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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1916)
CLOVERDALE VOL. 11. CLOVERDALE. TILLAMOOK COUNTY. OREGON. MARCH 23, 1916 NO. 37 SCHOOL RALLY RANCHING IN AT ORETOWN TILLAMOOK COUNTY Large aid Enthusiastic Gathering Report of H. F. Keyes, of the Ore gon Agricultural College. —Splendid Program. Several of our customers are people we do not know by sight though wq . have done business by mail with them for years. We believe we have given them satisfactory banking service and can (Evening Telegram) The school rally, held a t Oretown give you the same satisfaction. One hundred and nine farm ers of T il last Saturday, March 18th, was a com plete success in every way. The grange lamook county, average a surplus of Mail us Your Next Check or Checks hMl did not furnish seating room for all 1400 a year each after all operating ex who came. All showed a deep interest pense and 5 per cent in terest upon th eir j It eaves you time, and TIME IS MONEY, especially at this season from the first and m any joined in the investm ents are deducted according to j of the year. No need to come to the hank in person. disci ssion of the several topics th a t figures compiled by H . F. Keyes, who is employed by the Oregon A gricultural were brought before th e house. SECURITY AND SERVICE Our Motto college at Corvallis and the dep artm en t The ladies provided an excellent d in ner after which th e following program of agriculture to m ake farm surveys in the different counties of th e state to | was ren d e re d : Song, “ My T rib u te” Neskowin School ascertain to w hat degree of success th e farm ers are enjoying in th eir business. R ecitation, Mable Dunn The average investm ent in th e 109 Song, Evelvn Sm ith farm s surveyed, says Mr. Keyes is $35,- mock county, but the form ers are pay Siam. R ecitation. Ted Myers 000, and the average size of th e farm s is ing out, just the sam e,” continued The kingdom of Siam covers an R ecitation Ona Bailey Song Lyda Shoultz 80 acres. The average num ber of cows Mr. Keyes. “ One m an whom I area of about 200,000 square miles, R ecitation A nna C hristensen owned by the farm ers is 29 each and m et there contracted to buy a farm for and the last census gave a total pop the average production is 224 pounds of $:’.0,000 and had only $1,000. R e p a id ulation of 8,149,487. The highest Song, “ Teaching Public School” Med a Bays b utter fat, which is about 60 pounds this down and in five years he had paid temperature of about 10G degrees P. Pantom im e Irm a Tatro above the general average in th e state. $12.000. You see in a verv few years in the shade at Bangkok is usually W ashington Boy Arm y Oretown Boys Five per cent in te rest on $35,000 is he will have his place paid for and he reached in April and May and tho R jc iU tio n Mabel W ilsoa $1750, which added to $400, m akes a has enough money to keep him and his lowest of about 52 degrees in De R ecitation' H arvey Tatro total of $3150 which is th e average sum family in comfort. Of course, this is un cember and January, tho latter two R ecitation Russsll K>x m ade by these farm ers above expenses. exceptional case, b ut I cite this to show months being the most suitable for “ The farm ers of Tillamook county w hat can be done in dairying along the tourists and commercial travelers to R ecitation Mrs. Red berg grow nothing but h a y ,” says Mr. Kej es, coast of Oregon. This m an and a single visit northern Siam. Tho spoken Sw eetpeas’ Drill Oretown Girls “ and R ecitation Mrs. W ard they feed all they raise and more hired man milk 51 cows daily, besides and written language is Siamese, but R ecitation Lawrence W hitem an too.” I t appears as if th is is a good i doing all the other work an the farm . for commercial purposes the Eng Song, “ Farew ell to T hee.” Neskowin opportunity for the valley farm er to get | These two, w ith the assistance of a th ird lish language is in general use. rid of th eir surplus of hay. They run m an who cost only $60 in wages pnt up G reat are those 25c dinners a t the short of feed of th eir own, especially 80 tons of hay last sum m er. Every bit Didn’t Awe Him. Ram sey Hotel dining room, Tillamook, during a w inter like the past. Tho members of a Greek letter I of the other work on the farm is done “ Land values are very high in Tilla- ) j by two m en .” Ore. fraternity from a southern univer Portugal’s Decline. I N estu cca B • V a lley Bank G IO V Ë R D A L B , O R EG O N We Want Your Banking 1 Business And can give you all the advantages that any other can give you. You need the Bank we need your business. Portugal has not always been the small affair that it is today. The little country once meant a great deal more than It does at present. To Portugal belongs the honor of having been the leader in fifteenth century exploration and discovery. Her great prince, known as “Henry the Navigator,” may well be called the father of deep sea navigation. It was owing to his zeal that the voyages began which were to end in the circumnavigation of Africa and the finding of the way to India. U n til well into the sixteenth century Portugal was rich in colonial pos sessions and was not without great weight in the diplomacy of Europe, but by the close of the century her decline began. sity were being shown through tho library of congress. They were ap parently stricken dumb with admi ration of the beauties of the build ing. But the utmosphere of awe was dissipated when one of tho par ty, a red headed youth, exclaimed fervently: “Gee, fellows, wouldn’t this make a dandy frat house?”— St. Louis Re public. Thoroughly Pessimistic. “Why don’t you announce your- fcdf as a candidate ?” “Because,” repl icd Senator Sor ghum, “ I don’t believe I could get nominated. And if I did get nomi nated I couldn’t get elected. And if I did get elected I couldn’t fill the position properly. And if I did fill it properly I wouldn’t get much credit for it anyhow.”— Washington Star. Did They “ Hock" Them? MUTUALITY, That’s all Bank w ith your home bank and enlarge the B usiness scope of the Nestucca Valley. “In the olden days they had no watches, you know.” said the father. “ And how did they tell the tim e?” asked the son. “ By sundials.” “Well, fa th e r,” said the young man. feeling of his w atchless chain, "how much could n fellow pet on u sundial, do you suppose?”— Exchange Our Friendships. Our friendship* hurry to short and poor conclusions because wo have made them a texture of wrine and dreams instead of the tough fiber of the human heart. The laws of friendship nre great, austere and eternal—of one web with the laws of moral* and of nature —Goethe. The Cloverdale Courier $1 a year,