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The Nestucca Valley First,
Last and all the
Time.
GOOD ROADS,
GOOD HOMES,
BEST CHEESE
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NO. 17
CLOVERDALE, TILLAM O O K COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 22,1917
VOL. j .3.
FOURTEEN,
MONTHS
JJ
THEFRGNT
.. A T
A n A m e ric a n B o y 's
B a p tism o f F ire
By WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
Copyright, Little, Browo & Co.
W ILLIAM
J
ROBINSON
CHAPTER V.
The "Mad Major.”
/ T A IIE nurses in the hospitals are
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worshiped and adored by ttie
soldiers, and surely this is ns it
should be, for they ure suffering al
most ns much as the men, and yet they
keep cheerful and «supply the tender
womanly sympathy which means so
much when in physical anguish. They
are a wonderful bodj of women, and
their work is appreciated. Some of
When a Man Has Been Killed His Let
ters Are Marked “ Killed."
them are close enough to the front to
be under tire, and they are as brave as
the men when it comes to facing dan
ger.
During an aeroplane raid last fail I
The most graphic account of the
great war that has yet been written
comes from the' pen of a twenty-two-
year-old Boston boy, who has just re
turned from France, where as dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider and motor
car driver he served fourteen months
under the British flag. Out of thirty-
one motorcycle dispatch riders he was
one of four survivors
had a chance to watch some of the
nurses. We had about thirty German
aeroplanes over our encampment drop
ping bombs. As they went back to
their own lines they flew over a hos
pital located in an open field. There
were huge red crosses painted on the
top of every tent, so it would seem
that any mistake as to the nature of
the camp would lie impossible. Never
theless as the taubed passed over they
dropped several bombs in the hospital
and killed quite a number of the poor
chaps who were already wounded. The
nurses worked as hard as they could
trying to quiet the rest of tlfte men,
and it is no easy task, for, while a sol
dier may face almost ai$ything when
he is well, it is a very difBerent matter
when he is lying helpless, ■wounded and
in pain, on a stretcher.
I was very much interestAi to learn
how a man’s mail was taken care of
when anything had happened to him.
It seemed to me that the chance of his
letters being returned before his people
could be notified was very great. On
asking about this I found tha.t when a
man has been killed his letters ore
marked “ Killed," but instead o f be
ing sent directly to his people tJiey are
returned to the war office and are sent
from there, after the casualty ha.s been
made known, to his relatives. In this
way many people are saved a great
deal of premature worry and tineas!
ness.
I shall never forget the time 1 saw
the Royal Horse artillery go into action
for a more thrilling sight wobld be
hard to imagine. 1 was out alone in
the car. and 1 had been doing |«ttro'
duty. 1 went rather closer to M r fir
ing line than 1 in tent led to. but decided
to push on until l struck the "route
Rationale.” so I world have a good road
all the rest o f the way back to camp.
1 had to go through the village of
Pb kebust.h. and ns l came to the or ’ss
Do You Love Your Family ?
F course every parent loves hi3 family. The question
seems’ superfluous.
Yet many thoughtless parents
spend tis they go. They live up to every penny they
n.itke. The be?t way to obviate the money spending
habit is to 6tart a bank account. You'll not be so ready to dra«
a chei k as you are to break a bill. Let us expJain our banking
system.
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NESTUCCA VALLEY BANK
C l o \e r d a le ,
O re g o n .
roads just outside the village a sentry
stopped uie and said I could not go on.
!t seems that some Germans had got u
machine gun In the steeple of the
church and were cleaning up every
thing that tried to puss. The horse
artillery had been sent for, and 1 learn
ed that they were on their way even
then.
1 decided to wait around and see
what happened, st* 1 pulled in to the
side o f the road. 1 had nardly stopped
when I heard a rush and rattle tit.tf
sounded like an old flivver in the di>
tance. Around the curve dashed eight
horses on the dead gallop, pulling an
eighteen pounder le i ir.d them. They
dashed by, but about fifty yards ahead
of me they swung an und and trained
that gun on the chut- li
There was a moment's pause, and
tin a she spoke, and awn. went steeple,
Germans, machine gun and nil. The
fit t shot had been ft direct hit. au l It
couldn't have been better if they had
tried ¡1 thousand years.
It was the very next day after ibis
event that I got into us tight a fix us I
ever i are to And myself. 1 was order
ed to take three offi< era to a pin o call
etl Kernmel. I had been there before,
and from what I had seen then I wasn't
eager about making the trip again.
W e started off about 1 o’clock and
expected to be b:c k l>v !Y 1 noticed as
I came to the Keinmel road that there
were tw o sentries on duty there, but
ns they only salutre the officers ami
didn't say anything I thought no more
about it. Now. Kernmel lies nt the foot
of a hill and is tucked in between
Mount Noir and Mount Kernmel. It
would bo ti co. r little i lace In pence
time, but it Is an awful trap to get
caught in when there is a war on.
1 sent the car up the hill as fast she.
could go, and it was a long climb. As
we went over the brow and started on
the down grade w e ran right under the
nose o f the Gorman artillery observers.
This road was oilb ially closed, and
those sentries should have stopped us.
Well, it seared me so that I went
down that hill so fast those offi ers
must have thought they were in a para
chute. As w e entered the village the
shells commenced to drop in on us. and
wo ran for Iho nearest shelter, which
happened to be a brewery.
There wasn't much lWt o f the place
anyway, as it had been in German
hands, and we had shelled them out of
it. and when we had taken it they had
shelled us out of it. Anyway, we left
the car and crawled into the cellar. It
was wet and filthy, but it looked Just
like heaven to mo that day.
We lay there in all this filth hour
after hour, while the shells literally
poured in nil around us. They cer
tainly wasted a lot of good ammunition
trying to got us, but the best of it was
that they didn’t succeed. One of t :,o
officers remarked during a moment's
silence that the crown prime o f Ger
many must have made lbs headquar
ters In (lie idare when it was in Ger
man hands. Another officer replied
that he wished the crown prince was
there now.
We lay there till the fire let up,
wlii'-h It did about 5 o’clock. I was
worrying about getting back, and I
was also wondering what bad become
of the car. If It was gone we might
Just ns well kiss ourselves gondb.v. for
onr (bailees o f getting out on foot
would be slim.
When the tire had abated we came
out and looked around. The enemy
certainly had made a mess o f the place,
for even the top story o f the brewery
had been shot away from over our
heads. ! went to look the car over, and
you ran just believe I was relieved to
find flint, aside from having a few
holes through the' body. It was nil
right.
The officers decided to wait until it
was dork before ebaneing to run ba< k.
I didn't know what wa- going to Imp
pen to us. I wasn't very familiar with
the read, and I was afraid they would
have some kind of barricade up or
have a ew ina' hue guns trained on us
or something eqnallj unpleasant.
I certainly was dreading that ride
buck, but there was no other way out.
nttd W'e were between the devil and
the deep *oa It was at a time like that
that I wished that I had never seen
the Rriti-h array. I turned the car
a; innd. »nd ns soon as it w as dark we
got In and started. I opened her tip
wide, nnd by the Line we got t~> the
bottom o f the hill we were (lo ng about
fifty miles an hour, and I couldn’t see
very much, either, for o f course I did
n . t use any lights.
I didn't know what was waiting for
us at the top o f the hill, but I did
know that if there was anything there
v o were going right through it. even
if we didn't go any further. The ridic
ulo'ts | nrt o f it was that we went right
through and ne’ er >aw a tiling. Alwo-
(#• (Boob (|)rofni>er for
A widow in speaking of her lute husband said:
provider.”
f)ome
“ He was always a good
In the mind of this bereaved woman, this was a high tribute to
her husband's character.
It is often true that the best husband is the one
who saves a part of his income for the future.
By this plan he is able to
provide all necessities and many of the luxuries; but constantly accumulate
money a tut-property that will safeguard bis family against want when, lie is
unable to woik oi
ter his death.
4 Per Cent Paid on Savings and Time Deposits.
ities in Town.
Ee&t Banking Facil
TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK
Established in )!‘02
Oregon
Tillam ook,
$875 r, O, B. F a c t o r y
WHY?
Because it has a S x-Cvlinder, overhead yalyo motor—
mosr miles on gallon gas.
Warner Two Unit Starting and Lighting System
Remy Special Ignition
Strom berg Carbureter
Slewart Vucum Feed
Full Floating Rear Axle
Extra Strong Steering Gear
Toue Cantelever Springs
One Man Top
Extra Strong Frame
Willard Storage Buttery, and
Firestone Demountable Rims that will give you more
miles than any other—no squeaking. Change tire in five
minutes.
Gel full information »ltd set! the car at
YV. K U P P E N B E N D E R
I illclltiook,
lately nothing happened, but 1 don’t
ever want to foe! again III«' v ay I felt
going up that hill.
Shortly a fier fit's I learned that the
The Britieh Tommy Will Gamble With,
On or For Anything.
Prilh-h Tomm’ Is a great gambler and
Will gamble with, on or for anything.
Trench pools used to l,e very popular.
About ten fellows got together, and
eu-h put 10 fram e in a pool Just lie-
fore they went into action Thev left
O rego n
this money with some one behind the
lines, for they would lie In notion any
where from six days to three weeks.
The idea o f the pool was this: Those
who lived to get bark would take the
money and split it evenly among them-
selveg. I f only one lived he would
have the whole lot. Sometimes the
pools would be fairly big and some
times the reverse, but whatever they
had went in.
It was the only gamble I ever saw
where you couldn't lose. I f you came
out safely you were bound to get your
own money back at least.
The Tommies are strong for carrying
pets with them loo. They keep can a
t ics, rats, mice, -dogs, cat«, goats and
even pigs, and they will go hungry
themselves rather than see the object
of their affections want for anything
On the march If they get tired they
may throw their equipment away, but
I never heard of one yet who would
give ttpf.I.s mascot.
During the w-lnfrr there was a lot of
talk about the “ mad major.'' He was
an artillery officer who was just aliout
the biggest daredevil I ever heard of
He kept an aeroplane himself, and If
he wanted to correct a range he would
go and drop smoke bombs over the
point he wanted to get. He was abso
lutely fr tries* and would fly so low
that they would tie potting at him with
revolver*, but It didn't seem to bother
him.
I have heard that he did more dam
age with his battery than a whole bri
gade o f ordinary artillery could under
ordinary circumstances. I don't know
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