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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1914)
TV i ft. rf I 3 Lid' 'JeamlrttfraaO W give Gol4 Bond" Stamps A HAPPY NEW YEAR We wfeh all of opr patron a Happy an$ Prosperous Newfear,nd thank yoifpne and all for your loyalty to u the pas,t year, and hope tlatf our relations will be a pleasant and con genial the coming year. OUR JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE Will start Moiay, January 4, 1915 $t which time w will offer nearly our entire stock at reduced rates. Below; we quote a few prices, npCVrLndiest1 Misssj' arjcj Children's Coats, VvJiiL 1 O all seasonable styles and materials. These will be sqjg at P.nfrfiiinJ tg Onhalf off. Fit? T? Q QI? CLadies' and Misses' all made from JIV IZvOOl-vO good up-to-date materials in the latest styles, o close at One-third off; others at half-price Silkolines 10c - Odds and Ends in Underwear for Everbqdy at Ifis than Cost cA-i-wCoat and rsey ut a fci2 Iine to OvVcdLCfb choose from at 20 per cent off. -AiWe hgvesold 100 his season and MaCKinaWS have a few left that we- don't .wish to invoice, every one this season's purchase. These will be sold at 20 per cent off the, regular price, Rain Coats, Overcoats and Suits For Men; Boys and Children, thai we will offer at COST A big line of CALICOES at 5 cents Regular 7 cent goods -. .. i m TTTMr Q A big line to choose from, Reg U U 1 UN vrO ular 15 cent grade go at 12 1-2; 12 1-2 cent grade at 10 cents. Good clean goods; just whet you want at this time of the year Ask for one of our Souvenirs What you see in our advertisements is so E. & W. Chandler Richland' Oregon Agents for McCalli Magazine and Patterns Fresh Groceries I have just added a full and complete line of Stanle and Fancy Groceries, including the , test grades of Flour, Sugar, ancj Cann?4 Qoqds of All Kinds. All goods sold with a guar antee tQ be as representee or ,.H pufchse price refunded, . o " . fccrsHi (Ko o s f Chpe & Sanborn's Coffee Remember we are agents for this popular brand apd $ye pinner Sets to custqmers. Cqme jp and have the plan explained. tz$ o Cigars, Candy and Hot Drinks e0 0j) Yp$ FRANK CLARKE EASE IN MARCHING Foqt Qomfort Is Essentia! to the Soldier In Warfare. THE GERMAN MILITARY SOCK. It 'p tpp Form of a Larjjo Napkin, Is the Result qf Years of Study and May Be Fijldod About the Foot Thir ty Pifferent Ways to Relieve Pain. Tbo famous Held tunrsbnl, Von Moltke, oijce said (bat the AiikI-Sux-otis iirp (j warlike people, but that the (Jcrrailns tire n military people. The Aiiffq-Saxai; fights to lbj death when war ep tiled, careless of' lil.s previous preparation. After the' wiir la over he Urojts hia urtna, djHiulssiu till thoughts pf war from bis mind und returns to i3 'civil pursuit?. The Gjermnn. on the qfher hand, feels In tjtuo of petted na bee) nn interest 1n war ns he does lu tb,e rpldst qf a conflict. , IJo takes poto of us "prrors In one war und when pcacp cpnies devotes himself to recfo dying these errors. A Gorman officer who was visiting America spok'o of tho way ip which hia people addressed themselrps to war problems la tlmo Qf peace. "Uprp Is nn excellent Illustration," he ukj, gpd, lifting his foot, 'ho took off hp suae. From about his foof Up then took, t)Qt the ordinary sock tjjnt men wear elsewhere, but a sort of papkla or handkerchief, which na cnrofully folded about It This," be said, "is tbo Genoaq mili tary sock. It Is l!p result of years qf study and experiment by tho best minds, not only In the German army, but In German science and medicine, paring the Franco-Prussian war of 18t0, when our armleswcro making forced marches aroitndMetz and on to Sedan, our Infantry was much Im peded by sore feet When It came to baring a certain number of men at a certain point at a certain time for a decisive stroke wo were usually from 10 to 80 per cent short, because so many men had fallen out of tbe rrinks from sore feet MWe got through the war all right for our enemies were as badly off In that respect as we were, but as noon as the war was oyer the government ordered every man In the service to turn his attention to contriving a form of footwear (bat would be more serW iceable to the man of peace when sud denly colled-to war, It was yearn b fore the present aock wax adopted. Thousands of dollars were apent lH experlHientltiKi TIioiihhiwIh of aoldlen Marched In Mil kind of fooigwir, 4 every (MWHllde Kind of aock and si'Krklbg, After ytmr of trlnl lliH form wns cfioKon. Uero uro hoiiio of lliu vrayu Ih wUkk It cm 11 Imj worn," Thereupon tho officer (opk the nap kin. which' wns about clKbtecn or twopty fticjica square, made of cotton am lltiejt and foiled r abouf ls font with the' rfeftneu of n Turk ivlndlnj: hia turban about his head, fljcp, uu wrapping It. he folded about 1i1h foot lu n (ilfTcrcnt manner nnd then In still n thin; way. "Thero ro nbouf thirty different ways of folding -this sock about the foot" (10 said, "and during his three years In tho nnny the soldier taught to become export In using them ull. Each manner of folding It litis n differ cnt purpose. One will roljeyo n sore ness of tho heel; another n weariness' of the Instep; a third will protect un irritated corn, and n fourth will re llevo flip Inflamed ball of tbo fflk. At the camq tlmo that tho soldier Is taught fhese different mcthoda ot wrapplpR (ho sock ho also learns tho anatomy of tho foot, and Just why tho different wrappings relievo (hp differ ent foof nljmonta. "After Hprvlpg his two ypnru in tho artny," continued tbo officer, "tbe sol dier coos buck tQ civil life and be comes, let us say, n clerk at a desk. For (pn years ho doesn't vfak a mile a day. At tho end ftf (ltat time war breaks out and. bo is called to tho col ors, no goes tp tho depqt qf bis regi ment and thero finds among bis other accoutrements tWP palp flf tlltnlli tnry speks. "Next morning bo starts to mnrch Wit)) Ids regiment At tbe epd of an jiouf, jvl)ep ho bos tramped two or three miles over n eppptry rogd, be Is allowed ten mlnubas for rest Now, th cbapces nre that that soldier bai a pair of Very sore feet He alts down, takes off his shoe, lagnosaa bis tore places, nod, recalling h early train ing, folds his sock back on bis foot so as to give immetjlato relief. When, A few minutes later, bo falls Into line, ho baa virtually a now pair ef feet And this be docs Just as eftea as new foot troubles npjear. "Tho tremendous advantage that an army thus equipped has ever one that, wears tho old fashioned sock Is obvi ous. If 'getting there with the most men first' Is the eclanee of war tbe army with the German sock Is at least one-third more effective titan the oth er," Youth's Cotnpaalo. Submarine Ridges, The Norwegian sea Is separated from the north Atlantic by what may be regarded as a continuous ridge run nlHg from droeulitpd to the Mrltiah Mnnd phiteau, of whlcfe Icelahd and the lfnw IhIhikI ar H)rgd pop tlows, The MttrillerrMHMHi cut olf fru (he north AtlHtitk1 by. a rtdsff Nt ttio Hjnlt of fJlliriiltHr, vr which (he grealeMt doptli N only JTR fntliow, Willi sump Hlnpi's (Ml ell lH' r Uti. I.i 1. in. IIIII1,W.1 'J'lm county court met WotlnoH dwy In IU iHut nmon for 1914, , IN SEARCH OF COLD . ... . r . ... In lettor yr)tiun Dy J,, , piillllbs, of PQrtln1fj; tq ii friend in Richland, hq gives tho' follow! inK informution jh reply tu nn In, quiry feKardlnff a trip forbid 'on j.ho coast of 'Ajaak; "YoU'hRVo to a ccrtnjn extent been mtsinformod, thp fact' of tho matter is. that Mr. Dojinelley' partrior and sevoj) pjihci' mci wore drpwnod in an attempt i'q Ret to a gold Btrjko on tho edgo of the Borbfrcie lh Alaska. Yc4 may have heard us mention thTf as wo havp talod1 of itforyoara, and nave hooed to be ablo tosomq day go up there and try tq locate tio pkit, Mr.'Ponneiroy had tho trcnornj locatfon of the place whero H19 gold was found. Tho two mejj who made tho Btriko were drown ed wjth his partner. 1 had thinp in such a shape tlmf I 'pould away this spring and ho and f made the trip, and' l have jugt returned after an absence of siic months. It took us 35 days to reach Bethel, a little town on flip, Kuskokwim rlvtjr about 240 mjlos Trom tho coast, J'ho country from, the Kuskokwim river to tho Yu kon river is a grpat swamp. W traveled through this for 18 days, to get to the const After leaving Bethel wp never saw a white man until our return this fall. We only foupdone $3 quimaux who could talk any Er glish at all, Wo camped all sum; mer on swamps, fighting mosfjuj ties. Our experience would makq material enough for several nov els; in fact we had a It of a time, of it, This is nothing more than I expected, having spent ihjvero) years in Alaska. The native who could talk En glish told us about the hyo mpn coming In there many years age, and finding plenty of 'Ijttle gold' as he called it. He said that 'by and by eight men como back jn big boat (gchooiler), wind blow bad, all wqsh up on shprc, all djc 4 He Showed us the place where tho boat was wrecked, and yo fcund. pieces of it. We wprjted every hour that W(i could and sunk holes on ovpry likely loqjijng place, but were un able to find the place where they made thp strike. The two Swedes who macjo the strike washed out $1500 oi)t of one prospect hole iq a day, so you may jmagmp that it was some strike, We djd not havo much -fancy food to oat, and as we swamped our boat twico wo lost much of our provifions. We went up there to Alaska in a little gasoline tchoonsr 82 feet long and wore nearly wreckod, both going a.nd coming, Upon our return the boat lost her propeller when we were 750 miles from land, it jut happ&ied that we got a favorable wind a regular hurricane In fact which blow us right Into the Straits of Juan De Fuca. 'If the wind had only blown tho other way' wo would havo probably been around the China coast by this tlmo, AH I could not hoar a word from homo until I K"t to Bethel on my back, you may IrnHglno 1 was con sldetttbly worried all mimmor I took a Kit in bio at niaklilK h for tai.tik (I llillti fl ll.ll.il .kill J u ii,,iHi bUIIVi I W V M It IIIM If MI tuniYMIJUW nut J ilKinrii MINI wo doiiiij Hlam It for 0110 Miunmui' If w couli liHu h rood cIihiico of IDHklllg f