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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1907)
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 24, 1907 PRAISES NEHALEM VALLEY. Editorial Snap Shots. Someone ought to be dubbed “Scare Crow«’’ for calling one CMC of diphthriia in the county an epidemic. M * * This it to the «acred memory of a dear old friend, the honking machine: Honk! _____ » Hon----- ! Ho------ ! H------ ! M * M The snap shot man returned to bis sanctum sanctorum and this little king- don of Tillamook on Monday, after visit- ing the “outside world’’ for t wo weeks. W W * It speaks well for the Tillamook High School that the graduates who have entered the State University from this county did not have to take any prepa- ratory work. WWW To our way of thinking it looks alto gether out of place for Senator Bourne to offer a cash prize of $1000 for the best third term argument. Other than a little public notoriety, nothing will be gained by it. * * * Republican prosperity is in evidence all over Oregon, and now is the time to put away a little money to tide over deino cratic hard times should the unterrified succeed in bringing wages and butter fat down to bed rock again. WWW This office is in receipt of six boxes of Copenhagen snuff, but the snap shot man has enough bad habits without making his nasal organ a receptacle for ashes, even if he does sometimes make his mouth a chimney pot. WWW Don’t be a “knocker” if water comes high and runs the city headlong into debt, for this month $687.50 was taken out of the city treasury to help out the city water system. Who said that the profits from the system would run the city government and reduce insurance ? WWW When people have confidence in places with one-fourth the resources and the possibilities of Tillamook, the people of this county ought to rejoice that they hive settled here, for this county will soon emerge from its long isolation. Then watch her grow and develop. * * * It is two bits for a shave in Tillamook City and 15c. and 10c. in most other parts of the state. And, no doubt, some of the barbers in this city will be voting for democratic hard time wages at the next election. Then the snap shot man will have an opportunity to twit them. * ♦ * Who said that local option was going to kill Eugene ? We didn’t run across the ghost; but, gee, wiz ! We did run across a must lively corpse instead. It wouldn’t be out of place for the Eugene newspapers to interview the cioakers who said that local option was going to kill Eugene, for sure enough it is a live business town. * * * It appears to us that this is the pro per time, before Tillamook City grants any more franchises,Hist the city should receive some revenue or concessions from them. For instance, the telephone conipanv is using the public streets and should pay something into the citv trea sury. And. we understand, several ap plications for electric light franchises will be made to the city council,which should not be granted unless the city can de rive aotne revenue from them. By doing so it would help relieve the citizens from the burden of taxation. * W * It is remarkably strange that so many men who have gone into thelumber busi ness in this county have done well for a while and then tuet with financial losses. The wreck of the Antelope and the loss ol the cargo of lumber belonging to C. H. Wheeler and the destruction of the Tillamook Lumbering Company's saw mill l>y lite are hard luck events to be added to the list ol those who have en. gaged in the lumbering business in this county. It is to be hoped that the future will be brighter for the lumbermen here, and instead of meeting with so many losses, they will meet with better luck. * » * It seems to us that it is a foolish thing to make mountains out of a single case of diththeria. searing people to such an extent with scare heads that they are frightened to come to this city to trade Had there been a number of cases and had the disease been on the increase, it wonld have been different. The fatal case of diphtheria was outside of the city limits, and although it is wise to take every precaution to prevent it spreading, we do not see any reason to cause unnecessary alarm and puldish to the world that Tillamook is afflicted with a diththeria epidemic because one case developed and proved fatal in the county. The Headlight is more alarmed about the spread of disease from the Slinking privys aud cesspools, for it is in three filthy, noisome places w here disease germs originate and bring sickness and death to many homes. for the journey, all wai quiet again and nobody appearrd to be around. The cluck told the pencil pusher what time it was, and he, too, skidooed back to bed again, resolved that he would keep mum Next morning Johnny told his experience at the breakfast table, and the snap shot man also squealed on himself. A be lated passenger had arrived at an early hour to take the stage, which was the cause of all the commotion. * * * There is no reason to acme people tie cause there was one case of diphtheria in the county, and which lias been mag nifled Io sucli an extent that people seem to imagine that an epidemic is pre vailing. One solitary case do not make an epidemic, neither will there l»e one, fur immediate precaution« were taken t J pierent this True, diphtheria is a most malignant disease and it is wise to keep away, especially children, from those who are suffering with it But why make so much ado about this case when we can recall numerous cases in recent years, and where a number of children were dow n with it, which did not cause any commotion and the news papers did nut go off half cocked and he come “scare crows.” All that is neces sary is to use a little discretion an I good horse sense ami no one need get scared or become alarmed, for every once in a while diphtheria will make its appearance. * W W The classic city of Eugene is by far the best city in the state south of Portland, for there is not a town along the Will amette valley with as much push, enter prise and enthusiasm in the city’s pro gress as can be seen in Eugene. It even surprises Oregon mossbacks to see how this and other live towns are growing. We must congratulate Eugene with its electric cars, paved streets, cement side walks, cement curbing, park like appear ance and pretty cottages, to sav nothing of the high school, public library, com mercial club, hospitals and state univer sity. With a continuance of public im provements for another few years, we predict that Eugene will become ane of the busiest cities in Oregon. A great many small towns in the state could be made as attractive and pretty as Eugene if the business men and citizens would get out of the old rut9 and show’ a dis- position for public improvements. This 19 what Eugene has done, and it is quite pleasing to see what a transformation is taking place in that city bv way of public improvements and in beautifying the city. We would like to see a spirit of public improvement started in Tillamook City, and with united effort this citv could be made to rank with the prettiest and the busiest in Oregon. Jury List for November Term. The venire for the November terra of the Circuit Court « as drawn on Wed nesday. which will convene in this city on Monday, November 11th, with Judge G. II. Burnett on the bench. There will be a long docket. The jury list is com posed of: Arthur Hunt, Tillamook, farmer. E. K. Scovell. Nehalem, farmer. Harry Sweeney, Nehalem, farmer. R. A. Crawford, Nehalem, farmer. Jacob Pesterfleld, South Prairie, farmer. Floyd C. Smith, Garibaldi, farmer. Andrew Anderson, Tillamook, farmer lames Thompson, Nehalem, farmer. F. M. Trout, Hoqnarton, farmer Frank Berns. Hoquarton, farmer. Frank Worthington, Hebo, farmer. Wm. Fitzpatrick. Beaver, farmer. G. W. Wallace. Beaver, farmer. M. B. Petteya, Bay. farmer. Dee Tomlinson, Tillamook, farmer. W. N. Reddawav. Nehalem, farmer. O. P. Mattoon, Hebo, farmer. Jos. Dürrer, Hoquarton, farmer. Alfred Carlson. Fairview, farmer. Frank Tone, Tillamook, farmer. W. J. Plank, Hoquarton. farmer. Frank Bester, Fairview, farmer. Morrison Mills, Fairview, farmer. C. C. Jensen, llebo, farmer. Chas. McKillip, b airview, farmer. Geo. Watt, Bay. farmer. Tracy R. Elliott, Bay. farmer. Peter Nelson. Bay. farmer. Casper Schis ppi. South Prairie, farmer. M. C. Kellow. llebo. farmer. Smith Elliott, Bay. farmer. Dr. James Withycombe Telia of Hie Visit to Section. 0 USIHESS COLLEG L TENTH AND MORRISON STREETS, PORTLAND, OREGON A. P ARMSTRONG. LL. B., PRINCIPAL Educates for success in a short time and at small expense, and sends each stu dent to a position as soon as competent. Quality is our motto, ami reputation or thorough work brings us over 100 calls per month for office help. Individual in struction insures rapid progress. We teach the loose leaf, the card index, t e voucher and other modern methods of bookkeeping. Chartier is our shorthand, easy, rapid, legible. Beautiful catalogue, business forms and penmanship free— '“rite today. References: any merchant, any bank, any newspaper in Portland- Assessment of Tillamook County. Assessor A. M. Hare has completed the assessment of Tillamook County for the vear 1907, which figures up to over eight millions, nearly two millions more than last year, and five millions more than two years agu. ’! he exact figures being : For this *ear. $8,186.487 ; for 1906. $6.201.611 ; fur 1905. $2.961.856. The assessor has raised the assessment <»n timber each year. Quarter sections were assessed at $690 when he first took office, and he has raised the assessment everv year since, the fir and spruce claims being assessed this year for $2,400 and hemlock claims for $1,500. Improved farm lands and under cultivation are assessed on an average of $62.37 per acre; nontillable land, at $11.91 per acre ; while cattle are assessed at $14.33 per head. The Tillamook County Bank is assessed at $6,000 more than its capi tal slock, and the First National Bank escaped assessment this year for the reason that it did not open up for busi ness until after the 1st March, too late to include it in this year’s assessment, which will account somewhat lor the smallness of the money assessed in the county, and for the reason that people who have a few hundred or a few thou sand dollars on hand when the assessor makes his annual rounds keep mum about it. We are safe in saying that the timber owners will pay from 65 to 79 per cent of taxes on the present assess ment. Acreage of tillable land. 12,224 acres...............................................$762,500 Acres of non tillable land, 537,• 558 acres................................. 6.401.155 Improvements on deeded land . 163,595 Town and citv lots ................. . 236,217 99,040 Improvements oil city lots ... Improvements on land not 1,275 deeded........................................... 8,075 Telephone lines and toil roads Steamboats and manufactur 78 505 ing machinery ........................ Merchandise and stock in trade 75,800 19.420 Farming implements ................. Money and notes ....................... 57,530 Household furniture ................. 38,320 Horses and mules............. 1,195 56.650 Cattle ................................ 9,326 133,555 Sheep and goats ............. 1.806 2,590 Hogs................... ’.............. 1,044' 3,385 Sawlogs, lumber and salmon ... 48.875 Gross value of alt property $8,186,487 Installation Service. The installation of Rev. David Henry Hare as pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city on Thursday evening of last week was a very interesting ser vice. The committee on installation ap pointed by the Presbytery of Portland were Rev. Henry Marcotte, pastor of Westminster church. Rev. William H. Foulkes, D.D , pastor of first church and Rev. Harry H. Pratt, pastor of Forbes church, all of Portland. Dr. foulkes preached a forceful sermon on the mis sion and commission of the church. He took occasion to refer to his former asso ciation with Mr. Hare in their college days and also said that when he was called from a church in the middle west to the pastorate of the First Presbyter ian church of Portland not the least of the considerations was the fact that Mr. Hare was already there as Assistant Pastor. In giving the charge to the pastor. Mr. Pratt referred also to former years ol friendship and said from pleasant ex periences he knew the people of hi3 con gregation were getting a good friend in their new pastor. Mr. Marcotte proposed the formal questions which according to the gov ernment of the Presbyterian church con stitutes the pastorial relations. lit giv ing the charge to the people he said he had long wanted to visit Tillamook be cause there were here friends ol his boy hood day» ; it was a delight to him to come at this time to help install a man whom he had learned to love. He urg ed the people to he loyal to the church and to their pastor. An especially pleasing feature cd the meeting was the singing of the male quartett made up of the visiting minis ters and Mr. Hare. The committee left on the stage early Friday morning so as to be in their own pulpits on Sunday They were very much pleased with tbeir trip. _________________ City Council Meeting. A meeting of the city council was held on Monday evening, with Mayor H. T. Botts and Councilmen W. C. King, A T. White, M. Munsmn and J. P. Allei, present. Councilman King moved that Geo. F. Zimmerman, who was special policeman and night watchman, be dis missed, which carried. A resolution was introduced to adopt a public library also carried, Mayor Botts having to ap point six persons to act as a library commission, five persons being named ; Pt of. W. R. Rutherford, Miss Lister, L Hiner, Father Le Miller and Mrs. B. C Lamb. Several matters pertaining to street improvements came up and were disposed of. The bills allowed at the previous meeting of the council were : Tillamook Lumber Co . lights ... $70 00 G. F. Zimmerman, marshal.......... King & Smith, globes..................... King & Smith, nails and nowder Tillamook Lumber Co., lumber... Cohn A Sanders, lumber................ Wm. Kimball, work........................ E. A. Edwards, street com........... M. M. Todhunter, hauling gravel J. C Gove, hauling gravel .......... jacob Schweitzer, hauling gravel Wm. Jolly, work on streets ...... Pete Brown, for gravel................. Tillamook City Water Works, waler from Feb. to Oct , in 678.50 clusive Notice of School Indemnity Selection. United States Land Office, Portland, Ore., Oct. 15th, 1907. Notice is hereby given that the State of Oregon, on October 15th, 1907, ap plied for the Se l4 of Se of section 1. township 2 north, range 10 west, and filed in this office a list of school indem nity selections in which it selected said land ; and that said list is open to the public for inspection. Any and all persons claiming adversely the above described land or any legal subdivision thereof, orclaiming the same under the mining laws, or desiring to show said land to be more valuable for mineral than for agricultural purposes, or to object to said selection for anv legal reason, should file their claims or their affidavits of protest or contest ir. this office on or before the 30th day of November, 1907. A lgernon S. D eesser . Register. G eo . W. B i bee . Receiver. I hereby designate the Tillamook Head, light ns the newspaper in which the above notice is to be published. A lgernon S. D resser , Register. Nobody will will have 0110 confidence in a ’north pule expedition until Preei- dent Roosevelt shall start one. Irrigation has been set in motion without mixing it with auy other sub ject It is a good plan Io stick to tn dealing with the lakes-to gulf deep channel Atrivala at Allen House Friday —L. C. Fewman. Portlard: J. H. McNamsr, Forest, Grove; J. C. Creevy, Blaine. Saturday.— C. I». Gahrielaon. Salem Chaa. R Thompson, Portland; Jack Kays, Salem. Sunday.—E. W. Dingman, Portland; L L. Skidmore. Seattle . R. M. Buttle, Seattle; William Dieta. Seattle ; Fred H Strong. Portland . Geo. Warren. Port land, Wells Gilbert. Portland; L. Ossen berg. Astoria, t'. L Houston. Astoria Monday.— H L. Chapin, Portland , G. A. Jon«. Portland. Tuesday—Geo. E. Fish. Portland Chas. L. Lindsay. Portland; Geo. A Peel. Portland; A. J. Kirkley. Portland ; John E Rennington, Dallas; D. F. Glover. Pintand; C. R Eaton. Van This is a joke on the snap shot man couver, Wash, W. V. Sal Ion, Tacoma. and Johnny (ones, the furniture man. Both ivere guests at the Trask house on Saturday night Both retired earlv with the understanding that they would have Good like to torn out before day light. After taking their first naps there were rapping, at for the doors and with the usual bnstle pre not trouble vious to the departures of the stages. Johnny was the first to complete his of complaint, toilet and emerge from his bed room, is only to make a bee line back again. Bv the time that the snap shot man had Your rrocer return« your money if you don't Uke it: wn him got hn Sunday going duds on and fixed » * * COFFEE grocers Schil ling’s Best, it makes good-will and ; in case the money ready. .Opened up for Business. SAPPINGTON & GO A Full Line of Groceries, Flour, Feed, Tinuuare, and Crockery. We CUant all Hinds of Produce Call and See Us. Olsen uviiivilijy Bciildina , Tillamook opposite th« Hotel. Dr. Jam« Withycombe, director of the Oregon Experiment Station,nt Corvallis, has last returned from a trip through the Nehalem Valley, where be went with E T Judd, William Schulinerich and Frol. C. E. Btadley. assistant chemi it al tin Oregon Experin.ent Station The parlies held a series of farmers' institutes throughout the Nehalem Country. Dr. Withycombe was yerv favorably im pressed with the development ot that section, never having visited it before. He said ; “It ir simply astonishing to note the agricultural development in such an iso- lated district. One cannot bnt be pro foundly impressed with the sturdy char acter ol the men and women who went nearly 40 years ago into the very heart of the coast range of mountains, and who have hewn out magnificent farms. The valley soil is phenomenally rich and is ideal dairy land. The farms extend along the Nehalem River for nearly 50 mil«. A peculiar condition of the vallev which impresses one strongly is the wall of timber on either side. "Dairying is the principal industry, but they find that the mountain slopes are not well adopted for grazing, but are splended fruit lands, especially lor pro ducing a very high grave of the North ern Spy apple. The farmers are general ly prosperous, judging from the many splendid modern homes mid good barns. Their greatest need is transportation. ' In addition to a large aiea of agricul tural land,the forest wealth is simply itn. incuse. It is not unusual to see trees from 250 to 300 feet tall, and 175 feet to the first branch. These trees will yield 10,000 lei t of first class lumber. Not a4ew, but hundreds ol thousands of such trees stand in the Nehalem country. •'On the farms, many forage plants are grow n, such as clover, vetch, alfalfa, corn, turnips and kale. All these crops yield in great abundance. Root crops of all descriptions do well and the po tatoes not only grow to great size, but nre of a very high quality. Ou the rich bottom lands there is no difficulty in producing from thirty to fifty tons of kale per acre, thus conclusively demon strating the adaptability of the whole valley to dairying. At.present the cream is gathered and shiptied to Portland. This, in some instances, is hauled fifty miles to a shipping point, but despite the isolation the country is exceedingly prosperous. "One commendable feature of the im provement of the valley is the splendid roads that are living constructed. There are few sections of the state that can boast of helter graded roads than the Nehalem Valley. The social conditions there are also excellent. They have their own telephone system and severalgrange organizations. Tlie Grange of Natal sup ports an exet Kent hnll and during the institute the farmers made a very fine display of the products of their section.'' Save Your Money..... Men Grow Rich by Sav ing the Money they Make. Deposit your Money with Tillamook County Bank, And it will be safe and ready for you when you need it. We conduct our business with the greatest care and courtesy. We carry fire, burglary and hold up insur ance. offer you Secu rity and Service. IVe Capital Stock, $30,000.00. Total Resources over $320,000.00. everything physician PRESCRIPT^ We specialize o, compounding a:1j J carry a stock wh»k Bents everything that 1 cians hereabout art prescribe. All new J pharmaceutical« are bm toon as out and uBr prescription drug« w plete at al) times. Onfi f of highest purity and are ever used. Phyaiciana who quainted with ountock method«, invariably |"| of best results from the m cines they have when they see our label the bottle. Expert serviceaday or Price« aa low as any CHAS. I. CI.0UG1 Reliable Druggie Tillamook, Ore. Tile Home and the What relation does theincre» suicide bear to the increaie in i infelicity ? It is inconceivable child of anv home in wbicbnni nant ol the family ideal surviia destroy itself. And since luiciJi the young is now reaching i proportions unheard of and m of before the da« n of this en may fairly conclude that the I a social and moral institute greater danger now than ere T his would be a fair concision not fortified, as it is, by the ta the divorce courts and by a mil of sensational scandals. Wecov. for our daily scandal with atari as w e pray for our daily bread n be giving us the daily scandal a It ia true, as acme tortured pb recently asserted, that we an | more prosperity than is good lori nothing but restless discontent r out olmore means for serving bid than we ever enjoyed before? snake still in the garden of deltgk are we yet in the midst of plretv strained to eat of the forbidden In Much of the speculation lostrit causes of suicide among the n- trivial, much of it irrelevant, n wide of the mark. Colorediu| overteaching, or the nervotis modern city life, could not de elasticity and exuberance of p healthy and helpful eoviron«. family life in which there are lox bearnnee and sacrifice is indsps to a child's happiness. There is widespread and raw comment as to cause of divorce,« necessity of making divocce aoit cult. Making marriages mon« might be equally efficacious. we are having a merry wm k licensing officers ol the recordett and a marriage broker with oSffl neighborhood, and who has bm the privilege of drumming !ot It the recorders’ office doors. Tb charges the officials with open trust which has concerned thru market. He fries out in a losd a trust busting people for help oppression. Without arguing tb< of this case, its existence libs' prevalent and growingevil, has been degraded, despoiled of» as well as of its solemnity.ssd • gration, in conjunction with lb' degrmtion of our courts mrin divorce statutes, suggests * I change in the formula. go on as thev are now goisg ** well say, "Ur.til you change as "Until death do you part? ™ year old girl who got her * the other day might yet wife and mother if she to»" man swift enough to lesson that love is a mutusl*" fore she divorc« him —dob» His Dear Old " Mv dear old eighty three years old. I trie Bitters." writes W B Dublin, Ga. " She has ,a‘' „#1 about two year« a"^ ’"■1'7 j-« Af. W. HARRISON. appetite feel. stro£ A That', the way Electric £ Pres, and Cash. the aged, and the follow in Mil cases ot «»*• and gen«ral debility The surveyoss who are working no dren too. are .JT/i <8 the Lytle road from Clatsop into the them. Guaranteed by vnre. Nehalem, ere now working between druggist. 50c^^ How to Cur»a©*J Astoria and Olney, and are making great progress. They expect to com The question (Wt * plete the line to Arioria In 10 days. The without unneceewryMm survey will run along the river bank on in which we ere the north side of Young's hay to a point «ted for the qua rid of the lees I'* near the A. & C. railroad bridge at and other serleo» 3isenere r Smith • point. The profile sliows the lUllof Hall, of W?wrjy._ Waverly. v ' »-;Â '» J*wriH heaviest grade over the divide between berlaiu'e berlani's Cough ^2"’ J fl»»**1! MTn "I firmly ^''¿Jstdy'iL Astoria and the Nehalem valley to be 1.0 I Cough Remedy to be for*^ per cent on this side and 1.5 per cent on ’ —----- — pvr vein on ® r-uion on the merset i“ ^ the south aide Rita is the beet grade found I K^Tr^oru mended it » over the divide on the Lewis snd Clarks they all agree with m*- Clough's Drug Store. I river route.
