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fused 10 carry him, having never been
broken to ride Having only halter,
Mr. Bailey then started out Wednesday
morning at 5 o clock 70 lead her. and
after walking the entire distance Of
nearly 80 miles, reached here yesterday
noou-
j NJ. Elliott, who mas been in Port
land for the past several weeks, came
I up the latter part of last week after
making a trip to The Dalles Mr.
Elliott left again for Portland Tuesday
afternoon, and expects to remain there
until the spring weather begins In
earnest. He is making his home at
the ST. Charles, a hosiery which has
long been the rendezvous of many pio-
neers. n. 7. Sturgess for the past
several months has made MS quarters
in that hotel
Lieut.. Kenneth l.. Cooper, forperly
of Mosier, who has Eeen stationed at
Camp Lewis since he received his COM
mission at the Preside in California.
expects 10 remain at that camp for
month or two at least. He has been
transferred. the regiment he was for
merly in having left for an Atlantic
port. He is now in the l66th Infantry
but he hopes to get transferred to an
ammunition train. His brother, Major
John Cooper, is with an ammunition
train in France.
H. NJ. Scearce was up from Hood
River Saturday to attend the annual
Injecting of the stockholders of the
Mosier Fruit Growers Association.
| MIR. Scarce says that his two sons,
Robert and Richard, have left Fort
Stevens where they have been in the
End Company. Oregon Coast Artillery,
for several months and are now in the
east, having left recently on one of
the many troop trains. The two young
men were visitors on a short furlough
last week with their parents.
W. f. Chown yesterday received his
new Chevrolet automobile from The
Dalles. He took his Ford to The
Dalles last December to be traded in
on the new car. Bert Shelley, repre-
senting the agency firm, who drove
over yesterday, says that the roads
from The Dalles to the top of Seven
Mile are in good shape, but from the
top OF the long grade to the Littlepage
place considerable mud and soft road
bed was encountered. From that place
into Mosier, he asserted, the road is
in good shape.
Clyde Root and Leonard Zackman
were accepted in The Dalles at the
local recruiting Office and were in
Quoted Wednesday into the service as
truck drivers. They responded to a
call sent out for 100 men IN Oregon for
immediate service. With Clyde Root
in charge of the men, besides the other
local young man, four additional re-
cruits had been taken in on Wednesday
from Wasco county.
The six young men passed through
Mosier yesterday afternoon on No. !
bound for Portland. CARRIED in their
white raiment symbolical of the Rec
Cross. the local women members, who
| were holding their regular meeting,
ceased making bandages, surgica
dressings and other articles and came
down to the train to bid Godspeed tc
the two Mosier volunteers.
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! leave last night from Portland for Sar
,, Francisco where they would change
cars. and continue their journey tC
Camp Kelly, San Antonio, Texas
! Oregon's quota of 100 men was sur
passed, and l04 accepted. One youns
man came, in from Dufur, Clyde Roo
declared, and eagerly attempted t,
secure place after the quota haC
been attained, even offering to pur
chase the right of any of the fortunate
y young eligibles. All of the Vase
: county men signed up as chauffeur'
d with the exception of Leonard Zack
d man who enlisted as a truck driver.
= Leslie Root was in The Dalles tn,
e first of the week with his brother, bu
was not accepted, as only the men il
g Class who had been certified unde
q the draft regulations for general mill
f tary service would he inducted int
{ this particular unit. He had been Ger
titled for special military duty.