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Show ) FRIDAY. JANUARY THE PROVO POST 1919 3, The Lone Tree Sentinel; or, Ghosts on the firing line - t would Vick Tip the 8irt 'and jTeaPthe sandbags all around lm, but none of em ever lt lm. No bullet ever myde could kill Aunted Jerry, ra you call 1m. . "The rest o the blokes lu toe trench would pull Tm down off ti e flrestep. They thought they were a savin his Ilf ef but Jerry werent afraid from bullets. E knew, and so did I, that they couldnt arm Im. Then our captains ad brains, e ad said that Jerry was balmy, and gave orders to the sergeant major to tyke tm back to tha doctors, to send 1m to Blighty. Jerry was told about this the night' before e was to leave. Ewaa greatly upset, and did nothin but talk to the spirits the air was jull of em I could ear their voices," too. That night about ten oclock Jerry was missed. The next morning e was still For two days nothin was jeard of Jerry. Then the Royal Irian Rifles took over a sector of trench on our right A lot of our blokes told em about Jerry bein mlssln. A few of em got around me, and I described Jerry to em, but I werent afraid for Jerry I knew where e waa- -e were with Is spirits. That tight an Irish patrol went out and when they returned they brought a body with them; said theyd found It at the foot o the lone tree. It were I confess that I was glad To be rid of him, but my curiosity overcame my fears, so I asked Curly to go ahead. The rest of the crew weakly assented, and Curly went after Jerry's brother. In about twenty minutes he returned with him, Jerrys brother came over and sat on the flrestep next to me. - He sat silent for a few minutes, and then. d voice In a thick, piping, spoke: r So yon want to ear about Jerry, do you? They called him Aunted Jerry, but he werent aunted; he could just see e could see Into the future ; could sort o tell what was agolu to appen, TS could talk to the dead, E always ad and they told lm. spirits around lm ghosts, you call em, but there aint no such thing as they're souls awanderln ghosts ground ; theyre about . ns now" I slowly eased down the flrestep awaf from him. Jerry used to talk tooths dead; e would ait in a cemetery at night while In rest billets, and receive messages from them what cant speak no more. "Somettmes, lyte at night, I can ear far aWy, voices callin to me, but aa yet eawnt understand em but I will I wllL" My blood began to curdle... Curly Wallace, placing his hand on the speakers knee, softly said : Righto, mate, we know you ean see fay beyond ns, but tell ns of Aunted Jerry ahd the pome e wrote the day before e clicked It at the lone -- high-pitche- . Sergeant Arthur Guy L Empey Author of Over the Top," . . First Cell." Etc. i - ? t ... - it . - ' , -0 0-0- ( Mr. Empeys Experi- ences During His Seventeen Months in theFirst Line Trenches of the British Army in France ' I i i (OonlMi UMram tUI. One sunnyafternoon our guns crew was sitting on the fire step of s frontline trench, just In front of Gomme- " court wood. was busily engaged Happy Houghton In rigging ups flash screen to hide the - flare of our gun, which we were to mount on the parapet that night Sailor Bill was sewing a piece of khaki doth over his tin hat because the night previous, while on sentry go, standing in the moonlight, with his head over the top the ray from the - moon had reflected from hit steel helmet and a couple of German bullets had knocked up the dirt within n few feet of hla head. - f U H 9 I I i i 7 't' t - tree." .. , Jerry. all right, but ' werent lt nodoctors exam- SEVEN KNITTING ACTIVITIES COVER THREE kkeebsseks VARS Aged Ohio Man Has Made Many .Socks "and Sweaters for' Jerrys brother nodded in n comprehending way, and reaching Into the pocket of hla tunic drew out a creased and muddy piece of paper, which he opened out upon hla knee, and then, in As was usual with him. Hungry Fox-cra- ft gn unnatural, singsong voice, which was wrestling with a tin of bully sent shivers through us, recited the - beef, while Curly" Wallace wap Jbunt- - following poem; . Ing for cooties. Just then Jim started to whimper; Between the Unas, in Ho Mans lend. Ikey Honney, with our mascot, Jim, With foliage gone, and trunk thats 1 guess If the truth were known, we all was Bitting on the fire-stehis back felt like whimpering. torn, A lonely eentry takes hla stand. Without another word, Jerrys brothSilently watching from morn to morn. er got up, and, muttering to himself, On starlit nights, when moon is bright. passed out of sight around the travAnd spreads Its rays of ghostlike erse. As he disappeared from view. beams; : Sailor Bill exclaimed tree of the that Against sky. blight A ghastly hangmans gibbet seems. Blawst my deadlights, but If a bloke like that ever slipped In the would j&avyr - in a fortnight time- Through Its ahalltorn branches moan a, bloomin well be an admiral, because men- - !T t0 dle! e would be the one left In the Thay anawer it with groan, and groan., MlnIdn. mf the pn?per Bavy But obey the can, for "more and more," j creeps. 0w in ell Is company stands And Death elta by and grins and grin., for nm j don, know. 0w about It, And watches the score, why asn t 0 been sent to i Curly The harvest of hla sentry's whims. Blighty as balmy T There they lie huddled, friend and foe, Ohastly heaps, English, Hun and , French i And atlll those piles forever grow. d good soldier tonally TTs a d Men ere fed the of th always on toe Job, and next to Cor-They by Trench," :poral French and his brother Aunted No wooden cross to mark thetr fall. Jerry, Vs toe beat scout for work No tombstone theirs, no carven rocks, in No Man's land thats ever put c11! ,u"t..th foot In these blinkin ditches. Its only which forever mocks ana mocks. , lately that e a been 'avlng these spells When Jerrys brother had finished, so often, and yesterday the sergeant ' dead alienee ensued. I nervously major told me that e wan under ob- and out corner a of the serration and that It would only be a llghted fag, Bending Double Under the Weight of of my eye noticed that Sailor Bill was short time before e , was shipped back." the Ammunition. uneasily squirming on the flrestep. ( out's sigh, which seemed to -- j, it Letting Curly," asked Happy, fire traverse of the the leaning against whistle between his teeth, our guest" "that tola Aunted Jerry crawled out bay, picking mud out of his harmonica carried on: there the way his brother says, and with a sliver of wood. Jim seemed Werent much at cheerful that he was found dead without f Jerry happy and contented, not knowing the writing, because e ad a calling. fate In store for him. Two days later Even back ome In Blighty, e werent poor Jim was killed by a German bul much for lights nor fun. E took af" let and we buried him behind the lines, ter our mother. The neighbors called placing a little wooden cross at the er aunted, too, bat she werent She head of his grave. , After working a could see things, like Jerry. few minutes at the harmonica, Ikey "This ere lone tree sentinel Jerry would pause, put It to hla Ups and writes about waa an old tree tn No blow Into It; a squeaky, rattly noise Mans land, about a Tindred yards from' resulting. Then, with a deep sigh, he our front-lin- e trench. It was pretty would resume the picking process w ell kuocked Shout ' by bullets and I had just finished a letter home and aliell fragments. It made a was sighing for the time to come when guide post, stickln sort o pretty good lonely like once again I would be able to say hel- up the skyline at night gainst lo to the old girl with the lamp In her patrols and bombing parright hand guarding' New York har- ties used it to show em the wye bor. back to their trenches, because, , Although it was warm and sunny, y"know, out there lu toe blackness toe floor of toe trench was about three its easy to lose your wye, unless inches deep In soft, sticky mud. you ave spirits you. On my right I heard a low mutterLots of times English and German ing and a splashing In toe mud, and patrols would meet near the lone around the traverse, Into onr flrebay, tree, and many ,a d fight carrying a box of ammunition on hla would tyke place around. Its roots. weird-looking shoulder, came the most At that part oL toe line It were soldier I had ever seen. As he .passed pretty ot, what with the rifle and macIn front of me he turned his gaae In hine-gun firing. The only time there my direction and a cold shiver seemed would be a lull tn toe firing waa when - to run up and. down my spine as I a reconnoitring patrol was" out In In ths Blsedlng Body of Jim. looked into hla eyes. They were un- front, and then, aa yon know, yon Brought canny ; a sort of vacant stare, as If the couldnt fire for fear of a Ttting your wound on him? If Its so, ho most owner of them was looking Into the own blokes. All aronnd the lone tree have bad a bloody poor heart and died Great Beyond. As this soldier stag- were scattered many bodies, mostly that way," almost bend- English and German. Some of em gered through the ILe-baCurly answered : It sore Is so, being doable under the weight of the aa been there for weeks, end cause I got it from a leftenant In ammunition and passed from view when the wind were from the Aunted Jerrys section." round the traverse. It seemed to me German lines towards us It were sort Jim was still whimpering. This got ns if too Grim Reaper had stalked of unpleasant In our front line. 04 itcys nerves; lie gave him a sharp through. ' Every time the captain would call caff on the side of a A. the head. ThL Shuddering a little, 1 Instinctively for soldiers for a reconnoltering pa- was toe first time a hand had beer turned my eyes In the direction of the trol, Aunted Jerry, as you call Tm, raised against Jim since he had Joined rest of the crew. They were also always put Ts bloomin nyme on toe ns months back. He gave Ikey a pitewhile e ous look, and sticking his stump of staring at the traverse around which list. It got so that after soldier had dis- never asked if e wanted to go; the tail betw een his legs disappeared from the gloomy-lookln- g captain would just naturally put Is the fire bay. Two days later Ike appeared. My heart sank to xero and I bad n nyme down as agoln. made op for that slap, because at tlu .. sinking sensation In the region of my In our dugout, Jerry would tell me risk of his life, during an attack, hr stomach, and on the parados In front ow many dead were aronnd the tree. raced Into No Mans land under heavy of me, like a moving picture on n Ow e could count em tn the dark, I fire and brought In the bleeding body screen, flashed a cemetery, dotted all dont know, but e could see e could df Jim. 9 over with little wooden crosses. I felt All afternoon wg tried to be a. i , queer and uneasy. Somettmes In the daytime e would cheerful as possible, but onr nerrt Curly Wallace, In a low. rig up a periscope on Ts own, and sit ' ment was very artificial. Every laugu on the flrestep for hours alookln out seemed forced ard strained. Hauntvoice, exclaimed: Bllme me, that was Aunted Jerrys In No Mans land at the lone tree, ed Jen-- hnd sure put the kibosh brother, the one who clicked It by the and the bodies around It This sort on us.L i old lone tree. If you blokes want to o got on onr captains nerves, and That night and I were e gave Jerry orders not to use a peri- on watch from tin to twelve, and, beget the creeps you ought to ear .tin talk. Some o the" fellows claim that scope. After yds order Jerry used to lieve md, we never spent a worse two its unlucky to get Tm started. They sit off by Tmst-l- f on toe flrestep hours in our lives. There was not sye that one o. la earera is sora to i musin and a musln,1 The other word spoken among us." I was thinkdick In within a few days time, but tt'l.es laughed at Ira,' but I. knew ing of Haunted Jerry, and no doubt e were stalkin' the other two were he were adoln Tf you fellows want to tyke the doing likewise. Ihe spirit of the lone tree. t chance, TO go over to Ts section, which A few "days later Jerrys brother Is occupying the second flrebay on our Then got sort o reckless, and be- was sent back to Blighty, and nc left, and see If I can get Tm to tell cause It were against orders for Trt to doubt right now Is In some Insane asy us about 1s brother. But, now mind, use a periscope, c used to. in the Vn In wltl. this fellow is a Utile balmy In Ts nap-pe- bloomin daytime, stick Is ead over Haunted l'l'ghtyr.:.dcommunicating bis Jerry so dont mjlre fun of Tm." the top and gate In the direction of the iQPC-trtRqllets Xfotg Jerque snipers . Glasses During December 111 make the following cut prices on ' glasses, including free examination of your eyed: glasses for glasses for glasses for glasses for glasses for glasses for glasses for $15 $14 - $12 $10 $ 8 , $ 7- $ 5 Is r -- 812.00, $10.00 $ 0.00 $ 7.00 $ 6.00 $ 5.00 $ 3.50 ..... ... ... ..... ..1 . For examination without glasses, ode dollar only. Dr. Peterson ' - - - - f Eyestrain Specialist Office over Hedquist Drug No. 2 For special appointment, phone 638. t - -- Undnnnted, Mr. II111 carried on." When he reached his hundredth pair he knitted appropriate designs Inti the socks snd vent them to the president of the United States, who Is also president of the American Bed Cross, he says, will get General Pershl-.- g, the two hundredth pair, properly dec- You Cant Afford To Not Look Your .Best orated. When s boy Hr. Hill knitted for the soldiers of the Civil war. During the Spanlsh-America- n war he knitted garwhere. Two blocmla ined tm, lookin for wounds. B was ments for Red Cross distribution. dead, all right, and that bloomin cap- Dong before America declared war no resumed Us knittain e ad brains, a ad was re- agalnst-German- y sponsible for Is death. T5 ad tried to ting activities on behalf of the allies. tyke Jerry awy from !s Spirits, so Jerry crawled out to the lone tree to answer Its call. B answered It. and now Vs with the spirits a loved, and some rime IB be able to talk to Tm. TPs with em, all right, X know- -1 - - v know." - ' -- , easier today than it was when I was a boy, and I guess Ive improved some In my work, too," Is the modest way In which George E. Hill of Dayton, 0, comments on his knitting record, which embraces three wars. During the European war, after American intervention, the Dayton chapter of the American Red Cross de livered yarn to him In volume of 20 hanks at a time. Those who knit will appreciate what this means what a tremendous task confronts the knitter. Glasses . Glasses Soldiers, Hnlttlng 8S05aS81H!$ilR8S5!5K!5STSC . To look your best doesn't necessarily mnst always wear new elotbea. a , s!.-- 4K J . if V - that yon mean - But it does mean tbat what yon da wear mnst he absolutely, spotlessly clean and in perfect repair and pressed. . ' r bring yon old elothea to over.. to It will pay yon over and , x K. s? Tip i Froisland Tailoring. & Cleaning. Co Central School Block 340 West 1st So. ' 5 , i COMPARISON - EmphasizestheQualitycf G,J . and-to-an- y, ln t " .1 -- ht r, C, v. , . - O 0 I faat-growi- t,.,.. Work Our O- .V - . - . r 1 Troy Steam Laundry Phone 203 redoubling his efforts when toe youth of onr land was called Into service. He is indefatigable in. his work. In November when the Dayton chapter of the American Red Cross was asked to furnish 500 sweaters for nurses, Mr. Hill completed two in six days, remarking when he delivered them: I can finish two of them In five days If ITn not Interrupted too much." Although his hair is white with; the snows of many years, Mr. Hills He heart Is delightfully youthful. works at hla regular employment In the commercial world from seven to five oclock every week day, and does his knitting In his leisure hoars, often arising at three oclock In the morning to knit a sock before breakfast, as it were. He has made a specialty of knitting two socks simultaneously with one pair of knitting needles, PROVO STERM LAUNDRY ALWAYS J. Proprietor - AND PILLOWS BEDS CONFIDENCE success to any business. To" of the public has been onr confidence the win lifes aim, and we take pride in stating that we have never betrayed that confidence. Our busk w ness has been built on that basis. We invite yon to join, our army of satisfied customers. Thats what brings name of the man whom It commemorates and other information about him. The committee la considering two places for the trees. One plan prowith other lovides for calities to have an such trees planted along the Lincoln highway. The other plan Is to make the project purely local and place the trees along a route connecting the city parka The trees would be of various said Jchn- - D. BalL of th& civic -- " ;r , Provo Commercial a , Dank & Savings A New Department We have added to our Grocery , Dep&rment new line and invite yon to call and see onr "They would" Be""planted in groups at points where It is desirable to gain the view of the passer . - by." N. GULICK, fVF MAKE A SPECIALTY OF FEATHER 8ol-- i dioro and Sailors Who Havo Died." ' Shade tree as memorials to Milwaukee soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in toe war la toe plan which Is under consideration by the parks and parkways committee of the civic commission. A tree for each man would be planted and each would bear the commlsslbm 375 ff. Centev Phone 164 SHADE .TREE MEMORIALS Proposal to tot Them Out for RELIABLE CHINA WABE and GLASSWARE - TO BE LASTING MEMORIAL Sweethearts Monument at Camp Devena to Be Permanent ' built with Sveethep.rt Ftones brought lo Camp Devens, Xlass by the sweethearts of the soldiers of the Seventy-sixt- h division. Is to reA bronze main a lasting memorial. tablet has been placed on the monument The tablet has a winged American eagle at the top. Under the To toe citi eagle is the following: zens of the United States who at toe call of, humanity laid aside their vocations to become soldiers in the Grand Army of Ltberty this memorial Is dedi- cated, FARRER& WHITEHEAD Quality Grocers COALS, A3 FOLLOWS ITMT, , , , J That Good Goal 4 CASTLE GATE, CLEAR CREEK, KINO, SPRDI8 1918." Stage Boston Ta Party. Manitowoc, WIs., staged a Bostoo ten party" that was not on toe schedule when two box cars loaded with tea were backed off the 8oo slip and plunged Into Lake Michigan. 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