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The battle fields, according to The
Stars ard Stripes, sent here TO Mrs. j.
II. Dukes by her foster son. Jack An
ders0n. are already drawing tourists
The Stars and Stripes says the follow
ing iniits issue Of Friday. February Z,
about Chateau-Thierry:
There is a great gathering of ham,
mers in Chateau-Thierry today. where
in the yesterday of last summer ma
chine guns hammered ear splitting
echoes between the burning buildings
and against the hill above the Marie.
The Germans are in Chsteau-T Thlerry
again, but they ale mailing boards on
the sides of wrecked shop fronts and
string ng telephone and electric light
wires, under the direction of French
guards. The bridgehead of the Marne
looks across new bridge. but It IS a
temporary wooden bridge mounted on
scows. The stone buildings at both
ends Of the bridge still are fresh with
the scars of the bridgehead battles
great ragged. gouged places in the
walls where shells struck, scarcely a
square yard that is not bored and
Clipped from rifle and machine gun
bullets.
Chateau -Thierry is busy with her res
direction. New glass is taking the
place Of hastily nailed boards on the
shop fronts, the she'll holes in the
roofs are being spapned with new tile,
and weakened walls are being stiffenec
with concrete and stone. Most Of the
inhabitants are hack, although rows OF
roofess houses in some streets tel
plainly that many have not returned.
But even in her work of rehabilitation
Chateau-Thierry is conscious of hel
place in American history. She know.
she will be center for pilgrims from
across the ocean. and the past few
weeks she has seen the beginning OF
that great tide of travelling Americans
which will soon be pouring in upor
/ her.
A hotel is already open-you car
even find il at night among the wrecked
houses, because it stands out whole
walled and rooted. The shops which
have scarcely finished removing the
wooden barricades and replacing the
panes are already full of battle sou
venirs intended to appeal to Ameri
cans. The name "Chateau-Thierry'
stamped upon them will make then
sell, even though they are new ant
brassy and obviously the product OF
some machine. The same souvenirs
are probably on sale back in the live
and ten cent stores Of New York.
Every train from Paris leaves it,
band of pilgrim Americans. They ar.
rive by day and night, and the Ameri
can uniform is always in sight. Scores
of sailors on permission from ports
make their first stop here on their way
to the battlefelds.
Mrs. j. A. Mohr, of the East Side
has received message from her son
Paul Mohr, member Of an aviation
| squadron, who was at a Virginia can
| tonment awaiting embarkation wher
| the armistice was signed, announcing
/ that he is en- route to Fort Russell
/ Nyo.. where he will be mustered out
Carl Mohr, brother. who enlisted a
/ the same time and who was a memhe,
Of the same squadron, remains in tn,
| service.
Radio Sgt. VIM. Bailey, member o
/ the 69th Artillery, who was transferred
to another regiment on their arriva
/ from France at an eastern port, ha
returned home. Sgt. Bailey, son o
Mr.. and Mrs. }. f Bailey, has received
his discharge. He will resume hi
work as clerk in the postotfice.
English apple operators, accordin,
to James +. Clark, who has been ov
erseas with the Canadian service. lool
unfavorably upon the proposed chang
in apple grading rules, which will per
init Of only two grades instead of tn
three at present applied. Mr.. Clark
in a letter to his wife, states that h.
has been in London. He made it
point to visit all Of the fruit market
and to interview fruit merchants. Al
of them preferred the existing gradin,
system. A change, they said, woul
create confusion.
At present, however, according t
Mr.. Clark $ letter, all apples of what
ever grade were selling at SIS per bo
at the pier. He says Hood Rive
Newtowns are favorite with tn
English.
Venom G. Weber, just out of a mill
airy hospital at the Preside. accompan
led by his brother-in-law. Harold Sex
ton, member of the 69th Artillery, JUS
back from France. have been here an
at The Dalles the past week vsitin
friends and relatives. R. H. Weber
respectively father and father-in-laN
Of the young men, is interested wit
them in large orchard holdings here
They expect soon to return here to su
perintend orchard operations.
Mr.. Weber, member of an lnfantr
regiment, sustained three shrapne
wounds simultaneously last Septembe
in battle in France. Although one 0
the shrapnel fragments shattered tn
bone of his right leg and the other
inflicted serious flesh wounds in hi
arms, he has recovered
Here on visit with friends, C.
Ross, who now resides in Portland
was viewing the familiar scenes alon
ha N,l,