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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28
KEEP YOUR LIBERTY BOND

Keep your Liberty Bond if you pos
sably can, % it is the best investment
you ever made, but il you must have
money to buy groceries or winter
clothing. we will allow you $1.O5 for
every dollar your bond calls for, if
you trade it out at our store. In place
Of letting some stranger talk you
out Of your bonds in. some wildcat
scheme, trade them out at home for
staple goods, where every article
carries m iron bound guarantee.
II you owe an account, in either
my department store or the former
Essn store, we will gladly take in
your Bond in settlement Of your ac-
count, allowing you $1.05 for every
dollar Of your bond. NJ
NJ. FANGER
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G. H. Deur has just installed att
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his office, Fairbanks scales of 20
tons capacity, sufficient to weigh the
largest trucks and loads now made.
The scales are Of the latest type of
Fairbanks work and we believe the
only one suitable to weigh heavy
truck loads.
Union Thanksgiving, Prayer and
Peace services, will be held at the
Presbyterian church this evening, at
1880.
E. w Stevens is in Omaha today,
attending the funeral of his father-in-
law, John P. Wright.
Frank Zahner of Council Bluffs
was Valley caller this morning.
Miss Florence Coulthard departed
this morning for Glenwood, Ia.
Harry Wisecup was an Omaha pas
senger this morning.
Mrs. Louis Ennes left today for
Sibley, Ia, where she will visit rela-
tives and friends.
The condition of Peter Peterson,
who has been seriously ill for the past
two weeks, remains about the same.
Mrs. Ray Hardy spent Tuesday
with Miss Blanche Hardy at the Mich
olas Sem hospital in Omaha. Miss
Hardy is getting along nicely and it
is thought she will be able to be bro't
home the latter part of the week.
Mrs. Harold Culavin leaves this
evening for 9 visit with her mother,
Mrs. Geo. Gumb of Fremont, Neb.
Rev. Edgar Price spent the day in
Omaha. a.
Mrs. Mamie Wearin of Crescent
will spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. M.
Higgins on North Fourth street.
DR.. w. ]. Cleveland leaves this eve
ming for Havelock, Ia, to spend
Thanksgiving with his family.
T. M. Gilmore returned from Des
Mems dress shoes, button or lace,
k.95 at Wards Shoe Store. n3O
Moines this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Hanford will
spend Thursday with Logan relatives.
Harvey Fry of Ft. Omaha, will
be the guest Of friends here Thurs.
Mesdames Ole Walton and C. L.
Holcomb are spending the day Tin
Omaha.
Mrs. Grove Brown is the guest Of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fen
sler, at Modale.
Mrs. John w. Owens went to Glen
wood, Ia, this morning where, she
will spend Thanksgiving with the
Ewart McGavren family.
Mrs. Ned Burke of Landers, Wyo.
is the guest at the Ed Casey home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Cox arrived this
morning from Bremerton, Wash, for
a months visit with home-folks.
Miss Ada Beagle will have as her
Thanksgiving guest, Miss Edna Coul-
thard.
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Getscher- will
spend Thanksgiving with Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Getscher, at Logan.
Edward Chenille left yesterday for
Deadwood, s. D., for a week-endvisit
with friends.
Mems dress shoes, button or lace
1895 at Wards Shoe Store. n3O
Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. Mclaughlin
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Mclaughlin and
Mrs 7 P Welsh will spend Thanks
giving in Co Bluffs, the guests Of Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Shepard.
While coming down Sixth street
last evening, Mrs. s. L. Newton fell
and received painful bruises about
the face.
Mrs. H. L. Aldridge was in Omaha
yesterday, consulting specialist.
p. G. Shafer is confined to his home
with an attack Of the Flu.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28
The Ideal Base Burner Fuel

The Ideal Base Burner Fuel
We have succeeded in obtaining a
limited amount Of the Genuine Kop-
.pers Coke, the ideal base burner and
furnace fuel. Koppers Coke starts
easily and quickly, has fewer ashes,
requires less work to handle than any
other solid fuel. No danger Of burn
ing out CRATES or fire pot if handled
correctly.
Leave your order with us as first
car will arrive in about 10 days.
Harry r. Newton Co.
dH a.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28
Golden Wedding Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R. Mclaughlin
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary, yesterday. They were un-
tied in marriage at Carrollton, Ohio,
November 26, 1868.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mclaughlin, accom-
panied by Mrs. T. P. Welsh, were
entertained at six o'clock anniver-
sary dinner by Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
Mclaughlin.
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MEMORIAL SERVICES

There will be Memorial services
for Raymond Cox, Killed in action in
France, at the Methodist church, Sum
day afternoon at 300 o'clock.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28
MoDALE

Miss Myrtle Stokes Of Mondamin
visited friends here Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Sassaman were
Cal. Jet. visitors Sunday
DR.. and Mrs. L. +. Grain of Mo.
Valley visited Sunday at the parental
Frank Broughton home.
Mrs. Denny Sharpnack was Mo.
Valley visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Bowman Of Minneapolis, MINI.
is visiting friends here this week.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Middle
ton, Nov. 10, a son.
Miss Blanche Poland of Mondamin
visited relatives and friends here Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Quite number in Modale and vi
entity are suffering with the in
|fluenza and pneumonia.
Fred Alexander visited relatives at
Cal. Jet, Sunday
/ There will be Union Thanksgiving
services, Thursday afternoon at the
High, School auditorium, at 2 p. M
The sermon will be preached by Rev
Manning.
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John Baker

Word was received today of the
death of John Baker, son of Elder
w. w. Baker, formerly Of Logan. He
died Of wounds in France.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28

For Sale: A bran new piano, at a
bargain. Sell for cash or on monthly
installments. Call for Mr.. Rogers
at Valley hotel on Friday or Sat. or
address Hadorff Music House, 10Th
and Farnam, Omaha. pd3
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28

You will like our bulk Mince Meat.
Lewis & Williams.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28

Postoffice Hours for Thanksgiving
The general delivery window will be
open from $3.50 to IL a. m. There will
be no R. F. D. service nor money
order business.
T. L. Finley, Postmaster
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28

Eat your Thanksgiving dinner at
the Railroad Eating house
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28
Loveland M. E. Chure

There will be no preaching SER
vices at Loveland next Sunday.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28

Cranberry Souffle, special for your
Thanksgiving dinner. at Skaters.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28
Try q package Of Ivory Soap Flakss,
1ocents at Lewis & Williams.

Cranberry souffls. special for ysur
Thanksgiving diupsr 1t Shafer's.
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Wanted Wanted Wanted

Temporary carrier on r F. D. a
out of Mo. Valley. Apply to Postmas-
ter at Mo. Valley.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-11-28

We are exclusive agents for Nc
Laughlin's genuine Mocha and Java
coffee. Lewis & Williams.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

We had not gone fifty yards when we
heard the zip-zip-zip-zip--zip of a
machine gun. At the same instant there
were puffs of sand only four or five
yards to our left.
"They've spotted US. Let's go in,'
said the captain, and it didn't take
either of us very long to tumble into
the trench. eff there is anything I
don't like" continued Captain k,
cts machine gun. Just so long as
the big shells and the little shells and
the grenades and mortar bombs keep
coming over they don't bother me.
They're out for no one in particular.
But when the machine gun starts. it's
like regiment of infantry forming a
firing squad against you personally"
We began passing men in the
trenches, some at ease, others with
rifles close to the parapet. Several
yards further on the parapet was not
very high. so quit following the cap
tain and climbed UP few inches to see
what was on the other side.
"Better not do that" said the cap
tain, who had turned around for me.
cts dangerous"--
"But this isn't'--
eyes. This is the front line. You
were looking into No Mans Land
Luckily we've disposed of the snipers
hereabouts. Better come to an o. P.
and have a good, safe look"
We had arrived at the front line sud
denly, after many puzzling twists and
turns. 1t was no thrill for the captain
He and his men had been in line for
four days. For me it was almost un-
believable that we had gone from
safety to the front line-the black line
that on all our maps has meant for
three years and more the barrier be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

"What business or profession before
the warp
"None. was a student"
"Where?"
est. Andrews Theological Seminary"
the gunner replied after some hesita-
ton. II gave up the ministry to come
here"
In these .trenches you find lawyers
and business men, students, prizefght-
ers, delivery boys, rich sons and poor
men actually elbowing each other, for
there is barely room for passing. We
speak of America as melting pot of
the nations, but the trenches and the
dugouts are surely the friendship cru
chile of the classes.
We stopped moment at rocket
station, similar to that before the cap
tain's door. "Fritz," he said, "has been
trying to monkey with our signals. AS
a result, he sent up one of our kind
the other day and our artillery re-
ceived it and promptly began a bar
rage. That'll teach him."
Near by, at grenade station, SER
geant was playing the trombone"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

This is an instrument producing more
noise than music, for it is an attach
ment for a rifle in which grenades are
placed and shot out by means of the
ordinary rifle bullet, which also sets off
the grenade's time fuse over the enemy.
The captain fired one. The rifle tried
to leap out of his hand with the shock
The grenade itself we saw start its
whistling journey, then disappear. 1t
whistled in fits. Two more shrieks and
we heard it explode.
"That's that" said the captain.
Our automatic rifle stations were
equipped with excellent French guns
very sensitive and bit temperamental
but effective. "Fire three Shots" said
Captain k.
The young soldier placed his hand on
the trigger and the rifle blazed away
Three evenly spaced identical vicious
spurts from the gun.
"That's that" said the captain.
We arrived at the observation post
after passing various minor stations
with shelves cut in the trench walls fol-
grenades, bullets and other stores. A
hidden trench led US into and under
No Mans Land certain distance
where, in a slightly wider cave, we
were welcomed by men whose business
by day and by night it is to watch 70,
Germans.
Through a slit in the earth looked
into the valley. In front Of US was
our wire. Rows of it. Near by the
barbs were visible and the posts. In
the CRAVING distance it was a black
line, and beyond it more and more
black lines.
To our right and left 1 could see
our own trenches, only rifle muzzle
visible over the parapet On the left
wing our front took long curve anc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

or fell knee-deep into the ooze. But
we journeyed rapidly through windings
and sharp turnings until we came to
the captains dugout. At the door was
a line of rockets, red and green and
white, star shells and others, each
either bearing message or warning.
Smoke was rising gently from tho fue
protruding from the oiled paper dugout
window, and voices Of men grew louder
as we came to the door. The captain
closed his portfolio Of secret papers
and orders, maps and notes, and rose
to meet us.
want to sec what the front lines
like? I'll take you there myself" He
put on his helmet and swung his gas
mask over his shoulder. Then he
clasped a we'll filled cartridge belt
around his hips and examined his big
automatic.
"Here, Macy, better give your gun
to our visitor" he said, "this isn't ex-
actly like a promenade on Euclid Ave-
nue., and If Fritz ever comes over in
superior numbers I'm going to take as
many as I can along with me-"
We went through the trench mud,
slosh-slosh-slo splash-zip,
when either Of us slipped into hole,
and, meantime and always, the whizz-
whizz-whizz-boom-of big shells. Oc-
casionally we stopped and waited for
the explosions. Frequently there was
none. believe we counted seven
whizzes and only four booms.
"Duds," said the captain. "I believe
the Boche is using up some old NUM-
tons he got from the Russians"
We walked out Of the trenches into
the open again.
Better going than by the commune
eating trench, so long as the firing is
not direct"
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ran into wood. There, the captain
were in the trenches, and men from a
Middle Western metropolis were work
ing the artillery behind them. East
and West, in fact, had met in France.
Our right wing fell into valley.
There were gaps in the lines, for the
front nowhere consists of unbroken
trenches. Barbed wire and strong
points on the trench TANKS amply pro-
tected the gaps.
looked toward the Germans.
They were on the crest Of the op-
posite hill, 200 yards away. To the
naked eye it was merely a rolling hill,
with black patches Of wire before it.
Through the field glass it was trench
line, parallel to our own, silent, de-
serted, dead. That was all. Our men
In one slit in the earth, the enemy in
another, close by. For three years these
Sits had been the homes Of enemies,
and SO they will remain .until-but the
captain stopped such speculation.
"Look at that chateau" he said. "The
Boche had a regimental band playing
Deutschland uber Allies there the other
day. We could hear the music. Sound
ed here like the little German bands in
the saloons at home. Well, some day
when we are ready for it, blooey! our
artillery will just kick that chateau
and all the Boches in it out into the
air. It'll be Deutschland uber Allies all
right, in bits"
I took last look at the chateau in
the distance, the German lines before
it, and the valley between, where men
had fought for three years, bled and
died in craters and attacks, and which
was still the land of no one. Red and
brown it was with the mud and win
ter's ruin, but green patches announced
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tween decency and plain humanness
and the land Of madness.
Trenches a Real
Melting Pot

I stepped down quickly. The captain
then led the way from strong point to
strong point. We stopped at ma
chine gun station. The weapon was
set for the night, as were its COM
panions in this sector, each dominating
a certain small strip before it. Our
boys were ready for the Germans, even
if they came by tours or by hundreds.
Three men were standing by. The
first question they asked is the ques-
ton men at the front always ask:
"Where are you from?" I repeated the
question in turn.
"I'm from Cleveland" said the first
soldier, the one whose duty it was to
supply food for the gun. "Lived there
all my life until started my European
tour"
"Me? Pm from Philadelphia" said
the gunner. Thompson Street."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

An Otlcer av1th the British Scouts
" 7HEN the war came the 10000
w boys of Great Britain who
were Scouts were ready for it,
not because they had been trained for
war in any military sense, but because,
having learned not to be lockers on, but
to take part in adventure, it was natu-
raj to them to look at once for some
part to play in any crisis. They found
at once and without hesitation their
part in war.
The war was not month old, and
none knew what might come, when
General Baden-Powell wrote to all
those who led the Scouts:
"The boys should be taught to be
prepared for the worst, for if the worst
comes to the worst they must be the
discipline and optimistic leaven for pre-
venting panic in the nation
That was very proud claim to make
for them, and though the worst never
came to the worst, which in the be-
ginning many feared, the worst that
there was has always found them ready.
BY thirty thousand Scouts and old
Scouts serving in the navy and the
army many heroic things have been
lonesome, indeed, that are already
national stories.
The midshipman on board the de-
stroyer Broke who bravely met the Ger
| man boarders in the fierce battle of
FIVE minutes in the darkness of the
Channel was Boy Scout. Cornwall,
who stood by the silent gun in the bat
tie of Jutland waiting for orders.
though he was MORALLY wounded, was
Boy Scout.
The piper who held his company to-
gethcr in the battle of Loos, at the
moment Of crisis, by strutting up and
down the parapet and piping to them
under heavy fire, was an old Scout.
When the hospital ship Britannia was
torpedoed in the Egean and the cap-
tain remained on the bridge till the
ship sank, his orderly stood by him
and went down with him. That or
derby, too. was Scout.
But 1t is not in any single heroic
act OF war that the fneness Of their
spirit and the value Of their training is
apparent, but rather in that readiness
tor any adventure which over 100 1000
boys have shown.
I This is the sort OF story that you
hear told Of them:
At coastguard station petty officer
was waiting in the hrst week 81 the
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and why the Scout who lost his leg in
the German raid on Whitby and was
found lying among the ruins of the
coastguard station, where he was on
duty when the cruisers opened fire,
sent message that same night to the
Chief Scout that he had not forgotten
the law of all Scouts-''to smile In all
difficulties"
And that, too, was why this letter
was written to the Chief Scout at the
beginning Of 1915:
II do so want to be a Scout. I am
nine and as big as boy of ten. can
shoot fairly we'll with an air gun, and
it's awful living amongst all these
troops, I being one of the few civil
ians."
While there are boys Of nine who
can write so, country is still far
from the end of its manhood even
when it has called up the last man of
military age.
From the first day of the war the
Boy Scouts were a reserve line to the
army and the navy and the police.
They were modified more rapidly than
the defence forces and assumed at
once, and with the same readiness as
if it had been allotted to them in
some plan of defence long since drawn
up and rehearsed, much of the work
OF guarding coasts and telegraphs,
railways and public buildings.
kilograms went out to their head
quarters to all the districts advising
them to offer their services to the
State. Within few days, or even
hours, of the declaration of war many
of them were already on duty. In one
town the telegram reached the head
quarters on August 1. On August 2
plans were made. BY August 4, 200
had enrolled. By August the gen.
eral officer in command of the district
was asking for Scouts as dispatch
carriers; the military hospital was
asking for them as orderlies; the po-
lice were asking for them to guard
the railways. BY August there were
$50 on duty. From the county of
Stafford the telegram asked for 1000
Scouts. That same evening 1000 were
standing by waiting for orders. In
KerN the Scouts had practised a war
mobilization two years before, SO that
the one telegram from London was
enough to call out the whole country.
and Scouts were at once at work hunt
ing out spies, manning coastguard
stations, guarding bridges, culverts
and tunnels on those vital railway
lines that run from London to the
south coast, and watching all the main
telegraph and telephone lines that
crossed Kent from London to Paris
and Brussels.
Yet another detachment of Scouts
was in its annual summer camp in one
Of the southern counties. 1t tele-
graphed an offer of its services and
was ordered at once to report to the
embarkation officer at the port Of
Southampton. Its duty was to act as
guides to all troops and transports
coming in by road. It was responsible
and secret work and required knowl-
edge of all the docks and the main
streets Of the town. A day was spent
in studying the land. and then the
Scouts (blessing that training which
had made them "pathfinders") took up
the duty.
Those who saw the Expeditionary
Force that crossed from Southampton
saw Boy Scouts at any hour OF day
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BOY SCOUTS In WAR HARNESS

war for the arrival OF a patrol of
Scouts to take the place of the men
called suddenly to the fleet. He waited
in some perturbation. He had got what
he thought would be enough meat to
feed them for that day, but he was very
hard put to it to find how to have it
cooked.
The patrol arrived, and at once all
his difficulties were taken out of his
hands. Two boys paraded without de-
lay for lookout. The rest took over the
meat, told him that it was enough
not for one, but for two and a half
days-and set about preparing their
camp and cooking their dinner, as if
they had never done anything else in
their lives.
You could collect many such stories
along the coasts of Great Britain, and
in the hospitals and camps, and not in
Great Britain only, but in all the
countries of the empire - stories that
show you what it is to have learned
already when you are still not much
over twelve not to be looker-on, but
to take part in adventure.
"Half Che fun of life" an old Scout
wrote from the front, "is to be able to
make bricks without straw" You have
in that phrase a great deal of the
spirit of the Scouts, and the reason of
their success. No one could write so
unless he felt that he was ready for
life, not<in any mechanical sense, as
the Germans were ready for war,
drilled, prepared, and with plans made,
but IN the sense of finding no unex-
pected duty come amiss, of having the
character equipped, Of having zest
to do ones share when there is great
work to be done.
Ex-Scouts Known
By Their Efficiency
The Scouts had already learned many
things that were of value to them
when war came. Scouts who were
pathfinders, and blacksmiths, am
bulance men, cooks and pioneers,
slgnallers and woodmen, telegra-
phlsts and watchmen land there
are forty-six other things in which
Scouts can win proficiency badges)
were already in the mere technical
sense partly trained for war; and thew
had all learned to use their senses and
their hands, to be content without
comforts. to know the open, to fear no
weathers, to take pleasure in hardship.
to make shift in any circumstances.
But 1T was more than this proficiency
that made one officer write, 81 have five
ex-Scouts among my men. could
pick them out with my eyes shut They
were better men to begin with than
the others will ever be- 1t is rather
their readiness for adventure and their
sense of fellowship in a great COM
pany.
No mediaval brotherhood ever had
members in so many countries, nor
had carried its spirit so far. There are
Scouts in all the dominions and depen-
denotes Of Great Britain, in all the
countries Of the Allies. in fact in all
the countries Of the world; and the
war has quickened that sense of fell
lowship and brought many more to it's
ranks, for in war, as at no other time,
boys as we'll as men know that fellow
ship tn good company can make anv
man. greater than himself.
That was why one man in the
trenches asked to be enrolled Scout.