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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1918)
m rap ANNUAL RACE MEET EDITION GILLIAM COUNTY'S OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER Number 6 Saturday, June 1, 1)18 5c on tie Street 'COMMUTE MAY PUBLISH NAMES dumber Who Have Not Paid AflsesHmenta Lane County and some of the other counties of the state are publishing the names of those who failed or refused contrib ute to the Second lied Cross War Fund. The committee in charge in Gilliam county are going to defer publising the names of the delinquents in this cou.ity until alt have been given enough time to respond to the notices mailed them. There ure approximately one hundred and fifty in the Con don District who have failed to pay the amounts HHsessed against 'them, but Hubxcriptions are still coming in, and the committee is confident that there will be few, if any who will fail or refuhe to contribute their proportionate .share to this fund. ' The amount so far subscribed in this county amounts to a little over $8500 for both funds and the total quota is $11,900. LONDON ADMITS ALLIES ANXIOUS United I'm , London, June 1. It is admitted here this morning that there is no disguising the fact that the .military situation is very serious. There are two reasons for this outlook. First, because the Ger mans . have advanced twenty eight miles in five days and, 'second, because thf Germans Istill have a large number of fresh, reserves ready for battle at any moment. The situation will re main anxious untill the Allies Itnow where these reserves are to be used. At the same time it is pointed. ;out that the troop transport's for tthe British and French reservas fts working smoothly now and Jthere are plenty of reserves to check the Germans advance with every hopo of holding the enemy to little more progress. Mr and -Mrs. Wv Pfyar.,aud ft; '"Asa. 'tre in town Tor" the son races. TO TRAIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES (jftM Cm . Washington, Jarre 1. As tn other step in policy of militarist training for American youths the War Department has issued a call for 21,674 able grammar school graduates to qualify for gtneral military service. These will enter various , colleges on June 15 for special military train ing. Voluntary recruits accepted j until June 7. Oregon'! quota will be 309 and the state will be oivided into two school districts, Portland comprising one. OREGON WORKS FOR NO WHEAT II Mud frm Portland, Or., June 1. That Oregon behoves what is worth doing at all is worth doing well and without loss of time, ia'shown by the reports that are pouring into the State Food Administra tion headquarters here from ev ery section of the state. V "Every county" said Assistant Federal Food Administrator W. K. Newell today, '"seems to be enthusiastically in the race for first honors in getting on an ab solutely wheatless basis. Dealers and consumers in every Section are eager to assist in every way they can to save every possible pound of wheat and to help gather in the turned-back flour for export overseas to the Allied armies. GILLIAM DOES SHARE By J. C. Sturgill County Food Administrator Gilliam is working right along with the other counties of the state in getting Oregon on a wheatless basis. All the dealers have taken the matter up and will carry out tneir part in good shape We are required to go on this wheatless basis until af ter harvest. Under the working plan 'the 'people will turn back their flour to their dealer and re ceive cash or credit at retail rates. In turn the dealers will turn back the flour thus gathered and it will b liSdembled at one point and shipped overseas. GILLIAM WILL SEND NINETEEN JUNE 24 Portland. Juue 1. The num ber of men to be sent from Gil liam county under the new draft of June 24 will be nineteen. This call is not affected by the Gram mar Graduate draft. BRITISH FRONT QUIET UnlMil Praaa - Louden. June l.HaiVs re port thib morning contained the! information that local fighting on the Picardy front yesterday resulted in all cases to the ad van tageof the' British forces. The only action here is artillerying and raiding. LATEST DISPATCH IS FRENCH HOLD t Tench Front; June l.The French are still' solidly holding every 'bridgehead ' and passagej across the Marne.' The result is that the Germans have appar ently abandoned the edge of the; river and are concentrating on! the plateau above the valley where they are' noto" seeking to! advance westward. ; RED CROSS TO AUCTION The lied Cross, w.UJ sell, at auc tion tonight oil Main .'street in front of Bock's, meat market and Farr's store a saddle pony which was given to the. Red Cross by J. E. Downer. Will Cooney's house on Trail Fork was totally destroyed .by, fire yesterday evening about fiver o'clock. Most of the furnishings downstairs were taken out but everything on the upper floor was burned. The fire sUrted from a defective flue. Mrs. M. J. Lynch of Gwendo len bought a Mitchell Six club roadster from Hollen s&omj this weeky. This- is a .veryjficar and will give Mrs. , Lynclj. good service. ?H'r-t , "''5,rfV"i f See flollen & Sons for "Republic and Silvertown cord tires. d6 GERMANS OCCUPY SOUTH OFMARNE Fail to Cross in Face of the. French Forces Unite Paris, June 1. The Germans have advanced the main thrust of their present offensive to the extent that they now occupy a tront of thirteen miles on the north bank of the Marne river between Chateau Thierry and Vernnel. At various points they have mude repeated attempts to force a crossing of the river but each attack crumpled before fierce French resistance, accord ing to the French Communique this morning. The FrancoErit ish forces still bold Rheims in the face of determined efforts to drive them from their positions there. Violent fighting contin ued yesterday evening and all last night oh the left flank. South of Soissons the French counter attacked and hurled the Germans back on the Oise river, gaining ground everywhere, recapturing Chandeau and Viezy and taking several hundred prisoners. Chan deau and Viexy changed hands several times in the fiercest of fighting but the French hold both places. Sharp fighting is contin uing along the road from Dor mans to Kheims. The situation is unchanged, north and north west of Rhims. ' In jthe Nevelly region a: fierce battle is under way but at all points here the French have broken up the Ger man attacks and maintained their lines. Every man in Gilliam county, whether "a citizen or not, who has reached the age of 21 years since Registration Day on June 5 a year ago must -register ajt Sheriff Lillie's offices next Wed nesday or pay the penalty one year in jail. Every man will be given a registration certificate and should have it with hun at ail times Veady to' show ..oh demand. Sickness or absence is no excuse ' for 3 hot registering. Registration hours are from 7 Mr. and-Mrar-E. H. Hartnwtn were over from Fossil yesterday.