Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 103, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 18, 1918 Page: 3 of 9
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M. Jones Addition Offering to the
Drumright Chapter of the
Red Cross
J. G. Neudorfer, representing the M. Jones interests
at this place has authorized Geo. W. Ham, agent for the M. Jones addition,
to donate two lots and give the proceeds to the local chapter of the Red Cross.
These lots, Nos. 19 and 20, in blockl7 of the M. Jones addition are located in one of the most
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These fine lots will be sold at several of the leading stores until
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For Men and
Boys
A complete line of shoes and
oxfords in the season's smart-
est styles.
Women' High Grade Pumps
and Oxfords
in duil black, tan, brown, patent
leather and combination
shades.
Fall's Dry Goods Co.
"HELL LET LOOSE"
SAYS SECRETARY OF
Y. M. C. A. ABOUT WAR
GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF FIVE
DAYS BOMBING OF
SOISSONS
let
(Special to Daily Derrick.)
| New York, May 17.—Hell
Iloose."
That's the only adequate way to
describe a town just devastated by
the Germans, according: to a letter
leceived today from Walter H. John-
son, Jr., one of the Y. M. C. A. field
secretaries in France.
He was in Soissons when he wrote,
which had just been bombed for five
days by the Germans. Shrapnei still
whined around the ruined village
that had been a city of 15,000 inhao-
itants, and trains stopped some dis-
tance away to avoid being shelled.
The station hadn't any roof. Neither
had the hotel. There was a shell
fh,„. T«T.3, ' " °"e" tor some strange
through the middle of what had been their e(1?cs
and injured two of their own officers, i
: prisoners there, after an aeroplane I
accident.
"The population of this beautiful
little city used to be fifteen to twenty
thousand, now it's about fifteen hun-
dred. During the last week it has been
decreased by evacuation from seven
or eight thousand to this number.
If you remember this town was fought
over and captured by the Boche in
1915, later evacuated by them, and
now once more is being actively
shelled. The hotel Lion Rouge where
1 stayed is now minus half the roof.
It was once a German major's head-
quarters."
"In the afternoon I walked across
the river, the Aisne, and looked over
the old German trenches or dug-outs.
A great place for souvenir, if one j
had a truck. That country, the bat- '
tie field of the Aisne, is all in utter
ruin. Describing the demolition does
no good. Words aren't sufficient, j
Trees, nothing but scarred stumps,
a few piles of stones where houses i
and factories used to be, miles of tan-
gled barbed wire, rusted now, and
miles of trenches and dugouts. The
old trenches seem to be full of snails,
for some strange reason, and along |
OPEN TO PUBLIC
New Rooming
House
Hot and Cold Bath
ROOMS CLEAN AND COOL
Comer Broadway and Virginia
MRS. SPIEGLE, Prop.
Phone 346
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$6
J. JOSEPH
has purchased the Jain jnanborn Shoe
Repair Shop next to the Kasem Bargain Store and is
prepared to do
FIRST CLASS REPAIRING
Men's Half Soles $1.10
Ladies' Half Soles .90
Rubber Heels .45
ONLY THE BEST GRADE OF MATERIAL USED
WORK GUARANTEED
the Y. M. C. A. headquarters.
What few people were left lived in
cellars, for protection from the bom-
bardment, and because their homes
had been shelled. The very trees were
nothing but scarred stumps. With- N
out destination or plans, train loads
of women and children and old men
were being borne away from the !
place, clinging to what household
goods they could carry.
Here is what Mr. Johnson has
written of the devastation in a letter
to T. S. McLane of the Y. M. C. A.
entertainment bureau in New York.
"Leaving Paris, the train went
through the area wiped out by the
| terrible munitions plant explosions,
jat Courneurve, in the midle of March.
That section was razed to the ground
nd charred black. It wouldn't be
permitted to tell of the activity be-
.■en Paris and the front, so we'll
that for a Liter date. We
- >*sed train loads of wounded, going
" k to base hospitals.
For several days the trains hadn't
• clear into Soissons, because of
bombardment, but that day it
'Tied temporarily directed "else-
'1 ami 'he train came in. Half
' station is blown off the map
" s a11 cave<' in. About a block
13 ,tho Y- M C. A. warehouse
'""'quarters, or what a week
as headquarters, before a shell
through it. Across the street is
a hospital with the roof blown off.
G«mans bombed it for five days,
i are blooming. This
is all five or six miles back of the
present front."
WANTED—Clean cotton rags %
at Derrick office at once. \
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(Published in the Evening Derrick
May 15 to 27, 1918.)
NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALE OF
CHATTELS
By virtue of an execution to me di-1
rected and delivered, issued out of \
the superior court of Creek county,
Oklahoma, in an action in said court
wherein he Jarecki Mfg. Co. is plain-
tiff and the Blue Grass Oil & Gas Co.
is defendant, I will on the 28th day of
May, A. D., 1918, between the hours
of in o'clock a. m and 5 o'clonk p.
m. of the said day, on section 28. in
township 19 north of range 7 east, in !
said Creek county, Oklahoma, offer
at public sale and sell to the hi :hest
bidder, for cash in hand, the follow-
ing described property, to-wit:
Forty-eight joints of 10-inch (10 j
in.) oil well casing, said property
having been levied on as the property
of the said Blue Grass Oil & Gas Co.,
and taken on execution in favor of
the said Jarecki Mfg. Co.
Dated this 13th day of May, A. D
1918.
JOHN S. WOOFTER, Sheriff •
By J. ARTHUR WILSON, Deputy.
You Are Invited
To inspect our new Grocery and Market which is now
completed. We have the largest and most complete stock
of choice Moats and Groceries in the city.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Feed of All Kinds
Moderate Prices
Quick Service
Free Delivery
r tern Grocery
and Market
GEO. EUAS, Mgr.
Broadway, First Door East of Royal Drug Store
Phone 40—Thre« Rings
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Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 103, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 18, 1918, newspaper, May 18, 1918; Drumright, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc148474/m1/3/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.