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MOTORISTS
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.
To the 'iuehs of the
Twelfth Federal ttrst-rw District:
The Fifth "Vi'tury" Liberty
Loan is in siuht. Let us thank ; oi i
that it is not just the Fifth Loan.
Victory i-tt-ans the end of the war,
the end i,:' hi.ins. the davn of peace
DeWitt Motor Car Co.,
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Distributors for Firestone Tires, Tubes & Accessories
TELEPHONE 1111
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TO!
JAMES K. LYNCH
Governor, 12th Federal Reserve District
and prosperity. It meaus that tht
market price of government bonds
will soon stabilize at par or better.
It also means that omiiiercial, agri
culttiral, uinl industrial affairs will
stabilize, and that the llun-itispired
tliimor will etas-.
We wire advised that the war
would last throuili lifli). probably
through l'.2o. so we were prepared
for that; to have done less would
have been suicide. We prepared to
crush the lluu on his own ground,
ami he prudently unit. It cost us
some money but it saved the lives of
half a million of our men. Was
money ever better spent T
Now we have bills to pay, prom
ises to make goodowr ineu to bring
home. This will take from five to
six billion dollars. Let us get ready
and raise it. A big task, but the
last, and therefore easy. All to
gether, shoulder to shoulder, and
the loan goes over !
The "Ninety-rirst" is the PyoinV
Coast Division: remember their
achievement, and honor ourselves
by living up to it.
Iauks K. Lynch.
Governor. Federal Reserve Rank of
San Francisco; Chairman, Lib
erty Loan (icneral Kxecutive
Hoard, Twelfth Federal Hrserve
District.
START HIM RIGHT
Lei Us Take Care of your
Ballery over the Winter
BRING your battery to us for winter
storage. It will ct you but little and
it may save you a lot. Every motorist means
to take eare of his battery when be leaves
it in the ear but few remember to ami
fewer still have the knack of it. Avoid
trouble and future expense by taking ad
vantage of our
Winl or Storage Plan
Our Jusiness is to sell new batteries to those
mIio need them, ami when you do, we would like
to sell you h Could because it's the best e
know of. But our business also is to build gootl
ii ill so ve recommend a repair job whenever
practical or anything else that will help you get
the most out of your present battery. Putting
jour battery in Winter Storage may lose us a
sale of a new buttery next spring, but it will
gain ns your pood-will.
Square-Deal It eiin'r Service
for any make of liattvry.
Dakin Electric Works
115 Third Street
PHONE 2712 HOOD RIVER, OREGON
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MONTHLY WAR STAMP QUOTAS
FIXED FOR TWELFTH DISTRICT
The Treasury Department has assigned to the Twelfth Federal
Reserve District the following monthly quotas to be raised in War
Savings Stamps during LH'.t:
January $ 4,200.000
February 4.800.000
March f.400,000
April ti,000,000
May ti.600.000
June 7.200,000
Julv : 7,800.000
August 8.400,000
September 0.600,000
October 10.800,000
November 12,000,000
December 13,200,000
Total $90,000,000
The total to he raised throughout the country is $1,600,000,000.
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I Letters From and About Soldiers '
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Letters received in the past few j
days by Hood River parents from:
overseas soldiers, just returned to '
eastern cantonments, confirm the re- i
cent persitent repoits of the tragically j
unsanitary conditions at Brest, France, j
port of embarkation for men en route t
back to America. The G5th Regiment j
of Artillery is said to have lost, more
men, who contracted illness at lirest
during the three weeks' stay there ;
than during the hard fighting in which
they participated.
In a letter to his lather, r. u.
Olagg, Henry Blagg, former basket
iiall star of the Oregon Agricultural
College, writes that conditions a1
lirest were indescribable. Mr. Hliu g,
first sergeant of a company of tl e
First Gas Regiment, says:
"We thought that we had experi
enced hell when we were in battle, but
the days of warfare were as nothing
compared to the sodden days at the
Hrest cantonment."
Mr. Blagg says a criticism is univer
' sal among the overseas soldiers who
participated in service at the front
because of the government's action in
; recalling source of supply troops home
. immediately after the armistice was
signed. As a result of this order the
men just back from hard service were
! called on to build barracks and engage
j in other strenuous work of making the
: port of embarkation habitable.
"We were camped near a big hospi
,tal," continues Mr. Blagg's letter,
I "and we saw men being carried there
! in large numbers. Many of them
: were carried out dead. Our unit had
( to work all dav in slush and mud and
' then sleep, or try to sleep, at night on
! a board with scant covering. We
j pledged ourselves to give publicity to
i the regrettable conditions, in order
that those who followed after us would
be better cared for."
Roselle Crone, a foster son of Mr.
Blagg and a member of the 65th Regi
, ment, recently landed at Philadelphia,
recited similar experiences to that of
the former 0. A. C. student.
Wilbur Haynes, formerly employed
in garage work, with the 27th Aero
Squadron, in time to participate in the
first fighting at Kpiez. In a letter to
his mother, Mrs. A. M. Foley, he gives
un mterestingrecital of his experi
ences, t ,
"Our squadron is now at a camp by
the name of Rembercourt," he writes.
"It's between Bar le Due and Verdun,
on the main road. We have been here
or nearly three months, having reached
this point in the last big drive.
"It took us only seven days to cross
the Atlantic from New York. We had
some submarine scares but they didn't
touch us. We landed at Liverpool and
crossed England to Winchester, travel
ing tlu nee to Ramsey and South Hamp
ton, where we took the boat for La
Havre, France. From this point we
went to Tours."
ine zun squadron participated in
.he Chateau Thierry fight.
Sergeant Walter Ford, who has been
Rationed at Fort Canby and at fortifi
cations near Westport, Wash., in a let
ter to his mother, Mrs. Isaac Ford,
writes :
"I expect to be home Wednesday.
Have plenty of chicken."
Sergeant Ford, one of the charter
members of 12th Co., has been in
marge of the construction of new for
titications at Westport.
Sgt. Ernest Ford, another son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ford, is in France a member
.)f the 54th Atillery. Formerly the
young men were drill sergeants of rival
companies at Fort Canby.
Sgt. Ford, however, arrived home
before the chickens could be prepared.
He reached home Monday morning.
The sergeant has resumed his old place
at the store of 1'erigo & Son.
Sergeant W. D. Chandler, now en
route home from France with the 6iKh
Artillery Regiment, in a letter to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chandler,
tells of an interesting experience while
away on a leave. He visited a number
of cities. Mr. Chandler, who is known
throughout Oregon as a rising virtuoso,
after his genius was learned by the
French, was invited to play at several
concerts while he was enjoying his
"permission."
"These events were worth all the
tough luck we have had since we have
been over here," he writes. "I cer
tainly enjoyed getting among those
artists. At one concert a singer and
the pianist were from the School of
Music in Paris. "
Sergeant Chandler sys Oregon will
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look 'good Ito him"Tafter his" visits to
other parts of the United States and
his journey "abroad.
Although recent press reports have
been to the effect that the !i22nd Infan
try Regiment, units of which are in
Belgium, on the Rhine and in Italy, as
soon as all men were assembled at a
port of embarkation, would sail for
home, Herbert S. Field, member of the
regiment, writes to his old business
partner, Hal Keshit, that he has just
received new uniform and equipment,
including helmets and a new kind of
gas mask. According to the letter the
receipt of the equipment has lead to
various speculations, some of the. sol
diers surmising that they will be sent
to Russia.
Pr. J. H. McVay has received a let
ter from military authorities at Fort
Bliss, Tex., who announced that a dis
charge from the army would soon be
granted Walter B.. Davidson. lr. Mc
Vay had petitioned Mr. Davidson's re
lease at the instance of the young
man's father, Jesse Davidson, who is
in failing health. - -
After having been sent to Fort Mac
Dowell, Calif., Mr. Davidson was as
signed to a pack train because of his
experience in packing over the Cas
cades. The young man had the repu
tation Jamong forest" rangers1 and
sportsmen of being, the most skilled
packer Jn the district.
Mrs. F. M. Peugh has received a
letter from her brother, Koy Thomas,
who wan overseas with a casualty com
pany detachment, who announces that
he is recovering at a hospital at Camp
Dodge, la., from blood poisoning in
one of his hands. The infection started
from a scratch sustained in an engage
ment in the Argonne forest. Mr.
Thomas was very ill in a hospital in
France. Since his arrival at Camp
Dodge, one of his fingers has been
amputated, and he says he expects
soon to be sent to Camp Lewis for his
discharge.
Mrs. E. J. Slutz has received a let
ter from her son, Delbert Slutz, mem
ber of Battery E, G5th Artillery, C. A.
C, who announces that another son,
Samuel, who was with the organiza
tion was ill when the H.rth sailed and
was left in a hospital in France. Mrs.
Slutz thinks it likely that the other
son will arrive with the C'Jth Artillery
Regiment, due to reach Newport
News, Va., Sunday.
Mrs. Slutz has just received from
her son three handsome silver napkin
rings bearing artillery emlembs.
Col.
of m:
A. Samuels, city street commission
er, has receiveu woia irom ms son,
Ernest Samuels, with a regiment
marines, telling ot interesting ex
periences in r ranee. Cpl. Samuels
expressed regret at arriving too late
for active service. Cpl. Roy Samuels,
another marine son, is stationed at
Quantico, Va.
Sgt. Walter W. Shay has just re
turned home from San Antonio, Tex.,
where he was mustered out. Sergeant
Shay made a rapid advancement after
his transfer, and at the time of his
discharge was engaged in inspection
work at Kelly Field, the big Texas
aviation field. His family, who had
been in San Antonio for the past sev
eral weeks, accompanied Sergeant
Shay home.
Sergeant Fred Cnshow, who was
with a regiment of artillery at a Vir
ginia port of embarkation ready to sail
when the armistice was signed, is now
stationed at the popular toggery shop
of J. 0. Vogt. Sergeant Coshow, one
of the city's most popular young men,
announces that he is ready to greet all
friends at the Vogt store.
Seven Hood River men are members
of one of the batteries of the 09th
Regiment, C. A. C, scheduled to ar
rive aboard the transport Mercury at
Newport News, Va., Sunday. They
ara : Sergeants Flovd L. French,
W. D. Chandler, W. M. Bailey, JHugh
W. Copple and Harold H. Sexton, Cor
poral Leon M. Bentley and Eugene
Lattisaw. All of them were formerly
members of 12th Co.
Herbert L. Hasbrouck, Jr.
his parents from Norfolk, Va.
tomorrow for Cuban waters,
on a three months' cruise.
rough trip coming over on the U. S. S.
Westland. This dreailnaught makes
21 miles an hour and runs smoothly."
writes
"Sail
Will be
Had a
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"Hello, Jones"
"Bought a new car, eh? She's a beauty."
"No, Bill, this is the same old girl. I've
given her a new dress. My first job of paint
ing, but results aren't bad."
"Say that's what I call war economy.
You've a new car and saved $1000.
Murphy Da-cote
Motor Car Enamels
Do as Jones did. Drop in and we'll tell
you how it's easy.
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sellinj? real estate and will be in touch with
buyers for Hood River property. Parties
wishing to sell, list their property with
J. E. COLVIN. Phone 5754
VALLEY TRADING CO.
Third (EL State Streets
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