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T illamook headlight , march 22 1917
religious 1 ertmroversy, and should the material
of opin- used ' for
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* hard surfacing
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J up
not stand
under the travel it will be for that
ion. not only as to which is the Sab-J
body to fix it so that it would. Should
bath day, but as to what businesses '
the state bonding road bill fail to car­
should
be
allowed
to
run
and
which
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Each subsequent insertion, line.
ry at the special election in June, it
I allowed to remain open on Sundays.
Business and Professional cards
will not deprive counties of obtaining
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r.oo, The snap shot man was a little state aid to a limited amount. . This
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Locals per line each insertion...
05 1 amused a few days ago when discus­ will not be sufficient money to do **■*
the next few
sing farm loans with one of the dairy­ work contemplated
Display advertisements, an inch
want to enjoy
who was ’ instrumental
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— ! years so those who
and Lodge Notices, per line .
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and pleasures of
H a farm
.1 loans association. The some of the benefits
'
ing
surfaced roads
All Resolutions
of Condolence
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ntlcman
an enthusiast
on this ! driving over hard
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to bond the
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subject, Din
but in umiing
drifting iw
to U.c
the state
state should not only vote
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bond bill for roads, he was very much state, but bond the county as well.
,j it because it called for
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT opposed i to
He
seemed to be taken by sur­
Portland to Come from Under.
F. C. BAKER, Publisher.
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prise when we informed him that both
federal and state farm loan acts call- |
For years the metropolis of Oregon
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cd for bonds, and »ve could not re­ has been terrorized, , hindered its in­
I train from asking him a question if dustries, crippled by a small bunch of
it is right and proper to bond the na­ professional boycotters and picketcrs.
A state law was enacted to make
tion and the state so that farmers ,
could borrow money at a cheap picketing and boycotting a crime but
We never heard of a sanctified rate of interest, why wasn’t it good like all similar contrivances of poli­
editor, so there can’t be any sanctified common sense to bond the state for ( ticians it contrived not to accomplish
individuals knocking around this burg. $6,000,000 for good roads, especially 1
results.
i as Tillamook county w ould derive
Now a bill is to be initiated
It has been suggested that the over $400,000?
submitted to a vote of the people
Women’s Civic Improvement League
prevent conspiracies to injure trade,
and the Tillamook Commercial Club i
We believe that the people of Tilla- : business or commerce of anyone do­
hi Ip to boost the County Fair and 11100k County should get together ing business in the city of Portland.
take part in a procession on the open­ and advocate the Nccarney Mountain
The bill will make unlawful any
ing day.
road in the highway through this kind of boycott or picketing the place
scenery of business of anyone by any kind of
county.
1 here is grand
Bargain day at the sheriff's office on the Columbia Highway, but a an organization, such as carrying
will close on the 5th of April. Every highway around the Nccarne_y Moun­ banners in front of business places.
person who have failed to pay their tain would beat the Columbia High-
This will be a real initiative as no
taxes are invited to step up to the way for scenic
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_ which would hired signature solicitors will be put
beauty,
counter with a happy countenance,
attraction for out, but the 6,ooo names will be se­
become the
lL_ greatest
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and receive their bargain receipt.
I tourists and
the auto travel. Our cured by the business firms of the
citizens cannot imaging what a great city, large and small.
Brighton has a pay roll of $35,000 a boost that road wouhl give l illamook
At the election the people of Port­
month and it should have a road and County and the. number of visitors land will have a chance to decide
a way out. If the state bonding bill and the money it would bring into the whether they will vote for propertv
carries, the highway will go through county every year. The road is four and busincses interests or for a small
Brighton, and the citizens living there or five miles shorter than the inner group of professional agitators.
should be good boosters for the state road. We ask the people to get to­
I arge industries b"— been hectored
bonding bill.
gether on this project for a great mis­ and tormented, and small m"rchant«
take will be made it that road is not have been driven out of the city by
Newspaper has doubled in value, but placed in the highway. It will be th* I..... less Imycot’ nnd th" terroriz­
when it is taken into consideration noticed in the niup »ve print to-day
ing picketing system.
that it is the poorest gyadc of paper that it is in the highway.
The indications
’h”t Portland
as well, newspaper inen have to pay
people will prefer to rome out fro-,
a mighty big price for this cheap,
The snap shot man is going to rap under the cloud of terrorism. ,r>w1es<-
high priced paper. If the president the preachers in a friendly manner. ncss and destructivism that has hin­
would take the bull by the horns and The newspapers of this city have been dered development.—The Manufact­
put some of the paper manufacturers unusually liberal in giving the preach­
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in the penitentiary for the systematic ers all the space they required for urer.
Central Railroad Tieup Threatened.
robbery robbing those who have to their church notices free of cost to
buy paper, the price would soon get help the good work along. When the
After a few days of conferences
back to normal conditions.
preachers had a small job of printing v. iih a few railroad managers the Big
to do a few days ago, they did not re-
There’s going to be a hard surfaced criprocate, but took their work else­ Four Trainmen’s union announces a
highway through Tillamook county where. Consequently the snap shot general strike and tieup of all the
before many years. .Make up your man don't think the preachers are railroads in’ the United States.
The newspapers have been filled
mind to that tact, and it is going to giving him a square deal. We will be
cost nearly a million dollars. It can­ charitable, however, with the hope with press matter sent out from nat­
not be built without mon< y, that is that it was an oversight. But preach­ ional headquarters of the American
another thing not to be overlooked We ers are not the only sinners in this Federation of Labor to the effect that
are wondering whether th people of respect. Some business men are tarr- in event of war union labor would
the government.
'I illamook county are wanting to put
d with the same brush. The past few support
This was received with a great »leal
tip $1,000,000 or about $.|_o,<xx> for thi. weeks several business men have •
,
of
enthusiasm
by the public and the
hard surface road? That is the ques­ come to the snap shot man and asked
tion for our citizens and taxpayers to I i.n to do them favors. We have n.-ws of the general strike comes as a
dampei on this enthusiasm for with­
consider.
r adily complied with the request f out railroads in operation the country
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those who have given us a square deal
ould be helpless.
Frank A. Rowe has been quite peev­ but those who haven't we have not
In Oakland, Calif., 2400 union In­
ed this week. He says that after all he scrupled to tell them what we think
has done, and the many sleepless of them. The snap shot man balks al borers have just struck and tied up
Boulder Creek.
the shipyards with contracts to make
nights that he has put i.i planning the ;>• ing made a convenience of.
the
large order of submarines for
future welfare of this city, it makes
similar | Several men from our neighborhood
l’nited States Navy, and
him mad to have the kaiser promi-
1 attended the Farm Loan intcling at
Unfortunately, the city is split up ,
the city of Wheeler, along with the again on the question of Sunday clos­ strikes are on elsewhere.
CllVCl, 1UV3UUJ.
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, shipbuilding Beaver^Tuesday,
At Portland, Oregon,
balance of the Pacific coast, to the ing, with more or less hard feeling.
Dr. Shearer
came up from Clover­
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Japs, without even asking him about The Sunday closing is a hard nut to has been hamperedI by a strike lasting i dale Sunday
evening to attend O. W.
for months, the same has been true at
it.—Wheeler Reporter.
crack, for it is a difficult matter to points on Pugeet Sound, and the Kinnatnan who is suffering from a
Representative
Rowe does
not
know where to draw the line, for one claim of loyal support of the nation severe attack of heart trouble.
know what he would be missing with
C. N. Johnson, wife and children
class want a closed town while others
is weakened.
the little brown Japs in control of
visited their niece Mrs. A. J. Schmel­
take an opposite view. The snap shot
The people of this country will soon
\\ heeler. Why the county representa­
man is free to confess that he does see a new danger threatening this zer last Sunday.
tive would make an excellent servant
Norman Chopard came home last
not know where to draw the line and government and realize how strong
wheeling around a lap mistress in a
not discriminate. But the fight has and dictatorial is the national labor Tuesday after spending a week with
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go cart, which would make Erank a
started, with the pastors of some of despotism dictated by such men as his uncle at Pleasant \ alley.
genuine Wheeler.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Benfield went
the churches on one side and those Samuel Gompcrs and the Big Four.
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to lillamook and back last Friday.
»»ho do not attend church on the
A
general
railroad
tieup
will
deni-
There is no disguising the
other side. We arc sorry to see this, onstratt the real character of loyalty Mrs. Benfield has been suffering with
l'nited States is practically
for we had hoped that the matter of that animates some of the labor lead­ neuralgia and went to the county scat
w ith Germany, and it was
Sunday opening or closing could ers, who will come as near crippling to consult a physician.
that forced this country
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith have a
have been settled without resorting to the government as they dare.—Manu­
There are a large number of persons
bran-new baby (laughter, who arriv­
an election. It would have been better
who predicted that Germany wanted
facturer. __________________
ed via stork express last Friday night.
for the churches and the good and
to involve the United States in war
We extend congratulations.
friendly feeling of the citizens if this
A Pleasant Physic.
for the purpose of saying that she
Mrs. R. Y. Blalock is laid up with a
could have been done. The snap shot
could not fight the world, and with
man is inclined to take a broad mind­
When you want a pleasant physic severe case of rheumatism
that impression upon the < ierman
Mrs. Ada Benfield is expecting her
ed view, because one is apt to get
give Chamberlain’s Tablets a trial.
people, the Kaiser will sue lor peace.
father to come and make his home
untenable ground when arguing ill
\\ hen the war started, the war lord favor of Sunday closing. As an illus­ They are mild and gentle in their ac­ with her. He is past eighty years obi,
tion and always produce a pleasant
of Germany and his military adviser
tration I »Id Hossey will persist in giv­ cathartic effect. For Sale by La­ and very feeble.
seems to have had an idea that they
The cheese factory is running again.
ing down her milk on the Sabbath
could conquor the whole world, but
mars Drug Store«
We hear the officers are still looking
day and the dairymen have to pull
they found that they attempted an im-
for a cheese maker. In the meantime
teats on that day the same as any
I' ssible job, and arc wanting some
Roy Woods conies up from Beaver I
, other, and they take their milk to the
excuse for making peace.
and makes cheese for them two or
| f.icory and just as much cheese is
three times a week.
manufactured on that day. Even while
One of the greatest surprises of the
Mrs. Dora Daniel of Mohler, spent
the ministers are preaching and lift­
v ir was the sudden change of gov­
a few days with frineds in our neigh­
ing their supplications to heaven on
ernment in Russia. One could hardly
borhood recently. She also visited her
Sunday evenings, there are persons
imagine that that country would have
»laughter. Miss Etna, who is teaching
down at the electric light plant who
a republic form of government and
: liie \\ oil Creek school.
are lurnisliing the juice to illuminate
that th* ( zar of «ill the
Russians
i
Miss Ava Owen, the Boulder Creek
the churches. Go into our homes on
v • »iiltl abdicate. But that is uh.it took
teacher, went to Tillamook last Sat-I
Sundays and "e find work being per­
place in Russia last week. If the Ger-
unlay.
formed there by the women folk. Be­
iu m people would force the Kaiser to
A number of our dairymen are haul- ‘
tween 40 and so years ago this ques­
do the same thing and take hold of
ing feed from Tillamook, the result of
tion wa- thrashed out in Europe,
th reigns of government themselves
the bad weather March is bringing.
with the result that those who were
militarism and the war in Europe
I The cattle must be icd, if feed prices
broad minded won out, and instead of
. uld soon come to a close. The ac­
I do go “out of sight.”
the parks, museums, art galleries and
tion of the Russian people is a little
Mr. ami Mrs. H. I.. Jensen went to
places of amusement living closed up,
sui prise to us, tor we have for a long
Hebo, Thursday on business. They
they were thrown open.
ti- ic had .in impression that the Ger-
came home Friday evening.
in;, n people would be the first among
Mr. Nehl returned from the valley
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lie
article
which
appeared
in
our
thr waring nations to form a repub­
last week, with some cows and a
last
week
’
s
issue
dealing
with
a
hard
lic’ll form of government.
band of Angora goats for his ranch
surfaced highway through the entire
at Alder Cove.
count» caused some discussion and
O. W. Kinnanian has gone to Clov-
A person who owns a “ Tin I iziiv” set the people ol lillamook to think­
crdfllc for a few days treatment at the
sai l he was going to vote against the ing. No one can accuse the snap shot
hospital. \\ e trust he will be much
stale road bonds bill because it would man of being anxious to piling»
the
benefitted and soon be able to conn
raise the tax on his auto. \\ c want county into a bonded indebtedness,
home again.
to inform oui young friend lie is mis­ but when we sec an opportunity
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taken. The increase in .into license obtain a hard surfaced
liigliw
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go* s into effect next yv.ir, whether through the county at about one third
the bond hill passes or not. There are ils cost to the taxpayers, we are read»
a great many persons who own autos to concede that it would be a good
who have cursed a good many times thing to bond the county to complete
about bad roads, and now that an ef­ the project, not only from an econ­
fort is being made to give Oregon a omy point of view, but If lillamook
lai e amount of hard surfaced roads, county docs not make provisions to
The Hartford will issue a policy
thi v are the first to raise objections. put the road bed in shape, the money
insuring registered and fancy stock
Every person who owns a machine will be used in other counties. The
against death from any cause any­
should get out ami work for the b< nd , next live years the state will have
where in the United States, Mex­
bill, for hard surfaced roads will save nearly $io,ooo»ooo to expend on n»,nls
ico, or Canada, including the risks
many dollar* every month in wear and ii l illamook county do» s not get
and tear and gasoline.
of transportation and exhibition.
¡its »hare it will be its own fault the
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Every “Hartford” policy is backed
county, pro­
by the ample resources and estab­
gotten out by four of the
last week,
this city, was handed to
lished loss-paying record of the Old
used for the
I this paragraph in it:
Hartford. Ask for rates and par
The
hard*
c entitled ’Does Tilla-
titulars.
be
a
direct
1 Sunday l aw ?' appear-\ surface I highway would
mo.
eadlight of last week i* 4 benefit to all parts of the • county, and
ing
on that score there would be no scc-
hist
.. tight . over wdiere the money
tional
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be ......
expended for it is up to the
wa to
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know why he takes this position.”
\\ e contend that even n Seventh State Highway Commission which
Hath Ti'lephones.
Da» Adventist has a right to express road is to be constructed first as well
his views on the Sunday closing ques­ as the width and material to be used
TILLAMOOK
CITY. OREGON.
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