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tnp signal to ruih thi German trench. Three tap hud gotten about halfway down the line when suddenly itMiut ten to twenty Germno lUr ehella were Ami nil uUnig the trench and InnttHl In the harlied wire In rear of on, turn Ins night Into day and allhouettlng us agnlnst tlia wall of light made hy the 11 urea. In the glaring light we were confronted by the following unpleasant oene. All along the German trench, at alMiut three-foot Intervul, itood big I'ruHxtnn guitrdmnnn wltb hla rifle at the aim, and then we found out why we hnd not lieen rhullunged when the tnun aneeaed and the barbed wire hnd been Improperly cut. About three feet In front of the trench they hud con atrurtud a ilngle fence of barbed wire ami we knew our chancea were one thouaand to one of returning alive. We could not rush their trench on ac count of tlili eecond defense. Then In front of me the challenge, "Hult," given In Kiiii'IhIi rang out, and one of the fluent thing I huve ever heard on the weHtern front took place. Prom the middle of our line eome Tommy answered the cbnllengo with, "Aw, go to b L" It niust buve been the mun who hnd sneezed or who bad Improperly cut the barbed wire; he wanted to how Prlti that he could die game. Then came the volley. Ma chine guni were turned looae and eev eml liomha were thrown In our rear. The Roche In front of me wae looking down hla tight. Tbli fellow might have, under ordinary circumstances, been handsome, but when I viewed hlin from the front of hla rifle he had the golillna of childhood Imagination rele gated to the thade. Then came a flash In front of me, the flare of hli rifle end my head aeemed to burnt. A bullet bad bit me on the left aide of my face about half an Inch from my eye, smashing the cheek bonea, I put my hand to my face and fell forward, biting the ground and kicking my feet. I thought I waa dy ing, but, do you know, my paat life did not unfold before me the way It doe In novel. The blood wa streaming down my tunic, and the pnln wa awful. When I en me to I aald to myself, "Emp, old boy, you belong In Jersey City, and you'd better get back there aa quickly la possible." The Lulleta were cracking overhead. I crawled a few feet back to the Ger man barbed wire, and In etooplng po sition, guiding myielf by the wire, I went down the line looking for the lane we had cut through. Before reaching thl lane I came to limp form which aeemed like a bag of oata banging over the wire. In the dim light I could see that Its hand were blackened, and knew It waa the body of one of my mate. I put my bund on hla bead, the top of which had been blown off by a bomh. My nngere aank Into the hole. I pulled my hnnd back full of blood and brnlna, then I went rrngy with fear and horror and rushed along the wire until I came to our Inne. I had Jtwt turned down thl lane when aomethlng Inside of me teemed to aay, "Look around." I did ao; a bul let caught me on the left ahoulder. It Sid not hurt much, Just felt aa If some one had punched me In the back, and We Print Auctioneers' Bills and Memorandoms We print them neatly. flen my left aide went numn. iy arm wa dangling like a rag. I fell forward In a alttlng position. But all the fear had left roe and I waa consumed with rage and cursed the German tranches. With my right hand I felt In my tunic for my first-aid or hel dressing. In feeling over my tunic my hand came In contact with one of the bomba which I carried. Gripping It, I pulled the pin out with my teeth and blindly threw It toward the German trench. I most have been out of my head, because I waa only ten feet from the trench and fook a chance of being mangled. If the bomb had failed to go Into the trench I would have been blown to blta by the explosion of my own bomb. By the flare of the explosion of the bomb, which luckily landed In their trench, I saw one big Boche throw np his arm and fall backward, while hi rifle flew Into the air. Another one wilted and fell forward acrosi the sandbags then blackness. Realizing what a foolhardy and risky thing I had done, I wa again Belted with a horrible fear. I dragged myself to my feet and ran madly down the lane through the barbed wire, Hum bling over cut wire, tearing my uni form, and lacerating my hand and leg. Just a I was about to reach No Man'a Land again, that aame voice teemed to say, "Turn around." I did to, when, "crack," another bullet caught me, thla time In the left ahoul der about one-half Inch away from the other wound.. Then It wa tap for me, The lights went out When I came to I waa crouching In a hole In No Man'a Land. Thl shell hole waa about three feet deep, so that It brought my head a few lnchea below the level of the ground. How I reached Uil hole I will never know. German "typewriter" were traversing back and forth In No Man' Land, the bol let biting the edge of my shell bole and throwing dirt all over me. Continued next week R. SL061W !7 tM UHMfc MCnONUJI iJtJTi Ml M JtajgL? UtfJ JClt insm aNM ' m Ire mi fwrm sSy j WE PHINT EVERYTHING. Telephone orders receive prompt attention, Items of Interest The members of the Normal Or chestra who played last year, please attend a rehearsal next Monday at 8 p. m. in the chapel. Mr. John Claire Montieth will take part In the summer school concert next Thursday at the Normal. His programs here have always been greatly appreciated and his num bers this time are well chosen and will give a great deal of pleasure. Plan to be there. I. II . Wilson and family of Tilla mook were business visitors in Mon mouth Thursday. TickeU on sale at noon, Monday, at Morlans for "Lady of Shalott" 25 cents and 35 cents. All Come. Emmett Chase of Pedee recently sustained a broken shoulder bone by falling from a load of hay. Mrs. Margaret E. Weikal died in Falls City July 4. She was bom in Pennsylvania in 1840. Lewis Burlingame, of the Dallas region, former student of the Nor mal, visited with friends in Mon mouth during the past week. The "Lady of Shalott" will be sung by the Summer school Glee Club next Thursday at 8.30 p. m. in the Chapel. The annual Chautauqua is the at traction in Dallas this week, start ing Wednesday evening and contin uing until Wednesday of next week. Mr. and Mrs. Chesebro are enter taining relatives from Portland this week. The Warehouse people have put in a concrete bin for the handl ing of bulk wheat and have been instal ling the power this week. ' The track between Monmouth and the old swimming hole near In dependence haa been kept warm during the past few weeks by local youths carrying towels and bathing suits. Mrs. J. Dornsife of Independence has received information that her son, Dean Baughman has arrived safely in France. Dr. R. C. Virgil, of Dallas. Os teopathic Physician, has made ar rangements to be in Monmouth Tuesday and Friday afternoons of each week, beginning Tuesday July 23rd. Any one desiring his servic es will please make appointments with Dr. Butler. Suver Red Cross has elected the following officers: Mrs. Minnie Fetzer, chairman; Mr. Tressia Conger.viccjhairman; MissGrethen Steele, secretary; Fred Stump, treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Ha I leek re turned Wednesday from a two weeks visit with relatives in Banks and report a whale of a time. Mr. Halleck observes that fall grain to the north of os looks good but that spring grain is light and will not mature a crop in most places. A. Tedrow was in from the Luckiamute Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Stine returned last week from a visit with relatives In St. Helens. She has a grandson in that city who just entered the army. She says that money it a bundant in that portion of Oregon and the people very prosperous due to the ship building carried on there. While she was in St. Helens there was a, twenty-four hour rain j along that portion of the Columbia. Mra. E. T. Evans was a visitor in Dallas Thursday. Percy and Claud Lewis of Lewis ville were local visitors Thursday. Walter Brown took a flyer over to Salem in his flivver Wednesday. Mr. Moffitt was here from Cor- vallis Wednesday seeking wheat for a Corvallis mill. We note that Dr. Wisecarver is in the dental business in Klamath Falls. F. S. Crowley, county superinten dent of schools is spending his vaca tion helping in the harvest fields of Eastern Oregon. Mrs. T. J. Edwards has been ap pointed an active member in the Civilian Relief Service which is one of the activities of the Red Cross Society. Mrs. Edwards has had practical nursing experience and takes solicitous interest in this particular work which, deals for the most part with family and do mestic problems growing out of war enlistment of family wage earners. T. J. Edwards is now the posses sor of a Neverslip tractor, made by the Monarch Company. The tract or which works on the caterpillar plan, was demonstrated before a large crowd of interested farmers on the road south of town Monday The dry weather and high value of the new crop has made farmers apprehensive as to the safety of the grain now about to be threshed and fire insurance on the crop is gen eral. During the past week or two Agent Chesebro has done a rushing business in this line. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mulkey and daughter Miss Naomi returned this week from their month's outing at Belknap Springs and report a fine time. Monmouth citizens are pre paring to enjoy home baking once more. As the old saw says, we nev er miss the baker until he goes on a vacation. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Edwards had company from Salem Sunday consis ting of his mother; Mrs. Emily Ed wards, a nephew, Arthur Edwards and family and Mr. Kendrick of Pennsylvania. Ed Rogers and family have been taking the air this week in a fine new Overland car. Evangelical Church Notes Sunday,July21,Atll Subject: "The Growing Christ." This will be the last of a series of sermons on "The Name." At 8 ."What Think ye of Christ?" In this discourse we expect to show that we may be very good men or very bad men regardless of what we think of President Wilson, or any other man; but that our moral condition before God depends upon what wh practically think of Jesus Christ. Sunday School at 10. Y. P.A. at 7:15. BLUE? COME! COME! "Cheer Up" 0. N. S. CHAPEL CANTEEN BENEFIT July 19, 1918 8:30 P. M. Admission 10 and 20 Cents i The Cause One of the important' phases of Overseas Service behind the Lines is the maintenance of Canteens for the comfort and cheer of the soldiers. This work is carried on by the Y. M. C. A. through its War Work Councif which carefully selects women of maturity, courage, resource fulness, experience and executive ability who have no relatives in the Army, Red Cross or Y. M. C. A. service either in this country or abroad. Though the work is performed without salary the War Work Council will pay if necessary, transportation and maintenance, provided the worker furnshes five hundred dollars for equipment and emergency expenses. Miss Myra Butler, for six years Head of the Department of Home Economics in the Oregon Normal School, has been encouraged through correspondence with the War Council, to apply for Canteen Work. Her personality, capability and experience are such as to ably qualrfy her for service and in consequence her friends in Monmouth and her former students in the Normal School are enthusiastically en gaged in showing their appreciation of her years of service among them and their interest in Canteen Work by raising the five hundred dollars required of each Canteen Worker. The Students of the Summer Session are making a contribution to the Cause by appropriating the proceeds of their "Cheer Up" enter tainment to the Myra Butler, Canteen Fund. (Should Miss Butler not go to France the money raised by the enter tainment will be transferred to the Red Cross Fund of the Normal Auxiliary.) The Program 1. "Melody Land" - -Solo Marjory Holman Chorus: Margaret Peattie, EdrieLaBare, Gertrude Littlejohn, Adaline Brookhart, Clem McKinney, Lydia Huddleston 2. "Jeanne d'Arc" - The Maid . - - Miss Foster 3. Reading - - . - s . . . . Beth Perry 4. "Cycle of Life" Past: Lillian Peterson, Maybelle Pilkington, Ilda Hayes, Hazel Brewer, Vera Hudon, Faye Tillotson Present: Margaret Peattie, Lulu Bell Hayes, Gertrude Littlejohn, Adaline Brookhart, Clem McKinney, Lydia Huddleston Future: Elda Baxter, Elvira Swanson, Marybelle Wagner, Claire Melvin, Florence Cameron, Ethel Ackerson 5. "My Sailor Lad" from Operetta "Sylvia" Solo " Vera Tippton 6. Dance 7. "Are We Protected?" SECURITY FOR FUNDS Security for money deposited at the First National Bank is three-fold: Government Laws and Regulations, Most Modern Fire and BurglarProof Safe, and, Conservative Management. You will find these three features VERY ESSENTIAL. Come in and inspect the new Manganese Steel Safe which we have recently installed. It is the LAST'WORD in security. Ira C. Powell J. B. V. Butler Emma M. Parker - President - Vice-Pres Asst-Cashier flRSTMnONALBANK Monmouth Orefiorv