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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1917)
\ «» HIT FOURTEEN MONTHS AT THE FRONT C ontinued from first page Boulogne. I reached Boulogne sh o rt ly a fte r 10 o’eloek, and at 1 o’clock I was on my w ay back. W hen I arriv ed In Poperlnghe everything seemed as quiet as usual, and I w as very much surprised, a s I had expected to find shells pouring Into th e place from all directions I t seem s th a t th e (ieim uus had ran an arm ored tra in through und had lie- gun shelling tho tow n from the train. Our artillery w ent into action right aw ay, and instead of h ittin g the train first they shelled th e tra c k s behind the train and tore the road all up so th at the tra in eould not get hack. Then they took th e ir tim e and blew the train off th e map. Bunday m orning th e shells began to fall In th e tow n again, and they were b»g ones th is tim e—tw elve inch, I h eard inter. We knew th a t it w as no arm ored tra in th is tim e, and we knew th a t we w ere in for a hot time. 1 w as detailed w ith my ear for the field cusbler, w hich m eant th at if the order cam e to move I would have an officer, arm ed escort and ail th e money belonging to th e headquarters, am ount lng to $40,000. All I had to do a t tho lim e w as to stan d by and w ait fo r or ders. They kept up tho shell fi-e all day, hut a t night they quit. T here were q u ite u few of our chaps killed and m any civilians too. T he chaplain of No. it casualty clear ing station lmd taken over a building and sta rte d a soldiers' home. It was • place where a fellow could go when he wus off duty, and th ere were books ruagarm es, cake, teu, etc., to be had fo r the asking. It was a tine thing, and It w as alw ays crowded, for the fellows enjoyed it Immensely. Tills was th e first building to be hit and It wus full of fellows at (he time A twelve Inch shell crashed through tie roof and exploded on the secoud t! > >r T he building caved In like u house built of cards. T he m arvelous part of it was th a t, although th ere m ust have been fully 100 iiio » ci th ere at the time, not n single one w as killed. A few had some seratehes and other m inor in Juries, and one had his arm broken but these w ere the only casualties iron this shell. I lost all my belongings during the bom bardm ent. I bad been k -eplng mj k it bag In th e loft of a stable, and a shell cam e through and laid the build ing to the ground. All day Monday th e aliening con tinue«!, and still no orders came for us to move. Things w ere beginning to look serious now, and we wondered how much longer we would have to stick It out. It was the m ost u n sa t isfactory duty one could Imagine. T here we w ere doing absolutely n o th ing und th e H erm ans throw ing shell a fte r shell into us. W e hail no chance to lilt buck, and th ere was nothing ex cept to stan d by and tak e our chances. W hen th e o rd er did corue to m ove the field cash ier wus th e lust one to be noti fied. b nt even though we w ere th e last to get the order we w ere the tirst ones out, und 1 w us happy to say good by to th a t place. We w ent about six kilo m eters dow n th e road and took over tem porary h e a d q u a rte rs hi a little vil lage. I t w as Just a fte r w e moved down to this village th at 1 got th e only m ra t' ll I had during the w hole rtiinpuigii. I w as on th e I dt kebuseh road w ith a staff colonel, and we had been visiting Homo regim ents th a t w ere out of action at th e tim e. W hile w e w ere th e re the H erm ans sta rte d shelling, and we tic elded It would be b e tte r for us If we moved to a h ealth ier locality. The colonel w as sittin g In th e tonneau of th e car. w hile I. of course, w as In the driving seat. As we sw ung out Into th e m ain road we heard a shell coming, and a u to m a t ically I put on m ore speed. T h e shell h u rst right on th e side of th e road One pits e o f It flew th ro u g h the bottom of th e <ur and tore The footboard right frwia under th e colonel's foci It d id n 't b other him th e le a st bit. lie sim ply sw ung his f ie t rig h t up on to the seat and advised me to crow d on a little more spaed. A nother little piece of th e shell g rat- W1 my right leg Just above the knee. It w as a m ere scratch, but It scared me as nothiug ev er h as since, and I guess 1 thought iny whole leg w ui gone. T h e sam e shell th a t cam e so close to ua caught an o th er poor fellow and w ounded him In th e hack In tw enty- nine different places, and w ith all this be walktsl a q u a rte r of a mile to a dreaaing station CH A PTER XL P referred Firing Line to H ospital. OON a fte r this 1 reported stok for th e first tim e alin e I had been lu the B ritish arm y. I had a grow th la my th ro at, and flie.v sent me to a hospital In A ruieutleres T here they removed th e grow th and put me to bed on a strvti h er 1 was In th e hospital oiilv three days, and during my stay th ere the H erm ans »belied tin- tow u the en tire time. I felt aw fully sorry for th e i or fellows Ih^rv who were be'ii« » ai.J. dltlu l S I know at w h at m om ent u shell might come tliruugli and wipe thorn off the face of th e earth. 1 sto«>d It for three days, and when I saw th a t they had m ade no move to discharge iae from hospital 1 asked the orderly hi my vvurtl when I would be likely to get out. "Oh," be said, “you w on't be out of here for a week y e t!” “W on't I? ’’ I asked. "W ell, you Just go dow n to the o th er end of the w ard and tu rn your bar k for u few m om ents and see w h eth er I will get out or not!” lie Bald he couldn’t do a thing like | th at, but th e nex t tim e he w as down there 1 sim ply got up und w alked out. ' In these hospitals so near the tiring | line there are no such things as beds, ! und one sim ply lies on a stre tc h e r w ith his clothes all on. W hen I reached th e g ate o f the hos- 1 pltal I found u policem an on duty i there, b u t 1 sim ply said the m agic , word “D uty" and walked right by him. ; I got a lift on a m otor lorry for four- ! teen miles, and 1 w alked the other eight back to cam p. W hen I retu rn ed nnd reported m y self they asked m e fo r my discharge sheet, but I said 1 bud lost it. so there w as nothiug they could do about it. lu th e spring of 1015 the kaiser paid a visit to th e G erm an trenches. 1 guess he cam e very quietly, fo r the first vve knew of It w as w hen the G erm ans in the trenches opposite ns raised a big board above th eir parapet, on which was printed som ething like this: THE EM PERO R WAS H E R E Y ESTER DAY H AD YOU ONLY K N O W N ! T H E E N G L IS H W E R E E V E R SLOW! Our chaps printed a i oaril which went them one Lie,ter. It said: T H E K IN O HAS K E E N H E R E T W IC E . TOM ORROW T H E P R E S I D E N T O F FRA N C E < OMEA. VVE A R E NOT A F R A ID TO T E L L T O E NOW. F R IT Z , YOU A R E H A R M L E S S ! provided w ho li.e - i i ll par s vve w ere to ta k e them prisoners regardless of vvh.it uniform they w ere w earing. It looked like tiresom e work, but it prov ed to be ra th e r exciting. I sta rte d over my r«>ute prom ptly a t 0 o’clock, and you m ay be su re I w as all on edge to m ake a capture. My j car was flying tbe flag of th e arm y | corps heudquurters, so I w as not both- | «»red by th e sentries stopping me. I we it over the ro ute th e first tim e w ith- I out m eeting a soul who w asn 't qu ite j all right. I was m uch disappointed, for 1 thought I would be picking up i spies wholesale. On th e second trip I began to think th a t I w as going to have about the sam e luck as I did on I th e first, for everything seemed very quiet and peaceful. 1 cam e to th e village of H erzeele and | turned Into the road which leads to W atou, and, as I said. I w as begin- | ning to be sick of my job. T h ere w as j ra th e r a sh arp curve in th is road, and as 1 tu rn ed it I saw l>y th e light o f I my electric headlight» tw o m en stand- [ lug in th e middle of th e road. T he j m in u te they caught sight o f my c a r j they sta rte d out across a field as h a rd j as they could go. I yelled at them and jam m ed on my brakes. They d id n 't stop, so I pulled j my revolver and sent a couple of per- sunders n ite r them . T h at brought them to a h alt ail right, and they sta rt- j ed yelling “ Friend!" a t th e top of th eir voices. 1 tw isted th e searchlight on my car around until the light shone full j on them , and then I called to them to keep th eir Lands In the a ir and come back on th e road. T hey d idn't seem very anxious about it. but I assu red them if they d id n 't 1 would till them full of holes. I c e r tainly felt fierce enough to do It. They cam e up on to the road, and I m ade them sta n d one on each side of the car. T hen I noticed th a t one of them had on a pair of G erm an soldiers' boots, and then I knew th a t I had a fish for sure. * 1 got out and searched them , but they were unarm ed. ¡ W hat w as worry hig m e w as th e fact th at in tak in g them back one of them j would liavc t<> sit behind me In tbe car. I took off my spare tires and put ¡ them in th e back of th e car, and w ith the stra p s I bound one fellow 's feet and hands. I piled him into the ton neau and m ade the o th e r sit In front i w ith me. I assured him if lie m ade a single m ove I didn't -like 1 would pum p him full of lead P. I). Q. I In this way I took them into cam p w ithout accident. They were shot aa ppies two days later. O ur haul for the tw enty-four knurs was thirty-one spies, and every one of them w as a G erm an. C ontinued N ext Week. To carry th e Joke to tlie end, som e body dug up u silk hat from som e where. anil about 1 o'clock u'l llu* fel lows begun to cheer. They slin k the hat on the end of a stick and carried it along the tren ch so th a t It could be seen. T h a t hat w as absolutely ridill d w ith bullets, but they tn rrie d it d e a r to tho -ml of the trench, and then they threw both hut and stick over the parapet, so th at tho G erm ans eould see how they had been fooled. And how our fellows how led! The G erm ans w ere so m ad I think they would have done us violence had they had th e opportunity. A little (hing like th a t m eans a lot to the boys In th e trenches, and it is th e subject of conversation for days and days iftervvurd. L ater we began to have m ore troubl ■ CARDS with spies. We caught bunches of PROFESSIONAL tbmu, but th ere alw ay s scorned to be mure about. O ccasionally th ere would Tillamook Abstracting Co be a Belgian am ong them , but for the most part they w ere G erm ans, mid we Titos. C o a t k s . P r e s i d e n t . -ould not u n d erstan d it. We caught fOMRI.KTE SET OK ABSTRACT BOOKS ihem in all guises, but fo r th e g reater part they seem ed to fancy kilts as be OK TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OKEOON. ing above suspicion. On tln> face of OREGON. ‘he th ing this is ridiculous, for who TILLAM OOK CITY . can Im itate the Scotch accent so as to J get l»y in the B ritish lines? T. H. GOYNE In oue week vve caught fourteen Her- I m ans who w ere w earing the kilt, nnd | they all seemed very much surprised th at they should have bin-n captured ¡ C onveyancing, Etc. w hile posing as Scotchmen. To put a stop to this spying it was j T illam ook, Ore. decided to close all roads for n per loci Opp. C ourt House, of tw enty-four hours. All men were w arned th a t from i* o'clock on such and such a night u n til S> o'clock the following night they w ere not to leave th eir u n its w ithout the sptviul pass provided for these tw enty-four hours. Sentries were placed g'Hi y ard s ap art W rite for L iteratu re. on all the roads in th e vlaytime and 100 yards a t night. All these prepa rat ions TILLAMOOK. • - OREGON w ere m ade very quietly and the g reat est secrecy preserved. I w as detailed w ith my «'nr to patrol c ertain roads FRANK TAYLOR, during the tw enty-four hours, and, of Notary Public course, all the other roads w ere pa trolled too. We ha I orders to stop ov cry one we met, and if they w ere not Cloverdale, Ore. ATTORNEY AT LAW Quality Counts In ever line of Merchandise, hut none more especia ny than iu HARDW ARE Our large stock is in every instance the best that can he had and our aim will be to keep the high standard up. Builders’ Hardware, Tools Shef and Heavy Hardware Stoves, Ranges, Farm and Garden Tools And everything usually kept in a first-class hard ware store, and all goods are of the best quality. Alex McNair & Co., Tillamook, Ore. 2SS35S338S333S3S T<2323S?<S33SS3S3g i _ - _ L A N D BARGAINS ! We have several excellent buys in either large or small tracts of lamb There never was a time in the history of the country when profitable land buys were better. Now is the op portune time. By tom orrow th e o th e r fellow th e o th e r fellow tuav have bo u g h t just w h at you w anted. See us today. P rice your ran ch rig h t, th en com e in an d give us th e e x clusive rig h t to sell it.) F. R. BEALS REAL ESTATE Taylor Real Estate Agency CLOVERDALE, OREGON A. C. EVERSON GRAVELY’S CELEBRATILI) Real Chewing Plug mad* of R ich, Sapay Tobacco tho Gravely W ay TILLAMOOK. ORE. Money * to Loan Real Estate Agency See n>e fur realty deals. glvao n o r « Solid Com fort Tillamook Undertaking Co. with a Littlo C h aw R. N. H E N K E L , P ro p rieto r. N ight and Day calls Dromptlv atte n d e d . S ix th S tre e t at Second A venue P a st than • oi« chaw af ordinary » lu g . A 10c. P O U C H IS P R O O F O F I T x PJB. S r u n /y XAacceC' lurrmir >i " T IW “ } ■ w - h i ii' y y THANK HEAVENS THAT MONKEY IS STUFFED! L --------- SO ARE SOME MEN WHEN THEY CWALLOW THAT JUST AS GOOD JOKE AND LET S0MEP0DY HAND THEM ORDINARY PLUG INSTEAD OF REAL GRAVELY TILLAMOOK. - - OREGON J. H. PEARCY E . J . MENDENHALL ATTORNEYS AT LAW 928 C h a m b e r of C om m erce, PORTLAND. - - OREGON C. W. TALMAGE, Attorney a nd Counsellor i t Law NATIONAL B L D , - TILLAMOOK, ORE.