VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, fl»
.
A
momenf and expected fd be run
deuT of penunsion' to'“ puT fTie Idea below. "We would have "to tight off spite of my reassuring speech."The through with a bayonet, but the
firmly into the heads of the two arrest and take the ship In the soldiers were funny. You could see officer In command of the soldiers
men that we could not possibly be guise, not of naval soldiers bnt of the goose pimples on the skin be
shouted:
Germans. It may have been our civilians, and as civilians we would low the lower edge of those short
“Serves him right! Good for _ yon,
eloquence, or, more likely, the gen have to raise our weapons against pants. They edged to the rail, evi
count 1” Then addressing himself to
ial Influence of the rum, but, at I soldiers.
That not only went dently ready to tumble overboard
the crowd, he added: “These men
any rate, they seemed to lose nil against the grain, but It went against The captain of the schooner and have done nothing to deserve such
of their suspicions and became con the unwritten laws of the game. his crew now knew wlmt kind ol
treatment.” He said It as though
vinced that we were the truest There are many sporting traditions guests they had welcomed aboard
he meant It. too. That English
Norwegians from Scandinavia. Kir- that are carefully Inculcated tn They stood gaping.
man was u real fellow. I tell you.
“I must ask you to stand buck a
cheiss and I. somewhat the worse every Oern -in naval officer. If we
We were promptly questioned.
from our session nt detective work, could have fought in our uniforms moment, lieutenant,' I exclulined
Where were the Seeadler and the
slept at the Englishman's house.
It would have been as honorable na “while 1 destroy m.v war material
remainder
of its crew? Of course,
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The four others were offered val men. In the end, the odds Overboard with It nil!" I called
my boys kept mum. I, on the other
Duubioday, Doran & Co.
quarters ashore for the night, but would be all against us and the my men.
»».in«!. invented a story about sect-
Pistols, grenades, nnd machine
two of my boys remained In the chances were at least a hundred to
t>oat as a precaution. It was well one that we would be captured be guns dropped, sphishlngly luto the dentally getting separated from the
rest who were still aboard the
they did. too. During the night, fore getting back home. If we water.
"And now. lieutenant,” I snhited Seeadier—where, we didn’t know.
terrible~Tn It. We were ail In a us" toward the breakers,
native swimmers went out to her fought as naval nu n nnd were later
$2.00 per year in advance
Issued every Thursday
The story, of course, wus not be
deep apathy. Our brains were like
“liaise sail.” I shouted.
and cut the anchor rope. They captured, we would be entitled to “at your service!”
“Illght ho, count," he replied lieved.
balls of cotton. Nothing mattered,
were put up to It by a Malay police the treatment due honorable pris
Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post
We scrambled frantically
At first they kept us at the gov
office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879.
certainly not death. Death would raised the canvas. The wind was officer who was suspicious of us. oners of war. If we fought In “you men have made a greht name
come, we thought, as a relief from Inshore. We could not head Into Not knowing any of my men citizens’ clothes, we were nothing for yourselves on your cruise, and ernors rest house, a fine place with
Foreign,
Advertising rates—1
----- _ . 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch;
these sufferings. The prospect of It. We were being blown slowly. would remain on board her, since more than International bandits now you have played cricket with a garden, where visiting white peo
’
*'
' per line succeeding I its arrival became more and more Inexorably onto the reef.
legal notices, 10c per line first ‘ insertion,
5c
she was only an open lifeboat, he nnd as such almost sure to hang me. You will receive decent treat ple often stopped. Our meals were
25c.
Insertions; classified lc per word, minimum
attractive.
People accustomed to the surfs planned to search her. So lie sent finally from a yardarm. They say ment. You have my word as a borne to us by coolies from the
“Boys,” I suld, “let us take pieces along ordinary coasts have no Idea his swimmers out to pull her that all Is fair In love and war, but Briton for that.” lie emphasized local hotel. The temporary com
MARK E. MOE............. PUBLISHER
mandtint of the rest house was a
of ballast Iron and tie them around of what breakers are like off the ashore and beach her. The wind this does not biter the fact tlint the word "Briton.”
LEE SCHWAB
EDITOR
1 hud no doubt as to what our Lieutenant Wodehouse, a fine fel
our necks. One plunge and In a Islands of the South Pacific. The was Inshore. The anchor rope cut there are things you can do Hint
few seconds all of our pains will surf all over the Pacific Is particu the boat drifted In. Our two men are not playing the game,
Of first ordeal was to tie. Unless »he low. After a day or so he wus re
be gone.”
larly strong. But when It breaks were asleep, and only awakened course, each side has Its spies, and British bad more recent news than placed by Lieutenant Whitehouse,
INADEQUATE TELEPHONE SERVICE
“Yes. All right.” There were over a mld-oceanlc coral reef noth when the keel jarred against hot a spy, if caught, expects no quar we concerning our comrades whom whom we didn’t like so well. He
we had left at Mopeiia. which was I was wiiat the British themselves
mutterings of assent.
ing can live In It. The strongest tom. Dark figures were nround In ter and gels none.
Vernonia needs
service.
But 1‘armien. the youngest, the swimmer Is sure to be dashed to the water, trying to pull the boat
But during the War of 1870, nnd not probable, we would be ques would call, “a bit of ah ass,
The rates
warrant
on the beach. Our men, pistol In duilng the late war, too, we Ger tioned as to the whereabouts of the y’know.” Whenever he talked with
one who was nearest death, picked pieces against the Jagged coral.
up the comic volume, Fritz Reu
And there wasn’t the slightest hand, drove them away and then mans were most severe with franc- Seeadler and the remainder of her me lie kept his hand on his pistol,
The night
is discontinued
ter’s “Trip to Constantinople.” and hope of our moving against the pushed out Into open water.
tlreurs, civilians who sniped at crew. I told my men that the\ lie apparently thought me a sort
until
a.m. with no
Sundays
began to read a funny story. We wind and bucking away from the
On the following day. we made soldiers. It Ims been one of our should give the same reply to all of ogre, a bad man sent to frighten
laughed. That book had eased reef. Slowly, slowlj- we were near our final costly error. The ships cardinal principles that war must interrogations, namely that I Jiad nice young lieutenants. Presently
7:00
until the following morning at 7:00 a.m. all
many a hard hour before, on this ing It. The breakers roared like In the harbor weighed anchor and he waged by uniformed soldiers. In bidden them to keep silent and he came, hand on pistol, and an
is an old grievance. For the
two ghastly voyage, and uow, perhaps, thunder. In a few moments we raised sail. We picked the one the World war. both sides were that I would answer for all. That nounced :
“General Mac kenzie wants to see
it saved our Ilves.
would be Hung into that death trap that seemed the newest and ar charged with Introducing new would prevent us from tripping one
have tried in vain
the
ranged with the skipper to take us methods of warfare that were not another up. We Imd taken care to you. all of you.”
And so we continued on with blit of waler and coral.
throw
away
any
notes
or
papers
we
“
Mme
questions, by Joe,” 1 thought
manager of the telephone
and
the
one instinct left in us, the sailor’s Pistol In hand, I shouted some along with him to Suva, on the In accordance with the ethics of
Appearing before a general was
instinct to navigate his craft. Me- thing to the effect that I didn't In main Island Vltl Levu. Of course, the game. But you will recall that had that gave any hint ns to where
at
to
which chanically.
without any partlcular tend to he ground to death by the our plan was simply to sail a few even Allied cargo and passenger we had gone ashore in the Society an event <’f some moment. We felt
city
the population of Vernonia demands.
hope,
without
any
miles out to sea with him and then ships armed with guns to fire on islands. They could search us as we had to look worthy of the Ger
particular breakers on that Jagged coral.
much as they liked, hut they would man navy. We had our uniforms,
thought, we trimmed the sails,
On Sundays after 2:00
the local
The others looked for their pls- take the ship ourselves after don sumbarines made it a general rule find nothing One mischance, though which were somewhat faded after
guided the helm, and calculated tots. One could not find bls. Re ning our uniforms nnd getting our to carry gun crows of uniformed
befell
us. I was to learn in a few the long trip at sea. But we slicked
Union telegraph office
so
the our position as best we could. Nau tween the pull of the current ami all of our weapons. A sudden marines to handle the guns.
tical science was at a low ebb the [tower of our sails, we were squall blew up and forced the ves
“No,” I said to my men, “In tlx days tiiat one of my comrades had them up as best we could and gen
of 00
a.m. our
dropped a notebook, which present erally made ourselves as present
among us now. We were too far
along the reef, edging to sel back to port. We returned uniforms of our
iuntry we can ly was found. In it he Imd a brief
as possible. They loaded us
the outside world
cut
just as
gone to reckon exactly where we drifting
ward It. The wind gave us an with her. And now we should have tight. As civilians we cannot, At diary of the Seeadler’s voyage. I able
into slinking cattle cars. For a
taken her while she lay nt anchor.
were, and were only vague In our extra push. We were In the hack
though
surrounded
an invad steering.
any
rale,
we
are
not
going
to
drop
questioned tlie diarist who had kept
All we knew was that
only a few yards nway from The people ashore would have seen' a bomb down there nnd kill that the unfortunate record, and he told visit to a general? Qurre! we
ing army
wished
communica we should steer to the west where wash,
the breakers. And still one man what was going on. hut we could poor defenseless police officer and me that Ids notes about Mopeiia thought. They led us to a stone
building and ushered us In. It
have
held
up
the
Island
and
then
Island groups were
could not find Ills pistol. Instinc
tion.
time again
injured the I won
bls men in those slmrt pants! There
’t try to say how we felt tively, we all waited. And that was put to sen. storm or no storm. That I would he neither flin nor glory in were very sketchy, lie remembered was a jail!
clearly that he had written we had
‘ Is this your General Macken
became sick at camps in the night and it
when we saw a speck on the hori what saved our lives. Suddenly we was our first Impulse. We should
captured (lie sailing ship Manila zie?”
I sneered at Whitehouse.
zon ami the speck grow bigger and saw the reef drop nway, slanting have followed It. Always trust that."
desired
telephone for a doctor
My
officers
were
with
me,
nnd
“You’re a tine British officer.”
turned into the familiar green of back at a slmrp angle, nnd a mo your first Impulse— nt any rate. If the men also saw the point. Iml After that was a single entry.
“
Landed
stores
at
Mopeiia.
”
lie walked away, ashamed, him
But the
happens
with a tropical Island. We had been so ment Inter we were drifting paral you go Into the pirate business. It agreed with much reluctance, t'er
is the boldest and best. Instead,
There Ids diary broke off. There self. of the dodge he had used to
h like dead men, who bail lel to the coral.
the approval in
with no one but the
rnu<
tainly. none of us wanted to go to was no mention of our having sunk get us to the jail without the des-
we
chose
a
more
cautions
course.
thought that nothing could ever
It was then that 1 discovered
British prison camp. But there the Manila or of our having lost
phone company themselves was discontinued
make us glad again. By. Joe, that there were two kinds of breathing. We resolved to wait until the fol a seemed
no help for It.
lowing day and capture our ship
the Seeadler nt Mopeiia or taken
sight
gladdened
our
hearts,
though.
In times of terrible danger, the
11:00 p.m. to
a.m.
it
impossible
It «arf* the twenty-first of Sep
We grew even weaker, hut It Was breath comes tn short, quick puffs when It had got out to sea. While teniber, just two days short of a refuge on the island.
get a doctor
as it should have
the weakness of happiness. As we The danger gone, you breathe deep we watted, another vessel arrived. month since cur departure from
She was a beauty, too. and would
near, we thought of nothing ly. By Joe, when we got dear of
CHAPTER XVI
the phone
open
these drew
but land, fresh water, and soft Hint reef I breathed such a breath have delighted any seaman's eye Mopeiia.
The lieutenant and Ills four men
food, a soft banana, for our loose, that It seemed to go right down ns she came sailing Into the har in those short punts and bare knees
Jailed in Fiji.
teeth Never mind ships or to my heels. 1 sat looking at my bor. She imd just arrived, we were enme aboard. Followed by Ills men.
injured
have
caused unnec shaky
PR ARRIVAL as prisoners
capturing ships. Never mind being boys' faces. When we gut our pis told, from Suva. She ran regularly
''S the event of the year at Suva,
stepped up to me.
essary pain
suffering in
for such time taken prisoners. We headed straight tols ready, their faces had set among the islands, carrying mer he “I've
got to arrest you,” he began the capital city of the Fiji islands
toward
a
crude
pier
that
stuck
out
chandise
to
the
traders.
She
was
tense,
ns
if
cast
from
bronze.
With
until aid
summoned.
decently enough. "Who are you?” Our capture was the only warlike
Into the water.
the danger past, their faces held a haudsome three-masted schooner
“Allow me." I responded, "to In happening that had come along in
A
doctor reports
two
A crowd of n hundred natives, the «nine set expression
It was with auxiliary motor power, new, troduce myself. I am Count I.tick- those parts to break the monotony
perhaps
less,
were
gathered
at
the
an hour before their old expres clean, and trim. Just the kind of ner, commander of the Seemlier. of life In the dreary South Seas
Helens
to get
landing place watching mir ap- sions came buck again. Two of m.v ship we wanted.
These men here are part of my The newspaper got out a lurid spe
with
here after 7
advise
p roach. They were ferocious look- fellows found patches of gray In
"By Joe,” I said to my boys, crew."
cial edition filled with a harrowing
hla<
k
warriors.
We
had
now
bln«
Ing
"there
’
s
our
ship.
”
their
hair
afterward.
(Maybe
they
one
his patients, a child aged
was dying
“Are you Count von Luckner?”
account of the capture of the cap
passed from the region of the had been there for years only to he
We immediately dismissed all
tain and a part of the crew of the
“Yes."
that the parents
him
at the bedside to brown. indolent
Indolent Polynesians to discovered now!)
Another's leg Idea of the old windjammer we had
He gazed around bewildered, desperate raider, the Seeadler. It
those of the black, warlike Mela was blue In spots, hi those fright intended to capture, and devoted frightened and certainly nonplussed. gave the hour when we were ex
render
aid
neslans.
ful moments he had without know ourselves to this new beauty. A 1 imagined 1 could see Ills legs pected to reach Suva. So a huge
Vernonia
received
the
“What ugly customers.*’ 1 said to ing
ft, grasped his thigh in a dutch council of war was held, after shake. Apparently, he was digest
crowd, that is a huge one as
Leudemann.
“
They
look
like
can
like
n drowning man. I tell you, which Klrchelss went to the cap Ing the fact that he and Ills men crowds go in Fiji, had gathered at
ing morning
the
away.
nibals.”
by Joe, It was the hand of God tain of the vessel, which now were practically unarmed and Hie the pier to look us over. A com
by the Escaping
Service
phone hours is good, The forbidding battle array on that put the curve In that reef! had docked, and told him that we certainly that we must be armed pany of Infantry lined both sides Moa, Captured
P- isoners.
Norwegians who, while mak to the teeth.
the telephone operators are
quick al shore stirred a new strength in us. When one of the boys, I don't know were
of the approach to the pier with
ing a cruise in a lifeboat, had
"We have," 1 continued, “hand bayonets fixed.
They certainly Iterate attempts he, In bis stupid
It certainly looked like a cannibal which, said 111 surprise. "We are missed our ship, which was taking
though
in the
tliulilllv expected US tp make. —
Island, nnd miserable us we were, clear!" I knew It was the hand of coal fiom Australia to Suva. Could grenades and firearms enough to were »1 comic-opera-looking lot in
send you and your knee-pants army their hot-weather knee pants.
distance calls
the Forest
(Continued next week)
still we could not escape the thought God.
we not take passage witli him to here to Kingdom Come, and if we
During our march down (he street
but from
endeavor to
the of our skin and bones being fatten
Suva instead of on the other slower were in uniform, you would be our between the gauntlet of bayonets
CHAPTER XV
ed up In preparation for an old
Portland—Plans underway fqjr
craft, so that we could get back to prisoners. However, be that ns it nnd the crowd behind them, a half
best
service.
time South sea banquet.
our own ship? We would pay regu may, you have caught us in civilian caste fellow, seeing us unarmed erection of three-story Spanish
“Clear the boat for action!” I Caught by the British at Wakaya. lar rates for the passage.
clothes—but look here.”
nnd helpless, stepped forward and »type apartment house at 640
ordered.
Even in our present T he ISLAND was Wakaya. Sev-
“All right,” replied the captain, a
We took our weapons out of our spat in the face of one of my boys. Flanders street at estimated cost
made
Smith, the local manager, to straits,
we could still remember our
.ini' old sailing ships were in
* eral
Jovial unsuspecting fellow. "Come pockets. 1 had had two of our I jumped out of line nnd gave him of $150,000.
naval ways.
i
ceive an emergency
after 11:00 p.m.
ol<l The
the harbor. We gazed at them with
at eight o'clock this even men bring up our bundles. We cut »a blow straight from the shoulder
German flag went Jerking to hungry eyes, and eager plans for aboard
them open and displayed the gren that Sent him down in a heap. His
ially
the
for re our masthead, and rifles nnd ma capturing one ran through our ing. We sail In the morning."
It was our plan again that, once ades, pistols, nnd machine guns The friends had to carry him nway. 1
Hood River—Renovated Cloud
chine guns were displayed.
sending the calls
arranged
minds. Natives on shore spied us, aboard this lovely ship and out at llejtteniint stared, .still aglyist Jn had acted on the Impulse of the Cap Inn opened to visitors.
A shout wont up on shore nnd n took us for shipwrecked sailors, sea, we would suddenly appear In
other
know that the
of babel of talk. Voices yelled In and put a boat out to meet us. It
our uniforms and hoist the Ger
is closed
an
before
and many pidgin English.
suited our plans to let them go ■nan ting.
“You Germans? How you EPt right on thinking we had been ship
important messages are not
the fol here from way off? Come on. Ger- wrecked. That might make it much W e made ready to abandon the
lifeboat. Our belongings required
lowing
due
the telephone ser mans great warriors."
easier for us to get some Informa careful packing. We put rifles, ma
Still wary, we drew near the tion about the vessels at anchor. chine guns, cartridges, anil gren
at
hours.
landing pier nnd talked with the Leaving a couple of my boys in ades In our canvas bags, wrapped
natives. They were unmistakably the boat, the other four of us ac our naval uniforms around these,
The volume of
done by the
friendly, very cordial. From wlmt companied the natives to their and then rolled each bundle In a
company
this
warrants a 24-hour daily tele they
told us they Imd. In Hie first huts, where they treated us hosplt* couple of blankets and tied it se
place, grievances against their mas ably. They were a simple, trusting curely. A casual handling would
phone
which without further delay
ters, the British. Then quite a num people. Several half breeds and a not reveal the armament inside.
installed.
ber bail been recruited and sent to couple of white men, however, Each of us took a pistol In one
the
trenches In France. There some looked at us suspiciously. One half pocket nnd a hand grenade In the
the
of
liad been killed and some wounded, breed was particularly offensive and other. At eight o'clock we went
if
petition the
and most who survived Imd eon- insisted on asking us ninny ques- aboard the schooner. Our ma
lic serveie commission on the unsatisfactory
tracted tuberculosis from the un tlons. We did not llke his beliav- neuvers had been made carefully,
climate and had been lor nt all.
and we had attracted no undue
phone conditions which prevail in
city in re accustomed
returned to the island, worn out
Kirclielss and I took a walk a- notice of the people who were sus
shells of men.
to the
being
at
long a path In the woods to talk picious of us.
They sold there were
over wlmt seemed another menac
Aboard, the captain received us
week days
Sunday.
the West Coast Tele men
on the Island, and we longed ing situation. A white man came gal
and we went around
phone
refuses
the
a o go ashore. With our scurvy- loping by on horseback. He was hospitably,
looking over what we expected to
swollen legs wo could hardly stand, pale with excitement. He slowed make our next prize of war. And
reasonable
which
the city in an un however. It wouldn’t do to be down for a moment, gazed at us, a prize she was. Just a year out
hauled ashore as cripples. It would responded curtly to our greeting. of the shipyard and beautifully fin
safe
after
let us
not Increase these warriors' re and went on. Thoroughly alarmed. tailed In every detail.
the Nehalem
1
spect
fur Germans as llghltlig men: we hurried back to the village.
I could hardly wait for her to
Cripples do not fare well among Some curious business was nfoot,
received
charter years ago, has a
savage peoples, and we thought It and we determined to find out raise anchor and set sail. But we
Imd counted that brood of mental
for over 25 years
with the concentrated sup- J best not to reveal otir Impotence. what It was.
chickens before they had hatched,
So we refused the natives’ Invi
port
subscribers of
city
“Our Inst half gallon of rum,” by Joe.
tations to partake of their hospi Klrchelss murmured regretfully.
A steamer slid into port I
the
may be able to
a system
i
tality,
told them we must hurry on
“Yes," I responded, "it Is too
The skipper of our clipper who
fight the British, and asked for bad, but it will go to a useful pur-
most
many
less
en- to
1 fresh
was standing next to me said lie
water nnd bananas. They pose.”
supposed she had brought over the
joy.
i
brought
great gourds full of water
We got hold of the half caste proprietor of the Island. The new
and hunches of bananas, We drew who had been so inquisitive, The arrival lowered a
to the dock nnd they handed white man we had seen on horse a military officer boat. In It were
and four Indian
A few
are
to influence the up
these precious supplies down for back was with him. Something, In
soldiers. The boat rowed straight
us.
boxing commission
holding
deed, was afoot. We talked cas
We hnd our fill of bnnnnas and ually with them and then suggested toward our ship. We surmised at
in
semi-monthly, even though the
water, and. with shouts resounding drinking. They were Interested, once that they were coming for us.
from the shore, set sail again. Tills and became enthusiastic when we Having received the message sent
Chamber of
that over lucky
wns Niue, an outlying produced our half gallon of rum. In by the suspicious half-breed and
the white man that there were six
those attending these boxing bouts Isle of spot
the FIJI group. The sun the half-breed's hut we staged a Germans
the Island, the authori
blazed
down
upon
ns.
but
a
fair
came
nearby towns, and do
wind carried us along briskly. The drinking bout, which last half ties had on
sent a force of military
through the night. Nothing like police to arrest us. There had been
siderable
first day after leaving Niue we felt rum to make men friendly and con some
delay in this, as the only
better. The second day wo were versational. The half-breed got so
The
of
the executive on
boat on which to send the
the road to Idgh good health. conversational that he blurted out: avallahle
police
a cattle steamer, the
committee of the
Legion, and every pro It Is amazing the curative effect “Why you’re all right. But at Amra, was
nnd
she could not raise
of
fresh
fruit,
especially
bananas,
gressive
citizen who has the
first we thought you were Ger
when you are suffering from scur mans. We could get fifty pounds anchor for some hours. She hail
arrived now right In the nick of
the
is not alone anxixous to
the vy. They seem to put new life if you were Germans."
time, had communicated with the
nnd tilood Into yon nnd draw the
smokei-s
but willing to
put them sickness
Now. ns an American sailor would shore, and been Informed that we
right out of the body as say. you've got to “hand It” to the
were
aboard the schooner.
though some huge nnd mnrvelous English. They know how to spend
The storm had cleared during
poultice
had
been
applied.
It
most
sure bet that the
few who Our cure was completed nt the money when It Is useful. We Ger the early morning. The palm trees
mans are usually more niggardly,
object, do not care for boxing, but the
Isle of Katafangn. It Is qulte a or "careful'' some might call ft. ashore were ablaze with the tropi
large Isle nnd inliabltated by more We will try to save a mark and cal sunshine. The water under us
wns of the deep blue that you see
natives.
then lose thousands. Having re
We enme to the main body of ceived the wireless warning from only In tlie South Seas. A brisk,
FIJIs, and sailed Into a large the resident at Altutakl of mys- refreshing wind blew from the west
At the rate farmers in the Nehalem valley are the
gulf surrounded by distant Islands. terlous armed Germans In the Tlie boat with the officer nnd four
to the raising of
goats,
sec It was night, nnd we decided to South Seas, the authorities In the soldiers came rowing with long,
wnlt till morning to see how ninny FIJI* had passed word among the powerful strokes. The Indians wore
tion
will become
for raising
ships were passing nnd what Is natives to be on the lookout for puttees and those funny little pants
of stock.
land they were bound for. We us. nnd had offered a two-hundred- that leave the knees bare. They
reefed our sails nnd threw ent our nnd fifty dollar reward to anyone carried no arms other than bay
sea anchor, that sack like bag of who turned in definite Information onets. The officer had a sword and
Began a Big Industry
canvas that keeps a boat from about a party of Germans posing a revolver. We could easily have
Priceless Gavel
shot them down with our pistols,
The
shoe
Industry
of
this
conn
turning broadside to the wind and as neutrals.
When f he presiding officer of the
or thrown a hand grenade tn their
I. was clear enough that the boat, or held them up at pistol
Chicago Association of Commerce try wm tiegun in 1629 by Thomas waves and from drifting too fast.
raps for order at future meetings Beard, who came over on the May We lay down for n decent night's half-breed and the white man had point when they came aboard. Then
»lower on Its third voyage and sleep. We would need all our en been plotting to hand us over to
he will rap with a renewed author
we could have captured the ship
the authorities, but how far they
Ity.
It Is no common gavel *1 thaï brought hides for making shoes ergies for the morrow.
The steamer
A sudden shout. I awakened. It had gone we did not know. It was and sailed away.
calls the member* tn attention, foi Seven years later Philip Kertland
• oill-l ha\e been powerless In the
It helped literally to keep the roof of Buckinghamshire began making was Jost daybreak. Straight ahead not until later that we learned the face of our machine guns. There
over.the hernia of 26 I'residents of s I kmw In l.ynn. Mass. Since that was a wild white line of surf. It white man’s horseback ride had were mutterings among my men
date the state of Massachusetts has broke over a long, low coral reef, been to give a warning about us to
the (.’idled Slates.
They were full of fight. We should
The gavel was carved from one come to lend the world In the man nnd Just behind It was a high cliff. the captain of a cutter In the they urged, make the capture and
We had run Into a strong current harbor, and that the cutter had at
of the main wooden roof trusses of ufacture of boots and shoes»
during the night.
Krauss had once shined off to carry the mes get away.
the White House whrs the repairs
I passed an uncomfortable mo
awakened
Just
In
time
to see that sage to the officials of the larger
tn the roof were made, during the
Malalla—Shot
Gun
Lumber It had carried us perilously
ment of Indecision. Our uniforms
near Islands a day’s sail away.
Coolidge administration.
company will start operation* the
were
packed 1 b our bundles, stowed
The WlnjLwss sweeping
- MPt fcnQwIpg Lidv we Qged_l good
September 1st
coin
Urrnnnia
7:00
p.m.
Here
years many
trict manager
a
with
24-hour telephone
charged
such maintenance.
service
at 11 p.m.
service on
after
past
to interest
local
line,
also
dis
Forest Grove,
give service
p.m.
Western
is closed,
between
hours
7: p.m. to 7:00
communication
with
is
off,
thorough
ly as
we had been
by
who
to censor our
Time and
men have been
or
was
to
or medical aid.
service, which
to meet
Vernonia
tele
from
7:00
and
was
to
as promptly
been,
had
service been
during
hours.
Many
or sick
been
and
waiting
could be
local
that
weeks ago last
Sunday, St.
were unable
in touch
him
:00 p.m. to
him that
of
9,
and
desired
to be
whatever
possible.
Our
doctor
word
follow
after
child had passed
rendered during
courtious and
severly handicapped
placing of long
through
Grove exchange,
tHeir exchange here,
give
of
In many instances arrangements have been
with Earl
re
call
and espec
in
case of sickness accommodations
ceiving or
were
for.
Still,
exchanges
local
fice
at
hour
midnight,
received until
day
to disconnecting
vice
these
business
telephone
in
city
service
should
be
Let
city officials, chamber
commerce
citizens of Vernonia,
need be
pub
tele
this
gard
service
discontinued
11 p.m.
and on
If
company
to meet
demands,
demand
leaves
condition
11 p.m.
remember that
Mutual Telephone company, which
its
franchise good
and
of
telephones in this
and
vicinity,
install
which
every city and
with
population,
citizens
this city
attempting
to discontinue
Commerce were convinced
one-half of
from camps and
trading in Vernonia.
Chamber
Commerce,
American
merchant and
of
city at heart,
continue
assist
across.
is
a
very
con
welfare
see
majority
must rule.
taking
shortly
class
smokers
local
sheep and
famous
this
of this
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