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T W IC E A W EEK G resham O utlook VOL. 8, NO. 93 GRESHAM, MULTNOMAH COUNTY, FROM CAMP LEWIS TO A FRENCH COAST TOWN HOSPITAL AND A STRENUOUS TIME AT THE FRONT T he follow ing in te re stin g ou tlin e of events from Cam p Lewis to a hos pital in a F ren ch coast tow n, inclu d ing stren u o u s service at th e fro n t, was w ritten by C orporal Bruce Hoyt of Co. E. 361st In fa n try »1st Divi sio n : OREGON FRIDAY. JANUARY 17, DEATH OF MRS. DIMPLE JONES 1919 TU ESD AYS AND F R ID A Y S $1.50 PER YEAR PEOPLE IN FRANCE WENT WILD WHEN ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED AND ALSACE-LORRAINE WAS FREE a few sm all pieces of rock b u t th a t Two le tte rs have been received th ree k ilo m eters of th e G erm an was all. I had a lot of resp ect for a from Jo h n Honey, who is yet in boundary prior to 1870. It is also shell a f te r th a t and learn ed th a t a , F ran ce in th e au to convoy service. about th e sam e d istance from Lux sh ell 20 feet aw ay was h arm less so ! They were w ritten a f te r th e a rm is em bourg, in a town called Slerk (o r long as I had my head below the tice was signed, und depict som e of Sierck I on th e Moselle river. We level of th e gro u n d . th e joyful experiences he w itnessed were in Metz when th e F rench en T he n ig h t of th e 2 7th we slept, In ea ste rn F ran ce when th e w ar tered , and have been in the advance som e d id n 't b u t I did, on a side hill en d ed : g u ard of th e arm y of occupation. G ulberon, F rance. Nov. 24. 1918. w hich was u n d e r fire all n ig h t. It . Am enclosing a few p ostcards of D ear D ad :— W ell, Dad, as th is Is was ju s t o u tsid e th e tow n of “ V ery.” On th e m orning of th e 28th it was F ran ce, Nov. 15, 1918. views tak en in Slerk. It is very D ad’s day” I will try and tell you all o u r tu rn on th e fro n t line. I had I'v e been doing my best to g et a picturesque, Deing on th e Moselle th a t has tak en place since I last saw charg e of six teen men and o u r duty cablegram off to you since th e a rm is and In am ong th e hills. An old fo rt you, b u t th is is all th e p ap er I have was to keep in touch w ith th e o u t tice was signed but have met w ith crow ning one of these overshadow s posts on o u r flan k s and re a r, and so it w ill have to be brief. no luck w hatev er so far, but it's com o u r w indows und a sm all strea m ru n s We m ade It across th e sta te s In 3 sh e was som e job. W e chased the ing in a day o r so if 1 have to bribe u n d er them , so to get a p ictu re of th e days and w ere cam ped at Cam p Mer yellow pups som ew here aro u n d five som ebody to send it. place all you huve to do is to im ag ritt, N. J., u n til Ju ly 6th, w hen we m iles th e th re e days. F ro m th en on, These a re nice q u iet days agutn. ine som e old m edieval town. W e're sailed for "so m ew h ere.” T h ere w ere an d on th e 2 8th it was h ard g oing as A lm ost h ard to becom e accustom ed enjoying som e of th e “ co m fo rts” of fifteen ships in all. We w ere eleven we w ere held up by m achine guns to th is m ore n o rm al way of living, no w ar now, fo r we are able to get days on th e w ate r and landed at and snipers. We would have to w ait raid a larm s a t n ig h t, no covering of room s in p riv ate homes. McAuelly Glasgow, Scotland. Stayed th e re over u n til th e sn ip e rs w ere located o r a lig h ts, no noise. We w ere in Nancy and 1 have a fine big room, elec tric n ig h t, then sta rte d for th e so u th ern one pou n d er tu rn e d loose on th e m a I th e day th e u rm istlce was signed and ity, an d a w onderfully so ft bed with chine gun nests. Some of th em w ere end of E ngland by train , w hich only , w hat a celeb ratio n ! T he people went the usual fe a th e r m a ttress over us took us one day an d o u r d estin atio n ca p tu red by ru sh in g b u t th a t was wild. and also a lace cunopy. T his all lias was South H am pton. Stayed th e re costly business som etim es. We left o u r A m erican division in several ad v an tag es over abandoned T he n ig h t of th e 2 8th we m oved to one n ig h t th en took a boat for Belgium an d convoyed buck to e a s t barns, etc. I gave th e lady of the F ra n c e arriv in g a t L aH arve a fte r a new position. We hiked u n til 2 ern F ra n ce and a re now w ith u new house some cake chocolate and since p. m. and it was rain in g ca ts and one n ig h t on the w ater. F ren ch division, and on th e way with th en they can not do enough for us. At L aH arve we stopped tw o days dogs and no o v erco ats o r slick ers. th e arm y of occupation into Boche Said It was the first th a t th ey 'd had and one n ig h t in one of those swell F rom 12 until d ay lig h t we w ere kept land. T his will be in te restin g , but for th ree years. T his fam ily had a re st cam ps and I am glad I h a v e n 't busy “ d ig g in g ” in, an d I had to dig I'v e had plenty und w ould be glad to son killed in th e G erm an arm y but had a n o th e r such re st since th at. w ith my mess k it as I h ad lost my be well finished w ith ev ery th in g and he was forced in, for the sym pathies shovel, b u t n o th in g happ en ed th a t F ro m th e re we took a tra in to our back home. of th e fajnlly are all stro n g ly pro- tra in in g cam p “ Is en B isiggny” , a n ig h t, only a few sh ells b u t.w e were French. T he fa r th e r th a t we’ve pen little place of ab o u t 500, b u t th is used to them th en . MILS. D IM PLE .IONES. N ovem ber 29, 1918. e tra te d Into L o rrain e, the more pro- Sunday, th e 29th, we w ere in r e tra in , I m ust tell you ab o u t th a t. A good Job was well finished when F rench people ap p e ar to be. We en W e rode in “ fro g ” box-cars and on serv e again, and believe me we su re th e arm istice was signed on the 11th te r G erm any th e day a fte r tom orrow , Mrs. Dimple Jo n es, well know n in follow her. W hile h e r voice, m an n er th e o u tside of each car It said "fo rty c a u g h t som e a rtille ry fire th a t day of N ovem ber. Even now It seem s but th e above ratio will undoubtedly men o r eig h t h o rses.” W ell, th e re as o u r guns w ere rig h t in th e re a r of G resham and vicinity, died a t the und activ ities were uniform ly g en tle r a th e r difficult to realize th a t th e ta k e a sudden drop then. T he way and fem inine, she had n o th in g in het Good S am a ritan ho sp ital on T uesday was only th irty -n in e of us in my car us and of course drew th e hun fire. n a tu re th a t was ak in to fear. H er " w a r” is no m ore, b ut u look at T he la st tim e I saw Ace w as about evening last. an d all had full equipm ent. I th in k H er fu n eral took neighbors who are rem in scen t tell of o u r co m fo rtab le bed, w hich for 50 th in g s look now, we’ll probably s trik e th e R hine at Mainz (o r May- th e cars w ere ab o u t seven feet by 20 m in u tes befo re I was hit. He was place th is afte rn o o n from th e u n d er- j h er goillg alone int0 th e tim b er a t years has been In G erm any, o r ra th e r en c e), o r betw een th a t place and tw en ty feet for I could fall down in ch a rg e of a platoon at th e tim e. G erm an L o rrain e, brin g s it hom e th a t Coblent*. Its one of th e m ost In te r th re e tm es and be at th e o th e r end Some boy, Ace. Lots of sand and he ta k in g chapel of P. L. L erch, w ith dead of n ig h t and w aking up th e th e G erm ans m ust have been severely esting expeMence* thnt I've ever had. b u rial in G reenw ood cem etery. Dr. neighborhood by sh o o tin g a p air of easy. W e w ere on th a t tra in fo r two was all m an. I d o n ’t know how he cougars which h er dog had driven to tro u n ced before they would consent anil well w im h th e tim e. W e’ve ce r days and n ig h ts. I was sleeping cam e th ro u g h , fo r I have never A lfred Thom pson officiated a t the th e treeto p s. i to Kive up such a bed. tainly seen a lot of th e fro n t th e past services w hich w ere private. once b u t w ent to look o u t th e door h ea rd from my com pany. I c a n ’t re Mr. H enry Jones, once an extens- I T he cen so rsh ip ruleB have been m onth and a half, and now going in T he p allb ea re rs w ere ail from an d when I w anted to re tu rn to my m em ber seeing F a b e r a fte r we s ta r t ive lan d -o w n er and sto c k ra ise r of largely rem oved, we can tell now with th e first tro o p s of occupation. bed, It w asn’t th e re , so I had to ed o u t a t 3 p. m b ut th a t Is no sign G resham . They w ere M ayor G eorge and slabw ood business man , wllat we a re doing or have done and T his Inst trip is full of o p p o rtu n ities sta n d up u n til som e one else looked he w asn’t th e re for I had my hands K enney, Jo h n Brow n, M att S hanno, . I ! O regon, n ...z 1 » .. J - iL ____________ A’ h here p r t l 11/ ZJ are. U rz* \A7sx o ff U io im u t the Iin we We l left R l heiins of P o rtlan d , ....... was th e ___ noblem an who V w in the line of souvenirs. Two of us full and It was a m a n ’s job to tak e H G erdes, F ra n k Jo n es and o u t th e door. W ell, when th a t trip la st of A ugust, a f te r being th e re were in a b arrac k s at Metz before th e won h er love und they were m arried E. W. S tra tto n . S ingers were Misses did come to an end we had an 18- care of one's self. in 1899. T hough he was th irty ab o u t eleven m onths. T hey were a F ren ch had cleaned It o u t, and we I w alked from 5 :3 0 p. m. u n til ¡G race H artley and R uth H artley . m ile hike in fro n t of us an d It was years h er sen io r, and th e re a fte r h ard eleven m onths on th e poor old pickial up nine spiked helm ets, ull in Miss M ildred St. C lair was th e ac- h o t as h— , b u t we m ade it all O. K. 1 2:30 back th ro u g h th e tow n of Very failed in busness an d in h ealth , she city, and th e re is not m uch left to perfect shape. W e stayed in “ Is en B isiggny” u n and about th ree m iles In th e re a r of ’ com panlst. tell th e tale. From Itheim s th e sec In cid en tally , we went th ro u g h the til ab o u t th e first of S eptem ber when th a t w here I found a Red CTO83 1 T he follow ing trib u te to th e de- ' added sixteen y ears to his life by hhr tion was tra n sfe rre d to th e 91st w ar w ithout weapons. Now, we ca n ’t sin g len ess of devotion, defense of his King ceased was w ritten by Milo C. we s ta rte d fo r th e fro n t. T h e re ’s d ressin g sta tio n . I stay ed th e re over b attle s and by the com panionship, A m erican Division, which wus on re go o ut w ithout side-arm s. G erm an n ot m uch to tell from th e re on as all n ig h t and th e next day Btarted for a h er frien d an d legal adviser. energy, wisdom, ch eer and su n sh in e 8erve d u rin g th e St. M ihiel clean up, fan atics are still loose, but not n u hosp ital. I trav e led all th a t day by th e co u n try looks th e sam e. of h e r n atu re . b u t w ent in to acton fo r th e first tim e m erous. G resham , Ore., Ja n . 16, 1919. O ur first position w as a t St. tru c k and all th a t nig h t by tra in . I By reason of th e loss of h e r hus- ‘n *be big A rgonne a tta c k of the 26th E d ito r O utlook: — Mrs. Dimple I Intended to tell you som ething M lhiel, b u t we w ere in reserv e th e re have been in th re e ho sp itals. I d o n ’t T he old w estern ers ab o u t “ No M an's L und” aro u n d an d did not g et to see any of the rem em b er the nam e of th e tow n the Jo n es died of in flu en za-p n eu m o n ia at band in 1915, and over-exertion in of S eptem ber. m ix-up. T h a t was on S eptem ber 12. first one was in b u t th e second one th e Good S am a ritan hospital T uesday her a tte n tio n s to him in his last sick- canie th ro u g h w ith lots of glory und Ypres. We crossed It about a week ness, she broke down in h ealth . , Punished Ilein ie badly. A fter a few a fte r th e B odies had been driven F ro m th e re we moved by tru c k was a t N antes. I stayed th e re eight , n ig h t at 10 o’clock J a n u a ry 14th, E m erging from th e Good S am aritan d aY8 rest, we were en tra in e d for Bel- back n o rth of R oulers, and ab o u t the ! 1919. Owing to q u a ra n tin e restric - an d foot to a fro n t ab o u t fifteen days and then was shipped here. liospital a fte r a run of serio u s illness, ' klum , w here th e 91st took p a ri in th e only im pression one gets is of m iles j t tions th e re w ere a t h e r bedside, of N antes is a p re tty nice place, m iles w est of V erdun and arriv ed th e re th e 19th and it was th a t day has ab o u t 300,000 population. j j h e r rela tiv e s ^and frien d s, only h er she re tu rn e d to h e r co u n try hom e a ttac k which helped to run th e of o v erlap p in g shell holes filled with I saw my first shell break. We w ere d id n ’t get to see m uch of it as we sis te r and b ro th er-in -law . Mrs. and farm n e a r G resham and was th e re - ' Boches back from th e coast. We were stin k in g w ater anil thickly Inhabited re stin g in w hat rem ained of a little ' had to have a pass to get o u t, and I ^ r - A lden M. ( h am b erlin of P o rt- a f te r In ju red In a ru n aw ay accident ' rei'alled a f te r being in th a t a ttac k for by fat, sleek rats. Now and th en a village and also w aiting fo r d a rk was broke so d id n ’t care m uch about land and Milo C. K ing of G resham . when h e r life was again trem b lin g in 1 ^wo days, and se n t clea r across sign board will bear th e sign “ Ici T hough th e young women n u rses th e balance. At th is tim e, an addt- F r a “ ce to N ancy, w here a n o th e r m o n -. p oe|ca p p elle” , "Ici l-an g e rm arck ” , ness so we could m ove up a little g oing down town. w ere ex ceptionally a tte n tiv e and te n - | tional friend cam e to h e r rescue; and Mter a tta c k was ab o u t to be launched | or "Ici I’assch en d u ele” , but o utside Now ab o u t th is place of Q uiberon. closer. I t was ab o u t 5 p. m. and we w ere all ea tin g w hen all a t once T ake a look a t a m ap and you will d er in th e ir care of th e p a tie n t d u r by disposing of h e r horse, c a rria g e ag ain st Metz and vicinity, when the of the sign post th e re would be not bang! bang! bang! T h re e 3-inch find it ju s t aro u n d th e m ost n o rth ing th e seven last days th a t she was and stock, by giving h e r two years of arm istic e was signed. T he n ig h t be- even ru b b ish piles left of the towns. sh ells landed rig h t in tow n. T he w estern point of F ran ce. T h e town w ith them , n o th in g could prevail au to -rid in g , business and p leasu re f ° rp Nancy had been bom bed, and T h ere Is not a tree In th e co u n try , closest one w as a b o u t 150 yards. No is ab o u t tw enty m iles o u t on a little ag a in st th e in ev itab le. She was a t trip s o ver th e co unty and sta te , as alm o st every n ig h t before th a t, for even th e stu m p s being leveled by she was one of th e m ost th o ro u g h ly sh ell fire. T he road, o r ra th e r w hat one was h u r t b u t th e re w as a few hook rig h t opostte “ Belle Isle ,” if tended by Dr. J. M. Short of th e h o s well as leisure, recreatio n and diver- and efficiently bombed tow ns on the road th e re was, had us a b o rd er sev p ital, and by Dr. Mason d u rin g th e son, th e ren ew in g of old acq u ain t- who th o u g h t so fo r a few m inutes. you can find th a t. T his is a fishing F ren ch side. T he n ig h t of the elev- era l dozen B ritish ta n k s, eith er first week of h e r illness at B eaverton ances and m ak in g of o th ers, she re- W e stayed in th e woods two m iles tow n and a su m m er reso rt. w here she had been assistin g h e r sto red h erself to p erfect h ea lth , I e,Rh th e city had its s tre e t lights on wrecked by shells, stu ck in th e mud, I ’ve been h ere since th e 1 6th of from th a t tow n u n til the 2 4 th , when we sta rte d fo r th e real th in g . We O ctober and I am su re tire d of it. m o th e r a t th e fo rm e r fam ily home, stre n g th and w eight. Such was h er *he first tim e since 1914, so th e peo- or b u rn t. F lan d ers mud Is in a class feeling r a th e r all its own, and I feel respect for moved up, and on th e m orn in g of T his “ fro g ” lingo Is g ettin g on my | Dr. Mason advised ag ain st h er re- condition on th e first day of th e pres- I’1*’ were n a tu ra lly moval to th e h o sp ital by au to trip in ent y ea r of o u r Lord when Bhe was ch eerfu l and carefree. Besides th a t, even th e Boche for fighting in th at th e 26th ab o u t 3 a. m. th e big th in g nerves. they w ere F ren ch and feeling very slim e fo r fo u r years. seized by th e h an d of fate. T he B ritish I h a v e n ’t had a pay-day since Ju ly th e m id st of h e r m alady. sta rte d . T ake all th e bass dru m s in Mrs. Jones is su rv iv ed by h e r L argely on h e r acco u n t and th e frien d ly to w ard s th e A m ericans. certain ly had a d isag reeab le task. tow n and p u t them in one bunch and and th e la st le tte r I g o t was from T h ere was a celeb ratio n th a t I ’ll L ieu ten an t Rundon, u S tanford give them double tim e b eat and you m o th e r and was d ated Ju ly 6 th . j I m o th er, Mrs. M ary Milzel and Jo h n sta te sm an sh ip of S en ato r H arry T he people w ent man, has replaced L ie u te n a n t Eno. w ill have a fa in t idea of th a t b a r su re would like to h e a r from som e Mitzel and T hom as Mtzel, b ro th ers, Lane, a bill was en acted In congress I n° t soon forget, You probably rem em b er th a t we had rage. She was som e noisy. W ell at one, but I guess it is n ot your fault. resid in g a t B eav erto n , O regon; and 1 ex ten d in g pensions to th e widows of [ wHd At p resen t we are w ith th e 26th d in n er in New York w ith his b ro th er, W ell, th e Job is all over and all by C a th e rin e C h am b erlin , sister, of | civil w ar v eteran s who were m arried 6 a. m. we g o t o rd ers to m ove fo r w ard. My b atallio n was in reserve th a t rem ains now to my Idea is to P o rtla n d : Mrs. M yrtle G arriso n , sis- since 1881, an d Dim ple Jo n es re-1 F rench Division and are w ithin ab o u t who Is In aviation. ag ain , so I was ab o u t 1000 y ard s in get m e hom e an d get me th e re “ toot te r. N orth Pow der, O regon; Mrs. ceved one of th e first in stallm en ts —______________ ____________________ th e r e a r and did not get to see m uch sw ee t” , th a t is "v ery q u ic k " in Mollie K lddel, siste r, V ancouver, th e re u n d er. One evening ab o u t tw o years ago Of course it isn ’t spelled B. C.; Mrs. W. Y. Brow n, sister, B ill —AND THE GERMANS ASK US TO FORGET th a t day only w h at th e first wave " fro g ." had done. I wish you could have an y th in g like th a t, b ut th a t is the ings, M ont.; and Joseph Brooks, she said to me, “ I have a feeling th a t b ro th er. In N ebraska. we will nev er be m a rrie d .” L ittle seen those h un tren ch es and dug- way it sounds. D imple Jo n es was born at Salem. did we th in k a t the tim e th a t th is W ell, Dad, th a t ’s ab o u t all I can o u ts, and they had som e good ones th in k of w orth w ritin g so will have O r^ o n , S ep tem b er 3 0 th , 1873. H er was a prem o n itio n of h er untim ely too, reinforced concrete. W ell, we w orked along all th a t to close, w ishing you a M erry C h rist-I m o th er was n ativ e E nglish, and h er d eath . H er last In tellig ib le w ords w ere: day and th e 27th we w ere in su p m as and H appy New Year, an d all fa th e r, Mr. Mitzel, w hose first nam e p o rt, h u t about 6 p. m. on th e 26th th a t goes w ith them even if th e sta te ' wa« C olum bia, was of G erm an ex- "I m ust go to sleep now, m ake me I was alm ost p u t o u t of w orking o r Is dry. W ish I could be w ith you for ,raP ,lo n H er Ppt nam e, Dimple, sug- w ake up; please, m ake me w ake u p .” All of us who w ere ev er acq u ain ted d e r by a shell fra g m en t. T h is shell we su re would p u t on a p arad e. I gestlve of h er lovllness in childhood and w om anhood, was h e r only given w ith Dim ple Jo n es In the slig h test, 1 b ro k e about 20 feet from w here I forgot to tell you how I am myself. was stan d in g and a piece of It the My arm was all healed up ab o u t a nam e. She was p eculiarly a child of o r m ore In tim ate, degree, m ust th in * size of an egg m issed my bean eight m onth ago but it left It a little weak n atu re . T hough h e r early schooling of h e r as one of th e b rav est, lovllcst To ; inches and stru c k a sto n e w all rig h t as I was shot rig h t th ro u g h th e w rist was lim ited , h e r in tu itiv e know ledge and b rig h te st of w om ankind. and love of an im als and n a tu ra l his- th in k of her is to be inevitably re- back of m e (m u st find som e m ore Joint. It w on't sta n d a stra in , b u t it tory and ap tn ess of expression w ere m inded of th e m elodies of b ird s and ; p ap e r; I c a n 't stop now. I m ade the m ay g e t b e tte r in tim e. such th a t a book she could w rite on ru n n in g brooks, th e fra g ra n c e of , Y our son, r a is e .) th e su b je ct would ta k e ran k am ong flow ers, th e b eau ties of n a tu re , aeo- BRUCE. W ell th is piece h it and sc attered th e w orks of th e learn ed . A bee llan h arp s, cry stal fo u n tain s, th e mu- [ F ra n k E der has been d isch arg ed ; would not stin g her, a sn ak e would sic of th e sph eres an d angel choirs. [ FAIRVIEW i not b ite h e r and a pet toad would MILO C. KING. Services will be resum ed a t Sm ith from th e service and is now at the Mr. and Mrs. Chas. R aney have C larence S tanley, who is critically | The Germ ans send allied prisoners of war buck to us like this M em orial P re sb y teria n ch u rch , F air- hom e of his p are n ts, Mr. and Mrs. moved back to th e ir hom e n ea r ill w ith p neum onia raenegitls, is re- : then ask us to forgive and forget— and send them food This Is a view next Sunday. No new cases of P B E d er n ea r P lea san t Home. He QreBham from T illam ook. w h'-n tin-, new and exclusive photograph, showing P.rltlsh prisoners who have ported sig h tly b e tte r today. been allowed to get home (under term s ol th e u rm lstlct v irtually all In flu en za have developed an d those had been for som e tim e In a tra in - | have lived fo r th e oast year. suffering irom disease and m aln u tritio n , starved while the H uns had ---------- who have been ill a re stead ily Im- | Ing cam p in V irg in ia an d was mus- 1 p l e n t y tot them selves This Is )nst one of the thousands of reasons „ „ I A uto accessories fo r all cars. C. S p o tlig h ts and electric horns. why the Get man whine tor an easy peace will be ignored proving. | tered o u t at ( am p Lew is I E O sburn A Co. E. O sburn A Co.