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the chandler tribune
VOL. XVIII.
"e are Boosters for Our Country, Home and Our Soldier Bojra.
Entered at the Chandler, Oklahoma, Poet Office aa Second Class .Hail, V nder Act ef March S, 1879.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918
No. 48.
SOLDIER S LETTERS s*TaP an<l had a short talk with him letter is that it is a Christmas letter tanee from StDenit (a suburb of
__ about the latest news from Co. B. to fathers. Paris), to which place I frequently
From I R r™i , r» Some of the boys payed the price on Well, folks, that is all I know to went. I made one trip to Paris and
Montierchanmp w°'’’octhe batt,pfipM but most of them will write now so I will ring off this time, started again the day of the long-
Hello Day ’ ance> N°v’ Jb. 1918. j return to the States when we all so goodbye and good luck to all and expected German big spring drive,
KEl) CROSS DRIVE
MAY BE EXTENDED.
As we have w th T 1 come sa‘hng home.
von whorn^T ^,~°n G bed i . bast summer I spent most of my cmv/vi., service suunemy discontinued witn tend me tune lor tne iw*u e.ross anve,
all ahr,,n n.u.t t now’ s? Wlb tell you time along the Toul sector from St. Pvt. Orval W. Hobbs, Camp Rochom- the first “Bertha” which started Owing to the extreme bad weather,
an auout wnai i am doing. ! Miebiol n xr—. — -v....... a o n n 17 am««i p p „----- .i„.. 1 - 1.. n— :. t..., 1-----
a Merry Christmas to all.
I have a telegram from the Red
Cross headquarters authorizing me,
but was unable to get there for car if my judgment so dictates, to ex-
ORVAL. service suddenly discontinued with tend the time for the Red Cross drive.
We landed in Fncriala'ln' u, „ ! ^jchiel to Pont-O-Mousson, occasion- beau, A. P. 0. 717, Ameri. E. F.
We landed in England the middle of ; ally getting into Toul and Maney for -
iSa°£temiPIiCa„“e^,FranceJbree days a visit. After the St. Michiel drive 1 From Corpl. Cecil K. Dean to H. E.
was transferred to the 1st Army Dean.
Staff and went into action northwest Lameur Artillery School, Lameur,
France, November 24, 1918.
‘Merry Christmas Dad!”:
For I believe this lettes is going
to reach you sometime just before
Christmas day and, Dad, a very merry
day I hope it is for you and all the
others. Why shouldn’t it be a happy
day, for just think what a wonderful
victory for humanity has been won?
Won by devotion to a great cause;
write to me. I am eagerly looking
forward to that letter; I am hoping
it will contain a few hints, at least,
of just what you are expecting of me
in the next few years. Perhaps you
have given the matter little thought?
Naturally I have, and, therefore, I
later. I am six miles from Chateau-
roux, one of the main cities between
the coast and Paris. When we landed
here we were given a pick and shovel;
stayed with it eleven days; went to
school twelve days; then was out
learning the road four days; then
started raid-roading. I am a conduct-
or on one of these French railroads
—some railroad, too. Just like an
Xmas toy railroad in the states.
Those old timers have nothing on us,
boy, when it comes to no air and hand
brakes; link and pindays. We are all
ready to come back to the States.
Although if it was summer I would
like to stay over here for six months.
I was within six miles of Paris one
time but not in Paris, although I
would like very much to see Paris
before I come back to the States. If
the American people could see the
shape these poor French people are
in over here they would never regret
the sending of us boys over here to
help them. We sure have taken them
out of an awful hell-hole.
The boys can tell you things when
they come home which I could not
put on paper or you cannot believe
when they do tell you. Everyone over
here looks to us for advice. I can
understand enough to get along with
them and make them understand me
pretty well. Sometimes I have a
hard time making some of the old
men understand me. All stations are
run by Frenchmen. We have no
train orders over here—everything is
block system. When we start and
place we go till we come to a “red
board” and stop till they “give it to
us”, then we go to the next one. If
we have a car to set out the station
agent sets it out and we are not al-
lowed to Bet a car out or pick up oae
—the station agent handles all the
Bwitches. Everything is double track
over here.
We have regular Oklahoma weather
here where we are. They say we have
only three hours darkness here in anu went irom mere to iiaieyiorxs, i j j th f
the summer-time. It has rained for K. D., we arrived there on the 24th of! tuink doi' as t nownlaiTto do*
three days now although we have had . june and left on the 25th. It took go rathpr than giving you any finan
of Verdun—our artillery followed up
the drive along the west bank of the
Meuse river to Dun-Sur-Meuse, where
we crossed to the east bank. Stenay
is the most northern town I visited
and after the armistice was signed
the artillery went on to the Rhine
but I did not care to go along since I
have been in line since last March.
The work here will last only a
couple of days when I will return to
artillery headquarters from there I
may go to the Rhine for a few days at
least I hope the stay will not be long,
although y/e have no rumors as to
when we will be sailing.
In this town is the headquarters of
several engineering companies and I
know most of the officers, since they
are from the U. S. C. S. so the stay
here has been very pleasant, plenty of
beautiful country to visit and re-
hash old times with the boys to pass
the evenings along.
Since the war came to such a sud-
den end we have been having excellent
weather until today it started in to
rain.
As ever,
DALLAS.
D. H. Watson, Capt. C. A. C., Hdq.
Army Artillery, First Army.
Dad's Letter from Orval W. Hobbs.
France, Nov. 24, 1918.
Dear Father:
I will write you a Christmas letter
to let you know that I am well and I
hope you are the same. I hope all of
you are well.
Father, I will tell you all I can and
you can let mother and Lillie read it.
coming the same day, you remember.} bad roads and influenza, it has been
That was an exciting day and I’ll tell J impossible for some of the districts
you more about it someday. j to canvass their territory. Honor
On April 15th we took the train flags will be awarded based on re-
for the! Verdun sector where J.he
battalion separated to train with the
French batteries and have never been
together since. Bat. B, went to a
place near Belrupt, about six kilo-
meters from Verdun (southeast),
where we trained with what was con-
sidered the “crack” French anti-air-
craft battery on the front for a period
of six weeks. I believe I told you once
turns to December 30th and I am ex-
tending the time to that date. Please
take advantage qf every available
minute to enroll members and let the
reports be in my hands Monday night,
December 30th.
The results of this roll call have
so far been extretnely disappointing.
There seems to be a general apathy
that is distressingly hard to over-
come. It is a matter of extreme sat-
RED CROSS NOTES
that I arrived on the great western
won by the unhesitating sacrifices by front exactly one year from the day' isfaction, however, to know that our
countless thousands whose sacrifices I left home. , tried and trusty captains, with their
are similar in many respects to the un- About one o’clock in the afternoon lieutenants, have, with few exeep-
paralleled sacrifice of Him whose 0f j^jay 27 we heard a great rumbling tions, valliantly attacked the strong-
birth we celebrate on that day. j nojse which later proved to be the big hold °f the Hun, seeing his inability
Sometime today you are going to Qerman barrage starting their drive to defeat us, yet hopes to lull us to
for the sea. The next day in com-
pliance with orders, we (Bat. B.)
returned to Fort DeStains and a few
days later received all our equipment,
being the first auto-mount American
anti-air-craft battery in the world.
On June 6 we received orders to go
sleep.
Our boys are on the road to Berlin
and at least a million and a half of
them will stay until conditions over
there have become more civilized and
the balance of them will be more than
a year in returning. It would be a
hope you will see fit to give your
hearty endorsement. I’ll give you a
general idea of them now.
At present I am in school as you
know, but (the chances are pretty
good that the school will soon close.
It is next to impossible to keep inter-
est up in this kind of work under ex-
isting conditions. Try though I do
I can take no interest in any part
of the work save topography and in
this only because it will bo of benefit
to me in the line of work I expect to
take up.
What would become of us should
the school close I have no idea but
close or not, I expect to be home Le-
a™ ...... . r , „ ... fore next June, perhaps, much sooner.
Tfc,fata1^lfl5,V 1 Tp Of course, you realize that my “being
on the 15th of June and got m Camp, at home” from now on will be a
Memtt that night at 7:00 o clock and mtle differemt than it was before I
left camp Memtt on June 21st and , left Yes, in more ways than one, but
went to Boston, Mass., we arrived at ,et that uke care of itself. 0f course
Boston and went on the boat at 7 j ^ conditions were different and my
o’clock and left the docks at 12 o clock | assistance in a financiai way was
and went from there to Haleyforks | needed then, of course, I would not
have pretty definite plans which I to Chateau Tierrv but the Germans i humiliation and a disgrace to aband-
Vinna itAii mi 11 i’ on -Pit f iriun lmnr 1 . i i i 1 i e ! on thorn n,\nr Thnsn mill Ko nn mono
cial assistance I am going to take the
Iikerty of asking it of you. On second
thought], howevBr, I am convince,'
beat us there and we had to satisfy
ourselves by stopping at Lizy for a
couple of days. We then went to
Mountriel-sur-Orque, where we stay-
ed until July 17. That was some
home there!
On July 17 our fighting really be-
gan. We went around and a little
east of Chateau Thierry and followed
the Germans during that stiff fight-
ing all the way lack to the Velse, to
near Fismes. I have a complete
record of all our movements and ex-
periences from thea on which I will
relate to you fully some day.
On August 15 we received orders to
go to Povinciaers, a pretty little vil-
lage about thirty kilometere north
of Longre9, where I spent as happy
a two weeks as I had spent for many
months. From here we went to a
cantonment near Toul, where we spent
another week.
On September 11th we started for
a sector near the place we were in the
spring, a little southeast of Verdun
on them now. There will be no more
war fund campaigns and the puny
dollar asked now will be the only sup-
port of the Red Cross. Three hundred
millions the last year went for relief
of distressed Europe, yet with con-
ditions little changed, we will have
Icbs than a tenth of that sum for
the coming year.
Hardly a day goes by that the local
Home Service committee is not called
upon to relieve the distress of some
soldier or his family. If the people
could only realize the quality and the
quamtity of the relief work now being
accomplished for the boys of Lincoln
county surely no one would hesitate
to pnrt with n dollar.
Let’s keep Lincoln county on the
Red Cross map.
Sincerely,
W. L. JOHNSON,
Chairman Roll Call Com.
UNITED WAR VETERANS.
The United War Veterans, a na-
and followed the St. Michiel drive. tional organization has been formed
across the old trenches of four years | to include in its active membership
standing. This was east of llupt. I’ll | all veterans of. the Civil War and
tell more about this later. | Spanish War and all soldiers, sail-
. v i We ,pft this front on SePtcmber 2i, | ors and marines of the United States
that even to ask is unnecessary. You j and rode a]i night, (our first and . jn the World War
know too well the value of an educa- on]y night .trip) to Pon-a-Musson The objects are': To unite in fra
+ ir»n • tnn wnli t nnf rripru hook know- ...u----- ---- __1, „ * . .
some very pleasant weather this fall, sixteen days to make the trip—we
I have been in for three days now, went to England—arrived on the 6th
expect to get out tonight or in the ( 0f July and landed in the Tillberry
morning. It takes two to six days to j docks, in London. We got on the
make a round trip. I am setting on . train at 10:00 a. m. on the 6th of
my bed here in the “banett” where i July and went to South Hampton, we ,vpii that mere hook know-1 ” u"’ —•>— >—-«-/ -- | 1 "V yuj*TW5 ,1" 1*““
there are sixty other men, all talking arrived there that night at 11:00 fX’o ^oes not constitute an educa-! f fb J „l Wn t,™ ternal bonds, through national, state,
about railroading and telling about' 0-clock and j left the Lxt morning! ^ toZ wel” that “ nearly i^-1 tilf October “nd f?rc’^
At the election held December 16th
the following received the highest
number of votes and were declared
elected to serve as members of the
executive committee of the Lincoln
County Chapter during the coming
year:
H. J. Johnson, Sac and Fox Agency;
Hugh Dean, Carney;
Mrs. Geo. G. Boggs, Chandler;
Roscoe Cox, Chandler;
Mrs. H. B. Gilstrap, Chandler;
Mrs. M. J. Thompson, Meeker;
Dr. A. M. Marshall, Chandler;
Mrs. E. W. Hoyt, Chandler;
Mrs. E. C. Love, Chandler;
W. A. Heuston, Agra;
M. C. Sloan, Tryon.
Among those who added a great
deal of interest and impetus to the
Christmas Roll Call were the young
ladies who accompanied the speakers
and sang the Liberty songs. Their
services are greatly appreciated by
the chairman, Mr. Johnson, and those
having the meetings in charge. The
following took part in these meet-
ings: Misses Laura Anderson, Gladys
and Alzora Tracy, Dorothy Mascho,
Opal Anderson, Stella Lockwood,
Blanche Staubus, Lois Brant and
Grace Flynt.
The office of the Home Servtee
chairman is soon to be moved from
the rooms over the Union National
bank to the room in the Feuqpay
building just back of the Newa-Pnb-
licist office.
Much appreciation Is felt for the
active co-operation the Red Cross Is
receiving from the new Frisco agent,
J. A. Babb, and the force now em-
ployed by the Frisco here. I.ast
Wednesday on five minutes notice
Mr. Babb secured instruction to stop
the “through” Frisco at Welleton to
let off a soldier called hewe on ac-
count of sickness in his family and in
a number of instances they have ren-
dered valuable services to the Red
Cross workers.
Little work has been accomplished
this week on account of the Christ-
mas activities but large consign-
ments of both yam and sewing are
being received. These have been sent
us and must be made up and as long
as the work is required we must con-
tinue our Red Cross efforts. We are
no longer permitted to ored our sup-
plies but headquarters assigns us a
quota and sends the material and it
•must be made up and returned
promptly.
some pretty girl they met or about
go'ng home and I am trying to write
and answer qestions they ask me
about things—oh, it’s a great life.
Although I am glad I came over here
and anyone who ever marched through
Liverpool as we did will never regret
that they came over.
I will never forget the day we
marched through Liverpool; the way
the women amd children followed us
for miles. They just seemed to kaow
that we were the ones to do the^ Hun
up—which the Tanks did- whipped
them good. Old wome* seventy to
eighty years old, followed us for three
or four miles, shaking their first and
telling us to hurry sad get them
Germans. Well, I guess some of the
boys will soon be home now. Of
course, some of the boys are coming
home pretty rough but the most of
them arc goine to come home changed
a whole lot. They have put up with
some awful bad treatment, not so bad
hut it seems so to us. It is much
worse than we ever bad, to put up
EDMONSON PUT ON THE
STATE FARM BOARD.
fnr France We crossed the F.no-lish -........ 7......1 "ere un oauuer <in anu uieu re- solcPers and sailors of the United
Channel to Brest Xance and we! posslble for <\man to. ‘'arn thp ne.c, turned to Rupt, where we spent only states; to perpetuate Memorial Day
staZ there tiU the next dav then we! m0nCy ^ proV,u e hIm,l th<> n*bt' lpavin^ lhe noxt ™rning as established by the Grand Army of
bearded ftra* .nd went toto Chattencourt near the Meuse, the Repul),ic, aJ,d to preserve from
then^I left there on toe 14th erf July 4,1,16 g°‘n? ° Z V Z river- Jt was in tbis sector, the neglect the praves of our nation’s
then I left there on the 14th of July necessary for me to have to ask your tou(fhest I was ever in, that I really dead; to secure employment for and
assistance until I finally have quail- did come ncar getting my passports.; to assist our comrades their widows.
and came to this camp. I was within
twenty miles of the front but thi3
camp is 100 miles from the front and
I have been here for over four months
—I have had it good I guess over
here but I hate to stay here, you can’t
tell how long they will keep me be-
cause they need steam engineer* bad.
I may be here for six or seven months
yet but hope not * * *
The war is won now and I don’t
want to stay but before the war
was over I wanted to stay till the
last. They are sending some of the
boys home now—there are ten or
twelve who will go out of this camp
Monday for the good old U. S. A.—
that is the name I love, Father, I
like it better every day since I have
been over here.
fied myself to command a salary that
will not only enable me to repay you
with interest but also to insure both
of us of plenty.
Now don’t think that I am just re-
lating a beautiful dream, for not so,
I know n little more about this old
world perhaps, than you would accuse
petting my passports, j as3jst our comrades their widows,
It causes my hair to take an erect orphans and dependent relatives; to
position to think of it! Besides that promote loyalty, mutual aid and co-
t t _ , operation among them in nil lines of
ondeaver; to secure from congress and
other legislative bodies the enactment
it was where I received the unexpect-
ed orders on October 30th, to report
to this schoool. I have pretty good
reasons to think that Major Lonigan
(my former Captain, you know, till
very lately) is responsible for my
me of. I know that money is notj being here and I might add, knowing
gotten for the asking but also I know i conditions as I do. his ehoosinp me
that the man who QUALIFIES him-j above every one else in the battery,
self in any promising field will have j is causinp me more wonderment than ________j ___ t_______ ____ _________
little trouble with his financial af-1 it probably will you. There is some- j homes for orphans and dependent
fairs. I believe I can see a bright J thing rather wonderful about this in- J children of our comrades; and to in-
day for civil engineers. I believe j cident of which I’ll tell you some- j culcate the principles of universal
that simultaneous with the dawning j time. I liberty and justice to all mankind, of
commercial era will come a great, Apain I wish you a Merry Christ- loyalty to our country, reverence for
construction era with bip possibilities; mas I ;ts institutions, obedience to its laws
in Mexico. South America and even — -* • • i . . . . , .
of laws beneficial to the welfare ef
our comrades and to secure employ-
ment for those who have returmed to
civil pursuits i> consonance with laws
which prefer honorably discharped
soldiers and sailors for povernmeat
service; to provide and establish
, , T — ——----- ------ ---------- ---- Your affectionate son, land to dwiscountenance whatever
Say, I didnt tell you the town lam at homei but the bippest opportune CECIL K„ ' tends to weaken these sentiments.
"ItV’N V-,T'' ci-ofM hut when vou put|’n.cb.^ ^ ,e. 1 am.J;n uZVo’n one! *-'cs 'n Alaska. My idea is to take a Cpl. Cecil K. Dean, Laumeur School This orpanization consists of ac-
™th«the J, here in so short —it is a pood town with about 20,0 j four year course at O. U. m civil, (1f Artillery, Laumeur, France. i tive members (called ’Comrades),
2,300,000 men *ler| ™ J did £e inhabitants I like it fine but you engineering and then take an I C S. _ ; and in addition thereto an honorary
a time as the United States am we ( know how j am_they may tell you course to make sure that I lack!
C. L. Edmonson, former state sen-
ator and farmer of Lincoln comity,
was appointed Monday by Governor
Williams as a member of the state
board of agriculture to fill out the un-
expired term of J. A. Whitehurst of
Doxey.
Mr. Whitehurst was elected presi-
dent of the board in the November
election amd he resigned, effective the
first of the year, ia order to enter
upon his new duties as head of the
state’s agricultural department. Mr.
Edmonson will serve as a member of
the board until Mny 21, 1921.
Senator Edmonson was a candidate
against Whitehurst for the demo-
cratic nomination for president of the
state board of agriculture but with-
drew from the race before the pri-
mary election in August. Mr. Ed-
monson was a member of the senate
of the fourth and fifth legislatures.
He is a farmer and has always been
for Lincoln county and her success.
MR. AND MRS. JAMES M.
HUTCHINSON LAID TO REST.
a ........ — — - 1 Know lluw * “ —•-“'-j ■ j—i course xo mass sure Uiai 1
could not expect to have everyining ; they have a ROod time over here, but notbing of all that a school can give
like it was in the States. j don’t you believe it.—I have had it onc alone. that line. After thus quali-
Sunday was a beautuul day. my | , besides some of the other boys,
second brakesman and myself were bu(_ yQU have to do tbat to win the
of these | war and j guess we have won it now.
out walking along some >’* 1 war and I guess ....----- -------------
beautiful country roads. We came | Wp cou]dl,>t have everything nice and
across a castle which was built in, i didn’t do any fighting but
the year 1462. It was one beautiful ^ worked every day while the other
boys did the fighting and I worked,
too.
Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you about
place We never see such a thing as
a car, so we have to walk everywhere
we go or take a train.
We run through a city by the name boat I came over in—it was an old
< v ____ A on nrae v* _ mi t-»
of Mehun where Joan of Arc was
kept prisoner and burned. King
Charles VII was king at the time
and his castle still stands not many
yards from where Joan of Arc s pris-
on castle is. I" Chateauroux there
is a church which was built in the
year 942, almost 900 years ago. I
have the same supermtendentherel
had in the States—Major C F. Hop-
kins. off of the Frisco, out of Sapulpa.
He knew me as soon as he saw me.
This is the first time I have rail-
roaded since 1915 and believe me
when I get back to the States I will
never start back only to help the
States if they need me. tnmnr.
I am going to get a kodak tomor
row and take some pictures. Will
send you some of the pictures of these
French railroads. .
No news so will close, hoping this
will find you all well and getting
along fine. , , n ,
Your old Pal, RIljjY.
Pvt. J. R. Cowles. C° a^ EI>K8'
American E. F„ A. P. 0. 738.
From Capt. Dallas Watson to M. M.
Watson.
Langres, Frances, Nov. c4, 1918.
Dear Folks:
Todav seems to be in line for letter
y - w that wo can mention
a few names no doubt there «i )p
fying myself I firmly believe that I Dear Dad:
From Grover-C. Dean to H. E. Dean. . «- _ , . . • ,
Dartford, Enpland, Nov. 24, 1918. ^hfulTerv™ or eneaped in efforts
. „ , , ., , , , , i for the relief of disabled and suffer-
can win success in this work. I I have waited until the last day to inf; soldiers and sa;iors or who to a
I don’t want you to think that I Nvrite your Xmas letter. They sewei i e0nspjCU0us extent became interest-
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have come to place money above
cattle boat, the name was The Boe
hannon. It was an old English boat.
It was built in 1900. There was nine
in the convoy. They were all old
boats.
Well, Father, I will tell you some-
thing about this place. I am in
charge of a night crew. I am running
an engine at night. The engine is a
300 h. p. and we have four big boilers
and it takes all of them. This plant
is as big as the oil mill in Chandler
and I have charge of the building
and power at night. It is a big place.
It is to repair army steel and has a
big laundry to wash 50,000 pieces in
ten hours.—A big gin isn’t in it with
this plant—it will make ten gins. I
would like it fine if it was in Chand-
ler, Okla., ha! ha! But I don’t like
France and I want to get home so I
can make some money. It will take
me sometime to get back to where I
was when 1 left home.
I have lots of friends over here
this is a nice bunch of boys and I have
some nice officers. I like them fine.
Well, Father, I hope you have made
good money this year and I hope that
I will be with you next year. I can t
write very well, I doubt if you can
read it now. I can tell you more than
1 can write. I hope you have heard
from Jim by now.
I hope you and mother and the rest
will have a good Christmas this year
Last Sunday afternoon the funeral
services of Mr. and Mrs. James Mon-
membership consisting of persons roe Hutchinson were held at Oak Park
cemetery.
Mr. Hutchinson died in camp at
West Haven, Conn., after a long ill-
ness, and his wife started with the
body for Chandler. Enroute she was
seized with inlfuenza and at Chicago
was taken from the train and to a
hospital where she died.
The body of the husband arrived
in Chandler Tuesday and was taken
to the Collar undertaking parlors and
the body of Mrs. Hutchinson arrived
last Thursday.
Funeral services were held at the
Oak P:irk cemetery Sunday afternoon
under the auspices of the Home Ser-
vice department of the local chapter
Red Cross. Co. F. 2nd Regt., Ok. N.
G. and probably the largest crowd
ever attended a funeral in Chandler
accompanied the remains to the cem-
etery, where Rev. C. A. Morrison
spoke a few words of prayer and con-
solation to the bereaved family; the
Presbyterian choir sang and then Co.
F. took charge of the ceremony, Capt.
J. Bart Foster gave a short address
and the firing-squad fired a volley
over the remains of their comrade
and the “Star Spangled Banner” and
the soft notes of “Taps” followed the
soldier lad and his faithful wife on
, , „ occ on., .">= . ..p.... .... . ...... ........... th. ir journey to the Great Beyond.
I came over on the “Lusquehanna cauS() me to L,et a |ot morp out 0f Hfe from the barn and some harness and TheJ moth;r and brothers, two of
(a then recently interned German wbPn ] (rPt back to the only country olb, r propert'. I wbom are with the colors in France,
ship) and first saw France on Dec. fit to livP ;n. j wish I could have Mr. Dickinson came to town and I an(, sjstpr haye the svmpathy of the
__ 27, 1917. About thirty minuter after beon in onP 0f thoso divisions that notified tho-officers and local lodge (,ntlrp community in this their double
being unsuccessfully attacked, the was on the way to the Rhine but still A. H. 1. A., who immediately got sorrow
ship of course, by a submarine. We j wouldn’t care to stay over here as busy and tracer, the thieves to Sparks,
laid in the St. Nazire harbor for five ]on„ as thPV are going to stay. You where they had stolen a mule from
days and then took a train for Lou- „UKht to read these British papers if ''‘m Casteel and a little farther on, DR. ADAMS MOVING 1H1S WEEK,
gres (that trip I think I described y()U Want to know who won this war. a buggy and harness was stolen.
There we lived for three jt>s <;r,.at Britton and her allies. A The trail led through Prague and
mv arm Friday and since this I
everything else. I absolutely do not. have been m bed. .ly hand is^ti c an(j physical comfort of troops in
I have discovered the greatest thing UP mY npck. I haven t counted the camp or jn jjp]d or wb0 arp honorably
in life, however, and ns you know it stitches yet but there must tie at djscharged soldiers or sailors of any
is love. Money only raises to its 'Past a dozen of them. TJ’I’y suye ‘bl‘ „f jhP allies of the United States in
greatest value when considered not st'"K yesterday. I had him tell he the World War.
as an end but used as a means to an J’.llrse b.p wa? g010!? to graft the .g nQj. PXpPcted that members of
end. It is the later, you see, that I hnie on it so I guess he changed his thfi (. A R u. S. W. V. or any other
have had in mind when speaking of mind after he got me on the table. I e patriotic organization will discon-
success. j bad draw Part ,of the hldc ”v tinue their memberships, but will join
That ought to be enough on that three inches. It makes my arm above t{^ United War Veterans in addition,
ltiat ougnt to De enougn on uiao lhe ejb0w a lot smaller than that be- . . . , ,
subject now and we 11 talk it over ,QW but it won’t be long till this tion^of soldters of all wars
sometime after I get home, but just wound will be a thing of the past and rPi ,f
romomhor tlint in <;nito nf the fact j [ i i t The national headquarters are at
remember that in spite oi tne iact my band may not suffer as bad as I Kaii4.noii Montana and thev recom-
Steshar£,mSn?. n iit.ks.
srr.'as •«■«* ':<v» slwrrfwairwr'js
I can to increase the happiness of it I won’t be long until most of us up mander-in-chief is commandant of the
SPNow that it is permitted to tell j to make a trip to London then I am
more than usual of our experiences! ^ady,to,say K«°dbye to, EuroP ' a''
! __. tail though (with the exception of the
of'some of the places I Ue bU ^tU STo^ hfret Half mile east of Ch.ndier and took
since getting to France. see and the experience I have had will 1 ncle I etc s big bay mare, I earl
HORSE THIEVES BUSY.
Sunday night thieves visited the
Peter Diskinson farm one and one-
writing and now that we can^ mention
mafn7 ^
A few days ago I saw Major ui
..... ........._ vjicbi „„„ „ ...... Dr. J. W. Adams is moving his
weeks in an old "fort built iiv Napol- Undon pan^r’Znsist's'o'f the'follow' the thieves were captured about six office and sanitarium this week to the
eon, doing absolutely nothing. On in„. Front page filled with female miles from Okemah. --------1,1— r“ii"
January 25 we took a train for Paris, a(lvertisem<*nts; page No. 2 adver- All the stolen property was cap-
arriving at the outskirts on the 27th tisements; page No. 3, someone cheer turn1 and the thief is now a resident
and marched to another fort called ed the king; the king and queen ap- °f lb(“ Lincoln county jail. He has
DeStains, where we trained till April -—------but little chance of getting clear as
15th. DeStains is only a short dis- (Continued on last Page) he was caught “red handed.”
second floor of the new Collar build-
ing, which has been fitted up espec-
ially for his sanitarium. Dr. Adams
expects ta be moved by January 1st
and eomfortably located in his new
quarters.
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