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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1917)
before dark. On the way back the old MT FOURTEEN MONTHS 1 time colonel made a remuik that I believe AT THE FRONT While the colonel w as mousing arouml Continue'! iroiu first page I picked up one of the new periseopic --------------------------------------------------------- | rifles that had ju st come out and start- had b e e n so constantly shelled tbut It « 1 p o t t i n g at u chap who was digging was feared his body had been obliter- a sniping trench o u t in front o f the ated. English royalty was H n x i o u s to German parapet. I could only see the know Jr his remains were still marked. Hash of Ills intrenching tool us lie threw We went up to the I’orte de Men in. | the dirt out, and once in awhile his in Ypres. I d the car and decided to head would show for a fraction of a leave it there, n s i t was not advisable I s<"' ' I Hut I kept potting away more to t'-t a car stand very long on the i to kill time than anything else. Menln road. As we went up the road He soon knew that I was after tiirn. I warned the ofiher (o be careful, for for every once in awhile he would there were plenty of snipers about wave his little shovel at me just after I had takeu a shot. All afternoon I U* was such an old man he had not kopt tllls up ulld a boUt 4;.’(0 I was be- been out to the front before in this ginning to get rather tired of the game. war, but from the colors he was wear I just happened to glance Into the glass ing on his breast I would he willing to of the periscope, und there was his wuger that this was the first one he whole head and shoulders showing hudu't been in for a good many years. above tbe little parapet. We reached the churchyard without I pulled tbe trigger, und he seemed to anything exciting happening, but 1 was disappear almost ut the same instant. not at ail fussy about poking uround It sounds rather long to tell about, but among those graves. The place had it all happened in the fraction of u sec been all shelled to pieces and the bod ond. 1 didn't know whether I had hit lea blown out of the graves. After him or not, and I was beginning to about fifteen minutes’ search we found d jvbt it when some one threw his body the grave we were looking for by the out und went on digging in his place. Inscription ut the buse of u crude mon I had fired nearly 400 rounds of am ument and marked it so we would b<* munition to get one Herman, but I felt sure to find it uguin. The body of the rather sick at having finally been suc priuce will probably be reburied else cessful. where In more peaceful times. Around 5 o’clock we started back to When we left the graveyard the of the car, and as we were going through ficer asked how fa r it was to our the wood we saw one of our poor fel treuches. 1 told him that it was less lows sniped. W’e had several batteries thuu a mile, hut that it was mighty of artillery in the vicinity, and this risky business going up la the day chap was an artillery man. He was time. When the colonel found that it walking up a path which Joined the one was such a short distance he wuuted we were on, the Junction of the paths to go up and see what they were like. , u*lng abollt l00 yarJa ull(.u(i of us w <* 1 wus uuder his orders, so there was ¡coaid hear the poor devil whistling as n n t liin c* > a ♦ l.\ l.n< ••!... lit«»« , \ . , . . . nothing for n me to i do but » take bim « lie came along, but Ins whistle was cut there. 1 spoke of the snipers uguin. short liy the crack of a ritle. We rushed hut he didn't seem to cure for all the to the spot where he had gone down, snipers in the Herman urmy, so we and we found that he bad a bullet sturted up the roud. through his right lung. We hadn’t gone 200 yards before a I got out my field dressing bandages, bullet pinged by elose enough to give and we bound him up. tying the pad a wooden man heart failure. Of on tlie bandage tight over the bullet course 1 ducked, and the old luau no hole. We carried him down until we' ticed It. You can imagine how I felt ; when he suld: " I f you hear any snip ers you might let me know. I ’m get ting rather «leaf lately." Well, 1 admit that l swore. he really meant. He said: ’T v e en joyed these two days immensely, aud it brought back the days of my youth. Fate lias decreed that my body shall remain in England, but Hod knows that my heart lies with you boys out here in the trenches." A rather funny tiling happened soon after this which shows what a man who doesn’t know the ropes will do when lie gets excited. There was a very strict order to the effect that no man other than one detailed for the work should touch or in any way dis turb an uuexplcded enemy’s shell. A heavy penalty was imposed for dis obeying this order, and no one hut a man who didn’t know any better would think of doing it. A new regiment came up and went straight into rest camp before going inio action. A private in this regiment happened to run across an unexploded shell one «lay, and. being the first he had ever seen, he was greatly excited, lie pickeil it up and came dashing into curnp with it. Before showing it to any one else who knew any better he went straight to his commanding offi cer to exhibit his find. “Oh, iook what I found sir," he said. “It’s a German shell that hasn’t ex ploded." " Is it really?" said the officer. "Well, I ’ll tell you what you cun do with it. You will take it into that field, aud you will dig a hole five feet deep, and you will bury your find there, providing, of course, it doesn’t explode in your hands before you have time to carry out this order. Corporal, fall in two men and see that this man obeys the order.” You may he sure that that man never so much’ us looked at uu unexploded shell after that. Continued Next Week. Olfice (¡round Floor National Bid. Bell Phone 53-J P. O. Box 147 Quality Counts In ever line of Merchandise, but none more especially than in HARDWARE Our large stock is in every instance the best that can be had and our aim will be to keep the high standard up. Builders’ Hardware, Tools Shelf and Heavy H a r d w a r e | Stoves, Ranges, Farm and Garden Tools And everything usually kept in a first-class hard ware store, and all goods are of the best qu ality . Alex McNair & Co., Tillamook, Ore. SEE TAYLOR for your With Rollte Watson Abstracts on Short Notice by the FIRE INSURANCE PROFESSIONAL CARDS CHAPTER VII. The Attack on Hill No. 60. lust we «ante to the place where Tillamook Abstracting Co !.. V. EBERHARD, Manager. the communication trench begun, T hos . C o a t e s . P r e s i d e n t . Tillamook, Ore. und 1 explained it to bim. The ! Complete S«*t of Abstracts of the Records trench luy about 100 yards off the road, COMPLETE SE T OF AB8TRACT BOOKS of Tillamook Countv, Oregon. L. S. HUSHBECK, Proprietor. running lairullel to it. It was awfully OF TILLAMOOK COUNTY. OREGON. TILLAMOOK. - - OREGON muddy and one «if the dirtiest holes to \ get to that I ever saw. lie noted this Dining Room run on Family Style TILLAMOOK CITY. OREGON. and wanted to stick to the road, so I Meals 35c. "hut up anil said no more for a few minutes. T.H. GOYNE, Pretty soon a few shells began to come over, und l could see them burst ing farther up the roud. I spoke again I and pointed out the danger we were Conveyancing, Etc. running into. He had to consent then, I so we slipped and sfid through the i Opp. Court House, Tillamook, Ore. mud and finally got iuto the trench. 1____________________________________ It was easy after that, und we reach ed the trenches Ju t in time to huve The Best Antiseptic some lunch. In t**e afternoon ho was shown all Healing Germicide ----------- f o r --------------- through tbe Irene lien there and then Lyseptic is completely soluable in came back and asked to see some water. A teaspoon full to one quart of bombs thrown. They threw some bombs Write for Literature. water is the average strength to be used for him and then started firing title for antiseptic, germicide, deixlerants, grenades. Everything was lovely un TILLAMOO k . - - OREGON wounds, cuts, nail punctures, mange, til uhout 4 o’clock. Suddenly some- hoof rot, mud fever, lice, fleas, dandruff, thing wht/.zed over uiul landed iu a trench not a dozen feet from where we j shampoo, being of a soapy nature proves FRANK TAYLOR, were standing. I didn't wait to s«>e very effective for washing the anim als’ -AN l i what It was. 1 didn't ev«*u h«*sltate. and stable utencils, and if used in gen My f««et Just acted automatically, and Notary Public eral, improves stable conditions, in fect I think I broke the world's rts-ord for %> ion, aiuong cattle, abortion, foul dis the standing broad jump right then charge and externally to prevent the Safe and Comfortable Cloverdale, Ore. aud there. As it happemsl, the Ihing spread of diseases. didn't expltHl«*, and It's a good tiling Leave Cloverdale daily at it «lliln't, for the colonel just stood and n e Picked It Up *nd Came Dathinij ^ Into Camp With It. • 7:30 a. m . arriving at Til 1 a- wat«*bed It. A. C. EVERSON RftUfihlflDruggist, Tillamook, Ore. S imiii aft«‘r this he d«*oitl«*tI to go hack, ' came to the artillery «piarters, and X monk at 10 n. m.— in time for J morning train t«> Portland. TILLAMOOK. ORE. so we returned the same way we had there we gave him over to his c o i n come, and all the way back in* had me rades. who rushed him to tin* nearest Leave Tillamook at 3 p . m , pick lug up shell noses and pl«*c««s of field ambulance. 1 do not know " arriving at Cloverdale at 5 Money to loan—The Pacific Building w shell until, when we reached the car whether he n*e«>vere«l or not: I have • p. m. and Loan Association lias an agent again, 1 r«*semhl«*d a Junk wagon. here. Enquire at the office of Taylor often wondered about it. J J. M. TR A XLER , Prop. Real Estate Agency. To put tiie tlfilshlin. tmiches mi It all i We fourni n a r r a r where we had left they w ere shelling Viamei tin rhe w hen It, au«l we wen* back ut hend iuarters we r«>ttinn*d. aud we passed through See rue for realty deals. that place as fast ns that ear could M I S T E R C ,O A T -Y O U CAN BE travel, while tin* houses wen* tumbling Tillamook Undertaking Co. «town on «>lth«*r aide «*f us. Taken all E X C U S E D F O R C H E W IN G A N Y in all. it was alwmt a s exciting a «lay O L D THING BEC AUSE YOU CAN’T | C E I F H R AT I D aa I wanted R. N. HENKEL, Proprietor. R e a l Chew ino Plug A.EAD TH A T B IL L BOARD, f A in «*» S tric tly f c r th (lmm\mf Qmmitfy Hnt my troubles were not over yet. B e fo re th e In v e n tio n for I was informed that I was to take Night and Day calls of o u r P a te n t A ir P ro o f P o u c h him to the Plo«igsle«>rt tronehes tin* j M a n y D e a le r . C o u ld N o t K * e -, promptly attended. th o F la vo r e n d F r e t a n e « . I -, next day. 1 «li«l not mind that so much R E A L G R A V E L Y P L U G T O «3 A C C O for the Saxons were holding th«* trench Sixth Street at Second Avenue East N ovv th e P a te n t P o u e h K *eB, |. ’ ea opposite us on that part of tin* line, F r e . h and C le a n and r *ood L A L ittle C h e w of G ra v e ly Enouoh < and they did not bother us very much. TILLAMOOK. - • OREGON en d L a . t . L c - i e r th a n , b - c h J* Sometimes «lavs would pass with liurd- Of O rC In o r, " , ly a »hot l*eing fired. o f course the Srawefj, . t A k w C f C m u t A w Wy7***’ J. N. PEARCY E. J. MENDENHALL Germini artillery gave it to us Just the I vaine us everywhere else, hut the SuX- ! ATTORNEYS AT LAW vai* tbctnseives are pretty d«*« ent chaps. The village of l ’loogst«*»*rt is a very Interesting plait* as there hail btvn a 92 8 Chamber of Commerce, great deal of hand to hand fighting there lu the earlier dava «>f the war and PORTLAHD, - • OREGOH the houses and tr«*es left standing weie all scrap bed und out liy bullet marks We slattisi out alsmt Id v i l o i l the C. W. TALMAGE, next morning and by it we were on our way «ut to the troie tie«. In going to the trenches one ph ^ m - s through a ’ ± LOOK FOR THE FROTUVON big wissi, aud this place, too, wns ulivo Attorney and Counsellor at U w ™ S IK L 17 IS NOTRFKL with anipors. We arrivisi w ithont mis GAAVriY WITHOUT hap. however, but things were warmer THIS S Ì A L . than usual, for It ms * ui « that there were "omo Bavarians lu against us at tins NATIONAL B L D ., - TILLAMOOK, ORE. — , t PACIFIC ABSTRACT CO The Todd Hotel f Rooms 50 and 75 Cents, Special Rates by the Week. A T. TAKE 1 THE WHITE AUTO STAGE CLOUGH’S LYSEPTIC F. R. BEALS REAL ESTATE \ Tillamook> ! ATTORNEY AT LAW Cloverdale i All Wav Points M AS. I. CLOUGH, Money to Loan Real Estate Agency G R A V E L Y S ’S