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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
3
Reflects on Christmas meaning from childhood to parenthood, recalling stockings, family memory, and lifelong essence of the holiday. Notes how love preserves Christmas essence across generations despite changing circumstances.
A fragmented Christmas note describes a wireless message with garbled phrasing. Mentions a FON girl, Abe, and a Goodewill gift, plus a cryptic line about eight Hocktie holders and four more for Christmas.
A folkloric tale links Saint Winnifred to the origin of the evergreen Christmas tree. The saint allegedly felled a sacred oak but a nearby fir survived, becoming a symbol of peace and life. Pagans were told to gather at home around the tree, which Jupiterian gifts and lights would honor Christ Child beliefs.
A Paris report details Jack Smith, a U.S. Marine, awarded Croix de Guerre and D.C. medals for frontline bravery. Enlisting at seventeen, he fought near the Lorraine front, escaped capture, and led a breakout across No Man's Land with prisoners, sustaining wounds yet returning to action.
St Louis man Paul J Kraslese testified in Chewit Court Judge Kimmel that his wife Anni forbade his golf or movie outings saying those amusements would send him to hell. He wept while recounting the dispute from his divorce proceedings.
Baltimore resident Michael Vickery said Boston fog matched London in severity as he wandered from Washington to State streets at dawn. He asked a officer for City Point directions, walked two hours, and ended at the same corner before seeking shelter in a hotel when the fog lifted.
The Atlanta, Georgia soldier known for Paris heroics, Private Jack J. Smith, is stripped of captain’s bars and sent to a southern France camp to reenact his earlier officer celebration in the ranks.
Sergeant James Avertt of Birmingham Alabama served as machine gunner in a two man French designed tank during the Meuse Argonne advance in October. He describes engaging German forces from near Romagne and along a trench line, praising his tank buddy who ran the engine and kept pace. Avertt recounts decisive close range fire and enfilading tactics to wipe out a German group, and recalls a fatal hit that killed his buddy through a peep hole. He notes mutual vigilance among American tank crews to stay near infantry and not outpace support.
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