T illamook
but it seems to us that the Fair-
view Grange is being worked to
death by those who have a per­
sonal axe to grind because they
cannot dictate and run the road
Entered as second class mail mat­ work. Now own up. gentlemen,
ter July, 1888. at the post office at own up, for this hits the sore
Tillamook. Ore., under the act of spot square on the head and it
March 3, 1879.
goes right to the root of the
trouble. And that’s why a few
<¿b» Ííllaniooh Ijcaöligbt persons want the road work
stopped.____________
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
( strictly in advance .)
1.50
One year.........................................
76
Six months......................................
.10
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Editorial Snap Shots.
Oh, yes, pity the poor Gran­
ger who is ashamed to sign his
name. It is generally those who
are ashamed of their name who
hide behind a non de plume
when they start a personal at­
tack.
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County CommissionerFarmer
told the Executive Board of the
Tillamook Commercial Club
the other night that they did
not intend to expend money on
roads which were not perma­
nently located.
That is good
judgment.
The bond election in Jackson
county last Saturday has made
some of the back numbers in Jose­
phine county
UOUIHY ---
Bit
sit . up anu
and
si.v
rub their
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realize
that *4ia
the tiroo
time
eye«. They -_____
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will soon come when it
be de-
" will *'*
termined that bonds will be voted
here for road purposes and tha
there will be no escaping the re­
sponsibility. Two-thirds of the
people in Josephine county will
vote for building good roads be­
cause they realize we must keep up
with the procession or be left in
the lurch.—Rogue River Courier.
It will be seen that the bond
election in Jackson county is
only the beginning of counties
bonding themselves for road
improvements. The above par­
agraph is a sample of the senti­
ment of the State Press, and we
know that the bonding senti­
ment is rapidly increasing since
the agitation was started to stop
road work for eighteen months
in Tillamook county.
It maybe,before a great while,
the Cirangers who are critizing
the snap shot man. will be lined
up with him opposing a bond
issue for road work, and in that
event they would consider him
a tine fellow. It depends upon
Women like it “straight” by
whose ox is being gored.
the look of their togs, for that
is the prevailing fashion these
\\ ith a vote of nearly two to days, some of them going to
one in favor of bonding Jack- the extreme in straight, tight
This is how the
s< ri county for $1,500,000 for the clothing.
purpose of road improvements, Sterling Journal puts it :
Backward, turn backward, oh
the minority will not abide by
in your flight, and give us
the will of the majority, hence a Time
maiden dressed proper and right
a fight is started and it will be We are so weary of switches and
thrashed out in the courts.
r its, Bill Burke clusters and peach
A great many persons can’t
understand why there should be
any objection to building good
roads and plenty of them when
the timber men pay 75 per cent
of the road tax and about $100,-
(MM) annually go into the jeans
of the farmers and business
men who do the road work and
furnish the merchandise. Who’s
knocking ?
basket hats, wads of jute hair in a
horrible pile, stacked on their head
t > the lieighth of a mile. Some­
thing is wrong with the maidens
v e fear. Give us the girls as they
rsed to appear. Give us the girlies
we once knew of yore, whose curls
didn’t come from a hair dressing
store. Maidens who dressed with a
sensible view, and just as'Dame Na­
ture intended them to. Give us a
girl with a figure her own, and
t shioned divinely by Nature alone.
Feminine styles getting fiercer each
year—Oh, give us the girls as they
used to appear.
Reading between the lines
Several Grangers have come
one would infer that the presi­ to this office to congratulate the
dent of the Tillamook County snap shot man for the stand he
Booster Editors’ Association has taken in regard to good
was the cause of all the discus­ i roads, while, on the other hand,
sion about road work, because | there are just a few Grangers
he recommended that $150,000 1 who severely criticise us for ad
be expended on roads each year I vacating that each road district
for the next four or live years. | be given $50,000 annually for the
We stand by our guns and still i next four or five years as a pro­
contend that $50,000 annually per solution to the good roads
for each of the three roads dis­ agitation in this county. We
tricts is little enough when the mention this simply to show
needs of the county are taken how often the snap shot men is
into consideration.
between the devil and the deep
blue sea. It matters not one iota
There is a great deal of specu­ whether we are commended or
lation what the decision of the centured, we have nailed our
United States Supreme Court colors to the mast and shall fight
will lie in regard to the initia­ for a policy which is for the best
tive and referendum law. The interest of the entire county.
matter at issue is whether the Those who do not want to get
law is constitutional. There are into the "Tillamook County
those who contend that it des­ Booster-Editors’ Good Roads
troys a representative ami re­ i Band Wagon” don’t have to,
publican form of government, 1 but it is poor judgment to ob­
depriving the legislative body, struct the progress anddevelop-
oi even the people, of discussing • merit of the county.
________
or amending a bill proposed by
this system. Here is where the
Banker Rowe, of the Nehalem
si stem is defective. Should the
Valley Bank, has sent the fol­
system lx1 declared unconstitu­
lowing letter to the city papers,
tional. what a lot of laws it will
invalidate, but it will put a stop which shows there is a progres­
sive spirit in the north end of
to the legislative mix up Ore county :
gon has fallen into.
Nehalem. Ore., Oct. fl, 1911.
I he matter of the road to Bay
ocean is still up to the property
owners ami others interested.
Besides building nearly three
miles of road at a cost of above
$'..*0,1X10, it is proposed to raise
$15,000 or $10,000 in cash, and
il this is done it will make a
good showing for some assis­
tance from the county nt some
future date. To say nothing
about the taxes paid by other
property in that vicinity for so
many years, the Potter Co. have
p lid $.>.tXXt in taxes up to date,
a d will pay $3,500 next year.
Considering, also, that thecom-
p-iny is building three miles of
road and subscribing $5,000 to
wards building the remainderi
oi the road, every fair minded
iH-rson will say that Bayocenn
is jiiatlv entitled to n road and
way out.
W e do not doubt but what the
snap shot num is n pretty bad
kind of n fellow in many ways,
mid ns his hide is about us thick
as that of ti buck hippopotamus
it matters not how much a few
individuals may assail him, but
to uncover and expose to light
the re til cause of this agitation,
the principal agitators are those
whose services have been dis-
panted with building roads for
the county, and for good and
sufficient reason.
We do not
wmit to cuter mto personalities,
To the Headlight Readers:
There are several things that I
want to talk to you about. I can’t
see you all personally so I’m going
to talk to you by means of tnis
newspaper.
The year 1912 will be Tillamook
County’s Banner Year. The com­
pletion of the railroad within the
next few years will bring great
changes.
To take full advantage of the op-
|H>rtunities which will be presented
to us during the coming year we
must be Progressive.
We must
support every proposition for de-
xelopnient that comes up fo. eon-
«ideration without giving thought
headlight , october 12, 1911
breaker, swindler and hypocrite, ' tax. We are not blind to these (
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.......... , lover i points, and rather than see the
every carping v
and
« notoriety
• • • who
1— critic
— is
* —~ ignored
—* — o every
«4 x in
and,
■ progress of the county retarded, ;
fact, by all persons who do not
agree with him on public and pri­ ■ of the two evils, we would
vate questions.
The newspaper prefer bonding the county,
man who expects to go through life and we find this is the senti­
without being resented and unjustly ment of quite a number of our
censured should make arrange­
j citizens. We do not want to
ments to die young.
The above was taken from ' see the county bonded for road
one of our exchanges, and we work, if it can be avoided, and
are sure our readers will admit we believe it can be if people
there is some truth in it. It is would use good judgment and
amusing, however, how some not endeavor to stop road work.
people change, for they will This is the reason why we op­
It will take
pat an editor on the back one pose bonding.
$45,000 to pay the interest on
week for saving
something
they
»
. •
1
agree with and cuss him up and the above amount, which is
down the next week for publish­ quite a large amount to raise
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creating a sink-
ing something they disagree every
year, and
ti
’
ing
fund
as
well,
it would take
with.
An independent, out-,’*"”
spoken editor takes no i notice' considerable money to refund
of praise or criticism, but goes, the money,
-• and while this pro-
.
ahead and advocates what he 1 cess was going on theroads
considers to be best for the peo-1 would liable to get into bad
...v. come shape while paying off the in-
pie or community. . They
who
across many men wno have
nave sei-
sei-, , debtedness and the expense of
fish and personal designs, per- ; keeping the roads up at the;
sons who want to dictate or have . same time, We will mention i
an axe to grind, and whenever, also in passing, j, suppose a fire
an editor butts in and exposes i should
, - J sweep
■ - ; * through
_ the coun-
that kind of thing he is apt to.ty and destroy the timber which
come in for more or less con- ■ *9 paying '•* Per cent of the taxes
demnation.
No editor can *t would fall upon the farmers
please everybody, but whenever and others to pay off the bond-
some carping critic assails him cd indebtedness.
We still ad­
it brings the editor more notor-1 vocate a ten mill road tax^ for
ity and prominence and more the next few years as a solution
business, for the general pub­ ! to the situation.
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lic like a game, out-spoken edi' I
tor
Col. Bryan is devoting himself to
the theoretical side of politics.
The question of bonding the'
County for road improvements'
possess strength and ch
We are experts »
and posing, and oUr
is complete. Come i
our line.
Monk’s Stui
Next to the PostOffict
Reliable Route
Steamer
The
Sue H. Elmore'
(CAPT P. SCHRADER)]
Tillamook & Portia
Leaves Portland, Couch St. Dock
Every Tuesday, Arrives Tillam
Wednesdays,
Sailing for Portland, every Thursday or Friday
according to Tides.
The
The first through train over; mathematical side has floored him
the P. R. & N. Co 's road rolled 1 so many times that he has no further
into Tillamook City on Monday interest in it.
afternoon, which caused gene-i
ral rejoicing, and notwithstand-I More lives have been lost in try­
ing that the atmosphere was ing to perfect the aeroplane than
moist and the rain had a pene­ in any new interprise in recent
tratingeffect, a large crowd was years. The aviators are brave be­
present to give the train and the yond the point of decretion.
officials a hearty welcome. The J. Pierpont Morgan complains
arrival of the train, the cheers that the country is at this time
of the crowd, with whistles [ without a safe avenue for the in-
blowing and the band playing, i vestment of surplus money. This
is the beginning of a great will be shocking news to the deal­
future for all parts of Tillamook ers in real estate.
County. Tillamookers have had
President Taft’s arguments on
to contend with many difficul the trust question are unanswer­
ties in transportation in this able, but lots of statesmen will at­
bottled-up, monopolized section tempt to answer them. They will
of the country, which puttheir also endeavor to show that the Su­
patience to a severe test for so preme Court is not made up of
many years, yet with true lawyers.
Western grit they persistently Senator Kenyon did an act of
persevered, and today see the simple justice when introducing
dawn of changed and better con­ the president at Fort Dodge, in say
dition of affairs. The big crowd ing that his administration has
cheered lustily on Monday, and done much progressive work along
it did so because it knew that the lines of trust regulation. These
the advent of the iron horse had things would not have been so
much to do with immediate quickly forgotten but for his own
development of the county. action in changing the subject.
Railroad connections will cause
Karl Grey has been telling the
a renewal of confidence in the
Canadians
that talking about the
county, and new life, new en­
terprises, new money, new peo­ 1 Monroe doctrine doesn’t alter the
ple and new ideas will come fact that, if Canada were imperilled,
here, creating business activi- ■ it would be the British fleet that
tives that will surprise many i would save her. If the delusion
settlers who have resided in the that we want Canada badly enough
county for years. From now on to forcibly annex it is as strong in
Tillamook County is going to England as in Canada itself, the
boom, not a spasmotic boom,I Dominion should remain a British
but a steady, upward growth possession. They are one people
and development for many in their foolishness.
years to come. The undevelop-1
ed resources of the county, as1
Averts Awful Tragedy.
well as its rapid growth, will
Timely advice given Mrs. C. Wil­
mean millions of dollars placed loughby, of Marengo Wis., (R. No.
in circulation and many for­ 1) prevented a dreadful tragedy and
tunes being made by those who saved two lives. Doctors had said
frightful cough was a “con­
take hold of the opportunities. her
sumption” cough and could do
We rejoice with the citizens in little to help her. After many rem­
seeing the railroad nearly com­ edies failed, her aunt urged her to
pleted, and as the pioneer rail­ take Dr. King’s New Discovery. “I
been using it for some time,”
road iuto Tillamook, we wish have
she wrote "and the awful cough
the P. R. & N. good luck and has almost gone. It also saved my
hope it will be a paying invest­ little boy when taken with a severe
ment to those who had confi­ bronchial trouble.” This match­
less medicine has no equal for
dence enough in the future of throat
and lung troubles. Price
Tillamook County to sink the 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
large sum of $5,000,000 into a Guaranteed by Chas. I. Clougn.
railroad. That of itself is suf-1 Lame back is one of the most
ficient importance *to show the common
.......... .... forms of muscular rhsu-
faith money interests have in mutism. A few applications of
I Chamberlain’s Liniment will give
Tillamook County.
| relief.
Store.
Us are Child-i^
Just as our portraits of
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Il
B. C. LAMB, Agent,
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Agents, Aston*
I. W. W. BROWN, Agent,
Couch Street Dock, Portland, Oregon.
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TIÜUAM00K,
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Foot of Washington Street.
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Tkm’l trifle with a cold is good ad
is lieitnx ndvcM-nted mid d;«,-,..„ i vice for imprudent men and women.
i t .*?
an? discuss- ; h
I(e vitjl in case of a child,
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ed by those who contend that There is nothing better than Cham-
tliis is the wisest thing to do. 1 berlain’s Cough Remedy for coughs
and colds in children, "it
They argue that if $750,000 were
were “
•• is safe
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French Speei“1'
t'xPell,'w' next year that many Drug store For sale by Lamar's
as to whether it will especially bene- part« of the county would re­
it our own selves.
ceive immediate aid and would
Foley Kidney Pills
Let us all discourage any moves
enjoy the benefit forthwith, and Supply just the ingredients needed
that will returd our growth.
A Greater Tillamook
county instead of making the present to build up, strengthen and restore
hould be the aim of every Tills- i taxpayers pay for these improve- the ,,a,llr‘d action of the kidneys
•Hooker Get together and help. ' ments, saddle some of the cost and bladder. Specially prepared
Respectfully,
for backache, headache, nervous­
F rank A. R owe . upon posterity. This is a strong ness. rheumatism and all kidney,
bladder and urinary irregularities'
Mr. Rowe is one of those who point in favor of bonding the Chas
I. Clough.
is opposed to stopping road county we are ready to admit,
for
the
present
generation
is
work, tis he resides in a section
Gives Aid to Strikers.
•f the county which demands a building new roads all over the
Sometimes liver, kidneys and
county
for
the
next
generation,
¡urge amount of road work to
■ bowels seem to go on a strike and
develop it. He is in favor of u as it is laying out and founda­ , refuse to work right. Then you
tion
work
which
takes
large
need those pleasant little strike
•en mill road levy, opposed toa
sums of rnouey. And
‘
unotller breakers—Dr. King’s New Life Pills
loud issue and is satisfied that
• that'
-
'—to give them natural aid and
they advance is
progressive citizens will back argument
j
gently compel proper action. Ex­
the
many
road
improvements
the County Court in its endea­
cellent health soon follows. Try
which
are
needed
will
have
to
them. 25c at Chas. I. Clough’s
vor to give the county good ,
i
road*. And wesav ‘‘Amen" to < wait many years before they can I !
lie taken in hand on account of i Foley’s Kidney Remedy ▼«. a Hope
this.
lees Case.
scarcity of money. These nre'
Hon., Ark., J. E. Freeman says:
’■If a newspaper man knew how the strong cards advocated by
many knocks he receives behind bis these who advocate bonding the "I had a severe case of kidney trou­
ble and could not work and mvcase
back he would sdopt snother call
'ng. ' remarked a citiaen the other county, and many are forming! seemed hopeless. One large bottle
day The citiaen was mistaken. The the same opinion when told that of Folev's Kidney Remedy cured
newspaper man who succeeds ex­ it would not be necessary to me and I have never been bothered
since. 1 always recommend it.’
pects to be maligned by every law make a »ix or a ten mill road Chis.
L Clough.'
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