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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1918)
NESTDCCA VALLEY BANK CLOVERDALE, OREGON TO OUR CUSTOMERS . Travailing conditions hava aauaed merchandising in our lines to become increasingly difficult. All indications point to a continued and growing scarcity of goods. CHA8. RAY, President and coupled with this is the fact that manv lines are still advancing WM. CHRISTENSEN, Vice P resid en t very rapidly and the jobbers, manufacturers and mills have sbortensd w> their terms of credit to us, putting practically two-thirds of the food BOARD OF DIRECTORS; Chas. Ray, Wm. Christensen, Chas. McKillipp, D. A. Bailey, Wm. A. High. stuffs, merchandise, etc . that goes over our counters today on a 15-day net bill. This means that we must haye a much larger outlay of money to carry the same amount of stock fhat ws have in the past. The government is strongly urging and will demand the people to J. L GEORGE, Cashier. h&ve as few open accounts as possible. This refers to the wholesaler, retailer and the consumer. Many business houses of Tillamook County and Oregon have already seen the necessity of placing their business on an absolute Your Patronage is Solicited CLOVERDALE COURIER Published Every Thursday Frank Taylor, Editor and Publisher. cash basis. Owing to the facts stated above, it is absolutely necessary that we pavement in Tillamook county will be realized. collect our bills in full every month. bills will be due aud must be paid befere the 10th of each month. HUMAN MISFITS When the north and south were “ Entered as second-class matter, Nov ember 13th, 1905 at the post office at Clo- struggling for supremacy in these mem verdale, Tillamook County, Oregon,un orable and trying days between 1861 and der Act of Congress, March 3rd, 1878. I 860 , there was a species of the human family living in the northern section of THURSDAY. JULY25 . 1918. the country who acquired the sobriquet of copperhead. They gloried in the de The work or fight ruling may be the feat of the northern armies and decried means of getting a few lazy scamps in the efforts of the northern people who were fighting to the death to place a the habit of working. moral principle in a fixed place where it There is without doubt no amusement would rest as a precedent for all times. feature in existence that amuses, edu The present generation knows little cates, uplifts and withal a great power aside from what it has learned in schools for good, as great or grand as the famous of the trials of the northern people ic Chautauqua. When they leave the that bitter struggle between brother and community its citizens are better moral brother. It is difficult to understand the mental ly, better educated and more refined and make-up of some people. They are vet for the small price of pdmission they are amused to a far greater extent than eternally on the wrong side of every what can be purchased in any othei issuer They do nof thing right. They way. Tillamook City is this week en cannot reason with the great majority of joying the Ellison-White Chautauqua people. They are merely misfits in the and the tent is beieg filled at every en social fabric. The copperheads of the 60’s have their tertainment. The Chautauqua closes Saturday. Have you taken advantage followers today. Their species has been of any of its many good entertain propagated. They are against the gov ernment in its great effort to win the ments? war from Germany. Their brains are If you were in Portland you ^Would so* dwarfed that they cannot look far learn to a greater exteut what Tillamook enough ahead to see the autocratic dom County is doing for her part in the war ineering will of the kaiser put into ex by supplying sphugnuin moss than you ecution in the United States in case really realize at this point. Gieat dry Germany should win, neither can they ing racks are to be found on one of the realize that should Germany win and principle streets in front, of the Red tlie worst happen, they, tovtther with Cross rooms where the inoss gathered in loyal Americans, would have to bear Tillamook County is dried. Speak of thi lr portion of punishment. If an in Tillamook Countv to any Red Cross deninity were demanded, their property worker in Portland and you are sure to would most certainly be called upon to get a reply that Tillamook Countv is do stand its share or be confiscated. But ing wonderful work in furnishing spagh-j these narrow brained people cannot see num moss, if nothing else. Every bit that far. Their loyalty to their country of the moss in this county should be is so small that a scale has not yet been gathered before the wet season sets in invented that would weigh it. Those having accounts at tsso or more stores must pay ail bills i before getting credit from any of the stores whose signatures appsar below. We believe it will be much easier for each individual to borrow money to pay their bills, should it be necessarv for them to do so, than it is for us to carry from 200 to 500 accounts. CHARLAND & DEUEL. CLOVERDALE MERCANTILE CO. W. R. ROBEDEE, R E. WILSON CO., WM. A. HIGH, CHAS. I. CLOUGH, Habit. V E T E R I M A R I A N Telephone Mam 3—and Mutual Tillamook. Oregon * By R. E. Wilson, E G. ANDERSON. Clough’s Carbolic Com pound Dr. C, L. G la is y e r F. I). OTT, D. T. EDMUNDS, Horrifying Gargoyles. Tin» destroyed »nthedral at Reims was noted to r Its gnrgnylr ornaments and the strange us» to which they were put. Uncanny monsters supported ped-, estnls for angels and apostles. Often the beasts were horrible caricatures of the saints they upheld. Sometimes they were monks and nuns. One par ticularly roguish brother had pursed his Ups In the face of an astonished angel for centuries. A conscientious gargoyle has a duty to perform other than scaring the sightseer and looking terribly Individ ual. He Is a mouthpiece for a rnln gutter. Few gargoyles, however, per form their natural duty. They prefer to sit on balustrades and chew less fortunate members of their species. There are those, however, that ace old- fashioned and really work. For ex ample, the ones at Milan. Here real so that there would be a splendid stock rain water pours from tfigir open Jaws. Bids Wanted. on band to be sorted and dried when the Bids will be received up to July 20 , But since they are so busy they have winter season arrives. 1918, for digging a well on the school less time to be fashionably horrible ground at Meda, District No. 19. Well and so are not so famous as their must be completed by Septemder 1 The hopes of Tillamook County people 1918. Specifications can be seen at kindred of Paris and Reims. have been raised to a higher point with home of clerk. R. D. Dunn, Clerk. Only Type of Eagle Known. in the past few days and a real jollifica A Russian grand duke, one o f the tion has entered into the hearts of her j czar’s predecessors, was once the people. A crew of sixteen men have guest of a German prince. It was reached here from the valley to work on early in the century. In Russia the the hard surfacing of the five miles of Imperial double-headed eagle Is to be hard surface road south of Tillamook. seen everywhere and on everything Also a concrete mixing machine with throughout the empire stamped, paint For disinfecting where Contagious 01 ed, embroidered, or sculptured. a tractor is making it3 way to the scene At that period the education of grand of work. This looks as though it would infectious diseases are prevailing. dnkes was somewhat limited. This be possible that the five miles of road CARBOLIC COMPOUND is a power grand duke went out shooting In Ger- would he completed this year although ful Germicidal mixtnre and by its use amny, and, among other things, shot the start on active work is much behind a large bird. He asked an experi the time when it is thought by people it will improve general stable conditions. enced huntsman who accompanied him shonld be done. It is reported that the a A A A A A A l what the bird was. "An eagle, your contractors having thia work in hand highness,” was the answer. The grand •ay that they can make one mile of road duke turned on him In an Irritated way. "How can It be an eagle,” he a week and if this is true and the work is commenced right away our high asper- Reliable Druggist, Tillamook, Ore. asked, “ when It has only one head?” ations of riding on another five mil»« of C o u n t y D a iry I n s p e c to r Beginning August 1, 1918, all The drunken dinner table habits of a century ago, referred to by the bishop of Chelmsford, are not to be wondered at when one considers the Iron etiquette of the time In relation to toasts. In this little matter Scotland seemed to have set rather a bad example. Accord ing to Lord Cockburn. It was the rule In ¿dinburgh society to drink each guest's health Individually. "Thus, where there were ten people there were ninety healths drunk!” And be fore the ladles retired came “rounds” of toaats, with ‘'Bentlments” such as "May the pleasure o f the evening bear the reflection of the morning." or ‘‘Delicate pleasure to susceptible minds.”—London Chronicle. GILBERT BROS. WE HAVE WHAT YOU WANT IN DAIRY RANCHES Prices Range up to S30.000 Below is a partial list ot our many bargains Don’t write us about these ranches. Come to Cloverdale aud see us. We can show you just what you are looking for. $2,100, half cash, balance two years or longer if desired for a close in 144 aers ranch, two buildings and a large barn on thia place. 14 200, half cash, balance to suit, 49 acres with good barn and and shack. 13,500 buys 40 acre ranch on main county road. and old barn. $22,000 buys the best ranch Reasonable terms. Fair bouse of its size in Tillamook County. $0,000 for an 80 acre ranch on the main county road b etw een Cloverdale and Hebo. $8,200 buys an 80 acre ranch with stock and farm tools nser Meda. $10,000 buys a fully stocked and going ranch and only $4,000 to put you in possession of tba piece. Long time for balance. Dairy land* in the Nestucca Valley briog you a monthly pay check. Why not take advantage of one of the many bargains we can offer you at the present time. Trades We have a few trades if your holdings will suit. To Owners ot Noctncea Valley Lands I have received a letter recently from a Salem partv. stating that be ha* a 7 room bungalow to exchange for land that would make a sheep ranch. Another party has written me from Portland wishing to exchange income bearing Portland property tor a well equipped dairy ranch. Has cash and equities Rtill another party has two lota near Ut. Johns car line, Portland, at 11800 and he wants to trade for land. If you have any thing to trade and these appeal to you see me at Cloverdale. Taylor Heal Estate Agency, Cloverdale