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Tillamook Headliglit, March is, 19T5 A LOCAL INDUSTRY. acts upon the limestone dust which is Lincoln died at the age of 56, and yet or systems, or a system of drains for at an election held for that purpose Starvation an Aid to Digestion. used and the two form a permanent in a letter of his written when he was the City, and to make the cost of such on October lytli, 1914, is hereby Planning to Lay Hard Surfaced binder for the metal rock used. It 40 mentions a speech that brought drains or sewers, or any p.iait thereof, amended so that th- same shall real Abstinence from food for a short a charge or lien upon the abutting as follows: Roads in Tillamook County I gets hard and very tough. The binder tears to his "old eyes." He was called or adjacent property within said dis Section 12: When the whole of the period is a very excellent method of and City. conies to you ready to use without “Old Abe” when he was still young trict, and to compel the connections improvements covered by any one 1 treatment for dyspepsia and kindred 0----- any further bothering with it. Abe. Although Gen. Grant was only of «losets, cess pools, and drains with ordinance therefor shall have been . digestive disturbances. A raging sick The development of the lime dc- “Now, if you will get for us the cost 43 at Appomattox, no one regarded said sewer or sewers, and to borrow fully completed and accepted bv ihe headache dissapcars after giving the money upon the credit of the city Common Council, the Common Conn-- posit near Tillamook City by the Til- of your crushed metal rock, and the him as youthful. therefore by issuing bonds or other cil shall then cause the cost of such stomach a rest —by ommitting to sat iamook Lime Products Co., bids fair I cost of the limestone screenings de The old young man of the era are wise. Provided, that the indebtedness work or improvement to be appor only one or two meals. It is common to make a great difference in the cost livered on the job we will figure it all told that they must play, relax, rest of the city shall not at any time, ex tioned to the property affected there knowledge that a day or two of starv of hard surfacing the roads of this 1 out for you and send you a statement or die. The young old of the 50s did clusive of funds available for payment by within the improvement district thereof including sinking funds raised established therefor as required by ing every two or three months en- county, as well as city pavement. of just about what your pavement not play. They were very serious per for the purpose of defraying said in the ordinance authorizing the same, aides one to do better work- more This pavement is called “Rocmac,” will cost. This will be the easiest way. sons, and many of them were cut off debtedness, exceed in the aggregate in the manner following: mental and physical work can be ac Each lot, or tract, or part thereof, and has been tested for years with Succesful in Canada. at an early age. If men of 40 now are the sum of Seventy Thousand Dol complished without fatigue, It is ad- lars ($70,000.00) exclusive of improve within the linits of said improvement the most satisfactory results, the F. H. Keefer, writing from Thorold actually old, perhaps it is because ment bonds issued in accordance with district abutting upon any street im visable however, when on a hunger binding action of Rocmac is the re Ont., says: they are trying to look like men of the charter provisions of Tillamook proved shall be table for full cost or strike start to drink water, Copious sult of a series of chemical reactions * proportion thereof hereinafter men libations of hot water, several quarts “Asking how Rocmac is standing 25 or 30, to dress like them and in City. And the Common Council is au tioned, or making said improvement which take place between carbonate' under ___ the traffic; _____ r we do consider it business and pleasure to hold their thorized hereby to levy and collect an half of the street in front of and during the working hours, will con of lime, the carbonic acid gas of the good, i use. own with them. To look young but be annual tax of not to exceed 10 mills upot. _ , and would ___ we _ advise _____ its abut ing upon said lot, tract, or part tribute to the feeling of well-being. atmosphere, and the Rocmac solution ' Of course, being interested, our opin really old at 40 is not desirable, but upon each dollar of taxable property ther- of and also for a proportionate The water may be taken a tumbler forming a waterproof composition. ' ion as to using it would naturally be it may be no worse than to look old in the city, to pay the interest and shar • of the cost of improving inter full every hour or two. Those per The cost of construction in Tilla- ' biassed, but the best answer is, whaj and be old also at the same age.— principle of the city’s indebtedness sections of two of the streets bound sons who eat at irregular hours and and the authorized expenditures of ing he block or tract in which said mook where limestone can be ob- . is the opinion of those who use it. New York World. the city for all legal purposes. lot, tract or part thereof is situated, partake of food poorly cooked or of tained so cheap now, w ill be very Take for instance, the Quebec Battle 11 but the said total cost shall be appor such a composition as to cause indi A measure to Amend Article XIV tioned in accordance with the follow gestion, will find the mild form of materially reduced below that of con fields Commission, they started using ELECTION NOTICE. of the Charter of Tillamook City, Ore ing plan: ------o— ■ crete pavement. three years ago in the Plains of Ab Said local improvement district starving for twenty-four hours or Notice is hereby given, that in pur gon, as said Article was adopted by The following letters will explain raham park, being laid by the Battle the legal voters of Tillamook City, shall, for the purpose of ascertaining longer a practice worthy of trial, for suance of Ordinance No. 287 adopted what can be expected. Mr. Jackson field Commission, one of our best by the Common Council of Tillamook Oregon, at a special election held in the amount to be assessed against the resulting after effects of the ex each separate lot, tract or parcel of has dozens of copies of letters from Canadian Commissions. They have City, Oregon, on the 3rd day of said city on October 19th, 1914. Be it enacted by the people of Till land, or other property, or part there periment will be gratifying. The rest engineers who have used this pave- used it every year, and will use no March, 1915, a special election will be amook City, Oregon, as follows: of within said district, be divided into (when one is on the hunger strike) ment all speaking very highly of its other, and attached is a little extract held at the City Hall in Tillamook Section 1: Article XIV of the subdivisions, or zones paralleling the giving the digestive apparatus streng City, Tillamook County, Oregon, on excellent quality. I from a certificate by Mr. Todd, land the 29th day of March, 1915, at which Charter of Tillamook City, Oregon, I margins of the street or streets to be thens it and thus aids in conserving It is important that the people of scape architect in charge of this election there will be submitted to the as said Article was adopted by a vote improved, which said subdivision on the health. A general feeling or re of the legal voters of said Tillamook each side of the street to be number this county be given some idea of the work. Then the Niagara Falls (Ont.) qualified electors of Tillamook City City at a special election held for ed respectively 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The juvenation invariably follows a few construction of this class of road, Park have had it in use for over five tor their adoption or rejection, three that purpose on October 19th, 1914, first subdivision on each side of the days’ fasting. measures for the amending of the —.--------------------- - which is best told in a letter from C. years, and have purchased every year Charter of Tillamook City, Oregon, is hereby amended so that the same street improved shall include all lands lying between the street margin and D. Smith, general manager of the since they started using; it gets the proposed by the Common Council, shall read as follows: Society and Snobbery. ARTICLE XIV. i a line drawn parallel therewith and Rocmoc Road Co. He says: heaviest of traffic from the motors in being a measure to amend Chapter Section t: The Common Council I extending from said street margin I “Allow us at first to express our the park. Then as to heavy vehicular VIII, Article XI, a measure to amend of Tillamook City, Oregon, is hereby I one-third of the distance of the im- Called to task by a subscriber who Article XIV of the Charter of Tilla pleasure at getting your letter in- ' traffic, St. Catharines adjoining us, mook City, Oregon, and a measure to authorized to issue and sell to George ' provement district on that side of the resented the printing of a picture rep K quiring further about Rocmac paving. laid it on two hills that gave them a amend Section 12 of Article VII of L. and John A. McPherson, or their street. The second subdivision shall resenting “society” children wrapping order, upon the faith and credit of include the next one-third of the im ■ When Mr. U. G Jackson suggested good deal of trouble, and have found the Charter of Tillamook City, Ore Tillamook City, Oregon, the general provement district, and the third sub packages for the Belgians, the New gon, and the said measures being in ■ that you write us, we know that he it very satisfactory and have laid it bonds of said Tillamook City to the division shall include the outer third York Sun recently pleaded guilty to words and figures as follows to-wit: amount of Forty Thousand Dollars of the improved district The different snobbery and promised to reform. B was doing you a real favor. I every year for the last three years, I ($40,000.00) at the price of par, and a subdivisions to be bounded by lines The Rocmac Road Co. cannot put 1 Toronto has laid a great deal of it, In future, it declares, it will not des “A measure to amend Article XI of premium of three per cent, together drawn parallel with the respective ,' money into your city treasury, but by laying it in 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 Chapter \ 111 of the Charter of Till with accrued interest from date of street margins, and the improvement ignate neither men, women or chil E. working with us we can not only and 1914, and this year there are pe amook City as set forth in an Act en bonds to date of payment therefor by district shall be of the extent which i dren as belonging to "society”, it will I titled: ‘An Act to amend an Act en | make your paving program successful titions in for a large number ofstreets, titled,’ “An Act to Incorporate the the purchasers. The proceeds from the Common Council shall determine eschew the pat terms “w’ealthy”, B but we can keep you from paying out some twenty-three in number. The City of Tillamook City, in Tillamook the sale ot such bonds shall be appli by its rssolution establishng the "prominent”, "daintly dressed,” etc, ed by the Common Council of Tilla same. I a lot of extra money on pavements City of Three Rivers after trying County,Estate of Oregon, and to re mook City, Oregon, to the payment of The rate of assessment per square as indiscriminate and slovenly words I not so good as Rocmac . 1 other pavements started using this peal all acts and parts of acts in con the outstanding warrants of the city, foot in each subdivision shall be fixed of description running with “young” flict herewith” filed in the office of | "This company does not do any two years ago, laying 7,000 yards and the Secretary of State February 13th and to the defraying of the necessary on the basis that the special benefits and “pretty” and “beautiful" heroines running expenses of the city for the on a square foot of land in of the dock, the divorce court, mon Y constructing, but sticks strictly to the since the» have laid 60,000 yards, and 1893, and to repeal an Act entitled, year 1915 including the necessary cost conferred Subdivisions First, Second and Third "An Act to amend subdivision 13 of of a bridge to be constructed over Ho- respectively gf. manufacture and sale of the chemical so it is with other places. are related to each other key dinners, soul-mattings, bank de ^binder, which we sell to either the “In the States a large number of Section 2 of Article IV of an Act en quarton Slough on Second Avenue as are the numbers 55, 30 and 15 re falcations, etc. titled, “An Act to Incorporate the We wish the Sun well, for whose B^ity or the contractor without any places are now using it; Baltimore is City of Tillamook City, in Tillamook East in Tillamook City. The purchas spectively, and shall be ascertained in ers of the bonds shall not be required the following manner. gorge has not risen at these blanted royalties attached. After we do this going to use it; Minneapolis, St. Paul, County, State of Oregon, and to re to see to the application of the pro The product of the number of we have a habit of seeing to it that Duluth, etc. We have some roads peal all Acts in conflict herewith” ceeds thereof. No part of the pro square feet in subdivisions First, expressions, even that of some of the filed in the office of the Secretary of the contractor puts in a good piece of lkid out near you, I think on Van State, February 13, 1893. Approved ceeds from the sale of said bonds Second and Third respectively, and people so described. Yet we have our work. We cannot afford to have it couver Island or near the coast some February 13th, 1901, by the addition shall be used for the payment, in the numbers 55, 30 and 15 respective doubts, for "society” is come to be as whole or in part, of any warrants ly, shall be ascertained, and their sum Otherwise. Our strict specifications where. I will find out where they are thereto of Chapter VIII, Artcle XI which have heretofore or may here taken, which sum shall be divided in much a term of actual description as containing Section I to 3 inclusive are such that it is practically impos so that you could make a personal in after be issued without any consider to the total cost and expense of such graft, which includes not only the providing for the application of the ation therefor having been received improvement the products of the re criminal, but the astute, not only the sible for any contractor to put in in spection.” initiative and referendum principle to sultant quotient and the numbers 55, sharp whitted but the fat-witted sine- E. S. Stokes, street commissioner said City Charter, and authorizing by Tillamook City. ferior materials or "skin” the job. Section 2: The bonds hereby au 30 and 15 respectively shall be the the said city to create an indebtedness thorized shall be issued in accordance separate hen the work is done by day labor of Woodstock, Ont., writes: rates of assessment per curist whose graft was handed him. “Replying to your favor of the 9th for water works, light plants and with the other charter provisions of square foot for subdivisions, First, “Society”, if it ever had a particular the nice part about Rocmac is its sew-erage purposes,, and to levy a tax simplicity of construction. Since there inst. beg to say that Rocmac road, to pay for the same, and the interest Tillamook City, except it is hereby Second and Third respectively. The significance in this country, has long expressly provided, that the ordi total assessment thus ascertained since lost it. We are all sufficiently is no heating of materials etc., it is exposed to extreme weather condi thereon. Filed in the office of the nance pwviding for the issuing of against each separate lot or part of lot merely a matter of mixi.ng the mater tions, wear and scour, 5 inches thick, Secretary of State, February 11, 1903. said bonds shall not be subject to the tract or parcel of land, or other prop inoculated with the declaration to rise As originally passed and amended or referendum, and the referendum pro erty within such district, shall be ap up and swear that birth has nothing ials by hand or in a concrete mixer built eight years ago, has had no ex attempted to be amended by and sub visions of the other portions of the portioned as the amount to be levied to do with the case, even if the mel and then rolling the mass after it has pense for repairs or maintenance in sequent acts or ordinances. Charter of Tillamool^City are hereby k and assessed against each separate been spread. In construction it is es that time, and is in practically per " Be it enacted by the people of Til declared not to be applicable to the lot or part of lot, tract, parcel of land ancholy spectacle of the so-called lamook Citv, Oregon, as Follows: sentially the same as a piece of two fect condition today. bonds authorized to be issued under or other property respectively. Pro well-born in tatters and the proletar Section 1: Article XI of Chapter the provisions of this Article as liere- vided, however, that the Common iat in limousines and opera cloaks “I would not hesitate to recommend course concrete, except that you roll VIII of the Charter of Tillamook Council may, in its discretion, at the were not always before our eyes. Rocmac for use on roads or streets City, Oregon, as contained and set by amended. Rocmac with a road rol ler. time of establishing any local im 1 hat wealth makes “society” is not .HI “Rocmac has many re al advantages where the specifications of the Com forth in an Act entitled ‘An Act to A measure to amend Section i? of provement district, furthcrprovidelli.it amend an Act entitled, “ An act to in over a concrete pavemet it. It can be pany are strictly adhered to and the Article VII of the Charter of lilla any portion of the cost of the making always true—but it is almost true that corporate the City of Tillamook City, of such improvements,, or any speci “society” never excludes wealth, cer laid in practically any v.eather with disposition of contractors and engi in Tillamook County, State of Oregon mook City, Oregon. Be it enacted by the people of I iil- fied part thereof, shall be paid out of tainly when it concludes that it pays out the danger of freez.:mg and crack neers to experiment, overcome.” and to repeal all acts and parts of amook City, Oregon, as follows: the general fund of Tillamook City. to advertise. And, in fact, "society” acts in conflict herewith”, filed in the Big Contract Let. ing. It is ready for traf fic immediate Section 1: Section 12 of Article The number and form in which the office of the Secretary of State Feb “It will please you to know, and it ly and does not tie up the street and VII of the Charter of Tillamook City, ballot titles for said measures will be is no more than a certain trade mark ruary 13, 1893, and to repeal an Act traffic. The Canadia n Government will help you in the United States, entitled, "An Act to amend subdivis Oregon, as the same was amended by printed on the official ballot is as fol of social activity with an eye on the gallery gods who can never hope to put down about two miles near Vic that the largust mileage contract that ion 13 of Section 2 of Article IV of vote of the people of Tillamook Ctiy I lows: • figure within its circle. As such the toria, B. C., and ne'zer stopped the has ever yet been given in Canada, an Act entitled, "An Act to incorpor Shall a measure for the amendment * ate the City of Tillamook City in word, hackneyed as it is, makes a was awarded on the 5th of March by traffic where they 1 iad as many as of Chapter VIII, Article XI of the Tillamook County, State of Oregon, Charter of I illamook City as propos picture which every one recognizes fifteen hundred mac hines massing per the County of Haldimand to Rocmac and to repeal all Acts in conflict here ed by the Common Council of Tilla and in which far more are glad to be day. Rocmac will n ever crack, and if for the sum total of 26% miles; 19 with,” filed in the office of the Secre mook City by ordinance No. 287 featured than are irritated at being ■Rental rock is used -such as we have miles of this in a straight-away tary of State, February 13, 1893, ap adopted by the Common Council of proved February 13, 1901, bv the ad Specified there will be no raveling. It stretch, and the other 714 miles is in I illamook City on March 3rd, 1915, put in. dition thereto of Chapter VIII, Arti “Proposed by the Common Council: be enacted? if much more resik ent than concrete. a different place in the county. cle XI containing Section I to 3 in Marx X between the number and There is no need of formal "The tenders were opened on Thurs clusive, providing for the application Horses like it ber ause of this resil- answer voted for. of the initiative and referendum prin that the "possum hunters” hunters' day, and Concrete, Waterbound Ma Yes. ifnee and auto dr ivers like Rocmac The proposed amendment mentioned ciple to said City charter, and author ioo. amends the present Charter provis whipped those girls were not because it will n> »ver wear slippery cadam, Gluterin, and Tarvia were izing the said City to create an in No. ions of Tillamook City by establish Kentuckians. and they feel 'safe from skidding. rival bidders. The tender for Rocmac debtedness for water works, light «oi, ing limit of Cty’s indebtedness out Mocmac will n< ot soften up in hot was the highest, but was chosen in plants and sewerage purposes, and to In estimating the average New side of improvement bonds, at Seven levy a tax to pay for the -same and the Weather. preference, and this, after three ty 1 housand Dollars ($70,000.00) Yorker’s vocabulary of 250 ' words, interest thereon.” Filed in the office leaving the powers of the Common Gue Thomas must have excluded all > “Based on the information we have months investigation by the county of the Secretary of State, February Council subject to the initiative and before us, we w ill state that our Roc officials of Rocmac, and after receiv nth 1903, As originally passed and as swear words. referendum powers of the people. mac binder w-illt cost not to exceed ing the approval of the government amended or attempted to be amended An official not issued by the French by any subsequent act or ordinance, Shall a measure for the amendment of 25c. per gz.Hon f.o.b. Tillamook. The of the Province of Ontario, because is hereby amended so that the same Press Bureau declares that the Ger Article XIV of the Charter of Tilla binder w eighs X1.5 pounds per gallon under the provincial law the province shall read as follows: mook City, Oregon, as proposed uy man losses since the beginning of contributes one third towards the net we’.ght and is sold on this basis. CHAPTER VIII. the Common Council of Tillamook hostilities in killed, wounded, sick City Oregon, by ordinance No. 287 1» delivered in iron drums a charge cost. This is the first contract under Article XI. adopted by th e Common Council of and prisoners, reaches the enormous WO1’ .id be made for the drums, but the new system of county construc Section t: The legislative power of Tillamook City, Oregon, on March total of 3,000,000 men. This calcula “Proposed by the Common Council, 3rd, w juld be rebated on r^)urn of the tion, and will likely mean that other the city is vested in the Common 1915 be enacted? tion is based on the known casual the same is subject to Council, but Bttrums in good condition. We will counties will follow their example.” Mark X between the number and ties in ten German regiments. governed by all of the and shall be _ Yes answer voted for. look this matter up immediately and initiative or referendum provisions of 102 Ihe proposed amendment of Ar Two important developments indi- Our Old Young Men. ¿advise you as to the exact price based the constitution of the State of Ore No. ticle XIV expressly authorizes the dicate that the big business interests gon as the same is now in force or «03 upon freight rates etc. Common Council to sell Forty Thou I "Enclosed is a set of our detailed It may be, as physicians and pro may hereafter be amended, and sub sand Dollars of the general bonds o( of the country, representing manufac ject to any of the initiative and ref the City to George. I., and John A. turing, commercial and financial lines ¿•Specifications. You will note we spec fessors of physical culture do not fail erendum provisions of the Charter of « McPherson at par, with a 3 per cent are determined again to take a hand ify from 36 to 54 gallons of Rocmac to tell us, that men of 40 are now old Tillamook City or ordiances legally premium, and to use the proceeds for in the coming presidential elec enacted under pursuanse of the con and decript because they do not play (per cubic yard of limestone screening. payment of outstanding warrants of stitution aforesaid, or of any of the Tillamook City, and construct bridge tion and work for the election of a This is equivelent to 1 and 1.5 gal enough, but most of them look young provisions of said Charter. across Hoquarton Slough on Second Republican president, just as they did lons of binder per square yard, and er than did men of that age fifty or Section 2: Whenever any initiative Avenue East.” bark in i860 when they united against ?what is finally used depends upon sixty years ago. No one can imagine or referendum measure is to be voted upon at any general or special elec Bryan and his free-silver notions. »traffic conditions, The more binder the portraits of 1850-60, knowing the Shall a measure for the amendment tion, the City Recorder shall cause to Conditions are somewhat similar now age of the subjects, without seeing Jthe better pavement, naturally. of Section 12 of Article VII of the be placed upon the ballot at the elec Charter of I illamook City, Oregon, in the business world to what they i "Inasmuch as you propose doing that they depicted very young men tion at whicl^ any such measure is to as proposed by the Common Council were then. These two developments be voted, a ballot title and brief de your own work we take a special in who looked very old. of 1 illamook City, Oregon, by Or so far indicating the trend of affairs The fact is that until times com scription of the measure to be voted terest in it, as of course we know dinance No. 287 adopted by the Com- on in such form as may be prescribed mon assum- that with the average workman much paratively recent, young . , , - mon Council of Tillamook City, Ore- arc the organization in the cast dur- by the Common Council in accord “ Proposed by the Common Council. gon on Marcll , be enactc<!? ing the last week of the Republican money can be saved by this method ed the airs, dress and appearance of ance with the Charter of the Citv. Mark X between the number and Publicity Committee, with hcadquat- Section 3: The People of Tilla as against the contract method. You age, and perhaps prifited by it. They ........................ Yes. answer voted for. mook City, or the Common Council 104. • ers there, and the eonference held should save at least 15-20 per cent on carried themselves with much gravity thereof, subject to the initiative and This proposed amendment permits last week in New York between and dignity, especiafly in the presence „ the Common Council to fix the boun- your work, and we will assist you in referendum powers reserved to the tos. . Hillis and Secretary Rcy- Chairman wo ' daries of improvement districts for ................. ■every way to do it. When you get all of youth. Beards were more in vogue people, shall have full pow^r and au improving stnets so that the same nolds of the Republican National I ready to start we will send an able than they are to-day, and in other re thority to provide by appropriation may be extended further back than Committees of forty prominent busi ordinance or ordianances not in con representative to you who will start spects men of 40 or 50 whose like- flict with any superior power or au 105 feet from the street being improv „ the work. -- _____ -_______ ed, to such distance as the Common ness men. Apparently the same effort off It ___ is so simple that — af- nesses are preserved to us were more thority, for the purchase or erection, is to be put forth in the interest of a Council may determine.” ter he has been working with your! venerable figures than are their sons construction or maintenance and op return to prosperity as were used so eration, of a complete system _ of men for half a day the men will know : of 60 or 70 to-day. Said election will be held at 8 Dated this ;th day of March, 1915. successfully in the 1896 campaign in ................................... J It was a custom, too, half a century water works, electric or gas liçht o’clock in the morning and will con- » » < . • I just how it is done. plant or plants; to create a sewer behalf of "sound money,” as against tinue until 6 o’clock in the afternoon "This Rocmac binder is a carefully or more ago for men of middle%ge to trict or districts within the city, and of said March 29th, 191$. Chy Reorder of Tillamook City, Ore. free silver. - 4 - - prepared chemical solution which re-^speak oi themselves as old. Abraham to put in or maintain a »ewer iy»tem I X- À 1