TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 5, 1918.
QR. O. L. HOHLFELD,
unit. We left this town at 4:39 in and strolled around in the “Jardin
the afternoon and arrived in Paris de Paris” until six o'clock, when I
that night at 6:30. We ate Bupper in went to the "Palace de la Concorde”
VETERINARIAN.
A Very Interesting Account of a Trip the'station at the American Red where the president of the republic
Bell
Phone
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Mutual Phone.
Made by a Member of Co. I.
Cross canteen, which was free. The was scheduled to make a Speech. All
Red Cross is very good about looking I wanted was to see him as I knew
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Oregou
after soldiers back from the front that I would not understand any­
f Contres, France, July 17, 1918..
and if one wanted to could eat at thing that he said so I lined up on
I returned last night from a 6 day
their dining rooms in the various the curb where he was to pass and
AVID ROBINSON, N.D
trip to the front and to Paris: The
got a good look at his honor anyway.
'
Faris part of it was accidental's it ' stations of Paris,, gratis for some
As he went past there was no cheer­
was necessary to go through there on time. The lieutenant in charge of
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our party told us that if we cared ing, only every man took off his hat
our way to that part of the front
we could stay In Paris until Monday and bowed and the soldiers saluted.
that we headed tor. I think I told
NATIONAL BUILDING,
! night and that we were free until I had dinner at the Y. M. C. A.,
you that I was going in my letter of
I that time. I for one was very glad of which was good, even fed us some
, TILLAMOOK
—
OREGON.
July 7th. Four officers and 15 non­
1 the chance to get a little stay in that ice cream, was the first I have had
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commissioned officers accompanied
' city, as it didn't seem that one had on this side. That evening I did not
about (deleted), who were sent to
; p T.IBOAI.S, M.D.,
I been to France unless they had seen do anything but just sit around and
the front as replacements for the — I something of Paris. The only way an
watched the people, seemed that
Division. These men had only been
enlisted man can get into Paris is everyone In Paris was out that even­
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here about ten days, but were pretty
on business as no one is permitted to ing, but as all the cafes and other
Surgeon S.P. Co.
well trained before they left the U.
go there on his leave, unless he hau places are compelled to close at 9:30
8., were mostly from the Southern
(L O. O. F. Bldg.)
relatives who live there. This is the and all lights out, people had to go
States and were a fine bunch of fel­
the large cities of home early. That night I awoke and
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lows. We were scheduled to leave same of all
1 France.
partly heard the big bombardment
here Monday, July 8th, but did not
The Y. M. C. A. (American) con- that started that night, although the
get away until Wednesday evening.
T^OBERT H. McGRATH,
ducts several hotels for officers and battle line was only 30 miles away.
Left here about 7:30 in the evening
soldiers in Paris, and we went to I failed to see any place in Paris that
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1
and marched the nine miles to St.
one, the Hotel du Pavillion’ which is looked like it had been damaged by
Algnan, arriving there ubout 11
ODDFELLOWS
’ BI ’ 11.1) IN
located very centerly. Before the war either airplane raids or by the long
o’clock. The men had been issued
range
gun.
this
hotel,
which
is
quite
large
and
traveling rations for 4 days, which
TILLAMOOK, OREGON.
Monday I slept late again but got
nicely furnished, was
a German
they had to carry on their backs,
I jorti and O ffice
headquarters, that is it was the ho­ up in time to go for another sight
their sacks however were sent along
tel where most of the Germans staid seeing trip where we saw about all
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ou auto trucks, which helped a lot as
while in Paris, however. It is now that we missed pn the previous trip.
one's pack Is pretty heavy as it con­
used for better purposes. Two of us After dinner I and the rest packed
tains everything that a soldier takes
CARL haberlach
got a very comfortable room for four up to go to our train which was to
to the front with him. Every one, in­
francs each which Included use of leave from a station pretty far out
cluding the officers and non-coms,
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bath which was a luxury that I to one side of town. While we were
had to take their gas masks and steel
very much appreciated. Everything at the depot for our train a shell
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helmets with them. Of course as the
is very high in Paris, and especially from the Big Bertha struck quite
non-coms were not to stay up there
Tillamook
in foodstuffs, so that eating is ex­ near us. ¿founded as if it were in a
Orego n
we did not take anything with us ex­
pensive. The Y. M. C. A. conducts hundred feet from where we stood.
cept a small bug containing articles
We
found
out
afterward
that
it
real
­
the restaurant that was formerly part
w EBSTER HOLMES,
and a lunch. When we arrived at St.
of the hotel and serves very excellent ly had landed about 5 blocks away.
Alguan we found that there was no
meals at cost. The cooking and ser­ We were unable to find out whether
May the Joy of Freedom, whose inspiration has given Ameri­
place to sleep in, and men who were
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vice is all French, the ¿lining room or uot any damage had been done by can troops the valor which already has terrified the German, never
very tired laid down in the road and
very attractive with all its pre-war it. That was the third shell that had be eclipsed by the threat of Hun triumph 1
COMMERCIAL BUILDING,
grass along the railway and slept
time silver and cut glass. It seemed landed that afternoon. The French
In thousands of homes in poor, stricken Belgium, and in simi­
very soundly. As I had no blankets I
FIRST STREET,
very good indeed to get Into auch a people paid absolutely no attention
broke Into the depot and along with
larly ravished Northern France, Cartoonist Yardley’s conception
pleasant place and made one feel al- whatever to it. I guess by this time
TILLAMOOK,
.
OREGON
several others tried to get a little
above
has
been
the
too
brief
prelude
to
scenes
too
terrible
to
think
most human again. That night (Fri- they have gone through so much
sleep on the waiting benches. At
day) I went to a show, a big musical that nothing can shake them. We left of.
6:30 next morning we boarded a
Hun hopes to leave the same mementoes of his secretly planned 0R. L. L. HOY,
review at the Folies Bergere I guess Paris at 6:15 p.m. on the Paris and
troop train and started for our desti­
It was good, but I did not under­ Orleans railroad. We went through visit to America must be slight at present.
nation, which no one knew. French
stand much of It. The music was very Orleans about 7:30, our train stop­
As you desire the Teuton punished for his frightfulness, swell PHYSICIAN AND SURGEX M
curs are rather smaller than ours and
good however. It was an enormous per there about 15 minutes, I got off your subscription to the Fourth Liberty Loan.
are divided up into small compart­
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big place. Seats were from 30 francs and sponged a cup of coffee off the
ments holding ubout eight people
down to 4, which last was my figure. Red Cross canteen that was in the
each The privates were put into
Tillamook,
Oregt a,
Between the acts everyone crowded station. There are no American sol­
3rd class coaches, the non-coms into
into the cafe, which was a part of diers there except a few M. P.’s
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2nd class ones and the officers hud a
I
first class carriage. There is very lit­ the theatre, and got a drink, or a That night at 10:30 we got into the
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dozen, as fancy suited them. There city of Bruges, a place of about 10,-
tle difference in them, all being fair­
was a great crowd there, lots of well 000 people. Here we stayed all night
ly comfortable, but 110 so comfurt
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dressed people and about a million in the American Red Cross barracks.
able as American carH. We saw a
American officers and soldiers, I got Got up early the next morning and
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number of American army cars built
Office.
back to the hotel at midnight, the R. C. again gave us our breakfast
here by our engineers for use of the
mighty tired and you bet it did feel and caught the American special
Taxes
Paid
for
Non Residents.
army, they looked very large along­
good to get in between sheets once train at 6:25. This American special
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side of the French freight cars,
again.
is an American train, pulled by an
which do not hold more than a good
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I had planned to get up early Sat­ American engine, and maned by an
sized truck load. Later I will tell you
Both Phones.
urday morning as I had planned a American crew for use of the A. E.
what the Americans are doing in the
big program of sight seeing, but F. We got into St Aagnan at 9:30
railway construction line. We passed
only got up just in time to catch the and so were back at home once again
through a town, which wus formerly
Y. M. C. A. “Jtubber Neck" auto that 1 had a very enjoyable trip indeed
just a small station, but is now the
left the hotel at 9:30. The trip was and was very lucky that 1 had got­
chief construction place for the A. E.
very interesting, taking in all the ten the chance to go. We rode back
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F, railway. It is said that here is the
places of interest ubout the city. To to tills village in an auto truck.
very largest railway yards in all Eu­
name every place that we visited
There
is
another
big'batlle
on
and
Bay City
Oregon
rope. and is all America» built for
would take an hour, at the more fam­ while we don't get much news of it
our railroad. The A. E. F. engineers
ous church buildiings and cathedrals What we do get is good and it looks
are certainly performing wonders in
we stopped and went through them, we were going to give the Hun a
the building and construction line;
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1 had always wanted to go through good licking. 1 hope so. We have
at every station we saw their work.
the Louvre, but now it is all closed another bunch of soldiers just over
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We passed through u very beuutl- except the hall of statuary. which from the states, they will go forward
ful part of France, It looks very that afternoon 1 saw pretty thorou- in a few days. It begins to loog like
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green with well kept little farms and ghly. From the morning trip we got we were here for some time yet. My,
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endless groves of small trees. France buck to the hotel at upon, Ilad a i would like to get into action with
contains lots of forests but they are mighty good dinner, started bumbing the regiment as a unit. This is get-
Tillamook and Cloverdale.
all of small trees, as they have been around by myself, saw the Louvre, ting to be an awful long letter, I
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set out by the government not a the Luxemburg
Gardens,
went •hope that it is not wearing you, 1
great many years ago. It Is said that through Napoleon’s tomb and the had a lot in my system that I had to
This Poflu, probably a liaison sergeant attached to an American regi­
a hundred years ago that there was museum of cuptured guns and aero­ get out. I have a lot more that I ment. is about to try, not without evident trepidation, the great American J OHN LELAND, HENDERSON
no trees at all in this country. These planes which is all a part of the wanted to tell but am afraid that you doughnut.
Probably future generations of Marie Celestes and Madeleine
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forests represent a lot of money and "Hotel des Invalides.” I got lost sev­ will never wade through this thus
Famines will not think of serving up supper without doughnuts.
are very carefully kept, ull the un­ eral times but that did not bother far so had better finish it at some
AND
The scene Is io a Red Cross "but" uear the front lines, very likely in
derbrush Is kept carefully cleured out me as I was having a good time and other time. Well must close. Hope
lmiaent
danger
of
a
shell
upsetting
things.
Back
up
the
Franco-American
COUNSELLOR.
AT-LAW.
it being cut irtto uniform lengths was seeing Paris and when the time you get this.
courage that Jests in the face of death with aa over-subscription Io the
T
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B
lo - k ,
and tied into bundles which are sold came for me to get back to the hotel
Billy.
Fourth Liberty Loan.
,
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for firewood. Fuel Is very high and 1 finally found a man who could talk
it Is quite wonderful on how little of English and he started me back on
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it the average Frenchmen are able to the right road. One of the most inter­ Liberty Leak Will Use the Round-Up
cook their meals and heat their est Ing things here is the great num­
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homes, when, indeed, they are heat­ ber of sidewalk cafes on the main
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ed, and it gets quite cold over here boulevards. The Hidewalks are at Liberty Loan beadquarters are mak­
at times. Even now In summer the least 50 feet in width in some places ing extensive plans for featuring the
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nights are always chilly and blank­ and over half of this space is taken Fourth Liberty Loan campaign be­
Office:
O pposite C ourt fc j jsk
ets feel good. We circled around the up by these cafes, which place small fore the crowds at the ninth annual
outskirts of Paris, on the east side of tables and chairs there. How so Round-Up in this city Sept. 19-21.
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Oj »gon.
it, and arrived for the night at a many of them can exist is a wonder, Their tentative program ineludes
suburb about 8 miles out, called they only serve drinks and a person bringing to the city the military
Noisy-le-Sec. Here we stayed and can seemingly keep a table all after­ band from Camp Lewis, a trainload
tried to sleep in the cars. We found noon by buying oue glass of wine or of trophies from the battlefields of
H. T. Botts, ¡Pres. |Attciney
out here where we were headed for. beer. There is very little strong France and a number of speakers to
at-Law.
Friday morning we left early for our spirits sold in France during the war make short talks from the crows-
sector of the fighting front, eating and then only during certain hours nests at the stadium.
John Leland Henderson. Sec­
breakfast on the train, using the of the day. From six o'clock on, the
Milton R. Klipper, state speakers'
retary Treas., Attorney-at-
travel rations that we had I brought main street and boulevard are crowd­ manager, called upon the directors
j
Law and Notrary Public.
along. At nine o'clock we arrived
1
at ed with people who do not seem to be of the Round-Up to lend the fame of
a little town ubout 18 kilometers
I
going any place In particular, but their show to advertising the Fourth
from the front line, where the troops Just bumming around, and it is then Loan, the campaign for which will
were unloaded. Thia was as far as the cafes do the most business. At open the week after the Round Up
we who were accompanying them the time 1 was in Paris there was a The directors, having already pledg­
Law Abstracts. Real Estate,
went. The troops were after a while great many soldiers of every nation­ ed all profits to the Red Cross, gave
Insurance.
loaded into trucks and taken further ality there for the big national holi­ the Liberty Loan officials free leave
Both Phor.ee.*
Io tile front to the various units day of France, July 14th— Bastile to advance their campaign in any
where they were to be attached. 1 Day. That evening 1 attended a b*g method they choose and will cooper­
TILLAMOOK—OREGON.
was very much disappointed that it entertainment given In the theatre ate in preparing some novel and at­
While the German armies are getting the licking of their history from
was uot possible for me not to get whose name 1 can't spell, for Ameri­ tractive features for the parades and Rheims to Flanders, the Huns at home are shaking their heads over the
nearer the real fighting, but it was can and English soldiers. It was ex­ show.
gloomy prophecy of the Elbe Hunger Stone, left dry by the shrinking
Impossible to get leave to go any cellent.
asters of the Elbe.
further. 1 saw a great many Atnerl-
Next day Sunday, was of course the
Wanted
"When you gaxe ! on me, then weep,” says the inscription placed upon
TOWER’S FISH BRAND
can soldiers of all branches and big day, July 14th. which the French
the stone in 1417. 1 In the 501 years that have followed, the legend says.
heard wonderful tales of the fighting people celebrate as we do the Fourth
Stenographers who have ha d legal plague and famine have followed every drouth which revealed the stone.
qualities of the division that was in the morning was a big review of training. Men qualified for special
holding this sector. They have done some units of ull the various allies. I or limited service only to be accept- The Fourth Liberty Loan will give Germany something else to worry about.
is a corker
wonderfully well, have licked the counted soldiers from seven differ­ cd.
For Foch and Freedom—Buy Bonds.
Idle dollars are pro-Carman.
Huns badly every time they have ent countries, even there was some
Only white men qualified for spec­
for
been engaged with them. The Oer- Japanese troops in line, was not. ial or limited service will be accept­
Boat the Boche with Bond«.
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mans have never yet gained any however, any German troops. There ed under this call.
ground through forces composed of was one regiment of American troops
Men who qualify under this call
Whip the Kaiser with Caah.
"We will raise an American army
all American soldiers. This division and 4t seemed to me that they got will be assigned probably to the
of five million men and end the v*ir
that I have been speaking of have al­ more applause than any other nation Judge Advocate General's and Pro­
next year." said Secretary Baker.
Own bonds or wear them.
ready become famous, and it is the They certainly were a fine looking vost Marshal General's Departments
“Okeh here.' said President Wll-
one that our original bunch of pri­ bunch, the best I think of any that and they will be required to report
son
vates, who came over with us from were In the review. The day was court martial caaee and attend to
Bridge the Rhine with Bonde.
Make your approving ballot a
the states, went to as replacements. somewhat spoiled by several hard other matters pertaining to military
Fourth Liberty Bond—and make it an
Several of the boys from Company I showers of rain and hall. After the law In the field. The work is Inttfr-
Free Belgium with Bonde.
emphatic vote.
have bet'll wounded but only one so parade I went for a boat ride on the eating and wtll give invaluable eg-
WjfprprW Absolutely.
tar has been killed (deleted) of Seine along with a big bunch of perlence to the fortunate applicants,
Lend ea they tight.
Down
In
your
pockets
or
down
SaiisTaciion
Guaranteed
near Mt. Angel. Every one that I soldiers, the boat was too crowded
on
Qualified registrants are urged to
your knee»—-Liberty Bonds.
talked to had a good word for the to be enjoyable and we did not see present themselves to their Local
Arm the Yanko with Bonds.
DEALERS EVERYWHERE
Oregon Soldier. It is too bad that we any place of great interest. Got back Hoard and have their names listed
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could not have gone to the front as a about the middle of the afternoon 1 for service.
TO THE FRONT AND IN PADIS.
Not In America!
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W.c HAWK '
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Abstract Co.
Bonds will help ths Hun retreat.