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4&- J4" 1JP , Aster i"v ki 35TH YEAR W. J. CLARK, PROPRIETOR INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, JANUARY 10, 1919. NO. 37 SITUATION BAD INFLUKZNA , EPIDEMIC- MOKE VIOLENT AND WIDESPREAD THAN PREVIOUS VISITATION. Instead of having Bubnided from Its crest, the influenza epidemic in this city and state 'as a whole seems to be more aggrevated instead of being lessoned. City physicians report at least 200 cases in Independence and unless it is immediately taken in hand and more drastie measures en forced, this city will be in a most deanerate ' situation. The plague I aenis to be more severe than when it jf first struck our city several months ago. Three deaths is the record for this week, with a number of victims in a serious condition. The city council met last evening and adopted an ordinance regulating tha enforcement of the quarantine of patients in an effort to prevent furth er spread of the disease. The many deaths occurring this week nmy he attributed chiefly to Irtflnanrn Tha death of II. L. Fitch- ard, owner of the Independence Bun galow Garage, removes from our business circles a progressive and in fluential citizen as well as business man. Mr. Fitchard was taken aick shortly after New Years Day and for awhile seemed ,to be getting along nicely, but a change for the worse " came, with the result that he cross ed the great divide early Wednesday morning. TT-17:..L.J ln tn dirt- ton, New York, February 10th, 1890, and when a young man moved to Utita at which pluce he later was' married to Miss Margaret Retieron May 15, 1912. During the aame year he mov ed to Los Angeles, California, where he engaged jn the Automobile busi ness. The following year he remov ed to Independence, Oregon, where he made his home and engaged In a simi lar business up to the time of his death. He is survived by his wife and son Robert Lewis, his mother and father, Mr, and Mrs. Charles P., a brother, Thomas N., and a sister Dorothy. Owing to the illness of Mrs. Fitchard the funeral services will not occur un til Monday, which will be strictly tine law. The body will be taken to ' the Crematory a,t Portland, comply ing with the wish of the deceased. Mr. Fitchard was a member of the Masonic Order of this city and Jeeves a host of friends. 4 WARREN FOSTER. Warren Foster, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Foster, of Portland, who at one time resided at Oak Point died in Portland Tuesday, influenza being the cause. Mr. Foster who lived with his aunt, Miss Jessica Fos ter at Oak Point, went to Portland to spend the holidays, but on his ar rival found his parents sick with the influenza. IIe remained to nurse them and contracted the malady him self and died in a few days. Mr. Foster was 29 years of age and is sur vived by a sister and four brothers. On of the brothers in in Enterprise, Kansas, one living in Dallas and two in the O. A. C. The family came to DIGS ALL DATAFOB VWJXSON'S PEACE., When President Wflsoli OUOM3 facts and figures n-jii. various peace eunas at.versauies, do wm know - absolutely trtweoT ltd tpoaka.Dr. Sidney Meiev pr8iw ifont of the College of New, York iiir.j, 4c$ompanie4ttu6u pretltont Is chairman of Hce commits ; .i m , ' U ' II -j Lf-, v A v., , I - " ' lit '. ' "SIP WILFRID LADDER Oregon from Montana nine years ago COLUMBUS TETHEROW. The death of Mrs. Columbus Teth row, a native of Polk county and de scended from one of the pioneer fam ilies of the Willamette Valley, occur red in Portland within the past week. She had been in delicate health from a constitutional ailment for the past two years but this was not the imme ,. . , . . eu- vj diate cause of her death. She had gone to Portland to have dental work done by her brother, Dell Ireland, and while ,there contracted the influ enza which terminated fatally. Mrs. Tetherow's maiden name was Annie Ireland , a daughter of Wil liam Ireland who died last year. She waa born about 47 years ago on the family homestead, now known aa "Walnut Acres" and owned by S. Taylor HilL Her forefathers were pioneers, her grandfather being Ste ven Staats.' Since her marriage to Mr. Tetherow she has lived on the orinal Tetherow donation land claim near the Luckiamute River. She had no children arid beside her husband is survived -by a sister and five brothers.T hey are Mrs. Bessie Hammell of Falls City, Fred Ireland, of Lebanon, Woolworth . Ireland of Corvallis, Dell and Clarence of Port land and Glenn Ireland of Eastern held on Tuesday. CHARLES H. HOAG. Charles II. Hoag of Dallas, was born in New York in 1841, and died January 2, 1919, at the age of- 77 years, three months and 17 days. He came to Oregon when a young man, coming by the way of Panama. For a year and a half he was manager of a saw mill at Jefferson, Marion coun ty, where he met and married Len ora Terhune. They soon left for Wasco county where he was engag ed in stock and sheep raising for a r 1 J Over There With Woodrow- i irxr .opt Pv Ws vt I SF tTSx Mill ! X ?Jt I (VtfM i Jims", w i is S3 LL-fvvSJ-J M I &8 ' yV I HI WWW Welcoming Wttodrow In Europe has been on of the moer 'Americanised; stunts our allies hav jver Indulges uu, it cms oeeo in a flemoustrfttfpps n Tpce BO nn. witn tree oad station of Boulogne . in Paru. o?ie Insert of President V MU1 AM 19H omen WlIWiM&LW couple of yeas, when they returned to the valley and bought a fjjrm in j' Polk county near Suver. Eight years jago he retired from farming, and 'built a home in Dallas. To mourn ! his loss he leaves a widow, a son, Dwijrnt A. Hoag of Marion, a broth er, S. A. Hoag of Hoquiam, Wash ington, a sister, Mrs. Myra Williams of New York, and many other rela tives and friends. A daughter, Ar tie Gertrude is deceased. He was an earnest christian, being: a member of the Evangelical church. For the past four years he has been an invalid, but through all his suffering not one unkind word or a murmur of com plaint ever came from his lips. He was ready to go, his only egret be ingthe leaving of his loved ones. STEVEN BARK LEY. ' Chauncey Barkley passed away at the Hotel Beaver Friday afternoon, fo'lowing an illness of several days of influenza. Mr. Barkley was well known over Polk county and was. an extensive stock buyer. A number of relatives from a distance wee at the bedside when the end came. His home was at Corvallis where the body was taken for burial. Rube Troxe! who Jived in North Iri- dependence, nfter an illness of about iUF .iU . a , inree uays wun inuuenza, passea away on Thursday. A short pri vate funeral service wa held Friday and the body taken to Lebanon for burial. Mr. Troxell was a man of good character, honest in his deal ings and a good father as well as hus band. He leaves a wife and several small children. ' NO ONE SHOULD BE CAR&ESS WHEN SICKNESS COMES EVERY PRECAUTION SHOULD BE TAK EN TO PREVENT THOSE !l ...AND THE COMMUNITY. It seems foolhardy on the part of those who refuse to obey the quaran- ; tine laws when flu is contracted. It does not seem necessary to Have the entire community unite to enforce the law, as is being done in several cases in surrounding towns, , Those who have the disease in their homes God) after four months with the ought to have the sense of self pro- Huns,' but at present none the worst tection at least and do the right thing except some very unpleasant memor to prevent the disease from Bpread- ies of solitary confinement and star ing. ' vation. Our great American Red The Enterprise urges everyone to Cross has saved many of our livgs observe the quarantine laws strictly, by sending uu food, some of which for if we do not, we will have the we received, but often our parcels disease worse than ever. Take for were robbed before they reached us. example the people of Salem and , I escaped September (Friday) the Si.iVif.iS. S iwo-ubw waoop-ex up way -waicn owi ja mis ii v ; Mil j i Ik t j sit jrz$i ill ai " '" VA . . 'i i 4phbiou. wry m mm vrsi pictures wc Tfco tottf saowv 99 ru?ap- w cusarw ' wwBtrs ' tarougn wc tuw 1 4 I '.'St , V 4 A Girt JdAlQ i Albany, and other cities which have had a relapse so to speak. The dis ease is spreading like wild fire there and reports are that in nearly all cases it is of the x virulent form. Good Care is Best From all repoits the great medi cine for the flu is good care. Those who 'immediately undertook to rid themselves of the disease were suc- j ressfui, end were not very sjc!;. They Wijnt to bed at enca end remained j there until they were well, and then did not venture our until they , were certain that they were strong enough to stand the rigors of the weather. A strict quarantine was maintain ed without law enforcement and as a result those sick quickly became well and the disease was prevented from spreading. How easily this can be done, and jet people continue U willfully vio late the law. 1 it STOPED BY D --M OLD HUN 'MAKES ESCAPE FROM GERMAN PRISON, BUT STOPED BY GUN IN HANDS OF HUN GAURD. Base Hospital No. M France, - Decembci 2, 19 IS. DEAR SISTER: J At last I am back in France (thank bV-X- umjiea ajj vno witnessed tne wtuoDii9' iuunBe upper snows. Vo i 4rtln along tnal 13th; was gone for ten days and nights sleeping in the woods during the day and traveling during the break, my comrade and I were slip ping through a little town by the name of Erding, hoping to find con cealment in the river bottom on the other side, but here luck was against us. We were just turning a corner when a d Hun guard cried 'haltl We looked around and found our selves covered with a gun, of course, we were helpless and hardly able to drag ourselves along. They took us to the town where we spent two days and nights; the food was not very good, but they gave us plenty. We were returned to our former prison and placed in confinement (that is my pard and self) The other two who escaped with us were brought in the next day. We were all in one large cell for two days, then one night when supper was late, we star ted to sing, "God help Kaiser Bill," at the same time around the table to keep warm. It was quite cold, no heat was allowed us, also our beds were folded up so we could not use them during the day. Now to get back to my story. Our singing did not seem to take very well with our gailors, for they came rushing in shouting "Dos is$ Verba tin, gtc" We laughed and said we did not know it. They then noticed we were not standing at attention; Then there was an explosion of jaw breaking words. I thought he was going to blow up and bust, also I stopped laughing , and began to look worried, for we could see we had went too far, The result was that we were put in separate cells at once The next -day the mayor came and gave us three extra days of solitary, which was to be added to our sen tence for escaping, which we found out to be 21 days (14 days later) thus making 24 days in all, but when our time was up they could not give us transportation to another camp, so we had to wait three days more be fore we could leave.. . I could write a book of my exper iences while in Hunland, but I would rather wait and tell it to you when I come home. I have been examin ed by the M. D. and placed in Class A. whfch gives me active duty just as soon as our quarantine is over So I cannot say when I will leave for the good old U. S. A. I received your dear letter and pictures both were very good, but I don't believe I would have known you unless you had of told me who you were. You shure look as though you had tried to get as large as sis ter Lil. I also received a letter from Lil, mother and Mrs. Fenton, they were the first word I had re ceived from home. I was overjoyed to hear that mother and father were O. K. as well as the rest of you. Well sister, I will close, for I have so much to do. First I must locate m clofhes for the uniform I have worn while in Germany fa out at the seat, also it is away too small for me, for during my last month of capativity I actually got fat, even so far as to get a double chin. I also grew a mustachc.but shaved it off before I left. It was red. v I don't know where my clothes have been sent, so must get busy and locate themThey have put me in a ward, and taken all of our clothes to be delivered, so I stay in bed most of the time except when the chow call sounds. Well sister, I will close and write again soon. You may address me U. S. Air Service A. E. F. Your brother, RALF. -tit DEWEY STEEL m RETURNS HOME Dewey Steel, who. has been in ac tual service with "the Canadian army in France for the last thirty months, was wounded and sent home with the first casualties after the armistice was signed and is at -present at the home of his siter Mr, N: C. Anderson; Dewey tried every branch of service of the American army, bu,t was re jected as physically unfit. He re ceived shrapnel wound as well as gass ed by the Germans, the later taking the worse effect, but he does not mur mer at his misfortune and says he would not have missed the big battle for anything. His many friends are all eager to listen to his interest ing war stories which he can tell to a finish. JJON TROTZKV r U-BOATS WERE O UT OF LUCK LYNN HUNTLEY IN SQUADROM OF CONVOYS PROTECTING 45000 SOLDIERS ACROSS SEAS. C. E. Huntley recently received the following interesting letter from his son Lynn, which is as follaws: ; Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28. "DEAR DAD: Recieved your long and very inter eating letter yesterday and am tak ing advantage of this great holiday which holds a double significance this year, and the boys are making the most of it. The censorship was lifted at midnight last night, so we can now feel more free in writing. The weather is delightful today, just enough snap in the air to make one full of life. There are about fifteen larc battleshina at anchor in thai harbor this morning with all flags flying, bands playing and several . thousand Tyungry - gobs impatiently waiting for the big dinner. You dependence when news ef peace came. Well, you should have been aboard ' jtbis battle-wagon. We wee about 300 miles off New York when the newscame by wireless. I happened to be on watch in the inter-fleet sta tion on the wireless telephone set, when a breathless messenger from the main station came tearing by with the message, which said: "All hosti lities have ceased on the seas and the restriction on lights is lifted." We were, returning from our second convoy trip and had been running with a totally darkened ship, except the radio shack and station well be low decks, and its no joke with 1200 men aboard , to stumble around open hatches not knowing what minute you may leave the boat-deck and pick yourself up in a coal bunker about seven decks below. As soon as the captain read the message, he had all lights turned on. That was about 8 o'clock in the evening, then the whole crew went delerious with joy. The band came out and paraded all around the ship with the crew be hind in single file, band playing and every one singing "Hail! Hail! the Gang's all Here, so what the hell do we care Now." This being one of our latest navy songs. Whistles, blew, , bells rang and every object which would produce noise was used. Then Captain -McClain came out and cr.id "make a night of it boys." We did. We Jiad been shot at three times by torpedoes and if it had'nt been for the good judgment and cool head of our brave captain, the old Battleship New Hampshire would probably be in Dav ey Jones' locker. The first attack was when we went out for target practice just before starting on con voy duty. It was a foggy morning, about 9 o'clock when the look-out, shouted down "Submarines on the port side, sir." We were standing at quarters on the boat-deck at the time. Torpedo, defense sounded in stantly and in less than a minute 1200 men were at their battle sta tions. . Meanwhile the three and se ven inch guns began to roar. At al most the first shot on the periscopes, listed and disappeared we had made a dead hit.!' The other bub let two torpedoes go" at right angles, and by putting the .helm hard over the ship , swung with, her bow toward the sub marine and the torpedoes shot by one on either side. By that time the Sub was out of sight. The officers (Continued to Page Eight) t wmcft disturbs us.