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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, NOVEMBER 29, 1900. Keep your Eye on STURGEON'S Store I Come and Inspect our Splendid Assortment 2 hCXa JL :a,ve E-Tetcl Ö © o el GOOD YE-A.R. S BUSINESS. » appreciated our efforts to supply them with all the essentials of a First Class Pharmacy I uie Drugs mptly and skillfully compounded Reliable preparations of all kinds and polite attendance. We shall © © © @ Si Watch for STURGEON’S Christmas Display ! Rally Day at Christian Church. NETARTS. f BEAVER ; PAST & PRESENT. at the mouth late in the afternoon, con- ; poetically expressed it, “ The water Blasts From Ram’s Horn. jecting the distatce that we had come ' seems d----- d glad to get down from up A blank cartridge will make the most J. E Tuttle, of Tillamook, spent a few How the Old Settlers Took Up over the serpentine trail to be about 20 there.” Webster said, you know, Columbia Rally Day will be observed noise. at the Christian Church, Wednesday days with Geo. W. Phelps the first of the Land in Tillamook. miles, whereas it was scarcely 12. We J “That all the country west of the Mis To be content with less is to have less- evening, December 5th, when the follow week. saw six deer at the foot of the bald hill, souri was only fit for Indians and [ by an old settler .] ing programme will.be rendered ; now the Ellison place. We took a shot buffalo,’’ but was mistakened. Like discontent. Fred Mills, of Hubbard, Oregon, came Down where the Nestucea rolls and at them but both of 11s missed our gome. wise we were that day about the Blaine A very little child may open a very Song.......... “ Hail to America,”.......Choir. in last Friday to stop a few days on his frets its sparkling waters over its strong We camped that night in a large hollow country. We did not go down the Nes- large door in heaven. homestead on the Cape. Scripture Reading and Prayer. bottom, in a general westerly course, fir tree that stood a little east of where tucca further than the mouth of the Song........................................................ Choir. Fidelity to old truths demands hospi. Leun and Arthur Hurlbut came in ere it takes a majestic sweep to the the Beaver schoolhouse now stands. Beaver. We went up on no hillside, con talitv to new ones. Greeting. from Portland the last of the week and I south, and where the hurrying waters of That tree is gone today, not even the sequently we saw nothing, or at that Song...... “Little Americans,” ... Children. will spend the winter at Netarts. A man’s wealth may be measured bv the Beaver flash and gleam in the noon stump remaining, gone in the long ago, time knew nothing of the prairie on the Recitation.................................. Amy.Isaacs. his capacities, not by his coin. Geo. W. Phelps spent Friday and day sun, south bound and ever on time with nothing left but this slender record west side of the Beaver, which, now is Song.......................................Choir. Saturday in Tillamook. It is poor religious exercise balancing with its aquevus additions, to the al of its tradition. Next morning opened parts of the handsome farms ofW. T. Recitation................................Roy Harper. on one foot on the edge of sin. E. B. Carpenter and J. E. Tuttle made ready considerable a ecu mm ulatiotis of West and others. I will not assert here with weather similar to the day pre Sung..........“Silver Bells,”....... Seven Girls. Modern murmurers are bitten by the a great killing in the way of geese last the Nectucca, we find the somewhat T vious, with light snow on the ground that up to that time, and a little later, Recitation................. Elmer Allen. Sunday. Lucky boys. shaped geography of the little settlement in the early part of the day. We waded that no white man had ever saw the fiery serpents of their own tongues. Song..................................................... Choir There is only one single step from the Chas. Hodgdon is doing some im of Beaver. Forever environed on the the river where the trail crossed ( “West Prairie,” yet I believe such was Recitation............................ Edna Harper. i provements on his place in the way of south and east by the huge basaltic over to the now Foland Solo and Chorus. place- ( the case. Phipps had been here at that level rock over the precipice of ruin. Recitation.................................. Ethel Todd. fencing, and firing up the place, what is pile of Mount Hebo, and its outlying ' Mounting the high opposite bank, we i time several years. He was a man that The modesty of true worth is only Song..................................................... Choir. the matter Charley, going to take a walls and bastions. On the north and counted seven deer on the little fernless 1 went every where in the settlements, equalled by the worth of true modesty. west by irregular chains of hills, with I prairie in front, some of them not over seemed to know every one and talked with partner. _________________ Recitation................. Icey Simler. If men put more sense into their sacred valleys small and narrow, the two 100 yards away. Not being practicable everybody else, yet he knew nothing Song...................................................... Girls. service the world would put more faith BEAVER. friendly slopes, un.Alpine like, not grow to get in closer range, we quietly, each of then of any prairie on the west side of Recitation................................ Eva Wheeler. in their sanctity. ing grapes, yet in this Arcadian en us, picked our deer and took deliberate the creek. We supposed it to be merely Remarks. “America.” J. R. Dillow, of Blaine, writes from closure, walled in as it were between the aim, both firing at once, and—missed a wooded flat over there, the major part In the County. Court of the County of Tilla California that life health has much im mook, State of Oregon. immovable, eternal hills, nestles a com clearly again. Now latter day hunters 1 of which would be included in the now In the matter of the Estate of Edward Senke. proved. He has placed the selling of his deceased. ELAINE. N otice is H ereby G iven ,—That the final IGO acres near Blaine in the hands of C. munity that for singularity of progress will think strange of this poorexhibition Ellison place, and its capabilities could in various ways, environments consid of marksmanship, but remember that be investigated later, in fact, we had no account of the Administrator of the Estate of EDWAKD SENKE, deceased, ha^been rendered The snow has left us and the weather Mills, of Beaver, at a bargain. ered, has not its equal in any other par was not in the days of the Winchester. business further down. The reserve line to said Court for settlement, and that Tuesday On Tuesday of this week a Holiness ticular settlement in this county. has cleared up with a bright sunshine. the Sth day of January, A.IL, I901, at ten o'clock Phipps was armed on this occasion with was near bv in that direction. Anvhow, in the fore noon, has been duly appointed bv W. N. Bays and Grant Baley passed band for the promotion of Bible Holi Beaver has a considerable and well an old “Yazer,” a relic of the Cayuse the mountains seemed to close in like a said Court for the settlement thereof/at which time any person interested in said Estate may through here en route for the valley for a ness was organized, with Mrs. Lydia sustained school, several creameries and Indian war, and a gun that would shoot Mexican barranca, through which the appearand tie his exceptions, in writing to Finley as leader, to meet every Tuesday, hotel, |store, blachsmith shop, post of said account, and contest the sone. band of goats. anywhere. My gun was one that this river thundered on to the sea, whilst Dated this 15th day of November, 1900. 2 p.m. fice, daily mail, and one large church. same man, Phipps, had drawed on an above was also to us the complex and HOMER MASON, M. Cady and Pearl Coulson were _________________________ County Clerk. Rev. Armstrong is holding protracted Socially,the Beaverites have thier literary elk, some months previous to this, but down to Joe town last week. the unknown, and be it known here that meetings at Pleasant Valley at presant. and debating clubs, also various other shot and wounded his dog that was the successtul opening of the “Harris Rob Richard is adding an addition to We are glad to note that Cameron moral and wholesome amusemeuts and fifteen feet away to one side. This state trail,” over the mountains from South his house. We think he will soon have a Getchel, eldest son of A. J. Getchell, has exercises, whose tendency is to train the ment is not falsehood, but it is only the cook. Prairie several years before, hail effect BARBER 1HB H1IRDRESSER reached home. human mind to its betterment. Of course literal truth. Knowing otir weapons, ually stopped all travel on the Grand Carl Bunday left last week for his HAIR CUTTING, James Hughey is putting a band of! in such a community we would expect we always hunted close together, in Roude route. The first winter’s storms SHAVING, home in Ohio. goats on the mountain part of his ' landed and other improvements to be order to avoid accident to ourselves, but completely blockading if for horses, and SHAMPOOING, ETC. Mr. Henderson and son have taken , Beaver ranch. If people generally knew > found in a corresponding ratio. A look this was not by any means always our at the time of our visit it could scarcely part of their band of cattle to Mr. Glad that there is yet thousands of acres of r around and a notice of the many new Electric Baths nicely flitted up. Good for luck, the incident in this narrative was be traced in many places. Perhaps it will's to winter. persons suffering with rheumatism, the finest of goat range lands open for and substantial residences, barns, brid one of the exceptions rather than the had been twelve months since the echoes Our fruit tree agent, Jno. Creecy, re-' homesteads, wouldn’t there be a rush. Building next door to the Post Office. ges, etc., is not at all disappointing in rule. After crossing the river, the old of Beaver had been broken by the human turned home after a week’s successful i I J. I). Wallace, Tillamook’s most enter- this respect, but, on the contrary, these Grande Roude trail passed out through voice previous to our own. Had we canvassing. 1 prizing cattle and stockman is one who two are rather beyond the average, thia prairie in an easterly direction, then came upon the tracks of a man whilst | is still hauling milk to Jas. Bixby’s and all pointing to a clear busy moral leaving it took up a divide over the there we should have been nearly as reign of intelligence that seems to know, westerly of Mount Hebo, thence down much astonished as Crusoe was at the NESKOWIN. cheese factory. “no such word as fail.” A happy, sub on to the Three Rivers. Next to Wade & Briggs’ Store. foot prints he discovered in the sand on NEHALEM. Chas. Goeres made a trip to Tillamook stantial, progressive people today. Yet Apropos of Hebo, its original name his lonely island. We laid the founda last week. who knows of their hardships in the The telephone line is complete and past, of their isolation, their struggles, was not Hebo, but “Heavo,” and was tions of a house on the now Foland Stylish Hair Cutting, It is reported that Frank Franklin has working ok with Mrs. G. W. Cox as their wants, illy supplied by straightened so named by one ‘Cad” Iler, now a resi farm, and also on the Ellison place and the scarlet fever. A Clean Shave, dent, if living, of Eastern Oregon. returned home. As we both preferred 1 the hello girl. purse and distance from sources of sup Getting upon it one day for the first the Foland claim, we decided in a friendly Dan and Charley Fletcher have moved Shampooing, etc Billy and Chester Hoskins passed plies, made doubly more so by the prim time, Her was struck by the appearance way to cast lots for it, and abide by the up to the “Borers den,’’ and are making I through on Sunday en route for the out- itive modes of transportation over the of the long, huge swell or roll of the decision of chance, as to who should be improvements in general. I SIMLER, Prop., er world. siugle tortuous trail that lead in and mountain that Tiad elevated it far above its owner. But those lots were never Oscar Hellenbrand made two trips to The telephone Co. put an instrument out of this little commonwealth, Ah, its fellows, and placing himself in proper The Fashionable Barber. cast. Phipps nor I myselfdid not possess the cannery after winter supplies which . in at the Foley P. O. has the true story of pioneer life ever posture for the illustration, then erecting a dollar of ready money. Phipps hurried came in on the boat recently. The two Christmas trees will be held beeu told ? Has it ever been felt, except himself, at same time thowing his arms away to secure a job of work some Misses Clara and Blanch Hellenbrand on different nights so as not to conflict by those who have likewise been ground up in the air, he called out, “ 0, heave, where, and was being harrassed by HEADLIGHT visited at the home of Miss Amy Taylor , with each other. in the penury of its conditions ? 0!” “Heavo!” and Heavo it was for debts, grew discouraged, and finally left last Wednesday. and Since we have just now gone back a many years, until corrupted into the ( There will be a grand ball at Batter- the country that spring. And myself Fred and Walter Christenson with ■ son’s Hall on Thanksgiving evening the little into the pioneer mists of the past, more tangible name that it now bears. WEEKLY OREGONIAN being troubled something in the same their mother and sister Lona and Mas 26th iust. I would go back a little further in the Netarts was formerly known as “ Le- manner as my partner, I could not well One Year for $2.25, ter Loring visited at the Cliff House Sun case of Beaver. Back a third of a cen tarts,” or “Letarch.” I do not remem- Fishing has ended and the cannery return there alone, hence gave it up alto TWO LIVE PAPERS. day. tury from today and give some notes of l>er why this was. It was, probably, shut down. It is not known at present gether. But Beaver has went ahead The Anita made a trip to the Bay this whether any steel-heads will be put up a trip to the locality made by one Win. only a corruption that for many years just the same, without either of us. Phipps (then a resident of South Prairie) supplanted the proper name. week taking out the canned salmon also here or not. A lew are already run- and myself, at which time we took up the Chinamen. The Indian name for South Prairie is The regular subscription price for 1 ning. Card of Thanks. the first claims that were taken in that “ Nestoghton,” sounding the “G” hard, Mr. Butcher received a large stock of THE HEADLIGHT is$1.50, and I Several scholars from other districts most lonely region. goods on the boat and lie is putting* We hereby express our heartfelt thanks and not Nestoeton, as we call to-day the the regular subscription price of arc attending the Sand-hill school, which At that time, March 1867, the farthest post-office by that name, which is not an 1 and appreciation of the kindness and ■ them tip in the cannery store. This will the Weekly Oregonian is $1.50. is in charge of the popular teacher Miss settler south was David Reasoner, who Indian name at all. But I own digres- ! sympathy of our friends and acquaint till a long felt want of the Little Nestucea Tracy Wilkinson. Any one subscribing for THE had taken the previous fall what is now sing. 1 ances during the illness and death of our people.___________ HEADLIGHT and paying one The Dr. Mills place in Pleasant Valley, one. We were impressed with the beautiful dear ' year in advance can get both for Fight on Oleomargarine Bill. the country beyond was, of course, open grove of large firs that then stood iso. J ohn T hokall and F amily . $2.25. BOULDER CREEK. N ew Y ork , Nov. 27.—Representative for “squatter settlings” down to the lated at the north edge of the Foland ■M rs . H ilda G lad . Miss Olive Donaldson came down from Tawney, of Minnesota, one of the lead Reservation line, which was then some prairie. We walked around a bit among Brown's Saturday to sjicnd Sunday ers in the effort to pass the oleomarga where down the Nestucea below the them, finally sitting down on a fallen rine bill, is (¡noted as saying in an inter mouth of the Beaver, the old Grand tree, and I remember we entered into a with her sister, Mrs. Smith. Rales, $) Per Doy. Roude ttail had been traveled by the discussion of the merits and demerits of Centrally Located. Mr, Jno. Cretry was in our locality last view : whites for a number of years previous to that place and the country generally. “ The bill is set in the House for Decem week selling fruit trees to our citizens. ber 6. It will !>e a very lively day, and this time, but owing to the extreme iso We crossed over to the north east side of We regret to announce that Mrs. Roza the debate will be spirited on both sides, lation of the locality now under consid the prairie, where we sat down in a Borba has been buffering for some time as the opposition will make a hard eration no one had ns yet taken up land sunny spot, on the edge of the high bank TH I PFopfietor. with earache. fight. I am confident, however, of the there, but learning that there was some of the river, and looked Blaineward, The Best Hotel in the city. No ChinedEnp^ed W. N. Ba vs went to the valley last passage of the bill in the House by a excellent claims there, mostly prairie, which country, however, was only fit- week. safe majority, and I believe that the 1 Phipps and I decided at the time above fully rc.ealed to our vision in the alter E. O. Mills passed through our burg prospects are good for its passage in the named to go out and take up land. I nate sunshine and storm of that dav. Monday, ou his way from Salem to Till Senate. The fight will !>e made on the have forgotten now the time of the1 From our point of observation, only a The spring was somewhat small area of bottom land was visible. amook city. bill in both houses of Congress. Farmers month. Invitations are out for a thanksgiving from the Atlantic to the Pacific are in backward that year, but we noticed A little further up. not far away hills dinner at the hospitable home of Mr. favor of the bill, and the consumer who that the swelling buds and leaves of the seem to come in from both sides, their wishes pure butter is with me. A peti ! wild gooseberry and other shrubs were interlocking points shutting off nil a ml Mis. Bays. tion of 5,000,000farmers has been signed nliout ten days further advanced out vision down to or near the water’s edge J. P. ALLEN, II. A. Chopard is wielding the maul there than with us back on the prairie, in that direction, and crowning all. more in favor of the bill.” with a right good will these da vs. He is Proprietor a conclusion that years of casual obser so then than to-dav. a vast forest every splitting rails for a new line fence. Our Clubbing Rates. vations have since confirmed. The day where of the tall white deadened firs First claws accommodation Misses Lena and Bessie Bays were vis Headlight and the Oregonian...... »2.25 we went ont was disagreeable, alternate tombs of a by-gone age. through which iting at H. L. Jenson’s Sunday. at second class rate. Headlight and the Examiner......... 2.35 storms of some snow and hail, the sun’s region we imagined the river foamed, News is scarce this wte'e as your cor Headlight & Thrive-«-Week World 2.00 rays being barelv powerful enough be- and struggled in roaring cataracts, respondent was busy nursing a tooth tween showers to melt away in favored hurrying away from those solitudes to BEST MEALS IN THE The |*«ple of Kentucky arc actually localities the frozen vapor.’ Vic went seek the more congenial companionship and therefore had little time to devote CITY. praying for water. to neighborhood doings. down thecqst side of Beaver, arriving , of the not distant sea. or as Phipps un EDGAR LATIMER, TIIE NEW BARBER SHOP. LARSEN HOUSE, TILLAMOOK, ^llen pouge, j Tillamook, Ore OREGON