Tillamook: Headlight, February 11, I9To. State Press Flashlights. permit the brewers to make it? How can one patronize “Oregon-made goods” by supressing manufacture. “Consistency thou art a jewel.” W< ire more than surprised not to hear a ringing protest from Brothers Coe, Woodward, Carruth, and othei staunch temperance oracles in this country concerning the foregoing threatening provisions of the forth­ coming law. Gentlemen, speak now ■re the temperance bark encounter the shoals that loom in the distance. Telephone Register. Notice to Creditors. ilcoholic traffic committee, believes that the vote for the bill in the house may be unanimous. Notice is hereby given to all whom Later—The bill passed in the House it may concern, that the undersigned an 1 is now in the Senate. has been duly appointed by the Coun­ ty Court of Tillamook County, Ore­ The Farmer and the Dardanelles. gon, administrator of the estate of Hannah J. Mowrey, deceased, Is the farmer of the Middle West Now therefore all persons having and the Northwest listening to the claims against said estate are hereby guns of the allied fleet before the notified to present the same, dulv Turkish forts at the Dardanelles? In ' verified and with proper vouchers, to mileage it is a far cry from the the undersigned, at the office of T. B. Sea Marmora to the American grain Handley, in Tillamook, Oregon, with fields, but they have a relation just in six months from the date hereof. now that is intimate. Ben W. Neilson, Agricultural innocence exists large­ Administrator of the estate ly in the mind of the dramatist. The of Hanna J. Mowrey, De­ farmer of the Upited States, one of ceased. our most heavily protected workers, Dated this 28th day of January, 1915. is seldom caught napping in the ways of modern business and life. He reads To Whom It May Consern. the current magazines, listens to his victrola, is keenly interested in the price of gasoline, and looks to his The following blank Fire Insurance congressman to protect him from the Policies No’s:—861057, 861058, 861059, ultimate consumer. Lawmakers safe­ 861060, 861061, 861062, 861063 ,861064, guard him, railroads cater to his de­ 861065, 861066, 861067, 861068, 861069, sires, commissions devise means for 861070, 861071, 861072, 861073, 861074, his easy enlightenment and comfort. 861075, 861076, 861077, 86i0'8 With so much of his thinking done 861079, 861080, 861081, 861082, 861083, for him, the farmer has time to turn 861084, 861085, 861086, 869087, 861088, to speculation. He likes to hold his 361089, 861090, 861091, 861092, 861003. grain for higher prices. Some of the 861094, 861095, 861096, 861097, 861098, misinformed might call him a gam­ 861099, and 861100, of the New Bruns- 1 bler. The European war has brought wick Fire Insurance Company? of him one of his best speculative oppor­ New Brunswick, New Jersey, have tunities. He dreams of $1.50 wheat, been lost, stolen or destroyed, while and waits watchfully so. in the Agency of S. B. Whitehouse, But if the allied fleet reduces the of Tillamook City, Oregon. You are Turkish forts guarding the Dardanel­ hereby notified that the New Bruns­ les and the passage of the Black Sea, wick Fire Insurance Company of New the American farmer may have to be Brunswick, New Jersey, hereby as­ satisfied with a roadster instead of a sume no liability under the above touring car. In the season of 1913-14 enumerated polices. Any information Russia exported over 13,000,000 bush­ of the return of the above blank els of wheat. From August 1 to the policies, will confer a favor on W. W. 1st of January her wheat exports Alverson, the Western Manager, at were only 672,000 bushels, compared 374 Pine Street, San Francisco, Cal. with 81,000,000 bushels in the same By. A. M. Lovelace, period of last year. Russia grows Special Agent. 1,000,000,000 bushels of rye, out of a norman world’s crop of 1,800,000,000 Summons. bushels. Her wheat exports always top those of the United States. With In the Circuit Court of the State of : the outlet from the Black Sea freed Oregon for Tillamook County. by the reduction of the defense of the Jeff. D. Matney, plaintiff, vs. Dardenelles, and the French and Eng Matney, defendant. lish fleets in command of the seas. Lizzie To Lizzie Matney, the above named Russian wheat would find its way to defendant: her allies, France and England would In the name of the State of Oregon, also conceivably be willing to sub­ you are hereby repuired to appear and answer the complaint filed again­ stitute some rye for wheat. st you in the above entitled court and The American farmer, waiting for cause on or before the last day of the 1 his top-notch war price, would then time prescribed in the order for the have food for thought. Upon the suc­ service of summons by publication cess of the allied fleet in forcing the herein, and if you fail to so answer, Dardanelles rests one of the most the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the said spectacular and speculative possibili­ complaint, namely, for a decree dis­ ties of the war.—Wall Street Journal. solving the bonds of matrimony ex­ isting between you and said plaintiff, Jeff D. Matney, for the recovery by Go-to Church Sunday. plaintiff of his costs and disburse­ ments in said suit, and for such other How far we drift awnay from our and further relief as to the court may forefathers in our modes of thought seem meet, right and equitable. This summons is served upon you and ideals is brought to mind by the by publication thereof by order of the designation of February 14 as "Go-to- Honorable Homer Mason, County Church” Sunday. Both in early New Judge of Tillamook County, Oregon, England and in Virginia every Sun­ in the absence of the Honorable H. day was go-to-church Sunday and the H. Belt, Judge of the Circuit Court above named, which said order is penalties for absenting ones’ self dated the t2th day of January, 1915, from the meeting house were severe. and the date of the first publication At Jamestown, cavilier conony hereof is the 21st day of Jan., 1915, though it was, and supposed to be and the date of the last publication more liberal in its views than the aus­ hereof, and the last date on or before which you arc required to answer tere brethern at Plymouth, “every this summons, is the 4th day of person must go to church on Sunday March, 1915. and holidays” or “lay neck and heels Dated this 12th day of January, 1915. on the corps de garde ye night follow­ Geo. P. Winslow, ing and be a slave ye week following” Attorney for Plaintiff. For a second offense he was to be a slave for a month, and the third for a Call for Warrants. year and a day. ------o Perhaps it was too much “neck and All outstanding county warrants heels" in the early days that was re­ will be paid upon presentation. Inter­ sponsible for a reaction to nonchurch est ceases February 2, 1915. going later on. B. L. Beals, Going to church is a profitable em­ County Treasurer. ployment and, as has been said of the cultivation of art and literature, it costs little. There is more than an hour’s worth of value in ever sermon preached, and that sense of time well spent which comes from a weekly hour or two devoted to thoughts on a higher plane than the cares and pas­ times of daily life is its own reward regardless of whatever metaphysical and religious views one may hold pri vately. Go-to-Church Sunday is the nature of a trial trip. One may discover charms in churchgoing that he had forgotten or had no cognizance of. It may be that it is a real acquisition with the problem of fitly ng Harret« of spiritual affilation to merely dress you will find it distinctly «-'vanta one’s self carefully and sit upright in geotia to come and do your «elect ing here. You will get t^e beet silence for an hour or more in an qualities, the moat lliorc ttgh an«1 atmosphere of gentle exaltation conacientiotia workmaaMhio and fie Simple, tranquil contemplation is charged the moat reasonable price«. We can aiipply aingle or double soothing to the nerves, and therein a Sets or any «ingle article that you balm to the soul. may be in need of. "I like your spirit of boosting the town and it’s all right to urge us to patronize the home stores provided they don’t sell any higher than I can get the same goods elsewhere,” said a farmer to us the other day. This is food for thought. The home dealer should strive to meet honest competi­ tion. If it’s the credit system that in­ terferes with close prices, cut it out and get down to a cash basis. Put on less clerks, do away with bookkeep­ ing, eliminate a whole lot of expense in sending out statements. Buy oftner, Wants to Know how the Port Money turn your stock; and send for what is Expended. your customer wants.—News Report­ er. Bay City Oregon, February 4th, 1915. So-called jitney autos are now in To the Editor:—As a resident and use in many parts of this country— tax payer within the territory includ­ autos which cover regular routes and ed in the Port of Bay City, and voic- carry passengers for the same fare •ng the sentiment of a great many charged by the street car companies. other taxpayers in the same territory, This mode of conveyance is just now it occurs to me that the Port of Bay- causing the street car company of City should from time to time render Portland to sit up and take notiit, be­ some sort of statement of its receipts cause of the large patronage the jit­ and disbursements. It is well known ney is receiving. The jitney autos are that the Commissioners of this Port more comfortable and more speedy are handling thousands of dollars, and than are ordinary street cars, and it is while we may fairly assume that it is claimed they are finding much favor being properly expended, it is only with the public in cities where this just that the people who pay taxes device is now in vogue. Street car and support the Port should have managers naturally oppose this new some knowledge of what becomes of form of competition which cuts into their money. their business and receipts. But the, W. S. Cone. people look at it in another light, and Psychology and Business. finding actually better service in the use of the jitneys, the latter are en­ It has been asserted by ‘a distin­ couraged and apparently have come guished public official residing in the to'stay.—Polk County Observer. White House at Washington, that The history of the European war business conditions in the - United thus far is gradually causing the be­ States are psychological, a mere state lief that modern war machinery has of mind, and this utterance from the made overwhelming victory for one dais is repeated and reiterated by les­ side or the other impossible and the ser and subservient officials until peo­ nation defeated is the one which is ple of a certain temperament reach first bankrupt in money, men and that degree of hypnosis which com­ supplies. Opporing forces burrow in pels belief. Such persons cannot be the ground while modern artillery awakened from the cataleptic stat: makes the sweeping charges and ev­ until the master hand is waved before olutions that won battles of former their eyes, and the master hand a* days impossible. In six months present is otherwise busily engaged But the majority of the Americans, changes in position have been slight and such as can in no way affect the happily, are not so easily influenced result. The harvest of death has been by the spell of words, and these will terriffic and the drain of men and k - find nutriment for thought in a state­ sources has been such as to test the ment, prepared by one of the coun­ resources of all the nations involved. try's largest and most reliable com­ And apparently the end is no nearer mercial agencies, showing the number than it was six months ago. Great re­ of failures occuring in the twelve sults are hinted at when the spring months ending October 31, 1914, in campaign opens, but it is hard to un­ the same period of 1912-13, and in the derstand how they may be accom­ preceding calandar years back to 1873 plished. Larger armies would appear This shows the number of failures in to mean simply more dead men and the period first mentioned, November widows and orphans. It may be that ,1 1913, to October 31, 1914, to have the perfection of war making imple­ been 17,418 with liabilities totaling ments as demonstrated in the present $357,345,645- In next preceding twelve conflict will make future wars impos­ months there were 15,632 failures sible and should this prove true per­ with liabilities of $250,802,563, a total haps the lesson is worth what it has for the two years of 33,050 failures and $608,148,181 liabilities. In the en­ cost.—Hillsboro Independent. tire history of the country there has been nothing to equal this in com­ How does this strike you, Mr. Pat mercial destructiveness. Previous to ron of the Mail Order House? A nice this the high record of disasters was little dividend of 50 per cent, or a lit­ made in the cataclysmic year of 1893 tle nest egg of $20,000,000. After read­ when there were 15,242 failures with ing the following you will probably liabilities of $346,779,889. The "panic” realize that, vutsiue of a tew well of 1907 resulted in failures in 1908 known articles—on which the price is numbering 15,690, with the compar­ lowered just ar a bait—you have been atively- small liabilities of $222,315,648. paying ten times the profit on every­ It must be observed that the figures thing you bought from this concern, for 191:4 do not include the final that you would have paid your local months of November and December, merchant. At any rate the following and that they cover but three months dispatch from Chicago, tells an inter­ of the war period and those the first esting story of the prosperity of one three, in which the effects of the war concern: "The richest melon ever cut upon American business conditions by a Chicago corporation was severed could not yet have become serious to today for the common stock holders the point of disaster. It is quite plain of Sears, Roebuck & Co. by the di­ that this unprecedented record of rectors of the mail order house at a commercial destructiveness is entirely special meeting. They declared astock due to the acts and policies of the dividend of 50 per cent, double the Wilson administration. In the face of amount which La Salle street had ex­ these facts "psychology” is a fearsome pected. The dividend calls for the is­ word. suance of $20,000,000 new common stock absolutely free. The melon has Beer Quota Raised now to 24 Quarts. a par value of $20,000,000. With the stock quoted at 197 its market value Additional amendments have been is much more. The stock dividend made in the prohibition bill now be­ was ordered payable April J to com­ fore the House, but the measure now mon stock holders of record March is ready for final consideration and 15.” The next time you think you are doubtless will be made a special order buying something cheaper than you of business some time this week. can buy it at home, at least give your The committee on alcoholic traffic merchant a chance to quote you on i'.. held another meeting at which the News Times. maximum limit on the quantity of malt liquors that a resident of the How many readers of the Tele­ state can import within any 30 day phone Register think that a halt gal­ period was raised from 15 quarts to lon of whisky and twenty-four quarts 24 quarts. This was for the purpose of of beer permitted each month to any conforming with the methods now in one who will have it shipped in, is use in handling beer, as 24 bottles • practical prohibition? It looks as ir make a case. The quantity of distilled or ferment ­ that measure will pass the legislature as a follow-up-law for the prohibitory | ed liquors that may be shipped in as vote of last fall. And no habitual I a" •*’. rnative to the 24 quarts of beer drunkard, if he shall be declared such , has been unchanged. It remains at $100 Reward $100. by the court, will be permitted any two quarts. The reader« of this paper will be pleased The limit on the amount of wine allowance. And this raises the ques­ to learn that there is at least one dreaded that science has l>ecn able to cure in tion: What constitutes a habitual that may be imported for sacramental disease all its «tage«, and that is Catarrh. Hill's purposes has been removed. Clergy ­ Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now drunkard? If a man drinks this regu-t known to the medical fraternity. Catartii lar monthly allowance, can he not be , men may have it shipped into the being a constitutional disease, reciuircs a constitutional treatment Hall's < atarrji placed in the habitual class? And sup­ state in any desired quantity if they Cure ia taken internally, acting directly op