TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. APRIL. 7 1910
The Headlight is still opposed to
Editorial Suap Shots
the present system of road building
in this county, anil will continue to
Those who have been “knocking*’
I agitate for a change in a fair and
the progressive element and boost -
friendly spirit with those who differ
ers must feel that they are back
with us. A large amount of money
numbers in this live, wide-awake
will be spent upon road work this
city.
year, and yet there is no competent,
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experienced engineer and road
E<
I m L \ / lessened in cost
Mr. Russell Hawkins, who repre
builder at its head to sui>erintend
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>'igl
sents the Whitney Company, with
and increased
the work systematically, prepare
out being solicited,sent his entrance
in quality and
■ plans and specifications and esti
fee to become a member of the Till
wholesomeness,
mates of costa for tlie county court
amook Commercial Club.
This
to act intelligently upon. To our
showed the right spirit, and as we
way of thinking this should have
are sure that the club will do its all been planned and figured out
best to help any enterprises the
last winter, and had this been done
timber owners may have in view,
the county would have been in good
as well as to make it pleasant for shape to commence road work this
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them and tolielp protect their inter summer along practical and econo
ests.
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mical lines. But, alas, the old sys
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tem ia in force, with its unbusiness
The Tillamook City post office has
like and unsystematic methods, to
passed the ¡fet.tMIO mark in receipts
say nothing of the political “pets”
for tlie past fiscal year, being an in
who do a great deal of “wind” work
crease of f2,(MJ0 tlie past 12 months.
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instead of “road” work when work
i II
Post office receipts are taken as the
ing for the county. No one expects
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business barometer of any city, and
the court to look after the small
the big increase of business in this
r/AÍ
details, and it seems to be here
office shows conclusively that H
where
a
great
saving
can
be
made.
brisk, active business growth ia
There is a general impression that
taking place in Tillamook City, II
altogether too much money was ex
the increase of business continues
pended in making the cut and op- ‘
tlie next 12 months, it will place the perating the rock crusher at Fair- I
office in the second class and give
view last year, but it is the system
the city a free mail delivery.
that ia at fault. We have no hesi
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tancy in saying that hail the work
It was by persistent agitation on been undertaken by a competent
the part of tbe Headlight that the engineer or let by contract there
Tillamook Commercial Club was would have been a great savingand
organized, which goes to prove that the work would have been better
the Press is still a factor in the anil more expeditiously done. No
county’s development — socially, one can deny thia, for the unsatis
commercially, politically, But the factory and expensive methods is a
moat essential thing right now and good object lesson is favor of our
Commences 8:30 p.m. Sharp.
lor tile future is for all the business contention that there should be a
and professional men to do is to competent engineer and road builder
In the
pull together forone object the up at the head of the road work. Ano
building and development of Tilla ther thing, with three rock crush
mook City and County. Heretofore ing plants and three road rollers, it
personal, special and selfish motives looks to us that the situation ia get
predominated in this city, to such ting more complex and requires a
an extent that new comers were different system from the present
not welcome anti obstacles placed one if the best results are to be ob
in their way in getting business lo tained at the least expenditure. Or
Last Chance to Dance in this Hall.
cations. These methods cannot be is every Tom, Dick or Harry to be
pursued any longer, and those who placedin charge of these machines, Management—TILLAMOOK COMMERCIAL CLUB.
do attempt to tie tip business loca tlie same as in road building in this
tions simply drive business to other county in previous years ?
streets. Tillamook City is going to
—
grow and development right along,
Object to Strong Medicines.
and the Commercial Club having
Many people object to taking the
tile interest of the whole city and strong medicine precribed by phy
county at tieart, there is every indi sicians for rheumatism. There is no
need of internal treatment for chron
cation of tlie business and profes ic or musclar rheumatism, and more
Good Hall. Good Music. Good Order.
sional men working together, witli than nine out of ten cases of tile
Proceeds go to Commercial Club.
tlie result that personal and selfish disease are one or the other of these
motives will l>e relegated to tlie varieties When there is no lever
Base Ball Dance at Opera House Postponed
and little [if any)swelling, you may
background and a broader, more know that it is only necessary to
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J ames V ernon ,
generous disposition will take its apply Chamberlain's Liniment iree-
place, or, in other words, business ly to get quick relief. Try it. For
W. F. B aker ,
and commercial interest of tlie city sale by Lamar’s Drug Store.
C arl H a be reach ,
should lie conducted in tlie interests
There ia no cough medicine ao
H. C renshaw ,
of tlie many and not in tlie interest popular iia Foley's Honey mid Tar.
R
oelie W atson ,
of those who run saloons, gambling It never fails to cure coughs, colila,
croup and bronchitis. For Sale by
joints and pool rooms.
Committee.
C. 1. Clough.
CAKE,
hot biscuit,
hot breads,
pastry, are
£
g"®
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by
OVAI
t
Baking* Powder
iïi
Bake the food at home
and save money
and health
OWERY DANCE
Next SATURDAY NIGHT,
APRIL 9th.
Concrete Hall, Tillamook
Building.
GOOD ORCHESTRA
10c. a Dance
NEW YORK
IS
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where Fashion first flaunts its choicest Weavesand Patterns long before other
cities are favored. This City’s exclusive dressers, who keep pace with New
York’s smart set, have long been custom-tailored by us through our connection
with New York's l>cst known Custom-Tailoring Establishment
The possession
of this table
B. STERN & SON,
Exclusive Custom Tailors,
NEW YORK.
on your clothing indicate« your taste for ultrarefiued products of the tailor's craft
It is a double assurance of advance fabric aud fashion. With these advantages
we also offer you a price inducement seldom obtainable at first class establish
ment*.
Our exquisitely artistic Fashion plates suggest many departures from the
conventional.
We invite your inspection of our Spring and Summer Styles.
We shall not importune you to buy.
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MORRIS SCHNAL,
Popular Priced Men’s Clothier,'Tillamook.
A Healing Salve for Burna Chap
ped Hands and Sore Nipplea.
As a healing salve for burns,
sores, sore nipples and chapped
hands Chamberlain's Salve is most
excellent.
It allays the pain of a
burn almost instantly, and unless
the injury ia very severe, heals the
parts without leaving a scar. Price.
¿5 cents. For sale by Lamar's Drug
Store.
Plenty of Trouble.
He Could Not R«comm«nd It.
The editor was eeated at his desk,
busily eugaged in writing a fervid edi
torial on the necessity of building a
new walk to tbe cemetery, when a
battered specimen of the tramp print
er entered tbe office.
“Hornin'. boss." said tbe caller. "Got
any work for a print?”
"I have," answered tbe editor, “Yon
___ right this time. I’ve
happened in just
got only a boy to help me in t tie office,
aud 1 need a man to set type for about
a week. 1 have to make a trip out
can take off your coat aud
west. You
1
begin right now. I «tart tomorrow
morulng."
"All right." said tbe typographical
tourist, removing bis coat.
road are you going to travel on?"
"Tbe X., Y. and Z. mostly. I've nev
er been on it. Know anything about
it?"
”1 know all about it. I've traveled
it from oue end to tbe other."
"YVbat kind of road is It?"
"Bum!" said the printer in a tone
indicative of strong disgust. “The
ties are too far apart!”—Youth’s Com
panion.
The Artistic Japan«««.
Artistic Impulses govern even tbe
ordinary artisan lu Japan. This, from
au article in tbe Craftsman by Mr. L,
Wakeman Curtis, illustrates tbe fact:
•'lu so commercial aud nouartlsic a
porcelain district as Nagoya 1 saw a
big room full of men working In elay.
hastily copying in quantities pieces
that were to go. in a shipload, to till
an order in England. I paused be
side a man who was finishing soap
dishes. On each cover, before it went
to be baked, be was adding the kuob
by which it could be lifted, That on
tbe European model before hitn wag
utterly without sentiment, less gra-
clous of shape than a freshly digged
onion or iiotato. With a few slight,
quick touebes. seemingly as unthink
ing as a machine, be was yet doing
more than was required—he was caus
ing each knob as it passed under his
hands to take the look of a half open
ed bud. a faint hiut of a leaf being
also quickly modeled in tbe 'biscuit’
beueatb it.”
Paris' Worn Flood.
In the year 129*5 rose the greatest
flood of which history makes any rec
ord In Paris. "Men went In lioats over
tbe wall of the king's garden.” All
:he island was covered, and from the
foot of the hill of the university to
(be rising ground lieyond the Murrnls
■he upper stories of the houses rose
out of a lake a mile wide. In that
Hood was swept away the old stone
bridge that Charles the Bald bad built
centuries earlier, before even the Nor
mans besieged tbe town, and in that
flood tbe Petit Chatelet was destroyed.
The Petit Pont fell Into the river also,
but that was uotbing wonderful, for it
was tbe most unfortunate of bridges
and never stood firmly for fifty years
at a stretch, but was forever being de
stroyed and regularly rebuilt. Tbe
waste of tills flood was the signal for
Philipp« le Bel's rebuilding.—Hilaire
Belloc's "Paris.”
Point« About a Good Hors«.
There are some points which are val
uable In borses of every description.
Tlie head should tie proportionately
large and well set on. The lower Jaw
bones should be sufficiently far apart
to enable tbe head to form an angle
with tbe neck, which gives It free mo
tion and a graceful carriage and pre
vents It bearing too heavily on the
band. Tbe eye should be large, a lit
tle prominent, and the eyelids flue aud
tbin. The ear should be small and
erect and quick in motion. Tbe lop
ear ludi< utes dullness and stubborn
ness. When too far back there is a
disposition to mischief.
A Curious Painting.
In Japan there Is a very famous
pointing which no amount of money
could buy aud which is the master-
piece of a fatuous artist wbu lived wr.
eral centuries ago Viewing the pain».
Ing In the daytime, oue Is disapix.lut.
ed It shows nothing more than a very
conimonplace Ituidncapr unrelieved by
mountains or bills. As soon, however,
as night falls one begins to run Ilze tbe
peculiar merit of the picture, for upon
tbe canvas there appears a lumlnnous
water buffalo «-arilsiut browsing upon
tbe grass at Its feet Tbe artist who
[Ml In ted this picture discovered a cer
tain phosphorescent paint, wblib b«
obtained from the bodies of certsig
mollusks or tisb. aud with whl< b u*
painted tbe buffalo that. invisible in
daylight, is luminously brilliant in th»
dark. The secret of making this paig»
died witb tbe artist. The pl lure,
w hich bungs In a Buddhist temple. Las
proved a fertile source of suiierstitlou,
tbe priests claiming that the buffalo
bides away In tbe shade behind sum,
trees In the picture during the heat at
the day. corniug out al night to graze.
Startled Their Host.
A New Yorker decided to give a din
ner lu recognition of hospitality show,
ered upon him by bls friends reevut-
ly. He asked two women be knew to
go to u Jeweler's aud pick out some
little souvenirs for tbe womi-u guests,
says the New York Sun The bost did
not know it. but a detective accomi«.
uled ibe gifts to the bouse Each n>
rntiu found at her place at tbe tali!«
a handsome box
When these were
opened there were cries of admiration.
One woman drew out a diamond ring,
another au emerald brooch, another a
diumond crescent, a fourth a net klaee
of pearls, another a diamond tiara,
and so on. until the output of th*
boxes represented about íáO.OOO Ths
host bud forced a smile when the first
box was opened As each trinke' re-
vested seemed more costly than tbe
lust is Jaw fell. I'ersplratlon began
to trt, kle dowu Ills face. whi. b got so
red that the women Is- nlue Ahtrtned.
Then they explained that the Jewel*
were a Joke aud were borrowed for
i be occasion.
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Th* Picture In th« Wat^h.
The following anecdote Is relnt“i1 of
Jerome Bonaparte. He bud been p.uy-
Ing cards until be lost nil bls ready
money, then pledged his rings nfiii
finally laid his watt b <>u the table It
was a small gold one. tlie hack of
which o|s-n<il with n spring. A lady
overlooking the game admired tli«
watch and took It up to exuuilue IL
On her attempting to open the lai k
Jerome Immediately clas|ssl It mid
said that must not lie done His wife,
who stood by. insisted U|s>n knowing
what was in it. grew nugry. reproach
ed him with having some keepsake of
a favorite there and finally bursting
Into tears, quit tbe room. Jerome then
opened the watch and showed to all
present that It contained a beautiful
miniature of hts first wife. Betsy Pat
tersou. with tile remark. “Yon see. I
hope, that I could m>t with propriety
let her see It.' It wits notorious that
be remained deeply attached to tils
first wife long after their separation.
Ths Mull’s Ears.
Evolutionists explnlu satlsfactcrfly
that the reason that the dog's ears l<>p
Is liecatise for centuries tbe animal
has been doniosticated by man and
h is lain within the protecting Influent-«
of Ills hut and tire The dog's ears ar»
sold to have originally stood upright,
as do the wolf's today, but gradually
ijs the necessity for keen bearing be
came less liii|>erative »be dog's enre
began to lop. But how a burn 1'1»
mule? It Is the duty of somebody hr
explain why the mule's ears have hut
lopped down There In no need for
him to have stiff ears. The donkey.
the horse an I their progeny, the mule,
have been under man's protecting In
fluence for centuries and ages Tbs
ass Is tbe tieast of burden of tbe Blbl*
His enrs were stiff then, and they art
stiff now. It would seetn it wan abut
time for them to liegiu to lop a littM
—Indiana Farmer
. is caused by stagnation of the liver
and bowels. To get rid of it and
| headache and billiousness and the
poison that brings jaundice, take
Dr. King's New Life Pills, the re
An Odd Gypsy Custom.
liable purifiers that do the work
In Hungary, when the question of
without grinding or griping. 25c.
tbe baby's future comes up for dis
| at Chas. I. Clough’s drug store.
cussion among tbe gypsies, there is no
For Constipation.
time wasted in argument. A blanket
-'Jf- I- H. Farnham, a prominent is held by tbe four corners, and tbe
druggist of Spirit Lake, Iowa, says: baby ts tbrown iuto tbe air. If it
1 “Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver comes down ou its little stomach it is
Tablets are certainly the tient thing
on the market for constipation.” Give a sign that it Is going to be a mu
A Very Queer Custom.
these tablets a trial. You are cer sh tan; if It falls on Its back It is to
A curious custom takes place In vil
tain to find them agreeable and be a thief, and tbe education of tbe lages of tbe Luxembourg district. Het-
pleasant in effect. Price. & cents. child Is begun as soou as possible lu
Samples free. For sale by Lunar's one of these two tliue honored profas- glum. in May After Sunday aerilre
numbers of lads cluster round tbe
Drug Store.
slot».
church entrance and as tbe girls coms
out seize them oue by one. one lad
Watch For the Comet.
Painfully Frank.
grasping a girl by the shoulder' and
The Red Dragon of the sky.
"Mr. Coldcash. 1 have come
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to
tbe other by tbe heels, tbe two lifting
” atch thechildren for spring cough for tbe baud of your daughter."
and colds. Careful mothers keep
her well up. while a third bumpkin
"My daughter, sir?"
Foley's Honey and Tar in the house.
passes under tbe human bridge 'bus
“
Yes.
I
can
’
t
live
without
her.
”
It is the iiest and safest prevention
formed. This is done In tbe pre-war»
"Well. air. finish your sentence."
and cure for croup where the need
of the parents, who themselves burs
"FluUb my sentence?"
is urgent and immediate relief a
Yes. you were about to say you passed through the same ordeal.
vital necessity. Contains no opiates
or harmful drugs. Refuse sub con kt not live without her Income.
His Sols Resting Place.
stitutes. For sale by C. I. Clough. Let us be candid."
A precise Boston teacher spent a
quarter of an boar in Impressing upes
Rheumatism.
How She Got the Job.
More than nine out of every ten
her class the right pronunciation of
The
one
thing
we
demand
from
our
cases of rheumatism are simply!
the word vase
employees."
said
tbe
bead
of
tbe
office
rheumatiam of the muscles, due to
Next day. hoping to reap the fruits
Cold or damp or chrnnia rheuma force, “la correctness In figures ''
of
her labor, she asked. “Now. JobanM
The applicant a moot tied her hlpleaa
tism. In such cases no internal
tell me—what do you see on the man
treatment ia require«!. The free akirt complacently.
application of Chamberlain's Lini
“1 have never bad any complalDts on telpiece at borne?"
And Johnnie piped forth. “Fatbert
ment ia al) that is needed, and it is that score." «be replied, with a glance
certain to give quick relief, give it of assurance.—Bystander.
feet, ma'am.”—Harper's Bazar
a trial anil see how quick it wdl re
lieve pains and soreness Themedi
Provd
Anticipated.
cine* usually given internally for
Bibbs- What makes you think 'hey
“I've often marveled st
I your brll-
rheumatism are poisonous or very
strong medicines. Thev are worse Nancy, your aptness at repartee. bad theaters In Pharaoh's timet f'il*
-Didn't Joseph's brethren remove biW
than useless in cases of chronic or I your"—
muscular Rheumatism. For sale by
“If It's more I ba a 5 shilling». nM from the family circle and put him •
Lamar's Drug Store.
naan. I can t do a thing for
t you
__ ['□ the pit?
nearly
broke
myself
“
-Loodon
MaU
WANTED?*
By the City Council. * Garbage
Damping Ground.
I
A more pressing need at thia time
even than a children's play ground.
" ho will tie the patriotic citizen to
give the use of some out-of-the-way
piece of property for thia purpose -
Preferable not more than a mile
from the center of the city.