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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1916)
“But you haven’t spelled It right You haven’t got tlio coweumbers In at all. W hat you have got Is ’kueumbers,’ when It should be cow’cumbers. You can’t hold Sol on a w arrant like that.” “Look here, elder," said the judge us he rose up and puffed out h's bosom, By M. QUAD “have you come hero to teach me how C opyright, 1918, by th e M cC lure to spell or to get a w arrant for Sola N ew sp ap er S yndicate. mon Graves?” | “But you probably made a slip of the In every village In the land almost pen,’’ lamely explained the man who every house owner has a lot big wanted Justice. “There are no slips in my Inw, sir.” enough to make a garden and raise “But they are coweumbers.” the most of his vegetables. It Is a "1 never heard of such things, ab custom that may have descended from for kueumbers, 1 have a hundred In the pilgrim fathers that when the my own garden. That w arrant will crop Is bountiful and there are cucum send Sol to the county Jail as fast as a bers and tomatoes to waste to Invite horse can gallop. I want no man to the neighbors less fortunate to open come hero thinking he can tesch me the gate and help themselves. This my business.” custom hud prevailed In the village of The sehoolma'am was finally called to settle the question of spelling. Kernstown for ranuy long years. There In The wondering teacher came, and was one exception to It, however, and when the case had been stated to her that was the case of Elder Wleksbaw she hesitated and then snld: and his wife. lie had been elder of a I "I can decide a moment the question at issue, church since a church had been estab j and I hope neither of you will bear me lished In the place, and he had long any hard feelings for so doing. You been known for his stinginess. I are both of you wrong. The nam e of The elder’s wife would have been the vegetable you aro disputing about open handed with the neighbors, but Is ‘cooeumber.’ and you pronounce the I ‘coo’ softly.” her husband had said to her: "Iil be durned If I do!" shouted his “If we have got any neighbors who honor. haven’t coweumbers, onions and toma “And I’ll be durned In the sami toes In plenty It Is due to their shift way!” the elder, making use lessness and they shan't have any of ! of a sw shouted ear word for the first time la ours.” years. “But they are going to waste,” would j thirty In a few hours the wiiole village reply the wife. heard of the dispute and was split "No, they ain't. They will enrich 1 Into factious. T/iere were the “cows" the soil for another season. Even If and the “kus" and the "coos," and there they won’t i am not going to encour , wns a row that didn’t quiet down for a age shiftlessness In anybody.” year or more. than fifty packet Among those w hom he denominated dictionaries were More sent for and consult ns shiftless was Solomon Graves. He and although they settled the pro w asn’t exactly lazy, but yet he might ed, nunciation for some, others continued have had more energy. He had a small to hang out and are hanging out still garden, but It was hostile soil. He passed and repnssed the Ciller’s house But perhaps the main point of the many, many times, and always stop I whole affair was that Solomon Graves ped and looked over the fence, but the 1 wns never urrosted for the heinous elder never m ine out and Invited him I crime he committed In Elder Wick to help himself. At length, when Solo shaw’a garden that lummei night mon saw that things were going to wnste, ho determined to help himself without the Invitation. In walking In the garden at sunset one evening the elder particularly no ticed six large cucumbers on a certain vine. He walked out again soon after sunrise and there W’ere no cucumbers (K. D. Weracbkul, Prop.) thero. In place of them, In the soft soil, were the tracks of the villain who had visited the spot during the night Phone orders filled. Deliveries and despoiled the vine. He hastened roads North and South. Into the house to say to his wife: "Marlnr, there Is an unhung villnln In Kernstown.” I “Good gracious!” she exclaimed, with a start of surprise. “And that unhung villain entered our garden during the night and picked Phone, Shop, 13-8-0. Re». 6-C-2 j and carried away six of our choicest coweumbers.” Fell Phone 53-J Ground Floor And after a hasty breakfast the elder Office Todd P. O. Box 147 Hotel. took the trail so plain in the soil amt followed It over the fence Into the alley W ith Rollie Watson and from there to the house of Solo mon Graves, a quarter of u mile away. In ten minutes more he wns at the house of the Justice of the peace for the village, one Hiram Brown, before whom two lawsuits had been tried In nlnuit eight years. He felt all the dig ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------______ nity, however, of his official position L. V. EBEltHARD, Manager. and was r.ot to be gainsaid as to legal points. Complete Set of Almtractaof the Recordt "Judge,” said the elder ns he entered of Tillamook Count?, Oregon. In haste. "Solomon Graves has stolen TILLAMOOK. - - OREGON six eoweiiTiil>ers from my gnrden. I want a w arrant for his arrest, and I want him sent to Jail N>fore sundown.’’ FRANK TAYLOR, When the w arrant had been tilled out Ills honor handed It over to the elder to rend, ami it was but a moment before the latter exclaimed: Notary Public “Here, Judge; this won’t do. I told you Solomon Graves had stolen six cowcnnilH'rs out of my garden.” "But the w arrant says so.” Cloverdale, Ore. 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