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P^^siofSim ? ?' 1 Oregon Battery Has Been in Continuous Existence Since 1886. , Battery A, 147th field artillery j?$^i(0regon), la the oldest military organization In continuous existence west of the Mississippi river. Thd bfttcry was organized on February 8. 1886, and .since that time has an IK ' v awered the President s call in every I " crisis. 1 During the Spanish-American war, I the battery was stationed at Vancou> . ver barracks;- Vancouver, Wash., bei . Ing the only battery at that post. From that date to June 18, 1916, the , ; artillerymen were stationed at Portland, Oregon, being put through a training that was designed to round them into one of the highest ranking batteries in the national guard of the - . United States. The battery reached the border on Jily 1916. They encamped at Calexico, Cal., where they spent nine months. While on the border the 1 i'^.v uregonians gameu me uiauiiunuu ui ranking as one of the three leading gfeffr batteries of the U. S. N. O. v*- . On returning to Portland late in SsKji;' February, the boys were given a little fl&F^respite before preparations were again i niade t0 enter t*1? service. While other military organizations were re~ eruiting at feverish heat in order that i^Sjr they might be brought to war strength the battery slowly picked the men . * ' who were to represent this famous old organization in the world war. ' f.-'When the call finally came, another ; was formed and to this battery was: turned many of the active-and many i-l^i'-old members who were anxious to gSgfct^et back into the harness. But the organizations left the armory for the ' : ' .state mobilization camp at nearly war Strength. t?n September 10, 1917, the battery '*? left Clackamas, Ore., under the comjuand of Capt Bert V. Clayton, First ' 't- Lieutenants W. D. Jackson and R. E. J Daniels, and Second Lieutenant^ F. , Sjujbifi' jPattison and O. V. Painter. J ; COMPANY E162D. INFANTRY Cook Axwell B. Stone is convales i clng now after a severe attack of la grippe. The other cooks are thankful . as it generally falls to the lot of AxI -xiT W?H to hu"d the flres on these nice ] cool mornings. I Co. E. mascot. Gun Powder, a nice w -.LHttle Eskimo Spitz, Is growing fast I and takes odds from no other dog his fSrW.. alee. ^ . . Cook Roy Prather Is the most pop_ $ % ; lUar man in Co. E when It comes to ifr^ gattlng mail. He has received only grXf, twenty-four postals and a dozen let- ; ;;.,v..ters In two days from the same girl. {RSto.Ac to what she thinks of little Roy, : 3Vi- we can all guess. Some advance the tflgf' opinion that she actually loves the , IBS 4>oy. i liv'v-" -.-Cook E. A. Koeser is cooking with Wfi&jtiuiM hand these days. This is due to . k * the fact that he tried to be sharper I?'}.?- ..tlutn one of the kitchen knives, and r*? as a result the knife got the better ifl 1- - of the "scrap." The wound Is healX' " V . ing very nicely and it Is hoped that /'? Koeser will be able to take the part 1 V of a whole man within the next few |$fV?0aars. Supply Sergeant Simmons has to be : jlf'- careful these days, bwlng to the fact L$ri; that one of the new arrivals bears I. the same name, and he might get l * love letters that do not belong to < 1 .' him, and vice versa. The report flies that Company E : E" V made a fine showing at the review v Friday afternoon, and the beauty ? ; aqhad led by Corporal Vial won the : . ladles' hand-painted china. Mess Sergeant Merrifleld Is kept i busy these days trying to get enough : v for the hungry* bunch to eat. Some < ' Job, according to Max. < ^ The boys of Company E don't know ; i What to do with their hard-earned money these days as they are not allowed to go to town. However, the i;r problem is about to be solved by the -decision to buy Liberty- bonds. A ! tw mlghty good decision, too. 1 Ti - 1 The fourth platoon, commonly Th. known as the "Runts," made the com- 1 'g? pany Jump up and take notice on J ? walked away with the soccer ball j- given to the best drilled platoon In 1 * the company. The fourth platoon is 1 composed of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 1 16th squads, and Is also the tall end 1 f of the company In size, but, as they > demonstrated In the contest of Saturday, they are not the tail-enders when It comes to drilling:. We would j not Call to mention also that there are ! S only two first class privates in the ' platoon. , -j:'' In the opinion of the men In ranks the success of the fourth was due to J - &i the efficient work of Lieutenant Bor- . i,4!' deau, Sergeant Gray and Corporals ; m?' Parker, Crout, Potter and Sharp. Re- j %-'pardless of any one individual, they ] . all worked, and there are honors for i Battery A, 147th*fleld artillery, ath- ! 1> letlc club has organised for the sea- ' I son and will receive ofTers for games ] and wrestling 11 I : *'* - PLEASED WITH RESULTS OF L1BERTYBOND DRIVE Captain Welch, Aiding Director of Campaign, Says Westerners Proving Their Patriotism. "We are well pleased with the patriotic manner In which the men at Camp Greene are subscribing: for the Liberty bonds," said Capt. A. BWelch, 116th Engineers, who :s at sisting Major Lemuel L. Bolles In charge of the Liberty bond drive at Camp Greene. "The Liberty loan bond plan Is very simple and it Is very easy for every soldier to take'one {50 bond at least It will cost only $5 per month for each bond subscribed, the first allotment to be made from the October payroll. "Wo are very anxious that Camp Greene make an equal or better showing: than other cantonments In the United States, and we do not believe we will be disappointed. The Liberty bond issue gives the enlisted men an opportunity to servo their country In a dual capacity. They dre now serving their country as men in arms. This gives them a chance to serve their country ip another as equally Important manner. We think it is a wise move on the part of the department in teaching thrift and economy as well as patriotism and loyalty. '.'Our aim is to have every man in the division take a bond. All can do it and they will have something saved at the end of their terms. The bonds draw 4 per cent interest. "In case of death or discharge, the bond will be sold and the money returned to the soldier or dependents of the soldier in question. "The purchasing of Liberty bonds will he a big benefit to the service in another way?it will promote divisional pride and cement a closer feeling between the various units. In Company G, 161st Infantry, formerly the Second Washington. every man has taken a bond. This Is what we call 100 per cent perfect The 161st Infantry leads at the present time,- with $42,000 subscribed. The 116th Engineers are second with $8,000. "While the date for subscribing to the Liberty loan will be extended until October 25, we hope all men who desire a bond will make known their purpose at the earliest possible moment" SECOND LIBERTY LOAN FACTS 1. More than 99 per cent of the people of the United States can invest in the second Liberty loan 4 per cent bonds without beinc in anv wav affected by their taxable feature. 2. The new 4's are exempt from all state and local taxes. 3. The Income from the new 4 per cent Liberty bonds is subject only to surtaxes. 4. Surtaxes are levied only on incomes in excess .of 15,000. 6. Out of a total population of 110,000,000 in the United States only 400,000 persons paid income taxes in 1916. 6. Only 246,000 persons paid surtaxea 7. J5.000 face value of new 4 per cent Liberty bonds are exempt from ail taxes whatsoever, present and future. 5. An Individual may own (providing he has no other capital) $130,000 Liberty loan 4s and pay no taxes. 9. The income of an individual from Liberty loan bonds (providing he has no other income) Is exempt up to $5,200. Of this exemption $5,000 represents the 4 per cent interest on bonds of a face value of $125,000 (exempt from all normal taxes) and $200 represents the interest at 4 per cent en bonds of a face value of $5,000 exempted from all taxes (paragraph 2, Liberty loan act). AT "Y" 107 . \\ Dr. Vines of the First Baptist shurch, of Charlotte, addressed a large audience at 107 on Friday night Chaplain Prachl of the 164th Infantry closes the regimental service it 107 In time so that men may attend shurch services In Charlotte. The "home hour" at 107 on Sunlay afternoons continues to grow In attendance and interest The ladles at the First Baptist church furnish the program. AT BUILDING 107. Tl Building 107 has had strong speaksrs with which to start off the religious work. Dr. Clarence Barbour, of Rochester, N. Y., now In charge of, religious work at Spartanburg, was :he first speaker. Chaplain Pippy, of Montana, now of the one hundred and sixty-third infantry, gave his initial: tddress at Camp Greene. Father' Manley will have charge of the! Knights of Columbus house for a time.; President George Atkinson, of Salisbury, has given a spirited address of the real southern type. And not the least of the addresses was by Mr. Irmburst, religious director in 101. rhe singing of Miss Peasley and Mrs. Knebel has added much to the meet AND CAMP BAKERS READY TO CO [ TO BAKE FOR PERSHING A -visit at Governor's Island. New [ York, and then overseas to France! That la the program outlined tor 11 members of the 324th baker company, formerly the 36th baker company. Sergeants C. W. Harris and G. Strurala; Corporals W. H. Zell; First Class Privates H. I* Austin, Hugh fl Duggan, Oscar J. Floto, Abe Jacobs, ? Claude H. Michael, Max J. Newman, Thorwald Nielson; and Private Les- a ter B. Ballenger are now waiting ship- p ment "Over There." Their places are <j gradually being filled by men from nthor nrTYia t\f tVio qprvirp To Hat A. * Private! Emil Navratil and John Mil- *> ler, of the Infantry service, from North p Dakota, and Private Robert Parker, j of the quartermaster corps at Fort j, Caswell, have Joined the bakers. u The bakers' canteen Is evidently taking In money, for the company Is G fitting: up a large rest tent with read- ^ ing matter, games and a graphophone. n Such a lounging room Is especially t| needed In an outfit where some of the men work at all hours of the. night y and consequently sleep at all hours t] during the day. ^ j, GERMAN IN DAKOTA COMPANY HAS TROUBLES 5 d Enlisted in South Dakota Guard ? to Obtain Protection From Ca- h nadians Claiming He Was Spy. In plundering around Company Two li a visitor Is liable to run upon most it anything out of the ordinary, in so li far as North Carolinians are concern ed. There will not only be round In- 1t< dians, but a man with even better, e "scrapping" qualities, a German. His e name Is Blackhill, and he hails origin- , tl ally from Bernburg. Germany. Since | tl coming to America he has had it pret- a ty tough, he says, and from the following history wntch he gives us we w are inclined to agree with him. * t' His troubles began in October. 1914, C when he was arrested by Canadian C authorities as a spy. He was held in i c prison pending his final sentenco for live months. However, on the 28th ; N day of January, 1915, an opportunity t; presented itself and he made his 1: "get-away," coming to the United i? States by "rail and foot," as he puts it. Hverything went well with Black- [ hill until March, 1916, when he was again arrested In Boston on the same charge as claimed in Canada. He was successful in clearing himself be- [ q fore the "Bean City" officials, and on his release he went to South Dakota, joining the Fourth SoUth Dakota reg- j lment just in time to serve on the > Mexican border. After-returning from the border he was again arrested in Chicago by United States authorities tl on request of Canadian officials. For- ftunately Just at this time the United f; States declared war on Germany and the United States government refused i< to turn Blackhill over to the Canadian 0 auhorities on the grounds that he was ti a member or the national guard ana ? had proven a loyal BubjecU beyond a> ii I doubt - ji ! He la now with the second company [ p of the 148th M. G. B.N., and he says. U I "Anxious to light the Germans." He | ? I tells us that he has two brothers now | v in the Geripan army, one a captain 11 and another a lieutenant. When ask- [ p ed what he thought of fighting for 10 the Slates, he said: "This country is j ^ good enough for me to live in and it's good enough for me to light for." J h From that little 'ol State of Montana u comes Ben Rowland who holds the distinction of having In his system a the lighting "stuff" of the Cheyenne v tribe. Benny went to school three fj weeks, he tells us, but at the end of this period he decided that he would i, make a better soldier than he would p a student. Obeying bis Impulse, he Joined Company 1 of the Fourth South w Dakota Infantry, and came here with w that outfit. For the last two years he ?1 hoi Knan with a Wild Wait >hn? ilnlnr I "rough riding." When asked what he ^ thought of the machine gun company ^ aa compared with the infantry, he v, said that he was very well pleased, w "because I don't like to pack that gun." WAR SONG WRITTEN a BY OREGON WOMAN J G Private I. F. Fox, Co. I, Second d Washington Infantry, has received 11 from a friend a war song published a in a Portland, Oregon, paper. The fol- vlowing is from a Portland paper: tl "Oregon people are showing their P patriotism by action, word, and song, a by over-subscribing war funds and by enlisting. Counted among those who w have done their bit is Mrs. 8arah A. tl Blackman, who has composed, "Keep >1 tne nome nres nurning. in? song ?* la patriotic and appeals particularly T to those who remain at home, while w their cons are fighting in the trenches, ti The chorus follows: 1? " 'Keep the home Area burning for the lads across the sea; Fpr while they are fighting America for thee; * G Bring ye now more faggota to make p; the flames mount high, V And keep the home fires burning for w your own soldier boy." 01 The words and' melody are by Mrs. a: B lac km an and the music arrangement b was mads by Z. ML Parvln. a Page 3 IIVISION COMMANDER [M SPEAKS IN BOND DRIVE jM Irigadier General Jervey in Address to Soldiers, Declares Financial Support Is Needed. The Liberty bond campaign was oficially launched at camp No. 3 |jj H 'hursday afternoon with an enthusistlc meeting of all the units at that If Qj II lace, near division headquarters. Xu fu W 'he soldiers assembled on the parade Tounds on the east side of the regi- mmmmssa lental street and were addressed by irigadier General Jervey and Dr. BgzSjgn (land, of Charlotte. N. C. The .116th Ingineers' band provided music for ryflVJjW be occasion. U / 1 Ijl In addressing the men Brigadier II 1IU ieneral Jervey emphasized the fact nl lljU bat to_make the war a success, it is ItfcA lij| i its plan to raise funds by dispos- Bjj Rn'tfU ig of the Liberty bonds. lie cited Jl 01 hat there was no safer investment. r'l'-y B gl tie government being the best secur- Ru-flCEs y obtainable. He congratulated the rrThr00J| tates of the Northwest In producing M M IREV uch an army as he addressed, and El Jekflnyj xpressed his belief that the men from MM hat section of the United States would o their part in the Liberty bond mUSrtk I ampaign. The speaker then read a MenU BIQ umber of telegrams relative to what H ffiglljl ad been done in other training camps ji Ml It vj hroughout the United States, toward IkSJB urchaslng Liberty bonds. II mT&B "It is to all our interests," he said Illlfl fflTg lent to Berlin that we are not wag- l|^ j | Dr. -Bland made a patriotic appeal II (Kfl 9 the men to do their bit in the Lib- llm mill rty loan campaign. He compliment- 111 f I' W heir soldierly appearance as well as rrlval at Camp Greene. ras staged on the parade ground ween teams from CompanyA and ILfl ? lompany D, of the 116th Engineers. YM 'onipany D won the seven-inning ^ Jr/M ontest by a score of 11 to 1. In the evening at the Y. M. C. A. fajor H. A. Branden, of the first bnt- I xlion, 116th Engineers, addressed a iHI IfnJ lrge audience on the Liberty bond DISTRICT TROOPS HAVE Til HAD CONTINUOUS SERVICE WWM )nly One Company of Third Reg- 'TlK iment Left to Represent Dis- JB trict and Negroes Compose It. V njl According to what tho fellows of |J~ he Third District of Columbia In- v?l |3 an try. who are joining the 162nd In- >- tffl antry. tell us. they have been on the VI go" since they were called Into serv- M m e on the border June 13, 1916, the JL utfit having had only 18 days vaca- -Jf" JU Ion since that date. The outfit pitch- B, d tents at Camp Wilson, Texas, until Ik U ist February, returning on the 27th, j| || ust in time to march in the inaugural Adarade. They were mustered out on BJKJk-Hr larch 12 last, but were recalled into VBWES ervice April 1. They guarded the 3 rater works of Washington city un- VjJVC 'ort Myer, Va. The battalion reportlince coining here they have been vQ shot to pieces," the entire regiment VflEv n.vine been transferred to some new \ li(P utOt. \ W In discussing the transfers, there is \ VI general opinion that they would be ? ery well satisfied were it not for the ^J|NS act' that there is only one company yTJ sft to represent the District of Coimbia, and tliis is found to be a com- \4\mV. any of negroes. MLllir? The boys are very much pleased rith the act that Harry Klotz. who as once a commissioned officer witli * J ae Third District of Columbia, is now A V ack with the regiment as a sergeant. L W1 [e resigned his commission in 1916. ^ | fjl^ a to what the boys think of him was J /I ^ ery well expressed by Sergeant Mace 'hen he said, "Harry is some man." DELIGHTFUL "HOME HOUR." 7[K T On Sunday, September 30, Mesames J. T. Hartt, F. D. Spencer, W. I I I . L Garrison and the Mi38?6 Mary Lou- I LC te Crowell, Minerva Garrison. Mary LI |H lorme Johnston, Helen Clinard. Bir- li H. ie Clinard, Madeline McCann, Ophe- M HgaJ a Hartt, Mary Sims, Elizabeth Long IB nd Gladys Long entertained the priates and officers of Company L. Slrd District of Columbia, the busItal corps from the base hospital, at n informal home hour. Next Sunday Mrs. \V. W. Johnson 111 have charge of the home hour at lis building. Mrs. Johnson eatabched a reoutalion for ontertaining , t the base hospital a week ago last hurscay and we are all lookinK 'or- * rard with a preat del of plesant an- Hj|| IW lllll clp&tlon to the time when njie and er party Bhall arrive at number lo6. RH II HAVE TRANSFERRED. fl ( [| Privates Bruce Wheeler and Arthur II ill I oodrich have transferred from commies L and A to H company. Bruce Wheeler Is a noted wrestler and has rest led some of the best wrestlers [ Portland. Arthur Goodrich is ifl l|| I mong the beat football players of the Ml |1R- 111 igh schools of the West. He is also MlHre| fast basketball tosser. LUJ -
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