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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, f'PTEMBER 24, 1018. PAGE THKE1 G.-T. WANT COLUMN,! FOR SALE Good 6-room house, ballt three years. Furnished thru out with best of furniture and player piano. A bargain It taken soon. In quire Gasette-Tlmes office. ' 15-lm FOR SALE One Deering 2-man Combine, with engine. Hae never been run. Terms reasonable, tt, WALT ROOD, Heppner. FOR SALE Mack truck in good runnlag order. Inquire at this of fice. FOR SALE Eighteen or twenty bead of mixed cattle, yearlings, and oows with first and .second calves. 17-tf. BARNEY McDEVITT, lone, Oregon. FOR SALE Two, good, heavy, gentle work mules. Five head of good work horses and mares, three of which are good leaders. Inquire Frank Anderson, Heppner. 4-tt PttOr'tiHeilOXAL tLt!MA Dr. N. E. WINNARD Physician & Surgeon Office In Fair Building HEPPNER ' OREGON A.D. McMURDO, M. D. Physician A Surgeon Office in Patterson Drug Store HEPPNER :-: :-: OREGON Dr. R. J. VAUGHN DENTIST Permanently located in the Odd Fellows building, Rooms 4 and 8. HEPPNER, OREGON DR. GUNSTER VETERINARIAN Licensed Graduate HEPPNER - - ORE. Telephone 722 (Day or Night) DR. J. L. CALLOWAY Osteopathic Physician 6 Roberts Building Phone 643 At Lexington Tuesdays and Thursdays WOODSON & SWEEK ATTORNEYS-AT-IiAW Office in Masonic' Building, Heppner, Oregon Offce on west end of May Street HEPPNER, OREGON SAM E. VAN VACTOR ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W S, E. NOTSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office, Roberts Building, Heppner Office Phone,' Main 643 Residence Phone Main 665 FRANCIS A. McMENAMIN 1 LAWYER Roberts Building, Heppner, Oreg. F. H. ROBINSON LAWYER IONE :-: ;-: :-: -: OREGON PATTERSON & ELDER 2 Doors North Palace Hotel. TON80RAL ARTISTS FINE BATHS SHAVING 25c ROY V. WHITEIS Fire Insurance writer for best Old Line Companies. HEPPNER OREGON M. J. BRADFORD "The Village Painter" Contractding Painting and Paper hanging, Phone 65 3. Office 1st Door Wtst of Creamery DR. J. G. TURNER EYE SPECIALIST Portland, Oregon. Regular monthly visits to Hepp ner and lone. Watch paper lor dates. E. J. STARKEY Electrician House Wiring a Specialty Heppner Oregon Phone 633 letters from our soldier boys I Officer in the Navy Proves Himself an Interesting Writer Royal Wakefield Reaches France OK -Jas Mollohan Meets Up With J immie McNarnee Captain McCIure Tells of" Some Real Experiences. From Someplace, Sometime, A. B. Cortright, now in France, writes his friend, Henry E. Clark, of lone, two very interesting letters that we are glad to make room tor In our col umns. Mr. Cortright's first letter follows: Dear Friend Henry and All: Well, this little letter will be mostly to let you know that I am still In the land of today and not among yesterday's 10,000. But it will tell you nothing of the to morrow for the tomorrows in this country and just at this time are very, very uncertain. But I am well and safe (just this minute anyway) and getting along famously. There are hundreds of things I would like to tell you, but the censoi forbids me to mention the names of any places, any ships, or any dates. Our troops are doing fine work and they are surely walking into the Huns, forcbg them back everywhere they meet them and capturing prison ers, guns .and ammunition. Ten thousand prisoners were captured yesterday, with many guns, some ammunition and stores and a com plete regimental staff of officers ex cept the general who escaped in an auto. We have introduced a brand new kind of fighting over here. It is the "20th Century, Yankee Brand," patented, manufactured, and promoted in Yankee land, and it is a winner. The Germans have a world-wide reputation for unraveling knotty, scientific problems, but Oh, he is the most dismal, hopeless failure when it comes to fathoming the workings of a restless Yankee brain. The last bunch of prisoners who came in here said that the Americans were not fighters but won their victories by mean, dirty tricks. They indignately stated that they had sat up for two whole days and nights, expecting an attack any minute from the wild Yanks and then they saw them withdraw from their position. So they all laid down for a little much needed rest and then the Yanks came, and came, and came, and kept coming and well, that, they said, was the reason they were prisoners. I'll admit that was a "dirty, mean" trick to keep anyone waiting so long for you, and then come in the night when everyone is asleep. But you can't blame the lads. Those "dirty" little tricks were born In 'em, you, know. A Y. M. C. A. worker told me that she asked some of the boys out at the hospital (35,000 beds) what they would like best of anything they could think of, and almost every man said, "Just a little good, old, American candy," Can you imagine it? Out of all the things that a wounded American soldier could want, the one' thing he did want was "Just a little good, old, American candy." I suggested to our boys that each one put in a nickle or a dime and as we had a good supply of candy with us we would buy some and distribute it in some of the wards. I expected about .ten or fifteen dollars, but in 30 minutes we collected $57.88. We bought six suitcases of candy and I wish you could have been with me when I distributed it. One poor little chap, swathed In bandages (from Tennessee by hts drawl) said Mister, I ain't got none of them things left to hold up, but if it's all the same to you, I'd like a little o' that 'ere candy -your a hollertn about." He received p:t,ntv of it. But, darn it, Henry, when I saw an American boy with only one arm, feeding another American boy with no arms a piece of Hershey's Milk Chocolate, it just made me feel as though I had too many arms, and hands, and legs, and ears, and every thing. Gee! One fellow from omo, a Marine, with his left arm shot away, his left side shattered and his left leg torn Into shreds and splinters, said "Mister, they sent us through that machine gun fire six times, back and forth, and It just seemed as though every ono was falling all around me and I was never scratched, and then just as we drove the Huns out and gained our position, a shrapnel got me. Now wasn't that hell, mister, wasn t that just plain hell?" I told him it was, poor chap. The one thing that strikes me forcibly is the spirit of the people. The war widows in black and flowing veils, very evidently striken with the deepest grief but very, very evidently willing to give yet another to the cause, had they another to give.. The light in their eyes, the way they are going ahead with the nation's works it all brings home to one the fortitude with which the people face the future, the unknown future be fore them. And I wish I were permitted to tell you of the work the U. S. is doing here. The construction, the Improve ments, and the impetus they have added to all activities. In six months they have built and completed the largest and best equipped railroad yards and terminals In the world. Everything elso in a like scale. It is simply Immense to say the least. One French army chaplain told me that the English came over here and acted as though they owned this country and proceeded to uso it to their own liking. But when the Americans landed here they just acted as though they did not care a d n who owned It, and started in to fix it up for war purposes. And it is true. These people are simply astounded. They are living in a fairy land of miracles. Well, my time is limited, so will bid you good night. A. B. CORTRIGHT. Same Place, Somotime Later. Well the other day I bid you good night, but did not have an op portunity to mail the letter, so will take advantage or a tew spare moments this afternoon and add a few items to my limited letter. ; By the way, excuse this paper. I ran out of stationery and it is almost Impossible to obtain any over here. You remember I took one new ship from Portland to the East coast, be fore I sailed on this one? Well, she was sunk day before yesterday. Do not know how many of her crew were saved. You never know when they are going to get you, nor where. I wish to say a few words concern ing the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. you canuo Imagine the good lhey !.ro doing on' here, lhe Red Cms society has entire supervision oer the hospitals and the work they try to do is to bring a home touch and a friendly influence Into the lives of the sick and wounded, and to provide clean entertainment and amusements for them, and they are succeeding wonderfully. They promote theateri- cals, minstrels, ball games, boxing and wrestling matches, musicales, etc.,, for the boys who , are unfor tunate enough to be wounded. Then the Y. M. C. A. Oh! I can not say enough for them. Their huts are full and overflowing all the time and they make every possible effort to influence the boys to try to better themselves. They have schools to Instruct the boys in the languages spoken over here. And when a fellow goes Into their huts, a fine, friendly fellow greets you and shakes your hand and makes you feel at home immediately. Then there is more. There is the American touch about it. And let me tell you that every man over here Is thinking about he good old U. S. A. and when he is going to be there again. But the Y. M. C. A. gives you access to American papers, magazines, books, music, candy, cigarettes, tobacco, cookiis . You can meet and talk to some good, hard working, American women, and some, splendid, fatherly American men. And it all seems so good to the fellow who has probably never been out of his native state before and who suddenly finds himself dropped down In the midst of a people who do not. speak his language. They furnish the boys with writing ma terial and a quiet place to use it; with moving picture shows, reading rooms, athletic material (boxing gloves, punching bags, base ball ma terial,) conduct religious services, furnish entertainments, music, text books, novels, and in fact everything to make this place seem as much like home as possible. Neither have they forgotten the officers. They have organized and furnished an officers' club house where we can rest, read, dine, have music, play billiards, and buy cigar ettes and tobacco cheaper than you can in the States. One Sunday (not long ago) I went out to a beach, not far from here, that is also conducted under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. for officers only. I will toll you of the day's pleasure. Enjoyed a beautiful auto ride out to this beach through this perfectly charming country. Arrived there about 2 p. m. Played a few holes of golf on perfect links (clubs and balls furnished,) returned to the hotel and enjoyed two sets of tennis with two charming little French girls. Then rested awhile in the hotel sun room and listened to an orchestra of enlisted men while we were served with tea and cakes by some very nice young ladies just from Paris, among them Ambassador Sharp's daughter. We met officers from all over the U. S. and had a very Interesting round-the-table chat. Then everyone went to the beach and went In bathing after which we all gathered on the beach and were martlaled through some funny French games by two little French tom-boys who handled old, gray haired Colonels and young Ensigns alike In a masterful way. Returning to the hotel at 7:30 we were served an excellent dinner, lauitiessly cooked, and nicely served. Music during dinner. After dinner the choir leader of Princeton University entertained us wilh some of the good old songs and then we enjoyed a pleasant auto ride back. The day's outing cost us six francs ($1.40 American.) It is the first and only time that I have really been able to relax ana forget the old ship Blnce I left New York and oh! what a relief it was. Besides the amusements I have mentioned, there were available Am- -. ..... newspapers (a little aged., Amerlii.jL books nd magazines, smoke., billiards, checkers. and loungliiK rooms. A perfectly delight ful pia!r. and all made possio'u through the Y. M. C. A. Marto Luther, formerly managei of the J.hn Wanamaker tea rooms in the U. S. is manager of the club. And by the way there was an amus ing thins happened to him while we wore i;: there. He has only been over Iutp a short time and his French is very limited. He was havinp a little dinner of his own served Mm and he suddenly got up and walked to the door followed by two little French waitresses who showed every sign of being dis ressed. He dropped his hands and said "It's no use. I never can do anything with them." An officer who spoke a little French a3ked him if he .could be of any assistance to him and he replied "Yes, for good ness sake tell her (pointing to ono of the girls) that she looks so much lilte her sister that I cannot tell them apart. And then please tell them to bring back my dinner cause I am hungry and want to eat it." Hs had tried to tell them in English and they had taken his dinner from him twice thinking there was some thing about it he did not like. Well, I would like to be back there no"-, mixed up in harvest again. It is disagreeable work but I would like It just the same. This business pets on one's nerves, some what. But I'm in it to the finish anyway, whatever that is. I think I have done pretty well for this time. My letter may not be very interesting, but we " are for bidden to write about the really in teresting things. Will write you again when opportunity permits. Very sincerely, A. B. CORTRIGHT. FROM ROYAL WAKEFIELD Somewhere in France, July 27,-18. Dear Ma:- Well I am located for a few days I guess. Had a long hike yesterday, about eighteen miles, and I will say that I was sure tired and I am not rested yet. Would like to be home again, but I am glad I got here with my Company. We never saw a single sub on the way over here, don't believe there Is many left, or else they are afraid to come up. I don't know what part of France we are located in but it is sure a green looking place. I haven't struck but one man from any ways near home and he was from Pendle ton. He was in the naval aviation. I knew him about as soon as he knew me and he sure was- tickled for I was the first one he had seen that be knew since he had been In the service. Well it seems as tho the Huns are catching hell all the time, from what little news we can get here. Has there been very many boys left Heppner for Camp Lewis lately? How is harvesting, and can you get all the men you need or not? Do you know where Bob Buschke is? I haven't heard of him since I left Camp Merritt. Day before yesterday I received 18 letters. Threo of them were from you and the rest I didn't know any thing about. I feel better now than I did when I landed here, am not near so fat. Guess I will get down to fighting condition after a little while. We are about all dead broke and no pay day but we are all satisfied. I guess that the Americans, British and French are making the sauer kraut fly these days. Anyway I hope so. I don t know when this letter will get to you. I heard that none of the mail that we have written here in this place has left for some reason and if you don't hear from me regular you see it won't be my fault. I just got your letter yester day telling me about the second Heppner fire. I am glad you got a sood rain, but too bad you did not get it sooner. This will make the Spring grain fill out better and that will help some. This country over here Is quite a place. The way the people live, I don't see how they keep alive, but I guess they are used to It and I have always thought that wherever I could see anyone else living I could live too. In the building that I am staying there are about five families living, and four or five cow barns, chicken houses and threshing ma chines scattered about. Can you beat that for a combination. Quite a country here for showers but not any big rains, suppose we will get them later on. The only thing thai bothers me here Is that I am not Retting any fruit to eat. About this time of year I was always used to quite a bit of it you know. Well this is all the news that I know to write and maybe some of this will not pass but I will take a chance. Every time I write I have a little more to put on my address, but I get my letters just the same. From your son, SADDLER ROYAL WAFEFIELD, Co. C, 347th M. G. Bn., A. P. O. 776. A. E, F. No. 2256073. FROM JAS. MOLLAHAN Jamas Mollalian of Battery D, Field Artillery, under dato of Aug. 3rd, writes John P. Kenny from Somewhere In France as follows: Dear Johnnie :- I was delighted to get your letter a few days ago, and card from B yesterday. Owing to our location letters from home are more welcome Continued on Page Six. j Sapolio doing its I f IIKil tor u.: ; lame Join Nowl APPLY AT ANY ?OST OFFICE I tMCH MOGAJV tout CO. for SERVICE When man gets a hankering far real tobacco satisfaction, he is on the road that leads straight to the Ileal Gravely Chewing Plug. P. SEE ME BEFORE SELLING YOUR GRAIN I am grain agtent at Heppner for the Pacific Grain Company, successors to M. H. Houser, and am prepared to buy your grain outright or on consignment, as you prefer. Can also furnish grain bags at the lowest price. ROY V. WHITEIS Meatless Days! .tiffi The People's Cash Market Is cooperating with the food administration by encouraging the sale of fish and poultry as substitutes for the other meats which we want to save. FRESH OYSTERS, CLAMS, pRABS, FISH Mr Hoover says: "Eat more fish." The best will be found here. Phone Main, 73 HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor The Gazette-Times Of course you wantT A (iO()l RANGE IS AX ABSOLUTE NECESSITY IX EVERY KITCHEN. OUR RANGES "DRAW" WEIL A XI) GIVE A EVEX HKAT ALL THE TIMK. YOU CAN "T1MK" EVERYTHING AND KXOW THAT IT WILL BK "DONE" AXI) COOKF.I) THROUGH. THERE ARK MANY NEW ATTACHMKNT8 AND CON VEMKXCES ON OUR XKV KANGKS THAT SAVE YOU WORK, SAVE YOU WORRY, AXI) SAVE YOU FUEL. BRING IN YOUR WIFE AND GET HER THE SIZE SHE WANTS THE PRICE WILL BE RIGHT WE'LL SEE YOU ARE PLEASED WITH IT. USE OUR HARDWARE i IT STANDS HARD W EAR. Peoples Hardware Co. Successors to Tash & Akers work. Scouring . " Lorps recruits. 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