GOOD ROADS, GOOD HOMES, BEST CHEESE VOL. CLOVERDALE The Nestucca Valley First, Last and all the Time. CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREGON. AUGUST 9,1917 j 3. s i Story o f “America FlrstS &* masking America's Secret Foes N o v e liz e d F rom the M o tio n Picture S eria l o f the Same N a m e Released hy P a the c Mr’ ««', « » I h c* W . ftr ö u y W ile Connell conflict then raging— had transference in air flight been accomplished by hu man beings. When the Washington morning pa- | pers came out, the front pages in bold type were devoted to this hair-raising experience of Miss D are and her fa ther's orderly, now celebrities the world over. Reporters vied with cneh other in trying to outwrite the "fea ture,” which was too rare'to miss. By no means satisfied with the main theme of their tale they spun it from every possible angle. A group o f scribes practically camped on the Dare premi ses seeking Interviews and pleading for arded a close examination of the burn photographs o f everybody in the house SYNOPSIS. ing machine, and perceiving the re hold or associated with it. The fact mains of the aviator, drew her away. that the Dares were constantly In the Capt. Ralph Payne, U. S. A., Is given se Whereupon they spent the better part pub;V eye nowadays lent a special in cret plans of defense to deliver to Pana ma. He attends a ball at the Granada em of an hour scouring the neighborhood terest to this adventure which over- bassy with Colonel Dare's daughter, | shadowed all others and kept the news- Pearl. As a climax to a series of mys for the masked man and finally gave terious Incidents he Is arrested for trea tip the futile hunt in disgust without ! paper men in expectation of more to son. The ambassador of Granada is found having found a single trace. come. dead and the plans missing from Payne's ' The activity o f these news gatherers coat. Major Brent, Payne’s rival, enters By this time farmers whose homes into suspicious negotiations with Bertha nns turned to good account hy the g<»v- were in the vicinity and curious and Bonn. Payne is sentenced to life Impris onment. A train carrying Pearl. Bertha morbid city folk began to arrive in au , eminent officials. Bonn and Payne on his way to prison is “ A newspaper mnn lets nothing get wrecked and Pearl sees Payne's lifeless tomobiles, on foot, in buggies and on h.v, whether lie understands it or not,” body at her feet. She meets Adams, a ! horseback. Mounted Washington po- mysterious stranger, who offers her his judiciously remarked the president _tice and a troop of cavalry rode up services to trace the traitors. She learns, that he has the plans. Pearl finds Adams presently and took charge o f the situa 'when Colonel Dine came to him com In Washington and learns of his peculiar plaining of the nuisance and pleading actions. Adams warns Senator Warfield tion, assembling order and affording against this Intrusion into his privacy. that he is in danger from a ring of spies much-needed privacy to Pearl and While they talk the senator's office is “ These fellows may become the right Adams. attacked by conspirators. Bertha Bonn asks Pearl to hand Adams a package When Colonel Dare, with Major arm of the nation in smoking the Si which J proves to be the plans. Adams is lent Menace out. Give them free reign, Pt made Colonel Dare's orderly. They are Brent and Bertha Bonn, in the automo colonel, keeping your counsel, of ordered South. The Granadians flat capture bile with Toko at the wheel dashed capt Pearl and Adams to get the pli plans. Pearl course.” begs Adams to let her take his belt which Into sight. Pearl could hardly restrain Then the president’s countenance contains the defense plans. They escape her impatience. IShe fell into the and Adams steals the belt from her. colonel’s arms, weeping hysterically. changed. “ Colonel D are!” His voice Pearl is captured again by the Grana dians. She is rescued by Adams. Dis “ Take me home 1” she sobbed, her was vibrant with deeply stirred emo guised as his brother she accompanies nerves giving way. “ Adnras w ill ex tions. "Without attaching any blame hi.« into the camp of the conspirators, and poses as a chemist. They are rec plain everything to you.” And they on you or your associates, we must ad ognized; in the fight Adams saves Pearl carried her to the cqr. mit that the Foreign Alliance has suc from harm. Colonel Dare arrives with ceeded in It s Initial attempts. What American troops. The black scarf appears. During the ride back to Washington, ever may be behind it all, the secret Pearl and Toko follow Adams on his wav to an appointment at the chemlral build ou the outskirts of which these scenes Canal defense plans nnd the chemicals ing. All three fall into the hands o f the were enacted. Adams briefly related necessary to interpret these plans are “ alliance.” Adams Is arrested by coun terfeit soldiers who also take Pearl with his side o f the tli Tiling adventure. He In their possession. Some hostile for them. They carry her aboard ship and had on his own responsibility forsaken eign agency now knows something we she is again saved by Adams from the “ foreign alliance.” The ship is biown up. the party at the Chemical building They escape. Adams surprises Brent in after the lost race with the Silent ourselves do not know— the one weuk spot in our fortification of the canal. Dare’s home stealing the plans. They in turn are confronted by Toko. Adams finds Flyer, hurried to the adjacent hangars a note which calls the Silent Army to of the Aero club of America, borrowed If the canal is wrenched from our con trol the position o f America as the srms at the Chemical building. Colonel Dare, with a regiment, appears at the a one-man machine, and had flown back, spot Th \v Si"* the building w m i.ed and arriving at the moment that the Silent arbiter In world affairs will alter—from on aggressive nation, which we now rifled. Peart Is carried away by the Si lent Flyer. She descends in a parachute Flyer, wit! Pearl hunging around the are, we will he forced to a humiliating and meets Adams who has destroyed the driver’s neck, begun to ascend from the defensive. Our military forces on the Flyer. She finds a black muffler. roof. He observed the parachute at isthmus have been brought to the high tached to the Silent Flyer and swept est standard of efficiency; as many of ELEVENTH EPISODE by just as Pearl detached it and start our battleships as can be spared from ed to descend. The Silent Flyer’s the northern coasts will sail today un driver whipped out his revolver to A Million Volunteers! der full steam iu both oceans to guard shoot Pearl. Adams’ bullet knocked each entrance to the canal. From this Adams looked at her apprehensively. the revolver out or his hund. Adams dair on we can do nothing more than “ N o’m, to t-them three questions. It’g uow soared above the Silent Flyer, await developments there and— pre the solemn t-truth. girl. Did that S1-" which he bombarded with explosives. pare for any emergency here. It Is my lent Menace pet the w-wafers?” he Both machines had veered in a west wish that you co-operate unreservedly added in a voice so full o f anxiety that erly direction, some distance out o f the with the secretary o f war nnd the chief Pearl’s doubts o f him vanished. straight line o f Pearl’s downward o f the army staff in mobilizing a mil “ H e’s got them and he imitated you flight. lion volunteers for army service. My to perfection !’’ she cried. Here was a “ She couldn’t do it a-ngain, not once call of which you have been informed new suggestion. Wus it possible that in a t-thousand times,” averred Adams, will be issued today." ail along the Silent Menace masque in conclusion with on admiring glance Colonel Dare, overwhelmed by the raded ns Adams to throw them o ff the at the half-fainting girl in her father's scent? She made a mental note to arms. Which wus probably the truth. unabated confidence of the chief mag mention this illuminating thought to Only twice before in the history of istrate of the country, solemnly pledged her father. aeronautics— in the Somme and in east his word. A fter dinner thnt night. Colonel In spite of her protests, Adams haz ern Poland during the great European Dare called all the visiting newspaper men Into his study and Informed them that at any moment he expected the secretary of war, the chief of the army ! staff and one or two of Ids Junior ofli- ' cers, including Major Brent, to arrive; i that the purpose of their visit wus to discuss informally the question of rals- ; lng a million volunteers; how to handle the movement of troops; how to dis pose of them strutegieully nnd equip and train the recruits properly and quickly; that eventually a written statement would be forthcoming. He asked them to fnvor him personally by quitting the premises so that the mem bers of his family would not be sub jected to the constant annoyance of answering door bells and telephone calls and the conference proceed undis turbed. The reporters smilingly obliged the colonel by quartering themselves in the summer house in the Dare gardens. When he was told o f this arrangement * I * i he laughed, in spite o f the seriousness o f everything, at the subtle and deter mined methods o f the American pro fessional collector and purveyor of news. FIEN your money is in the bank it is safe from pick "They’ve got a n-notlon, colonel." pockets and burglars. A man who is known to carry Adams Informed him. “ that you're goln’ a large sum o f money on hiB person soon is marked as over a 1 lot o f National Guard figures prey by the thief. None o f the big men o f the country tonight what’ll show n-up Jest how carry large sums o f money about. D on't tempt the thief. I t the country's fixed to dig up a million may cost vou not only your money, but your life. Bank your rookie?. They w-want to get at them figures which they t-think you ain't money with us. goin* to give o-out.” “ Huh !” exclaimed the colonel guard edly. “ Then there's that t-there Silent Menace,” insinuated Adams. "These writer-chaps g got a bet up that he's goln' to he on the Job and heat t-them to It on this figger business.” ____ ___ NO. 2 CONFIDENCE THE RESULT OF STRENGTH X | T I I E strength of this Bank is the direct resu lt of its efficien t m an agem ent, a m p le resources and ca p ita l. The confi- fct: "iS f deuce o f the p eople is the resu lt of the stren gth and un questioned safety patrons. w hich the Bank assures E v e r sinco its esta b lish m en t, the stren gth and also in the esteem of the people. counts ef a ll people who a p p recia te sa fety its B an k depositors has grown W e in v ite for th e ir and in the ac m on ey and careful, efficien t service. This Bank was Established in 1902 GENERAL BANKING AND SAVINGS TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK Tillamook, Oregon Capital and Surplus $46,000.00 "The Silent Menace!" echoed the | colonel, shnrply “ Report that, sir, to Major Ilront at once. l i e ’;. ’ “ I henrd it, colonel!" called a voico from an adjoining room ; and the major now Joined them, laughing lightly. “ No outsider will enter this house tonight, it is guarded in dde and out by picked men from the garrison.” In view of the distinguished < h ir.ie- ter of the night's visitors, both th« major and the orderly dressed with more care titan usual. Particularly Adams, who was notoriously indiffer ent to his apparel. Some o f the men in the mess rail 'd him most unmerci fully nt times, dabbing kirn the "m ss bum.” He was leuniy enough in Ills habits and was even known to shave several times a dny, especially when assigned to some .duly where hr would meet the colour Is daughter. But he would not, or could not shake off cer tain trampllke mannerisms iu clothing his really splendid figure. When the visit is arrived the colo- feur, was known to he at a local repair shop overhauling one o f the cars. ’l'lie whereabouts o f Brent’s secret guard inside tiro house was, o f course, told to Pearl and Bertha during the early part of the evening. The object o f this extra precaution wus obvious; not even the house Inmates, them selves, could speuk without being over heard by someone in duty bound to re port to the m ajor; and any person without a license to ho about would he Instantly discovered uud ejected. To make the place all the more Inaccessi ble to stealth or intrigue, while the window blinds were tightly drawn downstairs the casements in the upper stories were wide open aud through the screens the reporters in the sum mer house could see that every room was brilliantly alight. Thus was the lure laid fo r the Silent Menace in pcrf“ ot detail. " I f he g-glts in, wc ketch him, and If he’s In now, he’ll never git o-out," was how Adams summed uu the ar- 1 Don't Tempt the Thief! W NESTUCCA VALLEY BANK Cloverdale. Oregon. “ No Outsider Will Enter This House Tonlghtl" ne! escorted them Into the study, clos rangements to the members o f the presa to whom the quaint, fellow was <t ing and bolting the door. “ We can talk undisturbed nnd un genuine treat nnd a new "news” topic heard, gentlemen," he assured as they every time he mingled with them. Tim swept the room with cautious eyes aft fact thnt Adams was under survell- er hearing the prophesy o f the news Inuce they did not know ; nor did he, apparently— Brent saw to that and paper men. They sat down presently with pencil made it his own affair. Nor did Brent know that Adams waa and paper and the data brought to the meeting by the secretary of war. This shadowing him and also Bertha Bonn. (lata was o f a private and official char Bertha, however, knew this. She knew, acter and it was not intended that it too, thut she could trap Adams with a should ever reach the presa in Ita pres word to Pearl. And no better oppor- ent form. It was for this reason more ; funity was ever offered. Bertha s eyes than any other that soldiera, whose in aud ears were open. Adams was cognizant o f a great in tegrity waa established beyond a doubt, were stationed outside near the study ner change in Bertha Bonn. Revenge windows— which were shaded and In Bertha's heart was being supplanted locked—and that Major Brent person by her former lover In a finer and deep ally guarded the only other entrance to er form for the way warding sweetheart the study— the door leading Into the o f her girlhood. On this night she waa library proper; sod when he was not more completely under the spell o f the on guard Adams or Pearl was. With captivating major than even that astute the exception o f Mias Dare and her observer Into the heart o f a woman guest, Bertha Bonn, no ooe else was perceived. I f Brent had only known It I he could have scaled Bertha's Upa for- permitted In the library. The household servants went to I ever on the question o f their former their quarters soon after their eve 1 relations by a simple application o f the ning duties were performed; the but I artifice of lovemaking In which he was ler had purposely been rranted a night | so skillful, or one show o f kindness and o ff; there were no servants whatsoever I sincerity. But this sentimental attitude o f on the first floor and the two ntwtaira girls were always In sight or sound of their mistress; and. Toko, the chauf- Continued on last page.