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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1918)
DAILY HOG IB HIV Kit COUKlkH YYKIiSKMIl.tY. JTI.Y 111, 1UIH. 4 KEN DRAFTED FOX UM1TED SERVICE four men have been dratted to till the limited service call, to Wave for Vancouver July 39, on train No,; 14. , The namea are as follows: Plainer Trimmer Men Ellis Guy Ballard, Grants Pass. Donald A. Wilcox, Grants Tats. Head Mucker Ross Crow, Merlin. Karl Karg, Leland. U.S. Paris, July 24. As the battle news now reaches Paris, the smile on' the faces of the Inhabitants be comes bigger and lasts longer. Am erican soldiers tn Paris are the cen . ter of admiration on the boulevards, ' everyone wanting to congratulate them on the success of their com rades fighting on the Marne. Poll us on leave In Paris go up to the big American boys and heartily shake their hands. Late yesterday afternoon automo bile ambulancea driven by French soldiers filed , down the Avenue de rOpera carrying American wounded to one of the big French hospitals In the center of the city. The men In the ambulances were soon recog nized aa Americana by the French promenaders, who cheered again and again.. The American boys acknowl edged .the cheering enthusiastically, some waving their hands, others, with arms bandaged, smiling and shaking their heads. I! DAMAGED BY FIRE Norfolk. Vs., July 24. Fire did considerable damage to an immense hangar at the naval base here today. NEW TOD IT . (CLASSIFIED AD RATES. 21 , words, two issues, 25c; sVi Issues, SOe; one month, 11.60, when psld Is advance. When not paid in advance, tc per line per Issue. ) WANTED To rent or buy. a type writer. Preferably an Underwood or Remington. Address No. 1158 care of Courier.. 25 WANTED -Cook at the hospital: middle aged lady preferred. 21 CHICHESTER W7. .tMSUSM S0LDIYK2CC3T5EYETEEI Sewing Machine Motor Take one home on trial Price $15 dew. B. Kiddle, Mssr. SPILLS I PER52NflL 6B LOCAL j Mis Susie Cornell, of Glendale, spent Tuesday In the city. George Pratt returned this morn log from a trip to Portland. M. V. Flnley. of Apptegate. was 'in the city today ou business. Elmer Keyese left this afternoon tor St. Louis. Absorbtn Jr. Sabin ha It. 1 Ashton Foreste. of Applcgate, was Jjn town today on business. Mrs. II. Mlnthorn, of Evans cree tha dnr tn Grants Psss with friends. Mrs. J. O. Brown, Mrs. lRoy and Miss Helen Leltoy, of Williams, were in town today on business. Mrs. G. A. Webster, of RoKue River, was a Oranta Pass visitor to day. Un Caroline Wlmer went ' to Glendale this afternoon to spend week or ten days with her parents. J. Porterfleld. I. 9. N.. arrive! this morning and will take a trip M the month of Rogue river. The Fruitdale dances are alway good, come out and see. 21 Mrs. William Fonden, and daugh ter left last ntKht for Molalla. for the summer. Horold King was a southbound passenger this morning, traveling with a bunch of marine who recent ly enlisted. Mrs. S. J. Nsion and son, Orer weirt to Roseburs this morning to visit. They will also visit at por: land. 8tanley Umphlette, of Portland and Earnest Umphlette. or Glendale, both former residents of Grants Pass are spending a few daya fishing In Rogue river. Tom Bowman, who visited his niece. Mrs. M. A. Powers, snd other relstives and friends at Kerby. loft this afternoon tor his home In Ssn Francisco. Bring your girl and come to the Fruitdale gTange hall Saturday night. Good orchestra, good floor. dancing and refreshments, all for seventy-five cents. 21 Earl Brockman was a southbound passenger this afternoon en route from Fort Stevens to the Presidio, having been recently transferred. He has oeen stationed st Fort Stev ens for the past eight months. Warren E. Armstrong left last night, returning to Camp Lewis, af ter spending a 10-day furlough at home. He recently returned from the Hawaiian Islands, where he was stationed for more than a year. Funeral Thursday The funeral of Earl Macfarlane will be held tomorrow afternoon at Hall's chapel, with Internment at the Granite Hill cemetery. WHIM (Continued from page 1) In nests. Many of the guns were caotared. and the entire personnel of a machine gun company today Is; swelling the already big list of pris- oners taken by the Americans. : . With the American Army on the.Oormnny. and who has been ststlon ' a - & r ni vm. si a i t-1. Aisne-Msrne Front. July 24. The American and French troops fight ing south of SoUsons hsve captured four German tanks, which were op erating against them in conjunction with the Germsn infantry. The al lied artillery ' almost Immediately spotted the tanks ss they came into action and quickly put four of them out of commission. Four' others re treated. In one of the four captured tanks shrapnel had set off s gasoline reser voir snd the German crew bad been smothered. The other three tanks soon will be in action against their former owners. Paris, Jnly 24. The French and American troops made considerable progress during the dsy on the Alsne-Marne front, according to the war office announcement today. In addition to occupying several villages, they captured 1,800 prison ers or more. POLITICAL CARDS (Paid Advertisement.) MRS. JOS. MOSS Independent Candidate for County Clerk . Amy Booth Holmes . Democratic Candidate for County Treasurer Pant tirnucU to Work- in Past NobU Grands club meet Friday afternoon at the will Red Cross rooms for work, Chili PliewMWU ItM-ehed - A crate of China Pheasants received here this morning from the Sampson pheasant farm at Corvallls, The crate was addressed to George M. Ksterty, Waldo. 1'tMt liora to Take Uxkout Miss Jusulta l'urkor left till morning for Sanger point, near Ta- Mima, whero she will Join Mis Kd na Cornell. They will be In the for estry service the rt of the summer, keeping the lookout at Sautter point Itwuru rTiim Vacation Mr. and Mrs. . A. Itcur and daughter, Agnes, returned Tuesday from a two weeks' trip to Crescent City. Mr. Letcher has a camp on his own property on the beach and spend a part of each summer there, lve for California Sam H. Baker and family left this afternoon by automobile tor an ex tended trlu to California. Mr. Ba ker wilt attend to business In north em California, after which they will probably go to Sacramento to visit Mrs. Baker's brother. Claim Fruitdale Home Wllford Allen, former editor of the Courier, now a member of the Industrial accident commission, still consider Josephine county "home," and pledged his war saving stamp purchase through the Fruitdale committee. In writing to the chair man he said: "Am proud of the way Josephine ha come through on every call, and I want always to be counted In with the bunch." IWibby" Peloui Recovered ' ! Robert Pelouse. who haa suffici ently recovered from the attack ot spinal meningitis which for s tlms it wss thought might result ratauy. to resume his aviation training, left Monday for Berkeley. Cel., to eom plete his ground work st the avia tion school, and In several weeks will leave for San Diego school to Lake the final or flying course. Mall Tribune. IJent. and Mm. Elliott Honored A dinner party was given Tuesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clark in honor of Lieutenant and Mrs. Bert Elliott. After s de lightful dinner the evening was spent with music. Those present be sides honor guests were: Mrs. Pat Slattery, Dr. and Mrs. L. O. Clem ent snd children, Mr. snd Mrs. E. S. Van Dyke snd Miss Ssdle Cleven ger. Gold Hill Roy Gun Trainer Only 18 years old and trainer for a qualified gun crew of the navy Is record of Myron Anderson of V. S. S. Virglnls. who wss the "rBl n" ne nsvy after war was declared with ed at Camp 81ms nesr Philadelphia recently as an armed guard. With nine other crews he won the right In tsrget practice to wear the navy chevron for excellency in target practice to be worn on the left arm, and also won a $20 bill.' His crew won $150 prise money. Mall Trib une. ' HORX BRITTEN To Mr. and Mrs. George . W. Britten. Monday, July 22, a daughter. FORMER GRANTS PASS Portland, July 24. Perhaps a bit laconic, but non the leas welcome and convincing was the message re ceived by F. H. Blake, or 417 Olenn avenue, father of Seth Blake, petty officer on the sunker stesmshlp San Diego. "Bad, I am O. K. Lost everythfng, except undershirt. Wire $25 Imme diately, care Western Union," was the message. Seth Blake was employed by the Blake, McFsll Paper company when sr was declared and enlisted April 9, HI 7. He Is now 20 years of age. Another former Oranta Pass boy, Albert. Brinker, who has been living In LaOrande for the past eight years, was on the San Diego, but Is not re ported among the missing. SOLDI ER LETTERS From WalUcw Coutanl On active service with the A, B. F. Juns ie, IMS. Hear Kulks: Another Sunday ha rolled arouud and w are still In the same camp and doing the same work. You but It Is getting monotonous even though we have entertainment of some sort nearly every night. Tods) we had a hall game. Take a look at the W. "Co." of April 13th.. 1 1 8. and nolle the col umn "American Boys," and you ran imagtn us busy working on the road to the east and soulli. The big guns awaken ua In the middle of j the night now and then but the' worst is being waked up, hy the! alarm for a K attack. Sometime j we go tn bed with one and are call-1 od In the morning by one. As yet we have not had enough gas to hurt' any one. ! One ot the boy went to the boa-j pttal the other day with fever and! wss treated three days for gas snd' came out fine. He said he wanted to j go back, because when he woke up i a nurse had her arms around him. You may hear tb.it the whole outfit! I In the hospital If that I the wayj they treat them. . j Thar la vabIIv nnthln lit writ i about since nothing happens to pro vide material. No one was allowed to leave camp today, ao there was' no excursion and no private pilgrim ages. Some second clsss mall came In. but nothing from the old town. Plenty ot reading matter, but not very Interesting. Will have more to write about next time, I hope. I haven't a loi ter to anawer and that makes soma difference In the length. ' Tour loving son, WALI.ACH Kngland. June 15, 1918. Dear Mother: I will answer your very welcome lettera which I received some time ago, but as we moved to another csmp and I neglected to answer. You said in your letter that you was so glad I was still In the V. S. snd when I got the letter I hsd been in England nearly a month.- The weather is pretty cool in the even ings but fairly warm fn the day time. . I was dowa town todsy and s big cop took me through the city hall and Jail. It was quit interest ing for the building was old and there were some relics fn the ball, such as ancient weapons of wsr snd oil paintings. The town doesn't Interest me very much for it Is U old and doesn't look very clean, aa the bulldlnga all have that smoky color. Of course, all the towns In this country seem to have an old castle or cathedral which have stood for several hun dred years. The camp here is on a green hill top and some fine sights sre to be seen from it. England hasn't adopt- ..The Wednesday, July "IE 0 rjiMnriHiMnNuiRrfMMiiMisiinusi K f .O 1 lltllUIIIIMHIIIIHIIIllllllllllHirillHHHI)HIHIIjHIIIIIHII1lllll llllllllHIUII'lli Today'o Dangers Modem ways of living throw a hoavior burden , on the organs of digestion. A careless diet, hurried eutinfc, insufficient exercise, concen trated foods such are today's dangers, The bowul system is tn easy prvy. And" so comes Consttpntion and its host of rusuhunt ills. Ud to now, harsh" methods nave boon necessary a a relief violent cathartics, often lru& laden. The bowvls became dependent upon pills, purgative wat ers and similar cathartics, end habit was formed. Stunolas ends all old make shifts, all old dan&ors. Unlike a hasty cathartic, Stanolai acts feantly, but surely, It is an internal lubricant, purely muchan FOR CONSTIPATION t STANOLAX I for tale m Oranta Pass MIKK CLKMKNH KAUIX THE Dltl'UUIMT HIIHIMIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIiMMIIIMIIIIIMIIIIMHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIinillllllKIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIil d prohibition yet tor you can go Into a little store In the back end of our dining room and get all the beer you want. Some of the boys tried to drink the saloons dry when they first ram to England, but I think they will give It up as a bad Job before they leave, as for me I hate the boose as bsd ss I ever did. and I think a little worse. We are spending our time In the shop help ing to repair flying machines. There are lots of training machines wreck ed, so 1 guess there will be plenty to do for a while at least. Oh, yes I hsd some fresh straw berries when I wss down towa to dsy, snd I tell you they were a change from the army food: W are getting pretty fair food now, but It was slim for a while. We don't get ,rMh fru,u- w,,n ,oy,, PVT. MM) WITTERS." 834 Aero Squad, A. K. F. WINH COVKTMI HO.XOIt Arthur Johnston, a Y. M. C. A. worker In Kgypt, has been decorated with the order of British Empire. 1C Joy Theater... 24 . Thursday, July 25 Ttlary Pickford "M'LISS" Some real Jazz from . the Orchestra Admission aoe and 10 COMING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Paulb Frederick in llrs. Jfca's Admission SOe and 10c . Watch for EL8IB FERGUSON I) "THB BONG OF HONGS" r leal in action, not a medi cine. It is neither digested nor absorbed. It is taste less, colorless, odorless. Thousands hav feuined re lief this better wuy, And to will you. Sturmlm en count&es natural and nor mal functions, by prevent ing congestion. One bottle is convincing Buy it today. SfaattWftml Omit Standard Oil Company (iMil.M) Chk,U. I.A, by. IS LOCATED NEAR CilY Uncoln Savage, Krnest Green and Phil Rpblnson have a very promis ing chrome property, which Is lo cated 27 miles from Grsnts Psss, Is 18 miles from' the railroad and only one-half mile from the wagon road. About two ' weeks ago , they ft (Irani Pas In aoarch of chrome, and within three and one-half hours ' hsd located tha property. They have a lens which Is eight feet across, and in following It along the hill side, they found chrome for a distance of 50 feet, the ore being better than 40 per cent. There have been various estimates as to the available ton nage, some estimators placing It as high as 2,000 tons. .They have not yet decided what will be done with the property, but have several proposition under con sideration. They say It can be made an Immediate producer. 7i 'aflfHuaOJftiWa'l mi :fHPt m 21 Defense"