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mm 5 VOLUME VII. BEAVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1919, NO. 5. WRAY CLORE WAS IN THICK OF FIGHT IN FRANCE WITH 361ST. INFANTRY IN SEPT. Cook1 Wagon Under Fire and In Center of Ring of Shells but -Was Not Once Hit. ALL COMPANY COOKS SAFE Mr. and Mrs. W, E. Squires received word last week that t 4-k rtii. oah T n:ltv VnA Koan fair. bilCll 0U11, UOXilf iiau ull en to a hospital at Camp Me"' and was unable to meet Misr Hazel when she reached Wash ington. This week they receiv letters from both Lester and Miss Hazel to the effect tK : was for only a slight operation H&lad to Have Done His Bit Button his nose that Lester was in Would Like to See the Sun- me nospuai, out uiav iie nac taken tonsums and was - con fined to the infirmiary for 1? days, but is now well'andback at work." Miss Hazel is well pleased V. Clore, a cook with the 361st ,th her n,ew Psi,tion but says Infantry, which saw service in sne never Kneuw oeiore mere France and later in Belgium and , werf ,so m&W black people m the is now in the ravished kingdom, world as she can see any day m was received by his parents, Mr. W ashington. , - .. and Mrs. E. H. Clore of Elmoni- ' , ' :: . ca, just a few- days before his . Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Geddes and father's death- -family of Morgan County, Ohio, In Belgium,' Dec. 15, 1918. -''arrived in Beaverton Wednesday Dear Mother and Father,-As make Oregon their home. Mr. we are now allowed to tell of a iieaaes 1S a cousin 01 James L few of our experiences and trav- "i???. , , - ls and I have time I will try to ' R-B-Doughty of Cooper Moun tell you of a few. We left Camp ,taill was in town -yesterday on Shine in U. S A. Again, Says Elmonica Boy in Belgium The following letter from W. FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN WILL BE THE LAST: LETS GET READY TO MAKE IT QUICK. " :: - '. Victory Loan Will Be the Pledge to Boys that We are Not Ungrateful. FLU BAN WILL BE RAISED SATURDAY MORNING; ALL CHURCHES WILL RE-OPEN .. i i t School Will Resume Monday on Second Semester Work and Review Lost Work Later. PICTURE SHOW SATURDAY The coming Victory Liberty Loan will be the last. . .... . i One more big job to pay lor Yes. the flu ban is off ! That the victory or the immediate is jtwjn be off tomorrow. The demands of victory and Liber- disease is under control, so far ty Loans will be history. . aa Beaverton is concerned, and .; There must be no lagging by Dr, Mason has advised the Town the American people in the drive Council that the danger no long that will come in April. If will er exsts. The council is slated not be a time for excuses, 'to meet tonicht and raise the The same spirit that charac-, ban. So the word has been on terized the last hour of fighting the co for several davs and plan?. Lewis 25 ot June, landed in Camp Merritt, N. J. June 28. We . embarked July 5 and sailed from New York Harbor July 6. We . had a very poor ship named Ka- roa which was awfully crowded and the eats were very poor hut we made it across the foam without ' any- excitement and landed in Glasgow, Scotland. 1 "July 17. Scotland is avery pret ty country ; also part of England We entrained at Glasgow and crossed England to Southamp ton on the English Channel. We crossed the Channel July 20 to La Havre, France, where- we rested a day and then loaded aboard box . cars for Southern : France, which took us three days, and welanded at Montio-- ny, France, where we staved in training until Sept. 3, and .then we started for the front. It was march, march, march, box car and march until Sept. -25 and we took our positions to go over the top; The drive started about 10:30 P. M. with artillery of all sizes and kinds up to as large as 12 inch and the earth fairlv shook "with a barrage, one of the greatest the war ever knew. The bovs went over the top about davlight the next morn ing, Sept. 26. Thev were in con tinual action for, eight days the first hitch and drove the Hims out of their winter auarters for several miles. The fighting was hard on account of the woods ard there were casualties on out side but the second dav the Huns Iwgan to come in. prisoners by the hundreds and hundreds. Our kitchen didn't go up the f'Vst few days on account of the roads being so bad but when we did we saw. "what. our bier runs had been doing. The "wnA'mn perforated from the m's fire line on for several miles, and it looked as if nothing could pp-"? blv live there very manv min utes, j Our boys were relieved after (ieht days and rested and fed up for two davs and nights and then we started for a place teres', but had to po back to ..- r business. help another division make their objective Those days will never be forgotten by the boys who came through. 7 1 guess our old cook wagon was lucky as it was n't hit and we still have all the Cooks we started with. Shells hit pretty close at times, in fact, the cut almost a complete horse shoe around us in one place, but I kept saying that Fritzie didn't have any with my name on. I used to hate my steel hat, but there were times I wished it was as big as a wash tub with a lid on to lock myself in it. We were all a sad-loking sight when we started to the rear and we didn't care much whether school kept or not. but the bovs in 361 can always say that thev took" all obiectives that were laid out for them and manv - un'W very bad conditions. I am glad I was able to do my little bit, but am . sorry for the hoys we ha to leave behind on the field We have seen dead of both sides in various forms, dead horses and wreckage in all kinds of -shapes,, observation: balloons shot down by aeroplanes and air 'fights were a common sight. In fact, after the first shock was over, we found ourselves becom ing hardened to the unbelieve- able sights before us and todav it sems like just a huge night mare, but it seems good to go to before the armistice went into effect should be shown by the stay-at-homes, for whom the Yanks fought in France. Here is the official report of operations in: those last few hours of tUe war: "The 3rdDivision advanced 3 kilometers east of Breheville. Despite increased resistance by machine gun and artillery fire the 5th Division continued to ad vance, capturing 18 prisoners, 3 large callibre guns, 6 minenwer fers and considerable material. Tn accordance with the terms of the armistice hostilities on the front of the American armies ceased' at 11 A. M." The Yanks didn't shirk that last job. Many gave their lives with peace a matter of minutes awav. iwerv American at Home worth the victory won by those boys in khaki will work as hard in this loan as in any of the past. 0 are under way to make" up for Picture Show Saturday Night, the lost time. Tomorrow night the Beaver Theatre will be first to raise the lid with a rousing comedy program which Manager Von,Deest guarantees to cure ( Continued on Page 3.1 ' Miss Nellie Rossi and Joseph Orselli were married a week ago last Saturday in Portland at the First Street Italian Catholic church by Father Bolestra. Mrs. Orsella i3 the popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rigolo Rossi of Beaverton. Mr. Orselli, whose home wa sin Sacramento, has been in the IBpruce Production Division at Vancouver, Wash., for the past ten months. They house across the road from her former home and will assist Mr. Rossi in conducting his farm. G. A. Van Antwerp, who has Tractors Readv to Deliver. Otto Erickson & Co.report the receipt of the fourth carload of Fordson tractors on Tnesa" and on Wednesday a carload of Oliver plows arrived. The farm ers of Washington Countv. hav ing viewed the good work fV- , by the Fordson, are now making inquiries regarding spr.1'"' liveries. Mr. Erickson informs us that from present indications he will be able to fill all orders as they are placed. ""John Streimer, who has been six months and a day at ( Lewis, was out from Portland Wednesday " r,'sit Mrs. Chas. Shivelv. His brother Joseph is somewhere in Franco and his brother George is still at Camp Lewis, having been in the hospital when the company to which h" belonged waq dis charged and thus unable to get his discharge with the first lot in which he was listed. John will return next week to the Ar- cady Press where he was em ployed before going into the ser vice. ' " A. R. England of Hillsboro, secretary - treasurer of the Washington County National Farm Loan Association, was in the shells howling and blowing up. I looke devery day to see Fritz begin to shoot wooden shoes'and sauerkraut but I guess he didn't quite run, out of iron, ha ha. ." : . ' Well this old war "aint what it used to be" and thankful we are too. I have told you the 'out line of-our first front. The oth er one happened in BeVjufn but I will tell you some other time. I am as well as ever, but aw fully anxious to see the sunshine in the U. S. A once more.' ''Love to all. W RAY. Cook W. V. Clore, Co. D, 361 Inf.. A. E. F. .JtiftlAKD 776, (Censored.) sleep at night and not to hear hind in later getting it into the been painter foreman at the S. P shops left last week for Oakland, . Beaverton Monday in the inter. California, where he will locate, ests of federal loans for farmers Mrs. Van Antwerp and little and left a statement of the work daughter wjll join him there in 'of the association for the pas the near future. While here Mr. i three months, which is printed Van Antwerp was active in the 'in another column. Mr. Engkito organization or the Home Guard i is doing a good work for Oregon militia and thus made many friends, all of whom will wish them happiness and pros perity in their new home. J. B. Hays was in town Tues day and states that h has sold his place south of Tobias to a the Methodist chur familv fro mCnnatia occupy it as soon 'as L. R. Dearf, who bought thelsary arrangementsn farmers of the county in getiyv this cheap money on long vat' and thus leaving loqahs&uiit, rree ior tne aeveiopmeBt'fcniJ business interests nf tte WMWJ Dr. C. E.- Mason hastjcV the Mrs. Marcia PikeWftji)? W, E. Pegg house now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Wisecarver a few weeks ago. "will move thereto next week. Mr. Wisecarver has bought a home in Rose Citv Park and will move into the citv the first of the week.' Frank Kline is home from an overseas service in France. for moving in. Mrs. TuIIock Notter of Port! Mrs. Tullock livery stable. COOK S' ble for sfee i'firnt, barber on an ro he m$ii and.ii1te oTMipyi'W sN?roprfi&. newathi WVJPandskTftJien ti . K&uireXotf' D!IJ