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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MAY '3. 1917. road bowbul TILLAMOOK SCRAPPERS” HAVE A GET TOGETHER “ SCRAP.” board acting in conjunction with the than shifting the taxes from the tim and the most serious road problem in County Court. By this method the ber to the farm as has been done or Tillamook County will be solved and roads would be made immediately the timber interests paying taxes on the taxpayers of the County will be available for use, heavy and rapidly only 19 billion feet of timber when it saved a vast sum of money in con increasing maintenance charges is said that they have 30 billion feet of struction and maintenance charges. would be eliminated, and 20 per cent, timber in the county, which, if assess It is not conceivable that the voters (tins Supprt When It It according to best authorities, saved ed at a reasonable figure would result of Tillamook County will do Other- in the cost of construction over the in a reduction of 30 to 40 per cent in wise than loyally support the State Shown Txtt Will Not so-called pay-as-you-go plan, where ' the farmers’ taxes. and county bond measures. Bo leroated. small sums are expended annually. ----- o ■ Our Fairview friend and his asso- On Wednesday evening between 50 Mayor R. T. Boats thought that if On the hand we assume ciates are horrified at the suggestion eration what a hard surface highway — other ------ -------- ... will ---- ----------- and 60 business men of this city got through the county will mean to the that the suggestion that has been of bonds that are at this time propos- taxation was cut down it would be A, won >1 t® Pub"« together for the purpose of discussing business life of this city? 1 want to made that we expend $60,apo, annual- ' ed largely for the benefit of the farm an inducement to people to start in «»nd* that tl ’•• «“ «u’omo- will pa’or the hard-aurfaoing matters pertaining to the business life tell you that is is going to double the ly from the road fund on hard surface ers; they are drifting into a condition, dustries here. He took up the side of the bighwi» I» ’he propoawd trunk of the city, which proved to be an in business of this city, and it behooves roads be carried out and what would however, if General Dougall’s leader walk question and pointed out the dif line« over t> ,or th9 teresting meeting. The Ladies’ Aid of you to get behind the bonding meas be the result? ship is as successful in the future as in ficulties they had encountered in 100<1 road« lovement lncroaae. The the Christian Church served a most ure. I do not know whether you are Years would elapse before we would the past, where they will be in a making these improvements, and Lie af the dl gave It a black eye as excellent banquet which was thought that the city should be pro a pleas- mon M a« It It aneared. ai>»»r«A Ths ’rK* word "bond" ing feature of the event, the............. aware of it that Tillamook County get the same number of miles of hard state of bondage that will be fastened room in fared better than any other county in surface roads to be had in a few to them and their posterity for cen vided with better fire apparatus. It is now being seared ther *’lrt the Masonic Building being draped the amount of hard surfaced roads. I months by the bonding plan. In the turies. I refer to the conditions that C. I. Clough, who is an enthusiast mderstood ............. hat the rQ*d money ■andorstoou bat b««n ivallable in ths different with the stars and stripes. will mention only a few counties. meantime automobiles are multiply will exist in this county when the on harbor improvements, showed the D. L. Shrode ably filled the posi Clackamas county gets 20 miles, ing, road roud distr ts is not interforod with destruction increasing, timber is removed and the burden of necessity of having the channel im dan, bat Is paid tion as toastmaster and in his brief Washington 40 miles and Tillamook maintenance charges mounting higher taxation is shifted from the timber proved from the bay. He said if we under theproposed P>*" b»t «• out of th increased assessment on opening remarks pointed out the between 50 and 60 miles. Considering and higher and instead of having the largely to the farms, the farms now wanted to remain a small country MtoBobi»- autoBoobl’s- The ■— bond ---- Issue then be ■ necessity of pulling together. He our population and the amount of as funds expended by a capable County paying only 11 per cent of the total town the harbor improvements were come. apply the state loaning Its credit te<«’ the good roads now, and stated that the Commercial Club had sessment, Tillamook county was ex Court, such as we now have, aided tax. With the rocky, mountainous dis not necessary, but if we wanted to jet the .tra auto tax pay for them as been planning that meeting for a long ceedingly fortunate. As 1 previously and safeguarded by an advisory board tricts of this county denuded of their grow it was imperative to have a they ir being used. The proposition ' time. , stated some persons wanted to know who can say who might get into of timber there will be but very little deep channel from the bay. i. ftroeng in favor as It is under- H. T. Botts spoke on get together | what the Commercial Club was doing. fice in the course of politics in the value left in the land, and that, to stood.-Hubbard Enterprise. Get Behind the Commercial Club. In the state bond measure, as origin years that would intervene and how gether with the other property values spirit and Prof. Kirk on the com Fred C. Baker, president of the ally drawn, the only hard surfacing much graft and incompetency the tax will not in the aggregate much exceed munity spirit, both of which were to I Commercial Club, was the first provided for was from the Clatsop payers might have to stand for? an assssed valuation of $7,000,000. the point; James Feeney took up the speaker. He said there is one thing county line In any event the plan is out of the Taking the budgets for the last subject of shipbuilding, who told of to somewhere near { that Tillamook City lacks, and that is Wheeler, or to be more correct, question as the funds could not be three or four years as a criterion to what was being done to get that in Th« (roadI bond I muc , should it bo a live, progressive Commercial Club, Garibaldi beach, Which could have spared from the road fund without judge the future it will cost not less dustry started here; and C. J. Ed tote(j will bo taken earn •< by the ' and what 1 have to say 1 hope will been construed to terminate at the sacrificing the development of the than $350,000 per annum to meet the wards made a talk on new industries, ,oarer mill »’ate road tax and auto- arouse more enthusiasm amongst mouth of the Nehalem river. When county. Such a policy appeals to but necessary expenses of the county and and in doing so illustrated what ad Bjobie licenses. Both must be paid business men to make this not only the Tillamook scrappers got busy very few thinking people but has thus we are sinking deeper into the mud vancement the state of Washington wh«n«r the bonds carry or not. To us an attractive business center but an they put quite a different complexion far admirably served the purpose of each year. With an assessed valuation was making in the dairy business, it »»uia the bond isaue should be ta- I industrial center as well. This cannot on the situation. Thanks to Senator those who have but few interests in of only $7,000,000 to bear the burden which was largely attributed to hard *,r«i by all.—Hermiston Herald. I be obtained without the co-operation Handley the point was extended to common with the resident taxpayer of this expense every farm in the surfaced roads in the state. ♦ * * 'The attitude of the State Highway I of business men, and I believe it is Garibaldi post office. But that of far of the county and are evidently seek county will be paying an annual tax At the close of the meeting it was Conmiiilon la reference to the Matrl- ' the duty of every business man to de- greater importance to this city and ing, by such suggestions, to quiet the charge of 5 per cent on its assessed decided to hold a get together meet bu lon of the H.000.00« state bond ia- ' vote at least one evening a month to county was the successful effort in public demand for better roads until valuation. Our Fairview friend, asses ing and banquet once a month, and (ll. will be to show no undue prefer- ' discuss matters which are of vital im having the road south of this city to such time as the political power of sed with $11,600 would then have to the next get together meeting will be en>e to any particular section of the the county passes into their hands pay $580, annually on his farm and Friday evening June 1st. stite over another," comments the portance to the business life and fu the Yamhill county line made part of when they will graciously hand out would have worse roads than he has ture prosperity of this city. But, the state plan. I want to express my RjMburg Review. “It is their inten- too to cooperate with all the counties ’ gentlemen, you have not done so in thanks, as President of the Conimer- to us what they think is fit and prop- now. Obituary Notice. On the other hand, if the county tiroagbout the atate, not with a few, thc past, nor have you backed up cial Club, to Mr. F. R. Beals, who was er that we should have and in lieu of at many have been led to believe your Commercial Club like business at Salem at the lime and engineer'd taxes our county can expect to event was to be bonded at this time as pro- Laura Jane Johnson was born in through opponenta to the bond issue. men in other cities. 1 have been this addition to the state highway ually have handed to it worthless posed, for $412,000, we would get Pennsylvania, January 31st, 1854; died Dovglaa County should not lag a mo •frequently asked: "What is the Com- plan, and to some of our business men rocky hills denuded of timber. The without state aid approximately JO at Bay City, Oreegon, April 3Oth, ment until some action ia taken where State of Washington is said to have miles of hard surfaced roads that *9*7. aged 63 years, two months and by our road interests will be mater ' mercial Club doing?” The correct way at home who got busy and pulled had packages of this kind handed to would cost him 2 per cent of his as 28 days. ially benefited by the proposed bond to answer that question is to ask every string they could lay hold of to it containing 11,000 acres to the sessed valuation and 88 per cent of On December 25th, 1868, she was have the bill amended. They were D. ■your business men "What have you issue.” | which would be paid for by property married to A. V. Brown and to this www been doing the past 12 months to help L. Shrode, C. J. Edwards, H ,H. package. I am informed that a deciple of the other than farms, and the timber union were born two sons, Guy and “Will it not be far better to m H the Commercial Club?" I will answer Rosenberg, H. T. Botts, Judge Hare the«» proposed bonds and begin our thc latter question by saying that and others, and I think we owe them timber interests residing in Fairview ( would be paying its just share of the William. Guy died at the age of road work by a common-sense system ' when meetings have been called the a debt of gratitude for what they did. has gone so far as to say that he development of the county, These seven years. William is yet living. than te dribble it out In small sums safe-guarded by r proper , . favor- roads, ____ ,___ „_______ --r traffic Her husband died in 1878. This shows, however, what co-opera would not permit any person ™ _________ ___ _______ only persons who put in an appear- from year to year and tn the end ae- able to the bonding plan to submit an regulations, would endure indefinitely On July 10th, 1879, she was married tion between business men can do. eompli«h nothing?" inquiroa the Hoodjance were the president and secretary. ¡To our shame, gentlemen, the women The Tillamook Commercial Club took argument in its favor or discuss the and the farmers of the county would to Albert E. Nichols, who survives River Glacier. , [belonging to the Womens Civic Im an active part also and paid the in subject with him because of the fail-'get immediate and lasting benefits, her. To them was born three children, * * * It is time Oregon was getting out of provement League are having inter cidental expehscs. Before breaking ure of the County Court to adopt the On the basis of a seven million dollar two of whom died in infancy, The the mud, comments the Tillamook esting meetings and striving to make away from this subject, I want to sug McLeod-Dougall pay-as-you-go meth-1 valuation should we seek to get the third is Mrs. Edjfh Todd who was Herald California and Washington gest that this city start an active cam od of financing hard surface road same number of miles of hard surface with her mother when the end egme. bare both made large appropriations this a live, progressive city. I do not paign in behalf of the $6,000,000 state construction. This individual and his roads as we are now seeking to get, She is survived by her husband, for good roads during the past few know of a time when a live Commer- associates has, with childish faith, instead of it costing our friend 2 per daughter and son, and *o grand ehihl- bond measure.. citl Club was more needed than it is years, while Oregon has stood still. The speaker touched upon delicate followed the leadership of th? Me- [cent of his assessed valuation jt would ren and three great grand children** Tbe bonding bill which will come up today, so it is up to you whether you for consideration In June ia an eco 1 are going to take hold with more vim ground when he made a comparison Leods and Dougalls for years and cost him nearly six per cent, Also two sisters and one brother. For with what result? [ Referring to the timber owners and many years Mr. and Mrs. Nichols nomic bualncM proposition. and determination or remain indiffer- of the large amount of money busi • * An examination of the tax rolls for lumber men I desire to say that ! ent as to the future progress and ness men wasted in advertising stunts have been residents of Bay City The annual license on all automo 1910 will disclose that his farm was with very few exceptions they are and calendars and the small amount ousiness and industrial development and were well known and highly biles has been doubled. The fees from . . public spirited ■ respected by a wide circle of friends. they contributed towards the Com assessed at $5,800; that the assess- ( t broad minded, . just, this source will be adequate to pay the of the city. Gentlemen, there should be a great mercial Club, and he thought the ntent was raised in ¡914 to$it,rooand men who are dppdsfu to such meth- interest and the principal of the $«,- Mrs. Nichols was a member of thé •00,000 road bonds. Automobile own er co-operation between businss men business men could m^ke a great sav lias since been raised to $11,600 where ods as I have pointed out. I hold Bay City Presbyterian church, and a ers are willing to pay the increased li today because conditions have chang ing by cutting out some of this, and it now stands; that certain tracts of these men in the highest esteem. No prominent member of Unity Daught cense but ask that the money raised ed. Take the mail order business. closed up by saying he wanted to ask timber lands were likewise raised in , man has done more for Tillamook therefrom shall be spent In road con Probably you have never realized that the business men to support their value; that the assessment thereon ( county than has Cole Wheeler, of the ers of Rebecca Lodge of Odd Fel lows. 1 1 1 1 Ç? struction. Why not? They are going our Commercial Club. Don’t starve it for was thereafter reduced nearly one I Wheeler Lumber Company; The funeral was held at Bay City to pay the bill. And It will not be these mail order houses are gradually and a half million dollars. He belongs ! Coats Lumber Company is a very im lack of your assistance. Every busi necessary to raise general taxes, either. crowding out the country stores and to a class, to-wit: the farmers who portant factor in our community. on Tuesday, Rev. Youel preached 'stores in small towns like ours. Jt is a ness man should belong to the club, Vote for the bonds. the funeral sermon. Interment took pay taxes on valuations 79 per cent ' fact, and it is stated by those who ap for it is united co-operation that will greater now than they were in 1910. This class of people, however, do not place at the Bay City I. O. O. F. * * * maintain artful individuals in the var From a series of investigations, the pear to know that in certain lines help to make this a much bigger A further search will disclose that ious counties where they have timber cemetery. U. 8. Department of Agriculture has they have captured 20 per cent of the business center. Get behind your values in Tillamook City have been . holdings, who devote their time and found that, following the Improvement business, and arc liable to make still Commercial Club. increased 95 per cent in the last five I energies exclusively to tax questions Attorney Winslow's Brother Dorwns. of the main market roads, the Increase --------- —(> — in the selling price of tillable farm further inroads into your business. or six years, Bayocean from $6,550 in and legislation that when analyzed is A Plea for Hardsurfac'd Roads and lands served by the roads has amount- You know that there arc persons who Salem, Or. April 26.—By making a 1907 to $295,600 in 1916, or 4,512 per foun(] to |)C wholly in the interests of Bonding for Same. sd to from one to three times the total send to mail order houses when they supreme effort, which probably saved cent; Lake Lytle from $6,000 in 1909 thc class they represent. F. R. Beals, who has taken an ac have money and when they need Cost of the improvements. to $45,994 in 1916, or 766 per cent; the lives of 15 men and women help WWW credit you carry them on your books. tive part in advocating a hard surfac Rockaway from $4,800 in 1909 to ’ i Tillamook County, with the possi- lessly adrift in a frail gasoline launch The construction of hard-surfaced Can you business men hope to com ed highway through the county, took . blc exception of one or two counties, $94,266 in 1916, or 1,963 per cent; I in tribulcnt midstream on the Will toads that will enable th'e farmer to is thc best taken care of county in bat that state of affairs if you won t up this subject. He said: want you to carefully note that thgre . teach the Columbia River with his amette River, H. R. Winslow sacri Macadam and gravel roads that sup 1 the state under the provisions of the grain and other products will give the g^-t together and devise plans to ported our traffic very satisfactorily has been an increase in farm prop ficed his own life this morning. Win State Bond Measure to be voted on overcome this menace to your busi producers of Eastern Oregon the full erty value since 1910 of 79 per cent, slow was a wood dealer and well benefit of water competition In mar ness? I believe that people prefer to prior to the advent of the automobile but how about timber land? A careful June 4th, of this year, as, in addition known in Marion and Polk counties. keting their products and will ulti trade in a live, wide awake city, but it have entirely given way under thc investigation will show that it has to 60 miles of post road and hard sur The little shell of a launch, which face road provided for in the measure mately bring about, a reduction of ex takes wide awake progressive business strain of the automobile traffic and nearly precipitated its load of human cessive freight rates that are now in men to make a real live town and there is but one remedy and that is to been raised less than 27 per cent. the following provisions are made: Continuing the search you will find effect over the various branch railroad business center, and when you do that hardsurfacc our highways that are I "If the county of Tillamook shall freight into the seething waters of that in 1910 timber land paid 78 per lines on which the farmer is now de subjected to heaviest traffic. In my prepare and make ready for paving the river, had been pressed into ser ! people are not so apt to send to mail pendent for transportation. judgment thc most feasible method cent of the total taxes of the county according to thc requirements of the vice when the engine on the tugboat WWW and that it now pays less that 67 per order houses. which operates the regular ferry be- 1 will now take up the matter of for bringing this about is to bond the cent of the total tax, the result being State Highway Commission twenty The fact that the United States Is at county for 2 per cent of its assessed or more miles in length of the post twen the Polk and Manon County war with a foreign foe only furnishes the proposed state road bond meas that the, burden has been shifted to an additional argument in support of ure, and try to impress upon you the valuation, as provided by law, and the farms that now pay a large per road between Tillamook and Mc- sides of the Willamette here gave safeguard the expenditure of thc ’he good roads bond bill. Improved • Minnville, and if such portion of said way and the ferry suspended opera importance of this to this city. ave , and serviceable hlghwavs are a mili funds thus created by an advisory centage of the total tax than in >913. road is so prepared that the same tions. If some of the timber interests tary necessity In time of war. In their you ever given it any serious consid- Men and women gathered on the according could put over a thing of this kind in shall be ready for paving Present condition, even the main trunk the State Polk county side of the river unable broad daylight, with the farmers of to the requirements of roads in this state are entirely inade then said to cross, and as a last resort the little quate to meet the situation should the county dominating its politics, Highway Commission, pave launch Olympia was sent to that side, Commission shall immediately Pacific ('oast ever be attacked by while hob-nobing with our Fairview where the passengers were taken friendly forces. Good roads are friend, what will they do when the road so prepared and such por aboard, and it was while returning oniv desirable In time of peace but tion of said road shall be excepted they get the power? They use their 'the engine became dead and the Positively Indispensable w power, when their interests are to be from the classification as a post road launch butted into the concrete pier, country is in a state of war. and such portion shall then be class- served, to bond the Port of Bay City, WWW and it was keeping the laungh from up with a valuation of less than $6,000.- ■ ified as a paved road." ’ ommenting on the selection of Her- ■ setting that Winslow hprt Nunn as State Highway Engineer. , 000, in the sum of $407,000, only I The construction placed upon this drowned. ' B Murdock, roadmaster for Coos ; $5,000 less than it is proposed to bond provision by those who drafted it He is a brother to Attorney Wins- County, pay« the following high trib- ! the entire county for good roads with and by lawyeers who have since cx- ___ , Diction of Tillamook County low of this city, and has a wife and rpHE Cheese Tf Quarters of a Million Doi- V" ’0 the qualifications of Mr. Nunn: ______ valuation _________ of __ over ____ $20,000,- _______ I ainincd it is that it is mandatory up- an assessed three children. B.v txacutlve and technical training 1 1 do not wish to be understood 1 on State Highway Commission to i ab* 1 L,t year-a.t increase of Two 000, 1___________ __ „ _______ ____ •nd experience, he is easily the beat j, lars in ali(j Dollar». Other dairying immediately pave 20 or more miles in , as opposing this bond issue, as it was Qualified man in the State of Oregon, i Pomona Grange Postponed. Hundred jj lv You will find The First justified, but merely to point out that length of the post road between I ill- if not on the Pacific Coast, for the po- SIS E “S»U pace too. It» facilities and they are bond advocates when bonds amook and McMinnville when 1 state •ition which he has recently been The Pomona Grange has been iPPolnted to fill. The Commission is serve their interests. Wonder how the requirements are met by I. Tillamook services will he foun 0 be complimented upon their choice pay-as-you-go plan, 20 rods per an- [ 1 County. This construction absolutely postponed until the 19th of May. those interested "> ■d the state upon its good fortune in num, on the jetty would strike them?, removes any discretionary power on during Mr. Nunn’s services.” The new game and fish law will farming or cotntn< 'DtREC-j-ons : ission Will they some day, when they have'the part of the Highway Commissi WWW „ P. Heitel. Farmer. take effect May 21, 1917, and on and as to when improvemeenet« arc to be the political power, annex Fairview to Owners of automobiles will be re A. W ^unn. farmer. Power Co. J C. Holden. Vice Pres their Port and bond it to the limit I made, which is not the case in other after that date the license will he C. J- Edwards. John Morgan. Farmer. Hired to pay the Increased license B. C. Lamb. Cashier. with long term bonds, improve the I counties, therefore, if the State Bond $1.50 each for hunter's and angler’s *■ whether the road bond bill ¡MISSES r aot. On the other hand. If the road lower harbor leaving the upper har Measure carries and we prepare our license. »nd* are voted at the June election. bor, the one the farmers are fatally in selves by bonding the County to Mr. aiyl Mrs. Prank Schmieder for ’*•> start will be assured in giving terested in, without improvement, re promptly finance the state require mer residents of Portland, Orc., have 1 ’&• state a system of permanent move their timber and leave the far ments as to preparation of road bed take over the restaurant in the Green Ighwayg constructed from automo- mer to pay the bonds? How much ( we will be in a position to immediat- Tree Hotel at Garibaldi, Ore.. We license fees and without locreos- more injustice would there be in that cly avail ourselves of this provision serve the best, and ask you to test. • * general tax GROW IN FAVOR Hard Surfaced Highway for Tillamook Countykand Other Subjects Discussed I I