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f THE OOflDOH OLOBB PAGE 3 I I. N Good! Feel- 3 1 We also hive a good supply of. Albert . Bros.' cow feed as' v well as oats, rolled I barley andhay. ; We still have some . damaged wheat and . Albers Proa.', scratch food for chickenai We are headquarters for grain and feed. lel for "nnty spent work w Fru.u:.- v. ' ..ARLINGTO Hot Water 3at In Bvary Room, Also Hot and Cold Water, Hotel Fenton; i : C'A. Fat4BTrotrritr 4 " - Clean Rogma Beat Meals-vHoma Cooking In tVndoo, Oregon J WELL CONTRACTOR AIID DRILLER ; SATISFACTION' fiUARANTEEO . CONDON,' OSECOJT , WE ARE EQXJIPPED TO HANDLE YOUR TIRE TROUBLES IN EVERY. WAT feet ITVILLIW1 TO RiVE IT - " Send them In ibj. Parcel .Port - " or when in Arlington come In and ee what, we an do for yoan old tire&.. Arlington Vulcanizing. Works; : Arlington,!JOl'egi , We have just re ceived a fresh, carload of bran, shorts' and...' middlings. " 1 LUr,iBERiCO;.' J ' ANAMEKON SOLMTll SYNOPSIS. . r CHAPTER f-firwl by-the news of tb elnklng of li Lualtanla by Oarmae aubmarlna, Arthur Ouy Em par, aa AiMrt ran, laavaa hla offli' In Jimr CHr n4 Ewa to England wliar, ba anUata la UK rlllah army. CHAPTER II-Aftar, a. parted at train. Inc. Krnpay voluntaatr for lmmadlata aarv. Ira and anon ftnda hlmaelf In real blllata "aonvaarhara In fraaca," whara ha Aral makaa Ilia acquaint ftoa of tha avar-praa-anl "cuoilaa." CHAPTER III Km par attanda til trat church aarvlcaa at tha front whlla a Oar man Fokkar clrclea ovar tha congragatloo. CHAPTER IV-Empay command goaa Into tha front-Una trait baa aa4 la an4af lira fur tha nrat lima. CHAPTER V-Empav laarna to adopt tha motto of th Brtlah Tommy, "If yon ara going to tat It, you'll (at It, as never worry." CHAPTER VI-Back In raat billets. Cm pay lata hla firat axpartaooo aa a toaaa oraarly. CHAPTER VII Empey Warn bow tba Brlttah aoldlara ara fad. CHAPTER Tin-Back In tha front-Una t ranch, Kmpay aaa hla Oral trtand of tha traochaa "to Waat." CHAPTER rX-Empay makaa hla first iat to a dugout In "Sulclda imeb." CHAPTka X-Empay laarna what con. atliutea a "day'a work" Id tha from-Ilea train t. CHAPTER XI-Empay goaa Moer .tha lop" for tha firat tJma lo a charga on tba Qarman tranchaa and la woundad by bayonat thruat. v .mi. . . I.MI,' nll. 'W dda club" aa tba bombing aquad la callad. CHAPTER X Ill-Each Tommy gat aa official omttt. CHAPTER XIV-Empay bat pa dig aa dvaacad Irancb unUar Uarman lira. CHAPTER XV On "Uatanlng poaf la No Uan'a Land. CHAPTER XVI-Two artlllaryman "pnt on ovar" on Old Pappar, thalr taamianlMl oonimajitfarj CHAPTER XVII. Out In Front After teg Lieutenant Storeg of onr ecrton came Into the dugout and In formed me that I wag 'Tor" reeonnot. terlnf patrol and would carry atx UUla boraba. At 11 :80 that night twetre men, our lleutennnt and myself went out In front on a patrol In No Man'a Land. We cruised around In the dark for about two hours. Just knocking about looking for trouble, on the lookout for Bocne working parties to see what they were doing. Around two tn the morning wo were carefully picking our way about thirty yards tn front of the German barbed wire, when we walked Into Bocha covering party nearly thirty strong. Then the music started, the fiddler ren dered his bill, and we paid. Fighting In the dark with a bayonet Is not vt't-y pleasant. The Germans took It on the run, but our officer waa no novice at the game and didn't fol low them. He gave the order "down on the ground, hug It close." Just In time, too, because a volley skimmed over our heads. Then In low tones we were told to aeparate and crawl back to our tranches, each man on his own. We could see the flashes of their rifles In the darkness, but the bullete were going over onr heads. We lost three men killed and one wounded In the arm. If It hadn't been for cur officer's quick thinking the who'.e patrol would have probably been wiped out. After about twenty minutes' wait we went out again and discovered . that the Germans had a wiring party work ing on their barbed wire. We returned to our trenches unobserved with the Information and our machine guns im mediately got busy. The next night four men were sent out to go over and examine the Ger man barbed wire and see If they had cot lanes through It; If so, this pres aged an early morning attack on our trenches. Of course I had to be one of the four' selected for the Job. It was Just like, sending a fellow to the undertaker' to order his own coffin.' At ten o'clock we started out, armed' with three bombs, a bayonet and re volver. After getting Into No Man's' Land we separated. Crawling four or five feet at a time, ducking atar shells, with strays cracking overhead, t. reached their wire. I scouted along' this inch by Inch, scarcely breathing. I could hear them talking In their" trench, my heart was pounding against, my ribs. One false move or the least! noise from me meant discovery and; almost certain death. j After covering my sector I quietly crawled back. I had gotten about b way when I aptlced that my rtvol waa missing. "It waa pitch fli al ran EXPERT SHOE REPAIRING - I have bought the Condon shoe shop from R: 0. Carland and now have full charge, I havead long, experience in my work and It ia all guaranteed first-class.' Your sitoeg are Worth money save them - 1 CHARLES Summit Street (Ml) I; 1 MO AVENT T MA01IME OJIfnKDiyilKW TWICE- turned about to see If I could Bod it It eonldn't be far away, because about three or fonr minutes previously I had felt the butt la the bolster. I crawled around In clrclea and at last found It, then started on my way back to our trenches, aa I thought - Pretty soon I reached barbed wire, and waa J oat going to give the pass word when something told me not to. I put out my hand and touched one of the barbed wire stakes. It waa Iron. Tha British, are of wood, while the German are Iron, . My heart stopped beating; by mistake I had crawled back to the German lines. I turned slowly about and my tunic caught on the wire and made a loud ripping noise. . A sharp challenge rang .oat I sprang to my feet, ducking low, and ran madly baek toward our lines. The Oermana started firing. The bullets were biting ail around me, when bang I I ran smash Into our wire, and a sharp challenge. "'Alt who cos.ee there r rang out I gasped out the password, and, groping my way through the lant la the wire, tearing my hands and uniform, I tumbled into our trench and wsa iis bst I waa iarrwua wrack for an hour, until a drink of nun brought me round. . CHAPTER XVIII. . Staged Under Fire. Three days after the Incident Just re lated our company waa relieved tron the front line and carried. We atayec In reserve billets for about two weak when we received the welcome new; that our division would go back of th. Une "to rest billets." We would re main In these billets for at least twt months, this In order to be restored t our full strength by drafts of recruit from Blighty. Everyone was happy and contente at these tidings; all you could hea around the billets was whlstllug am singing. The day after the receipt o the order we hiked for five days, mak lng an average of about twelve kilo per day until we arrived at the smal town of 0' It took us about three days to" ge: settled, and from' then on our cush time started. 1 We would parade frooo 8:45 In the-morning until 12 noon. Then except for an occasional billet or brigade guard we were on our own. For the first four or five afternoons I spent my time In bringing up to date my neglected correspondence. Tommy loves to be amused, and be ing a Tank, they turned to me for something mew lu this line, I taught them how to pitch horseshoes, and this game made a great hit for about ten days. Then Tommy turned to Amer ica for a neve diversion. I waa up In the air until a happy thought came to me. Why not write a aketch and break Tommy in as an-nctor? One evening after "lights out.' when yon are hot supposed to talk, I Impart ed my scheme In whispers to the sec tion. They eagerly accepted the idea , of forming a stock company and : could hardlf wait until the morning for further details. After parade, the next afternoon I waa almost nobbed. Everyone la the section wanted a part In the proposed sketch. Whed I Informed them that It would take at least ten days of hard work to write the plot, they were bit terly disappointed. I Immediately got busy, made a desk out of biscuit tins In the corner of the billet and put Up a algn "Empey & Wallace Theatrical Co." . About, twenty of the section, upon, reading this sign. Immediately applied for the position of office boy. I accepted the twenty applicants, and : sent them on scouting parties through out the deserted French village. These parties were to search all the attics for discarded civilian . clothes, and any-, thing that , we could use In the props of our proposed company. About five that night they returned covered with grime and dust, but load ed down with a miscellaneous assort- ! ment of everything under the sun. s They must have thought that ' I was going to start a department store, Judging from the different things they brought back from their pillage. After eight days' constant writing I completed a two-act farce comedy which I called "The Diamond Palace Saloon." Upon the suggestion of one of the boys in the section I gent a proof GRANT ondon, Oregon of the program to a printing house ID London. Then I aaatgned the different parts and started rehearsing. . Da -Id Betasco would have thrown 'up hla hands la despair at the material which I bad to usev J oat Imagine trying to teach a Tommy, with a strong cockney accent to Impersonate a Bowery tough or a Southern negro. Adjacent to our billet was an open field. We got bney at one end of It and constructed stage. We secured the lumber for tha gtage by deiaoUahlng an old wooden gbaek tn tha rear of our billet ' The first eceoa was supposed to rep resent a street oa tha Bowery In New York, while the scene of the second act waa the Interior of the Diamond Palace saloon, also on the Bowery. In the play I took the part of Abe Switch, a former, who bad come from Pumpklnvllle Center, Tena. to. make hla firat visit to New York. In the first scene Abe Switch meet the proprietor of the Diamond Palace saloon, a ramshackle affair which to the owner wag a financial lose. The proprietor's name was Toe Twt ft em, his bartender being named FlUem Up. After meeting Abe, Tom and Fill em Up persuaded him to buy the place, praising it to the skies and telling wondrous tales of the money taken over the bar. While they art talking, an old Jew named TJtey Cohensteln comes along, and Abe enrages him tor cashier. After engaging Ikey they meet an- old Southern negro called Sambo, and upon the suggestion of Dtey he 1 ea gaged as porter. Then the three of '.v " ;.-; '--J--l -t r . ' . f ' V . I f . "-. I .'" . JtrK- I - Wfc.aa I t L 1 1 ! s i ..,, . : ' ' " , 7 i i- t ... ! ! ! ! - - i p--.S .w31 A Hidden Gun. -them, arm la arm, leave to take pos session of this wonderful palace which Abe has Just paid $0,000 for. (Cur tain.) s - In the second act the curtain rises on the interior of the Diamond Palace saloon, and the audience gets its first shock. The saloon looks like a pig pen, two tramps lying drank- onr the floor, and the bartender . In a dirty shirt with his sleeves rolled up, asleep with his head on the bar. -- Enter Abe, Sambo and Tkey, and the fun commences. One of the characters fat the second act waa named Broadway Kate, and 1 bad an awful Job to break In one of the Tommies to act and talk like a woman. . Another character waa Alkali Dee, an Arizona cowboy, who Just before the close of the play comes Into the galoot and wrecks It with his revolver. We had eleven three-hour rehearsals before I thought It advisable to pre gent the sketch to tha public The whole brigade was crasy to witness the first performance. Thlr performance wag scheduled for FTlda. alght and everyone was full of antld patlon ; when bang 1 . . orders came through that the brigade would move at two that afternoon. : Cursing and blinding waa the order of things upon the receipt of this order, but we moved. That night we reached the little vil lage of 8 and again went Into rest billets. We were to be there two weeks. Our company Immediately got busy and scoured the village for a suitable place in which to present our production Then we received another shock, , A rival company was already estab lished In the village. . They called themselves "The Bow - Bells," and put on a sketch entitled. '"Blighty What Hopes T" They were the divi sional concert party. We hoped they all would be soon In Blighty to give us a chance. This company charged an admission of a franc per head, and that night our company went en .masse to see their performance. It really was good. I had a sinking sensation when I thought of running my sketch In op position to It In one of their scenes they had a soubrette called Flossie. The soldier that took this part was clever and made a fine-appearing and chic girl. We Immediately fell tn love with her until two days after, while we were on a march, we passed Flossie with "her" sleeves rolled up and the sweat pouring from "her" face unloading shells from a motor lorry. . As our section passed her I yelled put: "Hello, Flossie; Blighty-Whnt Continued on next page' Have you some thinjjr for sale or trade? Hate yoa O lost anything? n t2 FOR SALE: Good ecoud-hand waahieg ma. china . Call at the Globe offleev IW8 FOR GALE: Purebred . Barred : Plymouth Rock of quality aud 'from heavy laying strains, crs (2. per 15. : Also Mammoth Broiut turkey eggs 20 cents each... E. H. fl&rtmas, . -, Fosail, Oregon. - FOR SALEu r International traction engine. For full particulars apply tor Di N. IdACXAY. 8tf $ FOUND: Bundle of clothes and .sundry other article. Owner can get , same by paying charges on this notice. Inquire of " David Hardic, Condon. ltf FOUND: Cuff link .-bearing insignia of Masonic order. Owner can get , same at this office. . 7tf ;"i FOR SALE: ' Eelsteis- heifer giving hetteif than two gallons of milk a day. Price $50., Apply to Dan-Me- Farlune, Condon, Ore. 7lf ? 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