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HOUD K IV Kit ULAriKU. liti;KSlAi. JANUARY 0. VMU Let Us Take Care of your Battery over the Winter , BRING your battery to us for winter frtorajf. It will crt u hut little ami it uiav av; you a lot. Kvrry niotori-t mean to take rate of his battery wlien h- I. afi il in the t ar Lut few reinenilK r to uu) fewer .-till have the Lnatk of it. Aoi-i trouble and future expense by takiug ad vantage of our Winter Storage Plan Our lu.ints is to sell n-w batteries t- those ho neeil tlieiti, ami when you do. we wouM lile to you a oiilil lwratisp it's ihf lt e know of. But our businrss also is to build ftunh vill do we mouimend a rair jolt wlwnewr practical or uuvthiu that will h'lp yu pet the most out of your present battery. Tutting your Lattery in Vinter Storage may lost' us a sale of a new Lattery next Bjrin. Lut it will gain us your goodwill. Stfti lire-Deal Itfpair Servir for ny make f Battery. win "ptOteTires Plus Our Service Most Miles per Dollar for You : FOUST MERLE HoodRiver, Oregon hoe hoc GET IN WITH The Bowling Alley at PAT'S is now one of the most popular spots in Hood River. Hive you seen that Trophy to be offered ihe winner at divk'pins ? Look and come idonj?. oc "I r hoc We Arc The Family Cellar the Central Pantry SO TO SPEAK TO WHICH A LARGF. NUMBER OF FAMILIES TURN AT MEAL TIMES FOR THEIR EA FABLES. DO LIKEWISE TRY THESE THEY ALL PLEASE Swansdown Cake and Pastry Flour Eastern Buckwheat White Rock Syrup VINCENT Anderson Undertaking Co.;; . AiNUtKSUN, Sole Proprietor Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director 15 OAK STREET. PHONE Dakin Electric Works 115 Third Street PHONE 2712 HOOD RIVER. OREGON ATOTORISTS 1V1 everywhere are familiar with the big results that car owners get from Fire stone Tires. Motorists of this community should also be familiar with our service and the way it adds to the comfort and conven ience of car owners. Use Firestone and us. DC 30C THE BOYS PLACE D C hoe & SHANK 1394 -t-t- I I 1-1 Letters From and About Soldiers : i-t-i-i-t- ' ! The follow ir.g interesting letter tel lire of a ' leave" ar.d hi troubles while spending it. was recently re ceived from John Copper, member of the ISth regiment of Er.ginetr in ! France : ! "At Limroges 1 had about 15 hours ! lay over t catch a rapid lk over tlie , city. It reminded me a great deal of Seatt'e, being built more or let-s on 1 edge. Looks like it might te ia the . tiroes.- of beiig remodeled as many bu.ldir.gs had new fronts on tbtin, ....I......... . . . ... w, .,u,Ma Tiiul ! oa ... . ( Lv.itiw'd hi... in r-ir.i lin mnuf)i.-irin1r citw Matt- the : j w ar and I saw many pretty neat little I 'pieces i would have liked had 1 the I i niuney ' ; At thi? clare I saw mv firet sample ! ' of the Red Cross work. I've often i . . ..it., i i ; 1 1 : i : k m heard of it. but never been north of ''f"eu, oy w ay oi anaa:an heie before. They had a kitchen and f'."119 for Atlantic ort of embark : cafeteria at the station, orated by !.10"' niuc" th disappointment of ! American women and serving about ; ? 1 th m!n. Uany to which Mr. the same meal as our camp meat, but ! of course it tasted tetter because it 1 was prepared by someone else. It cost just 30 cents per meal and was much better than 1 could touch for fl any . place else. Inasmuch as my trian left i at 1 :30 a. m. I could not go to a hotel, j ! but was very tired bo a lady showed i me a hall where they had about 50 beds for just such occasions. 1 slept t well and was called 30 minutes before' my train. I can t say uk mucn lor the Red Cross. After leaving Limoges I went on north and east and when 1 woke the next morning 1 was up on the high plateau in Central France. I thought of making a side trip up to-Vichy, but left that for my return trip. About 10 a. m. 1 got on the Bouthbour.d I'aris Lyon express and traveled almost as we do in America, arriving in Lyon at 4 p. m., 48 hours after I left camp amU only about 400 miles away. 1 was indeed surprised at the city. 1 think it has close to one million popu lation but it was quite different in trany respects from Bordeaux. The street cars I found made a station loop so whenever 1 got strayed I just mounted a car and soon found myself. I was free after I lett the depot and was just about as unnecessary as a person could feel. There were very few Americans there, which made me feel still farther from home. During my stay I put in one after noon in the Public Xiarden, a most beautiful place. There 1 found more roses and greater variety than I've seen in any park at home. There wbf very little natural beauty to the place even the river and lake bank beiiifj walled up, but as a man made place 1 never bad seen its equal. An amusing incident of the trip was a dinner I got while there. When 1 got on the train at Limoges 1 got into a compartment where there wus a little girl perhaps 15 or 16. I assisted her in changing trains three times I talked with her most of the time, lut neither asked her name n( r gave her mine. When we left the train 1 carried her package to the door then went the American M. P. office. Several days after 1 was sitting on a bench on one of the Qiany little monu ment places along the main street when 1 looked up and saw her with her mother in a buggy. The mother called me and said the little girl had been telling her about the genteel American she had seen on the train and insisted that if 1 had time to come out to din ner. I foutid a very nice home and the little distraction was just what 1 needed after being tired from wander ing the streets. 1 found near Lyon a most beautiful country, something like the Yakima valley, flat but. with foothlils and mountains all around. ;The houses weie somewhat scattering, about like America, not-grouped in villages to such an extent as they are here. Aleo they were built of a red rock, while everything here is white limestone. I went out on a branch line to look up a daughter of a friend I have here and while waiting for her to come home I dropped in next door. There was an old lady there about 65 who had lost her husband before the war and her son is now at the front. 1 watched her with her knitting needles and after about ten minutes thought a piece of her work would be a nit. thing to buy. I found out she did not own the yarn, but was making shawl for a store in the city for fi cent:, each, making two each day in her spare time. She asked innumerable questions about our country, shcwiiii; she, like most everyone, knew the Americas was west of here, but not much else. Among her questions wai one about our cattle. Hhe asked if we had real cattle, stating that she bail heard we ate the meat of red cattle. She said her husband had a red cow several years ago, but the butcher would not buy it. They had to kill it and send the meat to Paris. I never saw anything but white cows in that country. When I ran out of money at Lyon 1 came back to where Walter is and spent three days there making wint with friends I met before I moved. This wine making is something like our fruit harvest, of course it is done largely by women at. this time. The old ox cart goes out in the field with two barrels that hold about 300 gallons each. The women cut the grapes and dump them into a small tub, two men carry the tub to the wagon. Of course grapes pile up rapidly bo soon one of the men takes off his wooden shoes and gets in with his feet. Small chunks of mud go in too, I suppose it lends color. Alter making an attempt for more than a year Julius Le Francq, son of Leon Le Francq, local truck gardener and native of Belgium, fuially suc ceeded in getting in the Navy. When he first applied for enlistment the ' young man, not yet 20, was turned I down because of hernia. He under- , went an operation at a Portland hos pital, and by the time he recovered draft rules prevented enlintment j After playing a waiting game, he was j finally admitted to the United States j Merchant Marine. In a Christmas i Letter home he tells his parents of . taking Christmas dinner at Vancouver, ' B. C, where the ship to which he was ; assigned was taking on a cargo of coal j for the Philippines. Sergeant Melvin Le Francq, an elder brother of the young sailor, when the ! armistice was signed, was assigned as ! an instructor in a F'rench training scamp. He enlisted with a Washington National Guard organization before I war was declared. He expects to visit i relatives in northern France and Bel ! gium before returning home. In confirmation of her belief, at the time she recieved an orfieial telegram I recently, announcing that her sen, j William H. Parker, had been missing n action since November 4, that her son was still Bate, Mrs. Ida Parker last week received a letter, written by her son on December 5. On the day before the arrival of the official tele gram, Mrs. Parker has received an j undated letter from her son, but at the 1 bottom of hit message had been ap- i pen led the following hurried scrawl: " This is the eleventh; we'll sjon te home." In the letter ieceijed yesterday the vour.g s Idler, memter of the 303th ir.fantary regiment, wrote that his Cumpanv had btea rraking many hur ried movements lately. "We marched 20 miies tudav," he wrote. i Ki'er W. Mie. ca'.leil to Camp lis last spring w ith a draft quota of Wasco county, has been mu?tered cut of the' service. He returned home Sunday. ; Mr. Moe, who made repeated efforts to! get into voliir.teer service in 1917 but ! w h-se enl.surent was denied because ' vf slight r-i.ical defeats, was mb lisner ot the Mossier bulletin, publica tion ot which was vl n'n suspended w Ben Be 'n ,n.t0 stryice. Shortly after his arr.val at tamp 'WIS the young editor was assigned a company of a regiment of the 91st ision. On the day before the regi- nB" assigneu was new unuer 1uararitine tecaute of an outbreak of Bcar,et 'ver. "Now that it is all over, it was a great experience." writes Si?t. Harold Hershner in a Christmas letter to bis father. Rev. J. L. Hershner. "But there were times," continues Sgt. Hershner, member of the 364th Field Hospital with the 91st Division, w hen I was very blue and discour aged. Many a night I slept on the wet ground, pitching my tent in the rain, after a hard day's hike. But, it is over now. We already enjoy talking of our experiences, but all agree that at some time or other we had a good scare. There were a good many times that 1 had a thrill, to put it in the words of the boys, 'had the fear of God in me.' But nothing happened. "We all like Belgium and the Bel gians very much. One noticeable thing about them, they seem to have tine teeth. Ghent is the Pest city 1 have seen since coming over here. "Now the big question with all of us is, when do we go home?" Sgt. Herfdiner. a Past Worthy Patron J of the order, while stationed at Camp I Lewis, . was presented by the Hood River Chapter of the Eastern Star with a kit containing knitted garments ' and toilet articles. He writes that ail were lost, except a sweater ne wore, in the Argonne forest. Sgt. Hershner'9 letter was written from Anderanaade, Belgium. In chronological order he sets down the movement of the 91st Division from the time it left St. Nazaire August 24 until news of the armistice was heard at weareghem. the nay atter peace came the field hospital was moved to Andernaade, where a hospital was set up for ill and wounded. According to the letter the 91st Division was held in reserve for the St. Mihiel drive. "On the evening of September 13," gt. Hershner tells his father, I re ceived your cablegram carrying birth day felicitations. It was wonderful to get it." N In his letter Sgt. Hershner notes how time was computed from the first to the 24lh hour, instead of turning back again to one when li is reached "We had our first experience under fire fnim big guns at BraDant," writes Sgt. Hershner, "but were so inexper ienced that we were not frightened. On October 2 we reached Very, where we had some real thrills --air raids, bombs and lots of II. E. shells. We left there October 6 and we were ready to go." Sgt. Hershner enclosed in his letter photographs of a famous cathedral in Andernaade. The walls, roof and tower of the wonderful building formed a target for German shells and were olten pierced. The hospital operated by :gt. Hershner s company was lo cated within three blocks of the cathedral. sgt. Hershner says he is now eager to go back home and reRume his work. This spirit prevails in the ranks of the overseas soldiers, he says "On two occasions," writes Sgt. Mrby Ross, former member of Co. 11 of the Third Oregon, who is a veteran of overseas service with the 102nd Regiment of the 41st Division, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Ross, now Portland residents, "I said a little prayer and told you folks good bye. The letters of Sgt. Roes are filled with interesting chronological data of the Third Oregon. Thev arrived De cember 29, 1917, at St. Nazaire. For three months the Oreogn troops were engaged in training and military police duty, and then were sent to Centres for intensive training. June 1 Sgt. Koss and six comrades were sent to me iront line trenches tor advance observations. His company went over the top July 1 in the Chateau Thierry sector. It was here that Sgt. Ross saw his comrade, Sgt. Fred Merritt, Jr., of Portland, killed. In a letter he states that he returned to his fallen comrade, after the company reached its objective, and found that Sgt. Mer ritt had been killed instantly. "He was resting," he writes, "as though he slept. Since I have visited the grave and placed a wreath of (lowers on it." Of the original seven men of the company sent into the trenches for advance observations, Sgt. Ross alone remains without a scratch. All of the other Rix were killed or wounded. Sgt. Ross saw his comrade, Sgt. Wheaton, another Portland boy, fall in action. He had supposed he had been killed until he recently received a letter from him, written from a hospi tal, where he was convalescing from dangerous wounds. On July 15 Sgt. Ross was cited for the Distinguished Service Cross. This honor was gained by heoric work in burying dead. Jiriy 5, answering a call for volunteers, Sgt. Ross and eight other men left their trenches, and while under fire cleared a space in front of them of bodies that had lain there since June 6. The mass of putrid human flesh was piled in the cover of a forest. The next night Sgt. Ross and his comrades buried the dead men. He declares that the horror of those two nights will linger with him forever. For three days, during the Chateau Thierry drive,, Sgt. Ross writes, he and his comrades lived on water and hardtack. Shortly before 'the armistice Sgt. Ross was detailed to attend an officers' training Bchool. "Hell, Heaven or Hoboken by New Years," has been a kind of slogan of the American expeditionary forces, writes Pvt. Fred A. Thomsen, of Bat tery E. 6'ith Artillery, to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. thomsen. "And we have come near realizing it," says the artillery man. "That is, the Hoboken part of it. We expect to get home in the early part of the New Year. 1 am just looking foward to the time when I can get on a real train instead of a box car and in my posses sion a ticket to dear old Hood River." Mr. and Mrs. Thomsen have iust had a letter from another ion, Carl A, "Oregold Butter" L-ij VlAIE in Hood River by the Hood River Creamery to. is ntooil tn h mnlp fmm nnrp riih msteurized Cream E i r W this Batter is made at any and all times. Butter and you will help those that help you "Oregold" Butter is on Sale at all Grocers and Markets, let your next Butter be Thomsen, member of the 117th Engin- 1 eers. with the armv of occupation in Germany. The troops were moving bo fast that part of the letter was writ ten in Belgium and a.part from Lux emburg. "Hundreds of flags of the Allied na tions are seen flying from the towns of Belgium and France," writes the en gineer, "and one of the peculiar things abont the United States Flags ia that most all of them show the old original 13 stars only." The first returned Hood River vet eran of overseas fighting, Cpl. Lee Spaulding, of the marines, who wears on his breast a diatinguished service cros.t and who walks with the aid of a cane, arrived last week. Cpl. Spauld ing was with the marines at Chateau Thierry, where the great German of fensive was turned back toward the Rhine. His company was in the thick of the fearful fighting that broke the German advar.ee. With his knea shattered by a bullet the young man had been ordered by a superior officer to proreed to the rear. On his way he saw his squad being overwhelmed and forgetting the pain of the wound and his own danger, he rushed back. His encouragement re newed the determination of his com rades, and the marines pushed on. Cpl. Spaulding ia the son of Rev. Frank Spaulding. The young man has three brothers in service, Earl M. Spaulding, with the ISth Engineers ; Obn B. Spaulding, with an overseas aero squadron, and Frank Spaulding, of the navy. , In a letter to his mother Mrs. R. L. Thomas, of this city, Roy Thomas, of the 91st Division, tells of slight wounds sustained in Belgium. Infec tion set in, and its was necessary to send him to a hospital. "I have been in two Belgium hos pitals," he writes, "but expect soon to be sent to England. "Fame is rer-tainly a queer plne, and one rarely sees a civilian man here. We have been chasing the Huns over the hill pretty faHt. One day our regiment captured 600 and they seemed tickled to death at the privilege." Mrs. Thomas has also just received a letter from another son, Lieut. L. M. Thomas, aslo recuperating at a base hospital from wounds received while serving with the 91st Division. He declares that the greeting of the Bel gian people for the United States sol dier is very impressive. Mrs. W. N. Wildin, of this city, has just received a letter from her son, Howard Wildin, former Hood River High School student, who announces his promotion to first class yeoman in the navy at San Diego, where he is stationed. The young man enlisted as apprentice seaman on April 2J1, 1917. In his letter the 'young man writes : "Sailors are not allowed to go to church, movies, pool halls or any other places of amusement because of in flu er.za. We have to wear masks and have our noses and throats sprayed when we go out from the base or re turn. I went down to the Sailors Club on Christmas day and enjoyed a supper served by the lad:es. the meal was followed by singing and other amuse ments." C. W. McCullagh has just received a letter from his brother, R. H. McCuI lagh, prominent miller and cattleman of South Dakota, who has been with the 91st Division in F'rance and Bel gium as a Y. M. C. A. secretary. Mr. McCullagh pays the highest compli ment to the men of the Northwest. He declares that none of the soldiers of the Allies are better fighters. "Those husky men from the Pacifif coast and Northwest," the letter states, "have any of the others over here beaten when it comes to going af ter the hun roughshod." Mr. McCullagh wrote that he was in Brussels when the king and queen of Belgium made their triumphal return. He declaies it one of the most impres sive events he has ever witnessed. When peace came Tom Cameron, former local automobile mechanician, who enlisted in 1917 with the Aviation Corps, was at Issoudum, France, the location of a large training ground for air pilots. In a letter home he tells of his experiences at English and rrench training camps. He says that all of his unit are kept busy with the work just as before hostilities ceased. "But this," he adds, "is more to keep us out of mischief than of any thing else." Henry Haas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Haas, having been mustered out of the service, has returned home. Mr. Haas, who was with the sanitary train of a Coast Artillery Regiment assembled ta Fort Worden, Wash., was at an eastern port of embarkation, when the armistice was signed. Later he returned to Camp Grant, III., where his unit was kept busy fighting the in fluenza epidemic. Mr. and Mrs. J, J. Gibbons have received word from two sons, Charles produced by the Hood River Valley Farmers. The public is at liberty to visit and inspect the plant in which Make Hood River Valley "OREGOLD" Gibbons, with the Canadian forces, and Albert, member of the First Regi ment of Engineers of the American expeditionary forces, that both are recovering from wounds. Chas. Gibbons is at a British base hospital convalescing from shell wounds and gas poisoning. Albert Gibbons, the first Hood River soldier to suffer severe wounds, has been discharged from an American hospital. Reconstruction was a simple matter for Sergeant John Carson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Carson, of this city, who, following his demobilization at Fort Warden, Wash., where he was gas instructor with a unit of coast artillery, returned to Portland immedi ately resuming work with a shipyard concern. The young man, only 17 years old, was one of th; youngest ser geants in the army. C. S. Field, West Side orchardit, has received a letter from his son, Herbert S. Fiekj, who left an automo bile busines here when ne entered the service, announcing that he is fafc in France. Mr. Field, whose first train ing was at Camp Lew is, was trans ferred to a California cantonment and went over seas with the Sunset Division. LADIES! LADIES! We have just received a new lot of Country Club Toilet Preparations Come in cVlet us show them to you - " --C .VrM Chas. N. Clarke YOUR Druuglst Get a Bean Power Sprayer to insure a crop and Place an Order earlv to insure delivery Supplies jor manufacturers have been reduced 25 per cent, which will mean a reduced output. See d. Mcdonald AGENT HOOD RIVER, OREGON Buy "Oregold Famous I Corporal Bert Head, after a fur ! lough with his mother, Mrs. Melinda I Head, has returned to Camp Lewis, j Corporal Head is now a member of the ! 7o7 Motor Truck Corps. He expects to remain at the big cantonment for some , time, as his duties now consist of i transporting the mail from Tacoma to camp postomces. Mrs. R. L. Thomas is expecting her son, Roy Thomas, of the 91st Division, home soon. She has received a letter announcing his arrival in New York. The young man is suffering from in fection to a wound sustained in the Argonne drive. Lieut. L. M. Thomas, ar other son, writes that he is stationed at Dunkirk, Belgium. E. S. Olinger has received word from his son, W infield Olinger, mem ber of an aviation squadron, that he is still stationed at a Florida llyii g tit Id Mr. Olinger was sent to the Florida field following special training at Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Skinner have an interesting letter from their son, Horace Skinner, of the Gas and Flame unit, who tells of an interesting leave spent at points along the Mediteiran ean. No Need for the New Tire to replace the old one because it has been badly punctured, cut or torn. Bring it here where by our vulcaniz ing process we repair the damage so the tire will beasV"d as ever, per-bap- better in the places where we ('o the repairing. Don't use a new tire until you have to. Tiies tost too much money these days to be used lightly. THE TIRE SHOP