Medford mail tribune., June 06, 1918, Page 6, Image 6

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MET)FOTiT MATTj TRTP.FXR. MEDFOTM). ORFiOX. TIiniSDAV. JITXR C. IMS
NO FIGHTING FOR
MEOFORD BOYS
UNI AUTUMN
Captain Vance Writes of Experiences
of Battery E, 65th Artillery, Form
erly Company Seven Members
Scattered All Oyer World Must
Learn All Over Xijain On New Guns
A Ii'tlor full of mluri'sf to all rchi
tivcM mid friends of Mcdf'onl itrxl
tliicksoii comity soldiers in Kninco,
written in Km nee on May 11, hy
riiplnin A. J. Viincf of Mattery K,
('itli artillery, in whiHi mi many
Inrmer Seventh eornpanv inenilier
lire member, hits j 1 been reeeived
hy Mayor ('. K. (tutus. The ealnin
not only tells of the hmi;s of t lie
eiiiiipuny sinee it departed for Kninee
hat deneriheK in words if praise the
vork of tlio Ifcd Cross and army Y
M. ('. A., umi the Amerienn hospitah
in (J physieianK in service there.
Aeeordin to 'aptain Vance tin
majority of members of Itattery K
are Keattered everywhere in other or
puii.ntions-, having heen truiisferred,
mill none of the Oregon boys will see
service at the battle front until fill.
Travrhil Tlirii FiiKhwnl
In part the letter is as follows:
My dear Mr. (iutes:
I promised to write you after ar-
riiifit: "over there,' ami to keep you
jMiNtrd on things generally. Well, w
arrived without ineident of any kind.
as yo; know, of course, through
0(;rf!(!. Kortiinntely we were sent
via Knejand mid jnt to see eonsid
erablo of the eountry nnd (wo or
three good sized eities. We landed in
the north of Knytnnd and missed
into France from a southern port,
thus traversing practically the whole
Im'th of (he eountry, nnd to make it
nil the belter the whole trip was hy
daylight, Knland is a very beauti
ful country, much nicer than Krauee,
and everything is in perfect order.
They do things just once in Kiitflimd,
mid do them exactly riht. All
roads in these countries are paved, or
hard surfaced, which should make
aiilu touring a jrrent pleasure. There
are no private ears to be seen in
either country, ns the government
have taken them nil for military pur
poses. Hut ns gasoline is over a dot-;
Inr a pulton, I uess there would not
be much touring by n ill o aiivwuy.
There lire thousands of Kurds here
in France in the anny service, as well
us other ears. All the higher offi
cers nru furnished with the lies)
Amerienn limousines. You never see
liny ordinary louring ears. They are
nil of the closed ear type. You see
more Dode ears than any other,
though (here are Stndcbaker, Win
toiiH nnd others. Heullv, the ehed
ear htyle is best for this country as
i: rains nearly all the time and is
very eohl and chilly.
IIojk Sea Me red
We left about !)." na-it of Mattery K,
scattered all the way around lh
World, slarliiu: at Krisru, wrere ti
were left behind nwini; to a case of
mcjisles hreakinu out in one of the
l'lilhuans en mule from Fort Stev
ens. The whole ear of men were kept
behind. Then a i-um of sometime.:
eUe developed in the upper thmr of
one of our eimtmihienU at Camp
Mrrrill, .jui.l that kept hark men.
Then we left four or five at Liverpool
and a few at other places with the
jirip iir minor troubles. ur youi!
reputation, howexer, keeps up as fat
as venerial (roubles are concerned -absolutely
a eletiti slale from (he date
we left Medloid, And Mattery K wa-po-ed
as beini; the .,ios( elticienl
buttery of the regiment, whieh made
all of us feel (hut eur efforts hail
heen worth while. N.uie of the men
lof( behind have euuiJil up with us.
Mid Ihe prosper) r.f their lejoininp
(he battery is very slim. All compa
nies are heiiitf all torn lo pieces af.
ter arriving over here. All ollicrr
and imi-l of tin men are seal olf to
schools of various kinds and few of
them ever pt bark to their oriuiuul
t oiupuntes,
KhUlitct for orfleciM
It is ipute certain Ihut none of the
ollirers (lint came orr ' the (re
yon batteries will remain with them.
We were unfortunate in beim; iismu.ii
ed to a tpe ol Imttrry whn-h reiiire
that (he oflicers miM be eii en
gineers, or who Iihw n Ihoroiiijh
kliowledue of etiiiireriitir, eombiued
with hiuhcr n-.illiemuti.--, mh'Ii a
tyilioinuaetery, loi-a nt hm-. ralcutas
mid iistrouotn none of which nn
of our otfirrrs hne h.ol, I hud a
Mualterinu ! -nine ot it :iti year- nun.
but it doesn't help any now. I'nuli
fally all the woik m .I'timi up .nn!
niniinit the uun i-, done iih a Iran
Hit, luiri Dip uppbration tit iriatiLiula
(ion, pteM which i.one but engineer
can do. Almoft l.Mt olto.rs wm
nrnt to, one of the beaw artillery
lii'iubpmrter! a short tune a-o. um i
in easteni 1'rnee, where we were
yivrn an opportunity to see what wa
rcmiircd on the type of tfuns that had
been nssinfd to Ihe western troops.
and not half of thern felt that they
could handle the technical work nec
essary in properly laying the (;mis.
Just Out of fjtirk
H' course, it just happened that
any other type of iiu would havi
heen easy for us, and we could have
used some oftht knowledge gained
in the coast defenses. We just play
ed out of luck, that's all. Well, just
so they put us on the front lines, as
Mam as possible, none of us care
much what branch we urn in. None
of the Oregon boys will see servii
until lale in (he fall, at the earliest,
and then not as (he same organization
that left the states. Only about 7."
of (he original Mattery K is left. Tin1
company is bein replaced with men
who.eame over earlier and have jjonc
through, various schools, while our
men are sent off to school, and they
in turn wil be returned to other or
ganizations. I am expecting to be
transferred to other duties any time
now. I'raclicjilly every officer in
the regiment is a new man who has
been through two or three of the
seoost nnd who came over several
months ao, so we can only expeel
to take our turn with (he rest. Some
officers huve joined our regiment
who have attended schools for 1(1
months and are still at it.
Meets Former McdfordiU1
Have met ipiite a number of offi
eers over here that I knew back home.
and who are in various branches of
the service. The latest one is Lien
tenant. Kherly, who en lister! in the
engineers. He was in the forest ser
vice office in Med ford. I met him
here in two or three days a'o.
Have pa.-ed through Maris twice it
my travels, and have heen pretty
much over Ihe whole eountry. Was
wit Inn lr miles of the front lines and
(ouhl hear the guns booming quite
plainly. Another Oregon regiment
Hint was spoken of frequently in the
papers back there, is scattered from
I'Vypt to Knlaud. One of the com
panies is here in this city on military
police duly. The captain was on the
ovcrnor s tal f when we went to the
Frisco fair, and had the hie opening
of the Seventh Co. armory, which you
attended.
This country is very cold nnd wel
practically all the time. There is a
Krcnt deal of sickness, such lis colds
and Ki-ip, and a wood many of our men
have, been in the hospital, though we
have not lost any. Fuel in France i
very scarce, mid we do not have
fires in the buildings, as we did in
the states. We now appreciate (he
omfirrluble barracks our country
provides for us back (here.
Mod Cross Work
I believe you will he interested in
hearing something about the Red
Cross work over here, owing to your
efforts in its behalf hack there. First,
f want to state that before leaving
Fort Stevens every nian in the regi
incut was furnished with u sweater
(if he did not already have one.) n
helmet, wri-tlcts, muffler and two
pairs of heavy wool socksj These
were donated by the Red Cross, nb-o-lutcly
without cost, ami represented
thousands of dollars in cost, and time
almost hcyontt computation, by the
noble women of Oreyon. As stated
before, I have already been pretty
much all over the eountry of France,
having traveled several hundred
miles in different sections, and ev
ery where you go, you see the Ameri
can Jfcd Cross, with its nmhjilanccs,
hospitals, serving coffee at the de
pots to traveling troops and doincr
those things to make more comfort
able our American boys. I have
written Mrs. Vance to do evcrylhini
in her power, wilh both work and
money, lor the interest oi .the lied
Cross and Y. M, C. A which is do
ing just as much in its way ns the
lied Cross.
Y. M. V. A.' Fine Activity
Kvery American camp in France
of any size has its Y. M. C. A., fur
nishing a place of amusement and re
creation for oar boys. And only one
who has been over here can know how
essential this work is, where troops
are stationed. Keep up your efforts
for both the Med Cross mid Y. M.
C A., und in doing so feel nssured
you an? doing as great a work nnd,
performing as patriotic n service as
of American dew-tors and American
nurses, und you all may be assured
that our soldiers are getting as good
treatment as they would at home.
You perhaps do' not know that such
noted men as the ayos, and other
equally eminent specialists are over
here lo sent their eountryf They
are of course near the front where
their services rre most needed.
Well, this bar- developed into rath
er a lengthy letter. J hoe every
thing is well with you and yours. Give
my kind regards lo nil The good
friends in Med lord.
UOSlOBCnG, Juno C Assistant
State Highway Engineer J. C. Mc-
Cloud arrived hero from Portland
after an inspection of the Improve
ment work being done on the Pacific
Highway thru Pass Creek canyon.
The grcator part of the grading on
sections of the road thru Pass Creek
canyon Is Hearing completion, and
MeCloud says that no further trouble
from that section of the highway will
be feared the remainder of this sea
son. He will remain in this section
I of the state for the rest of the season
those of us who enlisted to go into
the firing line. It is indeed strange
that there can be any one who op
poses such work, if not contributing
to it.
Hospital facilities seem to be ade
ptate everywhere. Thousands of
American doctors have enlisted in
the military serviee ami are over here
undergoing hardships, and given up
their business to do their part in the
great war. I have learned to have a
very high regard for the medical men
who have eome over with our army
from America. We have in our regi
ment several of the most faithful and
onseientious medical men you will
meet in any community. In this city,
(here is a very fine hospital in eharirei
and Inspect the work being done from
' here south.
At Millard there are two bridges
under construction over the South
Cmpqua river and the work of grad
ing on the west side of the river Is
being rushed as fast as possible. This
new section of the highway will-eliminate
the dreaded Roberts mountain,
where several accidents have hap
pened. The new road will have al
most a water grade from this city to
Kiddle, a distance of 30 miles, and
will probably be opened for travel
late this fall. There are hundreds of
tourists passing thru this section now
and all report the roads good and
have encountered comparatively little,
if any, trouble thru southern Oregon.!
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5c, 10c. 25c Sale
We Are Firing the Shot that
WILL DO THE BUSINESS
Hundreds of Articles Worth
Up to a Dollar Going at
5c 10c or 50c
Saturday, June 8
Is The Big Day
One Overland Roadster Good
Condition, New Tires, Cheap
Will H. Wilson
"Cheapest Store in the West"
LOST-Bunch of Keys, Reward-Will H. Wilson
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Tor inoro (han 20 ypara, Haarlem
Oil, tlio famoiiH natlnnul rnmcriy or
llolliind, lias liven rtTOKiilzctl as an
In f a 1 1 1 llo roller from all rrms nf kltl
ny nml MinMor (IIbiikIitm. Iih vory
ii ko Ih i . re ) r Ihnl It iniiKt havn iiiiiih
ii a 1 mrrtt.
If you arn IniiiMfil with painn nr
achnH In llii' liarlt, ri'i'l tlrnl In tho
niornliiK. Iinailai'lii', IiiiMki'hIIoii, In
Knnniht, painful nr Inn frt'iinrnt pa
.saKn nf urine, Irrltalinn nr stono in
tlio Maililrr, ynu will iilinost cnrlalnly
flinl ipilik ri'licf in (iOI.U .MKPAI.
Ilaarli'm Oil CapKiili'ii. TIiIk la I lie
rihmI old ri'iiicily I hat has stood the
tent Tor hundroils nf years, prepared
In tho proper iiuanllty nnd convenient
form lo tal.e. It Is Imported direct
from Holland laboratories, and you
can K't It at any ilniK Btore. Your
money promptly refunded If It does
not rellevd'yon. Hut lie sure lo ot
Ihe Kcnulue COM) MKDAI, lirnnd.
In boxes, three sizes. Adv.
Ladies' Wrist
Watches
mm
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Gent's Service and
Outing Watches
Wo nro show Ins iho utv and
nrwi'st thln in WHtihrs.
MARTIN J. REDOY
l ur Wnichtv. ttt yniillty.
Visilom AU Wrhnmc
Mul Ua Your Winn
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Notice to
re one
57 BUSY
STORES
The Reason We
SELL for LESS
THIS STORE will continue to open at 7:00 o'clock a. m.,
from Monday to Saturday; close at 6:00 o'clock p. m. from
Monday to Friday; close Saturday at 9:30 o'clock p. m.
We do this, not to be contrary with our competitors, or other
business factors of Medford, as they have a perfect right to close
their places of business when they feel it their duty. We do this
because we feel it our duty to our country, to Medrord and to
our customers, especially the farmers and laborers, whose hours
are so essential and necessary at this time. Saturday night is
about the only, chance many of them have to do their trading
without losing time from their work. Why should we close
and force this trade to other towns or to mail order houses, or
cause them to lose time?
The early closing hour is not a national move, neither have we been asked by
our government to do so, but if we felt it a duty to our government, we are will
ing to close at any hour in the day or day in the week that our president might
sec fit. CJSure it will force our clerks to work one hour longer than clerks
working in stores that close at 5:00 o'clock. Knowing this, our clerks voted to
continue at our regular time. We hereby notify our clerks and the public, for
this hour's work, they will get an extra hour's pay in War Savings Stamps which
we consider more patriotic move than an extra hour for pleasure for which
many may use it.
"WITH MEDFORD TRADE IS MEDFORD MADE"
Golden Rule Store
THE STORE FOR QUALITY, PRICES, SERVICE
57 BUSY
ST0RF.S
The Reason We
SFI-l for LESS
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