State Press Flashes. I port of our enor.nons export trufl He Frispec j - V'-hicarv i I and the activity of our factories as ar * c' utner tmngs tsar: n 1 ae -------- -O ----- I taken up her permanent residence ’ n puHlACs. -lUt. fuyy .an.Mv- «1. The Salem Commercial Club has 45 ■ I our midst " They say tha: Europe is nau e vied doctors among its members anc 1 borrowing money from this count— UkutU inrilung oi should be able to get through th< j as never before and that our rai.raaC Ini - Cl> nx&iixn LC winter without any serious illness, e» I yards and docks are congested with : to a MMonoM pecially with the help ot io druggists I goods for foreign shipment such as mining inc . mt How many of these professional men was never before seen But they art ' or preparedness, can the McMinnville club boast o — I very caretul to avoid a suggestion i work: ulx : wnitt News Reporter. that all this is only itmoprury an*. ' irom gibing oiiemc t< wholly dependent upon the European mmacc nation vre snail be able to de- A man may be rich financially anc war. They fail to mention that when [ fend ourselves agains' al predatory a hobo by nature, a girl may 1« the war ceases this so-called prosper­ people*. homely and be ibe reigning queen < '.m the subject of the war that the ity will cease and leave nothing tie­ her set both at the same time, a fel hind it and they fail to recognize the Kuiser ha* earned to America, the low may be a pohsbed and refined tact that the railroads and other President speak* in clear ano unmis­ ;.eing S — noo.oou more rruir, those failure in the business world, or net ¿Teat corporate activities art neither takable language, which 1* worth' j the hast Republican Congress wh and influential with a bad reputation borrowing money or extending their the earnest attention of aii native pro fixate waste qt tnotr^v wn But a good steady job, high minded operations, by either building new Americans and tbe deep stud' o: t om tni peopie by oppressive taxa companions after business hours, and lines or improving their present prop- those naruratized dozens who meas­ t tion" was denounced by the Balti a * pretty sweetheart who is nevc~ ure their loyahy to this cosnrr* with more pUtionr and by every Demo­ 5 rtics—Rural Spirit. f irivolous, ___ , rarely ____ _____ fail to develop the a hyphen. On this, the President crat or low ot higt. degree th-ough- H- ------ o •JF best tn man.—Seaside Signal. About the cusscdest and crustiest say» j .’ml the L cited States tn the campaign ? cuss that the Rev. G. H. Bennett, and “1 am sorry to say that the grai est • ci 19:2 The estimate ror tpt? exceeds 6 Whatever may be said of Ford’s a good many others ever saw. “»s threats against our national peace : -.hat of any year except •L peace party tnp ,n is a„ unparalleled that particular one that preceeded a and safety- have been uttered wr. .1- Ye statement that the increase "is venture. Regardless of failure or suc- recent funeral on the road to the our own borders. There arc c- .ms lost wholly- due to the admimstra- ru resu'ts °> the expedition cemetery, lherc was more than one of the United States, I hhish to trr.it on 1 plans for military prepardness" m nether triumphant, grave or gay will who wished that the man in the light born under other flags but w: . :m ■1 true The net military increase be watched with keen interest.'This spring buggy ahead was consigned-to under our generous naturalizarioi. but $26,000.000 and the net naval K T- mission of Fords to the battle-torn a hole in tne ground, but that did not laws to the full freedom and appor- rease but $70.000,000 This con- -r ru nations of Europe is the most talked 1 take him from the road to allow the tunity of America, whc> have p •curid only $06.0003X30 of tbe $170,- LT “L of topic among Americans. Publicists, saddened procession to pass. The the poison of disloyalty it 000 increase over the extravagant »r lie very statesmen, editors and ministers have trouble was that the man ahead kept arteries of National bit prop ria tion for 1916. Furthermore, who have TMic<;s ie> for the holiday feasts abonnd in our given their views on Ford's extraor­ m the center of the road and ambled sought to bring the authority anc e estimates for some purposes are jrroeerv secti n the many things that combine dinary mission, but have said but lit­ along at an unusually easy speed. It good name of our gr vemment into o low. The postal estimated for tle upon it. Some have said Ford is a is the opinion of those who tried contempt, to destroy our industries to make the festal cheer are displayed for you to i" is $1000,000 less than expendi- "millionaire fool” others have claimed vain to get the man to allow the fu- however they thought it effective for -¡re: for 1916, as rep orted by choose fr, in. it was a gigantic advertising scheme ' neral procession to pass that he was their vindictive purpose tc strike at reasury Department. But then the —News Reporter. somewhat jealous of the automobiles them, and to debase our policies to ostmaster gen-, ral estimate is Our drv goods and noth n departments arc ------ c- — that made the mourners' carnages the uses of foreign, in igue. Their ays several millions below rhe ap­ replete w ith vuiu ■*• for the Xmas chopper. lour Here is a trio of statements by Rab­ Honking of horns and personal pleas 1 number is not grea it as compared with ropriation and there is usually art inter«-ts will be well taken care of in this, Tilla- I tbe whole number were of no avail, the road hog refused bi Wise made in a recent speech in dditional deficiency to — be cart d tor. of those sturdy .. . - - --------- j-islat Portland, which shows that the Qua­ to budge ar.d the entire procession fi­ hosts by which oi ur nation has been he legislative estimate is but lirtlt mot k's only complete dc|iartment store. kers and Jews are about of one mind nally had to pas£ round his -spring enriched in rerent generations out of 01 .-r half that for last year. The few- nJ "The way to insure for war is to pre­ wagon. The woman behind him must virile foreign stock but it is great • increases are more than balanced hv A FEW S UGG ES TIONS pare for it—and we will have it. If have thought a deal of her compan­ enoi h to have brought deep disgrace ' '■ here else The Six’y- President Wilson had made his war ion for his actions. If there isn't a law upon us and to have made it neces- .'oufh will beyond question be known SLIPPERS : speech two years ago he would have against hogging the road there should I sary that we should promptly make as the most expensive Congress in been declared crazy. We have one be, say those who suffered from one 1 use of processes of law by which we the history of the government. For Men and Women. “Comfy” and hundred years of peace with Canada person's obstinacy, and there should ! may bt purged of their corrupt dis- “ Siesta. ” because we have had no war vessels also be a law against met with so lit 1 tempers America never witnessed Conquered Distances. on the Great Lakes, no fortifications, tie principle as to hold up a funeral | anything like this before It never HANDKERCHIEFS : no thoughts of war. We have no war procession.—Polk County Observer. dreamed it possible that men sworn CaHornia is justly proud of the ex- i into its own citizenship, men _____ drz wn with the Latin-American countries pOSKJMll Uul J uh HS CUUJSl I An ideal Gift Article. Reasonably Priced out of great free slocks such as sup- 1 ihruugn and will never have another so long aiiusi. mi itie year, and i A Duchess Who is Queen Here. plied some of the best and strongest nou pusses into msiory as uut oi as we do not arrange for it."—Tele­ j o------ elements of that little, but how heroic notaoit successes oi its kind, it was phone Register. Duchess Skylark Ormsby is only a nation that in high day of old staked 1 LACES AND RIBBONS protiiauie 111 many way*, tut bux vi- j cow, but amongst cows she queen ‘ If you feel grouchy and out of sorts because she is the best burter-produc- ■ its very life to free itself from every 1 tice tesi included. A lew of the 49ya)-- and anarchy must be crushed out | Lain orma to our domain, making it when a gentleman living some hun­ milk, but it was richer, ar*d as a re­ Holiday Trade. Send one to your friend ocean 1 in the most expansive dreds of miles away and who only- sult she gave more butter. That is the Thev are not many, but they are it in or oceanic finitely malignant, and the hand of sense ot the word. Vi he re the gold visits the county once a year when standard by which cows are estimated our power should hover over them a: I hunter r oi me yos crossed the isthmus his profession demands, by inference by good dairymen. declared that the county is in the I The record is interesting because rt once They have formed plots tn des­ on a mule, dreading the deadly fever* hands of grafters, he is to say the represents an effort of science to con­ troy property, they have entered inn­ I 01 the region before he could span the I Masonic Bld. Both Phones. Free Dehyerres. least, going some. Discussion of tribute to the world’s peace and plen­ conspiracies against the neutralitv of fifty miles, is now the Panama Canal, whether or not there is waste or ex- I ty. The butter queen was not an ac­ the government, thev have sought to I for which the people ot the L niteu travagance is ligitimate, even if the cident. She is an achievement, and it nry into every confidential transac­ Mates have paid $350,000,000, with speaker is not in a position to know is difficult to estimate the increasing tion of the Government in order to ' nobody to grumble at or regret the serve interest« alien to our own It 1« 1 cost. 1 he tar-sighted genius of the whereof he speaks, but when a man efficiency of cows as they shall be re­ possible to deal with these thine« 1 American people ordained the canal. ' even hints at graft he should be in a produced from her kind. Because but­ not snrerst ’ It is their way to reluct distance and seen thereon at the present time It is This campaign will attempt to show position to badc up his statement ter is so universally a commodity, so very effcctuaTIv I need In rural the term« in which they mav be dealt ; save time- in transit wherever it can planned to have this not a spasmodic that this is not necessary with conclusive facts.—Hillsboro common that it is conspicuous only communities where ice cannot be ob­ with."—The Spectator. be done. In the heyday of its placer aftair and a follow-up campaign will tained, with a very little expenditure Independent. when it is lacking from the table, we mines California produced $65.000,000 Hiiimdiately ensue. I are apt that behind the vast produc­ The popular belief that infant mor­ of money, an abundant supply of gold in one year. Now mining is a good water can, and this can be u»cd Coos County can do no better thing tion yearly there is a story of en­ The Open D°or. side feature in the state, but the coun­ tality is greater in our cities than in in cooling a storeroom or a refriger­ for the people at this time than to deavor which has run through the try docs not suffer for fresh gold, of the mral communities is not true, ator almost a* satisfactorily as ice. select a competent road builder to ages. 1 We say it again, and with emphasis which our share now is $100.000,000 rather it is just the opposite Save for th< crowded homes of a very few 1 he roads can be oiled to keep don n Duchess Skylark Ormsby is a Hol- the doors of America are open to annually. take charge of road maintenance and large cities, the city baby has a better the storms of dust, lawns can be kept construction. There should be no stein-Friesian, owned by John B. Ir­ foreign commerce, and when the war chance of living than does the rural fresh and green just as well as m the question about the ability of appli­ win, of Minneapolis. Dairymen may is over and the wheels of industry in Child W eltare one. The reasons are very manifest. city and the removal of refuse and the cants and in the choosing, personal observe with profit that she was not Europe are again turning to their full building of the house a sufficient dis­ preference should never be entertain­ freshened until she was past fiye capacity of production, there will be The United States Department of First and probably most important is tance from the barn w-ill in like man­ ed. All applicants being equal, we years old. She had ordinary foods, nothing to prevent the United States Labor through its Children's Bureau, the cheapness and ease with which ice ner preclude fhes These are but a urge the appointment of an out-of but she had them regularly. Unlike from becoming the dumping ground is going to attempt throughout the can be procured, our improved street few of the lesson» baby week will at­ Coos County man, for we believe bet­ Mrs. Howie’s soulful kine, she prob­ for tbe goods of the great nations at United States tlx celebration of preclude storm of dust, and a better tempt to teach. No movement has milk supply can be obtained, while in ter results will be had from an appli­ ably did not have lace curtains and war, unless the vicious tariff system "Baby Week" and set aside March 4 the rural communities ice is more dif­ ever been launched has been filled now in force is repealed and protec ­ music to benefit her temperament, but cant who comes to the county free­ to March it to be known a* ’ Baby ficult to procure, dust is everywhere, with greater possibilities and the handed and with no preferences re­ Alex Hansen, who cared for her dur­ tion restored. It is not necessary to Week" says the Oregon State Board bathing facilities are usually lacking boards of health of every city and an open door that all imports be put garding the improvement of any par­ ing the test, probably did not try to of Health. This is not to be a baby and diarrhoea and ententes, the mur­ state in the Union should lend their ticular locality. There are many good break her back with a hickory stool upon the free list. The present admin- show where babies are brought to derers of children, have greater way. earnest co-operation istratioi has gone far in that respect men in the state who can be had and as many a modern farm boy has done some cold storage room ' if the commissioners are satisfied to some generous milk giver in a mo­ and doubtless would go further were naked and viewed by it not for the requirements of revenue consisting of old maid*« i that a really competent man cannot ment of impatience.—Oregonian. but there still remains a respectable divorcees, but a sane, se be hired for $i,8oo a year, then we number of products upon which du­ will be made to instruct say they will be fully justified in pay­ Loyalty Measured With a Hyphen ties are payable. The moment, how­ people as to the possibilities of prop­ ing as much more as the applicant de­ ever, that the tariff rates are lowered er child hygiene Beginning Sunday. mands. But remember, the people are Among the habits which the older below the point of protection they going to demand results and that is generation has broken itself of and cease to be a barrier on a check to March 4, they will ask that sermons the only side which will be aired which the new has not contracted is importation*, and become, to the con­ dealing especially with the topic be whether he meets with failure or suc­ that of reading the President’s mes­ trary an invitation to the outlander delivered in all the churches cess.—Coos Bay Harbor. sage. Successive years of national re- to come in and welcome That is the United States Far too f I pose agitated by nothing more serious effect and tbe purpose of the Under­ biblical text “Suffer litt o Certain politicians, for personal and than our quadrennial conflicts at the wood tariff act, and the fact that we I come unto mr for of party ends, are preaching that the polls, have giving to the message a are now reaping all the evil conse­ 1 kingdom of heaven" is period of financial depression is past dignified dullness that the public has quences of that measure is due to the ■ the funeral of the child and that prosperity, with a big P, is ' warmly praised and sedulously avoid­ temporarv suppression of the manu­ i was needlessly sacrif ' tary conditions, and with facturing industries of Europe. already with us. They point to the re- ed. When the war is over and the ac­ knowledge of the cause c cidental protection from foreurn man tality. we now know th ufacturers that the conflict has given has too often been sm u* ceases to exist, the competition for man’s carelessness for American trade will be active and ' ings will lie attempted ruthless. The purchasing power of i cities, addresses, paper*, gism FORTIFY YOURSELF the markets of Europe will be great 'slides, exhibitions, ly decreased. America bulging with I mation not only against disaster by taking out a fire gold, will be the world’s oyster, not j untimely death* insurance policy with us. Then the to br opened with a Pistohan sword, I more imp« « proverbial bag of gold is yours if for it is already open The salesmen Ì tiona! fiKitcnal for Rttkintwc lives Th< most . your house is food for flames Do you of Germany and France, and of ever Ì «mi! other one of the countries that hay 1 factor in r do cal ion at th* prcxrst ’ realize that the PREMIUMS PAY­ goods to avli w ill cross the seas 1 ; lime, lhe f* fCSS. WlH >M IO f'.’tUl | ABLE ON FIRE INSURANCE numbers, and the present tariff will matcrfal erv mi'tHc r oocriit to kwow I : POLICIES APE SO LOW THAT not keep them from making price, 1 Rea ein ng » um wapen do. in ITS ALMOST A JOKE? One can that American producers cannot meet Iwnframgr i »rxctHXlh every home in States, nc other Ovaler« la without loss. This will not come j the insure his household furniture for immediately after the war end», I« the 1 i f>ctof can several years for afew dollar*—about it wdl take some time to restore hr j larger etti s, the WUhmrd» Ur our CHRISTMAS and veil YEAR'S Shopping Mecca " >0 Supply_Your Wants for_ Table or Tree from our Varied Stock NEW MERCHANDISE. Jo Christmas Candies & Nuts H. MASON & CO RbEX. McNAIR & CO GENERAL HARDUJARE Kitchen Ranges and Heating Stoves. FIRE ! FIRE I ! FIRE ! I ! THE BEST STOCK OF HARDWARE IN the ; county . See Vs for Prices Before Ordering Elsewhere YAMHILL MILLING COMPANY Flour. Grain and Feed ROLLLE W. WATSON, “ The Insurance Man PHONE (78 CALL ON VS. J" kk 1 E. T. VLLMANN, Manager Coouitcrcial Building Tillamook WRITE I TODD HOTEL BUILDING, TILLAMOOK. ORE ioMMMMMk 4