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JJaUery over the Winter
BRING your battery to us for winter
Morage. It will cost you but little and
it may save you a lot. Every motorist means
to take rare of his battery when he 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
Winter Storage Plan
Our biiMiiess i to sell new batteries to tlmse
wlio need them, and when you do, we would like
to w'll joii a (loiild beraune- it 'it tl ic best we
know of. Bui our btii-ineM also is to build gondii-ill
m we reeoiuniend a repair job ulienever
praetii al or uuytbing else that will help jou gvl
the most out of your present battery. Putting
jour battery in Winter Storage may lose us a
sale of a new battery next spring, but it will
gain us your pood-will.
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for any make of Battery.
Re Batson, former Upfr Valley
orchardist. was one of the few civilian
American who witnessed the grand
fete at Strasbourg, when it was vis
ltel early in Dot-ember by French,
Lrvlirh and American military leaders
and a hor-t of civil authorities. Mr.
Babson relates his interesting e.tri-en-es
in a letter to his isttr-in-law,
Mrs. Sidr.ey G. Babson, of t'arkdale.
'Special trains from Paris brought
all the enators and ditr.itaries. the
four presidents, the Council of the
Republic, the Chamber of Deputies,
a b.iut !.' and then there was an in
formal paraile to the Hotel de Ville
for 1'oincaire's speech. Clemencau,
I'oincaire ' and Foch w t re in the same
carriage and lVrs-riin(j and llain in
ai other. My chief had secured an ad
mission tuktt to the events and
w.-rked rile in on it s:mily lcause
trere are no Americuns here. 1 ftcoJ
a few feet behind l'oiicaire when he
made his speech to the ople from the
balcony of the Hotel de Ville. Later
all went up to the receptior. room up
stairs. It was all very informal
nothing like a presidential reception in
Washington. 1'oor Clemencau was
quite squashed, and 1 walked all over
a small general, w ho did not seem to
be able to get out of my way. (Mr.
Hanson is over fix feet tall). Foch
w;s not nearly as popular as the two
civilians and was quite alone when 1
went up to him. 1 shook hands with
I'.oncaire, Clemencau, Foch and JotFre.
I tsked Joffre if he would like to get
hi :k to Brcadway and he said, 'Uh,
Y-s!' I missel 1'etain and i'ershing
ai 1 Haig did not come up stairs.
B ike r, my chief, aod 1 were the only
A nericans. There was a tine spread
in one of the rooms and 'beaucoup de
v i " In the afternoon luck was again
w.th us" and we got in the covered
giandctand on the i'lace de Ktpublique
al ing with the generals, senators and
other big guns.
"The parade, which at first was bad
ly managed by the easy going French,
was finally started otF by the soldiers
clearing away the crowds. The mili
tary part of the procession, ended by
the tanks, came first. Then all kinds
ot societies, civil and religious, with
the marchers all dressed in uniforms
and carrying ancient banners, went by
in review. Three Alsatian girls were
escorted up to the grandstand to sit by
C emenct'MU, Foch and t'oincaire, and
hundreds of the girls danced by the
grandstand and threw Mowers up at
Ue chiefs. Everything was a mass of
ci.lor and big head dresses.
''We lu.d worked hard to get the
place in shape. We changed all the
tierman decorations, shields, signs,
pictures and everything. It was a big
job. I had the pleasure of smashing a
big bust of Frederick the Great, and 1
put my foot through a painting of the
kaiser.
"It seems strange to be going to
cafes with Alsatian soldiers who have
just returned from four years' (service
with the German army. From all ap
pearances they are intensely pro-Ally,
but of course it is impossible to tell.
But there are still plenty of Germans
here, and the Alsatians say they will
all have to get out. We are getting
stuck a little on the money, paying
one and a quarter francs for a mark,
but soon it will all be francs. Food is
quite high here, naturally, butter 15
francs, milk almost unobtainable,
no chocolate, imitation coffee, little
sugar and undesirable'little apples for
dessert.
"Strasbourg is a fine city, clean and
picturesque, and with little manufac
turing. Old Strasbourg has some very
artistic buildings. The city does not
seem to have suffered during the Ger
man occupation. ,
"It is surprising to think how much
monev the French have. In the last
loan they have taken in 28,0(10,0(10,000
francs, with none of the canvassing
we have at home. That knocks our
! daughter. Miss Isabel Sifton. recently
1 taken there by her mother for her
health, who is reported seriously ill.
Of about the same height and with a
mustache similar to that of the com
mander in chief of the overseas forces.
Dr. Sifton bears a marked resemblance
to General Pershing. Recently as he
I boarded a train here to return to duty
! in camp, a bevy of small newsboys at
, the station noted the resemblance and
actually identified the popular physi
i cian as General Pershing. Interest
ran high among the newsies until they
i were correctly informed.
Joe M. Johnsen has just returned to
America with the First Gas Kegiment.
In a letter to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Johnsen, he gives a graphic
description of conditions at Brest, port
of embarkation for American troops.
"The Battle of I rest," is how the
gas soldiers term their three weeks'
stay at the muudy cantonments. Mr.
Johnsen, a sergeant of one of the gas
companies, says the experience at
Brest will be the worst of the entire
war. He characterises it as decidedly
worse than actual battle on the front.
The young man says that soldiers, ut
terly exhausted, found it necessary to
roll up in insufficient blankets and
sleep in mud a foot deep.
The northwestern troops, members
of the First Gas regiment, will be sent
to Camp Lewis to be mustered out.
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Edwin A. George, son of II. S.
George, participated with the 138th
Field Artillery, H"th Division, in the
terrific fighting of the Meuse Argonne
battle. The prowess of tlie.men of the
;trith Division is recorded in a general
orders letter signed by (Jen. I'ershing.
Mr. George, in a letter just received
by his father, encloses a number of
relics of the battlefield. He sends
four German playing cards and other
articles left by the fleeing linns. In
his let ter he enclosed the letter of ci
tation, which follows:
"It iH with a sense of gratitude for
its splendid accomplishments, which
will live through all history, that I
recprd in general orders a tribute for
the victory of the First Army in the
Mt'iise-Argonne battle.
"Tested and strengthened by the
reduction of the St. Mihiel salient, for
more than six weeks you battered
against the pivot of the enemy line on
the western front. It was a position
of imposing natural strength, stretch
ing on both sides of the Meuse river
from the bitterly contested hills of
Verdun to the almost impenetrable
forest of the Argonne ; a position,
moreover, fortified by four years of la
bor designed to render it impregnable ;
a position held with the fullest re
sources of the enemy. That position
you broke utterly and thereby hastened
the collapse of the enemy's power.
"Soldiers of all the divisions engaged
under the First, Third and Fourth
Corps- the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th,
2Cth, 28th, 29th. 33rd, 3.r.th, 37th, 42ndr
77th, 78th, 80th, 82nd, 90th and 91st
vou will be long remembered for the
stubborn persistence of your progress,
your storming of obstinately resisting
machine gun nests, your penetration
yard by yard of woods and ravines,
your heroic resistance in the face of
counter attacks supported by powerful
artillery fire. For more than a month
from the initial attack of September
2(1, you fought your way back slowly
through the Argonne, through the
woods and over the worst of the hills
west of the Meuse; you slowly en
larged your hold on the Cote de Meuse
to the east, and then, on the firt of
I November, your attack forced the en
i emy into flight. Pressing his retreat,
! voii cleared the entire left bank of the
Meuse south of Sedan, and then
stormed the heights on the right bank
and drove him into the plain beyond.
"Your achievement, which is scarce
ly to be equaled in American history,
must remain a source of proud satis
faction to the troops who participated
in the last campaign of the war. The
American people will Iremember it as
the realization of the hitherto poten
tial strength of the American contri
bution toward the cause to which they
had sworn allegiance. There can be
no greater reward for a soldier or for
a soldier's memory."
It will probably be from three to six
months before be comes back to Amer
ica, Mark E. Moe youngest son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. I). Moe, thinks. Mr. Moe,
member of the 88th Aero Squadron
now with the army of occupation at
Treves, on the Moselle river, in a let
ter to Mis. G. II. Lynn, member of
theGlaicer staff, whites that his squad
ron participated in lighting around
, Verdun and in Belgium. Following
the armistice the men of the 88th
crossed Luxembourg to Treves.
! "The Moselle," he writes, flows be
side our air-drome and through the
1 city. The river is about 300 yard
! wide, I should judge, and the country
(hereabouts closely resembles that
around Hood Kiver. No snow capped
! peaks, however."
j Although medical journals received
by local physicians recently carried the
; note that Dr. J. M. VVaugh, recently
I advanced to a majority in the medical
reserve corps, would ue transferred
j from a base hospital in France to a
newly equipped reconstruction institu
j tion in Maryland, a letter just received
i by Mrs. Mary Vannet from her son,
! Fd Vannet, announces that Dr. Waugh
! will remain in France.
In his letter Mr. Vannet, member of
; the medical corps stationed at the hos
I pital where Dr. Waugh has charge of
j plastic surgical operations, states that
a new unit has been added to the
; overseas hospital, and that Dr. Waugh
J will be retained to supervise it.
Charles Johnson, eon of Sheriff and
Mrs. T. F. Johnson, Robert Henderson,
sun ot John l.eiana llenuerson, and
Henry Brown, who at the time of his
enlistment was a member of the post
office force, have been mustered out of
the 8th Marine Corps at Galveston,
Tex. All of the young men are ex
pected home this week.
The regiment had completed train
ing in expert marksmanship and were
awaiting embarkation for overseas
duty when the armistice was signed.
Judge Blowers has recieved a letter
from his son, Paul M. Blowers, who
served with an ammunition train of
the 91st Division, who states that he
is now being employed with a contin
gent of troops in assembling automo
hile.trucks at St. Nazaire and piloting
them through to Dijon. The men have
made a number of trips, having con
voyed hundreds of trucks from the sea
port to the interior. As soon as they
have delivered the trucks the young
men board the train, returning to St.
Nazaire for another apportionment of
the big vehicles.
Scores of Hood River valley folk
joined the girls of the canteen com
mittee Wednesday evening of last
week in greeting a troop train carry
ing wounded men of the 30th Casualty
Company and the 11th Battalion of the
20th Engineers. The canteen workers
presented the men with baskets of ap
ples. A rumor to the effect that the 65th
Artillery would pass through at the
hour the casualty and engineer troops
were due, gained much credence, and
accounted for the large crowd. Ex
pecting to see the H5th men, the chil
dren of the Frankton district, given a
half holiday, hurried tothe station.
Athough he says he never expects to
eat another Christmas dinner in
France, Sgt. Floyd L. French, of the
(19th Coast Artillery, now back in
America, says he will never forget
that served his company last Christ
mas. In a letter to Mrs. G. II. Lynn
Sgt. French writes:
"Here's what we had for Christmas
dinner, roast turkey with dressing,
mashed potatoes, brown gravy, green
peas, salad, celery, pumpkin pie, cake,
nuts, candy and oranges."
Harvey Buell, recently mustered out
of the navy at a Connecticut station,
where he had been engaged in naval
blacksmithing work, after a visit here
with his wife and the latter's father,
C. S. Wheeler, left last week for Port
land, where he will resume his trade
as a blacksmith.
Mr. Buell, who is but little over 21
years, won the name of being one of
the strongest men in the navy- Mrs.
Buell accompanied her husband to
Portland.
R. J. Gilmore has just received a
letter from his son, Robert, member
!of the 34th Regiment with the 91st
I Division, who announces his recovery
jfrom wounds sustained in September
in the Argonne forest battle. One of
I the young man's legs was shattered by
I a bullet. He writes, however, that he
has recovered sumciently to be re
turned to his company.
"We expect to be home by March,"
writes the young soldier.
Dr. J. W. Sifton, who came here to
j reside with his family on a West Side
I orchard place several years ago, ar
rived here last Thursday night, having
been mustered out of the spruce pro
! duction division where he had served
for exactly one year as first lieutenant
in the medical reserve corps. Dr.
Sifton was called immediately to
iiouthern California to b with his
Five Hood River men are members
of Co. F, 18th Railway Engineers Reg
iment, scheduled, according to official
announcement, to embark for home at
Bordeaux March 1. They are Sgt. Wal
ter D. Copper, Jno. W. Copper, Del
Hutson, Alvah Hardman and Earle M.
Spaulding. Floyd Gramps, the first
Hood River soldier to lose his life
abroad, was a member of the 18th En
gineers. Mr. Gramps was killed when
accidentlly struck by a locomotive.
The family has received word from
Eino Annala, abroad with a hospital
corps, announcing his return to New
York city. Toivo and Will Annala
returned Tuesday from Camp Lewis,
where they have been stationed.
Bert Head, because of his knowledge
of automobiles, has been retained on
the permanent personnel at Camp
Lewis. Mr. Hea recently advanced
to a corporai, spent the week end here
on a furlough. He is in charge of
delivery of mail at the big cantonment.
W. G. Weber has just received a let
ter from his son, Venon G. Weber.
member of a regiment of the ylst i
Division, who sustained several wound :
in the Argonne forest drive. The ,
young man has arrived at a New York j
hospital. He was wounded in
arms and one leg.
both
Lee Spaulding, corporal for a marine
company and the first Hood River sol
dier wounded in France, having sus
tained shattered knee at Chateau
Thierry, has entered the University of
Washington, where he is specializing
in journalism. The young man was
formerly a popular student of the high
school.
Sgt. Stanley J. Shere was in the
city last week on a furlough U visit
friends and attend to business. Sgt.
Shere is now in charge of the ambu
lance service at Camp Lewis, and be
cause of this assignment is uncertain
when he will secure his discharge.
After a short furlough at home with
his wife and other relatives, George
Ogden, who was recently returned to
Camp Lewis from overseas, left Fri
day for the cantonment where he ex
pects soon to te mustered out.
QUOTAS OF LOAN
WILL DEPEND ON
WARSTAMPSALES
Oversubscriptions of January
and February Savings Cam
paign Allotments to Re
dace Loan Task
Victory I.ilii rt Loan quotas of the
Twelfth federal lii-vie !), triit are
lo be determined in some measure by
the amounts loaned the government
by each district in War Suvings
Stamps (lurini; Janiia: ami February.
If a district oversubMi ilus its War
Savings Stamp quotas for the first
iwo months of the eai its Victory
Liberty Loan quota will he decreased
to the extent of the oversubscription.
Conversely, if a district fails to reach
its January and Februaiy stamp quo
tas. Its Liberty Loan quota will be
increased.
When Lewis B. Franklin, director
of the War Loan Oinatiuation. was in
San Francisco recently, he revealed
that on i he day the armistice was
signed there was in progress in Wash
iiiEton a meeting to formulate plans
for the continuous sale of Liheity
Honds-sucli a plan as governs the
sale of Thrift and War Savings
Stamps. Moreover, the Liberty Bond
and War Stamps work was to be
closely coordinated.
These plans were immediately dis
carded when the Germans signed the
armistice and when Secretary of the
Treasury Glass took office he an
nounced that the Victory Liberty Loan
would be the last. In the face of sii!r
cestions that the Victory Loan bp put
on a cold commercial basis, he added
that the men making these sunges
tions were discounting the. patriotism
of the American people and he would
depend upon the patriotism of the
American people rather than place se
curities of the United States govern
ment upon a plane with the paper of
private corporations.
Don't think you have sacrificed hp
cause you may bp paying for your in
terest-bearing Fourth Liberty Loan
Bonds. These fellows back from France
legless, armless or sightless don't think
they have sacrificed. They simply
think they did their duty.
The Victory Loan coming in April
is the last Liberty Loan, Then the
war Is over for yo l. It w ill be still
going on for 1,000.000 Ameiicans in
France.
Kressee Snaps Soldiers
H. O, Kresee spent the short time
the troop trains carrying the fi5tn were
here Monday in taking a series of pic
tures of the men and the 3,000 citizens
gathered to welcome them home. The
development of the pictures were
rushed and they were presented on
slides at the Liberty Theatre Monday
night.
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