The Sentinel Leader. (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1917 Page: 1 of 6
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The Sentinel Leader.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
-AND-
A Happy New Year
We wish to extend to our many custom-
ers and friends our sincere thanks for their
past patronage. The year 1917 we have had
the pleasure of seeing out business make
a wonderful increase. The New Year will
find us Ready and
Better Prepared than e :er to Sene You
We ask that you start the New Year right
by giving us your business.
May the New Year bring you many joys,
pleasure and real prosperity'
’Gill in the btnk and for y
1918 Ca trder
FI RST NATIONAL BANK
OF SENTINEL,
c II GRIFFITH, Pros. R. A. CHAMPUN, Cashier
A. tlYNDMAN, V-Pres. I,. I>- GALLOWAY, Asst. Cash
viiss Elila
Vliss Mary Monroe
MUSIC STUDIO
Phone 144 for further information
Canning the Kaiser
By Uptou Sinclair.
ne; "Marching Through Georgia.”
ing the good old bugle, boys, we’ll
sing another sonK»
it with a spirit that will move
the world along,
ig it as we need to sing it, half a
million strong—
W hile we are canning the Kaiser.
IOHUS: .
Bill! Oh, Bill! We’re on the job
today!
Bill! Oh, Bill! We’ll seal you so
you'll stay,
e’ll put you up with ginger in the
good old Yankee way-
While we are canning the Kaiser
ar the song we’re singing on the
shining road of France:
ar the Tommies cheering, and see
the Polius prance:
[ricariders and Kantucks and Scots
wighout their pents -
While we are canning the Kaiser.
ling the guns from Bethlehem, by
way of New York;
|ing the beans from Boston, and
doa’t leave out the pork;
|ing a load of soda-pop. and pull
the grape-juice cork—
While we are canning the Kaiser.
[me you men from Dixieland, you
lumber jacks of Maine;
s, you Texas cowboys and you
farmers of the plain;
i Florida to Oregon, we boast
the Yankee strain—
While we are canning the Kaiser.
3W we’ve started on the job, we
mean to put it through:
ip the kings and Kaisers all, and
make the world anew;
lear the way for common folks, fo
men like me and you
While we are canning the Kaiser.
know
separfueu at on ai uiar,
ing kept there and 1 sent on here.
I arrived in Seattle, Washington,
April 21st, some tired and dirty
fellow. We had a special train
and a real jolly bunch of boys,
there being 214 on the train for
Bremerton.
I stayed in, Bremerton, Puget
Sound, Washington, from April
2ist until August 2nd, getting
drill every day, saying nothing
if the time we were quarantined
for spinal meningitis, that being
rhree weeks.
On August 2nd, we steamed
jut of dear old Puget Sound for
^an Francisco, Calif., arriving
here Aug. 7th -Sunday. But on
°aving Puget Sound and as we
p ised around Cape Flatters into
the Pacific, there were thirty-six
f we hoys on watch at midnight
i all were deathly seasick but
eig , aid luckily for ms 1 hap
pern u to lie one of the eight.
Then we left Frisco th* same
evening for Santiago, Calif., ar-
riving there August 9th, coaled
ship (New Orleans) and steamed
>ut around Old Mexico tor Balboa,
Panama. We got there August
19th and passed through canal
August 20th, some real engineer-
ing doing the work* We coaled
ship in Colon on Atlantic side
August 21st and sailed for Cuba,
up through the Carbeap Sea,
passing there August 28rd; pass-
ed Castle Island at 8:00 p. m. the
same day, and on August 24th
were off- coast of Florida—nice
and warm. We arrived in Nor-
folk, Va., on August 27th, and
Letter From G. S. Banks
*
hear Sentinel Leader:
Just a word to let you _____(
hat I am s'ill alive. anchored ju$t east of Fprlress
I left the dear little towB ot itfobroe, jn tiampfoB RhSdes and
Sentinel April 12th, 1917, I. M. coajecj s|ljD August 28th. On
Wright taking Jessie and myselt
to take the train for Oklahoma
City on Sunday evening. We
arrived in Oklahoma City at 9:20
Sunday night and on April 12th
signed our pledge for the dear
old flag and dear ones at hon.e -
friends and loved ones. We left
Oklahoma City the same evenirg,
there being forty-six of we Okla-
homa boys bound for Chicago
We passed through Perry.
Okla., and a large crowd was
there to meet the train and they
gave us cheers and the band
rendered some patriotic music
We arrived in Kansas City the
following morning. April 13th,
leaving there at once for Chicago
We arrived in Chicago at 10:45
p m., April 13th, and left at
12 45 for Great Lakes training
station. We met a train load of
boys from Texas at Chicago and
all took the some train for the
lakes, arriving there at 2:00 a. m.
and sloping the remainder ot
the night on cold floor at deten-
tion camp. Next morning we
were all fixed up with suits and
uniforms in full.
1 was only at Great Lakes four
days and was then shipped to
Bremerton, Washington-onl\
fourteen miles from Seattle
All ol ... should be I*»lrio<ic enough <
•‘TO DO OUR BiT” |
Therefore hereafter we will serve 4
No Meats on Tuesdays «
coaled ship August 28th. On
August 29th one-half of our crew
gqt liberty for first time since
the first of the month, and cn
August 31st we sailed for New
York City, arriving there Satur-
day morning, Sept. 1st, and find-
ing it rainy and cool. We stayed
in New York five days- -sight-
seeing, leaving Sept. Gth for
France, taking twelve merchant-
men ships, we being their pro-
tection. Everything went well
until one ot the English vessels
we were convoying answered
a wireless message telling of our
location. We proceeded to butt-
in and stop ihem. Next morn
ing we cf ed ship up along side
and gave ihem strict o’lers that
if any moi signals ere heard
we would pr< ed < tire on them
at once, and tiu-j took us at what
we said. On Sept. 22nd, we met
seven torpedo boats just 100
miles off coast of England. They
were old U. S. A. boats too, and
we were greatly relieved for we
were in the midst of the U boat
prohibited zone. We gave them
three cheers, good luck and God
bless you and turned back for
good old U. S. A. V\e were
3000 miles east of New York.
We arrived back in New York
Oct. Gth, got liberty and had real
ice time, having been twenty-
ine days at sea.
Dear Mother:
I suppose you think I am a
long time dead, but I am very
much alive and as well as I ever
was. The voyage was just as I
have always said it would be,
for we were just as safe as we
would-have been at home I en-
joyed every minute of it and,
believe ame* one is a fool to re-
fuse a chance to come over here
for I have already made a jour-
ney by rail of quite a distance
and saw some of the places 1
studied about in my Ancient
History.
1 think the only thing I haven’t
seen is the sun, for it rains all
the time and the sun shines so
seldom that the people celebrate
when it does. You will doubtless
wonder what this city “Some-
where’' looks like. All I know
about rt is that it looks like all
other French cities—all you can
see is walls and crooked streets.
You would laugh yourself to
death to see these box cars,, and
most everything else. About
one-half of the people wear
wooden shoes, and it certainly
would amuse you to see them
comir.g down the street. They
look like they have their feet in
boats.
As it is getting late. I will have
to close. Please don’t worry
about me, for I am in no danger
and am quite happy, and if I
thought you were worrying it
would bother me.
Tell the boys they are missing
the chance of a lifetime, for this
is the prettiest country I ever
saw - " G.ilARK/CliKKiK.
“Somewhere in France"
“A
Put your money
in the bank
where deposits
are guaranteed
r. n
r\i
$3*
In Good Shape
That the energies expended to
keep the soldiers at Camp Travis
in good health are worth while
is attesied by the fact that no
community, no city in the south
with 30,000 population can point
to such splendid results as have
been the fruit of this care ant
attention. There are fewer
cases of sickness at Camp Travis
today than in any city in this
state of one-third the population
of Camp Travis. As the men
are built up physically and be-
come hardened to all things that
affect the health this sickness
will be Jtill lurther decreased,
for at Camp Travis there is be-
ing waged a fight that never
ends and there is being main-
tained a vigilance that never
flags to maintain the highest
health standard that modern
science and demonstrated meth
ods can devise. _
Notice
The way to get the full plate is to bank
your money REGULARLY, No matter how fc.
small your deposit Is, BANK it. As your bal j|
once grows, a feeling of cemfort, of security a
for the future, grows with it. The world looks fc
brighter to you because, come what may, you
and yuor family are secure against want.
Our Bank is a safe place for your money |
We p-’v 4 per cent interest __a
General Line of Insurance—Farm Loans
Oklahoma State Hank
SENTINEL, Okla.__
L. N. JEROME, C. H. JOHNSON, E. J. WINNINGHAM
6
Dr. Richardson,
Painless Dentist^
Crown, Bridge and Plate Work a Specialty.
Absolutely Guaranteed
Office over
Oklahoma State Bank
All work
Sentinel, Okla
ENTINEL
BAKERY
But we will serve Soups, Oysters,
Brains, Pies, and Other Good Eats
Don’t forget us when you want some
thing good for the hungray man
i
Persuant to an order of tbe
Directors of Sentinel Telephone
Company at the regular meeting
held October 7th, 1917. It was
ordered, that all bills were due
on the first of each month, and
must be paid by the 15th, or
service be discontinued. This
nr un,a oi s™. means stockholders ai well as
We then lay in New York bay renter8 in the luture 1 will
until Oct. 25th, when we sailed ! str|ct|y comply with this order,
out again for France with twen- j £>on’t blame me fqr stopping
ty one merchantmen vessels, con-1 your gervice, as I am on|y hired
voying them safely across. We t0 a9 \ instructed.
arrived back in New YTork Nov. j --
18th, mak ng two trips across: Red Ctoss Christmas Cheer
safely. The people of the United
We spent from Nov. 18th to ^ates are approaching the
the 29th in New again, which '8 i Christmas holidays under condi-
some city, leaving there for tions this country never has seen
the present port at Norfolk, Va ,hgforg; a„d moreover, it is prob-
Will leave here soon tor ’ able that this year we shall not
so goodbye and good luck to all. * *
war1
To a nice roomy brick building
south of the First National Bank.
Try some of those light, rich
Cakes, Cookies and Pastry,
Bread, Buns and Rolls
Take home a pound of that pure,
wholesome
Home-made Candy
SPECIAL ORDERS FOR XMAS GOODS
C. A. HULL, Proprietor
HPHE BEST FLOUR
I is the Wichita’s Best
AND YOU KNOW IT
Come to us for your Flour at a price that is
cheaper. We handle
FEED, FLOUR, COAL
and want to buy your Wheat when you come
to market.
The Orient Coal & Grain Co.
You get Best ol Service at all
BANNISTER’S
goodbye ana gooa iuck io an. expgrien08 our most sorrowful
Could write many, many things Christmas while this world
but think when Mr. Editor sees_____
times
rages.
this he will croak.
So goodbye. G. S. 3anks.
U- S. S. New Orleans, N. Y. City--------
In care of postmaster. • and save 50c per year,
January 1, 1918, the price of
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Leader before January 1, 1918, ____________
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Fields, John. The Sentinel Leader. (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1917, newspaper, December 21, 1917; Sentinel, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc937040/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.