The Eugene Guard from Eugene, Oregon • Page 6

wwatyTftedng, May 2o, 1 EUGENE DAILY GDABO Fae Six. BiiELL PRAISES IIIIIiLU illUII once. It looka aa though there waa aa awful bloodshed, for the drain is extra large. Down underneath tha building are the dungeone. Home of them are locked now with heavy padlocks.

There is no light, snd that makea it worse for there GIVING EXPEKE we get about one-third of it, ao if I want you to get a letter a week I will bars to writ three times a week. But there is ao little we can write about. About all we could aay would be sick or well, sad If we are aick the government will aay that for na. I'm looking forward to the day whan we will not have to look as longingly for a letter. There la lots of good news if we could tell it.

but suppose you get it in the papera only more eisggerated. "Too ought to. hear the boy a talk of reunions, at Fort Stevens, you would think they were old vetersns, but I suppose there will be bigger' doings than is a musty smell. I would have dons anything before I would have been confined to one of thoae dreary cells. We need csndles to see sround with snd sometimes the candles would hardly bum.

Of all tha old time buildinga and people H. Wade LeRoy, of Cottage Grove, Writes Mother Telling of Life Overseas. H. Wade LeRoy, a member of tht old Bixtb company of Cottage Grove, but bow with lb 65th Field Artillery, some where ia Franca, writ entertainingly of h'a trip over and hia Ufa la France to hi mother, who reaidee fat Cottage This Is Red Cross Week Whether You Are Solicited or Not GIVE UNSTINTINGLY TO THIS WORTHY INSTITUTION. Give Until It Makes You Happy "A great net of mercy drawn through an ocean of unspeakable pain" and thinga you ever heard of I have seen them.

Ws were iust figuring up and counting actual diatance we have traveled 14.471 miles snd not counting the hundreds of miles we traveled on the boat dodging aome unknown ahip or big aubmahnes. That will be an awful long distsncs to travel if we ever atart home, but I'll bet there isn't a man that left the weatern atatea, that wouldn't travel twice that far to get back. It may be a long way back but It will not be too long to travel when they aay 'The war ia won. I am through with you "Maybe It would be a good plan to cut tbia off and write more often. It'a a long way to Oregon, but we are ell coming GroTe.

The letter followi: "Somewhere in France, April 22. Member Eugene Home Guards Says Creswell Men Drill Best of Any Yet Seen. Howard Brownell, who went out at the invitation of the Creaweit home guards, atatea that they are one of the beat drilled organizations in the county, according to the following communication: To Editor Guard: It waa my privi-lege last evening, to viait the home guard at Creswell and I thing the people of Lane county ought to know more about tbia aplendid organisation at that place. Two companiea are organised there, consisting of one hundred and aixty-one members; last evening they drilled in the Armory at Creswell for an hour and a half, moat of the men were without uniform, but their work was without question the best I have yet seen in Lane county. Captain C.

O. DeVere ia In command of theae two companies; he is a military man from hia feet up. I find that he aerved for several years in the Second "Dear Mother: Received our first nail yesterday and fat five letters. I read and read and then read some more, I did not get them in very good rota tion, thejr were marked 2, 5, 7, 9, 7, ao the old Civil war veterans ever thought of. I can jjst imsgine myaelf going to the superintendent of some I'.

8. H. 8. end ssking for a week off to attend some (rand reunion of the Yankee "I sure hsve found out it pays to live straight, for it sure Is showing on every ons of as whst kind of Uvea we have lived and ars living. I believe that is ons reason I have been so lucky, snd am sure I bsr been svsr sines I left Fort Stevens.

"England Is the most beautiful country I hsve ever seen. Everything is so funny though, we nesrly split lsugbing. The trains are like our first ones, spokes in ths wheels snd only four wheels to a car Instead of eight or ten or twelve lika oura. They sura look funny. They bsvs some eight-wheel cars, but we sure felt and knew we weren't at home.

One thing they can do Is travel. They have ours best for fsst trsveling. We were back. "Well, have bad a nice dinner and am ready to finish thie. We atill have all we want to eat, and always iio unleaa we are traveling and hit a camp with a Bloody Englishman ruuning it.

Ha, ha! "If I aend a German helmet home I don't want any one to use it for a flower pot, or wash twain aa aome of the Sam-miea do theira once in a while. "I am in the beat of health and have Engineer Corps of the state militia in Just at a little camp there until we could roruand, Oregon, prior to the breaking out of the Spanish-American war, and at the commencement of the Spanish-American war, he went to the front and fought through the war with diatainction auppoae the others will be along soon. "I hare had a felon on my forefinger ami came sear losing it as I ever want to. It is almost well now and I will soon be a real soldier again- The doctor said I waa aure husky. I waa shaving yesterday for the firat time since I bad it lanced and I noticed It was a Httle easier to share, and when I got to my chin I noticed It waa ens of those yon call a doable chin.

I began to investigate and found I look like Fatty Arbockle beside I did whan I want to Fort Stems. I suppose a letter yon mail about Hay 1, win say received allotment and Insurance papers O. K. And than the kalaer baa got to come np and die right. The Sentinel waa almost like a Tiait by the president I mean to na at home.

I read it and took it over to the Grove boy to read. It almost seemed out of place. "We almost wanted to drop a bomb every man in Cottage Grove for making a failure of the Borne Guard, aa srsry on ssys 'Every one that ought to be In this war and isn't is going to hare a pretty tough time of It when we get to get ready to cross the channel. We hiked sil ths wsy to the dorks, snd about 8 p. m.

took trsnsport for somewhere. We got on a freight train, and on the aide learned a lot about how to care for oneself ainca I quit aifning Mr. to my name. You ought to hear the boya' opinion now about aucb atuff aa cigarettee. They all admit it isn't the best, where they under Captain J.

F. Caae. in Lomnanv What Has Your Red Cross Money Done? the first place, it has enabled the American people, through the Red Cross, to help care for its army of the car waa printed Hommuea 40 or of the Second Oregon. Chevauz 8, 40 men or eight horses. There were no Pullmans for that trip.

Have Drilled Twa Months. The two companies hsve been orean. uaed to wouldn't hint there waa any harm. Such ia army life, everything cornea out and makea room for lota to go In. I We saw soma beautiful country.

All ised and working for only a little over two montha. The men had come for eev- along the way ware wayside shrines, old churches, and old buildings. It is a big enclosure all walled la by high rock fences with four-story stone buildings on ths inside. It is where Napoleon stayed and where hia picked legion were erai miles, moat of them on foot after a hard day'a work, they drilled with dummy guns, there were about aixty preaant at the drill, (the number being email on account of the election) and these men executed with extraordinary precis "Here'e hoping I get thoae missing letters, snd you get yours ss regular aa cen be expected. I haven't written since I have been laid up but tbia ia the herald of a etrlng of them.

"Don't abbreviate A. E. F. Lettere so for have had good addresses and that is what it takes for us to get them. "Hoping everyone is well and happy, "Your lovinir son, WADE I.E ROY." quartered.

ion every command given, and the com manna, i obaerved, covered many trying "There are old guns snd armor thst were used then. They srs in rooms but ws csn go all through and look to our heart'a content. On one of the main entrances Is all of the great victorlea of Napoleon carved In the atone above the entrance. Over another la an old sundlsl running loose That a one thing hare, and everywhere on this side. Ton don't see any lira huskies who aren't doing their part and everyone has some government work.

Slacken better take to the hills when they ever hear a ru-mor. The American soldiers are return ana complicated movements. After the companies had drilled together. Captain DeVere commanded (he corporala to take charge of their squad and for a half hour, they did separate squad drill in a most excellent manner. I was proud of all of their work; they compose two msds in the rock.

ing. "If they could see a few of these girls "They know how to use concrete snd plsster, for all the walla are concrete her doing men's work In factories, build great companiea of men; their hearta and Uvea are in the work. and plsster. There are no nails used, hut ing roads, and every other kind of labor, end then they stayed back they ought to the wood what Is used is drift, bolted or morticed into tha rock. All around the building ere chaina about two feet long where the horses were tied while wsiting to bs groomed.

There are places for sbout two thoussnd horses ao he was be tagged and inspected oace or twice weak to sea that their condition didn't get ao bad, thsy might harm someone. "I saw several fellows I met in Florida and we had a good talk. I wlah I could depend on the mall aa well as eonld there. It sura would be beat, of all things aver. "I suppose yon get our mall a boat like There companiea are.

aa I have aaid, without equipmenta and the men, many of whom are the beads of families, are unable to buy them. I promiaed Captain DeVere that I would do all I could, in my limited way, to enlist for them the financial support of the proper authori-ties. In this great work, which ia, in my judgment, paramount to all other, which we home folk can take a hand in, either Sheriff Elkins and Major Dieck, Commandant of Military Police, Leave on Quest. sura well fixed for cavalry. "There ia gladlstor ring and drain around tha ontaide.

They aay there used to be a guillotine In the center of it and navy. Secondly, it has enabled America to hearten her Allies' fighting forces and to keep up, among the civilian populations, the spirit to win the war. That, alone, has made the American Red Cross one of the largest factors since our entry into the war. Canteens which provided food and hot drinks more than a million meals to soldiers in December; warehouses, crammed with materials, situated all along the French line, all along the Italian lines, at seaports and at places where our soldiers are going to fight; institutions for the care of consumptives, institutions for the re-education of maimed men these are a few of the concrete accomplishments abroad. At home rthe millions of woolen sweaters, mufflers, socks and other comforts for the men in camps; the work of sanitation around cantonments and the help and advice given dependents of soldiers and sailors these are things which will "make you, your children and your children's children, in whatever part of the world they may be, proud of being Americans." Will you do your share to keep this Hand of Mercy at its work CWtefept Cw't tatl Oat evtn dfece what Utile you do eat! A squsd of tho Oregon military police arrived in Eugene Sunday night.

According to reot'ts from Oorvallis, Jeff Baldwin, who escaped from the penitentiary st Salem a week ago by knocking down a trusty and robbing him of his clothes, in which ha walked past the guard, waa heading aouth in the mountaina west of Corvallia. Major Richard Dieck. commander of the police, ia an old Spanish war com mo county or state authoritiee ought to help the home guard of tbia county, in buying their neceaaary equipment. Surely if there la any work In Oregon which deaervea financial support, this is that work. HOWARD M.

mmmn be Ont tw doses ARMY NAVY DYSPEPSIA TABLETS rade of Sheriff Dillard Elkina. and they 4 (sat tan years younger. Best i Pck aU Dnitttmt, or did much acouting together in the Philip-pines. They left together Monday fore noon for the weat part of the county. to endeator to locate and rapture Bald win.

There are eevernl enuads of the U. S. ARMY 41 NAVY TABLET CO. military police who were in the city Sunday night, and who left Monday on MO Waal Broadway, N.Y. SPECInUpURES Elks' Patriotic Show to Revive Old-Time Games and Dances in Eugene.

the quest for Balowln. The Elks have the reputation of never doing anything half way. When they undertook to put on a ahow for patriotic purpoaes, it was with the Intention of accomplishing something for the aid of the war. In a good mcaaure, how they will auceed rtependa upon the efforta of Evry cent of tvery dollar rcW for tht Red Crott War Fund got, for War Relief. peraon in 1-ane county.

They are aaking evervme to attend thia show snd bring his or her friends with them. They assure aU that there will not be an objectionable feature displayed. They will put on the nmu ..) a The American Red Cross Is tha lannt mrti nM of dare gone by. Only Elk money can I be used. There will be muaic by Pete Ash'a famoua jaix band, which -will k.

efrlelent organisation for the relief of suffering that the World bsa sver oean. It Is made np aliaeat entirety of volunteer worker, the higher executives being without exception men as-customed to large aftalra. who are In almost all eases giving their eervtcee without pay. It la supported entirely by Its membership feee and by voluntary contributions. It la today bringing relief to raftering humanity, soth military and civil, la every Wsr torn allied country.

It plana tomorrow to help la ths work of" restoration throughout the world. It foeda and elathea entire populations In time of great calamity. It la there to help your soldier boy In hia time of need. with ita theueands of workers. Ita tremendoue stores and smooth running transportation faellltlea It la esrvlng aa Amarlca'a advance guard nd thus helping to win ths war.

Coiurreaa authorises It. President Wllaon heada It. The War Department audits Its aeeounta. rwy. Tour Navy and your Allies enthusiastically snSoraa it.

Twenty-two million Americans havs joined It. 1" 1 111 Itf ot feature of the occaelon. Dancing be one of the big drawing card. Drink, labeled aa the. to be.

wUI aubmerge the boys who sing. Tm afraid that's all I can spare" You're a regular, red blooded, blue American. You love your country. You love that flapping, snapping old flag. Your heart thumps hard when the wry i Ata.

The announcement "tj rial reqneat David Graham will 'return Allen Eaton's 'goaf and Jim Full.eton'. CONTRIBUTED TO THE RED CROSS BY Jo'in Bell will tell JUWTUKS ATTORNEYS Dr. W. B. Neal Bede' he haa on the legielature.

"For the edification of the 'Iriah' Fred Stlckela will be a.ked G. F. SkiDworth 'Greein Pitcher' on the ank. jtroops tramp by. You're loyal Dr.

F. M. Day Dr. H. S.

Studley Dr. R. F. Burnett Dr. Omar R.

Gullion Many more features will be added. Mark these daya your calendar. fnlk.t.. 1001- Dr. E.

L. Titus Dr. W. L. Cheshire Dr.

Geo. O'B DeBar Dr. G. S. Beardsley Dr.

C. W. Southworth Dr. F. W.

CominiTs Dr. S. M. Kerron Dr. M.

C. Harris Jesse E. Wells E. O. Immel i O.

H. Foster Walter B. Jones Richard Shores Smith H. M. Brownell J.

O. Medley J. M. Deevers E. O.

Potter Whitten Swafford W. G. Martin L. L. Ray L.

M.Travis R. S. Bryson L. Bilyen Chas. Hardy 22, 23, 24, 25.

Make your datea accordingly and we are aure you will have a big time as well ss aid a worthy cause." You intend to you want to Dr. Dr. Dr. T. W.

Harris C. B. Marks J. W. Harris Big Scenic Production S.

Workman at Eugene Theatre Tonight I 1 i What is said to be the biesest Girl In ths Golden West." This play is ported to the under way fot establish end electrical production "ver aeen in the city with a popular priced ahow, will be the attraction at the Eugene theatre tonight, when the clever little Atbon com ESTRAY NOTICE too well known to need any long descrip help win the war in a hurry. "Sacrifice? Sure," you've been thinking. "Just you wait till they really need it," And you've hon-jstly thought you meant that too. i Come, Cornel Let's quit fooling ourselves. Let us learn what "sacrifice" means.

Let us give more we can spare let us "give itill the heart says stop." Contributed to the Red Cros by tion, otherwise then to say, that all who ment of the former caar'a family in Bwitserland. They are expected to arrive from Bussia by way of Austria. pany put on the well known play, "The For Itching Tartar GRAND DUKE Hi Moscow, May 14. Grand Duke Alexia, the former eaarevitch, is seriously ill, according to a report to Tobolsk. On or about May Sth, a sorrel man wsndered from my premises at Deitet Or.

She is thought to hsve gone towsrt the Fsll Creek neighborhood. Descripti follows: years of age, light mane and tail, blare in face, saddle and hsrnen mark, rather alender build, weight about 1000 pounds. Send informstion to J. PARKER. a-l Dexter, Or There ia one mnedv that aeldom faila see it will get the surpriae -of their lives.

Then there will be Madcap Madge Evana. the acrren favorite in her lates: triumph "Wanted, a Mother." Thia five reel production ia conceded to be one of the greateat of ita hind. The story la one that everyone likes, and tha acting ia superb. Billy Bhodes. the well known New York Hippodrome comedian, will be seen in a two reel comedy, -Trixie of the Follies." To see Rhodes is to laugh, and as he la the highest salaried comedian on the American atage, his first picture should be a winner.

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if praeetned at the Bank of Commerce on or before May 18, other-wiee No, 374 win be the winning number. tlrwlarara disappear wvarsuhL Itching usually stops loatantry. Zemo la a safe, antiseptic liauld, clean, easv to uaa and sv- dependable. It coats only 35c; an extra large bottle, $1.00. It will not stain, is not grrary or sticky c-d Is positively THRIFT STAMPS aad WAS SAVINGS STAMPS en ffala at Business OfKc.

The Guard. Former Czar of Russia May Go to Switzerland Zurich. May 20. Negotiations are re for tender, sensitive akhta. Tb K.

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