ähr Tinrent (6 m ue Sxurrau Caught in
His Own Trap
Published every Thursday at Forest («rove, Oregon
W. C. Benfer, Editor and Publiaher.
Filtered as secoml-elass m atter Jan. 12. 1916, at the postoffu-e at Forest (¡rove,
Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1S79
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WE SELL
Lumber
Cement
Shingles
Roofing
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We Buy j
A fter dinner they had some cigars
with the old man, and finally the old
man said it would bo a good thing to
On ('redit
Paid in advance
$1.00 One year
$1.50 send a squad of men as soon as p»«ssi-
One year
.50 Six months
.75 1*1» while the snow was on the ground
Six months
.25
Three
months
.40 as the men would find it easy to find
Three Months
them at home. So the major called the
THURSDAY, JAN. 81. 1918
sergeant major and had a detail of 18
i men and four days’ rations issued to
*‘l am sorry that you do not wear a ting every
1 each trooj>er. and ordered me to l>o
day and I can only ask you if you lose the physical
emblem to he sure that you wear it IN YOt’K
ready to start to Centerville, via Pine-
HKART: the heart of America shall interpret the
wood
Factory, and to Centerville and
heart of the world.” President Wilson.
i Yellow Creek.
1 was to make the Pinewood Factory,
N 0 T E S A N I) C O M M E N T S
which was about forty miles distant,
the first duy. We hail a hart! day be
If the three-cornered scrap be­ ia. where he has sent thousands of fore us, as the snow was about 15 in­
deep and very cold for Tennessee.
tween President Wilson, Secretary ! the brightest men and women of ches
\5e
saw
but very few men on the road
political
of War Baker and Senator Cham­ his empire for , . holding
...
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*a
they
were
up. We lauded
berlain results in better and more views not to his liking; Private at Pinawood ju all st housed
as the sun was setting.
rapid preparedness to subdue the Font'eroy Fitz Maurice, the pet­ The foreman of the factory rushed out
Huns, good and well, but if this ted son of the Boston con-fish where 1 dismounted my tr«»op and in­
formed me that was private property want my troop« to know anything as j He remarked that I had a fine lot of
scrap delays the bigger scrap, in aristocrat, is meekly taking orders and
he could not permit me to camp on regards the trap they had set for us. rTecruits and Col. I'olk said, “ Itecruita
which we are all interested, then from Captain James Casey, son of the premises.
informed him that As soon as I finished my meal I went hell! We are Confederate soldiers."
let the guilty trouble-makers be- Mike Casey, a section boss; so- we camped at I soon
any place that suited to the liv«-ry stable and onh-red a horse The next morning I took the prisoners
ware The people will have their ciety butterflies, who have never our taste. 1 said 1 would destroy noth­ saddled and bridled and then 1 arrested to Nashville, Tennessee, an d turned
them over to Andrew Johnson, the mil­
before done a useful day’s work, ing but wood, and use a little hay for the eook anil we were soon all mounted itary
inning later—at the polls.
governor of Teanesseu. The gov­
and
I
just
told
the
|ieople
in
the
house
our
horses.
We
sat
up
all
night,
as
it
are working side by side in Red
ernor wus well aci|uuinlfd with Col.
that
it
was
ton
cold
to
scout
and
that
I
The county auditor of Cuya Cross
was
intensely
cold
and
our
blankets
and other patriotic service were very light for such cold weather. would return to camp at Charlotteville, Jam es Folk and asked him how he
hoga county, Ohio, complains that with girls
who inherited factory In the morning we mounted and were and we were soon off.
liked to be a prisoner. Folk said he
he can find but $680,000,000 of positions from
We
crossed
the
river
and
went
about
did
not mind being a prisoner, but t>e-
their
mothers;
the
the road at five o'clock. The day
John D. Rockefeller’s wealth and banker and the hod-carrier are ? I on
was bright, not a cloud in sight, but a two miles from town and recrossed the ing captured by a d boy, without a
states that he is positive the oil tramping together from house to | sharl> hre«e was blowing from the river again, as the river was as crooked beard on his face, was disgusting to
magnate is holding out some of house to enlist the people in Red west. We halted the troop at noon anil as a horseshoe. We went back in the him. Governor Johnson replied "This
about five miles and camped at a boy is llie greut grandnephew of Gen­
his property. He points out Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Liberty made some coffee and fried some bacon, hills
farm
house and killed and roasted a eral John Savier."
and
a
few
hard-tack
made
the
meal.
that John D. paid but «0,000
d ^
and now
...................
pig and borrowed some eggs from the I will just add to this story that I
comes
We
traveled
along
a
high,
barren
coun­
in taxes i n Cuyahoga county . cha> M
a ^
,ain
farm er's wife. We got up at 1 o’clock ruptured Col. Folk’s negro boy. Julius
very thinly settled.
in f o u r y e ars. What the Ex i of industry, who has never before try, When
in
we were getting pretty close the morning and ate our breakfast. Folk, and he stay is I with me and cooked
press would like to know is shown any tender feelings for the i to Centerville, a government horse With the coon for a guide, we struck for me until the close of the Civil war.
i buyer with our troop, whose feet got out for the head of Yellow Creek, where Col. J. H. Folk anil This*. Webster
.
“
"
f
™
!
workers,
and
says
the
day
is
near
very cold, asked me to let a soldier ride the cook told me that Col. i'olk and are l*oth from Columbia, Tennessee.
Rockefeller to pay the $10,000. when the workers will control the j ahead
of the troop with him as his feet Thos. W ebster and his men would Col. Folk had a very fine gold watch
Ben W. Olcott, secretary of destinies of nations.
i were almost frozen. They would stop camp. We struck Yellow Creek val­ when I captured him. He took it from
ley just before daylight, anil by the his |sM'kel and said, "T hat is some­
state, has issued an announcement Hi-tory is being made rapidly at the first house to get warm. So time
the sun was up we had captured thing I appreciate very highly, us it
dashed 'off at a gallop and we
to the effect that he is a candidate i these days and the I’nited States they
eighteen
otlicers and men. We just was presented to me hy my mother
traveled along slowly as the snow was
for the republican nomination for . federal government has taken long soft
dashed
down
the valley and surrounded while I was on a visit to England. You
up on the horses' feet.
governor of Oregon. He announc­ steps toward a more equal distri­ When and we hailed
got in sight of the house every house. We let one man get can read what she inscribed on the
es that he is too busy earning his bution of the burdens of war and where we expected to find the men, I away. His name was Petway and he w atch.” So I told the colonel if hr found
had just been married to a beautiful anyone that he could send the watch
salary to make a personal cam­ i of government in general. In fact, dashed ahead of the troop and when I young
lady, said to be the handsomest home with, I would let him do so, and
the house a man met me at his
paign for votes, but will appre so paternal has our government | i reached
woman in the county. His house was as we returned through Chause Valley,
front
gate.
He
informed
me
that
my
ciate the support of all his friends. j become that even the socialists men were captured by Captain Me- on a bud place to surround and just us he met an old woman by the name of
He promises to resign his present have little complaint to make. ] Narry, a bushwhacker from Nashville. I turned the corner he jumped out on Chause and 1 returned the watch to the
position as soon as elected, so And now with Charley Schwab I asked the man of the house his name. the snow barefooted and with nothing colonel anil he sent it to his mother.
but his shirt and drawers. I was Now if any man knowing of the cir­
Governor Withycombe can ap­ telling his coll ague that they He replied it was Dr. Bo veil. The doc­ on
not
atfraid of him as I really thought cumstances shoud read this article, I
tor
said
"Listen,
and
you
can
hear
their
point the new secretary of state. may soon be called upon to cea.-e ,, .
he
would
return. I went into his house would like very much to hear from
.
•
• I ,
! fe‘!t they make a dash around the
and
asked
his wife how she liked m ar­ him. I understand that Col. Jam es H.
running
the
nation,
It
looks
a
s
’hill
in
the
direction
of
the
town.”
I
Isn’t it strange that the Port­
ried
life.
She said she did not know, Folk lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Cap.
commanded
my
troop
to
forward
at
a
land Oregonian, for once,has words ! though the world-war had brought
as
she
hail
only tried married life two Thos. Webster, the last I heard of
gallop
and
as
I
was
mounted
on
a
very
of commendation fo r Senator i the^day of the toiler coming into fleet-footed animal. I followed the cap­ days.
him, lived in Columbia, Tennessee. I
Chamberlain, democrat? Can it t^e'r own nearer in three short tain and his men and the two prisoners. Ju st as we were returning up the would be pleased to hear from either
be this champion Camouflager de- >ears l^an a^ the oraory turned When I came to the river I saw the valley we had a man come in front of Johnnie, Keh. or Yank.
GEO. W. PETERS.
sires to see the democrats in the
on the desert air has done in captain anil the prisoners just getting our command. I halted him us he hail
Captain
Co.
A.,
17th Tenn. Cav.,
on
a
rebel
uniform
anil
I
thought
he
;
the
past
forty
years.
The
work
out
of
the
water.
As
I
didn't
know
the
cabinet get so deeply involved in
Civil
War.
was
a
soldier.
He
laughed
anil
said,
ford I plunged my horse in and soon
a scrap that they will cease war ing people of Russia had a fine struck
swimming water and rny horse "You don’t want me; I am foolish and Forest Grove, Oregon.
preparetions and allow the boys, ° P P ° rtunity
to come into their
u ...
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' swam a few rods; but I landed and up have fits,” and he almost made ine be­ A patriotic meeting will lx* held
but they spoiled it, at le a s t, the bank ,
when I regthed thé lieve that he was foolish. When we
in the trenches to go wi thout
temporarily,
by
not
being
unani
top of the bank I caught a glimse of started on our return trip my sergeant in the Assembly room of the pub­
blankets, beds and bullets? Don’t
mous
in
what
they
wanted and the captain and by the time we reached said "W ell, what will we do with this lic .school in Dilley, Frit. 8, at 2
seem possible, does it? But very
the town I was getting very close to rnan?” "B ring him along,” was my p. m. A joint program will be
strange things are done in the
are now enKaged in killing him
and the prisoners. I fired on them reply "and if he has a fit, shoot him given by the pupils of the school
name of partisanship, sometimes. each other off. Let us hop- that and killed
horse the government and bring his horse.” He had no fits and Riverside Grange Mrs. Jen­
if the day ever comes when th»- agent was the
and the horse fell on and turned out to be a very fine and
MISTER SCHWAB
workers take control of America the agent's riding
nie Kemp, from the Food Admin­
foot. I did not have time highly eduraten man.
SEES A LIGHT
they will have profited by th e mis- to stop, however, and we soon came to We were soon on the return, as we istration Bureau, in Portland, will
Chas.
M. 1 Schwab,
president of , takes of the Russian workers, to a lane and 1 got another shot and crip- were a long ways from our headquar-
be the speaker. Mrs Kemp comes
T
C
t
a
anil each one of my men h had
a highly
the Bethlehem
Steel
Corporation, the end that they will not destroy
th" horse my trooper was riding, ters,
recommended hy Mr. YV.
: so I had a straight run after the cap­ prisoner. We traveled all day with­ K. Newell. All are cordially in­
last week told a crowd of rich each other,
tain and his man. I was soon close up out anything to eat, except the meal
men, gathered at a banquet in
to
them, and when we came to the we ate at midnight. At 9 o’clock that vited to attend. lecturer.
AT
A
GNAT
New York city, that “the time is | STRAINING
.
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brush they both jumped from their night we stopped at a farm house and
Cook With foal
near when the men of the working ! Anent the suggestion th a t th e horsea and I captured them. My men I had a supper cooked for the troop
class—the men without property churches be closed to save fuel, soon came up and we returned to the and the prisoners. We left at 12 The Forest
Planing
* ~ “ Grove
».»« v » v
• i i * l l l l l g 4 Mill
*1 III
anu arrived at Pinewook Fac- has |ai(1 ¡n a 8 u p p |y ()f
, fu(>,
—will control the destinies of the the Michigan Christian Advocate hotel. The captain had a brand new o’clock
tory at 2 o’clock, where we stopped
,
saddle that and
world.” Continuing, this far-see- says: “We have not heard of the rebel uniform strapped so to I his should
built
a
slept
until
6
in
coalan<
1 ,s P^Par«! to supply-
big
fire
and
step
guess
authorities asking the saloons to ^ that st. f‘l he was
the a wnt‘fr’
ing captain of industry said:
consumers
at a reasonable price.
the
morning.
Then
we
made
the
trip
tall and slim man as his
close.
We
did
hear
something
“I am not one to turn over
and pants just fit your w riter fine. to camp with 18 prisoners, 18 horses, Order by telephone No 0232.
carelessly my belongings for the about their closing an hour earlier. coat When
we returned to Centerville af­ saddles and bridles.
Warranty deed and mortgage
uplift of the nation, but I am one The saloons are open sixteen or ter the chase,
I ordered a dinner for the When we reached camp, Major John blanks for sale at this office.
who has come to believe that the eighteen hours per day for six days troop and had the horses fed. In swim­ Kirwari came out to see the recruits.
worker will rule, and the sooner
the river I got my boots full of
we realize this he better it will while the churches are open a few ming
water,
soon found the fire and
be for our country and the world hours in the week. Yet fuel ad­ emptied so the I water
boots and
at large In these times of war we ministrators see the salvation of was drying my o-ks from when my dyiner
was
of America should not criticise the the fuel situation in closing the announced. I told the troop to go into
Under the new management, this market has been
actions of our President and our churches, but for some reason the dining room and eat their dinners,
stocked up with a tempting line of
Nation. We are behind him and have overlooked the saloon and the cook, who was a big coon, came to
we are behind the Nation. When
sitting room and said my dinner
I say “we” I mean the steel men the breweries. By all m-ans close ¡ the
was ready. When I was M ated at tin;
of the United States. Within the the churches, hut close the saloons table the coon came up by my side and
next 18 months we will have more first. Don’t stop the forces of said, "Captain, you came powerfully
tonnage on the ocean than all the salvation and let the forces of I nigh being killed." I ju st rernarkad
Hams, Bacon, Sausage, Hamburger, Wieners, etc.
nations of the world.”
j that I did not see anybody to kill me
damnation
run
full
blast.
Also Bread, Cookies. Pickles, Spices,
Truly, the war is changing the
and he stated that the rebels had a trap
Fruits and Vegetables.
attitude of men and women toward Remember, friends, you must set for me and if I had gone 200 yards
COME AND SEE OUR GOODS
further on the road I would have been
each other.
pay in advance to get the Express captured.
He
said
that
he
had
been
Free
Deliveries
We nay Cash for V eal
Nicholas Romanoff, c z a r of at one dollar per year. The reg­ baking bread for Col. Jam es H. Polk
9
a.
m.
and
3
p.
m.
pork. Hides, Poultry-
Russia, has been deposed by his ular price is $1 50. We pay you and Captain Thos. W ebster. I told him
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former subjects and sent to Siber- 50c to collect from yourself.
not to say a word more as I did not
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