TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT' MARCH 23, 1918
■ to the best policy to be pursued in re-
Rowe is Pleased with Work.
I gard to road work. Inert is good
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• business judgment in the idea of con-
Legal Advertisements.
Frank A. Rowe, County Chairman
I serving as much road money as pos-
First Insertion per line ............. $ .10
' sible, and delaying the road work in of the Tillamook County- Liberty
Each subsequent insertion, line.
TILLAMOOK. OREGON
•<>5'me county until such time as labor Loan Committee, is pleased with the
Business and Professional cards
land material are cheaper. From what work thus far. He says:
“1 am greatly pleased with ’he way
one month....................................... l.oo-we can gather, it will be a loss of
the Liberty Loan campaign is being
9
Locals per line each insertion...
about
40
per
cent
of
the
ro.id
money
05
to build roads now. From that point .organized, in the several I districts of
Display advertisements, an inch
which
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of view it would seem Un most sen the county the committees
and Lodge Notices, per line .
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sible thing to do to conserve the have charge of the work arc working
All Resolutions of Condolence
road money. This is what some of the hard to get their organization primed
one month......................................
■ 50 other counties are doing. Un the oth I for the work. With such hard work-
er hand however, there are roads that I ing and capable men at the head of
the work in the various communities
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT should be improved for local travel, as we have I feel positive that T illa-
especially
where
local
industries
have
F. C. BAKER, Publisher.
been established, which must and mook County will by far oversub
should be looked after. That is the scribe her quota. \\ bile the 3r<l loan
situation that now confronts the has been fixed at $3,000,000,000.00 all
county court. So we have about reach oversubscriptions will be received and
ed this conclusion,conserve as much of the race or competition between
1 lit outlook of the world war the road fund as possible but not re communities will be to sec which will
might have been quite different had tard the industrial development of the supply the largest oversubscription.
the United States made proper prep- county where roads are absolutely A large oversubscription will have the
arations when Germany r invaded Bel- necessary. There are roads in the effect of showing the German people &
gium.
north part of the county, to the log that the people of the United States &
ging camps, that should be improved, arc now thoroughly awakened to the
Please don’t worry as to what the as soon as possible, w hich is a mili situation and are determined to sup
other fellow is going to subscribe in tary necessity, ami the question of ply all the money necessary for the
the Liberty Loan drive, It is the big economy should not enter into it, and successful completion of the war and
or small amount you arc _ going to no time should be lost in keeping the absolute destruction of German
subscribe which will count in going them in good condition for travel, militarism. A large oversubscripton
That and the main road between
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over the top the first day.
this to the Loan w ill mean a longer period
city and Cloverdale are roads that before the next loan and this would
Of Michigan
A socialist member of the Bavarian should be improved, and I should other have a beneficial stabilizing effect on
lower house made the statement that road work be delayed on account of business conditions.”
Subject: “Over the Top for a Dry America’’
"1,300,000 Germans already had been the extra cost of construction, people
killed and the country’s debt is now should not become impatient or com Do You Want Bolshevikism ?
Hear him on “WAR TIME PROHIBITION,” a
over a hunderd million marks ($25,- plain.
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<00,000,000.)’’ With a few more weeks
In these troubled times many agents
step toward Constitutional Prohibition, at the
fighting like the past week .Fermany’s
F. C. Baker, of the Headlight, 'Tilla are abroad trying to appeal to peoples
“PATRIOTIC DAY RALLY,” conducted by the
death loss will be 2,000,000 men .
mook, is to be candidate for joint rep sympathies and patriotism, not for
resentative. Fred is a booster worthy patriotic purposes, but for personal
Anti-Saloon League.
If a newspaper man should publish the name and as a representative in gain. Many conscientious and patriot
false reports about persons and busi the Legislature Tillamook County ic people arc getting bit by these
ness men he is liable for a damage would get all she is entitled to or agents without knowing what they
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suit, and it is right that he should be something would be doing. The Cour arc getting into. One of these schem
sued and made to pay. Why not apply ier will boost the Headlight editor es being promoted at the present time
the same rule to citizens .who peddle and we believe Tillamook County w ill is the National Non-Partisan League.
false reports about other people? It give him a big vote.—Cloverdale This organization, in states which it
seems to us that a good many false Courier.
iias gained a foot hold has affiliated
reports are going the rounds and they
Don’t be too swift Bro. Taylor, for with the Socialist and 1. VV. W s.
shopld be stopped and a damage suit Bro. Baker has not a very lofty opin and thus lines up against the govern
against gossip mongers might do a ion of himself of making a good state ment and law and order. Of the fees
whole lot of good right now.
legislator. If there was any pork collected to join, the agent soliciting
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hanging around the state capital that members gets about one third. W hen
The Kaiser poked fun at the little belonged to Tillamook county we’d stock is sold for one of the organiza
contemptible English army. It is now be hog enough to hog the whole bar tion’s stores only 90 per cent of the
fighting the most titanic battle of the rel, even if it was porkless day, but first $10,000 is available for purchase
ages, inflicting the severest punish that is not the only requirements. So, of stock of goods all over that is used
ment on the kaiser’s army in the please, Bro. Taylor, do not fore us in to promote the organization and swell
present war. Rah, rah, for British to become a candidate for joint the pockets of the promoters.
pluck, and bull dog tenacity. But our representative. W e do feel, however,
Organization is not done out in the
sympathy and praise for our Mritish that Tillamook county should put up open where men will have a chance
allies should not be stinted, and we a good man for the position and the Io taik it over and exchange opinions
American citizens should be the first county should be ably represented in and ideas but a man is cornered and
to show our appreciation of their the lower house.
filled full of soft talk and told how
valor and determination to wipe out
lie is abused until lie really thinks he
Kaiserisni and the junkers of Ger-
It has been thought wise to defer is and finally buys a "bottle of the
many from off the face of the earth, the election to bond the county until patent medicine” that is to cure all
for the British have suffered great the general election next November, social and financial ills. The new
losses.
This may not meet with the ileas oj member is then asked to keep still
sonic of our citizens who are out and about it until some time later so that
This store will be closed Saturday, April 6,
Lord Nelson’s admonition to the out boosters for a hard surfaced road the neighborhood will not get to talk
until 4 o’clock p.m.. That date is the opening day
British fleet when it started the bat> through the entire length of the coun ing the matter over. Anything of this
tie of Trafalar was: “England ex- ty. But after giving the matter a little kind that has to be organized in
of the drive for the Third Liberty Loan and in
pects every man to do his duty.1 1 he consideration, we believe they will secret and then spring on the people
order
to co-operate with the Liberty Loan Board
same* thing applies to the Liberty sec the wisdom of this. In the first and will not stand discussion at pub
and put our county “Over The Top” on the first
Loan drive, with this difference. “The place, it is doubtful whether the gov- lic gatherings is not, as a rule a very
United States expects every man to ernment would allow the county to good institution to tic to. Who sus
day of the drive, we are closing our place of busi
■do his duty” The day that Lord Nel sell bonds, and coupled with the high pected that the Bolshevicki in Russia
ness until four o’clock in the afternoon.
son uttered those words he received rate of interest and the extra cost of had such forces until they finally
We request you to make your purchases so
a fatal wound on the battle ship vic construction on account of scarcity of broke out and now we know that
tory and was carried below to the labor, which is needed elsewhere, it the leaders of russia had sold out
far as possible on Friday, April 5.
cock pit where he expired. But the has been thought wise to delay the to the Germ; n Kaiser and Prussian-
There will be no city deliveries on April 6,
Victory was one of the ships that county bonding until fall. This would ism.
and
the store will be open only from 4 to 10 p.m.
carried on the fight and won what is save the expense of holding a special
Do you, Mr. Farmer, want to tic up
known as the battle of Trafalgar, election. And another thing, even if with the “Wabblies” the Bolsheviki
C. O. & C. M. DAWSON.
Every person who subscribes for a another special election was held, by and the pro-Germans in working
Liberty Loan is helping the country the time the legality of the same was against the very thing our boys in
win a victory over the tyranny of a thrashed out in the courts, it would be France and our farmers, spruce men
blood thirsty kaiser and the junkers too late this year to expend the mon- and shipbuilders and all of us at home
of Germany, who are fighting to con uy, even if the war should cease and arc fighting for? If not, then be care
quer the world and bring it under the country return to normal condi ful about joining the non-partisan
their rule.
tions. Should the citizens decide to league which is dominated by bosses
bond the county at the fall election, to greater extent than any political
Everyone should get the Liberty and there is no doubt whatever but party tin- country has ever known.
Loan spirit, and everybody should do they will, the county will be in a po You only need to investigate the mat
their bit cheerfully. That is the spirit sition early next year to map out an ter thoroughly to be convinced.
that should prevail in Tillamook excessive road program. Taking all
A Citizen.
county when the Liberty Loan drive the conditions under consideration,
starts one week from next Saturday, we think this is the wisest tiling to do
The greatest steam locomotive in
and should be kept lip while the drive and to the best interest of the county the world has been put into service by
lasts. There will be no misgivings and the good roads movement for a the Maidwin locomotive works. It is
about this county not reaching above hard surfaced road through the coun- so gigantic that its boilers had to be
its quota if we all start with the right ty-
made flexible at three different joints
spirit, keyed up with enthuiasm and
so that the locomotive could turn
our patriotic duty. The government of
around a curve. It is more than 100
The
Frame-Ups.
1756 the Gentleman’s Magazine said; has won here, given back the rags
the United States is making a demand
feet tong and weighs some 450 tons.
“They repaired to their respective and wooden shoes in which he landed
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upon us to do our best and we should
Twsaty-four drive
wheels,
each
and told that he was on his way to
all liberally respond, considering it
The Rowe-Baker frame-up which standing as high as an average sized cantonments.”
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Germany no wild animal in all the
a grand privilege to do so. \\ c appeal was to boost Representative F. A. man, afford its traction.
In “Less Than the Dust,” the new mountains and swamps of the United
to every person in Tillamook county Rowe for U. S. Senator for
the
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to get the Liberty Loan spirit, mak short term, has developed another
The French soldier is paid $20 a picture in which Mary I’ickford is States would scratch and bite and
ing this the biggest drive ever pulled frame up in Portland. The Portland year; the German $38 a year; the appearing she will be introduced to kick and squawk more vigorously
off in this county. That would be in frame-up is to this effect: Ex-l'nited British, $89 a year, and the American her host of admirers in the guise of than he would. These Gcrman-Amer-
significant to what the English army States Senator Mulky is to run for soldier, $360 a year. War is now cost a deserted orphan of English birth ican do not want to be sent back to
has been up against the past week, the position, and when he is ebeted ing the nations of the world six and a who has been adopted by a sword their Kaiser and their fatherland.”
and which saved the allies from a lu is to resign and the Governor to half million dollars an hour and iho maker in an East India city and rear-
severe and crushing defeat.
appoint the Republican whois olrcled million dollars a day. The United ed among the natives, Later is dis Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a Fav
orite for Colds.
for the long term. We hope Repre States is under an expense running to covered who she is but not until she
J. L. Easley, Macon, III., in speaking
"Over The Top in One Day!" That sentative Rowe will file his petition fully one-fourth of the total amount, has gone through all of the anguish
following the treatment by those who of Chamberlain’s cough remedy says,
is the slogan of the Liberty Loan and give the Portland frame up a run. at least 40 million dollars a day.
know her only as one of the lower 'During the past fifteen years it has
boosters in Tillamook County. The
We cut this from an exchange:
been -ny sister’s favorite medicine for
Headlight
suggested this several
A colored minister of the Baptist caste and less than the dust.
Editor Fred C. Baker, of the Tilla
colds on the lungs. I myself have
scenario, , full of drama,
th
weeks ago and the committee thought
mook Headlight, has sprung the name church, so runs a story, in order to
taken it a number of times when suf
scenes and
<
delightful con \j
it was a good idea and intend going ol State Representative
F. A. Rowe strengthen and confirm the faith of written by Hector Turnbull
fering with a cold and it always re
over the top on the opening day of
for United States Senator for the his congregation, took as his tex;:
lieves me promptly.”
John Emerson as the director.
the drive. Most of our citizens have short term,
“
In
those
days
came
John
the
Baptist
which will cover a period
supporting cast is one of distinction
made lip their minds, also the amount
of but a lew weeks. Baker thinks it preaching in the wilderness of Judea.”
and in all more than two hundred and
of money they are going to subscribe will give
I dlaniook some advertising "< >h” said lie, ‘how 1 like to read
TOWERS FISH BRAND
fifty people appear in the scenes
and this can be done in one day, and will
also give the county some these precious words in the blessed
which arc laid in India and England.
without extendng the time over sev prestige
Bible!
You
don
’
t
read
anywhere
w hen it comes to going alter
In one of- the incidents of the battle
eral days. That is the idea the com harbor
improvements.—
New berg about John the Presbyterian, or
mittee want us to impress upon the
John the Methodist, or John the Epis scene the little girl rescues a British
Graphic.
Practical as a
soldier who has been wounded and
people of Tillamook county, and we
T red C. Baker, editor of the Tilla copalian. No brother it is John the
he
in
the
end
wins
her
heart.
To
be
hope they will readily comply with I
plow, and just
mook Headlight, has entered into a Baptist.”—Christian Register .
shown at the Gem Theatre, Tuesday,
the wishes of the committee. It is not
political frameup whereby he is to
as
necessary
< ven necessary towait for the opining
in connection with the comment on April 2.
boost a friend for the short term
Make
every
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day of the drive, tor persons can go
United States senatorship aad the “cantonment" a subscriber writes that
“It is hard to understand what the
to the banks in their banking district
rainy
day
the
term
was
used
by
the
United
friends of the other man are to boost
pro-Germans in our country V. ant.
and make arrangements to have their
count.
the editor. But we arc afraid Baker States army at least as early as 1830.
They left Germany because f a 1'1;
subscriptions placed on file and re
will never make it. He is too honest “Cantonment Leavenworth,” “Can
of opportunity there, because
corded on the opening day of the
tonment
Gibons."
etc.,
arc
cited
as
Waterproofs
and gives publicity to the deni in his
drive. Do not delay but attend to it
dislike for military service under
Absolute
own paper. One so lacking in political thus used. Washington Irving in 1837
right away. We feel sure Tillamook
Prussian conditions bccaus- of the
are Marked
sagacity is too innocent to associate used the word as if it was well estab
county can go over the top the first
caste
system
which
kept
them
under
thus —
with the pork barrel statesmen at lished,” writing that “All hands now
day and we feel sure it will de so if
there every avenue of business and so
Washington. Otherwise than that get to work to prepare a winter can
there is no delay in our citizens re
cial and political a Iv nc. m . t is
tonment."
In
1813
Wellington
wrote:
Baker seems to have many of the
cording their subscriptions.
thrown wide open f
them :>:i.| their
necessary
qualifications.— Cottage “The distress of the Spanish troops
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children. And 1 a'
c su.c that if
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induced
me
to
order
them
Grove Seminal.
AJT0WIRC0. BOSTON,
The »nap »hot man is in doubt as
into cantonments." As far back as one of these pr< spe OU» Germans
were deprived of the money that he
Fatigue and Toxin.
ADVERTISING RATES.
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH
«
Friday, March 29, 7:30, p. m.
The bleu that fatigue Is <hie t,
«peel tic toxin, as suggested by WelcK
art early in the century, has been .
popular one. but the late investigation
of Lee mid Aronovlteh at Columbia
university shows it to have no
foundation. There Is nothing, there,
fore, to encourage the hope that an
antitoxin may he found. In the ex.
pertinents imide with animal muscles
a test muscle suspended In the JU|,^
of a fatigued muscle lost much In... .
tractile power, but the Juice of u n„h.
fatigued muscle produced substantial-
ly the same effect.
e
e
Editorial Snap Shots.
Largest Poisonous Reptile.
The Surucucu, known ns the bush,
muster, is the largest poisonous reptile
In the world, nnd is fortunately rare
and found only in the depths of the
Jungle and swamps, where man rarely
penetrates.
It attains a length of
twelve to fifteen feet; the color of ¡tg
body is rose, or rather yellowish pink,
with brown patterns and tints of
purple. Its bite is almost always fatal.
Its fangs are an Inch long ami us mucn
ns ten ounces of venom have been ex
tracted.
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George W. Morrow
Thought and Faith.
Men who are seeking for knowledge
In regard to subjects as to which there
can, in the nature of things, be none,
might well ask themselves whether
there is to lie no sphere left In human
thought In which faith can operate,
it was said of Arnold of Rugby that
his mind could rest as quietly In the
presence of doubt as In that of discov
ered truth. It is a great thing to be
ablest« believe where we cannot prove.
—Exchange.
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All are Welcome.
Admission Free
Floods in Brazil.
The native Inhabitants of Brazil
have lately been suffering from the
disastrous effects of the Hooding of
the Amazon, whose relentless waters
have submerged the countryside for
hundreds of miles around. At regu
lar intervals this mighty river over
flows Its banks, and a famous traveler
estimated that no fewer than 5,000,000
natives have lost their lives during
the Inst five centuries through these
terrible floods.
He Didn’t Know.
In a murder trial six experts were
examined. .Most of them had a na
tional reputation. A hypothetical ques
tion of 20,000 words, which It required
two hours to rend, was asked of Doc
tor Jelley. a Boston expert oil Insnnlty.
The learned doctor answered the ques
tion In three words: “I don't know."
A frank answer, but rather perplexing
to counsel.—Case and Comment.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Figures Time of Falling Stone.
The time a stone would require to
fall rhe 4.000 miles to the center of
the earth has been calculated for the
Paris Academy of Sciences, by M.
Sanger. Considering the Influence of
the varying density of the earth, he
finds the time would be 19 minutes 15
seconds, but If the mean density Is as
sumed to be the condition, the time
would be TO seconds greater.
Our Rabbits.
Th« term rabbit was formerly more
properly applied to the burrowing spe
cies of the old world. Lepus cunlculus
(meaning to burrow), though by com
mon usage our molly cottontail lots so
long been termed a rabbit that the
name will now stand, as will that of
Jack rabbit for the big western hare of
the prairies and Pnclfic coast.
Women Better or Worse.
Women, when they are bad. are
worse than men and more disposed to
commit crime. When the sex which
la sweet by inheritance once becomes
degraded It fall« into greater excesses
than the other. Women are always
either much better or much worse
than men.—Bonaparte.
A Commuter’« Ambition.
We’d like tn be In a financial posi
tion when we take a meal out, as we
do once every two or three months
with nil the regularity of clockwork,
to g<> to some place where "fruits In
season” on the menu doesn't mean
chiefly bananas.—Ohio State Journa .
Hint to Young Men.
Young men run aid In the conser
vation of coal nnd electric current by
terminating their calls at a patriotic
hour. Resides, every girl needs n cer
tain amount of sleep.—Pittsburgh
zette-Tlmes.
Typewriting Fades Out.
It has been found that typewriting
on parchment deeds is not durable. In
recent
deeds deposited within - ~->ry
vei
years many lines are Illegible nnd set
ernl lines have completely disappear" '
REFLEX SLICKER
Crayon Will Help.
When someone has knocked n " 11
place In the wall paper cop.'- the
-
coloring of the figure with crayi"1
and the spot will not show.
Facial Failure.
our friend isn't much stu.s
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looks.”
She—“Say. *
wouldn't dare shoot her own husban
—Judge.
Scientific Foresight.
How did the boy get his
cycle?" “He seized the cycle-loi*
I moment to ask for It.”
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