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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1915)
BIG SALE Cl o verdal e Mercanti l e Co. ’ s Store 20 Lbs £5ane Sugar $Loo and take advantage of the Grown Flour, Bbl..:.............. 5e° Silverdale Tomatoes, case 18o Standard Special Corn, case ................. 2.ot Sale on Shoes, Dry Geods, Dried Fruits Golden Teas, Coffees, Etc, Drop in and Look Around G l o v e r d a l e M e r c a n t i l e Go., G i o v e r d a l e , O r e this end of the county has ever had. ers’ boy,” says A. B. Shubert, president year? Ctoverdale Courier It is worth while to make a gift of There has been quite a few of them, ail of a large house dealing exclusively in that sort, and it is worth while to re Published Every Friday by good men, and they, like Mr. Farmer, Frank Taylor, Editor and Publisher. ‘‘Entered as second-class m atter, Nov- embar 13th, 1905 at the post'office at Clo- verdale, Tillamook Countv, OregoiMin- deV Act of Congress, March 3rd, 1878. S ubscription R ates One Year, in advance........................$1.0C fei* M ouths.................................................50 Three M onths............................... 25 Single Copy.................................................05 A d v ertising R ates Displayed Advertisements, 50 cents per inch per month, single column. All lo cal Reading Notices. 5 cents per lijje for each insertion. Timber land notices $10.00 Homestead notices 5.00 Political Announcement Cards $10.00 J ob D epartment My JoL» Department is complete in every respect and T am able to do all kinds Commercial Job Printing on short notice at reasonable prices. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1015 WE QUALIFY. Our esteemed contemporary, the Til lamook Headlight, took the wind out of our sails in its last boosting article, be cause the Courier stated that this end of the county hail not had its share of road work in the past. All right, we will qualify that remark by stating that we have not had more than our share, with a hope that our esteemed contem porary will accept. However, as a m at ter of news, let us state that Mr. Farmer has not been the only commissioner • * s did the best they could with what they had to do with. It would not be out of place to recall the facPthe.t on numerous occasions the Courier has complimented Mr. Farmer and other members of the County Court on the valuable improvements made in road work during their administration, especially the permanent locating of roads, such as the tide land cut off, the change of road leading from the Condor bridge to Hebo, ahd the change of road at Hemlock also the road improvement from Cloverdale to Hebo, which was started and completed during Mr. Farm er’s adm inistration. A look at the Courier files will suf fice to prove that it has boosted all road improvements under every com missioner that has held otlice, and what is more, it intends to keep on boosting until there will be no need for boosting for good roads. And further, we don’t want to be in this boosting business alone. We want everybody else to boost. Don’t knock, boost. Join us and boost Tillamook county into the limelight as the greatest county in Oregon, for good roads, honored citizenship, and home pros perity. THE VALUE OF FUR BEAKERS. “ In calculating the value of the farm and field, the value of the fur-bearer is rarely ever mentioned or thought of. This seems strange to me for the trap per of today is the farmer or the farm American raw furs in a recent article. He claims that the money paid for the collection of skunk pelts alone has averaged not less than five million dol lars a year for the last ten years; or in other words the money paid for the col lection of skunk pelts taken off of the animals in the United States should be figured as the interest on an investment at the rate of five per cent per annum, it would make the value of the skunk on the farm and field of the United States worth one hundred million dol lars. In naming skunk I only call your attention to one fur bearer in the list of twenty five that add value to the farm and field of the United Stutea. I will admit that I have named one that is without doubt the greatest money pro ducer to the trapper, but wo must not forget the fact that there are twenty- four other varieties of fur bcarerB to bo considered and the value of the pelts of these enhance the value of the farm and field of America many millions more. Just the Right Present. Don’t take chances in the m atter of Christmas presents. You don’t want yours, like so many others, to be re ceived with indifference or worse, and ten days after Christmas to he cast aside and forgotten. You take no such chances in giving the Youth’s Companion for a year. Did vou ever know a home in which it came amiss, or of one in which it was not conspicuous on the library table or in some one’s hands all through the ceive it, too, for The Companion illus trates the best traits in American life in its stories und sketches, upholds the b^st standards in its articles and other contributions, ami combines the prac tical ami informing with the entertain ing and blood-stirring. If you doQnot know The Companion as it is today, let us.send you .one or two current issues free, that you may thoroughly test the paper’s quality. We will send also the Forecast for lbl<>.| Everv new subscriber who sends $2.00 for the fifty-two weekly issues of 1010 will receive free all the issues for the rest of 10i5 and The Companion Home Calendar for 1010. THE YOUTH’S COMPANION Boston, Mass. New Subscriptions received at this office. Nutice ta the Public Commencing Novem ber 20, will run cur daily, Cloverdale to Tillamook and re turn, stopping at all points. Leave Cloverdale at 7:46 a. m. Leave Tillamook on ar rival of train. Fare same as other stages. Special trips for parties, etc. Phone Garage or Mrs. Halbert at telephone oflice. Your patronage solicited. . W. H. OWENS.