Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1917)
Eagle Valley News Straight, Truthful, Direct C. E. Thorp Entered as second class matter Doc. 12, 1912 at the post oilice at Richland Oregon, under act of March 3. 1S79. Mombor Oregon Stnto SUBSCRIPTION - $1.50 SIX MONTHS - - - .50 SAMPM3 COPY ONE YEAR - -THREE MONTHS RICHLAND, ORE., THURSDAY. OCT. 25, 1917. Vol. 5, No. 50 A Story of the New Republic By EDNVARD T. STEWART Cormvullls liad surrendered, mul tlie independence of the DnittM State wu established. My regiment liad been disbanded, and I was on my way to my Iiuuie in Pennsylvania. I bad nel tber burse nor money for traveling pur poses and got on as best I could. si curing a lift here and usiui; river mi rents tliere. till 1 reached a point not a dozen miles from home. There 1 found n friend, who got out bis coach and blurted mo on the last relay be tween Vorktown and my father's es tnte. for 1 was sick and weary and could go no farther. I srartcd shortly before dark .and bad made half the distance when the coach came to a sudden stop, and a voice at the wiudow cried out: "Your money or your life!" "Money I have none." I replied, "but my watch is at your disposal." Taking from my pocket a timepiece that my father had giveu me and to whose fob bung n dainty locket con taining a miniature likeness of my mother. I handed it to the roblier, who without another word made off. his horse's hoofs beating the road, the sounds dying away in the distance. I bad wen nothing of him through the darkness, and all 1 had beard was bis demand for plunder. Ity this I judged that he was very young or that his voice was pitched in a bigli key for a man. since it laid noue of that gruff uess to bo exacted In a robber. In deed, there was a shrinking bi it that would have led me to light for my pos sessions had I been nnned. X was a long while after reaching home in recovering from the exposure 1 hi so long endured In the war of independence and several wounds giv en me by tl;e redcoats, but at last I re gained my btreugtli and took sufllclent Interest in what was going on about mo to ask after certain friends I had left when 1 .had Joined the army. It was then that I learned what my cotin try bad endured durmg the long war. Tliere was little left to eat or to wear, und many farmeiw had been reduced to u pitiable condition. Such times are prolific of crime, and I was told that same persons of re spectability had been reduced to get ting a living in any way they could, some resorting to robbery, while others had been obliged to pilfer. This led mo to think of the youngster who had robbed me of my watch on the road. One of the Hist visits I made nfter I had regained my strength was. to the Leslies. I liad a fancy that if any families pulled through the hard times they would be among the lot, for they were rich in lands. But I found that tho more laud n ponton had during the Revolution the poorer he wuh left, for the land was not productive, and the taxes on It, being badly needed by tho state, were rigorously collected. I found Mrs. Leslie at home with her younger children. Her husband and oldest son had gone down in tho war. Her daughter Madge, who, to tell the truth, I wished ett ially to see, was not nt home. When I nsked the moth er tv she was tho poor woman stammeicw -t several contradictory statements, by 'Wi I knew tho girl bad met with a nil.-;. i, I shuddered, because I knew that g. .if wero tho dangcrs.-fo young girls in times of war. . Jjut ofr-that our people bad fcofc rid IFF Editor Editorial Association .75 FREE How's This? X?o offer One Hundred Dollars newnrd for any enso of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Hall's Catarrh Medicine has bcon taken by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty ttvo years, and has become known as tho most relluble remedy for Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on tho Mucous surfaces, expelling tho Pol ron from tho Blood and heallnc tho dis eased portions. ...... , After you have taken Hall's Catarrh M-dL-lne for a short-tlmo you will see a rrjat Improvement in your pen1 health. Start taklnc Hall's Catarrh Medl cine at onco and ret rid of catarrh. Bend .'or testimonials, tree. F J. CHENEY ft CO.. Toledo. Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. of a king who must needs appropriate all our gains to himself w began to pluck up spirit and start In for recov ery. My father. In oider to help the courage, of the others, decided to give n ball, to which he Invited the country gentry. There were some v. ho bad no tit clothes In which to nppcnr on such nil occasion, but they nil came in what they had. Most of the women prepared their own costumes out of old stores, and but few wore gems. On the afternoon before the ball I was told that Madge Leslie hnd re turned to her home, and I saw to it that she received n special Invitation, though this was not necessary since no well bred person would be so rude as to leave out any member of n fam ily in an Invitation. When I hnd gone to the war several years liefore. Mndge 1 n-ao . t.(rl tt i.tl.3.-iti tifift I tvniiilnrtiil how she would now nppcnr. When Mrs. I.enlle was announced by the servant at the door of th.o ballroom she was accompanied by a tall girl who was dnsed In more flnery than anv other woman present. I soon learned that she was Madge Leslie, nud I won dered how. since luh- family had he come so impoverishetl. she . had been able to deck herself out so Mplcndidly. I tippronehed her and was about to ask her to dance wheu another man engag ed hpr. As she (lanced I noticed that nn ornament suspended to her neck by a gold chain bobbed up nud down on her Ikmoui. As soon its she was disengaged I Joined her ami saw near by tho orna ment I had noticed. It was n dupll rtte of the one of which I had been robbed on my return from the war. Kel.big it. I opened It, und there was my mother's miniature. Madge pulsrt it little, but said noth ing. I led her to a plitco where we would not be observed und asked for an explanation. She confessed that to put food Into the mouths of her family she hid taken to the road." Bhe had not known that I was tho person she had robbed of the locket and. since she laid never opened It. did not know of the miniature It contained. I hushed tho mnttcr up. Madge re tuniml what f.be had appropriated of the goods of others, some of which she wore to the ball, ami became one of the first ladles of the laud. THE Government necdB Farmers tie well as Fighters. Two million three hundred thoucand acres of Oregon At, California Railroad Co, Grant Lands. Titli reinvested in United States To bo op ned for homesteads and sal". Con taining Botno of best land lelt in United States. Largo Copyrighted Map, show ing land by sections and description of soil, climate, rainfall, elevations, tem perature, etc., by counties. I'oBtpi'id One Dollar. (Jr.int Lands Locating Co., Iiox (110, Portland, Oregon. Wanted to Rent 160 . to 320a ranch in Eagle Valley. A'ddress B care NewH. ad NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. (Publlshcrl Department of tho Interior. U. S. Land OtlWoiU I.n Onuulo, Oto gen, SopL isth, 1U17. Notice la hereby given thai Otto It. PehlUer, o! Richland, Oreuon. who, on November 10th, 11113, ntado Uoinostond Entry, No.OUtllM, for SUM NK.l-l! NK M SH M, Pee I'l, W Ml NV M, See. -,J, Tit, I) 8., R tl. E. W. M., and on May 8. 11)15, made Ad. 11. E. 011712. for S 1-2 SV M. Pee 'o, and .Nit 1-1 NK M, Section 21, Townshinl) SotithV Itaneo ll Kant, WiUtuuuito Mertdjiiu,; has tiled nnlico of intention to lnixkii three-year Proof, to es'Hbllah claim to tho land nhovo tloKCrilu.il, heforo '.ood ton L. Patterson, I . S, CotimiiHsionur, BthiaoUleuat Raker. Orcon, on tho llth day of November. 1"17. Claimant names hh w ituus.n's : David D. JncoIis, A. Fraud Pales, and Marlha Wilcox, all of Hlchbnd, Oregon, and Thomas Hitch, o( linker, OrcL-ou. 0. S. IH'NN, ltuglster. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. (PublUher) Departmunt of tho Interior. U. S. IjuhI Olllco at U UrAiide, Orn unit, SVpt. l'Jth, 11M7. Notice Is lierebv given that John M. Smith, of Durkeo". Oregon, who, on Nov. fth, 1011, made Homestead Kntry, No. 01 Wirt), for Iit "J, S NK M, Lots 3, 4, fi, SB 1-1 NV M.nnd Lot II, Section 6, Township 11 South, Haugu 45 Kact, Willainnttu Meridian, has Hied notice nf Intention to tuako thrco-yeur Proof, to e. tablish claim to tho hind alovo de scribwl, beforo the Hegistur and He culver, United States Ijind Olllco, at La Grande, Oregon, on thu 27th tiny of November, 1017. Claimant name as wilmwxoB : Pelmer KuiiiuhIv. V. L. Kirbv. and George Kon- ttwlv, nil of Durkeo, Oregon ; and Rich ard Kirby, of Klehland, Oregon. O. S. IH'NN, UeKlater. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Publitiher Department of the Interior. U. S. Ijuid Olllco at La Grande, Ore gon. Sept. 12th, 1017. Notice Is hereby given that Arthur II. Mills, of IMeliland, Oregon, who, cm July 7th, 1011, made Homestead Kntry No. 13.')12, for SV4', Section JU, Township 0 South, Pnnce II Last. Willamotto Merldlnn, has llled notice of intention to make three-year Prod, to establish claim to tho land above described, before A. P.. Combs, Jr., Clerk of County Cflurt of Ilaker County, at linker, Oregon, on the Mth day of November, 1017. Claimant names as uiU'uasua: A. IS Mi'ier. T. O. Welch. .1 K. Sinclair, and T. It. Jeffordd, all of Iticldand. Orecon. - C. S. Ub'NN, Itegieter. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Publisher) Doparttmint of tho Interior. V. S. Innd Olllco at la Grande, Or. non, Sept. PJtli, IIJ7. Notlc. is hereby givon that Hans P. Mikkelson, of Durkeo. Oregon, who, tin Julv 21th. 1912, made IIonnstead Kntry No.'oiDOlO, for NW1-ISWM, See. 2. N'Kl-l SUM. Sec. 3, and on . Inn. 21, i'.i5, made Ad. 11. K. No. 0l L' :5, for SW 1-1 HW 1-1, Sec. 2, SK 1-1 NK M. !eetion 3, Towmhlfi 11 South, Ilangti -I I Katt. WillaM.e'io Moridinn, has Hied roticoof intention to inako thrtej-year proof, to cstnbli-b claim to tho laud above described, hbforo A. II. Combs, Jr., Clerk of County Court of llaker County, at linker. Oreuon, on tho luth day of November, 1017. Claimant mum s as witnesses : James Gallagher and l.ee JSland, of Durkeo, Orecon; Willian. L. Chaso and Wl'liain P. Pntterbon, of Itlchlnnd. Oregon. C S. DUNN, Hegister. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Publisher! Department of tho Interior. U. S. Lund Olllco tit La Grande, Ore gon. Sojt. 12th. 1017. Nolle; 18 hereby given that John II. Allen, of Richland, Oregon, who on Oct. 10th, 1012, made Homestead Kntry No. OIJ220, for S'.. Si- yx anil KA Sec tion 12, Township 0 South, Rnngo II Last, WillaineitH Meridian, has fl'ed notice of intention to make thret-year Proof, to eotabhsh claim to tho land abovo described, boforo C. J. Shelton. United StateH Commlsaioner, at his of fice at Halfway. Oregon, on tho 12th day of November, Jul 7. Claimant names as witnesses: It. II, Goodwin, II. P. Lambert, Frank Uork, and J. K. Wallace, all of Richland, Ore gon. H, DUNN, Reglstor. WOODSON L. PATTERSON ATT'Y AT L AW U. S. COMMISSIONER I1AKBR - OltKGOH Did you borrov this paper Why not .subscribe for it Oniy $1.50 the whole year Buy a Liberty Bond 1 Liberty r The best and safest investment you can make; safer than the dollar in your pocket It is Your Duty to Buy DO IT NOW! If you wont or cannot go to the frontsend your dollars! SAUNDERS BRCJS. THE RICHLAND HOTEL Now under the manntfcmcnl of ....MRS. W. E. BARBER.... who luiH Ix'on connected with t hif hiiiuo hotol Hovcrnl timoit mid wlio fully untU'rstnntls tho nt'iln of tlio tmvclliiif,' puhliu'... This hotel is famed throughout the country for its Genuine Home Cooking and Good Service METHODIST CHURCH I Old-" Win V Sunday School at 10:00 a. m., E. E. Holman, superintondont. PreaeliinK at 11 a. in. and 7:80 p. rn. Epworth LeaRtio at f5:30. Prayer meetinK every Wednes day evening at 7:30 o'clock. Choir practice at 7:30 Thursday t!venin. The Woman's Missionary So ciety meets the third Thursday afternoon of each month. The Board of Stewards holds its regular meeting Tuesday eve ning after the first Sunday of each month. Everybody cordially invited to attend all of the services of the church. A. Thomas, Pastor CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Our services until later notice will be as follows: Sunday: Bible School at 10:00 a. m. Communion find preaching, 11:00. Christian Endeavor, 7:00 p. m. Preaching at 8:00 p. m. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening at 8:00. Ladies Aid Friday afternoon. You are cordially invited William E. Bean, .Friends of tho News who have occasion to publish legal adver tisements in settlement of estates or other probate matters or in cases in the district court will do this paper a favor by directing their attorney or the county of ficial having such matters in chftTflfo to havo such publication mad in Tho L'agla Yallo flows. onas Notice of Sale of Real Property Nutlco In IhtcIiv ulvmi Hint tlioundrr s in lit.' 1 will on anil after thi; Dili day of Nuvi'inliot, 1017, mil at rlft to halo thu totluw'iiii: ili'Hi'rilmJ nml irojMrty iiltii ntixl In tint city of Itluliluinl, Lcuuty of i; HnkT, Statu nf Orocon, lo-ivjt: Iifi lllock'-" of tho Townilto of Klehliui.l, Orison, ti'Kuthur with nil walur ami ilitnh rluht.i tc'iU'iiK'titn, h'rHlitH.TiuiiU mul iiiipurti'Miuin'H tlicrinuiKi lieliinulnu' uriuiil tlicrcwiili, Titiiin cimh in IihihI f ml for the liHHt iirii'iiolitnlnnlili) thurtf larK Rale liy ordur of tho County Court of linker county. Orocon. V. II. IlItADFOUP, Adiiil'iiMtrntor of tho otitnt'j of H.inhcl llrnilforil, Dcci'Hucil, W. II. Htrnyt-r, Attornoy. 1'lrH inh. Oct. II, 1)117. I.t uh. Nov. K, 1017. Statement of the ownership, man agement, circulation, etc., of Eagle Valley News, pulilithMl wci'Hynt Hlclilmiil, Orrgnn, roiilrt ci I liy till) net at AlignM 'J I. VJVi. NAMH OK 1'0-IT-OI-TinK AIltl8 lv.linir. C K. Tliorp, Itlctilnml, Orcumi MiitinliiK IMIInr, ('. K. Tli(iri, HIkTiIuiiiI, Orii. MutliivM ilmiiiKiTt, M A. Tliorp, llli:!iUinl, 0r I'lilillthur. C.K. Tli..r(, Itldilnrnt, Oro (ivtimrx, c. i:,'riniti. lilctiUini, oru. Kniiun iioiulliolilurn, iuurtuK'i, nun ritlir ' viirlty linliluni, li'ilil-l I .ur i'oiiI or more i'f tout iuiiimiiii nf IhiiiiU, inuriKiKi, pr ullivr IH'CMll'IOHI Nuiiu. M. A. Tnunr. Hnoni nmt miti'crllxjil ln'iore mo IliliVOtliiliiy of Mupt., l'JI7. (!. V.. Tliorp, Niitury I'utillu (nr Ori'Kd'i (My cominlnluii iixplrcii Jnn. 18lli, YU. Look Here! If you want Life Insurance For Inveslmeni or Protection Come in and let me show you a contract that will meet with your approval C. E. THORP '.rf