From the Library of Congress, August 8, 1918.The Ashland (Oregon) Tidings.65th May Now Be On Firing Line The Medford Mall Tribune of Wednesday says that relatives of Jackson county boys in the 65th artillery are watching the war news from the front with much eagerness these days as there is a strong probability that the 65th is engaged in the great battles. A number of letters received in the city in the past two or three weeks told that the 65th was all ready for duty in the front line and about to be sent there. Today another mail from France arrived in the city bringing more letters indicating that the boys have been and probably are still in the fighting.
Mayor and Mrs. Gates received a letter from Sergeant George Gates, written June 28, this morning, in which he made the simple statement, "We've been at the front for awhile." The letter was unusually mutilated by the censor, who cut away three and one-half pages of it. George wrote that two of his Medford comrades while out on the march, collapsed from heat attacks.
Sergeant Ben Plymale wrote on June 20 to Samuel T. Richardson in a letter the latter received over two weeks ago that the 65th was all ready to go to the trenches, having been issued their steel helmets, gas masks and other equipment. He stated that he and four other sergeants had just returned from attending a special school in higher mathematics. Hence it is probable that the Jackson county boys of the 65th have been manipulating guns against the Hun in the recent battles. Sergeant Plymale and Sergeant Carl Ringer of Eagle Point, are the only Jackson county boys in company C of the 65th.
Aged German Enemy Meets Just Reward Monday evening Lester Ball, deputy United States marshal of San Francisco, passed through Ashland on train No. 16 on his way north. The officer had in his company Coach Ammar, a German, 65 years of age, who was being conducted to McNeil Island, Wash., where he will undergo internment for five years for seditious talk. It is claimed the alien enemy came from the north a short time ago and made himself conspicuous on the train by his seditious utterances.
Report Presented By Police JudgeThe following is the report of the Ashland city court for the month ending July 31, 1918:
Number complaints for violation of traffic ordinance, 5.
Number of' complaints for violation of water ordinance, 16.
Number of complaints for violation of park ordinance, 2.
Number of complaints for violation of booze ordinance 5.
Number of complaints for disturbing the peace, 1.
Number of complaints charging use of obscene and vulgar language, 1.
Total number of complaints heard and disposed of, 38.
Amount of money received and deposited in city treasury, $147.00
D. M. BUOWER,
Judge of City Court.
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