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Miss Ruth Robinson, who was a*
home a couple of woks, has returned
to her work as the X. P. hospital at
Taeoma.
On Wednesday, October 3", oc
curred the wedding of Miss Treva
Conine to Ralph A. Reischl at the
home of iter parents. Mr. and Mrs. H.
L. Conine. The bride was beautifully
dressed in white meteor silk. Only a
very few of the intimate friends and
relatives were present. Bride and
groom left the same evening for Ta
eoma. where they will reside for the
present. Their many friends wish
them a long, happy and prosperous
journey through life.
Mr 3. Ernest Robinson and Miss Mae
Robinson returned Tuesday from Ta
eoma, where they had been visiting.
Albert Smith received word Monday
that his nephew, Ray Smith, had
passed away with pneumonia.
Mrs. Fitch and daughter Genevieve
were down from Tacoma last week to
attend the wedding of Treva Conine
and Ralph Reischl.
Stanley Price of Camp Lewis was
visiting at his home here Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Conine and
daughter Vivian were Olympia vis
itors Monday.
Ml'I) BAY.
W. D. Cook, who is employed at
Union Mills, was home over Sunday.
Mark Aspinwall has applied for
enlistment in the tank corps of the
army.
Mrs. Schmidt of Olympia is visit
lac her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Com
atock and family.
We hope to be able to hold a
meeting of the Grange next week.
The McLane auxiliary of the
Thurston County Red Cross chapter
met at the Grange ball Wednesday.
There is much work to be done and
we need more workers. All who can
spare a few hours are urged to come
Md help in *he good cause.
Leo A. 'Cook returned, jflgturday
from a two weeks' visit wT?h rela
tives and friends at Sequfam and le.;
now working at Camp Lewis.
E. A Wolslegel of Tacoma, accom
panied by Mrs. Crawford and Mrs.
Wilcox, visited hfs parents Sunday.
George Kelley has changed his
Liberty Six for a Studebiker road
ster.
Election day was very quiet in the
McLane precinct. Mrs. John Außtin,
Mrs. Bert Shannon and Mr. Hous
man acted as judges.
Our schoolmaster, John Negley,
whose teaching at. McLane has been
ao satisfactory, is called by the next
draft and leaves the 20th.
Dudley Galllgan, who is in the
navy, writes from the Housatanic,
somewhere near the European coast,
that he is well, working hard and
well taken care of.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and Mrs.
George Kelley visited at Gus Arnold's
in Olympia Sunday.
BOUTN UNION.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Campbell and
family have moved to Ellensburg.
They are just recovering from the
"flu."
Messrs. W. J., R. L. and Harola
Abbott were hunting last week.
Mrs. J. H. Cox, son and daughter,
of Tacoma, visited the former's sis
ter, Mrs. W. K. Ball, last week.
Mrs. John Gunstone and daughters
spent last week on their ranch, and
were around calling on their old
neighbors.
Miss Jeannette Pound visited rel
atives in Olympia last week.
Mr. A. L. Randall, who was ill at
St. Peter's hospital several weeks, is
at home much improved.
Neighbors and friends of Mr.
Charles Lenard are glad he was not
on the doomed boat from Alaska,
but arrived home safely.
South Union is a pretty healthy
spot, as the "flu" has not reached
here yet. Just a few of us have
colds.
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Glasford and
the latter's sister, Mrs. Mitchell, are
visiting Mr. Glasford's relatives in
Sacramento, Cal. They expect to be
gone all winter.
Mrs. W. D. Bollinger has returned
to her home after spending several
mopths in Oregon with her mother
who has been quite ill.
Mr. A. Hansen, Miss Dora Hansen
and brother Peter spent Saturday in
Olympia.
A few neighbors called at tba
home of Mrs. W. K. Ball one evening
last week in honor of her birthday.
A pleasant time was enjoyed. Mrs.
Ball received sonic tery prett;. pre
i nts and all wished her man- happy
returns n: the day.
Little Claire McDowell is .siting
.his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. \V. .1
Abbott.
Mr. Grant Bessr spent several days
recently at the home of Mr. and Mr-.
1 Arvid Pearson.
Messrs. W. T. Schulze and W. Lea
were in South Union Saturday o.i
1 business.
j Mr. Charles Gunstone visited his
' home Thursday of last week.
South Union was pretty well rep
resented Thursday at the Meek auc
tion sale.
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BLACK RIVER VALLEY.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blair and Mrs.
Winston of Oakville were the guests
j of Mr. and Mrs. George Blair of Gate
Friday of last week.
The Christenson family of Cedar
ville have returned to Gate and now
occupy the P. A. Murray house.
Mr. Saylo of Rochester is now
! manager of the mercantile store in
j Gate for L. L. Hunter.
J. B. Watson was transacting busi
ness in Oakville Tuesday.
Election was rather quiet in this
precinct. The board consists of Mr.
Pitcher, Mrs. Rose Gaisell and Miss
Florence Spinner.
Elum and Otis Parish are in Gate
1 with their grandparents, until the
"flu" is stamped out of the national
camp, where their parents reside.
The Nelson and McCreedy fami
lies, who have been east of the moun
tains picking fruit, returned to Gate
Friday of last week.
James Walker and William Harri
son did not go back to camp to
work, there being too much "flu"
in their camps.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hodges of Ce
darville were in Gate Saturday and
Sunday visiting their parents.
Floyd Parish is building an addi
tion to his house. Mr. O. Cross is
doing the carpenter work.
M. Spinner has been having a seri
ous attack of lumbago the past week.
Ndv/'iltt" in our locality as yet.
and we feel very thankful.
NORTH LAKE.
Jack Adair's are very busy dig
ging potatoes, some of which are
nearly a foot in length.
Mrs. Reed and daughter Abbie re
turned home Friday after a three
weeks' visit with her sister, Mrs.
James Trim, on Whidby Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Springer and
children of Olympia spent the week
end with the former's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. M Springer.
Mr. and Mrs. August Johnson and
children from Minnesota are visiting
at Ludwig Johnson's. They have
bought the Lew Osborn place at
Pleasant Glade.
Mrs. Annie Reed received a letter
from her son Elmer, who is a fireman
on the U. S. S. Western Chief. He
He has been across to France and
was soon to leave again. He was at
Newport News. Va., at the time of
writing. He left the U. S. naval
training camp, Pugct Sound, the last
of June and says he likes it fine.
In the last letter received from
her son Ernest, who is with the 20th
Engineers in France, he states he
never felt so good in all his life, and
that he was soon to leave on his fur
lough.
We are sorry to hear of Alex
Madden's sickness and wish him a
speedy recovery.
Mrs. L. M. Springer and sons, Ira
and Delbert, spent Sunday evening
at the Reed home.
All Halloween passed off quietly
this year, only a few night bi*ds out,
but liniment and pepper soon beat
them back.
Someone went into Crowne's
house and ate a cake and drank
cider. It wasn't Halloween, either.
Mrs. Ray Springer and Carrie and
Dorothy Springer visited at Reed's
last Sunday.
Mr. John Gouldan from Missouri
is soon to be stationed at Camp
Lewis.
LITTLE ROOK.
Mrs. Prank Rutledge returned
Sunday from Portland. She was ac
companied by her daughter. Mrs.
Tracy Smith, .and infant daughter.
Sergeant Karl Rutledge. who has
been at Camp Lewis for the past
year and a half, left Tuesday noon
for Camp Greene, X. C.
Mrs. E. J. Roles received- a letter
Sunday from her son John, who is in
Prance. The letter was dated Octo-
HE WASHINGTON STANDARD, OLYMPJA, WASH., FRIDAY. N< iVKMBKK s. !!•!>
Yank Navy Guns Go Inland to Terrorize"Huns
"The Yanks are shooting 2. r > miles back of Hun lines—and hitting important rail lines," is a message
Just flashed f ( rom the Verdun sector in France. Here is one of the weapons that is doing it: the man WHO
thought of it and the man who is executing the is big naval guns, mounted on railroad trucks
and taken up on tracks laid by Yank engineers. Capt. A. L. Willard (on the right), commandant of the
Washington navy yard, planned such use for these big navy guns. Hear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett,'
commanding United States navy officers and jackie gunners, is directing the bombardment.
ber 8 th. lie said hp was feeling fine
and now knew something about .var.
Mr. and Mrs. Farrow recently re
ceived word that their son Eugene,
who is stationed at Camp Worth.
Texas, is seriously ill of Spanish in
fluenza.
Miss Laura Weiks and little broth
er Roy were Olvmpia visitors Wed
nesday.
Albert Cunningham sold his farm
last week and has gone with his fam
ily east of the mountains. The buyer
is a Mr. Brown from Montesano.
The voting in this precinct Tues
day was light, only about half the
voters availing themselves of the
privilege.
MSQI'ALLY VALLEY
Miss Ruby McAllister boarded the
Grays Harbor train Monday.
Joe Money visited Seattle Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin moved to Roy-
Sunday.
Leonard Wood is home for a few-
days.
Doris Hartman is ill with a bad
cold and' la grippe. Her sister Hope
is just recovering.
Thomas Hines and daughter Sadie
were callers in our vicinity Sunday.
Genevieve Backes of Tacoma is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Ander
son. She will remain a couple of
weeks.
Willie Walters, who was reported
very ill with pneumonia last week,
passed away Sunday morning.
The Spanish influenza or pneumo
nia claimed a well known young lady
who moved away some months ago
after having resided in our vicinity
for two years, Miss Jessetien Kiltner,
Nee La May, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John La May, at her home at
Keechelus, Wash., November 30. She
was 23 years old. Mrs. Kiltner was
held in high esteem and her death
w-as a severe shock to her many
warm friends. To mourn her death
is her husband, Ralph Kiltner, and
parents and three half brothers.
Election day passed off quietly
here.
What's the matter with organizing
a camp of Spanish influenza veter-
Spud digging is in progress with
results of about half crop.
There are over a hundred thous
and dentists looking after the teeth
of the soldiers in the army. They
can lay claim as being the real
"Yanks."
The Sam Madden family were
called to Anacortes last week by the
serious accident which befell Mrs.
Madden's brother, Mr. Whittaker. An
auto knocked him down and ran over
his face and head, injuring him se
verely. His condition is very criti
cal.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Stearns autoed
to Seattle Saturday and back the
same evening. They were over on
business.
Mrs. Henry has returned home af
ter staying for some time with Mrs.
Bell.
Claud Baker of Oregon has been
visiting his aunt and uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Turner, and his cousin,
Charles Turner.
There were 52 votes cast at the
election Tuesday at South Bay.
Mr. Durward. who has been living
on the Wood Doane place, has been
called to Wisconsin by the death of
his brother.
Leslie Obrien of Union Mills has
moved into the H. W. Axtell house,
Mr. Axtell having moved to Seattle
to join his children.
Mr. Johnson has his brother and
family from Minnesota visiting for
a while. They have purchased the
Lew Osborn property and will settle
there.
Mrs. Esther Gotchy and daughter
of Seattle are visiting relatives at
South Bay.
I Mrs. Robbins received word from
her daughter, Mrs. M. P. Thornton
SOUTH BAY.
GLASS ONE MEN MAY 60
TO NEW TRAINING CAMP
Application Blanks for Fremont Of
ficers' School are Re
ceived.
Civilians in Class One or those who
can induce their local draft board to
put them there are eligible to the
infantry officers' training school to be
established at Camp Fremont, Calif.,
about December 1, Frank M. Kenney,
local chairman for the Military Train
ing Camps Association, stated Thurs
day.
He has received a supply of appli
cation blanks for the school and any
one wishing to enroll may obtain
them from him. Class One men who
enter the school but fail of commis
sions will be assigned to appropriate
organizations, but those of deferred
classification will have a chance to
return to their previous status, if they
fail. All who go will receive trans
portation and the pay of a private
while at the school.
of Portland, that she Is bedfast at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Al
bert Russell, with erysipelas. They
have had three doctors, but have ob
tained no relief.
Alex Madden is improving slowly
but not so fast as his friends would
like to hear.
PLEASANT GLADE.
Mrs. H. A. Spencer and daughter
Kathryn of Tacoma visited friends
in Pleasant Glade recently.
Mr. Longmire and Fred Moore are
plowing for Mrs. Robbins.
Mr. August Johnson from Wadena
county, Minnesota, has moved onto
the L. W. Osborn place, which he re
cently purchased.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gray are re
joicing over the birth of a daughter.
Friday, November Ist.
Will Hawson has been sick with
influenza at the spuce camp near
Enumclaw.
SCHNEIDER'S PRAIRIE.
Tom Sergeant and family are mov
ing on to Grandad Morrow's place
and Tom Morgan and family are oc
cupying the place the Sergeant's left.
There are a few cases of the in
fluenza in this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Morrow and
infant daughter, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Morrow are over from Mon
tana to spend the winter.
Mrs. Kichard Weatherill visited at
the Weatherill home Tuesday.
Ernest Weatherill is being called
into service the 20th. We all wish
good luck to him.
A letter received from W. A. Ran
dolph by J. C. Whitney stated that
he had been in four big drives and
at the time of writing was in the
hospital with a wound in the right
hand, but was expecting to go back
to fighting in a few days. As he has
been very lucky so far, we all wish
him good luck the rest of the way.
Mr. and Mrs. Solbeck have sold
their farm and are moving to town.
Mr. W. J. Countryman and son
James motored to the city Monday.
Jack Brown was a visitor at the
Weatherill home Saturday and Sun
day.
Joe Pierce visited the Bailey fam
ily at Chambers' Prairie over Satur
day and Sunday.
Mrs. J. C. Whitney and daughter
Josie, and Mrs. L. S. Whitney were
visitors in the city one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Morrow attend
ed the auction sale at Hay's school
house one day last week.
Mrs. Ernest Morrow visited at J.
A. Morrow's a few days ago. She is
now at the home of her parents, who
live at Summit.
Mr. H. Bolster, who is employed at
J. C. Whitney's, visited his daughter
in Olympia Sunday.
\KMV t'AKS.
Camp Lewis Corps Takes Two Dodgo
Machines From Local Agency.
The Rose-Nepple Auto company, lo
cal Dodge Brothers agents, reports
the delivery Tuesday of two touring
cars to the Motor Transport Corps.
Camp Lewis, one of them for the use
of Brigadier General Vanderbilt. The
cars were requisitioned by the gov
ernment when the military authori
ties at camp learned through Dodgo
Brothers Northwest representative
that the local agency had a shipment
of cars that had just arrived.
"Flu" Masks for Drafted Men.
State draft headquarters was no
tified this week by the commanding
officers of Camp Lewis and Fort Mc-
Dowell, California, that all regis
trants going to those camps from this
state should wear "flu" masks, and
all the local boards in the state were
notified to get in touch with their
Red Cross chapters and get a sup
ply of masks.
diaries Boone Is Wounded.
Charles Boone, a private in the
109 th Infantry, 28th division, is in
a base hospital in France, recovering
from a wound in the left leg received
while in the front line trenches, ac
cording to a letter received by his
wife of this city, this week. "Fin
thankful I got one Hun befqre they
put me out of commission," he says.
Seven great organizations, ap
pioved by the Federal government,
working in America and overseas
without duplication, fbr the comfort
and health of our soldiers. This is
the United War Work Campaign.
November 11-18. Help to make up
the $170,500,000 fund. It's needed.
Ray F. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred W. Lewis, of Brighton Park, re
turned to the naval training station,
Seattle, Wednesday, after spending a
10-day furlough here with his par
ents.
Raw Furs
HAW Ft'HS Alt E BRINGING
Til B HIGHEST PRICES
EVER KNOWN TO
THE Ft R TRADE
I am in the market to buy
large quantities of musk.ats,
coyotes, rabbit skins, mountain
beavers and all other Raw Furs.
Rend for price list and tags.
OSCAR GARD
77 Mnrlon Street Seattle, Wash.
Good Bargains
W.- have a few second-hand pianos, taken in exchange, that
are really good bargains:
A Bush & Gerts $350 Piano for $125
A Kohler & Campbell S4OO Piano for S2OO
A Lester $450 Piano for $240
A slightly-used S4OO Farrand Piano for $325
A Steinway SIOOO Grand Piano for $750
All of these pianos are strictly high grade piunos, with the
2m * ™«L, r " anU^Ctu^'^4. ST in . the steel and not
SI AMI LI) in with a SI LNCIL, as in most of the cheap pianos
now being offered to the public.
If you expect to buy a piano, or if you have bought a piano
recently, it will pay you to see whether it is a GENUINE piano
or a SIENCIL! And don t deceive yourself, nor allow anyone
else to deceive you into believing that any piano is a high grade
piano unless the name of the manufacturer is CAST in the steel
plate, no matter what price may be asked for it. If you don't
understand these things, come in and we wil show you.
R. H. COKER, Special Representative
Bush & Lane Piano Co.
220 EAST FOURTH STREET OLYMPIA
"WKK" (OVU: IS WOI NDKI).
Well-Known Football Player Shot
During Cliarue in France.
Lieutenant "Wee" t'oyle, fatuous
University of Washington football
1...:- ami will known to Olympians,
the : inily having made their home
. few years ago, was shot in
the leg during a charge in one of the
nat.tli i; 1 iit'll American troops are
pardcie; :j. gin Franco. It happened
•' 1: s parried off the battlefield
'•> a:, ther Washington player, Willis
Benson, who informed relatives here
of "We. wound. Mis injury is nor.
serious.
NO (HAXCF FOB IIOM'ITAL.
Vriny eeds I 'ire-Proof Buihliii.
W ill. 100,000 Square Feet of
I'liKtr Space.
At a suggestion of tiie trustees or
the Chamber of Commerce, Secretary
11. B. Fultz took up with the surgeon
general the proposition to cstablisn
a reconstruction hospital for wound
ed soldiers in (his city, hut was in
formed that, owing to restrictions ot
the War Industries Board, the de
partment is not undertaking to erect
new buildings. It is seeking build
ings which are fire-proof and have
at least 100,000 square feet of floor
space and no structure of that size
is available here.
HOI'LE BADLY WOI NDKD.
Albert J. Houle, son of Mrs. Diana
Herman of Lacey, has been severely
wounded, according to Wednesday's
casualty list. In a letter recently re
ceived by his mother, he told her he
had sustained several wounds In the
head, had been shot In the ankle and
was otherwise considerably battered
up, but was Improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ivy and chil
dren of Seattle are spending several
days with Mrs. Ivy's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert McMlcken. They mo
tored over Sunday.
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is the only instrument which
Re-Creates the artists's voice
with such fidelity that when
subjected to tone test, the
test of direct comparison
with the living voice, no hu
man ear can distinguish ar
tist from instrument.
Call at our store for a
demonstration.
Rabeck's Music House
409 E. Fourth St., Olympia
THE EDISON