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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1919)
' 4 V i EAGLE PALLET N llllllll.lllffi w W r, VOLUME 7, NO. J 5 FREDERICK R, WILSOW Physician and Surgeon Richland, Oregon Night 'phone, ono long ring on a)l lines, Day 'phone call central oHieo, W. E. BAIRD KUNISUAL DIRECTOR LICENSED EMBALMER ( A-kl nnil Minimi.. ( All 'Um ,Un; III Hiii'k KICUI-A.S'I). OKKdON Plionti. TtvofchorU, 0nt long S6e Rog'ers Baker's Popular Hotel NL3.W MODERN CLEAN Under Direct Suporvision of The Owner POPULAR hpi'dnl ItnU'K Id Pi" PRICES lllAtll'Ilt (llll'Mltt Irvine Lodgeo. 86' Knights of Pythias Muni (ivory WimIiiociIhv nllil nt tliclr OiiHtl.i Mall In Jlluliltuiil, Oronun. Visit llIB HtOtlHTH IIIIUll) WdU'OIIIU. II. It. .MASrilHSON, 0.0. W. ('. KAM5Y, K. of It. & S, W. R. USHER I Notary Public ? Conveyancer x 01)fo, Bccond nml Wnliiut Kin. 2 Ppponitu Christian Clititch 2 C, E. THORP Notary Public All kinds of legal blanks on hand Your patronage solicited W. H. STRAYER Attorney at Law Fourth Floor Sommors Building Baker, Oregon C. T. GODWIN ATTORNEY Sommor BIdg, linker, Otogan America's n, fifty food W 9icvco starving people WOODSON L, PATTERSON ATT'Y AT LAW U, S, COMMISSIONER DAK Kit . . OJIUUON The Last Hours of Fighting SfiUM. Eylar Staight Writes Last Two Days of Fighting Rodonbach, Gonnuny. Jan. 21, 1919. C. E, Thorp, Editor 13. V. New. Dear Sir: Received your most welcome letter of Dee. 25, yesterday, with the pictures intact, tp say that I was tickled to get them is put ting it mildly. Bob' smile cer tainly looked natural, and the way Boo Copper is handling that steer I si otild say he wquld make a fin artillery man. I was very Borry to i oad tho list of the boys who have been killed over here from 13. V. I haie always been on the lookout lor some of the boys I know but Karl Acker is the only one I've met so fur. It seems like its tho marines luck to be stuck in some out of the way place when we're behind the lines and of course when we're in the only Doughboys wo see aic the two regiments which com prises the other half of the 2nd Division. I might say in passing that my jdivtsioir has ;;ttn-t3 -nwrro men. Kmnnon and material than any other three Divisions in the A.E. F. This is taken from an oflicial report. To help make this a letter worth while I might tell you of a few happenings tho night of tho 10 11 of Nov. just before the armis tice went into effect. We jumped on on our insi aitacK ot uip war Nov. 1, just north of the Argon no Forpst, We broke thru the rCrimehelda lines (which formed thp last of tho old Hindenberg system) without much trouble apd headed straight for Sedan on the Bolgian frontier 40 kilometers away wo went 8 of them the first day, taking lots of provisions and guns. From then on we wero up against roar guard action only composed mostly of machine guns and sacrifice artillery. Nov, JO found us east of Buzancy on the west side of the Mouse were held up by a well organized line on the right bank. Our engineers worked ajl night throwing a pon toon bridge across. Our orders wero to cross on tho pontoons and attack tho hills on the cast bank. The night was one of the darkest I've ever seen and to moke it worse it was raining. Our bridges consisted of a foot plank laid on floating ties. We hadthroo of these. Under the conditions nnturally wo were quiet as possible and everything was lovely till some recruit hit tho muzzlo of his pioco against his helmet. Almost instantly we heard a German sentry shouting something in Dutch and we know in a short time it would be any. thing hut ploasanl in that vicini ty. Tho head of our column had hiiroly reached the opposite hank when their miiohlno guns turned Iooho nml In ii few more mlnuton their urtlllory hud uluo spoiled um, RICHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919 of His Experience During the and about the third scabag hit one of our pontoons amidships I could also tell the machine guns wore doing their bit by tire con stant splashes of bodies in the rivor. Some of the fellows who would receive only ii small blighty would get excited and fall over board. We wore greatly ineum betcd by our heavy marching order rolls and two bantlileers "of ammunition; with this added weight a man stood a very poor chance in twenty feet of ice cold water. By daylight our 1st and 2nd Butt, had effected a crossing and dug in. And there we were, the only Americans on that side of the river with the Kaiser's army in front of us. It was im possible for any body to cross the i ivor in daylight. A blind man could have picked us off at that h'stance (400 yds). We spent the morning doubled up like a jackknife in our holes and sniping back at the Heinie3. fhtir ma chine guns kept us pretty well down but they didn't have the nervo to come down and get us. It's hard telling what the out come would have been but about eleven A. M. we heard the darn dest racket and looking up the hill we could see the Jerries danc ing, singing and throwing hel mets in the air, we all stood by thinking it was a counter attack till a German officer was scan ap proaching our linej waving a white flag. Then we knew the armistice had gone into effect. fho German officer spoke good English and about the first thing he wanted to know was how the devil we got over there? Then noticing our emblems he said, ''So you're marines? Well that oc counts for it." A few of us walked up to their lines swapped a few souvenirs then came back and turned in for tho first peaceful sleep in eigh teen months. That night the Heinies celebrated by throwing up red, white and blue flares, while we sang "It's a long way from Berlin to Broadway." We are billeted in private houses with German families now along tho Rhine.' Wo get along very well it is impossible to buy a single article to oat in this country except, potatoes. Can you imagine the U. S. in that con dition?" You spoke of souvenirs before I left France I could have sent you a train load, up here tho they aro very scarce. I will do tho hoBt I can for you. All the Ger man soldiers within the limits of the army of occupation have been mustered out and their equipment salvaged, 1 have hooii receiving the 13, V. News quite regular and unruly enjoy reading it. Must close, Kegards to all, Sgt. M, 13. Stolght, 18th Co,, 'nth U,S, Marines, 2nd Division, Am, 13, F, "A TYPICAL AMERICAN" U. S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y Jan.31, 1919. Mrs. Annie Smith, Richland, Oregon. My dear Mrs. Smith: It is with deep regret that I must inform you of the passing away of your brave and patriotic son, Joseph McCabe, Seaman, U. S.N. He was a typical American who was loved by all of tho of ficers and men associated with him and everyone else who knew him. He quite often mentioned his famdy and friends. He was admitted to this hospi tal from ths Armed Guard Bar racks on January 15, 1919, and was immediately put under the treatment of the best specialists and every possible care and at lenuon at our command was tendered him. With the best nursing and special care, how ever, he failed to respond and al though for a time it appeared that he would recover he gradu ally grew worse and passed away at 3:30 P.M., on January 30,1919. Assuring you of my sympathy in your bereavement, which, I feel sure, will be softened by the thought that your gallant son gave his life to his country while serving it in the hour of its great est need, am Very sincerely yours, G. A. Lung, Captain, M. C, U. S. Navy, in Command. Have Installed X Ray Equip ment We have installed the very latest X-Ray equipment. Chiropractice is a progressive science. Disease has a definite cause inside the body, (not out side). Unless that cause is lo cated and removed no cure will bo made. The cause of disease is an abnormal condition of the spine, which is producing pres sure on the nerves that pass be tween the vertebrae of the spine. This prevents nature (the brain) from controlling the parts in volved and disease develops. With the X-Ray we locate the abnor mal conditions of tho spino, which js convincing proof that tho cause has been located. Why treat the effects? Have your spine adjust ed and remove the cause of dis oaso and nature will cure. DRS. BIGGS & BIGGS, Chiropractors, and Nerve Speci alists. Phone G51, Office K. of P, Bld'g. Baker, Oregon. To Swine Owners All parties keeping swine with in tho corporate limits of Rich land are hereby notified that same must be removed immediately. W. G. Saunders, Mayor. Knights of Pythias Notice. Regular mealing next Wodnw day evening, Don't fall to at tend, Kenow your subscription, $2,00 TEAR Barber Shop, Over Pool Room Ira W. Bradford, Prop. Show your patriotism by. pa '' tronizing the "Soldier Barber. ' First class treatment guaranteed.' Notice of Church Services Next Sunday we will open oujj, church services again. Sunday,, school in Richland at lOiOO A. M. with L. C. Holman superintend ing. Preaching at 11:00 A.' M." and 7:30 p. m. by Rev. A. L'.' Thqroughman P. E. Epwortlj' League at 6:30 P. M. conducted by E. E. Holman. Choir practice, 7;00 P, .M.Thursday eve. At 2:3(J Saturday afternoon the busN ness session of the quarterly con ference wjll be held by Rev. Thoroughman and the officials or the local church. Every ofileiaY member should be in the meeting." We extend a hearty welcome td all others who may wish to come. It is desired that the Sunday School teachers and pupils get busy immediately to "round up'-' their classes. The lesson is "The. r 13th ch. 14-33 verses ami Ut 5 ch, 4-10 verses. Golden Text, 1 Jno. 5:4. J. M. Johnson. Eidscn Buys Sawmill. A business deal of no small im, port to the people of this section, has just been closed, whpreirj, Barney Eidson comes into p,os session of the John Perry sawmill. and timber holdings in the Sparta district. The consideration was nqt made public. Mr. Eidson will retire from the. contracting and carpenter busi ness and hereafter dpvote hjs en-:, tire time to the sawmill. The. purchase includes 100,000 feet of umber in the yard, 200,000 feet of saw logs on roll way and 250, 00Q. feet of standing timber. As the mill is adjacent to a; great body of government timber, Mr. Eidson is assured of a supply qf saw logs for years to come, Married at Caldwell, The marriage of Miss Iowa Reddick, a former resident of Eagle Valley, to Mr. Edward. Greener, one of Pino Valley's; most influential farmers, waa solemnized on Wednesday, Fob. 19th, at the home of the hride'a brother, Mr. 'i J, Reddick, at Caldwell, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Greener art "ow- at home in Pine Valley, am. the? News joins with their -any friends in wishing tho I ny conplenlongand pleasant jo' ; eyy over the matrimonial sea. Card of Thanks We wish to thank the ; .oolo thai helped us in the illnot- aid death of our baby, Mr. and Mrs. Sum Mwrtu., IOxtra lino fresh -cabbajf and onions ul Saunders Bro'u, ad