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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1895)
•¿JL S km KE 'S Court House vvoiihl Imve been lies-1 EDITORIAL I troy ml. Of coll rue money is tight | and till this, hut what would I m , an indebtedness, of say I lot HI or 8151)0. compared to what would be saved PAGE f’l I, I I The repot ts say in ease of a lire. MOTE AND COMMENT > 1 ' A bout V arious T hings ' W hich F lash across ye M inds of ye E ditors Well, here vie lire, landed hard in various parts of the country is in the editorial chair of the III vi> that which the Treasury Inis lost on the gold reserve? We think if i lull I. \\e assume (he responsi the quacks, cranks mid mid polit bility, to the public make our sa ieal fools in the present congress laam, for this week. We intend Would leave "gio slings" and hot to please no one but ourselves. cocktails alone, long enough to The editor W. E. D., and his able clear their brains, providing they ••orps of assistants, even to the liavo such things, they might per devil, have surrendered, stepped reive the plainest leqlii remen Is ol down iiik I out lor the space of one the financial situation. If the week, 'the firemen of 'I'ilhmiook democratic parly could hold the «•ity hold the fort, and of we stir gold-bugs oil'for a while and the tilings up generally, mix things president be kept mum, they promisi-tiously we alone will bear might adopt some measure whereby the blame, this being the first the government could avail itsell time we grease! or run a press, of the resources of its ow n people, we find it Iinieli dill'erent from and not give bonds for gold to for running the Hook & Ladder truck eigners, to drain more gold out ol in the mud; if we raise the mis the cowntry. Why not adopt a chief all around we will consider people’s loan, placing the grentei ourselves very fortunate, being part of the bonds, say al $5 or 81b new hands al the business. We and oiler the same for sale at every shall not try to make a line paper county seat, or better st ill, at every in grand style, but to give our post office? Or, they could adopt original productions from begin the postal saving bank plan, vv hieli ning Io end. We expect Io otl'elid would perhaps be the best means many of our readers, not intention alter all. to arrive lit the same end. ally, but from the fuel that all of Any of these ways would place I In us do not I liiuk alike. < >11 r poli loan in the hands of the common tics, Every man vote as lie ph ases. every-day people, and pay them <>ur religion is, We Imlieve inn the gold interest. (I wonder how supreme being, the author and near this comes Io being populistic ruler of the universe. Audit is our doetrine?) Supposing there lobe belief that water will put out the seventy thousand post odices in largest lire licit ever existed, and the United States, and if live in lime past, have found that a lire mid ten dollar bonds were author cannot lie mastered by ladders mid iz.ed, it would require an average buckets II lone. .......... (he lire of of about fifteen hundred dollars IS|t.!, the city has been rebuilt for each post office to take up a in n milliner that does credit Io its loan of one-liillion dollars. Let enterprising citizens, yet nothing the interest be fixed at three per in the shape of an apparatus to cent, and we will have Ihree- light tile with lias been procured. million dollars in gold paid out I lie huge hotels mid public lilii'd each year Io our own people at ings are built with mi eye to every post office, every village mid •lie ...............nidation of the public, crossroad in the vv hole country. not Io its safely W e think it is Il would go to the poor mail as our duty to call nt tent ion |o an well ns the rich one, and not to ""•i'll..... .. now before the (on.......n foreigners across the Atlantic • oiiucil, iii relnlioii to lire escapes. Ocean. Every holder of a $100 W lien this becomes a law, power government bond would receive will Im given to the Mnrsluil Io Iliree dollars n year in gold from enforce its provisions and see that t he gov eriimenl for t he use of his Hie vvork is done properly. A lew money. It is est imated I hat there good wells in each block where are 8 1.770.000,000 deposited III the I hey could lie got ul conveniently, savings bunk's of the country by mid without trouble, with force the laboring people. These bunks pumps, would do some good. A are some-vvlmt scarce compared huge tank nt every house, full of to the post offices, mid such banks wilier, mid a lew feet of hose, exist only in certain portions of would Im good also. All that is of the country. Let every post wanted is plenty of water mid office be made a saving blink, then some good way Io get it on the lire the amount of the people's savings " ............ 'vded. flic cost of the lute would lie increased beyond eoiiipil lire would have supplied the city tation'aiid would not only provide with ii number ol good steam lire for the present need of the govern engines. We ask you to (liiuk of ment but would soon pay oil everv these tilings, then help us to work cent of the lest of the public debt, lor them. I'lllllish the money In build the With the war in ('liimi, Hie re- billimi in Hawaii, the growling between tribes of Central Kiiiericn the nwliil cold snap and terrible that one third of tin- tiles in Port ’ land last year were extinguished’ with Chemical Engines. There is * no doubt that part of the buildings1 burned in our late tire would have been saved if we had had some thing of the kind. The question is how will we raise the stuflY Shall we bond the city? As soon as you talk of doing this, there w ill be a great howl raised by a few Established 20 years ago that pay from fifty cents to a dol lar a year city tax, and the matter is dropped. But we, as firemen say Hint it must be done, for the benefit of the town. Our opinii.n i is tlmt the difference in insurance: for three yearn will pay for tin apparatus; besides being protected.1 w e could put a fire out, w liercas iis we are fixed nt the present time, we would do the best we could. This matter will be argued to the board of eouncilmeu, and the fire * enemy. fire, against sliy locks of New York clear a plan, tlial we are amazed forcing the tlmt even such shallo - brained country to bankruptcy . the silver blather skill's that are now tilling kings trying to force the eoiintrv the seals in congress and the pub grabbing mid other countries v slioiihl filli lirliiml of town some day when we are in tlie monili ol' Jaiiiinry lo tlie having one of our northwest winds amoiiiit ol 8ti.7iMi.iMH) in ordinari blowing. W’lmt we want here is a ex |ieudit lires. nel including 8‘J,‘JlMl- (Trwz.ii//•.’/.x'/»/< They cost money, Now ihmi for redvmption uf Ixmds wliicli lull wrought to have one. States I' is ' iisiii Tillamook Conntv. Ort*. our worst — ANNOUNl KMk'NT It is with pleasure that I turn the Hi: nt.liiirr over to the liremen Quality Considered. this week, who will conduct this issue for their own pleasure and benefit. Eor fear that modesty will prevent Mr. Drew and Mr. Being connected with the large wlmlesdo firm of M irk L. (lohn U«>. of Bort I md. enables ns to buy direct from the maniifa turrrs and we ci n tie 1 fore sell our goods, quality considered, cheap r than anyone else in 'I’iil-tmook. Steinliillicr lol-claiming due credit. Annual Clearance Sale. I wish to state that Mr. Drew has worked unceasingly and patiently, We have just concluded Our Annual Clearance Kale which has been a grind su- ces, show ing that people appreciate it w hen they are getting real birgains. devoting miicli time, Io make the paper interesting and Mr. Stein About March first we shall receive our immense stock of spring goods which I i ls just been purchased an I carefully selected from several Eistern f ictories. liilber lias put in a great deal ol lime soliciting advertisements, and his skill as a printer is displayed Ladies’ Dress Goods. in several artistic ads. in this issue. His time lor Ilin past few weeks In Ladies’ Press Goods we have all the very Iitest patterns, ami an immense selections to choose from, and our prices are lower th in they everlieen before« has been taken up with the project. Mr. Geo. Colin, city editor, Ims also contributed much labor mid Fancy Goods. other substantial support to make the enterprise a success. In fact, .ill the Eiiemen mid Our line of Ladies’ Fancy Goods will be th* finest ever shown in the citv. In hats we will have the latest spring and summer shapes, fashionable colors. everybody else have aided earnestly and gen erously. The firemen mid their editors ruxut ntev are responsible for the sentiment expressed in this issue, mid their ► I extra papers this week. Respectfully, W . E D. .loxes. We will receive the largest stock of Spring and summer clothing, in all the There Ims been n good deal of talk about an oppositson latest styles, ever shown in the city and our prices will lie astonishing low. line of boats between here and Portland, some few »inkers are afraid they lire going to be charged enormous Forty Cases of Shoes. \Vr will receixf* about forty rises of shoes, consisting of Ladies, Misses. Mens, prices for freight, as one company Ims control of the shipping, but they luid belter wait Ik> vm — i 1I the newest —lirect from the lugAst factories in America. \\ e pride ourselves on lieing able to buy direct from factories and giving our patrons the l«enefit of extreme low prices at which we w ill sell goods hereafter. until they are hurt before they squeal. The present company informs us they nothing Country Produce. more than right \V<- piv th« highest prices for all kinds of country produce, eggs, Initter. hides, ami fill's in sxison. F’l'cd by the sick, ton, or carload furnished at the lowest price«. tlmt n price for carrying which will enable them to hold tlieiro w ii . t >f course op they should have NEVER FAIL TO GIVE SATISFACTION Iml the eons,imers. It was no benefit to the merchants, for if COUNTY WARRANTS TAKEN AT 95 CETNS. account ol being short one teacher, part of the children must remain at home Remember we are Leaders In every line of Goods we Handle in Tillamook City part of the day, wliicli is not right. Under the teachings of Mr. Steinhillier, our proficient chief, the school children are doing M il larrsen's Mt) and Stillwell ila to vvomlvr vvlmt tlie end «ili l>r laid in «.«lies, there would have X Hoag's »10 towards well digging Can it l»e p issi Ole that tlie grip|M- been very little of it left. It will be of material aid in beginning which is re|sirt«sl to Ite spreading would not have stopped until the the work of lire protection. Our 27 Cent = Baking* Powders Arc (¡ood. * o port teachers enough to give our pupils all a chance to get full On Izigging camp supplies. Our 25 Cent Tea's position is a good thing. We had low rates this winter, and who was benefited by it? Noone henetit. ► LATEST committees will attend to collecting the receipts for nil advertising mid finely in the art of drilling, whirl, bave beeome due, imiking a detiet suppose a y ear ago last June that is a very essential matter. It is for tlie monili. of (Is.lHMl.iHHl, or al the tile hail broken out in the fore not only a good thing to know, thè rate ofmore tlian 8I im >, imhi , imh > noon instead of nt night. The re but also very healthful exercise. a year. All Ibis so mimmi after u sult would have been different; in lime of peaee and pleuty, Iriivrs stead of only part of the tow n being * Merchandise Dealers in they pay SI. imi more, they add that percent to cost. Likewise to pay them two dolhili' in gold lic ears with rant and rot outlie if they pay • *>JM> per ton. lor a dolhil-s' worth of bullion, the liiimiees, do not see it. ci y ot di'tl'ess troni Nelil'llskll. tlie It does seem strange that this flHK PROTECTION. invi case ol tu vai imi and crime,lllid sc I' imi ! district is not able to sup tlie dendliH'k ol thè t (regoli Sellate, I'his is a matter of more impor thè liombaslie talk of \ est ami tance. Ilian any oilier subject W I. Wilson abolii a eoml'oi laide that could be talked of at the pres surplus in tlie ÌTeiisiuy , is it to ent time. Wlmt would we do if a I»-« wondeied ut tlmt lite I nitrii lire should stm t in the west entl * The Largest and Leading propose charging nothing more Nicaragua canal, which enterprise than living rates. We nil know we hope the government will soon tlmt tor the past two years both undertake, mid furnish means to companies lost money and it is properly improve our hay and bar, Storms along the Atlantic coast, mid to defend our harbors. History ............ mlininil wars in Alaskan repenting itself, is only the conse wn ers against Hie seals, (he dis quence of coming genera I ions not asters o| late on sea and hind, the profiting by the experiences and tree traile ol the country, cutting lessons of genera I ions gone before. the wages of the lalmrer. I he gold Vet we think this so simple mid * COHN &CO men will do all they can to see the matter accomplished. We will say again tlmt it is of vital impor tance that we we have some pro tection * & * * COHN & CO. Tillamook 8 %