TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 5, 191Ö. WATER HIGHWAY TO TILLA MOOK CITY. posed to be annexed to the port, you I The Forest Reserve, or Government The Sunday Blue Law. says: “It is the legitimate business of Notice. are vitally interested in same. With Reserve Dili, appropriates $10,091», ------ o------ I the church to preserve this day."—Pa­ ------ o----- - meh interest you probably desire all Vuu.UU to apply lor building roads H. W. Cottrell, secretary of the Pa­ cific Christian Advocate, Jan. 12. Effort to be Made to Enlarge the available information regarding the Notice is hereby given, That the where needed in the forest reserve cific Religious Liberty Association in 1916. Common Council ot Tillamook City, Port of Tillamook. port and the benefits and liabilities section ot the country. In considering his anti-blue law address at the city It will be clear to all, seeing that it Oregon, has accepted the street im­ ------ o------ accruing to you by reason of such the importance oi these two bills as nail Monday night said in part: is the business of the church to pre­ provements provided for by Ordi­ A project for deeper water and a proposed annexation. It is the jnten- well as our situation in 1 illamook The 1854 Territorial Sunday forced serve the day, the State should keep nance No. 316 of Tillamook City, straight channel to Tillamook City is "on ° ,he Commissioners of the Port County, as applies to tins appropria­ rest law and all similar legislation is Oregon, being the following portions being urged upon the U. S. Engineer ot Iillamook to publish, in the form tion, 1 will say that from investiga­ fundamentally wrong, for every citi­ its hands off. Again in speaking of Sunday law, of streets, to-wit: All that portion of Department by Mr. Ray B. Compton, of circular letters to be issued from tion. that Iillamook Countv has 8 3,- zen in Oregon has the natural, con­ Mr. Tufts says: “ A law of this kind Eighth Street from the East line of special representative of the Port of time to time, all available facts bear­ 409 acres of Federal Forest Reserve stitutional and divine right of choice should be based upon public convic­ Stillwell Avenue, East to the West 'Iillamook. It is believed a survey will ing upon such questions as will un­ lands within our county, which ,o be religious or not to be, and if re­ tion that Sunday is a divine institu­ line Of Block 10 in A. A. Miller's Ad­ be made by the government within a doubtedly anse in regard to the ad­ amounts to 20 9-10 per cent, over ligious to choose the sect with which short time in order to determine the visability of the proposed annexation. one-tttth of the land of iillamook he will affiliate, and in either case to tion. It will requ.re more than a civil dition to the Town of Tillamook law to save the lav. The state and best method of improvement and to It is proposed to explain who are County non-assessable and non-tax- carry out his ideas of religion or non­ the chuich must each lo its part. It (now lillainook City) except the in­ make estimate of cost. c h Commissioners of the Port of able, being in the Mount Hebo Re­ religion, provided only that in so do- ' required many years of educational tersection of Eighth Street with Sec­ ond Avenue east, already paved. The tentative project outlined in­ Iillamook and their interest, collec- serve and Cape Lookout Reserve, ing he does not i invade the equal j I work to prepare the pu.dic mind 1er And has apportioned the costt of cludes the elimination of some of the •lydy and individually, in increasing which are part of the Siskiyou Forest rights of any other person. i prohibition. And so will it be on the .aid improvements to the respective worst bends in the channel , cutting Jk "¿u,s °f.thc P°rL to show clearly Reserve lands, in dealing with this Inis amiquated blue law, after be­ j Sabbath question beiore we attain to lots and tracts of ground which are off projecting cones and deepening that there will be no taxation without one appropriation ot the Federal gov­ ing dorment for sixty years, was res­ ! state-wide prohibition of Sunday the channel some 4 to 6 feet. The represenation, to explain where the ernment it seems to me that we urrected about one year ago by some business and Sunday amusements” — situated within Local Improvement No. "* 3, of * "'■■■ Tillamook City, • project includes the building of a lunds come from by which this elec­ should be entitled to some of this unscrupulous person and many of the I Pacific Christian Ad rec ite, .ide 5 District T'_. Oregon, being all of the property combination dipper and suction tion is financed; to allow anyone so money for road purposes within the nest citizens of our fair state were 1916. fronting and abutting upon, or adjac­ dredge, for use at Tillamook, at Ne­ desiring to inspect the books and requirements of that law. dragged before the courts. Their A word to the alert is sufficient. ent to said proposed improvement and halem and upon the Yaquina river. show where the money is spent. It is Now, coining back again to the Mil­ prosecution continued in various sec­ "Remember the camel’s nose”. .0 said proposed impprovements and It is believed the project will be ad­ proposed to show in detail why the itary Highway bill of ♦ iu,099,u9o.uv tions of our country until, though ju­ The fixed purpose of the Sunday especially benefitted thereby, t' . and opted for execution entirely by Gov­ tax limit of the Port of Tillamook is i appropriation, it seems to me that dicial skill, a quietus was put upon forced rest agitation is clcarlv to re­ that the Common Council of Tilla- ernment funds in view of the fact that is low as it is and why it will never I now is tne logical tune to use our such conduct by injunction, which quire all men to mut:!c their con­ mook City, Oregon, has the charier of the I’ort of Tillamook be greater than at present; to ex­ I very best eiiorts through our various applies only to local sections of the sciences, close up all labor aud all Thursday the 12th day of appointed October, does not allow a bond issue of any plain why the Commissioners of the 1 otnciais or the county and state, and state. amusements on Sun.lay as a religions 1916, at the City Hall in Tillamook kind. Such a project would be of great Fort ot Iillamook can never bond the our Oregon delegation, to secure our 1 ue speaker declared the blue law institution. City, Oregon, at the hour of 8 p.m. • benefit to the entire community, es­ port district; it will be explained to ¡snare of at least a portion of this unjust irom every view point, Seein,; suc't legislation would ten-1 as the time and place at which the and pecially to the farmers using largi y?UTmy yo,u' livinK Within the Port road money betore otner parts of the cited the fact that a baker who sells to make hypocrites of many and great­ Common Council shall hear and de­ amounts of hay anil to the county in of Iillamook will never have a Port United Diates ’ beat us to it”. 1 have nis -product from his bakery on Sun­ ly oppress the consciences of many termine all objections to the appor­ its use of cement upon the roads, as bonded indebtedness as a mortgage an idea in mind that would be a great day is just beiore the blue law, but if other good men and women. Vote X tionment of the cost of said street im­ lumber schooners returning to Tilla­ upon your property, a freedom from leverage in securing a nice appropria­ ne should own a grocery also, and yes on number 312 and repeal tile provement, and that at said meeting, mook from California points would " Inch indebtedness or the liability to tion irom the government for a mili­ should sell a loaf of bread from its Bl.i i ,.w. or r at such other time as the hearing bring in hay and cement at rates far such indebtedness is not had by the tary hignway through may be adjourned to, the Common Iillamook counter on Sunday, he is condemned below those now paid for such freight inhabitants of any other port district County. From Clatsop County on the oy the law as a criminal.' l ouncil will hear and determine such Mr. Compton, states, however, that m this state. It is proposed to give in nortti to 1-incoln county on the Tne statute condemns the man as a objections and make such changes a larger Port is needed to press tin e detail and plans in regard to the im­ south, we have approximately i 9 criminal who opens the doors of his therein as shall be necessary to make claim for recognition by the Engineer provement of the navigable channel mile of road which is essentially a carpenter shop, enters and repairs the such apportionment equitable and Department. After a full discussion l° Iillamook, to explain the part Military Highway just. The appointment so made by the paralleling the oaby carriage on Sunday, but he may which the port proposes to do and of the merits of such a move a peti­ Common Council is on file witli the Candidate For coast in a most advantageous posi­ root his house or do any other work tion was circulated and filed on the that which it is reasonable to believe tion to provide a thoroughfare for on the outside of his building and he undersigned City Recorder and may will be done by the Federal Govern ­ 3rd instant requesting the County be examined by any person interested moving bodies of troops iroin one is a law abiding citizen in the eyes of therein. Court to call a special election to sub­ ment. It is furthermore proposed to point to another paralleling our coast, the law. prove to you beyond any reasonable mit to the voters the question of the Done by the order of the Common Mr. Cottrell pronounced the statute this road is also a very important link annexation of new territory to the doubt but that for every dollar of in the Columbia River Highway loop class legislation and un-American. Council and dated this 25;h day of ------o------ Fort taxes which you will ever be September, 1916. port. The County Court has the mat­ as we all know, and from its location Referring to the fact that certain A capable, efficient resident tax­ ter under advisement at the present called upon to pay that many times at the present time it is practically a ousinesses were allowed to remain Tra C. Smith. that amount will be saved to you in City Recorder of Tilla­ time. An election will probably be freight rates, and decreased cost of trunk highway of commerce, busi­ open on Sunday, while other stric/iy payer who will perform the duties of mook City, Oregon. ordered for November 21st or short­ the every-day farm and home neces­ ness and pleasure connecting the far­ legitimate lines of business and equal­ his office without prejudice or dis­ ly thereafter. thest ends oi the county with the ly essential to the health and morals crimination, and without assistant at sities. In view of the fact that the Port of municinahties and of the State, F< or sale, trade or lease—2*4 acres If all the above, and the various county seat. an additional Tillamook Commission cannot bond the district other points and questions which will on Trask river 1 mile southwest of I understand that a bond issue if are chained by the existing blue law,, County.—(Adv.) and that the tax limit of the Port of be raised from time to time are satis­ voted by the taxpayers ot this county ue said, is unquestionable evidence i illamook. ( all Mrs. Cooper at Tillamook is only two mills and par­ factorily explained;, if it can be prov­ oil our present E. P. Larson's, Tillamook. Ore. valuation would therefor. ticularly in view of the need of a en to you that it is to the material ad­ amount to approximately $509,999, .vir. cottrell said that the character larger port in obtaining the much vantage of every person living within and it we could gel a like amount oi Dabbatli being sought by the ad- needed improvement by the Federal the territory proposed to be annexed from the National Government by vocatcr oi the enforcement of this nr_. . . . Government, and the consequent ben­ to .U- the Port that such annexation be voting a bond issue, this would give law is not “civic”, as is frequently efits to everyone using products im­ be accomplished, then j us approximately $1,009.000.90 for a claimed by its adherents. To illustrate your vote ported either by rail or water, it is should be, and we believe Military Highway through the coun­ the thought, he said, "a man who will be, much to be hoped that the proposed “300 X Yes.” ty and 1 believe that a first class hard .nows Ins lawn on Sunday, hoes in his annexation will receive the approval 1 his is but the first of a series of surfaced road could be built for not garden, purchases a news paper, of the voters at the coming special letters. Other to follow will discuss exceeding this amount. 1 am in favor lakes an automobile ride, digs pota­ election.. in detail one or more of the points of bonding the county, if by doing so toes in his garden, sells bread from ------ o------ mentioned above. The questions re­ it would be contingent upon the nis grocery, is just as civilized as he Port Commission Explains the situa­ garding the tax limit of the Port, the county receiving the federal or state would be 11 he were forced by the Will be at their tion to the Voters. impossibility of the Port Commission aid for a like amount of the bond is­ police power of religio-civil law to go to church on that day and listen to Tillamook Oregon, floating a bond issue and the fact that sue we would be able to float; other­ Tillamook Office, October 5, 1916. a better harbor and greater water wise we would not have a sufficient the mst eloquent and sentimental ser­ Dear Voter:—In the year 1889 the transportation facilities will effect a amount of funds to carry through the mon that ever flowed from lips of W. A. WISH Rooms 205 and 10. ie the DR. H. M. MASSHY State Legislature created the Port of saving to each inhabitant of the com­ project of a trunk road from one end mortal man. Sunday compulsory rest is a Ilk. h ; iiih ' Dr Wise who College Graduate in practiced dentistry in Tilla­ Tillamook, with the following boun­ munity far in excess of any possible of the county to the other. 1 believe Having nothing to do wim ones civil­ l>entÌMtry. registered in Ore­ Commercial Club mook County a few years daries: "All that part of Tillamook cost to him, will be given special at­ ihat if the taxpayers of Tillamook ization, tne Dabbath ot the blue law gon, and han had several ago. aud will hr pleased to yearn experience, and lias cannot be civic. Building, again wait on those who County included within the present tention. County were called upon to vote for come to Tillamook Countv desire his professional ser­ Nor can it De an American Sabbath, to make it hin future home. corporate limits of the City of Tilla­ As stated before, it is the desire of a bond issue for a hard surfaced vice on mook, and fifty feet on each bank of the Port Commission to explain every trunk road through this county, con­ lor America has had no opportunity Hoquarton Slough from the east question that can possibly arise to tingent upon securing the like amount to tile a claim on that day, in as MONDA Y, WEDNESDA Y, THURSDA Y boundary of said city of Tillamook the full satisfaction of every voter. from the state or the National Gov­ much as F-ngiand, Germany France, westward and including Dry Should you desire additional informa­ ernment I believe that such a propo­ and Russia observed it as a day oi and FRIDA Y. Stoking Bar.” tion upon any question which will be sition would be voted by a large ma­ rest many years prior to our exis­ tence as a ¿nation. Except for the Port of Portland, discussed in the letters to follow, any jority. It has been judicially stated in the At Cloverdale Hotel, on Tuesday, the Port of Tillamook is the oldest of member of the Port Commission will In looking up the records of Tilla­ the Ports in Oregon. The ports of be glad to furnish the same, or it may mook county since 1911, taking the 5 interest of this law: "Iliat uninter-. and Tillamook and Portland each being be obtained from the Assistant Sec­ year period from 1911 to 1915 tne I'upted idleness tends to moral de­ Bay Citv Office on Saturday of Each Week. created by special enactment of the retary of the Port at his office in this tax payers of Tillamook County have basement.’’ Perhaps so in a very lim­ State Legislature, are not governed city. Should any question arise in paid through their County Court over ned degree, but it so, does that prove Bar View Office closed till next Spring. by the same laws as those governing your mind which is not explained in »800,000.00 on roads according to that men should rest one 2 4 hour day other port districts. All other port the letters, any and all information the budget; and as 1 understand the in every seven such consecutive per­ TII.LAMOOK PHONES districts have been created under and available regarding such question will situation most of our bridges, if : not iods? Why not one in every ten, or by virtue of what is generally known be cheerfully answered upon request. all of them, have been provided for live or eight? Why just seven? s— 1 here is no law ot physical being as “The Port Law,” passed bv the Assuring you that it is our desire to ut of the general fund, so you i may that requires all men to rest one day Legislature in 1909, and derive their five you all available information, see that we have probably spent be­ power from that law. The Port of and hoping that you will carefully tween $900,000 and $l,000,ooo on in seven for their best physical good, Tillamook, however, derives its pow­ read our letters and study the ques­ roads and bridges in Tillamook Coun­ it is a religious law that makes the ers and indeed its very existence sole­ tion of the proposed annexation, we ty in the past five years, and 1 might requirement. rhysical law requires of each one ly from the special act of 1899. The remain, add at this time that