The Bend bulletin., June 13, 1918, WEEKLY EDITION, Page PAGE 6, Image 6

PAOKO
HRNI) nUMiKTIN, I1KND OHKflON, THURSDAY, JUNK in, 1018
CHAPTER NEEDS
MORE HELPERS
MONTH'S QUOTA IS VMX 1IKIIIM)
AND 11KQUKST IS MADK THAT
ALL MKMIIK1LS TURN IX AX1)
SO THKIU SHARK.
(From Saturday's Dally.)
Moro helpers nro urgontly needed
by tho nod Cross to completo the
quota for Juno beforo tho ond of
tho fiscal month, Juno S3, accord
lug to Mrs. Dlrdsall, who has choree
of tho work. Owing to other affairs
coming up during tho month, tho at
tendance at headquarters has not
been as great this month as previ
ously. Mrs. Blrdsall has announced r.iat
tho chapter would like tho follow
ing articles to complete one dozen
baby layettes:
Thirty-six bands, to bo made of
28-inch flannel, cut C Inches wide,
rolled and pinned with four small
safety pt?s. One yard of flannel will
mako six bands.
Twenty pairs of bootees, to bo
made of flannel or white woolen ma
terial, or may be crocheted or knitted
or now ones purchased.
Twenty-two swaddling blankets,
2Sx32 inches and bound with a bias
binding 3 Inches wide of muslin
that both sides of tho blanket may
be alike. These are to be made- of
wool flannel or woolen blanketing.
Twelvo wrapping blankets, or
capo with hood attached, pattern to
bo followed for the latter. Outing
flannel In pine blue or white may be
used, tho wrapping blanket to be
made a yard square, the edges
hemmed and fcatherstltched or bound
with bias binding.
Nine dozen diapers, 20 to 22 Inches
wide.
It ono article is contributed it will
greatly assist in making up tho re
quired quota. Helpers will make and
bring in whatever article they can
Immediately. There are only two
weeks to completo this quota.
Patterns of the shirts and bootees
will be furnished upon application at
headquarters.
Four chairs at your service at the
Metropolitan. No waiting. Adr.
REED-SiMITH COMPANY
SELLS ENTIRE STOCK
lion Mnrclio of Seattle Takes All Mer-
chnnilKo of Iocul 1'inn It. M.
Smith Hero for Eight Years.
(From Friday's Dally.)
Announcement was made yester
day afternoon that tho need-Smith
Mercantile Co. had sold its entire
stock of merchandise, bringing to an
end tho career of a successful mer
cantile business here which has
played a prominent part in the do
Tolopment of tho city In tho past
eight years.
Tho Bon Marcho of Seattle is the
purchaser and will remove the com
plete stock to Seattle, at once to be
placed on sale In its store there. It.
Nordsoff, vice president of the Bon
Marcbe, and F. McL. Radford, an
other representative, spent yesterday
here going over the stock and con
eluding negotiations with It. M
Smith. In addition to the goods on
band, tho buyers take all purchases
made by tho company for fall deliv
ery.
Monday, June 10, will be the last
day on which the store will bo open.
The Smith store was opened here
In 1910 by R. M. Smith, who came
from Wellsvllle, Mo., In 1913 tho
present store building was erected,
tho company occupying the north
half until 1915, when it spread out
Into tho whole building. Originally
known as tho R. M. Smith Mercantile
Co., In 1916 the business was re
Incorporated as Reed-Smith Mercan
tile Co., giving recognition to tho in
terest held by C. W., W. H. and CD.
Reed of Wellsvllle, Mo. At this time
tho capitalization was Increased from
$13,000 to 125,000.
It is expected that ono of the Reed
brothers will shortly come to Bend
to assist Mr. Smith in closing details.
Speaking of the sale this morning,
Mr. Smith said: "We are selling out
at this time because of tho great un
certainty caused by war conditions,
and because we have received an ex
tremely favorable offer for our wholo
stock. My own plans are unsettled,
but I'm ready to do anything Uncle
Sam wants of mo to help win the
war. Wo woro greatly complimented
by tho Bon Marcho people who spent
Thursday hero. They said that wo
had the best stock of the best qual
ity of merchandise they had ever
seen."
So far as Is known no arrange
ments have been made for leasing
tho Smith building for any other
business,
SvTsrh
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CHAPTER XX.
"Chats With Fritz."
We were swimming In money, from
the receipts of our theatrical venture,
and had forgotten nil about Die war,
when an order came through that our
brigade would again tuko over their
sector of the line.
The day that these orders were is
sued, our cnptnln nsscmblcd tho com
pany and asked for volunteers to go to
the Mnchlnc Gun school at St. Omar.
I volunteered and wns ncccpted.
Sixteen men from our brlpide left
for the course In machine gunnery.
This course lasted two weeks nnd wo
rejoined our unit nnd were assigned to
the brigade machine gun company. It
almost broke my heart to leuve my
compnny mntes.
The gun we used wns tho Vlckers,
Light .303, wnter cooled.
I was still n member of the Suicide
club, hnrlng Jumped from the frying
pan Into the Are. I wns assigned to
section 1, gun No. 2, and the first time
"In" took position In the front-lino
trench.
During the dny our gun wonld he
dismounted on the lire step ready for
Instant use. We shared n dugout with
the Lewis gunners. At "stand to" wo
wonld mount our gun on the parapet
and to on watch beside It until "stand
down" la the morning. Then the gun
would be demounted nnd ugnln pluced
In readiness on the fire step.
We did eight dnys In the front-line
trench without anything unusual hap
pening outside of the ordinary trench
routine. On the night that we were to
"carry out." a bombing raid agnlnst tho
Germnn lines wns pulled off. This raid
ing party consisted of sixty compnny
men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis
machine guns with their crews.
Tho raid took the Bodies by surprise
and wns a complete success, the pnrty
bringing back twenty-one prisoners.
The Germnns must have been awful
ly sore, because they turned loose n
bnrrnge of shrapnel, with n few "Min
nies" nnd "whizz bangs" Intermixed.
The shells were dropping Into our front
line like hailstones.
To get even, we could hnve left the
prisoners In the fire trench. In charge
of the men on guard and let them click
Fritz's ntrnfelng but Tommy does not
treat prisoners that way.
Five of them were brought Into my
dugout nnd turned over to me so that
they would be safe from the German
fire.
In the candlelight, they looked very
much shaken, nerves gone nnd chalky
faces, with the exception of one, u
grent big fellow. He looked very much
at euse. I liked him from the start.
I got out the rum Jnr nnd gave each
t nip nnd passed around some fugs,
tho old reliable Woodbines. The other
prisoners looked their gratitude, but
the big fellow said In English. "Thunk
you, sir, the rum Is excellent and I ap
preciate It, also your kindness."
He told me his name wns Carl
Schmidt, of the .Sixty-sixth Bavarian
Light Infantry; that he had lived six
years In New York (knew the city bet
ter than I did), had been to Concv
Island and many of our bull games. He
wns a regular fun. I couldn't make him
believe that Huns Wngner wusn't tho
best bull pluyer In the world.
From New York he had gone to Lon
don, where he worked as u wulter In
the Hotel Russell. Just before the wnr
he went home to Germany to see his
parents, the war came und he wus con
scripted. He told me he wns very sorry to
hear that London wus In ruins from
the Zeppelin raids. I could not con
vince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen
moving pictures In one of the German
cities of St. I'uul'fl cnthedrul In ruins.
I changed the subject bccau.su lie
wns so stubborn In his belief. It wus
my Intention to try und pump htm for
information as to the methods of the
German snipers, who hud been caus
ing us trouble In the lust few days.
I broached the subject nnd he shut
up like a t-lnui. After a few minutes
he very Innocently said :
"German snipers get paid rewards
or killing the English."
I eagerly asked, "What uro they?"
Ho unswercd:
"For killing or wounding an English
private, the sniper gets ono murk. For
killing or wounding un English ofllcer
ho gets fle murks, but If he kills a Red
Cup or English general, tho sniper gets
twenty-one duys tied to tho wheel of u
Umber us punishment for his cureless
ness." Then ho pnused, wultlng for mo to
bite, I suppose.
I bit all right und asked him why tho
sniper was punished for killing un
English general. With a smile he re
plied: "Well, you see, If nil tho English gen
erals wero killed, thero would be no
one left to mako costly mlstukes."
J JhJt Rm uj), lio was getting tpp
ra m top
mmmcmnrnw
who went
MUlUIKiWmiW
MACHINE OUNIiER,JERYINGIHfRAHCE '
K)iir OY
fresh for a prisoner. AfTcr a wallo lie
winked at mo nnd I winked bnck, then
the escort enmo to take thu prisoners
to the rear. I shook hands and wished
him "The best of luck und n snfu Jour
ney to Blight'."
I liked thnt prisoner, ho was a tine
fellow, had un Iron Cress, too. I ad
vised him to keep It out of sight, or
some Tommy would be sending It homo
to his girl In Blighty as a souvenir.
Ono dark and rainy night while on
guard we were looking over the top
from tho tiro step of our front-line
trench, when we heard a noise Imme
diately In front of our barbed wire.
Tho sentry next to mo chnllcnged,
"Halt, who comes there?" nnd brought
his rlllo to the aim. His challenge win
answered In German. A captain In the
next traverse climbed upon the sand
bagged parapet to Investigate a brave
but foolhardy deed "Crack" went a
bullet and he tumbled back Into the
trench with a hole through his stomach
and died n few minutes Inter. A Innco
corporal In tho next platoon wns so en
raged at thu captain's death that he
chucked a MJIIs bomb In the direction
of the noise with the shouted warning
to us: "Duck your nappers, my lucky
lads." A sharp dynnmlte report, n llnrc
In front of us, and then silence.
We Immediately sent up two star
shells, and In their light could see two
dark forms Ijlng on the ground clone
lo our wire. A sergeant nnd four
stretcher-bearers went out In front nnd
soon returned, cnrryln? two limp
bodies. Down In the dugout, In the
flickering light of three cnndles, we
saw that they were two German olll
cers, one'n captain and the other an
"unterolllzler," n rank one grade higher
than a sergeant general, but below the
erode of lieutenant
The captain's face had been nlmot
completely torn nwny by the bomb's
explosion. The unterolllzler wns alive,
breathing with difficulty. In n few min
utes he opened his eyes nnd blinked In
the glare of the candles.
The pair had evidently been drink
ing heavily, for the alcohol fumes were
sickening und completely pft-vnded the
dugout I turned uway In disgust,
tinting to see n man cross the Great Di
vide full of booze.
One of our ofllcers could speak Ger
man and he questioned the dying man.
In n faint voice. Interrupted by fre
quent hiccoughs, the unterolllzler told
his story.
There hnd been n drinking bout
among the ofllcers in ono of the Ger
man dugouts, the muln beverage being
chumpagne. With a drunken leer ho
Informed us thnt champagne was plen
tiful on their sldo nnd Unit It did not
cost them anything cither. About seven
thnt night the conversation had turned
to the "contemptible" English, and the
captnln hud made a wager that ho
would hung his cap on the English
barbed wire to show his contempt for
the English sentries. The wuger wns
accepted. At eight o'clock the captain
and he hud crept out Into Xo Mun's
Lund to curry out this wnger.
They hud gotten nbout halfway
ncross when the drink took effect and
tho captain fell asleep. After about
two hours of vain attempts the unter
olllzler hud at lust succeeded In wak
ing the captain, reminded him of his
bet, nnd warned him that he would bo
the Inughlng stock of tho ofllcers' mess
If he did not accomplish his object, but
the captain wns trembling nil over nnd
Insisted on returning to the German
lines. In the darkness they lout their
bearings und crawled toward tho Eng
lish trenches. They reached the barbed
wire and wero suddenly challenged by
our sentry. Being too drunk to reullze
thnt the challengu wns In English, the
captain refused to crawl buck. Finally
tho unterolllzler convinced his superior
that they wero In front of tho English
wire. Realizing this too lute, tho cap
tain drew lila revolver und with n mut
tered curso fired blindly toenrd our
trench. Ills bullet no doubt killed our
captain.
Then tho bomb enmo over nnd there
ho wns, dying and u good Job (oo, wo
thought. The cnptnln dead? Well, his
men wouldn't weep ut the news.
Without giving us uny further Infor
mation thu unterolllzler died.
Wo searched tho bodies for Identifi
cation disks but they hud left every
thing behind before starting on their
foolhardy errand.
Quiet Water 8upply Pump.
A nloseless wuter nupply pump of
smull cupnclty is described In I'oulur
Mechanics Mugnzlne. At u dlstnnco of
ten feet, It Is claimed, tho only sound
to bo heard Is the hum of thu motor.
It operates ut n speed of COO revolu
tions u minute and therefore can bo
belt driven. Tho pump is supplied
with un ulr cock and Is used with
either open or pressure tunk oystems.
Something to sell? Advortlse lo
The Bulletin's classified column.
CtMtmNA OAct (Aft hi V
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Kext afternoon wo burled them In
our little cemetery npart from tho
graves of tho Tommies. If you ever
go Into that cemetery you will see two
little wooden crosses In tho corner of
the cemetery set nwny from the rest.
They read:
Captain
German Army
Died 1010
Unknown
II. I. V.
Unterolllzler
German Army
Hied 1010
Unknown
It. I. l
(To Un Continued.)
"OVER THE TOP"
with EMPEY h.m.clf
in the leading role of the 10
reel Vitatfraph, Super Feature.
The Greatest War Picture
ever made, will be at the
Liberty Theatre
July 2-3-4
It comes to BenJ immediately
following it's remarkable Port
land run.
HARTWIG SPEAKS AT
LUMBER MILLS TODAY
Meeting Scheduled for Hippodrome
Tonight Eliminated Will De
vote Tlmo ut Mills.
(From Monday's Dally.)
Otto R. Hartwlg, president of the
State Federation of Labor, arrived
In tho city this morning In tho Inter
est of tho stnto war savings cam
paign. This morning Mr. Hartwlg
addressed tho employes of Tho
Shovlln-IIIxon Lumber Company and
this afternoon will mako a similar
address to tho craws of tho IJrooks
Scnnlon mill. Tho meeting which
had been arranged for this evening
at tho Hippodrome has been given
up on accountaof this being pny day,
and during his stay hero probably
no other nddrcssos will bo mado
other than wharo ho meats tho men
at their placo of employment.
HELD FOR GRAND JURY
FOR THEFT OF SHEEP
(From Tuesday's Dally.)
Charles Stuuffor, arrested last
Saturday on a complaint sworn to
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When you 101111 him tobneco, lot it be
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of Rcnl Gravely.
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weak to chaw Real Gravely, became a small chaw of
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and add a llttla to your moldtig tobacco. It will flvo
flavor Improve your imoke.
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Tl Paltnl lmik lni ll Fmh and Clan ana Coi
ll It aof Rttl Crow ulikal lAfi I'tottttitn Scot
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by V. W. Drown, and charged with
tho theft of thlrteou head of sheep
from tho complainant, at tho prelim
inary hearing In Juitgo Hastes' court
today wns bound over to the grand
Jury In tho sum of 11,000. II, ll
Du Aruiaud and X. (1, Wallaco wero
attorneys for tho stntu and J. A.
Monro for tho defense.
HtnufTor In his dofensu stnted that
tho sheep in (mention had been
brought to him by a man named
I'erry nnd that ho had taken them
to ralso on shares. Ho admitted
that thu sheep were Inter sold, but
said tho sale had bean sanctioned
by I'erry. Ho denied that he had any
knuwledgo of the sheep hotougltig to
Ilrowu, but thnt ho did know that
they woro "pickups."
FOREST FIRES ARE
NOW UNDER CONTROL
(From Tuesday's Dally.)
Foreat fires In tho Deschutes na
tional forest, occurring within tho
past four dnys, am now under con
trol, according to Forest Supervisor
Jncobon, who returned this morn
Shoes for Real Service
OUIt HI'KCIAIrV IH TO MAKU HII0r.S THAT
STAND THK TICHT
NAP-A-TAN SHOE
J. E. TILT SHOE
A. HANSON LOGGER
BOND
STREET
R. H.
War Time Economy!
Instead of liuying New Clothes, Have Your Old Ones
Made Over and Renovated.
I OUAKANTKK SATISFACTION AT UKASONAIILK PRICKS
Central Oregon Cleaning Works
H. HARRIS, Proprietor
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Moro nnd moro tho enclosed motor car grows
strong In popular favor. U'h natural, especially
with Ford cars, which nro busy running ovory
day of tho year winter und Hummer tho Ford
servos fnlthfully nnd profitably. So for n real
genuine fumlly car there Is nothing oqunl to tho
Ford Sodan nt C9B f. o. b. Detroit. Bents flvo.
Largo doors, ploto glass sliding windows, silk cur
tains, duoply upholstered scats, latest typo vontl
latlng wlndshlold a car of refined luxury with thu
ovnrlastlngly reliable Ford chassis. Como In and
know moro about this suporlor car.
Cent-Ore-Motor Co.
HEND, OREGON
ing from n trip to Dig and Llltln
rivers, thu senno of one of tho (Ires,
and tho summit station, At I'uutlnsi
prulrlo about two hundred acres woro
burned over Jioforo tho fire lighters
had the bluzo under control,
EMIILEM CLUH
DINNER SUCCESS
(From Monday's Daily.)
Moro thnu two hundred mumbnrn
of the stnto bunkers' association and
tho Kmblum club and the cltlzoim
of llend uttnuded thu reception ten
dered by tho Kinlilein club lo tho
bunkers on Saturday uveuliiK. All
during thu course of the Immiuet tho
songs and noiisutiso rhymes of tho
club woro sung, Interspersed with nd
tresMes by thu visiting hnnknrs, who
responded to tho call of A. Whtft
nnnt, tonstmnster. Many were tho
eulogies tendered to tho Hmbleni
club and to lloud for her hospitality
during tho two days.
The dinner commenced at fl o'clock
and wns finished In time to lake tho
visitors, who were compelled to Icavo
town that evening, to tho train,
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