TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 23, 1915.
and there is no telling what will hap­
pen to interfere with industries tn the
future. The snap shot man fully real­
ized that he was in a hopeless mint-
tory at one time when he opposed
freak and untried laws, but public
sentiment is beginning to react.
e
want to add that before Oregon can
shake off the system and get back to
safe and sane methods it is going to
be many years before it can or will
do so, and in the meantime capital
will go to other states where it is
safe from political cranks.
FIRE ! FIRE ! ! FIRE ! ! !
A 1916 Xmas Musing.
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Make This Your
CHRISTMAS and
NEW YEAR’S
i Shopping Mecca.
All men and nations have made sure
advance,
.
THE BEST CHRISTMAS
You say, sweeping the past with mus­
ing glance.
PRESENT.
Since the olden days of spear, bow
and flint.
that Santa Claus can bring to your
And tallow dip in the gloaming aglmt ■Q
home is a lire insurance poliey. We
From spinning wheel, hand loom,
sickle, and all
hope you may never have a fire, but
The crude clumsy methods of elder
one is apt to occur through many
toil;
From the old, slow, horse-drawn
causes, and it is well to be on the safe
stage coach travel,
side. We can give you a policy in \
It was not generally known that the To the fast express, the modern mar-
1 changed
last
State
Legislature
had
vel;
good company at rates which cannot
the amount of money to L be used in F rom
wave-tossed
wind-waited,
be bettered anywhere. Drop in and road districts from 50 to 70 per cent,
ocean craft.
For the information of our readers At whose frail wooden barriers Nep­
see us.
we will quote the law. w hich is as
tune laughed,
follows:
To the great, steel,
steamer that .
ounty
Court
or
Commission-
“The C____ _
plows the brine
ers'
Court
of
each
county
in
the
state
Propelled by sun-stored power of
J,
jf not to exceed ten
may le
elder time.
e
iliac
on
all
taxable
I
mil's <
.4 county, at the time Man, obedient, to Divine command,
PHONE US.
CALL ON US-
WRITE US.
uiual tax levy upon Has added to himself on every hand;
TODD HOTEL BUILDING, TILLAMOOK, ORE. ti'.e previous year's
assessme-.t. which Added, harness for the need of the pj
hour;
shall be set apart
as a general
road :--L to be used m the building Supplementing the weak physical
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT should go on record as favoring, a-. . and improving the public or county power.
that is more money should be devot­ roads or bridges on county roads of For what is forest and coal, oil and
ed to hard surfacing in the future, the county in which the property is
gass,
flic snap shot man believes that is is located Said tax shall be paid in Utilized more and more as the years
the wisest thing the citizens could do money, and collected in the same I pass.
a
The snap shot man takes this op­ to insist that $100,000 of the road manner as ether county taxes are col­ And on-rushing power of the wa’er
fund
should
be
used
for
this
purpose.
fall.
portunity to wish everybody a merry This can and should be done by cut­ lected, and when so collected shall
be used for road purposes only, as But power thus stored up for the use
Christmas.
ting out all new road projects for the provided in this Act, and seventy per­
of all.
few years. It is a waste of mon­ cent thereof shall be apportioned to "And he shall have dominion” it was
Every fair minded person will ad­ next
to improve roads at considerable the several road districts including
said,
mit that the assessment of Bayocean ey
expense and in a few months to be
property have been placed too high, cut up with heavy travel. This is districts composed of incorporated E’re e’en in embryo man existed,
on account of having no way out. It what is taking place south of this cities and towns, in such proportion Or ere the coal and oil and gas were
laid
as the amount of taxable property in
should never have been placed at the
each district shall bear to the whole In the faroff, old Carboniferous age.
valuation it is today with no road city.
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amount of taxable property in the Yet, what is’t the difference makes,
facilities, for it is good roads that
It is gratifying to know that editors county, and the remaining thirty per
places values into property.
betwixt
are not the only persons who make cent shall be applied to roads in such Human
poverty and the ultra rich,
Nothing
is to be gained by the mistakes. When editing one of the locality in the county as the court Between the masses, whose hard,
timber men bringing mandamus pro­ church notices last week the snap may direct.”
daily toil,
This will cause some re-adjustments Barely ieeds the lamp of life with oil,
ceedings against the County Court shot man almost fell into the waste
on account of the alleged accusation paper basket when he read: “Last in the amounts of money to be ex­ And those who are rolling in wealth
that the budget had not been fully Sunday the crows were good at al) pended in the three road districts, for
and case?
itemized, other than putting the the services.” It was too much of a we find the assessments are:
What is the real cause? The reason
$0,780,679
county to additional expense, for the joke to let pass, and at first the snap R. D. No. 1.
please,
delay will necessitate additional help shot man decided to tell the operator R. D. No. 2.
8,052,465 Why, age-old forests, leagues of soil
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2,488,895 and grass,
in the assessor’s and sheriff’s offices. to “follow copy,” but on second con­ R. D. No.
If the new law is followed it will Vast iron and oil deposits of the past,
The County Court acted wisely in sideration he thought that discretieon mean that road district No. I will re­ Giving to wealth its unearned incre­
was
the
better
part
of
valor
for
it
ceive more money than is provided
restricting the weight of loads on
ment,
auto trucks and other vehicles, for plight have angered the "crows” so for in the budget and road district Should be thus lavished, poured, upon
much
that
they
would
want
to
hang
No. 3 considerably less. Considering
when 7000 pounds of freight are piled
the few.
on auto trucks, which travel at about the snap shot man to the nearest that there is a larger
population in And the masses still toil from dawn
10 to 15 miles an hour, it is no wond­ telephone pole, which would be ex­ the South part of the county than in
to dew?
er that the road between this city and ceedingly tough on him at this fes­ the north part, and that travel over Why, but through the accident of
Cloverdale is cut up at this season of tive time of the year. It is up to the the roads is that much greater on ac­
birth,
the year and it is going to take a lot young man who wrote the notes for count of no railroad facilities, it looks Some never know or feel the strain
of money to repair it. Better get the the Christian Church to square Tim- to us that the law is hardly fair to
of earth.
hard surface road spirit as soon as self with the “crows”. Of course, Bro. this county, because it benefits a few
“
Created
free and equal all men are,"
posible and ent out those heavy Van will enjoy the joke.
rather than the majority of citizens
maintenance charges every year.
who have made their homes here. Inphrases that run smooth, high-
The persistency of the Portland The law, no doubt, is a benefit to
sounding, fair,
We have noticed quite frequently Journal in stating that it had inside some localities in some counties, but Our own great “Bill of Rights” pro­
claim, recount.
that proper courtesy have not been information that the Supreme Court it is unfair and unjust in this county.
Which the literal facts of life discount
shown the Press of this city in not of the State of Washington would
It does not require much of seer or
inviting it when something of public declare the prohibition law iuvalid
sage.
importance is under consideration. proved to be false. That paper can­
In this progressive and enlightened
The snap shot man attributed this not be relied upon as being trust­
age,
largely in the past to the isolation of worthy in the future, now that it was
To see and know that an Infinite God
this neck of the woods, but now that paper that vilified Republican candi-
wer are more up-to-date, progressive cauglit red-handed in publishing a de­
A joint installation of Rebecca and Has, indeed, created all things good.
and need the Press more than ever liberate lie as to what the decision of Oddfellows will be held on January Enough for all this earth will pro­
the
court
would
be
in
the
prohibition
to help develop the county, we want
duce,
4th, all members and their immediate
to express our opinion by saying case. The court declared the law val­ friends in town that evening are cor- But somehow all the richest, sweetest
id
and,
further,
the
opinion
was
unan
­
that whenever the Press is ignored it
juice,
imously concurred in by all the dially invited.
is not showing good judgment.
Seems now to be extracted by the
judges. This is the Democratic news­
For Sale—One kitchen cabinet, one
few,
It may be a good law in some re­ paper that valified Republican candi­ sanitary couch and good sewing ma- Leaving but husks for many to chew.
dates
and
makes
it
a
practice
of
be
­
chine, for thirty five dollars. Call at Rich men now banquet, feasting as
spects to compel county courts to ex­
pend ”0 per cent of the road funds in smirching the character and good in­ McGee Apartments
across from
of yore,
Cj
tentions
of
Governor
Withycombc.
the district where it is raised, but it
public Library.
While beggers long for crumbs upon
After
all,
when
it
come
down
to
a
does not do justice in all counties.
the
floor.
What indeed! would be more ac­
As a result of this law the south part thoroughly reliable newspaper, the ceptable
to your wife and family this When first upon the cold New Eng-
of the county will be deprived of part Oregonian still retains that distinc­ Christmas
than a fine new piano or
of the money that was intended to be tion, and is the daily newspaper that player-piano?
land strand,
Easy terms in reach of
expended in that road district, which the people should support. No one all.—The Wiley
They found beneath their feet the
B.
Allen
Co.
can
or
should
have
any
more
confi
­
will have to go to the north end of
promised land,
the county. When the County Court dence or faith in the Portland Journal
Mr. B. Cavin and family, of Cald­ Our Pilgrim Fathers fell upon their
for
it
is
in
the
Ananias
class.
made up the budget it was not aware
well, Idaho, are visiting with his sis­
knees,
' of the fact that the law had been
ter Mrs. J. E. Klienfelter during the Then fell upon the Aborigines,
We
have
published
in
this
issue
part
changed.
holidays. Mr. Cavin won the cham­ And from Atlantic to Pacific coast,
of Judge Ballenger's address on the pionship of being the best rider in There remains of Indian scarce a
Last week a person dropped into Oregon System. It makes interesting the world at Walla Walla last year.
ghost.
th# office and asked us to publish reading, for the judge predicts the
They raised their voices high in
Editor
C.
E.
Trombley
and
family
semething for him. We refused to do people of Oregon will soon see the
song to Him,
so, because he was not a subscriber fallacy of the whole system. The will spend Christmas at Cloverdale. For sane deliverance from storm and
We
must
adnonish
our
respected
anil wa.s dropped from our list for the snap shot man has never been an ad­
King;
reason he was delinquent. \Ve conic vocate of the Oregon System, ami Bro. to be merry and wise, with the They professed faith in a God above,
compliments
of
the
season
and
a
hap
­
across a good many persons like this. when it was first agitated he was one
Who ordered all things by the law of
They know where to find the editor of those who predicted that it was a py and prosperous new year. And we
Love,
when lhev want something advertised stab at our representative form of extend the same to all the other coun­ And then drove Roger Williams to
free, or, should they get into trouble, government, a fine thing for political ty editors._______________
the wild,
want the notoriety kept out of the agitators and cranks, would lead to
Because he had faith like a little child.
newspapers, but rarely ever spend a class legislation and that the tax­ Christmas Program, Methodist S. S. They burn’d or hang'd supposed
nickle to support the home newspap­ payers would be at the mercy of the
witchery,
The following interesting program In the name of Puritan Bigotry.
er. The snap shot man has helped a non-taxpayers. All these things arc
good many persons politically and in gradually taking place, with addition­ will be rendered at the M. E. Church
1 hey fled from persecution hard and
a business way. Some have not appre­ al taxation piling up on the taxpayers on Friday evening:
dire,
ciated it, but the majority have, and as a result of the dual system of leg­
Songs by the congregation: “While
those are the persons the snap shot islation. Politicians made the Oregon Shepherds watch their flock by night” I hen het their own inquisitorial fire.
And even now, grim war, like the
1 System a hobby-horse to get into and “Hark! the herald angels sing.”
man is always ready to stand by.
Vulture,
j office, and the dear people flocked to Declamations:
Is
picking the bones of Modern Cul­
I he budget meeting is called for the standard of the so-called political
Herman Hunter, “Enough for All.”
ture,
next Thursday morning, and froui reformers, who advocated the false
Ruth Erskine.
all wars, ancient and modern,
present indications there does not ap­ I doctrine of the Oregon System, which
Elvira Wolfe, “Three Good Cheers” And
now pass'd.
pear to be very many complaints was to cure all political ills by the Song by Mrs. Edward’s class.
Seem but child’s play in contrast with
how the County Court intends to ex­ sovereign rule of the people. Anyone Declamations:
this last.
pend the taxpayers' money next year. can see that the Oregon System
Mary Ullmann, “Christmas, What
I here is one thing that the meeting has scared capital away from Oregon,
does it mean?”
Perhaps the world grows better and
Clarence Albert.
wiser.
Dorris Woolfe, "December."
But in these days of “Mail’d fist and
Kaiser,"
« Anthem by the choir.
Declamations:
And "She Rules the Wave,” is Brit-
Robert Roberson.
ania’s boast,
Robert
Campbell, “A Christmas And she s ready to back it at any cost
Carol.”
Its hard to believe that Mellenial
Florence Hunter, “The Merriest
dawn,
day.”
Is about to break with its harp and
Exercise by members of Mr. Tromb­
-
ley's class "Ring Out Sweet Christ­ .. 1 song
race on the Earth,” the angelic
mas Bells.”
song rang,
Song. Irma Austen, “Once Unto the And Nation's answer with the can­
Shepherd's.”
non's bang;
Declamations:
“Good will to men” the angel chorus
Jessie Thayer.
said.
ilene Austen, “Reiss of Chflstmas.” And the answer of man
is heaps of
Eula Thayer, "The Love Box."
dead.
Music by the Quartett.
Modern Culture is but an outward
Declamations:
sheath.
Frances Long.
Which scratch, and Lo—the barbar-
Marion Lamb, “An Impatient Wait­
inan beneath.
er.”
Christmas Story, Rev E. Gittins.
and
Drive is a poor word in war, and
the drives turn out poorly.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
, with LOCAL
APPLICATION« m th»r
Europe is paying the penalty for
, cannot reach the sent of the dtacaae Cn-
clinging to the monarch idea; but we
tnrrh is n hlo«xl or constitutional disease
nnd in onier to cure ityou must take in- didn t think there was so much devil­
ternnl remedies
Hall's' Catarrh Curs is try in it.
ROLLIE W. WATSON,
“ The Insurance Man
Editorial Snap Shots.
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Tillamook Jottings.
CHRISTMAS GOODS
A Full and Complete
Line of
Pyralin Ivory,
Stationery, Perfumes
Xmas Tree Ornaments.
TILLAMOOK DRUG
STORE.
We make our guarantee good.
1
1
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1
taken internally, and acts dirvctlr upon
the blood amt muccous surfaces
Hall's
Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It
was prescribed by one ol the best phy-
jiiriana in this country
for rears and ig
a regular prescription
It Is composed of
the beet tonics known, combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
m neons snrfaces
The
perfect combin*
tion o' the two ingredients is what pro-
Cue»» such wonderful results in curing
Fatal rh. Send for testimonials, free
P J CHBNKV A CO., Props.
Teledo. O
Sold by Druggists, price T.Sc
Take Hall's Family Fills for cunpstlpatlon.
F reedom of speech is one of those
numerous blessings, the abuse of
which gets one into trouble—but not
to suffer prohibition for that reason.
By a receipt on the ladies' page we
see that pies made of pumpkin can be
covered with a coating of sugar and
white of egg, making them look much
prettier. \\ hen the frosting's on the
pumpkin pic, in a manner of speaking.
Supply Your Wants for Table
or Tree from our Varied Stock
CLEAN, NEW
MERCHANDISE
Delicacies for the holiday feasts abound in our
grocery section—the many things that combine
to make the festal cheer are displayed for you to
choose from.
Our dry goods and notion departments are
replete with values for the Xmas shopper. Your
interestswill be well taken care of in this, Tilla­
mook’s only complete department store.
A FEW SUGGESTION^-.
SLIPPERS :
For Men and Women. “Comfy” and
“ Siesta.”
HANDKERCHIEFS :
An Ideal Gift Article. Reasonably Priced
Here.
LACES AND RIBBONS :
We have a good assortment for the Holi­
day Trade.
LADIES’ GOODS:
Boudoir Caps, Aprons and Dainty Linger­
ies and Undergarments.
MEN’S SUPPLIES :
Shoes, Hats, Caps and Raincoats, Gift
Suspenders and Holiday Neckwear.
FOR THE BOY OR GIRL :
A splendid Line of Toys and Presents
and Infants’ Goods-
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Remember that our grocery shelves are laden &
with good things for the table. Plan your menus &
Christmas Candies & Nuts
from our,stock.
Special size Young American Cheese for the
Holiday Trade. Send one to your friend.
H. MASON & CO
Masonic Bld.
Both Phones.
•f
Free Deliveries.
ALEX. MeNfllR & CO
GEflERAb HARDOUARE
Kitehen Ranges and
Heating Stoves.
THE BEST STOCK OF HARDWARE IN
THE COUNTY.
See Us for Prices Before Ordering Elsewhere.
A Merry Xmas. anda Happy
- and Prosperous New Year
to All.
GRAND LEADER
BREAD
! made of Yamhill Family Blend Flour is
! a life giving food. It cannot be out-
1 classed at the price and equal to many of the higher priced
! hard wheat flour on the market.
If you want your boys and girls to grow strong anil
healthy serve them with plenty of the products from Yam­
hill Family Blend Flour.
YAMHILL MILLING CO.