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.
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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
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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.
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'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
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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, ____
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traffic Her husband died in 1878.
This shows, however, what co-opera would not permit any person
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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-
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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
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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. •
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general tax
GROW IN FAVOR
Hard Surfaced Highway for Tillamook
Countykand Other Subjects Discussed
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