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U ti 2, S, 4, and 5, Block 6, and Lot
t. Block 1, all of (aid proparty being
In tfca Town of Riverton, Coos County,
O rtfM .
Uta sala o f said proparty will ka
mada subject to tax lima and all coun­
ty claims and interest. Bids will ba
racaivsd on ench lot saparatoly and on
tba entire property heroin described.
Bids must ba accompanied by certified
cheek for an amount equal to 10 p er!
cent o f the bid, payable to Carl M.
Little, trustee.
All bids will be re- ;
ceWed and accepted subject to the ap- j
proval of the Court.
Bids will be 1
opened at office of A. M. Cannon, Kef- j
area in Bankruptcy, at 806 Title and
Trust Building, on the 18th day of
June. 1918, at 2 o’clock P. M.
Carl M. Little, Trustee.
920 Northwestern Bank Bldg., Port­
land, Oregon.
der. he came le t tar
•***st voices sounded is his aera.
eyes, la the estranee of
the dugout he saw a corporal sad two
with fixed beyoneto.
The corporal was nddremteg him:
"Get up, you white-livered blighter!
P“ ” *
end the day yoa erar Jot ned
ÎLrîSTL "poUln« *«D
ora l ItH ba you up «goim g the wall,
and a good Job too. Got hold o f him,
meo, sad If he makao a break. Mve Mm
the bayonet, and send « home, the cow-
ardly sneak, rv-r-r eu. a o a .-------
enough."
Lloyd, trembling and waakeaad by
his long that, totterdd out assisted by
a soldier on each side of him.
They took him before the captain,
but could gut nothing out of him but:
T o r God’s sake, air, don’t have me
■hot. don’t hare me abet 1”
The captain, utterly digested with
him, sent him under escort to division
headquarters for trial by court-mar^
tt*l. charged-with desertion under fire.
They shoot deserters In Franca.
S During his trial, Lloyd aat a s one
dased, and could put nothing forward
in his defense, only an occasional
“Don’t have me shot I"
Hla sentence was passed: “ To ha
Shot at 8 :38 o’clock in the morning of
May 18, 1918,“ This meant that ha
had only one more day to live.
Be did not realise the awfulueas of
his sentence; Ms brain seamed para­
lysed. Ba knew nothing of hla trip,
under guard, ln a motor lorry to tho
sandbagged guardroom ln the village,
where he waa dumped on the floor and
left, while a sentry with a fixed bayo­
net paced up and down to front o f tba
entrance.
Bully beef, water and biscuits war*
left beside him for Ms supper.
The sentry, seeing that he ate noth­
ing, cams inside and shook Mm by the
shoulder, saying to a kind votes:
a chance to die Uke mv mates in the ' After tea attach was erar, the cap-
fighting Una. to dto fla t m a t e m !
sad three of his noncommissioned
country. I aak this of then/*
, officers, wended their way back to the
A Desco hith erto u n k n o w n ____ to P°*>ttoa where the machine gaa had
W m .E T h .
He wanted to
more, but calmly waited the dawn, “ “ * * * •
ln Uw. "* m*
ready to go to hla death. The aballa !£“*?•**
ware bursting all around the gnard-
• " * " * ? * the gun. and an awful
room, but ha hardly noticed them.
I
“ ** “ Sir eyes.
While waiting there, the v o ic e * the1 “ j f had reached the front Una
sentry, singing In a low tone,
to Dench, after his company had loft It A
him. Ba was -in»«-» the chorus of the •tr*n** «»mpeny was nimbly crawling
popular trench ditty:
| to th* Dench ladders. They ware re-
enforcements going over. They were
I want to as boma. 1 want to ge heme
Scotties, and they made a magnificent
of dead and wounded—a grim tribute
to the work of hla company, good old
D company. Looping tranches, and
gasping for breath, Lloyd could aee
right ahead of him hla company to a
dead-ended aap o f a communication
trench, and across the open, away to
Whan Lloyd recovered conscious
front of them, a mam of Germans pre­
ness, ho was lying on hla right aids,
faring what usad to ba the an trance of paring for a charge. Why didn’t D
company firs an them? Why wars they
the guardroom. Now, It was only a
Jumble o f rant and torn sandbags. Bis an strangely all out 7 What wore they
head seemed berating. Ba slowly roas touting fo ri Than ha knew—thalr am­
on hla elbow, and there to the east tba munition was exhausted.
dawn waa breaking. But what waa 1 But what was that on hla right T A
that mangled shape lying over there machine gun. Why didn’t It open firs
Lloyd listened «agi
among the aandbagsf Slowly dragging and save them? Ba would make that
words, and beUevad
himself to It ha saw the body of the gun's crew do their daty. Rushing
sentry. One look waa enough to know over to the gun ha saw why it had not
A nt ha was dead. The soldier’s head opened firs. Scattered around Its baas
Waa miming. The sentry had had hla lay six still forms. They had brought
wish gratified. Be had “gone home." their gun to consolidate the captured
He was safa at last from the “w hiss- position, but a German machine gun
bangs" and the Allemand.
I bad decreed they would never fire
Lika a flash It cama to Lloyd that ha
was fren. Free to go “over the top" j
bad. An intense bombardment of the with Ms company. Free to die Ilka a
enemy’e Unea hod commenced. Th«
roar of th« guas waa doafsniag. country. A great gladness and warmth p,e" ’
8“ ww unloaded. Then
Lloyd’s fear« c u m bach with a rush, came over him. Carefully stepping r**u lt
mad h« cowared on tba aartban floor over the body o f tbe oentrybe started be realised hi. helplemne^ He did
an a mad race down the rained street n<* *»• * Aow to load the gun. Oh,
with hia hands over hla face.
hadnt be attended tbe machine-
The sentry, aaetog hla position, came * f tho village, amid the banting shells,
England! He’d been
to and tried to cheer Mm by talking to minding them not, dodging through or *“ cauiM
around harrying platoons on their way ofre^*,, th* «*“ «* bnt with a blush of
him:
' “ Never mind them guns, boy, they to alas go "over the top.” Coming to *hame he remembered that ha had been
wont hurt yon. They art oar*. We ■ commanication trench ha could not *D*ld. The nickname of the machine
ore giving tbe Bochoo I dose o f their gat through. It was Mocked with laugh- fhnners bad frightened him. They
lng. cheering and cursing soldiers. w*r* called the “Suicide clab.” Now,
CUssMng out of tba trench, he ran because of this fear, hla company
wildly along tha top, never heeding the wonI<* be destroyed, the men of D com-
rain o f machine-gun bullets end sheila. 1**7 would have to die, because he,
not «van hearing tba shoots o f tha of- Albert Lloyd, bad bean afraid o f a
fleer*, telling Mm to get back Into tbe
bis shame he cried Uke a
trench. H* was going to Join his com- baby. Aayway be could dto with them
puny who were to the front line. He and- rising to his feet, he stumbled
waa going to fight with them. He. the 0T*^ the body of one of the gunners,
despised coward, had come Into hie who emitted a faint moon. A gleam
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that I have
bean appointed administratrix o f the
estate of the late Susan Wasson, de-
ceased, by the Honorable the County
Court of the State of Oregon, for Coos
County.
All persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased are here­
by notified to present them to me
with the proper vouchers, at the office
of my attorney, Geo. Watkins, in the
Eldorado Bldg., Marshfield, in said
County and State, within six months
of the date of this notice.
Dated thia 7th day of June, 1918.
Maud B. Watkins,
Administratrix Estate Susan Was­
son, Deceased.
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country has been subjected to so many anxious
moments as during the past two years ?
Can there be any doubt that confidence in the
FederiH Reserve Banking System as a national
shock absorber has contributed largely to the
tranqilility o f business and banking during these
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If you appreciate what this new nation-wide
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riDCRA^ncsenvc
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----------------------------- our depositors. — - '
First National Bank
Coquille, Oregon
Has opened on the
Corner
of Front and ^Hall Street
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He has-a large variety o f goods as he has purchased the
Tupper stock and added some new as well as old.
A New Line of Dishes and Tableware
In the Circuit Court of tho State of
Oregon for Coas County.
Jamas Griffin, Plaintiff,
Elaie Griffin, Defendant.
To Elaie Griffin, the above named
defendant:
In the Name o f the State of Ore­
gon. You are hereby required to ap­
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above entitled
Court and cause within six weeks
from the date of the first publication
of this summons, towit: within fix
weeks from the 81st day of May,
1918, the same being the date o f the
first publication of this summons;
and in case you fail so to appear and
answer on or before the 12th day of
July, 1918, the same being the date
o f the last publication of this sum­
mons, the plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded against
you in his said complaint, a succinct
statement of which is as follows: For
a decree of said Court dissolving the
marriage contract existing between
tbe plaintiff and the defendant.'
Thia summons is served upon you
by publication thereof in the Coquille
Valley Sentinel by order of the Hon­
orable James Watson, County Judge
of the County of Coos, State of Ore­
gon, the county in which such suit is
pending, duly made and entered on
the 14th day of May, 1918.
S. D. Pulford,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Residence
and postoffice address, Coquille, Ore­
gon.
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(First published May 81, 1918.)
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