Tillamook Headlight, June
25,
SUPERIOR OREGON-
MADE RANGE
Is Cheaper and Better
than Eastern Ranges.
moving a stick here and a stick there, lee for it was still raining and as we
a most successful way he has of keep­ were chilled through and through, we
ing a fire from burning. Brown at did not take time to rest.
At two o'clock we halted again and
tl.e other end fixing some fi<hinp
tackle and 1 was sitting in bed wash­ ate some dried beef and some bread,
our teeth now chattered so that all we
ing dishes.
"You haven
I____ ’t recorded any scien- had to do was to hold the dried beef
tific facts yet for the Society at Clo- up in front of them and they pulled
it in and masticated like a threshma-
verdale,” said Snider.
The next morning Snider rose ear­
"Well,"says I, “we have learned chine does a bundle of grain. At
ly and went out on a log in the lake that Skookum Lake coveres an area four o’clock, after having been on the
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to fish.
I got up a little later; but of about four acres, and it is over trail since early morning, we found
Brown rolled himself better in the eighty feet deep in places. We have ourselves out of the woods and on
blankets and began snoring where he abo learned that the trout here are level ground, now we emptied our
had left off.
more chunky and sluggish than in the boots and wrung our clothes, and
set out on a seven mile walk to I illa-
How beautiful the little lake lay streams below.’’
there under the clear blue morning
"But you can’t tell why the fish are mook.
We had planned, while going up,
sky! The lofty pines and hemlocks chunkier here and the Society will
that we would telephone for the red
on the opposite side seemed to crowd want to know that,” says he.
and elbow one another in
i.. order to
“It is simply because the trout be­ automobile when we came to the end
get near the shore to see their mir­ low wear their sides of swimming up oi the trail on our return trip; but
rored beauty and greatness in the stream,” says 1, "don’t you remem­ we were so soaked with water and so
DOCKS : WAREHOUSE.
limpid waters. Twittering sunbeams ber what a struggle we had coming chilled that we concluded it would
FRONT STREET, BETWEEN 2nd & 3rd AVENUE WEST.
be best for us to walk.
were beginning to play one of the up that Fawcett Creek-"
It was a sorry looking procession
silent symphonies of Pan on the
"That shows how much of a scien­
whitestemrned alders at the end of tist you are.” sneered Snider, "It is coming along the road towards Till­
the lake. It was a bit of pristine na­ simply a case of environment "contin­ amook. We didn't have any energy to
ture a bit of God’s own out-doors ued he”, before the landslide which waste in conversation, our walk was
yet untouched by the hand of man.
formed the lake occurred, the race of simply a mechanical, motion our will
How still, how peacefully still it trout here were never as slim and ac­ power kept our feet going. Snider a
was! The chop of an ax would ring tive as those in the streams below, few rods ahead with his chin at an
through this silence like sacrilege. No but being shut up here generation angle of fortyfive and with a few
sound but that of the birds bidding after generation, and having had seasons' crop of dirt running in
each other goodmorning' A thrush plenty of food they have gradually streaks from his hat down over a face
set in pallid desperation. Next came
sat on an alder branch, near by, and grow wore plump and sluggish."
We weld Cast Iron, Steel, Bronze,
cast curious glances at our hut. A
"That does sound reasonable,” says I, but I couldn’t see myself as the
Brass, Aluminum, Nickle Steel, Cop­
robin came hopping and tacking up I, "for 1 have seen the same causes the others saw me, and 1 was glad of
A few rods behind me came
the path toward our door to see if produce the same results in individ­ it.
per, broken gears, pulleys, crank shafts,
Brown
mumbling
to
himself:
“
I
’
m
he could get near enough to steal a uals communities and nations I will
afraid to go home in the light," Some
peep in. A saucy blue jay lit on a surely report that to the Society.”
boilers and build seamless tanks. Do
¡dooming elder bush, expressed his
"But what are you going to report distance Brown flew two crows haw­
opinion of us freely, scrutinized our to the Society for Psychical Research hawing and carrying on.
cutting
and brazing,
Now we would pass a signboard
architectural effects with a critical at Bay City regarding the ghosts and
telling
wayfarers
that
it
was
three
eye, and then fletv chattering away goblins that are supposed to haunt
received a consign­
miles to Tillamook, after a while we
to spread the news of our arrival this place’-” asked Brown.
ment
of
these
Oregon - Made
through the sylvan neighborhood of
“I’m going to report to that august would pass one saying that it was
Skookum.
body , that the only spooks haunting four miles. We didn't know where we Ranges, which are superior in
Quick service our specialty.
1 awoke from my nature worship the place, are Tillamook spooks,” were going or coming, and we didn’t make and cheaper in price than
care much, we had ceased to worry Eastern ranges as it costs $9.00
Remove carbon from cylenders in 20 minutes.
when a faint metalic sound came sai<l I.
creeping over the mountains to the
The rain was falling in great big about earthly things. Personally I to ship the Eastern ranges to
All work guaranteed.
west. It was the six o’clock whistle drops, and now and then a skunk cab­ didn’t care whether I was to be mar­
of the saw-mill at Tillamook, and it sage shingle got tired of holding its ried or hung when I got to Tillamook Portland. Call in and inspect
these superior ranges and 1 will
At Hiner’s Machine Shop.
aroused me just in time to save the burden and let a pint of cold water but Oh how I wished I was there.
"I don’t feel my pack any more,” show you how firmly they are
best part of the coffee-the grounds- slip down on one or the other of us
’from landing in the ashes.
After as we crouched under the ridgepole said Brown with almost a sob in his constructed. They come in all
No Jobs too Big and None too Small.
having had a cup of coffee and a bite of our firbranch hut, and as our fire voice
sizes.
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“
It
has
probably
grown
fast
on
you,
to cat, I took a cup and a generous wouldn’t burn we retired early.
hunk of kuchen out to Snider, for 1
At eleven o’clock Snider got up Saimese-twin fashion Brown,” says I,
thought to myself, there is nothing complaining that he was coid, and but don’t worry about such trifles for
will remind him so much of home and suggested that we seek shelter in the I don’t feel my body any more, and I
wife as kuchen, and while he is I heavy timber above, but Brown and am afraid 1 will be all soul before we
munching that, he won’t be so liable 1 thought it wiser to make the best of ever get to Tillamook.
The farmers on their way home
to sit and try some fool experiment I it where we were, and I volunteered
on their
and fall in.
to sit up and try and keep a fire go- from town sat smiling
wagons as they passed us, and one
“Have you had a bite yet, Snider?" in g
said I.
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1 he darkness at Skookum is sty- laughing good natured fellow shout­
"Oh, yes; they are biting right gain on a rainy night and if spooks ed as he passed Brown:
“Say pard you are losing something’
along,” said he, "and I came nearly and ghosts love darkness as the
catching one of the biggest fish I spirits seem to believe, Skookum /Xnd when we came back to examine
ever saw. It was nearly------ "
would be an excellent place to hold his sack we found that a can of con­
"That will do, Snider,” said 1, "it a seance. 1 had to search for fire­ densed milk had uncorked itself and
is always the biggest fish that slips wood by the light of a flickering can­ was trickling down on his heels and
off the iiook; they are old and experi­ dle and was in such fierce temper marking a trail behind him.
“Brown, says I, don’t you know
enced at it. But you paste yourself that no ghost dared to come within
onto that log now, and sit tight and reach of my butcherknife. But I learn­ better than to mark a trail with milk
after breakfast you and Brown can ed one lesson that night and that is, on a rainy day like this!”
“Well, says he, "I didn’t have any
go fishing together."
that old heavy elderbrush stems burn
i Going back to camp 1 thought it like hard coal after one gets them go­ more beans, and the Hearld says that
when you go into the wilderness you
plight be a good idea to tie the two ing
of them together when they went
T he next morning the rain was still should always drop beans so you can
out; but since we only had one rope coming down in torrents, and if Lake find your way back.” "Well, says I
I thought it wise to save that for Skookum is beautiful on a bright sun­ von should always go by the Head­
ny day, it certainly is gloomy on a light, and the Headlight states that
future emergencies.
Now I set to work to gather Skook­ rainy day when the clouds hang low you should carry a bag of white navy
Here you »
um feathers—twigs of spruce and among the trees on the surrounding beans for that purpose,
rnoss—for our bed was not all that a mountains like wet sheets on wash­ have used up three cans of Hines best ■
pork and beans in tomato sauce, and
day.
bed should be.
We managed to get our coffee wasted enough good condensed milk
After a while Snider returned in
triumph with some fine trout for cooked and while eating our break­ to prime a cow with, you should al­
breaklast. They were chunky, thei fast we talked the matter over and ways go by the Headlight, Brown”
and they curled I we concluded that we had better start says I, Now 1 begin to understand
were white mealed
1
up in the skillet in a most delicious for home rain or shine, for if we wait­ why these pesky cows have followed
fashon, and Brown being attracted ed for a let up We might run short on us all the way and kept up such a
by the smell of the fish, oipened his I provisions and would be in bad con­ cow-caw and such a how-do-you-do,
they were fussing because they could-
eyes, staired at the ceiling, Yawned dition for the return trip.
and stretched a few times, then tin I As soon as we had finished our 'nt find any pork in that Hines com­
rolled, got up, and went down and I breakfast we packed our belongings, bination. Always read the Headlight,
THE
Brown, says I always read the Head­
succeeded in catching one very fine I strapped our sacks on and started.
When arriving at the edge of the light.
fish to help out our meal.
RELIABLE DRUGGIST.
"Now when we got as far as the
| I fine marsh
meadow
in coming
"The King of England never
anything half as good," said Brown, I up, everything had looked so sunny cheesefactory, Snider, says 1 you will
I and cheerful that we had neglected have to stop long enough for the rest
and smacked his lips.
After breakfast Snider and Brown I to mark the place where we came of us to catch up so that we can enter
went fishing and I set to work to re­ I out of the woods, and now while the the city of Tillamook in a manner be­
I rain was pouring down on us we had coming to our station in society.” We
pair the hut.
Now right here I want to put on I to wade around in the long slougli- had better pull down our vests, and
record a few scientific facts for the I grass for some time before we found wipe off our chins, for it may be that
OIIN LEI AND HENDERSON
benefit of future exploration parties, I any kind of a trail. And after having the Tillamook band will meet us and
and they are: If you ever build a hut I found what we thought was the place play "Conquering Hero" as we march
ATTORNEY
of fir or spruce branches, place them 1 where we had entered the meadow, into town, says I, so let us try to look
butt end up, and they shed water bet­ I and walked, climeit, and craw led, for our best and be dignified. "For there
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ter; and if you ever use skunk cab­ I some time, we found it to be only a is nothing which shows a man’s man­
COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW
bage leaves for shingles, put them on I bear trail, and we had to return to liness as much as the manner in
in the same fashion, but down side I our starling point. We made three which he takes his own success, ami
T illamook B lock ,
up, for if you don't they have a nasty I such unsuccessful attempts before v;e the adulation of his fellow mortals,"
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wav of filling up in rainy v. rather, I found what is usually called “the old says I, A fool who has been lucky Tillamook “
and when filled, let loose and slip a I trail,” following the north bank of enough to acquire a fortune or get
Room No. 261.
into the public eye, will strut around
pint of water down your back when I Fawcett Creek.
Now we marched briskly on until red in the face and ready to burst
yon are not looking.
At noon my coinrads return -.1 with I we lost the trail on a bushcovcred hill with xrlf importance, but a man of
real worth will take such things with '
z8 fine trout. Fishing nad been pret­ I by a large tree.
"Here it is!" called Snider, who was calm dignity, says I, So when the
ty good, and when 1 saw them com­
ing up the road I km w that there I in the I ad, and Brown and 1 follow- band strikes up "Conquering Hero” 1
Woil Id be bragging and teasing, for | cd gladly, for the cold rain was be- let us all be dignified but calm, let |
Snivel > face is a regular fish baro I ginning to tell on us, and we were the people of lillamook know that I
• u ter «nd it now enone like a hot I glad to walk to keep warm. As we we have been used to such praise and j
Alter
griddle-cake with nice xcllow butter I crossed a small slough I thought that adulation from our cradles.
I I had seen that place before, Brown th.it preachment we started down the !
all over.
•/.Where ’* your
he shouted I and Snider w ould certainly have seen street, three abreast with chins high !
1 vc been working all morning I our tracks in the soft mud. Therefor and shoulders well thrown back, and
I I said nothing, but followed, for Snid- ihe light of expcctancj
tierj eye; j
putting the hut in order," said I
!
“That will do to tell," laughed he. I er had told me once that w e would hut afak and alas! there was no ■
"Well" says I, "I begin to see that I I find the trail belter if I would just cam* to meet us. 1 he I..m,I was pl.i\ - I
if 1 am to report every detail oi thia I I shut tny eyes and follow. But sonic ing sure enough, but itwas serenading J
expedition to the Society at Clover-I I time later Brown recognized »crotch, the butchers hoys and instead of j
dale, keep the hut in repair, do the I I and there could be no mistake in the playing "Conquering Hero" it w.i- 1
I identity of that tree, "We have come playing Ash <ra Hebe Augustine”
t
cooking and dishwashing, there w ill I
be little tune left for fishing And I I I this way once before this morning-’
want it thoroughly understood, be- I I said Brown with conviction.
LOCAL DRUGGIST SAY’S :
fore I undertake all the manual labor I “\\ ell, 1 thought w e bail crossed
I lh>t slough >under before also, didn't
‘ TAKE ONLY ONE DOSE.”
of this ranch, that you two fellows I I vou fellows see anv footprint» •" a-k
We want to tell those in Tilla-
don't bawl me out to tny fellow citi- I
«1111 suffering from stomach or
zens when we get back to Tillamook
said Snider, "but they point- bowel trouble that we are agents for
and say that 1 am no fisherman If I I ed "Yes,"
the other way." "Of course they
you don’t promise that each one can I pointed the other way," said 1, for we the simple mixture of buckhcrn
lick his own dishes clean,” said 1.
I marched up that hili on the other bark, glycerine, etc., known ns
Alder i-ku. the remedy which be
After dinner we all went fishing, I
side of the
slough, walked around
and in the evening when we cleaned I ’.hat big tiee anil now we .tic OR our catne famous bv curing uppen-
dicitis. This it the most thorough
our trout and salted the biggest ones I ■' av back to Skookum again.”
tM?irLvle,,n*er known and JUS I
down we found that we had 42 nice I
"It is a pity that you fellows don’t ONE DOSE relieves sour stomach,
fish.
recognize your own footprints when
Snider hated the idea of putting I you see them," said I,with disgust. gns on the stomach and constii.i
the fish-can out in the brook over I "Now we will have to rehearse all of tion almost IMMEDIATELY You
wi'l t>e surprised at the QUICK
night to keep cool, for he was afraid I
that grand march again, and we will action of Adler i ka J. S Lamar,
a bear might get them
"Snider," I liaveto see if we can find our way druggist.
RE BY CARACOLA COFFEE, 10 pounds for $2.50.
says I, "you will either have to put I back to that big tree and if we can’t
the fish out in the brook, or else sit I
Rl BY CARACOLA COFFEE, 1 pound for 27c.
find a trail there we will have to try
up with them, for w e only have one I ,
German-American
Coffee. 1 lb. can, 30c. German-American Coffee, 3 lb. can. hoc
’blanket and I never saw a blanket | to find Fawcett Creek, and if we
Can’t do any better we will have to
big enough for three, and a case of wade down, as we wailed up.
fish.”
We succeeded in finding the big
Brown had gotten so excited that tree, and in locating the creek, and
morning when the red automobile after searching awhile we also found
ORANGE LABEL, J pound, 35c.
ORANGE LABEL. 1 pound 65c.
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honked at his door that he came away the trail leading down the north fork
Her
Majesty
’
s
Blend.
1
pound
25c.
land forgot his blanket, and Snider
Her Maj csty’s lend. *, pound 50c.
It was »till up hill, and down hill,
(had such a mean way of getting up over logs, and under logs, through
Her Majesty's Blend, 1 pound 1.00.
Capital Household, J pound 25c.
in the middle of the night and com­ brush, gulshcs, and ravines; but we
plaining that he was cold, and fling were now able to follow the trail.
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at me for appro
At ten o’clock we ate a lunch of
xp my share of the cheese and crackers, while standing
X
on a three hundred foot log, bridging
d the camp the ereck.
There was no hope of
Si one end -’aitir., a fire and cooking ivun cyl-
TILLAMOOKERS
“SOAKED.”
Their Experiences
Skookum Lake.
GET
at
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$3.00 per Cord
Delivered.
Black and White
Cigars
Dry Short Wood $2.00 Load.
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SPECIAL
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GROCERY PRICES
QUAKER OATS
- 25c.
Small Package
CRESCENT BAKING POWDERS.
Large Package -
15c.
Pound Can. Regular Price Si.00. - now 85c.
3 Pound Can, Regular Price 70c. - now 55c.
1 Pound Can, Regular Price 25c. - now 20c.
F< incv Prunes, 10c. a pound. Fancy Dried Peaches, 10c. a Pound
Coffee and Tea Special.
EAT VIERECK’S
Ridgray’s High Grade Teas.
BREAD,
TILLAMOOK BAKERY,
At All Grocers.
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