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■nirtyi $$3 M . OngM Historical 0 , y ¡V 'f ,, ? H ilm » «‘¿fer?, ¿r’1 ' ' ' C* ’ ■ ^ ¡£ 5 i Jam,' V ■ O L XXX 7 t: ■ ■ ■ ' .-W tf No. 19 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 191» NEWBERG, YAMHILL COUNTY. «B - _ _ _ _ _ . ;■> LETTER FROM DAIRYMEN ARE LLOYD S. FICKES UP IN THE AIR i don’t think they like us. Tho9 »bout t halfway between Nancy and He. Battery C o f the »th F. have lota of potatoes, cabbage, black Lueeville. Ba ired the first bread, jam, honey, etc. 1 have satin A .flred fin shot fired by Amer- and about two more honey and jam la the last lean light artillery, art! in later w< we fired the first shot month than I have altogether In the |M|r« heavy artillery, rest of the sixteen montus I have tired by American Amei Written December «, Feting, China, This b a Omesttoa That b Hiring Henry Mill» P im m Aw*y at the at the funeral of the been la Europe. I marched ■ to Mb Grandmother, Mr». lips 0M Age of Hearty I am sure thankful that I don't first fl«(t Americana American killed at the front. Ib jf* J. L. Marshall Thor were burled back of the little have to haul ammunition all i l t b t They bur Yean any more, or sleep In the mud, and U»Vn town of Bathlemont. Bathl V'e • were on that sector two sometlour go for a week without %’ < A t hta home op jhe oornar af " A. E. W. (Germany). Dear Grandmother- It has been a ' Dairymen are very ■neh went to Luneville end sleep and almost without citin g, weeks, then w Fourth and College etreets on last long, long time since I have written «d over the freakish market condl- December 8,* 121!. of tbe 6tb went like we used to do. It would dire A, B and C batteries bat Monday night tha aad came to the to yon hot at last I have started In tkms that recently caused a drop o f Dear Mamina aad Dad— I know out to the front fron one night and fired to writ*. long and useful life o f Henry Mills. you art wondering why I don’t write be fierce this winter If the war oUt 1* ront» la the price o f batter flat In 'th e open ai and returned the next tw the Had ha lived until March 22 af this eftoner now that the war to over, hadn’t ended. No doubt you hava heard long ago within a week. The thing that dks- ing before The last barrage that we put over earning befori the Germans could year hto age would have bean 22 so I w ill explain. We are marching that I had left the U. 8. bat yo u ! tarts the farmer'» peace o f mind la ua. in the Argonne sure routed the locate us. years. Ha waa born la Vannlljon to Cobleats, Oermapy by short probably hod tbe Idea that I was la the fact that feed cost ha» not hero went to Clrfontalne and All 'h * 1st. 2nd a s « We e then wei county, near Georgetown. Illinois, marches. W e don't stop long enough Germans. Cavite. I was for awhile, hat have reduced . Feed to the highest In hto- staid until th< the middle e f January, 42nd division artillery ard three or stgld March 22. 122». been In Chinn new for shoot a wash. ¡Tory and It win bo two months be- to get a chance to mall a letter. tbe Division took over the four regiments of heavy artillery, when the let I On November 1», 1262. ha was I like It here pretty well, bettor fore relief can be bad. I win go bock to the- time the We were on the Toul married to Mary Folger, two years armistice wee signed and tell yon unattached, were firin g and 1 never Toul sector. 1 than Cavite. It waa top bet th ere1 Turning to the probable causes January 20 to al younger In years, who survives him. something of what has happened to beard anything like It in ull the front from shout and too easy to catch aomc fever. * that lead to aneh an uni April 6 . though I was on detached rest of thy war. There wasn't s 5. thoug and often In the post few years ha me since then. They have a disease there sailed | drop In the market, we a i t DeMange part e f tbe time. has remarked L> hto friends, "W e , We wore in the drive la the A r square foot of ground on the Ger- service at Delft dinkey's (Over whleh to the same as *d of the remark made by a Waah- . , We went from Toul to Plccardy man aide that wasn't touched. I i fn have boon married more than 6 » gonne (northwest of Verdun.) W e that dtaaoe la the Staton only la a iagton county dairyman merotRr Moatdidler. It opjx years aad are not tired o f each went there from the St. Mihlel Sec don’t see how anyone «to ld h a v e ! cpd were opposite milder team. They also bane what’ «b a n ha said: "T h e tail waga‘ the The Squareheads j « t o there that that we made our first to called doby’s itch, whleh to very ¡dog. aad it Is making the dog Msk. other yet." Their home haps la tor about O ctober'1. so sew about lived through I t whose dugouts weien’t blown ' up j real attack, wh Newberg has been opposite Friends six weeks of tha hardest fighting painful. j Why don’t the dog bask op amt church and U hoe long been their of tba war, la that sector. We drove either surrendered or ran tnJ the (Watery C was e I haven’t been here long enough make the tall w ag?" custom when ^health would permit to the Germans back about 4» or 60 Doughboys didn't have much trouble for pur work li to look around any bat w in tell i He stated the ease exactly. Thin I left the I eroes the street to the eh arch, hand kilometers aad % ere almost te Se from then on. you all I know. We live la a kind whole dairy industry has bam I am in the 1st (and best) Dtvl- I and thought in hand, to attend the aervloea. dan at tha tiraot tha armistice was of a tert called a compound and X M f M about by the tall and. Over ‘ slon. and we have six inch Howltaers tqr a rest but Both wore bora on farms la the signed. when any tronhle starts all the >n Tillamook county where the fc1- 1 * earns township la Vermilion county I We had Just been relieved pad (Preach l i f e ) . They shoot a shell Ifcris we got ■ American people come and stay la- dairymen have a perfect and hero they settled down to happy, came beck through Beaumont, where weighing 190 pounds and have a and hiked five aids. organisation within QUO meal a day f*mlly, farm home life, whleh they we got our last shelling by the range of about 12 kilometers. Several o f tbe nations have com- reverse to true. There the dog I wish you would find out how **oep per day »•Mowed continuously for forty-seven Squareheads, and were camped In pounds here. Germany rood to the tall as the many boys from Newberg have been ■»■• just s h i y»ars and up to the time o f tholr some wood»-when the armistice waa hard one bat of courae hasn’t any that he should. Nothing lllrotretro offensive started, killed or wounded over herd. I have h% Mfe counter of removal l a . I I » » to Oregon, when signed. at the present time. this better than the mere feet that wme d ware week and lost most of I heard o f three or four who wore f « there a w they located la Newberg. We have wooden barracks at the the price o f Tillamook , I expected that there would be a The lives of these two people have i tot of yelling when the news of the US 0f--th* ” j Prwient time but they ere building two cents during the. was * killed °*. wmg * * « & ■ * - ,OB* * * d *** .*? large brick barracks. W e live In that butterfat In Port been so linked up together In one ' armistice arrived, but everyone took heard that Clarence Coe but don't know if If ts true. common Interest, In rearing a fam ily it pretty quietly. Sosteone across j squad rooms with about 2 » n i in twenty cents. | I started to answer those ques the Germans. leach room and have e large, coal Consumare are naturally glad o f well respected children and fu- the field from us sent up a few ' :We then went hack to Toul sad | the price o f tfr e useful cttliens, end In doing rockets but iboet of us just built tions you seflt me a long time ago stove, so manage to keep fairly what up on a qaiet sector about 20 j warm, although it Is not near as Butter has taken the lead and i f everything possible for chureh and fires in front o f ear pup teats and but we moved eo often that I did kilometers east of the original Toul j earn heat. * « d other commodity followed Ua educational Intercuts for the hotter- sat around and talked. We could not get to finish the letter so will nice as steam sector and staid a month. We got n _ We hav«* a Chine*« boy who lakes cnukl proportion there could be little •dost of humanity, that It seeeaa nil hardly realise that It was ever, but answer some of them now. TO»; we have plenty to eat. Thera ju s t ly rood r e * them aad of our makoe M r ^ complaint. Saab, however, to net out o f place to speak or the deeds o f It sure seemed good to be able to r we went back to our old equipment, prrwimi our the case. From December 20th to ope without the other. They h ave; have fires and lights at night with- have been times whan we didn’t (the Toul sector) and got In and shines our shoes. All January 26th mill feed reload from been lifelong members o f the out having areoplanee fly over and have much for a few days but as soon m we could get rations again Friends church and during the 1st- drop bomb« o t g . / do to to take care of our 132.10 to 942.00 or 62 per cent, ter years o f their residence In 1111- We started to the rear b u r went we would have plenty. I think 1 and bayonets. We pay tbe The evidence brought ro t at the THE END OF A LONG I ANDUSEFUL LIFE j totMro d ie t s by - the chureh. No sooner had they established themselves at Newberg than they at ones espoused the cause o f education here by givin g liberal support te Pacific College, which friendly spirit they have kept up all these years. Friends they hava had wherever they have been, and tr they ever had an enemy it was through no fault of thsira. . Besides the widow, two daugh ters are left, Mrs. Levi Lewis and Mrs. J. L. Haworth, o f 8prlngbrook, and five Bond Dr. Aaron and Zlmrl. of Parma. Idaho, Seth A., o f Green- leaf. Idaho, Alphena R.. or Spring- brook, and Allen, of Chicago. Funeral services were conducted ad Friends church Thursday morning by Pres. Pennington, assisted by Rev. Fred B. Carter, the pastor, and Rev. Carl Miller, peator of the Sprtngbrook chureh. The pall bearers were all grand sons j 3 t tha deeeaaad. Lewis. Roy. Paul and Dannto Mills, Prof. Ruaeell Lewis and Rlahard Haworth. stopped oao night Jh flesh on the border of Lorraine and Luxemburg, then proceeded through Luxemburg and aaw the city of Luxemburg from thp top of q hill about .three kilometers distant, hut didn’t get to go through it. We stopped for a few days In Mutfort (Luxemburg, 1 wrote you from there) and then proceeded into Germany. We have been hiking for several days until today when we stopped for a rest. I think we will start again tomorrow and klka on into Cob lent*. This morning I got permission to go aver to Bert rich (where Regi mental Headquarters to) aad take a bath. It to a summer reeort and a beautiful place. It to four kilome ters from here and down hill all the way— and an awful climb com ing back. I had a swell batk. In a tiled bath room and almost forgot I was In the army. Then I went down town, bought some bread, apples, etc., and statred back to camp, when 1 met Harry and wa walked back together and* stopped on the way at a German house and got air tha bread and honey we could eat. and then came on boms. 1 see Bari al most every day now and Raymond about once a week. They are look ing fine. I don’t know when we will get John E. Smith received e letter a few days ago from hto daughter, Mrs. Wm. Rasa, o f Portland, en closing a letter they had received from ah officer In F ra h e* confirm ing the report of the deetb of thefr eon. Mrs. Rees asked that an ex Avon If I don’t gel home right away pression of their appreciation of the you wont have to worry any more letters sent them by tbe Women of WOOOOrtit SHIV OluMFM ID of trial be given In the Graphic. The letter from France follows: Company "B .” 12 5th Infantry. American Exp. Forces. January 6, 101». W. W. Race, Portland, Oregon. Dear Sir— I regret very mueh to inform j o a thet the official tele gram of November 24th, 111», was cermet. Bugler Letter C. Rees of this com pany was killed in action, near Ocsnes, France, Verdun sector, on October Ith. 1112. He wee killed in the course of an attack by the 126tb Infantry cm *HI11 No. 262. north o f Genes. < Bugler Rees waa the very best type of a soldier and waa admired by ell hto comrades for hto fearican* neae and valor while In action. Hto loss was mourned by all the company. Hto grave waa marked by a wooden cross, placed there by devoted friends. Very truly yours, Levi A. Hines. Commanding Company "B ," Capt. 126th Infantry. man Infantry barracks In ona of the suburb# of Coblenta. We got hare today noon. It Is a pretty good place and I would like to stay here awhile, but I hear that we are to go on further to an artillery bar racks. It has bgpn foggy and damp for several days and today It rained all day which made It pretty disagree- able. I f tj hadn't been for tbe weather w r would have bed a fins trip, for we have been traveling through tbe mountains for several days, and part of. the time we have been following tbe Mosel river with mountains on both aides.' Tbe scenery was beautiful and every little ways there are ruined castle» on the bilia which mads It all'jfhe more Interesting. I don’t see ^ w tbe people ever got up to their castles for th* bilie ere almost straight up and down, a r t there were no elevatori In those day». * Tbe people are friendly for the most part. I don't know what their object to unless It Is that they blah they will get better treatment, for I H i rig fixing any American division This is taken out of our pày so we Vail showed that at the prices of the catacona. I have a dandy had run into. In my last letter I have to have It done whether we prevailing, dairymen were not told you about our trip from the little team of chunky boys. like It or not. ting cost o f production. The reader The government furnishes all our Argonne to Coblentx, Germany. We wear the Mu« uniform here con imagine bow painful It most ho We staid In some Infantry bar clothes. We haven't had any soeks i with white gloves and white duty to ‘ he dairymen to be wagged shoot i except heavy wool sinre last winter. racks In Coblent* one night and the tea wo are on lib- by tbe tall end of Hie Industry, wtthc We are paid, every month when next morning crossed the Rhine erty. When on duty It all depends the above remits, It is possible. I f we mlas one pey sad are now in a little town called ' on tbe weather. To produce at such a loss as tho day we get two months' pay the Eltelborn. several miles north o f , There are two companies of ma- dairymen are now facing to ruinous, tbs Rhine, it Is a small place with : next month. rines here, the 22th and 39th. I No other Industry could absorb such While at tbd" front our mall was nothing In It but three or four cafes am In the 28th, which is the senior & loss. The dairyman absorbs It by brought up with the rations and and a couple of small stores with company. We have a fine bunch of working longer hours, by working sometimes It came regularly and nothing to sell that Is of any inter men here, most o f them being in every member of the family long est to us. sometimes It didn’t the reserve, which to what I am In. hours without compensation, and We didn’t stay on the front any, January 6 - You had the wrong, We ,eft Mare lBland |h# 14th of by diarigarg|w interest on Invest- certain length of time. The longest idea when you thought I was in the Septemb€r on the Cb,aese ment. time we spent In one sector was Rainbow <42nd) Division. I be- jin k in g , . fairly Urge Teaae, Relief Is possible here and else- form January 2» to April 6. and long to the 1st Division and the beat j manned by Chlnwe crew wlth where as it was made possible In the shortest was one week at Soto- one In the American army, or a n y , w b lu offJc#r|| We wenf M gteer_ T I„ aniook_ by organisation. The sons. There waa only one occasion other »rjny. lt ts made up of the w pa8engen, but ^ fairly ^ Oregon Dairymen’s League provide. when we went over three nights ' k * k .J l »’ 1 an TJ ’ bedB> though very poor chow— usu- such an organisation. It has al- without sleep and that was five t e , t an art ery. 1 « aj|y rJce aBd ^ um an<| meat. which ready produced results in the mar- nlghta and days on our hike to ( 1st engineers 1st ammunition train WM near,y We a r r i v ,n ket milk situation. The machinery Sol* * >n8 anvd “ C.. medical corps and Honolu,n M fe and Were Is In motion and It remains for the We are getting the afternoons °* ®r UI*It8 w c *° w t » ' given a picnic by the Red Crocs dairymen to demonstrate their abll- o ff all this week so are getting the v s on. We ave n at t e r®“ 1 *bere and W (W re g|g enjoy It. Ity to organise sufficiently to de- , 8eMlc)t moet of thf t|me mand falr play best rest we have had in a year and longer than an,r other American dl- a half. vision, have suffered the most cas- ^ , muBt M y lt wa8 8ome 8trBnfre If dairymen are prosperous all December 20— Well, Christmas la ua * an * ve a recor * can . feeling. I went without eating for tha numerous Hues dependent upon almost here and we haven’t had a be beaten. two days and then got so I could eat it will prosper. The League deeerves A German Colonel whom our bit of anow yet. though it is cold a little and by the time I reached the moral mural support of every cltisen ehougb for anow. Last year aj this Doughboys captured In the Argonne Honolulu was feeling alright again, of Oregon. May we have it? time we were In Clrfontalne, a little said that he didn't think America We were at Hononlulu only one Oregon Dairymen’s League. town twelve kilometers from Oon- could get up a division in five years night so I didn't get to look around ' ------- o --------- drecourt and about forty kllometara that would compare with the 1st very mueh. Our next stop was at JERUSALEM TO southwest o f Toul. We bad enough Division, and he paid several com Yokohoma, Japan, but for one night HAVE U N IVER SITY ■now there to make up for this win pliments to fhe 1st artillery brigade only. We were given a show and -T— ter even though it doesn’t snow at ( 5th, 6th and 7th ragimsats) à lunch af this piaee which we en -f ~A project has been under consid We have been cleaning and oiling eratlon in England for tbe establish I will try and give you a brief many white people here, although ment of a large Jewish university sketch of where I have been since there are some fine buildings. In Jerusalem. Beginning has been f sailed from Hoboken. I don't think much of the Japs. i they are too dirty. Tbe women ere necessary funds, and a site has been ust 13 and stayed there a week. a whole lot smarter looking than purchased on the Mount of Olives, Then we were loaded Into some box BOOZE AND BOOTLEGGERS TO j the men and dress a good deal bet- The new university will occupy tbe cars and went to Valdehon, 20 miles BE D I CONTROL OF CITY ter. I saw several small kids with- highest point around Jerusalem, southeast of Besancon and about the out much clothes, some only having iook|ng down on one side upon the same distance form the Swiss bor on a small shirt. I Holy City and tbe area where tbe der. We Fere In a big cement bar All boose from now on. captured Our next atop wpa at Shanghai and temple once stood, and on tbe other racks and had spring cots to sleep from bootleggers in the city limits we stopped there two nigbts and one over tbe Wilderness of Judea, which on. We were equipped there with will be turned over to the city au day. The first evening we were descends to the Jordan Valley and Trench 166s (six-inch Howltaers) thorities Instead of to the sheriff’s given a ten courae dinner at the the Dead Sea. 4.000 rest below. and horses. We atald there until office, according to a recant ordi Palace hotel by the Americans In | --------- o— ----- - we could handle the gun. better nance passed by the Oregon City the city. The next morning we | . . Photography than the French themselves, and on council. Heretofore, bootleggers and were taken out to the old city o f, October 20 we started for the front. their liquor were handled by the Shanghai where we aaw many Tbe new Photographs In the Glass We loaded on the train at Besancon county authorities tnsfrad of tbe strange sights. We went through Case on College 8treet. shew forth and unloaded at Nancy. While un city officials. The city authorities the house of gods and saw their that— In the excellence of hto work loading we were treated to an air seem t<) be starting well, as the flrat Idols and saw them worship. In — the Newberg photographer to sec- raid. At that time the Germans batch’ o f boose to be turned Into the thls part of tbe city the streets are ond to none. (The other worker in bombed Nancy almost every night. city was 24 quarts of Sunnybrook very narrow In some places. One shewn below.) We left Nancy about 2 p. m. aad whisky, captured 'frm a bootlegger could hold out hto hands and touch ----------- ... , — . ------— got Into Rosleres at 2:20 a m. We who got the northbound train from each side of the street. Of course In year everything looked nice and atald there the next day and then California a few days ago.— Oregon this part of the elty there are no green. I believe the Jape hava It moved the guns to the front on City Courier. vehicles except thoee draw » by the over the Chinee« In moet things al- . ....... o--------- October 22. but kept the horse line eoollee. Their carta are called rick- though the Chinese women are fairly at Rosleres. There will be e Valentine social ashays and are very plentiful In J a -, neat In their drees, I was lucky enough to go up with given under the auspices of the C. pat} and China. That night we were given another tba guna, so witnessed tbs first E. at the Sprtngbrook school house In the afternoon we were all taken j supper and a dance which we all sn All out In autos for a ride all over ^ joyed very much. fight in which tbs Americans par Friday night, February 14. Our next atop ticipated. We ware in wbet wea younfl people of the community are Shanghai and ont to the Chinese was at Cavite and I sure glad later known aa the Luneville seetor, Invited. R. A. H. soldiers’ barracks. At this time of that oar journey was over.