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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1916)
VOL. 11. CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 24, 1916 NO. 33 W HISKY POWDER “A LL A M ISTAKE” IS BARRED BY LAW WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 1, 1916 Attorney General Says Compound Offered by Eastern Concern is Taboo. Several of our customers are people we do not know by sight though we have done business by mail with them for years. We ‘ ‘ Laugh and the world laughs with you; sin re and you sleep alone. believe we have given them satisfactory banking service and can Twenty-five cents a laugh is a bargain give you the same satisfaction. Recently a reader of the Courier sale price, but on Wednesday evening of next week, the first day of the calendar handed us an advertisement of a whieky Mail us Your Next Check or hecks month of March, the Cloverdale High p nvder, stating that several of these ad school students are going to give a play vertisements were in circulation here, It saves you time, and T I M E IS MONEY, especially at this season and wanted to know its legality. We that will make you laugh from start to of the year. No need to come to the bank in person. finish. a Ivised him to send the advertisement “ Captain Obediah Skinner,” the title t ) the district attorney for his advice. SECURITY A N D SERVICE Our Motto alone is enough to make you laugh, and The advertisement profusely stated that the powder could be sold and used in when Ferdy. the rainmaker, is elec any state in the union and that it came trically connected with the captain, the sparks of magnetic laughter will echo witliing the scope of preparations per and re-echo through the hall. If you mitted by the federal laws. are not there you miss a chance to en The following is clipped from one of joy a spontaneous combustion of the our daily newspaper exchanges and is funniest of funny things. self explanatory: The boys need the money to pay for “ A powder from which an Ohio com tools for the manual training depart pany says “ the most delicious and ment of the school, and when you hand mellow whisky can be made” comes over your two-bit piece, it will be used within the purvew of the prohibition for that purpose. Children will be ad law and cannot be sold in this state, ac mitted for 15c. cording to the opinion of Attorney The Cloverdale hall has been secured General 1’ rown for the district attorney for the occasion and the play will begin of Coos county. at 8 o’clock sharp. •‘Attorney General Frown held th a t' Cast of characters : ‘ Zanol’ came within the provision of Ferdinand Lighthead......... Frank Owen the prohibition law whjch says ‘ all Captain Obediah Skinner___ Clean rooms. Comfortable beds. mixtures, compounds or preparations, Because the Yamhill-Tillnmook high ........................Howard Owens Make this your resting place. whether liquor or not,which a re intended way goes over a very high h 'll, over the Cornelia Skinner (old m a id ). . . . when mixed with water or otherwise, to Mrs. Romero, Manager. ......................... Zada Christensen old Fairdale and TraBk River route, as produce bv fermentation, or otherwise, Nell i servant) ................... Jennie Glick outlim d on the map adopted within a an intoxicating liquor, shall also 1 e Nellie Richm ond......................... Jennie Ward To the Point. deemed to be embraced within the George Richmond........... J. R. Bidgood year after the passage of the state high "That was a very appropriate re term intoxicating liquor,’ as defined in Nellie Huntington. . . . Ethyl Mewhirter way act in 1913, Yamhill county officials mark the Jockey made when they pull the law.” Hichard H am ilton .......... Glen Cochran appeared before the state highway com ed him from under his mount when It mission at Salem Wednesday and ask stumbled and fell on him.” that the commission approve the Grande ‘ What n w the remark?” Ronde-Sour Grass route as the most Baltl- • T ills Is a horse on me.’ practical route. more American. John Alberts of the advisory board contended that the board was poweiless Econom y. to make any change in the routes o f the “ And you used to say you were will highways as adopted and the only way ing to die for me I” it could be changed was by legislative “ So I am.” ! action. The law said the highway map “ And yet you refuse me a new | must be adopted within a year atter the dress !" “ But look at the cost o f Iti" act’s passage. Governor Withyeombe “ It's cheaper than a fu ueral.” —Hous thought Alberts was right and Kay dis- i ; agreed. It was decided to submit the ton Fost. LAW OF 1913 PREVENTS SOUR GRASS BECOMING STATE HIGHWAY The Tillamook, Todd Ore. Hotel McMinnville News-Reporter Says Old Fairdale-Trask River Road is Present Highway. Rooms 50 and 75 Cents, Special Rates by the Week. FREE AUTO BUS__ C L O V C R D /\L E , O R E G O N W e W ant Your Banking Business j matter to the attorney general. T h e F o o t of the R e in d e e r. And can give you all the advantages that any other can give you. You need the Bank we need your business. M U T U A L IT Y , T h a t’s all Bank with your home bank and enlarge the Business scope of the Nestucca Valley. The foot of tile reindeer la most pe | cullar In construction It Is cloven through the middle, and each hnlf curved upward lu front. It Is slightly elongated and capable o f a consider able amount of expansion. When glaced on an Irregular surface which Is difficult to traverse, the animal con tracts the feet into a sort o f claw, by which a firm hold is secured. When moving rapidly the two portions of the foot us It Is lifting strike together, the hoofs making a continuous clattering noise, which may be heard at a consld eruble distance. It is this peculiarity o f the feet that mnl.es the reindeer so sure footed and so valuable iu rocky and uneven country, where almost any other anrnal would prove a failure as a ls*nst o f burden. H a rd Luck. “ Say. Weary, didn’t 1 see you sawln' wood yesterdny?" “ Yes Dat was one o f dem snd occa sions when a man what’s lazy finds he can't afford to be idle.” —Exchange. P o te n t A t tra c tio n s . Tom —Women don't love men for what they really ure, hut tot what they hnve done. K itty —And men love women for what their fathers have done - Fuck. Probably. “That boat embraces many poluts tn its Rtops " “ That’s why. then. It Is always hug ging tlie shore.“ —Baltimore American. Little minds are vexed with trifles.— Le Itochefoiienuld