Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-05
FISH SUFFERING
FROM DROUGHT
OFT in Oregon They Brush Dust
From Their Eyes With Tails.
w. G. Young Tells of Many
Interesting Things.
Portland, Oregon, Aug. 28.

myself the question that Noah i:
said to have asked the madam whel
he said "whither ae we drifting 2
However, it is beginning to come t
me where | was at. The war was
going on and my thoughts were al
wrapped up in pulling for the success,
of the Allies, speedy end of the war
and the safe return of my son who
was over there: and | reckon | hat
Il pretty good line on it, as the wal
ended sooner that most people expect
ed, and Archie came back A no. l il
just a few days of a year from the
time he left, and once again old Dad
was happy. | think he must have had
some experience, though he is 10th
to speak of it. He was in the 65th
Coast Artillery corps. heavy artillery
and attached to the 1st Army, and
! quote paragraph from the Port
land Telegram Of Dec. "a, 1918. "Tbe
regiment was in the thick of the
fighting for IL weeks prior to the
signing of the armistice, taking part
in five major actions. Three times
the G5th was cited for good work
and firing, and established II record
for moving the big guns. The com
pany entered from Eouroy, France.
They participated in the big often
sive ut st. Mihiel. Later they were
transferred to the '.rgonnc forest,
where they were In re midst of ter
rife fighting. At Veerdan they had the
distinction to be the first foreign
troops to enter the old town, and they
fought side by side with the famous
18th French Army under command of
General Gourard. They also had the
distinction of having travelled further
TO reach France than any other u. S.
a..
francisco by rail, and from there to
thepo TT of embarkation at New York
via the Panama Canal route"
Achie was discharged at Camp
Lewis, and came home that after
noon, looking like Il walking curios-
ity shop, laden down with souvenirs
among them his own gas mask, and
helmet, stained with the mud of Yer
dun. | was made happy again, as
have been basking in the smiles of
another little grandson who has Il
good honest Irish face OH HIM, and n
sweet disposition like his grandfath-
ers. He is six months old, mas put in
solid time growing, and il he lives
] will gamble on his having no better
sense than TO make Il lou per cent
good American man, who will be
ready to answer his country's call.
ouI "iiaC ID lHc uSc, loi VIC are noI
going to have any more wars. The
Dove of Peace will see to that.
There are many things that come
to mind that | could write about,
though they might not prove inter-
esting, but the Ii. G. Of l.. is the one
thing that is hitting me, directly
under the belt. When | go every day
TO the grocery around the corner,
with my market basket, | feel like !
was gong TO IL funeral. When | come
out, look at what 1 got, and what it
cost, | say dammit, tncn when l look
at either one of the big daily papers,
and see how glngerly they treat the
subject OF grating, and profiteerlng
for fear of touching the tcnderfeel-
ings of some patron, saying that
whilst there may be some cases, ana
it is very wrong to do so, yet, the
corrections, of such wits if there be
any, during the reconstruction period,
should be dealt with in a very SEN
sible and conservative way, lest the
economic and business conditions of
the whole country be knocked into pi
and then they mildly hint that the
high cost of labor is principally the
cause" then | say ooh, hell" Now,
do not think that | mean to be pro-
fame, for l do not. 1t is just my way
Of expressing my feelings and dis
gust. Billy Sunday says more things
in the pulpit than | do, but Billy has
high license to swear, and | haven't.
i noticed in the market quotations the
other day that the price of rope had
come down two cents per pound, and
l felt like singing, "Come thou fount
of every blessing" it made me feel
so good to think the price of some
thing had tumbled. hope it will get
SO cheap that honest folks can afford
to put it to the use they did in the
pioneer days, hanging rogues, when
n man floated in the air for stealing
Il ten or twenty dollar "Cayuse," but
now if he is an innocent infant of
tender age under 81, he can steal any
thing from tin Elizabeth to four
thousand dollar automobile, and if he
is of respectable parentage, as many
of them are, out of respect to the
honored parents he is paroled to them
during good behavior, or turned ov-
er to the juvenile court. If he hap
pens to spring from the common herd
81 Jail sentence and board with the
sheriff for a short term awaits him.
Now this may appear to be overdrawn
but if it is lie the papers told it
first.
The Congressional Spruce Division
Committee.
The Congressional Spruce Division
committee is in session and what it is
bringing to light makes interesting
reading in q way, and is being pub
lished and given to the public. Altho
these facts were well known here
long ago, the war was going on, and
they had to be whispered only at "low
BREATH" to have spoken them aloud
would have been Bolshevism, and
treason. Whilst the spruce division
was short on getting out airplane
spruce for Uncle Sam, it developed Il
heretofore unknown hero, Col. Brice
p. Disquc, who was violently opposed
to going to France to fight the dirty
Huns-sought the higherups and he
pleaded for a soft job in soft place
and he got it. Without any business
knowledge or experience and not
knowing n spruce from q pine or fir