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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1917)
} JdT PoUHi‘£EN MONTHS “ Itobinson,” he said. "I've Just been AT THE FRONT thinking th a t there won't be any need Continu' d from tirst page rL'lit, so 1 decided to take a chance on tlie rest of it holding together until I got my ofBeor through the city anyway. I pulled around In front of the head quarters, and the officer Jumped In. It seemed as though the whole city was being torn from its very founda tions r o terrible was the din. The houses were going down in every q u a r ter, and on the face of it it looked like pure madness to go through ut all. \Vagons, horses autos bicycles, were tilled up everywhere. Men, women and children, soldiers and civilians were ly- Ln.. dead and dying In every street. I should say th a t about BO p e r c e n t of the shells were landing in the (.r a n d place and th e buildings w ere fulling all around and practically covering up the for you to come any further, i t is u rotten business, and us there are um- hulanccs going up all the time, 1 cun get a lift iu one and will stand Just as much chance of getting through as though you were to take me. 1 don't believe iu any one taking unnecessary risks, and in this case it would be risk ing an e x tra m an and u cur, too, and i don’t mind going on in an umbuiace Quality Counts ■C 4 . 1 In ever line of Merchandise, but none more especially than in HARDWARE lygcfy Mi. least Ut* - I thought it was ju st about one of the finest tilings I had ever heard of a m an , doing, and I w ant to say right here ^ ^ (L U8 tU g ure , |cnl of V M -H . Our large stock is in every instance the best that can he had and our aim will be to keep the high standard up. IJK? 'W m ÈÊiàSii I be true British officer. T here are men holding commissions who couldn't do such a thing as this to save their necks. ■ but „ a r e , he .., llk,.r8-. rouIlU ln e v. countny> "tem porary gentlemen,” Î - ~ ^ JL , 1 as (hey a re called by th e real men who jÿ». > are obliged to associate with them. ‘ v- \ r ' Iolu* i My officer's generosity did not help We had u stra ight run of about 200 j me any, but I appreciated it more than yards before we got to the w orst part I can tell. I hud orders to take him to of it, and I certainly saw to it th a t the Potljze and to bring him back, and If old bus made the most of w hat she 1 stayed behind and a nything happened bad. We were going ut a pretty good to him I would be worse off than if I pace when we bit the main square of were lying beneath the ruins of Ypres. I Resolved to Follow the Man W ho W as the city, but It seemed to me ttiut we Now A head of Me. 1 explained this to him and said tha t were Just crawling. t 1 would ra th e r ta k e him. God knows There Is a sharp corner us one turns w hether it w as true or not, but I said I heard the car, and 1 heard th a t driver And every tiling usually kept in a first-class hard ware store, and out of tlie square, and 1 knew It would it, anyw ay. While we were tuikiug a n <>ay, "F o r God’s sake take this thing all goods are of the best quality. tie impossible to tw ist her around it at other car passed us, and as my officer j aw ay from me!” the pace we were going, so I tried a Jumped iu I resolved to follow the man It was horrible beyond description. 1 stunt I bad read about racing drivers who w a s now ahead of me. | saw tha t poor fellow a couple of weeks doing on the hairpin curves. 1 g a . e 1 noticed as the car passed us tha t I later, and be was bad enough to Jook her more power. Jammed on the brake, there were tw o officers in it. One, a a t even then. H e was walkiug around and we skidded around on tw o wheels major, w as sitting beside tbe driver | alone all right except th a t Ins face was AVe were between the devil and the and tbe other, a colonel, was in tbe j continually tw isting and tw itching hor deep Ben. and I felt that no chances I back. T he c a r was Hbout 200 yards ribly. His nerve was completely gone, we could take were too long consider ahead of us. and I let him keep about and lie was discharged almost a t once. ing the tlx we were ln. | th a t much ahead ull the way up to the ' For ull the shock be hud his was a uni- T he bacon boxes held together all outskirts of the city. As we got nearer | racuious escape. rigid, and we got out of it w ithout be | the noise became deafening and- the When we saw tha t the driver w as ing touched, but it w a s more by pure i smoke began to bother us too. j being taken c a re of we started back to Before one enters tbe city proper one m ake our a tte m p t to pass through the luck than anything else. What got my goat w a s tha t during the whole must e n ss a double line of railroad burning city. tb 'n g the officer sat there w ith a cigar } tracks. T he machine ahead of us had Continued Next Week. In his mouth and a monocle ln his eye | lust crossed these when a big fifteen unit didn't even look us though he was j inch shell screamed over and burst Just Bell Pbone 53-J i beside the car iu front. From where Office G round Floor nervous. National Bld, P. O. Box 147 W hen we got back to our ow n heful- we were It looked us if the car and its qunrters he said “T h a n k you” and re occupants must have been wiped off With Rollio Watson marked to ano th e r officer th a t "one tlie face of the earth. 1 stopped our oar to wait until the d-----d fool" had escaped weaving u wooden uuifurm tliut day "by the smoke cleared aw ay before going on. breadth of a g n a t's eyelash.” I p re It seemed like hours before we saw PROFESSIONAL CARDS sume he was referring to me, and I the spot again, but wbeu tlie smoke agree with him lieurtily. Believe me. w as tinully gone you can imagine our flint ride did me out of a y e a r's growth. surprise a t seeing the c a r turned com Tillamook Abstracting Co i certainly pitied our tra nsport men pletely around and coming tow ard us. L. v. EBERHAUD. Manager. Tillamook, Ore. Tnos. C o a t e s . P r e s i d e n t . during tills time ns I never pitied them T he chauffeur was gath e rin g speed Complete Set of A bstracts of the Records before They could not help being ull the time, und when he passed us liis COM PLETE 8 E T O F A BSTRACT BOOKS L. S. HUSHBECK, Proprietor. of Tillamook Countv, Oregon. nervous while waiting to go through car was going a t a fairly decent pace. - - OREGON OF TILLAM O O K C O UN TY , O REG O N . the city, which they laid to do, a s there \Ve had time enough, though, to sec TILLAM OOK. wus no oihei way for them to go. T he otic of the most horrible sights tlint 1 Dining Room run on Fam ily Style T ILLA M O O K CITY. OREG O N . Ambulances, too, suffered heavily. witnessed d u rin g the whole time I was Meals 35c. All ni'Mit <he bom bardm ent continued ut the front. with unabated fury, yet our supplies T.H. G0YNE. T he c a r itself was In a w ful condi Went through the city to the men Just tion. Tlie tw o re a r doors were torn the same. aw ay, the body was full of jugged Tlie next morning I w as ordered to holes, the front and re a r mint guards report In my c a r to a young officer of und the running board on one side were Conveyancing, Etc. the intelligence de partm ent. T he offi torn off and the wind screen had lieen cer told me th a t he had orders to go sw ept away. Opp. Court House. Tillamook. Ore. through Ypres to a little place called T he major, who w as slu in g with the I'otijzo and to report himself to the driver, had his head und tlie whole side divisional com m ander there. of liis lusty torn away, nnd the rest of The Best Antiseptic T here w as absolutely no other way hint w as leaning on the driver, who to get to t ’utljxe except through Ypres, Healing Germicide was being covered with tlie blood « FOR- and you may be sure we were feeling which was gushing from this uwful Lyaeptic is com pletely soluable in none too pleasant about the prospects. thing beside him. T he colonel, who w ater. A teaspoon full to one q u a r t of We find to go slowly, even at the Sturt, W rite for L iterature. had been sitting iu the back of tlie car. w ater is th e average s tr e n g th tot be used as the road w a s tilled with all kinds of was curled over on the sent, and his for antiseptic, germicide, deoderants, transports. A lte r we got through the OREGON TILLAM OOK. head and p a rt of Ids shoulder were ly wounds, cuts, nail p u n c tu re s, mange, village of Ylatnertlnghe we found the lug in a pool of blood in the bottom of going a little better, and we got along j hoof rot, m n d fever, lice, fleas, d andruff, the car. T o uie the most terrible part faster. The road from Ylnmertlnghe to i sham poo, being of a soapy n a tu r e proves FRANK TAYLOR, of it was the driver. He w as ns white Ypres Is almost straight, and one <nn very effective for w a shing th e a n im a ls ’ as a ghost, and liis eyes seemed to be -AND— see right Into the city before one eoinos and stable utencils, and if used in g e n sticking an inch out of their sockets within tw o kilometers of it. Notary Public Ills teeth were bared, and his whole eral, improves stable c onditions, infect A n wo sw u n g into this straight fu«e was tw isted Into the most hellish ion, am ong cattle, a bortion, foul dis stretch I noticed several G erm an nero- expression one could imagine. Safe and Comfortable charge and e x ternally to pre v e n t th e pla lies over the city, und It was plttlu Cloverdale, Ore. "Good God. lie's gone m ad!” cried inv spread of diseases. to t»e seen th a t they were d r o p p i n g officer. And I was sure of it. T he offi Leave Cloverdale daily at bombs. This time they were dropping petrol bombs, and tbe Instant they e x cer ordered me to turn around and fol 7:30 a. ni , arriving at T illa d A. C. EVERSON ploded they would spray petrol all low him and to catch him If possible. Rftii^hleDruggist, Tillamook. Ore. mook at 10 a. m.— in time for The e a r w as aw ay down the road by over the place and a flame would shoot morning train to Portland. TILLAMOOK. ORE. up into the air. In this way they were the time I got turned around, but I set Leave Tillamook at 3 p. m , out a fte r him for ull I was worth. 1 setting tire to tlie city. arriving at Cloverdale at 5 Money to lo a n —T he I’acitic Building It was a sight that I shall never for gained on him. too. hut as 1 went and Loan Asroeiation ha9 an agent p. ro. get. T he shells were falling Jn-t tlie through Ylatnertlnghe lie was Just here. E n q u ir e a t th e office of Taylor .1 M. T R A X L E R , Prop. same, and, w hut w ith (lie ground fairly stopping in front of the Held dressing Real E s ta te Agency. station there. trembling from the territle explosions, T he orderly rushed out when lie 1 the siuoke from tlie bursting shells and See me for realty deals. burning houses, the flames and dust ttint tilted tlie air, it made a s e m e that iS . J l I would need a lim its to tie* i tlie and do Tillamook Undertaking Co. R eal i S m S S P « It Justice. T he thought that we were to attem pt R. N. IIENKEL, Proprietor. tile passage through all this was terri C h e w ir .g P lu g fying. An a w ful feur. almost panto, N ight and Day calls seeiucd to grip me. nnd I longed to • C e il, -ro r* pe* aeynd 1 « bw» Dromptlv a ttended. tfc.n erdlnaiy pluf Jump from that i» r and tilde my face t . l l t u per w e * is C ic w . from the tlniulng hell which seemed to A Little C H e w c f G r p ««;, S ix th S tre e t a t Second A venue E ast be streteliliig out Its tentacle« of tire to L a s t, a Lon s W hile. draw us into Its gaping maw. The Goed G r « v « l, T « » ' t TILLA M O O K . OREGON t felt weak all over and whs w e t la e ti. tea. IW A 10c. P O U C H IS P A O ^ F o r I T , . with cold perspiration. I looked at the officer, almost praying ttint lie would 9rm t-W, Ce .V c *",V xr" I i j . K. PEARCY E. J. ( f E SPENH ALL give the order to stop, but even as 1 ^ looked I knew there was no eliance of ATTORNEYS AT LAW O L D T O P -y O U LOOK (hut. He was as wtiile as death, but I V-'L AS TMOUG H YOU'D S! <^v there was a look ef determ ination on [ I? his fa<e. and tlie clenched teeth amt I _, ù d V A WHOLE TRUNK l, s»t Jaw s gave no promise of tils back K l'LLO F IT IF YOU COULDI ing down ^ADANOLSARNMOWr 1 QOOD IT IS I think tlie holld'c; grit tha t tie was ! showing helped me, for I resolved that, wlike I might get so weak as to lie mi C. W. TALMAGE, ni le 1« drive tha t cur. I would stick |,y L 00 A' F OK 7 rir. rX C T5CT. Of S t 'A L him as long us I could ho'd out And i he certainly showed tha t lie was •'white” clear through, for lie told me m t MCT RJEAl C.'AVsl. to st"|i a ui< uiful I did utnt h r got W I T H o u r TF:>T « ."4 L vut i f the cur. 1 \ ï m ï Hi / Builders’ Hardware, Tools Shelf and Heavy Hardware Stoves. Ranges, Farm and Garden Tools Alex McNair & Co., Tillamook,Ore. J SEE TAYLOR for your Abstracts on Short Notice by the PACIFIC ABSTRACT CO. I TAKE j THE WHITE AUTO l STAGE FIRE INSURANCE The Todd Hotel Rooms 50 and 75 Cents, Special I Rates by (he Week. j; CLOUGH’S LYSEPTIC F. R. BEALS REAL ESTATE j Tillamook- ! ATTORNEY AT LAW Cloverdale | A ll W a v P o in ts CHAS. I. CLOUGH, Money to Loan Real Estate Agency St GRAVELYIS | g k 928 C h a m b e r of Com m erce, PORTLAHD, - OREGON irV; •V » « a n ti - 1 Attorney a n d C ounsellor at L a v NATIONAL BLD., - TILLAMOOK, ORE.