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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1918)
OUR BOYS WITH THE COLORS MARKET REPORT Egg per dozen, 40c Butter, 2-lb. roll, 70c Butter Fat, 41c News Letters, and Stories of Our Soldiers and Sailors in France, Spring Broilers 26c Ducks, 18c to 20c In the Training Camps, On the High Seas, and Everywhere Turkeys, old, 20c Gallant American Fighters Are Found. 5eese 12c Old Roosters, 12c REAL PEACE I Leslie Grazer in a late letter says he j Hens, 18c to 21c ’ _ is on special duty going to school at I Beans 6c to 10c L.eut. Tom W. Saul o f the Tank Humphreys> virgillia> from 11:45| Cascara, 8c Corps, formerly o f Clackamas county . at m, to 4:45 at a carpenter shop, where Lard, 30c writes to Oregon friends his impres- j he has a helper to boss. Wool, 60 sions o f German soldiers. He says, in I - ■ Mohair 45c I Potatoes, $1.00 part; ‘ 'A s to whipping the Germans I Recent news from Wm, Marsh and possess some very decided opinions. i Fred Ehlen indicate that they have I have had nine months observation of been transferred from the 162 U. S. ! Infantry (Third Oregon) to Co. C. of German prisoners-of-war—both as sold ¡the 127 U. S, Infantry (a Wisconsin iers and as prisoners—to satisfy me regiment). fully that Germans, both as an individ Mrs. Henry Boege was among the ual and as a nation, has reached the The picture o f E. D. Carver o f Don | ladies shopping here this week. lowest ebb o f decency and standard in ald appeared in the last Sunday Ore Jack Barkman was a business visitor all history. He is, first o f all, a con gonian as one o f 9 Oregon men in train firmed liar, unable to keep his word ing at the naval aviation station at San here Tuesday from Feller Station. with others or even to be honest with Diego. Pictures o f Edgar White and City recorder George Penrod was hei < himself. He has all the mean and pet Ulysses Giesy o f Aurora also appeared ' yesterday on business from Butteville ty sin-abilities which are the uuhappy in the same paper. | Fred Crann was a business visitor possessions o f a true-blue liar. No here this week from the Leabo neigh crime is too low for him, for he be lieves in Ms ability to lie out o f the | Mrs. Ed.Ogle went to Portland Tues borhood. day to see her grandson Guy Ogle off consequences. Sidney Graham was among the Butte' There is no use aiming at the defeat ! for Camp Lewis where he has been ville people transacting business here o f the German by economic retaliation. called to the colors. He entrained at | Monday, He has the utmost confidence in his own Portland Wednesday. Mrs, Ogle will Mrs. Jos. Marsh has been visiting at shrewdness and is willing to get the j remain a few days in Portland at the | the home o f Mr. and Mrs. James Marsh upper hand and gain his own ends by home o f her son James Ogle. this week. any means possible. These traits are M. H. Hostetler was a business visi not those of the ruling classes alone. Letters have been received here this tor here Wednesday from his home east They are the traits o f the German. week from Albert Ehlen on the battle- o f Hubbard, He cannot be awakened or educated to j ship Oregon, where he has been - made a new standard in an instant. It will F. L. Miller has just received a com' > quartermaster for two gun crews. It take generations to get him back to | is not made public just where naval plete carload of Overlands which he ur. the plane of the Germans whom we j vessels are, but mail wili reach the ship loaded this week. knew by their contributions o f our I George Ziegler was up from Barlow people in the preceding two or three through the postmaster at San Fran cisco. this week transacting business at the generations, Aurora stores. There is only one way to overcome “Political Yarns” Rumors still persist that Alex La Follett will run as an independent can didate this fall for the state senate. Thi3 can hardly be credited, as he has always been a party man. As he was beaten fair and square in the Republi can primaries, there is no valid excuse for his coming out as an independent. It is currently reported, however, that the plan is contemplated as a move to defeat W. Al. Jones and that it has the approval o f the Governor. It is not conceivable, however, that the people o f Marion coun’ y will stand for such a dirty political moye,if La Follett should unwisely decide to be a candi date. MERIDIAN Mrs, Molly France was a week-end visitor in Tacoma. Hazel Mills spent several days at the home o f Mrs, Victor Berg last week. Mrs, John Shepherd was a guest al the home o f Mrs. F. E, Mills Tuesday. Two o f J. C. Brewer’s nephews were here from Donald Sunday to visit him, Mrs. Forest E. Mills has received news o f the safe arrival o f her son, Lieut. Phelps, in France.. Earl France, who is selling large quantities of aluminum ware had Al bert Pratt and his truck last week to make deliveries. C. E. Watts has a touch o f rheuma tism and Mr. Gardner is suffering from a swollen face as the result o f a cole settling in his teeth. Mrs. C. C. Oldfield who has been en tertaining a former school mate ot Pendleton, accompanied her guest as far as Portland upon her return. Fred Yohan has been cutting wheat for Christ Trost and Eldoras Pratt for this ¡inherent evil o f the present-day H.L. Mills shipped a carload o f woid Messrs Bann, Plantz and Oldfield. Most Not long since John Kraus received a German, and that is by eliminating letter from his brother-in-law Lieuten- to W, S, Hurst of Portland recently grain with a few exceptions, will be a light crop here. h,m. Peacs will come only in defeat from this station. and defeat requires that enough Ger and Cooper, now in France, in which Albert Pratt and sister Alnora visit j Mrs. Goetz and children are visitors mans be buried so that the remainder i the latter mentions an interesting inci - at the home o f her brother J, P. Lippu ed friends in Hubbard Sunday, and Mr, will be unable to carry on their dirty dent that befell him while in a Fren ch and Mrs, Mills were guests at the | ner, at Union Hill. work. I’ m talking o f real peace, not town through which German prisoners homes o f John Blosser and S. Carines Mrs, Diana McDonell is here this o f a patched-up temporary affair which were passing. One o f them called out at West Woodburn. will force your children and mine to live to Lieutenant Cooper, “ Are you an week from Portland visiting her sister Among the Meridian people transact under the sword o f Damocles. American?” Upon answering him in Mrs. J. S. Vandeleur, ing business in Aurora recently were There seems to be many people in the affirmative, the prisoner said he H. H. Deetz and daughter Rachel Mrs. Jory, Frank Albee, James Brew the states who can think of nothing but! had lived in New York and was going were here yesterday from South Par er, C. E. Watts, grant Plants and Fred peace. It would be much better to talk back there after the war. This was al dise, shopping at the Aurora stores. Yohann and family, o f waking these people up than to talk most too much for the American officer Mrs. Naylor and daughter Miss Mary o f waking the Germans. It would and he burst out with, “ Like hell you Naylor who have been at their farm Mrs. Nora Blosser went to Portland bring peace sooner, too, for it would are!” near Donald during the canning season, Friday to visit friends. increase the activity of the United returned this week to their home near States in licking the Germans. C.W.Carothers and son Willard were Henry Hondrick wrote a month ago Roseburg, You and others should lead public among the Needy residents here Wed opinion to stand for a complete defeat from Contres, -France, to his father, S. Mrs, Will Damm and Miss Rosie nesday. Mr. Carothers states that o f the Germans before there is any P, Hondrick at Hubbard, He describes Damm accompanied Will Damm to Ore threshing' has began in that neighbor talk o f peace. It is the only thing that Contres as a nice little town much be gon City Tuesday, where he went to hood, where not many farms will have will make this war worth while.” hind the times, like the country round- entrain for Camp Lewis with the Clac a crop of grain. kamas county boys. - a-bout it where they cut all the hay Mr. and Mrs. Kay Fish George Kraus began to reshingle his It is now reported that men drafted and grain by hand. Grapes are the were in the city Wednesday and rejected upon examination at Train main crop there. Fences are notice house Monday—and the same day it ing camps, and those rejected as under able mostly by their absence—along the rained. The responsibility rests with evening. weight, will be placed in the 1918 class. road they are scarcely ever seen. He him or with A1 Kraus and Wm. Bruns Mr, and Mrs, John John It is possible that they may be called concludes his letter by saying, “ We who are doing the work, later for special limited service. are getting along fine here, but of J, T, Moore is home for a few days son of Portland are here course, it is not like home. But we from Washington where he has been i can't complain at all. We have plenty working in a logging camp, where he visiting Mrs. Johnson’s par Letters from Verne Sandberg at the | o f clothes, plenty to eat, a good place had the misfortune to sprain his ankle. ents Mr. and Mrfe. Henrj Bremerton, Washington Navy Yard J to sleep, and what more can a soldier He will be laid up for some time. Krans. says that he is out o f quarantine and ask for?” has been assigned to work driving a W. H. Ehlen, W. H, Nibler and A, Ed. Muecke is expected tc government truck. He likes the ser W. Elliott made a tnp to Pine Creek vice, which he says is going to make above Molalla this week on a fishing arrive soon at the home oi John Kister, Co. K, 159th men o f lots o f boys. trip. They cought about 50, were his brothers Hugo and Carl Infantry, at Camp Kearney, caught in a soaking rain, slept in a California, has written his stable with belled-cows and belled- Muecke. His trunks have Mike Blaschke received a letter from sheep and with numerous other more arrived by express from San his son Paul this week at Camb Kear sister Mrs. Henry Tautfest, minute and intimate bed-fellows—and ney, near San Diego. He described that he was three days on Francisco. Mr. Muecke is had a good time all round! the trip south through Oregon and Cali probably coming overland by The Portland Union Stock Yards fornia in a very interesting manner. the way from Camp Lewis The people at many towns treated the and arrived at Camp Kear Market letter o f July 23 quotes prime automobile. steers at $11,75 to $12.25, choice cows boys nicely and the boys will not soon ney July 16, passing through and heifers $8,00 to $8.50, bulls $5.50 to Miss Verna Lamb of Don forget the smiles o f the girls oi Sunny Aurora at 11 o’clock Satur $7.50, and calves at $8.50 to $11.50. ald, Miss Edith Karr of Can- California. day night. It is very hot at Hogs, prime mixed, are quoted at by and F.D. Braly of Needy $17.85 to $18.00, with the bulk at $17,75 The government has called for 175 Camp Kearney. He says, to $17.85. Valley lambs are^quoted at have been granted new cer men skilled in logging and saw mill “ It must be about 105 de ; $13.50 to $14.00. tificates to teach as the re work. These men are desired from in the shade and Mrs. Chas Radcliff entertained a few sult of the teachers examin Classes II III and IV by July 23. If grees they are not secured from voluntary they say it is cool today. friends Wednesday evening at the home enlisted men, men will be drafted from i mi , • i I o f her parents Mr. and Mrs, Den tel at Class I to fill the call. These men will | T h e r e RTG tW O a i r p l a n e s East Butteville in honor o f her nephew be sent to Vancouver, Wash., to en -|ing overhead while I am | , Ulysses S.Giesy who is herefrom Mare gage in the production o f spruce for writing this. Camp Kear- j Island, Cal. The affair was a “ Sense” aero planes. ney is about 14 m i le S from Par*-y and music. Light refreshments tj . were served at midnight* and all spent San Diego.” x llS very pleasant evening. Those pres- Fred Armstrong writes his parents Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Armstrong, from will be out of quarantine ent were Ulysses Giesy, Mr. and Mrs, Camp Kearney. He says he may be G. Dentel, Mr. and Mrs. Will Gooding, again on the 26th. I Mr. and Mrs. Fred Yergen, Mr. and there a month or more. He likes his i>Irs. A. B. Dentel, Mr. and Mrs, Fred experience so far. Camp Kearney is Rev. and Mrs. Fred Thompson from Dentel, Mr. and Mrs. Will Dentel, Mrs, about 12 miles from the ocean. He gives his address as Co. A. 157 I n f .! Seattle, Washington, called on Mr. G. Chas. Radcliff, Oscar and Wilber Wil Camp Kearney, Calif, His serial iden- i Dentel and family on his way home son, Lyle and Norman Yergen, Paul tification number is 3,133,351 indicating j from Cali Gooding, Ivan Emery, June and Doro- that many men have been enrolled 11 Supervisor W. C. Hoppes, school I I thy Dentel, Charles and Lewis Radcliff, combined army and navy forces, supervisor o f this county who was in County Commissioner W. cluded in a recent draft call, left Salem Leslie Grazer has been transferred to I Monday with a contingent o f forty- i H . Goulet was here on county Company L, 3rd Regiment, at Camp A. ¡ two men who were mustered in by the j A. Humphreys, Va. He writes that he ! office at Dallas and entrained for Camp repair of the bridge at the is just back from Belvour, the state | Lewis. Ay-1 Company a business Connected with the A very pleasant motor party took j north end o f main Street. militia grounds on the Poiamac. He still talks baseball, saying that the I place at Oswego Lake Sunday in honor j With road Patrolman Al Camp has two pitchers on the Hump-1 o f Ulysses S, Giesy who is home on a Zimmerman he made ar- hrey’s team—one from the Chicago ! furlough from Mare Island, Cali. Those White Sox and one from the Bos-j in the party weire Ulysses S. Giesy, Mr. j r a n g e m e n t S for its repair. ton Red Sox—and also one big league j and Mrs. A. H. Giesy, Teddy and Viola JJg believes that the paving player from St, Louis, Like all the Giesy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Colvin and boys in the service he mentions the | children, Mr, and Mrs. Bob Colvin and of 17 miles o f the Pacific “ good eats” . The Sunday dinner—July ¡baby, Miss Elsie Colvin, Miss Agnes Highway from here to the 14—consisted o f mashed potatoes, gravy, Colvin, Mr. and Mrs, Will Dentel and tomatoes, pudding, sauce, bread, cake, I children,Mrs.Chas.Radcliff and Charles] j hill beyond Lake Labish is a I certainty in the spring. ice cream, and coffee or lemonade. ¡and Lewis R^ideliff, ation last month. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Col vin were here from the Col vin farm Wednesday even ing. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Colvin have gone to Hood River where their son John Colvin is ill. He is reported as better now. We have often quoted that old verse, “ Gather your roses while ye may,” and we can well now change it to “ gather your vegetables," for. by so doing we can accomplish great good. “ We stand behind our boys in France and we will not call it a sacri fice but a privilege to do our bit to ward feeding them Over There.”— Emma V. Mi) linen. Real Strategy. “ Cook got the children Interested in a war game this morning. She sug gested they should play they were in a battle, and shell the enemies.” “ Who were the enemies?” “ The peas.” Shoot! Cholly—Would it be against the law for me to shoot a couple o f bearsJ? Guide—N o; there’s no law agin’ ly ing that I ever beerd tell . o n . ___ Additional Editorials FOURTEEN MILLION SHORT The banks of the seven Western States of the Twelfth Federal Reserve were asked by the Treasury Department to purchase $53,000,000 of Treasury certificates during the two weeks ending July 16. The banks purchased only $39,000,000, and the Twelfth District was $14,000,000 short. Practically the same amount will be asked every two weeks for 20 weeks. The failure of the Western Banks to purchase their allotment, has led the Federal director of sales for the Twelfth District to address a let ter to all Western banks in which he say in part: “ Let us be both frank and honest with ourselves. Have we learned to say “ NO” to the borrowing public on NON-ESSENTIALS? Are our loan pouches free from notes given to pay for pleasure automobiles, or for stocks and bonds purchased with profiteering intent, or for other needless expenditures? Have we abandoned the plan of “ Business as Usual” and gotten down to an honest-to-God policy of helping WIN THE WAR? Is it conceivable that the government will long permit unnecessary sacrifice on the Western front through the FAILURE on the part of the banks to advance promptly 2 1-2 per cent of their re sources every other week? Should the banker under the existing conditions hesitate to advance the 2 1-2 per cent a? called, because he needs the money to lo*an private par ties offering a HIGHER rate of interest? Is not the mor al obligation to SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT at the present time stronger than any written contract possibly can be?” The Aurora State Bank has met every call for money or service with its full share, and will continue to do so, because its officers and directors realize that the way out of the war is STRAIGHT AHEAD, and that banks are under obligations and orders as IMPERATIVE as those given the soldiers by the military authorities. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY This war is to be won not by one man or by one thousand men or one million men, or one million people. It is to be won by the united efforts of the individuals of many nations. Every American citizen has an individual duty to per form, an individual share of the responsibility. The more powerful and effective the American forces are the shorter will be the war, and the shorter the war the fewer lives lost, the greater the number of American soldiers who will return home victorious. Every American who economizes in consumption of material, who increases production, who saves and lends savings to the Government does something to help win the war. There is only one royal road to food conservation. passes through your kitchen door. It A Salem woman whose husband is in France with the Third Oregon is so intensely patriotic that, when the news came of the victorious exploits of the American troop, she woke up the baby and spanked him to make him join the shouts of victory. “ Holler, baby, holler.” Contrary to general expectation, it appears that even farmer telephone lines will be under the absolute control of the government under the authority granted by Con gress to take over telephone lines. It is not probable, how ever, that it will require local lines to do more than to maintain good long distance connections, Local manage ment will not be interefered with. America may well be proud of her soldiers in France. Between the Marne and the Airne they have proved their mettle. At Cantigny, Belleau Wood, Bourseches, Buis- sieres, and Vaux their successes were no less brilliant than during the great offensive this week. It must not be supposed that this advance is a major offensive, but it has proved to the allies as well as to the Germans the fighting qualities of the American soldiers. Between the Marne and the Aisne we have seen the beginning of the end of the Hun pretensions to military superiority. The report of an investigating committee which has irobed into the living conditions of the industrial popula tion of Portland has revealed thousands upon thousands of shipyard and other workers domiciled in dark, filthy, nauseating tenements—the home of latent tuberculosis and contagion. People were found living in dirty shacks, filthy lasements, and even in damp foul cellars. It must have ieen an astonishing revelation to such men as A. L. Mills, who visited some of these “ lower levels” himself. Health, dencency and morality demands that Portland remedy these evils and adequately house the industrial workers that are flocking to the city at the call of the nation.