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LATEST
LOCAL
EDITION
THe Ralston T ritmne
Entered at the Ralston, Okla., Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter
By Orrin L. l)rf>wning
Official Newspaper of Ihe Town of Ralston. Progressive in All Ways.
$1.50 the Year in Advance
Ralston. Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Friday, April 18, 19111
Volume III Number 30
WAR ADVENTURES FROM
RALSTON TO THE RHINE
Olan Binkley Writes of His
Experiences During Past
Eighteen Months.
stroyer which they called the Grasshop-1 with a mess kit in our hand. may pay to contractors fifty million dol-
per. From the way it bucked yefb would We camped back of the lines till the lars and pay to bond-holders anothtr
imagine you were riding a grasshopper. j 10th of August. We go: lots to eat and twenty-five million dollars in interest.
At 4:30 the next morning we pulled into j picked up ag'-dn. Then we started back Mr. Laboring Man you will pay in
the harbor at Londondetry, Ireland, and to the rear for a rest. We stayed in bar- added cost on goods purchased every
got off at the dock. They took us to racks about a week. dollar earned in this road construction,
hospitals and barracks and they treated Then we started hiking back to the j The farmer and laborer pay all taxe .
Ahrveiler, Germany, Dec. 18, 1918
Dear Bud and wife:
As the war is ov-
er and everything has quieted down, I
will try to tell you some of my experi-
ences since I have been serving our
country in the U. S. Army.
It has been one year the 2nd day of
last October since I was hooked and
sent to Camp Travis, Texas, to my first
training camp. There I learned to do
“squads east” and “squads west”. Was
there nearly two months in the 358th
Infantry Hq. Co., and early one Sunday
morning I got orders to roll my pack;
so I did, and was sent to a Detention
Camp. I did not mind that at all, as I
didn’t do anything but eat and sleep for
about eighteen days. At last we got or-
ders to pull out. We got on the train
the 10th of January and traveled five
days and nights. We didn’t know where
we were going, but we were on our way.
After our long journey through the
Southern and Eastern States, we landed
us like mothers. A few days later we , front
got on the train, went to Dublin, Ire- j days,
land, and got on a boat again. Sailed to
Hollyhead, England and got off again.
They sent us to Winchester, England,
for a long rest and about all we did there
was Squad Right and Squad Left. I got
We hiked at nights and rested Those who do not produce of improve on
Were bound for Toul Sector tc j production do not pay taxes, because
make another drive. We hiked till we ! they have nothing with which to pay
finally got there and camped in the unless they get it from the farmer and
woods just back of the lines to wait a the laborer. They get what they have
not because of service rendered, but be- 1
OSKE HUT MET
Mil Ena IS SOLD
•In in os McSpadilon Soils Store
to A. J, Pu&h a ml Win.
Lylog U'ho Aro Now-
In Charge.
few days till our artillery got set.
On the night of September 11th we
_________________________________ A deal was made this week whereby
UC1V1 Tin.. 4 ^ ......_ m_m___ ____a_________________ cause opportunity places them betw* en i McSpadden sold the stock, fix-
ontheshiVtfeain It SoutTHam^onand j went to the front. It was cold and rainy ' the producer and consumer and they i antl Kood wUl of the Osage Me t
crossed the English Channel to Havre, and we all got soakin’ wet. We stood make the most of their position. Every ,et and Grocery to A. J. Pugh, laie-
France, and was sent to a replacement in -mud and water up to our ankles wait- man and woman should register between > ol «xas. aad » m- Lyles, of this
camp. Then to Baccarat and was at- ing for the hour to come. At 2:30 that! April 16th and 26th and vote against j new tirm is now in charge,
tachedto the old Sixty-Ninth which is morning .our work began. The shells - the bonds. * .'i every oner*y to ,he work
”0".the .65th Regiment U. S. N.t- mrnjgfm «»«, - i ,„r ,h..
^ .............. ^ y0U are j futu e as yet, but he will probably tak ■
During the com.ng four years many I a rest before entering busiuess again, a
ional Guards. Me with two months of: I hey shelled the front line trenches succeeling elections, unless
training was about like a big fine apple, about four hours and at daybreak thqy : physically unable to register,
out drilling with the old soldiers. But j raised their barrage, and we followed it '
they didn’t have anything on me with a up. We got to their front
rifle. They had been to the trenches! They were blown all to Hell. They had j rided. and unless you "register at your
once at Luneville, and it wasn’t long un- pulled back to their second line and set first oppor unity you will lose your right
til we went again. My first trip to the their machine guns. We took a good ^he^more
the harder it
for the election crooks to steal
the election. You save $37.59 by vot-
. l very important questions affecting the
ir nen . farmor ni;tj |i;borer will have to he Hc-
trenches was at Battenvilla. When I look across Germany and could • see,' votVs'agtnmu * tke^bonds^
first heard the big guns they didn’t sound nothing but smoke and earth flying up. I will h:>
good to me. I helped to build barbed- We crossed their first trenches nrjd all
turned loose their machine guns as usual.
wire entanglements and fix up the blown
up trenches. One day I was out work-
ing and I saw a “Dutch” observation ba-
loon. I said to myself, “They must be
having a baloon ascension over in Ger- Well, we went over and got their grape?.
t _ . ,, „ . . . .many.” By this time he had me locate d Made about a twelve mile drive to the
a Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and after j an(J phoned down to hi3 artjilery .and old Hindenburg Line. I gucsi you read
a ew ays .ere my Captain asked me , gave them a jine on mc Then j heard »b out the prisoners we took. Was in
|___. V'^n 1 yr* j something coming through the air that the front line seven or eight days. It
sounded like an organ; it came pretty wo •! ! take a month to write all that haj>
close and went BANG, and the shrapnel P ned, so will stop on that front and
began to fly. It didn’t take long to learn ■ art on Verdun.
their tricks, and after that when I saw a Wo hiked to Verdun and went into
their barbwire, but we were not satisfied 1 yj)^fn 'e e 37^5:^hyo?i'jr* for Vh ^ road
n’t get far till business picked up. They the south pan of the t^te a system of
ance. About that time I felt something
s'ippin*. Some of the boys said, “Sink
will make good fish bait, won’t he?”
So on the 23rd of January we boarded
Imrd-iurfacejJ roads, while you go hun-
gry in order to pay taxes. Continued
next week.
-O. LONERGAN.
JAMES A. TROUT
hi:, health has not been good for seme
time.
NED VENEREAL DISEASE
MEASURE MOST DRASTIC
When Governor Robertson signed
Senate Bill No. -13, Oklahoma moved foi -
ward several paces in the great work
for better health conditions- the sup-
pression of social ills having for its
purpose the stamping out of venereal
diseases, and this commonwealth as-
sumed a place in the front ranks along
with other states in the fight against so-
cial evils.
The new venereal disease law is one of
James A. Trout was born in Perry the most drastic and w ill become one of
County, Pa., January 10, 1877, an died
at his home in Osage County, Okla , on
the most effective measures ever enact *J
for the correction of social evils, and the
was after thn big explosion, find beH«rt | “ ^tp^abou't a.TtLu'made Mother'ILT»ml'when f >ur brotlitrs and four ,latent to mourn
me it was a sight. There were «»» ! l50 y.rds ,rom th. German ,roat ,ine.! we storped going the »ar wa, done. We
the Tuse ml. at Hoboken .nd sailed for . ..Dutch.. b^0o„ or rp£„, , made sure the lines two hundred stronj and when April 18. 1919. need lorly-two years, burettu for tbc slumping oulot tWs,
Haiti,.. It was a three days tnp and j „ didn.t M mc I „.e camt out w, ,.c„ ttbout twenlyfive "ont ■“ “»d t! ree days. He leave. dhMM. ^ , b|i „ lhth„.
we stayed.in the harbor one day. This ^__________fV,„ r »imm- Wo p»no nut. for another a wife, two daughters, a father, mother, man race, under the direction of Dr. J.
C. Mahr. is now organized to prosecute
the work under the provisions of tbe new
law, the bureau co-ordinating with the
State Board of Health.
In the work to be handled through Dr.
Mahr’s bureap, which is under the Unit-
ed States Public Health Service, the
State Government is working in co-ordi-
nation for the suppression of venereal
diseases, and to meet the expenses for
large ships lying out on the bank, and
the houses and large trees were blown
down for a quarter of a mile back from
t e shore.
Well, we left there with a convoy of
twelve large steamers; three or four
This was in the mountains about the; wound it up on the Meuse River near’ Hev-F-w-Galyon conducUd funeral
first of May; the days were long and Sedan. Then we started hiking again ®e,'u< a u,‘ ay a L , . *Loi) eme
dre .ry, the nights were very cool and the through Belgium, Luxemburg and on to ery’ * e,c 10 0 ‘V Was al or(S-
Devils were just across No Man’s Land. ^10 Rhine. Now- we are Bing, Bang, J
One night we went over the top to cap- Bing’em on the Rhine, near Goblenz. j Police Court Busy
ture a machine gun nest or “pillbox” we Germany.
were loaded with troops and the others had looated We got out nearly to their ' Well, I don’t think the Kaiser will
were freighters except one big U. S. bat-
tleship which was the leader, and from
the looks of the large guns which were
pointing out over her sides it must have
been loaded for bear.
We were bound for Liverpool, Eng-
land, and we got out about the middle
of the Atlantic and things began to lo jk
pretty blue. The wind was high ard ihe
old boat was rocking and plun^irg be-
lieve me! Sometimes I could stand on
the tup deck and coqld see for miles and
the next minute I could look up and see
the big waves rolling. Sometimes they
would splash clear over the top deck.
At night we would have to lie crosswise
in bed and hold on to the sfdes to -keep
from rolling out.
On our eleventh day out from New
York we met eight British submarine
chasers. They hooked like hell divers,
the way they bobbed up and down: part
of the time I could see them and part of
the time I could not. They were to clear
trenches and ran into their barbwire en- sink my boat any more.
tanglements. The Devil heard us com-
i lg and shot up about a dozen flares. It
1 glited the woods and valleys up like
d y. They then opened up on us with
m ichine guns and threw granades at us.
We hit the dirt and crawled into old shell
holes and when the lights went out we
m de our escape back to our lines. Was
there sixteen long days and rights and
what we had to eat was Corn Willie and
hardtack. The best part of it all was,
we didn’t have to take our clothes off to
sleep. I had my shoes off just onc^ in
:ixteen days. Our beds were in dugouts
about thirty feet deep.
From your brother,
CORP. OLAN BINKLEY
Co. A, 165th Infantry, A. E. F.
Twenty-seven young men and boys,
ranging from lads in short trousers to
heads of families, paid fines in the local the present fiscal year $18,000 is availa-
justice court, the |»st week; all having
pled guilty of the charge of gambling.
This is the wind-up of the big crap games
the boys have been having for the past
two years. Too bad that the old stough-
ble. The recent Legislature made liberal
appropriations to meet the fund set aside
for this work by the Federal Govern-
p me uoys nave ut-cn i .n mu iur me (j«m inent.
i CLT“1Tt(2r UppOSCS two years. Too had that the old stough- Among the good features of the vene-
t? in ri 1011 bottles who led the boys into trouble real disease law is the provision for the
LCi L L A ULl U- DU flit telling them that law-breaking is protection of innocent people, which
“smart", didn’t have to pay those fines, compels any person afflicted with vene-
- - ^ real disease to obtain a health certificate
Purfy at NijgliM* before entering marriage relations. Ev-
ery one will readily concede the justice
Route 1, Pawnee, Ckla., April 13, 1919
Editor Ralston Tribune,
Dear Sir:- Kindly permit me to dis-
cuss the road bonds which we will asded [ I »
to vote o» „,x. May <Uh „.xt. Clyde and - Mi.s Leila Kith enter- of that pr.vtaon h.vtnj for us pupa*
On May 6th next we will be called up stained ^out forty of their younj the protection of the Jnnoeent. a, aell a.
irSEii
were planning a big drive on Cholions ors the m and The evening was spent in playing the Another good feature of the law is the
incidentally build about two thousand u mal games and in social conversation, compulsory provision that physicians
miles of hard-surfa ed roads (in the ll scarcely necess try to add that every [ dW*a8eS ,ureP°'
and we stopped there to ccrrert their
I mistake. We slept in shell holes and
t enches till the 14th of July. At 12:00
o’clock that night the fireworks started.
southern part of the state) and give us one a sP^ndid t me.
an opportunity to meet again und vote
another seventy millions in bonds to com- j
plete the remaining two thousand, seven :
r 1 ,..........,..........,........
Well we sailed on, and on the thirteenth , 1 f° ®. ,erm‘ia hundred miles of laid-out road.
. • . ’ ... . Army came over to our front line trench
day out it was pretty sunshiriy. That bjt lhey didn’t stay there long. After
evening a friend ol mtne, Harry Lawson, , , , . , , . ,
, * . . ’ j . three days of heavy bombardment and
and myself stood up on the deck .aniA
**.FIN1SH THE JOS * *
The legislature at thc request of the
governor was very good to usk us to
vote in principal and interest an amount
watched the sun sat over sea. It was
quite pretty, believe me. We both g( t
sea-sick and were anxious to see
heavy fighting they turned and went the ^ual l0 thirly.sev,n 7md one-half de
lars per capita in addition to the four 'ou ordered Victory. I a>
other way. We sure did get those Dutci-
i- men’s goat when we pointed our bayo- h"undreVdoiiaVs' per eapUa of National
but nothing could be seen but the old a?u “l 1 e‘r 1 roats- en we e t there bonds plus the interest,
rolling Ocean. °T * eW ayS reS ‘ Thus the voters of Oklahoma and their
It was the 5th day of February about We went on to Chautea Thierry to families will have a mortgage on thorn
5:45 when a spry little 3ubmirine sprang capture the rest. When we went in there 0i $137.50, if they have nothing else,
up in the Irish Sea, and in it was a Cj. C was 250 strong and after eight will you do it? 1 hope not.
Dutchman with a torpedo-to spare, and ^ays *iar(* fighting we were 77 strong. There is no popular demund for hard- -------
at the Tuscania he fired it and hit her Wl‘ Uved in ske11 holes und ale hardtack surfaced roads. There IS a demand for W in your firth service stripe in tttt
right side. It hit our boat gently and whi,e cannons were roaring and the ma- well-graded dirt roads. The people are Victory Liberty Loan,
blew a hole in her side. This was afteiw chir.e guns played pit-a-pat. With gas willing to pay in tuxes foi the grading
supper and Tom Boone said to me, Lets ahi'lis and sliiupnel they made us take of dirt roads, but not one dollar for in-
get our coats and lifebelts and prepare. oli our Pucks. On the 19lh of July we terest on bonds of uny kind wliatcver. If
We walked up on the second deck Hn l ditched our packs and everything we had these bonds are voted tholeglslature*can
it was getting quite dark when we got °ur titles und buyonets and went not provide for our educational instilu-
that awful jar. We both hit the deck over the top. The Huns saw us coming tions until the interest und sinking fund
with a crash and nearly broke our con- and 'oo^ u crack, ^e rushed right is paid. They cannot pay their own »al-
stitution. We got up and rushed to our 0,1 them and then we took a crack, aries nor provide for the penitentiary
lifeboats and plunged into them. There They stuck up their hands and hollered, j (where they ought to bei or any state in-^
was lots of excitement for a while. At Kamerad . And W E said, "Go on stitution whatever until the inter>*st and
last we got our boat down with about Jack! sinking fund is paid. The governor has
fifty men in it, and said to myself "Htre We captured their position and Hill vetoed un appropriation to build an Hd-
is where Bink gets an ice-cold bath.” 212, and a night or two later we took ministration building at the farmers’
W.th hard rowing and tugging we pulled c .urge of the Meuicy Farm On the 3rd college, the A. & M. College, but he or-
out from the ship. It was about 9:30 d ly of August we were relieved and dered an eh c ion costing three timn as
when we were picked up by a British de- marched buck to the kitchen and fell In in ich, so the farm >r anu laboring man
Ixsnd again and make it a Patd-Ul
Peace
Cheerlnif the heroes doesn't pay foi-
the victory.
The Yanks are wonderful boys, bul
they can't swim home.
It was your war. It is your victory.
Lend your share to pay the bills
The soldier did more than his share
fie gave. You are aakod only to lead
How much
worth? Show
•rty Loan
Is your cltizenahlf
It In the Victory Lib
War has taught us •hrlft. We may
save iwo things at once In the Victory
Liberty lai.m our own money and
our Nation's honor
every case. This comes i n ler the sec-
tion declaring venereal diseases infec-
tious ty:u contagious. This provision
does not mean thut names are to 1 e
made public, but that cases are to be re-
ported by number to the Venereal Dis-
ease Section of the State Board of Health
Through this medium a close-up view
und knowledge of the prevalence of ven-
ereal diseases in tht various communities
of the State can be had, and will serve
in helping to suppress and prevent fur-
ther spread of these ills.
Another wise provision of the Ihw is
thut prescribing penalties for non-com-
pliance the person guilty of communi-
cating a venereal disease shall be guilty
of a felony and liable to imprisonment in
the penitentiary from one to five years;
failure lo report infection and submit to
treatment is punishable by a fine of $25
to $500; physicians failing to report cases
or granting discharge of patient before
a cure is effected are subject to heavy
penalties; druggists are rt quired to de-
mund prescriptions signed by reputable
physicians before supplying persons with
medicines for treatment of venereal dis-
ease.
TO SERVE IUH C REAM
The Methodist Ladies will serve iee
cream Satuiduy afternoon and evening
April 19th, at the Lunibersoii building.
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Browning, Orrin L. The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1919, newspaper, April 18, 1919; Ralston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc907946/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.