Friday, Nov
A Pair of Silver
Cuff Links
Narrative of Pionneer Days in Kentucky
About A.i Ancestor of The Tillamook
Woman Who Wrote The Story
Alice could little remember. To her
there was great confusion. Shouts,
firing of guns, horrible shrieks and
crackling of fire.
Somehow she
found herself running with all the
speed her little limbs could make to­
ward the settlement. The next morn­
ing she went with the people to the
old home, Smoking ruins marked
where the once happy home stood,
and about the edge were scattered
the ghastly remains of the murdered
people. There was nothing apparent­
ly whereby the remains could be re­
cognized af: er the Indians had finish­
ed their terrible orgie.
Little Alice stunned and as yet un­
able to comprehend all, could only
stare with her hand trustingly
clasped in the hand of one of the
big hearted pioneers, She walked
about with him as the ruins were
searched, In their path i lay a few
bones, the man stooped to look at
them and unconsciously little Alice
looked too. Suddenly she shrieked.
Her whole heart seemed to have been
torn from her and all she could do
was point with her finger. The big
hearted man bent over, the bones
were farther from the ruins than the
others, carefully looking he saw what
little Alice had seen. Seared to the
flesh on some bones in the mass were
two little silver cuff clasps—the cuff
clasps from the nightgown of the
mother and which Alice had so pa-
tiently and lovingly sewed on the
sleeves for her mother only the even-
ing before.
The remainder of the story of the
clasps is soon told. Alice was now an
orphan. She was taken into the fam­
ily of the big hearted pioneer and
there in Kentucky she grew into
beautiful womanhood. The clasps
were given her and she reverently
kept them as the most valuable
treasure in her possession. Event­
ually she met and loved a lad of the
settlement. He too had been left
an orphan by the ravages of the Ind­
ians.
To this union was born a daughter,
who with her husband moved to Ind-
iana and later with her family of
five daughters and two sons was to
undergo the hardships of the great
trail across the plains to the wonder­
ful Oregon country, and to her the
treasured clasps had been given,
They crossed the plains in 1851 and
have passed down to the third gener-
ation in Oregon, but their history
will endure as they pass from gener­
ation to generation.
One daughter who crossed the
plains in '51, with her family crossed
the trail to Tillamook in 1871 and 72.
Her husband built the first sawmill
on Tillamook bay, andl believe it was
the second in the county. There are
four generations of her decendents
living in Tillamook today.—Contri-
buted.
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J. U. G. CLUB
• The story of two little silver cufriwest that he scourged and blighted,
clasps from 1777 in Kentucky to their I Fear shriveled the hearts of those
trip across the plains in 1851 to Ore-1 whose homes lay in the path of this
army. Onward it came, a huge hur­
gon.
The little clasps are sterling silver ricane as it were, and leaving in its
slightly oval shaped with a violet wake the soil sticky with the blood
engraved on each one and are slight­ of the massacred.
Could any force stop this scourge?
ly blackened as though seared by fire,
and thereby hangs the following tale. . Those were sleepless nights for the
They
The earliest explorers of America little band of Kentuckians.
found the region of Kentucky, then a could little anticipate the movements
part of Fincastle county, Virginia, of the Indians who were controlled
practically deserted except for a few­ by no law save their own. Nothing
mound building and agricultural Ind­ prevented them from raiding the
ians. The ground was valuable fur settlements miles away from the path
hunting. There were thick and dense of the army. The forces of the Am­
forests in which game abounded in ericans were now tied up in front of
plenty. Powerful tribes had this re­ the great army of Burgoyne. The
gion as their hunting ground. in Indians could harass any place, Led
fact, this country was so rich in by inhuman squawmen they were
hunting qualities that it was fiercely here and there and everywhere, In
contested for between the various desperation the Americans tried to
Gates was removed
Indian tribes, and each tribe would stem defeat.
slaughter any others found hunting from the command and St. Clair put
at the head of the western army. As
there.
Daniel Boone made his first explor­ Burgoyne approached Ticonderoga,
ations into this country in 1769 and St. Clair abandoned the fort and
in 1774 the first settlement was forthwith began the retreat that gave
founded called Harrodsburg and later the Indians their great chance of re­
called Boonesborough.
The keen venge on all the western frontier.
To the little settlement near where
rivalry between the Indians over
these hunting grounds developed into our great great grandparents lived
hatred of the whites who invaded the came the direful news, but there was
territory to make their homes and nothing that could avail them. To
drive out the game. So intense was pack up and flee was to invite death,
this feeling on the part of the Ind- so the little band of people resolved to
ians that they would stop short of die together. At no time could .hey
nothing to wipe out their hated en­ anticipate when, the Indians would
emies. Massacre after massacre took appear. A roving band might at-
place and the ground of Kentucky tack to burn and kill any night.
One day the father went to ihe
was soaked with the blood of pio­
settlement. To keep the children in-
neers.
terested the mother set them to work.
White people in Kentucky became
as much hunted as the game itself. To little seven year old Alice she
gave the two little silver cuff clasps
For a pioneer to venture out alone
and told her to sew them on the
into the woods was simply to toy
sleeves of the mother’s newly made
with life, but the land was fertile and
attractive to settlement. Irrepressibly nightgown. The little girl set to
civilization crept westward and the work, the clasps were pretty and she
murky woods of Kentucky were clear­ liked to work with the cuffs for they
had dainty lace about the edge—and
ed away for the new settlements.
then they were mother's. Carefully
Gradually the territory was wrest­ and diligently she worked away, draw­
ed from the possession of the Indians ing the needle with painstaking care.
at the price of unnumbered lives of She was fascinated and intent when
men, women and children. It was the door opened and her father came
not until 1790 that the state was free in.
from molestation.
It was late in the afternoon and
The period in between was one that
he
stood a moment watching his
shrieks with bloody massacres, and
daughter, deep furrows wrinkled his
The J. U. G. club met Wednesday
it was in this period that the little
brow and he seemed to breathe with November 12, at the home of Mrs.
clasps became the center of great in­
an effort, As Alice drew the needle Alvin Wicklund, Mrs. Victor Nielsen
terest.
for the last time and broke the thread was a guest. Names were drawn at
Attracted by the glowing reports
he drew a deep breath and announced this meeting for hostesses for the
that came to him, of the fer ility of
briefly: “Mother, the varmints killed coming year. After a delightful
the soil, the great great grandfather
the Smiths over east last night. To­ luncheon the club adjourned.
of the present writer emigrated with
morrow everyone js to go to the
The annual Christmas party and
his wife and children to the pioneer
settlement.
We better get ready dinner will be held December 16, at
woods of Kentucky. Arriving there
now.” Without a word the mother the home of Mrs. F. A. Beltz.
they settled near one of the early began preparations.
She took the
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settlements, and made their home on
DANCING CLUB FORMED
gown from the little girl saying. ‘‘I*
land cleared from the great forests.
shall wear it to night.” The boys
This was before the war of rebellion
The Tillamook Married Folks danc­
went out to help their father and
broke loose in its raging pandemon­
Alice helped her mother pack. In ing club will give a series of dances
ium of Indian warfare on the pioneer the early evening the family retired. the coming winter. The first dance
front. All then seemed safe and
One can never tell from one mom­ will be held on December 1, 1924,
lovely, ■ hough caution had to be ex- ent ;o another what is to happen. and those following on January 5th,
«rcisad at all times that one didn’t Fate decres many curious twists in February 2nd, March 2nd, April 6th,
wander forth into the forests and
life. Happiness may lighten the and May 4th. These dances fail on
become the victim of a roving Indian.
home and hopes and ambitions reign the first Monday of each month. A
The little family prospered and
about the hearth at one moment, anly total of sixty-eight members have
happiness reigned in the household
to have death and disaster enshroud joined the club and it is expected
until one day the father returned
and bring terror and ‘oars ‘he -<»vt that the dances and parties will be
from the settlement, his brow was
moment. Doom for this little Ken­ given either at the K. P. hall or at the
clouded and hf spoke in whispers to
! armory.
tucky family had been sealed.
his wife. Th« children felt the fore­
What happened that night little None but married folks may join
boding of trouble and soon the secret
was revealed to them. Tidings of
war were sweeping the country, but
the frontie-smen of Kentucky were
little interested in the affair» of the
Atlantic coast.
The dange of t.oops and devast-
ation from hat source w not einmi-
nent to them, Tlieir great fear was
of the Indian ... tie dreaded Indians,
Over the lint and over the line Went
the British. ' The Indians we.-c being
icons Hu-
enlisted av ¡ruinst tne .'.me ¡cans.
mors and < count« ■ ru-noi:' came to he
Mttleru’it o.' the Ind na b.'irg aimed
and pi epared for a great mass: ac: e of I
the Kentucky settlements. ,Wi h .he
¡•gal pein.i: aioli of the British there
The new silk finish portrait
was n > stoppi"/ he bhod-thiis y na-
lives in their desire for revenge
in the latest mountings.
against the whites wh had invaded
their hunting grounds.
1V ake your appointment now and
The war came. Ma ,ir«r began,
hut the armed frontier
heid their
avoid the rush.
own nr.d the pre emo of American
forces on the t" do' kept affairs in
Appointments by Phone
■ tar mo.e tranquil rtate than had
been anticipated. In 1777 Burgoyne.
the Biitish commander, began hi»
great offensive, With a great army
Both Phones
Beals Bldg
augmented by thousands of Indiana,
he trod a swath of country on the
Photograph
F or Xmas
the club and only married house
guests may be brought as guests.
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PASSENGER BUS BURNS
One of the large passenger busses
operated by the Portland-Tillamook
stage company was completely de­
stroyed by fire Wednesday morning
at nine thirty on the road between
McMinnville and Newberg.
The smoke was first noticed by the
passengers who called the drivers at­
tention. He at once stopped the bus
and the passengers got out. The car
burst into flames immediately and all
attempts to extinguish the blaze were
futile and it was completely destroy­
ed.
The bus, which had a capacity of 18
passengers, was valued at $7,000.
The cause of the fire has not been de­
termined.
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DUMESNIL GIVES CONCERT
A real treat to musicians and music
lovers was the concert of Maurice
Dumesnil Monday evening.
The program was well selected and
was given with that ease and skill
which marks the master pianist. The
audience was* enthralled and called
him back repeatedly for encores.
W. Thomas Coates sang two num­
bers and Miss Helen Church and Miss
Leora Phillippi gave two duets all
of which were heartily appreciated.
The concert was arranged by the
Monday Musical club.
MORE EXPERIMENTS
ON EXTERMINATION
Miss Johanna Geijsbeek, attorney Portland, whs was here las:
from Manzanita, was in the city Mon- that purpose.
day on legal business.
Mrs. J. S. Nye of Rockaway and
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Winters and COMMISSION PUTS ON AN
Mrs. J. A. Cummings of Barview were
BOUT
daughters accompanied by Mr. Win­
shopping in town Monday.
ters’ mother were in town Saturday
Tho Tillamook boxing con
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Holman of
will stage another boxing bo/
from
Brighton.
Cloverdale were transacting business
armory here tomorrow night,
in the city Wednesday.
Mrs. Charles Stephens, one of the
maker H. S. Mana announces
Ole Redberg, a prominent dairyman contestants in the race for the Buick has lowered the admission pr
from the south part of the county was was in town over the week end.
has booked some very good ti
t he occasion.
in the city Tuesday transacting busi­
Harry Hechtner was in Portland
ness.
Proceeds from these affa
the first of the week buyig holiday given to the local post of th«
The ladies of the Christian church goods for the Larson-Hechtner store.
can Legion, principally tow<
will have a bazaar and food sale Mrs. Hechtner accompanied him.
ing instruments and uniform!
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December 6, at the Harris jewelry
corps.
FtMII.Y REUNITED ON THANKS­ Legion drum
atore, all day and evening.—Adv.
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GIVING DAY
Gus Peterson, dairyman of Gari­
YOUNG MAN ARRESTEI
baldi, was in town Wednesday.
LARCENY
For the first time in twelve years
L. C. Muscott of Little Nestucca the Van Patten family will all meet
Chester Bennett was bro
was transacting business in the coun­ together around the same table on from Valsetz, Polk county, tl
Thanksgiving day. The five children,
ty agent’s office Wednesday.
Mrs. A. J. Olson, Mrs. Kunze, Mrs. J. to answer to a charge of lar
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lommen were Powell, George and Tom Van Patten embezzlement placed against I
in the city Tuesday from Mohler.
and the grandchildren will all be pres­ secret indictment by the Octol
of the grand jury.
The Women’s Relief Corps will ent.
Bennett is supposed to hav
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hold a bazaar at Dawson and Dunn’s I
an automobile belonging to
FOUR LICENSED TO WED
grocery Saturday, December 6.—Adv. I
rel Smith and to have left th«
with
it.
Eli
Wiebe,
24,
and
Delight
Clawson,
Frank Redberg was in the city
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19, both of Wheeler were given a
Tuesday from Cloverdale.
Waverly—Masonic lodge p
marriage license November 22.
Clyde Kinnaman recently purchased
On November 25 another license spend $30,000 for a new lodge
o purebred Jersey bull from Gus was issued to Earl L. Cook, 31, of
Hood River—Concrete being
on
final three piers of W
Peterson.
Portland and Margaret M. Freilinger,
bridge across Columbia rivet
28.
The high school dramatic club pre­
struction should be completed
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sents “The Lion and the Mouse” at
ember.
AMERICAN
LEGION
MEETING
the high school gym. December 5,
Prineville—Moro than 20,0(
8:00 p. m.—Adv.
7-tl
Tillamook post of the American Le­ and 156 cars of cattle shipped
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. gion will meet at the armory Friday past three months.
Salom—Leasing of waterfri
George Rogers of Garibaldi at the night and order instruments and uni­
perty to Inland Water Tra
Boals hospital on November 22.
forms for its drum corps.
Prices of these articles have been tion company first step in t
Mr. and Mrs. William Maxwell obtained from Frank Lucas, of the ing Willamette river line fo
visited their son Joseph at the Ore­ Sieberling-Luca3 music company of Portland and Longview.
gon Agricultural college last week.
They attended the foot ball game
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Saturday.
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Personal Items
Ira N. Gabrielsen of the United
States biological survey was in town
Tuesday cooperating with the coun­
ty agent’s office in trying out a new
poisonous dust, calcium cyanide, for
the eradication of moles. This same, Dr. Robinson reports the following
material was used in an experiment births: A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. i
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here a year ago in a different form Fay Morrison of Hebo, November 20;
but did not prove very successful, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
the present experiment is being con­ Starr of Nehalem, November 22; a sI
ducted on the Morrison Mills place at
daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Tan-
Fairview.
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County Agent Pine and Mr. Gab­ nler, November 24; a son to Mr. and =
rielsen treated about an acre plot Mrs. James Imlah of Hebo, November
Tuesday. Mr. Gabrielsen will return 25; and a son to Mr. and Mrs. George
from Portland shortly after the first Kostic of Hebo, November 25.
of December to check up on results
Mr. and Mrs. John Jones, Lloyd
and treat the remaining portion of
Jones and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Follett
the field.
motored to Neskowin Sunday.
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ALYSE E. MURRY
ACCREDITED TEACHER
Pupil of Schwartzrock, La Valle, Schmi
Schenuitt Conservatory, Wisconsin Conserv
atory, Milwaukee, Wis., Clark and Univers-
ity Ext. Conservatory, Chicago, Dent
Mowry, Portland, Ore.
Courses in Piano, Vocal, and Harmony
given throughout Tillamook County
A good foundation is the first
requirement for success
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Address Box 127
Tillamook, Orel
Apartment 23, Plasker Court
OPENING
ANNOUNCEMENT
Oldsmobile and Studebaker
Sales and Service
Opposite Todd Hotel
i.
We will open our doors at the above location Friday
November 28th and respectively invite the public to call
upon us and inspect our line of Automobiles and Accessories.
A Free Gift
A substantial present will be given each resident who calls
at our sales room on Friday and Saturday, November28 and 29
OUR HOLIDAY SPECIAL
GRAVES
STUDIO
J. MERREL SMITH
AND
GEORGE HANSLMAIR
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