage of
always having: firm, fresh berries to
eat, ripe and sweet. Instead of the stale
market ones that had to be picked
green for shioping.
In selecting an plants a weil-rootea
plant, even though the top is small, is
fat better than a large top with a small
root. Let me urgently advise you again
to set out at least a little new fruit
this spring. . Your Garden Neighbor,
INEZ GAGE CHAPEL. .
MILK WHALES SUGGESTED AS
SOLUTION OF LIVING COSTS
Alma D. Katz, Life Insurance Dispenser, Hits Upon 'Novel Plan to Relieve
Milk Shortage and Reduce Prices.
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BY ORTON E. GOODWIN.
LTT is now authoritively denied that
X Alma D. Katz, who combines the
pastimes of extracting life insurance
premiums and milk and selling both
milk and insurance. Intends to use his
Waucomah farm on the Columbia river
for raising milk whales.
For this reason, the coterie of Arling'
ton club members who so kindly floated
an issue of stock for a series of com
panies to be headed by Katz will have
to look elsewhere for their president.
Mr. Katz, be it understood, does not
believe that whales
milk is better than
the cow variety. For
this reason it will
be altogether futile
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name to head the lit'1
Oregon milk whale raisers' corporation,
the Oregon milk whale dealers' distri
bution company nor that great educa
tional concern, the Oregon whale milk
monthly.
Mr. Katz, be is .further understood,
is not interested in whales, does not
grow or raise or breed whales, wouldn't
milk a whale if he had one and would
not sell whale milk if he had a milk
whale.
With that point clearly brought out,
the story may now be told.
It began when State Veterinarian
Lytle, being in a seriously jocular mood.
gave a published interview on a dull
day.
"The milk shortage may be swatted
soma day," quoth Lytle. "And the do
mesticated whale may do it. With the
whole Pacific ocean as a farm the do
mesticated whale would put the Oregon
dairy business on a mammoth scale.
Whales are mammals, each of which
furnishes about a barrel of milk a day
at a milking and while at present they
are a little too shy to be exactly
a clipping. Each remembered clipping
it from a different newspaper, but
could not recall the date.
Long hours did Katz spend looking
through newspaper files, vowing slan
der suits and, damage suits galore. Then
he decided he would leave town before
the news was bruited abroad.
Now he goes home by quiet streets,
seeks his office at odd hours, for what
can a man -say to the well-meaning
diot, who walks up with a clipping and
a hearty:
"Here, let me give you my check, old
man. Wonderful idea of yours. It'll
be the .making of Oregon. Katz, you
are a wonder! "
So, to avoid further misunderstand
ing, let it here again be, declared that
Alma D. Katz is quite satisfied with the
cow dairy business and the insurance
game and that under no circumstances
nohow will he raise, assist in raisin
or propagating or milking or selling or
doing anything to a whale.
MARJORIE RAMBEAU, IN "THE FORTUNE TELLER,"
DEMONSTRATES POWERS ACTING AS MOTHER
Sole Opening of Past Week at New York Doubly Welcome "Friendly Enemies," London Slang for "Cooties,"
Plays to Big Audiences in Chicago.
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T WAS a very wet day; but the
Washingtonian was very, very dry.
Say," he tiptoed up to Henry Dick
son, who lost one perfectly good job
with the Great Northern railway, only
to get another immediately with Uncle
Sam helping Charlie Stinger run th
union ticket office, "Say, I would give
a year's salary for a -bottle of 'we
goods.' "
"Is that so?" queried Dickson, of the
J. Rufus Wallingford-Iooking person.
"You're on."
And Dickson stole away.
Not many minutes passed before he
returned with a most unprohibition-ap
rearing- bottle, which he handed to the
visitor.
And the stranger handed Dickson a
dollar.
'You see, I'm a dollar-a-year man
assed as easy milkers, some day they J he quoth. "See you later.
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will be domesticated.'
Then, the trouble began.
Some cruel, wicked person, induced
by means .which must not be narrated
some other person whose name must
not be divulged to write and have set
up in type, a very lurid account of
how Mr. Katz proposed to go into the
milk whale business and produce whale
milk on an enormous scale.
The account was printed off and on
the back of the- clipping was carefully
printed another article, so that the
whole looked like an ercerpt from1 a
newspaper.
Mr. Katz, so the account said, was
even now drivi ng
piles into the river
to which to moor
his milk whales. To
Alaska's cold cli
mate had he sent
for Kskimos who
should show Ore
gon farm hands
how to tame and
milk whales. Mr. Katz was to bait for
whales and catch them along the river.
He had devised peculiar ways of catch
ing them.
Hand milking? Or, dear no. Mr. Katz
Is a scientist. He would use modern
machinery and he estimated that 104
gallons of milk, weighing 32 pounds,
would be produced daily per whale
capita.
"Under ' the present system," Mr.
Katz was quoted, "it costs $4.30 to pro
duce 100 pounds of milk, so that each
whale, being self-supporting, will pro
duce 135.77 worth of milk each 24 hours,
without any cost save the cost of the
milker."
Dual purpose whales would be raised,
too, for thereby. "as the people of Ore
gon are educated to eating whale meat,
all dry female whales and all male
whales not needed for the herd can be
sold on the local market."
When those clippings were judici
ously distributed whe should blame
Everrett Ames for suggesting to his
fellow club members that for the sake
of dear old Oregon and the dear old
club, they must finance dear old Katz
in his perfectly stunning move.
And wasn't Dr. Joseph Bilderback
ready to take office side by side with
the sterling whale farmer Katz. Yes,
even so.
Stock in milk whales inc. and all the
other whale milk companies went
soaring.
And then Katz heard about it.
He spluttered. He fi.med.
"What on earth's the matter?" they
asked guilelessly.
Katz stuttered and spluttered some
more.
Every man then drew from his pocket I
But Dickson was not so gloomy as
might have seemed.
"Making tl out of an old whisky bot
tie and 20 cents worth of cold tea is
pretty good business, isnt' it?" he re
marked to Stinger. "But he should
worry. He got his 'wet goods.' "
TlTATBE they do that sort of thing
XYJ. in Cincinnati that is, some saw
yers, but it seemed kind of odd to the
bunch of lumbermen gathered in the
office of the dapper
first lieutenant, who
hailed from that
city.
For many, many
months the "loot"
had fought in the
battle of the Yeon,
and he was very,
very weary.
So, he was just a
little snappy when
the group of Port
la nd lumbermen
called for a confer
ence.
"Can't talk to you
until I have ar
ranged this matter,'
he asserted.
And he continued to call telephone
number after telephone number. The
gist of his inquiry was for a warehouse
with a strong, substantial ground floor.
"What on earth do you want with a
warehouse?" queried one of the exas
perated lumbermen at last- "Anyway,
we'll try and help you out, for we must
get this business settled."
"I'll tell you," replied the man of the
silver bar. "We've got to have a ware
house right away. We've got a lot of
logs in the river and it is raining and
they're getting wet."
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J. HOFMANN was asked to be
colonel in a forthcoming fund
drive.
"No," he gasped, "I can't. I am work
ing so hard now I feel like a nut in
stead of being a kernel."
JOHN ZIMMERMAN
landscape Gardener and Nurseryman
Has returned from California and is pre
pared to take care of the needs ot his pa
trons. TIGARD, OREGON.
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the novelty market with his "Listen
Lester." which cannot accommodate the
crowds which flock to the Knicker
bocker to see it. First of all, the open
ing is "different." The curtain rises
upon a, hotel scene and the various
characters dance on the stage. Not a
word is spoken, but the music is so
entrancing that it is hard to keep one's
feet still. The cast includes Ada Lewis,
Johnny Dooley (back from the war),
Ada May Weeks, who replaced Mari
lyn Miller Jn "Fancy Free" last season;
Clifton Webb, Gertrude Vanderbilt,
Hansford Wilson and jolly Eddie
Garvie. Fritz! Scheff has replaced
Eleanor Fainter in Glorianna, but Mr.
Cort does not expect to send it further
west than Chicago this season.
"The Better Ole," the biggest hit of
the season, made its appearance at the
Strand. Just a stone's throw from the
Cort, where it has been playing to
capacity audiences for months. Mr.
and Mrs. Coburn, who are very popular
on the coast, have not only rehearsed
and sent out four other companies, but
appeared in the film version of the
Bairnsfather cartoons, which have been
some of the best products of the war.
"The Better Ole" did a double service
during its successful week at the
Strand. It acc- modated many would
be patrons of the spoken version who
could not be taken care of at the Cort.
The Strand gave it a wonderful pro
duction and the film is much in de
mand. "A Burgomaster of Belgium," the
new Maeterlinck play, which is due on
Broadway very soon, depicts live In a
small Belgian village in August, 1914.
Inspired by an actual event as nar
rated in Belgium's white book. It de
fends the country's attitude toward
German invasion and is a bitter ar
raignment of historical events. When
produced in London not long ago, the
Times hailed it as Maeterlinck's biggest
and greatest contribution to the field
of dramatic literature.
"Three Kings" In Cast.
Poker enthusiasts predicted that
Good Morning, Judge" would be a
knockout because it had "three kings"
in the cast. Mollie Is a host in herself,
and Charles, her brother, makes a fine
dancing partner and leading man. Nel
lie, the older sister, is almost as well -known,
and the trio have many ad
mirers. "Good Morning, Judge" is an
other Americanized version of a Lon
don success, the musical adaptation of
Plnero's "The Magistrate." Now that
the war is over the influx of English
plays and English actors, from whch
we have been more or less free during
the war, has come again and the
American actor and dramatist has
severe competition.
Friendly Enemies," A. H. Woods
big hit, has duplicated its success
across the water. Just a year ago last
month the first performance of
Friendly Enemies" was given at At
lantic City. After a week there and
another in Washington, I. C, it moved
to Chicago, where it is still playing to
capacity audiences. Lew Fields and
Charles Winninger are heading the
Philadelphia company and, besides the
New York company, one is touring
Australia. The London show had its
name changed to 'XTncle Sam." Rea
son? Well "friendly enemies is ine
London slang for "cooties."
The Pleadies clu-b entertained the
Lightnin'" company at dinner the
other Sunday and Frank Bacon made a
speech.
Portland Boy in Fighting in
Time to See Huns Run.
Floyd V. White Says Ketreat So
Hupld Only Hastily Prepured Posi
tions Could Be Taken.
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BY ELIZABETH LONERGAN.
EW YORK, March 15. (Special.)
-The appearance of Marjorie
Rambeau in a new play is always
an event of interest. It was the sole
opening of the past week; therefore,
doubly welcome.'
"The Fortune Teller" gives her many
opportunities to show her fine emo
tional powers and demonstrates the
fact that Miss Rambeau does not have
to depend upon her youth and appear
ance to get across. Imagine almost
any other leading woman playing the
part of a 40-year-old mother with a
grown 'son. Most others would object.
The Fortune Teller ' had once uvea
a simple life in a tiny country town,
but later ran away from her cruel hus
band with a man who promised to be
more kind. They joined a circus and
her ability to read the future soon
brought much fame and a little money.
A sort of "Madame X" creature, victim
of too much whisky and coke, and, like
the other woman,, living over the mem
ories of the past. To her comes one
day her 20-year-old son, facing failure
and- disgrace and through her "for
tune" she is able to put him on the
right track to keep him from ruin.
She decides to leave the old life, set
tles down under an assumed name in
the same town with her son, and is
more or less happy until the man who
wrecked her life comes into it again.
She leaves her son, but not until her
own regeneration is under way and
the son strong enough to resist
temptation. The lover is conveniently
killed and the play has a hopeful end
ing. Whether in real life, so speedy
cure could be effected, is another
question. . In the play it seems very
plausible, but the wonderful acting of
Miss Rambeau could accomplish almost
anything. Leighton Graves Osmun,
said to be a Californian, is the author
of the play. -
The cast included Hugh Dillman,
Winifred Wellington, E. L. Fernandez,
Grace Goodall. Edna Crawford, Robert
Vaughn and Irene Shirley.
Stuart Walker to Have New Bill.
Stuart Walker's new programme at
the Punch and Judy will include "The
Book of Job," which he presented at a
series of special matinees last season,
and "The Tents of the Arabs." by Lord
Dunsany. The Book of Job" is a
drama at least 5000 years old and Mr.
Walker uses for his production the
King James version of the Biblical text
without alteration. George Gaul, who
won high praise for his characteriza
tion of Job last spring, will take the
same role in the revival.
The announcement from Mr. Brady's
office that Grace George will soon open
her New York season is a welcome one.
She will appear in a comedy by Mark
W. Reed called "She Would and She
Did." Among the well-known mem
bers of the supporting cast will be
George McQuarrie and Cora Wither
spoon, last seen in Leo Ditrichstein's
"The Matinee Idol."
John Cort seems to have cornered
FLOYD W. WHITE of battery C of
the 11th field artillery, got into the
fighting just in time for the Germans'
open retreat last fall before the sign
ing of the armistice.
"We reached our first position at
Romagne, October 26," he says in a re
cent letter to his mother, Mrs. C. W.
White of 411 East Broadway, "the war
had then become 'open warfare," the
Germans retreating so rapidly that only
hastily prepared positions could ibe
taken. f
"We were told that at Romagne was
the greatest artillery bombardment
ever known. Anyway it was a racket
not soon to be forgot. Early In the
morning the boys went over the top
and a few hours later the prisoners
came in by the hundreds.
"That night we advanced and until
November 8 moved forward so rapidly
that we could only stop in any ono
position a few hours. From November
8 until the armistice was signed we
went into position near a sawmill
which the Germans had built to mako
trench and bridge material.' Later we
went (o Cervisy and December 10 we
began the long journey that will ulti
mately land us in the lT. S. A."
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