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C L O V E lì D A L E ,
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
MANY M A R V E L AT
T IL L A M O O K
COUNTY,
O lì EG O N ,
JUNE
13,
19 IS.
NO.
44.
ECLIPSE
Bright Sun Extinguished By Luna's
Mass in Northwest.
BANK STRENGTH AND GOOD SERVICE
Baker, Or.— Whenjthe moon Satur
day afternoon on schedule time dark
ened the face o f the sun for a period of
I one minute and 53 seconds, persons in
the path of the totality o f the eclipse
Brief Resume Most Important j enjoyed
Men Enroll for War Upon Be
or suffered all the many thrills
and sensations which tradition con
Daily News Items.
coming 21 Years of Age.
nects with the heavenly spectacle. In
the weird darkness o f mid-afternoon, I
! observers marveled, feared or experi- j
\ enced a combination of emotion* inde- ]
scribable, as the phenomenon affected
j them.
Despite knowledge that nature was
merely doing the expected and looked-
Events o f Noted People, Governments ! for, it was impossible to throw off a j Provost Marshal’ s Latest Order to
j feeling that it was a solemn occasion,
Mobilize is Simultaneous With
and Pacific Northwest and Other
that the weird darkening o f the sun
was
the
working
o
f
a
supernatual
Things Worth Knowing.
Registration o f 1918.
power and that the end of time had
come. It was overpowering and awe
inspiring; it was an experience none
Washington, D. C.— While a million
Adoption o f woman suffrage in Lou privileged to pass through will ever
young Americans just turned 21 were
isiana was urged by President Wilson forget.
Expectant and eager only to see the registered Wednesday for service in
in a telegram sent to the Louisiana
spectacle, previous to the passing, peo the war for world freedom, orders went
state legislature Thursday.
ple were excited and talkative. As the ' out from the office o f Provost Marshal
Traumatic neurosis is “ shell shock,”
sun’s light began to darken and birds General Crowder to the governors of
it was explained at the meeting Thurs sought their nests and chickens their
all states except Arizona, for mobiliza
day in Chicago of the American Med roosts and the chill o f twilight de-1
tion between June 24 and 28 o f 200,-
ico-Psychological association, and it is scended, the feeling changed, conver
000 more registrants.
as apt to strike the grandmother as the sation ceased and all felt the influence
This was in addition to 40,000 negro
soldier in the trenches.
o f the impending demonstration o f na men requisitioned from 20 states and
President Wilson sent a message of ture as something of grave portent, o f brings the total number of selective
sympathy to the family of former Vice mysterious meaning.
service men called to the colors to 1,-
President Charles
W.
Fairbanks.
The nerves tightened and expectancy 595,704, and when they are in camp
Praise for Mr. Fairbanks was given arose, yet, with all, there was a feel the nation’s army will number over
also in the house by Representatives ing o f awe as if disaster was at hand 2.000. 000 men.
Wood, Republican, and Dixon, Demo and as stars began to twinkle in mid
The registration apparently was at
afternoon it was fearsome.
tended by the perfect order that
crat.
Then as the face o f the moon began marked the enrolling a year ago of
Jaburg Brothers, a confectionery
almost completely to cover the sun’s 10.000. 000 men.
supply firm o f New York City, has do
surface, the tense feeling seemed to
The men who registered have be
nated $20,000 to the American Red
relax. The wonderfully ^beautiful so come o f age since the first registration
Cross at the suggestion o f the Food
lar corona began to appear and as its day, June 5, 1917.
Military authori
administration in lieu of further ac
pearly light radiated from behind the ties estimate that from their number
tion on charges o f selling sugar at ex
dark shadow o f the moon, an over there will be had 750,000 men fit for
cessive prices.
powering feeling o f witnessing a di active duty.
One hundreed persons were killed vine revelation took hold o f one. Its
While an act o f congress requires
and 50 others injured in Monday’s ex beautiful tints and colors, radiating that the new registrants be placed at
plosion in a war materials plant at from the scintillating mass o f light, the bottom of the class to which they
Baussens, in Southern France, says was a marvelous spectacle and'a sight are assigned, many of them may soon
a Havas dispatch from Marseilles which burned its details into the mind be called to the colors, as requisitions
Thursday. The list of victims, it is o f an observer never to be forgotten upon governors probably will exhaust
added, is not yet complete.
and, to the ordinary person, almost in the first class in some states. While no
describable.
formal explanation was made, this was
Two more vessels, a Norwegian
believed to have been the reason why
steamship and one schooner, were add
Arizona was not included in the call.
ed to the list o f ships known to have \
Registration days for men become
been sunk by the German submarines |
21 years of age probably will be fixed
which are raiding in American waters
every three months hereafter. It is
The total now stands at 13—five
estimated that 1,000,000 men become
steamers and eight schooners.
o f age yearly, and the new registrants
Sylvester J. Konenkamp, president Attack Launched Between Montdidier are expected to go far toward keeping
of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
up the first class in each state from
and Noyon Onslaught Made on
of America, announced on his arrival
which thus far all men for the Na
in Chicago from Washington that a
20-Mile Front - Gain Reported.
tional army have been drawn.
date had been set for a nation-wide
Assignments for the men called to
strike o f telegraphers to enforce their
the
colors under Wednesday’s order in
Paris— In a new thrust directed at
demands for recognition of the union.
the sector between Montdidier and dicate the rapidity with which troops
In nearly
A resolution calling for congres Noyon, the Germans have succeeded in now are moving overseas.
sional investigation o f accidents at avi gaining ground along about a 20-mile every instance the registrants under
ation camps was introduced by Repre front to a depth o f about two and a requisition are assigned to National
sentative Husted, o f New York. Acci half miles at certain points, according army cantonments, whereas recently
dents in the last five weeks, the reso to the War office announcement Sun when calls were made it was necessary
to send the men to National guard,
lution says, show that some have been day night.
due to defective construction or negli
The fighting was very heavy and regular army and other camps because
gent inspection.
the French offered a powerful resis the cantonments were filled.
The house military committee ha1
Viljalmur
Stefansson,
Canadian tance to the multiplied efforts o f the
reported
a resolution by Chairman
Arctic explorer, who is now at Fort enemy and finally succeeded in check
Dent, making retroactive the bill bas
ing
the
advance,
particularly
on
the
Yukon, Alaska, is expected to arrive
ing the draft quotas on the number of
at Victoria, B. C.( in a few weeks, ac two wings.
The Germans began their attack a t ; men in class 1 so as to legalize any ex
cording to word received from the
ceeding o f authority as to the number
North by the Federal Naval depart 4:30 o ’clock in the morning, to the
o f quota which may have been made in
ment at Ottawa. Stefansson has been west o f the recent fighting.
The feeling o f confidence evident | the first drafting o f men.
in the North since 1913.
when
the first announcement was made
The Territory o f Hawaii will be
come “ bone dry” within 60 days, the that the Germans had resumed their ]
R E D CROSS F O U N D O V E R TOP
President having signed the Sheppard offensive seemed justified by a state- \
bill which passed both houses on May ment that the enemy’s attack on the
18, and preparations are being made approximately 22-mile front had suc Over-Subscription o f Seventy Millions
Reported in Latest Drive.
by many tipplers to provide against ceeded in advaning a bare four miles j
the drouth, if the figures of liquor im at one point only, and then at an ap
Washington, D. C.—The American
palling cost:
portations tell the truth.
Everywhere else, the statement Red Cross second war mercy fund now
President Wilson has written a sec said, the Germans were being held.
totals $166,439,291, with indications
ond letter to Governor Stephens, of
The official statement
says the that when all reports from the drive of
California, urging the
pardon of French resisted witii valor in the cov a week ago are tabulated, a $70,000,-
Thomas J. Mooney.
The President ering zone, and that the battle is con 000 over-subscription of the $100,000,-
asked for clemency for Mooney in tinuing.
000 goal will be shown.
March, but Governor Stephens replied
In announcing these figures, Henry
Between the Oise and the Marne
that he could not act until an appeal and south o f the Ourcq the French P. Davidson, chairman o f the Red
for the convicted man had been passed made gains, capturing two woods, Cross war council, said the returns
upon by the courts. The courts have driving out Germans who had pene show that more than 47,000,000 Amer
refused the plea.
trated the lines, and taking 200 pris icans— nearly half the total population
Two hundred Creek Indians are re oners.
o f the country—contributed.
Those
ported to have launched a movement to
A German attack west o f Rheims giving to the first fund last year num
resist the draft on the Old Hickory failed.
bered only about 5,000,000.
«tsmpiner grounds near Henryetta.
Not onlv did every Red Cross divis
Okla., where the Crazy Snake uprising
50,000 Turks Homeless.
ion in the country over-subscribe, but
occurred ten years ago, and to have
Amsterdam— Fifty thousand persons one, the Gulf, turned in more than
killed three white farmers.
The re are homeless as the result o f a fire at three times the amount o f its quota,
port o f tne triple killing could not be Stamboul, the Mohammedan section o f ' while five others, the Atlantic, Moun
confirmed, but it is known that as Constantinople, which devastated the tain, Northwestern,
Southern and
many as 200 Indians are encamped in whole eastern part o f the Sultan Selim , Southwestern, more than doubled their
the hill districts armed for resistance. quarter, according to the semi-official allotments. The insular and foreign
Captain Archie Roosevelt, who was Norddeutsche Allegemeine Zeitung, of division quadrupled its $300,000 quota.
Every state attained its goal, five
wounded is action in March, is making Berlin.
Buildings on both sides o f the mosue ; more than tripled it, and 16 others and
excellent progress. Hjs arm has been
removed from the sling and he walks in that district were destroyed, but the i the District o f Columbia more than
doubled their allotments.
mosque was spared.
several miles daily.
Our management makes the security for deposits a matter
o f first consideration, and to this end the resources of the Bank
are carefully guarded by prudence and conservatism. This fact
makes a strong Bank. Coupled with strength, our Officers and
Board o f Directors make Good Service the backbone o f our
banking policy. With ample equipment and organization, this
Bank is in a position to serve all individuals and firms requiring
safe banking and good service.
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