TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MARCH 2. 1916.
F
BSjmf.of County Spelling Contes
Bfor February 4th, 1916.
District No. 49.
5th grade, Agnes Ztrr, 72 pct.
7th grade Rosie Abplanalp,
otlt gtade, Minnie Spencer 70 pct.
District No. 50.
H. S., Jessie Jensen, 9» pct.
District No. 51.
6th grade, Gladys Curl, 100 pct.
8th grade, Grace Holgate, too pct.
H. b., Leona Curl, 100 pct.
District No. 54.
5th grade, No. 3. (name not given)
j8 pct.
H. S. No. 2. (name not given) 72
.zct.
District No. 55.
5th grade, Charles Edmunds, 86 pct.
7th grade, l’aul Edmunds, 00 pct.
8th grade, Joseph Williams, 66 pct.
District No. 56.
4th grade, Raymond Lindsay, too
pct.
5th grade, Wendal Byers, 90 pct.
6lh grade, Mabel Anderson, 98 pct.
8th grade, Alice VanNortwick, Dol-
ie Wingrove, 98 pct.
District No. 57.
3rd grade, Ear) Miner, 82 pct.
4th grade, Ernest Geinger, 84 pct.
5th grade, Paul Geinger, 98 pct.
Olli grade, Glady Klmehan 100 pct.
7th grade, Ollie Miner, 100 pct.
District No. 60.
3rd-grade, Eugene Hall.
4th grade, Florence Blum, 74 pct.
5th grade, Susie Brown, 100 pct.
6th grade, Walter Brown, Marie
Hall, 100 pct.
District No. 61.
4th gyade, Chester Hopkins, 88 pct,
6th grade, Arthur Krebs.
Sth grade, Lillie Hopkins, 100 pct.
Union High School No. I.
Viola Batzner, Bessie Knight, Eva
Cain, Claire FT.iley, Bernice Knight,
100 pct.
Academy.
3rd grade, Maribelle Eastland, too
pct.
4th grade, Agnes Fitzpatrick 89 pct.
6th grade, Catherine O'Hara 100
pct.
7th grade, Mary Fitzpatrick, 100
pct.
Sth grade, Marie Durrer, 98 pct.
H. S. Aileen Fitzpatrick, Rose Pelz,
¡00 per cent.
D'JfX.
District No. 1.
Third grade, Charles Thomas, 9<
per cent.
4th Bpde Walter Severance 96 pe.
cent.
5th fiade, Oren Leach 86 per cent.
6th gra le Pearl Hughey 80 per cen.
7th Brade Hattie Severance 96 pei
cent R.
District No. 2.
3rd «rade, Mary Weber, 94 per cent
4thJ&adc, Ivy McKimmy, 70 pct.
6th grade, Orval Johnson 80 pct.
Sth grade, Craig Edgar, 86 pct.
District No. 6.
3rd gpade, Ruth Etzwiler 76 pct.
4th grade, Frank Etzwiler, 92pct.
4th grade, Herbert Redberg, 92 pct
5th grade, Frank Redberg 88 pct.
Oth grade, Mildren Scherzinger, 94
pet.
District J No. 8.
6th grade, Bessie Myers, Wilma
Dingets 98 pct.
District No.
I
9.
3rd ■Trade, Edith Chaphe, Roletta
Watson. 98 pct.
4th grade, Vera Jameson, Arden
Pangburn, 100 pct.
Sth grade, Bernie ce Clark, Madge
DeFord, 100 pct.
6th «1 ade. Hazel Chase, Mary Ea-
som, Harriet DeFord, 96 pct.
7th g rade, Frances Shrode, 96 pct.
" 8th grade, Doris Sumerlin, 90 pct.
High School.
•
Max eBals, Ozella Hart, Ina Wil
liams, [Mary Ullmann, 98 pct.
District No. 10.
3rd grade, Isedore Erickson, 90 pct.
4th ■rade, Blanche Glad, 92 pct.
5th grade, Ethel Anderson, too pct.
6th grade, Christina Olson, Eliza
beth Zuercher, Dorothy Hare, too pct
7th grade, Jennie Glad, 98 pct.
8th grade, Raymond Ford, 88 pct.
District No. 11.
3rd.grade, Elmer Lundberg 64 pct.
6th grade, Dora Lundberg, 80 pct.
7th grade, Naomi Scovell 92 pct.
8th grade, Eva Lundbetg, 64 pct.
District No. 12.
4th g rade, Homer Blum, 90 pct.
7th grade, Beatrice Blackburn, 96
pct.
8th grade, Hattie Moore, 98 pct.
RECALL PETITION FIIED.
District No. 14.
3rd grade, Dollie Derby, 92 pct.
Should Have Been Signed by 793
4th grade, Letah Barnette, 96 pct.
Voters but Only 364 Have Done so.
Sth (grade, Caroline Strueby, 92 pcf.
6th g rade, Harley Davidson, 96 pct.
The recall petitions, to recall
8th grade, Ellen Hedrick, 90 pct.
County Commissioner Geo. R. Mc
District No. 16.
Kimens, were tiled last week and,
3rd grade, Irene Belleque.
strange to relate had only a little ov
4th grade, Louise Belleque 68 pct. er a half of the necessary signatures
5th grade, Anna Belleque, 94 pct.
10 invoke a recall election. The peti-
6th grade, Guss Belleque, 94 pct.
titions contained 364 names, whereas
7th grade, Ernest Belleque, 94 pct.
they should have had 793 names, as it
8th grade, Bessie Hunter, 86 pct.
requires.
District No. t8.
County Clerk Holden under whose
7th grade, Irma Tatro, 86 pct.
jurisdiction the recall petition must
8th grade, George Tatro.
be submitted and passed upon, im
I -
District No. 21.
mediately notified those who filed
3rd, grade, Edytha Brown, 86 pct.
the petition of the above facts, and it
5th grade, Bernice Blum, 96 pct.
is doubtful whether the necessary
6th grade, Florence Hayes, 94 pct.
number of names can be obtained,
7th grade, J. E. Cameron, Bertha for it seemed to be hard to obtain
Hayes, 94 pct.
names in road districts Nos. 2 and 3.
Non-attendant.
In fact, we believe this will be the
Claud Webb, 98 pct.
end of the recall.
District No. 22.
Somewhat Premature.
3rd grade, Etta Burke, 98 pct.
The petition for the recall of Com
4th grade, Homer Worthington 66 missioner McKimens was filed in the
pct.
county clerk's office this forenoon.
5th grade, Edith Owen, \ ivi Owens
Some persons asserted that not
100 pct.
enough signatures could be obtained
6th grade, Arthur Owen', 94 pct.
to file the petition, but that was easy,
7th grade, Mabel Lundquist, 98 pct. especially in the North end.
8th grade, Dorothy Owen, 100 pct.
Now it is said by the same people
District No. 23.
that the recall will not ct.rry. They
4th grade, John Enzlcr, Claude were once, may they not be mistaken
Burdick, 96 pct.
again ?
grade, Elizabeth Werner, 100 pc
Under the law, Mr. McKimens has
8th grade, Mabel Burdick, 98 pct.
five days in which to resign. Mr. Mc
District No. 24.
Kimens now has, the petitioners as
4th grade, Vivian Tomlinson, 98 pct sert, the opportunity to put in prac
grade, Alice Daniel, 88 pct.
tice his claim for economy by resign
8th grade, Beverly Daniel, 86 pct.
ing and save the people $1,500.00, the
H.l S., Elphina Batterson, 96 pct.
cost of the election, or stop his talk
District No. 25.
about economy.
3rd grade, Frank Landolt, 54 pct.
If he fails to resign, an election
5th grade, Hazel Wilks, 60 pct.
must be held within 20 days after the
6th grade Verda Vanderpool, 62 pct five days have elapsed. 'I he question
7th grade, Ruth Ekloff, 76 pct.
is, will Mr. McKimens prove his
District No. 26.
claim of economy by resigning?—Ne
4th grade, Inez Hester, 94 pct.
halem Times.
6th grade, Margaret Armentrout,
94 pei
The horse laugh is surely on the
Sth grade, Gladyce Hester, 94 pct. Nehalem Times for in filing the re
Sth grade, Lena Rutgers, 94 pct.
call petitions with only a little over
District No. 27.
half sufficient names is certainly
5th grade, Ruth Gould, 92 pct.
laughable. But with that: poor show
8th grade, Herschel Hollett, 82 pct. ing it looks certainly l-idiculous for
District. No. 28.
the Times to call upon Mr. McKim
Sth grade, Bernice Loerpabe’ 94 pct. ens to resign. Another misleading
6th grade, Alton McKimens, 90 pct. statement is made that it cost $1,500
District No. 31.
for a recall election. It dees not cost
jrd grade, Catherine I’rovoost, Eva that amoun^of money. Cut out about
Crawford, Glenna Heacock, 100 pct. $50000 from that amount, for $1000.00
4th grade, Margery Prime, 100 pct.. is nearer the mark.
5th grade, Marie
Flagg, Helen
Eadus, 100 pct.
Piano for Sale.
6th grade, Hazel Bodie, 100 pct.
■ yth grade, Thelma Mather, Gladys
For sale, a Hollett & Davis piano,
Rijhard, Jennie McClew, 100 pct.
Sth grade, Neva Hutchinson, Mar in good condition. Inquire of T. P.
Johnson, Tillamook, Ore.
garet Hamilton, 100 pct.
■e®igh School, Minillus Day, Hazel
KBcks, Grace Eadus, Robert Watt,
Card of Thanks.
Veima West, 100 pct.
District No. 32.
We desiri to thank the friends and
3rd grade, Clarice Booth, 98 pct.
grade, Charlie Bennett, 98 pct. I neighbors for the many kindnesses
shown its during the illness and death
7th grade, Cordia Blalock, 80 pct.
of our little girl.
District No. 33.
Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd
Bh grade, Lee Simmons, 78 pct.
Erickson and relatives.
Th grade,
.......................
Marie Mayer.
tl grade, Elizabeth Phillips, 94 pct
■ _
grade, William Phillips, 90 pct. i
Notice.
District No. 38.
|
rd grade, Gladys Kodad, 98 pct.
| Teacher's Local Institute will be
Ih grade Harvey Maddux, 92 pct. 1 held in the Tillamook High School
th grade, Gladys Hathaway, 98 pct Auditorium on Saturday, March 4th,
th grade, Harry Elliott 98 pct.
from 10:30 to 12:00 a.m.; 1:00 to 3:00
District No. 39.
< p.m. All teachers and others interest
rd grade, Ruth Kuppenbender, ed in educational work are cordially
Hie Batzner, 72 pct.
invited to attend.
th grade, John Rankin, 94 pct.
W. S. Buel, Supt.
I
th grade, Hilda Steele, Victor I
ton, Vivian Tohl, too pct.
th grade, Abbie Rankin, 84 pct.
th grade, Minnie Olson, 98 pct.
Ornamental Fire Places
th grade, Anah Steele too pct.
Built nf Brich or Stone.
District No. 42.
All Fire Places absolutely
th grade, Dessie Babcock, too pct. .
guaranteed not to smohe
District No. 45.
I
grade, Elizabeth Vetsch 48 pct ■
or money refunded.
grade, Florence Smith, 80 pct.
Brich Worh of all hinds
& grade, Nina Vctsch, 70 pct.
done on short notice.
District No. 48.
rd grade, Herbert Lundy, too pct,
He mahe specialty of
th grade, Edith Reed, 92 pct.
repairin f{ smoking Fire
th grade, Golda Adams, too pct.
Places.
th grade. Lulu Robinson, Elda
thibald. Vena Jensen too pct.
th grade, Charles Lundy. Lillian •
ter, too pct
TILLAMOOK. ORE.
th grade, Fred Chalker, 88 pct.
j
RÄ LPH E. WARREN,
What the Editors Say.
Railroads* make provisions for pas
sengers who think they must smoke
when traveling, but the woman who
insists on being seated by an open
window, regardless of the comfort of
others, must still be tolerated.—New
berg Graphic.
Commissioner Holman, as chair
man of the State Association of
county Judges and Commissioners,
has appointed a committee to draft a
new road law. The committee named
consists of Walter H. Evans, E. E.
Coovert, S. Benson, John H. Lewis,
J. H. Albert and Leslie Butler. It is
safe to say with Coovert and Benson
on the committee, the proposed draft
will contain none of the features of
the Bingham Road Bill.—Mt. Scott
Herald.
Doesn't this jar you? Newbern', the
staid old Quaker City of Yamhill
county recently held a boxing and
wrestling contest, in which young
men connected with the various
churches met the ring representatives
from the Portland
schools, and
many ladies were present who were
deeply interested, They had bouts in
the 115, 135 and 145 pound classes,
and pitted a Newberg man of 172
against a 200 pounder from Portland,
the latter winning, but the Newberg-
er is said to have given him a “run
for his money.” Another stunt is to
be pulled off in about three weeks
Legitimate? Perhaps nerfectly so, but
who would have thought the Quakers
would have started it? The world do
move.— Telephone Register.
Pretty generally over the state is
the impression growing that the old
district road supervisor system is
antiquated, impractical and unneces
sarily expensive. It will not be sur
prising, when the next legislature
meets if the law is not repealed and a
new one substituted which will pro
vide for road building and reparing ;
to be done under the supervision of a :
county roadmaster, empowered with :
more authority than that official now
has. County Judge Watson, of Coos I
county, sounded the keynote in the |
campaign along this line in a recent ,
interview in the Oregon Journal. '
Judge Watson said that the exper
ience of his county had proved that
under the supervisor system only
about 40 cents actual value was secur
ed for every dollar invested for road
work. There are 33 road supervisors
in Coos county, and Mr. Watson says
as a result, they have 33 different
kinds of roads.—Itemizer.
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It is refreshing to see the men who
stand close to the people, who each
week feel the popular pulse, enter the
active field of politics, heretofore
monopolized by the lawyers. With a
desire to bring about constructive leg
islation, to cut down taxation and to
see what is wrong with the legisla
ture the country editors have thrown
their hats in the ring. These men
hope to become a part of the system,
to study it at close range and to as
certain what is at fault. The very
nature of the calling of the country
editor brings him in close touch with
every class of people, every business
and every profession and these men
should prove true representatives of
their respective
localities. These
country newspapermen are well in
formed on topics of interest and en
joy the confidence of their readers,
who in turn realize that the editors
will remain as >rue to them at Salem
as they are at home. In Washington
county two editors have cast their
hats into the ring—A. E. Scott, editor
and publisher of the News-Times and
L. A. Fernsworth publisher of the
Banks Herald.—News Reporter.
And should you appear not interested
the growling glutton will go back to
the original subject and his sufferings
until you are prompted to to relieve
mui wiui an axe. Hut it takes all
kinds of people to make a world and
we must have a few who wear a path
from the cookie can to the medicine
chest. Else how would the doctors
live ?—Astorian.
Emancipation of the Druggist.
By Thos. H. Rogers, McMinnville,
in The Oregon Voter.
Prohibition has already worked
wonders with one class of people—
the druggist. It means his emancipa
tion from a nefarious business at the
hands of the goody-goody, the batk
door sneak, the mince pie patron, the
rheumatic, alcoholic friend.
The dispensing ot rum and drugs
does not go well hand in hand. It
should have never been countenanc
ed in the first place. It robs the drug
gist of his virtue—of syinpatljy—of
self respect. Yet because it was once
the custom people will ask him to
become a law breaker, an outlaw.
Some of the very ones that talk
prohibition loudest will ask and ex
pect you to favor them. Hence no
two hundred and fifty dollar alcohol
bond tor me, thank you.
Possibly a great
many
voters,
should they have a chance now,
would vote far more differently than
they did in 1914. This applies largely
to those who walk up and voted with
their eyes shut. They simply jumped
the fence with the old bell wether,
never counting the cost. 1 say tins is
all candor, without fear or prejudice.
Ask any druggist and he will tell you
the same thing.
It is this class of people that makes
the druggist an outlaw. When you try
to explain the intent and purpose of
the new law you go up against it like
this:
“Why, I didn’t know I voted for a
thing like that. I supposed of course
1 could do as I always have—get all
the whisky and alcohol 1 wanted for
family use, and brandy for mince pie.’
"Listen, lady, to this tale of woe—
the one you voted for and helped
pass—a mighty good one too by the
way, means our emancipation, and I
am glad of it. I can't sell you any.
That’s the word with the break on it.’
This as a rule settles that question;
then comes that of beer. "Are we
never to get any more beer either,
not even when the weather turns hot
and the water gets full of typhoid
germs?”
’’Twenty-four quarts lady but not
from the druggists. You will have to
do as I—send in your order, then
walk up like a man and sign for it.”
“Yes and have everybody talking
about you, and have your name in the
nasty old newspapers? Not much.
I'h be ashamed to do a thing like
that."
"Softly, lady, softly. That’s the law
you helped make. When you sign up
you are doing it in good faith; you
are honoring it, neither disgracing it
or yourself. If I was like you and
wanted whisky or brandy or alcohol
and was ashamed to sign up I would
be ashamed to drink it. It's going to
be like this hereafter:
“Nixum whisky, nixum rye,
Nixum brandy for mince pie.”
Nazarene Church.
Sunday school at io. Preaching at
it and 7:30. Young peoples meeting,
6:30. Prayer meeting, Tuesday at 7:30
p.m.
Cottage prayer meeting, Friday at
7 30 p m.
Everyone welcome to attend these
services.
A. H. Smith, Pastor.
One of the walking delegates who
Annual Statement
infest Portland rises to tell us that he Syucpsia of the
of the
and his kind are just as patriotic as VaL'aolii.'sutts Fira & Marina ¡nsurance Company
are their neighbors, but that they
ui xiubiou, iii the ¿tale of Maamhu-
would not enlist to fight the battles h > Its, on th«.-
«Jay of Decern;. I.
in which the priviliged class gets all* li'l .. made to the insurance commis
of the alate of Oregon, pur
the profits and the working class gets sioner
suant tc law:
all the blows. It is not easy to follow
Capital.
the distinction that the walking dele Amount of capitai p ud up.} 500,000.00
Incoine.
gate makes. When we speak of a Net premiums rtcdved
dur-
"privileged class,” we usually mean
iag the year.......................... $ 783,403.74
dividends
and
, that select crowd that enjoys advan
rent»
received
during
tages, favors, and immunities that are
the year ...............................
49,987.00
denied to the rest of us. Persons who Income from other sources
received during year....
10,050.80
without fear of punishment are per
mitted to break the law by destroy
Total income......................... 8 843,14 1.54
DikburMemeuta.
ing their neighbor's business by strike
losses paid during the
and boycott are a privileged class. Per Net
year ..........................................8 426,381.32
sons who slug and maim workmen Dividends paid on capitul
tiucK during the year..
None
and escape arrest through the con
and salaries
nivance of a subservient police force Commissions
paid during the year...
263,205.87
are a privileged class. Dynamiter« Taxes, licenses and fees
paid during the year. . .
25,353.07
who for hire blow up buildings and
of all other ex
kill a score of people, and who escape Amount
penditures ...........................
50,180.73
hanging for their infamies, are a
765.120.99
Total
expenditures
...
8
privileged class. Persons who, by law
Assets.
passed by a truckling Congress and Value of real estate owned
None
(market value) ................
signed by a sycophanthist executive,
Value of stocks and bonds
are granted immunity for many crim
owned (market value). |1 ,190^154.00
es it may please them to commit, are Loans on, mortgages and
None
collatofal. etc.......................
a privileged class. It is possible that
133,224 17
In banks and on hand
the persons spoken of here as enjov- Cash
Premiums in course of
ing special license to destroy life and
collection written since
162,286 02
September 30, 1915..........
property are in the privileged class
Interest and rents due and
that also reaps the profits of war.—
9,736.53
accrued ..................................
The Spectator.
Total assets ...................
11,483,300 72
Leas special deposits In
A doctor who thinks more of his
any state (If any there
be) .............................................
None
! conscience than he does of his prac
tice told the Ogden (Utah) Examin
'Total assets admitted In
81,483,300.78
er that the people who are always
Oregon
parading their ills and seeking sym Gross claims Liabilities.
for losses
pathy are generally of the type that
unpaid .................................. 8 148,047.81
disregard the important laws of na Amount of unearned pre
miums on all outstand
ture. As long as women wear furs in
569.415.72
ing risks ................................
the summer and a smile in the winter I Due for commission and
Non?
brokerage ..............................
they are apt to have something to i
11.7M.7S
complain about, for nature plays no All other liabilities..............
favorites and hot house plants do j
Total liabiliti*s. exclu-
• lv. of capital «torli
not thrive on the hillside. Then the ,
of 1500.090...................
I 711.205.Tl
sick specialist generally has a de- | Total premium« In force..............
December
31,
1115
............
«1114.115
27
ranged stomach, at least the sick ,
Bualnraa In Oregon far Ike 1 ear.
party thinks its deranged, and the , Total
inaurance written
fault may be traced to a combination
during the year........ I 14«.Til 00
of alligator,
coyote and elephant Gror.a premluane received
softs
during the year. • ■••• •
methods of devouring sustenance. Premium»
returned during
0$
Lazy louts who have nothing to do
the year ....... ......................
844 19
during year
but worry about themselves eat very Lo«aea paid
Incurred
during
unthinkable dishes at unthinkable
286 39
the year............ ...............
i times. They dissipate with food just Total amount of Insur
ance
o
u
4
•
t
a
i
ding
In
as much as some poor unfortunates |
471 00
Oregon per. 3>< ‘tl*. .
do with strong drink. Take the aver- M AfWACHUftKTTB VIRK AND
— - MA-
-
RISE INRVKANCH COMPANT.
I age chronic cotnplainer and switch 1
By
WALTER
ADLAKD,
Secretary
him from his favori’e complaint and i ’atu’ory resident g«n«ral ataal and
in nine cases out of ten he will dis
attonmr for scrvica.
GILBERT H. DURHAM.
course at length on the foods he has
214 Oak. St_. Portland. OW
met and the foods he is hunting for.
MILLIONAIRES CREATED
EUROPEAN WAR.
Bi
interesting Story Told by Home.
Croy in Leslie's Weegly.
——o ■
A tall, gaunt, barefooted Missouri
hill-billy stood beside his rattly, disli
wheeleo wagon, waiting to see the
niignty proprietor oi the sawmill,
who guessed only too well that the
tull-bnly Had something lie wanted to
swap for lumber.
“What can 1 do for you,”
The hiliinan shifted his weight un
easily. "1 'low 1 got something ot a
powerful lot of interest to yuh.”
Reaching over the side ot the wa
gon he placed his rough hand tender
ly on a black lump. "1 guess yuh
Know what it is.”
1 he sawmill proprietor glanced at
it deprecatingly and turned toward
the mill.
“It’s lead, partner, pure lead, and 1
know where it come from, 1 could
take you right to the spot—ef 1 want
ed to.”
The mill propietor hooked a row ol
lingers under the rough stone and
tried to lift it, but he could not budge
it. “It docs seem to have lead in it.
vvhat was you cal’c’lating askin’ for
showin' me where you toutid it?”
The farmer from the foothills cut
his eye down to crafty slits. “ I was
lowing just the other day as how’ a
nouse pattern would come in handy.
Ef you 11 saw me out one 1’11 take you
to the spot.” And so the deal was
consummated, the hill-billy gleefully
driving away, joyous over having got
a fine house pattern worth $40 for
merely showing a fellow where you
could pick up a few hunks of lead.
Opening Joplin’s Mine.
That was forty live years ago and it
was thus that the great Joplin lead
and zinc district was made known to
the world.
In the tall of 1914 a mine operator
noticed a faint stirring on the part 01
“jack,” as the miners call zinc ore. Il
was a long time before the people oi
Joplin Mo., connected the booming
of the big guns at Liege, Reims and
along the Aisne with the upward
movement of “jack”. Then they re
membered that the Germans had con
trol of the zinc mines in Belgium, and
..hat now the allies must look else
where for their zinc. Zinc combined
with copper makes brass.
The big rise began about the 1st
of January, 1915, and during that ycai
staid, quiet Joplin was a boom town.
Nome suddenly moved to Jasper
county. Patient, plodding and straight
forward citizens who thought it was
wicked to stay up after 11 got night
keys and began taking tango lessons
from an English dancing instructor
with a small refined mustache and a
broad accent. Wives who had shop
ped regularly for fifteen years out of
mail order catalogues, suddenly had
to go to St.Louis for fittings, and
wrist watches became as common as
fried eggs.
Prices Soar and Soar.
“Jack” had been selling for $35 a
ton, but it began to edge up; $40. $50.
$60—upward it crept more and more
excited. When it reached $80 the
autos got so thick that pedestrians
went out only in twos and threes. But
it was not to stop—onward, upward
it soared. When it reached $90 the
Browning clubs and new thought or
ganizations had to go out of business
on account of the cabarets and these
dansants. Steadily “jack" climbed un
til it hit $100, when they had a dem
onstration on the streets with a band
to play and an orator in a frock coat
to tell them about this glorious com
monwealth where every bey may be
president, to say nothing of the grow
ing electoral chances of the girls.
But the end was not yet “jack" kept
right on going up. One hundred and
ten it struck and went on through,
headed in the general direction of th«
Wilky Way. The very highest, tip-
topest price of all was by Orleans
Longacre for a limited amount at
$139.60. During 1915 the streets of
Joplin and Webb City run with Euro
pean money. The spirit of ‘49 was up
on them. Into the district tumbled
hundreds of miners; the wages paid
the men under ground—the shovelers
the machine men, the powder mon
keys, the tub
hookers—doubled.
There are no unions in the Joplin dis
trict, and no foreign labor; everybody
speaks English or he doesn’t work,
that’s all. The miners see to that
themselves.
Wages Fixed By Market.
A sliding scale of wages was made
for the miners by the operators.
When ore went up the miners were
to be paid more; when it went down
they were to get less. The machine
men (the workers who run the drills)
were getting $2.25 a day before the
boom started. They are now getting
from $4.25 to $4.50.
The Webb City zinc mills go right
on grinding and the millionaires go
right on tumbling out of the hopper.
The men who have been working in
the mines on salary lease a few acres,
sink a shaft and install a grand piano.
You never can tell who is going to be
the next millionaire, and you never
can tell ’em by the way they look.
There is none of this quiet, rich dres
sing with imported shades and exclu
sive patterns that we read about. In
stead the neophyte who has just been
admitted to the exclusive and much-
envied financial
fraternity
wears
high laced boots, a khaki coat, jump
ers and a string tie that has seen
much active service. The poor humble
looking man you feel sorry for you
find has just signed the contract for
a summer bungalow in the Berkshire«
and his wife has run out to California
to get out of the run and to acquire
ideas for her next paper on prune
culture.
Some New Made MiUionairet.
Emmet Pulver, before the war
started, was a machine man, trudging
to work at 7 in the morning and com
ing back just as the general delivery
window closed in the evening When
the war opened and "jack” began to
go up he got permission to "clean up
the columns of'one of the old mines.
In a sheet ground mine pillars of nat
ural rock are left standing to keep
the roof from falling in. The pillars
are 50 feet in circumference, and the
work of taking them out is very dan-
. gcrous, for one of the dynamite ex-
1 plosions may be too heavy, and down
on you come 10,000,090 tons of earth.
But Pulver cleaned up his coluams
successfully and is now out for mayAr
of Webb City. He has made $40,00*1
jince the war began.
See that fellow ther«—that's Bill
Rhea—that strapping big iollow ni
cor pants and wearing that &<Ld
necktie that looks as if it had been in
the family since Harrison's aduiiai.-
iration. He's ail example of what w«
are doing down here. Before th« war
began he was jigging—running «r«
through a jig box, you knew. iKe bor
rowed some money and got iiold of
the old Annias min« and sai renning
it into debt so fast that yoe ««aid
iniell the heat when the prices hegaa
to go up. He let his ore stack up for
a while and thea oae day sold eff
6850 tons all in one lamp. When ere
is $100 a ton you can see that it
doesn’t take long to pay the mort
gage off the old home place. Bill’s
making $25,000 a month now.
Then take G. 1. Vol«. Baf«re th«
war boom came on he was sitting up
lights with two wheezy mills that
looked as if they’l never se« warm
weather again. He had to take ¡its
wife’s egg money to pay off Saturday
light, but the war came on and hi«
nines began to take the long raguler
nhalations of cross-country atteh lua.
since January 1915, he has »alted
.way just a trifle better than $12»,-
000.
You can go right on down this line,
friend. Pick ’em out and 1’11 tell you
ibout ’em. Who's that with tha rqund
ace and red complexion? That’s 1 o*u
Coyne. Why, I used to know him
when he was clerking in the post-
affice. He saved up hie rnoney—s fcl-
ow who does that gets ahead soenwr
or later—and borrowed some mor»,
end in August 1915, invested $60,coo
n a mining proposition. He ran oa
o some fine sheet ground and is new
making $10,000 a week. Mind you •
week. The “Tom C.”—that’s what he
■alls it—pays for itself every six
weeks.
Man with the Walnut House.
There, did you see that fellow
whizzing by! That was John C. Guinn
He’s got it, all right—mad« every
lollar of it here, too. Came here frocn
Georgia and bought 640 acnl ef land
-it $3.75 an acre. Well, he was string
halting along until fourteen years
igo when they discovered ere on his
'and. WiH you believe it, his fortuna
loubled three times before morning ’
He built him a house out in the
country and «ells it after his eld Stet«
—Georgia City. He says there isn't »
person in Boston as has a house like
him—all walnut. The war’s m«de that
man, and he’s worth—let me think a
minute. I want to play safe—-$i<soo-
000.
So the names could be multiplied.
It’s one of the many astounding de
tails of the present war that a set
tlement of men, away off in the cen
tral part of the United States, who
lave never seen an artillery piece,
should suddenly become rich by the
booming of 42-ccntimet«r guus tone
miles away. Seven hundrad and fifty
men in and around Joplin have been
made, financially, since VonKluck
swept across Belgium.
Country is Changed.
To say nothing of the doubled pros
perity that has come to the thousand#
and thousands of day laborers—the
men who go down in the ground
with the acetylene lamps on their
hats. Nor of the smelter men across
the line in Pittsburgh, Kun., who witb
their Aladdin ovens metamorphose
"jack” into spilter—the bri gbt Ad-
pound plates that go racing across
the ocean to be melted with c<Jpp«r
to make the shrieking shells.
What a change a few year« make!
How astonished the nameless bare
footed native, who had to talk so
long and hard to trade his discovery
for a house pattern, would be could
he come back, a prairie Rip Van
Winkle, to sec the mill chimneys
spurting their black smoke, spouting
it day and night, never ceasing, never
stopping, and to see the hundreds of
rubber shod miners pouring out of
the ground at shift hour—how «»ton-
ished he would be to see all this mid
to know that on these very prairies,
with the corn growing about and sir
■Irills crashing below, might deptr.d
the victory of a world war!
Furs Wanted.
Furs wanted, highest prices paid.
Send for price list. G. D. Alderin L
Co. Salem, Oregon.
Ford Auto For Sal« Cheap.
Good second hand Ford Automo
bile, 1914 model, fur sal« for $350.
Will take a gooa young horse f«r
part payment. Apply at the Headlight
office.
•
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patrons of the Mutual Telephoa« C« .
will be charged for the u«« af ud
company's lines or phone#.
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i
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